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Kay Hale's avatar

I totally agree with your premises and yet every morning I awake thinking "is he dead yet?". I do foresee a drooling iijit in a wheelchair being pushed around by Nauta, and that unlovely sight will turn magats off.

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Mark Caicedo's avatar

My only wish is that a stroke diminish his capabilities in the same way he mocked that journalist during his first campaign. Poetic justice is still justice.

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Renee's avatar

Kristi Noem Dusts him during one of her cosplay photo sessions.

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HighMaintenance's avatar

They all vote for Abbott and that's exactly how I see that AH. Maga have no standards.

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Greta Reitinger's avatar

I love how the unnamed subject of the essay was obvious just from the title. Says a lot.

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Robert Cadigan's avatar

I didn’t even notice he was unnamed!! I hope he doesn’t read this piece. He may think it is about someone else (probably Joe Biden or Bruce Springsteen).

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Pam J's avatar

"the reign of Vladimir Futon creating his own Ottoman Empire..."

Glad I wasn't drinking when I read this line! 🤣💀

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Dean Michael Love's avatar

Pure gold!

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Cindy Hare's avatar

You've been eavesdropping on our coven's doings again. I've been casting every spell I can find trying to give that wannabeking cantaloupe a massive stroke, Preferably, on a stage in front of every reporter on the planet watching him piss and shit himself on the way down. Once he's incapacitated but not dead his followers will slink away like roaches running from a bright light.

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Deb Morley's avatar

I like your style 😉

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OVER THE LINE's avatar

Well damn this is another ME TOO moment!!!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

👆🎯

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Dina's avatar

Yes, I agree with all of this. We don't want him shot, we don't want him to die suddenly. I believe that spell has to be broken—as broken as he will be—if he has a stroke and can't speak, stand, or take to social media anymore. I want him to be just cognizant enough to KNOW that he can't do any of those things. I believe that spell will be broken, probably faster than we think, because no one else—not even Couch Fucker—has the cult-like devotion that Krasnov does.

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Deb Morley's avatar

It’s amazing to go through every comment and be like; “ya, okay. Yes. Totally agree.

You are my people 😊

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OVER THE LINE's avatar

I know I sure am glad you are here!!!

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KJ Chamarette's avatar

Also known as "To the pain."

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Lynn4Humanity's avatar

"It means leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever."

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Laurie Palmer's avatar

🎯

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Signe Lemon's avatar

When Scalia died of natural causes, Dems were accused of killing him. There is no upside to his death at this point. JD Vance, Hegseth and Johnson are not improvements. We need a strong Democratic Congress to rein this sh3t in.

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Public Servant's avatar

MAGA is full of rich white men. Their numbers are dwindling - demographics is destiny. We need AOC/Crockett in 2028 to lead us into a diverse, inclusive, and progressive future! https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/aoc-crockett-2028

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Troutmagnet's avatar

As much as I’d love that, or an AOC/Buttigieg ticket, I think the only way to win - assuming Trump hasn’t completely derailed the system of voting in a president by 2028 - is for a nice, good-looking, strong, whiter-than-white, middle class background, Christian, straight male to step up to the plate. I think that’s the only way that you’ll sway the fence-sitters in the red states. Half of those nutbags will run for the hills the second someone like AOC whispers anything about DEI. And by that time, the Trump regime’s brainwashing will be four years into full effect. Dems need to restore some faith in the reds that will be hurting at Walmart and McDonald’s, and the only thing to do there is to tamp down the humanity and human decency,and appeal to their dumb, empty wallets.

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Bill Williamson's avatar

That would be a godsend❣️💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸

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Dennis Dixon's avatar

Thinking like that is what got us Trump in the first place. We need to get away from the progressives, more back to the middle.

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OVER THE LINE's avatar

Only if he dies with a hooker, they will call him or her a Dem , or his wife will take the fall. That might be the only way the riots of the equally unhealthy may be shortened.

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Troutmagnet's avatar

Honestly, at this point if someone found 666 tattooed behind his ear, I’d be “Mmm… yeah, kinda’ tracks, I guess.”

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Martha Mantikoski's avatar

I wish everyone would give the "Garland Did Us Wrong" country song a rest. The sole reason we are in this mess is Mitch McConnell. If he'd had the balls to allow his caucus to vote their consciences over the January 6th impeachment articles, MAGA's Orange Crush would be in court or in jail as we speak and Garland would be a Supreme Court trivia question.

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Mark Tremblay's avatar

100%

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Ruth Kenney's avatar

Choked on my coffee at Vladimir Futon and the Ottoman Empire. Oh, my sinuses, they burn...

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Amanda Pitchford's avatar

I would like to see him go Terry Pratchett-style, where an eagle drops a tortoise on his head. Even better, a Canada Goose dropping a rock!

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Lois Henry's avatar

I think roasting inside the iron turtle is more what these guys have in mind.

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Carl Selfe's avatar

I am relieved someone has said out loud the things I wish. This is my confessional. It is not as you suggest. Is there someway to make it more painful and longer in process. The Iranians used a large, hot griddle, a fire under it, and they would lower roped victims onto the hot plate. I wonder how to keep the nerve cells reporting the pain intended in the 4th and 5th lowering and if the vinegar dousing would still work.

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Lois Henry's avatar

I say! Hold on. That’s a bit harsh.

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OVER THE LINE's avatar

WOW

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Mary Vandemark's avatar

Wow!😬😱😂

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lauramich's avatar

Rooting for him to pass with all the grace and dignity of Elvis Presley.

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OVER THE LINE's avatar

Oh!!!! See…I was not a fan of E and when one of our Photographer friend of the family gave a beautiful black and white (kind of gothic) framed print of Graceland- I hung it in the bathroom.

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Richard Spiering's avatar

I genuinely hope he expires in the middle of one of his word salad "rallies," right after praising himself for "saving Christianity."

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OVER THE LINE's avatar

And add a dash of him saying how healthy he is!

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Paul A's avatar

From your lips to Col. Sanders' ears.

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Frances Gardner's avatar

James you are genius with a turn of the profane phrases, I so enjoy your writings. And I fear you are correct about the chances of demise and the chances of any resulting improvement in our lives. Dim, and also dim. But one can always hope.

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OVER THE LINE's avatar

But….if an Oligarch from another (enemy) country made him quiet and no longer breathing…….

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Butch's avatar

All this. Exactly this.

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DawnRWolfe's avatar

I vote for a massive stroke while he's doing a live and televised speaking engagement. Let his followers see him shit and piss himself while flailing around on the ground. Not so he can suffer; to hell with him (probably literally, if there is one). But to finally, maybe, force a dose of reality on the encultified.

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