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edbermac

(15,942 posts)
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 10:46 PM Oct 2019

GOP Lawmakers Watch Silently As Trump Strangles Each Of Their Loved Ones In Turn

WASHINGTON—Opting to take more of a wait-and-see approach instead of rushing to pass judgment, Republican lawmakers reportedly looked on in silence Tuesday as President Trump worked his way through each of their families and, one by one, strangled all their loved ones to death.

“After I watched the president slowly and methodically squeeze the life out of my wife’s body as she gasped, futilely, for breath, he gave me his personal assurance that he was not responsible for her death, so I continue to stand by this administration,” said Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), who along with every Republican in both the House and Senate stated that while killing off their families in cold blood might not be entirely proper, it was certainly not an impeachable offense, no matter how the media tried to spin it.

“Now, this is not an action I would have taken myself. I personally would not have wrapped my hands around my 5-year-old son’s neck and crushed his windpipe. But if Donald Trump’s approach to governing is sometimes a bit outside the ordinary, that’s because Donald Trump is no ordinary president. And maybe that’s not such a bad thing.”

Later, with his beloved sister’s face turning purple as the commander-in-chief asphyxiated her with a length of barbed wire, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appeared on several television news networks and said impeaching the president for her imminent death would be “insane.”



https://politics.theonion.com/gop-lawmakers-watch-silently-as-trump-strangles-each-of-1838885386/amp?__twitter_impression=true

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GOP Lawmakers Watch Silently As Trump Strangles Each Of Their Loved Ones In Turn (Original Post) edbermac Oct 2019 OP
frightening thing is.. this has now become truth, not parody. pangaia Oct 2019 #1
Oh he's just joking! nt UniteFightBack Oct 2019 #2
He's acting like a psychopath on a Reality Game Show. Exactly what a lot of folks voted for. Midnight Writer Oct 2019 #3
Kick dalton99a Oct 2019 #4
The Onion has gone very dark indeed leftieNanner Oct 2019 #5
Dark indeed. Aussie105 Oct 2019 #6
Trump has already strangled their soul. nt SunSeeker Oct 2019 #7
"The important thing is pwning the libs." Grokenstein Oct 2019 #8
... demmiblue Oct 2019 #9

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
1. frightening thing is.. this has now become truth, not parody.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 10:50 PM
Oct 2019



For 3 years I have known the it is is REPUBLICANS who are to blame.

Nobody else.

REPUBLICANS ARE THE TRAITORS
REPUBLICANS ARE THE TRAITORS
REPUBLICANS ARE THE TRAITORS
REPUBLICANS ARE THE TRAITORS
REPUBLICANS ARE THE TRAITORS
REPUBLICANS ARE THE TRAITORS

PASS IT ON

leftieNanner

(15,137 posts)
5. The Onion has gone very dark indeed
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 01:05 AM
Oct 2019

Because reality has gone far beyond any place they could have imagined.

Aussie105

(5,420 posts)
6. Dark indeed.
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 01:40 AM
Oct 2019

I no longer follow the Onion, basically because satire like this is scaring me.

But it's not recalcitrant GOPers that need to worry the most.

How desperate will Don need to be, before he does in fact get involved in 'removing', North Korean or Russian style, some of the people he blames for his dreams of a Hereditary Monarchy being dimmed?

(Nancy, whistleblowers, watch your back!)

Grokenstein

(5,727 posts)
8. "The important thing is pwning the libs."
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 01:51 AM
Oct 2019

"If this is what it takes, I support the President, who was duly elected by a huge landslide despite a conspiracy by Democrats to steal the election with the help of the media, Saturday Night Live, Russia, Iran, China, and, uh... (checks notes) ...the Kurds."

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