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Toxtli Melloh's avatar

A known predator protector vouches for a convicted predator who vouches for the felon predator in charge.

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IM Citizen's avatar

They're all sucking each other's dicks or eating each other's assholes.

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Oaktown's avatar

Eeeeew!!!

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IM Citizen's avatar

Sorry but it's true.

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Kathy Tankersley's avatar

According to magat/repubs what’s wrong with that? “Besides Ghislaine was a victim toooo!”

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Terry L Simmons's avatar

What by her own father?

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Kathy Tankersley's avatar

Ha, makes one question what happened to make someone like Maxwell so devoid of morals and empathy, let alone capable of lying without remorse. But I was referring to the way magat/republicans are moving into position to whitewash Maxwell’s crimes, use her interview for “show and tell” to lie how TACO is really a good “gentleman “ and “forgive” TACO for only “ locker room talk” as Melania has described sexual assault.

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Tammy  Scott's avatar

Sort of gives me a head ache thinking about it.

I am so tired of MAGAs corruption.

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Susan Cooper's avatar

Well said!

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

What a liar Vance is. He doesn't even have trump's excuse of ignorance. "If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."

Yeah. Like after WWII, the Allies told Germany and Japan "We are about to negotiate you into oblivion."

Can we negotiate the GOP that way as well?

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Carol-Ann Dearnaley's avatar

Ummmmmm. No. If we escape another Civil War, I can guarantee you that MAGA will kill itself. Once the odious, decaying, deranged, adjudicated rapist leaves this mortal coil (Please, God.)? There will be nothing left but the subpoenas arresting them all for Constitutional, civil, and humanitarian violations.

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Oaktown's avatar

Sure hope you're right, but don't count on it. First we have to get these parasites out of office and that will be a major battle for exactly the reason you state.

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Carol-Ann Dearnaley's avatar

Not when the smelly one has gone to his "great reward". Everyone hates, loathes, and despises the bedbug aka J.D.Vance - his name this week. Without the smelly one, the MAGA party dies and the subpoenas roll in. There will be no there, there.

Can you say impeachments?

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Bob's avatar

I’m hoping for a truth commission

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Connie Larsen's avatar

Couch cougar needs to fade away! He’s pathetic!

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Publia's avatar

I've been predicting a bloodbath in the GOP once the felon has gone from the scene. Shady Vance is hated everywhere. He has no personality and no ideas. There are a lot of people in the GOP who want to be the leader. The party will fracture.

Even if Shady ends up as president for a short while to finish out the felon's term, he won't be re-elected to a full term on his own. I'm thinking of buying popcorn futures.

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Bobbie Pitkin's avatar

Instead of cats and dogs, they'll eat each other! Look at the infighting already taking place!

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Anna B's avatar

Sooner, suits me! I don't think there is anyone in his regime to assume the power and hold it once he's gone. A few would try, but maga'ts don't seem to afford any of them a welcome ANYWHERE!

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Laurie Blair's avatar

So GREAT to see them booed off the stage again and again!

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ramona j's avatar

He is the stupidest when he opens his mouth. He should stick to getting shouted down on vacations. And couches 🛋

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Carol-Ann Dearnaley's avatar

Did you know "vance" is bedbug in Yiddish? Yup.

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Adam's avatar
Aug 24Edited

Who knew? Thank you Carol-Ann! To wit:

The Yiddish word for bedbug is vantz (written in Hebrew as וואַנץ), pronounced "vontz" or "vants". The word is of Germanic origin, similar to the German word "Wanze," and it is sometimes used in the context of referring to a person as disgusting or crazy, as in "crazy as a bedbug".

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ramona j's avatar

Noo wonder he likes couches ! !!

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Tigerlilley's avatar

Excellent. Too funny.

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Linda Ann Robinson's avatar

How fitting!

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Laurie Blair's avatar

Yes,Ramona J,! shouted down on vacations. hahahaha!

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Bob's avatar
Aug 25Edited

We, and the Soviets, “negotiated” with Hitler by overrunning Berlin. Then we “negotiated” with the Japanese using an atomic bomb. Twice.

Vance is hardly the first lawyer and Ivy League graduate to lead me to doubt that those accomplishments are a hallmark of intelligence. But Christ on a cracker he’s stupid.

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Anna B's avatar

Regardless of what we're seeing currently, maga doesn't like PEDOs at all!

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Bobbie Pitkin's avatar

Just Dance Vance couldn't deliver a line to save his soul. He's admitted that lying is acceptable to make a point. Eating the cats and dogs ate away at what little credibility he had. This guy is absolutely bereft of any ability to command. I'm convinced that's why they're leaving the orange menace in place. "They" can still execute their agenda with him as "blusterer in chief".

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Laurie Blair's avatar

Lady Emsworth if only!

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olderwoman's avatar

WOW! 🔥 🚀

What a score, the exclusive YouTube stream of the Press conference!

👇🏼. 👇🏼. 👇🏼

… Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY): “On September 3rd at 10:30am ET, Rep. Ro Khanna and I will be hosting a press conference at the Capitol joined by survivors of Epstein and Maxwell's abuse — several of whom will be speaking out for the first time. The survivors deserve justice and Americans deserve transparency.”

… Podcaster Anna Matson: “I finished listening to the entire Ghislaine Maxwell interview. What a waste of time. There is nothing new and it’s obvious to me she just wants a pardon from President Trump. I’m looking forward to the press conference with the victims that Thomas Massie is arranging in September. Please God keep them safe, give them strength to tell their story, and let there be justice.”

… Meidas is the exclusive YouTube feed for this press conference.

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Oaktown's avatar

A thousand cheers!!! MTN earned the exclusive live stream of a very important press conference. I'll be tuned on on Sept. 3 and sending my support to all the victims still waiting for justice.

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olderwoman's avatar

They are going to have to send me reminders to tune in.

My memory is shot.

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Jeanette Kimball's avatar

I have it on my calendar!

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Terry24x's avatar

Vance says everything with a sneer. He lies and acts like the reporter is an idiot for asking the question.

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Oaktown's avatar

Yeah, but he's getting booed and mocked every time he ventures out in public. Did you see the phone video of the guy saying "Oh look! The couch fucker!! Did you fuck your couch JD?"

And others screaming about losing their health care, etc. He, Miller and Hegseth are universally despised and ridiculed. Let's keep it up.

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bitchybitchybitchy's avatar

Vance is one of the most unlikeable politicians alive.

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Bob's avatar

He’s a colossal phony. He acts as if his rising above hardship is some unique life experience.

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Connie Larsen's avatar

He is disgusting! Wouldn’t be anywhere without Thiel!

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Connie Larsen's avatar

Without thiels money!

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Jeanette Kimball's avatar

The other day he said something about being authentic! He’s changed his identity from being gay, calling rTump Hitler to sucking its ass. 🤮

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bitchybitchybitchy's avatar

Vance is as authentic as a three dollar bill

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May Lee's avatar

Except he didn't suffer any hardships

"The reality – one that Vance only subtly acknowledges in his memoir – is that he is not poor. Nor is he a hillbilly. He grew up firmly in Ohio’s middle class."

He traded on what he thought would get him the most attention to sell his book.

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Bob's avatar

Even more of a fraud then.

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bitchybitchybitchy's avatar

An average white guy who needed to find a way to sell himself

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May Lee's avatar

How many names has he had? Pretty shifty.

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olderwoman's avatar

Yes, Vance is snarly, unlikable.

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Kathie Punturiero's avatar

Total condescension

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Jeanette Kimball's avatar

But the “reporters” are idiots for never asking follow up questions! Just watched an older “debate” with Adam Mockler on Pies Morgan. 4 vs him and Adam rocked! My point is that the magas all said how the media never questioned Biden, yeah right!, and they should do their job. Christ rTump and his sycophants are never questioned about anything! 😡

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Suede67's avatar

That makeup on is hand is probably covering the 666 mark he has there. 😜 Especially great write up today, Ron, very impressive.

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Edward mead's avatar

New York Times opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof has a career of watching nations crumble into authoritarianism and oppression. America, he says, is also showing the signs.

“America has periodically faced great national tests,” Kristof wrote on Wednesday. “The Civil War and Reconstruction. The Great Depression. McCarthyism and the Red Scare. Jim Crow and the civil rights movement. And now we face another great test — of our Constitution, our institutions, our citizens — as President Trump ignores courts and sabotages universities and his officers grab people off the street.”

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Bob's avatar

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, who has written about authoritarians, says the same.

But all of what Trump is doing was telegraphed by Heritage, Project 2025, some of the quislings from post-2020 Election Day. One of them suggested invoking the insurrection act.

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LHS's avatar

I'm calling it the Dorian Gray hand. 😈

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SFGal's avatar

Only God knows where it's been through all these years! The mind boggles, the soul shudders as most of what probable censored in deep dark recesses far from illuminating light, just like the Epstein files.

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Suede67's avatar

You got that right. 💯 Very well said.

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Suede67's avatar

Ooh, very fitting!

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Bob's avatar
Aug 25Edited

Could be an ulcer on his hand, one of the things such swelling of the hands/feet/legs can cause.

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May Lee's avatar

Trump is mainlining something - those marks are from IV's - probably using his hands because he's so swollen elsewhere they can't get a vein (or possibly because he's getting IV's several times a day so the other veins are unusable).

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Oaktown's avatar

... Trump said Ukraine couldn’t defeat Russia unless it could ‘play offense’ in the war, which has lasted longer than 3 years following Moscow’s invasion. ‘It is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking’ the invading country, he wrote. ‘There is no chance of winning!’”

There it is, Cap'n Bone Spurs, you finally said clearly what we've known all along: YOU are responsible for every single death in Ukraine since you took office. Putin's govt. is failing, yet you refuse to give Zelenskyy what he needs to win and never act on your threats to Putin. TACO TACO TACO.

Every action you've taken and every single word you've said since your first disgraceful term—both in and out of office—is further proof of who you want to win the war: Russia, and your boy crush, war criminal Putin. Has he threatened to expose the Epstein files? The pee tapes? The money laundering for Russian oligarchs? The list is as endless as your corruption.

You will NEVER get the Nobel Peace Prize. Next we'll see a fake one sitting on your desk just like the fake Times cover is hanging on your wall. LOSER!!!!!

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Bob's avatar

Elbridge Colby is a candidate for a war crimes trial, along with Hegseth.

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J E Ross's avatar

Re: “I guess the apartment buildings and hospitals we see burning every day with innocent civilians including children killed were all military targets.”

Maybe someone changed their designation with a Sharpie?

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Juli's avatar

I hope the next time Macron or any world leader that trump has forced into a power struggle handshake that lasts for 30 seconds-takes a strong bigly wrenching grasp on that swollen poorly disguised bruised hand and tugs away.

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ramona j's avatar

If they can take the smell for that long.

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Tess's avatar
Aug 24Edited

Thanks again for a great summation. Although I read about most of these individual reports through the week, I still find myself shaking my head through this bulletin. The Russian influence just keeps becoming more clear and it’s devastating. I depend on your reporting team and guests because I know I can trust the information. 👍 Thank you. ❤️🤍💙

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olderwoman's avatar

She is obviously avoiding her husband like the plague, heck I would too in her shoes.

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… CNN: “Melania Trump hasn’t been spotted at the WH for more than a month. The first lady is rarely seen publicly. She did not accompany her husband when he delivered her letter to Putin during last week’s summit in Anchorage, nor was she present at the WH days later when he hosted Zelensky and other European leaders. She’s made public appearances just 19 days so far this term, compared to 40 at this point during the previous. Her East Wing staff this time around is a fraction of her first-term team and that of her predecessors.”

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John Schwarzkopf's avatar

Melanoma is too busy screwing her Secret Service protective detail to bother with little Donnie Toadstool!

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Klaus Hergersheimer's avatar

I call her Melanoma too since she, like her pedophile hubby, are cancerous.

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Ellie Alive In 25's avatar

So the accessory to sexual abuse stands behind the "testimony" of the perpetrator of sexual abuse.

Go Gym! Next time, maybe you can ask her if you can watch.

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Jamie Casey's avatar

We all should be disgusted with the alligence tRump and his administration has towards Russia I can't say enough how horrifying that is and that it makes the U.S. look weak. The POTUS is doing the bidding for a war criminal by attacking the American ppl and we have to get control of our government back. Tell me I'm wrong.

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IM Citizen's avatar

Watch and weep. Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney in Kiev on Independence Day today.

Canada leads in compassion, in statesmanship, in solidarity with Ukraine as host country to the most Ukranian citizens outside of Ukraine and co-founder of the Coalition of the Willing, Canada leads in peace while trump does Putin's bidding.

https://youtu.be/AecJ4_9NJ1w?si=Ll2vrKKuQjmjdtft

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Megan Rothery's avatar

Release the files!

Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, and those in a committee that fits your topic. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly. We deserve better ❤️‍🩹🤍💙

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ramona j's avatar

It was nice to read that Nancy Mace fell on her flat ass, and failed , bigly.

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Connie Larsen's avatar

She is an embarrassment! To women. And her father no doubt! I hope SC wakes up. I’d like to see her unemployed!

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Oaktown's avatar

For the record, MAGGOTS, who keep asking why Biden didn't release the Epstein files: According to OR Senator Ron Wyden, Biden DID release the files to his committee, and those files—unlike Gestapo Bondi's heavily redacted miniscule release)—were UNREDACTED!!! Wyden and the dems tried to get the committee to hold hearings and release them, but not one Red MAGA member would vote for it.

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Walt Turnbull's avatar

We don’t need to wait for the files to be released. Some damn patriot just needs to leak them!

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Oaktown's avatar

Ben posted a video recently after reading more of the Maxwell transcript. She said some of the orange buffoon's cabinet were in the files. Then Blanche immediately said "Let's take a break."

Hmmmm ...

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Terry24x's avatar

The fact that people whose jobs involve tracking foreign espionage, etc.have been fired by this regime says a lot. Could it be that they want Russia to interfere in the midterms?

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Oaktown's avatar

Russia, if you're listening ...

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Connie Larsen's avatar

If not russia, Thiel, musk…..

I have voted by mail for many years! And I don’t want to vote any other way! Vote at home and know waiting or standing.

I’ve also been at election headquarters to observe. Cameras everywhere. I won’t pick my bum or nose! I did take candy. It live streams.

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