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[Now that the impeachment kabuki has ended, the Senate trial will begin.  But before that can proceed, Pelosi will try to squeeze some more preconditions out of McConnell before forwarding the House’s articles of impeachment.  The cynical humor of the whole process goes on with Democrats continuing to accuse Republicans of unfairness along every step of the way, paying no never mind to having conducted the most blatantly partisan, unfair, and corrupt congressional circus in Congress’s long history.  But the real story is again the ever-widening chasm between what now clearly are two Americas attempting to share the same government and territory while holding diametrically opposite worldviews and objectives.  gjr]

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  1. fish Avatar
    fish

    Nevada City’s dimmer children…….pussy hats proudly on under WWII metal helmets, frightened eyes peering over hastily arranged barricades in moms basement……befouling the board!

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  2. Hans Himmler Avatar
    Hans Himmler

    Um, Walllllly? Yoo hoo. You going to share your mystery man with us? Hans Himmler the WWII villain you dreamed up?

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt sez:
    “Do your own homework Emery. You don’t need to believe me.
    Now go play with your polls.
    But watching the riots break out at LIB town halls because said LIB was pro impeachment is worth the price of admission.
    Posted by: Walt | 22 December 2019 at 07:11 PM”
    Walt, telling Mr. Emery to do his own “Google it” is bad advice. He can google it and the articles supporting our claims first appear buried on pages 11 or 12 on the Google search lists. So, I cut the man some stack. Too much work. It does not surprise me in the least that he (and others) would be in the unaware category. The consequence of living in the bubble. Everyone I know hates Trump and I know a lot of people!! Some folks just don’t take surprises with grace.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S87612I2eO8

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  4. Hans Himmler Avatar
    Hans Himmler

    Walt is one to admonish someone for not doing their homework. He’s probably on Google page 45 looking for his war villain, Hans Himmler. Walt is such a stooge.

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The liberal mind…er…the progressive mind.
    THE NEW YORK TIMES’ HATE AMERICA PROJECT
    “Last summer, [Baquet] huddled with his staff in a town-hall-style meeting—the proceedings of which were promptly leaked—and acknowledged a sad truth: “We built our newsroom to cover one story” (the now-debunked story that Donald Trump had “colluded” with Russia to steal the 2016 election).
    The story didn’t pan out. “Now we have to regroup,” Baquet told the assembled troops, “and shift resources and emphasis to take on a different story.” What story? Henceforth, or at least “for the next two years”—the remainder of Trump’s first term—the Times was going all in on “race, and other divisions.”
    In other words, the Times couldn’t bring down Trump by harping on Russia, but maybe it can bring him down by harping on race. Or at least, in the process of trying, make Americans hate their country.
    The problem with the 1619 project is that, like the Russia collusion hoax, it is delusional.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/author/paul

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    With the booming economy and this the socialist dem clown car has 3 flat tires,2 on the left –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/23/donald-trump-approval-rating-surpasses-barack-obama-at-same-point-in-presidency/
    😉

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  7. Walt Avatar

    Speaking of stooges,, It’s not spelled “hans”,, “jon”….
    But your fascination and love of Nazis is more than creepy.

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    FAKE LABELS
    The Washington Post reports that some Democrats are mad as hell at Pete Buttigieg for abandoning some of his previous positions — e.g., Medicare for all and decriminalizing illegal border crossings. I think Buttigieg can live with their wrath, given that his move out of the hard left lane has corresponded with a surge in the polls, both nationally and especially in Iowa.
    However, the Post’s article, by Chelsea Janes, illustrates what a slippery character Buttigieg is. The small city mayor used a leftist persona to make an attention grabbing entrance to the campaign, but started tacking towards conventional liberalism when he realized that’s where most of his votes (other than gay votes) are likely to be found.
    Janes notes that, according to Federal Election Commission reports, Buttigieg has spent three times as much money on polling as any other candidate in the Democratic field. This fact shows Buttigieg to be politically astute. But coupled with his shifting positions, it also suggests that he’s “a political weather vane,” to use Janes’s term, and a worm, to use mine.
    Janes’s article isn’t just interesting for what it says about Buttigieg. It’s also interesting for what it says about Janes and, by extension, the Post.
    Janes, who last year was writing about baseball for the Post, persists in calling the views Buttigieg has abandoned “liberal” and his current positions “centrist.” The title of her article goes so far as to claim that Democratic candidates are drifting “rightward.”
    Is Medicare for all the liberal position? Is decriminalizing illegal border crossings? Is packing the Supreme Court?
    I would have called Medicare for all socialist, decriminalization leftist, and court packing radical. I would have expected the Post, at a minimum, to call them progressive.
    If, instead, these positions are liberal, the political ground has moved from under our feet.
    And if they are liberal positions, Joe Biden, who rejects Medicare for all and decriminalizing illegal border crossings, isn’t a true liberal. Yet, Biden has been considered a liberal all of his political life and, if anything, has been moving towards leftward during this campaign.
    I think Janes and the Post are calling hard leftists “liberals” because they want to be able to call Biden a centrist. It’s false advertising for the former vice president. And it’s free.
    They also want the political ground to move from under our feet. Under President Trump, it may be moving some, but not in a way that makes hard leftists into liberals and Joe Biden into a centrist.
    Quote, unquote

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  9. Walt Avatar

    See? none of the Leftist dare answer the question. So it’s safe to say NONE of the DEM/Socialists running against Trump can do a better job. Just destroy the progress Trump has done.
    They want a return to massive unemployment, millions on the dole, choking taxes. Yet will be the first to demand 20-25 dollar an hour burger flipper jobs.

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  10. Walt Avatar

    Since some Lefty just had to try and score a minor point,(you know who you are)
    Here is the REST OF THE STORY.
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/20/new-zealand-gun-buy-back-fails/
    “New Zealand Gun Buyback Was An ‘Unmitigated Failure’ ”
    Try harder next time.

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  11. Hans Himmler Avatar
    Hans Himmler

    Oh Wally
    “It’s not spelled “hans””
    Interesting. Just how do you spell Hans? My parents spelled it Hans. I’m sure you have a better spelling. I think you have replaced Todd as the dumbest POS to inhabit this board.

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  12. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Unbelievable that his man is our President yet you support him George and rant about the uneducated left in the same breath.
    “In a speech to the right-wing Turning Points USA conference in Florida on Saturday, President Donald Trump launched into an incoherent diatribe against wind power in which he said in the same breath that he “never understood wind” and has studied windmills “better than anybody,” pointed out for no apparent reason that the earth is “tiny” compared to the rest of the universe, and claimed there are “bird graveyards” under wind turbines.
    https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/observers-mystified-after-trump-delivers-moronic-and-unhinged-rant-about-windmills-and-the-universe/

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  13. Waldo'sNemesis Avatar
    Waldo’sNemesis

    ,,,Blazing at 1052,,,
    “See?” No Blazer I don’t see. So asked and answered…
    ,,,Maybe ask fewer questions so we know WTF you want answers to???

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  14. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 23 December 2019 at 11:29 AM
    Punch Emery…….always pining for the “Philosopher King”.

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  15. Waldo'sNemesis Avatar
    Waldo’sNemesis

    ,,,Yes Paul,,,the Republicans for Trump mission statement should read,,,Give me your lightly read, your easily led and easily fooled, your game show fans hungry for a carnival barker…

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  16. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Hans Himmler | 23 December 2019 at 11:28 AM
    My parents spelled it Hans. I’m sure you have a better spelling.

    How bout Hanz?! Bring it in to the 20th century.
    Fo shizzle!

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Still going on??
    “Clinton email saga drags on in court.”
    Judge Royce Lamberth expressed concern with the continuing drip-drip-drip of Hillary Clinton messages.
    “Hillary Clinton’s email scandal may be a fading memory for most, but it remains a live, legal morass for at least 14 attorneys who piled into a federal judge’s courtroom in Washington on Thursday for the latest round in the never-say-die saga.
    Clinton’s nemeses at the conservative legal group Judicial Watch pleaded with U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth for a chance to depose Clinton personally and to conduct a second round of questioning of Clinton’s former chief of staff Cheryl Mills.”……
    https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/19/hillary-clinton-emails-judicial-watch-088478

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Waldo’sNemesis | 23 December 2019 at 11:38 AM
    If you liked him during his first term……,.you’re going to LOVE him during the second!!

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  19. Waldo'sNemesis Avatar
    Waldo’sNemesis

    ,,,Volodymyr Zelensky,,,a comedian who played a President on TV
    ,,,Trump,,,a game show and beauty pageant host
    Surprising that they don’t get along better,,,but Zelensky cannot offer Trump what Putin can give.

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Oh pony tail of ignorance –
    Wind turbines kill an estimated 140,000 to 328,000 birds each year in North America, making it the most threatening form of green energy. And yet, it’s also one of the most rapidly expanding energy industries: more than 49,000 individual wind turbines now exist across 39 states.
    https://www.audubon.org/news/will-wind-turbines-ever-be-safe-birds#
    https://helpsavenature.com/how-do-wind-turbines-kill-birds
    https://townhall.com/columnists/katiekieffer/2019/09/23/29-billion-bird-deaths-linked-to-solar-wind-n2553475
    😉

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 11:26 am
    Here is the REST OF THE STORY.
    A reason they are going ballistic is party due to the fact that over 200 Christian groups and influencers have condemned Christianity Today, a publication I have never heard of before, as well as neither did Punchy. The numbers are growing condemning the article and the group group exponentially.
    The publication has always been a liberal outliner for decades, now into the social justice stuff.
    And now you know the rest of the story.
    Broad brush much?

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Trump Quote Don. What an idiot-really
    “I never understood wind, you know I know windmills very much. I’ve studied it better than anybody.”

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  23. Waldo'sNemesis Avatar
    Waldo’sNemesis

    ,,,Looks like BatBoy Rudy and Trump are looking in the wrong place,,,
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-218-foreign-policy-endorsements-090003214.html?fr=yset_chr_syc_hp

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  24. Waldo'sNemesis Avatar
    Waldo’sNemesis

    Posted by: Don Bessee | 23 December 2019 at 11:46 AM
    Here you go Bonehead,,,you are as behind the times as your Dear Leader…
    For two decades, the industry’s threat to birds has been at the center of a highly politicized debate. Critics point to turbines killing hundreds of thousands of birds annually—mostly songbirds, but also larger species, notably Golden Eagles. The wind industry responds that those mortalities pale in comparison to the deaths caused by cats or power lines. Yet neither viewpoint captures the full picture, because the debate is complicated by a looming factor: If climate change continues apace, hundreds of North American bird species’ ranges will shrink by at least half by 2100, according to Audubon’s models. “Climate change is the biggest impact on birds,” says Garry George, director of Audubon California’s renewable energy program. The rapid deployment of clean energy will be crucial to avoiding that fate. And if wind is part of the mix—as it must be—high-tech safeguards will help ensure birds fly into that future unharmed.
    https://www.audubon.org/magazine/spring-2018/how-new-technology-making-wind-farms-safer-birds#

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  25. Walt Avatar

    No such dude as “hans Himmler”. Just a TROLL sock. And no,, your not “Hans Solo”.
    BTW,, TROLLS have parents???? Well, you do come across as a basement dweller. 35, and still there……
    Try “Hauns” True Krout spelling.
    But if you want to stick to the Nazi name, go for it.
    “Himmler was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel, and a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany. Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and a main architect of the Holocaust.”

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Funny how the trolls cant read the dates on links! 2019 beats 2018! LOL
    😉

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt,
    Yep, you are talking to HH88. I search of Ozzie Rockhunter down by the river with 700,000 visitors.
    At least you have an excuse, Walt. Somebody beat you to it. I wonder if it will happen on the Republican “Congress without a Republican Day.” They will be outside of the Hallowed Chambers.
    https://www.facebook.com/oldgloryglory/photos/a.343855246356556/613286462746765/?type=3&theater

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  28. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1129am – Paul, it will become much more believable after you read your first book on utility and practical decision making. May I recommend to your attention a classic – ‘Quick Analysis for Busy Decision Makers’ (1982) Behn & Vaupel. No higher math required, only arithmetic and a clear mind.
    Waldo 1200pm – What has impressed you about the predictions of “Audubon’s models”? How are they constructed, and have they been field tested over other climate changes? How does their performance compare to the general circulation models used to predict measurable climate parameters? Where can we find out more?

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  29. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well DUH! –
    Dems Fear They Wasted Their Best Shot on Impeachment
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/dems-fear-impeachment-could-embolden-020236881.html?guccounter=1
    😉

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Daily Quotes for this weird time in space
    Insight: “Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” —Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
    Food for thought: “I think the only explanation for the sudden onset of cultural insanity and embrace of nonsense like gender identity is theological. See Romans 1:18-32. There are things unseen at work in the world.” —Erick Erickson
    For the record: “Over 200 evangelical leaders have come out … against Christianity Today after their recent attack against Trump. Why isn’t CNN reporting on this as tirelessly as they did on the vicious hit job against our president? I guess it doesn’t fit their narrative.” —Charlie Kirk
    Braying jackass: “Speaker Pelosi is doing exactly the right thing. She is focusing a spotlight on the need to have a fair trial in the United States Senate.” —Sen. Chris Van Hollen
    A blind squirrel finds a nut: “As far as I’m concerned, [senators] can tell which way they’re leaning or how they feel in terms of the probability, but when it comes to saying, ‘I made up my mind [on impeachment], it’s all over,’ for goodness’ sakes, that is not what the Constitution envisioned.” —Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin
    Alpha jackass I: “I’d like to see a bag of s—t right in [Trump’s] face.” —Robert De Niro
    Alpha jackass II: “There’s not one thing about this person that has been redeeming. He’s a low life. He’s not a pig. Pigs have dignity. He has no dignity. He has nothing. He’s a disgrace to the human race.” —Robert De Niro
    ——————————————-
    Bonus #1. Bill inserts quote:
    “People ask me questions about present situations in life, and I say, ‘I don’t know, I’m just an actor. I don’t have any opinions. Actors are pretty stupid. My opinion is not worth anything.
    There’s no controversy for me, so don’t engage me in it, because I’m not going to participate.”
    Yep, actors are pretty stupid.
    —————————————————-
    The BIG Lie: “The economy today is not substantially different from the economy before Trump took office.” —Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell on CNN
    And last… “Exaggerated, doomsday climate predictions create ‘climate deniers’ in the same way that progressive, identity politics creates more racists.” —Steven Crowder
    —-
    Bonus #2:
    Dems ban red plastic Solo cups because they ‘look too much like MAGA hats’
    https://genesiustimes.com/dems-ban-red-plastic-solo-cups-because-they-look-too-much-like-maga-hats/

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  31. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    PaulEmery: “Unbelievable that his man is our President yet you support him George and rant about the uneducated left in the same breath.”
    To be fair, I think we can agree that there’s such a thing as the educated Left, it’s just that they don’t show up here very often.
    Article of the day:
    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/23/breaking-house-argues-in-court-filing-don-mcgahn-testimony-needed-for-impeachment-evidence/
    Vidya of the day:
    https://preview.redd.it/88exf3r8v6641.gif?width=450&format=mp4&s=19cf69c4f08eed4a66191a57e0a211ce9da1ae66

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh, the actors are “pretty stupid” quote was from Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dec 9, 2019

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  33. Hans Himmler Avatar
    Hans Himmler

    Wally, best you can do is cut and paste from Wikipedia but “forget” to include the name Heinrich in front of Himmler?
    George says that quotes are sacrosanct on his page. Not only did you not give credit for your stolen quote, you twisted the words to support your narrative. I think you should be strongly reprimanded for trying to dupe George and his gang.

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Any person with a lick of history knowledge would know that first name.
    But go ahead. wear that name proudly.

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  35. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Hans Joachim Himmler, 1925 – 2019
    Hans Joachim Himmler was born on month day 1925, to Josef Himmler and Helene Himmler (born Heintzel).
    Josef was born on March 9 1894, in Laurahütte / Kattowitz, Früher Deutschland.
    Helene was born on March 24 1896, in Laurahütte / Kattowitz, früher Deutschland.
    Hans had 2 siblings: Horst Himmler and one other sibling.
    Hans married first name Himmler (born Meyer) on month day 1952, at age 26.
    They had 3 children.
    Hans passed away on month day 2019, at age 94 at death place.
    Hans Himmler, 1935 – 1990
    Hans Himmler was born on month day 1935, at birth place, to Peter Himmler and Babette Himmler (born Ebner).
    Peter was born on July 6 1914, in Kirchsittenbach.
    Babette was born on June 10 1913, in Kirchsittenbach.
    Hans passed away of cause of death on month day 1990, at age 54 at death place.
    He was buried at burial place.

    https://www.myheritage.com/names/hans_himmler

    An awww story at Christmas time –
    The gifts were saved and one of the crews left inside the home, while dressed in full gear, “handed the family’s Christmas gifts and Christmas tree to the crews outside. All of the family’s gifts and tree were able to be retrieved undamaged.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-firefighters-christmas-blaze
    😉

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  36. Waldo'sNemesis Avatar
    Waldo’sNemesis

    Posted by: George Rebane | 23 December 2019 at 12:24 PM
    ,,,Very impressed by how lightly read Trump is and the fact that power lines and cats kill far more birds than wind machines…
    ,,,No comment regarding Audubon models but it stands to reason that changes in discrete ecosystems and or lack of habitat could affect bird demographics…
    Companies in the power generation industry are not the only culprits,,,somebody tell Trump…
    “The previous fall several thousand white geese died when they landed amid a fierce storm on the Berkeley Pit, a former open-pit copper mine on the edge of Butte now designated as part of a Superfund site. Capoccia, a biology professor at Montana Tech, heads an advisory board created last year to devise protocol to prevent birds from landing in the 400-acre pool, where they can die by drinking the poisonous water.”
    https://www.audubon.org/news/lasers-drones-and-air-cannons-inside-effort-save-migrating-waterfowl-toxic-death

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  37. Walt Avatar

    The CommieCrats are like neutered dogs still thinking those balls will grow back.
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/23/trump-impeachment-pelosi-2/
    “House Democrats are open to impeaching President Donald Trump a second time if White House counsel Donald McGahn’s potential testimony reveals the president committed other offenses.”

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  38. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: ‘wind machines’
    https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612238/wide-scale-us-wind-power-could-cause-significant-warming/
    Personally, I kind of like the things, even with the problems (unreliable power, problems with power storage, hidden costs). I would suggest that anyone who really likes wind turbines should build some and sell the power to PG&E. It isn’t like they really care what the source is if it’s cheaper.
    Like most tech being sold to the 420th Broad Street Volunteers, the answer always seems to occur before the question.
    If people really cared about greenhouse gases, I expect they’d be all-in for fracking as a replacement for coal.

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  39. Waldo'sNemesis Avatar
    Waldo’sNemesis

    ,,,Scenes,,,we know of course that there is no human caused global warming so you must put this idea that windpower causing warming to rest…
    ,,,but we all know where Trump was going with his windpower warnings…
    Green Power is Bad!!!
    https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/23/politics/wind-turbines-trump-fact-check/index.html

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  40. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    AG Barr Indicts 8 For Funneling Millions In Foreign Donations To Schiff, Clinton and Top Democrats.
    https://www.diamondandsilk.com/blog/2019/12/22/bombshell-ag-barr-indicts-8-for-funneling-millions-in-foreign-donations-to-schiff-clinton-and-

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  41. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Its the economy stupid’s! –
    Stocks climbed higher on Monday, hitting new records, as the year-end rally continues.
    The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 96.44 points higher to 28,551.53, while the S&P 500 rose 0.1%, or 2.79 points, to 3,224.01 and the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.2%, or 20.69 points, to 8,945.65. The three major averages all posted record closes
    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/23/us-futures-point-to-cautiously-higher-open.html
    Nasdaq books longest streak of record closes since 1998
    https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stock-market-set-to-carve-out-fresh-records-to-start-christmas-week-trade-2019-12-23
    😉

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  42. Waldo'sNemesis Avatar
    Waldo’sNemesis

    ,,,This just in…not really…but still true from what I hear…
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gop-voters-see-party-as-grumpy-old-men-dickerson-says/

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  43. Waldo'sNemesis Avatar
    Waldo’sNemesis

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 23 December 2019 at 04:05 PM
    ,,,Nader,,,equal opportunity agent but all around lowlife,,,
    From 1981 through the 1990s, Nader was editor of Middle East Insight.[10] The magazine ceased publication in 2002.[11]
    During the George H. W. Bush administration (1989–1993) he helped to free American hostages in Lebanon after the Iran–Contra affair.[10] During the Clinton Administration (1993–2001), Nader tried unsuccessfully to broker an Israeli–Syrian peace agreement, working with Estée Lauder heir Ronald Lauder.[10]
    In the 2000s, Nader left Washington and spent most of his time in the Middle East, especially in Iraq after the 2003 Iraq invasion.[11] Since then, Nader has volunteered with U.S. politicians to act as a “shadow diplomat” connecting them to Middle Eastern officials.[10] Erik Prince, founder of security firm Blackwater, hired Nader to help with contracts with the Iraqi government; in a 2010 deposition, Prince identified Nader as a “business development consultant”.[12]
    In August 2016, Nader met with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower offering assistance to his father’s presidential campaign.[13] Nader served as an envoy representing Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and de facto ruler Mohammad bin Salman and Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The meeting included Erik Prince and Joel Zamel, an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation[14][13] and owner of intelligence gathering firms including Wikistrat and the Psy-Group, who bragged to have received $2 million from Nader as part of the presidential campaign.[15]
    Nader attended a December 2016 meeting in New York between the United Arab Emirates officials and president-elect Donald Trump’s associates Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn, and Steve Bannon.[10] In January 2017 he was at a meeting on the Seychelles islands between the Emiratis and Erik Prince, and was present when Prince met with officials from the UAE and Kirill Dmitriev, head of state-run Russian Direct Investment Fund.[10]
    Working with Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy in 2017, Nader funded a conference criticizing Qatar that was hosted by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.[16] At the time Nader and Broidy were pushing the White House to remove Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, whom the Saudis and Emiratis saw as insufficiently tough on Iran and Qatar.[7]
    In January 2018, Nader was served a grand-jury subpoena,[17] and special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators questioned him to elicit if the UAE had tried to influence members of President Trump’s campaign.[10][18] Kathryn Ruemmler, an Obama-era White House counsel, was among the lawyers representing Nader.[1] Nader was granted immunity for information for the investigation.[7][19] …Wiki

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Waldo
    What’s your point? The convicted child molester has been charged.

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Will the real white Supremacists come forward. Not you, Candace Owens.
    “The demand for white supremacists vastly exceeds the supply, which is why we see absurdities like the controversy over military academy students supposedly flashing “white power” signs at the Army-Navy football game. Now, apparently, the age-old “OK” sign means you are a white nationalist, notwithstanding that there are pictures of pretty much everyone in public life giving the sign, like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and nearly everyone else.”
    https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-23-at-6.15.05-PM.png?ssl=1
    “A high school in the Chicago suburbs is reprinting its 2018-2019 yearbooks at a cost of more than $50,000 after school officials spotted photos of students making “OK” hand gestures.
    The use of the “OK” sign has been tied to white supremacist movements in recent years, though the relevance of the connection is often unclear.
    That’s putting it mildly! The “tie,” as far as I know, is solely via the 4chan prank.
    Oak Park River Forest High School, located in the prototypically “limousine liberal” town of Oak Park, will shell out $53,794, negotiated down from $85,000, for the new mementos. According to a letter seen by INSIDER, the yearbook contained 18 photos in which an “upside-down OK sign” was performed by students.
    This is all craziness, of course, but it is craziness with a purpose. The Left is desperate to keep its racism narratives alive, no matter how threadbare they may be. Thus we see the New York Times’ ridiculous “1619 Project,” which recasts American history in a way that no respectable historian would countenance. Does that bother the Times? Not at all. The goal is political, and is focused especially on the 2020 presidential race.”

    Obviously, as noted above, the demand for white supremacists vastly exceeds the supply. It is vital to the Left’s narrative that white racism be alive and well–in fact, that it be an ever-increasing threat. But, obviously, it isn’t. If there were real evidence of a white supremacist movement (as opposed to one guy named Spencer who invariably is mentioned then the topic comes up), Democrats would cite that evidence.
    But there isn’t any. I, personally, know hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people, but as far as I know I have never yet met a white supremacist. So the Democrats are reduced to whipping up enthusiasm among their voters, especially minority voters, with moronic attacks on Academy cadets and midshipmen and high school students. Are black and other minority Americans dumb enough to fall for this transparent ruse? I doubt it.
    One thing we can say for sure: white supremacism has declined a long way from the days when it was the lifeblood of the Democratic Party, and Democrats expressed their racist views by hanging people. How much more peaceful it would have been if someone had taught the Democrats the “OK” sign!

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    Waldo’sNemesis

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 23 December 2019 at 04:39 PM
    ,,,a little more info never hurt anyone,,,
    Grumpy

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  47. Walt Avatar

    First guns,, now the burbs.
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/23/virginia-house-zoning-environment/
    “Democrats in Virginia may override local zoning to bring high-density housing, including public housing, to every neighborhood statewide — whether residents want it or not.
    The measure could quickly transform the suburban lifestyle enjoyed by millions, permitting duplexes to be built on suburban lots in neighborhoods previously consisting of quiet streets and open green spaces. Proponents of “upzoning” say the changes are necessary because suburbs are bastions of segregation and elitism, as well as bad for the environment.”
    And to END homelessness,, each home in the state will be issued a homeless person. In some cases a whole family.
    See? Problem solved.

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  48. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Impeachment
    When some Dem lawmakers fired off comments of warning to SCOTUS, my radar went off. When the Dems accused The POTUS with Obstruction of Congress for seeking redress and clarity of the issue in court (the referees on such matters), I chuckled….but it is no laughing matter.
    Now this. Is the House of Representatives going out of its lane? Are they exercising the Supremacy Clause??
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    One man’s opinion.
    Nancy Pelosi, Not Trump, Is Provoking A Constitutional Crisis
    “By refusing to send articles of impeachment to the Senate, Pelosi is asserting the primacy of the Democrat-controlled House over the GOP-led Senate.”
    “”As my colleagues Sean Davis and Mollie Hemingway noted yesterday, “Pelosi apparently wants to control the Senate process from her perch in the House, a power grab that looks a lot like an abuse of power.” Likewise, her decision to withhold the articles of impeachment from the Senate and not appoint impeachment managers looks a lot like obstructing the Senate. House Democrats impeached Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress—the very things Pelosi now appears to be doing.“
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/20/nancy-pelosi-not-trump-is-provoking-a-constitutional-crisis/#
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    1). It’s not just Pelosi driving this but the entire Democratic leadership. On Thursday, Democratic Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn said he would be willing to withhold the articles of impeachment from the Senate indefinitely—“as long as it takes.”
    2) The House of Representatives had voted to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday, but Nancy Pelosi suggested they might not send the articles of impeachment on to the Senate for a trial. Clyburn defended that idea. Then he said, “Let’s give him a fair trial and hang him.”
    3) Moscow Mitch has been charged with “colluding with the WH.”
    4) Bottomline: The outcome of the House impeachment inquiry was pre-determined, and everyone knows it. So is the outcome of the eventual Senate trial.

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