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No add-on rooms (countries) until we clean all the sh*t out of the existing ones. First things first.

The only exception I would consider is Greenland. It's strategic militarily and has lots of room to house the next GITMO for thousands of Dem office holders needing some hard prison time.

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I would suggest Greenland be promoted to all those folks who have fallen for the global warming BS. They can sit back and enjoy the retreating (?) glaciers and the brisk winter weather.

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…and it is an actual National Security imperative, to keep China and Russia out.

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We can have agreements with Greenland that benefit both of us without talking about empire building. I agree with you regarding its strategic value and would add that it is a vastly rich country with minerals and other wealth that could benefit us, them and Denmark who "owns" them.

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They currently have the world's second largest reserve of ice and snow. Only Antarctica beats them, 30 million vs 2.9 million cubic kilometers. Neither are as cold as HiLlARy's bed.

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We could call it the Joseph R. Biden Memorial Detention Facility. One would really, really have to want badly to attend Visitor Day!

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Funny you mentioned GITMO.

It's why we have always held NSGB.

It is a choke point.

It's also what makes Greenland important.

But above both is Panama.

Shipping channels control the Oceans.

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If Canada can’t/won’t muster a referendum on asking America to let them join us, I don’t want them. Don’t need Summer Soldiers.

But why would they? Our house needs cleaning as much as theirs. This is a sideshow. Focus, people. Stay focused.

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Trump ain't stupid. Canada, Greenland and the Panama canal are most part diversionary tactics keeping heat off more pressing matters. He is a master of manipulating the Press. And best part is they don't even know it.

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Canada, yes. He’s trolling the Left there, for sure, and for a very desired effect: to galvanize the Right.

The Panama Canal and Greenland he’s dead serious about and for very, very good reasons.

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Carter should never have given away the canal. Just plain irresponsible and ignorant to do so.

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Hope so!!

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Stupid is not even last on his list, it’s nowhere to be found.

I hope I can get around to reading his The Art of the Deal sometime, but I’m beyond the age where it will do me much good.

I do like observing it in real time.

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Read it way back. I find the current Trump much more interesting than the one who wrote the book.

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If it was up to me, which it ain't, I would pick a gradual approach. First propose a referendum in one of the more conservative provinces, like Alberta, whose oil and gas oligarchs would favor free access to the US -- to the economic benefit of both. Then see if that increases the number of converts in another province, and so on.

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With all due respect, NO! Let Canadians fix their own country. It's there's, not ours and it will never be a US state. How about we fix America before butting into to other countries politics. Look at all our so-called protectorate countries. They tolerate us and benefit from our support, but they don't need to be states either. Let's fix our country and remove the illegals and gangs and communists before we start empire building again.

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Amen Redd.

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It is a side show. Many more things to deal with. There is a lot of Chinese Soldiers up there, though. Don’t forget that.

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Thx, VDH is a national treasure. That nails it.

Explanation, please, on your stage name.

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TheManInTheSeerSuckerSuit

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I used to live in New Orleans too, but my fashion sense is purely pedestrian.

Always find your comments worth reading.

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When Who Wants To Be A Millionaire was a TV phenomenon, you could get on the show by playing the Phone Game. Then the lawyers for disabled rights sued and they switched to selecting contestants by audition. As a Middle Aged White Guy (MAWG) my chances were greatly reduced. The first time I went to an in person audition I wore the seersucker suit to try to stand out. I joined a fan site and got pegged with the nickname. I went to many auditions and even though I passed the test there was an over supply of MAWGs and I never made the show.

Then in 2008 they announced auditions for Halloween Week. That was my shot. I grabbed my Flying Monkey costume went to NYC and auditioned. I got the coveted post card telling me I had made the contestant pool. Halloween Week never happened. I blame the trademark lawyers for that

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Millionaire was my favorite show on TV for 5 years. My parents thought TV was a tool of the devil until sister's heart doctor ordered them to get one. Sister who had suffered a heart attack at 15 years old and thus missed her sophomore year in high school. Upshot, she detested TV forever after. Like fire and water, she realized it could be good or bad, depending on its use. It became like a "necessary evil."

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Funny stuff!

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Fascinating!

Reminds me of the show, though I forget it’s name, about the guy who goes around on orders of some unseen benefactor, to average people telling them they’ve been chaos em to receive a check for one million dollars. Great show.

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Was that not a book about a lowly civil servant who somehow ended up with a posting to some dusty third world outpost and suddenly found himself at the center of a situation with potentially dangerous worldwide geopolitical consequences?

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A movie, written in 2012.

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I try to not miss anything VDH has to say. What a smart man!

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Besides his academic career, he's also a lifelong California farmer on the side. It's a combination that favors realism, which the Nuisance regime completely lacks.

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Yes, he loves California but hates its political leadership and what they have done to his state. I admire his restraint and thoughtfulness when describing California's government. I doubt I could be so kind.

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A very wise man that helps make complex issues easy to understand.

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…and he dropped the mic. BOOM.

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Interesting that today’s article is about humor.

I went to see Jeff Dunham last night.

If you want to laugh and laugh hard go see him and his “guys in the boxes”.

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I'm constantly amazed they let Zou Xiden out of the White House to go perform with Jeff. That might explain why he's always on vacation.

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So true! W.C.

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I like the skeletal "Achmed" saying I will KEEL you!!"

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Doing a rare off topic today, going back to Jimmy Carter and his supposed "decency". Why would such a decent "Christian" man have John Lennon's "Imagine" performed at his funeral? That song is an affront to God. I know, Carter is dead, someone else probably picked that for him, but surely his family would know and seek to protect his legacy. To me this is just additional evidence that his decency was a performance. At heart, he was really just a commie with decent American camouflage.

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Don't be so sure someone else picked that song, Carter was a consummate micro-manager and I expect he planned his own funeral. Wish they had held it in Panama.

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OTOH, I forgot about his post doctoral degree in Micro Management.

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When someone mentioned Jimmah Cahtah on the Don Imus show years ago his retort was , “Carter, he’s nothing but a peanut sucking weasel”. Thought it was hilarious.

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Sounds more like Chip or Amy made those musical choices, and not something he and Roselyn thought up. There isn't a whole lot of personal leeway in the long established DC rule of pomp and circumstance.

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Proud Canadian here.. second generation… woman without an “old country” to long for… descendant of Russian Mennonites who fled that country for religious freedom in the late 1800’s. We’ve been through a “bad patch” here in Canada politically just like the Americans. I am one of thousands, perhaps millions in Canada who have watched and listened and prayed fervently since 2016 for America to come back to the place they are in today. We rejoice that President Trump will be back in power in 10 days. We are not at all all Liberals here, and we would appreciate your support for our dilemma here and not your derision.

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I believe the whole tyrannical Covid crackdown on Canada ignited a the hearts and minds of millions of Canadians, and a great awakening resulted.

It will be a long hard slog to turn Canada around after decades of Leftist-Socialist rule, but I think they are more primed for that now perhaps ever before.

I’m not in favor of your becoming our 51st state, (though I get a kick out of all the trolling about it), but I hope and pray and look forward to a new and bolder, freer Canada.

Fight on!

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The Trumpster has said he loves Canadians. Trudeau, not so much.

lived in North Dakota most of my life. Met lots of Canadians as they came down to buy liquor. The biggest liquor store in the state was south of Winnepeg just over the border.

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Great comment. We are Canada's friend, but rest assured we don't want to own you. The way things have been going here over the last four years, it was more likely you would eventually own us. Keep the faith going, we will all get better.

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A few years ago I translated a number of letters by Mennonites who had stayed in Russia -- to their profound detriment. It was obvious from those letters that Stalin was treating them as slaves -- starved, dispossessed and persecuted slaves. And their ancestors had migrated to Ukraine from East Prussia, at the invitation of Catherine the Great -- and done well.

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The first time I heard Gaffigan was on XM Radio. My 14 year old daughter and I were in the car and I had to pull over because I (we) was laughing so hard that I was afraid I would get us into a wreck. For her 16th birthday she wanted to take a couple of friends and see him live when he was doing a gig in DC. I took my fruitcake recipe with me and got him to sign it after the show when he was meeting fans and selling CDs. (Long time fans will understand.)

When he came out with that anti-Trump venom, he lost me. His performance at the Al Smith dinner gave me some hope but I’m still in “wait and see” mode about becoming a fan again.

The left almost destroyed comedy, kinda like they’re doing to LA right now.

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It's been observed that whatever the Left touches goes to pot. And I'm not talking about weed.

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Yes, governing means working for both sides of the aisle, not just the ones who vote for you. Politics has gone from dysfunctional to toxic today because they no longer think of the effect on the public when they do something, only what keeps them in power. We no longer control our government, they control us.

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The guy started thinking too highly of himself I think and lost sight of his audience. Now he just sounds like every other liberal not funny comic.

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in yesterdays news, the grand jury in FL cowardly refused to indict anyone in the criminal negligence in handling the Scamdemic. if authority figures dont do time, there's only going to be more crimes.

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Frustrating for sure.

The scamdemic was an artifact of the deep state operations working together. It will be a challenge to take a stab at that one and get anywhere. It will require a much bigger, coordinated attack. I am skeptical the good folks on the right side of this issue will ever get their act together to achieve that in small cases, but we can continue to push.

Unfortunately, Trump has taken a middle of the road stance. He finally heard his constituents (all of us) two years ago bitching about the non-science lies and mandates to which he FINALLY took a verbal stance against. However, he still praises the 'warp speed' response he got from pharma so he isn't really aligned against them. That's concerning.

The two most obvious deep state failures we all see are the military industrial complex (Ukraine) and, now, the Pharma industrial complex. As a life-long conservative, it takes a lot for me to say that my hope lies in a life-long Democrat - Robert F Kennedy, jr - to attack it and fix it.

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Has anyone else watched Thank you Dr Fauci on Tucker? It’s a good documentary about that fraud who really is the responsible party for this whole fiasco

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He worked for DARPA.

We have met the enemy and they are us.

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They are out of control with no adult leadership today. The whole military command structure needs to be purged of the deep state.

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We are the adults, we need to take control.

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He had lots of help pulling that off. Lots of new millionaires now due to his corruption. He is the lowest form of crook in my book, one who subverts his own country to get rich.

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I may have said this before, but Trump's background and experience had not prepared him for the Covid scam. It was not like Trump to just stand there while those medical con artists took over and pontificated -- but he clearly felt out of his depth. Given what we've learned since then, I trust he learned his lesson.

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It will needs be a Federal grand jury more than the individual states to have any chance of a successful indictment of all the Covid crimes and cover-ups, as that is where they originated. But it still will be one of the most challenging legal efforts in history. But one well worth fighting.

And there are the ancillary cases, connected to the tyrannical Covid regime, like the free speech case against censorship to occur this year, that will aid in exposing so much of the criminality involving government officials directly.

We’ve only just begun to fight.

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Paxton is suing for false advertising.

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Who did you vote for ?

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The so-called "networks," as in NBC, CBS, ABC and even Fox are all going the way of the dinosaur. By which I mean extinct. Dead. Passed into the Great Beyond. Or in the words of John Cleese, "That is an ex-parrot!" Their "news" divisions, their "entertainment" divisions and most especially, their "late-night" productions are soon to be so irrelevant that, even if they contiue to exist in some form, their influence will be between nil and negligible. I so look forward to the demise of that self-righteous gasbag Kimmel and his equally odious chancre-on-the-face-of-society Colbert.

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Humor is like dessert. It is a fantastic infusion of enjoyment as a night cap to a great gathering. Like reading a Surber Substack. His first sentence today had me laughing at 7:04am.

We are 10 days from our goal. I had many doubts in the last year we would ever get this far, but it looks like we may make it another week and a half to the starting line of the race. I think I'll wait until we have the 100+ EOs implemented and some hard-core 'reverse justice' working on several fronts before I'll celebrate.

I wonder what ocean-front property is going for in Greenland.

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I've no idea, but I hear all of it comes with free air-conditioning.

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re: "the federal government paid Twitter to censor people when Jack Dorsey ran the show" Oh, it's much worse than that. Have you seen Elon's last interview? "The FBI had a backdoor directly into Twitter, where they could see anything posted by anybody and censor it. It had a ten-day auto-delete, so there is no way of knowing exactly what they even did."

re: "lesbian fire chief scissors things up" - OUCH! Methinks you know more about porn than you are letting on.

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I don't know what you mean, but whatever it is, I shudder.

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If people like Gaffigan sway a viewer's vote, stop the world, I want to get off. That's tantamount to taking life lessons from Whitey Bulger.

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barrett is the consummate poster girl for conservative women who are actually stealth feminists hiding behind and riding the wave created by conservative men. no one would even know who she is if it weren't for president trump.

rant over.

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Agree. Sadly, I think he was compelled to replace RBG with another female. Barrett seemed to be a good choice, but never forget David Souter who was picked by George H.W. Bush. Not every Justice picked by a Republican President is an Anton Scalia. Perhaps, if Sotomayer retires, Trump won't feel compelled to replace her with another female or Hispanic person but find a solid Constitutionalist to cancel Barrett's occasional lapse.

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We pray you are correct.

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Yeah we missed the target on that one. Could be worse but it could be a lot better. Squish Roberts was acting normal for him.

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It is utterly mind-boggling to me how a CHIEF JUSTICE of the SUPREME COURT, (and his lackey ACB), can make remarks regarding the “danger of disinformation”, not to mention a supposedly Conservative one!

Has he read the Constitution lately?!

That is staggeringly shocking.

He has a very bad case of the “Woke Mind Virus”. He needs an exorcism.

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He's always been more political than constitutional.

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He fears the people more than the government, the real enemy.

I swear he needs a Constitutional refresher course at Hillsdale.

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Unfortunately, many excellent entertainers like Jim Gaffigan have joined or have been coerced to join the far-left tribe where political obedience must be maintained at all costs. Actually, tribe is probably the wrong word. 'Cult' is a better descriptor because so many folks have literally been brainwashed by the multitude of lies the Democrat Party has foisted on their followers. If Gaffigan is looking for con men and thieves, he only need look at what his Party has wrought in California. Of course, California is just one example of Democrat malfeasance, but possibly the crown jewel.

A hard choice in today's poll. I went with America's Attic because of the imagery of the attic being cold and filled with strange stuff. Also, the phrase "Crazy Aunt in the Attic", a title that was given to Helen Thomas by some pundit came to mind. There are some really crazy people up there, eh.

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Canada is called the Hat.

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I know Jim Gaffigan only from his routines on youtube. This is one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/umWrTBp9wj8

My other favorite standup comedian is Nate Bargatze: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C-4Qta0Hh1k

So far, I've heard neither of them talk politics. And I hope it stays that way. Like Laura Ingraham wrote, "Shut Up & Sing."

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Nate is a Tennessean, so I doubt he will succumb to the woke BS. Gaffigan lives in NYC, so he is surrounded by virtue signaling lefties all the time. I cut Gaffigan slack because he is brilliantly funny. That said, he should know by now to keep any political thoughts that he might have to himself.

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