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Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 41.6 / 55.6 | -14.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 45.5 / 52.1 | -6.6 |
 | GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +21 | 207 | 228 |
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
103 responses to “Sitting on the train with nothing to do open thread.”
BL…”There is no number of weeks that everybody will agree on regarding abortion. We had a “National policy” under Roe.”
I know it’s ridiculous. Trump logic. Everything is “art of the deal.”
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Trump is just another weak caving politician saying one thing to the conservative base to get elected… to only govern like a moderate.
GOP elected officials that are weak and cave to the left cause more damage to this country than woke Commie Dems.
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3rd….just like the Mets next season
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I am checking out on daily politics after the primary. I just can’t handle the “what stupid thing did Trump say or do today?”
Baseball season can’t get here soon enough.
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Request denied. Somebody has to continue the DeSantis/Trump debate with Jan. I am voting for Haley because of Ukraine so I have no vested interest in DeSantis or Trump.
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Nikki Haley skipped out on the one on one CNN interview after the debate last night and had Sununu do it for her. She definitely lost her composure last night and could never get it back.
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President Trump in Iowa: “I wouldn’t support a Covid shutdown.”
“I’m a federalist.”
After what he put our country through in 2020.
1. Trump either thinks you’re stupid enough to not remember he signed off on shutting down our country.
2. He is lying.
3. He is going senile and really believes what he is saying.
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I am still keenly interested in seeing who the Democrats are going to run for POTUS. Or the better verb is appoint for POTUS, as they take Biden’s delegates and give them to someone else.
–DW
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Headline: San Francisco Votes for a “Ceasefire” With Hamas
I guess no one has told them that if Hamas ran San Francisco, on day one all those who identify with the alphabet letters would be thrown off the tops of buildings.
Would wipe out nearly the entire population of the city.
–DW
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I didn’t watch the debate but the Golden Calf won hands down.
I base this on the fact he was the only candidate on stage who wasn’t a shameless despicable BLM panderer without one ounce of principle or conviction.
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Here is an update to my polling averages chart, showing changes from the last time I posted it. Good news in Michigan, but tightening in PA. Again, Trump lead shown in positive, his deficit in the negative.
IA 10.6
OH 9.8
FL 9.1
TX 7.5
GA 6.4
AZ 6.0
NC 5.8
MI 5.1 (was 3.9) (278 EVs for Trump)
NV 3.4
PA 0.8 (was 2.2)
WI 0.0
MN -2.7
ME -4.0
VA -4.8
CO -7.0
NH -7.5
NM -8.0
The first time since 1988 that a Republican candidate leads in the averages of polling, to get to 270, outside the margin of error.
–DW
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New general election polling this morning:
I&I/TIPP
Trump 41
Biden 40
Reuters/Ipsos
Trump 48
Biden 48
–DW
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BOOM
Rasmussen Reports
Generic Ballot:
Republicans 49
Democrats 40
–DW
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Those are not good numbers for Trump. If shows there is a lot of resistance to his candidacy, with Biden’s approval numbers the R should be solidly ahead.
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Generic ballot numbers are good.
If Rs don’t win at least one branch of government the Dems will pretty much institute one party rule with HR-1, blanket citizenship for illegals, end of filibuster, packing of SCOTUS, etc.
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Paging hee haw and the ga ag:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/attorney-clevenger-concerned-citizens-need-not-wait-politicians/
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A good wrap up of Fat F–k Chrities” candidacy by Stephen Kruiser. I hope we never hear from this pathetic loser media whore blowhard ever again, but it’s probably too much to ask.
“Christie’s was the worst of the Trump tantrums in this Republican field. He was the first of the failed 2016 candidates to endorse Donald Trump. Christie remained a confidante through 2020. Daddy apparently didn’t give him enough hugs, and the relationship soured.
When Christie announced that he would be throwing his hat in the ring for the 2024 race, it made even less sense than the bids of Asa Hutchinson and Doug Burgum. Christie doesn’t even have the ditzy charm of the Democrats’ Marianne Williamson to offer voters.
Chris Christie did provide some value to the Republicans for a very brief time back when people still went to Blockbuster Video to rent DVDs. Whatever usefulness he offered to the GOP had almost completely disappeared by the time he ran in 2016. Vitriol about Trump from an attention-seeking disgruntled Republican is cheaper than a Hunter Biden promise of fidelity these days, yet that’s all Christie brought to the race this time around.
One doesn’t need to run for president to be able to cash in on the “Republican who hates Donald Trump” grift, which makes Christie’s motivation for 2024 even more difficult to ascertain.
Most of the usual reasons for running a fringe vanity campaign don’t apply in this election. The main players didn’t need a higher profile in order to rake in some cash from the party’s money people. Vivek angling for a spot in the Trump administration makes a little sense. Christie had to be in it just because his ego was telling him to run.
Prior to expressing his concern about the hate and division that Trump has created in the GOP, Christie was badmouthing his rival Nikki Haley, per Matt’s post. So, he’s a squish egomaniac who is also full of it.”
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Arguing about Covid lockdowns is stupid and why Rds fell apart.
Punishing the Ccp and prosecution Fraudci is thr correct answer. Nikita will do neither.
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San Francisco was fighting Hamas? Who knew?
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Zzzzzzzzzz
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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/headline-cpi-hotter-expected-december-supercore-accelerating
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John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte
@NolteNC
Trump should call his mass deportation program… The Democrats-run City Bailout.
6:34 AM · Jan 11, 2024
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Yikes.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/10/jan-6-georgia-trump-probe-00134941
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I don’t see how hee haw and the ag don’t act.
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Pretty sure this was the spread in 2022 at some point early. Didn’t matter.
Rasmussen Reports
Generic Ballot:
Republicans 49
Democrats 40
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Seems like Kemp the spineless wonder does indeed have enough to at least appoint someone to look into this.
Not holding my breath.
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The useless r ag can also look into it. Kemp is a disaster. He is scared of the ga blob.
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Another general election poll:
Noble Predictive Insights / The Center Square
Jan. 2-4
2,364 LV
Biden 36%
Trump 41%
Kennedy 10%
–DW
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without Kennedy,
Trump 45
Biden 41
–DW
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and the Noble Predictive generic ballot
GOP 44
Dem 41
–DW
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More fat comments from Tina. Zzzzzz
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https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1745251068903039388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1745251068903039388%7Ctwgr%5Ed900a26e2235fd00cecf09e02ddb0df4a5494599%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconservativetreehouse.com%2Fblog%2F2024%2F01%2F11%2Fjanuary-11th-2024-presidential-politics-resistance-day-1087%2F
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I watched some of the DeSantis/Haley debate, but found it mostly involved lobbing jabs at each other. Read a few comments by people tuning in to it who described it as a “disaster,” and would not change many minds. I then watched a replay of Trump’s Town Hall on Fox. Apparently fox had 2 other town Hall events featuring candidates, and according to the Fox hosts they were much smaller than the one last night. As for Trump, he was relaxed, informative and answered questions congenially from the audience, staying afterwards to talk and mingle with the crowd – many who said they were caucusing for him.
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Lunch time…I got a text from my baseball podcast friend who lives outside Des Moines and is very involved in the GOP Caucus every election cycle. He goes to as many events as possible for most of the candidates in the Des Moines area.
He texted the enthusiasm for Trump is significantly lower than 2016. Very few flags & signs. Events crowd lines are much lower than ever before filled with diehards that travel a couple hours. He is a leaning Haley supporter but thinks it will be closer than what he polls are saying.
It’s antidotal but I have heard similar things over the last few weeks on social media.
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Back in mid-November it seems Rich Baris (BIG DATA POLL) did a collection of rust belt state polls. Not sure how they got missed. I saw the PA one at the time but not the others. Silver won’t post Baris’ polls, despite their accuracy, because they each hate each other’s guts.
WI: Trump 40 / Biden 38
PA: Trump 40 / Biden 36
MN: Trump 38 / Biden 37
MI: Trump 42 / Biden 37
OH: Trump 43 / Biden 30
–DW
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On DeSantis he said his crowds have been growing since January 1st and thinks he will get a lot of late breakers.
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I think JeffP disingenuously tries to nail Trump for his COVID response arising during the early stages of recognizing, reacting to it, creating policy to constrain it, dealing individually with each state’s needs, etc. is so phony. It wasn’t until May of 2020 that even DeSantis started to individuate with his own policies, not having 49 other states to intervene for or change their ways of confronting COVID. Basically, there was a night and day type of responsibility between one governor of one state and a president heading guidance protocols for 50 states. Trump has since said he did not support mandates, would withdraw federal funding from schools requiring masks and vaccines in the future. His explanation for Fauci was that he was the most preeminent infectious disease doctor in the country at the time, which was behind his prominent role in the Pence-led Task Force. How deceptive Fauci really was has been an incremental unmasking, initiated by Rand Paul’s confrontational questions, leading to his recent inquisition before the current Republican house committee.
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DeSantis chooses small venues holding small numbers of people. So when you say they are “packed” is sounds good.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/pentagon-report-reveals-1-billion-weapons-sent-ukraine/
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Those are some very low percentages for both. I don’t think people are very excited about a rematch.
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Don’t cross Jan’s Trump Trinity. Polls, crowds and ratings it triggers her.
BTW the God made Trump video is blasphemy.
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“JeffP disingenuously tries to nail Trump for his COVID response”
It is about as genuine as you want to accept reality.
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@elonmusk
“By “misinformation”, WEF means anything that conflicts with its agenda.”
True. His awakening is interesting.
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Vince Langman
@LangmanVince
Morning America: The entire radical left is coming at President Trump from every possible angle, and he was still able to do a Fox News town hall last night with 2 Never Trumpers, and he freaking kill it!
#TrumpTownHall
Lots of positive reviews on DJT’s Town hall performance last night. As time goes on I think it was an astute move not to join the debates, where little was accomplished except to bicker and diss each other. Instead, at the Town hall solid questions were posed about abortion, COVID response, the border, the economy, clarification on his “retribution,” dictatorship comments, and would his government be chaotic.
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It’s so silly. Trump is afraid to debate because RDS would rip him apart on policy and keep him accountable for caving to the left.
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” Don’t cross Jan’s Trump Trinity. Polls, crowds and ratings it triggers her.”
DW posts poll numbers, something I rarely do or remark on. Crowds I do comment on, as I’m amazed on how Trump is able to continue to attract such large, happy, enthusiastic numbers of people. Your anecdotal post about decreasing attendance is simply not true. Ratings?
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When Trump loses in 2024, how long will it take for Jan to start the Trump 2028 movement?
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Oh Bitter….poke away.
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Bitter, I am fairly confident that Trump would defeat Biden in a general election matchup. Unfortunately, Biden is not going to be on the ballot.
–DW
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Keep thinking a RINO billionaire is fighting for you. I expect Trump to be the nominee. I expect that he will lose (fraud will not decide it) to the candidate substituted for Biden. That’s how I see it.
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The following is not from a publication described as Russian propaganda or oriented around conspiracy theories. It’s an article printed in Forbes Magazine. Despite the increasing news coverage about the lack of proper oversight and massive fraud going on in Ukraine, the neocon hawks and some here want more of the same, for forever.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2024/01/11/over-1-billion-in-ukraine-military-aid-was-poorly-tracked-creating-concerns-over-risk-of-theft-pentagon-says/
U.S. and European government officials have poorly tracked military aid for Ukraine worth more than $1 billion, creating concerns the weapons have been stolen, according to a Defense Department report released Thursday, amid contested efforts by American lawmakers to provide additional funding for Ukraine’s war against Russia.
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“Concerns”without proof. Zzzzzzzz military aid to Ukraine is killing and injuring Russian invaders – Yes or No?
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DW, I have agreed with you in other posts, that Biden will not be the dem nominee. How well someone like Trump would do against an unknown “other” remans to be seen, as the dismal democrat record will follow whoever steps in for Biden.
JeffP, far from being “afraid” of debating DeSantis, Trump doesn’t see it as a worthwhile venture – literally a waste of his campaign time, specially when much of it is already being used up by politicized legal actions.
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Ukraine aid is being pilfered by corrupt officials and sold on the black market. How is that helping the common Ukrainian citizen? Also, no one has accurate stats on casualty counts on either side of the war, and, there are few to no war correspondents or on-the-ground coverage of this war, only Russia and Ukraine-owned media reports are coloring what is going on over there.
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Do you all know how to describe a horse fart?
It is an air mass
From a mare’s ass.
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Poor Leticia.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111738909109421489
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“Although ODC‑Ukraine and Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel conducted some required inventories, as of June 2, 2023, serial number inventories for more than $1.005 billion of the total $1.699 billion (59 percent of the total value) of EEUM‑designated defense articles remained delinquent.” Ny times
This is a drop in the bucket with all of the waste, fraud, and abuse. We knew this was going on.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lloyd-austins-deputy-ran-pentagon-beach-didnt-cancel-vacation
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We ar becoming a joke. The leadership is destroying our military.
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Some day our country will be invaded, and the shocked libs will whirl around to look behind them hoping to see toxic masculinity coming to their rescue, but nobody will be there, and so they will be tortured, raped, and killed.
–DW
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Comedy gold.
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Jan must think Russian soldiers are being injured and killed in trip and fall accidents than being taken out with the military aid to Ukraine.
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People (JeffP) keeps saying Trump is losing a step, getting old, might have even used the term “senile.” In fact I think DJT has looked tired during some of his back-to-back Iowa caucus events, while weaving them into his frustrating court outings. However, last night at the town hall he looked younger, invigorated and spot on in his answers., afterwards taking a lot of time talking and signing stuff with the audience. He then flew back to Ny to sit through, what must be an infuriating court room session of closing arguments, with the very weird looking and acting Judge Engoron. At the end Trump’s attorney asked if Trump could say a few words which Engoron tried to suppress. However, Trump took the microphone and said what he had to say anyway – how over-zealous and political the whole case was. It was a reckless but very fitting moment of fighting back at the injustices the politicized justice system is perpetrating on him. It reminds me of what is happening in Poland where crowds have gathered to protest government abuse and corruption…which is also similar to what happened at the J6 protest that turned into a riot after being attacked by the Capitol police. If people don’t resist injustices we will lose everything without even realizing such losses until it’s too late.
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Bitter, if you’re seriously following the war you would see Russia displaying stats in their favor and the Ukrainians doing the thing. There is no independent reporting means going on like seen in other wars. It’s basically subjectively submitted stats trying to win over public opinion as to which country is winning.
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Jan -I am following the war. I prefer dead Russians to dead Ukrainians. You either want Putin to win or you don’t. I don’t. Play all the word games you want but those are the only choices. Your beloved “negotiated settlement” is just Ukrainian surrender.
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Bitter, no word games. But I don’t depend on what I want to happen, but rather what is really happening on the ground and through reports by others who have more first hand knowledge of this war. You seem to repeat and rinse your own thoughts and wishes. That’s not reality. It’s just running around in your own head for undocumented answers.
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I arrived safely in Charleston. WV. Memorial service here at 5 p.m. for the gal who was the long time secretary for the Republicans.
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Here is the reality. Putin ordered a brutal invasion of Ukraine. Putin is 100% responsible for this war and all of the death and destruction. You want him rewarded by Ukraine’s surrender. I don’t. You look for any excuse to avoid admitting it.
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I was in elective service for 12 years. 5 hour drive to Charleston. At least 7 trips back and forth during session, then another 9 for special sessions and interim meetings. 10 hours each round trip times 16/ yr. time 12 years. The equivalent of me driving every day from home to Charleston, wave at the Capitol and drive back home and doing that every day of the month for 6 and 1/2 months. That .uch time on the road.
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https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2024/01/11/liz_cheney_vs_stefan_passantino_the_jan_6_committee_fraud_1004191.html
A damaging opinion piece by Newt Gingrich detailing the dishonest conduct of Liz Chaney during her stint on the J6 committee. Truly stunning reversal of events……
”The Republican House has since brought the Jan. 6 Committee materials back from the National Archives, and they are being studied by the Committee on House Administration. Some surprisingly bad examples of rule-breaking and simply lying to the American people are beginning to emerge.
Passantino’s courage in bringing his lawsuit will accelerate the process of learning just how bad the Jan. 6 Committee was – and reveal the depth of its most aggressive members’ dishonesty and manipulation.
History will not grant Liz Cheney or the Jan. 6 Committee members the profile in courage they wanted. It will record a profile in deception, distortion, and vengeance.
I have no doubt Stefan Passantino will emerge from this lawsuit with his integrity intact and reputation restored. I can’t say the same for Liz Cheney.”
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New…Rasmussen national poll:
BOOM
Rasmussen Reports
Jan. 7-9
968 LV
Trump 49%
Biden 41%
–DW
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/11/donald-trumps-town-hall-nearly-doubles-cnns-debate-viewership/
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Any “evidence” used from joke 6 is tainted. Loom and company purposefully and willfully destroyed evidence.
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Bitter, I’m on the side of rewarding the people of Ukraine by seeing the end of their death and the destruction of their country, whether through compromise or Russia ceding everything and leaving Ukraine. However, with elections cancelled by Zelenskyy the people literally have no say in what to do or who they want to lead them forward.
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Compromise is surrender. Why can’t you admit that? If Ukraine surrenders any territory, Putin will declare victory, rebuild his army, and invade again from positions deeper into Ukraine. How can you not see this?
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I don’t see it as you do. To me winning doesn’t mean much if you lose everything in the process – family, friends, home and essentially your country as you once knew it.
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Nikki Haley getting funded by Epstein donors
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Trump not in the club luckily https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1745597701004083241?s=20
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Damn, Bunu. Enough.
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So tired of you, Bunu.
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Some people reject subjugation. So don’t bore us with your appeals for Ukraine to stop fighting. When will you admit Putin is 100% is responsible for all the losses and Ukraine not being as people once knew it.
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Jan thinks she is a patriot and claims she is fighting for America’s future. She condemns helping Ukrainians literally fighting for their survival and their country. Both can be true as long as you are a hypocrite.
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”Jan thinks she is a patriot and claims she is fighting for America’s future. She condemns helping Ukrainians literally fighting for their survival and their country. Both can be true as long as you are a hypocrite.”
I never posted anything like this Bitter. I don’t know why you screw with my posts, reconfiguring them to fit your own fictional version.
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My VP picks so far: 1) Flynn? 2) Vivek? 3) Rand Paul?
Now I present to you my fourth outside the beltway VP
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Zzzzzzzzzz. Paulbot nonsense.
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You condemn helping Ukraine. You view Trump as a savior and are part of his fight for America’s salvation. What did I post that is untrue?
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Jan – You claim to be a nurse. If true, your indifference towards Putin’s deliberate and brutal targeting of civilians, including hospitals and schools, is appalling.
I will make this easy for you to answer. What is the result if military aid to Ukraine stops? How many subjugated Ukrainians and seized territory are enough for you? If you refuse – again – to answer, I wonder why you even post here.
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Bitter, all I can say is you are obsessed with Ukraine and Putin, and ignore all else. Whatever I say you just go back to the same litany of allegations and accusations when someone sees Ukraine’s aid differently than you do. If you don’t want me to post here anymore I won’t.
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Very stunning thst the demented called a lid while striking Yemen and the tootsies. Our country is screwed.
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“…while striking Yemen and the tootsies.”
Tootsies?
I thought they were the Hoopies.
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Keep an eye on Poland. Something significant is happening. Need to dig into this more tomorrow.
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My wife booked a “great deal” business class miles award seat for us last year to France this March. Problem is we are going out of our way to fly Qatar airlines and have an almost 24 hour layover in Doha. But with all the Hamas connections and Mideast turmoil I am not excited about leaving the airport. UAE was a really nice cosmopolitan country and we enjoyed it … but this sounds a lot different.
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This is incredible no less man made in a lab in China paid by the USA and then using an MRNA experimental vaccine that has caused untold damage and would have never passed traditional FDA standards.
NEW – Dr. Deborah Birx Says ‘Long COVID’ is Similar to HIV
“HIV quietly destroyed our immune system…We’re learning now about mitochondria and viral impact and brain fog and the changes in our neurons and the cells that nourish our neurons that really allow us to think and move, and we’re learning that because what long COVID has done.”
https://x.com/thechiefnerd/status/1745568361537216766?s=61&t=uLyKpWBwDwyCK292uUHCSA
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Jeff youll be fine in Doha. I travel to there and through there quite often, and was just there three weeks ago. It’s not as “open” and nice as the UAE, but for a day you’ll find it ok. What time of year are you going.
BTW enjoy the Q-suites. My favorite business class so far. Point to know, the 777 conversion seats are a bit wider than the A350 ones, and if you fly the 777, find a seat next to the window facing backwards. That is unless you choose the “couples” suite in the middle, which opens up completely so you sleep side by side.
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oh, wait, I just saw you’re going in March. Weather will be amazing. You’ll enjoy your day there.
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Thanks for the feedback… that’s great to hear! Yep Q Suites. A350-900 BOS-DOH and I think conversion 777 DOH-CDG. We flew Etihad last year to Abu Dhabi for a couple days and then onto Rome. Really enjoyed it. We are staying at the Hyatt by the airport in Doha. I will tell my wife not to worry…LOL.
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Jay Bhattacharya slapped down scarf lady…
“This is bad science communication that risks panicking the population over bad science. Covid is not HIV & the scientific evidence does not support that conclusion. It is very wrong to say that long covid is similar to [the long-term consequences of] HIV. “
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last post of the evening. See yall tomorrow./
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Keep posting. Putin needs you.
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But why won’t you answer my questions?
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Maybe the Gypsies?
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