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Posted By: Mercedes44, 10/6/2024 5:14:57 AM

The week began with what is absurdly called a “debate” and ended with a clear example of the grit, decency, and inventiveness of ordinary people and the sloth, idiocy, and incompetence of our government in the face of a devastating hurricane in Appalachia. I didn’t watch the debate and like the great Iowahawk (David Burge) I consider this one of the worst lies told concerning them, “here is our panel of undecided voters.” If you are undecided at this stage, you are a moron and shouldn’t vote, or a liar.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Strike3 10/6/2024 7:02:28 AM (No. 1808358)
Clarice is angry, just like the rest of us. Our government has become openly hostile to the taxpayers who keep it alive, so what are we going to do about it?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: franq 10/6/2024 7:32:45 AM (No. 1808376)
Clarice lays it out cogently, as usual. She describes the ease with which the election can (and will, I believe) be stolen. Barring a miracle. She thoroughly castigates the inept FEMA. In short, our federal government has gone to hell, and aside from revolt, there is nothing we can do about it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: LadyVet 10/6/2024 8:13:26 AM (No. 1808407)
How are they supposed to apply online without power or internet connections? And I suppose that the $750 will be in form of a check or a debit card when the ATMs have no electricity or have been washed away. Such genius at FEMA.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: crashnburn 10/6/2024 8:59:30 AM (No. 1808429)
We haven't voted in socialism; it was thrust upon us. We most likely can't vote ourselves out of socialism. If not, the government will have lost the consent of the governed, and it will be time to dust off the Declaration of Independence. Thankfully, we still have the 2nd Amendment. Socialist governments have absolute power, and as we know, absolute power corrupts absolutely!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: FLCracker 10/6/2024 9:52:51 AM (No. 1808467)
#3, no to mention, where are those nine people who qualify for the $750, and have the ability apply for it, going to go shopping? If you've ever watched an episode of "Barnwood Builders" filming in the North Carolina mountains (aka "no flat ground"), you'll have a small idea of what the rescuers are contending with, plus the added flooded streams and roads, felled trees, debris of civilization. And extra mud --- lots and lots of extra mud. Almost all the cranes, backhoes, heavy trucks, even tractors, need modicum of reasonably solid ground to function and not get trapped, themselves.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: earlybird 10/6/2024 10:08:04 AM (No. 1808479)
Once again Clarice digs deep and comes up with news analysis I haven't seen anywhere 4else, and I read a lot. The obvious election fraud to come from overseas voters, military and otherwise, where the numbers don't add up. And the NGO fraud re the illegal aliens and others ("displaced" in Lebanon?)being supported rather lavishly with FEMA money Mayorkas is treating like his pocket change. Except for Asheville, the hardest hit areas are Republican. Get it? If you want the real scoop, read Clarice...
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Reply 7 - Posted by: pensom2 10/6/2024 10:18:05 AM (No. 1808489)
I reside in a state that has never been a "swing" state. I am certain that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, by multiple means. Don't give me that crap about multiple courts having "examined the evidence" and concluded there was no election cheating of any consequence, as Margaret Brennan claimed in the vice presidential debate. There never was an actual court trial at which evidence was presented: all cases were dismissed for "lack of standing," "lack of evidence" or similar grounds, because there was no way to prove cheating, despite enormously suspicious---but mostly circumstantial--evidence. I was so angry after 2020 that I nearly traveled to Washington for the protest at which the FBI and Nancy Pelosi arranged to arrest and prosecute hundreds of good people. I was so angry that I vowed never to vote in another presidential election, as my way of protesting against a rigged election system. Of course, I have calmed down slightly, and am determined to vote straight Republican in the upcoming election, and all future elections. I go out of my way to research the candidates running in non-partisan races in my district, to discover who the actual Republicans and actual democrats are, and I vote ONLY for Republicans, even in non-partisan races where democrats hide their party affiliation. Today, our democratic republic is on the precipice of collapse. Obama has selected--not elected--the dem candidates, Harris (Willie Brown's side piece), and lying weasel Walz. If these two "win" this election in November, with the aid of tens of thousands of illegal and invalid ballots and illegal vote-counting in swing states as we witnessed in 2020, I fear our country will tumble into tyranny and, eventually, anarchy. Then, the Biblical prophets whose prophecies were condensed into the Irish poet's "Second Coming" will be proven to have commenced: "Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. "Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand . . ."
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 10/6/2024 10:20:14 AM (No. 1808490)
There must be a lawsuit to block UOCAVA votes this election unless there is proof of citizenship.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Zigrid 10/6/2024 10:38:04 AM (No. 1808511)
Here's what WE are gonna do about it...poster #1...WE are all going to vote for President Trump and JDVance...no more sitting around and waiting for someone else...it's up to US to make this election to big to rig...So get yourself ready for more October surprises from the democrats...they aren't through...yet...and WE're waiting for the next shoe to drop....
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Reply 10 - Posted by: felixcat 10/6/2024 10:40:26 AM (No. 1808513)
Can we all finally agree and that includes talk show hosts on talk radio, etc, that this isn't incompetence by the Biden/Harris/Obama Regime but intentional. The preference of non-citizens (many criminals) over US citizens and will GOP leadership STOP with this pretense that their friend across the aisle are just misguided.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Italiano 10/6/2024 10:45:55 AM (No. 1808518)
Not only did Trump win big in 2020, the Democrat Party would never win another honest national election. Unfortunately, there will never be another honest national election. They control the media and the institutions that they have destroyed, and are packing the country with human debris who will "vote" Democrat. Trump would only be a four-year reprieve, even if they let him live and govern. They won't. Sadly, all that it left is capitulation/acceptance, or massive bloodshed. Sorry, but there it is.
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