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All you DT haters voted for this Nov 2020. . Many voting laws were raped those voting days. All under the guise of COVID lock down.

Now here is what you directly or indirectly inserted. It is certainly not an all inclusive list or litany.

This is from Rep Jim Comer

Patriot,

Just a year ago, it was unfathomable to me that I would be writing this. It’s a bit long, but I would ask you to read it in its entirety. I spent a lot of time writing it and did my best to make every word count.

I write it with great sadness and astonishment, sadness for our country which I hold so dear, and astonishment at Joe Biden’s desecration of the Oath of Office he took with his hand on the Bible in front of the world.

It has come to light that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has had 40 informants inside the Biden family over the past 15 years.

For 15 years, Credible Informants have been providing criminal information against the Biden’s to FBI Field Offices across the country, and for 15 years, everytime the information has been brought to FBI HQ, the leadership of the FBI shuts it down.

But it’s not just the FBI, it’s the Department of Justice as well.

I just heard sworn witness testimony that the Biden Bribery allegations on the FD-1023 Form were CREDIBLE, and that he referred the criminal matters originating from it to three separate U.S. Attorney’s offices in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Delaware for further investigation.

Then, just like at the FBI, nothing happened.

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Trump has come up with another demeaning nickname?? Why I will never vote for him: there is something called The Ninth Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor. I think Donald Trump violates this Commandment at minimum three times a week, and quite possibly all seven days of the week. He demeaned Jeb Bush by calling this very successful governor sleepy and dull. A lie. He claimed Ted Cruz was actually belittling the 9/11 responders when he used the term "New York values" (which Cruz only used to describe NYers' and Trump's big-spending habits -- a description that turned out to be totally justified in Trump's case). That's why I wrote in Ted Cruz on Election Day. Trump called his former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany "untalented" (which she certainly isn't) when she dared to report on FoxNews that Trump's lead had slipped just a bit in poll. He recently called Nicki Haley "bird-brained." But, of course, his most unrelenting slanders have been reserved for DeSantis, the candidate that, like Jeb Bush in 2015, Trump pegged early on as THE guy he had to beat. To do that meant, for Trump, of course, doing what comes natural -- lying about him and his positions, spreading false gossip about him. (Trump had close supporters checking whether or not they could accuse Casey DeSantis of faking her cancer.)

Jesus said that calling people false names and undercutting their characters was a form of murder. That has made me tell myself many times not to use a name on people. What I will say is something like "Donald Trump very often acts with childish-like petulance, gross self-centered-ness, and even cruel vengeance."

I believe God gave us a big test with him -- a man who had a number of strong policies for the country, but who demeaned the office he held, and therefore hurt the country, every day he was in office. Thank The Lord for Twitter to have exposed that.

But the majority of GOP voters, and many in the conservative political and media classes, never got the message. They are comfortable with him as an idol -- blind to the depth of his corruptness as a human being, blind to the fact that the GOP has been losing much more than it's won since its association with him began. Our future supporting him seems deservedly dim.

Which, from a Biblical standpoint, is just about just.

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In Saul Allensky’s Rules for Radicals he calls for mocking opponents. It is an old political trick done by both parties.

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We conservatives have come to a pretty pass when we're emulating Saul Allensky . . . and making excuses for Donald Trump.

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So you hate DT.

All politicians lie. Jimmy Carter ran in 1976 as; he would always run an open and honest Government. The day Jimmy was sworn in he ascertained that one could not tell the American people the truth, because there would be a revolution before the sun set. If you believe that the politicians in DC are telling you the truth you have been greatly deceived.

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Dear Gerald: I do not hate Mr. Trump, or anybody else. It's been close sometimes, but I've tried to adhere to the teachings of my Lord and Savior. Hate is too much entwined with vengeance, and vengeance is not mine.

That out of the way, I do not disparage Donald Trump because of his dishonesty (we're all sinners after all, and dishonesty must creep in there somewhere), but because he directs his lies toward diminishing the standing of others -- whether those others deserve it or not. I think his verbal attacks on Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Ron DeSantis, etc. -- all Republican conservatives in good standing -- were and are despicable.

He is, without conscience or certainly repentance, willing to destroy good people's reputations in order to achieve personal gain. The Democrats and the media, as a whole, act abominably, but their lies that tear down conservatives are ideologically aimed at political power.

Donald Trump doesn't even care whose side is on -- other than his own. He can repeatedly say, during his 2016 campaign, he's going to prosecute Hilary Clinton for destroying government records -- for which she SHOULD have been held to account by US law -- and then tell his Justice Department to drop any prosecutions, because, "Hey, I won anyway." It's all about his ego and his willingness to destroy people's reputations to advance his personal power and magnitude.

America at this time in our all-too-sinful present does not a dishonest, lie-slinging "it's all about ME" person to be our chief executive. What do we deserve if we re-elect such a man?

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I’m curious would you vote for Biden over Trump if that was the choice?

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No. In 2016, I wrote-in Cruz and at this point I'd probably write-in DeSantis. I'll admit, in 2016 I was thrilled that Hilary Clinton, seemingly on her way to being the heir abortionist-in-chief after Obama, was denied the Presidency. I'd feel the same way about Biden. But I won't give even an iota of approbation (and I should more honestly say I pray I won't) to a man who violates the Ninth Commandment as easily as you or I breathe.

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Please do the math before you again say “1/10th of 1% of the Jews on Earth” were killed 10/7. 16 million Jewish people times 1% is 160,000. 1/10 of 160,000 is 16,000. 1/100 of 1% would be more Accurate.

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So you quibble about numbers. Yet they have continued to climb as its difficult to determine quantity when the babies and many of the adults were burnt with such intense heat that they were melted together.

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Nov 1, 2023·edited Nov 1, 2023

I just pointed out his math is off by one order of magnitude. Does that not matter?

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I matters to those who can no longer speak for themselves.

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I think we’re misunderstanding each other. Erick’s basic math was off, 1/10 of 1% of all Jews (~16 million) on Earth would be vastly more than the death toll on 10/7, 16,000 or more. In reality it was about 1/10th of that.

You seem to assert my pointing that out belittled the awful atrocities of that day. It important to use facts in arguments. Assertions that can easily be refuted do no good.

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Oct 31, 2023Liked by Philip Swicegood

The Azerbaijan Armenia thing is directly due to Armenia’s patron, Putin’s Russia, being weaker, going back to pre-Ukraine when Turkey’s aid made the Azerbaijanis more powerful. It was a harbinger of the drone war we’re seeing now. Now, Russia is even weaker and Armenia is looking for help elsewhere, but too late. I wonder if Japan will decide to take back their northern islands some day.

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Twitter was worth half of what Elon Musk paid for it the day Elon Musk bought it. Now we just know its true value. Thanks to Elon for taking one for the team. The Twitter Files reporting was a gamechanger.

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