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[According to recent surveys 49% of Americans find socialism to be an acceptable way to organize society, including the United States.  The nation’s Left, led by the patently corrupt Democratic Party, has taken over our country’s educational institutions.  With the advent of woke, DEI, critical race theory, and other harbingers of neo-Marxism, there is no more effective resistance in the land against an advancing collectivist tyranny.  The Right’s opposition, led by the Republican Party, consists of toothless self-satisfied organizations happy to repeat the same pabulum commentaries to their shrinking flocks.  gjr]

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  1. fish Avatar
    fish

    UPDATE: Durham ends probe of FBI’s Russia investigation with harsh criticism, but no new charges…

    Four years…..to find out the “mistakes were made”! Well done Imperial Washington….you’ve “managed” another one.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/durham-report-sharply-criticizes-fbis-2016-probe-of-trump-campaign/ar-AA1be0jE

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  2. rlcrabb Avatar

    Idaho Scotty & Greggy – Thoughts and prayers, guys. Thoughts and prayers.

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  3. Scott O Avatar

    Mr Crabb – When you have a minute, form a concise and informative argument if you’re able to.
    Otherwise it looks like my observation stands.
    You haven’t got a clue.

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The terminal TDS set has been forced to the fainting couch a lot recently and now this! LOL So much for the claims of the disgraced 17 agencies and the 51 crackhead cuddlers –
    For years, Donald Trump and his supporters pinned their hopes on the investigation by the former U.S. attorney for Connecticut, John Durham later named special counsel by AG Bill Barr, Trump and his allies arguing it would exonerate him from any hint of improper behavior regarding the Russian government’s attempts to interfere in the 2016 election…” Tapper told his viewers.
    “The report is now here, it has dropped, and it might not have produced everything of what some Republicans hoped for, [but] it is regardless devastating to the FBI and to a degree, it does exonerate Donald Trump,” the CNN host said.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnns-jake-tapper-durham-report-devastating-fbi-findings-exonerate-trump-degree
    😉

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  5. Scott O Avatar

    “…it is regardless devastating to the FBI …”
    Oh yeah, the FBI is just shaking in their boots.
    Nothing will happen to the FBI.

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘IRS Whistleblower’s Team Getting Kicked From Hunter Biden Probe, Lawyers Say’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/irs-whistleblowers-team-getting-kicked-from-hunter-biden-probe-lawyers-say

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  7. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Where is Paul? Lol

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  8. fishanthrope Avatar
    fishanthrope

    Posted by: Barry Pruett | 15 May 2023 at 10:01 PM
    Where is Paul? Lol

    Nobody here by that name Barry.

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  9. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Thoughts and prayers, guys. Thoughts and prayers.”
    -Crabbman
    Thoughts and prayers are Constitutionally protected 1st Amendment activities. So is owning and carrying a rifle that shoots one round per trigger pull per the 2nd.
    Now, I don’t choose prayer myself but I would fight for Crabby’s right to choose.

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  10. Cereal Liar Avatar
    Cereal Liar

    rlcrabb 636pm, looks like you hit a nerve. Keep up the good work!

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  11. Cereal Liar Avatar
    Cereal Liar

    Sad sacks keep losing. Comer “revelations”, Durham report, Cyber Ninjas, so many publicity driven witch hunts, so many fails.
    The good news, the system works, the center holds. The bottom line, MAGAs are born to lose.

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  12. Cereal Liar Avatar
    Cereal Liar

    From the article above,
    “But one other set of expenditures was especially notable: The groups also paid $2.8 million, or 3 percent of the money raised, to three Republican political consultants from Wisconsin who were the hidden force behind all five nonprofits, according to people who worked for the groups and who in some cases were kept in the dark by the consultants about the finances of the operations.”
    MAGAs need you at least wake up if not go woke.

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    BECAUSE WITHOUT ADULTS GROOMING HELPING, THEY’LL NEVER FIGURE THIS STUFF OUT: WHO Promotes ‘Early Childhood Masturbation’ in Official Sex Ed Guidance.
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/benbartee/2023/05/15/who-promotes-early-childhood-masturbation-in-official-sex-ed-guidance-n1695517

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  14. Scott O Avatar

    re Serial Liar and the donation scams. Yep, there are con artists out there of all stripes. The article lists 3 dudes that call themselves Republicans but other than that there is no proof of any connection with Trump, (MAGA) the Republican party, or any bona fide conservative group. There are televangelists, faith healers, palm readers, door-to-door con artists, quack doctors peddling “vaccines” they get millions from – all sorts.
    It’s hilarious that the NYTs spent that much time investigating such a small time racket, when they also completely ignore the Biden family corruption and the ensuing cover-up by the IRS and the FBI.
    I doubt any of the conservatives that post here have ever been hoodwinked by these scams – I know my wife is a registered R and we’ve never even gotten a call.
    BTW – if the NYTs is so hot to uncover non-profit scams, why not look into Black Lies Matter?
    Or as it’s known now – Buying Large Mansions?
    Of course the left always has the biggest scams because they know where the big money is: the government.
    Solyndra, anyone? Ring a bell? Sucked in all the Green Weenies.
    Or the one that is hardly mentioned even though it was thought to be double the size of Solyndra:
    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/06/dc-solar-power-ponzi-scheme-scandal/673782/

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  15. Scott O Avatar

    Serial Liar 6:51 – “The good news, the system works, the center holds.”
    Yep – no corrupt Dems go to jail, the populace is kept in the dark, the lies and deceit continue…
    It’s all good.
    Keep telling yourself that.

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  16. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Scotto: “why not look into Black Lies Matter?”
    In the scheme of things, there’s BLM and there’s everything else.
    The amount of money hoovered in by the various BLM scams is so gobsmacking as to be in a class by itself. Dunno what the mix is between social justice warriors running companies and thieving stockholder/customer money for their favorite causes or it’s just a cost of doing business to keep your retail outlets from burning down. Some of both I imagine.
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-analysis-corporate-america-has-donated-82-billion-to-blm-related-causes-so-far
    https://theconversation.com/black-lives-matter-how-far-has-the-movement-come-165492
    many etcs.
    Of course and as usual, you know that most of it is skimmed off the top by the usual suspects. Clever chicanery will get you a long way in this world.
    Remember back when the evil Christian megachurches were going to take over the world and make all the women wear wimples? Truth is, a crazy religion took hold but it had nothing to do with God. The funny thing about ‘progressives’ is that they honestly think that their ‘progress’ is automatically towards a desirable goal rather than marching to zombie apocalypse. My mental image is that of a legion of beta males and catladies, arms outstretched, who have found a winning strategy of institutional capture. First you build an enforcement apparatus, then you bend it’s goals to your liking.
    To be fair, the beta male/catlady battalion has millennia of built-up aggression from being at the bottom of the social hierarchy for so long. There’s a real joy in bullying when you have been bullied. I genuinely admire the genius of the movement, it’s a version of mass ju-jitsu that regular people haven’t evolved defenses for.

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  17. Scott O Avatar

    scenes 8:28 – “or it’s just a cost of doing business to keep your retail outlets from burning down.”
    They picked up that one from the Mob. Only they improved on it because they don’t even have to pay an arsonist to sneak in some dark night.
    Say…
    Hows that choo choo train coming along there in CA?
    https://www.constructiondive.com/news/california-high-speed-rail-costs-rise-to-105-billion/618877/
    Ooooh – 105 big ones? And that was a year ago and you can double that before the first wheel turns.
    And – you won’t even have anything close to what the scam originally promised.
    But Feinstein’s husband has his millions out of the deal, so it’s all good.
    Did Serial Liar vote for the California High Speed Scam?

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Scott O | 16 May 2023 at 09:23 AM
    Did Serial Liar vote for the California High Speed Scam?

    I’ll take:
    Big Government Boondoggles to Funnel Money to Connected Insiders while being Cheered Wildly by Greek Fisherman’s cap wearing Proglodyte Morons for $800
    Alex.

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  19. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Four comments in rapid succession… looks like I hit the liar’s nerve @645a

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “Four comments in rapid succession… looks like I hit the liar’s nerve @645a”
    Four comments in rapid succession and I cannot bring myself to read one of them.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    In other news this week
    -AOC aid leaves to become head of Communist Party of America.
    -LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman has secretly paid E. Jean Carroll’s legal bills since 2020
    -Billionaire LinkedIn founder and Dem mega-donor Reid Hoffman spent night on Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘pedophile island’ AFTER financier’s conviction, with Woody Allen visiting his home and Harvard president asking for cash
    -the Party of Pedos.

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Your quote o’ the day….

    “In the words of evolutionary biologist Thomas Ray, every successful system accumulates parasites. American science has been successful enough, long enough, to have accumulated a very serious parasite load.”

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    And the beat goes on –
    WASHINGTON – A whistleblower at the Internal Revenue Service, which is investigating Hunter Biden for potential tax violations, told lawmakers Monday his entire team was removed from the probe, according to a letter from his lawyers obtained by USA TODAY.
    The letter said the IRS criminal supervisory special agent “was informed that he and his entire investigative team are being removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile, controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress.” The Justice Department informed the whistleblower about the change.
    IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel had testified on April 27 at the House Ways and Means Committee that no one at the agency would be retaliated against.
    “I can say without hesitation there will be no retaliation for anyone making an allegation or a call to a whistleblower hotline,” he said.
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/irs-whistleblower-alleges-removal-entire-135203018.html
    😉

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  24. Cereal Liar Avatar
    Cereal Liar

    lol, Gregory is going full QAnon.

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  25. Gregorygoing Avatar
    Gregorygoing

    Cerial has gone Full Jeff Pellini.
    lol indeed

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Its already woke broke so why not trot out the trany –
    “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” was a coming-of-age novel written by Judy Blume that was published in 1970. While the Lionsgate film has a star-studded cast, it appears to have floundered at the box office so far.
    Hollywood In Toto editor Christian Toto reported on Monday that the film “earned just $16 million after three weeks of release, and the drama shed more than 900 screens over the weekend.” The movie’s budget is reportedly $30 million.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/bud-light-partnership-bombed-major-movie-studio-has-dylan-mulvaney-promoting-new-teen-film
    😉

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  27. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    He is giving the ponytail of ignorance a run for his money when it comes to comprehension, the perfect dem –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fetterman-raises-eyebrows-with-borderline-incoherent-questioning-senate-hearing-like-riddle
    😉

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  28. fish Avatar
    fish

    This should bring a smile to the faces of the proglodyte masses…..

    WORLD EXCLUSIVE: FOXNEWS SETS NEW SCHEDULE

    Apparently going with the Dylan Mulvaney impersonator and some random generic white guy. I’m sure it’ll work out just fine!
    Correction: Retread talkshow flack. Links at drudge

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    Second correction…..the Dylan Mulvaney impersonator…..she’s headed to CNN. Not paying close enough attention!

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  30. fish Avatar
    fish

    …sigh! If I had known just how far the Sac Bee was going to fall in the ensuing years I never would have given jeffy shit about his big ol pumpkin head staring back at me at sacbee.com a decade ago!
    It is literally nothing more now than endless listicle clickbait (#4 will shock you…..) being run by the fat girls from the high school dance decorating committee.

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  31. George Rebane Avatar

    Re Durham report, FBI corruption, etc – please repost your comments under ‘Hopelessness …’. Thanks.

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  32. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “If I had known just how far the Sac Bee was going to fall in the ensuing years”
    Just view it as a small brick in the wall of modern society. Simply grab any magazine from 50 years ago (or newspaper) and compare to a modern one in terms of writing, ‘clickbait’, and the sheer number of words. It’s all part of the hive, a great big feedback loop of mentally ill people and the media that feeds on them.
    Teen Vogue: “DO YOUR GALPALS MAKE FUN OF YOUR LIPSTICK, WE BET THEY DO!” “FAT POC ARE BETTER THAN YOU!” “TRUMP SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED ON TV!!” (actually this last one is real, the others are just implied).
    (166 years old) The Atlantic: “Latinos Can Be White Supremacists!”, “Elon Musk Among The Anti-Semites!”.
    (177 years old) Scientific American: “Denial of Evolution Is a Form of White Supremacy!”, “Modern Mathematics Confronts its White Patriarchal Past!”
    A pox on all their houses. The internet is both cause and savior thankfully. Superior writing on any topic is had for the searching. Watching all the periodicals auger in is a joyful thing.

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  33. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 17 May 2023 at 10:45 AM
    I know…doesn’t make me feel any better! We turned a first rate (not perfect though I grant you) country over to the next generation and its sad to see what they’re doing to it.
    Oh well…..looking forward to the big fight at the end of the party!

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  34. Scott O Avatar

    “The internet is both cause and savior thankfully.”
    Clay tablet scribes probably became all too powerful to the consternation of the powers that were.
    Can you imagine the upset moveable type caused?
    Humans went from 10s of thousands of years of “oral tradition” (information didn’t travel far or fast) to mentally ill teens (of all ages) blubbering nonsense to the rest of the world in seconds.

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  35. Scott O Avatar

    fish – “Oh well…..looking forward to the big fight at the end of the party!”
    Check out Chicago – The Lightfoot admin taught them nothing.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/05/chicago-rip.php
    “I know! O’Hare is an air hub – let’s bleed them!”
    “Hey – where’d the planes go”?

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  36. Scott O Avatar

    re Don B 8:44 – Yeah, they’re hot to get rid of Santos for lying.
    Fine.
    Let’s get rid of all the liars.
    Schiff, Santos… and the others?
    Oh, the rest are all Dems.
    Never mind.

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  37. Scott O Avatar

    Stolen valor is probably one of the worst of all lies, but the Dems consider it a clever way of getting into a position of power.
    Santos has to go but Blumenthal is given honor.
    Par for the course with the Dems.
    Blumenthal is OK because he wasn’t the “first”.
    https://abcnews.go.com/WN/Blotter/richard-blumenthal-politician-misstate-military-record/story?id=10678932
    But Santos has to go because…
    I’ll let the lefties tell us why.
    They hate liars – all of them – except the liars they like.

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  38. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    And we wonder why they are churning out self hating double dummies –
    “The mask has come off in Colorado. This union thinks they’re too big to fail. They don’t think they have to hide their anti-American radical political agenda any longer. And they’re determined to push it not just on the government and the people, but on their kids.
    The Colorado Education Association (CEA) released a pointed resolution last month that explained the union’s rejection of the free-market economic system.
    “CEA believes that capitalism requires exploitation of children, public schools, land, labor, and/or resources. Capitalism is in opposition to fully addressing systemic racism (the school to prison pipeline), climate change, patriarchy, (gender and LGBTQ disparities), education inequality, and income inequality,” the resolution said.
    Fox News reached out to CEA regarding concerns over the resolution and received the following response: “Our members reflect our state’s diverse views and perspectives, these resolutions reflect our members’ aspirations in our collective endeavor to create a safer and more equitable world for Colorado students, educators and communities, and do not require any action from the organization.”
    “It’s always communism when the rubber meets the road,” he said. “You can call it Marxism, socialism, but when they start actually putting it into practice and implementing it in all the misery and ugliness that comes with it, it’s communism, no doubt about it.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/colorado-school-district-stands-teachers-unions-stunning-rejection-capitalism-anti-american?dicbo=v2-Pj1KOqM
    😉

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  39. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The real impact of the drug zombie apocalypse in shit francisco, the beggining of the end? –
    San Francisco fire sale: downtown high rise selling at a 73% discount
    According to the San Francisco Business Times, the $67.5 million figure marks a 73% decrease from 2020, when the high-rise belonged to Union Bank who listed it for approximately $250 million.
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/finance/news/san-francisco-fire-sale-downtown-120042720.html
    😉

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  40. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Humans went from 10s of thousands of years of “oral tradition” (information didn’t travel far or fast) to mentally ill teens (of all ages) blubbering nonsense to the rest of the world in seconds.”
    …and from nothing to simple pictures to logographs to alphabets and then back to simple pictures (icons on a phone) and then back to nothing (voice interface).
    Maybe what’s new is a combination of the blessings of diversity and the natural side effect of isolation. There’s no parents around to tell you to STFU and get back to useful things.
    To be fair, real-deal literacy and written cultural memory were never held by that many people. Lacking a high-functioning culture, which the West is quickly losing, it’s inevitable that government metastasizes to the limits of it’s abilities in order to enrich a few and that self-sufficiency and self-rule is limited.
    The problem with zombies is that you don’t want anything from them, but they surely want something from you, and they never ever stop.

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  41. George Rebane Avatar

    scenes 935am – what is your definition of ‘zombie’ in the sense that you use it here?

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  42. Scott O Avatar

    “The problem with zombies is that you don’t want anything from them…”
    With one important exception – the Dems need to “harvest” their votes.
    The first industrial use of this I was aware of was in King County – the Dems would register all the bums, drug addicts and fabricated citizens in Seattle to vote giving their address as the Democrat HQ. This was back when there was an actual competitive race state-wide and they needed the votes to swing the election. Needless to say, when they actually wanted to confirm the existence of these zombie voters, they couldn’t be found. The Rs sued but the court ruled that even though it shouldn’t have been done, the Rs couldn’t prove that the Dems did this as a conspiracy so it was OK.

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  43. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “It didn’t take long for the quackpots at Rebane’s Ruined Nation to start quacking over my Kevlar cartoon. I’ve been accused of trashing the 2nd amendment and the absolute right to keep and bear arms.”
    This time behind the green door at RL’s own clubhouse.
    Well, raise my rent! You were trashing the 2nd, Crabby, and no mention of any “absolute right” to own and carry guns was made by me or anyone else here. You’ve been hallucinating a’gin.
    “Never mind that bullets are now the number one reason for American child mortality in the 21st century, a statistic you would only expect in some war-torn third world shithole. The fright wingers will try to skew those numbers by adding unrelated infant deaths, but the sad truth is we boomers can’t brag about the horror of having to walk twenty miles in a blizzard as the biggest hurdle to education anymore.”
    The bullets killing young folks are mostly pistol calibers (Mister Nine Millimeter being high on the list) and are mostly being fired by young black men while aiming (loosely speaking) at other young black men.
    “So what can we do about it? There are already so many of these high powered weapons on the street that banning them seems like a lost cause. Maybe so, but you do have to start somewhere. Thompson machine guns were restricted out of existence in 1934, along with sawed-off shotguns and silencers. It is possible.”
    The Tommy Gun is alive and well, mostly a relative victim of its high cost to manufacture. You can shoot a machine gun version of it at a number of firing ranges in Nevada where they’re still legal to own, but the shop will let you shoot it only until the ammo you purchased runs out.
    Meanwhile, there are a number of states that allow “silencers” (it isn’t silent but the shooter won’t go deaf as quickly) and the only difference between a shotgun and a sawed-off shotgun is 15 minutes with a hacksaw.
    “First off, we could end the revolving door at our jails and prisons. Progressive policies toward criminal behavior have done little but embolden career crooks and encourage amateurs.”
    How right wing of you, Crabby.
    “Next, when they do get out, states with little or no regulation make it easy for almost anyone to walk into a store and walk out loaded for bear. Background checks and waiting periods might make at least slow down an impulsive psychopath”
    You bloody fool. There are federal regulations to comply with everywhere, and NO ONE CAN WALK OUT OF JAIL and legally buy a gun. They can, however, walk over to the old neighborhood and buy a stolen gun from an old friend who won’t make their fellow hood rat sign any federal forms or show a photo ID.

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  44. Cereal Liar Avatar
    Cereal Liar

    Yeah Don, serving 22 years in prison should have made the man a well adjusted member of society.

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  45. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    It was a life sentence, not a 22 year sentence, for a hardened recidivist. Now a four time loser.
    “Cerial Liar”, can they please throw away the key this time?

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  46. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    Putin sanctions Trump adversaries and people who are mean to Vlad.
    https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1871495/

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