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Trump stepped off Air Force One with a brand-new brunette look 💇 and the internet hasn't stopped since. Paula Poundstone has a verdict: that's a wig — the hair's far too thick to be his. She figures it's too ridiculous to be anything but a distraction, and even so, she can't help herself. We try not to make fun of people's looks, she says, but the wig? He's taunting us. We're to that wig what Roger Rabbit was to "Shave and a Haircut." #PaulaPoundstone #Trump #HeyDonaldTrump
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Paula Poundstone will perform at Bardavon in Poughkeepsie
Paula Poundstone will perform at Bardavon in Poughkeepsie
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Comedian Paula Poundstone has announced her tour will make a stop at the Bardavon later this year.5 CommentsComment on Facebook
In a weekend flurry of posts, Trump shared a photo of the moon captioned "THE MOON IS OURS." 🌙 Paula Poundstone has a question: he thinks he owns the moon now? She figures the closer accountability gets, the more he grabs — and if a real investigation doesn't start soon, he'll keep going until every state's named America too (he already floated renaming New Mexico "New America"). At which point the whole country's driving around lost, and we can't afford the gas for that. #PaulaPoundstone #Trump #HeyDonaldTrump
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Paula's dog Moe doesn't drink out of the toilet 🚽🐶 — but Paula's convinced she's installed a sensor under the seat that, the second it's activated, alerts her to go bark in the backyard. We're 58 days out. Today's thing: keep working on your ballot at bluevoterguide.org, plan to vote early, and ask your elderly neighbors if they need help getting to the polls. Larry and I love democracy. 🐾 #SaveOurDemocracy #PaulaPoundstone #BlueVoterGuide #GOTV
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Asked about Sen. Jon Ossoff's line — that Trump keeps building monuments to himself because no one else will once he's gone — Trump agreed. 🗿 "That's true. Nobody will do it once I'm gone." Paula Poundstone is almost moved: it was honest, which is unfamiliar ground for him — did he just forget to lie? But she won't sugarcoat the reason. We remember the people we memorialize for the good they did, and there's nothing he's done that anyone will want to remember. #PaulaPoundstone #Trump #HeyDonaldTrump
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Paula was thinking about the Supreme Court today 🎵 and landed on "Piece of My Heart" — Big Brother and the Holding Company, the one Janis Joplin sings. What's your Supreme Court song? We're 59 days out. Today's thing: go to 866ourvote.org, read up, and learn what you can about protecting your vote. Larry and I love democracy. 🐾 #SaveOurDemocracy #PaulaPoundstone #ElectionProtection #GOTV
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Asked by ABC's Rachel Scott to describe the fighting with Iran, Trump said he calls it a "military conflict, because it's small potatoes for us." 🥔 Eighteen American service members have died. Paula Poundstone has a question: how do you lose a war you call small potatoes? She'd argue those potatoes are a great deal bigger than he claims — and that he can't measure them any better than he measures real estate square footage. "Small potatoes" isn't quite "suckers and losers," but it sure brings it back. #PaulaPoundstone #Trump #HeyDonaldTrump
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Paula figures she should be counting down to the Republican Midterm Convention 🛋️ — you could probably power the whole country off the energy coming off that event. Instead, here's something real: we're 60 days out, and today's thing is to take a text-banking shift. Sign up for one voter-texting shift with MoveOn or a campaign's text team — you do it from the couch, in pajamas, with a cat on your lap. It's the action for people who'd rather die than phone-bank. Larry and I love democracy. 🐾 #SaveOurDemocracy #PaulaPoundstone #TextBanking #GOTV
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Trump's throwing a Republican Midterm Convention on September 9th and 10th 🪑 — $25,000 to get in, and he's speaking both nights. The problem? Tickets aren't going like hotcakes, and his own party is finding reasons to be anywhere else. Paula Poundstone's business idea: sell t-shirts printed with the excuses. "My family is playing Monopoly those nights." "I'm hoping to find some traffic to get stuck in." "I'm working on my plea bargain those nights." She'd buy any of them. #PaulaPoundstone #Trump #HeyDonaldTrump
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Melania's being paid to make a docu-series for Amazon 📦 — Paula figures Jeff Bezos just couldn't find a Cava bag big enough to put the bribe money in. We're 61 days out. Today's thing: reach out to fieldteam6.org and see how you can help get Democrats registered to vote. Larry and I love democracy. 🐾 #SaveOurDemocracy #PaulaPoundstone #FieldTeam6 #GOTV
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Trump floated renaming the Strait of Hormuz "Trump Strait" 🗺️ (then admitted he "just threw it out there"). Paula Poundstone spots the one bit of accidental logic in it: he's not in control of the Strait of Hormuz, and he's not in control of himself — so there's the connection. And it won't stick anyway: some tech guy clicks a few keys and the maps say it, and a few keys later it's back to the correct name. First the Gulf, then Lake Ontario, now this. #PaulaPoundstone #Trump #HeyDonaldTrump
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Paula can't tell what's real on her feed anymore 🐶 — like the video where a dog rescues a man from a rushing river, throws him up a tree to dodge a pack of coyotes, then goes and does the guy's taxes. (Meanwhile her dog Moe won't even shift from her right to her left so Larry doesn't land on a big dog when he jumps down.) We're 62 days out. Today's thing: write letters to voters. Sign up at votefwd.org, print a batch for low-turnout voters in swing districts, and write them at your kitchen table — they all get mailed in one big wave in late October. Larry and I love democracy. 🐾 #SaveOurDemocracy #PaulaPoundstone #VoteForward #GOTV
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Trump nodded off at his own desk Monday during his Oval Office drug-pricing announcement 😴 — right as RFK Jr. started praising him. Paula Poundstone already knows his defense ("I was just blinking") — he's that predictable. But her real diagnosis is simpler: Donald, you're boring. That "most favored nations / French President" story? Told a thousand times, true none of them, and so sleep-inducing it should air with a warning — may cause drowsiness, do not drive or operate heavy machinery. #PaulaPoundstone #Trump #HeyDonaldTrump
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The House is in recess AGAIN 🏠 — Paula figures Republicans are so afraid of their own voters they won't leave home (great news for DoorDash). We're 63 days out. Today's thing: adopt a flippable district. Go to swingleft.org, enter your ZIP, and it hands you the nearest competitive House race — adopt it like a shelter pet, it's yours through November 3rd. Larry and I love democracy. 🐾 #SaveOurDemocracy #PaulaPoundstone #SwingLeft #GOTV
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A new University of Massachusetts poll has Trump's approval down to 32% 📉 — with about 1 in 6 of his own voters saying they'd take it back if they could. Paula Poundstone isn't surprised, and she has notes on his "it's all in how you ask" theory: sure, fewer Republicans "strongly approve" of his economy, but had they been asked if they "biggly" approved, she's certain they'd have said yes. Biggly. His fix: bring the whole family to chisel his name into a school — and every last one of them is a chiseler. #PaulaPoundstone #Trump #HeyDonaldTrump
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Advertisers have run out of adjectives 🪑 — Paula heard an ad call a chair "thoughtfully designed." Chairs have been around a while; the neanderthals put in the thought, and not much has gone into it since. We're 64 days out. Today's thing: check that you're still registered to vote at vote.org — and, stealing a great idea from vote.org, contact a friend or family member and make sure they check theirs too. Larry and I love democracy. 🐾 #SaveOurDemocracy #PaulaPoundstone #VoteDotOrg #GOTV
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NBC's Kristen Welker said on air that Trump has had "mixed results" with the candidates he's endorsed. 📺 His response: he'd report her to the FCC for "rebuke or punishment" over her "purposeful inaccuracy." Paula Poundstone has one question — does he really think he's the guy to raise the subject of purposeful inaccuracy? It runs through his veins. And Welker wasn't wrong: he backed Mike Lindell for Minnesota Governor, and Lindell lost by a lot. That's a mixed record. #PaulaPoundstone #Trump #HeyDonaldTrump
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Scott Jennings claims he had a twenty-minute phone call with Mitch McConnell 👻 — which, given how rarely anyone sees McConnell these days, Paula figures must be an elaborate production of Sixth Sense Two. We're 65 days out. Today's thing: sign up to be a poll worker at powerthepolls.org. Election offices recruit through September, most positions are paid, and polling places close when they can't find workers — usually in the neighborhoods that can least afford it. Larry and I love democracy. 🐾 #SaveOurDemocracy #PaulaPoundstone #PollWorker #GOTV
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Trump posted an AI image of himself and Dolly Parton walking arm in arm through the White House 🚫 — days after she died, and after his administration defunded her Imagination Library, which has given more than 330 million books to kids. People were disgusted; her sister Stella called him deranged. Paula Poundstone tries to see it his way: is there anyone who'd walk arm in arm with him that he'd actually want to? With his approval at historic lows and supporters peeling off, he's down to make-believe. She figures he's got dinner plans with Elvis. #PaulaPoundstone #Trump #HeyDonaldTrump #DollyParton
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