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Aug 8·edited Aug 8

https://www.statnews.com/2024/08/07/trump-mental-health-linguistic-analysis-suggests-potential-cognitive-decline-experts-say/

Linguistic evidence that Trump is in serious cognitive decline. Worth reading.

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"None of the nicknames for her are working."

"What about 'Kamabla'?"

"Kamabla?"

"Yeah, like...'Kama-BLAH."

"Meh..."

"Wait, there's more: and BLA- is the first three letters of 'BLACK'!"

"ooooooo, I like that...."

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"ooooooo, I like that...."

This ^^^^^^^ is the problem

This right here

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I see that and immediately hear the Led Zeppelin song in my head....

and I like that song!

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Is this the same fantasy he has a date with Sydney Sweeney at the beach and he takes his shirt off and his body doesn't look like 350 lbs. of chewed bubble gum? Is it, huh? Can you imagine the dark, snake pit of hell his imagination is? I can't and I won't, my concern for my mental health won't allow it.

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That last sentence is like, hoodamn that sure is some powerful projection. Tell us more about how Biden staged a coup and how he wants the presidency back SOOO BAD

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Aug 8·edited Aug 8

Ari won the post-pizza Whack-A-Mole contest against Miller in a polite way. Miller meltdown needs to be seen in full. I have no doubt that Steve will finally find a solution to all of those detainees.

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Aug 8Liked by Martini Glambassador

Let’s pretend for a moment that Trump’s fitness to be President matters to any voter. If Biden’s unexpected withdrawal from the race threw Trump so off balance, how can we reasonably expect him to respond when a foreign leader — Russia, China, North Korea or anywhere else — does something unexpected? Is he going to scream “unfair”? His hysterical response should be disqualifying. Along with about 1,000 other things.

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"Emanu-El MACRON, whose name sounds like a cookie, and whose government hasn't paid me for NATO support for years, just sat down with Vladimir Putin, who should only be talking to me, and Vladimir Zelenskyy, who should have given me the dirt on HUNTER BIDEN before he was a FELON!, and brokered a peace agreement that restored Ukraine's borders to before BARRACK HUS$EIN OBAMA gave Crimea to my friend Putin. I TOTALLY DESERVE HIS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE!!!!!!!"

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Ta, Evan. Work was busy, and will be busier tomorrow because my supervisor is taking a personal day and I'm subbing for her. Beloved fiancé Meccalopolis had to go to traffic court this morning upstate, so we spent the night apart. He picked me up from work and I made vegan banh mi for dinner. Yum.

Good night, beloved Wonketteers. I love and appreciate you all and I bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace. Please stay safe.

Slava Ukraini. 🌻🇺🇦💙💛

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Speeding ticket on the Taconic? To quote Briscoe, who among us hasn’t been stopped for speeding there?

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Or the infamous speed trap on the NYS Thruway in Halfmoon, NY.

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i mean honestly all i got is welcome to chicago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4BJpC-esA8

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All right. Who farted on the Substack hamster wheel?

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I blame the 504 fairy.

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Still having to sit (not walk) on foot, so never before commenting online, and hardly ever reading

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some serious opinions, here.

Good.

But, sometimes, scary.

In good way.

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UAW head notes that 3 American families have the same wealth as 50% of the rest of us. As a child of the 50-60s, it has ever been thus. Everything old is new again - it’s just that we have to bring this to the attention of a.new generation and convince them it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Fuck'em 25. 90% top tax bracket in '25

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"from him by Kamabla,

“Kamabla.” Literally nobody knows."

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It strikes me as very similar to the way he said BLL-LLACK.

I figure in two weeks, he'll be calling her "Kamablll-lack", and two weeks after THAT, he'll "accidentally " drop the N-word on live video.

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Just a wild guess, but maybe he's trying to imply that she talks too much? Like "blah blah blah?" Which would make perfect sense, given what a sexist pig he is.

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Aug 8·edited Aug 8

Trump is depending on JD to carry the campaign. That's going well.

(I don't have the primary source, this is a reprint from Raging Pencils. Mike "Lefty" Stanfill's site) The following is a description by a female journalist, Amanda Marcotte, of a Philadelphia campaign stop for JD Vance, one which totaled about 200 attendees:

" Every type of white man that gets a hasty "swipe left" on his dating profile was in attendance: 'Roided out dudes with bad tribal tattoos. Older men radiating "bitter divorce" energy. Men with enormous beards that have never known the touch of a trimmer. Skinny fascists wearing expensive suits, despite the oppressive heat. Glowering loners staring at the two women under 40 like cats watching birds out a window."

And the Daily Beast.

J.D. Vance Awkwardly Retreats After Bizarre Attempt to Storm Harris’ Empty Plane https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-awkwardly-retreats-from-confronting-kamala-harris-on-air-force-2-after-realizing-she-wasnt-around?ref=home?ref=home

Jumping Jeebus on a broke pogo stick, What is this freak trying to do? Get arrested?

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Fooled you, JD. That won't get you thrown off the ticket in the Republican Party.

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"Glowering loners staring at the two women under 40 like cats watching birds out a window."

A very Wonkette-ish turn of phrase.

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He wanted to try out the seats.....

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Yeah that plane thing was weird. And yet on xitter, there are MAGAts saying it was brilliant. Completely outnumbered by those who said it was creepy.

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they do seem to repeatedly think abject failure is "brilliant". big loser energy.

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Manson Family said "Charlie id love, Charlie is God" etc.

Cults are weird.

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Aug 8·edited Aug 8Liked by Martini Glambassador

My husband... I asked him what he thought of Big Dad, (Tim Walz) while we were having a soak in the pool. He launched into this whole HE' PUT TAMPONS IN THE BOYS BATHROOM! ABORTION ON DEMAND UP UNTIL THE MOMENT OF BIRTH!! and some other bullshit. Anyway, after I basically shamed him for choosing to twist logic into knots to suit his agenda, we retired the argument amicably.

Then as I was putting my towel outside to dry, he says:

MINNESOTA IS A SANCTUARY STATE!!!

To which I replied, "Okay."

I don't get it. I can shoot down his abortion arguments by reminding him that he's paid for one. And believe me, when we are with people and he starts, I just shoot him a look, and he knows that I know. Don't go there, asshole. We'll talk.

I told him that I don't care if Minnesota is an abortion theme park, because he knows and I know that when you need one, you need one. And it's nobody's damn business.

And I also accused him of using a cat box to take a shit and called him a dirty old man for imagining why boys would need tampons.

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You have mighty skills!

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Please, oh internet gods, please create a graphic of MN as an abortion theme park.

I eagerly await the results.

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IS this the same hubby who was in the hospital recently and you drove for miles to see him? That hubby??

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yikes.

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I would be tempted to ask which part of his reproductive system he would like Democratic Creeps to regulate.

Also, I may not have your diplomatic skills.

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No offense, but this reminds me of the guy who responded to one of my comments with, "Oh, YEAH??? Well, what if an illegal immigrant showed up in YOUR FRONT YARD?"

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...Welp.

OK, if ANYBODY showed up in my front yard, I would probably want to know what they were doing there. That having been said, how am I supposed to know if the person is an "illegal immigrant"? Would they, in this scenario, be holding up a sign?

Also, if that was supposed to be scary, it wasn't. They're not THE BOOGEYMAN.

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All the guys who do work for us are Hispanic. It's nothing for me to come home and find five or six people working outside, depending on the project. They live here. They work here. They are part of our culture, in Texas. HELLO!

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I’d probably ask if there was something I could help them with.

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I'm old enough and introverted enough that if ANYBODY showed up in my front yard, I just might tell them to get off my lawn.

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Hope the makeup sex is fabulous!!! ;-)

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Reminds me of the story I was told years ago by the spouse of a coworker, about hallway sex. What’s hallway sex, I ask. That’s when you pass each other in the hallway and say, “fuck you.”

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Yeah, he's passed out on his recliner and Ima leave him there so I can have the whole bed to myself.

Enjoy your back ache, old man.

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Oof. My sympathies.

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