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Von trump is a damn TRAITOR. Vote blue massively please.

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I don't know "Tik Tok" from a clock face, but I surely know, as a retired psychiatrist and patriotic American, that Our Mad (wannabe) King Donald is mentally ill and unfit to earn ANY media exposure except in medical school departments of psychiatry/neurology.

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"Reagan’s Republican Party was committed to making the world safe for democracy." Really?? I was a sentient, politically savvy woman in my 30s during the Reagan administration, and I don't remember it that way. Reagan's Republican Party was committed to making the world safe for its version of capitalism. It was fine with dictators as long as they were "our" dictators, e.g., anti-communist, pro U.S. investment. Remember Iran-Contra? A couple of decades later they demonstrated just how clueless they were about what makes democracy possible: "regime change" in Iraq deposed a dictator who was pretty much all that was holding that cobbled-together country together, and surprise, surprise, Iraq fell apart -- giving Iran the opportunity to grow into the major regional player it is today. (Which reminds me of Saudi Arabia: I don't see a whole lot of democracy there.)

Reagan's Republican Party hasn't been committed to democracy at home either, but that's a subject for another time.

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Mar 12Liked by Thom Hartmann

What's behind Trump's flip flop on TikTok? Follow The Money with this interactive map that shows the PAY-TO-PLAY Republican politics.

https://thedemlabs.org/2024/03/11/trump-flip-flops-on-tiktok-follow-the-money-pay-to-play-politics/

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Of course he is once more bowing to power. They founded the infamous WDB, the world dictators' brotherhood, with the turkish sultan, the russian tsar, the chinese emperor, orban the magyar and few yet less known minions impatient to grow in their shadow. This international alt right organisation wants to erase democracies. Yup! No good.

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Whatever happened to the Biblical principle to never trust or work with liars directly or indirectly? Liars are aligned with the father of all lies. And what happened to the main message of the Bible to not be afraid and to do not fear. This is all that Fox News does along with the right wingers hate radio.

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Sorta bizarre that social media is where global conflicts present there faces. Right next to the new dance craze.

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Are you watching Hur? Feeling my blood pressure going up!

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Mar 12·edited Mar 12

Trump is his 2 pimps' (Putin and Xi) "Bottom Girl" * . . . Whilst the GOP contains the rest of the 2 pimps' lesser whores. America is just a chronically oblivious John in this sordid analogy, to be used and abused.

* From Urban Dictionary

A bottom girl, a bottom woman or bottom bitch, sits atop the hierarchy of prostitutes working for a particular pimp.

A bottom girl is usually the prostitute who has been with the pimp the longest and consistently makes the most money. Being the bottom girl gives the prostitute status and power over the other women working for her pimp. However, the bottom girl also bears many responsibilities.

In U.S. v. Pipkins, the Eleventh Circuit described the bottom girl’s duties as "working the track in her pimp’s stead, running interference for and collecting money from the pimp's other prostitutes, and looking after the pimp's affairs if the pimp was out of town, incarcerated, or otherwise unavailable".

Similarly, the PIP Training Manual explains the bottom girl’s obligations may include handling finances and training and recruiting other prostitutes. Bottom girls may also instruct and advise new pimps on the ways of the prostitution business.

The Pimp Game, a published instructional guide for pimps, compares the bottom girl to a coach in the NBA, i.e. a former player who "knows the ins and outs of the game", and explains that, like the NBA coach, she is "the least paid on the team, but the one who works the hardest". She also has the most interaction with her pimp's prostitutes, giving them "pep talks" and keeping them in the game.

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It’s one more piece in the strategy to get trump elected: remove registered voters, have a half crazed suburban mom give a mendacious response to the SOTU, take over the Nat’l Rep Comm to access funds. My guess is he didn’t know the Chinese govt is just as important as the Russians to get to the win.

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Here's our delicious lunch box. See anything you like? Oh, you want the whole thing!?

When the price is right, Trump will sell it all. He'll make the terms easy and tell his followers nothing to see here. He'll reassure them he's making America Great Again, not letting someone eat our lunch.

Meanwhile, most of the youth and many of the grannies on TikTok have no idea what value their content has to the CCP. I've been reading about them for years and until the Trump election and Russia interference surfaced, I just had a vague idea. The experts and their statistics explained what social media manipulation did to our election. Now that investigative reporters also showed us the Chinese Social Credit System, I GET IT! By the way, that thing keeps morphing and probably only their dear leader knows exactly what he'll do with their information.

Bread and games. If the games are really good, they are not watching Trump take control of the bread and who he sells it to. People are just a resource to be bought, sold and exchanged for whatever a greedy China or Trump may want.

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The young voters will think Trump is great!!! He has already proven that he will sell Americans out to become a dictator, so this is not surprising.

I've noticed a few cracks in the GOP lately. Some of his supporters are starting to doubt him? Oooh no!

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I suspect the Russian assets now held in banks throughout the world will be used as collateral for bonds to help Trump. The money was earmarked for absconding and given to Ukraine. The Russian money was likely lost anyway, so why not use it for Trump support is likely to be the thought process.

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I’m kind of wondering if they’re not already using TikTok for political purposes. So many young kids are getting news from the site. And interestingly they are hearing the Palestinian voice but it seems not much about Hamas. Why is that?

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Without the damned ‘Citizens United’ opinion by the damned Supine Court, would we even be talking about billionaires trying to buy elections? Never mind foreign controlled corporations paying to buy elections . . . ? — b.rad

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If tRump supports anything, it is only because there is a profit for him. As one NYC contractor said in a Village Voice interview:

“Trump won’t do a deal unless there’s something extra — a kind of moral larceny — in it. He’s not satisfied with a profit. He has to take something more. Otherwise, there’s no thrill.”

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