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Yes, that's exactly the kind of happy fairytale you'd expect from someone like Bruni. It's the same desperate urge to believe that Trump is surrounded by good people who will stop him if he goes too far that drives the fawning NYT coverage of Ivanka.

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so. fucking. much.

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Amen...

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PBUH.

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Hmm...

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I've actually read Bruni's essay. He's proposes that Melania, who never shares the same bedroom with El Presidente, is subtly trolling him. He's suggesting that, because she's closer to him than anyone else in the WH, she just might be the person who pushes El Presidente over the edge. If she does *that*, then we just might be able to consider her among the great First Ladies.....

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That icky, splattery sound you hear? Trump's lawyers blowing their brains out after he admits on Fox teevee that he paid for the hush money with his own funds. So therefore, it's not a crime! How do you figure that, Little Donny? Then Giuliani joins him aboard the dumb train and starts blabbing about paying Cohen in retainers. How stupid can you to be to go on TV and admit this shit? I like my criminal presidents to at least PRETEND they're innocent. Respect, Tricky Dick.

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"Oh, Donald Trump. Everything you touch turns to shit. And none of this would have happened if your mom had just gotten an abortion you hadn't incorrectly thought you were a valuable human being worthy of being president of this great country you had left your lying, cheating, thieving ass at home in your gold tinted tower, . How many more people's lives will you ruin before you resign and never show your ugly shitface in public again?

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"coordinated with one or more members of the campaign" in making the porn payoffs.

I really hope Ivanka was in charge of paying off daddy's whores. maybe he taped the phone calls between the princess and the concubines so he could jerk off to it later

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the missing white girl was the top story on foxnews.com all day yesterday. what a roller coaster of a day at fox "OMG the missing white girl from iowa that we've been talking about all week turned out to be murdered by an illegal messican" cue the orgasm from every office at fox. "oh no all of the president's men are felons and everyone will laugh at us if we try to ignore it?" and every office goes limp

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I had to google that one.https://www.npr.org/2018/08...

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Yea, this country is so fucked. Our best case scenario right now is getting Trump out of office early. If that's your only game plan, then you're gonna have a bad time - as they say.

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"Outside of Des Moines, why would this story get national play?"

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Wyrd Sisters! Mr. Terry Pratchett gave us them!

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Pence is dirty as fuck, but two impeachments in a row might look a bit too baroque.

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Trump's tweets are like milk to his supporters; and the Trump supporters are like adult cats. They lap up the milk, and then they shit all over everything.

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