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MUSA💙💙💙USAM's avatar

Why doesn’t someone in the media, that has a spine, ask the orange buffoon if he’s okay with this killing with K(illed a puppy)Noem-he’s f’ng clueless.

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L P Inness's avatar

I'm sure he's absolutely gleeful with all the chaos and carnage he can order and control...all this is the point.

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Merry's avatar

Exactly. My response to this post:

So. Simple question. If the “government” claims that Marimar Martinez initiated the violence, during which she was shot 5 times by border or ICE agents, who in turn claim they were defending themselves, then why are the feds refusing to release the video?

Or is this simply more evidence of the trump administration’s efforts to suppress information / control the media and the narrative until the feds get their various stories straight?

Oh, wait! I have an idea. Just RELEASE THE DAMN VIDEO!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

(geez…)

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GS-z-14-1's avatar

Most likely, “someone doesn’t” because fascist regimes are apt to revoke the licenses of non-compliant media outlets, and disappear responsible writers.

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MUSA💙💙💙USAM's avatar

He’s now controlled by the tech billionaires, groomed by the Russians since the 80’s, but the buffoon is not smart, JFC, he can’t put a sentence together. His whole life has been all about pussy and $$$. Dangle one or the other in front of this psychotic maniac and he drools. The tech billionaires knew he would tank our economy, just needed one of them, MuskmElon, to rig the election and MAGAtMorons to vote for the idiot. Why is it when he is asked a question, he is totally clueless, has to check on it because they are not reading him in on anything-he doesn’t have the mind for it and no f’ng interest in it unless it’s $, (he’ll tell you all about tariffs, but no clue when Hegseth stopped military aid to Ukraine) cause I doubt seriously anything is functioning below the belt and nothing functioning between the ears because it’s f’ng empty. How about the orange imbecile, although psychotic maniac fits better.

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IdeasMan's avatar

"Why is it when he is asked a question, he is totally clueless, has to check on it" - he's a 34 time convicted felon. If he engaged with reporter's questions people would catch him out on the facts. Instead "Teflon Don" disputes the premise of every question put to a politician in the modern era - that the law applies to him and to his people in the government. He ignores the rule of law unless it suits him to go after someone in the courts. If someone's questions become difficult he excludes that person from the room. It's a deliberate, calculated policy.

People doubt whether or not he's even read a book in his life. Yet his 1st wife Ivana said that he kept Mein Kampf on his bedside table.

We want to believe that he's an Orange Clown because that makes him less stressful for us but it means that everyone keeps underestimating him. Remember Rupert Murdoch at the UK Leveson Inquiry in 2011? Murdoch pretended to be so frail and weak and so the investigators went easy on him. We thought he'd be dead in a few years but here he is in 2025 and sharp as ever. Trump learnt from that and so he plays the clown - with make up! - to make people drop their guard when they're engaging with him and talking about him. T. has stayed ahead of law enforcement for years until eventually he had his 34 convictions dropped. Smart guy! The fact that he's a bad person does *not* make stupid. It just means that people hate him and want to look down on him - and he gives that to us as compensation for the fact that he is POTUS and gaining power - fast!

You say he has nothing functioning between the ears? An imbecile? Then my friend -how come he's the President of the United States and you're not? He's a "psychotic maniac" if we agree that a very bad person can be clever and use his cleverness to hurt other people.

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IdeasMan's avatar

Hi! Please stop calling T. a buffoon. He is intentionally and deliberately acting as a Russian ally/asset to destroy the US Government. You know that he's very dangerous but the Orange Clown thing is a costume to amuse non-political people and make them less concerned about the huge threat that he poses to America.

Listen to this military expert just today-

"Now, one of the reasons I get frustrated when people talk about Trump being a buffoon, or stupid, etc., is that this leads to the type of drastic underestimation of his political abilities that helps him immensely. Trump is one of the most intuitive operators in US political history—a seminal figure who has the ability to motivate and understand his base in a way that has been shared by very few others (and I hate saying that). Not understanding his political skills, respecting them, and responding to them appropriately, is one of the reasons Democrats have failed repeatedly against him."

Phillips P O'Brien, "Something Interesting Is Happening With GOP Public Opinion" - a report on how GOP sentiment is moving back to supporting Ukraine, after T. earlier flipped it to support Putin (his ally/boss).

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MUSA💙💙💙USAM's avatar

Answered-‘The tech billionaires knew he would tank our economy, just needed one of them, MuskmElon, to rig the election and MAGAtMorons to vote for the idiot.’

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Heather Elowe's avatar

But though we want people to KNOW. We don’t want riots to trigger insurrection act.

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Charlie Hardy's avatar

Why? May as well face it and deal with it. If he and his thug backers/ cabinet want to invoke the lnsurrection Act they will do it in any case. Bring it on cos the sooner you face it the sooner you will beat it. The darkest hour before the dawn, deal with it.

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Robert B Gerber DDS's avatar

We are dealing with a criminal regime. The Trump administration has to be stopped. It resembles the operation of the Third Reich and the SS. Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and Pam Bondi’s statements and actions continue to qualify for employment in Dachau. Democrats have to take action and win the election in 2026!

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StillJootz's avatar

I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but we may not make it to the elections. It may already be too late to stop them. They've been planning and methodically implementing this coup plan for the last 40 years, with the Democrats just kind of drifting along not paying much attention.. And now they are about to hit pay dirt. They are actively instigating "violence" as an excuse to declare martial law as we speak, by sending troops into Dem cities and states. The goal is to NOT allow us to get to the elections; but if we do, they've already got the election rigging in process.....Elon Musk helped with that, and proved it worked in 2024. Something drastic needs to happen NOW, or the steel gate will close, and we will be in a fascist dictatorship before we can blink I've been trying to make people aware of how serious this situation is for a few years now, and was called hyperbolic and overreactive. But now you can see that it's really happening....IF you are paying attention. Don't watch the clowns and fireworks out front. Watch what Project 2025, Heritage Foundation, and Palantir are doing behind the scenes. Good article: https://open.substack.com/pub/dissentinbloom/p/the-real-power-in-america-people?r=r49te&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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Merry's avatar
2hEdited

Well, huh. So. I seem to recall that the House DEMOCRATS impeached this piece of garbage, not once, but TWICE. And again, if my memory serves me correctly, the Senate REPUBLICANS refused to swing at the Democrats softball lob, and republicans also refused to honor their oaths to protect the rule of law and the constitution, and indict this SOB piece of garbage, then removed him from office so he could prosecuted and prevented from holding any political office ever again. Then this piece of garbage would be rotting in some swampy alligator alley prison, where he belongs.

But NOOOOO. What did the republicans do? They RE-ELECTED him again!!! (Presumably. But we can argue about that little tidbit another time. I desperately need more coffee…) sheez

Oh, PS. And now this piece of garbage controls both chambers of Congress AND the judiciary, particularly SCOTUS. And a democrat was just elected who would swing the house vote to release the DAMN EPSTEIN FILES! But speaker Johnson refuses to swear in Adelita Grijalva because…? Is he is protecting someone???

So yeah, blame the democrats.

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StillJootz's avatar

I agree, the impeachments were called for, I totally supported them, and it's the ReTHUGlicans' underhanded subservience to Mitch McConnell and Trump, and the unwillingness to do their jobs, that it did not succeed.

But before and after that, for YEARS, it seems like the Dems saw what was going on, but kindof threw up their hands, and said, "Yeah, we don't like what they're doing, but we can't do much about it". All the rigging of the courts and SCOTUS over the years, gerrymandering, and underhanded stuff that was going on during the Bush administration and undermining Obama (letting McConnell get away with preventing Obama from seating a SCOTUS Justice was HUUUUGE), and really kicking into gear in the first Trump term, was never seemingly urgent with Dems. They should have been screaming about ALL of it from the rooftops on a daily basis! You can't 'go high' with unscrupulous criminals!

But I think Dems always assumed that eventually the GOP's Master Plan (the slow-moving coup they've been methodically implementing since Reagan) would peter out or fail, so they didn't want to rock the donor boat, or call Trump's attention to themselves. Many of them still don't. I seriously suspect Trump's got blackmail on every single person in Congress, that he can use to scare and pressure people into subservience, like the Mob Boss that he is. And I totally understand them not wanting to put their families or themselves in danger like Nancy Pelosi's husband, and others who have since been attacked, killed, and had their homes set on fire since then. But it's a fact that, other than AOC and Bernie and a handful more recently, the more recent visible/loud Dem pushback may be coming too late to stop this runaway train. And God, I hope not.

None of these nefarious deeds of the GOP have been hidden! It's all been out in the open for years now: state Election Boards taken over by Trump allies, ballot tabulators taken over by AI and systems companies allied with Trump (see the recent reports on Substack for details), Musk's satellites interfering in vote counts (remember him boasting that Trump won "because of me!"?), paying people at the polls to vote GOP, gerrymandering in more than half the states in the country requiring Dems to get more than 5 TIMES the number of votes as the GOP in order to actually win one seat, and Trump putting troops in the streets of blue states, itching to start fights on Election Day so he can shut everything down. Things are looking pretty grim for any of this to be resolved before or by one midterm election, even though I hope it will be a blowout for the Dems.

With the vote totals now needed to overcome the gerrymandering, they still may squeak through with only two or three votes over the GOP in Congress. That's only enough to slow things down (especially since there are a LOT of Dems who are in their 80's who could die or become unable to do their jobs at any time, lowering the Dem vote counts), not the supermajority needed to stop and reverse what's already been done. That's how bad the deck is stacked against us.

And that's why they are getting so arrogant and brazen, openly telling us what they're going to do next! They already think we can't stop them! They don't even need Trump at the helm anymore! The machine is already set up and running full blast, and will pick up without a stumble if Trump croaks or is 25-A'd. THERE'S A PLAN IN PLACE FOR ALL CONTINGENCIES.

But don't misunderstand me.....I am NOT saying don't vote!! We need to bring home a crushing defeat for the GOP, so they can see they don't have the support they think they do! But that's only one piece to the Resistance!

EVERYONE should be yelling daily to RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! That's one of the few truly effective weapons we have now. Mikey won't be able to hold off swearing in Rep. Grijalva forever. And they all know what's coming when that happens. With approximately 100 GOPers ready to defect just on the Epstein stuff, according to Eric Swalwell, Dems can bring this regime to it's knees, if not an end, if they do it before Trump et al can declare martial law!

The election is a YEAR AWAY! And at this rate, there is not a moment to lose! That's why Trump and company are getting so brazen and insane, creating non-stop chaos to cover what they are doing behind closed doors, trying to get it done before we can stop them! This is 'all hands on deck' NOW, people, and not just for the Dems!!

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Melissa's avatar

We need to be calling our Congress they are the ones that can put an end to this!

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Ms JLG's avatar

I agree with both of you. He is quite clever at obtaining what he wants, while also completely ignorant of many topics, some by choice to not care, some by aides hiding it from him to avoid his outbursts.

Classic narcissist behavior and enabling.

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US Taxpayer's avatar

Cruella DeVille and Hegsdeath. What a team. Tells you what this administration is made of: hate + ignorance + vanity. Government Agencies are not made for tv series.

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US Taxpayer's avatar

Thank you! Expose the truth. The whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me dog! 🦮

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Martha HB's avatar

Why can't her family or attorney sue the DHS?

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Merry's avatar
3hEdited

So. Simple question. If the “government” claims that Marimar Martinez initiated the violence, during which she was shot 5 times by border or ICE agents, who in turn claim they were defending themselves, then why are the feds refusing to release the video?

Or is this simply more evidence of the trump administration’s efforts to suppress information / control the media and the narrative until the feds get their various stories straight?

Oh, wait! I have an idea. Just RELEASE THE DAMN VIDEO!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

(geez…)

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Marjorie's avatar

This seems to be a near-daily thing. A reporter asks The Orange Cankle his opinion on a current event. When it is sketchy or unpopular, the OC claims to know nothing about it. Or the OC claims the reporter is a nasty person and the question is fake news, a witch hunt, sick - "believe me."

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