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SCS - Michigan's avatar

Please honor The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King on Monday. This is the BEST thing we can do -- find a march in your town or a service. There are many planned nationwide. Dr. King's lifelong focus on protecting and supporting the vulnerable of ALL TYPES is the antidote to the MAGA crap. PLEASE use your voice and your physical presence at a King celebration Monday to SEND A MESSAGE TO TRUMP and MAGA. Thank you.

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Penfist's avatar

Why is it you think MAGAts give any kind of care about the messages they have been ignoring since they were corrupted by a snake oil salesman?

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Susan Burgess's avatar

But Trump cares if he is upstaged.

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Susan Burgess's avatar

Dear SCS, If marches and gatherings are held in honor of Dr. King, it would be typical for certain faux media to take pictures of them and infer that the enthusiasm is for Trump’s inauguration, not MLK day.

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mstruck2's avatar

As a student of photography, I studied 45/47's new portrait. Do you see where the lighting is coming from? Underneath his chin. Just the lighting effect used in horror films for monsters. And maybe to make this old man look younger. What a hoot.

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Gigi's avatar

What a nasty, ugly face full of contempt for anyone but himself.

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SCS - Michigan's avatar

Minimizing his wattle.

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JDinTX's avatar

No light, from anywhere, can make this Frankenstein anything but the ugliest man on earth.

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GarySanDiego's avatar

Amazed that some rich dude or dudes were stupid enough to think that they earned brownie points from Trump by helping Rudy Giuliani. These people are truly brainless.

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Judith Matlock's avatar

Trump would have left Rudy under the bus next to some two-week old road kill because Rudy just couldn't get the job done, that of proving an election was stolen.

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Kathy Hughes's avatar

The fact is that we may very well face a bird flu (H5N1j pandemic during the incoming maladministration, and the Orange Menace and his antivax Secretary of HHS will take no effective action against it. This flu could potentially be lethal and unnecessarily so. After Trump’s mismanagement of COVID, I hardly think he will suddenly develop competence in managing another pandemic. Antivaxxers will be delighted to tell people to avoid vaccination, and increase the death rate.

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SCS - Michigan's avatar

Here's the silver lining: We know how to protect ourselves now. So, we can survive another public health catastrophe. We cannot do anything about the MAGA's and their growing rejection of vaccination. Our doctor family members are extremely frustrated by the new parents who are rejecting vaccinations for their babies. Oy vey!

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Pat Ebervein's avatar

At my recent checkup my doctor mentioned that an unsettling number of teachers are contracting whooping cough from their students. ):

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Linda MacDonald's avatar

And the cost of eggs and chicken will go sky high.

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Diane Love (St Petersburg FL)'s avatar

DJT is actually using an updated version of his mug shot as his official portrait. What a putz. And no I won’t be watching his inauguration.

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JDinTX's avatar

The deluded moron thinks it hides his age and his evil soul

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rebecca wilova's avatar

I think he thinks it shows him in a good way. Like his mugshot. Goofy.

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JDinTX's avatar

It is a “glamour shot” he thinks. An effort to hide the thug. How very pathetic…

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Victoria Brown's avatar

Thanks Tom, especially for Jefferson.

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Dennis M. Sienkiewicz's avatar

I just bought a carton of eggs at the local market…$7.50 for a dozen. Let’s see Fat Boy lower the prices of eggs by next Tuesday, the 21st, as he promised on the campaign trail. As well as ending the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, also as he promised. But he won’t, because governmenting is such hard work for a fat old dotard who’d rather be golfing than actually working.

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Judith Swink (CA)'s avatar

Did you buy from a chain grocery store? Here in San Diego, in my locally-owned small chain, they sell locally-produced cage-free (per California law) eggs. The price for extra large eggs has remained steady for several years at $3.99.

I just did an online search for price of eggs in California and all of the articles have prices ranging from $7-$9+/dozen. Makes me wonder how much of the price increases are opportunism.

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Vague Craig's avatar

"Polar Vortex Creates DC Doucheberg" (Monday's headline).

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Gail Adams VA/FL's avatar

😂

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Gigi's avatar

Is this change to go indoors meant to enshrine the site of the J6 Insurrection? He could have held the whole shebang at the Capital One Arena instead of giving the middle finger to the Capitol and American History.

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Judith Matlock's avatar

Still hoping for a power outage or a sudden presence of a legion of those drones from Jersey.

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Kathy's avatar

In the Department of Screw You Middle Class…Check out this post from Sen Ron Wyden about the memo from House Budget Committee Republicans.Among proposals is eliminating Head Of Household status that benefits “unmarried individuals with children” and repealing deduction for mortgage interest.

https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3lfxljgdobc24?

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🐝 BusyBusyBee 🐝's avatar

Not that I’ve got any love for Mike Johnson, but he didn’t remove Mike Turner from Intel entirely because he just wanted to do so. The GOP has term limits on their committee assignments that don’t apply to the Chair. He was term-limited from the committee, ergo, he was booted entirely when Mikey did what he did. I’m sure it was part of the plan, but he was a *both of these things will happen* thing due to the rules, not because Johnson waved a wand and booted him separately.

Stay safe out there!

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Linda MacDonald's avatar

Tom, you're the best! And thanks for adding Jefferson. I have not read that for too long. I hope you're right that the Clinton's, Bushes, won't attend. Obama also. I had only read about Michelle and Pelosi, although I saw a printed list of democratic congress people not attending. I don't believe any of the former presidents should attend or lend any patina of normalization to this inshitifucation!😅😅😅

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Judith Matlock's avatar

My fantasy Number 57: The Capitol police remember--and they release a bag of hearty DC sewer rats into the proceedings. Of course with those folks they might not cause a stir.

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Linda MacDonald's avatar

😅😅😅 Love that idea!

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Ed Estlow's avatar

Would love to see Mike Turner make the Sunday Morning talk show circuit. I’d love to hear him speak his true mind. The last few appearances, he’s towed the Trump line, while also being a reasonable Republican. Insanely difficult, I know, and now I want to know what he’s really thinking. I’d luv-luv-LUV to see him cross the isle on some key votes coming up.

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Maggie's avatar

I'd love to see him do more than cross the aisle!

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Judith Matlock's avatar

He's got some power he should use to help his country.

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Susan Burgess's avatar

“What a great way to hide the fact that the crowd’s going to be smaller than the first one in 2017 that he spent three months arguing was “the biggest crowd ever”

That statement holds within it another example of why I will never believe Dondacon won this election. The number of people who are for him is much lower than claimed. Too low to have actually won this election.

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Susan Burgess's avatar

Do you think if Kamala had won that the crowd would be taken inside. No. Everyone would have braved the freezing temperatures to see her inauguration. Or they would have held it in a Superdome.

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