Mark Jacobs: This is not normal [View all]

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Mark Jacob
@MarkJacob16

This is not normal.🧵
A candidate for president is explaining how a worm ate part of his brain while a rival who’s an ex-president is “cursing audibly” in court while listening to a porn star describe lousy sex with him while a key supporter who wants to be the ex-president’s …
10:21 AM · May 10, 2024


… running mate is bragging about shooting her dog in the head in a gravel pit and saying the current president ought to execute his own dog. Meanwhile, a Supreme Court justice whose wife plotted to overthrow the government is ruling on cases involving …


… the coup and whether the guy who led the coup had the right of “immunity” to order Seal Team 6 to assassinate his rivals if he felt like it. And while the court is considering that, it’s also deciding whether pregnant women in Idaho must wait in a …


… hospital parking lot until they get sick enough to convince emergency room doctors that they’ll definitely 100% die if they don’t get an abortion. Meanwhile, the ex-president’s party is accusing college presidents of antisemitism but not accusing the …


… ex-president himself even though he dined at his Florida resort with a Holocaust denier who jokingly compared the murder of Jews to cookies being baked in an oven. And the ex-president is selling Bibles while his supporters in Congress wear pins …


… in the shape of a rifle often used in school massacres, and his backers include a lawmaker who felt up her date in a theater while they were surrounded by children, and another lawmaker who showed photos of the president's son’s private parts …


… during a congressional hearing, and another supporter who said the president should deny baby formula to migrant infants at the border, and another supporter who said the deadly assault on the Capitol was a “normal tourist visit.” And this same …


… Bible-selling ex-president is a “law and order” guy even though he’s charged with 88 felonies, joked about a home invader using a hammer to fracture the skull of the House speaker's husband, and wants to pardon thugs who beat up 100+ cops at the Capitol.


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