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Old 03-28-2019, 12:02 PM
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"Ice Town Costs Ice Clown Her Town Crown."
Trying to find a source for this, not getting any hits. It seems to be a plot line from a TV show, rather than an actual thing that AOC did.

But even if it were true, why didn't the town just get more money to pay for it?
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well played. you need to replace HER is HIS if youre looking for it.


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Can I make a serious request?

Please stop posting "AOC quotations" which you know to be false. Or, at least denote in some obvious way that they are false.

It's already hard enough to separate fact from fiction with her, and the fact-checking is starting to get time-consuming for me.



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rofl. fair enough.


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I'm white and love america, so I guess ill be booted from FB soon.



Meanwhile in GA:

https://www.apnews.com/83bd1028c8f74...qDfmI_ywNhbc8g




SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Organizers of a meeting to discuss an upcoming mayoral race in Georgia barred reporters from attending — unless they were African-American.

The Wednesday meeting at a church in Savannah was held to try to unite the city’s black community behind a single candidate for mayor in the Nov. 5 election. Signs at the door said “Black Press Only!”

White reporters were denied entry, while at least two black reporters and the publisher of a local African-American newspaper were allowed inside, the Savannah Morning News reported . Television cameras and recording devices were also prohibited.

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not real. or is it?






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lol. maybe it's you, dear.

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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tuck...-news-you-hear

We want to tell you a story about collusion, a real one -- an actual collusion that's currently in progress.

There are no shadowy hackers or imaginary rendezvous in Prague. In this story, there's not a single Russian spy or secret sex tape. There's nothing shadowy about the collusion we're going to tell you about. It takes place right out in the open on live television. This is a story about where your news comes from.

This past Sunday afternoon, we learned that the Trump campaign did not collude with the government of Russia. That was the conclusion of Robert Mueller's investigation, an investigation that spent two years exhaustively looking into the question. This was very good news for America -- we don't have a spy in the White House. But it was apocalyptic for the Democratic Party and their press agents in the news media.

These are the people who would stake their reputations and their fortunes on the collusion hoax -- and they were stunned. Befuddled politicians stammered on television, trying to figure out what to say about the news. Viewers of liberal media outlets didn't want to hear anything about it. Huge numbers of them just quit watching immediately. On Tuesday night, CNN's 8 p.m. show lost nearly 50 percent of its viewers.

For progressive channels, this was a catastrophe. Something had to be done. So into this disaster steps the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. On Monday, just hours after the collusion story collapsed, Pelosi announced that the Democratic Party would be switching gears. Going forward, Democrats would focus intently on health care, just like she disingenuously claimed they always had.

"We've never taken our focus away," she said. "I hope that it focuses the press on these issues."

"I hope the press focuses healthcare," Pelosi said. She didn't have to ask twice. At CNN, they were paying close attention to every word Pelosi uttered. To Jeff Zucker and the anchors who work for him at CNN, Pelosi isn't just a politician, she's the leader of the party -- their party. The party under whose banner Zucker has said he may someday run for office.

When America's most powerful Democrat speaks, CNN listens with pen in hand. These are marching orders, and the network swung into action immediately. The rundowns of every primetime show were scrapped and rebuilt. Gone were the segments about office towers in Moscow and Carter Page's spying and Don Jr. going to prison. In their place, long editorials about health care. The Democratic health care plan is sensible and necessary, CNN told us. The Republican plan - cruel and heartless.

Between 7 p.m. and midnight Tuesday night, every show on CNN followed Nancy Pelosi's instructions. Every single show talked about health care, and every single one channeled Nancy Pelosi's views on health care. She could have been writing the scripts; maybe she was.

Nobody hit that topic harder than an anchor called Chris Cuomo. Cuomo is the son of the former Democratic governor of New York and the brother of the current Democratic governor of New York. He spends a lot of time telling you what a committed journalist he is, probably because his instincts are so obviously political.

On Tuesday night, the governor's brother read his party's talking points as if off a cue card. Close your eyes and imagine you're listening to a 30-second attack ad on the radio during campaign season. See if you can tell the difference.

"Our president said today that the GOP will be known as the party of health care, but it seems to me he left out a word," Cuomo said. "Based on his administration's latest move with the ACA, the president will make his party about removing health care. This president and his party have no plan to provide care to tens of millions if the ACA is gone. Why? Why? Why? Welcome to the new normal."

"They're taking your healthcare away." If you're waiting to hear the "Paid for by the Kamala Harris for President committee" line, they left that out. They shouldn't have. The law requires it, but they did anyway.

Don Lemon hosts the next show in CNN's lineup. As a person, Lemon isn't nearly as political as the governor's brother is. He's a local news guy at heart, the former weekend anchor at a station in Birmingham. He's not into policy.

On the other hand, Don Lemon has a very sweet gig, and he knows it. So when Jeff Zucker calls and tells him to talk about health care, he does. And, of course, he did.

"The president says the GOP is going to be the party of health care," Lemon said. "Then why is his Justice Department saying the Affordable Care Act should be struck down? The president has said again and again that he wanted to protect pre-existing conditions. Is this yet another lie from the president?"

CNN is not a news outlet, it's a super PAC. It is running unregulated campaign ads 24 hours a day. Someone ought to call the FEC about it.
"Yet another lie" on health care. At no point did any of the anchors on CNN mention what was so glaringly obvious. In the space of just 24 hours, that channel went from the Russia conspiracy network to an extended advertisement for the Affordable Care Act, as written by Barack Obama. The viewers, those who remained, must have wondered what the hell was going on. Where's my segment about how Don, Jr. is going to prison. I want to hear more about that. But no. On Pelosi's orders, it was "Health Care Week" on CNN.

And they were back at it on Wednesday morning, assiduously. Starting at 6:00 a.m., every single show on CNN's morning lineup and all through the day regurgitated Pelosi's talking points to the word about health care. Republicans will make you sick, only Democrats will make you well. Every single show made that point. If you were stuck in the airport, it was like living in North Korea. A speaker bolted to the wall above your head blaring an endless loop of propaganda you can't turn off.

We have no idea what they've been showing over on CNN for the past four hours. We had to turn it off at 4:00 p.m. But if we had to guess, it was health care. Oh, I'm sorry ... I'm getting word -- I'm sorry, we have a news alert now. According to our producers, who are monitoring the situation, both CNN and MSNBC are talking about --that's right -- health care. Right now. Health care. Pelosi's orders.

What does that tell you? It tells you where your news comes from. Democratic officials pick the topic and the storyline. Their servants in cable news dutifully repeat it to the word, all day long.

CNN is not a news outlet, it's a super PAC. It is running unregulated campaign ads 24 hours a day. Someone ought to call the FEC about it.

Adapted from Tucker Carlson's monologue from "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on March 27, 2019.
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Have you already forgotten that back when Hillary was attempting to be elected president CNN was widely called the Clinton News Network?
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Most of what has been said about CNN, the Democratic party, etc., works equally well if you make a few substitutions, such as "Fox News" and "The Republican Party."

Those at the more-extreme ends of either party (both the elected officials and the electorate) tend to exhibit the same basic behavioral traits, and employ the same basic tactics.

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Ok, one last Juicy Smolensk meme, because I live in Chicago and found this hilarious:

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*DING*

Illinois House votes to require woman, African American on all corporate boards.

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After a heated debate, calls of racism, and shouting, the Illinois state House of Representatives voted to require all publicly held companies in the state to have at least one woman and one African-American on the company's corporate board.


Full text: https://www.ilnews.org/news/economy/...1816a9e18.html

Observation #1: Can you imagine the outrage if a state law required that all publicly held companies had at least one white male on the board? (This is obviously silly.)

Observation #2: (And this one is serious.) Why are women and African-Americans (which, in reality, means all very-dark-skinned people, and excludes light-skinned people born in Africa of African parents, such as my friend Rhett Morris) under-represented on the boards of public companies?
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Observation #2: (And this one is serious.) Why are women and African-Americans (which, in reality, means all very-dark-skinned people, and excludes light-skinned people born in Africa of African parents, such as my friend Rhett Morris) under-represented on the boards of public companies?
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this is why.


two days ago, my cube neighbor called in late to work because her "son was being slow getting ready" and she "gave him a bubble bath".
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Yes, because ignorance is a trait which is confined to just one specific group of people, and the fact that some members of a certain group are ignorant reflects upon the whole.



Based on the above, all humans believe that the earth is flat.
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Trying to find a source for this, not getting any hits. It seems to be a plot line from a TV show, rather than an actual thing that AOC did.

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no misquote. she just dumb.


And it is true that the Amendment was crafted in response to him being elected four times and it was a wise Amendment.

“They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure that Roosevelt did not get re-elected,” she said.

But the Amendment was passed by Congress 59–23, and 16 Senate Democrats voted in favor of the proposed Amendment. It also had support from 47 Democrats in The House Of Representatives, on March 12 in 1947.

The Amendment was ratified by the states on February 27, 1951. But where her theory is truly destroyed is that. President Franklin Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945. That is two years before Congress proposed the Amendment.

Now we know Democrats love to have dead people vote but FDR was going to have a tough time getting reelected two years after his death when the Amendment was proposed.
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but stossel, Bill Maher says you'll be happy!

Here was Maher’s last “new rule” of the night: “Republicans have to explain if socialism is such a one-way ticket to becoming the nightmare of Venezuela, then why do all the happiest countries in the world embrace it?” He then went on to talk about how the top ten happiest countries according to the UN are “socialist-friendly places.”

In contrast, he asserted that “socialism as an economic model replacing capitalism is bad but socialism as a supplement to capitalism, good.” As supposed evidence to back that up, he fretted that United States performed worse in the “world happiness rankings” compared to other countries and particularly ones that are socialist.
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