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Susan Niemann's avatar

“what we’re simply trying to do is give [Trump] cover.”

Who in the hell names their kid MarkWayne, anyway. 🤦‍♀️

‘they’re hiding something CRAZY.’ Oh, hell yes they are.

And The National (Scotlands newspaper) has a FANTASTIC front page today with the headline reading: "CONVICTED US FELON TO ARRIVE IN SCOTLAND"

Thanks, National, for showing the worthless media in the US how headlines are written.

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Mary Lou Williams's avatar

Why even let him into the country?

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HI2thDoc's avatar

IKR? Can't they deny entry to a convicted felon? Or we should deny him re-entry when he tries to come back. GOPedo word on the street is many undesirables are coming to 'Murikkka

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

The Scots WILL have a lot to say when orange pedo touches down. Those who supported Michael and Molly (his mother) Forbes against him haven't forgotten the greedy scots officials who took bribes allowing destruction of an irreplaceable area of dunes TO 'build' that fucking golf monstrosity 'turnberry'. After that he then tried to force the Scottish Government to prevent needed wind turbines off the coast. He LOST and raged at them openly (as is his typical stupid behaviour which cost him any last vestige of support there. Michael is a hero and frump is considered the most vile. The Epstein files are more red meat for those who despise him.

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Jacqueline Klein's avatar

When all of that happened, Scotland was considering arresting and trying him for corruption and money laundering. It seems a whole lot of the money to build it appreared out of thin air. You know who has money magically appear? Money launderers. Then he ended up getting Russia to help him get elected and poor, everything went bye bye.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Building another roach and rat infested 18 hole golf motel Mary!!

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Scabies very difficult to eradicate.

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Lisa A's avatar

My money is on trump pimping off Ivanka to Epstein….something as sick as that!!

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arne link's avatar

Personally, I think an unintended death happened. That would be the ultimate turn-on for those sick fucks. Excuse my language.

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counterlife's avatar

I have wondered about that myself. I hope it isn't true, but Trump's terror is clear. I don't think he would be that afraid of having the child rape charges out there, I mean they have been for a while. And yet he is terrified. And Ms. Maxwell, Epstein's pimp and girlfriend, should think twice about trusting him and his attorneys. She will be much easier to eliminate once she is out of prison. The stupid mafia, they do terrible things.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Eliminating those that are in prison is not a challenge for the fascists in charge.

How did Jeffrey Epstein know when to kill himself? You know, when the cameras were down for an hour and his guards just happened to be asleep.

Cyril Wecht, the renowned forensic pathologist, reviewed the autopsy results of Epstein. In his entire lengthy career, the president of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American College of Legal Medicine said he had never seen a hyoid bone fractured in 3 places from self induced hanging, like Epstein supposedly did.

Epstein was clearly murdered.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

And Walt, the “sleeping guards”identities have never been disclosed, no autopsy report, no toxicology report…stinks to high heaven! AND the last person to see him and probably give him his last rites was Bill Barr, the literal toad.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

The ‘cop mannequins’ covered for a quick and precise karate chop to the neck then the hanging rehearsed by men in black to perfection insuring privacy. Then the donut card, putting coffee and a big double size box of donuts in the lunch room. The midnight break.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Marlene, I neglected to mention another player in the Jeffrey Epstein saga that stinks to high heaven. Alan Dershowitz. He was all over Orgy Island many times and had the audacity to say on the show that everything he did for Epstein was legal and ETHICAL. I almost burst a blood vessel when I heard that.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Which the right-wingers now deny.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

WHEN they said that he'd 'committed suicide', my immediate reaction was - oh, frump paid off somebody to 'suicide him'. FIRST and immediate reaction and haven't had any reason to change that opinion. Have I mentioned that I'm more than a wee bit 'fey' knowing things I couldn't/shouldn't throughout my life? ALL my friends know this, btw - not only my estranged sister.

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Lisa's avatar

And not that I care about the cause of death, one less mouth breather, but yes, clearly it wasn't self-inflicted.

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arne link's avatar

100%

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

" Something crazy "

Like a SNUFF FILM ?! I don't put it past these monsters.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

He loves talking about violence & threatening violence .He is obviously into violence " porn " , that's another reason why I think he might be hiding a homicide.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

No excusing here, arne!!

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kdsherpa's avatar

LOL!

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Patricia Gomes's avatar

See Chris Cuomo’s interview with Mark Epstein.

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Mwfeiger's avatar

I too subscribe to this theory. DJT being 'transactional' about every area of his life. He's a sociopath who has no bottom, no morality, honor, integrity, or understanding of right and wrong. Ivanka was 'valuable' to a wealthy powerful man. What's not to like? DJT likely wouldn't have even paused to reflect on such a barter.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

I think he understands conventional right and wrong perfectly. He just doesn’t care.

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Marion Mlotok's avatar

Won't let knowing what's right and wrong get in his way.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

EXACTLY!

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arne link's avatar

IDK, he really wanted her for himself. He's very selfish person so I'm going to vote no on him sharing her. Now whether her husband bartered her to the Saudi prince for two billion? I'm voting that she agreed to take one for the team on that occasion.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

ick - no, not even that. I do agree with the first part but IF Justin Trudeau was a Saudi prince then perhaps ;) - but not FOR that husband of hers, and only if a man appealed to her. Just say'n. I give her a tiny bit more credit than the 2 moronic brothers of hers. Chelsea Clinton knows her and has had nice things to say about her --and remember: she AGREED WITH BARR/PENCE about her 'daddy' - didn't lie under Oath to the Jan 6th Committee. Doesn't anyone else wonder WHY she'd marry a Jewish man in the face of her daddy's lifelong anti-semitism (yes he is not only racist but a bigoted, misogynistic anti-semite).?

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Interesting.

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Judy Luchsinger's avatar

Maybe he used Ivanka himself. That would be disgusting enough to lose a few votes.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

He pimped Ivanka out to Casablanca !

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Notorious sex pest.

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Judy Luchsinger's avatar

I'm dense. Who's Casablanca? Or, do you mean in order to win the white house?

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Ingrid Robertshaw's avatar

It is getting interesting,folks. BLANCHE is "visiting GHISLAINE a 2nd time". Very likely she is " bartering'...all in front of A.ERICA! DONNY TWO DOLLS probably is driving a hard bargain....At this .moment it is so dire to release the unredacted files..let it all hang out! AMERICA IS SO READY!!!!

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey. Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it. Donald: Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?

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Lisa's avatar

One GOP talking defense point was that Donald would never use a big word like enigma, then late night found numerous videos of djt saying that word over and over in the 90's. You know how he gets stuck on a new word and shows it off over and over until he forgets it and finds a new shiny word.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Like “Groceries”

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

WHICH he thinks he invented, laughing my NY ass off.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Trump was not just a client, he was also a supplier. His beauty pageants and modelling agency fed girls into the Epstein machine.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Speaking of which, did anyone ever inquire as to exactly when and from where he met Miss Maples? Wasn't she a 'beauty queen' of some sort?

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Miss Georgia or peach, something like that. He introduced trump to Melania.

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Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

He owned the Miss Teen USA pageant and a modeling agency. He is a pedo-trafficker.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Probably his favorite businesses. Mixing business with pleasure. Ick.

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KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

Well, I've always thought that the picture of her as a little girl in a bar with her dad and epstein is very telling. She's chewing on her finger....could be a coping mechanism for anxiety. Who knows?

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Every father-daughter photo of Trump with Ivanka as a child looks like he's showing off a sexual conquest.

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Judy Luchsinger's avatar

Thats's what I thought: anxiety at what she suspects or knows is coming.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Remember, they were raised by their mother - and somewhere around adolescence taken control of by 'daddy dearest'. I wonder if that was part of his threatening of Ivana - 'you obey me or......'? She already knew how vicious he could be, ripping out chunks of her hair for merely recommending him to a doctor due for his rapidly receding hairline, imagine what else he could threaten to inflict on her and her children for other 'imaginary sins' against his trumplethinskin? Does anyone think his children REALLY 'love' that narcissistic creep who has no idea what 'love' is?

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Dave Drell's avatar

Who lets a teenage daughter sit on his lap at a public event ???? 🤮🤮🤮

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rlritt's avatar

Only if he could watch. He admitted several times he was physically attracted to his teenage daughter.

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Chet Brandt's avatar

Drumph did say he would “date” his own daughter. How fucked up is that???!!!

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

All those photos of Ivanka sitting on daddy's lap were an obvious red flag. My pedo grandfather used to do that with all of my female cousins. Bleccchhh.

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Lisa's avatar

I remember all of us girl cousins being asked to "sit on grampa's lap for a picture" and there was always an unsettling feeling, at least for me since no one talked amongst ourselves then and we still don't today. I'm thinking they thought the same as me.

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

And, I always wondered, why didn't the boys have to sit on grandpa's lap??

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

MOST of the young girls he raped LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE HER!

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Lisa's avatar

And half the country wears diapers on the outside and buys his crap and literally worships him. What in the holy hell does that say about our supposed country?

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

That we are a sick, sick species. It's not just here, of course. It is manifested in many unique and imaginative ways wherever there are Home sapiens sapiens.....which is pretty much everywhere, now.

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Chet Brandt's avatar

I am not surprised by this Elizabeth. Absolutely abhorrent.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Yes, and EVEN Stormy Daniels testified UNDER OATH that he told her she 'reminded him of his daughter'! Is THAT not even ickier? Good grief, this while his latest wife had just given birth and was (said to be) breast-feeding their baby son (his latest child).

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Judy Luchsinger's avatar

Possibly literally.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

The photos of her on his lap---as a teenager!---are just plain creepy.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Especially the one where she's basically giving him a lap dance, & people look very uncomfortable.

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Lisa's avatar

There's a picture of Barron as a child basically giving Melania a lap dance as he takes her picture and she's smiling like he's her date. It's revolting.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Yeccchhh! Yep!

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Linda Weide's avatar

Well it seems like Maxwell pimped his daughter to Epstein, and later she became his madam when she was too old for him. So, all of these guys see women and that includes their daughters as property, under their dominion to serve them as they wish for.

My question is, is this 1984 with the stories Trump is trying to deceive us with, or 1972 with Trump-gate? Just dessert for his spreading of Pizzagate. What goes around may come back around.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

We haven't mentioned ghislaine's daddy Robert Maxwell. The UBER-RICH guy who was out on his fancy Yacht when he just 'fell overboard' and was found floating face up, drowned. He was very overweight with other medical issues (if I recall correctly). No one saw anything so the verdict was 'suicide by drowning'. Hmm, suicide seems so convenient, doesn't it? Seems to follow these UBER-RICH people. His wife was a socialite for whom wee ghislaine was her youngest and most precious 'wild child'. There was a big story in either Vanity Fair or Rolling Stone (can't remember which) about their lives, along with photos. Might still be available on line?

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

He was a criminal.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Yeech!

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Michael Johnson's avatar

I've seen posted on Blue Sky at least a dozen times these past three weeks the video testimony of a young woman who describes in graphic detail how tRump assaulted and raped her when she was THIRTEEN years old. It's up on YouTube, seen now by millions. Is there some question as to the veracity? Did she sign something that prevents her testimony from being reported by MSM? There is now so much out there that is known that the fact his association with Epstein as his "closest friend" should be enough to bring him down, for good. It boggles the mind. It is crystal clear that having sex with very young girls was their "thing" - their special "secret." The man has escaped accountability for virtually all his heinous misdeeds, with the exception of the Civil Court decision RE: Jean Carroll - which he has yet to pay one cent, except to the lawyers appealing the decision. While Murdoch's WSJ has grasped a bit of sanity, faux newz is doing everything in its power to give him "cover" - make it all go away, and lapping up all their ridiculous distractions like starving dogs. How is it that video testimony by his 13 year old victim not headline news?

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Michael, IF that girl is the one whose pseudonym is Katie Johnson, she also later withdrew her suit BECAUSE of serious death threats not only to her but to her entire family. She was terrorized into silence.

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Michael Johnson's avatar

I feel sure there are more than one, but it must be that one, and that of course explains it - death threats. So her video is of an anonymous victim?

My 1st week on Blue Sky, someone posted a list of over 25 women and their ages who had been assaulted by tRump, including 12 and 13 year old girls. I was incredulous in my comment. I had not seen it before, and frankly couldn't believe it - and I was roundly scolded by two women in the comments for being even slightly surprised, not exactly skeptical. In the video, this now grown woman testifies she was tied down and brutalized in addition to the rape. And this man is POTUS. It just doesn't get worse, in addition to all the other abhorrent aspects of tRump. Now I know it was right to scold me, but at the time, I felt a bit miffed. Men with money have been treating woman horribly since time began, and this country is so f'd up because this grotesque person was elected in large part because so many could not accept having a woman as POTUS. Men without money have also been monstrous to women. of course. But men with money are routinely able to be as horrible as they please without the threat of consequence. As so many actions of this admn appear to want a return to Jim Crow America, a big part of Project 2025 and various actions also rolls back any progress made by the #me2 movement and the Equal Rights Amendment in general. Bringing 'The Handmaid's Tale' to life. The Republic of Gilead. That video, her story, should be known to all. He denies everything anyway. It's important. And it's up on more than one YouTube channel - more than one person has posted, and many have shared. The big question is why hasn't MSM told this story, and many more like it? It feels like they're getting close to doing just that. Especially the WSJ.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

I don't think so....he'd always want to have her for himself. That much was evident throughout her adolescence and even later on. I think SHE believed he was 'only kidding' so never realized the depths of depravity her 'dear old dad' harboured towards her. How sickening. Lusting after his own daughter openly on the Howard Stern show - and elsewhere. She NOW KNOWS it was all too real!

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Dave Drell's avatar

She deserves to know - i have no sympathy for any of this rotten family.

Bunch of sub human cretins

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

I think Epstein hit on Ivanka and that's why the friendship suddenly ended. It wasn't over a real estate deal. Trump wants his daughter to himself - he would never give her away to someone else. And my disgust with his pretend wife Melania. The fact she stays married to him is beyond me. Doesn't matter if she never sees him, she still has his name and they're legally married. Any other decent woman would have never married him, kicked him to the curb after the Stormy scandal and been long gone before this mess hit the newspapers.

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

There's probably a pre-nup that says if she leaves him she gets nothing. Of course, now Amazon is giving her 40 million. But maybe that's not enough for her to go.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Yes, she has renegotiated at least four times. This article is old.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/09/melania-trump-donald-trump-prenup

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Lisa's avatar

Ever notice the pictures of her as a child sitting next to Epstein or her father, or both, that she's always biting her nails? It's a tell.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

I have to divulge a wee bit about this 'nail' thing in my own life. I'd never been able to grow my nails, was ashamed of them, all while my abusive mother AND sister insulted and demeaned me for 'biting' my nails which I didn't really do. What I did was 'pick' at them until they tore. They were awful, ugly. Later on I used stick on nails (using nail glue which worked well enough, so most people had no idea they weren't my own). It was fairly costly. To this day I've never had a manicure - something foreign to me. WHEN I finally walked away from my older sister's screaming ranting abuse first directed at my husband (in their maryland home) then turned on me: with her actually telling me she'd wanted to tell me to 'go fuck myself for 40 years', I managed to remain calm. We packed up and left I knew she'd hated my mother having a new baby after her but had always stood up for her against my mother despite no support back - she even coerced her friends to beat me up when she was forbidden. I never could comprehend why she was so vicious/abusive towards me. AS we got into our 20's, 30's she decided that we were going to be 'sisters'. I went along because I cared about her kids (we're still close to them) but they do keep trying to have me 'forgive' her. I can't. She simmered this viciousness for my entire life until it erupted. I later found a photo of my older brother's First Communion. I was 2-l/2 and have huge, frightened eyes and am picking at my nails - even then. Realizing just how far back it went - and how long I'd been dealing with their nonstop abuse and bullshit (to their credit my Dad and older brother never abused me) I became able to finally let go of my sister and her husband who was likewise always nasty to me while sucking up to my husband. Weirdly, a few months post this breakup, I realized my nails were growing. They're now strong and I can even shape and file them - for the very first time in my entire life! I don't bite or pick at my nails at all! It dawned on me that my sister's non-stop hitting, beatings and abuse had done so much more of the damage than I'd ever realized. Her children love me and keep hoping we'll 'get back together' but there's no possibility of that. I've never felt freer, or happy to show off my hands (as small a thing as this may seem). My good friends are my 'real' family. Oh, she's inundated my phone with what I call 'nopologies' - you know the kind: 'I don't know why you took what I saidathat way', 'I had too much wine and didn't mean anything', blah blah blah. To be honest she'd been drinking about a bottle of wine every damn day and would fall asleep after calling me THEN would be furious if I hung up. so I guess adding 'look at childrens' nails if abuse is suspected' might be a good thing?

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KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

Wow. Thank you for sharing this. There is definitely a connection between physical and mental health. Picking and chewing at fingers/nails is definitely a sign of some sort of anxiety. Congratulations on moving toward healthier relationships. So sad when family members have been given a pass to abuse and hurt for years and years...

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

In my case, absolutely from abuse & neglect.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

I sucked my thumb til I was preteen, I was badgered & belittled because of it, so I switched to biting my nails , often til they bled, then out of shame & vanity I stopped & started grinding my teeth til I had horrible TMJ. I had to see a specialist when I could barely open my mouth to eat. I had to wear a dental appliance for 18 months, had bio feedback and TENS therapy. I've had several night guards , chrwed em all up.

I still grind & clench almost constantly ESPECIALLY these days. Anxiety is my middle name.

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Diane J's avatar

Plus a bit of incest going on too.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Just the slightest whisper of molestation 🙄

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

I'll second that, Lisa! It was the first thing that went through my mind.

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

Maybe Epstein pawned Ivanka off on Trump. Most of the underage girls came from Belarus and Eastern European countries. Speaking or understanding English was a no no.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Do you mean Melania? THAT I'd believe. Ivanka's his daughter. His FIRST wife was Ivana but truthfully, Ivanka's name is actually Ivana too but they called her the 'pet name' for Ivana which is Ivanka. She kept it although IN Ivana's native country most women would graduate to their real name as they grew up.

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

I'm guessing Ivanka means "Little Ivana." Note, therefore, that they named their first son after the father and their daughter after the mother.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Barron is named after the alias Trump used when he would call reporters to praise himself while pretending to be someone else.

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

I stand corrected. Thanks Elizabeth.

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

I meant Melania. Sorry about that.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Donald did, in fact, meet Melania at an Epstein party, and reputedly they first had sex on his plane.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Mile High Donny Dachau!

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

You mean Ivana

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kdsherpa's avatar

Ditto re "MarkWayne". I have trouble understanding why, once he was in grade school and kids were making fun of him, he didn't choose one name to be called. His parents must be bonko.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

His name suggests "serial killer/pedophile." Maybe Trump isn't the only one who needs cover.

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Bob Bowden's avatar

When I hear MarkWayne I’m thinking assassin or mass murderer. But in truth one can kill more people by being a sinister politician voting for the Big Beautiful Turd legislation, and he did

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arne link's avatar

Sad but true.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Many murderers have Wayne as first or middle name - I was almost named Wayne , but old Grandma didn’t like it saying she kept saying Vain Vain

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

I think that association is because of JohnWayne Gacy.

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kdsherpa's avatar

Oh yeah! That's who it was. Thank you.

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Juli's avatar

Came to say that!

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

That's a heartland way of naming kids. For instance, Billie Joe Thornton and Tommy Lee Jones.

I stand corrected—Southern. Double names, family references, and greater latitude for creativity are found in Southern naming practices. Examples include the wife and two daughters of LBJ: Lady Bird Johnson, Lynda Bird Johnson and Luci Baines Johnson.

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

Not the Heartland - the South.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

The mores of the South are creeping northward, just like country music.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Not really. “The Heartland” has always had its share of such mores, as well as its taste in music.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Country music is recognized as having its origin in the town of Bristol, Virginia with recordings of musicians from Tennessee. It spread through the heartland with high powered radio station broadcasts of the Grand Old Opry in Tennessee and another very popular broadcast out of Louisiana. Please tell me a non South point of origin for country music. I'd like to expand my knowledge base.

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kdsherpa's avatar

And just like the mores of the North have been creeping southward (thank God!) I do hope that the politeness, unique to the South as far as I can tell, remains.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

Just curious - how is it polite to call black people the n-word? And carry around Nazi signs? If you're white, heterosexual and Christian, I'm sure the welcoming mat is out for you in the south, but if you don't fit that criteria, I doubt that you're treated very well.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

In my 8th grade math class there were 13 Bobbys and 8 Steves. A lot of the guys got called by first and middle name constantly.

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kdsherpa's avatar

Well, that made sense (although up North we were called by our last names: 3 Kathys in a class of 20).

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Stephen Brady's avatar

In the South a lot of boys are named after the Father or a favorite uncle. To separate the Two, they called the younger one something like ‘Jim Chris’. It even happened with girls. My Mom was ‘Alice Ruth’ to distinguish her from Aunt Alice.

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kdsherpa's avatar

The names are separated from one another, however. Not like MarkWayne.

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Susan Kemp's avatar

I think it’s a southern thing. Usually the children are named William Joseph or Thomas Lee and just called by the diminutives. Tommy Lee Jones actual name is Thomas Lee Jones. I think in thornton’s case since his father was William Raymond "Billy Ray" Thornton, they decided to skip the more formal naming.

I have a brother William Walter we sometimes called Willie Wally as a family joke after hearing some country singer’s name.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

I congratulate your brother for his patient tolerance of such meanness.

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Susan Kemp's avatar

It wasn’t mean, it was affectionately done and he didn’t seem to mind at all. My grandmother called me SueSue for years even though everyone else called me Susan. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Susan Kemp's avatar

For some unremembered reason we occasionally called my youngest brother, Thomas Eugene, Thomasina Eugenia. That one really does sound mean now. My mom’s name was Anna Louise but she went by Louise so as not to be confused with the aunt she was named after, although Great Aunt Roxanna was always called Roxie. Ah, family in-jokes.

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kdsherpa's avatar

But at least the parents had the goodness to put a space between the names, yes? The Southern way is mostly with girls' names is this:

Rhett Drayton Humphrey;

Cordes Middleton Cooper; etc.

Oops! These are "Charleston (SC) names". Sorry about that.

[Note: I'm including their last names, as well.]

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Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

Yes, he is not Mark Wayne, he is Markwayne. Weird….

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

I don't think it's any more weird or atypical than Barack Hussein Obama. Not everyone participates in the coastal monoculture.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Isn't Barack "Baruch" in Hebrew? Must be Old Testament, since the Muslims and Jews share the Old Testament, don't they?

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

Had a friend in Virginia with a pet pig named BoJudy.

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Lisa's avatar

At least there's a space between the two names. His is one long twonamename.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Human creativity demands that rules be broken sometimes. Barbra Streisand didn't spell her name right.

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kdsherpa's avatar

Actually, it was her mother who didn't spell her name right! lol (And Bette Midler thought that Bette Davis was pronounced "Bet", so that's how she spelled HER daughter's name! Love it!)

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Lisa's avatar

You bet it can and I'm all about broken. But he's a twit and hurts us all. I believe that is the gist of the thread. Let's not all get bent, he's definitely not worth it.

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Lee Ann Vindasius's avatar

Billy Bob Thornton. Funny to say he is very eccentric. Little OCD. And a great musician. Its like giving your kid two first names. Jimmy Joe let go of your sister. There's sheep in the meadow.

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Susan Kemp's avatar

I had a cousin James Joseph called Jimmy Joe although the other 5 sibs had very ordinary nicknames. Greg, Debbie, Missy (Michelle), Sean and Toma. I don’t think anyone ever came up with nicknames for Sean and Toma.

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George in Atlanta's avatar

His family tree is a pretzel.

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

They live in the South.

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Kate's avatar

I think it is a mormon thing—see Twilight for reference…yeah, I know, I will go stand in a corner now!

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Southern

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Who in the hell names their kid MarkWayne, anyway. 🤦‍♀️

The same folks who name their other son Billy Bob.

Who are the same people who named their daughter Pamela Jo Bondi.

Double names, family references, and greater latitude for creativity are found in Southern naming practices. Examples include the wife and two daughters of LBJ: Lady Bird Johnson, Lynda Bird Johnson and Luci Baines Johnson.

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kdsherpa's avatar

No. That kind of parents names their kids BillyBob, PamelaJo, etc.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

When I see double-first names like that, I assume the person is using their first and middle names. Moms use both when they’re yelling at you as a kid for doing something stupid, so MarkWayne and Billy Bob must have heard their two names together like that so many times in their childhoods that they just went with it as adults.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

So Billy Bob is OK and Pamela Jo is OK but go so far as to deduct a space and suddenly it's a threat to All that is good and holy.

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FTrump And FPutin Too's avatar

One theory is that MarkWayne’s mother wasn’t sure which one was the father so they got jammed together in alphabetical order for the first name.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

As a historian, we have enormous suspicion of stories like that. Doesn't sound like his mother would memorialize her sluttery in her son's name.

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FTrump And FPutin Too's avatar

I was being facetious, but ya never know. Ma could be equally ‘honoring’ a couple of skeazy brothers or uncles.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I've read all this so for, and I keep thinking "hillbilly". Maybe that's why we don't use JD Vance's real name.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

JDVance is a faux-hillbilly. He’s a shillbilly.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Hillbilli Vanilli

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Hmm, you do know he's my third cousin, eight times removed, right?

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Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

👍

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David M Marko's avatar

Costing the American taxpayer $10 million for personal gain.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-scotland-golf-vacation_n_688278b0e4b01be72b3e620b

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I despise him with every fiber of my being.

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Susan Kemp's avatar

Every morning the first thing I do is check the news online hoping to hear he died. I’ve never wished that for anyone else in my 76 years. Even then it would be a mixed blessing since we’d be stuck with Vance. I do think that the tech bro contingent plans to get rid of trump and replace him with Vance. Vance has all the charisma of a bowl of oatmeal. I can’t see him heading up the cult or even being elected by even maga voters, but what do I know.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I check the same thing. The felon is, in my mind, a charismatic leader of a cult of very hateful and sick people. I dont think Vance has what it takes to keep them “in line”. Theil and Yarvin need to be watched closely as they are the ones behind all this. We’ll see. But we MUST keep democracy alive and get out the vote, especially among young voters.

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DR Darke's avatar

"Costing the American taxpayer $10 million for personal gain.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-scotland-golf-vacation_n_688278b0e4b01be72b3e620b "

Given all Trump's done, and *allegedly* 😂 done?

That's a parking ticket by comparison.

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Jan Moon's avatar

He's doing WHAT in Scotland??? I didn't sign up to pay for that. We didn't sign up to foot the bill for every time he takes his sorry ass to any golf course.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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Robert Eckert's avatar

In legal terms, MarkWayne, you're saying you are an accomplice after the fact, to thousands of vile acts of child molestation.

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Kay-El's avatar

It’s hard to believe that fuckwit said that out loud, but he is a fuckwit, so believable. 🙄

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

We Scots (I'm still one courtesy of my cousins over there despite my decades in NY) absolutely despise the orange fucker and think up all sorts of ways to keep him out. MY money is still on the purported 3-4 sets of parents of little BOYS paid off by frump and signed to ironclad NDA'S. BUT those 30-year NDA's (as with the girls) must be expiring sometime soon? To frump, being thought of as the 'womanizing' lech he is would be no big deal but if found out as raping little boys? Oh my...

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Gail Dragoo's avatar

This whole issue couldn’t be any smellier. I woke up today with a smile on my face. I wonder what Epstein fun we’ll have today? Oh wait, our Pedo Prez is playing golf on our dime so we get to wait until Monday!!

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Judy Luchsinger's avatar

Not necessarily.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Susan, love that headline. I also loved Jane Godley's post about last time Trump visited. She uses great words too. I have been saying that everyone coming to visit Trump and sucking up to him over tariffs, or letting him visit their country certainly looks like they are endorsing doing business with a convicted criminal. It does not look good. I hope Godley shows up again with the same sign. Maybe she could have one that says, Trump is a Pedophile. Pronounced with a long E, long O, long I, silent E.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

That headline was amazing. If only our newspapers would quit kissing his ass and tell it like it is front page and center, those who are still in denial might actually see the fucking light. Also, MarkWayne sounds like a name that originated at trailer park in Bumfuck Egypt, OK.

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SPW's avatar

I just love it for him. The Scots know how to hammer him good with his own shit too. They can’t stand his ass. By the way and unbelievably, Sen. Mullin’s first name is spelled Markwayne. I know, it’s a “thang” where he’s from 🙄.

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

Someone who wants their kid to get swirlies and stuffed into lockers in school, that's who

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Hey...I'm trying to subscribe. It wont allow me to. :(

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

You should be able to log in. Just click the log in link and enter your email you use for Substack and it should send you an email with a link

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Lee Ann Vindasius's avatar

Look him up!

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

So I guess, if Maxwell is pardoned, the entire world will know she lied for Donny. And if she suddenly “commits suicide in her cell”, we’ll know she didn’t.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

my favorite headline was from the Onion, last week. it was something like "Ghislaine Maxwell found dead of suicide in her cell next week"

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Reminds me of a conversation between Boris Badenov and Fearless Leader.

Fearless Leader says, "Badenov? He was executed yesterday."

Boris sputters, "But a-but it's ME, I'm Boris."

Fearless Leader: "Oh excuse me, I pick up tomorrow's paper."

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

Executed. Nah. Fell out of a window. No screens in Ruskie!

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Robert Eckert's avatar

In Mother Russia, windows open YOU!

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

I mees you already dahlink.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Listen,Boris dahling, how many likes can i geeev Doc? Vuun? dahhhhh!!!

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Lamorindalinda's avatar

If she gets pardoned she’d better stay away from high windows and have a food taster.

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arne link's avatar

OMG! That is truly prescient, not to mention funny.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

😂😂😂

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Debbie  Mitchell's avatar

My favorite too. Did you read Rick Wilson’s Substack from a couple days ago. It is an imagining of the meeting between Blanche and Maxwell and as soon as he gets her to sign a statement that says Trump wasn’t involved by promising a pardon the prison guards off her calling it a suicide. Spoiler alert! The guards get killed that evening and months later Blanche dies mysteriously.

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SLS's avatar

Given the total absence of any morality or sense of honor among the participants in the current regime, it would be perfectly reasonable to expect that after exonerating PoSotUS and [perhaps] being pardoned, she would exit life prematurely by lingering too close to an upper-story window, or perhaps lose her footing while descending a staircase somewhere, or make an unfortunate misjudgment of the speed of an approaching vehicle, or....thereby ensuring that she would never be able to recant her perjured testimony.

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Eileen's avatar

She’ll be met by Ivana as a fellow stair falling victim before heading to Hell to see Epstein. No accidents. Just lethal damage control.

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George in Atlanta's avatar

That's not the plot of Rick Wilson's thriller on the topic:

https://therickwilson.substack.com/p/how-ghislaine-maxwell-dies

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Debbie  Mitchell's avatar

Read it and can’t get it out of my head’

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George in Atlanta's avatar

He's got some chops. After he's done saving democracy, he can enjoy a nice gig churning out potboilers.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Your understanding of how things work is astounding Stephanie!!

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Eileen's avatar

Kinda scary that the most vocal victim, Giuffre, committed suicide in April? How convenient.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

how frickin' evil and stupid and ignorant do you have to be to vote for tangeranus in 2024 and then say you were duped? fuck both of those guys

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I know, fuck those fucking guys forever. I was just using them as an example of the current temperature

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Doc Blase''s avatar

The thing that bakes my noodle is 34 felony convictions wouldn't do it. Trying to overthrow the government wouldn't do it.

It's THIS, for fuck's sake, the exposure of the one lie that the Dems are blood-drinking pedos. THIS is what does it.

I'm in for whatever it takes. But this wasn't on the BINGO card.

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Mingo's avatar

Even the QANON Shaman has said fuckity bye.

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Victoria Wilson's avatar

Yeah I’m surprised that this thing is his comeuppance.This may be to Agolf McChucklefuck what income tax evasion was for Al Capone.Fingers crossed!

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Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

Doc: Yes, but I think it was the fire that was lit when Magats thinking that it was all Dems, who were doing the pedophile thing. Now they are stuck.

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Brenda McDonald's avatar

Right. Never mind all those republicans and evangelicals getting arrested for child porn, rape, sexual harassment.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

That's my question too. How did they not notice all those kind of arrests of those kind of people.

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RandomHuman's avatar

Narcissists always accuse the other of doing what the narc does, b/c they can't fathom that other ppl aren't just like them. They figure if they're doing it, everyone is doing it, b/c everyone is just like them and no different. So. Always accuse the other guy of whatever you're doing wrong is the playbook, b/c it has to be true, right? RIGHT? (Newsflash, nope.)

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Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

The Art of Projection

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

But…Pizzagate was all about this space lasers was different but antisemitism filled anyway it was a stand out.

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rlritt's avatar

It's pretty clear that there are rumors of something fishy going on with election computers. Its leaking out because they can't stand not getting credit for pulling one over on everyone. "Look at us. We're smart!"

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Slacktivist explains that this goes to the heart of their rationale for thinking they are The Good People: they are fighting the Satanic Child Abusers, who are so Evil that anything they do in the fight is Good by definition. The "revelation" (no surprise to us, but it is finally penetrating their skulls) that Trump is a Satanic Child Abuser of the worst kind means that they can no longer support him and be Good.

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3dEdited

Hey, Doc, the 34 felonies were about financial cheating. Americans are not very upset about that sort of thing, unless it was themselves who were cheated. So that leaves the other things people couldn’t remember while being helpfully reminded to focus on the high price of gas and groceries.

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RandomHuman's avatar

I'm right there with ye. The long list of corruption, sedition, rudeness and sheer policy fuckery wadn't long enough. We knew he was a perv, but no, that wadn't enuf either. Had to be himself double crossing his lackeys. Fuckemall.

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Mps's avatar

This will be spun and the cult will believe that the libs made this up.

Sadly

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Kay-El's avatar

Nobody was duped. They just didn’t read the fine print: “consuming Trump’s bullshit could be hazardous to your brain cells “

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Yep, self deluded dipshits

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Brenda McDonald's avatar

Right? I’m just an ordinary person but I pay attention and use my brain. I can’t understand how easily swayed people are by the repulsive, vulgar, immoral, obnoxious, mean, petty, selfish, greedy, cruel being that is trump. How can they not see what is so obvious?? I try not to call people stupid but to support and vote for trmp truly requires a special kind of stupid. On the other hand, these two bros just seem like toxic a-holes.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Just remember, republicans are unable to foresee consequences.

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BayPoodle's avatar

💯

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HI2thDoc's avatar

In the Better Late Than Never file, Schulz and Singh realize they've been lied to, but still, my heartiest FUCK YOU to them for amplifying him and "enthusiastically" voting for him, you dumbfucks. That dipshits like you can have so much influence is emblematic of why so much is wrong with our society now.

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David M Marko's avatar

It's very difficult for those who have been conned to wake up. Most just dig in deeper.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Like the stupid bitch who I imagine sitting with her finger up her nose, posting:

"The interview made me changed my mind about Trump. I voted for him today, thank you for this interview. TRUMP 2024!"

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HI2thDoc's avatar

True. So at least these two admitted they were conned. But I still think they are dipshits

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DR Darke's avatar

It's because "respected" media outlets like the NY TIMES and CNN are seen bending the knee in real time (as opposed to "taking a knee"—a far more heroic act, especially these days!), and pushing narratives that most people know to be bullshit even as we're uncertain of who to believe and when—i.e., the Corporate Democratic Party, along with enablers like George Clooney and Stephen King, both of whom I used to think better of, pushing the "Biden is senile and unfit to lead" narrative because he DARED to occasionally, half-heartedly channel Bernie Sanders(!).

They're such a bunch of weaseling chickenshits that even loudmouthed bullies somehow at least present the ILLUSION of being more principled....

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

He’s getting stupider and stoopeder and working that accordion like never before.

Can there be humans that don’t see this for what it is? Sure. Jesus fucking Christ you bet there are.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Lol "the accordion." It's a tell, that's for sure.

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steve robertshaw's avatar

God, you're right! The bigger the lie (or the more he has to stretch for it) the wider apart that moron's hands move

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kdsherpa's avatar

FOTF!!!

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kdsherpa's avatar

On my "Quotable Quotes" yesterday, one of the quotes was from Michael Forbes, a 73-year-old farmer who stated that "Everyone in Scotland hates him.”

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Doc Blase''s avatar

I've never been prouder to be Scottish than now.

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Norma's avatar

I was born in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and spent the first fourteen years of my life there. In fact just up the coast from Turnberry golf course. I’m a resident alien. Never became a US Citizen. I’m thinking about getting dual citizenship due to the current climate. I hate the fact that HE owns property in Scotland.

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kdsherpa's avatar

You should be!

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insert_something_creative's avatar

Michael Forbes has been a thorn in Trump's side for a decade or more, ever since he put up his tacky trash palace on the coast there. He's a goddamn hero.

I highly recommend this video from his first reign of terror in 2017 made by the Samantha Bee show about how the Scottish are the original Trump haters: https://youtu.be/3pbTmXsfiYk?si=TuDuxz4m1PvPu9nU

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kdsherpa's avatar

Bravo Michael Forbes! A true American hero!! (and Scottish)

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Dave Drell's avatar

Whatever happened to Bee? that was a great segment -

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insert_something_creative's avatar

I honestly don't know. It was a good show and that segment has stuck with me all of these years, and it's how I recognize the name Michael Forbes.

I love everything about his attitude toward Trump and how he refused to cave (unlike many people/institutions here in the US in the last few months). The Scottish people knew you don't fold to a petty bully.

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Eileen's avatar

The everyone in Scotland has got to hurt even more than disdain from other people because Scotland is where his mother is from and most people from Scotland are white. Yes, Trump, a country of predominantly white people hates you. I love that.

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kdsherpa's avatar

It's weird. Probably because he doesn't respect them, and does whatever he wants -- and damn the consequences, and how it affects local people. Well, I guess that's his norm. Complete narcissism.

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Krista Allen's avatar

Objectively speaking, what would having the Deputy AG--who oversees attorneys instead of serving in that capacity--gain by interviewing someone who's already been convicted? You'd have to be a completely kool-aid drinking moron to believe the "interview" was on the up-and-up. The best part about him "interviewing" her is that whatever comes afterwards adds further fuel to the cover-up fire.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Anyone serving as AG or on the staff should be representing the people. To have his personal attorney in that position is just ludicrous. And no one calls it out. WTF

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Jeff calls it out.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

He always does. I meant people in positions of power like you know, congress and shit

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

What that meeting said to the world is -

Trump is guilty as fuck.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Props to the DeSantis heckler. As accurate as a guided munition. All Death Sentence could say was stop, go away, wahhh.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Shades of Blondie : Just Go Away

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Suki Herr's avatar

The biggest conspiracy theory ever was MAGA belief that Trump was a smart successful business man.

Per witnesses Trump is barely literate. Every business attempt failed. Trump so mismanaged a pandemic killing 1000s of people. Eventually destroyed the CDC. How dumb do you have to be to think that’s a good idea?

These bros might think Trump is a cool contrarian choice, but lots of evidence, some from Trump’s own mouth, he assaults women, sometimes underage. The 100s of Trump/Epstein pics&the probability Trump was involved in trafficking. This is what the bros think is cool?

BTW Joy Behar is correct, Trump is so jealous of Pres Obama he can barely contain his rage.

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David M Marko's avatar

I still think their major reason for supporting Trump is he legitimized their bigotry, racism and mysogyny.

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steve robertshaw's avatar

And one of them is pulling the Clarence Thomas/Tim Scott stunt of aligning with the racist/bigot for personal gain. Beyond disgusting.

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Wendy🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/seven-man-mountain-bullshit-the-bible

I mean, Trump is falling over himself. The fucker is dying, we are all watching, and what I find is, the Vought, and Miller, and other assholes behind him are pushing this narrative that White Christian Dominionism is a thing.

And its fucking not a thing. It shouldnt be a thing.

lazazel im hashtuyot ha'ala, ad hasof

As always Uncle Jeff, Liked, Restacked, Quoted, and Cross posted to our readers.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Hebrew?

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Karla's avatar

Maxwell’s attorney stated yesterday that they “had a very productive day” meeting with the assistant AG. Probably not the brightest thing he could have said to quell speculation of a deal.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Markus is Bannons attorney too.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

" Something crazy " is CHILD RAPE.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Glad to know the "bros" don't go in for that. We are in the era of There's No Bar Low Enough for Anything Anymore

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Alison Parker's avatar

TBH on the one hand I imagine Obama is probably laughing his ass off at all of this, but on the other..........part of me thinks he and Michelle (and Hillary, and maybe Chelsea, and the entire Biden family) might want to think about leaving the country temporarily.

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Diane Findley's avatar

Nope...they need to sue his fucking ass for defamation and anything else good lawyers can come up with. Ask for 15 billion dollars in settlement and be sure to say that the money will go to funds assisting illegal immigrants, trans people, and reproductive support as well as funding to Gaza for food and Ukraine for weapons.

Fuck these idiots!!!!!

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Alethia St. Joan's avatar

Hell yes!!!! <3

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

The fucking PEDOnald should drop dead.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Today would be a great day for that. 🤞

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Dave Drell's avatar

Hopefully the Scots just make it as uncomfortable for him there as possible .

BTW Susan, those memes you posted on your substack the other day were hilarious! Thanks for letting me share

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I hope it helped relieve the tension we’re all feeling…Thanks, Dave!!

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RZolu's avatar

Every day is a good day for that!

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jack's avatar

Last year was a good day for that.

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Mary Hall's avatar

Some people are going to put up Christmas lights when “it” happens. That and a bottle of the good stuff chilling works for me. 🎄🍾🥂

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Joyce's avatar

Polish up those red shoes and get ready to dance, dance, dance on that grave!

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Marie A Benesh's avatar

Obama is immune, as are all Presidents. Trump and Roberts gave us that one.

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Alison Parker's avatar

I'm not talking about legal actions against them. I'm talking about violence by Trump supporters. Also, you really don't think the Sinister Six would find a way to say "Oh no no, in Obama's case, this is totally different, no immunity here"? Come on.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

At this point, I wouldn't bet on it.

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Wendymae's avatar

Yeah scotus will say it's not retroactive, except for FF's first term.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

You betcha! There are no more rules or laws anymore. We really REALLY need to start understanding that.

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George in Atlanta's avatar

Biden maybe, he's a sick, old man.

But I'd bet money that Obama would say "come at me , bro". Jailing him would create a bit of... unrest. The issue would be forced. He would write Letters From A Washington Jail. He'd be a fucking god.

I suspect their prehistoric crocodile brains would sense the danger and stop them from actually doing that. The amygdala is an ancient part of the brain that has ensured the survival of many species, after all. Especially Reptilicus Politicus.

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Alison Parker's avatar

Again, I'm not talking mainly about legal actions. I am talking about my concern for their physical safety if any maga diehards decide to do something.

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George in Atlanta's avatar

You're exactly right, there is a big risk because MAGA dead-enders are probably mentally challenged individuals. By definition.

Here's the thing, though. They're going to do what they do, or not. With them, when all is said and done, a lot more is said than done. I'm out of fucks. Liberal hand-wringing about how 'dangerous' all of this is leads to learned helplessness and passivity.

This is reinforced by the one-sided press coverage of their terrorism and threats. I see lots of reports of politicians and others being 'threatened'. Do any of these hundreds of cases lead to investigations and arrests? If they don't, do we just accept it or show up at a city council meeting or a Congressperson's office and scream what EVEN the fuck!?!

Does it ever go the other way? The Right has long whimpered about how 'threatened' they felt by all us 'deranged leftists'. I suspect, in some cases, they have been given reason to whimper. I would also suspect that such incidents go under-reported in the general media. Because it's all so 'dangerous'.

We're all gonna die. It's just a matter of how and when.

https://theliberalgunclub.com/

https://www.liberalgunowners.org/

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Texas snake Ted Cruz openly stated Wednesday that Obama won't be prosecuted. And we know how fat and lazy he is.

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George in Atlanta's avatar

What?!?! That's an outrage! Q-MAGA has documented evidence that Obama ran a pedophilic sex ring that vaccinated children as their blood was drained! What possible excuse did that waste of skin give for this travesty?

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Carl Babcock's avatar

If they leave the country it makes them look guilty

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Doc Blase''s avatar

When do facts matter to MAGAs? But I'm with Marie here, the Extreme Court fucked the pooch with that immunity lunacy.

All Presidents are immune so long as that ridiculous opinion stands.

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Alison Parker's avatar

Only to the stupidest pieces of shit in the country.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

I was thinking the same thing!

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RandomHuman's avatar

Markwayne has a mullet on his face. Or he's turning werewolf as we watch. Creepypeepy.

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Kay-El's avatar

Markwayne Mulletface is now my new go to for that asshat. Thanks!

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HI2thDoc's avatar

I'ma hoping that someday tough guy Mullin picks a fight with the wrong person and gets his ass kicked

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Tess's avatar

Liars will lie…that’s all they have…ALL OF THEM! What the hell…. In the meantime hope everyone on this list has a nice weekend and let’s keep the resistance alive! Thanks for the update Jeff…(and…I never heard of those 2 podcasters-guess I wasn’t missing anything!)

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Just looking at them was sufficient.

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Tracy S's avatar

One solid question is, how much does Melania know?

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arne link's avatar

I think she pretty much knows everything. After all, they met at Epstein's and flew together on his plane. She got what she wanted and will never, never expose anyone. She doesn't want to "fall down the stairs" like his first wife.

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Mary Hall's avatar

Melons says she got to the US on an Einstein Visa. As fking if! An obvious typo. It was an Epstein Visa.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

No. Her vagina has a PHD in Nuclear Physics.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

She speaks 6 languages.

*You vant date*?

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PTW's avatar

"Melons" OMG! I will be stealing that from now on, Mary.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

How much does she care? Somewhere between -0 and 0.

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

She knows everything. That is why she can "Not Care" about anything and is paid for every public appearance.

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