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[Facebook Inc. last week unveiled plans to launch Libra, a payment system it describes as a new “global currency.” It’s based on blockchain, the same technology that powers bitcoin, and is backed by real assets and pegged to stable government securities. Over two dozen corporate partners are on board, including financial companies MasterCard Inc., Visa Inc.,PayPal Holdings Inc. and Coinbase. Partners contribute a membership fee of $10 million each. Facebook’s goal is to line up a total of 100 corporate partners and $1 billion in assets. – 28jun19 WSJ]

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  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The whole foods set may have ‘people loved’ their pets to death.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/grain-free-food-may-linked-dog-heart-disease-172221153.html
    😉

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  2. Walt Avatar

    Bill. I sure liked the story where all the logging trucks encircled the statehouse. In protest of that carbon scam.

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  3. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Walt, the Rocky Horror is on a meth jag again. The person? Is delusional and sily.

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 501pm
    Democrat infighting is the least of their problems. Waxing nostalgic for busing, my Democrat friends? How many genders are there, my Democrat friends? Let’s talk about reparations, open borders, free Medicaid for All, the Mean Green Econmy Chomping Machine and socialism, my dear Democrat friends. Defend it! I am all ear, lol.
    “ I ought to explain what the “Freeport question” refers to, for people who have forgotten (or never properly learned) their 19th century U.S. history. This is the question Lincoln posed to Sen. Stephen Douglas in their debate at Freeport, Illinois, in 1858: “Can the people of a Territory in any lawful way, against the wishes of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?”
    “Douglas answered “Yes,” and thereby split the Democratic Party in half in 1860, thus assuring Lincoln’s election. Southern Democrats were insisting on a federal “slave code” that would allow them to take their slaves into any territory as a matter of fundamental right. When Douglas, the front runner, refused to modify his position, the Democratic Convention in Charleston broke up, and Democrats ended up with two candidates for president that year, like the Republicans in 1912.
    “Hence, the idea that two “Freeport questions” could shatter Democrats next year, and run as follows: “How many genders are there?”, and “Sen. Harris—do you think we should bring back busing to achieve more racial integration?”
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    Let’s look at busing, shall we? It a sure fire winning issue for Team Clown Car.
    .But that isn’t what strikes me most forcibly about this story. A Democratic presidential contender lied about her background for political gain? The horror! Or, rather, take a number. At least Harris hasn’t claimed to be a member of an Indian tribe.
    What I think is most remarkable about this story is that the Democrats are now nostalgic for busing! Joe Biden is a villain because he opposed it decades ago, while Harris is a heroine…or a martyr…or something, because she participated in it.
    “But here’s the thing: in the 1970s, everyone opposed busing to achieve racial balance in public schools. Federal courts in urban areas around the country had ordered children to be bused from their homes to faraway schools to achieve a numerical, bean-counting ethnic balance in public schools. The result was a disaster: neighborhood schools were destroyed, student achievement declined, violence erupted, civil disobedience by parents of all races ensued. Finally, as I recall, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order: No more busing!”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/06/about-kamala-harris-and-busing.php
    Yep, a little tift between Chuckie and Namcy is the least of their problems.

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe is feeling his clown car pass expiration date coming fast –
    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/450958-10-percent-fewer-democrats-say-theyd-vote-for-biden-after-first-debate-poll
    😉

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  6. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    The clown car has the nation’s people crazy with laughter. Rochead though is all in for their socialism./”

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    What’s next euthanasia for the disabled and old to make room? –
    In 2016, less than a year after the height of the migrant crisis, Swedish authorities attempted to ask wealthy homeowners to give up their country homes to help house new arrivals. In November of the same year, 16 disability associations were evicted to make way for migrants.
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/06/29/swedish-youth-face-housing-shortage-migrants-given-priority/
    😉

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 6 36 pm
    Oh Todd, it’s not socialism. It’s called socialistic ideas. Where have you been? 🙂
    ————-
    @ 6:18 pm
    Yep, them logging trucks are the common man ‘s version of yellow vests. Can’t find it , but I saw a poster that had a pic with Governor Brown on it with her in the toilet with the caption, “If it’s Brown , flush it around and around and down.” Hey, they ripped off CA’s water conservation slogan. Also saw a petition to flush Brown down that gathered 35,000 signatures in a very short period of time. Got the Deplorables all riled up and I bet the phones were burning up in Salem.
    Now they say they do not have the votes anyway, roflmao. Well, not now after that. And not a punch was thrown. We be the peaceful ones. Rumor has it that one renegade Republican was hiding out in the State of Jefferson. 🙂

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    And that means big money jobs for Americans in America and energy security for our allies! SWEET!
    Bloomberg) — U.S. crude output soared to new heights in April, highlighting OPEC’s dilemma just days before the producer group meets amid growing geopolitical threats.
    A government report on Friday showed U.S. production grew 2.1% in April to 12.16 million barrels a day. Booming shale production from places like the Permian basin of West Texas have enabled U.S. oil output to overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia.
    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-oil-output-tops-12-120000720.html
    😉

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Who is she?? Is that Lucretia, International Woman of Mystery? Who are you? How did you get on stage?
    Marianne Williamson: The spiritual adviser was spirited. If nominated, she plans to make her race with Trump a duel between love and hate. Which will triumph? We will never find out.

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Looks like Justin has no friends. And the Leftinistas worry about the USA under Trump losing respect in the world? Try being a lib seated between Xi (whom you have issues with) and the new strongman of Brazil. Awkward. Can’t even hide behind Angie. Kinda cruel. Between a rock and a hard place is no fun.
    https://mobile.twitter.com/MacaesBruno/status/1144856533110366208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-31183911961694069396.ampproject.net%2F1906282130140%2Fframe.html
    Khashoggi murder, Khashoggi murder, Khashoggi murder, Khashoggi murder. Baby, it cold out there in the world beyond the land of pixie dust and unicorns.
    https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/502f25598b9441b396a45b7686110622/800.jpeg

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  12. Jig Wiggly Avatar
    Jig Wiggly

    What a popular site! In the last 100 posts, 11 people have engaged. I’m glad George has nothing better to do than be the Sammy Davis of Nevada County and spend so much effort to provide entertainment for so few.
    Bill
    Bill
    Don
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    Todd
    Todd
    Bill
    Todd

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Of my, the 75 year old wetbrain comes up for air. They say those that can, do. Those that can’t, teach. Those that can’t teach, make then the playground monster or administrator.

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    News aggregation is much like lancing boils in inconvenient places in the face of the PC thought police and self proclaimed editors of truth.
    😉

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  15. Rock Hunter Avatar
    Rock Hunter

    Feels like I’m watching Trump Reality TV. His greeting to Kim was exactly the walk and turn to the TV with an outstretched arm as he did a million times with the Miss American pageant girls. “And our next contestant is. . .”
    PT Barnum

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  16. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Jig Wiggly | 29 June 2019 at 09:31 PM
    What a popular site! In the last 100 posts, 11 people have engaged.

    Well ….umm….Jig…..for real diversity of opinion I suggest the blog of a certain former newsman now printing a glossy periodical about food.
    There you shall find that which you seek.

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  17. Walt Avatar

    Speaking of “rump denied” judging by your lame posts,, you have been getting denied plenty.

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  18. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Trump has the critics in a twitter with his trip to cross the DMZ. He is a salesman and a showman and is the best man to solve these issues in my view. He is trying to personalize with other leaders and that makes a difference in future decisions. I experienced that when I was first elected in 1984. The bureaucrats wanted to be my pal because they thought I would hesitate to fire them. Well I did not fall for it. But Trump knows how to make that technique work with ego-driven foreign leaders. The press doesn’t get it at all.
    Now we see some lesbian babe on the women’s soccer team is trashing Trump while representing America overseas. She is a disgrace and should be booted off the team and sent packing. Of course, Trump fires ack at her. She is an ingrate and Kaepernick fan and should never have been on the in the first place.
    And last, the media try to make Trump’s quip about telling Putin to stop meddling into something it is not. Obama said the same thing and the media loved it because they kissed Obama’s ass in love. Trump makes the media look so bad as they have no sense of humor and are all haters.

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  19. Steven Frisch Avatar
    Steven Frisch

    Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 30 June 2019 at 09:15 AM
    The President of the United States of America Donald J. Trump is a national disgrace, antithetical to American values, a corrupt authoritarian, and a coddler of murderers, dictators and tyrants.
    https://www.businessinsider.com/otto-warmbier-parents-north-korea-interview-2017-9

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  20. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Oh Stevie take a break from your TDS. He will trounce you and your commie pals in 2020. Get used to four additional years.

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  21. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Just a point of observation, it seems that there is a greater international stability than has been in a lot of years. Just sayin.

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 10:22 am
    Yes, it’s good to see people get along and work together. We must staystir clear of the Neo-Cons and War Mongers. They want to push us into a nuclear war or another Libya or Syria disaster….or worse.
    https://www.oann.com/russia-happy-to-discuss-energy-cooperation-with-saudi-arabia-putin/

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  23. Walt Avatar

    Yes the LIBS are pissed that Trump is dealing with the fat kid.
    “From former Vice President Joe Biden to former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro, the Democratic hopefuls derided Trump’s third meeting with North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un – accusing the president of everything from “coddling” dictators to posing for a photo opportunity.
    “President Trump’s coddling of dictators at the expense of American national security and interests is one of the most dangerous ways that he’s diminishing us on the world stage and subverting our values as a nation,” Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said.”
    Yes Proggys,, we know how you deal with them.
    YOU pay them off to stay quiet and behave.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2020-democratic-hopefuls-slam-trumps-meeting-with-kim-as-photo-opportunity-say-hes-coddling-dictators

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  24. fish Avatar
    fish

    ……speaking of American values.

    QUESTIONS ASKED: “When it is fine for an all-white gang to assault an Asian American in broad daylight? When he’s a conservative journalist.

    A gay Asian American (now with extra Wokemon points) no less.
    https://spectator.us/andy-ngo-get-deserved/

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 11 23
    Walt, you coddler, you. You are just a big ole cuddly coddler bear. What a softie.
    Apparently the word “coddler” is the magic word of the day. On any given Sunday…….
    “……. and a coddler of murderers, dictators and tyrants.”
    Well, you got to hand it to Steve for rising early, reading his sources, and gathering up his marching orders. The early bird that catches the worm. Coddler.

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Aha. Mystery solved! I recently posted here that I could not figure why the Democrat Party hated Tulsi so much. She aligns with Bernie on social issues. I think I found out the reason why the Dems hate her and have been out to destroy her: she bucks the illiberal neo-cons and the Establishment. The War Mongers and haters really hate her. Another reason is she does not consider herself a victim and does not buy into the Politics of Grievances. She does not project TDS like she should…er…like the other unglued wackjobs. She be a coddler. Coddler!!
    “It’s nothing new for NBC News, however, which on the day of her formal announcement speech in February published a pathetic hit piece claiming that Gabbard was supported by the nefarious Russian “botnet,” using analysis derived from the discredited “cybersecurity firm” New Knowledge. The article was confabulated nonsense and said more about the editors and reporters who produced it than Gabbard, who obviously bears no responsibility for what unknown foreign trolls may do online.
    “If any individual Russians do in fact support Gabbard, it’s likely because she’s the only Democratic candidate who has challenged the prevailing Trump/Russia narrative, and does not favor launching into a dangerous Cold War posture over some Facebook memes. Unlike Bill de Blasio, who proclaimed last night that Russia constitutes the biggest threat to the United States, Gabbard views that threat instead to be the specter of nuclear war, which has increased as a result of the insane domestic political climate generated by years of Russia-related hysteria.
    “This view puts her at odds with much of the establishment liberal media, which has repeatedly attempted to cast her as a Russian stooge, a dictator-loving sycophant, and a brainwashed cult member, among other groundless charges. (De Blasio told me last weekend that he “a hundred percent” believes Trump committed treason, which is exactly the kind of inflammatory rhetoric that has made nuclear confrontation between the United States and Russia more likely.)
    “Another popular accusation is that Gabbard is some kind of stealth right-winger, owing to the favorable reception she often generates among conservatives on social media. She does attract some idiosyncratic right-wing supporters, but that’s not because she holds any recognizably “right-wing” views. It’s mostly because she is temperamentally the antithesis to “Resistance” left-liberalism, which tends to be overly screechy, performative, and fixated on superficial Trump-related grievances.”
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/27/tulsi-gabbard-democrat-asked-negative-question-last-night/
    Makes sense to me. Yeah, 15 years ago she was against same sex marriage, but dropped that stance….a full 7-9 years ahead of Obama. Guess that makes Obama a homophobe….a homophobe who picked a racist as VP to be at his side for 8 years. 🙂
    She’s a Coddler!

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  27. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    FUSH 1136
    A person attacking a conservative of any race or ethnicity is a hero to the press.

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  28. Rock Hunter Avatar
    Rock Hunter

    Todd 12:12
    A person attacking a conservative of any race or ethnicity is a hero. You stand corrected. You’re welcome

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  29. George Rebane Avatar

    RockH 108pm – Please explain why progressives consider such attacks heroic.

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  30. Walt Avatar

    Good job rockhead, violence against the Right is just fine. Thanks for clarifying that. Don’t expect any tears when some LIBshit ANTIFA winds up in the news dead in the street.

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  31. Walt Avatar

    Just more proof of the LIB “tolerance” we keep hearing about.. Right Rocky?

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  32. Rock Hunter Avatar
    Rock Hunter

    George-
    Who said anything about progressives? When you are confronted by skin head neocons marching at you under the banner of a swastika, sometimes a proactive approach is required. The best defense is a strong offense.

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  33. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Rockheads comprehension is about a three-year-old.

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  34. Rock Hunter Avatar
    Rock Hunter

    Todd
    Your writing ability is that of a three year old. And I’m being generous.

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  35. Walt Avatar

    No sale Rock head. anything Fascist belongs to LIBs. Justk like trying to rebrand the Klan as a Repub group, when they were born and bred. Democrat. ANY “white supremacist” belongs in the Proggy camp.
    You own’m bub…..

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  36. Walt Avatar

    Here is another swift kick to the minuscule nuts of the LIBS.
    When one of their own speaks the truth.
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/06/30/willie-brown-still-no-democrats-can-beat-trump-including-kamala-harris/

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  37. Rock Hunter Avatar
    Rock Hunter

    Walt-
    How many black Republicans are on the Congressional Black Congress? How many black Republican presidents have we had? How many blacks are on Trump’s cabinet? And on and on. Tell me y’all are not white spremacists.

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  38. Walt Avatar

    That’s all you got? Try harder. Any Republican leaning man or woman of color is ridiculed by the LIBS. You guys don’t let the people of color stray off your plantation.
    Yup You guys sure gave Herman Cain the respect he deserves. Plenty of attacks calling him an “Uncle Tom”. Same for Ben Carson.
    And Diamond a Silk get banned from Youtube? Nope, you guys can’t have none of that! (only enough outage got them back on)
    As for your boy “O”,, Yup the first affirmative action President.
    He ONLY got there because of the color of his skin, and not his abilities(a lack there of) to actually do the job.
    Yup,, Voting “present” all the time was a mark of Presidential material.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I see rock is off his rocker. He keeps throwing those road apples and missing by twenty feet. Wait, let me go measure. Ok, I stand corrected. He missed by 23 feet. I wonder how many Nazis were on the streets when Occupy Oakland went on the rampage destroying businesses, cars, and even a rehab meeting room at City Hall..not to mention hospitalizing innocent bystanders. Or, destroying a bakery shop during OWS (NY) because the sympathetic owner told the group she can not longer afford to daily give them free pastries.
    We all know that self defense is justified when there is a threat to one’s person or property. Defense is the operative word. With that said…..the Leftinistas will always find an excuse to exercise violence against those who they disagree with…even if they unarmed women exercising their freedom of speech or assembly and posing no physical threat. But the kicker is they always say they do not condone violence before committing acts of violence, roflmao. Unbelievable. They can justify anything and rationalize it away.

    “Stephanie Wilkinson penned an op-ed in The Washington Post Saturday claiming, at first, that “no one in the [restaurant[ industry condones the physical assault of a patron,” but goes on to warn that Trump administration officials and others associated with President Donald Trump’s policies should know that assault and battery is a definite possibility every time they choose to patronize an unfamiliar establishment…..
    “Wilkinson, in her op-ed, said that while assault is never acceptable, the “rules are changing,” and customers expect the institutions they patronize to ascribe to a code of “ethics”: ”
    “That “culture of ethics” apparently includes giving employees free reign to express their political ideologies while clocked into their day jobs, even if that “expression” is actually “assault and battery.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/49017/red-hen-restaurant-owner-defends-server-who-spit-emily-zanotti?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro

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  40. George Rebane Avatar

    RockH 208pm – Isn’t that more than a bit of a cop out? First, skinheads have nothing to do with America’s conservatives and/or libertarians, save the progressives’ gratuitous assignment of them into that ideological segment for their own devious purposes. Second, fascists are first and foremost also collectivists who seek a big controlling government to impose their social order – again nothing to do with the governance desiderata of conservatives/libertarians.
    Finally, the American Left has a long and ongoing history of launching egregious attacks against people of the Right who are in no way connected with the fascists. These attacks, verbal and physical, continue unceasingly in the media, in institutions, on the streets, in government, in retail establishments, …; how are any of these actions “heroic” according to your lights?

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  41. George Rebane Avatar

    BillT 307pm – Mr Tozer, should we then begin to label resturants and other retail outlets according to the political spectrum of the customers they will accept – perhaps some series of logos or color coding of entrances. If the Left considers physical assaults by their minions to be justified acts of conscience, should the so assaulted then be able to defend and counter in a similar manner? What kind of a society are these leftwing revolutionaries attempting to put in place through extra-legal force (“heroic acts”) at the grassroots level?

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  42. Rock Hunter Avatar
    Rock Hunter

    Next we’re going to learn on the Rebane Show that the ultraconservative, neo-nazi, white supremacist White Aryan Resistance, Blood and Honor and Hammerskins are actually progressives. And that Walt and Todd are actually Tibetan Buddhist monks.

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    It is a good time to remind everybody, including Mr. Crabb, that it takes zero courage to be against Hitler. It takes no courage to be against Nazis. Everybody is against Nazis, so much so we sent a million boys over to Europe to destroy Nazis and try to put a bullet in Hilter’s head.
    Perhaps some boast they stand against Nazis or White Supremists as a way of virture signaling how righteous they are and to claim moral superiority. I find it odd that the same folks who pontificate their justifiable anger against racism are the same folks who remain silent against Black Supremists, Black Nationalists, La Raza, and anti-semites. For example, after attacking Joe Biden as a racist for working with Dixiecrats Democrats years ago, Senator Booker announced his desire to meet with Louis Farrakhan. See, that took no courage. Everybody is against Dixiecrats, but it would have taken courage to stand against Minister Farrakhan.

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  44. Walt Avatar

    Keep going rocks for brains, when you have lost, keep chucking the insults. That’s what Progressive losers do. No facts to back up your mule diarrhea. No go starch your white hood, and wrap that cross in burlap.

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