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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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  1. fish Avatar
    fish

    Oh…..that’s just our Joe.

    SUPER GAFFE-O-MATIC 760,000:

    Yikes: Biden Makes Huge Gaffe about the Number of People Dead from the Wuhan Coronavirus. “While he was speaking about the Wuhan coronavirus to Joe Scarborough, he told an unbelievable whopper, claiming that over 600,000 Americans had died from the virus and implying most were nurses and doctors. Only slightly off at the time…by about 540,000. The alleged number was about 60,000. The problem was he didn’t even realize it and he said it more than once.”

    https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/05/02/yikes-biden-makes-huge-gaffe-about-the-number-of-people-dead-from-the-wuhan-coronavirus/

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  2. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    As expected, here we go. It was going to happen sooner or later.
    “With clear encouragement from President Xi Jinping and the powerful Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party, a younger generation of Chinese diplomats have been proving their loyalty with defiantly nationalist and sometimes threatening messages in the countries where they are based.”
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/world/europe/backlash-china-coronavirus.html
    Of course, keep in mind that the Russians are really the problem.
    re: Fish@7:57
    Maybe he/she should use Elizabeth Warren havin’ a beer.
    https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/0102-NWS-BHR-L-warren98.jpg?w=599

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  3. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Well now.
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-03/pompeo-says-enormous-evidence-links-virus-to-wuhan-laboratory
    “U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said “enormous evidence” shows the novel coronavirus outbreak began in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, and that Beijing has refused to give international scientists access to learn what happened.
    “I can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan,” Pompeo said on ABC’s “This Week.” “These are not the first times that we’ve had a world exposed to viruses as a result of failures in a Chinese lab.”
    Pompeo stopped short of saying the virus was man-made, noting that he agreed with a report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that ruled out genetic modification or it having been man-made.”

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  4. George Rebane Avatar

    Biden’s number gaffe. To me the scariest part of this is that the gaffe indicates he knows little to nothing about the magnitudes that numbers convey. To him a number is a sound and not a quantity that conveys import and meaning. It is a sound to be injected somewhere into a point he is trying to make that requires giving voice to a number, any number. And the scary part is that he intends to sit in the Oval Office with the support of at least half the country (who also don’t know numbers), to make daily critical decisions that depend on understanding not only the quantity that a related number conveys, but its relationship to other numbers conveying similar or supporting information. And he will understand none of it.

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  5. Walt Avatar

    A little reminder of who the fascists really are.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-man-labels-boat-trump-after-blocked-from-flying-trump-flag-on-dock
    Does ANYONE recall someone getting banned from flying an “O”bummer flag or logo?(You know,,, that toilet seat ?)
    Maybe a Prius defaced or burned to the ground just for having a “O”commie bumper sticker? Kids at school or on the street being accosted for being pro “O”?
    Of course you don’t.
    Proggys think the 1ST Amendment is for their use and protection only.

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  6. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “And the scary part is that he intends to sit in the Oval Office with the support of at least half the country”
    They…don’t…care.
    Biden doesn’t represent Biden. There is no ‘Biden’ aside from a lifetime of grifting and shaking hands.
    Biden represents a restoration of control of the country to the professional bureaucracy, which has been heavily salted with leftists for decades.
    Remember all the talk from the Green Libertarians about their desire for a ‘third party’ President who was an independent person? It was all BS. It was obvious all along.

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  7. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 03 May 2020 at 09:23 AM
    Biden doesn’t represent Biden. There is no ‘Biden’ aside from a lifetime of grifting and shaking hands.
    Biden represents a restoration of control of the country to the professional bureaucracy, which has been heavily salted with leftists for decades.

    Ssssshhhh……shut up already…….you’ll blow “Plan Frisch”……they’ve been working on it for years!

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  8. George Rebane Avatar

    scenes 923am – did you interpret my 848am to infer something else?? My position on who/what Biden is has been repeatedly made clear in these pages. Let me summarize – he is the DNC’s sockpuppet-in-waiting.

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  9. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    GeorgeR, my point is that Biden backers don’t care what gaffes he makes, don’t care what he did, none of it matters. I’m only arguing with the idea that half of the voters ‘support’ Biden, he’s just a name on a campaign poster and might as well be a manga character that they scrawl an ‘X’ next to on a ballot.

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  10. Walt Avatar

    So when do the bumper stickers come out?
    ” I swallowed for Biden”
    https://news.yahoo.com/jill-biden-maybe-you-have-to-swallow-a-little-and-vote-for-joe-142524433.html
    We know someone who has started already.

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Biden’s dementia is backed into the cake. That’s just Joe. Man, he dodged a freight train when the Pandemic came along . Perfect reason…er…excuse to keep him away from a microphone and out of the spotlight. Nothing to see here, that’s just ole Joe.
    Walt @ 10:11.
    Speaking about someone who has started already, remember that weirdo sockpuppet who called himself Swallows? Todd Swallows I believe. Project much? Now, who does that remind you of….in May of 2020.
    ——————-
    Oh, I just love this story. Sorry (not!) for one mo time across the dance floor. Kick those heels up and click them together. And a one, and a two…hit it boys:
    TOTO: Cancel Culture Comes For Michael Moore
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/toto-cancel-culture-comes-for-michael-moore?
    Punchy has had a ruff year and it’s still early.

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  12. George Rebane Avatar

    scenes 1000am – Well of course, that is my point. They know not what they do.

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bertie Cross | 02 May 2020 at 02:18 PM
    ….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.

    We know what Fauci has to say……”stay in your home”……excellent advice I would say in your case.

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  14. fish Avatar
    fish

    Two little boys arguing over who should get the better grade on their 3rd grade class report…….

    Douglas Keachie says:


    May 3, 2020 at 10:22 am
    A couple of years back Warren bet on the choochoo. 31 billion or so. It is about to pay off hugely. I suspect USA will build two routes, Northern and Southern, across the country, of very high speed rail, for passengers. The cars will be capable of swapping out unused seating for cargo modules, to handle FEDEX like service. Interurban service like once connected Sacto & Yuba City, the Red Cars of LA, to the beaches, and of course BART will be expanded and revived everywhere. To see the future, look to the past, at the The Western Railway Museum, in Solano County, California is located on Highway 12 between Rio Vista and Suisun. The museum is built along the former mainline of the Sacramento Northern Railway. Their collection focuses on trolleys, as it is primarily a museum of interurban transit equipment. Wikipedia
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    jeffpelline says:
    May 3, 2020 at 11:35 am
    That’s optimistic! Berkshire’s BNSF is expected to report that rail traffic declined during the first quarter, according to data from the Association of American Railroads and Bloomberg Intelligence.
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    Truly blessed to be in the presence of such Titanic intellects.

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  15. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Walt | 03 May 2020 at 11:45 AM
    Page 1 of the Progressive Playbook…….if events seems to be getting away from you….yell RAYCISS.
    Hot, crazy eyes governor worried that the Michigan hot polloi could cost her the veep slot!

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  16. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    This response I made to a idiot’s comment on Biden/Kavanagh comparison got me flagged by Hamilton. He said mine was a personal attack so not allowed because I used to word “fool” as o the facts. Hamilton is really stretching the politics tyo cover for the left.
    ” So you don’t like it eh? Kavanaugh’s accuser had no facts and no witnesses and no police reports or corroboration by contemporary friends and relatives. So you defended a bald-faced liar cooked up by Dianne Feinstein et al. Sorry there is no comparison with this woman. She worked fo Biden, told people at the time he did it and her mother even called Larry King’s show in 1993 and told the world it happened. So before you make a further fool of yourself I suggest you look at all the facts. In spite of all the facts he did it I still give him DIE PROCESS which your ilk never did.”

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  17. Walt Avatar

    What was dumb and dumber saying about railroads ?
    “A couple of years back Warren bet on the choochoo. 31 billion or so. It is about to pay off hugely. ”
    Guess he missed this.
    https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/warren-buffett-stays-on-sidelines-with-cash-rising-to-137-billion-11588435608129.html
    “Berkshire Hathaway says it dumped more than $6 billion of stocks in April, making Buffett a net seller of equities so far this year”
    “Berkshire reports nearly $50 bn loss in Q1, takes $55 bn hit in stock portfolio”
    More investment advice from idiots?

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  18. Mary Wanna Avatar

    Looks like I found a group photo of the circle of pussy hats protesting at the courthouse steps.
    https://i.redd.it/lqlobvpeiaw41.jpg

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Mary Wanna | 03 May 2020 at 12:50 PM

    More evidence for the motivation behind your choice avatar with each post……

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Posted by: Bertie Cross | 02 May 2020 at 02:18 PM
    “….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”
    Fauci is going to appear before the Senate. The Dem lead House has not replied to requests from the WH concerning their plan for social distancing and keeping Fauci safe from the airborne viruses that elude from Shit for Brains’ mouths. The Senate did reply promptly. The House is still dithering, being quite evasive, delaying replies, and down right deceitful. You snooze, you lose. That’s why.
    No time to be in the hallway with Diddling Joe. We got to get America safe again. And if that ain’t enough, here’s more reasons why, stinky pie. You done stepped it again. Definition of insanity.
    WH press secretary calls out Dems who say Fauci was ‘blocked’ from testifying in House: A ‘publicity stunt’
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/white-house-press-secretary-calls-out-dems-fauci-blocked-testifying-house
    Now, go hop in the tub and try to catch at all the fart bubbles you make, Peaches.

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  21. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    GeorgeR@11:40 “scenes 1000am – Well of course, that is my point. They know not what they do.”
    It seems to me that the real action is far from the Democratic hoi polloi.
    A quick (and obvious) example that you’ve no doubt brought up. Urban states (ie. ‘Blue’ states) have serious financial problems coming that have been vastly sped up due to CCP-19. If the stock market pulls a multi-year slump (cratering pension funds and their stupidly high estimates of ROI) and the muni market goes in the shitter, the upcoming election becomes a Do or Die moment for the New Yorks, New Jerseys, Illinoises (is that a word?), Californias of the world. They will do absolutely anything it takes to get their Man in and start writing those checks, bypassing Congress if need be.
    It’s a far more serious business with sharper knives than the Blue Mob and their fascination with Holy Men In Dresses and The Wall will ever own. Worth starting a not-so-civil war over with The Mob as cannon fodder. The ‘Green’ in Green Libertarian was always about money after all.

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Just so I have this right and there is no misunderstanding here.
    Roberta took out her teeth two days ago and globbed onto the salacious story that Trump has stopped Anthony Fauci from dropping he is doing everything to appear at a House HHS sub-committee on funding. Funding. Appropriations, I reckon. Do I have it straight thus far???
    Dammit Peaches, Dr. Fauci is medical expert, not a economist or familiar with budget committees.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MULMbqQ9LJ8

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  23. Walt Avatar

    Mary is SOOOoooo envious.

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  24. Mary Wanna Avatar

    Fish: you boys must have misheard. They said bring your Glocks!

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    1:25 pm
    Man, Mary is gone full blown projection. Still needs a lot of hard work on those daddy issues and resolve that inner conflict about does he have an innie or an outie for starters.
    Denial is not a river in Egypt.

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  26. George Rebane Avatar

    scenes 118pm – Sounds about right. By the way the Dems were screwing things up in Sacramento, years ago I started writing here that California was on its way to becoming a federal ward state. The C19 pandemic has ratcheted up the schedule on that, plus added a few more states to the fiscally mismanaged cohort. Somewhere along the line the govt workers (including teachers) will have to be told that they were bamboozled by their unions and vote-buying politicians on the amounts they could expect in retirement. The taxpayers are not going to bail them out – the solution is the dilution of the dollar, aka historic inflation.

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  27. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Mary Wanna | 03 May 2020 at 01:37 PM
    Fish: you boys must have misheard. They said bring your Glocks!

    What torment……that they are always on your mind.

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  28. Walt Avatar

    Wall update for Emery.
    https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/05/03/cbp-completes-15-more-miles-of-border-wall-in-california/
    “Contractors completed 15 miles of a new border wall system in the El Centro Sector of Southern California, Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott announced. Border Patrol agents who work in the sector told Breitbart Texas previously completed sectors reduced crime in the area and made it safer to patrol.”

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  29. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    George,
    My point is that Trump backers don’t care what gaffes he makes, don’t care what he did, none of it matters. I’m only arguing with the idea that 45% of the voters ‘support’ Trump.

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  30. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    It took a good Republican like the Schwartz to fix things in California right George!
    Remember “I will fix it”

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  31. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    It was 49% in gallup this week oh great pony tail of ignorance.
    😉

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  32. Walt Avatar

    LOL Emery,, you can’t even come up with a lame reason to vote for stink finger Biden.
    You have a “I swallowed for Biden” bumper sticker yet?

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I can think of a great reason to vote for Biden Walt, he’s not Trump who is mentally ill. I’ve said it many times I would vote for you or Todd if that was the only option to Trump.

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Funny, you won’t say just what that is.
    If Trump was TRULY unfit, the 25TH Amed. would have been used a long time ago. It a real good time for you to come back to reality.
    Thanks for confirming your actual state of mind. Seek help.
    Dementia is a real drag.
    High Gate in town would be a good place for you.

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    I can think of a great reason to vote for Biden Walt, he’s not Trump who is mentally ill. I’ve said it many times I would vote for you or Todd if that was the only option to Trump.
    Senility embraces itself……

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  36. fish Avatar
    fish

    The “Scooper” has gone big time……

    Newsom baffled a state that encourages illegal immigration isn’t obeying his ‘stay at home’ order


    https://genesiustimes.com/newsom-baffled-a-state-that-encourages-illegal-immigration-isnt-obeying-his-stay-at-home-order/

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh my. First it was “there is something about Sarah.” Now, there is something special about Ronna. You go girl. There’s plenty more where that came from.
    ‘RNC Head DESTROYS ABC’s Raddatz on Media Ignoring Biden Rape Claim’
    “During an appearance on ABC’s This Week, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel leveled the media by calling out their hypocrisy in blacking out the rape accusation against Joe Biden, while they had tried to eviscerate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The rebuke was so potent that fill-in host Martha Raddatz appeared unable to make eye contact and avoided looking at the camera while defending her network’s coverage.”……….
    McDaniel wasn’t having any of Raddatz’s nonsense and hit back hard by calling out the blatant and “appalling” double standard:
    “I’m going to take issue with the media ignoring this. It has been appalling the hypocrisy, as to how Brett Kavanagh was treated versus Joe Biden. Brett Kavanaugh, every accuser was put on TV, it was wall-to-wall coverage. They went into his high school yearbook. They said he needed an FBI investigation. Michael Avenatti was on TV accusing him of gang rape, from an accuser who never ven met Brett Kavanaugh.
    Going further, she pointed out that the double standard fell in Biden’s favor because of which party he was a part of. “And then you go to Joe Biden, five weeks of silence. 19 interviews without a single question,” McDaniel decried. “It from #MeToo, #MeToo, #MeToo to move on, move on, move on in a nanosecond because he’s a Democrat.”
    “And the hypocrisy is appalling and it’s not just from the Democrats, it’s from the media. And I’ll tell you, I think any outlet that conducted those 19 interviews and didn’t ask a single question should be disqualified from conducting any part of a presidential debate,” she added in a very serious tone.”
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/05/03/rnc-head-destroys-abcs-raddatz-media-ignoring-biden-rape
    Punchy has sold his soul for a handful of broken promises….and all his morals. Alas.

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  38. Walt Avatar

    Gotta love this part of that.
    “After getting called out, Raddatz seemed to refuse to look up at the camera as she defended her network and the rest of the industry. “Well, I know we here at ABC have not ignored and many in the media have not ignored it. We haven’t ignored it,” she claimed. But that was a lie.”
    How the double standard is coming back to bite the proggy press in the ass.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Looks the powers to be on Broad Street are getting ready for a long long shut-down, lock-down police state hunkering in place. Haven’t been able to confirm (haven’t bothered), but I have heard twice now that The White Privledge Celtic Festival has been 86’ed by KVMR. Guess the taxpayer in Kansas are stuck bailing the organizers out. The racist White People Kilt Festival is in the fall, isn’t it???

    Fish @ 4:14 pm–great find.
    El Dorado County? Getting closer. Hey Gavin, kiss my ass.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/02/video-california-cafe-defies-shelter-in-place-orders-opens-for-dine-in-service/

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  40. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 307pm – All here know that you will keep us apprised of the reportage that gives you comfort. What intrigues me is what feedback is required by those who continue to proclaim the futility of Trump’s attempt at a second term. Is it the same as the joy derived by those who trumpeted his demise in 2016? In short, is it your aim to convince conservetarians to throw in the towel in May and walk away from this November’s election? If not, then what?

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 4:50 pm
    Oh my, what a dilemia you have put Punchy in! Double U (W) slams Trump, which makes Punchy giddy as he grabs his life sized inflatable Ann Coulter doll. But, the joy is short lived as BDS kicks in. Who will win out? BDS or TDS? Oh, the horror, the horror of being in such a nutcracker.

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  42. Walt Avatar

    Bill. I can see it now. Emery with is hands on the side of his head, pacing the floor muttering to himself,, ” I’ SO confused!! Bush,, Trump,, Trump,, Bush..” Over and over.

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  43. fish Avatar
    fish

    Your “words to live by” moment for Sunday!

    Remember, whether as “activist” groups or “activist” individuals, feminists are just Democratic Party tools. They’ll sacrifice women’s interests — as a group or as individuals — whenever it conflicts with the goal of power for the Democrats.

    Sentiment by Instapundit….hypocrisy brought to you by the DNC!
    https://twitter.com/LisaBloom/status/1256327017911382018

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  44. Walt Avatar

    Here is the first “oh shit” moment for you ” I will swallow for Biden” folks.
    https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/05/03/new-york-times-op-ed-dump-biden-over-tara-reade-allegations/
    “The New York Times published an op-ed Sunday evening arguing that Democrats should dump former Vice President Joe Biden as their candidate because of the potential damage of Tara Reade’s allegations against him.”

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Several hundred people gathered in Spokane to protest/counter protest the current “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” order from Governor Inslee. The group started at the Spokane Arena and marched to the Spokane County Court House. Spokane Police Officers were staged to monitor the event in order to keep the peace and take enforcement measures if necessary.
    Today, May 1, 2020, at approximately 2:00pm, protestors descended on the Spokane Veteran’s Arena. From there they marched to the Spokane County Court house where they held a rally calling for the reopening of Spokane County businesses and activities. For the most part protestors obeyed traffic laws, even taking the time to cut through Kendall Yards to avoid having to cross Monroe Street, and the disruption to traffic was minimal.
    Once at the courthouse, the gathering continued to be peaceful and no police or law enforcement action was necessary. We appreciate everyone’s cooperation during the demonstration. We’d also like to thank our partners from Spokane County Detention Services, the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office, and the Spokane Fire Department for their assistance in ensuring this was a safe event for all involved.
    Sgt. Teresa Fuller| Power Shift Patrol Team 11| Patrol PIO|Spokane Police Department

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  46. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy old grampa joe sure turns off those yungins, must the be hair sniffing –
    There are likely a number of reasons why younger voters find Biden unappealing, but the most obvious is the big, fat socialist elephants in the room: Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/justin-haskins-joe-bidens-poll-numbers-hes-in-trouble-with-this-key-voting-bloc
    😉

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  47. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    That’s what I get for watching tv and typing at the same time! LOL
    😉

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