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In THREE words.
J.O.B.S. is a nine letter word.
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Several problems stare anyone in the face about that list:
(1) “Abuse of power” as per, say, Wikipedia, indicates a wrongful or illegal act, not merely an official act within a person’s lawful realm of authority that you just don’t like.
(2) Fact? The transcript is fact. You’re spouting fiction.
(3) The President does not serve at the pleasure of Congress.
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About “abuse of power”?
Yeah, because President Trump had already “abused power” as soon as he was elected and before he was even inaugurated when they first began talking about getting rid of him via impeachment.
And the “Fact versus fiction” – funny, we can agree it is about that. This only works for them through their consistent use of projection. Projection. (Schiff’s entire Opening was a great example of blind projection.)
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Brian, when was the last time you were at Epstein’s home?
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“Listed among the U.S. – Canadian “cluster” is Evelyn N. Farkas, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia, who already in October of 2016 said:
“And actually, if Donald Trump were elected I believe he would be impeached pretty quickly or somebody else would have to take over government. And I am not even joking.”
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It’s amazing how “entitled” and how “smart” the Farkas’s of the world think they are, they were given the illusion of being powerful because of incompetent Obama who just let the administrative state do what they wanted for 8-years.
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Question? Is there something in that first transcript that POTUS
wants to release it? They haven;t asked for it or demanded it?
Does is contradict something? And why wait till after the hearings?
No one on the other side seems to worried at this point about it
release at least not that I have heard. So..what is the purpose?
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The important thing is that the Dems don’t know either. LOL
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Xactly
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How could the Dems NOT know what’s in it? They clearly have spies and moles spread deeply throughout the whole damn government apparatus. Now that partisanship has replaced honor and patriotism, I don’t think it is possible to ever clean the government.
There is no longer any reasonable expectation of privacy in any communications, except via trusted couriers (family, Rudy…).
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Our VSG PDJT redirected all of his transcrippts after the same morons leaked his early phone calls. They are not being held in the general mailbox. Has the IC community splodeyheading!
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Yeah, just introducing more uncertainty into the mix. When you’re building on lies it can overwhelm you with possibilities.
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The witnesses in this sham may think twice about blurting out a damaging statement for fear the first transcript may contradict them. Never let your enemy know everything you know.
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At this moment, they have the media’s full attention- to get their fraudulent message out. They believe voters are stupid. They believe their empty narrative will sell.
The transcript is for another day.
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its prior to BIDEN ANNOUNCING HIS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. (April 25) call Apr 21st
see the DOTs? a SPYING ON THE CALL through staff -hence staff no longer around in later calls… LED BIDEN to present the DEFENCE OF hiding behind being a presidential opponent.
its getting good now! and even Ambassdor Taylor is realizing what a DUPE he has been
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that actually makes sense to me.
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Wouldn’t it be hilarious if in the first call, Zelensky says something like, Mr. President, if I don’t make the public statement, will you still release the aid? And Trump says, of course not. Do what you think is right. I feel you should probably look into these matters, but I would never hold up much needed aid for your country because of it.
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The real reason Ciaramella must not be questioned
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The “whistleblower” was involved in shutting down the investigation of Burisma.
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That’s huge. Hopefully, PJDT and the Repubs know this.
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If we do you can be certain that they do.
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Chimpy…I do BELIEVE that PDJT knows EVERYTHING these malcontents are doing and iis just waiting for the right time…”Timing is Everything in Show Bizness”…and PDJT is a SHOWMAN of the FIRST CALIBER!!!!!!!!!
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Even the Ukrainians were like: “FBI? You’re joking, right?”
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We’re all thankful to your friend providing you with some clothing. 🙄
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A triangle. Really, Katie Hill?
You choose a TRIANGLE as a symbol for your, um, “movement”?
All rightee then….
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😂
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I’m paying attention and I’m only upset that women are still so stupid that they keep taking nudie photos of themselves.
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It’s already a Schiff show..just perused Stefanik. It’s a circus.
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The White House dismissed the report, saying that the SPLC “is an utterly-discredited, long-debunked far-left smear organization” and is “beneath public discussion.”
👀 Looking at you, The Hill.
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The impeachment hearings today are really a fake made for television event. That’s why all the networks are preempting their programming.
The secret hearings were the auditions. The actors were given a script, the questions asked and answers given, they ran through their lines. Only the actors approved by Schiff for brains were chosen for the production. The lawfare lawyers and the defense lawyers have since then been tightening the script, questions and answers for maximum effect.
Any question by republicans that are not in the script will be stopped by Schiff or the defense lawyers. When he calls a republican question out of order, he is saying CUT just like a tv taping.
Will be interesting how many times the actors/witnesses have to refer to the script during questioning.
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Extensive preparation (especially of witnesses who have trouble “remembering” the facts……ahem haven’t adequately memorized their prepped testimony) can sometimes prove problematic in court and lead to substantiation of “coaching the witness” allegations
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Schiff is going to schiff into his pants when the money flow toward the witnesses made public. And it’s going to happen, guaranteed.
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Rand Paul Drops The ‘C’-Word: Names Whistleblower, Demands Testimony
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rand-paul-drops-c-word-names-whistleblower-demands-testimony
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I’ll just leave this here:
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Perhaps Ginsburg will need to be replaced. I wonder whether after the IG report comes out Roberts will need to be replaced, too.
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That is to much to hope for. It would send the deep state into a frenzy.
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We can hope, can’t we. 🙄
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Indeed we can.
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I think the Deep State and the Dems passed “frenzy” a long time ago. In fact, they’ve already passed “hysterical”, “blathering” and “ridiculous” as well.
Next mark, I believe, is “lost”.
😛
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An interesting thought to consider is that the IG report may “remove” the evidence being held over his head.
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So we are on a flight path to simultaneous happenings:
– The Impeachmentation follies
– new SC hearings when whats-her-name finally cannot be revived
– IG Report consequences
– Durham takedown of the IC and O admin
It’s going to be an interesting year.
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Ms. Ginsberg is very near to the end of her (very honorable) “tenure on this mortal coil,” and it frankly pains me to watch her … dying. She needs to retire from the bench now, not fall over dead while sitting at it. She has served her country wisely and well, but death comes to us all.
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There’s nothing honorable about slaughtering babies or using foreign law to rewrite our laws from the bench.
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She is the enemy. She would disarm all of us if she could. Nothing honourable about any of them at all.
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Mike,
It’s her choice. If she chooses to remain on the bench until the moment that she falls over dead, then we the people have the same right to choose to not be pained by watching it occur.
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Persistently and consistently yes but “wisely and well?”…by whose/what standard?
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They are saying that it is a “stomach flu”…my personal opinion is that her cancer has returned (if it was ever even gone) and the end is near. If the Ds have known this for a little while this whole impeachment circus takes on a new light. They HAVE to have some kind of investigation going on so that they can prevent the President from naming another Justice to SCOTUS. It will all be in McConnell’s hands if push comes to shove…
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Could be a Democrat strategic mistake. McConnell has been, if nothing else, extremely supportive of loading the judiciary with conservative jurists. When RBG passes on, true to established pattern, McConnell will look upon it as a grand opportunity to put another constitutionalist on SCOTUS.
Would be amusing, and mind-blowing for leftists, if McConnell decides to consider the SC position BEFORE handling the faux impeachment case. Yeah, I know that’s a silly pipe-dream, but after all, we’re entitled to be “dreamers”…
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I think McConnell and his wife are dirty up to their necks in Chinese money and PDJT knows it as well. I suspect there may be a deal made where they do not get exposed on that connection in exchange for getting through the President’s judicial nominees, come he** or high water!
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That kind of deal is plausible, though I think PT would also use the leverage for additional purposes, like handling (or killing) the impeachment case if it ever makes it to the Senate.
I guess the amount of leverage held by PT depends on the extent McConnell has benefited from Chinese money. Could be quite a lot given how long it’s been going on.
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Taiwan and China don’t share a lot of love, and McConnell’s wife is from a prominent Taiwanese family. So I’m very skeptical that he and his wife are “up to their necks in Chinese money.”
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Sorry – try again…
https://nypost.com/2018/03/17/how-mcconnell-and-chao-used-political-power-to-make-their-family-rich/
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For the record, very few inhabitants of Taiwan are true Taiwanese….but most are ethnically Chinese as are those in the PRC.
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The Justice’s ongoing health issues combined with the impeachment inquiry show indicate that show may be all about tying up the President’s ability to replace her when she passes away, should that happen before the 2020 election;
trying to create a plausible story line to the effect that it’s an election year, this President is under their “cloud” of impeachable offense ideas so therefore no nominations to replace her should happen.
Or some such theory may be what is behind this Democrat tv show.they’re calling an inquiry.
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What Today’s Impeachment Hearings Are Going to Look Like Brutally Illustrated in 5 Cartoons
https://thefederalistpapers.org/political-cartoon/todays-impeachment-hearings-going-look-like-brutally-illustrated-5-cartoons
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Love the #2 pencil neck……
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Ha, that was what stood out to me also.
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All good.
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It’s a clown show. I refuse to watch or listen to it.
I’ll find out what happened once it’s all over.
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I’m getting a kick out of it. The lawyer for the Reps asked a long series of questions about the Bidens that were actually statements and Amb. Taylor kept saying he knew nothing about. He got it all in the record. LOLOL I can’t believe Schiff is letting them get away with this. It’s great.
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I’ll pass.
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I’m sure SD will cover it.
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Without question.
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I can’t watch politicians.
Politics is the place that unattractive talentless people go if they want to be rich and famous.
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This is the Mark Dice Book They DO NOT Want You To Read
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If you ever needed reminding where liberalism leads you.
Code Brown: California Poo Situation Upgraded To ‘Hot Diarrhea’ Attacks; Urinating In Public OK
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/code-brown-california-poo-situation-upgraded-hot-diarrhea-attacks-urinating-public-ok
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This is assault with a deadly weapon, and in many states I’d bet she’d have been totally justified in shooting him in self defense.
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Absolutely. It beats my why anyone wants to live there.
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I think a Trump Governorship would cure what ails california.
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They will be having a world class outbreak of
C-diff. Older people need to stay as far away as
possible, because they’re the ones most susceptible.
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Calling VA Treepers.
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To All NC and USA Patriots,
Lara Trump is scheduled to give a speech tonight at her Alma Mater, NC State University, a once conservative and hopefully may still be an outstanding educational university aside from the liberal stance it seems to have taken.
There is a student protest occurring about her attendance because of her “racist, etc. speech.” Hopefully tonight she can give her speech which we all know will be wonderful.
https://firstinfreedomdaily.com/pack-of-leftist-cry-babies-organize-to-shutdown-lara-trump-culture-war-event-at-nc-state/
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So, Ginsburg. I have an eerie feeling the end is nigh. I looked for info about her appearance yesterday. She was actually present for the DACA arguments. Clearly losing it:
And Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the first to interrupt Mr. Francisco. She points out what she sees as a contradiction: the administration is at once arguing it had the discretion to end DACA and, at the same time, arguing it had no choice to end the policy because it thought the policy was unlawful. Which is it? Mr. Francisco replied that the administration had put forward both valid legal and policy reasons for ending the policy. https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/supreme-court-daca-oral-argument/card/1573573919
This so-called brilliant legal mind can’t imagine that two reasons can be simultaneously valid. And two is probably better than just one.
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This was an event on Sunday that Ginsburg attended. Ginsburg starts shuffling in around 6:55 but you can’t see her until 7:08. It takes her more than 10 seconds to walk 10 feet. Go forward a bit in the video to where they do a close up shot while she’s speaking. Look at her hands, especially her fingers and fingernails. THEY ARE GRAY BLUE. Cyanosis? Are her lungs failing her?
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You know PT is waiting in the wings with a nominee.
Watch how fast this “impeachment Scam” is dropped off the radar.
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Think man. The scam will be the reason PDJT will be denied the right to appoint a replacement. I hate to drop it this way.
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They would try anyway.
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I saw her at a similar event in early Sept. and was surprised at how good she looked and how mentally sharp she was. This video 10 weeks later, IMO, shows a significant change.
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At 1:22:50 she answers a question someone in the audience asked. It looks like she’s reading the answer from her notepad. I think this is the only other time she spoke during the entire hour and a half event. She can barely get the words out and she looks ill. When the other people were speaking she never looked at them. I wonder what she looked like on Tuesday during the DACA arguments? Would love to see some video or photos of her entering or existing the Supreme Court building.
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Or, has SCOTUS figured out a way to prolong ruling on DACA.?
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This was exactly my thought. What happens if she is unfit and unable to give a ruling?
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Good.
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I used to go there daily, now don’t go there at all. I’m part of that 20% drop.
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I erased him from my bookmarks. Used to go there daily too
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Same here.
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Ditto
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Same here. Daily, first stop and a couple other times to check headlines for breaking news. Haven’t been there since early ‘17. Defeat Hillary v. Elect conservatives and support conservatives seems to have been the goal.
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That is when I quit too, shortly after the Inauguration, and prior to that I practically lived on Drudge, all day long.
Won’t give him the clicks, there are plenty of better places to see an aggregate of the real news, including Citizen Free Press, Free Republic, Whatfinger.
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myself.
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Now, let’s do cable/satellite tv.
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How many live in NOVA? Get them out!
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No different than the private sector. No sympathy. Happens all the time! (Except for the Very Generous time frame give to the fed gov employees which is much more generous th3n strict and shorter tim3 frames in the private sector)
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Finally.
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Now they have to hang out in flyover country. haha
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Hanging out is one thing. Influencing the residents to vote Dem is another. Indirectly, this move may be making some red states purple.
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I think most are going to quit. I know people in Chicago who would never go to smaller cities in the midwest even, like KC or St Louis. Beneath them, they think. 🙂
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I would like to see POTUS announce the following and start implementing it IMMEDIATELY:
(1) Reduce the State Department quickly from 70,000 employees to 7000 (90% reduction);
(2) Eliminate 98% of the Bureaus, etc that are part of the organization. Just take a look at Wikipedia. Even this sophisticated crowd will be staggered at the number of worthless, highly politicized, silly bureaucracies that have been created over the years.
(3) The ulitmate goal should be to have the Secretary of State, with no “deputies” or “undersecretaries” or “assiant deputy undersecretaries,” etc. The staff under the SOS should consist of Ambassadors and their small staffs in the comparatively small number of countries where we ought to have embassies at all.
(4) The entire organization should be devoted to pursuing and implementing the foreign policy of the President of the United States, with the total employee court ultimately down to about 700 (99% reduction from current levels).
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This needs to be done with every Bureaucracy in Washington DC, but nobody will ever see it happen. Seems to me that the cancer has consumed the host.
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I agree that this should extend to the bulk of the federal government. Recent developments make be think that gutting the State Department might appear particularly appealing to President Trump, and therefore within the realm of possibility.
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“Grow a set and shut this garbage down…”
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Donate to the Trump 2020 campaign in response to the scam impeachment. If we all donated a small amount everyday of these scam hearings it would send a huge message to the GOP.
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Good suggestion.
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I suppose when your life in literally on the line one will do anything.
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Because there has never been any pushback. Like a spoiled bratty child, they learned that there are no limits, no absolute rules. Their behavior now shouldn’t surprise us.
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Unreal, but yet he does it. And gets away with it. So it’s very REAL. When are we going to stop being shocked? I keep waiting.
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…so how does this work? Dems started this whole impeachment BS based on ‘hearsay’……but it’s inadmissible now? So does that mean the whole show is over now? pppfffftttttttt
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President Trump’s 289 accomplishments: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/trumps-list-289-accomplishments-in-just-20-months-relentless-promise-keeping
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woooooo baby!!!
I’m watching The Very Honorable Jim Jordan take “ambassador” taylor apart piece by piece and make the pasty-faced old bastard turn from red to white to ashen gray and push him right up and over the wall.
Do it, Jim.
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Good! Now that’s a clip I’ll be watching! Smart to put Jordan on that committee. At least I think that’s what happened, he wasn’t on it and he was moved onto it, at least temporarily.
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It looks to me like the republicans are keeping their playbook covered and their cards close to their vests, and at this point, given it’s abundance, they’ve yet to reach for the first of the low hanging fruit.
How’s that for a triple back flip mix of metaphors?
See what all this democrat donkey-destructo derangement exposure is doing to me?????
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Jim Jordan is one of the very few genuine people in Washington. Smart too.
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He’s the best point man on the planet right now, in my very grateful opinion.
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He’d make a great president in 2024.
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I’d follow that dude in a heartbeat.
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Me too.
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And I’d definitely prefer to be someone he LIKES! lol!
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Petition for the Recall of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam
“Today we are faced with the possible destruction of our God given and constitutionally protected rights in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
But we are not going to back down, we are not going to quietly submit, and instead fight back using every means at our disposal.”
https://virginiaconservatives.net/recall-radical-ralph-northam
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It’s racisss to recall a black faced person.
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Not watching but reading Sundance’s tweets: THIS CARNIVAL SHOW IN CONGRESS IS AN UTTER EMBARRASSMENT! Any decent American has got to be mortified.
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We keep calling it an “embarrassment.” But who is being embarrassed? The democrats certainly aren’t. The savages we’re fighting are no more capable of being embarrassed than a vulture is mortified by dead meat. Are decent Americans being embarrassed? If so, that’s another reason why we’re losing. At this stage of the struggle for our country, embarrassment is ludicrous. In fact, it’s embarrassing.
Be ANGRY.
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Hopefully to be soon followed by discussion of Durham’s many indictments over Christmas dinner.
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Who knew Judge Roy Bean Schiff was still on the bench .
This ambassador Taylor , How is he still on the payroll , He don’t know nothing . \
This wont last another day
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That is an insult to Judge Roy Bean! 😉
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Last night in Sweden…..
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Wow! A NYT article says Sweden “has been rocked by more than 100 explosions in the first 10 months of this year. Officials have blamed the blasts — up from 39 at the same time last year — on criminal gangs. The explosions have spread to Denmark, where at least 13 have occurred in Copenhagen this year, although the police have not linked them all to Sweden.”
Criminal gangs … of muzzie immigrants perhaps?
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Looks like this problem has been brewing for a while in Denmark and it’s worse in Sweden.
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The video that comes after the one above is well worth watching. The people of Denmark are sick of this crap.
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He’s real quick to terminate any discussion of it. lol
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Understandable…Is you said anything that stupid, you’d be quick to terminate as well
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Continuing reading thread at link…several posts long.
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The Democommies are racisss.
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Just saw this. Good sutra.
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Whoops. Should have read – good stuff.
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This just in…….the sky did not fall today……
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….and if it does …we will have film at 11
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Good short clip of Radcliffe –
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I am a bit confused here……The FIRST phone call that President Trump is referring to and that has not been released yet??? How is it that the ‘tale tellers’ heard about the last phone call (that all this BS is about) but not the first? President Trump seems to me to be holding a “Trump” card with the FIRST phone call…..(he sure is acting like it) . I mean, how can that no account Vindman have heard the second call and not the first? Isn’t that his job? Is it possible that the FIRST call transcript is going to shoot these twits down in flames? ( we can only hope)
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My guess it was only with his *irregular* diplomats, Giuliani, Perry, Sondland, and not the “regular” corruptocrats. The ones running the “shadow” diplomacy.
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WHAT?????!!!!!! If these rat b*st*rds don’t go to jail, there will be a civil war. IMHO.
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I guess he doesn’t like the testimony.
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😯
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Impressive powers she has.
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The responses to that Nicolle Wallace tweet make me so furious and also scared that they could watch today and think the Left is winning; that they’re proud that they’re blue and they are working on turning their counties blue. I’m also furious and scared that this infuriating, sickening tweet has over 15,000 likes!
(I’m a woman in a suburb and light me on fire right outside my polling place next November. I’m still going in to vote for President Trump. I’m running TO him.)
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Bring your friends. MAGA needs all the help it can get. Not that I trust our elections will ever be fair again, but we still need to *represent* for the American citizens (just in case).
And we desperately need true patriots to run for office! As we can see, the current batch in DC has failed us miserably!
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So they know it’s going to be another big fail for them and today was as big of a flop as “Mueller Time” 🙂
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He has to give a history lesson regarding the founders and framers about the Constitution because he has no evidence of PDJT offenses
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‘The Real Ukraine Controversy’: John Solomon Exposes How Rogue US Embassy Conducted Foreign Policy
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/real-ukraine-controversy-john-solomon-exposes-how-rogue-us-embassy-conducted-foreign
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The reason the “regulars” are pissed.
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They had better get used to it.
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I learned something else I didn’t know today.
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