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Steve's avatar

Trump's escalator doesn't go to the top floor.

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Public Servant's avatar

Too bad he was able to walk after the elevator broke. We need the UN to lead us, not the orange menace. Let’s keep protesting and singing the no kings anthem together.

No kings! No fear! Democracy is here: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/no-kings-anthem

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Carl Selfe's avatar

The administration’s rubes were not elevated for skill, integrity, or experience. They were chosen because they would respond as told, sneer when ordered, and parrot whatever falsehood the moment required. Credentials meant nothing; loyalty was everything. In place of statesmen, we got lackeys. Instead of leaders, we got frauds. Sycophantic liars, hand-picked to serve a demented felon.

https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/bloody-chum?r=3m1bs

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Judy Sherwood's avatar

Evidently they can't even keep their hands off the escalator switch, nor can they operate the teleprompter. Basic skills, I'd say. It's no wonder that the important tasks of running the government are left to wallow in their political muck. With 218 votes in the House, we should see ALL of the Epstein files. SOON would be good, like immediately. Blast 'em out!

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Merry's avatar

One would think that republicans might want to reconsider their unilateral support of the fascist dictator they shamelessly created, and impeach the fire-breathing dragon, before it’s too late. Assuming it’s not already too late. In any event, they are ALL complicit and they also need to be held accountable.

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Robin's avatar

"impeach" and 'remove from office' are not the same.

Vance is no lightbulb of integrity either.

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Merry's avatar

Geez. Of course I know that impeachment and removal from office are not the same! I didn’t just fall off the back of a turnip truck! I’ve lived through a few impeachments. So I KNOW It’s a process that requires both the house to impeach then the senate to indict, then the senate would have to vote to remove. And yes I know that Vance is no prince in shining armor!

So what do you suggest? We all just sit back and enjoy what’s happening and accept it as inevitable…?

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Joe Casey's avatar

The Republican Party Should Be Perged !! From The Sacred Halls Of Congress !!

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

It's the reThuglican party with no spines or a moral compass.

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Renee Goodman's avatar

Yes Carl! He has done this his entire life which is another reason he has screwed so many people! When someone dislikes him he sues them, has them treated like criminals and some of them have been tortured or killed. I don’t understand why people believe his lies and agree to lie for him?

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

aka LAP DOGS

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Betty DeCaires's avatar

Someone needed to place both escalators in reverse once he got on it!

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Renee Goodman's avatar

That would have been so perfect! Maybe he could have fallen backwards, hit his head and needed to go to the ER! Shucks, the rest of the world had to hear his delusional, narcissistic idiotic talking!

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

😂😂😂

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

He's the new King Saul, Jesus wasn't too happy about him.

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Heather.B's avatar

Yesterday's incredibly dumb diatribe at the UN is a prime example of Trump's sheer idiocy.

He got up in front of the UN and went on an insane racist rant. Everyone was shocked. He humilated the USA with his unhinged speech. Who let that buffoon speak?

It's hilarious that MAGAs think the UN tried to embarass Trump. He is a total embarrassment at all times. He humiliated himself. He needs NO help! 🤣

Watching him address the UN made me realize that there are some levels of shame and dishonor that can never be fixed. How can anyone watch the UN speech by Trump and feel proud? WTF does it take to embarrass MAGA? Are they immune to shame? 🤔 Even they were threatening to bomb the UN building because escalator stopped working... Calm down, MAGA. Just calm down! 😆

Fun fact: If you wear these kinds of t-shirts in public then you will trigger a MAGA 👇 😆

https://libtees.dashery.com/t-shirts

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Rose Cassie's avatar

MAGA’s “Satan Nationalists” have zero decency protecting liars, bullies, and Pediphiles. 🏴‍☠️😝🖤

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

It's who these idiots are. Following their King Saul, pure bufoons.

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Porter's avatar

Telling the other 190+ countries that they're 'shit countries' is a sure-fire diplomatic success.

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Robin's avatar

The potty mouth does not fall far from the tree:

JD Vance uses the phrase "you can go straight to hell" as VP. The most recent instance was today (9/24/25), when he directed the remark at politicians who "denigrate law enforcement". [but denigrating the law & the Constitution seem to be just fine in his weird head]

And the admin incl Press Sec are nowhere near moral or ethical either

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Kat Martin's avatar

Yes, they are completely immune to shame or even rational thinking.

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Joe Zvanut's avatar

His "speech" before the UN should embarass everyone who voted for him; who supported him; who grovel before him.

It won't. They have lived their lives believing the kind of tripe Trump doles out and hearing it out loud doesn't move the needle. It does serve to remind them, however, that he will end the tyranny started my MLK, undo the abominations of previous Supreme Courts, and punish those who are wicked.

Or so they believe.

Just like Ernst Rohm and his followers believed right up to the Night of the Long Knives.

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Lucy Guerlac's avatar

It was worse than dumb, it was an insulting, horrifying spectacle of a man-

baby throwing a tantrum. If nobody steps in, we’re doomed.

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

Don't count on any lapdog ReThuglican, they are all cut from the same dirty cloth.

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

MAGATS are just as stupid as he is, what a delusional inept cult. It would be laughable if they weren't so blindly stupid.

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Kim CANADA's avatar

USA is now officially a dictatorship. F A C T. EVERYYYYYYYONE needs to do everythingggg they can think of in order to get back their country. This is scary as HELL. It's gonna take EVERYONE.

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

Yes, EVERY ONE, lucifer is seeking revenge on all of us.

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Schmendryck's avatar

It's a new one, & you can bet it's going into general usage, along with the bulb, the tool, the knife in the drawer, the belt, the blender, & the suction cup...

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Irene Finn's avatar

Stop inviting Trump to speak at the UN. And everywhere that he speaks, the teleprompter should be shut off. Let him reveal himself for what he truly is. A buffoon.

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Barb O's avatar

I also think, as painful as it is, that media, including legacy media, should show unedited clips of his worst diatribes. Too many people still doubt he has dementia. Republican fascists are using him and he can't see it. Nor will he ever. That is why he is so useful to them.

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Irene Finn's avatar

Yes, it looks like dementia, but I actually think Trump has always been this clueless. As for his supporters, they are as dumb as he is.

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Robert Goldbach's avatar

Probably the best take on this comes from psychologist Mary Trump, his niece. She has written and podcasted about her uncle's erratic behavior, starting with its origins in the crucible of his early development. She has published a book--Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man--and the title says it all.

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Renee Goodman's avatar

He is Mentally Ill, delusional which causes all of his lies, narcissistic behavior which is why he always says he’s great. He needs to be on Psychiatric meds, removed from office and live the rest of his life in a Mental Institution alone!

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

Today would be a good day.

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Joe Zvanut's avatar

I lived with dementia. He doesn't have it. Yeah, he's nuts, but that isn't dementia. He's cold and calculating in everything he does. For the past 10 months he's been throwing shit against the wall to see what sticks, and so far, nothing has slid down. Expect more, much more in coming months.

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Porter's avatar

It's called being psychotic.

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

Sociopath

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Joe Zvanut's avatar

Porter and Patrice: Thank your for the comments. Here's more to think about:

He's a psychotic sociopath with no moral or ethical compass. Right and wrong are meaningless to him. He's closer in temperament to Jim Jones than Hitler. Jones had no qualms about telling all followers they needed to commit ritual suicide, but before doing it, assisting their children in drinking the Cyanide laced Koolaid. It was his final demonstration of the rage he felt against everyone who had ever questioned him and his ultimate plan to take his revenge out on eveeryone, including his faithful followers. Jones watched calmly as hundreds of people died, forced by Jones' guards to drink the poison and kill their children. Trump could do the same while eating a sandwich.

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Irene Finn's avatar

At least Jones had the wherewithal to kill himself. Trump would do the country a favor if he did the same.

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Joe Zvanut's avatar

Trump is an agnostic narcissistic sadistic megalomaniac.

Suicide ain’t happening.

Why not?

Because if he did, he would never have the pleasure of seeing the faces of the people he hates (which is everybody) as his plans torture and destroy them. What makes it more delicious to him, is his followers are paying him to do it to them, just like Jones.

BTW, his boys show the same trait. Watching people who their Daddy made suffer is the highlight of their day. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

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Robin's avatar

Sociopath. A high level erratic & emotional version of psychopath

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M K's avatar

I agree. Yes, he confabulates, but I don’t see the other stuff. (Watched my father go downhill for 12 years with AD.) I tend to agree this is more “evil insanity” or frankly, just pure meanness. Whatever official name that requires, he is very very dangerous. And his crew of sycophants seal the deal. This situation is very deep and has been perpetuated right under our noses. People are scared based on reactions by media, education, science, etc. I live in a deeply red and deluded state. Can’t leave. Kind of trying to circle the wagons as we are older but still working and can’t risk that employment. Beating my head as to the next steps.

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Renee Goodman's avatar

And yes Porter, he is a Psychopath!

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

The anti Christ is using him as a tool.

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Joe Zvanut's avatar

The anti-Christ live is fear of him. And justifiably so.

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Robin's avatar

"Republican fascists are using him and he can't see it"... for the simple reason that dt takes all the blows & will croak before them... he is the perfect setup to the 100% lawlessness they want to live in long after dt is gone.

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Lonni Skrentner's avatar

Every national leader who attends the General Assembly has a right to 15 minutes speaking time, so it wasn't an invitation that allowed him to speak. That he took 57 minutes was beyond the pale; I think they should have shut his microphone off!

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Robin's avatar

The UN explicitly states that the 15-minute time limit is "voluntary" and not an enforced rule. A flashing light is used to signal when a speaker has exceeded the recommended time, but the microphone is not cut off.

THAT rule should change!!

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Lonni Skrentner's avatar

Thanks for the clarification. That was not in the piece I read about time. I agree that rule should change!

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olderwoman's avatar

Great comment Irene

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Ardelle Tuxen's avatar

So utterly disgraceful. My friends in Canada and Europe feel sad that he is making our country the laughing stock of the world 🌎 our conversations aren’t uplifting and fun like they used to be. Congress must get him the hell out of office!!!

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Rhonda L Schneider's avatar

SCOTUS is bought and paid for so if the republicans try they will squash it.

https://www.propublica.org/article/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-leo-supreme-court-supermajority

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T Swanson's avatar

trump is the tool that the oligarchy is using with the help of a corrupt SCOTUS and congress

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

It's called the anti christ

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Schmendryck's avatar

One needs to laugh in order to keep from openly weeping.

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Skitealwedrop's avatar

He has turned our allies against us with his insanity, disrespect and tariffs. He’s an embarrassment that’s a strange color of 💩 and orange.

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Skitealwedrop's avatar

The orange pedo is also blaming the ICE shooting in Dallas on the left, as usual. The kid that’s responsible is neither on the right or left. I live here so I’m reporting from our local media.

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

Ty big liars will keep lying stocking hate again.

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

Ask for a clown and get the biggest circus, full of criminals.

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Heather Hay Charron 🇨🇦's avatar

I’m so sorry; what you say is true. I’m grateful every day for Prime Minister Mark Carney. A more stark contrast doesn’t exist.

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Dannys's avatar

Carney 👍👍👍👍 well done Canada 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

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Kim CANADA's avatar

Thank God pierre didn't get in... pierre WOULD HAVE handed Canada over to trump by now.

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Nancy Endersby's avatar

Definitely and probably with blessings from Danielle!

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John H. Yates's avatar

"This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?" https://tinyurl.com/55cct9zr #Politics

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Dannys's avatar

We know. We know.

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Rose Cassie's avatar

Trump followers are uneducated, so no. Only the smart Americans who are “awoke” are fed up and repulsed. 😏

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patti smith's avatar

Yes, more of us see it than not, but he has embedded his regime with all YES people, who won't pay attention to anything except his orders. The rest of us are hoping for more control after the midterms, and many of us are ready to take to the streets in a more forceful way. In the meantime, we go to protests, sign petitions, write letters, call our congresspeople, send money to Democratic candidates, and pray!

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M K's avatar

We know. We are also overwhelmed with the magnitude of it all. And remember, we have no healthcare if we have no job. Our “elected “ representatives just ignore us, especially if we live in a red state. This is a deep, deep situation.

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Jeep2727's avatar

That didn't start with yesterday's speech, just saying.

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Teresa's avatar

The USA looks like a total incompetently Run Country oh wait it is because the total incompetence is in charge unfortunately! Why would you invite him to speak? We are so tired of listening to the same crap that spews from him. It's me me me and all of you people don't worship me and all of you people hate me and all of you people blah blah blah

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Carol-Ann Dearnaley's avatar

Because the United States is one of the original countries that created the United Nations. The adjudicated rapist was NOT "invited," he spoke as PRESIDENT of one of the founding nations. That's why. I am so tired of so few people understanding that whether we like it or not, he is, in the eyes of the world, the United States of America.

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Rose Cassie's avatar

I’m with you. The OLD felon pediphile is clearly loosing his faculties and smart people are tired 🥱 😴 of the unhinged lies, hate, & stupidity. The organizations that invite him to speak aren’t the brightest obviously.😵‍💫🫤🙄

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olderwoman's avatar

Teresa is it you from Twitter and all the Gay rights blogs?

And from Mercator Net?

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Protect the Vote's avatar

Dangerous Demented Cheeto Who Is Just Plain Evil

This Daily Beast interview with Dr John Gartner is a great watch to discuss Cheeto’s advancing dementia(https://bit.ly/47TyuxN) which is more and more noticeable as the symptoms are clear As Gartner notes we have digital tracking over the years to compare where he was 20 years ago and now how his functioning has deteriorated that is not explained by advancement of age And the stress of the presidency is obviously accelerating his dementia and psychopathy

The interview exposes the reasons why we are making many of the observations of Cheeto who is clinically described as a malignant narcissist who is a sadist, unable to love, and having no remorse of past criminal behavior Interestingly Epstein shared the same psychopathy

One need not look at his evolving dementia any further than the embarrassment of the UN performance today This guy is looney tunes

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patti smith's avatar

But his leaders can still lead him so there is the perception that he is the leader. See how that works? We need to pick them off, one by one, apparently.

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Protect the Vote's avatar

Agree No president works in a vacuum and is surrounded by people willing to move the party's agenda But Cheeto is in a category to himself where his impetuous and impatient nature fueled by dementia make him vulnerable to going "off the cuff" with nonsense that makes him in some respects a poor communicator of the party's agenda ie Project 2025 And this is an inevitable result due to his advancing dementia

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jm960's avatar

Evolving dementia combined with malicious narcissism , psychopathic sadism, etc. Sad.

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Amarice's avatar

Good God....the man is an idiot.

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Mike Treworgy's avatar

You are too kind..

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Stix76's avatar

Fascism is as fascism does…

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Jax's avatar

This is all part of the plan. Alienate the US from all allies so it appears his only choice is to turn to Russia, and his boss Putin. The downfall of our country is not a future fear made in movies, it’s reality right here and now. As thousands blindly obey this Nazi regime, touting its greatness, we are entering our government’s death throes. One side is cheering on the destruction, the other too afraid to offend. So where does that leave the citizens of this country? If you believe the regime, powerless to act. It seems now Orwell was a profit, not at SiFi writer.

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patti smith's avatar

prophet

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ClarkT's avatar

America’s shame and embarrassment in one Orange Phony Fake President.

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Dik de Bruijn's avatar

So why isn't the European community doing something about Trump?

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Rose Cassie's avatar

Like what? UK was great showing Epstein pediphile videos on their tower when Trump visited. 👏 I was shocked he went . Thought they didn’t allow criminals in their country. 🙄

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Joseph L Hallock's avatar

Please - Please - Please DO NOT IGNORE

Statistical evidence is being done at this moment to prove that voting data was intentionally manipulated. Democratic votes were eliminated with software. Just like the Voltswagon testing scam was caught, evidence indicates that TRUMP DID NOT WIN THE 2024 ELECTION !!!!!

We must get behind this story and understand it. It is the crime of the history of the United States.

I support Meidas but this is a must see https://youtu.be/1nus5JA3Vh4?si=Sbllli4-VTY6Q9pZ

As an engineering professional and statistician, I find this to be the smoking gun!

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Phil De Luca's avatar

Joseph you are 100% right. Statistically it was off the charts. Impossible to win all 7. Even Trump was shocked. Elon overdid it. My theory is that Elon paid off mail carriers to NOT deposit mail in ballots from areas that were always democratic voters. Easy to do. And not cost much. Ohio has 20,000 mail carriers. All Elon had to do was locate 1000 that serve predominently liberal bastions and pay them say $10 to maybe 15,000 each. that's $10 million. Michigan and Pennsylvania have about 11,000 carriers. 5% is say 600. So if he had to pay off 5000 total carriers with $10,000 each to NOT turn in mail in ballors that cost $50 million. Elon spent $275 million. He had lots of room. So if 5% don't turn in democratic ballors and Harris loses all those states by 1 to 2%...BINGO Trump wins. I agree with you it is insane that someone didn't start an investigation. Trump lost by 7 million votes and has said for 5 years he won and he fought it. Here Harris lost in total by less than 700,000 in those states. No something smells. And I believe Trump knows that 'we' know how he did it and that is why he does not want mail in ballots since the DEMS could do what he and Elon did in stealing the 2024 election. Remember this man was facing JAIL and PRISON. He will do anything to stay out and especially illegally. If he got caught so what, he'd be in same place facing jail time. He had to take the chance to CHEAT with ELON's money and it worked and NO ONE complained. One REASON: Trump was complaining the entire time, if he lost there had to be cheating. So HE cheated and no one suspected the criminal. Logic for Trump. the Arsonist: if that house burns down it will be those arsonists. And then he burns it down and the blame is on the others. Trump's street LOGIC to his MAGA idiots. You have a great point and very likely the TRUTH. He stole the election. 8 million people did not stay home and not vote. INSANE.

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Joseph L Hallock's avatar

Possible, but I would expect a leak to have occurred by now. A software swap followed by a restoration of the original software would be impossible to detect unless you were watching for it. Microsoft or somebody else updates my PC without my permission from time to time. I have interrupted the process and caught it being done. I had to reinstall Windows Operating System to correct the problem.

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Carol-Ann Dearnaley's avatar

Did you watch the program? It would give you some of the information you want. When Georgia wanted to go back to hand ballots, I thought they were being obstructive. Actually, it may be necessary. Lots of countries do it. Mail in ballots - hard to manipulate. - again in some countries it is all that is used. That's why the felon so strongly opposes it. We don't need to know who the new president will be immediately. There's a significant amount of time between voting and installation. We can take out time and get the correct results.

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olderwoman's avatar

Really? Really? We sopped paying in dues to the United Nations?

We Fuck it then, Trump should never be invited to speak there then.

I never knew this until you wrote about it.

Dp you now see how important your writing is?

👇🏼. 👇🏼. 👇🏼

And cruelty, dressed up as policy, has consequences. America has stopped paying its U.N. dues, starving the institution it once carried. We’ve pulled out of the Human Rights Council, UNESCO, and the World Health Organization.

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Rose Cassie's avatar

Why would Trump EVER use tax dollars for anything than to showoff and flaunt himself? He never has. 🏴‍☠️🙄

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Sharon Damon's avatar

And with that, all the respect for America went out the window after crashing the escalator. Amazing what one megalomaniac can do.

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Richard Waddell's avatar

He was over the weight limit...

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