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Apr 15 2019
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Free Republic, Immigration, The Darnold, Tommy T

Today on Tommy T’s obsession with the Freeperati – bits and pieces edition

Just some random stuff this week.  Finally recovered from that herniated disc thing, BTW, so that’s a plus.

First up – the barber takes a poll !
(apologies to Spinal Tap)

Poll: 58% Of Voters Approve Trump Economy Ahead Of 2020
Breitbart ^ | 4-11-2019 | Michelle Moons

Posted on 4/11/2019, 1:08:05 PM by blam

American voters were concerned about an economic downturn in a Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service poll that found 58 percent of voters approve of the president’s performance when it comes to the economy.

Registered and likely 2020 voters from both sides of the Republican-Democrat aisle were surveyed in the “Battleground Poll” from March 31-April 4 that reached 1,000, according to NBC News.

Of those, 59 percent expressed concern about the possibility of an economic decline. However, 58 percent approve of the job President Donald Trump is doing when it comes to the economy. The report noted that the president has been relatively consistent at a 55 percent overall job approval rating.

A whopping 82 percent of those surveyed said they are “extremely” likely to vote, according to the report.

As to the question of whether the country is going in the right direction, 74 percent of Republicans said yes it is while 92 percent of Democrats said no.

1 posted on 4/11/2019, 1:08:05 PM by blam
And instantly, it blows up in “blam”s face.

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BLAM !!!

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To: blam

 

I don’t believe what I saw this morning:

Blake Burman or Brad Blakeman, whatever, the Fox Business White House Correspondent reported this morning that these figures were on Lou Dobbs last night and they were wrong.

58%approval for economy was correct, but
55% approval overall was WRONG…THAT NUMBER WAS FOR DISAPPROVAL.

I just read the whole article and reporter was WRONG.

And I am furious!!!!

16 posted on 4/11/2019, 1:54:30 PM by Maris Crane

Sucks to be you.
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Next up – McNutt’s case !

Texas House Speaker drops constitutional carry bill after gun rights activist shows up at his home The Hill ^ | 04-06-19 | OWEN DAUGHERTY Posted on 4/6/2019, 12:25:51 PM by McQ444

Texas’s Republican House Speaker on Friday moved to drop the state’s “constitutional carry” legislation after a gun rights activist showed up at his home to push for the bill. Dennis Bonnen said the bill was “dead” after Chris McNutt, the executive director of Texas Gun Rights, appeared at his home to advocate for the controversial legislation that would allow Texans to carry firearms without a license, The Dallas Morning News reported. McNutt, according to the outlet, drove 50 miles south of Houston last Wednesday before turning up at Bonnen’s house to question why the legislation wasn’t moving forward faster. The paper reported that McNutt had posted rants on Facebook about the lack of movement on the bill prior to driving to Bonnen’s house.

1 posted on 4/6/2019, 12:25:51 PM by McQ444
Jeez – it’s almost as if he had second thoughts about letting unregistered doofuses with political axes to grind (and a handgun strapped to their waist) stalking people and trying to intimidate them.
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But fear not – the Freeperati are on the case!
To: McQ444
Interesting. Maybe we should all show up at his house and ask him about this.
2 posted on 4/6/2019, 12:28:57 PM by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
You do that, cupcake.  Let me know how it works out for you.
To: SleeperCatcher

 

He should have said, “Get off my property or I’ll shoot.”

24 posted on 4/6/2019, 1:25:03 PM by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)

That might work, too,
To: ConservativeMind

 

Sorry sport, you can’t murder someone for standing there trespassing.

30 posted on 4/6/2019, 1:30:32 PM by DesertRhino (Dog is man’s best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ….)

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Apr 08 2019
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Stupid Republican Tricks, Tommy T

Today on Tommy T’s Obsesssion with the Freeperati – MestaMachine edition

Having horrible back/neck issues – so a blast from the past for you, since the never-ending Freepathon is back up and running.  Hopefully I’ll be back next Monday.

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Today’s Obsession is about an ex-Freeper – someone who was there for six long years.

Then, she got sick.  Really sick.  Is-she-ever-going-to-leave-the-hospital sick.

A good friend set up a Paypal donation account and freepmailed fellow Freepers with the info. Many helped. After several hospitalizations, Mestamachine put a link to the account in her FR profile info.

Alas, on Free Republic, only Jim Rob gets to rake in the ducats, and he pulled her login and posting privileges (not an outright zot, her profile still remains, like a disembodied spirit).  That’ll teach her to need help.

Now she just lurks and fumes, continuing to watch long-time supporters get banned. Of course, the ranks of the purged include many not-completely-crazies who dared interject some sanity into the knee-jerkiness. Unfortunately for Jim Rob, many (if not most) of these zot-ees were heavy monetary contributors, leaving FR now composed of mostly crap-talkers who never kick in.

Now – why should you care that a known sociopath like Jim Rob turned on one of FR’s most devoted? Is this a “OMG! The sun goes down in the West!” kind of revelation?  Glad you asked.

You should care because the FR grift goes a lot deeper than just the Freepathon bucks. A lot.

Mestamachine saith:

I have been watching this Freepathon and watching the donations as they come in from people who can scarcely afford it apologizing that they can’t donate more than maybe $3.00 and it is heartbreaking, sad, and sickening.
How many of those who sent in $3.00 have the kind of bling shown in the pic of JimRob, a quarter inch wide, 18-20 inch long white and yellow gold rope chain…while THEY are deciding which prescriptions they can forgo because the copays are so high?

He says Free Republic is beholden to no one, but that is a lie.
(…)
Jim Robinson drives a fully rigged, customized van that was, or will soon be, customized even further to accommodate his new disability, (and I don’t begrudge him that,) but to say that FR is beholden to no one when it is truly beholden to everyone whose hard work and many, many contributions paid for everything he has while trying to scare people into donating what they don’t have so he can have even more of what they don’t is disingenuous at best.
He takes in $340,000 per year just from FR. That does not include Social Security or any pension he might receive. That also does not include other entities running off FR’s servers which pay him for space.
He also employs Google Analytics which, unless it is the free version, costs a MINIMUM of $50,000 per year so he knows where anyone who visits FR comes from and goes, where they spend their money and how much, what other sites they visit and when 24/7. In other words, YOU pay to have yourself followed by a corporation that takes every single bit of your personal information and uses it to profit themselves, gives it over to fed.gov upon demand, and though Jim KNOWS this, he uses it anyway so HE knows who you are and where you’ve been, consequences be damned.
Anyone and everyone who has ever had personal dealings with Jim Robinson with very few exceptions has been shafted BY Jim Robinson in one way or another.

And how does he repay Freeper loyalty? Well, unless you are a bonafide member of his CURRENT inner sanctum, you can expect not one iota of reciprocated loyalty from Mr. Robinson as he has proven time and again over many years.

Fuck “the government”.

He’s selling that data. To the GOP, to advertisers, probably to the Republican candidates that he mocks on a regular basis.

These dumb fucks are paying to get on mailing lists and have push ads on other sites target them.

Cunning stunt, no?

For a  look at the harassment and banning of one of the oldest members of Free Republic, “Badjoe” (now deceased), please read this interesting inside look at how the pecking order (and I do mean “pecking”) and the moderator clique of Freeperville work.

It’s – enlightening.

See you people next Monday.

And Mestamachine – if you followed the links from your website here, and are reading this…

You betta off.

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Apr 01 2019
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Free Republic, Immigration, The Darnold, Tommy T

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati -Darn old Darnold edition

Good morning, everyone! I can’t help wondering if the bloom isn’t off the rose Marmalade Shartcannon just a bit.

After a week of crowing and high-fiving over The Darnold’s not being perp-walked out of the Oval Office (hey, when that sounds like a win….) , suddenly the party is over and the hangover has begun :

Latest Trump H-2B Increase Again Betrays American Workers
Center for Immigration Studies ^ | 29 March 2019 | Preston Huennekens

Posted on 3/29/2019, 3:58:41 PM by zeestephen

Today’s decision increases the H-2B cap by “only” 30,000, rather than the full 67,000 Congress authorized, but this surge nonetheless increases the cap to 96,000. Not even under President Obama did H-2B visas rise to such high levels….President Trump continues to increase the number of H-2B guestworkers every time he has the opportunity. This is entirely his own administration’s fault. He could, at any time, direct Secretary Nielsen to not increase the cap.

1 posted on 3/29/2019, 3:58:41 PM by zeestephen
Hey – look at the bright side.
At least none of those coal workers are going to be replaced at their jobs.
To: zeestephen

 

That’s what we need, more Asian techs. Damn it!

2 posted on 3/29/2019, 4:02:26 PM by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that’s how you sell clothing.)

FryAsianTech
To: King Moonracer 

If this is true, it’s antithetic to everything he’s run on.

You sound surprised.

Why give in on only this issue when he hasn’t on others?!

You don’t get out much, do you?

There’s no dearth of good tech workers here.

Duh, motherfucker.

There’s an abundance of companies, however, who don’t watn to pay good salaries.

3 posted on 3/29/2019, 4:03:46 PM by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)

TrickleDown (2)
To: dp0622

 

There’s an abundance of companies, however, who don’t want to pay good salaries.

Don’t hear much these days from those FReepers who defend big businesses cutting their costs to the bone, by hiring “cheaper labor” (read foreign workers) in order to make more profit, do we?

10 posted on 3/29/2019, 4:18:40 PM by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
Oh, I’m sure they’ll show up here in a minute or so…
To: King Moonracer

 

H2B is for hotel maids, basically.

H1B is for techs and is a far more concerning program, given that they’ve completely nuked the wage scale in what is arguably our single most important industry today, and flooded it with foreigners who have no loyalty to the USA.

20 posted on 3/29/2019, 4:50:15 PM by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)

OtherwiseOK
To: King Moonracer

 

These aren’t Asian tech workers, they are the temporary workers that stuff Trump’s clubs and pick the grapes in the Trump family vineyard during peak season.

And yes, if they paid enough they’d have plenty of Americans to do the work. Even if college kids who could work their studies around the schedule. (Much of it is summer or fall labor.)

8 posted on 3/29/2019, 4:15:05 PM by 9YearLurker

TrumpMelatoninBanHim
To: zeestephen

 

This, bumpstocks, and red flag.

I am very close to becoming an opponent of Trump.

12posted on 3/29/2019, 4:21:03 PM by old-ager (anti-new-ager)

“I swear – if he hits me just one more time, I’m leaving him forever!
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Mar 26 2019
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Free Republic, Immigration, Tommy T

Today on Tommy T’s bonus thingy -“Don’t fence me in” edition

OK, people – Ms. A’s on a well-deserved vacation, so a bonus mini-“Obsession” is in order.

Here we go – just add electricity!

Mexicans Are Stealing Border Wall Materials, Using Them For Home Security (Frito Banditos!)
Huffington Post / AP ^ | March 20, 2019 | Ryan Grenoble/Gregory Bull

Posted on 3/23/2019, 9:24:54 AM by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Cars lined up to cross into the United States from Tijuana, Mexico, are seen through barriers topped with concertina wire at the San Ysidro port of entry. Thieves have been taking the wire and selling it in Tijuana for home security.

And just when you thought the Freeperati couldn’t sink any lower on the racism scale:

… Ay, ay, ay, ay! oh, I am dee Concertina Bandito. I like to sell wire and make me dinero; I like me dinero, it buy me cerveza; I love me Cerveza, I do!
1 posted on 3/23/2019, 9:24:54 AM by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
What? No Pepe the frog?  How disappointing.
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You’d think that the concept of people south of the border dismantling any proposed wall and using the components would give even the Freeperati pause.
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You would be wrong.
To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

 

Mexicans steal everything. If you have two of something, they feel entitled to steal the “extra one” you have. A Texas First Grader learns that when stuff disappears from their desk or back pack. It’s one of the more valuable things they learn at school.

7 posted on 3/23/2019, 9:42:12 AM by txrefugee

Pobrecito.
I think you “learned” that long before you started school.  Allow me to bitch-slap your horrible parents for implanting that trope in your so-called mind.
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Well, at least it couldn’t get any stupider..
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

 

Land mines on our side of the border would help.

9 posted on 3/23/2019, 9:44:28 AM by txrefugee

I sit corrected.
To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Is this supposed to be funny to the Huffington Post?
No, it’s only funny to people with functioning cerebrums.
They are writing this story simply to make fun of Trump.
YodaSailedShip
Meanwhile, people are being killed, children (in the hands of illegals) are getting sexually abused and trafficked, and drugs continue to pour over the border.

Don’t forget that duct taped mouths thingy, and that damned Benicio Del Toro.

The border needs to be militarized. Then a concrete and steel wall should be built. Not a fence, barb wire, or steel grates – a 60-ft high concrete and steel barrier with armed gunships every 100 feet from each other.

8 posted on 3/23/2019, 9:42:43 AM by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!!)

Armed gunships? You mean Apache AH-64s?  Hovering 24/7? You do know that there’s only 200 of them in Army inventory, right?  And that they cost $20,000,000 apiece if you want to build more? A LOT more?
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Because what’s adding another 100 trillion dollars or so to the national debt gonna hurt?
Hell. make it 120 feet high, with armed gunships every 20 feet from each other.
For one thousand, nine hundred and fifty four miles.
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Even the East Germans weren’t that stupid.
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One Freeper ALMOST gets it :
To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

 

We can’t protect the border. And we can’t even protect the border barriers. Pathetic.

14 posted on 3/23/2019, 10:07:38 AM by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)

But fear not – the bestest idea yet is just around the corner…
To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

 

Concertina wire is a decent enough conductor. Just add electricity.

19 posted on 3/23/2019, 10:44:38 AM by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)

Too cool!!!  Why has nobody ever thought of that before?
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ElectricFence
ElectrifiedFence
OK, OK – that was a LONG time ago, right?
No one has thought of anything that inhuman since then, I’m sure.
ElectricFenceBerlin
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…or not.
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Freepers, you’re in good company.
And good luck finding any of the walls depicted above today.
Because they didn’t work for long.  Walls never do.
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Mar 25 2019
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"Q", Free Republic, Teabaggery, Television, Tommy T

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – The Oddfather edition

First up – take the MAGA – leave the cannolli !

Alleged mob boss killer Anthony Comello scrawls ‘MAGA Forever’ on his hand
NJ.com Advanced Media ^ | March 18, 2019

Posted on 3/18/2019, 4:10:03 PM by SMGFan

Anthony Comello, the 24-year-old arrested in New Jersey Saturday for allegedly gunning down a mob boss in Staten Island last week, will return to New York to face the murder charge against him. Comello waived his extradition rights Monday during a hearing in Ocean County Superior Court before Judge Wendel Daniels. He is expected to appear in court in Staten Island next Monday, March 25.

“He willingly, knowingly and voluntarily returns to New York to face these charges,” Brian Neary, a New Jersey attorney representing Comello Monday, told reporters after the hearing. He described Comello, who said only “yes, sir” during the hearing, as “resolute.”

In the courtroom, Comello held his open handcuffed palm up to reporters, showing a symbol and several words scrawled in pen. “MAGA forever” and “united we stand” were some of the phrases he had printed, while others were not entirely legible.

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he will not die of old age.
1 posted on 3/18/2019, 4:10:03 PM by SMGFan
To: SMGFan 

I imagine that most ‘mob’ guys are in a sense pro America.

YodaBreedYouShouldNot

Don’t know if that will help this guy.

10 posted on 3/18/2019, 4:34:24 PM by A strike (Import third world become third world)

The five stages of Freep :
Denial :
To: SMGFan

 

Notice no pics, just a “journalist “ that says it’s so.

14 posted on 3/18/2019, 4:50:12 PM by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison…like yesterday!!!)

Anger :
To: SMGFan
By 2020, Trump will have been blamed for every single thing wrong in this world.I mean every single item… everything.

7 posted on 3/18/2019, 4:21:18 PM by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political industrial complex DELENDA EST)
Bargaining :
To: Revel

 

This just in!

Police also found bleach and a rope at the crime scene.

Jussie Smollett was not available for comment.

3 posted on 3/18/2019, 4:14:43 PM by Responsibility2nd

Depression :
To: All

 

My inner WFB is saying, “well then, I suppose we should surrender to communism here and now, rather than taking even a chance on being associated, in any minor way, with this act of lawlessness by a young man barely out of his teens that we never met. I would say pack up western civilization, put it in storage, until perhaps these matters can be resolved to the satisfaction of everyone concerned.”

20 posted on 3/18/2019, 5:13:28 PM by Peter ODonnell (Take the next train to Marxville and I’ll meet you at the camp)

Acceptance :
To: SMGFan

 

Not surprising, I remember that someone in the Gambino Family stated that the Clintons are trash. On my former twitter account, I followed Angel Ghotti, who is John Ghotti’s daughter. She is very Pro-USA, Pro-Trump and strongly Prolife. Wow she is out there defending Trump against those who are against him, and she nails those who support murder of the unborn. She has a son who is serving in the military.

I guess some Mafia members are very patriotic. =)

23 posted on 3/18/2019, 6:13:49 PM by Patriot Babe

And, of course, the post of the thread!
To: SMGFan

 

Make A Gangster Angry 

21 posted on 3/18/2019, 5:18:55 PM by moovova

Ba Dum Tss.
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Mar 18 2019
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Free Republic, Terrorism, Tommy T

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – “Here today, gun tomorrow” edition

You know, ‘m just going to stop planning mini-vacations from First Draft. Every time I do….

At first – he’s psychotic!

Christchurch mosque shootings – Trump-supporting ‘Brit’ gunman wrote chilling manifesto
The [UK] Sun ^ | 03-15-2019 | Jenny Awford

Posted on 3/14/2019, 11:45:31 PM by Trump20162020

To: Trump20162020

“Trum supporting”?????

The guy describes himself as an “eco-facsist who despises capitalism.

4 posted on 3/14/2019, 11:50:55 PM by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)

To: NorseViking

No, he’s insane. When someone is as psychotic as this guy is I never take what they say about politics and culture seriously. They could just as well claim to be helping the Martians invade.

Apparently he has three accomplices though so it will be interesting to see what kind of mental cases they are.

7 posted on 3/14/2019, 11:54:52 PM by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)

So – he’s insane. And his hatred had NOTHING to do with the coziness of The Darnold’s regime with white supremacists.
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Nothing at all.
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This is how I see it:

Crazy person: “Those (fill in the blank) are dangerous.”
Crazier person: “Yeah!”

Crazy person: “Those (fill in the blank) are all terrorists.”
Crazier person: “Yeah!”

Crazy person: “Those (fill in the blank) need to be wiped out in a holy war.”
Crazier person: “Yeah!

Crazy person: “Those (fill in the blank) are all animals.”
Crazier person: “YEAH!!”

Crazy person: “There’s a war coming against those (fill in the blank), and we have all the guns.”
Crazier person: “YEAH!!!!!!”

Crazier person shoots up a building full of (fill in the blank)

Crazy person: “Where in the hell did you get THAT idea? You’re just a crazy person.”

And so on….

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Of course, only crazy people hate other people because they pray in a different language.

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Right?

To: Kaslin

50 muslims won’t be blowing themselves up.

3 posted on 3/15/2019, 1:51:26 PM by Gasshog

I’m sorry – was that a Freeper, or the New Zealand nutcase live-streaming his mass murder?
It’s getting harder and harder to tell you apart.
To: Kaslin

Muslims should not be shocked that some fruitcake hit back. Their terrorist “martyrs” have been killing innocents for years and now when they get hit, the whole world’s left wing establishment screams its head off about innocents being killed. You live by the sword, someone is going to die by the sword.

4 posted on 3/15/2019, 1:53:17 PM by Midwesterner53

They were asking for it.  They’re ALL ASKING FOR IT!!!
To: Kaslin

GUN CONTROL KILLS

Even in New Zealand,
Even Muslims

18 posted on 3/15/2019, 2:20:27 PM by TheNext (Participation Award Winner = CoC5)

So – we should arm all the Muslims?
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Interesting 180.
To: Trump20162020

Here we go with the false flag bullsh!t…

24 posted on 3/15/2019, 12:16:42 AM by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)

Beat me to it.
To: Mr. K

Own goal is known in military circles as a “false flag” operation, a term from naval history where ships raised their enemies’flag and attacked another partisan to start a war. This is what we have here.

37 posted on 3/15/2019, 2:46:39 PM by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)

FalseFlagOnThePlay
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And now – the post of the thread!
To: HighSierra5

Any conservative minded person in their right mind would shudder at the idea of doing something like this. Do you really think that makes the first bit of difference?

I’ll give the guy this much: he certainly understands the American right, at least as far as FreeRepublic goes.

28 posted on 3/15/2019, 12:30:05 AM by papertyger
Can I have an amen?
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Mar 11 2019
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Free Republic, Immigration, The Darnold, Tommy T

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Darnold duck! edition

Good morning, all! As The Darnold’s presidency circles the toilet at ever-increasing speed, the Freepers are having more and more trouble simultaneously believing “all is well” and “Holy fucking shit, NOW what??” – with Trump being at the same time infallible and a total fuckup.

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Call it “Schrodinger’s moron”.

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Let’s start with – Glory Be!

North Korea airs film glorifying summit with Trump
The Politico ^ | March 7, 2019 | The Associated Press

Posted on 3/7/2019, 6:23:08 PM by 2ndDivisionVet

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s state TV has aired a documentary glorifying leader Kim Jong Un’s recent visit to Vietnam that omitted the failed nuclear negotiations with President Donald Trump.

The footage’s release Wednesday came amid reports that North Korea is restoring some facilities at its long-range rocket launch site that it dismantled last year as part of disarmament steps.

1 posted on 3/7/2019, 6:23:08 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
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So – this should generate a hefty number of comments.
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Huh?
TWO comments??
Threads about “what ISP to jump to” generate 300+ replies – but THIS thread?
Two.
To: 2ndDivisionVet 

Potemkin Village.

putinstupid

This was doomed to fail even before it began and nine critical, wasted months have passed where they continued to build up their arsenal behind the scenes and de-facto loosened sanctions and continued their horrid human rights abuses.

They are not to be believed. Never. They are dishonest liars and cheats, despite all the optics, flattery, a pretty First Lady parading in European fashions and the like.

…but enough about Trump…

I’d like to hear the argument and see any credible evidence to the contrary.

There can be no doubt now.

2 posted on 3/7/2019, 10:56:47 PM by AmericanInTokyo (tell me again how praising & flattering ruthless commie dictators goes with freedom & conservatism?)

There never WAS any doubt, you gullible twatwaffle.
Oh – and the two replies?  They’re from the same Freeper.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
No doubt now what a hopeless farce this was and is becoming. I hope we will soon return to the Reagan Doctrine. https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/07/politics/carter-north-korea/index.html CNN: Congressman: Jimmy Carter is willing to travel to North Korea to help Trump

3 posted on 3/7/2019, 11:09:57 PM by AmericanInTokyo (tell me again how praising & flattering ruthless commie dictators goes with freedom & conservatism?)
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Mar 08 2019
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Free Republic, Tommy T

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Duke nuke ’em edition

Another bonus Obsession today, as both Michael F.  and Adrastos are indisposed.

So today, First Draft is MINE!! ALL MINE!!!  BWAHAHAHAHA!

…where was I?

Oh yes – Blooood in the water – fire in the sky…

Russian Choir Sings About Nuking D.C. on Patriotic Holiday in Cathedral
Moscow Times ^ | Feb 25 2019

Posted on 2/26/2019, 4:29:32 PM by CondoleezzaProtege

The St. Petersburg Concert Choir sang the song in St. Isaac’s Cathedral during a concert celebrating Defender of the Fatherland Day, a holiday that honors Russia’s armed services every Feb. 23.

The lyrics translate in part: “On a nuclear-powered submarine, with a dozen bombs just under 100 megatons, I crossed the Atlantic and called up the gunner: ‘Point, Petrov, toward Washington, D.C.,’ I say.”

“Forgive us, America, good old America, but it was a shame you were discovered 500 years ago,” the choir continued.

The St. Petersburg Concert Choir disabled the comment option on its social media page after being flooded with indignation, The Associated Press reported.

On Tuesday, the choir dismissed the criticism as “repulsive” and defended its performance as true to the original.

“We don’t rewrite the lyrics for the sake of political correctness or other state of affairs,” it said in a statement.

The video appeared around the same time that Russian state television identified several U.S. military facilities that Russia could target in the event of a nuclear war.

“To be honest, they shouldn’t have sung it in St. Isaac’s Cathedral,” Andrei Kozlovsky, the author of the song, was cited as saying by the Fontanka news website.

“Nothing good will come of it,” he added.

1 posted on 2/26/2019, 4:29:32 PM by CondoleezzaProtege
Ya think?
To: CondoleezzaProtege

 

Not a bad idea of you ask me…

2 posted on 2/26/2019, 4:31:09 PM by dpetty121263

Maybe if they did it during Congressional recess….just kidding, we’re all gonna die.
To: CondoleezzaProtege

 

I’d bet a few of our resident Putin buttkissers are in the chorus.

7 posted on 2/26/2019, 4:36:29 PM by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)

DangerClose
Too late!
BanHimTrump
Told ya.
To: All; CondoleezzaProtege
Also see…

Russian TV lists potential nuclear strike targets in US after Putin warning

FoxNews.com ^ | Feb 26, 2019 | Edmund DeMarche | Fox News
Posted on 2/26/2019, 8:55:00 AM by ETL

Russian state TV on Sunday listed potential targets in the U.S. in the event of a nuclear strike and claimed that its new hypersonic missile technology could reach them in less than five minutes.

Reuters called the report “unusual even by the sometimes bellicose standards of Russian state TV.” The targets included the Pentagon and Camp David. The report came days after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the U.S. against deploying intermediate-range missiles in Europe. …”

The Guardian reported that other U.S. sites included Maryland’s Fort Ritchie, McClellan air force base in California and Jim Creek naval communications base in Washington state.

Russian TV lists potential nuclear strike targets in US after Putin warning

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3730641/posts

9 posted on 2/26/2019, 4:39:22 PM by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
OtherwiseOKtoilet
To: ETL

 

“Quite a few people here seem so naive and ill-informed about the Russians.”

Me too; I thought it was communism that turned Russians into jerks. I was wrong. That chorus lamenting America’s existence for 500 years proves that Russian think they hung the moon and we just got in the way of their imperialistic ambitions.

Their Church is also supremacist and imperialistic; Russia forbids missionary work by other denominations; they regard Moscow as the “Third Rome”. There’s a Russian Orthodox church in my not so large Southern city. On their website the very first option is how to convert to Russian Orthodoxy!

I don’t think it’s possible to be friends with Russians, not anymore. Thought 1991 was a sea change. Putin has proven otherwise; Russians prefer a strongman to democracy.

18 posted on 2/26/2019, 5:22:04 PM by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, “Room for one more, honey!”)

BanHimPutin
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At least living so close to Dallas, the northernmost MIRV should land more or less in my backyard, so I’ve got that going for me…
Hopefully, back on Monday with some newer stuff.
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Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Book Of Faces edition

OK, people – a short post FOR REAL this time (the available material always overwhelms my intentions to do a short post).

Before we get to the Facebooky stuff, I guess by now, everyone’s seen this :

GOP Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Tampa, Florida

So help me, this was all I could see instead:

Eeew.

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OK – I’ve been seeing a lot of stuff like this in my Facebook news feed :

(A person named David, on the subject of Alexandria Cortez) :

“Anyone the Republicans are trying so hard to destroy has got to scare them…badly. I follow her on IG, and she’s doing a lot of things right.”

My friend Diane, whose page the above was posted on :

“She was not the only person questioning Cohen. Also, she doesn’t scare me. I’m just sick of her already.

I dislike the obsessive fawning over a person who has, realistically, done precious little so far besides tweet. I also distrust her whole “(IN)Justice (not) Democrats” shtick. She could do a lot more good by attacking some Republicans instead of going after Dems like Hakeem Jeffries.

All of this is beside the point anyway. I am allowed to dislike her, particularly on my own page.

I would rather see more coverage of other new Congresswomen, like Ayanna Pressley, Lucy McBath or Sharice Davids. I keep trying to share stories about them, but the media only wants to yap about this one.”

Then David posted this :

“Anyone the Republicans are trying so hard to destroy has got to scare them…badly. “

David seems to miss the difference between scaring the GOP base and turning them out.

So, quoth I :

They’re not scared. They’re happy to use her as an example of left-wing extremism.
They love her.

David replied :

“Which is exactly why the Republican party is so morally bankrupt and sick in its core…”

Trying to move the goalposts on me doesn’t really work all that well.

FallacyMovingGoalposts

I replied :

And that has nothing to do with my point. AOL is their boogeyman made flesh, and they’ll happily use her to motivate their base.
What you think about her is irrelevant to the case you made
(that the GOP is afraid of her), and that I debunked.
Show my work?  OK.

From Free Republic:

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To: Libloather

AOC is doing our work FOR us, sorta like washing your car, or parking it for you when you arrive at the casino:

2 posted on 3/1/2019, 8:10:35 PM by gaijin 
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Meet the Greatest GOP Salesperson in History
GATEWAY PUNDIT ^ | 3/1/2019 | Wayne Allyn Root

Posted on 3/1/2019, 5:59:46 PM by bitt

I want to celebrate the greatest GOP salesperson in history: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (aka AOC).

With enemies like AOC, who needs friends? No friend of mine, or friend of the GOP could ever do for Republicans what Ocasio-Cortez is doing on a daily basis.

The more AOC and her communist cabal talks about killing farting cows; trains that fly across oceans; ending all cars, trucks, boats and planes; knocking down all homes and buildings; free housing for all provided by Big Brother; guaranteed income whether you feel like working, or not; abortion in every pot (even after the baby is born alive); and let’s not forget her love for socialist hellholes like Venezuela and hatred for Israel…add these up and it spells…

Trump landslide in 2020. 
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To: bitt
Yahoo News is portraying AOC as the “New GOP Boogeywoman” – they actually seem to think the Republicans are afraid and worried about her and her influence 
4 posted on 3/1/2019, 6:10:39 PM by Intolerant in NJ 
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To: bitt

I agree with Mr. Root; AOC is a fantastic salesperson for conservatives. She needs to talk a lot more and explain in excruciating detail all the parts of her ‘death to America’ plan. Please, AOC, keep talking.
5 posted on 3/1/2019, 6:11:02 PM by upchuck (Listening AOC? “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.” ~ Mike Tyson)
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Yeah – they really sound terrified.

That’s it for this week (you can read this past Thursday’s mini-Obsession here) .

Feel free to roast me for failing to worship at the feet of Alexandria in the comments.

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Bonus “Obsession” – Scarborough Unfaire!

You good people get an additional mini-“Obsession” this week – a little coda to the “what right-wing terrorist I have no idea what you’re talking about” thingy :

Scarborough: ‘I Know’ Trump Undisturbed By Guardsman’s Planned Terror Killings
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 2/21/2019, 8:50:14 AM by governsleastgovernsbest

After Morning Joe led today’s show with the report of the arrest of a Coast Guard officer accused of planning terror attacks against numerous liberal politicians and media figures, including Joe Scarborough, Scarborough said:

“I know he [President Trump] is not disturbed by the news reports. He sees that as a sign of strength, and a sign of passionate support.”

1 posted on 2/21/2019, 8:50:15 AM by governsleastgovernsbest
And speaking of passionate support….
To: miss marmelstein; patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; … 

Joe the Mind Reader “knows” President Trump not disturbed by Coast Guardsman’s planned attacks.

…because we all know how restrained Twitler is in voicing his concerns to his fanboys…

Scarborough also possibly suggests Trump not disturbed by mass murder at Pittsburgh synagogue.

2 posted on 2/21/2019, 8:51:59 AM by governsleastgovernsbest (FReep mail me to be added to my Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)

 

Of course, you can always count on the Freeperati to do a sophisticated analysis of why The Darnold hasn’t said jack or shit about his Coast Guard protege’ :

To: governsleastgovernsbest

 

I know Scarborough dreams about 6 year old boys sleeping with him.

4 posted on 2/21/2019, 8:53:38 AM by Drango (A liberal’s compassion is limited only by the size of someone else’s wallet.)

Well played, sir!

To: governsleastgovernsbest
Hey Joe!They caught him because they’re allowed to track white suspects.

They’re prohibited from tracking local Islamic Terrorists, because that would be ‘profiling’!

24 posted on 2/21/2019, 9:30:04 AM by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
ConspiracyTinfoilRoom
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And lastly, in the “sexual proclivity projection” department :

To: governsleastgovernsbest

 

It’s pretty obvious that Joe has a major man-crush on The Donald.

32 posted on 2/21/2019, 9:57:48 AM by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)

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Adrastos will be back at his regularly scheduled bat-time soonest!
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Today on Tommy Ts Obsession with the Freeperati – Foregone Conclusions edition

A quick one today, people – just finished a trip from Dallas to Houston,, then back to Dallas – and boy, are my dogs tired.

Let’s see – hmmm – Freeperville seems to have turned into the Jussie Smollet / fake noose show.

Every. Single. Post.  Geez, how boring is this?

Whups – some real news sneaked in.  Behold – no noose is good noose!

Coast Guard Officer Accused of Terrorist Plot Targeting Media, Lawmakers
Military,com ^ | February 20, 2019 | By Hope Hodge Seck

“military.com”?  Damn that liberal media!!

Posted on 2/20/2019, 5:11:56 PM by Hojczyk

A Coast Guard lieutenant assigned to the service’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., has been arrested on drug and gun possession charges, and is accused of plans to “murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country,” according to documents filed in Maryland District Court.

Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson, an acquisitions officer for the National Security Cutter Acquisition Program, was arrested Feb. 15 and charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition by an unlawful user or addict of controlled substances, and possession of Tramadol, a Schedule IV pain medication.

A motion for detention pending trial, filed by U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur, paints a much more menacing portrait of Hasson’s crimes and planned crimes.

“The current charges, however, are the proverbial tip of the iceberg,” Hur wrote. “The defendant is a domestic terrorist, bent on committing acts dangerous to human life that are intended to affect government conduct.”

Hur cited a draft email written by Hasson in June 2017 in which he said he was “dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth” using a “Spanish flu, botulism, anthrax” or some other mass toxin.

Another draft letter to a “known American neo-Nazi leader” identified Hasson as a white nationalist looking for an opportunity for “a little focused violence” to establish racial supremacy.

When Hasson was arrested in Silver Spring, Maryland, earlier this month, the document states, law enforcement agents found 15 firearms, including shotguns, rifles and handguns, and “conservatively, over 1,000 rounds of mixed ammunition.”

A list of potential targets allegedly compiled by Hasson in January included “prominent Democratic congressional leaders, activists, political organizations, and MSNBC and CNN media personalities” including TV host Chris Hayes; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California; Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York; and many others.

Posted on 2/20/2019, 5:11:56 PM by Hojczyk

Is this the Rubicon that Trump and his nutjob supporters have finally crossed?

Have they, at long last, no sense of decency?

To: Hojczyk

 

Why do these people always write down/publicize their stupid plots?

2 posted on 2/20/2019, 5:14:56 PM by moonhawk (Excuse me…Did you just presume the gender of the Earth Deity?)

I’m guessing that’s a “NO”.
To: Hojczyk

 

Funny how the Fed’s(sic) just happen to have these cases to announce whenever the dirty FBI is getting covered in the news.

3 posted on 2/20/2019, 5:16:10 PM by PghBaldy (12/14 – 930am -rampage begins… 12/15 – 1030am – Obama’s advance team scouts photo-op locations.)

Tricksy tricksy Feds – always causing Coast Guard Lieutenants to draw up death lists of political opponents. How do they get away with it?
To: PghBaldy

 

I will bet my house this is an FBI informant entrapment special.

14 posted on 2/20/2019, 5:31:15 PM by lodi90

YeahBaby

 

And a double-wide is not a “house”.

Just so ya know.

To: Hojczyk

 

Sounds like Antifa to me.

6 posted on 2/20/2019, 5:18:47 PM by Midwesterner53

…because they’re famous for drawing up hit lists of liberals to kill.  Yep.
To: Hojczyk

 

So the Juicy Smell-it meme has collapsed and it’s time to move on to this.

13 posted on 2/20/2019, 5:30:49 PM by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)

Because publicity scammers are SO much more dangerous than mass murderers.
Of course, to some Freepers, the REAL crime is that he didn’t go far enough :
To: Hojczyk 

Only 15 firearms?

Yep.  Only 15.   Piker.

How many can he shoot at once anyway?

Um – two?

And anything less than 10,000 rounds is not significant.

I’ll pass that info along to the residents of Thousand Oaks, the Pittsburgh Synagogue, Jacksonville Landing, Orlando, Fla., Scottsdale, Ca, Santa Fe, Tx., Stoneman Douglas High School, etc, etc, etc.

As far as his koko’s list goes who doesn’t have one of those?

Who indeed?  In related news, the FBI just got its probable cause warrant to search Free Republic’s server for this nitwit’s IP address.

The guy is a piker

I already said that.

and as usual the government is vastly overstating its position. “If the federal government was put in charge of the Sahara Desert tomorrow in five years we would have a sand shortage”. Milton Friedman.

17 posted on 2/20/2019, 5:34:59 PM by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)

I can’t imagine what’s keeping the “false flag” contingent…..
To:moonhawk
Why do these people always write down/publicize their stupid plots?yeah, how convenient. Maybe because for a false flag to work, the “ evidence” needs to be indisputable?

22 posted on 2/20/2019, 5:39:04 PM by atc23
You can set your fucking clock by them.
More rationalization / bugfuck crazy / whataboutism at the friendly link.
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Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – balls to The Wall edition

Just installed new HEPA filters for the ISO chamber, so let’s crank up the blowers and open the latest drums of toxic sludge!

First up – the wailing wall!

Trump says he ‘didn’t need to’ declare emergency but wanted ‘faster’ action
thehill.com ^ | February 15, 2019 | Jordain Carney

Posted on 2/15/2019, 3:41:35 PM by Berlin_Freeper

President Trump said on Friday that he “didn’t need to” declare a national emergency but did it to speed up construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall.

“I want to do it faster. I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn’t need to do this, but I’d rather do it much faster,” Trump said during a press conference at the Rose Garden in the White House.

1 posted on 2/15/2019, 3:41:35 PM by Berlin_Freeper
Freepers?   Victory dance?
To: Berlin_Freeper

 

Except that the bill he just signed will very likely be used to keep him from doing just that. He should have vetoed that POS. When Oh When will we get the line item veto for the Oval Office? I know…double edged sword but…it would have been handy this week.

3 posted on 2/15/2019, 3:43:20 PM by Bloody Sam Roberts (Atrophy of science is visible when the spokesman goes from Einstein to Sagan to Neil Degrasse Tyson.)

Be oh so careful what you wish for.
To: Berlin_Freeper

 

Well he’s right..if Congress/Senate had done their damn jobs he wouldn’t need to do this, but he had no choice because this needs to be done NOW

5 posted on 2/15/2019, 3:45:43 PM by Sarah Barracuda

…because once he gets to Mar-Al-Fucko, he’ll be too busy playing golf….
Of course, even in Freeperville, an occasional gleam of truth seeps through :
To: Bloody Sam Roberts

 

He signed the bill because the votes in both Congressional bodies were higher than the votes required to override his veto.

There was no benefit from playing the part of a person who wanted to shut down the government again.

Look folks, he can’t do it alone, and we need to quit playing as if that isn’t exactly what he has to do.

6 posted on 2/15/2019, 3:46:12 PM by DoughtyOne

OtherwiseOKdog
To: Berlin_Freeper

 

I hope that statement does not hurt him in court, as saying he didn’t need to do it seems to contradict it being a qualifying emergency.

9 posted on 2/15/2019, 3:48:37 PM by zencycler

CaptainObvious
To: morphing libertarian
“I didn’t need to do this, but I’d rather do it much faster,” Trump said during a press conference at the Rose Garden in the White House.

 

This statement completely undermines any legal argument in support of a “national emergency” declaration.

15 posted on 2/15/2019, 4:06:39 PM by Alberta’s Child (“In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.”)
YaThink
To: All

 

“I didn’t need to do this, but I’d rather do it much faster,”

The statement Pretty much guarantees he loses. That plus he signed just a bill where he agrees not to do what the act intends. I can only think he must know this so what do we conclude from that? Nothing good.

17 posted on 2/15/2019, 4:11:54 PM by gibsonguy

Come on, guys – cheer up! Turn those frowns upside down.
To: DoughtyOne

 

“Look folks, he can’t do it alone, and we need to quit playing as if that isn’t exactly what he has to do.”

Absolutely.

The folks treating this as entertainment need to stop looking for their next hit, and start asking what they can do to help.

18 posted on 2/15/2019, 4:15:08 PM by VanDeKoik

Well – I hear that the Kolfage GoFundMe account’s still active.

The organizer of an effort to crowdfund construction for the southern border wall has a new plan to raise money: selling commemorative coins with his face on them.

Fans of Brian Kolfage, the triple-amputee Iraq War veteran behind the border wall effort that started on GoFundMe, can now buy a “Brian Kolfage Collector’s Coin” coin for $49.99.

Kolfage’s crowdfunding campaign turned him into an instant celebrity among supporters of President Donald Trump, who were frustrated as the president’s own efforts to fund the wall struggled to gain traction. But soon after the crowdfunding effort took off, Kolfage came under fire after it was revealed that before his wall campaign, he had run Facebook pages that promoted fake stories and hoaxes and raised money for a veterans’ program that never materialized.

Kolfage insist that his current effort to help collect donations for wall construction is real.

Oh dear.

To: Berlin_Freeper

That was not a smart thing to say.

(James Garner “Support Your Local Sheriff” voice : “Well, I’ve been watching The Darnold for two years, and I haven’t seen him do one smart thing yet.”)

He just admitted that he doesn’t really believe there is an emergency. That undermines his declaration. Dumb.

That’s going to bite him (and us) in the butt.

22 posted on 2/15/2019, 4:33:28 PM by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)

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Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – “It’s Darnolds all the way down” edition

Let’s hit the ground running, shall we?   First up – Dad gives us this shit!

Trump Indicates End of ‘Hire American’ Policy, May Invite More Foreign Workers
Breitbart ^ | 2/7/2019 | Neil Munro

Posted on 2/7/2019, 8:19:12 PM by Zhang Fei

President Donald Trump suggested that he is ready to ditch his Inauguration Day promise of a “Hire American” economic policy — even though thousands of auto workers are being laid off, millions of Americans do not have jobs, and many millions of Americans cannot get better-paying jobs.

The huge policy shift in favor of employers and investors is emerging after Congress blocked his border wall and his border security reforms, and after the GOP-led Congress passed Trump’s tax cut.

“It is fair to say that the President is abandoning his Hire American policy,” said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies.

One of the draft visa-worker expansions is dubbed “country caps.” It would remove diversity provisions in immigration law to allow employers to offer citizenship to roughly 100,000 Indian outsourcing workers each year if they agree to cheaply replace the American graduates who are now working in well-paid software, accounting, design, engineering, medicine, and education careers. The panel is expected to draft their plan by February 15.

On Wednesday, Trump reaffirmed the pro-migration statement when he was asked by a reporter “So, you’re changing your policy officially, then? You want more legal immigration?”

Trump answered “I need people coming in because we need people to run the factories and plants and companies that are moving back in. We need people.”

“Our unemployment numbers are so low,” Trump said.

On February 1, the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the unemployment rate was at 4 percent. But it also showed that 12.5 million Americans are either unemployed or want to get jobs. In the 1960s, roughly 97 percent of men aged 25 to 54 worked — but that percentage dropped to 80 percent in 2009 and was still only at 86.2 percent in December 2018.

1 posted on 2/7/2019, 8:19:12 PM by Zhang Fei
First one out of the chute? A glibertarian :
To: Zhang Fei

The Free Market Economy which creates wealth always works better than Command and Control Government Economy which creates poverty.

2 posted on 2/7/2019, 8:21:05 PM by Jim 0216 (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)

LibertarianRepublicans
…followed immediately by a “13th-dimensional chess” moron :
To: Zhang Fei

Ooh. Strategery. Trump pushing for legal immigrants

3 posted on 2/7/2019, 8:21:59 PM by stanne

NotSureIfSarcasticOrStupid
Of course, nothing The Darnold ever says could be his actual fault, could it?
To: Zhang Fei

I HATE IVANKA AND JARED.

5 posted on 2/7/2019, 8:26:19 PM by gaijin

That’s what I thought.
To: Zhang Fei

1. Jared’s liberal, America-hating community talks to Jared
2. Jared talks to Ivanka
3. Ivanka has YUGE influence on dad
4. Dad gives us this $HIT

7 posted on 2/7/2019, 8:28:13 PM by gaijin

And we have thread-naming liftoff.
Repeat – we have thread-naming liftoff!
To: Zhang Fei

So wages are finally starting to increase and Trump wants to kill that by bringing in more labor.

11 posted on 2/7/2019, 8:31:23 PM by david1292

Don’t forget – it’s “stratergy”!
To: Alberta’s Child
I tell my son and his friends that if they plan on going into tech to expect to have a shorter career than other options. It pisses me off but I accept that it’s part of the industry. The youth bias is very difficult to overcome. The H1-B program and available staff offshore definitely makes it easier for employers to dump older tech workers.
51 posted on 2/7/2019, 9:22:47 PM by StolarStorm
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And now – the post of the thread!
To: 2ndDivisionVet

No worries. The main invasion will be at Calais.

39 posted on 2/7/2019, 9:10:53 PM by Rebelbase

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Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – blast from the past edition

Hi, all – this Monday’s post was done as a special last Thursday – you can read it here.

For the rest of today’s offering – do you remember when Jim Rob organized a protest at the Kenyan usurper’s White Hut and ABSOLUTELY NO ONE SHOWED UP ?

I sure do.

Peace

Or “vootie”…

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Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – 13th dimensional chess edition

Good morning, gentle people – it’s not been a Very Good Week for The Darnold, but nothing (including the now never-ending Freepathon) is gonna get the Freeperati down!

Last week it was :

Trump tells Pelosi he plans to proceed with State of the Union next week
fox news ^ | 1/23/2019 | ALex pappas

Posted on 1/23/2019, 12:06:13 PM by bitt

President Trump told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a new letter Wednesday that he still plans to deliver next week’s scheduled State of the Union address from the House floor even though Pelosi urged him to delay the speech because of the government shutdown.

The president, in his letter, said there are “no security concerns” surrounding the event, in response to Pelosi raising that as a potential issue because of the partial shutdown.

“I look forward to seeing you on the evening on January 29th in the Chamber of the House of Representatives,” Trump wrote. “It would be so very sad for our country if the State of the Union were not delivered on time, on schedule, and very importantly, on location!”

1 posted on 1/23/2019, 12:06:13 PM by bitt
The Freepers were ecstatic :
To: bitt

He’s trolling her…. Daring Nancy to say “no.” again.

If she does, he’ll change the venue—and make her look like an obstructionist

If she relents, he also looks the stronger one, and she petty.

8 posted on 1/23/2019, 12:20:21 PM by AnalogReigns (Real life is ANALOG…)

To: bitt

Here we go.

Let her try to stop this.

9 posted on 1/23/2019, 12:22:14 PM by canuck_conservative

Then suddenly – last bummer :
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Trump: I will deliver State of the Union ‘when the shutdown is over
The Hill ^ | January 23, 2019 | MARY TYLER MARCH

Posted on 1/23/2019, 10:31:19 PM by be-baw

President Trump said late Wednesday that he would deliver his State of the Union address after the ongoing partial government shutdown is over.

“As the Shutdown was going on, Nancy Pelosi asked me to give the State of the Union Address,” Trump wrote in a tweet. “I agreed. She then changed her mind because of the Shutdown, suggesting a later date. This is her prerogative – I will do the Address when the Shutdown is over.”

Trump clarified earlier statements suggesting he may do an “alternative” State of the Union, writing that he was not seeking an alternative venue because “there is no venue that can compete with the history, tradition and importance of the House Chamber.”

“I look forward to giving a “great” State of the Union Address in the near future!” he added.

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I guess that’s settled.
1 posted on 1/23/2019, 10:31:19 PM by be-baw
Many Freepers haz a collective sad :
To: be-baw

I am disappointed in him for this.

2 posted on 1/23/2019, 10:34:50 PM by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don’t suck.)

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To: be-baw

Trump just lost a large percentage of his supporters. Me included.

8 posted on 1/23/2019, 10:39:54 PM by originalbuckeye (‘In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act’- George Orwell.)

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To: be-baw

It’s got to be some kind of trap.

7 posted on 1/23/2019, 10:39:30 PM by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)

ackbartrap
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I can’t imagine what’s keeping the 13th-dimensional chess brigade….
To: be-baw

Device(sic) your enemy that they have won then kick their arse.

4 posted on 1/23/2019, 10:36:21 PM by Rebelbase

Devicing your enemy is always a good strategy.
To: Sequoyah101

There is only one winner here, it is Trump. Relax.

28 posted on 1/23/2019, 10:49:18 PM by Fungi

Other Freepers are not so sanguine :
To: be-baw

Why did he cave?Does he REALLY expect that crazy Nancy is going to give in on ANYTHING re the wall? If he does, then he’s just NUTS and hasn’t managed to learn anything in these past 2 years!

And IF he give up/caves on the wall, he’s in real trouble with the base.

37 posted on 1/23/2019, 10:51:25 PM by nopardons
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More below the thingy, including Rudy Tooty fresh and fruity, and a “vanity fart”.
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Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – fallen zeros edition

Before we get to the Freeping idiots, The Darnold says : “Hold my tequila!”

(mind you, this is from FOX news)

President Trump says to reporters that San Antonio, a town 157 miles from U.S. border, has a wall

While addressing reporters ahead of a special announcement Saturday on the partial government shutdown and border wall funding, President Trump cited San Antonio as a city that had its crime problem solved after getting a wall.

“You look at different places, they put up a wall, no problem,” Trump said. “You look at San Antonio, you look at so many different places, they go from one of the most unsafe cities in the country to one of the safest cities immediately.”

San Antonio does not have a border wall. It is located 157 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.

There is, of course, a wall around part of the Alamo (8 /10 feet high), but that didn’t really stop any Mexicans from climbing it.

Yeesh – he must think everyone is as stupid as he is.

Speaking of stupid – Hail To Da King, Baby!

White House: Rep. Steve King’s white supremacy remarks ‘abhorrent’
PBS ^ | 1/16/19

Posted on 1/16/2019, 10:58:57 AM by Blue House Sue

WASHINGTON — The White House is describing comments by Republican Rep. Steve King about white supremacy as “abhorrent.”

Presidential press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is praising the move by House Republicans to strip the nine-term Iowa lawmaker of his committee assignments.

1 posted on 1/16/2019, 10:58:57 AM by Blue House Sue
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So – not only did The Darnold call King’s blather “abhorrent”, he sent Baghdad Boob out to the assembled press corps to say so.

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I’m sure this  dolchstosslegende  is going to bring down the wrath of Freeperville on ole Tweety Amin.
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No?
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To: Blue House Sue 

Horse crap.

That’s no way to talk about your Fuhrer.

His comments were no such thing. Vilification of someone asking a question regarding today’s political discourse, or the lack thereof, is eroding our representative foundation.

2 posted on 1/16/2019, 11:01:18 AM by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)

To: Blue House Sue

 

Jeez…yet another successful political assassination by the New York Times Trump.

4 posted on 1/16/2019, 11:02:21 AM by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENT)

FIFY.
To: House Atreides
Jeez…yet another successful political assassination by the New York Times. 

The New York Times didn’t spy on the guy and illegally record his conversations.

He sat down and gave them an ‘effing interview.

I have no sympathy — and no patience — for a moron like this. I hope he resigns soon, so he can be replaced by someone who has an IQ above 80.

6 posted on 1/16/2019, 11:05:29 AM by Alberta’s Child (“In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.”)
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Well, that rules out The Darnold.  I hear that Randy Quaid is available…
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So – there’s two schools of so-called thought here – King was an idiot for saying this shit on the record, and King is an upstanding true American for saying this shit on the record.
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And not one person from either of these two special needs schools is blaming The Darnold for his stabbity-stab in the back of the once and future King.
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Not one.
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To: Blue House Sue
Just what in the hell did Steve King say that was so abhorrent?That he was a white nationalist. 

Well so am I. I’m a white male

What a shocker!

and I love my country and I hate seeing where the commiecrats are taking us.

10 posted on 1/16/2019, 11:13:17 AM by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)

One Freeper ALMOST goes there :
To: Blue House Sue

 

Why is the White House falling for this NYT smear?

White House can not afford to throw conservative leaning legislators under the bus every time someone on the left attacks them.

Foolish.

11 posted on 1/16/2019, 11:16:39 AM by unlearner (War is coming.)

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DangerClose
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Fortunately for “unlearner”, nobody responds to his little tiptoe through the minefield.
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Join me below the fold for Ann Coulter’s wall squall.
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Today on Tommy T’s obsession with the Freeperati – Trumpy bare edition

A quick one today, folks – starting off with – Kanye believe this shit?

Kanye Is Back On That Deranged $#*+ With Trump!!
Hypefresh ^ | January 2, 2019

Posted on 1/2/2019, 11:04:59 PM by 2ndDivisionVet

It seems like Kanye’s deranged behavior is here to stay in 2019.

Through 2018, Kanye had a lot of ups and downs in his personal life. The rapper has seemed to have fallen from stardom due to his outspoken personality and random outburst. Because of his actions he has lost the respect of the peers in the world of music. It seems as though his arrogance continues to grow and rubbed people throughout the year. It even went as for to typical Kanye finding ways to piss people off at Cher opening. Most of the animosity has come by way of him being an advocate for Donald Trump within the urban community.

Many people were appalled when news broke that Kanye West arrives at Whitehouse for lunch with Trump. Fellow artist that have accepted Kanye West stunts in the past would not be silent on this particular shenanigan. Artist such as Snoop Dogg, T.I., and former label mate Camron took to social media to air out the Chicago native. Everyone is highly offended by Mr. West rocking the highly controversial “Make America Great Again” hat. Shortly after his wife Kim Kardashian says she educated Kanye after the Trump visit.

Longtime colleague Charlemagne Da God canceled his interview his discussion with Kanye West because of his public outcry for attention. After all of the drama, Yeezy eventually apologized publicly on Twitter for making the wrong stance regarding the world of politics. Even his label Pusha T claimed that Kanye doesn’t wear the MAGNA hat anymore. At the moment it seems as though Kanye is back to supporting Trump again. During his cabinet meeting to kick off the year, the President shouted out Mr. West.

It’s obvious that Ye loves to be the center of attention, as he even called out larger than life rapper Drake on Twitter. He claims that Drizzy took shots at him several times, and he was steamin after Drake followed his wife on Instagram.

Is Kanye really deranged? Or is he trying to stay relevant?

1 posted on 1/2/2019, 11:04:59 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
Is that a trick question?
Yin:
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I don’t care about Kanye anymore 

Seems like an attention whore to me

…but enough about Trump…

A few days before the 2018 election he claims he has been had and used and stopped support MAGA.

Not a friend of Trump, just another moocher looking to line is pockets.

Get lost Kanye

2 posted on 1/2/2019, 11:10:54 PM by Trump.Deplorable

And yang:
To: Trump.Deplorable
Kanye is a Master Persuader.

 

masterbaiter

I’m glad he’s on our side.

4 posted on 1/2/2019, 11:12:26 PM by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer’s p*ssboy)

So’s The Darnold.
To: conservative98

 

He went against Trump and could not support the policies and that borders were bad. He was had

Screw this Kanye, we don’t need him or all of his “issues”

6 posted on 1/2/2019, 11:15:39 PM by Trump.Deplorable

To: 2ndDivisionVet

 

Who gibs a phlying phuque ??

7 posted on 1/2/2019, 11:16:05 PM by truth_seeker ( ^^\/**|_|**\/ ^^)

Do you kiss your mom with that mouth?
And as for who “gibs”….
To: Trump.Deplorable

 

“I don’t care about Kanye anymore”

I never pay any attention to the worthless, lowlife filth. Anyone who did an idiot. He’s a con-artist, subhuman garbage and a racist POS. He richly deserves the “Tupac Treatment”, bigtime, for his trash rags and noise.

10 posted on 1/2/2019, 11:30:21 PM by carriage_hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)

What is this?  Marry/fuck/kill?
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Dec 31 2018
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Free Republic, Immigration, Tommy T

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – pork and beaners edition

Good morning, everybody! I thought I might take a mental health day – it’s not that the Freeperati are displaying their usual insanity, but that it’s just gotten too repetitious. I spend on the average of three hours compiling and composing each of these “Obsession” posts, and that means reading literally hundreds of threads and replies for each one. Having to sort out all the chuckle-worthy bits from the huge stream of mental vomitus gets even harder when the mind-numbing sameness of the hive mind makes it so.

This week, the theme seems to be – beaners.

District judge disappointed Rifle ranter won’t enter plea
Post Independent ^ | Dec 5 2018 | Thomas Phippen

Posted on 12/29/2018, 3:10:45 PM by rintintin

A Ninth District judge indicated disappointment that a Rifle woman accused of yelling at two Spanish-speaking women in a racially charged rant at a Rifle grocery story will not have to enter a plea.

Garfield County Judge Jonathan Potosky said at a hearing in the case Wednesday he would have liked to see Linda Dwire, who was charged with misdemeanor racial-motivated harassment enter a guilty plea of some kind of condition of having her case diverted.

The charge results from an incident at the Rifle City Market in October — part of which was caught on video by a bystander and went viral on the internet — where Dwire allegedly was yelling at two women for speaking in Spanish.

The diversion program was at the discretion of prosecutors, and it was not in his power to compel a plea, Pototsky said.

The point of the diversion program is to divert the case away from the court, and the court has no way to stop it.

1 posted on 12/29/2018, 3:10:45 PM by rintintin
I looked in vain for even a sliver or suggestion of “Stupid woman shouldn’t have said out loud what she was rightfully thinking”….
To: rintintin
Not long ago two women in a laundrymat(sic) were harassing my wife in Spanish. On and on they went.
What they didn’t know is my wife is fluent in Spanish.
Wonder what racist judge would take on her case? 

9 posted on 12/29/2018, 3:47:32 PM by VeniVidiVici

Beaners
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Not yet….

To: rintintin

Facing criminal charges to telling these people they should be speaking English? How stupid are these people in Rifle?

This never ending conga-line of non-English speaking foreign nationals/illegals the government has forced upon our country are costing tax payers 10 of millions, simply due to the fact these people do not speak or even bother to learn English.

13 posted on 12/29/2018, 4:01:12 PM by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)

Beaners
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Not yet….
To: rintintin
What race is a Spanish speaker? 

24 posted on 12/29/2018, 7:35:21 PM by Darteaus94025 (Can’t have a Liberal without a Lie)

Beaners
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Get ready….
To: VeniVidiVici
Same with my old lady. You would never suspect it because she is an old Scandanavian type. But she hears the beaners speak Spanish all the time in stores and many times they are bashing on Americans around them. 

21 posted on 12/29/2018, 5:13:49 PM by shelterguy

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OK – go for it!
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See what I mean? Tommy Chong without the humour.
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See you good people next Monday.
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Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – “fools and their money” edition

Get suited up, everybody – the coolest thing in the history of Freeperdom is happening, and you can smell the excitement in the air.

At least I think it’s excitement….

LIVE THREAD: GoFundMe for Trump’s Border Wall Hits $7 Million and Is Rising 

The EpochTimes ^ | JACK PHILLIPS

Posted on 12/20/2018, 4:15:55 PM by naeim.darzi

A GoFundMe page titled, “We The People Will Fund The Wall,” has raised more than $7 million out of $1 billion as of Dec. 20. In less than an hour late on Thursday, donors contributed more than $500,000.

The page was set up by Brian Kolfage, a triple-amputee Air Force veteran who received the Purple Heart.

“As a veteran who has given so much, 3 limbs, I feel deeply invested to this nation to ensure future generations have everything we have today. Too many Americans have been murdered by illegal aliens and too many illegals are taking advantage of the United States taxpayers with no means of ever contributing to our society,” his page reads.

1 posted on 12/20/2018, 4:15:55 PM by naeim.darzi
Colfage’s little scam is going to need some people to handle all of that groovy cash, right?
I hear these guys are available:
GoFundMeScammers
Whoops – perhaps not.
ScmmersInJail
Anywhoo – this should get a hearty round of applause from the Freeperati.
To: naeim.darzi
While I appreciate the sentiment, this is foolish. 

What exactly is the governmental mechanism that enables a direct cash donation to a specific government project?

(hint – there isn’t one)

Do people not pay enough taxes to push funding for the wall as it is?

2 posted on 12/20/2018, 4:22:47 PM by Future Snake Eater (Get a handle on vote fraud or we’re likely finished in 2020.)

To: naeim.darzi

 

It’s GoFundMe Fantasy Wall Game! Where fools and their money are soon parted!

6 posted on 12/20/2018, 4:25:41 PM by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)

Well, it IS Free Republic, isn’t it? Fools-wise, it’s what they call “a target-rich environment”.
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That reminds me – they finally finished the Fall Freepathon last week, and there’s only a week to go until the next one starts. Yowza!
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It’s time for the fantasy footwall players to get creative :
To: Future Snake Eater
Just off the top of my head, the government could sign a $0 contract to build the wall with a non-profit entity or with a contracting company whose costs are paid privately.Funding may be tantamount to legislative authorization, but does the President really lack authorization? I don’t think so.

36 posted on 12/20/2018, 4:53:36 PM by cmj328 (We live here.)
FacebookThatsNotHowThisWorks
To: cmj328

 

And Nancy Pelosi might vote for wall funding. About the same kind of fantasy. You people are trying to emote your way out of an invasion.

43 posted on 12/20/2018, 5:00:46 PM by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)

More after the invasion…

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"Q", Free Republic, The Darnold, Tommy T

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Freep State edition

I knew that this “Q”-apalooza thing was going to end in tears.

FR now has a Deep State Admin Mod Group going rogue deleting posts about the Deep State [q anon]
Reearch on FR ^ | 12/13/2018 | Moi

Posted on 12/13/2018, 2:07:50 AM by Paladin2

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Crazy Timez
1 posted on 12/13/2018, 2:07:50 AM by Paladin2
What seems to be the problem?
To: Paladin2

 

Note that the FR Deep State, Brennan types have deleted my totally reasonable post.

2 posted on 12/13/2018, 2:08:45 AM by Paladin2

Moderators
To: Paladin2

 

You like playing with fire, huh?

10 posted on 12/13/2018, 2:17:31 AM by humblegunner

AutocorrectAustin
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Some take this alarming news with resignation :
To: Paladin2

I thought everybody knew that FR is an NSA/CIA operation aimed at collecting information on potential threats to the Deep State.I just hang out here because I want to be one of the first in line to the reeducation camps. The food won’t be quite as rotten or riddled with maggots.

12 posted on 12/13/2018, 2:17:39 AM by who_would_fardels_bear
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Some attempt to smile through the tears:
To: Paladin2

There seems to be some big ambiguity among “post”, “thread”, “a posting”, “response”, etc.

I suppose you can post a thread or post a reply, but you can’t posthumous.
16 posted on 12/13/2018, 2:22:26 AM by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)

To: Mount Athos; Paladin2

 

Folks, don’t reference or discuss the strange secret conspiracy theory on non-conspiracy threads. The mods (as I understand it) take the position that the strange bogus conspiracy will only be discussed on the official conspiracy world threads.

That does seem to be a reasonable compromise to keep He-who-must-not-be-named from sprouting up like poisonous mushrooms all over every Free Republic thread.

It is a matter of FR housekeeping…..

20 posted on 12/13/2018, 2:25:49 AM by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild….)

…..minus the “sexy maid” get-up…
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Just how far up the Freeper hierarchy does this Derp State conspiracy extend?
To: Paladin2

 

I’m the jack-booted thug. I do not want the q stuff spreading out to our threads. Keep it to the q conspiracy thread in chat forum. thanks

33 posted on 12/13/2018, 2:52:51 AM by Jim Robinson(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)

zomgTheyGotJimRob
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