Sensible Republicans in the valley, like Tad Furtado and Ray Gilmore, are in a real pickle. Their party has been hijacked by MAGA apparatchiks like Mount Washington Valley Republican Committee chair Steven Steiner and Rep. Karen Umberger.
It resembles something like a Jonestown cult run by Trump gremlins, centered around the active worship of a golden calf and a sewer-rat dogma of conspiracies and lies. Tad and Ray, you’re up Schitt’s Creek, and there is no good news.
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Q,
I was able to take your very long-winded hyperbolic diatribe and reduce it down to its essence (a single paragraph):
“...MAGA apparatchiks, Jonestown cult run by Trump gremlins, Active worship of a golden calf and a sewer-rat dogma, fascist demagogue, Trump-Hitlerian, Skullduggery, Mob chaos, Insurrectionist Trump, Mass of dimwits and radicalized ordinary folks, “they’re all f**king short-bus people (mental challenged)”, Trailer park [trash], Racist kooks…”
So really, you haven’t said anything new that we haven’t heard at least a dozen times before from you.
We get it, you despise Donald Trump and hate anything associated with him or anyone that thinks he did a better job of advancing the Country’s best interests as opposed to what the current President is doing.
But here’s the thing that is undeniable. You have yet to address with any erudite specificity the crises brought to bear directly by the actions (or inaction) of Biden and his Administration.
The Country is being overrun with millions of illegal aliens who have not been vetted for security or medical clearance while we are in the midst of a pandemic, our economy is a shambles, and we now have “Heightened Security” due to the threat of a Terrorist attack.
The thousands of personnel and billions of dollars of material left behind after the debacle known as the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Hyper-inflation is ravaging the Country because of ginormous bailout spending, with no end in sight, as the Democrats continue to ask for even larger Socialist spending budgets disguised as Infrastructure.
Gasoline, heating oil, natural gas, and yes even electrical prices are skyrocketing because the current President has decided to artificially restrict and cut off our own domestic production in lieu of reliance on foreign sources.
Our supply-chain is being brought to its knees due to a complete lack of oversight or understanding of the impact of artificial, self-imposed shut-downs and now vaccine mandates.
The completely unscientific, capricious, and illogical approach to the Covid-19 Pandemic and the mandates being forced upon us. Yes, the data does not support most of what has been implemented. And most of our “Betters” don’t seem to think they need to follow the “rules”.
The almost spontaneous implementation of Critical Race Theory in our public elementary and secondary schools, immediately following the George Floyd incident and the Summer of Love riots.
The disclosure of the true facts regarding the fraud known as the Steel Dossier and Russian Collusion.
The truth about the January 6th as disclosed by the FBI Report.
The continued censorship or Media blocking of any information that runs contrary to the Biden Administration agenda or talking points.
A complete lack of interest in the Biden family’s dealings with China, Ukraine, Russia, or Hunter.
So if you want to talk about “a cancer”, maybe you should start by looking inward and try being even slightly objective with your criticisms of those who have good reason to be skeptical, cynical, and suspicious of what their own eyes are witnessing and their ears are hearing.
It’s not about Trump, it’s all about the policies, and direction the Far Left and New Democrats are taking us, which the polls clearly show, most Americans are not happy with.
Excellent summary.
and the artwork sale in NYC is legitimate too, right? #delusional
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