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The people who took over a church to protest were in the wrong, but how exactly is Don Lemon at fault?

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Colluding. He was with the group before they went in, he knew what they were going to do and went in with them. I agree it's a bit shaky as he's a "journalist" but that's my understanding as of now

He's also on camera saying the "protest's" goal was trauma and intimidation, which he participated in

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Okay, now I want someone to explain to me how this is different from Trump's conduct on Jan 6.

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Trump didn't go in. That's a pretty big difference for starters.

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That's about the only difference. And Lemon "went in" to report on the event, right?

I just think that it's really ludicrous for people to have gone on about Biden and the Democrats' grave violations of free speech in talking to social media platforms and meanwhile Trump's government does this stuff and it's all A-OK. Come on now.

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The protestors freedom of speech doesn't supersede the church goers freedom of speech and religion.

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That's not the issue. Prosecute them, fine. Threatening a reporter for being on the scene is something else.

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Hi friends, this is my Uncle Don. He is unemployed but spends most days talking into his computer, where he says people pay him to comment on the news. We believe he thinks he's some sort of television anchor. A few days ago, he left his home in NYC then appeared on social media… pic.twitter.com/KNLPdXj23e

— Emily Jashinsky (@emilyjashinsky) January 19, 2026

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Apparently two things are true here:

1. Don Lemon is a loser has-been who no one should care about.

2. Don Lemon is also worthy of major attention from the DoJ.

The one does not follow from the other, IMO.

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It does when he interrupts a religious service and potentially breaks federal law.

Big Story out of Ohio, Immigration judge being paid off

🚨BOMBSHELL

Exclusive footage obtained by Townhall suggests judges can be bought with bribes in Ohio's immigration courts...and that's just the start of it.

"Okay, $50,000 I send everybody to you." pic.twitter.com/ZMA0yabaAi

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 20, 2026

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Big Story out of Ohio, Immigration judge being paid off

🚨BOMBSHELL

Exclusive footage obtained by Townhall suggests judges can be bought with bribes in Ohio's immigration courts...and that's just the start of it.

"Okay, $50,000 I send everybody to you." pic.twitter.com/ZMA0yabaAi

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 20, 2026

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Just crazy. This isn't an isolated thing either

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Virginia Democrats introduce bill to end mandatory minimum sentences for rape, manslaughter, and child pornography.

— Remarks (@remarks) January 20, 2026

Republicans are useless.

Democrats are evil.

Good thing Cal Basketball doesn't travel to Tobacco Road this week:

HISTORIC ICE STORM COMING - A destructive and potentially catastrophic ice storm is forecast to impact the south this weekend. Widespread ice will cripple travel, cause major power outages, and down trees. This is a rare high-impact event — potentially the worst in decades since… pic.twitter.com/1kLp1of0kX

— Dylan Federico (@DylanFedericoWX) January 20, 2026

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Good thing Cal Basketball doesn't travel to Tobacco Road this week:

HISTORIC ICE STORM COMING - A destructive and potentially catastrophic ice storm is forecast to impact the south this weekend. Widespread ice will cripple travel, cause major power outages, and down trees. This is a rare high-impact event — potentially the worst in decades since… pic.twitter.com/1kLp1of0kX

— Dylan Federico (@DylanFedericoWX) January 20, 2026

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Not a good weekend for a Louisville/Georgia Tech roadie.

I say this as someone who tried getting to work one night in freezing rain and realized about 6 blocks from home that I was going to total my car if I kept trying to go down hills. I couldn't get back home either, so I spent the night in my car in 30 degree weather. A passerby with a 4 wheel drive pickup gave me a ride home about 6:30 the next morning. It was 2 days before I could retrieve my car. In that time, someone slid into my parked car and did about $2000 damage to the rear fender. No note of course.

Spent last weekend in Disneyworld, Orlando. 50 degrees at night and no line for Tiana's Bayou Adventure, which gets you mildly wet. We did it - that's warm for us.

Got home to 3 degrees and snow on the driveway.

FWIW:

"More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States."

~ Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks, White Liberals (2005)
Book: https://amzn.to/4pRIIVA

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FWIW:

"More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States."

~ Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks, White Liberals (2005)
Book: https://amzn.to/4pRIIVA

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So you're suggesting slavery wasn't that bad because whattaboutism?

Also, I don't see how this qualifies as Breaking News. Sowell's quote is old enough to buy drinks in a bar.

Maybe the descendants of European slaves should petition Africa and the ME for reparations.

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FWIW:

"More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States."

~ Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks, White Liberals (2005)
Book: https://amzn.to/4pRIIVA

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^ Wow, the above is quite an addition to this forum. Almost hard to believe that someone would post it.

Yes, slaves existed in many societies throughout human history and it was not only Black people who were enslaved.

In the United States it was basically only Blacks who were enslaved. That's unique to our country. I've never lived in the Ottoman Empire.

I've never lived in the deep south between the 17th and 19th centuries either.

When slavery is mentioned, too many people automatically think of whites enslaving blacks. That is not even one-tenth of the story of slavery, which existed on every inhabited continent.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) June 10, 2020

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I've never lived in the deep south between the 17th and 19th centuries either.

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Yes, but at least you live in a country where there may still be downstream effects of Black slavery. Harder to make that argument for white slavery in North Africa.

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I've never lived in the deep south between the 17th and 19th centuries either.

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Yes, but at least you live in a country where there may still be downstream effects of Black slavery.

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A black person becoming the president of the United States?

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FWIW:

"More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States."

~ Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks, White Liberals (2005)
Book: https://amzn.to/4pRIIVA

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^ Wow, the above is quite an addition to this forum. Almost hard to believe that someone would post it.

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Many mixed-race people don't know they may qualify for double reparations!

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I've never lived in the deep south between the 17th and 19th centuries either.

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Yes, but at least you live in a country where there may still be downstream effects of Black slavery.

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A black person becoming the president of the United States?

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One who was not the descendant of a slave!

But of course, one Black president out of 45 doesn't really disprove anything!

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I've never lived in the deep south between the 17th and 19th centuries either.

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Yes, but at least you live in a country where there may still be downstream effects of Black slavery.

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A black person becoming the president of the United States?

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One who was not the descendant of a slave!

But of course, one Black president out of 45 doesn't really disprove anything!

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And none of us here owned slaves and most Americans aren't descendants of slave holders.

It disproves that black people can't do the same things white people can do because of systemic racism

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I've never lived in the deep south between the 17th and 19th centuries either.

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Yes, but at least you live in a country where there may still be downstream effects of Black slavery.

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A black person becoming the president of the United States?

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One who was not the descendant of a slave!

But of course, one Black president out of 45 doesn't really disprove anything!

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And none of us here owned slaves and most Americans aren't descendants of slave holders.

It disproves that black people can't do the same things white people can do because of systemic racism

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So you are disproving a point I was not making. Cool!

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I've never lived in the deep south between the 17th and 19th centuries either.

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Yes, but at least you live in a country where there may still be downstream effects of Black slavery.

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A black person becoming the president of the United States?

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One who was not the descendant of a slave!

But of course, one Black president out of 45 doesn't really disprove anything!

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And none of us here owned slaves and most Americans aren't descendants of slave holders.

It disproves that black people can't do the same things white people can do because of systemic racism

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So you are disproving a point I was not making. Cool!

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You said it didn't disprove anything, I provided you with something it disproved.

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I've never lived in the deep south between the 17th and 19th centuries either.

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Yes, but at least you live in a country where there may still be downstream effects of Black slavery.

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A black person becoming the president of the United States?

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Yes, we had a half Black President who's wife and family got perks like every other POTUS. I'm glad he survived eight years, but he took race relations back decades with his victimhood whining.

Amanda Anisimova was asked if what’s been happening in the U.S. over the last year complicates her feelings of playing under the American flag

“I’ve been asking a lot of the American players how it feels to play under the American flag right now. I’m curious how you feel..”… pic.twitter.com/hFMYBT05SE

— The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) January 22, 2026

Reporter tried to coax her into a negative answer and she handled it beautifully. God Bless America!

Alex Honnold's live climb of Taipei 101 draws excitement and concern | AP News https://apnews.com/article/alex-honnold-taipei-101-climb-netflix-0709f4d062923a09ff6da3786131fdd0

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Alex Honnold's live climb of Taipei 101 draws excitement and concern | AP News https://apnews.com/article/alex-honnold-taipei-101-climb-netflix-0709f4d062923a09ff6da3786131fdd0

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His Free Solo movie is one of my favorites to show in school. Great depiction of how attitude, preparation, and hard work paying off

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SNAP Fraud just keeps getting worse...

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Population barely changed, but SNAP doubled due to massive fraud https://t.co/MxEWwquS1I

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 22, 2026

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Amanda Anisimova was asked if what’s been happening in the U.S. over the last year complicates her feelings of playing under the American flag

“I’ve been asking a lot of the American players how it feels to play under the American flag right now. I’m curious how you feel..”… pic.twitter.com/hFMYBT05SE

— The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) January 22, 2026

Reporter tried to coax her into a negative answer and she handled it beautifully. God Bless America!

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I'm tired of athletes being held responsible for what their governments do and that goes for Russian athletes as well. Banning Russian players from tennis tournaments for something they had no say in is stupid political pandering.

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Amanda Anisimova was asked if what’s been happening in the U.S. over the last year complicates her feelings of playing under the American flag

“I’ve been asking a lot of the American players how it feels to play under the American flag right now. I’m curious how you feel..”… pic.twitter.com/hFMYBT05SE

— The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) January 22, 2026

Reporter tried to coax her into a negative answer and she handled it beautifully. God Bless America!

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I'm tired of athletes being held responsible for what their governments do and that goes for Russian athletes as well. Banning Russian players from tennis tournaments for something they had no say in is stupid political pandering.

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I absolutely agree

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I've never lived in the deep south between the 17th and 19th centuries either.

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Yes, but at least you live in a country where there may still be downstream effects of Black slavery.

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A black person becoming the president of the United States?

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One who was not the descendant of a slave!

But of course, one Black president out of 45 doesn't really disprove anything!

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Since you made the claim about the downstream effects of slavery, I think the burden is on you to prove something.

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Germany about face on nuclear power.

German Chancellor Merz admits shutting down Nuclear Energy Production was a "Severe Strategic Mistake"

"So, we are now undertaking the most expensive energy transition in the entire world," Merz said with pronounced frustration. "I know of no other country that makes things so expensive and difficult as Germany."

Germany is the largest economy in the EU and the industrial base. On top of this, what can Germany do in AI if they run on windmills and solar panels?

Add in China and a new trade reality with the USA, Germany is in a tough position. China is also using monies from the EU, who bought Chinese carbon credits, to drop the price of their EVs they're selling in the EU, undercutting the Euros.

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Here’s a video of the German delegation to the UN laughing at Trump for warning them about exactly this.
Are they still laughing, now? https://t.co/uxy890DlaL pic.twitter.com/yhEmUBuZ8c

— Matthew Murphy SDP 🇬🇧 (@merf_sdp) January 16, 2026

Remember more than 5 years ago when the German delegation laughed at Trump for claiming they will be dependent on Russian energy?

sycasey said:

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Yes, slaves existed in many societies throughout human history and it was not only Black people who were enslaved.

In the United States it was basically only Blacks who were enslaved. That's unique to our country. I've never lived in the Ottoman Empire.

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"in the United States it was basically only Blacks who were enslaved" is not true.

American Indians were often held as slaves, primarily by other tribes. These were usually taken in battle or by raids, often as booty after a battle or raid. This was likely going on long before the first white man (or black man) arrived in America. Tribes like the Comanche, Pawnee, Yurok, Utes, Paiutes, Navajo, and Klamath also practiced slavery.

It is true that American Indian tribes often held black slaves, and the Five Civilized Tribes, including the Cherokee Nation, established formal slave codes, adopting chattel slavery and its rules from white settlers.

It was also true in each of the 13 colonies, that some blacks held other blacks as slaves. One study found that there were 3,777 Negro slave owners who held Negro slaves in the United States.

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Thanks. I'll try and take a look at these.

PS: I just noticed I attained L status, same as you. I always considered your posts more entertaining than mine (A picture is worth a thousand words" as they say, and you have an incredible library of apropos photos and videos for a vast number of topics.)

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Yes, slaves existed in many societies throughout human history and it was not only Black people who were enslaved.

In the United States it was basically only Blacks who were enslaved. That's unique to our country. I've never lived in the Ottoman Empire.

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"in the United States it was basically only Blacks who were enslaved" is not true.

American Indians were often held as slaves, primarily by other tribes. These were usually taken in battle or by raids, often as booty after a battle or raid. This was likely going on long before the first white man (or black man) arrived in America. Tribes like the Comanche, Pawnee, Yurok, Utes, Paiutes, Navajo, and Klamath also practiced slavery.

It is true that American Indian tribes often held black slaves, and the Five Civilized Tribes, including the Cherokee Nation, established formal slave codes, adopting chattel slavery and its rules from white settlers.

It was also true in each of the 13 colonies, that some blacks held other blacks as slaves. One study found that there were 3,777 Negro slave owners who held Negro slaves in the United States.

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I would consider slavery between Indian tribes to have predated and operated outside of the formation of the United States, but thanks for the history lesson.

…..but I can't analyze a hoop game like you.



…..and since you are SFCB and Mr. San Francisco, you need to read this one:


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