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[The dollar value of human lives was touched on in the last Sandbox.  I predict that this topic will be quickly forgotten by our leftwing readers, since it will be a debate to which they must needs arrive unarmed.  gjr]

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237 responses to “Sandbox – 12jun20”

  1. L Avatar
    L

    Paul, since in your view trans-gendered women could be beautiful, being “full time” tells us nothing. If your actual persona is anything like your on line one, the answer to fish’s original question would be “never.” Anything else you could use help with?

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  2. L Avatar
    L

    you’re…’scuse me!

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  3. Walt Avatar

    HEY EMERY!! See Biden’s last video? “Umm,,, urr,,, well,,, I donoo……” Tries to attack Trump and go off into the brush somewhere… Typical dementia sufferer. And you want that as President? HELL Ya’ll can’t even find a VP that has more baggage than a team of Himalayan sherpas can pack.
    Better help with the POD storage and delivery bill.

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  4. Walt Avatar

    When it comes to real women,, they really are offended by men with ponytails longer than they have. Especially women of “age”. The ONLY thing Emery may have going for him is his driver’s licence.

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  5. Walt Avatar

    Yup, catering to the criminal element. Bad guys are getting tired of being seen getting busted.

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  6. Walt Avatar

    So when is Emery hitting the road? The chumps in North Wokeganistan need entertainment.(for free of course)
    Tune up that geetar and and put fresh batteries in that amplifier and do your Lefty duty Emery. Oh.. And load up the trunk with that local store bought weed.(at your expense of course)
    Maybe you can show them how to plant a garden. And break the news that it won’t feed them till the end of August.
    Gotta take personal responsibility and repent your whitness.
    It’s the Proggy thing to do.

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    A big problem for the dem senate candidate in CO –
    John Hickenlooper Slapped with Highest Colorado Ethics Violation Penalty
    John Hickenlooper’s sworn testimony that his meeting with Vernon Jordan was not political is directly contradicted by his own public statements. While Hickenlooper has already been cited for multiple ethics violations, Coloradans deserve to know if he also committed perjury by lying to the IEC.
    National Republican Senatorial spokesperson Joanna Rodriguez said in a statement on Friday that Coloradans deserve a better representative than someone who violated the state’s ethics rules:
    The Ethics Commission’s decision to order John Hickenlooper pay the highest penalty in Commission history is an important step toward accountability.
    Hickenlooper violated the Colorado constitution, disrespected the rule of law, and forced the Commission to subpoena him and find him in contempt before answering their questions.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/12/john-hickenlooper-slapped-with-highest-colorado-ethics-violation-penalty/
    😉

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  8. Walt Avatar

    Emery done wandered off again?
    Why is it Emery, WE can defend our point of Right leaning view,, yet you can’t hold up Proggy point of contention?
    When pressed, it’s the proverbial steer’s butt in fly season.
    WHY EMERY WHY!!?? Scared of a sweaty ditch digger? I haven’t hit you with the shovel,, I just hand it to you to dig your own
    hole you never can get out of.
    Yup, those LIB💩s in Seattle are pretty shameful to the Proggy election bid.

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  9. Walt Avatar

    While those little bastards are at it,, why not desecrate Sen Byrd’s grave? A FINE Southern Democrat, and Klan member..
    He has plenty of crap with his name on it.

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    #lackofselfawareness –
    While the PSA has good intentions, it’s not exactly going over well on Twitter. The video is in black and white and features the aforementioned celebs staring dramatically at the camera and saying correct but vague things like, “We are no longer bystanders. We will not be idle. Enough is enough,” and, “I will no longer allow an unchecked moment. I will no longer allow racist, hurtful words, jokes, stereotypes—no matter how big or small—to be uttered in my presence.”
    People were quick to compare #ITakeResponsibility to the “Imagine” debacle from earlier this year, in which celebs covered the popular John Lennon song in an attempt to lift people’s spirits at the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak. If you blocked that from your memory, here’s a reminder:
    “Regret to inform you the celebs are at it again,” tweeted someone in reference to the #ITakeResponsibility PSA. Many of the responses echo this sentiment. “What are they auditioning for,” one person wrote, to which someone responded, “Ending Racism: The Musical.”
    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/twitter-cringing-responsibility-campaign-featuring-171459487.html
    😉

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Not on the riots per se, but human nature and human endeavors.
    A FANTASY WITH A PREDICTABLE ENDING
    “Unlike traditional homeless shelters, people who stayed at the hotel were allowed to bring drugs and alcohol on-site.
    What could go wrong?
    But some residents at the hotel said conditions had begun to spin out of control in recent days, with people injecting heroin and methamphetamine in the hallways, and fights breaking out at night. Volunteers became overwhelmed.
    “It started out well, then descended into chaos,” said Jennie Taylor, who had a room on the second floor. “People got the message that this was a place where you could use drugs freely and that attracted the wrong crowd.”
    Shockingly. The next day, June 10, a Star Tribune columnist named Jennifer Brooks bemoaned the collapse of the Sheraton homeless shelter:
    Once upon a time on Lake Street, there was a sanctuary.
    Once upon a time? It lasted for less than a week and ended the day before yesterday. Not exactly Camelot.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/a-fantasy-with-a-predictable-ending.php

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  12. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Since I am too busy right now to spend much time here-save a sporadic burst now and then -I turn over to readers of RR the Bill, Walt and Don show with an occasional fish thrown in. they provide 90% of the verbage here. Have a great time guys. I’ll pop in with an occasional update. Don’t worry I’ll keep giving updates on polling.

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  13. Walt Avatar

    The invertebrate known as Emery, is the textbook Lefty.
    Run, when one can’t defend the position… And you wonder why you lost the civil war.

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  14. Walt Avatar

    And a little indigestion for the spineless one.
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomaslandstreet/2019/08/21/the-evidence-is-clear-polls-are-not-to-be-trusted/#4f24f9e447a6
    “If you believe the coming election is important to your investment strategy and you want to approach the election with a clear head, take polls with a grain of salt.”

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The fakenews just keeps on coming –
    Poland and U.S. deny that Fort Trump proposal is bogged down
    WARSAW (Reuters) – Some members of Poland’s government on Friday denied a Reuters report saying talks over a U.S.-Polish defense deal known as Fort Trump were crumbling amid disputes over how to fund the deployment of additional U.S troops and where to garrison them.
    “This is fake news,” Krzysztof Szczerski, a top aide to the Polish president, told public radio on Friday.
    The U.S. ambassador to Poland, Georgette Mosbacher, reacting on Twitter to the report, said negotiations remained on track.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/poland-u-deny-fort-trump-201952471.html
    😉

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  16. fish Avatar
    fish

    Republic Of CHAZ Begins Reparations; White Participants Pressured To Give Blacks $10 Each

    So what……that’s just how it’s done in that country. If you don’t like it you never should have emigrated in the first place.
    Really……do you Wokesters think anything through?
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/republic-chaz-begins-reparations-white-participants-pressured-give-blacks-10-each

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Those mutha mullahs are losing their voices –
    Iranian officials are warning that U.S. sanctions pressure may soon force the regime to shut down its international media operations, such as PressTV, Arabic iFilm, and Al-Alam.
    Historian Daniel Pipes, a dedicated critic of Islamism and Iran’s theocratic regime, took the news as a “great success” for the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign:
    The Jerusalem Post on Friday confirmed that Iranian officials are talking about losing satellite access for their international programming in a matter of “days and weeks.” PressTV, in particular, would be an embarrassing loss for the regime, as it provides Iran’s primary English-language propaganda network.
    The Sydney Morning Herald reported a major setback for PressTV last week when Facebook began labeling it as “state-controlled media,” along with similar operations in Russia and China. Facebook announced it will begin blocking advertising from state media later this summer.
    YouTube deleted PressTV’s U.K. channel in January after the Times of London documented how it was spreading “pro-Tehran, anti-Israeli propaganda.” Ironically, that propaganda currently includes loud assertions that U.S. sanctions are hurting America far more than Iran.
    Radio Farda noted on Wednesday Iran’s Radio Dari service and Al-Kowsar television network have already been shuttered due to unpaid debts to their satellite providers.
    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/06/12/report-u-s-sanctions-may-shut-down-irans-foreign-media-operations/
    😉

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Sounds like its going to be soon –
    Seattle police chief wants to retake precinct in occupied CHAZ ‘as soon as possible’
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-police-chief-retake-precinct-occupied-chaz
    😉

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    From Instapundit……

    SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “The Left was pushing for large crowds to gather just a few days ago. They changed their minds when Trump decided to resume campaign rallies. This is just pure comedy now.”

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Senate Collusion Theater
    “Someone wake me up when we hear something from John Durham.”
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/lindsey-graham-investigation-objectives-unclear/

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  21. fish Avatar
    fish

    I guess rioting has its place……..

    Breaking! CNN news crew attacked by rioters in Atlanta, camera destroyed!

    No great loss….they are “Fake News”…….
    https://therightscoop.com/breaking-cnn-news-crew-attacked-by-rioters-in-atlanta-camera-destroyed/

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    What kind of example is our President setting for not following the recommendations of health officials when it comes to the virus when he’s willing to ignore recommendations in Tulsa County Oklahoma that had 79 new cases this week and the Tulsa Health Department that specifically recommended against large indoor gatherings. He plans to go ahead with his rally attracting 17,000. Do you think he’s going to recommend face masks and social distancing?
    “Health officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have urged caution on attending gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic — just over a week before President Donald Trump is set to host a massive indoor campaign rally in the city.
    The Tulsa Health Department noted on its website Friday that Tulsa County had reported 71 new cases of the virus that day, its highest daily increase to date. Preliminary investigations linked the rise to indoor gatherings, it said.
    Trump’s rally is planned for June 20 at the 19,000-capacity BOK Center.
    A waiver on Trump’s 2020 campaign website warns people requesting tickets that “an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present” and they forfeit the right to sue anyone involved in the organization of the event if they catch the virus there.
    Tulsa’s health officials did not explicitly refer to Trump’s rally in the statement.
    “Dr. Bruce Dart, the department’s executive director, said he has “concerns about large groups of people gathering indoors for prolonged lengths of time.”
    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tulsa-health-officials-gatherings-donald-trump-rally_n_5ee4c1a6c5b60d3322009499
    Tulsa Health Dept Tweet @TulsaHealthDept
    “I have concerns about large groups of people gathering indoors for prolonged lengths of time. It is imperative that anyone who chooses to host or attend a gathering take the steps to stay safe,” said Dr. Dart. http://ow.ly/Y2Ky50A6oFC

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  23. Scott O Avatar

    Uh oh – Michael Moore is in fear of losing his grip on power!
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/06/12/michael_moore_never_take_trump_for_granted_white_men_feel_their_grip_on_power_is_quickly_fading.html
    I love how left wing white men talk about white men as is if they, themselves, are not white men.
    Now hold onto your hats or whatever you hold onto – because Michael Moore will explain what these evil vicious hating white men are gonna do!
    Gasp!
    Vote.
    Yep – they’re gonna vote.
    Damn that ‘democracy’ thing.
    Doncha jes love the left?

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  24. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    correcton:
    “when he’s willing to ignore recommendations in Tulsa County Oklahoma that had 79 new cases TODAY…

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    A LAST DESPERATE GAMBIT
    “The Democratic Party’s coordinated effort to stir up racial hatred and bully the rest of us into giving them back the White House under the guise of “anti-racism” can only be seen as the most recent stage of the Democrats’ attempt to nullify the 2016 election. James Kunstler comments pungently:“………..
    “Let’s pause on that thought. It is remarkable that the goal of all the machinations, all the hysteria, is to elect Joe Biden–Joe Biden!–president. In his best days, which are decades behind him, Biden was an incompetent hack. Now, I don’t suppose that any informed person considers him capable of serving as president in any meaningful sense. Hence the interest in his vice-presidential selection process.
    Hardly a day goes by without another contribution to the file on Biden’s dementia. Here is one for today:“……
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/a-last-desperate-gambit.php

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  26. Scott O Avatar

    Paul Emery 8:45 – So, I take it Paul won’t be attending?
    Better git back under the bed, Paul.

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Persistent Fragilities’ Ahead For Households And Businesses -Fed Report
    https://www.oann.com/persistent-fragilities-ahead-for-households-and-businesses-fed-report/
    ‘Persistent Fragilities’ sounds like Greenspan speak. Once reopened, there will undoubtedly a surge at restaurants. Pent up demand. But, after that initial spike? I still maintain that during the lock down people are/have cultivating habits, new habits. Some (not all) will continue cooking at home, homeschooling their kids (if parent is available and not working), skipping some drives to town, avoiding crowds, and asking themselves “do we really need to go out tonight?” And it is probable some, in the back of their minds, have developed a phobia of public transit and the night life. Americans eat 50% of their meals away from the home, so that may change a bit. Means a lot if you are running a service sector business on a thin margin.
    Who knows what percentage of folks will be comfortable with spending more time at home, more time with the family, and more time eating healthy food made at home? I don’t know, but habits are quickly formed. Do something everyday for 17-19 straight days and it’s a habit.
    Meanwhile….Dear Diary
    When to the grocery store in GV yesterday. 2nd time since right before the TP panic and the shut down started. First time was a couple of weeks ago and masks were everywhere at the Dent Can Store. Yesterday, I pulled into the parking lot, pulled out my too hot for comfort N-95 mask from between the seats, shook off the dust and dog air, and noticed all the people, even The Elderly, walking in the store without a single mask on. Heck, I took off my mask, shoveled it in my back pocket, and walked right on in and joined the crowd. Pretty crowded, but not packed. I did see about 2-3 customers wearing a mask (all women) out of who knows, maybe a hundred or more. Parking lot was full.
    To mask or not to mask is the question….or to unmask or not to unmask is the other question.

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  28. Scott O Avatar

    It gets worse –
    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-12/thousands-sign-petition-to-keep-disneyland-closed-until-pandemic-is-under-control
    Micky’s gonna show up at Paul’s door with the Donalds and force him at gun point to go to Dizzy-Land.
    The Horror, the horror!
    It just is not fair!
    Folks out having fun and enjoying themselves while Paul is trembling under his bed.

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh Scott, if Punch is one thing, he is a Nervous Nellie. Worry Wart. Freddie Fretter. Hans Handwringer. What if an asteroid hits his abode? . What if his neighbor’s raw land catches on fire and burns his house down? What is they defund the Nevada City Police and people start slapping up ‘Go Back to Berekely You Stink-Asses’ signs all over the Historic District? What if Trump is being played like a toy by Putin? What if T Rex and Putin take over all the oil in Europe and North Africa and own the World? What if there is never a cure for the Kung Flu? What then????
    How can we miss him when he won’t go away?

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  30. Scott O Avatar

    Just to let everyone know we are multi-whatever in Idaho.
    https://www.kboi.com/2020/06/12/defund-police-movement-alive-despite-id-leaders-opposition/
    Money quote:
    But Adrienne Evans, executive director of United Vision for Idaho, says they shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss it. She says the proposal isn’t a call to eliminate police officers, but rather to shift law enforcement funding to other priorities.
    “We have an opportunity – with this call for defunding the police – to invest in those priorities,” says Evans. “Housing, essentials that people need, schools – things that keep people safe, instead of arresting them when they don’t have access to those things.”
    Uh – “isn’t a call to eliminate police officers,”
    Instead, we’ll “…shift law enforcement funding to other priorities…”.
    So – we’ll have cops, but they won’t be paid?
    Why doesn’t this apply to national politics?
    The left has been howling for the arrest and imprisonment of Republicans for years.
    Now, they don’t like cops.
    I’m sure the usual lefties that post here will explain in full detail.
    Wait – I’ll go for the popcorn.

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  31. Scott O Avatar

    Defund the police!
    OK
    No more secret service
    No more EPA enforcement
    No more FBI
    No more Treasury Agents
    No more Fish And Game Agents
    Uh, no – wait!
    What, R U racist?
    Interesting to note the lack of leftist postings lately.
    Are they all hiding under Paul’s bed?

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  32. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Paul Emery | 13 June 2020 at 08:52 PM
    Only th e rioters in Tusla get a pass from the loons ogf the left. And their fake news media. Rallies for Trump scare them so much they must do what you try here every day.

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  33. fish Avatar
    fish

    MICHAEL MOORE: White Men Feel Their Grip On Power Quickly Fading…

    A feeling that I imagine Mike (and a few others who shall go nameless) knows all too well……the sinking feeling that a guy gets when his quick handed nephew grabs the last drumstick at Thanksgiving just before he can wrap his chubby mitts around it.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/06/12/michael_moore_never_take_trump_for_granted_white_men_feel_their_grip_on_power_is_quickly_fading.html

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Black Squares on Instagram are the new “Wear the Ribbon”. Morning chuckle.
    https://youtu.be/9RwTNvZu5OU

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  35. Walt Avatar

    Thanks Emery for agreeing(through omission) that removing history is OK with you.
    So your all “concerned” about a big Trump rally?
    Hmmmmm…….. Now where was that same “concern” when the astroturf, bused in protesters show up in Grass Valley??
    Now weren’t you out barking at cars right along with them?

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  36. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Walt | 14 June 2020 at 08:13 AM
    You know Walt we’re going to have to back away from interacting with Punch…..there is more going on there than is readily apparent.
    If Trump wins in November……he’s going to have an aneurysm.

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  37. George Rebane Avatar

    Not to worry about our left wingers. They’ll be back with the next happenings that support their narrative – Trump down in the polls (again), Trump’s next FITM episode, a new bump in C19 cases, … . I sure wish any of them would talk about their take on the kind of America we’ll have after the Dems dominate the federal govt and their street protestors get their way. Now those would be real issues to consider.

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  38. George Rebane Avatar

    Fish 803am – Michael Moore is almost right. White men do fear their loss of power since most of them believe that their power, and the political power of every other cohort in the nation, derives from the Consitution and its derivative laws that define our country’s social order. To the extent that these are being trashed by the Left, then among others, white men fear their loss of power to preserve the Union.

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  39. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: George Rebane | 14 June 2020 at 09:23 AM
    That may be true but in this case I believe Mike’s venom is reserved for those he perceives as “class traitors”….the blue collar white guys that he used to pull for (Roger & Me), the blue collar white guys that got Trump elected.
    He knows that white “Big Money” is going come through this just fine. They always do. They’ll just extract money from the treasury to pacify the inner cities again. More set asides, more affirmative action, they might even swing reparations this time though the mechanism to compensate the descendants of slavery will be an absolute nightmare. Every Nigerian here for economic improvement will suddenly become a “True Son of the South. Every Ugandan who got here in the 70’s will have stories about his ancestors travails while escaping the plantation during the time of the Underground Railroad.
    America as we knew it is dead! The only solace I take is that the revolution eats its own. There already starting to see graffiti that says….“Liberals get the bullet too”! Which I suppose is some comfort in difficult times!

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  40. idiotfish Avatar
    idiotfish

    There already starting to see graffiti that says….
    They’re already starting to see graffiti that says….

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  41. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    FOX News said the man was unarmed in Atlanta. Say what? We saw the taser. Maybe the other cop thought it was a gun. Don’t start the hysterical conclusions please. Wait to see the truth. Don’t let yourselves be part of the MOB! It appears FOX is no better in their News than the fakers.

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  42. L Avatar
    L

    A taser is a weapon. It can disable the target sufficiently that the bad can take his gun and…Beware of nitwit dims claiming that a taser is some kind of toy weapon and this drunken moron was unarmed. It’s how they ‘think’.

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  43. Mary Wanna Avatar

    “L” a taser is not a deadly weapon. The guy was asleep. They said he was wasted but he beat down two trained police and took the guys taser. They BS’d with the driver for 25 minutes before trying to cuff him. They could have just let him get something to eat. And sleep it off. He did not look that wobbly during the field sobriety test.
    Judging a demonstration by it’s most violent participants but NOT judging a police force by it’s most violent cops is the language of the oppressor.

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  44. Scott O Avatar

    Now Mary wants to let drunk drivers just ‘sleep it off’. Or is it just some drunk drivers?

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