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It would take that kind of money to get me to spend 10 minutes with Bannon and Miller.

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Yeah, everything about Guo shouts "high-level Chinese agent" to me. What better way to worm yourself into American politics than having all the appearances of being a billionaire (as we've already experienced)?

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Yelling to the heavens that ol' Joe is awash in money from Gina, while secretly swan diving into vats of Renminbi--every Republican accusation is a confession.

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Flooding the zone works, especially when you have a large captive media infrastructure.

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I have a little white dog. Can't say I've ever "swanned around" with him.

He's a good dog !

https://substack.com/@brawlatthepoetscafe/note/c-51828442?r=insr

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Nice dog

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He is just such an outrageously bad guy.

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I want to invest my children's college money in this HCoin thingy, after all it has a guy smoking cigars which obviously means he's rich.

Or going to develop tongue cancer.

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He must have some tales to tell, I would think.

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Gotta say, as a 56-year-old white dude, I’m content with my absolute lack of rapping throughout my life, and my projected non-rapping for the rest of it. EXCEPT…I am not embarrassed to admit I know the entirety of Rappers’ Delight, and will spout it at the drop of a hat.

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Mar 17·edited Mar 17

Don't touch me 'cause I'm close to the edge.

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Screaming about how China is our nation’s greatest threat while pocketing their money and giving guided tours around Mar-a-Lago is just peak MAGA.

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Trump has been doing it for years. He showed them the way.

I can 100% guarantee that if you showed a MAGA cultist how much grifting Trumpworld has been doing with the Chinese, they would call it fake news.

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Gettr? You brought 'er.

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I hardly know ‘er.

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D'yer Maker

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And he would have got away with it were it not for you meddling libs.*

*not libs

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Oh, the bankruptcy court/trustees can be vicious when they find money they can claw back. Do eeet!

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The shit you can almost get away with.

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He's lived well for a long time and is probably in a soft lockup. As opposed to dead or in a Chinese prison. So a win?

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"Steve Wynn, who runs a casino in Macau"

and whose face is clinging on to dear life.

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Too bad he left the RNC before Lara got there. She could have mounted his head on her wall.

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and he wouldn't have seen it coming...

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Forget about the Biden Crime Family, the Trump-verse got so much China the house rattles for ten minutes if you shut the door too hard.

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I'm starting to get the feeling that The Biden Crime Family is 100% pure projection.

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stg in my next life I want to be the CEO of some billionaire's grifty bullshit bc this working for a living is for the fucking birds.

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