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Trump bought the painting knowing it was a fake -- otherwise, he would have had to pay a large amount of actual money to someone, which is something he does not do.

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To Donald Trump, reality is whatever he decides it is.

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The. he should have no objections to living in the hundreds of bedrooms mansion that is Leavenworth.

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Being a smartass almost from birth, I recall (now that we're rightfully dumping on The Scourge of Queens) a chance meeting many moons ago when we occupied the same geographic space. He was regularly all over the NYC tabloids at the time and he caught me staring (disdainfully, I would hope) and asked if I wanted him to sign something. I believe I replied, "No thanks, I've got enough worthless paper." At which point, I recall, he muttered something generically related to my mother and flounced off.

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Wow, the best repudiation I ever got away with was pointedly refusing to shake a politician’s hand once when he said his name was Robin Ficker.

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Biden campaign ads should feature contractors whom tRump has stiffed. The contractors can tell stories of how and how badly tRump deceived them. Another suggestion: have a tRump impersonator on a television set that looks like that of the Maury show. Have Maury read real claims that tRump has made, then after reading each, say, "The lie detector determined that was a lie." Based on the number of lies tRump has told, there would never be a need to repeat a given lie.

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first part was done first time around. He won.

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Damn! .....Oh what the hell, let's reprise it, this time with a bit more vitriol. The series could finish with the reason why no one will fund the $400+ million bond for tRump's libel appeal: he's stiffed so many people so many times for so long that no one trusts him to repay the bond, not even Vladimir Putin.

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Far be it from me to contradict or correct the only two-time winner of the feature writing Pulitzer and, no doubt, a regular nominee for the Mark Twain (Facial Hair) Award --- but there is one other thing you presumably also do better than Rachel. If, however, the clearly talented Rachel can now void standing up and accurately pick off bits of leftover toilet paper near the rim, I don't want to hear about it.

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so why;d you bring it up?

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What is it you think I "brought up" hmm ?

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well, you just HAD to mention I don't think you would've have BROUGHT it up, per se. not that there's anything wrong with that ( not plagarism there, just homage) . .....

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You discount the possibility that our dear Gene has suffered medical indignities best discussed with a urologist.

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What a strange thing is this comments section.

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I admit, it was a rather flowery way of saying we don’t know how well his dick works. But that’s so crass, I’d never say something like that.

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Doesn't do to rile up the village scolds Sam old bean. Although it might actually lead to those "fights" Dear Leader apparently yearns for in these here parts. Your first mistake was not using the preferred, "schlong."

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I admitted it was crass. But duly noted.

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I agree!

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"The crucial thing is that Trump is a bullshitter" and a douchebag.

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And those are his good points.

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Cards at the carps table? What kind of game is that?

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Go fish.

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Inspired.

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CRAPS...I meant CRAPS table!

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Aw, carp..

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So you game your scale and BP device. What other self-delusions can we put you down for M. Weingarten ?

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Well, I regularly lie to you, but you don't know it, so no harm done.

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Anon Librarian4books: Some time ago, when I worried over my blood pressure and even read it several times a day, I had a technique for the doctor's office. After reading the being around a dog could lower blood pressure, I would imagine a dog was sitting by me in the examination room and make petting motions with my free hand when the blood pressure was measured. It did work. I still take pills to keep steady. But I hardly think about it now. I am 83 this year.

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My BP yesterday morning was 155/82 when my nurse arrived. An hour later it was 120/60. All I did in between was take a dump. :-)

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That's not a high reading. I can beat that without even trying. All I have to do is drink 4 or 5 glasses of water and block off my catheter for a couple of minutes...

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Regarding the egg story above: would they then have been considered "poached" eggs?

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bit cheesy to be plagiarizing national lampoon even if you know we all know it.

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National Lampoon? Wha? I plagiarized? Which? When?

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That is not plagiarism. That is, very specifically and obviously, the old journalism joke i was referring to. Are we something of a troll, Mr. or Ms. SNOB?

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Define troll and what joke?

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It was clearly a reference. He didn’t even write out the whole joke because we were expected to recognize it.

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perhaps not that clear!

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I just looked up the painting. You can get a copy (framed!) for $270 from Wayfair - and a zillion others.

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I had those low BP numbers once. Sure enough, I was in a hospital at the time. Nobody seemed terribly concerned about them though. I had even lower numbers later which had the bedside monitor making all sorts of urgent noises, but that was just because the cuff had come loose.

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I regularly have low numbers like this after having numbers like 220/110 from autonomic dysreflexia. I take Clonidine when I have these spikes. When the problem resolves, my BP dumps for about 30 minutes and slowly rises back to a more normal range. It is a condition I have had to learn to live with as a result of a spinal cord injury from a car accident 28 years ago on Feb 7, 1996.

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In my hospital case, it was a broken bone - they looked at the numbers, shrugged, said typical for my condition at the time. Things have since recovered nicely and my numbers are healthy. Kept there by meds, alas, but under control.

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