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I don't subscribe to the "when they go lower, we go higher" crap. It's important Kamala and crew don't get defensive or rattled. We all know it's going to be bad. But these bottom of the barrel excuses for humans, need to be checked and hard. It can be done with words and humor. They hate being laughed at. And when some old white guy calls her a dei hire, call him on it. Seriously. Push back. "Why don't you just use the N word? That's what you mean". Watch them shrivel. We are not going to win this war, and it is a war, by clutching pearls.

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Absolutely right.

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The time when going higher was a good strategy is long past, if it ever was ok with these cretins. That’s what Al Gore did, and W/Dickie took that to mean surrender. And they went lower than even Nixon with better PR. As chump said non stop. Fight like hell or you won’t have a country anymore. That pretend patriot has never fought for anything but himself. But we will take his advice and pound them with diversity, equality and inclusion and a country that Franklin could be proud of as we prove that we can indeed keep it.

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When they go low we either go for the throat or the eyes. That's as high as we should consider. My apologies to Ms Obama.

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Absolutely. Maybe she will - I hope so.

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YES!!! THIS!^^^^^^^^

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I was thinking "is lazy and inarticulate.” “She does not speak well," and “She does not work hard” (Conway, who used to curl up on the couch of a guy who reportedly worked an average of 3 hours a day) was coded racism when I read on and heard all of the other far less coded statements. Honestly they are just going to piss off a huge majority of the voting public if they keep this up. Good!

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They can't even do insults well. I wonder if any of them have read -- no, I wonder if any of them have even *heard* of Samuel Johnson.

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READ??? Seems to me that would be really exacting WORK for some of these "people."(see how polite I am?) Stopped myself before I added descriptives!

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I know. It's a constant challenge not to let my dark side rip.

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I agree with you.

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My immediate reaction to the Musk news was that he was willing to spend big money if he was buying a presidency but now that it looks like he might just be throwing his money down a hole he's not so willing to do it anymore. I feel like it's another indicator that the GOPers' confidence is shook.

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Another argument hasd been presented that he played Trump with the promise of $45m/month to get him to put the Little Shillbilly on the ticket, basically bribing Trump, and then fading on the bribe.

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This! Muskrat has proved time and time again that he’s a total grifter. Odd that cons are always the biggest marks.

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Of course republicans will be racist. Because they are. The one thing that Pol Potbelly did was free them to be more open publicly about how they have long been privately. Or not so privately: A white republican delegate to the 1964 convention put out his cigarette on a Black man. That's pretty much the republican party.

But a word about cats. My Facebook profile picture shows me with our two late cats, Abigail and Kirby. When I comment on a republican's page or respond to a troll on a Democratic page, often they mention the cats. I pointed out that incels hate women because they can't get cat.

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YES. I was going to post that. So I'll just post this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYCbb9uJXY

The dems have too long been the Kilkenny Cats, too. Time to stop.

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Everyone with a brain is tired of the Republican strategy. They are toast.

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But they still have the state governments on their side in critical places and the extreme court to have the last word on too much. Don’t pronounce them dead yet. Vampires still roam

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Yes and in Arkansas - read Judd's Popular Info Substack about AR - the rethugs are trying desperately to stop registering young Blacks to

Vote. I wonder why.🤣

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Will do, I get Judd's substack.

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Fire up your executive orders, Joe!!

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Strike while the iron is hot. Now where did I hear that

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Kellywise (aka Conway), go back to the sewer and take the rest of your 'friends' with you.

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Right Mona, there is definitely a split between Kellyanne & George. George Conway miffed at main stream media's refusal to deal Trump's psychoses has started an "Anti Psychopath PAC" coming to small screens everywhere soon.

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George Conway had a great video describing tffg's psychoses and why he is deficient and unfit to be president. He's not fit to be in charge of anything actually.

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George & Kellyanne divorced in early 2023. Not long thereafter, it was obvious that George had lost a lot of his avoirdupois. Looking a lot healthier now.

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I have so many things to say to Conway, Loomer and Kelly, but it can't be repeated here. They are filth.

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To me they are snuff porn. I still think the rally scene was staged, scripted, cast, and played. Maybe not by the three mentioned, but Bannon and Stone are the usual suspects for the most evil plots. Oops, forgot about Miller for a nanosecond

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I agree--Loomer is a cesspool of filth and lies.

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Stephen Miller, a vile person. His own family disowned him and so did the incel's after he got married. Boy, she must have been really hard up.

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It may be that she is a vampire, too. Perhaps she is one of those women totally in love with the Ann Rice novels?

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Just think! They have produced a child!!!

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Scary, ain't it?

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From the forensic psychology angle, I am more interested in tffg's manifestation of clinical projection, 'Lying Kamala". You heard of the 'Big Lie' -- get ready for Bigger Lies.

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Let’s the slut shaming begin! That didn’t take long. But, I literally chuckled as I read that she “ slept her at to the top” and broke her uterus with all those abortions because it was so predictable!! Honestly, bitches, is that the best you got?

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OK Tom, you have the treatment for a fantastic screenplay. Save all those old envelopes with notes on the back. They might have the finer twist of phrase.

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This was a hellof a lot of fun to read, wasn’t it?

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It was Trump who didn’t really have Covid. He had a nervous breakdown caused by his losing control as well as his failed handling of the pandemic. Plus he’d used up his last bottle of ketchup. He may have had a health event but it wasn’t Covid. I mused that he may have set up a secret tryst with Putin and Covid was the excuse to meet him.

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Fantastic post! When I stopped LMAO, three things I’d love to see came readily to mind:

1. The Crazy Cat Lady of LA Punching that "pudgy little chinless inbred DNA failure in his little moon face.”

2. Elon Musk pouring gasoline on a 45-million dollar pile of money and setting it on fire.

3. Harris standing in solidarity with the UAW mobilization against Netanyahu and declaring her new administration’s allegiance with the oppressed people of Palestine by calling for an immediate ceasefire and end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Polls show that wish # 3 is right in line with the majority of the American people on both sides of the bloody isle, so it would be a great unifying move on our next president’s part. And let’s get one thing straight — Harris is not afflicted with any of the gross character defects that Conway projected from herself onto the vice president. Kamala is a great communicator with the potential to articulate a vision for a new America that’s not impeded by the fascist ambitions of MAGA Republicanism or the counterproductive protocols of empire that require Israel’s unholy presence in American politics.

Sincerely, Don Quixote

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Thanks Tom, and it's going to get worse. Wait until the Democratic Convention in late August, *POT will go berserk after the unanimous selection of Kamala as our leader.

*party of trump"

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Love POT

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Can we call their followers “Potties”?

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Throwing turds or ketchup packets against a wall to see what sticks is standard MO for trump and the GOP. Nothing new or unexpected here…but now there’s someone to push back against the lies and BS, hopefully.

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Kurtz’s observations are spot on. It’s so predictable that one wonders why line reporters fall for it. More commentary should be along these lines to try to inoculate the public against press cooption with the GOP meme factory.

What’s funny about the DEI attacks (in addition to being a substitute for the *n* word), is that, technically speaking, diversity, equity and inclusion have been a hallmark of picking vice presidents since the adoption of the 12th Amendment. In order to broaden the appeal of the ticket, the presidential nominee always picks somebody that represents regional and policy diversity, that recognizes the equity of the claims of an opposing faction in the party, and that invites that faction to feel included and support the ticket. Unmitigated DEI. Trump’s problem now is that he didn’t pick a DEI candidate for the VP slot. He picked a Mini-me who does nothing to expand the reach of the ticket.

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The R's are way too Trumpified to keep their racism to themselves. Let their freak flags fly, says I, because that drives more independent/undecideds to our ticket.

They WILL get their messaging together, but watching them flail over the likes of plastic straws has been some of the most enjoyable schadenfreude that I can remember!

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