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BaronChocula

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11. Very well-written piece

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Feb 2, 2026, 12:52 PM

12 hrs ago

Every day is akin to a journalists conducting an interview about a local sports team in the middle of a massive hurricane. They're trying to hit content quotas like ICE trying to hit detention quotas - It doesn't matter what they get, as long as they get something. Softball questions = helpless 5-year olds.

And he wrote this without using the word "normalize." Impressive.

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A healthy democracy...would not allow a deranged, serial abuser of women and children to occupy its most powerful office [View all] babylonsister 14 hrs ago OP

Our democracy is light years from being healthy. spanone 14 hrs ago #1

Kick dalton99a 14 hrs ago #2

My husband last night was talking to a friend about this United States as NOW. chouchou 14 hrs ago #3

Keyword being "healthy". Solly Mack 13 hrs ago #4

Half the people don't vote which left us defenseless against those who would do us harm. Blues Heron 13 hrs ago #5

It has been reported for years that most people get 15 minutes of news a day... IthinkThereforeIAM 11 hrs ago #20

I really hope Nixon can't see what's going on n/t leftstreet 13 hrs ago #6

This very thing was the subject of Olbermann's Countdown this morning. flashman13 13 hrs ago #7

I would expand that statement EYESORE 9001 13 hrs ago #8

Maybe he was sent to a military school because his first sexual assault was against a younger female family member ChicagoTeamster 13 hrs ago #9

Not likely, based on what is known about the family. ShazzieB 11 hrs ago #21

Thanks for the info. I hope this clears things up not just for me but other lurkers as well. ChicagoTeamster 11 hrs ago #23

Yes, it's very easy to speculate! ShazzieB 8 hrs ago #24

Excuse my language.... SergeStorms 12 hrs ago #10

Very well-written piece BaronChocula 12 hrs ago #11

No shit, right? Joinfortmill 12 hrs ago #12

It appears this could well be the largest honey trap and sex trafficking ring run by Putin and the KGB Bev54 12 hrs ago #13

How is this creature affecting the mental health of millions? young_at_heart 12 hrs ago #14

A good article, but it is off target sarisataka 12 hrs ago #15

And who said we were a "healthy democracy"? kentuck 11 hrs ago #17

That is an assumption of a fact not in evidence sarisataka 11 hrs ago #22

Worse than that. He caused an insurrection and got away with it. spanone 12 hrs ago #16

No healthy democracy would ever elect such a criminal - rapist, fraudster, tax cheat, treason -- but racist failing one JT45242 11 hrs ago #18

The "Advent of Gingerich"... IthinkThereforeIAM 11 hrs ago #19

I lived in Houston when DeLay was around. Yes, babylonsister 3 hrs ago #25

The elite have ALWAYS abused women and children. DJ Synikus Makisimus 3 hrs ago #26

not to mention the stunning corruption... JudyM 24 sec ago #27