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Sandbox – 29mar20

29 March 2020

[Now that we're back to mudball fights, we should take them to a fresh sandbox. I'm constantly amused by our lefty readers not refuting/citing the facts but simply dismissing them on the basis of their dislike of the publisher or broadcaster. Haven't seen rightwinger dismiss what came out of Maddow simply because it came out of Maddow, who can report verifiable facts as well as the next talking head. But some of us do take Maddow et al with a dim view when they offer their opinions and interpretations as being something more than the views from their respective perches. gjr]

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362 responses to “Sandbox – 29mar20”

Gregory

03 April 2020

Serbocroatians have been poor in the past, and the Communists who rose to power at the end of WWII didn’tmake things better.
I’m sure there were opportunities with tobacco and other sins what people were making a dinar from. Arbitrage.
Another luxury good… bananas. My daughter in law just turned 31, and she tells of growing up and her dad would score a banana to share about once a month… don’t drink any water afterwards, let the taste linger. But kids got real educations and hers is BS/MS in a real science.

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George Rebane

03 April 2020

We lived in collapsed economies in Germany – during the Third Reich and in post-war west German DP camps. Yes, as I mentioned @1230pm the easily valued commodities or usables were common currency when no one any longer trusted the Reichsmarks or the post-war Deutchmarks – among such commodities which my father had in his stash were cigarettes, booze, and even nylons (all procured and exchanged on the black market).
And all of us who served in combat arms units are very familiar with the Army’s own ‘black market’ for supplies which worked much better than the authorized supply channels when it came to keeping your combat equipments operational. Every supply sergeant had his own secret and well-hidden stash for when in the field it came time to barter for that hard-to-get rear short axle for a redlined 3/4-ton that had an elaborately custom built Fire Direction Center hutch on its bed. (The part that always amazed me was that every combat unit supply sergeant was able to take all of his stash to the field during maneuvers.)

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Gregory

03 April 2020

I was told by an active duty military scrounger… “Never ask a scrounger where they got it”.

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George Rebane

03 April 2020

Gregory 530pm – Correctamundo – and if he should answer, it would be a lie. All of those transactions are highly against regs and a court-martial offense. Although no CO would dream of court-martialing his supply sergeant for such an ‘offense’. But the annual inspection by the division or corps IG is a wholly different matter, and requires extraordinary coordination at the battalion level when he arrives (which I have described elsewhere in these pages).

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Don Bessee

03 April 2020

Dr. R – Perhaps we can have an old war story visit when we can get back to having lunches. LOL

Creepy grampa joe forgot what he said already –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/03/joe-biden-now-supports-trumps-china-travel-ban-he-said-was-hysterical-xenophobia/
😉

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scenes

03 April 2020

“commodities which my father had in his stash were cigarettes, booze, and even nylons ”
Oooh, I thought of a good one for the zombie apocalypse stash. Antibiotics. The fish variety if you can’t buy the human version. I just checked out shelf life and it appears to be 20+ years. Some of those along with junk silver, an oil filter suppressed rifle, one of those older Soviet surplus backpacks that looks like a sack of potatoes, speedo swimsuit, and some flip flops and the living dead will have to watch out.
“Fed is taking over the capital liquidity market,”
you can imagine the amount of money that is sloshing around right now. I certainly don’t understand it. Maybe the best answer is to find an economist and assume that the truth is the opposite of what they think.
and the beat goes on…
https://www.rt.com/news/484935-us-takes-masks-germany/

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Walt

03 April 2020

I don’t think Trump is going to grant the wicked with from the West her dream wish.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/03/donald-trump-i-think-a-lot-of-people-cheat-with-mail-in-voting/
“President Donald Trump on Friday denounced the idea of mail voting, saying that it was a way for people to cheat.
“I think a lot of people cheat with mail-in voting,” Trump said. “I think people should vote with ID, with Voter ID.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and several other prominent Democrats, as well as failed Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, have used the coronavirus crisis to push for nationwide mail-in elections.
“The reason they don’t want voter ID is because they intend to cheat,” Trump said.”

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Bill Tozer

03 April 2020

China Appointed To U.N. Council That Helps Pick Human Rights Investigators
https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-appointed-to-un-council-that-helps-pick-human-rights-investigators?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand

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Bill Tozer

03 April 2020

‘Florida emergency management official says 3M selling masks to foreign countries: ‘We’re chasing ghosts’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/florida-emergency-official-3m-selling-masks-overseas

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scenes

03 April 2020

re: BillT@7:31
Oh well, like the RT article I put up sez:
“In Berlin, Geisel described the global market for masks as a “Wild West” scenario. Even though American officials deny using underhand tricks to acquire safety gear, one Department of Homeland Security official told Reuters earlier this week that the US would not stop snapping up masks “until we have way too much.””

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Walt

03 April 2020

Trump FIRES Atkinson… LIBS Pissed….. What are they going to do?,,,, Impeach him?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-fires-michael-atkinson-intelligence-ig-who-told-congress-about-ukraine-phone-call-report

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Bill Tozer

03 April 2020

Scenes @ 8:23 pm
It’s a dog eat dog world. I am glad some are fighting back. A call from Trump to 3M and the threat of invoking the Defense of Home Act (or whatever it is called) might make a difference.
I liked your RT article…. after being upset last night with the Fox video watched on another of my favorite sites…..too disputed to post it and turned off the internet.
March Madness: Guns. While looking at new guns is fun, I will stay with what I got. Fill the house with smoke and charge with guns a’blazing. If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance, then baffled them with your bull shit. :).
“March Shatters Monthly Gun Sales Record as U.S. Faces Down Threat of Coronavirus
More than 2.5 million guns sold in March”
https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/march-shatters-monthly-gun-sales-record-as-u-s-faces-down-threat-of-coronavirus/
Even old guns are ok. A particularity nice old gun I enjoyed firing was 1932 Chicago Prison System 10 gauge rolling carriage shot gun. That is one scary looking long arm and unique in its menacing appearance.

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scenes

03 April 2020

ruh-roh
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-china-trail-leading-back-to-wuhan-labs/

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Bill Tozer

03 April 2020

Re: Non guns and ventilators.
New York desperately needs PPE and ventilators, according to Gov Cuomo. Even twitted out for help:
“Andrew Cuomo
✔
@NYGovCuomo
We need supplies.
We need your help.
If you can manufacture PPE I implore you to do so. NYS will pay a premium.
Email Covid19supplies@esd.ny.gov”
—-
Remington, declared a non-essential business by the State of NY, has one million sq of now empty manufacturing space available in NY and is ready to help. Since contacting the State March 27, the Governor has not responded.
Today, nurses in NY protested (part of a National protest) about the lack of PPE for nurses and front line health workers. Even so, the Governor has not responded to Remington s offer.
I sure hope that Cuomo isn’t playing politics because of…you know…Remington is a dirty word. Not PC kind of company….a business the libs want to put out of commission.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2020/04/02/gov-andrew-cuomo-has-not-accepted-remingtons-offer-ppe-ventilators-n2566211
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Defiance in WA State: why not, the State knows it will lose in Court, especially with the DHS guidelines calling gun shops essential. Releasing criminals into the streets and neighborhoods while at the same time as closing gun stores is not the wisest plan of action.
‘Washington gun shops defy coronavirus orders, stay open without ‘essential’ designation’d
“As far as the state and all of us are concerned, your right to the protection of yourself, your family and others is an essential need and a constitutional right,” the store said in a statement on its website.
The store isn’t alone, with Tiffany Teasdale, owner of Lynnwood Gun, telling The Seattle Times she’s keeping her store open, too.
“We don’t have anything in writing that says we need to stay closed,” Teasdale said. “And I don’t know anything about what the governor has said.”
Teasdale told the paper that many gun store owners have been communicating via email during the lockdown and that most are staying open.“
https://www.foxnews.com/us/washington-gun-shops-open-coronavirus
Guess this should have be posted under Masks, Scattershots, or the Great Hunkering Down Diary. Everything is Wuhan Virus related, even climate change, racism, and bailing out the post office pension plan….and keeping NPR afloat.

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scenes

04 April 2020

re: Toilet Paper
I was checking Amazon this morning to keep an eye on toilet paper, I’m using it as a kind of supply chain bellwether. It occurred to me to look for giant commercial rolls.
Huzzah! Cases of giant Scott rolls at a better-than-Kirkland per sqft price.
8:05 12 cases left Deliver Apr. 16
8:15 7 cases left
8:21 0 cases left, so sorry
Crazy days.

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fish

04 April 2020

Posted by: scenes | 04 April 2020 at 08:22 AM
Cases of giant Scott rolls at a better-than-Kirkland per sqft price.
Those are the industrial rolls (14″ diam)?
Those could keep a guy sparkling fresh until July!

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Bill Tozer

04 April 2020

re: TP
Looks like Fish was ahead of the curve.
https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10157219765545914/?type=3&theater

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fish

04 April 2020

Posted by: Bill Tozer | 04 April 2020 at 08:35 AM
Yeah….that’s my “cold weather” roll Bill!
They’re delivering the “Summer” blend later this week!
https://www.economist.com/img/b/1280/721/85/sites/default/files/images/print-edition/20131130_WBP003_1.jpg

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scenes

04 April 2020

My other Amazon interests are bulk dry food. Beans, rice, flour, no doubt it depends on the culture. The amount of gouging that goes on with Amazon 3rd party vendors is a crack up (gouging being a legal term in this case, it depends on the state). Judging from the reviews, people are sending out dregs for 6x normal price.
The other one I ran into in TP Land are the Chinese vendors. 2-3 bucks a roll, super high shipping, you might get it in a month or so from China, turns out that the rolls are mini-size. Somehow this figures, hopefully people can handle the Harbor Freight smell. I have a funny feeling that there’s a whole lot of companies in China high-fiving each other at the profit opportunities.

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Well-hung Chad

04 April 2020

re:TP
Remember, it has two sides. Waste not, want not.

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fish

04 April 2020

Posted by: Well-hung Chad | 04 April 2020 at 08:54 AM

Ugh…..! By the time it gets to that I’m out with the dog scooting across the lawn!

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scenes

04 April 2020

So what exactly is the point of this? To reduce the in-store customer count?
https://fox17.com/news/local/target-walmart-costco-ordered-to-stop-in-person-sales-of-nonessential-items

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Bill Tozer

04 April 2020

“My other Amazon interests are bulk dry food. Beans, rice, flour, no doubt it depends on the culture.”
Have a related story to that. Around 1973 or 74, I briefly rented a room from a lady with 7 boys. In fact, I shared the room with 3-4 of the boys. Out in the boonies, no running water. Like Ma Kettle heating the bath water over a fire outside. Anyway, she always advised me to buy 100 lb bags of flour, rice, lintels, and other beans. Never know when the power goes out, stuck in a snowstorm for a week or two, etc.
Anyway, she and I have maintained an correspondence relationship after all these years. She still gives me advice. She has kept buying those 100 lb bags just in case….a source of a butt of jokes from her modern connected grandkids who know everything. Her reply is, “Hey, after a couple or so years, you can always toss them out if they go bad, but it’s good to have in case of emergencies.”
Last week the grandkids, daughters-in-laws, and more showed up at her land in Northern Idaho. They live in Seattle and all the stores where out of staples and the place is a zoo on the coast. So, they drove over the hills and over the dales and through the forest to Grandma’s cabin.
Grandma is getting hobbled up and can’t walk through the Big Box stores anymore without pain. But, when her adult grandkids arrived and 50 year old sons (2) , she opened those bags of staples and loaded them up. Now, guess who got the last laugh? Hey, you can always toss them if they go bad, lol.

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Walt

04 April 2020

Dougy.. Theft is unbecoming. I used that on on you two weeks ago.
“Well hung”? Mary will sue you for false advertisement.

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Bill Tozer

04 April 2020

Biden
The internet has been full of stories that Joe will show up in July even though the Democrat Convention has been moved to August. Even the bookies are taking bets that ole Joe will show up in July anyway.
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-03-29-at-11.29.55-AM.png?w=934&ssl=1
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-03-31-at-11.08.12-AM.png?w=944&ssl=1
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/04/IMG_2787.jpeg?w=960&ssl=1
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/04/IMG_2798.jpeg?w=960&ssl=1

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fish

04 April 2020

Truly the end of days…..

Monkeys and apes chain smoking cigarettes as coronavirus panic grips planet

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/monkeys-apes-chain-smoking-cigarettes-21798902

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Bill Tozer

04 April 2020

On the bright side
At Least I Can Be Wimbledon Champion For Two Years, Says Halep
https://www.oann.com/at-least-i-can-be-wimbledon-champion-for-two-years-says-halep/
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Oh Dogie, Dougie, Dougie
https://www.facebook.com/2374598835937629/videos/214684429758705/UzpfSTEwMDAwMTEwNzM4NDQ2OToyOTMxOTc2MzQzNTE1OTE2/

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Walt

04 April 2020

WOW Lefties!! You have your very own Marie Antoinette.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/04/ocasio-cortez-rants-that-elected-officials-are-not-providing-enough-relief-while-making-margaritas/
““And in this moment there’s no such thing as doing too much. I mean honesty, have you ever had a point in your life where the federal government did too much for you? Where they gave you too much?” she asked.
“Never happened to me. I’ve never seen that in my life. I never had too many scholarships, you know. We never had too many people that got relief. Puerto Rico never got too much aid,” she continued.
“But anyways, I digress. I’m sure there are plenty of Republicans that are of that opinion,” she added, pivoting to an explainer on how to make a margarita:”

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Don Bessee

04 April 2020

The latest from the socialist dems, at least you know it will die in the senate –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/04/democrats-introduce-measure-to-extend-coronavirus-relief-check-to-illegal-aliens/
😉

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Bill Tozer

05 April 2020

‘An Indictment Of Joe Biden’: Leftwing Think Tank Slams Dems After Joe Rogan’s Trump Remarks
“This is the real issue with the Democratic Party,” Rogan said, as The Daily Wire previously reported. “They’ve essentially made us all morons with this Joe Biden thing. They really have. They’ve made us all morons.”
“I can’t vote for that guy,” said Rogan. “I’d rather vote for Trump than [Biden]. I don’t think he can handle anything. You’re relying entirely on his cabinet. If you want to talk about an individual leader who can communicate, he can’t do that. And we don’t know what the f**k he’ll be like after a year in office. The pressure of being President of the United States is something than no one has ever prepared for.
“The only one who seems to be fine with it is Trump, oddly enough. He doesn’t seem to be aging at all or in any sort of decline. Obama, almost immediately, started looking older. George W. [Bush], almost immediately, started looking older,” said Rogan.“
https://www.dailywire.com/news/an-indictment-of-joe-biden-leftwing-think-tank-slams-dems-after-joe-rogans-trump-remarks

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Mary Wanna

05 April 2020

Dear Old Donald will do anything to keep his sweaty mug on the TV screens. He really has a thing for Easter. Is it all about the free eggs at the Easter egg hunt?
His Saturday rant was beautiful,
President Donald Trump on Saturday spent much of his daily press briefing on the coronavirus raging against perceived enemies, from the media, to the Ukraine whistleblower, to the recently ousted commander of a Navy aircraft carrier.
On the same day the U.S. death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic surpassed 8,000, Trump opened the briefing with a slam at the media, which he accused of “spreading false rumors.”
“Get this over with, then go back to your fake news,” Trump said.
While acknowledging that the nation will likely see “a lot of death” in the coming weeks, the president repeatedly reiterated his calls for the country to “get back to work” and ease up on protective restrictions.
And then he let loose on critics.
Asked about his Friday night firing of intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson, who notified Congress of the whistleblower complaint that ultimately led to his impeachment, Trump slammed both Atkinson and the whistleblower.
“Frankly, somebody oughta sue his ass off,” the president said of the anonymous intelligence whistleblower, adding that Atkinson, a Trump appointee, “did a terrible job.”
Trump also slammed Captain Brett Crozier, who was relieved of his duty commanding the USS Theodore Roosevelt after writing a letter warning about the spread of the coronavirus on his ship. While Crozier’s warnings were dismissed and his pleas for help to Navy leadership were met with punishment, more men on his ship wound up testing positive for the virus, with 137 cases as of Saturday.
In addition to backing the Navy’s decision to ax Crozier, Trump appeared to mock him for daring to sound the alarm about the virus.
“I thought it looked terrible what he did, to write a letter,” Trump said. “This is not a class on literature.”
He went on to take aim at the governors of states that have been hit hard by the coronavirus, claiming without evidence that the states were asking for more equipment than they needed. Trump singled out New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, claiming that the estimates that New York will need 40,000 ventilators were overestimates.
“40,000, think of it,” Trump said. “40,000. It’s not possible. They won’t need that many.”
While Trump won praise from some of his critics earlier this week for appearing to finally grasp the severity of the pandemic, on Saturday he once again seemed to buck expert advice by suggesting certain protective restrictions could soon be loosened.
Speaking about Easter Sunday—the “beautiful” date by which he had earlier suggested things could go back to normal—he mused about churches possibly holding special services with social distancing in mind.
“Maybe we could allow special, for churches, maybe we could talk about it. Maybe we could allow them, with great separation outside, on Easter Sunday. I don’t know, it’s something we should talk about,” he said.
“We have to get this country open. This country was not designed to be closed…we’re paying people to stay home…and they want to go to work.”
Trump also promoted hydroxychloroquine, the drug that’s become key to the Trump administration’s coronavirus response even though the FDA hasn’t approved its use against the virus.
“I may take it,” Trump said. “I have to ask my doctors about that.”
On Friday, President Trump announced a new CDC recommendation that Americans wear cloth or fabric face masks in public to help prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus, but bizarrely said that he wouldn’t bother to wear one himself.

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fish

05 April 2020

Posted by: Mary Wanna | 05 April 2020 at 09:50 AM
Enjoy the second term…..

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Walt

05 April 2020

Morn’n Marty,, Still can’t find a better man than Trump to do the job?

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scenes

05 April 2020

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/03/navy-blindsided-by-coronavirus-plea-carrier-captain-crozier-theodore-roosevelt/
I would suggest that anyone who doesn’t use their chain of command should find another career. Unfortunately, leaking to the press appears to be the way people do business anymore, God knows the MSM will run with it if it follows the narrative. Of course, it’s reasonable to hold two things in your head at once. That he both did the right thing and that he should find his career over.
To be fair, I think it’s tricky to decide whether a leak is a good or bad thing. Maybe it’s just a combination of common sense and looking around to see who is for the leak. I doubt that Crozier got his men into port a second sooner, but Wikileaks has actually done a bit of good. Of course, if you’re a Blue Mob member, the Navy Captain is just another tool for the 2020 election (maybe he’ll get a virtual podium at the virtual election), but the Assanges and Snowdens of the world are evil because they may have helped Orange Hitler win an election plus they may have harmed the sterling reputation of the 17 intelligence agencies.
Since I suspect that masks are in the cards for everybody in the long run, I hope that the American Left’s new BFF, the Chinese, allow us to buy enough. Aah, the benefits of globalism, it’s like a good dose of emetic for a nation.

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Don Bessee

05 April 2020

Still taking care of business –
The coronavirus crisis hasn’t slowed President Donald Trump’s drive to stock the federal courts with conservative judges.
Trump this week moved to fill the only two open federal appeals court slots, nominating a pair of outspoken conservatives and drawing new protests from liberal groups.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-mcconnell-keep-drive-fill-100000665.html
😉

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fish

05 April 2020

Somebody must have sprinkled a mixture of Viagra and methamphetamine into George Boardmans Wheatena. After one blog entry in the last 6 months he comes out guns blasting for the last two weeks!
You guys should drop by….we all come in for a well deserved yet indirect scolding!
PunchyBot left the arena….GB decided to pick up the gauntlet and enter!

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scenes

05 April 2020

does Boardman have a blog? Never seen it.
Just for fun.
“President Trump gets his share of criticism — some warranted, much not. But recently the president’s critics have chosen curious ground to question his response to the coronavirus outbreak since it began spreading from Wuhan, China, in December. It has been alleged by multiple officials of the Obama administration, including in The Washington Post, that the president and his then-national security adviser, John Bolton, “dissolved the office” at the White House in charge of pandemic preparedness. Because I led the very directorate assigned that mission, the counterproliferation and biodefense office, for a year and then handed it off to another official who still holds the post, I know the charge is specious.”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/17/no_the_white_house_didnt_dissolve_its_pandemic_response_office_142683.html

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scenes

05 April 2020

…and just because.
“Consider the Possibility That Trump Is Right About China
Critics are letting their disdain for the president blind them to geopolitical realities.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/consider-possibility-trump-right-china/609493/

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Don Bessee

05 April 2020

Well it looks like one socialist dem learned the lesson of the impeachment fiasco –
Clyburn: House coronavirus panel ‘will be forward-looking,’ not review Trump’s early response
https://www.yahoo.com/news/clyburn-house-coronavirus-panel-forward-172014667.html
😉

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Bill Tozer

05 April 2020

Joe Joe, Joe
‘Biden Falsely Claims: 45 Nations Blocked Chinese Nationals From Entering U.S. Before Trump Did’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-45-nations-blocked-chinese-nationals-from-entering-u-s-before-trump-did

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Bill Tozer

05 April 2020

Sheriff Rebels Against Governor: ‘We Will Not Be Setting Up a Police State’
https://www.westernjournal.com/sheriff-rebels-governor-will-not-setting-police-state/?

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Bill Tozer

05 April 2020

China:
I find it rather amusing that the Lefties are on same page, with the blame Trump, not China mantra.
“Dude, it China is sooo bad, why are they selling us masks?” Like, that is proof of anything. Never mind that many of those “masks they sell us” are made by US companies with factories in China, dude. Nonetheless……
‘China Allegedly Blocked U.S. Companies From Exporting Medical Safety Gear As Pandemic Exploded, Report Says’
“The senior official told the Post, “Data from China’s own customs agency points to an attempt to corner the world market in PPE like gloves, goggles, and masks through massive increased purchases – even as China, the world’s largest PPE manufacturer, was restricting exports.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-allegedly-blocked-u-s-companies-from-exporting-medical-safety-gear-as-pandemic-exploded-report-says
Once you corner the market, they all will come to you with their beggars’ cups in hand….

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fish

06 April 2020

Americas best…..

I’M DISCERNING A THEME HERE WHERE HARVARD STUDENTS ARE CONCERNED:

Harvard Law students want licenses without having to take bar exam.
Flashback: Harvard Student op-ed: During this ‘state of war,’ Harvard should give all students a 4.0.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/harvard-law-students-want-licenses-without-having-to-take-bar-exam/
https://www.thecollegefix.com/harvard-op-ed-during-this-state-of-war-harvard-should-give-all-students-a-4-0/
Instapundit.com

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scenes

06 April 2020

re: BillT@9:55PM
I’m something of an aficionado of those China articles as you may have noticed. The hivemind is going to act in a self-interested fashion, but what’s new there? No surprises.
The surprising thing is that the US has generated a political class and underlying mob that doesn’t want to act in national interests. I can’t think of a historical example. When you see….
. The Chinese invent a virus via a weapons lab or from eating bushmeat.
. The Chinese hold off warning anybody for a month or two
. The Chinese start hoarding protective gear and in fact start grabbing it from elsewhere
. It brings the world’s economy to it’s knees and kills quite a few people
. Trump pulls the train brake a week or two later than he might have, not so bad really
. Trump picks on the Chinese
whose fault is all of this? Why, Trump. Chinese good (hug a Chinese person!), Orange Man bad!
You could argue that The Mob just hates the US and Trump is a good stand-in. It’s not like this behavior just started in 2016. Maybe we should just break it up now. Give the midwest to the Canadians, the southwest to the Mexicans, maybe a homeland for black people, west coast to Asia. The guilt can be expunged.

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fish

06 April 2020

Posted by: scenes | 06 April 2020 at 08:29 AM
You could argue that The Mob just hates the US and Trump is a good stand-in.
Orwell would agree! He understood Blue Mob™…..easier to love (Big Brother) or hate (Goldstein, The Tangerine Tornado, etc.) than focus that hate on the abstraction of government or bureaucracy or any other amorphous power or organizational structure.

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Mary Wanna

06 April 2020

Trump is criminally negligent and needs to be impeached, Trump chose Bolton to lead the National Security Council in April 2018. A month later, Bolton nixed the pandemic preparedness office as part of an effort to streamline the agency.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/03/18/coronavirus-did-president-trumps-decision-disband-global-pandemic-office-hinder-response/5064881002/
Fauci proves here that they were on notice but Trump chose to go golfing instead,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNXGAxGJgQI

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fish

06 April 2020

Posted by: Mary Wanna | 06 April 2020 at 08:47 AM
Trump is criminally negligent and needs to be impeached…..
Yeah….you’ll want to get right on that.

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Bill Tozer

06 April 2020

How lovely that Mary comes over here for her morning constitutional. Smells like tofu. Which reminds me, got to let the dogs out.

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06 April 2020

Mx Wanna sez: ” Trump chose Bolton to lead the National Security Council in April 2018. A month later, Bolton nixed the pandemic preparedness office as part of an effort to streamline the agency.”
“President Trump gets his share of criticism — some warranted, much not. But recently the president’s critics have chosen curious ground to question his response to the coronavirus outbreak since it began spreading from Wuhan, China, in December. It has been alleged by multiple officials of the Obama administration, including in The Washington Post, that the president and his then-national security adviser, John Bolton, “dissolved the office” at the White House in charge of pandemic preparedness. Because I led the very directorate assigned that mission, the counterproliferation and biodefense office, for a year and then handed it off to another official who still holds the post, I know the charge is specious.”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/17/no_the_white_house_didnt_dissolve_its_pandemic_response_office_142683.html
Come on, we all know this is just politics. A million things have happened in the last few months, but the official talking points are:
. Trump hoped the country could open up by Easter
. Trump hopes that some drug or another helps
. Trump ‘CLOSED THE PANDEMIC OFFICE’.
Feh. Go bother somebody that cares.

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Bill Tozer

06 April 2020

Perhaps Mary should venture out to other posts here instead of staying in the Sandbox. Opps, strike that. The Sandbox is custom made for Mary and Cheryl and the rest of the local Blue Mob to place their deposits.

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