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George Rebane

What do Dems actually do when they have all the power?  The short answer is that they have created the worst states in the Union with regard to housing, education, taxation, homelessness, … .   And first and foremost, they turn on their political and media lying machines to deny what horrible messes in governance they create when voters unwittingly hand them all the levers of power in a state.  This has gotten so bad that even the NYT now runs op-eds decrying the Democrats’ hypocracies, illustrating in chapter and verse the 180 differences between the nation’s progressive talk and walk.

Today Democrats control the legislative and the executive branches, or else have veto-proof majorities in the legislatures of 18 states – Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Illinois, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Hawaii.  And these are the worst governed states in which progressives promote and maintain the greatest inequalities between their rich and their poor.  In these states there is no possibility for any Republicans to stand in the way of Democrat public policies – the Left owns these states lock, stock, and barrel.

Noted author and NYT editorial board writer Binya Appelbaum has zeroed in on these states to discover the nature and magnitude of leftwing travesties in operation.  He teams up with video journalist Johnny Harris to report on the details in this NYT Opinion video.  Here they present the data that forms the basis for the fabric of Big Lies on which our Left has based its access to power by buying the votes of the less-read, and keeping them on urban plantations for decades during which millions of American lives have been destroyed and/or stunted.

To me the information presented here is yet another confirmation that the Democrat Party is fundamentally evil, especially in how it has bamboozled the poor, and succored its rich into believing they have the moral high ground on the nation’s conservatives.  The Great Divide cannot happen soon enough.  (H/T to reader and correspondent)

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49 responses to “Liberal Hypocrisy Fuels American Inequality”

  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well their is at least one in the family that has talent, in this case a comedian (albeit unintended) spewing woke bullshit that the wokenista might listen to –
    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/03/15/jussie-smollett-brother-rants-there-is-absolutely-no-evidence-of-a-hoax/
    😉

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The public display of willful idiocy by team creapy grampa joe is astounding –
    CNBC host to Buttigieg on national debt: ‘No one’ with credit card bills ‘thinks the answer is to spend more’
    ‘Gas prices are famously something that is largely outside of the direct control of any political figure,’ Buttigieg said
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnbc-host-presses-buttigieg-government-spending
    😉

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Cuomo killed grannies and lied about it –
    According to an audit released Tuesday by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, Cuomo’s Health Department failed to account for 4,100 nursing home deaths and undercounted the coronavirus death toll in nursing homes by as much as 50% from April 2020 to February 2021.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-york-comptroller-audit-concludes-cuomo-admin-undercounted-covid-nursing-home-deaths
    😉

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    They really do hate US citizens –
    House Dems want Biden to declare national ‘climate emergency’ and ban oil drilling on federal lands
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-democrats-biden-declare-climate-emergency-ban-oil-drilling-federal-lands
    😉

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  5. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    Can you explain why if the Republican States are so great why eight of the top 10 states with the highest murder rate are Republican?
    Here are the 10 states with the highest murder rate according to the FBI:
    Louisiana (12.4 per 100k)
    Missouri (9.8 per 100k)
    Nevada (9.1 per 100k)
    Maryland (9 per 100k)
    Arkansas (8.6 per 100k)
    Alaska (8.4 per 100k)
    Alabama (8.3 per 100k)
    Mississippi (8.2 per 100k)
    Illinois (7.8 per 100k)
    South Carolina (7.8 per 100k)
    https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/murder-rate-by-state

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  6. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Here’s a map from the FBi. Notice the redness of the Repub states compared to Democreatic states
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_intentional_homicide_rate#/media/File:Intentional_Homicide_Rate_by_U.S._State.svg

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  7. fish Avatar
    fish

    Speaking of inequality….

    Biden’s Remarks at ‘Equal Pay’ Event Were a Gaffe-Filled Dumpster Fire

    Really? People were expecting a “non-Gaffe-Filled Dumpster Fire”?
    Silly people.

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  8. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy… no no no no.
    Intentional homicide isn’t murder, necessarily. It can include suicides and would include self defense killings.
    Nice try.

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  9. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 154pm – Again Paul, what is your point? I made mine in the commentary. Do you have one, especially in light of Greg’s 222pm?

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  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Punchy… no no no no.
    Intentional homicide isn’t murder, necessarily. It can include suicides and would include self defense killings.
    Nice try.”
    I’d throw him a bone. It’s probably his first non-Trump post in some time.
    So, Paul Emery, what do you think is the highest indicator for murder rate?

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  11. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    …as a side note, the District of Columbia’s murder rate is roughly double that of Louisiana’s. Must be all those Democratic gubmint employees.

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dr. Rebane writes, “ To me the information presented here is yet another confirmation that the Democrat Party is fundamentally evil, especially in how it has bamboozled the poor, and succored its rich into believing they have the moral high ground on the nation’s conservatives. The Great Divide cannot happen soon enough. (H/T to reader and correspondent)”
    Thus, the change has set in. The word EVIL to describe the Lefties is becoming common place in Conservation and Libertarian leaning editorials. Much more common than 2 years ago. Not longer hyperbole or used for shock value, but a statement of fact. The Change.
    Once, it was we saw them as good people with bad ideas, while they almost saw us as bad people with bad ideas…which never has changed. Turn the page and it became we saw them as people with bad ideas. Turn the page again to bring us to the present and it is we now we see them as evil people with evil ideas.
    Florida governor Rick DeSantis is writing the playbook, at less as R governors go, on how to deal with them and the Enemy of the People, aka, the Democrat Party News Networks. Masterful. The template. It’s how to do it.
    Unfortunately, too many R governors toss in the towel when the pressure builds and builds as the biggest companies in the state and donors stop contributing because of pressure from the WOKE.
    Disney is probably the biggest corporation in FL with thousands of employees and cruise lines and Disneyworld, yet DeSantis did not bend a knee or lose two seconds telling them that sexual orientation studies have no place in FL’s kindergarten thru third grade.
    The Left has always been OCD about the sexualizing kids and toddlers. Gov. DeSantis sez ‘Go pound sand and eat a grunt sandwich and die, Disney, and school boards and wacko Marxist pervs.’No on Gov DeSantis’s watch, on in FL public schools.
    The Left are evil. Those are not bad ideas, they are evil ideas.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I see some serious rebranding going on.
    ‘The runaway cost of virtue-signalling’
    Working-class Americans are paying a heavy price for their elites’ moral posturing.
    https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/03/16/the-runaway-cost-of-virtue-signalling/
    Let them eat Teslas.

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  14. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    My 1:54 was specifically murder. If you would have followed the link you would have found this:
    “Murder Rate by State 2022
    In the United States crime rates vary significantly by state. Population density and economic factors. Murder, or homicide, is a violent crime. The homicide rate in the U.S.”

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  15. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    So, Paul Emery, what do you think is the highest indicator for murder rate?

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  16. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Click further, punch.

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  17. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/telegraph-today-ranks-nevada-city10th-most-dangerous-city-in-calif/
    also.
    “In 2011, the Huffington Post also ranked Nevada City as the fifth most dangerous city in the state. ”
    It’s probably due to that amazing arts community.

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    They must have attended jesse jacksonn/al sharpton school of race huckstering –
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/boston-blm-activist-and-husband-indicted-on-federal-fraud-charges/ar-AAV9QPs?ocid=msedgntp
    😉

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  19. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    I will only respond if you use Paul , Emery or Paul Emery. Three choices.

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  20. Scott O Avatar

    Maybe if Paul checked the murder rates of the largest cities of those states, he’d find out something of value rather than broad brush an entire state. And maybe check who runs those cities. And of course if Paul was actually interested in educating himself in a statistic, he might look into the ethnicity of the offenders.
    Whoops – now Paul is no longer all that interested in facts and he’ll change the subject entirely or ask why Trump didn’t end all crime when he was president.
    Maybe if Paul really wanted to check into crime rates and stats he’d be interested in what the Soros squads are doing to the crime rates in general beyond one cherry-picked type of crime.

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  21. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Well, that might be a bit difficult for Punchy, so I’ll help.
    If you click the link you gave
    https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/murder-rate-by-state
    You go to a page with a nice graphic with hexagothe Fns per state, in a frame with a title bar, murder rate by state, on the left side, and text that goes on about the FBI being the source. On the right side of that title bar, you’ll see “show source”. Interesting.
    Click that and you get “homicide rate by state”. Hmmm. Click that, and you get to this page:
    https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm
    Golly! It’s a CDC page, not FBI, and it’s definitely homicide data.
    CDC is notorious for fiddling numbers to make firearms appear to be like an infectious agent. Sometimes these things are innocent errors but based on the hidden info, I doubt it.
    You’re welcome, Punch.

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    So nobody wants to talk about Joes “Gaffe-Filled Dumpster Fire” of a speech?
    ….sniff…..well fine then.
    (looks at feet….slowly shuffles away)

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  23. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Scott
    I just linked to FBI stats on States and Murders which are not disputed. Feel free to did deeper and let me know what you find.

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Thats one way to crater mid terms –
    The vast majority, 77.3 percent, said “yes,” while just 9.3 percent said “no.”
    Individuals hold the same sentiments across party lines, as 67 percent of Democrats want Biden to prioritize American energy production, as do 88.6 percent of Republicans and 77.6 percent of independents.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/16/poll-majority-say-biden-should-prioritize-increasing-american-energy-production/
    No one trusts his lies and the crumble like a stale cookie –
    Mr. Blas’s chart shows the opposite, that oil companies failed to pass on the cost of the crude price increase to customers at the gas pump.
    According to most recent data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), 56% of the cost of gasoline is the hard cost of crude oil that the refiners have to pay. The chart shows that the price increase at the pump failed to keep up with the incredible jump in crude oil prices. It also shows that oil companies were making less money, not more on the way up.
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/bidens-oil-blame-game-backfire
    😉

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Punchy,, Puncy, Punchy
    Here is another fact that is not disputed. Black Americans (13% of the US population) commit half the murders in the USA. Since the majority of those murderers are male and female Blacks commit around 10% of less of the Black homicides, we can toss out the females (1/2 the Black community) and that means 6.5% of the population commits almost half of all murders.
    Of those Black Americans who commit the crime of homicide, 90+ of those murders are perpetrated on Blacks. Black on Black. White murder whites in case you were wondering. Yes, there is come crossover, but mostly in the 10% range outside their race.
    Now, let’s look where those murders are happening to see if there is any concentrated areas. Oh my. Chicago, Philly, New Orleans, Detroit, Los Angeles, DC, Baltimore, Newark, all major cities off the top of my head. Think PA has a R Gov, or is that Maryland?
    Dilution is the solution. Think the mayor of Las Vegas is an independent. One rotten apple can spoil the whole barrel and one Urban Eyesore can spoil the whole state.
    So, if we truly cared about Blacks (and minorities) being murdered, we should go after that 6-7% of the population and black homicides will drop 90% and the homicides in the USA will drop by half.
    Truly, you are a grave dancer, Punchy. Standing on the bodies of murdered folks to make some reprehensible po,itical point about Red States. Does standing on those homicide victims make you feel six inches taller or a foot?
    Evil is as evil does.

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  26. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Toes, there’s also the issue that Black Murderers Matter and they mostly aren’t Republicans. Mostly.
    There’s another problem… is the determination done from the initial crime report or is it after it had worked its way through the legal system with the perpetrator found guilty?
    I’m unsure what link Punch is looking at now or what he thinks the data says, but I can wait.

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  27. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    No response Bill unless you use my name.
    Paul, Paul Emery or just Emery

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  28. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy, really?
    You’re just throwing punches. Over and over.

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  29. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “No response Bill unless you use my name.”

    That’s funny, I didn’t get a response and I even followed your rules.

    Speaking of hate facts, here’s one I ran into (or at least as ‘fact’ish as you’ll see in a sociology paper).
    “In sum, our aggregate analysis reveals that the effects of economic inequality on arrest rates for violent crimes vary by race.For whites, high income
    inequality is a robust predictor of high violence rates,but for blacks it is a poor
    predictor.In contrast to what one would anticipate on the basis of the literature
    (but see Sampson1987),economic inequality does not appear to be a particularly important cause (i.e.,not in a direct,contemporaneous sense)of high rates of
    black violent crime.”
    -Harer, M. D., & Steffensmeier, D. (1992). The Differing Effects of Economic Inequality on Black and White Rates of Violence. Social Forces, 70(4), 1035. doi:10.2307/2580200
    OK. Go explain that one smart guys.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ok waterboy. How about Ponytail of Ignorance, ole Punch Drunk One? Thanks in advance for not responding to any question I pose, but you blew it by responding to moi @ 6:02 pm. If at first you don’t succeed, try harder and concentrate asshat. No response means NO RESPONSE. Am I typing too fast for you to grasp the basics? No means no.
    Zip it Popinjay. No more 6:02 pm’s. What the heck is wrong with you? I welcome the new rules. Can’t respond to any of my questions IF I don’t address you as such. Ok, Such, have you gone through a set on new wheels on your walker yet?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BODSCrj9FHQ
    Maybe you should upgrade to those electric shopping carts one sees in major supermarkets. A Hover Round would fit through you front door. You can always use the dead black bodies of homicide victims as stops for your electric dog walking buggy. Or, hang one on the wall and call him Art.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BODSCrj9FHQ

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  31. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    …in any case, the whole murder thing is old hat, the arguments are always the same.
    Given the US Left’s swing from healthcare-for-all and taxing the rich to Crazytown, I think that mental health is a much better kind of metric.
    I mean, there’s umpteen studies out there that show the same thing as this thread:
    “1/n Two interesting findings thus far from my analysis of Pew’s March 2020 COVID-19 survey. First, white (and especially ‘very’) liberals are far more likely than all other ideological-racial subgroups to report being diagnosed with a mental health condition. ”
    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1248823584111439872.html
    The beautiful thing is that it’s so damned obvious. It one of those times where data matches your lying eyes.

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  32. Scott O Avatar

    Paul 5:21 – You’re just repeating yourself, Paul.
    I’m well aware of what you posted. Did you have some kind of point to make? Or maybe respond in some way to dispute or expand on what I wrote?
    George’s point is that the Dems have a pattern of failing to bring about what they claim they will accomplish for our society. In California the Dems’ policies have resulted in an obvious disaster for most of the citizens of the state.
    Showing up here with a single point of murder rates does nothing to alter the facts that George has pointed out. States are not one big uniform homogeneous blob. Murder rates vary depending on many factors but this is obviously beyond your skill set to discover. You stumble onto one chart that you stupidly believe makes some kind of point in your favor and are then no longer curious. Some of us care about the incidences and causes of crime and murder but you lefties care no more about it than to use it as a club to attempt to make points and feel better about yourself.

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  33. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    And these are teachers! HA –
    The nation’s largest union was involved in its third factually incorrect tweet of the week on Wednesday when the president of the American Federation of teachers incorrectly spelled “Ukraine.”
    “We #StandWithUkriane,” American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten tweeted on Wednesday morning before deleting the tweet shortly after.
    The spelling mistake came a day after the AFT was slammed on social media for promoting a tweet where the Ukrainian flag was depicted upside down in a post that was also deleted.
    Ukraine’s flag features blue on top of yellow – symbolizing the blue sky over a bountiful field. However, in the photo posted by the union, the color yellow was above the color blue
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aft-president-misspells-ukraine-twitter-posing-upside-down-ukrainian-flag
    😉

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  34. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    More let them eat teslas from G750 flying scum bags –
    Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson Sign Petition Urging Bank to Stop Financing Canadian Gas Pipeline
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/entertainment/leonardo-dicaprio-mark-ruffalo-scarlett-204037760.html
    😉

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  35. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Now we know why the ponytail of ignorance, a good ol putin party parrot was so obtuse with his silly posts today. Just goose stepping with team putin. His picture is in the dictionary next to useful idiots’ definition. –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/16/democrats-aim-to-flip-crime-script-issue-report-blaming-red-states-for-wave/
    😉

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Kinda on topic
    COMPUTE THIS
    The New York Post exposes the New York Times as the partisan rag every sentient being knows it is in the editorial “Now that Joe Biden’s president, The Times finally admits: Hunter’s laptop is real.” The exposition is detailed and brutal. It is newsworthy, It is timely. The editorial concludes:
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/03/compute-this.php
    —————————-
    On topic: 4 charts that show Lying Biden is lying
    https://issuesinsights.com/2022/03/17/four-charts-prove-biden-is-lying-about-putin-and-inflation/

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  37. fish Avatar
    fish

    ……you act surprised William!?

    The NYT Now Admits The Biden Laptop – Falsely Called “Russian Disinformation” – Is Authentic

    The NYT has been the propaganda organ of the democrat party for years!

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  38. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Scott writes
    “George’s point is that the Dems have a pattern of failing to bring about what they claim they will accomplish for our society.”
    What abouty Trumps promise to balance the budget? What about Trumps promise to pay down the national debt? What about Trumps promise to pull us out of Afghanistan? What about Trumps promise to improve our health care system? What about Trumps promise for an infrastructure bill??????? On and on and on and on. Apparently it means nothing when Trump makes a promise.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Biden may remove Iran’s Revolutionary Guard from terrorist list
    https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/03/17/biden-may-remove-irans-revolutionary-guard-from-terrorist-list-n455942
    The Left really does hate America and still have a big anti-Semitism problem, don’t they? Shia good, Sunni bad. The largest sponsor of State Terrorism good, America the Great Satan bad.

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  40. fish Avatar
    fish

    What abouty Trumps promise to balance the budget? What about Trumps promise to pay down the national debt? What about Trumps promise to pull us out of Afghanistan? What about Trumps promise to improve our health care system? What about Trumps promise for an infrastructure bill??????? On and on and on and on. Apparently it means nothing when Trump makes a promise.
    What abouty Trumps promise to buy Punchy a pony……?
    Everybody gets to play the “Whatabout Game”!

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  41. Scott O Avatar

    fish 10:46 – “Everybody gets to play the “Whatabout Game”!”
    Well – it’s all Paul has.
    You notice that once again he refuses to acknowledge the main issue at hand.
    And of course he follows it with a false statement.
    “Apparently it means nothing when Trump makes a promise.”
    You just keep stomping your little feet Paul and keep repeating the same Trump-itus lines over and over.
    Meanwhile the adults will look at the facts and consider our options with the conditions we face.

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  42. Scott O Avatar

    re BT 8:06 – As the late Harry Reid famously quipped:
    “we won, didn’t we?”
    And as George pointed out: “…yet another confirmation that the Democrat Party is fundamentally evil.”

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    My, my. Liberal ideas do indeed fuel American inequality.
    Don’t say we did not try to warm you, Joe. The Leftinistas’ solution to everything is more pain. Pain is your friend!
    ‘Biden Was Warned About This’: DeSantis Wrecks POTUS On ‘Bidenflation,’ Predicts More Pain By Admin’s Actions’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-was-warned-about-this-desantis-wrecks-potus-on-bidenflation-predicts-more-pain-by-admins-actions
    —————
    Scott @ 11:55 and Fish @ 10:46 am
    Yep. Punchy was all over that like Biden on a 11 year old girl.. Gee, you hair smell terrific.

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dems hurt the little guy and the poor the most….leading to inequality.
    How Putin Pushed Pump Prices Higher Before Invading Ukraine
    “The [leftist] anti-fossil fuel talking points … were likely written by the Russians.”
    https://patriotpost.us/alexander/87005-how-putin-pushed-pump-prices-higher-before-invading-ukraine-2022-03-17?

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  45. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Trashed by his own party –
    “Then now, they’ve overcorrected and so for a few days he was saying, you know, everything is Putin’s price hikes, inflation is Putin’s fault,” Axelrod said. “People don’t believe that either, they know that they had inflation before this. They know that gas prices were high before this. They haven’t dialed this in quite right yet. You can’t blame everything in the economy on Putin.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/david-axelrod-joe-bidens-putin-price-hike-talking-point
    😉

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  46. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Common knowledge here, but it’s work repeating again that the NYT and the Wa Compost lied to the American people not that long ago. They did not just lie on their own accord as the Enemy of the People often do, but they had the full push from the horrid Leftinista Dark Side.
    ‘After Throttling The Hunter Biden Laptop Story With ‘Hacked’ And ‘Russian Disinformation’ Lies, Propaganda Press Quietly Admit It Was Completely Legit’
    Who is going to apologize to Don B? Punchy the Liar? Mr.Jones? Who? A: Nobody with any character, that’s who. Which, coming from the Dems, means nobody.

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