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I’m Finally Hanging My American Flag - Growing
up, I was taught to dislike the American flag and all that it
represented. This year, for the first time, I hung one outside my house.

Early birds get the burn: Early bedtimes are associated with more physical activity

Metropolitan Opera’s Peter Gelb blames Trump for sales slump — but needs to look in the mirror

Big Apple driving school rigged licenses for illegal aliens, even if they couldn’t drive

Eat Your AI Slop or China Wins - The new cold war means a race with
China over AI, biotech, and more. This poses a hard dilemma: win by
embracing technologies that make us more like our enemy — or protect
ourselves from tech dehumanization but become subjects to a totalitarian
menace.

Ratcliffe Declassifies CIA Documents – Reveals Comey, Brennan, and
Clapper Purposely Corrupted Trump-Russia Investigation and Included
Discredited Steele Dossier to Take Down Trump Despite Knowing It Was a
Phony Report

DOJ Announces Indictments in $14.6 Billion Medicaid/Medicare Fraud Ring

DC Judge Allows All Illegal Migrants to Seek Asylum, Halting Deportation

Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Plan to Deport 500,000 Haitians — Here’s Why

Democrats, Animated by Loathing of Trump, Are Driving Their Party to Self-Destruction

Mamdani’s grocery scheme is foolish — but there’s method to the madness

Establishment Democrats Created The Conditions For A Socialist Victory

Trump puts common-sense brakes on immigration enforcement for farm and hospitality workers

Trump’s racking up wins — and rewriting the book on diplomacy

IDF dismantles Hamas terror tunnel under school

By The Numbers: Even CNN’s Expert Pollster Shocked By How Anti-Israel Dems Have Become

What Is the Intifada?

Poland To Introduce Border Controls With Germany As Migration Crisis Grows

1 in 10 in the UK are on Disability. “They give us the money. You work, give us the money. Allah Akbar, we take the money."

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I have switched my American Flag to the State Flag of Florida.

During the last administration the US Government did nothing to protect me. Just the opposite. They worked fervently to destroy people like me. They openly, along with their blue minions, wished us dead.

The State of Florida, on the other hand, is a haven of sanctity and sanity. This state did whatever it could to combat the federal government.

If only there was actual Succession....the Union is dead.

#1 LibDis on 2025-07-03 11:33 (Reply)

Re: CIA - Russia, Russia, Russia.

First off, this new evidence will not convince the infamous commenter. I can’t wait to read the talking points.

Second, there needs to be prosecutions. Upon conviction, I don’t think the death penalty should be off the table. Thanks for your attention to this matter, AG Bondi.

#2 B. Hammer on 2025-07-03 12:23 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Ratcliffe Declassifies CIA Documents

The CIA Review concerns the Intelligence Agency Assessment of the CIA 2016 Report, Russia's Influence Campaign Targeting the 2016 US Presidential Election. The Review states that the Report was defensible, and much of the tradecraft was robust. The one area where the Review took issue was the Report's finding of "high confidence" that Putin aspired to help Trump, which should have been found with "moderate confidence".

But, sure. Off with their heads.

#2.1 Zachriel on 2025-07-03 14:23 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Zach-GPT said: "The one area where the Review took issue was the Report's finding of "high confidence""

BUT anyone who actually read the report would have seen this direct quote:

QUOTE:

"The DA Review identified multiple specific concerns , including: a higher confidence level than was justified; insufficient exploration of alternative scenarios; lack of transparency on source uncertainty; uneven argumentation; and the inclusion of unsubstantiated SteeleDossier material."

If you didn't know it already, Zach-GPT hallucinates quite a bit.

#2.1.1 eeyore on 2025-07-03 16:12 (Reply)

And it always, always sides with, as here, the Deep State, commies (China earlier in the week), and perverts (last year defending grown men who demand to use the same changing rooms as young girls), to name but a few of its idols.

#2.1.1.1 Anon on 2025-07-03 19:35 (Reply)

Anon: And it always, always sides with …

We sided with the facts, which do not support the claim in the linked article.

#2.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2025-07-03 20:43 (Reply)

As eeyore notes below, it, again as always, selected that which might support its view and disregarded the inconvenient content.

Also note that it took no issue with its unreserved support of the Deep State, commies, and perverts being pointed out

#2.1.1.1.1.1 Anon on 2025-07-04 17:51 (Reply)

Anon: selected that which might support its view and disregarded the inconvenient content

The Review simply does not allege either illegal or unethical conduct as the linked article claimed. Indeed, the Review stated that the original Report was correct that there was high confidence that Russia interfered in the election.

#2.1.1.1.1.2 Zachriel on 2025-07-04 21:25 (Reply)

So, what we have is this:

Russia interfered in the election: high confidence;
Trump campaign welcomed Russian interference: high confidence;
Russia interfered to help Trump to win: high moderate confidence.

From that, the conclusion Obama officials should be tried and executed.

#2.2 Zachriel on 2025-07-03 16:49 (Reply)

That's not what we have at all.

#2.2.1 eeyore on 2025-07-03 17:50 (Reply)

That’s what you have.

The rest of us have the Hillary campaign paying for the Steele Dossier and shopping it to SOME in the intelligence community and SOME in the FBI who lied to the FISA court so that they could spy on the Trump campaign. And that’s for starters…

That was going on while they rationalized not going after Hillary for her illegal, insecure email server and destroying subpoenaed evidence.

#2.2.2 mudbug on 2025-07-03 20:45 (Reply)

mudbug: That’s what you have.

It’s what the facts support. The claim concerns the contents of the Review, which are misrepresented by the linked article.

#2.2.2.1 Zachriel on 2025-07-03 21:34 (Reply)

The facts support the Obama regime spying on Trump well before the election. Admiral Rogers confirmed the spying and warned Trump of their continued spying which is why the Trump campaign relocated. Obama and Hillary had to tie the Trump administration up or they would be tried for their illegal spying. The FBI/CIA political operatives just kept creating the narratives while the MSM was more than happy to continually repeat the narratives. The old narratives are falling apart and all involved are being exposed.

#2.2.2.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2025-07-03 22:30 (Reply)

Poland introducing border controls with Germany is the first tiny illegal immigration fracture in the EU dam. More will follow. I give the EU 5 years max.

#3 John Fisher on 2025-07-03 15:07 (Reply)

..."In fact, we hate the flag and what it represents: a deeply flawed nation...."

She and her ilk would rather hate, than contribute constructively to positive change - instead of walking the talk, they ride. And now as a mother, with the first glimmer of insight, she can see in front of her, where this path leads. Shaking my head.

Hating a flag because your country is imperfect, is hating your country. Go somewhere else and be happy, then. Where?

#4 Aggie on 2025-07-03 18:48 (Reply)

"Trump’s racking up wins"

Politicians prefer to manage problems, Trump's approach is to work to solve them.

#5 Not Sure on 2025-07-03 19:26 (Reply)

So Mamdani’s going to sell commodity cheese?

#6 Rachael M on 2025-07-03 20:58 (Reply)

re: I'm finally Hanging My American Flag.

Minor point; but next she and her husband need to learn proper US Flag etiquette - the canton (on the US flag that is the part with the stars) goes in the upper left corner of the viewer, not the right as their pictures show.

This is so that the canton mirrors the viewer's placement of their hand over their heart when honoring the flag.

#7 charles on 2025-07-03 23:22 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Zach-GPT: "It’s what the facts support. The claim concerns the contents of the Review, which are misrepresented by the linked article."

The linked article contains the actual report which is only 8 pages and easy to read AND which contradicts everything you have argued,

#8 eeyore on 2025-07-03 23:51 (Reply)

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