President Trump got in the face of ABC’s Rachel Scott after she asked him a question about the rationale behind his national midterm voter bribe.

“Mr. President, on the checks: The U.S. is still $40 trillion in debt. If your economic policies are working, why do you need an incentive for people to turn out to vote?” she asked Thursday night.

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    Walked in on teenagers changing at a beauty pageant, talked about grabbing women by the pussy, loomed over Hillary Clinton in the debates, raped E. Jean Carroll.

    This should surprise no one. He is a giant piece of shot, America should be ashamed of.

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      That’s what so many love about him, though. The general message at that time was that Obama meant we were post-racial (even though his election drove conservatives to madness) and that it was “her turn” when it came to Hillary. Yeah, I didn’t really like the messaging around that, either.

      But the racists and misogynists were fuming and fuming all during the 90s (Hillary being talked about as a co-President possibly made them even crazier than having to abide a black President did) and then during Obama’s 8 years as virtually everyone ignored their stupid “long firm birth certificate” demands.

      When tiny d donnie came along and started saying and doing all the shit they say and do in private, because he’s supposedly a bigly billionaire who didn’t give a flying fuck about social norms because he has fuck-you money, they could not get enough. If Romney and McCain were their methadone, donnie is their China White.

      They view donnie as the guy that put both Obama and Hillary “in their place”.

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      I know from experience that sudden movement hurts when you’re old, he’ll be in pain later so hopefully more drug induced shit posting later

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      You would be hard pressed to find any journalist he could physically beat up. One might be hard pressed to find even a congress person he could beat up, including all of those geriatrics. Like him versus mitch mcconnel, not even sure he could manage to smother him with a pillow at this point.

      He’s weak and frail beyond description.

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        To be fair, it’s pretty hard to smother somebody who hasn’t breathed for two months. He sure is good at holding his breath and still being alive.

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      I watched the video, he didn’t lunge he got closer and leaned in to yell. Nothing fast or dramatic, just rude.

      If he tried to lunge he’d almost certainly fall. His speech is slurring more than the last time I listened to him and his movements are so very slow and calculated like he’s struggling to stay upright.

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    Trump is a vile human being, but “lunges”? Come on… That is not at all what that word means. He leaned forward and disrespected a woman, something he’s done a thousand times before.

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      I suspect it’s deliberate to make other criticisms of him look like they are also wild exaggerations.

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        I suspect it’s deliberate way to exaggerate headlines to get more attention, that goes back well over 100 years in the news business

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    keep the pressure on. he’s gonna snap and physically assault one of these reporters.

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        He could be found not guilty due to Presidential action all day long for not committing assault and battery for all I care.

        So long as the boxing champ working for AXY news or whatever is also found to have acted in self defense in accordance to their jurisdiction after their reflexive and mighty right hook starts a needed constitutional crisis.

        The courts can handle the absurdity.

        Not that the presidential immunity is ok at all, far from it.

        But there’s a vital distinction between “Can’t be charged for anything while performing Presidential duties” and “Anyone who exercises a legal right that crosses unto the protected person has that legal right deactivated”.

        Which…yes, pretty much is defacto currently for 99/100 things that any aggrieved party could claim as a grievance committed by the US. Gov, currently and effectively, I’m aware.

        But unstoppable force meeting immovable mouth?

        I feel codifying that too deeply would be a legal bridge too far.

        Not for decency but because what it means for the puppeteering interests. The reporter would be more at risk of ending in a black site than a courtroom, imo.

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          The self-defender wouldn’t live to see trial. The secret service would eliminate them before their fist connected, let alone the matter reached court.

          It doesn’t matter how big or tough you are. It does not matter what is legal, what is right or wrong, or any other factor. The victim would be dead, and the perp would be immune.

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    Anyone have the actual video? The link does not, and a 5 minute startpage search didn’t find it either, god search engines suck now.

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            I’d say how it was supposed to work vs how its actually worked. One is a work of fiction on the level of twilight, the other is historically important. Capitalism can’t control or regulate itself. Not as long as people are in control.

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              It can, but it doesn’t. Whether that’s because people-are-evil or not is a different discussion. Strong regulation, judiciously applied, makes a fair market better.

              Of course money is the root of all evil, but then we like stuff.

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                No disrespect. If it “can” when did it ever? If never, then can it really?

                The one and only time we ever came close in the United States was around the new deal. But that was forced on the capitalist. And they spent the next hundred years dismantling it again.

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                  The 70s had some good progrss in several areas. Conservative/republican/fascist assholes focused on media right after that and that’s why it’s all been going to shit, but if we could shake off this fascist cult and elect a decent government they could get back on track.

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        Ah thanks!

        He really does have a thing with woman questioning or criticizing him, or blacks. He’s so much worse this term too.

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      The link does have the video you just have to scroll. They made it very small as well, but it’s there.

      I wouldn’t call it a lunge and that seems to be clickbait. He got closer and leaned in to tell a reporter to shut up basically.

      What I found interesting is how much his speech is slurring and how slowly he’s moving in general.

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    Lunges, come on. I hate headlines like this. You don’t have to exaggerate when the shit he actually does is already so awful.

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    When Trump heard the phrase “the buck stops here” he thought it meant all the money, and not the responsibility of decisions.

    I know, that’s giving a lot saying “he thought”.

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    Trump gets so bent out of shape by anything he takes as even the slightest insult. Someone should call him a loser to his face. I bet he’ll shit his pants and have a stroke on the spot.

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    If Rachel Scott putt a right cross in that demented rapist’s swollen orange spewbucket the internet would have exploded. She’d retire rich and we’d be on our way to fixing this decimated hellscape.

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    Remember, he wants you to pretend he’s on the ballots this November in the midterm elections - say “Not you” this November.