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Old Aug 6, 2025 | 11:10 AM
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Old Aug 6, 2025 | 05:18 PM
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Meanwhile, in the world of verifiable facts:


Old Aug 6, 2025 | 08:52 PM
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President Trump has united Americans around a common goal in a way that few others ever have.



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Old Aug 7, 2025 | 08:22 AM
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Old Aug 7, 2025 | 04:16 PM
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Europe is Socialism's promise, fulfilled.
Old Aug 7, 2025 | 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by cordycord

Awesome!

Now, how about the Epstein files?
Old Aug 8, 2025 | 07:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Awesome!

Now, how about the Epstein files?
What Epstein files?
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Old Aug 8, 2025 | 03:56 PM
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More winning. But don't tell Joe that this has a direct effect on the health of our kids and Americans in general. He's pouting until his files show up.
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Precursor to abolishing the IRS? Trump this week talked about removing the Federal income tax for those making less than $200k. Hmmm...
Old Aug 8, 2025 | 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by cordycord

Precursor to abolishing the IRS? Trump this week talked about removing the Federal income tax for those making less than $200k.

Trump talks about a lot of things.


He talked about prosecuting all of the people who paid Jeffrey Epstein to have sex with children at one point.


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The View has been cancelled?
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They told me if Trump was elected again we'd have WWIII...

If DJT takes another bullet, it's going to be on orders from Raytheon or Boeing or Northrup Grumman or someone else from the military-industrial complex. All this peace breaking out is bad for business.

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Old Aug 8, 2025 | 10:00 PM
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[QUOTE=They told me if Trump was elected again we'd have WWIII...[/QUOTE]

Yeah, but Epstein!
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I had no idea that some political districts were drawn based on racial lines....crazy. The libs deserve what they're getting.

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long but thorough.


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Originally Posted by cordycord
I had no idea that some political districts were drawn based on racial lines....crazy. The libs deserve what they're getting.
I thought they were drawn as salamanders.
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the left, 2025 edition.

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Originally Posted by cordycord
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Europe is Socialism's promise, fulfilled.
I would really appreciate if you stop talking about things like Socialism - that you have never experienced and no utter idea what it is like...
I was born and raised in an Socialist country - former GDR (German Democratic Republic or "Eastern Germany") - I know about the huge pile of bad (very bad) things
but also some good things you get in Socialism... Believe me - you ain't got no idea...

Oh and also- what a silly comparison on that silly influencers video - like comparing people choked on apples vs. people shot by automatic rifles... Makes absolutely no sense...

But- on a brighter note... this is me with MiataDad Greg Peters and Stefan Napp on a drive with a socialist built Trabant earlier this year... they really liked it... ;-)


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Originally Posted by Zaphod
I would really appreciate if you stop talking about things like Socialism - that you have never experienced and no utter idea what it is like...
And I think a lot of us would really appreciate foreigners that have never lived in the States to talk about our system like if they know something but most of us respect other peoples right to say what they want. I'm not trying to be abrasive, just pointing out some ironies.

And this is an honest question if you care to answer: what do you think of all the people who have never lived a day in a socialist society that want to make the U.S. socialist? Would you ask them to not speak of what they don't know?
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I lived in West Germany when the wall came down and vividly recall the flood of smoky Trabants full of people and their most valuable possessions through the various border crossings. Czechoslavakia was the first to open the gates. People would drive or walk from the DDR into Czechoslavakia and then cross into West Germany with what they could carry. We had refugee camps in our town and we donated clothes and food to them.

It's amusing that people remember that time with rose colored glasses. People were willing to risk death and imprisonment to flee socialism and seek freedom. People were only desperately rushing in ONE direction, sir. And they feared being sent back.

I have a friend who risked his life to escape Cuban socialism as a teen in the early 1960s after his mother and grandparents were imprisoned and their property seized. His grandfather died in that socialist utopia's finest political prison as he was being re-educated that he owned nothing, not even himself.

Socialism requires strong control over people to function. Some other forms of government are less dictatorial, and some even give deference to personal freedom above centralized control. I prefer freedom.



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