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Steve (recovering lawyer)'s avatar

Hey, everybody! Did you see all the riots after Charlie Kirk's assassination? Yeah, me neither. We are definitely not the same.

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Cookie McCall's avatar

The Governor of Utah has been such a wonderful spokesperson through this horrible tragedy. Yesterday he also pointed out how the people of Utah didn't react by burning, rioting, looting the week. They reacted by holding vigils all over the state, setting a wonderful example for all of us to take note and follow

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Grumpy Oldman's avatar

Spencer Cox is a woke phony. His pronouns are they/them. Don’t be fooled by his tough talk. He’s a jacka$$ in an elephant costume, another backstabbing version of Mitt Romney.

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Cookie McCall's avatar

I am very sorry to learn that since we all know what an enormous disappointment Mittens was - I'm grateful he didn't make it into the Oval Office, sad to say I voted for him

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Grumpy Oldman's avatar

Had Romney not jettisoned his staff in favor of beltway consultants who advised him not to belittle the incompetent negro, Dumbo might have been only a one term disaster.

Mittens legacy is that he is one of two Deep State GOP-ers who lost to the Third Worst President in American History.

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Amy's avatar

I’ll be interested to see if the horrible woman who was let go from Ole Miss this week for a disgusting tweet about Charlie has organized some type of protest at the game today or maybe on the Square. You know Democrats, they pitch fits like children at a moment’s notice.

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Alice Ball's avatar

I think most people in the Grove and the Square are on Charlie’s side and against this horrible woman.

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Amy's avatar

I should rephrase that because God loves her too. I should have said that woman who thought it was wise to type up a horrible tweet and hit send.

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Lynette's avatar

I saw only love for Charlie and his family. His wife is his warrior now.

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VICKI's avatar

We all need to support her and the Turning Point ....sonsabitches....will see rebounds to their actions and comments. I plan to for sure even though I was not particularly a follower but I am now.

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Lynette's avatar

Agreed. I plan to donate.

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Jeremy R's avatar

The leftards were close to rioting in Congress. A minute of silence? Not from the left.

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Grumpy Oldman's avatar

Only because Lauren Boebert (R, CO) asked for a prayer for the family in addition to the moment of silence.

The jackasses are not religious.

Big, corrupt government is their only religion.

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Lee's avatar

Thank you Sir Don, You publish a brilliant blog 5 days a week and then on the 6th you publish ALL the highlights and humor of the week. You must have a team of ??? -- how many. You deserve the Bentley of your dreams.

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The Outsider's avatar

And on the seventh day he rested.

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Jeremy R's avatar

And so should we.

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Lee's avatar

The lady of the manor may not like olive green. 😢

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EODMom's avatar

Pale green and silver? Did you look at the interior? I would be delighted. It’s a V8…… she’d be the only one in her neighborhood.

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Shrugged's avatar

Poll: "What is the main reason so many lefties are cheering the assassination of Charlie Kirk after protesting George Floyd's death?"

Charlie leveraged a weapon they could not overcome. That is, precise rhetoric, logic, and patient explanation. No level of shouting or burning buildings can intimidate a well-constructed narrative delivered calmly.

Charlie peacefully convicted satan's followers with his faith and words.

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PM's avatar

Plus, he was the leader of the revolution, among mostly young folks, rejecting the party of violence and corruption. Keep his movement alive; donate to Turning Point, USA

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

Yes--Gail W. suggested that the other day, and I did donate. It really is a great idea.

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Gail W's avatar

Thanks TPG. 🥰

Here is the link again for everyone’s convenience.

https://donate.tpusa.com/

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Valoree Dowell's avatar

done thx

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BlueRidge4Ever's avatar

Done!

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Cookie McCall's avatar

We've been wondering if better to donate to TPUSA or Turning Point Action - your input would be welcome

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VICKI's avatar

Why not split between both....get 'er covered.

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Gail W's avatar

I don't know but I suspect either will have impact. I guess TPA might be a 501c4?? If that is the case then they have more leeway with what they can do. TPUSA might be 501c3 to get tax exempt status. I am not affiliated with either; I just wanted to show support and urge others to do likewise, in honor of Charlie. Je suis Charlie. 💔

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NNTX's avatar

I contributed to both last year. Charlie and his team did a great job with GOTV for 2024. IIRC, that was through Turning Point Action.

If y'all can, attend America Fest. It is in late Dec, right before Christmas. We went last year and were very impressed.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

I don't know--but probably Gail W would know.

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steph_gray's avatar

I began by purchasing their I Am Charlie Kirk shirt.

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Vince Gallo's avatar

They’re just too stupid to know it.

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Stephen Fitzmaurice's avatar

Very well said!

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John Swindall's avatar

The insane response from so many broken people shows just how effective Turning Points message carried by Charlie Kirk was cutting through the noise created by the left. In death, his voice will only get louder. God bless his family, and God rest your soul Charlie Kirk. And may God bless those who continue the fight.

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James Mead's avatar

I enjoy your wit and snark.

Yet you interject serious thought provoking points

One of your best week in review

Thanks again for your work

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Greg Martin's avatar

I couldn’t agree more. 👍

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Michael_Poor's avatar

I wonder how Don will celebrate "Happy Hezbollah Pager Day" on Wednesday, 17th?

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Greg Martin's avatar

With a BANG no doubt! 💣 😎

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Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Erika Kirk was on Faux and delivered a speech that amazed me for her ability to control the emotions that had to be churning within. Wife and I agree she will be proven correct in stating [ they have no idea what they have unleashed, the movement will grow expotentialy BECAUSE of this assassination.]

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Gail W's avatar

Her speech aired live EVERYWHERE (non-leftist)

It was live on TPUSA’s Rumble, X, YouTube as well as Tim Pool’s channel and I’m sure many others. TPUSA on X had over 500,000 viewers alone.

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Shrugged's avatar

She's keeping Charlie and his life's work alive by enlisting the army of believers.

She'll take care of the family.

Charlie is looking down on all of it.

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NNTX's avatar

Agreed.

Read today that they have record applications for 18,000 new chapters, dwarfing the current number of chapters.

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MikeH's avatar

Item 31: Maduro let him off easy, Xi would have sent him to prison and Kim would have executed him. (Any western nation would have promoted him)

A couple of movie quotes that remind me of what just happened to Charlie Kirk: "You can't win Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." "You're all ugly and he was beautiful. He tried to bring something fine into your ugly world and you shot him for it." The Jewish leadership thought they were ridding themselves of an annoying inconvenience when they got Pilate to crucify Christ. How'd that work out? Charlie was a giant who will be even larger in death than he was in life. RIP Charlie Kirk.

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Shrugged's avatar

ITEM 30: "Our favorite president said, “We’re going to Memphis. Memphis is deeply troubled. We’re going to fix that just like we did Washington.”

Since they'll be in the neighborhood, can they skip on over to Nashville and kick the sick lunatic leftists out of there? Nashville is the Hollywood of the east/south. Perhaps Country music will be able to return to its roots. The mental disorder that is liberalism has killed country music.

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Joe LaGreca's avatar

I've wondered how country singers could possibly get radicalized by the left. First noticed it with the Dixie Chicks.

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Shrugged's avatar

Good question. Not sure how. Leftist Hollywood is having a strong influence there.

Garth Brooks/Trisha Yearwood are also left-leaning, pro LGBTQ and "inclusiveness". He continued to sell Bud Light to be 'inclusive' at his Nashville bar during the boycott of Bud Light so he was making a clear statement of support for transgender Dylan Mulvaney.

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Gail W's avatar

Didn’t Brooks/ Yearwood link up after cheating on both their spouses? Or am I confusing them with another couple?

If it was them, it would explain their lack of moral standards elsewhere.

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Shrugged's avatar

Not sure. You may be correct.

I tried a quick search and that detail is either scrubbed from the lib search engines or buried deeper, which I did not reach in my quick search.

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Gail W's avatar

FWIW, from AI…

“However, Brooks and Yearwood have consistently denied having an affair with each other while they were still married to other people”

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Retirednottired's avatar

I was “there” at the time. You are correct. Both cheated, divorced, married each other and tried to paint themselves as the king and queen of Country Music. Didn’t work.

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VICKI's avatar

boo Garth and Tricia...I haven't seen either of them in a good long time...no loss

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Shrugged's avatar

They no longer need the money. Royalties are many millions I'm sure.

They don't care.

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Grumpy Oldman's avatar

Smart business decision. Bud Light was dirt cheap and people still drank it. Lesbian diesel-dykes drank that shit by the gallon.

Queers drink faggoty, umbrella-type drinks, not beer.

He didn’t lose anything.

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Suzie's avatar

$$$$$$

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Vince Gallo's avatar

Garth turned by his fourth album in the nineties.

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Jeremy R's avatar

First off, there are very few REAL country songs these days. Some call it shitty rock and roll, but that's almost a compliment. I like old time country. This modern stuff isn't.

Second, the ones today are entertainers to their core meaning liberals. They want to be influencers instead of supporting their fans. How many people dumped on the ditsy chicks when they went woke?

Third, the only thing that matters to them is money and you can be sure that Gates and Soros will continue to fund them and encourage stations to play their garbage.

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Joe LaGreca's avatar

I'll take Waylon Jennings, Don Williams, George Jones, Hank Williams (Jr. & Sr.) any day over today's crop.

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Jeremy R's avatar

Johnny Cash, Stonewall Jackson, Johnny Horton.

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VICKI's avatar

One of my top favorites, Johnny and June in "Jackson"

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steph_gray's avatar

Whenever a bluegrass jam is drifting into sameville with too many straight 3 chorders I usually pull out a Hank number for some variety with a 4th chord. I learned Take These Chains From My Heart from Johnny’s daughter Roseanne’s version…

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Robert Rivera's avatar

I’ll take the classic & outlaw country. The last of the country I listened to was the Montgomery Gentry, Alan Jackson era. Rock & Roll & Metal are still my faves, but mostly the classics. Very few new artists or songs that aren’t image related only.

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Jeremy R's avatar

Glenn Campbell, Roy Clark.

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VICKI's avatar

I think Willie is still gigging....bless his heart....I love the old country music. Who remembers Kitty Wells? (It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels.....)

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Gail W's avatar

I think a LOT of vile leftists moved to Nashville during Covid.

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Grumpy Oldman's avatar

Item 8, 20 & 21: Islam & Sharia Law, like Muslims in general, have no place in western societies.

Go home, where Islams bloodthirsty political savagery, masquerading as religious expression, belongs.

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Ken H's avatar

I agree, except that it doesn't belong anywhere in the universe.

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Gail W's avatar

Yes, let them plague each other.

The world was much better when Sunni and Shia were keeping each other in check.

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Grumpy Oldman's avatar

Why not vaporize Mecca & Medina, making it uninhabitable for 100’s of years & let these radical mullahs, clerics & Islamist mongrels wander aimlessly in the desert for the foreseeable future?

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Gail W's avatar

IDK. Maybe b/c it would push them all with even greater velocity into western countries. I’d rather coat the big stone obelisk in Mecca w/ superglue and KEEP them all THERE.

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Grumpy Oldman's avatar

Is there that much super glue in the world market?

Vaporizing several million terrorists during HAAJ prevents them from ever voting democRAT.

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Gail W's avatar

Either that or it guarantees they *will* vote Dem in perpetuity. 🙄

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Grumpy Oldman's avatar

the mongrels already do. look @ Minnesota & Michigan.

Michigan is usually in play but Minnetonka has been a bastion of liberal leftism for years. That’s the one state neither Nixon nor Reagan ever won.

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VICKI's avatar

thank Gail, that was HILarious!

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Shrugged's avatar

ITEM 29: "CNBC reported, “Senate Republicans trigger nuclear option, changing rules to speed up Trump nominees.”

This is a slap in the face to MAGA; humiliating to anyone who works at the speed of Trump. It reminds me of when Michael Jordan once said, "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed"

Sounds like our Republican Congress - both houses.

Jordan was being humble when he said this because he had a successful career. Our Congress sucks.

Thune and Johnson are milquetoasts

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Joe LaGreca's avatar

It seems impossible to get a true conservative in leadership these days. Way too many RINO's in the party.

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Shrugged's avatar

They're RINOs because they can't get elected as Democrats.

It would be nice to have something like a one-year instant recall option following every election to stop an official from voting for legislation contrary to their publicly stated platform.

Probably much more complicated than practical but you get the idea. Keep your promises or be fired for lying to the voters.

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Suzie's avatar

Notice how Republicans always ALWAYS, whenever they get a majority, always have excuses, move at a glacial pace, constantly whine and moan about how hard it is to get things passed, or how mean the Democrats are being, or there’s some procedure they have to follow, blah, blah, blah!

But when Democrats get in there they manage to mass produce legislation like a machine on high octane!

That whole traitorous crowd needs to be ousted and replaced by people with actual spines put in their place.

These midterms are ours to lose, and the stakes could not by any measure be higher.

God have mercy on us.

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Gail W's avatar

Yes, and that is why 47 is doing what he’s doing!!

MAGAs can join him.

RINOs get left in the dust.

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Grumpy Oldman's avatar

the Beltway GOP-e is called the Stupid Party for a reason.

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Gail W's avatar

Thankfully, there’s a NEW SHERIFF in town!

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Joe LaGreca's avatar

Yep - Rush called the GOP-e the stupid party - but called the DEM's the evil party. So, I feel that I'm forced to vote for the stupid party.

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Shrugged's avatar

Yes, all the time. So very frustrating. It's like we're on a hamster wheel running and running but getting nowhere.

This is the influence of the RINOs and the secret want-to-be RINOs.

The lobby money is much better as a RINO.

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Cookie McCall's avatar

Maybe we could have an ejection seat! To the moon, Alice!

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Shrugged's avatar

Is that a Jackie Gleason reference with Alice?

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Gail W's avatar

Except be careful lest the left use it with greater success!

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Shrugged's avatar

Good point. The left would weaponize it if possible.

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Gail W's avatar

I think Johnson has threaded his impossible needle pretty well.

Thune, however, SUCKS!!

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tj's avatar

Amen. Recess appointments would solve a lot of short term problems but Thune doesnt want Trump to get a serious win so he is going to demolish another Norm.

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Gail W's avatar

Ugh. Do you think that’s why he’s doing this ?!

That @#$&%!§ 😡😡😡😡

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tj's avatar

Thunes comments when Trump wanted Congress to recess earlier led me to believe that. Then Johnson pulled a rabbit out of the hat and I thought maybe Thunes comments were just him keeping Trump from messing up Johnson’s deal. Killing a norm big like this when just doing Recess appts seems like an over kill to be. Especially if recess appts gets 18 or so months of acting directors. So now I think Thunes just being an obstructionist in a way that doesnt leave himself out to hang.

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Gail W's avatar

Well if Thune changes senate rules (like Harry Reid did?) then future situations will make Thune NOT look good in the history books.

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tj's avatar

I have been following it kinda loosely but my understanding is that yes, the rule changes are similar to that of Harry Reid. I think it’s a bad idea to change the base rules of Congress. It is amazing to me that the founding fathers knew and understood so much and actually put so many safeguards into place because of their fights with England.

Those rules have endured for a reason. 250 yrs. plus a lot of them are based in law going back centuries in England. Today’s people are not near as smart as they think they are.

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Shrugged's avatar

And, and . . . why does Trump say he likes Cornyn?

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Gail W's avatar

Not sure. DJT seems savvy about linking w/ whomever can help him the most. Hes also too loyal, imo, both of which I think also explains his abiding connection to Lindsay Graham.

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Shrugged's avatar

What sane person could have "an abiding connection to Lindsey Graham"?

I am concerned.

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Gail W's avatar

Politics. It's all about getting the votes to be able to do what you want to do. Like Charles Krauthammer often used to say "First you have to get the politics right" by which I believe he meant, first you have to WIN elections. I do not live in NC but I assume Graham is popular there. Or just familiar. 🤷‍♀️

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William Coulter's avatar

Item 23…. The no masks for ICE but masks okay for Antifa section.

The FBI seems as inept as ever. They didn’t catch the killer of Charlie Kirk. The father arranged his surrender.

Makes one wonder why the FBI can’t or won’t do anything about Antifa. They wear masks. They riot and destroy. They assault others with impunity. But the FBI just can’t seem to do anything about them. Kash needs to do something about Antifa or disband the useless FBI.

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Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Please remember this administration interrupted a coup that had been evolving for the last 50+ years and was on the verge of total success. The up-rooting and sterilizing of sown seeds of socialism is a slow and arduous process but PDJT and co. have answered the call .

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Neera Goitein's avatar

Timely & well said, MH

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Joe LaGreca's avatar

First step is to declare Antifa a domestic terrorist organization - that should cut the funding by radicals like Soros.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

And it may come to pass soon if it is true that Kirk's shooter participated in Antifa (which was reported yesterday).

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Cookie McCall's avatar

According to those who knew the shooter, somewhere along the way, he became more radical. He wasn't in college long enough to be very much influenced by that.

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steph_gray's avatar

Looks like the trans/furry roommate might have been the influencer.

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Cookie McCall's avatar

I agree

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tj's avatar

No it wont. they need to follow the money back. DataRepulican has a lot of receipts. There were a couple other internet sleuths too. The whole thing needs to RICOed. Soros and the million plus NGOs that were sucking hard at the gov grants, USAID and the like. It is an entire web of corruption, coup and chaos.

Although declaring it a domestic Terrorist Org might help with all of that.

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Joe LaGreca's avatar

With the USAID revelations, I was shocked to find out that organizations run by the likes of Soros & Gates actually use US taxpayer money to fund the vast web of NGO's with the money moving between NGO's to make it more difficult to track.

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tj's avatar

Oh yeah. I knew it was bad but it was way worse than I imagined. It is money laundering at its finest. Remember too that Soros has been kicked out of several countries including his own for this same behavior and crashing currencies. I figure he got to some Congress critters early to keep him from being kicked out of ours. It would make a fantastical crime story except that it is real.

Following the data/money around is one of DataReplublics specialties due to her disabilities. I just wish the DOGE would hire her to get all that data into DOJ and FBI hands.

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Valoree Dowell's avatar

"I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here."

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Shrugged's avatar

Can we add the DNC to that terrorist list?

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John Swindall's avatar

Same with the Muslim brotherhood

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Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Add CAIR to this menu as well!!

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Valoree Dowell's avatar

the father recognized his son

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Suzie's avatar

ITEM 2: NBC reported, “The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request by South Carolina officials to bar a transgender boy from using the boys’ restrooms at his school.”

Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh went with the 3 stooges on this one. However, the ruling only applies to one child, “John Doe”, whose parents brought the suit, and only until the case goes through the Appeals Court process.

It was an exceptionally stupid ruling by the SCOTUS, creating even more confusion in an already highly disruptive issue. It is likely, though not at all certain, that it will reversed, if not via the Appeal Court process, then when it inevitably returns to SCOTUS.

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tj's avatar

What is sad is I think it goes against some of the Supreme Court recent rulings and yes, it was stupid and it will get back to SCOTUS eventually.

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The Outsider's avatar

Don, your “Highlights of the Week” is one of the highlights of my week, especially after a week like this.

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Suzie's avatar

I gotta say, Don, you were on top of your game, ( which is quite the feat!), with this batch of highlights, almost every one an LOL gem!

👍👏👏👏😉

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Greg Martin's avatar

Youbetcha!

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Vince Gallo's avatar

Item 8. Where do these Muslims think they are Minnesota??

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Brian LeMay's avatar

I wonder if we were to clean up the population centers in Minnesota of their illegal aliens would it turn red ?

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Vince Gallo's avatar

Item 7. More tariffs. Less income taxes.

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