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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. Rick Rasmussen Avatar
    Rick Rasmussen

    Walt- You clearly have no understanding of what impeachment is or means. The senate cannot overturn impeachment. Trump has been impeached. It’s done. Can’t put toothpaste back in the tube. It is a permanent and ugly scar on his reputation for ever and ever and ever.

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The Senate can and looks likely to dismiss the articles just as a judge dismisses a DA’s junk grand jury ham sandwich indictment. LOL
    😉

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  3. Walt Avatar

    Sure Rick,, and it’s pretty much meaningless. All it says is “we say Trump did something we don’t like”. That’s pretty much it. Nothing criminal. No crime.
    Trump is still President, and will stay that way. Enjoy his re-election.

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    If Impeachment Articles Are Not Delivered, Did Impeachment Happen?
    “But since we’ll be playing trivial pursuit for a more few hours (days?), we might as well ask: As long as the House withholds the impeachment articles from the Senate, has Trump been impeached?
    In the law, there are many situations in which an outcome is known, but it is not a formal outcome until some ministerial act is taken. A grand jury can vote an indictment, for example, but the defendant is not considered indicted until the charges are filed with the clerk of the court. A defendant can be found guilty by a jury, but there is technically no conviction until the judgment is “entered” by the trial court, usually months later when sentence is imposed. An appellate court can issue a ruling that orders a lower court to take some action, but the lower court has no jurisdiction to act in the case until issuance of the appellate court’s “mandate” — the document that formally transfers jurisdiction.
    Plainly, Congress has similar ministerial acts of transference that must occur in order for legislation to pass. Were that not the case, Speaker Pelosi would not be talking about delaying the transfer of impeachment articles.
    So it’s all well and good for the Speaker to hold up the works that Democrats, five minutes ago, were breathlessly telling us had to be carried out with all due haste. But many scholars take the position that the Constitution requires a trial if there has been an impeachment. If such a trial cannot properly occur unless and until articles of impeachment have been transferred from the House to the Senate, and Speaker Pelosi won’t transfer them, has President Trump actually been impeached?
    Sure, it’s a stupid question . . . but we’re living in stupid times.”
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/trump-impeachment-if-impeachment-articles-are-not-delivered-did-impeachment-happen/#slide-1

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  5. Castaneda Avatar
    Castaneda

    ,,,BillyToes,,,thanks for providing the Intercept link…finally one that is not bat shit crazy…
    You might enjoy this one,,,
    https://theintercept.com/2019/12/19/a-z-trump-impeachment/

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  6. Walt Avatar

    Now just why would the Queen of the DAMNED hold up the show?
    Could it be that she wants the loser Senators to stay on the campaign trail? Lyowatha ,Col. Sanders, and whatshisshits would have to stop spending other people’s money promising the moon and stars when they get elected. They would have to come back to D.C. and sit in the “trial”.
    If that happened, I would love a LONG, drawn out trial.. The longer they have to sit and stew, the better.

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  7. Scott O Avatar

    Bobby goes off the edge: “This Russia-Trump collusion is arguably the greatest threat this nation currently faces.”
    Really?
    You mean we might have more Democrat Natl Committee lies uncovered?
    Woohoo! Pretty scary!
    I’m askeered!
    Trump is making Putin’s life hell.
    Oil is Russia’s main access to hard currency. Trump is doing whatever he can to drive down the cost of oil.
    Trump is trying to get Europe to buy our natural gas instead of them being dependent on Russian nat gas supplies. The Dem candidates are for raising the cost of oil and boosting Russia’s income and they are for not allowing our exporting nat gas.
    Trump did what Obama would not do – give/sell modern lethal anti-tank systems to the Ukraine.
    I don’t like Putin one bit, but China is 10 times the problem in all regards. And the Dems are all buddy-buddy with them. Just as we had to unite with the USSR to fight Germany, we may have to unite with Russia to fight China.

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  8. Walt Avatar

    I guess I shouldn’t make the new Proggy posters look like fools so soon. Sory,, that’s what you get when you worship at the altar of fake LIB news. They lie to you.
    But hey! You can always try and backup your claims with facts… Care to give it a try?

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  9. Matt Mountain Avatar
    Matt Mountain

    You Republicans are so angry right now, it’s like you saw a poor kid eating a free lunch. Makes you wanna spit, don’t it.

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Matt Mountain | 19 December 2019 at 06:11 PM
    …….which personality is this?

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  11. Vern Valley Avatar
    Vern Valley

    Yeah? We want to know?

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  12. Hank Hill Avatar
    Hank Hill

    Where did all these screwballs come from.

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  13. Walt Avatar

    Poor “matt”.. We are laughing at you. Seems it’s you and yours that’s sucking lemons. HELL!! You can’t even get the paperwork turned in! Trump and the Repubs are raking in the campaign donations by the train load.
    This joke of an impeachment is more fun to watch than Hillary losing on election night. Just not going the way you dreamed… Is it? 🤣🤣
    Come on back for more sourpuss.
    There is a jar of Dr. D.J. Trump’s Buttsore cream waiting for you.

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  14. Earl Estuary Avatar
    Earl Estuary

    This place is sure getting crazy!

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  15. Walt Avatar

    Ya’ gotta love the self loathing LIBS showing up trying to paint the pro Trump folk as dejected, when it’s THEM who’s crying in their merlow. They have lost on SO MANY levels.
    BTW,,, Trump ain’t “impeached*” until the Senate gets the documents…. You know,,, the ones your swamp queen won’t turn over.
    Go ahead.. Start a new impeachment all over again.. Invent a new set of fabricated crimes. It’s your funeral.

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    It must be a sock with toes what with all the names that sound the same punctuation notwithstanding.
    What do we have to be angry about, patterns show four more years, the bungled socialsit clown car show and schiff for brains has put the house in serious play? MONEY MONEY MONEY! NONEY!! Its the economy stupids!
    Black, Hispanic, Asian and women have historic employment levels and wages are rising fastest for the lowest income workers and if the approval ratings from these groups give him just a few percentage points in the vote more states will go R.
    What’s not to like unless you are crying in your pink pussy hat and mommy is kicking your Antifa ass out of the basement?
    😉

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  17. Walt Avatar

    The mark of a true Liberal
    Hunter Biden don’t want to do the right thing.
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/19/hunter-biden-basic-financial-information/
    “Hunter Biden is refusing to provide basic information about his finances for an ongoing paternity case, the mother of his 16-month-old child said in a court filing Wednesday.
    A DNA test confirmed in November that Biden is the biological father of former stripper Lunden Roberts’s child. Roberts is suing Biden in Arkansas, arguing that he should be ordered to provide support for their child.
    But in a motion to compel discovery filed Wednesday, Roberts said that Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, has avoided his “natural and legal duty to support his child by failing to provide basic information about his income, finances, and lifestyle.”
    “[I]t should, by now, be abundantly clear to the Court that the defendant is not going to provide any of his discoverable financial information unless the court forces him to do so,” the filing read.
    Among the information that Roberts requested Biden provide was a list of all his sources of income for the past five years, which would include the timeframe when he was serving on the board of Burisma, a Ukranian natural gas company.”
    Another LIB deadbeat dad.

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Irony alert…….

    “Here’s something you don’t see every day: Alcee Hastings, a former federal judge impeached and removed from the bench for taking bribes, participating in a House hearing that sets the rules for an impeachment. (Yes, Florida man strikes again…)”

    https://twitter.com/dmartosko/status/1207028029110849536

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  19. Walt Avatar

    Says a sock puppet.
    HEY!!! I FOUND JIMMY HOFFA!! Witness protection all this time?
    (Or is it really Huffer? too much paint fumes?)
    Maybe just Jeffy again. What’s with these rabid LIBS and their fascination with Nazis?

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Yikes, ha, so who do we know who likes that word in liberal lament land? Just another toe in the sock. Time to rinse your tears out of the pink pussy hat.
    Is creepy grampa joe trying to tank it? That’s sure going to help in the swing states, help the prez that is!-
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/19/joe-biden-admits-he-is-ready-to-sacrifice-hundreds-of-thousands-of-jobs-for-greener-economy/
    😉

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  21. Walt Avatar

    Plenty of TROLLS crawling out from under the rocks.
    The impeachment joke has turned out to be on them.
    Have a bitch? tell it to your queen. She’s the one that set you up for the epic letdown. But HEY!! You still can vote her in again.
    You LIBS are so buttsore, your scooting on the carpet like a pooch with worms, and lashing out at anything.
    So you won your battle… A TOAST to you losing the war.
    We shall give no quarter come election day.

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  22. Jeff Pelline Avatar
    Jeff Pelline

    Walt thinks I’m a sock puppet. No, Walt, I happily tell people what I think. You, sir, should find something to do.

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  23. Walt Avatar

    Plenty of sad LIBS tonight. May I suggest a group Renta-Buddy?
    Post impeachment therapy may do you all wonders.(there is always store bought weed. The VERY pretty Prince Gavin needs your tax dollars) There is that hookah over at Emery’s place,
    you guys and gals can inhale so much that bowl will glow like a forge.
    Yes, the LIBS are the real losers after these three years.
    Fake news and the elected LIBS really got their hopes up.
    Welcome to reality…….

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  24. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Jeff Pelline | 19 December 2019 at 07:14 PM
    ……I wonder what “Gloria Zane has to say about that?

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  25. Scott O Avatar

    JH 6:48 – There you go, folks – that’s the best the left has to offer!
    Racist, ageist, name-calling.
    No facts, reason or logic.
    Trump lives inside these lefties’ brains – just laughing and laughing.
    It’s a wonderful life!

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  26. Walt Avatar

    Poor Jeffy. No shows at your tomb of a blog?
    I got plenty to do. Giving you heartburn and grief is one of them. Now why don’t you go back and edit your own posts in Jeffy land?
    But yes,, your just one BIG TROLL…..

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt
    Even a Lib Constitutional law professor agree with you. The common ditch digger knows more that every sock puppet under God’s green sky. :). Oh, I haven’t seen them this butt hurt since Trump on stomped on Hillary’s neck and ground her face into the dust.
    Trump Isn’t Impeached Until the House Tells the Senate
    According to the Constitution, impeachment is a process, not a vote.
    https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-19/trump-impeachment-delay-could-be-serious-problem-for-democrats?
    They sure are acting like they just handed Trump another election. And they did. Wonder if ACME Rents will even bother to return their calls. Silly me. Of course ACME Rents will answer Wile E. Coyote’s calls of desperation. Money talks, bull pucky walks. Peep peep.
    Repost:
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2680642368649316&set=a.220824557964455&type=3&theater

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  28. Walt Avatar

    Why Thanks Bill. Now you really pissed off Jeffy and the TROLLS. You validated my findings. How dare a ditch digger comprehend such a fact. I should be blindly voting Proggy.
    But the above mentioned Leftistas will believe Joe.
    ” Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that middle class Americans were not benefiting under President Donald Trump’s booming economy.
    “I don’t think they really like the economy,” Biden said when asked at the PBS/Politico Democrat presidential debate about the difficulty of running for president in a strong economy.
    Biden said the middle class was getting “killed” and “crushed” by the Trump economy.
    “The idea that we’re growing, we’re not growing, the very wealthy are growing,” he claimed. “Ordinary people are not growing. They are not happy with where they are and that’s why we must change this presidency now.”
    Now for the facts.
    Verdict: False.
    According to statistics revealed by Sentier Research, the median or average-income family has seen their annual income grow by about $5,000 since Trump took office.
    Under eight years of George W. Bush, income gains only increased $400, and under eight years of Obama, the gains were only $1,043.
    Working-class Americans are also experiencing wage gains under Trump’s economy for the first time in a decade, and most Americans got a tax cut as a result of Trump’s tax reform.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/12/19/fact-check-joe-biden-falsely-claims-middle-class-is-not-growing-under-trump/

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt. Even the Democrat’s top impeachment witness agrees with you.
    Democrats’ Top Impeachment Witness: Democrats Have Not Impeached Trump
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-top-impeachment-witness-democrats-have-not-impeached-trump?
    I know it’s the same as my 7:33 pm link, but it goods so much better on a trusted site.

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So the plastic in the sea issue is primarily an asia issue as is well documented but the eco grinch luddites still throw that guilt card for the stupid’s.
    Even as whales starve because of the plastic they have consumed
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/tinsel-canceled-131404716.html
    😉

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  31. Jeff Pelline Avatar
    Jeff Pelline

    Walt writes:
    “Poor Jeffy. No shows at your tomb of a blog?
    I got plenty to do. Giving you heartburn and grief is one of them. Now why don’t you go back and edit your own posts in Jeffy land?
    But yes,, your just one BIG TROLL….”
    Memo to Walt: You need to edit your own posts! It is “you’re just one BIG TROLL ..” not “your.” This blog is a hoot!

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    It’s debate night….it shows.
    “The Democratic presidential candidates are not all that memorable, even to people in the news business.
    During Thursday night’s primary debate, moderator Judy Woodruff of PBS repeatedly called billionaire Tom Steyer by the name of businessmen Andrew Yang. The embarrassing slip-up didn’t end until Woodruff was corrected, more than once.
    “Mr. Yang, what more –,” Woodruff started to say to Mr. Steyer.
    “I’m over here!” Yang yelled, standing on the other side of the stage.
    Woodruff persisted: “Mr. Yang, what more –”
    Yang then started clapping to get the moderator’s attention and someone, it’s unclear who, yelled “Judy, Judy!”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-moderator-confuses-democratic-candidates-continually-repeats-wrong-name?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro

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  33. Walt Avatar

    Let me help out the sad sack LIBS.. I hear the Willie Nelson brand weed is top shelf. You can toke your misery away.
    Once ounce will make all of Nevada City comatose.
    It will help you cope with that loss of a win.
    Consider the upcoming funeral a wake. party it up and speak of what could have been. It Trump could have actually been just scratched.
    You got what you wanted.. Just no where near the results you were promised.

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “United States Attorney John Durham’s criminal investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation is reportedly taking a close look at former CIA Director John Brennan.
    Durham has “requested Mr. Brennan’s emails, call logs and other documents from the C.I.A., according to a person briefed on his inquiry,” The New York Times reported. “He wants to learn what Mr. Brennan told other officials, including the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, about his and the C.I.A.’s views of a notorious dossier of assertions about Russia and Trump associates.”
    Treason! Traitor! Bull Durham is a traitor to the Deep State! Barr is a lawless goon!

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  35. Walt Avatar

    So Jeffy is now the spelling Nazi.
    If your posting here, there is a buffet that is safe tonight, and the proprietor will not go bankrupt.

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “You, sir, should find something to do.” The FUE
    Oh, control freaks are that way. Spelling Nazis are the least of it.
    Hey Walt, did you mess up the spelling on your own Mother’s memorial? I did not think so. Do as he says, not as he does. 🎱

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Botox Nancy train wreck newsconf and the socialist dem clown car bouncing off the left rails all in one day! SWEET!
    “Special Report” anchor Bret Baier said on Thursday that impeachment politics may have turned against House Democrats in key states, prompting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to state that she may wait to send articles of impeachment to the GOP-controlled Senate.
    “The politics of this perhaps turned around in some key states because, obviously, you would want to talk about it if you’ve accomplished the thing you’ve set out to do for a long period of time,” Baier told “America’s Newsroom” after Pelosi took only a limited number of questions about impeachment Thursday at her weekly news conference.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/bret-baier-pelosi-impeachment-politics-are-turning-against-dems
    😉

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    90% OF VIRGINIA’S COUNTIES ARE GUN SANCTUARIES
    “The Democrats have died on this [anti-gun] hill more than once before. It seems obvious that, to stick with the case at hand, their riling up Virginia’s gun owners will hurt them politically and will serve no tangible goal. So why do they do it?
    Maybe they are true believers. Maybe they honestly think that if we add two or three more gun regulations to the thousands that already exist, violence will magically wither away, despite all evidence to the contrary. But despite my low opinion of liberals, I don’t think they are that dumb. I think, rather, that most of them hate the sort of people who own firearms, and simply want to harass and delegitimize them. I don’t think there is any more noble objective in view, which is why the gun sanctuary movement has taken off with lightning speed.“
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/12/90-of-virginias-counties-are-gun-sanctuaries.php
    I sense a foul wind a’blowing.

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  39. Walt Avatar

    Class is over and more certifications in hand.
    More time now to wizz in the Libby punch bowl.
    And it’s already having its desired effect.

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  40. Castaneda Avatar
    Castaneda

    ,,,Don Juan Bessie,,,the face of the Deplorables,,,

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  41. Walt Avatar

    It’s better than your smiling face on a case of Depends.
    Being a “deplorable” is a good thing.

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Odd. Dems initiated impeachment hearings and now Trump is the front runner ahead of all candidates heading into 2020. Although I prefer the underdog role, I must say “Thank you,deplorables” and a give special shout out to all the sock puppets and Lamestream media today for lending a much needed helping hand. We the people could not have done it without you. Whatever you are doing, keep doing what you are doing.
    Love,
    Deplorable me.

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  43. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Here is a stocking stuffer for the 12 days of Christmas! The trolls will see it as a lump of coal in their stockings especially the fakenews men. LOL
    https://news.grabien.com/story-montage-12-most-mortifying-media-moments-2019
    😉

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    Finally …..WaPo decides to do some honest reporting!
    From the “Entertainment” section –

    Movies
    After the Raid (Netflix) A large immigration raid in a small town leaves emotional fallout and hard questions for its churchgoers about what it means to love thy neighbor.
    A Christmas Carol (FX at 7:30) Ebenezer Scrooge experiences a dark night of the soul in an original take on Charles Dickens’s iconic ghost story.
    Specials
    Democratic Presidential Debate (PBS/CNN at 8) May be listed by some PBS stations as an episode of “Antiques Roadshow.”
    iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2019 (CW at 8) A holiday concert with the year’s top artists performing their hits.

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    MORE EVIDENCE THAT WE SHOULDN’T TAKE ADVICE FROM CLIMATE ACTIVISTS
    “Maybe I am turning into a codger, but I really do think people used to be smarter. Or, at least, they used to have a better grasp of basic facts about how the world works. Also the laws of physics. We had a few dim bulbs when I was growing up, but I’m pretty sure none of them would have stood in front of a train.
    I don’t think it is wholly coincidental that this ignorance of the realities of the physical world is seen in extreme form among climate activists.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/12/more-evidence-that-we-shouldnt-take-advice-from-climate-activists.php
    The train was just delivering stocking stuffers to our Enlightened Betters.

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  46. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Nothing is really free especially those apps that do something you and your kids might like to play etc.
    Now you know why the tech giants send their kid to schools that don’t allow iphones and such.
    Imagine how much the data miners and other compilers can do when they share/sell notes to create a full profile of a kid for a decade and how they can push message back at them.
    Its worse than you have thought –
    It doesn’t take much imagination to conjure the powers such always-on surveillance can provide an authoritarian regime like China’s. Within America’s own representative democracy, citizens would surely rise up in outrage if the government attempted to mandate that every person above the age of 12 carry a tracking device that revealed their location 24 hours a day. Yet, in the decade since Apple’s App Store was created, Americans have, app by app, consented to just such a system run by private companies. Now, as the decade ends, tens of millions of Americans, including many children, find themselves carrying spies in their pockets during the day and leaving them beside their beds at night — even though the corporations that control their data are far less accountable than the government would be.
    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html
    😉

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  47. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I wonder if you couldn’t invent a new flag for the Left that had an ouroboros front and center.
    https://news.yahoo.com/harry-potter-author-jk-rowling-205200459.html

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