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President Biden is doing well at fundraising. That money will help get his message across. If he does something about Israel he should be a shoo-in for President.
Something I think might be overlooked is that Trump didn't need much money to defeat Hillary Clinton.
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Obama, Clinton and big-name entertainers help Biden raise a record $26 million for his reelection
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Obama and Clinton were helping Biden expand his already significant cash advantage over Trump. Biden had $155 million in cash on hand through the end of February, compared with $37 million for Trump and his Save America political action committee.
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The Right has gone from freaking out about pronouns to being terrified by prefixes:
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Had a parent get upset over a “trans” field trip
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I am an English teacher and my colleagues and I are planning on bringing our 11th grade students on a field trip later this year. Today another English teacher got an angry email from a parent saying that they could not believe we were bringing our students on a field trip where they would “learn about being trans.”
The field trip they were talking about? We are a New England based high school currently teaching about Henry David Thoreau. We are planning on taking our students to Walden Pond to learn about his writing. He was a transcendentalist. This parent heard a word that had “trans” in it and freaked out.
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You're on a 4 person raft in freezing cold weather. It overturns. You are the only person who gets back on board. And there is 1 buoy you can throw out. Who do you throw it to?
1) Trump
2) Mitch McConnell
3) Cheaney
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| kikanga wrote: | You're on a 4 person raft in freezing cold weather. It overturns. You are the only person who gets back on board. And there is 1 buoy you can throw out. Who do you throw it to?
1) Trump
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LOL! Like I would have allowed them to share the raft in the first place.
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This is such a difficult choice, especially if you're an evangelical Christian, right?
| Quote: | President Biden @POTUS
Happy Easter, America.
May God bless and keep each and every one of you. |
| Quote: | President Biden /@POTUS
Jill and I send our warmest wishes to Christians around the world celebrating the power of hope and the promise of Christ’s Resurrection this Easter Sunday. |
| Quote: | Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski
Easter morning, Trump made separate posts attacking Gallagher, Biden, Engoron, & Jon Stewart, 6 posts about poll numbers, 2 about endorsements he got, an article claiming Russia collusion was a hoax, an article about his retribution, & attacked “radical leftists.” He has risen! |
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| kikanga wrote: | You're on a 4 person raft in freezing cold weather. It overturns. You are the only person who gets back on board. And there is 1 buoy you can throw out. Who do you throw it to?
1) Trump
2) Mitch McConnell
3) Cheaney |
I keep it and row for shore.
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I still can't believe people will vote for someone this unhinged.
| Quote: | Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social @TrumpDailyPosts
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL, INCLUDING CROOKED AND CORRUPT PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES THAT ARE DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024, AND PUT ME IN PRISON, INCLUDING THOSE MANY PEOPLE THAT I COMPLETELY & TOTALLY DESPISE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA, A NOW FAILING NATION, LIKE “DERANGED” JACK SMITH, WHO IS EVIL AND “SICK,” MRS. FANI “FAUNI” WADE, WHO SAID SHE HARDLY KNEW THE “SPECIAL” PROSECUTOR, ONLY TO FIND THAT HE SPENT YEARS “LOVING” HER, LONG BEFORE THE GEORGIA PERSECUTION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP BEGAN (AND THEREBY MAKING THE CASE AGAINST ME NULL, VOID, AND ILLEGAL!), AND LAZY ON VIOLENT CRIME ALVIN BRAGG WHO, WITH CROOKED JOE’S DOJ THUGS, UNFAIRLY WORKING IN THE D.A.’s OFFICE, ILLEGALLY INDICTED ME ON A CASE HE NEVER WANTED TO BRING AND VIRTUALLY ALL LEGAL SCHOLARS SAY IS A CASE THAT SHOULD NOT BE BROUGHT, IS BREAKING THE LAW IN DOING SO (POMERANTZ!), WAS TURNED DOWN BY ALL OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES, AND IS NOT A CRIME. HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!
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^^^ Why isn't the gag order being enforced
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| ChefLinda wrote: | I still can't believe people will vote for someone this unhinged.
| Quote: | Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social @TrumpDailyPosts
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL, INCLUDING CROOKED AND CORRUPT PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES THAT ARE DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024, AND PUT ME IN PRISON, INCLUDING THOSE MANY PEOPLE THAT I COMPLETELY & TOTALLY DESPISE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA, A NOW FAILING NATION, LIKE “DERANGED” JACK SMITH, WHO IS EVIL AND “SICK,” MRS. FANI “FAUNI” WADE, WHO SAID SHE HARDLY KNEW THE “SPECIAL” PROSECUTOR, ONLY TO FIND THAT HE SPENT YEARS “LOVING” HER, LONG BEFORE THE GEORGIA PERSECUTION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP BEGAN (AND THEREBY MAKING THE CASE AGAINST ME NULL, VOID, AND ILLEGAL!), AND LAZY ON VIOLENT CRIME ALVIN BRAGG WHO, WITH CROOKED JOE’S DOJ THUGS, UNFAIRLY WORKING IN THE D.A.’s OFFICE, ILLEGALLY INDICTED ME ON A CASE HE NEVER WANTED TO BRING AND VIRTUALLY ALL LEGAL SCHOLARS SAY IS A CASE THAT SHOULD NOT BE BROUGHT, IS BREAKING THE LAW IN DOING SO (POMERANTZ!), WAS TURNED DOWN BY ALL OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES, AND IS NOT A CRIME. HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!
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Just a complete and total (bleep). Someone you wouldn't piss on if they were on fire. I can only imagine what Hunter S Thompson would have had to say about Trump were he still alive.
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| DuncanIdaho wrote: | | ChefLinda wrote: | I still can't believe people will vote for someone this unhinged.
| Quote: | Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social @TrumpDailyPosts
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL, INCLUDING CROOKED AND CORRUPT PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES THAT ARE DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024, AND PUT ME IN PRISON, INCLUDING THOSE MANY PEOPLE THAT I COMPLETELY & TOTALLY DESPISE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA, A NOW FAILING NATION, LIKE “DERANGED” JACK SMITH, WHO IS EVIL AND “SICK,” MRS. FANI “FAUNI” WADE, WHO SAID SHE HARDLY KNEW THE “SPECIAL” PROSECUTOR, ONLY TO FIND THAT HE SPENT YEARS “LOVING” HER, LONG BEFORE THE GEORGIA PERSECUTION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP BEGAN (AND THEREBY MAKING THE CASE AGAINST ME NULL, VOID, AND ILLEGAL!), AND LAZY ON VIOLENT CRIME ALVIN BRAGG WHO, WITH CROOKED JOE’S DOJ THUGS, UNFAIRLY WORKING IN THE D.A.’s OFFICE, ILLEGALLY INDICTED ME ON A CASE HE NEVER WANTED TO BRING AND VIRTUALLY ALL LEGAL SCHOLARS SAY IS A CASE THAT SHOULD NOT BE BROUGHT, IS BREAKING THE LAW IN DOING SO (POMERANTZ!), WAS TURNED DOWN BY ALL OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES, AND IS NOT A CRIME. HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!
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Just a complete and total (bleep). Someone you wouldn't piss on if they were on fire. I can only imagine what Hunter S Thompson would have had to say about Trump were he still alive.
| Quote: | | Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency. |
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We can talk about the people who vote for him, but the real issue is the people in power in the GOP and the judicial system who allow him to continue on without any true accountability; that HST quote applies to them as well.
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The Biden team quoted Trump's tweet above with this response:
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A feeble and confused Trump spends the Easter holiday spewing an unhinged all-caps tirade attacking America and talking about himself |
They are doing this partly to highlight his craziness, but also to troll and goad him into even further lunacy. They are trying to drive him over the edge.
The golf tweet was for the same reason. |
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| ChefLinda wrote: | The Biden team quoted Trump's tweet above with this response:
| Quote: | Biden-Harris HQ _at_ BidenHQ
A feeble and confused Trump spends the Easter holiday spewing an unhinged all-caps tirade attacking America and talking about himself |
They are doing this partly to highlight his craziness, but also to troll and goad him into even further lunacy. They are trying to drive him over the edge.
The golf tweet was for the same reason. |
I love the fact they're trying to drive Trump over the edge. Trump's narcissism and vanity are his weaknesses, and they most be exploited if we're going to hold on to the WH and regain both houses of Congress.
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The whole thing was a pump and dump scheme for Trump to steal more money from the rubes. As much as the shares have fallen, they still have the rubes' money infusion. Last year they had $4M in revenue but $50M in losses. Now they have $300M cash from the rubes no matter what the stock does, even if Trump takes a "paper" bath on his shares. Like everything Trump ever did, it's a con where he will leave other people holding the bag while he walks away with his share and experiences no negative consequences. |
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NBC: Biden's latest campaign strategy: Get under Trump's skin
| Quote: | As President Joe Biden works to defeat Donald Trump, he’s increasingly focused on another goal he thinks will help him achieve that: getting under his skin.
In recent weeks, both in private and public settings, Biden has ramped up personal, biting and often sarcastic broadsides against his Republican opponent, targeting his financial challenges, his campaign tempo and even his weight.
It’s a strategy largely driven by Biden himself, according to multiple aides and advisers familiar with the approach.
“This is him, and we’re following his lead,” one Biden aide said. “There’s just something about Joe Biden that gets under Donald Trump’s skin more than anybody, and I think Joe Biden knows that.” |
If you think back to all the Republican challengers who tried to go back at him -- none of them broke through. Hillary mostly took the high road and when she called him a Russian asset for real (not as a joke), it didn't break through. But there's something about the way Biden does it that both works for him and gets through to Trump's ego. The only other person who publicly ridiculed Trump so effectively was Obama at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. |
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| Quote: | Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports
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The Manhattan DA tells the judge that Trump's "dangerous, violent, and reprehensible rhetoric fundamentally threatens the integrity of these proceedings," in a new filing urging him to expand the gag order. |
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Abortion will be on the ballot in Florida this November:
| Quote: | Mark Joseph Stern @mjs_DC
NEW: The Florida Supreme Court simultaneously UPHOLDS the state's 15-week abortion ban (which lets the six-week ban take effect, too)—but also APPROVES a ballot initiative that would amend the FL constitution to protect abortion. |
| Quote: | Simon Rosenberg @SimonWDC
Republicans in Florida are going to be defending a six week abortion ban this November. It polls in the low 20s. |
Also on the ballot -- legalized pot.
| Quote: | Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida voters can decide in November whether to protect abortion rights and legalize recreational marijuana, court says. |
It's the culture wars again except this time the liberals have the momentum. |
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| ChefLinda wrote: | Abortion will be on the ballot in Florida this November:
| Quote: | Mark Joseph Stern @mjs_DC
NEW: The Florida Supreme Court simultaneously UPHOLDS the state's 15-week abortion ban (which lets the six-week ban take effect, too)—but also APPROVES a ballot initiative that would amend the FL constitution to protect abortion. |
| Quote: | Simon Rosenberg @SimonWDC
Republicans in Florida are going to be defending a six week abortion ban this November. It polls in the low 20s. |
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Yes!!! I sent petitions for me, my wife and my mother-in-law last year for this. So glad it made it!
Recreational marijuana will also be on the ballot.
I think (hope) both will pass. Unfortunately just like the time we gave people who had served their time the right to vote back, republicans will find a way to (bleep) with it. Guaranteed. |
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I am curious why the judge is not throwing Trump in jail for making threats to both he and his daughter.
How is that legal?
How is that okay?
Why is it that Trump is so far above the law?
He literally can say or do whatever he wants, whenever he wants.
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Trump will thumb his nose at the expanded gag order as he has done with all such orders. Until a judge holds him accountable he'll continue on the same path.
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| trmiv wrote: | | ChefLinda wrote: | Abortion will be on the ballot in Florida this November:
| Quote: | Mark Joseph Stern @mjs_DC
NEW: The Florida Supreme Court simultaneously UPHOLDS the state's 15-week abortion ban (which lets the six-week ban take effect, too)—but also APPROVES a ballot initiative that would amend the FL constitution to protect abortion. |
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Yes!!! I sent petitions for me, my wife and my mother-in-law last year for this. So glad it made it!
Recreational marijuana will also be on the ballot.
I think (hope) both will pass. Unfortunately just like the time we gave people who had served their time the right to vote back, republicans will find a way to (bleep) with it. Guaranteed. |
I have a friend who just got out of the hospital for smoking so much blue. He has asthma. If he smokes for the high I'm trying to convince him to go to a cannabis shop and get some cookies, gummies, or some other organic to achieve the high without doing further to his lungs.
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| Time to investigate his funding sources |
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JFK must be turning over in his grave. SMH The Kennedy family is coming to Bidens defense. I wonder what's wrong with Jr.?
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| DuncanIdaho wrote: | | Time to investigate his funding sources |
It is, but it's beyond pointless to do so at this point; nothing will come of it. Few people in a position to hold him and his accomplices accountable really care about doing so, and those in that tiny minority will only be shutdown by the rest.
It's time to stop expecting the system to what it should and just do what we can: vote and work towards making like minded people to do the same in the regions that actually make a difference.
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