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LaurenAZGoodGirl's avatar

… and still nothing to reduce the cost of groceries… my my my… I am shocked. SHOCKED, I say.

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Robert A Mosher (he/him)'s avatar

Way back in the last century we parsed the advice as “if you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance then bury them in bullshit”:

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Judith L Hubbard's avatar

Why would impeachment be delayed until 2026 unless numbers needed to confirm vote not available now?

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Morgaan Sinclair, Ph.D.'s avatar

That's it exactly. People are VERY afraid of this guy.

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Judith L Hubbard's avatar

The 🍑 felon is unable to do much on his own steam but his enablers, cult, Russel Vought, Pete Hegseth the WARRIOR

and others are ready to stand up and stand by, right? The pardoned # ~ 1400 + 01/06 violent offenders convicted appropriately just hanging out, waiting for direction. America, 🇺🇸, we have a few problems. 🥲

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Morgaan Sinclair, Ph.D.'s avatar

Uh-huh. That sounds about right!

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kdsherpa's avatar

We need 66 Senators to impeach!! And we couldn't even muster a pathetic 51 Senators to oppose a very, very sick man from becoming on of the very top officials in our government. I refer, of course, to pete hedgehog. During one drunken (public) rage, he shouted repeatedly "Kill all Muslims! Kill all Muslims!" He voiced his support that all charges be dropped against soldiers who deliberately killed civilians. He is stupid, and monstrous. Yet we couldn't even get a pitiful simple majority to keep him out of power! Of course the orange sadist must be gotten rid of. But who is going to bell the cat?!

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Judith L Hubbard's avatar

Hedgehog, great nickname. Suits him but defiles the natural hedgehog! 🦔

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kdsherpa's avatar

I know. I always feel bad about that. I named the muskrat long ago. The only one I feel doesn't defile something good is Orange Sadist, my moniker for him since August, 2016 (repugnicant primaries).

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James Flanagan's avatar

I always go back to Lakoff's strict father model for Republicans. But this is different in that it's the mentally ill and abusive father model. Well, we might think, evangelicals, who are his critical base of support, don't all have sick, abusive fathers in their families and support that.

Why would they support that? Surely, most don't. Have it or support it.

And most don't. But that's not the model with Trump. The model is God. Who is only one step up from white men, but, still a step up. The God of evangelicals is an arbitrary, abusive asshole. But not to be fucked with under any circumstances. Trump is an arbitrary, abusive asshole.

But in no way to be resisted. If you are in an evangelical family with an abusive father you're supposed suck it up and submit and pray. Up to a point. Even evangelicals have limits. Probably not with Trump, though. So, we're there with the abuse but not with the recourse. Don't hold your breath.

Because Trump gets processed differently and as associated with divinity and even, vaguely, with the end times, presumably the prerogative of God but evangelicals just can't help but itch to see Jesus again, to witness the longed-for second coming. 'Don't immanentize the eschaton!'

Anyone remember that one? The source wasn't innocent at all, and evangelicals associate the kind of destruction Trump might bring about (destructive potential noted and agreed upon) as possibly leading to an age of perfection, peace and Jesus and so on. This whole thing is that nuts.

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kdsherpa's avatar

"he’d deport any Palestinian students in the United States if they criticized Israel" I can't imagine any President making a statement even remotely similar to this, in the history of our country. Only the Second Amendment counts now. Screw the First.

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Morgaan Sinclair, Ph.D.'s avatar

Every Trump target is brown or a woman. Period. This particular one, though horrible, isn't as bad as the idea he floated earlier this week to have Lebanon and Egypt take ALL the Palestinians out off Gaza and "clean the place out." That's a crime against humanity according the ICC and The Hague. Now, in the face of a tragic air accident, he and Hegseth go on TV and blame the accident on DEI hiring of ... brown people and women. And blames Obama and Biden. NOBODY HAS ANY IDEA WHAT HAPPENED in this crash, but it appears from some intel the chopper was falling when it hit the plane, and that means catastrophic engine loss. So, how are you going to blame it on a brown person? or Asian person? or woman? or Palestinian? or Indian? or Hindu? or Muslim? This OVERT and FALSE dog-whistling of man white supremacists and misogynists is going to get people killed. This is the most hideous and vicious white supermacy I have seen in my lifetime.

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