[While I'm much in favor of opening up the economy sooner than later, I can't understand the Trump/Cuomo pissing match now going on (here). The President is all wet in asserting that it is only he who gets "to call the shots" on opening up the country. The country was not 'closed' on the basis of some federal imperative, and so it does not stand that it awaits the President's removal of such a non-existent imperative. In the meanwhile, the governors are in charge of lawful public intercourse in their states. As usual, Trump is burning up political capital better put to use elsewhere, and the lamestream is eating it up. gjr]
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373 responses to “Sandbox – 14apr20”
Sorry about your pithy troll posts dissapearing fish.
But how about Trump’s best ever adminstration screw ups? Maybe we should care more about them.
Trumpy’s big money giveaway is going sideways because of screw-ups.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/16/coronavirus-cares-stimulus-check/
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Posted by: Mary Wanna | 16 April 2020 at 11:02 AM
Sorry about your pithy troll posts dissapearing fish.
Yes…..a tragedy for the ages! Was going to ding you for spelling “disappearing” incorrectly but bonus points for using “pithy” properly!
I still have hope for you…..
Trumpy’s big money giveaway is going sideways because of screw-ups.
Like seemingly everything the federal government does……cough…cough… Obamacare website rollout….cough!
Makes me wonder why progressives are so enamored of it.
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Posted by: Mary Wanna | 16 April 2020 at 11:02 AM
You mock….but this was one of the vital posts I made earlier!
https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/PRC_126008112.jpg?quality=90&strip=all
For all mankind…..!
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This explains so much about Georges progressive posters…..
Just spitballing here but it might be time to adjust Punchy’s and dugsKKKis daily dosage!
https://www.studyfinds.org/crohns-disease-cured-by-australian-scientists-new-study-reports/
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Let’s see if this works. If it does, check out the sheriff helicopter over Granite Bay.
https://www.flightradar24.com/N911WL/245e2e13
He is really “mowing the lawn” looking for people in groups?
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This should be a lesson but I doubt it:
Spell has come under fire for a series of controversial statements on the pandemic.
Last week, he urged followers to defy public health lockdowns and attend church service even if their lives are in danger, saying “Death is a welcomed friend.” This week, he also drew criticism for starting the social media campaign #PastorSpellStimulusChallenge, which urges people to send their $1,200 coronavirus stimulus checks to churches and missionaries rather than pay for food and bills.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/lawyer-for-louisiana-pastor-who-told-followers-to-ignore-public-health-warnings-has-covid-19-after-attending-service/
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Punchy 1235pm
In your own words… what is the lesson?
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Posted by: Walt | 16 April 2020 at 12:30 PM
He is really “mowing the lawn” looking for people in groups?
Poor bastard just dying to get on the giant airborne PA system!
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No surprise the chi coms are lying again –
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/04/15/report-china-quietly-keeping-residences-quarantined-despite-reopening-wuhan/
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Punchy?
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Here’s my take for phase 2
1) people known to have an active SARS infection should be in quarantine. Involuntary if needed.
2) people afraid of the SARS du jour for whatever reason should be in voluntary seclusion.
3) everyone else, go about your business.
When it started, without a glimmer of hope for a treatment… my worry was that I or someone close to me would get the bug and require intensive care when the ICUs were full up. We are over that hump.
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It’s so obvious Gregory I don’t want to embarrass you by having to tell you in public.
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Fish. CHP was overhead last night spinning circles.
Someone wrecked a car and ran. They FLIRed the lowlife out, and off to the pokey.
I know the people where they caught him at.(hiding in an out building most likely) They must have been out of town or something. They are the kind that shoot first then ask questions.
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No embarrassment will ensue.
Paul… the lesson you take from it?
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Don’t those LIBshits EVER learn?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/16/democrats-threatening-impeachment-over-trumps-order-to-halt-w-h-o-funding/
“House Democrats reportedly threatened this week that President Donald Trump could face another impeachment effort if he moves forward with his order to defund to the communist China-influenced World Health Organization (W.H.O.) for mismanaging and covering up the extent of the coronavirus outbreak during its early stages.”
The law is on his side.
But please try again. Just when you think they can’t look more like the asses they already are,, they do.
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Buck sez
“Ultimately, anyone who held themselves up as an “expert in natsec” and pushed the Russia collusion hoax for 3 years just isn’t very smart.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1250637061213872128
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Let me quote from the Bible Gregory:
(Matthew 7:15-20) from the Sermon on the Mount: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits.”
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Here is the full clip of Bill Mahr’s monologue, which I agree with for once.
https://www.facebook.com/DailyWire/videos/881949888945220/
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Paul… that is bizarre! False prophet?
A lawyer came down with SARS, and we are led by irony (and no real evidence) to believe it was because he saw and shook hands with his client… who doesn’t have SARS.
That’s all you got?
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Fish: thanks for reposting. The resemblance between the two insignias is uncanny. But the new name is kind of ridiculous. But the space force, really? That’s sounds more like something me and my bros would call ourselves after doing a couple of bong loads and going out for munchies.
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Posted by: Gregory | 16 April 2020 at 02:52 PM
all you got?
PunchyLogic.
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Gregory
More on Pastor Spells:
“Spell has become a lightning rod for controversy after he defied bans on large-scale gatherings by holding packed services in his church during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Spell also told his followers not to be afraid of dying from the virus, and even said that “death is a welcomed friend” for true believers.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/louisiana-pastor-asks-followers-to-send-their-stimulus-checks-to-churches-instead-of-buying-food/
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Toes 234pm
Except it appears Patient Zero was a tech at the Wuhan virology lab working with bat corona virus, and bats weren’t sold at that wetmarket.
But yes, Maher scored points.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 16 April 2020 at 02:29 PM
Let me quote from the Bible Gregory:
(Matthew 7:15-20) from the Sermon on the Mount: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits.”
Let me paraphrase from the “Billy Madison” Punchy:
Punch……important Pro Tip……stay away from scripture, it shall only make thee look dumber than usual!
“Let me quote from the Bible”……moron!
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Donb: “That report followed another study released last month by the Secure World Foundation, which stated countries around the world should not discount the reality that some bad actors may be stepping up both offensive and defensive measures in space.”
A ‘bad actor’ is in the eye of the beholder I guess.
It isn’t like ASAT development hasn’t been going on for decades. Hopefully it’s all less crude than the cannon that the Russians put in the Almaz.
Maryw: “But the space force, really?” So what then? Rocket Force? Really High in the Air Force?
You can make a case for them breaking off ICBMs from the AF in the way that the Soviets did, although I can see the difficulties in siloing off (so to speak) function into armed force branches.
Dunno what the fuss about the insignias is. The current one is just a variant of Air Force Space Command, which has the same arrowhead trope as Russian Space Forces used to have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Space_Forces#/media/File:Russian_military_space_troops_flag.svg
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Punchy 325pm
So f’ing what?
Why do you care… in your own words, not a cribbing from rawstory?
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Scenes: ok join up bro. I am going to love calling you a Space Cadet.
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Gregory
Are you denying the facts in the story or the direct quotes from Pastor Spells?
Check out this photo from his Easter gathering
https://www.tmz.com/2020/04/14/pastor-tony-spell-church-packed-easter-hand-out-food/
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“Punchy 325pm
So f’ing what?
Why do you care… in your own words, not a cribbing from rawstory?”
Or a cribbing of any source.
If you can’t tell me why you care, why should I care what a loozianna preacher tells his flock? Don’t stand between an evangelical and their drive to ‘go home’.
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Are you denying the facts in the story or the direct quotes from Pastor Spells?
Here we go……..Matlock’s back in town!
Have at him Gregory!
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I tell ya….its really hard not to love the guy!
Trump snubs Romney by inviting every other GOP senator to council on restarting economy amid coronavirus.
Mittens Romney…….Patron Saint of the Perpetually Flaccid.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-outreach-restarting-economy-includes-every-gop-senator-except-romney
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Gregory is pathetic and boring fish. Not much of a sparing partner. why don’t you give it a go.
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Paul… so you have appointed yourself your bro’s keeper … bro’s you don’t know and will never meet?
I’m recalling scripture on that but I won’t quote from my misguided someday school days.
I think it’s more likely just another misguided and cynical waste of time and blog-inches, by you.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 16 April 2020 at 04:25 PM
Gregory is pathetic and boring fish. Not much of a sparing partner. why don’t you give it a go.
You’re a pathetic old progressive frightened about everything and you are at your absolute worst when you try to present yourself as above the fray!
It’s difficult to not feel contempt for you most times Punch…..no need for you to make it any easier!
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Punchy 425pm
“Gregory is pathetic and boring”
Sorry, I forgot the obligatory formal response: I accept your forfeit.
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Ain’t globalism grand? –
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/04/16/facebook-coronavirus-fact-checker-worked-with-wuhan-virus-lab/
😉
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Pissed about church services…….not a word about this!
So much for “social distancing” here eh Punch! Who knows how many new cases Dr. Fauci just countenanced with this little throw away?!
Waiting for the outrage in…….three….two…..oh that’s right it’s not coming! Christians in Lousiana look like an easy target for Dr. Punchy Science’s righteous anger…..progressive darling like Fauci……not a peep!
https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-fauci-gives-go-ahead-to-pandemic-hookups-if-youre-willing-to-take-the-risk?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter
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A big ray of light –
U.S. stock futures surged on Thursday night after a report said a Gilead Sciences drug was showing effectiveness in treating the coronavirus. The move pointed to a jump for the stock market on Friday.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were up 903 points, or about 3.9%. S&P 500 futures gained 3.4% while Nasdaq 100 futures were up by 2.6%.
Gilead shares jumped by 14% in after-hours trading after STAT news reported that a Chicago hospital treating coronavirus patients with Remdesivir in a trial were recovering rapidly from severe symptoms. The publication cited a video it obtained where the trial results were discussed.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/16/sp-500-etf-jumps-2percent-after-hours-on-report-gilead-drug-showing-effectiveness-treating-coronavirus.html
😉
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/pope-francis-jokes-whisky-the-21877133
Put that post back up! You will have them showing up in church by the train load.
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The best thing you will see today! C’mon….get on “Team Joe”!
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/04/16/people-are-having-too-much-fun-with-joe-bidens-new-im-on-team-joe-avatar-maker/
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More bad news for the TDS set –
A Democratic strategist, speaking on condition of anonymity, described a private research initiative in which voters were shown a 90-second clip of a recent briefing. Trump’s general election performance against his likely Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, reportedly improved by more than two percentage points after voters watched the clip. Considering most polls are indicating a tight contest, that’s quite a shift after such a small amount of footage.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-performance-against-biden-reportedly-212900428.html
😉
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SO it was team 0 that colluded with Putin –
On Wednesday, Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley (IA) and Ron Johnson (WI) released newly declassified footnotes from the December 2019 Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general (IG) report about the FBI’s Russia collusion probe. The footnotes indicate that the FBI may have assisted Moscow in interfering in the American elections by relying on Russian disinformation contained in Steele’s infamous “pee dossier” to carry out its collusion investigation.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/16/disclosures-russian-disinformation-in-steele-dossier-fueled-collusion-probe-by-obama-comey-fbi/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/16/declassified-fbi-carrying-out-physical-searches-targeting-carter-page/
😉
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That ray of light is getting brighter! –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/8315f15a-3576-3162-a753-9c51d01b9aad/uc-davis-clinical-trial-shows.html
😉
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This post is about 12 days old, yet it keeps spinning in my hamster cage. It’s haunting when you think about it, yet a good insight into the socialist mind.
WATCH: AOC complains federal government not doing enough—while making a margarita
“I mean, honestly, have you ever had a point in your life where the federal government did too much for you,” she asked 8,600 fans watching while screwing the cap on the bottle, “where they gave you too much?”
“Never happened to me! I’ve never seen that in my lifetime. I never had too many scholarships, we never had too many people that got relief. Puerto Rico never got too much aid,” she said, measuring the lime juice. She proceeded to tell her viewers how to properly make a margarita, including how to put “a little stank on it.”
https://www.lifezette.com/2020/04/watch-aoc-complains-federal-government-not-doing-enough-while-making-a-margarita/
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Hey where’s Walto? Trump doesn’t want dead people to vote but he sends them Trump Bucks!
https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/E4D88808-7F55-11EA-8EDA-DDE7236377C2
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Too late for Daily Quotes?
Insight: “The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.” —Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Editorial exegesis: “Some argue that withholding our funding of the WHO — $400 million a year — will hinder its international relief efforts. This is a legitimate concern, but the WHO’s missteps themselves hindered the fight against the pandemic at a critical stage. In any event, U.S. funding of pandemic relief does not depend on any single multilateral bureaucracy. In fact, the U.S. has already spent more than $500 million on foreign aid to combat the pandemic — roughly 25 percent of the WHO’s annual budget — on top of existing contributions to multilateral and nongovernmental organizations. … The more the World Health Organization capitulates to Chinese soft power, the less effective — and the less deserving of our support — it will be. The White House is right to bring serious pressure to bear to try to check this trend.” —National Review
Upright: “The PPP program is going to run out of funding soon — the Senate should approve add’l funding by unanimous consent ASAP. Small businesses need our help to survive during this emergency.” —Sen. Kyrsten Sinema
Alpha jackass: “The reason that we’re in the crisis that we are today is not because of anything that China did. It’s not because of anything WHO did. It’s because of what this president did.” —Sen. Chris Murphy
Now do welfare: “You all realize that check Treasury is sending you with Trump’s name scribbled on it is your money, right? It’s your tax dollars that Congress appropriated. Trump is basically the guy who ‘lends’ you back your own lawnmower he borrowed and has had at his house for months…” —MSNBC’s Joy Reid
Non compos mentis: “I wasn’t thinking of the Bill of Rights when we did this. … We looked at all the data and the science and it says people have to stay away from each other.” —New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy
Exactly — it’s a slippery slope toward dependency: “It is a funny moment because everyone wants to fight against these [socialist] policies until they have been personally impacted, and we’ve seen this not just economically, but we’ve also seen it in terms of social rights as well.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
And last… “I think it is reasonable, given the new data showing people were already self-locking down, to put in place a plan to start reopening parts of the country on May 1st and trust people to use their best judgment.” —Erick Erickson
https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10157268167605914/?
https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10157268164400914/?
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We are watching you and you know who you are…….
‘Maryland police remind residents to wear pants to mailbox: ‘This is your final warning’
“Please remember to put pants on before leaving the house to check your mailbox. You know who you are. This is your final warning,” the Taneytown Police Department wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/04/15/coronavirus-police-maryland-town-urge-residents-wear-pants/5140750002/
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“It’s not easy being green”—Kermit the Frog
‘Stop the Virus Now, Save the Planet Later’
“When a team of environmental-health scientists from the University of Arizona and the Loma Linda University School of Public Health analyzed shoppers’ bags from supermarkets in Arizona and California, they found considerable amounts of bacteria in almost all the reusable bags, including fecal coliform bacteria in half the bags. Their study found no contamination in any of the new plastic bags handed out by the grocery stores.
Greens want to deny it, but there’s no doubt that the safest and easiest way to shop, and to eliminate germs lingering on bags or in food scraps or on recyclables, is to get a new plastic bag at the store and then toss it, along with everything else, into a sturdier plastic garbage bag that can be loaded on a truck and dumped by a machine into a landfill or an incinerator. There’s no need for consumers, workers, prisoners, or anyone else to sift by hand through that garbage—not now, and not after the pandemic is over, either.“
https://www.city-journal.org/covid-19-plastic-bags-recycling
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Dementia is showing with every Biden hostage video.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/17/joe-biden-cnn-stumbles-gaffe-interview-trump-fdr-war-production-board/
““You know, there’s — during World War II, you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing that, you know, was totally different than a — than — he called it the — you know, World War II, he had the War Production Board,” Biden said, looking down at his notes .”I don’t know why we don’t set up something like a pandemic production board.”
There, there,, Joe,,, Trump has thing in far better control than you could ever dream of doing.
The White House isn’t a “place for Pops”…..
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Your campaign donations at work: never missing an opportunity to grease one’s own wheels, the trump campaign is giving $15,000 a month, each, to those classic example of face lifts gone bad, Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle, significant others of the trump dynasty’s illiterate sons. Poor, what’s his name, Melania’s kid, is AWOL, God save Melania from the devil. Is he still alive or do they have him stashed away in some tower somewhere? One has to love all the angles the trump’s can think of to fleece the public, including their supporters.
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