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[Mr George Boardman, our beloved compatriot debater and member of The Union's considerable cadre of leftwing columnists, has again declared his true colors in today's 'Who's behind Calexit?' Therein he presents a pernicious conspiracy theory, blaming the whole movement on those dastardly conservatives.  "It appears to me that Calexit is being funded and supported by shadowy forces that are less interested in ridding California of its tormentors than makings the rest of the U.S. permanently red. That’s why Breitbart News and Infowars haven’t exposed this threat to the American Way of Life."  Calexit a threat to the American Way of Life??!!  Aside from that little bit of humor, my real question for our readers is what possible "Observations for(sic) the center stripe" can Mr Boardman hope to offer?  Perhaps he can expand on both claims.  gjr]

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  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh yeah. This Obamacare disaster, tax reform…much to fix. Let Sessions handle your concerns. I did not read your link about what Trump said in 2014, before he threw his hat in the ring or whatever. But then again, I have never read any link you have posted and plan on keeping it that way. That’s the facts, hater. Your heart is full of hate and I have wasted too much previous time on your cognitive disconnect.

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  2. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1024pm – In general, I’m against it. But lets see what Trump does and for what real reasons, not necessarily the ones that outlets like Huffpost advertise.

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  3. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I’ll huff post did George was run the video of Trump saying he would ruin the career of the state senator who opposed asset forfeiture without a trial arrest and conviction They were merely doing their job

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I saw what Paul was freaking out over on Yahoo News. Trump is a funny guy. He was paling around with some deputies and also said “I bet the cartel would like that”, about ending the program to the delight of the officers in the room. That was after someone asked him about the state legislature who wanted to end the practice. “Who is it, I will destroy them” got the room howling. The deputies offered no names of the “who done it lawmaker” and let it ride. No one was being thrown under the bus. In reality, it was two state lawmakers that co-authored the bill, one D and on R….one a female, FYI. Bi-partisan and bi-gender. The big top.
    Trump brought more attention to the issue in 10 seconds than Obama or the DOJ did in 8 years. And made the room laugh. Trump is a funny guy for being The Emperor God. Usually Emperor Gods are not known for lighting up a room. How absolutely deplorable of him.
    Breaking news! Trump says he will cure cancer! Film at eleven.

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  5. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Pretty funny Trump mouth. Just like Pussy grabbing. Lots of laughs and a great role model for American youth.

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  6. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Hey PaulE, Clinton gave you a justification for oral sex, and your ilk justified it all.

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Breaking News! Trump just grabbed Paul’s mangina.

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  8. Bonnie McGuire Avatar

    Speaking about a President setting a bad example for our youth and the entire world…I thought that’s what Clinton did for the entire world to witness. During my studies about ancient civilizations…there were some that degenerated to phallis worship and human sacrifice. Clinton’s escapades were a reminder.

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  9. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    Looks like Trump’s botched raid in Yemen that killed thirty civilians (including women and children), a Navy SEAL, and an American child didn’t go so well.
    “Trump authorized the raid without adequate intelligence, ground support, or backup, according to U.S. military officials. On top of that, he failed to kill his primary target, Al Qaeda leader Qassim al-Rimi, and the “valuable intelligence” he recovered turned out to be a few videos that have been available on YouTube for about a decade. To make matters worse, al-rimi is currently Taunting Trump and Yemen has decided he is so inept that The Donald isn’t allowed to play with his toys in their house anymore.”

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  10. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    Hmm, Another former leader used the phrase ‘lying press’ – although Hitler used the term Lügenpresse.

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  11. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    Looks like Trump kept a copy of Hitler’s speeches by his bedside in a cabinet.
    “Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed … Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist,” – Marie Brenner
    http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner
    So, Obama was a student of Alinsky, and Trump…why, he was a student of Hitler! What a hoot!

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  12. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    2:07PM
    My gift. Now you know something about it.
    http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/03/politics/yemen-raid-trump-obama/

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  13. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    Bonnie @ 1:33PM.
    I’m afraid that phallus worship is pretty much baked into the cake in all governments.
    About the only cases I can think of where human sacrifice happened due to things degenerating was the handful of times that the Romans did it to reverse a bad situation, otherwise it was just a result of business as usual in places like Mesoamerica, Carthage, perhaps Druids?

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes:
    1). Raid: haven’t read your link, but I got word 2 days ago they knew we were coming. They were lying in wait for us. No surprise and walked right into it. Trump will learn from that one, big time. The Warrior Monk can only do what he can until Intel and State are cleaned out. What a mess to inherit.
    2). History time. Add to your list the ancient land known as Canaan. Sacrificed babies and filled 30 foot thick walls around city with the bones. Human sacrifices are kind of frowned on. Bunch of slaves out of Eypyt ended that nonsense.

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    New polls must have really got to them. )

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  16. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    Lyin’ Don just cannot help himself,
    “The January jobs report was released on Friday morning, and, just like every report since 2010 it showed a net increase in jobs. Of course Donald Trump, who has been critical of the report in the past, took a positive view of this one, the first of his presidency. Sort of.
    According to the Associated Press, Trump hailed the new jobs numbers, saying,
    “Great spirit in the country right now. We’re very happy about that. We’re bringing back jobs, we’re bringing down your taxes, we’re getting rid of your regulations.”
    The report was a strong one, with 227,000 jobs added and the unemployment rate moving slightly upward due to more people looking for work this is a good thing). And it belongs 100 percent, lock, stock, and barrel, to Barack Obama.”

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  17. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: BradC | 08 February 2017 at 02:48 PM
    And it belongs 100 percent, lock, stock, and barrel, to Barack Obama.”

    And it belongs 100 percent, lock, stock, and barrel, to……8 trillion dollars in conjured money!

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  18. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    Waiting for ‘Lyin’ Don to take credit for this one – Intel factory in Chandler, AZ
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-intel-whitehouse-idUSKBN15N29X
    “The chip factory was started in 2011 as a $5 billion project that was targeted to open in late 2013. Intel shelved its plans in 2014 when smartphones and tablets cut into demand for chips for personal computers.”

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, wasn’t it Mao and/or the Khmer Rough that the first thing they did was kill all the professors and all the educated people with glasses? Maybe they were on to something.
    https://milo.yiannopoulos.net/2017/02/professor-students-trump/

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  20. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    Sheesh, even Don’s own Supreme Court pick thinks he is a douche.
    https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/gorsuch-calls-trump-comments-judiciary-220750338.html

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  21. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    Lyin’ Don is at it again, “It is a disgrace that my full Cabinet is still not in place, the longest such delay in the history of our country. Obstruction by Democrats!” – not true. Alternative facts?

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  22. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Congratulations to Attorney General Jeff Sessions!

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Dayton Ohio has ended it so called sanctuary city policy, another one bites the dust. 😉

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  24. Walt Avatar

    Miss reading this Brad?
    “Gorsuch’s strong criticism of Trump could help convince skeptical Democrats, angry over the president’s reaction to the travel-ban ruling, to give Gorsuch more serious consideration. The exchange between Gorsuch and Blumenthal, who serves on the Judiciary panel that will hold the judge’s confirmation hearing, comes after demands from Senate Democrats that Gorsuch demonstrate his willingness to be an independent jurist and a check on potential abuses of power from the executive branch.”

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  25. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    Posted by: fish | 08 February 2017 at 02:56 PM
    Let me guess, anything that has occurred after Trump’s inauguration will have had nothing to do with ‘conjured money’.
    Maybe the Generals will find it,
    http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/07/31/Pentagon-s-Sloppy-Bookkeeping-Means-65-Trillion-Can-t-Pass-Audit

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  26. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    Someone’s been keeping track of Lyin’ Don. Looks like he will repeat fake news if it suits him,
    https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/02/03/daniel-dales-donald-trump-fact-check-updates.html

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  27. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: BradC | 08 February 2017 at 04:33 PM
    Wow Brad….just noticing that now are we?

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    52-47 for Sessions. Wonder who voted present? Looks like the Republicans are getting tired of the temper tantrums and bitch slapped Spreading Bull around and put her lily white ass back in the wigwam. Yo Lizzy, zip it. Good to see the tolerance level grow thinner. Republicans are only human afterall.
    Who cares what the Alt-Left Wall Street Identity Politics gang thinks of Gorsuch? After the Dems try to destroy him, Gorsuch is in. Hands down, ask me no questions. He will slap Donald around as well.
    Never get tired of winning.
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10209151827018161&set=p.10209151827018161&type=3&theater

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  29. Walt Avatar

    Brad. Trump can save a big chunk of money by making the “green” Navy run on standard fuel.
    http://greenfleet.dodlive.mil/energy/great-green-fleet/
    http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/07/us-navy-obscures-the-true-cost-of-its-green-fleet/
    “According to Ship & Bunker, the fraction of biofuel used by the Navy actually costs $13.46 per gallon. The 94.5 percent of the conventional fuel the USS Mason filled up on only cost $1.60 per gallon — based on the current average price per metric ton.
    I’m not going to track down just which ECO LIB thought that was such a hot idea. It wasn’t HIS or HERS’s money getting pissed away by the gallon.

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    At least with PE we can have pity and laugh, BC, not so much. 😉

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Star Wars! Oh, I love the drama. See Trump is toying with the JV team again.
    http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/02/07/schwarzenegger-says-of-trump-that-he-wanted-to-smash-his-face-into-a-table/

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  32. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Jeff Sessions is now the nation’s Attorney General. Tom Price is now the nation’s HHS Secretary. And all the bluster we have had to endure from democrats over the years about “bi-partisan” and “crossing the aisle” was proved top be a democrat lie. Not one democrat crossed the aisle. So once again America gets to see the democrats for what they really are. HYPOCRITES and LIARS.
    Congrats to Sessions and Price, as well as DeVoss and the rest. Democrats are making themselves unwelcome and thankfully so. And they are doing this all to themselves. Unable to compromise they will become the political DODO birds. Good! Go getum Jeff Sessions!

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  33. Walt Avatar

    OH.. Who will the Progressives put on display for President? Izzy Warren? Or Al Franken??
    I can’t wait! HELL! Dems can’t even figure out who is to lead the party. The DEM donkey has been sent to the dog food plant, yet even the dogs won’t eat it.

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt, I know, I know. Even Taco Bell and Jack in the Box refused deliveries of the lib meat wagon.
    Rather interesting cast of characters in our Reality Show. Nigel, Milo, The Emperor God-man, Spreading Bull, and Chuck E Cheese. Hell, we even got Maxine Waters to do some cameos and Linda McMahon to do some good take downs. This is better than the OJ trail with Kato and Judge Ito with his dancing black robed backup singers.
    http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-faces-calls-for-knighthood-after-mps-back-governments-brexit-bill-a3462116.html

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  35. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    DonB, I am only the messenger. I did not make it up, and I don’t like to repeat fake news.

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  36. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    What I think everybody needs to do is pull our ‘collective’ heads out of our dogma’s ass and dump Trump – not because I am a lib, or progressive, or whatever – because the Repuplicans already won. They can dump Trump and put in another guy who will not go down in history as the worst president ever. Do the right thing and fire his ass.

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  37. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Texas has outlawed “sanctuary cities” in their state. UI hear that Austin wants to relocate to California.

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Brad C: Well, look at the bright side. If Trump goes down as the worse President in history, that will take Obama off the hook. Obama replaced Jimmy Peanut Farmer Carter on the throne for worse President in history. Musical chairs, professional courtesy.
    Now, where is Congress submitting bills in a flurry? They have to jump on this 100 day bandwagon and start writing some stuff. I hope the R’s don’t still think it is important that the Left like them. Never happen.
    We can’t run this country on Executive Orders. All I hear from the R’s in Congress is we have to wait on tax reform, Obamacare, the Wall, and the few important items that put them in office. At least one R submitted a bill to eliminate the Education Department yesterday. It is one sentence, but that is one sentence more that the whole Congress has written so far. Poop or get off the pot.
    The battle had just begun. Yo Brad, I hope your standards for the personage of womanhood is higher than what the left labels women as. Geeze, they are so into bodily functions and body parts. I raised girls to have some dignity, not act like life is one girls only slumber party. What is this? Show and tell? No wonder the Deplorables won. The looney left gives us a good name.
    https://patriotpost.us/opinion/47333

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ok Brad, I feel your pain and will give it a try: “But, but Mr. Trump, can’t we let Brad win at least once? We are getting tired of winning.”
    “No! We are going to win and win and win.”
    Sorry Brad. At least I tried. Now, don’t go all wobbly kneed on me. I need you to Resist! Stand firm and tighten your seat belt. The election process was playground hopscotch compared to the real epic battle Royale that has not even started yet.
    Hey, you guys could not stop him and the R’s could not stop him and my vote got cancelled out by an illegal alien. George Soros can’t stop him either. He is a man possessed, I tell ya. He is like Mike Tyson out there, running around and biting ears off. And he is making the tolerate Progressives look like they belong in a freak show. I don’t blame the Leftists for looking like total idiots stepping on their own dicks. Nay, it’s all Trump’s fault.
    I hear you loud and clear, Brad. What can we do now? Trump is like a run away bull chomping on his nose ring and spitting out fire and pillars of angry smoke. God help us all! Holy crap, here comes the Pulverizer and his legions of Irredeemables. Run for your lives!!!

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  40. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Toes, I think eliminating the US Department of Education would be an interesting way for remove DeVos from the cabinet… in fact, she might even agree!
    They don’t actually educate any students and mostly serve to get in the way of state and local entities actually trying to teach. Yes, they distribute a Dakota Access pipeline worth of cash to everyone who can catch it but there’s always strings attached that soak up a large amount of the cash. Carrying charges.
    Probably not a snowflake’s chance in hell for that to go though this year.
    Regarding BC’s desire to fire Trump, let’s get together on that in November 2020. In the meantime, loyal Democrats should do their darnedest to not lose too many of their seats up for grabs in 2018… 25, a full 10 from Trump states. Ouch.

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Rick Perry found out you can’t elimate the Department of Energy. Said he was wrong when he ran on that platform and now sees they do some “important functions” in many areas. Ok, we will let that one slide. Keep an eye on them Mr. Rick from Texas. Oil’s well.
    Now, if Trump could fire the White House travel office and replace them with Melania’s hot model friends and assorted European babes……..oh my, I just thought bad things.

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    BT- Perry found out that Energy has the nuke program, as to the rest of it, hasta la vista baby! No more global warming grants. 😉

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  43. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    This Steve Bannon is a real nut case that believes in the apocalypse. He isalso cheif advisor to Trump. Here’s a few goodies from Bannon
    “There’s clearly a fifth column here in the United States,” Bannon warned in July 2016. “There’s rot at the center of the Judeo-Christian West,” he said in November 2015. “Secularism has sapped the strength of the Judeo-Christian West to defend its ideals,” he argued at the Vatican conference. The “aristocratic Washington class” and the media, he has claimed, are in league with the entire religion of Islam and an expansionist China to undermine Judeo-Christian America…..
    Treaties must be torn up, enemies named, culture changed. Global conflagration, should it occur, would only prove the theory correct.
    “What we are witnessing,” Bannon told The Washington Post last month, “is the birth of a new political order.”
    My goodness.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-apocalypse_us_5898f02ee4b040613138a951?

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  44. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Here;s more
    “I’m a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal, too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.”
    – in conversation, 2013, quoted by The Daily Beast
    “Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that’s the ONLY thing that will make them [the Republican party establishment] do their duty,”
    – 2014 Breitbart internal email obtained by The Daily Beast
    “We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly ‘anti-’ the permanent political class. We say Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation.”
    – 2016 interview quoted by the Washington Post

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  45. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    PE 11- The electoral profile of the Trump victory is unlike any for a republican and fits the bill for a new political order. Can you say blue wall? As to his observations of the rot in DC under 0, there is nothing to dispute. Muslim brotherhood annoyingly welcome in the administration, madam liar liar pantsuits on fire has muslim brotherhood princess as hand maiden, 0 abandoned all our traditional allies and handed Iran the shia crescent it had dreamed of for centuries and 150 billion bucks for nothing tangible.
    PE 1101- You have only used that about a dozen times now, trite retreads are just sad for poor ol’ PE. 😉

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  46. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy 11
    I’d say neither you nor the author noticed what Bannon was describing had nothing to do with Armageddon. Dumping the permanent political classes, or at least making them fear it, is a marvelous motivational tool for change.
    Here’s a refresher
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse
    Please, how does that relate to Bannon?
    The author is more given to hyperbole than Trump is.

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  47. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Regarding the secession initiative and its support by the left here.
    If the State Legislature does this they should all be arrested for sedition. Our fathers and grandfathers did not defeat fascism and tyranny so these “snowflakes” in California could secede. So yes they are the new “Confederacy” and should be dealt with harshly.

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