What Shall We Make Today?

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This month’s popcorn recipe is Cinnamon Bun Popcorn!

Ingredients

10 cups popcorn kernels – popped. A little less than 1/2 cup of popcorn kernels will yield about 10 cups.

1 cup brown sugar – packed

1/2 cup butter

1/4 cup light corn syrup

1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

3 teaspoons vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

3 oz white chocolate or almond bark – melted (optional)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325°F, lightly grease a baking sheet or line with parchment paper for easy clean up.

Place the popped popcorn in a large bowl. 

In a medium saucepan add the brown sugar, butter, corn syrup, and salt. Place over medium heat and bring the mixture to a rolling boil, stirring frequently. Remove from heat and stir the mixture for 1 minute to cool it slightly. 

Add the cinnamon, vanilla, and baking powder to the sugar/butter mixture. Stir to combine.

Pour the sugar/butter mixture over the popcorn and toss to coat. Spread the popcorn mixture in a single layer on the baking sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until the sugar coating is set. (don’t overbake otherwise it will be HARD).

Allow the popcorn to cool slightly. 

Drizzle the melted white chocolate or almond bark over the popcorn, let set and then serve! 

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138 thoughts on “What Shall We Make Today?”

  1. One of my addictions is the sweet varities of popcorn – started with Cracker Jacks and popcorn balls as a child, then went on to Poppycock and baked caramel corn as I got older, now I love chocolate popcorn, kettle corn, and any other sweet popcorn I can find! 

    I even make air popped corn and throw on the M&Ms or chocolate chips and raisins, etc. when I’m desperate for a quick fix. 

    I just might try this recipe!  

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  4. Sean Davis

    @seanmdav

    Here’s what’s actually going on with the TikTok fight right now. Deep State toadies are taking advantage of anti-China sentiment to transfer TikTok’s surveillance apparatus from China’s evil surveillance state to the U.S. government’s evil surveillance state. TikTok isn’t going to be banned, because neither the CCP-run Chinese government nor the CCP-owned U.S. government wants to lose such a valuable tool for spying on Americans and poisoning the minds of their children. Instead, the corrupt U.S. intelligence bureaucracy wants control of TikTok, which is why it included the divestment mandate. Only a handful of U.S. companies are capable of buying and managing TikTok, and they already function as appendages of the Deep State surveillance apparatus. It’s not that the U.S. government wants to protect you from spying and data theft and manipulation. If only. No, the people behind the Russian collusion hoax, and the Kavanaugh hoax, and the natural origin COVID hoax, and the illegal warrantless spying, and the forced transing of your children—they want to be the ones spying on you and stealing your data and poisoning the minds of your children. Now, should a spying and subversion tool used by our communist enemies to destroy us be banned? Yeah, obviously, for the same reason that we never would’ve allowed the Soviet Union to infiltrate our homes with their own radios and television sets during the Cold War. But that’s not what’s happening here. Your government won’t even shoot down a Communist Chinese spy balloon, or prevent the Communist Chinese government from gobbling up your farmland, or stop the Communist Chinese government from stealing the products you make, dumping them into your market at below-market prices, and then driving you out of business. Heck, when the literal Chinese spy chief bought off the Biden family by funneling a million dollars to Hunter Biden, DOJ didn’t even bat an eyelash. There’s no evidence anywhere that the regime that currently controls America has any interest in fighting off China’s attempts to cripple our country economically, militarily, or diplomatically. But suddenly they want you to believe they’re deeply concerned about TikTok. I’m just not buying it, and neither should you.

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  6. i do not understand why these fathers are not literally beating the crap out of these pieces of shit. you touch my kid–I touch you back. as a parent we are supposed to protect our children!!

    Feisty Hayseed

    March 15, 2024 12:35 am

    Illegal migrant charged with assaulting girls at Maryland church was deported twice: ICE

    Ervin Jeovany Alfaro Lopez has been charged with sexually abusing four girls at a church in Maryland

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/illegal-migrant-charged-assaulting-girls-maryland-church-deported-twice-ice

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  7. Jello

    March 15, 2024 2:08 am

    EXCLUSIVE: Female Athletes Sue NCAA Over Transgender Competitors in Sports‘I was racing Olympic gold medalists and I was changing in a storage closet. My privacy and safety were being violated in the locker room.’

    By Francesca Block
    March 14, 2024

    https://www.thefp.com/p/exclusive-female-athletes-sue-ncaa-transwomen

    Over a dozen female athletes are suing the National Collegiate Athletics Association for letting transgender athletes compete against them and use female locker rooms in college sports.

    At the center of the class-action lawsuit is Lia Thomas, the trans athlete who dominated the 2022 NCAA Swimming Championships while a student at the University of Pennsylvania. The suit states that both the NCAA and Georgia Tech, which hosted the event, knowingly violated Title IX, the federal statute that guarantees equal opportunity for men and women in college education and sports.

    The lawsuit, the first federal action of its kind, seeks to change the rules, rendering any biological males ineligible to compete against female athletes. It demands the NCAA revoke all awards given to trans athletes in women’s competitions and “reassign” them to their female contenders. It also asks for “damages for pain and suffering, mental and emotional distress, suffering and anxiety, expense costs and other damages due to defendants’ wrongful conduct.” 

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  8. Avatar

    Donald J. Trump

    @realDonaldTrump

    John Barrasso is a fantastic Senator for the incredible people of Wyoming.

    He is running to be the next Republican Whip for the Senate Republican Conference, a very important job, to ensure we pass and enact Strong Legislation that puts America First. I know John very well — he will never let you down.

    John Barrasso has my Complete and Total Endorsement!Mar 14, 2024

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  9. ?????

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    Donald J. Trump

    @realDonaldTrump

    The things that took place at the Manhattan D.A.’s office, in conjunction with people from the DOJ put in charge of “getting TRUMP,” are truly a sight to behold. They illegally withheld thousands of pages of documents. Then you have the really shady “Pomerantz” issue, and wow, people have never seen anything like this one. This will make Fani and her “lover” look like small potatoes!!!

    Mar 14, 2024, 5:14 PM

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  12. Julie Kelly

    @julie_kelly2

    As I mentioned today, I think–based on Judge Cannon’s references to “arbitrary enforcement” and lack of historical precedent in charging presidents/VPs with Espionage Act–she is likely to dismiss case on selective prosecution grounds. What is VERY interesting is Jack Smith filed his opposition to Trump’s motion to dismiss on selective/vindictive prosecution grounds BEFORE Trump has filed the actual motion on the docket.

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  15. This needs to happen FAR more often, IMO!!! Parents need to be held responsible for their minor children’s actions! Kid was 17.

    By Charlotte Hazard, Just The News

    March 14, 2024 7:46pm

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “A Michigan jury convicted the father of a school shooter who murdered four of his high school classmates at his school of manslaughter on Thursday. 

    Prosecutors argued that James Crumbley, 47, carried some of the responsibility of his son’s fatal actions by ignoring warning signs, according to Reuters. His wife Jennifer Crumbley, 45, was found guilty of manslaughter last month.

    Their son, Ethan Crumbley, was sentenced to life in prison in December after he pleaded guilty in 2022 to two dozen charges, including terrorism and first-degree murder. 

    In addition to killing Tate Myre, 16, Hana St. Juliana, 14, Justin Shilling, 17, and Madisyn Baldwin, 17, Ethan Crumbley also wounded six students and a teacher.”

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      1. IDR the details for sure but I think so. Parents must be held legally responsible for their children’s behavior – period! Same principal with this TikTok BS – it is on the PARENTS for allowing them access to it! It’s the whole ridiculous “ban the book” theory in a digital format!

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        1. exactly…we were limited in our tv viewing time even on the weekends. we went outside…socialized/played with friends–real people…
          kids today are addicted to a screen–any screen

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  16. “Judge rules DA Fani Willis can stay on Trump election interference case”

    By Madeleine Hubbard, March 15, 2024 9:12am

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ Just The News: “A judge in Georgia ruled Friday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can remain on case in which former President Trump and 18 co-defendants are accused meddling in the 2020 election results.

    Special prosecutor Nathan Wade will also be allowed to remain on the case, ruled Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee, after hearing arguments that his a Wade’s personal relationship compromised the case.”

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      1. Actually, I’m glad you didn’t this time since it appears that JTN got it wrong about Wade. I’ll know now to be more wary of them.

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  17. “Mike Johnson Said WHAT About Ukraine Funding!?”

    WILLIAM UPTON @ National Pulse:

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is finalizing plans for a new bill that aims to increase U.S. funding for Ukraine’s defense measures, deviating from the recently approved $95 billion foreign aid package sent by the Senate. “I think it is a stand-alone, and I suspect it will need to be on suspension,” Johnson told POLITICO in an interview late on Thursday. He also indicated that separating funding for Ukraine and Israel was “under consideration.”

    The new proposal could take the form of a potential loan or lend-lease program, an option also pitched by former President Donald Trump last month. The notion borrows a leaf from the playbook of former President Franklin Roosevelt’s early strategy during World War II.

    Johnson is also considering a similar model to the REPO Act. Rep. Michael McCaul’s (R-TX) legislation would allow Biden government-seized Russian sovereign assets to be liquidated. The resulting funds would be channeled toward a Ukrainian support fund.

    Despite these plans, Johnson indicated that Ukraine funding would be secondary in priority to domestic federal government funding for the remainder of the fiscal year. When asked if he would consider attaching Ukraine funding to the next round of government funding bills due by March 22, he said: “I don’t think leaders of either side of the aisle think that’s a viable option.”

    The Republican House Speaker said he remains aligned with the more conservative members of his caucus — though many of those members continue to oppose additional funding for Ukraine. “Philosophically, I’ve always been aligned. It is the tactics that we disagree upon,” Johnson told POLITICO. He added: “I am a lifelong movement conservative, so there’s very little daylight between their core principles and mine. It’s the tactics that we have disagreements upon, but it’s never personal to me.”

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    1. no matter how you slice it…this is funding for ukriane that the ELECTORATE disagrees with….

      i don’t care how he “aligns” with other conservatives–how does he align with CONSTITUENTS??????

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        1. hope it gets appealed…I am reading comments that the judge said, yes she committed perjury but she can remain…waiting to see that in print…

          she can be and should be disbarred for committing perjury in court

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  22. President Trump’s lawyer response to McAfee’s decision

    “While respecting the court’s decision, we believe that the court did not afford appropriate significance to the prosecutorial misconduct of Willis and Wade, including the financial benefits, testifying untruthfully about when their personal relationship began, as well as Willis’ extrajudicial MLK ‘church speech,’ where she played the race card and falsely accused the defendants and their counsel of racism,” Steve Sadow, one of the attorneys representing Trump in Georgia, said. “We will use all legal options available as we continue to fight to end this case, which should never have been brought in the first place.”

    https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/03/15/judge-issues-ruling-fulton-county-da-fani-willis-disqualification-case/

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  25. Hokkoda

    Hokkoda

    March 15, 2024 11:22 am

    The judge in GA has created huge problems for himself. He’s admitting that Fani LIED IN OPEN COURT, yet tries to do some bizarre Solomon thing to split the baby. Either she goes or Wade goes.

    He’s doing this to avoid the obvious problem: they’re both liars and both were involved in the fraudulent indictment and fraudulent charges against Trump and Friends.

    He know s the entire case should be tossed and a mistrial declared. But he’s a left-wing ideologue, and it would end his political aspirations. No more parties with the cool people. His kids might have to go to Cornell, or even *gasp* a state school!

    Fani didn’t lie small. She lied big. That’s the problem the judge has because the foundation of the case, really any case, is the idea that the prosecutors aren’t outright liars. He’s now going to be faced with rulings later as to whether either Fani or Wade can be called as witnesses for the Defense in their own case.

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  27. Megyn Kelly

    @megynkelly

    Before this scandal was unearthed by defense attny Ashley Merchant, things were rolling along for Fani W. She’s now been publicly humiliated and disgraced. Her ethical & legal probs are only just beginning. I’m not at all confident she will try this case v Trump. She will be under multiple investigations by then. She gets to remain on the case thx to a judge who pulled a cowardly John Roberts. But her probs are only beginning … and getting Wade off of this case is a superhuman feat by the defense. He’s been outed (as has she) as a liar/schemer. So – not entirely what the defense wanted (or deserved) but still Team Trump is in much better shape today than 3 mos ago in GA.

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  29. another perspective

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    Shipwreckedcrew

    @shipwreckedcrew

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    McAfee’s ruling doesn’t solve his problem.

    The problem is that Willis is prosecuting folks for crimes quite similar to those that Willis has now committed herself.

    There is too much in the record, and McAfee forcing Wade off the case is tantamount to such a finding by him.

    Everything done up to this point is tainted by Wade’s involvement while having perjured himself and obstructed the family law court in his divorce.

    McAfee can’t find that didn’t happen.

    McAfee has only added to the “Clown Show” appearance of everything with his non-decision.

    Perjure yourself, obfuscate, and dissemble just to stay on the case …

    But hey, let’s let that same person see if she can send people to prison for perjury and obstruction.

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  30. when is enough enough?

    Troublemaker10

    March 15, 2024 10:31 am

    Haitian migrant charged with rape of 15-year-old girl entered via controversial parole program: sources

    Excerpt:

    A Haitian migrant now charged with rape of a 15-year-old girl at a Massachusetts hotel housing migrants was allowed into the U.S. by a controversial parole program that allows up to 30,000 migrants a month to fly into the country, sources tell Fox News…..

    …..The Department of Homeland Security recently said the process, which it describes as a “safe and orderly way to reach the United States” is a “key element” of the administration’s efforts to address high levels of migration throughout the Hemisphere.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/haitian-migrant-charged-rape-15-year-old-girl-entered-controversial-parole-program-sources

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  31. agree

    j x

    j x

    March 15, 2024 11:46 am

    Willis has perjured herself yet we are expected to believe – based on nothing but the liar’s say so – that she reimbursed Wade with cash. Willis, knowing the rules, to avoid appearing to violate the rules would have paid Wade with a check. But she didn’t. Liar in one thing, liar in all things. There is no reason to believe Willis reimbursed Wade with cash. 

    Willis has enriched herself by the mere existence of this case. A baseless case. A case designed to promote her career.

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  37. “Why the TikTok Ban is So Dangerous — Did they tell you the part about giving the president sweeping new powers?”

    MATT TAIBBI, MAR 15, 2024

    Nancy Pelosi speaks to reporters after an intelligence briefing on TikTok

    EXCERPT: “It’s funny how things work.

    Last year at this time, Americans overwhelmingly supported a ban on TikTok. Polls showed a 50-22% overall margin in support of a ban and 70-14% among conservatives. But Congress couldn’t get the RESTRICT Act passed. As the public learned more about provisions in the bill, and particularly since the outbreak of hostilities in Gaza, the legislative plan grew less popular. Polls dropped to 38-27% in favor by December, and they’re at 35-31% against now.

    Yet the House just passed the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” by a ridiculous 352-64 margin, with an even more absurd 50-0 unanimous push from the House Energy and Commerce Committee. What gives?

    As discussed on the new America This Week, passage of the TikTok ban represents a perfect storm of unpleasant political developments, putting congress back fully in line with the national security establishment on speech. After years of public championing of the First Amendment, congressional Republicans have suddenly and dramatically been brought back into the fold. Meanwhile Democrats, who stand to lose a lot from the bill politically — it’s opposed by 73% of TikTok users, precisely the young voters whose defections since October put Joe Biden’s campaign into a tailspin — are spinning passage of the legislation to its base by suggesting it’s not really happening.

    “This is not an attempt to ban TikTok, it’s an attempt to make TikTok better,” is how Nancy Pelosi put it. Congress, the theory goes, will force TikTok to divest, some kindly Wall Street consortium will gobble it up (“It’s a great business and I’m going to put together a group to buy TikTok,” Steve Mnuchin told CNBC), and life will go on. All good, right?

    Not exactly. The bill passed in the House that’s likely to win the Senate and be swiftly signed into law by the White House’s dynamic Biden hologram is at best tangentially about TikTok….”

    https://www.racket.news/p/why-the-tiktok-ban-is-so-dangerous

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  39. Truth Details

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    Kash Patel

    @Kash

    Pursuant to Fani Ruling, prosecutors in America can:

    1) Lie to the presiding judge,
    2) Bed the chief prosecutor in a case they are on,
    3) Make $$$$$ off of your prosecutions,
    4) Withhold ALL the above unethical/unlawful conduct from the judge, AND
    5) LIE under oath to the judge about your actions without any punishment.

    SwampBC and CNN loving this ruling for the same jacked up political thuggery this judge just displayed. Two tiers of justice and a disgusting display for American youth to aspire to.

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  40. EXCERPT: “On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could upend how social media platforms deal with posts containing anything from vaccine misinformation to election threats. 

    At the moment, various arms of the US government will communicate directly with platforms for all sorts of reasons. For example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) might email directly with someone at Facebook during a global pandemic, especially if Facebook wants to set up an information hub for its users. (You can imagine similar scenarios for voter misinformation, election integrity, and all kinds of public emergencies.) 

    The core question at issue in Murthy v. Missouri is whether the government can flag potentially harmful posts to social media companies without it turning into unconstitutional coercion of speech. (Coercion in this vein is generally called “jawboning.”) 

    These arguments come just weeks after the court heard another set of First Amendment challenges involving social media. In those cases, Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton, the court considered whether state laws legislating how social media companies could moderate posts on their sites violated the platforms’ own First Amendment rights….”

    https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/15/24101298/supreme-court-murthy-missouri-speech-social-media

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  41. this is an excerpt from Jeff Childers’ substack–a different take on the fani decision

    Overall, I found the decision well-written and well-reasoned, even if I disagreed with how the judge weighted certain things. (At one point, I noted the judge cited the Federalist papers, a sign of intelligence.) His baby-splitting remedy was driven by the legal distinction between the lack of an actual conflict of interest while finding the appearance of a conflict of interest.

    The case law provides different, less severe, remedies under the “appearance” standard. Most importantly, the judge cited a Georgia Supreme Court case saying he was required to consider a “range” of remedies, reserving disqualification or dismissal for only the most extreme cases where no other remedy will fix the problem.

    Having done that much, the judge didn’t do Fani any other favors. After reiterating that his hands were tied because he couldn’t find an actual conflict on the presented evidence, he commented rather extensively on Fani’s repeated bad choices and the ethical issues. He stopped short of accusing Fani and Nathan of lying, but said it sure smelled like lying to him:

    This finding is by no means an indication that the Court condones this tremendous lapse in judgment or the unprofessional manner of the District Attorney’s testimony during the evidentiary hearing. Rather, it is the undersigned’s opinion that Georgia law does not permit the finding of an actual conflict for simply making bad choices – even repeatedly – and it is the trial court’s duty to confine itself to the relevant issues and applicable law properly brought before it. Other forums or sources of authority such as the General Assembly, the Georgia State Ethics Commission, the State Bar of Georgia, the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, or the voters of Fulton County may offer feedback on any unanswered questions that linger.
    Wade’s patently unpersuasive explanation for the inaccurate interrogatories he submitted in his pending divorce indicates a willingness on his part to wrongly conceal his relationship with the District Attorney.
    An odor of mendacity remains. The Court is not under an obligation to ferret out every instance of potential dishonesty from each witness or defendant ever presented in open court. Such an expectation would mean an end to the efficient disposition of criminal and civil proceedings. Yet reasonable questions about whether the District Attorney and her hand-selected lead SADA testified untruthfully about the timing of their relationship further underpin the finding of an appearance of impropriety and the need to make proportional efforts to cure it.

    Both sides will appeal this ruling. By forcing Fani to quit or fire Nathan — which he knows she won’t do until she completes the appeal — the judge just deadlocked and effectively stayed the case until all appellate options have been exhausted. And once that process completes, assuming Fani survives all the other attacks coming her way outside the courtroom, then she will still have to deal with the dismissal of six key counts that the Judge entered two days ago.

    Thus, there is now zero chance of a trial before the November elections. And Trump still has a pending presidential immunity defense percolating through the Supreme Court that could knock the case out in the meantime while it sits idle.

    So I will go out on a limb and say, in my opinion, this very smart judge was playing four-D chess. This decision, though disappointing in the short term, might be much better in the long term than an outright disqualification would have been. Disqualification and dismissal are extreme remedies that would have been vulnerable to reversal by the wrong appellate panel. And it leaves a badly-injured DA floundering around the case.

    Judge McAfee is heading for an appellate court appointment regardless of what happens in his election.

    https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/exhaustion-friday-march-15-2024-c

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  44. Kemp signs this bill today

    ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law Wednesday that lets a state commission begin operating with powers to discipline and remove prosecutors, potentially disrupting Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ prosecution of former President Donald Trump.

    “This legislation will help us ensure rogue and incompetent prosecutors are held accountable if they refuse to uphold the law,” Kemp said before signing the bill, flanked by Republican legislative leaders. “As we know all too well, crime has been on the rise across the country, and is especially prevalent in cities where prosecutors are giving criminals a free pass or failing to put them behind bars due to lack of professional conduct.”

    https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/kemp-signs-georgia-law-reviving-prosecutor-sanctions-panel-108094402

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  45. Patience

    Patience

    March 15, 2024 2:57 pm

    Marjorie Greene

    @RealMarjorieGreene
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    Judge McAfee worked for Fani Willis and donated to her campaign AND has now ruled that Fani can keep prosecuting Trump but only if she removes her lover Nathan Wade off the case!

    Judge McAfee should have recused himself in the first place because of his obvious bias.

    Fani Willis lied under oath in his courtroom!

    Fani and Wade conspired with the White House and Jan 6th Committee, talk about RICO charges!

    Fani Willis overpaid her lover Nathan Wade as he had zero experience with RICO cases, abuse of taxpayer funds!

    And the Georgia Ethics board needs to seriously investigate both Fani Willis and Nathan Wade, I’ve filed multiple complaints!

    The corruption in Fulton County, Georgia is some of the worst in the nation.

    It makes most of us in Georgia sick.

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  46. “Even at that, it’s more than all the militaries on Earth, combined.

    Seeing what’s been going on at the Southern Border the last few years, I’m thinking that a whole bunch of them are going to start coming out of closets and dressers here very shortly. Especially the ones that the government has no idea even exist.”

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