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A clip from tonight's klan rally:

 

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Grandpa Ranty is a great description.

 

 

In his twisted mind, women are only hired for their looks.

 

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It's scary how these people believe this crap:

 

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A good one from Dana Milbank: "I tried Trump’s Truth Social so you don’t have to"

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There is almost nothing I wouldn’t do for you, dear reader, and this week, in your behalf, I made a painful sacrifice: I joined Truth Social so you don’t have to.

I endured weeks on the waiting list for the Donald Trump-created, Devin Nunes-run attempt at a Twitter killer, and I suffered through a series of technical glitches. But eventually I gained access. As a result, I have come to be in possession of the following new pieces of information about the war in Ukraine:

Hunter Biden is involved in building and running biolabs in the country.

The CIA and National Institutes of Health are both “deeply involved” in the Ukrainian biolabs.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was set in motion by a CIA false-flag operation that was funded by George Soros.

The covid-19 pathogen originated not in China but in Shpyl’chyna, a village in Ukraine.

The bioweapons developed in Ukraine specifically target the “Abrahamic Bloodline.”

Neo-Nazis from Ukraine joined with the FBI to infiltrate the Capitol on Jan. 6 and participated in the insurrection.

Ukraine was planning to use drones to attack Russia with pathogens from the U.S.-funded bioweapons labs.

President Biden has been using Ukraine to launder money.

Ukrainian neo-Nazis controlled the Ukrainian city of Mariupol before Russians invaded.

Russia’s alleged war crimes were staged.

I also found many posts calling President Biden a pedophile (or a “groomer” in the new parlance of QAnon). I found badly photoshopped images of Vice President Harris in sexualized situations. I found ceaseless attacks on trans people, an edited video of a cat attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, attacks on Disney for opposing Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislation, references to satanic sacrifice by the “deep state,” a few racist epithets and endless accusations about Hunter Biden’s laptop and drug abuse.

I signed up for Truth Social, which launched its attack on Twitter soon after Vladimir Putin launched his attack on Ukraine, on March 3. “Due to high demand,” my “waitlist number” was 986,565.

I promptly forgot about Truth Social. Apparently, so did everybody else. The Wrap, an entertainment news website, reported this week that the app has seen a 93 percent drop in sign-ups (weekly installs on the Apple App Store have fallen from 872,000 at launch to just 60,000, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower) and a “similarly steep decline in traffic.” Truth Social had almost 1 million daily visits at launch, but that has fallen to fewer than 300,000 — well below Gab, a social media site that attracts white supremacists, according to SimilarWeb, another analytics firm.

Seems Trump’s social media venture is headed the way of Trump University, Trump’s Atlantic City casinos, Trump’s charities, Trump mattresses, Trump steaks, Trump clothing, Trump perfume, Trump lighting, Trump floor coverings, Trump eyewear, the Trump presidency and American democracy.

But this week, I got the coveted email welcoming me to Truth Social, with the caveat that “we are still fixing many bugs.” Sure enough, I clicked on the provided link to my profile — and got an error message. Eventually, I followed all the accounts Truth suggested for me, including Kyle Rittenhouse, Maria Bartiromo, the Epoch Times, Hot Chicks Golfing, Dr. Fauci Sucks, Sean Hannity, Eric Trump, Fake Hunter Biden, Dan Bongino, Breitbart News, Donald Trump Jr. and Donald Trump. House Republican leaders are on the platform, with red checkmarks instead of Twitter’s blue. In fact, the whole thing looks similar to Twitter, with “Truths” instead of tweets; the only differences are the lack of functionality and users.

I searched for the hashtag #Ukraine, hopped into the rabbit hole and was quickly swimming in a cesspool.

There were posts from Russian state propaganda. There was a doctored image of Trump holding a sign saying “Zelensky is the Avenatti of leaders.” There was a doctored video of Putin saying “Let’s go, Brandon.” There were posts about Ukrainian leaders being corrupt. There was a claim that Ukraine is “defending the NWO” — New World Order.

I scrolled on: Ukrainian soldiers are “white supremacists and neo-Nazis,” the “globalists” are backing Ukraine, the United States has “no business in this fraternal conflict,” a U.S. undersecretary of state paid $5 million to elect Volodymyr Zelensky, sanctions on Russia are hurting the U.S. dollar, Ukraine attacked Russia. Oh, and the Democrats (“Demon Rats”) “did not want Trump to know that they were creating a CIA colony in Ukraine,” so “they paralyzed his administration with two fake ‘impeachment’s and ultimately stole the election.”

Busted!

I did find the occasional pro-Ukraine “Truth.” And — who knows? — if I searched long enough, I might have found something accurate. But I didn’t. Instead, I found a small clump of angry people shouting into a void. And that’s the sad truth.

 

 

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1 hour ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Grandpa Ranty is a great description.

 

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9 hours ago, Cartmann99 said:

 

This was my first thought too. I immediately learned how to pronounce Meijer when I moved to Michigan because of the grocery store chain. I looked it up and Peter Meijer is part of the same family that owns the Meijer grocery store chain.

This really shows how sick these people are and how they do not think about anything he says. Every single one of those people knows how to pronounce Meijer. They may have even been wearing clothes bought from Meijer while they listened to his ramblings.

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I heard about Donny making fun of the pronunciation of Meijer and my take is that this is just typical Trump narcissism.  Trump finds Meijer difficult to pronounce and to read and, thus, Peter Meijer must be doing this on purpose just to make Trump look bad.  How dare people have names that Trump can't pronounce!  How dare there be words that he can't easily sound out!  Trump can't stand looking stupid so anybody or anything that even accidentally makes him look incompetent has to be taken to task.  Additionally, Meijer is young, seems competent, is fairly nice-looking, and is very rich.  All of those things make him a target for Donny.

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30 minutes ago, Xan said:

I heard about Donny making fun of the pronunciation of Meijer and my take is that this is just typical Trump narcissism.  Trump finds Meijer difficult to pronounce and to read and, thus, Peter Meijer must be doing this on purpose just to make Trump look bad.  How dare people have names that Trump can't pronounce!  How dare there be words that he can't easily sound out!  Trump can't stand looking stupid so anybody or anything that even accidentally makes him look incompetent has to be taken to task.  Additionally, Meijer is young, seems competent, is fairly nice-looking, and is very rich.  All of those things make him a target for Donny.

I can't tell you how many times I have had trouble reading and pronouncing  the last name "Cook".  Why can't Tim just spell it "Apple" and make it easy on me! 

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Meijer is originally a Dutch name. The letter combination "ij" is actually pronounced as a single vowel sound, which sounds somewhat like the english "a" with a "y" sound attached to it. Like in the word "say". It's not an exact match, but it comes close enough. 

If you want to pronounce Meijer similarly to how the Dutch pronounce it, you should say "May-er".

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Besides being an idiot, Trump may have been doing a bit of anti-semitic dogwhistling.

Names like Meijer (Meyer, Mayer, Meier, etc.) are associated with German and Polish ancestry, as well as Dutch. But, as both a last name and especially as a first name, Meyer is often thought of as Jewish.

Trump supporters might be dumb and/or bigoted enough to assume Peter Meijer is part of that imaginary Jewish cabal that they think runs the world.

Again, the old "stupid vs. evil" proportion is hard to discern.

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Trouble in truthadise

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The social media platform Donald Trump launched to compete with Twitter and Facebook has been such a disaster since its launch in February that two of its top executives have resigned, Reuters reported on Monday.

Josh Adams and Billy Boozer, the company’s chief of technology and chief of product development, are the two executives leaving the company after less than a year. Both were critical parts of the operation, according to eight sources who spoke with Reuters. “If Josh has left … all bets are off,” one of them said of Adams, calling him the “brains” behind the app’s technology.

Trump hasn’t been pleased. “What the fuck is going on?” he was heard saying of the app’s failure, The Daily Beast reported last month.

It’s too bad, given the former president’s lofty ambitions for the app. “I created TRUTH Social … to stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech,” Trump said last October when the app was announced. “We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American President has been silenced. This is unacceptable. I am excited to send out my first TRUTH on TRUTH Social very soon.”

 

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17 hours ago, 47of74 said:


Billy Boozer?  C'mon, that's a totally made up name.  Right?  The entire operation was Devin Nunes and he's just coming up with names of people who "left" to explain the complete flop.  "Yeah, Amanda Hugginkiss and Helen Back were in charge of the part where we put together the wire things and plug in the pluggy things to make it all work, but they were on their you-know-what that happens to women every month and got mad and left.  Then Seymour Butts and Mike Rotch who were our programmers left because they wanted more money and I told them they were getting $10 an hour and in my day I went to college and fed my family of ten and bought a house on $2.50 an hour so if they didn't like it they could go flip burgers and now they are both work for Target and said they are making much more with less stress.  And so see it's not at all my fault and could I pretty please have my Congressional seat and my cow back?"

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46 minutes ago, AlmostSavedAtTacoBell said:


Billy Boozer?  C'mon, that's a totally made up name.  Right?  The entire operation was Devin Nunes and he's just coming up with names of people who "left" to explain the complete flop.  "Yeah, Amanda Hugginkiss and Helen Back were in charge of the part where we put together the wire things and plug in the pluggy things to make it all work, but they were on their you-know-what that happens to women every month and got mad and left.  Then Seymour Butts and Mike Rotch who were our programmers left because they wanted more money and I told them they were getting $10 an hour and in my day I went to college and fed my family of ten and bought a house on $2.50 an hour so if they didn't like it they could go flip burgers and now they are both work for Target and said they are making much more with less stress.  And so see it's not at all my fault and could I pretty please have my Congressional seat and my cow back?"

*Holds up an extension cord* Something's wrong with this router. I can't get it to do the internet-thingy with the modem. *Points to a blender* :confusion-seeingstars:

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2 hours ago, AlmostSavedAtTacoBell said:

Amanda Hugginkiss and Helen Back

 

2 hours ago, AlmostSavedAtTacoBell said:

Seymour Butts and Mike Rotch

I hear that Ben Dover left, and took his wife Eileen with him.

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On 4/5/2022 at 1:11 PM, thoughtful said:

 

I hear that Ben Dover left, and took his wife Eileen with him.

Oliver Klozoff Director of Sales, IP Freeley HR Director, and Anita Mann Budget Manager resigned too.

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In other news....Donald still wants to be a movie star.

I recently got rid of a DVD (Two Weeks Notice, with Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock) because when I rewatched it I discovered that Trump is in it. I had forgotten this, apparently, and now that movie is ruined for me. Like so many other things Trump has ruined.

He is a truly horrible actor, btw.

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-hosted-movie-night-mar-033507562.html

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Someone said the quiet parts out loud

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Over the weekend, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican, spoke at the Gridiron dinner, an annual gathering of Washington media and political types. And he let 'er rip on Donald Trump.

"He's f---ing crazy!" Sununu said, according to Politico. "The press often will ask me if I think Donald Trump is crazy. And I'll say it this way: I don't think he's so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution. But I think if he were in one, he ain't getting out!"

Now, the Gridiron is a roast of sorts -- a usually polite send-up of Washington's political culture. So, yes, Sununu was "joking."

In short: While Sununu was, ostensibly, joking, it's not really a laughing matter. There are lots and lots of Republicans -- including many who are publicly supportive of Trump -- who privately wonder about his mental state and what it means for the party going forward. We should all be worried about what it means for the country going forward.

 

32 minutes ago, Cartmann99 said:

 

The fair board is also probably worried that he'd stiff them when it came time to pay up and that the Branch Trumpvidians would trash the joint. 

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Geez how surprising (not).

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The State Department is unable to provide a complete list and accounting of gifts presented to former President Donald Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence and other officials during the final year of the Trump administration, according to a report published in the Federal Register.

The State Department's Office of Protocol said the Executive Office of the President did not send the department information about gifts received by Trump and others from foreign officials in 2020, according to the report.

The department has made attempts to collect the missing information from the National Archives and Records Administration and the General Services Administration, but has been told that "potentially relevant records are not available" to the protocol office "under applicable access rules for retired records," the report says.

A footnote in the report does say that the lack of information available is complicated by the timing of the request from the State Department. It notes that the "Office of the Chief of Protocol did not submit the request for data to all reporting agencies prior to January 20, 2021 (at which time there was a change in administrations)."

 

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On 4/3/2022 at 7:57 AM, fraurosena said:

Meijer is originally a Dutch name. The letter combination "ij" is actually pronounced as a single vowel sound, which sounds somewhat like the english "a" with a "y" sound attached to it. Like in the word "say". It's not an exact match, but it comes close enough. 

If you want to pronounce Meijer similarly to how the Dutch pronounce it, you should say "May-er".

One would think that the fact that his [granted, third] wife's birth name was Melanija might clue him in or take the topic off the list of things to belittle...  But apparently not.

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Trump plans J.D. Vance endorsement in crowded Ohio senate race, sources say

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Former President Trump is planning to endorse J.D. Vance in Ohio's crowded senate GOP primary, according to three sources with knowledge of his decision.

In recent days, Trump began calling donors and advisers to get their opinion endorsing on the “Hillbilly Elegy” author, but he held off under intense pressure from the rival Republican campaigns of Josh Mandel and Jane Timken, the sources said.

"The Mandel people hit the roof," one Republican with knowledge of the discussions told NBC News, noting that Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan tried to dissuade Trump on behalf of Mandel, whom the congressman supports.

The May 3 primary is winner take all — meaning the candidate with the plurality wins.

Though Trump's press shop had already written up an endorsement of Vance, a source close to Mandel’s campaign said Thursday that it threw up a last-minute obstacle for the former president to consider: an internal Republican poll conducted by his campaign showing Mandel in front with 33 percent of the vote, followed by Matt Dolan and Mike Gibbons tied at 15 percent. Vance and Jane Timken were tied at 9 percent in the Mandel poll.

Just wanted to note that this is Gibbons:

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“The top 20% of earners in the United States pay 82% of federal income tax — and, if you do the math, and 45% to 50% don’t pay any income tax, you can see the middle class is not really paying any kind of a fair share, depending on how you want to define it,” Gibbons said.

When I was a youngster, phones were attached to the wall and Republicans ran on cutting taxes. :character-oldtimer:

Anyhoo, back to our regular programming:

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The poll showed that, even with Trump's endorsement, Vance rose to 15 percent support but was still in a three-way tie for second with Mandel marginally in the lead at 19 percent — a sign that Trump's endorsement had weight but was not determinative.

A spokesperson for Trump could not be reached for comment.

Trump has been concerned with Vance, who criticized the former president bitterly in 2016. Vance is also running in about third or fourth place in recent public polling and has barely cracked double digits — a major worry for Trump who doesn’t want to waste his endorsement, the sources said.

Dolan is the only candidate who is running on a platform that does not seem to be courting the support of the former president. That has bothered Trump immensely and has pushed him to want to pick a winner to ensure that a non-Trump acolyte doesn't win a state that he won handily in 2020 and 2016.

In public poling, Mandel and Gibbons lead the pack with roughly 20 percent of the vote each.

But Vance isn’t so far behind in the public polling that he can’t catch up. And those who have spoken to Trump or his advisers in recent days say he sees the most growth opportunity with Vance and a chance to make a real difference.

Vance's supporters, who include the former president's son and namesake, were hoping Trump would have made the endorsement Thursday, when his office announced he was holding an Ohio rally on April 23, 10 days before the primary.

“Nothing is final until it’s final. So Trump can always change his mind,” said one source who had spoken recently to Trump about the Ohio race. “But he already kicked the tires on everyone and he’s ready to go with Vance. It’s either Vance or nobody. And it’s only nobody if somehow the other campaigns can get him to hold off.”

 

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