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I don't think very many see the danger of where we are headed. This is all so bad.
1 posted on 10/15/2019 3:40:04 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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Everyone here thinks it’s all a sham.

That’s why our Government is called corrupt. Luckily I still think voting can change something. Otherwise we’re in drastic territory that I don’t want to see happen to our country.


2 posted on 10/15/2019 3:45:37 AM PDT by Bayard
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It just shows that the Democrats are all about impeachment in search of a crime. If it isn't Russia, it was Stormy. Now Ukraine. Hell, the only reason they want his tax returns is to comb it for impeachable offenses (never mind that there is no probable cause).

But the worst thing is lack of push back from the Republicans. THIS is what political parties are for. No, Donald Trump has to go it alone.

3 posted on 10/15/2019 3:51:36 AM PDT by fhayek
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The DemocRATs have been using these tactics for decades. Until now, merely making accusations against a conservative was enough to either turn the election against him or, if already in office, cause him to blubber apologies and back down from the conservative positions. The difference is that Trump fights back, and the left has no other response than to double down on the tactics that have previously worked so well.

I really hope other Republicans are watching and learning. The left is throwing tantrums now, but if they ever figure out that character assassination no longer works, they will have to find another way to push their agenda.


4 posted on 10/15/2019 4:05:48 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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I don't think very many see the danger of where we are headed. This is all so bad.


Also, you cannot plot a coup, using the resources of state to spy on your political opponents, then get off Scot free! Why would they not do this again? And again? It has been 3 years, and no justice!
5 posted on 10/15/2019 4:10:40 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Please, oh pretty please let Crazy Uncle Joe Biden be the nominee.)
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And we are headed there fast. At the point the Democrats actually vote to impeach the President, they are declaring that they intend to overthrow the government and should be hunted down as coup plotters and subject to justice by an uprising of American patriots.


7 posted on 10/15/2019 4:20:46 AM PDT by Truth29
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They’ll keep doing it as long as they get away with it. The question is how much longer will we continue to accept that?


8 posted on 10/15/2019 4:22:39 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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And this is why we need better oversight of the legislative branch of government. They are the ones perpetuating this fustercluck and there is no way they can legislate themselves.


10 posted on 10/15/2019 4:26:44 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (When you think about what the left is doing to America, think no further than Cloward-Piven)
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“It must stop.”

Amen Brother. Now go to Democratic Underground and put them on notice.


15 posted on 10/15/2019 4:48:45 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
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They can and they did and will do it again. They have no credibility but they will do it over and over for maybe the next 5 years.


18 posted on 10/15/2019 5:09:51 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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Cosby was the warning flag.

If they can frame him, they can Fran anyone.


22 posted on 10/15/2019 5:24:51 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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Cosby was the warning flag.

If they can frame him, they can frame anyone.


23 posted on 10/15/2019 5:25:08 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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“We are on the verge of conflict over all of this. It must stop.”

I can’t help bu think this is to distract us from something else. The Dems aren’t doing anything else it seems like and we haven’t heard a peep out of Javnaka lately. What’s going on? These people aren’t just going to let us have our country back you know.


25 posted on 10/15/2019 5:46:00 AM PDT by dljordan
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As Lawrentiy Beria, Stalin’s chief of secret police boasted, “Show me a man and I will find you a crime.”


26 posted on 10/15/2019 5:47:48 AM PDT by Montaignes Cat
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speaking of Russia...

check out this russian female store clerk that clocks a customer beating on another guy like a pro boxer while everyone else just stands around

https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1183735529386332161


27 posted on 10/15/2019 5:49:12 AM PDT by RummyChick ("Pills, money .. this city is wicked. Your best friend will kill you here." Smoove about Baltimore)
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We are getting close to USMC intervention time and this is not good but unfortunately necessary.


28 posted on 10/15/2019 6:16:57 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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“...and are going to cause the entire system to devolve into a circus.”

It already has devolved into a circus...except those are for fun and the system is not.


29 posted on 10/15/2019 6:46:30 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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At root, the problem is always “the MSM.”

And at root, the problem of the MSM is the fact that journalism is about news - bad news. Bad news about society (a.k.a., “the market”) promotes the idea that “we need” more government.

It follows that journalism has an inherent socialist slant. What makes journalism “the MSM,” tho, is the fact that major journalism is a cartel. There is no ideological competition in major journalism for the simple reason that

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)
. . . and, via the wire services, all major journalism is in continuous virtual meeting since memory of living man runneth not to the contrary.

This would be bad enough - but it is compounded by the unanimous 1964 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision of the Warren Court. That decision makes it impractical for politicians to sue for libel. And, unanimous or no, IMHO Sullivan is wrong. The Sullivan decision states that the First Amendment requires that politicians be held to a strict standard of proving “actual malice” in order to be able to sue for libel. The root of the error is surprising - you’ll think I’m crazy when you read it:

The First Amendment did not create freedom of the press.
Why? How so?

Freedom of the press existed before the Constitution was adopted. And in fact the entire Bill of Rights was crafted, not to create or change rights, but to assure that the rights of the people would not be changed under the Constitution. Not only did freedom of the press exist before 1788, so did the right to sue for libel (and, FTM, laws against pornography). “The” freedom . . . of the press - as 1A refers to it - was, and therefore under 1A is, unchanged since 1788.

So if you want to decide if a libel suit can go forward, you properly do not refer to 1A but to common law prior to the adoption of the Constitution. The First Amendment is simply irrelevant. So when in 1964 the Warren Court unanimously claimed that the First Amendment changed libel law, that was flatly wrong. The other thing about Sullivan is that the facts before the court didn’t bear on the issues of the cartel nature of national wire service mediated journalism nor the fact that journalism is inherently slanted towards socialism and away from “the blessings of liberty” which the Constitution pledged to preserve.


30 posted on 10/15/2019 11:08:56 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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Guillotine is needed on Capitol Hill at this point. It has to work in three shifts for a month.


31 posted on 10/15/2019 7:01:14 PM PDT by NorseViking
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