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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: SEPTEMBER THIRD

mark cuban poll backfiresTime for another current events roundup courtesy of Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, coming to you from an America where the unfit Kamala Harris presides over the Regime’s failures and attacks Gold Star Families for wanting President Trump to honor their late loved ones. (They blasted Kamala Harris for politicizing it.)

trump and jfkMORE FORMER DEMOCRATS URGE THE NATION TO VOTE FOR DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP TO “FINISH THE STORY” STARTED BY JOHN F. KENNEDY AND ROBERT F. KENNEDY SR. Featuring reminders of how Trump, JFK and RFK all fought America’s cesspool of a political establishment.

AN EXAMINATION OF THE WAY KAMALA HARRIS’ POLICIES HARM AMERICANS.

AND ANOTHER FORMER TRUMP-HATER ENDORSES HIM FOR 2024.

Stephen King privileged white one percenterSTEPHEN KING, LOOKING NOTHING AT ALL LIKE A CREEP WHO HANGS AROUND PLAYGROUNDS TO PREY ON CHILDREN, GOT DESTROYED ON SOCIAL MEDIA BY ELON MUSK.

COURAGEOUS VOTER OF COLOR POINTS OUT THAT DEMOCRATS CAN’T RUN ON THEIR FAILED POLICIES, SO THEY RUN ON TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. Very perceptive and very, very accurate.

TIM WALZ’S OWN BROTHER SUPPORTS TRUMP AND TRASHES TIM. It’s like how Obama’s brother endorsed Trump. 

more trump endorsementsEVEN MORE LATINO VOTERS AND VOTERS OF COLOR ENDORSE TRUMP, CALLING HIM “BEST PRESIDENT THE WORLD HAS SEEN.” 

DEMOCRAT HAMAS SUPPORTERS SET OFF SMOKE BOMBS IN NEW YORK.

MSNBC SAYS “VOTERS DON’T CARE ABOUT HARRIS DOING INTERVIEWS.” Well, then, they don’t care about the outdated, pointless practice of presidential debates, either.  Continue reading

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HAS TO BE SAID: SEPTEMBER 1st

Here’s the latest “Has to be Said” post from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.

HERE IN 2024 DEMOCRATS HAVE PROVEN THAT AS FOOLISH AS THE SENTIMENT “MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG” MAY BE, THE SENTIMENT “OUR POLITICAL PARTY, RIGHT OR WRONG” IS FAR MORE FOOLISH AND DESTRUCTIVE. Democrats have no individual opinions. They are so insecure and so incapable of defending their opinions that they constantly take shelter in the Hivemind, parroting the talking points of The Party no matter how irrational or intolerant.

DEMOCRATS WANT A COUNTRY IN WHICH ONLY THEIR OPINIONS ARE LEGAL. The fascists called American Democrats conjure up reasons why EVERY opinion they spout must never be challenged or else it’s Hate Speech. Weaselly Democrats will pretend to find that remark unfounded, but it’s not.

           Go ahead, Democrats. Tell me one or two opinions of yours that you will NOT dogmatically and intolerantly consider above any counter-arguments or rebuttal.

          Transing children?  Nope. Democrat fascists insist that disagreeing is “transphobic” and arguing against it is “hatred.” The ridiculous Democrat claim that people who aren’t white aren’t capable of racism? Nope. Democrat fascists insist that disagreeing with such nonsense is “racist”. The Democrat belief that if a man pretends he is a woman then anyone who points out that having a penis and/or XY chromosomes proves that false should be censored, censured and, increasingly, have the authorities sicced on them. Nope. Democrats want all dissent erased.

           I could go on and on with this list of absurd Democrat statements that, if challenged, they want the challenger censored, fired and sometimes driven out of entire professions. But go ahead, Democrat fascists, provide one of your opinions that you will tolerate disagreement with and not try to deplatform – or worse – people who disagree. Democrats mistake successfully censoring someone with “being in the right.” Continue reading

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AUGUST 29th ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Here’s another current events roundup courtesy of Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, coming to you from an America where I’ve won my bets with people in 2021 that 2024 would have Kamala Harris instead of the clearly unfit and corrupt Joe Biden on the ticket.

COURAGEOUS BYRON DONALDS POINTS OUT “DEMOCRATS RULED TWELVE OF THE LAST SIXTEEN YEARS, BUT WE ONLY DID WELL UNDER TRUMP. “The ONLY TIME when we were truly prosperous was under Trump.
The ONLY TIME when we had real peace & no new wars was under Trump.
Democrats have crushed hardworking Americans.”

KAMALA HARRIS IS SO WEAK AND INEPT THAT HER FIRST INTERVIEW WILL LET HER HAVE TIM WALZ SIT WITH HER FOR MORAL SUPPORT AND WILL BE PRE-TAPED TO ALLOW THE NETWORK TO EDIT OUT HER BABBLING AND INAPPROPRIATE LAUGHTER. More HERE. Bad enough that this is only her first interview since Trump knocked Biden out of the race, but SHE NEEDS HELP JUST TO SIT THROUGH AN INTERVIEW. No other candidate for president has ever needed to be so coddled just for an interview. How moronic IS Kamala?

KAMALA HARRIS USING TAXPAYER MONEY TO REPLACE THE ZUCKERBUCKS VOTE SCAM FROM THE FOREVER TAINTED 2020 ELECTION. Obscene.

WRITER FOR THE DEMOCRAT OUTLET THE ATLANTIC CUTS TIES WITH KAMALA HARRIS AFTER EXPOSING LIES.

joe biden and harrisDEMOCRAT JUDY WOODRUFF CONFESSES THAT HER STORY CLAIMING COLLUSION BETWEEN PRESIDENT TRUMP AND ISRAEL’S NETANYAHU WAS GROTESQUELY WRONG AND BASED ON NOTHING. Woodruff’s outlet NPR is, needless to say, Democrat-run on taxpayer money.

FAMILIES OF SERVICE MEMBERS WHO DIED IN KAMALA HARRIS’ DISASTROUS AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL DEFEND PRESIDENT TRUMP BECAUSE THEY GAVE HIM THE OKAY FOR THE PHOTO CEREMONY AT ARLINGTON CEMETERY. The corporate media lied about it, to nobody’s surprise. Trump responds to those lies HERE.

KAMALA HARRIS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MOST UNAFFORDABLE HOUSING MARKET IN HISTORY. Kamalaflation ravages the working class and the poor in so many ways.

adrianne curryADRIANNE CURRY BRAVELY SMACKS DOWN BILLIONAIRE MARK CUBAN FOR FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE THAT KAMALA HARRIS’ ONLY POPULAR “POLICIES” ARE TRUMP’S POLICIES.

MARK ZUCKERBERG ADMITS THAT THE ANTI-TRUMP FBI CAUSED HIM TO REMOVE REPORTS ABOUT THE BIDEN SCANDALS REVEALED BY HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP. 2020 election interference to say the least.

rfk jr at micCOMPLETE TRANSCRIPT OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR’s ENDORSEMENT OF TRUMP AND TAKEDOWN OF AMERICA’S CESSPOOL OF CORRUPTION THAT MASQUERADES AS A POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT.

SUPREME COURT AGAIN RULES THAT THE HARRIS-BIDEN REGIME’S FORGIVENESS OF STUDENT DEBT FOR SELECTED DEMOCRATS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. But they keep doing it anyway. Impeachments have been launched over far less.

TULSI GABBARD AND RFK ON THE TRUMP TRAIN. Continue reading

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HAS TO BE SAID: AUGUST 27th

I have a lot of new readers, so this blog post will be clarifying some of my long-held opinions for newcomers who aren’t yet used to the fact that I’m an Independent Voter and therefore neither a Democrat nor a Republican.

democrats oppressing people while*** FIRST, A COMMENT REGARDING THE WAY DEMOCRAT CONVENTIONS AND DEMOCRAT CONFERENCES OF ALL KINDS SO OFTEN START BY STATING THEIR EVENT IS BEING HELD ON “STOLEN” LAND. Hey, that also means that all of the Democrats’ mansions and multiple homes are ALSO on “stolen” land. I call for Democrats to take the initiative and give up all of those extra homes to set an example for the rest of us. As a minimum, before ANY MORE finger-wagging lectures from privileged one-percenter entertainers or athletes I want an admission from them that their many properties stand on stolen land.

           And since Democrats hate national borders and call them artificial, arbitrary lines, let’s call for treating their property lines as artificial, arbitrary lines and settle many of their beloved illegal immigrants on their properties. 

buster and charlie*** NEXT, A RELEVANT ANECDOTE REGARDING AN EXCHANGE BETWEEN CHARLIE CHAPLIN AND BUSTER KEATON, BOTH OF WHOM I’M A FAN OF. Chaplin was proclaiming “What I want is that every child should have enough to eat, shoes on his feet and a roof over his head.” Keaton’s reply was “But Charlie, do you know anyone who doesn’t want that?”

           That possibly apocryphal exchange embodies the current state of political discourse, with Chaplin’s virtue signaling statement perfectly reflecting the perpetual children who call themselves Democrats. Keaton’s reply perfectly reflects all of us NON-Democrats, who grew up at some point and accepted the fact that people who disagree with us are not automatically immoral and selfish.

           Democrats in 2024 really seem to have deluded themselves into thinking that if adults disagree with them regarding how to approach the world’s problems it means those adults DON’T want good things for children or anyone else. They’re such tiresome drama queens.  

freedom of expression is a human right*** I USED TO BE A DEMOCRAT YEARS AGO. That was when the Democrats believed in freedom of expression and other long-held Civil Liberty principles that they have completely abandoned after becoming the Political Correctness Police in the 1990s and evolving into the intolerant Woke Fascists that they are today.

           I frequently mention that I used to be a Democrat because here in the U.S. it has come to be a quick way to clarify your stands. There are now so many of us former Democrats who went Independent that it lets people know a lot about you in the least amount of words. At least here in the U.S. it does. Overseas readers have expressed confusion about why I mention it so much, so this is to clarify things for those readers.  Continue reading

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SAMSON IN SILENT FILMS

Previously Balladeer’s Blog looked at variations of the Samson saga, including Islamic versions and other non-Biblical accounts. This time around I’ll examine silent movies about the long-haired strongman. 

samson and delilah doreSAMSON AND DELILAH (1902) – This 6-minute short was directed by Ferdinand Zecca, Walter Pathe’s right-hand man. This film has survived and is an interesting historical piece. It’s the earliest surviving silent movie about Samson, the iconic Zecca’s first Samson film, plus Samson and Delilah is one of the silent era shorts that were tinted by hand – frame by frame. 

Unfortunately, the production also suffers some of the worst shortcomings from that time period when silent flicks were still groping their way forward. We get painted backdrops, an unmoving camera, very limited credits, hilariously cheap props and insane levels of overacting.

samson and delilahThis 1902 effort opens with Samson’s “labor” of tearing off the gate of Gaza, then just dumping it rather than carrying it away. We get other standard bits from the tale of this Biblical Judge including, of course, the seductive Philistine woman Delilah learning that the secret of Samson’s strength lies in his uncut hair. 

She cuts his hair to rob him of his strength, then turns him over for captivity and enslavement turning a corn mill. Zecca skips having Samson blinded in this version, and in lieu of the traditional taunting by his captors in the temple of Dagon, our hero is titillated by dancing girls just out of reach.

With his strength returning, Samson tears down the structure, crushing himself and the dancing girls. His spirit is then escorted up to Heaven by angels. Zecca would revisit this subject matter in 1908. Continue reading

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SEPTEMBER 2022: A LOOK BACK

FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.

democrat rat symbolDEMOCRAT POLITICIAN IN PENNSYLVANIA SENTENCED TO THIRTY MONTHS IN PRISON FOR ELECTION FRAUD. There have been countless stories like this over the past several years but the Democrats’ media outlets still love to pretend that vote fraud doesn’t happen.

ANOTHER LOOK AT THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL ATTACKS THAT DEMOCRATS MADE AGAINST THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. Donald Trump, a de facto Third Party President, was the best president for the working class and the poor of all colors during my lifetime. 

when democrats sayWISCONSIN, ONE OF THE STATES AFFECTED BY THE 2020 ELECTION CORRUPTION, TAKES ANOTHER STEP FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY.

ARE TRUMP-HATERS INSANE OR ONLY PRETENDING TO BE? And since 2022 they’ve gotten worse and worse and more unstable by the week.

sasha stoneAND ANOTHER FORMER DEMOCRAT JOINS THE REST OF US IN OUR DISGUST WITH THE PARTY.

POLL: SIXTY-EIGHT PERCENT SAY THE COUNTRY WAS SAFER WITH DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IN OFFICE.

DEMOCRATS IN NEW YORK CALLED OUT FOR PREFILLED ABSENTEE BALLOTS. The latest Democrat innovation to their favorite activity – vote fraud. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: AUGUST 23rd

DEMOCRATS SADDENED OVER THE FAILURE OF ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE POPULIST HERO DONALD TRUMP. Meanwhile, here’s another current events roundup from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog

***** NEW! FELLOW BLOGGER HAS BREAKING NEWS ON HAMAS SUPPORTERS’ LATEST CLASH WITH POLICE AND IMPORTANT REMINDERS ABOUT PALESTINIAN HISTORY IN OTHER COUNTRIES.

andy beshearDEMOCRAT ANDY BESHEAR CALLING FOR THE RAPE OF FEMALE MEMBERS OF J.D. VANCE’S FAMILY. Democrats frequently take time out from telling each other how wonderful they consider themselves to be to show the public their true nature.  

GROOMER AT THE DNC. Democrats, can you please leave children alone? 

cackling kamalaKAMALA VOWS TO RAISE TAXES AND UNDO TRUMP’S TAX CUTS. And as a non-millionaire myself, I will point out once again that it is a lie to claim that Trump’s tax cuts only benefitted the wealthy. Unlike the repulsive George W. Bush’s tax cuts, Trump’s tax cuts also helped the working class.

REAL UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES EXPOSED. The Harris-Biden Regime caught in more deception. THIRTY PERCENT LEEWAY allowed for errors. Can you imagine if Trump tried pulling that? Democrats are such hypocrites. 

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT GETS FEDERAL FUNDS TO SCAVENGE BLACK WOMAN’S SMALL BUSINESS DREAM. “Black Business woman has a message for Kamala Harris. She sobs after having to sell her food truck which was bought by an illegal immigrant who got free money from the Harris/Biden Administration.” The Democrats still feel “Illegal immigrants uber alles.” 

babylon beeTHE BEE HILARIOUSLY SATIRIZES THE DEMOCRATS FOR CLAIMING THAT PHOTO I.D. FOR VOTING IS “VOTER SUPPRESSION” AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE, YET IF THEY WANTED TO GET INTO THE DEMOCRAT CONVENTION THOSE SAME BLACK PEOPLE NEEDED PHOTO I.D. So Democrats. Were you “suppressing” black attendance at your convention? 

ANOTHER FORMER DEMOCRAT ON WHY HE IS VOTING FOR TRUMP. Powerful video. Continue reading

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AUGUST TWENTIETH ROUNDUP OF NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS

Some current events from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, here in an America where the execrable John Sununu and Lindsey Graham, two politicians who made the Republican Party so despised even by their own voters, still dare to attack populist President Donald Trump. With corrupt garbage like Sununu and Graham attacking him, you know Trump continues to rock the white-collar criminal boat of such trash.

           Sununu and Graham apparently forget that Republicans like their repulsive buddies George W. Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Dick Cheney, Paul Ryan and others were all hated and compared to Hitler LONG before Trump came along. Never-Trumpers need to stop acting like Republican candidates were considered soft, warm and cuddly until recently. Filth like Graham and Sununu are among the reasons why they weren’t.   

CONGRESSIONAL REPORT RELEASED OF JOE BIDEN’S IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES AND HIS CRIME FAMILY’S MULTIPLE RACKETS. Much more HERE. More HERE. Report points out Biden “defrauded the country to enrich himself and his family.” To say the least.

HEAD OF GLOBAL FIRM CALLS OUT KAMALA HARRIS AS AN “ECONOMIC ILLITERATE” AND MORE.

BIDEN’S FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF CALLS KAMALA A FAILURE AS VICE PRESIDENT

VIDEO: TRUMP PLAYS A SUPERCUT OF KAMALA HARRIS’ INANE GIBBERISH.

marie alvarado-gilDEMOCRAT STATE SENATOR MARIE ALVARADO-GIL COURAGEOUSLY LEAVES THE INTOLERANT AND CORRUPT DEMOCRAT PARTY TO BECOME A REPUBLICAN. I’m an Independent Voter myself, but I too left the Democrats in disgust over their increasingly unhinged nature.

           As this California State Senator said “In the past two years that I’ve been working in the Senate, I have not recognized the party that I belong to. The Democratic Party is not the party that I signed up for decades ago.” Many of us former Democrats can relate to that sentiment.

WHITE DEMOCRATS ATTACK BRAVE WOMAN OF COLOR FOR SUPPORTING PRESIDENT TRUMP.

COURAGEOUS VOTERS OF COLOR BLAST PRIVILEGED ONE PERCENTER CELEBRITIES WHO SHILL FOR KAMALA. More HERE.

NBA STAR KWAME BROWN JOINS THEM, SAYING “KAMALA’s SKIN COLOR AIN’T GONNA PAY FOR OUR GROCERIES”. Continue reading

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AUGUST 2022: LOOKING BACK

FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE. August of 2022 was the month of the anniversary of the Biden-Harris disaster in Afghanistan and their attempt to distract from it with the obscene raid on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. 

YALE PROFESSOR BIZARRELY BOASTS ABOUT HELPING CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS THREE YEARS OF AGE BEGIN “TRANSITIONING” THEIR GENDER – More HERE. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

BIDEN-HARRIS REGIME EMPOWERS TEACHERS TO OVERRULE PARENTS REGARDING THEIR CHILDREN TRYING TO CHANGE THEIR SEX. And as we’ve seen since 2022, Kamala Harris is even more fanatical about pushing trans treatments than Biden was. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

OVER FOURTEEN FBI WHISTLEBLOWERS HAVE COME FORWARD TO CONGRESS ABOUT THE FBI’s FASCISTIC RAID ON MAR-A-LAGO. More HERE.

REVEALED: THE SAME FBI UNIT THAT PUSHED THE DISPROVEN RUSSIAN COLLUSION NONSENSE WAS BEHIND THE RAID ON MAR-A-LAGO. Not even the repulsive J. Edgar Hoover ran such a corrupt and politicized FBI.

JOE BIDEN-KAMALA HARRIS ATROCITY ROUNDUP: AUGUST 29th.

FACULTY LOUNGE FASCIST ROUNDUP: AUGUST 31st.

DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP LEADS THE WAY IN DEFEATING CORRUPT CAREER POLITICIAN FAMILIES LIKE THE BUSHES, CHENEYS, CLINTONS AND MCCAINS. He’s the only true reform candidate with a proven track record against America’s white-collar criminals in office.

NEVER FORGET THE BIDEN-HARRIS AFGHANISTAN DEBACLE. Kamala brags that she was “the last one in the room with” Biden as the decisions were made.

BIDEN GETS DESERVEDLY SLAMMED BY SURVIVORS OF THE DEAD IN AFGHANISTAN AND BY OTHERS.

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR TIM WALZ CALLED OUT FOR HIS FAILURES DURING HIS POLITICAL PARTY’S RIOTS IN 2020. Hey, whatever became of that Tim Walz guy … oh, yeah. Continue reading

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NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOONS ROUNDUP: AUGUST SIXTEENTH

media outlet bias 2More current events from Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog, here in an America where the Kamala Harris Regime is forcing American Veterans to repay some disability payouts while letting illegal immigrants stay at posh hotels and get pre-paid debit cards paid for by taxpayers.  

kamala or trained sealATTEMPTS TO STOP DEMOCRATS FROM LETTING NON-CITIZENS VOTE IN THE ELECTION ARE FAILING. One side wants it more. But it IS amazing that even Europe, which Democrats so often point to as politically wonderful, requires Voter I.D. for their elections. 

ANOTHER ONE OF KAMALA’S ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT GANG LEADERS IN UPSTATE NEW YORK ARRESTED OVER TWENTY-THREE MURDERS.

NEW JERSEY SOCCER COACH INDICTED FOR SEXTING AND MOLESTING PLAYERS AS YOUNG AS ELEVEN YEARS OLD. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?

bloody hands of joe bidenTHE TALIBAN CELEBRATES THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIDEN-HARRIS REGIME’S DISASTROUS WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN BY PARADING THE MILITARY HARDWARE THAT BIDEN AND HARRIS LEFT FOR THEM. More HERE.

THE TALIBAN HAS MADE LIFE HELL FOR WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN. And gutless, privileged white Democrat poseurs in Handmaid’s Tale costumes are silent about it.

CHICAGO BUSINESSES BOARD UP THEIR WINDOWS OVER FEAR OF WHAT THE DEMOCRAT MOBS WILL DO DURING THEIR CONVENTION NEXT WEEK. Democrats combine the worst of Fascism and organized crime. Let’s hope that “mostly peaceful” fires and murders are kept to a minimum.

ben carsonDR. BEN CARSON: DEMOCRATS OWN THE HOUSING CRISIS CAUSED BY THEIR FLOOD OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

THE DEMOCRATS AT NPR PROVE ONCE AGAIN THAT PEOPLE WHO PRETEND TO BE “FACT CHECKING” ARE REALLY JUST EXPRESSING THEIR OWN OPINIONS ABOUT WHY THEY THINK A STATEMENT IS “UNTRUE”. They pretended to find 162 such statements in one recent opposition leader interview. Uh. Yeah. Right. And the Trump campaign could, I’m sure, find even MORE “untrue” statements in Kamala Harris speeches (she still refuses to DO interviews).

           Apparently, NPR Democrats would consider debates on any given subject “battles of lies vs facts” because they pretend The Party’s talking points are “facts” and any deviation from Democrat talking points must be untrue. Grow up, Democrats. What you do is offer REBUTTALS, not “fact checks.”

           And for Sharyl Attkisson’s article exposing the biases and lies of “fact checkers” (LMAO) click HERE. Also – RELATED. Continue reading

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