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    When Trump falls, which everyone sees as imminent, they want to have some distance on him to maintain credibility. If they’re too close, they fall with him. So expect more of this. The billionaire class isn’t thrilled with Trump anymore.

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    When your fucking cheerleaders are criticizing you you know you fucked up. But unfortunately we’re talking about Trump here. All he’s going to do is suddenly decide that Fox News is no longer his friend and start criticizing them.

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    They will keep supporting him regardless.

    Don’t look to Fox for any sort of epiphany.

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    You never know when the mark will realize they’ve been conned … the cognitive dissonance lasts for so long, and then one day they start to use their brains again, just a little … and for some people this day was yesterday.

    Somehow it amazes me that this is the issue. January 6th didn’t do it, the mass murder of South American fishermen didn’t do it, the sexual assaults and rapes didn’t do it, the crypto-coin bribery schemes didn’t do it … Jeffrey Epstein and the pedo ring got close, no doubt about it, but not quite … and finally, talking shit about a guy who died, that’s their line, that’s indecent, that’s unacceptable.

    Well OK, that’s a weird world view, but that’s what they got.

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      I try to look at it from the standpoint of critical mass. We’re well past the observation that a bunch of people are working overtime battling dissonance, juggling an ever-growing schedule of contradictory information. It’s frustrating that the dam doesn’t break sooner, but eventually, it will break. If not for this shred of news, then for the next one, or the one after that. Eventually.

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      I think it’s more like all those other things got them closer and closer, and this last thing was the final straw.

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    The magical moral compass that conservatives can only access when the President’s approval rating is falling to 30%

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      It’s a warning shot to the administration. Trump is outliving his usefulness. The only one who doesn’t know that is Trump. Fox News needs to sell that to the base.

      This is what the build up to an article 25 will look like. Fox has to lay the ground work. First they need to make it ok to criticize the president.

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        I wonder if trying to find redcap gear after donvict exits the stage will be like trying to find a Nazi uniform right after the fall of Germany…how many sudden “independents” will suddenly pop up everywhere? People that if they even remember Taco at all, will claim they didn’t really like the “tweeting”, LOL?

        I wonder if those betting sites are offering a bet on the likelihood of a new “movement” that is astroturfed and given to all these sudden “independents”, too.

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        I’m actually wondering if the epstien bomb may be an additional part of it. IE if trump goes down, less focus goes on the files and they can be burried again.

        I’d say a second hypothetical… obviously will be a conspiracy theory, but what if say in the near future trump is assasinated. Vance takes the throne… epstein file coverage goes down now that the primary implicated person is out.

        Hell that could be the main driving force of the media backing trump. He was meant to burry them, but he made them a center focus

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          Congress just (almost) unanimously passed a law, one of very few this Congress has passed, that the Epstein Files must be released by this coming Friday.

          The extremely welcome and greatly anticipated death of Donny 2 Inches, does not change that law…!

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              Oh, I’d bet there will be shenanigans, but as I understand it, everything unclassified must be released in a searchable and downloadable form. Obviously, they will “classify” everything they don’t want out, and I bet there will be a metric ton of redactions.

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    “Beneath the office”??? The motherfucker is like a diseased rat living under America’s porch.

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      Its not that its a horrible thing to say, its that even the his base are like “um, wut? Does having TDS mean that someone is going to kill you? Is he suggesting I kill my parents if they dont like him?” Its literally demented. He’s coming across like he’s yelling at the clouds.

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        They don’t seem to understand that trump is psychologically unfit, it’s not just him having fun.

        ”Malignant narcissism is a severe personality construct combining Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) with antisocial traits, paranoia, and sadism, creating a destructive pattern of grandiosity, extreme entitlement, lack of empathy, manipulation, and a desire to harm others for personal gain.”

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      People should still laugh in his face because he tried to nuke a hurricane. I think it’s just really hard to keep up

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    They are ok with the racism, the fascism, the numerous sexual assault and rape cases, the rape conviction, the being a russian stooge thing, the insurrection, being Epsteins friend before and after he was convicted of being a paedo, the stealing of top secret documents, the six bankruptcies and numerous failed businesses plus numerous fines for being corrupt etc, the 34 felony convictions etc etc etc and so on but, BUT being a cunt about an actor and director is beneath the office?

    How about, fuck you.

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    “Rob Reiner was a very liberal Democrat who had very strong criticism of President Trump,” Kurtz said. “And yet, I have to say,  that for the president of the United States to take this family tragedy in which both Reiner and his wife were killed and say that it’s because of ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome,’ I thought was well beneath him and beneath the office. And I think it would have been better if the president had made no comment.”

    What dank hole do these people crawl out of? Where has Howard Kurtz been since 2015 that this is surprising to him?

    Sounds like he should be fired from his pretend reporter role since he’s apparently missed out on the last 10 years of news.

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      Bunch of conservative assholes cheered on Pelosi’s hammer attacker, even memed it up.

      Fuck em all. Conservatives are the bane of humanity and humankind.

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        MAGAs aren’t really political conservatives. Political conservatives are people like Biden, Pelosi and Schumer. MAGAs are cultist domestic terrorists.