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It’s right out there…blatant as hell. The racism (and misogyny) in this country is beyond shameful. And so is the “journamolism”. 😂😂

And then Elon breaking into a Federal database? Is anyone gonna do anything about that…or is anyone who can just gonna go break in and break shit and steal what they can without retribution??? I’m beyond freaked out.

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Scared to death here. Could I please see some kind of LOUD leadership from our elected Dems?

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I wrote a sternly-worded email to Chuck Schumer.

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Both of us called our Senators and Reps Friday. Plan to call again Monday. They are destroying themselves by not loudly objecting over all of this, at the same time they are sending us fundraising emails. They may not have majority power, but they have voices. They are OUR voices. That is going to be my message Monday.

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Sorry I have been so overwhelmed with the shit that Trump and Musk have stirred in Germany I have been all involved in defeating a similarly horrid and cruel immigration bill and been at demonstrations. Yesterday there was one thrown together in my city that got 1000 people out, today there were 2 that got 7000 out, and next weekend, where one is planned, there are expected to be more than 10,000. This show of force and letter writing campaigns to CDU politicians made some scared and some ashamed to vote for the bill, and the public protest is cleaving the party. Many are now saying that even though they voted for CDU their whole lives they need to switch to SPD.

Throwing together fast demonstrations which have to be registered and get have numbers expected so that the proper ratio of police to people is there, although sometimes these numbers are bigger, and then more police have to come and watch the people peacefully protesting the flirt with fascism that CDU and FDP have been doing as they slaver for Musk money and endorsement on his X platform.

The advantage of big demonstrations is that the people not the politicians are covered in the media. There were also petitions and letter writing campaigns to appeal to German CDU parliamentarians to vote against the horrid immigration bill, and Angela Merkel, former leader of the CDU and Germany weighed in on shaming her fellow CDU members.

I agree that calling Senators and telling them you expect a press conference a day about whatever is going on in Congress, even if it is several members speaking. Take the attention from DT, and put it on complaining about him. Writing them about what you want them to do is important. Right now I feel like 90 percent of the Dem's job is to make public every thing that is going on.

Still, absent the government, We the People need to do what we need to do. Jeff can keep on writing his column of resistance.

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It never occurred to me until now that D may 'have something' on Schumer. Why else has he been so quiet and meek? On another note, when I heard the other day that E had gained access to Treasury's payment system, the prediction I made in Dec. might occur.....raiding pot o' gold?

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I had a WTF moment over this. Unless the Muskrat has a Federal Government employee badge and the proper clearance, he just committed a crime. But I guess we’re not prosecuting crimes anymore, unless they’re committed by democrats, or immigrants, or queers, or {insert disfavored minority here}.

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I was going to write my two senators about that. Musk has his people sleeping over in the OPM offices. They arenʻt allowed in there. No clearances. If I walked over to OPM they certainly wouldnʻt let me start monkeying around with the computer servers.

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Melon, wanting The US GOVT's checkbook? He is NOT the head of The Treasury. Not even a citizen, possibly here illegally. So have we seen our last SS/SSI/Veterans' benefit checks? $6 trillion dollars per year to pay America's bills.

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Unfortunately, "co-President Musk" became a citizen in 2002. However, that gives him no more right to this Gov't data than I have - it's not public info just for the asking.

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I hadn't heard that melon's stooges were successful in getting that info from Treasury. As of last night, Treasury head, after stooges placed him in Admin Leave, the man retired. Musk himself doesn't seem to have gone to Treasury -- he sent his underlings. JFC

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and do anything to underlings? Instant pardons.

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My prediction too. This is their real agenda, grab the money and turn garbage bitcoin and crypto into something not worthless.

I live in Mexico and may move more money down here before the dollar is worthless out of the US.

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Here it is:

‪@stuartpstevens.bsky.social

This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information.

This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System

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My jr senator, Schiff, went after Krazy Eyes Kash Patel.

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Since my Senator Schiff seems to be doing the right thing, I hope he doesn't take my not haranguing him as lack of interest. I'm busy begging my Dem representative to make more noise. But Musk's takeover -- WTF?

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And he did a fine job, as usual

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I’m so fvcking livid that the Dems are just rolling over.. get on board get a fvcking plan and carry it out to completion.. JFC can the Dems just unite together for once and get a damn plan implemented and work together instead of pointing fingers and sitting deaf dumb and incompetent?!?!! This is Drumpf’s plan of Mein Kampf!!

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Good. I am about to send him quick message: “What the fuck are you doing? Step down if you cannot find your fucking balls.”

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You'll be glad to know that Schumer voted against Burgum. Gillebrand voted for Burgum.

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So did Angela Alsobrooks.

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Same.

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👏👏👏👏👏

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Like THAT will help!

Schmuck Schumer is everything wrong with the NeoLiberal Democratic Party, right along with Notorious P-Lousy. They're both too busy taking bribes—er, "campaign contributions" from both voters and corporations, while engaging in insider trading because they refuse to make it illegal for members of Congress.

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Ha ha ha ha

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Useless sack of birdseed. Schumer checked out years ago

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Me, too. It is piling up too quickly & deeply, and I fear it’s already too late. That said, I always feel better when I’m doing something. AOC is on fire but of course the corporate Dems didn’t want her in leadership. However, she is leading. Indivisible has got a great piece up on their website with some to-dos and is meeting tomorrow evening. And Allison Gill has a daily “good trouble” to do.

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Susan the loud Democratic leadership we are all looking for is too busy approving the orange felon’s cabinet and administration picks!! Twenty five democratic senators voted for Doug Burgum as Interior Secretary!! They are aiding the orange felon to destroy our country! Are these senators delusional?

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I’m 78 years old and a Dem all my life. I felt good as I watched some amazing talent at the DNC. Not any more. These Democratic Trump enablers are making me wretch and the old pathetic weasels who grasp leadership threw away talent. I’ve lost all hope. I remind you I’m 78 and humiliated by these poor excuses for power hungry do nothing leadership.

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I’m livid about this too, Cathy!

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They probably didn't know who he was, so he seemed a safe pick.

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Burgum is Big Oil all the way. Kiss the Arctic Reserve goodbye. Biden did something that is going to hamstring them from drilling offshore for the foreseeable future , and in such a way that Fat Ass can’t rescind it. At least there’s that.

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The former governor of North Dakota?

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It’s disgusting!

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Yes.

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please ... they just quietly turned over the government and the citizenry to these maniacs and congratulated themselves as they did so on being the party that follows the rules (tho perhaps they're seething and saying the voters wanted this instead of us? have at it then)

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This absence of action has been going on for ever. I am beyond fed up.

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That is certainly the way I am feeling.

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Let me posit a question: Are the Dems mostly silent so the Repuglican voters can see clearly what their elected idiot is doing?

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No. They're just cowards.

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The Dems are dead... we never hear from Adam Schiff anymore except how he is so upbeat and ready to kick off the new year by working with out colleagues in Washington. That is not what we need to hear right now. So many issues are looming over us on so many levels... Marc Cuban? where are you? This is a disgrace.

I have to keep telling myself. Im not an American anymore. I live in the country of California. Quitting main stream Media 2 years ago has also helped.

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You hit the nail on the head.

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Agreed

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And felonious fuckface is now gutting the FBI of those agents who were involved in going after his fat guilty ass for 1/6. Where's the outrage from anyone in Congress? Are they just going to sit there and let the wannabe FAFO mob boss get away with this shit? Someone needs to step it up immediately before it's too late. Hate to think that it already is.

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It is worse than that, FAR worse. They are now seeking to purge all agents who were involved with the investigations and prosecutions of all the January 6th rioters.

Literally thousands of FBI agents are going to be fired if (when) Trump gets his way.

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Well, it was Friday night. "Friday Night Massacre?"

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Democratic leaders are shell shocked. Looking like a deer in the fucking headlights. Which blows my mind. The coup raiders wrote their mandate and showed it to the world. Christ on a cracker, now, it's a fucking surprise. The goddamn fucking Civil War has never ended. It's just been evolving in different phases. The Constitution is just something to wipe their fat asses with. A.L.E.C wants it to say one thing, "we own your fucking ass." Serfdom is their goal. This is a coup. What couldn't be completed on January 6th, will be completed now.

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┗(•ˇ_ˇ•)―→ BINGO!

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He intends to steal everything. Journamolism.😂😂😂😂

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Who also ran for president!

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We’re simply living in a banana republic Susan, Putin is delighted with his puppet, destroying America as he’s been working on for decades… wait another week and Merikka will be under his control!!

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Absolutely - the TRAITOR El Presidente is doing a great job per Put-It-In.

I won’t be happy until LDFF is swinging from a noose in front of the Capitol.

That’s what countries do to traitors.

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My partner is forced to enter a new password to his Medicaid account. So something happened there. WTAF??? These fucking entitled childish assholes all need to go the fuck away and leave governing to adults.

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𝔹𝔼𝕐𝕆ℕ𝔻 𝔽ℝ𝔼𝔸𝕂𝔼𝔻 𝕆𝕌𝕋 over here in California, Susan!

It turns out that any rich dolt can just walk in and do whatever the fuck they want at any time in our "system of laws" and nothing gets done about it. Even if any of you tell me, "well, there’s a court case coming," I’ll respond with a reminder of where all the court cases ended up the last time we tried this. He’s now the president and all the court cases are gone. He knows how to work the fucking courts. And cases take time. And once the treasury database is in the hands of one of the demon spawn of Satan, we have no recourse.

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America is going up in flames - for what little good it did I wrote to Josh Hawley my Christian Nationalist Senator. Arrrggghhh!!!

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Oh, poor Susan!

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🤷‍♀️

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Dana, we're in California. We can secede.

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The problem with this idea is we would have to have a military like Israel‘s IDF. We would be in constant war because everyone else would want what we have since we basically feed and fund this nation.

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It's true we feed and fund the United States. I would like to see us ally with Oregon and Washington (Cascadia) and British Columbia/Canada. Apparently some studies have already been done on this in Vancouver, British Columbia at a university there. The red states/South hate us and 11 of them have already seceded once. Why can't we? It was Lincoln's mistake to take the South back. Maybe we could offer them the equipment at the Air Force bases or tariff free imports from the California ports. California has already hit the 2030 climate standards. We will be carrying the red states for the rest of time if we can't get out. I'm sorry, I'm just so angry about the inability of most of the rest of the country to understand consequences. They will kill us if we stay, because they can't learn. The whole planet will die.

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ℂ𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕖𝕝𝕪 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝕪𝕠𝕦.

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I seriously doubt that

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If they mess with Social Security, they’re going to have a fight on their hands. We may be old, but we learned how to fight back a long time ago.

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Susan, are you or anyone else thinking about getting out of this fascist hell hole?

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Me? Yes, I am.

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Yes you. So am I.

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Two Susan’s in Exile! There’s a story here!

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Costa Rica or Canada? 🤔

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Canada or Portugal. 😂

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Wish I could, but fat chance at 82 years old.

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Where will you go? My fear is that, if the US crumbles, there will be a domino chain of falling democracies. The other side clearly has an effective playbook.

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I like Canada for the skiing and no language barrier.

I really hope that you’re wrong about the democracies.

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I really hope I am too. Have looked at both Canada and Portugal.

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Any preference?

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Probably prefer Canada, just because our three children would still be in the U.S.

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You’re not alone. We’ve already seen that anyone who tries to stop them will be out on their ass and possibly under criminal investigation.

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Or worse. They'll be doxxed, and urge the MAGA mob to descend. Bet on it. Why do you think the security details that have been guarding former officials (Milley, Bolton, Dr. Fauci, etc.) have been canceled?

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Me too 🤬😱

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Musk and his stooges have taken over the OPM. They don't have any right to be there. I've contacted my two Senators but have not heard back. Probably won't. My 1099R comes from that office and now I don't know if I can get it. I need it to pay my taxes.

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These big shooters are just that- big shooters. I sure wish I could have been in a university class with them and one that was graded strictly so I could have messed up the curve.

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The people being hired in the Trump administration look like they are from some kind of "Lebensborn" program out of Hitler's Germany, where they were bred to have blond hair and blue eyes, but nothing else mattered other than that the father was loyal to the administration and the girls they talked into this were willing to be breeders and sleep with who was picked for them, and give up the babies to be raised for the good of the state.

Now apparently the T administration is going in that direction. See what Jessica Valenti has to say about it in her Abortion Every Day Substack.

https://jessica.substack.com/p/trump-administration-memo-preferred

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Linda, thanks for sharing that… thats a great Substack. it’s Hitlers Germany all over again. JFC. 😡

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In so many ways Susan, in so many ways. I was at a demonstration today, and the word Nazi is used her to describe the AfD, Musk and those who voted for a racist immigration bill. There has been big mobilization and I have also signed petitions and written letters to politicians in the CDU asking them to not vote with their party on this bill. We were successful in this round but need to keep vigilant.

While Musk, Trump's right hand man openly signs that he is a Nazi, it is perhaps just a matter of time before Trump is signaling too. He is in other ways, by supporting programs like that, because Christian Nationalists can be compared to Nazis and they developed the Trump admins agenda through their organization The Heritage Foundation.

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Elmo has no legal standing to direct federal employees, or contractors. He can’t hire, or fire, or furlough them. He can’t threaten their jobs, or their salaries. He has lo legal standing to direct federal employees to spend money, or to stop them from spending money already approved by Congress. More importantly, unless he has a valid badge and the relevant clearance, he can’t even be in the fucking building.

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And yet.... In case we haven't realized it yet, "the rules" and "but that is against the law!" doesn't matter now.

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Totally agreed!

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Canadian here: While I groan and laugh at today's week in stupid, I am reminded that today is the day that the First Felon's tariffs hit my country, and my country will turn off that water faucet in retaliation.

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Isn't it just amazing that Donnie Convict thinks he can fuck Canada and still get the water from the Giant Faucet?

I just thought of what the Canadian should do. They should build a giant faucet of painted plywood in Banff National Park and invite the Giant Baby to press a button that turns it on. And then they should blow the faucet up while he's still on the platform. The video of his face will be a world historical document.

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Why the FUCK do we have a 7 year old running our country?

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You think he's as mature as a 7 year old? I see him as a "terrible two-year old"..... with Oppositional Defiant Disorder. He's even refusing to be potty trained ffs! He throws ketchup at the wall!

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The toddlers are running the daycare.

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INSANE RABID toddlers.

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Terrible what vaccines do to a child.

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🤣

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Why the fuck do we have 77 million people here who are totes cool with Project 2025 and having a seven-year-old in the White House?!

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Because.

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but we'd have to make special dispensation to allow his convicted ass into the country

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😂😂😂😂😂😂

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He's a very special boy...

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I like that.

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Mary we are trying everything to get the House and Senate to move their asses. I know we are the minority in both but there’s got to some damn thing.

Arggghh

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When the heavy rains and mudslides are happening is California you cucks probably won’t turn the faucet off either. And I won’t be able to get Dare cookies anymore. In all seriousness I love you Canadians and am disgusted at these tariffs as well as all the other outrageous actions rolling down on all of us in this, the dawn of a coup.

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🇨🇦🇲🇽😢😢😢 So sick over Convicted Felon's attacks toward our good neighbors. I hope this blows up in his face like his Hiring Freeze did when faced with huge resistance.

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oh if we COULD turn off the water, oil and car parts...but for the oil and car parts, perhaps letting the tariff thing play out might be a wake-up call for those non-woke fools

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😂😂😂

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I think trumpy is going to make an exception for Canadian oil imports. If those trumpers have to pay even 10 cents more per gallon to fill up their F 150 trucks they will scream.

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I hope the idiots don’t exclude the oil. Then perhaps these dumb fuck magats will revolt against the asshole who started this fucking landslide into hell.

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Posts are circulating that Trump wanted to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America to get around Biden's ban on drilling there. Just change the name! Brilliant. More of his Sharpie scribbled alt-reality map of the world.

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F150s are the baby trucks. Around here, it's F350s, black, with lots of giant bumpers, jacked up tires, and concealed carry decals. And this is Connecticut for shit's sake! 🤬

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Wow. In Connecticut?

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Yep. In the northeastern quarter. I preferred living in the northwestern part, but am now financially stuck out here in a trump town. 😔

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F 350s??!! So, 2-3 mpg? Had never heard of 350s before.

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And you do live in truck country!

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But it will take you all day to turn it, so Donny can at least get the reservoirs refilled!

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Does it take a whole day to turn it off?

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O Canada, please stop sending electricity south on Feb 9.

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Don't worry, if I have an opportunity to buy something Canadian, I will.

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I've been checking my eBay planned purchases from where sender mails from. Red state? NOPE.

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Excellent action!

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"doing something that makes them have value" WOW MOTHERFUCKER. I'm a middle-aged childfree-by-choice hag who doesn't ever want to be around children and even I think kids have "value" without becoming cogs in the capitalist machine. What, and I ask this in all sincerity, the FUCK is wrong with these people?

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Hear! Hear!!!

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also - it's not just teens who could work at McDonalds who need feeding - it's little ones. elementary school kids out there selling lemonade to finance their lunches?

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Some Rethuglicans think little kids should clean the toilets in their school for a meal. Fking assh0les.

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OMG, that is sick!!! Leave it to a goddamed republican.

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Newt Gingrich proposed that. Someone commented at the time "That load couldn't pick up a washcloth."

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Mothers are working at McD's to feed their children. The teens can't steal their jobs or the whole family will starve.

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This has been the works for decades Alison, and an excellent reason to find greener pastures!

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Not everyone can leave. I can't. I'm stuck here permanently. Anyone who is able to pick up and move should count themselves extremely fortunate and privileged.

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I'm with you, Alison - I can't leave either and have been terrified now since he was given the election. I wish I could get out of here, so that my heartrate might lower and I could get more sleep.

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Hey--my grandfather was born in Ireland and I am a bona-fide Irish citizen--got a passport and everything! Any chance I can get in line to be deported "back" to Ireland??? Where do I sign??? Hey--airfare ain't cheap....

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We are probably stuck here too, Alison. After 38 years of Navy service (and 24 moves) all our income and healthcare is from the government. I fear at some point, the US is going to stop paying ex-pats their benefits. What happens if Rump betrays the contract made with every military service member, past and present?

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I'm sure the maggots would say "tough luck--sucks to be you". Just wait until it impacts them, too! Trump sure won't care.

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That is one of our concerns, too, Carol. After all, aren’t we just losers and suckers?

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At this point I don't think anybody wants us to move to their country. We might declare war on them.

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I have said it before - we may have to dust off the guillotines to wrest control of our Country back from the Oligarchs, Plutarch's, Patriarchs... I could go on, but it would end up like that speech Harvey Korman gave in 'Blazing Saddles'.

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I’ve been saying that since Donny came down the escalator

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I have been advising people to read "A Tale of Two Cities" to get in the mood because this Rethuglican fascism sh!t has got to fking stop!

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We must all learn to knit....

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I love me some hags!!

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That thought - that a child has to earn an income to have value, was absolutely stunning. It’s a heartbreaking ‘tell’ of the sociopathic gang running our country now. That said, I’m pretty damn sure their precious offspring aren’t leaving their prestigious private schools after class to hustle to their jobs at the nearest McDonald’s.

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Former high school teacher here: kids DO have jobs—it’s called “getting an education”.

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Clearly Tuberville's parents substituted beatings for the missed opportunity of having an abortion.

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I’m going out on a limb thinking the belts Tommy openly admits to be the recipient of, were several closed fists to his melon as well!!

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Well, the strict father family has been linked to the authoritarian personality type.

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One could imagine Tommy Tubes' parents beat on the top of his tall head quite often. He is another RWNJ with an odd-shaped head.

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I think you mean ‘This Week in Evil Racist Ignorant Asshat Fuck Ups’ don’t you?

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Stupidity has its value (ref. Darwin Awards). It's self-eliminating. Unfortunately, the "collateral damage" to the public will be horrifying, like the helicopter collision. Last year BIden's FBI and DHS departments apprehended 44 confirmed terrorists individually at the Canadian border (under-reported by corporate media). Kash Patel and Kristi Noem will be pursuing Trump's domestic critics in the courts and media instead of safeguarding national security. So wait for it ...

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I knew this would be an unmitigated disaster. I just didn’t realize how quickly things would fall apart.

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Yeah, this has moved way past stupid.

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“One-man leper colony Steve Bannon”! 😂

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Puss-gut is flipping out over King Shitpants new Oligarchs. He's calling it "technofeudlism." He's in meltdown mode. While cheering for King Shitpants wrecking ball. Well, the stupid fucker can't have one without the other. He's not wrong about the technofeudalism. Capitalism is being replaced by feudalism. Capitalism encourages monopolies. Capitalism is a cluster fuck. Now, puss-gut is crying over it.

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Feudalism ended with the bubonic Plague. Who is going to pick the tomatoes? Repeat...

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Late night maga fight?

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Sounds like it. I guess he didn't the love he wanted from Shitpants. And these guys go to jail for him. 😏

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We are all used to the young (and old) caricature blond Ivanka stand-ins but it’s still disconcerting to have a repeat Stepford White House press “secretary” boldly claim she will be entirely truthful which immediately was followed by a string of lies.

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Anyone expecting anything other than a blonde haired lying klafte wasn’t paying attention Johanna!!

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Sadly true. Still, at 62 - I find it stunning to hear naked bald faced lies, spewed by leaders in the US govt, being so eagerly accepted, sane-washed, and regurgitated across the world.

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My despair grows daily. Where is our Democratic leadership??

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"Leadership" (Schumer, Durbin, Jeffries) are asleep at the switch as usual, but the actual leaders (Crockett, Frost, Duckworth, and AOC) are on it

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Leave it to the women and POC to get sh!t done.

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And watch the avalanche of shit that comes down on their heafs

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To paraphrase FDR, they'd be like "We welcome their avalanche of shit"

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Dem governors have made a bold difference. Resistance is getting organized.

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Good news: Gavin Newsom is my gov 🥰

Bad news: He's term-limited 😬

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Maybe Kamala will move back home and run for Governor. I would vote for her.

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He’ll probably run for President. He’ll have to clean up a LOT of shit and get rid of the fascists.

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"getting organized" - no foresight then?

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Of course not.

Brings to mind the Will Rogers quote: "I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."

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Call them albeit you won’t be able to get any Aides and if you get their voicemail it’s always full! So I started hitting his office in his district.

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That’s the most attention-getting strategy anyway. I admire you, Rhoda.

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Why thank you Carol C. That was kind of you. I appreciate you!

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Yes! It takes negligible effort to make a phone call or send an email, but showing up at their local office is a big deal and I believe has a much greater impact.

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I keep calling their Washington DC numbers. And keep calling.

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Call their local offices

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Perhaps afraid of being killed, as Stalin's detractors all were.

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1. At least Tommy Tubers admission of parental abuse explains a lot. His dad knocked whatever sense he had right out of his head.

2. The former priest got defrocked and now can’t be shielded from his chance to go to hell.

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To clarify, the Anglican Catholic Church is not the same church as Bishop Mariann Budde’s Anglican Church, which is Protestant Episcopal.

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I read some of this aloud to my husband and he said "you're getting angry again" and I said "I am angry and will be for four years."

So thank you, Jeff, because I laughed at "misshapen garden gnome" and " roasted ball-sack aficionado"...I think Charlie looks like the muppet Chip. Once you see it you can't unsee it.

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Were you evesdropping on my conversation with my husband Eva😘 Your response is what I would say. ALWAYS get a good LOL when reading Jeff's weekly recap written as only he can. As for Karoline Leavitt🤢INTENSE DISLIKE at first sight. Thanks Jeff for reporting on what she questioned we all do when flying. I heard her say that but couldn't believe my ears. I literally dropped a ton of f-bombs, screaming at the tv and calling her all the nasty names I could conjure up in my anger. It's going to be a long, long 4 years

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“roasted ball-sack aficionado Tucker Carlson”

I love you, JT!

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Now that is gross. The last thing I want to think about in the morning is fascist Carlson's nether appendage.

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'Probably would take a microscope and an Ouija Board to find them.

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And a flashlight.

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You know you're on the wrong side of things when your dumb ass essentially gets excommunicated by your church. As a practicing Christian, guys like the priest really piss me off. I have zero sympathy for that clown.

And can I say I love this encapsulation blog that amounts to "The Week in Bullshit: Tiedrich Edition"?

I've been promoting the hell out of you on my social media, Jeff. Keep it up. Legacy media is dead. We can't trust it. Here, among the independents like yourself, is where reality is to be found.

It's kind of liberating. I follow you, Bryan Tyler Cohen, Medias Touch, Dan Rather's Steady and - my sole mainstream exception - the brilliant Lawrence O'Donnell. I haven't watched NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC or any other legacy outlets for my news in almost two months and two things have happened as a consequence:

1) I'm better informed about what's actually going on and what the eventual impact will be

and

2) I'm actually encouraged, because I see others also paying attention to what these sources are saying and I see a vast, ever growing coalition of people coming together to resist. The fight for the soul of the country is on.

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D.S., my local NBC station (KCRA in Sacramento) has started fact-checking the Mango Maniac online in their news releases. I was thrilled to see it and sent them a thank you. I hope that they continue!

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Shhhhh! If "president" Felon gets wind of it, he'll have their broadcast license pulled.

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If you read the church's letter carefully you find he's has been fired from working for them—they have not taken away his priestly credentials. As a Christian, I feel grief daily too.

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Kathleen, I no longer can identify as a Christian. The cognitive dissonance was too much. I lost all faith. Now I’m an atheist and I must say it is somehow more comforting.

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Oh, I know..I used the term excommunicated facetiously. It just says something when your church publicly fires you for screwing up the message.

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Fake church

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Thank you, D.S., for using the very words that I struggle to articulate. Every word and perhaps a few more I swore I was giving up. Not easy though as I’ve read Jeff for several years and won’t ever give that up.

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I honestly don't know how you can pick just one or two things a day, Jeff, when we have this firehose of bullshit pinning us against a wall.

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So much stupid... so little time...

I have written two posts about beautiful resistance to trump that is developing, esp widespread resistance from government employees:

https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/please-dont-resign/comments

https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/our-first-big-win/comments

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Got an email from my Dem Senator warning his Virginia constituents not to resign. He called Trump a liar!

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Yay!! At least somebody is doing something. I thought they'd all fallen off the face of the Earth for a minute....

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That sounds like Kaine and not Warner

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It is Kaine. Here's the email:

"Folks, Donald Trump is out for our federal workforce.

"On Day One of his second term, he issued executive orders that order federal workers to return to the office in person five days a week and weaken job protections for civil servants.

"He revived a policy called “Schedule F” — now renamed “Schedule Policy/Career” — that is designed to replace long-serving public servants with MAGA loyalists, subjecting government workers to ideology tests in order to hold onto their jobs.

"Now, Trump has offered federal workers an alleged incentive to quit their jobs: eight months’ pay, if they hurry up and quit by next week.

"But let’s be clear about one thing: There is no budget line item in the U.S. government to pay people who aren’t showing up for work — so do not be fooled by this.

"Just like he has for decades in his organizations, I’m willing to bet that Trump will stiff our federal workers. We know Donald Trump — he’s tricked people with this kind of offer before, and we know he’ll do it again.

"If you’re a federal worker and you accept his offer and resign, he’ll stiff you just like he’s stiffed thousands of contractors in the past.

"The President has been trying to terrorize federal workers for the past week. Now, he’s handing out a sweetheart offer — if you resign in the next week, we’ll pay you for doing nothing! Do. Not. Be. Fooled.

"Aside from being a known grifter and liar, Trump doesn’t even have the authority to make this kind of offer."

Here's his petition. You don't have to donate to sign.

https://secure.ngpvan.com/uetDGmQEFUalmJOzSqXlGg2?

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He's my Senator and I got that email also. What I'm angry about is that he voted to confirm puppy killer bitch Noem. I sent an email about it and haven't heard back. He told us he was not going to vote to confirm her!

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And he voted for Burgum too! What is wrong with him???

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The Civil Service isn't going down without a fight!

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I hope you’re right. Isn’t there some kind of class action suit they can bring?

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There certainly are grounds.

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But they are! Resigning is obeying in advance

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Thank you, Kathleen. Excellent repost!

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Jeff, 2 quick hits. That 27 year old bottle bleach blond PR lady used to PR for Heritage and Project 2025, she has the qualifications… arrogant, self righteous, ignorant and smug. Second point, if fellow travelers can access the latest from Canadian MP Charles Angus yesterday, calling Donald’s crew the gangsters from Mar a Largo. MP Angus defends the sovereignty of Canada.. BTW, yesterday Donald swiftly mentions tariffs to be applied to pharmaceuticals.. I’m sure ma and pa kettle are overjoyed at paying more $ on their limited income. I need a shower to wash off all this shit… Best to all.

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Canada won't be fucked with.

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You nailed that bleached out , bimbo bitch perfectly, Fredo.

Hard to believe she says the things she says out loud. Smug beyond measure!

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She can afford to be ignorant and smug.. she snared one of her grandpa’s drinking buddies to be her husband…. Reported to be a millionaire and 60+ years old..I’m guessing he picked her up right out of high school… I need another edible to handle all this shit today…

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SNL skit would be great of race-anxiety-riddled Leavitt boarding a plane with all POC crew.

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Does she wander towards the cockpit when she boards, to ascertain the skin color of the cockpit crew? Has she gotten off a plane because the crew was too terrifying for her? This garbage needs a rebuttal

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I said it before and I’ll say it again: “Oy, gevalt!”

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