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[Just happened to visit Nevada County Voices, an info website run by our favorite climate catastrophe czarina, Dr Anna Haynes.  It appears that since the passing of Russ Steele, RR remains as the sole active 'rightwing' website in these parts.  On her resourceful site we are properly relegated to the extreme right column that is off-page, so it will not surprise and offend the more sensitive eyes of her polite company visitors (a trigger warning pointer is provided).  I continue to note over the years that Dr Haynes' political spectrum remains one-winged.  Nowhere are her voluminous lists of left-leaning sites so identified.  I suppose all of those are like our self-proclaimed centrists Bob Crabb and George Boardman – politically vanilla, untinged and untrammeled by any shade of partisanship.  We are properly put in our place.  gjr]

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  1. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Coronavirus will bankrupt more people than it kills”
    It won’t matter until CalPERS runs into trouble.
    ooh, here’s a thought. What if in a couple of months we’re still in keep the freezer full mode and PG&E decides it needs to cut the power because of some wind.

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  2. Walt Avatar

    Well Scenes,, some of the locals cats may wind up missing.
    The better fed ones for sure…..

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  3. Walt Avatar

    Now some “reporting” we would expect from someone else we know.
    https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/12/politico-headline-trump-travel-restrictions-exempted-resorts/
    “Evidence? We don’t need no stink’n evidence.”

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    3 weeks ago from Hillary’s spokesperson;
    https://www.facebook.com/100001107384469/posts/2878178065562411/

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 12 March 2020 at 10:00 PM
    Everyday you are my little ray of sunshine……

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    NOONAN: ‘Don’t Panic’ Is Rotten Advice…

    So is most anything coming from one of your columns Peg! When is panicking ever good advice!
    Moron!

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Daily Quotes
    Insight: “It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.” —author Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
    Food for thought: “BTW, great call on that 20 year campaign to promote high density urban living and public transportation, smart people.” —David Burge
    Observations: “Trump [Wednesday] night said, ‘This is a major government response to the foreign virus,’ and this immediately lead people in the media to whine about the fact that Trump said that the Wuhan virus is a foreign virus. … Why is that a problem? Is that an element of xenophobia? Seriously? This is what you’re focused on … that Trump points out that another major virus comes from China and that maybe this will have implications on U.S. policy and yet your initial takeaway is, ‘That’s Trump being a racist against Chinese people’? That’s really where you’re going with this?” —The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro
    Upright: “The President can fly Air Force One over major cities and dump freshly printed hundred dollar bills out of the belly of the plane, but if people think they’re going to get the coronavirus, they still are not going to take that cash and go shop, eat out or mingle in large crowds. They won’t even go to the bank to deposit it. They will, like with the toilet paper, simply stockpile it till the crisis is over. Before any stimulus can work, the public must trust the health care response. … Unfortunately for all of us, there is a bipartisan problem in Washington. Both sides have ‘electionitis,’ and the only cure is denying the other side any sort of public successes in order to beat them in November. It is not yet known how many Americans will die in the process.” —columnist Erick Erickson
    Non compos mentis I: “You know, since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, we have seen not only the spreading of the virus but also a rapid spreading of racism and xenophobia.” —Rep. Ayanna Pressley
    Non compos mentis II: “Labeling COVID-19 a ‘foreign virus’ does not display accountability for the misjudgments that have taken thus far by the Trump administration.” —Joe Biden
    Grand delusions: “I get the sense that this is not only the low point of the Trump presidency but the low point of the American presidency ever. Has any president ever been this overmatched by a crisis?” —New York Times columnist David Brooks
    And last… “This started in China, has become a global crisis. They stifled the flow of information. Lied. Stopped doctors and health experts from talking about it. They weren’t transparent and still aren’t. This is their Chernobyl. They deserve massive blame and should get it.” —The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ROFLMAO
    That Squad is somethang else. First AOC and now Pressley.
    ‘Democrat Ayanna Pressley Seems To Claim ‘Racism’ Responsible For People Not Eating At Chinese Restaurants’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-ayanna-pressley-seems-to-claim-racism-responsible-for-people-not-eating-at-chinese-restaurants
    —-
    Racism!
    “As usual, America’s pathological obsession with racism misfires again.”
    As The Daily Wire reported earlier this week, numerous diseases have been named after their place of origin.
    “In 1968, 150 students at Bronson Elementary School in Norwalk, Ohio, became very sick with vomiting and diarrhea. It took researchers four years and many stool samples to determine that the culprit was what at the time was called, alternately, ‘winter sickness,’ ‘winter vomiting bug,’ or stomach flu,” Stat reported. “Once investigators isolated and identified the virus that caused the outbreak of Norwalk, the city’s name became the virus’s name. As similar viruses sickened others in subsequent years, doctors began using the norovirus as an umbrella term for the Norwalk virus and its cousins.”
    Other examples include:
    Guinea Worm; named after the Guinea coast of West Africa.
    West Nile Virus; named after the river in Africa.
    Ross River Fever; named after a river in Australia.
    MERS; stands for Middle East respiratory syndrome.
    Ebola; named for a river in Africa.
    Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever; named after Omsk, Russia.
    Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, named after a mountain range in the U.S.
    Lyme Disease; named after a town in Connecticut.

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  9. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    from the conservative Lincoln Project:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_cyQE36DTU

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  10. Walt Avatar

    Hey Bobby!! From the head fear monger
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/bernie-sanders-coronavirus-wwii-deaths
    “But we also have to face the truth and that is that the number of casualties may actually be even higher than what the armed forces experienced in World War II”
    And just what is the current body count?

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  11. George Rebane Avatar

    Given Joe Biden’s remarks about the Covid-19 virus and the administration’s response to it, he is definitely already mismanaging the pandemic, and he’s not even president yet. What we see is what we’ll get.

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  12. fish Avatar
    fish

    Venezuela wants every woman to have six children…

    ….and fish stands ready to help any attractive Venezuelan woman meet that goal!
    I believe in public service!

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    from the slow witted Bertie Cross Project:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

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  14. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Goodnews for Crabbman
    Joe Biden has come out in support of AB5!
    https://reason.com/2020/03/11/joe-biden-throws-support-behind-disastrous-california-gig-economy-law/

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  15. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I love it when a plan comes together.
    “Corona virus has provided a chance for the former veep to duck out of the spotlight, where he spent recent weeks blathering incoherently and starting fights with voters. And now something really nefarious may be a’foot with the Dems. If the wounded Bernie Sanders does not use Sunday’s debate as an opportunity to expose Mr. Biden’s dementia and finish him off, here’s the DNC’s playbook: Hope that the stock market crash and broken economy sink Mr. Trump in public opinion, then contrive to nominate Mr. Biden and get a black woman on the ticket as veep. That part of the story has been trotted out already. I’m beginning to wonder whether that black woman will happen to be Michelle Obama, and I’m also wondering whether Barack Obama is behind the scenes orchestrating this. Of course, Mr. Biden, if elected, will serve in office less than a week — just long enough to hustle him off with the 25th amendment. Voila! The Obamas are back in the White House, out-Clintoning even the Clintons! Happy days are here again! (Not.)”
    https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/black-swans-dead-cats-live-bats-and-goodbye-to-all-that/

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  16. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 13 March 2020 at 01:30 PM
    I’m beginning to wonder whether that black woman will happen to be Michelle Obama, and I’m also wondering whether Barack Obama is behind the scenes orchestrating this.

    If it comes to pass you will know that he’s still fundamentally transforming!

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  17. Walt Avatar

    So Scenes and Fish,, just how will the Lefty masses feel when their votes wind up in the crapper when the LIB elite replace Biden with someone of “their” choosing? Especially someone who didn’t even bother to run?
    It will be interesting to hear just who would be doing the choosing.
    You know,,, just in case someone deems Biden stricken with Mad Cow.

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  18. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    More data on global warming. You can add this to the polar melting previously posted.

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Oh now he has done it, the pony tail of ignorance has used the disapproved term Global Warming. The blue mob is going to pull his liberal card. LOL
    😉

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Don Bessee | 13 March 2020 at 06:19 PM
    The Blue Mob™ is going to pull his liberal card. LOL

    Nahhh…..Useful Idiots don’t have their tickets punched until much later in the process.

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  21. Walt Avatar

    Ahhhh.. Emery goes to the full nutjob web pages.
    I’m sure Joe Biden will agree with ya’.

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  22. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The socialist dems cant count caucus votes and have this fiasco and want to run the country lordy lord –
    The man who wants to save America from coronavirus struggled mightily Friday evening with cameras, computers, and microphones.
    Due to the restrictions on crowds because of coronavirus, Joe Biden scheduled a “virtual town hall” in Illinois on Friday at 4:00 p.m. Central.
    Then it was moved to 6:00 p.m. Central.
    When Breitbart News tuned in, Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth was fiddling with her camera phone, at one moment setting it on the table pointed straight up at the ceiling so America could see her light fixture.
    A short time later, the text “Senator Dick Durbin” appeared on the otherwise black screen, accompanied by the wails of a baby in the background.
    At 6:19, a moderator announced Durbin, who wasn’t visible. He introduced Biden, who appeared before American and Illinois flags.
    Biden began speaking, but there was no audio. Then suddenly, Durbin appeared in a separate screen holding a small child.
    Biden seemed to be reading from a teleprompter, but the broadcast suffered from severe tech issues, as Biden’s words were caught in a feedback loop, muddying the whole presentation and making the candidate nearly indecipherable.
    Biden tossed it to former Obama Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, who offered hygiene recommendations.
    It then went back to Biden, who took questions. But when the campaign sorted out Biden’s audio issues, he never appeared on screen again.
    The first person called on to ask a question said, “Mr. Biden’s speech was garbled the entire time.” The moderator promptly moved onto another person.
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/03/13/amateur-hour-joe-biden-virtual-town-hall-marred-by-tech-issues-dick-durbins-wailing-baby/
    😉

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  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    PaulE: “More data on global warming. You can add this to the polar melting previously posted.”
    meh. Get back to me when the Green Libertarians realize the problem is the Third World. Probably better to wait until the coronavirus-election runs it’s course. There’s bigger fish to fry.
    Walt: “So Scenes and Fish,, just how will the Lefty masses feel when their votes wind up in the crapper when the LIB elite replace Biden with someone of “their” choosing? ”
    You know, I think they can keep Biden on life support until the general election. This whole deal is a godsend to him since he can just read prepared statements. His handlers will keep the wimmen away from him for ‘social distancing’ purposes, although I expect he’ll wave his little arms in their direction like a sort of pervert tyrannosaur.
    Really, Biden is the perfect Deep State candidate, especially if they can stick some sort of implant in him.
    You can definitely hope for a Bernie Bros Festival of Craziness at the convention, but they’re a lot better at crowd control than in 1968.
    Biden/Obama, the Dream Team. They’ll throw a few bones to the Left and then place the bureaucracy firmly back in charge.

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  24. Walt Avatar

    Oh Yes… The 25TH Amend. card. Remove him from office the day after he forgets how to recite the oath of office.
    Emery can throw his ponytail into the ring for VP.

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Good news. Never seen such leadership.
    http://dlvr.it/RRrmbj

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  26. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Typical round of personal attacks and irrelevant responses to a crucial issue. RR readers, that’s why they are knows as the Circle of Jerks there’s only three or four of them. The get off on their little round and round of self gratification in the company of their pals who also get over stimulated. Cracks me up. They are predictable as toast

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  27. Walt Avatar

    Really Emery? “predictable as toast”? It never pops up the same way twice.
    Nice try.
    AGW is the least of everyone’s worries.
    Have you applied for VP yet?

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  28. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Paul Emery sez: “Typical round of personal attacks and irrelevant responses to a crucial issue.”
    My response
    “Get back to me when the Green Libertarians realize the problem is the Third World.”
    It’s both relevant and shows that whatever you think or do is irrelevant. Go bug the Chinese.
    In any case, it’s a typical topic change for you.
    From the Urban Dictionary, an internet troll is:
    “A person who posts remarks or comments onto internet forums or message boards in an attempt to get someone to comment negatively to it and to redirect attention onto himself. Usually, these remarks are controversial, stupid, off-topic, inflaming, illogical, or childish. Sometimes, the comments are enough to enrage the people in the forum to want to respond back with their own negative remarks which starts a flame war and changes the topic and attention of the discussion. ”
    Go look in the mirror and think really hard about your life for a second. ‘kay?

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 13 March 2020 at 07:47 PM
    Typical round of personal attacks and irrelevant responses to a crucial issue.

    The only time you are more pathetic than when you are whining about Trump is when you think posting comments about “climate change” will have a tangible benefit. As I said….”Useful Idiot”.

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  30. Walt Avatar

    And TROLLS never answer questions…

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  31. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Weekend at bernies 2020 redux –
    But there is one political “hot take” emerging this week that really must be considered. It is a little like taking a bite out of something that tastes terrible and then turning to someone you love and saying: “Hey, try this. It tastes terrible.”
    “Joe Biden proved he is a real fighter,” said some of the most revered political experts in the land this week.
    After the former vice president mopped the floor with Sen. Bernie Sanders in South Carolina and then cleaned up again this week in states like Michigan and Missouri.
    Yeah, a real fighter, that Joe Biden. A dog-faced-pony-soldier kind of fighter. He really knows how to plot a political rebirth and rise from the ashes like an ancient white phoenix.
    Actually, no. He is the same rotting corpse of a candidate he was three weeks ago. It’s just that Democrats have decided that they would be better off with the dead guy than with Mr. Sanders.
    In other words, the Democrat National Committee won. They killed Mr. Sanders in the crib — for the second straight primary in a row. It’s like “Weekend at Bernie’s,” only it stars anyone but Bernie himself.
    Either way, Mr. Biden is still a corpse.
    His electoral revival has nothing to do with Mr. Biden being a fighter, except of course when he is attacking defenseless voters. Then he’s a real tough guy. Calls young women “dog-faced,” cusses out gun owners, calls people liars or accuses them of being “fat.”
    President Trump is a real fighter. He took on the Republican establishment — and won.
    He gets into epic fights with people who buy ink by the barrel and newsprint by the freight carload. And then — scandal of all scandals — he took on Washington, delivering his First Inaugural that vowed to keep all the promises that had gotten him elected. (These people still haven’t forgiven him for that one.)
    Even amid the present crisis over coronavirus, Mr. Trump immediately shut borders at the earliest sign of trouble despite desperate accusations he was being alarmist and “xenophobic.”
    No. Mr. Biden is anything but a fighter. He would never do anything to upset his minders and masters along the Potomac, be they in the Democratic Party or in the press.
    Mr. Biden is nothing if not obedient and pliable. A Potomac pushover, bobbing for approval.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/13/charles-hurt-the-obedient-mr-biden-pliable-joe-a-model-beltway-candidate/
    😉

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  32. Walt Avatar

    Here is something Emery can believe.( everyone else,,,, not so much)
    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/03/13/sandra-bernhard-thered-be-none-of-this-chaos-under-rightful-president-hillary-clintons-watch/
    “Actress-comedienne Sandra Bernhard declared on Friday that the country would not be experiencing “this chaos” spurred by the Chinese coronavirus if the “rightful president” Hillary Clinton were in office.”

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ICE chief scorches Chicago mayor for glib response to latest sanctuary city horror crime
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ice-chief-chicago-mayor-sanctuary-city
    My God, the animal attacks a two-year-old girl in a public place. What an animal, already been deported, multiple felonies, and that piece of shit is was walking around in our country Breathing our air. Why do the democrats hate American children so much?

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Seven hour wait??? Me thinks she has picked up the lying politician virus
    AOC Suggests Bernie Lost Michigan By 260,000 Votes Because Of Democrat ‘Voter Suppression’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-suggests-bernie-lost-michigan-by-260000-votes-because-of-democrat-voter-suppression

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Wind blowing hard. PG&E calling. What, me worry? My freezer is empty. Ha, fooled them.

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  36. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Wow
    Looks like the Dems are romping in Arizona with Biden up by 8 over Trump and Kelly up by 12 -YES 12-over McSally for Senate.
    Looking grim for the Pubbers.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

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  37. L Avatar
    L

    Time to boot the Turks out of NATO, since we no longer need their million-man cannon fodder army to kill Russians. Let them once again face their historic enemy across the Black Sea and leave the Greeks alone.
    If they want Syrian refugees in their midst, fine, but moving them into Europe constitutes just one more Muslim assault on Western Civilization to go with all the others since the 7th C. If the Turks want to provoke the Russians in Syria, let them face the consequences.
    Meanwhile, lets get our nukes out of harms’ way.

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  38. fish Avatar
    fish

    Buh bye Bernie Bros……and take the Ponytail of Ignorance with you!

    Bernie Bros warn of ‘massive exodus’ if Democrats nominate Joe Biden


    “We will never – NEVER boost or support Joe Biden or defend his abysmal record and terrible policy positions,” Henry Williams, executive director of The Gravel Institute, told The Post. “We will tell people, as we always have, to vote their conscience and to make decisions based on the interests of all the world’s oppressed people … I do expect a massive exodus from the Democratic Party.”

    https://nypost.com/2020/03/14/bernie-bros-warn-of-massive-exodus-if-democrats-nominate-joe-biden/

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  39. George Rebane Avatar

    fish 1044am – Anyone want to make book on PaulE’s response to the Bernie Bros shot across the Dems’ bow?

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  40. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    What is he up to?
    THAT SCHIFFTY MR. SCHIFF
    “What does Schiff have up his sleeve? She adds that Carr asks: “Is Mr. Schiff continuing to issue secret subpoenas? And what else is he sitting on? The impeachment report indicates the committee obtained ‘nearly 4,000 pages of confidential call records,’ nowhere near what Mr. Schiff published. Who else’s life is getting ransacked at this moment?”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/03/that-schiffty-mr-schiff.php

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Wow. Recommended. Apologies if someone posted a similar story before (Walt?). John Solomon:
    ‘FBI’s Russia collusion case fell apart in first month of Trump presidency, memos show’
    “Less than two weeks into Trump’s presidency the FBI had concluded his national security adviser had not been working as an agent of Russia. While that was the view of federal law enforcement, the false storyline of Flynn as a Russian stooge was broadcasted across the nation, with leaks of his conversations with a Russian ambassador and other tales, for many more months…….”
    “Powell also confirmed that Mueller was fully aware of a letter sent in early January 2017 to Flynn from Britain’s national security adviser raising concerns about Steele’s credibility.
    The British government “hand-delivered” a letter to Flynn’s team that “totally disavowed any credibility of Christopher Steele, and would have completely destroyed the Russia collusion narrative,” Powell said…..
    “I was told that a copy of the document would have been given to [then-National Security Adviser] Susan Rice as well,” she added. “So the Obama administration knew full well that the entire Russia collusion mess was a farce.”
    “Instead of responding to the British government’s warning by abandoning the Russia collusion narrative and sparing her client the years-long ordeal of being targeted for investigation, top U.S. intelligence officials hid the communication, Powell said.”
    https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/fbis-russia-collusion-case-fell-apart-first-month-trump-presidency

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  42. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    GeorgeR: “Anyone want to make book on PaulE’s response to the Bernie Bros shot across the Dems’ bow?”
    He’s a troll. Why would he respond to anything?

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  43. Walt Avatar

    An MRE says he just comes back with his “circle of jerks” butthurt BS.

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  44. Walt Avatar

    Thanks “MAD COW” Joe,,, you just made the AR14 a reality.
    And what a GREAT Repub campaign video you helped make.
    https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/13/jerry-wayne-joe-biden-message-anyone-coming-for-ar-14s/

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