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He seems to have gone to another plane. He thinks he aced that interview with Baier that the rest of the world who watched it thinks was just a whole lot more confessional evidence for Prosecutor Smith and the upcoming trial. But he's looking stressed. He'll probably feel better after tonight with the Evangelicals and their laying on of hands. I'm still wondering about what's in the grave with Ivana.

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You read my mind. It seemed sketchy from the git go to bury her there.

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The Donald never does Anything purely out of kindness for someone else’s benefit. Pure altruism, in his mind, is for “suckers”, as is any self-sacrifice for the benefit of others or out of a sense of (true) patriotism. Whatever he does, he always always does because he thinks it will benefit _himself_. So we can count on him having a selfish ulteriormotive for burying Ivana at Bedminster. The interesting question is, what was/were his motive(s)? There are a lot of possibilities.

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A thousand likes for this. I go check what Mary Trump is saying about him as we roll along here. So I found one today and she said again, exactly what you just said and she added to it, that he's never ever had to live life where he couldn't get what he wanted. Born rich, it's like his feet never tred dirt and his hands never touch it. Everything is done for him. He gets in trouble, everybody gets him out. She said it's "institutionalization." And that fits. She says his fear will always come in the form of rage, and that fits too. I'm sure he's always been in a rage when anybody crosses him or disses him or whatever when he thinks he should have better and more. He has never had to suffer severe personal consequences for all his grim life and he does care about no one but Donald first. And I suspect deep inside there, he knows he's really a loser because that appears to be his biggest fear and probably what we've watched playing out certainly since he lost the election. He cannot process losing.

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At first we all just wondered to ourselves but the first time the first person said "look in the grave," all of us popped up. And honestly, the more we say it the more reason there is to believe it.

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For Trump to take plea would require a lot of admitting I would think. Confession doesn’t seem high on his list of abilities. Lying yes, truthing no.

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I thought he looked thinner, stressed and uncertain in the Faux interview. Several of his previous acolytes have shared how scared he is of finally having to face the music. But tRump is not enough. I, too, want to see the sycophants, planners and hangers-on account for their crimes as well. He may have been the catalyst for J6, the boxes hoax and the Big Lie, but he could not have carried any of those schemes to (almost) fruition without the aid of his exceedingly appeasing right wing MAGAts. This is a constituency that needs to be purged from the body politic if our democracy is to heal and go forward as it has historically (with a few bumps).

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How do you purge 50 million people? It’s not just his immediate circle —it!’s all of his worshipers! Until mass vaporization is available, we will never be rid of them.

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Roddenberry Teleportation

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Beam them up. 😉👍🏻

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purging the ideology is entirely possible - not easy, or quick, but possible. If tRump and his minions fall, so will the constituency

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I hope you're correct! I tend to believe that once t-Rump is dead, nobody will be able to replace him, though many will try, and then his "movement"-- such as it is, will falter, but it won't die.

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there are many factions, and parties, in our history that have died out as leaders and ideas changed. I believe between prosecutions, disbarments, progressives voting, younger generations, who are more liberal, we will be able to finally get past the MAGA insult to our democracy.

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Your lips to God’s ears. Do you think if we are very, very good, this prayer will be answered? How much must we suffer from the world of Defendant TFG?

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Teleportation

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Please stop the vaporization fantasy trip. It’s offensive.

The Nazis tried it and failed, thankfully.

You can kill a man, but not an idea!

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You can object to other people's fantasies, but you can't control them.

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As falls one, they all should fall.

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L P Inness—They're nothing new, in the past just didn't have a loud-mouth repulsive enough to unite behind.

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Thinner, yes. Bet he’s on Ozempic like his pal Musk.

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This has me singing Malvina Reynolds's "Little Boxes" with some new words:

Little boxes at the golf club

Little boxes full of guilty stuff

Little boxes at the golf club

Saying "This is no game" . . .

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There’s a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one....

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And they’re all full

Of sycophants

And they all lie

Just the same

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He won’t have much time left for his perfect, awesome, over the top, record attendance political rally’s.

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Good humor, man.

Now with the SC asking for a 90-100day delay in the Boxes Hoax Trial until December with its on and off again holiday schedule, 6Jan moves to front and center. That further increases the pressure and with it doubles his anxiety.

Suspect the Fulton County indictments due this summer will increase the pressure on GA GOP locals and Trump campaign representatives (inc attys) to turn on one another. In turn will bear fruit to the SC's fraudulent elector subset (one of many) of 6Jan. Unlike many, will be more than satisfied to see Trump underlings and local GA GOP officials charged, tried, convicted, and sentenced. Same with 6Jan. Point being, ain't enough to simply get Trump while leaving others to roam free,

Trump is having the table(s) turned on him by the SC. Trump MO is to attack-attack-attack others, thereby putting pressure on his targets. Most do not respond well to constant pressure. Trump's CNN town hall, Baier interview, and Truth Social posts and vids reveal niithah does he.

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If Fulton County indictments ever happen, i dont see that going to any trial setting prior to the Flordia and New York matters? If at all? Meanwhile Willis continues to make un needed comments.

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I do wonder right now if the Feds have Mar-a-lago or Bedminster wired, or someone wired while Trump is stewing in his own juices because the release conditions merely told him not to discuss the case with Nauta and to not talk about it.

There's really nothing that will stop him because he's such a blabbermouth that Fox had their host of that interview trying to ask him the hard questions and he's just blabbering away as if there is no restriction on what he says.

I bet you what: any lawyer who is even in his vicinity is giving his notice as fast as possible because this is a legal nightmare even Roy Cohn would have avoided.

It's what they call a 'lose-lose' situation and Trump's blabbering all over the place isn't going to help him a bit.

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Cohn would have worked out a "backroom deal" long ago.

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Well, word is his legal team after the Baier interview and a few other little horrors he drops along the way, but that team is very glum and very quiet. That's not good for him. I'd think they're looking at all that's been given them by DOJ and it is airtight.

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Someone should be hiding all the ketchup bottles from Defendant Trump these days. He might damage the gold walls...

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An aircraft used in the commission of a crime, such as transporting top secret documents from Mar-a-lago to Bedminster, might be subject to forfeiture, right?

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If Trump cops a plea, does that not make him ineligible to run for office and, in that case, might we not see a Dee Santis-Biden race, with Dee Santis playing up his youth and vigor as opposed to the supposedly doddering Biden? And might not Dee Santis be tougher to beat than the multiply-indicted Defendant Trump? (Incidentally, I'm three years older than Biden and would like to kick the ass of all who refer to my younger national leader as doddering. I also believe myself capable of doing it.)

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Thanks for instructions to get to Trumps golf course.Will throw a couple of coke bottles onto the trail!

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I’ve got a suggestion.

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