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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I know, tariffs and trade wars are not a sexy subject — but it's an *extremely* slow-news long holiday weekend

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Liz Adams's avatar

Not sexy but I thank you for the reminder of how he operates. Man, I hate this guy.

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TCinLA's avatar

Stick his fat ass in one of Elmo's exploding rockets and fire him into the sun. It will either explode enroute or blow up when it gets there. Either one is fine.

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Lamorindalinda's avatar

Just put him in one of FElon’s exploding cars. 3 kids died in fire in a Tesla Cybertruck after it exploded after crashing in Piedmont CA Wednesday.

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Sue Munda's avatar

Oh my god!! He should be liable for their deaths!! What idiot parents!!

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Tully's avatar

Four college sophomores in the car with 3 dying, one in hospital. Apparently, there's been several incidents of the Cybertruck's exploding with crashes and already three recalls for problems since it's release earlier this year.

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TCinLA's avatar

I have to say I have a hard time feeling all that sad about people with bad taste bad enough to think one of those things is "cool" no longer polluting society. Every one of those uglyass things I have seen here in Los Angeles is driven by a Moron Bro, some bearded incel under 40. We could lose all of those and really Make America Great Again.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

That's horrible. I don't think he has ever been held liable for that shit.

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Vickie Berry's avatar

🥲

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Gonna hafta be Elmo's biggest rocket to lift that tub of lard

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kdsherpa's avatar

LOL!!!

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TCinLA's avatar

I laughed at that!

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Purobi Phillips's avatar

A few months ago I was in a Tesla Uber. The elderly Taiwanese American driver said, "It is possible to get a divorce but you can't get rid of a cyber truck."

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kdsherpa's avatar

Tom, you are truly one of a kind. I can't stop laughing!

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Sharon Senkiew's avatar

I like this

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kdsherpa's avatar

LOL!!!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

That’s the right spirit Tom, thanks!!

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kdsherpa's avatar

FOTF!!!

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SPW's avatar

Hate with a purple passion!

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

🟪😡🟪🟪🟪🟪😡🟪

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SPW's avatar

Yep.

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Eileen's avatar

Ditto. I hate that lazy lying POS. And I hate the stupid idiots who give the wrong person credit.

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Bonnie Council's avatar

If he ever said anything that was even close to the truth, I think I'd die of shock. This guy can't stop himself from lying. Nor does he even want to.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Maybe not sexy, but incredibly important. If he starts a trade war it's likely to go global and conceivably lead to an economic depression, a la Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930. Of course, Trump will scream that if there is a depression it will be Biden's fault.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Everything that goes wrong will be Biden's fault.

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arne link's avatar

Well, you could have taken a three day holiday so it's all good. Thanks for keeping us semi-sane during this troubling time.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Like Jeff, Jonathan V Last of the bulwark also wrote about how Donnie Convict comes up with crises only to back down in about a week. Find links to his work here:

https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/the-mouth-that-roars/comments

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Tully's avatar

It's how he works his cult. Psychological highs and lows keep their brains on fire and too discombobulated to learn the truth.

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Deb Martina's avatar

Personally I think it's bots liking his posts but...🤦

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Tully's avatar

I should have said it's how "Trump" works his cult!

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Stephen Brady's avatar

But, they can destabilize the economies of Canada, The US, and Mexico. Uncle Vlad will be so pleased!

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Updates about ms spouse are always welcome!

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FTrump And FPutin Too's avatar

Thank You for a well laid column with mind boggling deets. The Asshat, or Asset, whichever you prefer is trying to turn our northern neighbors into the boogeyman. He’s selling it and I’m not buying it. He has a grudge against Trudeau that hurts all the Americas - north, central and south. Scorched earth literally. We will not bend we will not break. We will help each other as well as our neighbors whether across the street or over national borders. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Jeff, for doing the hard part (with humor) and keeping us from being batshit bullied.

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Teri's avatar

Jeff, tariffs are one of My biggest concerns. If prices for food & necessities double or triple we all pay. Now with Mexico & Canada pushing back strongly, I 'm torn between continuing to stockpile. Only now I'm wondering if turd will back off and my hours of planning and worrying will be for naughty.

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Teri's avatar

*naught

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Steve Kelly's avatar

I wonder what kind of Hoovervilles (Trumpvilles?!) will exist after donOLD has destroyed our country's economy through his idiocracy.

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Crystal M's avatar

I've been wondering if the drug abuse death tolls will increase when folks start seeing the 'find out' part of what they fucked around and voted for.

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

Very few actual serious subjects are sexy. This shit has the potential to upend everything. And President Poopy Pants will find some dumbass way to blame somebody else for his failure, like he grabs credit for successes he didn't touch.

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Sköll's avatar

True, but I live near Canadians, and I don't want to be at odds with them in any way.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

I'm married to one!

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Cheryl Keeping's avatar

Hate, loathe, despise, detest, longing for his scabies and hemorrhoids to act up.

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Patricia Gomes's avatar

All of the above plus his fucking hair falls out overnight.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

I think it already has, that is why he superglues that dead ferret to his head.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

ROTFLMAO, Natalie!

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Patricia Gomes's avatar

Good point. How about he becomes allergic to any glue imaginable 😂

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Bo's avatar

Not sexy, maybe, but still happy to see the exposure of chucklekfuck's lies. https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/tariffs/

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Hank Napkin's avatar

Sir's casino/policies will hurt us all -- but they offer the best possibility for MAGAmericans to learn that they too suffer at Sir's command.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

You made it sexy. And fun.

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Anne E Sweeney's avatar

yes, until that little Hunter Biden pardon......get em Biden.

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Ronald P YYZ's avatar

Here's a real problem us Canadians would like to see worked on: stop the flow of guns into our country! Let's put a tariff on all US imports into Canada until your people do something to stop the guns going north.

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SPW's avatar

Knock yourselves out. I’d love it if the congressional jackanapes would do something about the glut of guns here as well but you see how far we’ve gotten with it here.

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D.Allen's avatar

I’d like to see them destroyed! I had no idea guns were being shipped anywhere out of the U.S. Seems like Americans want them all. 🤨

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Betsy L's avatar

You know all those guns the people in Mexican gun cartels fire at each other? 90% or more of those come from the US.

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Tully's avatar

Also in Canada.

China is the biggest producer of Fentanyl which is then brought in both from Mexico and across the Canadian border. Of course, no one is concerned about Canadians coming in as they're white. And, for some reason, Trump hasn't yet threatened China over their Fentanyl manufacturing.

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Barbara Morgan's avatar

He's too busy threatening them with tariffs

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Really? That's a new one for me. How do you know that. Curious.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

There is a documentary about it called "the Iron pipeline. Hell's Angels started running them into Montreal, in the 70's.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Thanks, you answered my question.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

It was big news when I lived up there. They were doing it in British Columbia, where I was living in the '90's. Biker gangs from the states were big time gun runners.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Thank you. There's so much stuff I don't know.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

We all miss things. It’s nice when someone helps fill in the blanks.

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

Hear hear. I’m with you all the way.

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Teri's avatar

🎯🎯🎯🎯

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

We can't even control it here. Sorry our shit is affecting you.

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Dave Drell's avatar

How we going to do that? we’ve got

400 MILLION of them- and you don’t want any?

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Karen Leeds's avatar

I feel like I’ve seen this movie before. Wait!! I HAVE seen this movie before…

Dumbfuck says idiotic things about our neighbors, threatens to impose tariffs on CANADA - 😳 - and lies incessantly about drugs pouring into our country carried on the backs of those “those brown rapists”. Those of us with cognitive thinking skills laugh and say, what an absolute dummy!! But then 77 million of us say, yeah, but he’s OUR dummy!! AND he’s a white man!! AND he’s a “billionaire” so he must know what he’s doing!! So let’s make him president again!

I can’t take it anymore…our country is so fucking stupid…

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Mary Hall's avatar

We are locked in a room with the slow learners.

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FTrump And FPutin Too's avatar

And the slow learners in charge of local politics too.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Execrable Tosspots, unctuous derps, willfully ignorant, a number of words fill the bill Mary!

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D.Allen's avatar

Blame 🦊news for some of the problems, they make him seem credible.

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Karen Leeds's avatar

I blame a lot of things. Rupert Murdoch for lying to his viewers about everything (because he’s apparently not rich enough), Mark Burnett for making him appear credible and successful, the MSM for sane washing him throughout the entire campaign, and Trump voters for being too lazy to understand he’s not going to “save them” from whatever imaginary grievances they have. And that “stickin’ it to the libs” doesn’t actually work so well in real life when you’ve just elected the guy that’s going to take away your healthcare, your social safety nets, and women’s rights inbetween handing Ukraine to his buddy Putin (paving the way to invade Poland) and crashing the economy with his tariff nonsense. Good times!!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Exactly Karen!!

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Steve Kelly's avatar

Agreed. But it's not Fox News. It's Fox Propaganda.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

FUX ENTERTAINMENT was the result of the lawsuit and admission of the multi-million dollar settlement against them Steve!!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

So did the corporate media NYT, WaPo, and but not limited to CNN they "sanewashed" the shit out of him.

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Sue Munda's avatar

And he’s a rapist!!!

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Teri's avatar

Let's have a mass deportation starting NOW! Deport all dogs at shelters, rescues, etc. Quickly evaluate for further training as a drug sniffing dogs. Have seen dogs with handlers in large ports, sniffing around stacked containers. Cats + unqualified dogs are adoptable. If food & vet bills are a problem, ask Bill Gates- types to fund for lonely folks and low income, pet living people.

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Teri's avatar

*loving

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Derek Smith's avatar

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

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arne link's avatar

That's one of my brother's favorite quotes.

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LizinMN's avatar

🤣🤣 Good one!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

LOL

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LizinMN's avatar

And yet Bobby Brainworms is touting heroine for ADHD? 🙄 I feel like vomiting every day.

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D.Allen's avatar

What a f___king idiot, he is!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

You can say fucking here in fact it is the preferred term.

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Deb Martina's avatar

Absofuckinglutely. It's so nice that we can say fuck fuck fuck and we're fucked.

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Kay-El's avatar

If all anything took was one phone call, Orange Fuckwit would not be president elect, the climate crisis would be averted, universal health care and a living wage would be the norm. Trump’s cultists will never get how anything works.

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SPW's avatar

As usual Kay-El, you’re right. How much simpler this world would be if only it took one phone call. Sigh.

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Kay-El's avatar

Please put that first sentence on the loudest setting to my Spawn (just kidding, they know I’m always right) :D

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Deb Martina's avatar

Or some balls from the democrats to make sure he's not inaugurated.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Watching Fox News, Newsmax, etc. as the only sources of information makes Jack a pretty dull boy.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

That's why they are so easy to fool. We used to protect them from their own stupidity.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

True dat Kay-EI!!

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Gayna's avatar

I really hate that guy. Maybe this Christmas I’ll get my wish and he will drop dead.

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Carolyn's avatar

My sentiments EXACTLY.

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Barbara Morgan's avatar

Yes please Santa ✌🏻💙

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Alexandra Barcus's avatar

Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Minister of Finance, pushed back on Trump. (Another powerful woman in gov’t.)

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vorpal's avatar

Canuckistanian here... Chrystia Freeland is awesome.

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Alexandra Barcus's avatar

She was once my student. And she is awesome.

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Teri's avatar

👏👏👏 We need more women & overall diversity!!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Good, qualified, women not magattes, and hand-maidens.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

She is a goddess, and so good at her job!

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Donatella  Dillon's avatar

I’m still trying to get over the fact of how many millions of Fidiots voted for him, now no matter where I am, store, street , restaurant I look around me and think: are you one of the unbelievable idiots who voted for him?

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Mary Hall's avatar

I made blue bracelets for all of my female friends and family to wear. It’s a tiny gesture but WTH, it’s doing something.

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Teri's avatar

I'd be interested in buying a couple if you're taking orders. I LOVE this idea!! Pls lmk how much ladiibbug @ yahoo dot com

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Shalone's avatar

Unfortunately the cult will never believe the truth, unless it permanently alters their little lives.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

And what those gullible dipshit sheep don't realize or believe is how fucked seven ways to Sunday they will be once he starts his mission to dismantle and destroy. Even when the MAGAs start to feel the sting of his awful leadership and policies, they still won't accept it as the media will conveniently sweep this under the rug and go along with saying it was all Biden's fault. Four more years of this bullshit when that felonious asshole shouldn't be anywhere near Pennsylvania Ave. is going to be difficult to accept.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

They actually don't care about the truth—they hired him to do their thinking for them.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

👆👆👆👆🎯

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David (Dave) Jaspers's avatar

It really is like shouting to a wall. Though walls are 9000% more intelligent.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Like

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Barbara Morgan's avatar

💯🎯✌🏻💙😡

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Kim Nesvig's avatar

No crisis is easier to solve than an imaginary crisis. And the tried and true Trumpian response to any reality based problem is to pretend it doesn’t exist.

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Teri's avatar

Kim, turd posted a couple days ago about "a large caravan of migrants, in the thousands, heading for the U.S." He's recycling old threats to current day, almost word for word. Remember the "3,000 person caravan" en route to the U.S. from his first transition/admin? Love the President of Mexico calling out his lies!

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Liz Adams's avatar

Actually, MAGAs amplify his messages. What we need is a Truth and fact army. People who tweet or whatever the facts combatting his lies and gaslighting. Because his followers are so low information people that they believe every word he says. And they don’t hear anything different ( listening MSM?) He needs to be called out every damn time!

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Vickie Berry's avatar

I think that would be called a responsible media.

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Tully's avatar

The problem is the right doesn't use the MSM. Yes, the older listen to Fox and Newsmax, but the majority get their "info" from TikTok, all types of Podcasts, etc. They're in more of their own fake bubbles than they claim the MSNBC viewers are.

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Cassandra Here's avatar

We need the Fairness Doctrine back for the news. Let punditry go on as entertainment or opinion or Pundits R Us. Please give us news.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

You would have to update it for the current technology. It didn't cover cable news and that is old-tech.

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Teri's avatar

Has turd ever honed in to specifically say (if this is in fact true) that fentanyl ingredients come from CHINA?

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Betsy L's avatar

Yes. That's part of his argument in favor of tarriffs on China. And Pres. Biden just forged an agreement with Xi to cut back on those precursors even more. But that's not noticed by MAGAt World.

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Zee Zee Writer's avatar

So, I ate turkey and dressing and looked out the window at my lovely city, Chicago. I feel gutted. The meal was tasteless. I’m empty inside. Hollowed out.

My current biggest problem is not with Donnie Douche Bag. I know Donnie. He never suprises me. He’s text book nuts. Totally predicatable.

It’s the people who voted for him. That’s my biggest problem. In my opinion, one of two things happened.

1. They don’t know he’s a patholigical liar. (How can this be?)

2. They know and don’t care.

Either way it sucks. So, people I have known for years are either mentally incompetent or revenge motivated.

I think they know he is a pathological liar. So, how do I continue to look these friends, family members in the face?

This is my current, biggest problem. And, there is no answer.

We know the Republican play book. It’s deflect, deflect, deflect. Lying is part of their strategy. How do you fight this?

They feed the masses what they want to hear. Slop to swine. How do we counter act this?

I hate to say this...I hate to think this...But it’s like your alcholic friend. You have to let them hit rock bottom before they can turn themselves around.

See, we’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t.

Please tell me I’m wrong. Cause I got nothing to see but more ... ignorance. Denial. Deflection.

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D.Allen's avatar

I understand completely! I’m counting on the few Reps to say no to him.

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Zija Pulp's avatar

I wonder if viewing TFG as a spoiled 3-year-old would help. Ignore him, don’t give him the attention he craves, and put him out of your mind. Write the truth (if you know it) about a situation and accept there are a lot of us in the same boat. Cheers!

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Zija Pulp's avatar

I have no children but my sister did and a lot of my friends did. So I know what hood parenting is (I think). I see my SIL+BIL leave discipline to others and completely indulge their son (now 5) and I have to keep my mouth shut when he’s banging things on the table at dinner time. Luckily my in-laws (Nana and PopPop) have no problem reining him in. My husband and I invariably talk about the sitch on our drive home.

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Teri's avatar

Hi Zee Zee. You expressed what tens of millions of us are feeling. It's breathtaking, the # of Dems who didn't vote. When our very democracy was on the line, so now we have an even scarier version of madmen and idiots for four years. You are correct. Today I refilled and cleaned my hummingbird feeders and did chores. The most normal day, finding peace after Nov. 5. Hang in there. Jeff's Substack is a fantastic community of smart, kind folks from around the globe. We will adjust as best we can.💐

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Vickie Berry's avatar

Surrounded yourself with people who are fighting the good fight. Get involved.

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Cassandra Here's avatar

Doing that daily, still pissed. Energized, yes, but it feels, when fighting against all this mess without the 4th estate, without a judicial system, without my party feels awfully lonely. I’ve got a terrific crew and we work, work, work.

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Deb Martina's avatar

Thank you Jeff T for giving us a forum to talk to like minded people...if I do talk to anyone that I know who I think voted for him...we don't discuss it.

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Cheryl Keeping's avatar

It's causing a lot of lost sleep and life altering decisions for us. We are stockpiling necessities, selling our beloved little winter place to bulk up on cash, and canceling any and all travel plans we were making for the summer. For this alone, I hate him and his familiars more than I can say.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Take small bites. Just do what you can with whatever is in your face at any given time. You can't attack the whole shit show at once. If you fail, move on. We will not win them all.

You may have to disconnect with people you cared about. That's tough to do.

Good luck.

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Dean Sigler's avatar

News folks need to give equal space to Ms. Sheinbaum's response. And Justin Trudeau's. We hear too much from our bloviating blob and too little from the rest of the (real) world.

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Carol C's avatar

Oh, yes! Nail hit on the head, Dean!

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Dean Sigler's avatar

Thank you, Ms. C. I'm afraid our comic opera buffoon fuhrer will further disgrace our nation in years to come. Will the ICC hit us with an indictment?

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Dean, you lost me. What war crimes have we committed. Or are you thinking of a future fuckup.

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Dean Sigler's avatar

In his unofficial capacity as second president, Mr. Trump has been making inroads with our enemies, and heaven only knows what he's promised each. I fear deals that will come back to haunt us, and the untold damage he's already inflicted on Ukraine, Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria, for starters.

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Chris Craddock's avatar

Sorry, I am still gobsmacked that ANYONE would vote for this cockwomble, never mind his idiotic sycophants, grifters and pussy grabbers

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Deb Martina's avatar

I'm with you Chris.

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

Western Democracies have learned from trump’s tenure in 2016-2020 that he’s a bully and this time they’re not taking it seriously. He’s been a bully all his life and doesn’t understand the longstanding friendship and alliances of his physically adjoining countries. The only thing he understand’s is chaos. Well f*uck him because we’re not in the mood for his bullsheet. We’re going to fight back with our own tariffs.

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FTrump And FPutin Too's avatar

We hope Canada doesn’t because it hits the 48% of us that value our northern neighbors. We are stuck, the world is stuck, with a vile asshat that we voted against. Biden is still our president until the Asshat gets sworn in on January 20.

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

Trudeau called a zoom meeting with the Premiers of the Provinces yesterday. They are going to tighten the border and the consensus was that there would be some retaliation. We hope that trump is just being his bully self, but if he does impose tariffs, 100% of Canadians will feel their effects as you all will if we retaliate.

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

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Carol's avatar

This is so infuriating! I will never, ever forgive the corporate media for allowing the orange buffoon to get away with this crap! So grateful we have Jeff and others who will tell the truth!

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Mary Hall's avatar

I 100% blame the media.

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Dave Drell's avatar

I blame Mark Burnett and his stooopid idea to prop this bullshitting liar and bloviator as You’re Fired aka The Apprentice. otherwise no one outside of NJ & NY would know or care about this lying sack of fecal matter, and he would never have been a contender for the Republitards nomination

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