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h0w many newspapers did Lincln shut d0wn?

300?

c0rp0rate c0ntr0lled press is n0t a free press.

cens0red and c0ntr0lled internet is n0t free press

free speech is suppressed by the tech giants

they have bec0me the enemy 0f the pe0ple.

acti0n is necessary and vital t0 retain 0ur republic and 0ur liberty.

hang 0n t0 y0ur asses, this is n0t just an0ther 4 yr electi0n

the tree 0f liberty, I fear, will have its thirst slaked , by patri0ts and trait0rs.

G0d have mercy 0n us all.

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GAH!

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Someone skipped class during American government in high school. :lol:
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You have to wonder... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Hey, Sue, let me fill in for the judge on this one.  Even though my only legal background is watching old Perry Mason re-runs, I'll betcha even I would get this one right!

That way we'll keep the real judges clear for important things.
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Yep. She, and everyone else has a right to free speech. She can say anything she wants. She has no right to force other private parties to repeat or publish what she wants to say. She has every right to start her own on-line social media and accept or 'lock-out' anyone.

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hang 0n t0 y0ur asses, this is n0t just an0ther 4 yr electi0n
At last something we can agree on...

In my view, this the most critical Presidential election since the election of 1860...

With the top office in the land in the grasping hands of a Constitution trampling, rule of law shredding would be dictator leading a criminal enterprise operating under the guise of a Presidential Administration, the stakes are unimaginably high. Our very existence as a democratic republic may well be lost if somehow this corrupt, lawless would-be oligarch manages to gain re-election (despite yet another massive popular vote defeat.)

It is imperative that all patriotic Americans, across the political spectrum, regardless of policy or ideological differences, rise and stand as one to cast out this existential threat to our Constitutional Republic...

That is the challenge that history demands that this generation of Americans rise to. For the sake of the generations to come, we must not fail to meet it.
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Lord Jim wrote:
hang 0n t0 y0ur asses, this is n0t just an0ther 4 yr electi0n
At last something we can agree on...

In my view, this the most critical Presidential election since the election of 1860...

With the top office in the land in the grasping hands of a Constitution trampling, rule of law shredding would be dictator leading a criminal enterprise operating under the guise of a Presidential Administration, the stakes are unimaginably high. Our very existence as a democratic republic may well be lost if somehow this corrupt, lawless would-be oligarch manages to gain re-election (despite yet another massive popular vote defeat.)

It is imperative that all patriotic Americans, across the political spectrum, regardless of policy or ideological differences, rise and stand as one to cast out this existential threat to our Constitutional Republic...

That is the challenge that history demands that this generation of Americans rise to. For the sake of the generations to come, we must not fail to meet it.
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bullshit

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wesw wrote:bullshit
Precisely the word that best describes all the piss-your-pants hilarious, mondo-bizarro, alternative universe, stand-reality-on-its-head, bovine crapola you've posted around here today wes... :lol:
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Econoline wrote:
Lord Jim wrote:
hang 0n t0 y0ur asses, this is n0t just an0ther 4 yr electi0n
At last something we can agree on...

In my view, this the most critical Presidential election since the election of 1860...

With the top office in the land in the grasping hands of a Constitution trampling, rule of law shredding would be dictator leading a criminal enterprise operating under the guise of a Presidential Administration, the stakes are unimaginably high. Our very existence as a democratic republic may well be lost if somehow this corrupt, lawless would-be oligarch manages to gain re-election (despite yet another massive popular vote defeat.)

It is imperative that all patriotic Americans, across the political spectrum, regardless of policy or ideological differences, rise and stand as one to cast out this existential threat to our Constitutional Republic...

That is the challenge that history demands that this generation of Americans rise to. For the sake of the generations to come, we must not fail to meet it.
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I am in complete agreement. But a genuine question, LJ: I reckon that in normal times you and I would not agree on much, politically - so how is it that this is so obvious to you (the "grasping hands of a Constitution trampling, rule of law shredding would be dictator leading a criminal enterprise" bit) but the majority of the Republicans (north of 90% by some accounts) simply cannot see it?

I've had some good R friends over the years - far fewer now that I have retired - and I have no idea how they now think. I like to think that they are decent folk who think about stuff and who sometimes (IMO) arrive at the wrong conclusions. I think that they would be horrified by Trump but the statistics are against it.

I don't believe, for example, that the Republican mind-set is irretrievably self-focused and to hell with everyone else nor that Democrats (and Labour Party supporters) have a lock on compassion and empathy. It would be nice if everyone wore black hats and white hats so we knew whom to put up against the wall disinvite from the kid's birthday party.

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Think of Trump as Uncle Ernie, ex-kA. Life and soul of the family Christmas, volunteering to look after young Tommy - so good! A bit eccentric but then who isn't?
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts

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y0u understand that the 0ld man must be destroyed in 0rder f0r the new man t0 be reb0rn....

in 0rder t0 be saved.

g00gle will understand this t00.

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wesw wrote:y0u understand that the 0ld man must be destroyed in 0rder f0r the new man t0 be reb0rn....

in 0rder t0 be saved.
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For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts

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