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Americans should be concerned about trespassers on January 6th being treated as political prisoners by OUR government & languishing in a DC jail for 3+ years. Similiar to our southern border crisis the government decides where our attention should be directed & it’s always at the atrocities abroad & never at what they’re doing at home.

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Its interesting how Americans couldn’t care less about other journalists and public figures; like Gonzalo Lira, Julian Assange, etc

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Sadly, at this point my mind immediately goes to "Did we have him killed?" and "Do we benefit from this action, or does Putin?"

In this case, I don't like either answer.

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Epstein didn't kill himself.

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US is under military rule - see today’s Tucker — #74

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Biden regime was pretty much silent about US citizen Gonzalo Lira dying in an Ukrainian prison.

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Navalny had completely been forgotten and erased from memory over the last 1.5 years or so. Agree with Jordan about cheerleading Putin or Russia in general, but this makes zero sense to have him killed and have him catapult to the top of the news cycle. And Putin may be many things, but he is not this dumb.

Qui Bono? indeed....

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martyr: Navalny? sad that he passed away but elevating him to a Martyr is the lefts way to paint Putin as a bad guy, and making the nation to take our eye's off the issues of the land. Now I'm not praising Putin but after Truckers interview. the left went nuts. Doing all they can to divert all attention from Biden and his destruction of the nation. The US government is no saint. We have killed many but then claim it was all over nations security. We can morn Navalny passing but I will not elevate him. The media and Government tells the public who to hate. I'm not balling for the media's BS Sorry

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Meanwhile, over 80 journalists were killed last year. Killed for being journalists, that is, which includes both political motives and being in a danger zone, such as Gaza.

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Thank you.

Two things--or many, of course--may be simultaneously true. A guy who orders polonium tea to be served to his real or perceived enemies is not an admirable leader. And an idiot with a martyr complex who didn't have the wit to stay abroad, where he was lionized, and chose instead to return heroically to a place where he had zero ability to effect anything at all beyond outraged headlines in the West is just, in the scheme of things, an idiot.

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"...it’s worth asking why exactly my fellow Americans are supposed to dedicate our energies to the tragic death or murder of a non-American man over 5,000 miles away from America’s eastern shores."

That is exactly my sentiment. And yet again, the American public is being manipulated. Not only shades of Khashoggi, but even more recently, Ukraine. It's never ending.

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Man, I remember back when he became a household name in the West. Sounded plausible......Putin bad.

But now, given everything else we've learned about the depravity of the West, I gotta question the establishment storyline. Appreciate the clarity, Mr. Schachtel.

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USA has traditionally been an advocate for freedom and individual’s human rights. For several years, those themes have been pissed away! Endless wars, bankrupting costs, military industrial complex, and no scope or scale in international conflicts have confounded leaders, lobbyists, & low-information voters! USA has lost its way!

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Tucker Carlson / Mike Benz: Uncensored: The National Security State & the Inversion of Democracy

https://tuckercarlson.com/uncensored-the-national-security-state-the-inversion-of-democracy/

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We need to look to our own,

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Nonsensical argument. Two things can be true at once. His death is a tragedy, and a blow against human rights, no matter how unpopular he may or may not have been in a country full of people conditioned to accept authoritarianism. Do you really believe polls reflect the true feelings of people in Russia, when they know the wrong thing said to the wrong person could lead to the same fate for them? Come on, man. Republicans were using the same argument in 2020 about people being fearful answering questions from pollsters that would show them to be pro-Trump

To say his death is important and noteworthy in highlighting the absolute savagery of Putin does not preclude you from pointing out the hypocrisy of those on the left gnashing their teeth over it while at the same time pumping their fists over the Trump persecutions.

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