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Two Cheeto Fantasies

Der Fuhrer has propagated two lies that propelled him into the WH The first is that foreign countries are “ripping us off” The second is that we’re “being invaded by criminals, rapists, and murderers”

Both of these fabricated lies meant to deceive the American electorate help Cheeto develop a “social political agenda” Cheeto doesn’t really care much about the tariffs It’s all about the Strongman fixing the problem Create the fantasized problem that the US needs to be protected from the vicious trade policies of other countries and then quickly acquiesce but leave the middle class with a tax burden A slight of hand card trick if you will

The invasion by illegal aliens was not to be solved by the Biden Congress as Cheeto demanded that the bill be killed so that he could run on the issue because as we can see now it is central to creating an authoritarian state “I alone can fix it” echoes even today Cheeto will fix it alright with Project 2025 Meanwhile Der Fuhrer destroys the democratic republic

The silent and complicit Nazi party needs to pay for what they have done to the country They should not be allowed to hold public office for at least 6y And protest protest protest

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Teri Gelini's avatar

Sounds good to me. I think Alcatraz for all of them would be a nice vacation spot for the 6 years and since they are all felons, no they can potholed any public office again!!!

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Peter's avatar

I believe that airplane that Trump got us a gift it's a big giant atom bomb waiting to go off are they going to do is hit a switch and also I've been feeling that that plain also have some type of listening devices around the seat or somewheres where they have their meetings never know even the bedrooms and bathrooms

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Alice Sturdy's avatar

You could be right. That expensive plane may be our modern day Trojan horse!

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Teri Gelini's avatar

I think it was Jack Hopkins that said all kinds of tracking and listening devices could be implanted in the plane and it would have to actually be torn apart and rebuilt to meet the standards of Air Force ONE to be used. There would be no way to get that done before 2028-2029. The taxpayers would end up footing the bill to make it workable. Where are all the savings coming from??? take away medicaid, medicare and social security and do not ever tax the rich... When can we get rid of this leech???

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Robin D's avatar

Yes, I read that too. They basically would have to rip it down to its studs, going over every inch of it, could cost over a billion by the time it's done and also won't be ready for years. I, the most glass half empty person, have a feeling this plane may back fire on him. I hope so. Maybe he'll sucked into one of those Rolls Royce engines as he's doing an inspection. 🤗

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Teri Gelini's avatar

WE can only hope and take the Doge group with him and the next 2 in line to be president for a clean sweep!

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Robin D's avatar

Absolutely. And....KA-BOOM 💣

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Darrell T's avatar

What keeps him in power? The GOP. We need to hit the Republicans hard and be relentless. They should be ridiculed and confronted in public. In restaurants. At their homes. Everywhere and every time.

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Kathy Tankersley's avatar

This! I have been stating the same thing exactly. It’s the do nothing-know nothing republican/magat party who are complicit with the corruption -in our faces administration. I am sick of the circular firing squad of dems blaming everything on each other and pointing at reasons

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Darrell T's avatar

We need to focus on the real enemy here. Get in their faces.

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Judy Cross's avatar

They might not go any where they can be confronted, since they won't meet with anyone and I saw a report where someone had a confirmed meeting with one of them, flew to Washington and was refused the meeting. The man was sitting in his office behind a locked door. This was at this lady's personal expense and, whoever it was, didn't have the courtesy even to cancel. What a piece of work and I think that attitude extends to most of the Senate. Not all, but most of them. They will only do things for their god, whether good or bad, and not put themselves out there. They are jackasses that don't know their head from a hole in the ground. They are the biggest cult members out there.

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OddBird79's avatar

they are elected officials who will eventually be removed by the people who elected them to serve on their behalf

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Missy's avatar

Yes mid terms vote blue

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Gail Adams VA/FL's avatar

Name names. There’s no sense in granting anonymity.

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

Tell it like it is. Name names, give facts.

BUT - make sure all you say is true and provable!

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OddBird79's avatar

exactly

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Teri Gelini's avatar

MOST DEFINITELY!!

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Raskin Confirms Democrats Will Investigate Trump-Qatar Deal."

(Aaron Parnas,

May 13, 2025)

I just had an insightful conversation with Congressman Jamie Raskin, covering a wide range of pressing topics. We discussed the controversial Trump-Qatar airplane deal, and whether the House plans to investigate it, as well as Raskin’s newly introduced Truth in Tariffs Act, aimed at bringing greater transparency to trade policy. (Continued)

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/exclusive-jamie-raskin-confirms-democrats?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1810164&post_id=163495343&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=17g504&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Judy Cross's avatar

Thank you. There's got to be an end to this corruption. The orange man with the orange jump suit needs to go. The reason he is orange it because the dye from the jump suit is running onto his skin.

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

I thought it was from Cheetos rubbed all over his ugly mug.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Trump looks like an Oompa Loompa!

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Melissa Redman's avatar

My brother says that all the time,he refers to him as Oompah Loompa...

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

That's putting it mildly.

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techwriter35's avatar

There will be a crispy section in hell for Trump and his loyalist maga-nuts.

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Beth Witrogen's avatar

have to create a whole new level of hell just for them. Even Dante didn't imagine this level of evil. Stephen King either.

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techwriter35's avatar

Project 2025 is “The Bible of poisoned and distorted outlooks and declarations on policies that will effectively hurt generations of people for years to come all for the MAGA-NUTS. Vote all the loyalist out of office. Vote for the person not party.

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techwriter35's avatar

Project 2025 is “The Bible of poisoned and distorted outlooks and declarations on policies that will effectively hurt generations of people for years to come all for the MAGA-NUTS. Vote all the loyalist out of office. Vote for the person not party.

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Deborah Alecson's avatar

This is brilliant analysis and writing, Michael. All those years you wasted working for the Trump mafia when you could have been honing your skills as a writer for our times! Now you have horrible, great, sickening, astonishing material. And your readers appreciate your perspective above all others because you knew the fucking guy so well and you are a great writer.

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MaeMargaret Evans's avatar

Thank you for this important posting. Never in the history of the US has there been a more corrupt person in the WH.

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Orangeshitstain's avatar

Why do I hate that SOB with the heat of a thousand suns?

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"America is NOT for sale."

(Steve Schmidt,

May 13, 2025)

While the American public screams for accountability in the White House, Trump is off in the Middle East behaving like a supplicant to Arab leaders. Today, I look at the reaction to Trump's luxury plane "gift," and explain the cost of being bribed by foreign governments. (Continued)

https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/america-is-not-for-sale?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=836444&post_id=163496549&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=17g504&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Kathy Gallegos's avatar

What is there to say, trump has Been a grifter criminal all his life, we have idiots who voted for him and put a criminal rapist liar in the wh, let them suffer while he lives high off the hog and sells the US out for his selfish purposes. But karma is a bitch!

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brad ziegel's avatar

I hate Republicans complete traitors of the Constitution.

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Judy Cross's avatar

Not all, but most. I wish the one's that are starting to fight back on some things could get more to join them. This is not about Republicans and Democrats. It's about honest people doing their jobs and protecting our Constitution and preserving our Democracy.

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brad ziegel's avatar

The Republicans are leaning this country towards a civil war,by protecting a traitor they are accomplices to high crimes and misdemeanors.

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Sarah Haynes's avatar

Yes, they are, but accomplishing their goals. We Democrats are guilty of complacency (or ignorance). It's past time to get our act together (or start a new party).

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brad ziegel's avatar

Democrats had no interest in a one rule party or the inclusion of a fascist ruler.

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Sarah Haynes's avatar

God, no!

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brad ziegel's avatar

Guessing we might have 2 years to remove this Trump trash,because behind the scenes are people even crazier than he is and they plan to sort through all people they consider political or people not aligned with MAGA principles and then perhaps we receive a notice like others have to "self-deport" or face forceful removal or being sent to a prison. Once Trump's administration decides to disobey all judges they deem "not fair" there is no one to save us at all and they have all their people in place.

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Sarah Haynes's avatar

Don't know that we have two years. We need some Republican members of Congress to see the light and be willing to sacrifice their careers in service to democracy. Any possibility? I hope 'sane Republicans' is not a contradiction in terms.

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brad ziegel's avatar

Unfortunately it appears they are sold out to the MAGA principal,perhaps the plan was Trump to continue illegally past 4 years and the Republicans might have been promised a special place in Trump's rule or something bigger was promised to them but so far when they are asked questions in congress they sit silently and kiss Trump's ass. I hope I'm wrong and overreacting to data,I would much prefer you to be right.

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Sarah Haynes's avatar

Meidas' Today in Politics, Bulletin 130, 5/13/2025 cites numerous Republicans who expressed disagreement with Trump about one issue or another. Made me hopeful that some cracks in the wall are forming. Just as Roberts and Barrett gave me some hope re the Supreme Court, even though they had previously given him total or near-total immunity. I've been away and just catching up. Maybe giddy from not being immersed in this for 3 weeks.

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brad ziegel's avatar

My expertise is paranormal and conspiracies,so this should give everyone hope that I just might be wrong. If anyone wants any information on a conspiracy or paranormal events like the supposed "disclosure" we are supposed to be getting just send a text on this format,I can give you information on how or where to get info for yourself,my quote to anyone who is too curious is"be very careful you really want the truth,because sometimes the truth is far more terrifying than any dream you can have."

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John L Taylor's avatar

The party of Lincoln has turned into a political Mafia.

FWIW in Australia “ring” is a euphemism for anus. So kissing the ring hereabouts does not mean taking someone’s bling encrusted hand…

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Trump HUMILIATED, as White Refugee Stunt UNRAVELS QUICKLY", on YouTube.

(Mary Trump)

https://youtu.be/OpvfIfXr5ko?si=ZPU66sq07a8k-RW8

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "LIVE: Meiselas and Cohen GO LIVE on BREAKING NEWS - 5/13/25", on YouTube.

(Meidas Touch)

https://www.youtube.com/live/c36L6tLLAPI?si=ytQonKW9UHuWTQBB

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Jenny Mann's avatar

... well, now we know. Most thinking people, those who did not vote for him, maybe a few who re-read the NYT articles about 'rump, maybe a few who worked in his circle, maybe maybe maybe ... this country has been used since the first white colonists landed and began systematically removing indigenous people from it, since the grand mountains of various states were dug up for minerals, gold, silver and coal; since cattle were settled on the plains and prairies and the bison were nearly decimated and their ruined bodies left to rot, since water courses set by nature were re-set by humans. And train tracks were laid across this continent - to deliver more of Humans. And stuff. And stuff. And stuff. Okay, ours is not a barter society in the sense of 10 pigs for a horse or a stand of lumber for ten acres, or whatever. It is whoever is in a position to shyster, grift, scam, con and hustle. The Presidency of these United States was bought and sold. Now, even if one thinks that climate change and pollution and limited energy resources might be stoppable forces to life on this planet, until that moment, there are still grasping, greedy, clutching money-whores of both sexes, working to get theirs. Are you pi--ed off, f--king, red-eyed angry yet? And what shall we do about it?

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ShelbyRae Lane's avatar

Exactly what this Presidency is. A despicable, disgusting, irritating, annoying, 24/7, infomercial that bombards us relentlessly with bullshit and insanely dangerous, deliberate disinformation.

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