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K “We don’t learn.”
J “We just don’t. Something insignificant will be the trigger.”
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Bumper sticker of the week:
“Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win.” General Thomas Power, U.S. Air Force, 1960
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J “The use of Executive Orders seems akin to a dog marking its territory. With great consequence.”
K “Trump marked his territory and remarked what Biden had unmarked. Biden had marked his territory and unmarked what Trump had marked. You can mark their words.”
J “It is a dog-mark-dog world.”
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K “We may each hear what we want to hear. I did hear him celebrating freedom of speech and the rule of law and the possibility of peace sprinkled among some of the other dross and red meat he announced.”
J “He has not left the campaign trail. His screed was a full contact frontal ‘shock and awe’ assault on the status quo.”
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J “Not much about China. China is the challenge. China will define his administration.”
K “You can say that again.”
J “Not much about China. China is the challenge. China will define his administration.”
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J “The DEI movement was problematic and often unfairly discriminatory in practice. However, the wholesale attack and dismantling of the programs is too wrenching. Public and private programs must provide for everyone’s participation in society.”
K “His broad attacks on LGBTQ+ concerns are too sweeping. Someone needs to find the reasonable common ground.”
J “Americans of all stripes believe they can repudiate both physics and biology when reality is inconvenient or intrusive. Trump and I – imagine that – and you – imagine that – accept biology and recognize that biological men and women are different when they walk out on the playing field, the pitch and the court. However, some courts demand to repudiate this reality.”
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K “I am pleased he kept his word and commuted and pardoned the January 6 defendants. I have trouble with the release of those who had committed violent acts and/or destroyed property. However, with time it is clear that the entire undertaking was a grand cynical entrapment by the Democrats. Convictions are tossed out when the prosecution is tainted. The pardons are in effect a repudiation and an indictment of the entire Democratic political and legal machine. Biden’s pardon of the J6 Committee is a clear acknowledgment that the members and its henchman were involved in a dishonest and fraudulent enterprise.”
J “Trump’s pardons are disgusting. There is no law. Biden’s pardons were necessary and appropriate.”
K “Is there even one person in America who has the knowledge and the wisdom and the perspective and the maturity and the independence to chronicle the events of J6 honestly and objectively? Future historians will write whatever is necessary to obtain tenure.”
J “If there is tenure.”
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K “What about Biden’s pardon of the other members of the Biden crime family? If they accept the pardon, they are admitting culpability. Back to the books for a read of Burdick v. United States, 235 U.S. 79 (1915).”
J “Trump has made it clear that the Biden family would have been unfairly pursued and prosecuted.”
K “On the basis of the available public information, there is no doubt that the government could have secured criminal indictments against each one of the Bidens.”
J “Just a political vendetta.”
K “Someone has argued for some time that the Lawfare would circle around.”
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J “It is and will always be Denali.”
K “Yup.”
J “Denali, Alaska has a nice ring and subtle cadence. As I recall, ‘Denali’ is a Koyukon Athabascan word that means ‘big’ or ‘tall’ and ‘Alaska’ means ‘Mainland’ or ‘Greatland’ in some dialects. Big, Great. They pair well.”
K “Denali, Alaska is also a pleasing six-word memoir.”
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J “Here be dragons.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
“We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end and, perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into. My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier. That’s what I want to be, a peacemaker and a unifier.” Donald Trump, Inaugural Address.
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast.” Alexander Pope
Here be dragons
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K “He said he would not pardon him; she said he would not pardon him; they said he would not pardon him. He said he would not pardon him; she said he would not pardon him; they said he would not pardon him. He said he would not pardon him; she said he would not pardon him; they said he would not pardon him. He said he would not pardon him; she said he would not pardon him; they said he would not pardon him. He said he would not pardon him; she said he would not pardon him; they said he would not pardon him. He said he would not pardon him; she said he would not pardon him; they said he would not pardon him. He said he would not pardon him; she said he would not pardon him; they said he would not pardon him. He said he would not pardon him; she said he would not pardon him; they said he would not pardon him. He lied; she lied; they lied. The pardon is unpardonable.”
J “Closing a chapter.”
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K “I observed that he would pardon him just before leaving office.”
J “Not at all surprised. Closing a chapter.”
K “More pardons of the Biden clan are coming.”
J “Closing chapters.”
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K “Because he is mentally incompetent to enter into a contract and or execute a will, is he competent enough to grant a valid pardon? And then you wonder if the quid pro quo for buying Mr. Hunter’s silence might backfire because now he cannot assert the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and refuse to testify. Life is funny that way.”
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K “I am revising my ranking of Presidents which has been and is quite an undertaking. He may be the worst President in American history.”
J “Just a parent taking care of a kid. Not my favorite President.”
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[See “President Biden Cloaks His Legacy in Infamy With the Hunter Biden Pardon” by Jonathan Turley, the recipient of the Ninth Annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence (October 21, 2024), in “JonathanTurley.org” dated December 2, 2024.]
Bumper sticker of the week:
“I abide by the jury decision. I will do that and I will not pardon him.” Joey R. Biden
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K “Dewey beats Truman. Again.”
J “Surreal. America gave up on itself.”
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K “This was the single largest citizen jury verdict in American history rejecting and repudiating an incompetent and criminal regime in Washington. When the ‘Deplorables’ and the ‘Garbage’ unite, things happen. Things happened.”
J “He will break every one of his promises. You really think he will even propose making Social Security payments non-taxable. No way. Or making overtime payments and tips non-taxable. No way. He will abandon the citizens and jurors who will be even angrier at and more frustrated with the system.”
K “One side of me says you are right. From another perspective, we are better off if he does break many of his promises.”
J “The voters clearly wanted American money and resources to be spent by Americans for Americans in America. Trump made a more convincing pitch to the pitch fork crowd. But he will not perform.”
. . .
K “Who is seriously interested in why it happened?”
J “It is all about social media in the Age of Rage and Anger. An angry old white man bamboozled the angry men and angry women.”
K “Why are they angry?”
. . .
J “I did not necessarily support her as much as I supported those who surrounded her.”
K “That’s what terrified me about her.”
J “What about the clowns and buffoons Trump is now surrounding himself with.”
K “That’s what terrifies me about him. And in the first week. He appointed the War Pigs by or on Armistice Day.”
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K “Keep one unreality in mind. One high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. The highest-ranking official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack, until she implicitly intimated that he was not and joined the palace coup.”
J “Everything about that situation was poorly handled. Harris did not have enough time to get traction and to develop a brand. She could not run against Bidenomics and she could not run for Bidenomics. A little racism and sexism may have been thrown it to complicate things.”
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K “Polls are no longer accurate measures of voter sentiment. They are weapons of election influence . . . and interference. That may be a federal criminal offense. Under the extant rules of Lawfare, a pollster could be indicted for election interference.”
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K “The election was also a broader referendum on the MSM and alternative media.”
J “There is that problem. The MSM was bruised and battered and may now be buried.”
K “I am troubled by much of the alternative media, yet the enlightened alternative media provides the only promise.”
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K “A few months ago, I endured listening to one smarmy Parvenu PMCer interviewing another unctuous Parvenu PMCer who agreed that ‘indeed’ the Stupid Proles do not realize there is no inflation because they are stupid. They cited the NYT. Within a few weeks, I watched a Stupid Prole in line at the grocery store prioritize the final nine food items and pay for only seven at the register and leave two items behind in the cart.”
J “The messaging was not very astute. The MSM really needs to go back to the drawing board and reflect and retool.”
K “The MSM is superfluous. The NYT posted at least six articles a day in favor of Harris and at least six articles a day against Trump. Under the NYT’s current interpretation of the law and the First Amendment, the individual authors and the newspaper itself could be subject to election interference and RICO criminal charges for openers. In desperation, they would try to avail themselves of the Assange Defense. But Assange was guilty of practicing journalism, whereas they are guilty of promoting propaganda.”
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K “What if the citizens resurrected an old remedy and tarred and feathered the charlatans and the con men and the con women and ran them out of town? That is what they did albeit less ceremoniously at the voting booth.”
J “And hopefully save some tar and feathers for the Trump crowd.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
NYT: Too close to call
Nate Silver: Too close to call
J. Ann Selzer: Harris in Iowa by 3 (Someone said that Trump took Iowa by 13.2 which suggests an error of . . . 16.2, but you will not hear it on the MSM)
By Americans for Americans in America
“This Is a Collapse of the Democratic Party” Ralph Nader
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K “We are on final approach. Flaps down. Landing gear down.”
J “We are down to the wire.”
K “Are we on course for a CFIT?”
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K “Some Democrats are saying that the Republicans will only win if they steal it. Some Republicans are saying that the Democrats will only win if they steal it.”
J “Unity, unity at last. Everyone agrees that it is going to be a stolen election.”
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K “Those in power are keen to keep the folks with the burning torches turning on the folks with the pitch forks.”
J “Or to keep the folks with the pitch forks turning on the folks with the burning torches. We turned on each other long ago.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
An elephant and a donkey fight in a puppet show and the crowd cheers for one or the other while thieves pick their pockets. And when the people start to notice their wallets are missing, they’re told they can stop the pickpocketing by cheering louder for their favorite puppet. Parable told by the End The Two Party System Movement.
Pat Paulsen 2024
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K “Both are vile.”
J “Both are vile. That is a wash.”
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K “Both are evil.”
J “Both are evil. That is a wash.”
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K “Harris is unfit. She had three and a half years on the junior varsity job to evince that she is fit. She failed miserably.”
J “Trump is unfit. He had four years on the varsity job to evince that he is fit. He failed miserably. That is a wash.”
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K “You must find some irony in concluding that someone who did the job or at least was in the actual job for four years is unfit for the job.”
J “He had a chance at center stage. He proved himself unfit.”
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K “Trump was the Symptom of a staggering Problem who has metastasized into another Problem. The election is between Systemic Problem versus Trump Problem.”
J “The original Problem is less of a problem than the new Problem.”
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K “The Harris Gang is just the fourth term of the O’Bama administration. Every single major grifter and grafter in the Biden Administration has known for years that Joey is mentally unfit and yet they have engaged in a cover up much wider and more pernicious and of longer duration than anything even Tricky Dick ever did. On some level, that is treasonous. The third term has been a complete failure. More than enough is enough.”
J “That may be the better we can do.”
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J “Trump is a rabid supporter of genocide and torture. The Harris Gang are rabid supporters of genocide and torture. Kennedy reluctantly tolerates genocide and criticizes torture. That is a wash.”
K “Agree. However, Stein is not a genocider or a torturer. She is avowedly against genocide and torture. There is that to weigh. That cannot be washed away.”
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K “Trump should ask the American people if they are better off now than they were four years ago. He would close the deal. The 3 percent in the Ruling Class and the Parvenu PMC Caste who serve them obediently are doing swimmingly while the other 97 percent are drowning.”
J “Were they better off four years ago than they were eight years ago?”
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K “The Supreme Court’s decision regarding abortion was a godsend to the Democrats. The Democratic apparatchiks are terrified that a woman’s right to an abortion might be enshrined into law. That would take the Democrat’s primary marketing ploy off the table. When the Supreme Court issued its decision, Biden did not say that he would propose legislation while he had both houses, he said he would introduce legislation in the next session when he knew or should have known that he would confront a divided legislature. There are times when hypocrisy is immoral.”
J “I saw him make that comment.”
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K “Sure would be nice to be deciding between Stevenson and Eisenhower.”
J “Sure would even be nice to be deciding between Nixon and Humphrey.”
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J “The final audited results are in. The Harris Gang: Evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil and evil. Trump: Evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil and evil.”
K “The final audited results are in. Trump: Evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil and evil. The Harris Gang: Evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil and evil.”
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K “The endorsement from the Cheney crime family moved me toward the Trump camp. The endorsement from Johnnie Bolton pushed me into the Trump camp. The endorsement from Anne Applebaum removed any scintilla of doubt. The recent babbling of Robert Kagan took the question off the table. The NYT’s endorsement of Harris was the icing on the cake. They sealed the deal. I do have all of them to thank.”
J “I never said that it is not an ugly bed that everyone is rolling and romping around in.”
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K “I would vote for Stein because she understands the problems and provides the answers and thus is blocked at each and every opportunity from saving the country. However, while Trump likely would win in a fair election, there are concerns that this one will be cooked again. I may be forced to vote Trump / Kennedy / Gabbard / Vance to provide a counterpoise. Yet when I get into the booth, I must pause and catch my breath and vote for Stein.”
J “No question. I will hold my nose and vote for the puppet herself.”
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J “Sure is revolting.”
K “Sure is. I need to wash.”
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[See “Torturers for Harris” by Shayana Kadidal in “The Nation” dated September 18, 2024.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
My vote cancels your vote
Vote? Why? Not?
Can we just admit we may have taken this ‘anyone can grow up to be President’ thing just a bit too far?
“How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?” Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72
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K “When he resigned, I felt an immediate shift in the energy level everywhere. Society went through what scientists describe as a phase change. Dupont Circle and other circles had to recalibrate their lives.”
J “Trying to make sense of it at a young age was overwhelming. Presidents were not supposed to lie.”
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K “I despised him more than any other individual at the time. He could have done something about the Southeast Asian War Games. I despise him less now.”
J “A ‘time is the great tincture’ development.”
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J “His efforts to open dialogue with China were prescient. China is still the number one fear and the number one concern.”
K “He did sign legislation creating the Environmental Protection Agency.”
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K “Compared with the rampant corruption deep to the core of both political parties, his antics seem almost sophomoric in hind sight. Donald Segretti talked about ‘rat fucking’ which is really what they were doing then. What the Democratic National Committee is doing to harass, threaten and undermine the Kennedy presidential campaign is much more egregious and outrageous than anything Tricky Dick ever did.”
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J “Fifty years! Time how it flies.”
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Bumper sticker of the week:
A crook I am not
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K “Last Friday night, I observed that he would step down within a fortnight.”
J “He had go. But his policies still trump the alternative.”
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K “One high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. ”
J “It was a chorus. They had to stay on message.”
K “It was a cacophony. Of lies. His condition was obvious years ago. His sycophants have no integrity and no dignity.”
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K “For decades he was a useful obedient puppet. When he was no longer a useful and obedient puppet, they cut his strings.”
J “You are not voting for Biden the avatar, you are voting for the people around him.”
K “The people above him. This is the third term of the O’Bama Administration. They were told by those who control them to jettison Joe.”
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K “So who is in control now?”
J “Those who are in control now?”
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Bumper sticker of the week:
Are tacks really all that sharp?
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K “Once again, something is not right about the whole shooting match.”
J “Assassinations are as American as processed GMO apple pie.”
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K “Negligent or intentional. There is not a third explanation, unless you consider gross negligence a third category. Do the math.”
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K “Someone I trust who is in a position to know said that neither Trump nor Kennedy will be allowed to cross the threshold of the White House as a tenant in an official capacity.”
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Bumper sticker of the week:
What happened to America?
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K “The ‘D’ Division rolled into Fort Swamp last Wednesday without much genuine fanfare or even many fans. Attendance at the Emperor’s coronation looked like a Bideni campaign rally last fall.”
J “To the accompaniment of more centurions than the Empire acknowledges in its many overseas wars of choice. A bleak and barren tableau against a desolate and deserted landscape with a rank and file of American flags made in China. No citizens were on the National Mall and no shoppers were in the nation’s shopping malls.”
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K “One crime family leaves and another crime family arrives. I provoke all manner of perplexed responses when I observe that we are giving up an Ivy League President and getting someone who graduated something like 97th in a law school class of 58 at a regional law school.”
J “Trumpi only got into an Ivy League school because he is from a second generation crime family. The Bidenis are now an established second generation crime family and thus Hunter had a spot held for him in the Ivy League.”
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K “Bideni is a foot soldier for the neoliberals in domestic policy.”
J “And an errand boy for the neoconservatives in foreign policy.”
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K “Nothing ever changes.”
J “Everything stays the same.”
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K “He was true to himself until the end and simply could not muster the courage and integrity to pardon Assange and Snowden and instead pardoned some stray punks and thugs. He is a waste of protoplasm in a great wasteland.”
J “He pardoned people who reminded him of who he is not who he wants to be. He will always be the saurian beast until he slithers off this Planet.”
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K “Bideni promised that nothing will change; he will keep that one promise. Day 6 is a modest improvement, but under the most optimistic scenario the country will only marginally improve under him/her/them.”
J “Marginal is the best we can do in this country. He will broadcast a few flashy but hollow and symbolic policies. Few legitimate grievances will be addressed. This is the third term of the O’Bama administration. O’Bama spawned Trumpi. He/she/they are the transitional Presidency to a new more slick and subtle Trumpi Version 2.0 in four years.”
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K “The war on America and Americans now begins in earnest.”
J “The only way to grow and expand the war industry is to invade and colonize new territory. America is just sitting there between the two vast sloughs waiting to be plucked and plundered. America is the last frontier and the last battleground.”
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[See ““Here Are the Superheroes To Come and Save Us”: Media Waste No Time Fawning Over Biden” in “MintPress News” by Alan Macleod dated January 22, 2021.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Give war a chance
No hope and no change
Dissent is patriotic
Hank Aaron
There is something to and something about ivermectin that compels a closer look-see
?The Dow at 20,000 or less by Halloween?
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