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[Trump keeps sticking his foot in it at every turn.  Now enough crap is starting to pile up so that a significant number of Rs are starting to voice opposition.  That can mushroom in the Senate and end his administration.  Right now the immediate pile consists of 1) Ukrainian pro quids per Mulvaney, 2) Abandoning Kurds in Syria, and 3) holding the G-7 in his Doral digs.  All of which could have been avoided if someone would only tell him, 'Mr President, STFU!!'  gjr]

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  1. Walt Avatar

    Well one good thing about the next power outage, No TROLL posts from the ridge vermin.

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  2. Walt Avatar

    Hey LIBs!!! You want to make something of Trump’s little romps with chicks?
    What about your own HUSSY?
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/21/kompromat-nude-photos-of-democrat-katie-hill-multiple-affairs-swirling-around-congresswoman-threaten-to-undermine-impeachment/
    “The burgeoning scandal surrounding freshman Democrat Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) threatens to cause serious repercussions for Democrats throughout the House of Representatives as they move forward with an effort to impeach President Donald Trump.
    Last week, Red State published an explosive piece exposing that Hill had multiple simultaneous sexual relationships with at least two different staffers. At least one of them worked in her official congressional office, which is a plain-letter clear violation of the House’s rules for members, forbidding sexual relationships between members of Congress and their official office staff. The other was at least a campaign staffer, who is as of-yet-unidentified but may have been an official office staffer as well.”

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 10:10 pm.
    Yep, always a silver lining.
    —————————- ————
    I thought you conservatives believe in blah, blah (fill in the blanks) blah blah.
    “There’s a certain kind of liberal who likes to tell conservatives what they should think about this or that matter in order to be true to conservatism. He has no counterpart on the other side of the political divide. I know of no conservative who gets off on telling liberals what they should think about anything. We tend to confine ourselves to pointing out liberal hypocrisy.
    “What explains this difference between liberals and conservatives? Perhaps it’s just that conservatives are less inclined to waste time telling people who don’t share our perspective what they should think. Maybe liberals are more sanctimonious than conservatives. It might have something to do with conservatives getting into heads of liberals more than the other way around.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/10/were-in-e-j-dionnes-head-he-wants-to-get-into-ours.php
    “Many conservatives have their discontents with President Trump. I know I do. But the notion that the only rational reason for conservatives to back him is that he’s the enemy of our political adversaries is laughable. It’s typical, though, of the kind of garbage liberals produce when they tell conservatives what they are thinking, or should think.“

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  4. fish Avatar
    fish

    He’s not wealthy per se…..but he does emit gases both in his personal space and while jetting round the world in “Pallet Class” (All jet, no lag)!

    A new study by Swedish academics has found that most wealthy people and celebrities are not changing their flying habits to help reduce climate change, with some responsible for a thousand times more CO2 emissions than the average.
    Imagine my shock.
    The study, carried out by researchers from from Lund University, reviewed the social media accounts of well known celebrities and wealthy philanthropists, many of who relentlessly virtue signal about climate change.
    Based on the information posted relating to travel, researchers calculated the starting point and destination for flights and then worked out likely CO2 emissions.
    Climate activist Bill Gates Jeff Pelline was responsible for approximately 1,600 tonnes of carbon dioxide (and even more when you factor in the air travel), while flights used by Paris Hilton and Jennifer Lopez emitted 1,260 tonnes and 1,050 tonnes respectively.
    These figures compare to a global average of 100 kilos per person per year for air travel, or in other words more than a thousand times higher.
    According to the researchers, only a minority of the individuals studied have altered their behavior to minimize or stop flying.
    “Their lifestyles are norm-setting and identity-building. Above all, young people dream of traveling around the world in a similar way, without having to worry about money,” said Stefan Gössling.
    Once again, it’s very much a case of do as we say not as we do.

    Now I didn’t include a link because most of you troglodyte morons would get the “Vapors” but I linked to it from Drudge and assume that if you’re really interested you can hunt down the original report from Lund.

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish

    “Now I didn’t include a link because most of you troglodyte morons…..
    “Proglodyte”…….crap!

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    From Drudge –
    Oh please, oh please, oh please……….

    Anxious Dem Establishment Asks, ‘Is There Anybody Else?’
    Race has new shadow: Hillary Clinton…

    Trump won’t even have to campaign……..

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  7. Biguns Avatar
    Biguns

    Posted by: George Rebane | 21 October 2019 at 03:24 PM
    ,,,Is George going unhinged over my meltdown link??? Attacking me for posting a DailyBeast link with the headline that uses the term ”’meltdown”’???
    Things must be going from bad to worse in Trumplandia..

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “Is there anybody else?” We are all Pierre Delecto
    “I’m also pretty sure Romney is a great guy, even if the senator’s politics are different than mine, which is why I find it especially telling that his bizarre anonymous Twitter account was so very silly.
    “For all the years of stately self-presentation, disciplined rhetoric, and neatly coiffed hair, Romney is just another boomer who uses social media to yell at Fox News. For all Romney’s connections and all his power, he, too, still feels compelled to devote precious time to airing grievances online—even when nobody is watching!
    “This is the damage Twitter hath done. It is a time suck, irresistible even to those with the least to gain. Romney’s sad, secret account reveals something about Twitter’s strategic reliance on human nature: we all just want to be heard, and social media affords us that catharsis. So powerful is this catharsis, even Mitt Romney, a man with a Senate office and the means to build a car elevator, chases its fleeting satisfaction.”
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/22/its-not-just-mitt-romney-we-are-all-pierre-delecto/

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  9. Biguns Avatar
    Biguns

    I don’t know about George’s state of mind but Trump is definitely in unhinged territory,,,
    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/newspolitics/trump-made-at-least-20-false-claims-in-angry-rambling-cabinet-monologue/ar-AAJ8wAp?li=AAqARMz

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  10. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    George 6:54 — Hey George I was just posting what trumpler said about being able to personally profit from being president. He sees no reason why he can’t transfer tax dollars into his personal coffers. What evidence do you have that would convince you that trumpler is not a grifter?

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  11. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: BigAnus | 22 October 2019 at 10:01 AM
    I don’t know about George’s state of mind but Trump is definitely in unhinged territory,,,

    He (Trump) seems to be giving you fodder to keep you occupied so as to not disturb civil society. The press is certainly benefitting.

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  12. Biguns Avatar
    Biguns

    ,,,In honor of Pierre Delecto I hereby rename Trumpski ”’In Delicto Flagrante”’ for he has been caught in the act!!!

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  13. Biguns Avatar
    Biguns

    ,,,Looks like In Delicto Flagrante is having another bad day,,,
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-diplomat-drawn-trumps-ukraine-043650720.html

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Is that smoke coming from the engine of the socialist dem clown car? Shrillary got weinsteiened –
    Tammy Bruce: Bombshell book reveals Hillary Clinton cast ‘protective bubble’ over Harvey Weinstein
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/hillary-clinton-harvey-weinstein-ronan-farrow-nbc
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/expansive-durham-probe-could-give-trump-ammo-amid-impeachment-fight
    😉

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  15. Scott O Avatar

    Big gums – “The state the Roundtable loves to hate”
    Care to show evidence of that?
    Personally, I hate what is happening to California.
    re the news link –
    Maybe in 10 years it will provide 20,000 units.
    Against a population gain of how many thousands of poor people?
    And how many more homeless will there be in 10 years?
    I can just see the planning commission of the county jumping for joy.
    NOT.
    They could call it Cabrini-Green West.
    It’ll be wonderful.

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  16. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Scott O | 22 October 2019 at 12:20 PM
    Big gums – “The state the Roundtable loves to hate”
    Care to show evidence of that?
    Personally, I hate what is happening to California.

    BigAnus does what most progressives do when you are critical of their “flavor” of governance……they complain that you “hate”.

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  17. George Rebane Avatar

    RobertC 1012am – You have it backwards, what evidence do you have that he does?

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Roberta Cross | 22 October 2019 at 10:12 AM
    Hey George, I was just posting what trumpler said about being able to personally profit from being president

    Says a young lady willfully ignorant about the “Presidential Memoir” scam.

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  19. Biguns Avatar
    Biguns

    ,,In Delicto Flagrante has gone completely batshit!!!
    First the Emoluments Clause is fake according to Dear Leader
    and now,,,
    IDF is in charge of the Hatch Act!!!
    Bwahahahaha
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/im-charge-hatch-act-trump-174653383.html

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  20. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    George 12:26 — “in the what evidence do you have” category: Reports coming out of today’s hearings confirm that President Trump held up military aid to Ukraine until it agreed to investigate Joe Biden. This is, according to the rule of law, an impeachable offense along the lines of conspiring with a foreign country to influence our elections; abuse of power for personal gain, an obvious pattern with trumpler if one actually cares to look.. You must think that where there is smoke there is fake news. Visibility from trumpler’s smokescreen is now down to 3 inches, but still some people see no possibility of a fire being behind it.

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  21. Biguns Avatar
    Biguns

    “There was a server, the DNC server, that had never went to the FBI — the FBI didn’t take it,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News. “It was taken by somebody, I guess it’s CrowdStrike, that’s what I have heard.”
    ,,,Where did you hear that IDF??? And that is why Bat Boy Rudi was in Ukraine,,,and Lyin’ AG Barr is sniffing around in every barrel of smelly fish. Birther much???
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-dnc-server-conspiracy-ukraine-crowdstrike-hannity-duffy-201008650.html

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  22. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    No BoobieC. The leaks are all from the known liar, Adam Schiff. He has actually been getting his ass handed to him and is now making stuff up to cover his ass. So please leave your info out of here we actually have the truth.

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  23. George Rebane Avatar

    RobertC 127pm – Do you believe anything that comes out of Schiff’s Star Chamber? The interviewees have been protesting Schiff’s reports of what they said – short form, Schiff is lying just as he was when he first told us about Trump’s telecon transcript. Until we can see the witnesses testify, it’s all Dem bullshit. There is absolutely no reason to hold those hearings closed to all except Democrats.

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “Reports coming out of today’s hearings confirm that President Trump held up military aid…blah, blah, blah”
    So glad the hearing are finally out in the open! Reports coming out of the inquiry confirm that Pencilneck is cherry picking texts, hours of testimony, a little tidbit here, half sentence there, while just about every “witness” testified contrary to the Shiftylipps’s narrative.
    Reports coming out of today’s hearings confirm that President Trump held up military aid to Ukraine until it agreed to investigate DNC/Ukrainian corruption and (foreign) interference in the 2016 election, a foreign influence which is something that has been THE top priority of the Democrat Party since Trump’s shoe heel ground Hillary’s face into the dust. Top priority until now. Odd.
    Reports coming out of the closed door secret inquiry say the new Ukrainian Prez did not know about any military aid being withheld at the time of the call nor was he pressured.
    Reports coming out of secret secret decoder ringer closed door hearings and public statements say that Pencil Neck Shiftylipps has seen the irrefutable smoking gun evidence that Trump colluded (conspired) with the Russians…..something Mueller’s Dream Team of Top Tier lawyers with an unlimited budget mysteriously failed find.
    Reports coming out of today’s hearings confirm that Bobbie wishes so much for it to be true.
    Keep digging Bobbie, sooner or later you will get something correct…if not here, then dig until your reach China. Keep digging, it’s down there somewhere, you just know it is.
    The difference when a rut and a grave is just the dimensions. Chop, chop with that shovel, Roberta. I am rooting for you to get one thing right. You have miles to go before you sleep, miles to go. Deeper! Faster! Harder! Keep digging!!!

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  25. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Meanwhile –
    Sondland, who has also testified on Capitol Hill, responded to Taylor’s text message at the time by saying, “Bill, I believe you are incorrect about President Trump’s intentions. The President has been crystal clear: no quid pro quo’s of any kind. The President is trying to evaluate whether Ukraine is truly going to adopt the transparency and reforms that President Zelensky promised during his campaign.”
    As for Tuesday’s testimony, Taylor was described to Fox News as a “good” witness for Democrats and, on balance, “not good” for Republicans. But Fox News is told Taylor did not deliver new evidence to strengthen Democrats’ impeachment push.
    The sources said Taylor had no firsthand knowledge or other direct evidence that Ukrainian officials knew that aid to the country had been suspended at the time of the July 25 call between Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bill-taylor-diplomat-who-texted-concerns-about-trumps-ukraine-moves-testifies-under-subpoena
    😉

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  26. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    I seem to recall the World Bank refused to loan money to some countries that did not shape up. Seems that is what we all have to do when we want to borrow money from banks. Nothing to see there.

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  27. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    JHK speaks:
    “Enter the Dragon
    You’d think Hillary Clinton might come up with a better zinger than “Russian asset” when she flew out of her volcano on leathery wings Friday and tried to jam her blunted beak through Tulsi Gabbard’s heart. Much speculation has been brewing in the Webiverse that the Flying Reptile of Chappaqua might seek an opening to join the Democratic Party 2020 free-for-all. Wasn’t “Russian asset” the big McGuffin in the Mueller Report — the tantalizing and elusive triggering device that added up to nothing — and aren’t most people over twelve years old onto that con by now?”
    https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/enter-the-dragon/

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another one for the if it were not for double standards they would have none at all –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/22/flashback-left-thinks-lynching-okay-description-republicans/
    😉

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  29. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Here is how stupid a liberal is. Their minds have to be fried green tomatoes. From a local blog.
    Joe Koyote says:
    October 21, 2019 at 9:38 am
    the whole ‘impeach this ‘ thing is the right’s deflection of the truth. Their mantra is that non-trump supporters are trying to “overturn” the election in a coup rather than prosecute criminals. They prey upon stupid people (you would have to be to support trump at this juncture, if ever) who have had their brains rinsed and to longer have the ability to objectively analyze what is really going on. So trump pulls their strings and they dance like Howdy Doody.

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  30. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    George 1:51 — do you believe everything that comes out of trumpler’s mouth despite the more than 12,000 DOCUMENTED FACT CHECKED LIES AND DISTORTIONS? apparently so. Everyone is a liar but trumpler. Good god man.. whatever happened to your ability to reason?

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  31. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    and speaking from the Peanut Gallery Toddler is telling folks how stupid liberals are…LOL

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  32. Scott O Avatar

    Boobie 4:45 – “Good god man.. whatever happened to your ability to reason?”
    Boobie might want to read his own post just above that line.
    The number of times that Trump may or may not have lied has nothing to do with the fact that Schiff has been proven to be dishonest in his dealings with the attempts to impeach Trump.
    George said nothing about whether or not he believes anything Trump has said.
    Boobie’s post is so filled with inane accusations and false logic it isn’t funny.

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 5:11 pm
    “Bobbie’s post is so filled with inane accusations and false logic it isn’t funny.”
    Oh contraire, my good man. It is funny!

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  34. Biguns Avatar
    Biguns

    ,,,good God man,,,Trump is a known liar…Nothing false or illogical about that statement
    Bill and Scott need to open their eyes and ears.

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  35. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Robert Cross | 22 October 2019 at 04:48 PM
    Yes liberals are stupid BoobieC. Why is that something new for you? And get back in your rabbit hole bub.

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  36. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: BigAnus | 22 October 2019 at 05:59 PM
    Bill and Scott need to open their eyes and ears.

    Hey…..Punchy has the faux concern pearl clutching gig covered dugsKKKi! If you want to be distinctive just go back to switching between upper and lower cases like a spastic child.

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Looks like someone is dusting off the mumu’s and pantsuits –
    Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is not content to sit on the sidelines as the 2020 election gears up, instead dishing out harsh criticism against her former rival President Donald Trump and even accusing a Democrat now running for president of being a Russian asset.
    The Associated Press (AP) published a feature on Clinton entitled “Democrats’ 2020 race has a new shadow: Hillary Clinton,” that points out she is different than others who have lost a presidential election
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/22/former-hillary-clinton-aide-there-are-people-who-believe-she-won/
    Some Democrats are putting up caution signs for Hillary Clinton as she wades back into presidential politics by casting 2020 candidate Tulsi Gabbard as a “Russian asset,” mocking President Donald Trump’s dealings with a foreign leader and drawing counterattacks from both.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-2020-race-has-a-https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/22/former-hillary-clinton-aide-there-are-people-who-believe-she-won/new-shadow-hillary-clinton/ar-AAJ9vOd?ocid=spartanntp
    😉

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  38. George Rebane Avatar

    RobertC 445pm – My thoughts on ‘Trump’s 12,000 lies’ are a matter of record here. Your avoiding the topic of Schiff’s lies about what goes on in the Star Chamber interviews is telling. No Dem wants to talk about the political lynching that is going on right now; everything about that odious process must be deflected. And what kind of people are so easily deflected from what really is going on in this impeachment process – no need for criminality, it’s all political? The impeachment panic is going on for only ONE REASON, the Dems know that they don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of defeating Trump at the polls in 2020 with anyone from their clown car of candidates who are running. The job must be done with a political show before the election to properly impact the double dummies.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Bernie’s Big, Bolshie, Biden-Boosting Bash
    “Sanders’s speech was characteristically Sandernista stuff: Droning, badgering, meandering, enervating, needlessly, endlessly long. Sanders is the kind of guy who could promise every American free Netflix for life and still make it sound like a shut-up-and-take-your-medicine speech. The man is pure Castro oil. As his brillo-pad-on-sandpaper voice flayed the eardrums, the Bernie signs drooped. Even his most ardent fans looked at each other like they were ankle-deep in a bear trap. Whether Sanders was being uselessly vague (“Our legislation. Will hold. The fossil-fuel industry. Accountable.”) or issuing absurdly unrealistic blue-sky promises (“Our program will eliminate homelessness in America!”), he sounded completely irrelevant to 2019. Five years older than the oldest Baby Boomer, already ten years past the average life expectancy of a man born in 1941, he is not the man to lead America through the 2020s. He’s the man at the deli who wants his tuna-on-rye special Retoasted, the right way this time.“……
    “Students of socialism know that, from its earliest days, it has been led by intellectuals and authoritarians who have always struggled to find one or two actual workers it can shove to the front of the parade. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who also introduced Sanders and recalled being a bartender in lower Manhattan as recently as last February, is the ideal proletarian face. But she, too, is a refugee from New York City public schools, those bastions of left-liberal Democrats and the teachers’ unions that fund them. Her family moved to Westchester to escape Bronx schools, yet she and Sanders proposed to solve the (urban) education crisis by paying teachers more while demanding nothing in return, aka rewarding failure, hence guaranteeing that future Cabáns and Ocasio-Cortezes will also flee urban schools. And then use their education to become activists opposing school choice.
    “Ocasio-Cortez-Cortez’s presence did bring up a somewhat delicate topic, though: In a struggling part of one of the most famously diverse corners of the entire country, the crowd was, erm, shall we say, not quite as diverse as it might have been. Bernie’s fans look like they’ve spent more time in punk bands and poetry workshops than in public housing, like they came to socialism after becoming disenchanted with the Future Equestrians of America and majored in Quidditch at Bowdoin College. This is why the lustiest cheer went up when Sanders yelled, “We can cancel all student debt in America with a modest tax on Wall Street speculation!” Woo-hoo! Nothing says, “Uplift the working class” like “Giant payoffs for Bolshevik Bowdoinians!” No wonder the working people who actually live in that housing project next door to the rally took no interest in it whatsoever.“
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/bernie-sanders-queens-rally-circus-comes-to-town/

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  40. fish Avatar
    fish

    There’s been accusations by the non announced front runner that both Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein are Russian “assets”…..in the interest of full disclosure I think I should come clean. jeffy at his whiniest accused me of being in the pay of the Koch Brothers….there is so much more to which I must confess….I’m an elk, a Mason, a communist. I’m the president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance for some reason. Ah, here it is….I too am a Russian asset…..and a Stonecutter! Can’t forget about that!

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  41. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ooopsie! –
    Politics
    Joe Biden Once Said Clinton Impeachment Could Be Perceived As ‘Partisan Lynching’
    https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/joe-biden-democrats-clinton-impeachment-lynching.html
    😉

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I found the smoke Bobbie was yapping about. Surprisingly good article.
    “There is simply no greater crime against the United States, its Constitution, and its people than subverting the government that is duly elected by the people. The evidence that this crime was committed with the consent and support of aforementioned individuals and others from the Obama administration, who were working in concert with many others, is now overwhelming.
    “The few wise people left in the Democrat Party know that their presidential candidates’ embrace of a panoply of unfunded and outrageously expensive left-wing policies is a losing proposition juxtaposed to the persona and policy success of Trump, who has delivered results against almost impossible odds in the face of unprecedented hostility. The nation has also witnessed the Democrats cave in to the extremism of Sandy O and the “Squad,” pushing to modify both the First and Second Amendments and embrace the tactics of Marxist-anarchist Saul Alinsky, who was all about taking the gloves off to destroy political opponents by lying, character assassination, and denying their opponents any semblance of due process or the presumption of innocence. Who can forget what the Democrats did to destroy Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh?……
    “Most everyone is on to the Pelosi-Schiff impeachment investigation hearings as being all form and little substance. Sham hearings held secretly behind closed doors tells you everything you need to know. This is nothing more than the next phase of an illegitimate coup, whose secondary purpose is to create smoke to obfuscate and prevent seeing the real story. And in case you missed it, that story is a simple one: Like him or not, Donald Trump was chosen for such a time as this, when unusual courage and energy are critically necessary to persevere with the priorities to save the nation from self-destruction.“
    https://patriotpost.us/opinion/66249-like-him-or-not-trump-is-uniquely-suited-for-such-a-time-as-this-2019-10-21

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