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    “…unless, y’know, you’re fine with it. Then he was he was definitely serious.”

    It’s called a trial balloon.

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      Exactly. These “jokes” are like a kid “joking” that they want another piece of cake. If you say no, it’s “I was only kidding”, but if you say yes, they’ll eat that cake.

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    Oh yeah, I’m sure he was “joking”. He also doesn’t know anything about project 2025, and he’s not really butt buddies with dictators like kim and pootin.

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      it’s astounding how vigorously they fellate their bediapered leader muppet, who would throw them under the bus in a fraction of a second

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        Oh, that was just high school locker room pranks, you guys! Just like bragging about sexual assault and using the word “pussy” (oh, a naughty word! that was the real issue people had when he was admitting to sexual assault - phrasing) was “locker room talk”. That insurrection? That was like snapping a towel in the shower…

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      “The what? The Meritage Federation? What did you say? Carriage Fumigation, what? Can’t hear you. Never heard of it, is that like a Cracker Barrel thing?”

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      Yep. Just like they pretend to be interested in “free speech” (for them only, though) until they are in power. Then no more such talk about free speech.

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    Here we go again. Right-wong pundits claiming Trump didn’t mean what he said, all the while Trump’s out there saying he meant exactly what he said. We’ve been here before, don’t be fooled.

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    he continued. “For four years, things were good with President Trump. We had stable prices, a growing economy, peace and stability around the world.”

    the covid stuff doesn’t count

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      It’s horrifying to think that if not for COVID, he probably would have won a second term.

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        I he had promoted mask wearing and distancing, sold MAGA masks, called it a “war on Corona” and pushed the “American-made” vaccine, it would have been a landslide.

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          Remember Cuomo taking control of Covid leadership? It felt like everyone was watching him until it came out that he lied about the nursing home.

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        If not for COVID, the US would’ve entered a recession anyway but it might have been properly attributed to Trump. He was already badgering the Fed to lower interest rates in 2019, before the disease was even discovered, because of his disastrous tax handout for the wealthy and trade war with China.

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    Yet another example of trump, who allegedly means what he says, needing to be translated because he didn’t really mean what he said.

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      yet more doublethink from the party of “but muh states’ rights” who want to take away states’ rights

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          i haven’t read project 2025, but i know there’s gotta be some kind of “no unauthorized fucking” rule for women but no equivalent rule for men

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      i was anticipating the “you’ll never have to vote again” thing years ago

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    That’s pretty funny. Cotton and all the other people claiming this are in direct opposition to Trump’s explanation. He said they wouldn’t need to vote “because the country will be fixed, and frankly, we won’t even need your vote anymore.”

    So he was joking that he’d fix the country? Are people sprouting off before they’re getting their talking points?

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      it was just a prank bro!!! same as all the raping and frauding and insurrecioning

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    It doesnt even really matter if this was a joke or not. He already rallied a violent insurrection against counting votes. He could say absolutely nothing about overthrowing democracy his entire campaign this year, its still his goal.

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    Tom Cotton should get slapped so hard that he won’t have to chew anymore.

    Surely, I must be joking, because that’s a horrible thing to say. Even about subhuman worms like Cotton.