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[The NCAA now allows transgender females to compete in women's track events, and soon other sports.  The big concern that needs to be addressed is not that the transgenders are setting new records for women, but that this makes no never mind to the officials now fashioning this new sports world, “Focusing on performance advantage is largely irrelevant because this is a rights issue. We shouldn’t be worried about trans people taking over the Olympics. We should be worried about their fairness and human rights instead.” (more here)  gjr] 

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  1. Walt Avatar

    My vote will count. You voted for a one trick “I will legalize dope” pony. So in essence, you don’t have a dog in this fight.
    As they say. If you didn’t vote, you can’t bitch.
    I sure as hell won’t vote for any Commie Anti American LIB.
    No Emery, you lost this battle. (as always)

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    More masters of the universe getting caught suppressing unapproved views –
    Facebook Data Science Manager Seiji Yamamoto and Facebook Chief Data Scientist Eduardo Arino de la Rubia made their proposition in a 2017 presentation titled, “Coordinating Trolling on FB,” which was shared by a former Facebook insider with investigative journalism outlet Project Veritas.
    According to the Facebook presentation,”troll accounts” in the “Troll Twilight Zone” could have their bandwidth “drastically limited” for “a few hours,” be logged out automatically “every few minutes,” and have their comments “magically fail to upload,” which the Facebook engineers boasted could “confuse and demoralize them.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/02/27/facebook-engineers-proposed-troll-twilight-zone-to-confuse-and-demoralize-with-purposeful-glitches/
    😉

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  3. Walt Avatar

    Since your memory is short Emery,, just what crime is Trump going to jail for? Funny,, as usual,, you can’t back it up.

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Prime Minister dreamy is crashing and burning right before the elections, will we see a resurgent conservative govt. up north?
    Speaking on Wednesday to the House of Commons justice committee, the former justice minister and attorney general said that she and her staff faced four months of a “sustained” and “inappropriate effort” to push for a possible deferred prosecution agreement for the Quebec-based engineering and construction company.
    That agreement would have allowed the firm to avoid a criminal trial and instead agree to alternative terms or conditions, like penalties or enhanced compliance measures.
    It was an option rejected in September by the Public Prosecution Service of Canada – an independent authority whose main objective is to prosecute federal offences – and one she supported.
    Ms Wilson-Raybould said she and her aides were pulled into multiple conversations and meetings – “a barrage of people hounding me and my staff” – with Mr Trudeau, senior aides from his office and the finance department, and a top bureaucrat.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47362652
    😉

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  5. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 340pm
    “Not true Gregory. Trump specifically told Cohen to fix it with his own money and this was just the proof of that.”
    Not proof, Punch. Just supporting information.
    Without some corroboration of the claims by the known perjurer, I’d not accept them. Neither should you.

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  6. George Rebane Avatar

    AV 412pm – was that supposed to make sense or contribute to this thread? Please explain your reasoning, if you used any.

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  7. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Joshua Clover a Professor (I think) at UC Davis tweeted he wanted to see all police dead. I tweeted the fools at the campus.

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  8. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Proof is in the invoice Gregory. That would stand up in any court. Why do you continue to support our liar in chief. You’re Libertarian credentials do not hold up well in supporting him who is the farthers away from being a Libertarian of any President in modern history.

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  9. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Todd, Walt
    Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Do you have the same low opinion of him that you do of Cohen?

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  10. Walt Avatar

    The topic is Trump going to jail, and what the charge is.
    (you brought it up) Having trouble keeping up Emery?
    Your no better that the Cohen. No proof, just accusations, and cheep shots.

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  11. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Walt | 27 February 2019 at 05:03 PM
    Your no better than Cohen. No proof, just accusations, and cheap shots.

    ….and apparently one nonstop “Matlock” impression!

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  12. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    The CEO of PayPal has revealed the multi-billion dollar service partners with the leftist organization Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to decide who should be blacklisted from their company. Using “company corporate values” as their defense, PayPal has taken intentional steps to deny access to conservatives.
    It’s all a big cause for concern for Christians because the SPLC has taken an anti-Christian slant in recent years, targeting mainstream groups just because they hold biblical views about sexuality and life. CBN News has reported extensively on the SPLC’s radical agenda to silence conservative Christian groups like D. James Kennedy Ministries and the Family Research Council.

    https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2019/february/paypal-partnering-with-leftist-anti-christian-splc-to-blacklist-conservatives
    There are more conservative than lefties, I wonder how long this will hold up. I use PayPal for the donation button on my blogs. As a conservative, I will be looking for an alternative.
    The SPLC is evil. ”The Southern Poverty Law Center now tracks some 1,600 far-right extremist groups”. So now conservatives who want to use Paypal are far-right extremists?
    Singer, P. W.. LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media (p. 170). HMH Books. Kindle Edition.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gregory @ 3:16 pm
    Perhaps the name ‘jon smith’ rings a bell.
    ————————
    “I am going to jail in part because of my decision to help Mr. Trump hide that payment from the American people before they voted a few days later. As Exhibit 5A to my testimony shows, I am providing a copy of a $35,000 check that President Trump personally signed from his personal bank account on August 1, 2017 – when he was President of the United States – pursuant to the cover-up, which was…blah, blah,blah
    Proves nothing. I can say that Todd S stole my wallet in 2005 and hold up all the police reports that I reported my wallet was stolen and I can say Todd S confessed to me him doing the dirty deed. I can also say that Todd S paid me in three installments todrown puppies and hold up copies of cancelled checks from Todd S and say that he did it because he wanted them puppies drowned to get back at his neighbor.
    The point of my hypothetical example is the checks are real, the police report is real, but I could be lying through by teeth doing my narrative while showing the “evidence”. Cohen’s words are not proof. His narrative is not proof. He wants a better deal, a better cell where he can pick up the soap without worrying. Love him hiding behind his children. A good family man. I have used that one myself.
    Cohen? Isn’t he the one the wack job commentators on the Union site say he went to Prague to meet with the Russians and collude with them about Julian Assange? Can’t convince them otherwise. They are absolutely convinced, yet Cohen has never been to Prague per his passport and no charges ever about the trip to Prague or meeting secretly with the Russians or Cohen secretly dealings with Wikileaks has ever been leveled at Cohen by Mueller or our counterintelligence agencies. That info came from Nellie Orh when she was working for Fusion GPS and feeding it to the press and her husband at Justice to feed to the FBI, lol. I believe her.
    Of course, that was when the Left hated Cohen and before the Left now loves him. I called Cohen a liar once, but now I believe him, ROFLMAO

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Asking for a friend
    How many of the charges Cohen had been convicted of relate to Trump? All, none, one? Like Manafort, cheating on taxes is not good. How many of Manafort’s crimes relate to Trump? How many of Gates crimes relate to Trump? How many of George the Greek’s crime relate to Trump? Oh, George the Greek has done his time, I hear. A free man after doing weekends in jail…or did he get out of that. Too bad they have thrown a gag order on him. That seems unfair. Do your time and one should be free to talk about anything.
    Ok, back to Flynn. I would be surprised if he does one hour in jail. Talking to the Russsian Ambassador was not a crime. They had every word of the conservation of the call between the Ambassador and Flynn before the FBI interviewed him. Not remembering or omitting every detail when talking to the FBI is a crime. In fact, Flynn’s statments were not considered a crime per Super Duper FBI Agent Peter Strzok when he interviewered Flynn. Neither did Comey consider Flynn’s statements a crime. After Comey was fired, Flynn’s statements became a crime. Sweet. That’s how it works.
    Boring.

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  15. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 448pm
    Invoice?
    And what about the hush money was illegal? Facts claimed by you not in evidence.
    Trump isn’t a Libertarian or a libertarian. So far, his two appointments to the SCOTUS are the closest thing to a LIB on the court that have been seen in my lifetime, and by the Constitution, Trump IS the duly elected President of these United States.
    Sorry dude, but you’ll have to wait until January 2021 or perhaps 2025 to get rid of Trump. And… a warning: You might not like the next President, either.

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  16. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    trumpdora’s box has just been opened. Cohen was the introduction and as such provided several names and incidents that will be in the future limelight. It is like the opening of the Watergate hearings.. who knows what they will find? The hearings kind of deflated attention from the trumpy/rocket boy distraction.

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  17. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    In summary:
    Cohen is a convicted felon, a convicted perjurer and a disbarred lawyer.
    How he is now elevated to Punchies’ Great White Hope is unclear. I guess it’s his last hope.
    If so, maybe we’ll have some peace and quiet until November 2020 and then until Jan 2021.
    Pfhhhhhhh! No, I don’t think so either. Punch will continue to bounce off the walls for every possible end to the Trump presidency. Just wait!!!

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  18. Walt Avatar

    Nice try Babs,, After two years, they still have nothing.
    If you can’t find it, manufacture it. A Proggy will lie, and two more will swear to it.

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  19. Walt Avatar

    Right on time. 100 years ago (from the Union) Just a new Commie today.
    “Senate orders probe of Bolsheviki cabal to overthrow U.S. government.”

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  20. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Boobie Cross 604pm
    Wow… so in the next two years we will be treated to more of this sort of dog and pony show? Courtesy Adam Schiff and Pelosi? Wow…
    This will either be very good or very bad for the GOP. Place your bets.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gregory @ 6:07 pm
    “Pfhhhhhhh! No, I don’t think so either. Punch will continue to bounce off the walls for every possible end to the Trump presidency. Just wait!!!”
    The Cohen story will be forgotten by most in a week. I don’t think even the News Director gives much credence to the story. The POT OF GOLD does not lie at the end of the rainbow. THE POT OF GOLD lies in those tax returns! That is where the real Glory Hole is. Pay Diirt!!
    Wall bouncing to resume shortly and with a renewed vigor. Thank goodnesss those walls are padded.

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  22. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Its starting to look like Saigon is eclipsing todays failure to show ANY RUSSIAN conspiracy from the socialist clown car occupants and the cnn/MSNBC’s of the world (notice Microsoft auto corrects its name with a cap)
    Minority unemployment is historically low, consumer confidence through the roof, legal resident Hispanics agreeing with Trumps immigration policy in stunning numbers and then the gift of the socialist green new deal. The greens are arch socialist/communists in the EU. If you are going to fly that falg you own it.
    THANKS!
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/27/poll-88-percent-of-republicans-see-donald-trump-as-2020-nominee/
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/27/report-president-trumps-cabinet-as-diverse-as-yale-universitys/
    😉

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I know its Hanoi but that was a giggle for some of my elders.
    😉

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  24. Walt Avatar

    Fine hill you picked to die on Emery. Saying Trump is headed to prison without even a lick of supporting evidence, was a fools errand.

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  25. Billl Tozer Avatar
    Billl Tozer

    Good short read.
    Cohen told lawmakers he had no proof of Russia-Trump election collusion. “Questions have been raised about whether I know of direct evidence that Mr. Trump or his campaign colluded with Russia. I do not. I want to be clear,” Cohen testified.
    Cohen also provided testimony anew that he never went to Prague to help rig the 2016 presidential election with Russians, thus undercutting one of the main accusations in the Hillary Clinton-funded Steele dossier used by the FBI to justify a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on the Trump campaign in the final weeks of the election. “I’ve never been to Prague,” Cohen testified.
    Cohen also publicly debunked a BuzzFeed News report in January that Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress and provided evidence to special counsel Robert Mueller’s office. Mueller already has disputed the report, and Cohen did, too, for the first time Wednesday. “Mr. Trump did not directly tell me to lie to Congress. That’s not how he operates,” he testified.
    Cohen said he did overhear a conversation in which Trump adviser Roger Stone, himself now indicted by prosecutors, gave the future president a heads-up in summer 2016 that WikiLeaks was about to publish hacked emails from Democrats.
    Fascinating for MSNBC viewers. But Cohen alleged no crime, and any journalist — and there are many — who used WikiLeaks information and published it over the past many years knows it is protected by the First Amendment.
    “Okay, so no Russian collusion. No trip to Prague. No direct instruction to lie. And no secret effort asking WikiLeaks to hack the Democratic National Committee.
    Pretty good stuff … for the Trump defense team.”
    https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/431904-michael-cohens-pathetic-cry-for-me-argentina-performance
    Biker Billl sez: Either way, Cohen is gong to jail. If you are looking for sympathy, it’s between sh!t and syphilis in the dictionary.

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  26. Walt Avatar

    Damn Emery,, The LIBS are building their own Wicker man out of their own party. Now who gets to light the match?
    Out of all the claims you made of yourself, you should know what a Wicker man is.(or was)

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  27. AV Man Avatar
    AV Man

    ,,,Too transparent for words the fact that as soon as Cohen said he would testify at the end of February Trump began sending love letters to Lil Kimmy to set up a date out of the country ”’at the end of February”’
    Poor hard line MAGA believer/deniers
    No, the torch carriers chanting the ””Jews will not replace us”’ are ”’fine people”’
    No, Trump isn’t a draft dodger, doesn’t threaten lawsuits to keep his report card grades, secret love affairs, business deals a secret, isn’t a tax cheat, cannot tell a lie from the truth as it leaves his fat lips
    Getting back to LIl Kimmy Trump keeps lying that it is all good Kim isn’t running nuke centrifuges, not advancing his nuclear technology in any way,,,just smuggling 90,000 bottles of vodka into his liquor cabinet.
    Yes, MAGA heads, Trump has saved the world!!! And he is still President!!!

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  28. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: AV Man | 27 February 2019 at 07:53 PM

    Poor Artificial Vagina Man (Nice superhero name dugsKKKi)……still pining for Ma Clinton!

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  29. Walt Avatar

    OUCH!!! Better go back to “Clueless” Dougy.
    But Lavender suits you best. Now, did you get that handle while in jail?

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Busted and disgusted again, how far have the once trusted journalistic sources fallen, Walter Cronkite is rolling in his grave. The masters of the unaverse are giving it the stamp of approval. Oooops! As fake as it gets!
    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/u-s-drops-demand-full-accounting-n-korea-nuclear-program-n977251
    😉

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  31. Walt Avatar

    Ain’t “green” great? Wind and solar 100%! But wait till you get the bill,, and all the excuses.
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/27/green-new-deal-wind-contracts/
    And this is what you ECO bastards want for everyone?
    Not cheap, not efficient. Looks like the people are looking to hang politicians from windmills.

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Meanwhile, Amtrak is closed between Reno and Sac. Too much Global Warming on the tracks for their equipment to clear.

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  33. Walt Avatar

    The first critique of today’s cluster $#@& is out.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/27/pollak-michael-cohen-hearing-marks-end-government-oversight/
    “Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday yielded very little in terms of new information about alleged misconduct by President Donald Trump or his 2016 presidential campaign.
    If anything, Cohen’s testimony hurt the case against the president. Cohen said that he had no direct evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. He also appeared to lie several times (again).
    The media, too, lost. They billed Cohen’s appearance as a climactic moment — then struggled to salvage bits and pieces of their shattered narratives from the wreckage of his testimony. Cohen told the committee that Trump had not actually told him directly to lie to Congress. He also admitted there was no evidence, other than the word of a convicted liar (himself), that Trump had ever directed that “hush money” be paid to Stormy Daniels and others.”
    And it goes downhill from there.

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  34. Walt Avatar

    One last thing. Your RED Cortez gets busted. And boy is she pissed.
    http://www.theamericanmirror.com/ocasio-cortez-lashes-out-after-pics-surface-of-hamburger-dinner-slams-stalkerish-restaurant-photog/
    “Less than a week after raging against cow farts and urging Americans to stop eating so many hamburgers, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was caught oozing with hypocrisy.
    On Tuesday night, an image scorched across Twitter showing Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, sitting down for dinner together.
    While sitting no more than a foot away, Ocasio-Cortez watched as Chakrabarti ordered a hamburger and chowed it down right in front of her.”
    So now she’s the victim.
    “Soon after the images caught fire on Twitter, Ocasio-Cortez went to her go-to play: she played the victim and attacked the person who took the original photo as being a creep.
    “Tonight a dude was creepily (and obviously) taking a picture of me while pretending he wasn’t and I had to break his imaginary fourth wall and say ‘Hi! I’m a person! This is weird!’” she wrote.”
    Welcome to D.C. ,,Cortez.

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  35. L Avatar
    L

    Well, one good thing today: Whether or not Trump was a draft dodger, today he paid all possible debts in that area by serving on active duty on behalf of the United States in, not only Vietnam, but the in the capital of the former enemy. And he did so while trying to resolve a conflict that defines my life since age 5: Korea.
    The only real question is how many nork opressors need rescue. We’ve been here before in Germany. Fortunately the Egerms decided to simply ignore the sins of their oppressors/neighbors and the whole thing only cost money.
    Don’t know the opinion of the victims here, but the larger problem is that S Korea, unlike the FRG, seems unwilling to shoulder the economic load. Shame on them. L

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  36. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Wall v green new deal, the wall won, keep on with that and we could retake the house –
    Republicans said that they would prefer a border wall by a 68-point margin, while Independents said that they would prefer a border wall by a two-to-one margin.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/28/poll-majority-of-americans-favor-a-border-wall-over-a-green-new-deal/
    😉

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  37. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    Once again Breitbart spins fake news and Bessee buys into it.
    More than 80% of voters favor the green new deal. https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/421765-poll-majorities-of-both-parties-support-green-new-deal
    81% of registered voters support the new green deal. http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/the-green-new-deal-has-strong-bipartisan-support/
    41% of Americans favor a wall. https://www.prri.org/spotlight/data-shows-how-passionate-and-partisan-americans-are-about-the-border-wall/
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-poll-americans-dont-support-building-the-wall/
    support for trump’s wall reaches an all time high 42% https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/support-for-trumps-wall-reaches-all-time-high-poll
    In summation: over 80% of voters like the idea of a green new deal.. Only 41% of voters like trump’s wall. Therefore Breitbart is full of crap.
    THE WALL LOST AGAIN! No wonder you folks are so angry all the time. It must be hard living in a false reality, but then your hero trumpski is a sociopathic liar so it all seems to fit together.

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  38. Walt Avatar

    What will Babs be driving in ten years with no fuel?
    Who’s going to pay to tear down and rebuild your living space?, You?
    Read this yet Babs?
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/27/green-new-deal-wind-contracts/
    Enjoy the extra outlay.. It won’t matter if you can afford it or not.
    Like any other Proggys, you never think things through.

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  39. Walt Avatar

    Yes, Babs follow blindly a 23 year old or so dumbshit who thinks she knows it all.

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  40. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Angry Bob@8:42AM sez: some stuff
    Somehow I’m hearing that in the voice of Yosemite Sam.

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  41. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 28 February 2019 at 08:58 AM
    From another thread but equally applicable here!
    “I’d say that our sleek and well-fed Leftists who participate here really don’t have much to do with the urban mainstream of their party. I suppose that living in whiteopia and bathing in that sweet sweet nonprofit money might give you a different view of the world.
    They’d really, really like to….oh how they’d like to dust off their Che’ berets and take to the ramparts again! Alas…days long past! Say what you will about the up and comers questionable policy prescriptions…..that’s where all the energy and media attention is focused these days! Your local leftys must be seething to see their grip on the party slipping away with so little accomplished!
    Oh well…..it was fun while it lasted. On the positive side Roberta will have more time to spend with her new vibrator!

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  42. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    Robert Cross-
    I recently quoted a post from a site that is about as left as Breitbart is right (neither site is of value unless you WANT to be spoon fed crap). My post immediately disappeared, most likely because it WAS so ridiculously slanted leftward that it was obvious satire, but I’ve yet to see the moderator question the veracity of any of BC’s equally ridiculous “news” feeds. I’m glad you are sourcing the truth, even if these hokums don’t want to see, much less believe, actual facts that do anything but reflect their red mirage of reality. . . remember when the reds were the enemy?
    Todd Swallows

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  43. Walt Avatar

    Ms. Swallows,, as for fighting “climate change”,, Care to say just what your “fighting”? Climate is in constant “change”. Can you name a time when it didn’t?

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  44. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another lefty narrative fail –
    https://www.atr.org/treasury-tax-refunds-match-previous-year
    😉

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  45. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    Walt 9:46-
    I don’t know words small enough so that you would understand.
    Todd Swallows

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  46. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    In the “birds of a feather” category — Israel’s attorney general on Thursday announced he will indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on three corruption charges. It won’t be to long before Bebe’s good buddy trumpy will get the same unless his hand picked AG fails to uphold the law.

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  47. Walt Avatar

    In other words,, you don’t have a damned clue what your talking about. Let alone have the ability to pay for those 25 cent words you don’t even know the meaning of. Got it.
    Thanks.

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  48. Walt Avatar

    Well Ms. Swallows,, it appears you need to spend plenty more time at the glory hole of knowledge. Judging by your comments,, you will be there for a vary long time.

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