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Trump's Golf Trips Have Cost The American People Three Times As Much As The Mueller Report
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For A Decade No Child Died In Immigration Custody. Under Trump, 5 Have.
For A Decade No Child Died In Immigration Custody.
Under Trump, 5 Have.
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Here Are "Immigration Czar" Kris Kobach's Ridiculous Job Demands
Here Are "Immigration Czar" Kris Kobach's Ridiculous Job Demands
Trump Surrogate Kris Kobach's Last Voter Fraud Case Crashes And Burns - Like All The Others
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"Christian""Conservatives" Do Few Favors For Christianity Or Conservatism
"My Gripe With Christianity"The Christian Doctrine Of Damnation... And The Destruction Of Christ-Spirit
The Christian Doctrine Of Damnation... And The Destruction Of Christ-Spirit
Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Organized Religion And The Everyday Validation Of Violence
The Obsolescence Of God:Good Religion And Bad
"Has America Lost Its Mind?" 1A's Brilliant Interview With "Fantasyland's" Kurt Andersen
Televangelist Jim Bakker Resurrected: If This Doesn't Scare The Bejesus Out Of You, Repent For Your End Is Near!
Many Christians Live In An Unbreakable Bubble Of Biblical And Theological Dunderheadedness
Christians Are Their Own Worst EnemiesWrecking The Brand
American Conservatives And The Righteousness Of Cruelty
Ted Nugent Reveals The Essential Piggishness Of The Good Christians'"Party Of Family Values
"Christian""Conservatives'" Unwavering Faith In Trump Calls Into Question All Their Other Beliefs
"Christian""Conservatives" Do Few Favors For "Christianity" Or "Conservatism"
"Christian""Conservatives" Do Few Favors For "Christianity" Or "Conservatism"
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What Does QAnon Have In Common With A Cholera Victim?
John Kennedy Jr. Is Alive... And He's Trump's Biggest Fan! QAnon: The Evanescence Of Sanity, And The Catastrophic Collapse Of American "Conservatism"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/05/john-kennedy-jr-is-alive-and-trump-fan.htmlCompendium Of Best Pax Posts About Conspiracies And Conspiracism
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/06/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-about.html
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/06/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-about.html
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Trump Calls 1 Of His "Best People""Dumb As A Rock And Totally Ill-Equipped" To Be Sec. State
"Trumpistas Don't Just Lie,
They're Antagonistic To Truth"
"Trumpistas Don't Just Lie,
They're Antagonistic To Truth"
They're Antagonistic To Truth"
It's Not Just That Trump And His Lickspittles Lie: They Lie More Brazenly Than Satan Himself
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/06/its-not-just-that-trump-his.html
Donald Trump, Felon: Re-Visiting Trump University
"We are known by the company we keep."
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Pelosi Says Trump Wants To Be Impeached And Is Angry House Democrats Are Not Moving In That Direction
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Trump Administration Has Postponed Indefinitely The Obama Administration's Plan To Replace Pres. Andrew Jackson With Underground Railroad Slave Liberator Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill
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Borowitz: Pelosi Takes Advantage of Trump’s Storming Out of Oval Office to Hide Nuclear Codes
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, took advantage of Donald Trump’s storming out of an Oval Office meeting on Wednesday to hide the nuclear codes, Pelosi has confirmed.
Moments after Trump threw a tantrum and abruptly left his own office, the quick-thinking Pelosi turned to Senator Charles Schumer, who was also present for the meeting, and said, “Chuck, we’ve got to find those nuclear codes and hide them.”
Pelosi and Schumer ransacked the Oval Office for the codes until Pelosi finally located them in a desk drawer under a pile of empty Quarter Pounder containers from McDonald’s.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, the House Speaker refused to divulge her hiding place for the codes, but addressed widespread speculation that she had hidden them in a book.
“Believe me, that was my first thought,” she said. “But I checked the whole office, and there were no books.”
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Geologists Discover Largest Underwater Volcano, Explain Weird Hum Heard Around the World
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"Weird And Creepy" Home Break In: Nothing Taken.
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Trump's Next Job
"Trumpistas Don't Just Lie, They're Antagonistic To Truth"
It's Not Just That Trump And His Lickspittles Lie: They Lie More Brazenly Than Satan Himself
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/06/its-not-just-that-trump-his.html
Scott Pruitt: How Conservatives Use Decontextualized Shards Of Truth To Tell HUGE Lies
Scott Pruitt: How Conservatives Use Decontextualized Shards Of Truth To Tell HUGE Lies
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
John Kennedy Jr. Is Alive... And He's Trump's Biggest Fan! QAnon: The Evanescence Of Sanity, And The Catastrophic Collapse Of American "Conservatism"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/05/john-kennedy-jr-is-alive-and-trump-fan.html↧
7 Top Diet Habits Linked To Cancer
7 Top Diet Habits Linked To Cancer
New research finds diet-related factors may account for more than 80,000 new invasive cancer cases each year; here are the main culprits.
When considering wishes for the world, finding the cure for cancer is always right up there with attaining world peace and ending global hunger. And for good reason; cancer is a monster. It is the second leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for 1 in 4 deaths. It causes pain, suffering, and grief – not to mention the more than $80 billion spent each year on cancer-related healthcare.
What’s profound about this is that exactly nobody wants cancer, but much of it is preventable. For instance, on average some 138,000 people die every year in the U.S. from lung cancer related to smoking or second-hand smoke.
Most of us now know that smoking comes with cancer risk – but how many of us understand just how much dietary habits are associated with increased risk of cancer?Now, a new study form Tufts has crunched the numbers to find an estimated number, proportion, and type of specific cancers associated with food intake. Looking at the under or overconsumption of foods and sugar-sweetened beverages among American adults, the analysis is one of the few to focus on the modifiable risk factors for cancer connected to the food we eat or don’t eat.
The researchers estimated that diet-related factors accounted for 80,110 of the new invasive cancer cases reported in 2015.
A predominant number of cancer cases linked to a poor diet were for colorectal cancer; 52,225 cases of such for the year studied. Next was cancer of the mouth, pharynx, and larynx (14,421), uterine cancer (3,165), breast cancer (post-menopausal) (3,059), kidney cancer (2,017), stomach cancer (1,564), and liver cancer (1,000).
Here are the dietary components at play, in order:
1. Low whole grain intake
This was associated with the largest number and proportion of new cancer cases, with convincing or probable evidence of a link to colorectal cancer risk.2. Low dairy intake
That low dairy intake was linked to convincing or probable evidence for colorectal cancer risk surprised me, but the study reveals the reason: “both dairy products and foods high in calcium decrease the risk of colorectal cancer, and dairy products are an important source of calcium.”3. High processed meat intake
For eating a lot of high processed meat, they found convincing or probable evidence for colorectal cancer risk; high processed meat consumption was also linked to stomach cancer risk.4 & 5. Low vegetable and fruit intake
Your mother was right. The findings revealed convincing or probable evidence for low vegetable and fruit intake connected to colorectal cancer risk, as well as the risk of cancer of the mouth, pharynx, and larynx.6. High red meat intake
Eating a lot of red meat led to convincing or probable evidence for colorectal cancer risk.7. High intake of sugar-sweetened beverages
The researchers also included sugar-sweetened beverages in the study due to known associations between obesity and 13 types of cancer.The team came to these conclusions using a Comparative Risk Assessment model that incorporated nationally representative data on dietary intake, national cancer incidence, and estimated associations of diet with cancer risk from meta-analyses of prospective cohort studies.
"Our findings underscore the opportunity to reduce cancer burden and disparities in the United States by improving food intake," said lead author Fang Fang Zhang, a cancer and nutrition researcher at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts.
Through education, awareness, and holding tobacco companies accountable, the number of smokers has declined steadily over the last few decades. Can we do the same thing for improving diets? We need more education, more awareness, and more accountability from food manufactures. Everyone wants a cure for cancer, but in the meantime, modifying one's diet could lead to a lot fewer new cases of cancer in the first place.
The study was published in JNCI Cancer Spectrum. To see more on the research and how they structured the study, click on the PDF link here.
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Trump Uses Central Planning, "Winner Picking" And Farm Subsidies To Keep His Trade War Alive
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The president continued his pattern of picking winners and losers on Thursday afternoon when he unveiled a $16 billion bailout to help farmers offset losses from the trade war he started, and which he continues to escalate, with China. This is on top of the $12 billion in emergency cash he made available last July. The substance of Trump’s announcement at the White House, in which he was flanked by more than a dozen farmers, was entirely overshadowed by his own theatrics. Angry that Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed he threw a “temper tantrum,” the president told reporters: “I’m an extremely stable genius, okay?” Standing in front of the press corps, Trump asked five of his aides to tell everyone how “very calm” he had been when he walked out of a meeting the day before. “You were very calm,” replied Larry Kudlow, the president’s top economic adviser. The new bailout Trump introduced is significant and merits scrutiny. Make no mistake, these are government handouts. And few conservatives who purport to support free markets are objecting. The politics are a no-brainer. Trump cannot win reelection without the farm belt. He narrowly prevailed in 2016 because of overwhelming strength in rural areas that depend on agriculture. Indeed, the Chinese have targeted farmers to cause political pain for the president so that he’ll cave in negotiations. As soon as Trump slapped tariffs of 25 percent on $250 billion of Chinese imports, Beijing retaliated with import taxes on U.S. agricultural commodities such as soybeans, which tend to be grown in places the president is depending on in 2020. Trump began his 47-minute appearance in the Roosevelt Room by noting that farmers have supported him. He said it was a “great honor to be here with … people that have been with me from the beginning.” “They’re patriots. They stood up and they were with me,” the president said. “I'm very honored to have done this for you.” The long riff that followed underscored the degree to which Trump sees the presidency as transactional. He seems to think he deserves credit for making the government cut checks to save farmers after pursuing policies that have pushed them toward insolvency. Never mind that there would be no need for this bailout if he hadn’t picked a fight with not just China but also allies like Mexico, Canada and Europe. It’s been 15 months now since Trump declared that “trade wars are good, and easy to win.” He tweeted that the morning after announcing a 25 percent tariff on steel and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum.
Trump proceeded to tout initiatives he’s taken to help corn growers. He noted that he directed the EPA to make it easier to sell more ethanol in vehicle fuel, lifting summertime fueling restrictions on E15 gasoline, which means it contains as much as 15 percent ethanol. Iowa is the nation’s top producer of both ethanol and corn. Most economists can explain to you why this is shortsighted economic policy, not to mention deleterious for the environment. “The people in Iowa, and lots of other places, are very happy,” he declared yesterday afternoon. “I made a promise during the campaign that I was going to do it. I don't know if it had an impact, but I won Iowa by a lot.” -- Not everyone is getting government handouts. The brewers, for instance, haven’t received any bailout. America’s beer industry yesterday blamed the Trump tariffs for the loss of 40,000 jobs. Metal tariffs imposed by Trump have boosted the cost of aluminum cans, leading to declines in investment, a new report by two trade groups showed, per Bloomberg News. -- Bigger picture, Trump has pursuedsomething that at times feels akin to a 1950s-style national industrial policy. He’s tried to revive steelmakers and domestic manufacturers with tariffs. He’s vetoed foreign investments. He’s publicly pressuring the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. He has used the bully pulpit of the presidency to attack individual companies, and even corporate executives, by name. Among other things, Trump went after Nordstrom’s for dropping his daughter Ivanka’s clothing line. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin disclosed during congressional testimony on Wednesday that he’s personally been haggling with corporate executives about prices. He said he spoke with the chief financial officer of Walmart after the company warned that customers will need to pay more for furniture and other goods because of the Trump tariffs. To put it mildly, this has not historically been the role of the treasury secretary. At least in America. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has been given immense power over whether to grant waivers to exempt companies from tariffs.This gives government the ability to favor somecompanies and industries and punish others.  A farmer plants soybeans yesterday in a field in Springfield, Neb. (Nati Harnik/AP) -- It’s Economics 101: Central planning like this has never worked in the long run because it distorts incentives, and no bureaucrat setting prices in Washington can outsmart markets. Cliometricians can debate until the cows come home, but the free market – as much as anything else – is why we won the Cold War. The Soviets just couldn’t keep up.“Trump's snap decision to send billions of dollars in new aid to farmers could be bad for the farm economy and the federal budget,” Politico food and agriculture reporter Catherine Boudreau reports. “Many farmers are still deciding what to plant this spring and could be swayed toward crops that receive higher payouts from the aid package, such as soybeans. That would add to already record supplies and further depress prices that have been falling for five years. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, who weeks earlier denied the White House was discussing another round of aid so soon after a $12 billion bailout last year, suddenly interrupted a trip to South Korea to announce a second program. “Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, told reporters Wednesday that the White House should have been more cautious about the timing of the announcement because farmers are still planting. ‘We want farmers to make decisions on how many acres of corn and soybeans to plant based on the market and not something the government’s doing,’ he said. … Rainfall in the Midwest has delayed planting, so many farmers can still switch up their crops. Even the prospect of another round of trade assistance could encourage them to plant more soybeans.” -- “The new relief plan aims to avoid problems that arose in the first aid package, when soybeans received what many believed was a disproportionate amount of the money, while corn received only a penny a bushel. Other producers were shut out entirely from relief payments,” Laura Reiley, Colby Itkowitz and Annie Gowen report. “The bulk of the payments will be set aside for row crops such as alfalfa, wheat and oats, which will be paid at a single rate according to the number of acres planted in each county. More niche crops, including tree nuts, sweet cherries, cranberries and grapes, will also be eligible for relief, depending on tariff impacts. Dairy and pork producers also stand to receive relief under the system. Distributing relief funds by-county, and not by commodity, will hopefully discourage farmers from planting crops that would be more lucrative in aid money.”  President Trump poses for photos in the Oval Office on Thursday after announcing a bailout for farmers. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) -- But the Trump bailouts are often not going to the farmers who need them the most. Jeff Stein reported last November about some of the people who got money from the first, $12 billion round of bailouts: “Scott Yocom is a 48-year-old architect who lives in Manhattan, works at an office building near Times Square, and has been recently consumed with designing a new central terminal at LaGuardia Airport in Queens. But late last month, Yocom received a government check worth about $3,300, a payment that came courtesy of a Trump administration program aimed at helping farmers hurt by the U.S.-China trade war. Yocom said he spends two weeks a year on his family farm in Ohio, but as a part-owner he was eligible for the bailout funds. Yocom was one of at least 1,100 residents of the 50 largest U.S. cities who has received bailout funds from the Agriculture Department, according to USDA data.”Consider this story published last week by the New York Daily News: “The Trump administration has forked over more than $62 million — taxpayer cash that was supposed to be earmarked for struggling American farmers — to a massive meatpacking company owned by a couple of corrupt Brazilian brothers. The Department of Agriculture cut a contract in January to purchase $22.3 million worth of pork from plants operated by JBS USA, a Colorado-based subsidiary of Brazil’s JBS SA, which ranks as the largest meatpacker in the world. … Previously undisclosed purchase reports … reveal the administration has since issued at least two more bailouts to JBS, even as Trump’s own Justice Department began investigating the meatpacker, whose owners are Joesley and Wesley Batista — two wealthy brothers who have confessed to bribing hundreds of top officials in Brazil. Both brothers have spent time in jail over the sweeping corruption scandal.” -- Despite these and many other problems so far, most conservatives on Capitol Hill were more muted in their response to the second round of agriculture bailouts than the first. It’s another proof point of the degree to which Trump’s takeover of the GOP has made the party more protectionist, even mercantilist, in its outlook. “Last year, some Republican senators were incensed by such a move, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) compared it to ‘golden crutches’ aimed at ‘making it 1929 again’ and then Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) questioned why ‘there isn't an outright revolt in Congress right now,’” Jackie Alemany notes this morning. “But Corker retired and Sasse is running for reelection, plus other Republican senators view the decision to go after China as worthwhile even if it means an economic gut punch for farmers and other industries in the interim.” Sasse did not release a statement yesterday.
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Here Is The Most Jaw-Dropping Trump Story You'll Read Today: Awarding Military Contracts
Retired 4-Star General McCaffrey: “President Trump Is A Serious Threat To US National Security”
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/03/retired-four-star-general-mccaffrey.htmlTrump is breaking with norms and pushing military decision-makers who are supposed to be immune to political considerations to give a massive contract to a specific firm. This is the most jaw-dropping story you’ll read today:
“Trump has personally and repeatedly urged the head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to award a border wall contract to a North Dakota construction firm whose top executive is a GOP donor and frequent guest on Fox News,” Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey report. “In phone calls, White House meetings and conversations aboard Air Force One during the past several months, Trump has aggressively pushed Fisher Industries to Department of Homeland Security leaders and Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, the commanding general of the Army Corps.
“The push for a specific company has alarmed military commanders and DHS officials. Semonite was summoned to the White House again Thursday, after the president’s aides told Pentagon officials — including Gen. Mark Milley, the Army’s chief of staff — that the president wanted to discuss the border barrier. … Trump immediately brought up Fisher, a company that sued the U.S. government last month after the Army Corps did not accept its bid to install barriers along the southern border, a contract potentially worth billions of dollars. Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, has joined in the campaign for Fisher Industries, along with Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), an ardent promoter of the company and the recipient of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Fisher and his family members.
“Trump’s repeated attempts to influence the Army Corps’ contracting decisions show the degree to which the president is willing to insert himself into what is normally a staid legal and regulatory process designed to protect the U.S. government from accusations of favoritism. … But Trump’s personal intervention risks the perception of improper influence on decades-old procurement rules that require government agencies to seek competitive bids, free of political interference.
Trump Uses Central Planning, "Winner Picking" And Farm Subsidies To Keep His Trade War Alive
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How ‘The View’ Became The Most Important Political TV Show In America
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"You're Going To Be Sick And Tired Of Winning."
"Trumpistas Don't Just Lie, They're Antagonistic To Truth"
It's Not Just That Trump And His Lickspittles Lie: They Lie More Brazenly Than Satan Himself
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/06/its-not-just-that-trump-his.html
Scott Pruitt: How Conservatives Use Decontextualized Shards Of Truth To Tell HUGE Lies
Scott Pruitt: How Conservatives Use Decontextualized Shards Of Truth To Tell HUGE Lies
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
John Kennedy Jr. Is Alive... And He's Trump's Biggest Fan! QAnon: The Evanescence Of Sanity, And The Catastrophic Collapse Of American "Conservatism"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/05/john-kennedy-jr-is-alive-and-trump-fan.html↧
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Video: The Tide Is Turning For Farmers Who Formerly Supported Trump
Video: The Tide Is Turning For Farmers Who Formerly Supported Trump
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Green New Deal Speech, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
Green New Deal Speech, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
Dancing Ocasio-Cortez Video Backfires On Prissy Conservatives Who Tried To Use It As A Smear
AOC And Heather Heyer's Mom
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Facebook Exchange With QAnon Believer Over "The Communist Threat"
Alan Archibald I don't know a single person -- not one -- who advocates a communist "socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production."
Nor does any Democratic candidate propose the cornerstone communist position that there be "common ownership of the means of production."
Democratic candidates don't even occupy the same Universe where that obsolete suggestion might be made.
Yet you're still scaring yourself with 1950s rhetoric.
The Sky Is Falling: Conservatives Are Panicked About Most Things. Alarmism Is In Their Genes.
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../the-sky-is...
In 2012 "The American Conservative" published the following article:
"Obama Is A Republican"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../the-american...
Knowing how much you value Truth, I encourage you to read the Wikipedia entry on "Communism" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism -- and then tell me if you would bet your kids' eternal salvation that your statement is true - that your clear-and-present intention is "to keep communists out of office." (Please don't dodge with a bogus reply like "I don't believe in betting.")
Communism is dead Karen.
Not even Vladimir Putin -- an unusually murderous henchmen for The Soviet and, notably, a fellow whom His Deplorability has never criticized (while slagging black NFL players as "sons of bitches") -- would advocate communism's return.
Your anti-communist position recalls medieval theologians arguing the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin.
Karen, your supposed determination to repel communism does not intersect with "Reality."
It's as fake as QAnon.
John Kennedy Jr. Is Alive... And He's Trump's Biggest Fan! QAnon: The Evanescence Of Sanity, And The Catastrophic Collapse Of American "Conservatism"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../john-kennedy-jr...
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As a postscript, I will mention that your hero, Candace Owens, speaks approvingly of Hitler's "National Socialism" which was Germany's economic system for years before Adolf began territorial expansion.
Candace Owens: Hitler Was ‘OK’ Until He Tried To Go Global
https://www.thedailybeast.com/candace-owens-hitler-was-ok...
Nor does any Democratic candidate propose the cornerstone communist position that there be "common ownership of the means of production."
Democratic candidates don't even occupy the same Universe where that obsolete suggestion might be made.
Yet you're still scaring yourself with 1950s rhetoric.
The Sky Is Falling: Conservatives Are Panicked About Most Things. Alarmism Is In Their Genes.
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../the-sky-is...
In 2012 "The American Conservative" published the following article:
"Obama Is A Republican"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../the-american...
Knowing how much you value Truth, I encourage you to read the Wikipedia entry on "Communism" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism -- and then tell me if you would bet your kids' eternal salvation that your statement is true - that your clear-and-present intention is "to keep communists out of office." (Please don't dodge with a bogus reply like "I don't believe in betting.")
Communism is dead Karen.
Not even Vladimir Putin -- an unusually murderous henchmen for The Soviet and, notably, a fellow whom His Deplorability has never criticized (while slagging black NFL players as "sons of bitches") -- would advocate communism's return.
Your anti-communist position recalls medieval theologians arguing the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin.
Karen, your supposed determination to repel communism does not intersect with "Reality."
It's as fake as QAnon.
John Kennedy Jr. Is Alive... And He's Trump's Biggest Fan! QAnon: The Evanescence Of Sanity, And The Catastrophic Collapse Of American "Conservatism"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../john-kennedy-jr...
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As a postscript, I will mention that your hero, Candace Owens, speaks approvingly of Hitler's "National Socialism" which was Germany's economic system for years before Adolf began territorial expansion.
Candace Owens: Hitler Was ‘OK’ Until He Tried To Go Global
https://www.thedailybeast.com/candace-owens-hitler-was-ok...
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