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[Well, psychiatrists are beginning to report running into more and more patients with Trump Anxiety Disorder (TAD).  TAD seems to be particularly prevalent among those lefties who have suffered from TDS.  The Hill reports on it here.  I guess the human noggin' can stand only so much hate and discontent before it succumbs to a clinical condition.  Should TAD sufferers still be allowed to vote?  gjr]

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  1. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    George said, “We must never forget that today whenever you encounter a problem in society, government is guilty until proven innocent – bank on it.” I can thus assume this includes Donald trump. Therefore, the administration is a lying bunch of goombah mafiosos who collaborated with the Russians to steal the election in order to institute a fascist management style that instituted reverse Robin Hood policies in order to increase their personal wealth on the backs of the rest of Americans. On this we can agree.

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  2. George Rebane Avatar

    RoberC 1214pm – Mr Cross, you continue to show up unarmed to these debates. Get some evidence to back your empty accusations (and also tell you leaders Chucky and Nancy and … to do the same, so you wouldn’t have to embarrass yourself as their local echo chamber). And it also appears that you would have difficulty recognizing agreement if it came up and hit you in the, well you know …

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  3. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Robert Cross | 29 July 2018 at 12:14 PM
    …..still president……!
    ….and thanks bobby.

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  4. Walt Avatar

    Yes Dr.R.,,, Conex container homes are a good business, and profitable. But the fine state of Ca. goes out of it’s way to drive the cost up. I have seen some really great deigns, and are pleasing to the eye.
    Just last year a few people tried to make housing for fire victims out of the things. They went broke trying. (Thank You Ca. state regulators and inspectors)
    And that was even with shipping companies GIVING the containers to them at no cost.
    What I didn’t hear, who bitched to the state to shut the idea down. I guess the politicians got pissed, their palms didn’t get greased.

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  5. Walt Avatar

    LOL George!! Bobby showed up in “fully semi-automatic” mode. With a 3D printed “L” on his forehead.

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  6. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    I’m sorry George, but you said government is guilty until proven innocent but apparently that doesn’t apply to trump. So I must assume that only applies to government policies you don’t like. Trumpists seem to lack the ability to connect the dots between numerous and varied accounts of misdeeds, philandering, etc. that are widely available. I would think if you really were curious you would research these issues yourself.
    still president by hook or by crook

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  7. George Rebane Avatar

    RobertC 102pm – Still unarmed. My latest example of government guilt was in regards to their removing low cost housing from the markets during a housing crisis in CA. That is existential proof of something having happened, and that government is to blame.
    But you’re doing nothing but throwing out the same tired and empty allegations about Trump with the added deficit that your arguments can’t point to any government harm having been done to anyone. In fact, according to government metrics, Trump has done a wonderful job.
    So if you have “researched” all these “issues” that support allegations, you might want to share your research with Mueller who is having a hell of a time finding anything with which to stick Trump. Since he hasn’t produced crap on Trump and is being embarrassed about that daily, you might really do the guy a favor. Are you really getting any of this???

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ah, the comic stylings of the cross one! LOL

    Its a mutha to be a mullah, but hey 95 billion in the personal stash will keep them in turbans.
    http://www.france24.com/en/20180729-irans-rial-hits-record-low-100000-dollar
    😉

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  9. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “I’m sorry George, but you said government is guilty until proven innocent but apparently that doesn’t apply to trump.”
    It strikes me that that is a reasonable complaint once Trump actually seizes control of the government.
    Saving Western Civilization can’t be done in a day.

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  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Here we go. This is the best of all possible timelines.
    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1023557246628900864

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  11. Walt Avatar

    We all can see what SpongeBob wrote. Now let me fix it.
    Leftists”seem to lack the ability to connect the dots between numerous and varied accounts of misdeeds, philandering,” of the likes of Bubba and “O”. How many women did Billy bang? Before, during and after his Presidency? Now how many was against their will?( plenty, apparently) Can the same be said of Trump? No accusations of any form or rape.(unlike Billy)
    No accusations of Trump going to perv Island Like Bill did with other perved geezers. And the LIB meda refused to report on it.
    Now one slight breeze that Trump MIGHT have,, the same media would go to the ends of the earth to drag it out. Even pay to fabricate a story.(Like with Russian hookers)
    Now “O”, just flat out lied to the people on a nightly basis.
    (yes SpongBob, lying is a “misdeed”) And the press even helped.
    “If you like your…………….” Remember that Richard?
    Blaming terrorist attacks on a video? Just a mis speak… Right?
    Then there is the funding of terrorists.. KNOWINGLY.( Treason?)
    No,,SpongBobby gives all those things a pass.
    Not to mention killing the national economy for 8 years.
    Plenty of LIB donors got rich off “O”andCo. But Richard was OK with that.
    OK Bobby,, back to your unscheduled,and no evidence Trump bashing.

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  12. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    George,
    You made a general statement– ……’guilty until proven innocent’ –trump is the figurehead of American government and has been accused of multiple transgressions .. guilty until proven innocent requires no proof of guilt.. guilty as charged..It is up to you to prove innocence and discharge the onus of guilt, good luck with that. One can’t cherry pick the situation in which your dictum applies or does not apply. It either applies to all or none.
    “Mueller who is having a hell of a time finding anything with which to stick Trump.” that is public knowledge…good poker players don’t show their cards until the hand is over.. and neither do good investigators. If you cannot see the smoke, perhaps some unbiased glasses may help.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    RC
    ROFLMAO. Yep, they just are incapable of accepting the fact that Hillary’s embarassing loss had nothing to do with the Russians. In fact, Hillary made not one, but two of my ‘never voted R before life long Democrat Party’ sisters vote for Trump. One because Hillary “used her women’s movement (my sister’s first wave Woman’s Movement and “used” should be in all caps with my sweet gentle slow to anger sister spitting it out it with a livid face unable to conceal her rage), AND the other sister, who does not follow politics ever ever ever, heard the phrase, “Drain the Swamp!” That was all it took. Blame the weak minded white female voter, I reckon. Hillary did.
    Be that as it may, my real point is RC is sounding almost exactly like Punchy in tone and debate style. The only thing missing is the word assume, as in assume makes an ASS out of U and ME. 🙂
    Check it out. Does it not sound like a slighty nuanced version of Punchy?. Connect the dots, Too funny. Whether it’s TDS or TAD, it is real. Syndrome or Disorder, it all smells the same. Deliciously devilishly sweet.
    “Therefore, the administration is a lying bunch of goombah mafiosos who collaborated with the Russians to steal the election in order to institute a fascist management style that instituted reverse Robin Hood policies in order to increase their personal wealth on the backs of the rest of Americans. On this we can agree.”
    Where is the ‘I assume’ as the lead-in to the last sentence??
    Or this gem echoing the Popinjay. Popinjay or parrot, same thing. And here’s the “I assume”, right on time. This is too much fun. Make him stop, please make it stop. 🙂
    “So I must assume that only applies to government policies you don’t like…..I would think if you really were curious you would research these issues yourself.”
    He forgot to end it with “odd” or “strange”! Yep, we are back to Russia stole the election to help Putin’s ‘puppet in his pocket’ Donald Trump win! Putin has blackmail stuff on Trump, you know. Connect the dots! T Rex and Putin will take over the world to help their crony capitalist pig buddies become rich, rich, rich beyond your wildest dreams…at the expense of all the little people.
    Russia is back. It’s baccccckkkkk. And by all the hyperventilating, it sound like Meuller is holding two pieces of wheat bread between his legs. Where’s the meat?
    Devilishly Delicious is an understatement. Go Bobbie go, you go girl.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6wtfNE4z6a8

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  14. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Bobby… it takes more than the tin-foil hat brigade shouting their hallucinations du jour to establish a wrong by government.
    Toes… no, Bobby is more than a nuanced Punchy. Bobby is fully automatic deranged.

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  15. George Rebane Avatar

    RobertC 307pm – Still can’t differentiate between what’s real and what’s in fevered brains across the country. My dictum applies ONLY to realworld problems. Your allegation echoes are only a manifestation of TAD creating a massive political problem for Democrats. As you seem to admit, you have only been blowing the smoke you are pointing at as originating from some yet to be seen fire.

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    You know, when all is said and done and IF Trump finally orders the unredacted release of the mostly totally redacted 400 pages of the FISA warrant, we will see a firestorm exploding across the land like we have never seem in our nation’s history. Brennan is going to jail for abuse of power, a felony. This is the MOAB. Any takers? Yes, time will tell, time will tell. Getting closer to the short curlys to grab them by.
    Just waiting for more releases with more pages unredacted. Those in the know do know.
    Judging by the timing with everything going on (good stuff, economy, Judge K ready to be seated, EU coming around and warming up to the idea of fair trade, etc)….judging by all that with rerelease of the Reset Button with the ‘Russian hacking the election in Collusion with Trumpf’ story of the century…..well, as Russ would say, You know we are over the target.” Just look at all that flack and diversions.
    Oh, Kudos to Mitch. Did you realize that 3 out of the 4 week’s in August the Senate will be in session to work on getting Judge K confirmed. My, my. When was the last time you saw the Senate in sssion in August?

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Meanwhile back in the real world -Can you Justice Kavanaugh?
    “We’re doing great at the end of the first quarter,” he told aides and White House staffers, the Daily Caller reported, as they hoisted Yuenglings to celebrate what appears to be an increasingly smooth path to confirmation.
    Despite loud opposition from the left, Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer gave red-state Democrats tacit permission to approve Kavanaugh’s nomination Saturday, telling the Washington Post that they won’t face retribution for breaking with the party.
    https://nypost.com/2018/07/28/kavanaugh-celebrates-senate-meetings-with-drinks-at-white-house/
    😉

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  18. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Here’s a guy out of a job… maybe San Francisco needs a new Superintendent of Schools?
    When ya gotta go, ya gotta go!
    https://nypost.com/2018/07/27/school-chief-resigns-after-being-outed-as-high-school-pooper/

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  19. Walt Avatar

    Bobby and the boys have already proclaimed Trump guilty. And every time Trump is proven innocent, they proclaim guilt on something else. ” Guilty of collusion!” UNTIL,, 1, no crime in collusion in the first place. 2, the fact that no evidence of said fabricated crime could be found.
    Then proclaimed guilty of obstruction. (Firing Comey)
    Trump was well within his right. Pure and simple.
    So SpongeBob, Explain the guilt of Trump. Evidence would help.
    So he banged some hot chicks. He didn’t do it in the oval office , with someone other than his wife… Like someone else we know..( I didn’t have sexual relations with “that” woman.” I’m pretty sure he was referring to Hillary…. Right?)

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  20. George Rebane Avatar

    After some thought, I conclude that I (and maybe others) may be expecting too much from Mr Cross, i.e. we may be playing de facto roles as elitists toying with someone less fortunate between the ears. Or in the obverse, Mr Cross may be toying with us by playing the fool in his contributions to these comment streams. To set the matter aright, I ask Mr Cross to share his educational, avocational, and life experience backgrounds with us so that we may choose appropriately regarding how we should participate in future exchanges with him.

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Troll University @ 540? 😉

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 5:40 pm
    Does Mr. Cross believe what he writes or doesn’t he? Well, now that I have almost stopped laughing, I will relate a little story I was once told.
    Blast from Biker Bill’s past.
    I once was conserving with a fine upstanding community asset about 15 years my senior. Clean cut fellow, wore collared shirts and slacks, clean shaven and short haircut. Anyway, he confided to me that in his past he was once locked up in the nut house. He said one of the inmates….er……patients in the Cuckoo’s Nest told him the he (the other patient) really wasn’t crazy in the least. In all actuality, he was a CIA agent doing an undercover investigation and that is explains why he was there.
    My acquaintance told me that he was so messed up at the time, be actually believed the other patient’s story. Without missing a beat, he said, “Now, that is crazy.” Yep, he was plumb crazy at the time.
    Is Boobie that crazy, or is he just playing Charlie Brown and pooping in the halls?

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  23. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I’m going out on a limb to predict Bobby Cross is an underutilized computer support guy with a master’s degree in information technology from a private business school that no longer offers the program. He writes vaguely threatening screeds to public figures on occasion as a hobby.

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    They don’t give up in the swamp –
    Amazon is at the forefront of a well-funded, powerful, Silicon Valley-led push to force the federal government to nationalize the music industry, thereby creating a system where the government props up certain companies — such as Amazon — to be beneficiaries of and have control over, while also profiting from, music production.
    Sources close to the White House and those in regular contact with President Trump and his closest associates say the president has a serious problem doing anything to help Amazon — especially creating a special government board that would allow the company billionaire Jeff Bezos owns to profit, with government assistance and control, from music royalties.
    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/29/amazon-leads-masters-of-universe-push-nationalize-music-industry/
    I guess they could make it a rider on the Wall funding bill?
    😉

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  25. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I thought suree Punchy would have beat me to this news flash… Rasmussen’s daily poll has Trump back up at 47/51.

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  26. George Rebane Avatar

    Gregory 925am – Now why would he ever do that? 😉

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  27. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Well, George, our community radio station’s news director is always on top of breaking news, good or bad!
    How many Pinocchios do I get for that one?

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  28. Paul Emery Avatar

    Gregory writes “Trump back up at 47/51.”
    Are you saying he’s leading in the polls or just up a little from yesterday (1 point)? the consensus is he’s down by 9.7.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html

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  29. Paul Emery Avatar

    Why do we need a funding bill to pay for the law. Trump said Mexico was going to pay for it or was that just another Trump lie.
    “”I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me –and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words”

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  30. Paul Emery Avatar

    sp funding bill to pay for the wall.

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  31. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    He’s recovered from the Helsinki presser excursion, Paul.
    Again, the RCP “consensus” is a one month mix of all polls, whether they are by a valid pollster or not, or that they asked anyone who will answer the question (A for All), anyone who will answer the question who claims to be a registered voter (RV), or a likely voter (LV). The RCP mosh pit is a trailing edge indicator, just as it was leading up to the Nov ’16 election.

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  32. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Gee, you got the po’ ol’ pollhead sputtering and its not even lunch yet! 😉

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar

    Consensus polling by RCP called it for Clinton by 3.2 in the election which was pretty much what the popular vote was (Clinton by 2.1) so their accuracy should not be disregarded,

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  34. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 30 July 2018 at 10:33 AM
    Trump said Mexico was going to pay for it or was that just another Trump lie.

    Poor Punch…..a regular Diogenes…..always looking for an honest politician.

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  35. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Here is one for the po’ ol’ fakenwsman and his sky is falling compatriots –
    Caterpillar raised its profit forecast for the year as it reported that second-quarter profits more than doubled from a year ago, beating analysts estimates.
    The company said rising commodities prices boosted machinery sales, particularly in North America. Rising demand and a much lower tax rate were more than enough to offset increased metals costs related tariffs. Shares rose by more than 3 percent in premarket trading.
    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/30/caterpillar-profit-surges-on-rising-energy-prices-tax-cuts-more-than-offset-tariff-related-cost-increases/
    😉

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  36. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul, thanks for pointing out that Trump is up by one percent over the day he won the Presidential election.

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  37. George Rebane Avatar

    Here we see an example of the kinds of ‘lies’ the Left cites of Trump. That Mexico has yet to agree to pay for the wall, is a typical citation of a Trump lie. The critical reader understands that this kind of charge is a big nothing burger – it affects nothing in our foreign policy, nothing in how people will arrange their affairs, nor how it affects their quality of life. But Dems like Pocahontas citing completely made up dour stats about our economy is a lie that does affect people’s assessment of their prospects and if/how they should spend, etc. Those, and ‘you can keep your doctor …, your health plan …’, are the real lies that hurt Americans.

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  38. Paul Emery Avatar

    Comparing two different things Gregory. I only used the election day stats to demonstrate that the RCP consensus has historical accuracy. They were right on the money in ’16. Trump is down by nearly 10 in todays Consensus poll. You continue to cherry pick favorable polls to make Trumps polling look not so bad for some odd reason since you don’t particularly like Trump yourselt.

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  39. Paul Emery Avatar

    George, over and over Trump has said that Mexico will pay for the wall but not one step in that direction. He is lying. How is that different than you calling Obama a liar for his Obamacare claims about rates and doctors that have been noted over and over on this blog.

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  40. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul, I agree with a Hillary Clinton statement in the last “debate” between her and Trump… it’s un-American to dispute an election result. She lost.
    I don’t “cherry pick” polls favorable to Trump/ I cite polls that I think are credible. That’s Rasmussen’s daily poll of LIKELY VOTERS now, and I have added the USC Dornsife/LA Times DAILY poll in the past. Polls that pop up to measure the latest media feeding frenzy tend to exaggerate the weakness of the prey bleeding in the water.
    FDR promised a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage. Was he lying?
    It’s about time the anti-Trumpers give up their efforts to nullify the last Presidential election. What they are doing is un-American.

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  41. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “What they are doing is un-American.”
    Maybe a better phrase is “post-American”. There might be a tiny bit left of that old school patriotism left, but I think it is mostly ennui. They are Citizens of the World(tm).

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Post-American? Post-Australian? Citizens of the World.
    https://www.facebook.com/LaurenCSouthern/videos/657626151284789/
    Like I said, a vote for Democrats in 2018 is a vote for open borders. Sure, I recently said that a vote for Dems in 2018 is also a vote for TDS, or the sanitized version for,polite company, TAD. Well, we are going to get more TAD either way, so a vote for Democrats is a vote for Citizens of the World, aka, open borders in 2018.
    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/29/coulter-trumps-numbers-through-roof-just-build-border-wall/
    Does someone with TAD quality for disability payments?

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  43. George Rebane Avatar

    BillT 139pm – They will if Chuckie and Nancy will ever have anything to do about it.

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  44. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    Still wondering what makes Obama’s boasting or lying about Obama Care and Trump boasting or lying about Mexico paying for the Wall different.

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  45. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    PUNCH 253pm
    What was the intent… Trump has been President for what… a year and a half. During which time he’s had nothing but harassment from the disloyal opposition. He still has two anna half years to built the wall and find a fig leaf for cost shifting to Mexicans.
    To date, the costs have been virtually nil. Nada.
    The Obama “if you like your doctor…” gruberized trope was a baldfaced lie designed to dupe voters into socialized medicine for the under 65 set.
    To date, the costs have been… I didn’t get to keep my doctor or my plan and medical costs have continued to skyrocket.

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  46. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    More joys of socialism –
    Boris Johnson, the former mayor who recently resigned as U.K. foreign secretary, tore into Khan in a recent Op-Ed for The Daily Telegraph for glamming it up at movie premieres while crime spirals out of control.
    “Sadiq Khan may be a twinkle-toed mover on the movie premiere red carpet, but his pirouettes on the subject of knife crime are a positive wonder. He blames funding (when he was left with a large war chest by me); he blames the Tory Government; he blames society. He blames everyone but himself, when it is his paramount duty to keep Londoners safe,” Johnson wrote. “It is a pathetic performance.”
    As of March, London accounted for 17 percent of all recorded crime in England and Wales in the year prior, as well as 42 percent of all recorded robberies. A third of all knife crime took place in London as well.
    London also is facing a rise in acid attacks, skyrocketing by more than 78 percent over the past two years, with 465 such offenses in 2017, up from 260 in 2015, according to police figures obtained by the Evening Standard.
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/30/anti-trump-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-under-fire-for-pathetic-response-to-crime-surge.html
    😉

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  47. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    You haven’t been keeping up with the news about funding for the Wall. Trump wants to add it to the budget. I assume, from your assessment that no funds have been spent that you appose the appropriations at this time.
    “Funding for border wall in spending bill divides conservatives and establishment Republicans”
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/22/funding-for-border-wall-in-spending-bill-divides-conservatives-and-establishment-republicans.html

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  48. Walt Avatar

    BFD Paul. When the wall is built, I don’t give a shit how it’s paid for. That’s one LIE from Trump I can live with.
    2000 a month for health care we can’t use, we CAN’T live with. Thanks to your boy “O”, and the bitch Pelosi.” Gotta pass it to see what’s in it”. And all the waivers to go with it. Remember those waivers Paul? You didn’t get one.
    We knew when “O” was lying,,, his lips were moving.

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