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Old Feb 6, 2025 | 10:05 AM
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Free means the US secretly pays for the 8% content, apparently.

Old Feb 6, 2025 | 12:04 PM
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"Liberals believe they know better than the citizens who elected them because, well, the citizens who elected them believe it as well."

"Libertarians, on the other hand, put stock in the individual. This means the government must stay out of the way as much as possible."

"One thing is indisputable: when the individual is diminished, excellence is lost. The fact that the federal government is the nation's largest employer proves this point."

- Kurt Wallace interviews Tom Mullen for Rand Paul Review

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"...In the interview, Wallace talked about an interview with an employee who worked at the CDC for almost 50 years. He asked him about the Ebola virus scare and the fact that it was suddenly not being talked about in the mainstream media in 2013.

The employee told Wallace that the CDC ran out of PR funding for the virus.

"This is a guy that worked at the CDC as an epidemiologist," Wallace said. "He helped eradicate some diseases in Africa. He was a boots on the ground kind of guy."

According to the epidemiologist, 1200 people worked at the CDC when he started, and that was too many. At the point of the interview, there were 12,000 CDC employees.

Enter COVID-19 and you have a proverbial cluster f**k. Excellence goes extinct as mediocrity flourishes."

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Old Feb 6, 2025 | 01:19 PM
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TBF it does look like her church/organization did get 53 million in 2023 to resettle refugees. Didn't read into it completely, but it doesn't seem like she just took $53 million and stuffed it in her purse. Couldn't find too much info on it outside of the same article copied/pasted across a handful of right wing news sites.
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Originally Posted by SimBa





TBF it does look like her church/organization did get 53 million in 2023 to resettle refugees. Didn't read into it completely, but it doesn't seem like she just took $53 million and stuffed it in her purse. Couldn't find too much info on it outside of the same article copied/pasted across a handful of right wing news sites.
You DO realize that ANYONE can edit Wikipedia, right?
Old Feb 6, 2025 | 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by SimBa





TBF it does look like her church/organization did get 53 million in 2023 to resettle refugees. Didn't read into it completely, but it doesn't seem like she just took $53 million and stuffed it in her purse. Couldn't find too much info on it outside of the same article copied/pasted across a handful of right wing news sites.
I'm with this guy, I'm sure all 53MM was spent on, *ahem*, "resettling refugees".
Old Feb 6, 2025 | 03:27 PM
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GP is an awful, sensationalized, news rag that publishes half-truths.
Old Feb 6, 2025 | 04:17 PM
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Not sure if you guys have seen AllSides.com, but it's a pretty interesting site all about media bias. I just found it in the past days as I've been reading around.

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Originally Posted by SimBa
Not sure if you guys have seen AllSides.com, but it's a pretty interesting site all about media bias.

I'm a big fan, personally. I use that site to find articles which emphasize both right leaning and left leaning government-funded propaganda when I am researching responses both on this site and also on other social-media sites in which I occasionally engage the trolls.

Of course, just as some people here perceive be to be a left-leaning liberal, and some of my far-left IRL friends consider me to be a conservative, what any given person considers to be left-biased or right-based is of course a product of their own biases and perceptions.

As such, I wouldn't really bother pointing to a service such as AllSides.com and saying "see, this article is not biased," because if the article actually does cover a politically-controversial issue in a purely objective manner, TDS patients will find that it is conservative-leaning, and MAGAts will perceive it as left-leaning.


News Nation, of course, is unaffected by all of this. As the America's only non-government-sponsored source of news-themed entertainment, we're committed to bringing you the stories which really matter.

Like Pappy the jump-roping Poodle:


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Yep, $584 million to illegal immigrants in the past couple months, and yet there was NO MONEY for North Carolinians who were living in tents in the freezing cold. You don't hate them enough.


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FoxNews is not THAT right leaning, especially since Nov 2020.


cordy. just paste the damn plain url link to twitter. i dunno how you always make it a hyperlink.
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Originally Posted by Braineack
FoxNews is not THAT right leaning, especially since Nov 2020.


cordy. just paste the damn plain url link to twitter. i dunno how you always make it a hyperlink.
Someone (you?) told me to change the "X" to "twitter" in the link so it would work. Honestly, why TF can't this be a drag n' drop like the rest of the world?






If true, really, really illegal, right?!

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Originally Posted by sixshooter
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Guess Pocahontas forgot about the part that says "By the people, for the people."
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
Can anyone find a citation for this quote?

I would like to share this meme, but as a rule, I prefer to be able to cite a source when spreading "too good to be true" quotations of politicians and similar.

I'm coming up totally blank on multiple search engines.


In the process, I did come across this gem:

Originally Posted by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D, MA) on Feb 4, 2025


I can’t believe I have to say this, but over 77 million people did not vote for Elon Musk.
Over 77 million people voted for Trump.
Over 75 million people voted for Kamala Harris.
Elon Musk was not on the ballot.
Elon Musk did not win a single electoral vote.
Elon Musk did not win an election.
Elon Musk has not been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to a position in the administration.
And the Constitution doesn’t give him any power to cut off funding that Congress approved.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethWa...0829257744904/


Huh. A lot of democrats suddenly care about what's in the constitution, and also have a problem with appointed bureaucrats wielding unchecked authority.



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