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Aug 14Liked by Liza Donnelly

Thank you! I would rather read your summary than listen to him. Keep up the good work!

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Stop focussing on the Donald. Start recognizing that most American have never even heard of The New Yorker and if given the magazine would be unable to read even a paragraph. The country is just like Trump. Then we have the useless Generation Z and the wimpy wokey weak progressives. We are devolving very fast and this started when he began our 2001 or 911 pity party.

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“The country is just like Trump.” Don’t feed the troll.

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Bless your heart

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Aug 14Liked by Liza Donnelly

Liza, another great post that captures the feelings of so many of your readers. The word hate has the same letters as the word heat. And that’s what T-man is feeling. His hateful slogans and labels are not reality. Trump has become a loose razor blade in the bed of democracy. As a lifelong cartoonist, I admire the simplicity and directness of your work. Perhaps the next time the tip of your pen touches the white of the paper, you should draw in invisible ink to make him go away. Also, as former Catholic priest, I have received 6 of the seven sacraments, except the last one. No one should hate Trump, but he should be prayed for. The prayer I recommend is the one that goes with the Last Rites.

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Thanks, MIchael. I'll check and see if my invisible ink hasn't dried up!

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Actually he is describing his own brain as he speaks: All the lies, the dark stuff inside him exposing itself, looking for people props. There is no more room in there for anything reasonable, the frontal lobes being used only to get its own way, somewhere in the 3 to 5-

year-old range?

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Aug 14Liked by Liza Donnelly

👍 the great projectionist.

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He imagines us as willing screens :D

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Aug 14Liked by Liza Donnelly

Thank you so much! Always a pleasure.

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Aug 14Liked by Liza Donnelly

Liza, I read your post today as a little bit of rhetorical analysis. Caused me to think about and now recommend to anyone interested in this Professor Mercieca’s book https://www.jennifermercieca.com/demagogueforpresident. It helped me immensely understand how trump manipulates the conversation in the public square.

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LISA: typo in headline should be Substantive....

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Liza, the autocorrect never spells your name right. This piece is brilliant!

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He makes it hard not to think about him. Like you, I just want him to go away.

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Aug 14Liked by Liza Donnelly

🙄

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Aug 14Liked by Liza Donnelly

Now we're told, Fussy Baby is going to protect Social Security, and I have to wonder, when has he lied?

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I wondet if you will ok my using your drawing "more lies" to make myself a tee shirt? I think it is a great concept

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Sure! Just don't sell them:):)

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Aug 15Liked by Liza Donnelly

I, and probably everyone here applauds you for standing in for us and listening to his lunacy. You should get the purple heart of journalism for doing it. I physically can't...especially if I happen to be out of Tums. God bless you. xo It was so nice during the Olympics not to have his orange face and his nasty mouth plastered all over the TV for once. Twas a breadth of fresh air. Thanks again for all you do.

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As far as Defendant 45 is concerned, I'm going with waste of space and oxygen.

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Aug 15Liked by Liza Donnelly

OMG save yourself and don’t watch him! Rely on transcripts, so you can stop when you need to and take a stiff drink!

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Aug 15Liked by Liza Donnelly

Laughter is contagious. unfortunately so are other things, but laughter is a cure and Harris is showing the way, setting the tone with her beautiful laughter, hearty but never harsh.

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