Did you notice the woman with the light hair? She looks like she got whiplash from being the zone of the noxious cloud of gas.
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It is almost daily that Trump calls someone incompetent or not so bright or some other barely literate adjective that is supposed to confer to anyone listening how smart he thinks he is.
Smart people don’t call other people dumb.
Strong people do not constantly brag about how strong they are.
Legitimately caring human beings do not constantly fuck around on their spouses, cheat working people out of their hard earned money and belittle anyone who disagrees with them or does not have as much money as they do.
What is shocking about Trump is not how evil or uncaring he is - it is how small he is. He is a small, petty, obtuse bully who has somehow Chauncey Gardinered himself into the presidency.
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Honestly, I have no idea what this supposed to mean beyond, “Donnie doesn’t like him.”
Whatever this ‘incompetence’ is, it doesn’t match up with any commonly used definition of the term.
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Trump is still sore about the “weird” moniker Walz was able to effectively paint them with.
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Elections are won and lost on the margins. A swing in the vote, a surge in turnout, but in a close, critical place.
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Yes, and as Donnie’s made abundantly clear, he’s unforgiving.
Still, it’s should be odd that he’s trying to paint Tim Walz with what is, top down, a defining characteristic of his own administration.
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Newsmax. They were the first to say it was 10,000. It is well known how many people can stand along that parade route, about 200k. From there, estimating actual size is a simple matter of analyzing aerial photos. If you believe the consensus, it won’t steal your soul. We mostly aren’t people who make up facts that suit us.
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I just needed some sourcing. It seems like a lot of the major media outlets have shied away from an honest estimate (or any estimate at all), which I find pretty infuriating. Hiding the truth to avoid bruising Donald Trump’s fragile ego ain’t very good journalism at all.
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That’s a child. Notice that she keeps chewing on the stick of her little American flag, and keeps looking back and forth between her unruly little brother on one side and her mom on the other. Hilarious contrast to Sleepy Don.
This piece has aged well, at least for two weeks.
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I’m confused. When Israel’s attack on Iran began, Marco Rubio gave assurances that the US was not in the loop. Now we hear Trump vetoed the killing of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. A person with veto power has to be very much in the loop.
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Thank you for not only mentioning the DC march, which virtually no one else has, but leading with it. Wish I’d recognized you there. I didn’t see any of those trolls—would’ve been fun. Still, I’m glad I went; this is a city, not a Chuck E. Cheese ball pit.
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I wouldn’t go so far as to say the protests don’t matter, but we wouldn’t be where we are today if the news hadn’t become so siloed with many people not getting news at all but propaganda. My spouse was a journalist for 50 years, and we talked a lot about the changes that had taken place during that period. The broadcast TV stations and metro newspapers that were the primary sources of news had rigorous standards for what they published. He specialized in financial fraud and people went to jail as a result. He and his publication’s attorney worked closely together. That publication was never sued because of anything he wrote. Threatened all the time, including death and bomb threats, but never sued.
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Every accusation is a confession.
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No one wants to damage the case they have against this guy by mistreating him in the arrest. Keep everything on the up and up so that this guy gets put away quickly and without incident.
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It’s very difficult to measure the size of that ‘crowd’ that was spread out, bottlenecked and held back by security fences. Sparse video records. How many tried to get in but didn’t, or gave up. How many came and left in frustration, or because of the weather. The 100,000 number floating around seems reasonable.
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For those who are looking for indications of how the military itself is actually leaning… pay attention to the way the troops at the parade were marching. I’ve seen endless comments from friends in the service absolutely ripping it up, but I think this poster has the right of it:
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Uh huh, just ask Kilmar Albrego Garcia about no one mistreating him and keeping everything on the up and up so as not to “damage the case.” Whatever.
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