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Watching Trump, the puppet, try to distance himself from Putin, the puppet master, is a study in desperation. Trump debased himself endlessly, fawning over Putin at every turn. And he helped pave the way for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Trump will never escape these failures.

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And what a pathetic way Putin's puppet showed his displeasure of his puppeteer! “I think he’s changed. I think he’s changed. It’s a very sad thing for the world. He’s very much changed.”

It breaks my little bitty heart to hear such a paltry critique of his hero! 😉

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“ Yeah, Putin was just an all around ordinary regular nice guy up until a couple of weeks ago. He wasn’t a murdering,torturing,poisoning, $ laundering, chemical gassing criminal Lunatic ! when I have hung with him for the last 15-20 yrs. “ Madman Vlad and TFG are not subject to change . Who is he kidding ?

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All of my neighbors

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I spent too much damn time under my desk as a child. I care less than bupkis what my neighbors in this ruby red county of mine think.

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Camilla, Thank You from ruby red Jackson County! Go Stacey!

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You betcha, Gus. Go Stacey!!

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Camilla and Gus, I'll go out on a limb and predict that Stacey will win in November, and so will Raphael. I'm very anxious to see the hay we can make with Herschel Walker's campaign comments, although he's refusing to debate. Yesterday's comment that he doesn't believe in the theory of evolution, because if we evolved from apes, why are there still apes is doubtless just the tip of the iceberg.

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Walker clearly needs medical help. The Republican Party leadership is exploiting him for his name recognition despite the fact that he wouldn't be able to function at the level required to serve in Congress. Then again, this is true of a good number of GOP reps.

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Christ! How did so many US citizens get through school with so little smarts?! I believe the glue that holds the fabric of the Republican party together is their belief that common sense is "socialism."

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Just saw that comment in an article. Broke me up!

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I heart this.

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I remember those days very vividly.

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Same thing is happening in my ruby red STATE...Utah.

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and mine

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And a fair number of mine too.

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I might add lots of family and friends!

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And most of mine 😡

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I'm in fairly blue Gwinnett, but guessing that many of my neighbors are wanting to secede.

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Here in NH, the Repub majority, supplemented by their ultra RW Libertarian allies (called the Free State Project) that got elected, actually put forward a bill to secede. On this bill, they got their clock cleaned: 393 against secession-13 for secession.

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Jeez. That's seriously frightening. Where is this? I'm near Hartford CT.

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Floriduhhhhh

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DeSantis needs to be sanitized outta there....

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My sympathies...will Florida survive DeSantis?

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Lynn, Jeri, and all whose neighbors are fooled: Are the neighbors bamboozled only about TFG's nature, or are they also snookered by Putin and his bulls**t rationalizations attempting to justify his butchering assault on Ukraine? (Being taken in by TFG is certainly bad enough.)

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One blustering idiot said, "it's all totally fake." Upon further inquiry, he exposed the war is fake, covid is fake, it's all about "them" getting our DNA. At which point I disengaged and went back to my weed whacking.

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Good move on that. I don't have very many who are quite so deranged as that, but there are an awful lot of white guys (and a few gals) hungering for an authoritarian that will keep them in "most favored" status and keep the rest of us "in our place."

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Fortunately I do not have to communicate with any of our neighbors who love death star. Always interesting to me that if people are presented with facts with plenty of video evidence, the news is fake. So were the Fox news employees who were killed also fake.

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Oregon is a paradox. Living in Port Orford was like balancing “Deliverance” with somewhat progressive state leadership. We did have our House there though. Marvin was a good guy.

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You should have whacked him.

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That thought had crossed many minds, I am sure. But we did not say it....

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In many ways these neighbors aren't much different than the Russian people who have been fed nothing but government lies from state-owned media — to the point that they're clueless and deluded about Putin's war on Ukraine.

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Except the ones here are choosing propaganda. Russians don't have a choice, Americans do and many are being radicalized.

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Yes I had someone last week! -telling me all of this and she began it all with that Putin is a man of light?

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OMG is all I can say.

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My ex-classmate in Elkhart actually posted support for Ukraine, so no, not all of them are taken in by Putin. However, still no post about January 6th.

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Well… I live in my own state of disbelief. It seems to me they use any event to bolster their qviews. I overheard a discussion that Putin was arresting members of the pedophile ring that is plaguing our children worldwide… you know the one that includes all the Dems and half of Hollywood.

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@Carla, that anyone believes the bizarre Q theory is bad enough. Clearly they are gullible enough to believe that pigs fly. But to believe Putin is arresting the alleged members of the nonexistent "pedophile ring" and Putin is therefore defensible shows the extreme lengths to which Dumpists will go to defend their choice and rationalize everything he says and does. They joined the Dump Tribe to partake in its glorification of the angry-everyman-conservative-victim-of-the-infernal-libs identity. He tells them they are wonderful, nothing is their fault, and everything bad is the horrible libs. They will engage in any brain contortion to defend their membership in this ego-boosting tribe that grants them an identity they don't have on their own. They will go to any lengths to avoid recognizing the truth that they admire a man who has zero admirable qualities and is in fact a colossal fraud, loser, and liar. I'm not sure what anyone could do to deprogram all the Dumpists who psychologically depend on membership in that tribe. If Democrats and progressives launched a sustained multi-decade program to bring good manufacturing jobs back to regions devastated by globalization, and fixed our broken social safety net? I don't know if Dumpists would even have an open mind to changes that actually benefited them, Dump and the Repubs have sunk them so deeply into the network of culture-war delusions.

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Totally agree. It also appears to be tied to their religious views that this is the end times. There is no amount of discourse that will change their minds. At. All. We have the numbers, but have the rules changed enough that we no longer count? I guess we’ll see at election time.

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I just posted above a chilling report in The New York Times of what Putin is doing to his protesting citizens, “The Russian people will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and simply spit them out like a fly that accidentally flew into their mouths,” Mr. Putin said. “I am convinced that such a natural and necessary self-purification of society will only strengthen our country, our solidarity, cohesion and readiness to respond to any challenges.” He is horrifyingly evil. The link is a live feed so scroll down to Putin assails Russians who back the West, setting the stage for more repression. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/16/world/ukraine-russia-war?name=styln-russia-ukraine&region=hub&block=storyline_live_updates_block_recirc&action=click&pgtype=LegacyCollection#putin-russia-ukraine-protests

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I admit it....I had to look up TFG, huh? Found a NTY editorial on T***p's new nickname, courtesy of President Biden. The Former Guy! so I'm admitting it in case there might be one or two others!!!

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I use TFG as #45*'s appellation.

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I prefer "He Who Must Not Be Named".

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I like that....and I'm glad to know it now!

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And the majority of Republican voters in the state of Georgia...

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Hi, fellow Georgian. Are you looking forward to the clown-fight between Kemp and Purdue? Admiring Herschel Walker's debating skills? (Ick.)

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I'm chuckling at Shotgun spending all of his federal cash on raises, infrastructure, but not bothering to tell those who pay no attention to the source that it came from Biden. Making popcorn for Kemp/Purrdew contest, and already laughing at Herschel's "skills", although he says he won't debate. His public comments and lurking legal issues will make good grist. Can't wait for Rev. Raphael to have a smiling go at him.

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Popcorn is at the ready...

I think I read the big Ferret-headed Cheetoh-faced Shitgibbon himself is due for a rally here soon in northeast GA, which will feature the complete cast of loonies. Can't wait!

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Oh, Bruce, you do have a way with words! I'd love to attend and heckle them, but I'll admit they're scary - especially MTG and her very large teeth and leather-like complexion.

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I'm just assuming that's the case, but refuse to discuss any of it with them.

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The Boot one. 😂

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In the southern US the phrase "bless his/her heart" is used as a catchphrase when you want to belittle someone for being stupid/flaccid/ineffective/impotent/etc. while said person also thinks they are the opposite. Bless his heart.

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We tend to use it more as a rather feeble attempt to "soften" something very negative said about someone. It's like you are somehow making what you're saying slightly less bad by invoking God to "bless his/her heart". There are tons of examples, often using similes, which Southerners have raised to an art form..."He's about as ugly as a mud fence, bless his heart...", "He couldn't dump piss out of a boot with the directions printed on the heel, bless his heart...", etc. etc.

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Thanks Bruce! Now I know why my boots never dry out....dang....

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Linda, when we really want to rub it in and leave no doubt about our disapproval, we add the dreaded "little." As in "Bless his little heart" or "Bless your little heart." The kiss of death....

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We used to say “ Well Bless you’re pea pickin heart.”

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Here on the left coast we say "what an ass."

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That works too.😂

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Actually heard that one here in NYS years ago - when I was much younger!!

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Trump hasn't changed! He still talks a lot without saying anything! Changed? What Changed? As far as I am concerned Putin is still the evil person that I have always seen, and he has gone over the top currently and has lots of blood and destruction on his hands.

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His attempt to distance himself is laughable. And of course, shows death star's very limited vocabulary once again. Interesting about that wing nut DeSantis getting help, but not surprising.

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“Bless his heart”

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😂. They have hearts ? Coulda fooled me !

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Not sure, but the meaning comes from Southern Belles, as in “Shalt thou commit the sin of adultery with some four legged beast”

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That really did happen here. This crazy lady saw nothing wrong with being on the floor, crawling around on Her 4’s, naked with her dog in the room. One of the many reasons I call it Flori-Duh ! Yes she was arrested . Poor dog, she was a nasty lady . True story. Then the guy that had a cat duct taped to his steering wheel. Good neighbors called the cops . They do some weird Chit here. We got OJ and we got Trump & co. on top of that stuff ! 😂

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When I read Trump's weasel statement, I hoped it would anger Putin and prompt him to release compromising information about his puppet.

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Now wouldn't that be nice!?

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yes, he's so pathetic! it made me laugh - did he not proclaim to have "the best words"? . . . use your words donald! :-)

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😂

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In my just awake, not enough coffee yet, I read your comment as 'Trump, the puppet, try to dance himself away from Putin.' The visual of our fatboy delicately pirouetting under the strings of the gloating mad puppeteer was both charming and freakish.' I don't know if I will be able to get it out of my head.

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And Trump blows with the wind! I read his niece's book in which she called him "Uncle Donald". Trump never changes and he is dangerous!

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my sister had the book, I read it in two days while I was visiting her.

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Sharon, I bought the Kindle version, but I can't bring myself to open it.

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I also purchased the Kindle. Do read the book. It was very interesting. He has always been a total spoiled jerk!

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Gus, it's well worth reading.

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Anyone who finds 45 loathsome will enjoy the book.

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David, back in 1987 after I graduated from ISU I went to work for the State of Indiana. The people in the office were taking about, "The Donald" and I opened my mouth and said who is "The Donald"? After they told me, I was not impressed and went about my own work! I will never forget that moment. I had been so busy concentrating on my studies at the time of his arrival in the media that I had not heard of him. I was either studying, taking care of my daughters, or working for about 3 1/2 years of his rise to fame! So, to speak! I guess I should have paid more attention to our future!

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I can't remember when I first heard of him, but I suspect it was later than that.

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Now that I think about it, I think it was somewhere around then that I first heard of him. But I certainly didn't expect he'd go anywhere politically before he entered the race, and people on both sides of the aisle treated him as a joke, until it wasn't a joke anymore.

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Let's hope for that! Would it not be good to hear Zelensky speak out today about Trumps shameless try to use him in his campaign against Biden. After all he was meant to be directly involved.

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But, of course, he knows he can't do that. He knows he'd alienate the Rethuglicans who 1) refused to convict TFG and 2) are now throwing shade at President Biden for refusing to immediately guarantee our entry into a nuclear-conflict WWIII.

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You make an interesting point, and I'm inclined to agree (alienating).

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I love Zelenskyy, and he has proved to be much more formidable than most of us - especially Putin - believed him to be. I do hope that we manage to do more to prevent Putin from totally ruining Ukraine, such as giving Zelenskyy enough cash to purchase MiGs from sympathetic sources that won't drag NATO into a nuclear conflict, but he knows he's on a tightrope and can't afford to alienate Congressional Repugs. Of course, whatever way this goes, they'll trash Biden - damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. I just hope that the midterms are swayed by voters seeing just how close we are to losing our democracy. Ukraine should be a cautionary tale for the morons who have backed the current anti-democratic conditions right here at home.

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Strikes me that MiGs could be sold cheaply, don'tcha think ? Besides, stingers are far cheaper and one needs no pilots license and experience to use them. Ukraine has plenty of manpower if they have tailored weapons.

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I would think so. In fact, years ago a person in the Northeast bought a MiG and stored it at a local airport, for the purpose of laundering money that he'd made participating in a drug ring, so they were available then. Your comment about Stingers and other land-based weapons points to the money that has been earmarked for Ukraine, and they are currently being supplied by us. I think his repeated requests for a no-fly zone are to keep the pressure on the US to ramp up aid. He knows that a no-fly zone is out of the question. He might be able to get MiGs on his own, and Ukraine's pilots know how to fly them. As sympathetic as everyone but Tucker Carlson is to their plight, most people understand the ramifications for the world if NATO becomes embroiled.

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Over the last three weeks of Putin's war on Ukraine, a few important phrases have appeared in the news and in analysis... "failed mythology" (This describes both Russian Greatness as practiced by Putin, and American Exceptionalism as practiced by Trump and the Republican Party); "inherently malignant" (This describes the fascist nationalism espoused by both Putin and the Trumpist Republican Party); "moral clarity" (It has become obvious to all that Putin is evil, as are the American apologists for Putin.) "There is no compromise with evil."

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And make no mistake, the Orange Asscactus will once again fawn all over Putin at the first available opportunity.

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You got that right. And I do love "Orange Asscactus"...

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If Putin will give him more money!

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