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'If you nominate Loony Liz, you won't get any money from us.', say heavy Dem donors to the DNC.

Dem Rep Schiff's characterization of the Ukraine telecon transcript is historically one of the most audacious stream of lies fabricated out of whole cloth and bearing no relationship to what was in the released document.  Does anyone know of a lamestream outlet that has called him out on that?  (and more Dems' lies here)

[27sep19 update] Socialist "France said it would cut taxes on individuals and businesses by €10.2B as Macron seeks to revive his economic overhaul."  Whouda thought, as our lefties have been telling us for years that tax rates don't affect economic behavior? (more here)

[28sep19 update] The recent spate of spontaneous worldwide demonstrations against AGW are really not that spontaneous nor even locally sponsored.  Turns out they're the handiwork of a bunch of progressive rich people contributing money through something called Climate Emergency Fund, that then sends the cash to the worldwide chapters of Extinction Rebellion which actually collects and organizes the know-nothings into newsworthy protests primarily picked up by lamestream outlets. (more here)  H/T to reader.

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220 responses to “Ruminations – 26sep19 (updated 28sep19)”

  1. Walt Avatar

    The LIBS are back to “the evidence be damned! It’s the seriousness of the charge that we will pursue”.
    They are still yapping about the whistleblower accusation and how important it is.. Yet shove aside the transcript of what was said that prompted the bitch in the first place.

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Interesting bit of news uncovered by real (non-lazy) journalists.
    Federal records show that the intelligence community secretly revised the formal whistleblower complaint form in August 2019 to eliminate the requirement of direct, first-hand knowledge of wrongdoing.
    β€œIt is not known precisely when the August 2019 revision to the whistleblower complaint form was approved, nor is it known which, if any, version of the Disclosure of Urgent Concern form the complainant completed prior to addressing his complaint to Congress.
    Reached by phone on Friday afternoon, a Director of National Intelligence official refused to comment on any questions about the secret revision to the whistleblower form, including when it was revised to eliminate the requirement of first-hand knowledge and for what reason.”
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/27/intel-community-secretly-gutted-requirement-of-first-hand-whistleblower-knowledge/

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Now, why would the whistleblower legal paper try to discredit John Solomon? While not calling John out by name, they smeared his reporting. Odd.
    John Solomon forced to respond with evidence and docs no one else bothered to uncover.
    https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/463307-solomon-these-once-secret-memos-cast-doubt-on-joe-bidens-ukraine-story

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  4. George Rebane Avatar

    Transferred from Sandbox –
    OK, the Ukraine guy says I want to buy some missiles from the USA. Trump says ok, but adds that he would like Ukraine to cleanup their act regarding the corruption in their country and uses the Biden family and Burisma as an example. Everyone goes crazy because you can’t ask someone to take out your potential competition. Doesn’t matter that Joe brags about shaking down the Ukraines when he was VP. Ok, Ukraine, you don’t believe me then just call the President. So Joe gets a pass just because he happens to be a candidate?
    And you wonder why there has been no comment about this from Obama???? Or why Obama has not endorsed his former VP????
    Or that the White House supposedly moved the info from the call to a secure government server. At least it was a government server and not a private server located in Colorado or Nebraska, or wherever, like HH did with her state department stuff.
    God, Emery, Jiggy, et al, you may not be having an orgasm, but you certainly are at least breathing hard. (And with you guys that’s all that gets hard.)
    Posted by: keith | 27 September 2019 at 04:50 PM
    Keith @ 4:50 pm
    β€œThe β€œwhistleblower” and his media allies make a big deal of the Trump administration’s alleged attempt to secure the transcript from the likes of him. Re makes the obvious point: β€œThe Trump administration reportedly began placing transcripts of Trump’s calls with several foreign leaders in a highly classified repository after leakers publicly divulged the contents of Trump’s private calls with the leaders of Mexico and Australia in 2017.” This escapes the savants at Lawfare.”
    More at Ruminations, September 27, 12:20 pm.:)
    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 27 September 2019 at 05:08 PM

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  5. Walt Avatar

    Lien Lizz strikes again!
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/27/warren-financially-benefited-from-private-prisons-despite-claiming-they-are-profiteering-off-cruelty/
    “According to the Free Beacon, Warren invested tens of thousands of dollars β€” $50,000 β€” in a Vanguard Group fund which β€œowned hundreds of millions of dollars worth of shares in leading private prison companies. While she sold her stakes in that fund in 2013, the Free Beacon noted that it was β€œthe largest shareholder of America’s largest private prison corporation” at the time. ”
    I’m sure she will just claim she knew NOTHING about that..
    She,,”didn’t know”.. Her “broker” did it.

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Re: ‘If you nominate Loony Liz, you won’t get any money from us.’, say heavy Dem donors to the DNC.”
    And we also get no new construction of any building or structure in the USA in 2028 unless it carbon nurture.
    Re: Update. People do care about their taxes as evidenced by the resistance to Medicaid for All…which happens to be the centerpiece of Pocahontas’s and Commie Bernie’s campaigns. Oh, people do care about their healthcare alright, but they also care deeply about their taxes.

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  7. Walt Avatar

    Bill According to Paul, EVERYONE will be happy to pay plenty more in TAXES. In Paul’s view, the vast majority of America
    was/is very upset the Trump cut their taxes and willing to vote him out because of it.

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt.
    Remember Ozzz or some arrogant blowhard like J Barron bitching up a storm when he paid his taxes last year. β€œThanks for nothing Trump!”, roflmao.
    Figggin Trump’s tax break for the rich and those State Tax Deduction caps.”
    And then there was some other lefty crybaby sobbing like a baby for paying 50 bucks for a box of deck screws. β€œThanks for nothing Trump. Stupid f**king tariffs”, again roflmao,
    Heck, I bitched briefly within myself about paying 27 bucks for a 5lb box of coated decks screws, 10×31/2. Call it a senior discount like a the diner. πŸ™‚
    Music to my ears the way they have no problem with others paying taxes instead of them.

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  9. J. Barron Avatar
    J. Barron

    Bill 9:01
    Spoken like a true socialist.
    One child’s loss of a free breakfast is another man’s private jet. Got it.

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  10. Walt Avatar

    That’s right Bill,, they want other people in other states to subsidize their tax refund.
    They should love to pay the extra money for those deck screws. First the Ca. tax, and the business adding the inventory tax.
    Uh,,, it’s not Trump’s tariffs.
    Now wait a minute.. Did they get their permit from the county to use those deck screws? Did they submit their building plan with the engineer’s stamp? I bet those bitching broke the law.

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  11. Walt Avatar

    Cry us a river Barron Von Proggy. Just why should the taxpayers in other states subsidize your tax refund? And you have the brass ones to call Bill a Commie bastard?

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    One man’s meat is another man’s poison. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Got git what you git and you don’t throw a hissy fit.
    Here’s a bone for Greta von Barron: Sizzlers gives you a senior discount at 50. The liked me so I got 25% when I was 35. It’s fo us po folk. πŸ™‚
    As VP Biden said, it’s your Patriotic duty to your pay taxes. Your taxes, not mine.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Taxes? Just call me a Yellow Vester. The taxes are just too damn high. Hurts the working man the most. Now, let’s protest that CA gas tax. What’s the nat’l average? 2.49/gallon or sumthang. Heard it went up 3 cents.
    Vive les deplorables

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    If you nominated Litzy…..she will be stammering like Obama without the TelePrompTer.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/09/warren-stammers-on-biden-ethics-issue.php
    β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”-
    Suck on these apples, MmmMmmMmmGoodGoobGlobber.
    Graham: Pentagon Review, Not Trump, Delayed Ukraine Aid
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/09/25/graham_confident_there_is_no_quid_pro_quo_141343.html

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  15. Steven Frisch Avatar
    Steven Frisch

    Yeah Todd, since I never go to bed late in a drunken lonely stupor I tend to get up early and read and/or work. 4-8 am can actually be some of the most productive hours of the day. I usually don’t pee until about 5. But I’m sure you keep a close eye on your prostate every day since your head is always up your ass.

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  16. Scott O Avatar

    J B 9:10 – “One child’s loss of a free breakfast is another man’s private jet. Got it.”
    The sad thing is folks like JB actually believe that kind of crap.

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  17. J. Barron Avatar
    J. Barron

    Scott 7:28
    You DON’T believe it?? Rich white conservatives hate taxes for social services more than about anything else except alimony. Ask Todd.

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  18. Walt Avatar

    Well Stevie looks like he was up late drinking,,, judging by his post.

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  19. Walt Avatar

    OK Barron Von Proggy,, you enjoy paying generational welfare?
    Paying people who refuse to get off drugs and can’t get jobs because of it? Social services is supposed to be a stop gap. NOT a way of life.
    How many homeless have YOU taken off the streets?

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    They really hate anyone who voted against them –
    β€œWashington was always a circus,” Cruz said. β€œThis is three rings with all the clowns. And it’s nuts right now. And it’s driven at the end of the day β€” congressional Democrats are angry. They’re angry about the 2016 election. Ultimately, they’re angry at the voters. They’re angry that the voters elected President Trump. All of this from day one β€” from day one, they had been wanting to get this president out of office. And as a result, they’re not doing their job. They’re not actually interested in legislating. They’re not interested in working together to produce more jobs and wages and expand opportunity. It’s just about attacking the president.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/09/27/ted-cruz-on-impeachment-congressional-democrats-are-angry-theyre-angry-at-the-voters/
    πŸ˜‰

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  21. J. Barron Avatar
    J. Barron

    Walt 10:37
    Happy we can agree on something. I didn’t say anything about homeless addicts.
    “One child’s loss of a free breakfast is another man’s private jet.”

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  22. Walt Avatar

    You mean those Hollywood LIBs Barron von Proggy?
    Those big LIB donor private jets?
    Naaaa, they get a pass. THEY are special.

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  23. Scott O Avatar

    JB – There is no way to connect the 2 other than in the uneducated imagination of left wing wackos.
    No one has a private jet BECAUSE a needy child didn’t get breakfast.
    All conservatives (not just wealthy ones) hate govt programs that keep poor people in a perpetual state of need. The wealthy pay a far higher rate of taxes than you. They provide far money in one month for the poor than you ever will in a year.
    When will we ever hear about the responsibility of the poor child’s parents in their upbringing? That seems to have gone AWOL.

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    ScottO they don’t want to talk about parents because they have destroyed black families with their welfare policies and there are scarce few dads in the mix now.
    πŸ˜‰

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  25. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Way to go botox Nancy, AOC is burning down your house and ensuring a win for us. KEEP IT UP! –
    A new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows a majority of Americans do not think President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office.
    Only 37% of respondents think the president should be impeached and removed, while 57% do not.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-majority-americans-against-impeachment-154924002.html
    πŸ˜‰

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  26. J. Barron Avatar
    J. Barron

    Scott 5:33
    “No one has a private jet BECAUSE a needy child didn’t get breakfast”
    Correcto mundo. Rich Republicans have jets because THOUSANDS of kids didn’t get breakfast. All those little black and brown mouths add up, and if you can save enough in taxes by denying them breakfast, you win a jet. A penny saved is a penny earned.

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  27. Walt Avatar

    And how much have the donkey party raised since then?
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/28/trump-campaign-raises-15-million-in-small-dollar-donations-following-impeachment-inquiry/
    “In the days following the announcement of the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry, the Trump campaign raised $15 million in small-dollar donations and gained tens of thousands of new donors.”
    And just when do the DEMS plan on paying off their multi-million dollar debt? Or are they paying it off in political favors?

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The little people are rising up against the socialist dems redux of the 2007 McCain hit kit. The swamp creatures got caught and Muller was a dud and noting has stuck and now the clintonistas lawyers write a whistle blower complaint that would not have qualified as a whistle blower before aug 2019. There used to be a standard of direct knowledge and poof that went away and they weaponize rumors and false clintonista narratives already blown up by the transcript.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/28/trump-campaign-raises-15-million-in-small-dollar-donations-following-impeachment-inquiry/
    πŸ˜‰

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  29. Scott O Avatar

    JB – “Rich Republicans have jets because THOUSANDS of kids didn’t get breakfast.”
    Complete BS.
    Once again, we see the lefty wackos show up here with fabricated nonsense.
    No proof.
    No evidence.
    No facts.
    No reason.
    There is no connection between hungry children and folks who own jets.
    None.

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Why bother engaging the vapid trolls?
    πŸ˜‰

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  31. fish Avatar
    fish

    Oh Justin…..a true exemplar of progressivism!
    https://mobile.twitter.com/heckyessica/status/1178051702785806341

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  32. Russell Steele Avatar
    Russell Steele

    What? β€œHere is something seriously strange. The Disclosure of Urgent Concern Form located earlier today at DNI is only two days old according to its pdf properties… Sue Gordon of CIA resigned from DNI on August 8 after being passed over by Trump for promotion. (Ratcliff withdrew on Aug 2 after being sabotaged). CIA operative β€˜WB’ letter to Schiff and Burr was on August 12.”
    https://mobile.twitter.com/climateaudit/status/1177580473566093312

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  33. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Meanwhile after sifting through 3 million emails we are here and perhaps this added impetus to the latest hoax –
    The U.S. State Department has ramped up its probe into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server usage, with investigators questioning numerous aides of the Obama-era official in recent weeks, according to a report.
    On Saturday, the Washington Post reported State Department officials informed up to 130 Clinton aides that they were found to be β€œculpable” of handling information that was classified lower than they should have been when transmitted through the private server.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/28/state-department-widens-investigation-into-clinton-email-server/
    πŸ˜‰

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Don,,, Does Quid pro Joe get a gov. paid lawyer when Trump extradites?

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 7:24 pm. Thats old news if you read things like the forbidden β€œThe Federalist”., :). 1) Repost.
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/27/intel-community-secretly-gutted-requirement-of-first-hand-whistleblower-knowledge/
    β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”-
    2) β€œFormer national security adviser Susan Rice acknowledged last night that the Obama administration moved transcripts of conversations with foreign leaders onto the same top-secret server where the Trump administration stored his recent phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.”
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/28/susan-rice-obama-put-call-transcripts-on-top-secret-server-too/
    β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”-
    3) The more one looks, the more is revealed. Hunter Biden was scheduled to be interviewed by the Ukrainian anti-corruption prosecutor one week before Creepy Biden flew to Ukraine and ordered the investigation shut down or else the nation would face bankruptcy.
    Ukraine is a Swamp. A very complicated Swamp, but a Obama-Hillary Swamp none the less. Anybody wonder why Tony Podesta suddenly out of the Blue shut down his office in Ukraine and got the hell out of there when Hillary & Swamp Inc. were going after Podesta’s business partner Paul Manafort and strong arming the former Ukrainian President to dig up dirt on Trump….or else.
    Bottomline: This whole thing is beginning to smell like the Golden Shower Dossier. Yep, this whole thang is beginning to smell of the Essence of Hillary. Dishonest and corrupt. Everything My Gal Clinton touches is corrupted in short manner. It’s her turn!

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  36. Walt Avatar

    Speaking of Hildabeast,, she better have her lawyers on standby.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/28/state-department-widens-investigation-into-clinton-email-server/
    “A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into Clinton’s server found at least 100 emails containing classified information, including 65 emails declared β€œSecret” and 22 regarded as β€œTop Secret.” Additionally, the State Department retroactively classified 2,093 emails that were not initially marked as such.
    Some experts charge Clinton broke multiple laws, including 18 U.S. Code Β§ 1924, which forbids β€œunauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material.”

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You go GIRL! I kinda like creepy grampa joe but she may have a point with quid pro joe. –
    The Trump years have been rough on Democrats’ sensibilities, and their thinking has become increasingly addled as a result. The party has worked tirelessly to create an issue worthy of impeaching the presidentβ€”Russia collusion, obstruction of justice, Stormy Daniels, tax returns. This week Democrats jettisoned all that in favor of the only issue that implicates their own front-runner for the nomination. Genius.
    The one person who has been as much in the news this week as Donald Trump is former Vice President Joe Biden. It’s a dubious accomplishment. The only way to discuss Mr. Trump’s nonsmoking-gun phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is to acknowledge the subject of the ruckus: Mr. Biden’s glaring conflicts of interest during his vice presidency vis-Γ -vis his son Hunter’s business interests. Since Democrats insist on making this all about Ukraine, get ready for daily new revelations about the young Mr. Biden’s questionable activities and β€œQuid Pro Joe’s” involvement.
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/kimberley-strassel-impeach-trump-destroy-biden
    πŸ˜‰

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    10 reasons the Democrat impeachment fake story is falling apart
    https://news.grabien.com/story-10-reasons-democrats-impeachment-argument-falling-apart
    Reminds me of a football team that has committed a flagrant foul and rushes to the scrimmage line to quick snap the ball before they get caught.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ROFLMAO!
    Krugman: Either Trump Goes to Jail, or ‘Thousands of Journalists’ in ‘Prison Camps’
    Copy and Paste time!!!!!!!!!
    β€œIt should be noted this is the same Krugman who predicted after Trump was elected “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.” Under Trump, the Dow Jones average is up 35.5 percent.
    He also predicted “we are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight.” You wouldn’t want him to be your financial adviser.
    This kind of wild swinging is pretty typical for Krugman. On September 26, he suggested much of Wall Street is guilty of treason, since they signaled they won’t back Elizabeth Warren, and might just vote Trump: “This sort of confirms Warren’s whole worldview, doesn’t? Big Finance, given the choice between treason and a wealth tax, chooses treason.”
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2019/09/29/krugman-either-trump-goes-jail-or-thousands-journalists-end-prison

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  40. Walt Avatar

    It’s official!! The LIBS are all in on a “BONZI!!!” kama kazi charge.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/28/nancy-pelosi-doesnt-matter-if-impeachment-cost-democrats-the-house/
    “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Saturday that pursuing an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump is worth House Democrats losing a majority.”
    They can start digging their own political graves now.

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  41. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 29 September 2019 at 11:14 AM
    Krugman: Either Trump Goes to Jail, or ‘Thousands of Journalists’ in ‘Prison Camps’

    Start building those camps…..! I’m thinking the Sonoran desert!

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Man do the wokesters hate, even little kids! –
    Celebrity
    Mark Hamill gets heat for slamming Ivanka Trump’s photo of her son in ‘Star Wars’ costume: ‘You sure owned those kids’
    “You misspelled “Fraud.”#GoForceYourself”
    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/mark-hamill-slams-ivanka-trump-star-wars-photo-205752433.html
    πŸ˜‰

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  43. L Avatar
    L

    fish @ 3:38, thank you, no. The Sonoran desert has enough problems with people from Kali loving it to death without adding a plague vector. Think Tibetan plateau, Siberia, Antarctica, but not in my back yard.

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    L @ 6:10 pm
    Ok, how about a compromise. Dead Valley, CA?

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  45. Bill. Tozer Avatar
    Bill. Tozer

    You are only paranoid until proven correct. It’s not a conspiracy if it happened. You know when you are over the target when…….
    Good short read.
    https://amgreatness.com/2019/09/26/trump-has-the-bad-guys-surrounded-in-ukraine/

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