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Besides praying for all our men and women serving now --as well as in the past and who will serve in the future I am also praying for the day Lord Fauci is held accountable and his picture is published in an orange jump suit.

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Thank you and thank you to all of the men and women I served with for over forty years. Down here in Texas if you're a 100 percent disabled vet you can put a DV plate on your car and park anywhere you want. My wife always feels uncomfortable when I use it. I always tell her I don't feel uncomfortable at all, I earned that SOB.....

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First and Foremost STRAY SAFE, Dennis. THANK YOU FROM A GRATEFUL NATION FOR YOUR MILITARY SERVICE ANDA GREAT SACRIFICES TO SERVE AND P ROTECT ALL OF US. YOU ARE HONORED AND APPRECIATED! HAVE A WONDERFUL REST OF THE SUMMER, YOU ARE A HERO, also your wife. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!

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SORRY ABOUT THE TYPO. DUSTY OLD FINGERS. STAY SAFE!!! love, grandma

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Dennis, do I understand correctly from your comment that you are disabled from your military service? If so, I am so saddened to learn of that. And I echo Gayle's well-said articulation here of our thanks to you for your service. Your flesh may have been harmed, but your spirit and intellect are rock solid and shining strong. Your comments here are interesting and wise and add alot to our understanding of events. Thank you for your continuing service to our country through your presence here in this commenting community.

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Are they still wearing that when they strap them down?

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I believe that PEASANT CRIMINAL FAUCI WILL BE EXPERIENCING HIS PAINFUL DOWNFALL IN 2025. GOD DOES NOT BLESS KILLERS.

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Hmm. Artificial Intelligence can print one of those today....but like you, I long to see the "reel" thing.

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Someone spent a LOT of money to make that movie about Trump just in time for the election. Whoever did so thinks Trump (and the rest of us) are really terrible people and any amount of money is worth it to be rid of him.

But: Imagine you are a graduating West Point cadet - soon to be commissioned an officer in the Army or the Marines - and as part of that important ritual you heard your highest commanding officer hallucinate about the rigorous process you and most of your classmates went through to achieve a place in the United States Military Academy West Point. You’d almost certainly heard the fantasy before, but there you are, sitting and (hopefully) believing in the purpose behind your original application and 4 years of work.

Then an angry buffoon of a man makes a mockery of it by saying he cudda’ done it but some other guys were the wrong guys to play football with so he didn’t. He turned them down. That he’s truly hallucinating and known to be a fabulist is irrelevant. He’s the guy you’re supposed to follow orders from and he denigrates you and your brothers along side of you by relegating your calling to a football game. And then he doesn’t stay for the completion of the ceremony.

And here I thought Obama baked the cake on insulting people to their faces and walking away. That angry buffoon of a man is a foul human being.

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EODMom - Again, I salute your insight. I pray for our patriots in uniform. Not only do they have to prepare for and fight foreign enemies, but their own ranks, up and down the chain of command, are populated with gender confused, “woke”, (Lenin’s) “useful idiots”, incompetent (due to lowered standards and misguided, misunderstanding of “Duty”), unpatriotic and even hostile members of their own service. So, insightful patriots in uniform today, must battle persecution and even treason from within their own ranks - enemies foreign and domestic. This takes extraordinary moral, intellectual and patriotic strength and courage. And men like your son are absolutely heroic for doing so. Please thank him for me.

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PLEEASE THANK YOUR SON FOR ALL OF US WHO WELL UNDERSTAND WHAT HE AND HIS FELLOW HEROS ARE UP AGAINST. I PRAY THAT OUR NATION BECOMES NORMAL IN JANUARY 2025. GOD BLESS YOUAND YOUR SON, AND HIS ENTIRE MILLITARY CLASS OF AMAZING BRAVE AND VERY CAPABLE HEROES! WE SALUTE AND HONOR ALL OF YOU!

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I do not believe WP graduates can be commissioned as Second Lieutenants in the United States Marine Corps. The USMC is part of the Department of the Navy.

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Then my misunderstanding. I thought difficult/unusual but not like to a blue service. I know Marines are navy but apparently misunderstood potential to commission.

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There could very well be a way outside the boundaries of standard practice.

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I know this sounds weird, but maybe President Trump's loss (and subsequent persecution) was necessary for many more of our citizens to finally see clearly how thoroughly corrupt our government has become. And, I fervently hope, to vote for him to repair the damage the left has done to our beloved Nation.

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You hit on a point often discussed here. The Trumpsters biggest accomplishment is exposing Fake news, a corrupt DOJ/FBI/CIA and RINO Republicans. There is absolutely no doubt now what faces us in the fight to save our Republic. We are in a Cold WWIII for survival.

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The nation needed to see what rock bottom really looks like to get an angry as we now are. And Trump, I belive, needed to see it, too. I hope "no more mister nice guy" is now his new management style. If the DC cartel's fear of him is any indication, it is.

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YES, DENNIS, WE ARE AT WAR IN THE USA! WE THE P EOPLE WILL WIN OVER THE COMMUNIST FAKE "LEADER" WHO CANNOT LEAD HIMSELF OUT OF A ROOM.

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To Skinny and Dennis kudos /GMTA.

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I often hear, "Everything happens for a reason" true or not I don't know but certainly the 2020 outed a lot of corruption.

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Not weird to me. It is the theory of "you must break a few eggs to make an omelet." I wouldn't vote for a Democrat if you put a gun to my head. Rarely has a Democrat done the USA any good, but people older than I am had to suffer through it. For good or ill, I was born when FDR was president. I was born 31 days after Pearl Harbor was stuck.

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That WAS one of the primary Q messages. Just sayin'. The people had to be shown.

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My weekend highlight was an interview with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who was asked to comment about Trump's fabulous rally in the Bronx. She dismissed the turnout as a small area that is not representative of the state, and went on to say emphatically that Trump will lose New York. I grinned from ear-to-ear thinking about how she will eat her words. Trump claimed title to New York that day. He will not only win the state, he will clean up the streets of New York City, and spend four years shaming Hochul, and shoving his presidential victory up her ass.

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She ALSO called the masses of people attending the rally - her own constituency - CLOWNS!!

Hah.

The arrogance of these people is utterly breathtaking.

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The smell of desperation.

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Delete "smell." Insert "stench."

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Lol

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Sulphur.

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Her "own people" are Democ rats.

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Perhaps Trump will take New York but as Hochul's election proved the NY elections are rigged and their legislature has no intention of correcting it. Hochul's republican opponent would have won if not for NYC.

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Hochul and Eric Adams won't know what hit them once Trump gets elected. They are doomed.

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That would be nice. Add Gretchen Whitmer

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As Trump said in the Bronx, it has “TOO BIG TO RIG”

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Atlanta wasn't. They don need the whole state just the big Democrat controlled cities

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BEST COMMENT!!! THANK YOU, Defiant Jester, YOU HIT NAIL INTO KATHY'S HEAD! EVIL WILL NEVER WIN OVER A GOOD AND RIGHT NATION.

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Unfortunately history repeats. We had to have a Jimma Carter to get A Ronald Reagan, we had to have an Obama to get Trump. This time around we had to see an election stolen to clean up our election laws to bring back the rightful President. We can only hope and pray that our work around the country will pay off and the democrat party will have Trump obsessed itself into oblivion.

These are strange times, the pendulum has swung so far to the left that it almost fell from its anchor but signs seem to be pointing into a swing back and those of us who are optimists see the possibility of a new generation willing to right itself with a return to sanity. At this point the vote for Trump is the only choice you have if you wish this Outer Limits nightmare to end.

Let's hope that this Memorial Day is the one that begins our rebirth as a Nation that reasserts its values and its position as the leader of free men and women willing to work to restore them.

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With each swing, the pendulum has become more and more eccentric, always to the left, never back to equilibrium. Or perhaps the example of a ratchet is more appropriate; one that clicks twice to the left for every single click rightward. I laugh when I read or hear anybody talk about "the right side of history," since all we ever get is the left side of anything. But hope springs eternal, don't you know, unfailingly trumping experience.

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Joshua 10:13

“And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.“

Just remember, with God, ALL things are possible.

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AMEN AND AMEN. THANK YOU, SUZIE!

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THALNK YOU, LADY CHURCHILL, USA!!!!!! WE ARE STRONG, EACH TRUMP RALLY AND TRUTHFUL SPEECH GIVES US EWNEWED HOPE AND POWER TO DEFEAT THE EVIL THAT IS TRYING TO RUIN OUR GREAT NATION!

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You speak with compassion and truth. Thank you.

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Extraordinary article! It was literally rousing!

And especially on this day, when we remember all those who made the ultimate sacrifice for this country, it is especially compelling, a day when We find ourselves at war within our very own country.

Roger Kimball’s allusion to Trump’s Bronx rally as a clarion call for all to come together and rise up against the despots running this country is not far from the truth. We are at war, for the nation we once loved is being overrun by criminals and thugs and unholy evil of immense proportions. That is not hyperbole. It is the truth.

Trump is rallying every single person, man woman, old and young, to come to the aid of their country in this time of great peril, to resist the evil and choose the good.

I pray God we are not too late, and that He will have mercy on us, and hear our prayers and deliver us from this great onslaught of evil we are fighting against.

And that, once again, God will bless America.

Have a most Blessed Memorial Day, one & all.

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Psephology is from the Greek word psēphos, meaning "pebble." Psephology merited election as the name for the work of analysts of elections, or psephologists, because pebbles were used by the ancient Greeks in voting. Similarly, the word ballot was an excellent choice for a means of voting since it is derived from balla, the Italian word for "ball," and Italians placed balls in a container to cast votes

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I say we go back to that method. One man, one ball. (Pun intended)

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Just think of it! The Persians, et al. dip a finger in purple ink. Glad the Colonies chose something a little easier. We followed all that east up with an "I Voted" sticker that sticks on your lapel about 30 to 45 minutes. Long enough. You can rest in the knowledge your answer was fuller than either the dictionary or the Ask Jeeves bunch.

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“First, the FBI has to go. Shut it down.”

Amen, and amen. Great first job for Kash Patel to prep him for going after the infamous 51 Signers.

Best line today- Trump brought the Libertarians attention and they withered under the heat of the spotlight. What a clown/shitshow they’ve come to.

My entry into the Surber to Trump pipeline:

Nigel Farage is one of the world’s great treasures. He’s the paradigm of a man, and a Mark Steyn Class truth teller

The Brits have no use for him and are no longer worthy of him.

Take him off their hands Pres Trump! Make him our U.N. Ambassador, the job he once did for the Brits better than anyone, with his non-cigarette holding hand behind his back.

Let him do that for a year or two, then make him press secretary.

Plus he golfs.

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Speaking of the UN, kick them out of New York.

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“US out of UN. UN out of US.”

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Amen Bubble.

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PERFECT! LET'S GET IT DONE!

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Oh, your lips to God’s ears!!!!!!

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NA out of the UN and the UN out of NA!

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Sue them for their unpaid parking ticket revenue. It will reduce the national debt.

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Absolutely. This reminded that Farage wasn’t a UN rep, but a European Union rep.

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Decades overdue.

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That was indeed an outstanding line of Don's today: "He got the world to pay attention to the Libertarian Party, which withered under the heat of the spotlight."

GREAT idea to bring Nigel Farage into Trump's administration!!!!! Brilliant!!!!!

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Thank you. I thought so too. 😊

Let’s see how long it takes for Trump to pick up on it.

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What I also like about Nigel Farage is that he's an articulate and dynamic communicator. Even if Trump is elected, we still have a crucial job to do in continuing to wake up and "red pill" the American population to realize how destructive the Left's ideology and actions have been. Nigel Farage would help educate Americans. He could really function as one of Trump's "surrogates" with the news media.

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I saw a video of the Libertarian convention where a tranny was hauled out of the room while DJT was speaking. The scene was chaotic with people yelling and milling about. If this is what the Libertarian Party's nominating convention is like, these clowns belong in their parents' basement and no where near the levers of governmental power.

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The video certainly was not a good look for the party of wackos Jim but I am glad it is out there.

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The thing is that, in many ways, I identify as a libertarian (lower case l). I am a kind of 'live and let live' person and wish that government was smaller with fewer regulations that hamper folks from living their best lives. Having said that, the Libertarian Party (upper case L) seems to consist of eccentric folks who seem somewhat reasonable on the surface, but are a couple of bricks shy of a load when it comes to living in the real world. As a stand alone entity, their Party is doomed to long term irrelevance and only serves to pull votes away from others.

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Wonder if Ron Paul was there and what he thinks of them,

Rand Paul, too, for that matter.

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Pretty good player too!

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With the zillions of RINO fundraising emails, texts and attempted phone calls, I want to know where to Really give $$ to Trump. Sure Laura is in charge of the RNC, but she has continued to allow the grifters to muddy the waters so much, I am not giving any $ to anyone.

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save your dough cactus. it's going to be a long bumpy road for the youngin's i'm afraid. thinking don jr. would make sure the money went the direction you want it too. maybe not.

trump doesn't need money as much as he needs to find good americans to stand and deliver. the zombies have scaled the walls and are feasting on the host.

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I WOULD LOVE FOR LARA TRUMP TO LAY DOWN HER SLEDGE HAMMER. NONE OF US CAN DONATE 3-7 TIMES EVERY SINGLE DAY. SHE HAS BECOME A REAL PEST.... NOT SURE I TRUST HER JUDGMENT ANY LONGER.

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i share your consternation but i am going to put this as gentlemanly as i know how....there are a lot of so called conservative women who are driven by personal agendas rather than "the cause". ivanka, sue collins, liz murkowski, liz chaney......

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At that fine Bronx rally, Trump warned us that the election win has to be too big to rig. Trump is doing his part 10,000%. It’s up to US! Every which way, one way or another and six ways from Sunday. TOO BIG TO RIG!!!

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I told some of the Trump federal appointees in the first term, you need to move all the career executives to new jobs. They had created little fiefdoms. 1/3 are capable of executive headship and will do fine in a new assignment. 1/3 will quit outright. The last third will be exposed as incompetent and be removed from service. This time, he just needs to fire the entire senior executive service, then refill only 1/4 of the positions.

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Oddly enough, a bureaucracy is designed on purpose to limit or avoid the spoils systems of days gone by. It is supposed to be composed of capable apolitical employees. How do you fix our polluted deep state without creating another polluted deep state? The military is supposed to be apolitical as an example. Obey the order unless it's illegal. I don't think our government is capable of getting there anymore.

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First, cut off the money flow. They can’t operate without funding.

Then, get out the chainsaw (a’la Milei).

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Yeah, that was Wilson's brilliant idea -- along with a ton more. Government by EXPERTS. Totally, utterly unpolitical EXPERTS, of course. How did that work out?

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“X” is an unknown quantity. “SPURT” is a drip under pressure.

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Single baby mamma are a big FJB voting bloc: and the numbers overwhelmingly point to the result that - when baby mamma has a biological male child - that he will grow up a wife/partner beater because he has anger issues with that mamma and resents the void in his self-respect because he has no live in father to look up to and to try to emulate. Fact. If mamma has a girl, perhaps FJB will drop by (escorted by the Feemie Bros. Insurance Company) and take a shower with her. Speculation on likely gimmecrat optics.

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AWFLs. Maybe they shouldn’t be allowed to vote. How can we believe they are making good decisions when their personal decisions are so poor.

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There is perhaps a racist dimension at work here also. If there are baby mamma out there who attempt to have more children = larger welfare check, and have no notion of ever getting the discipline of employment outside their home, that leads to the conclusion that our Federal employees - living in the rectum of the beast in D.C. - subsidize our population of a type culturally attuned to producing nothing of value to society. Gimmiecrats just "growing their voter rolls" to expand their power living in the rectum.

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You know it's bad when killing babies becomes religion.

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AWFuLS

Affluent

White

Female

Liberal

Singles

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I’d like to speak to their manager.

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Satan?

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I was going to say pimp?

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Ahaha!! Love it!

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Are you talking about Obama ?

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Well, there's another side to that speculation: The chicago "bath house" "boys"

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As to the poll, I’d say it was, hands down, not jailing Hillary, as that would have not only sent electric shock waves into the Left, that there ARE consequences for their betrayals, but might well have staved off so many of the nefarious plots and plans that the Dems had up their sleeves to derail the Trump presidency.

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This poll was above average in toughness. I chose "playing nice" since I thought that was close to "all of the above".

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That would have been my second choice, as, you’re correct: his “too trusting” nature caused most of his problems.

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I understand your thought and reasoning and would have loved to see it but, I seriously doubt he'd have been able to jail Hillary back then. I don't know if he could have found a judge willing to do so. Threats and coercion, then and now, will hamper any prosecution of these people. I'd be willing to bet that some of the Republican's in the Congress are being threatened now.

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Yep--threatened big time.

I'm waiting for someone being threatened to have taken a hidden video or recording of the threat, and post it online for the world to see. Would take tremendous courage, but if the video identifies the person doing the threatening it should get that person arrested--removing THAT individual's ability to make good on their threats. Although there would be a backup in the shadows who might retaliate in a big way.

But I think this situation arises continually in human life over all of human history. Bullies bully, and the longer it goes on, the more power they amass, and the harder and more dangerous they are to stop. Human civilization has always depended on the courageous ones to STOP the bullies, and one thing we do know, it is easier to stop them immediately when they first start threatening.

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Very good point that jailing Hillary would have proved there were consequences and have prevented some level of the persecution.

Now I want to change my vote.

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The Libertarian Party, aka, The Ship of Fools, does create consequences. It's very successful business is to elect Democrats. The State of Georgia, a battleground state, serves as an ideal example. Without the votes going to Libertarian Party candidates, Georgia would today be represented in Congress by two Republicans rather than two anti-American Dems. Trump would have won Georgia in 2020 by more than 50,000 despite the gross cheating., In all three races, those who voted for a Libertarian Party candidate exceeded the margin of victory for the Democrats. Consider how different our country would be today with two more Republican Senators. Republicans would have controlled the Senate during Biden's tenure. Word Salad Harris would have been unable to cast the most tiebreaking votes ever by a VP. Without Senate control. the Biden-Harris-Schumer legislative agenda would have been muted rather than rampaging. Libertarians, those self-proclaimed defenders of American conservative values, do create consequences. All bad. As they say in the South, "Bless their little hearts."

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Really good point. I never knew anything concrete about the Libertarian Party, but had assumed it was mostly made up of particularly freedom-conscious folks. I bet alot of people on the Right side of the continuum have innocently voted Libertarian for that reason. But anyone who saw those videos from their convention will not make that mistake again this November.

It's another fascinating example that Trump keeps finding himself in situations that on the surface--and for most people--would be pretty damaging; but they unexpectedly end up really benefiting Trump. In this case, he may have just captured another chunk of the voting demographics. Yay!

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Am reminded of this from Isaiah 54:17-- "No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper." And it continues "...This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord." (KJV)

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THANK YOU, JIM MURRAY! THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY IS NO LONGER REPRESENTING LIBERTY OR TRUTH. THEY REPRESENT THE RINOS, DEM/COMS, AND MARXISTS WHO WORK OVERTIJME TO SPEAK ONE MESSAGE WHILE ACTIVELLY SUPPORTING A DIFFERENT ONE. RIGHT NOW, GEORGIA IS A HOT MESS.

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Tough one. Listening to Fauci and playing nice were neck and neck. Jail Hillary? Nope. Hang her for treason.

Some of the fallen were my family and close friends. I will never forget them. People wishing a “Happy Memorial Day” have no clue. It is not happy at all.

We may not post pictures and videos here. If we could I would post a video I took of the changing of the guard at the "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier". There wasn't so much as murmur during the ceremony. There was hardly a murmur before or after. The reverence was overwhelming. I had a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye. It was one of the most moving moments in my entire life.

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Well said. Visit a local national cemetery today. It does something for your soul.

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Saw the best idea last week: disarm all FBI agents. Their name includes the word, "investigation," not "policing." Take away all their guns and remind them that their job is investigation. After you cut their funding 90%, of course. It just might save another Waco or Ruby Ridge.

re: libtard-arians. I joined the Libertarian party in my yute, not realizing that it is primarily made up of anarchists and soreheads (like the Democrats, really). The red pill is strong these days, though. Heading out today to re-register as Independent.

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