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[Our leftwing commenters keep reporting that all of our border problems are nothing but rightwing propaganda, so why have the national news been reporting illegal entry numbers surging, caravans at the border trying to get in, and more caravans on the way from central America?  And how come Dems keep saying that walls don't work, and the border security authorities keep testifying and presenting data that they do?  gjr]

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  1. Walt Avatar

    New York Times Caught Fake Newsing:
    The New York Times labels as “false” Trump’s statement about illegal border crossings being an “urgent national crisis.”
    But it’s only after a paragraph of pedantic blah, blah, blah that the far-left Times finally admits a “record number of families have tried to cross the border in recent months, overwhelming officials at the border and creating a new kind of humanitarian crisis.”
    In other words, Trump told the truth but the Times is counting on you not making it through all the blah, blah, blah to find that out.

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  2. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    Ahh the smell of fresh Bessee in the morning, skewed and off kilter as always with his pick ‘n pull polls. Winning? Not really if you want the truth.
    I am remiss for not predicting you would post a pro Pubber poll post speech as I predicted Todd would post his sappy congratulatory note that he wrote before the SOTU was given.
    Mostly pubbers watched the SOTU so of course polling them showed disproportionate of approval of said show. https://www.vox.com/2019/2/6/18213682/state-of-the-union-approval-ratings-polls

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  3. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    The left on these pages truly are unhinged. The SOTU was right on the money and made the left and the democrat/socialists look like infants. The white-clad babes looked like cheerleaders for Maduro and if anyone thinks those babes can lead this country in any way they are loons. The adults in the room were Trump and the Republicans. The democrats act like spoiled kids of 12. Anyway, America is better off with Trump than Clinton. I have yet to see anyone murdered in the Trump circles as we did with the Clintons. Vince Foster and about 20 other people are now gone after having been a part of Clinton’s entourage.
    Trump never colluded with anyone except maybe Stormie and Mueller is having to settle for “crimes” after the election. No collusion just “process crimes”. This is driving the TDSS folks even nuttier than they already are.

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  4. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    A huge majority of those polled liked the SOTU and that included democrats and Indies. The hardcore socialist did not like it as Trump called them out for their failed ideology. Go Trump and Republicans. get the wall done now.

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  5. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    A complete and total fabrication from my kept man: “A huge majority of those polled liked the SOTU and that included democrats and Indies”. Probably written yesterday while watching Mr. Ed.
    The truth:
    https://www.vox.com/2019/2/6/18213682/state-of-the-union-approval-ratings-polls

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  6. MMM Avatar
    MMM

    ,,,George is putting words in mouths of others,,,”’Walls don’t work”’??? Of course walls work – as well as any wall can work. You can climb over them, dig under them, chainsaw through them with a diamond chain. The question is where to put them to get the most bang for the buck.
    Here is a repost of the illegal immigration statistics showing they are at they are lowest level in 50 years…restated another way,,,our border security is working better than ever,,,or our Border Patrol is becoming ever more incompetent, or bribed to look the other way. If the latter is true,,,at least a wall might help make the Border Patrol more honest.
    https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2017-Dec/BP%20Southwest%20Border%20Sector%20Apps%20FY1960%20-%20FY2017.pdf

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  7. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    Yeah, Russ. My thoughts are expressed in the link you apparently didn’t follow.
    Your quote, “76% of viewers approved. . .” shows your bias. The “viewers” were predominantly Republicans. See link.

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  8. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    People are so funny. On my FB someone juxtaposed a picture of the white-clad babes with a KKK white hooded crowd. You cannot make these things up. What a hoot!

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Portland-based Panera Cares was reportedly only recouping between 60 and 70 percent of its total costs,” reports Eater. “The losses were attributed to students who ‘mobbed’ the restaurant and ate without paying, as well as homeless patrons who visited the restaurant for every meal of the week. The location eventually limited the homeless to ‘a few meals a week.’”
    Though Shaich said the restaurants tried to educate people about “sharing responsibly, people ultimately came to the locations for a handout.”
    “We had to help them understand that this is a café of shared responsibility and not a handout,” Shaich said in a 2011 interview about the Portland location. “It can’t serve as a shelter and we can’t have community organizations sending everybody down.”
    Measures to maintain order, however, backfired, with multiple online reviews denouncing the restaurant for being an unwelcoming place, accusing it of false advertising. As with every socialist experiment, the natural harmony between the commoners and the power-brokers devolved into hostility.
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/43105/paneras-socialist-pay-what-you-want-restaurant-paul-bois?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand

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  10. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    97% of Republicans approved
    82% of independents/3rd party approved
    30% of Democrats approved
    by the same CBS polling
    Slapsy Maxy Waters told people not to watch.
    Ruth Bader Ginsberg didn’t attend, but she’s still recovering from cancer surgery. I’m going to guess she didn’t approve of the speech.
    Follow on work for Democrats… to search high and low to identify the 30% of Dems who approved of the speech to harangue and otherwise embarrass their turncoat fellow Dems.
    Hint: watch “Death of Stalin” again to understand that dynamic

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  11. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    The democrat deep state will root out those 30% traitors and boycott them.

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  12. George Rebane Avatar

    MMM 936am – “Walls Don’t Work” has been the mantra of top Democrats and national leftwing thought leaders, and, as a now permanent feature of our progressive readers, is a notion that has totally escaped our lightly read Left. Some like 3M are today doing a bit of back peddling on building/upgrading border infrastructure to increase border security. That has become necessary after voluminous cited history, expert testimony, and border data shows that physical barriers (walls, etc) do indeed work and reduce the overall costs of border security. This, of course, has been explained in these pages ever since Trump’s candidacy where he used ‘the wall’ as a simple metaphor to introduce his intended policies on immigration, illegal entrants, and resident illegal aliens. The Left immediately respun all of those remarks and speeches to serve their TDS agenda, and none of those were or have ever been counted as lies to the American public.
    https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/03/walls-dont-work/
    http://immigrationimpact.com/2016/10/18/will-a-border-wall-work/
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-challenges-pelosi-on-why-she-wants-to-keep-border-walls-she-calls-immoral
    “George is putting words in mouths of others” my ass. George is pointing out your continuing deficits in the discussion of public affairs. Get out there and read up on stuff for a change.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 8:50 am
    Good entertaining link.
    “To which Politico replies: Whoa, whoa, whoa there, Hoss… It’s only 31 percent of women who are sexually assaulted, which is a far cry from the 33 percent required to achieve your “one in three” claim, and we’re not going to turn Texas blue if we start throwing ’round outrageous terms like “one in three.”
    What a bunch of knuckleheads. If the Wa Compost actually looked at the Doctors without Borders link, the fact checkers would have seen the term used was “sexually abused”, not sexually assaulted! Being sexually abused is a far cry from being sexually assaulted!!!!!!!!!
    Make that 8,002 lies, not 8,000 lies. 🙂

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  14. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Stop the presses!
    New Jersey has found written material so heinous that it’s worth ignoring the 1st Amendment to criminalize its publication
    http://reason.com/blog/2019/02/06/new-jersey-slaps-criminal-penalties-gun

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  15. MMM Avatar
    MMM

    George1006am ”doing a bit of back peddling on building/upgrading border infrastructure to increase border security”’
    Look who is doing a little bit of back peddling,,,Trump has stated dozens of times that it is all about a ”’big beautiful wall”’ and said nothing about border infrastructure.
    He even shut down the government over funding specifically for ‘the wall’
    Did you skim read over this part???

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  16. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Blackface? Jeeze I guess Al Jolson movies and Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland movies will have to be trashed. It was a common minstrel technique that if one really looks at it would think it is actually a recognition of the musical abilities of the black singers and dancers. Why make it something bad when it was not originally done for that? But hey, Michael Jackson did his best to become a white skinned man and that was just fine.
    I thought Al Franken was railroaded for his picture and now the Virginia Governor is being attacked for a Halloween picture done I am sure in jest. I would rather booy his ass for the attempted laws to murder the just born.

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  17. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    Here is a transcript of the SOTU speech, in case there is a dispute over what was said:
    https://notes.nap.edu/2019/02/06/2019sotu/?

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  18. George Rebane Avatar

    MMM 1050am – Not at all. Since I read both left and right media, it became clear some months ago that Trump was beginning to explain that ‘the wall’ actually stood for border infrastructure and security systems, instead of 30′ of concrete from water to water. Of course, none of the lamestream outlets that are your sole focus ever picked up this ‘little nuance’, since it didn’t fit their characterization of Trump. (Apparently you didn’t even listen to the SOTU.) And therefore, to this day, we have people like you still ignorant of how the border security debate has progressed over the last several months as Trump continues to lobby for ‘wall funding’ aka border security. But since it’s your comfort zone, I don’t expect that you and yours will ever abandon that characterization and understanding.
    Once more with feeling, let’s again sing our favorite anthem ‘Middle Ground there ain’t no more, no more’.

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ladies in White.
    The Cuban government has criticized the Ladies in White for being a subversive association of American-backed terrorists.[6][7] On Palm Sunday in 2005, the pro-government Federation of Cuban Women sent 150 women to counter-protest the group.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_in_White
    And to think the Leftinistas cheered when Obama gave the Castro Bros everything they wanted and we got nothing in return. No wonder Collin got flack by the Cuban communny for wearing a pro-Castro shirt in Miami.

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  20. Walt Avatar

    But DOUGY!!! Your queen of the damned has a wall. A nice big one.
    I don’t hear you whining about that one.

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  21. Walt Avatar

    Attacking kids comes back to bite!
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-teacher-faces-termination-after-post-misidentifying-a-covington-student-as-hitler-youth
    I can’t wait for slander lawsuits to start hitting the offending Lefties. The public apologies, the HUGE payouts,,, job losses,,

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  22. Billl Tozer Avatar
    Billl Tozer

    If Hummer wasn’t a walking Encyclopedia of Worthless Information, he would have been aware that Trump requested 180 miles of good fencing where the Border Patrol Chiefs on the tground said it is desperate needed in certain sectors where our agents are being overwhelmed. The rest of the 5 billion was for replacing sub-par existing fencing and replacing totally inadequate vehicle barriers with pedestrian fencing. That does not include another 750 million requested for more housing facilities for families caught illegally on our side and awaiting processing. And more medical personnel to screen them and to take them to the hospital for isolation.
    Dr. Rebane at 11:45 am. Once again, this time with feeling.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3iokKq1VUrE
    The Hummers of this world want border security without securing the border.

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    CNN backpedals. Not wise to lead with the chin.
    The first rationalization is the claim that the SOTU audience is mostly supporters of the president. Historically, somewhat true, though no numbers were given. This time around, there is a least the possibility that more than usual numbers of the president’s opposition watched, hoping for some rebuke from the speaker seated behind him, or from the school lunch ladies female Democrats seated as a bloc, all dressed in white.
    The second rationalization, on the question of viewers anticipating an increase in bipartisan cooperation seemed to assume that Republicans would respond positively to this question if they liked Trump’s speech. I thought the speech was great, but given what we know about Democrats’ level of TDS, I don’t expect that it will increase bipartisan cooperation, because nothing possibly could. They are hopelessly bent on destroying Trump, and any harm to the nation is just acceptable collateral damage.
    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/sotu_schadenfreude_watch_cnn_try_to_rationalize_away_their_own_instant_poll_showing_76_of_viewers_positive_on_trumps_sotu.html#ixzz5emlDITCn
    The Selzer Man is pissed. He looks kinda orange.
    https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1543810975752934/?type=3&source=48

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  24. Billl Tozer Avatar
    Billl Tozer

    El Paso, here we come
    https://www.oann.com/trump-2020-campaign-announces-feb-11th-maga-rally-in-el-paso-texas/
    Isn’t El Paso Beto County?? I believe it is.

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  25. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Looks like the democrats and their socialist pals are gasping for air. If they ran things I think most people would commit suicide to avoid their negativity.

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  26. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: TJ@1:
    “Looks like the democrats and their socialist pals are gasping for air. If they ran things I think most people would commit suicide to avoid their negativity.”
    No doubt, but it’s a movement built on being against Western Civilization.
    lol. Maybe they need to learn to code.
    https://newrepublic.com/article/153019/fetid-right-wing-origins-learn-code

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  27. Walt Avatar

    Proggys,,, OHHHHH PROGGYS!!!!!!! Come out come out! You got SPLAIN’N
    TO DOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
    Were you paying attention when Trump said “AMERICA will NEVER,, BE a Socialist NATION”… And EVERY LEFTY, sat on their collective ASS… Silent.
    To anyone who loves America that says plenty… Commie pinko bastards, ONE and ALL.
    And you clowns have the brass ones to say Trump is a Putin stooge?
    It’s YOUR side that’s working to change U.S.A into U.S.S.A.

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  28. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Code! LOL! That is what Hillary etal told those West Virginia coal miners when they tried to destroy them.
    Watched a Palestinian babe who got elected to Congress on CSPAN. She said her Dad came here when he was 19. Met her mom and then had 13 kids! My GOD! And of course there is nothing right about the place and she will fix it. I thought to myself she might be an ingrate that could spawn xenophobes for all her yapping. I thought perhaps her brethren in Gaza could use her services as their rich are on the same economic level as our very poor.

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  29. MMM Avatar
    MMM

    ,,,Todd you are such a hen,,,gossiping away about Palestinian babes,,, oh my,,,the nerve of her to have a bunch of kids!!!! Too Funny!!!

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  30. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Gossip? CSPAN is gossip? And she was the interviewed is gossip? Please look it up you are nutty. Hey and you got to pay for all 13 kids. Then she became a “activist” in her state to show her thanks for moving here. She was full of complaints. Amazing ingrate.

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  31. Walt Avatar

    LIB sure like to threaten the young.
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/06/cj-pearson-twitter-nydia-velazquez/
    “Democratic New York Rep. Nydia Velazquez told pro-Trump teen pundit CJ Pearson that “you’re right to be afraid of us” Tuesday after he referred to her as “the woman next to” Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a tweet about the State of the Union address.
    “Hi CJ Pearson, I’m not ‘the woman sitting next to her,’” Velazquez wrote on Twitter Tuesday night. “[Ocasio-Cortez] and I — and millions like us — are the future of this country. And you’re right to be afraid of us. But you should learn my name.” ”
    Yet looking at the picture,, THERE you are Sitting right next to her.
    Another case of “LIBS LIE”… That’s what they do.
    Gotta love the kid’s response.
    “I’m sorry, Congresswoman, but as @realDonaldTrump said – socialism will NOT be the future of this country.
    And Nydia, nothing about you nor @AOC scares me. It’s your policies- that jeopardize the stability of our nation and the future of my generation- that scare me.”

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  32. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    Todd 3:08-
    My dear kept man. Her parents moved here, not her. She is not Palestinian, she American. She was one of 13 kids born to her parents. Yet, in your book somehow it’s all her fault. You sure have a way of spinning facts to fit your agenda. Same as your reasoning that Kamala isn’t black – she’s half Jamaican!

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Quotes from this time in space. Divisive seems to be the operative word…as easily predicted. Divisive!
    For the record: “I’m not surprised, but some part of me can’t believe we’re at a place where the President of the U.S. said ‘we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country’ and the Democratic speaker of the House deliberately did not applaud.” —Mark Hemingway
    Re: The Left: “Don’t get me wrong, I’m all into the strong-woman applause going on, but it has to be said that it is a little sad that the first thing House female Democrats really chose to celebrate [last night] was … themselves.” —Kimberley Strassel
    Demo-gogues: “There’s very little nice to say about [the State of the Union Address]. It’s sort of like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the excitement and the enthusiasm was all in the Mr. Hyde parts. You can’t talk about comity and working together and give a speech that is so divisive. That just doesn’t fly. So in the areas where he tried to reach out — drug prices, transportation, infrastructure — there was no meat. There was no enthusiasm. All the enthusiasm was for the divisive parts like immigration, abortion, things like that. So it was not a good speech.” —Chuck Schumer
    Belly laugh of the week: “I think Stacey Abrams showed the president what real leadership was last night. She was thoughtful, she was caring, she talked about her family — and the American dream is fading out of reach for too many American families — and the president was political, divisive, calculating, even nasty at times.” —Chuck Schumer
    Braying Jenny: “I don’t even know why [Trump] wants to come and give the State of the Union. The state of the union under him has not been good. And he has been divisive. And I think he’s putting us all in harm’s way. And so he is not worthy of being listened to. … I’m not looking forward to his State of the Union, and I hope people will turn the television off!” —Rep. Maxine Waters
    Braying Jackass: “One of the most difficult conclusions for me in the last two years as I looked into Russia’s meddling in our affairs, as well as the growing trend towards autocracy around the world, is the realization that the threat to our democracy right now is most pronounced from within. … That doesn’t mean that the other threats are also not serious. They are. Russia and China are trying to push forward their authoritarian models and really challenging the idea of democracy. But that is, I think, secondary to the threat we face right now from within.” —Rep. Adam Schiff
    And last… “I guess I’m supposed to well up with tears of pride because a bunch of women were elected to Congress. Sorry, no. Most of the new congresswomen are self-obsessed, infanticidal, socialist radicals. The fact that they happen to have two X chromosomes is no consolation.” —Matt Walsh
    ———————-
    Scenes @2:05 pm
    “No doubt, but it’s a movement built on being against Western Civilization.”
    https://m.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10156187010875914/?type=3&source=48

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  34. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    More on the ‘learn to code’ meme.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ODk0_rA44

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  35. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Code! What a hoot! I recall when Clinton and the eco-extremists were able to shut down our forests and put thousands out of work (spotted owl) and they said the would re-educate those folks. Just like the Khmer Rouge. And “code” was at the top of their list.

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  36. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    What is it about these liberal saps that they cannot read what is written? 13 kids? Never said they were hers. Her parents came here and somehow the idiot that read that It said her. And she called herself Palestinian not me. I just shake my head about the lefty idiots.

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  37. Walt Avatar

    Not Palestinian?
    The eldest of 14 children, Rashida Harbi was born on July 24, 1976, to working-class Palestinian immigrants in Detroit.
    And Izzy Warren is an Indian.

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  38. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    Todd (my kept man) 3:59
    Not much to interpret in what you wrote: “Hey and you got to pay for all 13 kids. Then she became a “activist” in her state to show her thanks for moving here.”
    You have written a fabricated chronology of events, even if you don’t understand the word chronology, or know when to use an instead of a.
    Engaging.

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  39. Walt Avatar

    Some nice words from the Muslim witch the Gulper defends.
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/06/rashida-tlaib-trump-sotu-impeach/
    “Tlaib came under fire just hours after being sworn into Congress in January for telling a group of left-wing supporters she would help Democrats “impeach the motherf****r,” referencing Trump. The Daily Caller News Foundation asked her after Trump’s State Of The Union if she still believed Trump should be impeached.”
    Take a trip to Muslim land swallower,, Think they will honor your lifestyle? They would be real happy to show you the top of the tallest building in town.
    Even if it’s in Detroit.

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  40. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Walt this orally fixated TS is a moron. Can you interpret me the same as he? He is now trying to get close to me and I have to remind him I like women while he hangs out on Castro Street. He is a true moron.

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  41. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    “became clear some months ago that Trump was beginning to explain that ‘the wall’ actually stood for border infrastructure and security systems, instead of 30′ of concrete from water to water.”
    Surely you are in jest when you say that. What became clear is that trump was not going to get his vanity wall in his image so he keeps changing the story to preserve his ego. Remember when Mexico was going to pay for his ‘concrete wall’?

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  42. MMM Avatar
    MMM

    ,,,The Hen is clucking again!!!

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  43. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    Robert-
    30′ tilt-up concrete panels across the entire border to be more precise. He had it all figured out. Genius. And Mexico was going to pay for it.

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  44. Bonnie McGuire Avatar

    I enjoy researching, and reading people’s opinions. Altogether it’s a good comparison regarding common sense. Here’s one opinion that was great.
    Comment:
    Does anyone but a conservative wonder if Trump was the right choice for President?? Wonder no longer as history does in fact repeat itself!!
    “And the man God chose was neither a politician nor a priest. Instead, God chose a builder whose name was Nehemiah. And the first step of rebuilding the nation was the building of a great wall. God Instructed Nehemiah to build a wall around Jerusalem to protect its citizens from enemy attack”
    The American people have been asking Congress for a wall on the southern border for at least 100 years now, since World War I. Illegal aliens from China were crossing the border and Congress formed the US Border Patrol in 1924 over concerns that the illegal’s were taking jobs meant for Americans. Portions of fencing have sprung up from time to time, but the current sparse system of barriers was not constructed until 1994. There is still no contiguous wall on the southern border, despite a century of the people asking for it.
    To insist that walls for the protection of nations and people is not biblical, as the Pope and others have asserted, is to ignore the whole of Scripture. The Pope stated that we should be building bridges instead of walls, and we should not be meeting evil with evil. The only biblically truthful part of that statement was his inadvertent admission that illegal immigration is evil. The word “bridge” never appears in the Bible, but a term that we do see there frequently is “wall.
    All you have to notice is most people who want protection from predators have walls or fences. Too funny that the Pope seemed unaware of the wall around his castle in Italy.

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  45. Walt Avatar

    Hitting the bong early Dougy? I guess that’s what you do when you have no illegal labor to shovel three inches of snow.

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  46. Walt Avatar

    I see the resident Communists have no desire to defend their anti American position. Nice color of Yellow running up those limp spines.

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