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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

as always, this coulda been twice as long, and I'll probably write about all this shit I left out of this post tomorrow

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Permian Extinction's avatar

Just tell me when he's dead.

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

You won't have to be told. Just look outside for people dancing in the streets. It won't matter what you wear. Just as long as you are there.

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Leu2500's avatar

Cars honking, pots banging, boom boxes blaring Ding Dong the Witch is dead.

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

I know. I told my girlfriend, "I could send you a text with just the words 'Ding Dong' and you'd know what it was about."

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Had lunch with a friend yesterday. We'd just been seated, and she got back up to go to the restroom. As she returned, I was looking at my phone and said, "I got a Breaking News notification, and was just checking to see if he was dead." No further explanation necessary.

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insert_something_creative's avatar

I've seen this posted elsewhere and referred to as an old Russian joke. I can't verify that part, but it makes me laugh and I think about it a lot with Trump:

A man walks up to a newsstand, buys the paper, looks at the front page, then tosses the paper in the trash. Day after day he does this — buys the paper, looks at it, then throws it away.

Eventually the news seller asks why he buys the paper if he is just going to throw it away.

The man responds that he is looking for the obituaries. The seller responds, "well there's your problem, those aren't on the front page."

And the man replies, "the one I'm looking for will be."

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Hollie Rood's avatar

I believe you just described thousands of us when an alert comes over our phones‼️

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

And also, “Joy to the World”, 3 Dog Night-style.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

WANT~!

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Bonnie Council's avatar

Yes!!👏

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Lynne Murphy's avatar

🤣

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

I remember all that from the night Obama was elected.

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

The only ones NOT dancing will be the MAGA faithful. And there will be much wailing and rending of garments. JD, on the other hand, will be so overjoyed he'll soil himself (and whatever random piece of furniture he's in the process of mounting).

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Mary A. Rose's avatar

MAGA will probably die of starvation since the food stamps are gone.

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Brad Bray's avatar

is it wrong to pray for that outcome????

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Eileen's avatar

No, because Trump is a murderer. Every day he’s alive more innocent people die.

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Mary Brock's avatar

No couch will be safe...

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Joyce's avatar
3dEdited

We'll be callin' out around the world--across the ocean blue, in fact.

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Lisa's avatar

Makes me think of the song " Dancin' In the Streets" by Van Halen. That'll be blasting on my front lawn on that happy day.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Martha & the Vandellas or GTFO.

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Derek Smith's avatar

Grateful Dead or GTFO.

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Bob's avatar
3dEdited

I remember the cover by The Mamas & the Papas. Eddie and company did a fine version. (Corrected because, indeed, it was Martha and Vandellas who did the original. I’ll hang my head in shame.)

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Nope. Some of you clearly aren't 'quite' old enough to have 'been there' when WE were literally 'dancing in the Streets to Martha and the Vandellas! EVERY version afterwards was a 'cover'. Some good, some not quite so good. The original was THE best. MzNicky wins this one. :) R&B Soul from Early 60's. MY kind of music which is still THE story of my life. I loved the Mama & Papas too as well as so much other music, but R&B/Soul was/still is IT. Many might not know that SO MANY of the musicians in those bands went on to become the founders/originators of The Smooth Jazz music I love to bits, simply converting the songs they wrote back then to instrumentals.

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Drew Lankford's avatar

Originally by Martha and the Vandellas on the Motown label.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

Mick Jagger and David Bowie did a cover too...

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patti sepich's avatar

Version with Bowie/Jagger is fire

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Brad Bray's avatar

Don't forget playing "All Night Long (All Night)," by Lionel Richie!!!

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

Don't forget war-ravaged Portland.

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Jan Moon's avatar

Where are the Epstein Files in all of this?

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Martha for your comment too!!!

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Schnauzermom's avatar

I’m planning on getting drunk for a week. I have a bottle of Jack Daniels Sinatra Select I’m saving for the occasion.

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

I was thinking the same thing, but then, because It's in the oval, I'm pretty much drinking too much now, so that makes....how long? JFC, I've been drunk since 2015 /s.

Maybe I'll sober up, put on my best dress, pluck my COVID eyebrows and dance with strangers in the street. Ooooh. Champagne. Def.

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Cathy 98280's avatar

“pluck my COVID eyebrows” - I LOVE that!! 😁😁😂😂😂😂

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

My eyebrows are almost invisible.

Trichotillomania or old age, IDK 🤔

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Hollie Rood's avatar

OMG‼️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Love it😍

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cablecargal's avatar

"COVID eyebrows" is hysterical. Now I can name them!

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Lorraine Parish's avatar

I had Covid chin hairs. I loved wearing masks for that reason.

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Sally Castle's avatar

I have a Trump toilet brush and loo paper that I’ve been saving for that special day. Every morning here in New Zealand I wake up hoping that I’ll get the good news instead of the tide of horror… hoping that day comes soon.

On a serious note, how awful to be the person whom half your population wants to die. Sign of a life totally wasted.

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Marla's avatar

Everyone needs to have a goal in life.

That should be his. To die universally hated. Think of it, he's halfway there already.

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Hollie Rood's avatar

💯‼️

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cablecargal's avatar

I have a bottle of sparkling apple cider to pop!! My sobriety is my best revenge b/c these mthrfkrs can drive you to drink!

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

Good idea. Of course you want it to be aged. But enough already.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

True dat Ellis, the world will be a mass celebration, knowing that the cretinous, mobbed up wastrel has left this world!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Can we play Martha and the Vandellas? I can't wait! It will be our national song!!!

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

"I can see clearly now, the rain is gone...." I think I'll sing that after I dance wildly at my block party. May get naked - dunno.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

It's not a party unless you get naked.

signed: a nudist

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cablecargal's avatar

"Dancing in the Street"!

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Keith E. Cooper's avatar

Martha and the Vandellas - I backed them a few times in the 1990s.

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

Cool! On what instrument?

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arne link's avatar

Nice!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

OUTSTANDING!!!

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CBA's avatar

I dunno... he could be pushing up daisies for quite a while before we are allowed to find out. I'm expecting a continuation of the current Weekend at Bernie's scenario where his barely-animate meatsack is shuttled around and propped up just long enough to spew some random incomprehensible gibberish and give thumbs-ups to no one in particular. Then, when that becomes impossible to sustain, perhaps they will use body doubles until announcing his demise/removal becomes convenient -- after Project 2025 is so ingrained in the system it will be too difficult to reverse. (Damn, I hope I'm wrong... yet here we are.)

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PTW's avatar

No way will he be gone without us knowing. MAGAts will demand the biggest, gaudiest, most gold spray-painted state funeral ever.

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CBA's avatar

Of course they will. They'll demand that Metamucilini be canonized and placed in a massive golden pyramid where they can bring offerings of Big Macs every day. The handlers, however, will want to keep the magats on board for as long as possible, so I can see them being strung along for a while. I doubt the hard-core magats are going to rally behind Vance right away. He isn't loud and crude enough to hold their attention.

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

Yes, they will. But I wouldn't put it past Miller, etc. to use AI to fake Trump's address to his fans, or whatever. Then again, those in the admin who know he's dead will waste no time jockeying for power, stabbing each other in the back, and vying for the throne. None of them have remotely the charisma Trump has to inherit MAGA. So keeping up the he's-alive-and-resting-and-pining-for-the-fjords imposture may well be impossible.

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CBA's avatar

Perfect analogy. I can totally see them wiring him to his perch while they stab each other in the back.

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Eileen's avatar

Wouldn’t it be awesome if Trump finally got his wish to take control of the Beast and drive it to the Capitol - the only difference is Stephen Miller would be inside. Donny would careen into the Potomac at 90 MPH and they would both drown together? We can only pray.

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PTW's avatar

I fail to see trump's "charisma." 🤮

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

I was going to say that

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cablecargal's avatar

I dream about running outside and yelling as loud as I can and the whole neighborhood will be out there, singing and dancing!

Then we'll all be singing "Ding Dong the witch is dead, the wicked witch is dead!!"

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Robert Eckert's avatar

And they thought we were "insensitive" about the death of Charlie Kirk, just wait...

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CBA's avatar

The vast majority of them had no clue who Charlie Kirk was. They were just itching for a windmill to tilt at, and the GOP provided them with a handy martyr.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

LOVE this! MY style. :)

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

ISWYDT!

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M3333's avatar

Pray every night to have the devil 😈 hurry up and come take his soul!!!

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Kate Cunningham's avatar

Don’t forget the Motor City!

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CA Productions/Carol Ann's avatar

LOL, I wrote that a while ago. Swinging, swaying, records playing, dancing in the street. Die, you old motherfucker. It will be Like Weekend at Bernie's, one of the funniest movies ever, where the guy dies and they make it look like he is still alive

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Michael J McGee's avatar

When President Obama was elected for his first term, my son called me from Sydney Australia. The people on the street were all cheering. He said it was amazing. And it was loud over the phone.

The same thing will happen worldwide when the spray tanned POS is gone. Either by jail, a Dem getting elected to the White House or his death. He wants a large, cheering crowd; there will be a large, cheering crowd.

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Eva Porter's avatar

When Biden won in 2020 there were bells ringing like it was Christmas

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Veronica Speedwell's avatar

When they finally announced the results that Saturday after the election, we danced around outdoors with our late, great Chihuahuas in arms. Even the dogs were wagging their tails!

Having Rudy Colludy find out about it on live TV in the parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping was chef's kiss. Next to a porn store and a crematorium.

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Mary A. Rose's avatar

Rudy is in the NYC gutter now with the rats 'cause the Felon doesn't know him. As is Mark Meadows in one of the Carolinas.

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

I have a Four Seasons Total Landscaping t-shirt to honor that occasion

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Carol Jacobson's avatar

Fireworks in my neighborhood. It will be the same thing when this fucker dies.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Yes, and people all over the world celebrating! It is hard to find those videos now but I saw it live as it was happening.

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Lorraine Parish's avatar

we had a huge bonfire on the beach

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

I will never forget the dancing post office boxes in Philadelphia! I played

"Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)" from the Hamilton soundtrack at top volume, and called everyone I knew in PA to thank them for voting for Biden/Harris.

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Best2BAnon's avatar

I was in Chicago on a business trip, staying a few blocks from Grant Park where he gave his victory speech. 240,000 people were there. All night loing it was people celebrating in the streets outside my hotel. I got very little sleep, but didn't care. It was one of the best days of my life; I was so happy to be done with yet another 8 years of Republican treason to the middle class.

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Cathy 98280's avatar

And to think, that was only W we celebrated getting rid of!

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Lynne Murphy's avatar

I was dancing on Wilshire Blvd in LA when Obama won, the bar was packed! Incidentally it was where Sirhan had his last meal before heading across the street to the Ambassador. 😞

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Sigh. You can tell our age, can't you?

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

One of those will be me, air punches high in the air but as was mentioned = Vance raise your right hand and repeat….

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George in Atlanta's avatar

Ok, and that will be a new thing. I can't guess what Vance will look like or do. He's got the charisma of a cardboard box, he's loathed by the MAGA purists, and he's probably being directed by remote control from Palo Alto. He's an empty suit packed with rancid lard.

There's a lot to unpack there, it'll take us a few minutes to work out exactly what we don't like and demand to be reversed.

The chances are above zero that such a coronation will cause MAGA to tear itself apart for 50 different reasons. And we can alter none of it.

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

You're right. Vance is just anti everything appealing. He'll try but MAGA will turn on him in two days. He's that unlikeable.

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Bob's avatar

And on his own, he couldn’t win a national election against a leech.

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Jayme Wolworth's avatar

Did you notice the crawl on the clip of the demented parade? It says "Trump: Vance-Rubio 2028 will be an unstoppable ticket" HAHAHA

Rubio will be lucky to still be standing in another 3 years and Just Dumb is the village idiot with the charisma of a doorknob.

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Mary A. Rose's avatar

Just Dance Vance is working on his smoky eye right now, thinking, "Should I use mascara or play up my eyebrows?"

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George in Atlanta's avatar

You raise a good point. Methinks his Smokey Eye(R) doth pop a bit too much for the MAGA purists.

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Cyndi's avatar

Only until MAGA tropers start the rumor that Vance had him killed in order to replace him as POTUS...

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CBA's avatar

I doubt that the hard-core magats will rally around Couch Boy. He has the charisma of a moldy turnip. I'm hoping they all lose interest and wander off in search of a louder, more bombastic messiah.

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MichalD's avatar

When Obama first got elected, this nation exploded in joy- except for the racists and haters. They try to ruin everything.

Wait till the Orange felon is called to Hell, that celebration will never be matched!!

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Christine Zepka's avatar

I cried for joy both times for Obama!!

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Tim Byers's avatar

We were in New Zealand for the 2008 election. It was nuts. I have the newspaper somewhere.

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Maria 🇮🇪's avatar

A Very Bigly Crowd, Cheering&Dancing Michael.

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Bob's avatar
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An aid comes into the Oval Office and says, “Mr. President! I had an amazing dream last night. They were holding a big parade for you. There were tanks and missiles and horses in regal splendor. You were riding in a gilded coach and people were dancing and cheering!”

Trump: How I’d look?

Aid: I don’t know sir, the casket was closed.

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Cathy 98280's avatar

👍👍👍

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Patricia Gomes's avatar

😂😂😂 !

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Christine Zepka's avatar

Love It!!!!!!

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Beautiful!!!

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Ann Panda's avatar

Thanks! My husband and I had a good laugh!

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Phyllis Provenzano's avatar

I got a big belly laugh from this. Thank you!!

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Ole Anderson's avatar

You will hear the Roar of the crowds in the streets and the cacophony of every car horn sounding as one and know the day of our deliverance is at hand.

As we’re delivered to Vance.

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Leu2500's avatar

Nobody likes Vance. There’ll be a food fight to see who leads MAGA.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Who, is certainly the most hated VP in this country’s history Ole!

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Connie Feith's avatar

One positive in that scenario is that Shady Vance is not well liked nor does he have the intimidation factor that drives 🍊💩! Plus most of the senate KNOW exactly the prick he is!

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Liz and Max the No. 1 Cat's avatar

Yeah, Congress isn't likely to roll over for him like they do for Turnip. Especially if Turnip survives until after the midterms and we retake the House and/or Senate ✌

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Michael J McGee's avatar

Legally, Vance. Him getting anything done, never happen.

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Schnauzermom's avatar

Yeah, that’s the turd in the punchbowl.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

but will there also be the smell of greasepaint?

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Christine Zepka's avatar

And Project 2026…….

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James Starr's avatar

that's what I look forward to every morning - hoping when I look at my phone the first time, the news ought to be on the first layer of banners.

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Sue Martin's avatar

I'll have "Celebration" blasting on continuous loop when that glorious day finally arrives!!🥳

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Lamorindalinda's avatar

I’m not sure which is worse: Bastard-in-Chief trump or being subjected to Bastard-in-Chief Vance. What a conundrum.

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Christine Zepka's avatar

I’m a terrible person because I was hoping on this trip that….

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Patricia Harmanci's avatar

Haha! Good one!

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Eileen's avatar

Permian: What you just wrote is exactly what so many of my friends have resorted to saying. Every day the news is so unbelievably horrific. There’s no hope for justice. There’s no hope that suddenly Congress is going to wake up and actually do their job. The only way out of this mess is the BIG BEAUTIFUL stroke that finally takes him out.

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Larry Bushard's avatar

So much shit will happen today that you won’t have time to write about the other shit that happened yesterday, Jeff!

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I know, right?

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

The only solution, Jeff, is for you to write three or four 2,000-word posts a day.

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LINDA ADAMS's avatar

Shhh, don’t scare him off 😅

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Bob's avatar

Yesterday was an assault on the senses.

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Hollie Rood's avatar

Like him trying to speak with an Indian accent 🤬

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Teddy Gingerich's avatar

Do you remember old times when you didn't think about the president, Congress or the entire federal government for WEEKS?

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

I don’t even live in your country and I remember it well. How I long for those days

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Larry Bushard's avatar

Yep, stuff just worked, we thought. While we weren’t thinking about government, the rethuglicans spent 40 years undermining democracy and they may realize the tainted fruits of their efforts if we don’t stand up right now and take our country back!

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john augustine's avatar

or years

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Kathleen M Kendrick's avatar

Sigh . . .

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arne link's avatar

Yeah, good times.

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Christine Zepka's avatar

I miss those times

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Mary A. Rose's avatar

I miss Reagan right now, and being scared of a nuclear war--oh, right, Putin is going to fix that for me.

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Crystal Hartley's avatar

As Lily Tomlin once said, "No matter how cynical you are, you can't keep up."

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arne link's avatar

Oh, that's brilliant. I have never heard that before and I am going to use it.

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Jane's avatar

😂😂😂

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Christine Zepka's avatar

🤡

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P123Sunny's avatar

Esp the AOC shout out 👏👏👏

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P123Sunny's avatar

*she’s also the best Wartime Consigliere we got 👊💥🇺🇸

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Lets look at why, while I also picked apart the USS Washington speech, Uncle Jeff.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/trump-stroke-victim-proves-yet-again-he-s-going-to-die-and-like

TLDR: Trump is going to die soon.

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

Great, indispensible stuff. I'd only add that it's not just MAGA who turn a blind eye to Trump's decline. It's the entire Republican Party. Congress could take this failing nitwit out of the White House and put him in elder care. But the GOP are, to a man and a woman, cowards, careerists, cynics, opportunists, and/or imbeciles.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

GOP = MAGA

Interchangeable.

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arne link's avatar

Lord, hear our prayer.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

A consummation devoutly to be wished.

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Kimberly Sandwisch's avatar

My biggest fear is that, God forbid, Biden passes while idiot is in office, he won’t get the respectful funeral, etc that he deserves, like every other past passed president has gotten! Orange idiot won’t allow it! 😢

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DJS's avatar

No, Biden's not going anywhere anytime soon!

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Joyce's avatar

Let him shuffle off this mortal coil ASAP. He can take along a few others.....

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Tess's avatar

In-depth report Wendy-thanks for all that!!

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Diane Christensen's avatar

Please let it be soon.

All I want for Christmas…..

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Kate's avatar

Very insightful. I posted elsewhere (don't judge me for being hours behind, it's really hard to get out of bed with this pile of shit in the WH).

I believe he is being kept alive with blood transfusions. I think he's getting all new red blood cells every time he starts to fade - makes it seem as though he is aware part of the time. This explains the hand bruising, and the boost to kidney function that makes the cankles come and go. I think he's being kept alive until Stephen Miller and Russell Vought achieve some unimaginable goal. We have not been able to even dream of their evil. What will it take, the full oppression of women? You realize Project 2025 calls for wealth to be redistributed to white men. All of a woman's wealth is to be transferred to her nearest male relative. Hard to believe, isn't it? But then I couldn't believe the shit that went down the first time, nevermind secret police taking citizens out of their homes and putting them into for-profit detention camps. Jesus wept. Maybe I'll just go back to bed.

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Robin D's avatar

Promise Wendy ?

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Robin D's avatar

🙏🤗

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Catherine's avatar

Very well done, thank you.

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Tess's avatar

Looking forward to it!

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Carl Selfe's avatar

For Whom the Outrages Toll. Let us not forget the Epstein Files, first. I mean we know a pedophile when we see one dodge, duck, shuck, and jive. For some reason we need the files. I rather think we do not, and we already know what is there. The outrages toll for you as a distraction. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/too-much-two-buckets-to-sanity?r=3m1bs

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Nancy's avatar

How about his tweet at 9:43 am today. "South Carerdddd."

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Zija Pulp's avatar

What the f**k is that suppose to mean? A magic incantation?

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Oops! They let him near his app again.

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Linda Weide's avatar

AOC is a national treasure and White Supremacist Donald Trump always says he is smarter than them because they are Brown-skinned and female, and he cannot imagine otherwise. I love your posting that AOC comeback.

Also had to share with my daughter your CUE background music clip of Donald doddering around in Japan, because she is a big fan of CUE.

Thanks for taking on the hated Jake Tapper too. Perfect meme for him!

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arne link's avatar

We're here for it.

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Quentin Robinson's avatar

My embarassment overload warning light has been blinking red for quite a while....

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Nancy's avatar

OMG. South Korea gave trump a gold crown.

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Crystal Hartley's avatar

I just hope he waits til he's alone to try it on. I was holding my breath he wouldn't take it out and plop it on his dumb pumpkin head.

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BluDotInARedSewer's avatar

I will bet you a zillion bucks that they will put an impersonator or use AI to make the maggots, I mean MAGAts think he is still kicking.

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Sher''s avatar

Please do! Sincerely!

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Jeff: I LOVED letting the fuckwits know that their head orange fuckwit 'with his big dumb orange pumpkin head' (which I LOVE you working into posts) is even WORSE in their 'longer' video the fucking dumb fucks that they are. How STUPID of them not to have a clue! Probably miller, in his equally enraged rant to GET SOMETHING OUT THERE is now having yet another melt-down after this latest fuck-up, which leads me to this little gem. The guy talking is known to me from the Young Turks. I believe this is now his own stuff. Like him a lot. He's on the NOSE with US having to NOT play into their deep need for violence on our part. He shows exactly why they want it and it's all coming from miller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq809Qp3cHw

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

I wish I could some days

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Julie's avatar

This one made me cry. Just donated $50 to Heretic Coffee.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

President Pudding Cup! 😂. He’s good for ratings so the press just can’t help themselves. We are a society in decline. Greed and racism will be the end of us.

Fuck. 😭

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Paula Dean's avatar

Susan, we are living in the Upside Down. You know, that place where lies are truth, saving the world = destroying it, the rich need to steal from the poor, and idiots are the smart people. I'm beginning to think I must have died last year and now I'm in Purgatory.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I must be sitting right next to you! 🤦‍♀️

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Charles Austin's avatar

Let's make it the end of THEM!!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Poignant Susan, greed, corruption, a billionaire class of transnational criminal syndicates, will end this republic!

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Declan's avatar

A few of these leaches shall be deported. The rest will have their entities dismantled and nationalized.

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Susan Travis's avatar

Susan, my four are Greed, Racism, Apathy, Ignorance 😣

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Oh yes! Apathy and ignorance. 🤦‍♀️. What will be the breaking point for people to understand????

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Barbara Ferrara's avatar

Mine are illiteracy, dishonesty, cruelty, and deviancy

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Susan Niemann's avatar

All definitely contributors. Maybe if we could end illiteracy, we might have a shot at reducing the rest. 💙

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Corruption, Racism, Apathy, and Pseudoscience, or CRAP for short.

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Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

I keep saying that I have a front row seat to the end of Western civilization. It’s a very strange place to be in because it breaks my heart. It burns my tummy. It wreaks havoc on my thinking stems in my head. And yet I teach, so I must carry on and be the strength for my students.

63 in a little shy of a month: I am sharpening my everything for a fight...

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Alison Parker's avatar

This braindead motherfucker having the audacity to call ANYONE, let alone two clearly intelligent women (women of color, I will note) low-IQ makes me want to break things. Like his face.

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Diane Christensen's avatar

He’s terrified of smart women.

They’re everything he’s not.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

That goes for the misogynistic idiots who voted against Kamala as well. Ireland, Japan, and Italy all have women heads of state. Fucking backward U.S.: "We're just not ready for that yet." So keep rigging those elections!

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Catherine's avatar

And Mexico

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Joyce's avatar

He ALWAYS refers to women of color as "low IQ": it's that double whammy for him of their being Black and female, with the, to him, absolutely unbearable crowning fact that they are brilliant and competent. The women all fail to realize that they are supposed to be working for minimum wage in the laundry room of Mar-All-Lardo.

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Geoff Boyarsky's avatar

They should both publicly take him up on the challenge. A real IQ test, administered by clinical psychologist, with the results revealed publicly. Bet that would shut him up.

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Dave Drell's avatar

like he would ever consent to that!

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Cathy 98280's avatar

Are you sure it’s not supposed to be in the “spa” giving massages? (Ask Dershowitz…)

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Joyce's avatar

Epstein's preferences appeared to lean heavily, if not entirely, towards little white girls.

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

AOC and Crockett should challenge him to a Jeopardy!-like face-off, on pay-per-view, with the proceeds going to a real (and not imaginary or Trumpian) charity.

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Laura Who's avatar

I love this idea!!!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

I’d love to help Alison!

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

And OF COURSE they’re women of color.

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Larry Bushard's avatar

The fat basterd is not going to run in 2028. He will either, god willing, be dead or will have declined so far that Jake Tapper can no longer ignore it!

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

I envision a drool cup at that point, this time try to stabilize it so it’s not slopping around and getting on things.

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Jeff you are correct…. None of this is normal…. Not the president, not the Cabinet, not the Congress…not the spying on people, not the ICE raids by pardoned J6 terrorists, not the cruelty, not sending American citizens to ICE detention camps, not an intimate relationship with Putin, Orban UN, prosecuting political foes… and red hats in a cult… None of this is normal… Thx Jeff.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Well said. The trash who put Trump in the White House -- TWICE -- want this insanity to be the new normal. Unless this affects each one of them personally, they'll just float along in the sewer stream of their own making.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I guess it's their normal. How can we have so many stupid people in our country? Is it 70 years of tv? 40 years of video games? 25 years of social media?

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Quentin Robinson's avatar

I don't think it was TV....I'm ok, even after suffering through hours of Ed Sullivan and Lawrence Welk and Three Stooges topping it off with popcorn for dinner during the 50's... Social Media...?? How could such a promising idea turn turn to crap so quickly...oh yes, money.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

This. Everything starts out bright and shiney and for the people. Then claws grasping for monetization jump in and tell us it will die without them. Enshittification has been around since the printing press. It's just on overkill overdrive now.

People, read pluralistic.com by Cory Doctorow. It will scare the bejeesus out of you regarding what we don't know about what we think we know.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

In the 1920s, Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce, said of radio that it "could be a marvellous advance in communications, unless we allow it to be drowned in advertising chatter."

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Irascible Ink's avatar

Go figure. 🤦‍♀️

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Irascible Ink's avatar

I just said yesterday that they warned us the the 50s that too much TV will rot your brain. And here we are! 🤦‍♀️

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Mary Hall's avatar

My dad (Antifa, Class of 1944) used to call our TV the "idiot box."

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

And my father's excuse for not getting a tv was that he didn't "think it was worth it".

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Stupid folks? All around us now. Once a week I write in Jeff’s comments “Golf with MAGAS” as all my partners are MAGAS. Some well educated, some professionals but all hold MAGAS and Donald to be without fault. As I have explained to folks, I listen to their petty outrage of this or that and I only speak when they are wrong on the evidence or facts or the Law. It’s like going fishing with a shotgun…so very easy to tear down their MAGAs belief system…

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Chet Brandt's avatar

Keep up your fine work FF. It certainly has to be exasperating at times for you but I appreciate your due diligence and reporting of your “adventures.”

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Cyndi's avatar

And when it does affect them personally, they will blame the Democrats...

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Will Gerard's avatar

I was studying the reactions of Takaichi. There was one moment where she stopped (which apparently was part of the ceremony), and trumpster fire just kept on walking totally oblivious to where she was or what she was doing. She had a mild moment of panic, as though she was thinking, "Oh my god, what do I do with this guy?" It was probably the most embarrassing moment of her life. Just what you want your president to do with world leaders -- embarrass them. The entire world is watching this very closely.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Would have been hilarious if she tripped him up and he face planted on the floor.

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

I certainly hope SHE was not embarrassed. Those who thought it was a good idea for Trump to be wandering around Asia have some explaining to do. It makes them look bad that they send this befuddled old man with a keeper a few steps behind. These world leaders should be coming here. Oh! They don't want to for fear they will be rounded up by Trump Goons!

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Will Gerard's avatar

She was. It's not a weakness to be embarrassed -- it's just human nature, even for a leader. That's why we use the term "embarrassing" for trump. He embarrasses people.

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Richard's avatar

One thing I loved about Japan was the emphasis on protocol and procedure but in a kind of zen peaceful way. (At least on the surface). It was very comforting to me. Orange Turd is the antithesis of that. It had to be discomfiting.

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Will Gerard's avatar

I felt the same. There was a calm grace and dignity in the room, with the exception of the person they were hosting. I appreciated that for the same reasons you describe.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Think of all those people there who came for the excitement of meeting the leader of the free world and then the man didn’t understand anything that was happening. He needs constant monitoring, put simply he is a danger to himself and all others nearby.

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Quentin Robinson's avatar

Reminds me of Kristi Noem's hunting pup. Lost and no idea what he's supposed to be doing.

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Mary A. Rose's avatar

Can she shoot him in the head? He is useless, and it must be done.

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Richard's avatar

Lmao - yes it must.

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Claudia Classon's avatar

I wondered if her reaction was to the fact that Trump saluted the American flag, but ignored the Japanese flag. That was when her eyes opened wide in disbelief.

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DJS's avatar

I had the feeling he had been given instructions of what his role was supposed to be -- him being a Very Famous Hollywood Star [TM] -- and he couldn't be bothered to read it or let one of his handlers read it to him.

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Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

Will: why would she be embarrassed? I would guess that she may have been annoyed at having to deal with this stupid moron. Embarrassment belongs to the pumpkin head, but any such emotion does not exist on his radar screen.

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Will Gerard's avatar

I would be embarrassed. Hell, I WAS embarrassed as a distant onlooker.

But I wouldn't read too much into what I wrote. Embarrassment isn't necessarily a self-effacing emotion. She probably experienced numerous emotions during the ceremony -- annoyance, disappointment, judgment, horror, impatience. I don't mean to suggest that she shriveled up in embarrassment and wanted to run to a dark corner. She's handled it very well. But it was embarrassment.

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Declan's avatar

He is in a world of his own....he thinks he's center of attention at all times

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Well, there was the time Bush Sr. puked on the Japanese Prime Minister's shoes. The Japanese are good at pretending that utterly embarrassing things are simply not occurring.

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Barbara Ferrara's avatar

Trumpster Fire is now a new favorite

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

"Clots and Stairs" is another one!

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J Hardy Carroll's avatar

"This dimwitted hateful old fuck has the nuclear codes."

-Every single person living in the only country in history to suffer an atomic weapons attack

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Now there’s a nice note to start the day !( I work nights)

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James Starr's avatar

They could give him the nuclear codes and 2 min later he'd forget them

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-Comment-'s avatar

Of course he failed that test. He answered “tiger, elephant, giraffe” for the respective drawings of a lion, rhinoceros and camel.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

Yeah, I caught that too. Holy fuck.

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Mary A. Rose's avatar

I noticed that one too. His mind is mush.

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Kay-El's avatar

1. “his drawing of a clock looked like a monkey fucking a coconut” is the laugh I needed this morning.

2. Number of days wandering in the desert of his mind: 274 (at least)

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Wendymae's avatar

"monkey fucking a coconut" truly is one for the ages.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

"Monkey fucking a coconut" is how I envision Mike Johnson on date night.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

😂

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Kay-El's avatar

😂

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Lifted from the classic ‘bouncing around like a monkey fucking a football 🏈 ‘

Glad to see the paraphrasing of one of my all time favorites!

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Irascible Ink's avatar

My co-worker says "two dogs humping a football". 😂

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Ditto Kay-EI, bring his cretinous ass, out to the Sahara desert for some much needed rest, leaving the door open!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

You, me, Kay-El, Ole, and Kristy Kanen should have a virtual coffee/tea sometime!

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Jan Moon's avatar

I just drew a picture of a clock. I think I got all the numbers in the right places but the hands were a little iffy. What time is it when the big hand is on the five and the little hand is on the floor.

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Kay-El's avatar

Floor twenty five?

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PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

BELLY laugh. I definitely needed that today.

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Discrete Music's avatar

He has a few months left.

Hope for a Left middle cerebral artery event. Wheelchair and no saliva control.

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Leu2500's avatar

He has another ~24 hour flight back to DC. Tots & pears to his veins

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Leesa J Chenoweth's avatar

Long flights are notorious for producing blot clots in the legs. He may be on a blood thinner and that will make him susceptible to brain bleeds, especially in the case of a fall. The bruising of his hand is indicative of being on a blood thinner. The swelling of his ankles is indicative of heart failure. The MRI if it was of his brain, which I don't think we know yet, would indicate concern for some kind of brain damage. Strokes will not produce signs of brain damage on an mri until after the initial incident. Typically, alzheimer's does not show up on an MRI. ( 14 yr ER trauma/psych/stroke RN)

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Mary A. Rose's avatar

I had an MRI because I had a minor stroke. I'm betting he has a series of strokes.

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Discrete Music's avatar

Intravenous blood thinners

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Leesa J Chenoweth's avatar

Heparin generally given in the hospital amd PO meds outside of hospital. And if someone is receiving that type of anticoagulant, then they need to have clotting factors checked often by having blood draws.

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Discrete Music's avatar

A syringe full of air

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Cathy 98280's avatar

Another walk on the White House roof might be interesting.

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Mary A. Rose's avatar

No, he goes to the East Wing and falls in.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Maybe at 3am, he wakes up, delusional of course, and he wants to find Melania. He climbs the ladder to the roof

and looks for her up there, screaming out her name and tripping over a gutter and…

OOPPSIES!

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Rosemary Orlandi's avatar

I opt for the widow maker ; one and done

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Joyce's avatar

Yes.

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insert_something_creative's avatar

I hope whatever it is, in addition to being soon, is something public like that where he is forced to be shown in a diminished state and aware of how ill he looks.

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Teresa G's avatar

Although we don’t know for sure what part of the body was scanned by the MRI.

In all honesty, could have been a CT scan also. We know that the orange pedo felon has no clue what tests he had.

Notice the reporter was putting words, suggestions in the dim wits brain.

I

Absolutely not defending him, just saying, facts should be released to the public. Screw privacy, after all he is the POTUS, if in name only. We the people have the right to the facts.

I am retired from the medical field and am personally making lots of educated assumptions. That being said, really does make a difference what scan and what body part was scanned.

We know he did not pass an IQ test, let alone a cognitive exam. Just the fact he doesn’t know what test he had in this realm says it all.

8647 regime

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

I noted the same baiting by the reporter, the question should be ‘how did the imr go for ya? Just to keep him alone with the pudding structure of his well, brain.

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Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

As a brain aneurysm survivor, I’ve had many MRIs. And cognitive tests. Fortunately, I have no memory of my 2nd rupture, when I was 62, but my family tells me I had to draw clocks, and identify animals, etc. I’m lucky. I got better. Cankles McRottinghand’s brain is in serious decline.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

And when Trump was asked by a reporter (who, as Jeff likes to say, “accidentally committed a journalism”) why he’d had an MRI, he said he didn’t know. Is there a human on the planet who isn’t told why they’re having an MRI? This would have been a good time to call bull shit. Or to say, “What the fuck is wrong with you?”

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Allan Voorhis's avatar

Dementia Donny is necessary to the Heritage Foundation. He is their vehicle to implement Project 2025, which he probably knows nothing about as he has said. Look beyond him to Vought, Essentially, Miller, etc.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

THIS. I keep trying to remind folks in my Farcebork feed feuding over this bullshit that Trump is IRRELEVANT. P2025 is for creating a White Christian Nationalist Dictatorship.

Who TF do people think they're coming after once they've finished the "white" part?? 🤔

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Allan Voorhis's avatar

Exactly. They are doing a remake of Weekend at Bernie's and Dementia Donny is Bernie.

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SethTriggs's avatar

It's important to remember that only Democrats have the responsibility to have command of the facts and look like they know what they're talking about. Murc's Law is a hell of a way to go, but nothing else can be Cruise Control for Cool (and Clicks!)

The pricktator isn't elected to be competent, or even law-abiding. He's elected in order to destroy as many of the minorities that unreconstructed Americans hate. Or at the very least make their lives a living hell, "owning the libs."

The Doomsday Clock ticks one second closer to midnight where we see the pricktator holding up a jar of his own urine in a press conference.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

He’s never allowed anywhere near the football Seth. He’s only here to fulfill Putins mentor, Aleksandr Dugin’s dream of destroying the American republic from within!

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arne link's avatar

Well, I hope you are right. Warfighter Kegsbreath would love to drop the big one. We live in dangerous times.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I should have thought of that...

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Irascible Ink's avatar

BINGO!

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Tess's avatar

Ew!

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Cheryl Seybert's avatar

🤢🤢

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Betsy L's avatar

In that entire paragraph about AOC and Jasmine Crockett, I think there are three complete sentences - subject, verb, complement. The rest is just mental meandering. Honest to Pete, his supporters think Pres. Biden was out of it?

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zuzu's avatar

Every accusation is a confession.

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