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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

sorry if this piece seems rushed — I have an 11:00am medical appointment today that I absolutely could not reschedule (don't worry, it's nothing serious). so at the very least, this post will probably have more typos in it than usual

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I really wanted to talk about Tucker Carlson's spanking fetish but ran out of time. oh well, there's always tomorrow

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markwilson67's avatar

The one with the riding crop and Gestapo uniform or another one?

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shee-rah's avatar

I just can’t picture Dumbass on a horse.

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Marie Martin's avatar

Neither can the horse.

#BrokeBackHorse

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markwilson67's avatar

😂😂😂

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RZAngel's avatar

LMAO

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Robert R's avatar

Good one ☝️ cuz !🤪giddy up “Tucker “ what an apt monicker⁉️🤪

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markwilson67's avatar

:-)

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Cheryl Keeping's avatar

Oohhh, is it the one about his secret stash of edible man thongs??

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Adrienne's avatar

😬I’m starting to breathe erratically

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Marie Martin's avatar

I literally have started to stutter now and then.

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markwilson67's avatar

😂😂😂

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markwilson67's avatar

😂😂😂

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Teri's avatar

Tuckem's Spanking Fetish??!! Ah, the cruelty of making us wait. How does it fall into place with his "men, tan your genitals" 💩

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Damn Teri, you pulled another amusing pitch out of the park!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Oooohhhh goodie. That’ll be a column to remember! 😂😂

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Tama2U's avatar

Right??? 😳

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Kay-El's avatar

Ok, I just had to look that up. Apparently Fucker thinks women like to be spanked “quite vigorously”. 🙄

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Lisa59's avatar

He said, "Daddy Trump will spank the bad little girl." 🤢🤢😱🤯😵‍💫 My standard question to MAGAQ's is would you put your 15 yr old daughter alone in a room with any of them. Their eyes get wide and they say "no way." But you'll have him as President. Got it.

Well, another alt-right MAGAQ-pastor was arrested in Michigan for molesting children. Daddy runs the church. They're all whores and criminals.

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Robert R's avatar

Gods gotta get a new Human Resource staff pronto !

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Lisa59's avatar

I really think God went out for a pack of smokes and never came back. He's getting a tan drinking cocktails on a beach somewhere. He's out!! 😅

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Yep, he's a absentee dad, he creates us, then on goes on to the next "mother" earth to create the next batch.

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un poco loco's avatar

I'd suggest regular beatings for Cucker et al but they would probably enjoy them.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Yes. Remember with republicans, it is always projection, there is no way he's a top. He just screams "bottom" Even Putin noticed and humiliated him.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

The corruption and fuckery of the church is sickening. WTF does their God think of them…belief in little fairies in the sky is insanity, especially when this is the outcome Lisa!!

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Lisa59's avatar

The hypocrisy is blinding. The Catholic Church will be paying for their predatory abuse forever. It hasn't stopped.

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Marla's avatar

LA's diocese is currently paying out $1.5billion (that's billion with a 'b') to settle their child abuse cases.

You can thank Roger Mahoney for that one.

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Linda Weide's avatar

He was standing in the pulpit letting them all know exactly who he was with his Christian Nationalist anti-women tirades, disguised as what the Lord wants, and they did not want to see it. So, he got to get with their children. The parents should all lose these children because clearly they have contributed to their abuse and they have neglected them.

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DR Darke's avatar

🤦‍♂️ Somebody needs to tell Fucker Tarlson that just because SOME people, men as well as women, are into "impact play" doesn't mean it's for everybody.

Honestly, I think he's projecting—HE likes being spanked, but that's not "manly" so...women are into it, right? Yeah, that's the ticket....

https://i.imgflip.com/23spvr.jpg

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Yes, Putin picked up on his daddy fetish immediately.

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DR Darke's avatar

🤮 Well, there went dinner!

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Maui Wahine's avatar

Tucker is a product of prep school culture. Itʻs kind of like what they used to say about the British Navy - "snobbery, buggery and the lash."

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Robert R's avatar

Another life lesson he never learned ,but with that name he’s all behind about everything! 😅😂🤪

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Steve Kelly's avatar

Wasn't it donOLD who wanted to be spanked by Stormy? Never ending.....

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

I assume he either loves having his tuchas spanked vigorously, or he’s the sadist fuck he appears to be KayEI!!

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Linda Weide's avatar

I was raised with the understanding that Men always tell you exactly who they are, but some women don't want to listen. This is true of Trump, Carlson, JD Vance and all of the other MAGAs. We should listen and we should vote blue, letting them know we want none of what they are so clearly offering.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Projection, what is really means is Tucker likes to be spanked, vigorously.

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Elizabeth Ellis's avatar

You’ve been a very bad little girl Jeff!😝

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Lisa59's avatar

🤣😂🤣😂

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Cassandra Here's avatar

This spanking fetish was hilarious on The Bulwark with Tim Miller. and David French. I laughed and played Carlson again. Daddy Donald will return to spank and spank the bad little girl.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

They (Tucker and the Barking Yam), are both bottoms who pretend they are tops.

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T L Mills's avatar

Dear goddess...and here I have been thinking iddle Tuckerkins already had more than enough twists and kinks. Are we now to learn that he yearns to have a relationship with a dominatrix? Eeeeeyew. Not sure I WANT to hear about this kink.

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Teri's avatar

Hopefully he'll enjoy the ballgag enough that he'll leave it in his pie hole full time. God I hate that xrick!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

He is the type that ball-gags were invented for.

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T L Mills's avatar

yup. to both statements.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

I doubt it would be a woman involved, he has the daddy fetish for Putin just like Orangini.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Ditto T. L.

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Ellen J Anderson's avatar

Oh please, please, we want it!

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Maureen Okonski's avatar

Please don't

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Not so hard, it hurts too much, you’re going too far, please again but harder oh the pain. There Maureen now you’ve heard it, it’s not news.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

I want to hear about that!

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

That was the most nauseating, flesh crawling thing I believe I’ve ever heard. Just gross 🤮

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Lisa A's avatar

And CNN anchors bemoaned the fact that Harris is held to a standard by the media while donnyfuckface gets a free pass meanwhile they have Elmer Fudd and scott slick hair walker complaining that kamala didn’t precisely answer a question or took too long to answer or “word salad” etc etc 😡

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Yeah, CNN pays that MAGA Scott Jennings to be a commentator. Fuck CNN

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Merc's avatar

Conservative billionaire owned media (like CNN) are ruined forever

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Fuck them again for me HI2!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

...With trump's syphilitic mushroom.

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Lisa59's avatar

Scott Walker was groomed and pimped out by Koch. They owned him. Scott would bend more than one knee to his master. They're all creepers. 🤮

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Indeed Lisa!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

That's why they pick them, because they have something major on them, to keep them in line.

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David A Pitock's avatar

More reason not to watch them.

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Lisa A's avatar

🤦🏻‍♀️yes of course i mean scott Jennings!!

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Jayme Wolworth's avatar

No need to apologize Jeff. You work hard at this and I'm just glad it's nothing serious.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Oh we don’t care about typos! Just always look forward to your thoughts!!

Trump gets scarier by the hour.

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Marie Martin's avatar

I’m not sure you quite understand what a gift your work is. No need to apologize for something I don’t think anyone noticed. I, along with others, keep wondering how the heck you keep pumping this shit out. And I mean literal shit. It’s like you’ve committed to go down into the cesspool to dig around for facts to pass on to us folks who are standing around the edge protected with gas masks. I wait for your clarification of all the garbage that’s being flung around which helps me make more sense out of what the MSM throws at us. You might consider taking weekends off to rest your brain.

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Teri's avatar

Maybe Jeff has an in-house shrink so he can decontaminate his brain often.

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Marie Martin's avatar

Everyone needs to decontaminate that bum out of their systems. Toxic.

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Tess's avatar

glad it’s not serious!

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David (Dave) Jaspers's avatar

Glad you're ok.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

No worries Jeff, my large fingers/tiny keyboard and technologies auto-correct/ suggest create more fuckery in my comments than I’d ever imagined!!

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Patricia Gomes's avatar

I have to use a stylus to make any sense ! Otherwise it’s pure gibberish.

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kdsherpa's avatar

Perhaps because you felt rushed, you were able to be more emotional -- and less of a comic -- that you normally are. Your piece is POWERFUL.

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Mindy OkayIloveyoubyebye's avatar

I hope everything is fine. Typos usually give me eye tics, so thanks for the explanation.

I have this horrible feeling Trump is going to "win", and this country is going to blow up. I don't believe in the supernatural power of dreams, but I had one last night that still terrifies me.

My Trumpster brother and I were driving to our parents' house, arguing about Trump, and he drove the car off a cliff, Thelma and Louise style.

Please don't regale me with mystical dream shit. Psychological dream shit is fine.

I'm terrified of heights, I haven't talked to that brother (adoptive) in years because of his insanity about Trump, and I miss him.

And I'm currently boiling 27 chicken legs to make stock, marinating 6 pounds of boneless chicken thighs in lemon, olive oil, garlic, and oregano, AND cleaning the bathroom.

Help ... 🤪

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Teri's avatar

Mmmm, what time is dinner?!

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W.C. Jones's avatar

I hope your medical appointment wasn't for Coprolalia. If it was, refuse treatment because we draw inspiration from your posts.

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Dan Halfeldt's avatar

Be well, my American hero. When Donny got elected, I needed Colbert and Maddow every night to get me though it. Now, Maddow is too tired to do every night, and I stopped watching talk shows, at least for a while. Now you're my only hope, Obi-Wan. The f'n Will Rogers of the 21st century. So grateful I subscribed to this page of yours.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

Rachel is not too tired!! She has been busy producing a documentary, “From Russia with Lev,” recording Ultra-Season 2, writing a tome of a book, consulting on a movie baes on her book “Bagman” about the corruption of Spiro T Agnew, & goddess knows what else. Whew, She has been so busy I don’t know how she manages to have any personal life.

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SuNew's avatar

I am so fucking tired of him getting a fucking pass on every fucking thing. VOTE!

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Mike Hammer's avatar

Let’s defeat the Nazis on November 5th!

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Lisa59's avatar

Well said!! I saw the bigoted Fascists roar with applause for their Nazi Heroes at Kirk's event. This race is about protecting white fucking privilege. PERIOD.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Right On Lisa!!

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Merc's avatar

Public and officials won’t do anything to serve as a check and balance against their Orange Fuhrer

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Grace Kennedy's avatar

Can’t wait for their reunion at MSG on the 27th.

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Nancy Potter's avatar

I have to agree with Jeff that there are at least a hundred things he's said or done that would be "the end of the campaign" for any normal candidate, yet his people ignore it or laugh it off, or his sycophants minimize it and he carries on. Do enough people want to live in a fascist dictatorship presided over by Mad King Donald?

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Appears the unctuous derps of this country, want to be ruled by a fascist tosspot, his words motivate their racist hatred Nancy!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Yes, remember George Carlin's monologue on stupid people? Well add hateful, and too lazy to think for themself, to stupid and here we are.

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P123Sunny's avatar

So embarrassing even the msm is calling it / themselves out…?!

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Susie in OH's avatar

I’m sick of his putting down this country. If he and his cult don’t like it here they can effin leave.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

France’s planned attack on the US was thwarted when Diaper Donny rose up and threatened them with 2000% tariffs on all French fries.

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markwilson67's avatar

He's the only reason we're not all speaking French now.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

parle pour toi

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markwilson67's avatar

Oui oui. All the French I remember from four years of high school French:-)

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Ellen J Anderson's avatar

Oui, Trump est fasciste, mais nous sommes pret de votez-le hors scène. Sorry, college french only took me so far, I had to look up the last phrase.

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Rain Robinson's avatar

Bien pour vous! Your French is better than mine, truly. Mes cours en français in college were decades ago. 😄

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Rain Robinson's avatar

D'accord.

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un poco loco's avatar

La plume de ma tante est sur le table.

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Rain Robinson's avatar

Où est l'hôtel? 😆

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Grace Kennedy's avatar

N’avale pas l’aspirine

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Tres bete aujourd'hui!

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Samantha M's avatar

All I can think of reading this is “I don’t mean to brag, I don’t mean to boast but I’m intercontinental when I eat French toast.” 🤣 And yes, the Beastie Boys would have been waaaaay better at presidenting than the feckless fuckstick Don Snorleone.

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arne link's avatar

Well Damn! I really wanted to learn to speak French. I'm so disappointed.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Pourquoi Arne?

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Robert R's avatar

Oui mon frere ! Or spelling it correctly!🤪

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Bien sur Robert!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Je detests ca!

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Stephen Schiff's avatar

Even this is not new. When GW Bush was stirring up lies about Iraq having WMDs the French and German intelligence agencies said that they didn't, and the US reaction was to denounce them. I vividly remember the clueless assholes at work talking about "freedom fries".

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The Fact And Just The Facts's avatar

I was telling my nineteen year old granddaughter about the “W” years and freedom fries. My husband, then a Republican said “W” should have been charged with war crimes. My husband is not a reactionary. When he says something it’s well thought out.

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Stephen Schiff's avatar

And IMO he is right. Nürnberg trials' number one charge: Waging an offensive war. That is to say attacking another country that didn't attack you. Like Putin attacking Ukraine.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

He was not wrong.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Gale, my wife and I left the US when dubya was re-elected have gone back but to visit. That and one more thing the Bushes are very quiet this election, that means they are tRompers.

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Barbara Rengstorff's avatar

I thought he was charged with war crimes and for that reason, can’t leave the country. At least that’s what I think my husband said. I don’t remember it and I may have the wrong guy(s?). I’ll ask my husband when he gets home. 🙄🤪

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Mary Hall's avatar

THIS! Plus, those fumducks were dumping out beautiful French wines they had already paid for in the street as a protest.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Which are actually Belgian in origin!

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Stephen Schiff's avatar

Je sais! Pommes frites. But it would overload the average American if you told them that. As an aside, one of my proudest accomplishments as a tourist was to NOT have any during a week-long visit to Bruxelles.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

And on the French dressing and French Toast

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David Jones's avatar

And poodles. Even though they aren't really French.

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Stephen Schiff's avatar

and threats to rewrite the history books to say it was the French as our opponents in the Revolutionary War and we were aided by the Russians.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Good one Walter!

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Teri's avatar

🍟🍟🍟🍟😂😂😂

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

😆😆😆😆

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George A. Polisner's avatar

Thank you Jeff.

I wrote the following a bit earlier:

When the only people asserting for the convicted felon are either billionaires who stand to gain additional billions through GOP-driven mechanisms to add to the already dangerous and extreme concentration of wealth, or are foreign enemies of the United States and democracy, a simple question becomes -are you a proxy vote for Putin, Orban, Musk, and Netanyahu to do whatever they want? Or do you embrace the fundamental concepts of the rule of law, democracy, and equality.

It's really that simple.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

If only more MAGA voters would see it this way but they're blinded by the bullshit. Since many of the rotten orange man's base are simple folks, they can't connect dots and even if they did, they won't believe it. Trying to convince them how much they stand to lose and how little he cares about his voters doesn't seem to phase their level of naiveness and apathy.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

I believe that GQP has pulled off the biggest bamboozle in American political history by convincing middle, lower-middle, and disadvantaged class people to vote conservative. They accomplished this by using years of lying, racist, xenophobic, homophobic, ammosexual propaganda to convince the simple folk that conservatism is beneficial to them while screwing them every which way.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Like

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

🎯👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

One huge factor separating magats from others seems to be college education. No mystery…

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

Hell, a whole bunch of them never even completed high school!! Even when they hold a high school diploma, they remain semi-illiterate & incapable of grasping complex concepts. They were just passed on through the grades because they were getting too old to stay in school.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

My husband theorizes they simply don't have the bandwidth to understand.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Many don't, but add in the other resentment-based lies and it triggers them to believe the lies. Hence the incessant fear mongering about immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, wokeness, etc. This seems to work even in those who may have the bandwidth. Check out Jimmy Kimmel's correspondent asking Coachella MAGA rally stooges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQEKgoIr_6A

The questions start at about the 11:20 mark. These are Californians, not the usual southerners or so called hicks we usually see., yet they are as ignorant

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David Simpson's avatar

Loved CNN Analyst, Van Jones’ comment during the post-town hall meeting panel discussion. His conclusion vis-a-vis the blatant Double Standard: “They [Trump and Harris} haven’t been given ‘the same exam’. He gets marks for being lawless, and she’s EXPECTED to be flawless.” Well put.

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Roberto's avatar

Lawless vs Flawless - Jones nails it.

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Carl Babcock's avatar

According to Mary Trump as of last night, the story they are sitting on has something to do with Trump groping a possibly underage girl at a fundraiser. There is supposedly video of it, but she hadn't seen it. IF this were true, and even with the political ramifications I hope it isn't, it might be enough to chase off a significant portion of his base

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

would it, though? remember the tee shirts from 2016 that read "Trump can grab my pussy"?

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bruce somers's avatar

The cult doesn't really care what he does or says.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

This is true. I don’t understand but the, what I call the undercrust have no learning, understanding, respect for truth. They are just empty vessels. I don’t get it. They just can’t understand anything a quarter inch deep. To their detriment and those around them.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

That is a brilliant insight.

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Robert R's avatar

His base probably makes up 7/8 of the pedophile video freaks in North America!🤢🤮

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Deb Martina's avatar

That should have been enough right there. Can't wait until this nightmare is over and Dems take control. Hopefully we'll never hear another word about the shit that we have seen since the birth of the tea party. Of course it started with Reagan but doubt he knew the fallout would be this bad.

Vote

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Munchygut's avatar

tRump is so full of shit that, if you give him an enema, he would die. And we could bury him in a matchbox.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Sadly,, Bill Barr stopped Reagan’s treason investigation, or we might not be here Deb!

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un poco loco's avatar

I can't even remember all of the things that I thought his campaigns couldn't recover from.

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Teri's avatar

So true!

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PTW's avatar

💯

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Robert R's avatar

That was when I knew we were in the deep shit 💩 if that didn’t sink him nothing would! 😬😵‍💫

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Marie Martin's avatar

Good luck with that (that we don’t hear a word from him).

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Cindy Watter's avatar

Why doesn't Halperin say it now? Is he afraid we won't buy his damn book? Which I am not going to buy.

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Teri's avatar

IIRC, Mark Halpern is a disgraced former political reporter & sexual predator. He & the wonderful John Heilman wrote books together, had a cable show

on Showtime "The Circus". Halpern was accused of sexual assault or rape and immediately his political associations were GONE. Morning Joe dropped him like a hot potato. Katy Tur of MSNBC said Halpern was SO brazen, but it was before #MeToo. She said her first job covering the McCain (?) campaign, on day one, all new reporters were told to "stay far away from Halpern, and NEVER to be alone with him. So here he is, decades later, with a "big story".

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Mary Hall's avatar

I have a photo of a skanky granny in a tacky bikini with "Trump Boner Garage" with an arrow pointing down, written on her fat, wrinkly abdomen.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

This sums it up. So much for striving upward and forward. Can’t even compute.

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Marie Martin's avatar

Makes me want to gag. I’m 76. And I can look at that plainly and see how much that person hates herself … super low self esteem.

Or fucking crazy.

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Robert R's avatar

That should definitely GAG A MAGAT

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Carl Babcock's avatar

I have to hope so, Jeff. Even after all of the fuckery of the last 10 years, I have faith that people aren't inherently bad

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

Sorry, mine is gone. 71 million "patriots" voted for this disgusting human being 4 years ago. No matter what comes out that he has said/done, millions will still vote for him again. We're not talking about the fringe groups that we always have. We're talking about close to half our voting country. People have showed who they REALLY are by continuing to support him. You're either rich and don't care about your fellow citizens and all you care about is money/power. Or you're an overt/covert racist. There's no other explanation for his supporters. And this isn't all about being white. I work with minorities (other than blacks) that are Trump supporters. Don't ever think that minorities don't discriminate and aren't bigoted because some of them are too. He has brought out the "bad" in some people and to my sadness it's many more than I ever thought. I will be 6 feet under before the damage to this country will be fixed if it ever will. He's just the icing on the cake. He's not the cake.

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Deb Martina's avatar

I'm with you, sadly

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Teri's avatar

Yesterday gassing up a car full of Hispanic men were beside me. I asked if I could speak to them about the election. They nicely all replied they were not 18 yet. One yelled "TRUMP!", then they all began chanting this name. I had gone back to my car, wondering if they knew about "15-20m round up", but I didn't want to follow up.

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Marie Martin's avatar

It’s not just the rich vs poor. That’s the scariest part. I think the common denominator is RESENTMENT. Rich people are resentful; poor people are too. One huge resentment, or a bunch of small grudges. These are people who haven’t learned “something” about life. They blame everyone but themselves for what they don’t have. If we are going to try to turn this around, we have to figure out how yo change this dynamic. Sounds impossible. But I’m a believer that just because we haven’t yet seen ”the way to fix something” doesn’t mean there isn’t a way.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

I work with a white guy (I’m white too). We were talking about entitlement/privilege one day and he doesn’t see it. Can’t see that you have your skin color and gender (white male) giving you a head start in life free from racial/gender discrimination the minute you are born. Of course, that doesn’t mean you will have a good life or that bad things won’t happen to you. But you don’t have to get over the hurdle of being born a woman or a minority in this country. He was focused on his lousy childhood and gave me examples of black athletes making millions of dollars. These athletes are not the typical black males. Anyone making millions of dollars of any gender or race is not the typical American. But this coworker is always the victim and never takes responsibility for his shortcomings in life. Always someone else’s fault. I never asked him who he votes for, but my money is on Trump. He fits the profile of a male Trump voter with resentment.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Just stupid. Hurts just as being bad.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

You’ve got more faith than most of us Carl, half the country may not be “bad”, but ignorant, longing for acceptance is quite another thing!

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Juli's avatar

They’d be all “ She led him on.”

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PTW's avatar

No, it would not matter one bit to his voters. As Sununu said, it is already baked in, and they worship him anyway.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Exactly the point Jeff!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Like a poker game they are "all in."

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

Remember Shere Hite? Many women’s fantasies were being “ravished” by a strongman…Horrible to think this in 2024 but same emotion of women & men wanting a strong man to take care of them

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arne link's avatar

Nah, they would all get a chubby watching that video. Magats are vile people. The just love it when Herr Drumpf attacks women.

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steve robertshaw's avatar

Correct answer. All these press breaking news stories with trump are just more episodes of Lucy moving the football on Charlie Brown each time his gullibility makes him try kicking it again.

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Robert R's avatar

The thing that amazes me most about these brain dead MAGATS is that Hitler would have exterminated most of them as mentally disabled and unproductive vermin that contribute nothing to the Reich !

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Absolutely Robert!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

And we all know what happened to his violent Brown shirts.

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Lisa59's avatar

They don't give two fucks. He could blow up a daycare center. They would blame the parents for not being home taking care of their own kids.

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arne link's avatar

Nailed it, Lisa. We live in horrible times.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Yes exactly.

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PTW's avatar

No, not the "parents." Just the mother, for "choosing" to have a job instead of being home with the kids, as God intended. (sarcasm)

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Lisa59's avatar

Mom gets blamed for everything.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Lead story in The Guardian.

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Jodi Richard's avatar

Unfortunately it happened in 1993 not a week ago. So it falls under the “oh well, what’s new” kind of story. 😡

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Wouldn't matter if it happened five minutes ago.

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Jodi Richard's avatar

Exactly. No one gives a flying fuck except for us.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

And unless the girl looked like a six-yr-old, they'll blame her for "asking for it".

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Marie Martin's avatar

Standard answer: “What? People do all kinds of things they regret. Aren’t you able to forgive?”

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PTW's avatar
Oct 25Edited

Not sure it is the same "scoop" if the one being covered up by Halperin is about a child. The Guardian story is about a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model groped by Donald in 1993 at Trump Tower, who is just now talking publicly about it.

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Mark Marderosian's avatar

At the very least, given their reaction to the bogus pizza story, it'd brand them as hypocrites.

But don't worry, the press is holding on to it (the way they'd never do with Harris) as a way of having something they can print should Trump win and then claim their own moral high ground as truth-tellers, (while using it a bludgeon against him for four years). Of course, it'll be too little, too late.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

It's beginning to be a little late for that October surprise. Millions have already early voted. And his cult would just say "fake news, it's a made up video". There's nothing, but nothing that will make them dislike him. I just want him to buy some koolaid and get rid of some of them. And you know that many of them would drink anything he put in front of them.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Photos of Trump groping his own underage (and adult) daughter weren't enough to dent the undying loyalty of his base, so ....

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Deb Martina's avatar

True 🤬

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Permian Extinction's avatar

Well, why are they sitting on it? Groping a child is even worse than groping an adult. Time to roll out the Epstein tapes...

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P123Sunny's avatar

But not to distract from all the H-tler stuff, right?…

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Marie Martin's avatar

Would it? If the words COMING FROM HIS OWN FUCKING MOUTH, that he would “date his daughter” don’t upset his fans, I don’t think images of him groping an underage girl would move the needle. If the girl has on too much eyeshadow, or too much cleavage, or too short a skirt, you know what the response will be: She asked for it. After all a man can only take so much “teasing”. I can’t even think of what visual vulnerable condition a girl would have to be in for his fans to declare OMG.

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un poco loco's avatar

Probably can't hurt (as long as the girl isn't victimized); might help. If it were anyone else, I'd have some hope it would take the asshole down, but we ARE talking about the GQP, a bunch of religious nutjobs, and a party hell-bent on taking power to rule in perpetuity, no matter what.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Naw! His base is as koo koo as he is

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Dubious Carl, Trump’s already labeled a sexual predator!

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Nothing is enough to chase off his base.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

I’m absolutely disgusted with Anderson Cooper. Wtf was he trying to prove last night? He was blaming her for all kinds of things that happened (or didn’t happen) under “her”administration. I wanted her to scream at him, “I’m not the fucking president! The vice president doesn’t get to make policies!” I didn’t expect him to throw complete softballs at her, but the standard to which he held her, and which nobody on CNN holds Trump was unforgivable. And bravo to Jake Tapper who FINALLY spoke out last night. But you’re right, Jeff. That should’ve been happening months ago. Jeff, I hope your doctor’s appointment goes well. You need to stay healthy for at least 30 years.

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Kate's avatar

He is a hack like the rest of them. His Vanderbilt ass can go away any time now.

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Marie Martin's avatar

I’m sorry to have to agree with you. I thought he was going to be able to stay out of the mud of the new right wing regime at cnn. I will never watch a thing from them again.

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Nancy Potter's avatar

At least he let her get her answers out, rather than interrupting her more than once a minute.

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Lisa T. Sandoval's avatar

Oh he interrupted her alright but she soldiered on.

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Barbara Ferrara's avatar

He interrupted her and talked over her numerous times before she finished her response to the person who asked the question

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Kate's avatar

Mighty low bar, that.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

I just shake my head at the hypocrisy of it all. Since Cooper is gay, you'd think that he'd give her a break since her opponent will go after gays next. Unless you're a white, heterosexual, Christian male (and they're not really safe), Trump has no use for you and you could easily be a target if he wins.

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arne link's avatar

You won't be a target if you are super rich. Anderson, Thiel and the others will be just fine. They only hate poor people, not the rich ones.

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Kate's avatar

I wrote him off after he abandoned Kathy Griffin.

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Tama2U's avatar

I watched that piece with Sununu and wanted to throw rocks at the television. That pos knows exactly what he is doing spouting crazy maga rhetoric. Fk him!

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David Skoglund's avatar

Like father, like son!

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Zija Pulp's avatar

Sununu was against Trump—until he wasn’t. Maybe he got a visit from someone? He also ran on being pro-women making their own healthcare choices until he wasn’t. He’s duplicitous and, like a lot of Republicans, doesn’t seem to acknowledge or care what they used to believe in. He is not a trustworthy narrator.

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Tama2U's avatar

Just like the other gop turncoats…Miss Lindsay et al

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Little strange Miss Lindsey is the definition of ‘flip-flop’ and we’re talking decades. If you don’t have his number by now you never will.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Never was in my mind Vicki!

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Kate's avatar

Yeah, he is one of the most enthusiastic rump water carriers. NEW HAMPSHIRE WTAF?!

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David Skoglund's avatar

Yes, Kate!

And isn’t the New Hampshire state motto “Live free or die”? I guess that motto is bullshit.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

They are so proud of their motto and heritage, but they are as deluded by the MAGA cult as any undereducated, underexposed rural trumper from anywhere else, USA

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Kate's avatar

Yup, sure is!!

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P123Sunny's avatar

Soooo disappointing

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

I was hoping he was dead but his foul mouth was still flapping.

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Mark Slattery's avatar

My question to trumpers from now to November 5 is "you're really going to doom your children and grandchildren to live in a fascist dictatorship ?"

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Tess's avatar

And the reply will be…”oh they aren’t really gonna do that!” (according to my brothers!) EGADS MAN!

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P123Sunny's avatar

Or: “Oh it won’t affect ‘us’…” 😒

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

All the old Republicans in my area hate Trump, but they won’t vote for a Dem… ugly unpatriotic ignorance!!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

You are spot on Mark. No one is thinking about what life in a dictatorship would be like. 😭

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Nancy Potter's avatar

And nobody is thinking of what four more years of "Drill Baby Drill" will do to the climate.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Ignoring historical evidence is ignorance as well Susan!

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shee-rah's avatar

I’m thinking about it! Vote Harris!

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

They can’t be! That has to be uneducated people donny loves the dumb ones. But history sees it loud and clear, frankly I don’t think diaper don is up to the task.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Evidently Americans don’t understand that NAZIS. ARE. THE. ENEMY. We literally went to war to stop them. 🤦‍♀️. America isn’t too bright.

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Michael Mooney's avatar

Because teaching children the truth about WW2 and the Nazi’s is “woke”! I agree America is so dumb!

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Charles Austin's avatar

It's horrifying that so many clueless people are running loose.🙄🤮

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Marie Martin's avatar

Charles: And running things … like the country.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Dumb, dumber, dumbest… it’s like a badge of honor- how stooopid their views of the world and our place in it.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Say it again a bit louder Susan!!

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Charles Austin's avatar

GOP politicians are scared shitless of their base. As a result, they regularly shit all over themselves to do the dance of the Shitgibbon. My Dad and millions of WWII vets are spinning in their graves watching this shit! 😡😡If you see one of these fucks sporting a swastika flag, give them the ass kicking they deserve.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Totally. Any of them who served in WWII (my father, too) would be shocked and enraged at seeing fucking swastikas in America.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

In the miniseries Band of Brothers, near the war's end the 101st Airborne riding in trucks passes surrendered German soldiers, walking and some riding in horse-drawn carts. Private David Webster shouts at them, "Hey you! That's right, you stupid Kraut bastards! That's right! Say hello to Ford, and General fuckin' Motors! You stupid fascist pigs! Look at you! You have horses! What were you thinking? Dragging our asses halfway around the world, interrupting our lives...for what, you ignorant, servile scum! What the fuck are we doing here?"

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arne link's avatar

Bravo! How can they not know that their fathers and grandfathers fought and died to keep our country free?

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HI2thDoc's avatar

They know and don't give a fuck

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shee-rah's avatar

According to Dumbass, they were “losers and suckers.”

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P123Sunny's avatar

‘Winning’ will offset all the ‘sausage making’ apparently 😞

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

And "sausage yanking" by the MSM.

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

The only surprising story from yesterday was the one about avoiding war with France.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Agreed, WTF was that idiocy about Neal!

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Beats me.

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David Olson's avatar

The arc of history may bend toward justice, but watching the Orange Jesus defy political gravity makes me think we are on a tangent to that arc. We should have cast the OJ from polite society years ago. For him now to remain a serious contender speaks legions to a political rot in our great country. Yet the apologists, these artisans of the political pretzel, now demean a former USMC General. As Mr. Joseph Welch those many years ago said to McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency?” How many people have the GOP maligned to avoid the wrath of a grifter, a traitor to his oath of great office?

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Four hundred thousand American soldiers died fighting Nazis in World War II, and a mere 80 years later, voters can't remember that Hitler was bad? I can't even with this dumbass country. A side note about Jake Tapper - I volunteer at my local library. Tapper has written 2 or 3 truly terrible thrillers. My job is changing up the displays. I never ever display his books.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Radical book terrorist!!!

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Bad novelist, even worse.

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Good Morning to all… Another episode of “Golfing with MAGAS”. The other day I pointed out the remarks from General Kelly and General Miley stating who Donald admires, what type of government Donald wants, how Donald would surround himself with compliant generals. In addition I pointed out what Donald’s plans are for our Constitution, our country and the repercussions of instituting a White Christian male dominated society. I was told to calm down or I would get a heart attack, that Donald was merely talking smack to rally his base, he’s not going to do what he has been shouting about…. I was told that all our problems are from illegals crossing the border, that the US should be friends with Vlad, Xi, Un, Orban and our country should be more like Russia…. It’s the liberals that have broken our country….. I’m not joining this group until the election is over…I’m at the point I just cannot take the ignorance anymore… however I do have more MAGA encounters if the community wishes to hear about them.🤯

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Michael Mooney's avatar

You need different friends.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Wow. How do you do this… listening to that nonsense! Please share your encounters!

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Hi Susan, I did not include a BBQ I attended over the weekend in Prescott Valley AZ. All were MAGAS, most retired law enforcement from Cali. As I put a jacket on preparing to play corn hole I remarked I might need my Yankee ski cap since it was getting rather chilly.. well an 82 year old woman told me it better not be a Harris hat..I told her it was a baseball ski hat… geesh… At the end of the party the hostess said she’s giving another party when Trump wins… if Donald loses she will give a party to figure out where to move to…. 🤮🤮🤮🤮

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Dave Drell's avatar

And, let us not forget that piece of rancid pus-dwelling cancer called Lindsay Graham-he needs to get his head out of the sand and go fuckity fuckity far away.

Honestly, who votes for him? are you wacko like him?

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un poco loco's avatar

In 2016, Lindsey went on the Daily Show and delivered a masterpiece of a rant about Trump and how terrible he was. It was laced with profanity and was also the funniest (and truest) assessment of who the asshole was that I'd heard yet.

And shortly thereafter, Lindsey was supporting Trump. Absofuckinglutely sure it was blackmail. Now he actively aids and abets PAB. While I admired Lindsey's initial position, it's hard to feel sorry for someone who values their status and power more than their own integrity.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Yep, we don't know how you stood it so long. I woulda wrapped a nine iron around their necks by now

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P123Sunny's avatar

The Caucasus: Due to the whiteness of its snow, for in an eastern language, caucasus means “white,” that is, shining white with a very thick snow cover…

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Teri's avatar

Fredo, it's always to read your posts, but don't intentionally face the 🐂

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

At the BBQ I really didn’t have any full on confrontations as most had never met me. My motto? Assume all are MAGAS unless they prove me wrong.

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Nightmaher's avatar

I wish you would Fredo. I’d listen.

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Mark Marderosian's avatar

I said two months ago that I NEVER, EVER want to hear again from Trump or any of his cult members the words "fake news" or how the press is so mean to him. I think I can say without contradiction that never in my lifetime has the worthless members of the media given ANY candidate such a continual free pass. Geez, I remember as a young lad watching a 1968 TV broadcast in which the journalist on the panel tore through Hubert Humphrey for something the latter had said. I guarantee you, it didn't come close to the vomit spewing out of the pie hole of the unclean one.

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