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Feb 25, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

I have a recurring dream in which #MangoWanker Turdking is drugged up, at a rally, pisses himself, and has a massive stroke...

Disabling and debilitating, unable to type or tweet, incontinent and helpless and unable to speak, fed through an IV and pooping into a bedpan, but fully aware of the prison hospital.

And Thank you, Greg.

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Feb 25, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

I'll go one better, William, because this week, and this era has turned me, when I want to be, into kind of an asshole. This will make the most sense if you've watched "Breaking Bad." I wish for Trump the fate of Tio Salamanca (yes, I had to look up the name and now can't believe he was ONLY in 8 episodes!), in the wheelchair. Unable to walk, unable to talk, but yes, fully aware of everything. The only thing he used to get anyone's attention was a little bell, like one you'd see at a hotel desk, strapped to the end of one of the arms of the chair. And when he was mad, as I expect Trump would be most of the time, that little bell got A LOT of use, and people bowed and scraped to keep him happy because he was dangerous trouble.

I imagine that. And then I imagine Ivanka and Junior bowing and scraping to keep Daddy happy with Melania having left with Barron for greener pastures, figuratively, if not literally. I imagine these things and then realize what an inhuman asshole I can be. Sad. Or not.

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Trump would ring the FUCK out of that bell.

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Damn, could I steal that thing in a NY minute

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He'd have at least TWO bells.

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I also imagine the prison guards competing to find new ways to torture the sick fck.

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Feb 25, 2022·edited Feb 25, 2022

That is a fantastic image, Steve. Brings me great joy. I must be an asshole too.

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Feb 25, 2022·edited Feb 25, 2022

He'd have more bells than Tinkerbell.

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A dream, or a premonition?

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Hahahaaaaha! We all know it's a fervent hope, AND within the realms of possibility. Think if the Grand Parades!

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If there's such a thing as the power of shared dreams, your dream is my dream. He came close to what you describe in your first sentence when he was unable to hold a glass with one hand and then staggered down that ramp looking as if he would fall on his face at any second.

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There were reports in other media outlets about the drug use and the diaper wearing (because he cannot control his bowel movements as a result of snorting Adderol). In fact, William, Trump apparently has pissed and sh*t himself frequently at political rallies. Alas, no stroke yet. But we can live in hope . . .

Greg, it continues to amaze me that fear of BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and people with a naturalistic worldview leads to some of the most bizarre choices in the ignorant, the brainwashed, and the "penilly" challenged. But that has been the case, among white folk especially, for all of human history. And it was embedded as a weird kind of heroic anti-humanist stance in the infant USA by all those lovable bigots, racists, enslavers, and misogynists referred to as the Forefathers of Our Nation (enhanced by that execrable piece of sh** Andrew Jackson).

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Old white men, fearing their own mortality, may well end life on earth. Again: absurd.

Perfect description of Andrew Jackson, antecedent to the Greg Abbotts of the world.

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Feb 25, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

I love laughing at absurdity. Why am I crying?

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Feb 25, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

You must post the Donetsk National Anthem on Twitter ASAP. Brilliant!

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Thanks. Probably very similar to what actually happened, but no yacht.

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Thank you thank you for saying so clearly what I’ve been boring all my family and friends with for five years now. If he were in any minimum wage job he would have long ago been fired. But why do newscasters keep talking about him? Why isn’t he in a straight jacket?

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They SHOULD talk about him, but only as the cause of so much woe. Covid deaths, institutional damage, court biases, racism, sexism, homophobia, all of it, all his fault.

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Remember: ... The sole purpose of The Media is to MAKE MONEY. Truth, not so much.

Trump is a money spinner for news outlets besieged by free news.

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Feb 25, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

I remember the constant sniffing through his nose -- I imagine keeping the "stuff" inside. It happened during rallies and "presidential" addresses. Rachel Maddow used to notice it and mention it quite frequently. She never attributed it to anything -- just left it out there to ponder.

I've been waiting for Noel to come back! His last appearance is always there at the bottom of the comment section, SO looking forward to this one! Thanks, Greg.

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Thanks, Steve. It's a good one Warning: we do talk a bit about sports at the beginning...

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Yes, you did. Boys! Sigh.

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Oh, I'll muddle through...

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The absurdity of it all is the fodder for the cult. The fact that our “free press” has given a pass to the absurdity of it all means that the cult will rule unless the “press” wakes up and spews the truth of the absurdity, that we have all seen, more than Rupert spews the absurd. So far, Rupert is winning because, as you have pointed out, the negligence of the “press” and their reluctance to call out the absurdities that got replaced with new ones every day, brought us to today. They have stacked up like a mountain that the “press” ignores and Rupert (and clones) reframe every day with lies that Goebbels would be proud of.

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Greg. I believe what Noel said about Donald Chernobyl Trump and his drug use. However, Query: Why are we, or at least me, just now hearing this? And, I would like to think those CNN videos where Criminal Trump is blowing out through his nose, bits of meds., actually exists?

Perhaps Mr. Casler can provide us with links to the CCN video so that we don’t have to hunt.

Thank you. J

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I remember I went with a group of friends to the polls in 1972. When we came out, one of my friends said he voted for Nixon. Two years later, he vehemently denied it. Prepare yourselves for this, folks. Just let it go. There will be many people that will need to save face.

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Completely absurd. Indeed. Thank you for this reminder — it was/is ludicrous. And I hope we get to see the day of reckoning for this mobbed-up, drugged-up bag of bones.

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Bag of bones and lard.

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It's absurd that he hasn't dropped dead! Wish Melania had been a spy and would poison his food.

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Jul 23, 2023·edited Jul 23, 2023

July 2023

And Israel's Antiquities

‘...It is absurd that he made off with a van full of classified and top secret documents, as if they were his property, and did not belong to the American people for whom he was supposed to be working. ...’(article)

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