And what's this crap about the driver having an 'air freshener' potentially blocking his view as the reason for stopping him? Not when the police report also stated that the window tint prevented them from seeing if there were other people in the car. First off, who cares if there were other people the car in the first place. And if the window tint was that dark, then how in the heck did they see the 'air freshener' hanging from the rear-view mirror? I can't help but think that this was just another case of profiling and the police were just flexing their muscles during the Derek Chauvin trial.

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A total and complete bust. One person showed-up in New York City outside of Trump Tower. He was outnumbered by about a dozen peaceful ANTIFA and BLM supporters on the other side of the street.

And they were claiming that the "whole world would tremble" at what they saw. All the world did was yawn:

'White Lives Matter' rallies flop as hardly anyone shows up

The poor turnout underscores how the country's unpopular and disorganized extremist movements have been driven underground.

The 'missing' tag was only a contributing factor. His real 'crime' was DWB (Driving While Black).

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Over the last seven days, New Mexico has had an infection rate of of 62.1 new cases per 100K population. Utah has had 86.7 cases were 100K population. For reference, California has had 44.3 new cases per 100K but Michigan is at 506.5, and for the country as a whole, that number is 135.8 cases per 100K population over the last seven days.

For the source of this data:

It's not just the Marine Corp:

Many long-term care staffers refused the vaccine. Now they have more infections than residents.

There goes their status as a no-income tax state. After all, when you cut off the state from the federal -----, how are they going to survive?

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Have been in SoCal since 1980 after moving from Michigan, except for 17 months back in 1986 when I was transferred back to Michigan for what was supposed to be a permanent move, but it didn't take, and I was transferred back in 1987 and have been here, in the same house, ever since. Yes, it is expensive, but there are a lot of things to make-up for that, the weather big a big factor. Our house is now worth over 4X times what we paid for it and I could have never earned as much as I did if I had stayed in Michigan.

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Trump pardoned Flynn for what he knew about what took place during the 2016 election with respect to collusion with Russia.

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McConnell's message to corporate America: Open your wallets but shut your mouth.

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Our youngest got married on 10.10.10.

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And it's not like Gaetz's Republicans colleagues were not aware of what he was into as he was very generous in allowing them to share vicariously in his sexual conquests:

Matt Gaetz Showed Nude Pics Of Sex Partners To Colleagues: Report

Multiple sources told CNN that the Florida congressman showed photos and videos of nude women he claimed he had slept with.

QAnon is full of some real nut jobs and they were NOT going to let that Suez Canal incident go by without stirring up a good conspiracy theory and this was a doozy.

Now it was never really made clear what the theory was actually built on except that there had to be a reason behind this obviously well-planned 'accident'. After all, it had a world wide impact. It involved something that very few people had any first hand knowledge of or experience with, always good when dreaming of good conspiracy theory. And last but not least, Hillary Clinton was involved. HUH!!!!

Well, after all, during her years as the First Lady, the Secret Service code name for Hillary was 'Evergreen'. It was written on the side of the ship in big bold letters. And if that wasn't enough, the ship's call-sign contains Hillary's initials, HRC, in that order. What more does a group of QAnon nutcases need to convince themselves that they're on to something? However, since the crisis is now over, and they didn't need to destroy the ship, and whatever secret cargo it might have been carrying, and nothing happened elsewhere in the world as a result of this six-day drama, it must have been a false alarm. But for many of the true believers, they really thought they had nailed it this time.

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And on Tuesday's Tucker Carlson program, after an interview that he had with Matt Gaetz, Carlson stated that that was "Weirdest Interview" he had ever conducted. For example, out of no where, and totally unprompted, Gaetz said that purportedly, there were photos of him (Gaetz) with child prostitutes circulating on the internet. When Carlson asked him about that, Gaetz stated that of course they were all fake, but you have to ask, why did he bring this up in the first place, perhaps to lesson the impact when they are actually released? And of course, during the interview, he tried to tie Joe Biden into all of this by claiming that someone tried to sell him a pardon by President Biden.

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It appears that this is becoming the default situation for Republican members of Congress. Case in point, from another item about Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) this was written:

Cawthorn, 25, is the youngest member of Congress, and is considered a rising star in the Republican Party. He has been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women.

I can't help but look at the ironic comments that Cawthorn was "considered a rising star in the Republican Party" as well as being "accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women". When it comes to Republicans, you often can't have one without the other.

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You just can't make this stuff up...

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Note that I've a friend in Florida and he said that just because DeSantis removed the mask mandate, most all businesses (with the possible exception of bars and clubs), such as grocery stores, drug stores, big box stores, etc, still requires all their employees, and any customer entering their place of business, to be wearing a face mask.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement Denies Asking Trump to Visit Border

This is truly good news...

My wife and I got our second Pfizer shots a month ago. Our middle son in LA gets his second shot on Wednesday, his wife got hers last week. Our oldest son, who lives in Texas, will get his second shot in a week or so. Two of his daughters, who are 18 and 20, have also signed-up now that Texas is opening-up the state to anyone 16 and older (his youngest daughter turns 16 in May so she's ready to sigh-up as well).

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YOU THINK...

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Only the best people...

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And Mitch McConnell claims that there are NO plans by any of the Republican-controlled states to suppress votes. That it's all misinformation being spread by Democrats. The states are merely increasing the sanctity of voting, to overcome the outrageous amount of voter fraud that occurred during the 2018 and the 2020 elections. They know that there was fraud because the way too many people voted than they had planned for, which to the GOP is a sign that they're not doing the right thing. Everyone knows that when too many people vote, Republican lose. Therefore, people need to accept the fact that this is unfair and therefore Republicans have a right to "level the playing field", that is go back to when it was easier to keep certain types of people from voting. The problem is that more and more White people seem to be voting Democratic as well, so they need to take even more steps to ensure that they are able to win elections, even if that means not allowing anyone to vote and just letting Republican-controlled state legislatures decide the outcome of elections.

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Still no report from fox but they have a story about kamala harris not returning soldier salutes when she boarded a plane.

#29 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce

Yea, and up until Ronald Reagan, most presidents, except perhaps those who had actually worn a uniform in defense of our nation, wouldn't have thought of saluting the honor guards, while boarding Air Force One or anywhere else for that matter, as there's NO official protocol covering this except for the fact that the President is their Commander-in-Chief. Which brings us to the Vice-President, when she's boarding Air Force Two. To start with, the Vice-President is not, contrary to what some might think, part of the military chain-of-command. She is NOT their Commander-in-Chief, not as long as she's the VP. Now it is true that Mike Pence always saluted the airmen at the bottom the steps of Air Force Two, but he's the first VP to ever do that. Not even Dick Cheney, who liked getting as much attention as possible, ever saluted, first because he never served in the military, and second, as the VP he knew that he wasn't the Airman's Commander-in-Chief.

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DC has more people than either Vermont or Wyoming, and they have almost as many people as North and South Dakota.

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Just another reason why we're seeing so much wealth disparity in America, to say nothing of the fact that these unpaid tax revenues are not being made available to support the general well being of all Americans. It's stuff like this which has led to the demand that the rich need to pay their fair share.

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Why should 700,000+ American citizens be without representation in Congress? After all, there are two states, each with a full voting Representative and TWO full voting Senators, who have less residents than does DC and no one is suggesting they should be able to get along without being represented in Congress.

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