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[I think it's profitable to continue the discussion about how the progressive Left is certain about President Trump's unsuitability for office in light of his domestic and foreign policy record, and the record of investigations that to no avail have sought to nail him.  And in light and in spite of this record, how our Left has become more confident that all their evidence-free allegations and more are true beyond the need for any further substantiation. gjr]

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  1. Walt Avatar

    Well well.. A state doing the right thing.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/23/wyoming-lawmakers-advance-bill-establishing-medicaid-work-requirements/
    “The bill, which passed its first reading in the state House by a slim margin despite it being destined for failure moments before the vote, would require all “able-bodied” Medicaid recipients who are not disabled or are caretakers for children under six years old to work at least 20 hours a week to receive benefits, the Casper Star Tribune reported.”

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Confirms what I have long thought: Nancy has nothing in common with those outside her fenced Mansion on the hill. They be fodder.
    Data Shows Democrats’ Increasingly Rabid Leftism Is Driven By White People.
    Progressives of pallor get quite a bit out of not only promoting radicals of color, but also attacking their critics as racist.
    http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/22/data-shows-democrats-increasingly-rabid-leftism-driven-white-people/

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    One tin soldier rides away.
    Kinda long (4 minutes) but I always appreciate a good soft spoken orator.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n_YQ8560E1w

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  4. AV Man Avatar
    AV Man

    ,,,good to hear from all the REAL Republicans how much of a F***UP Trump is,,,
    https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-economy-budget-economy-160431196.html

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  5. Walt Avatar

    The only one that is fucked up, it the aftershave drinker.
    Our economy has hardly been better with Trump at the helm.
    Yet Dougy says he ain’t brain damaged. I would give you the stats, but simple math is above your comprehension.

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  6. Walt Avatar

    RED Cortez might be hiding something!
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/where-in-the-world-does-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-live
    She has no district office and no local phone number, unlike the state’s three other freshman members.
    And it’s unclear whether the 29-year-old lawmaker, who represents the Bronx and Queens, actually still lives in the Parkchester neighborhood that has been so closely tied to her rise — even though she won her upset victory over fellow Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley with accusations that his home in Virginia made him too Washington-focused to serve his district.

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another party parrot narrative goes up in flames –
    The reason many Americans are seeing a smaller refund this year is that they are paying less in taxes. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act significantly cut tax rates for middle class families, 80 percent of whom had a lower tax burden in 2018 than they did before the president’s tax cuts took effect.
    The law also simplified the tax code and made changes to withholding rules that together served to reduce overpayment to the government by taxpayers, which is the only reason the IRS gives tax refunds.
    Would you rather receive a bigger refund, or just keep more of your money in the first place?
    Think about it this way: these reports about smaller refunds are every bit as disingenuous as headlines about Americans getting the biggest tax refunds of their lives would be in the wake of a massive tax increase. Higher tax burdens mean bigger refunds. Lower tax burdens mean smaller refunds, because the government got less of your money during the tax year.
    Not only do smaller refund checks indicate that people have had access to more of their money throughout the year, they are also a sign that we’ve created a more efficient income tax system. In a perfectly efficient system, no one would get any refund, because they would have paid the exact amount that they owe.
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/the-lefts-tax-refund-freakout-exposes-their-ignorance-on-taxes
    😉

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  8. Walt Avatar

    I give you the newest spokesman for Berkeley U.
    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/02/22/uc-berkeley-employee-celebrates-violence-against-conservative-activist-on-campus/
    ““OH MY GOD THE MAGA PEOPLE ON UC BERKELEY CAMPUS YESTERDAY GOT PUNCHED IN THE FACE BY SOMEONE THIS MAKES ME FEEL EMOTIONALLY SO MUCH BETTER. Thank you so much random stranger for not letting it go unchallenged. Hope you aren’t in too much trouble,” the tweet read, “Fuck you, Turning Point USA.” ”
    Of course the school feels it’s blameless.
    “While we have no legal ability to control or sanction what employees do during their free time, it should be absolutely clear that any expression of approval and support for violence stands in complete and total opposition to the values, commitments, and policies of this university,” Mogulof added.

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  9. Walt Avatar

    “Sock puppet”?? Now just who could that be?
    10:35 p.m. — A caller from a business in the 100 block of Mill Street reported a man knocking on the windows, with a candle in one hand and a black sock on one hand that he might be using as a puppet. At 4:45 a.m. Saturday, a man was reported knocking on the window and acting crazy. He was arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance.

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @2:27 pm
    Good read indeed.

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Those historically low minority unemployment numbers seem to be having an impact –
    Now, here’s the brutal truth for Democrats: If Hispanic Americans are in fact showing surging approval of Trump, he could be on his way to matching or exceeding the 40 percent won by George W. Bush in his 2004. If Trump does 12 percentage points better than his 2016 numbers with the growing Hispanic vote, it pretty much takes Florida, Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina off the table for Democrats, who would need to sweep Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to reach the 270 electoral college votes needed to win the White House. At the same time, that 12-point shift would give Trump a clear shot at winning Colorado and Nevada, states where Hispanic voters make up well over 10 percent of the electorate and where Clinton won by 5 percentage points or less in 2016.
    https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/02/24/2020-hispanic-voters-donald-trump-225192
    😉

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So why is it that the price of virtue signaling is always paid for by others?
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/unvaccinated-french-boy-brings-measles-224301685.html
    😉

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ROFLMAO!!!
    ROFLMAO!!!
    Man, where do they dredge up these wack jobs. This one takes the cake. I am laughing so hard I can barely type. One of the wingnuts is from the Wa Compost, ROFLMAO.
    “There are people in this country who every day feel that their very existence — their own security is at stake. And so, you know, the President’s superpac, right-wingers, far right, conservatives who are using the Jussie Smollett situation to rhetorically bash people who are afraid for their own existence and their own lives, you know, is really despicable.”
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2019/02/23/capehart-trump-blame-liberals-believing-smollett-hoax

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Yo girl you gonna make them verklempt –
    Saudi Arabia has appointed Princess Reema bint Bandar as its diplomatic representative to the US – the first female ambassador in the history of the kingdom.
    In a series of royal decrees issued by Saudi Arabia late on Saturday, Riyadh named its current envoy to Washington, Prince Khalid bin Salman, as deputy minister of defence with the ranking of minister, in addition to allocating a bonus of a month’s salary to soldiers fighting to the south at the Saudi border with Yemen.
    Princess Reema is familiar with US politics and society, having studied at US universities and lived in Washington when her father, Prince Bandar, was ambassador.
    https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/saudi-arabia-names-princess-reema-bint-bandar-as-its-first-female-ambassador-1.829317
    😉

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    So true, so very true. They know nothing and worse, are taught nothing.
    Lenin’s words, “Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.”, have never sounded truer as they ring across the land. And we have given him two generations, and are now beginning to reap the fundamentally transforming whirlwind.
    So, Cuban and Venezuela are socialist countries. The Scandanavian countries are not. The GND a is socialist manifesto and Bernie is a communist. Think that wraps it up.

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  16. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@6:29
    ‘Socialism’ is just a word after all and lacks precision. I think what we really need is a GINI coefficient for .gov control. This would even include absolute dictatorships since that tends to be the end game for many ‘socialist’ experiments.
    The amount of economic activity directly managed by government is a tempting source for data, but people tend to just use taxes/GDP as an approximation. This leaves out regulatory control as part of the equation.
    I admit that I admire socialism/communism as an idea. The world could always stand to invent new ways to acquire power, and they are good ones in that they grasp onto the kind of emotional fervor that an expansionist religion does. The Corporation, military hierarchies, royalty, religion, communism, the need to build larger systems to break free from the wheel of the small tribe always produce a small elite as a result. OTOH without it, nothing gets done. In the long run, the best you can hope for is a moral feudalism.

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  17. Walt Avatar

    Dirty Harry rides again!
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/02/25/fmr-senate-majority-leader-reid-trump-is-doing-nothing-right-i-wish-every-day-for-bush-43-again/
    And like every other Commiecrat takes a swipe at Trump.
    “Is there anything I think President Trump is doing right?” he said. “I just have trouble accepting him as a person, and so frankly I don’t see anything he’s doing right.”
    Yet can’t and won’t give ANY proof. Talk is cheap.
    Maybe the cut rate Obummercare cancer treatments messed up his melon.

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  18. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    And over in the other corner, grammar nazi Jeff Pelline belts out another typo:
    Oscars 2019: ‘Green Book’s’ best picture win caps off an unpredictable awards season

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  19. Walt Avatar

    HEY Bill! Hear the low flying jets? Never seen a U2 with an escort of two chance planes wing tip to wing tip before.
    Something special must be going on.

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  20. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    Trainee getting eyes all around as he (tries to) land?

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  21. Walt Avatar

    My money would be on a pilot’s last flight before he retires, and an impromptu air show for his Family in LWW.
    They came over low and slow, and made a nice big circle over PV and LWW.
    Will have to go to the North ridge in PV. They would know.
    (If you have ever been in there, you would know why.)

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  22. Walt Avatar

    Well,, you wanted the studies,, you got’m… They ain’t what you said they would say.
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dr-marc-siegel-heavy-pot-smoking-has-now-been-linked-to-this-strange-syndrome
    Nope,,DOPE ain’t the “harmless drug” you guys made it out to be.

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 9:44am
    Missed that one. Not up to par this morning. Heard something, but did not answer the bell. Did you see the two Whirlybirds in formation yesterday or the day before? Orange. Probably haz mat crews cleaning up the place after Galvin’s visit.

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, they hit all the right buttons on the Joy Reid show. Toxic Masculinity, Male Patriachy, No girly men, class warfare (Blue Collar), race, interracial marriage, doesn’t look like me….
    Sounds rather elitist. Wonder what the feminists have to. :).
    TIFFANY CROSS: . . [Kamala Harris] needs to find a strong, black man advocate who can be in her corner at some point in the campaign — at any space in her campaign, I would say, that’s my key advice: find a prominent blue-collar, self-made, black man to be in your corner.”
    MSNBC analyst Jason Johnson took it a step further, disqualifying Harris’s white husband as a potential advocate. “Let’s just be candid. When you’re saying she needs to have an advocate out there, it’s not going to be her [white] husband. She needs to surround herself with African-American men.”
    Note: this was also an exercise in identity politics at its most explicit. Consider this from Cross: “the African-American community expects more from people who look like us.”

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  25. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Walt
    Wanna look at the effects of heavy tobacco smoking or heavy drinking?

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Thoughts.
    Been digging into the Green New Deal outline. Not really much to do with AOC or the Mean Green Machine as such, but the mechanics and implementation of it all. The Select Commttee as an example.
    1) the GND is just a nice long name for ‘reparations.’
    2). The GND is a misnomer. The more accurate name is the RND. Red New Deal.
    3). As counterintuitive as it may appear at first glance and despite milllons upon of millions of words written by the best and brightest, I am warming to the idea that Trump won the election because of his tweets, not despite of them. No Twitter, no POTUS Trump.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LabloPDPtLg

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  27. Walt Avatar

    Piss and moan, and stomp your feet Emery. It’s not my fault the studies came back against your “safe drug” pitch. Deal with it.
    The studies are out against your deflection of tobacco and booze.
    Not a damned thing new there.
    Weed has been great at making new Proggy constituents. Too damned lazy to find a job, and needs the gov. to send them a check.
    But HEY!!! You got your wish for legal weed. Now we all suffer the consequences.
    And hows that “everyone will get rich growing weed” work’n?
    The state is sure pissed that they ain’t getting their promised tax revenue…( Did I call that one or what? Yup,, go back and check wannabe news dude)

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  28. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “the GND is just a nice long name for ‘reparations.’”
    Well, duh.
    There’s nothing new under the sun, and something like the Green New Deal is bound to be a reapportioning of the pie by other means. The priesthood in the Egyptian New Kingdom would understand every bit of modern politics….well, except for the part about inviting in all the Hittites to share in the gold and the wimmen.

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “the GND is just a nice long name for ‘reparations.’”
    “Well, duh”
    Lol. Call me dense, but the lightbulb came on and I saw reparations for slavery and reparations to the Mexican-American community and reparations for red lining and…
    ….and….don’t forget the Puerto Ricans!!!!
    And don’t forget the Native Americans….sez Elizabeth Pow Wow Chow.
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/democrats-2020-reparations

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  30. George Rebane Avatar

    And here all along I thought RND stood for Raw New Deal.

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The State of Educaton
    The results were truly shameful. Only one state, Vermont, saw the majority of its participants pass — and even then, 47% failed. Had 70% or higher been deemed the passing threshold, not one state would have had a majority of individuals pass. The worst-performing state was Louisiana, with 73% who failed. That percentage climbed to 82% if you include those correctly answering as few as 12 of the 20 questions.
    Simply put, the facts of history have been rewritten, the roles of history have been recast, and the value of exceptionalism has been substituted with warmed-up mediocrity as the new normal to equalize the masses. Call it indoctrination, propaganda, or some other moniker attempting to capture the breadth, width, and reach of our current chaotic conundrum, but understand one thing: The great nation of America is being destroyed by Americans, not some foreign enemy. Those rewriting history and recasting the roles, good and bad, to fit today’s culture and political agendas are truly deconstructing our nation, most knowing they must create an ignorance of just how America became great through its unique constitutional republic and individualism that breeds self-reliance and exceptionalism, ingredients that do not coexist with socialism, communism, or all the other -isms that create a permanent underclass dependent upon big government.
    https://patriotpost.us/articles/61372-most-americans-would-fail-a-citizenship-test?fbclid=IwAR3ra9pIkxeu1vjp6njlW532iH0O-bxakrRGJ1lOiCwZS3wLitCQGM4_1bQ

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Quotes from tthis time in space
    The Gipper: “Any time you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we’re denounced as being opposed to their humanitarian goals. It seems impossible to legitimately debate their solutions with the assumption that all of us share the desire to help the less fortunate.” —Ronald Reagan
    Hot air: “You know what? I don’t care anymore. I don’t care anymore, because again, I’m at least trying, and they’re not. So the power is in the person who’s trying, regardless of the success. If you’re trying, you’ve got all the power. You’re driving the agenda.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez telling critics of the Green New Deal “I’m the boss”
    Braying Jenny: “There’s no question we have to be practical. But being practical also recognizes that climate change is an existential threat to us as human beings. … Of course we can afford it. … It’s not about a cost. It’s about an investment.” —Kamala Harris
    Non Compos Mentis: “It’s likely Trump will be able to build some of his wall — with America footing the bill. The next president should demolish whatever Trump manages to erect.” —The Week’s Peter Weber
    Alpha Jackass: “We have a problem in America called spatial geographic inequality, which means that the most affluent and educated people are clustered in just a few cities. … The blue parts of America are having a big prosperity party while the big sea of red feels like their invitation got lost in the mail — and they still use the mail. … We have orchestras and theaters districts and world-class shopping. We have Chef Wolfgang Puck. They have Chef Boyardee. … The fly-over states have become the passed-over states. That’s why red-state voters are so pissed off. They don’t hate us. They want to be us.” —Bill Maher
    Non sequitur: “This is the fall of an icon and I don’t think people understand how important [Jussie Smollett] has been in the black community. … The fact that he has been celebrated and you see homophobia in the black community through his eyes on the show, this is a Jackie Robinson against homophobia.” —Van Jones
    Confirmation bias: “The circumstances and the way he told the story and what he said happened to him sort of fit in with a — not a narrative, but a reality for a lot of people in this country since President Trump was inaugurated.” —Washington Post opinion writer Jonathan Capehart
    And last… “Smollett staged a hate crime yet still has a job. Northam wore blackface and advocated infanticide yet still has a job. Fairfax was credibly accused of rape by two women yet still has a job. Don’t tell me about privilege. No one is more privileged in modern America than a leftist.” —Matt Walsh

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  33. Walt Avatar

    Hope you got your place ready,, this storm is a doozy.
    8 inches of rain? Good thing I have the backhoe sitting in the front yard.
    The Gen. all fueled up, and the cords stretched to the necessities,
    (the coffee maker)
    Get those cell phones charged. Make sure your data plan is paid up.
    Sorry Lefties,, those EBT cards are worthless with the power out.
    Yes, your kids will think the world has come to an end with the cable out.

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Isn’t it interesting, when the liberals/socialists/progressives cannot get their way, they choose to change the rules. Shameless Fools ALL.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2020-dems-being-urged-to-back-push-to-pack-supreme-court

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  35. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So how will the lefties deal with this when one of their own arrests another?
    Univision anchor Jorge Ramos and members of his team have been detained in Caracas, Venezuela after disputed President Nicolas Maduro “didn’t like the questions” they were asking during an interview, the network tweeted Monday night.
    https://www.foxnews.com/world/univision-anchor-jorge-ramos-team-detained-in-venezuela-network-says
    😉

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 5:53 pm
    “So how will the lefties deal with this when one of their own arrests another?”
    One of their own? Oh contrarie, my fine fellow. Jorge is not Hispanic, despite being lauded as the award winning Hispanic journalist, the Walter Cronkite of Latin America. Both his parents are Spaniards. Yes, he born and raised in Mexico City, had Mexican citizenship before becoming a US citizen. Nonetheless, he is not one of “their own.”
    Considering the former slave trade had twice the number of slaves going to South America, the Caribbean, and Latin America than that of the US slave trade and considering it was the Spaniards that raped Maduro’s foremothers….and concerning reparations is back in the news cycle, me thinks Ramos is the face of the oppressor and Maduro is just extracting some long overdue justice for the sins of Jorge’s forefathers. It’s time Ramos pays. His hour has arrived. 🙂
    I believe I am getting the hang of this Identity Politics thang.

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    One of their own as in lefties BT.
    😉

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Grudge Match 2016 continues. Batttle of the Losers.
    This has all the markings of the Hillary smear campaign. What a nasty woman.
    “I’m not shocked that while thousands of volunteers braved the heat and cold to knock on doors until their fingers bled in a desperate effort to stop Donald Trump, his Royal Majesty King Bernie Sanders would only deign to leave his plush D.C. office or his brand new second home on the lake if he was flown around on a cushy private jet like a billionaire master of the universe,” said Zac Petkanas, who was the director of rapid response for the Clinton campaign.
    In 2016, after Sanders endorsed Clinton and agreed to campaign on her behalf, the Sanders campaign’s preferred mode of travel quickly emerged as a point of tension, according to six former Clinton campaign staffers and another source familiar with the travel.”
    To which the grurmpy old commie’s team replied:
    “Michael Briggs, Sanders’ 2016 campaign spokesman who often traveled with Sanders on the private flights, said Clinton and her staff were “total ingrates” in light of the efforts the Vermont senator put in to try to help elect her in the general election.
    “You can see why she’s one of the most disliked politicians in America. She’s not nice. Her people are not nice,” he said. “[Sanders] busted his tail to fly all over the country to talk about why it made sense to elect Hillary Clinton and the thanks that [we] get is this kind of petty stupid sniping a couple years after the fact.”
    “It doesn’t make me feel good to feel this way but they’re some of the biggest assholes in American politics,” he added.
    https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2019/02/25/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-private-jet-flights-1182793

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  39. Walt Avatar

    Look at all the stoner chicks he could be sending pics. too!
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6735613/Anthony-Weiner-ditches-politics-marijuana-business.html
    Emery and Frisch should get him to set up shop in Nevada City.

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Walt @ 821 – Felons need not apply!

    The masters of the universe don’t deserve the subsidies. End H1B.
    The test data is important because business groups have displaced hundreds of thousands of American college graduates while hiring more than one million foreign graduates via the H-1B and other visa worker programs intended for high-skilled temporary foreign workers.
    Business advocates say the migrants are highly skilled. But the test shows that foreign graduates of foreign colleges score just 34 out of 100, while Americans score 67 on the 100 point scale. Foreign graduates of American colleges score at 56, or 16 percent lower than the American score.
    “Foreign-educated immigrants with a college or advanced degree perform so poorly that they score at the level of natives who have only a high school diploma,” says the report, which analyzed results from the Program for International Assessment of Adult Competencies test.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/25/study-immigrant-graduates-score-far-below-u-s-graduates/
    😉

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