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[The genesis of our wildfires.  Here’s a topic everyone is afraid of discussing.  Almost all of our wildfires are manmade – they are started by indigents, crazies, and people with a political agenda.  The fires started by accidents and natural causes are well-known, few and far in between.  However, our politicians, liberal activists, and media of all hues treat western wildfires as if they were ‘acts of God’, and therefore their genesis need not be questioned, let alone examined, any further.  Given the number of annual wildfires, notice how rare is there any subsequent mention of arson investigations or what these may have discovered.  It seems that the ‘vulnerable underprivileged’ have a natural right to start fires and then be left alone.  And it is not a stretch to imagine the damage anti-American terrorists can do in a free country by simply setting wildfires with easily fabricated, time-delayed pyrotechnic devices.  But from what the public sees, our authorities neither suspect nor pursue such errant behavior – the fires just magically flare up and cause totally acceptable devastation.  gjr]

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  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Education: same o same o.
    ‘University Teaching Conference Suggests ‘Perfectionism,’ ‘Sense Of Urgency,’ ‘Individualism’ Are All Part Of ‘White Supremacy’
    “The suggestions for how to decolonize the classroom included critiquing “the (white western masculine) disembodied rationality focus of the educational system” and questioning “the need for mastery, certainty and perfection.””
    “It is not the first time UC-Boulder has waded into social justice issues. Last July, The Daily Wire reported that a university memo suggested that those who apply to the school should be willing to “combat systemic racism,” arguing it was a “non-negotiable condition of enrollment and employment.””
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-teaching-conference-suggests-perfectionism-sense-of-urgency-individualism-are-all-part-of-white-supremacy
    I suppose the course catalog should not list the time the class starts and ends.
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-teaching-conference-suggests-perfectionism-sense-of-urgency-individualism-are-all-part-of-white-supremacy

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Polling, polling polling. Joe,Biden, The multiplier of Crisises.
    “As the 78-year-old Biden gets ready to exit the political arena, he seems intent on recreating the conditions that prevailed when he entered it a half century ago. Inflation, crime, American retreat — these hallmarks of the 1970s have returned. And they have joined postmodern threats, such as a worldwide pandemic, unchecked migration, climate change, and the global jihadist-Salafist movement. Biden has been president for less than a year. The number of crises buffeting American politics, economics, society, and culture already has multiplied beyond his control.”
    ‘The president adds to the controversies he inherited’
    https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2021/09/13/bidens-blunders/#slide-1

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Rolling Stone’s ivermectin fiction shows why Republicans don’t trust media
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/rolling-stones-ivermectin-fiction-shows-why-republicans-dont-trust-media

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  4. Walt Avatar

    LOL!! Seems this guy lost his LIB creds.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-recall-kevin-paffrath-newsom-warren
    “A California Democrat vying to unseat Gov. Gavin Newsom says he was barred from entering a campaign event that portrayed the recall effort as a Republican stunt.
    “They’re so far beyond weanie baby at this point – that was a compliment in retrospect,” Kevin Paffrath, a 29-year-old real estate millionaire and YouTube star who goes by the name Meet Kevin, told Fox News Saturday. “

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  5. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Yep. Scared of the people.

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  6. Walt Avatar

    Fire on the loose on the E. side of the Foresthill bridge.

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    If his loyalists are lost what about the rest of us? –
    CNN panel blasts Biden admin’s inability to communicate clearly on COVID: ‘People feel jerked around’
    Biden first announced booster shots would be widely available to the public on Sept. 20
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-panel-biden-admins-mishandling-covid-inability-communicate-clearly-consistently
    😉

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  8. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Walt@:1:12PM
    Thanks for that, I’ll check it out. Fires are more important than President Potato’s Afghanistan debacle in terms of immediate effect.
    I guess we are getting that fuel clearing that everyone is talking about.

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  9. Walt Avatar

    ALERTWildfire has cameras. For some reason, the address won’t post.

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  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    walt, typepad is heinous as usual.
    I’d just go to this kind of thing.
    shorturl.at/yBCS6
    At this point, all the decent news is scanner
    https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/ctid/213
    and twitter with the #bridgefire tag. Aside from Yubanet, the news is useless and the government isn’t a big believer in informing people what the deal is.

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Now they did it and let the truth of their efforts out, as if we didnt know! –
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/09/05/exclusive-video-extinction-rebellion-activist-says-only-socialism-can-stop-climate-change/
    😉

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I am sure Texas is crying in their beer over the freaks in the peoples republic of portland not coming in soiling their lifestyle. Keep your riots to yourself assholes in other words. ROFLOL –
    Portland moves to ban Texas travel, trade to protest new abortion law
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-ban-texas-travel-trade-protest-abortion-law
    😉

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  13. Walt Avatar

    Don. Texas could ban any imports for Portlandia.
    Now who would take it in the shorts the worst?

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  14. Walt Avatar

    This starting up again?
    https://strangesounds.org/2021/09/58-pregnant-cows-mysteriously-killed-in-north-dakota.html
    I’m sure some crazed LIBS will blame it on the Dakota oil boom.

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  15. Walt Avatar

    If the tag fits….
    Sh*tshow Joe Summer: Biden Presidency Already Historic Failure
    Afghanistan, Border Crisis, Inflation, Rising Crime, Plummeting Approval — & More
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/06/summer-bummer-joe-biden-presidency-suffers-historic-failure/
    Emery can always crawl out of his crypt and tell us how it ain’t so. Sorry Emery,, it’s not “blowing over” as you care to believe.

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  16. Walt Avatar

    Hey Lefties.. Don’t your mouth pieces know when to quit?
    Apparently not.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsom-speaker-larry-elder-black-face-white-supremacy
    “A California professor campaigning for Gov. Gavin Newsom reportedly called Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder “a Black face on White supremacy” during an event with the governor Monday.”
    So why don’t come right and say what your really mean?? “He’s an Uncle Tom”.
    And LIBS call us racist?

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  17. George Rebane Avatar

    Walt 1115am – From your mouth to God’s ear Mr Branson. I would love to share your sanguinity about all of Bumblebrain’s sins sticking to him as we go into the election year. But if history can teach, then we’ve seen the awesome power of the lamestream coupled with national dumbth to allow all of those iniquities to be swept under the rug and sprinkled over with a good coating of TDS. With the increasing fecklessness of our numbnuts Republicans, there are fewer and fewer conservative political leaders to pick up the Democrats’ offered gauntlet and really do battle in the public forum.
    Nevertheless, don’t lessen a bit of your enthusiasm. Keep our spirits up in your job as the RR Morale Officer.

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  18. Walt Avatar

    Thanks George for the promotion. I will do my best.
    So kicking Liberals while they are down sill fair game?
    On a lighter note,, Someone posted some GREAT video footage of the Bridge fire.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt8b9WUtBIM

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    Posted by: Walt | 06 September 2021 at 12:08 PM
    Yeah……I think McClellan is the busiest airport on the west coast after LAX and SFO at this time of the year. That DC-10 is constantly busy and a C-130 leaves every 5 minutes it seems.

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  20. Walt Avatar

    Remind me next year to buy stock in that fire retardant manufacturer.

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  21. Walt Avatar

    OK LIBS,, dare answer up? Do you actually buy this line of BS?
    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/06/hollywood-celebrities-ramp-up-attacks-on-larry-elder-ahead-of-california-recall/
    “Vote Newsom or Die! ‘our lives literally Do depend on it’”
    Like the same crap Biden was spewing. How HE was going to stop C19 in it’s tracks if he got elected… Ummm,, how is that playing out?
    People are DYING TODAY with the Gavin IN office..
    You DO know that,, right?
    You are sure some gullible bastards……

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Let’s watch the Lefties freak out. DOOMSDAY COMETH!
    Flashback: August 20, 2021.
    ‘Column: Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned’
    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-20/recall-candidate-larry-elder-is-a-threat-to-black-californians
    Darn, that Larry Elder is one sneaky son of a gun. For 70 years that White Supremist has woke up every morning, but his black face on, and has fooled everybody….until now! The charade is over, Larry.
    Biden was right. “If you don’t vote for Joe Biden, then you ain’t Black.” Larry Elder did not vote for Joe Biden. What more proof do we need? I rest my case.
    On the count of three, everybody freakout.
    The Dems are desperate. Half the Hispanics want Wedding Cake figurine Gavin moved to about 300 miles west of the Bay Area….way way beyond Alcatraz.

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  23. Walt Avatar

    News flash Liberals… You hear about that Small diner that put up the sign, “If you voted for Biden don’t come in”. Had to close the doors………..Ran out of food selling to VETS and those who voted for Trump. I’m sure the delivery truck will get a police escort.
    Bet CNN won’t run that story.

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Germany: Afghan Knifes Woman for Working, Then Elderly Man Who Tried to Help’
    “Police said in a statement the suspect may suffer from a mental illness. However, prosecutors and criminal police are also investigating him on suspicion that his attack may have been motivated by Islamist ideology.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/09/05/germany-afghan-knifes-woman-for-working-then-elderly-passerby-who-intervened/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2A9tSccE76p8zIqH5phSPYO1NKmbZjFo1M6f7aMCAXhKftVwhwFFATGI8
    But he was just trying to provide a better future for himself and his family!

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Biden lied, people died. Liar, liar, liar! Biden promised during his basement campaign to stop the China Virus. At this rate, 300,000 Americans will die this year alone under Sleepy Joe’s policies.
    COVID DEATHS IN THE U.S. ARE HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR AT SAME TIME
    “At this time last year, the Wuhan coronavirus was claiming around 1,000 American lives per day. It seemed to me that, absent a sudden and sharp decline in that number, Joe Biden would be our next president.
    It must have seemed that way to Biden and his top advisers, as well. During presidential debates that occurred a little less than a year ago, Biden ripped Trump for his handling of the pandemic. The death count was the centerpiece of this attack.
    So what’s the daily death count now, more than seven months into the Biden administration and with a majority of Americans vaccinated? It’s higher than a year ago at the same time.
    In the past few days, between 1,300 and 1,700 American deaths have been attributed to the virus and its variants. A year ago, the number was between 1,000 and 1,100.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/09/covid-deaths-in-the-u-s-are-higher-than-last-year-at-same-time.php
    Exit Ponytail of Ignorance question:
    What about all the people who believed Biden’s campaign promise to defeat COVID-19? Did Biden lie?

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Thanks creepy grampa joe and the socialists everything you touch turns to shit –
    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/09/06/labor-day-real-wages-are-falling-in-the-biden-economy/
    😉

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  27. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Seems to have been a lot of this going on like this in the freak show that is the creepy grampa joe and his idiots. Everything is just dont do what Trump did hence the open border and ruined economy with inflation that hurts the most vulnerable –
    “This desire to reverse Trump’s policies and to do so quickly has landed the Biden administration in this predicament, which was not unpredictable and is very sad to watch,” said Alan Bersin, who served as commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection under President Barack Obama.
    https://news.yahoo.com/migrants-surge-toward-border-court-181344717.html
    😉

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joes team could give a shit about actual working people –
    A federal labor agency ruled against a local subsidiary of the Communications Workers of America after it threatened a worker who requested to resign his membership—dealing a blow to the Biden administration, which attempted to squash the case.
    Jeremy Brown, an ABC cameraman in Oregon, accused the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians Local 51 of illegally taking money from his paycheck after he opted out of paid dues. Rather than honor his request, the union threatened to take legal action against Brown if he did not surrender personal data ranging from his pedometers to his vehicle GPS. The case drew the attention of the federal government’s top labor prosecutor, National Labor Relations Board general counsel Peter Robb, in 2019. Agency regulators, however, abandoned the case weeks after President Joe Biden took the unprecedented step of firing Robb on Inauguration Day.
    The National Labor Relations Board, the top federal labor arbiter, agreed with the Trump appointee and ruled that the union violated federal law and ordered it to reimburse Brown his paid dues.
    “There is no legitimate reason for a party to send its own evidence-preservation letter in these circumstances, let alone ones as sweeping and intimidating as the [union’s]. And even had there been some legitimate reason to send additional evidence-preservation letters, the [union’s] threats for failure to comply would remain unjustified,” the ruling said.
    The general counsel’s office sets the agenda for the enforcement of federal labor law, and its support can provide a crucial boost for workers or unions that appear before the NLRB. Biden handed that responsibility over to Jennifer Abruzzo, a former attorney for the CWA, in July. An agency spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon it has consulted with its ethics office on how to handle any potential recusal obligations, but did not specify what the policy would look like in practice. The agency declined to say whether Abruzzo was aware of Brown’s case.
    Labor watchdogs said the ruling represents a temporary setback for Biden’s labor agenda. Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Foundation, which represented Brown in the case, said he was distressed when the Biden administration and then-acting general counsel Peter Ohr dropped Brown’s complaint.
    “This is them just trying to protect their guys in the D.C. bubble,” Mix told the Free Beacon. “I don’t think the road is going to get any easier. In fact, it’s going to get a lot tougher—and I expect that by the time this is over, the individual rights of the individual workers in this country will be rolled back significantly.”
    Brown, who has worked on and off for ABC since 1999, said he only joined the union in 2018 after new union leadership told him he would be fired otherwise. Union officials taunted him in written communications, saying, “we can keep doing this forever,” in reference to his legal battle with the union. Brown welcomed the ruling but was disappointed to see his rights violated by the people who claim to represent him.
    “Not paying for union politics is my right, and it never should have been so difficult to exercise that right,” Brown told the Free Beacon. “While I’m thankful for this victory, it’s outrageous that just for trying to defend my basic freedoms I encountered fierce opposition from union bosses who claim to ‘represent’ me but don’t respect my rights.”
    https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/labor-board-rebukes-union-for-threatening-worker/
    😉

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  29. Walt Avatar

    Imagine that. Not one Lefty wants to come out of hiding to fight for their dear leader. Things that bad for Herr Biden?
    No way to blame Trump? Things have gotten real tough for you guys.
    HELL! Your side even has to charge the Black guy as being white here in Kalif.
    Still haven’t fully shed your “Southern” roots.

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  30. Walt Avatar

    Well,, it ain’t the dreaded tomahawk chop. But will still piss off Biden’s buddies.
    https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/06/college-football-fans-chant-fk-joe-biden-videos/
    “Lots of college football fans made it clear over the weekend they’re not fans of President Joe Biden.
    In Twitter videos posted online by Old Row Sports from several different week one games around the country, fans broke out into “F**k Joe Biden” chants.”
    College campie??? Now I thought that was sacred LIB minion ground?

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  31. RXCross Avatar
    RXCross

    In the category of “Still Fleecing the Rubes” Trump’s Make America Great Again PAC is renting 5,500 square feet of office space (enough to comfortably house 30 people) on the 15th floor of the Trump Tower for the paltry sum of $37,561 per month. The three people who work there, according to a security guard at the building, mostly work from home and most of the time the offices are empty. The Trump Campaign Organization leased the same offices for the same price the entire four years Trump was in office, despite the campaign headquarters being in Virginia. Prior to the MAGA PAC moving into the former campaign offices, they occupied a Kiosk in the lobby for $3,000 a month even though the lobby was closed the entire time..
    Trump sure knows how to fleece the rubes. Out of your pocket directly into his. He isn’t really going to run again but pretending keeps those dollars rolling in. donate today… he needs your money more than you do to help defray his legal bills.

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  32. Walt Avatar

    It’s OK Bobby.. Just take a few more of that Rx and you will be fine. Trump ain’t Biden or Gavin Nussolini.
    He’s just getting ready to rid the nation of Biden. RINOS and LIBrats.
    There are election rules he has to abide by.(rules don’t mean shit to LIBS) First order of business, clean house in the midterms. I must give you Proggys a good “Thanks”.. your making that job REAL easy.
    Joe won’t last three years, and that hyena you call a VP won’t stand a chance.
    A dose of advice to ya’ Babs,,, Don’t piss into the wind.
    Oops,, too late.

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  33. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    Posted by: Roberta Cross | 06 September 2021 at 09:52 PM
    ……I love the smell of menopause in the morning……smells like……smells like…… victory!
    How’s senile grampa working out for ya?

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Smells like victory.
    THE CLUELESSNESS OF OUR RULING CLASS, IN 43 SECONDS
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/09/the-cluelessness-of-our-ruling-class-in-43-seconds.php

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  35. Walt Avatar

    Jail the lying bastard!
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rand-paul-wuhan-documents-fauci-lied
    Fauci BUSTED!!
    “Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., says newly public documents revealing the extent of U.S. funding of coronavirus research in Wuhan, China, show that National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) head Dr. Anthony Fauci lied during his previous testimony to Congress. “

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    lol. Clownworld News.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9966167/Affirmative-action-male-students-new-dirty-little-secret-colleges-worried.html
    “Affirmative action for male students has become the new ‘dirty little secret’ with US colleges ‘worried’ that men are abandoning courses in record numbers – but are afraid to speak out amid the glare of gender politics.”

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  37. Walt Avatar

    So tornadoes ain’t called by their name anymore…Say “titanic” Joe.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/07/joe-biden-on-tornadoes-they-dont-call-them-that-anymore/
    “Looks like a tornado — they don’t call them that anymore — that hit the crops and wetlands in the middle of the country,” Biden said. “In Iowa, in Nevada, in —it’s just across the board.”
    Uhhh,,,, Nevada????????
    Dr. EMERY!! PAGING DR.EMERY!!!! Is he certifiably nuts yet?

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Didn’t the Pecos Kid retire in Arizona? Or was that Colorado?. Those West Texas tornadoes are like those Dirt Devils you see out in the desert, complete with the large tumbleweed rolling pass the storefronts and through the empty streets of town. Maybe Biden meant sandstorms or Nebraska not Nevada.

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  39. Walt Avatar

    Which LIB would like to live in Minneapolis?
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/minneapolis-judge-ballot-language-defunding-the-police
    Well why not? LIBS are writing the rules.
    A LIB utopia.

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  40. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I thought this was old news, but it is just new and additional confirmation. Scenes posted the lowdown weeks and weeks ago. So, it’s nothing new here, but it might be new to those in the dark shadows watching us. Boo!
    ‘New Details Of Fauci Funding Chinese Gain-Of-Function Research Vindicate Rand Paul’
    New details from The Intercept offer further vindication of Sen. Rand Paul’s accusation that NIAID Director Anthony Fauci funded gain-of-function research overseas
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/07/new-details-of-fauci-funding-chinese-gain-of-function-research-vindicate-rand-paul/

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    And to think there were people and Presidents over there that wanted Trump to get a Nobel Peace Prize for his hard and historic work bringing the two sides together. Oh well.
    ‘One Year Later, Biden Squanders Trump’s Historic Kosovo-Serbia Negotiations’
    A year ago, Serbia and Kosovo signed a normalization agreement in the Oval Office. Now, those terms are expiring and Biden could care less.
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/07/one-year-later-biden-squanders-trumps-historic-kosovo-serbia-negotiations/
    Is Biden the resistance? The resistance to what makes America the most exceptional country on the planet. Sometimes I wonder. Just add the normalization agreement to the pile of Biden’s stellar record on foreign policy.

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Hey, I don’t the headlines, but some are absolutely marvelous.
    ‘Liberals Lose Again: Texas Gov. Signs Election Integrity Bill After Months-Long Battle’
    https://bonginoreport.com/

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  43. Walt Avatar

    Now how would “Titanic” Joe know where “those people” are from?
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-protesters-who-heckled-him-as-he-toured-storm-damaged-northeast-they-dont-understand
    “Earlier in the day, Biden was heckled by protesters on the other side of a fence where he toured storm-damaged New Jersey with several people castigating him for his handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
    “My country is going to s— and you’re allowing it!” one woman yelled off camera, according to C-SPAN’s footage of the encounter. “And I’m an immigrant and I’m proud of this country! I’d give my life for this country. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves.”
    “All this for a f— photo-op?” one man scoffed off camera. “You ain’t gonna do s—!”
    Later in the same Queens speech, Biden acknowledged that he was heckled but claimed that those hecklers don’t actually live in the area and were upset about his position on climate change.
    “The people who stand on the other side of the fences, who don’t live there, who are yelling that we’re interfering with free enterprise by doing something about climate change — they don’t live there,” Biden said. “They don’t understand.””
    Yup, they were there on vacation.. Right?

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  44. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    This is what the handlers tell him every day about his opposition while changing his depends –
    😉

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