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Old Nov 24, 2025 | 04:05 PM
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Is that real, or a meme?



Old Nov 24, 2025 | 04:06 PM
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its real from her FB.
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Beyond ridiculous
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Old Nov 25, 2025 | 07:23 AM
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I know I'm supposed to recognize this reference but it's not coming to me. And who is the blond guy with the gigantic head?
Old Nov 25, 2025 | 07:45 AM
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Convicted Sex Offender Walks Into Arizona School, Assaults 10-Year-Old Girl


Police say 25-year-old registered sex offender Abel Kai Gblah entered Orangewood Elementary School in Phoenix through an unlocked interior lobby door -- slipping in behind a tardy student.

He posed as a doctor, lured a 10-year-old girl into an empty classroom, assaulted her, and fled when she resisted.

Within hours, police identified him using newly upgraded surveillance footage and arrested him at his home two miles away.

Gblah's background is staggering:

-released four days earlier from jail
-conviction for sexual conduct with a 16-year-old autistic coworker
-40+ prior probation violations
-original charges included child sex trafficking and luring a minor
-long history tied to a 2019 human-smuggling case
I was going to say,
"Either execute pedophiles or lock them up with the minor children and minor relatives of the judge for a weekend unsupervised to prove he is safe for society," but then realized that many judges would readily sacrifice their siblings' children over a political point. Children deserve better.
Old Nov 25, 2025 | 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
Convicted Sex Offender Walks Into Arizona School, Assaults 10-Year-Old Girl
A little deeper dive, since I have a little first hand knowledge of how the system works in AZ. Also, my wife was a Probation officer for almost 30 years, and spent 5 of those supervising sex offenders...

This scumbag got a smokin' deal on his first conviction. In most counties in AZ he would have gone to prison, but Maricopa County is very liberal... the plea agreement made him probation eligible. Where we worked any case that involved luring was very aggressively prosecuted, and a luring conviction usually has mandatory prison time in AZ (dependent on victim age).

I'm not sure where they got "40" probation violations... that isn't supported by the public records. It appears his probation was revoked 3 times (8/22, 10/22 and 9/25) by Maricopa Adult Probation, but each time he was reinstated to probation by a judge. The way Maricopa County works, it could have been a different judge each time. It's very clear that he should have been in prison.

You can look up his court history here: https://apps.azcourts.gov/publicAccess/caselookup.aspx

It is the opinion of most that have ever dealt with sexual predators that they cannot be 'rehabilitated'. If they are not incarcerated or very carefully supervised they WILL reoffend. This one is 100% on the judges that kept reinstating this POS.

IMHO the best and surest cure for sex offenders is incineration.
Old Nov 25, 2025 | 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
I know I'm supposed to recognize this reference but it's not coming to me. And who is the blond guy with the gigantic head?
It refers to a photograph believed to have been taken in 1937, depicting, among other people, Joseph Stalin (center) and Nikolai Yezhov (far right):




Yezhov had been a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin, and head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938. He fell out of favor with Stalin, and was executed in Feb 1940.

Subsequent to this, Staling ordered that Yezhov be purged from Soviet history, becoming one of the first well-documented unpersons. The photo above was famously altered to remove Yezhov from it:





In the satirical version of this photo which I posted earlier, the "blond guy with the gigantic head" is Marjorie Taylor Greene, a soon-to-be former US Congressional Representative (R, GA) who has gone from being a darling of the MAGA party to a scapegoat within the past six months, after she began questioning President Trump's commitment to keeping "American First," as well as his reversal from having previously been a highly vocal supporter of complete transparency in the investigation of the associates of deceased sex-offender Jeff Epstein to instead trying to downplay the significance of said investigation and divert public attention elsewhere.



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I've also been rolling an idea around in my head recently for a satirical political movement.

The gist is that the MAGA and Republican brands seem to be losing popularity, while the ultra-left have been making gains of late. In particular, they've done a fairly respectable job of taking ownership of the "Socialist" label, which they've re-branded as Democratic Socialism, a moniker which has proven popular with the young and uneducated in America.

So, my suggestion is that the ultra-right should take a page from that same playbook, and really own the "Fascist" label which those on the left have been attempting to smear them with.

Don't try to deflect attention away from Fascism, or try to engage in logical discussions about how it's mostly the left who are doing actual fascist things. No, it's time for a re-brand.

I give you:

Democratic Fascism!




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Originally Posted by Braineack
I just left Chicago, what a beautiful and well planned city. It's a shame they have so much crime. There was a shooting at the Christmas tree lighting Saturday, just a block away from my hotel.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/loca...icago/3854686/

These DEI affirmative action judges are ruining the communities they are supposed to bring justice to.
Old Nov 26, 2025 | 09:56 AM
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These DEI affirmative action judges are ruining the communities they are supposed to bring justice to.
Yeah, but think about how strong we are now.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...est-overturns/

MINNESOTA MADNESS: Radical Democrat Judge Sarah West OVERTURNS Jury’s Guilty Verdict — Frees Somali Immigrant Who Stole $7.2 MILLION in Medicaid Fraud Scheme
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
(You are not angry enough)
I wonder... is it even possible for the United States to bounce back from this position in which we find ourselves right now?

Or is it already too late?

If the latter, I have a plan. It's a very selfish one, but I only need the wildlands of the western US to last for another 20 years or so.

After that, well... I have no offspring. Hence the "selfish" part.

I will do my best to contribute to the furtherance of this nation, but I have not bred myself into a position in which that is a "do or die" position.

Old Nov 29, 2025 | 10:46 AM
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a lot of interpreters came back here after the conflicts. some living the dream, others hate freedom and wish they were still in a shithole.
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Old Dec 1, 2025 | 01:48 AM
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What's your BS meter say?
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journalism, 2025.





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