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[Anybody know what the Dems are celebrating in Chicago?  In that latrine excavated city, the liberals have been in charge forever, and all their numbers are already in the mud.  As arguably the nation's most corrupt and criminalized city, they have a history of electing bad guys and double dummies into public office; what do they expect this new batch to accomplish besides more of the same?  gjr]

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  1. Walt Avatar

    Let me be the first to add aroma to the place…
    Well Emery,, you better start making calls to D.C.
    Give them your “Emery” plan, and complain they are not keeping you in the loop. Because that’s just what your side wants to do.
    Not paying attention? That’s the whole point behind single payer.
    NO insurance companies. It’s ALL gov. controlled and “paid” for.
    It’s not my problem you don’t know what you wish for. You better understand what you wish for before wanting to saddle the rest of us with your piss poor desires.

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  2. Paul Emery Avatar

    Good grief George, what is there to be “confused” about. Trumpcare didn’t pass because he didn’t have the votes. He fell short and couldn’t make a deal. I accuse Trump of lying because he is either incredibly naive or just stupid to state the Repubs are going to deal with healthcare after they win back the House which we can both agree is historically difficult. He promised to quickly repeal and replace Obamacare saying it would be “easy” to do. Does he not have any knowledge of history on this matter. So what is it George, Trump is either naive, stupid or is it he’s just plain lying?

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Fakenewsmen at their psychotic lows @1129. Talk about a tortured mind spinning off the rails. Still throwing puppies off the overpass?
    😉

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  4. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1129am – I’d say he’s pretty naive to have not known in the summer of 2016 that McCain would lead a coalition of Repubs against its own healthcare initiative in a Senate with a slim majority. Hell, you and every other genius knew that, didn’t you? (Full disclosure, I was equally naive or stupid.)

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  5. Paul Emery Avatar

    Trump could have rolled up his sleeves and come up with a deal but he seems to have neither the smarts or the desire to do what needs to be done to advance his point of view. So instead he has nothing to show and now has to resort to empty promises that make him look like an idiot.

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  6. Walt Avatar

    It’s “Trumpcare” now? Emery has lost his mind.
    HELL! Emery can’t remember what McCain really did.

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  7. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    Here is why CA will never solve the housing crisis. The only want to build rack’em and stack’em slum towers at transit stops. The kind of development that most families are trying to escape.
    CEQA FIGHT [SAC Bee Capital Alert]
    The California Environmental Quality Act requires state and local agencies to identify and then avoid significant environmental issues that development projects could create.
    But lawmakers and advocacy groups have long argued that the 50-year-old law unfairly prevents construction of new homes throughout a state in a desperate housing crisis. The legal mandate is at the heart of dozens of pending bills, committee hearings, gubernatorial debates and lawsuits.
    CEQA advocates are over it. In a letter sent to legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday, more than 100 groups signed off on a desperate urging to protect the regulation and build upon its provisions.
    The supporters argue that CEQA encourages sustainable development and is helping California reach climate change goals.
    “CEQA plays a vital role in both preserving California’s unparalleled natural resources and protecting the rights of residents to weigh in on the land use decisions that most affect them,” the letter read. “Development interests have long complained about California’s flagship environmental law. Now they are trying to blame CEQA for the state’s housing crisis. However, CEQA did not cause the housing crisis, and weakening CEQA will not solve it. Rather, if implemented properly, CEQA can be an effective tool in helping to address California’s housing problems by encouraging sustainable development.”
    Read the letter here.
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bAzmVcVP1nB8Okav8Nmu-fnkeOQKFcNh/view

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  8. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    aul Emery | 03 April 2019 at 11:48 AM
    You are right Paul Emery. He needs your tutelage. Please apply to his Admin to be an advisor. You are so much smarter sitting there at KVMR with a 200 dollar salary that that stupid man in the White House at 10 billion. Go getum.

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  9. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    Sustainable Development Agenda 21

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  10. Paul Emery Avatar

    At least I have a job Todd. Do you care to share with our readers what happened last time you tried to work for CABPRO? Most everybody knows but you might inform those that don’t.

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  11. Paul Emery Avatar

    Oh Walt why don’t you refresh us about what McCain did. Go for it.

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  12. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Paul Emery, political prognosticator sez: “I accuse Trump of lying because he is either incredibly naive or just stupid to state the Repubs are going to deal with healthcare after they win back the House which we can both agree is historically difficult. ”
    What about all of the Democratic candidates with healthcare ‘plans’? Are they LIARS! (MEDICARE FOR ALL!!!!). lol. Please.
    I expect he’ll float something that won’t pass and we’ll grind on as usual. It’s hard to hand out 18% of GDP for free, which is what everyone wants after all. How much did you spend on health insurance over almost 50 years?
    That last question is not so much to accuse you of getting a free ride in terms of healthcare or unpaid taxes, but to show why the Obamacare forced insurance wasn’t such a bad idea. People who use the ER as their primary physician need to put some money in the pot.

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  13. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Paul Emery 159, for me to know and you to find out. Please tell us all about your stint in the hoosegow. What was that all about?

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  14. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Here’s a fine takedown of John McCain made before he qualified as a Saint to the left (by giving Trump the thumb) and the right (by dying):
    http://reason.com/archives/2007/03/02/be-afraid-of-president-mccain

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  15. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Todd 12:52
    Boinking a buddy’s wife can result in getting tangled in the law of unintended consequences. Is that true, or not true?

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  16. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    hoosegow ? Never happened Todd. You mads that up because you’re desperate and a liar. Everybody knows, about your short lived CABPRO stint so there is no need to talk about it.
    that’s about all I have to say about this topic. If you are saying I spent time in prison then be prepared for the repercussions.
    defination hoosegow hoose·gow
    ˈho͞osɡou/
    noun informal
    a prison.

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  17. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Paul Emery | 03 April 2019 at 01:14 PM You missed the point you created. You have no way to know why I am not with CABPRO so you just nade it up to try and impugn me with your lies. So I tossed it back at you the same way. Eat feces and die punk.

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  18. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Trump on another dementia-fueled roll. Invoke the 25th.
    First he claims, once again, that his New York born father was somehow born in a little town in Germany.
    Then, he claims windmills cause cancer:
    ‘And they say the noise causes cancer, you tell me,’ Trump said, gyrating his arm in the air and imitating a winding noise.
    And seemingly intelligent people not only eat it up, they defend him. Do you understand how ridiculous you look??

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  19. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Hoosegow, the clink, la pinta.
    Not so hard to check for localish things.
    http://nccourt.net/onlinesvcs/portal-intro-case.shtml
    Todd appears to have had some trouble paying bills, and there’s a Paul R. Emery with the same problems, although it probably isn’t our Rockem Sockem Robot. C’est la vie.
    …and, of course:
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/alyssa-milanos-i-believe-kavanaugh-accuser-becomes-we-cant-assume-biden-did-wrong

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  20. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Ozz | 03 April 2019 at 12:59 PM
    So you have first-hand experience in that? You really are a slimey troll.

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  21. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Here’s a view of John McCain the womanizer who abandoned his wife for a new, uninjured model with a very wealthy Dad befitting his status as a returned War Hero:
    ‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens…it just does.’
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html

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  22. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Todd 1:39-
    I thought you guys were talking about CAPBRO and it’s regrettable, sudden loss of a “trusted” member. No first hand experience. I wasn’t there. Just small town gossip at the Happy Apple.
    Must have touched a memory stick with Gregory as he brought up “womanizer” in the very next entry.

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  23. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Ozz” is touching his own “memory stick” again… at least it was once a memory stick. Not so much anymore.

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  24. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    This is going to be fun!!! Here it comes:
    “On Wednesday, the tax firm Mazars USA said they are ready to turn over 10 years of President Donald Trump’s tax returns, according to Politico.
    Mazars USA said they wanted the House Oversight and Reform Committee to issue a subpoena in order to make the process formal.
    “Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) told reporters that Mazars USA, a tax and accounting firm, has asked the committee for a so-called ‘friendly’ subpoena so that it can formalize the process of complying with the panel’s request,” the report said.
    “They have told us that they will provide the information pretty much when they have a subpoena. And we’ll get them a subpoena,” Cummings told reporters.”
    https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/tax-firm-is-prepared-to-turn-over-10-years-of-trumps-taxes-rep-elijah-cummings/

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  25. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    If they try that they will be felons. My guess is they are a dumb as those thinking it is true.

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  26. George Rebane Avatar

    re PaulE 314pm – Isn’t it the law that you can only subpoena such personal data in the course of a criminal investigation, and not the witch hunt that Cummings is conducting? Given Mueller’s report, there should be no such basis. So what is the basis for issuing the subpoena? Congress cannot just go sorting through people’s private data on a lark. What am I missing?

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    If this was not unearthed by John Solomon of the Hill, I would not post it. But since John, as with Sarah A. Carter and Levin, has not been wrong yet (unlike our TDS always wrong and discredited popinjays) I will post this.
    Creepy Joe has more than Roy Moore affectionate behavior to straighten out.
    “Biden was ostensibly working to get Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin removed because he wasn’t tough enough on corruption within the country, but the Ukrainian prosecutor was also, at the time, investigating a company on whose board Biden’s son Hunter sat. Last year, Biden bragged at a foreign policy event about his threats to the Ukrainian president but left out the part about his son’s company being investigated.
    “John Solomon, an opinion contributor to The Hill, reported the story after speaking with Shokin, the new prosecutor, and a half-dozen senior Ukrainian officials. Solomon explained that Biden made his boast during a filmed speech, leaving no questions as to what the context was around his words. As Solomon wrote of Biden’s speech:
    “I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Biden recalled telling Poroshenko.
    “Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time,” Biden told the Council on Foreign Relations event, insisting that President Obama was in on the threat.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/45438/vice-president-joe-biden-bullied-ukraine-firing-ashe-schow
    More in depth
    https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived

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  28. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    GeorgeR: “Congress cannot just go sorting through people’s private data on a lark. What am I missing?”
    That there might be something, somewhere, somehow that will allow them to overturn the election.
    It’s not politics, it’s not law, it’s not the national interest. It’s war.

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  29. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    ” Trumpcare didn’t pass because he didn’t have the votes.”
    -Punchy
    If the “Russia” fraud had not been made, would Trump have had the political capital to get it done despite McCain’s thumb?
    That is a fascinating question.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gregory
    Since you were the first to mention stocking up on tequila, this is for you. BTW, aniece and her friends would be lost without her avocado toast and fufu sauce in the morning.
    https://news.grabien.com/story-late-show-cold-open-lampoons-millennial-avocado-panic-mad-ma?fbclid=IwAR3obs4PAm1OYtQ9u4njNYjK97lc3ZU0apg6VAvxDhoQp8yf84h3yQmjLHw

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  31. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Scenes-
    Perhaps said tax preparer’s have made a deal with Congress to not be prosecuted for aiding and abetting a tax cheat if they hand over the goods. Just a thought.

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “If the “Russia” fraud had not been made, would Trump have had the political capital to get it done despite McCain’s thumb?”
    Fascinating question indeed. McCain campaigned hard on Repeal and Replaced Obummer Care. It was his issue, his thing. He owned it, he led the cause. Trump later said if he knew McCain would ‘flake’ out on Repeal and Replace, he would have gone to different Senators to get the votes.
    Lest we forget, the Dem legislative agenda was and still is Resistance. Resist! Resist everything! Resist free toilet paper. McCain joined the resistance. And, lest we forget, the Popinjays promised us all that the Republicans would see that Trump would be unable to govern and no legislation would get passed and the R’s would force Trump to resign…..within the first 90 days of office. Trump will resign in three months! Mark theTape (episode 37, 1/17/2016).

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  33. Walt Avatar

    Laws? Since when do LIBS give a shit about laws? They just ignore the ones they don’t like, or just “reinterpret” ones they really can’t push aside.
    “O” taught them well.

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  34. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Who knows Gregory. Three Repubs bailed on him and it’s doubtful if he could have swung any Dems. Seems like if he had any political skill he could have sprung a deal with the Repubs who bailed but he doesn’t seem to have that interest of ability. It’s called politics you know.

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  35. Walt Avatar

    Here you go Emery.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/03/mitch-mcconnell-tells-donald-trump-obamacare-will-not-be-repealed-and-replaced-until-after-2020/
    “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told President Donald Trump that the Affordable Care Act will not be repealed or replaced until after the 2020 election.”
    Somehow you still think Trump is a dictator and color it gone with a phone and a pen… You know,, like the somebitch you voted for.

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Perhaps said tax preparer’s have made a deal with Congress to not be prosecuted for aiding and abetting a tax cheat if they hand over the goods. Just a thought.”
    So should all Presidents (heck, ex-Presidents too) have their taxes made public back to the beginning of time? All personal records that they may have? Perhaps everything in their family? Any wiretaps against them? Any personal letters, recordings, photos? You just never know, huh?
    I respect it as a tactic, any wealthy person will skirt the edge on taxes, but there’s no point in pretending that it’s justice. The gloves might as well come completely off for everybody, it’s a simplifier for one’s philosophy.

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  37. AVMan Avatar
    AVMan

    ,,,Local Roundtablers must be scared,,,they are quickly trying to slime any potential candidate that might end up on the Democratic ticket,,,
    Only 579 days of hysteria to go…
    http://www.electioncountdown.us/

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  38. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “they are quickly trying to slime any potential candidate that might end up on the Democratic ticket”
    You have to admit that there’s plenty of opportunity for mockery here. Anything goes.
    Probably the most important thing is to get a truly crazy Blue Mobster on the ticket. It’s a bummer that my gal AOC is too young. Perhaps we could change the Constitution after we get that 15th Supreme Court justice installed.

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  40. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “You have to admit that there’s plenty of opportunity for mockery here. Anything goes.”
    Uncle Joe is too creepy, too old, too white, too male, not woke enough and too dull. Not shiny enough. But, they need hiim. And we need the gaff machine.
    The toughest one of the bunch is Bernie. He is quicker on his feet that all of them combined. And those Bernie Bros will not disappoint. They get down on the vile and sleaze. But, the most important thing that we must not ever forget is that MY Gal has David Brock eating out of her hand and clearing the field for Her.
    It’s going to get bloody. Media Matters going after Bernie, the Bernie Bros going after Biden, the Black Caucus going after Beto, Beto’s folks going after Mayor Pete, and on and on it goes.
    Don’t matter who they pick. Probably some cheesy romantic novelist loser like Stacy Abrams. I did feel sorry for Kamala when she went to kiss the ring of the Black Power Brokers . She wasn’t African enough for them and had to explain why she married a white man. And they grilled her on why she put black men convicted of heinous crimes in jail. Those racists are a tough crowd. Whoever is the last He-She standing, they better campaign with Jusse Smollett. Feeding your wife green turds is not a deal breaker for the Blue Mob.

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  41. Walt Avatar

    Speaking of RED Cortez,, more FEC violations.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/03/fec-complaint-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ran-subsidy-scheme/
    The complaint, which was obtained by Fox News on Tuesday, alleges that Ocasio-Cortez and her campaign manager, Saikat Chakrabarti, ran a dark web of political action committees (PACs) that enabled them to raise money beyond the legal limits set in place by federal campaign finance laws.
    The FEC complaint also alleged that Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti created a limited liability company (LLC) to go around federal expenditure requirements, offering political consulting services to Ocasio-Cortez and other Democratic candidates at extremely low prices.
    Go ahead missy,, laugh it off.

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  42. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Scenes 5:13-
    “I respect it as a tactic, any wealthy person will skirt the edge on taxes, but there’s no point in pretending that it’s justice. ”
    The Reds are rapidly softening the beachheads before the probable Trump’s indictment on tax evasion, fraud, money laundering, and all that good stuff.
    But light your flamethrowers at any wealthy lefty who games college admissions.
    Heck it’s just a tactic. They all do it so don’t pretend it’s justice when they get burned.

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  43. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Boeing is off the hook –
    Sensor damaged by a foreign object on Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX triggered fatal crash: Sources
    https://www.yahoo.com/gma/sensor-damaged-foreign-object-ethiopian-airlines-737-max-210400544.html
    😉

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  44. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Lets get ready to rumblllllllle!
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization warned the U.S. Congress on Wednesday of the threat posed by “a more assertive Russia,” including a massive military buildup, threats to sovereign states, the use of nerve agents and cyberattacks.
    “We must overcome our differences now because we will need our alliance even more in the future. We face unprecedented challenges – challenges no one nation can face alone,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/nato-chief-cites-russia-threat-address-u-congress-155343478.html
    Washington (AFP) – US Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday strongly criticized Germany at NATO’s 70th anniversary gathering, saying the ally’s level of defense spending and work with Russia on a gas pipeline were “simply unacceptable.”
    “Germany must do more. And we cannot ensure the defense of the West if our allies grow dependent on Russia,” Pence told a forum as part of two days of alliance events in Washington.
    “It is simply unacceptable for Europe’s largest economy to continue to ignore the threat of Russian aggression and neglect its own self-defense and our common defense,” Pence said.
    President Donald Trump has repeatedly voiced annoyance that Germany is not on track to meet a goal set by NATO in 2014 of each member spending two percent of GDP on defense.
    Pence highlighted a report to parliament on Germany’s armed forces, saying it showed “glaring deficiencies” in military readiness.
    Germany, despite political concerns about Russia, has forged ahead with the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that would double the capacity of the existing link with Russia.
    “If Germany persists in building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, as President Trump said, it could turn Germany’s economy into literally a captive of Russia,” Pence said.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/pence-calls-germany-stance-nato-unacceptable-184319705.html
    😉

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  45. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “But light your flamethrowers at any wealthy lefty who games college admissions.
    Heck it’s just a tactic.”
    Exactly. With the birth of Trumphate, it’s obvious that no one cares about what’s just (and certainly what’s practical), it’s all about their tribe. The American Right was slow to learn the lesson but is wising up I think.
    I’m no fool, I’ll dance with the one that brought me. What’s your excuse?

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  46. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Who knows Gregory. Three Repubs bailed on him and it’s doubtful if he could have swung any Dems. Seems like if he had any political skill he could have sprung a deal with the Repubs who bailed but he doesn’t seem to have that interest of ability. It’s called politics you know.”
    -Punchy
    Golly, Punch, I am not gobsmacked to know you just can’t imagine Trump’s difficulty might be related to the nonstop bad press and a democratic party sure he only won because of his treasonous actions with the Russians ”hacking the election”.
    McCain would not have given him the thumb had it not been the one to screw over Trump… There is no big reason the count would have been different than the recent GND vote, with crossover Dems.

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  47. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Hey, there may yet be help for the po’ ol’ fakenewsman, fits like a glove –
    The University of Kansas is offering a course on angry white men this upcoming fall semester.
    The course will examine “manifestations of male anger” and the role of “dominant and subordinate masculinities.”
    https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=12058
    😉

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  48. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    It’s is fun to watch the unhinged dumb ass delusional media getting shellacked and it’s even more fun watching them with hair on fire pivot to Obamacare. If they n’t stand the Heat, get out of the kitchen. No Obamacare, it’s Medicaid for All. All or nothing.
    Trump’s tax returns are siting over at Treasury. Why don’t they just go over and get them?? Why, why, why? 🙂
    I am beginning to worry about Nadler. He looks like he is really to be taken to the morgue.. Gross. Look at those rolls of ugly fat. It’s sickening. Makes me want to vomit. Freak show stuff. Trigger warning: Fat Alert. FUE Alert.
    https://www.oann.com/watch-nadler-faces-accusations-of-hypocrisy/

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