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Just received this from a friend, and have to share:

“Talented and well-practiced in every vice, a stranger to compassion or empathy, a liar and a cheat so complete in perfidy that he has elevated his dishonesty to hold it up as an ersatz moral principle, violent, so long as he can order someone else to do the dirty work, grotesque in body, graceless in action, in possession of a wounded self-regard so colossal as to smother any spark of grace, treasonous, not only to country, but to every ally he has ever had, the poisoned fruit and rankest flower of racism and contempt for women, and utterly devoid of shame for his moral and spiritual bankruptcy.

That is your leader. That is to whom you give your money. That is who you follow and laud. That is whose banner you willingly carry. Why? Because he is a mirror, not a lighthouse. You see yourselves in him. He is what you would be, if you had inherited money and could shed the last vestiges of conscience and shame.

No, I do not “respect your choices,” nor do I admire your loyalty and dedication to this miserific, demoniac vision. You have demonstrated not only a lack of civic virtue, loyalty to the Republic and to the rule of law, but a willingness to engage in violence and sedition at his slightest expressed wish. And you will never, ever admit you were wrong.

Because you see your dark, twisted, resentful dreams in him. And to renounce him is to renounce yourselves.”

~ Advocatus Peregrini

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Feb 11, 2022·edited Feb 12, 2022

Morning MaryB. TC’s latest stirred up some things.

https://westvirginiaville.com/2021/12/teach-your-children-well-but-not-what-to-think/

This is essay by this author on children and education. It mirrors a plank in my platform in possible second run for school board seat this fall.

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Wisdom

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Feb 11, 2022Liked by TCinLA

Yeah, well, if you look to Maggie, that's how far the bar has been lowered. Fuck all capitulating MSM for refusing to do their jobs because eyeballs, sensationalism, if it bleeds, it leads ( except when the country is bleeding to death), infotainment, etc.

Also a hardy fuck you to DOJ and would someone please sign Merritt fucking Garland up for ECT.

This is bullshit. The Dems are fucking cowards because they may lose the white women, Ph.D, don't call me a feminist vote, both sides cunts votes.

I have banged my fucking head against cinder blocks for too long. I'm a liifelong prog/dem ( since 1974 and never voted Republican), I worked on campaigbs, gotv, phone banks, fundraisers, I've walked the walk and talked the talk, Oh marched, protested, but I've just about given up on this country. Where's the outrage 24/7 from the Dems on 1/6/21, book banning/burning, letting fuckwit nut jobs control the narrative on Covid ( the biggest threat to this country since Pearl Harbor), calling out the rthugs on voter suppression, erosion of voting rights for everyone not a white, male, straight, christian fucking nazi.

They can and should blame the pussy beltway blowjobs. So what the fuck now? What is your strategy?

I just read today that of all the people who meet the criteria for 2 vaxes and a booster is less than 30% of the country!

I've had it. I'll fight for POC, women, LGBTQ, and marginalized people, but I'm fucking out. I'm 65 and in my entire life the Democrats are fucking wimps ( LBJ and civil rights exempted, but not Vietnam, asshole). I have an MA in history so I fucking know how the sausage is made. Fuck this country and its 400 years of lies. We are and never were worthy.

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An epic Judes Rant! :-) (and also true, like all other epic Judes Rants)

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Feb 11, 2022·edited Feb 11, 2022Liked by TCinLA

TC, amazes again! 'Judes Rant' is for real; a long poem and as a 'rant' (tirade, diatribe, broadside: speak or shout, mouth-off, vociferate, rave and fulminate ) it carries on 'in a wild, impassioned way'. Here is how the poem begins:

'Jude kyrie Poems'

'Mar 2016'

'Judes Rant....Dammed Sitcoms'

'Jude's rant…. Why sitcoms have ruined our lives.'

'I am really expletive mad at the networks

all they dish out night after night

is ****** sitcoms that stink worse

than a blocked toilet in an Irish bar

on a Sunday morning.' (HelloPoety)

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I have rolled my eyes (in their presence) at the Dem party in my FL county so many times regarding apathetic response….rolled my eyes so many times that I have vertigo when speaking to them.

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'Republicans attacked Hillary Clinton for her handling of records. But few showed outrage over news about former President Trump' : Front page, The New York Times, 2/10/22

Tonight, TC wrote, 'But the story about Trump’s actual crimes, about his “flagrant criminality,” that shows up on page 15 of the Times.' Not tonight, TC. Maybe as the evidence against him is mountain high the paper cannot avoid covering it or this story simply a fluke?

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"If it bleeds it leads" is an old newspaper maxim. And there's a lot of blood on the floor now.

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Should the title be Incompetent Man? And no The Flaming A. Hole will not be charged Leo alone convicted of any crimes.since he is “special “ and above the law! God help us!!

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Convince me if you can that the NYT is "liberal."

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Do I remember correctly that old clogged hopper doesn’t get classified briefings anymore? Or was that a dream like the headline “Republican President pulls economy out of former Democratic administration’s toilet?”

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Feb 11, 2022Liked by TCinLA

Hey Tom. Hubby Rich Johnson sends his regards. He had been wondering what happened to you, since you split from zuckerfuck. He didn't know you had a blog and I subscribed. He sends you his best!

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Hey, say Hi and why doesn't he drop over too? You two usually operate as a team, right?

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Feb 12, 2022Liked by TCinLA

Never, that's why were happily married 😁. He feels the same politically, and doesn't go on email that much, plus he's into writing music and creating videos from public domain websites. I feel like I earned a gold medal when he takes out the trash. 😄 Maybe, I'll tell him you said hey! Ya never know.

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Feb 11, 2022·edited Feb 11, 2022

When I learned that while in the White House Trump put wades of printed paper in the toilet bowls clogging up the toilets, I was reminded of my childhood. One of my parents' biggest worries was a clogged toilet. To my knowledge neither my brother nor I put anything in the toilet that didn't belong there. Maybe someone in the family used too much toilet paper. Anyway, I don't know what scared my parents more a clogged toilet or the FBI.

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It's outrageous!

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I can’t wait for the movie. TC?

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I have seen a couple of reports that the Presidential Records Act, while requiring that all documents be retained, actually has no penalties attached to their "loss". Do you have any information on that?

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There's only ever been one prosecution under the act (a Democrat, as I recall) and he got probation.

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Which president? Just curious.

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'Subsection (b) of 18 U.S.C. § 2071 contains a similar prohibition specifically directed at custodians of public records. Any custodian of a public record who “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys (any record) shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. (”Just Security is based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law.)

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That'll work; the fine is less important than the disqualification, although, if each document is a separate violation, the fine could be pretty impressive too. Jail time would be icing on the cake. Thanks Fern.

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Thank you, Dave.

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How about the punishment for stealing classified documents?

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