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Nina Burleigh's avatar

The Swing by Fragonard, basically.

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Virginia Heffernan's avatar

That’s IT

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Mary Schweitzer's avatar

Aaaaack!!! Shhhhhhhh!! You’ll jinx it!

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Paul Slansky's avatar

It will make V-J Day in Times Square seem funereal.

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Paul Slansky's avatar

I just wrote about this very thing today in THERE IS NO BOTTOM. Death is in the air! https://paulslansky.substack.com/p/2025-09-01-death-incarnate

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Paul Slansky's avatar

How will our MSNBC people tamp down their giddiness? And imagine the delusional eulogies! I CAN’T WAIT❣️

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Charles's avatar

Exactly! "What comes after" is in the air, but there's a wonderful moment to come.

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Joseph Snow's avatar

my email today of the Substack had a blue box stating "Get 75% off for one year". Intrigued I clicked on the box where the standard rate of $60 for one year was posted. How does one avail themselves to the advertised 75% off?

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Adrian Benepe's avatar

The line to piss on his grave will stretch from sea to shining sea.

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Catt Berlin's avatar

Trump is the puppet of Russell Vought, Peter Thiel and Co. When he leaves, those men will step up and continue the current apocalyptic agenda. They are more dangerous than Trump ever was. They are the architects of everything that has happened and will happen. Trump is just the distraction, so we don't pay attention to what they are enacting and planning for our future. This is from last October https://www.propublica.org/article/video-donald-trump-russ-vought-center-renewing-america-maga

Imagine how much more horror they have in store for us now.

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Don Frazier's avatar

They do have high hopes. But what they do not have is the power to order today's MAGA base to terrorize and threaten individual lawmakers and other officials.

Though it's been seldom covered, the threat of violence has kept the GOP in line. We're talking about far more than derogatory posts and social media. It takes the form of nooses hanging from the mailbox, and detailed hand drawn maps of the route your children take home from school.

All of this is distributed across the country, much of it undertaken by normal citizens who have no police record or no public profile as a terrorist. Impossible to police. These guys will not trust or report to the people who try to inherit Trump's influence.

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Catt Berlin's avatar

Yes, that is one faction that will be lost without their master after he is gone, but they will be absorbed into and hired by ICE, which now hires almost anyone and offers a $50,000 signing bonus. Or is it $60,000 now? And then they will become even more evil and aggressive in that role. Did you read the link? It won't matter if you are red or blue because democracy itself will no longer exist as we know it. The technocrats planning the AI takeover of our lives don't care about the things we care about. They will steamroll us flat and force their version of life down our throats. You have to look at the entire picture and into the coming years to be prepared to fight what is happening. Because it's not on the news.

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Mark Weinrib's avatar

Sorry but this is just the Mueller Report on steroids. John Oliver with his we got em button

A long list of we’re sure this is it. But it never is

I have no faith in the rumors he’s dying.

I think it’s a suckers game

The next round of this is the certainty from every corner that we will win the midterms. However that overlooks every poll showing the dems bleeding voters.

It’s easy to be a pundit that tells me what is happening vs. telling me what to do to make something else happen

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Virginia Heffernan's avatar

Man, I’m just playing

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StacyO's avatar

And boy was it fun to play along with you in this piece.

"What a feeeeeeling "🎵

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Joeff's avatar

The Dems may bleeding voters but they’re not bleeding votes.

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