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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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  1. fish Avatar
    fish

    Your doing it wrong!

    South Korean Church Infects 46 Parishioners After Spraying Salt Water In Their Mouths To Prevent The Virus


    A South Korean church is doing its part in helping humanity take two giant steps backward in fighting the coronavirus.
    River Grace Community church in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, told its parishioners that they could help stop the spread of the virus by spraying salt water into their mouths. But the church used a spray bottle that it didn’t disinfect between people and instead wound up spreading the virus to 46 different people, according to the South China Morning Post.
    Video out of the church shows a church official sticking the nozzle of the spray bottle deep into one person’s mouth after another. The pastor and his wife also became infected.
    Lee Hee-young, head of Gyeonggi Province’s coronavirus task force said: “It’s been confirmed that they put the nozzle of the spray bottle inside the mouth of a follower who was later confirmed as a patient, before they did likewise for other followers as well, without disinfecting the sprayer. This made it inevitable for the virus to spread. They did so out of the false belief that salt water kills the virus.”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/health/south-korean-church-infects-46-parishioners-after-spraying-salt-water-their-mouths-prevent

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Wait I thought he was supposed to be out of office 27 times by now, well that’s what the po’ ol’ fakenewsman has said since 2016 –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/17/donald-trump-wins-republican-presidential-nomination-with-majority-of-delegates-in-2020-primary/
    😉

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 6:46 pm
    Mark the tape, you bunch of science denying heathens. 60 days max and Orange Man Bad will be gone. Remember, Trumpft has no friends…….
    Well, with friends like that, who needs enemas.
    A bunch of Never Trump RINOs are gone, that is for sure. So is Chris Matthews, Charlie Rose,
    the Prairie Home Companion dude, Michael Avenatti, and Michael Moore is still fat, but more insignificant that ever in his career….hiding money from his wife and no one going to his movies….before The Plague.
    That Trump is something else. And to think they called Moscow Cocaine Mitch the ‘Grim Reaper.’ Novice. Trump is the real Pro and brings out the best in folks…like Mitch and Lynsey and those other rascally R’s. Get on board the Trump Train cause it will leave without you.

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Creepy dude got the Big Mo.
    BIDEN ROLLS ON
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/03/biden-rolls-on.php

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    An ABSOLUTE BAD ASS, the jihadi congressional caucus will wail at this guy coming into congress. –
    Exclusive: Legendary special operations aviator reveals bin Laden mission details for the first time
    Alex Quade
    Military TimesMarch 17, 2020, 4:22 PM PDT
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-legendary-special-operations-aviator-232237934.html
    😉

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Draining that swamp –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/17/report-senior-obama-doj-officials-privately-suggested-flynn-didnt-lie-to-fbi/
    The documents fuel the assertions by Flynn’s lawyer Sidney Powell that the retired lieutenant general should be allowed to withdraw his 2018 guilty plea because the DOJ coerced him into making it.
    Last month, AG Barr installed a federal prosecutor from outside the U.S. attorney’s office in the U.S. capital to review the criminal case leveled against Flynn.
    Barr’s decision to appoint the prosecutor came after the DOJ inspector general (IG) exposed a string of abuses by the FBI in obtaining Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) wiretaps on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
    The wiretaps were part of Mueller’s Russia collusion hoax probe.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/17/report-senior-obama-doj-officials-privately-suggested-flynn-didnt-lie-to-fbi/
    😉

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  7. Walt Avatar

    Comrade Bernie may be headed for the DEM gulag.
    Codename “Celtic”(he told them how to carve the rocks at Stonehenge) won the vote.
    The stench was bad for both. (both near death?)

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  8. Mary Wanna Avatar

    “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. And we have it under control. It’s gonna be just fine.”
    Trump will now have another failure, namely the Presidency, to add to his long list of failures.
    When voters look at the unemployment figures and the balance of their 401k accounts it will be Hasta la Vista Baby for Trump.
    Now he wants to bail out the cruise ship industry. Yes, that oh so important, too big to fail, floating petri dish industry.
    And let’s not forget other potential bailout candidate industries who took those corporate tax breaks and used them to buyback stock and prop up the stock market enriching the elites and well to do investors.
    Another Trillion on the credit card? It is all Monopoly money for Trump.

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  9. Walt Avatar

    That’s how you do it “mary”,, full of bitching,, real short on any solutions.
    And you would do exactly what?

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  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Walt@7:22AM
    No point. You’re going to ruin Mr. Wanna’s contact high he gets from disaster. No Trump action is correct. Financial stimulus will either be too much or too little. Government clumsiness in testing? Trump’s fault. No vaccine? Trump’s fault. Insufficient ability to ramp up hospital operations? Trump’s fault. Anything for open borders and men in dresses.
    I suspect that everyone’s time is better spent seeing what goes on locally. Simple changes in habits would make a big difference by all accounts. What I’ve seen lately at some local businesses are perfect opportunities for transmitting disease, people need to get their act together. When Captain Trips rips through the homeless population, the region’s longstanding encouragement of their presence isn’t going to look like such a good idea.
    Given that the largest actions will be at the state level and below, we’ll get to see 50+ different experiments in how to deal with pandemic. Aside from monetary policy, the feds are mostly out of the picture when everyone is in the same boat.

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  11. Scott O Avatar

    Mary Wants 6:58 – Thanks for posting. You demonstrate the ignorant mind of the left.
    “…and prop up the stock market enriching the elites and well to do investors.”
    The well-to-do do well no matter what the gov does.
    I would suggest Mary thinks about the tens of millions of non-well-to-do that are heavily dependent on the stock market to fund their retirement.
    The cruise industry supports thousands of jobs of a lot of hard working folks but Mary doesn’t give a damn about them.
    Once again, folks: The left does not love the proletariat so much as they simply hate the rich.

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  12. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Mary Wanna | 18 March 2020 at 06:58 AM
    I just wish that Michael would use his “down time”…..in between puff, puff, pass of course…..to get the “ClientWorks” website functional! Must be frustrating for those in dire need of IT support services to constantly see the “Come Back Soon” landing page!
    Hmmm….what ever happened to that Scandinavian “can do” spirit?

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  13. Bill Tozet Avatar
    Bill Tozet

    Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that Mary Jane always purposely avoids the airline industry when mentioning Trump bailing out those Great Gatsby cruise liners full of evil rich people drinking champagne andstanding on the backs of the little people to make them rise 6” taller.
    Why this hatred of Carnival Cruises? Why this hatred of private prep schools? Why this hatred of Covington Catholic School? Why this class envy and class warfare? Why why, of why?
    If I was in my twenties, you betcha I will be down at Spring Break in the crowds at the beach engaging in wrestling matches, and decedent behavior with 9 contemporaries flopped on the floor of the motel room. I was once invincible, especially when I was the town drunk., but I have yet to ever hate or envy luxury cruise liners. I figure after the Titanic they deserve out sympathy.,
    That bailout of Princess Cruises just eats away at Mary Hookah like Punchy’s worm tunneling inside his melon from ear to ear.
    Now, on the count of three everybody y’all out, “I hate the rich!”

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  14. Scott O Avatar

    Here’s a great example of TDS in action –
    https://dnyuz.com/2020/03/18/the-virus-has-exposed-the-recklessness-of-trumps-america-first/
    This particular BS has already been proven to be nonsense, but let’s just keep passing it around.
    “It’s still unclear what exactly happened. Was there an attempt to buy the company? With private money or public funds? Trump’s new acting director of national intelligence who remains ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, denied the report. Jens Spahn, the German health minister, confirmed it. It seems likely that there was some sort of overture—even if it is also likely that we don’t have all the facts.”
    Yeah – we don’t have all the facts, but as Hunter Thompson loved to say: “it’s a true rumor”.
    Further: “The story is now out there, and there has been no small amount of hand-wringing over the damage that has surely been done to the image of the United States and the U.S.-German relationship…”
    Who gives a crap if it’s true?
    It’s ‘out there’.
    It just gets worse: “What’s so disheartening about the idea that Trump might try to poach a vaccine for exclusive use in the United States is not the craven greediness of it; it’s that it so obviously misunderstands the nature of the threat this pandemic poses.”
    The author is ‘dis-heartened’ not by anything Trump actually did, but by the ‘thought’ that he ‘might’.
    Aren’t we all ‘dis-heartened’ by the ‘thought’ of anything bad that Biden ‘might’ do?
    This isn’t reporting or opinion or an assessment – it’s just slander dressed up as something quite important or noble.
    I’m not defending Trump here. I’m calling out the so-called journalists that pollute the information stream with bilge like this.
    The author is not the least bit interested in getting to the bottom of this issue or discovering the truth of it.
    Just malign someone they don’t like.

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  15. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozet | 18 March 2020 at 09:41 AM
    Now, on the count of three everybody y’all out, “I hate the rich!”

    …..and these are almost always really a case of, “I hate that I’m not rich!”

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Fish.
    Envy is an evil and corroding thread. Causes more damage to one’s soul than stealing. But, of course, fear is the big one.
    To repeat my favorite acronym….FEAR: F@&k everything and run.
    FEAR: false emotions appearing real.

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  17. Bill Tozet Avatar
    Bill Tozet

    The rich, the filthy rich! Trump does not care about the forgotten people, only his rich buddies!!! Oh my, it’s now spreading to other countries! White Privilege run amok!
    Governments Scramble To Prop Up Airlines As Virus Forces More Flight, Job Cuts
    https://www.oann.com/governments-offer-airlines-aid-as-coronavirus-drives-deeper-flight-cuts/
    And to think that poor Germany is too poor to contribute 1.5 % to their own defense. Brings a tear to my eye. Trump is a meanie!!! Only cares about his corrupt evil buddies. Impeach him.

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  18. George Rebane Avatar

    It is illuminating to note how national emergencies reveal the deficits in collectivists’ thought. None of them understand that saving businesses of Wall Street saves the jobs on Main Street. To them it’s all about subsidizing the rich.

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: George Rebane | 18 March 2020 at 12:01 PM
    Yes…..I’m reminded of the lefty cheer…..“Osama Bin Laden is dead, General Motors is Alive!”
    When their side does it it is both right and holy!

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    Sure it’s counterintuitive….

    Baltimore Mayor Begs Residents To Stop Shooting Each Other So Hospital Beds Can Be Used For Coronavirus Patients

    …but every inner city “bidness” man cut down by the competition and is “sidewalk triaged” is a minimal burden to the the city’s hospital system!
    Pimpin be tuff!

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Re: ‘Sure it’s counterintuitive….’
    Well, the Lord certainly had mercy on his soul. Just when the Baltimore blight hit the national spotlight over a Trump tweet, the public started asking when did all those billions we sent ya go and who has been in charge of this rather embarrassing closet look. Yep, Elijah E. Cummings, senior leader of the Congressional Black Caucus and Representative of Baltimore, up and died. Yep, the Lord had mercy on this soul.
    And under the radar flies the former Mayor (famous for her exclamation, “Jesus, you can smell the rats”) as she is sent off to prison. Luck of the Irish. 🙂
    Sure it’s counterintuitive….but this is the Sandbox, is it not? :). Must not look that way!

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  22. Walt Avatar

    Yup,, the LIBS wet dream. They already have the ballot rigging plan in a box.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/18/coronavirus-hillary-clinton-calls-to-make-voting-by-mail-the-norm/
    Everyone votes by mail. Hell… They can’t even get the ballots counted in this county in a timely manner.
    Nevermind the ghost ballots that will magically appear.

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  23. D Avatar

    I have to agree with ⁦⁦George Conway⁩ who says the best thing Trump could do to fight Covid-19 is resign. https://t.co/vDMChGrmOW

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  24. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: D | 18 March 2020 at 01:29 PM
    I for one welcome the new President for Life Michael Pence!

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  25. Walt Avatar

    Sure “d”, and live on the Biden plan? Open borders, unrestricted world travel. Yup,, that will fix it all.
    Funny how TROLLS never have any answers.

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  26. Walt Avatar

    Marry?
    “5:36 p.m. — A man from Cedar Avenue reported ongoing issues with “self-righteous, tofu-farting liberal women” who walk through his property to Condon Park and harass him about his dogs ….”

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Contrary to a published report that Bernie burned out and dropped out of the race to the White House, Vox had to print a most embarrassing retraction. Did I say embarrassing? Strike that. You can’t embarrass a psychopath. They have no journalistic standards anyway, so why retract? The Devil Trump made them do it.
    I figure Bernie is holding out for another 600k cabin at the lake. Last time he settled too cheaply, opting for a private plan as a dropout gift….and a few campaign appearances for Hillary. Biden needs to sweeten the pot. This ain’t Bernie’s first rodeo.

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh boy, the bony fingered one won’t like this one bit. Heck, I already told him that the historial odds of a first term President losing the House while gaining in the Senate in the midterms was 13%. Another beating the odds for Trump. Hmmm. After what happened to Bubba and Barry, we did not call the opposition party pathetic or doomed to exist no more.
    ‘The 2018 Blue Wave That Wasn’t, Really”
    “The Democratic tsunami against the incumbent president was promised to be analogous to the wipeout suffered by President Bill Clinton after his first two years (53 House, eight Senate seats lost), or Barack Obama’s even more disastrous 2010 loss (63 House, six Senate seats). The nonstop media attacks on Trump, still consistent with the 90 percent negative news coverage of his first few months in office, had certainly seemed to energize Democrats.”
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/book-excerpt-the-case-for-trump-democrats-overhyped-midterm-house-takeover-over-focused-on-impeachment/

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    With all the mass hysteria going on, indulge me to repost a story from a few days ago, this time from another writer. Hate to see these thangs fly under the radar….but they do. Andrew McCathy.
    The Inevitable Shoe Drops: DOJ Dismisses Mueller’s Charges against Russian Businesses
    “So why did Team Mueller publicly file an indictment against Russians?
    Because they figured it was a freebie. The prosecutors assumed that they would never have to . . . you know . . . prove the case. The Russian defendants were in Russia. There was no way Putin would ever extradite them for an American criminal trial. The prosecutors knew that. What they wrote was not meant to be a real indictment. It was meant to be a press release. It was meant to be what Team Mueller was best at: the spinning of a narrative.”
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/department-of-justice-dismisses-robert-mueller-charges-against-russian-businesses/

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  30. Mary Wanna Avatar

    The president didn’t create this virus but he ignored it, denied, it minimized it, joked about it, weaponized it, politicized it, and exacerbated it. He is culpable for all the chaos and the unnecessary illness, and yes, the preventable deaths because of it – and his supporters are too. This is the human cost of the MAGA cult delusion, and we are all paying for it now equally.

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  31. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Mary Wanna | 19 March 2020 at 10:50 AM
    Not equally …..after all….you’re still above the dirt! Oh well….!

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Something our dear Punchy should take to heart!

    Bernie Quits to Keep USA Safe from ‘Crazy Geezer’

    At least Bernie is together enough to not endorse himself as he’s on his way out the door! With Biden, life would likely imitate humor!
    https://scrappleface.com/blog/2020/03/19/bernie-quits-to-keep-usa-safe-from-crazy-geezer/

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Mary Wanna
    -Joked about it? Guilty!!
    -Freaked out about it and caused the mad frenzied combat shopping? Not me. Haven’t gone to a grocery market yet. One does not do food shopping at Dollar General, but I have seen shopping carts full to the top and beyond full of Coors carted out the door.
    -“and yes, the preventable deaths because of it – and his supporters are too. This is the human cost of the MAGA cult delusion, and we are all paying for it now equally.” Guilty as charged!! I have caused the death of many, all of whom I know not there names. Hey, they don’t call us Deplorables for nuthin’.
    Mary, did you know that moi caused the Oakland Earthquake? Yes, we are that powerful. Looks like not all are paying the price for TDS equally.
    Need a hug?
    https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-18-at-7.48.07-AM.png?w=1124&ssl=1
    https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-18-at-12.30.23-PM.png?w=1004&ssl=1
    https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-17-at-8.41.39-PM.png?w=722&ssl=1

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  34. George Rebane Avatar

    MaryW 1050am – Actually, the only thing Trump did was to mischaracterize Covid19 for the first couple of days after having already started defending against the virus at the federal level. His administration’s response has cost us no marginal lives, saved many, and will continue to do so with the agressive measures that he has taken. We recall the federal bureaucracy that he inherited – e.g. no preparations under 8 years of Obama since the 2009 H1N1 epidemic. And now even liberals (more informed than you) are lauding the administration’s response which is stellar compared to what’s happening in other lands.
    Your litany of his sins is so far off base as to not warrant a detailed response, because none of it happened. And now I invite you and yours to compare the US response to those of other countries which you seem to hold up for comparison. Give us the numbers please, and save the progressive propaganda.

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  35. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Your litany of his sins is so far off base as to not warrant a detailed response, because none of it happened.”
    lol. I’ll say. It doesn’t even sound like something from MSDNC or CNN, it’s just the odor of the crazier corners of twitter (which smell remarkably like sulfur).
    Oh well, the wacky folks gotta do what the wacky folks gotta do. Sometimes even the MSM bends the knee. I do like her last name though.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNb3uUsGvEI

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Hey, wait. I didn’t do that twice.
    Talking head alert. Tucker knows the scoop.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W9vjsFQUUU

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  37. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “He is culpable for all the chaos and the unnecessary illness, and yes, the preventable deaths because of it – and his supporters are too. This is the human cost of the MAGA cult delusion, and we are all paying for it now equally.”
    And what were the Lilliputians in control of Congress doing in Dec, Jan and Feb?

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  38. Walt Avatar

    I found a place where property may be had at bargain basement
    prices.. Especially for the Socialist minded.
    Nevermind the earthquakes and uplift… Nothing to worry about.
    Even the government has downplayed the event.
    https://en.vedur.is/
    Move to Iceland Bernie Bros.,, Now is the perfect opportunity.
    It can’t be that bad,, None of this has showed up on the news.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Is it true that the Chinese Flu thrives in colder temps? 🙂

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  40. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Seeing as how this is the Sandbox, I ran into this for no good reason today. I never cared about comics, but they are a good pH strip for the times.
    NEW WARRIORS Trailer | Marvel Comics
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PCWUCv1rnU
    Check it out. Some of the comments are very funny.

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  41. Buck Sexton Avatar

    Peter Jennings to Trump – Q: What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared?
    Trump: “I say that you’re a terrible reporter.” https://t.co/K3JgjogDqD
    Our President is an emotional infant.

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  42. Walt Avatar

    Truth hurt Herr Himmler?
    Now why don’t you post the WHOLE question?

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  43. Walt Avatar

    Here buck sexless,,,
    ““Is it possible that your impulse to put a positive spin on things may be giving Americans a false sense of hope and misrepresenting preparedness right now?” Alexander asked.
    Trump replied he was optimistic about the effectiveness of the drug chloroquine even though Dr. Anthony Fauci said during the briefing it was not clinically proven.
    “It may work and it may not work,” he said. “I feel good about it. that’s all it is, just a feeling.”
    “What do you see Americans who are watching you right now that are scared?” Alexander asked, citing the numbers of invected and people killed by the virus.
    “I say that you are a terrible reporter,” Trump replied. I think that’s a very nasty question, and I think it’s a very bad signal that you’re putting out to the American people.”
    Trump berated MSNBC/NBC/Comcast for promoting sensationalism.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/20/watch-donald-trump-blasts-concast-nbc-peter-alexander-for-challenging-hopeful-message/

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Buck Sexton | 20 March 2020 at 12:43 PM
    Peter Jennings to Trump – Q: What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared?

    Peter Jennings…..?

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  45. fish Avatar
    fish

    “Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings CM (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American journalist who served as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 2005.”
    Of course if Pete is asking Trump questions from beyond the grave……well….that would be news!

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  46. fish Avatar
    fish

    For scenes….who opined on this “new generation” of Marvel Superheroes!
    https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/new-marvel-superhero-cuckold-wears-name-as-a-badge/

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  47. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Just imagine if Walter Winchell was asking these questions!

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  48. fish Avatar
    fish

    Hey….in keeping with your earlier “Super Hero” post I thought this would fall into that category…….
    https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/new-marvel-superhero-cuckold-wears-name-as-a-badge/
    Lets see if this one survives!

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