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What is it with the mentality that makes people think rich people can't be bought off because they're so rich? They're probably more easily bought off than anyone. The super rich always want more. Not to mention, how Trump became so rich in the first place, i.e. corruption and exploitation.

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Actually, Trump got rich through his dad and grandfather. He is just a bad businessman that almost lost it all, had it not been banks and NBC.

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Yes. It's not that he's rich. It's how he got rich and that was by taking advantage of rubes and a lot of money to beat others down, legally. Also, Trump had the RNC paying his legal bills. Trump has always lived off of other people, one way or another. He's gonna feast on Chris.

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I have never yet seen a rich person who, to quote Mr. Burns on the Simpsons, wouldn't give it all up just to have a little more.

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"Rich" Donnie always grifting off others.

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If I want someone who isn't swayed by money, show me someone who has taken a public-sector or volunteer job in place of something they were similarly qualified for, that would have paid a lot more.

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acquisition is the game and it's an addiction. All the money in the world doesn't stop that addict from wanting more.

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What Trump lovers have failed to realize, beside reality, is that the stock market has hit a record under Biden, inflation is going down, gas prices are going down despite the fact that the war in Ukraine has caused a bump along with the usual Middle East issues, Biden got an infrastructure bill passed, a inlfation reduction bill passed, and the chips act passed, all something Trump never got done. Oh, and Biden also hasn't increased the deficit as much as Trump did. But hey, why bother these idiots with facts.

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And if Trump wins, he will reverse these gains, like he did when he won after Obama. He is the epitome of how to make a small fortune. You start with a large one.

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For these "idiots", facts are what the Orange God King tells them is true, just like Jim Jones did.

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Yang and Phillips can just go jump in a lake.

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And take the execrable opportunist moron Steve Schmidt with them. Turns out his choice of Palin in '08 wasn't a fluke of his normal "high" intellect.

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Preferably with their pockets full of heavy rocks (IYKYK).

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or boulders

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One that is icy.

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Or moat Filled with alligators.

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I am a New Hampshire voter in Moultonborough (population about 5,000). Turnout here seemed very high. I had to wait in line for half an hour to get my ballot (a write in for Biden). I noticed that most of the undeclared people were asking for the Republican ballot.

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Thanks for sharing that "on-the-ground" observation. I appreciate it!

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"I first chatted with Chris from Gilford, New Hampshire. A man in his fifties with a thick New England accent, Chris repeated many of the lines Trump says of himself, arguing that the former president is “the one that can fix it all” and can’t be bought off because he’s already so rich."

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I'd love to be smoking some of whatever Chris has been smoking. The Marigold Malignancy is way better at breaking things than fixing them, in fact, I'd go so far as to say he's incapable of fixing anything. He'll only come up with a suggested fix that is directly to his benefit, the common man, like Chris, is less than a dog turd to be scraped off his shoe than an actual constituent. Chris, Big Jim, and the rest of the Goldenrod Grotesqueness' cultists are simply tools to be used and discarded when they no longer serve his purposes.

As for being so rich the Butterscotch Buffoon can't be bought off, well, obviously Chris has not been paying too much attention to the news. The Trump**^^^^ administration can be counted as the most corrupt in American history: Harding's Teapot Dome scandal is just a distant star compared to the brightness of the corruption shown by the Apricot Arthropod and his family. The Washington Post Office hotel lost money during his term in office, but had an income of ~$3.7 million from foreign *governments* for stays there; within just over two years after papa was sworn in as POTUS Ivanka had received 41 trademarks from the Chinese government; within months of no longer being an "advisor" Jared Kushner received $2 billion from MBS; DJTJ had his own side hustles working while daddy was POTUS. It looks like the only two who didn't come out smelling like a rose were Barron and Eric -- who doesn't seem to have the grift gene so prevalent in his family, or at least not as dominant as in the others. Besides: "Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame." (Arthur Schopenhauer)

fnord

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I appreciate all your epithets. However, I am glad that I can still enjoy marigolds, goldenrods (no allergies), butterscotch and apricots without thinking of Trump. :0

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Everyone's a critic these day. I retired (for the most part) the Amber Australopithecus because people thought I was being unfair to Australopithecines. Fortunately, I'm like you and can separate my epitaphs from my likes.

(NB: this reply, with the exception of the last sentence, was written with my tongue firmly in my cheek. There is no offense intended.)

fnord

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No offense taken or meant. I like clever word play. We need some way to discuss Trump so to avoid running screaming down the road. Looking forward to new ones.

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Wordplay being one of my pleasures I sometimes overindulge. For example:

"Harding's Teapot Dome scandal is just a distant star compared to the brightness of the corruption shown by the Apricot Arthropod and his family,"

was in the first writing:

"Harding's Teapot Dome scandal is just a >tempest in a teapot< compared to the >hurricane< of the corruption shown by the Apricot Arthropod and his family."

And yes, "hurricane" was a reference to one of the more traditional slams on his adopted home state, pre-DeSantis' second term.

Have a good one.

fnord

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<“I don't think any endorsement really matters.” (It’s worth noting that he said this while repeatedly telling the world he will vote for Trump when the time comes, even if he’s a convicted felon by then.)>

Pretty sure there’s no cult in history that’s had a leader based on voting. And, of course, Sununu quickly reinforces the idea of screw it all because nothing matters except party over country.

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Re: entering the facility with The People, I applaud you for being such a dangerous factor in news coverage, they dared not give you a press pass. Keep up the good work.

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Ackman seriously needs to F the F OFF. He has caused enough drama lately. Dude--do you not know when to STFU and go away and count your money? Phillips being his pet candidate is not a good look...neither is his echoing Republican/Fox talking points.

As for some of these quotes from New Hampshire voters...oy vey. I'm rolling my eyes and holding my tongue

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All these rich guys, Ackman, Dimon and Ray Dalio are doing their best to both side Biden and Trump. I am just sick to my stomach.

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OMG...Dalio. That man's prognostication on China has been hilariously wrong. Rising superpowers do not have air force personnel draining fuel from J-15 jets OR soldiers with the rocket forces taking solid fuel out of the rockets and replacing it with tap water to cook hotpot. Also, he did not factor in that China has already started demographic decline, and may have been declining for the last decade. Dalio is a self-important clown.

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A self-important clown like all the other trust fund babies born on third base who think they hit a triple.

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Well said! :-)

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Ackman is a great argument in favor of "Eat the rich." I hear they're mighty tasty, lightly sauteed with a nice Chianti.

Actually he's a great argument in favor of terminating all billionaires. Permanently. "With extreme prejudice."

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Or to rephrase, from Anthony Hopkins, "I am having a rich friend for dinner." :-)

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Outstanding!

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Love it! :-)

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Watch out for those acronyms.

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Honestly so sick of hearing about Iowa and New Hampshire every 4 years. All states should have presidential primaries on the same day.

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Thanks yet again for a great article, Joe. It'll be interesting to see what the percentages are in the final tally.

Any state can pass whatever law it wants regarding its placement in the primaries, but it wouldn't be binding on other states, the national parties, or other state- or federal-level entities involved. Getting (and staying) butthurt because of this reality is very silly.

I thought Phillips had already burned up all his good will from other Ds, but it's looking like he wants to follow TFG's path to see just how low he can go.

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Just spitballing here but I'm thinking turnout will be down.

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I'm not nearly as interested in the total N as how the percentages break out. I fully expect TFG to win, but I will cackle with glee if loads of people vote for Haley as a big "fuck you" to him and his cult.

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I agree.

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We'll see how the enthusiasm turns once the actual campaigns start. I've noticed a lot less flag waving here in my chunk of the deep red. The houses on my block that flew their cheap Trump flags until they were tatters replaced them with American flags for a couple of years, but now none of them are flying flags now.

I'd like to think years of having their buttons punched by the Fox panic machine has finally worn them down, and the other loud and proud types in the area that aren't waving it around at the moment, but it might just be wishful thinking on my part.

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CNN is projecting an 11-point spread between Trump and Haley. That is really low for Trump given all the hype so far. Supposedly, primaries bring out partisans.

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I'll wish with you, if I may...

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Of course! Thank you for coming with!

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"Iowa isn't real." Yeah, I know he meant a caucus isn't as official as a primary, but I just like saying Iowa isn't real. How do you feel about the low turnout, Mr. Trump? I'll bet he'd say Iowa isn't real.

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Nuanced views, high political acumen and Trump are a contradiction in terms.

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Thanks Joe. Interesting take on New Hampshire. I'll catch the results tomorrow.

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Dixfield Notch again has it s 5 minutes of fame every four years.(Haley 6 Trump o).Tomorrow we'll find out if there is no no Niki momentum.

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The problem with Iowa and New Hampshire always being up front wasn't that they were not "representative" in any essential or persistent way. No one or two states could be that, and it shouldn't be any subset of unelected citizens' job to represent the whole country, anyway.

No, the problem was that Iowa and New Hampshire were *always* up front. It would have been a problem with any other states being locked in, too. It should be a system of rotations or random draws.

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I truly hope that Chris guy is a tiny tiny minority. We cannot afford more Trump supporters after 2020.

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He's likely unvaxxed. Let him die of COVID with the rest of the Republican morons who are the major part of the toll.

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Sorry to burst your bubble of hope, but the reason TFG did not die of COVID himself will keep them safe: Even deadly viruses have their pride.

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But it is actually a demographic fact that more Republicans - who are more likely not to have been vaccinated - have died of COVID than have Democrats.

Like a doctor I know pointed out to me four years ago when the news first started as a whisper about "something from China" - "A pandemic is Evolution's IQ test: are you intelligent enough to take this information and modify your behavior in such a way as to maximize your likelihood of survival? It's pass/fail." We all know how low you have to flunk the IQ test nowadays to be a member of "Fats" Fuckwit's Cult.

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I like your doctor/friend's analysis, but that must make the survival of TFG a fluke of nature, or shows that deadly viruses spare the truly demented to cultivate more victims for future use....

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TFG got the best care available when he had it, possibly including some treatments that were experimental at the time. And honestly, I think he was lucky to have squeaked by; he still had obvious breathing difficulties when he returned to the WH. Did you see the live coverage of him gasping for air after he walked from the helicopter up to the Truman Balcony?

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Why do you think you don't see coverage of him climbing ANY stairs these days? HIs normal range is from his golf cart to the ball and back.

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Trump got treatment despite not wanting it, and he got stuff most people wouldn't get. when they finally took him to Walter Reed, many WH staff thought he would not come out alive. (I was praying for that outcome)

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