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George Rebane

In the affairs of Man ignorance trumps plenty every time.

After hearing the Republicans expose all the exculpatory evidence the Dems withheld, their position now is 1) well OK, maybe our evidence against Trump is really not all that โ€œoverwhelmingโ€, but 2) the real overwhelming evidence exists and will come out if we can continue the investigation and hear from our list of witnesses.  The presidentโ€™s defense teamโ€™s position is 1) letโ€™s use that overwhelming evidence of yours that took three years to develop, then 2) thereโ€™s no need to continue this investigation in the Senate, but if required, we have our own list of witnesses to be called.  Wanna play?

The lamestream media coverage has been all one-sided.  Last week they hung on every word from Schiff, Nadler, et al as they spun out their allegations, presumptions, beliefs, โ€ฆ without a shred of evidence that any of it constituted โ€œhigh crimes and misdemeanorsโ€ or for that matter, any acts historically unique to this president in carrying out his duties.  When the Republican defense took the podium, the major lamestream outlets gave those arguments short shrift, and focused entirely on their new great hope, the presumed testimony of former national security adviser John Bolton.  (Attentive readers know that FN is the only voice of balance and reason against the phalanx of leftwing propaganda continually spewed by ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC.  National news is not a level playing field.)

To give credit where due, the lamestream has perfectly performed as the public communications arm of Team Schiff and his House managers.  Nowhere do they inform their viewers that it was not Donald Trump but Joe Biden who pulled off the quid pro quo with Ukraine by threatening to withhold aid if they did not immediately (within six hours) fire the prosecutor investigating Ukraineโ€™s Burisma on whose board sat energy naรฏf Hunter Biden raking in cartloads of cash.  That Obama-launched corruption was a ripe target for investigation to understand how our aid monies were spent.  But that was a politically incorrect endeavor, and therefore not considered by anyone outside the administration, most certainly not by Team Schiff.

Circling back to John Bolton, it interests me no end to follow the career of the former Trump staffer after he publishes his โ€˜kiss and tellโ€™ memoir that claims to out at a most inconvenient time the confidential Oval Office conversations between him and the president of the United States, the man he was sworn to serve in a professional manner.  Who in hell would now engage Bolton in any kind of consulting or advisory capacity knowing that he has demonstrably defected in positions that demand confidence and trust?

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262 responses to “Meanwhile back at the Senate”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 12;54 pm
    Suppose the Dems get some Rโ€™s to crossover. Maybe 6, maybe 12, maybe 18. Even that would still be short of the 2/3 needed to convict Trump. Itโ€™s over, gents.
    Now, you can go on and on about wildfires and Global crises and who shagged who and Trump is a Nazi and if you disagree you are a Nazi too. You can chant Orange Man Bad til the cows come home, but it has nothing to do with the Senate. Zero. Itโ€™s over.
    The House dis not take impeachment seriously and contrary to what they claim, the House did not send over for trail an ironclad case with irrefutable evidence to hang โ€˜em high. Lots of talk about military families and growing up and family , but shy on evidence. If the House did not take the solemn act of impeachment seriously (and it shows), why should anybody else?
    Fun fact: the total acreage burned in Australia this fire season is the second lowest in 20 years. Do your own research, fellas, and post it in the Sandbox.
    Donโ€™t look like Texas is turning Blue, at least not this time around.

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  2. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    lol. Great Scott, we’ve got trouble right here in River City. Folks comin’ outa the woodwork on this Trump BS impeachment hullaballoo. Trump causin’ forest fires, Nazi marches, John Bolton sounding like a character from Shakespeare.
    Next thing you know, the House is going to invite the Senate over to a big party and do what Dingaan, Zulu king, did to Retief and his Boers after promising them a chunk of the Natal. Being a freedom fighter is a tough gig, but someone has to do it.

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  3. Walt Avatar

    Global warming? That horse shit again?
    How bout those volcanos Emery? One is popping off in Alaska,
    the one in the Philippines,, and Iceland may be in then news real soon.
    Put that in your bong and smoke it.

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  4. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    What you refer to as innocent “foot in mouth talk” by Trump are intentional lies intended to deceive the American people.

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  5. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Paule: “What you refer to as innocent “foot in mouth talk” by Trump are intentional lies intended to deceive the American people.”
    Oh well. Better luck next time mon amie.

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh my. Now comparisons to the Vietnam War if the Senate does not vote the way you demand him to. And itโ€™s the same crowd that spit on our Nam vets who were u der orders to stand down.
    Trump under crisis? He has been put through three years of crises non-stop by the likes of Left has has done quite well, thank you. During the height of impeachment…yes impeachment of all things, Trump has hit the highest polling of his Presidency, signed Phase One of the China trade deal, signed off on USMCA, moved the ball forward for the first time in years in the Middle East, has had wage growth finally break out of stagnant growth, ad infinitum. If that is an example of folding under crisis, then perhaps it is your projection as you melt into a pool of primordial ooze.
    Itโ€™s over. You can always verify my point by listening to the sounds of gasping for air emitting from the fog of swamp gas.
    You Lefties did not make much progress on the 7 Steps of Grieve Recovery since 2016…and now this. Oh my.

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  7. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 01 February 2020 at 01:18 PM
    Ahh……itโ€™s Pentecostal Punchy now! Get behind thee Satan!

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  8. Walt Avatar

    The economy he’s created sure ain’t no lie.
    These lies Emery?
    Under President Trumpโ€™s leadership, Congress passed historic tax cuts and relief for hard-working Americans. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act:
    Is the first major tax reform signed in 30 years.
    Provided tax relief for 82% of middle-class families.
    Doubled the Child Tax Credit proving an additional $1,000 per child in tax relief for working parents.
    Nearly doubled the standard deduction, a change that simplified the tax filing process for millions of Americans.
    Cut taxes for small business by 20%, providing $415 billion in tax relief for small business owners.
    Alleviated the tax burden on over 500 companies. who used those savings to fund bonuses, wage increases for 4.8 million workers.
    Spurred new investments into the American economy, after it was passed businesses invested $482 billion into new American projects.
    Repealed Obamacareโ€™s burdensome individual mandate.
    Made U.S. companies competitive on the world stage, lowering the corporate tax rate from one of the highest in the industrialized world (35%) to 21%.
    Plenty more facts here.
    https://www.promiseskept.com/achievement/overview/economy-and-jobs/#
    I will take what YOU call “Trump lies” over You and yours “Liberal lies” any day of the week, and twice on Sunday.

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  9. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damn fools said would happen has come to pass.”
    -Lord Melbourne

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well team lefty has made all the moves to ensure reelection in the context of historically low unemployment, historically high minority support that only needs to manifest in 2,3 percentage points in the Trump column to destroy the eventual winner of the socialist dem clown car fur ball.
    You picked your TDS poison the day after the election in 2016 and its going to be a slow electoral death for team lefty.
    ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  11. Scott O Avatar

    Frisch 11:24 – “A crises will come and Americans will die because Trump is President.”
    Oh no – not THAT again!!!
    What WILL happen.
    All your claims of fear and doom have come and gone – yet onward you slog.
    re AGW – the only deniers are the climate alarmists denying the various and sundry prognostications of climate doom that never turned out to be correct.

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  12. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery | 01 February 2020 at 10:36 AM
    Change the subject again I see after I kicked your ass on the question you tried to foist on the number of Congressional seats. You really are demented. And now we have the other demented Truckee loon Frisch and his “conspiracy” theories. You two creamed your jeans over Obama and any loony leftywingnut and you will once again pay the price with a huge defeat. You are the minority now and I love it. Trump may have another 100 plus EC victory and your clown car occupants can’t touch him. If there are any deplorable schmucks here it is Frisch and Emery and the other trolls. We have the Senate and nothing will change the outcome for Trump. BillT has it right. And all the last second machinations you fools conjure up will be shown for what they are. Democrats desperate. What a hoot!

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  13. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punch and Stevie…
    Of course, there’s no limit to the number of times a President can be impeached, so go ahead and push Queen Nan to reopen an Impeachment Inquiry… there’s time for two more before November.

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  14. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Everyone besides Punch and Stevie…
    Don’t count the chickens before they’ve hatched.

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  15. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    Posted by: George Rebane | 01 February 2020 at 01:07 PM
    ,,,Nice riff!!!

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  16. Walt Avatar

    Here you go true believers.(Emery and Stevie)
    Some “AGW” news for you to chew your cud on.
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/01/01/glacier-national-park-quietly-removed-gone-by-2020-signs-in-2019-update/
    “Glacier National Park quietly removed โ€˜Gone by 2020โ€™ signs in 2019โ€”Update
    Throughout Glacier National Park, visitors were met with signs, brochures and messages proclaiming that all of the Parkโ€™s glaciers were expected to melt away by 2020.
    But by 2019 NOT EVEN ONE of the glaciers had disappeared.
    During the winter of 2018-2019โ€“while the St. Mary Visitor Center was closed to the publicโ€“the government quietly altered the โ€˜Gone by 2020โ€™ signs.
    And they would have gotten away with it if not for Roger Roots of Lysander Spooner University.”
    And every one is still there.
    How bout all those LIES Emery?
    The 420TH Nevada City cricket Corps. will come to your rescue.

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, it looks to me the Leftinistas are pissed off royally that the Rโ€™s in the Senate (and House) did not pull their usual MO and fold like a cheap suit. No more wet noddles at the first volley of incoming. No more trying to work with our assassins across the aisle. No more trying to work in good faith with those who never never ever operate in good faith.
    What pisses the Leftinistas off most is the Rโ€™s wonโ€™t stand down. They are flying in a tight formation and miraculously grew a spin….by following Trumpโ€™s lead. I rather like the Rโ€™s growing a vertebrae and those Rโ€™s in the House were amazing. They should never have called Lindsey Graham a homo or attack Ted Cruzโ€™s kids, aged 9 and 11. And they should have never attacked folks who voted for Obama twice and voted for Trump in 2016.
    I rather like a pissed off Linsey Graham and a fired up Ted Cruz and a fired up POTUS.
    Where is Jeff Flake when the Dems need him most? Where is Beto?
    A major bombshell coming before Wednesday, 1 pm, EST? Oh course. No surprise there. We all lived through the Kavanaugh hearings, duh. And we lived quite well through the Impeachment Acquittal…er…non conviction. Blame the R senators! Blame Nigel Farage! Blame the Russians!
    Ever wonder why Trump is still standing? Ever wonder why? Ever wonder why normal folks have tuned out impeachment and are getting on with their lives? Ever wonder why David Axelrodโ€™s 80 minute focus group in heavy Dem Illinois did not mention impeachment one single time…during the height of the House hearings?
    Because we and they knew it was and is a waste of time. Total waste of time.
    Oh my, another bombshell will be dropped. Oh, what shall I ever do? Is it going to be the Mother OF All Bombs? It will bomb, just like the other bombs.

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Hold your horses! New Bombshell is being dropped as I write this. BREAKING NEWS!!
    https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10157042256030914/?type=3&theater

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  19. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Oh Todd, you keep clinging to past glories when it comes to the House. Fact is less than 2 years ago the Dems won big time in the election and are now up by 41 seats. The Senate is next especially after their performance in the fake impeachment trial that banned new witnesses. That was opposed by a huge 75% voter margin, almost unheard of in an opinion poll.

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  20. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 222pm
    Yep, you got the trumpers right where you want them now. Couldn’t have gone better.

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  21. Walt Avatar

    Ya Emery,, 75% told your Proggys to pound sand.
    Get your lies straight.

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  22. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Gregory: “Yep, you got the trumpers right where you want them now. Couldn’t have gone better.”
    lol. Exactly.
    You know darned well he just wants to hang out with the cool kids.

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  23. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Thanks for agreeing with me Gregory about the Trump dump to come.
    Gregory quote
    “Couldn’t have gone better.”

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  24. Walt Avatar

    Trump dump? DO explain that.(naa never going to happen)
    HELL Emery, you can’t even come up with an explanation why people would vote to ruin all of Trump’s accomplishments.
    None. Nanda. Kinda puts your “Trump dump” in the Proggy dumpster fire.

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  25. Walt Avatar

    Here you go Emery, There is still hope.
    https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/23/doj-impeachment-vote-undercut-house-mcgahn-testimony-089604
    “The House is open to the prospect of impeaching President Donald Trump a second time, lawyers for the Judiciary Committee said Monday.
    House Counsel Douglas Letter said in a filing in federal court that a second impeachment could be necessary if the House uncovers new evidence that Trump attempted to obstruct investigations of his conduct. Letter made the argument as part of an inquiry by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals”
    The question is,, just how stupid does the donkey party want to look?

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Looks like while the Prez is having bang up rally’s with large percentages of dems in the audience and in the shadow of the socialist dems epic fail there is blood on the upholstery in the socialist dem clown car –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/01/democrat-strategist-justin-horwitz-outrageous-dnc-rigging-against-sanders-biden-mentally-deteriorating/
    ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  27. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Emery is so deranged he is impossible to interact with. The R’s have the Senate and the President. You have a little over one half of the House. I think you must be on drugs to think you have the upper hand.
    Frisch demeans all those R women and veterans in the Senate without hesitation. While all your side honeymooned in the USSR and supports Ortega in Nicky. The Maduro fans of your ilk just can’t seem to get the power. That is because you are a loon as are all your pals in the demonic Party.
    Trump is kicking your butt and he doesn’t even try that hard. You and your lunatics are sheeple and we get to watch you destroy yourselves. Fun to watch. And that SBC crowd? Looks like commies and unAmerican types.

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  28. Steven Frisch Avatar
    Steven Frisch

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 01 February 2020 at 01:27 PM
    “Trump under crisis? He has been put through three years of crises non-stop by the likes of Left has has done quite well, thank you.”
    1. Trump has the consistently highest unfavorable rating of any President in modern history.
    https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
    2. Trump did not sign anything near a comprehensive trade deal with China and the cost of what he has done out paces the benefit it creates.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/opinion/editorials/trump-china-trade-deal.html
    3. The USMCA is nothing but a tinkering around the edges of NAFTA, but hey, that is fine by me and Nancy likes it.
    https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/10/politics/nafta-us-mexico-canada-trade-deal-differences/index.html
    4. The middle east peace deal is dead on arrival…
    https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/29/opinions/trump-middle-east-peace-plan-is-fantasy-opinion-miller/index.html
    5. It is good that US wage growth was 3% in 2019, the highest in 10 years, but that is not uncommon compared to the growth before the great recession, and it still means real wages are the same as they were in 1973.
    https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/04/50-years-of-us-wages-in-one-chart/
    And frankly, none of these things are a real crises…I ain’t talking about a crises like opposition from the left or the right.

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  29. Steven Frisch Avatar
    Steven Frisch

    Posted by: Gregory | 01 February 2020 at 01:45 PM
    I could almost guarantee you that if Trump is reelected he will be impeached again because he is incapable of restraining his appetite for money, power and pussy.

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  30. Walt Avatar

    Despite all the LIB hate, Stevie look at all he’s got done.
    Go ahead. Tell us a LIB did it.
    DAMN those pesky facts. It’s sure fun to use that pointy stick to poke you guys with.
    All the hard work your proggy press has gone to. To no avail.
    From a 4 watt radio station in Nevada city, to captive audiences forced to watch CNN in airports. Trump still hands LIBS their collective asses.
    Now be sure to refuse the money you get from the tax cuts. You know,, Trump is responsible for that extra money in your hand. Now don’t get your fingers singed keeping it.

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  31. Walt Avatar

    “he is incapable of restraining his appetite for money, power and pussy.” yet not a smidgin of fact to back your lame claim.
    OH.. It’s money begging time,, isn’t it Stevie? Gotta get those grant forms in. Or do you have some unpaid “volunteer” doing that for you?(speaking of “power”)

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  32. Steven Frisch Avatar
    Steven Frisch

    Posted by: Walt | 01 February 2020 at 04:19 PM
    What is funny is that all you guys believe the lies about all the things Trump has “got done” instead of doing the math and figuring out he actually hasn’t done a thing.
    When lies are truth the sheep follow.

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  33. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “I could almost guarantee you that if Trump is reelected he will be impeached again because he is incapable of restraining his appetite for money, power and pussy.”
    Frischy
    I’ll bet 100 quatloos that for every impeaching of Trump in the future there will be a corresponding loss of DEM seats in the House and the Senate.
    It’s time to give up on “The Resistance”. Trump has been literally spied upon in one of the ugliest misuse and abuse of powers ever in the history of the country, from before his election, and he’s still there. It’s time, gentlemen. The 2016 election was conducted fairly and won by Trump. The 2018 election, conducted fairly but under the Mueller cloud, returned the Speakership to Queen Nan. Now there’s a new election and the race is on.

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Do list those “lies”. You sure ran from the facts posted above.
    You have yet to refute one. But continue with that ballad of the butthurt set to a funeral dirge.
    You and your LOST.(and VERY predicted) Trump wins.. Nope,, we have yet to get tired of all this WINNING!!!
    Trump has a better approval rating at this time in the game, than your boy “O”.(by 10 points.. But who’s counting?)
    Enjoy losing the House come election night.

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  35. Walt Avatar

    Notice folks? The LIBS here can’t even come up with one damned good reason to vote for ANY of the wannabes looking to take Trump’s job. Now why is that? Because NONE are worth a tinker’s damn.
    Any LIB care to defend their castle? Or are you already skedaddling out the back door?
    Just what do you have to offer that’s better than Trump??
    Someone grow a pair.

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  36. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Sounds like team lefty is crying in their pink pussy hats and will again in November. Poor things.
    ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  37. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Looks like Frisch and his commie pals are jealous of Trump. No nooky eh Frisch? When a person has not seen their feet in years and gasps for air on a 100-foot jaunt to the mailbox, I can see why you are jealous of Trump. He is a success, you are a flop.

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  38. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    It is amusing that ol steve would go to the frishiest fakenews source that has been so consistently wrong for the last 3 years. He must have invested heavily in rancid Russian dressing futures.
    No lets not get the experts on the job because they are too white –
    https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/01/31/nolte-cnn-trolls-trumps-coronavirus-task-force-as-too-white/
    ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    My, it looks like the Unhinged Blue Mob is taking another defeat quite well. Something tells me that they will not be voting from Trump in the near future. I could be wrong.
    Hating Trump is all they have. I expected the Party of Hate to rear its ugly head from the swamp gas this weekend and they are not one to disappoint. One thing about the Party of Hate is it is hard to overestimate their actions and impossible to underestimate the only arrow in their quiver, aka, pure unadulterated hate.
    If you donโ€t like the results in the Senate, blame Schiffilis, the Botox Queen, Jerry Nader and the House Dems that sent over to the Senate articles of impeachment with a note attached saying the dog ate their homework.
    Put the blame solely on where it lies, gentleman and the confused.

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  40. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Sorryu Todd
    Dems took a 41 seat led on the last Congressional, the best overall indicator of public support at any one time. That number is the most contemporary indication of voter preference because it includes all states and all voters
    and was a Blue Wave for the Dems just like it was for the Repubs when they swept the House.

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  41. Walt Avatar

    Here we go…Emery trying to relive the past..
    See? Ask a point blank question to a LIB, and they got nuttn’.
    That’s why Trump is going to win. Commiecrats can’t even come up with one good thing to say about their own.
    Go ahead Emery,, vote Johnson again.

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 5:58 pm.
    Says the guy who lives in a Red district. Well, owning two of the three branches of government ainโ€™t bad, ainโ€™t bad at all, my fellow Red districter..
    Funny how they all look at life as if it were a hockey stick. Itโ€™s going up, up, and up vertically and will always be that way, forever and ever hence. If only life and politics worked that way. Well, it does work that way in the recesses of their mushy melons.

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  43. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    What a lying sack or just dementia @ 558. The average flip in the off year is 36 in the house but we had a historic, strategic gain in the senate. How many came from cali oh great pony tail of ignorance? Blue wave is bs. Did you hear beto is going to beat Ted Cruz in the new blue texas? LOL
    Those young judges will be on the bench for at least a generation and then you have the next 5 years and old SCOTUS seats.
    ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  44. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The real circular firing squad is the socialist dems, the nice part is they are not going to listen. They better have the mental health clinics open late in November! –
    Democrats May Be Blowing Their Chance
    Progressives seem to be forgetting the opponent is Donald Trump, not Bill Clinton or Barack Obama.
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-may-be-blowing-their-chance-11580514064
    ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  45. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT: “My, it looks like the Unhinged Blue Mob is taking another defeat quite well. Something tells me that they will not be voting from Trump in the near future. I could be wrong.”
    I think I like Jim Kunstler’s take on it. All this posturing is simply planning for the future. Assuming that the Blue Mob plans ahead.
    JHK: “As to the election of 2020, the Democrats are trying like hell to set the stage for disputing and negating it. In fact, that has mostly been the hidden agenda behind this hot mess of an impeachment. They will at least attempt to litigate it into a dangerous state of irresolution. Wouldnโ€™t that be grand? When that happens, Civil War Two begins in earnest.”

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  46. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    And there is always their old standby.
    NYT Editorial Board Member Compares GOP Opposition to Impeachment to the Defense of Jim Crow.
    Why? Why not.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/new-york-times-editorial-board-member-compares-gop-opposition-to-impeachment-to-defense-of-jim-crow/

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  47. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    WAT! @ 734? That was shriallarys KKK friend Robert Byrd and his democrat’s that did that, nothing to do with the party of Lincoln bitches!
    ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  48. Walt Avatar

    Thanks Scenes, but I think I will pass. That’s gotta taste like warm piss.

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