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I don’t buy the dementia description. Trump laughs at it and he and his handlers purposefully feeds into it. It is a distraction to what they are doing. Vote Blue. Voting purple is not acceptable.

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Trump is just scum, sludg, trash, filth, puke in my book. Just can't wait till this joke has ended.

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Can we please take long view of last 30 years and consider the pattern in what various POTUSes have been handed and have passed forward? Step back from the “me, here, now” gaslighting and disinformation from the right…

Americans, after decades of GOP tax breaks to wealthy - drip drip, wealth shifting from most to the very very few - drip drip, a R-wing-nut SCOTUS legislating from the bench - drip drip, fully corrupt pay-2-play legislator incentives - drip drip, money buying elections -  drip drip, corporate greed delivering top shelf results for execs and shareholders- drip drip. Society has been left with deep daily struggles, systems supportive of workers gutted, hands UP to the poor diminished, regulations protecting the people hammered, crime increasing of course, healthcare and education decreasing naturally. America, inch by inch, she’s  become the plutocratic misogynistic oligarchy of the uber-wealthy and powerful, enabling a continued money grab / more for them and less for a healthy functioning society. Dems have become the only party trying to lift from the middle and bottom. Face it.

Zoom out a bit, take a 30,000 foot point of view. In all big government decisions there is a natural “lag effect” — good and bad. If we don’t pull back we can’t see the gaslighting, cognitive dissonance enabled. Dems blamed for outcomes of GOP deficit spending, massive debt increases, regulation cutting, gerrymandering and more, while GOP falsely claims they care about debt and deficits. GOP cuts regulation, which (ahem) results in epic train crashes (E. Palestine OH) or bank failures (Silicon Valley Bank implosion).

Remember:

1. Clinton handed Bush 2 “surplus money in the coffers” - a good economy after he inherited  Regan and Bush 1 debt.

2. Bush 2 and early 2000’s “spend our kids’ money congress” plus Allen Greenspan drove America and globe to brink, giving us ‘08 global financial crisis.Here you go, Barack - a welcome gift on the eve of 2008 election.

3. Obama does heavy lift, pulls us from the brink of financial cliff and hands Trumpler a healing economy, ready for gentle interest rate increases.

4. Trumpler, king of debt, lies and bankruptcies, jams his knee on Jerome Powell’s (apolitical Federal Reserve) neck and Powell demurs. Covid comes and we borrow $10 trillion more from the kids’ future.

5. Biden inherits from Trumpler - without even one day of “secure nation” transition between administrations - a nation 3 weeks shy of a Capitol insurrection by sitting POTUS, an economy shut down amidst a pandemic, unhealthy way too low interest rates, epic $30+ trillion in debt. Biden does not sit on Powell’s neck, rather he enacts additional debt / but this time to infuse money to the middle for long term investment in workers, national security and infrastructure.

When we miss the nuanced understanding of lag effect in government, we can be sold a bag of sh*t by the very fox who is raiding the henhouse.  Misinformation, disinformation and lies are sown by the right and thrust at the people. Media is not helping here!!

Do we know that national debt is for emergencies, not every year budget deficits or to goose an economy to make the POTUS look good?

Can we please take a long view of last 30 years and consider the pattern in what various POTUSes have been handed and have passed forward?

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I for one do not want to see his bottom 🤮

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Your latest ad with kids is brilliant! Thanks.

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The only good thing to come out of this is that Rachel Maddow’s finally able to say the word “penis” out loud on camera without stuttering or blushing.

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He passed away in 2016. Let Arnie rest in peace!

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Interesting take on Theil/Sacks/ Musk cabal to get JD Vance in on the 25th Amendment. And in my opinion, JD is more deeply problematic than Trump, since he really believes in Project 2025, if not even darker permutations of that ethos. I don’t think Trump is demented, I just think he’s a true narcissist who is completely disinhibited.

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Rick, with Donald John Trump, there IS no bottom. Vote BLUE! 💙🇺🇸🌊

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I have always thought that penis envy was a male thing. Nearly every man I’ve known has been obsessed with their penis size. What has been called penis envy in women is true only insofar as we envy the pay differential between genders.

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Not hyperbolic, just sayin:

Trumpler + Elon + rouge runaway R-wing-nut SCOTUS = BREAK GLASS MOMENT.

What we have before us akin to evil cartoonish maniacs taking all and edging planet into utter darkness.

Elon - dangerous brain amalgamation of super-intellect and dumb-as-shit absence of sensibility, bathed in racist, heartless 1980’s Afrikaner apartheid tone-deaf hate.

Trumpler - oily orange, pathologically lying, self-serving, criminal sociopath features reptilian instincts and aesthetic. See his paranoid, hateful, beady eye slits.

SCOTUS - DBs as puppeteered by long-game, utterly corrupt R wing nerdish, devil man, Leonard Leo.

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If Trumpler prevails on 11-5, thanks to decades of GOP cheating, lying, grifting and gaslighting, the American people will deserve what we get.

Bye bye American democracy.

Hello trajectory to WW3.

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Let those of us who have not rhapsodized profusely and affectionately on another mans reproductive unit cast the first stone.

Tinyhands McButtface is sooo manly.

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The 25th is ABSOLUTELY the plan. The Heritage Foundation knows he’s lost it, but they will easily control Vance. The 25th Amendment will roll out in months.

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Take your vitamins and prebiotic Rick when need you out here just a little bit longer helping us to keep our Democracy. Gas on the pedal and full speed ahead. Keep flying that plane!

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I gotta say, the "He/Him" commercial from Lincoln Project -- awesome ad.

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