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Snopes.com Verified to be a Hoax – According to Snopes.com

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We have all visited  the myth-busting web site Snopes.com to verify a legend or rumor swirling around the Internet. Whether it be politics, urban legends and the such, Snopes is committed to tracking down the truth or falsity of every Internet claim, no matter how credible or far-fetched. 

Thanks to Snopes.com, I no longer fear flesh-eating bananas from Costa Rica, venomous Canadian grasshoppers or deadly rat droppings in my box of Special K cereal which will cause my internal organs to turn to mush and my head explode. 

I no longer worry that downloading Adele albums to my computer will trigger a virus that will erase my computer’s hard drive on Christmas morning. I don’t fear that the police officer who is about to pull me over for an illegal left turn might in reality be a raging psychopath impersonating a cop, intent on killing me so he can eat my kidneys. Thanks to Snopes, I am no longer paralyzed with fear at the thought of leaving my bathroom.

So imagine my shock when I found out this week that Snopes decided to research claims that Snopes itself was a hoax. Snopes, true to its commitment, conducted an in-depth investigation. Stunningly, Snopes concluded that in fact there was no credible evidence to support the existence of Snopes, and reported its findings at its web site, Snopes.com. 

But interestingly, Snopes then conducted a further investigation and discovered something even more perplexing: Its subsequent study concluded that the alarmist claims by Snopes that it does not exist were in fact just a nefarious hoax, and that Snopes was in fact real after all. It pointed to reams of statistical reports showing thousands of daily web site visits, to debunk claims that it did not exist. But it didn’t end there. Shortly after that study, yet another Snopes investigation was launched, aiming this time to determine whether or not the previous Snopes report – which had reported that the Snopes report claiming that Snopes.com was a hoax, was itself a hoax – was in fact a hoax or not. 

As of this writing, the answer is still uncertain. It appears that Snopes has been caught in some carnival “funhouse of mirrors” endless loop of claims and counter claims about its own existence. As a result of this chain reaction of Snopes investigations into its own existence, the entire bank of Snopes web servers finally overloaded and crashed – that is, if we are to believe that those web servers ever existed in the first place. 

So how will I know what’s true anymore? I don’t know what to believe. Without Snopes.com, I won’t know whether I should refuse to accept anyone’s business card ever again because it could be soaked in a dangerous drug which will completely erase my memory and make me believe I'm Joan Crawford. I worry about whether I might be asked by a company’s customer service automated phone menu to “please press #-9-0” – only to end up accidentally turning over my credit card information to Bulgarian Internet pornographers who will go on a shopping spree at Tiffany’s using my Discover credit card. And how will I ever know for sure whether those two cats living in my house these past 6 years are really not aliens from another planet deposited in my house for the sole purpose of spying on me and driving me insane? One can never be too cautious these days.

Without Snopes.com to turn to for answers, I am confused and bewildered. But there are a few  things I do know for a fact:

• Watching 50 hours of NOVA episodes on PBS will grow new brain cells and actually make you smarter – FALSE! (However, it IS true that watching even a single episode of THE VIEW can potentially destroy up to 10,000,000 brain cells)

• Eating a diet consisting of nothing but broccoli and tuna fish for four months will enlarge your breast. – Totally FALSE! (Don’t ask me how I know, but I do. Just trust me.)

• Using cell phones while fueling up at a gas station leads to brain cancer in mice – FALSE! (As to why mice were using cell phones at gas stations, that’s a question scientists still refuse to answer.)

• Watching Fox News more than an hour a week will lead to incurable insanity – TRUE/FALSE (Technically, scientists now think this only poses a serious mental health risk if you are exposed to the Sean Hannity show for prolonged periods.)

So be vigilant my friends. There are people out there intent on messing with your minds....

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So, Tulsi Gabbard Is Now A Russian Tool?

Besides yelling racism at everyone, the democrat party and their media stenographers have only one other play in the playbook at this point, Russia. Anything they don’t like is Russia’s fault. Do you eat hamburgers? You’re probably a Russian sympathizer according to The Washington Post. Everything is tied to Russia, no matter how nonsensical the charge is. It never stops and that means it’s not going to stop in the Democratic primaries either.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard absolutely wrecked Kamala Harris at the last debate. In response, Kamala Harris picked herself up off the floor and gave a riveting counter to the attacks on her record.

Just kidding.......before Gabbards microphone had a chance to cool off, the Voodoo Queen's Press Sec. was tweeting out accusing Gabbard of being a Russian agent. No really......

 And it just took off from there.

Wait, you mean to tell me that Russia Today reported on the most explosive exchange at the debate? The same exchange that ever other media outlet on earth reported on? Well, this changes everything.  Stengal has no proof that Russia started the #KamalaHarrisDestroyed hashtag. It’s a baseless accusation that mirrors many other baseless claims about evil Russians controlling social media.

Couldn’t it just be that Kamala Harris a very unlikable person and terrible politician who has no business running for President. No, the only reason Gabbard attacked her is because the Russians made her do it. Do you sense trend yet?

Even the Exalted Nutty Negress of MSNBC’s Joy Reid, who’s never met a conspiracy theory she didn’t love, chimed in as well.

These people are batshit crazy and this is a preview of the general election. Every single bit of positive news for Donald Trump is going to be blamed on the Russians. We are going to get countless evidence free think pieces about Russian trolls, bots, and social media campaigns. All of this will be spun to paint Trump as being helped by the Russians. You can also bet there will be some fresh conspiracy theories dealing with Russian contacts by the Trump campaign. Why? Because they have nothing to actually run on. 

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Julio Julio, You're ‘Freaking Everybody Out’

Julian Castro and Stunt Double Joaquin 

NB - One of the great things about the Democratic primary debates so far, is how they so clearly expose the radical nature of today’s Democratic Party. That fact wasn’t lost on CNN following the second debate as they grilled former HUD Secretary Julian Castro; urging him to find another way to campaign on immigration and not call for “decriminalizing” illegal border crossings, a.k.a. “open borders.”

CNN’s struggle with Castro was perfectly encapsulated in the back and forth between the candidate and commentator Van Jones, who urged for another solution because the current proposal was “freaking everybody out”: “I mean, is there some other answer, man? Cause, your answer has got the right motivation to try to protect those kids. But it seems like it’s causing political problems,” Jones whined.

Chief political analyst Gloria Borger cautioned Castro Trump would attack his plan if he was nominated. "You’ll be running against Donald Trump, who wants to build a wall. And they can say about you: open borders. Open borders. All you want to do is open borders.  How do you respond to that quickly and say, ‘I really don't want to have open borders’ when you want to decriminalize?"

After Castro argued that any suggestion he was in favor of open borders was an untrue Republican talking point, senior political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson countered by pointing to a former Obama administration official who felt the same way:  "You said it's a right-wing Republican talking point. But it's also Jeh Johnson’s talking point the DHS secretary wrote where he said your plan to decriminalize the immigrants crossing into the border illegally; he said It was essentially open borders. So, it isn't a Republican talking point."

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It's very telling that Democrats in the Media are beginning to freaking out that their slate of candidates are so open and brazenly campaigning for such radical things like open borders and free healthcare for the entire western hemisphere's poor population that will overrun the borders, and that will most certainly cost them another election. They themselves helped create this monster.  Carry On!

Remind Me Again of Who's Extreme??

When third tier candidates polling at 0% and Marianne Sparkleshine Stardust Williamson sound like the most sane candidates on the debate stages, the Dems have a real problem calling anyone extreme. And Joe Biden could soon find himself just wreckage on the outside shoulder of a tight left-hand curve......

For the last decade or so a cottage industry had been building around the demand for analysis demonstrating how the Republican Party had become too extreme. By the time Vox got around to the subject, the American electorate had delivered control of every seat of power in Washington to the GOP.  For all the lectures about how Republican voters had supposedly sequestered themselves in self-radicalizing cloisters, the self-righteous left are just as disinclined to look at them selves in the mirror.  But even shaded by a sympathetic media, they may not be able to avoid critical self-examination for much longer.

Democratic voters, fed a constant diet of how bad America is,  are increasingly adopting a brand of extremism all their own. DJT's opponents recently reveled in the fact that a majority of Americans surveyed in a poll sponsored by the president’s favorite news network agreed that Trump’s “go back” tweets constituted a “racist” attack on his opponents.

What they DID NOT dwell on is this: The poll found myriad policy positions that are well within the mainstream of the Democratic Party but anathema to most Americans.

* Would it be a “good thing” if the United States became a little less capitalist and a little more socialist? Fifty-three percent of Democrats agreed. 

* Should undocumented immigrants be eligible for free health care? 32 percent say “yes". 

* How about “decriminalizing” illegal border crossing? 49 percent of Democrats agreed. 

This isn’t the only poll to find the Democratic base out of step with the country. Among all adults polled this month by Gallup, only 29 percent believe the U.S. should commit to providing the descendants of African slaves with reparations in the form of wealth transfers. 49 percent of democrats agreed.

Democrats seeking their party's nomination seem perfectly willing to tailor their policy preferences to their party’s ascendant minority extremists. Bernie has devoted precious time on the campaign trail to stripping “socialism” of its stigma. Senator Lizzy and Julio La Raza advocate changes to the criminal code and make illegal entry into the country no more serious than spitting on the street. And at least six presidential candidates have endorsed slavery reparations in one form or another. Nearly half of the sprawling field of 2020 Democratic candidates support giving illegal immigrants free healthcare and full benefits, though “moderates” like Joe Biden can’t commit to anything more than liking banana pudding over chocolate.

The Democrat field appears so committed to radical one-upmanship that they’ve even begun embracing policies that have the support of no constituency whatsoever. Every Democrat in the race has endorsed making D.C. the nation’s 51st state, an idea that most everyone opposes regardless of ideology, party affiliation, or region.

And all y'all Rayssist!  

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Quick Recap of Night 1 / Round 2 of Dem's Race for the Cliff

Stilton Done This

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Your CNN 'People of No Color For President' Debate Preview

CNN has chosen to grace America with yet another double-header democratic debate featuring half of the 679 candidates scrambling for the democrat nomination, VP and cabinet positions in the presidential administration of Marianne Williamson.

Beclowning themselves last week, CNN gave us Wolff Blitzer and a debate lineup selection show more reminiscent of a mix of bingo game night and a bad game show, the only thing missing was Steve Harvey and bad jokes between selections. Then this morning the 'Most Trusted Name In News" started an extravaganza of wall to wall coverage at a windblown desk outside the Fox Theater in Detroit that looked more like the ESPN's College Game Day broadcast, with a crowd waving Biden 2020 signs instead of  'Go Bama' and big "We're #1" foam rubber hands in the background and anchored by the always lovely Brook Baldwin looking her usual victim of a head on collision with a Max Factor Makeup truck.  Coverage was later taken over by the network's resident carnival barker impersonator, Fredo Cuomo.  My question is who's running CNN these days, the National Lampoon????

So Here America Is Your Candidate Debate Starting Lineup: 

Bernie Sanders, Lizzy Warren, Pete Buttigieg, BetoKlobucharTimRyanThreeOtherTimRyans and of course, President Marianne Williamson.

And so you don't have to watch, here is a preview of the only things of any importance that both nights major players will probably say that they haven't already said a thousand times in a nutshell (literally a nutshell):

Bernie Sanders: I AM RELEVANT! AND EVERYONE SUCKS BUT ME! TRUMP IS A RACIST.

Lizzy Warren: I have many detailed plans for solving the problems that America faces. I've brought Powerpoints. Trump is a racist. 

Pete Buttigieg: I am a nice safe white man who also happens to be gay. Trump is a racist

Beto: I am also a nice safe white man. But not gay. Unless being gay would get me votes. I could be gay. Please vote for me...Please??

Harris: I'm a former prosecutor. I will fucking gut Donald Trump like a fish live on national TV if you let me. The Motherf**ker is a racist!

Biden: Hey, kids, I'm not old. Uncle Joe is hip. Look, I can floss! Hey, you're attractive. How old are you? 13? Well, your brothers better keep an eye on you.

DJT: Get a load of these tremendous losers America. Look at them!

Moderator: Mr. Trump, you're not supposed to be here.

DJT: Many people are saying I should be. Many people.

Marianne Sparkleshine Stardust Williamson: If we just focus on the love, the light of the universe from the third eye shall shine down upon us and bask us with the warmth of feeling and bring harmony together across the globe. *lights incenses stick*

You're Welcome!