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Beg to differ: Contrary to whatever Liz Cheney has suggested, Donald Trump is not a 76-year-old man, but an impressionable infant in pinstripes who believes in the most outrageous conspiracy theories, UFOs, bogus political advisers, loudmouth strippers and has an unfounded faith in having a winning personality.
Time to change, GOP: If the Republicans do not stop voting for assault weapons and private possession, they will surely lose all the rest of the elections. What are they thinking? It is the Republicans’ fault that all these children died because those guns shouldn’t have been legal and government should be taking away all assault weapons starting today.
Constitution doesn’t work: Our Constitution is the oldest surviving charter of government. More than 230 years later, in a society that its frame workers could never imagine, it no longer works to protect the majority of its citizens. Lawmakers are too spineless to amend it, police officers have been all but stripped of their police powers and courts are more concerned with the rights of criminals than the people who live in danger around them.
Rewriting history: Just think, if R. Kelly had gone to Epstein island, he would be a free man today.
Imagine no religion… You want things to go wrong? Let white Christians take charge. Crusades, inquisitions, witch trials, Prohibition, lynching, segregation, voter suppression. The list is absolutely endless. Christopher Hitchens was absolutely right when he said religion poisoned everything.
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No sympathy for Griner: Regarding the plight of Brittney Griner, the women’s basketball player being held in Russia due to her carrying a marijuana product into the country, she was someone who would often not even come out on the court for the National Anthem. Now suddenly she needs the aid of American government against Russia. Maybe she’ll have a greater appreciation for the benefits and freedoms we have in the USA. No sympathy here.
We need the death penalty: If the maniac killer Robert Crimo’s slaughter of men, women and children in Highland Park doesn’t deserve the immediate death penalty, nothing ever will. Bring back the death penalty. Why should we feed these animals that have committed rotten, heinous crimes?
Other shootings? The tragic mass shooting during the Highland Park’s July 4 parade was/is national news, as it should be. However, we didn’t hear one word about Chicago’s other July 4 weekend shootings, where 10 people were killed and supposedly at least 62 were wounded. Why not? I guess the amount of Chicago’s individual Black shootings don’t rate news coverage?