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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

btw: I know "killing babies after birth" is not a new Donny lie — the new part is that there are six (and sometimes seven) states where it's legal

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

How is every news outlet not calling them out on this bull shit?!!!! At this point, it qualifies as negligence.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

There's a lot that the damn news isn't calling them out on. This morning, someone on Twitter mentioned that anus ignoramus is running a shadow government out of Mar a Lardo. His meeting with Netanyahu and telling him not to call for a ceasefire because it would've helped Biden. WTF! Clear violation of the Logan Act and all of this bullshit while still out on bail. Could any felon ever get treated better by the press and still be allowed by the DOJ to carry on like he's still in charge? Not a fucking chance in hell.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Trump should’ve been in jail years ago. We would have been. No justice.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Spellwreck changed "cease" to "seize". Now that's funny.

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Rebecca Elliott's avatar

"Spellwreck" has now and forever entered my lexicon!

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Robert Eckert's avatar

I call it auto-car-wreck

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Spellwreck, that's funny as hell. Thanks for pointed that out.

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Harlemscorp's avatar

Does he even have a "Real Probation Officer" ? that his bail can't be rescinded?

President Harris and Vice President Waltz must give us Stronger Persons to head up the DOJ and FBI.

Someone with Military, Lawyering Experience, possibly?

Hey, don't we have a couple of TWINS, WHO LOVE BEING AMERICANS, FOR THOSE POSITIONS?

🤔 😲 🫡 , IJS!!!!

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Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

This is the breaking point, imo. The press working overtime to get him elected and our current DOJ ALLOWING a former President to hold a shadow government. What on earth do we even have a Logan Act and an Emoluments Clause (remember him trampling all over that one every minute of his horror show in the WH?) IF THERE ARE NO ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS???

Grrr. I am so fed up!

#GarlandDoYourJob

#BeGoneDon!

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

It’s absolutely horrible!! When Kamala is sworn in, the very first thing she must do is fire Merrick Garland. WTAF?? DoneOLD Convict broke a Federal law over a week ago when he filmed a damned campaign ad in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, he is a charged criminal & convicted felon out on bail fcs!! One of the main stipulations for remaining free on bail is that you not commit another crime. I agree, why the hell isn’t his probation officer revoking him??

It’s ridiculous.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Like

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P123Sunny's avatar

Class Action Lawsuit?… heyyyyy 😃

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Heather Collins's avatar

I've wished for that for years for Fox News. They have hurt us all.

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Brenda K's avatar

I 100% support this idea and wonder what it would take to pull it off.

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Joanne Filipo's avatar

And maybe treason?

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Janine's avatar

The corrupt corporate media is TREASONOUS and all need to be HELD TO ACCOUNT

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P123Sunny's avatar

Welp treason is rather loosely defined and never really prosecuted in modern times so LDFF gotta get yet another pass srry

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Joanne Filipo's avatar

Grrrrr

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

If ANY of us committed treason we would be in jail. I don’t buy that.

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Harlemscorp's avatar

Just go by the dictionaries definition; Benedict Arnold and Robert E. Lee were judged as Treasonous, weren't they?

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Doreen Garza's avatar

I agree. I want to know how the news and media get away with this shit? I’m sickened by them all. How are they not calling out all the Donny dipshit lies and bullshit? JD Vance the goofy sob! They are all screwed up in the head!

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Abbi's avatar

I’ve always wondered — stay with me here — how a doc does an abortion when the baby is no longer a fetus in its mother’s uterus.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Supposedly in front of a room full of staff the doctor would kill the baby????

Hard to say what these Qanons are thinking!

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Jennifer's avatar

According to the Q nutjobs, said baby's blood would probably go to celebrities to keep them young. See? It alllll comes full circle in their luny little world. Which is also flat, by the way.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Used as pizza sauce, of course. C'mon.

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Carol C's avatar

It would have to be the correct blood type, wouldn’t it? As in normal blood transfusions. Complicates things for celebrities with rare blood types. If it worked to stave off aging, babies would be farmed to take their blood. Such is our worship of youth.

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

💯💯💯

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Dtss's avatar

Ditto

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P123Sunny's avatar

The dead silence that follows that statement EVERY TIME gets me… geez

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Yes, they don't seem to realize "to abort", has an actual meaning (as in to stop a process, in this case a pregnancy.) Birth is a completion of a process. Either way it is impossible, by it's very definition. They really are very stupid, or poorly educated people. I guess they don't own a dictionary, or know how to use Google.

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Hollie Rood's avatar

One of life's great mysteries?🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️We should ask the very stable genius that question. Only(?) problem, we'll all live our life then die waiting for an answer

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

As a retired RN, it’s not only the most outrageous nonsensical lie I’ve ever heard, but it is extremely insulting to every single person who works in the healthcare industry. It’s especially insulting to nurses & doctors who work in the OB, Labor & Delivery areas, most of whom choose that field because they truly love it. I have not once heard anyone correct him when he spews that utter nonsense. I just want to scream. The anger I feel toward him & the stupid idiots who applaud him, has for certain shaved a few years off my life.

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

Jeff: what is demoralizing is listening to a very smart MD preaching to me that this is true! Irrationality of emotional need overrides reality

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Kate's avatar

Don’t ever confuse smart with educated/degree holding. They are vastly different things!

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Steve Kelly's avatar

BS (Bull Shit); MS (More Shit); PHD (Piled Higher and Deeper). I know this, because I spent a career in higher education.

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

Well, as a PhD, I take offense at that. Of course, there are educated people in all professions at all levels who are full of it. But to generalize like that is unfair and uncalled for.

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David Olson's avatar

I agree. Higher education of itself is no surety to good sense. However, it is a credit to all who strive and achieve. The tell is how one applies their knowledge. My experience, higher educated people do very well.

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TCinLA's avatar

You're probably one of the exceptions, Janan. From my experience of higher edumacation I call the place Acadamania. And that was 50 years ago.

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Betsy L's avatar

Oh, c'mon. No one's ever said that to you? And you take it personally? I think my dad told me that joke when I was in junior high.

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

Has nothing to do with my statement. That kind of across-the-board generalization does not help in any case. All or non-thinking is why these people stick to what the moron says and does not consider anything else. Which is what a generalization promotes.

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Diana Hembree's avatar

I can say that my relatives who were able to go to college are mostly Democrats, while the ones who did not are mostly Republicans.

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Vickie Berry's avatar

Fair statement.

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

Kate: I am aware of that, but in this case, what was so bad was that it is a person not only in healthcare, but in a specialty where he would have known, if this kind of thing was going on.

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Kate's avatar

Sorry, but after covid I lost a LOT of respect for the medical establishment. So many deniers and refusals to mask up, and misinformation spreaders. So I take everyone at face value. And I have a Master’s, and worked in higher ed too.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

I don't understand how they took the same anatomy and surgical courses I did, and took so little from them.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

It’s very confounding. My younger sister & I were both RNs, worked in ORs where we of course had to wear surgical masks for hours & hours every day. You’d think we all understood the germ theory of disease, since I had polio, you’d think she’d absolutely be pro vaccines; but no, she went ALL the way down the anti vax, celebrity pedophile cabals, conspiracy rabbit hole. I will never ever understand what the hell happened to her.

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

💯💯💯

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Rhoda Ozen's avatar

Exactly right Kate! I always said, “They can have more degrees than a thermometer doesn’t mean they are experts in anything else.”

So many people say, “My doctor said such and such knowledge she/he told me that. And he’s a gynecologist so he/she knows what TFG says is Truth,” nope not a single word do they use that you asked for yet they’ll go to TFG’s site and have their weird comments to say it’s true.

Thanks for the post Kate!

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Kate's avatar

Agree 💯!

My stepdad was a pharmacist at a receiving hospital in a large midwestern city in the 80’s and 90’s—so even before recent history I have heard a LOT of stories and incidents that would make anyone’s hair curl. At the end of the day we are all human, and pedestals aren’t really a good thing for any of us to be put on. Appreciate your post too!

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Harlemscorp's avatar

My Granma always called them" Educated Fools".

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

Oh for crying out loud, seriously??!! An actual Dr believes that complete nonsense? Omg, I give up. 🙄

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Tess's avatar

He is SO DAMN DUMB!!!

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Michael J McGee's avatar

Unfortunately his cult members believe it because he said it.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Peerless in vacuous idiocy Tess!!

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P123Sunny's avatar

Yet sadly, he’s managed to WEAPONIZE IT!

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Carol Jacobson's avatar

And what about the latest atrocity - your kid goes to school and 3 days later returns as a different sex. WTAF????

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Doc Blase''s avatar

They turned me into a newt once.

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Jewel1954's avatar

As long as it wasn’t Newt Gingrich!

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Charles Austin's avatar

Did you get better?

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Maui Wahine's avatar

Yes, those school districts surely have operating theaters and doctors on call at the elementary schools. Makes perfect sense.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

Most insane thing he’s said so far, right up there with Drs murdering babies after they’re born. A third of the country have lost their ever loving minds.

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Carol C's avatar

Trump’s example played on castration fear. It was not about a girl wanting to be a boy.

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Betsy's avatar

the most bizarre thing to me is that PEOPLE BELIEVE IT

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Or are they just parroting, to be part of the cult?

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Dtss's avatar

It’s a strategic plan to exhaust the electorate. Especially now that Harris/Walz are on an upward trajectory in the polls, and ldff is dropping. I want to believe that Harris/Walz will trounce magat, I want to believe the polls are not crap. However, after 2016, a niggling fear sits in the back of my brain and in the pit of my stomach. The only way I am going to get through this election year is keeping

EYES ON THE PRIZE!! 💙💙💙💙💙💙

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HI2thDoc's avatar

How does anyone fall for that? But then again, they fall for the QAnon shit

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Dave Drell's avatar

So the Republitard party turned into the MAGA party, and now its slipping into the

Qanon - next stop: Dumpsterville!

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Kate's avatar

GQP

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Cat Cafe's avatar

They think like primitive 9th century peasants, so a blood libel is right up their alley

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

They are trumpanzees. Just tell them who to hate.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Because they want to. Even some people on the left believed nearly every Russian propaganda, about the 2016 election.

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P123Sunny's avatar

FYI: Liz Cheney stated that same lie in an OLD interview (have to check the year). And she’s one of the ‘good ones’????

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David Jones's avatar

There really are no good ones.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Touché

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

*bows in your general direction.*

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

I know the one you’re talking about, I’ve seen it. She called Democrats

“baby killers.” I guess I’ll take her coming out & saying she will be voting for Harris, & urging her fellow true Republicans to do so as well, telling them now is not the time to write in a name; but I have no illusions about her conservative policies & beliefs.

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Maui Wahine's avatar

Have any news outlet called out Donnyʻs other current fav lie - that kids go to school, get an operation there and return home as a trans kid? School districts can barely fund basic supplies such as books and markers, how are they funding an operating theater and doctors? My head keeps exploding.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Pairs well with ‘Everybody wanted Roe overturned - R’s D’s - EVERYBODY’ 🙄

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Let me sum up's avatar

It's amazing how Walz can manifest a football team he supposedly didn't coach on stage, yet the MAGAs can't come up with a single witness to the infanticide that is apparently taking place here on the regular.

I mean, they hounded some old woman in Kenya into claiming Obama was born there but there's not a single nut job "witness" to murder inside a hospital?

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shee-rah's avatar

“If you tell a lie often enough….”

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

They'll pay some mentally-ill, starved for attention, winger to say they saw it, just like the so-called election-fraud, post office liar.

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Let me sum up's avatar

Oh no doubt. I'm just surprised they haven't found that person yet.

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Cat Cafe's avatar

Donny never met a lie he couldn't continually embellish. Soon it will be he SAW people, illegal immigrants, who were from insane asylums, that's right, they're even saying they're seeking to be in asylums, killing babies after birth, while crowds cheered, and big strong men came up to him, tears in their eyes, Sir, they said, Sir, they're killing the babies, the first borns [here he degenerates into anti-semitism]

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Doc Blase''s avatar

But they make pretty good pizza topping, over there at The Email Lady's pizza store.

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Let me sum up's avatar

May as well throw in some Somali immigrants - no doubt smuggled in by Ilhan Omar herself - for a twofer, including Islamophobic dog whistle.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Yes. As he always does.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

They can produce the video proof "in about 2 weeks" along with the Arlington Cemetary "footage". Can eye roll be fatal?

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Yes. All I could think of when they said that was: How does one prove a negative? They didn't go into the area, and film against federal law? All a video would prove, is it wasn't captured on their video.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

I don’t think that’s what they’re saying they have video proof of. We know they film an ad in Section 60, illegally, because they posted it on TikTok almost immediately.

They’re claiming the have video proof that the pushing/shoving of the ANC employee did not happen.

Of course, we have yet to see such evidence.

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

And I repeat: he harps on this so much that I suspect he has ordered the killing of newborns.

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Cat Cafe's avatar

I have actually been saying this for years. He runs with the most evil of the evil, the Russian mafia oligarchs--gun runners, terrorist-weapons-providers, child sex traffickers, casual murderers. The "tape" that Putin has, I'm sure, is something utterly beyond the pale. They were actively promoting the idea that it was something far more mild (the "pee" rumor), which I have always said is cover for something far far FAR worse.

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shee-rah's avatar

Donny Dumpster wants to be the American Putin; no pee tape needed.

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arne link's avatar

I have always believed the tape was something beyond the imagination of normal people. I believe it involves Don the Con being abused in one way or another but who knows. There is definitely something heinous there.

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Jon Notabot's avatar

And a willfully ignorant press that can't be bothered to mention "holy fucking shit, don't believe a word from this human-like animated garbage sculpture!"

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Alison Parker's avatar

The way the press has been like "but there are no photos of her working at McDonald's" like bitch, that was probably around 1980, are you aware iPhones were not invented yet? People weren't walking around with cameras in their pockets all the time and I doubt anyone working the fry vats at a fast food place was super eager to drag in an SLR and take pics of all their super happy coworkers.

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Linda A's avatar

I worked at McDonald's in the '70s. Not one picture. Unlikely their employment records go back that far. I kept no pay stubs. So, am I lying, MAGAts?

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Dee Whitman's avatar

Ditto. I worked several pre-professional "I need the money bc I'm a student" jobs between 1978 and 1986, and I don't have a single pic or paystub from them, nor do I have any tax forms from them. As is the case with all normal people ...

(I still have my Macy's name badge, but it doesn't state the dates of my employment there)

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Alison Parker's avatar

Especially considering many McDonald's are franchises and also I doubt there are many open now that were open in the late 70s/early 80s. Does the press really think the corporate office keeps paper applications on file from a closed franchise restaurant from 40+ years ago???

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Daniel Hansson's avatar

About 50% of the companies I've worked for are no longer around. Mind you I have about 6-7 where I have no friends or family that can vouch for me, because... It didn't fucking matter. It paid some bills. Left no impression.

If they found evidence of Kamala working for Donken (Micky Deez), then they would ask why she didn't become a manager, and then why not a franchise holder. Ever moving the goal post.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

🎯It's the dumb-ass birther conspiracy bullshit 2.0.

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SPW's avatar

But who cares about facts? Facts are such pesky, little buggers.

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Mary Hall's avatar

With a well-known liberal bias.

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bruce somers's avatar

It's part of the distraction, it's like the pickpocket who bumps into you,to swipe your wallet,I will not participate. MAGA is soon to be relegated to the trash heap of history, seems MSM is perfectly willing to join them.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

True dat Bruce! Patting one on the back with one hand, while picking pockets with the other is MSM, TFG, and GOP practice!

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David Skoglund's avatar

Even if Kamala exaggerated working at McDonald’s……who gives a shit?

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Yes, it is not exactly something one would get bragging rights from working there.

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David Skoglund's avatar

They have nothing so they go after crap like that!

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Who would want one? Similarly, there's low demand for rat's asses.

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Jay Schexnyder's avatar

Right? What about the Last few jobs she did?? Actual public-service-policy-administrative jobs? Judge her on all That! F nitpicking time-filling BS. Stupid.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

I feel really awful that I never put my 1st job at Friendly Ice Cream on my resume after college. Guess I’d better not run for political office

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Alison Parker's avatar

NO PRESIDENCY FOR YOU, LYNN!!!

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Jay Schexnyder's avatar

Yeah. It’s funny that I have no record of my first summer job, soaking wet with sweat and dirt, weeding and planting at a nursery. (Dang, I musta been one stinky boy… )

And, yeah, there are no pics of my stinky butt weeding, and I don’t recall ever using my first summer job as an agricultural grunt to get my next one as a stock boy. :)

[And my God, agricultural jobs are Hard as poop and pay very little…I think min wage in 1977 was $1.65 or $1.85 an hour? Damn]

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Marla's avatar

My first job-when I was 15--was doing piecework in a factory for minimum wage (around $1) + all the tickets I could sew onto a card every day. I did this every summer and winter break all through high school and college so that I had money for school. Did I include it on any of my post-college job apps? No.

I graduated with a degree in History and one in English and went on to work in advertising and marketing. How was working in a factory in anyway germane to that? It wasn't.

Next.

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Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

You’re killing me. Totally spot on. I am laughing reading it 3 times now, Alison.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

However, there is a photo of her in her McDonald’s uniform, that should count for something.

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Every time that Texas grifting phony shows his face in public memes ensue instantly. Like mushrooms after a soaking rain. That’s a classic.

Yeah, we gonna work and we gonna drive those rats back into the sewers. Then we gonna send the dachshunds down to tear ‘em apart.

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Krista Allen's avatar

Every time that Texas phony shows up to a Texas sports game, the Texas team loses. Every. Single. Time.

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Mike Hammer's avatar

The rats and their pied piper.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

He's such an A-hole so c'mon, Texans, you really DON'T gotta vote for him. Geez

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Vickie Berry's avatar

Ted only leads by 3 points. Let’s hope that Texans come to their senses in November.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

It's the damned 'vangelicals, he has them fooled that he is one of them.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Pied Piper, Carnival Barker, Snake Oil Salesman… having an appetite for this bullsh*t: America’s Achilles Heel???

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P123Sunny's avatar

Oh wait - one of our most beloved movies of all time, ‘The Wizard of Oz’ - actually starred a… con man / snake oil salesman? I feel like every planet in our history is aligning Nov 5th. Srsly jfc

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Mary Hall's avatar

Dachshunds are on my shit list. One of those little fkers came up and bit me on the leg as I was standing in the lobby of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Rancho Mirage, CA. It was a bad bite, but the worst thing is that it kept me out of the pool for the rest of my vacation.

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meryl selig's avatar

Dachshunds are bred to go after rodents and critters that burrow into the ground. Sorry about your bite. Normal doxies would

not wound you.

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Both look like they understand the assignment.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

My thoughts exactly!

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Ole Anderson's avatar

They are feisty little buggers when aroused. Or sent down a rat hole for anything that’s down there, bearded or not

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Kay-El's avatar

Both my ouija board and my magic 8 ball say Trumpster will take a dumpster in this election. They never lie.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Charles Austin's avatar

Ouija board and Magic 8 Ball can't be wrong.😂😂

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Betsy's avatar

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MAN DON'T JINX IT

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P123Sunny's avatar

I’m sorry: 😂

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SPW's avatar

I’m going to start with my tarot deck too. Can’t hurt. Might help.

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Alee Robbins's avatar

This caused ne to spit out my coffee. 😁🤣😝

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David Lehnherr's avatar

I'll take the guy who has had a DUI (very common, unfortunately, in Montana and, I imagine, most other states, not to mention the people driving under the influence who don't get stopped), and expresses remorse, over the guy who has admitted to several sexual assaults (and been found guilty of one in court) and who has grifted millions from millions in a hundred different ways, with zero remorse (of course, as a supreme narcissist, trump is not capable of shame, remorse or empathy).

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Stephen Brady's avatar

Dubya had a DUI and he got to be a (lousy) president.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Dubya was AWOL his last year in the Texas Air National Guard which position he obtained by leap frogging over 1000 qualified people on the list ahead of him thanks to Poppy Bush, the cocaine and arms smuggler. Junior was pretty much absent his last year stationed in Alabama. He was out campaigning for his Dad and missed many of his required duties in the Guard.

He should have been given a dishonorable discharge but instead he went on to drink and party for four years at Yale with his drunken frat rat buddies. Then the Idiots in Texas elected him as Governor and the Idiots in the US elected him President. Twice!

We paid $Trillions for his misbegotten War in Iraq and suffered thousands of dead soldiers and tens of thousands with grave injuries whom we will rightfully be taking care of the rest of their lives, adding another couple of $Trillion more to the tab.

And now Fat Donnie Two Scoops again!!! Has this Country lost its ever loving mind!!

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Betsy L's avatar

Stuff like that makes me miss Molly Ivins. She had a few things to say about W.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

I still think we should canonize her, she is more of a Saint than all of those molester-covering up popes.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

In 1984 I helped my sister's old roommate run for city council in Ann Arbor (my job was to talk to other Dems who thought they could flip the seat and urge them to back Larry instead of having a primary fight) and at the victory party there was an outrageous Black woman who told us lots of stories, including how she had snuck into the Republican Convention (it was in Detroit that year) and did lines of coke with the Vice President's son (that would be Dubya). I was one of few who believed her completely.

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Diana Hembree's avatar

Thank you both for discussing about the misbegotten war in Iraq, which, besides killing and disabling tens of thousands of American soldiers, killed more than one million Iraqis, who died from bullets, bombs, starvation, cholera, and more in the vain and misguided search for Weapons of Mass Destruction. We should stop supporting death and destruction around the world, and for nothing.

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Diana Hembree's avatar

Sorry, nothing except the military industrial complex.

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P123Sunny's avatar

He’s oddly never referenced… huh

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Betsy's avatar

Almost everyone I know has had a DUI at some time in their lives. And ALL of us could have had one if we'd gotten caught.

Also, as an aside, at least half the women I know have had an abortion.

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arne link's avatar

Wow, you run with a wild crowd. We could be friends.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Or just being ‘real’…

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

^^^THIS.

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Marcie's avatar

The gov of Iowa, Kim Reynolds, had two. The sec one was pled down and now that can't even be found. Would have disqualified her. go figure.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

She’s a piece of work, that Reynolds.🙄

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David A Pitock's avatar

And some should have had a dui, but got very lucky to not get caught, thats my story and I'm sticking to it.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Yes, I think they are way underestimating the numbers, I worked in a women's reproductive care clinic.

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David A Pitock's avatar

That last clip of Tim his microexpressions look sincere to me.

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abbyinsm's avatar

The thing about whether VP Harris was born in Berkeley or Oakland drives me nuts. Her parents may have lived in Berkeley, but she was born at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland. I don't know about where you live, but here in California we have lots and lots of cities packed into urban counties. Berkeley and Oakland are in Alameda County, which has 16 cities and some unincorporated (not in city limits) communities. DUH.

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Alison Parker's avatar

Plus, the two cities are adjacent for a long stretch of their borders. You could literally trip and fall from Berkeley into Oakland.

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Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

Haha. That is a good one! I live in the Bay Area too and spent a couple of decades living in Berkeley and Oakland.

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SPW's avatar

Again with the facts. Corporate media and trumpers don’t care about such details.

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Pope Buck I's avatar

I mean, even Leslie Knope was technically born in (shudder) Eagleton.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Same playbook. Worked last time?!

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Robert Eckert's avatar

John McCain was technically not born in the Panama Canal Zone (US run at the time) because the base did not have a maternity clinic then. He was born in Colon in Panama proper. This came up during the ridiculous "birther" flap of 2008.

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David A Pitock's avatar

You go where the hospital is, duh

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Lisa K. Obrien's avatar

My granddaughter was born at that hospital. It’s a Kaiser in Oakland.

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Michael's avatar

Fidel Cancun - that is a keeper - right up there with "fuck-load of shit weasels".

Jeff Tiedrich for press secretary!

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D Kitterman's avatar

Huzzah!

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Michael Mooney's avatar

I know that tRump is dangerous, but seriously...this guy has become such a joke that we should treat him as such. Up is down, black white, forward is back, truth is lies, democracy is communism. What a fucking joke! The majority of Americans are tired of this clown and his "same old shit". Let's bum rush him off the national stage this November! His act is stale.

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Dee Whitman's avatar

Sadly, it's a small majority. That's what has been so shocking and demoralizing about the past nine years: being forced to grasp the enormous number of angry, deluded, not-rational people we live among, work with, and in some tough cases are related to ...

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Rick Calegari's avatar

That related to part is difficult to deal with.

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Lisa J. Miller's avatar

That's for damn sure. He's torn apart millions of families in this country. Think I hate him for that more than anything else.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Like

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Lisa J. Miller's avatar

Yes Rick. Including mine. 💔

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Dtss's avatar

More than a few of my relatives have been drunk on orange koolaid for the last 9 years. There are even a couple q-ers that have really gone to Wonderland.

I used to try with them. But I couldn’t after January 6, 2021. I don’t think I will ever forgive them. I used to pity them. Now, I just don’t care anymore.

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Robert R's avatar

Isn’t it mind boggling! I always thought this country was very well educated for the most part while at odds in a lot of ways politically religiously etc. and we had a small percentage of screwballs . I never thought that a giant chunk of our people were fucken crackpot asshole morons willing to burn the Constitution and the country yet again ! That shit was decided in 1865 or so I thought ! To worship a brain dead Neo fascist half wit is still an unbelievable nightmare that is making me question if I died and went to hell for my sins ! Then I realized I’m an agnostic and the only hell is here and now with an anus mouthed shit gobbling Nazi running the shit show for his minions of 🤪😵‍💫moron maggots !November can’t come fast enough for me ! Kamala is the savior !

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P123Sunny's avatar

Still, humor & absurdity are disarming… he’s gotten this far! (And Joe knocked it out if the park, and he’s been ‘dismissed’…) UNREAL

Why do we have a huge tolerance for normalizing this bs and not defending ppl who DO speak out? What are we even doing any more…

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D Kitterman's avatar

Devolving, seems like.

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

The scary thing for me is that plenty of people don't care to register to vote, to vote regularly, or will even vote at all, yes, even in 2024. I've been seeing this factoid being bandied about: the last two USA presidential elections (2016 and 2020) came down to how less than 1% of eligible voters voted in swing states (the electoral college win). LESS THAN 1% is why it is so urgent that we make 2024 NOT a close election, which the RWNJ/MAGAs are planning to challenge wherever and whenever they can. We need MORE voters to turn out and vote for Kamala/Tim and D's in all the down ballot races. MORE than 81 million this time. We can't take anything for granted, happy warriors. If you have GenZ people in your lives, help them to register and prepare to vote--they need encouragement and support!

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SPW's avatar

It’s stale but still treacherous.

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David A Pitock's avatar

And not funny

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Tess's avatar

Hear!! Hear!!!🎉🎉

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P123Sunny's avatar

Weirdly, we rushed JOE off the stage… yeah DEMs…?!😒 oops

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

It’s not an oops, he was not going to win, period. All of those GenZ voters that Stranger was just mentioning that we really need, were completely bummed out & were just going to stay home & play video games.

We will be missing 100s of 1000s of votes we could have had, if Biden hadn’t let Netanyahu pull him around by the nose.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

His act like everything he stands for is rancid.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Get the Vaudeville hook!

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Elaine the Mean Old Feminist's avatar

Jeff, I'm a clinic defender at my local Planned Parenthood. I stand against the protesters, drowning them out when they yell at patients. I've been doing it since the 1980s, and I can tell you that the kind of person who believes bullshit about abortion up to 9 months or whatever really thinks abortion is murder and their mind isn't going to be changed. All we can do is keep them from harassing women. We have told them several times on the sidewalk that if murders are happening in the building, they should call the police. They never do. 😂 I did see one of them attempt to tell a police officer who was already there about something else that murders were happening in the building, and he basically told them he wasn't going to go into that with them.

Here's a story you'll enjoy: This past Saturday morning, one of my co-defenders who is Jewish was telling an evangelical Protestant protester that Jesus Christ was married and had children, because if he hadn't been, he would not have been able to be a rabbi, and the Bible clearly identifies Jesus as having been a rabbi. This particular evangelical Protestant protester is a 46-year-old male virgin, and he was coming completely unglued at the idea of the son of God doing the nasty with any woman, even his wife. I really wish you had been there, because we could have laughed our asses off and then headed out to have a beer once we ran all the protesters off the sidewalk, which we did by noon. If you're ever in Kansas City, look me up.

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Mike Phelan's avatar

Thank you Elaine, you’re doing honorable work.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

I did clinic escort duty in the 90's, and I remember the office supply truck rolling up with a delivery. The protestors immediately crowded around like swarming monkeys peering in the truck, while the delivery guy was inside. Suddenly one of them shrieked "That's where they take your baby away." The guy came out empty-handed. I've never forgotten how crazy they are.

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Screaming into the Void.'s avatar

That AI hack job at the end of the article doesn't even look like Kamala. It looks more like Eva Longoria to me. And if I were her, I'd be pissed!

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Krista Allen's avatar

What happened to "using AI immediately disqualifies a candidate" and AI is "election interference", I wonder? Freaking hypocrites.

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P123Sunny's avatar

We’re living in the age of ‘Let’s Just Let it Play Out’ - for frick’n EVERYTHING… 🙁

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David A Pitock's avatar

Only if it serves their purpose I guess.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Last night at dinner, I told my wife & son about schools sending young uns to get gender reversals, per Drumpf, and they were hysterical. What a clown🤡

This is the lowest bar you can go for

people leading a country…

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

You can tell whoever buys that hoax, has just been told "furries" exist, but can't be arsed to look up what they are really about.

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Don A in Pennsultucky's avatar

I'm retired now and I was not a member of the Teamsters local that represented the maintenance workers, the janitorial staff, and the food service workers. But I know for damn sure that I got benefits that were negotiated for by Teamsters.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Micro expressions expert? Who knew? I’m done with corporate media. My fervent hope is Americans with some degree of intelligence get their asses out to vote. Seems enthusiasm is running high! And you’re right Jeff- where HAS Tim Walz been hiding? What an excellent man!

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bruce somers's avatar

If you want to be an entertainment reporter like on ET,you don't really need those press credentials,do you??

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

I know, right? What is next, whipping out a Ouija board and asking the founding fathers?

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Michel  Grover's avatar

One reason the corporate media spends resources (time, effort and money) on our VP's micro-expressions is she refuses to make a sufficient number of mistakes and stupid, inane remarks for the lazy media to criticize. The former guy gives them too many blunders, and since they're lazy, they simply give on those.

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Dtss's avatar

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

🎯They hate competent women, just ask the last one that ran. They called her "over-prepared".

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Joan Opyr's avatar

If I were Kamala, I’d put on a red hat and that Mario mustache, and I’d greet Trump at the debate by saying, “Itsa me!”

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P123Sunny's avatar

Gens X, Y and Z would TOTALLY love it

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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