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Let’s see … hackers with an AOL account … publicly available info … pie-in-the-sky, evidence-free finger pointing … and a comic book villain. For such a well-oiled machine the Don Snorleone campaign could do with some Scooby Doo rerun binging. Even the Scooby gang is more astute — and believable — than this clown show.

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As soon as Roger Stone was mentioned, it all became Keystone Cops for me. (Cue Mad Music)

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Roger Stone is definitely the loose cannon who would come up with the crazy idea of leaking this. He's also old enough to be very familiar with AOL.

Means. Motive. Opportunity. Roger -> Robert????

If Roger did it, it will be uncovered, and it will be a deficit for the Trump campaign. BTW, it will be fun to see trump disown Roger Stone!

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Grab the Scooby snacks!

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I can only confirm that I am *not* the Bobbinator

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Good to know.

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If the FBI should find out that Roger Stone was in on this, we would not know before the election because they won’t interfere with Donny’s campaign but they did interfere with Hillary’s campaign like in 2016. If there’s any way they can throw something out there in September or October about Kamala that could be used to make a mountain out of a molehill, then they’ll do it. Chris Wray is a Republican you know

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Probably not Roger, although it's just like something he would do. It IS an AOL personal account, so it is almost certainly decades old.

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All I can hear is Yakkity Sax! 🤣

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From Cassidy's book, Donald's White House was a daily sitcom. Imagine if he gets back in the Oval with Roger and Manafort and Lara and Eric and Marge and Gym and the rest of the MAGA-Trump World idiots! He can invite Elon over for more live stream events like this. And host Tucker for lunch with ketchup fights! Fitting behavior for the Leader of the Free World.

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Hopefully he will be inside a jail cell or exiled in Venezuela!

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How does he think Maduro would take him? His only choice is Moscow, and that's iffy since Putin would know he'd have no relationship at all with the US whatsoever if he did that.

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Oh, I would love to see him believe that Putin wants him there, and actually get on the helicopter they send

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I think Orban would take him too

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The Benny Hill Show!

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YES!

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That prick should be incarcerated.

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He would be if not for rump’s pardon

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Those pricks should be incarcerated. Fify!😀

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I think Hl2thDoc was talking about tRump. Lol

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Right? 🤣🤣🤣

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with that list and my free square in the center...

Trump 2024 Campaign Bullshit BINGO!

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😂😂😂

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Hey you’ve got to hand it to the guy whose daily phantasmagoric idiocies are getting nuttier than an ape’s lunch. Kamala, please save us from this demented knave.

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I'm cracking up with "two narcissists jerking each other off." Greased palms in more ways than one. 🤣 Roger Buttplug Stone is a freak of nature. He always reminds me of the Penguin on the old Batman series.

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He even looks like a penguin.

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I just want to take that hat and pull it down over his face! What a schmuck!

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He reminds me of Zippy the Pinhead

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That’s probably who he told his plastic surgeon to make him look like; and the guy did it!

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I’ve always thought that too! 😆

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Amen!

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Is someone trying to tell us that the tRump campaign has secrets with Mr Manic Motormouth going 24/7?

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I am grateful that ProPublica, the only media source mentioned here that seems to try to work for We the People, and not just clicks and likes, as if they are all stuck in jr. high girlhood, released an article on the leaked training tapes from Project 2025 with a summary, clips to illustrate their points, and then a link to all 14 hours at the end. That is how you do journalism. https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-project-2025-secret-training-videos-trump-election

Now I would love to hear what former Spy, Jeff Stein of Spy Talk has to say about the other leaked materials. He has contacts, and if he says word is this comes from Iran I take it. However, it would be interesting for Iran to hack and leak the material. It could just as easily be Israel wanting to start something bigger with Iran and get the USA to join them as part of an election interference revenge. Of course, that is more likely to happen under a Trump presidency than a Biden one. Speaking of Trump, he and Musk are classic examples of toxic masculinity. It would be great if high school teachers and profs started having their students analyzing them this year and their behavior in social studies, media studies, feminism, econ civics, gender studies (can we say prime examples of toxic masculinity), journalism, Human resources, etc... You don't want us examining the history that includes Black people, or gay people, well, let us just look at the behavior of toxic masculinity, and see which members of the Republican party don't fit that type. Because after teaching for over 30 years, I know their type too, and I can picture them as third, fourth and fifth graders as well as in middle school and high school. Throw in JD Vance and we are reminded of the infamous saying of fraternities at Yale, "no means yes and yes means anal." Although for him we can trade out "anal" for "couch." These men are sickening and Jessie Ventura put it well when he said, "It is time for a woman president." I think Trump and Musk did a perfect job of showing us why, and now the Harris/Walz campaign can just amplify it.

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My hand first went up at AOL. AOL?

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And ‘Robert’! If that doesn’t scream “Iran”, I don’t know what does. 🤣🤣🤣

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ROBERT IS his younger brother, who now inhabits a realm of iniquity; he has decided to be of service to his big bro, because Roy Cohn and Ivana said " fuck no."

Roy is still pissed bcz donny convict kicked him onto the "A" train tracks and Ivana ; well, she's fuming cause he buried her on the golf course with a heap of papers and no Tombstone.

Vengeance is 2 bitches scheming up the next plot; the bullet missed!😡🤬💩

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There’s knowledge of American culture and a sense of humor. Clearly a sense of humor.

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…or John Baron

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I didn't know AOL is still a thing...do they still send you a CD using snail-mail?

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Nah. AOL is fully online at this point.

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Well shit...Radio Shack and Blockbuster are still going strong though,right?

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yes, I always found that hilariously ironic

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Hey, I have an AOL account! Have had it almost 30 years. 😄

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Ditto!

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Haven't you ever seen a bank robber disguised as a little old lady?

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AOL is the little-old-lady disguise? Did he/they have to rummage in grandma’s closet to find an AOL disk?

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Sounds about right. Everything old is new again.

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And where did they find a disc drive???

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In the same closet. Though you can still find peripherals to play them.

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Wasn't that back when we had " floppy disks"?

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If it really happened, that would be one way to narrow down the hacker in a hurry.

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My 87-year-old spouse loves the sound of You’ve Got Mail, I guess. He also loves to explain to younger people how useful it is to have your phone with you in case your car breaks down. Part of the Set in Our Ways crowd.

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My 82-year-old spouse, who as philosophy professor taught science and technology courses, struggles and curses at his iPhone and his Apple Watch, but manages to toggle among three gigantic computer screens, produces on-line articles, and ‘speaks’ almost daily with colleagues around the world. And uses his iPad to flip through his sheet music to play on his Roland keyboard. I’m 75 and taught in a laptop school, paperless classes, and cut in videos and communicated with other classes via our computer setup. We old folks are not troglodytes, but the learning curve was steep. My first IBM was dual-disk drive and I needed to learn basic commands. Then learned to add memory to my Gateway, and used telnet dial-up. My granddaughter has more facility than I do, she was born to it. I do all my political work from my kitchen counter, including using an avatar to get into the scariest places on the internet. Steep, steep learning curve that took lots of time to learn, including multiple platforms. I’m glad I can do it, but there will come a time when I’ll just stop.

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My 87-year-old spouse has a Ph.D. in physics. He has resisted adopting new tech for a couple of decades now. Gets me to do stuff for him on my iPad. I think he was afraid he couldn’t learn it as fast as he used to learn things. Or as fast as I do, being ten years younger and female.

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I just this minute had to explain to my husband that if you have “do not disturb’ set on your phone, Siri can’t remind you of the directions you just gave her.

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When I need to defend myself from not quickly adopting the newest tech, I point out that when I started out, the screen on the computer monitor was black, the letters on it were orange, and the computer paper came in a long sheet with sprocket holes.

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And I still have a box of that paper. It makes wonderful banners that the grandkids can make and hang about the house. Much better use that I made of it with a dissertation.

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You had a "screen" on a "monitor"?

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ahhh I remember the good 'ol AOL days.

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My dial-up modem is still buffering...for 30 years...

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😂 I miss the AOL local chat rooms I used to be in ...I met so many new friends from there....and were all dirty minded haha

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They dug that out of the Ice Age.

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My mom had dementia. She did not have dentures. The way Trump sounded on this “interview” is exactly how my mom sounded the further her condition took over.

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Yep, I've heard that very lisp and slurring from people on pain medication and alcohol. Both depress the nervous system so that it's difficult to talk, plus making it impossible to keep a coherent train of thought. Both of those have been present to varying degrees in his public speaking lately. It's also quite possibly dementia or maybe mini-strokes. I'm not as familiar with those, but I have been around people with those too. To sum up, there are several possible reasons for the symptoms he's increasingly displaying, none of them consistent with administering the power of the office he's seeking.

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Just look at his family history. Both parents with dementia. Dad with Alzheimer’s and mom , according to Wiki, died of osteoporosis. But one doesn’t die of osteoporosis. That’s a shitty bone disease but she did have a form of dementia. The felon is a genetic sitting duck for a dementia of some flavor. His diet and lifestyle also haven’t helped him any.

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Considering his known personality disorders and the fact he lies as part of creating his own reality-how much further before one can call out, TIMBER!

And we get the full panoramic display of narcissistic collapse?

I think we are seeing it.

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Adderall.

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If a brain with a propensity for dementia is constantly bombarded with an amphetamine like Adderall, that can't be good.

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A malignant narcissist with sociopathic ideation marinating in uppers...sheesh, something has to give!

And the voters, how many more "lines" does he have to cross before they recognize what he is?

Amazing and scary.

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My mother did too & I’ve been saying since 2016 that tRump sounds exactly like her

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Yep he's been showing signs since 2015

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I'm sorry about your mom, Neil. Same with my mother. Her doctor said their brains forget how to move their tongue to make certain sounds. Thankfully, she had a stroke before it got worse. I've been waiting for Trump to lisp, but I didn't think it would start this soon.

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☹️

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One strange thing: I've listened over and over to the clips and I can't hear the lisp. I wonder if there is something on the speakers I use with my computer that corrects the sound?

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I couldn’t hear it very well either

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He probably doesn’t have dentures-you can usually tell when someone is wearing dentures. He probably has implants

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The excuse du jour is that bad equipment made Diaper Don sound lispy. No. I worked in TV post-production sound for 25 years. Better equipment would have only heightened lisping, slurring, or any kind of mouth noise.

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For fuck’s sake he can’t even lisp honestly

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He can't do a damn thing honestly. Lispy and the Couch Humper which perhaps could be the name of a fascist prison band, continue to take their campaign shitshow to a level we've never seen and hopefully will never see again. Couldn't stand to watch last night's bogus interview but the lowlights that were spelled out this morning by Jeff and others pretty much tells us it was the lispy lying version of the same old shit, different day.

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Lispy & the Couch Humper is the best fascist band name I wish I’d never heard, because I can’t quit laughing.

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That one is going to stick.

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Thank you RV.

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Like

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😂😂😂

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Good one.

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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I was a dental assistant for 15 years, working for a doctor who made prosthetics like dentures. That lisp and slur is his dentures. The thing that happens at rallies where he starts a word and can't say the rest of it is when his dentures cause his mouth to dry out and his tongue sticks to his dentures. Why a man who has access and money to implants doesn't get them is wierd.

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Cotton candy hair in the weirdest combover EVER, orange face, dentures, bloated body, and diapers, and I bet he STILL thinks he looks good in the mirror.

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“was I hotter before or hotter now. I don’t know…”

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I guessed dentures but my expertise is sound recording not teeth. I was waiting for someone with dental bona fides to weigh in. Also: Dentures!? He could have kept that a secret from the rest of us non-dental professionals. Nothing like an old-school set of false choppers to project an aura of youth.

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Donny is probably waiting for a dentist to provide the implants for free!! We know he doesn’t pay for anything!! Why can’t he just go away?

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He's probably too scared to undergo the surgery involved.

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Too cheap for implants?? For chrissakes...

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Should get the Pope to implant a fucken Soul in his heathen wrinkled skin suit !

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😂😂😂😂

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Not his real teeth? I am shocked! He has teeth like nobody has ever seen. Soooo white.

I read beauty advice that it looks Weird if your teeth are significantly whiter than the whites of your eyes.

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Almost every denture the doctor did the patients wanted the A1 color, which referred to as the George Hamilton. It is the purest white you can imagine. The doctor would try to persuade them in to a kinder, gentler shading. Every single time we delivered A1 dentures, the patient was shocked at how much older the bright white made them look. Trust the professionals.

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Dawn I saw a very old woman with the purest white teeth and she looked like a cartoon. Terrible look! I can understand that people want nice teeth but it would be great to give them a slide show with various options on their own photo!

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😂😂😂

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That( dentures) and his brain rotting out. He has been slurring for awhile now. His top 10, 20 gaffs that have been collected have shown plenty of examples. But it ain't getting better! Probably the more he stresses the worse it gets. Oh,I hope he is miserable watching Harris-Walz get bigger crowds and more excitement and he can sit in a steaming diaper and slur and lisp his way to an attendant.

He so deserves it.

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Cheap,cheap ,Cheap,miserly , orange puke.

Wears off the rack suits, altho, he can afford handmade, fitted ones.

Hell, Barney's would alter his suit to fit that tweedledum body.

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Suffering-suckatash!!! Damn if he didn't sound like Daffy...

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Dessssspickable

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Daffy Drumpf

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Fuck a duck he does sound like Daffy …Looks like a toon too!😜😅😂 liked the Pinocchio pic but the liars nose was far too short for 78 years of lies around the clock!🤥

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Duck season...no wabbit season...

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I was thinking of Sylvester the cat

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I saw an article on the supposed Iran hack yesterday. Here’s my conspiracy theory: this jumble of shit is Orange Stain trying to become more relevant / newsworthy since probable Prez Harris stole the limelight. Stone is known as a dirty trickster so his involvement stinks to high heaven.

Speaking of jumbles of shit, I’ll be brave enough to listen to Elmo’s and Stain’s interview after I’ve had more coffee.

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If I HAD to listen to that shit-show, it would have to have been after copious amounts of alcohol, not caffeine, lol!

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Apparently Musk-man-rocket-man still didn't fix the bugs that plagued them for the DeSatan roll-out,a simple audio interview...while the Harris/Walz campaign pulled off a Zoom call with about a gazillion people,and Trumpy is calling them 'incompetent'...such a dumbass.

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Too much alcohol combined with shit talk and I’d be heading to the vomitorium

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How do you fit all that ego into one room?

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Right? You’d think it would explode with all that gas.

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Musk: "Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed but now they're full cities again."

Trump: "That's great. That's great."

Musk: "Yeah, so it's not as scary as people think."

WTAF?

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Nancy-I hadn’t heard this one. Maybe he should volunteer to be in a blast! Like saying slavery provided black people with work skills!

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“yeah, the nukes aren’t as bad as you think, right?”

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They probably shared hair grooming tips...which aren't working.

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NOW I know what a 'circle jerk' is.

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You're a brave soul.... I can't bring myself to do it 🤢🤮

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Can't do it even with something stronger than coffee.

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Theory no 2: Kamala Harris & the Dems are somehow responsible even though they got hacked too

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I read recently that there was an attempt but it didn’t work. Is there some new info?

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The lying bullshit coming out of his mouf’ is reaching comical depths. Cognitive dissonance is the GQP’s #1 asset.

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mouf….😂😂😂😂

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But “his people” eat it up & regurgitate it

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The trouble is we don’t know just how many of them there are. Some died of COVID or other things, sure, but how many? Did new Trumpists replace them? We can’t be complacent.

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Lynn, there is no denying that. They eat it up with a spoon…even demanding more of it. This is one strange dynamic!

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Exactly. The more I hear about this, the less believable it becomes.

Just like RFK’s baby bear story

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“Just RFK being RFK”…😒🙄

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RFK is dead. Say Bob Jr instead

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Hey boo-boo!!

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founding

Reichstag Fire of the Vanities.

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😝

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PUT UP YOUR BANNERS!

PUT UP YOUR SIGNS!

WEAR YOUR T-SHIRTS!

Shout it from the rooftops—-

HARRIS / WALZ 2024 !!!!!

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Bought a cute T-shirt with a picture of a stiletto heel crushing a red ball cap today.

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Love it!😊

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My brother sent me a red hat with “ Make America Great Again” in Russian. When I wear it in front of Retrumplicans the “look” I get is absolutely priceless. Then I give the dumbfounded my explanation of the hat and they don’t get it…lol…

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Face it: Donald can't NOT lie.

He is simply unable to tell the truth.

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I find it amazing that he literally cannot.

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Donald Trump AND Roger Stone? Involved in the same convoluted hack drama?? Pointing the finger at Iran???

So many question marks, one simple answer: Bullshit.

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Probably the hacker sent them a link to help out a Nigerian prince...

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Or Roger Stone's password is "Nixonstheone"

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🤣😆😂

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Donald Trump is a pathological liar. Even though we all know this, we are compelled to listen to the news and say oh my goodness now they get to experience being hacked. Rachel Maddow spent quality time on this. However, as Jeff points out, hang on, you lot are scheming liars with zero concern for the public. This Iran distraction reeks of bullshit. Free TV time. Fodder for future election interference claims and throwing the election. Trump is an evil man who’s rotten to the core. Dementia lisp or denture lisp, he’s still a dangerous bastard.

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His Ear. Hackers. Crowd size. 🙄 Amazing how easily he can lie. He's such a D Bag.

November cant get here fast enough. Make him go away.

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Forever! No more media coverage of Don the Con after he loses

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Absolutely. History will not be kind to this completely evil criminal and how he tore this country apart.

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Irrelevance is the only cure for a malignant narcissist sociopath.

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I do want to see coverage when he is wheeled away, babbling and drooling

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Except for his days in court.

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9/18/2024 is sentencing day in NYC for the 34 guilty felony counts.

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Time to shut up the doofuses in House too... you're lame ducks,time to go away...

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Someone predicted his ear would magically grow back...like a lizard.

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Maybe Robert is Barron. Maybe Barron is Robert. Sporkfoot might know.

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Barron is a product of two malignant narcissists. His mother still wipes his ass. He was born with a gold-plated spoon in his mouth and one up his ass. He's already proven he's a racist fucker.

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Donnie has been reduced to every narcissist's nightmare - a comical caricature of a an important guy. His message is stale. He is more a giant orange squeeze toy who emits canned blather each time he is poked. I think the rethuglican power brokers realize the enormity of the mistake in letting him get nominated, but there is no offramp from this circus.

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With the Republican election officials promising to not certify the election results, that’s their plan to win

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I've been on the fence about still platforming him...but I believe he's actually losing support every time he opens his mouth.

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They're fucked like frogs.

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That “giant orange squeeze toy” emits more than “blather” when you squeeze him! It could be the start of an ecological disaster.

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He's definitely a walking hate crime.

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Trump is dethpicable!

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Ok, that made me laugh out loud. I had visions of Elmer Fudd.

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One reason the Trump campaign might have engineered this whole thing is, it would enable Trump to point to villainous Iran and say, "See? They fear me. They prefer Kumbabala. So you should vote for me instead of her." It might also give them cover to ditch Vance, saying that all this disclosure of confidential information makes his candidacy no longer viable.

VANCE: But all this info is trivial! It's already public. Y--

TRUMP: Sorry, JD.

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I've become so cynical in a healthy way, when I saw the photos of Vance channeling his inner Ivanka in a blond wig, I thought maybe the Trump caballa posted them as an excuse to get rid of Vance.

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I wondered about that ditching Vance angle too. I think you’re on to something.

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“You’re fired!”

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What ever it is ……it’s sleezier than …I almost said Trump but nothing could be that sleezy!🤬

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Ellis: that was the first theory I came up with.

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He would not say sorry.

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