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George Rebane

Swine flu H1N1 Apr09-Jan10.  57M Americans infected, 257K hospitalized, 11,690 died.  Does anyone remember any full court press on Obama by the media and the Repubs as today we witness dished out hourly by the Dems and their lamestream in their vilification of Trump?  (H/T to reader.)

Russia impacted the 2016 election.  Those lyrics of our leftwing loonies still rings out loud and clear across the land.  And since that chorus started, tens of millions have been spent in the attempt to find any evidence, all to no avail.  Admittedly, our Left is not all that good with the finer points of English as they continue to confuse ‘attempt’ and ‘impact’, or is it really one from their repertoire of Big Lies broadcast daily?  That's called trolling for the dummies.

Coronavirus info link for Nevada CountyNC Health and Human Services.  The Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital has announced a new testing program; see 17mar20 update here.

[18mar20 update]  Epidemic model used by policy makers revealed, and also news of a stop-gap medicine to prevent and fight Covid19.  See the 18mar20 update to 'Testing, testing, …' here.

Correlation of the nation's blue concentrations with the incidence of Covid19 was pointed out in a reader's correspondence.  Apparently no one in the media has yet to make the connection.  (more here)

Lots of people buying guns and ammo.  The Left should recognize that these are not the nation’s gun owners who have already laid in their stash of Second Amendment armaments.  It is the latest tranche of newbies who have had their ‘gun epiphanies’ by the tens (hundreds?) of thousands.  The feds confirm this through the surge in background checks, and the dealers confirm it by reporting that these desperate buyers will take any available gun with any kind of ammo that fits.  Those of us who have owned guns for years would never even consider doing that for more reasons that we simply don’t have to.

All the Dems grousing about Trump’s “failure to handle the pandemic” are simply full of horseshit (aka bull pucky).  No one dares to compare America’s response with the actual numbers of what the other Left-celebrated countries have done.  Grab any metric that you have available.  And the biggest farce is the so-implied massive testing that other countries have done.  The challenge is to discover what marginal benefit to prophylactic or prescriptive policies has their testing provided that shows America is somehow behind the response curve.  Nothing – but ‘testing’ is the only thing that the Dems have, with no better (or any) plans of their own, to try to get some traction against the Trump administration.

Ordering out from restaurants.  Lots of people are buying into this alternative as an easy way to get good food without risking Covid19 infection.  Not so advise the thinking medicos.  You have no guarantee of what kind of food was used to prepare in what manner by personnel in what kind of pre-symptomatic condition within kitchens of unknown sanitary state that are frequented by numerous people whose outside contacts are also totally unknown.  The infectious disease experts tell us to order out is still a crapshoot.

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137 responses to “Ruminations – 17mar20 (updated 18mar20)”

  1. Walt Avatar

    A novel idea,,,,,
    “A Colorado sheriff’s office has responded to the coronavirus outbreak with a tongue-in-cheek Facebook post asking criminals to stop their unlawful antics until further notice.
    “We appreciate your anticipated cooperation in halting crime and thank criminals in advance,” says the post that was written Monday by the Logan County Sheriff’s Office. “We will update you when you can return to your normal criminal behavior.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-sheriffs-office-asks-criminals-not-to-break-law-coronavirus-crisis

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt
    And there is the County Sherriffs Office in Tennessee (or Idaho or somewhere) that has posted that they will test all meth for Coronavirus for free! Just bring the baggies in to our local office for testing. A public service announcement. 🙂
    Better than posting up signs declaring this or that place is a ‘Coronavirus Free Zone’.

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  3. Ateeq Ahmad Avatar

    Sir, you are wrong on so many counts. However, I am so delighted that you have so much fire in you! I have adored you for too long to let facts come in the way of my affection towards you.

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  4. I know Joe Koyote Avatar
    I know Joe Koyote

    Warning! Warning! Red Alert. Imposter! Impostor at 1 o’clock.
    I know Ateeq Ahmad and he is a Russian bot. Danger Will Robertson, danger.

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  5. George Rebane Avatar

    Ateeq 106pm – Good to hear from you again Ateeq, I hope all is well with you and your family in these trying times. I sincerely await your explanation and expansion of the corrections to my many errors. As you recall, I am the eternal student.

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  6. Walt Avatar

    Someone needs to change the air in that basement.

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  7. Walt Avatar

    Fascist Frisco gets some push back.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/17/harmeet-dhillon-blasts-san-francisco-coronavirus-demands-forgive-me-if-i-dont-fall-right-into-line-with-the-fascism/
    ““All of a sudden we are supposed to accept 24-hour curfews ‘for your own safety’ from people who order the police to stand down when Antifa & friends beat the hell out of taxpayers; people who refuse to enforce laws they don’t like (death penalty, bail, property crimes)?” she continued.
    “City leaders who literally give wanted alien criminals a public heads up when ICE is about to conduct raids are now telling me what’s best, declaring a death penalty for businesses, no hearings or due process?! Forgive me if I don’t fall right into line with the fascism which seems awfully situational,” Dhillon wrote.
    Dhillon argued the recommendations for senior citizens to stay inside “seemed reasonable,” but, “Liberal city leaders decided to seize the opportunity and throw the whole economy into a tailspin as collateral damage but don’t worry — we’ll soon have a government sponsored bailout for favored groups soon, funded with a tax increase crammed down the throats of the dwindling number of taxpayers.” “

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  8. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Captain Trips.
    Grocery stores appeared to be pretty well stocked, although toilet paper appears gone. Grocery Outlet has cheap-ass paper towels that can be repurposed for your TP needs, so good on ’em. No rice/beans/flour but everything else seems available.
    Speaking of Grocery Outlet. Crowds of people, no masks or gloves or customer accessible sanitizers (bring your own, especially for cart handles. You don’t want to see the studies on those). Plenty o’ HH denizens and the like.
    Strong suggestion from here on out. Go when they just open. The store is a godsend in some ways but has a lot of infection opportunities right now.

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Got a panic e-mail yesterday. Somehow the ‘shelter in place’ command to the 6 Bay Area counties yesterday got confused with everywhere in the State. Might be a dry run. You know, they are all in this together. Police State….something the Feds are barred from doing and cannot do even if they wanted to. Has to come from our State and local leaders….’Police State enforces Shelter in Place”
    I replied that it’s only guidelines for our area and they won’t give them a ticket for driving to the store to do shopping and such….for now. Also, sent the Chronicle link, thank you Fish or Scenes. :).

    Martial Law from the Governor? Curfews? Boy, that would be like sneaking out of my bedroom window at night when I was in jr. high. Sneaking out on a midnight run. Look both ways if you got your headlights out. How exciting.

    It could be worse. You could be a conservative Podcaster in NewYork City babysitting your parent’s dog in your very expensive tiny tiny apartment. Bachelor Pad, aka, The Freedom Hut.
    https://www.facebook.com/BuckSexton/photos/a.176191582451702/3468366046567556/?
    https://www.facebook.com/BuckSexton/photos/a.568156706588519/3468427569894737/?

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    Instapundit……doing the heavy lifting so you don’t have to!

    SURELY A PRESIDENT WOULDN’T GOLF DURING A HEALTH EMERGENCY, RIGHT? FLASHBACK:

    Obama Played Golf the Same Day His Administration Declared H1N1 a Public Health Emergency.

    https://pjmedia.com/trending/flashback-obama-played-golf-the-same-day-his-administration-declared-h1n1-a-public-health-emergency/

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    News from greater Penntucky area:
    The new Dollar General has been restocked since Sun late afternoon…and the PV Hardware Store will give you free curbside deliver for purchases of 50 bucks or more and $5 UCLA for curbside delivery of orders of under 50 smackers. Think there is a 65 and older discount.
    I could not believe it that between the time I went to DG on my run into the fine mist virus air and came home to realize I forgot an item much more important than TP (coffee), and drove back out immediately, they had already restocked the sections I had just been an hour previously. Saw a meme that reads, “Psssst. Good ole Dollar General has TP”.
    In other Penntucky news, the local branch of WellsFargo is closing in June. Unrelated to the Pandemic.
    Scenes: Thanks for the GV Burger Basin report. Yep, haven’t ventured up there yet….I be Good for a couple more days before I make the big “in town” shopping run “up the hill”. Big store country.

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  12. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Amazon:
    https://finance.yahoo.com/video/amazon-suspend-shipments-warehouses-exempting-205155203.html
    You’d better order your Chinese plastic stuff now before they run out.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    And news from beautiful downtown Nevada City?

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  14. Walt Avatar

    Note to the ill prepared left.. Toilet paper is two sided.

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  15. D Avatar

    When the outbreak was first detected at the start of 2015, there were immediate calls from public health experts for Pence to lift the ban on syringe exchanges to stop the spread of the disease, but he held off, remaining morally opposed to needle exchanges despite a wealth of evidence that such practices do not encourage more drug use, and successfully curb the spread of HIV.
    Pence instead told people he was going to pray on what to do. By the time he finally signed an executive order in March allowing a needle exchange in Scott county, where Austin is located, weeks had passed and dozens of more cases had been confirmed.

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  16. Scott O Avatar

    D(uh) 3:59 – So Pence is responsible for people that choose to pass their diseases around?
    It’s surely a most amazing thing that only conservatives are responsible for everything bad.
    Say – when do I get the taxpayers to pony up for something I want to do illegally?

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    ????? @359 ??????
    😉

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  18. Walt Avatar

    Didn’t encourage more drug use? That sure has been proven to be a load of DEM donkey shit. I give you every LIB run city.
    Then decriminalizing drug use (another great Proggy idea) added to the problem.

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Scott O | 17 March 2020 at 04:33 PM
    D(uh) 3:59 – So Pence is responsible for people that choose to pass their diseases around?

    If he was honest I think he’d have to admit that it was the fact that Pence prayed about what to do is what upset him. If Pence wasn’t a particularly religious democrat and instead appointed a “Blue Ribbon Committee” or “Intergovernmental Task Force” that came to the same conclusion in the same amount of time he would have been fine with it!
    It’s very important to hate the proper people when you’re a member in good standing of the progressive left !

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  20. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    You can certainly see why people are interested in buying guns and ammo.
    https://twitter.com/KeeleyFox29/status/1240031697674080260

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  21. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “You never let a serious crisis go to waste”, eh, Steve?

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  22. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Gregory 👍

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  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Gregory: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste”, eh, Steve?
    Well, heck yeah. Anyone who will wage a civil war over open borders and men in dresses would certainly use an epidemic to win an election.
    Honestly, you’re kind of screwed in cases like this. The government is ponderous, and it’s never clear what to do in any case. If you’re successful, it looks like too much action was taken for a nothingburger. If not, you killed my grandma!
    Truth is, in a shrinking economy of this type (rightsizing?), maybe there won’t be as much room for useless non-profit organizations, especially the report generatin’ kind. People might have to find worthwhile professions in a more serious world.
    If this is really big, an awful lot of societal cruft is going to get jettisoned. It’s a worrying thing which might result in lashing out on local blogs so I try to have an understanding viewpoint.

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  24. L Avatar
    L

    Steve @ 7:04, not much ‘there’ there. Maybe if you guys didn’t start a pissing contest every time you think you can score on Trump, the discourse might calm down some.
    And while we’re at it, you would be doing what exactly different? No travel ban? No social distancing? No questions asked ahead of a meaningless test? What?

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Might be a good time to be homeless. Shelter in Place does not apply to the less fortunate among us.
    What Happens When Coronavirus Hits The Homeless Camps In California?
    “As six counties in the San Francisco Bay Area have issued shelter-in-place orders (from which the homeless are exempt), the effort to find permanent solutions for a pandemic reaching the homeless remains wanting. Thirty homeless people in San Francisco are being tested for the illness.
    Two of the three states most affected by the Wuhan coronavirus are Washington and California, both notorious for intractable homelessness. The authorities are worried the pandemic might get out of hand once COVID-19 makes it into homeless encampments. San Jose Mercury News summarized:
    If they are infected, homeless people face a higher risk of getting very sick from the disease, experts say. They tend to be older, and their immune systems already may be compromised by other chronic illnesses, drug or alcohol use, and the harsh realities of street living.“
    https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/18/what-happens-when-coronavirus-hits-the-homeless-camps-in-california/

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  26. fish Avatar
    fish

    Apparently the guy has the legal chops…….

    DEFINING PROSECUTORIAL OVERREACH UP:

    Unhinged MSNBC Legal Analyst Claims Trump May Be Guilty of ‘Negligent Homicide’ for Coronavirus Response.

    ……but at the end of the day I suspect he will just be another toying with the notion of a congressional run and wants some free press.
    https://pjmedia.com/trending/unhinged-msnbc-legal-analyst-claims-trump-may-be-guilty-of-negligent-homicide-for-coronavirus-response/

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  27. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 18 March 2020 at 10:47 AM
    Might be a good time to be homeless. Shelter in Place does not apply to the less fortunate among us.

    The “world” is their shelter Bill! Had the distinct displeasure of spending some time near Sutter hospital in downtown Sac yesterday while middle daughter took a trip through the MRI tube. Urban camper #1 hit me up for change. When I declined he turned and proudly displayed a two weeks worth skid mark along the the area where one might expect to see two weeks worth of skid mark! Had money for smokes though. Urban campers #2 & #3 were good enough to cover themselves with sleeping bags while they shot up across the street from McD’s as well…….hey guys…..we could see what you were up to!
    Why bother covering up? Sac PD isn’t going to do anything.

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  28. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    It occurred to me that as US cities start to rhyme with those in India, what with the squalor and all, that the homeless are simply our version of the cow.
    No one much takes care of them but there’s a kind of holiness around the concept. You daren’t try to get rid of them. Pretty soon the locals will start decorating them for festivals.

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 18 March 2020 at 12:49 PM
    I will now defend the noble cow!
    Nonsense….!
    The cow is an attractive animal with beautiful eyes and provides delicious beefsteak, milk (eventually cheese) and only mildly offensive (and still beneficial) leavings.
    The Urban camping set share none of these attributes!

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  30. George Rebane Avatar

    fish 103pm – Not so fast Mr fish; there’s a lot to be said for Mr scenes insight. We have to remember that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and progressives have demonstrated themselves to have some real weird ‘eyes’.

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  31. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I’m serious as a heart attack.
    I wouldn’t doubt for a second that when the Blue Mob hands over a dollar for drug money their brains get the same endorphin rush as someone in India putting a flower wreath on a semi-starving cow. You could probably see it on some sort of brain scan.
    The idea is that this small offering will be repaid you in double karma points. The fact that it makes a city unlivable is besides the point.

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  32. Rev. Billy Bob Avatar
    Rev. Billy Bob

    Given the ecological, economic, and health crises we now face, do you suppose that God is punishing humanity for allowing the immoral Donald Trump to become the most powerful man on Earth? Didn’t idolatry bring about the great flood and the annihilation of Sodom and Gomorrah?

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  33. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Rev. Billy Bob | 18 March 2020 at 01:17 PM
    …..sigh.
    Worst troll ever.

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Do not dis the Scared Cow! Pay it forward. Random acts of kindness and all that. Boy, when I was a bum, my kind were never elevated to this Blue Mob status. The tramps are now the “Untouchables”. Go figure. Well, I should have got a heads up when Fried Green Tomatoes portrayed the train tramp in the most sympathetic light.
    I am confused. First, the Libs were waiting for all us old dinosaurs to quickly die off and then the world would become their oyster. Then a pandemic comes along and they are showering us with attention, special hours at the Big Boxes, neighbors checking in to see if we need anything, and an apparent concern for our well being. Weird times, bro. Most unexpected. Most unusual.
    I sure the concern will pass and we will revert back to bitter clingers and racist Dregs of Society in due time.
    Word of caution. Don’t wear your MAGA cap out in public. The public is stressed enough already. Safety first. 🙂

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Don Bessee | 18 March 2020 at 01:40 PM
    Reminds me of this…….

    Confused Biden Announces He Is Dropping Out Of Race, Endorses Joe Biden

    GaffeMaster Flash….always three steps behind.
    https://thehardtimes.net/culture/confused-biden-announces-he-is-dropping-out-of-race-endorses-joe-biden/

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Re: update; “Correlation of the nation’s blue concentrations with the incidence of Covid19 was pointed out in a reader’s correspondence. Apparently no one in the media has yet to make the connection.”
    I just liked that post, nothing to comment on it that we are not already thinking. :).
    ——————————————-
    The Dems are doomed now. Trump took a page out straight out of the Liberal playbook and offered cash to everybody. Who can complete with that? We all know that answer. Nobody can compete with that. Bernie said he would give out $2,000 a head, and Trump will match and beat it! Oh, he is a bad conservative. Bad.
    The Dems are doomed. Trump just beat them at their own game and took away all their thunder and only weapon they had. It’s only money.
    Sad day for the Little Miss Sunshine Group. Greta had to call off some big Save the Planet March because of the strain of Swine Flu. I remember well the Hong Kong flu. All us kids caught in. Anyway…….never get tired of winning! Opps, me bad. Who can think of politics in a moment like this??

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  37. Walt Avatar

    When did Col. Sanders get elected?
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/03/18/bernie-sanders-erupts-at-cnn-reporter-im-dealing-with-a-fking-global-crisis/
    “Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday burst out in profanity when asked about the future of his flailing presidential campaign, telling CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju: “I’m dealing with a fucking global crisis.”
    “Right now I’m trying to do my best to make sure that we don’t have an economic meltdown and that people don’t die,” ”
    Can any of the TROLLS say just what crazy Bernie has been doing?( other than losing)

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Hey Reverend Billy Bob! Got just one word for you, maybe two:
    PENCE, PENCE, PENCE, PENCE, PENCE, PENCE, PENCE, PENCE, NEEDLES, PENCE, PENCE, PENCE

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  39. Walt Avatar

    So Herr Himmler is knitting a new sock.

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  40. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    What’s wrong with bringing back Mr. Bleach? A cute fellow that was to make skin popping safe from AIDS. He kind of looked like a much thinner version of the Pillsbury Dough Bot and Casper the Friendly Ghost.
    I remember when the blood supply got tainted. Knew a dearly departed in GV that caught Hep C from a blood infusion for his heart or some serious ailment. Made him ineligible for organ transplant. He asked, “why didn’t they just give him a bullet?”
    Go ahead D and defend sodomy as a good hill to die on. This is the year 2020. Keep up with the times. Besides, we all read AOC’s tweet about Pence and Indiana HIV in 1990…..weeks ago, silly. Yep, the headlines and media were full of stories about the gay plague in the 80’s. They say that AIDS blew the Herbes epidemic right off the front pages and destined it to dustbin of history. It’s just a cold sore..
    Now we have COVID blow everything off the front pages, including AIDS and the 6,000 who have died this year worldwide from the normal flu. It’s still flu season, but who would know?
    Thus sayeth the very Reverend Parson Billy Boy…who has a cure to sell ya.

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  41. Walt Avatar

    Rumor has it, that each person will get $1000,or $2000, depending on what you read.
    Better turn yours down LIBS,, it’s coming from Trump.(naaa,, not happening.. It’s easier to complain)

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  42. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    A predictable problem. Evidently large city folk have been arriving en masse in small Australian towns to buy all the food.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6sSkLJ3M0E
    There are obvious lessons here, always a useful thing.

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  43. D Avatar

    Trump has failed since the beginning of his administration as Politco reports here.
    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-inauguration-warning-scenario-pandemic-132797

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  44. D Avatar

    Walt you sound like you are greedily awaiting your welfare check. Look out. You might be mistaken for a lib.

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  45. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    ” as Politco reports here.”
    lmfao. You must be new around here.

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  46. Walt Avatar

    So “d”,,, how many socks you going to use?

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