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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu May 15, 2025, 08:41 PM May 15

Michael Cohen - GOP Now Stands for: Grifters Over Principles

Theodore Roosevelt once said, "Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength." And let me tell you, after the past eight years of being dragged, shackled, humiliated, and nearly erased, those words don’t just resonate—they echo through every fiber of my being.

Because courage isn’t standing behind a gold-draped podium, pretending to be strong while hiding behind lawyers, NDAs, and an army of online trolls. No. Real courage is waking up every day when your life has been bulldozed by the very man you once swore loyalty to. It’s facing your mistakes head-on, testifying under oath while your former boss unleashes the dogs of hell against you. Courage is holding your head high when half the country would rather you vanish, and the other half wants you to spill your guts—which I did, by the way, and I haven’t stopped.

But we’re living in a moment now where truth, decency, and courage are being drowned out by propaganda, apathy, and unchecked criminality. Let’s talk about that $400 million Qatari aircraft gifted to Trump. That’s not a metaphor. That’s a real, actual Boeing 747, tailored like a flying palace, handed over like a mobster’s thank-you note. And what do we get from the GOP? Crickets. No hearings. No outrage. No subpoenas. Just more gaslighting and deflections. If Barack Obama or Joe Biden had so much as borrowed a luxury golf cart from a foreign leader, there would have been impeachment articles drafted before breakfast.

We’re witnessing the normalization of corruption. The numbing of the American people. They’re tired—and that’s exactly what the Trump machine counts on. Because when you’re exhausted, you stop caring. When you’re overwhelmed, you tune out. And while you're distracted by the next viral outrage, the grift grows louder, bolder, more grotesque.

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/gop-now-stands-for-grifters-over

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Michael Cohen - GOP Now Stands for: Grifters Over Principles (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 15 OP
hate to break it to you Michael Skittles Saturday #1

Skittles

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1. hate to break it to you Michael
Sat May 17, 2025, 05:20 PM
Saturday

but the greedy old pig party has ALWAYS put grifting over "principles"

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