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Best meme ever: I’m voting for the felon and the hillbilly.

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Love that!!

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Thank You , Mary Ann Caton! I will have a big SIGN made for my yard with this! LOVE IT!!!

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That's awesome!!! Great minds think alike, right? I have asked a local guy to make me two t-shirts and two yard signs with that message. It's funny, true, and makes a clear reply to the libs in language they understand. Would love to see a picture of your sign when you get it. I wonder if there's a way to do that on Substack. Here's my email in case you want to do it that way: caton@pitt.edu

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He’s not a felon.

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Agreed! But that's why it's such a power meme: it's using the language of the libs against them.

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No, but the Dems have been calling him that.

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Not only is Musk moving Space X, he is reportedly moving X headquarters from San Francisco to Austin, TX. Moving from one progressive city to another, but with less poopage on the streets. Baby steps.

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All Musk’s Xs moving to Texas

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Great song. Back when country music was actual country.

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Austin may be cyanotic Blue in its city government but most of Texas ain't, Abbott is governor, and Beto Pendejo is a loser and laughingstock.

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I wonder how many of Don's readers know what pendejo means.

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I looked it up, it's shorthand for democrat. (A stupid or contemptible person. An asshole.)

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lol, like

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It is an opportunity to increase vocabulary and cultural sensitivity.

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I do now.

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I’ve posted many times that I learn something here every day but Sunday. Thanks for the useful lesson,skinnydip.

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all wise Latinas

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I do! Plus after 30 years living there, I escaped Austin in 2007, it had changed so much in the time I lived there I no longer enjoyed being there even though I still thought it was the prettiest city in TX. I've only been back a couple of times since and can't wait to get away

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The five years I lived in Houston as an adult I was trying to get a job in Austin, ended up moving to Los Angeles. That was the 2nd best decision I ever made. Best decision? Leaving LA for AZ.

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Good barbeque though....just go down the road to Lockhart or out to the burbs and its Red, and still good barbeque.

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Salt Lick!! My favorite and I live in the KC area.

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Pendejo significa bruto, estupido, etc.

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He’s been awfully quiet this year. That’s a good thing

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With luck, perhaps the folks working for Mr. Musk can swing Austin to the right.

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No guarantees.

Remember: many of them will have been former CA voters, so, there’s that.

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But more importantly a Red state. A niece of mine lives in Austin. She once said to me..."a blue gem in a red wasteland". LOL. Guess she is just longing for the poop...

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Or the pierced blue navel in the red belly of Texas.

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Most of us say a blue cancer in the heart of Texas

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I believe 90% are in Austin, Dallas, and Houston.

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Thanks for the visual. (It's ok; I was only going to have coffee this morning anyway. )

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Wait for brunch and have steak and eggs and toast thick with real butter.

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Oh for sure. My daughter-in-law has the entire family on Keto. No gluten anywhere in your menu, sir.

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I like gluten-enhanced mesquite pancakes with bacon and tupelo honey.

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07/20/24: Austin will be SFCA in about another five years. And Musk will be rudely surprised by a state that can't restore its electrical power (no A/C 100*!) in the aftermath of a weak summer hurricane.

"Whoever the Dems pick, the media will say the new nominee is the greatest political figure since Demosthenes, Cicero, and Pericles combined.”

Finding readable historians is next to impossible.

(Ron Chernow, this means you!)

I've been more than pleasantly surprised by "Alexander The Great" ["20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC"], by Lewis V. Cummings (Houghton Mifflin Company 1940).

If a good book runs long, its length is irrelevant.

(Serendipity: I never would have discovered ATG if the book seller hadn't sent my previous book to someone who didn't buy it.)

The Poll: I voted for Amber, and regret that Don didn't nominate Lorenzo Sewell, whose RNC speech was the best I have ever heard in my lifetime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkNSzUBUkH8

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Place most of the blame on EV's wind farms,, solar panels, and bit mining. The power companies can barely keep up with the demand on a quiet day.

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We saw 3 huge solar farms just this past weekend on a trip near Waco. What a waste of perfectly good farmland!

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Yeah the drive from KS to TX via I35 is a cornucopia of wind farms. I used to think it *might* be a good idea, after all windmills were a farm staple for a very long time, but alas, they are only really good for small, local, very specific jobs, like watering cattle.

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Where are the tree huggers and the bird lovers when you really need them?

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07/20/24: At the moment, clustered on Kamala Harris's unshaven legs.

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In the Permian Basin the "renewables" make "net zero" sense.

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And the over 100 db from Bit Mining cooling fans....want to say Ex-Governor Rick Perry (the gov who 'deregulated Texas' electric market) was working on a project to use decommissioned coal plants, re-open them to power bitcoin miners....

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Rick Perry: The Kamala Harris of the Republican Party during the Bush years (with Bush himself doing vacation relief during Perry's days off).

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After numerous power outages in our Dallas neighborhood we bought a whole-home natural gas generator. Best insurance policy we have.

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👍Write/call your Sen/Rep - Mandate all new homes be equipped with generators. Move the 7.5 billion for EV chargers to the generator industry and subsidies to consumers. Kills EV's. A twofer.

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As much as I dislike mandates, this is a great idea. Wish I had thought of it. Thanks, PM.

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❤️

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Here come the Texan involuntary "brown outs" (& only that if they're lucky). I'm not picking on Texas; the entire country wastes electrical power up the wazoo.

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And it will get worse with more BitCoin mining and server farms.

Abbott and co better lean on ERCOT (too many on the board there that don't live in TX) and Counterpoint to get their act together.

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What an absolute barn burner of a speech!! He was beyond awesome!

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It was all I could do not to burst into tears!

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Sewell's speech was nothing short of excellent - can you imagine what it would be like trying to sit in his church on a Sunday morning?

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Dare one got into his neighborhood?

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Thanks for the link, Don. Missed Sewell's speech but glad to have caught it now.

Each person has their purpose to fulfill; Sewell is definitely doing his! It is wonderful to think of all the millions of Americans all over the country who are stepping up in their individual ways to do their part.

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It was a ten-run grand slam! I especially liked the way he simply walked away from the podium when he hit the high note, instead of defusing its impact with any further words.

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You're right!

He was not there to glorify himself, he was there to glorify God and to support Trump.

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Perfect.

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The poopers will soon follow because their handouts will dry up in San Francisco. I am still very concerned Texas (with more intense voter cheating) will turn purple and soon be blue.

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Truly.

They need to especially vigilant for election cheat schemes.

Texas offers the most electoral votes than any other state, and thus is critical to carrying any election.

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Not as worried about that. The Republican party in TX is much improved post the Bush era.

That said, the Bush creeps continue to try to ambush our great AG, Ken Paxton. So stay suspicious.

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All his Xes live in Texas

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The entire state of California is an excrement hole though. I didn’t move to Texas, but I left the CA central coast a couple of years ago. Homeless encampments and the extreme cost of living there were horrible. The good news is I made a tidy, tidy profit when I sold my tiny, tiny house for more than half of a million dollars.

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Austin is not nearly as bad as SF, although I’m stipulating it could be much better. A lot of the younger techie moving there are not libtards.

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Yes but the traffic is terrible in Austin. Visited in 2008 and loved it, been there several times in the past 5 years, not so much.

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Home of Alex Jones and Info Wars too. We're going to make Austin great again !

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Not poltically correct, but my favorite tweet of the past week was the one referring to the shooter as "Ree Tardy Oswald."

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Funny as hell, but the real Oswald was framed. Do people think this kid was?

The CIA did a better job this time in that their fall guy was seen with a gun.

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Wish I'd said it. But when some TV talking head wondered aloud what the Shooter was thinking, I said "Have him ask Oswald!!"

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OH that is GOOD!

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😊

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I am so old that when I went to elementary school they let 6th graders be crossing guards. I was one and even had a badge. I have been insulted by the comparison to the USSS team assigned to Mr. Trump.

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I was too

They had a day for us and free attendance at an Indians game

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Me, too! LOL I felt like a 6th grade Wonder Woman when I slipped on my white canvas cross over the chest 4" wide straps and buckle around the waist Crossing Guard uniform. Took it so seriously. I would have been run over by a car to prevent a kid from being hit, not use one of them to shield me.

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Being chosen to be a 6th grade Crossing Guard was considered an honor at my school and, yes, most of us would rather take the hit if necessary in order to order avoid any casualties on our watch. Thanks for the memory!

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Yeah, well, tell me you packed heat and I’ll be impressed.😊

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When I was a crossing guard, mom did all the packing...usually PBJ.

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This brings back a surprisingly vivid memory of the wood poles we had with the STOP flags. They were octagonal. Anyone have that memory?

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I'd trust a sixth grade crossing guard over a storm trooper.

Trump would be wise to not trust them either. Would they try to Kennedy him again? If that's what the deep state tells them to do.

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I'll give you some old: I was in 4th grade when Stalin died. It was a news item in My Weekly Reader (the doctrinaire broadsheet of our time). We really looked up to our crossing guards, too. Yummm

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They already have a Palestinian state, Michiganistan

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Woody Hayes' directions from OSU to Michigan: "North till you smell it, west till you step in it."

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As a resident of Kansas, when I see OSU I immediately think of Stillwater Oklahoma so it took a moment to remember that for the first third of my life it meant Ohio.

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Same…got family in Stillwater.

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The capital of Michiganistan is Dirtbagistan.

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Woody Hayes foresaw this

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good article, misspelled Mamaw in the poll though. Hopefully with JD we can have 12 years of normalcy and some sense of moral rectitude infiltrate the sewer in DC while cleaning up the festering wound called the US Government.

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I can attest to the pronunciation, if not the spelling. My parent’s took me back to Ky as often as JD’s mamaw.

A recent joy: my favorite bartender’s from Tennessee. She named me her surrogate papaw. (Note: I have a favorite bartender because I’m the handyman in a kickass bar/restaurant. Not that there’s anything wrong with being a regular at a bar.)

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As can I. No harm, no foul, spelling nazi.

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Now, now…

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Momma taught me it was rude to correct people in public.

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Can’t remember much my mom taught me, but I do remember she was 5’0” with the reach of Wilt Chamberlain when I needed popped in the mouth.

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My Grandma was 4'9" and definitely had the reach of old Wilt. You Kids!! Go get me a switch!!

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You were blessed

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Like the Israelites, we will have to wander in the desert until all of the believers of DEI, CRT etc are dead. A second Trump presidency is only the start of a very long war back to normalcy.

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The D's have lots of $$ and machination in reserve. Soros, Obama, and WEF aren't surrendering without a vicious battle.

And even after that we will have to be vigilant. It is never over.

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As a wise man once said, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

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Item 17: (In reference to DEI policies in large brands) “The tide is turning. The Culture War is shifting in our favor because people are sick of the nonsense!”

We all lived through Bud Light and the message was clear. It should have been the turning point in the "behind the scenes" corruption that took place for the sake of DEI, the corporate lie they promote like Global Warming.

Recently, Tractor Supply and John Deere - two very large brands serving target markets that generally object to trans crap - implemented their policies in such a way that their target markets likely would never see the DEI communications. Retraction of these damaging policies should be met with a consumer response greater than what Bud Light endured.

I'm not a John Deere customer (or likely customer), but I am a customer of Tractor Supply. I have written to inform them my consumer loyalty and purchases from them have ended and deleted my association with them. There is no longer room for "We're sorry. We'll stop."

They are bullies and they will find other discreet avenues to support the trash of the lunatic leftists.

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Back when BLM was being canonized by corporate shills I did exactly the same thing for the brands I had been patronizing: Target, Kohl's, Mars Candy, Bomba's, and Netflix (maybe I'd already abandoned them when Cuties was created by that execrable company). I haven't done a dollars worth of business with any of them. I'm ashamed for continuing to use Amazon, though😔

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I also cut way back on those brands.

Perhaps we can’t do a 100% stoppage in our purchases, but if everyone who believes the trans agenda is evil cut back their purchases with these brands by 10% they would feel the blow and it would adversely affect shareholder value, thus putting the CEO in jepardy. Frankly, it would be better if our consumerism could reach into the board rooms and hurt those MFers. The board members are elitist who just play musical chairs across the global brands and are invisible and unreachable by consumers.

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Actually, as far as I know the company is entirely family-owned.

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About the Mars Company, you should inform your environmentalist friends -- if you have any -- that they had diversified from candy. In the northern Germany town of Verden they had a plant that produced canned dog food, the main ingredient of which was --- drum roll !!! WHALE MEAT. Back in the 1960s I visited the place; the manager was so proud of his product, he offered us samples.

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Had a ex-daughter in law that was a liberal and an environmentalist, would enjoy it and you have no idea how much to share your story of Mars Co.and WHALE MEAT!

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Well, I can't tell if SHE will enjoy it, but it sounds like YOU will enjoy passing it on. And the best part -- it's all true!!

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Thanks for the Unmute of us "Great Unwashed" Don. I'm so overwhelmed by the quantity of "good stuff" that I'm otherwise speachless.

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As a long time reader of Don, welcome. You'll be pleasantly surprised at the quality of the comments. You learn something every day and on a good day a lot more. It's always the first place I go in the morning.

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I also it's the first thing I read in the morning with my coffee. The day doesn't start right without Don's column. The comments are the next best thing.

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Item 19: For the kids in Africa to re enact any life experience with Obama, they would need a paddle board, a pound of cocaine and a Big Mike blow up doll. FJB

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Mitch O'Connell: "Can I join in?!"

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You're a bad boy Mark. Mawmaw will kick your ass..

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Lol, I have more loaded guns around the house than her

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lol, like

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Check out omega4america.com. This is the ONLY way to thwart the steal. Every state has tens or hundreds of thousands of FAKE ballots. These are real, official ballots for fake people. O4A has the technology to ID the fake ballots. This is the ONLY way to win this year. O4A allows us to ID REAL ballots going to FAKE addresses BEFORE they are sent out. Does it work? Check out Sen Ron Johnson’s US Senate re-election in Wisconsin in 2022

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07/20/24: We can have all the wonderful conventions we want, but if Trump doesn't have 15,000 people in the blue states who understand how this stuff works and are ready to torpedo these frauds, we are doomed.

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I shouldn't assume but I've thought that's what Musk has joined us for. He's not giving 45 million a month just to feel good. He's going to help beat the cheat.

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I don’t know if Elon Musk is even aware of O4A. I hope he is. This would be the best use of his funds.

To my knowledge, I am not aware of any states that are utilizing O4A’s Fractal computing to proactively cleanup the voter rolls. O4A identifies addresses that are disallowed to receive mail-in ballots, such as empty fields, apartment club houses, 7/11 stores, etc. It can also identify 1 bedroom apartments with 15-20 people. They are NOT identifying PEOPLE to remove from the rolls so they are NOT disenfranchising ANY voters. They are identifying locations that cannot receive ballots. The ballots sent to these locations are returned to the USPS where they are collected and delivered to ballot harvesters.

We need to identify a location and approach the county clerks (politely). Let them know that a ballot cannot be sent to these ADDRESS. There is no one at this address to receive the ballot so there is no disenfranchisement.

These are legal ballots used in an ilegitimate manner. Once they are sent in, we cannot discern that they came from ilegitimate sources and WILL BE COUNTED. If we can prevent these ballots from being sent out in the first place, they aren’t available to be counted.

This is where our effort needs to be applied, in all 50 states.

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I think that too.

And he’s just the guy who can help do it.

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This company is the real deal. Had they been at the forefront of the 2020 election, real data could have been brought to court to show election fraud in real time. I read their report on the Georgia election results where they showed that out of 7.2 million votes, nearly a half a million votes had some kind of anomaly associated with them. Trump lost GA by less than 12,000 votes. You can imagine with nearly 500,000 suspect votes that there were way more than 12K fraudulent votes. America deserves better election integrity and this is one weapon against voter fraud.

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It would have taken a court willing to look at actual evidence instead of tossing complaints over questionable "technicalities."

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Item 7: Fire the SS director now! If a sloped roof is too dangerous then how does she explain the fact that the two SS snipers that were shown on national tv at the event and who ultimately shot the assassin were positioned on a sloped roof? Here is a little fact: All roofs have varying amounts of slope. Water requires some slope in order to run off. There are no flat roofs. That woman is so incompetent she must be a Democrat.

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The poster child of DIE. And the fish rots from the head.

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Who hires these people? Answer: people just like them.

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Dr. Jill hired her.

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I would say that positions at that level are filled with people who are recommended by members of congress or the Executive branch in 75% of the cases. Thats why the system is not filled with the best and the brightest. She met all the criteria of the Democrat party.......... a woman. Nothing else matters to them. Anyone who thinks that DHS is going to tell the wife of the president "no" when she pushes a friend is nuts.

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Check the news...Cheatle was clearly nominated by Dr. Jill. They liked her when she was on Biden's SS staff while he was VP.

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true, imbeciles hiring DEI. What could go wrong?

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It's like a self fulfilling prophecy, they can't evolve and change because they keep hiring people who are all likeminded. The hive-mind.

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I think that many Senators and Congressmen (on our side) are hopping mad. I hear Sen Cruz on some clip and he is livid.

BTW, write your reps. I did on (last) Sat night requesting them to demand Kim Cheatle's resignation.

Apparently there is a rule/mechanism by which Congress can reduce a particular appointee's salary to $1. Do it y'all!

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I do so a lot. Get lots of form letters back from some 20-something staffer with a thanks. But when enough people do so on an issue it does move them to action often. They do keep track of peoples positions on key issues. I have never liked the "defund a position" as a means of fixing things. It can be necessary in cases where nothing else has worked but it is brought up too often today. It is too much like micro-management. Congress has ceded way too much power to the executive branch over the last decade or two, mostly because congress is lazy. They better get it back and start doing what they are charged to do or we are going to get a giant hook and start getting these people out of office.

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This administration doesn’t have the cojones to do anything. Anyway, she’s a special friend of Dr. Jill.

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I think that the team you’re referencing was the local SWAT team, not Secret Service. They don’t have the same safety rules as the feds.

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No, the one I referenced was the SS, the one inside the first level perimeter................. the critical one closest to the podium. There were two teams of two on adjoining buildings closest to the podium. The local Swat guys had no role inside the closest perimeter to the best of my knowledge. I don't trust the SS any longer. That was a real cluster in terms of security. Trump would be safer with some Army Rangers or a SEAL team. In any regard, the level of weaponization of our so-called security agencies is very bad. I am no conspiracy guy at all but I still believe the CIA and people on the fringes of the CIA are the ones with the power in DC today. Congress is afraid of them. There needs to be a very deep cleaning done on these agencies, starting at the top.

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Don, there is so much in this week's highlights that I am overwhelmed with both glee for DJT and America and schadenfreude for FJB and the Dems. Having said that, given that DJT survived the assassination attempt, we all know that things will get real bumpy for the next three months, so let's not get too complacent just yet. The Democrat machine will go into overdrive to churn out every scare tactic, lie, and obfuscation that they can muster to keep their power. Remember the immortal words of DJT, "Fight, Fight, Fight!"

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Amen Jim!

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Tweet of the week, McStain's campain was historic because the other three runners were all attacking Palin . How often is it that one party's co-candidate spends more time sandbagging their running mate than attacking the opponent?

Answer, Pence.

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Hard to believe Pence has male anatomy...

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You're on fire today AD. Coffee machine out of order?

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Don't know that he does don't know that he doesn't. :)

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His "b*ls" were in the form of his detestable Chief of Staff, Marc Short.

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Well said, sir. Gosh, what a shame he wasn't in Milwaukee this week (running for mayor on the D ticket).

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"Carthage must be destroyed." - Cato the Elder

Had a friend in school that was on the debate team. A master debater.

He ended every debate with that quote.

One almost every debate.

Democrats, they're Sans Testicles.

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Except for Hillary...

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A master would have said 'Carthago delenda est' and impressed his classmates.

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It was a high school in East TN.

He and I were both a bit of Latin scholars, I'll admit I didn't know the original Latin and I appreciate you sharing.

He might have - likely did - know... it would have been pearls in front of swine.

Thanks!

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More'n welcome.

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Like a gentleman.

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Implied? Master Baiter T-Shirt | Funny Aussie T-Shirt | Threadheads

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Supposedly he ended all this speeches, no matter the topic, with: "Ceterum censeo Carthaginem delendam esse" -- And further, I'm of the opinion Carthage must be wiped out.

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I concede.

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And Pericles.

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Our Latin/Classic major son named our dog Pericles.

Hope we can avoid the plague!

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#28. Everyone knew they weren't there because they weren't being booed and laughed at.

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Marginal profit=marginal revenue-marginal cost. The marginal revenue of DEI is decreasing and the marginal cost is increasing. It’s always been about profits.

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