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  #3099739 4-Jul-2023 16:10
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That's why they are called banana republics!

 

 




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  #3100213 5-Jul-2023 13:58
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There's nothing like a freak show coming to a small rural town to bring a crowd of slack-jawed hayseeds and yokels.

Fox News: Trump ally Lindsey Graham booed off stage at South Carolina MAGA rally near his hometown

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham faced an onslaught of boos as he stumped for former President Donald Trump at a rally in his home state of South Carolina Saturday, with supporters giving him a thumbs down as he left the stage.

Graham, who spoke for about five minutes at the rally, was booed when first took stage. Once at the podium, Graham paused as the booing drowned out what he had to say. The crowd cheered at Graham's remarks about Trump, but went right back to shouting down the senator and his remarks. When he left a roaring crowd of disgruntled Trump supporters booed at the senator and gave him a thumbs down.

Taking the stage a short time after Graham's comments, Trump attempted to rally support for the senator, telling his supporters, "We're gonna love him."

Amid additional booing from the crowd, Trump said, "I know, it's half-and-half. But when I need some of those liberal votes, he's always there to help me get 'em, okay?"

"We got some pretty liberal people, but he's good," Trump added of Graham. "We know the good ones. We know the bad ones, too."

Trump referenced Graham at a later point in the rally and was met with another round of booing. "I'm gonna have to work on these people," Trump said. He also offered to campaign for Graham when he is up for re-election.

Graham, who's represented South Carolina in the U.S. Senate since 2003, has faced criticism from Trump supporters in recent years for his positions on a number of issues.

In 2021, as he waited to board a flight from the Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., Graham was swarmed by roughly a dozen people who called him a "traitor" over his comments about Trump following the 2020 presidential election.

"You know it was rigged," the individuals shouted to Graham at the time.

Graham's position on the Russia-Ukraine war, which has been ongoing for well over a year, has also not been popular among Trump supporters and hardcore conservatives.
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  #3100238 5-Jul-2023 15:00
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LOL, Lindsey Graham. One of the more useless Republicans in the senate. Funny how he hated on Trump like there was no tomorrow back in 2016, then as soon as he won, he couldn't be Trump's friend fast enough. Almost like My Kevin 🙄

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  #3100242 5-Jul-2023 15:03
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John Oliver Roasting Trump for 10 Minutes Straight


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  #3100335 5-Jul-2023 17:10
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If only.




Trump crowned? No faux King way!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  #3101029 7-Jul-2023 17:01
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trumpswag.com

 

I bet Trump would be absolutely ecstatic to see someone making money off his ("good"?) name and he doesn't get a cent whatsoever 😃

 

God some of that stuff is just so...tacky 😣

 

(I didn't post the link properly so it doesn't show as a referral from Geekzone 👍)

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  #3101213 8-Jul-2023 11:43
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Fittingly describes how MAGA morons think:

 

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  #3101224 8-Jul-2023 12:14
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The Hill: Australian minister calls Trump Jr. a ‘big baby’ after tour postponement

Australian Home Minister Clare O’Neil called the former president’s son a “big baby” in now-deleted tweets after Turning Point Australia announced his three-day tour was being postponed. In a series of posts reported Thursday by Reuters, she blasted Trump Jr. by saying he had been granted a visa.

“Geez, Donald Trump Jr is a bit of sore loser,” she said in the tweets.

“Donald Trump Jr has been given a visa to come to Australia. He didn’t get cancelled. He’s just a big baby, who isn’t very popular,” she added.

In another deleted tweet, O’Neil said Trump Jr. was trying to blame the Australian government for his “poor ticket sales and cancelled tour,” which was set to run from July 9-11.

In a Facebook post, Turning Point Australia, which was promoting Trump’s three-day tour of the country, said: “It seems America isn’t the only country that makes it difficult for the Trumps.”

It also said the trip was postponed and not canceled.

“Hold onto your tickets, this is a short delay nothing more. #CancelCulture,” the conservative organization added.

The Associated Press also reported that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government was not responsible for Trump Jr.’s change of plans.

“Donald Trump Jr.’s visa was dealt with in the normal way and, like anyone else, he was entitled to come here,” Albanese said. “The deferral of his travel is a matter for him.”
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  #3101233 8-Jul-2023 12:22
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Fox News retracted their article. It said that former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price said there is “no way” he would back former President Trump in 2024 for a second White House run.

“The only thing that guy has more of than fake tan is narcissism. He can kiss my big medical butt.”

Can't be disputed
  • appointed to HHS Secretary by Trump in 2016

  • resigned/fire in late 2017 after a scandal erupted over his use of government jets to travel costing the government more than $1 million total.

  • lead the Trump administration on attempts to overturn the Affordable Care Act in Congress.

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  #3101457 8-Jul-2023 19:46
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CNN: Special counsel prosecutors question witnesses about chaotic Oval Office meeting after Trump lost the 2020 election

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has signaled a continued interest in a chaotic Oval Office meeting that took place in the final days of the Trump administration, during which the former president considered some of the most desperate proposals to keep him in power over objections from his White House counsel.
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During the heated Oval Office meeting on December 18, 2020, outside advisers faced off with top West Wing attorneys over a plan to have the military seize voting machines in crucial states that Trump had lost.

They also discussed naming former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell as special counsel to investigate supposed voter fraud, and Trump invoking martial law as part of his efforts to overturn the election.
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Details about subsequent secret grand jury testimony and closed-door interviews illustrate how the special counsel and his prosecutors are looking at the various ways Trump tried to overturn his electoral loss despite some of his top officials advising him against the ideas.
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The December 14 date is of particular interest to prosecutors, sources told CNN. On that day, slates of alternate Republican electors in seven battleground states signed certificates falsely asserting Trump had won.
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Investigators have focused on efforts to recruit the illegitimate electors, have them sign certificates falsely asserting Trump had won, and then use them as a pretense to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to delay certification of Biden’s Electoral College win on January 6.
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Trump allies asked Pence to question the legitimacy of Biden’s electors in those seven states based on unfounded claims about widespread voter fraud and kick the decision of certification back to the states themselves
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  #3101553 8-Jul-2023 20:49
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I remember reading about that meeting, apparently there was a lot of shouting and screaming (power struggle?) and a number of participants were extremely unimpressed that Trump wanted Powell designated with some sort of "special counsel" bs role to investigate apparent "election fraud". Fortunately that didn't come to pass, and later on she was basically cut off from the rest of the "legal team" (emphasis mine) that was looking into all of this so-called election fraud 🙄

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  #3101627 9-Jul-2023 10:59
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Could this work? https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/activists-seek-keep-trump-2024-ballot-using-14th-amendment

 

 

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  #3101731 9-Jul-2023 18:24
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Okay, this is kinda...terrifying: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/08/politics/trump-campaign-promises/index.html

 

 

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  #3101748 9-Jul-2023 21:18
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It's not terrifying at all, he's a populist and will promise any old rubbish as long as it gets votes, but then be mostly incapable of putting any of it into action once he's elected.

 

 

Alternatively, it could also signal that he's got his 2016 crew back together. They took his speeches, cut them into 15-second slices, and checked them against various Facebook demographics, in Facebook terms Custom Audiences, then refined the ones that got a response. They ran hundreds of thousands of video creatives, meaning ad variants, to see which ones worked best, the record being 175,000 variations of one ad in one day. When one Custom Audience group responded well they used a tool called Lookalike Audiences to find nonobvious but algorithmically selected alternative Custom Audiences that would also respond well. The system was designed to make commercial advertising more effective but they just used it to make their horse run faster than anyone else's (Cambridge Analytica got all the flak because they pulled the data out of Facebook to do this, if you did it within Facebook and they got paid nothing happened). They also used multiple competing ad agencies to find and target new demographics and then at the end of the day whoever got the best numbers got the money. Some of them boasted that they could modify his speeches in real time to maximise audience response.

 

 

So what you could be seeing isn't campaign promises but just algorithmically selected bumf chosen to maximise audience response.

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  #3101785 10-Jul-2023 07:09
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No surprises here: https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-done-nothing-sucker-supporters-pay-bills-ex-gop-staffer-1811741

 

 

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