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«Last week, 43 monkeys at Alpha Genesis, a primate research center in Yemassee, South Carolina, made a run for it after an employee failed to latch the door following feeding time. «

Monkey on the lam! I miss the old Stephen Colbert.

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I enjoy observing the devout liberals of TFP as they wake from the brain fog, peeling away the dystopian layers of narrative as reality seeps into their consciousness.

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Why are so many MAGA types trolling this website?

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Who would want to save the Democrat party in its present form? It isn't on our side- our side being America. The party has morphed into its fringe radicals. They're globalists. That's what the broken border was about. Come on in, what's ours is yours. It's everybody's. A piece in The Hill chastised Americans who want to restore our manufacturing base for being selfish, for not deferring to the third world.

Who cares if fanatics shave their heads or withhold sex? They're acting out for attention. Don't give it to them.

When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Democrats and their professoriate op-ed writers see the Constitution as a "problem." Free speech, individual rights, private property. Our government works with shadowy firms to censor differing opinions as disinformation. That's the antithesis of what this country once stood for. They're doing this incidentally to "save democracy," the classic totalitarian inversion.

The US army has something called the "DEI Directorate," which sounds like something in Springtime for Hitler. In their stealth campaign to overtake and socially engineer the suburbs, "special managers" -- how soviet- are empowered to force low-cost housing in mainly upscale neighborhoods (less expensive areas, which actually offer lower cost housing, are exempt) targeted by NGOs whose leader told the press that upscale suburbs need to be more "inclusive." Why does an NGO run the show? In the U.S., we never had unelected "special managers" to tell us where we could build housing, or who should live there. These suburbs are already inclusive; they include the people from all races and ethnicities who can afford them, who earned them. At the same time, Democrats push legislation that prohibits the disclosure of a prison record for renters. Other plans are re-zoning single family housing in the suburbs to multiple -housing lots, and houses built in backyards.

In Seattle, housing advocates, despite substantive increases in apartment complexes and four-story buildings all over the place, objected that some single family areas remained intact, in other words left alone. These people are targeting the very concept of the fundamental right to own your own house on your own lot. Private property.

Any Democratic Republic needs opposition parties to keep the others honest. Something broke in the United States and one party turned on the country itself- it's culture, it's from of government, it's history and it's economy. No country can survive that. In this election I believe more than anything else the voters the whites the Latinos the black men voted for nothing less than it survival. Unless that party reconstitutes I don't see a future that would benefit the United States. Maybe the surviving sane members will finally speak out and form their own party. Judging from their defense of the loss, which manages to put the party in a good light (we didn't do the proper media); they're all racist and misogynists; they were online instead of listening to us, the geniuses, instead of: we went insane) I don't see this happening. They're so clueless they think they can out of spit and wishes, create a Joe Rogan on their side. At the very least the party's remaining normal members, or member, branching off would deny the cover the party has provided to anti- Western, America- hating, racist radicals. Force the radicals to stand on their own for election, to properly identify themselves as either communists, globalists, or socialists.

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Really happy with Trumps choices so far with the exception of Tucker Carlson being in the "inner circle". He, much like Candace Owens, have gone over the top and IMHO crossed the line into antisemitism and anti-Israel rhetoric.

papa j

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The sad fate of Peanut and Fred swung the election! We could see our own fate under rule by busy bodies.

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I wish they’d take those monkeys straight to a rescue, not back to a lab.

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“Because, says Simmons, it would “disrupt all of Donald Trump’s paraphernalia,” meaning he’d have to replace all his now-worthless “47”-themed merch with new “48” merch.” Simmons doesn’t seem to know much about how scarcity works. A genuine 47 cap would instantly become a collector’s item.

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Columbia could lose “$3.5 billion a year”!

Cool!!!

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Less expensive to just divest, eh?

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Someone had better ask what happened to 10 million Democratic votes that defeated Trump last time around.

Rhetorical question? They either voted for Trump or stayed home. The what we know, the why we have to figure out.

Only so much anti -Trump will fly, the rest turns into a Chicken Little low grade rant ...unceasing, daily, boring.

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same for pro-Trump rhetoric; one just learns to tune out the drone or go mad.

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Overlords??? Weird. Knock it off.

Journalism demands descriptive language, not pejorative/fear inducing terms.

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Oh, the "Overlord" joke has been used in fun for years. A Free Press editor with TDS? Never. It's a joke. At the risk of dating myself, back in the Sixties, in homage to the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons, people used to humorously call their bosses, "Fearless Leader."

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The Oxford Dictionary of English defines "overlord" as "a ruler, especially a feudal lord".

Did peasants usually vote for their feudal lords?

One wonders what kind of country the leftists, such as Madeleine Kearns, think they're living in.

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I would like to see more mention of Trump's efforts to stifle the press. Remember he said that the free press was "the enemy of the people" and promised to "root out" the "vermin" who reported badly upon him. What progress has he made so far in achieving these campaign promises?

This is supposed to be a site dedicated to free speech, I am surprised you aren't covering these issues more.

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How about checking out his free speech statement before opening your mouth and embarrassing yourself

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You might at least wait until he's in office to start tracking progress against 'campaign promises'.

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Please, please drop the SNARK. At this point, your anti-Trump barbs make you look unserious and petty to many of your readers. Thanks

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As I remember, no problem with the substance; but, the snark is getting old.

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That’s funny - I just recently started reading it and overall it seems to me very pro-Trump. But perhaps those are the only voices who bother, I haven’t figured it out.

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Madeleine, your comments in your overview are a little to snarky... and not substantial or expected from the high quality of The Free Press... very disappointing.

One example is the last parenthesis..

Some of these figures will be official White House staffers, cabinet members, or diplomats. Others will simply have Trump’s ear. (An important role, given the last person he speaks to is the one most likely to change his mind.)

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Do they profess to be unbiased?

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Cognitive dissonance can make you very angry.

Particularly angry......if you realise (sub consciously at first) that you were wrong.

Trump and his team are going to leave a legacy - get tough on crime, immigration, government waste, get tough with Qatar and Iran and eliminate the mullahs, support free speech and so much more.

It will make you proud to be an American again.

A wise person is humble and can make a course correction.

I used to be a Democrat........

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Shouldn’t have to be a criminal (or a king) to get it done though. Why the American Revolution happened.

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I hope many see how the wool was pulled over their eyes with all the straight out lying they did.

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Who? Haha. Everyone’s pointing fingers at everyone else. What a colossal waste of time

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PLEASE FIX THIS HEADLINE.

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Overlords? Really? Do you feel oppressed? Personally I think you will find the new administration liberating.

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