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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

by the way, I got an email from Governor Newsom's office regarding yesterday's post. they say:

"GovPressOffice content is produced by a separate group of staffers. Camille Zapata is not involved in creating or managing any of the content you reference. She has no role."

so there you go. the lesson learned is that even I am not immune to seeing something on the internet and assuming it's true.

I've corrected yesterday's post.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Well, we all want to meet the hero behind a very successful and well played campaign. Ken "white bread" Martin, the DNC chair, could take a lesson. 🙄

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Stephen Brady's avatar

The DNC seems incapable of electing competent leadership. We endured years of the utterly useless (as in tits on a boarhog) Jaime Harrison only to replace him with Casper Milquetoast - Ken Martin… David Hogg spoke the truth and got his ass ousted. I’m going to channel most of my donations directly to campaigns this time.

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meryl selig's avatar

Never ever give to the DNC. Unless you like handing out money to people with zero fiscal responsibility because they live off donations. Plus do you want to support fossils and incompetents who should not be reelected? Support your fave candidates directly. Skip the useless middleman

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Susan Niemann's avatar

You're so right. Ken Martin is worthless. The Dems are screwing up their messaging (or lack thereof) big time.

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Maui Wahine's avatar

Agree send your political donations to David Hoggʻs group or Force Multiplier.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

For years I didn't contribute to any national Dem organizations. Recently, however, I've started contributing to DAGA (the Democratic Attorneys General Association) and DASS (the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State). They're based in the states, not "inside the Beltway," and know what's happening on the ground.

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GeorgeC's avatar

The Dinosaur Dems only want cowardly bozos like themselves. Otherwise they might experience actual leadership (and success).

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Patricia Williamson's avatar

I've been donating to campaigns for months now, not to the DNC.

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Mary Lou Williams's avatar

I agree and especially my daily mail of reminders I am a Democrat which is painful given the cost of printing and postage.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Almost Ditto! Not most. All!

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Karen Rockwell's avatar

There is a part of me that wonders if they don't want the name of the staffer who is creating this content made public.

The world can be a dangerous place for those who mock the current leadership.

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arne link's avatar

Bingo.

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KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

ICE might grab her.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

I voiced that concern yesterday. I think you're right, Karen.

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shee-rah's avatar

I thought the same thing. She would be a target of the crazies

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Alison Parker's avatar

I saw a LOT of people passing her name around (in a positive sense) regarding that account. Not sure who originally named her as the one behind it, but you weren't alone in assuming they were correct.

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Ive been called out before. But then one of our readers has also been visited by Homeland security, and Ive always suspected it was because they confused the "wrong wendy" for the writer of a publication. Means they will probably come and visit me eventually.

That said,

Tulsi Gabbard can kiss it.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/blood-in-the-water-twati-gabbards

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Michael Johnson's avatar

Good read. Thanks for the link.

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Jennifer's avatar

I think every single one of us, whenever we post anything anti-trump online, needs to do it in all caps and in the same style as MY GOVERNOR NEWSOM. SOME SAY HE'S THE BEST GOVERNOR, AND I AGREE, THEY COME UP TO ME, THEY, WITH TEARS IN THEIR EYES--MA'AM, MA'AM, WHERE DID YOUR GOVERNOR GET SUCH BIG BALLS AND I SAY WINDMILLS YOU KNOW, BIG BEAUTIFUL WINDMILLS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN SO MANY...AND I SAID WE'RE GOING TO BUILD BIG WINDMILLS THE LIKES YOU'VE NEVER SEEN AND BLOW MAGA RIGHT OFF THE MAPS WITH GAVIN CHRISTOPHER NEWSOM AT THE HELM AND MAKE AMERICA SANE AGAIN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

See? Wouldn't a million posts like that, flooding X and Threads drive them all out of their tiny little minds?

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Susan Niemann's avatar

😂😂😂

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AmericanHistoryGeek's avatar

“Right off the maps”!!!! Excellent idea👏🏼 I would donate for those wind mills!

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Irascible Ink's avatar

Therein lies the big difference between cult and notcult, crazy and notcrazy, dumbassblindstupid and NOT dumbassblindstupid: we can admit when we're wrong, correct our mistake, and move the fuck on on. It's one of the hardest but smartest things to learn, and clearly a fuckton of people never have. Thank you, Uncle Jeff, for proving just how easy it is to do. 👊

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Kimberly Sandwisch's avatar

Regardless of who wrote those texts, they were fantastic! But, I sure wouldn’t want my name splashed all over as the author/s as you end up being a lightening rod for all the crazies. Or government goons. Whoever! Death threats!? Yikes!

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JerryBier's avatar

Nothing is lost. Because of your error, I was able to find her "X" page and follow her. She seems nice...

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P123Sunny's avatar

Maybe they are protecting her as well… (wouldn’t blame them)

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2Cats2Furious's avatar

They didn’t tell you the names of those who are actually behind the account? As others have noted, it’s perhaps out of concern for their safety from RWNJs.

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Abigail Norling's avatar

Sucks to be human doesn't it! We ALL appreciate you being that and not some fucking inflexible know it ALL! Thanks Jeff!

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Cat Cafe's avatar

I think, also, whoever it is doesn't want to make a bright shiny target for themselves. Better to have the whole thing be anonymous anyway.

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Clare Dagata's avatar

That's pretty cool that Newsom follows you!

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Michael Rawlins's avatar

Shame on you Jeff. I hoped you went and sat on the naughty stairs and thought very seriously about what you done, so that you don't make the same mistake, "ever" again 😡😡😡

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BJ Zamora's avatar

But such a statement protects her from the expected MAGA meanboy attacks.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

fun fact: the 'removed' Biblical books that An Appalling Lunatic and her conspiratorial ilk say prove the existence of interdimensional beings are the books of Enoch and Jasher. needless to say, it's crazypants shit. you can google it if you care to go down that rabbit hole

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=The+Books+of+Enoch+and+Jasher.

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

Meaning, it's crazypants shit, and therefore completely unlike the other books of the Bible, which are measured, sane, and entirely credible.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

fair point

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SallyH's avatar

I saw a bumper sticker today: "The Bible: the original Fake News".

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Want!

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Cheryl from Maryland's avatar

You know John the Evangelist was tripping when he "wrote" the Book of Revelation.

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Lenni Nyberg's avatar

As I was when I read it ! Coincidence?…. I think not…

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Cheri Collins's avatar

🤣😂🤣

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Sharon Senkiew's avatar

I’m sitting here cackling😂

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Even the council members called it a "fever dream" and many did not want it included.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

It is not canonical in the Greek Orthodox Church.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Interesting, I did not know that.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Great sarcasm!

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Enoch is canonical in Ethiopia. I sometimes regret that it didn't make the western canon, because I'd love to see creationist fundamenalists defend the chapter on the Sun's motion: the Sun comes out every morning through one of twelve gates in the east, and goes out every evening through one of twelve gates in the west, to race underground back to the east gates. The different gates are for the twelve months because the Sun doesn't take the same path every month.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Haha, they inadvertently got the different path each month right

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Well, that has been noticed since the early Stone Age so they did have to account for it.

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

Ha! Good one!

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Lois Henry's avatar

😊😁 😄😆Will you be my friend?

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

I'd be honored.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Touché Ellis!

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Cheri Collins's avatar

🤣😂🤣

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meryl selig's avatar

Good one!

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Talking, burning bushes and reptiles giving dietary advice crazypants?

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HI2thDoc's avatar

So is she gonna introduce legislation to deport interdimensional beings now? Just how much is an interdimensional concentration camp gonna cost us?

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Lairbo's avatar

I, for one, look forward to the congressional hearings about how many interdimensional beings can dance on a pinhead.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

The conservatives will arbitrarily assign them the value of 3/5 of an angel

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

Those camps are invisible. They should be cheap to build.

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

And even cheaper for the up-keep. Who's going to know?

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Carol JLH's avatar

Ha! They're in the room with us now. Already built.

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Maggie&Lefty's avatar

It’ll make the Supply Side River reverse direction and empty the pockets of all the gazillionaires 🤣

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Guy's avatar

Sounds like another coupla hundred billions for Lee-oon.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Oh shit. Enoch and Jasher will now be the two most popular names for baby boys in Deep South red states.

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David Selditz's avatar

You know them boys (in those states formerly in rebellion) gotta give their chillin them biblical names.

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meryl selig's avatar

After Cletus

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Gayna's avatar

And Bubba

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Janet Amaral's avatar

True story: My great-grandfather was named Enoch. After his father. And from Missouri. Thankfully, my grandfather moved to California 100 years ago and no child since then had been named Enoch.

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

Name genes weaken after 100 years. Moving far away helps immensely. Sometimes its the reason for moving.......all that shame and stuff.

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steve robertshaw's avatar

Damn, but that's funny

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Joseph Luongo's avatar

Which is why I never go down a biblical rabbit hole. Aside from the multitude of gospels that were excluded, the stories are too fanciful. If the Romans ever discover a Jew who can change water into wine, do you really think they would have killed him? The would have chained him to the nearest valve leading into town.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

ever so much this^^^

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Greg Zimet's avatar

What about the other removed books? I am, of course, referring to the books of Dancer, Prancer, Comet, Vixen, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and, of course the most red book of all, Rudolf.

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Carol Jacobson's avatar

Good one. The Bible is a fairy tale, just like Santa, the Easter Bunny, The Tooth Fairy, the Switch Witch.

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Marla's avatar

‘Most red’ Hah! I see what you did there.

And I approve.

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

This is in my Wheelhouse Jeff, and the parts of the entire writing (of my thesis in major portions) starts here: https://thistleandmoss.com/p/christian-deconstruction-time-to

Enoch's examination is fun and entertaining (every movie about the War in Heaven between angels and demons comes from concepts in Enochs books -- both of them).

Let me tell you , reading the old hebrew to translate and understand them is NOT FUN.

(and I have a moderate to high degree of fluency).

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Lenni Nyberg's avatar

I’ll take your word for it.

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Guy's avatar

Awww...Goddammit Wendy! I read much of your link. Look, I'm too damned old to learn old Hebrew, but now I've gotta spend (some of) the rest of my days trying to understand the higher levels (I'm not going into the biblical reeds) of your post.

All I wanted to do was lay on a beach somewhere, and wash out with the tide. Thanks.

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

I’m always here. Feel free to ask. That series is about 36 parts long in total. The original postgrad thesis was 450,000 words.

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Guy's avatar

Oy.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Much respect to you, for your intellect and patience.

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Ginny Hall's avatar

I thought maybe she was referring to the Gnostic Gospels, which in a sense talk about "interdimensional beings," and are not included in the Bible. I was giving her too much credit. But "The Gnostic Gospels" by Elaine Pagels is really good if anyone is interested. I doubt Ms. Luna has read it.

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Koko in AZ's avatar

Didn't they sue Dan Brown for stealing from the Gnostic Gospels when writing the Da

Vinci Code? Or was that someone else?

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Ginny Hall's avatar

I didn't know about that. just looked it up. Some people accused him of plagiarizing, but it wasn't specifically about the Gnostic Gospels. He did reference them though, specifically the Book of Philip and the Book of Mary.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

He was plagiarizing Holy Blood, Holy Grail

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

I read that back in the 90's.

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Maria 🇮🇪's avatar

😳Rabbit hole indeed Jeff! Eh No Thanks. Enough KKKrazy in the world without gettin into that!

Ye’ve an Amazing mind! Ye remind me of my Daddy,he was So funny. Came up with sayings I’ve Never heard before,or since! He was damn funny too, telling a story. Take Care.💚

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Alison Parker's avatar

Luna sounds like the kind of person you try to slowly move away from at the bus stop.

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Dave Drell's avatar

lol- but what happens if it’s a crowded bus and she sits next to you( you being next to the window)? Then you be

f%#£ed!

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Teri Gelini's avatar

She lives in my county in Florida, luckily in the southern part as far as she could be.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

" interdimensional beings." Who is electing these lunatics? Anna Paulina and Markwayne should meet up. 😂😂 The insanity in America gets worse by the hour.

And yeah... leave Joe alone. FFS! 🤦‍♀️

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Stephen Brady's avatar

I used to tell my patients that after 80, you can have as much ice cream as you want!

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mary's avatar

dRumpy isn't 80 yet but word has it he has at least 2 scoops of ice cream along with dessert every night while his guests get a single scoop. Can someone please swap out his statin for a placebo? Please? Pretty please?

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Lois Henry's avatar

I’m limited to non- dairy ice cream but Ben & Jerry’s knocks it outta the park. I’m going to open a pint of Cherry Garcia right now and thank you very much.

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Gina's avatar

after 80 here, and ready to indulge...in everything...but...re ice cream, the sugar and dairy makes me feel funny and not in a good way, so (sob) I have to eat salad instead

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

At 73 I'm more addicted to salty / crunchy than ever before.

Masticating instead of murdering. 😉

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Stephen Brady's avatar

I quite understand. I am only 71, but I have lost my sweet tooth.

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Isaac Segal's avatar

Thank you. But I've been applying this advice for some time now.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

YES! I believe ice cream should be its own food group!

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Dotty Hopkins's avatar

No they might breed, God help us.

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Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

😂😂😂😂Good point!

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Lenni Nyberg's avatar

That’s a terrifying thought…

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Sharon Senkiew's avatar

For real- why did the ice cream shop share their security camera footage with Fox, ffs?

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Susan Niemann's avatar

GREAT question.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Yeah that sucks. They could get him assassinated, the fucks.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

I live in a 55+ community in deep-red Ocean County, NJ. Before our HOA meetings, the board has us stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance (which I find creepy and inappropriate for a private clubhouse). Lately I’ve been standing silently, right up until the end, where I shout out “Liberty and justice for all.” I know I’m no Colin Kaepernick, but it does make me feel better!

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

You are just fine but your HOA is in the cult and that story is creepy very creepy I couldn’t tolerate it I would probably be in jail right away.

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Wendymae's avatar

Now I'm wondering if one of the first orders of "business" in the new congressional session will be to take "justice for all" out of the pledge.

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zuzu's avatar

Metallica is gonna be pissed.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

We plunged Mohicans to the slag, for the unmined crates of the minerals, unto the Republicans, for vicious stands, one corporation, underground, invisible, with libertine adjustments for all.

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meryl selig's avatar

Brava!!!!!

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shee-rah's avatar

In school I always left out the “under god” part. I remember when that was added to the pledge.

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Rosemary Orlandi's avatar

I do too ! I remember even as a kid, not liking the change....

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Rbr's avatar

By the time I was in school, “under god” was already part of The Pledge. As an older adolescent, I began taking a deep breath during the “under god” portion, for that big finish “with liberty and justice for all”.

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Jane's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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arne link's avatar

My 55+ HOA does that. We're mixed red and very liberal. It's ok.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Really??? I thought we were the only community that did that. My liberal friends and I hate it!

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Mary Hall's avatar

Did you see T💩p staggering down the red carpet to meet his BFF? He looked like a malfunctioning Roomba. All that was missing was the "Yakity Sax" soundtrack.

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Lisa's avatar

The Dementia Shuffle.

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Lois Henry's avatar

Yeah, I shuffle a bit now because I’m really old but I’m also skinny so I don’t waddle.

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Lisa's avatar

Lois, there’s a cute shuffle and an evil shuffle. You’re on the cute side!

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

My grandmother had an adorable shuffle.

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Lois Henry's avatar

Aw, shucks ☺️. Thank you.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Me too ! I'm 5'3" & 100 lbs.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Waddle

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Chubs " waddle " my sister lost over 65 lbs, she no longer " waddles ".

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Cheryl from Maryland's avatar

His joints are shot (well, he is 79 years old). My husband had osteoarthritis in both knees until he had a knee replacement. His walk before surgery was similar to Trump's - the leg goes forward from the hip, not the knee, creating that rocking motion. Which I hope means Trump is taking lots of pain meds, which will do him in. Daily use of Advil creates kidney malfunction.

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Lois Henry's avatar

Also bleeding ulcers in the stomach and intestines and sometimes pancreatitis which is really painful. Speaking from experience.

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Dave Drell's avatar

I just hope it prevents him from golfing anymore- so we don’t have to deal with all that bullcrap.

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Cathy 98280's avatar

I’m hoping he’ll have a little golf cart accident - kinda like John Elways’ friend … (he died.)

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Cheryl,Wait a minute, wouldn’t that create actual heel bone spurs?

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HI2thDoc's avatar

He predicted he'd have 'em sixty years ago

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Mary Hall's avatar

But he never did have bone spurs. Everything about T💩p is fake. Everything.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Speed it up

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zuzu's avatar

If he’s on blood thinners, he can’t take anti-inflammatories.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

My joints are shot, hereditary & repetitive movements.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

I have the cure what are you waiting for get opioids take them until you die no bad side effects just dependence.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

I'm old, addiction or the death penalty aren't deterrents now

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

I'm sure that trump wouldn't lower himself to take a simple OTC anti-inflammatory, when he's got docs who would shoot corticosteroids into his aging joints.... since he wouldn't need to beg for insurance approval or have to go through weeks of physical therapy before any pharmaceutical treatment (like the rest of us).

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cablecargal's avatar

I said out loud, "Why is he staggering from one side of the red carpet to the other and back? Can't he walk a straight line?"

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Both literally and figuratively, no. He cannot

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shee-rah's avatar

Just think: If he was driving and got stopped by the highway patrol, and they asked him to walk in a straight line; he’d undoubtedly weave back and forth, and then he’d be arrested.

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meryl selig's avatar

Fake video

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arne link's avatar

Don't burst our bubble. We're having some well-deserved fun here.

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Teri Gelini's avatar

Looked like he had had one too many and needed a field sobriety test!🤣🤣🤣

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Swinging that right leg like a golf club.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Yes and on the golf course he actually uses it like that to get out of bunkers etc.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Our borscht-for-brains Idiot-in-Chief must be starving today. Putin ate his breakfast, lunch and dinner. You know it, I know it, Fox knows it, his staff knows it, the GOP knows it, Russian state media absolutely knows it. There's only one guy in the dark.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Lev Parnas swears Putin used a body double for his meeting with Trump and the more photos I study, the more it makes sense. Why would Putin take any risk whatsoever to meet with the broken-brained felon for a photo op that gave him everything he wanted?

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

I was thinking either Pooty was looking like he forgot to put his teeth in or we haven’t seen him for too long. I’m ready to buy body double and drumpf wouldn’t know, borscht brain is good.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

His " hair " was weird, tri - colored

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arne link's avatar

The replacement seemed way too perky and smiled too much. I stand with Lev. Why would Putin come over here? We could have had him killed. Maybe that's why Cankles McPedo was so low energy. He knew it was the fake Putin but he couldn't let on because that would make him look stupid. Again.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

IDK He got that walk of a martinet down.

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Teri Gelini's avatar

I thought he looked different but could not put my finger on it except mouth did not look right and he was shorter looking. Guess Lev is correct

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Putin's face was unusually animated during the press session and in his limo ride with Trump. He's famously expressionless and doesn't mug for the crowd.

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arne link's avatar

That's exactly what I thought. Putin is not a "pleaser" by nature.

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Teri Gelini's avatar

Does give one a pause if that was really him and that everything after he met with drumpf was ruched. He also refused to speak. Just shrugged his shoulders made a face and threw up his hands.

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arne link's avatar

That was also unlike the real Putin. He is usually stone faced and would not respond to a random question. Yes, I'm convinced that it was a fake and when Trrump realized it he couldn't let on because that would make him look stupid. Again.

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Teri Gelini's avatar

That makes perfect since

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

He was grinning like the cat that got the canary !

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Steve's avatar

You might recall Arte Johnson from Laugh In, dressed as a Nazi saying... "Very interesting."

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AmericanHistoryGeek's avatar

He did appear far more animated than we have seen Puttin act in the past. And much shorter. I think they sent the short double at 🍊🤡’s request, so he looked taller. Plus why would they risk having the real guy arrested for being on US soil? It was all an orchestrated distraction, which is why it was given a “10 out of 10” by the 🍊guy.

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Jeff, so embarrassed at that Alaska confab. Donald clapping like a trained seal, looking at Vlad with more emotion than he looks at his wife, talking like he’s defeated and looking like 5 day old milk left out in my AZ heat. Having an x KGB officer ride in our presidential limo? WTAF? Now our intelligence services are compelled to tear that limo apart to look for anything Vlad may have planted… i believe I speak for all Americans.. NPR reporting that sensitive government papers were left in a copy machine at a hotel in Anchorage… these are not serious people.. again…WTAF?

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Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

I posted the NPR story elsewhere, but so people reading this post don't have to look for it:

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind

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mary's avatar

Is there one - ONE -competent person in this administration? We are so f'ing vulnerable right now and for who knows how far into the future.

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Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

If there is they're hiding it well. They know their job is to kiss Trump's ass and destroy whatever agency or department to which they've been assigned.

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Dave Drell's avatar

I think the WH butler is still a good job

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shee-rah's avatar

Probably not. He has to help Dumbo get dressed in the morning, which includes changing his diaper.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Another " Wet wipes " lackey.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

No, they are hired for loyalty to Caligulump, not competence.

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Teri Gelini's avatar

Nope!

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rlritt's avatar

Why was their lunch canceled?

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Kathy's avatar

No way was Putin going to eat or drink anything due to his fear of being poisoned.

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Rbr's avatar

He could have created a distraction, then swapped plates with Trump. Unless Trump KNEW he would do that, and deliberately had his own food poisoned! But wait, what if Trump had been building up an immunity to the poison over the years, and BOTH meals were poisoned!?!? I think Putin made the right decision, and foiled Trump’s 20-dimensional chess mind. Or maybe it’s interdimensional chess!

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Wendymae's avatar

I know! The mad king wants to drive around for 3 hours (maybe offering his true love some McDonald's?)so no one gets to eat? But JFC the lack of security anywhere in this regime is staggering and terrifying.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Burnt steak & ketchup was on the menu.

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Crystal Hartley's avatar

FOP. Fear of Poisoning.

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shee-rah's avatar

Putin got what he wanted, so why stick around for lunch, having to make small talk with Donny?

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

Vlad doesn't like balsamic vinegar? Or maybe because the lunch was scheduled for 2 a.m. Moscow time, and he wasn't hungry?

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rlritt's avatar

I think he didnt want to spend anymore time with Trump.

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

uh... why would they use a public printer to begin with? Wouldn't that most likely mean they were also using the hotel wifi? Sounds like top notch national security to me 🙄

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Maybe leaving the classified (or not classified, if you ask this cadre of incompetents) documents in plain sight might have been an intentional opportunity for a take out attempt because, could they be that incompetent? Wait, I just answered my own question. Yes, they absolutely could be. For a moment there I thought a fifth column might be inside this corrupt regime. Nuh.

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Doc, I’ll wait for Donald to go to Moscow, inspect a potential dacha purchase and maybe tip over after a hearty Russian meal.🤡

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Would PEDOnald " strongly " consume a sausage ?

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Actually, your first thought here was my thought, Doc. Meeting places and itinerary? Possibly a way to tip someone off.

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Mark Slattery's avatar

Another failed attempt by Cankles McPedo to make people forget about the Epstein files.

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ynot1965's avatar

'Cankles McPedo' 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Gout Machine's avatar

he said on a scale of 1 to 10, ‘I give today a 10.’ so that’s the president grading what he thought of the meeting.”

Lighten up, man! Trump’s just giving himself high marks for the blowjob he gave Putin.

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Karlene Escriba's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Jane's avatar

😬😬😬

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meryl selig's avatar

That’s why Trump had him

Then the backseat of the vehicle…BJ

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Megan Ross's avatar

TRump is Putin's biTch and the BOTH need to be wiped off the face of this earth. The world of being much safer place without these two assholes in it. 😡

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Lisa's avatar

Where's a good mercenary when you need one. Like yesterday coulda been a BOGO.

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Cathy 98280's avatar

I’d happily donate to a Go Fund Me legal account.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Or to an Escape to a Non-Extradition Country account.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

The media cut away from Putin smoking a cigarette after the "meeting"

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Dave Drell's avatar

Throw Bibi in there too.

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Cathy 98280's avatar

And yet again, EVERY TIME HE’S BEEN AROUND PUTIN, trump looks like a whipped puppy.

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arne link's avatar

My God, he couldn't stop touching him. It was disgusting. Boy crush much?

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DJS's avatar

I think he uses that to gain power over someone. Also to size them up as a potential adversary.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

He's a bottom, who pretends to be a top. Putin is the Alpha, and could have him killed, not to mention he has kept Orangina afloat money-wise, when all the American banks cut him off in the 90's.

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meryl selig's avatar

We will have no relief until Trump is gone. Removed.

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arne link's avatar

Lord, hear our prayer!

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Megan Rothery's avatar

Absolutely disgusting Putin was on US soil! Call out everyone who is not screaming about it!

Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, and those in a committee that fits your topic. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly. We deserve better ❤️‍🩹🤍💙

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Sandy K.'s avatar

Thank you for this “Florida Rep. An Appalling Lunatic.”

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

she practically walked into it by being name Anna Paulina Luna. it's right there for the mocking

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meryl selig's avatar

A christened “Lunatic.”

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

She has changed her name and ethnicity several times. In college she was Jewish like her father. She's another George Santos lying about her past.

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Deb's avatar

Poor old fucker looks tuckered out after discovering that he is merely a puppet. Surely his medical gurus can give him an upper to allow his lies and schemes to be continued.

About the diversion of watching a private citizen enjoy a milkshake with a straw. Well, do our fellow American Foxhounds use their stupid paws to scoop the mess out of a cup ???

Or do they just shove their empty pie-holes into the cup and suck. They certainly suck overall.

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rlritt's avatar

It seems from the way Trump talks that he isn't all there. He probably shouldnt have met with a foreign leader.

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Deb's avatar

It is just ping pong balls inside that cranium. Hard to ad lib a press conference when you’ve got nothing

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meryl selig's avatar

Duh! A foreign leader!?! We are talking bout Vladimir Putin. He is no fool. He is a genius compared to the sack of stale shit in the WH. Putin may be evil to the core but he is no fool

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meryl selig's avatar

How about DeSantis scooping puddding with his fingers?

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Deb's avatar

So many many men still clinging to Neanderthal ideals

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Deb, I think waters just pours it on a table or floor and laps.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Yeah their obsessions are so weird.

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Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

Good grief. I’m on a plane bound for America. I might have to convince someone in the cockpit to turn it around.

I contemplated joining the passengers gathering to board a plane for Panama.

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

We're at war with Panama just like we're at war with every other country in the entire world. At least today. Could change in an hour though.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Dana, don’t go to Panama anybody I live in Costa Rica I know.

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Olderbutwiser's avatar

Tell us more about this, Douglas. I'm looking for a new country, & I need to learn everything I can!

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D Kitterman's avatar

Hmmm, Jesse Watters. You know every time I hear him blathering some irredeemably imbecilic crap, I recognize neurosis and anxiety in how he talks shit and talks over especially women and I instantly realize that he can't control himself on set much less his premature ejaculation issues elsewhere.

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