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I view with reinvigorated alarm today’s broadcast joys of socialists, wokesters, liberals, and leftwingers in general celebrating the $400M+ fine demanded of Trump for what is termed his  committing ‘civil fraud’.  They uniformly and unanimously agree with the ‘legal basis’ on which the New York attorney general prosecuted and the judge adjudicated the Trump trial.  All these people look forward to a totalitarian state in which capitalism is banned, the beneficial mechanisms of market pricing, and the ownership of private property are dispensed with.  That is exactly the harbinger that letting the verdict stand will foster across the land.  (And students of our Founders and Bastiat know that the fundamental rights upon which our personal security and manifold liberties are based will also disappear.)

The other cohort of people celebrating Trump’s fine are those too stupid to think through these ramifications.  All their little TDS sotted pea brains can muster up is that if it hurts Trump, it must be good.

Nevertheless, some on the Right still believe that we can find common ground to reunite as the America of yesteryear – this even though no such path has been identified.  RR invites these worthies to step forward and illuminate us with their vision of how we regain E Pluribus Unum.  (And here is info on a related and contributing problem in our land.)

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147 responses to “They are VERY different from us”

  1. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    The lead in this latest screed by George trying to explain how different ‘they’ (whoever they are) are so different from ‘us’
    is typical of elders who believe the world is going to hell in a hand basket.
    But the basket could be attached to the end of a pendulum.
    “Rashida Tlaib Slammed for Urging Voters to Withhold Support for Joe Biden”

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  2. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “I think emojis are just shorthand, a simple way to, for instance, show how hilariously delusional Trump is to even think he’s even close to being anything like Navalny. Of course MAGANs will believe just about anything.”
    Your emojis are a shorthand for the reader to YOUR hilarious delusions.

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  3. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    scenes 1007a
    There have been significant amateurish journalist websites based in Nevada County, including The Union and the unlamented Sierra Foothills Report.

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  4. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    Another indicator that They are not much different than You,
    How many lawsuits has Trump been involved with?
    How many times has Trump initiated lawsuits?
    Why does Trump sue so many people and organizations?
    He does it to try to scare scare them off with large legal fees his victims would have to pay to fight deep pocket Trump.
    So, I think justice has been served that Trump is having to spend millions (of his stupid supporters money) to defend himself.
    The latest $350M verdict might be overturned but he got penalized where it hurts him, in his pocketbook.
    Don’t for get about the 60 plus lawsuits he initiated over the election that he lost.
    But the lawyers are happy.

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  5. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    Another reason They are not much different than You,
    Remember how Afghanistan went?
    We supported them for years, then we removed support and left the country, leaving them in the lurch.
    Remember how outraged MAGA was?
    Guess what is happening in Ukraine?
    We have been pouring money, and weapons into the country to support Ukraine.
    So, what does MAGA do, they unceremoniously stop funding them and don’t care what happens to the Ukrainian people.
    MAGA owns the Ukrainian genocide.

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  6. fishanthrope Avatar
    fishanthrope

    Posted by: Individual Juan | 20 February 2024 at 01:31 PM
    Congratulations…..you are morphing into an “Emery”.

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  7. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    Meanwhile, the MAGA house goes on vacation and Mike Johnson spends the weekend with his lover Trump at MargoLargo for President’s Day.

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  8. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    fishanthropic 135p
    No, he has been an “Emery” for some time.
    Indy Jeff 135p
    No, all fault belongs to Russia.
    A n d there is no entity named “MAGA”.

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  9. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Jeff, a query… is Mitchell graduating in the Spring?

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  10. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Come back, Indy!
    Just wondering… why does the glee of Democrats at the start of the war get a nod from you? A fight to the last Ukraine soldier standing?

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Emperor gavin lays another egg while giving illegals health insurance and welfare –
    The tug-of-war between California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office over the state’s projected budget deficit took a new turn Tuesday, when the LAO announced a revised shortfall of $73 billion
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/california-budget-deficit-worse-anticipated-222103715.html
    7.2M illegals entered the US under Biden admin, an amount greater than population of 36 states
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illegal-immigrants-biden-admin-amount-greater-population-36-states
    😉

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  12. Scott O Avatar

    Idiot Juanita 1:35 – “Remember how outraged MAGA was?”
    Not at all the same deal. You kinda forgot about the billions we spent on bases and the billions more in weaponry we just abandoned to the enemy. it was a total fiasco completely overseen by the Biden admin that never had to happen. The Ukrainians never had a chance against Russia and will lose simply because Russia has about 10 times the amount of soldiers to feed into the meat grinder. Other than the hold the Ukrainians have over the Biden family, it was never our fight in the first place. In fact the whole thing is a result of the inept foreign policy of the Biden admin.

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  13. Scott O Avatar

    Idiot Juanita 1:36 – “…and Mike Johnson spends the weekend with his lover Trump at MargoLargo for President’s Day.”
    Why Juanita – you sound kinda jealous.
    We never knew!

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  14. Scott O Avatar

    Idiot Juanita 10:38 – For anyone who wonders why I call that person an ‘idiot’ look no further than the 10:38 post:
    “The lead in this latest screed by George trying to explain how different ‘they’ (whoever they are) are so different from ‘us’…”
    George explains precisely who “they” are but poor Idiot Juanita is an
    IDIOT.
    Maybe get together with Paul and have a volunteer from the local library help you both with your reading comprehension skills.

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I fine example of the critical thinking skills they leave the commissar education camps aka universities –
    Seattle radio host blasts irony of gay, pro-Hamas activists seeking ‘homosexual Intifada’: ‘Stark oxymoron’
    Rantz noted the irony of the LGBTQ support for Palestinians, saying, ‘being openly gay isn’t just a social taboo; it’s a fast track to execution’ in Gaza
    He wrote, “The extremists plastered their signage around downtown Seattle. That’s when we started seeing a new flyer showing two men with faces covered with keffiyeh while embracing in a kiss. The pink-hued message says ‘homosexual Intifada’ in all caps.”
    “Seattle’s homosexual intifada flyer is a stark oxymoron as brazen as it is ignorant. It signals LGBT Seattle activists are willing to become more violent in support of a terrorist organization that would order them tossed from the highest rooftop the moment they accuse someone of misgendering them,” he said.
    Spelling it out for these demonstrators, he noted that in Gaza – which is governed by terror group Hamas – “being openly gay isn’t just a social taboo; it’s a fast track to execution. LGBT people face arrests, torture, and extrajudicial killings based purely on sexual orientation.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/seattle-radio-host-blasts-irony-gay-pro-hamas-activists-seeking-homosexual-intifada-stark-oxymoron?dicbo=v2-L8HcobC
    😉

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    OH SHIT he said it out loud, now we know for sure he is retiring –
    Manchin: Border Crisis Is ‘Joe Biden’s Fault’ — He Opened Things Up ‘From Day One’ and ‘Waited Too Long’
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/02/20/manchin-border-crisis-is-joe-bidens-fault-he-opened-things-up-from-day-one-and-waited-too-long/
    😉

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  17. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    8th Amendment: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
    Any questions?

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Pointy headed woke policies cost lives in the real world –
    Oregon Fentanyl Overdoses Increase by 1,530%, Largest Spike in the Nation
    https://www.breitbart.com/health/2024/02/21/oregon-fentanyl-overdoses-increase-by-1530-largest-spike-in-the-nation/
    😉

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Thanks creepy grampa joe for this adding to the already out of control crime –
    In another case, an illegal from Peru was accused of stealing $17,000 from a Khols in Exton. The suspect had been deported but is reportedly already back.
    “That was less than a month ago, and he’s back in the United States,” Pezick explained.
    The groups are also being implicated in home and car burglaries, police said.
    The epidemic of organized gangs of migrants engaging in crimes is hardly limited only to a small village west of Philadelphia.
    https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/02/21/organized-migrant-theft-groups-plague-pennsylvania-town/
    😉

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  20. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    Former prime minister Liz Truss comes out with a new book, and speaks at CPAC slamming “Bidenomics”.
    Insert howls of laughter here!
    …and this is coming from the loser that lasted 50 days in her position as prime minister.
    More howls of laughter!

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  21. fishanthrope Avatar
    fishanthrope

    Posted by: Individual jeffy | 23 February 2024 at 07:29 AM
    …and this is coming from the loser that lasted 50 days in her position as prime minister.

    Far be it from me to defend Liz Truss but she had an adversarial press……not a fellatial US press carrying Biden around on their collective shoulders.
    I imagine it’s no fun for you to be away from “the action” when you could be carrying water for a statesman like Grifty J.
    PS: Did they deliver your Guatemalan yet? Did you get to try him out?

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  22. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Decent article, done Twitter-style.

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  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: moi@7:54AM
    Mostly same, different format.
    https://www.fromthenew.world/p/google-geminis-woke-catechism

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  24. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    I guess they really are not so different from us.
    Trump relied on Russians to help fund his projects.
    Mike Johnson relied on Russians to help him with his election campaign.
    Hunter Biden worked for a company funded by an oligarch.
    When it comes to money, Washington, DC wannabes don’t care where their money comes from.
    https://www.newsweek.com/who-konstantin-nikolaev-money-mike-johnson-1870600

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  25. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Mike Johnson relied on Russians to help him with his election campaign.”
    Generally, I’d say that the UK and Israel are an order (orders?) of magnitude more influential in US national campaigns, and that the US exerted more influence in post-Soviet Russian politics than visa versa, but All’s Fair That You Can Get Away With as they say.
    It always struck me that the Bidens and The Donald were mirror images. One took bribes, the other paid them (like any property developer in a large US city). I’m not sure which is more moral, although I’m always surprised just how rich people with lifetime jobs in politics always seem to get. It must be all them book sales I bet.
    Nothing new here. Politics were a blood sport in ancient Rome and the Venetian Doges made a modern US President look like a child.

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  26. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Innuendo, anyone?
    Indy Jeff is up to his old tricks.

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  27. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Looks like Trump may have Alzheimer’s. From a recent edition of Salon during a recent interview with psychologist Dr. John Gartner, formerly of Johns Hopkins University Medical School:
    According to Gartner “There is also this focus on [President Joe] Biden’s gaffes or other things that are well within the normal limits of aging. By comparison, Trump appears to be showing gross signs of dementia. This is a tale of two brains. Biden’s brain is aging. Trump’s brain is dementing,
    Trump, he noted, appears to be spiraling into “phonemic paraphasias” during his rally speeches, which he described as, “the substitution of non-words for words that sound similar—are not normally seen until a patient enters the moderate to severe stages of Alzheimer’s.”
    “Some examples of Trump’s non-words: Beneficiaries becomes ‘benefishes.’ Renovations become ‘renoversh.’ Pivotal became ‘pivobal.’ Obama became ‘obamna.’ Missiles became ‘mishiz.’ Christmas became ‘Crissus.’ Bipartisan became ‘bipars.’ This is a fundamental breakdown in the ability to use language. If you were talking to your father on the phone and he did this you would think he is having a stroke. There is no healthy older person who speaks that way.”
    He also noted Trump’s tendency to go off in odd directions while talking to audiences.
    https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-gartner-on-a-tale-of-two-brains-bidens-brain-is-aging-brain-is-dementing/

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  28. fish ole’ Avatar
    fish ole’

    Looks like Trump may have Alzheimer’s.
    Interesting…..those suffering with the same affliction can see it in each other.
    Well you, Joe and Don will have lots to jibber to each other about.

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  29. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Innuendo, anyone?
    Indy Punchy is up to his old tricks.

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  30. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I’m sure there will be more news like what I provided about Trumps decline. Don’t worry I’ll keep you Trump Chumps informed.

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  31. fish ole’ Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: psul …“When it comes to Trump I’m like autistic reporter guy from the Onion…Emery | 24 February 2024 at 02:42 PM
    “The train is fine….!”
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tInDH2FeXaM

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  32. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another fine example of ESG fucking up in the real world costing lives –
    Several European countries have supplied a wide range of weapon systems. However, the dilemma of ensuring electrical insulation durability has become a sticking point for newer equipment. This issue affects a multitude of nations where ESG (Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance) guidelines are making their way into the arms industry.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/rodents-incapacitate-millions-in-eco-friendly-military-equipment-in-ukraine-the-unforeseen-problem/ar-BB1iOyki?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=8d5da273efbc47f1abbc22410d8c2198&ei=17
    😉

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  33. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    That wasn’t news, Punch.
    Just more innuendo.
    I get it… with Biden’s decline in full view of everyone, Trump must be taken down.

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  34. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “with Biden’s decline in full view of everyone, Trump must be taken down.”
    I’d love to listen in on the strategy sessions. In terms of cognitive ability and general healthiness of these dudes, there’s no point in doing anything besides watching public appearances…but the word goes down to push Biden’s problems onto Trump. psul reads something by some ‘experts’ and rushes over to inform everybody. It’s like that smelly kid in grade school.
    Seriously, the difference between the two is obvious. Trump may be an asshole and, as usual, just winging it on stage, but jaysus that guy is healthy given his age and diet. It’s really kind of unfair, choosing the right parents appears to be an important part of life.

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  35. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another self inflicted dei woke wound –
    The Harvard Corporation reportedly favored former Harvard President Claudine Gay over two internal candidates who both had administrative experience and far more extensive scholarship credentials. The Ivy League institution reportedly failed to conduct even a basic review of DEI candidate Gay’s academic work.
    Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny S. Pritzker and the presidential search committee favored Claudine Gay for her administrative expertise and didn’t even conduct a scholarly review of her work, a person familiar with the process told the Harvard Crimson.
    Meanwhile, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and John F. Manning, dean of Harvard Law School, who had both administrative experience and more ample scholarship credentials, were reportedly overlooked.
    Brown-Nagin had published two books and won the highest award in American History writing, while Manning argued nine cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and wrote more than 40 legal articles.
    Gay’s scholarly record, meanwhile, was “comparatively thin,” the Crimson noted.
    “The revelation about the search process gives insight on how the search committee managed to pick a president whose scholarship would later come under microscopic scrutiny for allegations of plagiarism,” the school newspaper added.
    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/02/24/report-harvard-did-not-review-claudine-gays-scholarship-overlooked-other-nominees-in-president-search/
    😉

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  36. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The Favorite Daughter of South Carolina is losing badly to Trump in her own state.

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    A student of the biden school of governance –
    Mexican president defends disclosing a reporter’s phone number, saying the law doesn’t apply to him
    Press freedom groups said the president’s decision to make public the phone number of a New York Times reporter Thursday was an attempt to punish critical reporting, and exposed the reporter to potential danger.
    Mexico’s law on Protection of Personal Data states “the government will guarantee individuals’ privacy” and sets out punishments for officials and others for “improperly using, taking, publishing, hiding, altering or destroying, fully or partially, personal data.”
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/mexican-president-defends-disclosing-reporters-185250041.html
    😉

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  38. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    That did not take long! LOL –
    The eldest son of Mexico’s president and the governing party’s presidential candidate said Saturday that their telephone numbers were published on social media and that they have received threats and insults. Both denounced the action.
    The incident came a day after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador disclosed the phone number of a reporter for The New York Times, which published a story about a U.S. probe into claims that López took money from drug traffickers. López Obrador denied the allegations.
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/mexican-presidents-eldest-son-denounces-205219262.html
    😉

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  39. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “The Favorite Daughter of South Carolina is losing badly to Trump in her own state.”
    I’d sure like to know what is going on there. Is she hoping to pick up the crown if Trump has a health issue? She certainly lacks on-stage charisma. Of course, the current President has zero and ran from his basement, so perhaps that doesn’t matter.
    Is she looking for a payoff from Trump to be quiet? Some sort of after-election gig from never-Trump backers? Getting ready for 2028? Money from Israel/UK/Russia/China/DNC at work? There’s certainly no organic movement behind this.
    Haley is an answer to a question no one asked. You might as well run Adam Schiff for President.

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  40. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George writes: “They are VERY different from us”
    Is this the “us’ you are referring to in this post ?
    At the CPAC meeting this week, a well-known rightwing influencer, Jack Posobiec, went off on a rant about how important it is for conservatives to band together to end democracy in America and, presumably, replace it with Christofascism like in Russia. “Welcome to the end of democracy!” he declared. “We’re here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here,” he said as he held up a cross. “That’s right, because all glory is not to government, all glory to God.”
    https://newrepublic.com/post/179247/jack-posobiec-democracy-cpac-2024

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  41. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    <i.Posted by: psul “has a difficult time with the English language” Emery | 25 February 2024 at 09:04 AM
    Ahhhh…..Sunday….so there must be something else for Uncle Punchy™ to be terrified of on this lovely morning!
    Well somebody should probably tell Jack Posobiec to hurry up then if he wants to destroy democracy…..what with BLM, those assholes at the Tides Foundation, George Soros, the League of Women Voters, and the American Kennel Club all trying to beat him to the ….no pun intended…punch.

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  42. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    In my honest opinion, he wasn’t being serious.
    Mildly funny, but not worth a belly laugh. He was baiting the leftist press, who took the bait and ran with it uncritically.
    Punchy, you just need to lighten up and get a sense of humor.

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  43. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Punchy, you just need to lighten up and get a sense of humor.
    A little late for that now….

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