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  • Jul 2, 2022, 01:28 PM
    tomder55
    Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 on Twitter: "The Biden Administration is undermining our democracy by weaponizing law enforcement to go after political opponents, believing the “end justifies the means.” These are characteristics of a dictatorship/banana republic—not a democracy. https://t.co/yhE1eboyO5" / Twitter
  • Jul 3, 2022, 05:04 PM
    tomder55
    laugh of the day

    Rep Adam Kinzinger ;one of the 2 RINO tools of Madam Mimi on the dog and pony show trial called Liz Cheney's primary opponents 'armpit farters '
  • Jul 3, 2022, 05:22 PM
    jlisenbe
    Nothing like a high-level intellectual comment.

    Kamala Harris definitely believes we should "work together".

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSLeoKTYskM
  • Jul 4, 2022, 04:37 AM
    jlisenbe
    1 Attachment(s)
    Biden's most recent idea to lower gas prices and kick the can down the road.

    Attachment 49382
  • Jul 4, 2022, 05:05 AM
    tomder55
    Sounds like he is preparing for another 70s failed idea . price controls .

    Nixon imposed wage and price controls 1971. An initial 90 day freeze turned into more than 1,000 days before the controls were lifted .
    Inflation was 4% 1971 It was in double digit when the controls were lifted.

    Controls on oil, gas and petroleum products were kept when other products were lifted through the Ford and Carter's administrations .

    The results were disastrous. Domestic exploration and production slowed sharply. Foreign oil replaced domestic in America's gas tanks. Demand increased for price controlled gas. Gas lines went on for hundreds of yards and for hours . Stations ran out of gas Odd and even day purchase restrictions were enacted . A windfall profits tax compounded the problem

    .It lasted until Reagan repealed controls . The price of a gallon of gas fell by a third over five years.
  • Jul 4, 2022, 05:20 AM
    jlisenbe
    The solution is to open up new lands for exploration and encouraging oil companies to explore and pump.
  • Jul 4, 2022, 05:30 AM
    tomder55
    yes that would cause an immediate drop in price .
  • Jul 5, 2022, 03:26 AM
    tomder55
    They got the smoking gun . It is all over for Trump . They got the complete phone transcript of Trump's phone call with Georgia Sec State Brad Raffensperger where Trump says the infamous :

    "All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state."

    That is supposed to prove that Trump was trying to strong arm Raffensperger into helping him steal the vote .

    Others listened in to confirm the call and can collaborate the recording .
    CNN published the transcript for all to read

    Full transcript: Trump's audio call with Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger - CNNPolitics

    But it was a much longer conversation than what was cherry picked in that single sentence.

    What did Trump REALLY say ?

    He said that if the signatures in Fulton County were examined that he believed there were a couple hundred forged signatures .
    He said that he believed there were 50,000 people who showed up to vote and were turned away because someone had already cast their vote.
    He said that 4,502 people voted who were not on the voter rolls .
    He said that there were 18,325 people who voted and did not have an address.
    He said that there were 904 voters who only had post office box numbers as an address (not allowed in Georgia) .
    He said that 18,000 votes collected by vote scammers and hustlers .
    He said that suitcases of ballots were delivered to key districts after poll watchers and officials were sent home for the night .
    He said that 2,326 absentee ballots were sent to vacant addresses .

    He wanted these irregularities investigated .

    Raffensperger disputed Trump's contentions a couple of times .

    Trump said in response

    "We just want the truth. It's simple. And everyone's going to look very good if the truth comes out. It's OK. It takes a little while but let the truth come out."

    Clearly that was Trump trying to steal the election.

  • Jul 5, 2022, 04:07 AM
    jlisenbe
    Quote:

    "We just want the truth. It's simple. And everyone's going to look very good if the truth comes out. It's OK. It takes a little while but let the truth come out."
    Yep. What a clearly devastating declaration, to actually suggest that the truth coming out would be a good thing. There has to be some laws against that.

    As to the rest, it is just despicable cherry-picking. (<:
  • Jul 5, 2022, 09:14 AM
    Wondergirl
    Trump doesn't know what truth is. His life proves that.
  • Jul 5, 2022, 12:32 PM
    tomder55
    Neither does the Compost . They illustrated what they imagined was Trump's assault on Secret Service Agents for their more dim-witted readers
    Visual: Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony from the Jan. 6 hearing - Washington Post


    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FW5pFrcW...jpg&name=small
  • Jul 5, 2022, 12:36 PM
    jlisenbe
    Dim-witted is about right. It's the "We hate Trump" crowd who, driven by that hatred, are oblivious to reason or evidence. It's especially egregious considering that the two Secret Service agents were both prepared to testify that the whole account was just so much nonsense.

    It's the same thing Kavanaugh and C. Thomas had to work through.
  • Jul 5, 2022, 12:42 PM
    Wondergirl
    So it didn't happen?
  • Jul 5, 2022, 01:09 PM
    tomder55
    do you know that in February when she was summoned she calleed the Jan 6 committee BS in a text ? Don't matter ...... I believe her narrative as much as I believe the Adam Schiffhead depiction of the phone call between Trump and Zelenskyy
  • Jul 5, 2022, 01:17 PM
    tomder55
    https://scontent-atl3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...Gw&oe=62C8A17A
  • Jul 5, 2022, 01:43 PM
    Wondergirl
    You don't believe? Why not?
  • Jul 5, 2022, 02:32 PM
    tomder55
    well for one thing the Secret Service Agents involved say it did not happen .The other thing is she has an ax to grind because she thought she had a job at Mara Largo

    Unemployed Cassidy Hutchinson Planned to Follow Trump to Mar-A-Lago Before He Fired Her (nationalfile.com)
  • Jul 5, 2022, 02:41 PM
    Wondergirl
    So he didn't rip the tablecloth off the table and throw food onto the wall? Ketchup dripping down the wall?

    Secret Service agents aren't going to rat on him.
  • Jul 5, 2022, 02:49 PM
    tomder55
    Maybe he did and maybe he didn't . That one is more plausable. The one few talk about and the worse accusation is that he allegedly tried to get metal detectors removed so his followers could bring guns to the rally and presumably to the Capitol.

    That story disappeared even though presumably most damning .

    However what rioter has been charged with bringing a gun into the Capitol ? The only gun used was in a Capitol Police officer exescution of Ashley Babbett .

    Who really cares if he thew a Mickey D's against the wall ? Evita allegedly assaulted Bubba with a bedroom lamp .
  • Jul 5, 2022, 03:19 PM
    jlisenbe
    It’s pretty bad when the Trump haters have to resort to nothing more of substance than a hamburger on a wall. It just shows the desperate straits the left wingers find themselves in. In the meantime, gasoline has more than doubled in price and inflation is at a forty year high. “Oh yeah! But there’s still that hamburger thingie, mister.”

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