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Trump is loving his position now. Elected again to lead this country and the free world. All of his legal problems gone. All attention on him, not Kamala and especially not on Joe Biden. He is on top of the world. Mandate to do whatever he wants, with no constraints, because rules and laws are for losers, and he is the winner. His entire psychotic life has now been validated.

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actually his diminished capacity and lack of energy means he will be out of spotlight and will let his minions do the whining for him

as long as he doesn't go to jail, he's fine

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Looking more and more like he lost the popular vote.

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The claim is that among the 53 Republican Senators, that 4 to 6 of them had objections to his character. This is actually a pretty horrifying idea...

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"...And it signified an awareness by Trump that, though he won big, fighting such pointed battles with his own party wasn’t worth the sacrifice of time. " Everyone keeps writing about this massive win for trump. He won, and he won the popular vote, but he won less than 50% of the popular vote. Not exactly the juggernaut that the media keeps echoing.

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Marc has insiders in the campaign feeding him info, he has to keep up the 'won big' narrative

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You would think a party that can't put together a cabinet that does not include sex offenders would be a bit more careful about throwing around the term, "groomers".

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To me .. I hate to be so blunt about it, but everyone in his orbit is either some kind of criminal, whore or addict. Perhaps literally. Let's talke Rfk jr who apparently was a friend of heroin. So, it may be coming down to this. You have to fight on the field given to you. If just for example a little of that juice ended up in someone's coffee at nih.. I mean... these things happen, right? Yep, to win against this lot may mean going there... I'm happy to hear otherwise. But the window of normal is closing...

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> everyone in his orbit is either some kind of criminal, whore or addict.

True. Don't forget grifter, rapist or sex trafficker. That's been true of Republicans for a long time, and of politicians in general. Odd that we seem to understand that yet still vote for it too.

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It’s pretty funny that the convicted philanderer and felon who incited an insurrection and then stood by and watched is telling someone that Republicans can’t support him due to the insinuations about his flawed character. As if any Republican has a single fiber of morality or cares about character. What a joke!

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In photos Pam Bondi looks like a TV ad for the new doll "Barbie goes to Law School." Obviously, DT's idea of a "lady lawyer".

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Interesting. Although I laughed out loud at this: " . . . his big goals of radically reducing illegal immigration and implementing new tariffs to reorient the nation’s taxation, trade, and manufacturing structure." OMG. Those are not his big goals. At all. His big goals are (1) extending and enlarging his tax cuts for the wealthy and for corporations, and (2) using the Presidency to increase his personal wealth.

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I smarted at that too. And 4) Dismantling the US government. Or least being a figurehead for Heritage Foundation to do that. 5) Lashing out in narcissistic rage and getting revenge on anyone who caused him a narcissistic injury last time.

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Tax cuts for those who don't need them at the expense of Medicaid and food stamps.

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And 3) burnishing his image among current MAGAs and for posterity and The History of the World. That’s his Achilles heel, and it’s one to exploit.

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" Trump is a one-term president whose own staff believes he has fewer than two years to accomplish his big goals of radically reducing illegal immigration and implementing new tariffs to reorient the nation’s taxation, trade, and manufacturing structure."

These are the least worrying of his "goals" how about you spill a little ink on destroying the civil service and rewriting the constitution which are his real goals. And BTW he has no intention of being there for just one term.

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And he was elected primarily because of the price of eggs followed by immigration. Destroying the civil service and putting tariffs on imports, plus the immigration roundup, is only going to increase inflation.

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Trump is there because Biden was a vacant President, the proverbial power vacuum, and he chose poorly for VP, although if Biden had been out there and describing a vision of justice, and prosperity, I think Kamala would have not have been put in the embarrassing position she as in.

Anyway the information is sliced Biden shares the overwhelming percentage of the blame. Like Ruth Bader Ginsberg, but also in the long term the Democratic party who is more concerned about protecting Republicans and our corporate corruption than doing anything significant for the people - and after 40 years of this Democrats still thought people did not notice.

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Is there anyone in the Senate more despicable than Mike Lee? ““Give me a hearing. Give me a chance to make my case,” Gaetz begged, according to Lee, who liked what he heard.”

HE LIKED WHAT HE HEARD. From a man who trafficks teenagers for sex.

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I don't like Lee either. But if you multiply him by 127 gazillion you'll get to less than 1/2 of Mitch the bitch.

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Mitch McConnell has never pretended to be anything but what he is.

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If Mitch thought trafficking teenagers would "preserve his majority" he'd do it personally. Twice. And thrice.

Mike Lee is a piece of lint.

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I assume Mike is a covert member of the FLDS, and therefore admires the notion of grown-ass men having sex with nubile young teens.

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Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson give him a run for his money. I would also say Tuberville though he isn't so much despicable as just dumb.

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Cruz could have left the dark side, as he seemed he was in 2016. Could have joined Cheney and Kinzinger or even led a Republican resistance. He made his choice and cannot redeem himself.

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No. Cruz is on the Cruz side. There is no dark or light for Cancun Ted. There is the Cruz side.

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Lee is a fraud.

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Absolutely he is. And a stupid, stupid man masquerading as a smart one.

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founding

But of course.

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Another scum bites the dust.

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Trump has worked fast- his rebound AG pick is Pam Bondi, former FLA AG. Die hard election denier, etc. We'll see how this one flies.

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Big boys don't cry... But maybe check only fans... I mean who knows....

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And with the long dyed blonde hair, she looks just like a Trump woman. She’ll fit right in at Mar-a-Lago.

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All of this may be true, and yet it could also be a smoke screen and distraction planned by whoever makes strategic decisions in Trump's world (I do NOT believe that DJT himself is capable of independent strategic thought, adept as he has proven himself to be at taking advantage of other people's plans and ideas). The actual plan all along might have been to nominate somebody so insanely outrageous like Gaetz that he couldn't get confirmed, so that the next nominee would seem normal by comparison and actually get confirmed.

Listened to Tim and Sam and Marc talking on Tim's "bonus" pod this afternoon, and they were sharing some of the names they have heard floated to replace Gaetz. One of them was either the current Mississippi AG or the deputy AG. Both Tim and Sam shuddered and made wrenching sounds when the name was read. One quipped, "He might actually be worse than Gaetz." Maybe, but at least he actually IS an AG and the Senate, who just pushed back on the pedophilic sex trafficker (if in fact they did), may have cover to be "relieved" that at least now they have a "serious" candidate that they offer no pushback. Because at least the new guy seems "normal." Seems very plausible to me.

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I have also been thinking it might have been a big distraction to make the next one seem "normal".

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I had considered that Trump's appointment of Gaetz was a test of Senate will. I'd bet a nickel the next nominee will only be half as bad, and the Senate will cave.

I wish they could hold secret voting like they did electing Thune Majority leader. My Senator, Rick Scott ran last for Majority Leader, likely because of the secret vote. He is unfit. When he was our Governor we called him Voldemort.

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These appointments could have been a distraction to suck all the air out of the room during this transition period to avoid claims or election tampering by Republicans.

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Yep. He just nominated Pam Bondi, former Florida AG, as Gaetz replacement nomination.

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