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Not to mention the J6 people locked away. Still. Tell me about due process again?

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And am I right that STILL not one single person, not one, has actually been charged & convicted with the crime of "insurrection"? ...lots of other charges laid down, but not one person has been convicted of "insurrection".

Is it still an insurrection ...if there were no insurrectionists?

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And those silly insurrectionists are so stupid they forgot their guns, too!

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Oopsie!

This was a poorly planned "insurrection" for sure. But I'm sure these "fascists" attempting to "overthrow" the most powerful nation state in the world were truly very dangerous, and we're just dang lucky that on that day ALL of them forgot their weapons

...but that one guy brought a funny hat that had horns on it ...horns could be deadly weapons, so he counts, right? Right?

<insert desperation and pearl clutching>

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Little known fact: If you get 30 people in the capitol building, you're the new government!

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If you let the people into their building, it's trespassing.

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HAHA!

Well dang. Does that rule work with cats? ...if so, I think we have a solid plan to rehab America double quick.

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If you watch more of the videos than got shown on the news, you will learn that the entire time Horns Guy was "desecrating" the Speaker's Podium, there was an *armed Capitol Police officer* in the room with him.

Tell me again about the "danger".

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Indeed. In the video these folks were wandering around among the federal agents, taking selfies and acting like tourists. Later we are told the cops present in that video, who let them in, were actually in fear of their lives. Hmmm.

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And literally everybody I know says "Release all the tapes and charge everybody who committed a crime" -- but they want to keep those thousands and thousands of hours of video under wraps. And we ALL know that if those missing videos were politically advantageous, they'd be broadcast all over the news.

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4 years in prison. THAT was the danger for, essentially, doing nothing.

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Well, they weren't planning on insurrection when they left their guns in their homes or hotel rooms that morning to go to Trump's rally. It was not until he incited them into insurrection by telling them to peacefully make their voices heard that they decided to try to conquer the most powerful nation in the world with a few hundred unarmed people.

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Yes, good point Silvia.

Intention matters, and assuming other people's intentions is just as good as evidence...because, feeelings. Lol.

So obviously they are all guilty, because despite the lack of intention... or evidence... or weapons... they probably kinda sorta look like people who don't *belong* in DC (which is crime enough, let's be honest), and that means they were basically [unarmed] fighter drones just waiting to be 'activated' by such scurrilous words as "Peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard".

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Chewbacca!

I'd rather have him than the RINO's!

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And like 9-11 trillions spent for defense & intelligence was useless folks twiddled their thumbs for hours than sealed all the video evidence and security responses weaker than muscle at an A-list event in the Hamptons.

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Everybody in the country knew there was going to be a huge rally in the capitol. The people who listened to Trump's speech then went to the capitol LITERALLY WALKED BY FBI HQ.

The idea that the FBI was surprised is a laughable lie. They were in the crowd, and an NYT reporter accidentally admitted it like a month ago.

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/in-undercover-video-new-york-times-reporter-admits-ton-of-fbi-informants-at-the-capitol-on-jan-6/

And now those same people are withholding thousands and thousands of hours of video evidence. It's no real mystery why that is.

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Is it the same people who are suppressing the VAERS data?

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Different folks, same disease.

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Thanks for the link. The FBI needs cleansed of its senior management, if not completely destroyed. I thank God every day Mitch McConnell blocked Merrick Garland's appointment to the Supreme Court.

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And Pelosi was so worried, she didn’t follow Trump’s advice to get the Nat’l Guard into D.C. Trump couldn’t do it, it had to be a local decision. She was in on it, didn’t want it stopped. She wanted to hang it around his neck.

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Exactly. Remember impeachment theater 2.0?

Dems: "You guys better allow witnesses!"

GOP: "Yes, we're looking forward to calling Nancy Pelosi."

Dems: "Actually there will be no witnesses after all."

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Watched "Bloody Hill" and choked up. It tells the story from those who were there and saw what the government did to Americans - and what the results could mean for our future as a Nation. It's an excellent documentary 90mins full length on stophate.com - which btw also has a number of ways to help the J6 prisoners.

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Oh thanks, I'll check it out.

I watched an interview with one of the J6 prisoners on Epoch Times, and it was scary and sad in equal measure. :(

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also the one on j6truth.org is really good.

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The vast majority of them have been charged with trespassing, "parading without a license", disorderly conduct, or similar minor charges. I believe about 40 have more serious charges, but even those aren't being charged for insurrection, sedition, or any other type of treasonous activity.

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Next 4th of July I'm going to be wishing everyone "Happy Insurrection Day!"

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It’s high time that Americans as a nation participated in what I (an import) once thought was a fairly lame joke: Going to DC on July 4th to throw tea in the Potomac to protest taxation (and much more) without representation!

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Good idea. I will too.

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Apologies if you’ve seen this already … it’s not just democrats … RINOs too …

Brandon Straka calls out Republicans in Epic, Righteous Rant

“While I have a congressman here on stage, what are YOU GUYS gonna DO ABOUT IT?”

https://rumble.com/v1f46bo-brandon-straka-calls-out-republicans.html?

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RINO's have to go! Spot on Aimee!

They are a bigger threat than the Marxist IMO.

They are just wolves in sheep's clothing that have sold us out for 40 years!

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I mean, here’s this passionate kid who #WalkedAway and for WHAT? I’m so disgusted with the GOP for not listening, for not caring about this young man and the others. It deeply offends me.

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Mitch (made my fortune from China) McConnell needs to be at the top of the Rino removal list!

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Ans about "Speedy Trials?"

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Neo-Nazi Ukrainians, and Forefathers of Antifa, Instigated and Participated in the Capitol... https://rumble.com/vdpvzn-fw-neo-nazi-ukrainians-and-forefathers-of-antifa-instigated-and-participate.html

Democrats On Performative Capitol Riot Commission Made More Election Challenges Than Republicans Pelosi Kicked Off https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/26/democrats-on-performative-capitol-riot-commission-made-more-election-challenges-than-republicans-pelosi-kicked-off/

See, makes us want to scream hypocrites, liars, scumbags, and gato explains why it’s to no avail and as usual, he’s correct.

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Trump is "a deeply flawed and unsympathetic character". Seriously? Why do you people always feel compelled to make such comments? It is baseless and just shows that the last 7 years of leftist propaganda worked on you as well. You don't know him personally, and unlike most people, he has actually done something to change things. Unless you were referring to someone else....

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because that's how i view him and always have.

he's vain, stupid, and tends to be impulsive and half informed.

he bullies people and makes piles of outrageous statements as provocation and gambit. there's nothing sympathetic about him and he's never more dangerous than when he gets the right answer for the wrong reasons (which is quite a lot) and then winds up discrediting the idea because his rationale gets clowned.

i know several people who have been direct reports to him. he's famous for not grasping nuance and for tantrums.

i've just never liked or respected the guy.

trying to claim it's "because i got fooled by propaganda" is just lazy thinking and argumentation. you're falling into the trap of "no reasonable person could disagree with me"

he may have done some good, but he also did some real harm and at the moment his character was really tested under covid, he folded like a cheap card table ad handed the wheel to facui and birx.

he's not a man of courage or character. that, to my mind, is deeply flawed.

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Trump has been , and always will be a big picture guy. Our amazing country, with all of its natural resources needs: cheap energy, minimal red tape for entrepreneurs, someone to rein in the mega-corporations, and a functioning legal system. Everything else is just details. Democrats love to purposefully miss the forest for the trees. Trump is the exact opposite.

This is pretty basic shit. The United States is hard to fuck up. We have massive amounts of farmland, massive numbers of ports, massive amounts of energy. And yet, our politicians continue to fuck it up for their own personal rent seeking. Trump is the first person in forty+ years (maybe 100?) to not want to tie our hands behind our backs.

But you keep getting big mad because of his temperament. Maybe if we're lucky we can get back to picking real winners like GWB or Romney. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Trump is deeply flawed, but infinitely less flawed than anyone else who has held the office since 1988.

And yeah, right - Trump was supposed to waive his magic wand and force the states to open themselves up in the face of a coordinated media and Left wing conspiracy during the height of the covid pandemic. There were no good responses for him given the level of corruption he was facing.

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this seems like a pile of straw men.

agree, the US is hard to screw up. and in some ways, trump did well. in others (like tariffs and covid) he did real damage by having no idea how any of it worked.

trump had a chance to lead, to stand up and say "this is not a federal government issue, we're here to help, not to tell you what to do, these are the evidence based pandemic guidelines of the last 100 years. they say "don't do this."

the damage he did by making all kinds of bad claims early on, then totally folding on his principles because he got scared is incalculable.

what we need are leaders of courage. none of them will get it all right, but at least a reagan or even an elder bush had character. of all the current crop, i think desantis may be our best hope in that regard.

i don't agree with him on everything, but he's a stand up guy.

donald is not.

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"the damage he did by making all kinds of bad claims early on, then totally folding on his principles because he got scared is incalculable."

For you to say that, and then reference George Herbert Walker Bush as a counter example is....odd.

Or you have a short memory.

"Read my lips, no new taxes"

Remember that? Remember how he caved almost immediately, thinking that he had to be seen as being bi-partisan with the Democrats. Really stood on principle there. Big man. Tons of character. That one action opened the door for Ross Perot to enter the race in a serious way and strip off a large section of the Republican party, handing the 1992 election to Bill Clinton.

Actually, George HW Bush is probably the worst person you could have cited. Reagan left him with a massive country-wide mandate for Republican policies, and Bush managed to destroy it. All of the bullshit that we put up with today - critical race theory, child mutilation in the name of gender affirmation, unlimited open immigration - all of that shit can be traced back to HW caving on his "No New Taxes" plan. If HW Bush had any balls at all, Trump never would have needed to run.

But here we are.

Got any more brilliant examples of profiles in Republican courage and high moral character?

I'll take blowhard Trump over George HW Bush any day of the week.

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Yeah, an extremely short memory and a highly focused agenda going on there.

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I agree that Trump's temperament was (and is) problematic. And I agree that he seriously screwed up the virus response. IMO, he was played. They knew exactly which buttons to push to get him to do what they wanted him to do. The guy's a real estate developer, not a medical doctor or a scientist. If the jabs were safe and effective, many would consider him a hero. I'm still baffled that the left hasn't tried to use the failure of the jabs against him. It means something, but I'm not sure what.

IMO, he had the same out-of-body experience that many former leftists have had when the full force of the Cathedral is aimed at them (Berenson, Malone, Kirsch). They just can't believe what is happening to them. It's an adjustment to become one of the hated. Those of us on the right have an advantage. We expect it. Many of the same people who are on the talking head shows every night used to come to him and beg for money when he was a Demonrat.

With the exception of Andrew Jackson, no president in US history has been attacked like Trump. Just ask Jimmy Carter. We have no idea how his presidency might have evolved in a less toxic environment.

For all his warts and foibles, he has exposed the Cathedral and opened many eyes.

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I think you overstate Trump's options and seem to expect some sort of omniscience from him.

If no one around him is telling him about the last 100 years of guidelines, how is he supposed to know that the advice that he's getting is contradicting the established wisdom and science?

Trump is a problem solver. I don't think it occurred to him that Fauci and Birx were trying to kill as many people and destroy as much of the economy as possible - what sane or moral person would do such a thing?

Two weeks...after that he tried to claw it back, but there were maybe two or three governors who were with him, the murderous anti-HCQ, anti-treatment drumbeat went bonkers, and the Dems and their GOPe allies were hatching their plot to steal the election. It took one moment of believing "public servants" to unleash hell on the country.

I blame Trump in the "buck stops here" sense of the problem, but not for his morals, intelligence, etc...

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Trump actually authorized the release of the HCQ stockpile and that swamp creature Rick Bright prevented the release. And who can forget Surgisphere?

Did they release the Covid kraken to take out Trump?

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No question in my mind that it was released on purpose.

My theory is that Covid wasn't quite ready for their ultimate plans, but they had to release it early to get rid of Trump.

Tom Luongo argues that Covid was released by the WEF in China.

And I think Conservative Treehouse argued several moons ago that we wouldn't fund that sort of research in a place like China if didn't already have it ready to go here. Not sure if I believe that, considering the legal issues involved, but it speaks to the purpose of all these bio sites around the world: cover for various plans at world domination.

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Here's my two cents, since we have two different postings you and I are actively on:

For the most part I agree with what your saying. I supported Trump.

But I think it is fair to say, Trump gave this man-made catastrophe oxygen by allowing the extension of the 15 days to slow the spread for another 30 days. I'll admit he was in a trickbox.

That said, a leader is supposed to recognize a trickbox, accept it, provide a solution and then make his case as to why the long term "COST" of this nonsense should be rejected. He did not do that.

I'm very disappointed that he did not rally the country around the only true solution there was: Let healthy Americans protect the vulnerable by being brave and "filtering" c19; that it was patriotic to take this head-on rather then kicking the can down the road.

To make his case that there was a "price" to be paid no matter what. But the price to hide from it would be orders of magnitude higher. To make this point he would also have had to tell it like it is; that it is also patriotic for the vulnerable to stay at home until the healthy have done their job protecting the vulnerable (being a firewall) by taking on the risk of getting C19.

That's what a leader does; make the tough decisions when you don't have all the information, when there are no "good" options and then communicate to the public the way forward. In other words, make an appeal to Americans that, it was in ultimately in every individuals and the countries interests to rallying around mitigating the unavoidable "pain" would also require accepting the relatively low risk.

To do otherwise would be cowardly and result in even more deaths of the vulnerable. This would have created peer pressure to be brave and for each individual to do their part in a common goal. Sort of like women in the World Wars giving white feathers to cowardly men.

The risk to the healthy was always negligible and he should have made that clear - we knew from the beginning that to be true. His lack of foresight led to the opposite type of peer pressure, which was key feature in protracting this nightmare. And to recognize his reelection was at more risk if he allowed the country to be paralyzed by fear.

By failing to understand this he allowed the narrative to grow roots. This means, he too may have pay a price politically. He chose the "easy" way out by hoping this would self resolve or that the "vaccine" would magically end the "pandemic".

A leader understands that being indecisive compounds the problem, confuses followers and always leads to poor outcomes. By following this strategy he allowed cowardness to become a virtue. He did not recognize that that was the "real" trickbox he (and the country) was in.

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That Trump continues to push the vax he (deservedly) takes credit for, despite evidence showing it isn't working as promised and can actually hurt, is one of the reasons I don't want him back: he simply can't admit to being wrong, or even misled (yes, this is a problem with many if not all politicians, which is why none of them should be idolized.) He did a lot of good, he did some bad, and he frequently shot himself in the foot because he couldn't shut up when he needed to.

It also doesn't help that I have a strong suspicion he would've done anything the Democrats wanted if only they'd sucked up to him properly, and those who even now are unable to admit his faults would've found ways to spin it as "supporting the little guy".

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I share many of your concerns. I would prefer Ron DeSantis. Frankly, they are all tainted by the vaxx. IMO, anyone who fell for the experimental vaxx (regardless of party affiliation or ideology) demonstrated a profound lack of critical thinking that concerns me. While the pressure to take the jab was intense for elected leaders, I am still disappointed that few refused.

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I took it when it first came out, since as a health care worker I was concerned about the virus and had no reason (at the time) to believe it would be a mistake.

As soon as I heard "it only lasts 6 months and you'll need boosters" I was done. I can't really fault people for taking it at the beginning, or even those who were pressured into it. But I can certainly fault those who pushed it on people knowing it was ineffective and possibly dangerous, and I absolutely despise the healthcare professionals who disregarded everything they knew to be true to push a political agenda. Frankly, I hate them more than I do the politicians because they knew better and didn't care.

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Just some of Trump's accomplishments...

A solid, stable economy in 2019 with the lowest recorded unemployment ever, the highest wages, particularly for women, minorities according to the USBLS, and America energy independent without which there is no sovereignty, no self-determination. No new wars, peace abroad with the Abraham Accords done more for Middle East peace since 1948 with now 7 Arab states recognizing Israel, building cultural, economic exchanges, embassies. ⏤American statesmanship of the first order.

I could go on but why bother. Mean tweets.

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Agree and I am glad you are sticking to principles, but I also don't want to lose anyone unnecessarily.

The movement is more important than any one man.

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Without Trump what movement are you talking about?

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I agree with you man. He started the movement. But, We The People need to finish it.

I think you and I are closer in ideology than you may think. I just want to win for the sake of my children.

I don't care how that happens.

“Truth will ultimately prevail where pains is taken to bring it to light.”

– George Washington

I'm willing to pay the price, whoever gives us the best shot. We are the ones who need to take back our country...by any means necessary.

I also agree with your statement that we are in a situation that is bigger than a class war. However, if you look at history we are heading toward Oligarchy.

That never ends peacefully. I would rather have a bloodless revolution. Nonetheless a revolution of sorts is required.

It has gotten too far away to think otherwise.

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If the movement is only Trump, there is no movement.

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The Desantis wins continue to pile up. Character is stating what you stand for and following through despite adversity. I see this in Desantis, and a very few other politicians. One or two hands’ worth in NA.

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El gato malo, did you see Desantis' statement regarding the raid? Desantis is typical GOP and is close with Pence. Trump did so much to expose the corruption of politics and his economic policies including energy independence were so sound. You have forever lost me as a reader. Good bye.

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Can't we disagree here? Isn't that what we're fighting against?

Doesn't that make us stronger! Two swords sharpen each other. I don't want to be involved in ANYTHING where people can't "knock" heads.

Why so personal? Don't we all want the same thing? Circumstances will dictate how we get there. Either way...let's get there!

Seriously man!

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Trump is not a god and can and must be criticized. If you get so easily offended, you can also be easily manipulated. We are in this Covid mess because Trump mishandled it and gave power to the wrong people like Fauci. He could have saved this country from the past two years, but instead he set them in motion. Go ahead and unsubscribe -- it won't change reality.

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Trump basically gave up everything when her ran to help the middle class of this country. To say he is unsympathetic for me just crossed a line.

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"...even an elder bush had character." Wow you have some truly fucked up thoughts but then again you hide behind a cat meme.

Who are you? Don't be afraid. Step out into the light and be a real person.

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Apart from that, how was the play, Mr Lincoln?

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this doesn't seem like the same cat. I never got the TDS from the cat before. Maybe I have missed too many entries

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TDS is not manifested by criticizing Trump when warranted.

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A real blizzard of comments! - DeSantis is 50 years old in 2028. I think Federalism may have saved us in 2020 and that was mostly FL and DeSantis - the only state/only governor to NOT recommend the vax for under 5 yr olds - he actually uttered the phase "cost/benefit" in doing so. May I suggest that 4 more years of FL under DeSantis is our "best hope" at this time. (There is FL Senate seat race in 2024).

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Well that’s just pathetic

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Well, now we zero in on what the passionate tirades were all about.

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We are here because Trump unerringly picked the worst possible person for the job, over and over, and then hadn't the guts to ever rectify the problem.

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Lol. Yes, because he had so many swamp monsters to choose from that would actually help him drain the swamp.

Imagine the absolute shitshow if he had fired Fauci on day one of the pandemic? I'm sure the media and the Dems running the house would have let that go.

The head of the Gestapo (FBI) literally launched a counterintelligence plot against him in his first week that effectively took away control of the DOJ for the first two+ years of his presidency.

We are here because Trump is the first person in almost a century to start taking apart the unelected deep state. And you're big mad because he didn't finish up and put a bow on it within four years.

The Democrats literally colluded with the Chinese government to launch a bio-weapon to get him out of office.

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The guy who literally filled his cabinet with deep state, and to this day still promotes a vaccine that clearly doesn't work and is hurting and killing people (oddly exactly what the deep state is doing) - this guy is draining the swamp? How do people not see this?

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Yay! Joe! That needed to be said. Everybody always saysTrump let this happen and that happen ,but they always forget what this guy was up against from the minute he announced! They always forget that he's a real estate guy that's just trying to change the corruption in our government. Yes he's flawed, but I'll take him any day over an establishment RINO. He's just trying to give back the power to the people. That's not so bad is it? Let's not elect any more politicians!

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Lolz. The guy beat every candidate in the 2016 election and nobody, including you and especially you, had any idea just how deep the deep state is, nor do you have any concept of what it takes to actually be a president when all of Washington and your own party is actually undermining you.

I bet you watch football games from the comfort of your couch and tell your friends how you would never make any of the mistakes that idiot Tom Brady makes.

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Yeah buddy!

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Trump has not been “here” for several months. Biden is a disaster that keeps on going.

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Right, you probably think Jeb Bush would have been a better choice. He wouldn't have had nearly the trouble with personnel as Trump but then again he plays for the other side so none of his leftist appointments would leave their dream job or make the fake news. I've never read so much cowardly trash on Substack.

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You're not good at analyzing commentary, are you?

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Don’t let your TDS make you cranky. 🙂

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You're not good at writing commentary, are you?

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I have been very sympathetic toward the sympathetic view on Trump , up until his failure on the “Vaccine” chapter, at which point he lost me. It so happens that last night a friend sent a link to an interview with Dr. David Martin in which Dr. Martin addressed the question directly of how Trump fell down on “vaccines.” Dr. Martin produces paper trail evidence using precisely dated patent filing documents which reveal what the plots and timelines were and names the people involved. He claimed that Trump signed off on certain papers back in September 2019 that prepared the way for the way the whole thing played out. This morning when I went to listen to the entire interview carefully it had already been scrubbed. I am pretty sure I can find it, maybe on Dr. Martin’s website. ( Unless he has been shuffled off to some gulag already-I wish I was joking) But it gave credence to the point of view I didn’t want to hear, that Trump is just another player in the theater.

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I could not agree more. Thank you for this comment.

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Trump appears to have zero philosophical or historical underpinning and very poor judgement. How else to explain his promotion and trust of Fauci and Birx, and his astounding appointment of John "the warmongering walrus") Bolton?

But far worse, in my view, is the fact that, like every other modern POTUS save Carter, he is a war criminal. He bombed women and children in Syria based on lies and was directly responsible for funding and supporting the Saudi genocide in Yemen.

Seventy-five years ago Americans hanged war criminals. Now we elect them.

We should stop.

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Oh please. Until you guys start bringing up the 26,000 thousand bombs Obama dropped on a million innocent souls in his last year in office alone, you got no audience from me. Somehow it only matters to you if the wrong guy did it.

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You think I am Obama supporter?

What part of the part of my post that says "like every other modern POTUS" is unclear?

Do try to be specific.

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The part where you were being totally specific.

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Here's my opinion; the facts on the ground have changed.

“Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.”

– Benjamin Franklin

It's time to move on from Trump. I hope you vote this time around Libertate!...:))

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I guess you are saying Trump should have asked you for advice since you have everything figured out. Fauci a 40 employee may have gotten yours or my attention but at the beginning of a global pandemic is not the time to throw out your health leadership unless of course you are you, right?

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Do you not realize that you justifying and defending Trump for truly catastrophic failures simply puts you on a competing team in the same league as the leftists who ignore Brandon & Co.'s long history of graft, corruption and lies?

Trump is a war criminal who empowered Fauci, Birx, etc. to create the most destructive public health clusterfuck in the history of mankind.

Is he still preferable to Comrade Brandon? Perhaps, but the choice is between the lesser of two evils.

I will no longer support evil.

Period.

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Please check out Katherine Watts' Substack articles. She meticulously lays out the US's gradual descendance into a medical tyrannical state, which started many decades ago, with the passage of incremental legislation, culminating with where we are now. I imagine not many of us picked up on these medically encroaching, quietly passed laws, even 6 years ago, including Trump. The road to where we are now was in play years and years ago. Trump was a clearly unexpected stumbling block to their plans for a totalitarians state. That's why they've waged war on him and his supporters from day 1.

Your comments about Trump being a war criminal do not pass muster. Trump used surgical strikes to take out specific targets. He was the first President in modern history to not start a new war, and he initiated the withdrawal of troops long serving in the middle east. Trump also made historic strides in bringing several Arab states to the table for peace negotiations. By contrast, Obama was the king of drone attacks and the Arab Spring, and Bush was far more war-oriented than Trump.

All the qualities that you may abhor about Trump are likely the qualities that allowed him to withstand the relentless assaults by the extreme leftists in power. And if you do not want to give him credit for the many great accomplishments he made despite the constant deception and sabotage aimed at him, then give him credit at the very least for exposing how pervasively corrupt our governmental institutions have become.

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Oh, I'm intimately familiar with how the USG and the AMA have corrupted the medical profession, believe me.

I'm old enough to remember how inexpensive and easy things were before LBJ's "Great Society" boondoggle put us on the road to ruin.

As for Trump, I'm perfectly willing to give credit where credit is due. He made inroads on the deep state. He exposed and attacked the climate scam. He drove the left into a hysterical frenzy. His tweets were quite entertaining and he fearlessly gored many a Dem ox.

All of this is good, and there is more.

But I'm afraid that anyone, regardless of what good they may have done, who participates in the murder, destitution and starvation of innocent women and children is one I consider a war criminal.

I'd be interested in what your definition is, assuming it does not include the above.

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Aug 9, 2022·edited Aug 10, 2022

Lol..the Trump deranged are always trying to squeak by lies about him into every comment section. They "authoritatively" state all kinds of TDS malarkey like it’s “known fact." It's like having the NYT's or PBS trolling every thread.

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You truly choose to be blind. Apparently, you write something called "libertate's absurdity". Based on what I read here that is an apt name.

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Quite an eloquent and effective counter-argument, that.

I wonder if you know what it is called?

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Uh oh!! Pulled the moral highground card. Game over. Lol.

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Yea, I consider pillorying people participating in the incineration, impoverishment and starvation of countless innocent women and children the moral high ground.

You may want to reflect upon why you don't.

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Well done, to ignore all the appointments beginning with Trump's first campaign.

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libertate mentioned Fauci and Birx in his commentary so I addressed what was written. Never mind the idiocy of stating Trump is a war criminal when he was the first president to not start a war in decades.

Well, anyone can write on Substack.

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Why don't you do yourself and the rest of us a favor and have a look at the ongoing monstrous crime being perpetrated in Yemen, supported by your taxes and vote.

Maybe start here:

https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-over-two-million-children-expected-go-hungry-or-starve-2021-save-children

And then...

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-have-bombed-yemen-more-than-bush-and-obama-combined-2020-10

And then...

https://apnews.com/article/north-america-donald-trump-yemen-ap-top-news-politics-1b17cee217b344d8a3a03642139fb606

This is who you are defending.

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To be sure, we only hang other people's war criminals.

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C'mon man! Do you really THINK POTUS IS BEING TOLD THE TRUTH by the FBI and CIA ? Deep state gotta go man!

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Just remember, DJT may be an A**Hole, but he is OUR A**Hole.

He punches back.

That is worth a lot in many people's minds.

All dogs have fleas, some more than others.

Your typical conservative over the last 30 years never had the balls to punch back.

It was always "beneath them", they were always too squeaky clean to get their hands dirty.

THAT is a weakness, and brings on more aggressive behavior by the opposition.

He may be deeply flawed, but I don't think anyone would accuse him of being a corrupt thief, which would apply with the vast majority of politicians in DC.

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Well said Publius.

"As early as 1862 when Grant received criticism for the heavy losses at Shiloh, Lincoln responded, "I can't spare this man, he fights!"

https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/lincolngrant.htm

You will notice that the then president said "he fights" not "he writes".

The feline and the Absurd would have undoubtedly abandoned President Lincoln as well. Good thing we have this platform to get to know each other.

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Let's look forward guys. IMO DeSantis is our best shot.

WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME TEAM!

Let's not divide ourselves. We get nowhere that way.

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Why so afraid? It is Trump who is putting his life on the line to lead this country. DeSantis is a great Florida Governor and should stay in place until Trump finishes in 2028. The enemy (yes I said enemy) of America attacks Trump and you look to someone else. Don't quit, stand strong and take any action you can to save our country.

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I will vote for Trump if required. That's how it works right?

We are on the same team, no?

Let's not let one man divide us. That's all I'm saying. I'm not looking for a Messiah. I'm looking for someone who can truly lean into the class war we are experiencing.

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We've already got a Messiah, the true living God of the Bible. Those in power and in the "media" do their best to dishonor, disobey, and destroy. There will be hell to pay.

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You think class warfare is what is going on? Think bigger Mr. Gardner. Trump is the catalyst to save what America is supposed to be. Now, IMO, is not the time to try out a new team.

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Agree. But we are also fighting the RINO's, right?

“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”

– Benjamin Franklin

If he is the choice, I will not think for a second. My hope is that; if he is, he has learned that the RINO's can NOT be trusted.

So, I'm not opposed, but we can NOT take chances with another 4 years of Marxism. All will be lost at that point IMO.

I'm just open to a challenge. I want him to be challenged. You and I can only be better off if he is, right?

If Trump runs over everyone like he did in 16' than I'm on board. What other choice do I have. I prefer the right side of history...and a chance to save our Union.

We are close to losing it.

I think that's fair.

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Brian - call me RG or Gardner.

I read all your post. You are a patriot and I truly appreciate that.

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Division is exactly what "they" want. It's about the only tool left at this point because they've overplayed all of their other tools. I agree. We all have opinions about who's the lesser of two evils and stuff like that, but the truth is... they're coming for *everyone* and everything. We can't let a few petty disagreements destroy what we're building.

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The time to argue tactics is before the fighting starts. So now and in an open environment like Substack so you get to know who stands where. Once the fighting starts then you support your side no matter what and you don't entertain the thoughts of cowards. I don't think "division" helps in the fight but sorting out who is who and what they think brings clarity before the fight. Not sorting out the players before hand is how we got so many RINOs/leftists/America haters in office.

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Right on Rob! Every totalitarian takeover in history has employed 'divide and conquer' as a fundamental strategy.

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Exactly Rob! Well said!

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I do agree with our Author's sentiment. While Trump did a great many good things, he still have some shortcomings. I highly doubt anyone on here would argue that if Trump were in office, things would be much better. Nowhere near where we should be, but better.

The problem we have is that we all choose the best leader, of the two options offered. At the end of the day, we have not had one President stand up there and say, "90% of what we have for government is against our foundational documents and what our Founders really intended, and here forth, ever single system put in place that goes against our country's founding values as a Republic, are here by void" ... Or something along this line, at least.

So yes, you can still support Trump and prefer him to be in office over the corpse-puppet but also be recognize his faults too. There is a lot of gray area between black and white.

And truly, anyone who seeks to gain power, probably shouldn't have it. And even further, returning our government into USA UnInc as it was supposed to be, and firing most of the two forms of govt we see (territorial and municipal), in a logical manner, is actually the proper way to go. To return the people's republic style of government back to the people, not that it isn't already there to take if more would step up and grab it.

So yes... I agree, Trump is by far the better pick to run USA Inc., but what we really need is someone who supports the return of America as put in place by our Founders nearly 250 years ago.

But in the interim, we don't need to divide ourselves for what I can only agree is a generally accurate opinion by our author. This division is insidious and prevalent enough in our everyday lives where we can all respectfully disagree on the minutiae of one's opinion over another's without coming across in such a negative way. And certainly, if you have such strong opinions, there are plenty of ways to share these, like creating a substack phe yourselves. And I truly write this humbly and not in a challenging way, but rather, to share that We The People should be coming together over the 99.9% BS that's wrong with everything on America rather than focusing on criticizing an author who would be standing by your side if shit went sideways on this great land.

But this is just my perspective. I'll go back to sharing the benefis of our UnInc American government on a different rant.

Thanks for your perspective, as always señor gato, very appreciative for all you do.

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Thoughtfully said though I disagree with significant aspects of it.

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Love it. The founders all had a common enemy. And truth be told, they had some very passionate disagreements that eventually lead us to our founding documents and a free country. Unfortunately, the Republic we got back then isn't what we have today... Not even a skeleton really.... But I respect the disagreement. At the end, we - all of us - who see the lies and corruption, will need to stand together and stop this madness. And I do think it's naive to assume we can vote out way out of this, even with Trump in office for four years, not even two years has passed and look at where we are.

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I like your response...quite a bit. Well thought out.

Who do you have in mind?

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This is actually a very difficult question to answer for me.

So let's set aside the fact that I have become an American State National and jumped out of the corps govt system; (tasa.americanstatenationals.org to answer your next potential question, and for a trip through history, on YouTube search "Bobby Graves Part 1 and watch all three of these).

If I was to have to choose who they offered, as in, a politician, Desantis is probs a top contender. But at the end of the day, every single one of these politicians have already spent too much time in the system. Someone, somehow, somewhere has got to them or they have their own agenda unbeknownst to us.

I'd rather pick up a farmer from middle America, blue collar, maybe 50 years old, and vote him into the seat of our presidency, vote in a whole new everything to go with it. And I think in the corps govt system, there's always a relic, a bookmark somewhere... And enough of these and nothing can change for the better... It appears to be better for a timeframe, but then spirals down once again.

Really, who I'd like to see running this country ... It's us, we're supposed to self-govern and certainly not supposed to have this big govt, top down system we have today pretending to run things.

Just my two dollars worth (formerly two-cents worth before Bidenflation).

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hahaha. great comment!

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Chauncey Gardiner for President! Very good!

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We are all wretched people, to be sure. But I'd rather have his flawed character than Biden's. Trump put too much trust in the wrong people. He won't make that mistake again

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Really good article though depressing as hell. But I agree with Monoi on this one. Not a man of courage and character? Really? How many of us would have put up with or could have withstood all the lies, treachery, backstabbing, constant investigations, baseless impeachments, media slander, a landslide election stolen from him and endless BS that President Trump put up with. I don’t care that he has imperfections. I care that he is a man who deeply loves this country.

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Poor character, maybe. Flawed, yes. But no courage?

He may be stupid for picking a fight with the deep state without fully understanding the length of their tentacles, and without having a coherent game plan.

But would anyone have realized the depravity those who run the administrative state?

His existence and actions (both good and bad) have shed light on the the corruption of those in power.

That, in and of itself, is priceless.

No one else would have the balls to do the things he did (both good and bad).

By stirring up the pot, he stirred up a hornets nest, and has opened up EVERYONE's eyes.

I'll take that any day

prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado

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Exactly. Could "like" your comment × a million. Also now easy to spot the people that exist very, very comfortably within the bounds of that depravity and do it's well rewarded bidding in one form or another, as they are just freaking out so much that their 'calm, rational, empathetic' masks have fallen off to reveal to all (including themselves) the greedy, self-centered, rough beasts that they really are.

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there are a number of anecdotal reports saying that he's actually surprisingly intelligent and asks pertinent and smart questions (Patrick Byrne comes immediately to mind)

but there's no doubt he got rolled a bit as POTUS

1) he trusted his generals too much early on

2) he made appointment deals with RINOs - I suspect he thought they would come around once they tasted success, but he didn't immediately grasp the depth of their perfidy

3) and yes, he is vain and vulnerable to flattery - and so of course he deserves criticism, but bear in mind that it is in the very nature of any Deep State that those surrounding the throne learn how to pull the levers of power. I could wish that Trump were less vain, but then some other lever would be discovered.

I say this as one who was deeply skeptical at first and only voted against Hillary.

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So you don't actually know him. He's definitely not perfect, nobody is, and I can't fail to notice that you don't really give any actual examples of dangerous decisions so propaganda it is (and I'm talking about actual important things). Also, if you don't get the way he expresses himself, I think it reflects more on you than on him. He did indeed fold on covid, or on budget deficits, but so did every other "leader" and I don't know any of those who would have put up with a permanent deep state coup like he had to put up with for the last 7 years. Not a man of courage or character? Seriously?

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Despite voting for him, I'll admit that I was never a Trump fan, at least not until now. Michael Sanger wrote a very good piece about how Trump's misplaced trust in Matt Pottinger brought us Deborah Birx and the entire pandemic response debacle. Trump appointed Wray and Milley. He appointed John Bolton.

That said, seeing the unprecedented lengths to which Garland, Wray, and Klain will go to silence a private citizen simply reinforces my belief that Trump is a major threat to the corrupt political establishment. "The enemy of my enemy ... " and all that.

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He threw Fauci the keys and let the Covidians drive. Fuck him.

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I can't disagree with many of your observations, but it seems to me that at least some of his "flaws" have rendered him impervious and resistant to the influences and machinations of the deep state...and if that is the case can they really be called "flaws".

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EGM ( and libertate):

In your perfect? world, is your campaign slogan “let’s possibly vote for DeSantis? I largely agree with your characterization of Trump, but we have to choose one from two. If it turns out to be Biden v. Trump redux, I know what I will choose.

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I agree. That's how it works. We get two choices.

We face an existential threat to our liberties; indeed our union.

I will vote for Trump without hesitation if that is the choice.

God save us JuQu

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The Dem runner is going to be Newsome.

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🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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Ikr? They're going to market him to the aging pussy hat brigades as a hot sexy thing. Newsome/Beto. East coast ladies who lunch will be positively insane over them.

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I think only those who would vote D no matter who the candidate is.

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Possibly. But that changes nothing for me.

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So actually - my parents knew Trump (dinners, correspondence, etc.). They would disagree with your inside reports on his ability to grasp nuance. They found him extraordinarily insightful with an excellent memory for detail. Not impulsive but definitely committed to a decision once he made it. Exceptionally creative problem solver.

Think about the skill set and knowledge that a multi-million dollar development project in the 80's would require.

I respect you El Gato Malo and the man you describe is not Donald Trump . Your description is the caricature and persona that the media, the gossips, etc. have created over the many decades.

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"...definitely committed to a decision once he made it."

That alone ended up fucking over all of us royally.

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Trump dressing down his generals as "a bunch of dopes and babies" is worth some real sympathy. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/01/17/trump-blasted-top-military-generals-as-a-bunch-of-dopes-and-babies-according-to-new-book/

Too bad he didn't have the wherewithal to replace them.

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If you truly believe all of that after the past six years, I have a vaccine you might be interested in. It is a brand new mRNA injection that is safe and effective and you will never ever get COVID, which is a deadly disease that threatens to wipe out humanity.

I know all of this because this is what I have been told and to believe otherwise would cause cognitive dissonance.

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I’ve heard exactly the opposite, isn’t that weird? Pretty sure the truth falls in the middle somewhere.

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Wait. Is there really a discussion on THIS stack that gins down to someone not having a right to their view/opinion? Isn’t that what we’re fighting against??? There are those who want us to have no opinion but their own. That’s not the side of the good guys. Seems odd that would have to be said.

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Quite a number of dear readers have believed they'd found a tame cat. Think it undeserving of treats because it stakes out its own territory.

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And some of us think that disagreement is healthy and stimulates discussion. We don’t fear it or lash out. We do argue a bit though 🙂

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I missed the part where someone said to someone else that they don’t have a right to an opinion.

(and if they did, well, that’s their opinion and they have a right to their [wrong] opinion)

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Trump remains, as always, the gelding his father created.

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So disappointed that el gato liked that comment. It’s beneath him.

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Obviously it is not.

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The media and Google won’t let anyone see anything positive about Trump. It’s like Ivermectin. If you want to find anything positive, you have to intentionally hunt for it. Most aren’t motivated to do that, so they know only one side of the story.

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and many of his adherents will not allow anything negative to be said.

he seems so polarizing that having and sort of balanced discussion of good and bad becomes near impossible.

you have to lionize or demonize him.

neither really paints the picture.

he had some good ideas but had little idea how to really make them work and his shock-jock personality let the politicos run rings around him.

he accomplished some useful things and really blew it on a number of others.

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TDS hysterics on the left, true believers on the right...

It is an ancient and effective strategy.

Divide et impera.

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Yes, because before Trump it was easy to have rational discussions about George Bush, Mitt Romney and Ronald Reagan. Those discussions weren't polarized at all. You didn't get screamed at or called a Nazi for supporting George Bush on a college campus in the early 2000's. No, I must have imagined all that. The left would be acting super rational right now if Trump would just leave the national scene. The same left that wants to castrate and give masectomy's to children. That left.

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He had D.C. against him, almost in its entirety. The media hates him. Google hates him. He’s an outsider. Both parties’ politicians hate him for a REASON. Think about it.

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It has nothing to do with lionizing him, I'm not even American. But I am fed up with the compulsion people have to always put in a disclaimer regarding the guy. Again, he's not perfect but try any of the other c...ts in charge for size and without him, clinton would have been in power. Think about that! :) I feel you're just doing what the leftists want you to do, when your post is precisely about another overreach against Trump by the democrat degenerates.

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You act as though he didn't have 99% of Washington actually undermining him. You're pretty certain of yourself from the safety of your keyboard.

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Yup, I was generally impressed and for him, like his statemanship seemed actually very good. North Korea missile tests stopped, Afghanistan casualties stopped, cutting $300bn of annual subsidies on useless chinese imports like handbags keeping the US the number one economy, telling the Germans not to rely on Russian gas, telling Boeing to stick their $2bn airforce one deal, etc. etc.

But when he threw Fauci the keys, and allowed lockdowns that was never again for me. The HungerGames power-shift to districts was palpable. Suddenly in the UK we knew who your State Govenors were, in the UK we suddenly knew who was the leader of the Welsh senate, so shmo named Drakeford nobody had ever heard of before and he locked down hard and fast. And you couldn't cross the Welsh/English border. Prior to that the only thing it had determined for 200 years was who collected your bins. In the US you just about escaped intra-state lockdowns, although some govenors attempted it. So the Donald really messed up on the biggest one. The fact I'm typing this on substack instead of chilling with my friends on Facebook, Twitter, or WhatsApp can all be traced to how the leader of the free world™ made an absolute pigs dinner of a non-event and turned it into the defining time of at least two generations.

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Why do you think they went after Trump with a vengeance? Do you really think it was his shock-jock personality? He was a threat to their power and undermined their plans. Their reaction to his win in 2016 revealed how deep and wide the rot had spread.

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Start using that to refer to all the leftist idols. “Martin Luther king jr was a deeply flawed and unsympathetic character.” Etc etc…

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i see no issue in doing so.

king was a nasty piece of work in his personal life.

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My favorite moment in Spike Lee's masterful film MALCOLM X is near the end. When Malcolm knows he's going to be killed soon, he calls his wife from a hotel room and tells her how much he loves her and their daughters. Cut to: The FBI is wiretapping his phone and listening in. The agents laugh at what a dedicated family man Malcolm X is: "This guy's a monk compared to King!"

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Well, he was. That doesn't mean he didn't have any good ideas.

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Love you gato but had to upvote.

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Reminds me of the spirit of the “Hey, I’m vaxxed too, but doesn’t this whole mRNA thing for children smell a little funny?”-kind of statement. The obligatory deferential nod toward the vast horde who have TDS but can’t name any reasons why. The media just implanted their standard package as a finished product, as “the current thing” yet again. Kind of like the “God wrote it-I believe it-That settles it” crew. He may be a narcissistic, cheesy weasel, but he pretty much single-handedly mortally wounded fake news media. He may be a bullying blowhard, but at least THAT time he blew in the right direction. Let’s build on that somehow. He failed massively and tragically after that, granted , with the “vaccine.” But part of that tragedy is that if it were not for all the constant, unchallenged, snide little Orange Man Bad media sniping, he might have found more courage to use his powers to press for Ivermectin, Zelenko Protocol etc. and win by attacking the fraud at the root of the EUA. He actually was right on the brink when it was announced he had “tested positive for covid” and he was asked about what treatment plan he had. The “reporter” asked a leading question of some kind, like, “which one of the vaccines are you going to take?” And Trump said something to the effect of, “I might not take any, I might go with Hydroxychloroquine.” I thought, wow he’s kicking this whole vaccine shitshow right in the balls! Outstanding! Then, there was the media blizzard of “Trump’s advising people to treat themselves with laundry bleach! The big dummy! And some old geezer actually did it and DIED!!!” Etc. etc… That was the period when he failed and backed down. This was a tragedy for the world, not something to gloat over.

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Remember what happened to JFK, RFK, MLK, other heads of state, 9ll & rise of the biosecurity state, BlackRock taking over Fed Res, regulatory capture across the board. Carter cabinet was 100% filled with powerful Trilateral Commission - & in Newsweek admitted TC directs policy, not POTUS.

Why are we quibbling? Trump did much to launch global 4IR 'Great Reset' Technocracy e.g. signing Opportunity Zones EO. He was routinely advised on health care policies by Obamacare architect Ezekiel Emanuel (Rahm's brother). His daughter attending Human Capital Market meetings with WEF wonks (HCMs = backdoor mechanism for China style social credit scores on steroids). His SIL's family paid over market price to have business address 666 5th Avenue. He's been pals with Epstein (a member of Trilateral Commission), Clintons, SIL did business with Soros. It's a big Club.

We're being played, always have been. Those who think "voting" alone will stop the 'Great Reset' and do nothing more substantive to create friction against what's happening off the main political circus stage will become instruments of their own slavery. We need to decentralize our actions, not use the same thinking that created this mess in the first place.

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the lefties want your guns so they can take out any deeply flawed objector to their wef tyranny.

just say no and be ready!

biden ain't got enough f-15's and f-35 is broken all the time!

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The idea that the military would be used, or “they have nukes” is so laughable it’s ridiculous. If even remotely true, then the best thing for the opposing side to do would be to have an “insurrection” in any blue city in America. The government would take out more blue check mark twitter snobs than the insurrection itself.

Lol. “THE GOVERNMENT HAS NUKES!!!”

“THEN WE TAKE SAN FRANSISCO,,,,”

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yea, all those mean tweets

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Trump is icky, doncha know? And the bien pensants among us just can’t handle it.

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No, he's just the biggest loser and always has been. He'd had a chance, with Ivana, to borrow the necessary stones to replace what his father pinched off. But he hadn't the guts to drag himself toward adulthood. Couldn't even make it to Shakespearean tragedy, just everyday impotent failure.

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This is the dumbest take I've heard. Maybe the dumbest take ever.

He built some of the largest and most prestigious buildings of the 1970's and 1980's.

He made the Trump name one of the most recognizable names on the planet.

He created a multimedia empire out of basically nothing, with a TV show that was a ratings hit for over a decade.

And then, in his very first election he beat 10+ big name Republicans and Hillary fucking Clinton, in one of the most stunning upsets of political history.

And you are....well, you.

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And I am glad to be so.

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And as I said, he had Ivana then, and she was always the brains of the business.

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So now we've gone from Trump was the biggest loser to the theory that he was successful because wife was the brains behind his whole operation.

They divorced in 1992. Trump's wildly successful television career didn't begin until 12 years later. Most of his successful golf course purchases and licensing deals happened 10+ years later. His historic political career didn't begin until 24 years after his divorce.

And, he put her in charge of one of his casinos, and it went bankrupt. Almost like Ivana probably wasn't the brains behind the operation when they were married. And she DEFINITELY wasn't responsible for his golf course assets, his television career or his political career.

I think you're getting the "Ivana was the brain's behind the operation" from one news article. Explain again how she was responsible for all of the success he had after they divorced?

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Outstanding essay. Maybe your best. I pray for the strength to speak truth always and never acquiesce to the vile ventriloquists who have their hands up the back of their Joe Biden dummy.

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Is the whole idea to goad people into real rebellion? So that the deep state can complete the crackdown it started with COVID?

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It's starting to feel like it.

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They can already do it. I mean, if they can redefine any disagreement as terrorism, then we are already there, are we not?

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You are right.

We are there. I no longer fear it; I embrace it.

The last 6 years have represented an existential threat to our liberty - perhaps like never before since the declaration was signed.

IMO, even WWII does not rival our current state of affairs, as it relates to our freedom.

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That's true. Because right now the threat is domestic in nature. The Covid restrictions, the election anomalies, the diversity baiting are all being perpetuated by our government. And that is systemic in nature. WWII was worse because it was clearly a stab at genocide and it eventually if not thwarted would have continued here as well. That is what makes this worse, is the governments globally made it difficult or impossible to run from these restrictions. But I think the good side to all of this is many countries are wakened to thoughts of liberty.

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I agree, but what would happen now, if we had a similar event like WWII?

I'm not sure we would have a shot, because we are literally destroying ourselves.

How can we stand against evil abroad, if we can't within in our own country?

Tough one.

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WWII ... Quickly... Why was America successful over Germany? Germany actually had much better technology. So what was our edge and capable offering that won us this war? Simply put, our ability to manufacture the crap out of our weapons - guns, planes, you name it. Where our tech wasn't as capable as Germany's, we could produce replacements at an alarming rate. We won by pure manufacturing force and a lot of brave peeps going over to use these weapons.

Fast forward to today. Not touching on the woke military issues either, what has changed between today and WWII? The simple fact that we can't manufacture our weapons 100% here, on America. We are dependent on parts from all over the world, and some of these parts come from the hands of our enemies we'd potentially be fighting against. So do we win a WWII against China and Russia. Sorry folks, but fuck no. Our one additional advantage has been our position on the earth, and having a strong Navy to protect our oceans. But if we get into war, can we replace our weapons, aka planes, boats, missiles, etc with any degree of urgency and without relying on other countries? Simple answer: No. Our weakness has been sending our tech and manufacturing overseas, depending on them and giving them huge leaps in tech advancements. We need to bring back, at the very least, our critical defense tech manufacturing to our shores. Chips, weapons, etc. 100% Made on American Soil.

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Wow. True. Well said!

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Yes, and this isn't about Trump, necessarily. He was the one who let Fraudci/Borx run the WH for many months. This is what absolute power looks like. El gato malo made some arguments based on principles. The characters all can change, but the behavior stays the same and history proves it. This is no longer a free country...only made to feel that way occasionally. This is war on you and the battles take many forms - treat it as such. Thanks bad cat!

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When it became clear that the path Fauci/Birx was taking the country was over a cliff Trump also brought in Scott Atlas.

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Brian - I think the declaration of "war" happened with the Lago raid the other night. Literally.

I truly think it's a before/after event.

Let's just take our effing country back.

However that may be. And whoever we have to install to get that done.

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I don't condone installing anyone. Election integrity must be restored. The corrupted 2020 election was the tipping point. The Mar A Lago raid was to distract from the economy and the bogus spending bill passed by congress.

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Unfortunately, Atlas was quickly sidelined and that IS Trump’s fault, though it pains me to say it. What was Pence doing this whole time?

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Part of me thinks Pence was in on it

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Trying to swat away that fly, lol!

I think Pence is a classy guy, though. His calling is more in the realm of diplomacy rather than leading in any capacity.

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I don’t think he is trustworthy. Or even intelligent really. He reminds me of W lol, his mannerisms and tone.

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This!

I hope everyone reads this.

Great post!

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https://twitter.com/phillyrich1/status/1557019520140730371

FLASHBACK: Judge who signed Trump's search warrant reveals that "The mere accusation itself is what can be extraordinary damaging."

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This is no-holds-barred political persecution, and it's breathtaking in its arrogance. I think this seriously backfires, but Democrats have been acting like people who are unafraid of elections for a while -- maybe they know something we only suspect.

Side note, I wrote about this a little yesterday and always get the warm fuzzies when we're on the same page:

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/covid-data-the-ira-and-political

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Wow, @Gato - this is worth adding to your article as a post script link.

Ideology > Truth and Justice

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99% of this is the fault of the media. You can lay every societal ill, every scandal left covered, every crime unpunished, every encroachment upon our rights, every unjust war… you can lay it at the hands of the media.

The media is the enemy of the people.

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It turned into Yankees-Red Sox a little while ago. I defend anything my team does, and criticize anything your team does.

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Not for me. I can recognize both Biden’s and Trump’s faults. Not a problem for me.

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I applaud you and I’m sure there are a lot of people who work hard to do this (focus on ideas, not parties), especially on this Substack...but it seems to be how both parties and much of the media acts.

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Aug 9, 2022·edited Aug 9, 2022

Yep, probably 20% at either end just can’t open their minds enough to see reality. With Biden and Trump, we can at least point to past behavior as an indication of possible future behavior. I try to envision which future looks preferable. I’m a pragmatist.

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I like looking at myself and my reaction to known quantities in the past.

I held my nose and voted for John McCain. Even managed to convince myself that he had a few redeeming qualities. At least long enough to pull the lever.

Got bamboozled by Romney. Thought it would be great to have a business man and technocrat to finally "fix things". Only figured out much later that he never actually created a god damned thing in his life. And he totally lost me in the second debate when he refused to push back on candy crowley. Totally choked and gave us a view into his real lack of character. The biggest, most useless empty suit I've ever seen.

And then there is Trump. I always thought he was entertaining. But I also knew that he was a blowhard and a carnival barker. But unlike Romney, the more I listened to him, the more I liked what he was saying. He gets the basics. And he doesn't get super bogged down in the details. We're the United Fucking States. We have everything you could possible imagine here. It's like we were born on third base, with the bases loaded and nobody out and we only need one run to win the game. We have so much misery here because the politicians will it so.

Everyone except Trump. Because he's not a politician. He builds things.

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I think you and I may have been separated at birth lol, I am the same 🙂

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Go Yanks!

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As a Gatofan, I follow the Detroit Tigers. 😉

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Great read, thanks. Only part I disagree with is this " left is managing to elevate a deeply flawed and unsympathetic". I know he's not perfect, but the 95% negative press coverage has painted Trump as a monster. I will judge this tree by the fruit it bore.

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Agree 99%. But they are making Trump into a deeply sympathetic character... I prefer DeSantis though I voted for him in 2020, but regardless, I stand with Trump on this 100%.

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It would be just like the Democrats to succeed to torpedoing Trump, only to have his voters seamlessly move to DeSantis -- whereas if they do nothing, it's possible the Trump/DeSantis primary fractures the party some.

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DeSantis won't run without Trump's endorsement. It would be a fool's errand. And DeSantis is a pragmatist. So yeah, he wouldn't tie himself to the mast and blow his entire political career unless Trump stepped aside and endorsed him.

I don't think you quite understand the extent to which middle America supports Trump, and only Trump. Years of being kicked in the balls and stabbed in the back by establishment Republicans will do that to you.

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"Years of being kicked in the balls and stabbed in the back by establishment Republicans will do that to you."

Cretins like Bush, for example.

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DeSantis has shown himself to be disciplined and uncaring about what the media nor his detractors say. There's a reason why FL is the top red state in the nation. But don't forget, just like this articles points out, this isn't about politics, it's about liberty and keeping a republic. The Administrative State™ has taken over.

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I saw that the republicans said that they will investigate. They said "preserve your records". Seeing this cemented in my mind that one side is fighting a war, while the other is not. It's comically asymmetrical.

When you add up all the left has done since 2016-19 Russiagate to the 2020 presidential and senate coup, you should conclude that they have no intention of giving up their power. They just pushed all their chips to the center of the table. And they're the only ones playing.

As they say, if you're not at the table, it's because you're on the menu.

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"It cannot be won in one day..." -- let us not forget the downfall of the Soviet Union. Many thought it would happen some day; the dog's tail would wag and millions would die. Nobody foresaw Gorbachev handing over the keys to the castle and wishing Yeltsin, "Good luck."

You can light the fire, but you cannot control the wind.

Once things start happening, and it looks increasingly likely to be fairly soon, it will be like a snowball careening down the side of a mountain.

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Excellent, astute post bad cattitude. Two thumbs up.

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One thing I appreciate about you, Bad Cat, is your willingness to say what you really think rather than blindly accepting any particular ideological stance in bulk. You're willing to say good things about the measles vaccine to a crowd that doesn't love vaccination. Willing to say not so good things about Trump to a largely conservative audience. Here's to courage!

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Dr Gold, another martyr for the cause serving six months in prison.

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Amazing commentary. Brilliant!

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Not a good look but they've been ugly as sin for awhile so...

Now what do we do?

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I know this:

We can NOT ignore it...or wish it away. It is upon us.

Binary choices are never fun. But easy.

This is an easy one imo.

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