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[As one reader echoed the warning to Julius – 'Beware the Ides of March!'  Lot is happening in these trying times.  I have posted 'Testing, testing, testing, …' for the continuing discussion of the Covid-19 pandemic.  Please deposit your topical good thoughts there.  gjr]

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234 responses to “Sandbox – 15mar20”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Re: “Hoping to escape coronavirus, city dwellers are fleeing to California’s deserts and mountains“
    No shit. And they are coming to the deserts and mountains to stock up on supplies and raid our good neighborly open space and crowd up our open spaces! Been reading reports that hundreds have crowded into narrow canyons in State Parks, forming long lines on trails, and it’s like the INVASION OF THE ELITES. Definitely defeats the purpose of social isolation and avoiding groups of more than ten people. 700,000visitors have shown up at the South Yuba, using our precious TP, the greedy bastards.
    Go back to your urban jungles. This is MAGA Country. Sting ‘em up.
    -Mentioned yesterday about an acquaintance that was saying an area was rationing gas as a not-so-subtle reminder to Shelter in Place. They inherited two houses full of furniture in S. Cal in the Santa Barbara area and were hauling the stuff to their new office out of state. I do not know where exactly they were rationing gas. In California. I did not reply or ask. I know they live in the San Bernardino mountains around the Big Bear area and maybe the gas rationing was happening there or closer to the S. Cal state line in the desert. Stay put people, no escaping Hotel California
    Got to get away? Fuck off and shelter where you are, lol.

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  2. Walt Avatar

    “D”ouche is testy.. I’m not hiding behind as sock, TROLL.

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  3. Walt Avatar

    Sure “mary”.. I’m sure your putting those round lips to good use there.

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  4. Walt Avatar

    This is your gun hating LIB for ya.
    Attack a disabled BLACK gun owner.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nra-fires-back-after-dem-senator-calls-disabled-womans-gun-purchases-sickening-amid-coronavirus-pandemic
    “Nevertheless, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., slammed the video, and suggested that the NRA was urging gun-owners to avoid stockpiling food and other resources. In the video, Whiting argued that stockpiling only food alone was not sufficient.
    “Mainstream gun owners have left the NRA, so now they’re reduced to telling people to stockpile assault weapons, instead of food, to get ready for the coming Coronavirus civil war,” Murphy tweeted. “So sickening.”
    So LIBS have thugs to protect in these tough times.
    Can’t have people with guns in their homes shooting the
    invaders.

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  5. Mary Wanna Avatar

    Thanks Trump!
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned.
    Total incompetence in the White House!
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-before-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21910S

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 1:50 pm
    Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn??? Wasn’t he the grunt sandwich for brains that was part of the Kavanaugh lynch mob? Standing along side Stolen Valor Bloomenthal?
    I find Christ Murphy disgusting. I rest my case.

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  7. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Mary Wanna | 22 March 2020 at 01:57 PM
    Total incompetence in the White House!

    Well incompetence…..that’s right in your wheelhouse Michael…..

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  8. Walt Avatar

    Plenty of extra gunfire in the aria. And from properties not normally heard from. People are making sure ol’ Betsy gets some exercise.(it’s good to know you can still hit what your aiming at too)
    Yup,, sounds like someone got the 9MM out of storage.
    That’s a new gun in the hood.

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  9. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Yup, that Trump was the problem.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8047793/Coronavirus-outbreak-52-TIMES-worse-one-Chinese-province-officials-admit-report-claims.html
    https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/19/818295972/chinese-authorities-admit-improper-response-to-coronavirus-whistleblower
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2020/02/10/is_china_hiding_how_bad_the_coronavirus_is_500903.html
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nobel-prize-winner-rips-chinese-government-for-response-to-coronavirus
    with about another 1000 etc’s.
    The beautiful thing about the ‘Mary Wanna’s of the world is how, even now, they want to turn a plague into US domestic politics. There’s no point in helping pull on the rope, if millions of US citizens die it’s OK if you can just get Orange Hitler out of office.
    I’m afraid that the Blue Mob make pretty piss poor fellow citizens.

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  10. L Avatar
    L

    MW@1:57 Another ‘just so’ story from the TDS leftists infesting the neighborhood. Never mind that the CDC itself flatly stated that the loss of the position had no effect and also never mind that the President is extremely unlikely to have been involved in a personnel decision on that level. All that matters to our resident lunatics is blaming everything and anything on Trump. What idiots.

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  11. L Avatar
    L

    That there are 80 million Democrats available and Joe Biden is the best the Dims can come up with speaks volumes to the bankruptcy of the left and its now ancient and repeatedly failed Marxist political philosophy. I’d sooner see Frisch at 1600 PA Ave than the retard being held up for consideration- a low bar indeed.

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Headline reads: ‘Americans Drop Kale and Quinoa to Lock Down With Chips and Oreos’
    My, my. Everything is being turned on it’s head. Even in panic buying where shelves are emptying out, most of the “green aisles” are something, not fit for human consumption.
    If you are starving to death and the only thing left to eat is kale, here is a little helpful hint. If you add a bit of coconut oil (or any oil you have hardly) to the pan as you are cooking kale, the kale is much easier to scoop into the garbage.
    Yep, kale and ‘healthy’ food without refined sugar is another causality of the Great Hunkering Down of 2020.

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  13. Walt Avatar

    Speaking of which Brother Bill,, you can see which canned goods even the EBT card holders refuse to by. Even that “organic” chili with beans,, just about every can in place.
    (the name of it just doesn’t come to mind.)
    If that particular brand was shuttled off to the homeless shelter, it would be found in the dumpster by morning.
    Which GOV. program is keeping that business in operation?

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  14. Buck Sexton Avatar

    ‘I think we should completely eliminate Social Security. I think it’s unfair to young people, they’re taking money from young people who are poor, who could invest and buy a home, and giving it to a lot of people who don’t actually need Social Security…We shouldn’t simply give money to people because they are old.’
    This is coming from Fox News Michelle Fields

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  15. Walt Avatar

    Some poetic justice. Gotta love it when scammers get a taste of their own crap.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duY7nhFAZ_k

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    They should have kept him in the closet –
    Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was mocked on Monday after the gaffe-prone 2020 Democratic front-runner appeared to lose his train of thought when his teleprompter malfunctioned during remarks on the coronavirus pandemic.
    Biden’s remarks, livestreamed from a studio set up in his home, began with his touching his face despite ongoing warnings not to do that during the coronavirus pandemic. His remarks were also short compared with the president’s near-daily coronavirus briefings, lasting less than 15 minutes in total, and featured a clear teleprompter issue that became a social media punchline.
    The former vice president was detailing his plan to fight the coronavirus crisis, but appeared to lose track of his place on the teleprompter. Biden signaled to his staff that there was something wrong, before going off on an awkward ad-lib.
    “And, in addition to that, in addition to that we have to make sure that we, we are in a position that we are, well met me go the second thing, I’ve spoken enough on that,” Biden said before going on to speak about the aggressive action he would like Trump to take under the Defense Production Act.
    “Joe Biden when the teleprompter stops working is a train wreck,” social media strategist Caleb Hull wrote.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/joe-biden-coronavirus-teleprompter-issues
    😉

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  17. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    B.S.@8:43 “‘I think we should completely eliminate Social Security. I think it’s unfair to young people, they’re taking money from young people who are poor, who could invest and buy a home, and giving it to a lot of people who don’t actually need Social Security…We shouldn’t simply give money to people because they are old.’
    This is coming from Fox News Michelle Fields”
    Thanks for the 5 year old news Captain ‘Buck’ Obvious. It was first seen as a meme in August 2015. She’s an anti-Trump news bimbo, so you should have a lot in common aside from good looks.
    Man, do you phone in this stuff? No doubt it popped up on some Blue Mob ‘news’ feed.
    Observation of the day. Got some goodies from Amazon. Everything was in a cheap padded envelope. A potential problem, are they running out of boxes? That’s an interesting issue I hadn’t heard anything about.

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  18. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: DonB@12:31
    lmfao
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_9MvlEjm34
    Honestly, I think he’s the perfect Democratic nominee. A half-bright grifter with a bunch of special interest groups pushing on his ass to get him moving now and again.

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes
    Don’t pop the bubble wrap. It contains Chinese air, like in air borne virus! Ah, good ahead and pop away. Can’t be worse than Montezuma’s Revenge or the Tijuana Trots.

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  20. 2ndthchancebill@comcast.nel Avatar
    2ndthchancebill@comcast.nel

    Cher apologizes for calling Trump a murderer, says “I’m better than that.”. Doth saith the singer of “Gypsies, Trumps, and Thieves” who spent the last 50 years being a tramp. 🙂

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  21. Bill Tpzer Avatar
    Bill Tpzer

    On a slow news day….this jerky is killer. Yummy in the tummy!
    Montana Man Arrested After His Best Selling Jerky Is Found To Be Made Of Human Meat
    https://ringsssss.com/uncategorized/montana-man-arrested-after-his-best-selling-jerky-is-found-to-be-made-of-human-meat-2/

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  22. Buck Sexton Avatar

    Trump is very mad that he cannot feed his needy personality by holding rallies across the country every few days as he has been doing for the last 3 years. so he is using these press conferences as a way to keep the cameras trained on him. But the people watching just conclude that he’s a bumbling idiot. Now he is practicing the usual autocratic method of, oh, I don’t like what Dr Fauci says so I just won’t let him come on television anymore.
    https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1242231879488716800?s=09

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  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    lol. Sweet. We’re starting to see politically oriented aid in the age of plague.
    https://www.facebook.com/ncleftcoalition/
    https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17gCWn9lRD_hT7LuH84B3sTn7vaBuVbigGPEISJeQk60
    To the barricades, Comrade! I wonder if the elderly will need special arm bands to get their groceries delivered.

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  24. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    GeorgeR, seriously, you should check this out. Pardon for any flashbacks caused.
    https://www.facebook.com/ncleftcoalition/
    As something of a student of Soviet propaganda art, I’m seeing some well-known old graphics here. It’s as if some local Nazi group (I did see such a thing two decades ago at a gun show with a card table, a coupla guys with disreputable small beards they were tugging at) was using Der Stürmer artwork.
    The difference is of course (and this is an essential difference), that these people aren’t in the shadows. Our local Blue Mob has a proud militant arm.
    It would be amusing to watch these well-meaning folks get a lecture from a few bona fide ex-Soviet citizens. All the ones I’ve known could give them what-for but they wouldn’t believe a word of it.

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  25. George Rebane Avatar

    scenes 1146am – Wow! They make no bones about being communists, I’ll give them that. The solidarity and fist images were lifted straight out of Marxist-Leninist poster archives. Like Bernie, these guys are now proud to declare their ideologies and what kind of America they are fighting for. A new world indeed, one that has quickly forgotten the hundreds of millions dead at the cold hand of communism.

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Joe exciting the young folks
    Joe Biden’s Awkward ‘Virtual Happy Hour’ Livestream Attracted Just 2,800 Viewers
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-bidens-awkward-virtual-happy-hour-livestream-attracted-just-2800-viewers

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  27. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    7% per year? No problemo.
    CalPERS loses $69 billion in biggest market losses since Great Recession
    https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article241391841.html?
    Thank goodness I can help them out some.

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Looks like short round got caught trying to cheat the system –
    EXCLUSIVE: A Federal Elections Commission complaint has been filed against former New York City mayor and 2020 presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg for an $18 million transfer from his defunct campaign to the Democratic National Committee.
    At the core of the complaint is the tenuous distinction between Bloomberg’s personal finances and those of his presidential campaign. The complaint is unique because of the nature of Bloomberg’s self-funded campaign. He took no outside donations and maintained complete control over the campaign’s finances, and the complaint argues this weakens the legal distinctions normally found between campaign cash and a candidate’s personal wealth.
    “Allowing these kinds of contributions is everything we’ve said no to in 40 years of campaign finance jurisprudence. Never has this been okay at the federal level.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bloomberg-campaign-hit-with-fec-complaint-for-18-million-transfer-to-dnc
    😉

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  29. Walt Avatar

    Remember Lefties… “accusers MUST me believed”
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/03/27/joe-biden-faces-new-sexual-assault-allegation-from-former-staffer/
    “Tara Reade, who came forward last year to accuse Biden have inappropriately touched her in the 1990s, revealed earlier this week during an interview on the podcast of New York City blogger Katie Halper that there was more to the story. According to Reade, while working as a staff assistant in Biden’s Senate office in 1993, she was asked by one of her colleagues to deliver a “gym bag” to the senator. When Reade caught up with Biden, she alleges, he pressed up against a wall and proceeded to kiss her.”

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