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Posted by: thepinetree on 08/16/2022 07:18 AM Updated by: thepinetree on 08/17/2022 02:50 PM
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Mornings with the One Percent™ Will Start at 9am Today...New Stories Are Below

Arnold, CA…Mornings with the One Percent™ is live weekday mornings from 7-10am. The premise for the show is that the USDA ranked all 3,142 counties or county equivalents in the USA on a livability or desirability scale based on factors such as climate, scenic beauty, bodies of water for recreation, humidity and much more. All of our area ranked not only in the top one percent but in the top one half of one percent. So in the ups and downs of daily life remember you don’t have to be a Gates, Buffett or Bezos to live like the one percent. Just live here!






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Posted on: 2022-08-16 09:12:08   By: Anonymous
 
GOOD MORNING LITTLE DICKHEAD (sniveler)

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No Subject
Posted on: 2022-08-16 09:20:23   By: Anonymous
 
See Ya Liz Cheney...

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    Republican Party Perversion
    Posted on: 2022-08-16 09:37:14   By: Anonymous
     
    The disclosures of the acts of trump, particularly the moving of secret documents regarding national security are the acts of a traitor.
    His cult of traitors promoted by Fox , facebook are in a fog of lies, misinformation.
    Why have so many fallen for lies that are easily proven as false?

    A common lie promoted by Republicans is that America was a Christian nation , this is easily disproven, yet this big lie is repeated often, and by the same people who say the 2021 election was a fraud. All evidence shows this is untrue, all 60 court cases were thrown out due to no evidence of any election fraud.

    I believe the Evangelical Christian religions are a gateway into some minds to accept any fantastic con a loud promoter will push.

    Today’s Republicans claim that America was founded as a Christian nation; the truth is that one of the most unique things about the “American experiment” was that we were the first explicitly secular nation in the history of the world.
    The United States was the first country at that time in history to openly reject any role for religion, a prohibition that appears twice in our Constitution and repeatedly in the writings of the Founding generation . It's easily found in writings by the founding fathers of America's Constitution.



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      Re: Republican Party Perversion
      Posted on: 2022-08-16 09:42:08   By: Anonymous
       
      I think you need to read from a different news source, not one with a bigoted side and doesn't need to show cartoons to get viewers.
      Just a thought, than again I'd say if you voted for Biden and you having an intelligent thought would be almost impossible at this point in your life.

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        Re: Republican Party Perversion
        Posted on: 2022-08-16 09:43:48   By: Anonymous
         
        Republicans are just fine with:
        - Stealing classified documents
        - Selling nuclear secrets
        - Letting lawlessness run rampant
        - Threatening FBI agents' lives

        Let's face it: they're #GOPTerrorists.

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          Re: Republican Party Perversion
          Posted on: 2022-08-16 12:36:21   By: Anonymous
           
          Trump now fears betrayal, as he should. He fears emergence of truth in a way he cannot control. Mostly, he fears humiliation: criminal indictment, leading to loss of enablers, leading to loss of grift, leading to lessened relevance = the world's greatest narcissistic injury ever.

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      Re: Republican Party Perversion
      Posted on: 2022-08-16 10:16:29   By: Anonymous
       
      As President George Washington wrote on March 15, 1790:

      “As mankind become more liberal they will be more apt to allow, that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the Community are equally entitled to the protection of civil Government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality.”

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        Re: Republican Party Perversion
        Posted on: 2022-08-17 10:34:49   By: Anonymous
         
        As President Geoge Bush stated in 2006.
        "Huh"?

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    Re:
    Posted on: 2022-08-16 09:38:19   By: Anonymous
     
    Liz has to rely on Dems help and she'll still get creamed. She went after Trump because of hatred nothing else. Just like Biden has done, and look what it did to that dumb idiot, he's going down as the Worst President in History. He took a great country with a strong economy, a well respected military, and reversed it all, making us close to a 3rd world country who can't even feed our infants without Foreign Aid.
    What a Disastrous Embarrassment of an Administration!!!
    Imagine how stupid you would feel if you voted for a weak, senile, blithering idiot who can't even complete an entire sentence without stuttering and/ or losing his train of thought without having to read it on his teleprompter, and his running mate a known Whore who spread her legs to get her job has an even worse approval rating than the incompetent Dementia Patient we call our Dictator?

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      Re:
      Posted on: 2022-08-16 12:37:30   By: Anonymous
       
      Still - he was a better choice than Trump for another 4 years. You have to admit that.

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USA relying on Foreign Aid to feed our infants under a Biden Dictatorship
Posted on: 2022-08-16 09:27:23   By: Anonymous
 


Too funny that so many of the left are this damn dumb thinking Defunding the Police was a good idea. All that did was to make the most vulnerable crime victims and those criminals? 90 percent of the criminals were the usual people, the left Liberal/Socialist Party who the liberal DA and judges that let them walk after an arrest to repeat.
"From coast to coast in 2020, liberal politicians pledged support for defunding police departments following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. San Francisco Mayor London Breed was among the politicians in major cities that joined the chorus of leaders diverting funds from police that summer, only to reverse course the following year.
"We will redirect $120 million from law enforcement to support these priorities over the next two years," Breed said in her announcement on July 31, 2020. "Let me repeat that. This is $120 million."

^ Repeat that all you want, because of your stupidity you caused murder rates just in SF to rise 30% and the idiots of the left still think you're doing a great job. Idiots who vote for idiots, deserve each other. That's why we on the Right love and protect our Constitution and the Second Amendment our right to bear arms. The left protects criminals, the Right protects our loved ones, our Freedom, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, our Civil Rights. Socialism, Communism is the Lefts vision.

Vote for a Republican in the Midterms, end the war against making your country Last, a country today that relies on Foreign Aid to feed our infants under the Biden Dictatorship.





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    Re: USA relying on Foreign Aid to feed our infants under a Biden Dictatorship
    Posted on: 2022-08-16 09:38:19   By: Anonymous
     
    ^Thank you! Well said!

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    Re: USA relying on Foreign Aid to feed our infants under a Biden Dictatorship
    Posted on: 2022-08-16 09:49:39   By: Anonymous
     
    Hang on.. it seems to be working in a lot of cities. 'Defund' is a bad choice of words (although MTG is keen to 'defund the police if they are working for the FBI)

    However, 'reallocating funding' so we don't send armed trigger happy people to deal with homelessness, or car accidents or to take reports after the fact... Surely programs like MACRO that send medical first responders, or traffic enforcement staff are the way to go. They a) don't carry guns so nobody gets killed, and b) they cost the city / county about 1/2 much as a full cop.

    So I think that this is a brilliant move. What is a cop going to do at the scene of a routine car accident that a trained traffic enforcement agent can't do? Are cops better at calling tow trucks? better at first aid? Better at taking photographs?

    I'm all for shrinking waste in the government. that includes Law Enforcement.

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      Re: USA relying on Foreign Aid to feed our infants under a Biden Dictatorship
      Posted on: 2022-08-16 09:52:30   By: Anonymous
       
      I think that's pretty smart. Not every call to the police department needs a full on cop to respond. As you say is a cop better at looking for a missing child than a non-cop? Not likely.

      Gvien how much cops earn, that $120m could go a lot further in the hands of non-cops.

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        Re: USA relying on Foreign Aid to feed our infants under a Biden Dictatorship
        Posted on: 2022-08-16 10:26:42   By: Anonymous
         
        Biden dictatorship?
        Guess who tried to be a dictator? your God trump .
        What an ignorant cult rube.

        The Democrats are pro Democracy, trump and his QRepublican sickos are anti Democracy. Look at the red states, all have anti voting laws, to discourage voting. They are right now purging voters targeting minorities, likely Democratic voters.

        The ignorance of the trump traitors is just sad. The posts are evidence of dystopian ignorance.

        dystopia: [noun] an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives.

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          Re: USA relying on Foreign Aid to feed our infants under a Biden Dictatorship
          Posted on: 2022-08-16 11:36:18   By: Anonymous
           

          Trump didn't try to be a dictator, he protected our Constitution, our Bill of Rights. Look at Biden and the Dems trying to let illegal immigrants vote. Look at Biden using our FBI and DOJ as a Secret Police against any who oppose him. Look at Biden hiring 87,000 more it's Agents and now those agents must be armed! The Dems have already been busted for sicing the IRS on high profile Republicans in the past.
          Look how Biden stopped the Treasury Department from giving our Red Flag Alerts on his Son and his brother to any Congress member, that's a violation, but the Republican party can't do anything because Dems hold the majority.
          Look how Biden is trying to create a Left "Ministry of Truth" just like Stalin and ADOLPH HITLER had. He already had his son Hunter's laptop called Russian Disinformation and it's been certified as Hunter's laptop computer.
          Look at the fact that the FBI has had that laptop since December 2019 and have done nothing because of Biden is our Dictator and he's being protected.
          Look at Hunter Biden's lying to the DOJ on buying a handgun, he had to sign under perjury, that he's not a drug addict and he admitted so even in a book.
          Look at the fact that he never reported his gun missing and he's still being protected.
          Look at the fact that Biden lied saying he never talked business with his son and emails proved that not only did he lie, but Biden too did business because " The Big Guy" was getting 10 Percent, their business partner swore under testimony, under our laws of perjury Joe did and was a partner.
          Notice how places like NYC are using the office of their District Attorney to go after Trump? She even ran on that as a promise to the voters, it's against the law to use their office for a hit job. Notice that they still have found nothing wrong? The FBI raid at Trump's home? That so far was a raid to find a crime, they didn't ( a journalist) name a whistle blower they just said a source, like maybe a friend of a cousins cousin ( BS)
          Notice the DOJ is fighting against making public the warrant saying because it's under investigation? Well so is the Jan 6th Committee yet they have no problem talking about that, why ? Because it's a one sided witch hunt.
          Besides, why kick everyone out of Trump's home during the raid? Why turn off Trump's security cameras? ( He said they didn't turn them off) because they didn't want witnesses, why?

          Why are the DOJ and FBI letting Activist protest in front of our Conservative SCOTUS home and not enforcing the laws that protect them? They would if they were the homes of the liberal left SCOTUS homes? They even arrested one Activist who had a loaded gun who even said he was going to kill a Supreme Court Justice and his family, but Biden's Secret Police won't enforce their opponents right to not be harassed, or even if their lives are threatened.
          TRUMP didn't try to take over our country, get real for once and just look what a compete Disaster Biden and his corrupt administration is, what they've done to our country, what they are letting our adversaries do through out the world. This administration is even letting Russia and China broker the Iran Nuclear Deal, do you ACTUALLY THINK THAT'S SOMETHING ANY RATIONAL PERSON LET ALONE AN ADMINISTRATION WOULD DO? SERIOUSLY, ANSWER THAT FOR EVERYONE, DOES THAT SOUND LOGICAL? Maybe that would sound logical to someone who would pull out our Military out of a hostile country that we occupied for 20 years before we tried to get out American citizens, our Allies who helped us who would be hunted down and killed. Pull out our military before close to a HUNDRED BILLION IN MILITARY EQUIPMENT AND WEAPONS. Pullout without even telling all of our Allies from other Nations who fought by our side, these Allies in NATO....any of that sound LOGICAL TO YOU?
          Our Constitution under Biden is only protected because of the Republican Party, our Bl of Rights are being protected because of the Republican Party, our Right to protect our family, our homes, ourself is only because of the Republican Party. Dems want to take all of that away, but not the Dems rights. Those politicians that want to Defund the Police I see in the news they get to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire private security, while the folks who voted for them, especially the ones in less desirable neighborhoods are dealing with skyrocketing crime. Those politicians are only hurting the poorer people in this nation why they have the $$$ to not worry. And every day Joe and his secret police try to take out Joe and his dictatorships biggest threat, our next possible President that Joe made a Martyr by trying yet again to get rid of with his new weapon, his personal hit squad, the DOJ and FBI.
          Both will be investigated if Republicans win the Majority.

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          Re: USA relying on Foreign Aid to feed our infants under a Biden Dictatorship
          Posted on: 2022-08-16 11:41:57   By: Anonymous
           
          Oh, to have voter ID means anti voting laws? You must be as smart as kamala Harris said Democrat voters are. She said they were too stupid that they would be clueless on how to make a copy of their driver license, or too dumb to get an id, or to even to know how to write the last 4 numbers of their SS for ID.
          Well that proves it, the left like yourself really are as bright as my morning 💩. Hahahahahahaha🤣

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Now, ask yourself if millions of illegals crossed into our country, how many terrorist?
Posted on: 2022-08-16 10:44:50   By: Anonymous
 

66 Terrorist have been nailed trying to cross at our Dictator's Open Southern Border this year, and 10 just last month. These are 66 terrorist on the Biden administration Political Hit Squad aka the FBI Terrorist List, people who'd like nothing more to set and explode bombs in the most crowded spots in our country. The left who wants to Defund the Police just ignore these criminals like they do their own acting like these are just people with unpaid parking violations.
"The 66 people caught at the border in Fiscal Year 2022 is more than twice the numbers from the previous five years combined. In 2017, encounters with people on the terror watchlist truly were rare, as they numbered just two. That number jumped to 6 in Fiscal Year 2018, but then went down to three in 2019 and 2020. Fiscal Year 2021 saw a significant uptick, as there were 15 such encounters that year."
The number of terrorist caught are doubled as of last month of the previous FIVE YEARS.
Once they are here folks you can't get rid of them. They can be caught, but that's usually after they have set off a bomb, like what happened when the Boston Marathon bombing happened, after the fact. Joe's going to be remembered everytime a bomb goes off.


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    ?
    Posted on: 2022-08-16 11:39:06   By: Anonymous
     
    Now ask yourself . How stupid you are . Your comment is total bull sh — .

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      Re: ?...how stupid you are
      Posted on: 2022-08-16 12:01:19   By: Anonymous
       
      Plenty to go around.
      Worst are the dotards that think Trump actually did anything.
      Biden makes mistakes. Can't fault him for trying anything.
      No more US Troops in Afghanistan was a good thing. At least now we know who the enemy is. The Chinese, Russian, Iranian, North Korean.
      Liz Chaney is one of the few in the GOP with the balls to stand up to the Head Dotard.
      Would love to see her Dad take DJT hunting.

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        Re: ?...how stupid you are
        Posted on: 2022-08-16 12:30:21   By: Anonymous
         
        My God what hallucinations are you on???
        See the subject above? Let's change it for you...how stupid are you?
        That's right, you're one of those who are too dumb to use a copy machine, let alone ask someone to do it for you. You definitely have 💩 for brains.🤣

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          Re: ?...how stupid you are...using a copy machine
          Posted on: 2022-08-16 15:52:04   By: Anonymous
           
          I never need one.
          Original thoughts only.
          Whether you like them or not.
          Don't be a Lemming dotard.

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Don't worry, President Biden is working on it 24/7/365 hope that makes you happy
Posted on: 2022-08-16 12:24:55   By: Anonymous
 

KABUL — Thousands of American citizens still stranded in Afghanistan one year after the Biden Administration's overnight retreat are beginning to suspect the President may not be coming back for them, sources say.

"We've waited patiently outside Kabul International Airport for a year now, but you know what? I'm starting to think President Biden isn't going to come for us!" said one citizen who asked for his name to be withheld for his own protection. "I really hate to say it , but it almost seems like he doesn't even care! Am I a terrible person for thinking that?"

Representatives for the new Taliban government insisted that all Americans are being treated humanely and will live happy lives — as long they never disobey or question Sharia Law — in which case they will be tortured to death.

"We will continue to wait patiently in hopes that Mr. Biden will think of us and maybe send someone," said another American refugee. "I'm sure he's working on a brilliant plan and will send people for us any minute!"

At publishing time, several stranded Americans submitted an anonymous tip to the FBI that they were in possession of several classified documents from the Trump presidency in hopes that the FBI will send someone to get them.

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    Re: Don't worry, President Biden is working on it 24/7/365 hope that makes you happy
    Posted on: 2022-08-16 13:20:03   By: Anonymous
     
    The then president trump cute a deal with the taliban . Cutting the Afghan government out of the process. It was a disaster . Most of the afghan military. Took off there military uniforms and walked away . We can thank President Biden for getting us the fu— out of Afghanistan .

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      No Subject
      Posted on: 2022-08-16 13:32:28   By: Anonymous
       
      Can someone give trumps lawyer rudy a ride down to Georgia . He said he was having a hard time making the proper arrangements . Maybe your lawyers are driving down . Would be a good idea to catch a ride . Wouldn’t want to be late for all the fun .

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        Re:
        Posted on: 2022-08-16 14:40:35   By: Anonymous
         
        Idiot . That . Types. . With a space after period. . And answer your question everything on here . What a dipchit .

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          Re:
          Posted on: 2022-08-16 15:43:54   By: Anonymous
           
          The biggest mistake in American History was Ole Joey winning…. Absolutely a embarrassment and *bleep* stains in history. What a laughing joke every minute. Joe falling off the bike with Biden. Embarrassing

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    Re: Don't worry, President Biden is working on it 24/7/365 hope that makes you happy...KABUL
    Posted on: 2022-08-16 15:49:18   By: Anonymous
     
    Maybe those Americans still in Afghanistan should have read the months of warnings the US Government gave to anyone traveling to Afghanistan. The risks were obvious.
    Griner brings THC into Russia.
    The risks are obvious.

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      Posted on: 2022-08-16 17:13:15   By: Anonymous
       
      Let’s trade trump for Brittney Griner .

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        Re:
        Posted on: 2022-08-16 17:24:44   By: Anonymous
         
        Trump totally fu— up Afghanistan . Trump totally fu— up the pandemic . Completely fu— up his presidency . One hundred eighty seven minutes . And 11,780 votes . Frankly, we did win !!! . Total bull sh— artist .

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