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The Republicans are not much better than the Democrats. For every Jim Jordan, there are two Mitt Romney‘s

The only real difference is the Democrats stick together, and are purely evil human beings.

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Noses are for holding when voting

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That's what the Ds do -- they stick together like glue. Rs need to learn that.

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Sticking together like glue is why demoncrats win. Their only “virtue” is obtaining power and keeping it.

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What's really scary to me is that the democrats get any votes for their candidates!

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What they don’t actually ‘Get’, they manufacture… they’re doing it right now in prep for ‘24.

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And what is the "Stupid Party" doing about it other than Trump? Nada.

They 'make more money when our guys lose(Justin Riemer, RNC).'

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Bingo… the D-Rats war game that shit out, tell us they’re doing it and we somehow or another still think if we show up with big enough ‘Real’ numbers we’re going to vote T back in this time!

Get Real and learn (and apply) the lesson they’ve been teaching us since Richard Daly told Old Man Kennedy ‘not to worry Mr Kennedy, your son will be President of the United States of America in the Morning’’

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Voting day doesn't count any more. It's counting the votes. Time to wise up or stay a loser.

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The Stupid Party has learned to be grateful losers. Time for MAGA to completely take over the party.

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I think it has which is why the globalist GOP donor base worked to kick him out of office in 2020 and also worked - via McConnell withholding millions of Trump generated PAC cash - to keep several senate candidates from winning in 2022.

And now Ken Griffin of Citadel(et al) who funded Obama are now backing DeSantis. I love what DeSantis has done in FL, but beware who he will belong to on the national stage.

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Correct. Crenshaw (TX), the biggest dangerous fake on the planet.

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Can't disagree, sir. Crenshaw is a fellow veteran, but is not exhibiting certain things that make it a brotherhood.

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They are also experts in "manufacturing" but not in creating jobs. They create outcomes.

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They are well trained.

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If the mainstream media ever started to report the news honestly, democrats would rarely win a fair election ever again.

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I may “learn to code” before that happens.

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In the length of time this is going to take I may just ‘code”!

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Thanks for the laugh.

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Neither You nor I will live that long!

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At this point, not going to happen!

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I just read an article about Mr. Trump's plan to end homelessness and it is worth looking at what he proposes. I received my information from "bostonherald.com." and it is similar to an idea I have commented on for a long time, but here is what I have proposed. Turn all your unused military bases into housing. The buildings are all there. They all have running water, dispensaries, hospitals and kitchens. Instead of the hundreds of thousands of "Charities" all wanting to "Help the homeless" and end drug addiction (San Francisco actually gives the street people 'free' drugs and the money to help buy the narcotics the city won't give them). Most of these charities founders end up living life LARGE instead of what they are supposed to do. Redo these military bases and if these people still want to live in tents and get messed up every day and live like the animals they have become, let them.

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Gee, ideas from the only republican with fresh ideas he gleaned from people on the ground, like a good leader does.

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The problem is that some of the so-called homeless are not truly homeless. They are criminals, drug addicts, degenerates, and a lot of them suffer from mental illness.

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That's true. Why do you think I would like to see them all on abandoned military bases where they are isolated and the damage they can do would be minimal.

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Unfortunately there is little money to treat psychiatric illness. Policy will not allow individuals to be held in mental hospitals when clearly they are not fit to be with the public. Finally Psych history not available to authorities who review firearms purchases (self reporting)

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I would like to see more government money for mental illness. (Wht does it matter with all the other government money that is wasted??) I am also not against putting the seriously mentally ill back in institutions so that they do not harm themselves, their families or others. I am not longer convinced that deinstitutionalism was the answer.

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People in institutions can’t vote or have there vote counted. I recall in school doing a rotation in a state mental hospital with floridly psychotic patients. Later in the day after a subway trip home, I saw many wandering around the main City square. Nothing was accomplished for these patients.

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In the state of Commifornia Reagan was forced into turning the mentals loose and it snowballed nationwide.Now half of these mental cases hold government offices in said state.Be afraid but continue to fight for sanity on all fronts and please dare to pray for guidance in battle.

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I don't believe money is the issue. If these people could be made to clean up their act, most of these mental illnesses would just go away. They fall off wagon, these mental illnesses would come back and these people need to be convinced that even the slightest temptation can and will be a disaster.

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Why redo them? If they were good enough for us to live in for basic training they are good enough for a bunch of drug addled homeless bums

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I agree, but you also need qualified people in support roles: cooks, nurses, doctors etc.

Staffing wouldn't be a problem if, say a two year contract/commitment and your school loans are paid off. There are LOTS of answers, but we need a politician with some nutz to get it done. I really believe if Mr. Trump studied this plan, he'd be for it.

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"and if these people still want to live in tents and get messed up every day and live like the animals they have become, let them."

Where, though? They ought not be allowed to go back inside the city limits.

I say, release them into the wild, and THEN let them live off the land. Chances are they won't survive their first encounter with predatory wildlife.

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I don't know where you live, but I believe I know a couple of things about you. 1-You have never been in the military and 2-You have never been on a military base. This is not an insult. Military bases are generally isolated, especially air force bases and they all are set up with everything anyone would ever need. Like being a homosexual or child molester, the street people have chosen their path in life. Even now, if they really wanted to change, there are lots of options out there. A military base is one of those options.

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"1-You have never been in the military and 2-You have never been on a military base."

You are correct!

"This is not an insult."

I did not take it that way - it's true - it's fact.

So, for those that still would prefer to live outdoors in the elements (but still within the physical confines of the base), urinate & defecate on the pavement - do we leave it to the rest of the homeless to discourage that behaviour?

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Living with poop on the ground, streets or sidewalks haven't discouraged anyone yet.

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True...eons ago, I was on Great Lakes Naval Station to attend a nephew's graduation - huge place...

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He is the smartest person in the room. Mighty big room.

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I live in NC. We are going Red. But we are also part of the RINO zoo. We are working on that.

This Saturday Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, is announcing his candidacy for Governor, in 2024.

Marc Robinson is a Constitutional red blooded American Patriot. I listen to his speeches, just to make my day better. I will be at his announcement, and report it here on my substack acct., 'The Red Anthropologist.'

He will win big. We still have rotten Dem. Governor Roy Cooper, who is now facing a veto proof legislature.

We have a Senator, Ted Budd, who has already announced his support for a Trump 3rd term.

NC was hit by the mid term red wave, and nobody is talking about it.

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Oregon is about to split. Red east, blue west. There is more serious people looking at it the next county to go is Wallowa. Hang in there.

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I biked across and down 101 10 years ago…what a State. Good Luck and God Bless!

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Raised in NE Or. Lived 20 years on the South coast. I'm more a High Lonesome kind of guy- my late wife too. Do miss fresh seafood crab, cod, tuna.

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Can it really happen, today? Somehow, if congressional approval is required, if it means Democrats losing control over districts and funding, I can't see that getting past the Senate without a veto by Wilhelm.

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In order to make voting Republican seem like a good idea one must be able to think. In order to be able to think one must be encouraged to think as a child, as an adolescent and as a young adult by an education system that values, nurtures and promotes that skill… and that skill has not been taught, nurtured or promoted in the education and University system for at least 40 years continent wide.

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There's not much thinking going on anywhere. Not enough for my liking.

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I'm taking a break from reposting by switching to encouragement through gratefulness. You're the epitome of a journalist. You're hard work inspires.

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"Too costly to operate? The plant is powered by gravity." A good summary of democrats.

Preach, sir.

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You nail the political dynamic perfectly. Florida is doing well. And glad to hear that WV is turning the corner. Here’s the problem, and I’m not being glib. In AZ we have Republicans helping Democrats steal elections.This isn’t hypothetical. It’s real. We are not a Blue state. We didn’t elect a bunch of commies to run the state. The evidence that our elections are rigged is substantive and the breadth and audacity of the fraud is amazing. The courts seem to look the other way, refusing to consider evidence that more than meets the AZ constitutional threshold to invalidate elections. To compound matters, the same crap is happening in many other states. Our elections are rigged, and not just because Democrats ballot harvest. They cheat ten different ways, and probably more. Many “Republicans” out here are in on the cheating. Some of them control the cheating. The Uniparty is not imaginary. They are participating in the destruction of the country because they are in on the grift or frightened or both. If we can’t have fair and transparent elections, we’re done.

And what comes next is bad no matter how it goes. There’s wisdom in your recommendation, but I’m tired of being stabbed in the back by “Republicans”. At the end of the day, a lot of these people vote against their constituency’s

Interests on the issues that matter. That’s why the country is bankrupt. That’s why we have “conservatives” like John Roberts on the Supreme Court creating legal theories out of thin air to justify Obamacare, which is exactly the boondoggle some of us knew it would be. We can’t win at anything with weak and /or corrupt weasels as the mainstream Republicans in office and on the courts.

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You have nicely summarized the problem. The R base has to work hard to push these traitors out. Too many "soft" Republicans. As I have said on this blog too many times to couny, most leaders in Western liberal democracies no longer represent their voters. They represent themselves and are happy to enrich themselves. I am a firm believer that Trump has to finish the job. We can thank him for exposing the rot.

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I honestly think a third party is better than voting for the RINOs. Won’t it make the Dems more likely to win? Probably. What it would do is force the GOP to the table because if 25%of their base leaves, they aren’t at the trough any more. And that’s what they fear. But as long as they run the party machinery, if we are inside the party, we just get screwed over every time. Once your money and your vote leaves, then you have some leverage. I think a third party, national populist in nature, would also attract some democrats who don’t like all this crap, but are never going to become Republicans. The current dichotomy is between two parties that are really one party and that party sucks for a multitude of reasons that affect the whole spectrum of voters.

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I come from a multi-party system (Canada). There's nothing like giving the mainstream parties a kick in the pants by not voting for them and going third party. I've done that. I've also seen a third-party become the provincial government where I live. Unusual but it can happen.

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I agree LuAnn. In NZ we have had MMP for over twenty years and only now is the electorate learning how to use it effectively. As you point out, the best use of minor parties is to enable giving the mainstream parties a swift kick every now and then to remind them that their place at the trough is not a god given right.

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Exactly.

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A-freakin'-men!!

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Tanto you have perfectly described the Repubs in many states as well as Arizona.I fear the ABA is the main cause of this and it is time to remember the bards warning and sage advise.

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What do call 500 lawyers at the bottom of ocean? 😏

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A small deposit with balance due.

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The Federal Republican leadership is tainted.

They have to know they are insecure in their power.

They are cowards.

Just one indictment would change the horizon.

We are getting closer to that environment every day.

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Don, you may recall I was in the business of supplying potable water for 40 years. California's stupidity is even worse than you shared. In the early '60's the Army Corps of Engineers had plans drafted to build a series of dams, similar to the White River system in AR and MO. The dams would have controlled the annual flooding/mudslides in southern CA, provided trillions of gallons of water storage for drought periods, provided many megawatts of hydroelectric power, and provided fantastic recreational and upscale housing opportunities. Win/win/win.

Opposition surfaced from rabid enviro-whackos, led by Linda Ronstadt and her then flame good ol' Governor Moonbeam. They raised so much hell the ACE decided it wasn't worth the battle, and shelved the plans.

Dumb as the proverbial box of rocks.

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Linda Ronstadt was once a goddess but she Moonbeamed her way out of my heart.

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Yes her ramblings made her unattractive to anyone from the political center onwards to the right, but come on ‘that voice’, those albums with Nelson Riddle and Aaron Neville. I might despise everything on the left but I’m not gonna cut my nose off to spite my face.

And if there really is a God, she may be paying a pretty heavy price for all that political bullshit she forced upon us!

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Her voice is lovely but her opinions are ugly.

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Apparently John Denver was an alcoholic angry foul mouthed jerk at the end and you can bet he wasn’t a conservative but… Rocky Mount High, Calypso, Country Roads, Thank God I’m a Country Boy and half a dozen others…their Bullshit doesn’t stop me from enjoying the moment!

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I loved both Ronstadt & Denver saw both of them a couple of times in live concert but sure learned to detest their politics as with almost all musicians and actors

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I'm not so sure that boxes of rocks are deserving of such dubious association...they may be entitled to an apology for the possible insult... ;)

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While you love to see people leave these shitholes they are also a threat to carry some of the stupidity in their luggage witness Austin The commie way is identify ,isolate and destroy a target .They have already done higher education and and the political process is well underway.Then we get Hogans and Dewiners repubs in name only.Lord help the U.S.A..Great column Don and easy poll.

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Poll was an easy choice this morning!

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The cat is still pissed at being spayed so she is really anti-tranny.

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Correlation is not causation. The improved welfare of Republican states is, I believe, more due to not being under Democrat control than Republicans in charge.

There are SOME state houses controlled by Republicans that succeed in spite of themselves (much like most of this nation's corporate sector). Texas, for example - thank God there are enough MAGA Republicans in the Republican caucus in both chambers to keep the state GOP RINOs in check. Were it not the case, we would see Dade Phelan capitulating to Trey Martinez Fischer and celebrate selling out as bipartisanship on every piece of legislation, and in the senate it would be the same between the jellyfish Bettencourt, and the vacuous pinhead Alvarado.

Voting Republican is no guarantee that your state won't become a sh*thole - it only improves the odds against it.

When will enough people realize that Warren Buffett is merely the clone of George Soros?

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I agree. But any improvement is appreciated after 84 years

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Aye! No argument, here!

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The problem with the GOP is its RINOs. They need to be pushed out. And, yes, Buffett is just another Soros type.

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We have something similar in Indiana - part Dem part Rino part Real Republicans. Gah somedays it is a choice between bad and worse....

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That's certainly a great idea. Vote Republican to get a Republican-controlled state. The problem is that too many are not really Republicans. They are squishes in for the grift and graft. I blame the education system and personal weakness.

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I cannot really add much to todays writings! Never have I seen so many doing so little to either correct let alone save our Republic. They have devised such a monumental cheating scam yes I'm not sure how anybodies vote counts. All the rules and regs the feds put in place to curb emissions from coal and natural gas power plants somehow haven't been enough, Someone esplain to me how in the hell we can have nuclear powered aircraft carriers, submarines, etc and they seem to work quite well, but NIMBY mentality? Our elites have f..cked us in the a.. for decades, shipping all to China, energy, jobs, etc etc etc. How in the hell this doesn't turn ugly is beyond me! These inmates have been running the asylum a long time and most everybody is asleep, uncomfortably so. Look at the new senator Lurch from Pa. he like Biden cannot even complete a thought let alone a sentence thats not some kinda word salad. No one says shit, I can't believe it! Then VP Harris is just as dumb as the other two. I think it was the comedian Ron White that said "you can't fix stupid" I'm not sure when this shit show will end, it just keeps rolling along and along and along, They shall be comfortable ruling over the ashes, the past proves this very easily. After Elon Musks interview with Tucker, Skynet is awaiting it's turn, Hal open the podbay doors........

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That Tucker interview with Elon was really interesting. At least Elon sees how Skynet will smile down on us if not stopped. Elon also said that he's no longer speaking to Google co-founder Larry Page, who Elon claims wants to create a digital god. Yikes!! Alarms flashing here!! What disappointed me, though, is that Elon voted for Biden. He should have known better.

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He voted for Biden, that says it all! Musk is neck deep in China, I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.

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You go with the wizard you have, not the one you want

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Wouldn't work here. The state Repooflicans make noise but never actually oppose anything. They're happy to take bribes from the same agencies and corporations who run the other party.

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Yes. Why aren't they Democrats? Their beliefs and personal weakness would make them a fit in that party.

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And here comes the polio and TB epidemics brought to us by the wide open border being inundated by the scum of the earth.

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