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Ira Heller's avatar

I wake each morning and turn on the news hoping to hear that Trump had a massive heart attack or stroke overnight and died. Is thinking that a crime? No, but it is aspirational.

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Margaret's avatar

I don't want him to die. I want him to suffer, like he's made us suffer. A stroke so he can't talk would be ideal. I never thought I'd talk like this about another human. Sorry/not sorry.

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LORI  D's avatar

I totally understand that feeling. But I would rather not have to go to all that trouble, only to find him in some cushy situation, rallying his base from home confinement somewhere. I would get as much satisfaction if he was gone, seeing his enablers go to trial, his family getting their due for all their misdeeds, and the destruction of the entire party. I think trump is the glue holding them together in outrage. If he is gone, they have NOTHING. So let COVID take him, a heart attack, whatever. No matter what it is the fools will try to blame Biden for it but at least he'd be gone.

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Barb L's avatar

But also consider who is directing his every word and action. He's simply the window "dressing," mouthpiece. Behind this pos are the worst dregs of humanity: stone, bannon, miller, gorka and his idiot sons, nazi money and dubious dark money from nefarious countries.

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RV maxima's avatar

Good but not forgotten and then a martyr.

Not good elevating his status to untouchable.

Let him die after he is found guilty AND diminished.

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Alicia Norman's avatar

truth!

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Margaret's avatar

Right on, Lori & Barb.

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Forrest Grump's avatar

Poetic justice or just desserts? Hmmm. Can’t make up my mind.

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Don'tBlameTheDog's avatar

Maybe losing the use of his 'truthing' finger? Am I a bad person?

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Margaret's avatar

LOL. If you're a bad person then you're in good company!

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🌷IntheHalloftheMtnKing's avatar

I have a feeling his account will live on even when he's incapable of contributing to it.

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Don'tBlameTheDog's avatar

There is that. 🙄😳🤯🤢

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James Starr's avatar

Same !

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Sarah's avatar

My fantasy is letting him live a miserable life after he’s had a massive stroke where basically most of his body is disabled. He still can hear, see and understand what is happening without being able to move, speak or use his hands to type lies. He has to sit and watch himself get convicted for multiple crimes while the Democrats have a sweeping landslide in 2024, take over Congress and Senate and prevent ALL the motherfuckers involved in the insurrection from holding any office.

Gee, I guess I put more time into this than I realized! 🤔😁

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SPW's avatar

Don’t forget about having ‘Mr Nauta’ change his nasty diapers every hour. More poetic justice in my book.

As for why republicans want to kill people, they’ve made it pretty clear all along that if you aren’t WASP, you’re as good as dead. Those of us who remember what John Kennedy went through as a Catholic candidate, know that this shit has been going on even before that.

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Kathleen Thuman's avatar

The hate and fear of “the others” won’t die w trump-the taste for violence is entrenched in extreme right-wing politics. And the message is constantly being pounded in by Fox News and their competitors in the media.

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Babette's avatar

I approve of this message!

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Mindi H's avatar

Love it.

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Kerbo's avatar

👏👏👏

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Alicia Norman's avatar

Muuuuch better fantasy. Me like-y.

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Alexis Kelley's avatar

I dream of a reverse Rapture, where all the worst people just disappear – but they don’t rise to heaven, they descend to hell for all eternity.

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Kay-El's avatar

Speaking of rapture, this is the best video I saw yesterday. I can’t watch it enough: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cv_prbVAvMH/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Yes! It’s the best thing I’ve seen! Spot on! I can’t send it to my daughter though. She’s a strong believer-none of my business... she’s happy and doing well. But I’ll never get it ! 🤦‍♀️

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Sarah's avatar

Thank you for this priceless link!

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Kay-El's avatar

I just had to share the comedic wealth

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SPW's avatar

👍👍👍

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Alicia Norman's avatar

As an atheist, I applaud thee!

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Susan's avatar

Love that! I have a new dream!!

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Mindi H's avatar

Love it. I pray for trump every night... to leave the planet

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DR JAGC's avatar

Thank you for saying the out loud part.

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James Starr's avatar

if Trump and Defascist can alk about killing people on LIVE TV I think you're pretty safe here.

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Marcus Case's avatar

I have the same aspirational hope, but for me it isn't one overnight event, but one in which he has a massive MI while standing at a podium ranting and sweating, while being recorded on high resolution video, so it can be so shown on social and news media over and over with millions of views. I would subscribe to that and play it again and again.

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Lorraine Parish's avatar

everyone i know does this, i have no problem feeling like this. he drove us to it.

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Alicia Norman's avatar

My only issue is that the right would form a grand conspiracy out of it--Deep State blah blah blah--and likely go after and even kill Dems. They are certifiably insane.

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Michael Swartz's avatar

I think Yoda had the right wing industrial fear-rage complex summed up pretty well when he said, “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

The entire Republican Party can’t get enough hate. They manufacture it in bulk on every right-wing media source. It makes them a lot of money, too.

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OBS's avatar

I like this! But I always feel like Republicans start with the hate. Do they hate because they fear? Maybe so.. they fear losing THEIR rights/beliefs because they have no empathy for others' rights/ beliefs.

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Patris's avatar

OBS, I think they fear because other than knee-jerk affinity for their groupthink they have no idea who or what they are as individuals.

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Don'tBlameTheDog's avatar

White privilege be blind.

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Mindi H's avatar

How do they have so much time to hate? It’s a fucking full time job.

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Patris's avatar

To those people who might think pornography is depraved, this is what depravity is.

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Jeff, you have distilled the the GQP Party line this morning...kill or destroy anything or anyone that stands in your way. Typical authoritarian ideology which you can find in the writings of others such as Pinochet, Mao, Duerte, Orban, Mussolini, Putin or Stalin... yeah that same Stalin who a Russian Orthodox Priest sanctified with holy water on his statue the other day. Current authoritarians watch read and learn from other authoritarians, that’s how they roll, they want to destroy democracy ASAP... so fuck em and the horse they rode in on. Be well fellow travelers.

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DR JAGC's avatar

Let’s not forget the US helped install Pinochet

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Alicia Norman's avatar

Indeed, these people do not understand diplomacy. Diplomacy is for simps! No, it is kill, kill, die, die until I get my way. At heart, despots are spoiled, unruly children screaming "Mine, mine, mine!"

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Susan Sanders's avatar

And their cult followers are worse, now that they’ve been given permission. They want to kill women who get abortions and the doctors who provide them. Trans people and anyone who doesn’t fit into a neat box. Blacks and Jews. And basically, Democrats.

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Yoleen's avatar

Never hear any proposal to criminalize the men who impregnated the women. Not one. NOT ONE.

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SPW's avatar

Funny how that always fails to happen. I guess women are all about virgin births now. Turkey baster pregnancies-no men needed? This must be a thing these days.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

I just do not understand why the military doesn't send in the COE and tear that shit out. Abbott is clearly breaking the law and the COE has the legal right. People are dying fer chrissakes!

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William Burke's avatar

Those are federal waters. Violation of the Refuse Act. Where is the federal enforcement?

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Susan Keefer's avatar

I wrote on Twitter, when it was Twitter, that I thought that Greg Abbott should be prosecuted for maiming children with his razor wire. That really triggered the Texas MAGAts who responded by the dozens saying that the “illegals deserve to die” and even that I should be maimed because I attacked Abbott. Wtf is wrong with these ghoulish people?

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Don'tBlameTheDog's avatar

They are asylum seekers. Faux 'news' and the radio goon squad has been lying to them forever. They are not illegal.

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DR JAGC's avatar

I deactivated my account and deleted the app when Jeff posted we could no longer block sickos.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I think Dr Jagc means *on twitter,* not here.

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DR JAGC's avatar

Jeff I would NEVER block access to you!

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Rick Calegari's avatar

It's obvious that there's a lot wrong with these mislead and clueless people. They've always been here but the emergence of the tangerine turd gave them the green light to further this sick agenda. So disturbing to see how many of these asshole red hat lemmings still support the career criminal, his racist authoritarian policies with the multiple felonies not meaning a damn thing.

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Sharon DeBriere's avatar

I’m 73- from the love and peace generation that protested vehemently against the Vietnam War and for civil rights. I see what’s happening in our country and am afraid it was all for naught. Until state/national Congress, the Presidency and the Supreme Court cannot be bought, it will get increasingly worse. Citizens United was kill shot.

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Margaret's avatar

Me too, and I'm STILL protesting and marching. And donating to causes, and writing and calling and voting and all the things. Sometimes I feel like I'm wasting my time and $$$.

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Cynthia Turner's avatar

Maybe we protested together! My daughter turned out great and my grand kids are fun. Even my teens like to be around my husband and me! We did something right during peace and love!

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Margaret's avatar

We did protest together.We might not have been in the same place.

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DR JAGC's avatar

I can’t take it anymore. I honestly don’t want to share the planet with people who think this is okay. I don’t want to know people who think trump should be president ONCE let alone twice. And I just can’t stand to hear about him anymore. Sick of his horrid face. Sick of deathsantis too. Make it end. Please.

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Lorraine Parish's avatar

ditto. and msnbc has become the trump de satan show. it is all they can fucking

talk about.

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DR JAGC's avatar

And they KNOW they shouldn't give him more oxygen, yet they do. If they really wanted to 'save' democracy, they would focus on all the good Biden is doing, all the bullshit the repukes are doing and not show the photo or say the name of 'the other guy' but refer to him only in terms of his criminality. "In other news, a self-proclaimed billionaire is facing 91 felony counts in 4 indictments for stealing national secrets, obstructing justice, rape, and inciting a rebellion against the US government. He has also fomented lies about the election and caused physical harm to others with his lies." Done. We don't need to hear about him unless he is arrested for violating something. Just refer to his criminality - not his 'rallies' or 'news conferences'. FFS

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L P Inness's avatar

The trouble is, this rhetoric appeals to the 30-something percent of our fellow citizens who cheer the speakers on. They are not appalled by it like normal are, they fuck'n get off on it. The more the pubs disseminate this, whether in interviews or on social media, the higher their approval ratings climb. Defendant 1 has the about the highest approval ratings ever and leads the pack of contenders for president by double digits. Defeating him will not sway the sentiments of his sycophants and cult members.

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LORI  D's avatar

They love torture too. Separating families and locking people in cages, taking babies from nursing mothers, losing kids at the border and never finding them again. How about arresting people for leaving water in the desert, or for feeding homeless people many of whom are homeless due to the GOP's failed policies. Texas, cooking prisoners in un-airconditioned prison cells is another example. They have zero compassion for anyone who isn't them.

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Songgirl Kim's avatar

Republicans: the party of eugenics.

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Joleen’s Readings And Writings's avatar

They have always been on that road, haven’t they?

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Carol Jacobson's avatar

Every republican is a sick fuck and anyone who still supports them is just as sick. I have lost any speck of respect that I used to have for reasonable republicans. There aren’t any o them left.

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Joleen’s Readings And Writings's avatar

Pressing the “like” button on this just seems wrong. I’m disgusted by the information and the picture of f***ing saw blades! The first I heard of Skilsaw blades. I wonder how the company likes that promo. Thanks for the info but pressing the little “heart” did not feel right.

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OBS's avatar

I totally felt the same way! This was the first one I didn't throw a heart. But I try to remember that the topics Jeff writes about are pretty sad/crazy/stupid overall. But his writing deserves the ❤️

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Sharyn's avatar

I have never ever thought that the GOP was a rational group of people once Reagan and the Evangelicals took over. For supposedly religious people, they are blood thirsty and downright evil.

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Lesley Zimmermann's avatar

When self-hating Jew, Stephen Miller, came up with a plan to take children away from their immigrant parents, cruelty was the point. They never kept records of which child belonged to which parents so 2,000 children had little hope of seeing home again. Imagine fleeing violence, then finally reaching the “shining city on a hill,” only to have your kids - even BABIES - taken away. It’s unspeakable, the product of a twisted mind. The Trump Administration produced a whole bunch of Nazi-wannabes so if the 3rd Reich (or would it be the 4th Reich?) were to return, it could be fully staffed from the jump.

As I write this, I have the TV on, watching *Signs of a Psychopath* in which psychologists talk about mass murderers, rapists and - everybody’s perennial favorite - serial killers. (How’s THAT for irony?) It’s amazing how many of Trump’s henchmen could be the next Goebbels, Goering and Eichman. And with Trump’s slavish base, do you doubt that *kill the Jews* would not be an applause line?

I can only imagine the horror experienced by Holocaust survivors who witnessed Kristallnacht and know it CAN happen again; in fact, it’s happening now.

I’m signing off so I can hear the shrinks weigh on a about a woman who fed her victims to her pigs. (I can tell you all about pigs and bodies but I’m eating breakfast.)

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SPW's avatar

Yeah. Pigs aren’t choosy and they will eat anything!

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