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A dictator does not have terms of office… mostly through history, they are overthrown, a

coup d’Etat or a Revolt or his death will remove the dictator. Hence DjtRuMp is constantly evading an answer. American voters and citizens need to smarten up! WAKE-UP before It’s TOO LATE!!

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We are only 2 months into his 2nd term and we can't stand him.

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I couldn’t stand him ever

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Really-bankrupting casinos without paying employees.

Even his grandfather kept the brothel in the black. Will

Fort Knox go Chapter 13 under small hands and J.e.D.?

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Hated him since those days. He destroyed the lives of so many in Atlantic City. Nothing but a sleazy con man.

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Hmmmm…..recall the “end” for Mussolini who turned on his people? We should be so lucky. A National Holiday to be sure!!!!!!

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JD, I’ve heard it referred to as having a “Mussolini Spa Day” - Plenty of sunshine and fresh air with some quality inversion therapy . . .

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Oh man, I'm stealing this. "Mussolini Spa Day" for both the Felon and his Muskrat... Did you see what the Italians did last week? https://bsky.app/profile/robjenson.bsky.social/post/3lkxogwlup226

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Hilarious!!!!!!!

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L. O. L. Perfect!!!!

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That’s the only time I can think of Mussolini being on the fence.

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That would be a sight worth seeing.

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Aprl 5 2024

Stop worry/anxiety......shut down the computer and make a sign

People are starting to kick Orange/Musk Ass from coast to coast

https://www.seeyouinthestreets.com/

https://act.womensmarch.com/signup/April5Washington/?t=2&akid=22333%2E2931636%2E6nJezz

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Well, when you mention death, what is going on with Trumpf's appearance lately in that golf picture? Pale, eyes receding, seems to be losing weight, cannot hardly walk now, new dentures (were all his teeth as rotten as his mind?). I know he's almost 79, but seems big changes in a short time.

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He's not losing weight. He just got bigger clothes.

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Probably on Ozempic or another weight loss drug

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Nah, RFK,Jr would advise against that.

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😁 when has other people's disapproval ever stopped tRump

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😂😂😂😂

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When the time comes..(soon please!!! ) .the pine box needs to be spray painted orange and the final

unmarked...tax free....resting place beside the 13th green with an orange flag.

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Don't forget the garlic necklace and fill the coffin with holy water. Just passing along a suggestion from a friend.

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I can just imagine all the angel's coughing blood during this Satanic celebration

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He's like a cockroach: thrives in darkness and outlives most other superior creatures. He's not running the govt. anyway; he's turned it over to Musk and the Nerd Reich.

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True

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Stress can be a killer.

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I noticed his hair is much thinner now, and no longer yellow but white. His face is puffier, and he still has those big bruises on his hands. His face is still laded with orange makeup.

He probably gets veneers on his teeth. I've thought so for many years. His teeth have been unnaturally white for at least the last decade.

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“We dropped A-bombs on Japan and now they’re our ally” is where we are at? They really have zero concern for reality. A third term? Will our world survive that long?

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It’s pretty mind blowing that this is where we are. 😵‍💫😵‍💫 I got passports for my kids in case we need to GTFO.

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I am staying to fight even though I have dual citizenship - Canadian/American. I am fighting for my late veteran husband, our family and friends.

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You may need to help fight for Canada.

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The question is, get the hell out to where ?

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That’s the question…

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Mine has expired. It doesn't matter because I have no money.

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Actually Japan is no longer our ally since Trump.

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I go week-to-week! The only good news is I'm sure the nuclear codes have been changed by a hacker on Signal-probably used for a lucky lottery number!!

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It won’t survive completion of this term

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Sounds good to me but we will survive this lunatic!

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Fox host Jesse Watters is a coward with a micro penis. Would he produce such "honest" commentary on the soil of his "allies" in Japan?

All of these guys, every last one are the same. They're dickless, brainless, spineless human garbage.

I look forward to the day when these shit stains are all held accountable, incarcerated and abused daily in jail.

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Yeah, can you believe that ??!! That statement shows the mindset of the Maga movement 🤨

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How stupid does the regime think we are? Tariffs are a TAX on AMERICAN CONSUMERS. I’ve had it with their gaslighting.

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Same. For years they've pissed on us and said it was raining. No more.

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I never believed their gaslighting and BS. They can pound sand.

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The good thing is that you don't believe it, that I don't believe it and millions of others don't believe it. While we can't seem to stop him from imposing this revenge tax on all of us, we can be prepared - Boycott, Boycott, Boycott. Don't spend your money on things that have tariffs or things that have mark ups that are ridiculous unless you really have to. Empower your voice with your wallet. "t" can impose a tax on goods, but that does not mean we have to buy any of it.

https://substack.com/@techiam

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Sadly, corporate media just moves onto the next question instead of following up and not moving on until the question is answered. They just want to get through all their questions.

They should interview like Medhi Hasan and other UK journalists who are relentless until their questions are answered.

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Our reporters (NBC, CBS, ABC) need to get very specific and very clear, with these morons. When he said that tariffs are tax cuts, I wish they had then said, something like this, “ok, since we aren’t all understanding that tariffs are tax cuts, please explain it to me like I’m a fourth grader.” Then, just sit there quietly and wait as long as it takes. Keep filming if there are commercial breaks, end of show, etc. calmly fold hands … and wait… while continuing to film!

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Shaking my head. Just shaking my head. I can't wait for April 5 because I've been saving up a scream for a loooooong time. I'll be at my State Capitol with a sign saying, "HANDS OFF MY SOCIAL SECURITY"

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Make another message on the back so you can rotate your sign around.

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I carried exactly that sign on my lightweight whiteboard today in my tiny town in the westmost part of Kern County, California. We're home to a major Naval Aviation base. And we're part of the April 5 protests, as well. I'm screaming with yiu!

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Meeeee tooooooooo!!!!!!!

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Hands off our country, Elonald Trusk!! Deport that pasty South American drug addict (he can take the damn silverware!). We all need to get loud! Please consider joining a #HandsOff protest on April 5th if you can!! We earned that Social Security!

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I WILL be protesting on April 5, I will be there. You can count on me. I show up. I hope everyone on Meidas Touch shows up.

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Haha! I love Elonald Trusk!

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I stole that one from The Mouthy Renegade Writer! He’s got a great substack, you should check it out if you haven’t already. 😎

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Nice Lisa!!

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Remember, when you leave your home with your little protest sign--you are not alone, With the anticipated thousands [million+?] of heroic protestors on April 5th (actually any and all days, including Women's March) here's an updated partial list of those fighting back every day [as of 3-30-25). I'm also adding courageous law firms who haven't caved. Besides upstanding lawyers, and law-abiding honorable (present and former) judges (including James Boasberg, chief judge, D.C. District Ct.), here's a growing list of Profiles in Courage men, women, and advocacy groups who refuse to be cowed or kneel to the force of Trump/Musk/MAGA/Fox "News" intimidation:

I'll begin (again) with Missouri's own indomitable Jess[ica] (à la John Lewis's "get in good trouble") Piper/"The View from Rural Missouri," then, in no particular order, Francie Garber Pepper (1940-2025), Heather Cox Richardson/"Letters from an American," Joyce Vance/"Civil Discourse," Bernie Sanders, AOC, Gov. Tim walz, Sarah Inama, Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Rev. William J. Barber II, Jasmine Crockett, Ruth Ben-Ghait, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Chris Hayes, Ali Velshi, Prof. Lawrence Tribe, Stephanie Miller, Gov. Janet Mills, Gov. Beshear, Gov. JB.Pritzker, Gov. Kathy Hochul, Amb. Susan Rice, Mayor Michelle Wu, Jim Acosta, Jen Rubin And the Contrarians, Dan Rather, Robert Reich, Jay Kou, Steve Brodner, Rachel Cohen, Brian TylerCohen, Jessica Craven, Scott Dworkin, Brett Meiselas, Joy Reid, D. Earl Stevens, Melvin Gurai, Dan Pfeiffer, Anand Giridharadas Anne Applebaum, Lucian Truscott IV, Chris Murphy, Jeff Merkley, Michael Bennett, Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth, Sheldon Whitehouse, Adam Schiff, Jon Ossoff, Elyssa Slotkin, Tristan Snell, Delia Ramirez,Tim Snyder, Robert B. Hubbell, Ben Meiseilas, Rich wilson, Ron Filpkowski, Jeremy Seahill, Thom Hartmann, Jonathan Bernstein, Simon Rosenberg, Marianne Williamson, Mark Fiore, Jamie Raskin, Rebecca Solnit, Steve Schmidt, Josh Marshall, Paul Krugman, Andy Borowitz, Jeff Danziger, Ann Telnaes,­͏ ­͏Will Bunch, Jim Hightower, Dan Pfeifer, Dean Obeidallah, Michel Zeitgeist, Liz Cheney, Adam Kimzinger, Cassidy Hutchinson, John Cusack. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Jonathan V Last, Sarah Longwell, Andrew Egger

American Bar Association, 23 blue state Attorney Generals, Indivisible. FiftyFifty one, MoveOn, DemCast, Blue Missouri, Third Act, Democracy Forward, Public Citizen, Democracy Index, Protect Democracy, DemocracyLabs, Fred Wellman/On Democracy, Hands Off, Marc Elias/Democracy Docket, Public Citizen, League of Women Voters, Lambda Legal, CREW, CODEPINK, ACLU, The 19th/Errin Haines, Working Families Party, American Oversight, Every State Blue, Run for Something, Jessica Valenti/Abortion Everyday, The American Manifesto, The Dr. Martin Luther King Center, Bulwark Media, Bill Kristol/all NeverTrumpers

And, as Joyce Vance says, "We're in this together"--or via Jess Piper, from rural Missouri: "Solidarity." FIGHT BACK! WE ARE NOT ALONE! (Latest addition h/t , Robert B. Hubbell: Law firms, see below). All suggestions are welcome.

* Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling have resisted Trump, fighting back with the help of other courageous firms like Williams & Connolly. Per The ABA Journal, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, representing fired inspectors general. (Law.com)

Hogan Lovells, seeking to block executive orders to end federal funding for gender-affirming medical care. (Law.com)

Jenner & Block, also seeking to block the orders on cuts to medical research funding. (Law.com, Reuters)

Ropes & Gray, also seeking to block cuts to medical research funding. (Law.com)

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, representing the Amica Center for Immigrants Rights and others seeking to block funding cuts for immigrant legal services. (Law.com)

Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer.

Wilmer Hale

Keker, Van Nest & Peters

Southern Poverty Law Center

Perhaps I should add our nation's motto--and on our Great Seal--the phrase "E pluribus unum" (out of many, One ). Ii's 13 letters makes its use symbolic of the original 13 Colonies which rebelled against the rule of the Kingdom of George III . . .And now we protest together against King Donald. As my rural MO. indomitable Jess Piper always says: "Solidarity."

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Right on. I am with the resisters.

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Me too!

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Thank you for posting this wall of courage. I thank every single one of the people on your list.

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Please add Charlie Sykes [To The Contrary Podcast] to your 'Solidarity List'...he has been hosting & co-hosting a number of other intelligent and insightful people on your list.

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How can anyone be surprised by what this one-note samba does? If I had a dollar for every time he uttered “the likes of which have never been seen before” I could retire. Brace yourself Iran!!

He has no strategy.

His tactics are at least 50 years old.

He degrades everyone and everything that he touches.

All hands on deck for @CrawforfForWI for Tuesday.

🤞🤞 for Florida.

He’s a MORON!!!!!!!

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Ron another exempliary s**t s**w round up. Does anything surprise you now?

I still have times when my stomach hits the ground or my acid stomach tops off , as I read what happened this week.

Hang in there everybody, it looks like the resistance might be getting in gear.

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I look forward to the big party when Trump's face is blasted off of Mt. Rushmore!

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From what I’ve read, the rock at Mt. Rushmore is too unstable for an additional face. Even still it could never be carved by July. And how is he planning to pay for any of this July 4th extravaganza? We are very close to default and he wants a whole raft of statues made.

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No rock needs carving when you have a face like that. Any natural cracks, lines, big bulges and dirt streaks- everyone could identify his fugly mug within that

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Wise decision

👇🏼. 👇🏼. 👇🏼

… Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who embarrassed himself in multiple TV appearances the last two weeks, has apparently been put in timeout by Wiles. He has been off TV for a week and his office has refused all interview requests.

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Nutlick is truly the most obnoxious person in DC.

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I would agree, except I think he is second in line to Homan the “Border Czar”’

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Thanks for using my fav name for this clown. He has had his leash tugged. Silent for awhile as he spouted too much crap last few days. Ha!

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Precisely. Stop saying “things will change in the bi-election “ or “it will change in two years”.

He is doing everything in his corrupted power to prevent further elections and even bragging about it in interviews.

Dictators do not give up power. You have to TAKE it from them. It requires FORCE, not politics. Dictators do not adhere to politics unless it benefits them.

Stop standing back screaming “when will someone do something”. Stop waiting for someone ELSE to fix the country. Take matters into your own hands and FIGHT for freedom; It’s been taken for granted for far too long and now you’re losing it.

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Yes, and that FORCE is people in the streets protesting.

It is the only way.

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Yes, we must resist now before it's too late. He's already planning to recode the entire Social Security programming language to a new one using AI. What could possibly go wrong with unelected people who love to move fast and break things in charge of that while they're closing offices and defunding the department?

My fondest wish: "We could lose control of the House and all of the reforms could be shut down.” (Elon) May all your fears materialize and reality hit you in the face.

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"Trump doesn't know how to drive.

Trump doesn't know how to pump gas.

Trump doesn't know how to buy groceries.

Trump doesn’t know how to use a computer.

He's lived in a gold, chauffeur bubble his entire life.

He is completely, utterly out of touch with the American people." (Tristan Snell)

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Trump doesn’t know how to be a president, let alone a good one. He thinks sharing National Defense secrets with the world is not a big deal (and they have probably been doing it for 60 days).

Per Robert Hubbell:

“The relevant statutes prohibit the unauthorized sharing of “national defense information.” See, e.g., 18 USC § 793 (f), imposing up to ten years in prison for anyone who

being entrusted with . . . information relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed. . . .

The words “classified information” does not appear in the statute that criminalizes the unauthorized disclosure of “national defense information.”

What is “national defense” information? 18 USC § 793(a) defines it as information that the person possessing the information has

reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation . . . .

Obviously, anyone with advance information about plans to attack Houthi rebels has reason to believe the information—if leaked—could be “used to the injury of the United States” or “to the advantage of any foreign nation.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/roberthubbell/p/lessons-for-democrats-from-signal

All these were violated:

• Title 44

• The Presidential Act

• The Espionage Act

Not one person in the chat questioned if there should be a more secure way of communicating or a more secure location.

At the very least they should all be fired without the stipulation they would be PROHIBITED from holding any office ever again.

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Trump does not care. All he does is eat, play golf, and waste tax payer's money. He is lazy! He delegates everything, so when something goes awry, he claims not knowing about it, or blaming someone else. He doesn't accept responsibility or accountability that the buck stops at him. He is a weak, feloneous, vile, lying piss poor definition of a man, let alone a president. He is the devil incarnate.

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He's also living in a cotton lined universe where his staff and sycophants prevent any real news from reaching him. He doesn't read any factual briefings, he only watches the purely right wing channels, he only reads the newspapers that suck up to him and never print the real story. So he might not be lying when he says I know nothing about that,

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HELL, he first heard of the word groceries during the last campaign.

He was fascinated with the word groceries.

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He called it an “old-fashioned” word. 🙄

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Because he's never purchased groceries. So it's novel to him.

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Remember during a campaign stop at a small grocery store. He picked up a bag of chips and asked a lady "Are these good" She replied "Yes". He took a 100 bill out of his pocket and gave it to her and said "Thank you for your vote". Not here, "let me pay for your groceries today" but here, "thank you for your vote"

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So is Elon. And I saw Numbnuts say today when he was asked about the Signalgate fiasco something to the effect of, "Well, sometimes you get a bad signal." He didn't even know what Signal was after it was plastered on the news for days. The man is not the president; he's Elon's and the Nerd Reich's puppet.

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And he doesn't know what Signal is. Lol

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....or compassion, empathy, humility, rule of law, giving, loving uncondionally, fairplay, friendship, anti-racism, or truth.

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true dat

👇🏼. 👇🏼. 👇🏼

… Russia is bombing apartment buildings, schools, and hospitals daily. How is it not Putin’s fault? He also has zero plan to end this conflict. He never did. So he just keeps rolling out nonsense.

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It’s time to bomb the Russians to get them to stop in Ukraine! They need to pay for the damage they did & Putin & Trump can go to prison for war crimes & treason.

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If Paul Weiss and Skadden Arps won't fight for themselves, why on earth would clients believe the firms would fight for them?

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True is that, but the MAGA people who need lawyers need that pro bono work available so they do not have to spend any of their wealth on attorneys... You don't think he meant the pro bono work for his MAGA base, do you? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Hopefully his old butt will be unalive in 4 years and a 3rd term will be a non-issue.

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Trying to make a lie the truth?? Where on earth did Lunatic Luna hear Greenland say they want to be US territory??? It makes me angry to hear this bullsh*t. When is something going to happen to change this dystopian nightmare they are playing out in America??? I hear the screams here in Indiana but not enough! Maga is in power. I've written letters to representatives here and they do not care!

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Write them anyway. They may not care, but someone is reading them. You can't unsee or unread what you have read even if you do not like it. Keep the pressure on. Keep being the "pest" and don't give in. In the immortal words of Will Rogers: “Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force, never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

https://substack.com/@techiam

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