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I have to raise a toast to Texas Towelie. I love your tireless devotion
to exposing all the daily scams and rip-offs people pull on the rest of us. Here, here!
So.
Is this is where we want to go?
Don't touch. Ever. This seems to be the thought process. Never invade a woman's space, nor a mans. That is a pretty broad view.
I touch, not often though do so with both men and women. With friends a pat on the back, a hug, hold tightly to their hand in friendship or grief. I have done that with strangers as well. There is nothing sexual about it, none at all. You are in sinc with the person in front of you....
My own personal five second interaction with Joe Biden.
About 15 or so years ago, back when he was still Senator Biden, he was the headline speaker at the local Jefferson Jackson Dinner.
After finishing my dinner but before the Senator was scheduled to take the stage, I headed off to the restroom.
As I was walking there, walking the other way was Senator Biden, flanked by two handlers...
This is a blatant, in our face, kiss my ass American people, cover up by Barr.
No wonder I got so angry. It would have been helpful for my sanity if Mueller had not waited ten fucking days to say something. What the fuck is Mueller doing?
This whole process has failed. It's completely corrupt....
Why am I so positive about VP Biden? I like him!!!!
I think he is the best equipped to rebuild the government.. there will be a lot of rebuilding that will be needed.. not just with our allies and setting boundaries with demagogues that we have been embracing under the current Administration...but just rebuilding the government structure with has been allowed to erode..to restaff our embassies etc etc etc.
Does the Vice President have a long history and with it some things none of us like.. oh yeah.. Mama did not raise any fools..but the difference with the VP Biden from others, is he may not always make the best decisions but he is able to re-look at his decisions and move in the correct direction.. we do NOT need another person so caught up in their philosophy that they cannot see when they have taken a wrong turn....
He is Our President and we should support him!
So down here at the diner, what we have been talking about for weeks is we have been talking about what everybody else across this great country of ours has been talking about, which is if Our Great President is actually a Russian agent or if he is only just a Russian stooge
And as you can probably might be able to imagine, the conversation has sometimes been getting very hot and even heated about this, because of us going around in circles with Our President's patriotic supporters saying, He is only just a stooge and not a spy, while that Our President's enemies are saying, No, he is a spy and not only just a stooge....
Suggest we all get prepared and don't get caught with our pants down again
A week and a half ago many Dems and posters allowed the media to frame the Mueller investigation as done. A win for tRump, Dems must not push too hard, tRump is taking a victory lap.
It was all bullshit, and it was obvious that it was bullshit. Pelosi and other Dem leaders didn't play along. They called out the Barr memo for what it was, ridiculous. As a side note, notice the media didn't focus on the Pelosi comments because it didn't fit the desired narrative....
Good God almighty, where are we headed? (Rant)
I have not selected a candidate as yet, but the nonsense that is going on about Joe Biden is making me terribly angry.
I am "old school", a 71 year-old woman. I was young and pretty good looking when the sexual revolution took place and women found birth control pills could allow them as much sex as the guys. We went to bars and night clubs hunting for "Mr. Goodbar". And, oh, the pickup lines and moves guys made back then....
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