[“But Conservos made zero, ZERO arguments regarding the constitutionality of what Trump has been doing…” One of our liberal commenters sought to make a curious point with this statement re Trump being impeached. There is nothing in the Constitution about a president’s ‘abuse of power’ or ‘obstruction of Congress’ – these are political charges fashioned entirely out of whole cloth by Democrats desperate to somehow cripple the president going into the 2020 election. Therefore, ‘constitutionality’ need not even enter into any defense argument. Just pointing out the Democrats’ political perfidy is enough to indict their motives. gjr]
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352 responses to “Sandbox – 13dec19”
Scenes….lose ends. Been meaning to comment of this and other Antifa shenanigans for awhile:
“The Blue Mob’s ability to gin up a street army is always surprising, but the heckler’s veto is a real thing in modern politics. Dunno if they’re so horrid due to a kind of privilege of youth or if it’s simply a religious ecstatic frenzy.
Posted by: scenes | 13 December 2019 at 04:14 PM”
Key sentence: “Dunno if they’re so horrid due to a kind of privilege of youth or if it’s simply a religious ecstatic frenzy.”
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My initial reaction from Day 1 always takes me to the opening scenes of A Clockwork Orange. The similarities are…uncanny.
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A Clockwork Orange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWLByMshYIU
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Rudy the Evil on a roll
“Giuliani Blasts Out Info He Collected In Ukraine”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-bombshell-twitter-posts-giuliani-blasts-out-info-he-collected-in-ukraine?
Oh yeah, I forgot. The Leftinistas claim OAN is a Russian *Putin’s) Propaganda site. How silly of me.
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Easiest Prediction of the New Year:
The entire Leftinista Propaganda Industrial Complex will go after William Barr (and Durham) to which the likes we have never seen. It will make being Kavanaughed look like a tea party. Speaking of the tea party.
On Dec. 16, 1773, “radicals” from Boston, members of a secret organization of American Patriots called the Sons of Liberty, boarded three East India Company ships and threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
Happy Birthday!
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Paul 1029am – Maybe then you should take another peek at it, … ah, never mind.
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I quoted the article Gregory. As predicted you are reverting to the oh so tiring “fake news” response.
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@1243 – But, but, but it was in the talking points for lefties!
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Huston we have a problem in the socialist dem clown car –
And while the field has been effectively cut down from more than 20 in the span of six months, a deepening sense of volatility is settling over the Democratic primary on the eve of the sixth and final debate of 2019. The remaining candidates, those in the debate and some trying to compete from outside, are grappling with unprecedented distraction from Washington, questions about their core principles and new signs that the party’s energized factions are turning against each other.
Lest there be any doubt about the level of turbulence in the race, it’s unclear whether Thursday’s debate will happen at all given an unsettled labor union dispute that might require participants to cross a picket line. All seven candidates have said they would not do so.
The Democratic dilemma is perhaps best personified by Elizabeth Warren, whose progressive campaign surged through the late summer and fall but is suddenly struggling under the weight of nagging questions about her health care plan, her ability to compete against President Donald Trump and her very authenticity as a candidate.
Boyd Brown, a South Carolina-based Democratic strategist who recently decided to back Joe Biden only after his preferred candidate, Beto O’Rourke, was forced from the race, likened Warren’s position to that of someone falling down a mountain grasping for anything to slow her descent.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/turbulence-shakes-democrats-going-final-050601950.html
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This is what years of fake news have done, take note ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman. Lost 0’s voters OUCH! –
Yep, as the national impeachment polling continues to move against the media and Democrats, at the swing state level things look even more dire for America’s Ukraine Hoaxsters.
And these are not just any swing voters in Michigan, this focus group was made up of voters who supported President Obama before moving over to Trump in 2016.
In other words, these are the voters the Democrat Party and fake media are counting on to come back home in 2020, to return to the Democrat fold and defeat Trump’s re-election chances. Well, they are not coming home. They are no longer Obama/Trump voters. They are now just Trump voters.
“Some swing voters here who voted for Barack Obama and then Donald Trump are firmly in Trump’s camp now — and they’re sick of impeachment,” Axios reports, adding, “These voters hate the fact that House Democrats are moving toward impeaching the president. They call it a distraction from the issues that would actually improve their lives.”
Those issues include “preserving Social Security, cracking down on illegal immigration, and keeping jobs in the U.S.”
“They have virtually zero trust in the media’s coverage of” Trump and “credit Trump with making health care more affordable.”
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/12/16/nolte-michigan-swing-voters-have-virtually-zero-trust-in-medias-coverage-of-trump/
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,,,PO Ol Pollwatcher Donnie,,, When is the Breitbart poll coming out??? Now that the latest Fox News poll is not going in Dear Leader’s favor he is kicking The Fox around…
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,,,one more video to add to the political hypocrisy folder,,,
Senate Conservos are saying they don’t need any witnesses,,,but are they really saying they are scared that Drug Deal Bolton,,,and Quid Pro Quo Mulvaney might do damage to Dear Leader???
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4822908/user-clip-please-facts-talking-ii-people-made-mind-political-fashion-hurt-country-long-term
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For all the baited breath predicting a recession (the only chance to win the WH) it aint happening –
no president since World War II has lost reelection when unemployment was below 7.4 percent.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-s-economy-shakes-free-of-recession-fears-in-striking-turnaround-since-august/ar-AAK9ByW
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The low rent trollio conveniently ignores the fact its all about the swing states not how many CA or NY voters poll, see above @ 132 and then there is this –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/16/slightly-more-americans-oppose-impeaching-trump-than-support-like-hearings-never-happened/
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So with impeachment DOA in the senate the left is threatening riots, in an election year no less. Let me know how that plays in the swing states! –
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/12/16/larry-charles-warns-of-deadly-riots-if-trump-remains-in-office/
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Its a thing with loosing socialists –
Labour MP slammed for saying party ‘will fight Tories in the streets’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/labour-mp-lloyd-russell-moyle-brighton-kemptown-general-election-090404588.html
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Sounds a lot like the socialist dem clown car –
But the main problem at this election wasn’t the manifesto; the main problem was Corbyn. A weak, self-regarding, pious man incapable of leadership.”
Mr Johnson claimed Mr Corbyn had failed to appeal to working-class communities that had consistently put trust in Labour.
He wrote: “The working classes looked at Corbyn and saw somebody who was unpatriotic to the extent that the country’s enemies were his friends. They hated his pacifism, his simplistic division of the world between evil oppressors and their victims, his disdain of aspiration.
“Most of all, they didn’t recognise themselves in Corbyn’s depiction of working-class people as having no individual identity, only a collective role as part of the downtrodden masses. They decided well before this election and irrespective of Brexit that they would never let him cross the threshold of 10 Downing Street.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jeremy-corbyn-general-election-alan-johnson-labour-party-162413094.html
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Niverna City here I come!
Wave to me from your window dining seat on Broad Street. Public land, baby.
“Supreme Court lets stand ruling that protects homeless people who sleep on sidewalk”
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-12-16/supreme-court-lets-stand-ruling-that-protects-homeless-who-sleep-on-sidewalk
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Well Schiff for brains is not moving the needle on impeachment in his direction but on another poll the needle is moving in the Presidents direction-
According to the poll, Joe Biden (D) is the only Democrat candidate who bests Trump in a general election matchup, 50 percent to 45 percent. However, that reflects a 5-point shift toward the president, who was down by ten points in November, 43 percent to Biden’s 53 percent.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/16/impeachment-backfire-polling-shows-trump-surge-against-all-democrat-contenders-in-last-month/
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The great thing about the Impeachment Trail is there will be no Adam Schiftylipps, no Jerry Nardo, no Queen Nan of Botox. Sure, they will be pontificating in front of the cameras and on CNN, but not on in the Senate Floor. All we will get is Chucky the Clown, Stolen Valor Bloomenthal, Dirty Cop Harris, Spartacluz, and that crazy lady from Hawaii.
Yep, that Adam Schiff is full of shit. Heck, they all are.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/16/ig-report-proves-adam-schiff-has-been-lying-about-spygate-since-the-beginning/
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It looks like schiff for brains is reaping what he has sown. –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schiff-town-hall-erupts-amid-shouts-of-liar-and-treason
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Now ain’t that special?? Schummer demands a fair trial??
After the railroad job from the House? 🤣😂
The proggys are re-defining the idea of a “fair trial” around the prosecutor. It is not the accused who deserves “fairness,” but the accuser.
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Wonder when the next impeachment will come. You just know there is another hair on fire scandal, another 24/7 carpet bombing, another impeachment or two coming down the pike.
THE NEVER-ENDING IMPEACHMENT
“In a filing to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, House General Counsel Douglas Letter argued that the House’s demands for grand jury materials connected to former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation were still urgent because such evidence might become relevant to the Senate’s expected impeachment trial next month,” Politico reported. “But Letter went further to note that even apart from the Senate trial, the House Judiciary Committee intends to continue its impeachment investigation arising from the Mueller probe on its own merit.”
So the Democrats may try to resurrect the Russia hoax in the House of Representatives, producing thereby their own version of history. The best defense against the Durham report, they likely believe, is a good offense.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/12/the-never-ending-impeachment.php
Yes, they seem to have an endless supply of Addicted to Outrage. Rage-a-holics. It’s why they get out of bed in the morning and swear off having kids. TDS is awesome to witness.
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Just who is the real threat to democracy? The Founders trusted the people a heck of a lot more than this crazy bunch.
https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10156900598370914/?type=3&theater
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Daily Quotes and Affirmations.
Insight: “In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America’s is.” —Ronald Reagan
Braying jackass: “America can overcome four years of Donald Trump’s chaos and corruption, but if re-elected it will forever fundamentally change the character of who we are as a nation. We can’t let this happen. This election is about the soul of our nation and Donald Trump has poisoned our soul.” —Joe Biden
Belly laugh of the year: “There is one indisputable fact about the impeachment of President Donald Trump that should be clear to all Americans: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is making the Constitution great again.” —USA Today columnist Alexander Heffner
Monumental lack of self-awareness: “William Barr is unfit to be attorney general.” —former AG Eric Holder
Clueless? “I’m certainly willing to admit that the inspector general found serious abuses of FISA that I was unaware of. Had I known of them … I would have called out the FBI at the same time. But I think it’s only fair to judge what we knew at the time, not what would be revealed two years later, but yes, there were very serious abuses of the FISA process. They need to be corrected. We need to make sure they never happen again.” — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff
Look in a mirror: “Hate, sinful … rhetoric is very dangerous and it’s becoming synonymous with the Republican Party.” —Ilhan Omar
Non sequitur: “If pitchers can make $324 million, we can pay every teacher in this country at least $60,000.” —Sen. Bernie Sanders
World’s tiniest violin: “I feel like the forgotten man. I made more movies directed by women and about women than any filmmaker, and I’m talking about 30 years ago. I’m not talking about now when it’s vogue. I did it first! I pioneered it!” —Harvey Weinstein
And last… “Few Americans trust the media these days and coverage of impeachment is one of the reasons. It is also one of the reasons so few people are changing their minds. Most people recognize the media can no longer be trusted to play it straight.” —Erick Erickson
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Thanks schiff for brains –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/16/rasmussen-52-of-voters-say-senior-law-enforcement-officials-illegally-targeted-trump/
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Here is one for the po’ ol’ pollhead –
Fox News released a poll on impeachment Sunday, the results of which differ from three recent major polls, all of which show more registered voters oppose impeachment than support it.
Those three polls from Quinnipiac University, Monmouth University, and NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist University all show registered voters oppose impeachment of President Trump and his removal from office by margins ranging from three percent to seven percent. But the Fox News Polls shows registered voters support impeachment and removal from office by four percent.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/16/results-of-fox-news-poll-on-impeachment-differ-from-three-major-recent-polls/
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Justice Democrat financial backer. He had a rough night, November, 2016. It’s who they are and what they believe. Boycott and Divest.
https://www.theblaze.com/unleashed/extremist-host-who-is-running-for-congress-says-he-wants-to-bulldoze-jerusalem?
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The socialist dem clown car has the knives out big time! –
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/pete-buttigieg-napa-fundraiser-photos-231400332.html
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George
All Trump has to do to end the whole fiasco is to let everybody testify under oath and release all documents related to the matter. If they all testify supporting his claimed innocence that will put an end to it. Why do you think he refuses to allow that?
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Looks like that one Fox poll was an outlier, 3 out of 4 said the opposite. Opps, strike that. 4 out of 5 now.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-impeachment-poll-has-bad-news-for-democrats-support-among-democrats-drops-by-double-digits?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3562507543760193&set=gm.826558691132576&type=3&theater
Remember when they were all unhinged about a Nuclear War with Rocketman on Christmas Day!! Impeach Trump. He said we have a bigger button. Oh, they were beside themselves, I tell ya.
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Paul 852pm – because he thinks your premise is wrong.
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George
And you honestly believe that he did not intend to force Ukraine to investigate the Bidens by withholding money designated by Congress for their defense?
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Paul, Trump has been spied upon for well over three years.
It’s time for it to stop.
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WHOA the pony tail of ignorance is dragging the lowest dregs of the talking points for lefties but the facts are that team 0 gave them dreck and Trump gave them Javelins and now they are going to get even more! LOL
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LUCY holding the football sez: “If they all testify supporting his claimed innocence that will put an end to it.”
Pardon me?
To which Dr. Rebane replied; “Paul 852pm – because he thinks your premise is wrong”
Well put, sir. It will all go away just like that. Linsey Graham said so. Now, why would we want this to all go away? Why interrupt a perfectly good party? Remember, Trump has no friends.
The Democrats can make their case to the Senate. It will be a public affair, all under the lights, very open. Then, those evil R’s are going to give it to Dems good and hard. Make it all end? Yep, the Unhinged and Deranged are just going to flip a switch and return to only being half-madmen? The lion with lay down with the lamb and we all will enjoy milk and honey from the Good land.
Me thinks someone is not in awares with who he has made his bed with.
Come on Charlie Brown, I will let you kick the football this time. I promise.
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Gregory @ 9:30 pm
“Trump has been spied upon for well over three years.
It’s time for it to stop.”
Never quit, never stop. But, what interests me more now that the IG Report is done, is who was spying on Trump in April, 2016? Crossfire Hurricane didn’t get started until July and the FISA court rejected the first warrant on Page in June for not enough evidence he was a Russian spy.
Yes, Trump has been spied upon for well over three years. And Flynn since 2014.
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“If they all testify supporting his claimed innocence that will put an end to it. Why do you think he refuses to allow that?”
Because he’s dealing with a den of thieves that cannot be trusted?
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Patton on Impeachment: The Democrats Have Stuck Their Heads in a Meat Grinder
https://spectator.org/patton-on-impeachment-the-democrats-have-stuck-their-heads-in-a-meat-grinder/
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“The other thing, there’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it.… It sounds horrible to me.”
It sounds horrible to me, too. What about it, Joe?
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Are you referring to the “Flynn” Bill who plead guilty to lying to the FBI? How can he nave any credibility in this matter?
Rebane’s Ruminations 9:55 PM last night
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Well, this is a no-brainer.
“The findings were released just days after the press received its latest black eye in the inspector general’s report looking at the FBI’s behavior during its investigation into Mr. Trump. The inspector general thoroughly punctured journalists who insisted that the Christopher Steele dossier had little to do with the FBI’s ability to obtain a secret warrant to spy on one of the candidate’s advisers.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/15/trump-supporters-revolt-against-media-pew-research/
TDS is an awesome thang to observe
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California’s gig economy
Vox Media to cut hundreds of freelance jobs ahead of changes in California gig economy laws
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/16/vox-media-to-cut-hundreds-of-freelance-jobs-ahead-of-californias-ab5.html
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Kavanaugh Redux: Byron York
“Impeachment moves to Senate. Get ready for a scramble — and a January surprise”
If the Judiciary Committee receives the information, there is little doubt its leaders will work with Senate Democrats to create the impression that there is new evidence so compelling that it absolutely must be included in the impeachment trial. And if Republicans disagree, what are they trying to hide?
Indeed, Schumer and his colleagues have prepared the way to characterize any move to limit the trial’s scope as an effort to hide wrongdoing from the American people. “To engage in a trial without the facts coming out is to engage in a cover-up,” he said Monday
The bottom line is, Republicans should not believe for one minute that the campaign to remove the president will rely only on the case Democrats have built in the House. Schumer and other party leaders will scramble for new information to throw at the president, and at Republicans, until it is over. The GOP, and the White House, need to be ready.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/impeachment-moves-to-senate-get-ready-for-a-scramble-and-a-january-surprise
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You’re right Bill, There will be so much more coming at Trump . Just wait for Bolton “the book” to be released. Also The Rudy flip to save his ass. Unbelievable that Trump still has him around.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 17 December 2019 at 07:20 AM
What are you trying to say Punch……?
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Fish
I’m saying Trumps lies will catch up with him. There’s an old Gospel song- “You’re Gonna Reap What You Sow” that comes to mind.
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@ 7:29 am
Maybe he is trying to say that the case for impeachment is weak, no crimes have been charged, and if they keep digging they will find the smoking gun down there….somewhere. Maybe in some book! It’s all in a book. All the need is the evidence.
I found it! It’s all in Omarosa’s book. And have you read Michael Wolff’s new thriller?
https://www.amazon.com/Unhinged-Insiders-Account-Trump-White/dp/198210970X
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 17 December 2019 at 07:41 AM
…..really…..an old gospel song you say?
Well in that case I’m sure that this time you’ve got him for sure!
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Yep fish
“Sow um on the mountain reap um in the valley you’re gonna reap just what you sow.”
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Yep, they got Trump by the short curlies now. It’s just a matter of time and 5 more years of impeachment hearing.
Interesting that both Nunes and Schifflips looked at the exact same Intel. Nunes was mocked, ridiculed, and filleted for his wild conspiracy theories and Schifflipps was beloved and embraced by the press. The FBI conducted themselves in a completely honorable manner.
When the IG Report came out (looking only at the narrow issue of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court requests), come to find out that the IG Report closely followed Nunes’s “discredited” memo and eviscerated Schifflipps as a pathological liar. Me thinks the press has no credibility on the issue. Strike that. Me thinks the Democrats have the same credibility on the issue(s) as does the Leftinista press. Oh my.
They did not spy on Trump!! That’s a lie! Right wing disinformation!! Hmmm. What does the letter S mean in FISA, aka, the Foreign Intelligence SURVEILLANCE Act.
Good job Leftinista Industrial Media Complex. Kudos, you done good.
“Most Voters Believe Trump Was Targeted, Want Jail Time or Other Consequences”
https://bongino.com/most-voters-believe-trump-was-targeted-want-jail-time-or-other-consequences/
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From the always invaluable Instapundit…
In a rhetorical shift, Elizabeth Warren emphasizes ‘choice’ on health care.
Meanwhile, a freshman congresscritter who can’t figure out her own health coverage choices wants to make yours for you.
Just another day in progressivism.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/16/politics/elizabeth-warren-choice-medicare-for-all-transition-iowa/
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1206397021965434881
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Oh, I love it when Punchy and Queen Nan of Nunnery get that old time religion going. Rather Victorianish I would say.
Rudy, Rudy, Rudy. Repost. Mean o’ Trump fired the Ukraine Ambassador, a dedicated public servant!
https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-bombshell-twitter-posts-giuliani-blasts-out-info-he-collected-in-ukraine?
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Keep digging ye Unhinged It’s working like a charm. Couldn’t have done it without you and Amy Goodman. Thank you berry berry much.
https://www.facebook.com/Breitbart/photos/a.10159587164165354/10164190075805354/?type=3&theater
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