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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

this just in from President Fuckstick:

"The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!"

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1909258878035828788

holy shit, what a moron

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Unreal. He is a dangerous moron.

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Lisa59's avatar

I hate all these motherfuckers. And his whiskey foxtrot voters. Shitpants thinks he is King Charles of Versailles. Except he would turn it into one big golf course and cover the rest in concrete. Melanoma would throw cake from the balconies. Jesus fucking Christ. 😤🖕🖕

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

He's more like George III, but far less stable.

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Robert R's avatar

Government’s are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed !

Then whenever any form of government destructive of those ends ,it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it ,and institute new government!!!!

,laying it’s foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form ,as to them seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness!

July 4th ,1776 🇺🇸. 👍 Look out motherfuckers the people are fucken pissed the fuck off !💪🏼

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Tully's avatar

You only get cake for a million donation at Mar A Fatso. Or, maybe the cake's extra for time with Loomer!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Love that vision Lisa, it should keep me in rarefied smiles all day!!

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Steve Kelly's avatar

A dangerous, DANGEROUS Moron.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Always has been, there was once a nice oubliette with his name on it, but SCOTUS ruined that dream Susan!!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Its not over yet!

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Burke's avatar

70% of American adults did not vote for the insanity of King Donald the Dumbshit. That's 182 million free citizens. The American Spirit can stop him. Show up!

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Stephen Schiff's avatar

Huh? Last time I looked some 46% didn't vote and of the 54% who did, about half voted for others. So 73% either directly voted for him or said it did not matter to them if he was elected.

And we are now seeing that the only thing that 73% cares about is money. No hew and cry about USAID, or fucking Ukraine or fucking the Palestinians or the climate.

We have a lot to do to educate that 46% and get them active and caring for more than what is happening in the current news cycle. /r

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Burke's avatar

260 million adults in the US as of the November election. (258 million in the 2020 census).

77.3 million voted for Dumb Donald. That's 29.7% of the total.

182.7 million US adults did not vote for Donald. That's 70.3% of the total.

The actual winner of the election, with 40% of the total, was "Did Not Vote". Or "Don't give a damn."

Will some in this cohort begin to care when they lose their job, can't afford groceries, lose their savings, discover the USDA stopped supplying the food bank in their town? Will they wake up when the school breakfast/lunch program shuts down? Walmart, Target, Kohls and other chains buy 90% plus of their goods from China. The tariffs will affect the poor/moderate income people who shop there with much higher prices.

Look at this stupidity from China's point of view. The US represents only 15% of their exports. America closing its doors to these products will hurt the Chinese economy a little. On the other side, America's exports to all other countries will slow down. Companies will lay off workers. These tariffs are a tax on Americans We are allowing an idiot to hit us on the head with his sledgehammer. (Per NBC News, the nation's CEO's are "afraid" to speak against Trump for fear he will attack their companies. Wimps!!!)

Higher unemployment and higher prices. This is what you get when you let the Stupids run the government.

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Robert R's avatar

We have to follow the Aussie’s lead and make voting mandatory with fines for those who don’t exercise their franchise! There are people out there who are getting screwed out of their rights and would love to have easy access to the ballot! I know not this time not now later ! Federal law should determine voting rights Nationwide fuck these Jim Crow pricks !

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Kristin Beauchamp's avatar

Gotta count the ppl who didn’t vote into this %. 🙄

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James Starr's avatar

i went to the Hands off rally in L.A., close to 10,000 showed up. While it was a good 4 hours of feeling better, it's not helping our current situation. Nothing changed from it. It is sad.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

James a lot comes from the rallies. Just hold on. It scares them shitless that we are finding our voice. It is contagious. Keep it up!!! 👍🇺🇸🥳👏

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Will Gerard's avatar

We also don't know how bad all of this will get, or maybe we do. In any case, give it time. The majority of folks aren't feeling the effects yet. They will.

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Jan Moon's avatar

As one who has been a sign carrying protester I can say there's nothing more gratifying than marching with like-minded people. My concern is, and I'll try not to put too much of a damp diaper on it, haven't I seen little hints of martial law creeping into the dialogue here and there? Please tell me I'm wrong.

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Eileen's avatar

I saw a post that rocked my world about April 20th as the date Trump flips his "emergency" into martial law. Here it is: This Is Not a Drill: Trump’s Day-One Order Sets the Stage for Martial Law

By Tony Pentimalli

On January 20, 2025, while the press focused on the optics of Donald Trump’s indoor inauguration, something far more dangerous was set in motion—off-camera, away from ceremony, and beneath the radar of a public lulled by spectacle.

Trump signed an executive order declaring a national emergency at the southern border. But the most alarming part? It gave the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security just 90 days to deliver a joint report on whether he should invoke the Insurrection Act.

That deadline is April 20.

This wasn’t about immigration. It was about power.

The Insurrection Act, passed in 1807, gives the president the authority to deploy the U.S. military on American soil. That means troops in our cities. That means bypassing governors. That means suspending protest rights. That means the death of democratic dissent—under the false pretense of restoring “order.”

And Trump’s not hiding it. He’s preparing it.

We’ve seen this before. In June 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, millions of Americans rose up in protest. Trump didn’t respond with compassion—he called for “domination.” When the military hesitated to invoke the Insurrection Act, Trump sent federal forces to violently clear peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square so he could wave a Bible in front of a church. Not an ounce of remorse followed. He was angry the generals didn’t go far enough.

This time, he’s made sure they won’t hesitate.

Since returning to power, Trump has purged the Pentagon of independent thinkers. In their place? Loyalists. Pete Hegseth is now Secretary of Defense. Tulsi Gabbard runs intelligence. And J.D. Vance—Vice President—is openly on board with using military force against Americans on American soil.

Then, on March 19, those three—Vance, Gabbard, and Hegseth—staged a photo op at the southern border. Not a routine visit. Not a strategy session. A performance.

Think about it. Why would the Vice President, the head of military intelligence, and the Defense Secretary all need to go to the border together? Why make a media spectacle of it?

Because it wasn’t about the border. It was about the optics. It was about laying the emotional groundwork for invoking the Insurrection Act. They were building the narrative. “We had to act.” “We had no choice.” “The crisis was too big.”

And what comes next?

It’s June 2025. Trump goes on national TV and declares that Democratic cities are under siege by “radicals” and “illegals.” He signs the Insurrection Act order. Troops hit the streets of Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia. Protesters are arrested under “emergency provisions.” Journalists are detained. Social media accounts vanish. Immigrants are swept into detention centers. The press is told to stand down. The public is told to shut up.

And it’s all legal.

Some of you might think, “He’s bluffing. The military won’t go along. The courts will stop him.”

Really?

Were they bluffing when federal agents brutalized peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square?

Did the military refuse? No. The National Guard was deployed. Many in uniform carried out the order. It was only later that a few expressed regret—after the damage was done.

Did the courts stop January 6? No. They prosecuted rioters after the fact, but the attack happened. Congress fled. Democracy was nearly strangled live on TV.

Did they stop the family separation policy? No. Thousands of children were taken from their parents before courts intervened—long after the trauma was inflicted.

Did they stop the Muslim ban? No. The Supreme Court upheld it. Entire families were stranded or banned simply because of where they came from.

Did they stop ICE raids or CBP abuses? Rarely. A handful of rulings. A few headlines. But the system kept grinding, unchecked and cruel.

So if you’re waiting for “the system” to save us, you’re waiting for something that has already failed.

The April 20 report is coming. If it recommends using the Insurrection Act—and let’s be honest, it will—Trump will frame it as a reluctant but necessary move. He’ll say he tried everything else. He’ll claim it’s about protecting America.

But what he’s really protecting is his own authority.

This is how authoritarianism arrives: not with tanks, but with legal memos, press events, and a scared public hoping someone else will stop it.

So what do we do?

We speak now. Loudly. Forcefully.

Call your representatives and demand they investigate Trump’s January 20 order.

Push the media to report on the Insurrection Act report before it’s too late.

Demand public statements from military and intelligence leaders—now, not after.

Organize. Educate. Resist.

If you’ve never joined a protest before, this is the moment.

If you’ve never spoken up politically, this is the time.

If you’ve never thought it could happen here—it already is.

The threat isn’t coming.

It’s here.

And silence is exactly what Trump is counting on.

*Tony Pentimalli is a political analyst and commentator fighting for democracy, economic justice, and social equity. Follow him for sharp analysis and hard-hitting critiques.* See less

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Jan Moon's avatar

April 20 is Easter Sunday for God's sake!

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Lisa K. Obrien's avatar

It is also Hitler’s birthday. Perfect.

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Diana Hembree's avatar

Thank you. This is extremely important information.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Of course the opposition is seeding fear. Don’t play into it.

I have learned that those doing this stuff aren’t much when you finally get to the core of it. A lot is to give the illusion of might. These are not good people. Most likely have crimed to a degree all their life. Like Trump

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A.J. Madison's avatar

I was too young to participate in the anti-war demonstrations in the 60s & early 70s. But I witnessed them. And yes, it took years of "Hippies, Drug Addicts, and Out-of-control Bleeding Hear Libs" to affect public opinion. But the protests changed America's opinion about the Vietnam War. Especially then, when there was no internet, the public was at the mercy of the BS the government, both LBJ & Nixon, fed the mainstream media. Eventually, the evidence that both administrations lied about why the US was there and what was happening in South East Asia came out. Didn't hurt that the Pentagon Papers were published.

As long as there aren't any riots, or destruction of private property, the demonstrations will get the message through. It's okay to be "Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take It Anymore" just don't destroy the local merchant shops.

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James Starr's avatar

thank you

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Michael Guenon's avatar

There’s another planned in two weeks, I believe. 5050.1

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James Starr's avatar

we have one here in L.A. on April 12th downtown, with AOC and Bernie Sanders.

I will be there ! can't wait.

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arne link's avatar

It's a start. The resistance will build from there. Thank you for attending.

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Doreen Dalesandro's avatar

Agent orange had the secret service put up a security fence around the WH in preparation for the Hands Off protest on April 5th. A bit worried there are we, VonShitzInPants🤔

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Diana Hembree's avatar

Maybe a million person march in front of the Supreme Court

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James Starr's avatar

wouldnt change a thing. It will just make the SCJ hate us even more

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Diana Hembree's avatar

Well, that's a point, esp with several very vindictive ones there. Let's say 1 million or more in DC on April 19 outside the Lincoln Memorial where Dr. King gave his speech ou. Or maybe outside the White House.

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Lorraine Parish's avatar

of course it's helping. you're being ridiculous.

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🌷IntheHalloftheMtnKing's avatar

... Yet.

Nothing changed from it yet. We have to keep being loud

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Ole Anderson's avatar

The American Spirit was sitting on its dead Ass on Nov. 5.-12 Million fewer voted for Harris than voted for Biden in 2020. That’s why we are in the Shit storm we’re in.

And I didn’t see any of them at the Demonstration , either.

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Robert R's avatar

Many are scared ! Not everyone can stand fast that’s why we must carry them ! That’s just the way it is ! That’s one of the reasons that we have each to lean on . No shame in it ! It makes us stronger in the long run ! Strength isn’t bestowed on each and everyone that desperately needs it ! Fuck Trump!

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Ole, what if the elections (a real one) were to be today? So I guess you’re right about November but some have come back to life. Don’t be so dark it hurts us. How do you know who was at your demonstration?

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Connie Hillyer's avatar

“Don’t be weak! Don’t be stupid!” - classic projection from a weak, stupid and despicable piece of shit.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Guess what! Dear Leader saw Musk with his chainsaw, and he said, " You wrecked a government, I'll wreck the world." I say, "Just look what a testosterone overdose can do. Is China selling the US testosterone precursors?

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

"Anything you can do I can do better."--Summon Handi Oakley

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

They muskshit and penis head are horrid horrid people.

Look back at history. They all got it in the end.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Not at all. Lots of the worst people in world history died rich in bed. But I. admit it will not end well for Trump. Musk may have enough dough to buy himself a new country and live there by himself

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A.J. Madison's avatar

Muskrat is like any other parasite. We need to make the US no longer tasty for him, and living conditions unbearable. He'll leave on his own accord. He's already whining and complaining about his portfolio. Just need to tell him directly that we're not buying his shit car, and he can take his childish complaining about his total wealth and shove it up his ass.

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shee-rah's avatar

Maybe Musk can go to that island where there is no one but penguins.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

🙏🙏🙏

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Stacy B's avatar

F.U.C.K. Y.O.U. fuckstick. FUCK YOU.

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John Nerdrum's avatar

Amen brother!

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SethTriggs's avatar

The cheese is off the cracker and fallen into a sewer grate.

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George in Atlanta's avatar

...and it's been hauled off by Pizza Rat!

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

Sounds like those 1950's Charles Atlas ads " You TOO can have a body like mine!"

And I wonder which of the little shitweasels surrounding him came up with the absolute "hoot" of "Panican"? Sounds like Steven Miller has been whispering again. . .

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Eva Porter's avatar

Fuck him

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Matilda's avatar

Now I’m panicking even more

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Stephen Schiff's avatar

Where, oh where did you get the Screwing the Pooch video? I am soooooooooo aroused.

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A.J. Madison's avatar

Jamie Dimon better pull his head out of ass, right f*cking now. Otherwise, we need to start calling this asswipe a fraud. If he's so powerful, he needs to have a conversation with Dwumpy Twumpy, might have to be a one way conversation, as in, stop this shit, or I'm going to unleash the (economic) hounds on your silly little "empire."

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Maui Wahine's avatar

"Donʻt Be A Pelican" oh wait sorry what did he say?

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Ole Anderson's avatar

A strange, strange bird is the Pelican

His beak holds more than his Belly can

And I don’t know how the hell he can!

Kind of reminds me of all these Plutocrats- beaks are full, more than they can possibly eat yet they must have More!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Well, he must be a PANICAN. He's weak and stupid right?

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Linda Weide's avatar

I read that Trump sold his stocks before his tariffs, and Warren Buffet divested 350 mil from stocks. What are they doing with the money? Sitting on it? Buying gold? investing in real estate? Keeping it in a savings account?

Around 62% of Americans have stock accounts. Most of them, around 54.4% are in retirement accounts. If your money is in a retirement account you cannot touch it until you retire, so you cannot really sell stocks, although you could move it around within your account or put it into an annuity. If you are retired you probably lost many years worth of retirement income with Trump becoming president. How is that something one can defend?

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

fun fact: my first-draft title for this post was simply "what the fuck is wrong with him." Ms. Spouse nixed it

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Ryn's avatar

That could be the alt title for literally all of your posts

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skangirl's avatar

Right. Except for the columns that should be "what the fuck is wrong with THEM?"

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MountainBoyMike's avatar

it's a rhetorical question anyway...there are SO many things wrong with him it's difficult to keep track anymore

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Barbara Morgan's avatar

💯🎯✌🏻💙

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Terry's avatar

My day is complete.

A fellowman whose wife is the boss.

(Thank god I'm no longer alone.)

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

You never were.

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

Me thinks Ms Spouse did a super job editing. 😉

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Jill Palethorpe's avatar

Right. If you'd attempted to answer your own question you wouldn't have had enough space.

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Will Gerard's avatar

Well, then Jeff is working on a book with that title.

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DuduLovesBubu's avatar

The penguins appreciate your advocacy.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Yeah we are THROUGH with nicey norms. We are FUCKIN MAD. THEY HAVE DESTROYED OUR EARTH AND NO ONE IN THE PLACE TO STOP IT HAS DONE FUCKIN SHIT.

YES. THE RATH OF RECEIVING FUCK SHIT IS MIGHTIER THAN A VOLCANO. 🌋

NO MORE.

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Wendy🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Trust the life partner Jeff , I do of mine.

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AnneOfCleves's avatar

Plus, you could use that line every day...

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Janelle Hartman's avatar

That is an evergreen title.

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Karla's avatar

She did a great job!

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TCinDC's avatar

I think she objected to your use of the F-word, which, ya know...

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Robert R's avatar

Jeff ,That list is a wrist busting carpel injury for shit sure ! The real question is what the fuck is right with him ?!! 4 word answer . Not one mothafucken thing ! Save those typing fingers for something redeeming. Emperor Foul Bowel the 1’st is a fluke of existence spawned via a gangerous bloody asshole sphincter ejection , spewed into the present day for the sole purpose of regressing the human race back to the Middle Ages! He hasn’t one fucken clue about anything or anyone! Waste of skin ,and lots of it !

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Who will be a hero in the Republican party and end this madness? This is a rhetorical question, because they all suck…but that person could go down in history as a courageous MoFo who found their spine and took one for the team.

The stubborn stupidity is BREATHTAKING. Start making plans for April 19th, the next protest.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

Rand Paul is currently the only Republican speaking out against tariffs. that's a mixed blessing

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Terry's avatar

I'll admire his neighbor forever.

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Sköll's avatar

Medal of Freedom for that guy!

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HI2thDoc's avatar

I heard that poor guy lost his house and a lot of money and served jailtime for flattening Paul.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

😂😂😂

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

That whole story was truly bizarre. The guy attacked Paul for cutting his own grass too short.

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Terry's avatar

Well … As I understood it at the time, the neighbor kicked the crap outta Rand because Rand kept cutting his grass, then dumping it onto the neighbors property. And continued to do so when asked to stop. And of course, Rand Paul being the loser in the scrap, called the police to have his neighbor, also a doctor, arrested.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

Some might say the linked story must be true, as they can't post anything on the internet that isn't true. I say decide for yourself, tho the story does seem plausible.

https://web.archive.org/web/20171120165012/https://www.gq.com/story/inside-rand-pauls-neighborhood-fight

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Terry's avatar

I’m fully on board with what you say, it just, well, them pesky property lines.

In any event, IMO, and IMO only, Rand Paul is an elitist who couldn’t care less about me, and I less about him. It’s just when someone kicks the shit outta me, it’s never headlines, or any lines at all.

The cost of being famous, or un-famous, as is my case …

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/prosecutors-reveal-why-rand-paul-was-attacked-neighbor-n839366

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Rand Paul is the weakest form of support anyone could avoid asking for. He just loves to be a contrarian.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

The Libertarian Contrarian. Whatta schmuck.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

Only because he is a rabid Libertarian. He doesn't believe the Government should collect any taxes at all. It should all be 'business' which collects user fees. As usual, there is nothing noble here.

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Mary Hall's avatar

Warren Buffet said that the top 800 U.S. companies should pay their taxes and argued that if they did, no other person would have to pay federal taxes, including income or estate taxes or social security.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Him and most of these bullshitters who like to claim the mantle of being a Libertarian are full of it. If they truly believed in Libertarianism, why do they endorse the elimination of women's rights to biological sovereignty and LGBTQ+ rights? Those are perfect examples of gubmint getting into people's personal lives. Fucking hypocrites

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

Libertarians are conservatives who wanna smoke weed and get laid

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

Proving the "Even a broken clock is right twice a day" idiom

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Tully's avatar

I think McConnell was also, but only because Canada is refusing to buy or import Kentucky bourbon now. Hurts a lot of their rich brewery neighbors.

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Robert R's avatar

All the More for me ! Thanx cousins ! 🇨🇦I coming up soon I’ll bring you some . 🇺🇸👍ay ?

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George in Atlanta's avatar

I am sooooo confused by that. Rand Paul is the grownup in the room. WTF?

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Tully's avatar

Because Canada refuses now to import Kentucky bourbon. They had been one of the largest importers of it.

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M.T. Kelly's avatar

not one republican can be trusted.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Especially now. All of the anti MAGAs are gone and the rest are too chickenshit to end this madness.

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KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

They should be shitting bricks right now as they MUST know that a continuation of this madness jeopardizes their seat in the senate/house.

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Mary Hall's avatar

They're not worried because Eloon has the magic vote counting computer.

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Lynn Horsky's avatar

cancel Starlink during election cycles, charge Elon with bribery

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Don't forget. Paul is from that bastion of erudition and reality, Kentucky

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

That has been proven, MT.

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Jill Palethorpe's avatar

Where is the Joseph Welch of this bunch of spineless cowards? Where is their "Have you no decency, sir?' moment?

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MARY's avatar

It isn’t and won’t happen. We have to make another way out of this hellhole

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KMD's avatar

Certainly not my "concerned" Senator Susan Collins. She constantly misses her Margaret Chase Smith Moment.

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Merc's avatar

The GQP are a bunch of terrified Trump Eunuchs - they have abdicated their authority to the orange con man, and we have to help them out by throwing them out of office - forever. Over several decades they have proven they don't know how to manage an economy and just end up, destroying it with tax cuts and deregulation that create bubbles, pollution, financial meltdowns, and massive income and equality as they reward their wealthy donors

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Agree 100%. We cant let voters forget whats happened here. If these schmucks get elected again, America will be over. Hell, maybe we’re already done….but I cling to hope. If nothing else, to get through the day.

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Tully's avatar

People think rich business people (the GOP) know how to run a government if they run a business, but it doesn't work that way. They're in business for the profit, are autocratic by nature, and lie, steal, and cheat people (and their own taxes) to get there. It's all about them and what they can gain for themselves. Those in the GOP who haven't run a business or made a fortune are otherwise just mean little people who want to control others, i.e., Christian Nationalists. The decent Eisenhower style Republicans are long gone.

The type who can run a government efficiently are able to put up guardrails to protect societal norms and are people who understand the responsibility of a government that works for everyone. Gov. Pritzker of IL is an example and also is an exception to the billionaire business model type.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Yet, they get reelected over & over again

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Robert R's avatar

GENTLEMEN , We must protect our phony baloney jobs ! That should be carved into the lintel over the main entrance of the R.N.C. What a pack of cowardly , hypocritical,traitorous, fucken worms !

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Itsy Bitsy Spider's avatar

There is no hero! They already confirmed all his moronic nominees for cabinet positions. Hero? Hero? That fucking ship has sailed!!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I know… it was a rhetorical question… :(

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Itsy Bitsy Spider's avatar

I lost my head when I saw the word hero. My lid blew off🤯 and there was no brains left!

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Steve Kelly's avatar

We're going to have to convince a few good dems to wear fake GOP badges and run under pseudonyms for republikkkan positions. Once won, they'll be able to convert back and fix the bloody Shithole Country that Amerikkka has become. Gretchen Whitmer? Gavin Newsom? Al Franken? Cory Booker? Kamala Harris? Tim Walz? Hillary Clinton? Hell, Jen Psaki?> any one of them would be outstandingly better than the current disaster.

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Mark Marderosian's avatar

I’ve done a lot of research on the Triangle fire tragedy. I posted last month on my page how sadly ironic it was that DeSantis proposed letting children work day and night on the very 114th anniversary of that tragic failure and exploitation of those younger than 15.

These evil suits literally have no heart. No soul.

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Barbara Morgan's avatar

I loathe and despise Rhonda Santis. 😡✌🏻💙

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

But the go-go boots, Barbara, you have to love his bright white go-go boots!

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George in Atlanta's avatar

Down here, we say "that boy ain't RIGHT!". There's something going on with him... can't quite put my finger on it, though.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

🫣😱

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Liz and Max the No. 1 Cat's avatar

But they will tell you all day long about how "Christian" they are and how they just love Jesus. Then not pay attention to a word he said. Hell, some of them are actually starting to say out loud that Jesus is too "woke" and namby-pamby. Sometimes I wish I believed in that stuff just so that when these people actually come face to face with their God, he'd tell them to go to hell.

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KMD's avatar

Remember the old saying: "There's no love like Christian hate."

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Lorraine Parish's avatar

never heard it, love it

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skangirl's avatar

They love Jesus so much that they want to help children get to meet him sooner, whether by workplace accidents or preventable diseases.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

This time, I had “Evangelical Hypocrisy” on my Bingo card, Liz and Max and #1 Cat.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

The Triangle fire was a tragedy for Republicans because a terrible thing resulted from it, the anathema of the labor movement. Workers' rights. How Bernie Sanders!

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Polly Sears's avatar

Wonder how they will feel, when their children are sent to work. I know, it would never happen.

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Can’t we just pay off some pilot to drop that asshole — and his cabinet and team of advisors and enablers — on some remote island (perhaps one of the remote penguin inhabited islands — and let them go full Lord of the Flies? PPV that muthafuckah and pay off the national debt.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Totally unfair to the penguinos, Neal!

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Ole Anderson's avatar

The penguin Union will be up in flippers about this.

Penguinos Unidos don’t want no Maggats on their island!

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Polly Sears's avatar

I agree, just drop them in the water!!

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Polly Sears's avatar

Remember, he didn't want to swim. Problem solved!

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Lois Henry's avatar

During the Vietnam war, comic book artist R Crumb had a rich white executive character dropped naked into the jungle. It turned out the only thing he was any use for without his money and position was to be yoked to a plow as a draft animal.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

We could use a good R. Crumb or an S. Clay Wilson Checkered Demon comic about now.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

We need George Carlin and Richard Pryor. God, how I miss them.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Right on the nose, Lois!

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Claudia Classon's avatar

Trump wouldn’t even be good for that! Useless and Stupid.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

That was Whiteman!

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Lois Henry's avatar

Yes!

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J.R.'s avatar

They have to take Moses Mike and JD with them.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

We wouldn't want to do that to the penguins. However, places like El Salvador or North Korea would work.

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Sköll's avatar

The Sargasso Sea would be ideal.

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Terry's avatar

How about casting them away on the Bikini Atoll, I read it's livable now.

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KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

"Ooh.....bikini!" They'll be expecting a certain type of paradise.

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Terry's avatar

So true, exactly how they would think! I’m betting not one of them knows what we did there.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Or just in the ocean

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HI2thDoc's avatar

If they're starving they may think that President Putinsbitch probably tastes like Big Macs and KFC

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Steve Kelly's avatar

Perhaps we could have them dropped off at North Sentinel Island?

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Koko in AZ's avatar

A military parade??? He has just put the candle on the cake of his dictator status.

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DuduLovesBubu's avatar

Hopefully we'll see look at the tank turning its turret to salute you sir!

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Tess's avatar

“Leave a comment” my screen says……..WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING TO OUR COUNTRY! There it is.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

👏👏👏👏👏 The question of the year. JFC!! 🤦‍♀️

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Robert R's avatar

A Prince who’s character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant,

Is Unfit be the ruler of a free people !🇺🇸

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J.R.'s avatar

President Screwloose has dementia and malignant narcissism. He loves to watch people lose money and relishes in others’ pain. Hell, this is the same fool who enjoys watching people in Yemen die.

And about those disgustingly wealthy guys, I say Fuck You for feeding President Screwloose. 🖕

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

HE'S A SADIST.

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J.R.'s avatar

Severe Sadism which comes with malignant narcissism.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Exactly

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Inflicting pain is job 1, Kristy.

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Dave Drell's avatar

And we’re stuck with this SCHMUCK for

46 more months? Something’s gotta give. Seriously- something

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shee-rah's avatar

He will devise a way to stay in power indefinitely. He feels it is his destiny.

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Abbi's avatar

And his dementia is worsening. Not long ago, he would have been able to let go of his golf and get back to grifting in the face of a press question. Not anymoe, obviously.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Draggin ' that right leg . . .

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

He practically had to be carried from Marine 1 to his golf cart on Thursday.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Plenty of grifting was going on over his four-day weekend

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Steve Kelly's avatar

Reagan, second term.

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Robert R's avatar

Everyone!! 🎶 Sing along ! 🎵 Great News ! Good times are here again ! 🎹🎼We all know the tune ! Sing ,Sing ! 🎵Second verse same as the first !🎵🎶I’m Lardass the 1’st I am Lardass the first I am , Lardass the 1’st I am I am ! 🎶I just fucked you all like whores, and now you’re my serfs ,for evermore 🎵I got elected by fraud and fools once more ,so now 🎶I’m going to dry fuck ya all for sure !🎶 I’m Lardass the 1’st I am , I am, I own the Courts du jour so now I’m gonna fuck you all some more !🎶 Lardass the first I am ,I am ! 🎵. Vermin’s Vomit’s circa 2025 🎶 Just a wee little ditty from our Glorious Leader. ‘ ILL ‘Douchebag ! Gracie’ my peon comrades Gracie ! 🎼

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shee-rah's avatar

Will Melanoma be the shadow president like Nancy was?

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Madeline B's avatar

a friend of mine is a hospice nurse and noticed Trump is rallying ...look up terminal lucidity ...there is no time line and yet she can see it . Very common with those w dementia. His withdrawing gives it away .

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Carl Selfe's avatar

There is conspiracy in the air. Trump dumped stock before the tariffs were defined. Pam Bondi continues to debase herself. She is complicit in Signalgate as a Signal user and too corrupt to recuse herself. Until we have the House, we cannot impeach. We will have job growth because of the CHIPS Act and the Infrastructure bill. But the jobs shipped overseas are not coming home. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/jobs-wont-come-back?r=3m1bs

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Dane Madsen's avatar

He did not sell shares; he registered the shares for sale, a SEC requirement for insiders/control people.

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Carl Selfe's avatar

You are correct.

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Mary Hall's avatar

Empty Greene sold her stocks according to this article -- https://crooksandliars.com/2025/04/marge-greene-moved-her-money-t-bills

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Ann Anderson's avatar

When the money guys are unhappy, that's the beginning of the end. The New Republic reports that Charles Koch and Leonard Leo are trying to quash the tariffs. They're suing via their front organization New Alliance for Civil Liberties (Rich Guys Who Hate Taxes), who have a patsy, excuse me, plaintiff, a stationery store that the tariffs will bankrupt.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Koch and Leo…. two of the most evil assholes on this planet. And dumb.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

They're at least partly responsible for the fix we're in.

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Pam Lynn's avatar

I do practice self care. My anger keeps me strong. Every day i tell myself how much i despise the orange turd, and i pray that another leopard will eat his face. Then i call my useless republican senators to tell them to stop being such cowards and do their job to defend our Constitution.

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Mary Ballard's avatar

Oh, goody, the blob wants a parade. JFC, people, I agree with "Susan Speaks" below - is there a Republican out there with balls enough to do SOMETHING? Could we sew two Republicans together to get a set of balls?

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

No, Mary, there is NOT ONE Republicon that gives 2 shits about our democracy. Check the voter rolls. Not one.

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Darrell Smith's avatar

They threw rotten eggs and tomatoes at Hoover. I have an idea at what needs to head in Chump's direction.

Nutlick or whatever his name is should be first in line at the tiny screw factory. All of them seem to have many tiny screws that are loose. It must come with having so much money.

I live on (in Social Security) what I made on hourly jobs here in 1974. I don't have to drive a 30 mile round trip to work and back five, six, or seven days a week so I can make it.

Chump has swindled people out of money all of his life. How can anyone expect anything different from him today?

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Mary Hall's avatar

I think it was T💩p's niece Mary Trump who suggested throwing mashed potatoes at him because it would be a reminder of the humiliating time when her father dumped a bowl of mashed potatoes on his head at dinner when he was being a jerkhole.

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Polly Sears's avatar

Must have some ketsup on it!

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

We most certainly cannot, Darrell. If nothing else, the Bloated Yam of Scam is consistent.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Consistently Fucked Up!

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Kay-El's avatar

1. Yeah, fuck Bill Ackman, Jamie Dimon, etc. They endorsed Trump to begin with. As so many wealthy businessmen did. 🖕🏼🖕🏼

2. Bessent is right. I don’t look at my IRA day to day only because I can’t bear to see the loss. However, I do follow the Dow and because I’m not an idiot I know what that long drop downwards means. 🙄

3. Orange Fuckwit doesn’t know there’s no “I” in “us”

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Yep, so many super fucking rich Wall Street types went MAGA, apparently not turned off by him being a fucking fascist and a wannabe dictator. I hope all these guys lose all their money

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Michael Edick's avatar

He might have a low golf handicap, but his mental one is YUGE!

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Polly Sears's avatar

His handicap is Not low- another lie. With all the mulligans, kick ons, he would be lucky with a #200.

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Dawn Sweredoski's avatar

A military parade?!! I remember seeing Tiananmen Square on TV in 1989. The brave student and iconic photo of him standing in front of a line of tanks make me wonder if and when Trump wants a military parade—will there be protests to stop it? China imposed martial law, which drove the protests. I do not doubt for a minute that Trump would use any excuse to impose martial law to break up even nonviolent demonstrations ahead of a parade. Who will stop him?

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I have a t shirt depicting the student and the tank given me by a friend with friends from China. I wear it in May and June.

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Robert R's avatar

All in for a Military Parade !Yes ! When those beautiful 60 ton A 1 A tanks get to the reviewing platform for the 21 gun salute….. Aim all those beautiful ,wonderful barrels directly at the obese grotesque Piss Pot Dictator in the middle of all the floating subhuman shit surrounding his fat ugly ass ! 💥🔥 Problem Solved ! 💥🔥

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