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   Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 08:25:39 JST Laffy

   😂 Lawsuit jitters, Newsmax?

   Via Acyn:

   #Newsmax adds a disclaimer at the end of #Trump’s rally: The president mentioned in his speech, the 2020 elections. Newsmax as a network believes the results were legal and final.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 08:25:39 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     @GottaLaff

     👍

     But that's only halfway.
     The press needs to stop calling him "president." He's TFG.
     And he'd better remain retired. For the sake of humanity.

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 08:28:23 JST Laffy

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

     @HistoPol We sure won't, but it's common practice to call ex presidents "Pres."

     I think it's dumb.

     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 repeated this.
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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 08:40:42 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     @GottaLaff
     I know.
     And ever since TFG started using fascist rethorics + disseminating the #BigLie about a "stolen election," it has become dangerous to still address him as "Mr. President," as he can continue to pretend that, in fact, he still continues to be president.
     Common practice must change when underlying conditions undergo a sea change.
     This isn't a drill, as we all know, but a final defense of US democracy as we've known it for a century.
     Luckily for all of us, he's just "Mr. Trump."

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 08:50:17 JST Laffy

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

     @HistoPol I hate hearing it too. It really gets me crazy.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 08:50:47 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     • BFSMan01

     @MikeF

     One of the fascists' and totalitarian ruler's most effective weapons has always been language ("1984"; Goebbels, ...)

     My point is that we cannot indulge in laziness anymore.

     Besides, he's a criminal, as the E. Jean Carroll case has already demonstrated. That he cannot be criminally prosecuted for this deed anymore is a pity, but it does n't change the fact that he's a rapist, among other (still alledged) crimes like treason, insurrection, etc.
     He, in particular, doesn't..

     @GottaLaff

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     BFSMan01 (mikef@mstdn.plus)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 08:50:48 JST BFSMan01

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

     @GottaLaff @HistoPol It’s a convenience that we use because we’re all pretty lazy when it comes to our speech. President Trump. President Obama. President Bush, all the way back to President Carter. It’s no big deal, really. But to call him ‘The President’ takes it too far, and they should be called out for it.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 08:51:05 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     • BFSMan01

     @MikeF @GottaLaff

     ..deserve that honor.
     //

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 08:54:22 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     @GottaLaff

     Do what I do:

     I always mentally correct it with "Mr. Former Guy" and then add "Never again!"

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 08:54:34 JST Laffy

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

     @HistoPol I just mute the TV.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 08:57:23 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     @GottaLaff
     Lol.
     I mostly "mute" the pics by not watching, just listening to what is being said and do chores, etc. A lot of the pics are just decorational and/ or from the archives.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 08:58:58 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     • Barbara Monaco

     @Barbramon1
     💯 % never was.

     He's a MAGA = Moscow Agent Grifting America.

     @GottaLaff

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     Barbara Monaco (barbramon1@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 08:58:59 JST Barbara Monaco

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

     @HistoPol @GottaLaff I never referred to him as the president, even while he occupied the office. He was, and is not, worthy of the title.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 09:01:06 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     • Barbara Monaco

     @GottaLaff
     Good, but I maintained the Birdsite's good practice of referring to him as TFG. Nomen est omen.

     A hashtag in the #footnotes is sufficient.

     @Barbramon1

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 09:01:07 JST Laffy

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
     • Barbara Monaco

     @Barbramon1 Same. In fact, I've always eliminated it from anything I copy/paste, if I spot it, so he's simply "Trump." @HistoPol

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 09:11:20 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     • Barbara Monaco

     @Barbramon1 @GottaLaff

     Yep.

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     Barbara Monaco (barbramon1@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 09:11:21 JST Barbara Monaco

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

     @GottaLaff @HistoPol
     I did the same with Bush II, although in comparison to trump W almost looks like an elder statesman.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 17:50:28 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     @GottaLaff

     PS:

     My feeling is that #SethAbramsom would agree:

     https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111985530118275575