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The reason why those on the right are attacking the Florida students with lies, hoaxes and smears is because of one thing — they know they can’t outsmart them when it comes to common sense. These articulate youngsters scare the heck out of them.

Why haven’t we put policies in place after the first school shooting to make sure it never happened again? Seems to me like it’s a job Congress should have addressed after the first one, and never have let it get to this point, where people are putting the blame on gun owners or the NRA that have pushed bills for school safety all along. It’s a total failure of the federal government to have let it get to this point in my opinion. How in the world does a student get through the door of a school with a gun in his backpack?

In his book, John Bolton wrote, “I had concluded that the Vietnam War was lost, and I made the cold calculation that I wasn’t going to waste time on a futile effort struggle.” So he dodged going to a war, yet he advocates for America going to war every chance he gets. These people have some very faulty wiring.

The Trump administration will add a question about citizenship on the 2020 census. This is not going to work. People will just avoid answering the question. You can’t force people to answer that question.

Can you imagine going into work for a staff meeting and having to highly praise your boss in order to keep your job? That’s what it’s like to work in the White House.

How does Fox News have a single viewer left? I guess that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.

Rick Santorum is as crazy as ever. He urges teens to “learn CPR” rather than protest, as though CPR is going to revive anyone after they’ve been attacked with an AR-15.

According to USA Today, hundreds of people allege that Trump does not pay his bills. In at least two cases there was nearly a half million dollars in legal fees and $94,511 in legal fees and costs. Would you go to work for free?

The popularity of Stormy Daniels with the Democrats has passed up Hillary Clinton. They are putting in place the process for Stormy to be the Democratic candidate for president of the United States in 2020.

To all of you Trump/Putin supporters, just make it easy on yourselves and move to Russia now. Save yourselves the grief later.

Trump fans insist that our youth should cease and desist with meddling in adult affairs. Given that the adults have saddled them with a $21 trillion in national debt, which is increasing by $1 billion dollars per DAY, I think that they have every right to speak up.

“And these children that you spit on/ As they try to change their worlds/ Are immune to your consultations/ They’re quite aware what they’re going through.” — David Bowie

As tarnished as their image often is, it speaks well of the legal profession, that no serious lawyer will come with 10 miles of Trump.

Most decent attorneys would never take a case that would require them to need their own legal representation.

“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.” The truth wins out every single time.

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