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Mark's avatar

Without gallows being built on the National mall to hang all the treasonous bastards that mostly destroyed our once great country, the blob will just Bide ( Biden) its time and wait until 26/28…. The one thing going for this country is the rest of the world and its governance is more f’d up than us. FJB

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Alan Potkin's avatar

Speaking of "gallows" on the Capitol mall, at 0600A hrs on Insurrection Day, 6th Jan 2021, a pickup truck arrived with a very nicely constructed prefab wooden gallows—replete with drop and noose. A well-rehearsed team of a half dozen clean-cut young Dudley Do-Right clones smartly unloaded and re-assembled this supposed infernal device of the Trumpista crazies intended for the righteous public execution of VP Mike Pence for refusing to question the obvious monkey-business entailed in the electoral vote counting.

Then the fine young Dudleys climbed back into their truck and drove away, leaving the gallows in full sight for the whole day: specifically contrary to the laws and regs regarding such things. Presumably, the entire project was multiply videoed by the Blob's surveillence hardware.

Some prog jerk fellow traveller soon published an account, still available from Amazon books, describing the whole thing: not as what it so transparently was —an Op by, e.g., the Fubbies— but as documented evidence of the Far Right's boundless evil and subversion. The Fubbie's infamous DNC pipe bomb drop was small potatoes by comparison; but also no doubt extensively and multiply archived by the local surveillence infrastructure.

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Jeff Keener's avatar

Those "gallows" were a complete farce, banged together by someone with limited woodworking skills and zero knotsmanship. That was not a real noose, it was an embarrassment. It looked like someone wrapped the rope around a beer can and glued it in place. Cheap stage prop that would have blown over in a stiff breeze.

Contrast the phony J6 gallows with the real, fully functional guillotine set up by BLM in front of the White House during their multi-day siege with which they lopped the head off of an effigy of Trump while the crowd demanded the heads of the president and his family.

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Kathy Christian's avatar

Nobody asks where they got the guillotine.

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ezinmn's avatar

Sounds like a bunch of so-called progressives slapped this J6 contraption together.

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patrick.net/memes's avatar

Yes, all of J6 was an entrapment operation by Pelosi and the FBI.

https://patrick.net/post/1378157/2023-01-01-january-6th-should-be-a-national

We now need to make it into a national holiday in honor of the political prisoners still being held for protesting the obvious election fraud of 2020.

And Pelosi and her FBI henchman need to be put into those same prison cells, for life.

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John's avatar

Yes, life imprisonment probably without parole. In the UK the worst murderers and serial killers usually get a 'whole life' sentence. One example was Dr Harold Shipman, who murdered 100s of his elderly patients, mostly by lethal injection .

How strange ... lethal injections. Mmm, sounds familiar to me.

Anyway he killed himself after a few years. Apparently he couldn't bear the thought of decades more confined to his cell.

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Lugh's avatar

Elon Musk

Replying to @stevenmackeyman

4h

The reason I'm in America along with so many critical people

who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that

made America strong is because of HI B.

Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face. I will go

to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly

comprehend.

Dec 28, 2024 4:22 AM UTC

Elon is threatening White America just like Biden did. And the Orange Retard is going along with it. We are betrayed.

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patrick.net/memes's avatar

Oh, absolutely without any possibility of parole.

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Outsider's avatar

We'll see how many of the J6ers still in prison are pardoned by executive order when Trump assumes office on 1-20. It may not be as many as many people think. Will Trump even pardon any before his new AG is confirmed?

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Lugh's avatar

One reporter got into their cellblock. Conditions ware appalling. One guy had a black thumb and the rest of hand was a deep purple. He probably ending up losing at least his thumb. Denied medical care. Someone should go down hard for that in and of itself.

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Ron Anselmo's avatar

Political Prisoners:

Enrique Tarrio - 22 Years

Ethan Nordean - 18 Years

Joe Biggs - 17 Years

Zach Rehl - 15 Years

Trump beckoned them to "stand back and stand by" - they did. He asked them to "peacefully protest" - they did until fired upon. If he lets them twist, I'm off the Trump Train.

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Alan Potkin's avatar

Oh very sorry for so wrongfully overstating the fine joinery and knotology skillset of the lean, mean, well-groomed and bodily-fit Dudley contingent; but kindly inform us here as how that undermines ID-ing this as a Blob Op?

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Jeff Keener's avatar

It doesn't. It just means it was a fake gallows frame and noose and that the builders had no intention of actually using it, therefore, it supports your contention of being a Blob Op -- at least that element of the day.

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patrick.net/memes's avatar

When I first came to the conclusion that hangings are absolutely necessary I was a bit disturbed, but now I see that there is no other possible way for the public to ever trust the government again. Any government that does not enforce justice is utterly illegitimate.

https://patrick.net/post/1377537/2022-11-03-everyone-who-imposed-toxxine-mandates

Pfauci pfirst.

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Raymond R's avatar

Guillotines are more entertaining

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Miryamnae's avatar

I'm knitting…

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wkenn's avatar

I was for the gallows. I still am, and also for the location. Expressing such, (all within the rule of law) cost me one job. I still excercise my right to free speech. Freedom isn't free.

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wkenn's avatar

Guillotine fun fact: cognition persists for about 7 seconds post event.

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William Wallace's avatar

That’s something to think about quickly.

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Lugh's avatar

They smack of the French Revolution, so dearly beloved by the Left. In contrast, hanging is our thing. They want to take things apart. We want to keep things together. Hang 'em high! Let the people SEE. What was that horror movie where the Deplorables wanted people to SEE? Like that.

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K2's avatar

Like x 1000!

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spingerah's avatar

Six gorillion

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IDissent's avatar

Don't look, but Trump is under your bed...

...BOO!

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Ron Anselmo's avatar

And the Russians - you have to look every night...sneaky bastards.

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Ripple's avatar

And there might be Zionists hiding in the closet.

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spingerah's avatar

OH NO! Trump is actually Hitler incarnate ((( mendelsshon)))

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spingerah's avatar

Duh dumb de dumb dumbdumb

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Oh Bb you are such a meany

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patrick.net/memes's avatar

I try to avoid personal insults myself, but had to actually LOL at that one.

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KENNETH CARNEY's avatar

Walz doesn’t have balls. He has a mangina

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NothingButNet's avatar

The Truth?? To Democrats and their media sycophants, the truth is Their Truth. Exposing the actual truth will be an exhausting and difficult task for the Trump administration. Many will be hoisted on their own petard and deservedly so. The legacy media will be exposed for the frauds that they’ve openly become and should, by the end of Trump’s term, be formally consigned to the dustbin of history.

More complicated will be the exposure of those people and organizations who actively conspired to overthrow the first Trump administration. These treasonous acts should be prosecuted as such, resulting in the indictment, financial impoverishment and incarceration of all miscreants involved. After that, the country will have a chance to thrive! 💪💪👍👍

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spingerah's avatar

Some of them should get the penality for treason in full public view as a warning, justice demands it.

The tree of liberty...

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elysianfield's avatar

"The Truth?? To Democrats and their media sycophants, the truth is Their Truth"

Net,

Sooo, the actual truth will be "our truth"? The Republican Truth?

Take two decent men, both honest, educated, intelligent. Expose them to the same scenario, and get two diametrically opposed statements of fact. Two entirely different versions of "The Truth". I have friends, intelligent, serious men of real accomplishment in life, who believe that Kamala Harris is qualified to be President of the United States.

I must disagree with our host in that there is but one truth (based on "facts" like first person accounts, and after the fact narrative.

OK, label me a nihilist, or an asshole, or a Commie.

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NothingButNet's avatar

You’re correct that two reasonable people may see a set of facts differently. My point is that during the Trump era, the left wing has created their own truth/set of facts rather than dispassionately analyzing existing facts. Examples are many - Joe Biden is sharp as a tack and anyone who disagrees is a fool, even if they’ve observed obvious signs of dementia. The set of “facts” created by the Clinton campaign re the Russia hoax was incredible and anyone who pointed out obvious errors was a denier. The Charlottesville hoax was another obvious lie for anyone with the curiosity to watch the original tape.

These are not two reasonable people differing about a set of facts. These are people who create fraudulent narratives to suit their political agenda. These are the people who need to be exposed, flushed out of the system and introduced to the federal prison facilities. Does that add clarity?

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Lugh's avatar

You've lost your way, friendo. People can be accomplished in some ways and areas, and utter fools in others. Not all knowledge is of equal worth or applicability. One could be a expert on say, stamps, and easily be a Democrat weirdo. An engineer would be far less likely to freak out like this, but it is still possible.

A criminal event will be seen from different angles and by different people with different mentalities. Two different people in the same place won't see exactly the same thing - or remember seeing the same thing at least. Is this Fact distorting your understanding? It's up to the legal system to understand it and work to harvest the truth from the differing angles and mentalities.

You're on the downward path. Remember my analogy of the caveman not wanting his son to generalize about saber tooth tigers? The son could have said: But Dad, the fact that you call them all the same thing (saber tooth tigers) is generalizing too, isn't it? Dad would then say: You're right, son. You caught me. There is no knowledge at all. Each moment is brand new and completely unique.

This is what you are doing now.

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elysianfield's avatar

Jerek,

The point is that "Truth" is subjective, as you describe. In your analogy, the caveman's son will die with that generalization on his lips.

"There is no knowledge at all. Each moment is brand new and completely unique." Every human, at birth quantifies this fact.

Do you trust the legal system to provide understanding and truth? The system exists to administer the rule of law, not "truth" as an abstract.

Yes, Jerek, I have, indeed, lost my way.

Oh, and an example of the accomplished in my experience? 70 Yo, Navy Veteran, no college, retired Senior airline pilot, helicopter pilot, owns a 100-ton master's ticket as a ship's master. Something of an inventor, machinist.

Go figure.

The best I can do is to say that "Truth" is subjective.

It's a human thang....

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Lugh's avatar

No, the Truth is objective but discovered by subjects, who are of course very different from each other. A camera records what happened. The eye is a camera, but the mind focuses on the things that interest them and that's what they remember.

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Sooo, the truth is objective but is viewed subjectively? Who will then be the arbiter of truth? With what qualifications?

The Nurenberg trials were filmed. Evidence presented. Truth ordained! Do you believe the objective truth presented? If not, why not?

Intelligent men can disagree, and, perhaps, without fault, both be correct in their own minds. Subjective.

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Lugh's avatar

You do not either, so why do you disagree with it? On what basis do you disparage Nuremberg? Because war is hell? Because Sherman said so? Because whatever Israel does it right and if they do it, Germans deserve an apology?

Subjectivities or "people" must train themselves to see truth. Give an Abo a microscope and he will hit another Abo over the head with it or use it to grind grain or berries. As with the Eye of Flesh, so with the Eye of Mind, and ditto the Eye of Spirit. What I'm teaching you know is how to use your Eye of Mind. The Three Eyes are the basis of one school of Medieval Philosophy. So just a Catholic thing? No, all the Traditions have their version of this. The Catholic one is simple, clear, and ours, so I used it.

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Peter S's avatar

The problem, at it's core, is misread by yourself as it is with most of the herd. I advise that you review your post and observe the quantity of subjective material. Then challenge yourself with the premise that perhaps 'believing Kamala Harris is qualified to be President of the United States' AND 'friends, intelligent, serious men' are mutually exclusive. This is wonderful for you, if you can grasp it, it is your way forward towards the light, grasping that you like most others do not have the 'GIFT' of judging others.

Though, sadly, the odds are about 10 to 1 that you won't grasp it........

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elysianfield's avatar

Yeah...but no. I'm with the herd on this one....

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Peter S's avatar

Yes of course, the odds were 90% in favor of that......

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Gary’S's avatar

I’m (for one) completely skeptical and dubious about the Trump administration wanting to “expose the actual truth”. Trump’s not above being a narcissistic liar himself.

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Danimal28's avatar

Great piece as usual, James. Funny how there is a 'Civil War in MAGA' over visa's...

There is no civil war in MAGA, just narrative generation to distract from what you are writing about here.

You are an invaluable American, sir.

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Ron Anselmo's avatar

"You are an invaluable American, sir." ~ Danimal28

Could not agree more, and history will document the same.

Happy New Year Jim, and many more.

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Alzaebo's avatar

Indeed, because of such priceless insights as this: "...a surrender to nihilism — the rejection of moral principle, a belief that the human project is meaningless."

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elysianfield's avatar

Yeah, what Alzaebo said....

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Annette kimball's avatar

Yeah…what they said

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Casey Jones's avatar

Brilliantly stated but I can't share your optimism that the trash will be swept out. It's ALIVE!

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Gary’S's avatar

What about the pessimistic (but true?) attitude that Trump himself is part of “the trash”?

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VHMan's avatar

Yes. The future of the world my children are in the process of inheriting and the world in which my grandchildren will live is being decided in Ukraine, not DC.

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John Schrauth's avatar

OR, emerging events will make it even more urgent?

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Casey Jones's avatar

Not an either/or!

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John Schrauth's avatar

We shall see what emerges.

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Suzie's avatar

What’s happening behind the closed doors of the media in concert with the blob is a Wargaming preparation for their most concerted effort ever to lie, misinform, and malign all that the new administration will uncover and attempt to prosecute over the next four years.

Without their experiencing some manner of a truly serious comeuppance for all their years of “fake news” and fabrications, they will not just continue apace, but they will perform in exactly the same manner, only now on steroids.

Their egregious malfeasance must suffer the harshest of consequences or they will never stop.

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Geowhizz's avatar

The covid “pandemic” and the “response”– the “public health” measures and the Operation Warp Speed – all of it was theater: lethal falsehoods wrapped into a veneer of on-paper-legal activities designed to fool the public into believing that the usurpation of government by “science experts” and removal of the human rights was justified by the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC, pronounced “fake”), and that the poisonous weaponized bio-chemical injections were “safe and effective vaccines”.  The injections marketed as vaccines were bioagents deployed by actors within the US Government and pharmaceutical/bioweapons industry, intended to injure and kill American people as targets, and exported to other countries' governments to injure and kill their people.  All while reaping extraordinary profits and power from DOD/USG financial stakes in the MCM industry, and subversion of the Constitutional lawful governance and separation of powers under

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From Sasha Latypova

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Clyde's avatar

If people call me a religious fanatic, a Jesus Freak, or simply an "Old School antiquated thinker" I still harbor the opinion that the wrath of God and the eternal barbecue dance for disobeying the commandments of God (let alone the supposed social contact we Americans call the Constitution) will eventually awaken to the generational truths taught in the Holy Bible. Those who view their neighbors with an evil eye, will not escape the judgment of God. Mischaracterizing known truths with sleight of hand sophistries, cannot change the base elemental truth that they only buried Jesus for three days, and the truth will out the liars.

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elysianfield's avatar

Clyde,

But what of Yahweh? Or Allah (peace be unto him!), or the great JuJu under the sea?

"he base elemental truth that they only buried Jesus for three days, and the truth will out the liars."

Yes, Clyde, a vast majority of the World's population are fools. those mischaracterizing known truths....

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Dennis Merwood's avatar

"There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites."- Thomas Jefferson

"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it"- John Adams

"Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies."- Thomas Paine

"The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies." - Mark Twain.

Faith has never filled an empty belly, but filled many empty heads.

“Every religion is false, except the one I believe in” - every religious person I’ve known.

Christianity: The belief that God sacrificed God to God to save God's creations from God.

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Moistened Bint's avatar

Thank you.

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Clyde's avatar

Dennis, it was recently opined on the internet that there are only two ways a man can be fooled. 1. By refusing to believe what is true and 2. By choosing to believe that which he knows is not true". It has also been asserted that time tells all secrets. Beyond the grave where time no longer exist is where the final arbitration of liars and truth-tellers will be settled.

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Clyde's avatar

Some interesting questions indeed. When Jesus's disciples called for "fire from heaven" (Luke 9:52-56), Jesus replied " For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them." (v56). Our own intrinsic knowledge calls us to desire peace, but the divisiveness of our common enemy Satan, will continue to divide men into warring factions as long as men choose to deceive their own hearts (consciousness), leavening the whole lump in the compromises of the mundane as opposed to a more excellent knowledge.(Luke 1:1-4).

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Dennis Merwood's avatar

My old book says that Jesus said "For the Son of man is not come to destroy, blah, blah, blah........"

Who wrote this nonsense? Your old book was written centuries after this guy Jeebus was supposed of existed. By unknown authors.

My favorite parts of the Bible are where Jesus is talking to God, himself, and no one else is around ~ and his conversation is quoted in the Bible.

"At what point does all of this stuff just break down and become just a lot of stupid shit that someone made up! They fucking made it up folks! It's make-believe!” – George Carlin

"Beyond the grave where time no longer exist is where the final arbitration of liars and truth-tellers will be settled."

Christins believe that when they get to heaven, they will know why and agree with God about all the people sent to hell. Thus, they will be either happy or indifferent about all their friends and family that get sent to hell. Just another dehumanizing aspect of religion.

When I realized Hell wasn’t true it was the biggest relief of my life. I couldn’t get my head around having friends and family burning in hell while I enjoyed paradise. Also, I now don’t worry that people are in danger of burning in hell if they don’t believe in the Bible. I’ve slept much better since.

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Clyde's avatar

Although dissenting opinions are a matter of freedom to chose for oneself, as a matter of principle, those who take issue with "Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not covet what is thy neighbors, Thou shalt not bear false witness, can undoubtedly advance any given argument. To assert that hell, jail, or clouds do not exist hasn't convinced me that your belief's are not founded in centuries of Human experience, but selective bigotry against those who do not share in your delusions It's OK. I can still love my enemies, because I do not look to my own understanding but a little higher. Yes, they can kill my body, they've done it before, but they cannot shake my faith.

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Dennis Merwood's avatar

One does not have to be religious to hold the values thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not covet what is thy neighbors, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Clyde. Those are human values that existed long before your old book was written.

Atheists don't assert that hell, jail, or clouds do not exist.

Atheist assert one and only one thing.....there is no evidence a supernatural God exists. Period. Full stop. What's delusional about that? Nothing. I can also still love my enemies. Don't need an old book to tell me that.

Trust and obey God - The wish to be a slave - a celestial North Korea!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPD1YGghtDk

"Faith" is the deliberate refusal to think critically and the glorification of willful ignorance that follows. Religion is the permission slip to set aside truthful thought. "Faith" is the excuse people give when they don't have a good reason to believe something. If they had a good reason, they would offer that as justification for their belief, not "faith".

If religion was kept in their churches and their heads, and that they didn't think they are superior to others, I'd be generally OK with that. If you want to bask in self-imposed victimhood over something happening between your ears, no one can stop you.

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Alzaebo's avatar

It's not *what* they believe, as it is with us, with our kind of thinking, it is *that* they believe. Their faith is their central pillar; with us, accurate description is our guiding principle.

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JohnAZ's avatar

You just said it; Dennis has no central pillar, no faith.

So why does anyone listen to him?

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spingerah's avatar

Exactly lieing tongues must be cut out. 10:31

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Peter S's avatar

Yep, the enabler is the media, but of course 'everyone' knows that.

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Eric F Coppolino's avatar

JHK, what happened was: first we went from print to electronic. Radio is a medium of propaganda (McLuhan's "tribal drum").

Skipping to another era, the TV era, CNN and then Fox happened. Suddenly there were 24 hours to fill, not fifteen minutes at six o'clock. Then websites were continuously updating and competing with one another and the news cycle went from a few weeks to three days to an hour.

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Eric F Coppolino's avatar

Oh, and my point is, there is not enough "news" to fill 24 hours a day. So you have to pack it with bullshit, screaming, "commentary," "analysis" and crisis actors running toward the nightclub shooting rather than away from it.

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ezinmn's avatar

Lots of noise to sift through

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nedweenie's avatar

If even half of the things that need investigation get investigated and exposed it will be a huge benefit to the nation. And a genuine signal that it truly is different this time. That the "Truthiness" Era has ended. That Nature is healing. I'm hopeful, but not entirely optimistic. Even with an irrefutable mandate Trump & Co doing so goes against decades of unspoken agreements between Donkey and Elephant. Between the Executive Branch and the Deep State. May the gods bless Donald Trump. May his balls truly be solid brass and that he kicks those lying, sleeping dogs awake to run howling through the streets.

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AJR's avatar

How does one effectively battle a blob; it's like wrestling with water?

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ezinmn's avatar

Strategically scoop out the most egregious scum floating about the cesspool of corruption.

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ezinmn's avatar

I'm trusting that Atty General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel have a game plan and will make examples of at least some of the traitors.

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AJR's avatar

End Q1 2025 is as generous as I can muster. If nothing substantial and painfully public for traitors, I will color myself a sucker.

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Ron Anselmo's avatar

AJR - Agreed, we can get off the Trump Train at the same stop.

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Peter S's avatar

Yes, they will absolutely have this 'Game Plan'

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Farmer Dave's avatar

It really does matter what the truth is because we’re all gonna die from bird flu soon! Bird flu was discovered in 1878, we’re all still here. It’s as natural as rain. Nothing infuriates me more than this bird flu bs! The lies will continue.

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Rob D's avatar

What infuriates me even more are those who play along with bird flu and actually believe this crap! I say to them: Enjoy your 11$ a dozen eggs.

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The Real Mary Rose's avatar

I liked the part where they were saying that pigs spread the bird flu. Sometimes, they are unintentionally funny.

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The Bodysnatchers's avatar

But don't pigs fly?

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B Bulluck's avatar

Well, I always heard "when pigs fly". Perhaps the time has come???

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The Real Mary Rose's avatar

I suppose they do, in the blob's world.

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Freedom 4 conservatives's avatar

Here's a lesson for libtards: Viruses mutate. Like crazy. In fact, for viruses, mutation is their only means of long-term survival. Viruses that don't mutate well extinct themselves. So, yes, viruses CAN mutate to infect different species or types of animals. Bird to mammal, etc. The natural progression for most viruses is to mutate from being deadly to its host to being much less deadly to its host; and from being less communicable to being more communicable. When, say, a bird flu mutates to infect humans, its first human victims may get very sick and maybe die. But, soon enough, new mutants of the virus that are less deadly will overtake the more deadly ones . . . because viruses spread more readily when their hosts stay living. Understanding that, the whole COVID19 fiasco shows conclusively that the virus was artificially human-engineered to be both fairly lethal AND easily communicated--an unnatural progression. But, once released, it quickly succumbed to natural forces, and, over a relatively short time, became even more communicable but much less lethal. As for bird flu, I've endured talk about it infecting humans for over 40 years. There was a panic about a bird flu pandemic infecting humans back when I was in the livestock business in the 1970's. It's nothing "new."

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JohnAZ's avatar

You are aware that the human genome has bits of virus sequences in it, that viruses have been changing us as long as humans have been around. Viruses are one form of mutation, as well as radiation that allows any species to change, to mutate, to adapt to changing environments. Just think, if Covid might end up being a positive for the human genome in some fashion. Or polio, or Ebola, or Zika, or flu. Or the cold. Remember too that viruses have been proved to cause cancer, another indication of their ability to change DNA.

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David "JC" Penny's avatar

I call BS: "...human beings will insist on being informed..." Sorry, not sorry.

Most human beings insist on being coddled, especially when scared. The Blob via the MSM has, and will continue to produce fear-porn.

Otherwise, I like your view through that rose-colored shot glass bottom. Hope you enjoy a Happy New Year and we all get to enjoy another year of your posts!

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The Real Mary Rose's avatar

Absolutely. And lied to. I watch in horror as people on NextDoor clamor for MOAR video surveillance because so-and-so's house got egged or someone else got ding dong ditch doorbelled, or whatever they call it. So ridiculous. People have become coddled little wimps who can't take care of themselves.

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David "JC" Penny's avatar

Yup. It wasn't until the MIL moved in that I had the epiphany. I had always just dismissed it as the "Bread and Circuses" mundanity of the masses [h/t Mel]. Life in fear paradoxically makes people feel secure in their insecurity and that inures them to a manipulative Narrative(TM).

NOTE: Pretty sure that last sentence is on a PPT slide somewhere at Langley.

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Moistened Bint's avatar

"rose-colored shot glass bottom"

LMFAO!!!!

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Ron Anselmo's avatar

+1 for including the ever-present, close-to-your-heart expletive, and the enthusiastic delivery.

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Moistened Bint's avatar

It reminds me of back in the day, I was hanging out at a blues bar, chatting with my friend who owned it, and he just randomly picked up two of those square amber 70s-era ashtrays, held them up over his eyes, and sang, "B-b-b-Benny and the Jets." ROTFLMAO

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Ron Anselmo's avatar

You know, for as "flamboyant" as Elton John is, he's an incredible talent, as a singer/songwriter/musician - a triple-threat as the music industry calls such artists - his style so genuine, he's a genre of his own - a legend.

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Ron Anselmo's avatar

He's also ahead of his time - the tip of the spear (no pun intended) - in the "pick-any-name-you-want" game that's so popular today.

Hmm...Reginald Dwight? Boooring...call me Elton's John. No...Elton John...yeah that's it, Elton John.

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Gary’S's avatar

“Most human beings insist on being coddled…” Yep. Give hoi polloi (the dēmos) — Greek — their bread & circuses and they’ll never rebel. America is in decline and failing/falling as surely as the Roman Republic (and later Empire) did.

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Mel's avatar

Human beings will insist on being entertained. Fixed it for you.

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Number 6's avatar

I recently re-watched the dramatic mini-series from the 1970's, "I, Claudius," a history of the palace politics from the reign of Caesar Augustus through Claudius, which included the 4 year reign of Caligula. Caligula was insane and morally degenerate, to the point of impregnating his sister and then cutting out the fetus and eating it, believing it might grow to become a greater god than himself, Caligula. He made his horse a member of the Roman Senate.

One watches this history and wonders how the Roman Empire, consisting at that time of much of the known world, could be under the command of a complete lunatic? How could those around him let it continue? The parallel with the Biden administration presents itself; how could the United States be headed up by someone with such conspicuously deficient mental capacity? In the present case, the mental condition is exemplified by Joe Biden, and the repugnant sexual snd personal behavior by his son, Hunter (who, of course, is given a pardon for all crimes by his father). Without a word of dissent from the Congress, or the Judiciary.

Things do not change.

But no one studies history these days. Ask a college student any question about history, and you will get a blank stare. Either that or complete nonsense, something they heard from Whoopi or their blue haired, hog ring-nosed Gender Studies "Professor."

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The Real Mary Rose's avatar

I love the BBC 1970s "I Claudius"! One of my favs. Derek Jacobi! In any case, yes, all throughout history, leadership has been like it is now. We live through one Greek Tragedy after another. It's the human condition. And we rail against it, as if it has never happened before. This is what I love about being such a history buff and student of history: The clarity. As such, I don't freak out when things recur as they always have. Rinse & repeat.

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Thomas Madden's avatar

The only way that the truth will come out, on a large scale, is if a bunch of people go to jail. Once you start locking people up, seizing their bank accounts, etc. Then people will start talking to save their own ass.

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Ron Anselmo's avatar

Tom - that's a long drawn out process. If someone were to drop from a headshot, the criminals would think it's a one-off; after the next two are dropped, you'll have every answer by the end of the day. It'll also be good to be long new undergarments that day.

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Ron Anselmo's avatar

Addendum:

Just saw your occupation in your profile. You've got a dog in the fight, vis-a-vis, the long drawn out process.

"Never ask a barber if you need a haircut." ~ Warren Buffett

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Annette kimball's avatar

I like your style

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Ron Anselmo's avatar

Annette - that's a sweet thing to say, and I appreciate it. You may be my biggest - maybe only - fan. Your son is fortunate have such a wonderful mother, and your grandchildren are lucky to have you as a grandmother. Many our age are out playing bingo, shuffleboard or watching The Price is Right.

Your family is fortunate that you choose to stay active and informed - watching out for their future - and staying educated on things that shouldn't trouble their young minds.

As a former LEO, maybe you're fond of my extrajudicial leanings. Our retired County Sheriff for the past 16 years is a neighbor and good friend of mine.

In private conversation in the past, off the record of course, I've mentioned my pet peeve of criminals - child molesters/predators - and that if anything ever happened to my children, the perp would just magically disappear - always wanted but never found.

His answer? I'm right there with you - didn't see a thing. He's a good man. Thanks again Annette, I appreciate your kind words. You and your family have a safe and Happy New Year!

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Thomas Madden's avatar

You do not, actually, need to "disappear" a child predator. Just put him in GenPop, lock the jail doors, and wait a couple of minutes. To those who aren't familiar with law enforcement,, GenPop is prison slang for being housed in the General Population. A prisoner who is a "chomo", meaning Child Molester, or a Snitch, or a former Cop, their lives may be measured in minutes in the general population. This is not just internet babble, I personally was involved in a case where a child predator was beaten so badly that he had to be released from Jail on Home Detention with Electronic Monitoring so he would not simply be murdered by his fellow inmates. This stuff is very real, and quite common. Oh, and if you're in jail for raping or assaulting adult women, or a senior citizen, a disabled person etc., you may face summary justice with no right of appeal.

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Ron Anselmo's avatar

Tom, agree 100%. They all have kids too, and they will dish out that jailhouse justice. There is no greater crime than taking a child's innocence. Just my opinion. Child molesters and predators need to be put out of their misery.

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They are. The few who manage to survive in jails and prisons are generally capable of concealing their crime and misleading fellow inmates. That said, in my state you can easily go online and enter a person's name into a free, widely available database to see all of their legal history--criminal charges, divorce cases, bankruptcy filings, etc. So a person incarcerated for

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Moistened Bint's avatar

Yep, +a million.

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Jim Hogue's avatar

One more question that needs answering, and that will never be answered: Who shot Comperatore? That goes directly to who gives the orders at the deep state.

Thanks so much for the list. I hope Patel sees it. I'd love to be on the task force.

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Lugh's avatar

Anglin

Homelessness Reaches Record High as True Conservatives Call for Immigrant Tsunami to Rival Metal Gear

Shouldn’t we be getting the Americans off our streets before we bring in billions of Indians to shit on those streets?

By bringing in a group of people who shit on the street while so many people live on the streets, do we not risk that people will be shit on?

Is that truly the future we were promised?

RT:

The number of homeless people in the United States has reached a record level since the federal government began tracking teh figures in 2007. According to data released this week, almost three quarters of a million people, 771,000 are homeless in America, an increase of 18% compared to 2023, marking the sharpest annual rise in decades.

The figure published by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday translates to approximately 23 out of every 10,000 people in the US. The increase follows a 12% rise in 2023, which the department attributed to skyrocketing rents and to the conclusion of pandemic assistance.

A severe lack of affordable housing nationwide is being compounded by “rising inflation, stagnating wages among middle- and lower-income households, and the persisting effects of systemic racism,” natural disasters, and an influx of migrants without access to stable housing, according to the HUD statement.

Frankly, virtually all of the white homeless people are junkies, and no one wants to address the root causes of junkies. Instead, they just want to say they’ll ban fentanyl, which is completely impossible.

This is another situation like saying you’re going to raise the birthrate by giving women more financial incentives: it’s a complete denial of the actual cause of the problem, because the cause of the problem is politically incorrect to talk about.

All meaning has been stripped from human existence (not in small part because of the women’s liberation movement, one might note). We’re at the point where “junkie living on the street” is a pretty valid life choice.

Like, I’m sure fentanyl feels pretty good, right? It must definitely feel better than being a single middle-aged man working at an Amazon warehouse while believing there is no God.

America is still talking about “individualism” and saying society doesn’t exist. You cannot address mass junkies with that attitude, I can tell you that.

Lugh: Most people are always one drink behind as Bogart said. The people are obsessed (rightfully so) by the crimes that were committed. So much so that they are blind to the great crimes about to be committed by "their side".

The People need religion. As Washington said, Only highly educated people, strangely formed, can be good without a belief in God. Or not be depressed as Anglin adds.

Similarly, the sexes need each other. Help men and men will take care of women. Help women, and men will die under bridges. Do I mean the sexes aren't the same (gasp!)? That one is better than the other? Indubitably. Women are good with small animals like children. And they like to decorate. So let's help them to do what they love.

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"Shouldn’t we be getting the Americans off our streets before we bring in billions of Indians to shit on those streets?"

Fucking priceless.

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JohnAZ's avatar

Yeah, Indians, Mexicans, Central Americans, Middle Eastern Islams, African Blacks, Chinese, Russians, Filipinos, Venezuelans. Each with their own brand of criminal contingent. Corporations that trade H1B immigrants to lower wages, such as Disney, should be penalized. Maybe sued by the same unemployed as they create. Ask for a moment, how do they get away with it? Who enables the corporations to screw over American workers. Hmmm, maybe the same folks as keep the border open for a long time.

The creepy-crawly US government, the Deep State, the Swamp.

Also known as the most worthless organization in the world’s history.

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Ben's avatar
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I will add one tidbit that has clicked.

This centralized banking scheme is why we are so fucked.

They create wealth from thin air, but we have to work for every penny.

Not everyone has a viable skill and alas we are all several paychecks from living under a bush or bridge if we are not careful.

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~ The Near-Tautology of The Failed State ~

The politicians who exist today weren't around when previous civilizations declined and/or collapsed. Many politicians demonstrate little evidence that they know how to effectively manage this one's decline/collapse (almost the opposite, that some are actually driving decline/collapse) as much as they might like us to think they do, or as much as some of us would like to think they do. Some are driving essentially blind and taking their captive populations-- hostages-- along for the ride.

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"In summary, despite the common impression that societal collapse is rare, or even largely fictional, 'the picture that emerges is of a process recurrent in history, and global in its distribution' (Tainter, 1988). See also Yoffee and Cowgill (1988), Goldstein (1988), Ibn Khaldun (1958), Kondratieff (1984), and Parsons (1991). As Turchin and Nefedov (2009) contend, there is a great deal of support for 'the hypothesis that secular cycles — demographic–social–political oscillations of a very long period (centuries long) are the rule, rather than an exception in the large agrarian states and empires.'

This brings up the question of whether modern civilization is similarly susceptible. It may seem reasonable to believe that modern civilization, armed with its greater technological capacity, scientific knowledge, and energy resources, will be able to survive and endure whatever crises historical societies succumbed to. But the brief overview of collapses demonstrates not only the ubiquity of the phenomenon, but also the extent to which advanced, complex, and powerful societies are susceptible to collapse...

In this paper... we propose a simple model, not intended to describe actual individual cases, but rather to provide a general framework that allows carrying out 'thought experiments' for the phenomenon of collapse and to test changes that would avoid it. This model (called HANDY, for Human and Nature DYnamics) advances beyond existing biological dynamic population models by simultaneously modeling two separate important features which seem to appear across so many societies that have collapsed: (1) the stretching of resources due to the strain placed on the ecological carrying capacity (Abel, 1980, Catton, 1980, Kammen, 1994, Ladurie, 1987, Ponting, 1991, Postan, 1966, Redman, 1999, Redman et al., 2004, Wood, 1998, Wright, 2004), and (2) the economic stratification of society into Elites and Masses (or 'Commoners')"

~ Safa Motesharrei, Jorge Rivas, Eugenia Kalnay: 'Human and nature dynamics (HANDY): Modeling inequality and use of resources in the collapse or sustainability of societies', [ sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800914000615 ]

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Gary’S's avatar

If the Trump administration lessens homelessness — which I’ll bet it won’t — I’ll eat my hat.

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Ben's avatar

I can say it was a major plank platform for Gavin Newsom.

With billions spent it has only ballooned in California.

Homeless people are everywhere now they used to be contained in certain sections of cities.

At least in San Diego they are literally EVERYWHERE.

I was in Malaysia just over a month ago and noticed something.

They had very little homelessness the streets were mostly clean and devoid of trash and for the most part pothole free. Yes, there was poverty and obvious extreme wealth, but it was different. Can't explain it. They had huge eight story malls full of products and a vibrancy you just don't really see in the US anymore.

Got home to San Diego the nation's finest city (self described) and was appalled at how trashed out everything is.

Garbage everywhere, homeless camps overflowing with filth radiating in all directions, streets falling apart and obvious illegal aliens running around all over.

California is now a third world country more like India minus the corpses washing down the river.

Instead of lepers we have zombies wacked out on fentanyl standing around staring off into space.

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Gary’S's avatar

Thanks for the description.

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Ben's avatar

Another thing I noticed Malaysia had a dollar a liter for regular unleaded gas.

Virginia was $2.69 a gallon as gas prices go so does society.

Cheap energy means a better economy which is part of why California is failing gas is over $4 bucks a gallon still.

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JohnAZ's avatar

Gee, I wonder if Homan takes the lead, if they just scoop up all the homeless that have no proof of a visa or a passport, or citizenship and just dump them into Mexico, how much the homeless ness would subside?

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Gary’S's avatar

Yeah. I’m sure that this is exactly what’s going to happen under the watch of heroic Trump.

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Ben's avatar

The TDS flows from you.

Seek help.

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JohnAZ's avatar

Are you Benr?

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JohnAZ's avatar

If so. Good to see ya.

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Gary’S's avatar

I think that Trump Derangement Syndrome and Trump National Savior Syndrome and Trump Hero Worship Syndrome and Trump Delusion Syndrome are all related. I think that Trump is a narcissist and a megalomaniac and an egomaniac. I don’t trust him. There are plethora reasons why I don’t trust him, including the swamp creatures he’s proposed for his cabinet and other posts. If this makes me “deranged”, guilty as charged. I’d rather be called crazy than trust a man like Trump.

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Ben's avatar

I get it!

I held my nose and voted for him first time around with extreme reluctance.

He deserves a chance to make good on his mandate and has enough people tearing him down.

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JohnAZ's avatar

Now ask yourself, why do the super Blue, sanctuary areas want to cling onto their illegals or immigrants ( same folks?)? Exactly, how much free money are they getting from the Federal debt printers? Exactly how many of the higher-ups in the Blue zones are “owned” by the Mob. “Just like the old days!”

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Ron Anselmo's avatar

"Women are good with small animals like children. And they like to decorate. So let's help them to do what they love." ~ Lugh

Funny AF.

Janos, as the year 2024 comes to a close tonight, I'd like to award you the CFN 2024 Funniest Comments Award.

Zazzy - is far more adept than I - technically talented, I mean - I'd love to see him come up with a compilation of "Lugh's Funniest Quotes of 2024"

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Ben's avatar

Is it funny or just sad and pathetic?

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Ron Anselmo's avatar

Lighten up, Francis.

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George's avatar

Lets not forget about the way China was able to control both the Biden and Trudeau administrations. It is all there hiding in plain sight. Various "consulting" firms with close ties to China were hired by both administrations to come up with immigration policies on both sides of the border leading to the clusterfuck of open borders.

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VHMan's avatar

Elsewhere on Substack: how Biden pardoned convicted Chinese spies. Beyond imagining.

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nancylee's avatar

Dan Rather making his bones as a trusted news source Reporter Dan Rather was able to see the Zapruder footage and later narrated the film to CBS national television coverage, claiming that he saw the President's head "went forward with considerable violence." He failed to mention the backward motion made famous in the Oliver Stone movie, JFK. His omission seemed to confirm that the single shooter theory with just Oswald firing from the rear. When the Zapruder film became public, he was forced to apologize saying it was "an honest error."

right.

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