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John Kirsch's avatar

The dream of every Democrat is to rule.

It doesn't matter if their city or state is in ruins.

What matters is that they rule it.

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Chris Bray's avatar

It's working.

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Dena's avatar

Ah yes, Murray- the tennis shoe wearing soccer mom still kicking 30 years later. What a moron. BTW - J. Inslee left WA state with a $14 billion parting gift deficit. No worries, our legislature will fix it with the largest tax increases in the history of the state.

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Bandit's avatar

Yes. They are hard core dick-taters. They ruin everything. They make everything hard on everyone, except their sycophants, and idiots that can't see, or refuse to see.

I despise them with all my being.

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K2's avatar

Agree 1000% even though “dick taters” produced spectacularly icky visuals..

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Bandit's avatar

😂🤣 Thank-you! I was trying to be funny, not visual. Sorry. Thanks for the laugh!

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CB's avatar

Isn't "dick tater" the equivalent of the "pear shaped penis" of Jeffrey Epstein?

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K2's avatar

I’ll have to sit down. 🫣

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Bandit's avatar

😂🤣

GROSS!

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The Cactus's avatar

“Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.”

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Mitch's avatar

Is this Lucifer or the DNC mission statement?

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JasonT's avatar

Yes.

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JasonT's avatar

Yes.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Supposedly RFK is set to "de-recommend" the covid shots for kids and pregnant women, but there's nothing official yet. Count that as a victory, too.

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/trump-hhs-rfk-jr-covid-vaccine-31923718

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Orwell’s Rabbit's avatar

At this point, the shots should be “de-recommended” for everyone, everywhere…at least until there’s reliable data on known issues like immune system changes, thrombotic effects, excess mortality, etc. Not to mention that virtually everyone has had Covid by now, so why flood them with extra spike protein?

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Dena's avatar

Watch this on the vaccine injured. We cannot forget nor turn our backs on them like our government. https://followthesilenced.com/

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Arne's avatar

The Journal's reporter wrote, "Fewer people are getting Covid shots than in the early days of the pandemic." She put both an incredible understatement and a piece of confusion--are we still in "the pandemic"?--in one brief sentence.

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Dena's avatar

Yes, please God🙏. Watched this on YouTube tonight on the vaccine injured & the efforts to shut them up & out. It’s heartbreaking but cannot be forgotten. Please watch. https://followthesilenced.com/

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Arepublicmam's avatar

The Golden Retriever, is a brave, loyal, and intelligent creature. You besmerch it by comparing its intelict to the Politic.

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Bandit's avatar

Intellect. Took me a minute to sound out what you meant. Sorry!

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Skenny's avatar

True. A more apt comparison may have included an armadillo or possum. Chris, forever the gentleman, was being generous.

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OregonB's avatar

Good wrap-up!

Two bellweather speeches this year: Vance in Munich, Trump in Riyadh. We are for free speech/open societies. Why we won't nation build - it hasn't worked & we can't afford it (our people, our treasure).

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Chris Bray's avatar

"Vance in Munich, Trump in Riyadh"

Yes. Very clear messages, both.

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Ken Mitchell's avatar

"State tax collection is down by $5 billion, in a state that has lost over a million taxpayers to other states since the pandemic. "

<Raises hand> Yeah, that describes me. I retired, and we sold our Sacramento home, packed up everything, and moved to San Antonio Texas in the summer of 2020. And we'll never return to Cacafornia ever again. I think the final deciding factor was the police chief of Sacramento allowing BLM terrorists to loot and burn the Downtown Plaza Macy's store, and then the news reports of BLM terrorists marching in the direction of my house.

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Lon Guyland's avatar

Just remember, when you go to vote in Texas, just who and what caused Kookifornia’s implosion and vote against it like your life depends on it.

When I lived in Texas, the Kookifornia refugees were still voting “D”.

Stupid is as stupid does as the saying goes.

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SamizBOT's avatar

The average person who moves out of California, at least from 2020 onward, is generally to the right of wherever they move to.

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Ken Mitchell's avatar

That's not going to be an issue; I am a solidly Trump voter.

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Eric Blair's avatar

Dear God, what would a search of Senator Scott Wiener's hard drive turn up?

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BornAlive's avatar

exactly whats up his yarnhole most weekend nights,is my guess. i grew up in a time when this man would have been run out of town reeking of tar,scattering feathers in his wake. what an absolute dolt. who elected this dolt?

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Vermont Farm Wife's avatar

Eww.

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Karl's avatar

I’m not used to this whole “hopeful” thing, but I’m leaning toward cautious optimism. This article helped. It will be interesting to see if the trend of left incompetence continues.

In my experience, many on the left are pursuing a “wait for this to blow over” strategy with Trump. I attribute this to their having no idea what to do beyond the same old things. If Trump represents a phase change, the wait-it-out strategy will only drive further collapse.

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Bandit's avatar

Dumbocrap collapse...🙏🤞🙏🤞🙏🤞🙏🤞🙏🤞

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Valoree Dowell's avatar

Striking similarities. Calif $12billion in debt, yet raising taxes to pay for healthcare for the undocumented. Minnesota, blew a $17billion surplus in '23-24 (? I've lost track), now has a $6billion debt, and wait for it, raising taxes to pay for healthcare for the undoc.... US is $37TRILLION in debt, but don't lay off a soul, whose lives are at steak, I mean stake. And I don't want to listen to Murray, still a "mom in tennis shoes" after all these years. Indigestion. But you're right. Maybe pure, consistent SHAME will work. Keep it going!

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Art's avatar

Every time I read another article about blue states going broke I just have to say we need some kind of law NOW to make it illegal for federal taxpayer money to pay for the inevitable bailout requests. California and Illinois I’m looking at you. This has to happen now before we get another Biden type moron in office who will promise to backstop the fiscal insanity in these states and my children’s children will be paying off this massive debt.

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Bandit's avatar

🙌 🙌 🙌 🙌 🙌 YES!!!

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K2's avatar

^^^This!!^^^

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generationsago's avatar

Our children's children will not be paying off this debt because that implies finally taking financial responsibility and stopping deficit spending. Not likely. This debt problem will probably continue until inevitable financial collapse and resulting chaos.

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Korpijarvi's avatar

Speaking of Murray, WA state is now in the debt toilet despite having had an enormous surplus just a few years ago (2019)…which the Dems chose to p!ss away by skyrocketing spending by 40% in the past two biennia.

It’s hard not to conclude this was done deliberately by the Dems to create a budget catastrophe that could then be blamed on Orange Man (Bad).

Meanwhile our roads are consistently in the top ten worst roads in the nation, while our gas taxes and gas prices are in the top few highest. But boy o boy do we have the largest collection of Euro Style Roundabouts on planet earth! Woo Hoo!

The state’s Prevailing Geniuses figured a good way to raise money would be Big Pot and taxing the snot out of spirits. Of course Big Pot (and its Chynese cartel investors) overbuilt, so the profit margins are collapsing. So now the games include how to build “high density housing” and “affordable housing” with construction contracts going to the Dems’ buddies…at $300-600/sf.

The whole thing is beyond a farce. Utter incompetence, tarted up in ProgSpeak.

Murray—who took office in 1992 and literally never had a real job (teaching preschool for a couple years after getting her BA in gym doesn’t count)—is my #1 example justifying term limits for Senate and Congress.

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James's avatar

Don’t forget the roadside (and on-the-road) trash, ubiquitous graffiti, and homeless encampments here in the Evergreen State. Every time I go to Idaho or Utah, I wonder what’s missing. Then I realize, “Oh yeah, crappy roads festooned with garbage!”

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Leara's avatar

When did Democrats stop advocating for healthy children and clean foods ...oh I know...Orange Hitler and his cabal. What a bunch of hypocritical, do-nothing windbags.

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JD Free's avatar

When doing so stopped aligning with their own power.

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JD Free's avatar

Data will not change the minds of people who think via feelings.

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John Kirsch's avatar

If you assume that Democrats are intelligent, then that raises the likelihood that they deliberately immiserate the people over whom they rule.

This only seems odd if you assume that they are intelligent but misguided.

In fact I think they deliberately wreck their cities and states in order to make their subjects dependant on government.

This dovetails nicely with the view that Democrats have always been the party of secession. They have never bought into the idea of a united country.

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Francis Turner's avatar

Not sure about secession, they want to rule and don't want bolshy subjects who may object to their rule.

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Bandit's avatar

🙌

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William Ray's avatar

My dog is insulted by your comparison of intelligence to CA state legislators.

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Bandit's avatar

Shhhhh. I didn't let my dogs read the article. DON'T tell them!

😉😊😋

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Anthony S.'s avatar

While it's attractive to think that falling prices/lack of inflation are positive signs for the economy, let's also consider the entirely grownup, not-at-all reflexively anti-Trump analysis offered by CNN, which warns that falling prices can be a bad thing: https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/14/business/inflation-trump-airfare-prices

It includes such insights as: "Consumer confidence has plunged this year amid widespread concerns about tariffs and turmoil in financial markets. However, that drop in sentiment has not translated to a significant pullback on consumer spending, the main driver of the US economy."

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Chris Bray's avatar

HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN!?!? Behold this miracle of cognition:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/business/egg-prices-trump-inflation

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Vermont Farm Wife's avatar

It's almost as if not killing chickens leads to increased availability of eggs. Who'd have thought it?

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libgurl's avatar

Really. Stop killing the poor hens!!!

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K2's avatar

LOLOL

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the long warred's avatar

Meanwhile: Trump has a new Defense Deal; you want our protection you build factories in the USA.

Not buy Treasuries the taxpayers pay interest on.

THAT makes sacrifices worthwhile.

Trump Saudi Deal.

“Without trillions in new investments, the United States will not keep up with the world.

That last bit is the what the Saudi deal addresses. The Saudis are not going to plow their profits into treasuries, but into direct investments in the United States, while the United States provides support for Saudi Defense and infrastructure. This means the Saudis will be investing in American companies that are doing work inside the United States to build factories and infrastructure. The Saudis are not just a mint serving the American bank, but an investor in America Inc.”

Z-Man

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Joseph L. Wiess's avatar

Yet more Commifornia shit.

Leave it to Democrats to continue trying to kill the next generation: be they in the womb, by gender affirming surgeries, or by chemical warfare.

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Kent Clizbe's avatar

"...some of the people telling families to flee California have been members of the California legislature...."

And many others outside California have been suggesting to sane people that they need to get the hell out, while the getting's good.

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