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Full business dress for a photo op at a diner to show how much of a normal, down to earth human he is. Bet he gave the waitress a dollar tip and told her not to spend it all in one place.
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Full business dress for a photo op at a diner to show how much of a normal, down to earth human he is. Bet he gave the waitress a dollar tip and told her not to spend it all in one place.
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A child was murdered for playing ding dong ditch in Houston, and the comment section for this video reporting on the crime is nothing but victim blaming. Absolutely disgusting.
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"So unfair that I haven't received a much deserved Nobel prize for all the wars I started yet so graciously ended. For this slight I'm starting my own peace prize. Donald J. Trump's Prize for Peace™ The inaugural winner will be me because no one knows more about peace than myself." - Donald Trump
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Republicans have always claimed a mandate from God when barely winning an election.
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Isn't this the kind of talk that got Himmler in trouble? Vance better be careful before Trump ends up throwing a tantrum in his Fuhrerbunker about how he's been betrayed.
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Doubtful, Republicans like Newt Gingrich and Mitch McConnell spent 30 years setting up this cult. They've been planning an authoritarian takeover well before Trump and have been spoon feeding their base to accept it.
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Charlie Kirk has definitely had the sex and his girlfriends are 100% real and not store bought.
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My observation of right wing women (and men too) is the only time they're happy is when someone else isn't, i.e. when they think they're "owning the libs." The other 90% of the time, they're just raging about something they heard on the radio or Fox News.
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Donald Trump might be the kind of guy who puts ketchup on a steak but he's never set foot in a Cracker Barrel, let alone heard of one until some cave dwellers got a faux rage boner about something nobody at any other point in history would give two sh*ts about.
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Trump wouldn't even be able to pass the naturalization test.
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To be fair, the government used to own the means for production with Springfield Arsenal, etc, but Republicans shut them down and privatized the military industrial complex. Now, they want to be part owners to basically guarantee taxpayer subsidies for billionaire CEOs while lining their pockets.
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Trump probably has a giant tattoo of Epstein's face on his back with the inscription "Bros before underaged hoes."
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This reminds me of Robocop 3 (can't believe I'd ever reference such an awful film) where the bad guy police force needs more men so they basically deputize criminals to bolster their numbers.
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...but only one of them will be walking the streets on a million dollar bond and that person won't be walking, more like being chauffeurd to wine tasting events and private jet trips to weekends getaways in Dubai.
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If a violent criminal is on the streets in an area that has cashless bail, blame the judge. It's up to them to determine whether to keep them locked up pending trail. Bail disproportionately affects the poor. A billionaire and a person living pay check to pay check could both commit murder...
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His last act of courage was to stand up against the orange clown. If only the Republicans had more people like him, we wouldn't now have an illegal military occupation of our capital and the threat to do the same to other cities for disagreeing with the Toddler and Chief.
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You berated someone for making a broad statement without the authority to speak on others behalf, while doing the exact same thing. I'm just pointing out hypocrisy without taking a side.
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Do you? Because it sounds like you're trying.
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Where does one even find a 4XL tactical vest? Temu?
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How the fuck did Cracker Barrel changing it's logo become the hill people want to die on? Never heard of peep out of people when American Express created arguably the worst and laziest logo redesign in history.
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They don't have a case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia so they're threatening him. Absolutely sickening. This is Gestapo level tactics from the Trump regime.
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She's a convicted pedophile. In the logic of her own mind, touching underaged girls is not inappropriate.
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It must be tearing Trump apart, wanting to spill the beans about Clinton, but knowing full well that doing so would expose himself.
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By Trump's logic, Obama ended about 400 wars and about a 1,000 pre-wars.
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In western Illinois, a lot of us get water from the Mississippi and thanks to companies like 3M, our water supply has been contaminated with microplastics for the foreseeable future. Even when/if Trump leaves off, his crony appointments to judgeships will continue to protect these companies.
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The US judiciary branch continues its streak of incompetency. They struck down a fine against Trump because they claimed that it violated the 8th amendment, that fines can not be excessive, but the courts routinely fine regular Americans to the point of destitute and insolvency.
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I hear he has 100% approval rating with upper class pedophiles and people whose name might be on a list that may or may not be in one of the draws of the Resolute Desk.
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Hell, look how many ardent, hardcore German Nazis and their collaborators got a slap on the wrist or escaped justice after WW2. Nobody ever seems to really want to sort through the horrendous mess these people create.
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If my couple years of transcribing doctor scribbles is worth anything, that says "We Cuck For Trump"
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Rickets is literally a sign of malnutrition... Their argument is like saying, "Well, you might have AIDS and that's bad, but you also have HIV so we can't blame it all on AIDS.
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What I'm taking away from this rambling babble is that Trump wants to rig the elections, and he's going to use every smoke and mirror maneuver he can think of to distract from his true intentions.
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Trump and Putin probably didn't even talk about the 2020 election, and this is some delusional fantasy Trump concocted.
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I've seen better sourcing on a Fandom wiki site for an obscure video game than Google AI summaries.
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Acknowledging a made-up crisis and then providing it legitimacy by creating a "better plan" to combat it has to be the most bonehead idea I have ever seen.
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Probably worried that not counting illegal immigrants will impact Republican leaning states more than then the others. Solution? Bring back the 3/5th compromise.
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Trump: We got a big beautiful deal on these. $500,000 a piece, and they only have 750,000 miles on them. Nobody negotiates better than me. I'm so good at it that the dealer didn't even bargain.
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To be fair, today's Republican Party isn't even remotely close to the one that existed 70 years ago. If you only include this hellish, un-American shit show group of pedos that currently calls itself the Republican Party, then yes, by default, Trump is the most popular president it's ever had.
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If white*, please indicate ancestral origin. *This data will only be used in case no people of color are available and a new boogieman is needed to scare the masses into continued support for policies detrimental to themselves and this country.
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Federal agents could be out dealing with real crime, but now their resources are being squandered pulling over people with unspecified license plate issues, all because of tiny dicktator Trump and his theatrics.
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Israel wants to resettle Palestinians from Gaza into South Sudan. Plan B will be, if this fails, to look for a sort of penultimate solution to the Palestinian question.
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By the administration's logic, I should see a 25-50% reduction in my taxes, depending on the president's mood and/or current social media intake.
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Jesus Tap Dancing Christ, even Wikipedia is being forced into Britain's draconian Online Safety Act bullshit age verification nonsense. Fuck Starmer and everyone associated with him. This is the stuff I expect from the Tories, not Labour.
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Well, it's a step up from his normal "grade schooler who waited till the last minute to do his science fair project and slapped together an incorrect diagram about hurricanes with a sharpie" style of presentation.
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Considering Trump believes being poor and/or homeless is a crime, being relocated far away, he means to be shipped off to one of the many concentration camps being constructed across the nation.
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Because the Republican lead Congress has abdicated their responsibilities to the Executive branch, and the Supreme Court has ruled multiple times that upholding the separation of constitutional authority is no longer their concern.
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Feels like the year 22oz was forever ago, but I still remember 9/LL and the Iranq warr like it was yesterday.
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#RIP naval aviator and astronaut Jim Lovell who passed away on Thursday at the age of 97. A 1952 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Lovell flew F2H Banshee fighters before being selected for NASA’s Gemini program. In 1970, he commanded the near-tragic Apollo 13 mission.
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This is why they show up with 50 heavily armed officers because if it was just a couple of ICE agents attacking a little old lady, they'd get mobbed by true American patriots.
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This sounds good, but there's no way they comply. The way the Supreme Court keeps siding with the illegal and corrupt activities of the Trump administration, there's a 0% chance this goes anywhere.
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Trump has the interior decorator sense of a man who huffs paint thinner while reading Better Homes and Gardens. Bet ketchup on steak that he has no idea what those murals on the ceiling of his tasteless apartment are from.
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We might want to consider that the real reason Trump wants a new census is because he has removed all the oversight and could phony the numbers anyway he likes. Millions of citizens from blue states could be erased or added to red states, and we'd have no way of knowing how true the numbers are.
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Waiting for Hegseth to announce a statue of General Custer surrounded by the corpses of all the women and children he murdered with surviving natives begging for mercy at his feet to honor American "Exceptionalism".
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"TRUMP IS THE MANLIEST MAN THERE IS. WE ONLY HAVE TO DO SLIGHT TOUCH UP WORK TO HIGHLIGHT HOW MANLY TRUMP IS" -MAGA Chud Charlie Kirk
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If all things were balanced and people used common sense and critical thinking, it would be a 40 point lead, and we would be watching the death throes of the Republican party. Alas, we live in a cursed timeline of occupied by morons.
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This entire administration has done nothing but revise or erase history. Conservatives in the states have become so bold in their racism that they're barely trying to hide it anymore.
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The Congressional investigation into the Epstein files is not starting off very well.
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... trying to associate the Clinton's with Epstein. I'm not defending Bill or Hillary, if they're names are on the list then prosecute them but I've only ever seen hearsay and the biggest fish in all of this is Trump and they didn't even humor the idea of issuing a subpoena against him.
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... Hillary was the Secretary of State but that office is clearly not the qualifier for questioning or they would have issued subpoenas for the other former office holders. The only reason they've been singled out is because the GOP and their various parrots have spent the last 15 years...
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The fact that they subpoened Bill and Hillary Clinton for their "investigation" into the Epstein Files tells me that this isn't serious in the least. The other 8 make sense because they're all former Attorney Generals but the investigation didn't start until 7 years after Bill left office and
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"...and 2 billion in a Swiss Bank account and 4 billion in a Cayman Islands Offshore Holding Company."
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WTF is wrong with YouTube and Google? How is it such an impossible task for the world's largest company to vet their ads? Not only is this a scam, but it's using AI generated pornography of an underaged cartoon character named Gwen from Ben 10. Maybe Google should hire humans to moderate ads.
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"I talk to Trump everyday. No, not directly. I just stare at a picture of him on the wall and communicate via telepathy. What do you mean that's what a crazy person does? Look, the brain parasites and my animatronic friends gave me powers over the mind." - RFK Jr. talking to a stucco wall.
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We live in a nation where the rule of law no longer applies to those in power. Those lawmakers could file lawsuits to stop Abbott from firing them, but honestly, Abbott could just straight up ignore any court order and do whatever he feels like. No mechanisms exist anymore to hold him accountable.
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Whatever charges they want to make up. The entire legal system in Texas is made up of Abbott/Paxton cronyism.
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Russia's advances are measured in feet. At the rate they're going, Russian soldiers will be in Kiev by the next turn of the century. Chinese support isn't free. At some point, Putin is going to run out of means to pay them, and there is already talk of seceding territory. North Korea is a joke.
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Israel is now pushing an ad campaign on YouTube to claim that there's plenty of food coming into Gaza and that if you believe anyone is starving, then you must be a terrorist sympathizer.
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The Glorious Donald J. Trump, God Emperor of America, Defender of Jesus, Winner of War, Knower of Nuclear, High IQ Stable Genius Ballroom of Donald J. Trump.
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Ah, there's where everyone social security is going, a massive room that holds no modern appeal to anyone that lives outside of the antebellum fantasy of high class.
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I miss the days when doing something to earn a Nobel Peace Prize was considered the norm, as opposed to sending your press secretary out to beg on your behalf.
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That the one with the giant worms that stalk people in a small desert town?
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Don't worry, Trump will blame Biden and that will solve the issue of 1,000s of people being killed by a hurricane that was mis-forcasted.
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Apparently, he's been there 28 times if you factor in his usual tendency to project his indiscretions on to others.
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I imagine after the shot, he gave himself a gimme for reaching the green or on the other side of it.
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The world could come together and say, "Enough!" but they don't want to seem antisemitic for yelling at Israel for murdering its neighbors.
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I thought Trump had already broken the AUKUS agreement? Or is it back on/off/on/off/on again?
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The only time I agree with Trump. Hulk Hogan, who embodied the very essence of cuckholding, is a prime example of the MAGA movement and all its small dick energy.
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We lost a true legend in the entertainment business this week, and also Hulk Hogan died.
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Anytime this administration comes out of nowhere with accusations about someone, 10 out 10 times they are just projecting Trump's own traits onto others. This sounds like bipolar disorder, which I'm positive Trump suffers from. He definitely fits the bill for one of its symptoms, hypomania.
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Except those ARE Putin's talking points because, like him, you fail to acknowledge the 200+ years of Russian tyrannical foreign policy towards eastern Europe.
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So Tulsi Gabbard, well know Russian shill and person who was appointed by Donald Trump based solely on how much she kissed his ass on TV, is claiming without evidence, that Trump not only didn't allow Putin to go balls deep but that the original investigation was fraudulent. F**kin clown show.
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"For the first time, the Department of Justice is reaching out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: what do you know?" Translation: "Tell everyone only the Clintons visited pedo island or else you get to find out what we can do to you within the 2 minutes' time span of altered security footage."
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...the investigation itself. Calling out the FBI for its past mistakes looks like Trump attempting a roundabout approach to preemptively attacking any damning evidence that might get released. "Look! The FBI did bad stuff to Dr. King. That clearly must mean I'm a victim of the FBI, too!"
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The timing of this release of documents pertaining to FBI surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King is suspicious. I know they talked about releasing them in the past, but consider this; Trump is doing everything possible to distract from the Epstein Files and he's actively trying to discredit...
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Trump 2016 "I have a very high IQ, ask anyone." Trump 2020 "I have a very high IQ, ask anyone." Trump 2024 "I have a very high IQ, ask anyone." Trump 2025 "I'm too stupid to use a word like enigma."
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Art is definitely one of the few things Trump and Hitler don't have in common.
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Elon can supply the drones with no oversight and Chinese components. Then, we can sell them to totalitarian regimes who can use them on "terrorist". Win, Win.
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While I would definitely love to see Coca-Cola use cane sugar in its drinks, I'd much rather see the President put more effort into other things, like releasing the Epstein Files he promised us. Priorities, am I right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I imagine Trump tried to off him gangland style but didn't, not because it would look super sus if Epstein committed suicide via bullet to the back of the head, but because Trump didn't have the physically strength to pull the trigger back.
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The creators of Lower Decks used DS9 as their benchmark for quality, and it shows. Even the voice actors were DS9 fans.
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Claiming everything a leader does as divine providence is the same language used by the Kings and Queens of Europe to justify their position. Mike Johnson is definitely making an argument for Trump to be declared the King of the United States.