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Would the guy who sticks “TRUMP” in big letters on everything from TRUMP Airlines to TRUMP Casinos to steaks and ties and hotels he doesn’t even own hide his ego behind a mere initial?

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[In the dock at Den Haag] It doesn't even say Trump on it, so you can't pin that on me.

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I’ve enjoyed your writing for years, Roy, going back to your Right Wing Blogger columns in the Village Voice. You were always great at skewering hypocrites and GOP shills but you really do owe a debt of gratitude to Trump, since he’s broadened your oeuvre by forcing you to become fluent in Sociopath.

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And yet I'm not grateful! But thank you.

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It's called "T2" because he can't pronounce "Chloroquine" the same way twice.

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Plausible deniability.

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Actual chloroquine is in very short supply. But chloroquine phosphate is readily obtainable at most any pet store that sell aquarium supplies.

So I can totally see Trump's dimwitted loin-fruits selling chloroquine phosphate because, hey! what's the big diff, right?

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Telling, y'all, hard to laugh at the the US's answer to Josef Stalin -- kill as many people to get the job done, no limit on deaths. Now the Don wants to do the same: Send people back to work ASAP so as many people as possible get sick and die. I suppose the idea is that that's what Wall Street wants in order to be banging 30k by whenever the election will be. Seriously.

But that downer said, I was more amused than not by today's effort. However, while Roy did a yeoman's job channeling the Don's voice, gotta say I was listening to Monday's spew and I didn't hear a single sentence, coherent or otherwise.

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The grimly hilarious part is that there is no way, none, zero, for the stock market to get back to 30,000 in less than 4-5 years, even with the best possible pandemic response. Let's examine the *optimistic* Santelli model for half a minute: somewhere between a million and two million casualties over the next year, with a giant spike through May-July. Number one: many of those victims will have run up huge bills, wiping out any inheritance. Others will see the full tab landing on MediCare or MedicAid. Gonna be a lot of dead doctors and nurses too.

So: following *that* little bit of cheeriness, are *you* going to be running out to buy a big-screen TV or new car or shit-hot cellphone? No? Are the resaurants and bars and brewers and distillers and hotels and coffee shops that went under suddenly going to be brought back from the dead?

WHO THE FUCK IS GOING TO BE SPENDING MONEY THEY DON'T HAVE AND CAN'T GET?

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"Man dies after ingesting chloroquine in an attempt to prevent coronavirus."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142454870

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While this is a grimly hilarious parody, it could easily be the transcript (go read it!) of any of the Trump Clown Show daily pressers, which are really just substitutes for his Bund rallies. And, of course people have already sickened or died from ingesting the chloroquine phosphate (fish tank cleaner). Stop broadcasting the Trump Show, MSM!

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1. I can't believe Trump would do this... without setting up a toll-free number for MAGAts who don't have internet access. Really, this whole scenario is frighteningly plausible.

2. Found a typo: "the wonder drug they cakk it".

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Thanks!

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This is really going to cut into my Forsythia profits if it takes off

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T2 in Action.

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So now you get into your DeLorean and zoom back one day into the future, is that it you scammy fuck?

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