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Atticus1956

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No X-crements from me, tooting is my game. Retired..time on my hands..lots on my mind..You'll be my sounding board! Too liberal.

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“Patriot,” Aleksei #Navalny’s memoir, will be published in October. It was written during the years leading up to his death in a Russian prison -NYT

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff Russia's Patrick Henry.

With Putin's record alone, Republicans of all ilk should be moved toward the left to preserve their freedoms. Yet, they are willingly walking to the edge of the abyss.

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👏🏻👏🏻“Sale of firearms on internet & at gun shows in US will in future be subj to mandatory #BackgroundChecks, DOJ said as it announced a “historic” new action to keep weapons out of hands of criminals.

The closing of the so-called #gun show loophole, which exempts private transactions from restrictions that apply to licensed dealers, has long been a goal of the Biden admin & is specifically targeted …” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/11/gun-show-internet-sale-mandatory-background-check?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff

And in response....Yesterday, Oklahoma lawmakers introduced a bill to lower the age to purchase handguns to 18 from 21. Catch them before they do anything too stupid that would show up in a background check.

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And now it's time to visit @GottaLaff's page so that I can catch up with what I've missed.
:)

Atticus1956 ,
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@iuculano @GottaLaff That's where I'm headed too!

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👀

Via Dave Ryder: 🧵 1/...

Here's William Jones who authored the 1864 bill.

Some fun facts:

He abandoned his first wife and their children in Missouri.

His second wife was a 12 year old Mexican girl. He abducted her and after a complaint submitted his resignation to President Buchanan before he was fired.

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff

Sounds par for the course! I mean, Marj Q holds sway over the GOP House. One can't expect much!

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff

Sadly ... yes!

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“Allen , the former chief financial officer of the Org, is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to two counts of perjury last month in his testimony during Trump’s civil fraud trial.

Weisselberg is expected to be sentenced to 5 months in jail under a recommendation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/ex-trump-cfo-allen-weisselberg-sentenced-perjury-trump-civil-fraud-tri-rcna147144

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff That Weisselberg remains steadfastly loyal to Trump, who would do a "serpent" turn on him in a NY minute makes me seriously question his intelligence!

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Cannon’s gotta go.

Via Kyle Griffin:

Breaking on MSNBC:

Judge Aileen has partially granted special counsel 's motion to redact the names of government witnesses in the classified case.

But Cannon won't make it easy: Smith will still have to justify to the court each name redaction.

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff

A puppet of a woman making a fool out of herself by allowing a group of men pull her strings.

Listen, your every wish is my command
All you gotta do is wiggle your little hand
I'm your puppet, I'm your puppet ..... kudos to the Purify Bros. for their lyrics

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Via Kyle Griffin:

Just last night, said this about : "Everybody wanted it back in the states, we have it back in the States. And you work with the states and many of the states have solved the problem. It's, you know, really been an amazing."

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff

In the aerospace & defense industry when someone made a truly bizarre statement we called it an "aerial extraction" (pulling crap out of the air); if they continued 😳 we held our arm up to save our watches because the crap was getting deep. I've had my arm in the air so long because of Trump & his ilk that I now need rotator cuff surgery!!

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Supreme Court rules that a near-total ban from 1864 is enforceable

“Tuesday’s ruling allows an 1864 law in Arizona to stand that criminalized abortion by making it a felony punishable by two to five years in prison for anyone who performs or helps a woman obtain one. “
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/arizona-supreme-court-ruling-abortion-ban-rcna146915

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff

Welcome to the land of the luddites!!

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#WompWomp

Via Will Sommer:

Bad news for blundering right-wing operative Jacob Wohl — he now has to pay $1.25 mil for a racist robocall voter suppression scheme, as part of an agreement with NY AG Letitia James. #legal

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff YAY!!

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“Parents of #Michigan school shooter were each sentenced to at least 10 years in prison Tue for failing to take steps that could have prevented the killing of 4 students in 2021.

Jennifer & James Crumbley are 1st parents convicted in a US mass school #shooting. They were found guilty of involuntary manslaughter after prosecutors presented evidence of an unsecured gun at home and indifference toward the teen’s mental health” #GunViolence

https://apnews.com/article/e5888f615c76c3b26153c34dc36d5436

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff I, for one, hope it serves as a clarion call for all parents.

GottaLaff , to random
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I'm rich again!

$48 residuals from The Jetsons and Hogan Family! Beats the 12 cents I usually get.

Drinks for everyone, I'm buying!

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff

Wow, that's a "substantial" take!! 🤑

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff Well, it may not be big enough for a down payment on the Canada digs, but it's a fair road trip meal! 😉

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Trump vs Lindsey, cont’d.

Via Scott MacFarlane:

JUST NOW: About his rebuke of ’s statement, Sen (R-SC) tells reporters “most Americans” share “my position”

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff

He has obviously caught "severe delusional" syndrome from Trump.

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Ken Buck (R) on Marj Q Greene: “People have talked to her about not filing articles of impeachment on Pres Biden before he was sworn in…on not filing articles of impeachment that were groundless made on other individs in Biden admin..she was never moved by that. She was always focused on her soc media acct & Moscow Marjorie is focused now on this Ukraine issue & getting her talking pts from the Kremlin & making sure that she is popular & she is getting a lot of coverage.” https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4582430-ken-buck-knocks-moscow-marjorie-taylor-greene/

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff @PandaChronicle

I just can't seem to let go of the "Gazpacho Police" she created in a "Peach Tree Dish".

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff @Lizette603_23 That's the truly scary part 😳!

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🎯

Via Scott MacFarlane:

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) reaction to #Trump's statement on #abortion:

“Let’s wait a few weeks and see what his new position will be.”

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff

Weeks?? Hell, just ask him in an hour or so!

Atticus1956 , (edited )
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@GottaLaff

Pensive. The biopsy was benign for cancer, but it is a fungal infection in my rt lung. They are performing a scope tomorrow to determine the type of fungus so that it can be treated. Thanks for asking. Glad you made it home safely. Hope you rested up, I suspect it's going to get real exciting, LOL.

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff Thank you much.

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“#Montana #GOP Senate candidate says he lied to ranger about gunshot wound in 2015
Tim Sheehy was cited for illegally discharging a weapon in a national park but says he made up the gunshot to cover up a bullet wound he received as a Navy SEAL in Afghanistan that he never reported to superiors”
Gift: https://wapo.st/3JbuTO5

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff

And here we hear yet another charming alternative fact story from the Grand Old Prevaricator's Party (GOP).

GottaLaff , to random
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#Earthquake shakes U.S. East Coast
The U.S. Geological Survey initially measured the earthquake at a 4.8 magnitude.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/earthquake-shakes-us-east-coast-rcna146575?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=66100cedab64640001762917

Atticus1956 ,
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Mother Earth is so P.I.S.S.E.D.!!

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#Israel military fires 2 officers as probe blames World Central Kitchen deaths on "mistaken identification"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-gaza-world-central-kitchen-idf-fires-officers-investigation-blames-mistaken-id/

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff

AKA Bibi's Scapegoat Soldiers!

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#Israel to open 3 aid corridors following #Biden's call with #Netanyahu

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-netanyahu-phone-call-israel-world-central-kitchen-strike-gaza/

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff

I don't trust anything Netanyahu says or does & I know in my heart Uncle Joe knows he is an evil liar too!

GottaLaff , to random
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Some-bodee is in the back seat snoozin’ on my jacket. #Hammy #DogsofMastodon

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff

Oh, Hammy, it seems he may not be a fan of early mornings. I can appreciate that, neither am I.

GottaLaff , to random
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'Night all. Have a good evening.

We leave Canada tomorrow and I'm sad.

Dear The News: Stop breaking.

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff

Bummer! Safe travels.

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Noooo! 😭 #RIP Joe Flaherty, star of 'SCTV' and 'Freaks and Geeks,' dies at 82

https://trib.al/LoKDvx7

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff Joe. 😮‍💨

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Via @aaron.rupar:

Who says Republicans can’t pass meaningful legislation

Liz Elkind:

Scoop: A group of House Republicans are pushing to have Washington Dulles, DC’s main international airport, renamed — after Donald

The bill’s being led by House GOP chief deputy whip Guy Reschenthaler & is co-sponsored by 6 other lawmakers

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff @aaron.rupar

Eejits!

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“#Netanyahu says Israeli forces ‘unintentionally hit innocent people’ after strike on #Gaza aid convoy kills 7 workers

World Central Kitchen said it was pausing its operations in the region, and Cyprus said that ships carrying aid to the Palestinian enclave were turning back, a major setback for efforts to get food to a population pushed to the brink of starvation by the #Israel-#Hamas war.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/world-central-kitchen-says-israeli-strike-kills-7-workers-halts-aid-rcna145976

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff Netanyahu is as big a liar as Trump! He is committing crimes against humanity daily. He cares not for the Jewish nor Palestinian peoples, only himself; he is a Trump Doppelganger!

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💪🏼

Via Kyle Griffin:

Ruben #Gallego's #Arizona Senate campaign just announced it raised more than $7.5 million in the first quarter of 2024 — bringing the campaign's cycle-to-date fundraising total to over $20 million.

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff

Go Ruben, Go Ruben!

Atticus1956 , to random
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@GottaLaff
I've been MIA much the last cpl of wks. Health concern elevated as prep work for shoulder replacement noted a mass in my rt lung. Tests proved inconclusive; biopsy done 3/28. Not cancer (whew), but a fungal infection. Second time this has happened following a bout with pneumonia. Now awaiting call from pulmonolgist scheduling a scope of my lung to diagnose & determine method of treatment. My apologies to all for my curt, short replies of late.

Atticus1956 OP ,
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@GottaLaff Thank you!

GottaLaff , to random
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I just took this from our back deck.

🇨🇦

Atticus1956 ,
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Now we need smellavision! Fantabulous!

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“How Justice Thomas’s ‘Nearly Adopted Daughter’ Became His Law Clerk

Justice #ClarenceThomas gave Crystal Clanton a home and a job after she left a conservative youth organization in controversy. Then the justice picked her for one of the most coveted positions in the legal world.”

Gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/us/politics/clarence-thomas-crystal-clanton-clerk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gk0.J5XS.gfzU1UfWYsNu&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff

Can someone reassure me again how Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Thomas's home & work life don't intertwine?

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JHC!

“ disseminated image of Pres with his hands and feet tied... The image can be seen about halfway through a 20-second video that Trump posted on Truth Social .. In vid, 2 trucks decorated w giant Trump flags & altered American flags are driving on a highway. On tailgate door of 1 truck is image of Biden bound & lying horizontally”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/29/donald-trump-joe-biden-bound-and-gagged/

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff

And our wonderful SCOTUS slowtracks all cases inre Trump; thereby granting him permission to continue his loathsome derision of individuals he suspects are foes. In simple terms, our SCOTUS has become a co-conspirator to anarchy.

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😢#RIP “Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87.

Gossett’s nephew told The Associated Press that the actor died Thursday night in Santa Monica, California. No cause of death was revealed.”

https://apnews.com/article/louis-gossett-jr-dies-1e86e1441ec8b614a282f3de22490a07?taid=6606bb32f963d30001514cc1&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

Atticus1956 ,
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@GottaLaff

Lou Gossett. I still watch Enemy Mine every time it's listed.

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Via Will: "When a cargo ship took out a bridge, it also demolished the lies poisoning our debate

The 6 migrant men who died weren't drug dealers or sex traffickers but hero dads filling potholes to give their kids a better life.

This column meant more to me than anything I've written for a while. Here's an excerpt. Please take a moment to read the whole thing."

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.©

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/baltimore-bridge-collapse-immigrant-deaths-20240328.html#loaded

‘When the Dali cargo ship demolished that bridge support on Tuesday. it also obliterated all the ridiculous lies and myths our demagogues have been spreading around immigration. There were no sex traffickers aboard the Key Bridge that night. Nobody was dealing fentanyl. They ‘were not “animals,” but fathers and husbands like Suazo and Luna, ‘whose wife occasionally showed up in her food truck to bring the men tacos and pupusas. They were filling potholes so their children could have an even better life. These six workers who perished were not “poisoning the blood of our country,” they were replenishing it. This is a moment of clarity when we need to reject the national disease of xenophobia and restore our faith in the United States as a beacon for the best people like Maynor Suazo. They may have been born all over the continent, but when these men plunged into our waters on Tuesday. they died as Americans.
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    Atticus1956 ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch

    Will, thank you for humanizing the victims of this epic tragedy. The article should be forced reading for everyone.

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    Joe Lieberman, independent four-term U.S. senator from Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, becoming the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party, died March 27 in New York City. He was 82.

    The cause was complications from a fall, his family said in a statement.”

    https://wapo.st/3PH3Z4d

    Atticus1956 ,
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    @GottaLaff

    Senator Lieberman.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    #KariLake is NOT contesting her liability in a defamation suit brought by Maricopa County election official Stephen Richer, who alleges Lake "repeatedly and falsely accused" him of causing her electoral defeat in the 2022 gubernatorial race.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/kari-lake-declines-defend-statements-defamation-suit-filed-arizona-ele-rcna145216

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    @GottaLaff

    Beware the method to her madness! She still floats her boat on the river Denial!

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Prove it.

    “Vowing the U.S. Will ‘Do Our Job,’ Searches for a Path on

    The Republican speaker, with his job on the line, has privately told people he would make sure the House moves to assist Ukraine, a step that many members of his party oppose.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/us/politics/speaker-mike-johnson-ukraine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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    @GottaLaff

    I'll laud him a wee bit when the aid package is approved & signed by POTUS. Until then he is the same lying Republican SOH he was yesterday and all the other yesterdays since he was elected!

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    Allies of #Florida Gov. Ron #DeSantis and #Disney reached a settlement agreement Wednesday in a lawsuit over who controls Walt Disney World’s governing district.

    https://apnews.com/article/disney-florida-ron-desantis-settlement-91040178ad4708939e621dd57bc5e494?taid=66042d3a94906a0001844bac&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

    Atticus1956 ,
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    @GottaLaff

    I'll bet New Mexico would love to house a Disneyworld in their state!

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Go away.

    #RFKJr. intends to name attorney Nicole Shanahan as his VP pick https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-intends-name-attorney-nicole-shanahan-vp-pick-rcna144983

    Atticus1956 ,
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    The delusional Kennedy black sheep...wouldn't Marianne Williamson be a more apropos choice? LMAO

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    🤦🏻‍♀️Prosecutors on Tuesday announced an agreement with #Texas Attorney General Ken #Paxton that would ultimately dismiss securities fraud charges he has been facing for nearly a decade.

    Under the 18-mo pre-trial agreement, special prosecutors in the case would drop 3 felony counts against Paxton. As part of the deal, Paxton must pay full restitution to victims — roughly $300K — & must also complete 100 hours of community service and 15 hours of legal ethics educ.”
    https://apnews.com/article/9ed5eecc30c1f967ec51f7e58ad9d0af

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    IOW, a sweetheart deal for another Republican conman?

    GottaLaff , to random
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    On our drive up to Canada, we spotted a Cybertruck on the road. Whoa. It looked like what a 1950s sci-fi movie’s idea of a 1970s car would look like. What a laughable eyesore.

    Atticus1956 , (edited )
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    I saw a post recently with 4 different sightings of the truck; 1 was on fire & the 3 others were being towed. 🤣

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    🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️A New York appeals court agreed to slash the amount of the bond Donald #Trump must post to cover a $454 million civil fraud verdict to just $175 million -Bloomberg #legal

    granting him 10 days to pay a reduced bond

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    @GottaLaff

    What absolute bullshit! Whining benefits only Trump! Jill and John Doe would lose everything they own and be imprisoned.

    Atticus1956 ,
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    @GottaLaff

    No more...."no one is above the law" crap!

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Hamilton is always on top of things, checking the road conditions for us. 👍🏻

    Atticus1956 ,
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    That Hammy, handsome & helpful. What a guy!

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Reminder:

    We’re still on the road, so I won’t be live-posting any Trump court proceedings today.

    We arrive in Canada this afternoon, so yay!

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    Safe travels always, but especially today in the rains.

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    🏆

    Via Angry Staffer:

    This is A+ trolling.

    MAGA is losing their minds. 🤣🤣🤣

    Joe :

    Congratulations, Donald. Quite the accomplishment.

    1/… Next toot will be what Biden is mocking.

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    Time Magazine cover of "the champ" in 3...2..1! LMAO.

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