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Rita Parker's avatar

The chickens have come home to roost for Trump. The only people trying to kill him are his people. The second attempt wasn't even close. Trump and Vance are evil psychopaths. When a grown man says in all caps, "I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT", you know he's not dealing with a full deck. Now by their incendiary wolf whistles, they're basically putting a target on Kamala. I am so over this shit. As Rick Wilson said today, we're not going to be quiet. What Trump and Vance have done with their lies about Springfield should be criminal.

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Alec Ferguson's avatar

Is criminal!

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Sharon B in ATL's avatar

With all the hatemongering and lies being spread about immigrants to this country, it might be a good time to bring up the fact that the two men who are accused of shooting or attempting to shoot Trump are white American Republicans.

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Danielle (NM)'s avatar

And I haven’t heard either one claim Native Americans or Mayflower Pilgrims as ancestors.

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David Levine's avatar

are we even sure the second guy was an assassin? the cops sure don't seem to be...

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Bob Lewis's avatar

There isn't any standard below which Trump will not sink.

Sometimes I don't know whether to spit or wind my watch. There is so much misinformation or disinformation it's hard to pick out the true snowflake from the shit-storm.

Given that the Secret service detail wiped their phones on Jan 6, I'm more than a little skeptical of their veracity.

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MaryPat's avatar

The Secret Service and your local law enforcement, too. My sister just sent me the book, "The Highest Law in the Land: How the Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy" by Jessica Pisko. My experience with our local sheriff department's trumpism is terrifying.

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TCinLA's avatar

I have yet to run across a Sheriff's Department that isn't a major contributor to the problems. The LA sheriff dept has gangs as bad as the ones in the community. I think the problem comes from the fact the first assignment for most new hires is to become guards in the local prison system, an assignment that can last years before they get "on the street." By then most of them are as bad as the people they were in charge of.

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Bob Lewis's avatar

I remember in the '90's someone was shooting out the rear windows of police cars from overpasses. The cops couldn't locate any projectiles though. Must have been a month or more. All LA cops were nervous. Just what we needed, a bunch of nervous cops. Turned out that the windows were shot out using glass marbles and a slingshot. Yeesh, weird time in the city of the angels.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

I can think of two, but they're both in Massachusetts and they're both Democrats so they don't really count. Donna Buckley is sheriff in Barnstable County (basically Cape Cod), and my sheriff here in Dukes County/Martha's Vineyard is Bob Ogden. I campaigned for him.

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Bob Lewis's avatar

Tom, I was cleaning the garage and I came across a primary source from Guadalcanal. First hand accounts from Marines that fought there put out in 1943.

I'll DM you a couple of pictures. Maybe you've seen it.

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JDinTX's avatar

Proof that the SS has their own MAGAts to deal with. Also proof that what is on social media can be erased. That info hasn’t been resurrected to my knowledge.

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David Levine's avatar

more than a little?

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Liz Ayer, Nyc/MA's avatar

Honestly are they real or are they weird A-I robots— third time is a charm for the assassin but hell I am a good person who has NOT given up my black humor. 🙏keep Kamala safe please!!

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Fay Reid's avatar

Thank you, Tom. Wouldn't it be great if we had news channels that reported the real facts with no mitigation on behalf of the worst president this Country has ever had, worse than Warren G Harding, who only brought prostitutes into the White House for his weekly poker games. Compared to trump Harding was practically an angel.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Harding has been surpassed several times in the last century, first by Reagan and then by G. W. Bush.

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Victoria Brown's avatar

Trump and Vance are FUBAR.

Totally unrecognizable as

citizens of this country. So

far right, they're with Musk in

space. These are dangerous

people!

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Susan Troy's avatar

They are indeed and Musk is a disgusting human being.

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samani's avatar

Is there an island where these liars might live knit together in dank caves? There they could lie lye awake shout and go at each other.

I’m so tired of their rhetoric & theatrics….all the oxygen energy they’re consuming as well as the poison they’re exhuming. I’m noticing t signs shrinking here, more Harris signs growing. Growing up growing optimism:-)

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Sharon B in ATL's avatar

Jd Vance:

"I don't like that this is a fact of life, but if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our golf courses are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our golf courses. We've got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the ninth hole and kill a bunch elderly golfers, they're not able."

Oh wait, sorry he said that about kids and schools…

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JDinTX's avatar

Nice switch, boy, about fooled me.

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Susan Troy's avatar

I just finished reading Ryan Busse's book, Gunfight. Ryan Busse spent 25 years working to build up a gun company that sold Kimbers and did not include AR-15s. He thought he could reform the gun culture from within since he was part of it. After 25 years he gave up the attempt, became a Democrat, helped advise the Biden Administration about guns and gun policies, and now running for Governor of Montana against Gianforte. Now that's my kind of guy. Jess Piper agrees. I did not grow up in a gun culture. In Oakland, California, if we see someone with a gun, we do not feel safe. We feel like someone is going to either kill or rob us. Busse's book was an eye-opener and I encourage anyone interested in learning more about the "evolution" of the NRA or gun culture in general, to read it.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

That's an excellent and revealing book -- highly recommended. An FB friend of mine in MT is a real-life friend of his so I've been following the campaign.

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Fred WI's avatar

I don't know what to say. Hating is not what I want to be known for. But.... I'm crossing that bridge.

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TCinLA's avatar

Line forms over there, bub.

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GarySanDiego's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Susan Burgess's avatar

Whoa, Tom. One of your best. I want so much to send it to my sister but she’s a Trump Christian and the word uh Foxtrot would surely offend her sensibilities.

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Susan Burgess's avatar

I sent it anyway.

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TCinLA's avatar

I laughed out loud.

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JDinTX's avatar

Trump Christian offends my sensibilities

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Susan Burgess's avatar

Mine too.

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Katiejane M's avatar

It’s so exhausting, but more infuriating!

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Mike Still's avatar

There better be plenty of rhetoric coming from Democrats: that Trump and Vance both are lying scum, that they created folks like Routh and Crooks, that they are racist POSs, that anyone who supports or equivocates about them don’t give a rat’s ass about the U.S. of A and that Donnie is a criminal enterprise that is socketing in every red ball capped ‘Murricun.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

All I can say is that I hope more USians are prepared for this than the Germans were in the early 1930s. At least we don't have the Versailles reparations hanging over our heads.

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JDinTX's avatar

We aren’t, sad to say.

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Trump’s SNAFU Circus

The Oval Office, a FUBAR show,

Where chaos reigns, and logic's low,

TARFU mornings, nights gone late,

WTF—ain’t this just great?

Charlie Foxtrot’s on the floor,

Tweets like bombs in a Twitter war.

“AWOL? Nah, I’m on vacation!”

Golf cart rallies, no hesitation.

Blue Falcons circle round the White House,

Spouting lies, quiet as a mouse.

Jody's back home, stealing the show,

While POGs try hard not to let it all blow.

BOHICA hits the daily grind—

Bend over, folks, he's lost his mind!

A circus act, a real head shed mess,

Where sanity’s gone and all is... less.

Trump’s SNAFU circus, it’s clear as day—

His nuts have rolled clean far away.

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TCinLA's avatar

Another solid one, Gloria!

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Gigi's avatar

The police said no shots were fired at the golf course. Donnie Despicable says 4 or 5. Who to believe??🧐 Authorities say shooter is mentally ill. Shooter says he was maga but now hates Donnie because he is an idiot. He sounds sane to me. 🤨

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-signs-bill-revoking-obama-era-gun-checks-people-mental-n727221

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TCinLA's avatar

Sounds like a miraculous recovery to me, too.

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Alec Ferguson's avatar

Stochastic indeed. Great message. Thanks

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Pat Ebervein's avatar

So full of disgust here I think it may come out my ears. Never in my life did I ever dream fellow Americans could act like this. And I can no longer think of any of them as "fellow" anythings; all they're good for is obstruction, destruction, and obfuscation (to name just a few).

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JDinTX's avatar

Exactly

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