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hay rick

hay rick's Journal
hay rick's Journal
June 28, 2023

RoboRon is the new torchbearer for the DeSantis campaign.




It's a "no boots" campaign reboot. And lookit them claws! Nobody is going to make fun of this candidate for small hands either! RoboRon is an honest-to-white-Jesus woke warrior.
June 20, 2023

Jim Jordan stumbles over the truth.



Questioned about his remark later, Jordan claimed it was "just locker room talk."
June 12, 2023

The drunk uncle defense- he's OUR traitor.



The Republican presidential primary is heating up for everyone not named Donald Trump. Under a thin veneer of faux outrage, candidates are positively giddy about their burgeoning prospects. They are unburdened by the near certainty that Trump engaged in seditious behavior.

Pardons for crimes as yet unknown? Of course. Retroactive carte blanche is on offer.

Charges of weaponized prosecutions by the DOJ? Of course. Holy Benghazi, Batman!

June 9, 2023

About all those documents: Donald Trump doesn't read...

This from an article in the Atlantic in 2018:

...how little Donald Trump reads. While, like many of the tendencies described in Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, Trump’s indifference to the printed word has been apparent for some time, the depth and implications of Trump’s strong preference for oral communication over the written word demand closer examination.

“He didn’t process information in any conventional sense,” Wolff writes. “He didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-­literate.”

Wolff quotes economic adviser Gary Cohn writing in an email: “It’s worse than you can imagine … Trump won’t read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.”


If Trump had no interest in reading the documents himself...

link to article: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/americas-first-post-text-president/549794/

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