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[Well, the congressional Repubs can really futch up President Trump and the country if they don't settle quickly on selecting a Speaker.  Operational competency of our political parties is in the toilet.  The Dems have historically led the way, but the Repubs are doing their best to now take the title.  gjr]

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  1. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly
  2. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Oh, dear indeed!
    Hillbilly hallucinated MAGA involvement in that story. No mention of Trump, Trumpers GOP or MAGA? At all?

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  3. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Here’s a nice little story.
    “…George Soros and his son, Alex, have spent at least $117 million since 2016 to reshape America’s justice system. They’ve been successful: three in 10 Americans now live under a Soros prosecutor.
    But the Soroses’ influence doesn’t end on Election Day. After Soros-backed prosecutors take office, the family’s apparatus tells them what to do, documents show.
    The Media Research Center obtained nearly 8,000 pages of internal documents through public records laws that show how a Soros-funded group called Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP) “directed Soros prosecutors to manipulate the rule of law concerning illegal immigration, drugs, abortion, election integrity, capital punishment and laws against childhood sex changes.”
    …”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/documents-reveal-how-george-soros-controls-prosecutors-2

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  4. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    OTOH, Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency guy, Vivek Ramaswamy, has rather poor business practices, a kind of Elizabeth Holmes vibe.
    My money is on the bureaucracy defeating those guys (Musk, Ramaswamy) in any case.
    One thing I’m eagerly looking forward to is the first crying child images blasted ’round the world the instant that deportations start.

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish

    Bringing you today’s news ….three days ago!

    Biden Finally Claims Title Of Worst Living President

    ….and let’s not forget he is also “The Biggest Political Loser in Modern American History
    https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-finally-claims-title-of-worst-living-president

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    Wonder why this is….

    Teachers Will No Longer Need To Pass Basic Reading, Writing And Math Test For Certification In This Blue State

    https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/30/new-jersey-law-reduces-teaching-requirements/

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  7. Scott O Avatar

    re New Jersey’s new law:
    “A powerful teachers union, the New Jersey Education Association, was a driving force behind the bill, calling the testing requirement “an unnecessary barrier to entering the profession.””
    Tell me again why we have a federal dept of ed?
    And the Dems claim it’s the Rs that are against education.

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    From your lips to Gods ear –
    Palestinian official predicts Trump will ‘destroy’ Iran, leading to breakdown of remaining Hamas cells: report
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/palestinian-official-predicts-trump-destroy-163512240.html
    😉

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  9. fish Avatar
    fish

    It’s a bold strategy Cotton….

    We Plan to cut all Homeless People in half by 2025

    …..let’s see how it works out for them!
    https://x.com/SirajAHashmi/status/1874183786034061684

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  10. Scott O Avatar

    fish 9:17 – and folks wonder how Farage is taking votes from the Tories.
    Although you could sell tickets and reduce the debt in GB.

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  11. fish Avatar
    fish

    They’re surprised…..?

    ”Early on in his Oval Office tenure, President Joe Biden tasked Vice President Kamala Harris with overseeing a broadband internet program. Her job was to get broadband internet to every American across the country at a cost of $42 billion.”
    In September, Republican Senator John Thune exposed the program hadn’t connected a single household.

    I guess a gal doesn’t always feel like “putting her head down and getting to work” as the 2nd Gentleman so famously said when referring to his wife’s work ethic.
    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/12/31/the-libs-are-noticing-bidens-broadband-scandal-n2649803

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  12. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I got my broadband!
    Thanks Elon.

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    We’ll see if this is premature …..

    Terror Suspect Reportedly Crossed Biden’s Open Border Days Ago To Launch Bourbon Street Massacre

    …..but if should do wonders for that already stellar Biden legacy.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/reported-fatalities-bourbon-street-after-vehicle-plows-crowd-during-new-years

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So how many did you order ya ol ponytail of ignorance? LOL
    😉

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  15. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: psul
    ummm. It appears to be by someone named Raffaele Guerriero with a company called ‘RedTeeHumor’
    did you know…people make all kinds of T-shirts for sale
    check it out, a Kamala Harris votive candle saying she’s a saint.
    https://www.etsy.com/listing/963750067/saint-kamala-harris-patron-saint-of-cool
    I was wondering though, is Biden the biggest political loser of all time or Harris? We could design a shirt.

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  16. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    The picture in my 5:20 post is a real sick one showing Trump cuddled up in the lap of some Jesus stud. Totally weird for sure. Amazing that he allows such things to be put up for sale without even protesting it. “Jesus” seems to be reaching for Trumps private lower parts with his left hand.

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  17. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul R. Emery of Nevada City, California | 01 January 2025 at 08:59 PM
    “Jesus” seems to be reaching for Trumps private lower parts with his left hand.

    Well looking at the image that’s a bit of a stretch but I think
    I understand why Mr. Emery desperately wants it to be so.
    Again the unusual fascination with male sex organs…..
    Interesting….its a little late in life for coming out of the closet but not unheard of! What sent you to Etsy looking for vaguely pornographic images of Jesus? Do you do that often?

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  18. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Ever hear of Charismatic Christians For Christ fish? They are the ones promoting this and Trump doesn’t attempt tp stop them.

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul R. Emery Christian Porn Aficionado | 01 January 2025 at 09:40 PM
    Ever hear of Charismatic Christians For Christ fish? They are the ones promoting this and Trump doesn’t attempt tp stop them.

    Nope and I doubt the president elect has either! After all he really has much more important things to do like finally having the government track down and arrest people who Joe Biden let in to the country without proper vetting.
    Charismatice Christians for Christ Are they where you usually go for your “Stud Jesus” pictures?

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  20. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    roflmao.
    So we start with “Trump is making a buck by selling clothes…”
    and advance to “Amazing that he allows such things to be put up for sale…”
    psul, some advice. You just got your ass handed to you in an election. The President is obviously senile, and everyone is sick of mutilated children, unlimited immigration, military men in dresses, grifty affirmative action. You are on the wrong side of history.
    Just wait a bit and the Trump people will do something obviously stupid. An administration is a complicated thing and there are a lot of opportunities for error. Bring ’em up. This t-shirt deal is about as lame as any argument I’ve every seen.

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  21. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    nice.
    I see that Liz Cheney, who bears a remarkable resemblance to Grand Admiral Levine, is getting some sort of Presidential Super Duper Freedoms Civilian Medal.
    What a piece of work

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So scenes you have no problem with Trump, who is soon to be President, making a buck out of distributed t-shirts showing him cuddling with and trying to kiss Jesus.

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  23. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Charismatice Christians for Christ Are they where you usually go for your “Stud Jesus” pictures?”
    Punchy…stifle.
    “I give you… The Buddy Christ. Now that’s not the sanctioned term we’re using for the symbol, just something we’ve been kicking around the office, but look at it. Doesn’t it… pop? Buddy Christ…”
    -Cardinal Glick (George Carlin, “Dogma”)

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  24. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: psul and his typical tosh.
    Is that a fancy way to say ‘you have no problem with nastynoodles, a seller on Etsy, making a buck’.
    You silly man, do you ever look at your links? Is nastynoodles a friend of yours?
    Having said that, we’ve decided that the Trump Police are going to buy you some of those shirts and force you to wear them. Expect a knock on the door.

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  25. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul R. Emery of Nevada City, California | 02 January 2025 at 07:49 AM
    So scenes you have no problem with Trump, who is soon to be President, making a buck out of distributed t-shirts showing him cuddling with and trying to kiss Jesus.

    Well you’re nothing if not predictable!

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  26. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “So scenes you have no problem with Trump, who is soon to be President, making a buck out of distributed t-shirts showing him cuddling with and trying to kiss Jesus.”
    I have a problem with your hallucinating that Trump is behind that website.

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  27. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    scenes
    In case you forgot Trump was making money selling Trump endorsed Bibles.

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  28. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 844a
    Fascinating.
    And what is the linkage… Trump sold a bible for awhile, therefore this t-shirt storefront is Trump’s business?

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul R. Emery of Nevada City, California | 02 January 2025 at 08:44 AM
    In case you forgot Trump was making money selling Trump endorsed Bibles.

    So? I don’t seem to recall you whining about President Brainstem and lil Brainstem jr. making millions of the Russians and Chinese!

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  30. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    You’re changing the topic fish.
    Trump can stop the sales of his Jesus t-shirts in a day. How can you justify him allowing that?

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  31. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul R. Emery of Nevada City, California | 02 January 2025 at 09:12 AM
    You’re changing the topic fish.

    No I’m not…..and even if I were you do it all the time! Usually it involves a cowardly dodge of a question that you can’t or won’t answer!

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Trump can stop the sales of his Jesus t-shirts in a day. How can you justify him allowing that?
    The same way you justify flogging the music of serial philanderer and abuser of women Leonard Cohen.
    …….Hallelujah, Hallelujah!

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  33. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy, President-Elect Trump isn’t selling t-shirts on etsy.

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  34. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Show me one case of sexual abuse that has ever been filed against Leonard Cohen fish. Care to compare that with Trumps record?

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul R. Emery of Nevada City, California | 02 January 2025 at 09:52 AM
    Again…..predictable as always! Not reading links prevents you from finding unpleasant truths! And lord knows you’d never let anything get in the way of filling the guitar case!

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  36. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Sexual abuse is criminal.
    The lawfare cases have twisted Punchy’s mind.

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  37. Scott O Avatar

    Paul – “Trump can stop the sales of his Jesus t-shirts in a day”
    First of all, Paul – they’re NOT his T shirts.
    And could you please explain the legal mechanism for Trump being able to stop the sales of the shirts?
    Trump is a public figure. Personally, I see the images as satire.
    Maybe wait until the death squads are activated to hunt down and kill his political enemies before complaining.

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  38. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Trump made $300,000 selling Trump bibles fish. I mean making a profit off of bibles. My oh my. This guy will do anything to make a buck.
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/16/trump-civil-penalties-finance-disclosure

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  39. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Raymond Emery of Nevada City, California |02 January 2025 at 10:29 AM
    Trump made $300,000 selling Trump bibles fish. I mean making a profit off of bibles. My oh my. This guy will do anything to make a buck.

    Talk about changing the subject Paul Raymond Emery. So what ….$300K is chump change for a guy like Trump. It pales in comparison to the millions that the Biden’s made from the Ukrainians and the Chinese!
    In any case Paul Raymond if you don’t want to buy one of Trumps bibles people can get one in a manner similar to how I imagine you got yours….they can just steal one from a motel room courtesy of the Gideons.

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  40. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I’d forgotten about the Bibles. They’re actually Lee Greenwood Bibles that Trump endorsed.
    Would have been a good investment I think. They sell for about $100 on eBay now.
    “And I’m proud to be an American
    Where at least I know I’m free
    And I won’t forget the men who died
    Who gave that right to me
    And I’d gladly stand up next to you
    And defend Her still today
    ‘Cause there ain’t no doubt
    I love this land
    God Bless the U.S.A.”

    Probably not a bad time to learn the tune psul. With Trump in office, it’ll be your time to shine as a musician.

    A quick X update.
    The H1B wars continue on. Tech Bros vs. them nasty deplorables. New uproar is about the immigrant rape gangs in the UK, which actually is a pretty heinous thing. I just assume that the ruling class there is in some sort of xenophile endgame where you offer up your daughters to all the nice men.

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  41. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punch, the election was nearly two months ago. The baby in the red diaper lost.

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  42. Scott O Avatar

    “I mean making a profit off of bibles. My oh my.”
    Hilarious – Paul is apparently unaware that there are 100’s of Christian book stores and web sites that do that all the time.
    Also available on Amazon, and Barnes and Noble.

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  43. fish Avatar
    fish

    Wonder where Paul R. Emery went? He seemed so chatty earlier! Maybe he’s off researching Leonard Cohen’s questionable behavior…..you know….pssst….Bonking!!

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  44. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    So, how do they make money selling bibles in Christian bookstores… they try to sell them for more than what they paid for them?
    Well, I never heard of such a thing. Is that how Christians do it?
    Oh. My dear I’m sorry… I was confusing Marxism with Christianity, and so was Punchy.

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  45. Scott O Avatar

    Give Paul a break here – he’s so used to Dem pols that get wealthy by means that are better to be not discussed.
    Obtaining money by honest and free commerce such as Trump does is just too much of a jolt to Paul’s delicate system.

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  46. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Fuck that. Punchy gets back what he deserves.

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  47. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Insidious bastards swarm creepy grampa joes swamp –
    President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice doled out over $100 million in grants relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion for K-12, a new Parents Defending Education report found.
    “To say that the Biden Administration spent money on DEI programs like drunken sailors is an insult to sailors,” Nicole Neily, Parents Defending Education’s president and founder, told the Washington Examiner.
    The report released on Thursday comes less than a month after PDE revealed Biden’s Education Department spent over $1 billion on DEI-related grants
    Of those grant funds, almost half, $489,883,797.81, went to DEI hiring while over 30%, $343,337,286, went to DEI programming, and another $169,301,221 went to DEI-based mental health and social-emotional learning programs.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-justice-department-spent-over-100-million-on-dei-related-grants-for-k-12/ar-AA1wRVQD?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=818048e1903e488589410c251fd0f9a0&ei=91
    😉

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