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Nathan Post's avatar

Well said! Soros should be declared an enemy of the state. This guy is a psychopath.

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DLDawson's avatar

Agreed, how many 5+ countries has Soros been banned? what would be the penalty for stealing elections…there’s a SPECIAL PLACE picked out for GeorgeSoros, really special…

2024 Top 12 Global Super Villains:

- George Soros

- Bill Gates

- P Diddy

- Benjamin Netanyahu

- Larry Fink

- Justin Trudeau

- Keir Starmer

- Barack Obama

- Hilary Clinton

- Klaus Schwab

- Volodymyr Zelensky

- Anthony Fauci

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Earl Brown's avatar

Hey! I don't see Biden on that list!

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Robert Johnson's avatar

Nor was Putin. Hmmm.

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DLDawson's avatar

Haha, just too stupid to make the list, Obama pulled his strings…😎

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Bill Russell's avatar

Yes Andy, you have stated that Biden equates to blatantly visible EVIL of the first degree. I cannot recall in my lifetime an instance that comes close to the EVIL actions performed by a President of the United States ... this is definitely a first, and there's no doubt about it.

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Earl Brown's avatar

That Baffoon in not only evil, sneaky, and crooked, he's an idiot. I know people are stupid, but just _how_ in the world could the Commie-Dems believe Biden, Harris, Newsom, Bass etc. could help improve life in our beautiful America???

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Bill Russell's avatar

I think anyone would be lost for words to attempt to make any sense out of how the Dem voters don't see the ineptitude in the people running the Democrat governments. The Dem politicians are all about themselves, it seems so obvious to me and people like yourself.

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Robert's avatar

To both deny reality (i.e. to be delusional) and then be self-righteous in one’s denial is a toxic combination. We have far too many politicians who believe that reality does not constrain their beliefs and then are indigent when you point that out.

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LT's avatar
Jan 12Edited

Very complete summary Andy. Glad to see my hometown of San Antonio, TX is ahead of the curve in dealing with homelessness. Specifically, the Alamo city bans all camping in public spaces, punishable by fine and/or imprisonment. Notably, their homeless budget for 2025 is over $44 million, but when one looks at the cost of LA fires, this is probably a drop in the bucket. Why? Because the LA fires were most likely started by homeless campers.

As for California, it continues to be a basket case. We have an abundance of energy, but can’t get crude oil piped to refineries because of failed, green policies. Most notably, CEQA, the Costal Commission and then there’s the powerful green lobbying efforts of the Sierra Club, Surf Rider, Environmental Defense Council and others influencing and/or controlling our elected officials. That’s right, this horrible fire and ensuing disaster is squarely due to the environmentalists which control our state and local government. Further, dim witted politicians like Karen Bass find it more important to celebrate the inauguration of the President of Ghana then to manage the second largest city in the US. What does Ghana have to do with the Mayor’s role as leader of LA? Yes, apparently Bass is more than willing to celebrate her “Blackness” over doing her job.

As for our pathetic, current president, Joe Biden pinning medals on Soros, Clinton and others, it reminded me of Nazi officials receiving the Iron Cross. What an embarrassment and disgrace!

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J. Livingston's avatar

Who exactly is the Zero Tolerance crowd saving this planet for?

I personally am trying to save the future of GensXYZ lives, so they are not required to spend the rest of their lives paying off the massively unfunded baby boomer government pension promises incurred here and now.

Carbon dioxide levels matters less to me than the current over-drawn public credit cards, in the interests of their generational survival.

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LT's avatar

And yet, the “green movement” apparently is okay with MILLIONS of metric tons of burned waste rather than do the responsible thing in maintaining our forests!

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J. Livingston's avatar

Agree. New risk-benefit analyses are definitely in order, now that we have a few decades of comparison data. Whether there is merit to the underlying metrics or not, decisions made on even today's operating "climate" mythologies are still decisions that now impact us all. I fear crazy is getting built on top of crazy, so there must be a way or reigning this in, before it devours our lives completely.

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Bill Russell's avatar

Do taxpayers wish to send their mayor on trips to other countries? I don't think so.

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Geoff Riddle's avatar

Investigate how the name fossil fuels came about and why it's really a renewable resource.

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J. Livingston's avatar

Fossil fuels are used today in the spirit of recycle, reuse and repurpose. Thank those long past warming climate eras for their more intense vegetation, which left behind these transformative products which we now enjoy today.

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Earl Brown's avatar

JL! Don't you know we should all go back to candles for light and blankets for warmth? Just think how long the planet would last then ! :)

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Bill Russell's avatar

God gave us dinosaurs to be used as fuel later. And there's no dependency on wind, rain or the sun.

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J. Livingston's avatar

Explains why that giant meteor came down to suddenly end the Age of the Dinosaurs, because they were eating far too much of our future carbon-based fuels what we now get enjoy today. Thank our lucky stars, or whatever that was, that rained down from the heavens back then.

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Mike L's avatar

This post says it all!!!

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Thomas John's avatar

I guess the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award has a pretty low bar if Trump awarded it to Rush Limbaugh.

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J. Livingston's avatar

You guessed wrong, TJ. But you have a right to your opinion. As do we all.

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Robert Johnson's avatar

And lest we forget, Trump--the "convicted felon"--further cheapened the Presidential Medal of Freedom honor by awarding it to GOP benefactor Meriam Adelson, widow of the ($33.7 billion) tycoon casino owner Sheldon Adelson. I prognosticate that Elon can expect his sometime soon, perhaps Putin too.

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J. Livingston's avatar

Great quote from another website regarding the goal of this steady stream of TDS law fare: ......partisan prosecution tailored only to create a label........

Ding, ding, ding we have a winner here folks, RJ the first to use the newly minted label -- convicted felon. The duck will soon come down and give you your $100 dollars. But maybe we should all wait until the exhausted last appeal, so we can still be coloring within the lines of our current judicial system?

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Steve's avatar

Wrong again!

Rush was and is an American hero

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Thomas John's avatar

To you.

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Leonard Grabowski's avatar

Let's be fair I will not regurgitate the entire article but read " How Trump cheapened one of Americas highest honors the Medal of Freedom". January 16,2021 LA Times. The newspaper that endorsed no candidate for the presidency. Keep an open mind and only then talk about fairy tales.

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J. Livingston's avatar

LG: I could have sworn it was Bill Clinton who cheapened pardons for cronies first in our modern era. I fear we have not yet seen the last of Biden's malfeasance cover-up pardons within his own administration, with probably still more family members on the list as well. Good topic to re-visit in a few more days.

But it is a very clear constitutional prerogative. And as such, Monday morning quarterbacking will not change the perk but will stay as part of any President's full historical record forever to be judged either as clemency or as a cover-up quid pro quo.

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Peter Scott's avatar

LG, the link below is from the VFW regarding Trumps false equivalence of the Medal of Freedom with the Medal of Honor.

https://www.vfw.org/media-and-events/latest-releases/archives/2024/8/vfw-admonishes-former-president-for-medal-of-honor-remarks

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LT's avatar

You mean the broke, failing LA Times?

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Thomas John's avatar

Well, if you are suggesting content isn't relevant because the media platform isn't performing well financially - let's all quit posting X links here.

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J. Livingston's avatar

TJ, leaping into the void again, putting your words in other peoples mouths? You have lots to say on your own, so no need to "suggest" what others might have said. Most posters here are pretty clear and say what they mean.. No second guessing needed.

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DLDawson's avatar

Another Good Article Andy. lots of targets to express umbrage and frustrations in this whacky movie we live within…will be fun to watch the Senate confirmation hearing scheduled for the coming week, should open eyes & show the path forward…

’The Storm’ is brewing & Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming…Nothing

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Pat Fish's avatar

Returning to pencil and paper would necessitate the hand-eye-coordination for legible handwriting. How utterly impoverished our current students are that they cannot write a simple sentence that they or anyone else can read, and thus can also never draw or transmit in a sketch an original thought. A school system that does not teach basic fundamentals impoverishes the nation, denying progress.

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Pat Fish's avatar

Actually, what I see is that the handwriting of people filling out a release form at my studio is universally illegible. They behave as if the way they sign their signature, intentionally scribbled and "hard to copy", is appropriate for all penmanship. This is a crisis. On top of that most hold a pen in such a way as to have limited small motor control.

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Pat Fish's avatar

Of course, but I blame the teachers who did not teach proper attention to detail and process when these people were young. It is SO universal it is not just a few people being wilful, is a systemic failure.

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