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I am reminded of the woman who said, after the pussy-grabbing tape came out, “That’s just the way men are.” She meant the men in her life, not decent caring men, and she accepted them as the norm. Add in the fake business genius persona and you have the Trump secret sauce: loud, ignorant bullying you could hear in any crappy bar or Super Bowl party, filling their ears with bullshit that’s so much easier to absorb than actual facts and figures. DeSantis is to whiny, he’s the husband you wish would shut up and take the dog out so you can get back to Dancing With the Stars. Every MAGA man wants to be big and successful like Trump, not governor of a state-wide retirement community cum trailer park.

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Jordan Klepper had a tape where he was talking to a woman at a Trump rally: "Oh, that's just locker room talk, all men talk like that." Klepper asked, "Do you have sons? Do they talk that way?" And "Oh no, of course not!" was her reply. Klepper went through the list, does your husband talk that way, does your pastor talk that way, did your dad talk that way, does your brother talk that way. None of the men she knew talked that way, but all men talk that way.

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Well, not directly to her.

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And that's all that matters, right?

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Best example of how MAGA cognitive dissonance is managed I've ever seen.

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As above, he's a Celebrity, who has Been On Television. They don't just put *anybody* On Television. (Well, they do, but I digress.) The people who watch Television are generally old enough to remember when Being On Television was a Big Deal. You had to either have Done Something or Knew Something.

Now all of a sudden some Children Who Don't Know Anything (never mind they showed you what this "streaming" thing is and how it works) want your vote. They've never even Been On Television until now; how can you trust them?

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I'm no fool, I'm not signing my home over to just ANY reverse-mortgage company, I insist on the one that employs Tom Selleck!

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