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Vrede too wrote:
Wed Feb 07, 2024 12:25 pm
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Wed Feb 07, 2024 12:05 pm

He does have $$ problems coming though.

Donald Trump's Fundraising Plummets
Bravo.
... Trump was recently ordered by a jury to pay writer E. Jean Carroll more than $83 million in damages for defaming her while denying that he sexually assaulted her.

The former president could also soon face a fine totaling hundreds of millions of dollars as part of the fraud lawsuit filed against him by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Trump has not explicitly stated that he would not use campaign funds to help pay the penalties handed to him in the civil cases.
On top of very high priced lawyers, MAGAts donating to Dolt .45-accusers, and NYC, NY State and federal courts is beyond perfect!
It’s been mentioned that habadabba might not be getting paid for her embarrassing performance. This article says that she has already been “paid” over 4 million dollars.


“ Trump’s entities paid Habba Madaio & Associates more than $4 million in 2023, the records show.
Alina Habba, the firm’s managing partner,”


https://thehill.com/regulation/court-ba ... -the-most/
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”

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billy.pilgrim wrote:
Wed Feb 07, 2024 12:52 pm
It’s been mentioned that habadabba might not be getting paid for her embarrassing performance. This article says that she has already been “paid” over 4 million dollars.

“Trump’s entities paid Habba Madaio & Associates more than $4 million in 2023, the records show.
Alina Habba, the firm’s managing partner,”

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-ba ... -the-most/
Dolt .45 is well known for stiffing contractors, but it's been my opinion all along that even a ditz like HabbaDabbaDoo is smart enough to get paid up front. Few people wreck their credibility, reputation and future job prospects for free.
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Vrede too wrote:
Wed Feb 07, 2024 12:25 pm
GoCubsGo wrote:
Wed Feb 07, 2024 12:05 pm

He does have $$ problems coming though.

Donald Trump's Fundraising Plummets
Bravo.
... Trump was recently ordered by a jury to pay writer E. Jean Carroll more than $83 million in damages for defaming her while denying that he sexually assaulted her.

The former president could also soon face a fine totaling hundreds of millions of dollars as part of the fraud lawsuit filed against him by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Trump has not explicitly stated that he would not use campaign funds to help pay the penalties handed to him in the civil cases.
On top of very high priced lawyers, MAGAts donating to Dolt .45-accusers, and NYC, NY State and federal courts is beyond perfect!
Only if followed up by jail time.
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No surprise, ultimate asshole.

BTW, where's Melania?

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GoCubsGo wrote:
Sat Feb 10, 2024 8:53 pm
No surprise, ultimate asshole.

BTW, where's Melania?

https://twitter.com/RC_Kasamakas/status ... 5520222250
:lol: Hey Dolt .45, his Wiki page even says:
Michael Haley (soldier)
Opps.

Hey TRE45QN, what patriotic service is Melania engaged in other than not campaigning for you? Any service?
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We discussed this a couple of months ago:

Could Democrats replace Biden as their nominee?

The short answer is that it ain't gonna happen unless Joe croaks.

Crap.
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GoCubsGo wrote:
Sat Feb 10, 2024 8:53 pm
No surprise, ultimate asshole.

BTW, where's Melania?

https://twitter.com/RC_Kasamakas/status ... 5520222250
TRE45QN is an idiot, too.

Readers added context

Haleys's husband, Major Michael Haley, is serving in the National Guard and is currently deployed to Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/04/us/p ... chael.html
:---P It only would have been better if she had posted: "... something you and your entire family know nothing about."

Article:
... As CNN points out, Michael Haley is deployed in Africa with the South Carolina Army National Guard in support of the United States Africa Command, his second active-duty deployment overseas. The outlet also underlines the fact that former first lady Melania Trump has not joined her husband for any public campaign events since his presidential announcement in November 2022 and has not appeared alongside him at any of his court appearances.
As you asked. Wow, none :---P

Dayyum, the fool is now begging TayTay to endorse Joe.

Trump makes a plea for Taylor Swift's loyalty in pre-Super Bowl post to Truth Social
"Joe Biden didn’t do anything for Taylor, and never will," Trump writes, claiming to have made her "so much money"


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Low key response from the campaign:



More aggressive:
Jake Tapper

Nikki Haley’s husband, Maj. Michael Haley, tweeted this after Trump attacked her today for him not being with her. (He’s a commissioner officer deployed in Africa with the SC national guard.)
(Major) Michael Haley

@realDonaldTrump @GOP @CNN @FoxNews @wsjournal @USATODAY @nytimes @AP

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:laughing-rolling: :---P
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More on the TayTay-Travis "psyop" discussed on page 45, which is following the script with the KC win :roll: :
Hillary Clinton Trolls Conservatives With 'Taylor's Boyfriend' Super Bowl Post
Donald Trump's 2016 Democratic rival sparked a reaction with her congratulatory message for the Kansas City Chiefs.


...



Clinton’s comment was interpreted by some as a double troll of conservatives.

Firstly, for flipping the trope of sports commentators defining female athletes by their male partners. Swift, of course, is in a relationship with Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce and she jetted in from Tokyo to see the game.

And secondly for appearing to mock the right-wing conspiracy theory that has spread like wildfire in recent days which baselessly claims Swift is a Democratic operative whose relationship with Kelce is fake and that the power couple will ride high on the Super Bowl win to endorse President Joe Biden and ultimately propel Bide into the White House over Donald Trump again in November.

Some conservatives argued it was proof the Democratic “psyop” was underway:
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Cringe.

Wait till she starts telling all of her brainwashed teenage fans to vote for Biden because of “abortion”.
Right Angle News Network

They are literally rubbing it in your faces people. This is all a psyop. And the queen of psyops is telling it to your faces.
It’s all fake if you haven’t realized yet

Every single part of it is a game designed to manipulate and control
Congratulations to Travis and his fake girlfriend Taylor. None of us are fooled by the psy op. Shes a terrible person.
Tell me this isn’t the biggest psyop ever.
Okay. It isn't, duh.

:laughing-rolling: Bless their poor paranoid and whiny hearts.
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I almost want to believe the whole "chem trails" conspiracy was actually true given how crazy the general public has become over the last 20 years or so. Surely something is to blame. But maybe the public really is simply that damn stupid.

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Mon Feb 12, 2024 2:13 pm
I almost want to believe the whole "chem trails" conspiracy was actually true given how crazy the general public has become over the last 20 years or so. Surely something is to blame. But maybe the public really is simply that damn stupid.
Supposedly debunked, but has anyone ever studied the cumulative effects from chemtrails and water fluoridation? :think: Is it a devious binary weapon? :o
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Vrede too wrote:
Mon Feb 12, 2024 2:47 pm
Whack9 wrote:
Mon Feb 12, 2024 2:13 pm
I almost want to believe the whole "chem trails" conspiracy was actually true given how crazy the general public has become over the last 20 years or so. Surely something is to blame. But maybe the public really is simply that damn stupid.
Supposedly debunked, but has anyone ever studied the cumulative effects from chemtrails and water fluoridation? :think: Is it a devious binary weapon? :o
A conspiracy theory I heard a while back was that lead based gasoline being spewed forth from cars back in the day before it was banned wrecked many people's minds. One symptom of lead exposure is aggression which tracts with the cult being endlessly angry and paranoid. A more likely explanation is social media + the fast pace changes that go hand in hand with the modern world and people's inability to cope. Maybe. Or maybe our society is just diseased.

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Mon Feb 12, 2024 3:30 pm
A conspiracy theory I heard a while back was that lead based gasoline being spewed forth from cars back in the day before it was banned wrecked many people's minds. One symptom of lead exposure is aggression which tracts with the cult being endlessly angry and paranoid. A more likely explanation is social media + the fast pace changes that go hand in hand with the modern world and people's inability to cope. Maybe. Or maybe our society is just diseased.
That's not a conspiracy theory. It's serious science, though so far unproven.

Lead–crime hypothesis

It is true that US murders peaked 1970-95.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/187 ... ince-1950/

The United States banned the manufacture of lead-based house paint in 1978, but it took awhile for old paint to be covered or replaced. Leaded gasoline, which was already being phased out, was banned in the US in 1996.

There was a conspiracy, though, driven by profits and hubris. The dangers of lead were known for decades before we did anything about it:
https://www.blueridgedebate.com/viewtop ... 34#p193334

There are whole areas of the US West that were poisoned by lead, including northern Idaho's Silver Valley, East Helena, Montana and likely others. It's a tragedy.
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Vrede too wrote:
Mon Feb 12, 2024 3:45 pm
Whack9 wrote:
Mon Feb 12, 2024 3:30 pm
A conspiracy theory I heard a while back was that lead based gasoline being spewed forth from cars back in the day before it was banned wrecked many people's minds. One symptom of lead exposure is aggression which tracts with the cult being endlessly angry and paranoid. A more likely explanation is social media + the fast pace changes that go hand in hand with the modern world and people's inability to cope. Maybe. Or maybe our society is just diseased.
That's not a conspiracy theory. It's serious science, though so far unproven.

Lead–crime hypothesis

It is true that US murders peaked 1970-95.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/187 ... ince-1950/

The United States banned the manufacture of lead-based house paint in 1978, but it took awhile for old paint to be covered or replaced. Leaded gasoline, which was already being phased out, was banned in the US in 1996.

There was a conspiracy, though, driven by profits and hubris. The dangers of lead were known for decades before we did anything about it:
https://www.blueridgedebate.com/viewtop ... 34#p193334

There are whole areas of the US West that were poisoned by lead, including northern Idaho's Silver Valley, East Helena, Montana and likely others. It's a tragedy.
Next up: Microplastics.

Also PFAS/PFOS.

Crazy to think about how many everyday items are made of plastic. Even much of our clothes. It's difficult to fathom the modern world without plastics.

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Some welcome perspective on our national insanity.

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Crazy to think about how many everyday items are made of plastic. Even much of our clothes. It's difficult to fathom the modern world without plastics.
It really wasn't that long ago.

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Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:34 pm
Some welcome perspective on our national insanity.

https://twitter.com/CBSMornings/status/ ... 4036967799
He's really getting the space - aired on 6 stations!

First joke, something that hadn't occurred to me, paraphrased: The "psyop" proved out, liberal Taylor and vaxxer Travis prevailed. But, it was a no-win situation for cons - if KC lost that would have meant that Pelosi and the gays won.

Great show! I didn't even realize how much I missed him. Plus, 50 minutes instead of the advertised 35, nice.
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Vrede too wrote:
Mon Feb 12, 2024 11:52 pm
GoCubsGo wrote:
Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:34 pm
Some welcome perspective on our national insanity.

https://twitter.com/CBSMornings/status/ ... 4036967799
He's really getting the space - aired on 6 stations!

First joke, something that hadn't occurred to me, paraphrased: The "psyop" proved out, liberal Taylor and vaxxer Travis prevailed. But, it was a no-win situation for cons - if KC lost that would have meant that Pelosi and the gays won.

Great show! I didn't even realize how much I missed him. Plus, 50 minutes instead of the advertised 35, nice.
And certainly not afraid to make fun of himself.
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Europe is rightfully frightened.

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