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Lynne's avatar

The sheer horror of this has actually made me cry. How unfathomable that the Republicans support this "shit spewer."

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Lizajean's avatar

Don’t be discouraged. It’s all temporary. The Constitution WILL stand. The WhiteHouse & rose garden can be rehabbed, our foreign alliances can be re-established. The world will see that facism was once again defeated and America will be even more vigilant and stronger for it. Most republicans voted for him bc they believe a clump of cells is a baby and they wanted to be moral. Like most humans, they were tricked and misled. They imagined the kind of leader they wanted and projected their ideal of a leader onto the only “pro-life” candidate they had. Once committed, it’s really hard for humans to admit when we’ve been duped. What if someone started telling us the Meidas network founders were really republican operatives paid by Putin to set us up and demoralize us? What if they told us Ben and Michael ate children taught Elon everything he knew and were really building a nuclear bomb to drop on California? We wouldn’t believe it and we’d defend them until they dropped the bomb and revealed themselves. It’s that difficult for a lot of regular working republicans to reverse course; but trump has wasted no time revealing himself these last 9 months & literally dropped the bomb this weekend. Republicans are rethinking their choice. We all make mistakes (granted-voting for trump-especially a 2nd time) was a doozy. Things will turn around. Dont lose hope.

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Anne Hopkins's avatar

How I do hope you are right. Thanks for holding the hope fort.

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Martha Kenne's avatar

Same.

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Sandra Wallace's avatar

There is still excellence in America - Ilia Malinin is holding the hope fort for the U.S. Olympic team to win gold at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan -

Ilia Malinin, 2024 World Champion, performs to "Hope" by NF at 'Gold on Ice'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bkgEhU3j7w&list=RD6bkgEhU3j7w&start_radio=1

Comments : "Some of his fellow skaters and their parents and coaches died in a plane crash in January - some of them were just children. The purpose of this entire show was to honor those that died and to raise money for the family members."

"He used this performance to channel his own anger at what happened. He was bombarded by media requests the day after the accident and I could tell he was in shock, didn’t want to talk, etc. This was his way. I’ve seen him do Hope many many times and this was the version that worked for him this time."

“Ilia Malinin obliterates competition in tone setting season opening French GP victory | NBC Sports , 4 days ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUphIg4drYs AMAZING!

“In his first major event of the 2025-26 figure skating season, Ilia Malinin left no doubt as to who the gold medal favorite should be in Milan, executing a nearly flawless free skate at the Grand Prix de France en route to gold and a 40 point victory over second place finisher Adam Siao Him.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilia_Malinin

Ilia, age 20, was born in Fairfax, VA in 2004. Ilia began skating at age six, inspired by his Russian born parents, Tatyana Malinina and Roman Skornyakov, both former Olympic figure skaters for Uzbekistan.

Here's to immigration, freedom of artistic expression, and our country's young adults, who bring honor to our nation!

HOPE indeed!

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Ellie Cohan's avatar

Nobody is enforcing the constitution any longer🥵

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Lizajean's avatar

A lot of lower courts are enforcing the constitution. The Supreme Court shadow docket rulings are temporary. As cases are fully litigated, the constitution does win. We have some important races coming up in a few weeks in NY & NJ that will send a strong message. You will see even more cracks in the maga front. It’s already happening. Just think, could you have ever imagined Marjorie Taylor Greene standing up to trump? We keep on. In just over a year, we will have a majority house & senate. maga Mike Johnson will no longer be the speaker. If needed, the new Congress can add more justices to the Supreme Court. Impeachments will begin. The military leaders may stand up to trump. The 25th Amendment may be invoked. We stand up. We stay united. We keep the faith.

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Carly Grier's avatar

🙏🤞

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GaryE's avatar

I agree with your assessment, but I'm unsure how we get there. Millions of people in the streets protesting will be ignored. Violence in the streets while protesting will be met with the deployment of the military against us. The courts may hold on some actions on voter suppression but, the SCOTUS seems to be carrying the flag for Trump. Their ruling on Article 2 of the Voting Rights Act may be a good sign of where they plan to take this country. The lower courts seem to be holding but, as the SCOTUS overrules Federal Appeals Courts. We have a serious situation. A free and fair election is in jeopardy, which was by design, for this administration all along. So that leaves us with the people and the sacrifice for which they will endure. Armed resistance. Urban warfare. Many, many lives sacrificed. Blood spilled in the streets. Intolerable violence. The division of our military to choose a side. Succession of states. Sound familiar?

I like your scenario better. I just want to know how we get there.

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Lizajean's avatar

It starts with faith, in each other if you don’t have a religion; and faith that goodness conquers evil. It’s not trite. We have history. Remember, when the colonists declared their independence, they didn’t even have an army. When Washington was surrounded by a superior military fleet; France stepped in.

Rome, once thought to be unconquerable, defeated itself. Rome grew too greedy, too fast. Outside factors like disease, climate weakened it.

Hitler “conquered” France, until the Allied landings on Normandy beach.

We learn from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, John Lewis. Activists were beaten on the Edmund Pettit Bridge, but they did not fight back and the world watched. The Little Rock Nine were spit on as they walked into school, but they kept their back straight, they walked on and the World watched. Fire hoses were turned on peaceful protestors and the world watched.

WE don’t get violent. We show up. We stand tall. We don’t stop. The world is watching.

We don’t have to know all of the mechanics. We each do what we can do. Someone else will fill in one of the blanks; another will fill in the next blank.

Remember the last clause of the Declaration of Independence:

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, WE MUTUALLY PLEDGE TO EACH OTHER OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES AND OUR SACRED HONOR”

The colonists knew WHAT they had to do; they didn’t have all of the HOW(S) in the beginning.

Keep the faith.

In Solidarity ✊🏽

RISE UP!!!

RESIST!!!

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Mike's avatar

Never Surrender no matter what!!!

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GaryE's avatar

An excellent response. You make a compelling argument and one we should consider.

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Ellie Cohan's avatar

I wish I could be more positive…it’s not looking good at all.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

We get there by building from the ground up - Bernie Agrees as I heard him say it to Jon Stewart the other night on The Daily Show... If you want some ideas on how we get there, then check this out: "Now What Do We Do? The Way Out Of This Mess!!!" - https://bluesmurf.substack.com/p/now-what-do-we-do-the-way-out-of

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GaryE's avatar

👍🏼

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Rhonda L Schneider's avatar

I hope that you are right but we have to look beyond Trump and look at Project 2025 and it's authors. They are doing things that can't easily be undone. Some of these appointments are lifetime like SCOTUS. I believe and hope that the enablers have ruined their reputations to the point that they never work in public jobs again. And there are a lot of oligarchs working behind the scenes against us. They are buying power and filling their war chests.

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Lizajean's avatar

True. But the constitution doesn’t limit the # of justices that can be appointed. A democratic president w/ congressional approval could appoint 6 more justices & all of a sudden the maga 6 are in the 9-6 minority. The maga 6 Supreme Court can only rule on existing law. A democratic majority congress could clean up bad legislation, pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, strengthened the 10th, 13th, &14th amendments, clarify presidential powers, strengthen the emoluments & enrichment laws, & reverse all of the bad rulings.

Don’t forget, there will be prosecutions & impeachments when we have a majority in the house & senate. I am sure the new legislators will understand that there must be punishment and consequences for crimes.

I don’t wish any physical harm on anyone, including magas & I certainly don’t want any of them to become martyrs; although I do want to see them in prison. Only God knows how their health will hold up. J.D. Vance may finish the current term.

WE must set the new bar and insist on character, leadership, & morality from our elected leaders.

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Rhonda L Schneider's avatar

First things first, the Democrats have to have a spine and strategy. A few do but we need all of them to stand as one and vote out anybody who doesn't.

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Lizajean's avatar

It will never work as long as we expect “them” to fix the problems. “WE” are the only ones who can fix the problems.

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Ed Garland's avatar

Agree.

I read the following in the Book. "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." I believe "This, too, will pass." Frumpty's rush to dismantle America is unsustainable. His fake "Peace Accord" was another fabrication of his warped imagination.

Lies! The ceasefire didn't last for more than a few hours after his bogus announcement. Confusion and disaster are attached to him. His inner circle is in tatters, with everyone fighting to buddy up with him. Prognosis: Poor.

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WJB Motown's avatar

There has to be a place that worse than hell.......a place where one orange diaper encased rapist.child molester.... who declared war on the entire universe can fry, boil and bake in the hottest flames ever created for beyond eternity.

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Eddie Spaghetti's avatar

Fru, boil and bake, I needed one laugh tonight, now I can sleep 😴thanks

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WJB Motown's avatar

Thank the spirit of Alfred E Newman and the "usual gang of idiots" from Mad.

My constant inspiration through these times...........sleep well.

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Eddie Spaghetti's avatar

Oh yes, Mad magazine was 🤣

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Merry's avatar

Trump is a weapon of mass destruction. He’s also a crazed lunatic reminiscent of Slim Pickens joy-riding the bomb in Dr. Strangelove!

“Aaahhhhhhhh-hoooooooooooo!!!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTaSJk0n_Y

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Anne Hopkins's avatar

Me, too.

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PW's avatar

Tearing away the People’s White House sent a strong message of visual destruction. It hit patriots viscerally. Between the crapping self-crowned Felon and the reality of destroying our home, no one can deny Trump hates us and hates democracy.

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Bmandiego's avatar

He'll be changing the name to 'Trumpington DC' pretty soon.

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PW's avatar

🤮

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SeekingReason's avatar

The destruction crew should be arrested. Where is their Congressional approval?!!

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Josee's avatar

You all know 47 won’t leave willingly 28.

Get 47 out of office NOW💪💪💪

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Edward mead's avatar

We can blame Mitch McConnel if Mitch would have only voted to impeach Trump,Trump would have been gone

Republicans SCREWED THE TAXPAYERS AGAIN

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Merry's avatar

And republicans just sit back, twiddling their thumbs as if everything is just fine and dandy. They are fully complicit and they all need to be thrown in prison along with drumph-ass. Alligator Alcatraz seems appropriate.

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Danita Hamilton's avatar

I know I just keep thinking how can you do that to people they are evil like him

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Merry's avatar

Yes. SHAMELESS.

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Christy M's avatar

And SCOTUS for allowing him free rein as president

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Danita Hamilton's avatar

Exactly they don’t give a damn I will never forget and will let everyone know too because some people don’t even realize it

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Danita Hamilton's avatar

Exactly he is planning on never leaving it will be a ball room brothel the whole White House probably will be look who his best Friend was Epstein

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Bmandiego's avatar

I think the ballroom is actually more of a barracks or shelter.

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Mike Hammer's avatar

A giant massage parlor.

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Leah Baum's avatar

I suspect he’ll be dead before this term ends.

A reporter did a story on what he orders from McDonalds for lunch nearly daily. Fish sandwich, Big Mac, quarter pounder with cheese, large fry’s and orange soda not diet. He takes the two hamburgers smashes them together which gives him five buns. How is he still alive? Oh that’s right the good dies young and evil lives on forever.

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Pascale Blue's avatar

Don’t worry about that, he’ll be dead (or mentally gone) by then.

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Eva Seifert's avatar

Caught a YouTube short where Bannon is flat out saying he has a "team" to make sure POS stays in the White House in 2029. I think he really believes it.

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bettievanoverbeke's avatar

In k dramas poison works well on unsuspecting kings

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Hope E.'s avatar

What a sad time. Let's get busy. Don't go into fetal..go into fighter/smarter..

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Bruce's avatar

And today, he’s demanded $350M of taxpayer money from DOJ to compensate him for his prosecutions. We’ll see if this is a bridge too far for his GOP/MAGA bootlickers.

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Edward mead's avatar

Fuck Trump and his family too

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Robert Hart's avatar

The felon is so arrogant and thinks he is in such total control that he is getting bolder and bolder. He is making it more and more difficult for his minions to keep themselves out of legal jeopardy. Meanwhile he forces more pretzel logic upon them. It must be exhausting. Who is going to crack first?

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PW's avatar

We need an Accountability Tribunal. And the American People should claw back every cent he cost us and stole from us.

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Edward mead's avatar

We do have "The USA Congress" They are all under the Small Thumb of DJT.

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PW's avatar

Under the thumb not to come back or act. Dysfunctional. Inoperative. Not working. Not representing. No check. Not a branch. Gone.

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Merry's avatar

Yep. We’re paying them to sit on their asses all day and do absolutely nothing about drumpf taking a giant chainsaw to our country!!!

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Robert Hart's avatar

Agree. I call it Reconstruction 2.0. The felon and all his minions will get the same "due process" he's giving Hispanics now. And then they all get deported and incarcerated for life all across the world without cellphones, but not more than one of them in any one place. I see them in Gitmo, Guam, Leavenworth, Marion, Ukraine, Diego Garcia, Nome, Midway Island, Greenland, Antartica, places like this. Isolated and forgotten. So this never happens again.

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Anne Hopkins's avatar

Perfect headline. Sickening situation. Thanks for covering it.

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Joanne C Collin's avatar

What a total mess he is making!! Who gave him permission to do this??? This is the PEOPLE's house , NOT HIS!!!

DID HE SEND A MEMO TO SENATE OR CONGRESS OR JUST TOOK IT UPON HIMSELF???

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Edward mead's avatar

On Himself The USA only has one branch of Government now.

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Merry's avatar

Laws are irrelevant in the world according to drumpf

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Joanne C Collin's avatar

Indeed they are Mary💙🥲🇺🇸

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Bluesmurf's avatar

He is a narcissist who believes in plowing forward and then thumbing his nose on those who care - it's more like "try and stop me now!" or "what are you going to do after I have already destroyed it?" "Make me!" that kind of thing. Bullies are like that and until someone actually "makes him" then he will continue to do exactly what he wants - as he has said "I can do whatever I want..." Congress could stop him and so could the Supreme Court, but they aren't going to because he has their names in his little black book and none of them are willing to stand up and then fall on their sword for the ugly and illegal things that they have done and are doing to put a stop to this destruction.

But we can! It will take time and determination, perseverance, and sticktoitiveness, courage, and bravery. This is how: "Now What Do We Do? The Way Out Of This Mess!!!" - https://bluesmurf.substack.com/p/now-what-do-we-do-the-way-out-of

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Joanne C Collin's avatar

Exactly. When I saw the East wing , I had tears in my eyes. That us our house not his!! And he wants 320 million dollars from us!! Baloney!!

Trump was suppose to have donors. But they backed out.

So the money Trump made Illegally in office since Jan 25’ which is in the low billions, well he can pay for the ballroom, his golf, his gas for the flights. How come he has card blanche for everything he wants!!!!!

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Because there is no one to stop him and he has two equal value crooks in the Office of Management and Budget who can shift dollars around in budgets and another as the Sec. of the Treasury - a fox in the hen house. Congress also has abdicated their role on keeping him from spending the money on just what he wants and nothing on the rest of us. Our elections right now and into 2026 are critical. There are elections going on in a lot of States with candidates and issues on the local ballots, the County ballots and the State ballots. These are most important to you and me as they impact our pocket books and elect leaders who make policy and tell us what to do. We must replace the MAGAs and we must start now! That is the only way we are going to get anywhere and stop all this illegal and corrupt theft of our treasury and the overthrow of our democracy.

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Joanne C Collin's avatar

Totally agree with your response is to the point. Thank you🇺🇸💙

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Protect the Vote's avatar

Flush Cheeto And His Nazi Allies: Victimhood

One of the main political ploys that the Nazis use in manipulating the MSM(mainstream media) is victimhood As the saying goes “poor me, poor me, look how they persecute me/us”

Sounds like it’s right out of the New Testament doesn’t it? It’s part of the Christian Nationalist movement of politicizing Christian teachings for their own benefit Let’s be clear, victimhood has always been part of being a Nazi since the 1980’s when they found that if they cried foul often enough that the American electorate would come around and say, “you poor thing, look what they’re doing to you/us”

Now Cheeto routinely plays the victim card They tried to assassinate me and/or Charlie Kirk without any introspection about “hmmm, maybe I stand for something people don’t like” But in actuality it gave Cheeto and the Nazis a chance to really play the victim(s) So when we see Cheeto becoming indignant for people questioning him it’s actually just a façade for victimhood, a well honed and perfected strategy that has taken years to deceive the American electorate as the Nazis work to control the government

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Bob's avatar

That image HURTS MY SOUL 😔😭😭

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Kelly Trimble's avatar

Me too

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Steve's avatar

😮😠😡

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JavaJunkyMonkey's avatar

Once the asshole in chief is FUCKING DEAD can we undo everything he did?

Can we erase any and all traces of that vile piece of shit? Like no history of him anywhere.

America deserves that. 🇺🇸✊🇺🇸

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Janet Wilson's avatar

Yes.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Absolutely! The same people who are biting their tongues and holding their breath while they build his tasteless, tacky, and low grade slop can also tear it back down and build something better in its place or replace what what there. He wants to rename the Kennedy Center? Well it can be renamed after he's gone. He wants that tacky ballroom? Well, it's just building materials - all recyclable. He put in those extra flagpoles? nice holes to plan beautiful trees. He paved the Rose Garden? Well, that's what jack hammers are for and new plants and new roses are growing every year.

We have been given a gift through the destruction of these things and the bully pushing every boundary and every fence we have called our Constitutional Republic. He is exposing all the places we need to fix. Everything is a two way street - he wants tax payer dollars and people paying tariff sales taxes to fund his lavish tacky low-life lifestyle, but we do not have to cooperate, and if there are no jobs, we cannot. He wants to be a "ruler" over people? well there are nearly 300 million of us that don't like him, or don't want that, so unlikely it will happen and when he goes after the MAGA's guns and their hug armories of ammo, the number will go up to 347 million or close.

It's not over until it's over and he won't be looked upon kindly. Take a look at what has happened to others in history who thought they could do what he's trying to do - and on fewer people over a smaller geography! They failed and failed masterfully. Check this out: "Dictators & Authoritarians Who Have Died An Ugly Death" - https://bluesmurf.substack.com/p/dictators-and-authoritarians-who

People like this often come to a bad end or die in obscurity exiled to a nation who doesn't care about them or what they think about anything! Karma, it is a bitch!

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JavaJunkyMonkey's avatar

Yep, yep, yep. , 💯

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Bob's avatar

KNOW YOUR HISTORY or be doomed to repeat it

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I See's avatar

It looks like Palestine.

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Edward mead's avatar

Trump is a draft dodger, a Rapist, a Convicted Criminal, on 34 counts. and two time impeach President, and doesn't know beans from shit. and a Lover of Russia Putin, How can Trump give Twenty Billion Dollars to a Country, and tear down part of The White House and build a ball Room for over $300 Million Dollars,without Congress approval?

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Bob's avatar

BET HE DIDN'T ASK

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Barbara Clary's avatar

He’s destroying everything and replacing it with the crap that comes out of his virtual airplane!

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Tanya's avatar

Hes not going anywhere. He KNOWS it won't be finished til his term is up. After how he's turning you into N.korea with a touch of 1930s Germany, (close gov, military force on civilians, control of media/tv/internet, wants to close country to incoming/outgoing citizens, forced work w/no pay, & wants absolute power for good, & so much more) my gut says it'll happen before midterms. He seems to now "own" scotus, he's got the stupidest people on the planet doing his bidding. Now planning a foreign military base on urr border & mine affects both our countries! This... HIM... it ALL needs to be stopped. Impeachment isn't enough anymore, it just removes him BUT TREASON, will take the whole bunch down. I'm sorry if I over stepped my bounds but both of our countries are in jeopardy because of this regime! 🇨🇦💙🇺🇸

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Robert Hanson's avatar

I can't wait for the day it all gets torn down. It will happen.

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BansheeeeCathy's avatar

The same people who cried about the removal of statues of losers of a four year war are okay with this

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