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Clarissa Sr, American Grandma's avatar

“Lying Frump”

He lies when he pees,

He lies eating cheese,

He lies in the morning,

He lies in the breeze!

He lies in December,

He lies in July,

He lies on the ground,

And he lies to the sky!

He lies when he’s chewing,

He lies when he’s tweeting,

He lies when he’s losing,

He lies when he’s beating!

He lies for attention,

He lies for applause,

He lies just because—

Well, he lies just because!

He lies when he’s golfing,

He lies when he’s still,

He lies when he’s scheming,

And always will.

He lies when he whispers,

He lies when he shouts,

He lies so much

That the truth tapped out!

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Deb's avatar

I love it.

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Helen Darrigan's avatar

Ain’t all of that the truth!!!

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Peggy Fry's avatar

I hate that this arrogant baby man is so careless with the lives of other people. I bet you a nickel HEs not out there breathing the dust. I wish he was.

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Romi Elnagar's avatar

He'll breathe some of it sooner or later. He can't avoid it, and he's probably too stupid to try.

Let us hope his age and his clear senility combine with the exposure to asbestos to end his reign of idiocy and terror.

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Robin Dumler's avatar

Yeah, and choke to death !

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Sandi Ault's avatar

It's writing like this: "The list of donors/benefactors—tech moguls, media companies, defense barons, crypto hucksters—reads like a seating chart for the apocalypse," that makes me mark David Schuster's posts to read every time. Great reporting AND great writing in one package.

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David Shuster's avatar

Thank you so much, Sandi. I appreciate that…Best wishes, D

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Sandi Ault's avatar

Keep up the fabulous work!

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Susan Rose's avatar

Agreed!!!

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Mickey8255's avatar

TOUCHÉ SANDI 😁👊💪💪🙏🏻💙🇺🇸

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Mickey8255's avatar

He’s a “Walking Asbestos Pit” if you ask me 🤬 that’s Another Issue we need to address After He’s Gone—- NO ALTERING OF THE US TOP NATIONAL LANDMARK ARCHITECTURE—-EVER!!

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Carol Wengraitis's avatar

I think what we have to do is remove the FN ballroom and restore the West Wing

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Susan Sheythe's avatar

The Oval Office also needs to be restored by removing ALL of the tasteless, ugly gold leaf and trappings trump’s added. As for that catastrophe of a ballroom he wants built and cover with more ugly, tasteless gold trappings and other inappropriate paraphernalia; it’s called the White House because it’s WHITE, the good that’s supposed to stand for what’s good for the American people. Trump thinks it’s all for him. I think I heard he wants his Trump name on his ballroom. What else can we use it for when the morons are no longer in power?

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Mickey8255's avatar

We can use it for a GIANT FIRE PIT FOR THE PEOPLE and have a Months long CELEBRATION 🥳 HES GONE!!! And Clean up Real Good After Ourselves when the Last Of The Furniture Is Burned 🔥😁

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Susan Sheythe's avatar

Couldn’t the people get a lawsuit against Trump for asbestos poisoning of the area, something that we the people will probably be the ones paying to clean it up.

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Mickey8255's avatar

We can surely Try! I have 2 attorneys in mind already 😬

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Mark McGowan's avatar

Add respirable silica dust, a quicker killer, to the mix and the East Lawn now qualifies as a Superfund Site.

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Levi's avatar

💯💯💯‼️‼️ THIS❗️

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Mickey8255's avatar

There ya go!! YES!!

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Levi's avatar

There was a documentary about The Apprentice genius himself.

He was bragging about how much asbestos he used in all of his buildings. He said he loved asbestos. He couldn't understand why there was any controversy about it. Stupid then. Stupid now. And dangerous as F!

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Susan Rose's avatar

That's him, denies all facts if they don't serve his purpose. He rewrites the rules to suit himself with no regard for anything or anyone but himself, his money and maybe some of his partners in crime. A disgrace to this country!

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Mickey8255's avatar

And WORSE THAN ALL—-A TRAITOR TO THIS COUNTRY! EVERYONE’S COUNTRY….. THE PEOPLE’S COUNTRY!!!

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mfmatusky's avatar

It's past time to detain, arrest, and even dissappear the functionaries that execute the bits and pieces of the destruction of the U.S. Democracy. The guys in hard hats? Find the forman or site boss and jail him. Those idiot attorneys? Dissappear them on contempt of court charges. Send a message. "I was just doing my job" is no reason or excuse. Make others think twice (or three times) about being part of that team. Goes for the lead agent, Greg Bovino in Chicago too.

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Steve Winkler's avatar

To paraphrase Noam Chomsky, “the most dangerous criminal in the world.”

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Steve Winkler's avatar

Thanks, David!

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Kathy Maas's avatar

Somebody sane with a construction company should pick up all that debris in the middle of the night and drive it to Bedminster and dump it on his golf course. I simply cannot understand how 1 human can control a population of 350 million people! (I thought the same about Putin.)

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Mickey8255's avatar

It’s the Other I.D.I.O.T..S. In the Background Aiding and abetting his Assholiness. Miller, Vought, Not-So Supreme Court, DoJ’S, CIA’S, FBI, Steve Bannon, J/6 MOB, ICE and On & On. Let’s not Forget Congress, Senate, House of Reps, MIKE PERVERT JOHNSON and GOOD OLE JD VANCE! Corruption on Steroids!!! IMMUNITY MY POLISH (_l_). !!!

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Susan Rose's avatar

I said it when Cliff first posted about the East Wing and I'm saying it again. This demolition is symbolic of what he is doing to our government - dismantling it and destroying it to replace it with something pompous and obscene. It is a physical reminder of what's really going on - a reminder we shouldn't ignore. Yes, I agree with you the Whitehouse has always been a symbol of integrity. But not now because we eliminated all the standards we used to hold the president to, and he has no integrity. This was spot on, David, but this line recaps our situation perfectly, "a nation that mistook swagger for leadership and deceit for competence". Well said, Sir! Thank you!!!

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Mickey8255's avatar

I agree… and Yes….. thank you, David!!

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David Shuster's avatar

Thank you, Mickey’

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Mickey8255's avatar

You’re welcome David ♥️

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Thiela Schnaufer's avatar

Take a deep breath Donnie

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Ninah's avatar

Two interesting points. 1) he’s living in the WH now! 2) if he goes into the bunker? Voila, asbestos!

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Mickey8255's avatar

BE STILL MY HEART ♥️!!!!! Don’t be giving me false hope Ninah!!! lol

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Rita Blue Bingham's avatar

Just thinking, will the White House now need to be zoned off as a health hazard?

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DFW's avatar

Elections have consequences and the majority of the people elected this con artist. Wake up America, before our democracy is destroyed by Putin’s Apprentice!

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Eda's avatar

The majority DID NOT vote for him!! More people voted for either Kamala or 3rd party candidates then voted for him. NO Mandate!!’

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Mickey8255's avatar

I hope this is not Wishful thinking, but I think with what he has gouged out of our Country has changed some MAGGOT MINDS now…. Because NOW it AFFECTS….THEM. AND NOW THEIR EYES MAY PERHAPS BE OPENING.

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David Clark's avatar

Of course Trump tore down the West Wing, he is going to have an UFC Fight at the White House. Next there will be Professional Wrestlers jumping on each other from off the roof. Trump has been given the power to destroy the USA pretty much in full and Republicans have been it seems elected to help him destroy it all. After all this he might built a ballroom for all his Muslim Bosses from Qatar and Saudi Arabia, who did you all think this was for anyway? And since you can't turst anything out of the White House, you can assume that Trump has sold the Muslims the new ballroom or a large part there of.

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Mickey8255's avatar

Oh , I agree David. I know he’s been Up the Saudi’s ass wayy Before the LIV Golf course deal even. And that freaking Qatar Deal—— and we All KNOW THAT WAS SOME SORT OF DEAL…. Because No one just “Gifts” a How Many Millions of Dollars JET for NOTHING!??!! Also the orange devil has said many times how much he loves that Prof. wrestling crap. I believe that nasty kick boxing stuff too. Sheesh 🙄

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David Clark's avatar

I figure at first when they said the East Wing would not be touched they thought they didn't need the space but that has changed. I've seen pictures of all that gaudy looking gold crap is has made us all pay for across the WH, I hope when he is gone the next Dem has that stuff pulled out and sold and put toward the National Debt that Trump and the Reich are exploding.

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Mickey8255's avatar

That’s a really great idea. I think that gold crap looks like CRAP too! Gosh…. That stuff went OUT back around the 70’s I believe!??!?! YUCK 🤮!! Hell they may have to BEG people to buy it , lol 😂. OR PAY someone to take what can’t be burned away 😩

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Amy Jackson's avatar

My dad died from mesothelioma. There was never any certainty of where he was exposed, so it was assumed to be "job related". By the time you find out you have it, it is decades after first exposure.

All those workers (and their families if they go home in contaminated clothing) will not realize the danger until far into the future. Long after trumps and maga are gone.

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Mickey8255's avatar

I’m so sorry for your loss your loss. I lost my dad— lung cancer—age 58. Back in 1990. Mesothelioma was not on the radar at the time. But I have always wondered. And my brother and I worked in a fiberglass insulation factory for years—they said it couldn’t get into our bloodstream or affect us in ANY WAY… but I have COPD for Years now and I wonder if that COULD Play a PART of my issue with it (?!?!?!) I may never know. And yes I did smoke … I had quit but started again ugh! 😫

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Amy Jackson's avatar

My mom was diagnosed with COPD, but it was attributed entirely to her having been a smoker. They never tested her for mesothelioma, which can only be diagnosed with specific testing. She washed my dad's soiled clothing for decades, so she may have had effects from that too.

Fiberglass can cause other issues, but is not the same as asbestos.

One of my cats died from suspected mesothelioma too. It is in lots of building materials, including vermiculite insulation. My parents had insulation sprayed into the walls sometime in the 80s, which could also have been the source.

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Mickey8255's avatar

Awww I really am so sorry for your loss Amy 🙏🏻.

I did not know there’s a specific test that can be done to detect it—-That’s Great! When I was a little kid we moved around the same area A LOT, and the houses were Old and Hard To Heat. We kids had to take buckets across the street to the railroad tracks and pick the coal that had fallen as fast as we could because we were not allowed over there . The railroad security would chase us! But every house we lived in had asbestos siding…. Ugh 😩

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