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Sandbox – 8apr20

[I again remind readers that the Sandbox is for opinions, insights, and issues not covered in my other recent topical commentaries and posts.  Now isn't this blog a pain in the ass?  gjr]

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  1. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    A post from the SACBEE from the story about credit card relief.
    “”If credit card companies value the lives of their customers, they must act to protect them from financial ruin during this unexpected downturn.”
    Curious. Does this also apply to local governments collecting property taxes due tomorrow? ” “

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh Walt…..
    Not in the Moscone Center! The place will be trashed and they will never get rid of the bedbugs. Never Ever! I wonder why it was so abrupt? I thought it was a splendid Frisco. Values compassionate superior virtue signaling for our diseased friends.
    Man, take that Petri dish of 3rd world diseases and throw in some Typhoid Mary, add some once eradicated Dark Ages Grim Reaper stuff, add two scopes of COVID-19, mix it all up and pesto! We ain’t seen nothing yet in Blue CA. Makes H1N1 mixed with Madcow look like a nothingburger.
    ‘San Francisco Relocating Homeless Into Hotels After Abrupt Policy Change’
    https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/san-francisco-relocating-homeless-out-of-shelters-and-into-hotels-after-abrupt-policy-change/2268696/
    ——————————-
    Gavin to the rescue!!! How Blue can we go??
    ‘Coronavirus: Gov. Newsom considers aid for immigrants amid COVID-19 outbreak’
    “Newsom said “all of that is being considered,” adding it is part of a broader package he plans to unveil in May that will include “some economic stimulus strategies at a state level, not just waiting for the federal government to do that for us.”
    “Californians care deeply about undocumented residents in this state,” he said.
    California has been aggressive in expanding government-funded benefits for immigrants living in the country illegally. Last year, lawmakers made California the first state in the country to offer government-funded health benefits to low-income adults 25 and younger living in the country illegally“
    https://abc7news.com/coronavirus-aid-california-immigrants-gavin-newsom-covid19-covid-19-migrations/6087277/

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  3. Mary Wanna Avatar
    Mary Wanna

    Now Alex Jones thinks he is a doctor like Trump,
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-warn-alex-jones-to-stop-hawking-coronavirus-scams/?utm_source=web_push

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  4. Mary Wanna Avatar
    Mary Wanna

    Not to be outdone by Trump and Alex Jones, Fox News jumps in with their BS conspiracy theories.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/fauci-dismisses-conspiracy-theories-to-spin-the-coronavirus-death-toll-132059427.html

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    L.A. Community Raises Concerns Over Plan To House Homeless In Rec Centers Amid Outbreak
    https://www.oann.com/l-a-community-raises-concerns-over-plan-to-house-homeless-in-rec-centers-amid-outbreak/
    ————————
    Moi @ 4:02 pm Big mistake. Read like this
    “Gavin to the rescue!!! How Blue can we go??
    ‘Coronavirus: Gov. Newsom considers aid for immigrants amid COVID-19 outbreak’”
    The headline should of read: ‘Coronavirus: Gov. Newsom considers Coronavirus relief aid for immigrants amid COVID-19 outbreak’.
    “We won’t leave them out. That’s not who we are. We love our illegals and the aliens who are kept under quarantine out at Area 51.

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Way to go, no way the chi coms will have a direct connect to our internet infrastructure will happen under this administration. –
    Google subsidiary agrees to pursue internet ‘diversification’ in Asia to block China access to U.S. market
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/google-subsidiary-agrees-pursue-internet-131104555.html
    😉

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  7. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    LOL!!🤣🤣😂😂👍👍
    Emery turning on his own “goto” infowars guy.
    Being twofaced is unbecoming,, Emery.

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You can expect to see a lot of creepy grampa joes videos on his love for the chi coms in ads –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/09/trump-coronavirus-campaign-ad-features-joe-biden-cheerleading-for-china/
    😉

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Money talks and Bull Pucky walks. Gates first to bail out of the Great Hunkering?
    Bill Gates Suggests Reopening Businesses Without Vaccine
    https://www.oann.com/bill-gates-suggests-reopening-businesses-without-vaccine/

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another botox moment –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/09/nancy-pelosi-forgets-to-speak-into-phone-during-virtual-press-conference/
    😉

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  11. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Since Emery believes the written word of elite LIBS,,
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/04/09/joe-biden-coronavirus-advisor-ezekiel-emanuel-living-too-long-is-also-a-loss/
    “He once wrote a piece titled, “Why I Hope to Die at 75.” In the 2014 Atlantic article, Emanuel made clear that he was serious about his wish to die at 75 and even argued that “living too long is also a loss.”
    HEY,, It’s your boy “O”‘s high ranking stooge, and Healthcare
    destroyer.
    Written by a LIB, for LIBS.

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  12. Mary Wanna Avatar
    Mary Wanna

    Walt: Emanuel described Trump to a T, and Trump is 73.
    It renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than death but is nonetheless deprived. We are no longer remembered as vibrant and engaged but as feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic.
    Emphasis on pathetic.

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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    More bad news for the trollish TDS set –
    In addition, approval sits at or near his best among women, Democrats, whites, and white evangelical Christians.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-trump-job-approval-hits-new-high-as-voters-rally-during-crisis
    😉

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  14. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Actually it describes you.,,, Emery.
    Trump is thumping on all cylinders, and the supercharger has yet to even kick in.
    Speaking of old, tired LIBS,
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/04/08/carville-2020-is-going-to-be-a-democratic-wipeout-voters-dont-want-four-more-years-of-trump/
    The same clown that said Hillary had a 99% chance of winning.
    Gotta love the false hope Neocommies try and give each other.

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  15. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    It is nothing but a welcome joy to see how both polarized sides are now able to come together and agree that the current situation not matter whether in the administration, Congress, foreign policy, consumer attitudes, etc bodes supremely well for each, no one could be happier – everyone can take great comfort and pleasure at how things are turning out for their respective sides.

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  16. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Yes George,, The Lefties are rooting for the virus. They hope the virus topples Trump. No matter what the body count can be.
    Has the Left given praise for anything Trump has done?,, No..

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  17. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    It’s official.. It’s fine for private business to take the financial hits , but not the government. They demand their due.
    No breaks from the tax man. Penalties and all! Don’t have the money? Tough titty says Gavin.
    So get those property taxes in. They are counting on the extra penalties.

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The socialist dems are again holding relief hostage –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/09/watch-mitch-mcconnell-democrats-holding-small-business-aid-hostage/
    😉

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Can’t teach an old dog with below average intelligence new tricks.
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/442017982919984/permalink/915132985608479/

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    SLOW JOE’S LATEST WHIFFS
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/04/slow-joes-latest-whiffs.php

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You can thank your cali green deal –
    Wisconsin currently has the lowest statewide average at $1.39, followed by $1.45 in Oklahoma and $1.51 in Ohio.
    California, where prices are typically the highest in the continental U.S., is now at a $2.92 average, while Hawaii has the nation’s most expensive gas at $3.31.
    https://www.foxnews.com/auto/gas-1-89-nationwide-average-79-cents
    😉

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  22. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    See that post from Bill,, Emery? Yaa.. Biden will beat trump.. Sure thing.👍😂🤣 Real Presidential material ya’ got there.
    Hell.. Your boy “O” won’t even put in a good word for him.

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Oh ya the socialist dems were so aware and did so much better than the administration, NOT –
    (Bloomberg) — Three years ago, America’s largest pension fund made an unusual investment. It bought so-called tail-risk protection, a kind of insurance against financial catastrophe. In a market meltdown like the one sparked by the coronavirus, the strategy promised a massive payout — more than $1 billion.
    If only the California Public Employees Retirement System had stuck with the plan. Instead, Calpers, as the fund is known, removed one of its two hedges against a bear market just weeks before the viral outbreak sent stocks reeling, according to people familiar with its decision.
    The timing couldn’t have been worse. The fund had incurred hundreds of millions of dollars in premium-like costs for those investments. Then it missed out on a bonanza when disaster finally struck.
    https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/calpers-forfeited-1-billion-payday-213518387.html
    😉

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Go ahead and get stupid and piss off the independents and energize the R;s –
    Underscoring a Democratic consensus that Trump’s own words will be a potent weapon, Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., said: “Donald Trump does have the biggest bully pulpit. But fortunately for Democrats, Donald Trump has the biggest bully pulpit.”
    Yet seven months from Election Day, Democrats have not matched the attention Trump can command with daily, nationally televised briefings that can exceed two hours.
    And they’re juggling conflicting instincts: attack Trump aggressively now and risk accusations of using a catastrophe for political reasons, or wait until society starts returning to normal. That might give him time to define himself as a wartime president battling a virus that’s enveloped the globe.
    “There has been gross incompetence” by Trump and that’s “a huge vulnerability,” said Jim Margolis, a leading Democratic communications consultant. “But Democrats must take care not to gratuitously attack the administration or look like they are playing politics with a crisis.”
    “A purely partisan attack is inappropriate for the times we’re in,” said former Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., who once headed House Democrats’ campaign organization.
    Both approaches — strike vigorously now or later — are being tested in real time.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/dems-debate-hit-trump-virus-182109271.html
    😉

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  25. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Is it any wonder they keep generating pandemics?
    https://www.foxnews.com/world/chinas-wet-markets-bizarre-unusual-items
    😉

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    It is eminently clear our trolls have no thought process just parrots of the putin party line like when they bring up the pres being 73 in relation to emanuals soylent green editorial.
    Creepy grampa joe is 77! What a maroon –
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/04/09/joe-biden-coronavirus-advisor-ezekiel-emanuel-living-too-long-is-also-a-loss/
    😉

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  27. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    This pretty much has it right for the Proggy Press.
    ” At Elected Official One, CNN directs a nonstop barrage of antagonistic questions, along with hostile commentary disguised as questions, plus additional hostile commentary not disguised as questions, for the sole purpose of creating gotcha moments that serve no public-information purpose whatsoever. It’s dog meets fire hydrant.
    When dealing with Elected Official Two, CNN brings in . . . his brother. For a nonstop massage of gentle questioning, family banter and general fawning. It’s dog meets other dog’s butt.
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/kyle-smith-cuomo-andrew-chris-coronavirus

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    OY VEY typo!
    😉

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  29. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Required reading for ” No voter fraud” Emery.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/09/judicial-watch-sues-north-carolina-for-1m-inactive-voters-on-voting-rolls/
    A PRIME example of why we should NOT have vote by mail.
    “North Carolina, according to its own state data, has nearly one million inactive registered voters on its voter rolls. Likewise, Judicial Watch alleges that Mecklenburg County and Guilford County each have more registered voters on their rolls than the total number of eligible voters in the regions.
    For example, Judicial Watch analysis finds that Mecklenburg County has a voter registration rate of 107 percent, while Guilford County has a voter registration rate of 102 percent. In Mecklenburg County, Judicial Watch alleges there are about 115,000 inactive voters on the voter rolls, and in Guilford County there are about 72,000 inactive voters.”
    So some enterprising “gotta win at all costs” LIBS will be harvesting those ghost ballots.
    Just think. the voter rolls are like that all across the nation. And LIBS want to keep it that way… Can Emery tell us why?

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    To win @808! LOL
    😉

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  31. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    That’s cheat’n Don,, I wanted to see if Paul, Mary, and in the shadows Peter would dare tell the truth why…
    Now bring me a slab of ribs They won’t be the same when you get them back…(just MUCH better)

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush Bush
    BDS BDS BDS BDS President George W Bush BDS BDS BDS 43 43 Bush Bush! BDS TDS BDS
    ‘President George W. Bush Predicted Our Pandemic Response In 2005’
    The plan the President set in motion was vast, and expensive. His initial vision came with a $7 billion price tag, and some inside his staff thought this was a low priority. In the wake of 9/11, with war taking place, some felt that preparing for something that wasn’t at our doorstep was foolish. But President Bush said:
    “If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare. And one day many lives could be needlessly lost because we failed to act today.”
    The President delivered a speech at the National Institutes of Health, where he laid out his vision. But not just his vision of what our response should look like, but what the impacts of a pandemic would like like to our country:
    “A pandemic is a lot like a forest fire. If caught early it might be extinguished with limited damage. If allowed to smolder, undetected, it can grow to an inferno that can spread quickly beyond our ability to control it.”……
    “Part of President Bush’s plan in 2005 was to build a massive stockpile of medication, and personal protective equipment, or PPE, which is in short supply right now, as Bush predicted it would be. The plan also included building a massive national stockpile of ventilators and face masks. One of the other pillars of the plan included an “early warning system” for emerging pandemics around the globe.”
    Read More: President George W. Bush Predicted Our Pandemic Response In 2005 | https://710keel.com/president-george-w-bush-predicted-our-pandemic-response-in-2005/?
    Miss ‘W’ yet?

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  33. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    No more bullshit from the chi coms, emperor xi screwed the world –
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department and other federal agencies on Thursday called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to revoke China Telecom (Americas) Corp’s authorization to provide international telecommunications services to and from the United States.
    China Telecom is the U.S. subsidiary of a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-owned telecommunications company. Last year, two U.S. senators asked the FCC to review approvals of China Telecom and China Unicom to operate in the United States.
    The FCC last May voted unanimously to deny another state-owned Chinese telecommunications company, China Mobile Ltd, the right to provide services in the United States, citing risks that the Chinese government could use the approval to conduct espionage against the U.S. government, It said then that it was “looking” at the licenses of China Telecom and China Unicom.
    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-agencies-recommend-revoking-ability-190743383.html
    😉

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    For a change of non-Wuhan Virus pace, back to Dan in the bunker.
    https://www.facebook.com/101043269988443/posts/3067252836700790/

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    I’m a little bit surprised that Mr. Crabb didn’t catch this one……

    Mort Drucker, whose instantly recognizable TV and movie caricatures were a beloved 55-year Mad magazine staple that included parodies such as “Botch Casually and the Somedunce Kid,” “Rosemia’s Boo-Boo,” “The Odd Father,” “The Way We Bore,” “Star Blecch” and “How Lame Is Earl,” died Wednesday at his home in Woodbury, Long Island, N.Y. He was 91.

    Used to love Mad Magazine!
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/celebrity/mort-drucker-dies-famous-fans-post-favorites-from-mad-magazine-tv-and-movie-caricaturist/ar-BB12oDX6

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Mort Drucker. I admit I had never thought about who did this work.
    I need to look back and see if it was him that did similar drawings for Esquire, Car & Driver, etc. or if it was just a common style. I’ve always admired some peoples’ draftsmanship. He ended up with a career length on the order of Robert McGinnis.

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  37. Mary Wanna Avatar
    Mary Wanna

    Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) got his ass handed to him on Fox News on Thursday, and it was a sight to behold.
    If it is one thing you can count on Republicans for it is their deplrorability,
    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/matt-gaetz-gets-brutally-roasted-on-fox-news-981492/

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  38. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Mary Wanna | 10 April 2020 at 08:57 AM

    ….sounds like somebody is watching way too much Fox news.

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  39. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Got one better Emery, TDS is fatal. No cure.
    CNN says so.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-town-hall-trump-derangement-syndrome-question
    “Anderson Cooper, Dr. Sanjay Gupta and CDC Director Robert Redfield answered questions from viewers, CNN’s on-screen graphics at one point included the question, “Is Stage 4 TDS considered an underlying morbidity?”
    And CNN makes an ass out of itself again.
    Just like “Mary”.

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  40. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    fish 730am – thank you for that pick-up Mr fish, I too was a devotee of Mad Magazine in bygone years, and some of the stories stick with to this day. One was the comparison of movie western gunfighter heroes with the real gunfighters of the old west who were mostly do-nothing layabouts. The Mad story featured ‘Lance Sterling’ as hero wearing his glittering rig with two-gun, silver-studded fast draw holsters, and perfect teeth. In real life the gunfighter was really a drabby disheveled trouble-maker named John Smurd who carried his gun stuck in his pants belt on his belly. When Lance drew and fired, it was so fast that the frame shouted ‘Blam, Six-Times!!’ and then Lance rode off into the sunset. Smurd drew his hogsleg and ripped his shirt, and his victory was celebrated with his public hanging in front of a cheering crowd. Those were fun stories drawn with excellent craftmanship and artistry.

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  41. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    re MaryW 857am – what the highly polarized Mary Wannas never notice is that FN, along with RR, often take Republicans to task – something impossible to see and even conceive of happening on lamestream outlets.

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  42. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: George Rebane | 10 April 2020 at 09:12 AM
    👍

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  43. L Avatar
    L

    NY Times offered a free, daily Kung flu update, so I signed up. Today, they announced the failure of the stimulus package and the spread of the virus among food processors…
    Never miss the opportunity to spread uncontested propaganda. Learned my lesson: things that cost nothing are usually worth exactly that.

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    Hell…that didn’t take long…..

    XFL SUSPENDS ALL OPERATIONS, LAYS OFF EMPLOYEES:

    “While a handful of executives remain employed, the league currently has no plans to return in 2021…The XFL is owned by WWE chairman and CEO Vince McMahon, who was making his second foray into professional football. His rowdy 2001 version of the XFL also folded after one year.”

    https://www.espn.com/xfl/story/_/id/29021347/xfl-suspends-operations-lays-employees-no-plans-return-2021

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  45. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Note to low life vermin. Best to pass by a home with an American flag proudly displayed. That homeowner is most likely to be armed, and knows how to use it.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/doorbell-video-shows-illinois-home-invasion-suspects-in-coronavirus-masks
    One POS dead, the other got seven shades of shit beat out of him.

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  46. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Emperor xi has no clothes –
    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/04/10/report-chinas-coronavirus-data-off-millions-cases/
    😉

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  47. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    x
    Members of Australia’s governing coalition have given tacit backing to U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to defund the World Health Organization (WHO), saying their country’s own situation would be a lot worse if they had not ignored the “politicised” UN agency’s advice to allow travel from China in the pandemic’s early stages.
    Australia, like the United States, moved relatively quickly to ban travel from China — despite its heavy dependence on trade with the communist dictatorship — regardless of WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu claiming such bans would “unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade” and should not be implemented.
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/04/10/australia-stayed-ahead-of-pandemic-by-ignoring-politicised-who-on-china-travel-ban/
    😉

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  48. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Don. Another slap to the chops to the TDS affected. Good find!
    See Mary/Paul(Peter still MIA)? Trump was right.

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  49. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The fakenews TDS set is working in overdrive –
    https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/04/10/nolte-all-the-establishment-medias-dangerous-coronavirus-lies-part-2/
    😉

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  50. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Reality check –
    Further, Atkinson released the letter to Congress even after the acting director of National Intelligence (his direct superior) and legal counsel at the Department of Justice determined that the complaint letter failed to meet the legal threshold required for it to be shared with Congress.
    So Atkinson, in the president’s view, was wrong on two judgment calls — first, on whether or not the letter itself was “urgent and credible,” and, second, when Atkinson chose to ignore his superior’s judgment and the judgment of the Department of Justice counsel who considered the matter.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/president-fire-atkinson-005831177.html
    😉

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