For Trump And MAGA Life Is Simply Too Long John Cougar sang four decades ago about outliving the joys of life. Examining our angry Donald Trump/MAGA problem threatening America, it seems too many have lived long after the thrill is gone.

Young John Cougar warned America in song of the perils of outliving the joys of life. If you want to know where the anger of Trump and MAGA comes from take a listen to a little ditty about Jack and Diane.
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Trump's Art Of The Stupid Is Very, Very Simple Every single day, Donald Trump says or does something to make America dumber - and his fans agree with him. Trump's method is to replace facts and figures with HIS beliefs. And, oh, yes... pictures!

How Dumb can America get under Donald Trump’s watch? Dumber than you could imagine. And he’ll find a chart for that - complete with lots of very pretty pictures…
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Why There Will Be No Place For Stephen A. Smith Presidential Bid To Hide Often, we think we know a person until they do or say or show something to let us know we never really knew them. Many have learned that with Trump supporters. I learned with Stephen A. Smith.

Check out my new post! A man I thought I once knew shows me every single day that maybe I never really knew him. Read why my old brother and friend, Stephen A. Smith, is bad for YOU and bad for America.
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Why Stephen A. Smith Will ALWAYS Be The Wrong Choice For President - In Two Parts We all think we know people, don't we? I, for 20 years, thought I knew Stephen A. Smith - but the guy who want to be president? I don't know him so well anymore, but I do know he's wrong for America!

People laughed at the prospect of Donald Trump becoming US president in 2015. A year later, he did it. In 2024, it happened again. Today, people are laughing about Disney-backed Stephen A. Smith wanting to be president in 2028. Better take this seriously, folks.
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Is Right Wing Media Keeping MAGA In A Trance? Most of us never-Trumpers have experienced the strange sensation of seeing people we thought we knew turn into mindless zombies for Donald Trump. Could messages in their media be the culprit?

“You are getting very, very sleepy…” Could such a message like this be hidden in right ring media broadcasts to Trump supporters to make them virtual slaves who agree with everything he says and does? The theory just might be worth looking into.
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Good Morning, MAGA. Let's Get Stupid! I'm not gonna call you stupid, but when you think taking away education is smart, that's stupid. That's dumb. That's ignorant. That's debilitating to society. That's dangerous. That's Donald Trump!

Every day, America gets dumber. Because that's the way Donald Trump wants and needs it. So that he and his Republican friends can control it. And MAGA is too dumb to know.
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Even Without The Epstein Files We Finally Can See Donald Trump Once, it seemed we NEEDED The Epstein Files to stick a fork in Donald Trump, but as time has gone on, it's starting to feel like we only needed those files to force us to take a closer look at Trump.

Check out my new post! Once upon a time, we thought we NEEDED The Epstein Files to bring Donald Trump down. These days, it’s starting to seem like we only needed those files to force us to see exactly who Trump is!
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Blunting Sharpe Right Move For ESPN These days, it seems the right thing never happens anymore. Injustice, inhumanity, incivility and unsavory behavior are routinely ignored. But Disney, in banishing pervert Shannon Sharpe, did good!

Hallelujah! Finally, some kind of justice has come for a powerful man credibly accused of sexual assault. Hopefully, Disney cutting ties with sports analyst Shannon Sharpe is a sign of things to come!
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Trump, Elephants, Chains, Trees & Dictators Six months into the second Donald Trump administration, many aware Americans believe his Project 2025 takeover agenda is almost complete. But there's a hitch. Can Trump control 300 million elephants?

In India, baby elephants chained to trees early grow to believe that chain is actually what keeps them bound. In reality it is the animal's BELIEF in the chain. For Project 2025 to work, Donald Trump and Co. have to convince 300 million people they have no choice.
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It's OK To Feel Low. It's NOT OK To Stay Low In the age of Trump, many of us feel distressed, depressed, and in some cases, hopeless. That's natural. Healthy even. What you can't do, however, is allow Trump and friends to keep you down.

I KNOW Donald Trump and his white Christian nationalist pals have got you down. Here’s the thing: Don’t let ‘em keep you there. Get up. Always!
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The Day After The Best Birthday I Ever Had Trying to take SuperVillain Donald Trump down requires hard work and dedication, hours that don't care that you think you're Superman. I was warned to take care, but, being ME, I didn't listen...

Check out my new post! Well, I thought I’d spend the day writing for my people so I could spend the night with my wife enjoying my birthday. I ignored all the warnings to slow down and now? Superman got a cold!
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With Trump Running Don't Try To Frame A Guilty Man As much as we might believe Donald Trump a pedophile trying to cleanse his name from The Epstein Files, we cannot share Fake News images of him with underage girls. Justice needs facts, not fakes!

We’ve all seen shared photos of Donald Trump with underaged girls in the frenzy over The Epstein Files. Thing is, many are fakes - which helps nobody get to the truth. If Trump was a pedophile, it’s in those files he’s hiding.
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File Shredders Can't Save Trump From Epstein Files Now that even MAGA has demanded that Donald Trump release The Epstein Files, there is little doubt that he will. Release SOMETHING. But there is no chance it will be the full truth.

With MAGA on the warpath over Donald Trump and the Republicans’ refusal to release The Epstein Files, chances are they will give us SOMETHING soon. Chances are also that it won’t be the truth!
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Was Trump A Snake On Jeffrey Epstein's Plane? When it comes to The Epstein Files, what could possibly be in them that could cause Donald Trump to jeopardize his entire Project 2025 plan? Why is he willing to risk it all to keep dead secrets dead?

What in the world is in The Epstein Files that would make Donald Trump throw away his most valuable ally in the world - his beloved MAGA supporters? Well, Trump ain’t telling and MAGA wants to know. SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE!
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Can A Dead Pedophile Kill Donald Trump Presidency? In an astonishing turn of events, Donald Trump's MAGAs, who have thus far backed him through everything, seem to have drawn a line at The Epstein Files. Unlike his tax/health records, they wanna 'em!

For a decade, Donald Trump broke promises to show his health records, income tax records and more. MAGA accepted not knowing. Trump promised the same with The Jeffrey Epstein Files, but is now reneging, but MAGA - finally - isn’t having it!
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You seem to believe they are ALL grifters, which kind of eliminates the potential for constructive conversation. What you miss is the fact that you likely consider yourself honest - and may be - but run for office and VOILA, people will call YOU a grifter...😀

When Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020, the overall feeling was relief at a break from the insanity of daily chaos Trump brings. Sunday was once THE day we all took a break. Starting today, this Sunday, don’t let Trump have it. Take YOUR Sunday back!
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In The Beginning There Was A Trump Named Noah To hear Donald Trump tell it these days, everything good in the world happened only because of him. Everything bad, well, is bad because Trump wasn't here. Maybe a Trump is why the world is here?

If you live in the orbit of United States president Donald Trump - well, to hear him tell it - everything is great because he made it so. What’s crazier??? Nobody around him EVER disagrees!
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No Catastrophe Too Terrible For MAGA Trump While half this country continues to sleep, those of us woke enough to notice are horrified that Donald Trump runs our country. Even when many died in a Texas flood, Trump could only see MAGA working.

Although over 100 lives were lost and more than 100 remain missing in a recent Texas flood, US President Donald Trump’s message is that things would be much worse if he weren’t in charge. The biggest crime? His sycophantic supporters agreed!
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This is the first I've heard of it. I was out of town with family last weekend, so several things got past me.

Done! You can comment, just know I deal with sometiimes a thousand people in a day. I am just one human being who has limited time and capacity to figure out if someone is being sarcastic, nasty or wasting my time. Thanks.

Trumperman Ain't Nobody's Idea Of A Hero If you needed more evidence that Donald Trump has turned the presidency into a joke, look no further than The White House painting him as Superman. Trump is many things, but a hero isn't one of them.

Not long ago, #TheWhiteHouse released a photo of #DonaldTrump as a king. When The Pope died, he released a pic of himself in a new pontiff’s robes. Now, his administration is depicting him as #Superman. Make no mistake, folks, Trumperman is NO hero! #Trumperman
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If I'm wrong, I'm sorry. I get tired and I don't have time for smartass stuff that I have to work too hard to try to figure out. I just had the same thing happen again today. I will unblock you. If you want to send a friend request, I'll accept. If not, I get it.

If you are Robin Spataro I DID block you. Because I felt you were being too familiar with me and I just don't like people coming like that. I wrote you'd never know me and you came back with "Thank God," and I decided we had both had enough of each other. I work hard/for free and have no patience...

I HAVe blocked many people on Facebook, but I have no way pf knowing if I blocked you since I don't know your Facebook name. My facebook page IS still there. I don't block anyone for no reason, but, again, I cannot say without knowing the name.

Powerful White Men Like Trump Don't Know Peace The irony of Donald Trump's quest for a Nobel Peace Prize is that he was nominated by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, who is leading a genocide on the Palestinians in Gaza. Such men don't know peace.

When it comes to winning - no matter how sinister the means by which they do it - powerful white men can’t help gloating. The question for the rest of us in the age of Donald Trump is this: Are we really going to allow them to have the last laugh?
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Joe Biden Told Us But We Didn't Believe Him Well before Donald Trump and the Republican Party stole Americans' money and future with his Big Ugly Bill, ex-prez Joe Biden tried to warn us - but we couldn't hear him over liars calling him a liar.

Back in 2023 Joe Biden predicted our future under Republican Party rule. He warned us - even if he didn’t see Donald Trump rising again - that they would gut Medicaid, Medicare and social security AND give tax cuts for the rich. But America didn’t listen.
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If You Believe Trump Has Won You're Beaten It's not hard to see how dictators win over the masses who allow them to become dictators. What's hard to see is why they allow a dictator to become a dictator. It all starts with what you believe.

Check out my new post! A lot of people believe it’s inevitable that Donald Trump will turn The United States into a dictatorship - not realizing that what he gets them to believe is half the battle!
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Killing DEI, Equal Employment, Civil Rights, Deporting immigrants illegally, building detention centers, criminalizing dissent, firing government employees for disloyalty, ignoring law and court orders?
What will it take for Trump's true believers to see the truth?
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