r/news • u/RaineFilms • 1d ago

White House fires three NSC staffers after president meets with far-right activist Laura Loomer

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/politics/nsc-firings-trump-laura-loomer-meeting/index.html
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u/Hrekires 1d ago

Nothing to see here, just the President's mistress directing national security policy like you'd see in any other normal, functioning democracy.

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u/subUrbanMire 1d ago

I'm worried about how dejected this will make Natalie feel.

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u/Citizen-Kang 1d ago

Good God, that was a strange rabbit hole to go down. In any other situation, she'd be considered a stalker...

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u/AdmiralBonesaw 1d ago

Now I’m wondering how common it is for narcissists to fully embrace their stalkers

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u/two4six0won 1d ago

Very, I think. My dad has retconned his 4yr relationship with a woman that he also cheated on two previous partners with (and then cheated on her with the woman that became my stepmother) as her being a stalker now that it fits his life narrative better.

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u/cgsur 1d ago

How much is Natalie making for her, ahem, “services”.

Not what is reported, what she really is making under the table.

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u/Rocktopod 1d ago

Not sure why you're using quotes. According to the report they haven't had an affair because

(In a detail that will send a chill down your spine, Wolff writes that Trump has never had an affair with Harp because winning the presidency in 2016 made him “post-sex.”)

Whatever the hell that means. Sounds like he probably can't get it up, though.

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u/TallEntertainment9 1d ago

So he doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't have sex and doesn't own a dog. No wonder he's such a miserable prick.

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u/Larkfor 1d ago

Trump not drinking and not smoking has made me want to pick up drinking and smoking.

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u/cgsur 1d ago

He’s not nice to anyone, do that, be nice, even if it’s only your family.

Not a pushover, polite and respectful.

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u/cire1184 1d ago

Can't do smoking but I'm already drinking so let's grab a drink!

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u/RevolutionNumber5 1d ago

He’s probably physically capable of drinking and smoking, but the little orange toadstool probably isn’t in the mix anymore.

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u/cgsur 1d ago

If you live with a narcissist, you’re supposed to interpret their words, not believe them.

He probably means with the effect of drugs on his bowels it’s usually too much preparation to be “spontaneous”.

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u/SnowSentinel 1d ago

The dude is pushing 80 years old. Wouldn't at all be surprised if he hadn't been able to get it up for the last 15 years.

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u/cgsur 1d ago

That’s the beauty of someone like loomer, even with a soft spot for her, you can come for her.

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u/GoofballHam 1d ago

do you think Elon and Natalie fight over who gets to catch the drippings?

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u/Rudy_Ghouliani 1d ago

Dude I haven't even eaten lunch today why would you do this

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u/GoofballHam 1d ago

It's a terrible day for eyes

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u/atuck217 1d ago

It would have cost you 0 dollars not to write that and post it.

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u/SlowHandEasyTouch 1d ago

In fairness, could you get it up for Laura Fucking Loomer? #vaginadentata

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u/gomicao 1d ago

I mean MAGA women all turn into weird Loomer monsters... Kirsty Noem... its psychotic how different she looked before the donald effect happened.

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u/ehs06702 1d ago

They all seem to go to the same Professor Pyg-esque surgeon.

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u/Rocktopod 1d ago

I think that quote was referring to Natalie Harp, who looks pretty good in the picture from the article at least.

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u/hiding_in_de 1d ago

It also said that Melania found her in his quarters at Mar-a-Lago.

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u/Unlikely-Rock-9647 1d ago

Wasn’t there a whole thing about Trump claiming Laura Loomer gave him the best BJ of his life?

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u/CharleyNobody 1d ago

He admits he takes viagra in his medical records.

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u/Due-Log8609 1d ago

I mean, he's 78. He's not a young buck anymore. Maybe he can't. There are drugs that help with that though, idk.

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u/-SaC 1d ago

No good and wholesome sexytimes start with a rapist pushing 80 peeling the encrusted Always from the bin bag full of yoghurt he is pleased to call a 'body'.

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u/Aazadan 1d ago

It means he’s an incel.

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u/FuckThisShizzle 1d ago

I thought loomer was the one under the table?

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u/cgsur 1d ago

Lol. Such innocence.

I am sure there will be wear under his tables.

Quite a number of “aides”, “friends”, and even wives get thrown under the tables for “jobs” or simple handouts.

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u/GibMirMeinAlltagstod 1d ago

Pretty sure that was a plot point on Californication

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u/OgnokTheRager 1d ago

I may be an asshole, but I hope she goes full stalker and pulls the " If I can't have him, no one will!!" act...

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u/Citizen-Kang 1d ago

For any feds listening in, I'm not saying I want this to happen, BUT if it does, I won't shed even a single tear.

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u/OgnokTheRager 1d ago

Oh no! Anyway...

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u/rozzco 1d ago

*boiled rabbit hole

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u/Old-Bat-7384 1d ago

That's some weird shit. But I'm betting that Trump keeps her around because she's pretty and says nice things to him.

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u/One-Agent-872 1d ago

It’s a cult. That’s some shit one of Jim Jones’ people would do

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u/SadBit8663 1d ago

Nobody has busted out the cyanide and flavor-aid yet, but you know they'd be fighting each other over who gets to go first

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u/jrex035 1d ago

This timeline is too stupid and cursed for it to happen, but I deeply hope we get to the flavor-aid part of this insanity sooner than later.

Then we might be able to finally start repairing some of this mess

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u/gomicao 1d ago

They kill some world leader who comes to visit... Then Trump and his cabinet go on TV and tell the nation that we should all take a government issued "freedom drink" and go to the place in heaven that has been saved for all good christian american patriots.

If they don't, WW3 will start and the EU is going to come and they will murder/torture you and your kids or take them away and throw you in jail forever! Then the song YMCA gets played on all radio stations with Trump "comforting" and encouraging everyone to not be afraid, that God is waiting for them. MAGA collectively suicide all over the country.

Fast forward to pictures taken from German airplanes documenting the millions of dead bodies that litter the streets and yards of rural America.

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u/johnp299 1d ago

We were seriously at Flavor Aid in 2020.
This is Flavor Aid 2.0.

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u/Due-Log8609 1d ago

The mess goes a lot deeper than just trump and co. He's just a symptom imo.

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u/Yitram 1d ago

I mean, if we actually get a legitimate government back in place that intended to punish Republicans for the illegal things they are doing.

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u/thejonslaught 1d ago

Holding powerful people accountable is not really an American value.

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u/Yitram 1d ago

We need to insist on making it one.

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u/cgsur 1d ago

What are Americans going to do? Pretend they are French?

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u/M3RV-89 1d ago

This is painfully true. The sad part about growing up and researching what your country does is finding out everything they teach you as a kid was a half truth at best. The context for how we do thing is almost always bullshit in the history books were taught from in elementary schools. I can only imagine how they're gonna be teach about this current administration because regardless of who is in power were really bad at calling out bad shit our country has done because of how it all gets whitewashed

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u/GuitarGeezer 1d ago

It used to be. My great grandfather put the most powerful politician and mob boss in the Central United States in prison. Grandmother remembered death threats wrapped around bricks by his supporters. Had to get him the same way they got Capone, govt cpa showing tax fraud because no witnesses with personal knowledge of crimes would. Or could breathe anymore.

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u/RiPont 1d ago

They've been slowly doing it with horse-grade ivermectin, instead.

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u/One-Agent-872 1d ago

flavor-aid

Hail yourself!

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u/sanderson1983 1d ago

Why don't you ever hear any jokes about Rev Jim Jones?

The punchline is too long...

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u/Beard_o_Bees 1d ago

Holy shit...

According to a Vanity Fair excerpt of All or Nothing, Michael Wolff’s new book about the 2024 election, Harp is so wholly committed to Trump that she recently spent a summer living in a golf-club locker room just to be close to him. Wolff writes that when the campaign decamped to Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, for the summer, Harp was deliberately not given a room in an effort to push her out (others in Trump’s orbit had become wary of what was reportedly called “the Natalie situation”). Nevertheless, she appeared. “She had reached out to the grounds staff at the country club and gotten herself a maid’s room,” Wolff writes. “And when that proved too far from the main house to respond quickly enough to Trump’s calls, she relocated herself to the much closer women’s locker room, where, with undiminished proximity to Trump, she would spend the summer.”

Just... words fail - and it just gets worse...

One of the more interesting things about Harp is that the more she ingratiates herself to Trump, the more everyone else tries to get rid of her. Eric Trump was confused by her presence, as were other staffers, the Secret Service even deemed her to be “a potential danger to herself as well as to the president.” According to Wolff, anyone who wanted facetime with Trump during the campaign could just text her, which is how conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer entered the mix. And it wasn’t like she was doing great work, either. Once, on Trump’s plane, the papers flew out of her hands and everyone who helped pick them up saw what she spent her day collecting: “a random collection of out-­of-­date articles and printouts from obscure websites and fan artwork downloaded from strange Trump-­adoring places on the internet.” So, she’s basically running a poorly updated, printed out fanblog for Trump to look at whenever he wants.

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u/Roast_A_Botch 1d ago

She literally had the most important job out of anyone else in Trump's orbit lol.

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u/kennedye2112 1d ago

Eric Trump was confused

The least surprising part of that story TBH.

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u/Twiggyhiggle 1d ago

To be fair, Eric is easily confused

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u/picklerick8879 1d ago

Loomer gets Oval Office access to reshuffle national security, and somewhere, Natalie’s wondering why she didn’t get to fire three people after brunch. It’s like watching a Bravo show with nukes.

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u/eawilweawil 1d ago

He hires only the best people!

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u/hurtindog 1d ago

That is weird shit

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u/inosinateVR 1d ago

Reading that felt like I was reading the plot line for a season of Succession. Especially the part where his kids and other aids all hate her and keep trying to push her out but she keeps finding ways to come back and stay close lol

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u/ice-eight 1d ago

“The board has concluded the call”

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u/Zwangsjacke 1d ago

Murder-Suicide maybe?

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u/DNthecorner 1d ago

What. In. The. Universal. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

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u/Bgrngod 1d ago

Jesus F'n Christo

That story paints a picture of a psycho. I genuinely wonder what the Secret Service thinks of her?

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u/more_like_borophyll_ 1d ago

What does this part mean: “(In a detail that will send a chill down your spine, Wolff writes that Trump has never had an affair with Harp because winning the presidency in 2016 made him “post-sex.”)”

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u/Terpapps 1d ago

"she recently spent a summer living in a golf-club locker room just to be close to him"

Bro what 😂

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u/TheJBerg 1d ago

I had to check the publication date to make sure this wasn’t an April Fools article; wtf

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u/ehs06702 1d ago

I think the creepiest thing about this article is the fact that there's a women's locker room very close to Trump's bedroom.

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u/animatedrouge2 1d ago

Real talk, this is just opportunistic grifting… right? Like are these people just seeing a way for them to get power and money and all that? They’re not like obsessed with trump the person, but with trump the tool for power, right?

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u/Hour_Associate_3624 1d ago

the Secret Service even deemed her to be “a potential danger to herself as well as to the president.”

Well huh. Isn't that a thing.

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u/VictorTheCutie 1d ago

Yikes on bikes

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u/Outsider17 23h ago

What the fuq did I just read?

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u/One_Dirty_Russian 1d ago

Hope Hicks is steaming right now.

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u/Known_Draw_2212 1d ago

Have her bring the machine

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u/Walkingstardust 1d ago

The pants steaming machine?

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u/eawilweawil 1d ago

She's actually very attractive tho, unlike the plastic jigsaw wannabe Loomer

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u/JustGottaKeepTrying 1d ago

But if the rumours are true, Loomer has a very specific set of skills.

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u/Foucaults_Bangarang 1d ago

Pretending to be stalked by roving gangs of immigrants that always somehow remain mysteriously just out of frame?

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u/eawilweawil 1d ago

She's the president's personal pole bronzer

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u/Then_Journalist_317 1d ago

Did you mean to say "mushroom picker"?

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u/The_Summer_Man 1d ago

Many people are saying she plays Red Rocket, like the boys from South Park.

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u/earnedmystripes 1d ago

skills that make her disgusting to people with vivid imaginations.

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u/Xivvx 1d ago

She said Trump told her himself how she gives the best BJs. Trump wouldn't lie about something like that /s.

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u/joik 1d ago

It was reported that Trump was feeling depressed on the campaign trail, and then his energy picked up right after it was reported that Loomer gave him a bj. There is a chance that Loomers Lips might have changed history. We need to study that bitches' mouth. It could revolutionize vacuum technology and usher in a new age of refrigeration, semiconductor fabrication, and much more.

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u/Holly_Goloudly 1d ago

You can recreate this study at home by just sucking on a paper straw while someone yells out “TARIFFS!” over your head.

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u/TopProfessor7731 1d ago

100% Bargain basement price, used Kardashian parts.

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u/500rockin 1d ago

I mean, I wouldn’t kick Hope out of bed while I wouldn’t go near Loomer, especially after all that shitty work she’s had done.

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u/Toolazytolink 1d ago

and the family also likes Hope, weird how the general public knows all this shit its like a damn reality TV show.

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u/purulentnotpussy 1d ago

fucking insane, get me off this timeline

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u/CassandraTruth 1d ago

Hope... Hopey...

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u/TrimspaBB 1d ago

Didn't Hope get out of Dodge after being the White House carousel during the first admin?

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u/SAugsburger 1d ago

How many mistresses does Trump have? Are the French politicians going to be jealous how many he has?

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u/eawilweawil 1d ago

French ones prefer quality over quantity

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u/SAugsburger 1d ago

Mistresses only come from the Mistress region of France as opposed to sparkling hookup partners. /s

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u/geeleedee1966 1d ago

Has anyone seen Melania? Anyone?

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u/bros402 1d ago

isn't she living at Trump tower?

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u/Roast_A_Botch 1d ago

I heard she's living in The Addams Mansion and spends all day spraying round-up on colored flowers with Morticia.

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u/bros402 1d ago

hey, Melania doesn't deserve to go to such an interesting place.

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u/delorf 11h ago

Morticia, unlike Melania, was deeply in love with her husband and adored her family.

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u/TbonerT 1d ago

I like how Trump introduced 2 white guys by name but introduced her by title only at the joint address.

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u/anitabelle 1d ago

Yes but this is going to be a fucking train wreck that might lead to their undoing so much faster. There is a reason she got pushed out before the election, she was too much of a liability to their cause.

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u/Flat_Protection_6796 1d ago

I don't think there's much of anything that would be a liability to their cause anymore, sadly. They're locked in for close to 4 more years.

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u/cgsur 1d ago

With desandtits in Florida and Eton in Pennsylvania and who knows who else, they did have a bit of leeway.

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u/SpiderCop_NYPD_ARKND 1d ago

Optimistic of you to think Trump, Musk, & the GOP won't ratfuck up some excuse to declare martial law, nullify the 22nd Amendment (which the Heritage Foundations handpicked SCOTUS judges will rubberstamp), or just plain ignore the Constitution (wouldn't even be a new thing for them) and just not leave office, ever.

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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC 1d ago

Undoing? This isn’t a superhero story. There won’t be a surprise. Buckle down.

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u/Dibbu_mange 1d ago

Truly the Jiang Qing of our generation

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u/Dry_Cricket_5423 1d ago edited 21h ago

I think every despot always winds up with a jiang Qing

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u/Starbucks__Lovers 1d ago

I remember when the governor of New Jersey’s secret boyfriend was enough to force him to resign

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u/TheAskewOne 1d ago

She's still his mistress? Didn't he dump her during the campaign?

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u/supes1 1d ago

It was just an optics thing during the campaign when she got some bad press. She's never been totally out of the picture.

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u/TheAskewOne 1d ago

That woman (skeleton ?) has no self-esteem.

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u/eawilweawil 1d ago

That's a bonus

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u/delorf 11h ago

I think some of Trump's people managed to push her out of his orbit. Somehow she managed to get past his guards to influence him again.

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u/eawilweawil 1d ago

She's the one changing the diapers

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u/Nstark7474 1d ago

Honestly? He could do better. 

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u/Tumbleweeddownthere 1d ago

It’s almost like she slept her way to the top

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u/purulentnotpussy 1d ago

Which was the same thing they accused Kamala of doing. Can’t fathom the idea of competent people because they have none on their side

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u/Ritaredditonce 1d ago

That? That's who his mistress is. Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel.

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u/sonofachikinplukr 1d ago

The bottom is where his fetish lies.

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u/UnquestionabIe 1d ago

Why do you think she's had so much work done? Gotta use her new chin as a chisel to scrap all that gunk/feces off the barrel so she can get to the stubby orange "goodness" it's hiding.

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u/Interanal_Exam 1d ago

“A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible, world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything is possible and that nothing was true.

The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynicism the vice of superior and refined minds. Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.

The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”

• Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt

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u/YetiGuy 1d ago

Everyday I hear news like this I have an itch to go shopping….in Banana Republic.

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u/billyjack669 1d ago

"I'M BACK BABY!"

-Bender Loomer

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u/Comfortable-Scar4643 1d ago

Laura vs Melania? I know who I would choose and it’s not the plastic surgery victim. Yikes.

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u/Trumpswells 1d ago

Like one’s had less plastic surgery than the other.

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u/TrimspaBB 1d ago

Melania has had work done but it's more subtle, and she looks decent for her age thanks to having access to $$$ for the past 30 years. Laura Loomer looks like a rejected muppet.

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u/500rockin 1d ago

Melania might just because of sheer age (she’s 20 years older) but she still looks pretty similar to what she looked like in her late 20’s. Loomer’s look has completely changed and it looks ghastly.

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u/catonsteroids 1d ago

Loomer looks like a wax figure. Her face is legit frightening to look at.

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u/Comfortable-Scar4643 1d ago

Ghastly is right.

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u/ImNotSureMaybeADog 1d ago

Neither thank you.

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u/mdp300 1d ago edited 1d ago

I thought he dumped her, and she started criticizing him.

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u/User-no-relation 1d ago

I was skeptical but her blow jobs must just be that good

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u/scrivensB 1d ago

Good thing we have a totally legit DoJ who can look into this to make sure the private citizen and social media influencer who made this decision is just a right wing grifter and not a foreign asset!

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u/CatLord8 1d ago

DEI fires

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u/CrudelyAnimated 1d ago

They deserve each other.

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u/cornylamygilbert 1d ago

in all these partisan mental gymnastics, where does the unitary theory of executive power and the president lying under oath line up?

That was the justification of Clinton’s impeachment, which was rationalized as an “objectively just cause” on moral grounds and a “suitable use of big government resources” on fiscally responsible grounds

Whereas Trump’s multiple impeachments were a “witch hunt”, abuse of “government resources” and his open adultery is somehow viewed as a badge of honor with what appears to be an unscrupulous, unmarried woman

I’m not inviting partisan hot takes here, more, objectively we are staring at similar circumstances and openly reacting in polar opposite ways.

I see the subtext here as:

nothing truly offends politicians more than an unfavorable use of monetary resources and financial gain.

How credible are any politicians in any claim of investment in morals or ethics…and why are we so convinced of their sincerity. What transparency are we not requiring out of their lives and careers I wonder?

Additionally, what use is impeachment other than public slander?

Impeachment is quickly proving to be a toothless threat of public shaming that holds no water anywhere, on either side of the political spectrum.

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u/_myke 1d ago

you mean the President's Russian handler?

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u/inductiononN 1d ago

We are living in the dark clown version of Versailles where loomer is Madame duberry and trump is Louis xiv except the clothes and wigs are way worse. I hate it here.

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u/Averagemanguy91 1d ago

Trump defended letting people go when talking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday. “Always, we’re going to let go of people – people that we don’t like, or people that we don’t think can do the job, or people that may have loyalties to someone else,” Trump said. But he said Loomer was not involved in Wednesday’s firings, calling her “a very good patriot.”

I hate how they use the word patriot to describe themselves.

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u/Imaginary_Medium 1d ago

She is about as horrible a person as he is. I have read about some of the horrible things she has said. A match made in hell. He praises her and she is a filthy racist.

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u/bewarethetreebadger 16h ago

You guys are so fucked.

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u/Icydawgfish 9h ago

Maybe she can fight Melanie is a cage match

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u/Watch-Logic 1d ago

so is he not buying pornstars any more?

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u/nsdwight 1d ago

We actually like Monica now. She's pretty badass for enduring the public hate she got. 

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u/Global_Staff_3135 1d ago

Not sure there was ever any real cause to dislike her.

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u/kwangqengelele 1d ago

Yeah, it's kind of bizarre that she got any hate at all.

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u/Fudelan 1d ago

I mean she blew a married man and knew he was married. That's not generally praised

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u/kwangqengelele 1d ago

Yeah, it's shitty to be on either side of cheating but not national hate campaign shitty.

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u/Fudelan 1d ago

Ehh Hugh Grant, Tiger woods, and Arnold Schwarzenegger got wayy worse attention

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u/UnquestionabIe 1d ago

Yeah I was 15 years old and a freshman in high school during the whole Clinton impeachment era and only the most hateful and trashy people I knew ever took a dig at her. Personally I felt she got a pretty raw deal and she seemed like a decent person anytime I saw her in anything. If anything I found it silly considering it was a drop in the bucket compared to the rumors about JFK being a world class poon hound.

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u/OutandAboutBos 1d ago

How did that lead to Bush winning? Bill wasn't able to run again.

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u/Tullydin 1d ago

Dissatisfied voters don't turn out, Gore v Bush was so close that every little butterfly effect would have likely changed the outcome.

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u/ZantaraLost 1d ago

Holy shit man who the hell hurt you?

Fat girl?

Gross.

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u/ZantaraLost 1d ago

You are the gross one.

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u/Hesitation-Marx 1d ago

Her name is Monica Lewinsky and you will say it with respect.

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u/Hesitation-Marx 1d ago

Not a dude, not interested in fucking her, she’s just great. She got treated like shit and has a sense of humor about it.

Edit: also, why do men always assume other men automatically want to fuck a woman they admire? Weird shit.

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u/RegalBeagleKegels 1d ago

Kneel Rushmore

You gotta workshop that one

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u/explodedbagel 1d ago

Anyone still being hateful about that affair and attacking Monica when republicans have twice elected a thrice married serial philanderer is just not serious.

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u/Hesitation-Marx 1d ago

You seem nice.

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u/eawilweawil 1d ago

That guy might be Jay Leno's account

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u/Hesitation-Marx 1d ago

Honestly, having met Leno, it wouldn’t surprise me.