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Patricia's avatar

JD stands for JustDumb. I’ve called him this for a while now.

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Larry's avatar

Love JD = Just Dumb! ❤️❤️👏👏👏

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Crissy Bellon's avatar

Jack the Dripper. Well, he is a big goobery drip. 🫠 And his boss is a big goobery jello blob. 🫠🟠

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Ed Garland's avatar

Ha! Two times "Stupid and weak" = "Yugly" LOL 😂... Goes along with Drump's "Yuge."

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Martha Kenne's avatar

Excellent!!!!!!

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Irene Finn's avatar

Bwahahaha- that's perfect! Love ya, Patricia!! Vance loves Trump's nether regions!

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Ed Garland's avatar

Perfect fit!

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Nina Simmonds's avatar

I don’t think that he’s dumb. He’s highly educated and wrote a best selling novel that was made into a movie. He is just the perfect puppet to be controlled by those who groomed him for the role he now plays. While seemingly not criticizing DJT, he is simply doing what he was told to do by his real bosses and reopening the box claiming innocence. Trump is getting to be a problem upstairs.

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Emma Ray's avatar

Agreed!

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Debra Vilhauer's avatar

JD Vance wants the top job. He could be president if Trump was impeached. Maybe it was a “calculated” blunder.

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Hey! I’m Back!'s avatar

Oh, please God, no. If there’s a way to send Trump, Vance, and Johnson away together, I’m all for that. I don’t think I could withstand an even hillbilly-er White House.

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Bodhi's avatar

Let us not forget that the entire Republican Party OWNS this shitshow

Republicans have had the power to stop this Russian Stooge for a decade but have all bent over for the pedo rapist pathological lying pos

*Republicans Are The Problem*

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Hey! I’m Back!'s avatar

Yes, Bodhi, all of them. 👍🏻

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Kate's avatar

GOP = GUARDIANS OF PEDOPHILES! GUTLESS TRAMPS AND THEIVES!!

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Jackie R. Jones's avatar

Add Miller to that and you have a deal

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EaB's avatar

Add Hegseth, Lutnick, Bessent, Gabbard, Noem, , Bondi, Kennedy, Johnson, Rubio, Burgum, Collin’s, Duffy, Wright, McMahon,Rollins, Hohman, Oz, Vought, Witkoff, Zeldin…oh wtf , yadda yadda yadda

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EaB's avatar

A real den of ghouls

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Hey! I’m Back!'s avatar

Agreed, Jackie! Away to bat-hell with that one! ☮️

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T L Mills's avatar

He wouldn't last long...even Republicans don't like him.

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Scooter's avatar

Agreed, but what Republicans have much of a say at this point? JD is Project 2025's (handpicked by Peter Thiel) go to guy. Making Donnie look bad, at this point, may be their latest strategy.....................Donnie might be headed for the dumpster, and yes, JD will be as bad, probably worse, and probably just as difficult to get rid of.

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Terry's avatar

If republicans take back their authority, they have a lot of say. If they continue abdicating their job, there's no point to any republican being in office. We need to vote them all out.

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T L Mills's avatar

I don't think JD has the grip on the Repubbie Reps or the MAGA cult the way Trump has managed to do. After all, MAGA is a cult of personality and the Corporal Couchcruiser has the doughiest, spongiest, nothingest personality...the like of which has never been seen before!

The Republican Reps don't like him and they don't like Peter Thiel. I think they are going to be hard to herd.

OTOH, the Repubbies are loving their current power, so they may try to remain as a voting block...but they have to get elected too--even the gerrymandered ones. Eventually, even they will have to answer to the ballot box.

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EaB's avatar

AKA Nostradamus

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Kate's avatar

Away to alligator Alcatraz!! They ALL are culpable...LYING CHEATING OBFUSCATION OF THE HIGHEST ORDER! SLEAZEBAGS ALL!!

THANK YOU MICHAEL!! KEEP UP THE HEAT AND THE TRUTH!! NO ONE KNOWS BETTER THAN YOU WHO'S BEEN THERE!! KUDOS!!

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Andrea Todd's avatar

I agree. Maybe he knows exactly what he’s doing here?

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Kate's avatar
Aug 12Edited

Yea lil hillbilly eyeliner boy from his own lil 💩hole city as he says in his memoir! SUCH a cretan!! How his wife lives with him is amazing!

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Andrea Todd's avatar

I’ve read his wife is just as bad.

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Kate's avatar

💯!! She has to be to live with him and look at herself in the mirror!! She wants to be 1st lady as bad as he wants to be pres! SICKENING!

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Ellen McKenzie's avatar

Or, shocking.

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Sheila's avatar

Exactly. I thought the very same thing.

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diana poulin's avatar

Vance becoming president scares me more than what I am now

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Crissy Bellon's avatar

JD himself is a calculated blunder. Shay-D Dunderhead. V.P.

No wonder we are the 'envy' of the world. 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

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SNL's avatar

Bingo, Debra!

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Robert ChocolateBob Bullard's avatar

Calculated? Who by ... surely not JD Vance! IMPOSSIBLE!

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Ed Garland's avatar

Vance can't get around Stephen Miller. Neither can Frumpty. He's stupid for thinking he could leapfrog to the number one spot. He will never get the stench off of him. He's in the same sh*thole as the rest of the "yes" people. Nowhere to go. Hanging on for dear life any which way they can to keep from drawing the wrath of the class dunce.

Now that Musk and his chainsaw are no longer grabbing the spotlight, Miller can freely do what Moscow Mitch used to do before he had his ischemic "episodes." Just tell Strumpet what to say and do, give him a very basic, simple script, and put him in the center ring.

He flaps his gums and claps his hands like a trained seal until he's stumped, and that's when the profanity (he thinks it makes him look tough) takes over because he's ... simply run out of vocabulary. Doesn't have it on a good day. Can't take the heat on a bad one. Poor sap. He couldn't debate a first grader if .... depended on it.

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Callie JMT's avatar

I anticipate that Vance is lying in wait, forming the ground work for an article 25 mandate.

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Sheila's avatar

Took the words right outta my mouth.

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Teresa's avatar

Exactly this - it was a calculated blunder directed by all those trying to push JD up the ladder...no mystery here

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Amy K.'s avatar

I think it was purposefully done. I think he is a marionette doing exactly what his handlers tell him to do.

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Carole Langston's avatar

Thiel.

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Sheila's avatar

Yup. It's a PT maneuver.

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Cheryl ODonnell's avatar

Except that he is too inept to follow the script.

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Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

Puppet on taut strings or selectively quiet minion, lurking in the wings until midday on 20 Jan 2029 or for whatever date he may be called? Aug 5 [2025] (Reuters) - "U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that Vice President JD Vance is “most likely” his heir apparent to serve as the Republican nominee in 2028, the furthest he has gone in backing Vance as a future presidential candidate." https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-suggests-vance-is-his-likely-heir-apparent-2028-2025-08-06/

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Gail Adams VA/FL's avatar

I see them trying to hang on until January 20, 2027. That opens up 10 years.

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Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

Spot on! Until a few minutes after noon EST that day, per Amendment 22(1): https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxxii

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Kate's avatar

Totally DISGUSTING proposition but everyone hates him....

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Gunnar Jensen's avatar

VP hillbilly vanilli’s ambitions precede him … leave us not forget he’s likely P2025 oligarchs’ preferred tool fool. (But will he build the $200m ballroom and keep the gold leaf and filigree? Inquiring, complicit corporate media are dying to know!)

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Rich Larson's avatar

Michael, your article would be spot on if this was a normal administration. It isn't. Bill Kristol, who you mentioned, suggested today that maybe ole JD is subtly trying to undermine daddy Trump and explains why he nudged his boss under the bus. Not just this time but past comments too. Little JD wants Trump out of the way come 2028 so he can ascend to the Presidency.

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Sheila's avatar

Maybe even before 2028

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Heather R.'s avatar

Luv "trumplethinskin!!!!" Awesome burn!😎

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Just Fairview's avatar

JD Vance wants to corner Trump. His job is to force Trump out so he can take over. It's obvious that the Heritage Foundation and the Tech Bros are counting on JD Vance to move Trump on to pasture.

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JA's avatar

So are the Silicon Valley guys, aka.the American Oligarchs, pushing to get Vance in office!

After all, they are BIGLY donors to the last election and campaign.

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Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

George Washington's Farewell Address, September 19, 1796 https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp

"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty."

>>>>>

[Handle changed. Some other poster decided to use my former one. I’m me; they are not]

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Anne Lockwood's avatar

You slay me, Michael Cohen! I love the way you skewer these MAGA idiots. I have to laugh despite the dire situation we are in! Keep up the good work!

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Peggy Hendrickson's avatar

Like you, I really enjoy Michael’s style and approach. Nobody else can speak with the clarity and authority he does about the inanity in the WH.

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Chuck Hatch's avatar

He is setting the stage for the 25th Amendment and his own elevation to the top job. That is his strategy. If he has buy-in from Bondi and Patel, he's more than half way there. No doubt he promised them they can keep their jobs in the new administration.

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Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

Amendment 25 § 4 (“"Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments ... transmit... their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.") https://tinyurl.com/2s36cv9s Which 8 might join JDV? See, https://tinyurl.com/4yapwrvz and https://tinyurl.com/4w9c4yj2

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Cliff Heller's avatar

Are you certain Vance didn’t know what he was doing? He was handed a loaded gun, and fired it: at Dems AND at DJT. Remember that he becomes president if Trump gets removed from office.

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Shannon Starks's avatar

Still, a very risky move when MAGA worships Trump and clearly does not worship Vance.

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Andrea Todd's avatar

I believe they worship the Trump who promised to release the Epstein files and put the Clintons, the Bidens, Obama and Pelosi in jail. He’s failed to deliver on all promises.

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Kate's avatar

As ALWAYS! SUCH a piece of 💩! We can all agree on that!! We the PEOPLE SHALL OVERCOME!! 1

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Sheila's avatar

Nope. There are serious fissures in MAGAworld.

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Pauline's avatar

JD is rubbing his hands together, gleefully, plotting the coup. JD is vacationing through the job of VP and showcasing Trump's dementia. Trying to accelerate implementation of the 25th Amendment.

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Laura_Solidarity✊🏻's avatar

Unless JD is trying to make Trump look worse…you know, because the heritage foundation has had enough of tRump! Omg, I sound like a friggin conspiracy theorist now!

Wtf, I’m so tired! 😪 ✊🏻🌹

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Mel's avatar

I sounded like a conspiracy theorist in Nov when I said trump cheated his way in. Now there's proof of that. Same when I was telling ppl all the things I felt were going to start happening in Jan. Then slowly the majority of them started happening. Maga has wild theories. We have proof of what we have theorized.

I would be more shocked if what you suggested isn't what they're planning.

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Laura_Solidarity✊🏻's avatar

Thank you…I honestly just can’t stop my mind from at least attempting to think ahead of the daily freaking chaos! Not to mention their characters have become somewhat predictable! ✊🏻🌹

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Bonnie Merchant's avatar

When trump goes down for the Epstein mess, who stands to personally benefit the most? Oh yeah, JD. That weasel knows what he’s doing

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Judy Player's avatar

In cahoots with Mudock

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Judy Player's avatar

I actually think JD is purposefully stirring the pot to get support from various backroom supporters to push him over the ledge - figuratively or literally. What do you thinik?

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Barb N's avatar

I think JD wants to be president.

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Kate's avatar

Absolutely NO doubt about that!!

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