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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

and of course there's always that one thing that happens while I'm in the middle of writing about it

"Rep. Dan Meuser blames DEI and the FBI investigating Trump for the attack in New Orleans"

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lergr2vf7s2c

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

and Mike Johnson, right now, is blaming the attack on SLEEPY BRANDON'S OPEN BORDERS

https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/DEVASqDg_eT?xmt=AQGzcvZc1EAslsoi3xKnU8T6lC6Mlu_UMbysJc9gl4ixJQ

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steve robertshaw's avatar

Jeff, by my quick math (let's see, 535 Congress people, 8 more Republican than Democrat, throw in 30+ Repub. governors...) there will probably be over 300 individual statements from lying Repub. politicians trickling out one by one. PLEASE, for the sake of your sanity, please don't feel any guilt about missing a few of these predictable-as-the-sunrise lies that follow any major news event. You do more than your fair share already!

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Teri's avatar

Steve, agreed! One report on the RW idiocy on one subject is enough for my overloaded brain. Sure. Drag Christmas into a terrorist or domestic terrorist attack. 😵‍💫

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Stephen Brady's avatar

It looks like their entire political goal is to get the most clicks. Doesn't matter what they say as long as people are following their constant blather. I think I would like to go for a 4 year sabbatical on Pluto.

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Cheri Collins's avatar

Can I come?

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Liz and Max the No. 1 Cat's avatar

I'd prefer a 4 year sabbatical on Risa. Too bad it doesn't really exist.

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un poco loco's avatar

My husband would like that a lot lol, and he could log in to work from there, I suppose. I can't -- state of TX requires that you be physically located in the state when you log in remotely -- but I'm barely hanging on until retirement anyway. And of course, we'd be traveling with cats and a dog or two.

Shit, I'd settle for Vulcan.

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Liz and Max the No. 1 Cat's avatar

Yeah, at least it's warm on Vulcan. It's 28 degrees where I am right now.

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un poco loco's avatar

yeah, Vulcan reminds me of Texas but with smarter people

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I'd go anywhere with a cat, but have to bring my current three, and Otis has to be by himself. He's elderly and doesn't care for young ones.

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DR Darke's avatar

My happiest day was my best friend telling me over Christmas she had stopped watching Corporate Media and put Shout! Factory's MST3K livestream on instead.

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Sooz Hall's avatar

Portugal has better climate!

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Dtss's avatar

I’m in.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Holey Mike Johnson oughta review his Commandments, especially that pesky one about bearing false witness

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Honestly, I don't think he knows them. My dad read them everyday.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

A guy like Johnson who is so outwardly proud of his supposed Christian piety not only should know them but by all that is right should try to live by them. Being a cruel, judgmental conservative and even worse, being a MAGA ass kisser are not compatible with his professed beliefs.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

He worships antichrist. Whatever Jesus taught, he does the opposite.

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Linda Weide's avatar

See my New Apostolic Reformation beliefs link above.

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Linda Weide's avatar

This is what Andra Watkins has to say about Christian Nationalists and how do deal with them.

https://open.substack.com/pub/andrawatkins/p/how-christian-nationalists-are-relationship?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Also, remember Mike Johnson with his Seven Mountain Madness, is a New Apostolic Reformer, so he believes in an End-of-Days view that has us conforming too.

https://open.substack.com/pub/andrawatkins/p/what-is-the-new-apostolic-reformation?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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un poco loco's avatar

He's got an app for that

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Sooz Hall's avatar

A typo. Not “professed” beliefs, but “professional” beliefs. Lies are ok with God if it’s for work.

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Linda Weide's avatar

We shall see what they say in a year about things happening. It will be like 1984 in their use of Doublespeak!

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Teri's avatar

"Obama's fault!"

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arne link's avatar

Or maybe Hilary's fault?

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Linda Weide's avatar

Or maybe Carter's fault, or Roosevelt's fault....

By then Russia, China and North Korea will be our allies and NATO countries will be the enemy.

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steve robertshaw's avatar

(To Linda's comment) "1984" revisionism : "Oceana was at war with Eurasia; therefore we have always been at war with Eurasia". Trump update : "I declare NATO is now our enemy; therefore NATO has always been our enemy".

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celeste k.'s avatar

Oh, I don't know. I'm looking for the boatload of them to implode before that happens.

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un poco loco's avatar

I'm fully expecting Jimmy Carter to be dragged into this just because some of the G-dumbass-P had to say some nice things about him because he died and they've never missed a chance to dump on Carter before now.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Orwell definitely had vision Linda, dubious that any of Trumps coterie have a clue of what lies ahead!!

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Carol Jacobson's avatar

Somehow it will still be Biden’s or Obama’s fault.

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Sooz Hall's avatar

Nah. It’ll be the uppity broads not manual those men happy…

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NEAL O'CONNOR's avatar

Let's fortify all of Texas' borders. We obviously cannot trust people of Texan descent nor can we allow them to rent these weapons of mass destruction! Texans want a holy war, a jihad!

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T L Mills's avatar

🤬🤯😡🤬🤯😡

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un poco loco's avatar

In this case, I think you could stick just with the stupidest of the stupid you've come across -- they're going to be reading off the same Dear Leader talking points anyway.

Fox News just HAD to get in the bit about truck having a history of "suspected trafficking" since they fucked up the first take so badly... never knew that a truck could be held culpable like this! Lock the fucker up!

(yes, I'm going to miss Biden a lot, too.)

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Marla's avatar

That line of thinking goes along with 'people don't kill people, guns kill people.'

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Doc Blase''s avatar

My guns are lazy; haven't done any killin' their whole lives. Just no ambition whatsoever, apparently.

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Bonnie Council's avatar

Me too....the missing Biden part. Actually what I'm going to miss the most is sanity. Will we ever see it again?

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Marycat2021's avatar

LOL so we can't open the borders to US citizens?

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Tad Huckabee's avatar

He is so useless. The facts don't matter anymore. I hope they public gets wise to this garbage.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

Sure of course the fucking idiots always blame Democrats!!

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Sharon Buchbinder, PhD's avatar

I think it's time to start playing Benny Hill music over some of these moronic statements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Apropos music, fer sure. Moronic and comically inaccurate statements and outright lies. But sadly effective with the large swath of Americans who feast on outrage and are uncaring whether it is true or not

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Morgan's avatar

The Repuklicants lemmings are not informed about anything they just parrot dear OrangeShitstain leader.. and they’ve got MoldyMuskRatBrain and his fugly eyesore SUVWTF is it car that was used to blow shit up.. the dude who did this served our country.. now we have to worry about the enemy within.. how many more of our service men and women who follow that Orange Ass will be willing to do this shit??

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un poco loco's avatar

You know, that could be highly effective -- in UK, when the right-wing was picking all the prime ministers, and getting worse and worse picks as they went, there was a guy protesting out on the street, playing the Benny Hill music through speakers, very loudly. It was hilarious.

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Laura Pizzicara's avatar

Pedagogical pedantry! Goodness gracious, replete with credentials. Gasp!

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

DEI. Really?

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T L Mills's avatar

Yeah...how the hell does idiot Rep Meuser figure that DEI had shit to do with any of this and whatever other random imbecilic notions he just pulled out of his arse.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Just pulling sh’t out of their ass

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HI2thDoc's avatar

As always

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

It's like the narrative pulling in immigratiin

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Marla's avatar

Dude in Las Vegas was white. Where's the DEI? How is that even a thing?

Unless he was talking about the doer in New Orleans. I'm old and easily confused.

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Tess's avatar

OMG!

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

"... it’s bad enough that ABC folded like a pack of cards in the face of Donny’s defamation suit against them. now we have to watch them kiss Dear Leader’s ass for the next four years."

No, Jeff, we don't have to watch ABC for the next 4 years. I abandoned them years ago as news lite. Totally worthless.

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Tad Huckabee's avatar

Brain power seems to be very limited in the u.s. house. What an idiot.

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Cheri Collins's avatar

WTAF? 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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Dtss's avatar
Jan 4Edited

You can’t make this shit up. Basically, you write the intro, “republican __________ blames ___________ for all the bad shit that befalls vonschitzenpanz. Own the libs! Own the libs! Marxist! Communist!! SOCIALISM!!!! OOHHH MY GOD THEY’RE COMING FOR THE BABIES!!! THEY’RE GONNA EAT THE BABIES!!!! BIDEN CRIME FAMILYRIGGEDELECTIONHUGOCHAVEZHUNTER’SLAPTOPCHRISTIANPERSECUTIONNEVERINTHEHISTORYOFTHEWOOORRRRLLLD!!!!!

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Charles Austin's avatar

WTF!!😡

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Lisa, both my husband and I (plus my dad) and I have had melanoma, and we never thought we were going to die. When the biopsy says cancer, then you can ask for surgery asap.

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Morgan's avatar

Yup been there and I remember hearing the diagnosis and then it was like I was in a very long tunnel.. didn’t hear a damn thing after they said cancer..I just went blank..

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I don't know. Does this explain Magas?

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Morgan's avatar

They don’t go blank.. they’re just very easily manipulated. They WANT to be “special” MAGA is a club and it’s the mentality of being special being better than everyone else.. that grabs them.. they think they’re superior in every single way to anyone else.. a whole new level of White or Right Nationalism.

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Kay-El's avatar

1. Nobody needs Kash, except a lonely jail cell

2. Someone better read that truck it’s rights or it might get off on a technicality.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Just like dear leader keeps getting off for everything. It's going to be extremely difficult going from an honest caring leader who's presidency has been based on facts to another term from the biggest, lying, horseshit shoveling asshole who continues to get assisted by the media. Whether it's old anus lips himself or the press and airwaves, honesty along with facts have gone by the wayside and the twisted GOP Congress supports this crap every step of the way.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Sad truth Rick, the fact that Trump was never brought to justice, when the FBI had investigations into his criminal activities since the 70’s including his Russian, Crossfire Hurricane investigation, spells his role as a C. I. Clearly!!

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Don’t forget his boosts from the corrupt Supreme Court

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Kay-El's avatar

💯

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arne link's avatar

I hope he doesn't last long...At least Jewish Doctor Vance is actually intelligent. It does hurt to say this, btw.

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Marla's avatar

Yeah, he has all the personality of dryer lint. Wrong person to head up a cult of personality, since he has none.

Will be interesting to see the clash of egos between Sissy SpaceX and Peter Thiel (who backs Vance) should Vance be elevated. Especially since neither one of them is US-born and thereby ineligible for POTUS.

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Kevin King's avatar

If it was a white truck, that right there IS a technicality. /s

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Lisa Tantillo's avatar

The truck's lawyers will use a whole bunch of delaying tactics until the Supreme Court grants all Tesla vehicles immunity.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

3. Kash will never be the equal of J. Edgar. I don't even think he knows who he is, otherwise he'd hang his head in shame for his lack of achievement.

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Kay-El's avatar

Hoover abused his power, did he not? I have to think any Trump nominee would not be far behind.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

He didn't just terrorize radicals, he terrorized members of the government, presidents. He was a no limits guy.

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Teri's avatar

In a dress.

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Kay-El's avatar

Yes, you are correct, he was an equal opportunity terrorizer

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Joan Eisenstodt's avatar

Does Kash have a background in cross-dressing? If not, he cannot be equal to J. Edgar.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Left with a smile Kay-EI!!

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂

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Linda Silfven's avatar

Oh yeah, it’s gonna be a great 4 years. They’ll have to do some twisty acrobatics to blame Democrats for all the coming shit when they’re the ones in charge. I just hope to god the Dems DO NOT think they have to rescue them. Let them fuck themselves.

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Brad Yazell's avatar

Many people are saying Matt Gaetz once rented that truck. I don't know if that's true. But many people are saying that.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Verrrry possible if the truck is less than 18 years old

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Cathy Carrozza's avatar

🤣🤣

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Cheryl Seybert's avatar

LOL!! OMG!!!😱

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Patricia Gomes's avatar

🎯🎯🎯😂

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Nicely done.

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Andrea's avatar

I'm shocked the MAGA cult hasn't tried to blame the exploding Cybertruck at the Trump flop house hotel in Vegas on Biden yet.

But it's still early.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Don't rule out that guy, Ben Ghazi. He's always up to something.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

How in the fucking fuck are these “news” outlets getting away with their blatant lies? And did any of these lying nut jobs address the fact that the crazy piece of shit was able to get his hands on the assault weapon he had in his vehicle? I am so sick of this shit. I will say one thing in defense of ABC. On both the local NY station and World News Tonight, they repeatedly reported that the murderer was an American born citizen. OK, I know it’s a low bar, and I’m done defending them now.

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

I’m in the Philadelphia news market, and the local news said he was a citizen and a former member of the Army. World News Tonight is one of the least biased outlets for news. David Muir and his co-hosts are always on top of the news and deliver it like the old valued news people did. Straight forward and honest.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

I agree!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

That bars underground Stephanie!!

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Yes, Patrick. It’s somewhere near the earth’’s core.

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Tess's avatar

Isn’t there one damn thing that can be done about this media bullshit we all have to (not really) listen to???? The idiots just keep hearing it and spewing it! What the hell happened to TRUTH? ARGH!!!!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Signed away in Telecommunications Act Tess! Prior communication talking heads were required to be regulated and licensed, not anymore!!

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Steve Kelly's avatar

Thank you Ronald Reagan.

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Tess's avatar

Yeah-too bad!

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Doc Blase''s avatar

The one thing I've done is to unsubscribe to Comcast cable and Sling, have covered my TV equipment to protect it from dust and don't watch it anymore.

I may uncover it in Fall 2026, we'll see.

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Mary Hall's avatar

The director at Fux News before every segment: "Lights, camera, fiction."

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

That's it! Fux News! Lights, camera, fiction. Keep those five words together every time you reference Fux News. Make them live it.

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Mary Hall's avatar

It's always fun to remind Fux News watchers that they had to pay nearly $800M to Dominion Voting Machines for lying about the stolen election.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

You are the star!!! We owe everything to you!!!!!!!!!

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Cassandra Here's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Ha! Nice!

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

The picture of the burning dumpster fire Tesla in front of the Trump Hotel is iconic. Sums up the start of 2025 perfectly.

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arne link's avatar

So true. It's basically a dumpster fire.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

So a ‘stealth car’ would it be for police radar?

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Sharon Buchbinder, PhD's avatar

As a Child of a Deaf Adult, I always pay attention to the sign language interpreters in these clips--and that poor guy--I don't know how he was able to understand much less share that gobble-dee gook!!!

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Is there a sign for "this is mostly all bullshit"?

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arne link's avatar

There is definitely a sign for "Bullshit".

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Good to know. A huge time saver in these strange days

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Sharon Buchbinder, PhD's avatar

Yes! lol

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Jenny Daly's avatar

I know only 3 or 4 signs in ASL , and still the interpreter made more sense than he did.

"like they stole Christmas"?????? oh that poor interpreter!

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Ole Anderson's avatar

I believe his meaning would have been more clear if he had said ‘as if they stole Christmas ‘ instead of like

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Donna's avatar

Facts? What are facts to the loose cannon, Fake Fox No News people and those that are dumb enough to believe their bull💩? These people are disgusting. Instead of mourning those that have died and wounded, they make it into something political. Just another reason to have zero respect for the Republican Party. 🤮

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T L Mills's avatar

Who has had any respect left for those thugs, zombies and goombahs? I haven't had any respect whatsoever for Republicans ever since Ronnie Raygun amiably lied his way into office. Until Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger stood up for Democracy and voluntarily trashed any potential political career they may have had under the "new" ReTrumplican regime. That did take some courage and grit, it must be said.

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Donna's avatar

As individuals I have respect for them and any other old Republican politician, but those people are rare. I was truly hoping more would come out before the election, but they are cowards.

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Robert R's avatar

My eternal question! How the fuck do these lowlife lying self promoting assholes look their children in the eye every friggen morning and not give a flying fuck what they’re teaching them ??

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HI2thDoc's avatar

My question as well. I can only conclude that they are soulless, money grubbing assholes.

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Charles Austin's avatar

Exactamundo!!

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Permian Extinction's avatar

Wait! Half right. Sporky is definitely a braying donkey. The proof is she actually looks like one whilst braying.

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T L Mills's avatar

To me, she looks exactly like a (braying) Neanderthal woman. Or a potato. On second thought, she is potato. On the whole, Neanderthals have been proven to be far smarter than Marge on her best day.

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Cathy Wray's avatar

Marge Neanderthal looks like a match for DeSantis...goddamn.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Would it be tremendous, let me go back, there was a guy that grew a potato the he said looked exactly like Nixon! You know now what my point will be I gotta grow some potatoes!

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Cheryl Seybert's avatar

LOL!!!! You’re right!

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Barbara Morgan's avatar

Us who are sane and have a working brain will all miss him✌🏻💙

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JOEL's avatar
Jan 2Edited

You can't fix stupid, but it is very easy to identify in those red hats.

Get ready for an unimaginable four year long SHIT SHOW.

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Cheryl Seybert's avatar

I’m going to need to up my meds to make it thru 4 more years of this horse shit !! 🙄😜🤦🏼‍♀️

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

No, I'm going to be taking a lot of long walks, starting with the inauguration speech.

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Jodi Richard's avatar

Long walks and runs in the woods with my dogs, every single fucking day for the next four years. And a lot of 🍄 microdosing.

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

There's been talk of a news blackout around January 20th, 100 hours worth, as a protest. That's assuming there is no crisis in putting in a Speaker of the House in time to certify the election.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I can handle that.

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Gerry Queenan's avatar

Gorgeous dogs!!

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Jodi Richard's avatar

Thank you! Obi-Wan on the left and Adaline on the right!

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Teri's avatar

I'm in! He'll lie, but pics & some media outlets will release viewership #s.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

You mean Fux News will be releasing fiction?

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Charles Austin's avatar

One of my New Year's resolutions is to call out this sort of bullshit. THE TRUTH FUCKING MATTERS! If you hear some yahoo spreading bullshit, get deep in their face! You can't reason with these people. That goes for media sanewashing also.

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shee-rah's avatar

Chocolate

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EFS's avatar

Fox News thinks everyone is an idiot. Can we at least try to prove them wrong?

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Steve Lang's avatar

but the voters already proved them right.

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EFS's avatar

I'm not suggesting we try to change the past. Unless you are including yourself in your comment, there are at least two of us who don't fit their analysis.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

They only need half the people to be idiots. They're not wrong.

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