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To navigate your ship from point A to point B, you need an up-to-date chart. Using an old chart makes it more likely you will run aground or worse.

Reading the comments here, I see a lot of people navigating not only with an old chart but also without a compass, depth finder and rudder.

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Trump's speech was great. Now, get the EO's signed, get the Department heads working and let's get rolling! We've got a country to get back on track.

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Let's just relax and refrain from legal festivities, which would be labeled "show trials" by the innoculated MSM.

As we , Central Europeans, said after 1989 "Good living is the best revenge."

If Trump and Co, delivers just half of their promises, that would suffice for several Nobels.

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Or as Karine Jean-Pierre would say, several Nobles.

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In case you missed it.

President Biden pardoned five members of his family in his last minutes in office, saying in a statement that he did so not because they did anything wrong but because he feared political attacks from incoming President Donald J. Trump.

Have you ever seen anything like this? FJB. The most corrupt leader in our nation's history.

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"Zug says it’s “difficult to think of a more effective demagogue than Donald Trump—if by ‘effective’ we simply mean someone who uses public speech to amass and maintain power. I can’t think of a single politician more adept at evading responsibility, undermining the credibility of his adversaries through ridicule (rather than through reasoned criticism), and recruiting followers into his own simplistic worldview of what America is and should be.”"

Isn't that how politics usually works, regardless of party affiliation? I think the standard is to evade responsibility, ridicule the opposition and simplify topics for the mostly ignorant masses. Come to think of it, the media seems to have adopted those same tactics...

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Is it true that the Palestinian prisoners who were released were provided with free pagers?

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Ethically questionable, legally, who knows? Personally, I find lots of potential positives in many his proposed domestic and int'l initiatives, but still see the huckster, wondering if that's just as much of a scam as Trump's latest business venture to line his pockets at the expense of his followers:

Trump-era monetization has begun (doubt appt'd regulators/SEC etc. will interfere): Trump’s new project is known as a meme coin, a highly volatile sort of token that crypto enthusiasts can buy and sell tied to an online trend or personality. In this case, it’s an image of Trump pumping his fist inspired by the assassination attempt in July. Dubbed $TRUMP, the incoming president fashioned the new offering as a way for his supporters to “celebrate everything we stand for.”But a digital firm affiliated with the Trump organization owns 80 percent of the supply, the project disclosed, and appears to collect a fee on sales. Trump has also promoted the project to his roughly 97 million followers on the social media site X, and on Sunday, he steered followers to a similar meme coin tied to incoming first lady Melania Trump.By Sunday evening, the total value of the $TRUMP project had reached more than $67 billion, according to CoinMarketCap, which tracks crypto prices and computed the figure by estimating the total market capitalization if every coin were in circulation.

Two of the president-elect’s sons, Eric and Donald Jr., described the project this weekend as the “hottest digital meme on earth,” and they promised the Trump family’s separate crypto project — a new token and platform called World Liberty Financial — would be the “future of finance.”

Additionally: Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun purchased $30 million in tokens from World Liberty Financial. Sun is under investigation by the SEC.

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Presidents may have immunity for their actions relating to their duties while president. Does that apply to a president that has provable mental decline? Does he even know what he did? The answer could be the same one with his LNG incident with the speaker. Joe was not mentally competent to issue any pardons. Or a lot of other actions. I hope someone explores this avenue. Successful or not, the pardoned may find being pardoned isn’t what it is cracked up to be. We might even find out who’s been running the government through Joe!

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The pardon for Fauci is especially egregious given his role in securing funding for the Wuhan lab to perform gain of function research, all to circumvent US prohibition on such research. The destruction that work wrought on the world is incalculable.

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Preemptive pardons is just a euphemism for "guilty as fuck and we all know it". So glad Biden and Cackles can now take their rightful places on the trash heap of failed, corrupt, politicians who don't even warrant a footnote in the annals of history.

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I forget who told the secret to Trump, I read it last night, probably some business leader: just calm down. Stop making ad hominem attacks, focus on the task at hand, if you want to run America like a businessman, just remember America is not a business (efficiency and professionalism do wonders to obviate corruption and wastes of time). Um, clearly the Free Press is obsessed with transgender issues (hence the cherry-picking of a case in which a prisoner clearly sued to do away with trans rights). I don’t understand the hysteria. They say men think of sex a few times a minute. The trans obsessed think about genitalia multiple times a minute. You do you, let the transgendered people do themselves.

Yeah, the Dems screwed the pooch against working class voters, probably starting with Clinton’s DLC agenda and deregulation of finance, but maybe Tip O’Neil’s chummy deals with Reagan (about when real wages started to stagnate). By the time Obama had to deal with the results of Summers, Clinton and Rubin, he doubled down and bailed out the banks––and offered them more than just TARP, but trillions in loan guarantees. He could have bailed out every underwater mortgage at that price. But he’s a Harvard man.

So here we are. Cause and effect.

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To all our former friends and relatives who dropped us for believing Trump was the better, more honest candidate — MAGA wins again! Choke on it!!

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Inaugural address: boys are boys, we have a border again, no vaccine, no problem, use our resources, we win you lose…. Sounds normal

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Today I read none of this. I’m going to celebrate this glorious day.

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Great interview with Ted Cruz. That man defines smart and eloquent.

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I’ve never been a Trump fan, but his EO restoring gender honesty and sanity is worth all the mean tweets and crude jokes he ever made.

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