THE BOOK ON TRUMP
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It being 1776 again in the MAGA world, here
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Mike Lindell called Captain Trump
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Republicans are all with Trump
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In all the outlets of FOX News
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Down at the Trump base they all have
--S D Rodrian gotopoems.com
Question: Why is Captain Trump's ass swollen?
Some Republicans Break From Trump’s Attempt To Rewrite Jan. 6 Insurrection
Donald Trump has completed his journey toward embracing the Capitol rioters
Opinion: The latest CPAC lunacy shows why Democrats must get tougher
Livid Trump Wanted Person Who Leaked Bunker Story Executed, New Book Claims
And if Trump had succeeded in becoming dictator, how many & many more Americans might he not have wanted executed and for which trivial crimes! And then who might have saved them?
Joint Chiefs chairman feared potential ‘Reichstag moment’ aimed at keeping Trump in power
Opinion: Gen. Milley’s terror of a Trump ‘coup’ should prompt Democrats to act — now
The striking, growing evidence of the very real Trump coup fears
Trump Says Gen. Mark Milley Should Be ‘Impeached’ Over Coup Fears -- It was the second time Trump denied he was cooking up a coup. He said in a statement Thursday: “One of the last people I would want to do it with is General Mark Milley.”
That's why Trump was replacing bureaucrats everywhere with acolytes who would do anything he ordered--He just ran out of time--and just only because of some slight pushback by a lot of the bureaucrats who were in the government at the time!
Pentagon’s top general defends military as ‘apolitical’ after reported comments about Trump
Documents show Kremlin's plot to put Trump in White House
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Mike Lindell Confirms He Has No Understanding Of U.S. Constitution
No one who has the slightest understanding of the American Constitution, and how important a document it is to humanity, would ever soil themselves by standing anywhere close to Donald Trump.
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Republicans unleashed a deadly vaccine skepticism. Can they now contain it?
What Republicans have unleashed is an unimaginably malicious string of murders upon their own voters strictly for their own personal gain. It is a wonder of all wonders that people whose friends, family and neighbors have been so callously murdered by a gang of vicious criminals with no moral compunction about killing as many of them as they have to just to line their own pockets... can continue to be so easily & readily hoodwinked.
How any Republican voters are going to have to be subjected to this callous butchery by their Republican office holders and still remain dumbly faithful to their exploiters--before finally waking up from their own-made nightmare? I once thought it completely incomprehensible how the Jonestown Cult members gulped down their Kool-Aide all a once, but these Republican voters today keep sipping at their Kool-Aide month after month after year after year even after burying friends & family as if they were hoeing over rows after rows of carrots.
Carl Bernstein Brands Trump As ‘War Criminal’ For Capitol Riot And Pandemic Deaths
Opinion: As Jan. 6 hearings begin, Republicans side with the terrorists
Opinion: The heroes of Jan. 6 expose the lies that Republicans keep telling us
Opinion: Distinguished pol of the week: Someone finally put their foot down
Republicans who have downplayed the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol or have sought to discredit the congressional inquiry into what happened are painfully obviously guilty of being complicit in it or just terrified of being publicly implicated in supporting the insurrection to such an extent that they are even willing to try to portray the violent insurrection as either something "beautiful & patriotic" or as never having happened at all!
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger Says He’ll Serve On Jan. 6 House Committee
Fox News’ Bret Baier Hits Out At Republicans Dismissing Capitol Riot Inquiry
Opinion: Why it matters that Kinzinger and Cheney will serve on the Jan. 6 committee
Opinion: We have questions about Jan. 6. The new House committee can answer them.
Opinion: We have started investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Nothing will be off-limits.
Opinion: The real reason Republicans want to sabotage the investigation into Jan. 6
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Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Is Boosting COVID Deaths For Money, Former Australian PM Says
Men who lack a conscience should never be expected to do the right thing when it's going to cost them anything: Bank robbers will continue to rob banks until they are stopped. Serial killers will continue to murder until they are stopped. And Rupert Murdoch will continue to make money from other people's most tragic grief until he too is stopped. Find a way to stop him but don't ever think you will ever convince him to stop himself.
Opinion: The right-wing media is helping Trump destroy democracy. A new poll shows how.
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Why Papua New Guinea's Highlanders Differ Physically From Those Living Near Sea Level
They're no longer fucking each other much of late.
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What Improves the Chances of Solving a Murder?
1) If the murderer confesses.
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How do scientists calculate the age of a star?
1) first they check to see if she's ever played Shirley Temple's mother
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Opinion: What Biden can do to show he’s serious about voting rights
The filibuster is doomed. The question is who finally kills it to advance their agenda, the Democrats or the Republicans. After all, it was the Republicans (led by the late senator Robert Byrd), not the Democrats, who created the reconciliation process as a way to get around the filibuster. Does anybody (outside of Biden and Joe Manchin) really believe that the Republicans won't shoot it in the head in a second if they need to in order to bulldoze over the Democrats once they're back in power?
Merrick Garland will not deliver your catharsis
He has this theory that if the cops behave virtuously towards the criminals the criminals will behave virtuously. Period. [I'm going out & buying a gun--The Democrats' Agenda is: "Yo On Yo On, My Man!"]
Manchin and Sinema Have Their History Wrong -- "In the absence of a new voting rights bill, President Biden has reportedly urged voting rights groups to “out-organize” voter suppression and neutralize Republican “election integrity” laws through superior tactics. But there’s no out-organizing the effort to take over the election process itself; there’s no activism that can stop Republican state legislatures from giving themselves the power to contest or overturn an election result."
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Trump Urged Justice Officials To Declare Election ‘Corrupt’
Trump Says GOP Lost Senate After His ‘Rigged’ Election Gripes Discouraged Voters
No matter how bad the consequences of his lies, Trump always finds a way of trying to dissociate those bad consequences from his lies! It's terrifying because there are so many morons in this world unwilling to or incapable of acknowledging that Trump's completely unhinged--Although if there weren't [so many morons like that in this world] it would be quite funny and entertaining, actually.
‘Leave the rest to me’: New DOJ memos show there’s more to learn about Trump and Jan. 6
In blow to Trump, Justice Dept OK's release of damning memo, taxes
Opinion: Will Trump ever be held accountable? The Justice Department just increased the odds.
Trump’s diminished power is showing at a very bad time
In one quote, the core of the effort to undermine the 2020 election is revealed
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Opinion: Merrick Garland, don’t politicize the pursuit of justice
Perhaps there should be an inquiry into whether Merrick Garland is being overly influenced by holdovers inside the DOJ.
Merrick Garland is doing more to hold Trump accountable than it appears
Justice Department Warns States About ‘Unusual’ Trump-Inspired ‘Audits’
Why You Can’t Out-Organize Voter Suppression
Georgia Republicans Make Move Toward Fulton County Election Takeover
Opinion: It’s a good thing Republican election-stealers are so incompetent
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What if the Olympics were naked again?
Among other things, the TV rating would go up as well.
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Tucker Carlson falsely claims Anthony S. Fauci ‘created’ covid
Now, why isn't this yet another primo libel case against Carlson and FOX?
MyPillow Guy Pulls Millions In Ads From Fox News In Spat Over Conspiracy Theories
Rep. Jim Jordan Polled People On ‘Trust’ And Received A Blunt Home Truth
Ex-RNC Chair Michael Steele Blasts Jim Jordan On His Jan. 6 Trump Amnesia
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Mark Meadows Says He’s Meeting With Trump And Shadow ‘Cabinet Members’ On ‘Real Plans’
Sez they're mostly working on their harmony for their For-He's-A-Jolly-Good-Master background singing. [What's important to Trump.]
‘Botched’: Arizona GOP’s Ballot Count Ends, Troubles Persist
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Female teen lifeguard questions why male teen guards are being paid more for the same job
Answer: Because their male bosses are setting the wages?
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Opinion: Even businesses are trying to thwart the Republican death cult
Future generations will marvel at how we permitted elected leaders to contribute to so much anguish.
Well, not 'we' exactly. Just Republican voters--they do love their Kool-Aide.
Rudy Giuliani Is Reportedly Almost Broke And Trump’s Shutting Him Out
Trump sez he's never heard of him. "Who is this guy? You would have thought he'd drunk his Kool-Aide by now!"
Trump Hired Giuliani Because ‘None Of The Sane Lawyers’ Would Represent Him: Book
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Mistaken Identity Lands Man In Hawaii Mental Hospital For More Than Two Years
"But I'm not crazy." [That's what all the ones who really ARE crazy say.]
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"Always make sure the referee only sees the guy you hit hitting you back." [NFL Rule Number One]
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Cracked interstate bridge over Mississippi River reopens after months of repairs
"Drive over our bridge: Now you can't see the cracks!"
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Will God rescue Israel from the fourth COVID-19 wave?
No. But the science of vaccine research might.
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Sez he's finally got the hang of graft.
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Opinion: The route to stealing the 2024 election begins with a simple step -- “Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me,” Trump told a senior department official, per that official’s notes on the conversation.
Donald Trump is (and his Republicans are) the greatest threat this country has ever faced in its entire history.
Yes, Trump Is Ridiculous. He’s Also Dangerous.
Opinion: The GOP scamming of rural Trump voters continues. A new study shows the latest.
Trump-Era GDP Growth Was Worst Since Great Depression, Analysis Shows
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Opinion: How Democrats plan to win in 2022
If Republican voters are willing to see their friends, family & neighbors perish ignominiously from the lies the Republican establishment is feeding them about vaccines, masks (and that Covid-19 even exists)... please tell me how the Devil Democrats can possibly expect such voters to abandon those deadly GOP liars simply because Democrats provide them a couple of jobs here & there?! If the Democrats can't stand up and attack the Republicans head-on just as they're being attacked themselves I think the Democrats are headed for a whopping electoral defeat of their own making, frankly: This could turn out to be The Great Roll-Over of 2022.
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Trump’s Campaign Is Long Over, But His Donors Keep Paying For An Office In His Building
O what a deliciously ratty thief is Trump
"Help! Somebody has stolen all my shit!"
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Opinion: Democrats haven’t given up on their democracy-protection bill -- You’d think that if and when Republicans use the antidemocratic filibuster to sink these basic protections yet again — protections that Manchin and Sinema themselves say are essential — it will be clear that protecting democracy will have to be a partisan achievement, or it won’t happen at all. Whether they will be willing to listen to that argument — or capable of hearing it at all — is another question entirely.
Bipartisan Deal Shouldn’t Stop Senate From Ditching Filibuster, Democrats Say
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You can allege anything you want from any soapbox out in the street but when you come into a court of law you must bring proofs & evidence. Those who don't understand this are the marks of hucksters & flim-flam men out in the street, like...
Mike Lindell Gets Fact-Checked Right To His Face, Proposes A Hug
Mike Lindell, a sad unfortunate soul that drowning in a sea of laughter.
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Sheepshead fish with human-like teeth caught in North Carolina
Scientists explain that the fish's diet mostly consists of fried chicken, spaghetti, hamburgers, hot dogs, black beans over white rice, and the occasional Chinese takeout. [Note to Trump's MAGA base Republicans: This is just a joke, guys.]
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‘We’re back to panicking’: Moms are hit hardest as camps and day cares are closing again
"Great! Now we are the ones who are gonna have to take care of our damn kids."
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A $5,800 whisky bottle Japan gave to Mike Pompeo is missing. The State Department is looking for it.
Has anybody checked Mike Pompeo's blood alcohol level? [Look in Pompeo's intestines first.]
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Most people who aren’t vaccinated view vaccine as a greater risk than covid-19, poll finds
I suppose they will pay dearly for that view.
As delta cases rise, southern Ohio chooses to keep the masks on the shelf
They'll be sorry, forgetting that old adage: "Better to be safe than sorry!"
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Should you cancel travel because of the delta variant?
Of course not. Go forth! Spread it as far & wide as you can. There are too many people in this world. So, killing a few hundred or even a few thousand of them is bound to make you a good guy, even a hero (you know, like Trump is to his base).
Opinion: Floridians want leadership on covid-19. Instead, they’re getting rotten MAGA antics.
The pandemic is nearly as bad in Florida right now as it has ever been
The Florida governor is thinking of running for president on the Republican ticket.
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Why is the executive producer of ‘Jeopardy!’ the front-runner to replace Alex Trebek?
Why was stupendously unprecedented ignoramus President Trump the one making the final medical judgments for the country?
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Jake Gyllenhaal: 'More And More I Find Bathing To Be Less Necessary'
Curiously, people around him find it more and more necessary that he should bathe.
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Jordan to become a full democracy within a decade
Translation: In 10 years there will be an unnecessarily ugly war between Jordan and Israel.
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Opinion: We can’t let the terrorists rewrite the history of Jan. 6
Ah, but they're trying, they're really trying. And unless the Democrats can find a way to stop them they might just bring down in flames on all our heads the oldest democracy on earth.
Opinion: It looks like the Jan. 6 select committee means business
Opinion: Trump’s coup attempt grows even more worrisome as new details emerge
Opinion: Democrats just launched a missile at the GOP’s fortress of minority rule
Election officials are tearing into the Maricopa County audit
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Can these dogs really talk, or are they just pushing our buttons?
Well, I know my dog always asks me to change the channels because he sez he doesn't have the fingers with which to push the buttons.
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Virginia had lovers. Its neighbor to the north had ‘Maryland is for Crabs.’
Well, now we know who gave Maryland the crabs.
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Trump, RNC Refunded $12.8 Million To Duped Donors This Year: Report
Trump sez he needed to keep them happy so he could set'em up for a much greater/bigger, more beautiful/more profitable future scam.
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Black Realtor And His Client Handcuffed By Police During House Tour In Michigan
Neighbors say: No, they didn't call the cops on'em because they thought they were house breakers but because they thought they might buy the house.
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NASA Seeking People To Pretend To Live On Mars For A Year
I pretend to live in Never-Never Land a lot. I wonder whether NASA pays any money for that? [Maybe not NASA, but NADA definitely.]
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The most dangerous scam in American history -- Everyone has, at some point, been fooled into thinking something fake was real.
I wonder whether Mike Lindell was ever finally told Santa Claus is just an essential lie that we tell our children so they realize "how easily we can be fooled into thinking something fake is real?" It's possible Mike Lindell still believes in Santa Claus, you know. Just in case, somebody should challenge him to a polygraph.
My Pillow cyber symposium is yet another font of election fraud lies
2 Moments From Mike Lindell’s 72-Hour Fraud Fest You Must See To Believe
Mike Lindell’s 72-Hour Fraud Fest Goes From Very Bad To Worse
The spectacular implosion of Mike Lindell
Mike Lindell Loses It On CNN Reporter As His Cyber Symposium Disintegrates
Seth Meyers Gleefully Watches MyPillow Guy Get Bad News At His Own Symposium
Mike Lindell’s War With Fox News Heats Up With Attack On Hannity, Ingraham
GOP Candidate Says Incident With MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Was No ‘Attack’
Mike Lindell Melts Down When Expert Tries To Claim His $5 Million Cyber-Bounty
Dominion’s lawsuits against Trump allies can move forward after judge rejects arguments
Mike Lindell Is Hiding A County Clerk Amid FBI Probe Of A Vote Data Leak: Report
Wonder how long before Lindell makes the FBI's Top 10 wanted fugitives. Though I don't believe he has the brains to be on the run that long.
Now Mike Lindell Predicts Trump’s Fantastical Reinstatement Before Year’s End
Mike Lindell Finally Reveals His Supreme Court Complaint, And Critics Have Notes
Mike Lindell is exactly the curse that Donald Trump deserves: A maraca-brained loon following every step Trump takes as if to announce to the world that The Big Loon is coming in a 'fantastical reinstatement' any day now... any day now...
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Trump’s brazen attempt to overturn the 2020 election: A timeline -- Separately, Meadows meets with Justice Department officials and mentions a baseless theory that a company in Italy combined with the CIA to rig the election.
I wonder whether this is the theory that meatballs were inserted into voting machines to make them slippery enough so that votes cast for Trump would end up sliding down to Biden? [So I heard.]
Court Orders Arizona Senate To Disclose Cyber Ninjas’ Vote Audit Records
Trump DOJ Ally Reportedly Pushed Wild Theory China May Have Used Vote-Hacking Thermometers
Opinion: Trump’s coup attempt grows even more worrisome as new details emerge
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As Covid Surges in Florida, DeSantis Refuses to Change Course
Well, one way or the other Floridians will have to find a way to pay for having voted for him. [The hard way.]
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NFL QB Lamar Jackson Won’t Commit To Vaccine, Despite Catching COVID Twice
Sez he's determined to see which is stronger: Covid-19 or stupid.
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GOP Congressman Refuses To Say If He’s Vaccinated, Then Walks Away From Interview -- “Are you vaccinated, congressman?” the reporter asked. “I don’t like to get into taking sides on it. OK? So that’s --” said Grothman as he then walked away from the interview.
[Self-evidently Grothman is on the side of not wanting to advocate that people get vaccinated.]
Arkansas’ Republican Gov. Says It Was An ‘Error’ To Sign Law Banning Mask Mandates
Talk is cheap.
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GOP gives Trump credit for an infrastructure bill he opposes
GOP would give Trump credit for the origin of life on earth: It's a cult, stupid.
Opinion: Trump’s coup attempt grows even more worrisome as new details emerge
Opinion: Nothing is more urgent than breaking the GOP voting rights blockade
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A customer said yelling at a bank worker over masks was protected speech. A judge disagreed.
You can say whatever you like, as long as it does not harm others--And because it is strictly subjective, the degree to which 'another' thinks the speech has harmed him must be settled in court. Bring your wallet.
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As mayor of Ecuador’s capital faces possible removal, councilman throws a glass of water at him
Does not say whether he caught it or it broke when it fell on the floor.
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What the Jan. 6 probe can learn from GOP investigations
That Trump, his Jan.6 terrorists, and all the other Republicans were innocent victims of Antifa and of Nancy Pelosi? Sure.
Trump’s election conspiracies are coming to a head — again
Fox News’ Juan Williams Sounds The Alarm On Donald Trump’s ‘Grifting Game’
Jeffrey Bossert Clark: The most dangerous Trump official you’ve never heard of needs
to be heard from
Opinion: Trump’s corrupt manipulation of DOJ should prompt big reforms
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Rand Paul calls YouTube suspension over mask skepticism ‘badge of honor’
Right up there with Trump, David Duke, Sidney Powell, Michael Flynn, Louis Farrakhan, and others of their ilk.
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The return of gourmet British 'seaweed'
"Will that be washed, fresh-picked, or sea-floor-dirty, sir?"
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Well, I for one, was a chimpanzee long before I had my Covid shot. And I love it: I'd rather be a chimp than a Shetland Pony any day.
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Nearly 60,000 pounds of chicken recalled after salmonella sickens dozens
Officials now asking the public to consider not eating raw chickens or bitin' the heads off live ones.
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Sorry, but there’s zero evidence of aliens, this science writer says
This is very discouraging for me because my greatest ambition has always been to play a game of Checkers against someone from another planet.
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Family of D.C. officer who died by suicide after Jan. 6 riot sues alleged attacker
This is the way justice in America should work: When someone causes you a damage you sue him and recoup whatever damages you can in court. In this case it may not be possible to bring the officer back to life but it will be possible to sue this defendant[s] for the uncounted damages he has caused this officer and his surviving family members.
Trump Made Clear ‘Threat’ To Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt, Says Ex-FBI Deputy Director
And why Trump is not being held accountable for the innumerable crimes he has clearly committed is a puzzle: There are always consequences to one's actions, but sometimes there are bad actors who for their own vile reasons decide to block those consequences.
Somebody should tell Trump that in the entire history of losers there has never been a single case of being a sore loser turning losing into winning. Once you're a loser you're a loser once & for all, Mister Trump.
Cruz Whine: Biden Admin ‘Persecuting’ Capitol Rioters
Rupublicans are now fully on the side of the criminals, and they are making no bones about it! I suppose all that talk about being on the side of 'law & order' was just to con the suckers.
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Unvaccinated COVID-19 Patient In Louisiana Hospital Tells Others To ‘Open Your Eyes’
'Others' say they will check with Trump and his MAGA R congressmen whether this might be just more FAKE NEWS.
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Afghanistan’s rapid deterioration leaves allies questioning U.S. resolve on other fronts
Republicans must be licking their chops at the prospect of taking over Washington from Biden like the Taliban took Afghanistan from him.
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Why the heck are members of Congress allowed to trade individual stocks?
Answer: Because Congress makes the rules.
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After Wife Bought Remdesivir Stock, Rand Paul Served As Vector For COVID Misinformation
Nice racket: The more people are hospitalized with Covid the more money Rand Paul and his wife make selling Remdesivir.
DeSantis Top Donor Invests In Regeneron COVID Drug Governor Promotes
Of course: The more people DeSantis can get sick with Covid the more likely they'll need Regeneron: Criminals know how to make money. [You don't--You're stuck with remaining legal. They're stuck with having to face the law eventually. Take yer pick.]
Ditto.
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Brazilian bishop resigns days after sexual video circulates -- A Brazilian bishop has resigned less than a week after a video came to light that featured someone, purported to be him, masturbating
This is why I had to let go my last dog Pervy. [Apparently dogs have not been domesticated long enough yet to have learned the red lines of the afternoon tea party.]
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Groom injured while stomping on glass under the huppah
Rabbi tells him: "You're supposed to wear shoes." [In Hebrew.]
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North Korea tortures and executes Christians, USCIRF says
In North Korea's defense: Christians are all they have there to torture and execute.
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Climate scientists warn: Gulf Stream in state of collapse - study
Hang on. I'll be right over and stick my finger in the sea to try to get it going again.
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This vegetable paella recipe is colorful, festive and quick enough for a weeknight
A paella without at least one dead chicken in it is a total waste of cooking gas.
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Carolyn Hax: Fellow patron’s persistent cough was not a fine dining experience
I've had it worse: I once sat behind a fart factory while dining on some fluffy light stuff and I never cracked a protest. Even tipped generosly, as it wasn't my waiter's fault.
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China pressured experts away from a lab-leak investigation. What is it hiding?
Nothing. This is a clear admission that its labs are complicit in having unleashed Covid-19 on the world.
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Biden said U.S. officials lied on Afghanistan. Will they be held to account?
Well, Biden could ask Kerry next cabinet meeting. And everyone there who worked in the Clinton & Obama administrations (including himself).
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Biden EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Children
Brain damage in children, eh? No wonder Trump refused to ban it.
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Lawmakers denounce GOP Rep. Brooks for appearing sympathetic to Capitol bomb threat suspect
Rep. Brooks sez he's a Republican: "It's what we do."
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Trump Attacks Biden For Afghanistan Chaos After Giving Taliban The Deal That Ensured It
So, what else is new?
CNN Mocks Trump Over Wild Account Of Maybe Talking To Taliban Leader Who ‘Screamed’
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The Taliban says it will rule under sharia law. What does that mean?
Pretty much the exact opposite of secular democracy: That is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know.
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8th-Graders Lead Effort To Clear The Name Of Wrongly Convicted Salem ‘Witch’
Historians say they cannot explain why Witchovia's name has not been cleared of being a witch before now.
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Ironically, most factual and theoretical evidence posits that life elsewhere must be just as likely and unlikely to have arisen as here on earth (and here we are). However, religious people believe not facts in evidence but take at face value whatever the Hell they have been told by their more primitive and ignorant predecessors. And so I am a beast more likely to be despised & my life threatened by the religiously instructed than by those savages who have calmly concluded that religion is an imminent danger to human beings like myself: I am a beast in a beastly world. [But I knew that.]
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COMPLETE FAILURE: 20-YEAR ‘NATION-BUILDING’ COLLAPSES IN DAYS
This failure was designed into the original folly of trying to nation-build in an Islamic-majority country: It has never succeeded and it will never succeed. The closest thing came when Spain replaced all of its Muslims to the last one and became a Christian nation again, going on to become the most powerful nation in the Western World.
Biden administration scrambled as its Afghan withdrawal plan unraveled
Secretary Blinken Defends U.S. Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said diplomats were being moved to the airport and said America would maintain a core diplomatic presence. -- As cable networks and pundits ruminated on the images of helicopters echoing the U.S. exit from Saigon in the final days of the Vietnam War, Mr. Blinken pushed back. “This is manifestly not Saigon,” he said. "Kimberley Motley, an international human-rights attorney who has worked on Afghanistan issues for 13 years agreed on the ground there: The situation is a “human-rights nightmare. This is like Saigon on steroids.”
"Biden was asked last month about concerns Vietnamese veterans had regarding how the Taliban's efforts to conquer Afghanistan seemed to mirror the fall of Saigon in 1975. At the time, Biden said the Taliban was "not remotely comparable in terms of capability" to the North Vietnamese. -- "There's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the—of the United States from Afghanistan," Biden said during the July 8 press conference, a clip of which resurfaced in the wake of the Afghanistan government's collapse."
The Afghans should be that lucky, Mister Biden: This one will be ten times worse. [So much for the infallibility of Biden.]
Taliban takeover of Afghanistan shows Israel must be self-reliant - ex-diplomat
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America has time for one last honorable act: Getting our allies out of Afghanistan
Real-world translation: They're on their own. [Would that it were not so.]
Dire scenes — including people clinging to a plane — unfold at Kabul airport
As a Christian O Lord, I pray for all those poor people! Muslims or not, human beings they are. Enemies or friends, our brothers they all are! And their pain is my pain, their sorrow is my sorrow, their tragedy is mine to grieve.
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As Afghanistan falls, a haunting question faces military families: Why did we do all this?
Answer: Because nation-building was a chinch in Europe after WWII and "all-men-are-equal" American planners convinced themselves that Muslim-majority countries are just like European countries where just as in Christian Europe their Muslim citizens longed but for freedom and democracy. It never once crossed their prejudiced brains to consider just how different America would look today if instead of the well-read adherents to the secular principles of the European Enlightenment who founded the United States it had been a gang of cutthroats & highwaymen, rapists, murderers, and every-man-for-himself thieves led by very probably the most unscrupulous serial killer in history, a man who cynically devised for his criminal followers the [purely criminally excusing] principle that God allows/encourages all crimes no matter how heinous if they're committed in His Name. And now you know why nation-building is utter nonsense in Muslim-majority countries where only ISIS or brutal dictatorships can ever rule over such perverted mindsets.
I Was a Marine in Afghanistan. We Sacrificed Lives For a Lie.
Netanyahu rejected Kerry’s Afghanistan-style solution for Palestinians
Thank God he did: Kerry is one of the moron American planners mentioned above.
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Biden’s claim that nation-building in Afghanistan ‘never made any sense to me’
Nation-building means two distinct things:
In Muslim-majority countries you can pretty much forget about trying to build secular democracies, of course: there the only alternative to Islamic populism (giving rise to anti-West movements like Hamas, Hezbollah, Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS, al-Qaida, Taliban, etc.) is a dictator who can cut deals with the West and enforce them at home in spite of the popular anti-West incitement preached by the mullahs [this is usually a military dictator as in Egypt, but Erdogan and the Saudi monarchs work too]. Those in the West who do not understand this bring about unimaginable costs in lives and monies down on themselves and on the countries they're 'trying to help.'
There were until recently cynics in the West [the UK colonialists] who, understanding the above, thought of nation-building in Muslim-majority countries as promoting and supporting just the sort of Islamic dictators we see today in the most stable nations there. Unfortunately, of late, nation-building in Muslim-majority countries has become the same as the notion of nation-building in non-Muslim countries (as the idea of dictators [anywhere] has become unpopular today in the West). "Sorry ta'see ya go!" Therefore today we concentrate our efforts on 'strengthening institutions,' completely ignoring the fact that any stable government must have strong institutions, whether democratic institutions or Islamic anti-democratic ones--And that trying to saddle a Muslim dictator with strongly democratic institution is the same as promoting Islamic populism (inevitably leading to the terrorist organizations that must follow that).
“After 9/11, I changed my mind," said President Bush: "Afghanistan was the ultimate nation building mission. We had liberated the country from a primitive dictatorship, and we had a moral obligation to leave behind something better." In other words, America had destroyed the populist Muslim society that had ruled Afghanistan between foreign interventions all right (like the Russians before them). But then America tried to build a non-dictator based government there. In other words, one which was neither a populist Islamic movement nor a brutal dictatorship capable of defeating the populist movements--
All purely self-defeating hogwash. It would have been better had America struck the Taliban hard for 9/11 and then left. "We had a strategic interest in helping the Afghan people build a free society,” wrote Bush. And we did, of course, leaving there no one strong enough to control the Taliban.
Bush & all the other American politicos with their heads up their asses should have consulted Mubarak--whom the Americans also worked their little tails off to undermine at this time, much to the great detriment of Egypt and suffering of its people.
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Afghan army’s total collapse forces ‘soul-searching’ at NATO meeting
Cry me a river. Guys, most of the Afghan Army was made up of Talibans pretending to be Western allies in order to collect their Western wages (now they're back to being full-time Talibans).
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Sha’Carri Richardson Places Ninth In First Race Since Suspension Over Drug Test
You'll never know how all those sprinters who lost to her before her drug use was uncovered must feel like now.
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E.T., Phone Hell? Creationist Ken Ham Says Jesus Can’t Save Space Aliens
Sez it's bad enough having to accept some non-whites into Heaven (and stick'em in some segregated out-of-the-way place Jesus never visits, of course), but he draws the line at E.T.s there.
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Taliban to US: Don't encourage Afghans to leave
Well, maybe if you guys stopped killing them they might decide they don't need to leave
Credible reports of executions by Taliban - UN
As much as the Muslim populous encouraged by the mullahs bad-mouths America, almost every Muslim nation in the world is allied with the United States. The Taliban are not Russians, they're not Chinese, and they're not Communists. Are they going to make Afghanistan the only Muslim country in the world that's not allied with the United States?
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Miss Manners: Couples won’t let me seat them separately!
Well, sometimes somebody disrespects your wife and you have to be close enough to throw an effective punch. You can't be telegraphing your punches from across the table--A good host should know that. [Sometimes your wife just wants you to punch somebody for no reason at all and you have to be ready.]
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Scores Of Florida Doctors Stage Walkout To Protest The Unvaccinated
It's hard to blame them: You have on the one hand a patient whose advanced cancer requires an ICU bed and on the other hand another patient who needs the same bed because he didn't feel like taking the Covid-19 vaccine (sez he heard it turns people into zombies or some other looney excuse). I don't know that I too wouldn't refuse to treat the anti-vacc nut case myself.
An Ala. doctor saw patients reject the vaccine. Now he’s refusing to treat them.
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Kind Acts: Rats Prefer to Help Their Own
This explains why we laugh when a stranger slips and busts his ass.
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There’s a bat in your house! Here’s what NOT to do.
Offer it wine: They don't drink... that.
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There is no easy solution to this because ultimately the reason the Afghan war was so pointlessly prolonged was because the American decision makers were operating on flawed assumptions that arose out of their trying to work with lofty ideals in this lowly all-too real world:
No: Not all people are good-intentioned.
No: The reason the American Experiment has survived this long is not due to luck. So it's pointless to roll the dice on every other experiment in democracy out there.
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Can religion strengthen democracy?
Of course. Isn't the Vatican a democracy? [The Pope just runs a very spiffy campaign every year.]
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Carolyn Hax: What do you buy for the family that gives your gifts away?
Buy?!? No. Let you kids make them used newspaper mache 'creations.'
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Texas governor prohibits vaccine mandates
He also prohibited life-saving emergency surgeries and Band-Aids for cuts & scratches. Can Republicans get more nutty? [Sure.] One is left to wonder how almost every Republican out there keeps working against the public good while one can hardly find even one single democrat doing that--and not have everybody voting Democrat!
If the citizens of Texas do not want undue restrictions on their rights to vote they're going to have to vote out the legislators pursuing those restrictions. It may sound counterintuitive, but in a democracy still it's also the only way.
Those who do not rise up will be put down.
Filibuster Reform Coalition Grows Ahead of Fall Fight Over Voting Rights
GOP Rep. Jim Banks: Republicans Have A ‘Duty’ To Punish Members Investigating Jan. 6 Riot
Opinion: Biden goes after MAGA governors. It’s about time.
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It’s not hard to imagine a worse pandemic, former CDC director says
Republicans risk becoming face of delta surge as key governors fight mandates
Those who laugh in the Face of God will be washed away with their tears.
Florida church reeling after six members die within 10 days amid spike in cases
God is nurturing, forgiving, Bringer of Order to all things. Satan is destructive, vengeful, everywhere Wreaker of Chaos. Therefore whatever side Trump takes--always take the opposite one. For Trump is on the side of Satan.
Most Unvaccinated Americans Still Think Shots Are Riskier Than COVID
He thought COVID was fake news. Now this Florida radio veteran is dead of the disease
Texas GOP Leader Hospitalized For COVID-19 Dies Days After Mocking Vaccines -- The Texas Republican Party issued a statement saying members were “incredibly saddened” to learn of Apley’s death.
In this particular case the meaning of "incredibly" really does mean "not credible." As it is not credible that politicos who can so callously watch as thousands upon thousands of innocent human beings die from a scheme they have concocted just to make themselves a bit of cash would have the humanity to mourn anyone. Least of all one of their co-conspirators.
Ex-Newsmax Host Who Attacked ‘Lying Freak’ Dr. Fauci Over ‘Scamdemic’ Has Died Of COVID
A couple of [Saint Trump's medals for the obviously blind] were placed over his eyes.
GOP Leader Who Fought Against Vaccine Dies After Weeks-Long Battle With Coronavirus
ICU Doc Shows What ‘Anxious and Scared’ Gov. Greg Abbott Did After COVID-19 News
Texas Anti-Mask ‘Freedom Defender’ Caleb Wallace Dies Of COVID-19
Sen. Lindsey Graham Urges People To Get Vaccinated After He Recovers From COVID-19
I don't suppose Republicans have the brains to understand that a little needle prick is a lot less of a bother than a life-and-death struggle to survive Covid, but it's a consolation at least to see that some of them do change their minds once they have to go through the life-and-death struggle themselves.
Southern Hospitals, Crushed By Delta Strain, Report Running Out Of ICU Beds
Israeli anti-vaxx leader dies of COVID-19
Right-Wing Radio’s ‘Mr. Anti-Vax’ Marc Bernier Dies Of Coronavirus
Not sorry for the crime, only sorry about being caught:
Four conservative radio talk-show hosts bashed coronavirus vaccines. Then they got sick.
Opinion: Govs. DeSantis and Abbott, in denial and risking lives, have betrayed the public trust
Right-Wing Anti-Vax Radio Host Who Mocked AIDS Victims Dies Of COVID-19
Republicans risk becoming face of delta surge as key governors fight mandates
I cannot think of another scourge on this nation as terrible as today's Republicans have been!
As Florida faces record deaths, DeSantis says Biden should follow his lead -- Florida is now reporting an average of 228 covid-19 deaths each day — a state record and by far the highest count in the nation.
Former DNC Head Howard Dean Slams Gov. DeSantis As Bigger ‘Lunatic’ Than Even Trump
Opinion: It’s time Democrats stood up for the ‘silent majority’
Florida school districts with mask mandates may be investigated and punished, state says
This is pretty much akin to victims being prosecuted if they do not agree to be murdered. And now you know just how insane it is to vote for any Republican.
Florida Faces Deadliest Phase Of COVID-19 Yet
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Eight minutes is too long?!? It takes me at least that long just to undo my pants!
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Rep. Jim Jordan Suddenly Remembers At Least One Other Call With Trump On Jan. 6: Report
Smart criminals know that the cops can access phone records, and that the cops catching you in a lie is not the same as you lying the whole day long to Trump's base of stupid deplorables.
Trump Funding Network Paid $4.3 Million To People, Firms Who Set Up Jan. 6 Rally: Report
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As covid-19 surges in Miss., some people take unproven drug intended for treating worms in livestock
They take such astonishing poisons but they can't take a little prick from a vaccine specifically intended to save them from Covid-19! Some people's brains have not even evolved to the level of chimps yet! [Offer them a banana to take the vaccine.]
Don’t Use Horse And Cow Medicine To Treat COVID-19, FDA Warns
The ‘Miracle Cure’ From Hell: Why People Are Eating Horse Paste To Fight COVID-19
Great. Now the GOP nutsies want to de-worm their Republican base for profit. [Has anybody ever looked into whether Trump owned any Clorox stock, by the way? Just asking.]
Rand Paul Blames ‘Hatred For Trump’ For Resistance To Ivermectin
How right-wing media and social isolation lead people to eat horse paste
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Most Americans favor troop withdrawal but criticize Biden’s performance, survey shows
Same with my kids: I love that they eat all their food but I'd still prefer that they eat it like human beings.
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Despite court decision, state withholds school board members’ pay from Broward
Trump Republicans don't acknowledge that the law applies to them. You know, like common criminals--one of them Trump.
McCarthy Warns Phone, Tech Giants That GOP Won’t ‘Forget’ If They Turn Over Jan. 6 Records
Now, how is this NOT a blatantly outrageously self-evident case of witness-tampering & obstruction of justice? You know, like common criminals do--one of them Trump (remember that phone call they recorded in Georgia?). The Jan. 6 committee is investigating instances of law-breaking, after all.
‘Scared’ Kevin McCarthy Trashed On Twitter For ‘Thuggery’ After Threatening Telecoms
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GOP douses Afghanistan withdrawal with misinformation
What a surprise.
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In the Eyes of God, Does a State Have the Right to Kill a Man?
Sure: If God hadn't wanted men to kill every living thing they could get their hands on He wouldn't have given them canines.
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Dogs abandoned at Kabul airport prompted outrage. Here’s what we know.
The Koran sez 'good' Muslims do not own dogs.
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Biden must have been talking about all the American equipment the Afghan military handed over to the Taliban, not about the Afghan soldiers themselves.
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Doctors dismayed by patients who fear vaccines but clamor for unproven ivermectin
I say: Give it to'em! Some people learn by the thoughts in their heads, others by their lumps. [Sure, some people never learn; but that's how Republicans get reelected.]
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You Can Store Compost in Your Freezer
Why not? It already smells as if there's been some in there for a while.
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Podcaster Joe Rogan Has COVID-19, Says He Took Ivermectin To Treat It
Does not say whether he stayed at home or went to covalence at Santa Anita.
270 Doctors, Scientists Call Out Joe Rogan’s COVID Misinfo: 'Menace To Public Health'
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Donald Trump Accuses Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley Of Hypocrisy
Nikki Haley must be like, what, the 1000th creep who sold her soul to Trump and whom he's now thrown under the bus just to watch the wheels going slowly over her. [And there are a 1000 more creeps waiting in line. Patience.] "Crunchy, crunch!"
Trump-appointed ambassador directed government business to his hotel, emails show
Mary Trump Rips ‘Fascist’ Uncle, Assumes He Doesn’t Even Know What That Means
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National Republicans Strangely Quiet About Texas Abortion Law Ruling
Be careful what you wish for: Republicans know all too well that their attack on women voters was not a very intelligent move. They just don't have an easy way to walk it back now. [But they're strategizing. "O how to blame it on the democrats! How?]
Meanwhile, GOP strategizing on vaccines:
Mike Huckabee Blames Vax Hesitancy On Biden ‘Boring Us To Death’ With Science
Why Democrats want to talk about Texas’s abortion law (and Republicans don't)
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Requiring customers to be vaccinated can draw $5,000 fines starting soon in Florida
Shooting someone just because he was walking towards you, on the other hand, is honored in Florida under the Stand Your Ground law.
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Preservationists aim to shoot down plan to demolish Al Capone’s Palm Island house
Yeah! What's going on here?! I thought Al Capone was one of our greatest, most beloved national figures. [What's Kevin McCarthy's number? By Trump's little hands, every Republican out there is gonna wanna be in on this.]
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Satanic Temple Floats Devilishly Clever Strategy To Dodge Texas Abortion Law
Since the anti-abortionist crowds are mostly all nutsy Christians, when you need an abortion simply claim you were inseminated by the Devil and you're now carrying the Antichrist; then the anti-abortionists will all run out to try to get you an abortion instead of trying to oppose it. [Brains-over-Brawn. sir. Brains-over-Brawn.]
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Facebook Apologizes For Labeling Video Of Black Men As ‘Primates’
And here I thought I was a primate. Now I may be thrown in with pigs, sheep, cows, chickens--Who knows what!
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Stop fretting, Democrats. Use your power.
Yeah, no. Republicans are like the crazed murderer threatening to shoot everyone while Democrats are like the dweeb hostage who's always saying: "Oh, I'm sure he wouldn't do THAT."
Opinion: The Justice Department moves to protect abortion rights. It should start a trend.
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Joe Manchin is foolish to indefinitely hold up the reconciliation bill
Never be misled by appearances--the person you least suspect in the world often turns out to be the worst serial killer.
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Indiana University Football Team Can’t Spell ‘Indiana’ And Fans Are Shook
The important thing is whether they can play football. They can always hire some Poindexter to spell their names for them.
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Southern Republicans Cannot Be Trusted With Public Health
Leastwise, not those who never graduated third grade (and which you can easily identify by the fact that they are usually the ones who have been elected to public office down there).
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Rep. Jim Jordan Gets Jabbed On Twitter After Screwing Up Basic U.S. History
You really think if these Republicans would have gotten a decent education they'd be behaving like they are today?
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Californians Coming Home After Fleeing Wildfire Now Face Bear Break-Ins
Man, if there's anything worse than a home invasion it's when the home invaders are naked.
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The GOP’s delusion-fueled election ‘audits’ spell trouble for 2024
These are no delusion-fueled ‘audits’ but deliberately malicious and sinister attempts to subvert our democracy by people who care more about their own personal gains than the general good.
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Scientists uncover 35-year-old recording of Australian duck swearing repeatedly
Apparently duck had such large floppy feet that everybody around him kept stepping on them.
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Hacker claims to have stolen information of 7 million Israelis
Sez now he will finally be able to send them each his or hers birthday greetings on the right date.
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Ask Amy: As 70-something husband chases teen, wife gears up for divorce
"70-something?!" She should just wait for widowhood instead.
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Carolyn Hax: New mom’s loitering in-laws take offense when she asks them to leave
Well, "Get the FK out!" IS pretty frank.
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Opinion: How Republicans manage to be both anarchists and authoritarians
So, you never heard of schizophrenics then?
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Can Birds Tip Us Off to Natural Disasters?
Well, parrots, Magpies... and only if they're carrying enough change for the phone call.
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Lil Uzi Vert Says His $24 Million Forehead Diamond Was Ripped Out While Crowd Surfing
"Dude, here I was trying to keep myself from being suffocated in this crushing mob when suddenly this dude went by with $24 million dollars on his forehead."
"Wow, dude, what did you do?"
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Opinion: Republicans keep crossing the line. Democrats must hold them accountable.
If the Democrat majority can't find the gumption to slap down the few Republicans trying to destroy democracy then they will be shamefully slammed down by these same few Republicans.
'This Is Untenable': Supreme Court Justices Slam Decision On Texas Abortion Ban
Biden must immediately propose FOUR new nominees for the Supreme Court, and if the Senate does not approve them then the country must wait out the 2022 midterms because this present Senate is garbage. [Waiting for the dumpster.]
Opinion: The harsh truth of this moment: Republicans understand power. Democrats do not.
The Texas abortion decision shows why the Democrats must push to add four justices to the court
Democrats To Probe Secretive ‘Shadow Docket’ Following Supreme Court Texas Abortion Ruling
Opinion: One tactic to stop abortion bounty hunters from demolishing women’s constitutional rights
Opinion: What the Justice Department should do to stop the Texas abortion law
Opinion: Stop fretting, Democrats. Use your power.
Opinion: With Democratic help, Republicans notch a victory in their war on government
Opinion: Joe Manchin’s new threat to destroy Biden’s agenda is worse than it seems
Republican Group Rips Rep. Madison Cawthorn Over ‘Bloodshed’ Threat In New Video
Opinion: This is how a Republican lie is born
Opinion: What are Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney waiting for?
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Prince Albert Breaks Silence On Princess Charlene Marriage Rumors
What? Isn't Prince Albert in a can yet?!
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Ask Dr. Andrea: I think I’m a good person, but I’m so jealous of others. What can I do?
Sabotage the Hell outta them! See if there's room in your heart to feel sorry for any of them: Maybe you're a nice guy & don't know it.
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Chemnitz Jewish restaurant attacker given 1-year suspended sentence
Oh wow, what a great opportunity to do it all over again more successfully!
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Progressive Judicial Group Launches $1.5 Million Effort To Expand Supreme Court
Although I am for adding those four additional justices now, the best solution is to do away with lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court and have every new president replace three of the nine justices (replacing the justices who have served the longest, not excluding the chief justice). Again, not every four years but every time a new president is elected, which should satisfy everyone.
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TSA doubles fines for people who refuse to wear masks at airports, in other transportation settings
MAGA nuts want freedom from wearing masks and getting vaccinated but not from wearing clothes:
You don't wear clothes you get arrested. But you never hear the MAGA nuts advocating for the freedom from having to wear clothes (which doesn't harm anyone), at the same time they're clamoring for the freedom from wearing masks or getting vaccinated (which harms everyone). That is the definition of being nuts.
Why doesn't she walk? That way she won't be killing a lot of other people just to get her ass there.
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Report: COVID Cases, Deaths Notably Worse In Red States Than Blue States
In the Republicans' defense: It's their business to get themselves reelected, not to keep their constituents from losing their stupid lives (it's up to their constituents to save themselves if they so wish).
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Critics Remind Dan Crenshaw That Mandatory Vaccines Have Existed In U.S. For Decades
Crenshaw sez that's a lie: That he was born yesterday and he doesn't remember any such practice happening during his entire life.
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Trump Drops Big Hint About Presidential Run At Meeting With Manhattan Police
Sez if he's elected again this time anybody who wants anything from the government had better be prepared to pay & to pay cash on the barrelhead, pal.
Opinion: Republicans cannot duck responsibility for Trump
Opinion: Yes, the Jan. 6 insurrectionists were terrorists. George W. Bush just indicted them.
Opinion: How Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz and an irrational system make us more vulnerable to the next 9/11
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As California recall vote nears, Republicans ready to blame ‘shenanigans’ for Newsom win
Another election loss, another Republican push to paint elections as pointless. Can despotism and tyranny be far behind?
Opinion: A dangerous trend among GOP candidates shows the Trump threat is here to stay -- Republican Laxalt smarmily insisted the press is attacking anyone who wants “secure” and “fair” elections. In fact, Laxalt is the one threatening to undermine secure and fair elections. -- As this demonstrates, for Trumpist politicians, the refusal to commit to respecting legitimate election losses is now a badge of honor.
I am beginning to believe that thanks to Trump and his Republicans the time is not that far off when Congress will be forced to pass laws (or, preferably, a constitutional amendment) mandating that "no one may run for public office in these United States without first having agreed to accept the results of the election--under penalty of law (such as, in the event that a losing candidate challenges the election in the courts and loses he will then be disqualified from ever again running for any office anywhere in the U.S. if he/she continues to suggest the election was not legit)".
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A stranger injected a woman with semen while she was running errands. Now he’s going to prison.
"I suppose," the woman said, "I should be grateful nobody ever properly explained to him the thing about the bird & the bees."
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When will today's people learn? To teenagers death is glorious, prison is a badge of honor. What you have to do is take a few of these idiots behind the woodshed and whip the crap outta them--That's the thing they don't want and will carefully walk the straight & narrow to avoid when they watch their heroes balling in pain like little sissies.
Students are destroying bathrooms, swiping school supplies in latest TikTok challenge gone awry
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Ancient warrior found buried with his steed and his dog
Gravediggers said that for some reason dog semed to have a disapproving look on its face.
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Ala. man dies after being turned away from 43 hospitals as covid-19 packs ICUs, family says
Yes. nice of his survivors to recommend people get the vaccine now that Covid-19 has killed him. But he forgot to thank the Republicans before he died for convincing him (and all the other freedom-loving covidwhacos who packed those hospitals shut) to not take it: It would have been nicer still.
Now the rght-wing nuts are actually threatening hospitals where vaccine-deniers go to die their miserable deaths instead of advising their followers to simply take the little pinch that could have easily saved their lives, and save the lives of so many others:
QAnon Followers Threaten Hospital After Outspoken COVID Denier Dies Of COVID
Texas Embalmer Shares Nightmare COVID Experiences: ‘Unlike Anything I’ve Seen Before’
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Florida ready to fine cities, counties ‘millions’ for requiring employee vaccinations
Or, in the common parlance, "or so continues the GOP war against everyday Americans" (and, logically enough, primarily their own base because of course they are the ones stupid enough to heed them).
Opinion: How the GOP threatens harm to red state residents, as revealed in a new study
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Florida Man Exposed Himself To 7 Toll Collectors: Police -- Toll workers told troopers the man had no clothes on and was “showing his privates.”
In perv's defense: “Showing your privates” is a time-honored practice of us monkeys ever since we lived up on trees. [Had he done it from inside the monkey cage at the zoo he would have been rewarded with peanuts.]
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Speakers at DeSantis news conference promoted false vaccine claims while Fla. governor stood by
In DeSantis's defense: He's not a Democratic governor, so his job is not to safeguard the lives & health of his contituents (or looking after them in any way, shape, or form).
Opinion: Ron DeSantis reaches a new low of cynicism and recklessness
Opinion: Chris Wallace’s grilling of a GOP governor exposes a much bigger scam
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Dan Quayle Convinced Mike Pence To Ignore Trump’s Decertification Pleas: Book -- “Wow,” said MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell: “Dan Quayle comes to the rescue of the republic.”
Good. He finally learned how to spell p-o-t-a-t-o!
Opinion: Awful new revelations about Trump and Jan. 6 show Mike Pence is no hero
Dan Quayle Convinced Mike Pence To Ignore Trump’s Decertification Pleas: Book
Trump Threatened To Withhold Friendship From Pence Over Election Certification: Book -- Trump reportedly told Pence, “I don’t want to be your friend anymore if you don’t do this.”
Then Trump picked up his baseball & mitten miffed and ran off for his mother (Melania).
Top general was so fearful Trump might spark war that he made secret calls to his Chinese counterpart, new book says -- Milley saw parallels between Jan. 6 and the 1905 Russian Revolution, which set off unrest throughout the Russian Empire and, though it failed, helped create the conditions for the October Revolution of 1917, in which the Bolsheviks executed a successful coup that set up the world’s first communist state. Vladimir Lenin, who led the revolution, called 1905 a “dress rehearsal.” A similar logic could apply with Jan. 6, Milley thought as he wrestled with the meaning of that day, telling senior staff: “What you might have seen was a precursor to something far worse down the road.”
All of this to keep Trump from getting upset
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The GOP is an irrelevant party of ever more & more desperate mere attention-seekers. The only people who are keeping Republicans relevant are Joe Manchin and a couple of other Democrat attention-seekers themselves crying out for selfish personal reasons of their own. The pressure should be entirely on them, if attention is what they're after.
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Donald Trump Predicts America Will End Within 3 Years
Ah! Finally a sign that he doesn't intend running for president again!
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PM Update: Staying sultry through Wednesday
Just be sure to change into a more conservative outfit before reporting for work on Thursday.
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Does your Airbnb have a hidden camera? Experts share tips for protecting yourself.
Don't do anything you wouldn't do on Times Square.
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This pastor will sign a religious exemption for vaccines if you donate to his church
Hey, a least one of them is honest enough to admit that he's just peddling bits & pieces of Jesus for cash.
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The N.F.L.’s New Play: Embrace Betting Ads and Watch the Money Pour In
The heads of the 32 families have agreed to allow gambling & sundry other sins, but say they will put a hit on any player caught selling heroin.
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Should I let my teen daughter wear what she wants?
No. My daughter wanted to go out wearing only her bush & nipples, So I finally had to put my foot down.
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Street closures begin for rally in support of Jan. 6 insurrection defendants
Or, as Cubans call it: The Le Zumba el Mango Rally.
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Donald Trump Blasted Paul Ryan For Condemning White Supremacy, New Book Claims
We can only imagine how much it might have benefitted the nation had Paul Ryan had the courage & patriotism to publicly denounce Mister Trump's incredibly “repulsive” statements.
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The potential trouble with Jan. 6 defendant prosecutions
Seems to me as if the judges are trying to help the defendants find some rationale for verdicts of innocence.
What Congress was doing on Jan.6 was an official proceeding any whichway you want to look at it, and the law specifically says that "Whoever corruptly … obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so” can be punished by up to 20 years in prison.
Judges have no leeway to overturn Congress's own definition of what it was doing on Jan.6 as an official proceeding and reclassify it as some 'as luck would have it' meeting to arrange a lobbyist's birthday party or something.
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California’s recall election confirmed everything that is wrong with today’s Republican Party
"Win by hook or crook & let the Democrats try to win it fair & square: See where that gets them. Ha!" [The new GOP Motto.]
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New Zealand men abandon Pakistan tour
Say they're going to instead explore the crater of a volcano that's threatening to explode at any minute now.
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Hey, that's scratch Trump would've had to come up with himself. And you all know Trump.
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Sometimes one reads such things they make one question whether we're all even in the same species!
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If proof was needed that Trump was the traitors' ringleader.
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Opinion: Raphael Warnock’s relentless voting rights push
God bless you Raphael Warnock! Generations of Americans yet unborn will bless you if you win your fight. And I, who am old enough to understand fully just how critical your fight is, and who am here alive today able to tell you in person, say to you: God bless you Senator Warnock for your tireless defense of democracy! If you win we will all win, if you lose we will all lose.
“It is a contradiction to say we must protect
--Georgia’s Raphael G. Warnock (D)
The Filibuster’s Fate Is Already Decided. Just Look To The 2022 Democratic Senate Candidates.
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Trump Angling To Put In Power Election Officials Who Could Twist Vote For Him In 2024
Well, when you don't prosecute a failed coup's conspirators you have to expect them to try to make their next coup a much more successful one.
The one good thing about all this is that the conspirators are known. The bad thing is how febble the effort is to stop them!
Partner Of Fallen Capitol Police Officer ‘Enraged’ By Trump’s New Support For Rioters
Elise Stefanik’s ‘Hateful Rhetoric’ Ripped In Stinging Editorial By Hometown Newspaper
Opinion: The Jan. 6 attack demands that we protect voting rights
Opinion: How Democrats can capitalize on the MAGA crowd’s frequent humiliations
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Political Operative Pardoned By Trump Accused Of Illegal Campaign Scam
There are legal campaign scams? There are legal scams?
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Seth Rogen Says What We’re All Thinking About The Emmys This Year
"Wasn't the last damn Emmys like two weeks ago~?!?"
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I Had Professional Nude Photos Taken To Surprise My Partner. It Was A Disaster.
Had to be: Who the Hell wants to get pictures like that of one's business partner?
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Ken Burns Thinks This Abraham Lincoln Quote Is Now More Relevant Than Ever
"Off with their heads!"
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I Went To A Nudist Swingers Resort Without My Girlfriend. Here’s What Happened.
We know what happened: All nudists are swingers. None of'em got their shit strapped down so it don't swing.
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Fox News Host Attacks Kamala Harris For Attending A Football Game
In defense of Fox News: Harris isn't saying or doing crazy stupid things like most Republicans. So this is the best Fox News can do to attack her.
Fox News Host Criticizes Biden For Riding A Bike
Guess Biden isn't threatening to destroy the nation like Trump or anything like that then.
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Analysis: Texas’s abortion law is even more unpopular than we thought
Well, what did you expect? Republicans oppose simple little non-intrusive mask mandates in defense of 'freedom' and yet they mercilessly mandate what women may do with the very innards of their own bodies.
Texas Gov. Won’t Budge On Abortion Exceptions When Chris Wallace Grills Him On 15,000 Rapes
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Well, I've listened to my dog's yelp a lot more than Cat's so I'm thinking maybe I'll continue to go with that.
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Opinion: The Jan. 6 attack demands that we protect voting rights
Is it any mystery that those who believe democratic elections are fraudulent, unnecessary or irrelevant are the greatest enemies of democracy?
How Trump endangered democracy, and how Biden hopes to repair it
It turns out that Trump’s claims of fraud were not scrupulously vetted for accuracy
Opinion: New details about Trump’s Dominion scam help explain our authoritarian slide
By memo or by mob, Trump and his team positioned the country for chaos
Time is running out for Congress to overturn Jim Crow-style laws spreading throughout America
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Telling People To Get Vaccinated Is Leftist Plot Against Trump Voters, Breitbart Claims
Sez Trump voters can't get enough Jim Jones Kool-Aide and that getting Covid to kill them is their only other option.
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Opinion: A Texas Republican’s vile rant shows ‘great replacement’ is becoming GOP dogma -- Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) blasted the Biden administration for “allowing” in one or two million migrants this year. In 18 years, Patrick railed, if “every one of them has two or three children, you’re talking about millions and millions and millions of new voters. Who do you think they are going to vote for?” Patrick seethed.
I did not know all the descendants of the Irish were still voting the way their immigrant ancestors did: I know an awful lot of Irish Republicans. Are most Cubans today voting like their 1960s parents? (I remember they started voting Democrat, then all they switched to Republicans, and now are slowly mostly going back to Democrats. So, what's coming tomorrow?) Are the Polish, the Germans, the Italians, the Jews all still voting like their original immigrant grandparents did a 100 years ago? This would be news to me. Frankly, I think a lot of African-American voters might still be Lincoln Republicans if the GOP wasn't so egregiously trying to take away their voting rights. [The fault, dear Brutus, lies not with the voters but with the Republicans.]
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Trump Sues New York Times Over Tax Bombshells, Seeks ‘No Less’ Than $100 Million
Sez he needs at least that much to avoid his next bankruptcy. [Just like bank robbers think the only way to make money is robbing banks, Trump thinks the only way to make money is by a well-timed bankruptcy that fleeces all his foolishly trusting investors.]
Legal Experts Spot The Fatal Flaws With Donald Trump’s Lawsuit Against His Niece, NYT
Trump couldn't declare bankruptcy & fleece them because they were way too smart to invest in him?
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Report: Zuckerberg OK’ed Filling Newsfeeds With Pro-Facebook Fluff Amid Bad Press
And now you know why it's always a bad idea to let kids who normally should only be living down in their parents' basement in position of power. [They make stupid decisions & always think they're smarter than the cops.] Hello, Trump!
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Susan Collins To Endorse Paul LePage For Another Term As Maine Gov. -- The former governor known for his racist comments once called himself "Baby Trump."
What were you saying again about Susan Collins being a 'moderate' Republican? She's a Republican.
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Sen. Grassley, the oldest GOP senator at 88, announces he will seek another term
Of course, no one really knows whether Grassley still understands he's in the Senate and not in an assisted living home somewhere. Although there might not really be much difference.
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Upset by porn and ‘immoral content,’ a man planted pipe bombs outside cellphone stores, FBI says
Sez he couldn't stop himself from watching porn so he decided to do the next best thing: To blow up all the world's communication networks streaming it.
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A Taliban founder says cutting off hands as punishment will be ‘necessary for security’
Sure, that way they won't be able to shoot at'em. James Garner had the same idea in that western where he'd bust the trigger fingers of rival gunfighters. Taliban probably got the idea from watching that movie.
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Elon Musk And Grimes Split Up!
Yeah, but has anyody looked behind his ears?
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Do you still have to ask how on earth can Trump be a hero to the mob of MAGA Republicans he's so thoroughly & so often fleeced? How in the world can most Republicans be stupid enough to still believe that any fraud at all occurred in the 2020 election?
Our constitutional crisis is already here -- One Trump supporter didn’t go to the hospital after developing covid-19 symptoms because he didn’t want to contribute to the liberal case against Trump. “I’m not going to add to the numbers,” he told a reporter.
COVID Is Killing Rural Americans At Twice The Rate Of Urban Residents
Somehow, we’re still learning the depths of Trump’s dishonesty
If you think the 2020 election was in some way suspect, you've been misled
The Trump-backed audits that keep debunking Trump, ranked
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Democrats Discussing 2 Options To Change The Filibuster To Pass Voting Rights Laws
Opinion: As the GOP renounces democratic governance, the rationale to keep the filibuster is evaporating -- The inescapable conclusion is that the GOP would destroy elections and the peaceful transfer of power if given a chance.
Don't say you werent warned if you give Republicans a second shot at their coup.
How Democrats’ New Voting Rights Bill Tackles The Threat Of Election Subversion
A liar whose only agenda was lying his way to power preyed on the prejudices of a portion of the electorate and was elected president but ultimately proved too incompetent & ignorant to carry out his planned coup.
Remember the Kansas Compromise crisis before the Civil War, and understand that just like the Kansas Compromise settled nothing Trump's Coup has also failed to settle the constitutional flaws which permitted it: Either address those flaws now and settle the matter once & for all or face a much more serious coup in the future. Those who are not certain it's an inevitability had better count the number of today's Republicans who are pushing not to fix but for strengthening those many flaws.
Opinion: Ominous new details about Trump’s coup attempt require Democrats to act -- “The window is closing,” Rick Hasen, an election law professor at University of California-Irvine, told me. “The filibuster is the major impediment to Congress taking steps to avert a potential stolen election in 2024.” Do Democrats grasp the true urgency of this? It’s not clear that they do.
Valorizing Jan. 6 -- As New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait has written, Trump “has slowly turned January 6 from a black mark that threatened to expunge him from Republican politics, to a regrettable episode that his allies preferred to leave behind, to a glorious uprising behind which he could rally his adherents.”
And this is all because of the manifest timidity by the Justice Department and other law agencies in charging Donald Trump, the undisputed ringleader of this ugly insurrection, with the innumerable crimes he has committed.
Law Expert Wonders Why A Grand Jury Isn’t Mulling Sedition Charges Against Steve Bannon
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Witness: Taliban hang dead body in Afghan city's main square
Say it was great to see a corpse hanging in a main square again--Something which hasn't been seen in the world since back in the Dark Ages.
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Opinion: More evidence that talking to Republicans is useless
The Democrats must start seriously fighting back against the Republican attack on America or soon the battle will move on to the streets. I do not know if that's what the Republicans want, but I'm sure that's not what the Democrats wish for the country.
Our constitutional crisis is already here
Yes, Trump is horridly stupid, but so was Hitler, and so was Stalin, and so was Mussolini, and so was Fidel Castro, and so are most criminals in the world--but that never stopped any of them. They succeeded through a freak combination of breaks which when they finally straightened out landed them dead or in prison. But only after they had brought about immeasurable harm and suffering to others. Trump has done more of that than most & is well on his way to trying to do even more of it in the future.
Biden Not Interested In Giving Trump ‘Executive Privilege’ Protection From Jan. 6 Probe
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How Do I Tell the Story of Robert E. Lee?
Detail what he did and don't try to see it through his eyes: You will say that what he did is treason to his country. That his personal character is written in the false hope he gave Abraham Lincoln, only to stab him in the back. That his generalship consisted mainly of pushing people to their deaths until a more humane opponent gave up the slaughter. And that his surrender(s) came about because he finally had to fight an opponent who also would not give up the slaughter, and he just ran out of men. (Detail especially the battle of Gettysburg.)
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The nation faces financial calamity. Republicans will be to blame.
Maybe. But Manchin and Sinema will have to bear most of that blame too.
The Legislation Joe Manchin Is Holding Up Would Help His State — A Lot
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Why are there still so many nuclear weapons?
Because people are harder to kill than cockroaches. [I once told this joke at the zoo in front of the monkey cage and the moneys there couldn't stop rolling over with laughter.]
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Stephanie Grisham Reveals Trump Called To Tell Her About His Penis
In Donald Trump's defense: He prefers to think of himself as a 'penis' rather than the more vulgarly common 'dick' everybody knows him as.
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R. Kelly Is Convicted on All Counts After Decades of Abuse Accusations
R. Kelly now convinced at last that he can't fly no'mo, no'mo: Down to the airplane hangar for R. Kelly. Permanently. [Wouldn't it had been wonderful if Trump had been the one who'd been found guilty on all charges!]
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Liz Cheney: Many GOP Lawmakers Have Privately Encouraged My Stand Against Trump
And many more longed to engage in rape, child molestation, and cannibalism. But they kept their longings to themselves, as it also might damage their political careers expressing them publicly. [From the best-selling ancient classic So What? by Socrates.]
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Tampa man exonerated for murder after 37 years likely won't receive compensation due to Florida law
After Eighteen Years Behind Bars for a Crime She Didn’t Commit, Rosa Jimenez Is Finally Free
He Was Nearly Executed 4 Years Ago. Now A Texas Appeals Court Has Tossed His Conviction.
Decade of Bad Busts by Authorities Costs New York City $305 Million
The Central Park Five: ‘We Were Just Baby Boys’
Verdicts of guilt or innocence in serious crimes cases (most especially those of murder or mayhem) should not be allowed to devolve into popularity contests. They should be forced to be adjudicated strictly only on the facts in evidence. But, how to do that when juries [now] are allowed to vote however they like, for whatever reason they like?
A jury can go into the jury room and by a quick show of hands decide guilt or innocence (without a word being spoken by any of them on the evidence or why they're voting the way they are). This may take only a few minutes. And then their verdict may be handed to the judge, who has few options but to accept it. This is disgraceful because there is no way to determine if the jury found the accused guilty or innocent on the facts or simply because they liked or disliked him. I can't imagine anyone preferring this system for his/her own trial over some really serious charge!
A wiser system would introduce a jurist into the jury room (not the presiding judge but an independent actor picked by the judge from a pool of outside judges). This jurist would go into the jury room and observe the deliberations, take notes. The jury could not converse with him/her. After the jury reaches its verdict and hands it to the presiding judge, the jurist would render his opinion as to whether the jury reached its verdict on the facts or on some extraneous matter. If the presiding judge finds sufficient cause to believe the verdict was not strictly on the facts presented in evidence he/she could then declare a mistrial. [An alternate method would be that every juror would have to write down a detailed reason of why he/she voted the way they did so the presiding judge may adjudicate whether the vote was on the evidence or on some extraneous matter, requiring either a hung jury or jurors going back to deliberate some more.]
Yes, it would raise the costs of jury trials, but this way a lot fewer innocent people would be found guilty and a lot fewer guilty people would escape justice.
Bill Cosby Has Strong Opinions About R. Kelly’s Conviction -- The disgraced comedian told TMZ the singer “got railroaded” in his sex-trafficking trial that ended Monday.
In case you had any doubts that R. Kelly or Bill Cosby was guilty.
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Biden officials restore penalties for killing birds, reversing Trump
Yes, Col. Sanders is dead, but he didn't get away clean.
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Trump says he did 'pretty much the opposite' of Fauci's COVID advice
Well, that pretty much explains in detail the 500,000 Americans he murdered as effectively as if he'd injected each and every last one of them with the Covid-19 virus.
QUOTE: Fauci said Trump "very likely" caused Americans to die by spreading misinformation about the pandemic, according to Business Insider.
Trump did more than that: He frustrated professional medical personnel's work in trying to safeguard and protect the American public from the pandemic via good & proven means & protocols which would have most probably saved the lives of most of those who perished. Trump worked against mask wearing and general testing, against physical-distancing, and not only claimed a number of ridiculous and dangerous stuff as cures but spoke from the bully pulpit of the presidency about the virus being no worse than a common cold or flu virus! [As if he were making smartass wisecracks over a backyard fence.] And instead of putting in change of fighting the pandemic people with the medical expertise to do so Trump made sure he put in charge of this critical work lost-in-space politico Mike Pence, his idiot son-in-law, and other clowns whose only expertise really was in knowing how to stroke narcissistic Trump's hurt-baby ego.
Although, in the end, I will always ultimately blame the American people themselves who voted for this incompetent vicious criminal: In a democracy the buck always stops with the voters.
Scientist Complained Trump ‘Election Stuff’ Overrode COVID Concerns In His White House
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Pals Aimed To ‘Monetize’ Veterans Medical Records, House Probe Finds
Stephanie Grisham’s Book Details Trump’s ‘Terrifying’ Temper
‘Entitled Know-It-Alls’ Ivanka Trump And Jared Kushner Hijacked COVID Response, Book Says
Homeland Security Shielded Trump By Ignoring Putin, White Supremacy Risks, Ex-Insider Says
Maddow Reads Damning Giuliani Testimony Showing Roots Of Election Conspiracy
Trump loses case meant to silence former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman
MAGA Fan Behind Arizona Audit Crushes Yet Another Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theory
Pro-Trump conspiracy theorists increasingly face legal consequences
Opinion: Here’s why the Jan. 6 instigators must be punished
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Judge Wonders How So Many ‘Law-Abiding’ Americans ‘Morphed Into Terrorists’ On Jan. 6
Short answer: Utterly horrid criminal Trump
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Why Don’t Democrats Just Ditch The Debt Ceiling? -- Senate Budget Committee chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) suggested Republicans would come around, since they’d have to be crazy not to.
That's a crazy bet to make, as the Republicans have proven over & over & over again that they ARE quite psychotic. [Bernie Sanders really IS crazy.]
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Finally somebody told the big apes to just wait until the crowd starts leaving the stadium and follow them out.
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Opinion: If they’re going to keep passing religious laws, we’re going to need exemptions -- A person can claim a religious exemption to the equal opportunity clause that’s required in all federal contracts; to the contraceptive coverage mandate of the Affordable Care Act; and, in some states, to the requirement that a child be immunized to attend public school.
You mean because I believe in God I should be allowed to murder people?!? Is that in the Constitution?! [I thought that was sharia.]
Opinion: If they’re going to keep passing religious laws, we’re going to need exemptions -- In Louisiana, the attorney general helpfully offered language to parents in his department who object to school mask mandates: “I do not consent to forcing a face covering on my child, who is created in the image of God."
[Same reason the Taliban does not allow terrorists who were created in the image of God to shave.]
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Trump May Have Let Slip Details Of His Election Scheme As He Attacked Georgia Governor -- Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been investigating Trump’s actions since days after that Jan. 2 call.
Willis sez she thinks another two or three hundred years investigating it will probably happen soon. Sez Trump is not a Negro who stole ten cents worth of groceries in the state--If Trump were he's be doing twenty years pretty quick now. [Sez the law does not like to inconvenience black people by wasting their time waitin' around to be convicted.]
Trump Had a Mob. He Also Had a Plan.
A Trump lawyer wrote an instruction manual for a coup. Why haven’t you seen it on the news?
Arizona Vote Review ‘Made Up the Numbers,’ Election Experts Say
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Analysis: Why is Washington so dysfunctional?
Because there are always a couple of Democrats who just can't quite accept in their own minds that they are Democrats.
Why? Because it's hard to be so utterly selfish without being a Republican:
What is the gain for a senator to block an agenda full of popular proposals?
Personal gains.
Gains which are not entirely the public's are entirely all the personal gains of the politician.
Opinion: Republicans are feeling liberated -- to set the country on fire
Opinion: How to cope with a deceitful, anti-democratic party
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If you're thinking of sitting around sheding tears for species gone you're going to have to live many more lifetimes than just the one your species has.
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Getting Beyond Small Talk: Study Finds People Enjoy Deep Conversations With Strangers
Tell me about it! That's why I'm forced to pace around park benches instead of resting on'em.
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Can Fruit Fly Research Help Improve Survival of Cancer Patients?
Possibly: Some of those fruit flies are very dedicated and conscientious professionals.
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Woman Who Survived Spanish Flu, World War Succumbs To COVID-19
It sounds to me like you're saying she died of extreme old age.
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France’s Sarkozy Sentenced To Year Of House Arrest In Campaign Financing Case
I have never completely understood the concept of 'house arrest.' I've been in 'house arrest' essentially all my life!
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96-Year-Old Accused Nazi Concentration Camp Secretary ‘On The Run’ After Trial No-Show
Sez she would have got clean away if she could have remembered how shoes work.
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Ancient Egyptian killer whale with legs identified as new species
Scientists say that in spite of its ability to jump up in the air like today's killer whales it still used to put its pants on one leg at a time.
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Deaf Man Arrested, Jailed For 4 Months After He Couldn’t Hear Police Commands: Lawsuit
Same thing used to happen to Beethoven, but he was always released right away because his constant tap-dancing wouldn't let the guards sleep.
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Biden Says ‘Everybody Is Frustrated’ As His Agenda Stalls
Claims that being frustrated is a lot better than doing something about it. [Which also happens to be the Democrats' Motto.]
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Merck Says Experimental Pill Cuts Worst Effects Of COVID-19
Trump associate sez pill will short-circuit people's connection with gravity and make them float away into outer space. Fauci sez this is highly improbable.
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Man Wanders Off Drunk, Joins Search Party For Himself
Requests to be placed at the head of the search party because he might know the guy. ["His name sounds familiar."]
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Actor William Shatner, 90, to boldly go to space on a Blue Origin spacecraft
Claims he needs to go because he's certain a Vulcan ship will be passing by then and that's how he's destined to make First Contact; unless the Nexus gets him first, of course. [Blue Origin still plans to take him.]
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With The Biden Agenda Imperiled, It’s Time For Democrats To Break With Foolish Traditions -- Senate rules are not enshrined in the Constitution. Changing them requires a simple majority vote.
If the Democrats choose to not change them, then they and only they are to blame. To blame Republicans for a stop which the Democrats can lift at will any time they wish to is as absurd as parents saying that they'd discipline their kid if only their kid would let them.
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Biden’s polling numbers are even worse than they appear
How can they not be when he's sitting there like some kind of 19th Century President in the middle of 21st Century terror, death, chaos & destruction!
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The GOP’s assault on voting continues unabated. Where are Senate Democrats?
They all have safe Democratic seats. So the rest of he country can just go to Hell with the Republicans. Ha!
Opinion: The GOP has become the stupid party — and proud of it
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Carolyn Hax: He skipped the ring, so fiancee wears her own — to his chagrin -- They just got engaged and her fiance didn’t want to spend money on a ring. He is insulted now that she is wearing her family heirloom ring instead.
You didn't tell them that theirs is destined to be a happy marriage, did you? You might get sued, you know.
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Melania Trump Scorches Tell-All Author Stephanie Grisham As ‘Troubled And Deceitful’
Duh! How do you think she wound up working for the Trumps?
Trump Faces Deadline For Questioning In Defamation Suit
Voting technology firm Smartmatic sues Newsmax and One America News, alleging defamation
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2,700-Year-Old Toilet Found In Jerusalem Was A Rare Luxury
People without that kind of cash (or toilet paper) would have to just content themselves with doing the Frog outside the house a while.
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Pence says media focus on Jan. 6 insurrection is to ‘demean’ Trump supporters
Give it up, guy: The people whose ass you're trying to kiss will kick your ass if they can get their hands on you. Be start for once and switch from the criminals to the law-abiding.
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Trump Demands Pulitzer Prizes For Russian Election Interference Reporting Be Revoked
Sez he has sole authority to say who gets a Pulitzer Prize, when, and for what (usually some published crap flattering him). Claims this might not be in the Constitution (yet), but will be once he assumes power again. [He plans to rewrite the Constitution all by his super-brainy self, with a Sharpie.]
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In Obama's defense: Americans judge [identify] themselves by the color of their skin, not by the content of their character. [Dr. Martin Luther King's 'dream' in still far, far away in the pipe.]
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My doctor told me to get a dog, but I couldn’t. Meet my emotional support fish.
Dog, fish? Hello! Meet my emotional support wad of cash. [Oh! Yours is an emotional support hold-up gun?]
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While his country struggles, Jordan’s King Abdullah secretly splurges
Hey, what's the use being an autocrat if you can't take the food out of the mouths of millions of hungry babies to buy yourself a few palaces? Trump knows this, why shouldn't Abdullah as well? [What did you think all those GOP/Trump's tax cuts were about?]
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NASA will shoot rocket at asteroid to test ‘planetary defense’ strategy
Cross your fingers & hope this isn't the opening scene of an upcoming horror movie.
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Trump hasn’t been a good businessman for years. His fall from the Forbes rich list just confirms it.
Didn't he scam Forbes to get on it in the first place?
Trump lied to me about his wealth to get onto the Forbes 400. Here are the tapes.
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For decades, Trump fought to climb the Forbes rich list. Now he’s off it.
Lucky Forbes list! Can't wait for the rest of us to see that son-of-a-bitch arch-traitor finally carted off for good.
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Workers on strike at Kellogg’s cereal plants in U.S.
This might be a scam to make us stock-up on Corn Flakes. [This joke is Fake News, flakers: Relax!]
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Yellowstone visitor burned while trying to rescue her dog from a hot spring
Hope the dog appreciated it. A thank-you card might be nice.
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First Vatican sexual abuse trial absolves a former altar boy who served the pope
"It's who you know."
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Sure. Why not! The GOP is now engaging across the nation in a war against women. So nothing is off the table.
What Texas’s abortion law has in common with the Fugitive Slave Act
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Supreme Court considers whether information widely known can be ‘state secret’
Happens all the time... in dictatorships, and here in Republican government: Remember!
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Because law-enforcement 'there' is 'white' ...? ["Why can't you black people just learn to live with it!"]
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Glenn Youngkin reminds Virginians: The GOP is out to delegitimize elections
That should read: "Glenn Youngkin is a reminder to Virginians that the GOP is out to delegitimize elections." [Glenn Youngkin is a Republican.]
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Missouri Executes Intellectually Disabled Man Despite Objections From Pope, Lawmakers
Pope now claims he did it. Lawmakers want Pope extradited.
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GOP Politician Who Linked COVID Vaccines To Satan Resigns From Committee
Committee members said that after all Satan has done for the GOP they simply had no choice but to force him to resign.
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Why Andy Warhol Peed on This Portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Because he ran out of empty soup cans?
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Wonking Out: Biden Should Ignore the Debt Limit and Mint a $1 Trillion Coin
Then he could turn that little coin into real cash by checking into a Trump property for a night stay. Trump would be so pleased to see Biden there that he's only charge him $10 for the night. And Biden would be so graceful for Trump only charging him $10 that he'd pay for the stay with the Trillion Dollar Coin and tell Trump to keep the change. Presto! Now the coin really is worth a trillion dollars hard cash. And with that cash Trump would then buy The District of Columbia. Trump would then turn around and generously sell D.C. back to the government for just $10 (with the provision that D.C. must be admitted back to the U.S. as a state). I can't imagine anybody more trustworthy than Donald Trump to carry out his delicate financial scheme.
Wonking Out: Biden Should Ignore the Debt Limit and Mint a $1 Trillion Coin
All this nonsense about the public debt is clearly unconstitutional:
The Fourteenth Amendment says in Section 4: "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned."
In other words, it is unconstitutional for the United States to default on its debt.
This explicitly states that the public debt (the debt authorized [created] by laws the Congress passes) shall not be questioned (i.e. after a law is passed by Congress which incurs the debt you may not pass any law setting it higher/lower nor here-and-there nor even so much as defining exactly how much that debt is (because, reasonably & most logically, that is a function of the original law which incurs the debt). Period. In other words: it is unconstitutional for the United States to default on its debt.
Congress may pass laws which might incur debt, but it shall make no laws [after that] about that public debt [i.e. whether it should pay that debt or not]. Period. Read it as many times as you'd like but it all boils down to the same logic: If Congress passes a law which requires borrowing money to pay for it, it has by definition authorized borrowing enough money to pay for it. Again:
Debt limit options narrowing, 14th Amendment chatter returns
Neil H. Buchanan, a University of Florida law professor, said in an interview that under the 14th Amendment the government “can’t do anything that undermines confidence in the validity of the public debt,” such as missing required payments. So pay up!
The trillion-dollar coin: Is it a solution to the debt ceiling drama — or a gimmick? -- A major concern for economists is hyperinflation. Minting the $1 trillion coin would be like creating money out of thin air. When all that new money poofs into existence, the other currency in circulation becomes less valuable. That could hurt consumers, who are already dealing with price inflation.
The solution to this is to mint a $1 Gazillion Dollars Coin instead (which would either make all the other money in circulation completely worthless OR have the effect of making those who would suggest such a crazy thing have to just shrug their shoulders & go on to other things). But the practical effect would be that it would make the debt ceiling moot in perpetuity.
The debt ceiling is an absurd problem. Only an absurd solution can save us.
Here's another well-rounded reasoning: It is not reasonable that the party in the majority has the power to vote to spend beyond the debt limit... and the party in the minority has the power to say they may not spend beyond the debt limit! This is so absurd that you would think that one might always wish to be in the minority then, as it always requires less effort to come in last.
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Opinion: Mitch McConnell is making a terrific case for reforming the Senate -- Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), a member of the GOP leadership, tells the New York Times that "40 or 45" Republicans would allow a clean vote on a debt ceiling suspension, provided they wouldn’t have to cast their ballots in public. Such a profile in courage.
If so many Republicans are so cowardly afraid of losing [merely their day jobs, for God's Sakes] I don't suppose it's imaginable that were the nation to be under attack any of them can possibly be expected to have the courage to put their lives on the line to fight for her. Yes, Republican base, hold these people up as examples to your children.
Trump and his allies target McConnell over deal to avoid default
Yeah! Doesn't McConnell know by now that what Trump wants is destruction for & death to America?! [What a dumb bunny! I mean, it's not as if Trump hasn't been saying this like about a zillion times!]
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Is Your Child an Orchid, a Tulip or a Dandelion?
Don't know. But he stomps on all three of them a lot.
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Trump Goes Full Racist On Fox, Says Many Haitian Migrants ‘Probably Have AIDS’
Gee, I don't know, but I don't think Donald Trump is going to get much Nobel Peace Prize consideration if he keeps saying things like that!
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What’s behind escalating China-Taiwan tensions?
Answer: China has spent billions on shiny new armaments and it doesn't want to have to think that it was all for nothing.
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Prince Charles Says His Aston Martin Runs On Cheese And Wine
So what, my Rambler runs on a wing and a prayer.
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Maybe Netflix should be cancelled instead.
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Hezbollah leader wants investigator in Beirut blast replaced
Sez he doesn't like the way the guy is finding out what really happened.
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A Smart Smoke Alarm Alerts You Even When You’re Not Home
"Your house burned down, Harry. If you had been here you could have saved some stuff." [by Smartaleck Smoke Alarms.]
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Former VP Pence delivers pro-Trump message at Israel gala in Texas
Said it's well worth getting hanged to hang around Trump. [And now you know Mike Pence's character.]
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My son wants to make video games his career. I’m trying not to hate this.
I've been there. My son told me he wants to make masturbation his career; and I was like, "There's money in that?" I thought he might be thinking of making videos or something. Thank God he was only thirteen and soon lost interest in it.
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How catching birds bare-handed may hint at Neandertals’ hunting tactics
Scientists say it isn't as easy as you imagine to surprise a bird before it can reach for his gun.
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GOP Rep. Steve Scalise Still Refuses To Acknowledge 2020 Election Was Legitimate
In Steve Scalise's defense: He's extraordinarily naïve, and believes everything he hears.
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Texas Governor Bans All Vaccine Mandates In The State
Sez he's not killing enough Texans fast enough.
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George Clooney Brilliantly Breaks Down Why He Won’t Run For Office
Sez he's too gorgeous to waste his looks hidden away in the Oval Office somewhere.
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Paul McCartney: John Lennon Responsible For Beatles’ Breakup
Sure, talk about him now that he can't defend himself!
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Bosnian Man Builds Rotating House As Monument Of Love For His Wife
Claims she was a dizzy dame.
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Am I the only one who remembers how we were doing just fine before Facebook? You know, like about just a couple of years ago?
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New 'Home Alone' Trailer: The Kid Faces Even Scarier Thieves — Spouses
In the final movie of the series (already in the works) the Kid (now 90) is left alone at the old folks' home [where he's been dumped] after a gas explosion kills everybody else: Let the fun commence!
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Nearly 90 Tangled Rattlesnakes Removed From Beneath Woman’s House
Woman sez she kept having these crazy sensual nightmares. Now they've stopped.
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Ban on vaccine mandates in Texas sharpens political battle lines
Anyone can see that the governor of Texas is a hick, a gas-pumping hick, and you're gonna pay any attention to any medical advice he gives--most especially of all when it goes against the advice of the nation's and the world's top medical professionals?!?
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Trump Tried To Use This Law To Overturn His Loss, But Now Congress Could Change It -- A Republican lawmaker in Arizona even introduced a law--it was not adopted--to formally allow the state legislature to overrule the electorate and certify the election for a candidate of its choosing.
Always having the people make the choice is democracy. Any instance anywhere where the people are not the ones making the choice means democracy has ceased to exist there.
Is there anyone who doesn't understand this? Because it seems incredible to me that this truth should even have to be brought to anyone's attention.
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Catholic troops should be able to reject vaccine if it violates their conscience, archbishop says
Sure. The pious ought to be exempted from not being allowed to kill others. I believe it's in the Bible.
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Trump Jabs At Kanye’s Mental Health In Interview -- Former President Donald Trump called Kanye West's tendencies "loony."
As my cat often sez: "Goodness Meow!"
Ever notice how Trump always likes to insult others with exactly the frailties he knows he himself suffers from.
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3 takeaways from the Senate report on Trump’s brazen efforts to overturn the 2020 election
Trump admitted to DOJ top officials that he wanted them to participate in his coup against the American People:
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According to Rosen, Trump opened the [Jan. 3] meeting by saying, “One thing we know is you, Rosen, aren’t going to do anything to overturn the election.” A transcript of his testimony shows Rosen twice described Trump using that phrase. “One thing we know is [with] Jeff Rosen leading the Justice Department, nothing is going to get done in trying to overturn the election,” Rosen cited Trump as saying. When asked to re-state it, he offered the quote above.
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Opinion: As a stunning new report reveals Trump’s threat to democracy, Republicans shrug
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It all came to a head at an extraordinary White House meeting on Jan. 3, with all the major players in attendance. “One thing we know is you, Rosen, aren’t going to do anything to overturn the election,” Trump said, according to Rosen’s testimony. The question being discussed was whether Trump would fire Rosen and replace him with Clark, who would then begin pressuring state legislatures to overturn their election results.
Here’s Donoghue’s testimony:
I reminded [Clark] that I was his boss, that he was apparently continuing to violate the White House contact policy, that that letter was never going out while we were in charge of the Department. And I sort of orally reprimanded him on a number of points, including reaching out to witnesses, and [said] “Who told you to conduct investigations and interview witnesses,” and things like that. I was getting very heated. And then he turned to Acting AG Rosen, and he said, “Well, the President has offered me the position of Acting Attorney General. I told him I would let him know my decision on Monday. I need to think about that a little bit more.”
Here’s what happened next:
At some point during the meeting, Donoghue... made clear that all of the Assistant Attorneys General would resign if Trump replaced Rosen with Clark. Donoghue added that the mass resignations likely would not end there, and that U.S. Attorneys and other DOJ officials might also resign en masse. Not only that, White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his deputy said that they, too, would resign. Cipollone called Clark’s letter to legislatures a “murder-suicide pact.” Trump backed down.
So how do you defend Trump in the face of that? The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Republican minority under the direction of Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) released a response so laughably indulgent of Trump’s actions that it amounts to, “Mr. Dillinger was merely trying to make a withdrawal from the bank, what is everyone getting so worked up about?”
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The amazingly bad voter-fraud theories behind Trump’s DOJ scheme
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One thing to keep in mind in all of this is that these weren’t just theories the White House and its allies were floating for public consumption; these were the things they used to try to convince seasoned, smart lawyers at the Justice Department that their claims had merit — merit enough to get the Justice Department to call the election results into question. The theories were bad enough that Donoghue and Rosen privately derided them in their then-private correspondence:
When then-acting attorney general Jeffrey A. Rosen shared the email from Meadows with Donoghue, Donoghue responded, “Pure insanity.”
About an hour later, Meadows shared previously debunked claims about “signature matching anomalies in Fulton county, Ga.”
“Can you believe this?” Rosen wrote to Donoghue. “I am not going to respond to the message below.”
Donoghue responded: “At least it’s better than the last one, but that doesn’t say much.”
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Intriguing to me is whether Trump and his co-conspirators believed that people at the DOJ were really that stupid or they were convinced that people at the DOJ were as crooked as they themselves. That's a question I'd really wish the Jan.6 House Committee would try to find an answer to.
But more important still is that after Donald Trump self-evidently admitted to top DOJ officials that he wanted them to participate in a coup against the American People (the voters), those officials didn't immediately report this to the House of Representatives (so they could vote out a 3rd impeachment of this dangerous arch-traitor and then pursue sedition charges against him and all of his co-conspirators). And that is also something I would like the Jan.6 House Committee to find an answer to because we need to have in place laws & rules which will immediately trigger law enforcement to pursue these charges without the least moment's hesitation the next time something like this is encountered.
Opinion: Advice to Trump critics and democracy lovers in the GOP: Leave the party
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‘The coup didn’t work’ is not a reassuring argument
It is truly an amazing thing that Donald Trump can so cavalierly try to bring down the government (which so many Americans have bled & died to keep alive for nearly two & a half centuries) in an unquestioned coup and he is still walking around a free man instead of hanging by the neck from a hangman's noose in the public square for the most egregious act of treason ever by any American at any time anywhere. It really speaks of the folly of the near-sighted men & women who hold the power to avert a worse future catastrophe--and really think nothing of it! The deference which they are showing to Trump's Republican co-conspirators is mind-boggling.
New Report Details Trump's Dramatic Efforts To Undercut 2020 Election In Waning Days
Senate report gives new details of Trump efforts to use Justice Dept. to overturn election
Trump and Justice Dept. Lawyer Said to Have Plotted to Oust Acting Attorney General
Opinion: Lawyers at last look ready to step up and defend the rule of law -- "...complaints should be made to every state bar against lawyers who filed frivolous lawsuits disputing the 2020 election--Among the Republican members of Congress who signed on to a joke of a Supreme Court brief seeking to throw out the votes of millions of Americans were scores of lawyers."
There is a moment in history when one man can squash even the end of the world itself under the pressure only of his thumb. But even this little requires immense wisdom and will.
The Justice Department doesn't have enough evidence to charge Trump with sedition?!? ... The smallest professional newspaper in the country has published more evidence of Trump's sedition than is needed to put the noose around his filthy neck ten times over.
The Once and Future Threat of Trump
Donald Trump Justifies Capitol Riot, Says Election Was The ‘Real Insurrection’
Opinion: The revelations about Mike Pence’s role in Jan. 6 keep getting worse
Trump Aides Who Want To Help Him Cover Up Jan. 6 Could Face Prison Time
Opinion: Without these changes, U.S. democracy will remain vulnerable to Trump and other bad actors
Tucker Carlson Rages At Lindsey Graham For Telling Officers To Use Guns On Jan. 6
Michael Cohen On CNN Hours After Release: 'I Will Not Be The Only One'
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That is the 64 Cent Question indeed. One would think voters elect officials to Congress to represent their interests, not somebody else's interests. But both Manchin and Sinema seem to be representing the interests of the rich and powerful instead of the interests of the ordinary voters in their states who sent them to Congress.
Bestselling Author Calls Out 'Senator For Sale' Joe Manchin In Damning Video
As Manchin Blocks Climate Plan, His State Can’t Hold Back Floods
Sinema Advisers Quit With Scorched-Earth Letter Accusing Her Of Serving ‘Big Donors’
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Texas school official tells teachers that Holocaust books should be countered with ‘opposing’ views
Sez the Nazis had some very nice points to make about butchering Jews (as well as voting for the GOP).
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Trump cronies who defy subpoenas may be prosecuted. Here’s why that matters.
Because people who break the law should always be prosecuted? Could somebody please tell that to Donald Trump? And to all the people who should have prosecuted Donald Trump by now. Thank you.
Trump May Get Away With Obstruction Of Congress. Again. -- “There is no legal authority establishing Trump’s right to direct his former advisers not to comply with the committee’s subpoenas. But neither is there legal authority definitely establishing that he lacks such a right,” said Jonathan Shaub, a law professor at the University of Kentucky.
In spite of the double negatives in the above sentence, Shaub is incorrect: Only if there is a specific law establishing that Donald Trump has a right to direct his former advisers not to comply with the committee’s subpoenas does he have that right. There is no such law, so he doesn't have that right--As a law has already been established prohibiting anyone other than the sitting president to exercise such a right.
There should never have to be a law allowing something--as if all things were prohibited unless there is a law allowing it. [There should be a presumption that if there is no law prohibiting something then the law allows it--but there is already here a law prohibiting everyone except the sitting president from claiming executive privilege.] Laws ought strictly to be written only to prohibit something (as in the presidential law above), so when there is no law prohibiting something... that something is permitted. The notion that there must be a law to permit something means that we must have a staggering number of laws for every last little thing in the universe because everything in the universe is prohibited unless specifically allowed by a law!
Jan. 6 committee preparing to aggressively enforce subpoenas, targets former Trump DOJ official -- Bannon was not part of the administration on Jan. 6. He left his job as a top White House adviser to Trump in 2017. Several legal experts questioned whether executive privilege could shield Bannon from responding to requests for information about what happened during a period when he was not a White House employee.
Just in case: A serial killer from Somewhere U.S.A. send a request for Trump to invoke executive privilege in his case so he could squash all the evidence the cops had on him. Sez that, like Bannon, he too had not been working at the White House when Trump was cheating & robbing people from there.
Trump sues to block records requested by Jan. 6 committee
Trump is right: Former presidents can assert executive privilege
Former presidents can assert they have a pain in the ass if they wish, but the sitting president is always in the best position to judge whether any such assertion(s) are in the best interest of the government of the United States at the present moment.
Former Congress members file brief opposing Trump’s attempt to shield Jan. 6 records
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TEXAS GOP SET TO REDRAW THE MAP
"We will not allow the Democrats to run in any fair election again EVER!" Said the GOP Lordmasters of Texas.
Texas Republicans Set To Pass New Congressional Maps
Conservative Pundit Torches ‘Absolutely Bats**t Crazy’ Republicans In Texas
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'Just Looking Out!': Capitol Cop Who Warned Rioter To Scrub Facebook Charged By Feds
This inconsequential nonentity has been charged by federal authorities with two counts of obstruction for telling a rioter to scrub his online profile. And yet every day of the week Trump is out there whipping up crowds all over the country with calls for the overthrow of the dully elected government of the United States as free as if he were an honest man! Somebody should drop a dime on Merrick Garland, somebody should try to wake up Joe Biden. Before it's too late--if it isn't already.
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Hundreds of people strip naked by the Dead Sea
Say they are trying to scare it back to life.
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How a lie becomes respectable, step by cowardly step
It's repeated by 'respectable politicians.' [However, please know that another definition for 'respectable politician' is: "A politician whose lies usually go unchallenged."]
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Biden hopes that if he does well then the voters will reward him. Meanwhile the Republicans know that "hope is vain" and that the best scheme to get what they want is to just make sure that not enough Democratic votes are cast:
Advocates worry Biden is letting U.S. democracy erode on his watch -- According to the Brennan Center’s most recent voting laws roundup, as of the end of September, more than 425 bills with provisions that restrict voting access had been introduced in 49 states. And 19 states had already enacted 33 laws making it harder for Americans to vote.
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Advocates worry Biden is letting U.S. democracy erode on his watch -- Biden also makes another argument, one that particularly exasperates activists: The best way to strengthen democracy, he contends, is to show that it works, by passing the infrastructure and other bills.
Sez his Momma always told him that the best revenge is living well (not calling the cops, suing people, or fighting back).
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D.C.’s Woodrow Wilson High School will be renamed. But for whom?
The German Kaiser! [Kaiser Wilhelm II High School.]
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Here’s what Ted Cruz wants in return for unblocking Biden’s nominations
Another all-expenses-paid trip to Cancun?
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Rep. Jim Jordan tells House panel he can’t recall how many times he spoke with Trump on Jan. 6
Sez he was distracted by looking for his car keys at the time--Couldn't remember whether they were in his front or his back pocket.
GOP Rep Explains Why Republicans ‘Go Limp’ On Donald Trump
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Russia’s Navalny awarded prestigious human rights Sakharov Prize
I think even Putin gotta admit this guy really has put everything on the line for his country.
Who would have believed that even as we watch a Russian so willing to lay his life down for his country, we would see so few Republicans here who would even be willing to risk their cushy day jobs for the sake of saving democracy in this great nation!
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Fed Bans Policymakers From Investing In Individual Stocks, Bonds
You would think this would have been the law of the land since the land first emerged from the seas!
Members of Congress & the president should also not just be prohibited from using insider information to speculate on securities but should be prohibited from owning them outright because they are ultimately the ones who really make & enforce policy, after all!
Sen. Burr’s Brother-in-Law Called Stock Broker One Minute After Call With Senator
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Trump Gets Taken To School After Botching Basic U.S. History In Latest Rant
As usual, Trump doubled down on his ignorance and is now claiming that everybody's wrong and he's the one who's right because he recently saw (with his own eyes) on the internet an actual photograph of Thomas Jefferson writing the Constitution. [Sez Jefferson was clearly using an Underwood typewriter.]
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Trump kind of admits he might have cost Republicans the Senate
But sez he has great hopes that Manchin & Sinema will get it all back for the Republicans. [Sez it was all really his stable genius Grand Strategy, and that it's coming off like a charm!]
Veterans on Sen. Sinema’s advisory council quit, accusing her of being ‘one of the principal obstacles to progress’ -- In a letter, the five veterans said the Arizona Democrat is “answering to donors” rather than her constituents.
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The Americans who see democracy most at risk? Republicans. -- ...false assertions about fraud have created political space for proposals to “fix” the problem, either by clamping down on voting access (out of the unfounded belief that more access leads to fraud) or by empowering officials to reject election results they find suspicious.
I think we can all agree that most Republicans will, as they have in the past, find 'suspicious' any upcoming election they lose. This is why they are setting us up (passing ill-intended laws to make this nightmare possible)... to make it possible for a handful of crooked politicians to overturn the expressed will of the electorate in order to grab all power for themselves. The only remedy to this naked theft of an election from the American people remains making sure that there are no 'legal means' by which such a handful of bad actors can possibly ever use the law to steal an election: Laws which could possibly ever be used by a handful of criminals bent on snatching power from the hands of the people should be hunted down like the monstrous danger they are to us all and mercilessly blotted out from the book.
I Was Wrong About Donald Trump
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New York Prosecutor Opens Criminal Inquiry Into Trump Golf Course: Reports -- The two offices are seeking to determine whether people at the Trump Organization knowingly engaged in tax fraud.
In an unrelated investigation they are also trying to determine whether rats give birth to baby rats or to rhinos and elephants.
Sirs, everything the Al Capone Gang and the Trump family, associates & businesses are doing & have ever done HAS to be most assuredly illegal by definition: You don't really have to look into it that much to determine that crooks is crooks is crooks...
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Scientists Discover 14 Genes That Cause Obesity
Apparently each of them codes for a specific brand of candy bar.
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There are not 10 Republicans in the Senate who would place the well-being of the nation above petty partisan gains for the GOP. And there is not a single Republican in the Senate who would even so much as contemplate it seriously. Not one.
House Committee Subpoenas Trump Justice Department Ally Jeffrey Clark
How close were we to an actual stolen election — stolen by Trump?
Opinion: The Trump nightmare looms again
Opinion: One more time Trump tried to undo the will of the voters
The hollowness of the ‘but it didn’t work’ defense of Trump’s attempt to retain power
Fiona Hill Calls Capitol Riot A ‘Dress Rehearsal’ For Further Violence
The architect of Trump’s plot to steal the 2020 election explains himself — absurdly
Tyranny Expert Sounds The Alarm On 2024 Election: It’s Happening
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Saudi crown prince once boasted it would be easy to kill a sitting monarch, ex-intel official says
Now he's claiming that it would be much harder to kill a running one.
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The stabbing of a British MP is another example of how violence eats away at democracy
It's also an example of how Islam eats away at some people's humanity. But we won't go into that, as that truth is not popular at the moment, apparently.
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Condoleezza Rice Says Capitol Riot 'Was Wrong' But We Need To 'Move On'
Sez she wants to keep "moving on up" in the Trump Cult. Maybe get a great big apartment in the skies on Trump Towers!
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Should this really surprise anyone?
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Biden said he’s been to the southern border before. It was a drive-by.
Some witnesses swear he used an Uzi.
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Why Biden, a Senate success, is a White House mess -- Opinion by Henry Olsen
Because you're a GOP hack?
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Court Rules Pablo Escobar’s Cocaine Hippos Are Legally People
That certainly seems just, as a lot of the people that live around here are really animals.
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Not that I'm a fan of Dr. Phil or anything, but: My parents advised me to only cross the street when the street light said to and I was hit by a truck doing that: Do I have a case against them too?
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What you need to know before buying a flipped home
1) how long you can stand on your head
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The Rotten Core of the Republican Party -- Former President Donald Trump’s loud and proud declaration that paying very little in taxes “makes me smart” was just a more brazen articulation of what has become party orthodoxy.
The strawman argument that letting the wealthy keep a much higher percentage of the taxes they owe than the percentage of the taxes W2 workers keep of the taxes they owe can be easily knocked down by asking a simple question:
Would you really prefer that the tax owed by all the citizens wealthy & poor be given to the wealthy to stuff their pockets with or that it be used for the benefit & needs of all the people?
The Republicans would prefer that unpaid taxes owed by the wealthy be made up by the W2 working people because they argue that if it were justly & fairly collected from everyone wealthy or poor [that much more enormous haul than the one collected now] would be spent on nonsense needs like people's health and welfare--Essentially that ordinary people would be better off if that general national wealth were to continue to be given to Donald Trump and his pals so they can compete against each other on which one of them is hoarding the most cash.
I for one do not agree with this argument; in fact, I think it is suicidal & insane: Every possible avenue of unearthing just exactly how fairly or unfairly the IRS is collecting taxes from everyone is reasonable, just, and necessary: Every other alternative to this perpetuates tax cheating, which is really nothing more & nothing less than cheating your fellow citizens.
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To police officers who refuse to be vaccinated, we say: Good riddance.
If they can find another city that doesn't mind its cops spreading a deadly virus: More power to them. But at the least they won't be killing the citizens of the city they're leaving. In fact, by leaving, they will be saving lives there--And, that (saving lives) is the essence of good policing, so they should really be commended for leaving. Maybe get a medal even to speed them on their way.
This isn't that bad of an idea: Cops who don't mind infecting and killing others with Covid-19 move to Florida while Florida cops who are decent & conscientious move from there to states where they won't be forced to infect others with such a deadly virus. Perhaps then the poor citizens of Florida may finally grasp that electing political leaders who are Hell-bent on trying to kill them in such gruesome manner might not be such a good idea after all.
Opinion: The scandal involving Ron DeSantis and the silenced professors just got worse
Ex-GOP Lawmaker Warns: Ron DeSantis ‘Far More Dangerous’ Than Donald Trump
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Miami private school scraps policy to send home vaccinated students after its funding is threatened
"send home vaccinated students" ?!? They only wanted students there who could become sick & die of Covid?!? Maybe living in Florida unhinges people mentally.
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After pollution and deforestation drove them away, otters return to Singapore in full force
Getting off the plane one said to the otter, "My, how this place has changed! Don't you think?"
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Why you should teach your kids about different religions
Because you can never make kids superstitious enough? [No, wait: Because that way your kid will learn that people will believe any-and-all kinds of really crazy nonsense.]
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Astronomers using NASA telescope find signs of a planet beyond our galaxy
Say that it shouldn't take any longer getting there than it took us to come down from the trees and walk out of Africa into Queens (travelling at the speed of light, of course).
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Lost hiker in Colorado ignored rescuers’ calls because they came from an unknown number
Isn't there an ancient joke about two Englishmen who lived all their lives in a desert island without talking to each other because they hadn't been properly introduced? [Shows you that truth is just as strange as fiction.]
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Opinion: The GOP’s attack on voting is shameless. The Democratic response is spineless.
The Republicans are the party of "Get Outta My Way, Stupid!"
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Men shot by Kyle Rittenhouse can be called ‘rioters’ and ‘looters’ but not ‘victims,’ judge rules
Sez they may not be called names which imply they were shot by Rittenhouse because of reasons strictly of his own but that they can be called names which imply he was perfectly justified in shooting them! So I don't quite understand what the purpose of continuing this trial may be: Self-evidently this judge has already adjudicated Rittenhouse innocent--otherwise he would order the men shot by Rittenhouse to be referred to just by the much more fair & impartial, "the men who were shot by Mister Rittenhouse."
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Is Donald Trump sabotaging the Republican Party? - opinion -- Trump is the genius who seemed surprised to learn two months into his presidency that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. As though he’d just made this startling discovery, he told a fundraising dinner for House Republicans, “Most people don’t even know [Lincoln] was a Republican. Right? Does anyone know? A lot of people don’t know that.” He was probably the only one in the room who didn’t.
Ah, well. It is inevitable that the person with the least knowledge must always think that he has all the knowledge in the world. And thereby the closer you are to Trump the more you are bound to have suffered by him, because someone like that can but imagine only that all the knowledge he has is all the knowledge there is or that can possibly be in the world! However, if it is bad for everyone around him who is not allowed to enlighten him otherwise, much worse is it for anyone who could [enlighten him] and will not--since the closer you are to Trump the more you are bound to suffer by him.
Republican 'Cowards' Are Empowering The Party's Fringe, Rages Paul Krugman
How Trump and the Republicans let a government agency leave Americans in danger
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Will Ferrell Reveals Why ‘Elf 2’ Never Happened Despite $29 Million Offer
Claims he could no longer find room to stash away those $29 million dollars. Sez he would have had to throw out a lot of his jewelry & gold bars, and might have even had to park his new Bentley out in the street, for God's Sakes!
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Turkey's Erdogan: Biden will do 'his best' for F-16 sale
Sez Biden told him he is a fellow who can always be trusted 100 percent by the West. The best possible friend of the Western democratic tradition out there.
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Ask Vanessa: Where Can I Buy a Great Cocktail Dress?
For you, sir, or for your wife?
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene racks up at least $15,500 in fines for violating House mask rules
That's how those who end up as serious criminals begin in life: First they rack up fines, petty jail time & probation, until finally they end up chopping people's heads off all over the country. Watch out for this woman!
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Sen. Josh Hawley says liberals’ attacks on manhood are driving men to pornography and video games
Sez he hasn't spent so much of his cash on porn and video games in his life since back when his parents finally stopped paying for them & kicked him out of their house.
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Nearly 4 in 10 who say election was stolen from Trump say violence might be needed to save America
Fear not, America: We defeated secessionists and seditionists once, and we can defeat them again if it is necessary.
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Asteroid skimmed past Earth and no one saw it coming
Luckily a very tall NBA player was walking by and it bounced off his head out into space again, so nobody got hurt.
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Eastman is about as central a figure as is Trump in the culpability for the Jan.6 anti-democracy insurrection. So much so that it's becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish whether it was Trump pushing Eastman to sedition or Eastman pushing Trump. But either way they must both be made to answer to the law.
What did John Eastman really want to have happen? -- This has been called the “coup memo,” an apt description of a document that breezily encourages the theft of the presidency. Since it was first reported by The Washington Post’s Robert Costa and Bob Woodward in the book “Peril,” Eastman and his allies have been trying to reframe the document, first by insisting that it was supplanted by a later, more nuanced memo and then with other claims by Eastman about his intent and beliefs. (There’s good reason for Eastman to want the document to be interpreted differently, given a complaint made to the California bar.) But the memo is what it is, and the nuance Eastman later tried to introduce was both unmentioned in his public discussions at the time as well as blatantly ignored by Trump.
Georgia Secretary Of State Didn't Know Trump's Order To 'Find' Votes Was Being Recorded -- The recording released to the press became one of most damaging to Trump and his baseless claims of a rigged election. Rather than pushing Raffensperger to seek evidence of possible wrongdoing, Trump directed him to “find” enough votes to transform his defeat into a victory.
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Garland is right to be wary of political prosecutions. But he needs to investigate Trump.
If Garland doesn't realize that Trump is a dangerous common criminal whose perverse evil has nothing to do with politics & everything to do with felony grand theft this country is in a lot bigger trouble than I ever imagined!
How Trump’s 187 minutes of inaction led to Jan. 6 bloodshed
Threats and disinformation mount following Capitol siege
I know that today people look back at the Salem Witch Trials and wonder how on earth could thinking human beings possibly believe the nonsense that was being used to find the women unfortunate enough to get caught up by the hysteria guilty of being witches (!). But, frankly, the craziness of the Salem Witch Trials were chicken shit compared to the bewildering insanity that Trump and his Republicans have unleashed across this country today, because the sheer unbelievable nonsense that Trump and his loonies are floating now makes the 'evidence' brought against the Salem 'witches' then seem almost reasonable & sane by comparison.
There is no more a point to arguing against any of Trump's & his followers' claims of election fraud than there would be of walking into an insane asylum and trying to reason with the inmates on the facts of reality, as no real facts are at play here or there: As with the Salem Witch Trials we must wait patiently for everybody afflicted with this most terrible 'disease of Trump' to recover all by themselves on their own. And pray that their sickness passes from the earth as quickly as is humanly possible.
Tyranny Expert Sounds The Alarm On 2024 Election: It’s Happening
Biden Denies Trump Request To Cover Up His Role In The Jan. 6 Insurrection. Again.
Jan. 6 Committee Chair Says Subpoenaing Trump Is Not 'Off Limits'
Coup Memo Lawyer Calls Himself A 'Hero' Who Talked Trump Back From The Ledge
GOP Rep. Paul Gosar Reportedly Promised 'Blanket Pardons' To 'Stop The Steal' Planners
The double self-own of Republicans seeking fraud testimony from a conspiracy theorist
Adam Schiff points to a second insurrection -- by members of Congress themselves
Trump Tried To Use This Law To Overturn His Loss, But Now Congress Could Change It
Former Justice Dept. Lawyer Jeffrey Clark Cuts Jan. 6 Deposition Short
New Round Of Subpoenas For Trump Allies In Election 'War Room' Reportedly On The Way
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Ex-RNC Spokesperson Issues Chilling Trump Warning For 2024 Election
Se he recently visited Hell with Trump and it's starting to freeze over down there!
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Dammit! I was gonna use those extra 28 million years to try to out-live Trump!
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Chris Christie Gives Trump And Republicans A Blunt Warning About 2024
Sez he's cannoballing into the pool. So, watch out!
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Donald Trump Cashed In On Jan. 6 Riot Furor, Records Show
Whoever doesn't know that Trump only cares about how much cash he can make out'anything just doesn't know Donald Trump.
Trump Aimed To Start Own Party Until He Learned How Much It Would Cost: Book
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Homeland Security official: Jan. 6 changed how we handle online intelligence
Now we know it's all stupid out there. Just plain stupid all over.
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Joe Manchin suggests we’re a center-right country. Here’s what the data show.
Any way you cut it we're uncentered & wobbling out of control.
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Georgia Secretary Of State Says Trump 'Had No Idea How Elections Work'
Sez Trump asked him whether he had to actually run in an election there in order to win it. "Couldn't you just find me the votes?" [Sez Trump told him that way he could pocket ALL the campaign contributions, not just most.] "Listen, I need to reverse-charge this call. That's all right with you, right?"
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Trump May Be About To Learn That Being Ex-President Doesn’t Carry Much Weight In Court
You might be overestimating Trump's ability to learn anything.
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Half of These Earwigs Use Their Right Penis. The Other Half Use Their Left Penis. Why?
Scientists speculate that it might just be a case of 'whatever's closest to the action'.
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Ted Cruz slams Big Bird for promoting COVID-19 vaccines
Has anybody told Teddy yet that Big Bird is a puppet?
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Ted Cruz Talks About Joe Rogan Being ‘President’ Of Texas If State Secedes From U.S.
Or: A dog looking for any old master he can find to pet him.
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I don't know, it sounds to me like a very good Republican candidate indeed.
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Joaquin Phoenix, Billie Eilish Join Call To Send Pardoned Turkeys To Sanctuary
Why can't these rich guys just get a free turkey at Publix like the rest of us!
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China has the world's largest navy, third-largest air force - report
Well, it's good to know that they're wasting their wealth instead of using it doing anybody any good just like everybody else in this wonderful world of ours.
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Popeyes closes store after TikTok video shows rats swarming kitchen: ‘You still love that chicken?’
Sure. And on the plus side some of their chicken sandwiches tasted nicely Cajun.
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"I watched the movie Fargo three times and was never able to identify who the character Fargo was."
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The G.O.P. Candidate for New Jersey Governor Hasn’t Conceded
The G.O.P. Candidate for president in 2020 hasn't conceded either. So what! Candidates conceding used to be a big thing before Trump. Now it's meaningless, all thanks to Trump.
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Why are so many people so cruel to their dogs?
So? You know a lot of people who are cruel to their dogs who are awfuly darn nice to everybody else?
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How many people will go to prison for Trump’s dishonest election claims?
Everybody except Trump, sez Merrick Garland.
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Hey, we said "plant a tree" not "actually plant a tree!"
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When did Dr. Aaron Rodgers, QB, acquire a PhD in epidemiology?
As is the practice today, he just wrote himself one. Trump sez he's been given three Nobel Prizes.
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Israeli couple arrested in Turkey for photographing presidential palace
"I'm sorry," they told the cops. "We thought that was Buckingham Palace. Isn't this London?"
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She let him drive her home, which is ‘much more intimate than a kiss’
Well, let's hope her home was a tiny RV and not one of those humongous Class A giant motorized mobile homes, otherwise she might have to be ready to kiss her ass goodbye.
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Crying Pro-Trump Capitol Rioter Who Assaulted Cop Sentenced To 41 Months In Prison
Is that all!? If he'd been a black guy in some street somewhere he would have been given 20 years for attempted murder, 10 more for the weapon the used on the cop, 5 more for the things he said before he attacked the cop, 5 more for the things he said while attacking the cop, 5 more for what he said to the cop afterwards, 10 more for priors, plus 5 more for the time of day he attacked the cop. Wonder why this pro-Trump guy got off so easy!
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Steve Bannon indicted after refusal to comply with Jan. 6 committee subpoena
For some, exile from Trumpworld is less appealing than prison
Sure: Omerta ["code of silence that places importance on silence in the face of questioning by authorities or outsiders; non-cooperation with authorities, the government, or outsiders, especially during criminal investigations; and willfully ignoring and generally avoiding interference with the illegal activities of others (i.e., not contacting law enforcement or the authorities when one is aware of, witness to, or even the victim of certain crimes)." --From Wikipedia]
Lot of criminal enterprises like Trump's (and, of course, the Mafia) develop a psychopathic (unhealthy) code of loyalty to its own mob. But, as history shows time & time again, persistent and unrelenting law enforcement pressure inevitably cracks the code and leads to everybody in the mob quickly spilling their guts to the proper authorities because their code is never a matter of the highest principle but always of the lowest form of greed.
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Opinion: Distinguished person of the week: Trump is still not a king
Where others have IQ points Trump just has millions and millions of dollars which have rained down most undeservedly upon this very stupid man over his privileged lifetime, and which he has used to shape his destiny (and that of those around him) where other have the intelligence to do so! Guess how it's turned out.
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Adele Says Her Son Had No Idea She Was ‘Adele’
Then he's not nearly as smart as The Lone Ranger's son. Although that trumpet did keep giving the game away for the Lone Ranger's son every time his dad went to work. ["Away!"]
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Judge Dismisses Dangerous Weapon Charge Against Kyle Rittenhouse
Sez a rifle is no more dangerous than a popsicle.
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Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3
"No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Candidates who supported the Jan.6 sedition are barred by Section 3 of the Constitution 14th Amendment. And please note: "... or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof." This applies to anybody & everybody who not just participated in Jan.6 but who promoted or assisted it in any way, shape, or form.
GOP aims to take over the Senate in 2022 but struggles over candidates
He’s charged with assaulting police at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Now he’s running for office in Texas.
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Michael Flynn Demands 'One Religion Under God' At Far Right Rally
And Trump has legions of Rupublicans who, like Flynn, will happily help him become dictator if we let him. Unfortunately, Joe Biden is standing there like Louis XIV, the guillotine at his throat, blithely chirping: "Don't worry, my wife will take care of it."
Michael Flynn Goes Full Tinfoil Hat With Bonkers New COVID-19 Theory
Opinion: Why do Democrats let Republicans set the terms of debate?
Memos Were 'Blueprint' For 'Authoritarian Coup' By Trump, Carl Bernstein Warns
If they're not careful, one day soon, "It can't be happening!" might become the Democrats' Motto.
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Disposable phone numbers and privacy apps: How to use ‘burners’ to protect your personal information
Translation: "Or, how to keep the cops from catching up to you."
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Man who raped four girls as a teen gets no jail time, judge says: ‘Incarceration isn’t appropriate’
Now man is pissed something terrible: "Hell," he cried out outside the courtroom: "If I'd known I was gonna get this judge, think of all the damn little girls I could have raped than just those four!"
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Apple will start selling you the parts you need to fix your iPhone in early 2022
Sez it is expecting that most of its iPhones will have broken down by then.
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A Trump candidacy in 2024 would threaten his own legacy
You mean his legacy of terror, avarice, malice, and things even worse?!
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House GOP Lawmaker Takes Credit For Infrastructure Funding He Voted Against
And? Aren't Republicans proud to be the nation's greatest hypocrites these days?
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Bannon’s contempt charge sparks debate over Jan. 6 panel strategy -- We don't yet know how many of the 35 people subpoenaed by the House are cooperating.
Stephen Bannon will plead not guilty to contempt of Congress charges
If you really wanted to see these gangsters spill their guts... before finding them guilty of contempt of Congress bring them into court and jail them for contempt of court (which means they can be held in jail indefinitely). A judge can hold you in contempt of court just for glancing left when you should've glanced right.
Amazingly, the GOP has become a party solely for the benefit of Donald Trump. Why on earth anybody but Trump should vote Republican is beyond me.
Ex-White House Staffer Infuriates Trump With Claim That He Admitted Election Loss
Opinion: America cannot give evangelicals what they want
Trump Reportedly Wants To Unseat Alabama GOP Gov. Ivey Over Canceled Rally
GOP Gov. Chris Sununu Says Republicans In Congress Have 'Priorities Screwed Up'
‘You Are A Pawn’: Judge Sentences Jan. 6 Rioter Who Went On Voter Fraud Rant To Jail
Former Pence Aide's Slam Fuels Renewed Push For Probe Of 'Coup Memo' Lawyer
Opinion: Insurrectionists are finally receiving justice. But the GOP is more unhinged than ever.
Trump Asking Appeals Court To Keep His Attempt To Overthrow Democracy A Secret
Opinion: Trump’s rage at Georgia Republicans should unsettle us all
‘Cancel Culture’ Has No Effect On This Year’s Grammy Nominees
If anybody is engaging in replacement & cancel culture it's Donald Trump: He's systematically replacing & cancelling every Republican out there (who might still imagine he/she is a Republican) with Trump loyalists who don't give a damn about the GOP (or about anyone or anything else) and are only loyal to Donald Trump.
Opinion: It’s not ‘polarization.’ We suffer from Republican radicalization.
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Millionaire Pooch Selling Miami Villa Once Owned By Madonna
Sez he needs a clean start after crapping on every square inch of Madonna's ole place down there.
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Mike Tyson Says He Smokes Toad Venom As Much As 3 Times In A Day
Claims that's what's keeping him at his peak intellectual best.
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Majority Of Americans Want Supreme Court To Reject Texas’ Extreme Abortion Law
Even bigger majorities want to hit the Mega Millions. Good luck with that too!
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Why you always think your friends are mad at you — even when they’re not
Because you always imagine that those you do some'm to will seek to get even with you even when you know that they don't know you're the one did it to'em.
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Good Heavens, man! If they can't take a little pinch in their arms for their country, do you really imagine that they'll take a bullet?! I think they should get rid of as many of the wooses as they can.
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Wyoming GOP Says It Won’t Recognize Rep. Liz Cheney As A Republican Anymore
Sure. That squares perfectly with Republicans' refusal to recognize anymore that they live in the United States of America. [I can dig it. What's democracy to them!]
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Rupert Murdoch says Trump should move on: ‘The past is the past’
And that's saying a lot from a man who lives in the 18th century.
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Trump Endorses Rep. Paul Gosar One Day After House Censure
So, what else is new?! Good people stick together, and evil people also stick together: "Tell me who you're with and I'll tell you who you are." The ledger of legislators trying to help the people of America is mostly all on the side of the Democrats, while the ledger of lawless fraudsters, liars, hypocrites, scoundrels, thieves, immoral and unethical politicos are all Republicans.
Pelosi calls for investigations of Gosar’s video that depicts him killing Ocasio-Cortez
Rep. Paul Gosar’s Sister Slams Lawmaker’s ‘Sick Fantasies’
The GOP’s bad defense of Paul Gosar
Opinion: Paul Gosar made a murderous video. Kevin McCarthy is murdering democracy.
‘Dangerous, Unhinged, Reckless’: Paul Gosar’s Brother Wants Him Expelled
Opinion: Republicans are fomenting violent extremism — and are also hostage to the extremists
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Ohio Republicans Pass Congressional Map Heavily Favoring Ohio Republicans
This was a total & complete surprise to me.
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Think Degas was a misogynist? Take another look.
No, not often do I think that. Mostly I think about Whoppers (extra onions and extra tomatoes).
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A lawyer once bragged about thinking ‘like a criminal’ in a viral ad. Now, he’s a convicted felon.
"Think first. Act later." [Always do things in the right prder.]
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Trevor Noah Drills Paul Gosar For Always Mentioning He’s A Dentist
He's a dentist?! I thought he was a proctologist and that that's why he was a Republican--because of all the assholes in the GOP.
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State Sen. Amanda Chase, self-billed ‘Trump in heels,’ announces bid for Congress
When he first heard about it Trump was livid, and cried: "Has she been talking to Putin?!" ["I don't recollect wearing my high heels on that pee-pee tape!"]
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A voting surge helped Republicans in Virginia. So why would they impede voter access?
Because Republicans have made a precise study of which roadblocks work against Democrat voters while not impeding Republican voters. Google it yourself.
Opinion: The roots of the Republican war on democracy
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G.O.P. Donors Back Manchin and Sinema as They Reshape Biden’s Agenda
Democratic control of the Senate was just a painful illusion after all: The Republicans really had 52 votes.
Trump's Estate Tax Giveaway To Rich Triggered 50% Drop In The IRS Revenue: Report -- Billionaires, meanwhile. have doubled their collective net worth to more than $5 trillion in just 5 years.
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If Bolsonaro is potentially guilty of pandemic crimes, is Trump, too?
No, because while apparently Brazilians are human beings and therefore their lives always matter, American lives (as Trump has treated them) ain't worth shit: Trump can kill as many of them as he wishes and nobody's ever going to say there's anything particularly wrong with that in the least. In fact, the group of Americans whose lives he has victimized the most are also the most eager to have him make it back to power so that he can victimize them even worse!
Thanks to Biden, Trump remains in the game
Trump White House Repeatedly Blocked Critical COVID Warnings, Officials Tell House Probe -- Trump frequently complained publicly that U.S. statistics looked bad because too many tests were revealing the nation’s high number of cases. Stopping tests was his solution to minimizing the appearance of a problem. “If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any,” Trump insisted in June last year.
This is the man who was elected President of The United States! This should tells us instantly that public education has failed us miserably in this country--That we should get its guidance out of the hands of the uneducated mob and place it where it belongs: in the hands of competent professionals with the properly accredited qualification to lead such endeavors. We have no studies of civics, of morality, nor of ethics anywhere worth the telling! How then can one expect voters to repudiate dangerous immoral & unethical illiterates like Donald Trump?
Trump [also?] on the extinction of species: "I think that once we find out a species is going to go extinct we should just go ahead & kill every individual of that species that's still left out there, so we can stop worrying about them. And, by the way, this includes people too: Once we know people are going to go extinct anyway we should just go out and kill every one of them we can find. That way we'll finally be able to have some peace of mind (at last)." [That's what he might have been after when he tried everything in his power to stop people from trying to save themselves by getting vaccinated. The House Jan.6 Committee should definitely look into whether Trump believed Covid was going to drive mankind to extinction. Therefore--]
When you place the fragile lives of people in the hands of the ignorant a lot of those lives will be lost through their fingers because the ignorant simply do not know how to hold them safely.
The presumption that a political leader is honest and will always act in the best interests of the people goes against everything that we know about human nature.
A man who but once lies must never again be trusted to stand by the truth. If ever again he speaks the truth let it be in harmony with the proven facts.
Brazil Senate panel to accuse Bolsonaro of crimes against humanity for covid negligence -- A lawmaker who is leading the probe has accused President Jair Bolsonaro and other officials of making deliberate decisions that allowed the coronavirus to spread, resulting in unnecessary deaths.
This is the charge that all those Republicans and amateur Trump family & pals working against safeguarding the health of the American people by malicious malfeasance & incompetence should face, Donald Trump most especially of all because just like he was the principal moving force behind the Capitol insurrection Trump was also the moving force behind the GOP's suicidal attitudes against America's struggle to defeat Covid-19.
Brazil's Bolsonaro should face homicide charge for COVID-19 errors, says Senate report
Donald Tramp did not all by himself manage to convince almost 3/4 of his supporters (against every human soul across the entire breadth & length of this country who honestly ran the 2020 election, Democrat and Republican) that the loser of that election was actually the winner. No. It was with the deadly poison of FOX News, and the malicious echo chamber of lies that the GOP has become: They are the ones who are truly to blame; they are the ones that will be most harshly judged in our history books. And, if there were any real justice in this world, they are the one who ought to pay dearly for the harm they have done to this country.
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ABC’s Jonathan Karl Recalls ‘1 Of The Stranger Things I Ever Experienced’ With Trump
More strange even than still claiming he's still president one year after he got trounced by Biden?
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Judge Says Al Gore Took Election Defeat Like ‘A Man,’ Unlike Trump
In Trump's defense: In his entire perverse evil life of avarice & malice Donald Trump has never been much of a man. Not ever. Not once (or, prove it).
Jan. 6 Organizers Reportedly Used Burner Phones To Communicate With Eric Trump
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What Happens When It’s Too Late to Get an Abortion
You hold a gender-reveal party.
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Why you find do-gooders insufferable
Yeah! Why can't they just be bastards like the rest of us?
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We’re a Small Arkansas Newspaper. Why Is the State Making Us Sign a Pledge About Israel?
In the matter of government establishing laws on discrimination against Israel:
The Constitution certainly prohibits censoring opinion but not speech which is harmful to others. You are free to say, "I don't like John Smith." But if you say that "John Smith is a rapist," you had better be prepared to prove it because matters will not rest with 'your constitutional right' to say that. Even saying that you find John Smith ugly may place you in jeopardy of a frivolous suit (and if you're up against a frivolous judge who/or jury which doesn't think much of the Constitution there might be Hell to pay). So be aware that the "right to free speech" is mostly in the eye of the beholder--best to err on the side of silence perhaps. This is why it takes courage to speak freely: It has penalties.
The state absolutely has a right to pass laws against your doing harm to others (and discrimination here certainly qualifies as harmful); which certainty must include harm to an entire country (even if it's a foreign country you may wish to do harm to).
Censorship, on the other hand, is a different matter: I don't agree with silencing any speech before the fact. Let the evil words out; and then let the evil men who speak them face the consequence of their evil. I think that's what the Constitution has in mind.
In the case of The Arkansas Times being told by an advertiser they will no longer run ads under certain conditions: I don't see how The Arkansas Times can compel such advertisers to run ads in it if [for whatever conditions] they don't want to. Do you?!?
Here The Arkansas Times' argument against the advertiser's pro-Israel stance is that a boycott is protected speech without realizing [or perhaps simply not willing to acknowledge] that the entity actually doing the boycotting [or threatening it] is not them but the advertiser! Therefore it is their adversary's 'free speech rights' they seek to defend: If they wanted their ads they should have acceded to their demands, or been happy to decline their demands and look for other advertisers & everybody wins.
Unfortunately what The 'little' Arkansas Times is self-evidently really after here is for the courts to unambiguously state that there is an unqualified right to boycott Israel at will by anyone any time anywhere without the fear of incurring any penalties. And I believe the courts rightly eventually saw through that.
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British Lawmaker Is Reprimanded for Bringing Her Baby to a Debate
Apparently the baby was such a competent debater that it made the rest of'em look bad.
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Capitol Rioter Who Stole Nancy Pelosi’s Lectern Pleads Guilty
Sez it was a terrible mistake: He couldn't find a single book in his house to rest on it so he might read it. Sez he should've stolen her iPhone.
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Democrats should temper their expensive enthusiasms with a clear-eyed look at the electorate
Hell, if they did that they might just as well become hate-mongering white supremist Republicans!
A 19th-Century Law Dismantled The KKK. Now It Could Bring Down A New Generation Of Extremists.
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Polyp removed from Biden’s colon requires ‘no further action,’ doctor says
Apparently Biden's ass killed the polyp pretty thoroughly.
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Albatrosses, known for monogamy, may be pushed to ‘divorce’ because of climate change, study finds
Albatross lawyers say that the most common cause for the divorces is one of the albatrosses around the neck of the other.
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We asked experts: Should we keep wearing masks?
Yes! If you're snaggled-tooth ugly: By all means, yes.
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Putin says Russia will offer good gas deal to Serbia
Promises that his usual scheme of getting countries dependent on Russian gas so he can then blackmail them will not be used on Serbia... in the short term.
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A Trump PAC Could Pay $156,000 For Every Jan. 6 Rioter’s Defense, But So Far Has Spent Zero
Could but won't: Anyone who as ever worked for Trump knows that Trump never willingly pays out cash, he only takes it in. [You want cash from Trump you'd better own a very good copy of one of his pee-pee tapes.]
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NASA hopes to hit an asteroid now in case we really need to knock one away later
Actually, I didn't really want to tell you but it's the real thing: They didn't want to alarm the world, but the asteroid is definitely going to strike the earth if we miss the shot. But don't tell anybody: It's better if they don't know we're all going to die unless we hit it. And, anyway, if we do then it's no big deal.
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Va. professor steps down after firestorm over study into adults who are attracted to minors
Now he's thinking of opening a Kindergarten.
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Greene introduces bill to award Congress’s highest honor to Rittenhouse
These Republicans are really funny. Who needs Marx Brothers films, right?
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LA Firefighter Accused Of Wiping His Butt With Vaccine Order; Officials Investigating: Report
His conviction is all but assured, as the proper way to clean your butt is to blot, not wipe: Don't spread it, clean it!
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A Russia-backed coup against Ukraine planned for December - Zelensky
NATO chief warns Russia on troop build-up
Well, apparently Putin has decided that the way to re-conquer the Ukraine is to mastermind a coup there to set up a Russian ally who will then 'request' the Russian troops being built up on its border come in to help 'restore order.' That's one way to invade Ukraine with plausible deniability, I guess, since (like Hitler) Putin too thinks that the leaders of the Western Democracies are worms.
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I Grew Up Poor. How Am I Supposed to Raise My Middle-Class Kids?
Hire some poor person to do it for you, of course. [from the best-selling The Perks of Money]
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Despite judge’s ruling on Seminole Tribe’s sports betting, you can still place bets
Who pays attention to judges these days? Trump and his gang claim every ruling against them is due to the judges being democrats (or not white). So why should the anti-Trump side pay any attention to rulings from Republican (or white) judges then?
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Kyle Rittenhouse is enrolled at Arizona State University. Student groups want him gone
Kyle promises he won't shoot anyone--unless he feels threatened. You know, same as Putin.
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How long until your car drives itself?
Oh, I don't know... Can't be that long: My underwears have been running around for themselves for years now.
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Romance scammer charmed online daters — then conned them out of $400,000, feds say
In scammer's defense: He only answered ads from lonely hearts who stated that they were, "looking for charmers who would like me to send all my money to people I've just met online."
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These living robots made of frog cells can now reproduce, study says
Wasn't there a terrifying horror movie about exactly this a while back? Scared the pants outta me--I was arrested coming out of the theatre.
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Stephen Sondheim Wrote My Life’s Soundtrack
Yeah, that "Send in The Clowns" is really something. Very incisive.
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‘Killer robots’ may be coming. New Zealand wants to stop them.
So now it begins: Killer Robot killer robots!
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Iranian Brig.-Gen. urges destruction of Israel prior to nuke talks
Yes, but, who's gonna be left in Iran to carry on the nuke talks if Iran attempts that?
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What Mark Meadows’s sudden cooperation with the Jan. 6 committee could mean
The Jan.6 Committee isn't being led by lawless thugs like Ted Cruz or Josh Hawley but by upstanding and highly principled individuals who can no doubt reach a reasonable deal on what pertains to matters of the government and what pertains to the many personal crimes of Donald Trump. Therefore, witnesses who might wish to 'turn state's evidence' and provide information on the crimes committed by Trump against the state I think will eventually be able to reach an understanding with this committee for the good of the republic on just exactly how all such crimes came about... without going much into how many people Trump has defrauded or how many dollars he's stolen along the way.
Appeals court questions Trump bid to keep Jan. 6 White House records secret from Congress
Opinion: Trump’s stonewalling on the Jan. 6 investigation is crumbling
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Trump allies work to place supporters in key election posts across the country, spurring fears about future vote challenges -- Supporters of the former president who are seeking offices that would give them oversight of elections say they just want to make the system secure.
By placing it in the hands of Trump?!? How's that gonna work, again? You want to make the hens safer by placing them in the jaws of the fox?!
"In Michigan’s third-largest county, Macomb, Republican officials appointed to the canvassing board a former Republican poll challenger, Nancy Tiseo, who tweeted shortly after the 2020 election that Trump should suspend meetings of the electoral college and have “military tribunals” investigate claims about election fraud."
ABC’s Jonathan Karl Issues Stark Warning About Covering Donald Trump 2024
Michael Cohen Calls Trump's 'Big Lie' The 'Biggest Grift In U.S. History'
Opinion: Trump’s coverup of his Jan. 6 corruption takes an ominous new turn
Opinion: We may have already missed our last, best chance to bolster American democracy
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Peter Navarro Says He Wanted ‘Baby’ Anthony Fauci ‘Strangled In His Crib’
Of course! Murder the very/in fact the only people who can protect us, who can save us from the fatal virus--and then howl at the moon to save us while dancing around a bonfire: It's what all primitive savage societies do--Aren't you glad you live in a highly advanced civilization now, though? [Or perhaps you're one of those who wants to regress back to the Times of Trump?]
Anthony Fauci Slams Ted Cruz Over Capitol Riot
Trump May Have Infected Gold Star Families, White House Staff, Others, Per His Former Chief
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Thank you, Mister Kavanaugh, for proving the Republicans wrong and the Democrats right one more time. [It would be very strange indeed if it ever went the other way!]
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Alec Baldwin says he did not pull trigger in ‘Rust’ shooting
Sez he was probably handed one of those AI guns that shoots all by itself whenever it feels like it.
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Red states are now paying people not to get vaccinated
Is this insane, or what?!? This so goes against common sense that advocating giving toddlers loaded guns to play with pales by comparison--as it could never kill as many human beings as does Covid.
Opinion: The GOP doesn’t care about the suffering it causes — even among its own base
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You're talking about Clarence Thomas, right? [And, no: He's not the only mother on the Supreme Court.]
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The World Is Lifting Abortion Restrictions. Why Is the U.S. Moving Against the Tide?
So that American women will become abortion tourists and help foreign countries' bottom lines. [I'm sure.]
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George Clooney Explains Why He Turned Down $35 Million For A Day’s Work
Claims it was not an 8-hour day. [Clooney sez they refused to pay him overtime.]
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Ya can't have enough cockroaches in Colombia.
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If it'd been me I would have brushed all that fell outta the wall into my satchel and gone out claiming I needed a special pipe-piece & that I would be back Monday. [You know a criminal organization like a TV Evangelist's isn't about to report money somebody stole from them to the cops.]
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Bolsonaro Launched A Trumpian Anti-Vaccine Campaign. Brazilians Got The Shot Anyway.
Brazilians much smarter than Republicans. [Actually, reptiles much smarter than Republicans.]
October COVID Death Rate In Reddest Tenth Of Nation Six Times Higher Than Bluest: Report
Poll shows Republicans’ disregard for their own doctors on the coronavirus
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For the sake of global stability, the U.S. must deter a Russian invasion of Ukraine
They should have set up Ukraine's deterrence months, maybe years ago by providing Ukraine the military equipment to make Putin not think it worth the risk to his 'prestige' to try it. Now it's probably too late--Putin always goes after cheap victories, and this is starting to look like one.
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Amazon, can we have our name back? -- Amazon's use of Alexa as a wake word for its voice assistant turned the name into a command, impacting daily interactions for people with the name.
Amazon should have used the word 'vagina' (nobody cries out "vagina!"). I've never been anywhere where it was often spoken outloud, and even when they did they spoke it in a soft whisper. [And, no: I've never been to your house.]
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‘Obscene’ GOP Blockade Stalls Dozens Of Biden Nominees -- Democrats benefit from a rules change that Republicans put into place when they held the majority: A district court nominee only requires two hours of debate time, versus the 30 hours that were previously required before Republicans drastically changed that rule in April 2019.
Again & again when they're in the majority the Republicans change the Senate rules to suit themselves, but the Democrats demur because they seem to prefer to go about [it] naked in the woods.
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Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) to leave Congress to become Trump media company CEO
You knew these Republicans were bought and never working for the dullards stupid enough to vote for them; and now you can watch the payoffs out in the open (which is Trump's way to let law enforcement know that the law doesn't apply to him).
Opinion: How Devin Nunes’s new media job for Trump explains the GOP grift machine
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Steven Spielberg Refused to Subtitle Spanish in West Side Story to Not Give 'English the Power"
I saw the original film, and I always wondered why at some point somebody didn't tell them that foreign accents are strictly reserved for comedy! [The Puerto Ricans speaking in accents to themselves sounded hilarious to me.]
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Alex Baldwin says he never pulled the trigger. Experts are skeptical.
Say more likely than not as soon as a privileged man who never grew up like Baldwin got his gun he started going: "Hey, joey!" BANG! "Hey, Sally!" BANG! "Hey, Billy!" BANG! BANG! "Oh, damn! Was that a real bullet in there?!?" ["Sorry."]
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A reader asks, ‘Where can I learn how to dine?’
A human being answers, "At home from your parents."
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What is the best last-minute gift you have ever given?
Cash. [The only people who hate it are those who already have too much of it.]
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People are regretting spending $800 on a Chanel advent calendar featuring stickers and a dust bag -- For many who spent more than $800 on the calendar, opening the doors resulted in limited luxuries and a lot of disappointment.
Not for Chanel.
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Here’s Why I Invented A ‘Death Machine’ That Lets People Take Their Own Lives
This isn't the one with the big rock tied by a long string to the top of a pole is it? That thing's dangerous!
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Opinion: Awful new revelations about Trump and Jan. 6 show Mike Pence is no hero
The problem of Jan.6 was all with our antiquated [failed] electoral college system (and subsequent pointless & superfluous 'ceremonial counting' of the people's vote in congress) and none of it was with the state elections themselves:
The lesson of Jan.6 (if the American People care to learn it) is that congress must do away with this dangerous Electoral College anachronism and specify the merely ceremonial nature of Congress's certification of the election--including also doing away with congressmen's so-called objections to the will of the voters of their states (alleged frauds in elections belong strictly in the courts). Fail to do this and a repeat of Jan.6 can never be outside the realm of possibilities.
Opinion: A GOP lawyer issues a frantic warning to his own party about Trump and 2024 -- We’re talking about the Electoral Count Act of 1887. Ginsberg’s warning, which he issued in a piece for National Review, is that if we don’t fix glaring ambiguities in the ECA, we’re leaving ourselves profoundly vulnerable to future election subversion. Ginsberg warns Republicans that if they don’t fix the ECA, Democrats could exploit it next time, especially with (roll ominous soundtrack here) the terrifying Kamala Harris as vice president.
Congressional voices in the so-called 'vote count' should be limited to crying out: "The Great State of Such-&-Such casts its votes for The Winner of its popular vote!" (As such criers are wisely obliged to do in our political conventions.)
Opinion: The media has given Republicans a free pass on assaulting democracy
Those who do not think an election will be fair must be barred from it because not to do so will ensure the outcome will be pointless. Why even run such an election?!?
Opinion: Milley’s revelation about Trump leaves us with five questions
Milley’s calls reflect a crisis. But it’s not a military crisis.
Opinion: The perils that the book ‘Peril’ reveals should be investigated by Congress
Emboldened by recall win, Democrats brush aside talk of unity and escalate attacks on Republicans
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Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood among attorneys ordered to pay $180,000 over Michigan ‘Kraken’ suit
Here's an article that should have been more properly called, "Soaking the suckers" ...
Sidney Powell group raised more than $14 million spreading election falsehoods
Opinion: How Devin Nunes’s new media job for Trump explains the GOP grift machine
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Low-profile heiress who ‘played a strong role’ in financing Jan. 6 rally is thrust into spotlight -- Julie Fancelli, 72, a daughter of the Publix supermarkets founder, said she did not expect or support violence at the U.S. Capitol that day.
Apparently she has decided to go with the Trump defense.
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Sez he is a firm believer in "Save a few pennies now, pay millions & millions later!"
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Believe it or not, Fox News once knew shame
Now it's stolen its identity.
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The next step in space tourism? A luxury training center for civilians.
The ultimate space trip will be called, "Take A Crap In Space!" Purgatives will be provided--unless it looks like the spaceship is going to blow up (when they won't be needed).
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Senate votes to repeal key Biden administration vaccine and testing policy
Republicans also voted to provide every American a barber's straight-razor so they can cut their heads off if they so desire: "Freedom, sir! Freedom!"
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UM faculty, hit with pay cuts, fuming over $80 million deal for star football coach Cristobal
What Miami should do is close the damn university and just make the "The U Hurricanes" a stand-alone football club.
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For the equivalent of $6.25 a bottle, this Chilean cab will be the life of the party
For $0 a bottle I can be the life of the party too. (And I'll take as many bottles as I can get.)
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Neil Young made ‘Barn,’ his new album, in a barn
And Gaston Leroux wrote The Phantom of the Opera in the sewers of Paris [not].
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What would be the fallout if Russia invaded Ukraine?
A lot of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers would die. Not much of a disincentive for Putin to not push ahead with such a (for him) no-skin-off-my-nose war, I'm afraid.
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China Evergrande Defaults on Its Debt. Now What?
Now China will have the pleasure of enjoying its very own Great Depression.
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Trump Rioter Who Attacked Cops With Fire Extinguisher Should Serve 5 Years, Feds Say
5 years for attempted murder of a policeman ain't bad. If he'd succeeded maybe he could've gotten a few months more probation.
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Most Americans support religious exemptions to vaccination but say they’re overused, survey finds
They support it because one always hates to be killed by careless idiots who don't give a fuck about one's life, but it's all right to be killed by those who are doing it because they believe in God. "Aww... It certainly makes a BIG difference!" [Don't you just love to be living in the last days of The Dark Ages!]
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GOP Rep. Fred Upton receives death threats after voting for bipartisan infrastructure deal
There used to be a time when we didn't see these many death threats & other outrages because back then people were sure that they'd be prosecuted and sent to jail if they broke any law. But after Trump pretty much destroyed respect for the certainty of the law (in fact, instituted actual contempt for the law by his deadly example... never being seriously prosecuted for his many crimes or being forced to serve time in prison for them), after Trump this country will not see again respect for the law until a great many big-time law-breakers are prosecuted harshly and made to serve hard time in jail) so that the people once more will appreciate & acknowledge that this is a country under the rule of law (and not one dictated to by thugs like Trump and his ugly ilk).
I monitor Trump’s die-hard base. They’re still plotting out in the open.
Trump Encouraged Staff To Break The Law, Says Former Press Secretary
Top GOP congressional candidate in Texas accused of abusing teenage daughter of estranged husband
A year later, an obviously illegal campaign stunt is determined to have been illegal
Pfizer CEO says people who spread vaccine disinformation are ‘criminals’
Rep. Liz Cheney Says Trump Is At War ‘With The Rule Of Law’
Jimmy Kimmel Taunts ‘Idiot’ Jan. 6 Rioter Who Begged ‘Cult Leader’ Trump For Help
Death Threats Jolt Republicans Who Voted For Infrastructure Bill
Why do some still deny Biden’s 2020 victory? Here’s what the data says.
Opinion: Trump is losing in court. But his threat to democracy is growing.
Opinion: Tough sentences for Jan. 6 rioters should freak Trump out
Madison Saw Something in the Constitution We Should Open Our Eyes To
Trump says it was ‘common sense’ for Jan. 6 rioters to chant ‘Hang Mike Pence!’
Journalist Reveals Key Capitol Riot Evidence Mike Pence Is Trying To Keep Hidden
Opinion: A sobering, new report shows how much work is needed to protect democracy
The Republican establishment’s rationalization of Trump’s fraud claims is also wrong
U.S. listed as a ‘backsliding’ democracy for first time in report by European think tank
Students On Hunger Strike For Over A Week Urge Dems To Pass Voting Rights Legislation
The GOP plotted to overturn the 2020 election before it was even over
Republican Lawmakers Introduce Hundreds Of Bills To Restrict Voting Rights Nationwide
Opinion: Republicans are fomenting violent extremism -- and are also hostage to the extremists
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Suspicious, Insecure Trump 'Most Difficult' President To Brief On Intel, CIA Report Reveals -- Trump “doubted the competence of intelligence professionals and felt no need for regular intelligence support,” says a report published by the CIA.
Naturally: Anyone who believes he knows everything is by definition incapable of leaning anything. That's what keeps someone who is a naturally-born ignoramus an ignoramus until the day he dies. [Luckily, at 75 Trump doesn't have that much longer to go.]
Trump Includes Himself Among The 'Very Stupid' In Mangled Vote Fraud Statement -- “Anybody that doesn’t think there wasn’t massive Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election is either very stupid, or very corrupt!” his message read.
Opinion: Trump’s stonewalling on the Jan. 6 investigation is crumbling
Worry about Trump continuing to undermine democracy, not his abuse of Mark Milley
Opinion: An angry rift between Trump and Bannon signals the far-right’s future
Opinion: David Perdue confesses he would have aided a coup. He’s not the only one.
Opinion: Adam Schiff is right. Republicans are too scared of Trump to reform the presidency.
In Bid for Control of Elections, Trump Loyalists Face Few Obstacles
Opinion: The damage done by Joe Manchin is likely to get much worse
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Advocates worry Biden is letting U.S. democracy erode on his watch -- Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, said the administration’s lack of urgency about safeguarding democracy, especially by shoring up voting rights, is “appalling ... I have heard from many of my colleagues and members that the lack of priority around voting rights will be the undoing of the legacy for this presidency.”
I really don't know why Biden doesn't see the critical importance of putting an end to the Republicans' anti-voting schemes, because anyone with even an ounce of brains knows that as soon as the Republicans come to power again they're going to shut down the four crises Biden promised to tackle upon taking office (coronavirus, the economy, climate change and racial equity) and, really, any & every other measure in the Democrats' agenda. And the only way that Biden can make sure that those efforts are not thwarted by the GOP is to pursue a no-holds-barred struggle to shore up democracy and strengthen the nation's voting rights.
The only guarantee that ANY measures passed by the democrats will endure is to make sure that Republicans do not hijack the reins of power (through underhanded and unfair elections, packing the Supreme Court with Trump justices, shameless naked lying, and other schemes) and reverse them. Every other means to safeguard Biden's agenda (signing the bills into law, even having the entire country rave about them) is a crapshoot with loaded dice minted by the GOP.
Opinion: The Supreme Court isn’t well. The only hope for a cure is more justices.
This Supreme Court Case May Be The Final Battle In The Long War On Abortion Rights
Are we finally going to stop the fiction that all court judgments always come down on the side of right/wrong when so many of them can be so clearly predicted by who the judges are?
Trump-appointed judges block Biden administration vaccine mandate for health-care workers
I wish the Democrats would finally learn what the Republicans seemed to have leaned decades & decades ago, for Heavens' Sakes! [Start appointing Democratic judges while you can!]
Supreme Court Allows Arizona To Keep Voting Restrictions
Elizabeth Warren Announces Support For Expanding The Supreme Court
Opinion: Surprisingly, there has been a redistricting turnaround
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How Trump-backed secretary of state candidates would change elections in the United States
No. You don't have to wonder whether these people know that they are engaging in a conspiracy to overthrow democracy in the United States or they are simply idiots being manipulated by sinister mastermind overlords... anymore than you have to wonder whether those 'flash mobs' busting into stores imagine they are participating in political activities or know perfectly well that they're just out to steal stuff for themselves.
How Trump-backed secretary of state candidates would change elections in the United States -- “We need to investigate to see if he won,” Jay Schroeder, a Republican secretary of state candidate in Wisconsin, said in an interview. “This is what I can’t understand: If someone wants to have an audit, and you think there is nothing there, why wouldn’t you let them do it?”
And if somebody is found innocent why can't he be tried again & again & again until he's finally found guilty? It's a puzzlement, I know.
How Trump-backed secretary of state candidates would change elections in the United States -- In Arizona, candidate Shawnna Bolick, a current Republican state lawmaker, introduced a bill that would create an “elections oversight” committee in the Republican-led legislature with the power to reject who the secretary of state certifies.
But wouldn't that mean then that when the people cannot elect their own representatives themselves their only alternative is to do it by the force of arms? Isn't that why we cede power to the majority through elections in the first place... so the majority will refrain from an armed confrontation it will probably win anyway (except with lots more bloodshed)?
The Trump Conspiracy Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Today's Republicans are running the same dead-end fatal mistake that the antebellum pro-slavery Southern American minority ran--and which led directly to a Civil War that proved the point: The minority may push and even start an anti-democratic overthrow of the nation when it loses at the ballot box, but the majority will not go silently and their response is likelier than not to eventually succeed, even if after a great deal more bloodshed than had all the people just accepted the democratic judgement of the election(s) win or lose.
Republicans today are full of bluster and defiance of the American popular majority, ready to concoct whatever sinister/malicious schemes they can imagine to rescue their own just & proper loses in fair-held elections. But if they succeed, one thing is certain: The defrauded majority will not go silent and accept their will being thwarted by obvious thieves. There will not be merely/only a soft howl from the Democrats. And many more Americans who are not Democrats will join them in the cry for justice that must follow. And if Republicans are too near-sighted to see that far, woe unto them most of all.
Jan. 6 crossed a line. We need to say so before it’s too late for democracy.
We’re Edging Closer to Civil War
Opinion: 3 retired generals: The military must prepare now for a 2024 insurrection
Opinion: The 700-plus miscreants who desecrated the Capitol deserve consequences
Opinion: ‘We are closer to civil war than any of us would like to believe,’ new study says
Former US Army generals urge Pentagon to prepare for potential civil war
Thank you, Donald Trump!
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Israel’s staunch evangelical allies shocked by Trump’s outburst on Netanyahu
Say they had no idea that Trump was such a bastard. [What a surprise.]
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Vietnam jails its ‘most famous activist’ for nine years
Belarus court jails leading opposition figure Sergei Tikhanovsky for 18 years
Belarus sez it's twice the tyranny Vietman is.
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Yeah. Nobody ever really appreciates just how dangerous being a blackmail can be. These poor unfortunate blackmailers live a precarious life.
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OJ Simpson A ‘Completely Free Man;’ Parole Ends In Nevada
Now OJ Simpson is just trying to find a "real" Voodoo priestess powerful enough to free him from the ghosts of his wife and Ronald Goldman.
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Arctic temperature soared to an unprecedented 100 degrees in 2020, scientists confirm
Oh? Thank God! I always wanted to visit the Arctic, but not when it was that cold.
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Climate change has destabilized Earth’s poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril
Thankfully there's not much of value in that planet except a few cockroaches & a handful of other animals.
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Alex Jones Wonders If Joe Biden Used 'Weather Weapons' To Cause Deadly Tornadoes
And why Biden didn't use them on Mar-a-Lago?!? [Claims that's typical of Biden and the Democrats. And why Republicans're gonna beat'em.]
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Florida Trump supporters arrested on charges of casting more than one vote in 2020 election
It's almost always the case that the person pointing the finger at others as the possible murderers is most usually the murderer himself. [So pay close attention at all the insults Trump hurls at everybody else.]
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After Kentucky devastation, critics seize on Rand Paul’s record opposing disaster bills
In Rand Paul's defense: He wasn't elected to help Kentucky's bums, loafers & other residents but for the greater glory of Donald Trump! [Just like all the other Republicans.]
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How doctors removed a WWII artillery shell from a patient's behind -- A man came to an ER with an artillery shell stuck up his anus, so the staff called in a sapper squad.
Patient sez he was way off on what he believed that artillery shell really was.
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Climate change has destabilized the Earth’s poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril
Why don't we just spread sugar on the ice so it reflects more sunlight? My mother suggests quilting together all the old cotton T-shirts we throw out every year and spreading them over the melting poles. Big rollers with white paint might also work. [from the best-selling Scientific Solutions In The Age of Trump]
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Rep. Jim Jordan Admits To Sending One Of The Texts Revealed By Jan. 6 Committee
Makes sense: Jim Jordan has always looked like the hoodlum in the gang most likely to crack first & finger everyone just as soon as the cops bring him in.
Democratic Congressman Rips 'Traitor' Jim Jordan Over Jan. 5 Text: 'Why Is Anybody Surprised?'
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House Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas ‘Coup PowerPoint’ Author
"What? You can't plot to overthrow the government any more?!?"
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Israel’s staunch evangelical allies shocked by Trump’s outburst on Netanyahu
"Today Netanyahu, tomorrow Billy Graham."
"Billy Graham is dead."
"So is John McCain but that hasn't stopped Trump."
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Opinion: The red covid wave is here -- "...we don’t all have to be that way. We can speak the truth about where we are without wishing death on our political opponents. We can fight for what we believe in without twisting into the ugliest version of ourselves."
That's not what my 'God-fearing' doctor thinks. He assured me that, "Omicron is a sign from God that there are too many Republican voters. Lay them low, O Lord! Lay them low! It will even the gerrymandered field a might." And when he asked me I assured him I was a life-long Democrat, that my family had been Democrats for generations, and that we all simply loathed Donald Trump. [No sense taking any chances on a man who can legally work you over with a knife.] "You're not vaccinated you don't come into this hospital--I don't care what you got!" [Hallelujah.]
Alabama doctor pledges to stop treating unvaccinated patients
Washington State Sen. Doug Ericksen Dies After COVID Battle
A key challenge for Biden: Those most at risk are his biggest critics
Hospital system says it will deny transplants to the unvaccinated in ‘almost all situations’
One physician's case for refusing to treat unvaccinated patients in person
No Jab? No Service. Doctors Flip The Script On Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates
Medical ethicists criticize doctors refusing to treat the unvaccinated
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Dominion’s $1.6 Billion Defamation Suit Against Fox News Can Move Forward, Judge Rules -- Judge Eric M. Davis said that "Fox continued to publish its allegations against Dominion" despite knowing its election fraud claims were "probably false."
Maybe Trump never faces any consequences for his lies, but anybody that repeats them will.
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Man Lifts Sleeping Ex-Girlfriend’s Eyelids To Unlock Cellphone, Steals $24,000
Claim she saw what he was doing & didn't say anything.
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‘I Have So Much Shame’: Rioter Who Bragged About Capitol ‘Infamy’ Sentenced To Prison
How much shame have you? ["I don't know, how much I gotta have to have my sentence reduced?"]
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What do Jews believe about the afterlife?
Human beings, even Jews, find it unimaginably hard to imagine life (consciousness) ending without you being able to tell (that it's ended). Therefore just like everybody else, Jews will also imagine themselves sitting there (in the dark) thinking, "Did I just die!? Wow, dude!" [It's just human.]
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Can the existence of God be proven?
Sure. Blow your head off & there you are.
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Ten minutes of dishonest fury, presented to an audience of millions
This is what Fox News has devolved into.
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It’s an open secret there’s no NATO plan for Ukraine. Why not just tell Putin?
Because Putin knows: Putin doesn't care about NATO. What pickpocket Putin wants is for Ukraine to fall back into Russia's pocket with as little bother as can be managed.
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Democrats’ redistricting dilemma: Good government or ‘fight fire with fire’?
Whatever helps the Democrats lose ('fair & square' in their minds) they will do. Republicans always depend upon that.
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120-million-year-old bird may have used long tongue to catch food -study
Sure: If he was 120 million years old he probably couldn't move around much.
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Sez that high communist party officials in China are of course obviously totally & completely incapable of being sexual predators. [What was she thinking!]
Peng Shuai tells paper she never wrote of being assaulted
Trump must be very jealous.
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Michael Cohen Slams 'Stupid' Mark Meadows On MSNBC -- “Hey stupid, you put out a book,” Cohen said in a rather direct address to Meadows. He added that because of Meadows’ tell-all memoir, “The Chief’s Chief,” Jan. 6 investigators “now have the right to ask you about things” regarding the insurrection.
What a great piece of advice from a lawyer. And at no charge!
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Sarah Palin’s anti-vax talk shows Republicans have become a death cult
Please do let me know if they need any Kool-Aid.
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Miss Manners: My friend’s husband is learning English but swears a lot
Have him learn Hebrew instead: He might still swear a lot but you won't understand it.
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Trump Says He Received COVID-19 Booster Shot, Gets Booed By Supporters
Trump then whispered: "You may boo, but I'm gonna live & a lot of you sonnababitches are gonna die!" Then he laughed maniacally at all the suckers. That they cheered.
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Trump sues New York attorney general in attempt to halt inquiry into his company
Won't his allow the NY attorney general to seek discovery and testimony under oath from Trump himself?
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The White House’s extraordinary, furious statement about Joe Manchin
Opinion: Manchin deals a devastating blow to Biden and to democracy
Now that Manchin has finally felled the Democratic agenda & stabbed Biden in the back could the Democrats please finally stop keeping the Department of the Environment from thoroughly investigating the Manchin family's coal mining concerns for polluting West Virginia to death? There really is no longer any excuse to protect this bastard.
Behind Manchin’s Opposition, a Long History of Fighting Climate Measures
Opinion: Manchin’s objections to Build Back Better make no political or policy sense
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Trump tested positive for coronavirus before first debate with Biden, three former aides say -- Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows revealed the previously undisclosed test in a new book. In addition to attending the debate, Trump participated in a number of other events after his positive diagnosis, potentially putting dozens of other people at risk.
For Trump, "other people," is what, say, "garden weeds" is for the rest of us.
Trump May Have Infected Gold Star Families, White House Staff, Others, Per His Former Chief
In defense of murderers: If Trump and the GOP leaders are murdering more Republicans than Democrats it is not because they have a thing against Republicans, or because they'd like to spare Democrats--Grow up! It's because they just find it so much easier to lay their hands on the poor little lambs: For God's sake, read how serial killers operate! Watch more crime shows! [from the best-selling How To Choose Your Marks by D. Trump]
Opinion: Mark Meadows’s new effort to cover up Trump’s coup is ludicrous — and dangerous
Mark Meadows Did Not 'Properly' Turn Over Documents To National Archives
Election denier who circulated Jan. 6 PowerPoint says he met with Meadows at White House
Opinion: Mark Meadows’s coverup of Trump’s coup attempt is falling apart
The juicy Mark Meadows texts Liz Cheney just disclosed
Text messages to Meadows renew focus on Trump’s inaction during Jan. 6 attack
Meadows’ ‘Protect Pro Trump People’ Email May Explain Military Reluctance To Deploy Troops
'Blueprint For A Coup' Is Bared In House Panel's Report On Mark Meadows, Columnist Says
Opinion: Trump’s PowerPoint coup plotters were crackpots. We may not be so lucky next time.
All roads lead back to Mark Meadows. Says the Jan. 6 panel.
Lawmaker Begs Fox News Hosts To Tell People The Truth, Like In Their Texts To Meadows
Fox News hosts sey they certainly will, just as soon as they are fired from or quit Fox News.
On Jan. 6 itself, Trump’s allies understood that he was the catalyst
Opinion: The lawyer behind the Trump coup memo unmasks the absurdity of the coverup
Role as Trump’s gatekeeper puts Meadows in legal jeopardy — and at odds with Trump
Mark Meadows, Fox News and the increasingly brazen whitewashing of Jan. 6
A conservative group debunks Trump’s voter-fraud claims (yet again)
Donald Trump Defies Belief With New Spin On ‘We Fight Like Hell’ Speech From Jan. 6
What do we do now that we know just how far Trump was willing to go?
What crime might Trump have committed on Jan. 6? Liz Cheney points to one
Lead Capitol riot charge is constitutional, judges find
House Panel To ID Republican Lawmakers Newly Linked To Capitol Riot Turmoil
GOPers’ efforts to distance themselves from Jan. 6 face increasing scrutiny
Mitch McConnell is suddenly legitimizing the Jan. 6 committee. But why?
Long before embracing Trump’s false election claims, Rep. Scott Perry promoted groundless theories
First Amendment Doesn't Protect Lies To Fleece MAGA Backers: Ex-White House Ethics Lawyer
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Manchin hits back at effort to ‘badger’ him, reinforcing Democrats’ gamble
Aww, forgive us for badgering you, Mister Manchin. Think of all the mothers in West Virginia who must watch their children going hungry because of you. But do forgive us for badgering you, Mister Manchin.
Manchin to kids in poverty: Let them eat cake
Manchin Shocked Fellow Senators With Private Claims About Biden Bill -- In private negotiations, Manchin questioned whether the poorest Americans would spend financial aid wisely.
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A driver admitted to leaving a strip club drunk before killing a Broward cyclist, cops say
Now he'll drive more carefully the next time he gets drunk and his license is revoked; and more carefully still the next time if he kills somebody else. Usually it takes the killing of about three victims for someone to be finally put into prison so he doesn't keep killing people driving drunk. It's called justice for drunk drivers.
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COVID-19 Scam: Man allegedly performed fake coronavirus tests on kids
Sez he can make more money from fake tests than from real one because naturally there's less overhead.
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Trump asks Supreme Court to shield his White House files from congressional probe
Sez he has a lot of porn in there that could prove embarrassing to a lot of people in his White House.
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Will Donald Trump Get Away With Inciting an Insurrection?
Certainly all his GOP co-conspirators are hoping he does--And doing everything in their power to see that he does [that they do].
Opinion: White supremacists are using an old playbook but so are the lawyers fighting them
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Sen. Manchin Said Constituent Complained Of ‘Crackhead Daughter’ Wasting Child Tax Credit
So he naturally assumed that every mother in West Virginia who qualified for a child tax credit was a crackhead. Sure. Makes perfect logical sense (to Manchin).
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People who cannot imagine the heights to which their future steps can take them prefer to glance back down at their dead ones buried in the flat monument upon which they stand.
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97-Year-Old World War II Vet Finally Gets High School Diploma
Sez he is a slow reader, a slow learner, slow talker, and that it took him a long time to walk to school and back.
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Trump Ally Peter Navarro Says The Jan. 6 Coup Conspiracy Part Out Loud -- Both Bannon and Navarro have been subpoenaed by the House select committee to testify. Trump urged Navarro in a statement to ignore the summons, keep mum and “protect executive privilege” in the investigation by the “Communist Democrats.”
I'm sorry but, how is this not witness tampering?!? Maybe the lawyers at the DOJ are "asleep on dope."
A habitual criminal like Donald Trump will never stop committing crimes until the cops finally place him in jail (and even then they will have to monitor him 24/7 so he does not continue his life of crime from jail). Donald Trump has been a criminal all his entire adult life and even before then always managed to get his old man to bail him out of any trouble he might find himself in with the authorities--Trump will be a criminal until the day he dies: It is the only thing he knows. It is the only thing he has ever known. And jail is the only thing that will finally put a stop to his spree of crimes, the only thing that will safeguard society from his continued & unending criminal activities.
Will Donald Trump Get Away With Inciting an Insurrection?
Head Of Watchdog Group Says Trump's D.C. Hotel Was 'Epicenter' Of Corruption
Adam Kinzinger Says Jan. 6 Committee Is Probing Whether Trump Committed A Crime
Sure, don't do the hard job (trying to find out if Trump even did anything that wasn't a crime).
Georgia Election Workers Sue Rudy Giuliani, OAN Over Election Fraud Claims
Rudy Giuliani and One America News sued by Georgia poll workers falsely accused of electoral fraud
Losses At Trump's Scottish Golf Courses Top An Astonishing $75 Million
I believe that's called Trump's Magic Touch.
Trump Golf Courses Claimed Nearly $4 Million In British Aid While He Was President
Opinion: Trump idolatry has undermined religious faith
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For the love of me, I will always be baffled why Democrats don't fashion more "What's Good For The Goose..." laws to promote their best agendas with the tools Republicans are everywhere creating to advance their worst ones.
Opinion: This Christmas, Republicans are giving themselves congressional seats for life
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Why some people don't want a Covid-19 vaccine
They claim that a near-death suffocation on an ICU ventilation machine is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that won't become available anytime soon in the future. It's just something you simply shouldn't miss.
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Opinion: Here’s why a criminal referral for Trump by the Jan. 6 committee is a bad idea
Because Trump revels being known as a criminal. He's likely to feature it in all his political ads. Trump believes that 'only suckers obey the law.' In fact, he might even claim he deserves a fourh Nobel Prize for it.
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Your DNA Test Could Send a Relative to Jail
Lots of my relatives should have been jailed a lot time ago. Where do I send my DNA?
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Professor unveils lickable TV screen
Sure, I can just see that working in my family: "Ok, everybody: Just one lick now!" ["That includes the dog!"]
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Anger over mask rules, pandemic restrictions spurs GOP-led states to curb health officials’ power
Claim doctors don't know shit. So from now on in Republican-controlled states GOP politicians will operate on patients in hospitals with their pen knives. [That will be the new politically correct.]
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Americans must rally against the real threat to our democracy: China -- Opinion by Hugh Hewitt
I'm thinking maybe a certain Hugh Hewitt guy might be a much greater threat to democracy than China (at least here in the U.S.).
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Why So Many People Are Unhappy With Democracy
Because all the other people won't do as you say?
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Why one school district dropped ‘Jingle Bells’ from curriculum
Because Republicans said that a single horse on an open sleigh promotes homosexuality among horses?
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Trump asks Supreme Court to consider Jan. 6 chairman’s interview with Washington Post in bid to block records -- In the article, former federal prosecutor Randall D. Eliason warned that the committee’s focus on criminal referrals could also boost the claims of those resisting subpoenas that the lawmakers’ inquiry doesn't have a legislative purpose, but rather, is meant to uncover crimes.
Sez that members of congress are way too stupid to do two things at the same time. [The Jan.6 committee of course has the leeway to refer to the DOJ any crimes it may uncover. It is one of its duties, in fact.]
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Home health care owner overcharged NC clients $1M for lavish shopping sprees, feds say
Clients claim that lavish shopping sprees shouldn't have cost that much.
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This tree has stood for 500 years. Will it be sold for $17,500?
Now you know how trees feel when insects kill them just to make a living for themselves. [It's probably worth a lot more than just a quick $17,500 to a bug.] And, by the way, now you also know the real value of a man.
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If You Like All The New Progressive Federal Judges, Thank Trump For Sabotaging Georgia
Trump is a cheat and a double-dealer: Of course he will never accept that he was beaten by an honest player.
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Most evangelical objections to vaccines have nothing to do with Christianity
Makes perfect sense, as so few evangelicals today have anything to do with Jesus. Evangelism in these United States is mostly all about getting emotionally overwrought and voting Republican.
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Secession might seem like the lesser of two evils. It’s also the less likely.
Well, let's hope that if it does happen, this time (unlike Lincoln) Biden picks General Grant from the start so the New Grant can grind the damn rebels down into the dust for their treason as quickly and inhumanly as possible.
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Researchers fear growing COVID vaccine hesitancy in developing nations
People in developing nations understand that there are just too many people in the world at the present time and so they have selflessly decided to try to decrease the surplus population beginning with themselves & their friends & families. That's something to be commended, as Trump might say.
Republicans are shouting: "We're not getting vaccinated!" And Covid is softly coming back at them: "All right."
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What Socrates can teach us about the art of civilized arguing
That if you try to engage in it other people are just gonna kill you. Yes. Hope the Democrats are paying attention to the lesson of Socrates. ["Tell people to 'treat others like they would like to be treated' and hope others never treat you like you treat them."]
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France culls over 600,000 poultry in new bird flu outbreak
Chickens don't seem to mind: These dangerous bitches were all on death row anyways.
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Words don’t last forever. That’s okay.
Their meaning is eternal: It's been around since we started grunting. And it will be around when we simply exchange mental algorithms back & forth. Smile at a newborn and see how quickly he understand it. Make a sad face at him and he will understand that too. But you will then have to stop his crying by showing him it's all right, and that he is loved no matter what. [That's how far back & deeply meaning goes.]
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Do dreams mean anything? Why do I feel like I’m falling? Or wake up paralyzed? We asked experts.
1) make sure you don't live with a serial killer
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Man accused in multiple fires taken into custody in Montgomery County
Sez he only set the fires because he was pretty sure he wasn't gonna get caught. [It's The Story of Law-Enforcement.]
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6 Wounded After 65 Shots Fired On Busy Philadelphia Street
Police are searching for members of the Bad-Shots Society of Philadelphia as probable suspects.
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Amazon's Alexa tells 10-year-old to touch a penny to a live socket
In Alexa's defense: She only wanted to establish how stupid the kid really was.
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Coaches forced a teen to eat pizza against his religion, he says. Now he’s suing.
Did not know there was an anti-pizza religion. ["Yes, you can do anything you want except eat pizza."] "Nope. This is not the religion for me. Sorry."
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South Korean Officials Warn That Cats Have Been Starting Fires By Turning On Stoves
Sez South Korean cat owners must start serving cats their meals on time... before the little kitties get so impatient that they start trying to cook their own meals themselves.
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Why Nicolas Cage Doesn't Like Being Called An 'Actor'
Sez it brings back too many painful memories of when he was an obnoxious little kid and everybody kept telling him to, "Stop acting up!"
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Capitol Officer Furious Over Mike Pence's Jan. 6 Comments After Police Saved His Life
Pence always was such a reprehensible ingrate! Ask Trump.
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Rand Paul Inadvertently Tells The Truth About Republican Voter Fraud Claims -- The Kentucky senator's claim that Democrats "steal" elections via "legally valid" votes lays bare the GOP's belief that no election is legitimate if a Democrat wins.
Trump is like the card cheat at a poker table who has spent all night cheating his heart out and still loses to an honest player: Of course there's no way Trump the card cheat is ever going to be convinced he was beaten honestly.
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 prohibits any attempt to limit voting. That makes only laws which expand voting legal in the United States. [Wake up, DOJ!]
Cheney: Trump Watched Jan. 6 Violence On TV, Ignored Pleas To Intervene
Chilling Trump Letter Calling For 'Seizure' Of Election Material Revealed In Log To Jan. 6 Probers
'Stop Listening To The Pillow Guy,' Trump Is No 'King,' Warns General
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We’re living in the new Dark Ages — and it’s time to turn on the light
I like the metaphor of anti-maskers/anti-vaxers going around telling each other to, "Let’s go lick a rat,’ in the middle of a plague (!). Which is pretty much what they're really doing when they fight against masks & vaccines in the middle of a plague (!).
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You know Betty White was beloved, but do you know why? Here are 7 clips to catch you up.
I think I do. Wasn't it because of all those tasty baking products she used to sell?
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NY Attorney General Subpoenas Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr.
Sez he couldn't issue them parking tickets, so he went with his next best option. [The Trumps are fighting it never-the-less!]
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Sweden prosecutes woman for recruiting son to fight in Syria
God bless my old Cuban mother! [I was one lucky bastard!]
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Ben-Gurion University researchers teach goldfish to drive
Researchers are now trying to make cars that won't rust out when they're completely filled with water, or leak. [Not to mention windows you can roll down without the driver floating away into the street.]
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Jan. 6 committee confirms Trump watched Capitol riot unfold on TV
Which was really peculiar for Trump because there was a cartoon playing on another channel.
Opinion: Two events set the stage for a showdown on democracy
Trump Was Just '5 Rudys Short' Of A Coup, Warns Conservative Website Column
Opinion: The Jan. 6 committee must consider Trump’s criminal liability
Opinion: The GOP’s grip on states is becoming a horror show. Some Democrats see a way out.
Opinion: Surprise: Democrats dodged a gerrymandering fiasco. A top analyst explains why.
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"God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform..." --William Cowper
Founder Of Anti-Vaccine Christian TV Network Dies After COVID-19 Fight
"El que por su mano muere la muerte le sabe a gloria." [Death must taste of Heaven to those who care not to go on with their lives.] Then let those who value death over life pay the price! And let it be known to all who knew them and who loved them exactly how little they were loved back. [When someone chooses death it means none of the things of life or anyone... ever had much value or meaning for them: Their own death was what they loved the most!]
GOP Activist Who Opposed COVID-19 Vaccine Rules Dies After Virus Complications
Deputy District Attorney Who Opposed Vaccine Mandates Dies From COVID At 46 -- Kelly Ernby, a Republican who ran for California State Assembly in 2020, said "there’s nothing that matters more than our freedoms right now" at a rally last month.
The good news is that (exercising his freedom of choice) he's now decided not to hold any more rallies.
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Prince Andrew’s Uncertain Legal Fate Casts Shadow on Britain’s Royals -- As Queen Elizabeth II prepares to mark 70 years on the throne, a sexual abuse case involving her son could mean more turmoil for the royal family.
Somebody should have told Andy that if you can't do the time you shouldn't do the crime: He was a big boy and he pretty well knew what he was doing. He went ahead & did it. Now the time has come to pay the piper.
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UK Police Won’t Act Against Prince Andrew Over Abuse Claim
Say they can't charge him while he's still in office and will have to wait until he's no longer prince. [from the best-selling What's The Difference Between Democracy and Aristocracy?]
Peng Shuai reappears on China’s censored Internet amid silence over sexual assault claims
Instead of charging (or even investigating) the high-ranking communist party rapist, they silence and imprison the rape victim [from the best-selling What's The Difference Between Democracy and Communism?]
Another post-Soviet ‘ruler for life’ faces upheaval, as protests sweep Kazakhstan
And now you know why democracy is preferable. [from the best-selling What's The Difference Between Democracy and Autocracy]
My Book Was Censored in China. Now It’s Blacklisted — in Texas.
Democracy is unique in the world. Everything else you can lump in the cesspool of 'others' below it. [from the best-selling What's The Difference Between Democracy and The Republican Party?]
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Dominion Hits Newsmax, OANN With $1.6 Billion Lawsuits Over Election Lies
Maybe it's me, but doesn't it seem as if Dominion and Smartmatic are the only ones actually really DOING anything about all the shameless lying the GOP lunatic fringe is doing?
D.C. judges express frustration about possible leniency in Capitol riot cases
Seven Capitol Police officers sue Trump, right-wing groups over injuries from Jan. 6 riot
Another U.S. Capitol Police officer sues Trump for damages from Jan. 6
How to Stop Trump and Prevent Another Jan. 6
Mary Trump Guesses Why Donald Trump Ignored Ivanka's Pleas To Stop Capitol Riot
Trump Could Be Hit With 'Seditious Conspiracy' Charge, Former U.S. Prosecutor Says
Peter Navarro wants you to know they only intended to overthrow the government peacefully
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McConnell Dismisses Notion That ‘Idiots’ Would Try To Overturn Election Results
I'm always fascinated by Mitch McConnell. It's as if he doesn't know that in a Trump dictatorship his is one of the first heads that's gonna roll! And very probably quite literally.
Trump Tried A Coup In Plain Sight — And Has, So Far, Gotten Away With It -- ... the two top Republican leaders in Congress, after initially criticizing Trump for causing the Capitol assault, have both dropped that message. Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, despite excoriating Trump on the floor of the chamber, nevertheless voted to acquit him on the impeachment charges that could have banned him from federal office for the rest of his life. And House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, of California, has gone even further, fully embracing Trump with a pilgrimage to his Palm Beach, Florida, social club just 22 days after pleading with him on the phone to call off his mob.
It's not as if in a Trump dictatorship Mitch is just gonna lose his job. No. He'll probably have to answer propped up charges for personal treason to The Dictator and have to forfeit all his properties, pay insurmountable fines, and have his family dishonored & worse, probably and even lose his life. But one thing is certain: Nobody will shed a tear for Mitch.
Violent Conflict Expert Envisions Right-Wing Dictatorship 'By 2030, If Not Sooner'
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Biden calls Trump threat to democracy on anniversary of Capitol attack
Those who vainly hope that 'average Republicans' change their minds about Trump had better start remembering how 'average Germans' fought & were willing to die down to the last handful for Hitler in the last days of the Third Reich.
How Many Celebrity Politicians Have To Ruin America Before Americans Stop Electing Them?
The FBI's Secret Weapon In The Capitol Attack Manhunt
America’s Most Urgent Threat Now Comes From Within
Opinion: The gears of justice can grind down the forces of insurrection
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‘Groveling’ Ted Cruz Mocked After Extremely Awkward Tucker Carlson Interview
In Ted Cruz's defense: With very few exceptions practically ALL of today's Republicans are sniveling groveling worms.
Ted Cruz kisses Tucker Carlson’s feet, exposing the right's ugly underbelly
I think what Ted Cruz had on his lips after kissing Carlson he had to spit out pronto into the nearest toilet. But we'll just leave it at that.
Opinion: The GOP isn’t even trying to sound coherent anymore
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Republicans To Filibuster Bill Averting Government Shutdown, Debt Default
Anything to bring the whole thing down on our heads. No reason: Just to see how it falls.
Opinion: McConnell has given Democrats the justification they need to kill the filibuster
Voting Rights Legislation Filibustered By Republicans For A Third Time
Voting Rights Activists Press Biden To Back Filibuster Changes For Major Election Bills
One More Voting Rights Filibuster Will Soon Cause A Final Showdown In The Senate
Opinion: Democrats have declared a voting-rights emergency — but where’s the urgency?
The anti-filibuster effort is winning
Manchin’s incorrect claim of a 232-year filibuster ‘tradition’
If Biden really wants to change voting rights in this country he must announce that the next time the Electoral Count takes place he has instructed VP Harris to declare the votes of states who closely vote for the Republican presidential candidate in the next election are void, their voting tallies siezed, and have those states do a do-over again & again until the Democratic candidate is declared the winner (exactly like the Trump Republicans wanted last election). Then he must declare martial law and arrest Republicans who object--unless Republican want to join Democrats in passing laws against such Trumpian outrages, of course. Nothing like bipartisanshipo. [sic.]
Go tell Manchin and Sinema that protecting democracy is more important than protecting the filibuster. They have a right to know. They probably know a lot about the filibuster [maybe, see above] but they certainly don't know that much about democracy.
For Joe Manchin, apparently 'bipartisanship' is anything the Republicans want.
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Trump abruptly ends NPR interview after he is pressed on baseless election fraud claims
Every time Trump opens his mouth he tells you what a whopping moron he is. The only people who don't mind his being such a whopping moron are whopping morons like him. Unfortunately this says a lot more about a lot of people in this country than it does about Trump.
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"Ooops, did I say that outloud?"
ADL Slams Indiana State Senator: ‘There’s Nothing Neutral About Nazism’
["Sorry."]
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What is the Electoral Count Act, and why are people calling for it to be reformed as we near Jan. 6?
GOP floats tweaks to vote counting law targeted by Trump as Democrats make voting rights push -- Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters Tuesday that focusing solely on electoral vote counting procedures “makes no sense,”
... “If you’re going to rig the game, and then say, ‘Oh, we’ll count the rigged game accurately,’ what good is that?” he said. Republicans, he added, “want to now both rig the game and rig the count. But to just say we won’t rig the count but we’re going to rig the game makes no sense whatsoever.”
In seeking to banish the Electoral Vote Count the Republicans are now trying to set up a situation where they rig the election in the states at the same time they have eliminated any chance that the Congress could object to the rigging! If the Democrats don't fight this they're lost and our democracy with them.
Opinion: Biden explains why we cannot move on from Jan. 6
Opinion: Bipartisanship is out for Biden. It’s about time.
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Passenger enters cockpit on American Airlines plane, delaying takeoff from Honduras to Miami
"I'm sorry, is this the men's room?"
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Novak Djokovic apologizes for travel form error as Australia weighs whether to cancel his visa again
Is a celebrity allowed to kill others by infecting them with a deadly virus when ordinary folks are forbidden to do so?
GOP Activist Who Opposed COVID-19 Vaccine Rules Dies After Virus Complications -- Canon was known for her successful grassroots work to ban red light cameras in Arlington. More recently, she was outspoken against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and mask rules, and also promoted false claims that the 2020 election was rigged. In a November Facebook post, she celebrated that her employer had granted her a religious exemption from getting the COVID-19 vaccine, The Daily Beast reported.
I can't wrap my head around vaccination exemptions for celebrities, or 'religious exemptions' for that matter: Does this mean that, under the laws of this country, if one believes in God one is allowed to kill others simply because one believes in God?!? I thought government protected me from murderers and not just simply from murderers who are atheists. Because, if it comes down to it, I would be just as miffed about being murdered by a God-fearing man as I would be by a godless infidel.
Who gives such power of life & death to the church in this country (in which supposedly government is not allowed to make laws on religion)?!? Who gives such power of life & death to celebrities & other dangerous fools, like politicians!?! Only medical experts should be allowed to have the last word on medical matters! I don't want Donald Trump being asked how my operation should be performed, or even when or if. I need my doctor to have the only say on matters like that. I want the CDC to have the last word on vaccines, not my third-grade graduate neighbors (lots of'em copied Poindexter's paper).
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Mike Lindell Never Filed That Election Lawsuit But He Is Promoting The Hell Out Of His Pillows
Don't worry, Trump's followers will never get it through their thick heads they're being conned top to bottom (that's Lindell there). ["Shut up and buy a pillow!"]
Mike Lindell is bringing an imaginary knife to a gun fight
I predict Mike Lindell will end up blowing his brains out one day. It is inevitable.
Are you one of the 1 in 11 Americans Mike Lindell doesn’t want to arrest?
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Russia planning potential sabotage operations in Ukraine, U.S. says
Incredible how some people just like to cause harm to others! [from the best-selling Why Criminals Like Putin Can't Stop Committing More Crimes And Just Enjoy Their Ill-Gotten Loot]
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Hey, Virginia lawmakers, the Lincoln-Douglas debates did not involve Frederick Douglass
This I love.
Lincoln: I think we should free the slaves.
Frederick Douglass: Oh, I don't know about that...
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Why everything is so expensive right now
Because it costs more. [Now you won't have to fund a 10-year study.]
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OPINION: I Thought We’d All Have Teslas By Now
Me too. And I'm gonna be needing one to stay in when they finally succeed in evicting me from my apartment.
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Lady Gaga Believes Her ‘House Of Gucci’ Character Sent Swarms Of Flies After Her
Or ... it might be that they didn't 'cure' the cowhide they used for her obscenely-expensive purse properly.
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You’re done with it all. You head for the hills. What books do you bring?
Ah! So you've got a cabin in the hills, a full larder, electricity, TV and other amenities, & all the comforts of civilization--Those 'hills' are behind your mansion, aren't they?
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Am I enabling my daughter who lives at home rent-free? Carolyn Hax readers give advice.
If she is spending more time in your home than in Kindergarten: Yes! Kick that lazy little lady out on her freeloading keister!
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The backstory on Fauci’s ‘what a moron’ comment about a senator
"I'm sorry I let out that you're a moron, senator."
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Four reasons you’re seeing empty store shelves
1) I left my eyeglasses home again
2) I'm at the store shelves store again
3) I fell asleep reading this article (again)
4) I bought out all they had in there (again)
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As the U.S. and Russia debate Ukraine, it’s hard to see the wiggle room
Apparently Ukraine doesn't belong to the Ukrainians.
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Megan Fox And Machine Gun Kelly Drank Each Other’s Blood & Are Now Engaged
They will now travel to Transylvania, where they will dig up some body to officiate at their wedding.
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Opinion: The smoking gun that Liz Cheney is looking for on Trump comes into view -- Now note that Cheney has repeatedly suggested the committee is examining whether Trump, in refusing to talk down the mob, might have done so as part of a deliberate effort to obstruct Congress’ counting of electors.
Am I crazy or didn't Trump specifically and endlessly call upon Pence to throw a monkey wrench in that process?!? Doesn't that mean he was deliberately trying to obstruct Congress’ counting of electors?!? [Apparently not in politico-speech.]
How much proof does Congress need?
Answer: So much that when they finally decide to do nothing they have done a monstrous amount of talking about doing something.
Trump Tried A Coup In Plain Sight — And Has, So Far, Gotten Away With It
Talk. Talk. Talk. [Talk is cheap.] Charge Trump with that phone call to Georgia. It's recorded. What more proof you need. When you don't see Trump being charged even with that you know he ain't gonna be charged with nothing. [No wonder the American people don't wanna hear anymore about any of this.]
Opinion: A single district attorney in Georgia has the best case against Trump
Opinion: Polling on Jan. 6 shows the vast majority of Americans aren’t crazy
Of course Donald Trump bears primary blame for Jan. 6
Opinion: The false prophets who inspired the violence on Jan. 6
Opinion: Trump must have his day in court for his crimes on Jan. 6
Trump Gushed They're 'Fighting For Me' As He 'Gleefully' Watched Capitol Riot On TV: Ex-Aide
Rep. Mo Brooks Reportedly 'Cheered' Capitol Riot As Colleagues Feared For Their Lives
We now have the first seditious-conspiracy charges from Jan. 6. Here’s how historic that is.
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Mitt Romney Says Joe Biden Is ‘Casting Doubt’ On Elections, Just Like Donald Trump
However, Mitt promises to start taking his meds again soon. After the midterm elections.
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The rise of a pro-democracy media -- ... over the past year, an emboldened media has not only extensively covered the new radicalism of the GOP — its questioning of election results, targeting of election officials and push to ban discussions of race relations in schools — but increasingly described long-standing Republican tactics such as aggressive gerrymandering and support for voting restrictions as the dangers to democracy that they are.
Most media people are like all the other people out there: They can't seem to see anything good about democracy now because it might offend the GOP and others of their ilk; but when the dictatorship takes hold, they will certainly suddenly see plenty of things about democracy that are just pure evil. [See Cuba, China, Russia, et al]
Opinion: Democrats are missing a chance to make democracy a major issue
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Republicans cheer decision on vaccine mandate; experts express concerns -- Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who led the group of states that challenged the requirement, called it “a big win for workers.”
Sez that now as many of'em as wanna die are finally at complete liberty to do so. Then he proposed raising a golden statue to the great Doctor Kevorkian. [Whom many in the GOP worship as a nobler/higher serial killer than they because Doctor Kevorkian only killed people who wanted to die, while infected Republicans will kill anybody close by, friend or foe.]
The GOP celebration of covid ignorance is an invitation to death
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Carolyn Hax: Should a parent limit son’s screen time to force him to play outside?
Sure: All children have to learn how to dodge the neighborhood child molester. Or not.
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Russia Issues Subtle Threats More Far-Reaching Than a Ukraine Invasion
An outlaw is threatening the world with a crime-spree if it doesn't legitimize his ill-gotten loot. It will be interesting to see whether the world knuckles under to this criminal or stands up to him because I am of the opinion that there is no limits on a criminal who thinks he's winning: Putin will continue to increase his demands until he is stopped or is dead. He just does not know how else to live.
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Why not lottery admissions for great high schools?
Well, I want to win the lottery, but I certainly don't want to go back to high school!
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Michigan AG Asks Justice Department To Investigate Fake GOP State Electors
Republican criminals, following Trump's lead, had no qualms or worries about committing their crimes right out in the open for everyone to see. Let's see if that was the smart move, because I have me doubts about Trump's 'smarts.'
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Kyrsten Sinema Faces Backlash From Arizona Democrats For Pro-Filibuster Stance
There is very little doubt that this is Sinema's last term in the senate. One wonders whether she doesn't realize this or is counting on it because she has some better offer.
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Feeling bored makes you more likely to act sadistically - study
Maybe this is the reason why the push to succeed is so prevalent in human society. However...
It's time somebody said it: Seeking to succeed is a sickness, a form of mental illness. We are chimps, and it is our natural lifestyle to just enjoy hanging around, making friends, talking about our feelings & emotions, and listening to others talk about theirs (it is a selfish behavior which allows us to understand how level-headed we ourselves really are in relation to others).
The push to succeed is unhealthy not only to ourselves but also to society in general because most of the time we measure our success by how terribly we've run others over.
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Opinion: On Jan. 6 anniversary, Republicans plumb new depths -- Republican lawmakers spent most of the next 364 days trying to erase any trace of the insurrection and Trump’s role in it. They opposed impeachment, they opposed an independent commission, they opposed (then sabotaged and boycotted) an investigative committee, and they embraced as gospel Trump’s “big lie” that the 2020 election was stolen.
In all the annals of American politics there has never been a more vile creep than Donald Trump. But without all his Republican enablers that's all Trump would be now: just a pitiful perv spewing his nonsense from the sidewalk's flowing sewers while drifting away from all hearing.
Federal Judge Appears Skeptical That Trump Can't Be Held Liable In Assault On Capitol
CNN Unearths Audio Of Kevin McCarthy Saying Trump Admitted Responsibility For Riot
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16 Straight Hours Inside The Alternate Reality Of Pro-Trump TV Channel OAN
Right now the United States is weathering a deadly struggle for democracy between the human souls who yet wish to write their own destiny and the unconscionable forces of the GOP that are seeking to set up the usual doomed Latin American right-wing dictatorship. I am a Cuban: I was born there during the Batista dictatorship; and I know for a fact that such a dictatorship inspires the most noble of determination in decent people of good will to struggle against it. And not all the time do these sorts of noble struggles end up in a good end.
It did not end well in Cuba, where Fidel Castro hijacked the noble good fight and established a monstrous communist tyranny which still holds there to this day.
Republicans are naively unconscious of the fact that if they somehow manage to establish a Batista-style dictatorship in this country their countrymen of good will not go down quietly but will instead launch a deadly serious counterattack to regain the say over their own destiny: That noble good fight will and must win out eventually because you cannot forever hold in chains a great population like the one which peoples this vast and freedom-loving country. You can see the contempt Republicans have for the American people's love of freedom in John Eastman's infamous “coup memo,” where he 'blithely' writes that there would merely be “howls, of course, from Democrats” after Trump's unconscionable coup. But who doesn't understand, outside a few lunatics like Trump and Eastman, that the American people (and even lots of Republicans at that) will join the good noble fight to regain their say over their collective destiny?
As a Cuban I tell you to think again, because once the struggle against the dictator begins its ultimate destination will be utterly unpredictable. It is a once-in-a-lifetime miracle that the American people got as the military leader of its noble good fight a beloved (and heirless) George Washington whose officers respected his decision not to proclaim himself king: Don't count on such a miracle happening again! More usual than not it will turn out to be some just-as-terrible a dictator as the overthrown one, or perhaps an even worse one. Possibly some second Fidel Castro who, like Washington, will ride in on a white horse... but who (unlike old and weary of more struggles Washington) will be young and eager for more bloodshed still; and who will not hand the people back their destiny but keep it for himself and his family alone. Aim now your eyes at Cuba and (with the wisdom of the ages) see what might very well be the fate of your own children & their children's children if you do not stop at this moment the mad meritless foolishness of a few greedy men.
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The Justice Dept. alleged Jan. 6 was a seditious conspiracy. Now will it investigate Trump? -- “We better be real careful that we don’t start taking political and emotional comments by public figures and try to turn them into the stuff of criminal prosecutions,” former federal prosecutor James Trusty said.
Typical Democrat pussyfooting. The Republicans will take any political and emotional comments by public figures and turn them into criminal prosecutions of their enemies the instant they can do so. And then the Democrats will cry, "Where did that come from?!" As they are led to the death chamber. This is why Democrats get no respect except from cartoon characters.
The rationale for law enforcement is that those on the side of the law must be as tough on the criminals as the criminals are on the law-abiding (because anything less than that is victory for the criminals). If the Democrats don't understand this then we must find some other group to save us from the GOP because the Democrats are just not up to it. Nobody wants a cop who will at most only appeal to the conscience of the criminals.
The GOP has no problem being completely unmoored from reality. -- The Biden administration’s poll numbers are lagging, and there are already rumblings of a tough midterm election for the Democratic Party. Part of the reason why is that the Democratic base is feeling abandoned by the people it elected. Instead of fighting fire with fire, Democratic politicians seem determined to let the GOP define the rules. Why should the party that doesn’t believe in anything beyond owning the libs and serving its donors set the parameters for politics and society?
Opinion: Trump’s Arizona project shows the dire threat to American democracy
Reconstruction-Era Law Could Keep Trump Off Presidential Ballot In 6 Southern States
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Eric Trump Pleaded The Fifth More Than 500 Times In Deposition, Court Filing Says
Man! That's a lot of times to believe one had better remain quiet on the grounds if one opens one's mouth anything one says would be incriminating!
4 big points from the N.Y. attorney general’s Trump allegations
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Biden Admits He Didn’t Anticipate ‘Stalwart’ GOP Opposition
Sez he's stupid, but hopes he won't he as stupid from here on out. Then he invited some GOP 'friends' over for a couple of beers.
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In catering to selfish parents, Youngkin is failing Virginia’s kids
Virginia’s kids don't vote, selfish parents do.
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The West can’t stand by as Putin tries to resurrect the ‘evil empire’
All he will be able to resurrect is The Evil Guy: Communism long ago sucked out the economic, moral, and psychological strengths of Russia. Today Russia is a sinking third world nation with an economy the size of Texas--with nuclear weapons, yes, but with a population which although FIVE times larger is beaten and bankrupt. Putin is the little squirt in the bar challenging every big boy to a fight because he's drunk with his own inferiority complex. Only China poses an economic threat to the US, and Xi is working hard as he can to bankrupt China as well. Let's be patient a while & trust in the magic of communism to destroy our enemies.
Putin aims beyond Ukraine. Checking him now is crucial.
Putin to Ukraine: ‘Marry Me or I’ll Kill You’
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Fla. governor proposes special police agency to monitor elections
Or so begins the police state.
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White House to distribute 400 million free N95 masks starting next week
What a waste of money! Just give one to Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch:
Neil Gorsuch Reportedly Refuses To Wear Mask In Court, Forcing Others To Call In
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BlackRock’s Larry Fink tells fellow CEOs that businesses are not ‘climate police’
The most salient example yet of why it is urgent and necessary for the state to pass laws to protect its citizens from the rapacious, always incapable of self-control nature of big business. The greed of big business will run down to the last fish in the lake and the last tree in the forest if it is not checked by law.
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Climate advocates call breaking up BBB a ‘mistake’ for the planet
Ha! Only for everyone who is not a Republican: Republicans are not affected by any of this because, lucky for them, they live in an alternate universe far, far away.
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After Jan. 6 Panel Asks McCarthy for Interview, He Refuses to Cooperate
McCarthy sounds like a guilty man: They need to go after this bum as forcefully as they can.
Opinion: Subpoena Kevin McCarthy
Opinion: Kevin McCarthy’s coverup for Trump may be hiding knowledge of possible crimes
Washington Post Torches Kevin McCarthy: ‘Thrown In His Lot With Enemies Of Democracy’
According to most law enforcement, lawyering up like that (before at least the appearance of cooperating with the authorities--the voters) is a telling admission from the git-go of guilt in some crime or other.
Thompson says some of the Jan. 6 protesters met with members of Congress
As Giuliani coordinated plan for Trump electoral votes in states Biden won, some electors balked
Jan. 6 Investigators Zeroing In On Apparent Plot To Hijack Election With Fake Electors
Giuliani Reportedly In Charge Of Fake Electors Who Filed Fake Certificates For Trump
Supreme Court, investigators force Trump and his children on the defensive on multiple fronts
Opinion: Courts hand Donald Trump loss after loss after loss
The multilayered effort to steal the election on Jan. 6, 2021
Executive Privilege Ruling Lands Steve Bannon, Mark Meadows In 'Deep Doo-Doo': Legal Expert
Georgia DA Asks For Special Grand Jury To Investigate Trump Election Interference
“If he gets charged in Georgia, he becomes a martyr,” said one Trump adviser
Do it! Do it! Martyr Trump!
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‘Endemic’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does
Oh? Then it's not that horrible stinking stuff that oozes out the back end of men?
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Peter Navarro Claims He Saw ‘Nothing But Peaceful People’ On Insurrection Day
"Except," he went on to say, "Except for a couple of winged giraffes, several ballet bears, plus three unicorns he saw in the same passing clouds."
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University Strips Michael Flynn, Rudy Giuliani Of Honorary Degrees
Sez it turns out they're just a couple of bums.
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Martha Stewart Says She Broke It Off With Anthony Hopkins Over This Iconic Role
Martha: Is that you, Anthony? (Cradles her gun.)
Anthony: I'm over here, Martha.
Martha: I can't see you. (Shoots twice in one direction.)
Anthony: Now I'm here. (Martha shoots twice in a different direction.) You missed again, Martha. Now you only have two more bullets left. (Scream.)
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Why Manchin and Sinema waived the filibuster for the debt ceiling but won’t for voting rights
"Gotta keep them negroes outta the vot'n booth." [We know.]
McConnell waves off voting concerns, says Black people turn out as heavily as ‘Americans’
And now you know what Mitch thinks of black people (and why it's so easy for Republicans to be so comfortable keeping Black people from voting). Now it's just a matter of what country Republicans might be thinking of 'sending them back to' (all those illegals). [from the best-selling Us Americans and Dem Black People] That Jim Crow 2.0 crack was dead-on-the-money.
‘WOW!’: Stephen Colbert Stunned As McConnell Accidentally Says What He Means
McConnell Responds Defensively To Criticism Of His ‘African American’ Comment
Mitch claims that Republicans are working diligently at the voting booth to determine which Black person is really a citizen and which isn't. Sez no Blacks voting on his watch! Only Americans.
Opinion: Behind their big defeat, Democrats may have reached a turning point
On Voting Rights, Democrats Say They Had to Go Down Swinging
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Man Charged After Allegedly Showing His Ass On Flight, Refusing To Wear Mask
Guess it wasn't as sweet and beautiful an ass as he imagined it was.
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Critics Erupt When Tucker Carlson Compares Vaccines To Nazi Experiments On Jews
How can there be no laws the people can use to stop obcenities like FOX News from spewing nothing but vicious dangerous lies over the people's airways?!?
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100 Millionaires And Billionaires Sign Open Letter Pleading For Higher Taxes
What they should do is put their money where their mouths are and start contributing to Democrats running for office.
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Truck Carrying 100 Monkeys Crashes, Some Escape
Don't worry: only a couple of the barrels broke.
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Search for monkey missing after US motorway crash -- The monkey was being transported to a lab in Florida but escaped after the accident in Pennsylvania.
"I should've never let the monkey drive."
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about you, just stay out of the headlines!"
is The New Yankee Doodle Song all the British soldiers
are getting drunk to in the Boston pubs now:
and told him he was stolen!
So Trump got on his hobby-horse
until his ass was swollen:
CHORUS:
Trump is telling every one
that he has been stolen
but the only proof he has
is that his ass is swollen.
and screaming he's been stolen
and as their proof they're dressing up
with Trump's revolting colon:
CHORUS:
Trump is telling every one
that he has been stolen
but the only proof he has
is that his ass is swollen.
the talking heads are swearing
but all their proof of the Great Crime
is the Trump shit they're airing:
CHORUS:
Trump is telling every one
that he has been stolen
but the only proof he has
is that his ass is swollen.
SURE PROOF of The Great Lie
and it is that when someone asks
they all rush to reply:
CHORUS:
Trump is telling every one
that he has been stolen
though the only proof he has
is that his ass is swollen.
Answer: Not from Trump riding his hobby-horse but
from the serious ass-whipping that Joe Biden gave him.
who thinks everyone on earth's a chump
and keeps his slippery thievin hands tiny
so he can slip them into your private heinie
(even if you're sitting on a wooden chair)
to take out valuables you had in there:
You may cry after you've been plumbed
by Trump & left there kinda hurt & dumbed
& singing like an instrument he has strummed
in, "Gee, I wonder how he got his hands to fit
so well into the nethers of my southmost bit?!"
1) building European-style secular democracies
2) building Islamic (very clearly non-secular)
democracies in Muslim-majority countries
minority rights in the Senate while refusing to
protect minority rights in the society.”
Long answer: the GOP
The Democrats used to be the party of "Please and Thank You."
Now they are the party just only of "Pretty Please."
[Thousands & thousands if you get the entire set.]
These are all real headlines--I'm the one who's unreal.
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