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8th September 2020, 10:24 AM | #841 |
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8th September 2020, 10:30 AM | #842 |
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Trump’s Net Worth Drops $600 Million In A Year To $2.5 Billion by Dan Alexander Trump Considers Spending $100 Million On Campaign by Eliza Relman Yikes! At a loss of 600 million a year and out 100 million, for a total of $2.5 billion, he literally cannot afford to win this one. |
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8th September 2020, 10:37 AM | #843 |
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8th September 2020, 10:51 AM | #844 |
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Seems weird that this is how he meant to quiet the assertions that his campaign funds are tanking.
He doesn't use his money if he doesn't absolutely have to. That's a fact. |
8th September 2020, 11:01 AM | #845 |
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President Trump got away with not having to spend too much on ads in 2016 because he got wall to wall coverage on all media outlets with his outrageous behaviour.
I hope that he doesn't get it this time around. Perhaps that's the only advantage of being subjected to 4 years of President Trump's behaviour. |
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8th September 2020, 11:25 AM | #847 |
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8th September 2020, 11:33 AM | #848 |
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I had a funny thought. It's just fantasy, but suppose these recent "normalized relationship" announcements by various countries are the result of campaign funds diverted to pay off the people involved in the announcements. "Here's $50 million for you, and $50 million for you. Now you just have to pretend to not hate each other for the next several months." |
8th September 2020, 11:58 AM | #849 |
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8th September 2020, 12:00 PM | #850 |
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When I had watched it before - disturbing overwhelmed the other two that you listed.
But then, I'm probably a bit weird and don't really gain satisfaction by looking down on dupes and evil. Honestly, that's pretty much to be expected, along with a larger "white backlash" to the threat of change and having relative advantages under fire. For too many, it takes much more personal internal conflict to change course - for example, the anti-gay conservatives with gay kids are much more likely to change their opinions and the COVID deniers that lost a spouse who had a change of heart. |
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8th September 2020, 12:11 PM | #851 |
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Trump Retweets
Democrats and Sleepy Joe’s Peaceful Protestors! Quote Tweet Mark Dice @MarkDice Black power extremists invade McDonalds in Pittsburgh cuz of rrrrrraaaacim ‘n stuff. |
8th September 2020, 12:14 PM | #852 |
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Tim Pool @Timcast It's hard for me to believe Trump will lose in November considering all the polls in 2016 and how Biden is substantially worse than Hillary in many ways "Biden, to me, is like taking a flashlight with a dying battery and going for a long walk in the woods." - Joe Rogan Clay Travis @ClayTravis Spotify deleted all the Alex Jones appearances — and other guests too — from Joe Rogan’s podcast archives. |
8th September 2020, 12:15 PM | #853 |
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Sleepy Joe Biden has pledged to ABOLISH Suburban Communites as they currently exist by reinstating Obama’s radical AFFH Regulation. There goes Suburbia! Democrats admit that President Trump’s message is “working” on violence coming to the Suburbs in a Looney Biden Administration. Plus, Biden just doubled down on forcing Federal control of local zoning. This means low income housing and projects. So much for the American Dream! They are not “peaceful protesters”, as Sleepy Joe and the Democrats call them, they are THUGS - And it is all taking place in Democrat run cities. Call me and request Federal HELP. We will solve your problems in a matter of minutes - And thanks to the U.S. Marshalls in Portland! On my way to the Great State of Florida, see you soon! |
8th September 2020, 12:16 PM | #854 |
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They claimed a lot of things that weren't even remotely objectively true, of course. The more disturbing part about that, though, is how they just keep making their false accusations towards others into the reality of how they treat their people and the actions that they themselves are taking.
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8th September 2020, 12:23 PM | #855 |
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LOL. I wonder how anyone could believe this nonsense. If the AFFH Regulations were there to abolish surburbs, why didn't it happen when the regulations were in effect?
I guess it makes as much sense and his asking for re-election otherwise the violence in the streets won't stop. Yes, the violence that is happening on the streets under his administration.... |
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8th September 2020, 12:28 PM | #856 |
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8th September 2020, 01:01 PM | #858 |
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8th September 2020, 01:06 PM | #859 |
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Is this you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-anxiety "Climate change is also linked to elevated rates of mood disorders, such as depression, anxiety, pre- and post-traumatic stress and increased drug and alcohol use. It is also associated with increased suicidal intention and death by suicide." |
8th September 2020, 01:06 PM | #860 |
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@EricTrump Football is officially dead — so much for “America’s sport.” Goodbye NFL... I’m gone. Quote Tweet Washington Examiner @dcexaminer Dallas Cowboys player says officials have given team "green light" to protest national anthem. https://washex.am/334FRQ3 |
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8th September 2020, 01:22 PM | #862 |
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8th September 2020, 01:24 PM | #863 |
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No there's not.
There used to be, back when the world had facts. But not anymore. Being afraid of something that will happen and being afraid of something that won't happen are the same thing. Being angry at stuff that is happening is being "dramatic" while being angry at stuff that doesn't happen is valid. There are no facts anymore. So there is no difference in anything outside of who wants to be loudest and most stubborn about it. |
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8th September 2020, 01:47 PM | #864 |
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And, depending on circumstances, I could easily find myself in the other half. Make no mistake. I'm a big fan of vaccines. I keep mine updated (which reminds me, it's time to get my flu vaccination). I think they're great. But if there is a Covid vaccine that 'just happens' to come out right before Nov.3, and it is being hawked by Trump and Fiends I probably will wait for the next bus. There is no doubt that he's already made HHS and the CDC his creatures, and anything they might say is more than suspect. In fact it is probably outright lies. Trump and Fiends can't move their lips without lying. Maybe an EU approved vaccine. I might even have more faith in something the Chinese came up with. |
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8th September 2020, 02:15 PM | #865 |
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8th September 2020, 03:30 PM | #867 |
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8th September 2020, 03:37 PM | #868 |
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Police Chief, and most of the police in Rochester, N.Y., have resigned. The Democrat Mayor and, of courses, Governor Cuomo, have no idea what to do. New York State is a mess - No Money, High Taxes & Crime, Everyone Fleeing. November 3rd. We can fix it! |
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Just left Florida, see everyone tonight in North Carolina! #MAGA Quote Tweet Congressman Dan Bishop @jdanbishop US House candidate, NC-9 Excited to be with @realDonaldTrump in #NC tonight! #PromisesKept |
8th September 2020, 03:51 PM | #870 |
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Lie. The command staff, not the police.
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8th September 2020, 04:22 PM | #871 |
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The U.S. Justice Department is seeking to take over the defense of President Donald Trump in a defamation suit brought by advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who claims Trump raped her two decades ago.
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8th September 2020, 04:27 PM | #872 |
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Since when is the US Dept of Justice the personal lawyers for Trump in a civil lawsuit for something that is unconnected to and before Trump was even the POTUS?
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8th September 2020, 04:33 PM | #873 |
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8th September 2020, 04:54 PM | #876 |
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I just heard that Ta’nehesi Coates said that Trump is The U.S.’ “first white president.”
That’s a riff on B. Clinton being the nations’ first black president. |
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8th September 2020, 06:13 PM | #878 |
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In January to March 2020, it was reported that the Trump Organisation was attempting to buy One America News Network (OANN) for less than $250,000,000 however the negotiations seemed to have ended without success.
https://www.salon.com/2020/05/06/don...wn-fox-report/ That suggests two things. Firstly that the Trumps are preparing to operate an extreme conservative news network as they perceive they will lose the election. Secondly, that Trump may spend his own money and Trump PAC revenue for the dual purpose of election campaigning and establishing the Trumps as the bastions of conservative information to allow them to operate an extreme conservative news network if they lose the election....if it is cheaper than Trump spending $250 million to acquire OANN I simply suggest this could be on the cards and I imagine the Murdoch family will try prevent this as it will dilute Fox News advertising revenue. I imagine Fox will extend the moratorium on Fox News talking heads accepting positions at a competitive network, after termination, so the Trumps don't acquire them for OANN and yet Fox News can sack its pro-Trump talking heads when their views become redundant. |
8th September 2020, 07:16 PM | #879 |
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DJT has never displayed any rationality. If he thinks the top Pentagon officials were somehow involved in the dead-soldiers-are-losers stories, then they must be punished. And because he has neither breadth of knowledge, creativity, nor an understanding of how people with normal emotions deal with life, the only way he can attack them is to call them stupid babies (which he has already done) or accuse them of things he has been accused of. Therefore, they must be accused of being in the pocket of the weapons manufacturers.
I suspect a number of senators considered standing just offstage saying “Sir, sir, ixnay on criticizing the military obbylay.” But they have learned that (a) President Whackadoodle attacks people who try to help him understand Washington and (b) Pig Latin is far beyond the abilities of the stablest genius in history. |
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