Artists Flee Trump’s State Fair, Proving MAGA Radioactive as Ever

Originally published at: Artists Flee Trump’s State Fair, Proving MAGA Radioactive as Ever - TPM – Talking Points Memo

[Essay] Canceled Culture When President Trump won his second election, MAGA celebrated as much a cultural victory as a political one. Right-wing glee was met with left-wing despondency — this moment couldn’t be considered as a fluke, a grievous mistake only recognized later by an unwitting populace. Trump was the first Republican to win the popular…

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FIrsT!~

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Dang it – unhinged animated cat video with pretty good music by Frugit.
[There are other videos too. Heh.]

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Trump. Excellent health.”6 3” and “248lbs”.

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Well, he’s got INTACT circulation to the extremities.

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Twice as many Americans watched Bad Bunny’s halftime show as did the “All-American Halftime Show,” featuring luminaries Kid Rock and, uh, Brantley Gilbert.

While there are some differences in how viewers are counted, I think the ratio of Bad Bunny to Kid Rock viewers was more than 20 to 1.

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and no way he’s 6’3”.

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on CNN. Vanilla Ice is playing because you don’t pick your fans. He’d play for Putin. He’d play in Iran.

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TiOS? I have it.

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Yep. Profanities in the course of a normal day are my thing now. What is worse, my wife no longer looks distressed and tut tuts me when I do now.

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Donnie is like toxic waste, i.e. he cannot be recycled. ETTD!

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It would be like putting more mercury in swordfish and tuna because the amount of this crucial nutrient carried by these animals was falling.

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“Trump was the first Republican to win the popular vote since 2004; …”
Nice way to point out he lost the popular against Hillary in 2016.

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Nor is he only 248 pounds

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OMG! My sister just mentioned that to me. She couldn’t believe how often I curse now. :face_with_symbols_on_mouth:

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I am against burning up our atmosphere for mindless fugging around in space…but I would spare one more rocket to get his remains on a one-way trip out of the solar system.

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Terrific coverage by this TPM team. Thank you.

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I have no idea how to invest some money left to me by my parents, and I share Joe Ragazzo’s suspicion that the market is cruising for a bruising. Right now, that inheritance is in Treasury-based ETFs and certificates of deposit.

Never having had money to invest, no idea if this is conservative enough.

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