294 responses to “Sandbox – 17aug23”

1. 

   The Estonian Fox

   21 August 2023

   In other news – the US Women’s National Team (that would be in soccer) celebrated its 0-0 victory yesterday over the Republic of the Upper Volta. The RUV coach said his players were simply overwhelmed – by the hair colors of the Americans.
   The top RUV player said “Nous riions si fort que nous ne pouvions pas jouer nos pièces.”
   Yeah, yeah, I know, it’s not RUV anymore, but I just savor saying the capital Ouagadougou. Just rolls off the tongue. At least my tongue.

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   fishanthrope

   21 August 2023

   Yeah…..but it’s the United States that’s the most horribilist, evilist, most rayyycist country in the whole wide world!
   

   Saudi Border Guards Accused of Killing Hundreds of African Migrants…

   https://dnyuz.com/2023/08/21/saudi-border-guards-accused-of-killing-hundreds-of-african-migrants/

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3. 

   Gregory

   21 August 2023

   punchy 915p
   “As I recall Gregory you believed Trump when he stated that if he were President he would end the war in the Ukraine in 24 hours.”
   Nope. I never said that. How you translated that from what I did write I am sure I do not know.
   I am reminded of a friend of mine in high school who was a die hard Democrat… Italian family, his grandmother was off the boat. He thought a lot like Paul does… he’d make these outrageous claims about how good Democrats were and I’d poke holes in his arguments. He thought I was a Nixon supporter.
   In the end, I voted for McGovern, he voted for Nixon.

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   Scott O

   21 August 2023

   Well – amid all the ruckus and squabbling, we always have the 3rd way.
   “Manchin claims both parties ‘villainize’ each other amid speculation about No Labels bid”
   ““All they’re asking for is, ‘Do the citizens of the United States want some other options?’” he said.”
   And those options are?
   Silence.
   Joe Lieberman:
   “But we hope that maybe the strength that we’re showing will be a message to the two parties to try to come back toward the center and, not to change what they think is right, but to begin to work together for the good of the country.”
   This is nothing more than gibberish.
   Just exactly what is “the good of our country”?
   Do these people even use their brains for more than a nano-second a day?
   https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4160544-manchin-claims-both-parties-villainize-each-other-amid-speculation-about-no-labels-bid/

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   Scott O

   21 August 2023

   Ah, – now we see what they really want.
   “Gun safety groups back Biden in 2024 — with no other alternative”
   but…
   “But one of the big asks advocates say the White House hasn’t come through on is the establishment of a designated office solely focused on curbing gun violence.”
   They really just want more bureaucracy!
   Everyone knows when the feds set up an office to make something go away, the office works solely to just make itself bigger and more powerful. The last thing a bureaucracy wants is for their reason for existence to cease to exist.
   https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4157662-gun-safety-groups-back-biden-in-2024-with-no-other-alternative/

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   fishanthrope

   21 August 2023

   “Manchin claims both parties ‘villainize’ each other amid speculation about No Labels bid”
   Joe Manchin either blatantly lied about opposing the Green Nude Eel”…err…excuse me…. the laughably titled Inflation Reduction Act or let himself get very publicly pantsed by President Brainstem’s handlers. In either case no one that naive deserves to ever be more than a senator from West Virginny.
   Useless putz!

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   Paul Emery

   21 August 2023

   Gregory
   You refused to be critical of him which I take as support Gregory. Lets Try again, do you support Trump when he says he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours?

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   fisanthrope

   21 August 2023

   Speaking of useless putz!
   Gregory
   You refused to be critical of him which I take as support Gregory. Let’s Try again, do you support Trump when he says he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours?

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   Paul Emery

   21 August 2023

   Gregory writes:
   “So, by Punchy’s estimation, the Biden taking of a $20 million dollar bribe is normal business.”
   Has Biden been indicted for that? You stated, when it came to Trump, he was innocent till proven guilty of the 91 felony charges filed against him. I guess that doesn’t apply to Biden.
   What “evidence” do you base that statement on?

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10. 

    fishanthrope

    21 August 2023

    See now… a certain someone….let’s just call him “Useless Naive Putz” is always whining that “We don’t criticize those on the right” and that equates to “support” in whatever mythical political philosophy he claims to follow. What it really means that in keeping with his proud hippy heritage he expects me to do his complaining for him….Maannnnn!
    Anyway….
    

    Sen. Ted Cruz Demands Anheuser-Busch Hand Over Dylan Mulvaney Information

    Textbook example of a useless grandstander! A category that you’d think that that certain someone would would favorably inclined towards given the fact that he….well I’ll just leave it at that for now.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sen-ted-cruz-demands-anheuser-busch-hand-over-dylan-mulvaney-information

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    Paul Emery

    21 August 2023

    Gregory
    Here’s some information from Pew research showing that less than half of a percentof federal crime charges that went to trial were acquitted making Trumps situation pretty grim.
    “Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty this week to federal criminal charges related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents after his departure from the White House in 2021. The unprecedented charges against Trump and his subsequent plea raise the question: How common is it for defendants in federal criminal cases to plead not guilty, go to trial and ultimately be acquitted?
    In fiscal year 2022, only 290 of 71,954 defendants in federal criminal cases – about 0.4% – went to trial and were acquitted, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the latest available statistics from the federal judiciary.
    https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/14/fewer-than-1-of-defendants-in-federal-criminal-cases-were-acquitted-in-2022/

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12. 

    Gregory

    21 August 2023

    Golly Punch, why doesn’t Biden’s justice department investigate people named Biden?
    You won’t read about it in Rawstory.
    The lawfare being waged against Trump is intended to bolster a dubious claim that Trump can’t legally become president.

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13. 

    fishanthrope

    21 August 2023

    Hey…..look what I found…..more MSNBC PunchyPorn™.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-msnbc-talking-head-delights-thought-trump-really-dirty-dangerous-scary-jail
    Insert a “For your reading pleashure here!” with all the obligatory spelling and word choice errors that you’d expect.

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14. 

    fishanthrope

    21 August 2023

    Insert a “For your reading pleashure here!” with all the obligatory spelling and word choice errors that you’d expect.
    Crap…..autocorrect wouldn’t let use the “you’re” incorrectly! Someone really must force the stupidity at times!

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15. 

    Paul Emery

    21 August 2023

    So Gregory you are contending that Trump is not guilty of any of the 91 indictments against him and it’s all a scam run by Biden and Democrats.

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16. 

    Gregory

    21 August 2023

    Golly, Punch, your latest caricature of my opinion is closer to the truth than your caricatures of your own opinion.
    If Trump wasn’t running for President, he wouldn’t be a target. This is politics at its ugliest.

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17. 

    Orange Jesus

    21 August 2023

    Good Morning Listless Vessels😆😂😆

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18. 

    Paul Emery

    21 August 2023

    Gregory writes:
    “If Trump wasn’t running for President, he wouldn’t be a target. This is politics at its ugliest. ”
    What is your proof of that Gregory?

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    Orange Jesus

    21 August 2023

    MAGA lackeys at work, becoming more and more unhinged,
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12426037/California-woman-murdered-hanging-LGBT-pride-flag-store.html

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    Paul Emery

    21 August 2023

    More from the conservative Wall Street Journal on the Trump disaster for the Republicans:
    “Mr. Trump clearly thinks he has the nomination all but wrapped up, and judging by the current polls he has reason to think so. But what a message he is sending about the loyalty he thinks GOP voters owe him, ” they accused.
    “It would mean the Grand Old Party is going to nominate, for the third time, a man who has been indicted four times on 91 felony counts. We don’t mean despite being indicted. We mean because he’s been indicted.
    In order to spite the Democrats for their partisan prosecutions, GOP voters would be doing exactly what Democrats and the press corps want them to do. Democrats want Republicans to nominate the man who has shown over the last three national elections that he is the greatest voter turnout machine for the Democratic Party since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.”
    More Here:
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-ducks-the-gop-debate-candidate-politics-gop-nominee-race-election-2024-polls-indictment-c838c967?mod=hp_opin_pos_1

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    Orange Jesus

    21 August 2023

    Tommy “Tubesteak” Tuberville so busy brown-nosing Trump he misses important vote,
    https://www.al.com/news/2023/06/tuberville-misses-key-senate-vote-for-trump-event-republicans-are-furious.html

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22. 

    Gregory

    21 August 2023

    Naranja Jesus 1147a
    Truly a non issue. Had he been there kamalala would have cast the tie breaker vote.

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23. 

    Orange Jesus

    21 August 2023

    What’s not to love,
    …and to think the MAGA logic was “anybody but Hillary” …really?
    “In January 2023, a federal judge fined Trump and his attorney nearly $1 million, characterizing him as “a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries.”[24]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump

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24. 

    Jesus of Naranja

    21 August 2023

    …And Trump is done,
    “The provision, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, bars from office people who engage in “insurrection.” It has gotten renewed attention this month with publication of a lengthy law review article by two conservative legal scholars who argue that Trump’s conduct fits precisely within the amendment’s original meaning.
    “Even before that, however, liberal legal groups had begun researching state laws and working with voters who could challenge Trump’s access to the ballot.
    “The American public should expect to see a series of challenges filed in state after state,” says Ron Fein, legal director of one such group, Free Speech for People.
    The Fourteenth Amendment itself, in Section 3, answers the question whether disqualification is “anti-democratic,” declaring that it is not. Rather, it is the conduct that gives rise to disqualification that is anti-democratic, per the command of the Constitution.
    “One central question is whether Congress needs to pass a law to enforce the ban. Shortly after the amendment took effect, a federal appeals court held that was the case, but the recent law review article by professors William Baude of the University of Chicago and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the University of St. Thomas strongly disputed that.
    “Section 3 is self-executing. That is, its disqualifications from office are constitutionally automatic,” they wrote, likening the disqualification to the requirement that the president be 35 years old and a natural born citizen.
    “In our view, on the basis of the public record, former President Donald J. Trump is constitutionally disqualified from again being President (or holding any other covered office) because of his role in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 election and the events leading to the January 6 attack,” they said. State elections officials, they said, have a constitutional mandate to uphold the amendment’s terms.
    Another well known conservative scholar, Steven Calabresi of Northwestern University’s law school, has taken the same position, as have some leading liberal scholars, including Harvard’s Laurence Tribe.”
    https://www.latimes.com/politics/newsletter/2023-08-18/trumps-criminal-cases-are-only-part-of-his-problem-get-ready-for-the-14th-amendment-battle-essential-politics

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25. 

    🐠

    21 August 2023

    Trying to figure out if dugsKKKi is back….”Orange Jesus” sounds like one of his bon mots. I’d just like to know if he had to climb out of his casket to join us on this cloudy day?

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26. 

    Don Bessee

    21 August 2023

    Another jailhouse lawyer @1235 TDS fevered mutterings. LOL Whats the definition of a woman?
    😉

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27. 

    Gregory

    21 August 2023

    punchy 1129a
    Rachel Madcow was suggesting right off the bat that the charges be dropped if Trump agreed to not run.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/rachel-maddow-suggests-doj-quid-pro-quo-with-trump-drop-charges-leaves-2024-race

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28. 

    fishanthrope

    21 August 2023

    What could possibly go wrong?
    

    States look to hire illegal immigrants to fatten struggling police departments

    Thanks President Brainstem…..!
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/aug/21/states-look-to-hire-illegal-immigrants-to-fatten-s/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter

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29. 

    Paul Emery

    21 August 2023

    You don’t seem to get it Gregory, the Dems want him to run since he’s such a historic loser. Once again here’s a quote from the Conservative Wall Street Journal warnng the Repubs about the danger to the Republican party if he runs again.
    “In order to spite the Democrats for their partisan prosecutions, GOP voters would be doing exactly what Democrats and the press corps want them to do. Democrats want Republicans to nominate the man who has shown over the last three national elections that he is the greatest voter turnout machine for the Democratic Party since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.”
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-ducks-the-gop-debate-candidate-politics-gop-nominee-race-election-2024-polls-indictment-c838c967?mod=hp_opin_pos_1

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30. 

    Gregory

    21 August 2023

    Punch, how considerate of you to go around warning folk that you think are acting against their best interests, but perhaps you should just let go.
    Don’t meddle in GOP or Libertarian affairs. That’s a good chap. Begone.

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31. 

    Scott O

    21 August 2023

    Paul – “the Dems want him to run…”
    They want him to run in the primaries and win, then the Dems are counting on getting some jury of Trump haters to lay a felony on him and force the Rs to scramble for a candidate for the general. The Dems are terrified of Trump running in the general. In other countries, they hold snap elections. Can you imagine a snap election right now for POTUS with Senile Perv Corrupt Joe running against Trump?
    Of course, Biden would get Paul’s vote.
    Paul loved it when he saw Joe fondle the little girl’s nipple.
    Paul thought – “that’s the man I want as my leader”.

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32. 

    Don Bessee

    21 August 2023

    Looks like the lefty nazi did not think that one through!
    Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced earlier this summer it would keep its promise to block news content from Canada on its platforms because of a new law that requires tech giants to pay publishers for linking to or otherwise repurposing their content online.
    The company, which is headquartered in Northern California, stood by its decision and said in a statement about the wildfires that people in Canada can continue to use Instagram and Facebook “to connect with their communities and access reputable information, including content from official government agencies, emergency services and non-governmental organizations.”
    The country’s residents and visitors are not able to view or share news on the Meta-owned social networks, including news articles, videos and audio posted by outlets inside or outside of Canada.
    Meta has not been alone in its action. Google’s owner, Alphabet, also said it planned to remove Canadian news links in response to the new law
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/finance/news/prime-minister-justin-trudeau-slams-171836071.html
    😉

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33. 

    Don Bessee

    21 August 2023

    Gman perhaps antifa or blm would apricate the political wisdom of the ponytail of ignorance but then again, he is just another old ass white guy. LOL
    😉

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    Paul Emery

    21 August 2023

    Scott
    You’re allegiance to Trump is really pathetic. You blame his situation on everyone else but him. The Conservative publication Wall Street Journal has it right but Trumpers like you refuse to listen. What you chose to do is go after are the messengers like me and what does that accomplish?
    Trump is the biggest political loser in modern history but you refuse to see that.

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35. 

    🐠

    21 August 2023

    Posted by: xxxx XXXXX| 21 August 2023 at 05:35 PM
    It’s most unseemly for an 80 year old to have a tantrum just because nobody’s buying his ridiculous arguments or gives a crap about his political opinions.
    ….and hey, thanks in advance for agreeing with me.

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36. 

    Don Bessee

    21 August 2023

    Hows that defund the police working out for you, thought so. LOL
    The Austin, Texas, chief of police abruptly retired from his post on Monday in the wake of major staffing shortages, the absence of a police union contract and years of issues with the city council and mayors.
    Austin Police Department Chief Joseph Chacon announced his retirement “with a heavy heart” on Monday in a post on X, formerly Twitter, saying he came to the decision after a lot of thought.
    “This is one of the hardest messages that I’ve ever had to write,” he said. “A few months ago, I began seriously considering retirement and after long conversations with my wife and family, and thoughtful prayer, I have now made the decision that the moment is right to hang it up on a 25-year career with APD.”
    The announcement comes as residents continue to feel the aftermath of staffing shortages, which include longer-than-normal hold times for those who call 911, and crime that continues to spiral out of control.
    In 2020, the Austin City Council slashed APD’s budget by about $150 million, or roughly a third of its budget at the time. A state law passed the following year forced the city to restore the lost funding to APD, but by then, officers were departing the force in large numbers. At the same time, the city paused police cadet classes, further squeezing the department’s staffing.
    Thomas Villarreal, president of the Austin Police Association, spoke to “Fox & Friends” on Monday, blaming the Austin City Council for neglecting local law enforcement and alleging that the council’s missteps created a larger problem.
    “We just continue to have a city council that doesn’t show its police officers that [it] cares about them,” Villarreal said.
    During the summer of 2020, riots following the death of George Floyd took place in Austin, during which APD officers fired bean bags, rubber bullets and tear gas during a protest that spiraled out of control.
    As a result, 19 officers were indicted on charges of aggravated assault, and at least one of those officers faces a charge of deadly conduct discharge of a firearm.
    Villarreal said the officers were indicted for “doing their jobs.”
    The indictments were brought on by Travis County District Attorney Joe Garza, a George Soros-backed candidate accused of running on a platform in favor of prosecuting police.
    Villarreal said the department currently has about 1,475 officers, in a city that should have closer to 2,000 officers and growing.
    Since defunding, Austin has seen crime increase, and this year, residents are waiting longer for police to come to their aid amid a shortage of staff at the 911 call center.
    It continued by saying, “Until City Hall rejects the poison of police abolitionists and their allied activists and ensures we have a strong, adequately staffed police department, public safety will continue to deteriorate.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/austin-police-chief-abruptly-retires-staffing-shortages-lack-police-union-contract
    😉

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37. 

    Paul Emery

    21 August 2023

    Fishhole is a joke when he accuses others of ridiculous arguments when he won’t even use his real name because he’s embarrassed about being a Trump supporter and doesn’t want his friends and family to know.

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    Don Bessee

    21 August 2023

    WOW how profound from the ponytail of ignorance deep in his fevorus TDS night sweats, shoulda got the salve when it might have attenuated some of the damage. But no and nothing to say or original thoughts. #sadoldman ROFLOL
    😉

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39. 

    fishanthrope

    21 August 2023

    Fishhole is a joke when he accuses others of ridiculous arguments when he won’t even use his real name because he’s embarrassed about being a Trump supporter and doesn’t want his friends and family to know.
    PunchyBot™ activate…..!

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    Paul Emery

    21 August 2023

    Thanks for repeating my post fishhole. I appreciate it.

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41. 

    fishanthrope

    21 August 2023

    Thanks for repeating my post fishhole. I appreciate it.
    It’s good to expose that vast audience of senile, slack jawed geriatrics to your idiocy more than once…..if only for the memory jog!

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    Gregory

    21 August 2023

    “Fishhole is a joke when he accuses others of ridiculous arguments when he won’t even use his real name because he’s embarrassed about being a Trump supporter and doesn’t want his friends and family to know.”
    -Punchy
    Unless ‘fish’ actuallu wrote something like that, Paul Emery, every time you’ve written that is a separate count of libel.
    And yes, libel can be made against a nom de plume.

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43. 

    Scott O

    21 August 2023

    Paul 5:35 – “What you chose to do is go after are the messengers like me…”
    I didn’t “go after you” Paul. I just pointed out that there are still people like you that will vote for Biden despite the fact that he’s a senile corrupt perv and that you liked him pinching that young girl’s nipple.
    You’ve never denied it.
    I just thought that was the kind of thing you liked in a presidential candidate.

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44. 

    🐠

    21 August 2023

    Posted by: Gregory | 21 August 2023 at 09:46 PM
    Don’t scare him off Gregory…..he’s too much fun ……a rhetorical Slam Man!

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45. 

    🐠

    21 August 2023

    https://www.tunturi.com/en/slam-man-reaction-trainer.html

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46. 

    fishanthrope

    22 August 2023

    ‘Children Were Incinerated To Ash’: Livid Hawaiians Slam Biden For Cracking Jokes, Lying About Wife
    I’m sure that He who Hates Lying Politicians will be all over this with the righteous condemnation are used to seeing……

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    fishanthrope

    22 August 2023

    Bummer……! I bet Jesus (Orange) hasn’t been this upset since Pilate….
    …never mind.

    Posted by: Orange Jesus | 21 August 2023 at 11:38 AM
    MAGA lackeys at work, becoming more and more unhinged…

    Travis Ikeguchi, 27, made anti-LGBTQ posts before shooting dead California shop owner Laura Ann Carleton over her Pride flag

    Not a white guy, not a republican, no evidence that he was a Trump supporter! Were you always this shitty at doing your jerb when you were a …Court Scribe….err…..newspaper reporter?

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48. 

    Scott O

    22 August 2023

    So – it turns out to be a crazy Nip! Sad emojis all around for the left. They were so sure it had to be a Trumpster.
    “Ikeguchi also wrote posts critical of former President Donald Trump and his supporters,…”
    “Trump supporters are mocking and acting to be like Christians; this the sign of the new Antichrist!”
    Wow – sounds like one of Paul Emery’s buddies!
    Of course all of this will be ignored by the left…
    Must stick to the NARRATIVE!

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49. 

    fishanthrope

    22 August 2023

    What you chose to do is go after are the messengers like me and what does that accomplish….?
    The generation of that most important of commodities …..humor!
    Reminding all the humorous notion of a silly old man thinking that anybody gives a crap about what he thinks about politics!

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50. 

    Scott O

    22 August 2023

    fishy 9:39 – “the humorous notion of a silly old man”
    Remember all the Putin Cuddler lectures and the savvy, savvy predictions that Trump would never be POTUS?
    Paul decides to take the high moral road and brags for months he’s gonna vote for a senile, corrupt perv!
    Well – as long as Trump is in prison, who cares if our nation is going down the drain?
    It’s for the children!

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