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[Alex Berenson on the real skinny behind Covid-19 reporting.  Short book and very much worth a read if you’re interested in debating the pandemic, how it’s reported, and various response policies (here).  Apologies for letting the last sandbox languish a bit too long; we're working through a family medical emergency here.  gjr]

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335 responses to “Sandbox – 3jul20”

  1. fish Avatar
    fish

    HOW THE LEFT VIEWS THINGS:

    In 2020, Words Are ‘Violence,’ Arson Is Not. Or to be more precise, your free speech is violence, but their violence is just free speech.

    reason.con via Instapundit
    https://reason.com/2020/07/03/silence-is-violence-george-floyd-protests-arson-is-not/

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  2. Walt Avatar

    Liberal BASTARDS!! One and all!
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/05/virginia-officials-order-american-flag-removed-construction-site/
    ““Over the past month we’ve seen buildings and structures around Capitol Square vandalized and flags, dumpsters, a bus and other items set ablaze during demonstrations around the city,” spokeswoman for the Virginia Department of General Services Dena Potter said in an email, according to the Hill.
    “When we saw the flag, we were concerned that it could become a target, so we told the contractor to remove it,” she continued.”
    And on the 4TH no less.. So they kneel to the Haters of America? That’s a Liberal for you.

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    When does this become an antifa standard? –
    Moroccan-born Said Mechaout has been sentenced to a maximum 30 years behind bars over a year after he murdered Italian man Stefano Leo in Turin because he was “white” and “happy”.
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/07/05/migrant-who-killed-italian-for-being-white-and-happy-gets-30-years-in-prison/
    😉

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  4. Mary Wanna Avatar

    Breaking news…only on Fox,
    Trump boat parade ready to set sai,
    https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1279790708291928065?s=09

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  5. Mary Wanna Avatar

    “President Donald Trump is being trolled on Twitter after footage of a man singing a Bruno Mars song at his Fourth of July event at the White House was shared online.
    Many of the president’s critics were quick to point out that former President Barack Obama had the real Bruno Mars perform at his Fourth of July party in 2015, calling it “a tale of two presidents.”

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    Not just regular stupid…….Doug Keachie stupid!

    Sarah Silverman Mistakes Construction Markers for ‘Attempt at Swastikas’

    https://freebeacon.com/culture/sarah-silverman-mistakes-construction-markers-swastikas/

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Something tells me antifa will think twice about rushing the stage and trying to take his mike! LOL –
    Utah congressional Republican candidate Burgess Owens told Breitbart News Saturday that America will see a “true renaissance” with President Donald Trump re-elected for a second term and a Republican majority in the House of Representatives.
    Owens — a former Oakland Raiders safety and Super Bowl champion — recently won Utah’s fourth congressional district primary. The black conservative hopes to unseat freshman swing district Democrat Rep. Ben McAdams.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/05/burgess-owens-america-will-see-renaissance-trump-re-elected-gop-house/
    😉

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  8. fish Avatar
    fish

    Chicongo is in good hands with the progressive “Short School Bus” mayor in charge……

    67 Shot, 13 Fatally, Over Fourth of July Weekend In Chicago: Police

    Enjoy Second City Cop for your up to the minute reporting on the shenanigans in the Windy City

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  9. George Rebane Avatar

    67 Shot, 13 Fatally, Over Fourth of July Weekend In Chicago: Police
    The truth of the matter – Black Lives Don’t Matter to Blacks

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Mary Wanna | 05 July 2020 at 05:12 PM
    Bad enough that Target has to suffer the Greek Fisherman’s Cap Antifa brigades but now this……and unfortunately we’ve seen this kind oh behavior before!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcwz8-EfFYE
    “He hates these cans…..!”

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Told you the Left does not like Frederick Douglas. The proof is in the pudding. It ain’t about racism, it’s about Marxism.
    https://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1279902597193912325?

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Lefty crazies do remind me of the “Monsters are due on Maple Street”
    Rod Serling Couldn’t Have Predicted This Twilight Zone
    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/could-rod-serling-really-have-conceived-of-this-twilight-zone/

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Father Of 8-Year-Old Killed Near Atlanta Wendy’s: ‘They Say Black Lives Matter. You Killed Your Own.’
    “Killing your own,” the father added. “You killed an 8-year-old child. She ain’t did nothing to no one of y’all. She just wanted to get home to see her cousin. That’s all she wanted to do. She just wanted to get home.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/father-of-8-year-old-killed-near-atlanta-wendys-they-say-black-lives-matter-you-killed-your-own
    ———————-
    Atlanta Mayor On Death Of 8-Year-Old Girl: ‘We Are Doing Each Other More Harm Than Any Police Officer On This Force’
    “Secoriea Turner was shot and killed last night, and it was not by the hands of police officers,” Bottoms said. “It was by the hands of a coward, cowards, who are still out and about in our community. This happened … near the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed a few weeks ago.”
    “We’ve talk a lot about what we are demanding from our officers in our communities,” Bottoms continued. “We’ve protested, we’ve demonstrated, we’ve been angry, we’ve cried, we’ve demanded action. We’ll now we’re demanding action for Secoriea Turner and for all of the other people who were shot in Atlanta last night and over the past few weeks because the reality is this – these aren’t police officers shooting people on the streets of Atlanta, these are members of the community shooting each other, and in this case, it is the worst possible outcome.”
    “Enough is enough. Enough is enough,” Bottoms continued. “We have talked about this movement that’s happening across America in this moment in time where we have the ears and the interest of people across this country and across this globe who were saying they want to see change. … We’re fighting the enemy within when we are shooting each other up on our streets in the city and you shot and killed a baby. And it wasn’t one shooter, there were at least two shooters. An 8-year-old baby. If you want people to take us seriously, and you don’t want us to lose this movement, then we can’t lose each other.”
    “You can’t blame this on a police officer, you can’t say this is about criminal justice reform. This is about some people carrying some weapons who shot up a car with an eight-year-old baby in the car,” Bottoms concluded. “We got to stop this. We are doing each other more harm than any police officer on this force. We’ve had over 75 shootings in the city over the past several weeks. You can’t blame that on APD. So, I’m just asking you to please honor this baby’s life. Please, if you know who did this, please turn them in. These people are a danger to all of us.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/atlanta-mayor-on-death-of-8-year-old-girl-we-are-doing-each-other-more-harm-than-any-police-officer-on-this-force
    In shit hole cities and on social media, that is what the Dems and their fanatics do best: killing their own. The culture of hate. The culture of destroy.

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  14. L Avatar
    L

    The cancel culture that Keach touts from dawn to dusk, all day, every day. Our resident hate machine.

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  15. Scott O Avatar

    Cashless may sound great for the light thinkers.
    If you can’t use cash, how will you then pay?
    Just as a handful of companies can cut you off because they don’t like your ‘speech’, so they can (and are) cutting off your legal business.
    And if you don’t like their processing fees, you can just use, what?
    Digital currency is not the magic answer.
    https://dnyuz.com/2020/07/06/our-cash-free-future-is-getting-closer/
    Cash is a way you can have control over your financial transactions – no cash, no control.
    Ah, Brave New World.

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Iran’s Supreme Leader Tweets About Masks Protecting Iranians. Ric Grenell: ‘Do You Wear A Mask When You Push Gays Off Buildings?’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/irans-supreme-leader-tweets-about-masks-protecting-iranians-ric-grenell-do-you-wear-a-mask-when-you-push-gays-off-buildings

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  17. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Fox reaches new lows. How do you “mistakenly” eliminate someones photo from a news story?
    Direct quote from Fox:
    “On Sunday, July 5, a report on Ghislaine Maxwell during FOX News Channel’s America’s News HQ mistakenly eliminated President Donald Trump from a photo alongside then Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell,” the statement said. “We regret the error.”
    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/fox-news-regrets-mistakenly-editing-donald-trump-out-of-photo-with-jeffrey-epstein/
    Here is the original photo:
    https://twitter.com/2AATKINS/status/1279851393822584832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1279851393822584832%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2F2020%2F07%2Ffox-news-edits-donald-trump-but-not-melania-out-of-jeffrey-epstein-photo%2F

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  18. Mary Wanna Avatar

    “L”: Keach isn’t here. Try Facebook. Should we erect a statue of Keach? Then you bozos could tear it down.
    And if you are referring to me, don’t put words in my mouth Mr. Smugness.

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  19. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Fox reaches new lows. How do you “mistakenly” eliminate someones photo from a news story?”
    I suppose you could invent several reasons. There has to be plenty of pics of Epstein&Maxwell without Trump, so why even use that one. The standard shot is this:
    https://ta-images.condecdn.net/image/RbORwBlVL8M/crop/1800/f/gettyimages-590696434-3-square.jpg
    Put in place to be ‘discovered’ later? Lazy Fox graphics person cropping out their favorite candidate? Epstein is far more tied to the Democratic elite, so the misdirection to tie Trump to him has got to be very strong simply to win an at-all-costs (including the destruction of cities) election.
    I’ll go with my favorite answer. All newspeople are liars at heart, including the local ones.

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  20. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 1057am
    trolling rawstory a’gin?

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  21. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 06 July 2020 at 10:57 AM
    Fox reaches new lows. How do you “mistakenly” eliminate someones photo from a news story?

    You should ask them Punch….after all….they are fellow “news craftsmen”…err…news ” news craft persons”.

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  22. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    rasmussen
    47/52

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  23. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    Trump job approval down 14.2 RCP Average. Worst approval since Jan 2018.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Comrade deblasio whistling past the grave yard of his own making –
    De Blasio held a press conference Monday after a weekend of violence across New York City that left at least eight people dead and more than 44 people shot and injured.
    “I want to talk about what happened this weekend. Many were out there celebrating, but we saw too much violence, and we have a lot of work to do to address it,” de Blasio said, while adding that “there is not one cause for something like this.”
    “This is directly related to coronavirus,” de Blasio said. “This is a very serious situation… As we’re getting into warmer and warmer weather, we’re feeling the effects of people being cooped up for months, the economy hasn’t restarted – we have a real problem here.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/de-blasio-blames-nyc-weekend-violence-on-coronavirus-vows-to-double-down-to-keep-city-safe
    😉

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  25. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Way to go SCOTUS! –
    Supreme Court won’t throw out ban on robocalls to cellphones
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-wont-throw-ban-151938460.html
    😉

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  26. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    Trump down by 15 on fivethirtyeight job approval average. Lowest approbal since Jan ’18.
    https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/?cid=rrpromo

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  27. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    Trump down on delegate count 204-248 on 270towin with 85 undecided.
    https://www.270towin.com/maps/consensus-2020-electoral-map-forecast

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    What a maroon @1235 get back to us in November. LOL
    😉

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  29. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Whitewashing –
    That user also removed information that was critical of Harris, with some other editors on the “talk” page objecting to changes regarding Harris’ relationship with former California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown that were allegedly made “without adequate justification.” Users also objected to changes related to Harris’ record as an aggressive prosecutor, with one editor making a change on July 2 — after The Intercept published its story — saying they were “restoring more scrubbed well-sourced content. Just because it may be ‘unflattering’ doesn’t mean it needs to be censored.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/battle-over-kamala-harris-wiki-page
    😉

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  30. Mary Wanna Avatar

    Uptown funk you up, Uptown funk you up!
    Massive crowd size!
    https://twitter.com/scottgairdner/status/1279573499367976960?s=20

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  31. George Rebane Avatar

    @ 1227pm – When replicable correlations (fewer police more crime) become persistent, then the odds favor causality.

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Mary Wanna | 06 July 2020 at 12:50 PM
    You must really be a Bruno Mars fan to mention it again…..wouldn’t you rather whine at “L” a little more…that seemed to bring you out of your usual stupor earlier this morning.

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Don
    Are you suggesting that Trumps campaign staff are blowing off as insignificant the dismal polling for Trump at this time?

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  34. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Also Don when were you as campaign spokes person and instigator for measure W, aware that it was going to be such a colossal loser? If you recall it lost by nearly 20%. At what point did you realize it was such a loser?

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 06 July 2020 at 01:03 PM
    Paul……are you suggesting that you’re not going to pay a lot for this muffler?

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  36. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    What a foolio@ 110. Can you say measure S? LOL
    😉

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  37. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Measure S was two yeqrs earlier Don you know that. Did you think Measure W was actually going to win or did you intentionally waste thousands of taxpayers dollars putting it on the ballot?
    I had nothing to do with measure S Don. You were chief instigator, supporter and spokesperson for Measure W. When did you realize it was a loser?

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  38. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Oh Oh Covid 19 is knocking on Trumps door.
    “Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of first son Donald Trump Jr., tested positive for the novel coronavirus over the weekend shortly before President Donald Trump delivered a speech at Mount Rushmore.
    Sources tell the New York Post that both Guilfoyle and Trump Jr. recently attended a “maskless” party at the Hamptons on Long Island, and that attendees are “freaking out” over news of her COVID-19 infection.”
    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/covid-infected-kim-guilfoyle-attended-a-maskless-hamptons-party-and-attendees-are-freaking-out-report/

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  39. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So the pony tail of ignorance thinks measure S cost less than W. How cute. LOL
    😉

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  40. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Paul Emery@ 1:38PM July 6, Year Zero “Oh Oh Covid 19 is knocking on Trumps door.”
    lol. So now you’re down to hoping that President Trump gets a life threatening illness.
    (small tyrannosaur arms waving, “oh no mr scenes, i’m just reporting the newwws”)
    Lemme see. So the world is falling apart. Epidemic in the air. Chinese are acting aggressive plus they have some chance of a huge natural disaster. Blue Mob is tearing apart American institutions. US Senator calling to examine the tearing down of the Mount Rushmore figures. People being fired left and right for the smallest infraction to the cult.
    KVMR newscraft is “TRUMP WENT UP SINCE JANUARY AND THEN DOWN AGAIN”.
    Just for once, bring a little sober thinking to the party.

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  41. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Things appear to be getting more interesting in Atlanta.
    In a way, it’s like a dress rehearsal for a larger conflict.
    Team Red
    Governor of Georgia
    National Guard
    Regular people except that guy on your block with the homemade BLM sign
    Atlanta PD
    angry white guys
    Team Blue
    BLM
    hood rats
    local newspapers
    city government apparatchiks including mayor, DA
    various flavors of anarchists, skate punks, antifa, etc.
    ‘woke’ 20 year olds
    perpetually aggrieved old people with bad hair cuts and anti-Nixon signs in the garage
    place yer bets.

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    If the mayor cant or wont deal with the rioters then the guard will –
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-governor-declares-state-of-emergency-over-deadly-atlanta-shootings
    😉

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