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John D.'s avatar

My grandmother had a word for people like Chump: Bellyachers.

She was a character. During World War 2, she was a Neighborhood Air Raid Warden. When the sirens started blaring at night, it was lights out. She could handle a gun and the story was that she shot out a window that had a light on.

As a child, I asked her why. She said there was a war to win. I feel the same way about November 5th.

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Leah Tahiry's avatar

As my Mom used to say and referring to trump “all he likes to do is piss and moan.”

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Dennis Kostyk's avatar

Millions of folks (if not billions) do phone calls, zooms, Gmeets and Skypes every day. If these two can't figure out a glorified group phone call - on a platform one of them owns...and the other owns a competing one - how do we trust them with global affairs and maintaining the common good?

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Valeri in SoCal's avatar

My husband reminded me that one of the things Musk did after acquiring (then) Twitter was fire about 80% of the reliability team. Guess it’s true, one reaps what one sows.

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Anthony j. Santo's avatar

"I spent 2 1/2 hours last night talking to Elon, a fantastic guy, getting all-time record Views/hits, and all the Fake News wants to report is that the servers crashed (because of the tremendous volume!), and the show opened a little late. What they should be reporting was the incredible number of people that were listening. I absolutely HATE the Fake News Media. So bad for our Country!"

That is what Trump had to say about his conversation with Musk on X. Did he forget that Musk claimed the problems were due to a "massive DDOS attack"?

If he hates fakes, he must rage at his own image in the mirror.

As Steve points out, we are approaching the end of our ten year nightmare of Trump/MAGA dominated news and politics. Let's hope his movement retreats with the least violence possible and thinks about what made them accept such a monster as their leader and inspiration. Quietly, as they lick their wounds.

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Chris Saunders's avatar

OMGOSH I was wondering when our doors wood be darkened again by FL ! The notion that Trump is authentic and that Harris and Walz are cardboard cutouts is so laughable…it’s a fantastic bit of hilarious irony…Kamala is as authentic as can be and anyone who has taught and coached in high school can tell you it’s hard to fool the students…Walz is the real deal…

Steve is right on Trump, is suffering from a narcissistic collapse as he sees it all slipping away due to his self inflicted problems…

Thanks for telling us where you are Steve, it looks beautiful!

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Carol M Davis's avatar

And THAT will be a good day…oh yes. Keeping the wonderful vision of noon Jan. 20, 2025 ….when our first woman President will take her solemn oath to uphold the Constitution of these United States.

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Valeri in SoCal's avatar

Donald Trump has bragged (repeatedly) that he is responsible for denying women access to abortion. He is right. He did this.

Now Trump doesn’t want to talk about it and says abortion is a small issue. I call bullshit.

Women aren’t incubators with legs who should be forced to give birth. Forced birth is a form of slavery. When women are denied bodily autonomy, we are denied democracy. We become second class citizens, infantilized and minimized, when we cannot make our own reproductive health care decisions. Donald Trump and Republicans don’t care about any of this and they certainly don’t care about women (because if they did care, they would fix the mess they’ve created). Trump even picked a running mate, JD Vance, who wants to repeal no fault divorce and says women should stay in abusive marriages for the benefit of the children. (Vance doesn’t explain how children “benefit” from knowing their father beats the crap out of their mother; that explanation should be a whopper.)

Abortion bans affect millions of men, women, and children. Abortion isn’t a “small issue” to the pregnant women or their families. It isn’t a “small issue” to the doctors who are threatened with punishment if they dare provide standard medical care — even for women who have miscarried and need medical intervention. It isn’t a “small issue” if the woman is your spouse (and the mother of your children) or someone you love and with proper medical care they can live (but some law intervenes to deny medical care and so puts the woman at risk of dying).

When we hear the horror stories women tell of being denied medical care (an abortion) to safely end their doomed pregnancy, just know that Donald Trump is the reason these women are suffering, risking permanent impairment and death. No wonder Donald Trump doesn’t want to talk about this — it makes him look bad, but it isn’t just bad. It’s cruel.

To be clear, for a woman with a doomed pregnancy, whether or not she has an abortion no baby will survive; having an abortion protects the woman and has no impact on the (already not viable) fetus. With an abortion the woman has a better chance of surviving with the least long term harm. But Donald Trump and the (mostly white male) Republicans who pass the abortion bans are fine with the mess they’ve created. The Republican lawmakers didn’t listen to medical experts who warned them where abortion bans would take us — they passed abortion bans anyway, proving they cannot be trusted to protect women.

It seems so obvious to me that women who want reproductive rights (access to contraception, abortion, and IVF) are not asking for anything special, we just want bodily autonomy — you know like men have. We want to decide when, and if, we have children. We want to live our lives without the government passing laws that allow us, when pregnant, to suffer and die when doctors know how to save us.

I urge you to vote for Harris/Walz and Democrats up and down the ballot who support reproductive rights and democracy for all of us. Even if you can’t get pregnant, someone you know or love can, so unfettered access to abortion is essential for all of us. Not convinced? Read about Trump Project 2025 (aka Agenda 47) which explains what Trump plans to do to take away our individual freedoms, it should scare the shit out of you. It does me.

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Lisa Leonardi's avatar

It's time to rise up against ALL of the neo-Nazis, corporations and billionaires who keep the republican party afloat. Supprting them only damages the collective good in this country.

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Ken1's avatar

Trump is now in full-throttled psychological regression to childhood. He is cranky, colicky and craven and desperately in need of a bottle.

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Jeff Clabault's avatar

My dear, departed mother also had a word to describe folks like Trump and Vance.."gross".

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Ken1's avatar

When the Trump election denial shenanigans, most dangerously the refusal of local election boards to certify Harris’s following victory the wannabe American Fuhrer’s election thumping, President Biden should ‘officially’ order the Justice Department, deploying Federal marshals and the FBI, to immediately arrest any official who refuses to certify an indefeasible voting result using his newly-minted, immunity-assured powers granted by this Supreme Court. Blowback is wicked, MAGAs!

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May Ng's avatar

That’s what happened when you don’t have the fastest and best on your team like Beyonce sings. https://youtu.be/wa7HpWw7DEk?si=xdWdMl9_t_95Rf2V This is our America that won’t let Putin and Xi have their ways.

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AFort's avatar

Steve, as a Michigander, enjoy the fudge!

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Chris Saunders's avatar

Would

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Frank Lee's avatar

Trump is authentic and full patriotic American. Biden and Harris are carboard cutout puppets of the globalist corporatist establishment ruled by the Chinese communists.

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Julie's avatar

It’s rock time for you again, Frank. Crawl back under. And contemplate why you’re enthralled with the two worst people in the world. Both filled with hate and one who wears more makeup than a drag queen, and the other who gave his children with Grimes NUMBERS instead of names.

Your number name is ZERO (0).

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Anthony j. Santo's avatar

Julie, there are two photos of Vance in drag taken while he was a law student at Yale in 2012. I guess the guy loves eye liner, make-up, and wigs. BTW, he does not contest the authenticity of the photos. Another example of MAGA double standards.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jd-vance-drag-photo/

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Julie's avatar

I was talking about Trump in my comment 😂😂😂. HE wears more makeup than a drag queen. I like the drag picture of Vance; it shows his hypocrisy in a light show and underlines how he wants to run our lives with Project 2025 while exempting himself from its parameters.

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Anthony j. Santo's avatar

How the hell does Trump look in the mirror and not notice how ridiclous his wig and make-up look? He and Vance are clowns who should never have been taken seriously. That goes for Giuliani, Stone, Bannon, Lindell (my pillow guy), Flynn and the rest of the jerks he surrounds himself with.

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Betty Fielder's avatar

Blocked

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Chris Saunders's avatar

He such a downer!

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Anthony j. Santo's avatar

...and living in fantasy land with no attachment to the real world.

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Gerry Queenan's avatar

I wonder everyday how we got here

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George  Schueller's avatar

So why did tRump, useless piece of shit he is steal top secret documents he was no longer entitled to?

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JuliaForDemocracy's avatar

Omg, LOL. Good one.

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Gerry Queenan's avatar

Yes and the moon is made of green cheese

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Valeri in SoCal's avatar

Frank, you need better sources for your news. Clearly, you have been misinformed.

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Ken1's avatar

Trump is authentic in the sense that a psychiatric in-patient is indeed clinically disturbed. Or in the sense that a Potemkin cut-out figure is an actual cut-out!

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Frank Lee's avatar

Harris is a DEI politician. Cannot win an election except by the DEI sparky badges alloted to her for being female and Jamaican. No loss of points for being Asian and a descendant of slave owners in the DEI rock, paper scissors liberal game.

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Ken1's avatar

Always the same -- the same soupy Putin miasma in the air.

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