Comments by "" (@timogul) on "Fox News" channel.

  1. "Whaaaaaa, the poors are making money, money is only for rich people!"
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  2. Anyone who believes this clearly has never read the First Commandment, nor the First Amendment.
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  3.  @Kenneth-nx4uv  Was. Ukraine IS a free and independent nation for 33 years, per their agreement. Russia had no justification to invade.
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  4. Every accusation is a confession.
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  5. Republicans always gets in the way of politicians serving the people.
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  6.  @verilyveronica8430 Trump was twice impeached, just not convicted. To paraphrase McConnell on the topic, "Trump did the things he's accused of, and they are high crimes and misdemeanors, but I'm not voting to convict because I want to get re-elected."
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  7. I wish we had a president instead of a clown.
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  8. I suppose that statement is true, Trump does view American darkness as being pretty great. I mean, his coalition is white supremacists and conspiracy nutters.
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  9. Wouldn't help. If we actually cared about children, we'd need better gun control.
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  10. House Republicans: "But. . . but. . . we wanted to do it behind closed doors and then come out to the cameras and tell people that we'd found BOMBSHELL news from it, when actually nothing of any value was learned."
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  11. If it's Biden's fault, then why can you draw a straight line on border encounters from 2016 through 2019 through to 2023? Wouldn't that indicate that the same trend has been pretty steady over that period?
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  12. Sadly, I expect them to put party before constitution.
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  13. "Don't you understand? This is about showboating for my drooling base, not answering questions seriously!"
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  14. "Sorry, bear with us here, we have absolutely no idea how any of this works."
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  15.  @verilyveronica8430  So you agree with the point I was making, but wish that it were not true?
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  16. They need to include him on the same contempt resolution as Hunter.
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  17.  @verilyveronica8430  Not really. What about my comment do you disagree with?
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  18. Barr, man, you ARE the "cartel!"
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  19. No there is not. There is no "wasteful spending" in the bill, it all goes to important covid relief functions that will benefit American citizens.
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  20.  @mylanmiller9656  The Democrats always vote the correct way, but only a few of the Republicans occasionally vote alongside them. Sadly, the Republicans have packed the bench with people who put party above the Constitution, while Democrats have made more responsible picks. That's what happens when you pull your list from the Federalist Society.
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  21. They have to know that Evangelicals worship their golden calf now, not God.
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  22. More scary, he has no problems telling the truth under oath.
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  23. They have been. This is what that looks like.
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  24. Except for all the other ones.
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  25.  @mattwilliam3410  That wouldn't help. Removing the guns would though.
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  26. They can decide who to include on the ballot, but only so long as it follows the law. They couldn't just declare some random person ineligible "because we say so." But in this case, the 14th amendment determines that Trump is ineligible to hold the office of President, so they took him off the ballot. If they tried that without a legal justification, then it would be reversed.
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  27.  @drawingdead9025  Yes, 9% does go to the people. And also the other 91% too.
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  28. It's almost like school was out for the summer or something. . .
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  29. Alex Jones says a lot of untrue things. Why is this one surprising?
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  30. Did you see Breet Baier OWN Trump the other day? Wow. Basically tied up Jack Smith's case in a neat little bow and handed it right to him.
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  31.  @1carus63  Yes, because American Citizens live in the world too. Only a tiny fraction of the relief bill, less than 1% of it, goes to foreign aid, and it's directly to help with the pandemic. For all the people who whine about refugees coming across the border, remember that the easiest way to prevent that is for US foreign aid to make their own countries worth staying in. If Trump had spent his border wall money on supporting the people of Central America, they wouldn't be coming here.
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  32.  @amberfitz-randolph392  Yup, political theater over nothing, just like this Biden situation.
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  33.  @MrRyan0412  They can ask Hunter about the classified documents in a public setting. He can accurately report that he was completely unaware of them until they become public news. Even if, by some chance, he had been aware of them, he could say as much in a public setting. The only thing he would be unable to do in public is discuss the contents of the classified documents, but there is no need for anyone to do so.
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  34. Bigotry is a hell of a drug.
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  35. Yes, it's sad how many Trump fans just can't accept that their guy lost and are willing to stoop to violent means to cry about it.
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  36. Will it be as memorable as the Nuremberg rally? Is that what they're aiming for when this loser speaks?
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  37.  @benjaminclark7584  Jesus would vote for Biden.
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  38. One thing I love is that some Christians will say "you can ignore most of the commandments like not eating pork or shrimp, because Paul said Jesus said so at some point," but then also say "but these ten commandments need to be EVERYWHERE.
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  39.  Chase Parrish  You are the one that said that one million times 325 million = 325 million. You cannot get more moronic than that.
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  40. Depends on if Trump pulls out. He usually does, makes the payouts cheaper.
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  41. I doubt the mental fitness of anyone who could vote for Donald Trump, including Donald Trump himself.
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  42. All you need to do is kneel and kiss the ring of the King, exactly as the Founding Fathers intended.
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  43. Definitely. They have a golden cow and everything.
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  44. Yeah, why wouldn't Elon take questions at his own cabinet meeting?
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  45. It is their core tenet.
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  46. This is a constitutional republic, and the constitution puts limits on who is allowed to serve in government.
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  47. If the Republicans do retake the house, they can open that permanent Benghazi committee they wanted! Instead of doing anything that would actually help Americans, of course.
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  48.  @justinbaker5672  It would be worse under Trump though.
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  49.  @patrickcoyne1292  That's not how taxes work. The voters pick the leaders, the leaders determine how the money is collected and spent, and eveyrone pays their share, whether they agree with those policies or not.
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  50. And God protect Jack Smith as he does so.
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  51.  @KurtElliott  It was entirely legal for Pelosi to pick her committee from both sides. The Speaker picks the committees, anything else is a courtesy. She offered to allow Republicans to pick half, but they only nominated clowns.
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  52. Americans.
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  53. I think Republicans should elect people who can read themselves, so they don't need things read to them.
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  54. "I'm with stupid."
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  55. Why do you believe people would be more likely to vote for someone who was found liable of sexual assault?
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  56.  @coreyb9240  Because the American people are NOT "just getting one check." That is only one part of the bill. American people are also getting things like improved unemployment payouts, food aid benefits to families, funding to keep schools and transit open, a significant child tax credit, vaccine distribution, health insurance subsidies, etc. Basically, the $1400 is the floor of what people get, but the more in need people are, the more additional functions the bill provides for them. Just handing people cash is not always the best solution to a problem, but it can be a part of a solution. But yes, conservatives pushed the Democrats to lower the top-end of the eligibility requirements so that some people will be getting less. We need bigger Democratic majorities in the Senate so we can avoid that sort of thing in future.
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  57. If he wants to fight the subpoena, he can drag it out for months. If they want to talk to him on schedule, why not do it in public? Or are they worried that they won't be able to lie to the American people about what he said afterward?
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  58.  @Bluesit32  The followers choose their leaders though, so they are as much to blame. Nobody on Earth has a mandate from Heaven, every leader, religious or secular, is a choice.
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  59.  @keenumman1  Nobody is talking about tolerating any degeneracy. This is about LGBT people, not about MAGA.
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  60.  @425HP  If you believe that, then you have been successfully hoodwinked. Congratulations.
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  61.  @saularce7957  No, it's the guns. Other countries have just as many people who want to do crimes, but since they have fewer guns, those crimes are not as harmful.
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  62.  @frankgrabasse4642 Yeah, basically, the better the US is doing relative to the rest of the world, the more immigrants come here. So. . . it looks like America's getting better and better under Biden, right?
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  63. Yes, but Moscow Mitch was too busy confirming conservative judges to bother.
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  64. No, it's not about "the political establishment being able to dictate who is and isn't allowed to be president of their "democracy"" It's about upholding the Constitution.
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  65. It's very Trump.
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  66. People who want responsible government.
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  67. Because Trump fans are lunatics and want to overthrow the lawfully elected President. They do not care about the law if it hurts their feelings.
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  68. Yeah, his supporters are like children, they'll clap and cheer at any insane thin they hear.
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  69. And any illegaly entry is detained and processed according to US law, and then deported if not granted residence.
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  70. Well, the difference is that there's no reason not to be tolerant of them, and there's nothing wrong with them doing something like this, so. . . What's the issue, exactly?
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  71. You misspelled Donald Trump.
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  72. Pam: "They're both the same picture."
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  73.  @AndrewTSq  Yeah, the human mind easily falls for scams like that. It's easier to convince someone of a lie than it is to convince them of the truth, you just need to tell them that "that other guy doesn't want you to know this truth I'm telling you," and their mind is yours to own.
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  74. He does appreciate a good liar.
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  75. Doooo ittttt!! Can we get more idiots to resign for nothing?
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  76. @seraeggobutterworth5247 Nowhere in the 14th amendment does it say or imply that someone needs to be charged, tried, OR convicted of any crime to fall under the 14th's provisions. In fact, most of those who were disqualified from a ballot under the 14th were never charged, tried, or convicted of anything. The 14th does not say "if they have been convicted of insurrection," or anything of the sort, it only says "if they violate their oaths of office, which Trump did. A judge or other duly appointed election official is constitutionally justified in making such a determination, but of course higher authorities could overrule their determination. But again, legal convictions are 100% irrelevant to the process, I have no idea why so many on the right seem convinced that this is a winning argument for them.
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  77.  @MrOldclunker  Discussions about Jan 6th would not be privileged, as it was conduct in violation of their duties as legislators. They only have protections when they are operating LEGALLY.
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  78. That probably would be Trump's best defense, but it still wouldn't protect him.
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  79. Meanwhile, back in reality. . .
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  80. That would be illegal, as he's violated no oaths. I think you may have a problem understanding what "constitutional republic" means.
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  81. Well, part of the issue is that the portions of congress that are demanding attention on this topic are the ones intended to "Weaponize government," so it would not be in the people's best interest to humor them. I'm sure that if legitimate requests for information were made by legitimate inquiries, the DoJ and FBI would cooperate.
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  82. His first name is "Donald," not "Brandon" Trump.
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  83. It certainly wouldn't help Trump's electoral chances, which is ALL he's ever cared about.
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  84. "Is he legitimately insane, or just evil?" basically.
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  85. There was no indictment at all. If there had been, THAT would be news. But all Durham had to say was "I could not find the sort of wrongdoing that Trump hired me to find, I suppose because it never existed in the first place, but boy am I disappointed."
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  86.  @johnchristman750  Nowhere does it state that congress should make that decision, and in most cases in which it was applied, it was not congress applying it. The Constitution gives states the authority to coordinate their own elections.
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  87. No, there's no problem, because the person being inaugurated is the lawfully elected president. It's only a problem in those other countries when the leaders being put in power were not lawfully elected. It is sad that defenses like this are necessary, but we didn't have them last Wednesday and you saw what happened. Trump fans are lunatics.
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  88. It happens in all parts of this country,. because we lack proper gun control.
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  89. Better than a ":border field trip," right? At least a climate field trip has lovely nature to look at. I don't know why so many politicians feel the need to wander over to the border and go "yup, it's a border all right."
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  90.  @lisal9829  Thanks. Seriously, these people and their weird excuses for bigotry. . .
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  91. Yes, vote blue, no matter who. Jesus would.
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  92. The thing you guys commenting need to understand is that when MAGA conservatives talk about "justice," they don't mean the same thing that other people do, where it is a consequence of that person committing a crime. They just mean "we do not LIKE that person, and want the government to HURT them for us." This is basically fascism in a nutshell. The concept of "justice" to them is more just what most people would call "hate."
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  93. The Declaration of Independence is not legally binding US law.
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  94. He hasn't done any treason though. You're thinking of the other guy.
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  95. Guys, they do press briefings EVERY day. He's not Twittering while taking a dump like the last guy, and that's a good thing.
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  96. Someone really needs to explain to Manchin that it is fiscally responsible to run up deficits during a crisis to stabilize the economy, and then to work it down during times of prosperity so that things will be stable again by the next crisis. The problems with the deficit is not in wanting to spend money right now, it's that over the last four years they lowered taxes on the rich, blowing up the deficit, rather than drawing down the deficit during a time of relative stability.
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  97. It's because the riots during the summer were not an insurrection against the duly elected government, attempting to install Trump as a dictator. It was a very different situation, so there was a very different response.
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  98. The 14th amendment to the US Constitution.
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  99. @seraeggobutterworth5247 Due process was done in this case, according to the law. Nowhere in the 14th does it say or imply that a criminal conviction would be required to apply the terms of the amendment, and in point of fact most of the people it was applied to were never convicted of any crime. The "due" process" in this case is for a judge or other official duly appointed to administer ballot approval to make the determination that oaths had been violated. If a higher authority over-rules their determination, then so be it, but that is all it takes to get the ball rolling.
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  100.  @zs9458  Because their countries are currently too dangerous for them to stay, which is why they leave for America. Again, it's your choice as to whether you want them here, or living safely in their own countries.
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  101. "Taking Faux News as if it were the truth."
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  102. 1. With Ukrainian Troops. 2. Yeah, some of them. 3. It's not his military, he's the US President, not Ukraine's.
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  103. The Lord wants nothing to do with Trump.
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  104. If 100% of IRS funding went to ICE agents and wall building, then $0 would go to ICE agents or wall building (or anything else).
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  105. You said "Democrat" instead of "Republican."
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  106. They will prove their case, that's their job. The indictment only lays out how they will prove their case in court.
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  107. Like PT Barnum said, "there's a sucker born every minute," and like DJT said, "I love stupid people."
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  108.  Gooby Pls  Thanks, you're certainly breaking cliches there yourself.
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  109. Why?
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  110. Of course lockdowns work for the flu. In fact, normal flu rates are WAY down over typical years due to lockdown measures. In countries where they actually did have lockdowns, like China, the virus was almost completely eradicated. Since we haven't had serious lockdowns in the US, 400k Americans are dead that didn't have to be.
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  111. It is responsible fiscal policy to provide people relief funds during crisis situations, such as a national pandemic, and to then recover those funds once the crisis has passed. This is a more efficient way to function than to just let the country crawl their way out of a crisis at the natural pace.
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  112.  @Eldeecue  Yeah, but they can at least accept that 60%+ of the country, even in strongly red states, is not going to be anti-choice, and that they have no right to make that decision for other people. Nobody is forcing anti-choice people to get abortions themselves, they just have no right to impose their own beliefs on the topic onto others.
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  113. Don't worry, if the Nazis come to mess with the inauguration like they tried at the Capitol last week, they will be put down. We have learned from history.
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  114. That's not how "it goes both ways" works. "Hate" is not considered a fair alternative to "love."
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  115. His constituents elected him though, and he hasn't actually done anything wrong, so that would basically be an action against their oaths to uphold the Constitution. Not that they'd mind that, of course.
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  116.  Alex Supertramp  Yes. Like when people go to the polls, and their votes are recorded, and the one named Biden gets 81m votes and 306 electoral votes, and the one named Trump only gets 74m million votes and 232 electoral votes, which is less, so he loses and has to go home, because that's how democracy works.
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  117. And he was wrong.
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  118.  @Bellysniffer  Yes, some have them, people who would boycott a sports team over supporting LGBT people, do not. You can choose to be amoral if you want, that is your right, just don't expect anyone to respect you for it. Jesus certainly wouldn't.
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  119. She is a habitual liar though, I mean that's just a fact. They don't like his daughter because she's a habitual liar that took on a job where her ONLY responsibility was to tell the truth to the American people.
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  120.  @stevenbrown5210  Ask Ukraine, they've done it before, and can do it again.
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  121.  @eodyn7  Russia. It was Russia that invaded Ukraine. The US did not enter either country.
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  122. Yeah, I'm glad we voted that guy out last time.
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  123. He's better than the last guy, at least. He would have just invited them both to the White House for cheeseburgers and then handed them the nuclear football as a going away present.
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  124.  @mylanmiller9656  What are you talking about? If Kavenah couldn't tell what a woman was, he wouldn't know who to assault.
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  125. What are you talking about? No rights changes hands today. Trump supporters stormed the Capital, which was a disgrace, but they were removed in short order and the election was certified as normal.
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  126. Then why was she the one that passed the bill that would help people, not milk them?
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  127. This is a constitutional republic. People only have the right to elect those who meet the eligibility requirements laid out in the Constitution. Trump does not.
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  128.  @avenue8822  A conviction in court would lead to jail time or fines. It has nothing to do with congress. Congress is basing their decisions off of their own analysis of the evidence, as the Constitution provides. The Judicial branch is not relevant to the Legislative
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  129. New York taxpayers.
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  130. Always.
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  131. @seraeggobutterworth5247 Due process only applies in matters of life, liberty of property. None of those are being challenged in this case. Due process was served by this decision.
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  132. @seraeggobutterworth5247 The 14a is making sure that the 5th applies equally to freed slaves and other varieties of US citizen. At no point does it imply that a criminal conviction is required to trigger later elements of the amendment.
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  133.  tomcutler165  The 14th amendment does not require criminal charges to have been made. It's also important to understand that the specific charge of "insurrection" is not a necessary component of the 14th amendment in any way, so obviously Trump could not get out of this by claiming "not insurrection" wordplay.
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  134. Sure he is. Both parties have to agree to a set of rules for the debate to take place.
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  135. That's the problem, it's meant to be a debate, not a "which crowd is more rowdy" contest. We're electing leaders, not Wrestlemania stars.
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  136. @seraeggobutterworth5247 Due Process was done in this case. At NO point was any criminal conviction required in the process, so "he hasn't been convicted of any crimes yet" is 100% irrelevant to this situation. All that is required is for a duly appointed state election supervisor to determine that he violated his oaths of office, and then that decision can be challenged in the court system as it has been. You are making up rules around this process that never existed.
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  137. No, Russia did. They were the ones that invaded their neighbor. Neither the US nor EU nor Ukraine attacked anyone.
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  138.  @sz5263  NATO could expand to east of Russia's doorstep. There is nothing wrong with that. Russia invaded their neighbor, THAT was the initiation of the war.
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  139.  @thatolddragon5560  What are you talking about? He's already had over 91 indictments. His broken mental state won't get him out of that.
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  140. Don't let the door hit you.
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  141. Wait, what's this about "ground rules about hiding behind the 5th amendment?" Are they saying that if he does not agree to appear before them and waive his 5th amendment rights, then they would hold him in contempt? Punishing him for exercising his Constitutional rights, how is that not blatantly against the Constitution? Even asking such a thing should be grounds for expulsion form Congress.
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  142. For the same reason people were concerned about his mentor in the 1930s.
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  143. No, the majority definitely don't want McCarthy, they just can't agree on any other person either. They should all rally behind Jeffries.
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  144. Yes, it is exactly because this is a constitutional republic that this is all happening. To uphold the constitution.
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  145. What do you think she lied about?
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  146. I'd love them to try the old Republican playbook anyway, just leave the room, go to cameras, and go "he sung like a canary, Joe was behind the whole thing!" and then the reporters go "you do know that this was a public hearing, and he said nothing of the sort, right?"
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  147. This is not an empire, this is a constitutional republic, and that means following the constitution, even when it falls against Dear Leader.
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  148. That's not how these work. They tend to get about 50/59 audiences, it's just that Trump supporters ignore the rules to not hoot and holler, so they sound louder.
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  149. They are, that's why these four were basically booted out of it, so that the rest could uphold that oath.
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  150. It's not Pelosi that's holding this up, ask Mitch McConnell what the hold-up is.
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  151. Well, the minority of the people, at least.
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  152. He's never had problems with his memory, unlike his predecessor.
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  153. No chance they can drag this out until 2029.
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  154. He knows more than his opponent.
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  155. God would weep if that came to pass. Trump and God have nothing to do with each other, and neither wants it any different.
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  156. Yeah, but sadly he just quit. Now all that's left is the MAGA clown car.
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  157. It wouldn't help. Gun control would though.
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  158. How hard it is to close a McDoanlds and film a photo op here your supporters drive up to the window? Anyone can do that, but only the Trump campaign would.
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  159.  @JCB576  For Democrats? Yes. For Republicans? NOTHING is not about Trump.
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  160. Sadly, red states don't care about insurrection. Most of the Senators that were planning to object to the certification of the election were from Confederate states. Republicans will still win in those areas.
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  161. I would charge by the hour, in advance.
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  162.  @clarkw4028  A republic is a democracy. You need to get your facts straight, missy.
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  163. I don't know why they're even covering this, it's just a normal school day in America. If anyone actually cared about this, we would have gun control laws more like other first world countries.
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  164.  @soulife8383  The House just passed a bill that will help to get corporate money out of politics, but it is unlikely to get passed Senate Republicans. Contact your representatives.
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  165. Just so you're aware, that was not "a better time." It was just a time in which you were more comfortable, because they were not.
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  166. Trump is just sad that her rallies get 100 times more people than his. :(
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  167. Except for all the other ones.
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  168.  @Ranger1PresentsVirtualRealms  It was the founding fathers that took the view that the constitution is a living document. It's the Republicans that take the view that "the constitution says whatever we need it to say at any given time, and then the exact opposite in a different case (without reversing our previous decision)." But again, if you are right, and the conservatives do believe that the constitution should be taken seriously, then they have no option but to decide against Trump in this matter. The constitutional questions are crystal clear on this one.
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  169.  @Burgundy64  Well, I expect he would take the 5th on any question that relates to the crimes he's being charged with, that's the entire point of having that protection in the Bill of Rights. But anything outside of that scope I would expect him to be honest about.
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  170. Because legislating those things are what the majority of voters sent them to Washington to do. Most people support legislating vaccines and access to abortion, and BOTH of those are a PART of paying attention to the economy and security. And sending money overseas, done wisely, is the best thing to do for both America's economy AND security. That's why China's been sending a tone of their money overseas over the past few decades. Benefiting other countries makes America's position in the world stronger.
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  171.  @Hero_Of_Time94  China's current problems mainly stem from domestic failures, too much pointless home-building within the country itself. Their foreign policy choices have largely led in their favor, where even if a loan falls through, they get more out of it in terms of political value than the actual cost of the project. For example, a small, poor African country has just as much vote in the UN general assembly as the US does, so getting a dozen or two of those on board means China has an easy time getting their way in UN votes.
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  172. Unarmed students in every school now.
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  173. Well, he'd have to do a crime first. Then you just charge him with it. Otherwise you'd be talking about "tyranny," and we don't do that here.
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  174. Yeah, if that p[olicy were still in effect, we wouldn't have Fox News or Donald Trump.
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  175. You can't fix stupid, apparently.
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  176.  @digimaks  Yes, they can, because each Ukrainian soldier is apparently worth around 10,000 Russian ones. Perhaps more.
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  177. GOP clown show clowning again. 🤡 When Schiff runs for Senate in California, he should put "Censured by GOP House" on his campaign posters.
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  178.  @bq6162  What do you think is true? All this story says is that the lawsuit searched for people's names in Maxwell's phone records. It doesn't say that they actually found anything, so really it's a nothing burger.
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  179.  @iDeagles  Nah.
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  180.  @hughheeney3554  And this is why he's failing right now, he got rid of anyone capable.
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  181. Well if they ask him a question related to an ongoing criminal matter then of course he would plead the 5th. That's what it's there for.
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  182. Then stop making them right.
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  183.  @catfishredneck88  The cult wears red caps.
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  184. Taking money from IRS agents DOES add to the debt. IRS agents are the ones that reduce the debt.
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  185. "Red wave," lol. More like a red puddle. Someone spilled the MAGA kool aid, clean it up.
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  186. Sadly, bigotry is more powerful than sports. Jesus would be disappointed in your choice. He loved all, including his LGBT brothers, sisters, and others.
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  187. "Can we make totally normal things sound sinister by using rhetorical questions?"
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  188.  @kevinpreston5590  There are all sorts of things that would help, to varying degrees. Ideally we would at least implement Swiss style gun laws, or even better Japanese style gun laws. The point would be to have far fewer guns in circulation, greatly reducing the opportunity for criminals to acquire them.
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  189. It is the gun owner's fault though.
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  190.  @christopherkwit3177  The part that it comes after "a well regulated militia," which would be the National Guard.
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  191.  @AJDIAS-ov1zd  No, I meant Neil Gorsuch's interpretation of the Constitution, which would mean that Trump would need to be removed form the ballot. Unless he changes his interpretation to suit this specific case, of course.
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  192. Because the judge didn't prosecute, the prosecutor did, and there was a crime, there were victims, and there was financial loss.
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  193.  @Jimboslice911  Nah, any losses in NYC's future come more from a shift away from office working and more toward work form home, which is leaving a lot of offices vacant. This case will have zero impact on New York's economy.
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  194. Those would not be facts, they would be fictions. Learn the distinction.
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  195. Sadly, bigotry is more powerful than sports. . .
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  196. He does if you want it to actually work. That's the whole point of the bill, to solve the underlying structural problems at the border, rather than just putting on a show that you're "tough on the border" without actually accomplishing anything.
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  197.  @avenue8822  "decency" and "precedent" have nothing to do with each other. If someone commits indecent acts, then the "precedent" of "doing nothing" would prevent you from upholding decency by holding them accountable for their actions. When Republicans do wrong, Republicans need to hold them accountable. So far, they have shown a shameful unwillingness to do so. There is nothing respectable about that.
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  198.  @danothemano1 No, he did not do the same thing. It wasn't even remotely as bad. People who say things like that just have no idea what they're talking about.
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  199. Yes. Don't be sheep, vote out Republicans.
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  200.  @elderlymanpoormemorybullseye  Why do you believe rally sizes matter? If that was the defining factor, we would have President Taylor Swift right now.
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  201.  @wolveslair766  Also poor and middle class Americans who want to make America great again.
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  202. The Democrats passed a bill last Spring. It's still on the table. When you say "almost all of government," you're only talking about Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans that allow him to be majority leader.
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  203.  @jarad0074  Trump has spent hundreds of times more taxpayer money for his own benefit than all previous presidents combined. He doesn't need to take a salary when the government is pumping money into his businesses. It'd be like if a restaurant is claiming that the meal is free, so long as you dump your wallets in a bin as you enter, and don't mind them buying things off Amazon with your credit cards while you eat.
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  204. If 50 Republicans weren't holding it up, we COULD get stuff done. Remove the Republicans, remove the problem. Balls in your court, red state voters.
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  205. They are mad about this Republican getting hired. They already had plenty of OTHER Republicans on their network.
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  206.  @wisdomrules8474  If you consider them "not Republicans," then have you considered that maybe it's your own definition that is flawed?
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  207.  @wisdomrules8474 What does "Republican" mean to you, outside of allegiance to Trump?"
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  208. When did anyone ever elect Hunter Biden, and why do the right care so much about him? It's not like he took two BILLION dollars from the Saudis or anything.
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  209. It just means there are no other cases where there was so much evidence of wrongdoing, so don't expect more of these. It's not often that you have such blatant scam artists at work.
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  210.  @johnchristman750  The 14th Amendment does not say that it is up for congress to decide, it says that congress CAN make laws to support this amendment where necessary, but basic enforcement of it is carried out by the states, given that their elections are a state matter. The 14th has been used at several times to disqualify people form office, and in NONE of these cases was it "for congress to decide." They were ALL decided by judges and state election officials. You are the one making selective reading of the amendment.
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  211.  @shoedogodo_5621  But Taiwan has been independent since 1949l it is no longer a part of China. That is the point. Most of Europe at SOME point belonged to France or Germany or Italy or Sweden, and now is independent of them, but that does not mean that those countries could unilaterally assert their control over those regions TODAY.
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  212. New York taxpayers.
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  213. That's because "they" is Russian bots.
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  214. Idiots: "Uh-oh, better go buy another dozen guns!"
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  215. He drew 80 million.
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  216.  @picktheblueone  Are you aware how many women do not report cases like this?
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  217. So, like, MAGA people.
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  218. It's already more closed than it was during the last administration.
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  219.  @danielarocha6964  It's Republicans that seem to struggle with that distinction.
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  220.  @zs9458  Again, they cannot stay in their countries and improve them because it's too dangeorus there. It's like asking someone to stay in a burning house and fix it themselves. You have to put the fires out first, then you can work on repairs. So that's why foreign aid will reduce refugees coming to the US, if their own countries are stable enough that they can stay there, can work to build them toward a better future, then they don't have to flee to America. We don't allow refugees in on the basis of "well, I just don't much like it here," if they are being admitted as refugees, it is because continuing to live in their home country is impossible.
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  221.  Hook ‘Em  No, red states need the relief bills more than blue states do, and they will be getting more funding from the bill than blue states will. Traditionally, blue states pay for red states to exist, because red states are really bad with money.
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  222.  Hook ‘Em  It is incorrect that Trump's tax cut was the largest working class & middle class tax cut in history. It was only the 12th largest tax cut in US history, and it mainly benefited the wealthy. The working class got relatively minor benefit from it.
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  223.  @crazyeddie1981  No, $200milliin in gender studies does not help against covid. That is why there is not $200m in gender studies in this bill. Who told you that there was?
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  224.  @whatsgoodmyguy4391  It goes from the government to the government so that the government can afford to pay for services that the people need, like police, firemen, keeping public transportation running, etc.
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  225.  @whatsgoodmyguy4391  That is not what the bill says. It doesn't require schools to spend the money in 2022, it requires that they spend it by 2022. If they have needs today, they can spend it today, but it's basically designed to help provide funding over the course of this crisis.
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  226.  Hook ‘Em  California receives more federal money because they PAY more federal money. California is the 41st LEAST dependent state on federal funds. Each California resident pays the federal government $348 more than the Federal government pays them back. Compare that to, say,Texas, where the average resident receives $1280 more back from the Federal government than they pay in. States like California are paying for states like Texas.
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  227.  @Bass1ne  Everything you just said was nonsense.
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  228. Yup, if conservatives voters were capable of thinking for themselves, what would even be the point of MAGA?
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  229. He's at least better than any of the next three.
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  230.  @roseadesjarlais5496  No, we kicked out Trump. Things will be much brighter with Joe in there. He's already done more good in two months than Trump did over four years (mainly by reversing things Trump put into motion).
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  231. You mean backward. Unless you're posting from Moscow, in which case, sure.
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  232. Russia is responsible for their own actions, they cannot blame anyone else for Putin's impotency.
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  233. Thoughts and prayers and gun control to prevent the next one.
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  234.  @johnverley  He wasn't the clown. The current one is the clown. This is really not complicated. The OP even noted how funny he was.
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  235.  @wolveslair766  I'm sure one of his red-hat supporters can wave him over. If not, Joe can point the way for him.
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  236.  @serfcityherewecome8069  If God hated America, then He would want Trump to lead it. God loves humanity too much to allow that. He was only willing to allow Trump to present an example of what never to allow again.
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  237. Yes, this is how cults typically work.
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  238. They still have a way to go if they want to match the incompetence of the previous administration though.
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  239.  @nancyfox6238  Wait, do yo think that "woman" and "wife" are the same thing?
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  240. What's wrong with mail in votes? Trump votes by mail.
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  241. There is only one word to describe people who call Joe Biden a liar, and it happens to be that same word.
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  242.  @drzaius1121  Requiring that something be posted in schools IS teaching it. It is requiring that it be taught in schools that the Christian God is the only god.
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  243.  @pesty4592  "LGBT stuff" is not religion.
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  244.  @carolynm8350  Morality does not require religion. It could be seen as acceptable to post an ADAPTED version of the Ten Commandments, that omits the first, second, and third commandments, but never the entire list.
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  245.  @drzaius1121  Lesson plans are not relevant to the topic at hand. Something does not require a lesson plan to be a part of the school process. Something mandated to be on display in a classroom is being taught.
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  246. It's important to remember that however ridiculous Congresswoman Jayapal might get, there are at least a dozen Republican House members that are even more ridiculous. And that's being kind to the Republicans. Pobody's nerfect.
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  247. No, that's not why. "The rules are the rules, regardless of party," that's the democrat party.
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  248. That would not be why.
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  249. Yup, the fact is that MAGA owns the border crisis now. They are the ones blocking any efforts to fix it. You don't like that? Vote them all out.
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  250. Yup, this is why all the Trump indictments are happening.
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  251. Your two lines are contradictory. A ten minute run-on sentence is not "complete."
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  252. That's how conspiracy theorists think, at least, because they prefer fun drama to the truth.
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  253.  @donnaparrish7638  The evidence says otherwise.
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  254. No, they are here illegally. That is different than being "an illegal." That's the point being made here.
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  255. You're welcome, the "consequences": will be that America will improve, as it does under any Democratic administration.
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  256.  @melgillham462  A republic is, by necessity, a democracy. A republic that is non-democratic would just be an "empire."
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  257.  @drawingdead9025  State governments were blasted by the covid crisis. They built their budgets based on reasonable predictions of their expected tax income over a normal year, just as if a regular person bought a house and car based on their current income level. The covid crisis massively reduced their tax revenues, since businesses and taxpayers were making a lot less money, while at the same time their costs increased massively, in that they had to increase subsidies to public services, they had to pay for emergency relief, increased unemployment costs, etc. Of course states need money (and red states more than blue, if you care about such things). So of course it makes sense for the federal government, which can much more easily appropriate funds, to help keep these stats stable through the crisis, so that they don't have to lay off millions of employees and cut vital services like police and fire. Why shouldn't they?
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  258.  @privateuser7  I did already, you can find more answers upthread, but basically it goes into things like enhancing unemployment payouts, keeping schools open and safe, vaccine programs, keeping state governments functioning (so that they in turn can keep policing, firefighting, pothole repairs, etc.), food programs for needy families, etc. You can find breakdowns of what the bill provides online if you don't want to read it yourself or listen to Senate Pages read it for you.
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  259.  @privateuser7  The things I listed cost a LOT of money. You do realize that the CARES act passed last spring was also a $2 trillion bill, and contained mostly the same stuff, right? This is just making sure it continues into the next year as the crisis continues. Obviously I didn't list every single thing the bill does, it was just a sample, but that's where most of the money ends up. A lot of the critics of the bill like to cite tiny things the bill does like foreign aid programs that add up to less than 1% of the total costs. That sort of nickle-and-diming a bill is pointless.
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  260.  @Bears9McMahon  You should probably try finding out some information before you just runoff at the mouth. Only 9% of the money in this bill goes out in direct cash payments to people, but the other 91% goes into other programs that are also covid relief, such as funding schools, funding unemployment benefits, keeping state and local governments solvent, etc. It si ALL covid relief, it is just not all direct cash payments to individuals.
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  261.  @donoimdono2702  So you haven't seen any evidence of it either.
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  262. This is the only path forward for the Republican party.
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  263. "We can't argue that he's doing a bad job, so we'll argue that he might not last long enough." His VP would still be better than his opponent though. . .
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  264. Which law is not currently being enforced?
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  265. Yup, simps gonna simp.
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  266. Man, it's a good thing that reality disagrees with this guy and no rational person would take him seriously. We could be in for dark times if anyone actually believe this nonsense.
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  267.  @golf869  People routinely purchase homes that cost more than 200% of their annual income.
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  268.  @elderlymanpoormemorybullseye  Oh, "imaginary stuff." got it.
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  269.  @keithrobinson5752  I know more about him than any Faux News viewer, because most of what they "know" about him is imaginary.
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  270. He's a narcissist, he loves the crowds.
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  271. This is what happens when the corrupt SCOTUS says "forget about two hundred years of precedents, all bets are off and you can get a redo on any decision made by a previous court now!
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  272.  @NothingElseMatters777  Over the past few years, the current court has been throwing out previous rulings left and right, so plenty of states have taken that as a reason to start launching new laws that were clearly unconstitutional under previous rulings.
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  273.  @NothingElseMatters777  There have been several others over the past decade or so, and many of them have been life changing for millions of Americans. Get your facts straight.
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  274. That's not how any of this works.
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  275. @cc1658 Well, not Trump, obviously, but no reason to assume the judge isn't. There really isn't any profit motive to a case like this.
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  276.  @agentrosales  That's always been true though. Any given year, the America of that year is different than the America of five, ten, twenty years prior. Yes, the DJT era of America has been a particularly depressing one, but we've been through worse, and this too shall pass.
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  277. You should have checked your email, they were all Trump supporters that had been called in for that role.
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  278.  @dustinnunez5077  It's well documented. They'd shut down that McDonalds for the day, and did rehearsals with the customers before filming them "reacting."
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  279. But without the tool, the person could not cause this amount of damage. So since we can't fix people, let's fix the tools.
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  280. No thank you.
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  281. Geroge Washington did a LOT of tweeting. It was just on paper back then. Most of it can be found in the National Archives.
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  282.  @Bluesit32  It makes them hypocrites for siding with leaders that openly oppose the values they claim to hold, against leaders who openly support their core principles. No Christian can choose Trump against Biden without themselves being a hypocrite for doing so.
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  283.  @Bluesit32  That is thew worst insult you can possibly make for them. Even I don't believe there are that many people so stupid.
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  284. That's not how it works.
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  285.  @bobhilbrich6131  The constitution determines which people are qualified to run for President. The 14th amendment specifies that oath breakers are disqualified. Just as with any qualification for office, states can determine whether they believe a candidate meets that qualification, as Justice Gorsuch made clear. A higher court may be able to overrule such a decision, but lower level courts ARE where such decisions tend to start.
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  286.  @harryfarber6435  Trump doesn't know more about anything than anybody else does.
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  287.  @brandonmonroe7050  I think maybe that's it, they want someone in charge that they can know for certain they would have done a better job themselves.
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  288.  @serfcityherewecome8069  Not everyone is born into a rich family and handed millions of dollars to play with as a graduation present. He's lost more money than if he'd just put his trust fund into an indexed fund.
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  289.  @bigslim4237  Probably a lot less than Trump.
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  290. The Democrats passed relief in May, Mitch McConnel sat on it all summer and beyond. If we had a Democratic Senate there would have been several relief packages over the last six months.
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  291.  @BasebalIShorts.  I've made plenty of arguments, I can't help it if you don't understand them.
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  292. Hope you enjoy playing golf rather than getting Americans the Covid relief that they need. I guess it makes sense, you also don't seem to realize that "Americans killed as a direct result of my actions" is also a sport that is judged based on getting the lowest score possible, not the highest.
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  293.  @Kretenn  There is no US law that says that. Who told you that there was such a law, and what do you think they stood to gain by controlling you?
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  294.  @Kretenn  US law does not say that. US laws says that we cannot touch a migrant until AFTER they cross the border, and that once they do they need to be given due process, which involves detaining and giving them asylum hearings or migrant hearings. Either way, the court systems are backlogged, so it can be months or years before it would be possible for the US to legally deport someone. This is WHY Biden has asked for funding for additional border courts so that the process can be sped up and people can be deported faster.
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  295. Less than are lost by the federal government not having a national strategy to fight the virus that has led to over a hundred thousand unnecessary deaths nationwide.
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  296. That's a pretty serious allegation. If he thinks this is "bigger than Donald Trump," then he's claiming that there are MORE Republicans out there who are guilty of breaking their oaths to the Constitution. This would not surprise me, but it's good to hear a Republican actually taking this seriously, rather than dismissing it as a "partisan" issue.
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  297. Just the Republican ones. The Democratic ones are mostly fine.
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  298. That's not why.
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  299. AND REMEMBER THAT A REPUBLIC IS A FORM OF DEMOCRACY.
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  300. There are no grounds for impeachment though. It's not like he did any of the things Trump did.
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  301. So if you have driven over the speed limit, you would also be "an illegal?"
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  302.  @TheMeanArena That doesn't answer the question. If someone is "an illegal" because they broke a law, then wouldn't all people who have broken a law be "an illegal?"
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  303.  @UnitedWeStand2002  No, they are being enforced, this is what that looks like.
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  304. @@hockeyrules160 🙌🤲🙏👐🙌👐🙏🔥
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  305. The law is the law. It's not a "they" thing.
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  306.  @nellosnook4454  1. "Traditional Americans" are louder, and also older and more likely to die soon. 2. Woke Americans are larger, and also will still be alive for decades to come. 3. Pander to the woke Americans.
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  307. What did she do that was not Republican?
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  308. Yes, but then Kevin would lose his majority. By like 50% of the vote.
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  309.  @Lucylou7070 You can read every bill, they are all public record and posted to the government websites.
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  310. That wouldn't solve the problem of thousands of migrants arriving each day.
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  311.  @joesmith1574  Brandon never opened the border though. It's no more open today than it was before he took office.
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  312. I've learned to never expect human decency of a Faux News viewer. "How dare anyone help other people who are not themselves?"
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  313. That's not how "crime" works. The victim is not "equally accountable" for allowing the crime to take place.
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  314.  @davidwagner9644  The Union HQ was in the Confederate General's house.
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  315.  @dr.emilschaffhausen4683  That remains accurate, Joe Biden was not involved in his son's business.
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  316. Why? Because it's imaginary? Things that live in your imagination do tend to be scary, but moving past that is an important part of growing up.
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  317. When Republicans are "torching" someone, that's when you know for a fact that their victim was doing the right thing. Of course nobody else is "torching" the media for covering that thew "whistleblowers" were not, in fact, whistleblowers, and that they were just really bad at their jobs and whinging about it.
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  318. Why are Republicans so afraid of Trump campaign members speaking under oath about the election. . .
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  319.  @MisterP1234  No, Biden did not do the same thing.
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  320. Exactly, both true statements.
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  321. Yeah, "freedom to do what we want you to do."
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  322. That's what the Dominion lawsuit was about.
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  323. Only if the Senate Republican also recuse themselves, particularly the ones like McConnell and Graham that are on record as not living up to their oaths.
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  324.  @eileenlundin6256  That's sad.
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  325. They block everyone.
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  326. Yes, that is why they have Jessica on, to lose to them. It is what's known in the industry as a "jobber."
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  327. This is false. Biden send zero barrels overseas. The President of the United States does not control the movement of ANY oil, outside of the military supply chain, at least. If any oil traveled overseas, it's because a US-based oil BUSINESS sold that oil to a foreign oil company, which they do ALL the time and always have, because they are BUSINESSES, and will always sell oil to the highest bidder. The only way to prevent this would be for the government to nationalize the US oil industry, is that what you're proposing we do? Otherwise, this is just the free market economy doing its thing.
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  328. The problem is he's in good company whit the current House Republicans.
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  329.  @kimberlyr.7712  How many times did Jared and Ivanka ride on AF1?
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  330.  @kimberlyr.7712  I don't need Chinese malware on my system, thank you.
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  331.  @megclifton6692  Exactly.
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  332. No.
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  333.  @soldadodecristo2480  Yup, voted in by We the People.
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  334. Just a reminder that the Senate GOP has no capability to pass anything into law, so anything that only has their support isn't worth the paper it's printed on. If they would actually like to increase border security, then they would need to negotiate a deal with the Senate Democrats and the White House, something that they have been ordered NOT to do by their dear leader. All this is is a distraction from that fact, intended to fool stupid people into believing that they actually want to fix the border crisis. The Republicans OWN the border crisis now.
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  335. She has a more conservative voting record than most Republicans. It's the Trump supporters that are RINOs.
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  336. They've still got nothing on Trump. He's in a half dozen investigations for every one of theirs!
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  337. Right after Jim Jordan.
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  338.  @SanJacinto23  The US does not have more killers than other first world countries. Our killers are just more effective because they have easier access to firearms.
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  339.  @SanJacinto23  Most criminals get their guns legally, or get them from people who got them legally. Removing the legal guns would remove the pipelines that allow almost all criminals to acquire a gun. It's impossible to stop ALL crime, but you can massively reduce it, so why not do that?
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  340.  @KryptonArcher  The requirements for a Swiss person owning a gun are much more restrictive than in the US, as well as what they can do with that weapon. Their ammo is also much more regulated. "Switzerland as a free guns for all state" is a myth among gun advocates. Look into it more, from people who are NOT sponsored by the NRA.
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  341.  @shannonbolin7641  That does not answer the question, what was illegal here?
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  342.  @shannonbolin7641  Ok, so "nothing?" That's what I assumed.
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  343. So, wait, if not for the "weaponization of the legal system," what would be happening about all the various crimes that Trump did, many of which he's openly admitted to doing? Shouldn't any fair justice system hold people accountable when thy do crimes like that? Was he just supposed to get off scot free because he'd been president once?
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  344. He wasn't spending those billions to reduce unemployment, he was spending those trillions to save lives.
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  345. We did it in November 2020 and we will do it again next November. Never again.
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  346. So says Satan worshipers, at least.
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  347.  @CubeInspector  OR some Christians just want to eat bacon while still being able to claim that other people are sinners and should be punished, exactly like Jesus didn't want.
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  348.  @zackiej89  It's the core tenet of their faith.
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  349. Ok. It certainly wasn't zero under Trump, or any previous administration, so I don't expect that to ever happen.
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  350.  @TheRealJoeMama1  Of course it doesn't make it true. It was true before I said it. That's why I said it. Why would anyone say untrue things? Ok, that's not a rhetorical question, why does this show exist?
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  351. He was willing to plead guilty to his crimes. That is not "above the law." Being "above the law" is all the criminals in the Trump administration that he pardoned for the crimes they did in his service.
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  352. This guy got beat in a state where Biden wasn't even on the ballot. Let's see how Trump does.
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  353. Yes, Trump supporters are children.
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  354.  @dianasims6819  It's presented live, there would be no editing involved.
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  355. Is this what Faux News people are talking about instead of about how Clarence Thomas is bought and paid for?
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  356. It's weird the things Republicans get horny for these days, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
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  357. Exactly, this is why Trump was removed from the ballot, for exactly the reasons you listed. He cannot be allowed to serve as President after attempting to remain in government after losing the 2020 election.
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  358. There isn't a crime to fit what the banks did here, there was one that fit what Trump did though, which is why he was prosecuted.
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  359. Fox News has no standing to decide how the media "should" respond to this. Fox News will inevitably overreact to this. Whatever you might feel about Biden having a few classified documents in his possession, remember the attention Fox didn't give to Donald Trump having HUNDREDS of classified documents, which he REFUSED to give back when told to do so, and LIED about having them. Those are the actual crimes.
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  360. They all get held up by the puppet strings of their donors.
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  361. Yup, first they would have to find some actual evidence of wrongdoing, but since none exists, all they can do is fume.
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  362. Say what you want about Biden staying in, but Trump is also still in it, and that's a joke.
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  363. Just out of curiosity, you consider attempting to steal an election from over 80 million Americans to be basically no different than "tearing the label off a mattress?" Man, you must take your mattress labeling VERY seriously.
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  364.  @dougconllin3006  No, it just means no guns. Those other things are fine because people don't do mass shootings with them.
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  365.  @cathysmith8947  They chose to be better than Republicans, us usual. :(
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  366.  @cathysmith8947  Choosing not to charge Jordan does not mean that they can't point out the hypocrisy of it now. If one person decides to turn the other cheek, that gives you no right to hit them again. You don't like it, consult the Bible.
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  367. And they should believe the FBI over these randos. Why shouldn't they? Because you would rather believe these guys? That is not how facts work.
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  368. Because there's no actual evidence of any of this, just completely nonsense claims made by unreliable sources.
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  369. The majority of Americans voted for his opponent.
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  370. She has a more conservative voting record than most Republicans. It's the Trump supporters that are RINOs.
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  371.  @terrygain1343  Yeah, Republicans be crazy, uh? Nobody can survive a Republican primary who deserves to hold public office.
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  372.  @terrygain1343  One election, he lost the second one by several states and several million votes. He even lost the popular vote in the first election, so he's never actually be elected to anything by a majority of voters. Now sure, he has the majority of Republicans behind him, but that's not saying much. Also, Trump was never falsely accused of Russian collusion, he was only accused of collusion that his campaign actually committed. But that aside, I agree with you, it is political suicide for her to speak the truth in the party of lies.
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  373. Don't worry, just make sure to vote Democratic in the mid-terms and they won't be able to mess up anything.
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  374. Biden will blame himself for things he's done. This is not one of those.
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  375. @Abe Tsenoh Independents make up a relatively small portion of the voting electorate. It's not about voting for someone who is exactly like you, because everyone is different and if you got in someone exactly like you, then millions of other people wouldn't be getting someone exactly like them. The point with representative democracy is to elect people most likely to vote in your best interests, and whoever you happen to be, the answer to that would be the Democrats.
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  376. @Abe Tsenoh People who don't vote don't count. You've got to step onto the field to be relevant. It's ok that you don't support Trump or Biden, but the majority of Americans support one of the two. That's kind of my point, someone needs to fill these roles, and if you got someone who supported the policies you value, then they would not be supporting the policies that more Americans value. People who look at democracy and see that they aren't getting their own way 100% of the time and feel like that means it's broken don't understand that this is democracy working as it should. "I get what I want" is a policy that works perfectly well only for population sizes of no more than 1.
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  377. @Abe Tsenoh Ok, so find one and run him. If he's as popular as you seem to believe, he would win. The problem is, if 60% the country likes one policy, but half those people disagree vehemently with the other half about some other policy, then half of those people won't vote for a candidate with any stance at all on that second issue, which leaves that candidate with only 30% of the vote.
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  378. @Abe Tsenoh " Support for universal healthcare has above 80% approval, a majority even among republicans." Right, but a large chunk of those people are Republicans, and wouldn't vote for a Democrat who was promising to actually get Universal Healthcare done, and so they'll never have it. Until you can convince them to vote for a Democrat, their tacit approval of universal healthcare is completely toothless. Also, Biden lost Florida because Cuban Americans though he was "too socialist," even though he wasn't actually all that socialist. America has a definite anti-socialism bias that runs strong until the Cold War generation dies off. Until then, just vote for Democrats to keep moving that needle forward as fast it reasonably can in a divided country. "Candidates like Andrew Yang or Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard or Mike Gravel, can't garner widespread support despite their popular policy positions because of the DNC/RNC, " Nah, they just aren't that popular. They all got to the debates, they all had plenty of time to make their case to the American people, the American people did not want them. If any of them had actually gotten the nomination, they would have cost to Trump by about 55/40. Now, it's fair to argue that the two-party system isn't great, but it's not really the fault of either of those parties, it's the fault of the electoral system itself. First past the post systems make two parties almost inevitable. It won't be until after we have some sort of ranked choice voting system that a third party candidate would be even remotely viable, and even then there would still likely be two parties that win most of the time. "Even if a candidate with solid policies does build a massive grassroots campaign like Sanders did, they'll just toss the vote via black box voting machines like they did in the 2020 primaries, " Lol, ok, now you've lost all your credibility by going into SCP territory.
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  379. @Abe Tsenoh Exit polls are an inexact measurement,. They only catch a portion of the people voting in certain areas, not every voter in every area. This is why we have actual polls. If the exit polls and the actual polls to not match up, that is a flaw in the exit polls, not the actual polls.
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  380.  @kevinjackson1893  Yes, Republicans are making the future a bleaker place to live in, and anyone who is not worried about that is a fool.
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  381.  @kevinjackson1893  In what way do you believe it is not true?
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  382.  @kevinjackson1893  But you believing that what I said was untrue is really more a problem of your ignorance than it is with anything I said. I guess you need to do some research if you actually believe that what I said was not true.
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  383.  TFUSION  Are you saying that Kevin is, or that you are? It's hard to tell from your phrasing.
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  384. And the thousands of other Americans killed this year by US citizens.
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  385.  @wisdomrules8474  Joe Scarborough was in that clip, he was a Republican congressman from Florida. Also Michael Steele from Maryland, who was a former RNC head. Then there's Nicole Wallace, who ran John McCain's presidential campaign. I think there are others too, but those are the more significant ones.
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  386.  @js43168 In what way would this improve their ratings?
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  387.  @wisdomrules8474  Scarborough was elected by Republican to represent them in congress. Steele was the Republican nominee for governor before his party elected him to lead them. If these are "not Republicans" to you, then have you considered that your definition of "Republican" is flawed?
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  388.  @NewCreationRedeemed  It only took a few hours for Senate pages to read the bills out loud. The bill has been in a mostly complete form for several days now, giving Senators plenty of time to read the bill for themselves, or for Republicans senators to have a staffer read it to them. Reading the bill out loud on the Senate floor does not provide any useful function, nobody in "the world" actually sits there and listens to the whole thing, and if they do, God help them.
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  389. TL;DR, it's his money. That's never been a question.
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  390. Unfortunately, I don't think the Republicans are willing to clear out the rot. They could do it tomorrow if more of them would be willing to resign, but they prefer power to integrity, so they will need to be voted out.
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  391.  @morpheusjones4753  It probably would be in Biden's best interests to cut off all contact with Hunter, but unlike Trump, Biden actually loves his children. Those oin the right HATE family values.
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  392.  @lemme_phister  The difference being that the 91 charges have mountains of evidence to support them, while there is currently no evidence of wrongdoing on Biden's part.
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  393. @seraeggobutterworth5247 The reason the 14th starts with a due process clause is ONLY to ensure that this clause is applied to ALL US citizens (including the former slaves), where the original only applied to some of them. This is how laws often work, if something is currently in the law, and you want "the same thing, only slightly different," then you have to write that new version in, and the most recent version overrides the previous one. It does NOT mean that there is any "bonus due process" that applies to people in violation of the later 14th amendment clauses.
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  394. @seraeggobutterworth5247 Due process does apply in Trump's case, and he's received due process at every phase. I think what you mean is that you believe that a criminal conviction is necessary before the 14th can be applied so someone, and no, that has never been the case. Every person who has been rejected from a ballot due to the 14th amendment was someone who had not been convicted of a crime prior to that. It was never a factor. The "due process" under the 14th amendment is a case along the lines of the "Norma Anderson, et al. v. Jena Griswold" case we've already seen, and the subsequent appeals process. The 14th NOWHERE says that a person must be "convicted of the crime of insurrection," or anything of the sort. It ONLY says that the person must have violated their oaths of office, which is a determination left up to election officials and judges to make, not a criminal proceeding.
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  395.  @johngiesbers9811  Exactly, just as Donald Trump is disqualified by his violation of his oaths of office.
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  396. The laws in those states have specific rules as to when and how people can be added or removed from a ballot. Biden got out well before those ballots were finalized, Kennedy did not. It's not that complicated.
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  397.  @allsawitcoming1503  They are each public record, and you can look them up. Obviously you wouldn't expect me to do that for you.
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  398.  @Outlaw1103  By having a law that says when people can add or remove names from the ballot, and then enforcing that law fairly to all parties.
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  399. Taiwan was a part of the China that existed prior to 1949, but that china no longer exists and has no claims. The country called China that was formed during 1949 has no claims on Taiwan, which is an independent Republic. There are some Taiwanese who want to reunify with China, but they are in the minority. If and when there is Taiwanese support for a reunification, it can happen, but that has nothing to do with the mainland. If you live in Taiwan, but want to live in China, then your best bet is to move.
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  400.  @renegade7370  And yet, Taiwan has remained independent for longer than most people have been alive, so whether they signed a peace treaty is mostly a formality. Anyone trying to consider Taiwan "Chinese territory" is flat out ignoring the wishes of the people of Taiwan, why would anyone do that?
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  401.  @renegade7370  No, it is a fact that Taiwan has been independent since 1949. What was the last order that China gave them that they accepted? China refusing to agree that they are independent does not mean that they are not. This is also not a "both sides" issue. The only one at fault here is China, for failing to respect Taiwan's independence. Taiwan has done nothing to them.
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  402.  @renegade7370  I read what you said, you were just wrong. I can't help you with that.
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  403.  @user-zy9nd2ei2j  Independent Taiwan is that island off China's SE coast. It hasn't been under mainland control since the 1940s. That is what "independent" means, it means that when the mainland tells them to jump, they say "no thanks." If Texas were more like Taiwan, then it would be independent. It's not. China has zero say in the matter, they can "declare" whatever they want, that doesn't make it true.
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  404.  @mikejan6083  The fact remains that Taiwan has been independent since the 1940s though. If China tells them what to do, and they do not listen, then they are not a province of China. Sorry if this confuses you, but that's really your problem.
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  405.  @honeybeee20001961  No Christians support Trump, just people who claim they are.
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  406. TL;DR, because they did not have credible evidence that he was hiding more documents than he was providing, like they did in the Mar-A-Lago case. Without such credible evidence, they would be unable to get a warrant under the 4th amendment.
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  407.  @paulsheil6669  That's. . . not a thing.
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  408. The DoJ is on top of that. They will bring Trump's corrupt administration to justice, don't worry about it.
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  409. This is not Putin's Russia, we do not jail people for political reasons here.
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  410.  @Bobbysheresomewhere  Only a fool would think that there is a reason why, given that she has committed no crimes.
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  411. But that wouldn't be true, most of us are fine with stuff like this. It's just a sad little minority of people who can't get past it. Eventually they'll die off though, it's just a waiting game.
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  412. Biden has been held accountable, he was elected by a wider margin than in the 2016 election, and will be reelected by an even wider margin. That is holding him accountable for his actions.
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  413. Man, this imaginary administration would be such a garbage fire at all levels.
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  414. Pandering is Fox News's bread and butter, after all.
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  415.  @LB-zt1js  That's certainly possible, but at least they pander to people who want truth in journalism, rather than people who want happy little lies.
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  416.  @Heretic-007  Your delusions aren't truth. Fox News is on record as saying that they are an entertainment company, not a news company, and that they frequently lie to their viewers when the truth is not what they want to hear. If you want happy little lies that confirm your biases, Fox News is a safe space for you to hide from the world in. If you want to see the world as it actually exists, you would have to look elsewhere for that.
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  417. So any Republicans out there wondering where your relief check is, remember that it's always Republicans trying to keep it from you.
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  418.  Daniel Bea  Not on you though, so who cares?
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  419. Yup, the MAGA cult loves wallowing in their own waste. It only makes them happier. Good thing they are a minority party.
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  420. If voters were not financially illiterate, then they would understand why voting for Republicans is never in their interest.
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  421. Fortunately, they are still below 45% total, it it doesn't matter if they unify.
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  422. The Lord says "more gun control."
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  423.  @wrightstudiosllc  Yes, dead people and re-run ballots were not counted.
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  424. Everyone has contempt for Speaker Johnson.
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  425.  @InGODweTrust007  "The enemy of my enemy is my friend, even if that makes both of us trash."
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  426.  @InGODweTrust007 Who minds being questioned? I'd just like to hear a better quality of question. Also, who argued that censorship was a good thing? Your comments seem random and not at all in reference to anything I said.
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  427.  @InGODweTrust007 You're.
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  428. Further proof that he's a terrible businessman.
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  429.  @phillippac.7469  Fortunately, that's not how anything works. They are private businesses that can censor or not as they see fit, and also not publishers. If you are reading or posting on Facebook or Twitter, they decide whether they want to provide a platform for you or not. If you do not want to be subject to their rules, then you can read or post on a different platform.
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  430. And yet he's doing a better job of it than the last guy, so what was his excuse?
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  431. That's because Trump took more vacations. You're leaving out all the golfing he did on weekdays.
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  432. Only if Republicans hold it up, otherwise the impeachment efforts will be over within the week. It's something that needs to happen before American can move on. Trumpism needs to die so that American can live.
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  433.  @OHOHOHCOME  Why would I be the one angry that she couldn't tell the difference between his finger and his. . . other parts?
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  434.  @terrestrialradio  Bill Clinton was never found liable of that. His relationships were consensual.
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  435.  @terrihilder8217  The jury was deciding whether he had committed the crime or not. He couldn't be criminally charged because of the statue of limitations, but the results would be the same.
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  436.  @picktheblueone  So you don't understand how often women don't report these sorts of crimes for fear of exactly the sort of backlash she received.
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  437.  @terrihilder8217  So you're saying that even though he did it, he likely would have gotten off if it had been a criminal trial?
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  438.  @OHOHOHCOME  I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed. Idiocaracy came early.
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  439.  @terrihilder8217  Trump refused to provide DNA to test against until after the deadline. That is why.
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  440.  @dennisferguson9129  Ok. The US produces more oil today than it did while Trump was in office.
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  441.  @Marbeem444new  A jury disagreed with you. They found her allegations credible.
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  442.  @Marbeem444new  You believe him, that's really more of a "you" problem than anything. The jury believed the evidence against him.
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  443.  @Marbeem444new  Real victims brag about getting justice for the crimes against them all the time. Where have you been?
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  444. Lol, Rand Paul, RAND PAUL, is talking about Fauci making this personal? Rand's done nothing but lie about Fauci for the past two years! What a buffoon.
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  445.  Laurie Sarno  Trump on the Charlotteville protesters: ""you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides."" He's been very clear that he appreciates the support that white supremacists give him. He's also frequently added fuel to birtherism conspiracies against both Obama and Harris.
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  446.  @AverageBrethren  Nobody ever claimed you were a white supremacist, only that Trump appreciates his white supremacist and they make up most of his base.
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  447.  @rxz1  Really stuck it to me with that one.
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  448.  @AverageBrethren  It's true though. Most of his base IS white supremacists. If they weren't white supremacists, they would have no reason to support him, because he's just awful in all other aspects.
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  449. This is what they're talking about in the Faux News bubble instead of about Trump's indictment? Sad.
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  450. Obama was the one that told Joe to remove that guy, it was in US interests to do so, since he was a Russian agent. Joe was just following orders, as a VP should.
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  451. Nah, this is just a Wednesday. We've given up on stopping school shootings.
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  452.  @johnchristman750  No, that's not what I meant at all. "Disregarding the constitution" is a thing that Republicans do. All they know how to do with a constitution is wave their little copy of it around without ever reading it.
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  453. Unfortunately, he's term limited.
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  454. And yet Florida is a viral cesspit because of DeSantis's complete mismanagement. He's put "doing business" over lives.
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  455.  @agsdjklshadsabn  Better than the alternative, at least.
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  456.  @agsdjklshadsabn  The world had just as many problems back then, and would have just as many problems now, plus new problems related to having Trump in charge. You just don't appreciate how many problems Biden has solved for you.
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  457.  @acorn8170  The alternative was a joke to these guys and they rolled all over him. They just weren't threatened by him because they knew he was always in their pocket.
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  458.  @agsdjklshadsabn  I think you don't understand that time moves forward in a straight line, and that events take place regardless of who the President is at the time. No year will be identical to any other year.
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  459.  @agsdjklshadsabn  Ok, explain to me how the President would be directly responsible for any particular thing that is "going wrong" right now. The way I see it, all the bad stuff was coming regardless of who the President was, and if anything, he's only improved conditions. Also, the invasion of Ukraine had nothing to do with the US, that was entirely on Russia.
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  460. Only the doctors who lied about it. And they deserved it.
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  461. They wish.
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  462.  @timpaull9340  300.
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  463. The government is protecting all of us from a few backwards idiots that want to overthrow the government that WE elected. The government has nothing to fear from everyone else, these troops have nothing to do with the normal American who will be at home on inauguration day.
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  464.  @seanstinchfield-mp2xm  There have been mail-in ballots in every election since the Civil War.
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  465.  @toma6838  All the claimed "extra votes WERE accounted for. There were no actual extra votes, just wishful thinking by a losing party.
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  466. They don't think it will fix everything, but they do think it will fix some of the problems people are having. That is why there are many other components to the relief bill that work to fix various other Covid-related problems, and the door is open to additional bills if that is insufficient. It's like the CARES act last year, that was never intended to be a permanent fix, it was intended as a short term boost to keep people afloat, with the intention of passing several more similar bills over the course of 2020. It was only the Republicans in the Senate that kept future bills from moving forward.
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  467. This is why we need guns to be illegal. People think they are the "good guy with the gun", when really all they are is murdering people. If guns had been illegal, neither of these two would be dead OR in prison.
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  468. America's debt isn't currently a problem though, Israel is, at the moment.
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  469. Wow, Fox, you're easily triggered. He's right though, the strain that infected New York and the rest of the East Coast/South came from European visitors, not Chinese ones. If we're going to single out the place we got it from, that would be Europe.
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  470.  rockn roll  There were some cases on the west coast, but the way viruses work is they don't just grow evenly, they spread from points of contact, so the more points of contact, the quicker is spreads. We know based on DNA sampling that the outbreaks on the East Coast came through Europe, so if Europe had never gotten it, or those infected people had never come to America, the US still would have had outbreaks, but the spring ones would mostly have been on the West Coast, and outbreaks in the eastern states would have happened later, and perhaps been more manageable because there would have been more time to prepare for them. I don't blame Europe, a virus is a virus, I just think it's silly to "localize" a pandemic in the first place.
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  471.  rockn roll  Quite possible, or a European on business/vacation. Realistically it was probably dozens of people, given how quickly it spiked in NYC. Either way I don't blame the people who brought it one bit, they were probably asymptomatic and would have no way of knowing. This was a federal response issue, not the fault of any individuals just going about their lives.
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  472.  Chase Parrish  If each citizen got 1 million, that would be 325 trillion dollars, which would be 150 times as expensive as this current bill.
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  473.  @godschild9329  And if you need help catching up to the evil in this world, we can continue this conversation. It sounds like you probably do.
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  474.  @bobgriffith1810  Read the bill, all of it is covid relief. Stop listening to the fake news in your head.
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  475.  @kdiddy1310  Lol, yes! You sound exactly like one of those Trumper idiots!
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  476.  @coreyb9240  Did you read the bill? Which portions of it do you believe won't help Americans? Do you believe that the child tax credits won't help? That the payments to state and local governments won't help? That the vaccine funding won't help?
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  477.  Sensei Tony  Well how can I ever recover from that burn?
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  478.  @sofa_sith_lord6772  Helping other countries is taking care of our own, because we all share resources. This bill spends 99% of its resources purely within the US, what harm is there in spending a little money to help out our neighbors too? At what point is America "good enough" that you think a little charity would be justifiable?
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  479.  @howardwoods342  You said "Democrats," but then went on to perfectly describe Republicans. Perhaps you just have the two parties confused? If not, you're even more confused than that.
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  480.  @letstalk.2020  The omnibus spending bill was something else entirely. This bill is the covid relief bill, and it is all about fixing problems caused by the pandemic.
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  481.  Hook ‘Em  There isn't. Why do you think there is? Who is lying to you?
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  482.  @talache7  That's why we need to be more careful in how we distribute foreign aid, it does not mean we should not be distributing it at all.
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  483.  Hook ‘Em  Only 1% of the money is going overseas. We can afford that.
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  484.  @zs9458  Again, staying there is not an option, they would die. If you want them to stay there, then first their country needs to be made stable, and THEN we can worry about them "staying there to improve things."
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  485.  @talache7  It's all important stuff. I don't see the point of trying to figure out whether school funding or child food subsidies would be "more important," it all needs doing.
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  486.  @letstalk.2020  Yes, but this bill is NOT an omnibus bill. Failing to pass this one would not lead to a government shutdown, it would just not lead to the American people getting the covid relief that they need.
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  487.  @Texan3030  0% goes to Hunter or the Big Guy.
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  488.  @letstalk.2020  You're sort of conflating terms here then. There are bills that are "must pass," that without passing them there is either a government shut-down, or the military gets defunded, or something like that. This is not that, there are no such strings in this bill, and if it fails to pass, there just wouldn't be covid relief that Americans need. If you don't want there to be covid relief, like the Republicans, then you can just not vote for it.
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  489.  Hook ‘Em  California gets a lot more for their spending than Texas does. Their power doesn't go out in a stiff breeze, for one thing.
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  490.  @whatsgoodmyguy4391  Beyond a certain point, people aren't the best way to spend money. There are important services that need to be funded.
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  491.  @whatsgoodmyguy4391  You didn't get to skip paying taxes, but because so many individuals were out of work, made less money, or lot entire businesses last year, total tax revenues were down massively, so the federal government needs to help make up the difference.
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  492.  Hook ‘Em  No states kept their schools closed last year. A lot of school systems kept in person schools closed, but that does not mean that their expenses dropped considerably. They still had to pay for the teachers, they still had to pay upkeep on the buildings (whether they were using them or not), etc. Overall cost of schools was up significantly over a normal year, and at the same time tax revenues were way lower, so the funding that would pay for a normal year just wasn't there. That's why added funding is needed.
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  493.  @whatsgoodmyguy4391  Out of curiosity, what do you believe the government gets out of "having money they aren't spending?" Like why do you believe that New Jersey would want to accumulate $1b that they aren't spending? What would they get out of just having it, sitting there?
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  494.  @lotwizzard1748  No, I'm very informed, which is why I know that a lot of what people are saying in this thread is complete nonsense that they probably got off of right-wing "news."
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  495.  @tammiea8552  "why do we have to pay foreign aid to countries so people would "stay"?" Because otherwise they will come here. I thought Republicans didn't want that.
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  496.  @dehydratedwater4803  " Giving our taxpayers money to foreign governments helps no one but those politicians." It really depends on how the programs are run. If it's just throwing money at their government and hoping for the best? Yeah, it's likely to be misused. If it's a specific program to address specific issues? It can have a massive positive impact.
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  497.  @inthefar-queue6270  You're projecting. The Republicans' efforts are to "keep Republicans in power, in any way or means possible, "legal" or "illegal"." The Democrats are only trying to defend our constitutional republic from their efforts to do so.
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  498. Clearly this will never stop Fox from going to him for legal hot takes. He's team Trump after all.
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  499. The MLB: "Oh no! . . . so anyway. . . ."
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  500.  @samename3926  This was before social media. Do you doubt that she did?
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  501. So long as they are eligible under the US constitution, yes, which is the point of this matter.
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  502. Trump is currently running for president, and he is encouraging House Republicans to not fix the border, so yes, it IS Trump's fault, objectively.
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  503. That would be acting against the American people. It would be treason.
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  504. Because this is not evidence, it is only hearsay, which is not admissible in court. No actual evidence exists, since no crime took place.
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  505.  @johnchristman750  In what way?
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  506. I doubt that. I think he just cares for the millions of other people living in this country who are called that, who never killed anyone.
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  507.  @user-ef3nu1eh7z  I don't think it would be accurate to claim that the police lean toward the accused just because they follow the Constitution. If the police don't do their job and treat the suspects properly, then the case might get dismissed. We live in a nation of laws, and the agents of that state have to follow those laws. Otherwise we just have thugs.
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  508.  @user-ef3nu1eh7z  I don't think it would be accurate to claim that the police lean toward the accused just because they follow the Constitution. If the police don't do their job and treat the suspects properly, then the case might get dismissed. We live in a nation of laws, and the agents of that state have to follow those laws.
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  509.  @johnhoran9840  The terms you use to discuss people does matter though. It's like how Trump supporters don't seem to like being called "White Nationalists."
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  510.  @Moonlighting-y1p Nobody said that there was anything wrong with being a white patriot, any more than there's anything wrong with being an immigrant.
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  511.  @Moonlighting-y1p  And similarly it would be an issue if the white patriot was also a white nationalist.
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  512. The attacks on her come from the right, not the left. The left attackes her husband.
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  513.  @dsquared341  But Trump was the Republican president, and the GOP still support him unquestioningly to this day. "That was only Trump" would only be a valid argument if the rest of the Republicans rejected him. Currently Trump IS the GOP.
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  514. Can you imagine what a terrible life you'd have to lead to be in any way positive about making the case that the President can do anything he wants and it shouldn't be grounds for removal from office?
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  515. The people convicted of voting multiple times were all Trump voters.
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  516. The Florida red wave is a sign that they are behind. If they were truly great, their water would be blue.
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  517. It's a trip wire designed to prevent Trump from attacking witnesses, which no defendant has a legal right to do. It would only be a "tripwire" if Trump is too immature to control his own mouth. Are you saying he's mentally unfit?
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  518. Biden was under orders from the Obama White House to get that prosecutor replaced because he was a corrupt Russian agent. It was not Joe Biden's call.
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  519. None of the above, there is no good in the GOP at the moment. Just wait for the general to vote for Biden.
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  520. Can't fight stupid.
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  521. That question was already asked and answered years ago. The prosecutor in question was a corrupt Russian agent, and the Obama White house wanted him to be removed to get Ukraine back on track as a free and fair democratic country. Joe was just following orders when he did so.
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  522. I think he only blames Trump because Trump is actively preventing the border problems from being solved. To be fair, that does make the border crisis Trump's fault.
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  523.  @Balnisgoofyaf  You act like Trump has completely vanished or something. He still exists, he still has control over the Republican party, and the Republican party currently controls the House of Representatives. Their balls are kept in his pocket. So it's impossible for anything significant to change on the border if Donald Trump is telling his minions to refuse any progress on the border, which is what he has done. This has nothing to do with who is president at the time, if you want the border situation solved, the ONLY way to achieve that is to vote out these cowards and replace them with Democrats.
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  524.  @Balnisgoofyaf  You act like Trump has completely vanished or something. He still exists, he still has control over the Republican party, and the Republican party currently controls the House of Representatives. Their balls are kept in his pocket. So it's impossible for anything significant to change on the border if Donald Trump is telling his minions to refuse any progress on the border, which is what he has done.
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  525. ​ @Balnisgoofyaf  You act like Trump has completely vanished or something. He still exists, he still has control over the Republican party, and the Republican party currently controls the House of Representatives. It's impossible for anything significant to change on the border if Donald Trump is telling his minions to refuse any progress on the border, which is what he has done. This has nothing to do with who is president at the time, if you want the border situation solved, the ONLY way to achieve that is to vote out these cowards and replace them with Democrats.
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  526. ​ @Balnisgoofyaf  You act like Trump has completely vanished or something. He still exists, he still has control over the Republican party, and the Republican party currently controls the House of Representatives. If you want the border situation solved, the ONLY way to achieve that is to vote out these cowards and replace them with Democrats.
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  527. You act like Trump has completely vanished or something. He still exists, he still has control over the Republican party, and the Republican party currently controls the House of Representatives. Their balls are kept in his pocket. So it's impossible for anything significant to change on the border if Donald Trump is telling his minions to refuse any progress on the border, which is what he has done. This has nothing to do with who is president at the time, if you want the border situation solved, the ONLY way to achieve that is to vote out these cowards and replace them with Democrats.
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  528. ​ @Balnisgoofyaf  You act like Trump has completely vanished or something. He still exists, he still has control over the Republican party, and the Republican party currently controls the House of Representatives.
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  529. ​ @Balnisgoofyaf  Trump still exists, he still has control over the Republican party, and the Republican party currently controls the House of Representatives. Their balls are kept in his pocket. So it's impossible for anything significant to change on the border if Donald Trump is telling his minions to refuse any progress on the border, which is what he has done. This has nothing to do with who is president at the time, if you want the border situation solved, the ONLY way to achieve that is to vote out these cowards and replace them with Democrats.
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  530. @SarahLaidlaw-ns6co Trump still exists, he still has control over the Republican party, and the Republican party currently controls the House of Representatives.
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  531. ​ @SarahLaidlaw-ns6co You act like Trump has completely vanished or something. He still exists, he still has influence over the Republican party, and the Republican party currently heads the House of Representatives.
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  532.  @Balnisgoofyaf  So it's impossible for anything significant to change on the border if Donald Trump is telling his minions to refuse any progress on the border, which is what he has done. This has nothing to do with who is president at the time, if you want the border situation solved, the ONLY way to achieve that is to vote out these cowards and replace them with Democrats.
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  533.  @Balnisgoofyaf  Fox News' word filters prevent me from telling you how wrong you are, but you know that already.
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  534. You act like Trump has completely vanished or something. He still exists, he still has control over the Republican party, and the Republican party currently controls the House of Representatives. Their balls are kept in his pocket. So it's impossible for anything significant to change on the border if Donald Trump is telling his minions to refuse any progress on the border, which is what he has done. This has nothing to do with who is president at the time, if you want the border situation solved, the ONLY way to achieve that is to vote out these cowards and replace them with Democrats.
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  535. That's what you get for being a wolf in a pack of sheep. Learn to "baaaa" like the rest of them.
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  536. The only states where Republicans picked up seats were the ones that DID have election rigging. In the fair elections, they lost, as it should be.
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  537. It wouldn't help.
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  538.  @opossumsrawesome6860  The facts don't care about your feelings. It would not help.
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  539. Why do Republicans seem to think that indicting people from crimes they did is "wrong," while at the same time there is now an entire House committee built around investigating "crimes" that are entirely made up?
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  540. The Washington Examiner is not a valid news source.
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  541. It's not a law, since it doesn't have the votes to pass. It's just a wish list intended to distract stupid people.
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  542. Biden only has to be better than the competition, which he obviously is. Don't compare him to the Allmighty, compare him to the alternative. Obama's term limited.
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  543. They probably can't be prosecuted, since the administration dismantled the whistleblower channels, and they would have the legal right to blow the whistle in cases like this.
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  544. Thoughts and prayers and gun control to prevent the next one.
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  545.  @opossumsrawesome6860  It wasn't a lack of guns that caused those harms, it was "make Russia great again."
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  546. Of course there would be, because the people who didn't vote for him are fricking lunatics. Did you somehow miss the news last week when they invaded the Capitol Building?
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  547. Better to have liberals jumping the gun than conservatives jumping to guns.
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  548.  @Timewave-Zer0  And then liberals corrected themselves when new information came to light. What's conservatives' excuse?
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  549. He never even read the ones he got while President, and post-president the only use he could have for them is selling the intel off to Russia.
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  550. But Trump is PROMISING to politically persecute and abuse power in our justice system if elected. Why would you think he would improve anything when he promises to make it much, much worse?
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  551. It used to mean something either way, but Republicans are determined to debase the process, just as they have about every part of the Constitution.
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  552.  @fallenkeith5885  Well, Republicans do, because they want to dilute the crimes of their Dear Leader, and make them seem like "just what anyone would do," rather than a unique blemish on American history.
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  553.  @cannonfodder4812  There were several crimes mentioned in Trump's impeachments. Were you not paying attention?
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  554.  @cassthompson3386  Can you explain why you believe my responses are "confused?"
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  555. Man, this comment sure didn't age well after the 2020 election. But you were right, after leaving office all his various crimes came to light and are now under indictment.
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  556.  @sharischultz24  The impeachments already concluded years ago. The Republicans refused to convict for political reasons.
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  557.  @YankeeDoodle2  Sexual assault.
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  558. Lol, Republicans will NEVER care about the American people as much as they do "owning the libs." They are entirely a grievance-based party, not a governing party.
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  559.  @ericeandco  Not really, by and large the Democrats are much more ethical than the Republicans, especially when it comes to doing their jobs. There are exceptions, of course, just fewer of them than with the Republicans, and taken more seriously by the Democrats.
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  560. He's outing himself as the threat within? This comes to the shock of no one.
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  561.  @flowergirl-pp7vz  And that is a threat to everyone on this globe. Or in orbit, I guess.
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  562. If Republicans really wanted to get rid of Obamacare, it would be easy to do. Pass something better. As soon as some better version of it was on the books, it would automatically replace Obamacare. Instead, all they've ever attempted was to REMOVE medical care for tens of millions of Americans.
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  563.  @tsim4139  Yes, Republicans tell you that government is broken, so people elect them, and then they break government. Meanwhile, government when run by Democrats actually works for the people, as the founders intended.
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  564. If Graham held to his own word, then this wouldn't even be an issue because he wouldn't even be holding a vote for another few months. But he is a liar, so here we are.
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  565. When was she ever in it? All she ever was was the person that Republicans could point to and say "I'm not a Republican, they're awful, I'm an independent, I like Tulsi Gabbard." Anyone who ever supported Tulsi was a Republican all along.
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  566.  @opossumsrawesome6860  Oh, no, I'm not maga.
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  567.  @Salmon-2324  No, again, I'm not maga. Why do you keep implying that I'm maga?
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  568. Lol.
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  569. Clown car Kevin's House gonna clown. Anyway, did you guys see Bret Baier OWN Donald Trump the other night? He basically built Jack Smith's entire case for him and sent it over with a bow on.
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  570.  @dingus6317  Yes, something you won't often encounter in the Faux News bubble, I know. Don't worry, it's not as scary out in the real world as they want you to believe.
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  571.  @jerelwright1665  Yup, MAGA in a nutshell.
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  572.  @Tonezno  You missed the point entirely, like Dear Leader.
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  573.  @TheLuigiSwag  Exactly.
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  574.  @ryanruffer9961  Trump does that plenty well himself. He doesn't need help.
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  575.  @lockwoodpeckinpaugh9252  They expect Biden to be as corrupt as their guy, and are constantly flabbergasted when he just isn't.
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  576. That's not what a show trial is. This was just a normal trial. Announcing a candidacy for public office does not make you immune from the justice system.
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  577. This assumes the Trump administration has balls in the first place.
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  578. Exactly, they were never our friends in the first place. This is nothing new.
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  579.  @shakespeare127  They're typically presented live.
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  580.  @patriciamccutcheon3357  Oh, no, I'm not a red hat myself.
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  581.  @patriciamccutcheon3357  You watch too much Faux News, apparently.
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  582.  @seveglider8406  His supporters don't care.
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  583.  @patriciamccutcheon3357  I don't know, either too smart or too moral to just go along with the red hats like a good little sheep.
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  584.  @nonhatespeech  They couldn't do so without it being public knowledge. People have clocks.
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  585. Lol, while you guys are covering this, the other networks are covering how the Catholic Church abused 2000 kids. I guess this really is the "pro-groomer" channel.
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  586.  @s3v3n3  That's because "the topic at hand" is silly, and grooming is a serious topic. But then, Fox News and their regular viewers always take the sides of groomers.
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  587. A few thousand more like that and he might catch up to Donald Trump.
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  588.  @jeromyzwiers1452  Lol, no, I'm no MAGA member!
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  589.  @tomhenderson7972  Where was Gutfield four years ago when things were SO much worse in the White House?
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  590.  @tomhenderson7972  Exactly. So why do people keep bringing them up?
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  591.  @jerroldrieger5345  I think it is a major problem on the right, misunderstanding how "evidentiary processes" work. They're constantly declaring opinions as facts, and imaginations as "proof," while at the same time dismissing actual evidence of wrongdoing within their own party.
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  592. Loll Republicans are panicking because they know how disastrous it would be if Trump got a second term, but are too cowardly to say it out loud. :D
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  593. Cool, Biden voters.
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  594.  @G_GO0NO  You can't do gun control on a city level, it would need to be national to have any significant effect.
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  595.  @derrickmonares3865  Most criminals either buy their guns legally or they buy/steal them off of people who bought them legally. If you remove the legal guns, then almost no criminals would be able to get guns.
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  596.  @iColHax  "Assault weapons" is the term used for weapons designed around military applications, even if modified for civilian sale. I think you're talking about "automatic weapons," which would be something else.
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  597.  @derekturner3272  How about Japan? I'd love a free ticket to Japan. You do make a good point though, the problem with all of those countries is the same, it has nothing to do with civilian firearms, and it has to do with those countries embracing the "make [country] great again" mindset, and ruin following.
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  598.  @derrickmonares3865  Since most criminals acquire their guns through legal channels or second hand, removing access to those legal channels would also prevent the criminals from getting guns.
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  599. And still the House Weaponizing Government Committee has ZERO implicating the President. The only one lying here is Hannity, when he claims that Joe Biden had anything to do with it. Hunter was obviously playing off his father's position, but his father never had anything to do with it. Constantly claiming otherwise will never fool anyone with half a brain.
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  600. Whaaaaaa? Reeeeallly? . . Noooooo. I am shocked!
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  601. You've been listening to too many Russian bots if you believe that.
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  602.  @DM-sy4hg  Also, there are plenty of great things about the Biden presidency, he's kept inflation down, for one thing. That you don't seem to already know this indicates that you tend to watch a lot of Faux News, and have fallen for their lies about his job performance.
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  603.  @DM-sy4hg  Why do you believe I'm not good at voting? I've voted successfully in every election for twenty+ years now, and I haven't once accidentally hit the "R" button. How many people can claim the same?
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  604.  @DM-sy4hg  If you believe that Biden has been doing terribly, then you have been misinformed as to the causes of whatever hardships you face in life. Just understand that whatever you are experiencing right now would have been much, much worse if Republicans had controlled any part of the government over the past two years.
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  605.  @DM-sy4hg  Why?
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  606.  @bigp2930  If you're happy being lied to, then that's your own business.
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  607.  @Newsongsingingal  It's sad that you believe this.
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  608. They already have been found accountable. That's what the election was about, finding them accountable. It just turns out that they haven't done anything bad. Now what we need to be focused on is holding Donald Trump accountable for his various criminal activities.
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  609. The dam border Is closed. Always has been. That's why there's still water in Lake Mead.
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  610.  @urmantaqi3253  He definitely is!
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  611. The only thing that McCarthy cares about is power. He would sacrifice a baby on an alter if it would keep him in the Speaker role.
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  612.  @jholeify  No, not them either.
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  613.  @jholeify  Yes, but after they look into it themselves, they should come to the decision that it would be a bad idea, because that would be accurate. You are making them sound like white nationalists or something. That would not be a selling point in America.
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  614.  @DoSe420  That's not what's been happening here though.
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  615.  @criptard  "Both sides"ism only rewards the worst actors. Rewards the Democrats for being better, then push for them to improve too.
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  616.  @insanefun1  I prefer to do all my own thinking, which is what sets me apart from MAGA.
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  617.  @insanefun1  The border was and remains secure. Nobody crosses it without being caught and processed. I think some people misunderstand "secure" to mean "nobody ever crosses it," which has never been the case.
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  618.  @lorimenshew2033  None of that made sense.
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  619.  @Gearhead409  You're projecting. . .
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  620.  @melgillham462  When do you believe he said that? Do you believe that it reflects well on your own mental capacities that you believe that happened?
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  621.  @carolbatchelder1  No, my opinions are my own, based on an accurate understanding of the facts. If I wanted opinions fed to me, I'd watch Faux News.
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  622.  @asdfasdfasdf4746  Because she has a history of showing nudes of him around, and nobody has to put up with that.
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  623.  @genesispuredeaf2390  After Jim Jordan.
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  624.  @genesispuredeaf2390  1. In the current House? Of course not, because they are hypocrites. I'm only pointing out that they would need to charge him first if they didn't want to be hypocrites. 2. No, it's not a defense, the defense is that there is no justification for the contempt charge, given that he has made clear that he is willing to appear before the committee, just not in a closed session in which they are likely to doctor his responses to suit their base's desires. and I also know why the charges were not brought up against Jordan, because Democrats are better than Republicans. You know that too, which is why you seethe all the time.
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  625. This is a constitutional republic, the constitution disagrees with you.
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  626. Faux News WILL NOT STAND for having their viewers returned to reality. It's Narnia or nothing!!!!
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  627.  @deekang6244  Pride flag, yes, Hammurabi code, yes, Quran, no.
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  628.  @repentjesusiscomingsoon1529  That's what they've been saying for two thousand years now. What are the odds that now is when they're right? Don't get so full of yourself.
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  629.  @paulettechatman4604  Trump believes in nothing other than Trump.
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  630.  @franksaldana6570  And requiring that the words "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" be printed in a government facility IS establishing and promoting that religion.
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  631.  @EricCartman915  Yes, although you couldn't pass a law requiring that it be placed in schools.
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  632.  @EricCartman915  I'm not arguing that we should.
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  633. TL;DR, because she's always been a right-wing grifter, even while trying to siphon votes from actual Democrats.
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  634. So. . . nothing. "A guy left the FBI a crank call, and there was nothing to it." Isn't that what we've been saying for months now? Also, why is Faux News reporting this as if these claims have merit? Do they think that little of their audience's intelligence?
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  635. He's not the most popular, that was Obama, Biden's just the one who's gotten the most votes in history. But he also had the most votes against him, and those people are NUTS. They just committed insurrection to prevent his election from being certified, it's no stretch to believe they'd do something crazy at the actual inauguration too. It's sad times we're living in, but this is an appropriate response.
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  636. All he wants in a VP is comfortable lips.
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  637.  @tommas2674  Well I never! I literally never.
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  638.  @androsc1418  Not the one Trump has a rally in in New Jersey, that one only held 20K people, and only reached about 30% capacity. Sad.
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  639. Surprised Pikachu face How did anyone expect this to end? It was a dead-ended witch hunt from start to finish.
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  640. New York is already in a much better place than most of the states in the US right now, especially the ones with Republican governors like Georgia and Florida.
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  641.  @HashiAkitaPuppy  New York got hit first, when we really didn't know much about what was going on. They acted, they flattened the curve, and their rates today are far lower than in most parts of the country. Florida has no such excuses, their outbreaks came much later in the process as a result of them rushing to reopen when we knew that would not be a good idea, and they are only continuing to climb. Your argument is like those people early in this virus that were saying "it's no worse than the flu" because they were only comparing the results of the first couple months to an entire flu season's worth of deaths and pretending it would not get worse. It got worse. New York had bad initial outcomes because they got hit early, if they hadn't had their first major outbreaks until the summer, like in many red states, they likely would have only had a few thousand total cases.
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  642. Well, the state department didn't allow it to happen, because it did not actually happen. It exists only in the fever dreams of Faux News hosts and their sheep.
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  643. They get paid medical leave.
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  644.  @johninflorida8634  Waiting period for what?
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  645.  @johninflorida8634  He's not "scamming," he's taking care of his medical condition, which is what all people should do.
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  646.  @zappa1723  Anyone who says that are a "former Democrat" in 2023 means that they were pissed off that Democrats put the Civil Rights Act into law and joined the other dixiecrats in flipping to the Republicans. If you aren't a Democrat today, then you were just never a very good person to begin with.
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  647. What is this obsession with "visiting the border?" Does anyone think that accomplishes anything? We spend hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to fly staff over there, they wander around, say "yep, that's a border alright," and then fly home? So what? All the important work on the border can be done just fine from Washington, or at most by sending a trusted aide to check into things, much more affordable than sending a VIP. I think that if she does go, they should call up the President of Mexico, and have him head to some nice place on the other side of the border. Then bring a few official border checkpoint guards, whatever they need to make this officially within the rules, and go to just on the other wide of one of Trump's impenetrable border walls. Then Harris should climb over the wall (again, with an official border check involved), and have a state meeting with the Mexican President over various border issues, then when they finish, she climbs back over and flies home. I bet their President would love the idea.
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  648. What would that accomplish? She's the one that passed a stimulus bill. The one that needs removing is Mitch McConnell, which wouldn't even put it up for a vote in the Senate.
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  649.  @williammorris4327  The money in the Democrats' bill was necessary for carryign the country through this period, not "pork barrel."Yes, we do have trillions in debt due tot eh Trump/McConnell tax cuts, but this is the most important role of government, to spend money during economic recessions, and then to tighten the belt during periods of economic surplus. The Trump administration squandered that role, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't take the necessary steps to carry this country past Covid.
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  650.  @williammorris4327  I don't think you understand how the national debt works. The debt rose during Obama's term due to two things, the ongoing effects of the Bush era tax cuts, which put us on a deficit trend after Clinton's surplusses, and then necessary stimulus to offset the Bush economic collapse.Had he not spent that money, we would still be in a massive recession today. That is the responsible thing to do during a significant economic downturn, as it is the responsible thing to do this year. What was NOT responsible was what Trump did during his first term, which was to inherit Obama's rising economy, and decide to cut a massive tax cut to the extremely wealthy, paid for on the backs of the middle class, when the responsible play would have been to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay down the deficit. Basically, he ran up the nation's credit card when we had money to pay it off, so that now, when we need to be putting money on the credit card to cover necessary expenses, we already have this huge balance. It's still better to keep running up that card than to do nothing though, unfortunately.
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  651. Well, hopefully not that many Jan 6thers will try to run for office after having violated their oaths to the Constitution. I don't see how it could be a major problem.
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  652.  @garyK.45ACP  It would be sad if the Supreme Court ruled against Colorado, since it would make clear that they put partisanship over the Constitution, like most Republicans.
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  653. Good, accountability is important. Unlikely Trump's attempts to "punish" Obama-era officials, this will only apply to Trump-era officials who actually committed crimes and broke existing regulations.
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  654.  @MyITRcom  It applies in this case, legacy media covers actual news, so legacy media covering something generally means that it is an irrelevant story. At the very least it would not imply that the story does matter.
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  655.  @FishFace1776-mi7ce  Praise both of them, like Biden 2024!
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  656. Nothing in the 14th involves anyone being tried or convicted of anything. Trump's convictions will come later, but are not relevant to this process. Trump was removed from the ballot because he violated his oaths of office.
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  657.  @DieFlabbergast  Trump did a lot more than "behaving recklessly" though. You need to catch up with all his other indictments. I think you misunderstand the point of the Jan 6th riots. It was NEVER that they posed some sort of military threat to the US government, obviously they could be wiped out effortlessly if it came to that, and yes, some of them fully intended to take members of congress hostage and cause other harms to them individually, and that would be tragic, but not particularly a threat to the nation itself. But the actual harm of the Jan 6th riots were that they were a DISTRACTION from the ACTUAL insurrection attempt taking place. The ACTUAL insurrection attempt was to delay the certification of Biden as President, and to present a false slate of electors as an alternative, to lay enough confusion that the congress could refuse to certify Biden, and throw the question back to the House, which would then elect Trump as president. THAT was the insurrection they were attempting. The purpose of the crowd was just to create enough confusion that they could get away with their primary goals, similar to staging a riot outside of a bank so that you can clear out the vaults in the chaos.
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  658.  @JB69.  There is no need for a conviction or even an indictment under the 14th amendment, it is up to the determination of judges. The "trial" in this case was the exact trial we are currently discussing, "Norma Anderson, et al. v. Jena Griswold," that WAS the due process under a 14th amendment complaint.
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  659. People care about preventing the next one.
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  660. Well, four Proud Boys who tried that just got convicted of Seditious Conspiracy, as the Founders intended. The People were fed up with their insurrectionist nonsense.
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  661. Let's watch Republicans vote it down again because they prefer to run on chaos.
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  662. Spoilers: He clearly did need the history lesson.
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  663.  @donaldpate1863  All businesses! Boycott everything! Eat bugs and sleep in the woods!
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  664.  @FREEMAN....  They are not targeting the Christ, they are targeting the Catholic church, which is a body of humans, not God, and which have been responsible for numerous perversions.
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  665.  @FREEMAN....  Again, no, they are not targeting Christ through His servants, they are targeting those who takes Christ's name in vain, who abuse His authority to commit sins on the Earth, like the thousands of cases of child abuse by the Catholic church currently under investigation in Illinois.
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  666.  @jmjorapronobis1328  If it were Christ's church, they would be abusing far fewer children. Unless you're arguing that Jesus is a groomer.
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  667.  @jmjorapronobis1328  And that's what these "nuns" are protesting, the abuses of the human sinners within the Catholic church.
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  668. So. . . they looked to see IF the Clintons' names were in his phone? Why are you not reporting this as "nothing of value was found?" You make it sound like this was news.
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  669. Anyone who thinks Joe Biden lies more often than his opponent is a poor judge of character.
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  670.  @lorimenshew2033  Joe Biden is far more religious than the previous guy, but being religious does not mean forcing your own beliefs onto others. Joe Biden goes to church and prays regularly, but he does not insist that others do so. The US Constitution has a firm separation between church and state.
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  671.  @kwick8693  Memories are short. We'll have to right like hell to keep Georgia in Democratic hands over the next election cycles. The Democratic base will trend towards apathy when it's not an actual full blown crisis on their doorsteps.
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  672.  @gymsjimsgems  "Curious," sure. . .
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  673. Yes, remember, she could not tell whether he used his finger or his other thing. Whatever it was, it was too small to tell the difference.
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  674.  @terrihilder8217  What's your point? She got justice eventually.
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  675.  @terrihilder8217  Exactly. Guilty.
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  676.  @terrihilder8217  Yup, found liable of sexual assault. Justice.
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  677.  @terrihilder8217  Exactly, That's how it works. She got her justice when he got his.
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  678. No, they blame Trump for what Trump does. Trump hates being held accountable for his actions.
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  679.  @tonygonzales9147  Attack on Titan, apparently.
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  680.  @hymns4ever197  That depends, do you watch Faux News?
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  681.  @robertkroberjr.157  Yup, Trump wasted a lot of money on that rust pile.
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  682.  @clarkw4028  I haven't said anything that was untrue. Nobody lied to me, or at least, nobody got away with trying.
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  683.  @melgillham462  The term "republic" has nothing to do with individual liberty. You could have a republic with no individual liberty or all sorts of non-republics with more individual liberty than the US currently has. I don't know where you got the idea that the two were synonymous. We currently live in a republic, which is a representative democracy. I think when you say "democracy" you are referring to a direct democracy, which is different.
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  684.  @Balnisgoofyaf  They pop up on my Youtube feed sometimes. That doesn't mean I actually trust anything they say.
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  685.  @Balnisgoofyaf  I don't know, he's hard to read, but I don't think he's a MAGA supporter. You might be right though. We can't let them regain power or they'd do exactly what you said.
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  686. Yeah, Trump is too soft. He's used to only going on media that knows how to cup him in just the right ways. He can't take it when the audience is not friendly to him, evne though that represents over half the country.
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  687. no, they did not act under the federal whistleblower act. They could have, they chose not to do that. Just "going to congress to report it" is not actually protected under the whistleblower protections if you don't follow proper procedure.
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  688. That's certainly what the Dominion lawsuit made clear. Faux News is shameless in spreading lies and their demonic agenda, so long as it gets the bigots to show up every night.
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  689.  @berealz9701  Not as bad as Texas, at least.
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  690.  @Fredflinstone23  "You're."
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  691.  @jamesdoakes4956  Only 1% of the total bill's costs are going overseas in any way, and it's all to things that are useful to American interests. Foreign aid is often the most effective use of American spending, it saves money on wars and helps to bring benefits to US business. The other portions of the bill that are outside that "9%" solve exactly the sorts of problems that you're highlighting. They increase and extend unemployment benefits through august, they help to fund various small businesses and state governments so that they don't have to lay people off, they help provide various services around the country that otherwise people would have to spend out of pocket to do the same things, etc. That's the point, the direct cash payout is only a small part of what this bill is doing for covid relief.
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  692.  @tinadoty5406  The Constitution says that it IS their job to make laws. That is the entire point of the Legislative Branch. And yes, We the People ARE in control of the government, WE are the ones that elect them to represent us, and to pass the laws that we believe would benefit us. Over 75% of the country, over 64% of Republicans support this bill, WE the PEOPLE want this.
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  693. @John “it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government”, and the people did that in November when they elected Joe Biden and the current crop of Congressmen. When the people want something different than that, they will elect different people.
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  694.  @craigcherry876  They are passing a bill that only helps Americans. It is this bill. Less than 1% of the money in the bill is going overseas, and that money is going to support US interests in those countries.
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  695.  @craigcherry876  If the money was given out only in cash, then yeah, it would be $15K, but giving out cash is not the only, or the best way to help Americans through this. The other funding in the bill is for helping things that Americans need, like keeping schools running, keeping public transit running, helping businesses to keep people employed, etc. As they say, "give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day, invest in building a thriving local fishing industry and he can have solid employment and a livable wage for years to come."
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  696.  @xeverlastingxchaosx9679  "Them" are the Republicans.
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  697.  @thatman4752  No, I'm just prone ot typos.
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  698.  @Bears9McMahon  Wrong again, stop drinking the red Kool-Aid and actually do your research.
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  699.  @soulife8383  Seeing the bill being read is not needed to know what's in it. You can read the bill yourself if you like, or find plenty of summaries of it from much more reliable sources than the one you're referencing there. "reading the bill out loud" is just "wasting everyone's time."
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  700.  @dudemynameisdebo  "Homie If I was speaker of the house when Mitch said he was for stimulus I would have called his bluff given him a bill and he would of opposed it lol. " They tried that. He opposed it.
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  701.  @drawingdead9025  We are a democratic republic, which is a form of democracy. We are not a direct democracy, but we are a democracy nonetheless. And the fascists were the ones who invaded the Capital on January 6th, attempting to install their own fuherer over the duly elected President of the United States. Don't forget it.
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  702.  @drawingdead9025  Of course the schools lost money during covid. They still had to pay the same staff (unless they laid them off, which we don't want them to do, so we give them money so they don't have to), and they then also had to renovate the buildings so that they would be as covid-safe as possible (new AC units, maybe outdoor class set-ups, plexiglass sheeting, masks and etc.), they need to improve broadband access so that students can better distance-learn, and then you have to figure in that state and local governments had greatly reduced tax revenue over 2020 than they had budgeted for, so if the school system's budget was say $20m, and the government only took in $12m of that, then they would need money from outside to cover the difference. The current bill has around $170m that is being sent directly to schools, and then additional funds being sent to states that might go to schools, if that is where the most need is.
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  703.  @erichamilton8952  "Only a dumbass would pass a bill with out knowing exactly what is in it." That's why it is the senator's job to read the bill first, not the Senate Clerks'.
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  704.  @drawingdead9025  The funding will be going more to red states than blue states, and blue states like NY and CA will be the ones paying for that. You're welcome. This bill is not "baling out pensions," it is covering the massive budget shortfalls caused directly by covid. So many people out of work, so many businesses not open, state revenues dropped massively, and they need a cash infusion to make up for that, especially, the red states, which are not as good with their budgeting as the blue ones.
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  705.  @drawingdead9025  "Natural disasters are not 'on the rise' unless you redefine the term 'natural disasters'." There are more wildfires, floods, droughts, hurricanes, and blizzards than there typically are, unless you would like to redefine natural disasters to not include those.
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  706.  @tonycollinsworth7393  "Yeah $2 trillion and lesson 9% of it goes to the American people that’s a hell of a bill that sounds to me like Bull" 99% of it goes to the American people, you dropped a "9."
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  707.  @drawingdead9025  95%+ of the bill is about covid relief to the people. That is the reality. Anything else you may have heard on the matter is fiction. The 9% of the bill that is direct cash to people is not the only form of covid relief the American people need right now.
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  708.  Grampa Genuity  From the way you're talking, it sounds like whatever sources of news you are using are far less reliable than the mainstream media. Just because something you hear aligns with what you want to believe doesn't make it more true than something you don't want to believe. "citizen journalists" are no less likely to lie to you and serve their own interests than mainstream media, and far less accountable when they do. Be skeptical, sure, check the facts from original sources if you like. But don't eat garbage just because it's fed to you in a way that looks appealing.
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  709.  @drawingdead9025  "Cut everything but actual 'relief' to people and you can get it passed with 100% GOP support. Every single democrat voted against an amendment to do just that. " Which amendment was that? Who proposed it?
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  710.  @mikehunt6747  " Democrats still can’t get over Trump being elected." Republicans still won't admit that Trump lost, How sad is that?
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  711.  @dudemynameisdebo  "They didn't he asked for a standalone bill to send checks to Americans which was a Bluff Pelosi should have called." No, that just would have been petty gamesmanship. The American people needed to get more than that, they needed the full package that was being proposed, so if they'd just passed the checks, that might be a minor media victory for Democrats, but it would be a loss for the American people, and they did get what they needed after another couple weeks.
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  712.  @dudemynameisdebo  And yet they are delivering on exactly the sorts of things that I would want them to deliver on if they were wanting to help me, so if the result is the same, why should I care how they got there?
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  713.  @coreyb9240  I didn't ask why Senators should read the bill, I asked why it should be read aloud on the Senate floor. Senators should be able to read the bill for themselves, on their own time, like we can, or, if they are Republican Senators, they could have a staffer read it to them, but that's no reason to take up the entire Senate's time.
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  714.  @AClRCLEOFLlGHT  Wow, you cram a lot of assumption into two paragraphs. I'm just asking why Ron Johnson can't read well enough to read the bill himself. I mean if I wanted to read it, or you wanted to read it, we could just read it, why does he need a Senate clerk to read it for him and waste everyone's time. Is there something he's not telling us?
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  715.  @AClRCLEOFLlGHT  People who changed their votes didn't change it because they came to some revelation after hearing it, they did so because it gave the opposition time to whip votes and pull elbows and convince people to change their mind. Most people do not even listen to the bill being read, including Ron Johnson himself. That is not the point of the reading, the point of the reading is to waste time and bore everyone. Anyone with practical objections to the content of the bill could READ it themselves, unless they are Republicans, in which case they could have a staffer read it to them without wasting the Senate's time. Bills should be long, they are important, and intentionally short bill just lead to loopholes and legal challenges, because you said a thing that could be taken multiple ways, rather than making it perfectly clear what it does, and does not mean. If we're going to be spending $1.9 Trillion taxpayer dollars, I expect the bill to be clear on how that money is to be spent.
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  716.  @KenJackson_US  Generally speaking, they are far less gullible than Republicans. I mean, they don't vote for Trump.
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  717. And?
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  718.  @MichaelHartle-l7z  I haven't seen any evidence of that. What evidence have you seen?
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  719.  @Kurt13273  I'm sorry, I don't speak Republican, and I don't think Google offers a translate option.
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  720.  @JBeatsbutnugs  Well that seems even more Republican than the last.
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  721.  @deadlyta  What's fishy? That a lawyer would leave one job and get another? Boy, don't look into where the lawyers from the previous administration ended up. . .
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  722.  @angelvalle6515  It's not "backwards." Lawyers move in and out of the private sector, in and out of different jurisdictions all the time. They tend to follow the most interesting cases. Think of it this way, there is NO mechanism by which an Attorney General could compel a DoJ employee to switch jobs like that, so if it wasn't something he wanted to do, how would they make him?
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  723.  @drewdrew7968  Yes, and so far, not one answer has been given, so I'm left to assume that there is none. And no, it was not a demotion, it was just a shift from one job to another.
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  724.  @billydemol8817  That's not how government works. You can't just slip a bonus under the table like that, the accounting offices would eat you for lunch. Actual government is WAY more boring than you imagine it to be.
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  725.  @donoimdono2702  The first two are common knowledge, and there's nothing wrong with either. I'm asking for evidence that there was some for of official plot involved here, beyond it just being what this guy wanted to do next in his own career. If ALL that people have is that a lawyer left one job and gained another, then I'm sorry, but that's not a thing to be concerned over.
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  726.  @LeighChambers-de7cp  All of these guys were Trump supporters. You can't get further from the right side of history than that.
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  727. It's not a double standard, it's just that one side does a lot of actual crimes that deserve to be prosecuted, and the other side does not and is only targeted as a distraction from all the crimes. The Republicans are the ones doing all the crimes.
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  728. Nah, nobody really expected better of her. If she had integrity, she wouldn't have run as a Republican in the first place.
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  729. Yeah, that';s fair. Trump fans tend to hoot and holler no matter what nonsense flops out of his mouth, which influences how viewers at home take in his comments.
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  730. So you're saying the "fix" is in? Why is this a shock to no one? Trump paid for that court.
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  731. There have been tons of politicians that got sent to jail for their crimes. buddy Cianci, for example. The problem is, most of those that the Republicans want "put in jail" never actually did any crimes, and we don't put people into prison merely for being in the opposing party, not in America.
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  732. Cool imaginary thing Hunter did! You belong on Coomer's committee!
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  733.  @AndrewTubbiolo  Yeah, but still, they need Sam's help to invent new things to chase Hunter over.
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  734.  @DavidJones-ke6kt He's right though. It's Republicans that prevent actions at the border. They wouldn't have anything left to run on.
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  735.  @vickimccormick8220 Incorrect, but thanks for trying.
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  736.  @RevTwelveEleven  I am not sure what point you're making. Yes, MAGA people worship the Father of Lies," but what does that have to do with the topic at hand?
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  737.  @buddymartin7923  Again, it was not "better for the many" back then, and the good of these groups comes at ZERO expense to others. Why not good for both at the same time? Also, while mental health issues are a serious problem in this country, they have nothing to do with the topic at hand, which is the status of LGBT people. While some LGBT people do have mental illness, it's not significantly higher than among the general population.
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  738.  @buddymartin7923  By and large, LGBT people live MUCH more decently than non-LGBT people. I mean, you can find videos of drag story hours where the LGBT people are just politely reading stories to children, and there are non-:LGBT people shouting obscenities and white supremacist chants at the children, which of those two groups do you see as "acting decently?" What have LGBT people ever done to you?
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  739.  @coolezum  He is a patriot, just for a different country. His actions work against America's interests.
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  740.  @coolezum  I know at least as many facts as you, and I assume a great many more on top of that. Trump got a lot of good Americans killed with his reckless foreign policy, when he handed Syria over to Russia he got more Americans killed than during the entire time they were there prior to that moment, as well as screwing over our strongest allies in the region. Most of what you speak of is conspiracy theory nonsense that has nothing to do with patriotic Americans. The only ones with "TDS" are those who don't understand how brainwashed he's made you. Trump is deranged, as is anyone who fails to recognize that.
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  741.  @coolezum  Well that sounds ominous. Nothing of any importance should happen over the next 30 days, unless Trump intends to do something illegal. Again.
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  742. Well, if Republicans didn't want failures like this, they wouldn't vote for Republicans.
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  743.  @notmypotato3730  He always wins when he doesn't need a majority. So long as he only needs 43% of the vote, he's fine.
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  744. There is nobody so ignorant or self-absorbed as to not get vaccinated in 2021 who is worthy of serving in the US military.
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  745. Maybe they should stop trying to prevent people from voting? Maybe that would help them to join us in the 21st Century?
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  746.  @rojodevo2724  The flu and covid are two different things. Covid is a type of virus that is similar to a flu, but calling them the same would be like saying that a football team and a soccer team are "basically the same thing." Covid cases are reported as covid cases and flu cases are reported as flu cases and they are not used interchangeably, but flu cases are down because the precautionary measures people take to prevent covid infection are just as effective at stopping the flu, so it is transmitting a lot less than usual this year. Also, to address something you raised in a previous comment, touching your mask is NOT a serious issue with covid. This is because (unlike some diseases), covid cannot enter the body through your skin. It can only enter through your nose, mouth, or eyes, and has to reach your lungs to settle in. This means that your hands can be filthy with covid, and that's ok, so long as you don't bring your hands anywhere near your nose, mouth, or eyes. So while it is important to wash your hands before eating or touching your face, touching your mask really isn't an issue. I find it's simplest to just imagine that my hands are hot lava while I'm outside the house, don't get them anywhere near my face from the moment I leave to the moment I return, and then wash up as soon as I get inside.
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  747.  @rojodevo2724  Accurate though.
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  748.  @rojodevo2724  No, as usual you misunderstand. What I was accurate about was that the flu virus and covid are two separate diseases, they are each tracked separately by the CDC, the flu is down relative to normal years due to the measures we've taken to fight covid, and touching your mask doesn't make the whole concept of the mask pointless because you can't catch covid by mask touching, but you can catch it by breathing in the virus, which is why moral people wear masks.
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  749. Yup, they're definitely biased in favor of Republicans and Trump. If the FBI were just doing their jobs and following the law, Trump would have been arrested years ago.
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  750. Why do conservatives always confuse a bias toward reality as a "left-wing bias?" Oh, yeah, because they live in a fiction created by Faux News and view reality as "left wing spin."
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  751.  Constitutional Republic🔺The Corrector  Found one!
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  752. "Meanwhile, conservatives not bothered by disgusting CNN town hall, because they are equally disgusting people."
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  753. Yup, never expect human empathy from a Republican. If they had human empathy, they couldn't be Republicans.
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  754.  @Blaze_1961  The 14th amendment bars anyone who's served in government and violated their oaths of office from serving again.
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  755.  @danstory4286  No such woman was picked. I think you misunderstood her answer. I think you also know that.
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  756.  @Steven-vh6fg  If Trump ordered these troops to do anything other than defend the inauguration, that would be an act of treason, completely illegal, and the military would refuse that order, as is their duty, and immediately place him under arrest. He should probably avoid that.
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  757. Well, Republican voters seem to like him, and until the Supreme Court decides on the issue, he has a right to run in the election. Biden'll beat him, of course, but he'll run anyway.
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  758. Trump did worse than this, he was impeached over it, but the Senate Republicans refused to convict, not because they did not believe he did the crime, but just because they were worried about their own re-election.
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  759. It's all they know how to do. If they actually had any idea how government works, they'd be Democrats.
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  760.  @mrrey8937  Well, ideally we wouldn't need to have one party rule, but the Republican party shot themselves in the face and where we are. Ideally, they will sort themselves out, drain the MAGA swamp, and actually start to be a governing party again (although it's been decades since we've seen that), but for now, it's just too irresponsible to vote any of them into office. It would be like deputizing children and handing them loaded guns.
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  761.  @fauxque5057  Well, even just controlling the House gives them an unfortunately level of power. They can run House committees to mud rake with, and they can prevent vital legislation from happening because it needs to pass the house first. They can't pass new laws that would cause new harm, but they can cause harm via neglect.
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  762. It's called "parody." Also, Trump is the one who is trying to destabilize and hamstring our ties to NATO. Maybe he should remember who our allies are.
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  763.  @tylerc7336  I have done my research, that's how I know that Trump has been destabilizing our relationship to NATO. Maybe you should do some research.
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  764.  @tylerc7336  That has nothing to do with this. He can make that case without alienating and endangering our allies.
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  765. Yup. This is what happens when people elect Republicans to public office, when they've proven themselves time and again too irresponsible to wield it with integrity.
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  766. Nothing about the gag order is relevant to whether Trump testifies or not. All the gag order does is prevent him targeting court workers for hate groups. If Trump's testimony involves targeting court employees, then he is doing a bad job. If anything requires Trump to target court employees, then he is doing a bad job.
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  767. Trump has never had a crowd that was even a fraction of the size he wanted. Most Trump things are smaller than he claims.
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  768. But Trump is the traitor. Unless you're Russian, I guess.
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  769. Why would you vote for Trump if you don't care what he wants?
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  770.  @TruthrConsequences  Stop using such big words, you'll scare him.
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  771.  @elderlymanpoormemorybullseye  All you just did was point out that you don't know what the term "cognitive dissonance" means.
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  772.  @elderlymanpoormemorybullseye  In what way are any of my comments dissonant? I'll point out that repeating yourself is not building a case, although I guess if you listen to Trump long enough that fact would get washed out of your head.
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  773.  @elderlymanpoormemorybullseye  So you don't know what the term "cognitive dissonance" means. That's all I was saying.
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  774. Just another reminder that however Manchin and Sinema vote, there are also 49 Republicans who ALSO vote against America's interests, so the important thing is to vote them out, like we did in the last election.
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  775. I don't think the bias in the justice system would hurt him here, he and McConnell created that bias.
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  776. That's not relevant to the bill in question.
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  777.  @rayiskool444  By allowing in fewer immigrants? Yeah, maybe, but it's what Republicans seem to want, so it's a necessary compromise.
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  778. Yes, and that's why Trump and his red coats need to lose.
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  779. You're thinking of Trump, not Biden. Biden's never made government "work" for himself or his family. He only makes it work for the American people.
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  780. See, Twitter was working perfectly well. What else would any rational person want from them?
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  781. The Trump era policies would not accomplish anything, migrants were higher under Trump than in any previous administration. To actually solve things, Biden needs to get funding to increase the staff, not just make proclamations.
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  782. Most of them, really. More than in most states, at least.
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  783.  @maracohen5930  I'm against the government having a say in what happens between a patient and her doctor, as is 60%+ of the population. The US is a representational republic, but that is a form of democracy, and if a "republic" does not accurately represent the will of the people, then it is no longer a republic, it is an autocracy like North Korea. As for vaccinations, if you choose to put the lives of others at risk by not being vaccinated, then that can and should have consequences. Your argument here is like saying that it's your right to drink as much as you want and then drive, because "it's your body." Well you can drink as much as you want, but if you then choose to drive then you are putting others lives at risk, not just your own, and that is when it is the responsibility of the state to step in.
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  784.  @maracohen5930  Yeah, one thing I learned from the covid pandemic is that the bar for become a nurse is a lot lower than I'd assumed. There were a lot of them out there spreading some really nonsense conspiracy theories that anyone with a high school education should be ashamed to have fallen for.
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  785.  @maracohen5930  And yet you seem to have an extremely reckless view on public health, so your various accolades only seem to cast doubt on the people that gave them to you, rather than support your position. As it turns out, there were no actual risks to the vaccines, they have been better tested than almost any drug on the market, and their benefits, even to people who had previously had covid, far outweighed any risks. There was no rational argument to be made against everyone getting vaccinated, and people trying to make an argument only outed themselves a idiots. I mean, just look at Australia.
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  786.  @maracohen5930  But the research showed that getting a vaccine was ALWAYS beneficial, even against later versions of the virus, and even for people who had already been infected. I mean, someone claiming to be a medical professional should already know that.
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  787. "Sorry for making America great again without you."
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  788. It was the taxpayers that were directing the AG to take Trunp to trial. It was a ballot issue.
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  789. He doesn't want to get shot, so He stays away from America. I can't blame Him.
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  790. Yeah, fair. Or at least they elect clowns.
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  791. Biden: LoL.
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  792.  @scruffydog52  His salary? Yes. Other than that? No.
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  793. ​ @thomashosking385  I think it's just a "criminal justice" motivated case. Some people say "well why this guy, and not other people," and that's a fair argument, so long as you're prepared to hear an answer that you might not like. The answer is that given that this guy was a controversial president for four years, and all sorts of criminal investigations and journalistic inquiries turned up mountains of evidence of wrongdoing, it would be malpractice for a prosecutor to ignore that and fail to chase it down, wherever it leads. Most companies do not have these mountains of evidence just laying around, making an eyesore of itself. So while politics may have played a role in some of the attention the company received over the past few years, I don't think that the prosecutions were political at all, they were just proper justice at work, under these unusual circumstances. If you want an example of a purely political inquiry, look at the biden family.
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  794.  @soniadouglas-e7g  Yup, that pattern being that they get personal attacks made against them for doing their job.
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  795. Not more disgusting than Trump though, right?
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  796. As in most cases, Fox News is living in Opposite Land.
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  797. Yup. Nobody could have predicted that this clown would actually win an election, but here we are.
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  798. It would be ok for them to hire on a Republican, but nobody that has been complicit with the activities of the party over the last few years. Nobody who went along with the recent nonsense has any right to a public platform.
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  799. On the one hand this is probably good, since it will allow us to see more about how Russia tried to get Trump elected in 2016 and is continuing to do so for 2020, but on the other hand it will probably get some American agents killed because it will reveal sources and messages, but on the other other hand those agents are probably already dead because Trump just told Putin about them on one of his phone chats years ago.
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  800.  @Tibbyfnp  Yes, but removing the tools is easier than removing the user.
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  801.  @marylingerfelt6537  Violent crime in the UK is much lower than in the US. IT seems to work out.
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  802.  @maxxmarino6500  Yeah, if guns were even a fraction as useful as opiates, gun users might have a point.
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  803.  @maxxmarino6500  Guns take innocent lives far more often than they defend them. If guns actually worked as a net positive defensive tool, then the Us would have fewer homicides than any other first world country, rather than 6 times as many, or higher.
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  804.  @maxxmarino6500  Guns take lives far more often than they defend them. If guns actually worked as a net positive defensive tool, then the US would have fewer homicides than any other first world country, rather than 6 times as many, or higher.
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  805. @ Yes, that's why he abdicated the presidency to him.
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  806. @ This isn't doing anything about that though, they're going to raise the debt.
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  807.  @firebird68cougar69  They were there last Wednesday, they promised they would come back, they might come back.
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  808. The concerning optics were the Trump fans having a little insurrection attempt last week. Right now, they're trying to prevent them from trying again like they warned they would.
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  809. Sissy.
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  810. Lol, South Dakota selling off their national guard troops to the highest bidder. What a fiasco.
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  811. Good thing nobody ever voted for Hunter then, and he was never a member of the Biden administration, like how Jared was in the Trump administration before taking two BILLION dollars from the Saudis for services rendered in the White House. Is the House Weaponzing Government committee going to be looking into that one eventually?
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  812. Well you guys had better get out now, your governor's closing down the state.
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  813. This is how it looks when the DoJ operates without fear or favor. They go after Ds when there is evidence to support it, and they go after Rs when evidence supports it.
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  814. Imagine if Trump hadn't pulled out of there and left our allies to die. We'd have had that whole situation taken care of by now.
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  815.  @nancybbailey1975  Because problems ignored overseas lead to deaths back home.
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  816. Unfortunately, past precedent has shown that Trump supporters are too immature to attend debates.
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  817.  @Heretic-007  I don't hate Christians, I'm just disappointed in those that claim to be "Christians," while at the same time acting AGAINST everything that Christ stood for. No Christian could also be a Republican at the same time.
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  818.  @marquisemiddleton8155  They insult those who take the Lord's name in vain, not God.
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  819.  @jaymessandman6301  Yes, what Christ preached, and what the LGBT community and their allies embraces, and what the anti-LGBT community fights against.
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  820. Well, one would hope that he would go as far as it takes to bring him to justice, right?
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  821. The people you're talking about also vote against any programs that "help Americans in need," like the Build Back Better bill, so they aren't worth listening to.
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  822.  @Krix6426  Yeah, sadly the Republicans have made a mockery of the flag over the past few decades, and have brought great shame to it. People are sad to see flags now, because of how many Republicans have flown the flag in support of their hateful rhetoric.
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  823. Well, he is Trump's contact with Putin.
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  824. It's almost like it's not actually a big story at all, and is mainly just used to fill airtime so that a certain network doesn't have to cover Donald Trump supporting white supremacists.
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  825. Yes, because the prosecutor they removed was a corrupt Russian agent, and it was important to US interests to see him replaced with someone more trustworthy.
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  826. "I'm with stupid."
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  827.  Glockhead1  So you see my point.
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  828.  @dddz961  Congress will be there with him during the ceremony. It's to protect everyone involved in the inauguration. The insurrectionists will likely be a thread through the inauguration, and possibly for some time after, which is pathetic, but better safe than sorry.
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  829. @Jason herrera Some would be wrong, they aren't keeping anyone from leaving. Why would some even think that? What would be the point?
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  830.  @mopar0IIII0jeep  There has been no violence over the last four years due to the results of the 2016 election. Trump had a very boring inauguration that was much smaller than either of Obama's.
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  831.  @mopar0IIII0jeep  The destruction surrounding the Trump inauguration was not at the inauguration itself, and was not remotely as significant as the insurrection at the Capitol. You're comparing molehills to mountains.
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  832.  @mopar0IIII0jeep  But again, you're drastically misrepresenting the situation. For one thing, a few broken windows and trashed cars isn't REMOTELY the same thing as violently invading the Capitol Building during the election certification. I mean, it would be idiotic to even try to compare those two situations. For another, those protests lasted a day or so, not four years. While other protests have taken place over the past four years, as have taken place EVERY year during prior administrations, the protests were not about illegally replacing the sitting president, they had other, unrelated purposes. While people certainly disapproved of Trump and protested against his activities, it was not with the goal of illegal insurrection. And it's also worth noting that there were no fewer people protesting Obama's presidency. Peaceful protest is an important part of American democracy, and occasionally you get a handful of people that are bad actors in such crowds and cause damage, but that is a VERY different thing than the insurrectionists that turned up last Wednesday and have threatened to return, and any rational observer should understand that distinction. It is not "turning a blind eye" to point out the difference between a yapping chihuahua and a snarling jackal.
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  833.  @mopar0IIII0jeep  Whatever you're experiencing in the NW is a local issue related to local problems. Work on solving those and the protests will die down. They are not wide spread and AGAIN did not involve insurrection against the US as a whole. Have they even invaded the statehouse with the intention to replace the governor with an alternate pick yet? No? Then it's not the same thing. And no, nobody was trying to "set fire to the courthouse," they were just protesting outside of it because Trump had sent a motley crew of DHS scraps to surround the thing, and those rando were attacking the protesters in turn. As soon as the DHS thugs went away, so did the protesters.
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  834.  @garypayne423  Lol.
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  835.  Defund Democrats  The Federal plan was never sufficient to the problem, and continues to be insufficient. It was muddled by the President publicly countermanding the recommendations of his experts, such as refusing to use and discouraging the use of masks, even when it became more and more clear how vital masks are to the process, or when he constantly promoted Chloroquin, even after it was understood that it offers no positive benefits. If the Federal response had occurred even two weeks sooner than it did (which was entirely possible because the White House was aware of this issue months earlier), the result would have been a hundred thousand less people dead, because viruses grow exponentially, and shutting it down early means massive shifts to the eventual outcomes. If the federal response had been to convince red state governors to treat their Covid response as seriously as New York did, then there wouldn't have been these massive surges they've seen over the past few months, and states like Florida and Texas would only have had a few thousand cases by this point. Instead, the White House was pushing for "everyone to open back up!" which led to the current situation.
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  836.  Defund Democrats  Your comments on hydroxychloriquin disqualify anything else you might have to say.
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  837.  @kennethrohloff7535  Gag orders are by their very nature a limitation on first amendment rights, but the law has traditionally determined that some limitations are necessary, for example, punishing someone for lying is a violation of their first amendment rights, but we believe that's better than just allowing defamation to run unchecked. If he chooses to attack witnesses, then something must be done to prevent that, hence the gag order. They have been VERY lenient in applying it so far, any other defendant would have been held in contempt and jailed already for the existing violations. Nobody is above the law, all he has to do is stop breaking the law, and no punishments would be incoming.
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  838.  @kennethrohloff7535  But, again, a defendant should not be allowed to attack or intimidate witnesses. A fair judicial process is a necessity, and the ability to attack witnesses undermines that. Trump and his lawyers can say ANYTHING that they want in the courtroom, where it is actually relevant to their case, they just can't take that battle into the streets. Now, once the trial is over, the gag order will be lifted, and he can say whatever he likes about the witnesses, and he certainly has no shortage of defenders who are already doing that work for him, but while the trial goes on, there is no rational basis for allowing him to direct his enemies toward witnesses. And no, the jury are not sequestered. They are told not to watch news coverage, but that's about it. That's why one already left, she was harassed for agreeing to be a juror.
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  839.  @kennethrohloff7535  But, again, a defendant should not be allowed to attack or intimidate witnesses. A fair judicial process is a necessity, and the ability to attack witnesses undermines that. Trump and his lawyers can say ANYTHING that they want in the courtroom, where it is actually relevant to their case, they just can't take that battle into the streets.
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  840.  @kennethrohloff7535  Now, once the trial is over, the gag order will be lifted, and he can say whatever he likes about the witnesses, and he certainly has no shortage of defenders who are already doing that work for him, but while the trial goes on, there is no rational basis for allowing him to direct his enemies toward witnesses. And no, the jury are not sequestered. They are told not to watch news coverage, but that's about it. That's why one already left, she was harassed for agreeing to be a juror.
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  841.  @kennethrohloff7535  Hence the gag order, because Trump repeatedly has attacked witnesses in this and previous cases.
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  842. There was none here.
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  843. He pays well, at least.
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  844. He was following the federal guidance at the time.
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  845. Sure they did. And they reached a guilty verdict.
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  846.  @armyaquatix  Impressive. Relevance?
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  847.  @armyaquatix  You still haven't explained the relevance yet. I mean, Jared made $2 billion, with a B, so what?
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  848.  @armyaquatix  Just a point of fact, "Matt Gaetz said so" is never evidence of anything.
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  849.  @armyaquatix  District attorneys often run on being "tough on crime" and bringing known criminals to justice. There is nothing unusual or wrong about that. Why do you bring it up? And yes, federal law does supersede state law, but that has zero bearing here, because at no point did a federal case supersede any state cases here. The mere existence of similar federal laws does not prevent a state law from being used. If the federal government did want to bring this case, they could, but they have bigger fish to fry.
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  850.  @armyaquatix  But these were felony charges, and charged at the state level. There was no federal component to this case.
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  851.  @armyaquatix  How so? A criminal got charged with crimes that he did, and was convicted by a jury of his peers for having committed those crimes. What is "improper" about that? Should the criminal have been allowed to get away with it?
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  852. Tune in to Faux News any night of the week.
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  853.  @Javas_Dream  The bill allows in fewer people than were allowed during Trump's term.
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  854.  @richardclifton4120  I was answering the question of where to find MUCH better examples of gaslighting.
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  855.  @richardclifton4120  They debunk ignorance.
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  856.  @richardclifton4120  What have I said that is not objectively accurate?
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  857.  @richardclifton4120  No, i meant objectively, and that too was accurate.
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  858.  @richardclifton4120  Ok, so what did I say that was inaccurate, in your world?
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  859.  @richardclifton4120  So you have no specific points that I made that you could offer as being inaccurate, and are just crying about it? I again point out that nothing I said was inaccurate.
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  860.  @paulrolfes  a lot of people are saying I'm wrong, not one of them can point to anything I've said that's wrong. They just like to tell it to themselves as an article of faith, since they know the facts can't back that up. Sad.
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  861.  @richardclifton4120  It was in response to the OP of this thread, I was telling him where he could find a better example of gaslighting. I'm sorry if that went over your head, I forgot my audience.
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  862.  @richardclifton4120  I get that they don't believe me, but what gave you the impression that that lent them any credibility? If you're indoctrinated to believe down is up, then the person telling you that the ground beneath your feet is not the ceiling sounds like a liar, I suppose. I don't need your "Donald Trump Prize," but for reference, you convince someone that they are wrong by using reliable evidence to the contrary, not by shouting "you're wrong" at them until they get frustrated at your barking and leave.
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  863.  @richardclifton4120  And still you can offer no substantive argument. Name-calling and schoolyard bullying is your only tool. Sad.
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  864.  @stevesanzari7294  He's certainly made American greater than when he took office. As for "bringing it together," that isn't really possible so long as the other side preaches hate.
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  865.  @NateC147  It's a play on words, I'm sorry you were not equipped to understand. I was talking about the propaganda network of the Republican party, the one that has been found in studies to leave its viewers LESS intelligent than if they receive no news at all.
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  866. It was written by Republicans.
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  867. "This 'Biden family' fanfiction we're writing is so compelling, you've got to read it!" If only they had any actual evidence, rather than just fantasy and hearsay, but then, Faux News does not operate on "evidence," which is why they lose so many defamation suits.
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  868.  @Ioannikios174  People aren't dying in the streets, they are dying in the hospitals, where apparently you don't see them.
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  869.  @Chris-df1zr  New York does not have more deaths. They had more deaths at the very beginning of this when they got hit all at once by a massive spike and nobody knew best practices to resolve it, but once we learned more about the virus they got it under control and have had lower rates since. It's also important to keep in mind that Florida under-reports their covid figures to make DeSantis look good.
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  870.  @renaissancestatesman  Yes, but you only say that because you're wrong.
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  871.  @Chris-df1zr  Yes, but, again, Florida undercounts, and most of New York's deaths were in the spring, before we knew how to manage the virus and it quickly ballooned out of control. Florida's major outbreaks happened much later, when we did no better, and yet DeSantis chose to ignore that advice and let his people die.
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  872.  @quantumthuglife4444  Anything that happened before the current generations were born is no longer relevant to the present. Anyone seeking to use events from decades ago to justify their actions in the present is a fool.
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  873. It is a funny thing. Republicans want to throw the book at Hunter for doing something that they insist up and down should never be a crime. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is fighting to keep the law on the books, even if that means sending his sun up the river. It's almost like Democrats believe in the rule of law, and Republicans only believe in ruling.
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  874.  @dreichert1438  New York and California should not decide things for the rest of the country. WE THE PEOPLE of the states of New York and California should decide. One person, one vote.
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  875. It was probably because he didn't do anything wrong, and the current minority party has integrity.
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  876. What are you talking about? In the previous administration, members of the President's staff were openly discussing attempts to overthrow the constitutional republic and install their boss as President even after his term had expired, in the Oval Office, and the President was in the room at the time, and apparently he had no idea that this was happening right in front of his face! By that standard, this sort of miscommunication is nothing at all.
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  877. Ironically, the reason we don't have election results on election night is mostly because of changes made by Republican statehouses to prevent early ballot counting. It's impossible to count every ballot within 24 hours.
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  878. Unfortunately the current House is not in a position to investigate anyone for corruption. The corruption is already in the House. Maybe we'll get something better in two years.
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  879. Actually, this is the OPPOSITE of Orwellian. Orwell was talking about people SPREADING misinformation, not people CORRECTING misinformation. If people are spreading public health misinformation, it is vital that the government fight back against that. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died over the last couple of years for no reason other than their own belief in medical misinformation. They were killed by their own willful ignorance.
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  880. The House Weaponizing Government Committee certainly has. The rest of the government is doing the People's work.
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  881. It's possible that they will give the wrong answer, because they do not understand the complexities of border security, but if they give the correct answer, then it would be that yes, the border is more secure now than it was under Trump, there are just more people arriving and being detained.
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  882.  @Balnisgoofyaf  This is no different than what these laws would look like under Republicans, other than that they would be separating children from their parents. The same amount of people would be showing up and crossing either way. Trump was not "better" at anything, he was just the President during a different set of years. Fewer people showed up.
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  883.  @Balnisgoofyaf  It would have been the same under Trump. It's not like he did anything "better," he was just president during years in which fewer people were trying to cross. Time moves forward.
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  884.  @PauletteWinters  But it's at least more secure than it was five years ago.
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  885. Few fewer Christians are beat for their faith than any other religious group, even though there are more of them to beat. It is a made up problem. If religious intolerance is a problem to you, then maybe focus on the people actually being harmed over their religions.
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  886.  Ken G  Everyone should be analyzing his speech, and it will already include more lies than anyone else could possibly invent. He was the lying-est President in history.
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  887.  Ken G  If Trump manages to get through an entire speech with only five lies, it would be his first.
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  888.  @shur7318  I think you misunderstand, I'm opposed to Trump. So clearly I do understand what success looks like feels like and more importantly how it contributes to society when it’s for the Good of all without out devious intentions attached to the actions itself. If I didn't understand those things, I might be dumb enough to believe Trump is a good idea.
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  889.  Ken G  I helped vote Trump out of office, which saved the soul of this nation. That was a massive success.
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  890.  Ken G  When have I ever cared about women's sports?
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  891.  Ken G  Lol,. that should be a hoot. At least he's taking the Republican party off the ballot.
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  892.  Ken G  Lol.
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  893.  Ken G  It'll be great when he runs again, because he'll beat the other Republicans in the primary again, driving up Democratic engagement, so the Senate and House will both lose more seats and Trump will lose the presidency again by a humiliating margin like last time. The Democratic party is fine. They're arguing with each other over matters of substance, not about whether insurrection and racism are maybe a bad thing like the Republicans.
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  894.  Ken G  What "irreversible damage"? Democrats are solving covid, getting the economy back on track, and building a green energy revolution.
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  895. The Democrat bailout is exactly what helps the American people.
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  896.  @kingwilly8041  No, again, everything that's happening here is just following the law. In some states, it's past the date at which someone's name can be changed on the ballot. There is no "unequal treatment" here, just different circumstances.
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  897. "Make things worse?"
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  898. Nobody who knows the ten commandments can defend this decision. What is the FIRST commandment?
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  899. Lol, can you imagine someone saying that unironically?
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  900. In the House? Relatively high. They're idiots working on an entirely partisan basis and facts are irrelevant to them. In the Senate? He wouldn't even get as many votes to convict as Trump did, probably less than Bill Clinton even. and of course if we had a House made up of grown-ups, it would never have even gotten this far. Vote for clowns, get a circus.
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  901. The SCOTUS insulted themselves by their own decisions.
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  902.  @ArmoredBullet  First, religion is a choice, while being a member of "an alphabet group" is an inalienable quality of who a person is. They cannot change it. Second, it depends on the form of mockery. Plenty of comedians make fun of "alphabet groups" without any significant backlash, because their jokes are not an attack against those individuals, they are just having fun (which is completely separate from those who make attacks and call it "just having fun"). With humor, context is everything, and the concept of "hypocrisy" really doesn't apply.
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  903.  @BasebalIShorts.  When did Jesus ever speak out against LGBT people?
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  904.  @BasebalIShorts.  They obviously aren't wrong either though. And of course whether they are right or wrong is none of your business, so long as they are happy.
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  905.  @kimberlycarey5104  When has that ever happened?
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  906. The politicians are our representatives. An attack against them is an attack against all of us. In November the American people voted to determine that these were the people we wanted to represent us and to write and enforce laws in our name. The insurrectionists last week were trying to steal that right from us by installing their own people instead. We cannot allow that to be considered acceptable or we will lose everything in this country.
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  907. Yes, because he would want to make a case of one of the very few crimes committed by immigrants, and ignore the thousands killed by non-immigrants, and the millions of immigrants that don't commit crimes. Because he's racist.
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  908.  @janellestuckey8477 So that's how you know what sort of people they are.
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  909.  @monksoup669 Speaker Nancy never tore up a government record though, on TV or otherwise. Donald Trump did it often though.
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  910.  @AndySaenz  I can only take Sarah Sanders at her word that she is a liar, why do you doubt her?
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  911.  @ryann4904  They do though.
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  912. Trump is currently actively complaining for Republicans to block any efforts to fix the border. That is not in the past, it is right now.
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  913. Sadly, too many of them are Fox News viewers, and don't.
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  914.  @alliwishis_2  I assumed it was just "she disagreed with the golden calf, occasionally."
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  915. But Kevin, your boss Trump said Putin was a really cool dude. You aren't disagreeing with the fuhrer, are you?
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  916.  @XgiannettoX  Exactly. Biden managed to keep inflation in the US WAY lower than in countries with conservative governments like the UK. The dollar has been extremely strong against foreign currencies.
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  917.  @mikemyers7539  There would still be like 212 members. That's more than the House started with.
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  918.  @mikemyers7539  The Republican members, sure, but there are plenty of Democrats in the House too, just not currently a majority of them.
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  919. The only hope for the Republican party is for good people to not vote Republican until they realize this. So long as they think they can still win elections while courting crazy, they'll never stop.
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  920.  @batalay  If it cost you money then you were shortselling or invested with shortsellers. Don't do that.
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  921.  @cynthiamartin2197  "Cruel and unusual," we have a whole constitution saying we should be better than that.
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  922.  @TothelastMan  No country does any better than this. Try again.
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  923.  @philipnacevicius3661  I don't know what you're asking for. Are you asking for countries that handle their border worse than thee US? Mexico, for one. But like I said, nobody handles their border better.
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  924. Yup, elect Republicans, and things only get worse.
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  925.  @DemonKingBadger  "How were they victims, they didn't fight back enough?"
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  926.  @thisismyyoutubecommentacco6302  The loan was repaid, but at a more favorable rate than if he'd been honest, so they lost money on those loans. And again, even if he repaid the loan, the potential that he might not puts the system at risk. You aren't allowed to lie about something "so long as you get away with it." As to your example, if an appraiser overvalued your home, then you would not be at risk for using his valuation. The issue in THIS case is that no such independent appraisal was done, the company made their own inaccurate appraisals.
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  927.  @QuestionAllHarmNone  There have been relatively few modern wars won this way. It is a poor strategy in the long term.
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  928.  @MojaveWrangler77  The US has already done all they can to get Russia to pull out. All they can do now is ensure that Ukraine has the weapons to finish it themselves.
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  929.  @danieldevito6380  Sure you can. Why do you think you couldn't?
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  930. Trump said dead soldiers were suckers.
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  931.  @AndrewTSq  No, that's why it was as close as it was. If not for the idiots, Biden would have won 81m to zero.
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  932.  @bq6162  Did you want it to be more than that?
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  933.  @garypeterson9745  I think you're repeating hearsay there, not evidence.
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  934.  @josemorrasge8100  If you believe that, then you are a poor consumer of information.
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  935.  @Qthekat1984  You misplaced your decimal point. He was right 0.0099% of the time.
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  936.  @bq6162  He said Jones was talking about this a long time ago. There is no "this" to be talking about, because the new information does not actually say anything. All it says is that the lawyers against Maxwell searched her phone for a bunch of prominent people. It says nothing about them finding anything involving them.
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  937.  @brianlain4164  Ok, name ten things that Alex Jones said, was mocked for at the time he said them, but turned out to be accurate in the end.
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  938.  @Qthekat1984  That's something Hunter said, yes. There is no evidence that this was not merely a lie to get himself an extra 10%. There is no evidence of Joe Biden ever receiving "10%."
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  939.  @janicesellers3618  You're half right. A huge part of this country despises Joe, yes, but they are not "sane," as you put it. Those same people actually like Donald Trump, who is objectively worse in every possible way, so how could anyone regard them as "sane?"
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  940.  @MS-mr4zm  Ok, you argue that he has a 70% accuracy rating. I've asked people to give me ten examples of things that Jones has said which were controversial at the time, but turned out to be true. So far, nobody has been able to list even ONE such example. Can you?
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  941.  @juanio7036  A "conspiracy nut" s the same thing as a "liar." It means "propagating things which are not true."
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  942.  @chrisp9046  You believe that, this does not make it true, however. I asked for things that are true. Chemical runoff from agriculture has been an ongoing issue, and widely acknowledged by the mainstream scientific community, but the magical thinking Jones applies to it is where he dips into fantasy. It certainly has no link to gender related topics.
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  943.  @barefootkid592.0  You do realize that if you added together every single person who attended a Trump rally, they would not have been enough people to win him even a single swing state? If the US President was determined by "how many people attended their rallies," then we would have President Taylor Swift right now. Democrats don't attend rallies, they attend polling places.
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  944. So it IS a fact that Gorsuch was not wearing a mask, even during the Omicron surge? THAT is the story here. He should do better than that. He has a responsibility to the American people.
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  945. This is coming from a channel that has made it their BRAND to "stop people from believing what they see."
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  946. Pretty soon conservatives will have nothing left that they aren't boycotting. They're basically boycotting the modern world at this point (which I suppose is no surprise).
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  947. Man, things would be so much easier if Republican could read.
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  948. Yeah,. how would anyone on Faux know what a journalist even is? They've probably never met one in person.
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  949. In terms of leadership? Obviously.
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  950. It's true. Johnson has accomplished nothing. He's just a bench-warmer for Speaker Jeffries.
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  951. The headline says Biden when what it says is about his opponent.
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  952. How could they "find more evidence on Biden every week" when they haven't even found ANY evidence yet? All they find is more wackos claiming that evidence exists, just like Sasuatch and the Loch Ness monster, but there is more actual evidence for both of those than there is of Joe Biden's supposed "corruption." This is what weaponized government looks like.
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  953. Mitch McConnell is incompetent, as are all the currently serving Republicans, but Blake Masters lost his election because he looks like The Joker and is in some ways actually worse, not because of Mitch.
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  954. This is not Soviet Russia, we do not do that here.
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  955. "You can't hold us accountable for our actions because then we will abuse those laws in future" is a dumb argument to make, because Republicans will just abuse those laws in future regardless of anything Democrats do. the past several decades have been a long chain of Republicans threatening Democrats not to do something or the Republicans would abuse it later, and then the Republicans abusing that thing the first chance they got whichever way the Democrats decided. Hold people accountable for their actions ALWAYS, including when they try to illegally abuse that authority.
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  956. If you'd actually worked in government you would know how untrue that is. Government workers have good unions, you would probably get in trouble, but probably not be fired, even if you took a week or more off.
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  957.  @JustDoingChelle  Ah, so you're a persona then. Fun bit.
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  958.  @carmiethompson2676  My point was, it would be pretty much impossible to fire a government employee over a few missed days. Worst case they would get slightly lower performance reviews.
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  959.  @carmiethompson2676  Austin is still better than anyone who was appointed by Trump to any position. You're making a mountain out of a mole hill.
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  960.  @JustDoingChelle  Right, a persona. That's cool, you do you, If I may make some notes though, it's a pretty played out core though. The whole "I used to be a Democrat, but the rise in authoritarianism has pushed me into their arms" bit is just SO cliche at this point. It's basically the stock character of the Internet comment sections, even though no such actual humans exist. Maybe try to pick something a bit more realistic.
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  961.  @JustDoingChelle  See, that all came from a chatbot list of talking points. It's not FUN. It's not original, it's not human. Sure, "an actual previous Democrat thinks that Trump, Desantis, or Ramaswamy might be a viable candidate for public office." Sure, that's a hilarious satire, but it lacks any sort of realism. It plays your hand too quickly. If you want anyone to believe you, you need to present a more plausible premise than "caught brain in a cuisinart and now I think Ramaswamy might make a decent President."
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  962.  @JustDoingChelle  Look, you say things like "You can't possibly buy into his dellusional stories," and yet you ALSO claim that you're torn between the three stooges, so which of those things are true? They can't possibly both be true. You can dislike Biden if you want, but you have to at least admit that he's more on top of it than any of those three you listed.
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  963. We're in the "find out" phase.
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  964. This is what Faux News tells you to believe, at least. The facts tell a very different story.
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  965. They tried to pass it several months ago, the Republicans shut it down.
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  966.  @wazscupfishes  The MAGA cult, you mean? Yeah, every one of them in handcuffs for the damage they've done. The DoJ is at least off to a good start though, yeah?
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  967.  @canman5060  I think your info is a little outdated. That was certainly true a few years back, but they've cleaned house since then, and restored the Justice Department to what it should be. Now they only go after actual criminals for doing actual crimes, rather than just targeting political enemies like the previous administration.
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  968.  @canman5060  But the important thing to keep in mind is that is something that only happened in your imagination, which is completely different than Trump's crimes, which happened in the real world. Too many MAGA cultists lose track of that distinction.
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  969. Why would anyone listen to a word that Baghdad Bob has to say on anything?
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  970. She was talking about Trump supporters. She wasn't wrong, obviously.
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  971.  @Skullmanog  Then she wasn't talking about you.
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  972.  @Renzy-LuLu  What Hillary gets up to in your imagination is nobody's business but your own.
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  973. MAGA Republicans is a slur outside of the Narnia bubble.
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  974. It is in mature company.
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  975.  @darthmalagus  Trump's campaign manager gave internal campaign documents to a known Russian intelligence asset. Russian social media farms then targeted specific swing districts with anti-Hillary content leading up to the election, and if Trump had lost those districts, he would have lost the election. Was that "collusion?" I guess you decide on that one.
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  976.  @duncanbauer7309  Those same "some" would consider a white robe with a pointy hat to be a "badge of honor." That doesn't make them right.
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  977.  @petersmith6145  That's not Bidenomics though. Bidenomics is what kept the price from getting higher than that.
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  978.  @richardclifton4120  Man, if you knew the actual economics figures right now, you would be so embarrassed.
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  979.  @carolbatchelder1  I never said that I did.
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  980. Why are conservatives trigged by this? It's just showing respect for other human beings. Ohhhhhh, that's why.
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  981.  @UmbilicaLashed  It's because I live in the real world that I can recognize Narnia when I see it.
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  982.  @UmbilicaLashed Who's arguing that we don't have borders? Is that what they've been telling you in Narnia? That there are people saying we don't have borders?
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  983. It's not hard. Literally ALL it would take is Mitch McConnell putting it on the floor, OR the other Republicans removing him as Majority Leader. Either would work.
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  984.  @diegojines-us9pc  Hunter has already offered to plead guilty to some of his crimes, he's not really claiming to be innocent, but at the same time, he is currently on trial, so he can't say anything that would hurt his defense in those cases. But yes, Trump is also guilty of many crimes.
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  985. There was no virus in New York's Chinatown at that time. The virus in New York came from European visitors, not Asian ones, so New York's Chinatown was no more dangerous than Little Italy.
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  986. Nope, Jon Stewart got it right. It was Republicans that did this. Fox News is the one trying to hide their shame. Shumer did not cause this, the Democrats voted in favor of the bill. It was 25 Republicans who had voted for the bill months ago and chose not to vote for it this time that are to blame. Toomey is wrong, and he knows he was wrong. He is saying that because he knows that there will be people stupid enough to believe him without actually looking into the details, and that Fox News hires those people.
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  987. This was a staged event, all the "customers" were Trump supports called in specifically. Why are you not reporting this?
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  988. Yeah, they should have just been honest that she could not tell whether he'd used his finger or his. . . other thing.
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  989. Yeah, but then he got removed and replaced by Biden, so it's better pretty nice since then.
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  990.  @JohnDoe-ew3xt  No, Trump committed treason when he went against the US Constitution in fall 2020/Jan 2021. That's sort of what caused all this mess.
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  991.  @Electricslam77  What a self-burn.
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  992.  @Electricslam77  "The best you got" was a joke about banging old ladies. Why should I need to bring my A-game to a grade school fight? Hit me with a serious political argument and I'll respond in kind. Behave like a rude child, and be treated accordingly.
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  993. Well, they are allowed to take as much land from Russia as Russia has taken from them. It's only fair.
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  994. I don't think it's remotely accurate to say that we've made them feel comfortable. Certainly Faux News has not.
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  995.  @ashot8794  Q relies on you being uneducated sheep that only listen to conspiracy theory nonsense. If any of Q's followers were educated, they would recognize him for the charlatan that he is. Also they would know what the word "charlatan" means.
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  996.  @mikeguderjohn9105  Their own words. McConnell said straitout that he did not intend to live up to his oath of impartiality, and has been coordinating with the White House on this, which would make living up to that oath impossible.
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  997. So Governor Youngkin is another pro=-groomer Republican? I'm not surprised.
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  998. Yeah, the war should be over soon. Putin is weak.
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  999. There can be no threat to democracy greater than allowing an established autocrat from taking it over. Germany learned this in the 30s. The 14th exists for a reason, traitors have no place holding public office.
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  1000. MAGA bashing would not be a Hatch Act violation. MAGA is a clear and present danger to the US, and a valid topic of official White House communication.
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  1001. It's not really in his jurisdiction, but he might pardon him if it came to that.
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  1002. Meanwhile, Trump lawyers go down in disgrace every single night. And then they get up, wipe off, and head home.
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  1003. Yup, he was just following the Obama administration's orders to remove that corrupt prosecutor, and he got the job done, like he always does. Nothing more to see there.
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  1004. Only after the House ignored 200 years of House precedent though, so fair's fair, right?
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  1005. That wouldn't be accurate. The correct term would be "immigrant."
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  1006.  @igorm6944  Why it IS the correct term. "Invader" wouldn't apply, since there is no army involved, no attempt at conquest.
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  1007. Well, Trump certainly tried it while he was in office. The thing is though, this is not political. He actually did the crimes for which he is charged. It would be political if they didn't hold him accountable for them like anyone else.
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  1008.  @bigswampy6073  Yup, he lives rent free in the minds of conservatives. Everyone else has to clean up their feces.
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  1009.  @tammyorton6356  It doesn't matter whether they believe in Jesus or not. What matters is what people who claim to believe in Jesus do with their lives. If people are going to invoke Jesus' name as a justification for their own behavior, then shouldn't they at least be following Jesus' teachings while doing so? Ideally, an Atheist would follow Jesus's teachings, and typically, most do, better than many Christians do, but if someone is going to weird Christ's name like a weapon, they had better at least be using it right. Also, you are yourself completely misunderstanding Jesus' teachings. He would NEVER agree with you that "do unto others" entitles ANYONE to ignore the hardships of others. "do unto others is not some bare minimum standard, where if you view someone as treating others poorly, that gives you license to treat them poorly. "Do unto others" means that REGARDLESS of how someone else behaves, you should treat them as you would want to be treated. You are taking the Lord's name in vain by attempting to invoke Him falsely.
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  1010.  @Liberalismisadisease809  Sodom and Gomorrah had nothing to do with LGBT people. It had to do with rapists, like Donald Trump. And yet a lot of the people who complain about "woke culture" (which the Bible does not have any problem with), also claim they would vote for Donald Trump, someone who personally embodies everything the Bible stands against.
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  1011.  @unitedhearts1341  The only people "sinning" in this situations are those who are trying to oppress LGBT people for being as God made them.
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  1012. Sadly, we live in a country of laws, and no jury could convict him on treason charges when he's never done any treason. It would also be unethical to just charge him with crimes that he did not commit. He never even provided aid and comfort to the Jan 6th insurrectionists. The DoJ's hands are tied on this one by the Constitution.
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  1013. It's been well reported that Obama was the one who wanted that corrupt prosecutor removed, since the prosecutor was a Russian agent. Joe was just following orders.
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  1014. I don't think that would be a concern. I think he just values Austin's contributors and it would be a shame to replace him.
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  1015.  @WetNets75  Look, I know you want him to be fired, for. . . reasons, let's say, but that doesn't mean that he should.
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  1016.  @WetNets75  No, I agree with you, he hasn't done a thing wrong before this, an exemplary service record, so it would be dumb to kick him out over this.
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  1017.  @jeromyzwiers1452  We voted that administration out two years ago. Stop re-litigating the past.
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  1018. Yup, the House Weaponizing Government Committee should be ashamed of themselves.
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  1019. So far there's no evidence of wrongdoing on Joe Biden's part, the suspicion is entirely on his son. At the very least we can agree that nothing Hunter's been accused of is anything as bad as what Jared Kushner is known to have done on the record.
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  1020.  @voteredsaveamerica  The secret to being the best at lying is for the things you say to actually be true. Biden has mastered this, while Trump only pretends.
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  1021. She has a more conservative voting record than most Republicans. It's the Trump supporters that are RINOs.
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  1022.  @robertallen7025  If a Republican understood what an American should be, then they wouldn't be a Republican.
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  1023. and over much worse potential crimes!
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  1024. Same place.
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  1025. He already did that yesterday. What more can he say?
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  1026. Vivek got beat in a half dozen debates by "none of the above."
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  1027.  @robertslugg8361  Yup, that was "make Germany great again" in action.
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  1028.  @kevinpreston5590  From places where casual criminals can acquire them.
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  1029.  @KryptonArcher  You should educate yourself then, because Switzerland has much more strict gun control than the US does.
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  1030.  @BaxterBlue  Nothing about America's freedoms require guns. The other first world countries are no less free than America is, they just have fewer homicides.
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  1031.  @BaxterBlue  Gun ownership has nothing to do with civil liberties.
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  1032.  @KryptonArcher  Whichever source you looked it up on was unreliable then. Find better sources. Really "the first thing you saw" is rarely the best source available. Learn to be a better researcher.
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  1033.  @KryptonArcher  Also, the Swiss watch the same shows we do, typically dubbed.
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  1034.  @PrisonPreacher  Well, for one thing, most criminals purchase their weapons legally, so cutting off that option will take a lot of guns out of their hands. Second, most guns in the black market were either purchased or stolen from people who bought them legally, so removing those from the market further narrows their options. Once the sources are removed, any time a criminal is caught with a weapon, it would be removed from circulation, and over time, almost none would be left.
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  1035.  @PearlMagnolia  Laws work well, when they are well designed and carried out. We know this from the many other countries that DO have these laws, and have far fewer homicides as a result.
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  1036.  @kamwickw933  Really, Germany in the 1930s only went wrong BECAUSE of civilian gun ownership. The democratic government there was overthrown by civilians with guns, and that's when the problems started.
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  1037.  @PearlMagnolia  Would you rather be attacked with a machete or an AR-15?
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  1038.  @KryptonArcher  You need to look more into the Swiss legal system if you think the story you're presenting is accurate. They have much more significant limitations on gun ownership, gun carrying, and ammo access than you are claiming. It's possible that you are only looking at one tiny portion of their legal codes, and think that it supports your position, but are ignoring all the other legal codes they have surrounding gun possession.
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  1039.  @321hair  That would only make things worse.
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  1040.  @KryptonArcher  No, I'm saying that your interpretation of them is incomplete. You are clearling missing a few things, like how tightly ammo is controlled, or how open and concealed carry permits are extremely limited, or how you are required to report any stolen or misplaced weapons, and all transfers of ownership are carefully tracked. Also, many types of weapons that can be purchased in the US would require special, discretionary permitting. Also, there are strict limitations on safely storing your weapon, rather than just suggestions.
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  1041.  @kevinpreston5590  Men can get pregnant, if they are trans. That's not "ideology," it is biology.
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  1042. Yup, never expect intelligence from a Faux News audience, and you'll never be surprised.
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  1043. I mean the crime issue is pretty simple, conservative courts struck down a lot of laws that would make it harder for criminals to get guns, so there is more crime going on. It really has nothing to do with who is governor at the time.
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  1044. This is exactly their place.
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  1045.  @patsysoyars4435  Yes, that is exactly the job that they were either elected or appointed to, to certify that all candidates on the ballot meet the required qualifications.
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  1046. In prison for what? What was illegal here?
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  1047.  @shannonbolin7641  "She." The story's about Beau Biden's widow. And what is she "compromised" on. You sad that they would be prisoners, so that indicates that you believe they committed a crime. What crime? I mean, we know why the Jan 6th folks are in jail, they attempted an insurrection, there is footage of that. What crime do you believe Hallie Biden committed?
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  1048. That would not be justice, that is not how "justice" works. Do you even know what that word means?
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  1049. Befitting other countries around the world IS putting America first, because problems ignored abroad will become problems on US soil if left unchecked. To think that "America first" means "ignoring the rest of the world," only allows America's enemies to defeat us. It is a pro-China, pro-Russian policy.
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  1050. They won't, they prefer to run on chaos than to actually solve border problems.
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  1051. Meh, Roosevelt was one of our best Presidents and he did it out of a wheelchair, I am not worried about how well Biden walks, I care that he is a better President than the guy before him.
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  1052.  @YankeeDoodle2  You obviously never paid attention to the guy before him. He was a complete fiasco.
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  1053. By weight? Yeah, I guess.
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  1054.  @davidwhitten3596  On the American Rescue Plan. Now if jobs are what you care about, make sure your Senators help get the Infrastructure plan through the senate fast. That would create a ton of quality jobs.
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  1055.  @davidwhitten3596  No, I meant the 100% that went to supporting Americans though the covid crisis.
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  1056.  @davidwhitten3596  No, 100% going to actual covid relief. Your definition of "covid relief" is just too narrow. Is relief to state and local governments whos budgets were hit by covid not "covid relief?" Is increasing the child tax credit so that parents can better take care of their families not "covid relief?" Is expanded unemployment benefits not "covid relief?" Is direct payments to individuals to cover their expenses not "covid relief?" Is money to support small businesses that were hit by covid not "covid relief?" Everything in the bill in some way helps to cover the costs that covid had on the economy and on people's lives. I'm not sure which elements specifically you think are "covid relief," but the correct answer is "all of it."
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  1057.  @davidwhitten3596  Yes, obviously the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy drove a massive hole in the budget, but you have to spend money to make money. A major reason that it took so long to get out of the Bush recession was that they did not provide enough stimulus spending in 2009. We can't make that mistake again. It is the responsible role of government to pave over the gaps in the economy, to make sure that everyone has what they need in times of crisis, and then to recover from that in times of plenty.
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  1058.  @davidwhitten3596  The recession was last year.
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  1059.  @davidwhitten3596  If another recession comes then we'll take the steps to deal with it, so long as McConnell doesn't block those efforts in the Senate. If he does, well we'll just need to get a few Republicans out of the Senate, I guess. Economic downturns come and go. I see no reason why we would have one any time soon though, despite your insistence.
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  1060.  @TrollingwTyrone  Including yourself, apparently, because that's not how it works. "Printing money" can reduce the value of the dollar, but the pitiful implosion of the economy hurt it far more. If we'd had a robust stimulus package in early summer to keep the economy stable through covid, yes, those costs would add up, but the confidence that we were working our way past this problem would leave the economic impact rather neutral. Basically it would be a show to the rest of the world that "we were good for it." Instead, by basically doing nothing about both the economic issues AND the virus, and allowing it to run rampant through the country, the rest of the world saw us for the shitshow we'd become, and that has caused some issues.
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  1061. Everything scares you. If you weren't so easily terrified, you couldn't be conservatives.
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  1062. Give him a few hundred million dollars and I'm sure he could get the same type of women Don does. Better, probably.
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  1063.  @shack8110  Well, it depends, did they do crimes? If they want to do crimes, they probably should be worried. But if they didn't do crimes, they'll be fine.
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  1064.  @favoureds11  The Constitution leaves the door open to kick people out just because you don't like them. It is then the responsibility of Congress to NOT do that. The only people who have EVER threatened to do that have been Republicans, aimed at Democrats. This is not such a case.
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  1065.  @stalker7892  I misread that as "to account for their dereliction of duty for not castrating Trump," but honestly that holds up too.
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  1066.  @rabbitramen  Prosecutors aren't paid extra depending on the outcome of a case. They just get paid their salaries like anyone else.
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  1067.  @erics3737  This sort of financial crime isn't exactly a common occurrence. Nobody is budgeting off of cases like this one.
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  1068.  @Tijuanabill  They aren't "handing it out," they're going to use it on the taxpayer's interest. I hear there's a problem with unhoused migrants, for example, they can use it on that. It'll do more good than the wall did.
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  1069.  @gladtech4740  Doctors do good though. Guns do not do as much good as doctors do. If doctors killed as many people as guns, while providing as few benefits, you'd be right that doctors would be illegal.
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  1070.  @joshmiller8663  The "of the people" part is contingent on them being a part of the well regulated militia, otherwise, what would even be the point of the first statement? "The people" in that context are "the people of the militia," ie, the national guard.
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  1071.  @kevinpreston5590  And when the definition of a militia shifted over the years, the group of people it applied to also shifted.
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  1072.  @kevinpreston5590  Militia used to mean everyone. Since 1792, militia only meant the formal State Militias as defined by that act, and as of 1916, it means the National Guard. Weapons should only exist to defend the people of the nation from foreign threat, as the founders intended.
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  1073.  @kevinpreston5590  Then why did they write the laws that way? If they didn't intend it that way, they could have left the militia element out entirely, or not updated the definition of what a "militia" is within a few years of drafting the Constitution. What do you believe they meant, if it wasn't what they actually said?
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  1074. You need a bill to better fund the border services so that any changes you make will actually work. Simple "declaring" the border closed does not actually do anything.
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  1075. That's certainly Fox New's strategy. The actual news channels just report the news as it exists. If that makes some people appear to be "demons" to you, then maybe they aren't such great people.
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  1076. I think Clarence Thomas would actually side with Trump, not against him. It's likely to be 5/4 either way it goes though. It depends how many of the court's Republicans are willing to put the constitution before party.
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  1077.  @BirchBlock  That would be nice, but unfortunately the court has been grossly broken by the Federalist Society, and they are currently just an engine to pump out conservative policy decisions, regardless of the constitution. But yes, let's get back to the SCOTUS you wish we had, elect more Democrats and it might happen.
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  1078.  @alanlinfield8207  Clarence Thomas will side with his sugar daddies every single time. The constitution has nothing to do with it.
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  1079.  @OXXXG  Jesus disagreed.
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  1080. I don't think he said that. Where did he say that?
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  1081.  @catherinequigley569  This happens in mob trials too. The fact remains that Trump overvalued his properties, and this is against the law. What is the problem with following the law instead?
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  1082.  @russell-gt1dy  So?
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  1083.  @johnhoran9840  Russia fakes their economic data, and you bought into it.
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  1084.  @wildfire160  Nope.
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  1085.  @TheRealJoeMama1  You're projecting. I told the truth, you told the fairytale version.
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  1086.  @clintcava1344  You do understand that Trump was blacklisted from most banks because of his habit of defaulting on his debts, right? The ones that took him were the few left that would do so, mostly for shady reasons. Nobody was fighting over his business.
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  1087. If Trump didn't want so many indictments, then he probably shouldn't have done so many crimes, right? I mean, look at Joe, he didn't do any crimes, so he's had no indictments. It's really not that hard to manage.
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