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A word to the wise: Make sure the check clears.

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While a sadly large portion of the American electorate apparently loves them some reality show biz, that bloom is gonna fade when the shit really hits the fan. Oh, they'll try to blame Obama & the Democrats for it at first but.....

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so. many. trolls.

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I think it was just one or two who were fast at setting up new accounts. I have been known to be mistaken, however.

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That is a good cost saving measure, I suppose. I don't think Trump is personally responsible for paying any of these "performers", so they have a much better chance of seeing a paycheck!

Wait! Googled "who pays for inauguration" :(https://www.washingtonpost....

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pretty much the only way musicians make any money nowadays, thanks internet!! oh and fuck spotify too

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I think there was one troll-of-many-faces (starting with the hannah one) who was just mildly annoying, and then late in the game a different more hateful one (posting the specifically racist/misogynist stuff). Both were making sock puppets left and right, and while their "personas" were different, I think the goal was the same: disrupt the flow, try to goad us into anger.

They were both boring, mildly offensive, and not worth engaging in. At first, I thought the Hannah one might be conversational, but that devolved quickly. I appreciated Dok intervening, and admit we probably shouldn't have teased hannah et al quite so long.

But that's the thing - sometimes you have to tease to see if it's really a troll or not. I thought someone here might be doing a trollish wonker-baiting one time, explored it a little, and ended up having a nice connect with another actual wonketarian over the positives and negatives of what they'd posted. What I need to stick to is not engaging them once I figure out they're full of crap. Sooooo tempting to bait them but it doesnt' really go anywhere.

Those ones last night were definitely sad, pathetic loser types, or bots, or something. Not worth the effort.

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What is cuter than baby goats?

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That's what I thought. But maybe he's giving them big bucks. Mormons like money.

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Are any of those old girls still alive? Must Google...

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There were probably less vampires, though, right?

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There's always a slight hope. Prussian Blue, the neo-nazi tween pop singers, grew up and rejected their parents' brainwashing.

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Well, duh! Geez, these libtards.

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You know, this sort of thing would make CSPAN a lot more interesting.

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There was one big name wingnut who sneered at the number (and, via dog-whistle, colors) of people at Obama's first inauguration - oh, of course "those people" can be there, they don't have jobs! Without once considering who the fuck was president at the moment they'd left home that morning.

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Goats rule, but the competition is fierce, and I suspect the top ranking Cuteness award shifts rapidly back and forth between the various babbies

https://youtu.be/rpIJK0Ozatc

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