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Old Feb 12, 2022 | 12:46 PM
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Just in case you wondered what the ACLU has been doing, I captured some of their front page statements - since surely they will never be archived this way:

Politicians are passing laws that force people to remain pregnant against their will – but we’re fighting back.

The Senate must restore protections that root out voting barriers that discriminate against people of color.Do vaccine mandates violate civil liberties? Some who have refused vaccination claim as much. We disagree. At the ACLU, we are not shy about defending civil liberties, even when they are very unpopular. But we see no civil liberties problem with requiring Covid-19 vaccines in most circumstances.
Old Feb 12, 2022 | 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Braineack

Adam Kinzinger told his wife to stay home and brought a gun to the Capitol on Jan6

Sorry, come again?! Remind me the gun laws for DC and entering a Federal building? Oh, wait, let me guess: Laws for thee, not for me?
Old Feb 12, 2022 | 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Diamond Dave
Remind me the gun laws for DC and entering a Federal building? Oh, wait, let me guess: Laws for thee, not for me?
I assume you're asking ironically, and that a reply is not desired.


But consider another thing:

While it's taken a bit of a back-seat in recent years to asking whether polyamorous non-binary climate change is racist, a certain sect of the victim-for-hire class have for decades been bemoaning what intelligent creatures dolphins are, and how it's tantamount to genocide that humans are just absolutely slaughtering them by dredging the ocean with nets, and polluting it with plastic waste, and so on.

Intelligent? I'm sorry, but when was the last time that YOU got randomly caught in a net?

And, c'mon. We're supplying them with more free plastic than their ancestors could have ever dreamed of, and yet they still have yet to devise a way to do anything useful with it.


But you wanna know the real truth?

No dolphin in history has ever questioned its own gender. Or accused another dolphin of cultural appropriation for preferring one type of jellyfish over another.


So... maybe they are intelligent after all.



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Old Feb 12, 2022 | 08:45 PM
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cli...-house-servers

Wow, this is YUGE and it almost seems like this is being timed to be drowned out shortly by a Russian invasion of Ukraine...
Old Feb 14, 2022 | 01:44 AM
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Not a mask in sight, and yet all three of my kids will be wearing masks all day tomorrow. THIS is why there are truckers in Ottawa.
Old Feb 14, 2022 | 03:01 AM
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Old Feb 14, 2022 | 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted by cordycord
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cli...-house-servers

Wow, this is YUGE and it almost seems like this is being timed to be drowned out shortly by a Russian invasion of Ukraine...
We've always known this, it's just that we didn't want to hear it cause orange man bad.

Crazy conspiracies keep being facts, so weird.

It's hilarious Biden is using Russia to distract from the completely fake Russia story. Can't wait till people finally believe the people whom went to great lengths to spy on trump also went to great lengths to steal theElection.







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Old Feb 14, 2022 | 09:22 AM
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Elections consequences


Old Feb 14, 2022 | 12:21 PM
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Yeah... waiting to see what the news does with this...
Old Feb 14, 2022 | 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by wherestheboost
Yeah... waiting to see what the news does with this...
They haven't even reported it yet because they were complicit in the obvious lie
Old Feb 14, 2022 | 12:36 PM
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Preaching to choir.
Old Feb 14, 2022 | 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by cordycord
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cli...-house-servers

Wow, this is YUGE and it almost seems like this is being timed to be drowned out shortly by a Russian invasion of Ukraine...
Jay Sekulow was talking about the indictment this morning. Based on the information this could easily pull in James Comey and James Baker. And of course they needed marching orders. This goes all the way up to the Clinton crime family, Obama and even Biden, as Biden's legal counsel was in the chain of command for this information. Jeez I hope this gets messy.
Old Feb 14, 2022 | 03:58 PM
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Just imagine what it must feel like funding Watergate-level espionage to sink an opponent, and still lose an election to them.
Old Feb 15, 2022 | 09:34 AM
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Just imagine what it must feel like funding Watergate-level espionage to sink an opponent, and still lose an election to them.
They certainly didn't let that happen again...
Old Feb 15, 2022 | 10:05 AM
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/u...mp-russia.html

Court Filing Started a Furor in Right-Wing Outlets, but Their Narrative Is Off Track The latest alarmist claims about spying on Trump appeared to be flawed, but the explanation is byzantine — underlining the challenge for journalists in deciding what merits coverage.
Complicit
Old Feb 15, 2022 | 01:23 PM
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Old Feb 15, 2022 | 01:33 PM
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Oh jeez - that video needs a warning!
Old Feb 15, 2022 | 01:36 PM
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It IS a warning. Not to live in NYC.
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I think he looks more like Fidel Castro's love child, but this works too.
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Originally Posted by cordycord

I think he looks more like Fidel Castro's love child, but this works too.




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