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www.thedailybeast.com Trump Is a Hitler-Loving Literal Fascist, Says Ex-Chief of Staff

John Kelly told The New York Times all about Trump’s praise for the dictator.

Trump Is a Hitler-Loving Literal Fascist, Says Ex-Chief of Staff
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Trump thinks voters want to hear about his envy of penis sizes.

Donald Trump Warmly Discusses Arnold Palmer’s Penis Size

For context, Stormy Daniels says Trump has a small weird looking penis...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/18/stormy-daniels-tell-all-book-on-trump-salacious-detail-and-claims-of-cheating

She describes Trump’s penis as “smaller than average”. “He knows he has an unusual penis,” Daniels writes. “It has a huge mushroom head. Like a toadstool…

“I lay there, annoyed that I was getting fucked by a guy with Yeti pubes and a dick like the mushroom character in Mario Kart... It may have been the least impressive sex I’d ever had"

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www.the-express.com Donald Trump humiliated by 'empty' rally in Michigan as crowd size dwindles

Donald Trump is campaigning in Michigan tonight just two and half hours away from Kamala Harris.

Donald Trump humiliated by 'empty' rally in Michigan as crowd size dwindles
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Failed mic leaves Donald Trump pacing the stage in silence for nearly 20 minutes

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Trump is the only president who reduced the total number of jobs (-2.67 million jobs)

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GOP Senate Leader McConnell Calls Trump "stupid”, “ill-tempered”, “a despicable human being” and a “narcissist.”

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Trump had a seven-part plan to overturn the 2020 election, according to the January 6 Committee

  1. Trump had knowledge that he lost the 2020 election but spread misinformation to the American public and made false statements claiming significant voter fraud led to his defeat;

  2. Trump planned to remove and replace the Attorney General and Justice Department officials in an effort to force the DOJ to support false allegations of election fraud;

  3. Trump pressured Vice President Pence to refuse certified electoral votes in the official count on January 6, in violation of the U.S. Constitution;

  4. Trump pressured state lawmakers and election officials to alter election results in his favor;

  5. Trump's legal team and associates directed Republicans in seven states to produce and send fake "alternate" electoral slates to Congress and the National Archives;

  6. Trump summoned and assembled a destructive mob in Washington and sent them to march on the U.S. Capitol; and

  7. Trump ignored multiple requests to speak out in real time against the mob violence, refused to instruct his supporters to disband, and failed to take any immediate actions to halt attacks on the Capitol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_hearings_of_the_United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_the_January_6_Attack#7PartPlan

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Donald Trump ranked the most divisive US president in history by political scientists

www.cbsnews.com The most divisive U.S. presidents, ranked by political scientists

Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and more – they served, and sometimes they divided.

The most divisive U.S. presidents, ranked by political scientists
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Harris did with Fox News what Trump can't do anywhere: Handle tough questions

www.usatoday.com Opinion: Harris did with Fox News what Trump can't do anywhere: Handle tough questions

Kamala Harris went into America's Den of Misinformation – Fox News – for a Wednesday night interview with Bret Baier and more than held her own.

Opinion: Harris did with Fox News what Trump can't do anywhere: Handle tough questions
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Trading of Trump Media shares was halted after the stock plunged while Trump was speaking about his economic policy proposals at the Economic Club of Chicago.

finance.yahoo.com DJT trading halted after stock plunge after Trump remarks

Trading of Tump Media & Technology Group (DJT, DJTWW) shares was halted after the stock plunged while former President Donald Trump was speaking about his economic policy proposals at the Economic Club of Chicago. Julie Hyman and Josh Lipton comment on the volatile nature of the DJT stock whenever T...

DJT trading halted after stock plunge after Trump remarks
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www.mediaite.com Trump Media Stock Craters After Wild Bloomberg Interview

Investors and day traders apparently did not like what they heard from former President Donald Trump on Tuesday. Trump gave a whirlwind interview with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait on Tuesday, during which the ex-president once again promoted tariffs as an economic panacea, slammed the...

Trump Media Stock Craters After Wild Bloomberg Interview
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www.alternet.org Trump adviser green-lights 'states that want to set up full menstrual surveillance departments'

Donald Trump's senior adviser Jason Miller says that under a second Trump presidency, "it's 'going to be up to the states' whether or not they set up regimes to monitor women’s pregnancies so they can prosecute them for getting out of state abortions."During a Wednesday Newsmax interview, the conser...

Trump adviser green-lights 'states that want to set up full menstrual surveillance departments'
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Trump Crumbles When Pressed on Economic Policy in Tense Interview. It was a total mess.

www.rollingstone.com Trump Crumbles When Pressed on Economic Policy in Bloomberg Interview

Donald Trump was unable to give coherent answers on his economic plans in an interview with Bloomberg at the Economic Club of Chicago.

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Trump's final job approval rating as president was 29%

www.pewresearch.org How we know the drop in Trump’s approval rating in January reflected a real shift in public opinion

The 9-point fall in approval was the largest change between two Pew Research Center polls since Donald Trump took office.

How we know the drop in Trump’s approval rating in January reflected a real shift in public opinion
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www.independent.co.uk Trump’s top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’

General Mark Milley expressed his concerns about Trump to author Bob Woodward in March 2023

Trump’s top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’
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Donald Trump is the Tyrant George Washington Feared

www.theatlantic.com The Moment of Truth

The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.

The Moment of Truth
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Harris Campaign Names Republicans Who Voted Against FEMA Funding

www.newsweek.com Harris campaign names Republicans who voted against FEMA funding

Kamala Harris' campaign account posted the names of almost 100 lawmakers who voted against FEMA funding during hurricane season.

Harris campaign names Republicans who voted against FEMA funding
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Trump fights his old policies in series of flip-flops

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www.newsweek.com Donald Trump says Project 2025 author "coming on board" if elected

Tom Homan, a Project 2025 contributor, served as the acting director of ICE during the Trump administration.

Donald Trump says Project 2025 author "coming on board" if elected
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Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control
  • there is proven history of EEE techniques being successfully used to capture an audience and then destroy the adoption of the protocol.

    That won't happen to Fediverse because nobody here is willing to be 'captured' and 'destroyed'. We don't give a fuck if Threads wants to break its own protocol.

  • Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control
  • By continuing to interact with Thread users you’re enabling those users to feel justified in not wanting to leave.

    People do not have to leave Threads. They should, but they don't have to. No harm in interacting with them. In fact, such interaction will make them aware of the alternatives.

  • Most Taiwanese would defend island against China, poll finds
  • On top of that, the British only introduced a pretty limited form of democracy to Hong Kong shortly before it was supposed to relinquish control over the territory

    On top of that, the Chinese dictator crushed democracy with military and police force in violation of the unification agreement -- proving 100% it absolutely can not be trusted.

    The PRC saw this as an attempt by the British to continue interfering with the right for Chinese self determination.

    The Chinese have no rights whatsoever in the PRC regime because the Chinese cannot chose their own leaders and determine their own country's destiny. By "right for Chinese self determination" you actually mean the DICTATOR's right (one single individual!!) to prevent one billion Chinese citizens from running their own country as they see fit.

  • Most Taiwanese would defend island against China, poll finds
  • Even so, it’s important to understand

    That's not the slightest bit important. The Republic of China views the PRC as interfering with China's self determination. The Republic of China gets to choose its own leaders but the PRC is a dictatorship not chosen by the people. That means that the ROC speaks for millions more Chinese than the PRC does.

    If there is to be a peaceful resolution,

    The only possible terms of reunification would be the end of the Communist dictatorship. In such an event Taipei would likely be the initial temporary capital of a unified China because that's where the experience of democracy is.

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    www.rawstory.com How billionaires are buying the presidency for Trump

    “The evil man is a source of fascination; ordinary persons wonder what impels such extremes of conduct. A lust for wealth? A common motive, undoubtedly. A craving for power? Revenge against society? Let us grant these as well. But when wealth has been gained, power achieved and society brought down ...

    How billionaires are buying the presidency for Trump
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    A Woman Among Cowardly Men
  • If you watched a video of this event you could see emotion in the faces of both Harris and Cheney when they talked about democracy. Especially Cheney. The pained look on her face when the word "democracy" was mentioned nearly choked me up. I don't agree with any policy of Cheney. AND THAT IS OKAY. Cheney does not agree on any policy of Harris. AND THAT IS OKAY. Harris does not agree on any policy of Cheney. AND THAT IS OKAY. Because this is NOT an ordinary election of Dems vs GOP. Thinking of it that way plays into Trump's hands. This is a unique event in American history of Democracy vs Fascism. The only thing that Bernie Sanders, Harris, and Cheney all agree on is America's core values of democracy, freedom, and the rule of law. AND THAT IS ENOUGH.

  • A Woman Among Cowardly Men
  • She isn't supporting any of Harris's policies. She is saying Trump is a traitor who must never have power. She is putting Country over Party.

    How do people not understand that this is not an ordinary election of Dems vs GOP, it is a unique event in history of Democracy vs Fascism? You are playing right into Treason Trump's hands if you are treating this as an ordinary election.

    Tim Miller is the absolutely last person on the planet to take any electoral advice or strategy from

    And yet he said the exact 100% correct thing that people were thinking. This was the most important observation of the entire article.

    There should have been a line of honest and wise men a mile long standing behind Cheney on Thursday.

  • FBI releases 190 pages of internal Russian documents offering unprecedented glimpse into the planning of notorious disinformation efforts.
  • A project proposal for the U.S. component of Doppelganger was even more expansive. Its explicitly stated goals were to “secure the victory of a Republican candidate” in the 2024 presidential election, to increase the quantity of U.S. citizens who told pollsters that they believed that the war in Ukraine needed to end as soon as possible by at least ten percent, and to reduce U.S. President Joe Biden’s approval rating by at least ten percent.