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I like lying to my wife and son, avoiding responsibility, porn, making excuses, and playing the victim. Did I mention porn? I like porn...and lying about porn.

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@JayTC53 @HunterBiden Most corrupt president in history? How many billions has Trump made in office? Most brain dead? Trump can't get the names of countries right. "Islamic Republic of Japan." God, you people, and I do mean you people, are exhausting.

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@str8outtawuhan @HunterBiden He wasn't talking about MAGA voters as a whole, but MAGA voters as part of the general population, you twatwaffle.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.

Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.

Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.

People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.

Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.

He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.

That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.

There is a name for it.

So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.

The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.

And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.

Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.

And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.

Just another joke at our expense.

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@scarylawyerguy Ah yes, I remember when I was a kid and I'd ask my parents about their 401(k)'s and investment portfolios. Whether I spoke to them that week or not depended entirely on the numbers they gave me.

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@ManofTungsten99 @ZacharyDonnini We saw this on the national level in 2016. Most polls had Bernie Sanders beating Trump going away. Hillary Clinton, while still winning most polls, was ahead by 3-5%. Clinton was more popular with Dems, while Sanders was more popular with independents/undecideds.

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@JVaughn188 @KDilanianMSNOW Why would charges be brought in Florida? He testified in DC. Also, he didn't lie. Smith obtained the texts through the National Archives. Congress asked about toll records, a type of metadata. Since toll records are NOT part of the National Archives, he truthfully said, "no."

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@pleasesaveour @KDilanianMSNOW @AaronParnas He has the texts. That's not in dispute. Congress asked Smith how he obtained them. He sent subpoenas to the National Archives. Congress asked him if he got the texts through toll records. Since toll records, a type of metadata, are NOT part of the National Archives, he said no.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"Incredibly, nearly all of the MAGA movement’s embrace of the brothers has come *after* they were first accused of sex trafficking in 2022." And it isn't slowing down.

The latest edition of False Flag from @willsommer:
https://t.co/yQHiHfavyB

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@KyleKulinski Oh my god! I was just talking about this to my wife the other day! I told her to look at a picture of Trump from 2016 and one from this year. His eyes are almost closed.

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@neeratanden Honestly, we're just exhausted. We're only a year and a half in and it feels like Trump has been POTUS for 15 years.

[Spiro’s Ghost @AntiToxicPeople]

Its great that the President of the United States is a delusionally insane lunatic.

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@jonfavs Folks, folks, folks. The first mistake was in calling it a war when it is very obviously an excursion.

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This is fundamentally horseshit. When Germany invaded Poland, Americans did not feel it affected them. Until Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Both of my grandfathers enlisted within a week.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BLITZER: How do you explain the disconnect between what the president says and how Americans feel according to almost all of these most recent polls?

REP. CARLOS GIMENEZ: Prior to World War 2, 85% of Americans were not in favor of entering that war, and then it all changes

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@ToddAppel @TheFP Fascism is a right-wing ideology, best exemplified by Benito Mussolini. Trump has fascist qualities, but isn't a full fascist because he's been constrained by the courts. Socialism and communism are NOT synonymous.

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@moflatley @TheFP As a generational tweener (young Gen X/older millennial), we've seen the Democrats bow to corporations and supply-side economics. We've seen wages stagnate, home ownership out of reach, all while the rich get richer. Enough's enough. Tax. The. Rich.

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@MwAw1956 @TheFP What Bernie is fighting for and why I voted for him twice is living wages, affordable healthcare, and a robust social safety net. Actual communism (when the gov't controls the means of production) is Trump using our tax dollars to buy a 10% stake in Intel.

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To be fair, when you're there, "you're family." I also have to show ID when I go back to Cleveland to enter my mom's house, i.e., the house I grew up in. She's a weird one, my mom.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

The latest ridiculous coordinated Republican talking point on the SAVE Act is all about Olive Garden.

[Max Uechtritz @plesbilongmi]

In one glorious nutshell by Andrew Nagy.
Read of the day.

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@swd2 Would.....would that have been so bad?

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@SweetSalty51951 @SarahLongwell25 Virtually none of the picture on the right is true. Americans might be getting raises, but inflation is higher than wage growth. Crime has been trending downwards for years already. Rural hospitals are closing and insurance costs are way up thanks to Trump.