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    When you’re 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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    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 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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    They will keep supporting him regardless.

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

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    It’s beneath anyone, nobody else would do this, even the lowest dregs of society.

    It’s uniquely revolting.

    I can’t think of anything he has said that is worse, a new low, what a disgusting piece of shit.

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

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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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    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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      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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    So this is why I heard Mom saying it was sad. She hasn’t seen his movies, but knows he’s super liberal and actually gave me whatever you call the vocal version of “side eye” and said “he actually came out as an atheist” as if I thought that was something rare or bad or unbelievable.

    She somehow still has no idea about me tho, because I will dodge that conversation forever unless I have to directly and specifically address it.

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      She hasn’t seen his movies, but knows he’s super liberal

      It makes me wonder how many MAGA drones are spitting on his life and legacy while also having core memories of movies like Princess Bride as formative, key pieces of entertainment in their lives.

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      I’m sorry you have to live like that. Living under religious oppression, regardless of how passive aggressive, is incredibly frustrating, disappointing, and degrading. I hope you find peace and independence so you can live your life free of other’s delusions.

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      “he actually came out as an atheist”

      I often wonder if the numbers of the religiously unaffiliated are not much, much higher, but some of the people are still afraid to come out of the closet…

      Xtians always like to simultaneously beat their chest about their supposed numbers (and they are often wrong about them, I’ve noticed - they seem to consistently overestimate, by quite a lot, the percentage of Americans that are xtian) but simultaneously play the DARVO game - while they denigrate and try to ostracize and marginalize everyone not in their little book club, they act like it is THEY who are being “oppressed”.

      If someone who is agnostic/atheist and has parents like that, or in-laws, etc…and they don’t want to be dealing with that all the time, well, I get it. They might just skip going to church and be mostly quiet about their positions on religion. And when they get polled, they might even list themselves as xtian.

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    In the good timeline, the headline is

    Fox News Panel Unanimously Condemns Trump,

    it’s from 2015, and it’s the last headline about him before he abandons his presidential ambitions and then dies from colon cancer, penniless and with his obituary being only an “in other news” on talk radio.

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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.