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[That our news media have no desire to follow-up the Hunter Biden email revelations of Biden family corruption is a bigger untold story than anything else so far connected with this sordid affair.  And that includes the (non)response of the FBI and the 50 former intelligence officials' successful attempt to disseminate fake news about the provenance of the emails on Hunter's laptop (here).  As far as our lamestream media are concerned, the US is now officially a banana republic in how its citizens are fed 'information' that they are to believe.  And no one, not the Republicans nor Fox News, is making much beyond clucking their tongues at what appears to be a super-scandal stillborn.  gjr]

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  1. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    scenes 1151am
    Yes! Participation medals for all!

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  2. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Pardon the source, but it isn’t like CNN is going to run a story putting down a Blue Mob robber baron, even one with dementia.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-biden-confesses-partnership-china-spy-chief-fumes-after-he-and-joe-named-criminal
    In other news, this does explain a lot.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5KNJrt_DTo

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Tuesday Quotes. Ed Marley expounds on his deep understanding of the Constitution.
    Insight: “Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.” —William Godwin (1756-1836)
    For the record: “The least curious people in the country right now appear to be the credentialed news media, a situation normally unique to tinpot authoritarian societies.” —Matt Taibbi
    Unhinged: “Originalism is racist. Originalism is sexist. Originalism is homophobic. Originalism is just a fancy word for discrimination.” —Senator Ed Markey
    Moving the goal posts: “In 1876, there were nine justices on the Court. Our population has grown enormously since then. Should we expand the Court? Well, let’s take a look and see. And that relates to the nine district courts. Maybe we need more district courts as well.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
    Court Jesters, Part I: “The fact is that our Republican colleagues are shattering the norms and breaking the rules and breaking their word, and there will be consequences. … Nothing less than everything is at stake. A shift in the balance of the court that will last for decades if we do not correct it — and believe me, there are appropriate measures that should be considered.” —Senator Richard Blumenthal
    Court Jesters, Part II: “The Republican majority is lighting its credibility on fire … The next time the American people give Democrats a majority in this chamber, you will have forfeited the right to tell us how to run that majority. My colleagues may regret this for a lot longer than they think.” —Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
    Total lack of self-awareness: “Generations of unborn will suffer from this decision [to confirm ACB].” —Chuck Schumer
    Grand delusions: “Today … will go down as one of the darkest days in the 231-year history of the United States Senate.” —Chuck Schumer
    Braying jackass: “Hell no.” —Mazie Hirono while casting her ACB vote
    Alpha jackass: “Donald Trump would kill reporters if he could get away with it.” —Joe Scarborough
    Theater of the absurd: “When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It would erase Trump’s lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.” —Robert Reich
    And last… “Why is it ok for a Biden to make 80k a month from a foreign gas company, but not ok for a Pennsylvania man to make 80k per year from an American gas company?” —Joe Borelli

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  4. George Rebane Avatar

    1250pm – And still no power – whimper!

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    More to trigger the TDS set –
    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/27/can-i-change-my-vote-searches-spike-on-google/
    [I]n all five of the elections in which we tested this question, the social circle question predicted election outcomes better than traditional questions about voters’ own intentions. These five elections were the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, the 2017 French Presidential election, the 2017 Dutch Parliamentary election, the 2018 Swedish Parliamentary election, and the 2018 U.S. election for House of Representatives.
    […]
    In fact, data from the social-circle question in 2016 accurately predicted which candidate won each state, so it predicted Trump’s electoral college victory…
    Using this same method today, USC says “it’s looking like an Electoral College loss for Biden” — with Trump only down by four or five points nationally.
    And the truth is Trump could lose the popular vote by four or five points and still squeak out an electoral college victory.
    This is not the first study or survey to show there’s a real possibility pollsters are missing a sizable chunk of the Trump coalition, what the president calls his “silent majority.”
    A study released in August showed that “nearly 12 percent of Republicans say they would not give an honest opinion to a pollster,”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/27/nolte-usc-poll-counts-shy-voters-and-donald-trump-wins/
    😉

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  6. Walt Avatar

    Someone cut the TROLLS string between their soup cans?

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  7. Scott O Avatar

    Walt 1:36 – They’re busy filling out ballots. It’s like a contest. The more times you enter, the better your chances are of winning!

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Alta Sierra is reenergized at last.
    😉

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Even the FLOTUS is getting her licks in –
    First lady Melania Trump tore into Joe Biden’s “socialist agenda” in her first solo campaign appearance of the year on Tuesday and even slammed Democrats for a “sham” impeachment.
    “Joe Biden attacked Trump’s decision to close travel from China. He called it ‘xenophobic hysteria.’ Now he suggests that he could have done a better job,” the first lady told a crowd of supporters in Atglen, Pa.
    “Well, the American people can look at Joe Biden’s 36 years in Congress and eight years in the V.P. and determine if he will be able to finally get something done for the American people,” Trump continued.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/melania-trump-joe-biden-socialist
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/10/27/watch-joe-biden-rallies-dozens-in-georgia/
    😉

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The trend is good –
    The daily IBD/TIPP tracking poll shows Joe Biden’s national lead over Donald Trump slipped nearly three points overnight, from seven to just 4.4 points.
    “The latest Biden vs. Trump poll from IBD/TIPP suggests the race has become competitive with just one week to go,” IBD/TIPP reports. “President Donald Trump’s support has surpassed his 2016 share of the vote in the IBD/TIPP presidential poll update, while Vice President Joe Biden appears to have lost ground among some key groups.”
    “Trump’s 46.3% support is a new high-water mark in the IBD/TIPP presidential poll, topping his 46.1% vote share in 2016.
    Rasmussen, another one of the few pollsters who got 2016 correct, released a national poll Monday that has Trump leading by a single point, 48 to 47 percent. In this weekly tracking poll, Trump closed what had been a 12 point gap in just a few weeks.
    Early voting –
    In Georgia, where Biden left his basement to head out to today, the GOP is up 50 to 43 percent.
    In Ohio, Republicans lead 48 to 39 percent.
    In North Carolina, Democrats have a ten point lead, 40 to 30 percent, but in 2016 they had a 13 point lead and Trump still won the state by five.
    In Wisconsin, the GOP is up five points in early voting, 42 to 37 percent.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/27/nolte-poll-shows-trump-surpassing-2016-vote-as-biden-slips-nearly-three-points/
    😉

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  11. Walt Avatar

    Oh really?
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/27/barack-obama-joe-biden-will-promote-human-rights-in-cuba/
    You were a joke in Cuba when you were in office, and you think they will listen any better to Biden?🤣🤷‍♂️👍

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  12. Walt Avatar

    Damned buttsore LIBS.
    3:41 p.m. — A caller reported that a number of his political signs and an American flag were stolen from his yard.
    Proggys don’t fly American flags. They believe they are “offencive”.

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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Now that would have been fun to watch –
    Tony Bobulinski tells Tucker: Joe Biden denials of involvement in son’s business ‘a blatant lie’
    Ex-Hunter Biden associate reveals he almost called ex-VP ‘liar’ during last week’s debate
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-tony-bobulinski-tucker-carlson-joe-biden
    😉

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    They just dont get it that everyone hates them! LOL –
    “The group is in talks with the United Talent Agency (UTA) to help build out Lincoln Media and is weighing offers from different television studios, podcast networks and book publishers,” Axios reported.
    THE LINCOLN PROJECT CALLED OUT FOR REPEATEDLY PLAGIARIZING OTHER PEOPLE’S TWEETS
    The Lincoln Project, which has already launched a podcast and the LPTV channel that streams on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, is also developing a film and pursuing a “‘House of Cards’-like fiction series,” hoping to replicate the success of Obama alum-run Crooked Media, according to Axios.
    The report received bipartisan criticism on social media.
    “One of the most impressively successful grifts in US politics in years: a bunch of failed, washed-up, discredited GOP lifers — many responsible for some of the worst sleaze of the Bush/Cheney era — re-branded themselves as #Resistance liberals and made themselves rich off them,” The Intercept editor Glenn Greenwald reacted.
    “At some point, you’ve gotta respect the grift: Disgraced Bush admin neocons, whose influence within the GOP had eroded with each passing year of the Iraq War, managed to reinvent themselves on social media and become heroes to the libs by attacking the world they helped build,” progressive journalist Walker Bragman similarly tweeted.
    RICK WILSON, THE LINCOLN PROJECT PORTRAYED AS ‘GRIFTERS’ DURING INTERVIEW ON COLBERT ANIMATED NEWS SHOW
    “Wait until they find out after the election that Democrats hate them just as much as Republicans do,” former McConnell aide and “Ruthless” podcast co-host Josh Holmes wrote.
    “Warmongers at lincoln project pull off their first successful regime change,” Daily Caller’s Logan Hall quipped.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/the-lincoln-project-grifters-media-empire-report
    😉

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Consider the source and will the correction come anywhere the coverage of the lie? Doubt it. –
    Bloomberg News issues correction after falsely reporting that Trump campaign pulled ads from Florida
    ‘This is sloppy reporting at the highest level,’ Tim Murtaugh of the Trump campaign told Fox News
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/bloomberg-news-issues-correction-after-falsely-reporting-that-trump-campaign-pulled-ads-from-florida
    😉

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 4:26 pm
    “Proggys don’t fly American flags. They believe they are “offencive”.
    No kidding. They see an American flag and they go straight to triggered. And they hear loud dog whistle drowning very thing out. The American flag is racists and homophobic, and just a basket of chumps and deplorables. Finger nails on the black….er….chalk board to them. They can do from hamburger to homicide at the speed to light when Old Glory is waved.
    I have always wanted to take on of their most easily triggered and scared, lock them in an escape proof room and blast in a high decibel chant of “USA, USA, USA, USA, USA!” Yeah, it may be cruel and unusual punishment, but I can almost taste the pleasure of such an experience, if even only in my dreams. It’s like I am looking out from the control room, turning the nob more and more to the right and see if I can get their heads to pop, with head parts slamming against the safety glass. That she blows, splat.
    ——————
    Don @ 6:28 pm
    “Creepy grampa joe told the truth again by mistake “
    While introducing himself as Kamala Harris’s running may may show some gracious humility of sharing the spotlight and working with others, it sure don’t sound very Presidential. Leading from behind.

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, glad they got that settled before the election.
    ‘Supreme Court rejects Democratic effort to extend mail-in voting deadline in Wisconsin’
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/supreme-court-rejects-democratic-effort-to-extend-mail-in-voting-deadline-in-wisconsin

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    That’s JUSTICE AMY CONEY BARRETT to you.

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  19. Walt Avatar

    The daughter finally made it. The dog with three legs and all.
    He sure made friends with my two German shepherds fast.
    Man what a road trip.

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Racists at facebook –
    Conservative PAC accuses Facebook of censoring anti-Biden ad
    American Principles Project says Facebook is silencing Black voices
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/conservative-political-action-committee-accuses-facebook-of-censorship-after-removing-anti-biden-ad
    😉

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  21. George Rebane Avatar

    On Hind Tit Rd power came on at 725pm

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  22. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Quote from Ted Cruz from Forbes:
    Ted Cruz On Trump’s Hunter Biden Focus: ‘I Don’t Think It Moves A Single Voter
    “I don’t think it moves a single voter,” Cruz said of the story in an Axios interview after the last debate on Thursday while praising Biden for saying “It’s not about his family and my family, it’s about your family” as Trump sought to bring up Hunter Biden, calling it “his best moment.”
    Going after Biden by going after Hunter was a complete flop and a sign of a desperate and depleted campaign.
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/10/27/ted-cruz-on-trumps-hunter-biden-focus-i-dont-think-it-moves-a-single-voter/#268830616e55

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    While it may not turn a voter it may well keep many sitting on their hands in disgust oh great pony tail of ignorance. Funny you focus on that and not all the bad news for the TDS set! LOL

    Elections have consequences –
    So what does Chief Justice Roberts do when the associate justices split 5-3 along familiar lines? If he joins the liberals and makes it 5-4, Justice Thomas gets to assign the majority opinion and perhaps induce the court to a bolder conclusion. If the chief justice joins the majority, he makes the assignment. The resulting 6-3 decision will likely be less sweeping, but it won’t be liberal. Those who hoped for a conservative chief justice 15 years ago may finally get one.
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-may-get-a-conservative-chief-justice-11603749647
    😉

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    Paul Emery: “Ted Cruz On Trump’s Hunter Biden Focus: ‘I Don’t Think It Moves A Single Voter”
    It could well be true. They either have no clue what is going on due to widespread Blue Mob censorship, or they don’t much care if Joe Biden is on the take or is conspiring with his brother to get young Hunter off the hook on some untoward activities with underage relatives.
    Young Hunter’s penchant for dick pics, smoking drugs, and prostitutes really is besides the point, other than showing what a shitty father Joe Biden is and how dysfunctional the Biden family is. Maybe falsely accusing the truck driver who hit his wife of driving while intoxicated sent him over the edge.

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  25. Walt Avatar

    George. If I ever built my own driveway, I would use that name.
    LOVE it.

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  26. Scott O Avatar

    scenes 9:00 – Now Bobulinski is pissed that he and his family are being slimed by Biden and his lackeys.
    Paul could watch the interview with Bobulinski but to what end?
    Trump famously declared that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not “lose any voters.”
    Now – never mind that the person shot might have needed it…
    Trump never did shoot anyone.
    Biden has been exposed as worse and he won’t lose a single vote.
    Not from Paul, certainly.
    “Going after Hunter was a flop”
    Watch the interview, Paul. It isn’t just Hunter.
    But Paul won’t watch.
    Truth over facts.
    “C’mon man – it’s the narrative.”

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  27. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ya sure defund the police –
    Police said the suspect, Steven Cohen, 63, shot Queens convenience store employee Mohmediyan Tarwala, 26, in the stomach following an argument. Tarwala was rushed to a nearby hospital where he died from his injuries.
    Officer Jason Maharaj, who was off-duty and inside the store at the time, chased Cohen outside and tackled him. He held the suspect until other officers arrived.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/heroic-off-duty-nypd-officer-tackles-disarms-gunman-after-deadly-store-shooting
    😉

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Reality check for the lying sacks of shit –
    The Trump campaign on Tuesday released a video compiling more than three dozen times President Trump has denounced White supremacy, as his Democratic rival Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris of California continue to claim this week on the campaign trail that he has failed to do so.
    The Trump campaign rolled out a nearly 5-minute-long video of the president, featuring video clips from as recently as this month, to his 2016 presidential campaign, and dating all the way back to an interview Trump gave to Matt Lauer in the early 2000s, where he denounced White supremacy and “disavowed” White supremacist groups.
    The video comes after Biden and Harris have criticized Trump, casting him as a racist and claiming he has not denounced White supremacy, and also comes as part of the Trump campaign’s final pitch to win over Black voters ahead of Election Day.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-denounce-white-supremacy-biden-harris
    😉

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  29. Bill Tizer Avatar
    Bill Tizer

    Another Trump ad. Kinda outdated, but the song lives on
    https://youtu.be/jJDXj6-54wE

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  30. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I wonder if they left him a scent trail by dragging a young girl to the podium.
    “dozens of excited supporters.”
    https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1321165128902103041

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    scenes

    Mostly peaceful group of Democrats liberating needed boxes of food and infant formula.
    https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1321310076481740801

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‪”Where, but America, can a female Supreme Court justice, with 2 black kids, get sworn in by a black Supreme Court justice only to have democrats pronounce her…”racist”?!?‬”
    H/T to Larry Elder, the Elder Statesman.
    ‪#AmyConeyBarrett ‬

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    scenes

    ooh, lotsa exciting Biden Army action going on.
    https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer
    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo
    just scroll down a bit and enjoy.
    but luckily…
    “BREAKING: PA Gov Tom Wolf calls Philly riots ‘peaceful protests’ after 12 officers hospitalized, truck attack”
    https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1321252650235604994

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  34. Scott O Avatar

    BT 9:53 – Because she’s a racist. It’s that simple. It doesn’t matter what she does. They don’t like her so she’s a racist.
    Truth over facts.

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  35. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    No personal responsibility on any level, lets just loot, burn and pillage whatever the false narratives.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/protesters-turn-violent-outside-washington-d-c-police-station-following-death-of-20-year-old-karon-hylton
    😉

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    move along, nothing to see here.
    “Tony Bobulinski: I asked James Biden point blank at the Peninsula Hotel about how they were structuring all these deals and getting away with it without putting Joe Biden’s career at risk.
    “James Biden said, ‘Plausible deniability,’” Bobulinski said.”
    https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1321245291782283268

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  37. Scott O Avatar

    scenes 10:38 – And James is correct. See any remark on this issue by Paul.
    Truth over facts.

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  38. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    I am hearing rumors from DC that republicans are expecting to take back the house 🤷🏻‍♂️

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  39. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    With electoral numbers for Trump around 320. Don’t believe the hype.

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    scenes

    Mostly peaceful protestors coming to everyone’s town.
    https://web.archive.org/web/20201019122623/https://www.shutdowndc.org/election2020
    Although I’m confused where ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’ is, probably on Black Lives Matter Street near the Black Lives Matter Building.

    It’s the kind of thing that vastly simplifies an atlas I guess.

    https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2020/10/does-section-230-s-sweeping-immunity-enable-big-tech-bad-behavior

    It’s not gonna result in anything of course. The coalition of GoogleFacebookCNN, NSAFBICIA, lobbyists, probably have too much oomph to allow a change in the media monopolies, but a split between those who edit and those who don’t is an interesting problem. Are reddit group admins personally liable? What can you block if you are a publisher? Is Zuckerberg an alien? Social media has obviously abused it’s position (in more ways than one), but reasonable rule sets are tricky.

    Trump appears to have screwed up in France also.
    “France preparing for a nationwide stay at home order. They should’ve listened to the science in January and followed the Biden plan”

    https://twitter.com/GreekFire23/status/1321453984566169600

    As usual, Jews can’t catch a break.
    “Black Lives Matter rioters in Philadelphia threaten, assault, and chase out Jewish residents claiming “you don’t live here” and call them members of the “Synagogue of Satan.””

    https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1321397398002786304

    In the meantime, GTA VI Blue Mob America continues apace.
    “Rioters in Los Angeles loot an 18-wheeler that was trapped in the area.”

    https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1321397977848532993

    It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

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    scenes

    https://www.shutdowndc.org/election2020
    ..I guess, as typepad did something peculiar with the link.

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