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“For almost a decade, Glenn Beck has tried connecting the dots between Ukraine, Russiagate, the Open Society Foundations, and the weaponization of government under Obama and Biden.”

So Glenn Beck came up with a crime and then set out to find the evidence? How very...Russian...of him.

“As soon as I read F-16 Viper, I stopped reading ... It’s an F-16 Falcon ...”

The F-16V (Viper) is a variant of the F-16 Falcon.

https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/f-16v-viper-fighting-falcon-multi-role-fighter/

“The F-16V or Viper is the latest variant of the F-16 Fighting Falcon fourth generation multi-role fighter aircraft manufactured by Lockheed Martin.”

“You could start being good guys and give the stolen lands back to Germany.”

I agree! The Russians could start being good guys by giving Konigsberg back to Germany!

/laugh
/mock
/ridicule

Don’t criticize others for no longer donating to FR when you won’t do it yourself you cheap hypocrite.

Put your money where your mouth is and donate to FR.

You’re a special kind of stupid to think that posting a publicly accessible archive of your public comments is ‘doxxing’. LMFAO!!

And what are you afraid of anyway? If your comments aee as innocent as you say then why not let others read them and come to that conclusion on their own?

IMHO you doth complaineth too much.

“I’m still waiting for you to provide source material to prove your allegations. Clock’s a ticking girl.”

I did.

FR is fully searchable from Google. That you did not know this is not my problem.

Great. So like I said you chased people like me away and now you want to blame us because we took our donations elsewhere?

Seems to me you should be increasing your donations to FR to make up for the donations you chased away.

Q: “Does anyone know why donations are down?”

Your answer: “Zeepers and Foreigners.”

For a while I was donating +/- $400 per month and then you and your pro-Russian comrades encouraged me to stop donating and now I only drop by rarely.

Isn’t that what you and your Putinista comrades wanted? Then why complain when we left and took our money with us?

Why aren’t you donating to cover for the people you drove away?

Mass55th you said: “Why do you people insist on thinking that people who are against the war between Russia and Ukraine are allies of Russia?”

Your posting history is on Google for everyone to see and you speak for yourself in your support for Russia and your ongoing remarks against Ukraine.

Piasa and All, post the following search into Google to see what I mean for yourselves:

site: https://freerepublic.com/ “mass55th” russia ukraine

This is why the leftists want to ban cell phones in the public schools so they can get away with abusing children.

“Erasing history.”

Like smallpox communism also needs to be exterminated.

“Civil discourse” is not a thing for those who think Russia is civil.

“Terrorists wearing foreign flags are attacking our nation”

Don’t forget to go after the terrorists who wear Russian flags.

Ooooh, scary threats from internet troll.

[[[ yawn ]]]

Putin will be dead soon enough and when he dies I will laugh well.

OMG, Putin is going to be so angry that he might even go to war! LOL!!! What a pathetic little man he turned out to be!

“Mighty Russia!”

Right! It’s the laughingstock of the world right now getting their best weapons destroyed by a second rate power that’s led by a comedian!

Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!

If anyone kills Putin it will be another Russian. No way can anyone else get past his security to do the deed.

And after the loss of 41 aircraft and maybe one or two submarines at Severmorsk he’s surely aware that the people around him see him as weak and incompetent.

Here is the full & FREE text of the editorial in question:

EDITORIAL: Secrecy, deception erode public trust
By THE PRESS REGISTER
Sat,02/08/25-3:00AM, 1,041 Reads
Your Clarksdale Press Register will be the first to say that a sin tax that would pay police to fight crime in Clarksdale is a good idea.

So why did the City of Clarksdale fail to go to the public with details about this idea before it sent a resolution to the Mississippi Legislature seeking a two-percent tax on alcohol, marijuana and tobacco?

Mayor Chuck Espy has always touted how “open” and “transparent” he is and he is “not like previous administrations of the past 30 years.”

So why did Espy seek a Special Called Meeting of the Board of Mayor and Commissioners to finalize details of this move?

The notice was posted at city hall as required by law and said stated the city would “give appropriate notice thereof to the media.”

This newspaper was never notified. We know of no other media organization that was notified.

But back to what the city was trying to do.

Yes, there are deadlines for submitting legislation to Jackson. But this tax has been discussed in at least two meetings and has been reported in the pages of your Clarksdale Press Register.

Have commissioners or the mayor gotten kick-back from the community? Until Tuesday we had not heard of any. Maybe they just want a few nights in Jackson to lobby for this idea - at public expense.

As with all legislation, the devil is in the details and how legislation often morphs into something else that benefits somebody else.

An idea that sought to pay police higher wages for the toughest job in any community is admirable. But the way the resolution sought by the city of Clarksdale is now written gives us cause for concern.

The money - our money - can now be spent to “support and promote public safety, crime prevention and continued economic growth in the city.”

Does that mean the fire department, 911, Chamber of Commerce and their pet projects?

Does that promotion mean, giving away candy at Halloween, toy giveaways at Christmas and hosting events where politicians can hand out goody bags to votersin the name of safety?

This newspaper feels the original intent serves the purpose of all - putting police on the streets of Clarksdale.

More police will lead to more patrols, more patrols will lead to more arrests, more arrests will lead to less crime and less crime will make us all feel safer in our homes and neighborhoods.

Our Clarksdale Board of Mayor and Commissioners have stumped their toe on this one. They took a good idea, let their focus drift, and made us suspicious.