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Pamela Gross's avatar

Truly, what in the Hell is fucking wrong with Republican men? Is rape and sexual fantasies all they think about, when they’re not praising Dear Leader? How sick are they? And are they such misogynists that they hate women to the extent that they wish them all raped, pregnant and forced to carry a rapist’s child to term? WTF??

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Norie's avatar

I cannot believe this guy might beat Sherrod Brown!!!

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Susan Jane's avatar

I can't, either! He's a contemptible creep!!!

I just sauntered over to ActBlue and donated again to Sherrod Brown.

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Derek Smith's avatar

I ran back and donated another $50 to Sherrod. While I was there, I gave another $50 to Colin Allred.

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kdsherpa's avatar

(I gave Brown $100, then panicked and gave another $250. I'd been giving to Allred since January, I think it was Jan? But gave another $150. Been doing that for all of the potential/already Democratic Senators -- even Dan Osborn in Nebraska! So nice to learn who he is and find out how great his campaign is going! Already did big-time for Biden and then for Kamala. Draining the retirement account. What difference does it make? If They win, it's all over anyway.)

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

kdsherpa, thanks for your service.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

That’s exactly what I’ve been doing. I’ve given pretty big chunks to Osborn, Allred, Powell, Gallegos, Gabe Vasquez-NM, & so many, many others I’ve lost count. I’m 74 & I damned sure can’t take it to the grave with me, & this election is too important to sit on the sidelines.

Thanks for your help too kd 💙💙

I’ll go make another donation to Sherrod right now, Moreno just can’t win.

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kdsherpa's avatar

I've been pushing hard for Tester. He's a really good guy; his opponent is a monster. Haven't given anything to Vasquez because I haven't heard anything about that race. What's the story?

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Debbie  Mitchell's avatar

Me too

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Nice bit of sauntering Susan!

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Jodi Richard's avatar

Ditto

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TJTarheel's avatar

I donated to act blue twice and now everybody and their brother are filling up my messages and email with request but I just can’t on social security. They shouldn’t share the emails of donors but of course they do and you can’t request it.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

Just delete, delete, delete. Since I have given to so many, I get as many as 50 texts a day asking for donations. I just continue to give to the ones that I prefer & can afford to & then just delete them each day. 😊

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Susan Jane's avatar

I know. It's a lot. What scary, frantic, desperate times.

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Stephen Schiff's avatar

JD Vance and "Gym" Jordan as exemplars of the acumen of Ohio voters. Strike "Ohio" and replace with "American ".

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Deb Martina's avatar

Kudos. Ohio is key to restoring America to the hope of normalcy in DC. Of course there are plenty of others (lady graham, cruz, the crazy ladies in multiple states), but clearly these two are at the top of the sycophants.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

I want Allred to defeat Cruz so badly I can taste it. I really believe he has a good shot to do it.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

What the hell has happened to Ohio?

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

They were gerrymandered all to hell, have you ever seen Gym Jordan's district? It is shaped like a duck!

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TJTarheel's avatar

At first glance I thought you said the other d word.

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TJTarheel's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

It does look like a duck 🦆 🤣🤣🤣

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Or a seahorse if you squint!

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Chet Brandt's avatar

Ohio has gone to hell and the rats ate them…

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TJTarheel's avatar

Count southern Indiana in. When we drove to see my newly married son at the time and went out to eat I thought I’d gone back in time to 1966 Mississippi.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Excellent question Lynn, Kent read, Kent write, Kent State possibly!

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Susie in OH's avatar

Immigrants from Kentucky and Tennessee.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

WTF is is all I can say on this insanity Norie!

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Well, we wouldn’t want to infringe on the rapist’s parental rights, dontcha know.

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Andrew's avatar

Well, sure, if they want to go that route, then fine, I'd want, in cash, right fucking now, the cost of raising that child through an Ivy League education. Oh you don't have millions? Tough. Find it.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

I’d go with “No, you’re not going that fucking route, you fucking rapist, now fuck the fuck off.”

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

No Andrew, just no.

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TJTarheel's avatar

Yet They complain about using tax payers money to raise children whose mothers need public aid.

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Mike Hammer's avatar

You missed pedophilia.

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Pamela Gross's avatar

I was too angry and had to express that thought! And I’d still be typing about the atrocity of pedophilia! The MAGA, GOP cult is so sick, in so many ways!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

They are why we can't pass child bride prohibition laws. Because they think their bible says kiddy molesting is their right!

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Ben Smith's avatar

But aren't MAGA's so thick that they think Paedophilia is a US state?

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Nancy Potter's avatar

So where does the spanking come in? Before she's raped, instead of an abortion, or before she gets the abortion? If there's going to be a whole new regime of mistreatment of teenage girls and women, we need to get the order straight.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

This is the intent. To make women 2nd class citizens again

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Diana's avatar

This isn’t even 2nd class. It is farther down their fucking pecking order.

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TJTarheel's avatar

They want the hand maids tales

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Susie in OH's avatar

Yes, but to facilitate the real goal which is to try to reverse the impending white minority population they fear.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

Bingo!! The 2020 census that showed the only group that lost numbers was the white/Caucasians. All other groups in the US remained the same or increased, & that caused some white folks to feel an existential threat.

Isabel Wilkerson, the author of “Caste” was on O’Donnell’s show tonight & she speaks so gently & eloquently to that.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

It ain't about thinking with the brain on their head. It's about the sickness of misogyny.

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Andrea Fruggiero's avatar

And you noticed when F'ker Carlson was talking, he said you've been a "bad girl" not child or boy. FIGHT, cause when we fight, we win!!!!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

His sicko Nazi writer (that he had to fire for being so awful, is obviously back) wrote that. Tucker is into Putin, he has the daddy fetish. And he's no top, he is a sniveling sub, groveling for Putin's attention. But his writer knows what the sicko's who are his audience want.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Any of Fuckers fan club have to be wastrels like him, good point Etherteal!!

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

That speech of his was cringe beyond belief. 🤮🤮

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Patricia Williamson's avatar

My elderly brain didn't understand anything Tucker said about spanking. He spanks girls, he spanks his wife, he wants a spanking. What?

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Patricia, it's just more pedophilia. It's sick.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

All of it Patricia!

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Patricia Gomes's avatar

He has daughters. 🤮 They must need counseling. ( including the wife ) !

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Eva Porter's avatar

I wonder if his mom abandoned him (Vance, Tucker) or made him feel like a loser with her far superior intelligence (Harrison the KC kicker) or was “emotionally unavailable (Mama Trump).

I guess women should be revered and respected given the apparent inability of some men to act like humans.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Yes, both of them are abandoned sad little boys, who grew into broken men. Tucker's mother was a Bohemian artist, who was smothered intellectually by his conservative dick of a father, so she left when Tucker was five. Vance was raised by his grandmother and abusive grandfather (who was so abusive she set him on fire) because his mother was an addict.

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Eva Porter's avatar

No wonder Tucker hates women so much.

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Steve Kelly's avatar

(Vance, Tucker (I call him fucker...), AND ConOLD)

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Eva, we should be respected because we are humans. Too much for pedophiles and misogynists.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Republicans view women as prizes for their machismo, and human incubators as well Pamela!

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Marty's avatar

Yes!

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Karla's avatar

I don’t have enough time to list what’s wrong with them. I think it boils down to self esteem so low that they will stomp on anyone different from them in order to feel better about themselves. They need to control women to feel superior and because they can’t control themselves or other men. The gun nut thing is because behind their beer bellies and bravado, they’re ignorant cowards who can’t settle a disagreement with words so they carry weapons. I’ve met a few and these are my observations.

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DR Darke's avatar

I guess "No Means No" is beyond their comprehension....

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

They don't "do" consent because they are "manly" dicks, who don't ask about the human on the other end, they think women, and young girls are just sex dolls.

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DR Darke's avatar

"Manly" dicks like this make me ashamed to be a (mostly) Straight White Male....🤦‍♂️

I wonder if we can smuggle saltpeter into Coors.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Lets do it~!

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

They really do hate and fear women.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Yes, they are not any kind of normal.

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Let me sum up's avatar

The answers, in order are: 1:Name one thing that's right about them. 2: Yes 3: Extraordinarily. 4-5: yes.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Yes to all, at least the extreme right-wing religionists are.

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TJTarheel's avatar

They don’t hate us they fear us as they fear all minorities or did women forget that we are, a minority. Especially republican men fear us. Every time a woman gets a promotion, a raise, a coveted position many men believe they’re more deserving. Why? Because they’re men.

Women constitute a majority of Americans; however, women are a minority group because they are distinguishable from the dominant group (men who have more power, privilege, and authority) and are subject to subordinated treatment.

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Mitch Moncrief's avatar

If you followed trump and epstein’s relationship ( before someone ordered epstein’s killing) over the years, it gives a pretty good illustration of what is important in these circles.

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Alice B Toklas's avatar

Wait! You have a problem with that?

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Cat Cafe's avatar

Bascically, yes.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

The Hellenist? There are really people out there who believe this? 🤦‍♀️

And we all do need to give Lara a break cause her singing career is taking all her attention. 😂

Whitey! LOL No surprise...Trump people are just illiterate scum.

Try to not panic this weekend, everybody... where's my Xanax?????

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Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

"I picked the wrong week to give up sniffing glue."

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Susan Niemann's avatar

LOL

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Susan Jane's avatar

Check out Betty's Eddies.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Classic!

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Mwfeiger's avatar

Wonderful nostalgia about those habits we gave up long ago...

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Janet's avatar

…sad memories I can’t recall

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Eva Porter's avatar

Heh heh. I just used that one at work!!

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Janet's avatar

😂

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

😂😂🤣🤣🤣

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

Yeah, people believe this. I work with more than one of them.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Racism is one of the pillars of our demise.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Coupled with greed, hatred and idiocy Susan!

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Marie Martin's avatar

Geoff:

Condolences.

Ugh.

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Nancy Potter's avatar

So this isn't just about triggering the libs?

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Robert R's avatar

That got me thinking 🤔 there still are people like that to this day ! Scary stuff just in time for Halloween 👻!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Thats good Mike. *sigh I'm exhausted!!

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Mike Hammer's avatar

I think it’s goo to remind folk what 2025 is.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

I think it's goo too.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Too much Xanax Susan!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Lol

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Have yourselves a sublime weekend everyone, someone help Susan find her Xanax!!

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CL Tee's avatar

I need Maria Shriver's gummies!

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Betsy L's avatar

Gummies work better.

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antlisa1201's avatar

Wish I had some. Or valium. Or Klonopin. All I have is over the counter stuff. Not the same. Damn controlled substances!

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Every 4th year in October through December opium should be legal and $5 a pound.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Doc, a pound? Sounds excessive, but it's been awhile, so maybe yes, right amount.

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T L Mills's avatar

I just invested in enough "pure strain full spectrum" gummies to last for three weeks of decent sleep--I hope.

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Patricia Gomes's avatar

Wanna share ?

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Thanks for the roundup Jeff, however you might have skipped over the story of the AZ MAGA who was arrested for shooting up the Democratic headquarters in Tempe AZ…. 3 times…. When LE found a machine gun in his back seat it gave them pause… Results of a search of his home? Michael Kelly had…. 120 guns, silencers, 250,000 rounds of ammunition, a grenade launcher, mysterious white powder. Why he didn’t have a Bradley tank in his garage..I’ll never know. But hey fellow travelers…. This is what we are up against here in AZ and elsewhere… For MAGA… violence is the norm…not the exception. Rest up folks, we still have work to do…

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Mingo's avatar

You left out the part he is a 60 year old WHITE male, retired aerospace engineer living in an upscale neighborhood. Currently he has 3 felony charges against him for terrorism and other charges totaling 7. This morning the DA added another felony charge and upped his bail another $500,00 on top of the current $500,000 all in cash. Really WTF is wrong with republican men? It's no wonder we women want nothing to do with them. I'm walking my dog to mail my several hundred postcards at the post office 1/4 mile away. VOTE BLUE.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

Whenever I read domestic terrorism/guns, I automatically assume white and male. My assumption is usually right.

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arne link's avatar

I am reminded of the Las Vegas shooter. He had the same bio and all the guns. He did slaughter and wound more than 100 innocent people. What is wrong with these men. Why do they want to hurt, hurt and hurt people? I'm glad they caught the AZ guy before he could outdo the Las Vegas murderer.

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Thanks for adding more of a background on this terrorist.

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Mingo's avatar

Continuing my Saturday morning adventure walk to the post office.... Walking back dog pal and myself crossed a busy intersection littered with political signs. Some assclown put a large Trump/Vance sign up and somebody else came along and tore it up in at least six sections and stomped on it. I had a marvelous, out loud chuckle. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of nazis.

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Teri's avatar

Excellent! If u walk by again with your dog, you might offer to stop and let doggo do his/her business on it.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

You should have encouraged your dog to urinate on it, or defecate.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Sent off 300 postcards yesterday

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Roberto's avatar

Thank you for writing & mailing those postcards, Mingo.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

If tRump wins, that guy gets a pardon

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Like

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

That isn't news about stupid, it's news about terrifying.

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Dave Drell's avatar

250,000 rounds of ammo? Shit, confiscate that stuff and send it over to the Ukrainians!

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Robert R's avatar

And put G.I. MAGAT man on the frontline ,he likes Military weapons so much let him use them where they’re meant to be used , although he might not like the return fire !

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

I think the obvious justice for the situation is to build a box, pour the 250,000 rounds of ammo on top of the guy and nail the lid shut.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

All of it! Don't let the police keep it!

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

Hey, great idea 💡 !!

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Laura Who's avatar

Holy shit!! I didn’t hear a peep about that. That’s how fucked our mainstream media is today. Thanks for sharing this

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

It was on the CNN app, Twitter and that horrid Daily Mail.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

That's because the Daily Fail is a tabloid, they live for that stuff.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

Several hosts on msnbc covered it, the quarter million rounds of ammo is just insanity; & yes, we must refer those people as what they are: terrorists!!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I read about that...HOLY SHIT! My best pal lives in Tucson and she's working hard to get the state blue. Hang in there!

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Scary as hell and you have to wonder how many of these beyond heavily-armed demented MAGA assholes are out there plotting to do similar shit? It's a very sick society we live in at the moment and there's never any condemnation from dear leader or the GOP Congress for any of these violent acts. My wife and I went to our local Democratic headquarters yesterday to pick up a Harris Walz lawn sign. Even with Google maps, this place was rather difficult to locate. Like my wife said, there's a very good reason for that.

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Cassandra Here's avatar

NYT did a full treatment of Reno (Washoe County, NV). The article detailed how the election deniers and false electors are running our county and city and used it as an example of how these folks are working most of the swing states.

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Robert R's avatar

You got that right there’ll be no rest stops on this Crazy Train 🚂 woo!woo!

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

I spent last weekend in Prescott Valley… let me tell ya, people are so bitter, so sensitive as to anyone that does not tow the MAGA ideology, anyone who does not praise DJT…. Such loyalty to their Dear Leader reminds me of Mao’s Red Guard…As I keep telling folks, including MAGAS, expect more violence from MAGAS. Look at that poor election worker in Texas, female, over 60, gets punched by a MAGA because she told him to take off that MAGA cap while at the voting center.. Anger, bitterness and fear is all they got….

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Saw that, although I thought the volunteer who was punched was a man!

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T L Mills's avatar

😱😱😱

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George A. Polisner's avatar

Thank you Jeff.

(And I mean Tiedrich. Not “Democracy dies in darkness” Bezos)

Bezos prevented his Washington Post from their planned endorsement of VP Harris. Why? It seems he enjoys his Trump/GOP 8.55% corporate tax rate. And he also wants some Federal contracts for his rocket company, Blue Origin. While it may be considered shrewd and not stupid, supporting tyranny over democracy when one of your major companies relies on consumers? Probably not so smart in the long run.

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Eileen's avatar

I am not a Substack author, however I was so angry this morning about Jeff Bozo, I wrote my rage. Sharing because I think it needs reminding what came before at WAPO.

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SAY HIS NAME, WAPO! JEFF BEZOS! Jamal Khashoggi gave his life for journalism. Time remembered him as the “Guardian of the Truth.” Jamal Khashoggi’s last job was at the Washington Post before he was brutally murdered by MBS’s goons.

In Saudi Arabia, truth died in darkness a long time ago. Trump was president when Mr. Khashoggi was brutally murdered by the order of the Saudi prince. MBS’s direct culpability was confirmed by our CIA. Trump brushed it off. Dodged. And his son in law, Jared Kushner, fawned over the Saudis to fill his pockets with 2 billion dollars for his hedge fund in spite of the fact Jared had no relevant experience except access to our nation’s TOP SECRET documents stored in his father-in-law’s Florida home illegally.

Yes, SHAME ON YOU, Jeff Bezos! You should be standing up for free speech in the name of Jamal Khashoggi. Your employee. You single-handedly refused your editorial board’s wishes to endorse VP Kamala Harris for president days before the most consequential election. In that moment, you showed every journalist around the world, and especially in your employ, who you care about. Not them. You acted just like Trump and stepped aside to let their brave work wither - for truth to die for your cowardice in the face of Trump’s authoritarianism and clear and dangerous fascist plans for our country.

Ironically, you coward, it was MBS who wanted to post a picture of your manhood. Only then did you show real, intense interest. The individual you ultimately wanted to protect was the little guy dangling in your trousers.

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George A. Polisner's avatar

Thank you Eileen. An important reminder of the courage of Jamal Kashoggi and the role played by the criminal Trump and his insidious “boy wonder” Jared Kushner.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

Always, always follow the money when someone (or a corporation) makes a decision that makes no sense or looks like it is not in their best interests. I started doing that at work and I no longer wonder why admin does such dumb stuff. Actually, it's not actual money with these billionaires like Bezos, Musk and Zuckerberg. They have enough for many lifetimes. It's ego/narcissism. That beast will never be fed enough. It's who can have the most or achieve the most. The very traits that made them initially successful are what we are dealing with now.

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

Eileen: Excellent! This morning’s WaPo had several negative comments as well. Bezos’ action is in huge contrast to his exwife’s philanthropy.

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Eileen's avatar

Ex wife of Bezos is such a breath of fresh air. You can't take it with you. She understands that all that money could be put to good use now.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

She also does it because he is very cheap and never would. Also the girlfriend lives to pry money out of him for a couple of charities.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

So well written! Maybe you SHOULD write a substack. Thank you for this

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Eileen's avatar

You are too kind. I have a full time job getting my kids launched. But thanks for the compliment!

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Marie Martin's avatar

Brava!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

I bow low Eileen!!

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Thanks Eileen.

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Marty's avatar

Jeff Bezos is a chickenshit. I canceled my subscription to WaPo this morning.

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Marie Martin's avatar

I cancelled NYT and WAPO about 2 months ago, and LATimes 2 years ago. Ima gonna start my day with Charlemagne the god. Applauding his bluntness with Cooper. Hungering for straight talk.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

He really called Cooper and other journalists out! Coop was stumbling over his words when he tried to respond.

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Marie Martin's avatar

Yes. Nervous chatter. Interrupting. Knocked him off his game.

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Susie in OH's avatar

Same here.

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Permian Extinction's avatar

Ditto. Yesterday.

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KMD's avatar

Same here. I read that thousands have cancelled their WP subscriptions.

Maybe someone can persuade Mark Cuban to buy it from Bezos.

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Marie Martin's avatar

Don’t tease me with that !

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

tens of thousands.

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Susie in OH's avatar

I am going to stop ordering from Amazon, which is a better way to make a point. I can order from other places instead now, not just Amazon.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

WaPo: "Fascism Flourishes in Fearfulness"

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George A. Polisner's avatar

It certainly does. And greed powers it along.

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

And that’s precisely why I’ve cancelled my Prime Membership and the Washington Post. Enough of those gutless a$$es.

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Linda A's avatar

Ditto that. I'm a relatively new Amazon subscriber (now former), but almost 5 decades with WaPo. Gone. Kaput. Cancelled. I added to my Guardian monthly and picked up the Philly Inquirer.

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Burke's avatar

So far Bezos hasn't converted the Post to a Russian propaganda platform. Like Musk and Murdoch have with theirs. Still, he shouldn't have bought the company if he was going to trash the franchise. Bezos isn't an autocrat weasel like Musk and Putin and Trump and Kim and Orban and Murdoch. But his failure to make a stand for self-rule, personal freedom and human rights makes him look like one.

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Nancy Potter's avatar

Bezos is just signaling to Trump that he will bend over as far as he needs to to avoid displeasing the emperor. He doesn't seem to realize that even if he hollows out the paper to the point that Mark Thiessen is its most liberal columnist, Trump will still demand more. Of course, if Bezos gets those sweet government contracts for Blue Origin, he'll let WaPo fold up and die.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

BOGU, Jeff! (Bend over, grease up)

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George A. Polisner's avatar

Thank you Burke. I do think his intent is purely self-interest whereas with Musk, Murdoch, Thiel, Mercer, and others it is also about power and influence, subverting any attempt at meaningful democracy for their own gain.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Actually he hired a Murdoch tabloid low-life named Will Lewis, who was recently in court in the UK, for his part in covering up the phone hacking scandal, remember when the UK tabloids (under Murdoch) hacked the dead child's (Milly Dowling if I remember correctly) phone leading the parents to believe she was still alive? This guy was hired to hide the evidence so he deleted hundreds of emails despite being told by investigators not to. This is who Bezos hired to run WaPo, a tabloid criminal. Don't expect anything but right-wing garbage from him.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Burke, WaPo had a column about Starlink hardware being stolen from Ukrainian forces and used against them. Bad thing.

Now they have a column about Starlink units being sold to Russia like it's a good thing. So they have outed themselves as Russian propaganda.

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Marie Martin's avatar

Apparently democracy is dying in the bright lights of broadway. When the “owner” can override the editorial board (he did override the whole board, yes?) he’s putting his rag squarely in the entertainment sector.

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antlisa1201's avatar

So did the Los Angeles Times billionaire guy Patrick Soon-Shiong. He wanted his folks to list the pluses and minuses of each candidate, but they wanted to endorse Kamala Harris. He said "no".

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James Starr's avatar

ok, fine, but is he allowing his paper, WP, to endorse the orange felon?

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George A. Polisner's avatar

Fine he interfered with his editorial staff?

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Marie Martin's avatar

My mouth is trying to form the words Bezos is a Traitor!

“Former Post executive editor Marty Baron, who led the paper under Bezos during the first Trump administration called the decision an act of “cowardice.”

“To declare a moment of high principle, only 11 days before the election that is just highly suspect that is just not to be believed that this was a matter of principle at this point,” Baron told CNN’s Michael Smerconish on Saturday morning.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/26/media/washington-post-jeff-bezos-endorsement-turmoil?cid=ios_app

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

I'm sure you heard that the Washington Post had an editorial ready endorsing Kamala Harris until its owner Jeff Bezos decided not to antagonize Donnie Convict. So, they resorted to a well-known PR trick. They announced the unpopular news on Friday afternoon in the hope that it would have less impact. Brave, brave, Sir Bezos!

BTW, this isn't the first time a WaPo owner has been threatened, but it's the first time they caved. Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell famously threatened: "If you print that, Katie Graham will get her tit caught in a wringer.' Katie Graham printed it.

I just hope this October surprise manages to give a few thousand more people the energy to turn out for Harris. Clearly, everyone who reads Jeff is motivated 100% of the time, but I know there are people who are motivated only 60% of the time. I'd be happy to transport each and every one of them to the polls in a wheelbarrow, all by myself.

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Pope Buck I's avatar

Katharine Graham was ten times the "man" Jeff Bezos will ever be.

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Vickie Berry's avatar

Her book “A Biography” is a great read. What a woman she was!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

She sure was!

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

When they allow Trump to win, they’re really gonna miss freedom of the press.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

I don't think they're going to miss freedom of the press. There are plenty of brownnose newspapers in China and Russia.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

TASS is still there in Moscow. I saw the sign on the building when I was there. I remember about TASS growing up when our decent media then would talk about Russia. It was almost laughable how they'd twist the news into a pretzel.

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Robert R's avatar

Hey ! He could easily find a reason to grab their fortunes for some make believe reason!

Now that would be interesting 🤔! What’s that old saying…?You can’t have it both ways!

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antlisa1201's avatar

That's what I think he would do, too. He would say it's an official act because of some made up reason and confiscate musk's, bezos' and theil's fortunes. That's exactly what he would do. Much like hitler.

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Alice B Toklas's avatar

Unfortunately, I suspect not….

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Laura Who's avatar

Exactly

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Susie in OH's avatar

Yes, they somehow believe he will play nice if they grovel. And SCOTUS seems to believe they will still have power. HA! Trump will shut down any agency or group with power to say no to him. What are they thinking giving him immunity? Now he can do whatever he wants so who needs them?

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Barbara B's avatar

I so wanted to quote John Mitchell. According to “All the President’s Men”, didn’t the Post leave out “her tit” when they printed it?

Also when somebody threatened her with jail, reportedly she said she’d go.

She had a pair, and not wrapped in protective plastic either.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

This comment MUST be repeated.

P123Sunny

JRR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh

BREAKING: The Minas Tirith Post will not be making an endorsement in this year's contest between Aragorn son of Arathorn and the Dark Lord Sauron.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Brilliant! Read this link, it is so funny!! Thought I was gonna have to dial 911, because I came that close to dying.

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Patricia Gomes's avatar

Exceptional !! Had to read it twice. Time to dig out my Rings.

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Dave Drell's avatar

We should come up with modern day people and their LOTR counter parts…

Sauron= Trump

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Except Sauron was evil, not stupid! Sauron would be Putin, Trump would be Azog.

"Azog is depicted in the Hobbit film trilogy as the wrathful, psychopathic, iron-fisted, malevolent, bloodthirsty, insidious, cynical, bitter, malicious, arrogant and merciless chieftain of the Orcs of Moria, and leader of the Warg-riders."

LOTR Wiki - Fandom

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Dave Drell's avatar

I agree -Azog is Trumpf

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Susie in OH's avatar

Vance: Wormtongue

Flynn: Mouth of Sauron

Johnson: Saruman

Musk: Gollum

MTG: Shelob

Bannon: The Goblin King

Boebert: Troll

Gaetz: Lurtz

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Brilliant!

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Karen Livolsi's avatar

Like Dad said, "More money than brains."

Jeff Bezos made such a imbecilic move with the WaPo.

Now the editors and journalist look like dumbasses for all those articles pointing out the convicted felon's irrational and disturbing behaviors and they are pissed!

Good Lord! You mean he can be just as, if not more stupid like the rest of the human beings on the planet are from time to time?

I thought his billions made him smart, like Elon Musk smart. They both belong in a cell together with erasable markers and one white board.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Let's cram Thiel into the cell with 'em

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Mary Hall's avatar

And Rupert Murdoch.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

That one, like Charles Koch, will only bring joy to the world, when his evil, destructive, greedy, ass leaves it!

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

And Patrick Soon-Shiong, billionaire owner of the LA Times, who blocked his paper from printing a Harris endorsement. As with WaPO, top level editorial executive resigned.

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Nancy Potter's avatar

Can we turn this into a lesson for the country that a Trump presidency means the end of a free press? Of course, in a poll, about 10% of the people who think Trump is a fascist consider that a good thing.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Sadly they are good at figuring out how to profit from some business, it does not give them ethics, just a limited feral cunning in certain areas.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Karen, they are not really that smart. Opportunistic, yes.

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Karen Livolsi's avatar

Evidently.

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antlisa1201's avatar

Same with the LATand soon-shiong!

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Bezos in the world's richest invertebrate

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Robert R's avatar

Cowards and racketeering oligarchs where did The America Home of the brave disappear to !

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Dawna Borras's avatar

I have no words. My jaw is on the ground so excuse me while I go pick it up. Dumb Fucks, every last one of them

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SuNew's avatar

I came here to say this exact thing. Thanks, Dawn.

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Barbara Morgan's avatar

That sounds good enough to call drumpf's cult, Dumb Fucks 🤣✌🏻💙🥴

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Mary Hall's avatar

Or "fumducks" if you are in polite company.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

How is retraining a woman and forcing her hand down your pants only a fucking misdemeanor?

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arne link's avatar

I wish she had got a good hold and twisted hard.

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funnyhaha's avatar

I'd have dug in my nails and squeezed. And bitten.

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Marie Martin's avatar

I dunno … I think this would be a moment when I’d REALLY try to keep my mouth shut.

🤮

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Hope her nails were long and her grip, tight.

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shee-rah's avatar

Yes! Put those acrylic nails to good use!

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Patricia Gomes's avatar

BITE ! HARD !

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

😂

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HI2thDoc's avatar

No, Whitey forced his hand down her pants. He was emulating his idol, adjudicated sexual assaulter and all around creep Orange Hitler

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

😡😡😡

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shee-rah's avatar

That’s when she uses her foot to kick him in the crotch or knee or stomp on his instep.

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Marie Martin's avatar

Creep. Just about every woman has experienced something like this.

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Alice B Toklas's avatar

Because retraining is educational therapy, and therefore protected….

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Laura Who's avatar

Great question

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Anna Bolique's avatar

I'm surprised you left out Tucker's "Daddy's Home and You've Been a Very Bad Girl," speech, but perhaps that was too vile to be considered merely "stupid" and deserves a separate category.

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Marcie's avatar

That is the creepiest, sickest political move I have seen this cycle.

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Teri's avatar

Tuckums' fired up rant came from a very scary place. Who talks like that anywhere? It sure sounds like a call to shame and physically abused a young girl. It's rageful.

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Anna Bolique's avatar

Who talks like that anywhere?

Domestic abusers, rapists, and pedophiles, that's who.

It made my skin positively crawl.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Me too.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

He had a Nazi writer working for him that he had to fire, because he was so awful, when he worked for Fox. Now that he is a free agent, it is obvious he hired him back. And he writes what appeals to other Nazi incels, that love Tucker. Tucker himself is a pathetic, sniveling Putin suck-up.

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shee-rah's avatar

Haven’t his balls shriveled up sufficiently from his tanning bed for him to fade into oblivion yet?

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

😂🤣😂🤣Thus the fake tough man talk!

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Nancy Potter's avatar

Jeff covered it earlier in the week and I think his TWIS columns are for the items that didn't get wide attention at the time.

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Tama2U's avatar

The crazy stupido’s are coming back out here in fascist wannabe Shasta County. The insecure little coward dropout boys are driving their penis extender jacked up Dodge Rams with large Felon flags a flyin in the exhaust filled breeze. It’s a sight to behold. I drove 3 miles to my grandson’s Halloween party and saw 3 different jackass displays. 🙄 My turbo SUV smoked em at every light. Stand back and stand by, Losers.

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

I have an 18 yo Saturn Ion. I beat out one of those flag flying freaks at a light just last week. I have a very quick reaction time.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

You got it right. Small dick energy

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JOEL's avatar

Liar, Fraud, Con, Grifter, Scumbag, Sex-Abuser, Racist, Fascist, Felon, Putin's Puppet, Traitor, Piece-of-Shit, America's Disgrace, Asswipe, Loser, DonOLD Hitler-Lover Trump.

Notable quotes about scumbag Trump:

The American people deserve to know that Trump asked me to put him over my oath to the Constitution. … Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States.” - Mike Pence

"The dumbest godd@mn student I ever had." - Wharton professor William Kelley

"One of us." - David Duke (former KKK grand wizard)

"America's Hitler" - J. D. Vance

“I quit because I think he failed at being the president when we needed him to be that.” - Mick Mulvaney

"Atomic crazy" - Fred Trump III, nephew

"The world's most dangerous man" - Mary Trump, nephew & clinical psychologist

“Someone who . . .shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office.” - Bill Barr

“. . . unfit for office. … puts himself before country. . . .integrity and character issues as well.” - Mark Esper

“We saw the absence of leadership, really anti-leadership, and what that can do to our country.” - HR McMaster

"Trump is unfit to be president. If his first four years were bad, a second four will be worse."

- John Bolton

"A f…… moron." - Rex Tillerson

”A jacka……” "I think he's a kook. I think he's crazy. I think he's unfit for office." - Lindsay Graham

"Dishonesty is Trump's hallmark....he is very, very not smart.” - Mitt Romney

“A fascist.” “Dangerous.” “An idiot, unhinged." - Gen. John Kelly

"An idiot and a dope." - H. R. McMaster

"An idiot surrounded by clowns." - Gary Cohn

"A racist, misogynist and bigot." - Omarosa Newman

"He's like a 11 year-old child." - Steve Bannon

"Has the understanding of a 5th or 6th grader." – Gen. James Mattis

”Donald Trump ... will slash and burn and trample anything and anyone.” – Sen. Susan Collins

“An empty vessel when it comes to the constitution and the rule of law." - Scott Pruitt

"An idiot." - Reince Priebus

"A complete idiot." - Steven Mnuchin

“A f……. liar." - John Dowd

“Eventually he turns on . . . everyone.” - Anthony Scaramucci

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Most of those listed above learned and wised up. Standing out are those who went the other way and changed from critics to sycophants First Class: Vantz and Lindsey. Pathetic beyond words. Get help, fellas

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Don't forget Ted Cruz.

Fuck Ted Cruz.

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Marie Martin's avatar

I will do the first; I WILL NOT do the second.

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Teri's avatar

Joel, what a list. Even Susan Collins has spoken out about turd. Collins & Lisa Murkowski (D-AK) have both said they will not support or vote for turd this election.

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Betsy L's avatar

Ummm... Collins and Murkowski are both Republicans.

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Dave Drell's avatar

So your saying this doofus is…

STOOOPID & LAZY BEYOND COMPARE?

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Joel, some of these people are almost as bad as he is.

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DonP's avatar

I swear the words from Forrest Gump's mom ring truer today than when they were first said.

"Stupid is as stupid does". And man are these people stupid.

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Tess's avatar

Your “lesson in counting” from Lara Trump-was hilarious! Hellenists….thanks for the history lesson! yikes! Trump Town made me want to vomit….So much stupid! How the hell do we help these people?!! JOY AND HAPPINESS!!!!! HARRIS/WALZ!!!!

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David (Dave) Jaspers's avatar

"there are 9 planets (don’t you fucking dare argue with me about Pluto)"

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

I was pissed when they took away Pluto for awhile.

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Robert R's avatar

I know what harm did Pluto ever do ?However he did bite Bluto in the ass that time ! 😅🐶 He’d probably tear Donnie’s throat out ! Friggen dog hater !🤬

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Jeff is 150% right about the number of planets (as he is about everything).

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Dark Phoenix's avatar

Actually, depending on how you want to count, there are either 8 planets or 17 planets. The entire reason they downgraded Pluto is because they found a bunch more around the same size out there (8 at last count). So if Pluto's a planet, so is Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Sedna, Ceres, Quaror, Orcus and Gonggong.

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David (Dave) Jaspers's avatar

Sure - why not? 😄

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Robert R's avatar

Why not it’s a big solar system plenty of stretching room everybody’s welcome! 🤗

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Guess what.

The number of people who prefer nine planets— 330 million.

The number of people who prefer another number of planets— <100,000.

The number of people who believe this issue should be decided by elite scientists: <100,000.

Practical utility of forcing the general public to embrace an ultra-correct scientific definition of a planet: 0.

Damage to the image of science among ordinary people: enormous. The clear lesson is that scientists will try to boss you around even on issues that have no practical importance.

See how elites make themselves hated? Seriously, y'all seem totally clueless and wonder why no one wants to listen to you. You are wearing out your welcome and will not be listened to on issues that ARE important.

BTW, I was a pre med at one point and did well in all my courses.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

The worst thing is that they did it just before the Pluto flyby, pooh-poohing the importance of Pluto just before we got to see how nifty a place it really is.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

A good observation.

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Dark Phoenix's avatar

Guess it's a good thing the public doesn't get to decide that. I'm sure there were morons who said the same thing when Pluto was first discovered ("THERE ARE ONLY 8 PLANETS! PUBLIC PREFERS THAT!").

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

You really did not get my point. Science is doing damage to its ability to help people by trying to force trivialities down their throats. Scientists should be pushy ONLY when the information is necessary and important. Otherwise, on less important issues, like the number of planets, you can take the long slow road of teaching the new definition to children and it will eventually become predominant.

Your response shows that you do not appreciate the value of not wearing out your welcome. In my view, science is extremely important— it should learn how to communicate effectively, not pedantically. By the way, I sincerely hope you correct people when they call bacteria, viruses, and even fungi, germs. Why do you permit people and even doctors to call infectious agents germs? A pedantic person like yourself should get on that issue promptly!

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

No response? Do you agree with me that scientists should communicate with the public primarily on issues of importance? Isn't it more important for scientists to try the to teach the public the value of vaccines rather than the number of planets? Or is it fine to badger the public on every issue all the time? If scientists learn how to communicate effectively with the general public on important issues, maybe they won't be thought of as the socially inept characters on the Big Bang theory.

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Robert R's avatar

Those scientists who TEIL me this is how x works… at the end of The Telling me part … I always hear ….in Theory! When I start hearing …in FACT is when I start Listening a lot more attentively ! Until then I’ll keep my mind open and watch Ancient Aliens 👽 and wonder 💭 about it all ! I love science and science fiction until one of these big feeling experts proves their theory it’s all Sci Fi !

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Too often it seems to me that scientists have never heard of the 8 forms of intelligence. They think theirs is the only one. Definitely irritating.

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David (Dave) Jaspers's avatar

As a mathematician, I give you full credit for that answer.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

I will state the obvious: I'm not doing math I'm doing literature. The literary use of numbers is poorly understood by STEM-folk.

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David (Dave) Jaspers's avatar

"Sure - why not?" - Crow T. Robot, Mystery Science Theater 3000. 😄

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

How many electoral votes do these extra 31 states have, Lara?

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David (Dave) Jaspers's avatar

How many electoral votes does Pluto have?

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Robert Eckert's avatar

However many Donald needs

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Robert R's avatar

Let’s see 81 states ,…is it father or is it father-in-law ? Dumpty’s dementia ? ….WTF ? The stupidest 🤪leading the 😵‍💫stupefyingly stupider🥴…..AHA!i! t’s all becoming so clear now !!🤪🤣😂they’re Morons !

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Dave Drell's avatar

I think she meant 81 (bogus) lawsuits…

all to be tossed, of course!

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Robert R's avatar

Aww! Let me believe it was states ! Much more satisfying!

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Jayme Wolworth's avatar

I saw this morning that Leon is NOT PAYING the people that worked their asses off for $47 LOL And no one is sure that the 1 millionaires are getting the money either. It seems that the rubes who wanted their money also aren't voting for Trump, they just wanted the money LOLOLOLOL

It's not like Leon is in the voting booth with them ffs.

I canceled my WAPO subscription yesterday along with thousands of others, let's see what Bozo has to say when Trump loses and he sucked up to him yesterday in TX for nothing.

It's getting closer and my Xanax supply is running low.

Have a great Saturday everyone!

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Burke's avatar

I wasn't sure who "Leon" was so googled "Leon not paying" and got a bunch of stories on Leon Black. Who paid Jeffrey Epstein $158 million for "financial and tax consulting services". And paid the US Virgin Islands $62.5 million for supporting Jeffrey's sex slave operation. Rabbit hole...

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Epstein was money laundering for him under the guise of "Financial advisor". He also was a big partaker of Epstein's "party favors" The same kind that Matt Gaetz peddles now that Epstein is gone.

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Alison Parker's avatar

"manifestations of demons" thanks that's my band name now

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arne link's avatar

Great name for a band. You go, girl.

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Robert R's avatar

🎶A new 💀Black Sabbath ! If Vance could sing 🎤 he could be Ozzie’s 2nd coming …a new do ,some more eyeliner ,eat a cat 🙀on stage ! Trump at deaths door! 💀their first album !☠️ guaranteed platinum! distributed by Trump Music 🎶!oh! Yeah !let the good times roll baby !

All that and being President at the same time! 🧐😵‍💫😂🤣

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Laura Who's avatar

Hell yes!!! Love it

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arne link's avatar

Actually, "Hell Yes" is a good name for a band...

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bruce somers's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Oooooh...thats perfect!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

All dressed as Succubi! That would be awesome!

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Gayna's avatar

Omg today was a laugh that brought me to tears. It is sad and scary, but we have to laugh sometimes. Thank you Jeff. I look forward to your email every day.

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P123Sunny's avatar

JRR Jokien

@joshcarlosjosh

BREAKING: The Minas Tirith Post will not be making an endorsement in this year's contest between Aragorn son of Arathorn and the Dark Lord Sauron.

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Alice B Toklas's avatar

Damn.

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Robert R's avatar

Where’s my Precious?

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Yep, same type of choice we have between Kamala and that most unsuitable crooked lying traitor.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

LOL

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