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Bruce Miller's avatar

"Stock markets have had their worst six months since 1970: There are two sure-fire ways to ruin your day: fill up your gas tank or check your Vanguard account. We haven’t had a six-month fall like this for 50 years. And there’s one major cause: Inflation."

Nope. There's only one major cause: Biden. The senile imbecile who embarrasses and weakens America on a daily basis. Fixed it for you.

Oh and if we just found out that Democrats are rigging primaries to fund nut-jobs to run against Republicans, do you really think that rigging the 2020 election would be out of bounds for them? Sure, just like they couldn't possibly be behind major hoaxes such as Trump was a Russian asset or that Hunter Biden's laptop was a fake Russian plant. Got it.

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Nina's avatar

Wait, this whole time I was blaming it all on white supremacy. 🧐

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Scuba Cat's avatar

The joke is on them, though, since their pied piper strategy keeps backfiring and the nut jobs keep winning. I will laugh like a maniac if we get a congress full of MTGs in the fall.

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Celia M Paddock's avatar

This is seriously how we got Trump. The Media gave the man millions and millions of dollars worth of free advertising by keeping his name in the press daily from very early in the campaign (name recognition has been proven to be highly significant in election outcomes).

I saw stories as early as March or April 2016 that assumed the election would be Hillary vs. Trump, and that was the drum they kept beating on, because Trump was the one person that Hillary would (supposedly) have no trouble beating.

We saw how that turned out for them.

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Corey's avatar

You and me both.

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Kara Stanhope's avatar

A senile imbecile who followed a vile liar, yes.

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Timothy Kaluhiokalani's avatar

"There are lies and there are damned lies". I'll put any lies of the "vile liar" in the former category and those told by the likes of Biden, Pelosi, Schiff... in the latter. One thing you can't deny, Trump told the truth about appointing conservative justices. Which burns you more?

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NCMaureen's avatar

KB—- all politicians lie. The real issue is, do their lies matter?

Let’s compare HRC vs Trump. HRC conspired with the help of the FBI to create a false narrative about a presidential candidate, who later became POTUS. Her lies inflamed the country with the help of the complicit media, peoples’ lives were destroyed, and a legitimate President’s administration was blown up. He was impeached twice for nothing.

He lost his re-election.

HRC perpetrated a massive lie on our country, the FBI can no longer be trusted, but there she sits unscathed, tweeting mean things and acting smug.

The democrats now have to orchestrate Jan 6 into much more than it was, even using second hand witnesses, for pete’s sake. They have to finish Trump off.

I can’t think of a lie Trump told that measures up to HRC’s.

As Americans we are disillusioned about equal justice, the FBI is no longer about Truth, and our trust in institutions has been destroyed. Donald Trump didn’t do that. HRC did.

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BradK (Afuera!)'s avatar

Never mind the 8 years of whoppers told by Trump's predecessor. So how did that Obamacare thing work out again?

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james p mc grenra's avatar

Brad...still, we have 30 Million without Insurance, sad, funny and lies.

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Gordon Freeman's avatar

Did his lies affect you personally in a negative way? Did his actual policies benefit you personally in tangible ways? Most importantly, are you better or worse off under Biden?

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Kara Stanhope's avatar

He was a liar. Being a liar is not a good quality in a public servant or anyone really. Personally I was very disappointed in his movement away from his embrace of the rainbow flag, but I understand it because he went where his supporters were.

I think his inability to accept his loss and to continue to feed the fissures is harmful.

He said vile things and encouraged his supporters to do the same.

The left was INCREDIBLY stupid in how it related to Trump because my impression (being from New York) of Trump is that he was always more moderate politically.

Joe Biden has always been an intellectually weak man who takes on the ideas of others. Just revisit old episodes of Charlie Rose Show. He is a puppet of the people who have his ear.

I don’t think Donald Trump was a particularly good president, nor do I think he is evil incarnate.

I am not defending Biden or the left.

I am not defending Trump or the right.

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milllionthmonkeytyping's avatar

Biden has lied and plagiarized throughout his public life. Singling out Trump and ignoring Biden makes you a hypocrite. And yes, you are defending Biden. Own it.

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Former Jersey Girl's avatar

“If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor”

“Shovel-ready jobs”

“ISIS is the JV team”

“The Pulse nightclub massacre was due to homophobia”

“Workplace violence”

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Lynne Morris's avatar

You forgot the . . . to signify that the list goes on. And on. And on.

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Former Jersey Girl's avatar

“Benghazi was caused by an Islamophobic video”

“Random folks in a deli” were murdered in Paris.

“Moderates in Iran” re the Iran Deal.

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BradK (Afuera!)'s avatar

More young black men languish in prison than attend colleges and universities across America

We signed into law the biggest middle-class tax cut in history

90 percent of the budget deficit is due to George W. Bush’s policies

The Capitol Hill janitors just got a pay cut

The day after Benghazi happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism

The Keystone pipeline is for oil that bypasses the United States

We have fired a whole bunch of people who are in charge of these [VA] facilities

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Gordon Freeman's avatar

Are you aware any major political figures who do not lie virtually continually, in a ceaseless effort to advance their political careers?

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Brian Katz's avatar

I’d rather have mean tweets than an economy that is falling off the cliff. Biden did this.

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Bruce Miller's avatar

Life was pretty good under the so-called "vile liar." Moreover, even though the pearl clutchers screeched he was a "dictator," nobody lost any rights, we didn't have the FBI breaking down doors of political opponents and hard working Americans could afford gas and groceries. Happy now? Clown.

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madaboutmd's avatar

Note KB is a Dispatch reader....the home of the 'anyone but Trump' crowd.

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Corey's avatar

Preach!

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NCMaureen's avatar

This practice of democrats happens even in my idyllic rural NC. Democrats who register as Independents vote in the primaries for the least electable republican to run against the candidate in November. Why can’t they compete fair and square?

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Gordon Freeman's avatar

Maureen, c'mon...

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NCMaureen's avatar

yeah, haha, a moment of Pollyanna.

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Brian Katz's avatar

Better yet, why don’t republicans get more aggressive and creative ?

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madaboutmd's avatar

Flores said she won in TX simply because the GOP finally backed a candidate in a meaningful financial way. The GOP sees a real chance, they'll fund it. In IL, my former state, sitting governor Pritzker gave millions to Darren Bailey in the primary that of course Bailey took for the Rs and Pritzker took for the Ds. The GOP isn't going to throw any money into a state that will never win. So, to me, this says more about Bailey than it does the GOP. Why would he take opposition money?

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Lynne Morris's avatar

The Democrats are calling Democrats in Texas to register as Republicans and vote in Republican primaries.

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Brian Katz's avatar

Yes, they try to get the furthest right candidate on the ballot.

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madaboutmd's avatar

Sick....such pathetic lives.

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Lynne Morris's avatar

Because unless done very wisely (which means u derstanding their reasoning and I do not) that gives them an opportunity to control the narrative. I supported Trump, in part, because I liked that he pushed back but just look at the ammunition they derived from that.

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Bruce Miller's avatar

'Why can’t they compete fair and square?'

Because they can't win on their ideas which are patently destructive. Never forget that the Bolsheviks were a minority and look at the death, destruction and tyranny that ensued.

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T Reid's avatar

Here in SC we have open primaries. It’s absolutely a regular occurrence. They even rebrand and run their candidates as Republicans.

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NCMaureen's avatar

Yeah that too. But the D who ran as an R was so obvious, she lost bigly.

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T Reid's avatar

I posted this here separately, but it’s topical. The D candidate for US Senate for SC conspiring with a violent felon inmate on a recorded prison call about this subject.

https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article262941293.html

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NCMaureen's avatar

Ha! Project Veritas strikes again.

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MEbner's avatar

The unfortunate thing is no matter what they end up uncovering (and yeah they have found some really shady crap) our marvelous unbiased MSM bury the findings and immediately criticize the legitimacy of their methods. Rinse and repeat nothing to see here folks…

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