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Did Routh have a job? Was he retired? How did he afford traveling to Ukraine?

Like Snowden said, there's definitely an Oswald vibe here.

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Waiting for Routh to get Epsteinated

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Routh will be shot by a civilian as he's being escorted out of the police station.

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A civilian on CIA or FBI payroll, that is, just like crawling around the Capitol on J6.

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But if someone takes a photo, it will be declared mis-, dis-, or some kind of not useful "information."

Lee Harvey eliminated by some low level while escorted in the safety of Dallas PD. Quite something to behold. And, believe.

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Jack Ruby for those of us of a certain age.

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Thanks! Wasn't he supposed to be connected with "organized crime" somehow, but yet, managed to position himself in Dallas PD, WHERE, BTW, a photographer was able to get the perfect shot of Oswald being shot?! Now as I look back, . . .

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Yes, not surprising, as he was a nightclub owner, and somehow that was rumored to relate to the Bay of Pigs and… but I never read all of those books & @ this point what difference does it make, to coin a phrase…. And it actually might make a difference, you never know.

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As I recall, Jack Ruby didn’t last too long after shooting Oswald.

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Ruby offered to spill the beans and tell all about what he knew before dying of cancer if he was taken out of his Dallas cell and transferred to safety elsewhere The feds refused. You can imagine why.

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Went "crazy" after Dr. Jolyon West visited him, then died of rapid onset cancer...

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Thank you Dr Kimber from a, ahem, friend, yeah!, that's right...of a certain age...

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Jack Rubenstein was mid to upper mid level...

Turbo cancer😉

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Before it was known as turbo cancer!

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I had to look it up, he was convicted and given death sentence but all reversed on appeal. Came down with and died of lung cancer before they could retry him; his ultimate appeal didn’t go so well for him.

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We're in Russia1914 ish ...

The Commies can taste it.. they're gonna pack the supreme Court and then its goodnight

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Exactly.

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He was in a Ukraine Azov promo video as well as a Black Rock Commercial apparently. I am curious what the odds of 2 guys accused/killed/whatever of plotting to shoot Trump somehow both were in commercials for Black Rock (who until a couple of months ago, I didn't even know had commercials).

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Also, there are recent photos of the first-attempted-assassin walking the grounds.

I saw some photos ostensibly of Crooks sitting in the front seat of a car. In particular, they weren't the same as the oft-reproduced highschool shots which present him as a smiling kid but of someone who looked twenty and not fifteen. The recent photos of him walking the grounds were similar -- long hair and beard growth.

I remember seeing a couple shots, as though separate frames from a video. Can't find any of this stuff now though.

That there were a couple similar but not identical pictures of him sitting in the driver's seat of a car sure made me suspect he made a video of himself talking to the camera. No proof but it sure struck me that way.

Did anything ever come of his phone or those encrypted overseas "accounts" he supposedly had? Everything seems to get memory-holed in real time.

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Do you mean Blackwater?

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Nope. Both shooters apparently appeared in Black Rock Commercials. Or promo videos or whatever. I have seen the one the kid was in as it was done at his school, but still looking for the one this new shooter did.

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/15/business/blackrock-commercial-included-trump-shooter/index.html

They are saying it's not true about the new guy. Maybe people are saying the Azov promo video is blackrock. It's just amazingly interesting to me. I will never argue with people that dislike Trump and do so in a sane manner. I highly dislike Trump. But the same people that have TDS, also don't have open enough eyes to see how dangerous the modern Democrats are.

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Do you have links? You mean Black Rock as in Larry Fink?

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The Blackrock commercial can be seen on YouTube (link below). Thomas Crooks appears briefly around 0:18 and perhaps at one or two other times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWBd61Eo7-M

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See Below. It's being scrubbed from the internet too, much like this new guys Facebook and other social media presences showing he was a recruiter for the Ukrainian military.

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Also. He is interviewed for a NYT article.

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Yes I too was wondering how he afforded to travel. Hmm...

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Routh's efforts in support of the Biden administration's war in Ukraine make it logical to investigate possible links between him and administration officials.

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Lee Harvey Oswald, at the height of the Cold War and an avowed and loud commie, went to live in Russia. Strangely enough, he had no problem getting back into the US with the help of his CIA handler, George Demohrenshildt, who himself died of "suicide".

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Minor quibbles/amplifications...

Minor typo: George de Mohrenschildt

Also, de Mohrenschildt apparently met Oswald after Oswald had already returned to the U.S. and was living in Dallas. True though that somehow Oswald managed to get back in the U.S., which was very unusual.

It does appear that de Mohrenschildt was affiliated with the CIA. He did commit suicide before being requested to testify for the House Select Committee on Assassinations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Mohrenschildt

Oswald not only lived in the USSR but tried to revoke his U.S. citizenship and apply for Soviet citizenship -- but Oswald apparently failed to follow through on the paperwork!

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/appendix-15.html

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/finding-aids/mosk-59167870.pdf

https://foreignpolicy.com/2010/01/08/lee-harvey-oswalds-request-for-soviet-citizenship/

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Probably the same way Tim Walz was able to go to China 30 or so times.

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Mao memorial scholarship fund.

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Somebody explain to me where this guy was going to recruit Afghanis to fight

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I was wondering the same thing. He lives in Hawaii but was in NC, expensive airfare. How does he afford that. I want to follow the money trail.

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Two hours after proof drops that the White House colluded illegally with ABC to rig the debate another "assassination attempt." Do people actually believe this shit?

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This is an awesome comment. 'Don't know if the ABC whistle blower deal is true, but that night I thought it was so interesting the "moderators" had a quote from the Mayor of Springfield, Ohio at the ready to shoot into Trump, figuratively speaking, of course. Or that they had the "FBI crime statistics" ready. And the no late-term abortion "fact" at the ready.

Oh, yeah. That IS the story.

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I noticed that, too. Apparently, I am the only person in my friend set of D’s, R’s and I’s that thought this was odd.

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Don't know what age group you belong to, but maybe you don't know about Candy Crowley giving Hilary the questions in advance. But in this case, it was so obvious that this was all about the moderators uplifting Kamala and disparaging Trump. So. Obvious. But what they did was worse than Crowley. I'm thinking the Harris campaign gave them the questions and fact-checks to take down Trump. It was not even close to fair.

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Trump did the uplifting all by himself. All it took was a little needling about his rally's crowd sizes--which was *insanely obvious bait*--and he went completely off the rails.

The man's severe narcissism and lack of impulse control is so obvious it boggles the mind. It's scary to think about what would happen if someone that easy to manipulate is put in front of actual smart autocrats, like Putin or Orban, with the power of the presidency at his fingertips.

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If you think that’s scary, consider a brain dead bimbo fronting for the deep state war-mongering machine. I’ll take door number one, Bob.

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I have questions. If they gave her the questions in advance (which i'm not doubting), how come she still couldn't answer them? She didn't answer the very first one, nor the one on immigration.

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Because it did not matter what she said. There would be no follow up. She would get to say her deal.

Meanwhile, back at Ranch FUTrump, questions about Jan. 6. Really? And our his/him host announcing that the Mayor of Springfield, Ohio said blah, blah, blah. They were ready to quote the Mayor of Springfield, Ohio. Why?

I only watched the debate because of Racket News; I was going to sit it out. But we learned how corrupt the legacy media is. More than I imagined.

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I already know how corrupt they are. Harris is and always was a moron.

I knew that Harris was besties with the head of ABC news. Another commenter the other day alerted me to the fact that Donna Brazile is employed at ABC news now.

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Don’t understand why Trump agreed to it? He had stated how he feels about ABC. They out trumped him. I choose to believe the “ magic earring” was used.

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Ya, ok.

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The rumor about 'Haitian immigrants eating dogs' originated on September 5, and had been propagated online for almost a week by the time of the debate on the 10th, including being retweeted by Vance on September 9th. It's not at all outrageous to think ABC fact-checkers would ask the Mayor of Springfield about it before the debate.

Trump had already spewed the 'killing babies after their born' bit multiple times before the debate and has been lying about the crime statistics for months now, so it's not like the moderators wouldn't have seen it coming, either.

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And all three plus years of Biden-Harris’s failed policies are out in the open…and the results are obvious. The moderators should have pressed her to defend her abysmal record…but what plausible defense could she launch?

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Why wouldn't the moderators be prepared for the bullshit Trump's been endlessly babbling about for the last few weeks, few months, few years---as long as he's been alive? How could any sentient person NOT be prepared for the flatulent fog of Trump's oratory? He regurgitates the same crazed nonsense over and over and over...A child 8-years old could have easily moderated the thing.

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And yet he's infinitely less dangerous to our republic

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Um, no.

The dude already tried to throw out the result of an election and, after failing to do so via the courts, incited a riot at the Capitol and cooked up a scheme involving fake electors (with no votes authorizing them) to try and overturn it through extralegal means. Then he lied about it, and didn't even attend the inauguration of the adminsitration that succeeded him, like every president has since the Civil War.

Nothing Harris has done or promises to do remotely endangers the republic to the same degree those actions do.

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It's hard to imagine a greater threat to the republic than inviting 10,000,000 more migrants to cross the border when we're already $34,000,000,000,000 in debt. These people couldn't care less about our republic. Trump had every reason to doubt the results in 2020 given that the opposition spent 3 years framing him with Russiagate, plus two impeachments.

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He has every right to doubt them--he doesn't have a right to try to illegally overturn it and incite mobs into riots at the capitol as part of the effort, especially after he's had his day in court and the courts have unanimously said "Sorry, but given the facts you've presented...it's still clear you lost".

And given that illegal immigration rose under him until the pandemic drove unemployment up to 20%, you're not exactly bolstering your case for him here...

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Yes, it would be easy to predict Trump's claims and to prepare rebuttals in advance, but the moderators were clearly biased, and they even used falsehoods in their rebuttals.

For example, Tim Walz signed laws (145.409 and SF 2995) that allow abortions without restrictions, therefore at any stage of pregnancy for any reason. He also repealed the requirement that if an abortion of a potentially viable fetus results in a live birth, the medical personnel must "take all reasonable measures ... to preserve the life and health of the live born person". Before Walz signed that law, a baby born in that scenario was fully recognized as a human person under the law; now the baby can simply be left to die.

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Not just MN. Ny and ca

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BS? So much is NOT. Besides abortion which he was correct on. And animals being eaten in Ohio. Also true. Pictures verify and peopke I'm town council meeting. Google removed and mgr deby vecz they git kickbacks.

So wjat else was he fact checked on?

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I don’t know why media and others are so ready to dismiss these claims about animals and birds being eaten. I don’t believe this is happening frequently, as a new norm, but it’s certainly plausible that it’s happened on occasion. It’s basically another form of foraging, which is something people do whether they should or not.

But the real issue is how completely unfair it is to bring in a new population and effectively discarding the existing people. That is what we should be talking about.

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Yeah I saw pictures on some far-right facebook group of aliens and UFOs snatching up residents of Davenport, Iowa and replacing them with skin-suit cyborgs. Trump was among them. So that's verified too.

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I'd like to suggest one more factor. The Trump cat memes. I'm serious. They are hilarious. At the same time drawing attention to out of control illegal immigration. What if people started thinking about issues, not in a hateful way, but maybe a serious and at the same time, sensible way. We can't have that!

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Trump has been trying to havevtheee discussions. Bur left voters. And Harris. Will have none of it.

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Next time drink your vodka and smoke your weed *after* posting, please.

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Are you like poor Gregor Samsa? Except this morning you woke up to find both your brain and peenie dried up and fell off overnight. That is your metamorphosis. Don’t you know Gregor suffered in silence…so take his lead and stfu.

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No, "I has been just trying to havevthee discussions. Bur right voters. And Trump. Will have none of it."

Clear now?

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You must be one of, say, 15 or 20 Americans that can actually imagine that Donald Trump is capable of framing any subject, let alone "serious issues," not in a "hateful way, but maybe a serious and at the same time, sensible way..." That's Twilight Zone level imagining.

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Don't drink and glow it's not a good look, and likely will lead to you losing your cushy sinecure.

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Touché

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I had not heard about the collusion. So hard to keep up!

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That story doesn't look credible, not that I would be surprised to learn that ABC colluded with Kamala Harris, given how biased the moderators were in her favor.

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It's credible. Affidavit signed and filed with attu 1 day BEFORE the debate. So if it didn't happen. No one would have known. I absolutely can tell so many who onky get news from MSM.

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The story in Times Now News provided no citations confirming the allegations - no confirmation from the notary public who allegedly signed the affidavit, no mention of which news articles Marjorie Taylor Greene cited, no independent evidence at all - just a repost of a tweet.

Without actual evidence, this story is no more credible than were the allegations that Donald Trump had personally colluded with Vladimir Putin.

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The left is tweeting that this happened just after Vance admitted that he will support Agenda 2025. You know, because Trump staged both of them for publicity.

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Plan Nine from Outer Space. WTF.

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Vance NEVER said that about Project 2025. That's a lie. Even CNN fact checked them all as Biden lies.

That had zero to do with Trump. Been discredited so many times by the authors.

WOW. Its amazing how many people hear suffer TDS.

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I think you need a class in sarcasm.

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"Proof"

That word...I don't think it means what you think it means...

Unless your only standards for proof are that someone writes something down that makes unsubstantiated allegations.

In which case, here is 'proof' that VanishingTribe is actually Vladimir Putin:

"To whom it may concern,

I would like to make it known that the poster VanishingTribe is in fact Vladimir Putin. I am a very close friend of his, and every word of this message is true.

Sincerely,

aide to Mr. VanishingTribe (a.k.a. Vladimir Putin)"

Now excuse me while I retweet this 'proof' on X and post about it in the Racket News comments section...

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What proof are you referring to? It was clear that the moderators sided with Kamala Harris, but you seem to be referring to something else.

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Somewhere in my online travels today, I saw a comment to the effect of “Now Fox News is demanding Democrats stop campaigning against Trump, because it’s putting his life in jeopardy.”

Clearly this astute intellectual is just saying out loud what we’ve all been thinking: “campaigning” and “demanding your base (and the MSM, and the alphabet agencies probably) take any steps possible to prevent an existential threat to democracy - the one who has been compared to Hitler more times than Hitler was during his life… from running for re-election” are the same thing.

If we’re forced to keep making this face it will freeze this way.

Democrats disenfranchise their own party members (the non-filthy rich and influential ones) and use every angle they can to prevent any challenge to their anointed Dear Leader. How long before they start asking the crazies (and the Deep State) to “save the country” from someone else? I thought it was Republicans who were coming for our civil rights??

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Bongino says no one knew about it til right before, any intel regarding if that’s the case, how could he possibly have known 12 hours in advance?

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hanging around trumps's golf course on his day off was obviously not a bad guess

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Was thinking similarly, but hiding 12 hours in shrubbery seems more than a hunch.

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Yeah it seems weird but i cant see a guy like that have a mole.. Also he may have gotten theire before Trump decided to go.

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At the least, it says nobody walked the perimeter in a timely manner.

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I wonder if someone urged Trump to play golf and then told this guy to wait there. I’m just thinking out loud, not at all saying this happened. It’s not a wild guess that Trump would be playing golf on his day off either but waiting 12 hours seems odd.

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I cannot see anyone in his inner circle as a mole. alos, for his enemies point they dont need it anyway. the perfect conditions have been baked in. The environment has become so toxic, they are basically growing assassins.

Also something to consider. The first attempt inspired a bit of soul searching. People were still capable of being shocked. this time, the usual folks piled on immediately, blaming trump for making himself a target. there was no remorse and only perfunctory calls from a few leaders about "violence is not the answer." the successful shooter will expect to be held up as a national hero and its a likely that a 1/3 of the country will do just that.

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Love the sarcasm as always.

The 'apparent' Butler attempt remains a bit of a mystery two months hence. When in debate, cremate.

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Internal polling must have Trump ahead..

These lunatics

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…or else they’d just let him self-destruct, without “assistance.”

C’s

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I have no idea what polling could exist that has Trump ahead in any place that matters. He's not winning a single city and the Cities of the US can more than make up for the giant Red map that is the United States, with a couple dozen blue dots here and there.

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The blue dots are where many people live. Many of them are voters. Trees, cornfields, mountains, and dirt roads don't vote. Is this helpful?

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Too bad we just may never uncover the motives of this crazed madman. It's all a giant mystery.

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And, the Butler, PA shooter was cremated and . . . whatever happened to him?

Apparently our security system can hose off roof-tops, just not protect them.

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Crazed madman? I believe Trump's motives are rather simple---to continue the grift as long as he can continue the grift. Grift grift grift to the end!

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Grift, meaning he got rich from politics? No, that would be the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bidens, The Pelosis, etc.

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How many $millions did the Clinton Foundation raise to save Haiti? Audit, please.

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Every time I see this guy I think “most annoying guy at a Neil Young concert”.

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"He hides his head inside a dream.........."

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"he hid for 12 hours in “shrubbery”:"

So much for perimeter checks by USSS. Memories of the "missed" J6 bomb search.

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Shrubbery guarded by the Knights of Ni. All Routh had to say was 'it'.

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Couldn’t have been the Knights of Ni shrubbery he was using. They were decommissioned two weeks ago by Sir Starmer — their use of the word “it” was deemed “threatening, abusive or insulting” under the law.

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Sep 16Edited

I was right!!! Bravo!!

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There's a "MP and the Holy Grail" joke in there somewhere

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Was anyone wandering around with a herring?

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Thye wouyld be the "knights who until recently said Ni!"

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Nee-wom!

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What's your favorite color?

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What is the capital of Assyria?

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What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uio1J2PKzLI

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All I can say is respect for you guys having the stomach to listen to Rachel Maddow. I have never been able to do that. 10 seconds in and I get nauseous and the blood goes to my head. Listening to your live cast last night was the longest stint of listening to her I have ever done. Never again!

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but hey, she sure is easy on the eyes...

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Eww.

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what ?? (I haven't had my cataract surgery,,, yet)

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If Dems are the Party of Joy, how come so many of the fellow travelers are picking up arms and targeting Trump? Rubbing chin thinking emoji

Question. If Captain Ukraine was nestled by the fence for 12 hours, didn't anybody walk the perimeter of the golf course, just for kicks, before a president goes by on a golf cart? If the 12-hour factoid is true, it's sort of proof that the latter is true. No one did. Why not?

I really am no fan of Trump. He could have demolished Kammy in the debate on policy, but he is such an ego! But do you think if he was not the candidate, and it was DiSantis, or anybody else not named Haley (I bet the Cheney family would be all over her), they would not also be labeled "extremists," "Nazis," blah, blah, blah.

This is our last chance. Please lose the "protest" vote. As that great orator and humanitarian and perfect individual Barack Obama famously opined, "Do not let the perfect be the enemy of the good," or something like that. Let's give it back, really good.

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"If Captain Ukraine was nestled by the fence for 12 hours, didn't anybody walk the perimeter of the golf course, just for kicks, before a president goes by on a golf cart?"

MSNBC was there filming. Maybe they saw him. Although it's a bit weird that they knew Trump would be there when it was a last minute thing.

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Eh...seemingly like everything else associated with Obama, that wasn't original:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good

It's often associated with Voltaire. And it's a good line as it's true: I have to remind myself that it's better to get something done and out the door in a possibly non-optimal state than work on it forever but never get it finished.

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But only Obama could drop it like he just came down off the mount, and all the followers would lap it up because, Obama.

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"The perfect is the enemy of the good" should be followed by "and so is the mediocre". That might make the maxim less useful as an evasion.

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Please don't ever make me listen to another Rachel Maddow monologue.

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That monologue was excruciating.

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Watching Matt, he seemed pleased watching Maddow spew her propaganda. Somethings are hard to hide.

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What I saw was not Matt "pleased" but Walter urging Matt to take it to the end so that he , Walter, would have a complete picture. Regardless, it was all like fingernails on chalkboard to me.

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Matt— you are a top notch journalist. I follow you extensively. I did not like the way you and Walter represented Trump is being controversial. I know what you mean however he’s not controversial with half the country. By that measure, Harris would be controversial also. The tone of how you discussed it with Walter almost mirrored how I feel the national media covers the story. I.e. he’s a jerk and he deserves it. As journalists, you both should be calling for all of our countrymen and politicians to come out and renounce political violence. Period. Full stop. No caveats. When this becomes commonplace, we are all in trouble, including you both in your pursuit of ‘honest journalism’. I stopped listening to the live podcast. Re-think your presentation of this incident.

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This is nuts, Matt and Walter, absolutely nuts! No matter what anyone thinks of Trump, can people at least agree that American progressive politicians don't care about anyone but themselves and their power? Has Biden spoken in front of the American people about the fact that this has to stop? Harris? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

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Matt & Walter- Could you start announcing the book or short story you are going to read a week I advance so loyal listeners have a chance to read it and better understand the discussion of the book/sort story each week?

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That’s a good idea, but they might not know that far in advance. Anyway, liked that last Cheever story.

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Hated it.

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I "like" this.

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Well, there's always another "scamdemic" or WWIII.

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