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ROSEMARY SCHLICK's avatar

On the day we honor our heroes, how sad that this putrid imbecile leads the country they died for. I am a lifelong pacifist and leftie, but how anyone could support this clown after hearing his McCain insult never ceases to amaze me. I guess it's National Devious doc Day and here's wishing Bone Spurs for all the pitiful MAGAS who can listen to his dribble. I can't stand to look at him anymore and thank God for MUTE.

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Sean M Carlin's avatar

Don't forget January 6th sitting on his fat ass for hours while brave Capitol police were risking their lives to save our democracy from hillbilly fascists. After 1,600 were convicted and imprisoned he pardoned them.

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It's Come To This's avatar

He didn't stand on his fat ass. He SAT on his fat ass. He did take a break, remember, but that was only to jump up to choke a Secret Service agent who refused to drive him to the Capitol. We do need to be accurate about these things, you know.

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Paula Titon's avatar

Today he referred to the administration that governed for the previous 4 years -and by implication those of us who supported it- as "scum" He is the most insulting human i have ever experienced. If we are scum, what does that make him and his tribe? Sludge?

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shee-rah's avatar

He’s reached a new low. I cannot imagine any other President calling his predecessor “scum.” We know he’s describing himself.

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Joseph M Becker's avatar

In his first term, he sank to the bottom and had to spread radially.

Will karma ever catch up with him?

No self-respecting disease is willing to even approach him.

Oh well, he had syphilis, but sought the advice of a physician ‘friend’.

Friend in single [‘]s because he cares only for money.

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shee-rah's avatar

He did have Covid also. Yes, money is his best friend and only companion.

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J Cheng's avatar

wait what? I unplugged this weekend. He called Biden scum? Even if done indirectly, that is the most disgusting thing I've heard yet. There is not one single decent bone in Lard-A-Maga's bloated and mishapen body. He does not belong in any society - he's devoid of any social skills whatsoever. I'm really pissed......

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Joseph M Becker's avatar

Or, decaying landfill.

Perhaps festering manure in a horse barn.

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Sean M Carlin's avatar

I was accurate!

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It's Come To This's avatar

Yes, sorry, I read he "stood on his ass." Must have been somebody else's ass he was on. :-)

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Mandy S. Twiny's avatar

Undoubtedly. He blames every ass out there but his own. Nowadays he stands on his favorite ass- Marco Rubio.

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Joseph M Becker's avatar

100% of him is what comes out of an ass [the body part, not the animal].

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Michael Little's avatar

Yes, the animal ass is a noble beast and a million times better than the two-legged orange felon creature.

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Joseph M Becker's avatar

Where is karma, when so badly needed?

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Dorothy G Ferguson's avatar

Then use the correct word: arse.

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Joseph M Becker's avatar

Please rein in your hostility.

Take it from a fellow pedant, both the Cambridge and Oxford dictionaries address ‘arse’ as a UK word for the buttocks and/or as an epithet, and ‘equate’ it with ass in the States, and perhaps Canada.

I welcome corrections, etc. from any lexophiles, grammarians, copy-editors, et alia. In fact, from anyone, like me, who is prone to distraction.

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Dorothy G Ferguson's avatar

The only reason US mispronounces arse is because the Brits drop their Rs. And language flows from what is heard rather than print.

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John Townsend's avatar

Yes, parse the arse!

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Sean M Carlin's avatar

As the Millennials say, “no worries”

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david scardino's avatar

Hey, come on, given the size of his ass there's room for everybody... sit, stand, whatever!

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Mandy S. Twiny's avatar

You shouldn’t talk that way about VanCel. He’s lost a little weight since he started berating foreign leaders.

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Harvey Perry's avatar

The phrase “Blue lives matter” vanished.

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Frances López's avatar

OutRAGEous! Still.

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Kandy Brown's avatar

I totally agree. And a week after they were released, 12 of them were already arrested.

After all, it's what they do best.....assault people! Play army! BTW, I was on Kinzinger, and couldn't leave a post cuz there was no post or reply button. Andy, could you look into this for there is no way for me to contact him.

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Ann Rock's avatar

I’m pretty sure you can only comment on kinzingers page if you’re a paid subscriber.

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Kandy Brown's avatar

I replied on the group instead of your comment. I am a subscriber, but re-booted and all is now well. But thank you for responding.

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Cathy Wampler's avatar

I have also been having a problem with not being able to like and post on Substacks for which I am a paid subscriber. I don’t know why. This is on my PC. However, when I switch browsers from Firefox to Edge I am no longer blocked out. Never a problem on my phone.

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Kandy Brown's avatar

Try re-booting. It worked for me!

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Mark Lip's avatar

In keeping with this, has anyone with a loud voice spoken about the contrast between the pardons of the 01/06 attackers and the arrest of a mayor and congresswoman in Newark, NJ?

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kdsherpa's avatar

Does anyone with loud voices GIVE a damn any more about that sort of thing? The NYT sure as hell doesn't!

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C. Killion's avatar

This was a wrench, but for now I am taking a break from the NYT.

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kdsherpa's avatar

I quit the NYT in June, 2024.

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Lois W. Halbert's avatar

Shameful

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John Townsend's avatar

--while the White House furniture he sat on is still tinged with sulfur and shame!

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Rosemary Ehle's avatar

Hi from another Rosemary. I was gobsmacked by the McCain remarks when they happened as well. But he seemed to shake it off in a sort of "consider the source" way.

My favorite vet (Tet offensive 1968) is going to a sponsored shindig on the Mississippi with other vets. Beer brats and pontoon boats!

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Dr. Judith Schlesinger's avatar

The love of my life (Tet offensive, 1968) has been gone for twenty years. He couldn't handle what he saw and did there, and dove into a bottle when he came home. I'm so glad you still have yours!

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Susie's avatar

Dr. Judith, I am so sorry.❤️

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Dr. Judith Schlesinger's avatar

Thank you, Susie. It's long enough ago for me to have a good life without him - though I think of him often, good man that he was - but the thought of Bone Spurs is instantly enraging.

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Michael's avatar

1968 was a bad year for a lot of us. Worse one of my life. I got PTSD that year . Some years fade into the haze of the decades but some are burnt into memory. For me '68 was such a year. I wonder if 2025 is going to be like that for some young people today but hopefully in a good way.

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Marcia Z Bookstein's avatar

Years ago I met a homeless vet, Bob. It's a long, long story, but I ended up with his dog, Lady Bird. In his honor I trained her to be a therapy pet team with me and we'd visit the vets at the VA with Love On a Leash. Sometimes the ones from the Vietnam war era would open up to me. Stories I will never, ever forget.

My wish is that the leaders of these countries would, like Sumo wrestlers, undress and get into the ring on their own. Duke it out. Leave the rest of us cheering on the sidelines, safe, with our popcorn and non-alcoholic drinks.

I'm grateful for your post.

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Bob Graham's avatar

Only chance Trump would have at winning is if he sat on the opponent.

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Gordon Shumway's avatar

love you Marcia for what you did in Bob's honor, and for the benefit of others. hugs.....

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Paula Titon's avatar

Visualizing Trump as a tot a lly inept sumo wrestler !!

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Marcia Z Bookstein's avatar

Aha! "A wrestler wins by either pushing their opponent outside the ring or forcing them to touch the ground with a part of their body other than the soles of their feet." From AI via the internet. Seeing how Trump likes to "push" and "shove" people, including the leaders of other countries, it would be a fight worthy of turning your head away!

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Marcia Z Bookstein's avatar

Why "inept"? He's got weight in his favor.

But I have to admit I don't know the rules of Sumo wrestling. Now to check Wikipedia...

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kdsherpa's avatar

You did something truly magnificent in Bob's honor. Thank you, on his behalf.

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DeeDeeBee's avatar

Michael -- Thank you for your service. My dad was a career NCO (Korean Conflict). It pained me so that TFF was the speaker at the commencement ceremony at West Point -- a SECOND time! A proud day for the cadets, who were schooled during Biden's administration...not TFF's.

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Dr. Judith Schlesinger's avatar

Interesting thought, Michael. I think you're right, and '68 was bad for lots of us. What those unfortunate young people face today is even more maddening, because the enemy is within us, and by deliberate choice, however idiotic and cruel.

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Susan Fernbach's avatar

Viet Nam? The home front? Both? ((((((hug)))))

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LYNN COOK's avatar

Dr Judith...hear you LOUD & CLEAR !

Incomprehensible how people stomach his lies...and his face.

WPOAT....worst president of all time !

Today... we remember the BEST..the honor, bravery & devotion with which they served.

God Bless them all! Forever in our memories and in our hearts.🇺🇸

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Dr. Judith Schlesinger's avatar

Don't even bother figuring it out, or how people can be so stupid. Not worth your time or effort.

YOU know who the brave were/are, and it certainly ain't him!!!!

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Kate Decker's avatar

I get that.

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Mary Roeser's avatar

I am sorry for your loss. Please accept my condolences. My late husband served two tours in Vietnam as a combat medic. He saw things no one should ever have to see.

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Dr. Judith Schlesinger's avatar

Oh, I know. Among a zillion other things, I could never approach Bill from the back and right side - no matter the loving reason!

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Mary Roeser's avatar

Don couldn't tolerate any loud, sharp noise. The Fourth of July was absolute torture for him.

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Robert E.'s avatar

The curse of war. I wish kindness and warmth to both your souls. Keep on keeping on.

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KHKate's avatar

My condolences, Judith, and admiration for both of you.

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J Cheng's avatar

My condolences on your loss, and appreciation to him for his service.

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John Townsend's avatar

May you have peace.

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Dr. Judith Schlesinger's avatar

Thanks, John. It took awhile, but I think I finally do.

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misia.d's avatar

I am glad he is here to celebrate!

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Susie's avatar

So am I!!!

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

My husband was in Vietnam (68-69) in the Mekong Delta. He has been fighting this war since then. Hates Donny Convict. He works out everyday to keep himself semi-sane. Give my best to your favorite vet!

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DeeDeeBee's avatar

To your favorite vet -- I thank you for your service. Best regards from an Army Brat.

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misia.d's avatar

Memorial Day celebrates golfing, and provides space to look ahead and luxuriate in the certainty of future grift.

The only downside is that old reliable Putin has JUST gone “crazy”? It is so shocking and such a surprise. Does it mean T has temporarily lost his immoral compass and role model?

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David T Moran's avatar

t-Rump has never had a moral compass.

The dirt has always been there.

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Paul Snyderman's avatar

His compass always points directly back to him. Amoral Compass.

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Robot Bender's avatar

Good one.

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Bob Graham's avatar

So Bender, how’s about visiting the White House and the Oval Office for a little workout? Don’t want you to get rusty…..

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John Townsend's avatar

--while any look in the mirror on his part should shatter it!

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Ellen Harris's avatar

He’ll swing back.

Just like he swings on tariffs (manipulating the stock market so he and his buddies can buy low, then he pulls tariffs in the other direction so they can sell their shares high… or is that too clever for him?)

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John Gregory's avatar

for him, yes. For his handlers, not for a moment.

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Jan Fabiyi's avatar

He has asked Americans to go through a time of pain so we can reach our “Golden Age.” Since we all know that’s not happening, I wonder if he will keep moving the goalpost on the time things will get better for us, just forget about it and never mention it again (see lowering the price of eggs), or just try to keep us busy with continued distractions.

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Ann Rock's avatar

Does he think it’s a golden age because he’s p*ssing on us?

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John Townsend's avatar

-because he has an abundance of s**t?

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Jan Fabiyi's avatar

😂

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Charles Wagner's avatar

I think that what he who must not be named meant was gilded age, maybe between 1890 - 1915, when the wealthy were wealthy and they did not have to put up with guff from unions, minorities, women, definitely not non straight persons. We knew our place, had no power or even minuscule wealth, retirement, health care, worked twelve hours a day, worked hard and died young, lacked a modicum of upward mobility and were a mere throwaway commodity. Yep, America was a company town and that is what he and his ilk are bringing back.

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Charles Hall's avatar

The wealthy didn't have to pay taxes, on their wealth or income. It was a golden age if you were white, male and rich.

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Charles Wagner's avatar

You are quite correct. (I don't say "right" anymore.) I am working on a Golden/Gilded Age page for a book I am working on. It was just like the Old Testament except the rich are richer now.

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John Townsend's avatar

--until Haymarket Riot II.

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John Townsend's avatar

Continued distractions until impeachment!

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Pam Weinberg's avatar

He is not "smart enough" to know anything about tariffs or economics. He doesn't even read - we know that! He has "Mein Kampf" in his bedroom for "show"! Anything he says or does that sounds even vaguely "intelligent" comes out of Project 2025 or from advisers! He is by far the stupidest man to hold the office of President of the USA, and he may be the last as he brings on a dictatorship and Congress and the Senate will not stop him because they are beholden to him for some reason or other!!! The situation is disgusting and so is he! Also, we are the exact same age (both born in 6/46) and I understand his small failings as well as his large ones! Maybe Bernie hasn't lost anything, but if Drump EVER had any brains (?), 🤔 he is losing them now. It is so over his head, one only has to listen to any impromptu words, and you can see how stupid he is...and the press goes along, always showing him autographing "big" issues with a flourish of his signature! DISGUSTING 🫣! I don't remember that kind of constant coverage for

any other President! It is all a "dog and pony show" and it should make us all SICK!

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Mary Roeser's avatar

He does not read because he cannot read. He is, in fact, a semi-functional illiterate. He is also innumerate. And he doesn't know the first thing about how tariffs really work. Nor does he know the first thing about economics. He just uses whatever he thinks makes him sound "strong". He lacks the self-awareness to realize that all he is nothing but a weak, sniveling p*** ant.

The media go way out of their way to sanitize, normalize, and sane-wash him and his misadministration. They are doing us and this nation no favors.

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Michael Little's avatar

OK, just to be fair, and for the record, p***ants are so much better than the two-legged orange guy.

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Mary Roeser's avatar

Isn't that the truth? I apologize for the insult to p*** ants. They are way better than the Convicted Felon, no doubt about it. But then, who or what isn't?

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Dana Campbell's avatar

I think it means he is close to simply washing his hands of the war altogether. Taking his toys and going home in a pout - which could never be called righteous. As long as he has someone else to blame his work is done.

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Susie's avatar

True!!!

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Bob Graham's avatar

No problem for the creature, there’s always Biden to take the blame. Biden is also the cause of Melania moving into her own bedroom with a locked door…right….

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Mary Roeser's avatar

Those two have essentially been separate for years. That marriage doesn't even rise to the level of a marriage of convenience.

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Ellen Harris's avatar

Business partnership (not equal of course)

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Susie's avatar

I wondered about that too. I thought trumpy and Putin were besties.

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Michael's avatar

Besties only in the sense that both are ruthless and cynical opportunists. They form temporary marriages of convenience when it benefits them but both are ever aware that the other, at any moment, could draw

Casca's dagger.

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Mary Roeser's avatar

I like your style. And, being a retired Latin teacher, I love "Lux Umbra Dei".

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Michael's avatar

Mary- Plus Latine oblitus es quam ego umquam didici.

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Mary Roeser's avatar

Nimis benignus es. Est autem “oblita es” quoniam femina sum. Eras discipulus bonus

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Michael's avatar

Benignitas est nomen mihi proprium! De cetero, rem meam probavisti, o magister!"

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nacreplus2's avatar

It's easy. Walking away and leaving Ukraine in the lurch is exactly what is best for Putin!

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Susan Barnes's avatar

I guess that’s how he’ll end it on day one. Oh wait. It’s Day What?

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Trish's avatar

Day 3,665. Oh, wait, that's just how much I've aged since he was elected...

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Marcia Z Bookstein's avatar

It's all about transactionalism. How can Trump rake it in? Faster and better and more? End the war, take the minerals, and make the people of Ukraine pay for it. What's wrong with that idea?

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Mary Roeser's avatar

I think it's all show. Putin is the Convicted Felon's employer, after all.

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Jan's avatar

Fair weather besties. Remember, trump was and is Putin’s useful idiot. Seems Putin lulled orange guy into thinking they were equals. No big surprise there.

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PTW's avatar

Only in donald's tiny mind. Putin knows who he is dealing with, an imbecile.

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Robin D's avatar

He is despicable. He sat with the President of South Africa, showed him pages and pages (from his "human printer...the blonde...who must be dumb as a rock because she gave him pictures that were taken in the Congo) and after every picture he showed he just said DEATH. DEATH. DEATH. And made a complete fool of himself! I hope they at least fed the guy before throwing him out before lunch like Zelensky.

I'd like to see him do that with Putin, from the Oval Office, packed with JD Vance, Marco Rubio and the other sycophants, and show him page after page after page of UKRAINE and do the same. In front of the TV cameras! A nice cup of polonium tea Donnie? Putin is laughing at this babbling, blithering village idiot. Putin would probably have Tulsi do it.

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J Cheng's avatar

Well said misia.d. If Dumpy had to explain what Memorial Day is really all about I think his head would explode.

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bruce schneider's avatar

I don' know about podiatrists, but all us (male) medical interns got drafted back in '68. We had to report for an army physical, and as I think back, I don't recall that you could be designated 4F with just a letter. Hmmmm.

Also, the minute he insulted John McCain with impunity, I knew he was on to something, that he and his advisors had tapped into the dark reaches of the country that the rest of us thought was gone.

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Mary Roeser's avatar

I think you could have been designated 4F with a letter if there were enough money, position, and power behind that letter. A lot of guys who didn't have Daddies to pay a quack to say they had bone spurs were drafted.

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Paul Snyderman's avatar

I think you're right about 4F. A letter could get you a temporary deferment. If memory serves (no pun inteded) it was a “1Y” and you'd get called back later. Later there was the lottery. If you were lucky and your number was high enough you'd never get called back.

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Joseph T. Babcock's avatar

Rosemarie I could not agree with you more I thought (obviously incorrectly) that his remarks about John McCain (an American Hero) would disqualify him in a flash. He is below contempt period.

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CathyBecskehazy's avatar

The amazement never leaves me. Along with sorrow and ache. I am simply, to this day, unable to wrap my mind around any of the 2024 election, the hatred, the stunning ignorance, bigotry, the totally open grift and the destruction of democracy.

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Betty Miller's avatar

The sound of his voice makes my skin crawl!!

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Lisa D. Schoenwetter's avatar

The sight of him puts me off my feed. I bought my mom a roll of stickers that she can stick over his face while she’s reading her paper.

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Mandy S. Twiny's avatar

That sounds wonderfully therapeutic! I might have to do that at the grocery store. 😆

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Michael Little's avatar

Good idea, the stickers to cover his face. In our home we just cover the dog's eyes so she doesn't start growling.

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Lisa D. Schoenwetter's avatar

LOL! I don’t think my dog has ever seen his face and she never will. I can’t imagine what the cost of trauma treatment would be…

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Michael Little's avatar

Wish I could reply at greater length, but I'm working overtime to pay for my dog's trauma treatment. Poor Molly, she used to be such a happy little pooch.

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Lisa D. Schoenwetter's avatar

Poor dear! Maybe this is a nation-wide experience!

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Michael Little's avatar

I have a new plan to calm the little nervous pooch. I will begin reading Borowitz to her every day. She may not laugh but her tail will wag like crazy. Wish us luck!

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John Townsend's avatar

I hope they are big stickers!

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Lisa D. Schoenwetter's avatar

They are! They’re rainbow striped hedgehogs. Don’t ask. I just liked them. 🙄

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Mandy S. Twiny's avatar

Ooh- have any of you watched a Mary Trump video in a while? Any time she plays a clip of her uncle his voice sounds like a tiny insect in a cartoon. Which is fitting.

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Mandy S. Twiny's avatar

You are not alone, my dear. It’s sort of like…a hot, lazy wind blowing through a dried up field of corn in a bad drought.

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Gerry Boyce's avatar

Rosemary thank you for this. I just returned from singing at a Memorial Day service and hearing Trumps name in a proclamation almost made me puke. You are right on the money.

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Susan Barnes's avatar

Right there with you.

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John Townsend's avatar

--and the final buttons to be pushed beside "Mute": Impeach and Jail!

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MLK's avatar

A majority of vets voted for the Orange Draft Dodger. Go figure....

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Charles Wagner's avatar

That's what I told my VA doctor. I said they're gonna get what they deserve when they get their benefits cut. She just laughed.

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Charles Wagner's avatar

He knows how to get serviced.

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Linda's avatar

Rosemary- I can really relate to your MUTE comment. I've spared myself from listening to the voice of the "putrid imbecile" for years.

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KHKate's avatar

Damn skippy. I hope as you do. Also, tight shoes that they can't get off because their backs hurt from having their heads up their asses for so long.

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Ramona Jeffery's avatar

I made my husband turn the TV OFF, mute isn't enough for me anymore. I need Drumpf to be forced to lie about his ratings.

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