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I know that "Hungarians in Transcarpathia" isn't a sexy subject but I thought it was important to let everyone know that US legislation is being dictated directly by Putin

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ALL of the f*cking traitorous Rethuglicans need to be thrown out of Congress. WTF is happening right now?!?

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Right?!?!

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Putin is the Chairman of the Rethuglican party.

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The Russians have landed without firing a shot. We know who the 112 paid Russian agents are by name. I called my misogynistic bigoted Russian agent Representative this morning. I said my piece. He listened and said he understands my concerns. Usually they just hang up. Is it Moscow Marge or Moscow Mark? She's on so many steroids it's hard to tell the difference.

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It would be nice if some enterprising journalist would investigate MMs funding. Let us see how these Russian funds are getting to their people. With Trump we know it is through his properties.

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I did read Matt Gaetz received Russian laundered dollars through one of the old ass Rockefellers. Russians are laundering money and their propaganda through vetted politicians. As is happening in Western Europe right now. Many officials have been bought in Sweden, France, Italy, Germany and so on. They are under investigation. It's not just us. Leonard Leo is in charge of dark money in this country. Citizens United did this. Of course, Leo paid the court for this privilege.

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Matt”Eddie Munster” Gaetz is a young girl liking POS.

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Scary!!!

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The Press in the past would follow the money,now they're more interested in 'polls'.

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I’m guessing lobbyists or pac money. Citizens United changed the entire ballgame for dark money. Someone ought to be investigating the Supreme Court too for that decision alone.

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Yes. ProPublica has their hands full with corruption to pursue. Hope others will take up the case.

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Absolutely 💯

This SO dangerous

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US is following Rachael’s book to a T.

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PREQUEL? If so, absolutely. Terrifying.

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How Do we root out these betrayers??

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Find and follow the money!

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As Rachel said in Prequel, every one of us who cares, must get involved. Have all the numbers in your contacts to make it easier; for the WH, your 2 senators & your representative, your state reps & senators & Governor. Meet with your federal representatives when they are back in the state campaigning & fundraising.

Call their offices every week, even every day & tell them what you expect from them. Call local tv stations & ask them to investigate if u think something shady is going on.

Get our courage up & talk to people, friends, family, neighbors about the danger.

Basically we have to save ourselves.

And once we do get Dems elected, we must stay on their asses to make the changes they promised us & some they didn’t.

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Mannish Moscow Marge

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Moscow Marge the Garbage Barge.

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That’s epic Mary!! And Charlotte .. Marge the Barge is a fugly dude in drag..

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I always thought she looked like a guy in drag.

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Totally agree.

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GOP = Government of Putin

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Nailed it.

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Putin is losing his touch! Being so obvious is a slip-up. Perhaps he is just too used to being around people who do not question whatever lies they are being told. He should have sourced this through his bots online and not directly out of Moscow Marge's mouth. I really wish he would invite her to Russia, and then keep her there. Let her go on Russian television and ask for Hungarian children in Russia to be allowed to speak Hungarian in school.

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!!!!! This hits the nail on the head, Linda. When a Republican committee chairman points to Russian propaganda being spread in Congressional debates, you know it has to have come directly. The general public has heard anti-Ukraine propaganda all along as a reason to “save our money for domestic purposes.” But this Transcarpathian Hungarian weirdness has Putin’s fingerprints.

It burns me that media do not point out that $61 billion may sound like a lot of money, but it is a very small fraction of the Pentagon budget. Plus the fact we are giving Ukraine stuff that we want to replace with newer models. Contrast that with what we have given Israel in smaller amounts year after year, since the 1970s. With hardly any opposition to it.

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You'd think our government would do something about the fact that several of its members are being open Russian agents. They seem curiously unconcerned.

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Biden can't do anything about it directly -- he'd be attacked for using the apparatus of government to take down political rivals and it would set a terrible precedent. I'd bet someone at the FBI is taking notes on the GQP's ties to Russia, but given that Merrick Garland is supposed to be running the Justice dept, it's unlikely that anything will happen on that front until there's a new AG.

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Foreign agents is straight up CIA.

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It is. Unless they're US citizens. Then the FBI does the investigation. CIA would, however have access to the interrogation.

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Ah, useful. Thanks. Any insight on why nothing is being done? They've been increasingly pro-Russia every week for at least three months now.

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That's a good question.

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We won’t hear anything about an FBI investigation until they’re ready to make arrests & file charges. That’s how they roll. 🙂

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Look how many resources it is taking to try the few people that are being tried, particularly Trump. Once his trials are over it will be much easier to go after the others, although the Supreme Court is majorly interfering in that. If they are going to treat the behavior of the January 6 treasonists as a stroll in the park by patriots, what can the Justice Department do against that. My ire is firmly lodged against the Supreme Court who are siding against Justice, the opposite of what they should be doing. We need to get rid of these members. Making sure the House and the Senate are in democratic hands may give them the leverage to stand up to the courts and start impeaching.

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I'm with you there.

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I just think the justice department has its hands full. They need a lot of money and man hours to run investigations on each individual and the wheels move slowly. I hope there are people quietly keeping an eye on things while the country is going through trump trials. I think there could be a reckoning to come. Merrick Garland makes sure that he has everything in order before anything is public. I am still in awe that trump was charged with anything.

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I am assuming that our government has such a long list of crooks from the Crook Party, that they have to get in line to be prosecuted well. Otherwise they spread their underfunded offices staff's too thin. There are so many it is hard to know who to go after first. It is probably easier to go after the ones who are not current elected officials because of the amount of support these people can garner against what is essentially a government office, where people are dependent on being funded etc.. to do their jobs.

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And dollars to doughnuts MTG hasn't a clue where Transcarpathia is and what is going on there. I think this is the beginning of a long decline for MTG.

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From your lips to G*d’s ears

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But the people in her neck of the North Georgia woods don't read the New York Post, their Murdoch media of choice is Fox Noise.

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She needs to be sent there on a fact finding mission. Perhaps she can volunteer to teach the children in Hungarian, after she of course learns it herself. Then, she can go into Russian schools, identify the Hungarian students there and have them learn in Hungarian too. Russia has a lot of nerve pointing fingers at Ukraine, when under the Soviet Union they forced Russian on all of the children and their parents, and still denegrate any ethnic minorities in Russia. Who is being sent to the front lines. This is from Wikipedia.

"In the 20th century, Russian was a mandatory language taught in the schools of the members of the old Warsaw Pact and in other communist countries that used to be Soviet satellites, including Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Albania, the former East Germany and Cuba. However, younger generations are usually not fluent in it because Russian is no longer mandatory in schools. According to the Eurobarometer 2005 survey,[86] fluency in Russian remains fairly high, however, at (20–40%) in some countries, particularly those whose people speak a Slavic language and so have an edge in learning Russian (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Bulgaria).[citation needed]

Significant Russian-speaking groups also exist in other parts of Europe[citation needed] and have been fed by several waves of immigrants since the beginning of the 20th century, each with its own flavor of language. The United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Norway, and Austria have significant Russian-speaking communities.[citation needed]

According to the 2011 census of Ireland, there were 21,639 people using Russian at home. However, only 13% were Russian nationals. 20% held Irish citizenship, while 27% and 14% were Latvian and Lithuanian citizens respectively.[87]

There were 20,984 Russian-speakers in Cyprus according to the 2011 census of 2011 and accounted for 2.5% of the population.[88]

Russian is spoken by 1.6% of the people of Hungary according to a 2011 estimate from the World Factbook.[35]"

What is going on is that both Russia and Hungary are trying to implement laws that force women to breed so that they can increase their populations and not have them die out. We see Putin trying to do this by taking over Belarus in everything but name, and trying to incorporate Ukraine into Russia, so that they increase their population. The anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in both countries is in part trying to force people to accept hetro pairings and child bearing as the norm. Then, on the part of Putin, he is stealing Ukrainian children while they can, and clearly have their eyes set on other "White" slavic states to pump up their Empire and population numbers. Given that Europe has just had battles, battles, battles for land and territory since before the common era, Putin is someone who feels more relevance in the past than in the present day Europe where treaties are honored and alliances formed to up the standards of living of the people. He does not seem interested in raising the standard of living of the people in Russia, other than his friends whom he enriches along with himself. He wants Empire. Those history books impressed him with ancient glory, and perhaps did not detail enough the problems with it. Although democracy is an ancient concept on the continent, it has evaded Russia. Putin does not understand democracy except from the outside. To follow him Moskow Marge has got to be missing some screws, or gaining some cash. I suspect it is both. Let us hope it is the beginning of the decline for both Putin and Moskow Marge.

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I would bet that MTG can't find Ukraine on a map!

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I refuse to look at the reichwing media, so I am curious - how are they being propagandized?

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Jeff, you are killing me today! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Damn right. Now they are becoming exposed keep spotlighting all of ‘em until they frazzle up like Dracula in sunshine.

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Well, HERS is, certainly!

Now that Trump's desperately trying to stay out of prison, Daddy Vladdie has to find SOMEBODY to carry his water....

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What j wanna know is why they aren't charged with treason!?

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I hate to be the broken record I am, but why aren't we hearing from Merrick

Garland? This is treason, or at bare minimum, failing to register as a foreign agent.

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Yeah, I’m almost certain it’s been happening for a while.

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But a great book title.

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This is where I have to pull the car over before I have an accident laughing. 😂😂😂 Moscow Marge on the cover of the Post 🤦‍♀️ she probably thinks that’s an honor. she’s insane-and I hope the GOP DOES carry her to term. What a wingnut! Brilliant column Jeff! I’m pulling back on the road now! 😜

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wait, you're not reading while driving, are you

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No! I saw your column pop up and immediately pulled over because I can’t wait! Im addicted!🤓

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Jeff's column is the one email I look forward to every day........

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Oh that Jeff says the State Trooper........

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😂😂😂

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Too funny! I live in Arizona, so I get to read Jeff early every day, and then go back to read and savor all the comments! My favorite time of day! 😝 Be safe out there!

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Nice. Safety first!! Always!

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Me too! According to my phone, I currently have 8,357 unread emails. But none of them are Jeff’s!

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And his will be the best one....unless you just won the Powerball. 😂😂

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Totally unsourced, but I’ve heard that JT‘s Substack has been added to the presidents PDB.

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I’m sorry- what’s a PDB - press daily briefing???

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It's the President's Daily Brief: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Daily_Brief

Feels great that an actual compassionate and competent adult who isn't fucking insane is the one getting these now.

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Hey thanks for that! 👍

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DITTO!!!

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Oh that Jeff says the State Trooper........

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I'm reading while sitting in front of one of my residential properties.

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You're not gonna bust out the cuffs are you?

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He, topped himself again, didn't he? I should really stop being surprised by all the laugh-out-louds by now, right? Great succinct read.

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He is just excellent! 😂😂😂

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A few minutes before 11:00 every day, I start clicking to see if Jeff's posted yet, lol

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HAHA Me too!

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Odds that MTG or ANYONE in that party knew the word “Transcarpathia” before the message was squirted out are zero. The game is just about over.

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exactly

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Really? Hmmmmmm........ As a World-Renowned Expert on the "Gazpacho Police" and "Peach Tree Dishes," I believe she has proven herself to be, dare I say, a Renaissance Woman in her wide-ranging areas of unique brilliance and expertise.

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Savanarola would’ve had a hard time deciding how she should be handled.

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Oh, I don't know... she's a mouthy, self-admitted promiscuous woman -- assuming this was during the years Savonarola was in charge of Florence, he would not have failed to roast her ass (quite literally) in the public square, just as soon as they could assemble a big enough wood pile.

On that front, I admit to thinking I should feel some small amount of camaraderie for a "sister", but nope. She's none of mine.

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What an excellent idea.👹👹

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If anything, the denizens of Transcarpathia are far, far more intelligent than the people who voted for MTG in her district of Deliverance, GA.

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I guess MTG doesn’t know that Transcarpathia is a dialect of the Ukrainian language spoken in Zakarpattia Oblast…..and the other trump minions haven’t a clue either.

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I would pay to see you explain that to her, just to see her expression. Probably one similar to

Tucker Carlson’s confused Labrador look.

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I also did not know that there is a small native Hungarian population in this region of Ukraine who do, in fact, speak the Hungarian language.

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Well, we take that as a given. But there's no way she -- or anyone in that party's extreme wing -- could possibly find it on a map.

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What is it with the trumps and their toilet obsession? Tfg has always been associated with his gold toilets, solid gold toilets everywhere, air force one had one, the white house had them, all his residences have them and anywhere he decides to take a poop has to have a gold toilet ready and waiting. A SS Agent is assigned to carry his personal gold porta potty, disguised as Melania’s makeup trunk.

You may recall Melania refused to use any of the Obama’s WH toilets and entire bathrooms were replaced instead of just replacing the seat portion of the toilets. Snopes deferred by stating, “While there is no proof that Melania' Trump's renovation requirements were of a personal, let alone racially motivated nature, the controversy surrounding her delayed move to the White House until bathroom renovations were completed underscored the complexities of transitioning administrations and the personal preferences of first families.” Very diplomatic of Snopes.

Trumps long winded stories about having to flush ten times, fifteen times or a quick 5 flushes in succession has always been a big hit at his rallies. Those magats love his poopoo stories. Sometime after his ‘toilet tales’ became lore; it was determined those multiple flushes involved flushing secret documents that he used to wipe that were shoved into the gold toilet along with a pot full of his poo.

The Kushners also had their own “Toiletgate” with a report from 2021 suggesting former first daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner forced the Secret Service to rent an adjacent $3,000/month studio apartment near their residence to use the toilet, rather than use one of the seven in their house, costing tax payers over $100,000.00. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/14/politics/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-bathroom-secret-service/index.html

Finally, he accused President Biden of pooping on the resolute desk! (Projection at its finest). “Diaper Don Poorelèone shits and pisses his shorts all day long. I swear that at one of the rallies he took a straining shit right at the podium, hands in the air, his little fists clinched, a grimace on his face, right on the stage! According to his handler on the Apprentice, Noel Casler, he has been wearing Rx Depends since the nineties because of his dependence on Rx Adderall and cocaine.” Bless his pea-pickin bottom.

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I suspect that Fred and Mary Anne engaged in some peculiarly abusive toilet training practices when baby Donnie was little. That would explain a lot.

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Can't beat Germans for toilet training terror.

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Well, if I had to pick one single president as the most obsessed with scatology, Trump would def be at the top of the list. (For once -- there aren't many lists of US presidents where he wouldn't be listed much closer to the bottom. Maybe even his pea-pickin bottom lol.)

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I chuckled at Joyce Vance’s line last night: “Given all of that, Pecker makes a lot of sense as the first witness (we won’t be tolerating any of THOSE jokes at this newsletter! We’re a family-friendly operation, and besides, the high-schoolish nature of the jokes at my dinner table is already more than any one woman should have to endure). “

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Joyce Vance gives us a clear, no-nonsense read on this week’s Manhattan case: https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/the-week-ahead-e1f?r=9u8mr&utm_medium=ios

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My first thought when I read her newsletter was. 'Oh well, at least there's always Tiedrich's substack.'

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😂😂. I haven't had a chance to read Joyce yet. That line is motivation.

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If Dunning and Kruger had a baby and dropped it on its head -

First belly laugh of the day and I can check "exercise abs" off my To Do list. Love yer guts, Jeff.

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“Greene is also what would happen if Dunning and Kruger had a baby, and then dropped it on its head.” To be preserved in the JT presidential archives.

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Here is some background and the timeline from The Guardian to help follow the first day of the big event: ‘Trial of The Century - Hush Money Payments/Campaign Finance Violations”. The sex act that ignited this brouhaha occurred between tfg and Stormy Daniels in July 2006. Reports indicate, “it was no big deal.”

Jump ahead nine years later to the August 2015 meeting in trump tower where “according to court filings, tfg was joined by Michael Cohen, his attorney, and David Pecker, the chairman of American Media Inc., parent company of the National Enquirer. Federal prosecutors believe this meeting was central to a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws to help Trump win the presidency.’

During the meeting, the group discussed a plan to shield Trump from potentially damaging stories. Prosecutors say this amounted to illegal donations to Trump’s campaign. At that meeting, “Pecker offered to help deal with negative stories about tfg’s relationships with women by, among other things, assisting the campaign in identifying such stories so they could be purchased, and their publication avoided.” (catch and kill) Cohen went to jail for his involvement, Pecker is the first witness today and tfg awaits a verdict. “Odor in the court.”

Jump ahead to April 4, 2023, “Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced the first criminal indictment of a former U.S. president in history. The historic indictment and statement of facts foregrounded the alleged effort to suppress information from reaching voters during the 2016 presidential election.”

This brings us to today, Aril 22, 2024, roughly 18 years later, where for the next six weeks or so we will be inundated with the lurid sex life and criminal activity of the most despicable person on the planet. Cheers.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/14/donald-trump-hush-money-trial-timeline

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The trump-humpers in her Georgia district, aren't serious about governing. Owning the libs, and kissing trump's orange ass is all they care about. Which is why they keep sending her dumbass back to congress. I wish someone would go check out her district to see what the fuck is wrong with those people. I'd be willing to bet, they're racist, a bit uneducated, and don't have a clue how government works.

Don't know when the awakening will come, but it will, and it might be devastating. She will go down in history as a true waste of Georgia's, and America's time.

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Idk, her Dem challenger is a retired brigadier general. That used to be enough credential for Rs. He also seems like a good guy, probably not the most progressive Dem but maybe a possibility given the constituency.

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he could win if he hammers on Dobbs all day every day.

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From what I can tell on social media, he’s focusing on how Sporktoes is more concerned about attention than attending to her constituents. Hoping he knows his audience and can read the room.

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That would actually take brain matter to read the room and the OrangeDumbfuck is too stupid to know anything of importance.. Sporkfoot is a fuglyfucktwat of incompetence and she has a literacy level of toddler.. both of them cannot adult if their lives depended on it..

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True. And I meant Shawn Harris, the Dem who’s running against her.

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A true test of whether the MAGA people are in this purely for their own entertainment

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And a waste of our money that has to pay her salary.

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LOL! I missed the trolling by MSNBC of the 'leaking Pecker' because I was only listening to the TV, not watching it while I multi-tasked in my home office. Thank you for the 'heads-up'.

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So did I and I was laughing my ass off. Only someone like Trump could have his name and a leaking pecker used in the same sentence.

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Ahahaha hahaha 🍻

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He certainly deserves it more than anyone else I can think of.

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Trying to decide between " Greene is also what would happen if Dunning and Kruger had a baby, and then dropped it on its head." and the MSNBC crawl "Trump worried about Pecker leaking" is better. Give them both gold stars.

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I'm also pretty impressed by Marge being like a zombie who eats its own brain first

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OMG, I completely forgot about that one laughing so hard at the two that came later.

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MSNBC wins the trophy today. Sometimes reality is beyond belief. Former publisher of the National Enquirer is the first witness. He was Trump's scandal handler in case his scandalous behavior surfaced. Aren't you sick of this shit?

We all have to live in the real world and try to avoid scandalous behavior in ourselves and others. With Trump, it is the way he rolls. Lots more than his pecker is leaking.

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Am I sick of this shit? Absolutely. It's gone on for WAY too many years.

HOWEVER... I am currently experiencing a higher level of schadenfreude than I have for over a decade -- sorry, but the endorphins have taken over my brain and I'm hooked for now. Trump is stuck doing nothing but falling asleep in a non-adoring courtroom and spending his nights rage-posting and MTG was clearly told to sit down and STFU about Hungarians, already.

Also, I'm keeping LOTS of popcorn on hand....

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And now his “basement” is most likely exploding!

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Odor in the court!, indeed.

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🤣😂🤣 fuck that’s funny and totally true 🤮🤮🤮🤮💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

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🤣🤣🤣

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😂😂😂😂

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The real question is, how much of Mr. Pecker's secret files was he willing to share with prosecutors? This could get REAL interesting.

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The prosecution witnesses are known but the defense is not being told who will testify when. This is to lessen the chance that dumbass will intimidate them before they testify. I would assume that all of the prosecution witnesses will testify to the truth as they would just as soon see Trump squirm.

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I recently started watching MSNBC and love that they don’t even TRY to contain their glee, particularly Wallace and Reid.

That crawl is award worthy.

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In times past, spies/assets for foreign governments, acting against the interests of the United States, were prosecuted for espionage and treason.

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Exactly! Where is HUAC now that we actually need it?

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Transcarpathian Hungarians? Oh my, where did Marge ever hear about that? Obviously, it’s Russian propaganda because Miss Peach Tree dish wouldn’t have seen it in this country because it isn’t a ‘thing’ here.

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I guess there's a 100,000 of them and they feel like the border crossed them or something.

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Sadly, the Space Laser I received as a Bar Mitzvah gift is no longer operational. Otherwise, I would have taken care of that grotesque, sub-human fuck on my own..............a long time ago.

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Lead poisoning is just as effective.

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😂😂😂😂

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An effective electric billboard would be spork foot jabbering her propaganda then morphing into putin finishing the sentences. How quickly the “commie”-haters turned in to ass lickers for Pootin.

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Thank you, W Bush, for ending civics education as a requirement for hs graduation. Not that Handy Oakley would have learned it since she didn’t graduate, but Putin’s Sporkfoot’s constituents might have.

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And critical thinking as everyone forced to teach to the test.

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