Democracy

 "As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." ~ H L Mencken, July 26, 1920

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The United States Congress first organized in 1789, is an elected bicameral democratic legislative body established by Article I of the United States Constitution, ratified in 1788.

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The Truman Doctrine 1947 ~ to peeps complaining about aid to Ukraine

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Anytime someone comment's says "Democracy" someone points out that "we are not a Democracy, we are a Republic." Than another points out "we are a democratic republic." 

I equate democracy with freedom/liberty. Most of us do not want a dictatorship, we want democratic elections; the illusion that we are in charge of who rules us. 

United States of America

 Ever since someone complained that the United States of American declare themselves Americans, as if they owned North, Central and South Americas, I stopped saying "Americans." It is easier to say than United States of America citizens. The other countries have unique names: Chili, Brazil, Panama, Peru and so calling ourselves Americans seems correct. 

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On my quest to no longer post comments, clearing my copy/paste stuff.

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nostalgic:

there is not a liberal America & a conservative America

there is the United States of America

there is not a black America, & a white America, & Latino America & an Asian America

there's the United States of America

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E pluribus unum – Out of many, one vs: divide and conquer?

Cheryl Hall cheat for Trump

 Clermont Florida resident Cheryl Hall changed voter's registration cards from Democrat and Independent to Republican. She was caught when residents complained that their Voter ID party had been changed. 

Chery,l a Trump supporter, posted on her Facebook Timeline attending political events for Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Rick Scott, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, Sean Hannity, Roger Stone and Donald Trump, Jr.

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Trump raved about Democrats doing exactly what she did. His accusations unsupported. 

When you listen to Trump accuse others, it shows he is guilty of what he claims they  do. My ex-husband did that to me, which is what caused me to see it in Trump. 

Minor Voter Fraud

 *Alma Yadira Juarez ballot abuse 

*Joseph John Marak convicted felon

*Bradley Haugen, convicted felon 

*John Mallozzi Democrat City Committee forged signatures

*Kimberly McPherson Troy NY GOP resigned city council after casting absentee ballots in the names of two people

*Frederick Gattuso Carteret NJ GOP mayor candidate voted twice using similar names

*Jerry Trabona, former Police Chief, member of City Council in  Amite City, Louisiana, offered people money to vote for Kristian "kris" Hart, Democrat

*Tennessee Richard Garret false address for his primary residence lived outside of district he represented Clarksville non partisan

*Alex Campbell, GOP Crescent City, CA city council man,mayor pro tem claimed he lived within city limits

*Guillermina Fuentes ~ collecting and depositing other voters ballots for them

*Trenae Mysehs Rainy, forged signatures nursing home Michigan

*Carless Clark, forged grandson's signature, grandson voted in person

*Edward Amirault voted in NH and Massachusetts

*Sigmund Boganski AZ & NH

*Joan Marie Halstead GOP voted in Florida, voted in her home state New York.*

*Jay Ketcik GOP voted in Florida and mail-in home state Michigan

*Charles Barnes, voted twice, Florida & home state of Connecticut

*Richard Patton Pueblo, DEM voter, accused of trying to put something in usb port

*Tina Peters GOP election worker copied hard drive, gave to an outsider

*North Carolina 61% voted GOP 16% registered as GOP contractor indicted, new election

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The above information came mainly from Heritage Org. I verified most of these claims and found Heritage Org. info to be reliable. 

https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud-print/search

Dead People Do Vote

Dead people do vote, who knew? 

Going back to 2015 Trump's claims of  dead people voting;  “people that have died 10 years ago are still voting;" I used to make jokes about vampires. Back then I was still going to polling places, had to show my Voter ID card, sign the roster. 

My mother was still alive, bedridden with dementia. Could I have traveled to her town to vote using her ID? Maybe, but some places where I have voted wanted to see DL as proof that I was the same person using the Voter ID card. 

I imagined that people who had died recently might still be on rosters, but did not imagine that many would used the deceased parents ID cards. Those that do have been caught when signatures are compared. A few:

Tracey Kay McKee ~ voted as dead mother

Marcia Johnson ~ voted in dead father's name

Krista Michelle Connor ~ voted using recently deceased mother's ballot, 

Melissa Fisher Quakertown PA voted at her deceased mother

Danielle Elaine Dooner, 56, of Buckingham voted as her deceased mother

Francis Presto South Park PA requested ballot for his deceased wife

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Elizabeth Gale ~ signed as witness when using her mother's ballot ~ I do not know that her mother was deceased or just mentally disabled, as in dementia 

Barry Morphew completed ballot on behalf of his missing wife, because he wanted trump to win

I keep wondering why his wife was missing. 

Happy BIrthday

 I truly do not like to say happy birthday to deceased people. "Happy birthday in heaven, Dad (mom, dog, grandma.") Google will often say it is someone's 150th birthday. I could go for 150 days ago so & do was born, or the anniversary of someone's birth. Do people age once their bodies die? I do not know. 

Yet I listened to Stevie Wonder's Happy Birthday song many times yesterday. You Tube sidebar had "greatest speeches" ~ "nothing to fear but fear itself,." "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for our country," "yes, we can."

I liked Al Gore's concession speech. Some peeps liked Bush's 911 speech, I thought he looked silly standing on pile of rubble with arm around fire fighters neck, big smiles on his face. Was he happy jet planes flew into tall buildings? FDR, Truman, Nixon, did not impress me much. 

I shared the speech video on my Facebook page. Along with I Have A Dream song by Common from Freedom Writers Diary. Upbeat song. Yet missing Long Beach. I drove past that school many times. Later walked past it on the way to a park. I would walk to MLK Jr celebration at another park in LBC.  This year, after trip to get blood test, shopping, lunch with daughter, home alone the rest of the day.

Did not check to see where Allentown Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebrations were being held. I would not be able to get there on my own power anyway. (Maybe someday I will try Uber or find taxi cab #.) Too cold and dreary/rainy out. I guess it was raining in sunny So Cal Long Beach. I did not check out stories about those celebrations.

The bands! A lot of love in the air. Too few white people there however. 

I also posted comments on my shared speech video, concession speeches from various presidents. DJT's inspiration, Bob Dole? Maybe after I post all my drafts, I will share the concession speeches here.

Best words

 Trump's best words:

Nazzeez, U-licious, United Shates, Utaur, southern half of Korean pein-shula, Jaroozum, Missuria, 

Yo Semites and Yo Seminites, Statue of Lieberty, Hover Dam, statics, some sa-tiks-tics coming out on – STA-TIS-TICS, Nasta, Anonymnush? A…mominoush privit, neonetical, overdoth (over dose), 

covfefe

Party of Rule-or-Ruin

 "I don’t think there should be any punishment or reprisal just because he had an animated moment.” Gaetz

(Mike Rogers)

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So that is what physically attacking a person is called now-a-days? Kinda like a violent attack being called "a peaceful protest?" 

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"If the Democrats want to make people like Donald Trump pay taxes, they need to change the tax code." 

James Comer on Meet the Press

Actually makes sense to change the tax code. Just rather silly suggesting that a president should not pay taxes. 

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I forgot to add this to last post about "never a threat" DJT comment re: J6:

...violence that day left officers with head wounds, cracked ribs and smashed spinal disks. I think the number of injured guards is 140. 

Santos compared to Einstein?

 Santos will resign

https://www.yahoo.com/news/george-santos-i-will-resign-if-142000-people-ask-me-to-173326277.html

Oh my, this is hard. I so want to reply to Bear:

I see.. So you calling hs dropouts Einstein, Tarantino, Branson, Walt Disney, John D. Rockefeller, etc., as having no clue.. you funny clown..

Bear was replying to someone who mentioned Santos with no college education, high school dropout who earned a GED.

Did Einstein, Walt Disney, the others completely fabricate a resume to get elected to Congress?

William had the best reply:

Bear: So your putting Santos in the same league as the people you mentioned ? And who is the funny clown here?

Fake History, by Alyce

 History: General Trump lost his first battle against the United States after leading his troops of Anti-American thugs to an attack on Capitol Building. He feels this makes him a better president than General Washington who led his troops to take the airports from the British. ~ Alyce Rocco

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Some of his non-threatening thugs:

*Adam Johnson stole podium

"No one helps us, only we can help us" 

*Mikhail E. Slye ~ tripped guard using bike rack

*Pauline Bauer ~ "hand over Nancy Pelosi"

*"I tore down the barricades." Daniel Braun

Copied from comments: 

*Nicholas Ochs,  Nicholas DeCardo, Jake Angeli, Stewart Rhodes, Timothy Hale-Cusanelli,

*Jeremey Bertino pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy.  John Stewart pleaded guilty seditious conspiracy. Joshua James pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy, so did Brian Ulrich.   Charged with seditious conspiracy>> Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, Charles Donohoe, Dominic Pezzola

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I have more names, but since I am no longer commenting on articles, ditching the notepad doc. 

Never a threat

 "they were never a threat to law makers" "they walked in, they walked out" "they had great relationships with the guards; hugging, kissing police and guards" ~ DJT

*Edward Badalian in chat, he wrote: “we need to violently remove traitors" Clashed with cops, Trashed lawmakers’ offices.

*Mark Andrew Mazza Carried Taurus revolver w/shotgun shells & hollow-point bullets., Swung baton at cops, screaming “This is our f*cking house.”

*Aiden Henry Bilyard, Cary NC, 19, arrested in 2020 on J6

shot orange bear spray at officers, used baseball bat to shatter Capital windows

The police officer who was hit by the bear spray that Bilyard allegedly fired on Jan. 6 said it caused him "extreme pain and incapacitated him.”

*Bradley Rukstales threw a chair at cops inside Capitol,  tussling with police, took 3 to take him into custody

*Broadway actor James Beeks is charged in Capitol riot.

Arrested before performance of “Jesus Christ Superstar” in Milwaukee.

Plays Judas. (Now suspended from show)

Marched with Oath Keepers.

Michael Jackson jacket ID’d him.

*Adam Johnson walked off with Nancy Pelosi’s lectern pleads guilty 

*Jenna Ryan says she’s preparing for her 60-day prison term by watching YouTube videos.

Says riot was peaceful and “I have a problem with remorse.”

*Edward Kelley obtained a list of over 35 law enforcement personnel who investigated him. then discussed plans to kill the officials with an acquaintance, the filing alleges.

Anthime Gionet, known as “Baked Alaska, filmed riot as it was happening J6, “i can’t believe i’m going to jail for an nft salesman.”

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Perhaps James Beeks needs to look at the man in the mirror, and make a change, eh?

Fight Like Hell

 "All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by bold and radial left Democrats, which is what they are doing, and stolen by the fake news media. That is what they have done and what they are doing. We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn't happen. 

You don't concede when the is theft involved. Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore, and that is what this is all about. and to use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal...

We will not let them silence your voices. We're not going to let that happen...Republicans are constantly fighting like a boxer with his hands tied behind his back. It's like a boxer. And we ant to be so nice, so respectful of everybody, including bad people. 

And we're going to have to fight much harder...Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and be strong..We fight and we fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore."

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How can someone box with no arms and gloved hands, because they are tied around their back? Now I get his NFT pixel featuring his life and career as a boxer.

THIS IS MY COUNTRY TOO, arsehole. I think I get it now. All this Civil War being threatened, Trump's claims to be better than Abraham Lincoln, he wants to take us back to 1860s when America was great. Lead his weaponized thugs to a Southern states win over the North.

 Evidentially he has the support of "The Grand Old Party has become the Rule-or-Ruin Party."

Blast from the Past

 Cleaning up documents on laptop, found this blast from the past:

"When you test, you have cases. Why you test,  you find something is wrong with people. If we don't do any testing, we would have very few cases." ~ DJT

Such logic and he wonders why he did not get re-elected. Also:

"I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. I studied it better than anybody." ~ DJT  Yes, he learned the noise caused cancer. At that time I did research. Windmills near Palm Desert area  did not higher rates of cancer than any other area. 

Did not matter what subject was "no one does it better than himself". He was best at selling propaganda and leading his White Nationalists thugs to fight like hell to stop the steal. His cohorts in Congress are now on committees. DJT might still go down in history as the man responsible for turning the U.S. of A. into a fascist dictatorship. 

Sad. We were a mostly great nation until he came along.

MAWA Marches

 Too bad I am not going to comment on Yahoo articles anymore. I was posting notes from Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy, Jamie Raskin's book. He wrote about 11/14/2020 and 12/20/2020 MAWA marches that turned violent. 

People comment about BLM burning down cities, but no mention of Proud Boys setting a black congregations church on fireI do not remember those two events. I do not watch TV news, just check headlines, so may have missed it. I did not read much about BLM protests either. Maybe I was just playing Facebook games? 

Oh, wait, 2020 was when I was diagnosed with Mantle Cell Lymphoma. I was hospitalized twice that year. Spent an entire month in hospital and nursing home for rehab. Came home to massive bedbug infestation. COVID Apt. complex no longer a polling place. TY for mail-in ballots. I guess I was not paying much attention to news.

I was vaguely aware of Proud Boys starting violence at peaceful BLM protests. And of "antifa" showing up to fight with MAWAs at their protests or rallies. And quite award of trumps photo op in front of a church holding Bible upside down. Notice how quick he was to call out National Guard on peaceful protesters, but not at all when it was his violent mob attacking Congress. 

11/14/2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/14/934957728/trump-supporters-descend-on-d-c-for-events-contesting-election-results

13-year-old killed

 A 13-year-old boy was shot and killed, when a man heard noises, went outside and shot the boy dead.

Comments on article are typical, don't do the crime if you can't do the time. They do not use that same logic with Ashli Babbit; they see her as an innocent women murdered by Capitol guard; a martyr. 

And those pointing out: Crimes eligible for death penalty in America - curfew violations, no tail lights, counterfeit money, shoplifting and jaywalking, being out at 4AM. (sitting on picnic table with BB gun, shopping in Walmart holding BB gun being purchased after selecting dog food, sleeping in a park)

So basically any kid you see roaming around @0400 is fair game...

Because he's a thug and taking advantage of people. This was a present to the rest of civilized society

the shooting could have been in self-defense

13 years old and out on the streets at 4am. Sorry ma'am your son was involved in a robbery and unfortunately he found out the hard way that he made a poor decision.

So making a poor decision means death penalty? Where in the article is their evidence that the boy had a gun? The shooter's identity has been kept secret, fearing attacks on the man. Article says he is a black. Comments say he is a "government worker." Maybe an off-duty cop? 

The peeps think the kid got what he deserve, do not get it. Vigilante killings is not just; arrest, evidence presented in court trial, or plead guilty, sentence is how law in the U.S. of A. work.  Men with guns wanting to be heroes for killing young teens and other unarmed suspects. 

George Santos COVID lie

Reported that George Santos said: "Unfortunately on the 9th of March I became symptomatic with what we all know now very well, COVID-19 a.k.a coronavirus, commonly known as the Chinese flu. On the 11th I ended up in the hospital. It was really bad, fever, body aches."

"So, I'm free, coronavirus free, so they're calling me a survivor, I don't know if I really survived anything. It's just flu."

He also claimed he had hallucinations. He is trying to sound like his hero DJT, except I think he called it "the China flu."

Comment by Dave: This man is a simply a symptom of a greater problem. If you want understand the problem, read the rest of the comments here with a focus on the replies.

So I did, The majority of the comments basically poking fun at Santos. I liked: next he will be claiming he kilt a bear when he was only three. Some likened him to Biden and Democrats. george534 wrote a long, no white space, comment that sounded like an alternate fact conspiracy theory to me. Then commented on his own comment:

It's why Trump held his covid meetings in high-security meeting rooms, the so-called "Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility" usually reserved for intelligence and military operations. This is the big secret the US is hiding about covid.

Okay if it is a big secret how come george534 knows so much about it? Was he in the "high-security meeting rooms?" Maybe George is George Santos and joined trump in the "Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility?"

Was that a room located at Mar-a-Lago, or other golf club facility? I do not recall trump doing much other travel, other than to hold rallies. Maybe the "big secret" was recorded on one of the documents he kept? 

Can always tell when a poster is a gaga MAWA. The article is political, it is not news, left leaning propaganda, and so on. Not a word about George Santos latest lie. 

The best comment was the one that said he should be removed from office. I agree, I do not want a man that is just blathering GOP lines voting on bills that will affect all U.S. citizens. We already have enough Liar -in-Chief loyalists in Congress keeping his lies alive. We do not need more. 

Cowboy is racist?

The comment explained why cowboy was racist. Back in the good old days, white people called black men boys. The cowhands who  herded cattle were black. Notice Clint Eastwood was called a cowhand, not a cowboy. LOL I now know that a cowhand is a cowboy or cowgirl.

Another poster said Cowboys originated in Mexico and brought the term here. That makes sense as I now know the term cowboy came from vaquero, a Spanish word for a person who managed cattle while on horseback. Irrelevant to the article. The Congressman referring to "wiping out the American cowboy," was not claiming ownership of the term.

Yet another poster said they saw a group of men on horseback herding cattle across the highway, only none of them spoke English. I wondered how he could hear all those men galloping by with the herd hooves beats speaking. Maybe they were implying there are no American cowpokes anymore? Or a slur against immigrants or illegals? 

Since I am ending my addiction to Yahoo comments, I am going to post some of my copy/paste notes on this blog. After all that research seems a waste to just delete them. 

Comfort Zone

 I realized that commenting on Yahoo articles was an old comfort zone. I spend my twenties arguing with a bigoted, racist, my way or the highway man. Actually he would not let me take the highway. I told him I wanted a divorce soon after he arrived home from jail. 

Was it comfortable? Hell no. I do not know why it is called "comfort zone." It is what one is used to; if one is used to being abused during childhood, they unknowingly seek a partner that repeats that. Not that I was abused as a child. Nor was there arguments about racism. My parents argued a lot. Or at least my father was always yelling at my mother.

Ah, so maybe that was it? Fathers yelling at mothers = normal. I do not remember what they argued about or why he yelled so much. I do recall him saying he did not think women should be allowed to vote. Or maybe married women should vote the same way as their husbands.

Mom was Republican, Dad was Democrat. He felt her vote cancelled out his own. Or man should be head of household? 

Realizing that I was sort of reliving my young married life, is what made me realize I had to break the habit. 

Unable to sleep, I did scan Yahoo news headlines, after I played Wordie. I did not open the GOP Congress ones. I read comments on a few articles. No "political flags" in a school. Do teens really carry BLM, LGBT flags to school? I did not read most of the article about the student protest. One comment asked if a picture of MLK, Jr is considered political. 

I was tempted to copy a post about a politician who said the deep state is trying to do away with the American cowboy, and turn Monatanta into a state park. The comment was a long ramble. "My great grandparents were born here, I am an AMERICAN!" 46-year-old that implies that I am not a real U.S. of A. citizens because my father was not born here? 

Most of the comments were poking fun at the cowboy hat, that his father was a plumber and he a geologist; never owned a ranch with cattle;  the pickup truck replaced horses; that if the deep state was run by Democrats why did it elect Trump & himself. One person said the term cowboys was racist in origin. 

White nationalist

 White nationalist groups espouse white supremacist or white separatist ideologies, often focusing on the alleged inferiority of nonwhites.

An irate MAWA demanded of a stranger: Do you know what a White Nationalist is? Have you ever met one? (Yahoo article comment section)

I jumped in: Yes, I do and yes I have. After J6 how could anyone not know what White Nationalist groups are? Even earlier was the Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.  Gee, most every student and adult knows about the KKK and lynchings.

2003 someone wrote in a comment that she did not know the KKK still existed. I did. The local Klan wanted to hold a parade through Bangor, PA where I lived before hosting a picnic. The mayor refused to give them a permit to carry guns under their robes, so they cancelled the parade.

Around that same time a white pointed hood robed Klan Person stood on the sidewalk down the block from my apartment. Standing next to him was a child (or midget, who knows) dressed identically, handing out literature. One person was arrested; she spit on the man. Local news reported that people would take the literature drive around the block, throw it out, then come back for more. I was so enraged I did not walk down there, even though I needed something from the store they were standing by.

My ex-husband put me on a Klan mailing list. I read the booklets and came to understand how they use the Old Testament Bible to justify their superiority. Maybe they are unaware that it is the Hebrew Bible? 

My ex was denied membership in the Klan because our children (teens) refused to sign up with him. He and an ex brother-in-law were big time racists and bigots.

Sister's hubby admired Adolf Hitler. I learned so many derogatory names ~ ethnic slurs. More from him then from my ex. Sis' new guy, common law married, is also a racist & bigot. Since she adores Trump, I think she is likely into White Supremacy herself. I know she is bigoted towards Indians (as in Hindus.)

I was like one and done when I still dated. N-word? Bye, bye. Made that mistake once, never again. The Rahway prison guard a co-worker fixed me up for a double date; her husband's co-worker. I do not remember the husband's exact words, something about the # of smokers of Kool cigarettes could not be wrong. He talked about using violence against blacks as well.

When my date took me home, he said "I am not like him." I did not go out with him again, because he wanted to marry and have children. I found it embarrassing to tell I had my tubes tied years ago. I also did not want anymore children.

Did the he irate MAWA consider what ethnic the poster might be? Could be any color, nationalities and could be they had faced discrimination due to their ethnicity. 

6 New Mexico shootings

 Andrew Hay Reuters 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/suspect-arrested-shootings-mexico-officials-233508119.html

Police arrested suspects in shootings of 6 Democrat officials homes and/or office. 

"The attacks follow a rise in threats and intimidation against U.S. politicians, government officials and sometimes their families. Members of Congress from both major parties have experienced a rise in harassment since the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol."

Comments: 

John: The fact that the suspects identity has not been released leads me to believe it doesn’t fit the agenda.

Joe Avg. : this is simple communist propaganda..lol

s. Massive illegal

crossings....

I bet we'll sooner then later

find all those

weapons

Obama

allowed into the country

under his watch

that were sent to

Mexico

and

brought

back in.

Puckeater: Dem shoots at their own place then call and say we are being shot at...

aka memo: New Mexico has always had an element of armed right wing militia gong back to the Minute Men back in the '60s. We are also in the top ten for gun ownership per capita and top five for gun deaths among states. Albuquerque Metro comprises about half the population of the State's 2 million. Guns are the weapons of choice by citizens in resolving personal problems since before Billy the Kid. The majority of gun deaths come from suicide or domestic violence. That there is outliers, Lone Wolves, who would resort to gun violence for political purposes is rare but not surprising given the current political atmosphere in the US.

Jim: Where are all the puzzle solvers today?

El Libertarian de PR" Remember when the left cheered when there was a shooting at a baseball game in DC? Pepperidge farms remembers.

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The rest of the comments were typical mawa/others back and forth. I am on the next article, so not reading anymore of the comments.