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It's honestly kind of funny you would fill a column with left wing idiocy then trot out the tired meme that MAGA supporters--people who both see a sharp decline in the moral and spiritual quality of our nation and want to reverse that and Make America Great Again--are dumb.

COVID was less dangerous than the flu for all healthy people under 65 or so. None of the measures taken were needed, and all of them made our public physical and mental health much, much worse, and killed a lot of us.

And with respect to John McCain, the guy was a cocky and obnoxious jerk his whole life. He ran a crap campaign in 2008, and he was insulting Trump daily, despite the fact that they were supposedly on the same side.

My intent was to commend this largely Democrat run website for doing the honorable work of pointing out that the real divide in our nation is between sane people and lunatics, but then that comment.

I will still say, though, that you all seem to be evolving in the right direction. Nobody who actually understands what conservatives believe and why will EVER, ever go back to Left wing lunacy. The Left HURTS people and lies about it. There is nothing good or human or admirable in that. It's all lies, and even lies about the lies.

So all censorship protects bad ideas, and all honest discussions, when allowed, move the world towards the middle, which is where the "right" actually lives. We oppose Hitlers and Lenins, and we also oppose kings and rule by Popes and Mullahs. That is actual Liberalism.

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Well of course Biden would appoint Tracey Jacobson to oversee Iraq. After all.....she's a woman and there's that whole DEI thingy that seems to be the most important box to check with the current administration so that their blatant bigotry isn't mistaken for being a Nazi . Oh.....and don't mind the billion+ dollars of military equipment she was in charge of abandoning in Afghanistan, or the fact that the Taliban was back in full control of the entire country in 12 hours. All. That. Equity.

I love how Abigail Shrier is 110% absolute, no bullshit. Her writings clearly show Gender Dysphoria, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Tourette syndrome are all social contagions spread by social media and promoted by mentally ill progressive parents (mostly wealthy white women) who suffer from some bizarre coupling of narcissistic 'give me a prize for being a really awesome parent of a marginalized child' & munchausen syndrome by proxy.

If the majority of the corporate media is saying that Taylor Swift is not a deep state psyop, you can bet she's a deep state psyop! And.....I'll give 6/1 odds that Oliver Wiseman has never watched a full 4 quarters of football....ever.

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There is nothing trivial about Pfizer using Kielce to sell their dangerous mRNA jab to young healthy people. That technology was never adequately tested and everyone now knows it. Insulting the Maga and the right half of the half of the country is appalling. Akin to Hilary using the term “ Deplorables”.

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Bret and Heather’s latest Dark Horse podcast is about Bret’s trip to the Darien Pass, a patch of impenetrable jungle in Central America, where it joins Colombia. He witnessed camps where “economic” illegal immigrants from Venezuela, but also Yemen and Afghanistan gather and are aided by the UN in their trek north. People fly into Ecuador from all over the world for this trek. Then there is another type of camp where only young Chinese men gather to invade America. The number I heard from another source is 28,000 able bodied Chinese men are now in America.

Our destruction is being enabled by the Biden administration. Wait til a water supply is poisoned or an elecrical grid is blown up.

Have a nice day, everyone. Keep obsessing about Taylor Swift.

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“Kung Flu” was a fantastic bit of levity during a period when you’d the thought the entire world was covered by a deep green toxic fog according to the experts hyperventilating on tv. The more we read/discover about the veracity of COVID being designed and leaking from the Wuhan lab, the more it seems appropriate. I still like the term.

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In 2020, America elected (maybe - the facts counsel otherwise) a senile imbecile who was said by Obama's Defense Secretary to have "been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." Including arguing against the raid that captured and killed bin Laden. And you wonder why the world is in such a mess today? Remember elections have consequences. Even those that Americans allowed to be stolen with barely a whimper.

Oh, and as far as your stupid shot against Trump for allegedly "trivializing" Covid by calling it the "Wuhan flu"........ Most people with firing neurons believed then and are certain now that the virus escapes or was deliberately released from the lab in Wuhan. Except for our liberal friends who screeched that China was being fully transparent and the virus came from a cave. Were they truly that demented or just the shills for communists that they've always been?

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"The MAGA crowd is known for trivializing the serious: calling a deadly plague the “kung flu"

Vilifying the opposition by sneering at their supposedly lowbrow shibboleths and slogans is a technique that we have seen on the Right that Oliver Wiseman has now adopted into his own condescending commentary. While I am no fan of the Right, adopting divisive and contemptuous language into your critique only helps to build enmity between the different groups of our country. Our true enemy is the globalists, and by increasing divisiveness between different political movements in this country, Wiseman is a good friend to the globalists. Divided we fall. Also, did you not read John Ioannidis research published March 2020 demonstrating that COVID-19 had an IFR comparable to a typical seasonal flu? Have you heard who was the first to debunk this research? No-one.

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I guess there are plenty of crazies on both sides. But I’ll take maga brand of crazy over the crazies who chop off kids body parts and call me racist all the time, then open our borders, take away our energy, drive up all our costs, then negotiate with Iran.

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Ouch MAGA hater. That stings. I don’t believe anything the MSM parrots these days, so the wall to wall coverage of this little love story doesn’t sit right with me. Nothing surprises me anymore.

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You people have the conspiracy all wrong.

My Zany & Kooky Comspiracy:

Taylor Swift is dating Kelce so that she may ultimately dump him after she has gathered enough material for a new hit song about how she has been wronged by yet an other guy. Hahaha

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I think a conversation we should have about the poor results of children, rather than blaming social media companies, is poor parenting.  Many parents (especially in blue states) are self-absorbed.  The focus is on them; their kids are part of that self-obsession. 

Thus, the actual parenting of the kids falls elsewhere.  In the past, a common set of values was taught through the family and institutions.  Today, many of those institutions have been hijacked by the left.  Thus, you have kids who are ignored, not taken to church, and, since they are a bother, are sat in front of a TV when kids or a phone are in their teen years.  And getting values from influencers and rabid leftist teachers while living in a protected cacooon, we have the myriad of terrible outcomes we see today.  Many kids (red America) do not have this problem. 

But we should call it for what it is and try to find ways to help rehabilitate lost people.  The rich kids protesting are one symptom, but we also are having kids raised with no values or structure in our poorer communities, leading to crime and mayhem in cities.  We are losing social cohesion, and it's not the fault of the social media companies.  How to fix it?  That is an issue for our time. 

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I’ve enjoyed Oliver’s reporting recently, but don’t agree with this dig at MAGA republican voters. “The MAGA crowd is known for trivializing the serious: calling a deadly plague the “Wuhan flu,” joking about the injuries John McCain suffered while a prisoner of war in Vietnam, etc. It’s sick, sick stuff.”

Those comments, as far as I know were from Trump and not parroted by the majority of those that voted for him, most likely those that didn’t. Btw, isn’t there plenty of evidence that Covid did come from a lab in Wuhan?? Isn’t this comment and “stereotyping ” the same as saying, Jews are colonizers?

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Taylor a psyop ; Russia Collusion; Laptop Russian Disinformation ( i could go on) . I just want to know Ollie's term of derision for those who still cling (bitterly) to the last two( which include MSM, elected officials and sly stone's everyday people).

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Best take delivered yesterday by former NFL lineman Matt Light; “A win for the Chiefs is a win for Pfizer.” Go ‘Niners!’

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Ah Oliver’s “objectivity” was shown farcical when he called Trump supporters stupid. Especially about the Taylor swift kelce show.

The world burns, but Trump supporters are stupid. Great.

Here’s a clue Oliver. I’m sick of them. I’m sick of every time Kelce scores they show an open mouthed swiftie celebration. I’m sick of the chiefs. I’d have rooted for Dallas against them. I believe I’ll be giving the Super Bowl a miss this year. Any funny commercials can be found on line elsewhere.

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If Biden recognizes a Palestinian state it will all but guarantee continued violence in the Middle East. Just as Hamas has promised. What is he thinking?

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