John Wismar
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John Wismar
@wiz421
Just your everyday dad, software dev, scifi geek, and political junkie.
Texas, USA Katılım Mart 2009
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@MZHemingway We were there the other day, and when the plane we were scheduled to board arrived - - on time! - - they couldn't get the door to the jetway open. That was a new one to me.
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@grok @Lol19559014 @realcopeaganda @bonchieredstate @grok how does the number of wildfires caused by outdoor grilling compare to the number caused either by homeless encampments or by crazed, leftist arsonists?
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**Yes.** Fire officials confirmed the 2019 Tick Fire (4,000+ acres burned, homes destroyed, mass evacuations in Santa Clarita Valley) was accidentally started by outdoor barbecue cooking during high winds and a public safety power shutoff for extreme fire weather.
Red Flag Warnings flag precisely these conditions—low humidity, high winds, dry fuels—where grill embers can ignite vegetation fast. It's one documented case among human-caused fires (95%+ of CA wildfires). Smaller incidents happen too, which is why fire agencies advise against open flames on those days.
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Spencer Pratt: “We need to clean up homeless camps, get rid of the drug addicted everywhere, prepare for fires better, and lower taxes.”
Nithya Raman: “We need to ban the normals from cooking hamburgers.”
The right vs. left paradigm perfectly illustrated.
California Post@californiapost
LA mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman proposes backyard BBQ ban trib.al/qaHiUo7
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@NYTimesPR The paper of Walter Duranty should award Kristof a special prize named in Duranty's honor.
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The racist comments proudly endorsed today by Jen Kiggans warning House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to ‘Get your cotton-picking hands off of Virginia’ are disgusting and beneath any elected official. I grew up in the South. I know what these racist dog whistles mean.
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@DefiantLs She should talk to the manager. He lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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"I’m sick and tired of Trump supporters calling me a Karen."
Is it the hair?
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@amanda_m_macias That's the point. Those stores aren't sufficiently controlled by the government.
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Mayor Mamdani's plan to open a city-run grocery store is facing pushback from East Harlem grocers, who say the area is already saturated.
About 45 grocery stores are within a 35-minute walk of the proposed site.
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@Frank__Grand @BrandiKruse Exactly. WNBA teams can usually beat a boys middle school team. They lose to high school varsity and jv teams. You will see them scrimmage against 9th-grade boys teams sometimes, and that's close to the right level, although the boys still have some advantage and typically win.
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@BrandiKruse lol so with this logic, a high school basketball team can beat a WNBA team
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@Nahanchi7068 @aviel @PatriotNotPol Yup. She couldn't necessarily write protagonists, and could have used an editor for sure, but she absolutely nailed the villains.
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@aviel @PatriotNotPol I had a big Ayn Rand professor in college, we read a lot of her works, always thought the villains were over the top “no one acts that way”, until Obama and they I finally understood what she went through in Russia before leaving
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Ok, I’ve finally processed how I experienced this, and it’s a big deal. I grew up hearing stories from my father and grandfather about the Soviet Union, but this was the first time I truly understood them, like the difference between hearing stories about having a child and actually holding your own newborn. Like an ancestral alarm. It’s devastating. Everything in me is screaming to divest from the region that I’ve poured my adult life into to survive. The feeling of loss is immeasurable, and the casual “bye” just makes it worse. The damage from the lack of empathy here will create a cycle of attacks that take decades to undo and will bloody the hands of everyone around me, there are no sidelines in my line of work. This also isn’t about taxes, the cost of reorienting my life is infinitely greater. It’s now primal and existential.
Brandi Kruse@BrandiKruse
INSANE. Seattle's Socialist Mayor responds to exodus of wealth from Washington state by saying "BYE" ... then laughing. We're doomed.
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@CathyYoung63 Self-reflection is not one of Obama's personality traits.
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Yeah, "the 80s called and they want their foreign policy back" was one of Obama's worst moments. (One that I'm sure he's had many occasions to regret.)
Eric Owens@ericowensdc
@CathyYoung63 Romney called Russia our biggest threat in 2012 and everyone made fun of him, left and right. The United States could have and should have elected Romney in 2016. God, what a different and better world we would now live in. edition.cnn.com/2022/02/22/pol…
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@Synsidar @Varneyco @MZHemingway The Party of Democrats makes more sense than the Party of Democratics. But that's just me. If Democratics want to use that name that's their business.
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@wiz421 @Varneyco @MZHemingway Why would anyone want to say "Democrat" Party instead of "Democratic"? Mispronouncing a name isn't a deadly insult; it makes the person look stupid.
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"We're dealing with a great deal of delusion from people associated with the Democrat Party." - "The Federalist" Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway (@MZHemingway) raises concerns about the discourse & conspiracy theories surrounding recent political violence.
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@Synsidar @Varneyco @MZHemingway Fine. I don't understand why Democratics want to be called that, though. Doesn't really roll off the tongue.
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@Varneyco @MZHemingway "We're dealing with a great deal of delusion from people associated with the Democrat Party." You don't know how to say "Democratic"?
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@latenightercom Joke?
I mean, honestly, has Jimmy Kimmel ever said anything even vaguely amusing? He's just another raging, spittle-flecked millionaire spewing hatred day in and day out.
Or maybe his defenders will say the blackface thing was funny. That would be on-brand for them.
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Jimmy Kimmel: "It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he's almost 80 and she's younger than I am. It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination. And they know that."
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@christopherrufo I figured this out decades ago when they had: "Did Al Gore claim to have invented the Internet?" "Totally false! He said he 'took the lead in creating the Internet' and that's completely different!"
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This is unbelievably pedantic and dishonest. The supposed “missing context” is that California only gives undocumented trans migrants free sex-change surgeries when deemed “medically necessary”—which we did, in fact, include in the story.
Snopes is left-wing propaganda.
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@upstatefederlst @KurtSchlichter This isn't new. I noticed this pattern when I worked in a grocery store in the 1980s. Steak and Pepsi, and lots of it, gets paid for via (whatever the equivalent program was at the time, call it food stamps), and cash was used for cigarettes and candy.
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You can always tell when "poor people advocates" have no actual experience with poor people. What Alex is describing here is generic experience for any grocery store worker.
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@DeAngelisCorey Funding extremist groups is going to be their legacy
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They also funneled money to the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten’s union.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center paid the National Education Association hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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@washingtonpost "Says" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that assertion.
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Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D) fall left many asking how someone who was dogged by persistent rumors of inappropriate behavior toward women could have risen so high and so fast in a party that says it supports women’s rights. wapo.st/4tTgVG2
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@politicalmath You're insulting snakes. Snakes are arguably repulsive, but they have a role to play in an ecosystem.
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This is why I have such delight in Swalwell's downfall. He's a snake and has always been a snake.
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Libby Emmons@libbyemmons
"Either this person committed these horrific acts, or he is the single unluckiest person in the world for these people to conspire and make up lies against him," Swalwell on Kavanaugh in 2018.
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@k_ovfefe2 I completely agree. For me, Swalwell was number 2. This guy is number 1.
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Here’s Adam Schiff lying, claiming that he doesn’t know who the whistleblower is. Laughable lie.
Schiff needs to face accountability for his years of lying.
Catherine Herridge@C__Herridge
NEW RECORDS VIA @DNIGabbard @RepRickCrawford ATKINSON TRANSCRIPTS - First Trump Impeachment + Whistleblower Motive Whistleblower met with Democrats on House Intelligence Committee (then led by Adam Schiff) BEFORE reporting his allegations to the Intelligence Community Inspector General. October 2019: then Congressman now @CIADirector Ratcliffe nailed the timeline in a closed door briefing with Intelligence Community Watchdog Michael Atkinson. - Trump/Zelensky call July 25th 2019 - Whistleblower complaint filed August 12th - Ratcliffe questioned what happened during those 18 days. Ratcliffe: The whistleblower did not disclose to you that he or she had contact with HPSCI (House Intelligence Committee)? Atkinson: The answer to that is yes. The answer to that is yes. Atkinson: On the urgent disclosure form, there's a question that the complainant is asked about who they have reported the violation to...and one of the boxes is the congressional intelligence committees. The complainant did not check that box.
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@zundamotisuki I don't believe for a second that he doesn't know it's illegal. It's much more likely that he's been coached to say that. He knows that if he follows this script, the UK will just let him go and he can go out to do it again.
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イギリスでパキスタン出身のモハメド・アリ・カーンが14歳の英国人少女をレイプしようとして捕まった事件
モハメドは、「私はここに新しく来たばかりで、それが違法だとは知らなかった」と語った
14歳の少女をレイプする事が犯罪だと分からない移民を入れる政府は狂っている
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