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2 years
@JoJoFromJerz @gtconway3d Am I the only one to notice that he went from "there were no docs", to "I would have given them", to "they were privileged and gov't needs to give them back"? There was a line from @MichaelCohen212 's book. Trump "tries out" lines to see what resonates. Its all an act.
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@JoJoFromJerz @RonFilipkowski The good guy with a pair of heels angle will just ruin the narrative
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@JeffClarkUS Nice try, Jeff. The second verdict is not because of the original defamation. Collateral estoppel precluded him from arguing the original facts, but the new verdict was based on his post verdict conduct and the jury found those damages for his repeated contemptuous statements.
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@newsmax @mikepompeo That's right. Remember when Trump got that call from Erdogen and pulled our troops out of Syria? He'd get a call from Putin and abandon Ukraine in a heartbeat.
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@SteveSchmidtSES Great thread. Even if it sounds a bit like Yoda's wise words. "Fear is the path to the dark side … fear leads to anger … anger leads to hate … hate leads to suffering.” — "The Phantom Menace," 1999
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@hodgetwins You don’t stop enforcing the law because it happens to be the last president who was the chief lawbreaker.
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@DrGJackBrown So let’s get this straight. Legal drugs, that the FDA has approved, for sale through the mail, are declared illegal in Tennessee. Isn’t that a commerce clause violation. Is Tennessee a theocracy that exists by itself? If so, cut off federal spending there.
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@BernardKerik So you are advocating that states should repeal there laws against fraudulent business practices?
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@JudiciaryGOP Subpoenaed them, under penalty of perjury said they were returned. Informant advised more were hiding. Stop defending this criminal. You are a representative of these institutions and you are spreading falsities to break them down. Disgusting
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@benshapiro Can't believe you said the quiet part out loud. Doing good in the world is a leftist concept. Republicans stand against it. US politics in a nutshell.
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@TomFitton You mean the one that is encouraging its pastors to promote political candidates, and the one that raises millions from donations on TV? It is a PAC that says "praise jesus"; that shouldn't make them exempt
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@AGEricSchmitt @ElectionWiz Great victory! Let health care workers (that come in close contact with patients) decide for themselves if they want to get vaccinated. Make it even better! Prevent anyone from being able to ask their nurse or doctor if s/he is vaccinated on privacy grounds.
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@pbump Its extremely surprising given that investment fund raised what, like $80million or so? Not really, it was Trump branded; as Hillary said, all of his books end with chapter 11.
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@JoyceWhiteVance How can you not see brute politicization if a 50 year old precedent that 70% of Americans depend on is thrown out by a court that was hired to do just that by a politician.
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@mattgaetz In your world, someone can take an AR-15 30 miles to "help out", get scared for his life and shoot someone without consequences. I just imagine if a BLM had brought an AR 15 to 1/6, felt threatened by a crowd member and shot. Same thing? Long live vigilantism.
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@swd2 Should a man who has been ordered to pay $100million, or whatever it was, for that hateful rhetoric be allowed to spew it again? Isn’t that like a felon voting?
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@JoJoFromJerz @RonFilipkowski Both of those remaining Truth Social users will be outraged.
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@Logically_JC @atrupar @annieomiss Why does this guy continue to defend Trump? He's lost his law license for lying, he is a target in Georgia, and Trump refused to pay his legal bills. Makes no sense.
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@JoJoFromJerz Got to get alot further than this, but it will be interesting to watch the Texas State Bar and whether they take any action or open any proceeding.
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@StadiumMainSt @hugolowell @ItWasACoup This a short bank shot off of "if i do it its not illegal".
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@lifesafeast I have never protested in my life. But this 60 yo white guy will look for pro choice protests
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@DevinCow @MaryLTrump She blocked a cow?
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@RonFilipkowski No Marge, you need to act like a member of the House of Representatives seriously tackling the country's problems, not some kid at a high school assembly yelling from the back.
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@TheLeoTerrell You used to practice law. Judges are visceral as well as logical. There was no reason for a Special Master, because the documents had been reviewed, and saying "the government can't be fair" is not grounds for an order. The judge bent over for Trump. That makes you happy.
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@JDVance1 That isn't what it says and you know it. Its up to viability, and life/health of mother.
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@gregkellyusa A Harvard educated lawyer, former prosecutor of Oklahoma City, Federal Judge and Appellate judge? Yes. Cut the ridiculous narrative.
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@TheRealHoarse @jackshafer And tell me that GOP didn't pack the current court by refusing a hearing(Gorsuch) blackmailing or making promises for Kennedy to retire(Kavanaugh) and rushing through a last minute one(Barrett) so that it isn't tainted by illegitimacy after a landslide loss. Give me a break.
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@RSBNetwork That was a greatest hits album. The man is an embarassment. His insults are hot air and unsupported. His only principal is to protect the DJT "brand", at ALL costs. Why can't you folks see this?
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@JoJoFromJerz @Angry_Staffer Yes. 100% I wonder what the pro-Russian pundits and thought leaders will be saying today: Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, MTG
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@Acyn Except perhaps when USA invoked Article 5 after 9/11. Float this discussion up a bit, and ask why is TC trying to support Russia in its dispute with Ukraine by undermining support for Ukraine? The same guy who said Orban is the paragon of a leader? @FoxNews ?
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@RSBNetwork The lawsuit will never get past a motion to dismiss and any lawyer knows it. Its borderline Rule 11 territory (ask Sidney Powell if you don't know what that is). However, the discovery would be fun: Trumps, Manafort, Stone under oath and the documents all produced.
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@realLizUSA @ColumbiaBugle Why would anyone care what he has to say?
Tweet media one
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@TomFitton Read the order, Tom. The it says exactly the opposite, that there was no evidence of government abuse.
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@GovRonDeSantis I can't be the only one to say that prioritizing the feelings of relatives over the needs to minimize transmissibility of a lethal virus IN A HOSPITAL seems misplaced.
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@SundaeDivine While we can all see the stats that people are working longer, I've been paying into the system for 41 years with a 65 payout date. At bottom, its living up to the deal you made.
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@TomFitton @elonmusk @Twitter That's it. One who staged a coup, encouraged a riot and denied the election should be reinstated because he has decided to run for president. I"m glad your standards are consistent and predictable.
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@brithume @ElectionWiz They were invited Brit. McCarthy chose not to participate with reasonable choices so he could make this claim later. He knew there was no "counter narrative" to present.
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@TomFitton @realDonaldTrump @Twitter @elonmusk Oh? I know you worship at the alter of the Orange Jesus, but what does a private company deciding that a lying hate filled seditionist doesn't belong on their platform have to do with government at all, let alone corruption?
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@theworldofdog @gtconway3d I don't care who you are, that is the cutest damn thing on so many levels.
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@StephenM Gee, Stephen. Are there lockdowns or school closures anywhere? Are there still mandates? Or is this just ginning your base?
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@alexbruesewitz But he said anyone under FBI investigation was disqualified. I guess you are surmising he will be indicted and acquitted by then.
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@TomFitton Oh? Wouldn't want the people who have a right to vote to be able to do it conveniently, would we.
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@OccupyDemocrats There is a lawful subpoena from a committee investigating a coup de etat. If there are relevant records from the outgoing administration that involve the 1/6 protest, they must be produced. Withhold and redact deliberations of matters other than 1/6. Simple; like any discovery
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@joshtpm @GOPLeader Its as if he has something to hide, like: Eastman Bannon Meadows Gaetz Trump Giuliani I'm seeing a pattern emerge here.
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@JohnWDean I think that Obama should announce his candidacy and watch as Republicans say that the 22nd Amendment shouldn't be applied and let the voters decide.
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@RadioFreeTom Why does this not disgust so-called conservatives? And they don't force that off the air?
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@mattgaetz Taken together, you believe women are weaker and should be 'protected' from their own decision making. Women can't serve in non-combat roles? You are in favor of congress making rules for women's swimming instead of the NCAA who is responsible for who competes?
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@LeadingReport McCarthy is a disgrace. Curious i did a string search for "Schiff" in the report. He is mentioned three times; each time it was someone else referring to his role on the committee. But McCarthy would go public and make this accusation to be amplified by the rest of them?
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@lavern_spicer You've never operated a farm so why should you support farmers? Same for fishermen? Same for oil and gas? Same for airlines?
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@TomFitton No one who has any knowledge of criminal procedures, search warrants, or grand juries, think that it wasn't justified. An English major with no legal experience? Go for it.
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@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar Is it any more complicated than this? Because I'm from Missouri, the land of Josh Hawley and Mark McCloskey, and they would crucify me at the polls if I publicly voted for a black woman.
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@TomCottonAR Am I the only one to notice that @TomCottonAR only seems to be outraged when conservative targets are hit? Not the years of abortion clinic/md harassment, not the gang in Coeur D'Alene, not the Pulse night club?
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@mikepompeo Great politics, but utterly fantastical. Parents are going to choose the books, lesson plan, set standards for achievement at grade levels? Your plan is to do away with school administration, so if you want to get rid of public schools and go to private and home schools, say it
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@TomFitton @Mike_Pence @realDonaldTrump You are venturing into embarrassment. Pence has relevant information about Trump committing a fraud on the US, let alone sedition and possibly felony murder.
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@LouDobbs So your takeaway was that Trump's firehose of BS was "presidential", that his doubling down on a stolen election, that he didn't know E. Jean Carroll, and that he wouldn't support Ukraine are good, and that challenging that BS is bad? No wonder you were terminated.
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@billyparis @hrenee80 You have got to be kidding. That man wouldn't lift a finger if he didn't think it would help him get off or get re-elected
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@TheTNHoller It never ceases to amaze me how "small government" R's want to tell women when they can get an abortion, who can use a bathroom or compete in sports, and now what words you can use. Really: Equitable is bad?
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@MayoIsSpicyy and? We're waiting. 53% of Americans need to wake up to this remaking the country as a conservative catholic, baptist or evangelical nation, by and through the Supreme Court, despite 70% of Americans that agree Abortion should be safe, legal and rare. I'm with you
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@JoJoFromJerz @JudiciaryGOP Vote republican, so you can join our "revenge of the turds" tour. We don't have anything to offer, but we're mad that you don't like our fascism.
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@JudiciaryGOP Because God and his son Jesus Christ wants everyone on planet earth to have a gun, right? This is not Godly, its poor public health policy.
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@RSBNetwork @RacineSheriff I'm just amazed: one year after the election, after the results were certified and a republican lead audit proved nothing, this sheriff has "the goods".
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@TomFitton Good lord, English major; cite the reason or you are just a partisan hack. He is the only criminal defendant who gets a special master review materials taken in a lawful search warrant. Trump has just opened the floodgates for all criminal defendants.
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@RSBNetwork Two points. First, Trump now admits he was tying to "overturn" the results of the election. Second, maybe Pence didn't want to overturn it and install Trump as dictator.
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@mschlapp You mean like Trump tried to take McCabe's retirement as political payback? Fauci made recommendations, politicians made policy. Politicians that didn't listen had higher death rates. Fauci did his job. As he has for 50 years
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@TomCottonAR So the FBI executing a search warrant without White House knowledge to recover secreted records being held illegally is "using the Department of Justice as a political weapon".
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@repdarrellissa Darrell: you are from California, so i know you are smart. What does "arresting" people have to do with a bad record? I thought the goal was to arrest people on that list? no?
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@TomFitton It is not killing until it is viable. If something never lives it is not killing anything. UNLESS you write laws to force America to exercise your religion. You can believe whatever you want as part of your religion
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@laralogan So DeSantis, with his eye and appetite for public "stunts", is drawing out people to support him against "Orange Jesus", so that they can be exposed and Trump can take back America. Good grief that is some serious fiction writing.
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@TomFitton Oh, Tom. It says nothing of the sort, and predicts that he will get back some attorney client and personal property.
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@sandibachom @PrincessBravato And, notice confluence of states that were sending fake electors and compare those against the narrow victories in 2016 -- PA, MI, Wis. Its almost like the same game was on in 2020, but people really didn't like him so the same goose wasn't enough.
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@henryrodgersdc @DailyCaller Gee, I don't know but if she was not a fan of the committee, it would seem to make her testimony under oath more credible, that she wasn't "all in" with getting Trump.
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@TomFitton Can you say with a straight face that Trump is not a witness with first hand knowledge of facts that occurred that day? Didn't think so.
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@DineshDSouza So is it your prediction that Elon will not make it a free-speech haven, but will turn it into a conservative bastion?
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@mikepompeo I can't understand why reasonable people would disagree that we should all oppose extremism, laws that subjugate women, politicians who would subordinate all to the State. Its fascism. But you call that gaslighting?
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@TomFitton @washingtonpost That's it. Because everyone has classified documents and/or presidential records that they just "move around" from one hiding place to another and ignore a subpoena.
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@RichardGrenell @EW14879353 @CNN @MSNBC Or that Trump removed the inspectors of their systems that allowed them to rebuild and fund more proxy wars.
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@TomFitton Good grief. Overruling 50 years of precedent isn’t a sign of “ independence”. It’s a sign that the judiciary has no respect for precedent and is driven by theology, not legal reasoning.
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@BFriedmanDC @torchnpitchf0rk But those were Italians, Irish, Jews in Russians. Completely different.
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@RadioFreeTom I remember when it was first published. It was touted as "raw intellegence" that was probably 60to 70% accurate. Some tried to lock people into the fantasy that it was confirmed facts and then discredit it.
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@newsmax Your reporting is so bad, it had nothing but smears and insinuations. Here is what they actually fined the campaign for: mislabeling opposition research as legal services. Give me a break.
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@ericmetaxas Except for the fact you can't identify an actual scheme, the people involved or the rules broken . God isn't the problem, R's message is.
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@TomFitton The end of the count should be when they get to the last ballot. Not before and certainly not some artificial deadline.
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@SundaeDivine Is this Johnson's idea of proper questioning? Good grief. Nothing will be done until 2025
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@WalshFreedom They deliberately hit a Food Kitchen convoy. Don't tell me they don't deserve blowback for that
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@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar It’s unreal. The only way he could have stopped the war is if he stood back and let Putin take over Ukraine and make it a vassal state.
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@DrFaucis1 Because Public Health professionals that tell you to mask up and be safe are to be shamed and jailed.(FFS)
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@DineshDSouza Cut the high handed Bee Ess. She lost because she opposed Trump. Trump is the Tribe, not Conservativeness. Period
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@DanRather I'm traveling to Santa Fe for a short vacation; switching to United from Delta. Tired of this molly coddling; get your damn vaccination, or my money isn't going to you.
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@RNCResearch I'm not an expert on trucking, but aren't most of them independent owner/operators, or part of some small company with less than 20 trucks? If so then the OSHA wouldn't touch them. Seems like the "bathroom bill" all over again.
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@MikeLoychik Wow, is all I can say. Leaving aside platitudes, you would have citizens possessing assault weapons but not law enforcement? That is just nuts
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@TomFitton Your old grievances are like political scabs you want to keep picking. They have either been investigated or they are just talking points. On the other hand, witnesses have testified under oath that Orange Jesus attempted a coup using violence and the courts.
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@TomFitton Of course you stand WITH the guy behind a wall fraud that obstructs Congress. But, you stand against the congressperson that would call you out on it.
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@lifesafeast @OttoTopci We had a rule in our house when my son was little: If he is old enough to ask about it, he's old enough to get the truth. And yes, there were times he was disturbed by the truth. Now, he's helping to end world poverty. What are you going to do.
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@TomCottonAR Do you say this because you were in support of what his wife was advocating, and/or that he voted on a case involving releasing records relating to it?
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@in_the_sky34221 Rape requires the absence of consent. It does not require proof of violence or trauma.
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@bransfordalex Serious note: I didn't really get it until a gay friend told me that he and his partner couldn't name the other on a life insurance policy, couldn't recover in a wrongful death suit, and other "married people rights". As much as love it is literally a legal civil rights issue.
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@Jim_Jordan No, Jim It was a laptop at a fly by night repair shop that a) miraculously had Hunter's entire life on it, b) was just forgotten and left behind, c) taken by the FBI, yet d) a copy of it was given to Giuliani. If your "investigation" doesn't start with the FBI, it is a joke.
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@RadioFreeTom Am I the only one that thinks its deplorable, but a "FU" for the Covid Mandate that Southwest invoked; the Southwest pilots did an injunction under the collective bargaining agreement, lost it and now the pilots are P.O'd.
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