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They’re too busy eating their own to see that blue wave coming.

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Sardinely!

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The Don duz seem to be into Canned attack backs . ..maybe it's Roy Cohn 101 .. plus the Drumpf Alzy . .. .

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Is that how you get to be a big fish in a small pond?

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Be a "Killer Not a Loser" who Attacks Back Harder . . .plus an Entertainer! . .How you turn You're Fired! . . to You're Fired On! . . and Get to Watch .. .

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β€œI thought it was food chain not lewd chain!”

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Pack em up, move em out!

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Jan 14Β·edited Jan 14

AN OBSERVATION: Don'cha just >love< it when members of the corrupt aristocracy claim to be fighting for the rights of the common man against the corrupt aristocracy β€½β€½β€½ No wonder ol' P01135809 considers Andrew Jackson his hero - along with his damn hairdo!

ANOTHER OBSERVATION: If you reflect a moment on what ol' P01135809 is arguing about presidential immunity, you'll come to realize that his and his slavish supplicants' claim that Biden is "weaponizing government" and doing a political hit job on the tweeting tyrant are unfounded if - indeed - Biden has the kind of presidential immunity the former president advocates. There's an RAA somewhere in there. Can you find it? Just sayin'.

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Here is a dictum of the "Right to a fairr trial". "Justice is best served if trials take place without undue delay. This helps protect the reliability of evidence and minimise the human impact of criminal proceedings on everyone involved. However, efficiency should not be prioritised over justice."

We have all the delay in today's in indictments now and all the inherent delay post Jan 6, where nothing happened to him.

Failures of government.

'itch McConnell not impeaching 45.

Failures of justice.

The justice department not investigating Jan 6 until after a political body had done so.

Setting up an appeal system that benefits the rich and shafts the poor.

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To the choir, my friend. To the choir. πŸ‘

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THE ENEMY INSURRECTIONIST ARE AT THE GATE, DEFEAT TREASONOUS , TERRORIST, AND CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE AND JAIL CORRUPT AND TRAITOR RTRUMP AND CRONIES.THE ENEMY INSURRECTIONIST ARE AT THE GATE, DEFEAT TREASONOUS , TERRORIST, AND CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE AND JAIL CORRUPT AND TRAITOR RTRUMP AND CRONIES. VOTE PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS , AND RESTORE DEMOCRACY.

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Many people talk about main stream media and its bias. I'm wondering if a better definition of main stream media would be corporate biased media.

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Jan 15Β·edited Jan 15

Do you remember Rocky & Bullwinkle? If you do, you know one of its attractive qualities was that it treated the kids it targeted as smart enough to get the tongue in cheek messages and humor it conveyed. We used to get the joke.

I reminded you of that to say this. Between featured segments, like Fractured Fairytales and Dudley Doright, there were short, transitional segments. One of the memorable transitional segments has Bullwinkle telling Rocky some obvious bullshit to which Rocky replies something like, "Aw Bulwinkle, how do you know that?" to which Bullwinkle replies: "I see it here in the newspaper so it >must< be true!" I know as a kid I got what it was saying. That lesson was confirmed in regular school when we talked about reading the newspaper in class, as well.

Now I told you all that to tell you this: People seem to be behaving like biased news is something new. To me, to blame "corporate media" is a bit of a cop out from critically evaluating the validity and veracity of the news you're consuming. (I don't like the word "consuming," but I use it for want of a better word, since it's not confined to reading and hasn't been for a long time - and apparently, most people don't really read anymore anyhow. I've also come to believe that a large percentage of those who >try< to read - try, because it's not something they're really used to or practiced at - don't really comprehend what they're reading in the first place! Typically, they're on about English only - the native tongue they never really caught on to speaking properly in that first place I speak of. (Some of the spelling I've come across on Nextdoor.com quite simply "shivers me timbers!)

Relying on a single news outlet was always discouraged back in civics and English classes. The critical thinking encouraged involved understanding the bias of the outlets we rely on at the outset. They all present facts and opinions based on those facts and what they present as facts. They also promote and suppress stories based on their bias - just as it has >always< been. Our job is to corroborate our various sources in view of the assorted biases involved, to come to a considered understanding of the world we live in. There's also the process of winnowing out fact from utter horseshit - like the differentiating between UFO's with little green men and secret aircraft testing around Area 51, as a ham-handed example, or seeing Jesus in a ham sandwich, or some other miracle born of superstition. (I might add that the current Congressional attention being paid UFO/UAP's isn't about little green men from far, far away. It's about overflight by hostile aircraft developed by our foreign adversaries - a practice I approve of.)

So whereas I understand what you're saying about mainstream corporate media bias, well, we >all< know that already. Right? Our job is to literally "consider the source," particularly if it doesn't agree with our own bias - and we all have personal biases, you know. Let me hasten to add that I'm not advocating anything but understanding our source bias and assessing its veracity and validity with respect to the bias, validity, and veracity of our other sources.

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I can confirm what you say is true since coming from a conservative town in Long Island the news paper we consumed (Newsday) had conservative bias. Since I started reading it in the 80s. It hadnt been bought out by a big corporate monopoly back then yet it still towed the line to back (I am assuming) all the hawkish defense firms and employers/employees on Long Island at the time. Even without todays monopolies news has to be evaluated from multiple stories directions. Thanks for not letting me blanket it all into one cookie cutter response.

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Just the fact that Andrew Jackson was his hero pretty much summed up everything we needed to know about him. Before tfg came along, I considered A Jackson to have been the worst U.S. president ever...

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Bass-ackwards

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Darn! Ya beat me to it! Great minds... ;-)

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One fish two fish red fish need more blue fish.

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MAGA extremists keep attacking us from behind but have no plan going forward.

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Time for an "About face!"

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The only way out is to ride the current and let the US turn left, I see.

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Something fishy’s going on around here.

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Jan 14Β·edited Jan 14

If only there was a way to neutralize the smallest one, the entire pond could breathe easy again

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founding

Johnson is just the appetizer…

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He tastes funny because he's a clown fish.

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who tried for a repeat of The Fishes and Loaves miracle . .except it was Multiplying Fake Electors . .. quietly and studiously . . ..

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Unappetizing too! They are spitting him out!

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Nice try, Mike. Get back in line.

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MAGATs have Piranha DNA.

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This November, the big fish, the U.S., will turn around and start biting!

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"Yes, the Justice department will wake up before that and speed it up!"

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Hey! That’s a backwards Russian nesting fish. Oh my God, it’s the USA!

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This is such a pain in the bass, it has given me a terrible haddock!

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This is what happens when billionaires use religion and the constitution to their advantage.

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They use their immense wealth to buy our government, too. the Constitution not so much.

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Collection Plate Syndrome. . . how they Know God thinks they're Special . .. how else?

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