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[Autocracy rising, even more.  Two California docs dared cross the hallowed political divide of rope-selling capitalists at Google’s YouTube and give a reasoned criticism of California’s C19 lockdown diktat.  It made it on to YouTube, and then was promptly taken down by its corporatist toadies. (more here)  Meanwhile, Gov Nuisance appears to start seeing a difference between rural and urban counties in his promised new look at how to release the state from its insane economic self-immolation.  gjr]

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514 responses to “Sandbox – 28apr20”

  1. Mary Wanna Avatar

    This is what we expect from the Deplorables.
    And the Deplorables put out bigly!
    CNN)The White House is blocking Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key member of the administration’s coronavirus task force, from testifying on Capitol Hill next week, according to a spokesman from a key House committee.
    “The Appropriations Committee sought Dr. Anthony Fauci as a witness at next week’s Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee hearing on COVID-19 response. We have been informed by an administration official that the White House has blocked Dr. Fauci from testifying,” House Appropriations Committee spokesman Evan Hollander said in a statement Friday.
    White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere confirmed the decision.

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  2. Walt Avatar

    CNN said what? BFD..
    Yet in Maine the Gov. turns dictator.
    https://www.sunjournal.com/2020/04/28/some-republicans-are-calling-janet-mills-a-dictator/#
    ” the Legislature has β€œbeen shamelessly derelict” in its failure to rein in the governor.
    He said it’s allowed her to wield β€œautocratic and authoritarian powers without opposition” and β€œto make decisions that are harmful for Mainers.”
    β€œElected officials have dismissed the Bill of Rights as an irrelevancy, forcibly closed down houses of worship, harassed and threatened worshipers, arrested political protesters, and declared that protests are nonessential,” Lockman wrote. β€œThat is not America.”
    Brakey, whom Claxton succeeded in 2018, said the law essentially makes Mills β€œthe de facto dictator of Maine” when she uses its emergency powers to β€œsuspend laws, override budgets, postpone elections and control all private business” in the state.
    I bet “kneepads” would love to live there.. But whine about a Dr. not being available to the proggy press.

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  3. Walt Avatar

    Tough titty “kneepads”,, So the W.H. ain’t going to play dog and pony show for a bunch of pissy LIBS. Been there done that.

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  4. Mary Wanna Avatar

    No boytoy Walt, the Very dirty White House said it you f ing moron.

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    How β€˜bout Mary Kneepads to go with Joey Fingers. Kind of a mob touch. Saul Alinsky sure admired how Capone’s mobsters ran his operation, even after Al’s death. Saul modeled his world view after their operational efficiency.
    Well, Three Finger Mary is taken, so it’s Mary Kneepads for now. And that’s no malarky Buster.
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214069338402453&set=a.1390642701057&type=3&theater,

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Do 4 people constitute a fellow traveler rally?
    https://knco.com/may-day-protest-in-grass-valley-hails-workers/
    πŸ˜‰

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  7. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Mary Wanna | 01 May 2020 at 05:56 PM
    No boytoy Walt.

    Awww…..you keep trying……somebody out there for everybody! Even you.

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee
  9. L Avatar
    L

    ‘Mary’ @ 5;03 once again illustrates the unshakeable ignorance of her political class: After four+ years of listening to Cheeto Jesus, they still think he says “bigly” when in fact, what he’s saying is New Yawk for “big league”. Thought they’d have figured it out by now…i.e. getting to be a very, very old joke.

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  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    DonB: “Do 4 people constitute a fellow traveler rally?
    https://knco.com/may-day-protest-in-grass-valley-hails-workers/
    lol. Great picture.
    They really do look like Wobblies.

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  11. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Hang on hang on. I saw the name “Lorraine Reich” in there.
    Didn’t she run for city council in GV or NC?
    I distinctly remember seeing a campaign sign saying that she had the ‘Reich Stuff’.
    That was the best Freudian slip of the year I thought.

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Trigger warning for the pony tail of ignorance, time to get to the fainting couch! –
    The new survey found 49 percent approve of the president’s job in office and 47 percent disapprove, a personal best with Gallup for Trump.
    Trump owes his new approval numbers to Independents, according to Gallup. Forty-seven percent of Independents now approve of Trump’s performance, as opposed to 39 percent in the previous April survey.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gallup-trump-approval-rating-up-6-points-in-two-weeks
    πŸ˜‰

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    May Day, May Day! Red Square Day. Workers of the World Unite.
    https://www.facebook.com/derekmke/photos/a.382242845455167/1153797124966398/?type=3&theater

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  14. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Trigger warning for the pony tail of ignorance, time to get to the fainting couch! ”
    Oh well.
    Trump’s polls’ll go up a bit, then they’ll go down. Then they’ll go up a bit. Then they’ll go down. Flacid, turgid. Flacid. Turgid.
    Twas ever thus.

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  15. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    jeesh. Now even my brain is turning to mush thinking about polls. Not ‘flacid’, ‘flaccid’.

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  16. Walt Avatar

    No Moscow kneepads. You may swing that way but not me.
    Tough shit. Trump can do that. All the questions can be had from the press briefing.

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The chi coms are busted –
    A research dossier compiled by the so-called “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance states that China intentionally hid or destroyed evidence of the coronavirus outbreak, resulting in the loss of tens of thousands of lives around the world
    The 15-page document from the intelligence agencies of the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand, was obtained by Australia’s Daily Telegraph newspaper and states that China’s secrecy amounted to an β€œassault on international transparency.”
    The dossier touches on themes that have been discussed in media reports about the outbreak of the virus, including initial denial that the virus could be transmitted between humans, the silencing or “disappearing” of doctors who tried to speak up, the destruction of evidence in laboratories and refusal to provide live samples to intenational scientists working on a vaccine.
    Specifically, the file notes that China began censoring news of the virus on search engines beginning Dec. 31, deleting terms including β€œSARS variation, β€œWuhan Seafood market” and β€œWuhan Unknown Pneumonia.”
    Three days later, on Jan. 3, China’s National Health Commission, ordered virus samples to be either moved to designated testing facilities or destroyed, while simultaneously enforcing a “no-publication order” related to the disease.
    https://www.foxnews.com/world/new-dossier-condemns-china-for-destroying-evidence-of-covid-19-outbreak
    πŸ˜‰

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 7:10 pm
    I reckon those Kung Flu Virus models are about as worthless as those Climate Doomsday hockey stick models.
    PA walks back 200 deaths, Oregon may stand.at half reported, meaning a.total of less than two hundred deaths more the total death count for 2017, 2018, 2019. If we can’t trust our states to accurately count our dead, what in the hell makes you think we can trust them to accurately count our mail-in ballots?

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    BIDEN’S MISDIRECTION
    β€œHowever, documents from the Senate’s Office of Fair Employment Practices, which I believe is the shop that would have handled a sexual misconduct complaint, reportedly are governed by a Senate resolution that bars their release for 50 years. Perhaps, though, such documents can be released with the consent of the ex-Senator and the complaining party.
    β€œWe probably won’t find out before the election whether Tara Reade formally complained about Joe Biden’s alleged conduct. However, the evidence strongly suggests that she complained about it to family members and friends.
    β€œIt doesn’t matter much whether Reade filed a formal complaint. It doesn’t even matter that much whether she complained at all. A complaint isn’t the be-all-end-all in these cases. A person can make a false complaint. It happens a lot. And a person can keep an incident like this to herself.
    β€œHowever, Biden has focused the inquiry on the issue of whether Reade filed a formal complaint. If one somehow pops up, or if someone credible remembers such a complaint, it will be a blow to Biden. But he seems determined to make sure this doesn’t happen.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/05/bidens-misdirection.php

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Something is afoot. I sense a change in the wind….or maybe they just tired trying to prove they ain’t fakenews.
    β€˜PBS Highlights Missteps by NY Democrats in Pandemic Response’
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2020/05/01/pbs-highlights-missteps-ny-democrats-pandemic-response
    MSNBC Would Have Asked Biden About Reade Sooner…But Coronavirus
    WOW: Mika Hammers Biden’s Hypocrisy, Grills Him on Reade Allegations
    β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”-
    Yep, MSNBC is warring with CNN. Cool. I love a good cat fight.
    Delusional CNN Rewrites Tara Reade History, But Mocks MSNBC as Biden’s β€˜Home Team’
    β€”β€”β€”β€”.
    Remember to tell the truth, Sister Donna. No bearing false witness. What would Mama say?
    Under Fox Pressure, Donna Brazile Labored to Avoid Saying She Believed Tara Reade

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  21. Walt Avatar

    Hospitals have incentive to pad the numbers.
    Depending on where you look,,,
    “hospitals getting 13,000 per patient if they write that on the diagnosis is COVID19 on the patient’s chart, and 35,000 for each patient if they are on ventilators”
    I’m sure there is a $$ if they croke in said hospital.

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    β€˜Protests mark growing unrest with California stay-home order’
    Here too, Wally? I thought that was back in Trump Country, PA, USA. Oh dear. What will Kneepads say. I bet this will make him disgruntled.
    https://apnews.com/32d5564a7774aae7c2b45b850d1000f5
    If it can happen here in Blue Blue California, there are no more safe places!

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  23. Walt Avatar

    There are going to be PLENTY of civil rights litigation about to rain down on Sac.
    There is NO suspension clause within the Constitution.
    Judges have already shot down similar “orders” by Gov.s and Mayors.
    Besides. Gov. Nuisance still gets his paycheck, he ain’t hurt’n one bit.

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  24. Walt Avatar

    I guess we need to save the informational suppositories that are well lubed for tomorrow. It’s past Proggy TROLL bedtime.

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  25. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I admit that it’s fun watching the Democratic party and it’s Ladies Auxiliaries in the MSM explain why Joey Fingers is such a great candidate but it’s fairly easy to imagine the planning that’s going on right now.
    (1) Send out operatives to cleanse the records, if any.
    (2) Make Joey’s innocence based on the presence of a particular record. Invent one if necessary.
    At some point, they’ll have to wire him up so that he moves his mouth while synchronizing with a teleprompter and voice talent. Small shocks should do the trick. I figure that small wrist leashes connected to his belt loops should keep his hands in check. After all, the man just has to last long enough to count a giant pile of fake mail-in ballots and the inauguration could be done by simply tying him to a board and having the VP wave President Finger’s arm in time to the music.
    Life in the Era of the Great Plague is bound to have it’s absurd points.

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  26. Walt Avatar

    The latest excuse to defend Biden.
    https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/01/richard-komi-new-hampshire-democrat-joe-biden-tara-reade-female-vagina/
    “A New Hampshire Democrat said Friday that 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden accuser Tara Reade’s story is not believable, citing the β€œposition of the female vagina.”
    Democratic New Hampshire state Rep. Richard Komi tweeted Friday morning about his understanding of female anatomy, saying that he does not believe Reade’s allegations against the former vice president.”

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  27. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Walt | 02 May 2020 at 08:31 AM
    Democratic New Hampshire state Rep. Richard Komi tweeted Friday morning about his understanding of female anatomy, saying that he does not believe Reade’s allegations against the former vice president.”

    My first thought was that Richard Komi was, due to his proclivities, unfamiliar with the female anatomy…. but that doesn’t seem to be the case! My next thought was that the New Hampshire Democrat party needs to tell him to shut up and stop playing amateur gynecologist in the press!
    I suppose I should find solace in the savaging he’s getting from media!
    Nitwit…..

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    We have gone from hearing from freelance epidemiologists to hearing from freelance gynecologists.

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Two Washoe commissioners befuddled by firing of chief epidemiologist: ‘It’s a little odd’
    β€œI can’t speak to why Mr. Dick decided to make that decision.”
    β€œDick has declined to comment on his decision, citing advice from the human resources department.”
    https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2020/05/01/two-washoe-commissioners-befuddled-firing-chief-epidemiologist/3069438001/

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  30. George Rebane Avatar

    Biden and gynecology – H. Sapiens has been on Earth for hundreds of thousands of years, and his forebears for millions. Does one really need to be a professional (or even an amateur) gynecologist to know exactly the location of the female vagina? Is it not reasonable to believe that almost every married male knows exactly where it is, and how to find it with any part of his body? Why, in this politically correct world where we now even fear cultural “appropriations”, is it necessary to immediately discount, without reason or reflection and with prejudice, an opinion/assertion by someone who doesn’t hold the appropriate diplomas and letters after his name? Just because I’m not an MD doesn’t mean I cannot or should not give a cogent and correct assessment of, say, how a particular drug should be dispensed into a disease prone society. Admittedly, I may have to do some research first to avoid obvious mistakes, but one must always remember that I’m competing with an industry of professionals who kill over 250,000 per year through ‘medical mistakes’. Let the freelance gynecologists opine away.

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    CALIFORNIA IS GREAT, IF YOU’RE A CRIMINAL (WITH COMMENT FROM STEVE)
    These images are making the rounds on social media. It was a good day to be in California if you are a sex criminal:
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/05/california-is-great-if-youre-a-criminal.php
    β€”β€”β€”β€”-
    Bonus: THE WEEK IN PICTURES: NORK DIVERSION EDITION
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/05/the-week-in-pictures-nork-diversion-edition.php
    A couple of ones I liked:
    https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/05/Untitled-copy-14.jpg?w=374&ssl=1
    https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/05/IMG_9696.png?w=640&ssl=1

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dr. Rebane @ 10:09 am
    Didn’t mean to step on your toes. Clarity needed. Was referring to the likes of the talking heads on Lamestream media, our sockpuppets, and the NH state rep, who couldn’t find his ass from a hole in the ground.
    In hindsight….the broad brush should have been a trim brush.

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  33. Walt Avatar

    Where is Mary? “she” should know,, is “digital entry” just purley impossible while slammed up against a wall?,, as Dr.* Komi suggests? Biden needs your support!

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  34. Walt Avatar

    And on the subject of wanting to be “more” equal than the other,
    https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/02/judge-dismisses-lawsuit-us-women-national-soccer-team-equal-pay/#disqus_thread
    Kinda like the last ex wife?
    “A judge dismissed the U.S. women’s soccer team’s equal pay claim Friday, reminding them that they actually make more than the men’s team.
    The U.S. women’s soccer team has been fighting for equal pay for months and sought $66 million in damages. The U.S. soccer federation argued that the women’s team was paid more overall than their male counterparts for the particular time period in dispute.
    Although the women’s team claimed that was just because they played more games, Judge R. Gary Klausner disagreed. Klausner reminded the women’s team that they β€œboth played more games and made more money than the MNT [men’s national team] per game,” ”
    Then they have the “balls” to claim,
    β€œWe will never stop fighting for EQUALITY,” soccer star Megan Rapinoe tweeted after the decision.
    The claim for equal pay was also dismissed because the U.S. women’s national team previously β€œrejected an offer to be paid under the same pay-to-play structure” as the men, according to Klausner.

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  35. Walt Avatar

    🀣🀣”Joe Biden Accuses Trump of Not Having β€˜Intercourse’ with World”πŸ™„πŸ˜ŠπŸ€£πŸ€£πŸ‘πŸ‘
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/02/joe-biden-claims-600000-dead-from-coronavirus-accuses-trump-of-not-having-intercourse-with-world/
    “Joe just being Joe”- N. Pelosi.

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    https://static.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/richard-komi-tweet-481×600.jpg
    lol. It appears that he has resigned due to his incredibly hateful evil Hitler sounding post.
    In any case, I expect that Komi figured that Tara Reade’s skirt was too short.
    Next up: JOEY FINGERS, DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE, DEMONSTRATES THAT HIS DIGITS ARE TOO SHORT ON FASHION MANNEQUIN. SAYS HER HAIR SMELLS TOO MUCH LIKE PLASTIC ANYWAY.

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    scenes

    Kunstler speaks:
    “The people of this land have enough trouble in mind β€” what with livelihoods, careers, businesses, marriages, hopes and dreams circling the drain in the new insta-depression β€” but let’s hope they have just a little attention left over for the whirlwind denouement of the odious RussiaGate affair, now finally shredding the last defenses of the Deep State’s rogue Intel forces after years of deceit, treachery, and juridical depravity. The beginning of the end is at hand in the malicious prosecution of General Michael Flynn, and, as that’s revealed for the criminal plot it was, all the other threads in this vast tapestry of sedition will unravel.
    Why does that even matter anymore, you may wonder? Because so many of our current troubles are mostly due to the culture of pervasive dishonesty America retreated into to avoid the mandates and rigors of reality in the 21st century. It operated in every area of our national life from the racketeering in medicine and higher-ed, to the games we played with our national debt, to the stupendous grift of politics, the futile wars we prosecuted, the idiotic gender conflict and race hustling, and, most flamboyantly, to the lawlessness around the CIA, FBI, and Department of Justice during and after the 2016 election. This was the culture of Anything Goes and Nothing Matters. It has to be defeated if we expect to go on as a credible nation.”
    https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/slouching-toward-resolution/

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  38. Walt Avatar

    Tough times Emery, You lost another VOTER and one from Hollywood no less.
    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/westworld-evan-rachel-wood-supports-rose-mcgowan-anti-democrat-biden-fallout
    “”Westworld” star Evan Rachel Wood backed Rose McGowan’s most recent missive against the Democratic Party following the fallout from assault allegations against Joe Biden.
    Wood, 32, on Friday directly responded to McGowan’s latest tweet in which the former “Charmed” actress declared she is no longer a “proud Democrat” due to her affiliated party downplaying sexual assault allegations against Biden by Tara Reade, a former staffer from his days in the senate.
    “I have to say this is…spot on,” Wood tweeted in response to McGowan’s lengthy post. “

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  39. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    George, could you fish out one of my last two posts?
    What on Earth are the rules to avoid a typepad spam filter?

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  40. Walt Avatar

    Scenes.. Make a typepad account. I never have problems with lost posts.

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  41. Walt Avatar

    Cinco De Mayo is coming up soon,, who’s buying Corona??

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  42. George Rebane Avatar

    scenes 1215pm -Wish I knew; I’d have posted the solution long ago. Maybe Walt’s hunch works. Anyway, your 1207pm is posted.

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  43. Bertie Avatar
    Bertie

    George: How about “a cogent and correct assessment of, say,” the difference between Bidens’ alleged single incident involving female genitalia and trump’s 39 alleged (some of which involved hush money) incidents involving femail genitalia?

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  44. Walt Avatar

    No Beatris is not “just one woman”. If paid a lick of attention, that fact has been posted already.
    And your “hush money BS was not about an unwelcome groping.
    You should understand that by now.
    Did Stormy claim assault?

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  45. Bertie Avatar
    Bertie

    or how about “a cogent and correct assessment of, say,” why the whitehouse does not want the American people to hear what Anthony Fauci has to say. He is, afterall, the expert.

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  46. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Guns are for old white men?
    The fastest growing demographics for gun buyers in America are Afro-Americans, minorities, and women.

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  47. Bertie Avatar
    Bertie

    The fastest growing demographics for gun buyers in America are Afro-Americans, minorities, and women.–
    That’s right Bill.. They need to protect themselves from old white men with degraded mental capacities and large arsenals that they are just itching to use on an enemy..any enemy will do even imaginary ones.
    Walt — What about the three dozen women who claim trump assaulted them without permission? It seems to me that any smart trumper would not want to say a word about Biden for fear of rattling the ghosts in trumpy’s closet.

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  48. L Avatar
    L

    Scenes @ 12:07, thanks for the link. Also, no one should miss Andy McCarthy’s NRO essay today on the same subject, why Michael Flynn had to be crucified.
    If you can come away from that read not wishing to see Comey and Strzok strangled with their own intestines in the public square, then you have no sense of honor or fair play.
    Forget stinkfinger, the rest of the crew make him look like a boy scout. Team Obama seen without the many layers of Media obfuscation.
    This suggestion is particularly directed at Rx, Keach and Emery who don’t seem to get out much but always have plenty of negatives to spout here. Have a good look at what your ‘heroes’ are really made of…

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