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[So here’s the drill about the riots.  According to the Big Liberal Lie Factory, up until last week there were no riots, only peaceful protests for social justice – ask anybody in the Dem leadership including Bumblebrain.  This week this position became ludicrous even for the country’s liberal contingent.  So a massive pivot was necessary and pulled off on the Sunday lamestream talk shows.  This week the riots are suddenly real, and have been so for some months, all caused by President Trump inciting white nationalists to violence from the White House.  Now that’s a more palatable version of reality for all the land's leftists.  gjr]

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  1. scenes Avatar
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    and the beat goes on.
    “It’s like a war zone in the residential area of SE Portland where antifa are rioting tonight. #PortlandRiots”
    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1302466356978221057
    “#Antifa rioters throw a Molotov cocktail in direction of police in SE Portland. It lands next to people, setting one on fire. ”
    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1302466907006664705
    as per usual, the real story is the takeover of Portland city government, not it’s streets.
    “Video of antifa rioters in Manhattan yesterday smashing up property and businesses. The riot was co-organized by antifa group
    @RevAbolitionNY”
    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1302336047611744256

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  2. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    How about this Trump campaign contributors! Look where you’re money is going. He is indeed a Thief in Chief.
    “President Donald Trump has commandeered an astonishing $58.4 million in campaign donations for legal and compliance fees, The New York Times reported Saturday.
    The president has treated campaign coffers like his own “piggy bank,” sending millions to law firms for whatever battle he wants to fight, including some protecting his own interests, according to the Times.
    The legal fees are in addition to the contributions that Trump is funneling into his own pockets by charging his campaign and the Republican National Committee for lodging, event space and catering. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf resort hoovered up some $400,000 in just two days for a campaign event earlier this year. As of last year, his businesses had collected nearly $17 million since he launched his first presidential campaign.
    His campaign is also paying Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, and Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, $180,000 a year each for work, HuffPost has reported.
    As for legal expenses, Trump had lawyers seek $1 million in damages from a former campaign aide who had accused another aide of sexual harassment and discrimination, the Times reported.”
    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-campaign-money_n_5f5430c5c5b6946f3eb2d961

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  3. Scott O Avatar

    Poor Paul – “Look where you’re (sic) money is going.”
    Speak for yourself, Paul.
    Are you going to request a refund?

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  4. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 859am – You continue to ignore all the questions put to you and remain silent about the tsunami of leftwing iniquities. Yet you post myriads of allegations against Trump, launched by TDS-drenched publications like Huffpost, NYT, WaPo, et al. Of course for you and yours, a leftwing allegation serves as evidence. Were any of these campaign funds expenditures illegal, we would immediately witness the Left to point out chapter and verse in the federal election code where violations occurred, followed by countless investigations and leftwing prosecutor indictments.

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  5. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    What are you talking about Scott? It’s Trump that is pilfering his campaign coffers that you and the other RR’s have contributed to.

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  6. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    George
    It was you who supported the “Lock her up” chants of the Trump campaign without any indictments let alone trials.
    The reality is that Trump is up for reelection. He’s being subject to a job review by voters as to whether we should “hire” him for another four years so everything he has or hasn’t done is up for review. That’s the way it should be.

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  7. L Avatar
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    And Paul begins the week by proving that the innumerate morons are everywhere. Do you realize, Paul that the $400k “hoovered” by Mar-a-Lago is a disgraceful .04% of the amount HRC is alleged to have wasted losing in 2016? And $17M is basically pocket change to Trump’s billion or so? And don’t you imagine Kimberly Guilfoyle probably made a lot more than $180k/yr working for Fox news? Sorry to piss on your parade, big guy…

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  8. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1102am – There’s another allegation you made up – show me where I wanted Hillary incarcerated without a trial. And the rest of your comment is pabulum that abandons the thread you started at 859am and I called you on in my 939am. You make a continuing dialogue impossible by bringing up assertions you cannot defend and then skittering to another topic when you’re called on it.

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  9. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: paul emery | 06 September 2020 at 11:02 AM
    George
    It was you who supported the “Lock her up” chants of the Trump campaign without any indictments let alone trials……

    Pearl Clutch Skill Level: Grand Master

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  10. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    L
    If Trump is so rich how come he charged all his personal legal expenses to his campaign therefore from the pockets of his supporters. Also that he personally profited. Here is the chain of cash flow. Donors support his campaign with cash- his campaign is charged for lodging, event space and catering at his Mar-a-Lago golf resort for $400,000-Trump personal business gets reimbursed for those “expenses”.
    By the way if that is challenged in court guess who pays the legal fees? Oh yeah, Trumps supporters.
    Sleazy for sure.

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  11. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    The world Biden wants to bless us with.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/usc-communications-professor-placed-on-leave-after-using-chinese-word-that-sounds-like-racial-slur/
    GeorgeR: “PaulE 859am – You continue to ignore all the questions put to you and remain silent about the tsunami of leftwing iniquities.”
    I really had to think about that for a second. After his non-answer about how we might be convinced that Biden will protect us from AntifaBLM and Critical Race Theory more than Trump (response: it’s just a Red Scare, the throw-away term used by the Left to dismiss something), I’m guessing that he thinks that.
    . There is no leftwing sin, or at least that Republicans are immeasurably worse.
    . There is no takeover of MSM by the Left.
    . There is no takeover of schools by the left, and the extreme left at that.
    . There is no leftwing violence going on.
    . Even if this is all happening, it’s not dangerous.
    I’m gobsmacked, but frankly, you can’t argue with that. There’s no use trying. It’s the kind of limited worldview you get from living and working within a 1 mile radius and scanning a few MSM websites for all your news.

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  12. Show-Me Kid Avatar
    Show-Me Kid

    So sorry I took so long to reply, but I have a life and have better things to do than sit in front of my computer all day, constantly sending out untruths or taking facts and comments out of context, unlike the crack KVMR/NPR news team.
    BTW Emery, did you happen to notice I said 20th Century wars and presidents? Did any of the incidents you mentioned occur in the 20th century?
    And the USAF reserves in 1968-1974? That was where all the guys who either flunked out of high school signed on to or guys went there to dodge the draft and stay out of Vietnam. I notice that you left about a year after then ended the draft. Nice dodge. Yes, I was active duty, overseas, not a guy who went on weekend campouts once a month like a Boy Scout.
    Comparing reserve duty in that time and veterans of WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam is not comparable.

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  13. Scott O Avatar

    Paul 9:40 – “What are you talking about Scott?”
    Went right over his head.
    I’ll try again.
    If you’re upset about what Trump is doing with the money you sent him, Paul – then ask for a refund.

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  14. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Never sent him a dime Scott. What gave you that idea?

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  15. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Show-Me
    I served my full 6 year term in the reserves.
    What is your opinion of Trump who avoided the draft with a bone spur? None of Trumps sons, brothers, sisters or any family members served in the military.
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/12/27/trump-vietnam-war-bone-spur-diagnosis/2420475002/
    You must be disgusted with Trump calling those who served in the military and Americans who died in battle “losers” and “suckers”
    https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/06/media/jeffrey-goldberg-atlantic-trump-reliable-sources/index.html

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    Posted by: Scott O | 06 September 2020 at 12:18 PM
    Never sent him a dime Scott. What gave you that idea?

    Being upset on behalf of others is a big part of Punchy’s moral superiority Scott.

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    #sad @107
    😉

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    Paul Emery: “Never sent him a dime Scott. What gave you that idea?”
    Oh well, someday you’ll pay all of your income taxes in an honest fashion.
    I guess we can add one new angle to the subtlety of Paul’s politics at this point (from 1:05).
    WHY PAUL VOTES THE WAY HE DOES:
    . Trump was mean to John McCain
    . Trump isn’t all-in with global warming (although it’s mostly a Chinese issue at this point).
    . Trump had draft deferment. (unlike, say, Clinton).
    Well now, that shows some deep geopolitical thinking on the matter. Maybe you could write up a guest editorial for George. I’d be happy to proofread it.

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Bingo @ 1:07 pm

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  20. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    scenes
    Do you believe Trump has paid all his “income taxes in an honest fashion”?
    By the way, what do you know about my income taxes? How about we get together and I’ll show you mine and you can show me yours. Let me know time and place and I’ll be there.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Pretty much sums up the current climate of The Enemy of the People.
    ‘Journalism’s New Propaganda Tool: Using “Confirmed” to Mean Its Opposite’
    Outlets claiming to have “confirmed” Jeffrey Goldberg’s story about Trump’s troops comments are again abusing that vital term.
    https://theintercept.com/2020/09/05/journalisms-new-propaganda-tool-using-confirmed-to-mean-its-opposite/
    3 anonymous sources close to the White House or DoD or the State Department have for years meant 3 journalists in a bar which is situated close to the White House, Pentagon, or Foggy Bottom. Gotta get the story out before the deadline.

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  22. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    scenes
    this is what Trump said about McCain:
    “He was a war hero because he was captured,” Trump said at the 2015 Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa.
    “I like people who weren’t captured,” the current Republican front-runner told political consultant Frank Luntz, who hosted the event.
    “He lost and let us down,” Trump said. “I’ve never liked him as much after that.”
    “I don’t like losers,” the real-estate mogul, who has gone through corporate bankruptcy four times, added.
    https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/18/424169549/trump-lashes-out-at-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Anatomy of A(nother) Fake Scandal’
    “The Atlantic does it Again”.
    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/09/anatomy_of_another_fake_scandal.html

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    Paul Emery sez: “By the way, what do you know about my income taxes? ”
    That the likelihood of a bar musician reporting all of their income, unless the bar 1099s you somehow and there are no tips, is essentially nil.
    lol. Come on dude, it’s OK. I think most people would do the same thing.
    Trump’s taxes. Seeing as how he’s probably audited every year, they’re probably above board. Real estate developers have crazy financial worlds which regular people can’t appreciate.
    I wonder sometimes how much a small company could save if the government wasn’t involved. Run the thing out of a cigar box. While people who actually do useful things for a living can be pretty sparse, it hurts to think of the overhead they incur when you pile on the taxes, laws, and regulations. I wouldn’t be surprised if 100% (or more) of the increase in GDP over time can’t be explained by simply looking at the friction of government and lawyers. By itself, that might explain why people are so poor.

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    BillT: “The Atlantic does it Again”.
    I was thinking about how this stuff is metered out as the campaign progresses.
    Obviously, there’s a list somewhere of Trump gotchas and ‘unidentified sources’ all queued up and ready to go…but it’s on some sort of schedule based on publication dates and desired effect.
    At the end of the alimentary tract, the KVMR news crew is ready to push it out to the hoi polloi. It’s a kind of timed peristalsis of propaganda. Our local Biden supporter actually thinks he’s not being used.
    Heck, as a Trump backer, all I have to do is put up links to live videos of the country burning. You don’t have to plan anything in advance but it has the nice side effect of being true. A win-win situation.

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Punchy.
    I remember well Trump saying that about McCain before the primaries. McCain was a rather sub-par opponent (IMHO) and did a COMPLETE 180 on protecting AZ from the wave of people sneaking into our country like the lawless pieces they are. Thieves in the night. McCain was drawing 21% in AZ and would not have been re-elected. No way. And Fluke was in the mid-teens in AZ.
    McCain was a hero, not in combat but as a POW. In the Hanoi Hilton, the guards literally broke his back. Big ouch. When he could have been released because of his daddy (who saved his bacon like he did with that aircraft carrier debacle which should have made John never pilot a plane again in any capacity for the USA.). John McCain refused to be released solo and elected to not walk out without his buddies. That’s one nobody can never take that away from McCain of the Keating Five scandal. He came through in the clutch at the Hanoi Hilton.
    Something happened to McCain later in life. The bran tumor got to his mind. He did not even show up for work in Washington for 5-6 months and refused to relinquish his seat.
    War hero or not, McCain was not my favorite person during his brain tumor days. Now Punch, trying to tie Private Citizen Trump words in 2015 with the Atlantic’s unverified and now largely discredited fake story in 2020 is apples and bananas. Every witness, even non-Trump supporters, say he never said it (the Atlantic story).
    Ah, what do you expect from the newsman who rabbles on and on about 17 intel agencies agreeing and doing the “I believe her” hoax that Judge Kavanaugh ran a serial gang rape ring in high school.
    The only thing that Kamala Harris has said that I find true is Kamala said she “believes Biden’s accusers.” Finger licking good.

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes @ 2:02 pm. The last paragraph is for you.
    SHADES OF DAN RATHER IN JEFFREY GOLDBERG’S ANTI-TRUMP HIT PIECE
    “Should we believe the story, reported by the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, that President Trump made disparaging comments about American soldiers who died in Normandy? I don’t. Trump has a very nasty side, but I doubt he made the nasty comments Goldberg’s attributes to him.
    For one thing, it’s not Trump’s practice to disparage people who haven’t disparaged him. Sure, he expressed a lack of respect for John McCain’s war heroism. But that was because McCain was a political enemy. Trump has no beef with soldiers who died in Normandy many decades ago.
    Moreover, John Bolton, who was present when Trump supposedly made his disparaging comments, says it didn’t happen. Bolton is not friend of the president. In fact, his memoir of his time at the White House paints a disparaging picture of Trump, and includes reports of statements that cast the president in a very negative light. The fact that Bolton has gone on the record defending Trump in this instance is telling.”…..
    “Like Goldberg’s hit piece, CNN’s bogus report was “confirmed” — in that case by MSNBC and CBS News. In both instances, anonymous sources whispered something to a media outlet hostile to Trump and the same anonymous sources, or their friends, whispered it to other outlets.
    One of our readers, a distinguished conservative journalist, finds another, even more apt, parallel to Goldberg’s hit piece — Dan Rather’s “fake but accurate” claim that President George W. Bush shirked his National Guard duty during the Vietnam War.
    Rather’s story appeared at almost the exact same point in the campaign cycle as Goldberg’s — shortly after the Republican incumbent had an unexpectedly successful convention that produced a bounce. Both stories involve allege disparagement by the……..”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/09/shades-of-dan-rather-in-jeffrey-goldbergs-anti-trump-hit-piece.php

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Donald Trump: The Second Most Arrogant President Since 2008

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  29. George Rebane Avatar

    BillT 239pm – Well said Mr Tozer.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dr. Rebane. Not as good as Walter E. Williams or MLK could say it. 🙂
    ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Nonsense’ by Walter E. Williams
    https://www.creators.com/read/walter-williams/09/20/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-nonsense
    MLK:
    https://www.facebook.com/TruthBeKnownRevolution/photos/a.315968505119930/3439740516076031/?

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  31. Scott O Avatar

    Paul -“Never sent him a dime Scott. What gave you that idea?”
    I’ll give you a few more days to think about why I had that idea.
    BTW, Paul – what gave you the idea I sent him any money?
    Is this another in a continuing series of things that you make up?

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  32. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    You are such a solid Trumper Scott, never had a negative thing to say about him I just assumed you were going to put your money where your mouth is. Correct me if I’m wrong

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  33. Scott O Avatar

    Paul 4:44 – “You are such a solid Trumper Scott, never had a negative thing to say about him”
    Ah – more of Paul’s bullshit.
    And another of his ‘assumptions’ that have no basis in reality.

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  34. fish Avatar
    fish

    Ooooh……you’ve an ally Punch…..someone who likes you (shudder) and is actively working to protect your delicate sensibilities!

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “You are such a solid Trumper Scott, never had a negative thing to say about him I just assumed you were going to put your money where your mouth is. Correct me if I’m wrong”
    If I’m wrong? No, he didn’t say IF he was wrong, did he??!!? I assume, there I AM wrong.
    As they used to say, “No shit, Dick Tracy.” Or “Elementary, my dear Watson.”

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 2:24 pm.
    That comrade best hot foot it back to Mommy’s basement. Hop to. Best for him to stay away when there is a riot going on. Time for piling on.
    ‘Riot declared on 100th day of Portland violence, police attacked with Molotov cocktails’
    Officers help put out man whose feet caught fire
    “Portland Police note that persons on Southeast Stark are engaging in tumultuous and violent conduct thereby intentionally or recklessly creating a grave risk of causing public alarm This is a riot,” the Portland Police Department tweeted shortly after midnight EDT. “Police are giving announcements to disperse People are throwing Molotov cocktails.”
    A few hours later, the police reported other violent behavior. “People in this crowd have repeatedly thrown rocks at vehicles and police throughout the night,” the department tweeted.
    The Oregonian reported the violence got so bad Saturday night and into Sunday morning that police used tear gas for the first time this month.
    Here are some of the tweets from police:
    https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/riot-declared-100th-day-portland-violence-police-attacked-molotov-cocktails
    You are such a solid Bidenette Paul, never had a negative thing to say about riots I just assumed you were going to put your money where your mouth is. Correct me if I’m wrong”
    Silence is violence.

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Trigger Warning.
    ‘When Wish Replaces Thought ‘
    Here is the indigestible truth for the Democrats. Donald Trump has had the most successful first term of any president in memory, maybe ever.
    By Roger Kimball • September 5, 2020
    https://amgreatness.com/2020/09/05/when-wish-replaces-thought/

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ok, one mo’ for the road. A few minutes on polls and Barb from Minnesota. We get by with a little help from our friends on the dark side of the street. Thanks Dems, don’t ever change.
    https://www.facebook.com/dan.bongino/videos/3119136458183993

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    There’s a lot to like in this picture.
    “Photographer @FordFischer captured this photo of the BLM-antifa armed protest in Louisville, Ky. yesterday. Notice the insignia on the heavyset woman carrying the rifle.”
    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1302737209154387968
    best response: Exercise is fascism.

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  40. Show-Me Kid Avatar
    Show-Me Kid

    Great Emery, you spent six years going camping one weekend a month and then summer camp in the summer like the Boy Scouts? Did you earn merit badges too? And then you got out of the Reserves after the threat of being drafted was over by 1974. There is only one major league and a lot of players spend their careers in the minors. You never even got to Triple A. Besides that, what was your duty assignment in the USAF Reserve? Playing in the marching band?
    The closest you ever came to a real fight was probably fighting the Battle of the WestPac Widows. Some of you will know what I mean by that.

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  41. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bad news on the way for Trump and the Repubs
    ‘This is only the beginning’: Atlantic editor tells Trump more is to come over his soldier insults
    “Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg warned that more could be coming in the story about President Donald Trump’s attacks on American soldiers. Trump was exposed for calling those who died in battle “losers” and “suckers.
    “I would fully expect more reporting to come out about this and more confirmation and new pieces of information in the coming days and weeks,” Goldberg told CNN Sunday. “We have a responsibility and we’re going to do it regardless of what he says.”
    Trump’s campaign has attacked The Atlantic story, saying that it cites anonymous sources and as a result, it can’t possibly be real. The problem, however, is that Fox News, the Associated Press, the New York Times and CNN have all confirmed the sources are real.”
    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/this-is-only-the-beginning-atlantic-editor-tells-trump-more-is-to-come-over-his-soldier-insults/

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    James Howard Kunstler speaks:
    “I have news for you: the colleges and universities are going down hard and hardly just because Covid-19 has interrupted their business plan. Rather, because of the stupendous and gross dishonesty that higher ed has fallen into. The racketeering around college loans was bad enough but the intellectual racketeering around fake fields of study, thought-crime persecutions, and an epic sexual hysteria has disgraced the very mission of higher ed, turned it into something no better than a sick cult, and infected the rest of the culture by seeding many institutions and business enterprises with cultist graduates bent on subjecting the whole of American society to a never-ending Maoist struggle session.”
    https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/back-to-school-dya-think/

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  43. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    show me kid
    there are over 400,000 current reservists serving their country at this time. You have insulted all of them with your childish ignorant post. Shame on you.
    No wonder you don’t use your real name. You are a coward .
    https://www.statista.com/statistics/232330/us-military-force-numbers-by-service-branch-and-reserve-component/

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 9;16 pm
    Speaking of colleges and universities doing down hard…but not without a fight. Sorry kids, no refunds.
    Northeastern University Offers No Refund After Dismissing 11 Students For Having A Party
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/northeastern-university-offers-no-refund-after-expelling-11-students-for-having-a-party
    Hell’s Bells, what kind of university bans parties?? Thats what being a freshman, sophmore, and college experience is ALL about. Weekends start Thursday night, back in class Tuesday.

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