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Tim Holmquist's avatar

Right on John. We have turned into a Banana republic with bribes and payoffs that have nothing to do with running the country. And it’s on both sides.

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Fair Dinkum Mate's avatar

Nailed it. Couldn't agree more.

Just another disgraceful addition to the long list of disgraceful acts this administration has racked up in a matter of months.

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Scott Harold Kidwell's avatar

Pretty impressive. Trump using taxpayer money to pay off the family of someone who so believed his self-promoting lies that she chose to commit violence and got herself killed in the process. And the Magaphiles around me refuse to see his actions for weeks in advance as contributory to her death.

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John A. Daly's avatar

What kills me is that Babbitt's family is still loyal to Trump, and likely also believe he won the 2020 election. If not for him, Ashli would still be alive.

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James Post's avatar

Something about actions having consequences. No argument with the Daly viewpoint.

If there is a reasonably analogous precedent for this "restitution", someone will have to show it to me.

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Conrad Pogorzelski's avatar

Brittany Griner comes to mine as a comparison.

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John A. Daly's avatar

How does she compare to anything I wrote about today?

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John D McCann's avatar

A better comparison would be the George Floyd protesters who burned a Minneapolis police station to the ground.

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Mike's avatar

Crazy … again! Aloha, Mike

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