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Polly Frost's avatar

The good news about the Democrats and their Neocon and intel gang is that they've all gotten really bad at destroying their enemies. They tried to destroy the Babylon Bee and only inspired them to more satire. They tried to destroy Huntington Beach - the CA city that my Dem friends insist is run by fascists but which is a model of resistance against our truly totalitarian governor - and Huntington is fighting back. They tried to assassinate Trump twice and failed. They tried to ruin RFK Jr with a sexting set-up affair and his supporters couldn't care less - in fact, I'm willing to bet a number of Kamala supporters are thinking “at least he can write a coherent sext.” So for those of you who are worried they will find a way to cheat back into the White House and destroy America - I think they've proven that they're not up to pulling off destroying anyone anymore. Time to fight back. You have nothing to lose but a handful of calories against these morons.

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Thomas John's avatar

Hi Polly. I don't usually agree with a lot you post - but I'm glad you didn't leave!

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Polly Frost's avatar

My husband said I am a wimp if I leave. Plus I always enjoy disagreeing with you Mr. Thomas John.

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DLDawson's avatar

Great to see you Polly…remember, never ever give up…we are winning!

https://www.facebook.com/officialteamtrump/posts/700665654158070/

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Polly Frost's avatar

Thank you! Love those women on that FB page you linked to.

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DLDawson's avatar

W…Patriots are easy to love…

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Bill Russell's avatar

What's it cost to start a minimal conservative newspaper? A free newspaper supported by advertisers. Words are good fighters. I like the idea; it will drive the city and county nuts.

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Polly Frost's avatar

I like the idea, too, even though I'm not a conservative. And I get ragged on here as much by conservatives as by TDSers. The conservatives tell me I'm immoral. The TDSers tell me I read too much fake news. But I still think we need that conservative voice heard here in the local media for the sanity and well being of our community.

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Bill Russell's avatar

What's the term for middle of the road? An Independent or Centrist?

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Polly Frost's avatar

I find most of the comments here really interesting even when I don't agree with them because they aren't just coming out of a playbook.

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Bill Russell's avatar

I like the different views, too. I'll even patiently listened to liberals talk without screaming my head off. It's good to know how brainless some people can be!

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Polly Frost's avatar

I don't think of my self in label terms, just know what I believe in, which hasn't changed, but which at one time made me an anti-war, anti-censorship eco hippie, but now makes me a right winger. What about you?

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Bill Russell's avatar

Agree, I believe people consider themselves a little of everything each party might lean towards. However, the whimsical spending of taxpayer's money is horrible, IMO. It's the same as stealing when a politician spends money on their own personal leanings. City and county politicians should stick with maintenance and that's all.

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Paul Aijian MD's avatar

“Optical rectosis” nicely sums up not just Janet Jackson, but the entire misguided group of Americans who support Kamala, Nancy, Cuomo, etc. great article! I enjoy the mixture of news, sarcasm, wit, and art.

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Howard Walther's avatar

I read this article by former "Intelligence Person" Robert Eringer titled

"Your Government at Work! Newsom's a Jerk! Pelosi's Delusion! The Kamel's Confusion!"

with a real title of "Your US Government Close-to-War III and who is Exactly in Control?"

and I quote from same "The Kackling Kamel on Oprah Windbag...."

“Let’s come together with the character that we are so proud of about who we are. We believe in what is possible, we believe in what can be, and we believe in fighting for that… freedom to just be.”

Currently over 350,000 Ukraine Soldiers have been killed, probably more, on the Battlefields against

Russia who has also lost over 250,000, a conservative number. At least 1.0 million casualties have

have occurred, a horrendous number, destroying Ukraine while we as Americans sit back and make jokes about our political process that may drag us all into another major War that is WWIII.

The flippant style of Mr. Eringer's Article does not help matters. We need real leaders to emerge

that are currently on short supply here in Santa Barbara, in California and in Washington.

The "Collective West" has once again underestimated Russia like Germany did back in WWII.

Russia lost over 25 million, men, women and children defeating the NAZIS in WWII.

Russian Women fought against Germany and were well-known warriors, think DEI-RUSSIA>>>>

https://www.military.com/video/specialties-and-personnel/snipers/wwii-russian-female-snipers/663088355001

Carefully look at Russia's May-Day-Remembrance of their defeat of Germany and the NAZIS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JhHEuqEIJE&t=3440s&ab_channel=AssociatedPress

Better not Wish for War with Russia .......................

Howard Walther, member of a Military Family

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Michael Self's avatar

Mockery and satire are useful in illustrating the weaknesses of political opponents. Part of the ten rules for radicals by Saul Alinsky.

That’s why Newsom is trying to make it illegal.

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Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg's avatar

Great article Mr. Eringer! The Kackling Kamel is the ultimate brainwashing beta test! She is not just an idiot, but a well-trained idiot, and as a DEI hire, she presented so poorly in the primaries in 2019 but still came up as VP-- as VP she was derided even by the mainstream media who absolutely flipped the script a month ago and she went from zero to hero in no time flat- those who have changed their minds about Kamel are pawns in media control, those who still know what a reprobate and shallow soul she is are less brainwashed.

But what a line "Chuckle, oink, barf. Who could possibly want four years of this senseless babble?"

Who indeed, not to mention the reckless expansion of socialism (in reality neo-Marxism).

All other commentary equally poignant- I mean really, who cares is Kamel is "black?" Oh ya, BLM, and all the other race baiting, anti-racist racists.

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J. Livingston's avatar

Harris, like all California Democrats politicians, is a creation of SEIU and the teachers unions.

That is why she can claim….her values have not changed. Her one over-riding common denominator is grow Big government, hire more government employees, and side with the government employee unions against the tax payers.

Try this formula out. It will be stunning when undecided voters finally get it. Her theater of the absurd will finally make sense.

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Earl Brown's avatar

Everybody keeps grinding on these people, but the problem is the stupid voters who keep putting them back in office! The country and the world is falling apart and the Commie Dems keep voting for the likes of Bunker Biden, Traitor Obama, and the most dangerous moron of all, Comrade Kamala. If that bitch gets in, World War 3 - here we come!

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Polly Frost's avatar

Earl, it's hard to talk sense to dead voters.

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J. Livingston's avatar

Yawn, here I go again.

99% of the 23 million government employees, that we are funding with our tax dollars, love nothing more than any Democrats winning any office. Their history of political donations and GOTV support does not lie.

May we please stop pretending we don’t understand where Democrats support and prodigious fund raising comes from? Because that money starts out coming from our own back pockets, every April 15.

We are forced to fund our own political destruction in our fatally politicized government workforce today, that touches every aspect of our daily lives from health care, schools and running the forced TSA gauntlet when we try to travel and get away from the long arm of Big Government.

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Emmett's avatar

I have to disagree with your statement, “ What matters when it comes to supporting a political candidate (male or female) is character, intelligence, conviction, the willingness to honestly express an agenda, and the fortitude to follow it through if elected.”

Have you looked at Laura Capps, Randy Rowse and the others running this City & County into Bankruptcy and the ground?

Each of the m have been in local office for over a decade with zero to show for it. Yet they keep getting into office and locals still defend them. Take Mayor Rowse after over 10 years at the City. I have challenged his supporters to tell me what he has done. Not one person has provided an answer. The really left children tell me to look it up myself. Because they know they cannot support any positives to our City.

Have conversations with people and you will find that they do not know anything about what is going on in public office, the state, the country or the world.

I just returned from New York. The people there are more open to conversation than those here in CA & SB.

Do not give up. Ask your friends, family, coworkers why they support candidates who choose abortion, why do they support candidates who believe in paying for illegal aliens to come here, ask them why they support candidates who allow our infrastructure to degrade, why do they support people who push elected everything despite our power grid not being able to support the current electrical demands. Why do they support the climate change initiative knowing that an EV takes 90,000 miles to break even on the carbon footprint of a gas car.

You will find they are ignorant, they have no answers.

It’s like the days of slavery when the authorities chose to not educate the indentured servants. With knowledge they will learn they’ve been lied to and will revolt against their masters.

Then ask yourself why over 60% of CA, SBUSD, kids cannot read and write at grade level or d math. And remember the Democrat Party is the party of slaves owners, the party of the KKK, the party that voted against every civil rights bill in history.

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J. Livingston's avatar

Randy Rowse is doing a great job. Voters refused to give him the necessary majority support on City council. So yet again, we get the government we deserve.

Randy is the only city council member voted at-large, so indeed he does have the support of the city at large. But the partisan tyranny inflicted by Democrat “election reform” which mandated district elections, has corrupted our local politics from within.

Divide and conquer politics has been now used successfully to destroy our small town. Only the government employee unions have been the real winners of “election reform”. The rest of us now are SOL.

See what you can do to roll back the past 20 years of “election reform”, starting with a return to at-large city elections.

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Monica Bond's avatar

Mr. Eringer: While I agreed with most of your morning's article I found your opinion piece on Israel way off base. To applaud and make light of such a terrorist attack (and yes, it was a terrorist attack) was incredible. Where was the military value in this? Didn't anybody involved with this operation consider the collateral consequences of innocent, non combatants? What a dangerous precedent Netanyaho has created. The Pandora's Box is now open to the whole world because of his actions. Israel has made no friends from this action and indeed the world, including a vast majority of his own people are abhorred by this. This new warfare with making it possible to blow up anybody's cell phone and perhaps computer will not end here. A question for you, Mr. Eringer. Do you think that this operation carried out by Israel has actually made the citizens of Israel safer?

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DLDawson's avatar

Good collection of near past happenings… 45 out of 50 US governors did not force C19 infected patients into nursing homes, but five of them did…it wasn’t only Cuomo that changed criteria in order to put C19 patients into elderly care facilities… also remember that Gavin Newsom of California did, Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania did, Phil Murphy of New Jersey did, and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan did.

Q is why? https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1274829394981388296

How is it possible select [D] governors thought it was 'safe' to push COVID-19 positive elderly patients back into nursing homes [hot zones]?

https://medicine.yale.edu/news/medicineatyale/why-flu-is-deadly-among-the-elderly/

"Each year, 90 percent of deaths worldwide related to influenza-A virus (IAV) strike men and women aged 65 and older."

If the flu [influenza] is more deadly among the elderly [known] HOW IS IT POSSIBLE SELECT [D] GOVERNORS THOUGHT IT WAS 'SAFE' TO PUSH COVID-19 POSITIVE ELDERLY PATIENTS BACK INTO NURSING HOMES [HOT ZONES]?

WHY WOULD THIS BE DIRECTED IF HOSPITALS [+US NAVY MEDICAL SHIPS [NYC-CA] +ERECTED CARE FACILITIES] HAD MORE THAN 70% CAPACITY?

https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/third-degree-murder-overview.html

Someone can be accused of third-degree murder if they unintentionally cause someone else's death while committing a dangerous act. Negligent? Reckless? Who benefited the most? Why only [D] governors? How do you reasonably explain what occurred? These people were part of a system of Cabal power players directed to kill Americans. They are all compromised & working for our enemies. Treason & murder seem to fit their crimes.

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J. Livingston's avatar

Did Jill Biden ever thank her immediate predecessor Melania Trump for the refurbishment of the entire WH Rose Garden, bringing it back to Jackie Kennedy’s original design? So Jill Biden could now play in it, and use it for a backdrop for her own official family photos?

I personally never got over the viscous partisan attack against Mrs Trump for this benign project carried out by the National Parks Service, including snide comments uttered by our own SB city Rose Garden employees. Deep state TDS bile exists on a granular level among those in our little town, whom we are forced to support with our tax dollars.

We must return political neutrality to our government workforce at every level. Or use violations as grounds for immediate dismissal.

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Polly Frost's avatar

Completely agree about the need for neutrality. I didn't know about the snide remarks by our Rose Garden employees. Melania continues to be a class act.

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J. Livingston's avatar

I was a city Rose Garden volunteer. I heard it directly.

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Polly Frost's avatar

Ugh. You're always very tactful here, how'd you handle it?

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J. Livingston's avatar

I countered with facts and told her to look this up herself. But left disgusted with this endemic TDS perversion expressed so readily by our tax dollar supported government employees. It was an exchange, not a confrontation. But it was an opportunity to quietly and firmly present facts in the face of one more instantly negative TDS fantasy.

I got the impression she knew she was dealing with a MAGA crazy, so she too quickly took leave. It was just a very small Santa Barbara exchange, not unlike those any conservative is forced to also have anywhere in this mono-culture town if we ever dare to become “tall corn” by speaking our truths.

But it was also fodder to keep turning down city tax increase demands. We need a lot more neutral public customer service from our government employees in exchange for any further monetary rewards.

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Polly Frost's avatar

Brava! I completely agree.

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Julia Gonzales's avatar

Mr. Eringer, as usual, your comments are way too long on a variety of subjects, and as I stated before, when someone starts reading your article by the time you get to the end, they’ve forgotten what was in the beginning. So I just picked one thing to comment on, and that is your comment on the “Artless Dodger”. Why comment on her when you can comment on the true, one and only “Artful

Dodger”? He’s been doing it all his life. When asked a specific question about policy or some other important issue his answers are always the same election rhetoric, brags about ending Roe and women’s rights on reproductive health services, how the election was stolen, immigrants are eating cats and dogs, and wind turbines are killing the birds, how the crowds at his rallies and gatherings are the biggest, etc., then he starts in on his rants about nothing to do with anything. There is the real “ARTFUL DODGER”.

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