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Declaring a state of emergency allows governments to issue contracts without bid and all other types of transparency workarounds.

Can’t wait to stare at the sun and witness the rapture later!!

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so it's a way for Sarah to shovel more money at her cronies. I should have guessed

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Yeah, bet she's throwing a $100,000 eclipse-watching party for her cronies!

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And placing a large order of Hee-Haw dresses for all her friends.

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Even Minnie Pearl looked better in her HeeHaw days than Shuckabee Sanders. I'm guessing she took fashion classes at Liberty University.

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Those glasses aren’t cheap!

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The epicenter of the New Jersey earthquake was located two miles from Trump's Bedminster Golf Course. That says two things: God is taking aim at D-F-F, and God's aim is a little bit off.

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Jeff, you are the best! So many laughs this morning. Your comment about Hucksterbee Sander’s outfit, “are you auditioning for a community theater production of Annie Get Your Gun?” Haha! Perfect!

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Sorry to say it, but her twisted face is pure malevolence.

Always has been.

Ditto for Greg “Let them drown” Abbott.

These people actually go to for-real churches !?! What a perversion of Christian ethics and values

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Scary thought

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Agreed--I came here to say it sounded like a grift

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Yep 100% like the $ 19,000 Lectern?

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In this state, you're not an adult until you have a criminal record.

But that's okay, because like half the state qualifies just based on their sexual habits.

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🐑🐑🐑

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🎼Only ,..EWE🎼

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🤣🤣🤣

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Dadddddy

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😂😂😂😂

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Griftarama!!

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That was to the sooper bowl; sanders and several of her closest ????

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That’s an invitation to price gouging.

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Thanks, I figured it was a grift somehow.

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Exactly! She’s no brainiac but she knows how to work the system.

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She learned from her dad; one of the best.

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Kinda like the orange blob!

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she helps give America the shameless and embarresing reputation it already has to those who observe us around the globe...its such a sickening fact. Bat sh*t America would be a very accurate description of us here in the U.S. thanks to this type of crap

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So true! I was embarrassed by W when I traveled for business in Europe but I can't imagine bearing it with Trump in office. Always feeling like you have to explain & apologize!

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Grift may be involved

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Aha!! Thanks Caroline

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Now it makes sense. No it doesn’t. But even worse that the emergency call for the Bat Man was that dress she had the guile to wear in public.

As for Alex Jones he should have a cell next to Trumps. He’s the epitome of filth, scum and stench from the bogs of hell

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There is a fable about the boy who cried wolf... Maybe she should revisit that story

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*Trump is a pump and dump specialist. Pump and dump (P&D) is a form of securities fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an owned stock through false and misleading positive statements (pump), in order to sell the cheaply purchased stock at a higher price (dump). Once the operators of the scheme "dump" (sell) their overvalued shares, the price falls and investors lose their money.

Pump and Dump is a perfect vehicle for trump since he has been using this model much to his advantage all his life. The very name of this “business approach”, Pump and Dump perfectly describes his persona and appears to have been coined with trump in mind. In the past this was the business model for his private ventures. Now that he is involved with public stock, that model is no longer as sound as he thinks. In the past he has been convicted of fraud, indicted four times in criminal cases, and is struggling to cover his bonds. Look forward to future legal action in this arena.

Michael Popok at MeidasTouch is a former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer. Popok argues that there are dozens of lawyers in Delaware who are right now searching for anyone who lost money on Truth Social stock, because there is a class action lawsuit coming that just writes itself. Crooked Hillary indeed. Projection at its finest.

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We love MeidasTouch! My YouTube time is primarily used to watch them. And I am REEEAALLY hoping that Michael finds a mega shit ton of plaintiffs for a civil lawsuit against king cheeto. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Truth Social is at best a meme stock, a perfect candidate for pump and dump. The stock's price has dropped like a stone and, given the fact that it is an immensely unprofitable business, may well keep dropping before Trump has a chance to unload it (assuming that some rich crony doesn't figure a way for him to avoid the lock-up), Like everything Trump touches, it will not fare well.

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I have also heard about the possible money laundering aspect that could be involved as well as the speculation that if trump is elected, tr would assume the roll of state tv, whew, that is frightening.

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Sure is! I'm spending this year in a state of extreme angst.

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if you are human, this year will be filled with angst, non humans will experience no feeling, and they don't really care either .........

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Alive and angst ridden in Tucson

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I think we all are!

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Oh it's not 'possible' it is real, the Russians lent the money through a cut-out bank used mostly by the porn industry, (which Russia is very big in) The main bank owner is a Russian Oligarch and couldn't fund it directly because they couldn't pass the smell test to do business legally in the states.

from the Guardian:

"Donald Trump’s social media company Trump Media managed to go public last week only after it had been kept afloat in 2022 by emergency loans provided in part by a Russian-American businessman under scrutiny in a federal insider-trading and money-laundering investigation.

The former US president stands to gain billions of dollars – his stake is currently valued at about $4bn – from the merger between Trump Media and Technology Group and the blank-check company Digital World Acquisition Corporation, which took the parent company of Truth Social public.

But Trump Media almost did not make it to the merger after regulators opened a securities investigation into the merger in 2021 and caused the company to burn through cash at an extraordinary rate as it waited to get the green light for its stock market debut.

The situation led Trump Media to take emergency loans, including from an entity called ES Family Trust, which opened an account with Paxum Bank, a small bank registered on the Caribbean island of Dominica that is best known for providing financial services to the porn industry.

Through leaked documents, the Guardian has learned that ES Family Trust operated like a shell company for a Russian-American businessman named Anton Postolnikov, who co-owns Paxum Bank and has been a subject of a years-long joint federal criminal investigation by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) into the Trump Media merger.

The existence of the trust has previously been reported by the Guardian and the Washington Post. However, who controlled the account, how the trust was connected to Paxum Bank, and how the money had been funneled through the trust to Trump Media was unknown.

The new details about the trust are drawn from documents including: Paxum Bank records showing Postolnikov having access to the trust’s account, the papers that created the trust showing as its settlor a lawyer in St Petersburg, Russia, and three years of the trust’s financial transactions.

The concern surrounding the loans to Trump Media is that ES Family Trust may have been used to complete a transaction that Paxum itself could not.

Paxum Bank does not offer loans in the US as it lacks a US banking license and is not regulated by the FDIC. Postolnikov appears to have used the trust to loan money to help save Trump Media – and the Truth Social platform – because his bank itself could not furnish the loan.

Postolnikov, the nephew of Aleksandr Smirnov, an ally of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has not been charged with a crime. In response to an email to Postolnikov seeking comment, a lawyer in Dominica representing Paxum Bank warned of legal action for reporting the contents of the leaked documents."

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Thanks so much for the fleshed out guardian story. It is revolting we have to rely on a foreign paper to critically break down trumps antics. Disturbing puts it mildly.

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unfortunately they are one of the few that will tell the facts, newsweek just regurgitated their reporting.

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That certainly helps make sense of the Hanley character and the Knight Insurance angle. I maybe behind on the reveal but the last reporting was this company was under capitalized and therefore the bond would/could be rejected by NY courts.

Honestly, Trump so crooked it must take 2 guys and a giant corkscrew to get him dressed each day. Madrone!

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Ethereal Fairy Natalie, ty for the article. I had heard that too & that’s why I posted that the entire bond for NYS & the IPO for Truth Social reeks!!! How are the SEC & other regulatory agencies letting this happen??

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That is an excellent question.

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Indeed!

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The Trump Laundromats-well known. Excellent reporting by Craig Unger. I read, "House of Trump, House of Putin around the 1st year of Trump in office. What nightmares I had with that book, yikes. Honestly, that this grifter wasn't put down the day he left the Whitehouse... and now like mildew and fungus has grown back again. Sheesh, thanks Mr. Garland.

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A big DITTO.

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Absolutely. The international crime syndicate has infiltrated our government through DJT & the Republican Party. Everyone in the syndicate is out to make as much money as they can for themselves

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Including from Russian backers...

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I believe that Hanley guy is Trump's "daddy" now. He has been juicing him up and paying his debts for the year or two, not just his bond money.

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Barry Dillers take was hilarious.

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Thanks Kristy, Saw the clip from squawk box a few days back, Gamestop! poor joe Kiernan loves dump so much, always good to see him squirm and make excuses for dump.

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god knows I've tried, but somehow I always got in on the pump and missed the dump. I just invest in Abbott Labs and Coca Cola these days...

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GE has been kicking butt lately. Just got a very nice dividend from them.

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I wish the hubs and I had funds to invest. Both of us grew up with parents that either didn't know the value of a dollar (his parents. His mom was very high maintenance) or never taught us the value of it (both of our parents). Now we are disabled and can barely pay our bills with the money from disability. I would get into how we both totally screwed up our financial futures when we were younger, but this is not the time or place.

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My parents weren't reckless, but they didn't have enough money to invest, either. And my very successful grandfather came through the depression with a profound fear of the market and never invested, either. I was self-taught and did well, and I made sure my children and grandchildren understand the value of investing early and often in solid, dividend-paying companies.

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Compound Interest. Best to let it work for you than against you, no doubt! Unfortunately, people are victimized by say credit cards or like the housing/banking crisis, bad mortgages. Meanwhile, the really ambitious thieves like Mnunchin and the "private equity types fucks everybody over, through vulture capitalism.

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The poor, those who can least afford it, are victimized by overdraft fees, high interest rates on credit cards, & shady car loan owners, like Hankey

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Donna, I really wish you and your family the best. I am sure this entire community is with you and you are in my prayers for better days ahead.

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Thank you Hoyt and @RV maxima. ❤️🤗

BTW Hoyt, our Nephew shares that name with you except we all call him Junior. He's from Alabama and married my SIL's daughter. That young man used to work on jet engines at Boeing down there with his dad (Hoyt Sr.) who taught him what he knew and now he's here building diesel trucks from the ground up not having ever worked on a diesel engine before or going to school for any type of mechanics.

Smart as a whip and he is the only person around here that can do what he does. Talk about job security.

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Always great to hear about other Hoyts. We are few and far between. Thanks.😊

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There are ways to learn besides sitting in a classroom and reading or applying a text book. I am very happy for your family that they can apply their natural talents and skills.

Myself, double major in Chemistry & Fine Art which you do not see often. I paid my way through school from the kitchen ( including working the Miss. River on rowboat, go figure). But waiting tables and doing a small catering operation. As a society we all matter and there not this army of "elites" that Trump cultists keep bloviating about. There are simply people picking There way to where they want to be.

For those worried about elite they can look to Republicans as easily ( not that they do) to Democrats. Thanks for sharing a great story!

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Thanks for saying what we all are thinking and wishing as well!

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Best advice: stay away from meme stocks and stick to solid, dividend-paying companies.

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I just got into US Bank too.

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I hope not in the vault! Heehee

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Everything about Truth Social & the bond underwritten for the State of NY stinks to high heaven! Why haven’t Democrats or the DOJ opened an investigation? Russians everywhere in the Hankey scheme

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never been in a flood, but it is beginning to feel like water water everywhere and we all are going to die, horrible thought but sometimes you have to go there to scare yourself back to sanity

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The first major hurdle, will be to explain to the naifs who bought a con man's stock willingly, that they have been suckers.

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I see a book and maybe a movie here. Cant imagine the onslaught of both in years to come. 4,500 books written about him in first year in office. Could not find an update number but easily over ten thousand books have been written about this man. nauseating to think.

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Well, first he came for their vote and now their wallets. Trump the "confidence man"! Will they ever wake-up?

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About time! There are probably a lot of things people could file a class action lawsuit for, including every USA citizen for him selling our secrets. Oh, if Cannon acquits him, he cannot be tried again for the same crime. Perhaps we need to get the class action lawsuit in first.

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Dear Sarah: since you emerged on the global scene, you have dressed like a 12-year-old girl. I have mentioned this many times in various forums (or fora, in case my Latin teacher in heaven is watching). And yet you continue to do so. Which leads me to ask…after so many years in the public eye, have you at long last failed to acquire at least one gay friend to advise you?

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She wears curtains and slipcovers.

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As in shabby chic?

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🤣 🤣 🤣

My step-dad needs a gay friend now that my mom is not well. He never had a sense of fashion or matching. I always believed (and still do) that he was from another planet. If you knew or saw him, you would understand why. 😆

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time to call queer eye

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I seriously considered that after I saw him on the news a few years ago being interviewed. When my mom brought him home to meet us in the 70's, I shit you not, he was wearing stripes, solids, plaid, and polka dots. He also used to buy clip-on neck ties, take them off of the clip and make mini neck ties.

He's also legally blind and deaf so he had hearing aids in both ears and glasses thicker than the bottom of a pop bottle. Definitely from another planet. 👽👾

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He dressed like some college professors I had back in the 70's

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😎😎

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😂😂😂🙌

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😂🤣😂 that’s fucking brilliant Gini!!

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The best! TY for that laugh!

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😆😆😆

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*Here’s hoping Donad the Gonad will gaze adoringly for way too long at his image in the eclipse of the sun today. Also hoping that in so doing he will turn into a pillar of salt. If this wishful thinking is asking too much, just give his face the pumpkin pie effect so that he can cease using that cheap makeup he depletes before completing the edges. Thank you, Sun God.

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The only drawback to him being completely blinded by the eclipse is that he won't be able to see his magats mocking his disability. Hopefully, melanoma will come out of seclusion to describe the scene to him.

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Could explain a few things when dipshit Don stared at the eclipse without those special glasses the last time around. That along with the rodents chewing on what's left of those very shorted out wires upstairs has shown what happens when you don't heed the warning.

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I’m ok with religious kooks getting raptured. As a favorite reel says, we can then move forward as a species.

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O , wouldn’t that be loverly

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One religious nut with a racist under each arm! Yeah, that could work!

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I love how we pretend that society has progressed since the dark ages.

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technology is linear. sociology is circular...

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And religious based ignorance is the constant

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The main purposes of most religions are:

To collect money.

To control their members through fear.

To indoctrinate their children before they reach the age of reason (grooming?).

To intimidate or kill those who are not members.

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And to use and abuse little girls and boys.

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I'm starting to think that was truly the beginnings of the abrahamic ones: so old men could justify sexual domination of teenage (or preteen in the case of Mohammed) girls.

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Jeff it is rather hilarious that 3 Toed Madge goes on about this idea of repent considering the fact she allowed men, not her husband, to spread their seed while she was married… And now she plays with the trouser snake with some guy reporter on some MAGA TV network.. So Madge, let’s have a serious talk about repentance…. 🤮🤮🤮

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I think the fact that the epicenter of the East Coast earthquake was at Bedminster. That's definitely a sign and not a good one.

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Remember the Fox guest that read the tarot cards, regarding dump?

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I can honestly say that I have never watched Fox News. Even when they were considered a reliable news source.

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To add to that coke-head, testosterone alcoholic about the earthquake, a friend said it was Bobby and John Kennedy rolling over in their graves. Her boyfriend was still drunk when he made this video. Bloated booze face. Huckleberry is a product of too many cousins marrying in that family of grifters. They are best friends with the Dugger Family. Anybody ever see the video of a white guy holding up a BLM sign in Harrisburg, AK.? That's fucking Arkansas. Exception is Eureka Springs.

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Love Eureka Springs... I hope they maintain their individuality and keep the nuts out!

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I love it too. I read that the cronies are going after them. But, they're fighting back.

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Fayetteville is cool. College town.

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Hey...I saw JJ Gray and the Mo Fro in Fayetteville at Georges Majestic Lounge. Didnt get a flavor of the town, but I think whenever you have a college/academics in the area, it might offer a higher level of intellect!

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Blue dots in red oceans. Norman, Oklahoma is the same deal.

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I think I picked a terrible day to stop sniffing glue...that $100k will end up for Trump's lawyers...Jeebus is coming?? I'll put out some snacks...

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Jezuss is such a slacker, get off the couch , you lazy gamer, and prove us Atheists wrong. ! 😁

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👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

HERE! HERE!

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OMG that was Hilarious!!

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🤣 🤣 🤣

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I’m at a loss for words.. the illiterate Repuklicants don’t even have a minimum grasp of the English language. And MTGangreene is dumber than a fucking rock. Then Sarah Sanders who looks like a dude just like GazapchoGangreene. I hate bashing on a woman’s looks but fuck they are fugly and what makes it worse is they’re dumb as dirt. I’m just shaking my head that people actually listen to these imbeciles and they believe them!! That’s what’s so shocking.. They believe their dumbass speeches. Inbreeding at its best🙄

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I see you're on a roll today, Bedhead.

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You can’t fix stupid but this is Stupid’s inbred cousin..🥴

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You got that right.

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That's what happens when you crossbreed with sheep.

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You went and insulted Dirt. For shame!

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I did say sorry to the dirt before posting..😬

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Well I should hope so.

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Bee face looks like a heavy drinker. Hmm

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He’d have to be…..!

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His hair was done by helicopter blades. It was a near miss.

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Damnit! 🫰🏼

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😂😂😂

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That was my first thought. You would have to get drunk to do his job.

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You'd have to be a black-out alcoholic to want to bone Marge. I mean just listening to her nonsense would wilt the hardiest of boners. maybe he is deaf?

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OMG Natalie you gave me the best laugh of the day.

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Probably has to be blotto to get some off marge. I sure would have to be. She’s what my late husband called a two-bagger. She needs two bags on her head in case one falls off.

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Well THAT was hilarious! Huckleberry (oh, look my keyboard corrected Huckabee! )hahah…Anyway-what a sight for sore eyes and way to screw your state! Hasn’t any of these idiots attended AT LEAST an elementary school where we actually had science lessons and yes-the eclipse was in the units! I’m floored how many dumb people there are in power! Any three toes bf? Never heard of him—-but spewing forth bs is what she’s all about so I suppose they make a good pair. Your Bill Murray clip was awesome! Have a nice eclipse everyone…I think it will be cloudy in central Wisconsin but…it’s okay…I’ve seen eclipses before!! (with glasses!)hahahaha

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Who says Sarah’s a hayseed? Two words for the logic behind her emergency declaration: matching podiums 😄 Now that she knows the power of elegant furniture she’s gonna spend a little of that emergency fund on another lectern — maybe a mobile one so she can take her “own the libs anti-woke” show on the road.

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Maybe she'll have one made like the one Melissa McCarthy used on SNL when she parodied Sean Spicer. I can see that happening.

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There’s so much fuckery afoot in AR I realize not everyone noticed Podiumgate last summer. I wish I hadn’t … https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/sarah-huckabee-sanders-defends-podiumgate-after-unusual-19k/story?id=104263678

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It has been photographed only one time.

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/sep/26/photo-of-gov-sanders-19000-lectern/

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As attractive as her clothing choices.

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People that have the God disease should not be allowed in our government.

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I was a Mason long ago and let me tell you…if anyone thinks these guys “run the world” they are as delusional and stupid as a trumpanzee. In lodge meetings you usually have a coterie of “brothers” so old they fall asleep as soon as they sit down and start drooling on their lapels. The guys with long sticks stagger around making square corners and muttering memorized stuff while the Worshipful Master bangs his gavel and the poor guy behind the door bangs his sword on the door. It’s all well-meant but anachronistic and of a time that no longer exists. Noble principles and messages, but outdated.

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"Jesus. Fucking. Christ. On. A. Bicycle." (as my mother would say when as young'ns we'd do something unbelievably inane.)

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Or as Jeff said the other day, “Christ on a stale saltine.”

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Or as my other favorite pundit Charlie Pierce says, “Jesus Christ on a Peloton!”

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Jesus Christ on a missile in honor of today's solar eclipse.

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Hadn’t read that. Excellent evolution.

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Or as we heard later, under a Peloton.

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That one made me recall my Catholic Sundays when taking communion and Jesus would get stuck on the roof of my mouth. What are you supposed to do? No chewing!

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My Dad always said "Jesus H.Christ on a God damned crutch."

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Sounds like quite a guy.

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I'm surprised that ol' Stinkeye Sarah didn't try burning some LGBTQs at the stake to maybe avoid the judgment-rendering eclipse.

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I can remember the name of the movie that Mel Gibson produced about the Mayans, but they did human sacrifices to appease the angry sun god during a solar eclipse. I hope none of the MAGAts watched it.

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