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Out of an abundance of caution, we're pausing our FReepathon during transition period. Registration system is also temporarily down due to glitch in sendmail feature. DNS is not going as smoothly as we hoped and there are a few other glitches to be worked out yet. Hope to have this all smoothed out as soon as possible. Well. we now know what to do if we ever get deplatformed. And we know how to be better prepared for an emergency provider swap. Great job, John! Thank you all very much. God bless.

Jim's Wife, Sheila, is in need of all our prayers. She has not been doing very well and has gotten very weak. She eats very little. Jim has nurses coming in 3 times a week and senior helpers coming in every morning. Senior helpers help with cooking, cleaning and anything else where help is needed. In adition to chcking her vitals, they make sure she takes her medication and they give her bed baths. John and Chris are working around the clock to make sure she is turned every two hours. Marissa helps as much as possible Please join...

It proved just how fast our formerly free Republic can be brought down if we ignore the enemy within. Took just a few months to take down the economy, then allow the marxists, fascists and anarchists free rein to loot, destroy and burn down our cities as the complicit democrat mayors and governors order the police to stand down as they urge on the violence and mayhem. Trump is the only thing standing between us and totalitarianism. A few more months of lockdown coupled with massive ballot fraud, and Trump is gone. And our Republic is no more.

Wannabe tyrants be damned. Our God-given freedom is worth fighting for.

Tonight the media says Trump's rally was sparsely attended. Tomorrow they'll say there was thousands and thousands crowding together with no masks and now we're all gonna die!

Your vote--use or or lose it.

So they can burn it ALL down.

Hillary claimed that 17 national security agencies said that Russia interfered with our elections and then she accused Trump of colluding with the Russians and actually hacked into her computer and published her emails (apparently without the infamous 30,000 missing emails). And that started a firestorm that engulfed the entire democrat party and the entire deep state federal behemoth including the entire U.S. intelligence community, the CIA, FBI, DOJ, State dept, etc, etc, etc, and led to three years of [illegal] surveillance, bogus investigations and a sham impeachment attempt. And now Schiff accuses the president of not trusting his own...

If our NATO partner and ally by treaty Turkey is conducting genocide and war crimes against the Kurds, then perhaps we should call on all our NATO partners and allies to condemn Turkey? We are currently committed by treaty to defend TURKEY, NOT the Kurds. We could tear up the treaties with Turkey and NATO and then enter into a mutual defense treaty with Kurdistan, but then what will Russia and Iran do? Oh, wait, there is no country named Kurdistan. This is the way world wars are started.

One of then major planks in Trump's campaign platform on which he was duly elected was and is to "Drain the Swamp!" That is now his duty and policy and that policy includes rooting out the entrenched corruption, anti-America bad actors, traitors, crooks, liars, slackers and deadwood from all federal departments and agencies, ie, the so-called "DeepState." Despite all the flak thrown up by Obama, Biden, Hillary, Kerry, Clapper, Brennan, Comey, the democrats, the media, the establishment elite, etc, this is what we the people want and demand and expect of good government. Why would the democrats not want this...

The massive corruption and rampant anti-Americanism unleashed by the Obama/Hillary era socialist-democrats is almost overwhelming. Corruption was top down throughout our government from President Obama and his cabinet and dept heads. Obama, Biden, Kerry, Hillary, Clapper, Brennan, Lynch, Holder, Comey, and the list goes on and on. And this corruption also runs through the congress and is covered up by the complicit leftist media. And the democrat crime family tentacles run internationally. If they ever get around to following the obvious money trail throughout the world left by Obama/Biden/Kerry/Hillary, et al, it’ll reveal the biggest government scandal ever in world...

Every steenking thing they're accusing Trump of doing, Hillary and the DNC actually did... and much worse. And in collusion wit Russia and other foreign actors. In fact, this entire sham is a product of her disinformation campaign.

No, Mr. Democrat Congressional talking head, we cannot 'trust' the contents of the so-called Mueller Report. It's painfully obvious that Mueller did not conduct the 'investigation,' did not supervise it and didn't even participate in it. The whole thing is a sham produced by his partisan staff. Every member of his staff are, just coincidentally, also members of the Hillary For President support team. Mueller doesn't even know what's in the report yet his every answer (when he answered) was, basically, if it's in the report, it's incontrovertible truth and therefor we must accept it. Really? We cannot question a...

<p>So, the new political correctness rules say that if you mention the truth about a group of democrats who are for abortion, for 57 genders, for open borders, for socialism, for free education, for free healthcare, for guaranteed income, want to ban coal, gas & oil, want to ban the internal combustion engine, who express hatred for Israel and the Jewish people, who say our founding and our constitution is racist and oppressive, who hate America, who say America is racist and full of garbage people, who say our law enforcement personnel are Nazis who put people in concentration camps, children in cages, and wantonly murder millions of innocent little black, brown or Jewish babies, etc, then you are a racist, xenophobic, homophobic, bigoted white supremacist. But then they automatically say that about all white Republicans anyway and reserve even worse name-calling for ROC (Republicans of color).</p>

<p>Just a quick review. The democrats are calling for open borders, government healthcare, a continued war against coal, gas & oil (even a ban on the internal combustion engine) and many more socialist programs.</p> <p>These programs are designed to make our free-market economy fail so they can roll out full-blown socialism.</p>

Hey Freepers, I have Breaking News on the left and Front Page News on the right. I used to follow activism but since the days of Walter Reed and then Trump Rallys, just not seeing much content, which is WRONG! "Articles", all the time. I've only been out here since '98, so looking for more advanced set ups. Some people find and post to articles that are days old. I have no idea how they find older relevant content. Feel like I'm not getting the most our of my account settings. Interested in how you all do it. Maybe a...

Happy Birthday, and many more to our wonderful host and great patriot—creator of Free Republic—Jim Robinson! Post your good wishes here!

There is life beyond q. And as much as q-pers may dislike non-q-believers, that does not make them trolls. Long-term FReepers are not trolls. If we can't coexist on one forum, then other arrangements can be made. Advise you cool your jets.

While watching the Kavanaugh hearings during the last few days, I'm impressed by the fact that the democrats are basically calling for our constitution to be dissolved. Got news for them. The central government was never intended by our Founders or the constitution to be a provider of health, education, housing, welfare, etc. In fact, the powers of the federal government are restricted to only those powers actually enumerated in the constitution and all other powers are reserved to the states and the people. Regarding the democrat parade of victims and sob stories: If you are broke or sick, unable...

<p>I calculated federal income taxes for two hypothetical working class couples filing jointly under the new senate proposal compared to current law, taking the standard deduction in each case (see the pdf at source).</p> <p>The first working class family has a combined income of $100,000 and if my calculations are NOW correct would owe $10,948 in federal income taxes under current law with an effective tax rate of 10.9%.</p>