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Babylon Bee said the at Israel could just buy the weapons from the Taliban. They might get a good deal since the US DOD just left them in Afghanistan.

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NO, NO, No, Iran controls Lebanon and should provide no weapons to these islamic nations. This old demented fossil goes from bad to worse.

Ex Lt Gov of Ga says he will not vote for DT but will vote for the Dem. I question that judgment harshly, and will never vote for public office that guy if he ever runs statewide again.

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Democrats - They will let innocent people go to Jail, people die, etc just to WIN AN ELECTION

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i’m with you, Erick, in your criticism of whorish mendacity on the Left. But let’s not forget the similarly whorish mendacity of the MAGA right, which supported Ukraine as long as Obama wasn’t providing sufficient aid opposed but opposed Ukraine aid as soon as Ukraine proved unreliable in the Trump-Biden battles. Or which ridiculed Hillary Clinton’s “reset“ button with Russia until Trump decided to prostitute himself to Putin and then every good MAGA is a Russophile. We have mendacious whores everywhere.

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"Immaturity within the mendacity": Oh, let me count the ways I can apply that marvelous phrase to today's events, today's "Leaders", today's organizations ....

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Incredulously naive for Biden & his 'experts' to believe they can control the Islamic objective to eradicate the state of Israel and all Jews by supplying weapons to one side and withholding weapons from the other side. The inevitable result is what we see; chaos. Worse, the loss of respect and trust by USA allies when they see that our support of our ally Israel is not-so "Iron Clad." All his faults and detractors notwithstanding, Trump's administration with Pompeo at the helm of state was far superior, imho.

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Joey from Scranton problem is that you have to stand on your principles,only he doesn’t know what they are from one day to the next.

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Erick, I like it when you use words like ‘cudgel’ or ‘mendacity’. If these words aren’t in your verbal toolkit, they should be. Looking up words is good for the neurons.

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I love words, the more variety the better. I hate that over the years I have had to stick to the mundane as so few understood older words and phrases. Now of course so many have “new” meanings or run the chance of being called offensive especially by those who don’t even understand the original context.

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When I saw your comment, I said to myself, "Why would you think there is something special about those words?" Then I went on to read that people had to look them up. Now I am astonished.

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Our mongrel English language is rich in word choices for those who use them.

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H.L. Mencken agreed.

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Over time my view on Biden and his administration has changed from just being incompetent to now

Joe and his staff being incompetent and anti semitic. A good administration, competent, should be able to see past BiBi and see what is good for Israel. I believe there are enough Iran supporters in this current administration that has active anti semites and they are in charge. The hatred in Biden is demonstrated more and more every day. I believe really he hates that he will always be viewed on the world stage as a frail, old "Fredo" with dementia as compared to Obama being Michael Corleone.

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May 10·edited May 10

Who else had to look up the definition of 'mendacity'?

Come on, Erick, put your thesaurus away.

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Biden will only be impeached when God calls him for judgement.

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If anyone still needs proof that Biden has zero control and just does what he's told, here it is in living color. People said it could never happen here, but guess what, here's the evidence that Muslim influence has clearly taken over the White House.

Thanks, Jill.

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cudgel, mendacious... Have you considered a word of the calendar?

I had to look up both of them.

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"Cudgel" is a ten-dollar synonym for "ugly stick".

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Exit interviews are very helpful in avoiding the echo chamber.

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fine with Israel so long as Israel votes their preferred way...

Like our institutions, progressives are fine with them as long as they serve progressive ideology, they are illegitimate otherwise.

Liberalism is the same the world over and throughout history, it's cult is consistent and predictable.

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it is hard to imagine how allowing Houthi and Iranian allies to get weapons will somehow stop the turmoil in the Middle East...

Easy, it's the old Soviet Union's definition of peace, the absence of resistance.

Chicago would be peaceful if the victims would just fall in line a f police would just stop antagonizing the oppressed criminals.

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