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"this week in stupid" will run tomorrow

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No worries, this is WELL worth waiting another day for the whole WEEK of stupid! :D

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I find it amazing that SOOOO much stupid can happen in just one week.

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This week had so much Stupid that it'll take poor Jeff a WEEK of Sundays just to cover it

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It is mind boggling just how stupid these magats can be!

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maybe be the one - Leigh Silverton

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This is, without a doubt, the BEST one, that is for sure!

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I'm a hopeful agnostic. and what literature doesn't have sex to show a character. I mean they said that about Virginia Johnson 2.

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Being fair Drumpf is a lot more used to making friends with people in white robes than black ones.

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Well, that explains it! He was thrown off by seeing Engoron's face, given all his friends cover theirs in pointy hoods....

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They don’t hide any longer and his ultra wealthy backers are hidden regardless so…

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Yeah only poor Klansmen have to hide their faces. The rich ones determine American policy.

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Exactly

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It’s against the law to wear a hood or anything hiding your identity. Has been for a long time.

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Because these people are known for following laws, yes?

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No problem! As much as I look forward to TWIS, yesterdays events were far too important not to preempt it.

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I am sure that Saturday will add ample entries to choose from post ruling.

It will be delish

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Honestly given how much stuff is dropping on late Fridays any more, moving TWIS to Sundays permanently might be best.

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What about next week in stupid? Like Melania will be buying her cosmetics at Walgreens and getting hair doos at Hair Cuttery with the rest of us?

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And stupid got stupider. Did you see the gold shoe line he introduced today? OH MY GOD. Nothing like having another "marker" to go with the friggin red hat that just screams "I'm so fucking in need of money, I got my hands on some old material they used for satellite re-entry shields in the 70's and sent it all to China with orders to make a bunch of tacky gold kicks." I CANNOT wait to come across my first moron wearing these gems with their red hat and the typical flag designed t-shirt stretched over an xxxxxl belly. I will spit cofveve. I just know it.

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I was about to ask—not that Trump isn't a "this week in stupid" all by himself, but with so much competition it's a shame to keep giving him the same "DUMBASS OF THE WEEK" medal every week....

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Jeff, please unsubscribe me. it's not at all obvious where to do so here.

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You can’t manage your subscription on the app/mobile platform. You have to login on the actual website to unsubscribe

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And the GOP still wants him as 47. Unbelievable.

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Not sure all the party "wants" Trump, but they all bought him when they realized many people stupid enough to buy all the take care of the super rich only Republican platform were also crazed Christopath Dominionists who are just doing "god's work" and creating a bigoted Christian theocracy. So those people became an essential "base" of the party, from some white Southern Baptist evangelical church in Texas, led by a self-educated grifter/preacher, to Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society (Leonard takes grifting in the name of the Lord to a new level.) It was a co-dependency until Leonard's Catholics on SCOTUS gave the Christopaths everything they wanted with the Dobbs decision.

Barry Goldwater warned them, but they didn't listen.

"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.”

― Barry Goldwater

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Goldwater was, in his own cement-headed way, a decent American and a an astute guy--especially compared to what his party has now become.

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Agree, he was an early/mid 20th century Libertarian. I agree he was decent, up to a point. I do not like Goldwater (except for the cool glasses) but he did think a little about what it meant to govern and his Libertarian bent was stronger on the government should stay out of personal lives than our current crop of so called Libertarians who are mainly interested in keeping to government out of the business of protecting most people from the ravages of greed capitalism. That's why Goldwater was smart enough to be worried about the Christopathic Theocrats. I think he saw that only leads to capitalism with fascist theocracy. Barry G. was different from our current crop of idiot Ayn Rand by the bedside Libertarians. I wonder what Barry G. though about Ayn Rand? I am sure there's several biographies of Barry G. out there that might tell me, but I have more interesting things to read.

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WOW

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I guess his IQ is his lucky number (47).🤭

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That seems awful generous Donna!lol

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🤣🤣🤣

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Good one Donna.

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You can't fix stupid Joyce.

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They want his gullible, open-walleted-will-fall-for-any-grift cult, more than him.

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The icing on the cake right now would be his trophy mail order bride loudly, visibly exiting stage left. Surely even MAGA diehards realize when the ones who were in it for the money vamoose their $30 go fund me donation would be better spent on a PBR 30-pack than Donny’s redemption.

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“Donny’s redemption” is an oxymoron. Emphasis on “moron.”

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😃😃😃

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🤣🤣🤣

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There's probably a clause in the pre-nup that forbids that, or she loses big bux.

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Ha! Immaterial when there are no more "big bucks" available to lose.

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Good point! Another good point is, it's not as though he'd honor the terms of a pre-nup if she honored her side of it. That's why it always killed me when people (or Trump himself) talked about what a great "deal maker" he was. It's easy to make deals when you know you have no particular intention to honor them.

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All she would have to do is ignore the prenup and nondisclosure stuff, and write a tell-all book. The money from that would likely be enough to fix her up for the rest of her life in any stye she chooses, AND pay for the legal fees she'll be paying for the rest of her life ...

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I found this:

Divorce with Marital Privilege

Generally, the protections that are in place to stop a spouse from speaking in the courtroom against the other spouse are no longer present once the marriage is legally over through divorce. The dissolution of the relationship severs the powers to invoke the privilege.

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Once they're divorced, would Jack Smith or someone from DOJ compel her to testify against Trump?

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Nice idea. But I don’t know.

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If you think she doesn’t have kompramat on him that might re-dis-nullify any prenup, I’ve got a valuable trump NFT you gotta see 🤣🤣🤣

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Also true. This is turning into I, Claudius, but as farce.

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😂😂😂

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I'm sure there are plenty of oligarchs who would be happy to buy her.

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Yeah that's being told it's illegal to dance now right after she had both legs amputated.

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Heard that she just renegotiated the pre-nup…..

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What big bucks will be left? so sad

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Not sure the trophy wife would be safe telegraphing her exit. She'd probably be better off finding a secure unknown location and trading in her phone in for a burner.

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It’s real life Mr & Mrs Grift — I mean Smith. 😆

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Yep..even if she didn’t get alimony, she’d get child support. Add that his list of bills.

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Baron's almost 18 isn't he?

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Melanoma? Where is she? Is she still on deck? Someone confirm, please. Oh, wait she is exiting stage left and heading towards the exits....what do we do now?

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I don’t remember anyone’s wife bailing on them when they were running for prez, do you? It wouldn’t convey strength or control and tbh it’s basic stuff like this his dwindling fan base might “get”.

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She just renegotiated her prenup for the third time.

"Page Six reports that, according to a source, Melania spent the last year renegotiating the terms of her prenuptial agreement with the ex-president, and that her new “postnup” is now in place. According to one source, the former FLOTUS wanted a new deal not because there’s a possibility she’ll have to move back into the White House, i.e., her least favorite place on earth, but because she’s worried about how much money will be left over for her and her son after Trump is done paying his various legal bills and damages. “This agreement was necessary because of the current legal battles…[Donald] has suffered,” a source told the outlet."

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

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I question just how realistic it is that Trump etc. will be able to sell any real estate to satisfy his debts to Carroll and the State of New York. It's highly unlikely all his properties aren't already leveraged to the hilt with various financial institutions, and by law, said institutions' exposure must be taken into consideration and reasonably satisfied before Trump realizes a single dime from liquidating any of his interests. My guess is the splashiest yard sale in the history of bankruptcy courts everywhere takes place within the year, leaving Trump with no cash-flow, no income beyond what he can squeeze out of the RNC and gullible small donors, and still beholden to making evermore burdensome interest payments, at least, to the now-extremely uneasy banks and/or Russian loan-sharks who almost certainly will call his paper while there's still something left for their partial recompense.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

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I was thinking the same when contemplating his comment about his beautiful and LIQUID assets. The word liquid stuck out like a sore thumb. Tells me in Trumpspeak they aren’t so liquid, I.e. leveraged to the hilt.

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Exactly. And "liquid" is always a relative proposition anyway, depending on how one defines it.

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The contents of his adult diaper are "liquid".

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Thank you *so* much for that indubitably true but nauseating reminder, Charlie Austin, of the likely chronic state of Trump’s undergarments. Ima go get some Clorox and bleach my brain now….

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😂😂😂😂😂

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Omg Charlie, I was just thinking this literally 30 seconds ago!! And it’s as appropriately as gross as he is! 😂 gmta and in synchronization!

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😎😎😎

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😤

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Good catch. On liquidation, the lenders get paid first. The balance sheet and profit & loss statement the Monitor creates, using real asset values, would be interesting to see.

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Thanks for clarifying that point! It's probably the most neglected aspect of this scenario.

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Ohhhh that's a great notion. Hope it's true. He stole all of it anyway, just like his criminal father.

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I’ve got an idea! A penny pitch. He could appear in public and we could throw pennies at him at the velocity of our choice.

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Not until we can all get some high tension slingshots. 😁

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And you think you aren't funny Donna.

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And if one or two of them turn out to be silver dollars, everybody wins.

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I seem to remember the giant stone ‘coins’ they had on the island of Yap, the ones that turned up in Ripley’s Believe it Or Not. They’d have to be rolled by a team of sturdy men, but otherwise it’d work

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Dying here...

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🤣😂

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I know a few MLB pitchers that can help!

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Pedro in his prime.

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Only thing I'd throw at him is poop

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He's thrown oh so much at us

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Fun

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Great idea! He might actually make more with a penny pitch as opposed to his ridiculous phony bullshit action cards that his sheep were buying. Just think if some MLB flamethrowers like Camilo Doval or Jordan Hicks showed up. A penny, better yet a roll of 50 thrown at up to 104 mph would perhaps remind him that being a life long shyster and fraud has its consequences.

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Hunter Greene.

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🤣🤣🤣

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Aroldis Chapman.

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Trump is a schlemiel. He was born into opportunity very, very few have and turned it Into a soup sandwich. So many off ramps to do it right, yet he managed to turn his life into a sordid mess from failed enterprises to an insurrection. His adulteries are catching up with him. His cons have come home to roost. His disregard of the Constitution and our laws are on trial. Perhaps his apologists will reflect on the moment before they tithe on the GoFundMe site. Perhaps...

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The nutsos are probably getting a bit concerned. But the phenomenon of ‘sunk costs’ will keep them impoverishing themselves.

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A notion of a sunk cost is to accept the loss and move on. The MAGA faithful strike as the monkey, its paw wrapped around the fruit in the gourd, let go despite capture.

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You might be giving them too much credit for having a working brain...

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I keep dreaming that one morning we’ll wake up and he will have skedaddled for Moscow. Buh-bye Donny!

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Or was found keeled over in a bucket of KFC chicken from a massive coronary. 🤷‍♀️

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Wouldn’t that be nice! He would be their problem. I don’t know what there old people homes are like . . .

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Oh you're too kind 🙃

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1. Does the fact that the award is $450 million and that number includes 45 a sign that even higher powers hate your guts?

2. I looked at that GoFundMe site. There’s a lot of delusion there but a few brave souls put in some pretty funny comments

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It's VIOLATING Go Fund Me's TOS. It needs to be reported as such. (Yes, I've done this)

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I put in a fake phone number on the GFM report. It clearly states in the TOS that the organizer cannot lie in order to get money on someone else's behalf. It's full of lies.

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Many people are saying this…. :D

Seriously, I read that others were going to as well.

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Ooo! Let me go back and do the same thing 😃. We ALL should!

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Kudos

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That GFM is just under $58,000 now. I started reading the comments and I just couldn't get past the first few. Even the person who started it needs medication. These people are completely delusional.

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It's at over 60k now. I know better than to read the comments, as I'd rather not throw up my lunch. I've also done a search, there's a bunch of smaller ones started, I've reported them all.

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Okay found it and donated $1.45 and put fake everything. What a scum bag

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They are probably going to keep it themself, anyway. Just like the "we build the wall scam".

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I checked it again, it's still up and has nearly $300,000. At this pace there will be enough to bury him next to Ivana at Westminster with a little "partying" cash for Melania left over. 😆

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🤣😂🤣

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I’m going to check it out after reading more comments on Jeff’s post!

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Me too.

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If you were a higher power wouldn’t you? 🤣

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A shit blizzard… not a good visual… but couldn’t happen to a more deserving shitbag!

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I too stopped to imagine what a “shit blizzard” would look like. I saw shit spraying and down pouring everywhere! So gross! Then I thought “well he certainly deserves it! Bring it on and bury him in it! Let him drown in shit! Fill that muthafucker’s lungs with shit!” I’ve been told I have a dark side 🤷‍♀️

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Welcome to the "I have a Dark Side" club! 🥳

Your flame thrower is in the mail. 😉😁

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Apparent - I’m also a member of the

“I have a dark side” club.

We need lapel pins or a hat.

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😆 I have several different colors of fedoras. I am ready for whatever color hat. And lapel pins, why can't we have both? 😁

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We could wear some of his recently introduced gold hightop kicks he's selling around $300/pr. Seriously. Has anyone seen that? He's selling effing shoes. Let's see: a half billion dollars divided by $300. Will someone please do the math?

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Join the club!!!😂😂😂😂

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It's easier to envision if you've ever seen the new way these factory farms handle animal waste. They liquefy it and spray it on the fields and the stench could also be another parallel to the "Stinky One"...lol

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I saw that in a documentary called The Food We Eat. It was sooo disgusting and disturbing. However, very apropos.

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Nah!😈😈

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Nawww. You sound just fine. Normal.

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The phrase may have originated from what his ancestors did back in the day.

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Trump is also UK slang for flatulence.

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I love he smell of schadenfreude in the morning!

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Me too! I enjoy it with my coffee and a warm streusel!

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Or Acme Bread and marmalade

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ORANGE marmalade, I assume? It’s only fitting.

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God I thought you said acne bread!!!!!

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I usually take mine with a bagel and cream cheese, but the warm streusel sounds glorious!

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So besides the knuckle dragging cult members, anyone have any bets as to who will bail his sorry ass out so that he may be reinstalled? Putin? MBS? Leonard Leo? The Heritage Foundation? All of the above?

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someone on social media was claiming that the Space Nazi is in Palm Springs this weekend, but I couldn't confirm it was true, so I left it out of my post

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I saw the same thing posted. I wouldn't doubt it! Musk is the second biggest douchecanoe in the world, imo.

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I just wrote about that; it was Tea Pain who wrote it and it’s true. Anyone taking any bets?

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Who would want to own tffg? Muskrat may be going down there to collect on his debts ahead of the courts…probably wishful thinking but still I indulge.

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I too read that the Wizard of X landed near the Palace of Fools, Losers and Lost Secrets. Barely mentioned and poof, it disappeared.

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Psst I think you mean Palm Beach, I do that too, all the time.

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I think all of those are done with him. Too much baggage to drag around.

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I hope you’re right,but I don’t think so.

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I forgot about the Space Nazi. He’d be stupid enough to do it. Does he really think that if the orange menace gets reinstalled, he’s gonna let any of these billionaires keep their money?

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Yes, they think they own him!

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Now that he’s prohibited from borrowing money from NY banks, he will probably look to countries like Russia for (more) funding; rendering him even more beholden to them. The potential conflicts interests alone are the reason he must never again be POtuS.

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I really want him to default on them, and then see a strongman named Ivan, dangle him off the tower balcony at Mar-a-lago.

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Not just "the Donald". Ivanka and his two little boys all are in hot water over the emails and other evidence showing that they were part and parcel of the financial fraud.

How do you define "crime family"? Look at all those who Trump pardoned in the last hours of his White House crime spree. His son in law's dad. Roger Stone. Lots of other embezzlers, murderers, and swinders. People he admired or owed something to.

Too bad about the retarded House Republicans that helped him with the Jan 6 coup attempt. It didn't work so I guess he felt he didn't owe them anything. They still are working real hard for him though.

What about Contempt of Court charges? Is Trump ever going to see the inside of a jail cell solely because of something he said?

He doesn't have contempt for the Court, he has contempt for everyone except the guy he sees in the mirror.

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This whole thing is simply delicious. The hits just keep on coming….next is New York!

I just checked and now the GoFund me is up to $53, 582. Please be sure to add those who donated into “this week in stupid”. 🤦‍♀️

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According to GoFundMe rules, no one can donate money for the benefit of financial criminals.

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I didnt know that…I bet the whole thing gets shut down. 🤞 These idiots can just mail their orange monster a check.

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I guarantee that it will.

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I hope that it gets shut down too.

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That fundraising effort will probably be shut down soon upon receiving reminders of their policies.

…and I’m absolutely certain that the administrators of GoFundMe have been notified. I predict that it’ll be shut down and the MAGAs refunded by Tuesday of next week.

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Are they?

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It's disturbing that there are that many suckers out there.

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They are still multiplying Charlie. Just remember what P. T. Barnum said.

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We need to change every minute to every 15 seconds.

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Dead on Charlie.

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Stupid people over-breed, Charlie they are too stupid to do otherwise.

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They give rabbits a run for their money.

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Indeed, funny, they are more like lemmings personality-wise!

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Quite true.

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And they drive cars

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One of your best ever, Jeff! I’m so happy that he’s finally being held accountable in a way that makes an impression on him. His “wealth” is one of the things he’s been bragging about his entire life. Relieving him of this amount of money will definitely make a dent in his reputation.

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Will it, though? His brain-dead supporters are impervious to facts.

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His supporters will never change their minds, but those who don’t pay much attention to politics will hear about his criminal trials because the news will be spoken about everywhere they go.

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The RNC will be his next failed business.🤞🏻

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Especially since he wants to put Lara Trump in charge of the fundraising part of the RNC. She already said she will divert all the money to him.

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