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[My ongoing reunification commentaries saga with The Union augments what we’ve discovered in these pages – that grassroots leftwingers have no clue about the kind of America that their elite leadership has chosen for us, and are now implementing through a bevy of misguided policies not experienced in decades.  They’re ignorant of it because their more recent schooling did not reveal collectivist objectives, or because they only consume lamestream outlets which dutifully deny that the Democrats seek to instill the trappings of collectivism in the America they intend to uniformly pauper (equity) with their socialist nostrums.  These assume the classic historical format of the Left, applied devastatingly over the last century, that includes summarily politicizing science, education, and economics to fit their overarching narrative.  gjr]

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  1. fish Avatar
    fish

    CNN cuts ties with Rick Santorum over disparaging comments
    Will anyone notice?
    https://apnews.com/article/rick-santorum-arts-and-entertainment-ac0286f31d77ca62ba02958b2945d58e

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  2. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Wow, does Taibbi nail down the ex-KVMR crack news team or what?
    https://twitter.com/TurncoatD/status/1396997976212475904

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  3. RoXCross Avatar
    RoXCross

    In the category of “if it looks like a goombah, walks like a goombah, and talks like a goombah”
    A criminal grand jury has been convened in NY to investigate the trump Organization’s financial dealings and statements…

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  4. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Babsy Cross | 25 May 2021 at 03:37 PM
    .
    …..yawn.

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Vertical Smile Bobbie Cross bores me to tears, especially when his mangina starts fluttering in the wind.
    —————————————————————
    Washington Post “Fact Checker” Does a 180 on Wuhan Lab Leak Theory
    https://bongino.com/washington-post-fact-checker-does-a-180-on-wuhan-lab-leak-theory
    —————————-
    NY Times Eats Crow (or Bat?): Covid Wuhan Lab Origin Theory Un-‘Debunked’
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2021/05/23/ny-times-eats-crow-or-bat-covid-wuhan-lab-origin-theory-un-debunked
    ————————————————
    Stealth Enemy of the People editors strike again:
    BUSTED! Brit Hume helps EXPOSE Vox for secretly changing their article about the COVID lab-leak theory to make it ‘less embarrassing’
    https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2021/05/24/busted-brit-hume-helps-expose-vox-for-secretly-changing-their-article-about-the-covid-lab-leak-theory-to-make-it-less-embarrassing/
    —————————-
    Another Daily Chuckle:
    You think? The Lefties are always the last to know
    ‘Minneapolis mayor admits that calls to ‘defund the police’ led to a spike in crime’
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/minneapolis-mayor-defund-police-crime-spike
    ————————
    Gee, who could ever foreseen this unintended consequence? Definitely not our Leftinista betters, the brightest and the best among us. Nature abhors a vacuum.
    St. Louis Mayor Plans to Defund Police, Shut Down Jail, Even as Murder Rates Soar
    https://bongino.com/st-louis-mayor-plans-to-defund-police-shut-down-jail-even-as-murder-rates-soar

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  6. Walt Avatar

    A poll that will make the poll dancer soil the undies.
    78% of voting repubs want Trump to run.
    38% of minorities want same.
    Already beating “name your LIB” by double digits.
    No Emery, I’m NOT going to post the link. You won’t read it anyway.
    No,, don’t post that poll Emery, it’s been discredited.
    No,, not that one either.

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes @ 2:59 pm
    More Matt Taibbi:
    “Fact-Checking” Takes Another Beating
    Fact-checkers are great, but the media business keeps trying to solve its credibility problem by misrepresenting what they do.
    https://taibbi.substack.com/p/fact-checking-takes-another-beating

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Poll: 61% of out insane lefties think all Republicans are racists.

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  9. RXCross Avatar
    RXCross

    I just love the smell of sweaty trumpers, as reality collides with their reality.

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    What do you do when no one wants to hear your lame talking points for lefties lies and then there is fredo –
    When it comes to total day viewers, Fox News was the only basic cable network to surpass the one-million viewers plateau with an average of 1.2 million. MSNBC finished second with an average of 842,000 and ESPN finished third with an average of 764,000 viewers. HGTV and CNN joined them among the top five, but CNN’s 569,000 average viewership was less than half of FNC’s audience.
    CNN had its worst week since Sept. 2019 and has finished behind both Fox News and MSNBC in the total day category for 14 consecutive weeks. “Reliable Sources” wasn’t the only show contributing to CNN’s problems, as “CNN Newsroom,” “Don Lemon Tonight,” “Erin Burnett OutFront,” “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” “The Situation Room,” “Cuomo Prime Time” and “New Day” all hit yearly lows in various categories.
    CHRIS CUOMO AND HIS PROBLEMATIC YEAR AT CNN
    The troubled “Cuomo Prime Time” had its worst week across the board as namesake host Chris Cuomo has been engulfed in a series of embarrassing scandals that forced even liberal observers to bash the lack of journalistic ethics at the network. Cuomo, the little brother of embattled New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D., was forced to address a stunning report from the Washington Post revealing he participated in strategy sessions earlier this year to address sexual harassment allegations against the governor.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-news-dominates-ratings-cnn-brian-stelter-struggle
    😉

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    People, be nice to the Jews. Being your normal anti-Semitic Dems is helping Trump!!
    After Furious Backlash, NYT Changes Headline Of Column: ‘Attacks On Jews Over Israel Are A Gift To The Right’
    “Many progressives, particularly progressive Jews, have worked hard to break this automatic identification and to open up space in the Democratic Party to denounce Israel’s entrenched occupation and human rights abuses,” wrote Goldberg.
    “This wave of anti-Semitic violence will increase the difficulty of that work,” argued Goldberg. “The Zionist right claims that to assail Israel is to assail all Jews. Those who terrorize Jews out of rage at Israel seem to make their point for them.” [No shit, Sherlock]…….
    “Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro slammed the piece in no uncertain terms, tweeting, “Michelle Goldberg’s column is routinely a steaming pile of horses***. This one, however, is the Mt. Everest of steaming piles of horses***.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-furious-backlash-nyt-changes-headline-of-column-attacks-on-jews-over-israel-are-a-gift-to-the-right

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  12. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: RXCross | 25 May 2021 at 05:14 PM
    I just love the smell of sweaty trumpers…..

    Of that I have no doubt…..Trumpers on top of you pounding away ….your husband in front of the TV in the other room, Jeopardy™ on, oblivious to it all!
    I always knew that you were at heart just a dirty, dirty girl.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Maybe now our allies will respect us….not. But, they will like us. That is of utmost importance.
    ‘Merkel Flips Off Biden’s Protest—to Buy Putin’s Gas’
    “When the U.S. created NATO, a primary purpose of the alliance was to serve as a western wall to defend Germany against the 400,000 Russian troops on the eastern side of the Elbe River. Seventy years later, Germany has decided to double its dependence on Vladimir Putin’s Russia for the natural gas needed to run the German economy, despite the opposition of her great protector, the USA. The Biden administration decided to waive sanctions on Matthias Warnig, the ally of Putin whose company, Nord Stream 2 AG, is laying the pipeline beneath the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany that is now 95 percent complete. When done, Nord Stream 2 will make Moscow Germany’s principal supplier of natural gas, and cut Kyiv out of hundreds of millions in transit fees it annually receives for letting Russian gas pass through Ukraine to Germany.
    Previously, Joe Biden and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had seemed resolute in opposition. Said Blinken:”
    https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/merkel-flips-off-biden-s-protest-to-buy-putin-s-gas/

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  14. Walt Avatar

    AWWww Babs… The only reality you know involves Rx.

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ah yes the low information voter that we hear from so often like the pony tail of ignorance and the crossed one –
    Political cartoon of the day: Bait and switch
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow
    😉

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  16. Walt Avatar

    Speaking of reality.. Can Babs back up Biden’s statement?
    “Trump campaigned on the statement that Blacks will take jobs from White people”.
    Biden made that claim. Care to show when Babs?
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/25/joe-biden-falsely-claims-donald-trump-campaigned-idea-black-folks-are-taking-your-job/

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Making special ops go to this crap when they are the primeir special forces in the world and now the socialist dem want marxist indoctrination. Are you fucking kidding, microaggressions! –
    • The impact of secondary trauma and the impact of events such as the murder of George Floyd
    • The emotional tax paid by Black employees as they navigate the biases of a white-centric society and have to adapt to fit in with white-dominated work cultures
    • The psychic pain caused by microaggressions
    • The emotional toll of exclusion
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/25/exclusive-joint-special-operations-command-personnel-encouraged-to-attend-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-conference/
    😉

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So much for buy american now its appease the new green dealers –
    President Joe Biden is seemingly ditching his “Buy American” promise less than five months into his administration with a plan to import materials for electric vehicles as part of a “strategy designed to placate environmentalists,” according to a report.
    According to administration officials who spoke to Reuters, Biden is set to deal a blow to American miners by outsourcing where the United States will source metals needed for electric vehicle production.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/25/biden-ditches-buy-american-with-plan-to-outsource-metals-supply-chain/
    😉

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So much for the nazi’s now know as the woken socialist dems never doubt those mutha mullahs are behind the worst –
    https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2021/05/25/iran-takes-further-responsibility-for-gaza-war-via-state-media-bucking-the-lefts-narrative/
    😉

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Hey kids, rat out your parents. Hey people, rat out your neighbors. Can you say ‘East Germany? Can you say ‘Khmer Rouge ‘? Can you say Hilter Youth or Cultural Revolution? Can you say the ‘anti-racists are racists? Good.
    ‘Anti-Racists’ Behind School Enemies List Now Gathering Info On Children As Top Prosecutor Joins In
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-anti-racists-targeting-children-buta-biberaj
    You can sum up CRT in one word: racist.

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    SO perhaps they should stop shutting down power production such as clean nuclear and gas? OH YA da green monster deal that is killing your standards of living. Then we have to get back to WATER FOR THE PEOPLE! –
    California regulators told state legislators this week that they would ask consumers to conserve energy this summer to prevent blackouts.
    “It’s great if people do what we want them to do,” said Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda). “But it’s a big ‘if’ and one of the most unreliable aspects of this to me.”
    The situation could mean Newsom will have to rely on Californians to limit their electricity usage and, if outages occur, not to point the finger at him
    “He’s been governor now for 2½ years,” Gilliard said. “The fact is, the governor is the top guy.”
    https://news.yahoo.com/another-summer-california-power-outages-120023612.html
    😉

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    W.H.O.? Biden?

    Biden Shut Down Wuhan Lab Investigation Probing COVID-19 Origins: Report

    Xho Bai Den……!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-shut-down-wuhan-lab-investigation-probing-covid-19-origins-report

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  23. fish Avatar
    fish

    Ron Lowe: A party of hypocrites

    I’m going to begin Punchy style……
    So George, you think it’s okay…(sorry….just needed to see what it felt like again…..I haven’t scolded much since Ben was a regular)…. that Don Rogers fills column inches in your local fishwrap by forcing homeless cranks like Ron Lowe and Tom Durkin to churn out bilge for ditch weed and leftover pizza crusts?
    I mean Ron Lowe probably hasn’t had to worry about committing an unplanned pregnancy since the Nixon administration…?!
    It was bad enough when Punch was polluting the airwaves at taxpayer expense….but this…!

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  24. Scott O Avatar

    This might be another reason so few leftys are posting here lately –
    Play the scary music:
    Eco Anxiety!!
    https://news.trust.org/item/20210526120959-puazp
    Be very afraid!

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  25. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Scott O | 26 May 2021 at 07:39 AM

    Another ham fisted attempt to wring carbon taxes from the rubes…..well that yahoo from CNN the O’Keefe trapped did say that as COVID wound down they would go wall to wall Climate Change™.

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, time to re-edit and scrub former comments. Looks like the Evil One (Rand Paul) is on the something. They know which way the political winds are a’ blowing. The evidence has blown a gapping hole in the Blue Wall.
    ‘Even Xavier Becerra Jumps on the Lab-Leak Bandwagon’
    https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/even-xavier-becerra-jumps-on-the-lab-leak-bandwagon/
    Being a Leftist mean never having to admit a mistake.

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  27. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Biden roaring in the polls. Up 13.8 in RCP job approval. Even Rasmussen gives him a +12.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html

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  28. Scott O Avatar

    re Paul 9:37 – Must be the news he lifts weights in the morning!

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 26 May 2021 at 09:37 AM
    ….grifter…..grifter…..grifter.

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  30. fish Avatar
    fish

    Big shooting in San Jose….!
    Let us pray that it’s a white guy so the narrative can continue moving forward!

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  31. fish Avatar
    fish

    Oh no! No No No No NO! The can’t be right!

    ‘No Basis’ For Obstruction Charges Against Trump In Mueller Report, Newly Released OLC Memo Confirms

    Looks like Punchy will be walking more back……or another poll….yeah…..that would distract things long enough for the former newsman to skate on another fuck up!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/no-basis-obstruction-charges-against-trump-mueller-report-newly-released-olc-memo

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    With most Trump appointees off the fine arts commission, Biden can put a progressive stamp on federal architecture
    Three cheers for Brutalism!
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/with-most-trump-appointees-off-the-fine-arts-commission-biden-can-put-a-progressive-stamp-on-federal-architecture/ar-AAKozSA?ocid=uxbndlbing

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  33. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Three cheers for Brutalism!”
    I expect you’ll see Frank Gehry buildings modeled after stainless steel homeless encampments.
    Luckily, it’s an area where James Kunstler has ya’ covered.
    https://kunstler.com/featured-eyesore-of-the-month/

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  34. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 26 May 2021 at 01:09 PM
    Luckily, it’s an area where James Kunstler has ya’ covered.

    From the comments (Mar 2021)…

    Once you see it as the poop emoji its hard to unsee it…

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    WATCH: Senate Chamber Erupts In Cheers After Passing Sen. Paul’s Amendment To Ban Funding Chinese Gain-Of-Function Research
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-senate-chamber-erupts-in-cheers-after-passing-sen-pauls-amendment-to-ban-funding-chinese-gain-of-function-research

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Wall would have paid for itself in its first year or two and billions upon billions after that. I hate to tell the lefties I told you so, but that would have been a big lie.
    ‘Biden to Spend the Same on Health Care for Illegals This Year as Trump Did on the Wall’
    https://bongino.com/biden-to-spend-the-same-on-health-care-for-illegals-this-year-as-trump-did-on-the-wall

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  37. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 26 May 2021 at 02:08 PM
    Never about saving money…..why would democrats want to save money?
    It’s about demonstrating….“Look what we can do for you! Play ball and there’s more where that came from….lots more!”
    (at least until it isn’t …..!)

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Where’s Bobbie Roxy when you need him?
    ‘Indictment against Steve Bannon has been dismissed’
    “While former President Trump issued a pardon for Bannon prior to leaving office, prosecutors had argued that the indictment dismissal “could have a broader effect than the pardon itself, among other things potentially relieving Bannon of certain consequences not covered by the pardon,” according to the Washington Times.
    Bannon previously pled not guilty to charges alleging he and three other individuals defrauded people who made donations to construct a border wall.”
    https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/indictment-against-steve-bannon-has-been-dismissed

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  39. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    San Jose shooter has to be a white guy doing the shooting.
    A well known rule-of-thumb:
    If there are more killed than wounded, the shooter is likely not black.
    If there are more wounded than killed, the shooter is likely black.

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  40. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: The Estonian Fox | 26 May 2021 at 03:29 PM
    Sailers Law…..! Nice!

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  41. Walt Avatar

    Texas allows for anyone who’s not a criminal to pack heat..
    And the anti gun crowd is pissed. “how can that be allowed!!?
    No background checks or training!!”
    So Mr. and Mrs. anti gun,, do the criminals?

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  42. Scott O Avatar

    E Fox and fish – yep. It’s getting to be a well proven fact.
    https://www.takimag.com/article/black-lives-murdered/
    and his latest:
    https://www.takimag.com/article/the-future-of-floydism/
    Trigger (pun intended) warning for leftys and other people that can’t handle reality – you won’t be able to refute the facts.

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  43. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The socialist dem commissars are not going to give up their new found power –
    The Democrat speaker of the Maine state House stripped Republican lawmakers of their committee posts Monday after they entered the state House without masks in accordance with the governor’s most recent executive order.
    State Rep. Laurel Libby (R) released a video of a confrontation between the seven unmasked Republican lawmakers and a Capitol police officer who told them they are required to wear masks in the state House, even though Gov. Janet Mills (D) released an executive order, effective this week, that ended the state’s mask mandate.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/26/maine-democrat-house-speaker-strips-republicans-of-committee-assignments-over-mask-rules/
    😉

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Gov. Gavin Newsom No Longer Allowed To Restrict Houses Of Worship, Ordered To Pay $1.35M Settlement To Church Over Lockdown’
    “The ruling marks the first statewide permanent injunction against COVID-19 restrictions on houses of worship in the country.”
    “Newsom, who received five rebukes from the Supreme Court,..”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/gov-gavin-newsom-no-longer-allowed-to-restrict-houses-of-worship-ordered-to-pay-1-35m-settlement-to-church-over-lockdown

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  45. Scott O Avatar

    I wonder how much longer they can run this CRT stuff?
    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/lockheed-martin-put-executives-through-training-to-unlearn-white-male-privilege-report/
    I never knew:
    “The consulting firm claims that the “roots of white male culture” include traits such as “rugged individualism,” “a can-do attitude,” “hard work,” “operating from principles,” and “striving towards success”—which are “devastating” to women and minorities.”
    So – to be ‘woke’ is to believe blacks can’t work hard.
    Sorry leftists – I’ll just have to be a normal white male.
    You’ll just have to carry on with your hate-based racism with some one else.

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  46. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Scott O | 27 May 2021 at 08:05 AM

    Remember Dalrymple…..CRT isn’t to inform, educate, or convince…..like all leftist indoctrination CRT is meant to humiliate.
    I imagine that’s why so many leftists really like it…..self abasement is such a turn on.

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  47. Scott O Avatar

    fish – “meant to ‘humiliate’…”
    yeah, that’s the plan – but ‘frustrate’ and ‘infuriate’ will end up being the result.
    And they just can’t figure out why Trump still has an allure.
    Despite his faults – one of the few who’s willing to stand up and call BS on this crap.

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  48. Scott O Avatar

    Speaking of Dalrymple –
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ET7banSeN0&t=1516s
    Snowflake trigger warning: 2 intelligent white males discus the reality of why you can’t have equal outcomes in a free society.
    Daniel’s book ‘Life At The Bottom’ is up next on my reading list.

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  49. fish Avatar
    fish

    Re: yesterday’s entertainment

    “Laurie Smith, the Santa Clara County Sheriff, told the Today Show and other media outlets that the suspected gunman, Samuel Cassidy, possessed two semi-automatic handguns with 11 magazines and stored explosive materials in his locker.

    I wondered why we were hearing so little about this.
    Explosives…..you can’t have explosives….those are illegal!
    That guy is in a lot of trouble!

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