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[MFS62]

From the Florence County Democratic Party This IS what we're up against.

"A day in the Life of Sue Republican.
Sue gets up at 6 a.m. and fills her coffeepot with water to prepare her morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.
With her first swallow of coffee, she takes her daily medication. Her medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised.
All but $10 of her medications are paid for by her employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Sue gets it too.
She prepares her morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Sue's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
In the shower, Sue reaches for her shampoo. Her bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for her right to know what she was putting on her body and how much it contained.
Sue dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air she breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air.
She walks to the subway station for her government-subsidized ride to work. It saves her considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Sue begins her work day. She has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Sue's employer pays these standards because Sue's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union.
If Sue is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, she'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn't think she should lose her home because of her temporary misfortune.
It's noon and Sue needs to make a bank deposit so she can pay some bills. Sue's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Sue's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.
Sue has to pay her Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and her below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Sue and the government would be better off if she was educated and earned more money over her lifetime.
Sue is home from work. She plans to visit her father this evening at his farm home in the country. She gets in her car for the drive. Her car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards.
She arrives at her childhood home. Her generation was the third to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.
She is happy to see her father, who is now retired. Her father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Sue wouldn't have to.
Sue gets back in her car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Sue enjoys throughout her day. Sue agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm self-made and believe everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."

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[kcmets]

Things people say, believe, obsess over... daily, hourly...

AS THE ETERNAL OPTIMIST I AM, I'm not gonna root against Trump nor JD who will likely be the next Prez because of lessons that weren't learned, and all his cabinet ppl, I'm gonna look at results, not emotion, if they do a factual good job great, will any of them stumble a bit sure, the last crew in did, I'll judge them more for what they get right, then just being negative

[Edgy MD]

I amn't sure there is agreement on how one shmolitical thread differs from another.

[kcmets]

Ok, I'll stop sharing.

[Edgy MD]

No, dat'sa not what I meant.

[Frayed Knot]

So it's a small thing, but me and the missus have been mulling this over for a while ... And so we bid farewell to our Swastikar.

Sheryl Crow joins you in de-Tesla-ing herself.
She then went a step further and donated the money from the sale to NPR but, after discussing it amongst ourselves,
we decided not to hold you the same standard because her most recent album probably sold a bit better than yours.

[Fman99]

Latest update from my brother, Dr. Fman, who works at the NIH in Bethesda, specifically in the National Cancer Institute where he approves funding for research projects:

"Survived the first round of the NIH layoffs. Lost my newest hire though. More than 300 people from NCI were terminated. More than 10% of our staff."

[kcmets]

This guy, who has been dancing in the streets since 1/20-ish,
really needs to seek some new meds or something...

They didn't hold press conferences when people were tired of being locked down
They didn’t hold press conferences when people couldn’t pay their rent.
They didn’t hold press conferences when people couldn’t afford gas and groceries.
They didn’t hold press conferences when Venezuelan drug gangs took over the entire apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado .
They didn’t hold press conferences when there was no aid to North Carolina and people were suffering.
They didn’t hold press conferences when the train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio and American citizens were crying because they were afraid they were living in contaminated areas.
They didn’t hold press conferences when they pulled out of Afghanistan and cost 13 young service members their live lives.
They didn’t hold press conferences when they left $8 billion worth of military grade equipment to the Taliban .
They didn’t hold press conferences when parents were begging schools to be reopened because their children were suffering .
They didn’t hold press conferences when they lied to you about inflation for four years after they printed 40% of the dollars that are currently in circulation during the Biden years.
But now Democrats are outraged and crying crocodile tears because somebody got a hold of their slush fund of wacko liberal new world order CIA cut out money.
Now they are on the street having a breakdown because they got caught using $70 billion dollars a year for the benefit of getting reelected, funding pet projects overseas and censoring the American people.
These people hate you, stop voting for them.

[Edgy MD]

Assuming I correctly understand who they are, they totally had press conferences.

Like, a lot of press conferences.

Maybe your friend needs a bear.

[kcmets]

The refreshing thing is, and I'm fb friends with almost three
dozen classmates (K-12 and then 6-12 when our elementary
schools spilled into one middle school), is at least everyone ig-
nores him. No likes, no clapping and no comments.

I guess that's something from our little neck of the tundra...

[kcmets]

I know I shouldn't read this stuff, but it's hard to look away...

Trump wasn't being charged with any crimes when they started all the political witch hunts against him, Inc looking into his tax filings, which were all legal, neither the IRS NOR NYS DEPT OF TAX AND FINANCE were questioning his returns,I know a little something about NYS TAX AND FINANCE, I used to work there, Trump received no or little taxes due in the yrs the dems questioned because in prior yrs he overpaid, I know for a fact, this is not we'll agree to disagree, the dems lied and convoluted it all to confuse the general public, who don't understand complex tax returns
****
only because a political DA upgraded them, the DA is so corrupt he almost always took violent felonies of repeat violent criminals and did just the opposite, lowering them to misdemeanors,bro, believe me, he's no DA you want to stick up for, he's awful, then they'd back out on the street and re-offend. The DA is garbage
****
the corrupt DA stretched it out to a 34 count, as well as upgrading it from misdemeanors to felonies, many legal scholars, who know more then us, are saying it will be overturned, some, even no less then Andrew Cuomo, who doesn't even like Trump and is a lawyer, has said he was only charged because of his last mane. Pretty good odds all the exaggerated charged will be dismissed, his record will be expunged, either way, I'm glad I voted for him, for the very least, world safety
****

[Lefty Specialist]

Expunge this, Comrade Krasnov.

Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief
A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman


https://bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/dona ... spy-chief/

[kcmets]

Just read a post from my little league catcher claiming that Zelensky
is a crackhead who has been living large on drugs, booze and women
on NATO money and laughing it up that they pulled the wool over the
eyes of everyone while Hunter Biden got away with everything...

... yeah, uh ok.

[Edgy MD]

Good God.

A catcher should know better.

[kcmets]

I was an all-star, he was a back stop. haha...

[The Hot Corner]

I was an all-star, he was a back stop. haha...

Did your team not make him wear a helmet and face mask? Or was he naturally gullible and stupid?

[Lefty Specialist]

Gee, haphazardly fire a lot of people in national security positions for no reason, what could go wrong?

Exclusive: US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/politics ... index.html

[MFS62]

Did your team not make him wear a helmet and face mask? Or was he naturally gullible and stupid?

Sounds like that guy had to wear a helmet in the sand box.
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[kcmets]

Weird how you never hear about any of this in the news......

TRUMP DOES THE UNTHINKABLE. by Liz Crokin
As an entertainment journalist, I've had the opportunity to cover Trump for over a decade, and in all my years covering him I've never heard anything negative about the man until he announced he was running for president. Keep in mind, I got paid a lot of money to dig up dirt on celebrities like Trump for a living so a scandalous story on the famous billionaire could've potentially sold a lot of magazines and would've been a Huge feather in my cap.
Instead, I found that he doesn't drink alcohol or do drugs, he's a hardworking businessman. On top of that, he's one of the most generous celebrities in the world with a heart filled with more gold than his $100 million New York penthouse.
Since the media has failed so miserably at reporting the truth about Trump, I decided to put together some of the acts of kindness he's committed over three decades which has gone virtually unnoticed or fallen on deaf ears.
In 1986, Trump prevented the foreclosure of Annabell Hill's family farm after her husband committed suicide. Trump personally phoned down to the auction to stop the sale of her home and offered the widow money. Trump decided to take action after he saw Hill's pleas for help in news reports.
In 1988, a commercial airline refused to fly Andrew Ten, a sick
Orthodox Jewish child with a rare illness, across the country to get medical care because he had to travel with an elaborate life-support system. His grief-stricken parents contacted Trump for help and he didn't hesitate to send his own plane to take the child from Los Angeles to New York so he could get his treatment.
In 1991, 200 Marines who served in Operation Desert Storm spent time at Camp Lejune in North Carolina before they were scheduled to return home to their families. However, the Marines were told that a mistake had been made and an aircraft would not be able to take them home on their scheduled departure date. When Trump got wind of this, he sent his plane to make two trips from North Carolina to Miami to safely return the Gulf War Marines to their loved ones.
In 1995, a motorist stopped to help Trump after the limo he was traveling in got a flat tire. Trump asked the Good Samaritan how he could repay him for his help. All the man asked for was a bouquet of flowers for his wife. A few weeks later Trump sent the flowers with a note that read: We've paid off your mortgage.
In 1996, Trump filed a lawsuit against the city of Palm Beach ,
Florida, accusing the town of discriminating against his Mar-a-Lago resort club because it allowed Jews and blacks. Abraham Foxman, who as the Anti-Defamation League Director at the time, said Trump put the light on Palm Beach not on the beauty and the glitter, but on its seamier side of discrimination. Foxman also noted that Trump's charge had a trickle-down effect because other clubs followed his lead and
began admitting Jews and blacks.
In 2000, Maury Povich featured a little girl named Megan who struggled with Brittle Bone Disease on his show and Trump happened to be watching. Trump said the little girl's story and positive attitude touched his heart. So he contacted Maury and gifted the little girl and her family with a very generous check.
In 2008, after Jennifer Hudson's family members were tragically murdered in Chicago , Trump put the Oscar-winning actress and her family up at his Windy City hotel for free. In addition to that, Trump's security took extra measures to ensure Hudson and her family members were safe during such a difficult time.
In 2013, New York bus driver Darnell Barton spotted a woman close to the edge of a bridge staring at the traffic below as he drove by. He stopped the bus, got out and put his arm around the woman and saved her life by convincing her to not jump. When Trump heard about this story, he sent the hero bus driver a check simply because he believed his good deed deserved to be rewarded.
In 2014, Trump gave $25,000 to Sgt. Andrew Tamoressi after he spent seven months in a Mexican jail for accidentally crossing the US-Mexico border. President Barack Obama couldn't even be bothered to make one phone call to assist with the United States Marine's release; however, Trump opened his pocketbook to help this serviceman get back on his feet.
In 2016, Melissa Consin Young attended a Trump rally and tearfully thanked Trump for changing her life. She said she proudly stood on stage with Trump as Miss Wisconsin USA in 2005. However, years later she found herself struggling with an incurable illness and during her darkest days, she explained that she received a handwritten letter from Trump telling her she's the bravest woman, I know. She said the opportunities that she got from Trump and his organizations ultimately
provided her Mexican-American son with a full-ride to college.
Lynne Patton, a black female executive for the Trump Organization, released a statement in 2016 defending her boss against accusations that he's a racist and a bigot. She tearfully revealed how she's struggled with substance abuse and addiction for years. Instead of kicking her to the curb, she said the Trump Organization and his entire family loyally stood by her through immensely difficult times.
Donald Trump's kindness knows no bounds and his generosity has and continues to touch the lives of people from every sex, race, and religion. When Trump sees someone in need, he wants to help.
Two decades ago, Oprah asked Trump in a TV interview if he'd ever run for president. He said: "If it got so bad, I would never want to rule it out totally because I really am tired of seeing what's happening with this country.'"
That day has come. Trump sees that America is in need and he wants to help. How unthinkable! On the other hand, have you ever heard of Hillary or Obama ever doing such things with their own resources?
Now that's really unthinkable! Might be worth passing on!!!
Just shows we hired the right guy. If Hollywood , the liberals and the
media ever STOP harassing him, Trump will have time to do many more positive things for our country....the good ole United States of America!!
PS ~ To those who are already Fact Checking, don't bother . . . already did it, and all the stories are TRUE!
The Liberal, progressive, socialists want to destroy this guy. .

[MFS62]

She must be a great touch typist, because she can't see the keyboard with her head so far up donnie's butt.

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[kcmets]

For God’s sake - Trump is literally stopping WW3 with Russia, stopping fentanyl coming across our borders with tariffs, exposing hundreds of billions of dollars of your money being wasted, and you still find ways to demonize everything he does
He is your President too!
Wake up!

[MFS62]

Different T L Douchebag is certainly right. He is stopping WW III. There will be no reason for Russia to attack us because they're going to own us.

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[Benjamin Grimm]

I like this part:

PS ~ To those who are already Fact Checking, don't bother . . . already did it, and all the stories are TRUE!

That's a nice way to avoid getting caught in a lie.

[Edgy MD]

Everyday I'm getting claims of Zelensky's multi-million-dollar home or homes in Southern Florida and his multiple yachts.

My cousin threw that shit up on page. I wrote that such claims have been debunked over and over again, including a link to a debunking. I'm not really waiting for a response, because the last time I told him that something he shared wasn't true, his response was that I should call him a liar to his face. So I could really use one of you to help peel my cousin off of me the next time I see him.

I want a keyboard shortcut, so I can write in one or two clicks, "What you are sharing is Russian propaganda. We can literally trace it back to find out which day it was born, in which propaganda mill, in which country, financed by which Russian oligarch/ally of President Putin."

But it doesn't fly.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I like this part:

PS ~ To those who are already Fact Checking, don't bother . . . already did it, and all the stories are TRUE!

That's a nice way to avoid getting caught in a lie.

That was my favorite part, too. Who the hell wrote that shit? His kunt fraud daughter, Ivanka, with a fake name?