Polls are still all over the place.
New Morning Consult generic ballot is D+5
Prior was D+6
- Open Weekend Thread
- Polls all over the place
- Collins leads in ME and a tie in MN
- One Point race for MN Senate
- Tie in NH Senate race
New Book:
 | GOP | DEM |
| Democrat +7 | 214 | 221 |
Open Weekend Thread
89 responses to “Open Weekend Thread”
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D+5 could save the senate, maybe.
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“Then there was leftist moron Messy, and right wing morons ssq (God is a Republican) and kim (large counties shouldn’t choose R candidates in primaries). If I helped get rid of them, I plead guilty.”
Way back in the early days, MBT (Mary Beth Tung) was a fixture on Dave’s blog. She was a candidate for the MD HoD in Howard County (where Dave resided), but after losing the 2006 cycle, gradually dropped out of sight. I think she was gone by 2008.
I challenged Messy at RRH, xhey said that xhey was a male, not female, and never posted here. I doubt that, but maybe xhey were misgendered b/c it was whiney little pinko (it insists that it is an old Jewish man).
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Messy was functionally illiterate (couldn’t spell and mangled syntax) and was ignorant as heck.
Since Jews prioritize education, I doubt she (he) was Jewish.
Originally Messy posted in tandem with someone else, maybe a boyfriend.
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“This winter [for Ukraine] will be far worse than the last: all programs to protect critical infrastructure have been halted,” says Ukrainian MP Ruslan Horbenko.
So while Western political elites and their compliant pundits keep talking about “Ukraine’s victory,” Ukrainian lawmakers themselves are describing a very different reality.
Corruption, the irrational allocation of funds, and the failure to pass necessary legislation—which in turn delayed Western financial assistance—have left Ukraine unable to adequately protect its energy infrastructure from Russian strikes this winter.
It can’t. And it is ordinary Ukrainians who will be left to face the darkness and the cold.
Not Zelensky and his clique. Ordinary people.
The same people who are endlessly told to endure, sacrifice, and suffer—while their sons are taken away and sent to what may amount to certain death.
Zelensky’s government is not merely failing its own people. It is treating their suffering with contempt.”
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Janzam is back with more Russian State Media propaganda
For her education:
“I will believe Janzam’s despicable rants against Zelensky and “tyranny” and “corruption” when she starts attacking the REAL tyrant and bloodthirsty dictator which is Putin.
When Janzam admits corruption and control of the media is 100 times worse in Russian than Ukraine we can talk about Ukraine.
Recently there were street demonstration in Ukraine to support the ousted defense minister. Has Janzam seen street demonstrations against Putin in Russia.
Russia is a police state. Ukraine has a free press although since it is at war there are some restrictions on aiding an abetting the enemy just like there were restrictions in the US during WWII.
Janzam should educate herself a little before. regurgitating Russian propaganda.
“Ukraine has a pluralistic and resilient media landscape, though wartime conditions and martial law have introduced significant pressures and reporting restrictions. [1, 2]
Current Press Freedom Status
- World Press Freedom Index: Ukraine ranked 55th out of 180 countries in the 2026 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) index, reflecting an improvement in its relative standing and legislative alignment with European standards.
- Independent Journalism: Independent outlets continue to operate, investigate corruption, and provide vital coverage, supported by structural reforms like the creation of the public broadcaster Suspilne.
- Wartime Pressures: Under martial law, journalists face operational obstacles, including frontline access restrictions, mandatory pre-publication clearance for interviews with military personnel, and occasional political or online pressure regarding critical reporting.
- Impact of the Russian Invasion: Russian military targeting, infrastructure destruction, and the complete suppression of independent media in Russian-occupied territories present severe, ongoing threats to reporters and the physical safety of media workers.”
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“Russia is ranked 172nd out of 180 countries in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders”
So Ukraine is ranked 55th and Russia 172nd while Janzam pretends they are the same.
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I am sorry this happened to Janzam and Tina.
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday thanked President Donald Trump for signing into law a bill championed by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, which allows for the expansion of sanctions on Russia related to Moscow’s ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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The U.S. approves a $2.7 billion military sale to Ukraine for air defense upgrades, financing through European contributions and FMF”
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And it is ordinary Ukrainians who will be left to face the darkness and the cold.”
Poor brainwashed Putin toady Janzam.
She admits there is horrible suffering in Ukraine.
She just forgets that the ONLY person responsible for ANY suffering in Ukraine is Putin, NOBODY else.
Trying to blame Zelensky for “Russian attacks on infrastructure” is a cruel joke.
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Janzam blaming Zelensky for the suffering in Ukraine instead of Putin is like blaming Jews for the Holocaust instead of Hitler.
So don’t tell me brainwashing doesn’t work.
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I do realize Janzam is undergoing a lot of stress lately watching Ukrainian drones blast the crap out of Russian oil and gas facilities, Wildberry warehouses, and military infrastructure all over Russia and occupied Crimea.
I know she is just besides herself that Russia is finally getting some of its own medicine.
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The freepassers are triggered by the green new deal. lol.
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Poor Jason unfortunately refuses to recognize the plight of Ukrainian citizens under the corrupt regime of Zelenskyy, who is competing with Putin’s title of dictator. If the war ends Zelenskyy will lose his immunity as president, and subject to be held accountable for the misallocation of aid funding. That’s a personal reason he doesn’t want to hold new elections.
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Volodymyr, 32, drowned while fleeing draft officers.
The incident took place in Kudashivka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, where the man ran into a patch of reeds while trying to escape draft officers.
According to a fisherman who witnessed the incident, the officers demanded that Volodymyr come out and threatened him with firearms. He refused to comply. He was later reported missing.
At some point, Volodymyr attempted to swim to the opposite bank, but disappeared beneath the water.
Divers later recovered his body at a depth of approximately five meters, about 20 meters from the shore.
He is survived by his wife and little son.
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Zelensky could have left years ago. He and his family stay at great personal risk.
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Does Marta have any stories of the murdered, wounded, tortured, kidnapped and raped Ukrainian victims of Putin?
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Bitter, you obviously only concentrate on Putin’s atrocities while ignoring the ones going on under Zelenskyy. I’ll let you and Jason tear into Putin. I’ll report on Ukraine as the Ukrainian people’s pain has no representation here.
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The war is far too lucrative for Zelenskyy to leave, and protects him from prosecution while he still has the presidency locked up.
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From the Daily Signal:
”Fifteen years after its founding, the top think tank behind the mobilization of the Hispanic American vote in favor of Republicans is now intensifying its mission. In exclusive statements obtained by the Daily Signal during an anniversary gala on Tuesday, The LIBRE Initiative and its top supporters reaffirmed the organization’s commitment to the Republican Party, limited government, the eradication of socialism, and the reinvigoration of the American dream”
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as the Ukrainian people’s pain entirely due to Putin’s invasion has no representation here.
Fixed it.
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Putin invaded Ukraine under the muddled auspices of Joe Biden’s presidency. The initial peace agreement made in 2022 was scuttled by the UK and US. The current Ukrainian and Russian governments are doing little to nothing to reach a settlement ending the war. And, those caught in the middle, suffering the most grief, are the civilians on both sides of the war.
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So much nonsense.
Putin invaded Ukraine under the muddled auspices of Joe Biden’s presidency. ZZZZZZZZ PUTIN IS THE ONLY PERSON WHO COULD AND DID ORDER THE INVASION. The initial peace agreement made in 2022 was scuttled by the UK and US. THERE WAS NO DEAL. PUTION OFFERED TO LET UKRAINE SURRENDER AND BECOME A PUPPET STATE. The current Ukrainian and Russian governments are doing little to nothing to reach a settlement ending the war. BECAUSE RUSSIA WILL ONLY “SETTLE” WITH UKRAINE’S SURRENDER. PUTIN CAN END THE WAR IMMEDIATELY BY GETTING THE F OUT OF UKRAINE.
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The initial peace agreement made in 2022 was scuttled by the UK and US.”
This trash again.
There was no “peace agreement”. There was a Russian proposal for Ukraine to surrender its right to sovereignty and its right to have a military, which was basic annexation.
Ukraine, the US and Europe correctly told the Russians to GFTs, no surrender.
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Bitter, you obviously only concentrate on Putin’s atrocities while ignoring the ones going on under Zelenskyy”
LOL
What garbage.
Putin is the one committing war crimes in Ukraine on a daily basis.
Missile attacks on civilian neighborhoods, train stations, hospitals and schools. Enslavement, torture, rape, murder of Ukrainians in the occupied territories.
Ah yes, but Ukrainian “corruption”, so let’s somehow make that a moral equivalency?
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he current Ukrainian and Russian governments are doing little to nothing to reach a settlement ending the war.”
Zzzzz…
Only Russia can settle the war, by getting out of Ukraine.
The Ukrainians can’t settle anything unless they are willing to surrender.
As we have seen, they don’t see surrender as an option.
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The war is far too lucrative for Zelenskyy to leave, and protects him from prosecution while he still has the presidency locked up.”
Oh, puhhhhleeeze.
This is not about Zelensky.
It’s about there being hundreds of thousands of Russian invaders inside Ukraine committing atrocities and war crimes on a daily basis.
Does Janzam have ANY evidence the war is lucrative to Zelensky, who was already a very wealthy man when he became President?
Zelensky is a great patriot, and he stays on as President because he loves his country, at great personal risk of being killed or assassinated at any moment.
Is Janzam going back to the yacht stories?
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Rockefeller Republican?
Is this the same moron that said Puerto Ricans were not US citizens?
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Comparing Zelensky to Putin is despicable and disgusting. There IS no comparison under any reasonable parameter.
If Ukrainians were not willing to fight and die under his leadership the war would have been lost and over long ago.
Zelensky represents the spirit of resistance against the Russian invaders. He brought together support for his country from the US, Europe and other countries so Ukraine could survive, and everyone pitched in because of his leadership and because they believed him when he said Ukraine was not surrendering.
Zelensky is a patriot and hero and a great leader. Putin is a despot, a psychopath, a killer willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of his soldiers in a war only he is responsible for.
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Been busy today…not here much…finished the day at 7 p.m. delivering a birthday card and a package of 4 ornately decorated cup cakes to Goofball at the Rescue Mission as today is Goofball’s birthday.
Also filled car tank up with gas, which I got for $3.99/gallon with my 20 cents a gal. off from using grocery store points.
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HERE is something else to argue about:
Seems that U.S. Washington hockey star Ovetchkin (who is a Russian national, born in Russia, parents still live in Russia, and he intends to go back there to live when he retires from Ice hockey) has posed with Russian leader Putin on a Putin election campaign photo or video or whatever.
Is a developing story as to what reaction from fans will be, should the Washington hockey team take any action against Ovetchkin, should the ice hockey league?
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HERE is another tasty tidbit.
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Fox radio coming back home, I hear commentator say yhat since there is a lot of NIMBLY opposition throughout communities in the U.S. to the building of data centers, the Trump administration is considering allowing the building if data centers on U.S. military bases.
So….the ONE (of several) being proposed in .Y county would SUPPOSEDLY be paying over $60 MM PER YEAR in taxes to my county government and my county school system and another $30 some MM to the State if WV ANNUALLY.
SO INSTEAD of being built here, if that proposed data center is built on some U.S. military base domewhere, no property tax revenue will be going annually to any county or any state government.
I GUESS the federal govt could reap the benefits of $100 MM per year from the one data center…?
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Zzzzzzzzzz. Tina knows that nobody at HHR advocated for annual COVID vaccine boosters.
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HERE is new issue #3.
Sa.e radio station interviewing
an R congressman from GA..
HE says what I have been told for years…that when oil companies process a barrel of crude, the first thing they grt ourlt of it cheapest coat to the oil company–kerosene.
Then they further refine what is left and bext get the NEXT least expensive (to them) product–diesel fuel.
[ I have said that here before that deisel PER GALLON used to be LESS expensive than GASOLINE, but cannot figure why it is now reversed.]
Then other things are refined out…and way down the line they refine it into gasoline which is more expensive to the oil company to refine and get.
The congressman said the oil companies are gouging on deisel.
Has to do with U.S. selling deisel to Euope…blah blah blah…and the House (or maybe he said congress) recently passed legislation that would prohibit U.S. refineries from selling any deisel outside the U.S. from Now to Chirstmas. this would result is lots more deisel supply in U.S. which will drastically bring down the price of deisel.
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WV NEWS
A legislative audit on the WV dept of tourism is out.
The report blisters some practices that have been going of for 10 years.
FOR 10 YEARS, the WV Cultural Arts Center and State Museum and Archives (located right next to the capitol building in Charleston) had NOT BEEN COLLECTING SALES TAX ON ITEMS IT SOLD IN their gift store for 10 years. [The long time Arts and History Director who had been there, recently retired].
They also found more than 10,000 artifacts in the archives were not catelogues, some artifacts missing, cash mishandled, cash not being deposited daily but instead kept in desk draws and in enveloped to be used as a petty cash supply for buying things…
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Walt – $5.98 a gallon. -11 cent discount.
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Is a developing story as to what reaction from fans will be, should the Washington hockey team take any action against Ovetchkin, should the ice hockey league?”
No. He is entitled to support Putin, he doesn’t have to be cancelled for being a scumbag. In fact, I hope everyone who supports Putin goes to live in Russia.
Same with Janzam, we don’t cancel her here for being a sycophantic Putin toady and for her daily regurgitating of Kremlin propaganda.
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“Brian Stelter: There are, you know, questions about Fox, as Fox radicalizes, and as it becomes even more and more of a political tool, well Sarah, you wrote a column recently for the (inaudible) saying Fox should be viewed as a political tool, and that raises a question. Should it be a part of the White House Press Pool? You know, should it be afforded the privileges that come with news-gathering, even though they do have some “news” reporters at the White House, you’re saying they’re primarily a political tool, so should that be re-assessed?
David Zurawik: Listen, I really do, I think it’s a discussion we need to have. Look, you’re not supporting democracy. You’re not supporting the larger values of this culture. They don’t even stand up as a opposition party, but there’s nothing journalistic in what Lachlan Murdoch said, and you know what? I say hey, you know what, let’s take them at their word. Let’s not let them on the plane. You want to let the Proud Boys on your plane, on your Air Force One? No, I don’t think so. These guys are doing the same thing.
Brian Stelter: Hmm”
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That was then….
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Yeah, I knew it when I wrote it, this is what happens when an A-hole leaves the door open.
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Someone do a quick welfare check on Janzam and Tina.
“Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight, including hundreds that were launched toward Moscow, officials said Sunday as the Kremlin was wrapping up the third and last day of its parliamentary elections.
Moscow’s mayor described the wave of drones as the “largest ever” drone attack on the Russian capital and said there had been damage to a Moscow oil refinery and a residential building.”
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I think the WV legislature gift shop scandal could be bigger than Watergate.
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Supposedly over a 10 year period 23 coffee mugs and 37 refrigerator magnets with Walt’s effigy on them were sold without collecting taxes.
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But it might not be as bad as originally thought. There is only a record of 14 of the mugs and 29 of the magnets being actually sold, so it means the rest were stolen.
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There is a joke somewhere in here, go to it.
“Mexican national, Rocio Thrasher, 38, a lawful permanent resident since 2017, has been charged with voting by an alien in a federal election and false statement of citizenship in order to register to vote. “
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I guess that isn’t a no….
Troy Jackson dodges when asked if he is part of the far-Left Democrats who want to abolish police, borders, and prisons. CNN: “Would you consider yourself part of the Democratic socialist wing?” JACKSON: “I don’t really consider myself anything.”
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Putin continues to stubbornly cling to the notion that he is going to somehow defeat Ukraine no matter what the cost. The guy is delusional. He keeps taking it on the chin and it’s costing him billions. Let alone the number of human lives which of course he cares nothing about. I honestly think the guy would go nuclear on Ukraine except for the fact that it would contaminate the very country he wants to take over. Lives lost wouldn’t even be a consideration for him. Guy is evil or insane. Probably both.
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has been charged with voting by an alien
Are we using Martians to prosecute voter fraud now?
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We agree this war on Russia conducted by war criminal dictator Zelensky has caused immense grief to our hero peace loving Pootie Poo.
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That wasn’t the joke I was expecting but its a start.
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leaners
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Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Sunday that its forces shot down a total of 1,110 Ukrainian drones across Russia, as well as over the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and the waters of the Black Sea”
A country that can afford to send at least 1110 drones into Russia and occupied Crimea (those were only the ones shot down) is not likely to surrender anytime soon.
Janzam hardest hit.
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No foreign born Marxist judge has done an emergency weekend meeting about cnn and others reporting from the streets of dc and being barred from the wh?
Are they meeting with ccp officials instead?
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Has Tina answered yet if foreign born Marxist judges are worse than American born Marxist judges?
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Also still waiting to know if native born American citizens are better than foreign born American citizens.
I need to know if I should feel inferior.
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John Lewis, DSA Committee Member.
“I just got back from our Cuba — from DSA’s Cuba delegation. It was amazing being in a society steeped in solidarity, right? Like, steeped in solidarity, doing so much for the world, doing so much for the planet, right? And to come back here and then see all the things that they were doing, even underneath the blockade, for the rest of the planet, right?”
Lewis did not bother to explain what he thought Communist Cuba was actually doing for the world. Instead, he went on to demonize the United States in which he lives a comfortable life.”
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Can someone come up with something that Cuba is doing for the world and for the planet?
Ok, ok, the Cubano sandwich is pretty good. But it wasn’t invented by the communists.
A warm, pressed sandwich made with slow-roasted pork, sliced ham, Swiss cheese, dill pickles, and yellow mustard on crusty Cuban bread.
Anything else?
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Okay, Cuban cigars.
But the ones from Dom Rep and Nicaragua now are just as good, probably better.
And again, not a communist invention.
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Cuba used to have a few good baseball players defect. Not sure if any are in the league now.
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Why is this idiot on tee vee. Amnesty/open borders is not popular. Nobody wants illegals. Trump ran on massive deportations and won. We cannot give this issue back to the drafts, like mute 43 did in 2006.
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A person who enters the country illegally, is an illegal alien. They are criminals. It’s really simple.
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A person who enters the country illegally, is an illegal alien. They are criminals. It’s really simple”
I agree. But foreign born does not mean illegal. There are 13 million green card holding legal residents that are foreign born. And there are 25 million Americans that were born outside the US, like me.
Now answer my two questions.
- Has Tina answered yet if foreign born Marxist judges are worse than American born Marxist judges?
- Also still waiting to know if native born American citizens are better than foreign born American citizens.I need to know if I should feel inferior.
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Jason, mi madre is foreign born, came here from Bolivia in 1966 with a sponsor, job lined up, and laid the US government a hefty bond which she only received back after she had successfully completed a probationary period (not sure how long; 90 days? 6 months?). She subsequently served in the Navy reserve for fourteen years before being naturalized. I like to think that she earned her citizenship.
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My autocorrect always changes “paid” to “laid.” I’ve no idea why, it once change “Kyle” to “K*ke” on me, thankfully, I caught that before it was sent.
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They don’t care about the ones who came through paying a bond or a policy. The free passers want illegals, amnesty, and open borders
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The free passers want illegals, amnesty, and open borders
Tina continues to embarrass herself with her lies. Nobody at HHR wants that and she knows it.
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Still waiting for an answer from Tina.
- Has Tina answered yet if foreign born Marxist judges are worse than American born Marxist judges?
- Also still waiting to know if native born American citizens are better than foreign born American citizens.I need to know if I should feel inferior.”
Simple question. Just needs a yes or no.
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Jason, mi madre is foreign born, came here from Bolivia in 1966 with a sponsor,”
I am sorry GF.
According to Tina’s official policy, your mother is an illegal. Thus, you are illegal as well as any family or offspring.
Maybe we can meet up on Altiplano when we get deported.
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Cuba used to have a few good baseball players defect. Not sure if any are in the league now.”
I am glad you didn’t come up with Cuba Libre, an atrocious combination of Coca Cola and rum.
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Tina won’t answer because even she is ashamed of her hatred of legal immigrants and naturalized citizens.
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free passers in shambles.
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Answer Jason’s questions.
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GF’s mom and Jason earned their citizenship. Tina traveled outside her mom.
Mother GF and Jason earned their citizenship. The rest of us got lucky in the uteruses we ended up in.
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