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Susan Niemann's avatar

I want this to happen: "James Comer Fudd and Shirt Sleeve Jimmy Jordan would have had a fistfight on the floor of the House over who could be the first to hold hearings.”

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And the kid picking his nose, wiping it on the Resolute Desk while Dump is asleep? That is the metaphor for everything that’s happening in America right now.

Wake me up when this nightmare is over.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

tRump is just way too passive around Melon... I think we have had an apartheid anschluss here in the good ol' US of A. Melon must have some really good shit on Donnie Diaperstain.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Fat Donnie has that same shell shocked look he had after emerging from the secret two hour meeting with Putin in Helsinki. I wish I could put up the photo. He looks beaten down in both cases.

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KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

...the same dejected face when last week the reporter asked Donny what he thought about elon's Time Magazine cover pic. Delicious.

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arne link's avatar

I will never forget that video. We knew who was boss right then. How could people have ever thought of Shit-brains as a hero? It's just insane.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

πŸ‘†πŸ‘†πŸ‘†πŸ‘†πŸ‘†πŸ‘†πŸŽ―Yes, that picture showed small man Putin, standing tall over Trumplethinskin who was slouching like Reek in Game of Thrones.

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Burke's avatar

Bingo. Watch the video on Youtube. Who has the real power in this scene? It ain't Donny.

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Bonnie Council's avatar

Absolutely. He has the look of a kid told not to argue even though he wants to really really badly. "Yes ma'am."

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David A Pitock's avatar

This must just be killing him inside. At this rate he won't last long.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

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Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

Yes. SAME EXACT LOOK.

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Charles Austin's avatar

Epstein comes to mind.

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arne link's avatar

We all know that Epstein did not commit suicide. Maybe there is some hope?

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Teri's avatar

From your lips ... But turd needs both hands to drink from a small bottle of water. Pay off the guards to secretly filming Turd's tiny fingers & dementia attempting to tie a sheet correctly to hang himself πŸ›οΈπŸ›οΈπŸ§·πŸͺ πŸ–‡οΈ

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David A Pitock's avatar

More then some pee tape to put the muzzle on tRump like that.

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P123Sunny's avatar

I dunno we all work for *somebody* (except Jeff;)…

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Tully's avatar

He's being paid handsomely by our dollars Musk has stolen from the Treasury!

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Linda Weide's avatar

If he didn't before he does now that Donnie let him go through everyone in the USAs business including Donnie's and family's. I am sure Putin pointed out to Musk what kind of Kompromat to gather on various people.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

Whatever Musk has on VP tRump, it involved Donnie doing something very illegal

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PTW's avatar

Melon bought donald for about $290 million. That's what he has over him.

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Marla's avatar

Sissy SpaceX didn't just buy the Orange Shitstain for $290 million. He bought the whole damn country.

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PTW's avatar

You've got a good point. He started just to buy himself a president, but now he owns it all.

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Charles Austin's avatar

The fuck he does!😑😑🀬

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Teri's avatar

PTW, I read the Ruskies paid off all Turd's debts.

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

Nah, it’s the $$$$$$ he gets…

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Karla's avatar

He absolutely has the goods on Trump.

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Marycat2021's avatar

Trump is easily intimidated because his father.

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Charles Austin's avatar

Lil'X might have worms. I bet they look just like daddy!πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Pasty white, shapeless parasites? Yep

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Cheri Collins's avatar

πŸ€£πŸ˜‚πŸ€£

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Margaret MacKenzie's avatar

Oh, god, that’s something I can’t unsee.

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David A Pitock's avatar

Big ones on two legs 🦡 even.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

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Tully's avatar

Would have to check with RFK the junior on that one. Wouldn't want one in the brain!

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Kid "X" is dressed more like an adult than Elon who looks like a 2nd grader from a private school on an outing in his little cap and coat.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Like a rich, spoiled, obnoxious South African shithead schoolboy.

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Jeff Chernoff's avatar

There isn't an ounce of class in that room.

I hope this is rock bottom.

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Maui Wahine's avatar

I thought he had a bit of a North Korea vibe with the dark clothes and cap.

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Tim Trew's avatar

I was going with Admiral Piett from Star War, but DPRK πŸ‡°πŸ‡΅ works too.

Also, take your damn hat off, you’re inside!

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KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

And chain across his chest. What is that? A little purse? A watch? a fancy child harness? WHAT?

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Cheryl Seybert's avatar

A pocket watch for a kid that can’t even tell time yet?!??πŸ™„πŸ€¦πŸΌβ€β™€οΈ

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Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

I just questioned that as well.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

X was the best dressed "person" in the room.

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Steve Kelly's avatar

Buggers and all.....

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Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

What’s with the big rapper chain around little Xβ€˜s neck? Fucking weird.

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Cheri Collins's avatar

Spot on, Sharon!

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Charles Austin's avatar

He's a goof. But a very dangerous goof.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

It should be the presidential portrait.

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Cheri Collins's avatar

Yes! πŸ€£πŸ˜‚πŸ€£

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Anne Sutherland MD's avatar

Do not sleep through this

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Rick Calegari's avatar

It will be impossible at least for many of us. Since this shitshow of which should be make believe from a Mel Brooks script, the absolute bizarreness of this Oval Office fuckery can't be understated. Smuk's getting wealthier by day as he continues to grift, swindle and steal right under dear leader's putty covered nose as his sham DOGE continues to make a living hell for various government departments. How much longer will Smuk be allowed to get away with this shit before someone or something wakes the hell up? It sure won't be narcoleptic dear leader who continues to give more power to Smuk everyday.

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Lisa59's avatar

Our judicial systems is the frontline of defense. These cases will take months to pan out. The lawsuits will keep coming. That's where the power is. Should they say, fuck the courts, our next line of defense is the U.S. Marshall. Should that fail, the military is our last defense. The military is conditioned to uphold the Constitution. As service persons have told me, they aren't trained to think, but follow orders. Not a corrupt President. Hopefully, the military and the police will not fight with each other. If they do, it will be blood bath. It's the worse case scenario.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

The courts have no.power. They can rule all they want, issue fines and contempt citations all they want, and it won't. do. jack. They can't enforce anything. And even though U.S. marshals (one "L") are assigned to various judicial diatricts, they operate under the DoJ. I don't think Pammy is going to send them out after Muck or any minions.

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Lisa59's avatar

It all remains to be seen. The infighting between all branches and the worst corrupt Supreme Court, enabled and exposed our weaknesses to hold King Shitpants and his Mafia politicians accountable. So yeah, now, the Mafia politicians and the oligarchs have power. This is going to be ugly. The worst can happen. Republicans aren't bothered by dead constitutes. Project 2025 would rather see dead Marxist Leftists (Democrats). Shitpant's militias are expanding. All the while, Democrats are hoping for more people like Liz and Adam to dam things up. Every day is a bite of a shit sandwich. 😫

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Mary A. Rose's avatar

The states have to get involved.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Oh don’t worry. I’m wide awake.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

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Lisa59's avatar

Jeff's piece is priceless. Fucking funny! 🀣 The photograph of the kid with his finger lost in his nose as Shitpants looks on with a wtf look on his face is hysterical. Shitpants is just doing what the Supreme Court told him could do. Commit crimes with immunity. They gave him a hall pass. Shitpants and head case are controlling the propaganda. And the functionally illiterate are sucking it up.

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Bonnie Council's avatar

That look on trump's face at "X" picking his nose looks to me like he's saying "I could strangle you with one hand you little prick; get the hell away from my desk."

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Wait till you hear what little X said to Dump. Hopefully Jeff will include it with his piece tomorrow.

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Lisa59's avatar

Hahaha! You're right. πŸ˜…

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Tully's avatar

Then a minute later, the kid came back towards Trump and he turned away. He didn't want the kid touching him after picking his nose - Trump is so afraid of germs. Musk has something big on him - besides the 250 million campaign funds - for Trump to let that kid in his office.

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Punkette's avatar

The poor kid’s full legal name is X Γ† A-Xii Musk. That in itself is child abuse. Elmo has said the intended pronunciation is "X Ash A Twelve".

And here I thought Moon Unit Zappa was a weird name …

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Bonnie Council's avatar

Yep - naming a child that and then dragging him into Oval Office meetings when he should be in a playgroup at Nursery school IS child abuse. Call CPS!

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Punkette's avatar

Agree, Bonnie! From HuffPost this morning:

Grimes Says Elon Musk Took Their Son To Oval Office Without Her Knowledge

The singer said her 4-year-old "should not be in public like this" after the child joined Donald Trump for a press conference.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ CRAZY!!

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

It's all come down to little green boogers...

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Susan Niemann's avatar

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Tully's avatar

After working with children for over 30 years in the medical industry, what was hilarious to me was hearing Trump call Musk's kid "a genius." Normal to pick his nose at age 4 - yes. His speech and mannerisms - no. Musk thinks doing IVF for most of his children allowed him to "pick" the best sperm and eggs. He doesn't seem to realize that men over 45 are no different than women having children over age 40 - regardless of sperm or egg size, it's the actual decregation in their genetics that matters with a higher rate of autism and other medical concerns in their children.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

He does that because his first child died of SIDS, so he now does all his kids through IVF.

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Tully's avatar

Unless there was a birth defect which caused the infant's death, IVF would have no bearing on preventing SIDS. The majority of SIDS infants die in bed during sleep. The main factor in preventing SIDS has been to have infants sleep only on their backs for the first 6 months. It also occurs more in infants of women who smoke during pregnancy or with anyone smoking around the infant.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK566620/

Musk may not be telling the truth about why his infant died. That's his privacy issue, but for him to infer IVF would prevent SIDS is a fallacy. It is believed some SIDS infants do have an underlying genetic or health issue that isn't apparent until some trigger causes their death.

The majority of IVF is for those who cannot otherwise get pregnant for various reasons. It's also preferred by those who do have a family history of a genetic condition, as pre-implantation genetics of the blastocyst can be done. https://www.arcfertility.com/ivf-pgd-pgs-genetic-testing-can-tell-embryo/

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

I know that, I am saying that is Musk uses IVF because HE feels the technology is better than old fashioned methods, that is his belief/superstition.

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

Could be worse. The little booger could be scratching his butt and wiping it on the Resolute desk. X marks the spot!

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M.T. Kelly's avatar

Drumpf already does that

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Susan Niemann's avatar

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Sharon Buchbinder, PhD's avatar

I thought he wiped one on his manny.

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

That kid isn't "cuteness overload." He's a tragic prop. Nothing cute about dragging a kid in there,

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Cassandra Here's avatar

That kid snorted LDFF’s brain up his nose, and now he’s trying to give it back.

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JWinfield's avatar

Omg you are soooo right.

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Harriet Lunz's avatar

It's getting to the point that I am rooting for the asteroid.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Can’t we go out with a bang…or a HANG? Let’s go get these lying MAGATS and show some freaking gumption. We didn’t fight 2 world wars to subsequently allow some fat smelly douche to take over our country in a bloodless coup with an illegal alien billionaire!

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P123Sunny's avatar

Heckuva recap Walt

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Dave Drell's avatar

Bizzaro World

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Bonnie Council's avatar

Hear! Hear!

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Brenda McDonald's avatar

Yes, please. End the daily torture and let’s all just be done now.

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Mike Hammer's avatar

The Musk Mining Corporation would mine it for minerals before they blow it up. Sound familiar?

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

Here's part of an article today in the Las Vegas Review Journal which is owned by Miriam Adelson, Sheldon's widow. I expect nothing less from this right wing rag paper. Not one word of negativity regarding the tunnels/Musk and they are hiring now. I like the title "Soothing Out Concerns". Yeah, soothing out concerns of a fire/earthquake in the tunnels. Downplaying the entire problem issue of these tunnels.

"Smoothing out concerns"

The Westgate station was ready to be opened several months before it eventually was, but it was held up as the Clark County Fire Department and Boring Co. worked out fire safety measures in the tunnels, as the system expands, according to Hill.

The additional fire safety measures proposed by the county included placing response vehicles in passageways inside the tunnels, upgrading camera software for an enhanced layer of fire and smoke detection and ongoing monitoring of the tunnel sprinkler system and monitoring of drivers and their training, the county told the Review-Journal last month."

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Bonnie Council's avatar

Wow.

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P123Sunny's avatar

πŸ‘†This needs to be cross-stitched asap (asteroid comment) πŸ₯² πŸͺ‘

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Cheri Collins's avatar

I'm totally with you, Harriet!

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

And can all we just take a moment to look at the pics of President Elmo holding a presser in the Oval, wearing a ball cap and a tee shirt, and remember Obama’s tan-suit-scandal?

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James Stanley's avatar

A DARK MAGA ball cap, mind you. And then proceeding to post on Shitter under the handle Harry Bōlz. Some un-elected rando making life or death decisions, having a press conference in the White House with his kid, like it's a day out in the zoo.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Every single bit of this is insane.

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Bonnie Council's avatar

Maybe he can't afford a sitter? πŸ˜‚

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Tully's avatar

Musk thinks he so cute carting the kid around, as if he's a real family man showing off to the Christian Nationalists. Wonder if any have asked him yet what church they attend?!! I cringe every time I see anyone carrying a child on their shoulders as he does - have seen too many injuries in the ER with kids falling because of that.

Some Dad he is with at least 11 living kids by four (or 5) women, living in different areas - actually read he had two children last year by two different women so it may be 12 living. He lost one of his first to SIDS. He hates trans as one of his oldest sons is now a happy woman and won't speak to him. She said they rarely saw him when growing up.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

He started carrying the kid as human shield, right after the UHC executive got "Luigied".

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Bonnie Council's avatar

He’s seriously sick in the head. With an ego even bigger than trump’s and far more dangerous.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Can you imagine if Obama had 11 kids with 6 baby mamas?

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Cheryl ODonnell's avatar

No, he accomplished what he wanted. Made a fool of Dump (and himself). Letting the kid nose pick in the Oval Office was also very intentional. A normal parent would have mastered correct-redirect-substitute another activity by this time. If he knew how, letting the kid have at it was a way of showing disrespect and superiority over Dump.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Well....the "zoo" part is accurate, James.

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Catherine Foltz's avatar

He is playing a real life video game where he starts with our country and then plays to own the world.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Never has it been more clear that Citizens (billionaires) United converted the U. S. from a democracy to a cash-only business steeped in fraud.

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247kath's avatar

I remember Bond villains dressing better…

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Patty Mooney's avatar

Hypocrisy is the GOP brand

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Lawrence O'Donnell has a field day with both Muck's clothes and his kid.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o7s0Kl8VvmU

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Bonnie Council's avatar

Right? The hypocrisy is astounding. Imagine if he'd dragged one of his daughters into a press conference, too.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Off the top of my head, it appears that the fuck that's going on is America is seeing the results of a long slide into stupidity, cruelty and greed. It's anything for a price. I'll call it The Transactional Age. You want lower egg prices? Elect the felon. You want something done about immigration? Musk is part of the package.

There's a New Yorker article about military enlistment. It's down, like underwater. Three-fourths of all applicants are rejected for being too dumb and too fat. The others want a deal, and the military is up for negotiations. If you join, you'll get XYZ, whatever benefits recruiters need to dangle but service to country is not part of the conversation. The way we treat veterans, no wonder.

Similarly, the only people donating blood these days are Boomers, cuz what's in it for me? I hear that in the olden days, there used to be something about helping your neighbor? Some blather about the importance of community? Now the richest little boy in the world wants to take money from people who are scraping by. Good times!

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T L Mills's avatar

That's true about blood donations; my partner and I donate regularly. I have given blood since I was a freshman in college (over 50 years ago), but never before have we been as hounded for donations as we have for the past two years.

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insert_something_creative's avatar

I will always blame Reagan as the beginning of the end. Others helped (like Newt fucking Gingrich and Mitch fucking McConnell and our previous worst president ever, Dubya Bush), but the "greed is good" ethos in the 80s, privatizing a shitload of US capacity for profit, the start of massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations coupled with cuts to the social safety net. Privatizing the gains while socializing the losses.

For the people who think "government should be run like a business," I hope it's clear as fucking day now how stupid that has always been.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

same

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Anne Whitney's avatar

Excellent pt re privatizing gains and socializing losses, it's like a game of shells or slight of hand. Dump your steaming pile here and then stand 10 ft away and complain it stinks. And the greed is good ethos just keeps coming around again. I recall Carter saying just hold the line and work toward energy independence and we can rebuild sustainability and Reagan said oh no shining city on a hill blah blah welfare queens and suddenly it was all Robin Leach lifestyles of the rich and famous and gold toilet seats on yachts and zero trickle down for the urban poor and gang wars. God. So fucking stupid people in this country never learn.

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Stephen Schiff's avatar

Re the military, the problem has been around for a long time. We need to remember that ending the draft was a quick fix to the unpopularity of the Vietnam War, completely without forethought about negative future consequences. It enabled the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and disincentivises examination of other military interventions such as special operations and drone strikes in other countries.

It also results in disproportionate numbers of fascists and gang members using the military for training.

Restore the draft! If I, as a nerdy, underweight physicist was able to survive weeks of abuse by Gunny Sergeants, anybody can.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Yes, and there's understandable cynicism about military service after seeing so many come home mutilated or in a box after arguably useless engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. A year of national service for everyone!

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insert_something_creative's avatar

I can't say I blame people for not wanting to join up. Even if they weren't pointless wars, veterans are treated like shit in America and that shows no signs of improving (quite the opposite).

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Teri's avatar

Living conditions are shockingly bad. As a kid, we'd visit Treasure Island in SF & other places. As adults, my cousins ALL joined up for post-retirement "benefits. While telling horror stories of heaters not working, rats & mice a constant concern, noise, overcrowded 3 kids to one bedroom (in the 70's).

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insert_something_creative's avatar

Wow, I've lived in SF since 2012 and I've never heard that before (though I do know Treasure Island is a former military base). That is absolutely terrible, but unfortunately, not surprising. If it was that bad in the 70s, I can't imagine what the conditions must be like now at the various bases around the world. Like most things in this country, I'm sure it's gotten worse since then.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

There was money in the DOD budget for 2017 that was earmarked to do significant upgrade/upkeep on military housing. I know I heard the base near me was excited about it. Unfortunately, that money was taken by drumph to go toward building the wall. 🀬🀬

I’m sure the personnel at were really upset about that.

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Teri's avatar

Belated reply: $ in budget 2017: Damn them! Just like Sen. GOP insisted on stripping $40 billion to build new or update 40 year old VA medical facilities. They said if that's cut, The Inflation Reduction Act was A-Ok. 🀬

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arne link's avatar

Interestingly, the military no longer wants to reach out to people of any shade whatsoever. I don't know the actual mix of the services but I believe they are more brown than white. Why do they want lily white men? To train as their private army, of course.

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Anne Whitney's avatar

That is an interesting argument for the draft. I was young at the time but my understanding is that the compulsory draft was eliminated because people of means - like the draft dodger in chief - could always skirt the requirement. Something about how the men of greater means always making the decision to engage our military full of second class citizens. We're in a full blown class war at home, the elite won't have their kids drafted whether it's active policy or not. It will eventually be a mercenary for hire svc. Funded by tax payers. If they wanted cuts they could institute the draft, enforce it, and cut the military budget for handing out incentives of $50 as a signing bonus. But realistically anyone signing up now is facing such brutal armaments it's a small price to pay for a life. Our whole military situation is horrendous top to bottom. And if they're so hard up why decommission decorated women in highly skilled service? Asshats.

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Teri's avatar

Rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment in our military has been a disaster for decades. I've emailed, contacted approx 20 times in decades. It doesn't stop. Any woman or girl who enlists is insane with their "procedures" and "concerns" over this.

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Dennis's avatar

Fat and dumb alright by really good at video games.

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KL Pierce's avatar

Totally agree with this being β€œThe Transactional Age” and it’s making society weak and miserable.

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Dave Drell's avatar

The β€œgreed” part cannot be emphasized enuf. With 340M people out there - theres going to be millions of β€œwhat’s in it for me” over the top capitalist pigs.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Maybe we should start looking back where this started. I nominate television, calculators, cell phones, Facebook, social media, and you know it's all been downhill since we were able to land on the moon without the computers we have today. We don't use our minds and bodies like we did up until 1980. Get this stuff out of your homes. Read, even if it's informative subjects on the computer.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Literacy should be project 1. There are too many factors to list here, but without Chief Justice Roberts/Citizens United, Musk would not have been able to buy the government. (I get my news from print only.)

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I like AlJazeera myself.

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Keith's avatar

isn't this social media?

i put all blame on that SOB that invented the wheel that led to wagons that led to wagon trains that escalated the wars against indigenous peoples that that that

NO WHEEL =s we stayed in our own cave!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Good times to get out of this mess of filching and fuckery Ann!!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

That has been obvious for decades, given the number of shitty right-wingers the NYT pays to write propaganda.

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Viktoria S's avatar

It is not clear yet? He was put in place as a useful idiot - a distraction - or rather a continuing series of distractions - to keep everyone looking at him while the power behind the throne continues to dismantle all that Americans (sometimes without being cognizant of it) hold dear. This will not stop without a show of strength. The illegal actions need to be dealt with swiftly, though that crucial DOJ appointment is going to be problem.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Trump and Musk are TPTB useful idiot’s Victoria, where’s the fiddler is my question?

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Ole Anderson's avatar

He’s in Moscow, Pat

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

You’re spot on Ole!!

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Joan Diehl's avatar

Patrick, yes there is a fiddler. Please, all comment. Who are the real fiddlers? Chomsky has been warning of this for years.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

For years, there has existed a theory (yep, a conspiracy theory, if you will), that an international cabal actually runs most world events. The group has perhaps a dozen or so members, and the seats are sometimes inherited. Think Bilderberg Group, on steroids. Members are not world leaders or CEOs---no one who ever appears in the news. Rather, they are, say, the chief legal counsel for a Fortune 50 company, or a key bureaucrat of a powerful country. THEY are the fiddlers, if you believe the theory, and they've been in power since the rise of city-states in Europe. It's a really wild concept, but ot does explain a lot of things.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

IMO it’s the Catholic Church (Opus Dei) & the Evangelicals of several religions who are dominionists. There’s nothing more corrupt & dangerous as religious fanatics, because they can justify even the most brutal, horrendous behavior by telling themselves that it’s β€œgod’s will.”

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Noam has for years, indeed Joan, many others like Hillary, as well! The red lights have been flashing since the controversial Citizens United became law, TPTB were overjoyed, as Trump’s pal Putin is today!!

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Victoria Martin's avatar

Serious question- where did all the Gaza protesters go?

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Diane Findley's avatar

Exactly! Why aren't they marching in the streets like they did, saying Biden was evil and needed to be stopped and that included Kamala. Do they or do they not know how manipulated they were? Same with the freaking egg people!

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Dennis's avatar

Marching under Biden they knew he wouldn't shoot them. With this crew, you know they will. And are eager to get it going.

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Mary Hall's avatar

There are protests scheduled for President's Day, but I fear that Shitler will use any large gatherings to enact Martial Law.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

We can’t let fear of what he might do hold us back. That only gives them more power.

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Dennis's avatar

It could happen but I think he'll save it for later when he fights the judiciary.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Today is Lincoln's Birthday. It used to be a holiday on its own.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

Some more protests, non-compliance stuff coming up now.

Feb 28 - general boycott/strike. Boycott any big retailers/restaurants that have abandoned their DEI policies. Only buy from small locally owned

No work unless your job is critical, no school, no travel; even stay off the internet for that 1 day.

Mar 15 - Beginning day of a long term boycott until trump is out. Stop buying except for absolute essentials. Stay away from national chain stores that refuse to accept DEI policies

Mar 14-16 Major protest in DC, need 10K or more to come, esp want Veterans to come in uniform. Protest will start at the Heritage Foundation HQ

then will move on to msm buildings.

Cliff Cash, Sons of Liberty, & Jessica Denson coordinating.

https://youtu.be/DfQIyoRTn_s?si=TOYjJDqWTOfFqdqQ

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Marybeth Maloy Gebauer's avatar

THIS! those fuckers put Trump in office with their "no votes"

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Dave Drell's avatar

Along with Latinos for Trump (really?)

Blacks for Trump( REALLY?) and any other ethnicity supporting him.

WAKE UP PEOPLE!

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Maui Wahine's avatar

Social media isnΚ»t telling them to do this anymore. Sadly they are lemmiings.

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

It’s amazing! They vanished like magic!

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Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

Yup. I’ve been yelling that out loud. All you fuckers marching on your campuses! where the fuck are you now?

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Tess's avatar

Since when am I speechless?????????????????? C’mon republicans…grow a fucking pair and end this nightmare, no good, not elected POS!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Republicans have joined the mafiosi clan that runs this country, I wouldn’t expect much from any of them Tess!!

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Tess's avatar

Yup- and my very republican father is probably rolling over in his grave!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Sad truth Tess, considering it’s Lincoln’s birthday today I’d, imagine the ground is definitely shaking where the founders and your father is buried!!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

If it threatens their money or power?

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Every single one of these republican stooges are being threatened by the co-presidents Ellen, duly rewarding for their obedience!!

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Don't hold your breath

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Gerard's avatar

I won't hold my breath, but we might be underestimating how bad things are going to get. There will come a point where Republicans see their money circling the drain -- and worse --and even Republicans begin to think, "Maybe this isn't a good idea."

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I'd like to see them shed their blood.

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Dennis's avatar

Yeah,a cult's a cult.

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P123Sunny's avatar

They know they can just rewrite it later…

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insert_something_creative's avatar

Yeah, it's crazy to think about how all of this is happening because Republicans are allowing it to and they could stop it if they wanted to and possessed spines.

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Kay-El's avatar

This picture is just chock full of symbolism!! The father, the son and the Moldy Ghost

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vorpal's avatar

Oh, my... well done!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

You are just fucking brilliant!

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Kay-El's avatar

πŸ˜‚ Thanks!

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Chris Ortolano's avatar

I've never seen the space Nazi with a child in tow before, some image consultant must have told him his poll numbers would improve if he used his child as a prop and pretended to be a "dad." With the attention span of 75 million Americans being what it is (oh, look shiny!) the consultant is probably right.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

he's been dragging that kid around for months now

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

The kid is his human shield. Despicable!

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Mary Hall's avatar

'zactly! He didn't start wearing his kid as a scarf until Luigi offed that insurance company dude.

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Gerry Queenan's avatar

Mary Hall: you are right!.Heard that he is afraid of being assassinated. What a guy!

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Dave Drell's avatar

Well too bad Elon, you’re pissing off so many people, what ya think might happen?

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

His fears are likely well founded.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

I'd kick in for their legal defense fund.

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Chris Ortolano's avatar

Really? I must have missed that - it could be the blind rage I feel when I see his pasty face.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Pasty. That's the difference between him and the Orange.

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T L Mills's avatar

the only difference...well and musk is far richer than anyone should be. Certainly far richer than Trump on his best days ever was.

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Deborah Arapa's avatar

The kid and the paper coffee cup. The kid and the Incels who work for fElon have me wondering why he thinks everyone else is a β€œpedo.” The coffee cup doesn’t make me think he’s working hard.

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M.T. Kelly's avatar

He's fueled by ketamine and adderall.

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arne link's avatar

As protection. Who would kill him if he has a child on his back?

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

Yes, & what’s with carrying him on his shoulders?

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Fashion accessory/human shield.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

no day care

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Teri's avatar

Ellen, X Jr.'s mom said she didn't know the kid was going to the Oval & would have said no.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Spending a lot of time with your sociopathic racist lying crook of a father is not conducive to becoming a good person. Poor kid

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T L Mills's avatar

I'm also wondering...I read a suggestion somewhere that Elon has gotten numerous death threats (gee, I wonder why...) and that he keeps lil' X with him as a way to signal that he's a "Daddy" and not to shoot him and leave his children fatherless. That is a despicable action, if true...but I can't say that it would be totally out of character for someone with as robust an ego as Musk.

I have to say, Musk must be boss in the Oval Office, because I cannot otherwise imagine Trump the germophobe, sitting that close to a child with his finger up his germy little nose. You'd think some 'aide de camp' would have been recruited to mind the little bugger miner.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

How can Trump be a germaphobe when he soils himself regularly?

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M.T. Kelly's avatar

He's got oath keeper wipers

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

I knew those goons were good for SOMETHING

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

They are very familiar with excrement of the human variety.

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Cathy Wray's avatar

nice one!!! ; )

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T L Mills's avatar

@ Mr. Svirsky....Those are HIS own germs, after all.

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Mary A. Rose's avatar

Leon should be getting death threats.

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Teri's avatar

Leave X Jr. at home. Wear a bulletproof vest. Turd could order SS protection if melon doesn't have that yet

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Jane John Jones's avatar

No. β€œX” is his human meat shield. Thats what happens when Daddy is a monster.

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Liz and Max the No. 1 Cat's avatar

Can you say "The Dead Zone"?

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T L Mills's avatar

Yeah, that is about as despicable an act as one can possibly imagine. Proof to me that Musk is Trump's twin in his lack of compassion, empathy and morals. There is no love for anyone--not even self love--in either of those cretinous individuals.

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

Didn't one of his kids disown him?

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Teri's avatar

Thx Mary. She is a lovely person in interviews inside & outside. I wish her the best. 🌷

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Mary A. Rose's avatar

Yes, his trans daughter.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

The kids not a new prop Chris!!

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Morgan OCailleigh's avatar

Q: "... how can we trust what what you say...?

A: "YOU CAN'T..."

That says it all... πŸ€”πŸ€¨πŸ˜¨

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

"Sending millions of condoms to HAMAS" should have triggered a tsunami of media skepticism immediately, based on absolute absurdity alone. How can we trust anything the media says? We can't.

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Teri's avatar

How many condoms for HIV prevention could we buy in exchange for not selling Israel 2000 lb bombs? They had already obliterated Gaza. It was genocide at that point. Comment re Netanyahu, not Israelis or Jewish people.

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Charles Austin's avatar

Indeed.

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P123Sunny's avatar

β€˜Cute’ πŸ˜’

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HI2thDoc's avatar

I wanna see incel hacker POS Big Balls get kicked in his self-proclaimed big balls by some young lady who is offended by his self aggrandizing alpha behavior

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Ole Anderson's avatar

I hope Hairy Bolz gets the same treatment.

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eliza james's avatar

Yes, this is all completely insane, and yes this is a speeding train that cannot be stopped. Unfortunately, we can't turn back time to four years ago when Dems had enough power to have done something to ensure this lunatic didn't land back in office. But hey, we will have the last laugh when we are in the proverbial (and possibly, actual) breadlines screaming "I told you so!". In the meantime, make note of any Dem who sides with this in any way, and vote them the hell out of office next chance you get.

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

I can never stop thinking that if Hillary ran a better campaign, or lost the nomination to Biden, we would never be in this situation.

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EFS's avatar
Feb 12Edited

And I can't stop thinking that all the bs manipulation we saw from MSM in the last four years actually started in 2016. Remember the underground pedophile pizza parlor and the email server nonsense? If we don't have a free press anymore it's because the owners and editors believe they are part of the ruling class.

Oh, and fuck Newt Gingrich and the bootleg tea party.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Yes. Thank you! Hillary's campaign was good enough to win the popular vote. I hate when our side quotes right-wing propaganda, also.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Hillary won the popular vote. The electoral college put the orange parasite in the Oval Office.

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arne link's avatar

Kamala won, too.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

πŸ‘†πŸ‘†πŸ‘†πŸŽ―πŸŽ―πŸŽ―

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

So, this is all Hillary’s fault?

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Follow The Money - cui bono's avatar

Seems like somehow it’s always the woman’s fault for some people, doesn’t it? From Eve right on down the line.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Yep. It’s how patriarchy perpetuates itself and has done since the beginning of time.

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KL Pierce's avatar

You have got to be kidding. πŸ˜‚

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Anne Whitney's avatar

You're kidding right? Let's roll tape of Rachel Maddow every night for many months before and after the 2016 election screaming about Russian interference. It was real. People in the US who are Russian sympathizers participated in the takeover of our gvmt then. There were investigations and convictions, people went to jail over election interference. 2016 was a stolen election.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Biden refused to run in 2016 because he had just lost his beloved son Beau to brain cancer. He wanted time to mourn it would have been wrong to force him to run.

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

Didn't realize this. Did they have any other options? It always seemed to me that Hillary was kind of awarded the job. And they never quite realized how much she was disliked by much of the electorate.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

She was voted the most popular woman, on the Gallup poll, for 17 years straight. Until Michelle Obama finally took the number 1 spot. She has an extensive resume, lawyer specializing in women and children’s rights, NY state senator, Secretary of State, Former first lady who tried to give us healthcare long before it was a twinkle in Bernie’s eye. The republicans would not allow it though. And people that meet her, like her very much, even the dipshit that funded all those smears against the β€œWhite water, travelgate” etc. Richard Mellon Scaife, a conspiracy theorist from the Mellon banking fortune, liked her, once he met her (he employed a sleezy private investigator that strung him along for a paycheck.).

unless she was running for office then the propaganda started up.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/michelle-obama-ended-hillary-clintons-17-year-run/story?id=60033878

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Anne Whitney's avatar

100%. I remember her first primary run for pres in NH when I lived there and the mantra that 'nobody' liked her or 'everyone' hated her. She had balls of steel to run with that shit trailing her all the time. Cue eye roll. But mostly I thought, I've never actually heard her speak about anything because the news does it for her..."Hillary said this, Hillary said that" and we know talking heads are full of shit. And Obama saying he would never be a VP behind her. She was awesome and carried a big stick with Putin because she was in the WH with Bill. Crimea and Ukraine might have been spared invasion. I'm confident we wouldn't be here now if the 2016 election was free and legit, and the outcome definitely isn't her fault.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

I wish everyone had paid attention as well as you did! We’d be in a better place for sure.

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

The whole campaign was bait and switch. That's why the Circus Peanut didn't touch the Bible; he wasn't going to president. Seriously, he's doing his revenge tour culture war bullshit, and Musk redirecting what doesn't already go in his pocket.

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P123Sunny's avatar

That bible thing was odd

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Yes, Sunny, very odd indeed. Did the Orange fartknocker dump a pant load as the Bible was presented and forget where he was? Or was it a brain fart instead of his usual noxious gas exchange?

Evangelicals need to ask themselves why this fine Christian MAGAT avoided touching their holy tome. He missed it like he does church on Sunday.

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Dave Drell's avatar

They don’t care if he touched The Bible or Hustler magazineβ€” all good with them!

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

He didn't need to give a fuck

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Mike Hammer's avatar

Anyone notice that kid was the spitting image of Damien in β€œThe Omen”, who then goes on to become president? 😈

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Shave his head and look for the 666

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Ole Anderson's avatar

He’s got a Big β€˜X’ under there.

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Charles Austin's avatar

Better find those daggers.😈

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Hadn’t, but hear you knocking Mike!!

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

It was his FATHER that was the jackal.

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Nancy Wicklund Gonzalez's avatar

Is anyone paying attention to that little kid? Are his needs being met?

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Susan Moncure Wheeler's avatar

Nah, he’s fine, just picking his nose… like most little boys his age! πŸ˜‚ Make no mistake, Elon, dragging your kids around as props isn’t going to make you any more relatable or better looking or less disgusting in every way than you are.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

of course all kids pick their noses, but there was no way I wasn't going to pass up a golden opportunity to use the phrase "mining for nose gold"

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Kay-El's avatar

He’s a gold digger! I’ll show myself out…

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Tama2U's avatar

β€˜Knuckle deep’ was the coffee snort phrase for me this morning!

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Fluttbucker's avatar

God gave most of us ten perfect tools for cleaning out the old blowholes. Not to put them to use is an insult to intelligent design.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

I’m still chuckling over your other blurb, Jeff. β€œhe’s about three brain cells away from going sleepybye and filling the Oval Office with the pungent scent of ass music.” 🎢 🎡 🎼

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Well β€œdug”Jeff!!

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David Skoglund's avatar

Elon probably picks his nose too.

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Amy Blamey's avatar

I think you mean "human shield."

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

apparently X is the only one of the Space Nazi's eleven children that he's ever actually spent time with. dunno why this kid is the lucky one

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Unlucky one

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Ellen McKenzie's avatar

β€œLucky” being sarcasm.

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Diane Findley's avatar

Was this one also produced by IVF like so many of the other ones? Who does that? 11 kids by IVF??? What will the personhood people think?

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Ole Anderson's avatar

I’m thinking maybe Melon’s Bolz aren’t that hairy at all. He can’t seem to impregnate a woman except artificially.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

I can't envision him having physical intercourse with a woman ever. Only robots.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Maybe blow up dolls

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James Starr's avatar

it would be non consent unless he is paying big for it

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Cathy Wray's avatar

lol

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P123Sunny's avatar

But hasn’t that been OUTLAWED? wtf indeed…

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Jane John Jones's avatar

Yeah… when you’re the β€œfavorite” of a narcissistic sociopathic parent it doesn’t bode well for your future.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Ask Ivanka, right?

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T L Mills's avatar

perhaps the poor thing is actually the UN lucky one.

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Mary Hall's avatar

Unverified, but someone I trust and follow on TikTok said the kid told Shitler that he talks too much.

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David Skoglund's avatar

Not true, Jeff!

Father of the year Elon has dinner at home with all 11 of them every night!

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T L Mills's avatar

🀣

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Amy Blamey's avatar

Isn't this the kid he's keeping from Grimes, the child's mother?

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P123Sunny's avatar

Yeesh

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

His daddy taught him one thing, β€œget that finger inserted up to your knuckle, son.”

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Dr Andrew's avatar

Jeff we know he has 11 kids. Who knows how many more demon spawn there are….

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

Is he legitimate?

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Gerry Queenan's avatar

Jeff: hiw many different mothers?

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Exactly Amy, having little X picking his nose while Trumps narcoleptic fart factory catches zzz’s, left everyone staring in awe at how far the country has fallen since Biden sat in the same chair weeks before!’

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Exactly. πŸ‘

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HI2thDoc's avatar

fElon better watch out. The kid may grow up greatly resenting the idiotic name "X" and feel driven to patricide.

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Charles Austin's avatar

Yes, please!πŸ˜ˆπŸ˜ˆπŸ˜‚

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Ellen McKenzie's avatar

Be still my heart. But don’t we need one of the older kids to take this on?

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HI2thDoc's avatar

I'm not choosy

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

No, I believe two year olds have been known to take a loaded gun out of a bedside drawer and kill someone.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Where there's a famous parent and lots of inheritance money involved, the children of celebrities will put up with endless shit. Cue to George Foreman naming all his kids "George Foreman."

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

You brought me a smile with your post Sharon… there isn’t much to smile about, with Jeff’s piece being the exception!!

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Thank you! My sense of humor is on life support but visiting Jeff's site helps.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

So, you’re saying there’s a chance, Doc?

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

A chance democracy survives the fascist onslaught, dubious Walt!!

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Mary A. Rose's avatar

I couldn't believe the Felon could top his horrid covid press briefings, but he found a way. If there wasn't video proof, I would never have believed that press release with Leon and Dufus. It's obvious the Felon is gone mentally.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Ketamine’s flow can be quite dangerous Mary!!

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Mary A. Rose's avatar

He needs to OD on that stuff. Matthew Perry found a way to do it.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Eventually, Stephen Miller will have the

dose increased until the desired effect

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