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Common Sense Coalition

Dems are doubling down on their failed platform to encourage resistance to the Trump Presidency. Many are totally denying reasons why they lost so badly.

Progressive governors, led by Gavin Newsom are trying to block efforts of Trump in their states.... they want to be "Trump proof". Idiots. NJ Governor, Phil Murphy who from day 1 in office pledged to make NJ just like California... just said he would resist "with every fiber in his body". I think he just doomed the candidacy of the next Dem nominee for governor.

I call what is growing on the Republican side the "Common Sense Coalition". NJ is ripe to turn red.
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NYT Opinion pieces on election

Stephens echoes my sentiments, exactly. And he's right. Dismiss him out of hand for being the conservative editorialist on the Times staff, but he voted for Harris, and opined against Trump in recent weeks.

A story in chess lore involves the great Danish Jewish player Aron Nimzowitsch, who, at a tournament in the mid-1920s, found himself struggling against the German master Friedrich Sämisch. Infuriated at the thought of losing to an opponent he considered inferior, Nimzowitsch jumped on the table and shouted, “To this idiot I must lose?”
It’s a thought that must have crossed the minds of more than a few liberal pundits and Democratic eminences late Tuesday night, as Kamala Harris’s hopes for winning the presidency began suddenly to fade.
How, indeed, did Democrats lose so badly, considering how they saw Donald Trump — a twice-impeached former president, a felon, a fascist, a bigot, a buffoon, a demented old man, an object of nonstop late-night mockery and incessant moral condemnation? The theory that many Democrats will be tempted to adopt is that a nation prone to racism, sexism, xenophobia and rank stupidity fell prey to the type of demagoguery that once beguiled Germany into electing Adolf Hitler.
It’s a theory that has a lot of explanatory power — though only of an unwitting sort. The broad inability of liberals to understand Trump’s political appeal except in terms flattering to their beliefs is itself part of the explanation for his historic, and entirely avoidable, comeback.


Why did Harris lose? There were many tactical missteps: her choice of a progressive running mate who would not help deliver a must-win state like Pennsylvania or Michigan; her inability to separate herself from President Biden; her foolish designation of Trump as a fascist, which, by implication, suggested his supporters were themselves quasi-fascist; her overreliance on celebrity surrogates as she struggled to articulate a compelling rationale for her candidacy; her failure to forthrightly repudiate some of the more radical positions she took as a candidate in 2019, other than by relying on stock expressions like “My values haven’t changed.”
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There was also the larger error of anointing Harris without political competition — an insult to the democratic process that handed the nomination to a candidate who, as some of us warned at the time, was exceptionally weak. That, in turn, came about because Democrats failed to take Biden’s obvious mental decline seriously until June’s debate debacle (and then allowed him to cling to the nomination for a few weeks more), making it difficult to hold even a truncated mini-primary.
But these mistakes of calculation lived within three larger mistakes of worldview. First, the conviction among many liberals that things were pretty much fine, if not downright great, in Biden’s America — and that anyone who didn’t think that way was either a right-wing misinformer or a dupe. Second, the refusal to see how profoundly distasteful so much of modern liberalism has become to so much of America. Third, the insistence that the only appropriate form of politics when it comes to Trump is the politics of Resistance — capital R.
Regarding the first, I’ve lost track of the number of times liberal pundits have attempted to steer readers to arcane data from the St. Louis Federal Reserve to explain why Americans should stop freaking out over sharply higher prices of consumer goods or the rising financing costs on their homes and cars. Or insisted there was no migration crisis at the southern border. Or averred that Biden was sharp as a tack and that anyone who suggested otherwise was a jerk.
Yet when Americans saw and experienced things otherwise (as extensive survey data showed they did) the characteristic liberal response was to treat the complaints not only as baseless but also as immoral. The effect was to insult voters while leaving Democrats blind to the legitimacy of the issues. You could see this every time Harris mentioned, in answer to questions about the border, that she had prosecuted transnational criminal gangs: Her answer was nonresponsive to the central complaint that there was a migration crisis straining hundreds of communities, irrespective of whether the migrants committed crimes.
The dismissiveness with which liberals treated these concerns was part of something else: dismissiveness toward the moral objections many Americans have to various progressive causes. Concerned about gender transitions for children or about biological males playing on girls’ sports teams? You’re a transphobe. Dismayed by tedious, mandatory and frequently counterproductive D.E.I. seminars that treat white skin as almost inherently problematic? You’re racist. Irritated by new terminology that is supposed to be more inclusive but feels as if it’s borrowing a page from “1984”? That’s doubleplusungood.

The Democratic Party at its best stands for fairness and freedom. But the politics of today’s left is heavy on social engineering according to group identity. It also, increasingly, stands for the forcible imposition of bizarre cultural norms on hundreds of millions of Americans who want to live and let live but don’t like being told how to speak or what to think. Too many liberals forgot this, which explains how a figure like Trump, with his boisterous and transgressive disdain for liberal pieties, could be re-elected to the presidency.

Last, liberals thought that the best way to stop Trump was to treat him not as a normal, if obnoxious, political figure with bad policy ideas but as a mortal threat to democracy itself. Whether or not he is such a threat, this style of opposition led Democrats astray. It goaded them into their own form of antidemocratic politics — using the courts to try to get Trump’s name struck from the ballot in Colorado or trying to put him in prison on hard-to-follow charges. It distracted them from the task of developing and articulating superior policy responses to the valid public concerns he was addressing. And it made liberals seem hyperbolic, if not hysterical, particularly since the country had already survived one Trump presidency more or less intact.

Today, the Democrats have become the party of priggishness, pontification and pomposity. It may make them feel righteous, but how’s that ever going to be a winning electoral look?

I voted reluctantly for Harris because of my fears for what a second Trump term might bring — in Ukraine, our trade policy, civic life, the moral health of the conservative movement writ large. Right now, my larger fear is that liberals lack the introspection to see where they went wrong, the discipline to do better next time and the humility to change.
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Dems Need To Take Out Garbage On Their Left

Bernie,AOC,The squad etc. who endorse open borders,anti Israel efforts,modern monetary theory ( printing money is ok no limits) sex change operations for convicts,men playing against women in sports etc.I expect some of their nut job followers and Iran will likely try to assinate Trump.Whenever they lose it is the voters fault not their childlike understanding of issues and policies.

Ticket for tomorrow

Hi everyone, I have an extra ticket for tomorrow’s Seton Hall Fordham game. I ordered 3 tickets and only me and the girlfriend will be going. I am picking these up at will call and will probably be there pretty early. So I could put the other ticket under someone else’s name. You can text me 908-892-6817 so we could figure out. Let me know!
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Pirates Visit St. John's in BIG EAST Championship Quarterfinal Clash


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South Orange, N.J. - Seton Hall men's soccer looks to avenge their regular season defeat when they travel to Queens, New York, to face St John's at Benson Stadium on Saturday in the BIG EAST Championship quarterfinals. Game time is scheduled for 5:00 p.m.

The game will be broadcast on the BIG EAST Digital Network via FloSports, which requires a subscription. A discounted subscription is available through this link.

The winner will move onto the BIG EAST Championship semifinals at the Maryland Soccerplex in Boyds, Maryland.

SERIES HISTORY
  • Seton Hall and St. John's last met on October 18, 2023, in the Pirates' penultimate road match of the season. The Pirates and Red Storm spent the majority of the opening stages in the midfield feeling each other out with few offensive chances. got out of the gates quickly, scoring in the seventh minute to take an early 1-0 advantage. In the 25th minute, St. John's drew a penalty kick after The Hall's Virgil Dall'Agnoll was given a yellow card for a handball in the box off a corner kick. St. John's Martin Kozak converted the kick to put the Red Storm up 1-0, despite keeper Soren Jensen nearly saving the ball. In the second half, the Pirates turned up the offensive pressure in search of an equalizer. Both Til Kauschke and Nico Rubio had good offensive opportunities in the first 20 minutes, but their shots either went wide or were saved, thus resulting in the 1-0 loss.
  • St. John's was able to extend its lead in the second half, as a goal from Nicolas Feuriau Chateau in the 59th minute made it a 3-0 game. The best chance of the night for the Pirates came in the 69th minute, when a pass towards the edge of the box found Sam Bjork, but the shot went too high.
  • This is the 47th matchup between the two programs, the first of which came in 1979.
  • Seton Hall is now 15-26-5 all-time against St John's, with a 3-2-1 record in their last six matchups.

SCOUTING ST. JOHN'S
  • St John's is 8-5-5 on the season with a 5-1-2 record in the BIG EAST.
  • Two of the Red Storm's four draws came against ranked opponents.
    • A 1-1 draw at No. 6 Marshall on September 14.
    • A 2-2 draw at the hands of No. 12 North Carolina on September 6.
  • They also defeated No. 18-ranked Georgetown on the final day of BIG EAST play.
  • There is a four-way tie atop the St John's goal leaderboard this season, with forward Miguel Diaz, midfielder Tyler Morck, midfielder Martin Kozak and forward Brady Geho all registering four goals this season. lead the Red Storm's offense with four goals each. Midfielder Julian Jakopovic leads St John's in assists as well with four on the season, followed by six players sitting on three total.
  • St John's goalkeeper Alec McLachlan has started 17 games for the Red Storm this season. So far, he has allowed 1.06 goals per game, logged 40 saves and registered three clean sheets this season.
  • The Red Storm have outshot their opponents 248-133 on the season.

PIRATES TOPPLE VILLANOVA IN ON SENIOR DAY 1-0
  • In the 15th minute, three graduating players combined for the Pirates' game-winning goal on Senior Day. Mans Saebbo pushed the ball into the box launching a cross across the endline. After bouncing off of Hugo Gerbore mid-cross, Sam Bjork launched the ball into the back off the net from the far post.
  • The Hall nearly scored a second goal in the 40th minute when Til Kauschke and Tim Strobeck both launched shots on goals in the span of 15 seconds, forcing two saves out of the Wildcats' keeper.
  • Despite being outshot 5-2 in the second half, Matias Molina and the Pirates defense held strong, securing the 1-0 victory for the Pirates.
  • Sam Bjork scored his second goal of the season.
  • Mans Saebbo registered his first assist of the season.
  • Hugo Gerbore registered his second assist of the season.
  • It was the 41st all-time matchup between the two programs, the first of which came in 1984.
  • Seton Hall is now 32-16-2 all-time against Princeton with a 3-1-1 record in their last five matches.
PREPARE THE CANNONS FOR AN OFFENSIVE ATTACK
  • Seton Hall's offense has come from a variety of sources this season.
    • 12 different players have scored a goal.
      • Six players have two or more goals.
    • 12 different players have assisted on a goal.
    • Nine different players have registered at least two goals and/or assists.
    • 19 different players have put a shot on goal.

Pirates Host UConn, Providence This Weekend


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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2024 at 5:00 PM
SETON HALL (9-14, 3-9) vs. CONNECTICUT (20-4, 8-4)
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. - WALSH GYMNASIUM
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2024 at 5:00 PM
SETON HALL (9-14, 3-9) vs. PROVIDENCE (7-16, 0-12)
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WEEKLY STATS REPORT: SETON HALL
2024 BIG EAST STANDINGS
2024 BIG EAST STATISTICAL LEADERS

PREVIEW

Seton Hall will return to action this weekend for a pair of BIG EAST Conference home contests in Walsh Gymnasium. On Friday, The Hall will host Connecticut and on Saturday, the Pirates will welcome Providence. Both matches will begin at 5:00 p.m.

MEDIA
Both contests will be streamed by the Pirate Sports Network and available for FloSports subscribers. Both will also be heard on either 89.5 FM WSOU or wsou.net and Live Stats will be available. Friday's contest against UConn will also be shown on SNY on Saturday, Nov. 9 at 10:00 a.m.

PROMOTION
Friday night is Beach Night!! We'll be giving out free sunglasses and lip balm/sunscreen!!

HALL NOTES
  • On Oct. 5 at UConn, Perri Lucas became only the 12th player in Seton Hall history to reach the milestone of 1,000 kills for her career. At Butler on Oct. 18, she broke into Seton Hall's career top-10.
  • Against Butler on Oct. 18, Maddie Klungel collected her 2,000th career assist.
  • Asli Subasili is currently tied for fourth in the BIG EAST with 0.41 aces per set and sixth with 1.01 blocks per set.
  • The Hall closed out the non-conference portion of its schedule with a 6-5 record.
  • Maddie Klungel has collected a team-high nine double-doubles this season.
  • Maddie Klungel ranks seventh in the BIG EAST with 7.63 assists per set. She has now topped 30 assists in 11 of the last 13 matches.
  • With 32 attacks on Sunday, Lucas moved into seventh place on Seton Hall's career attacks list. She now has 3,069 for her career.

LAST TIME AGAINST CONNECTICUT
Graduate student Perri Lucas (Chicago, Ill.) recorded her 1,000th career kill, but the Pirates fell at Connecticut in four sets, 3-1 (19-25, 16-25, 25-21, 23-25), on Oct. 5.

Sophomores Maddy Loiselle (Tampa, Fla.) and Senna Roberts-Navarro (Honolulu, Hawaii) collected 10 kills apiece to lead The Hall's offense. Junior Hadlee Ackerman (Atlanta, Ga.) had a career-high 18 digs, while Maddie Klungel (Napa, Calif.) tallied 34 assists and nine digs.

SCOUTING CONNECTICUT
Connecticut is in the midst of a resurgent season and enters the weekend with an impressive 20-4 overall record and an 8-4 mark in BIG EAST play. UConn is coming off a pair of victories last week, a four-set win in Providence on Oct. 30 and a sweep of Butler at home on Nov. 2. Prior to last week, the Huskies had lost two in a row, most notably a five-set loss at Xavier… a team The Hall just swept in Cincinnati.

UConn is currently tied with DePaul for third place in the BIG EAST Conference. The top six teams will qualify for the BIG EAST Tournament.

Connecticut's Emma Werkmeister leads the BIG EAST with 0.68 aces per set and ranks second with 3.80 kills per set.

LAST TIME AGAINST PROVIDENCE
Seniors Jenna Walsh (Foothill Ranch, Calif.) and Maddie Klungel (Napa, Calif.) had double-doubles as the Pirates rallied for a five-set victory over Providence, 3-2 (25-20, 21-25, 22-25, 25-21, 15-12), on Oct. 4. The Hall trailed after three sets, but largely dominated the last two. In fact, the Pirates trailed only briefly after the conclusion of the third set, 1-0 and 2-1 in set five.

Walsh had a season-high 18 kills, only five attack errors, 12 digs and two blocks. Klungel had a career-high 52 assists to go with 13 digs and four blocks. Sophomore Maddy Loiselle (Tampa, Fla.) matched her career-high with 17 kills, while senior Perri Lucas (Chicago, Ill.) added 13 kills.

SCOUTING PROVIDENCE
Providence enters the weekend with a 7-16 overall record, which includes a 0-12 mark in BIG EAST play. The Friars have lost 12 straight matches, seven of which were sweeps. Most recently, Providence lost in four sets at home to Connecticut on Oct. 30 before being swept by Butler on Nov. 2.

Looking specifically at their defense, the Friars rank last in the BIG EAST in digs per set and second-to-last in blocks per set.

UP NEXT
Next week, The Hall will head back on the road for a pair of BIG EAST Conference matches. On Friday, Nov. 15, Seton Hall will head to Omaha for a match at Creighton. Two days later, the Pirates will visit Marquette in Milwaukee.
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Complete Pirate Effort Leads to Dominant Result, 84-40


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All 10 Pirates played at least five minutes and scored at least three points.
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – Graduate student Faith Masonius (Spring Lake, N.J.) had a career-high 23 points as the Seton Hall women's basketball team routed Wagner, 84-40, in the season-opener Thursday in Walsh Gym.

The Hall trailed Wagner, 14-13, with 4:24 left in the first quarter, but outscored them, 71-26, the rest of the way. The suffocating Seton Hall defense forced 26 turnovers and held the Seahawks to just 33.3% shooting from the floor.

Playing in her first regular season game in a Seton Hall uniform, Masonius filled the box score with 23 points, six rebounds, three steals and four assists, one of which was a high-light reel, behind-the-back dime to Kaydan Lawson (Cleveland, Ohio).

Graduate student Yaya Lops (Stamford, Conn.) finished with 15 points, a new high for her Seton Hall career, to go with six rebounds. Amari Wright (Jacksonville, Fla.) nearly had a double-double, finishing with nine points, 10 assists, only one turnover and four steals.

THE STORY:
After a closer-than-expected first quarter, the Pirates put the pedal to the metal in the second quarter. Wagner didn't score until the 4:31 mark as The Hall opened the quarter with a 17-0 run. The run extended to 21-1 before the Seahawks finally connected on their first field goal of the quarter. In all, the Pirates shot 65 percent in the second quarter and outscored Wagner, 28-to-6, to take a 50-22 lead into halftime.

Seton Hall started the second half fast as well. Masonius found Lops for a layup to cap a 9-0 Pirates run to start the third quarter and extend their lead to 59-22 with 6:28 remaining in the quarter.

With 7:28 left in the game, a Lops layup gave The Hall its largest lead of the game, 78-32.

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THE NUMBERS:
  • Seton Hall was 35-for-64 (54.7%) from the floor for the game, while Wagner was 16-for-48 (33.3%). Both teams were exactly 7-for-23 (30.4%) from three-point range.
  • Masonius had a career-high 23 points on 11-for-17 shooting to go with six rebounds, four assists and three steals.
  • The Hall out-rebounded Wagner, 38-to-25, which included a 13-to-8 edge on the offensive glass and an 18-to-4 advantage in second-chance points.
  • Lops had 15 points and six rebounds.
  • Seton Hall was 7-for-8 (87.5%) from the free-throw line, while Wagner was 1-for-4 (25.0%).
  • Wright had nine points, 10 assists, four steals, four rebounds and only one turnover.
  • Seton Hall forced 26 turnovers, while the Seahawks forced 15. The Hall had a 30-to-8 advantage in points-off-turnovers.
  • The Pirates dominated Wagner, 50-to-12, on points in the paint.
THE NOTES:
  • Seton Hall improves to 1-0 on the young season, while Wagner drops to 1-1.
  • The Pirates have now won 14 straight season-openers, which includes all 12 with head coach Anthony Bozzella at the helm.
  • The Hall is now 11-2 all-time against Wagner and has won the last seven games in the series.
  • The Pirates improve to 127-49 in Walsh Gym during the Bozzella era. Furthermore, the Pirates are now 65-12 against non-conference opponents at home.
  • Five newcomers made their Seton Hall debuts on Thursday: Masonius, Lawson, Nicole Melious (Staten Island, N.Y.), Savanna Jones (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Messiah Hunter (Hopewell, Va.).
  • After spending her entire freshman year rehabbing an injury, Sydnee Eggleton (Thomaston, Conn.) scored her first career points on her first career shot… a three-pointer.
  • All 10 Pirates played at least five minutes and scored at least three points.
  • It's Seton Hall's largest victory in a season-opener since last time it met Wagner on opening day, a 95-40 victory on Nov. 6, 2018.
  • With four steals tonight, Wright moved into sole possession of 18th place on Seton Hall's career list with 158.


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UP NEXT:
Seton Hall will return to action on Tuesday, Nov. 12 when it hosts local non-conference rival Fordham. Tip-time is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. The game will be streamed live by the Pirate Sports Network and available for FloSports subscribers.

The Top 20 - St Peter's


1. Ow my eyes, my eyes.

Last night set the game of college basketball back to the days of the set shot.


2. Did our coach make a MAJOR mistake?

He sure as heck did and he admitted as much in the post game before I had the chance to question him. Up 32-20 late in the half Sha chose this time to get his younger players some PT. Bad move and the result was a finishing run by the Peacocks of 7-0 getting them back in the game. That momentum continued in the second stanza leading to St Peter's biggest lead of 4 points at around the 8 minute mark.


3. Sha learned his lesson.

From that point on, with the help of offsetting T's (Gus) the Pirates went with their experienced lineup and took control of the game.


4. How shocked were you?

I certainly was seeing the starting lineup of Dual, Addae-Wusu, Jenkins, Aligbe and Godswill. The slow start was certainly not unexpected.


5. Turnovers are best left where they belong. In the bakery.

The Pirates had 15 mostly unforced turnovers. But those turnovers led to 19 of St Peter's 53 points.


6. That's foul.

When the Pirates hit 10 of their first 11 shots from the foul line I said wow. Then the stench. SHU finished the rest of the game hitting 14 of their last 26 attempts at the stripe.


7. Not surprising.

Remember when I said Scotty M didn't look good when I saw him shoot foul shots because he shoots line drives. Well last night he was 1-3 from the stripe. I have a feeling that is going to be an issue.


8. The D rules.

The Pirates have many plus defenders. That includes Addae-Wusu, Dual, Jenkins, Middleton, Harmon and Coleman who was injured and did not play. The issue will be do they have an anchor to defend the backside? Not sure they do unless Okorafor is that guy. Not sure when he'll be back.


9. The look.

Some players just have that look during the game. Despite how they're playing they catch your eye. For the Pirates Jenkins has that look. He's quick, he's intense and he's athletic. It's no coincidence he has been the leading scorer in all three games for the Pirates.


10. Ouch

In the post game Holloway had his right wrist taped. He wasn't specific but it happened at halftime, He believes it's broken.

Wall 1 SHU coach 0. Intensity is usually good when not taken to extremes.


11. The refs

Usually when the refs are blowing whistles all game long you complain by saying what the hell are they doing? But not last night. They saw what we all saw. The game was that bad.


12. Take a Bus.

The crowd loves the Gus Bus. But it was very plain to see that he must get into better shape. He had mono and then a badly sprained ankle this summer so he couldn't work out That is evident seeing him on the court.


13. Jerry is seldom wrong.

But this morning while waiting in line to vote I read this from him.

During the presser, when a reporter asked about the turnovers, someone else in the room muttered, "unforced."
Holloway heard it and asked: "Who said that?" No one fessed up, so Holloway continued: "Yes. Unforced turnovers." He attributed them to "first-game jitters."

I actually did fess up and Holloway looked directly at me when he said yes, unforced turnovers.


14. Play of the game.

Toumi's late block after letting the offensive player get past him. That layup would have cut the lead to one. The following defensive rebound and foul by the Peacocks clinched the game for the Hall.


15. Not last night.

When a team shoots 31.8% from the field. 31.3% from the arc. And 64.9% from the stripe with 15 turnovers to 10 assists you do not walk off the court with a W.


16 Not yet.

Dual has the size and flash of his predecessor Kadary Richmond. But he is not yet in his class. What I did like last night was his D and intensity. That travels well regardless of the competition.


17. Last night he deserved it.

Ken Pomeroy take a bow!


18. Bound to happen?

Sure they're scrappy. But there is no way St Peter's should be out-rebounding the Pirates 35-32. Manny where are you???


19. When is 20 minutes not enough?

Well, maybe watching a practice for that long. In the 5 on 5 game I witnessed Addae-Wusu and Middleton were the no doubt about it best two players on the court. Last night they shot a combined 3 -13 from the floor and 2-7 from the stripe. Hoping for better days ahead.


20. At 10PM.

In a game with 9 lead changes and 8 ties going down to the final seconds you have just watched an exciting game. As I walked down to the presser I wondered if a single person in the arena felt that way.

Trump!

People all over the country are struggling to make ends meet because of the inflation related to Biden/Harris policies.

North Carolina residents got crushed only to recieve $750 while migrants get thousands of $.

Did anyone really think Harris was the answer when she evidently could not speak without a script or list any of her policies?

America still has some sense and I can’t wait to see Ukraine and Israel wars over Asap
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