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Trump killed the GOP in the 2015-2016 debates. He slaughtered his opponents with his standard hate speech and slander and the rank and file loved it then and they love it today.

The Trump Xian Republic Party replacement for the "Grand" "Old" party is complete in 2023 and he is a Shadow Dictator pulling the TXR aka Republican party.

The sooner this is acknowledged as was the term Putin took as Prime Minister before changing the Russian Constitution the sooner America can see the real Treat the Shadow President and his allies replacement.

Shadow President Trump is going about winning the 2023-2024 debates by not showing up. His endorsement and these wannabe Presidents is all but certain. They will all capitulate as soon as they drop out except for maybe Governor Christie.

Long live the King. *hopefully mortality still pertains to the Orange Menace!

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Dean Obeidallah

Shadow "president" is spot on!

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And the money behind this shadow president, the billionaire businessman, the oligarch , foreign or domestic is seldom even mentioned, much less investigated or prosecuted.

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With the amount of coverage tRump receives, actually more than President Biden - I wonder if it would be more appropriate to switch the two around when referring to “Shadow President.” This term is stunningly accurate!

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Might the Trump Xian Republic Party more aptly be called the Trump Putin Republic Party?

Christie jumped back onto the drumpf bus the last time, though. Drumpf forgives anybody when they crawl back to kiss the ring.

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Xian , Christian Nationalism is also backing Putin, a Christian, in Russia via the Patriarch Karill so Xian is more inclusive. In Russia it is the PXR Putin Xian Republic

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Sep 28, 2023Liked by Dean Obeidallah

No doubt Tzilla suffers from Delusional disorder and is now at the edge of reason which is the threshold to the zone of no reason(not a good place to be) Lies beget instability and the inability to know the truth at all as happened to Hitler and Himmler as they carried out their barbaric tyranny.

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You had me at, "A psychologist friend." Excellent points Dean!

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Ha!!

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Sep 30, 2023Liked by Dean Obeidallah

Again I have to agree 💯 with you Dean What we need is Dean Media

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HA! Well that is what this newsletter is!!

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Sep 29, 2023Liked by Dean Obeidallah

A shadow dictator who cannot produce anything more that a deranged word salad. He knows it and all of his yes-men & women know it. Most people can’t wait to watch their candidate debate. He is incapable and totally incompetent. When bullying works so well, why debate on a subject you know nothing about? He is a laughable empty suit on the verge of implosion. Good riddance.

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I’m still struggling to understand how This clown is the “choice”? #WTAF

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It’s all right wing BS. He’s not going to win. Nor is he “neck & neck” in the polls. Like everything else, rescumliCons put lies out so people will oblige them and repeat it. We have to stop going along with it.

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As tfg and his troops (they are NOT a cult: as Malcom Nance has appropriately identified them as insurgents: "TITUS" [Trump Insurgency in the United States]) continue to engage in threats of death and lawlessness our nation's legal system continues to wring its hands as it fails to protect us, we the majority of citizens, by not holding this citizen, tfg, to the same legal standards as any citizen. (Special Counsel Jack Smith is trying but thwarted by a collapsing and frightened legal system.)

The time has come (or rather multiple times have arrived and then filtered into the never-sphere) to arrest and incarcerate tfg for terroristic threats against too many to list (the latest headline catcher General Milley). We Americans need to understand the depth and extent of the infiltration of this fascist movement in our nation. His arrest and incarceration would give us that bird's eye view of how serious and deep the infiltration is and prepare us for what our nation really is....

Please, oh please, arrest this man so that we may truly see who is funding him, what his army/militia truly looks like and how they are armed and what the point-in-time status of our nation is regarding the overthrow of democracy.

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The Fight of the Century!

In our corner, weighing in at 200 years, the current Heavyweight Champion of the World--Democracy!

In the opposing corner, weighing in at 77 years, the World's Biggest Loser-- MAGA Demonocracy!

Let the battle begin!

"Only around the start of Andrew Jackson’s presidency in the late 1820s did the concept of democracy—redefined to mean a representative version of popular rule constrained by a constitution—catch on and begin its meteoric ascent. It took even longer for individualized voting in the form of the secret ballot to become the norm across the United States, finally establishing the particular form of representative democracy that we know today."

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The terrible truth is that Trump doesn't have to debate. He is a coward, there is ample evidence of a mental decline, he has been indicted, he is a criminal, he should never have been president of the United States--but he's the Republican frontrunner and he stays that way by doing exactly what he's been doing--doing it HIS way.

There's no way to force him to get on that debate stage and as long as he's leading the pack there's no reason for him to chance a bad showing and a glimpse into the real Trump.

Not when he works so hard to creates a mythical persona his crowd will go on loving.

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Do these Far Right Lunatics know that it'd be like living in Russia or china if this sick orange menace gets reelected? It's like they haven't a brain cell between them. How much longer is the US going to let him run for Office, he needs to be stopped but it doesn't look like that is going to happen and my question is, WHY.

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Hi Janet, state by state seems very long-winded, thing is, America hasn't had any president like this before and I'd like to see the 14th amendment gather speed through the courts because, what if he Does get elected? It's a frightening thought especially as he is in the lead, it's such a gamble and I'm sure Putin will meddle again, but he did lose in 2020 so that gives hope. If he loses again in 2024 he won't accept it, neither will his rabid supporters. Yes, his sudden death would definitely solve it! It amazes me that a criminal could be president, it's unthinkable!

I wish I was an activist to help.

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Thanks! We have to stay optimistic, if we don't we Will go nuts!

He lost in 2020. I think the odds are he will lose again but that will present more problems because he will again say the election was stolen.. so getting rid of him using the 14th amendment stops this from happening, I hope they manage it.

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His Adderall addiction is starting to surface.

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Isn't there some sort of paper work that has to be filed to officially be running? Has he done that? Not that his cult or corporate media care about those details.

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Sep 28, 2023·edited Sep 28, 2023

Because I'm a voter, I don't care.

Because, as I understand it, the man committed a crime - a scheme of civil rights violations against me and other voters, so that's the top piece of information I care about.

If I'm asked to vote for Someone who is under multiple indictments for having already defrauded me, why would I care if he's making gaffes and getting older?

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I don’t’ know what to say or think about articles of this nature because I seem to view anything about Donald tRump much differently than most. I don’t believe his gaffes are attributable to simple mistakes or evidence that he’s struggling cognitively. We don’t need to watch him on stage to know that he’s totally incompetent to be commander-in-chief and we already know he’s batshit crazy! It was the injection of bleach for me let alone anything after that! In my view, he no longer has access to the cadre of skilled speech writers who would enable him to keep facts straight. If it’s not that, then he’s still being the con artist and actor he’s always been. I would not put it past him to intentionally create an appearance of cognitive decline as a hidden agenda to be institutionalized instead of going to jail; he knows he’s going! As for actions Dems can take to combat the whole situation, I would suggest interrogating polling data. To me, “It’s the questions, stupid!” You can’t use standard measurements for the unprecedented place we’re in. We need to start asking respondents “Why” and not just “What”! There’s a reason why Biden is polling unfavorably when you consider the man, the wisdom, the character and his accomplishments – regardless of age. I would venture to guess it has nothing to do with the “What”!

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Thanks, Dean, but I have a much more pressing question. Last night, the fat man from New Jersey said that "Joe Biden is in his basement." I remember many of us isolating as much as possible during the ast Covid attack, but I have noticed that Biden got out of his basement way before he was elected President (yes, I know, I thinkl Biden beat Trump in the electsion). The silence on this by all the other candidates seemed to indicate that they, too, believed Biden was still in the basement. Why do so many reptillian cortex Republicans obscess about Joe Biden's basement? A question for all.

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