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Doesn’t it feel like we’re not even close to the bottom of the barrel yet? Things keep piling up with exponential speed. If you pull back and try to look at the whole big orange glob of a picture, how is it possible that this man is still in the damn running?

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It's like the event horizon of a black hole. THERE IS NO BOTTOM.

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I had to look up event horizon, but—yessss!

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We still have a ways to go. They haven't found the bodies yet. 😉

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That black hole is my empty savings account. Inflation has eaten my groceries and I haven't ever gotten a raise (0K, except for $2.00, one year?) in my Social Security in the last ten years. I can understand how a lot of people look resentfully at the Fortunate Four Hundred as being thieves who somehow stole their Christmas. Ten years ago carrots cost 33 cents a pound. Today the price can be up to $4 per pound.

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Nailed it.

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How is it possible he’s still a “free” man & not incarcerated!!! He INCITED&CREATED the insurrection!!! He is the one who created the entire concept!!! The rioters did not just happen to appear where & when they did, HE DIRECTED THEM TO DO SO & TO LYNCH HIS VICE PRESIDENT IF HE DID NOT OVERTURN THE ELECTION!!!

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Sounds about white to me, the two-tiered justice system that is. There is a system for rich, white, defendants, and one for the rest of us.

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I know the democrat party doesn’t even hide it anymore. Biden is so corrupt

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What evidence do you have to substantiate your claim?

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What are you talking about? Biden was never a slum lord, racist, misogonist Nazi fascist.

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WHAT!!

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Go read Teri Kanefield's excellent blog. You'll still be as impatient but not as angry or mystified.

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Teri is brilliant - and calm. 😊

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Where do I find her? On Substack?

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Google her name, and on her website (near the right side) is a button for her blog. She's also on Substack and Mastodon etc but her blog is becoming the central spot for current events.

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Because he's White, (allegedly) wealthy, and was the President once so everybody's worried about stepping on the landmine of being The First to Prosecute a Former U.S. President. Democrats are (rightly) worried that the Republicans will spend the next eternity or so trying to gin up excuses to prosecute Democratic former Presidents (because they WILL, having shown themselves to be petty sore Lu-ZERS time and again!).

The only people who seem willing to shoulder the burden of holding Crooked Donnie accountable are a group of career civil servants like Jack Smith, Tanya Chutkan, Fawnie Willis, and Scott McAfee—who's a Federalist Society Republican but also used to work under Willis, and seems determined to do the right thing, politics be damned!

I have a feeling that if we'd left it to the Beltway mucky-mucks, Mary's uncle would've skittered off to Davos or (more likely) Moscow with a slap on the wrist. Thankfully, that's not the case—even Aileen Cannon, who sucks up to Donald as naturally as she draws breath, is finding it hard to throw the case for him given Jack Smith's got a hawk's eye on her shenanigans, especially as it becomes more and more likely that DT did a great deal worse than just hang onto some potentially TOP SECRET material for personal profit like Hillary Rodham Clinton did (yes, I have NOT forgotten or forgiven "But Her E-mails"!), but actively shared those contents like they were party favors with agents for foreign governments, including those whose interests are openly hostile to our own!

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Oops what's your beef with Hillary clinton? I don't care about the emails. We've already been over that for years now.whybrong that up now?

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Because treason is treason, and Hillary Rodham Clinton got to skip away from it without punishment. The fact that she had her e-mail server wiped ("like, with a cloth?") before the FBI got their hands on it should have been enough to find her guilty of some felony, but her ex-President husband leaned on the current Attorney General to give her a pass.

I despised her for her treatment of Bernie Sanders, who SHOULD have been President, even before then—but watching her do something she would have had Julian Assange or Edward Snowden killed for? Is enraging to me. And that doesn't even cover her "Pied Piper Strategy" which gave us President Donald Trump....

That doesn't excuse what Trump's done in slightest, and I will dancing in the street when he finally gets measured for an orange jumpsuit. But 2016 could have given us one of the best Presidents we've ever had, but instead we got two of the worst choices.

Any other Hillaryinsta questions?

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Our legal system is seriously flawed.

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With REPUBLICANS they never see the TRUTH and We Democrats need to repeat the TRUTH over and over like RUMP does in his lying!

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Democrats don’t play hardball! They better get tougher, for democracy! Half of Congress refused the election results. They need to go!

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Strongly agree.

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We need to mobilize. Write postcards if you can afford the stamps. Make calls, which requires a computer and the ability to read a script off your screen. Ring doorbells. Do whatever you can. This is far more important than 2020.

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You democrats wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped you in the face

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Troll or you just have 3 channels on your TV...Fox, OAN and NewsMax!!!

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Diana, I vote troll.

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Me too.

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Away, troll!!

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Oh yeah of course the Democrats always make it so. Those dirty little Democrats. /s

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Jackie, that is rather vague and short on specifics. Can you be just a touch more elaborate?

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I appreciate you. Thank you

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I know the Biden crime family is about to go down

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Do everybody a favor. Go back down your rabbit hole.

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Jack Smith is still holding a bunch of cards. He is a badass poker player. Hard to read the guy. That is giving Donito Assolini sleepless nights.

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Jack Smith is potentially the BEST THING that could save US democracy.

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But, unfortunately, there is corruption in the Supreme Court. And, throughout DC. Now what? Where does one start to clean "house"? And, can it be done before the next election?

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Good grief you dems are nutty

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We may be nutty but not corrupted.

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Thank you~

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Indeed. Clearly Badass and brutally methodical. Forecast: Boom. 💣Checkmate. ✔

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Quite the opposite.

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Donito Assolini 😂

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Exactly... the only thing that rivals that is one I've seen in some blogs is "LDFF" Little Donnie F*ck Face. 😆😆

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Marc, “LDFF” came from Jeff Tiedrich.

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Indeed?.. well, that definitely does sound like his style. 😆👌

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Biden is a Qtip.

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Please go away Jackie. Nobody really wants to listen to you Jackie. Of course I don't believe that you really are Jackie

I think your Marjorie Taylor green

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I sure hope so.

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I love Secretary of State Benson's comment on Threads: "Slow news day here in Michigan…"

donald, you may have picked the wrong state to commit more felonies.

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Between DA Willis here in GA and AG Nessel + Secretary Benson in Michigan not to mention AG James, you couldn't pick ppl whose states I'd least like to eff with if you tried 😆 all of them are amazing

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Margaret; gotta love Jocelyn Benson!

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Every time I see Secretary of State Benson holding back a wry smile I imagine and hope there’s a hideaway where she and Gov Whitmer tip a few back.

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He's guilty until proven guiltier. ALWAYS.

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Lock them ALL up.

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Mary, you are an amazing communicator. Keep up the good work! You are very brave to stand up to the rest if the family! Loved the picture of your Dad as a young man! So happy he dumped mashed potatoes on his brother’s head!

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I’ll bring the wine Mary!

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Exactly what I was going to say. WooHoo, par........ty....... 🥂🥳

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I’ll bring red you bring white.

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Perfect, Pinot Grigio it is! I hope Mary is reading these. It’s as much fun as our party is will be.

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I agree. She has done so much to show how criminal he is. Wish the MAGA crowd would open their eyes. I know so many smart people who think he is great. I got one guy down by him telling me tRump saved the economy. There is something around 75 quarters of growth before he took office (with 1 or 2 small declines). That guy had no comment.

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I've already joined you, Mary. It's the Solstice, the longest night and a significant event in which we mark the turning of the wheel and the calendar..

So I sat down with a dram of Irish whiskey and some lovely smoke and read your update on the fuckery of the day. I was able to read it and laugh.... through the "oh gods, really....again" (I have to laugh occasionally or I'll go mad 🤯😎)

Thanks for sharing your special insights into things that really matter. There's a group of women and men here on this platform that I've come to rely on for facts and information. Thanks.

You do the heavy lifting for the rest of us.

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Well said! A toast 🥂 to Mary!!

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It is my birthday and him paying for all the misery he has inflicted to this country would be a wonderful gift!!!

And Christmas!!🤶

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Happy birthday Pamela🥳💙

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Thank you ☺️

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Happy Solstice 🎉

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Blessed Solstice!

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Cheers!

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This is great news. There must be a lot more that we still don’t know about but this should be enough.

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It seems it’s never enough, or delayed until no longer useful. We still have to count on juries to actually convict the creep. A Repub president could pardon a federal conviction…

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It’s hard to believe that justice will ever come, but the thought of Ronna maybe having to account for her actions does bring me joy.

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Oh my gosh, this is really getting ridiculous. Lock that bastard up and mute all of the media. I am sick and tired of hearing from news media that he is the front runner. I want to scream, but I am maintaining my sanity by reading your Substack, Mary, and all the other very smart people who understand the very basics of right and wrong! He will get his! Happy Holidays!

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Dear Donnie Diaperstain,

When you made that recorded phone call personally pressuring two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election…

…was that another *Perfect Phonecall*?

Asking ‘cause we’re all spellbound students of your ever winning, very stable genius.

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😆😆 lmao

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lol

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Witness please, the dumbest criminal in history!

He is buring himself, yet he takes no responsibility for anything.

No worries Donnie, Jack will show you the errors of your ways!

Mary, I'll bring the Captain Morgan & Mexican Coca ~Cola!

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Indeed... and I definitely like the idea of the riff on a Cuba Libre... with fresh lime wedges.

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I'll have to get the limes there, not sure they'd survive the trip from NM 😉

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He must be put in prison 😡

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Well, I’ll be there. Wherever you want to meet and share some bubbly.

I live in the great state of Colorado - yes, the 1 with the fantastic “without fear or favor” state Supreme Court!

Good news, even if we might need to wait a few days to make more solid party-plans.

Light at the end of the tunnel IS still a light!

We all need to get young people (ie Taylor Swift, etc) to encourage one another to Register and VOTE because Their Future, Their Climate, Their Lives depend on us ALL saving democracy.

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Honey, I’ll make my world famous Chile Rellenos. And I don’t work that hard for anybody! 😂🇺🇸🪩

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