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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

tl;dr: NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL

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Jennifer's avatar

It hasn't been normal since 2016. No, since 2008 when we elected an educated, thoughtful, intelligent, competent Black man to the highest office and the racists among us--70 million of them--lost their minds.

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

And a man who was like us, whatever our skin color. I recognized myself in him. His Chicago home is six blocks from my sister's and all of you urban dwellers would recognize this bustling neighborhood packed with large homes and three-story old brick apartments. I grew up 5 blocks from Michelle and went to the same grade school. Despite the redlining and blockbusting that brought them there, her family was a lot like mine. How many people out there can relate to Trump? How many were raised by a racist sociopath who became wealthy by mass producing shoddy apartments and cheating people, and who raised his kids to be damaged, destructive and lacking in empathy?

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Cat Cafe's avatar

He tells them the siren song they long to hear: that they're SMART, they're BEAUTIFUL, come with him and they will be rich and better than everyone else. He's their Nigerian prince scammer and they can't bear to give him up.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

He also tells them that they're *white* and that puts them above everyone who isn't. This worked for the white Southern plantation owners before and after the Civil War, and it's been working fine for him. I think -- I hope! -- that with the Epstein files and the economy starting to go down the drain it's not working as well as it was before.

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Cat Cafe's avatar

Yep, worked great for LBJ. And Lee Atwater....

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Patty Smith's avatar

Exactly!

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Debra's avatar

How many of us were chauffeured to school?

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Patty Smith's avatar

Perfect, Anastasia.

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J Glaspie's avatar

Oh, how I miss the dignity, class, integrity and intelligence that was on display in the White House when the Obamas lived there.

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Bob Bowden's avatar

A mind is a terrible thing to lose.

As for Orange Shitler’s ridiculous BS about needing to present his “license plate” to vote, here’s an idea he (and we) will love:

Next time he plays at his golf motel / dead wife cemetery in Bedminster, his caddy should cheat-drop his opening drive directly into the first hole, so he can endlessly brag about it. And in commemoration of the achievement, his Presidential limo gets a vanity plate that he can drive around with and present when he votes, that reads

A HOLE ONE

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Tom Devlin's avatar

Hahaha, oh my this is a good one! And to make it even more unbelievable, the hole should be a Par 5!

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Patty Smith's avatar

Hahaha! Brilliant idea!

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JOEL's avatar

Jennifer, you nailed it.

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Jennifer's avatar

I wish I were dead wrong. :/

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

They belong in their own country. Give it to them.

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

Yes, but on Mars, right?

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Cyndi's avatar

Maybe Tuvalu would be up for a land swap? After all, climate change is a hoax, right?

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Good idea!

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Jennifer's avatar

100%

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Ellyn's avatar

The R-

Stands for Russia now, correct?

I like to keep these abbreviations accurate.

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

They pledge allegiance to White America

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James Starr's avatar

100%

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Patty Smith's avatar

Yep. That is exactly what happened in our insanely racist country. They lost their minds over it. So much resentment for an intelligent, competent, funny president. He is so cool. And they haven't a shred of humor, not an iota. And they don't understand irony. Most haven't read a book since 8th grade.

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

Touché! A very apropos comment and thank you for the clarity of it.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Many white people who were alive at the time lost their minds after the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s. Go back a ways and you'll see that many white people lost their minds after they lost the Civil War. Losers don't like losing, and when they have power -- as white folk do in this country -- they will fight back and all too often win.

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Joyce's avatar

#accurate

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Cw's avatar

I believe that President Zelenskyy should receive an Academy Award for not bursting out laughing at the babbling baboon in chief who is squatting in the American people’s house.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

He should also get the Nobel Peace Prize, if only for this stunning display of restraint.

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Koko in AZ's avatar

Wouldn't it be pure Schadenfreude if Norway gave Zelensky the Peace Prize? What a glorious, in-your-face move that would be for Demented Don.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

Donny would nuke Norway

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Jan Moon's avatar

He would also nuke Ukraine. And wouldn't that be a blast!

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

He could also nuke Chicago. That might make him feel a tiny bit better.

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

He might melt into a little blob of grease like Rumplestilskin. Which I wouldn't exactly grieve.

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

They absolutely should not give it to Obama again, or Biden, or Harris, unless they want someone to have a deadly stroke. Hmmm...

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Patty Smith's avatar

Yes! Wouldn't that be the best?

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T L Mills's avatar

Zelenskyy's long-suffering expression--especially his eyes--when looking at the camera, said it all.

In fairness, however, I have to point out that Donnie has ALWAYS been like a child who can't wait for everybody else to stop talking so he can take his Very Important Turn in the spotlight to talk again.

His narcissism causes him to think that HIS words are more important than anybody else's words. This insane lust for a Nobel Peace Prize (just because Obama won one...and certainly Donnie MUST be better than the black guy...so he HAS to have a Prize too) is frying up his brain cells faster than ever, or it seems so, anyway.

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Steve's avatar

I was wondering the same thing. He is so hell bent on getting this prize that he's shamelessly (as all things DJT are) soliciting (pressuring???) those out there in the universe who have some influence on who gets chosen. He's obsessed with it because I honestly believe he believes he deserves one.

Having someone like this as a family member or neighbour is one thing. Having them as a president and decision maker is frightening.

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

THAT would induce an aneurysm.

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Cheryl from Maryland's avatar

Hear that, Norway? Do the world a solid, Zelenskyy for the Nobel Peace Prize. y

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DJS's avatar

He truly does. By refusing to surrender or cede land to Putin, he is helping to keep neighboring countries safe from being attacked and "annexed" by Putin in his quest to "restore" the former USSR's boundaries.

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arne link's avatar

Lord, hear our prayer.

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

I giggle every time I read this.

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Joyce's avatar

Oh, yes--PLEASE. I am willing to send $20 to Norway to get this done: who knows how to set up a Go Fund Me?????

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Perhaps. (rubs hands together with gleeful anticipation)

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jack's avatar

All that. And a Kennedy award!!!

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

Hear, hear. I second that.

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Patricia Gomes's avatar

Third !

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

Yes! And remember, Z was a comic actor before he became prez of Ukraine. So he's more attuned than most to the sheer absurdity around him.

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Maui Wahine's avatar

I hope someday there is peace in Ukraine and Zelensky can go back to his first profession. What a wealth of material he will have.

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Cw's avatar

So true, Ellis. All the more reason to give it to him (not to mention it would upset the moron he always has to placate).

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SPW's avatar

I made a similar comment somewhere when the original comment was about his suit. The man is sharp and the maga morons deserve every bit of whatever rapier wit he turns loose on them. Wish he’d do it more often but he’s too much of a gentleman to do so.

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Rosemary Orlandi's avatar

good point !

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meryl selig's avatar

Great reminder. Thanks

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J.R.'s avatar

I agree

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Here is my two updates from yesterday and today about the Zelinsky meeting with the European commission and Donald Trump, this includes the usual psychological and philosophical work up

As always liked, quoted, restacked ,  and cross posted 

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/trumps-nobel-fuck-prize-meeting-highlights

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-white-house-mouthanus-meeting

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SPW's avatar

She’s merciless 😁.

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Abigail Norling's avatar

"it’s insane that seven European leaders had to accompany Zelenskyy to yesterday’s meeting and play chaperone, else Donny would have ambushed him." AGAIN!!!!!

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Eric S K's avatar

This is novel (not in a good way) in the long history of our country. It’s difficult to believe this demented sick thing was elected twice to the presidency….this is just batshit crazy

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Linda Weide's avatar

Jeff this is brilliant!

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🌷IntheHalloftheMtnKing's avatar

Some might say it's an ear-full

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

Tasteful Jackie never commissioned a painting of herself in that iconic blood-spattered pink suit, groping for a shard of her iconic husband’s skull on the trunk of the iconic presidential open limo. This was not a good day.

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Douglas's avatar

And D thinks not one second about the poor bastard that DID supposedly die after getting hit with the magic bullet.

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

Once Trump had posed with the decedent’s fireman gear, he was forgotten collateral damage.

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Douglas's avatar

That is disturbing.

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Dave Drell's avatar

the one they spelled wrong?

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Lois Henry's avatar

😢

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skangirl's avatar

Hell, *two* people died that day. Even the shooter who was "neutralized" would've been a better president than trump.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

The photo of Trump with the fireman's family in Arlington and right-wing media spin made it look like his MAGA relatives were honored to have made the sacrifice.

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

They were with Donnie because they were MAGA and were chosen to be on the stage with him. His relatives were honored Donnie gave them "Thumbs Up at the Grave Site" photo shot for their memories. It was not a right-wing media spin.

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Carol C's avatar

The daughters did not look happy being featured at the State of the Union speech. Their mother probably needed the money which I assume she was paid for permitting it.

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

How much choice did they have, I wonder. Trump bulldozes with force of personality and/or fear.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

FLOTUS Jackie also looked at a WH outdoors space and saw a Rose Garden where others saw a ginormous concrete parking lot.

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Mary Hall's avatar

The only time I saw my dad cry was November 22, 1963.

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Lois Henry's avatar

I was 22 years old. I had two toddlers but somehow I managed to not leave the TV for more than a few minutes at a time until after the funeral. They struggled to find creative things for this unthinkable occasion, like the horse with the empty saddle except for the backward turned boots that signified a fallen warrior.

Then it was over and the squabbling began in the following weeks about the expense of the Eternal Flame. I stopped crying and found my anger.

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

I was a kid in the Chicago Children's Choir. I had to leave the TV on Saturday because we were rehearsing the Faure Requiem which we sang at a service in his memory at Rockefeller Chapel on Sunday November 24, 1063. "Eternum habeas requiem."

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

So did I. I was eight

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mary's avatar

The world cried! What a different world it was then.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Who would cry for him?

Right…. not one living soul.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

All of us who were alive and understanding remember where we were at the time we heard. And I watched the first moon landing too. I was in the eighth grade in 1963, and we all cried. It had never occurred to me that this could happen here.

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Mary Hall's avatar

I was in my second-grade classroom at the Catholic school. I remember the principal nun running into the room in a panic and saying, "The president has been shot!" That was some heavy shit for little kids to process.

When T💩p finally leaves this Earthly plane, my plan is to put up Christmas lights, open the bottle of the good stuff that's been chillin' since November, and dance in the street with my neighbors.

Compare and contrast.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

I was on lunch break from school. After a while I got nervous I would be in trouble and said "Grampa, I'd love to stay watching TV with you but I have to get back to school." He thrust his finger in my face and said "NO! There will be NO SCHOOL TODAY!" He was of course correct, all the kids who were in school were sent home.

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Major Kong's avatar

I too was in the 2nd grade in Catholic school. The nuns took us to the parish church to pray.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

That may be the day a whole bunch of us Boomers grew up.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

That was the day I figured out some unpleasant truths about my dad and my mom. It was also the day/weekend that turned me into a lifelong political-media junkie. I was not quite 11 years old.

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

Tasteful Jackie never commissioned a painting of herself in that iconic blood-spattered pink suit, groping for a shard of her iconic husband’s skull on the trunk of the iconic presidential open limo. This was not a good day.

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

So kind. My greatest joy these days is rearranging words. I’m no Alexander Hamilton, but “write like [I’m] running out of time.”

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

I hear that.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Just want to say, I wish I could ‘like’ your comment twice.

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

TYSM. The outward grace of the Kennedy administration seems as remote as my girlhood. If the inside of the White House didn’t match the serenity of the outside, it wasn’t our job to fix it. The Russians were an unknowable menace.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

it’s beautifully written. I love beautiful writing.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Me re Newsom's tweets: Do you think Fox will ever get the joke?

Husband: They're being paid to not get the joke.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

fair point

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

While Newsom doesn't really have those Chris Hemsworth guns, I'm betting his aren't bad.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

I would do him. There. I said it.

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Cheryl from Maryland's avatar

President Zelenskyy also has it going on -- he got of the plane in DC wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt.

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Dave the Spot-on Moron's avatar

I might do him and I’m a straight guy.

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arne link's avatar

Oh, you guys! Stop it. Stop it right now. Go to your rooms for a time out.

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Dave the Spot-on Moron's avatar

C’mon Arne! With his movie star good looks, he’s practically irresistible! I just hope no one can resist voting for him in 2028.

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Wait! You mean Trump isn't the handsomest man in elected office, like he says?

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Major Kong's avatar

Watch his TV show "Servant of the people. You just want to pinch his cheeks. "Who's the cutest President in the world? You are!"

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Ann Anderson's avatar

:-)

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Susan Niemann's avatar

😂😂😂😂

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Lois Henry's avatar

Some charisma is universal 😉

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

I think the line that would "do Trump" is quite vacant. He was always disgusting and unattractive, even decades ago. And stupid doesn't age well.

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Carol Jacobson's avatar

Doing trump has a completely different meaning than doing Newsom - if you get my drift.

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Lois Henry's avatar

Yeah, I kept thinking Zelenskyy was the only one in the lineup of leaders that I’d date. Or trust to get into a car alone with…

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

I thought there were some pretty dapper leaders, and they all put trump to shame.

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Mary Busch's avatar

Me too! I'd also do Jon Stewart. There. I said it.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Well!!!

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PTW's avatar

He'd have to wash all that hair goo out of his hair first, though. Ick.

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P123Sunny's avatar

👆

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Kay-El's avatar

1. I bet that ridiculous pic of Donny and his ear would make a great dart board. You have to hit the ear for a bullseye.

2. It’ll be a pain in the ass to remove my license plate every time I vote. Just kidding I vote by mail just like Donny does!

3. Those guys making DC safe are actually standing around doing jack shit. Your government inaction

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Eva Porter's avatar

PBS had an interview with some DC residents who said they’d love more police/patrols but none of that is in THEIR neighborhood. Surprise, surprise, they were not White people.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Stephen Robinson has a great article today about that very subject.

https://open.substack.com/pub/ser1897/p/the-washington-dc-crime-trap?r=3rccqg&utm_medium=ios

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Kay-El's avatar

Yes! Just read

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Stephen Robinson is a brilliant writer. He nails it, every time.

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P123Sunny's avatar

While Red States/Cities have WAY WORSE statistics! 😡

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

That's what open carry gives you. Fortunately, back in 1967, California/Oakland's Black Panthers took unloaded guns to the State Assembly. The Assembly and Senate couldn't wait to vote to ban weapons in public and Reagan couldn't wait to sign it. So although we have more people, we have a lot less gun violence.

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Douglas's avatar

Those guardsmen from Mississippi are what I call...'outside agitators' cause my theory is the local guardsmen weren't racist.....therefore the shout out dog whistle to South Carolina & MS.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

West VA sent over 100 of its Jethros and Cletuses as National Guardsmen. Guess they had nothing to do since converting our cars to coal combustion will take awhile.

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

AND OHIO!!! When we drive from Chicago to New York, we do not eat or sleep anywhere in Ohio. We are afraid of the MAGA menaces that live and work there. MAGA cooties are the very worst. They are much like brain worms.

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

I have written to spineless Governor Grandpa Sleepy Tea (DeWine) every day since he announced it, reminding him that the rate of violent crime in Cleveland (where I live), Toledo and Dayton is much higher than in D.C. and that if he actually disrupts the lives of the men and women in our National Guard for this worthless "mission," he needs to resign immediately after groveling and apologizing to them.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

I wrote basically the same thing. I'm totally SHOCKED that I haven’t received an answer.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

You're kind of over-the-top there, Mary. As you drive from Chicago to NY, you're obviously going through the northern part of Ohio. Toledo is a blue city, as are Cleveland and Youngstown. Much of northern Ohio, and most of northeast Ohio, is blue (Columbus, Dayton, and Cincinnati, too). Cleveland has a hundred worthwhile points of interest (world-class zoo, art museum, and symphony orchestra, plus the Rock Hall), a whole roster of upscale hotels, and any type of cuisine you could ask for, at any level of restaurant. AND...no visible MAGA presence. Yes, my adopted hometown has a few flaws, but it's a great place to live, overall.

The half of our state that is deep blue resents being tarred with the MAGA cootie brush. IMO, you're putting us down without knowing us, Mary.

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Brenda Ball's avatar

Yes, remember when Ohio was purple’ and considered an indicator of

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Brenda Ball's avatar

(no edit button) the nation’s viewpoint. There are still many dems, but gerrymandering has distilled any influence.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

That's exactly it, Brenda. The state is still actually purple, but the gerrymandering is crazy. Gym Jordan, for instance, has a district that has no large towns in it, so is always going to be red.

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Kimberly Sandwisch's avatar

Try having to live here! (Ohio)🤢

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

It looked the same in LA.

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Kay-El's avatar

Yep.

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Mps's avatar

🎯💯

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Linda Fairchild's avatar

You have to remove your license plate, then insert it in the envelope with your ballot, then lose your license for driving without a plate. Then, in the next election, you won't have a license plate, so you can't vote. There are a LOT of steps to voting in the USA. Trump is going to fix it all in four days, so don't worry.

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DJS's avatar

Liked X 3!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

"Donny also lives in a Perpetual State of Confusion, but you can’t vote there" 😂😂😂

"America’s Mad King is a semi-sentient drool-bucket " 🤣🤣🤣

This is beyond fucked up... it isnt even close to normal. And the BS in Texas, locking up a rep? WTAF! That's not legal. But then, none of this is legal. I feel like we're all trapped in a never ending nightmare.

When we finally get him outta the people's house, it's gonna take truckloads of bleach to clean the place. He's insane AND disgusting.

I hate it here.

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

And yet Melanoma had to have the White House especially cleaned before she would move in when the Obamas left. She would not even attend a First Lady luncheon for fear of the Black Lady. Ah to be so frightened and ignorant. Makes her marriage and her friendship with EPSTEIN & MAXWELL more understandable.

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Dave Drell's avatar

White trash whore

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Abbi's avatar

I love Jeff’s “…Perpetual State of Confusion, but you can’t vote there.”

I don’t understand why the TX rep hasn’t asked whether she’s being detained, if so on what charges, and otherwise walked out. If they rough her up, especially with witnesses, I’m sure a lot of us would be willing to chip in for a very good lawyer.

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Mary Lou Williams's avatar

He’s it’s Texas and they all have guns .

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Mary Hall's avatar

All. Of. The. Above.

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RandomHuman's avatar

The thought bubble over Zelensky: Least safe place in the world? Care to visit Ukraine these days you twittering twatwaddling durakheaded dementia don.

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Douglas's avatar

Z SHOULD invite him....does he have the balls to show up in a war zone? They'd give him The Iron Cross. Oh I'm wrong....that was for the Nazis.

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skangirl's avatar

They should give him the actual Jesus Cross--and have him use it the same way.

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mary's avatar

And expect him to walk the Stations of the Cross? Hell with that. He has to drive his golf cart onto the green and then still needs a caddy. The man isn't fit for the office mentally or physically much less spiritually.

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J.R.'s avatar

He would never go there

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Joyce's avatar

Maybe remind Donnie Demento that President Biden DID.

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Carol C's avatar

Thanks for reminding me, too, Joyce.

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Tom Woods's avatar

Biden showed up, very quickly! Without a red carpet.

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Eva Porter's avatar

This guy is a fucking buffoon. Kudos to Georgia Meloni for not laughing right in his stupid face. You can tell she’s trying not to.

And kudos to Zelensky for his professionalism, English language skills, and the ability to zing that asshole “reporter” who commented on his attire.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

The asshole reporter is MTG's boyfriend. Rude and has punchable face.

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Eva Porter's avatar

Very punchable, and very unattractive in every possible way

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michellefromchicago's avatar

The German word for a face that needs to be punched is "Backpfeifengesicht". It literally translates to "a face that is begging for a slap" or "a face in need of a fist" according to GermanyinUSA, and Wiktionary. The word combines Backpfeife (a slap on the cheek) and Gesicht (face).

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Mary Hall's avatar

That assh0le reporter is Margarine Traitor Greene's boyfriend.

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Cheryl from Maryland's avatar

So Idiot as well as Assohole and Nepo Baby.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

I caught her rolling her eyes a couple of times.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Macron also threw a WTF glance at Shithead when he was praising Putin's desire for a lasting peace. Everyone knows he's Vlad's tool and always will be. Their only hope, as is ours, is that he croaks before his term is up and they can hold off WWIII.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

I'm a sucker for Macrons accent .

Oh la la, quelle homme !

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Il est, vraiment!!!

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

She did a great eye roll though at a previous meeting. Also isn't the guy who commented on his attire Margie Greene's boyfriend?

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Eva Porter's avatar

Oh I think you’re right about that guy. What a fool. Makes sense now

Yes, Meloni did and she looked like she wanted to again when Trump was doing his rambling intros.

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Suzn Sez's avatar

MTG and her 'boyfriend' deserve each other. They say he proposed to her while inside a toilet stall of a DC dive bar. As usual, MTG was the one on her knees.

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Tom Woods's avatar

Kudos to all the NATO leaders who showed up on such short notice. The semi-sentient drool bucket may not have comprehended why they were there, but I believe they made Putin’s butthole pucker.

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Krista Allen's avatar

Let's not forget that the Convicted Felon wandered off from the meeting with European leaders to make a FORTY-MINUTE phone call with Daddy Putin. I'm fresh out of WTFs.

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Ann Panda's avatar

OMG, every day it's more humiliating to be from the US. I start off every meeting with my European coworkers by saying, "I am so, so sorry. I don't know anyone who doesn't hate him."

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

And I’d like to ask the 30,000 newly-unemployed federal workers how much they’re dining out in DC restaurants these days.

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

I would like to ask them if they voted for Trump! Somebody did!

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

I’m sure some did, but I’m guessing most didn’t. I think DC is about 97% blue.

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Kay-El's avatar

I saw some stat that it’s down 31%

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Dave Drell's avatar

As is the US travel industry- foreigners are avoiding us like the plague- especially smart Canadians!

Nobody can screw up anything like

Donny Two Dolls!

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

While Trump rambles on about how people are going out to dinner in DC for the first time in years, Zelensky’s facial expression says it all! 😂 And I wish that just one of those leaders would have asked him, what in the fuck did any of this have to do with ending the war in Ukraine?

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P123Sunny's avatar

Relies on others’ innate professionalism and good manners…

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Stacy B's avatar

EXACTLY

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HI2thDoc's avatar

The European leaders I'm sure hate to have to come to the Shite House and listen to the blithering batshit. But on the other hand, all of them speak better English than he does.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

We need a president who is fluent in at least one language. Those European Leaders all are multilingual.

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Nora's avatar

I'm sure each of the European leaders listening to dumpy drone one on, muttered under their collective breath, in their own language," this fucking guy!"

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Carol C's avatar

I caught a glimpse of Rubio, Witkoff, etc. as they watched from the side. I wondered how they felt being in the presence of competent world leaders. Disdainful, probably, but who knows?

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

Mayor Pete speaks several languages. But in this political climate, I don't see him winning. Americans, including myself, are severely lacking in bilingual language skills. Most people I know who speak a foreign language, learned it at home because their relatives were not born here. It's not from American schools. My family is from England in the 1800's so that was of no help to me. I'm a Boomer, so maybe schools are more progressive about languages now than when I was in school.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

I think it more likely that 'schools' and 'progressive' are 2 words you shouldn't juxtapose anymore.

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P123Sunny's avatar

I’m srry that’s hilarious

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

All other crazy talk aside, I simply can't fathom how Dimwit Donnie can think that our legislators in D.C. haven't been out to dinner in over two years. Does he think they order GrubHub McDonald's into their Capitol offices every day? JFC. How can he be more intolerable every single time he speaks, and the press ignores it?

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

Well, yeah. There's always that. I just can't comprehend the amount of cover that the press is throwing for him, given how Biden was treated. Seems like we should be boycotting TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, etc. and any others who don't call the orange rat bastard to the carpet.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Some of us have never been to those Internet places.

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Suessl's avatar

You mean you're not already?

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

That was the proverbial "we". I had Facebook for a few years, but never any of the others. I couldn't keep out of Facebook jail because the MAGAs on my S.E. Texass representative's page kept filing complaints about my posting facts and truths. 😱 So I gave it up for Lent. And none of my "friends" even missed me. Believe me - I cried lots of liberal tears over that! 🤣🤣🤣

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

Indeed! If only we all had the money to buy such good friends... or the power to extort them, as the case may be.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

[programming note: Donny can’t think, and everything he says is a lie.]

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P123Sunny's avatar

(we should ALL have that many friends)

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Leu2500's avatar

Has Trump been out to dinner in DC this term, since he doesn’t have his hotel anymore.

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

Why would he go out to dinner when the White House chef caters to his every whim? It's not like all of his socialite "friends" aren't allowed in the Oval or dining room, right?

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J.R.'s avatar

Probably.

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Lairbo's avatar

I take exception to the idea that you can't vote in a State of Perpetual Confusion, given that so many Americans are registered there.

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Lairbo's avatar

And, for a place that doesn't exist, it's way over-represented in Congress.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

😂😂

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Susan Niemann's avatar

LOL!!

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Linda Fairchild's avatar

"Least safe place in the world..." That would be Ukraine. There is no humor in any of this. I wake up every day crying for this country I chose over Canada. #jefftiedrich is correct, it's the MSM that must now beat the drum of insanity and wake people up. On the other hand, I am still living in California and proud of Newsom.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

I could almost hear Zelenskyy's thoughts straight thru his eyeballs when Dippy Donny said that. JFC. 🤦‍♀️

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Mary Lou Williams's avatar

Beware these hacks are pouncing on Newsom now

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P123Sunny's avatar

The Ugly American Syndrome - fully metastasized… 😣

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P123Sunny's avatar

Complete w/Merch…

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J.R.'s avatar

That shocked me. I may have no more room for shock

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

The gold vomited scrambled eggs he's so proud of in the Oval Orifice and showing off the WH gift shop. A perpetual shock to decent taste. The gift shop should sell replicas of all the polished turds left by the J6ers in the capitol building and the GOP on his staff and in Congress. And the Supreme Court. Mount them on gold plastic pedestals.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Small correction .. the new and improved

Ugly & Stupid American Syndrome

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