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I wanted to ask questions about scenarios. I see several scenarios ahead, and none of them look good. 1) Democrats cheat their way to yet another "win" and the corruption is so obvious but again, Republicans and conservatives (not the same) don't do anything again, until they start trying to round people up who have disagreements with the federal government. When that happens, people fight back, but there are now marauding gangs of Chinese, Venezuelan and other country "Government support troops" are around to murder, execute and detain anyone who is not supporting Biden 2.0. 2) Trump wins. Obvious because...

I'm going to propose a law be presented to Congress and wanted to run it by my Freeper friends before I do. You guys know what you're talking about and can clean it up before I send it in to every member of Congress. Presented for your thoughts: 1) Any business that employs an illegal alien will be fined at a rate of $5000 per day per illegal alien employed. After the first review and an alien is found, they have 3 days to rectify the situation. After that, the fines will be implemented. The fines are equivalent to the...

I was looking through the FEC database, trying to see what George Soros has been up to lately. I was a bit shocked when I saw clear violations of the max contributions to both individual candidates and the DSCC. For some reason, on 9/28 of this year (still 2019), he contributed $2800 twice to one campaign in NC. I want to call the elections board about it, but I don't know if that's the right group. I was thinking that it could be a data entry problem. The max is $2800. But, to a national party account, such as the...

I was doing some training about Azure search and found that Microsoft has tons of documents online and they're OCR (read by the computer for search) so you can search for a keyword or a tag and find all documents that have been publicly released for specific data. Again, the URL is JFK Files Search Demo

Let's go over some basic facts, folks. This is getting so old, it's not even funny. 1) The fact is, Joe Biden was recorded bragging about blackmailing the Ukraine to fire a prosecutor. This prosecutor ostensibly was investigating Biden's son, Hunter. This sounds like it was him covering his son. If that's true, it's a horrific abuse of power. If it's not that he protected his son, it was..... illegal. People try to claim there was no evidence he was covering for his son. That's irrelevant. Period. USOGE Gifts and Payments 2) Trump stated that he would like information on...

Rule XXIII - Code Of Official Conduct There is hereby established by and for the House the following code of conduct, to be known as the "Code of Official Conduct": 1. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House. 2. A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall adhere to the spirit and the letter of the Rules of the House and to the rules of duly constituted committees thereof.

So, a simple review of budget information has me asking a lot of questions about spending and where we're going in 2019. Currently, the breakdown (from TheBalance.com) is that we're spendning a massive amount of money to get a minor amount of return. Currently, we're spending $4.407 trillion. That insane number is incomprehensible to the average person. From the article on TheBalance, "Spending is in three categories: Mandatory, which is at $2.739 trillion; Discretionary at $1.305 trillion; and Interest on the National Debt, $363 billion." So, let's look at some of those numbers. According to the CMS.gov website, the breakdown...

Handy-Dandy Poll Closing Time List. (times shown are Eastern Time Zone) (**=multiple time zones) Total breakdown per voting closing block. Rep Dem Vac 7:00 Georgia 10 4 0 Indiana ** 7 2 0 Kentucky ** 5 1 0 South Carolina 6 1 0 Vermont 0 1 0 Virginia 7 4 0 subtotal 35 13 0 48 7:30 North Carolina 10 3 0 Ohio 12 4 0 West Virginia 2 0 1 subtotal 24 7 1 32 running 59 20 1 8:00 Alabama 6 1 0 Connecticut 0 5 0 Delaware 0 1 0 Florida ** 15 11 1 Illinois...

This is the letter I wrote to my congresscritter. She is a die-hard leftist who attends a church that literally Farrakhan has spoken at before. Today we woke to the disgusting acts of Louis Farrakhan, in Iran, leading chants of "Death to America" and insane comments about Jews and Israel in what could only be an act of treason. This "leader" has been allowed to be as virulent as possible and needs to be condemned in the harshest of tones. The world is watching. It is time for you to stand up and publicly condemn people on behalf of our...

I'm looking at the polling and the predictions are strange. It appears that the polling, as usual, is a mess. Name Prediction Result Republican count Democrat count Independent count McSally Should easily beat traitor Sinnema. Retain 43 23 0 Nelson Will lose Turnover 44 23 0 Donnely Is most likely going to lose. It’s very tight, and probable turnover. Turnover 45 23 0 Smith Is in usually safe MN. Given her opponent, there’s a good chance she’s not as safe. This is a “Let’s see how election night turns out” seat. Retain 45 24 0 McCaskill Going down Turnover 46...

Just a strange question that's been rumbling around in my mind and I wanted to get some intelligent folks to discuss it, so I came to FreeRepublic, as always. A few weeks ago, President Trump (and no, even as a third party guy, I don't get tired of saying that) enacted tarrifs on China. In an act of sheer desperation, China reportedly devalued their currency by 45%. Currently, we owe China $5.6 trillion. Does this mean that we now owe them $3.36 trillion? Does it mean that we would be able to borrow from the Fed and private sources $3.36...

I am really trying to figure things out. I feel like I'm in a roller coaster ride. I'm really confused at this point. I read many sources of news. I always come back to FR for sanity checks. But, today, I'm just lost. I don't get it. In the last few years, we've gone from disagreements to literal gaslighting. I read an article, and the article gets things 180 degrees wrong, and there are hundreds of comments replying that anyone disagreeing with it is insane, idiots, moronic, Nazi, racist, mysoginistic, a bot or any other name they can come up...

YAY!!! FreeRepublic was down yesterday, and I am SO glad to see it back and functional.

Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The excerpt is in accordance with the magazine's policy. The 14 characteristics are: Powerful and Continuing Nationalism Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays....

An open borders group that has benefitted from U.S. taxpayer dollars and is funded by leftwing billionaire George Soros launched a smartphone application to help illegal immigrants avoid federal authorities. The app, Notifica (Notify), is described in a Laredo, Texas news article as a tool to protect immigrants living in the U.S. illegally by utilizing high tech and online social communications. With the click of a button, illegal aliens can alert family, friends and attorneys of encounters with federal authorities. “Immigration agents knocking at the door?” the news story asks. “Now, there’s an app for that, too.” The group behind...

I remember that citizen arrests were considered legal at one point, but I don't know if they are anymore. And if they are, does that apply to members of Congress when we're clearly seeing them perform acts of treason and sedition? If they are, what is the process? Do we have to have a warrant? Or just approach the subject, inform them they are being arrested for sedition and treason, and then deliver them to the nearest police station?

Wow. Just wow.

“Vote for us! We’ll raise your taxes!!” “Vote for us! We won’t steal your government’s money and give it back to the unwashed masses” “Vote for us! That new job and higher wages are a lie!” “Vote for us! We hate Trump!!!” “Vote for us! We know Trump colluded with Russia and just need another 6 years to prove it!!!” “Vote for us! We told our crook to go home with a silly Vanity Faire video!” “Vote for us! We support illegals more than US Citizens!” “Vote for us! You are a racist, bigoted, misogynistic old white dude if you...

I decided if the snowflakes can create a petition to get the election overturned, I could put together one to have the DOJ do their dang jobs.