The ex-president got a top aide to send the texts accusing the donor’s massive Preserve America PAC of being run by RINOs. But aides fear he is being manipulated.

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I am really enjoying watching him suffer.

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Me too, and schadenfreude isn’t something I often enjoy.

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I’m not. I’m embarrassed for him and his entire family. Anyone can see he is unwell and being played like a puppet. But everyone, kids included, just want to squeeze as much money and power of the old fart before he croaks. No one should be used and treated like this, even if they are a huge traitorous piece of shit that deserves to be thrown under the jail.

Edit: was supposed to be “embarrassed of him”, but Jesus I didn’t know being embarrassed by humans treating humans like shit was sympathy or pity. It’s like watching a fucking Jerry springer show, and I was just mentioning how I did not feel comfortable watching it. Y’all are really angry and taking it out on the wrong people.

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Yeah, sorry, no room for pity. Shit’s on the line. I’ll mourn the passing of his sanity when we get past the current hurdle, and the sub-hurdle of another January 6th, after the various hurdles caused by little pseudo-orange asshats causing voting issues nationwide.

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Never said pity. Embarrassed is what was said. And just a bit of empathy, even for a piece of shit that brought it on themselves is never a bad thing. I don’t sympathize, I don’t pity. It’s just embarrassing as a human to be watching other humans treat each other like this.

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Lesser of two evils.

I’d rather they tear each other apart than tear the rest of us apart. Trump raised his children to be like this. He surrounded himself with these people. This is 100% his own making.

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I simply don’t agree. He would treat his family the exact same way, so he is just reaping what he has sown for the last 60 years. Look at how Trump’s gone through life - it’s normal for him to treat everyone as disposable.

If you’re not trying to be a good person by 70, it won’t be happening. This is the closest to karma that we will probably ever see a rich person get, so I’m inclined to enjoy it. If it disgusts you, fine, but I want to see him crash and burn because it’s long overdue.

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True, he would and has sold people to advance his whole agenda. This is just embarrassing to watch, as a human, watching other humans be this way.

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The whole family of grifters should be locked in a box and sunk into the ocean, but short of that, I am perfectly ok with the lot of them being run hard and put away wet.

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OceanGate them all.

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He has never treated another human being as a human so why should we extend him even the tiniest shred of human courtesy? I’m personally fine watching him blather incoherently, shit his pants and have a stroke on stage in front of a crowd, because his cult needs to see their demigod for who he really is, even if they refuse to accept reality.

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And I was just stating it was embarrassing to me and why it was. I wasn’t going “oh poor poor guy leave him alone”. Simply that it embarrasses me to watch it. He deserves more than what will ever come to him, but I don’t have to enjoy watching it happen.

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Anyone can see he is unwell and being played like a puppet

Boo fucking hoo. Even if that’s true, that’s all he’s been doing to other people for his entire life: manipulating and otherwise abusing them to get whatever he wants.

No one should be used and treated like this

Correction: no one except Trump and maybe a handful other worst of the worst of the human race.

It’s like watching a fucking Jerry springer show, and I was just mentioning how I did not feel comfortable watching it. Y’all are really angry and taking it out on the wrong people.

Nah, on Jerry Springer, most of the vilified people were themselves victims of poverty and other real hardships.

This billionaire born with a silver swastika in his mouth has been a predatory abuser for his entire life and deserves nothing but the worst.

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I’m sorry, are we talking about the same Jerry springer? Cause the one that played in my youth was exactly the same, like “oh my god, it’s embarrassing this man likes to be vomited on”

All I see is the Sith Lord going “give into the hate”… again, I’m not arguing against all this shit happening to the man, I just don’t get a pleasurable feeling watching it. Someone might deserve to be hung, I don’t want to go watch it happen. If that makes your blood rise, then cool, relish in it. I don’t.

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It’s his actions that put him here. And considering the suffering he would cause in office, I have no sympathy at this point.

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Never said sympathy. I am embarrassed as a human watching other humans treat each other this way.

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The tar and feathering he wished upon others, now unto him.

It’s hysterical. Shakespeare couldn’t have written it better.

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59 points

Is it not illegal for a candidate to coordinate directly with a PAC?

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Didn’t you hear: the law only applies to poor people.

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I’m wondering how his Supreme Court cronies will cover for him this time. He isn’t the president, so this can’t be an official act.

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I believe the distinction is a Super PAC. I’m not sure of the specific differences outside of a Super Pac may not be for a specific candidate and can be funded without donation disclosures.

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He is probably not from a legal standpoint. He is talking to her and she just funds the pac and selects the people who run it. It’s super easy to get around that law.

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The billionaire in question?

Garth Algar

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His little weird hands just flying on his cell phone!

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TIL Marvel is maga.

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Ike Perlmutter*, the former Marvel Entertainment boss, is.

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