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My apologies for the December 25 post date. This shouldn't be posted on Christmas, but I posted it late at night on the 25th on the assumption that it would mostly be read the next day.

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It's 0900 the 26th here, so I'm good. Also, we celebrate Jul on the 24th, so I'm double-plus good.

Having committed to gluttony for two days straight, a sobering post to go with my coffee is just what the doctor ordered.

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If you make your daughter too smart, she may not want to participate in a lot of "adult" activity when fully grown up.

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Thank you for this Christmas gift, you read through so much revolting nonsense so that we don't have to, and turn it into something useful for your readers. Merry Christmas to your family!

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I’m very happy to find this in my in-box on Boxing Day morning, a post-Christmas gift. Thank you.

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You were correct in my case! First thing I read this morning

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Dittos.

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What will she say if we ever find out it wasn’t Joe ? Does anyone actually believe he’s doing any deciding. ? Pancakes or ice cream ? Maybe

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After a week of pardons he was up to 1500. Not a chance he has any idea who was pardoned, or what each did.

He pardoned a Chinese National convicted on child porn charges!! Why? He pardoned a Chinese spy. Why?

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In a signing moment. Once he gets going, can't stop

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Ha-ha. We can be 100% sure it is not Joe who issued pardons. It has not been Joe for a long time. Will we ever find out? I doubt it. Important info tends to disappear from the public radar. Trump assassination attempts? Kicking Joe out of the presidential race? Nope, we will not get to the truth.

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That crowd wouldn’t know “ moral wisdom “ if it bit them on their asses.

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“Bit”? No.

Now, “licked”? That’s more their style…

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You got that right!

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Exactly

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I read Elizabeth Breunig’s self-written biography from your link. She bakes macarons - the temperamental type not the coconutty lumpy kind (“macaroons”) or the French President kind (Macron)…how endearing. She barely mentions her Democratic socialist tendencies and world view that permeate her writings. Isn’t that quaint? And Chris thank you for exposing her incredible leveling hypocrisy in describing Biden’s responsibilities as “our sovereign” making decisions that transcend debate and societal/political consensus arrived at through democratic processes - in stark contrast to back room deals and dark influences by our soon to be dictator-elect. The nerve she displays is beyond galling.

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People like her are a scourge on everything normal Americans stand for, believe, and desire.

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Joe Biden has never had a moral compass and is an embarrassment to the Catholic Church to which he and Pelosi say they are devoted to. God will be their ultimate judge. Love to know how they answer God's interrogation in purgatory.

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I wholeheartedly agree that God will have His vengeance. It will be unmerciful and swift.

Merry Christmas to y’all! 🎄

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I watched my most favourite Christmas movie on Christmas Eve, "Scrooge" (1951) starring the wonderful Alastair Sim. But on Christmas Day I watched my new favourite modern Christmas movie, "Violent Night". It's zany and (sort of) "Home Alone" meets "Conan the Barbarian". But it's got heart, in the weirdest way imaginable.

Santa Clause has become jaded and cynical about Christmas. He goes down the chimney of a huge mansion which by a terrible chance has been taken over by a ruthless gang of terrorist criminals. In order to save a little girl Santa has to recall the avenging, hammer swinging Viking warrior he used to be 1000 years ago. These guys are naughty, they want to hurt a child and her mom and dad. They didn't believe in the magic of Christmas. Too bad for them because, "Santa Clause is coming to town" with a big heart and a big hammer.

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Your 2nd paragraph sounds like the Lee Majors' Christmas "show" "The Night the Reindeer Died" , which was in the Bill Murray version; "Scrooged". You can find the clip on YouTube.

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Don't you think that this god bloke should be taking a more active role is defeating the globalistMarxists thats if a god existed. As an alternative I'd ask you to make sure all the uni party rinos are ousted as soon as possible and AMERICA FIRST candidates elected all down the ticket.

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I will leave the debate as to whether God is steering the ship for another day.

I am with you 100% regarding the America First candidates being elected down the ticket and the RINOS being slashed and burned!

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We know this god bloke exists because he gave us free will, which results in someone on earth--the same someone in this case--simultaneously arguing for open democratic processes and led by a sovereign. The god bloke is just as confused as you are. All we can do is try to be better.

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Gave us free will? The mysogenist punished Eve for wanting knowledge. This god bloke would have been at home in the democrat party today

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Yeah, and look, where feminism got us. If you don’t see, this is a depraved country there is something wrong with you.

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No feminism for me. It seems like this Eve woman was perhaps just trying to find out where the hell she came from.

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Genesis 3:4 "your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil" was the temptation. Not that they would get smarter. Knowledge also requires wisdom; and wisdom is of God.

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No. Knowledge is being able to distinguish between bullshit, propaganda and the fact that there is no god

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Is it worth countering this reply because apparently you block anybody who disagrees with you, despite the fact that you make all kinds of stupid assumptions.

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As a Catholic, I find it insulting every time Joe or the media bring up that he is a “faithful Catholic” who “carries his rosary in his pocket”. He may carry it, but obviously he doesn’t actually believe in the teachings of the Church or pray with his rosary. Because if he did, he would actually have a moral compass.

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Do you really think it is purgatory they are headed for? Because the approval (and voting for) of the wholesale sacrifice of the unborn is tantamount to the worship of Baal, don't you think? I know that the Lord is the Judge of what their fate will be, but I cannot conceive Him eventually allowing either of them into Heaven.

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Pretty obvious their answer will be to lie.

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“ Trump made us do it….”

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Joe Biden has never had either morals or wisdom.

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And at this point, most likely can't hit the toilet when taking a pee.

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Us boomers are aging. Suddenly current bowls are a very small target. We need a Federal SINOAWB program ASAP. (Seniors in Need of a Wider Bowl)

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To be fair though, that isn’t always easy, right?

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Even sitting down.

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Ask Justin Trudeau.

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️🎯💯

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Chris,

I find myself more grateful to have found you here with each passing post. And I restack and share every single one.

I, too, caught the word sovereign and its implications and I winced. It says volumes about how they view the relationship between public servants (a term I no longer hold any faith in) and a people. And don’t think for a moment Elizabeth Breunig considers herself a part of the latter. It also reminded me of what Valerie Jarrett said after Obama’s 2008 victory and his transition team, comprised mostly of fucking idiots, was in chaos. Jarrett told us not to worry and that Obama would be “ready to rule” from day one. Not govern, no, but rule. It’s a bit of everything when I think about the lens through which they view our republic and how it is supposed to operate. But mostly I think it’s their stupidity and laziness.

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^^^This!^^^

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Remember kids, "No matter how much you hate journalists, it isn't enough".

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Absolutely

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„ president of certain mercies, all of which speak of the restraint a sovereign owes his people.“

Like keeping people in solitary confinement for three years over a simple trespassing charge.

Let’s face it: my side good, other side bad is the extent of Bruenig‘s thinking.

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Who TF *employs* these people? I graduated journalism school, served two years as president of my university's J alumni association, and worked four years as a news reporter, and have published news articles consistently over many years. This type of absolute dung is an embarrassment to journalism, utter bullshit aimed primarily at those lacking critical thinking skills. You can *smell* the CIA and "intelligence" community influence in her writing.

Thankfully, only coastal elites read The Atlantic. But still ...

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And yet, they accuse us of not being able to read or think critically.

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"Sometimes decisions made without your consent behind closed doors are good, because process doesn’t matter when you get an outcome you prefer"

Yep that's the nub right there. The Left (aka globalists) are so consumed by woke ideology that *any* means to the end is oky doky. Nothing is off limits to them now. Even if it's shooting healthcare CEOs in the back by surprise. Or spying on a presidential candidate by the FBI. Or censoring social media for any unapproved thoughts. Or unleashing ridiculous lawfare on as many fronts as possible. Or inciting assassination attempts. They employ any and all tools with zero regard for precedent or honor. They are totally out of bounds and vicious.

Not really sure how we fix this but I have a lot of hope with Trumps team so far.

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Odd insistence on participating in politics with “a quiet mind.” Seems to me that “with mush for brains” would fit better. Very soft-headed, that person’s writing.

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Remember that the 8 years of Obama were a fugue state for white liberals. Everything was amazing and any criticism of Democrats could be dismissed casually without consideration as more right-wing smears from Republicans who couldn’t tolerate a smart, eloquent Black Democrat being president.

For them, 2016 shattered their world, and Biden wasn’t cool and well-spoken enough to put them back in the care-free dream state they desperately want to exist in.

Now Trump is returning to office and they can’t be bothered to come up with any explanation but the old ones they’ve been tirelessly and tediously clinging to since queen Hillary was “cheated” out of her coronation as the sovereign of the Professional Managerial Class.

Americans are just too backwards and unenlightened to be governed by their intellectual betters, like the average writer at The Atlantic or New Yorker.

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…and any criticism of Obama or his f*d up priorities or policies could be dismissed by by calling those questioning him, “rraaycissts!”

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I'm sure leftists would argue in defense of one of their own, it was a mostly peaceful murder...

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Well it was kind of telling that a CEO got shot to death in broad daylight on the street of NYC and not one leftist called for gun control after the incident.

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I hadn't noticed that, but you're right: not a peep from a single one of them about The Guns.

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LOLZ

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This woman, who so obviously has a Marxist cult-of-personality attachment, thinks those death penalty commutations were Biden's doing, that the decisions were his, when in fact they were made by faceless, unelected progressive operatives. The man barely knows where he is. This is deliberate lying, way, way beyond sloppy thinking.

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It’s a mutual society of pathological liars.

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That's the best way to put it. I keep asking myself the same question: *When* will they stop lying?

We realists need to start repeating a line to hopefully initiate their true awakening and let the healing process begin:

"It's okay to get fooled. It can happen to anyone. Just don't get fooled again."

(And yes, a big nod to Pete Townshend).

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“Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.”

-GWB

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That’s an important point — these days, Biden barely even remembers what his favorite flavor of ice cream is…

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Fish

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lol!

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And yet they are screaming that Musk isn't an elected official, he can't say those things. These idiots elites calling shots aren't elected officials and they really should not be saying and going what they're doing.

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Isaiah 5:20 which states, "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"

I think Joe Biden and all the havoc and destruction he's brought to the world, is the poster boy for this piece of scripture. Writers like Bruenig will always prop up the Biden's of the world.

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Whenever an Atlantic writer starts talking about "democracy," the only way it makes any sense is to substitute "oligarchy" every time you see it.

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Or kakocracy--rule by the worst.

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