335 responses to “Sandbox – 3jul20”

1. 

   Don Bessee

   07 July 2020

   Normal people saw this coming. Remember 1968? –
   Americans significantly decreased contributions to Democrats running for state legislature seats in the second quarter as the Democrat Party has turned hard left, fundraising information announced this week shows.
   The lackluster performance by Democrats at the state level could have broader national implications. First off, state-level political trends sometimes forecast later looming national trends—”from the State House to the White House,” the saying goes.
   https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/07/americans-defund-democrats-in-statehouse-elections-as-democrats-seek-to-defund-police/
   😉

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   fish

   07 July 2020

   Posted by: Gregory | 07 July 2020 at 05:01 PM
   Sigh…….
   https://babylonbee.com/news/federal-prison-hires-top-rated-italian-bodyguard-hillena-clintonelli-to-protect-ghislaine-maxwell

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   Gregory

   07 July 2020

   Fish, you could have posted the link if you wanted to share the blame.

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4. 

   fish

   07 July 2020

   It had already been posted 3 or 4 times on a couple of different threads ……..

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5. 

   scenes

   07 July 2020

   twitter thread o’ the day.
   https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1280277423846653953
   The funny thing is that local anti-Trump fundamentalists are probably closer politically to the local conservatives than they are the ‘woke’ people. The Democrats are playing with fire.

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6. 

   scenes

   07 July 2020

   via BillT: https://www.theblaze.com/news/blm-activists-physically-attack-churchgoers
   ‘Another protester can then be heard off camera making a threat on the church saying, “Your church is going up in flames tonight.”‘
   If one of the drive-by liberals bothers to read any of this article (you never know), I’d sure like to see a quick explanation of how Joe Biden is going to protect me from these people. They can even use large words, I can handle it.

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   Don Bessee

   07 July 2020

   Well this could certainly raise the already high stakes for November and get out the conservative base. It was reported by a member of the club –
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chief-justice-john-roberts-hospitalized-last-month-after-fall-near-maryland-home-supreme-court-confirms
   😉

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8. 

   fish

   07 July 2020

   The sad part is that he will be to far gone to understand who is shanking him and why……pity!
   

   Judd Gregg: The Coming Biden Coup

   Oh waxy Joe…we hardly knew ye……..
   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/judd-gregg-coming-biden-coup

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9. 

   Bill Tozer

   07 July 2020

   CHRONICLES OF THE CRAZY TIME (13)
   Left craziness is coming so fast and thick on an hourly basis that it is tempting just to turn this mini-series into a real time Twitter feed. So we’re reserving compilations for the most notable insanities.
   https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/07/chronicles-of-the-crazy-time-13.php

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10. 

    Gregory

    07 July 2020

    fish 703pm
    not in this blog, if the search function is working at all.

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11. 

    fish

    08 July 2020

    Posted by: Gregory | 07 July 2020 at 11:38 PM
    Well Toz got it once and I could have sworn that I posted the link …..but I can’t find it.
    Epstein’s partner in crime
    <a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/federal-prison-hires-top-rated-italian-bodyguard-hillena-clintonelli-to-protect-ghislaine-maxwell?“>https://babylonbee.com/news/federal-prison-hires-top-rated-italian-bodyguard-hillena-clintonelli-to-protect-ghislaine-maxwell?
    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 05 July 2020 at 02:39 PM

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12. 

    Bill Tozer

    08 July 2020

    Yes, I posted the Babylon Bee 🐝 link. Youse got a problem with that?
    Stolen from an old joke from a bygone era.
    Q: How many Teamsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?
    A: Eight. Youse got a problem with that?
    I take all the blame and all the credit. Don’t be such a Squidward.
    ——-
    The interesting thing about this new and old Epstein saga is there are some of our Lefty visitors who think that the Epstein story will hurt Trump, not their beloved Dems. I just can’t see where they are coming from. Was it back in 2003 that Epstein stayed at a Florida Trump hotel and Jeffery Epstein made an inappropriate move of the towel girl in the sauna room. When brought to Trump’s attention, Trump immediately kicked Epstein out of his resort. In comparison, they found a portrait of Bill Clinton in Monica’s blue dress hanging in the entry to one of Epstein’s mansions. Bubba was a Lolita Express frequent flyer.
    Read the spin and it’s “Trump’s buddy Epstein”. This true, tis true. Everything the Dems do, they blame on their opponent. Alinsky and the Clintons’s playbook.

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13. 

    Bill Tozer

    08 July 2020

    Fish @ 10:34 pm
    re: Judd Gregg: The Coming Biden Coup
    One of the better articles I have seen in weeks. “Untethered” stood out.
    “The socialist/progressives understand this [power] as well as any political movement does.
    But the difference is that the socialist/progressive movers who now control the board in the game of Democratic Party politics have no ethical tether.
    They are filled with the flames of clarity as to the rightness of their goals. They see all who attempt to dampen those flames as enemies.
    Theirs is first and foremost a social justice cause that is justified by their self-proclaimed correctness.
    It allows them to move forward without any doubt and with untempered intensity.
    They can proclaim sections of cities independent nations. They can proclaim America’s most important past political leaders evil. They can promote lawlessness in the name of the rightness of their cause.
    They can essentially march outside the boundaries of the nation’s history and political structure, asserting that what they do is best for all.
    They will not tolerate for long not being in total control. They will have their vice president, but not their president. And they are a very impatient people and movement.”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/judd-gregg-coming-biden-coup
    “….march outside the boundaries of the nation’s history and political structure, asserting what they good is best for all.”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/judd-gregg-coming-biden-coup

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14. 

    scenes

    08 July 2020

    just one of those mini-stories you run into. Translated from Russian:
    “Former Muscovite Alena, who has been living in the USA for about 27 years, has been persecuted at work because of her refusal to kneel before the portrait of the murdered African-American George Floyd. This was told by her close friend and entrepreneur Mark Ginsburg on Facebook .
    It turns out that a woman has been working as a manager for almost 15 years at the Gucci headquarters in Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue .
    The businessman said that on June 11, all store employees were collected for the first time after the announcement of the closure of the salon for quarantine due to coronavirus.
    The meeting began with a moment of silence, initiated by the vice president. After that, he invited everyone to kneel down. Everyone agreed, but the Russian emigrant did not apologize to African Americans over the years of slavery.
    – She was left standing alone, while others scorched her with slanting looks, especially from black employees and frightened – pale-faced. Heading to her workplace, the woman ran into her boss, who told her to quit “quietly,” writes Mark Ginsburg in a post.
    As a result, the woman did not quit, even for the proposed double fee, since the situation is too principled.”
    https://www.kp.ru/online/news/3907597/

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15. 

    Bill Tozer

    08 July 2020

    Re: Prop16/ACA5
    ‘Black Lives Matter on the Ballot’
    “On June 8 Timothy P. White, the Chancellor of the California State University System, endorsed ACA 5 in a letter to Shirley Weber. He was quite clear about what he would implement if freed from the non-discrimination requirements of Prop. 209:
    Focused student recruitment and programs based on race/ethnicity;
    Focused recruitment programs for faculty of color;
    Externally funded scholarship programs based on race/ethnicity;
    Programs to recruit teacher candidates based on race/ethnicity; and
    Student retention programs based on race/ethnicity.
    There is no disingenuousness here. The intention of the pro-preference Democrats to implement an unconstrained racial spoils system is acknowledged with frankness and even zeal. The only thing missing — at least so far — is their failure to admit (perhaps even a failure to recognize) that what they really want, what their goals require, is a repeal not just of Prop. 209 but also the federal civil rights laws, especially the iconic Civil Rights Act of 1964, on which it is based.”

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16. 

    scenes

    08 July 2020

    re: BillT@8:07 July 8, Year Zero.
    Ah well. The campaign slogans just write themselves.
    PRETTY NICE COUNTRY YA GOT THERE, SURE HATE TO SEE IT BURN DOWN
    BIDEN 2020
    I admit that the VP slot (ie. the acting President) is an interesting play. Deep State vs. the leaders of the street soldiers and sleeper cells vs the multinationals. Honestly, it might make sense to have a Democratic convention where they call in all the capos (both kinds maybe) and have a floor fight over who is VP, cut out Joey Fingers and his advisors. Brennan vs Garza vs Bezos for domination of the world in a political Thunderdome. Bring yer popcorn.

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17. 

    scenes

    08 July 2020

    I see that Time is digging into the important stories.
    “As might be expected, the Internet has found a way to jest about this power dynamic, but the very nature of a humorous approach presents a risk by downplaying the threat. The violent history is why Williams cautions against letting the at-times humorous nature of Karen memes minimize the ways in which white womanhood has long posed danger to Black and brown lives.”
    https://time.com/5857023/karen-meme-history-meaning/
    It’s pretty shocking to see all the MSM go crazy all at once, but it was a long time coming.

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18. 

    Bill Tozer

    08 July 2020

    Police training, NYC
    https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/this-new-york-city-cop-hysterically-mocks-the-restrictions-deblasio-put-on-the-police

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19. 

    scenes

    08 July 2020

    KNCO bends the knee.
    https://knco.com/changes/

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20. 

    Paul Emery

    08 July 2020

    270towin just put Pennsylvania in the Biden camp and now show his with 268 delegate votes only 2 short of 270. So far polling is going the wrong way for Trump and have not turned around in his favor.
    https://www.270towin.com/maps/consensus-2020-electoral-map-forecast

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21. 

    fish

    08 July 2020

    Posted by: scenes | 08 July 2020 at 09:37 AM
    Might just be planning ahead for the “eventuality”…….

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    Paul Emery

    08 July 2020

    Yeah Scenes
    KNCO is dumping Rush for economic reasons and also this:
    From Tom Fitzsimmons
    I am hoping these changes will get us through these tough times at the station and still allow us to keep you informed with breaking news in Nevada County. I also think that we do not need as much divisiveness in our community and I hope our programming changes can lead to healthier and more respectful discourse.”
    https://knco.com/changes/

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23. 

    scenes

    08 July 2020

    fish: “(KNCO) Might just be planning ahead for the “eventuality”…….”
    As an aside, perhaps KVMR will drop ‘Democracy Now!’ in the interest of more respectful discourse.
    If things go as they are, a person might reconsider voting Republican in Nevada County. It isn’t like those voting records are actually private. I would strongly suggest a clean-up of social media and that you consider using something like Tails. Qubes is a bit too much for the average Joe. Look at Linux phones when they are ready for primetime. In public, keep your opinion to yourself.
    re: Paul Emery@10:18AM
    That’s what I was referring to. I have to admit you were right all along and that all of your belief systems are the ones we should be hewing to. Since ‘Democracy Now!’ is middle of the road and Limbaugh is far right, KVMR should continue it’s current programming.
    Biden 2020! Trump is a puppet of the Russians!!

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24. 

    Gregory

    08 July 2020

    scenes 1123am
    I’m sure Fitz is hoping dumping Limbaugh will get the postmodern cancel culture Karen harpies off his back as a side benefit, but it won’t until it goes all BLM 24/7. Maybe not even then.
    Biden is running strong… in hiding from his bunker. We’ll see.

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25. 

    scenes

    08 July 2020

    Gregory: “I’m sure Fitz is hoping dumping Limbaugh will get the postmodern cancel culture Karen harpies off his back as a side benefit, but it won’t until it goes all BLM 24/7.”
    The station needs to understand it’s role in our treatment of oppressed groups, especially for those who suffer from overlapping and concurrent forms of mistreatment by a patriarchal CIS-male dominated culture.

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26. 

    George Rebane

    08 July 2020

    Administrivia – Please shift your Biden matters to ‘Letters …’

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27. 

    Paul Emery

    08 July 2020

    More bad news for Trump from Florida. Miami’s Republican Mayor won’t encorse Trump at this time. Trump has to win Florida to win the election.
    Miami’s Republican Mayor Francis Suarez refused to commit on Wednesday to voting for President Donald Trump in November.
    “I want to see what both candidates have to offer for the urban communities before making up my mind on who I’m going to support,” Suarez said in an interview with POLITICO Nightly author Renuka Rayasam.
    The non-committal answer from a swing state Republican elected official provides a look into Trump’s uphill battle to win Florida for a second time.
    Former Vice President Joe Biden leads Trump by five percentage points in Florida, according to the RealClear Politics polling average. Trump narrowly won the state by 1.2 percentage points in 2016 over Democrat Hillary Clinton.
    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/miami-mayor-trump-2020-352757

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28. 

    fish

    08 July 2020

    Posted by: scenes | 08 July 2020 at 11:23 AM
    As an aside, perhaps KVMR will drop ‘Democracy Now!’ in the interest of more respectful discourse.
    Hey…enough with the crazy talk!
    What it really does is open up a three hour block perfectly suited for “PunchyTalk™”….three hours of poll related talk, gossip, and human interest. Better for Punch as he would would be busy prepping for three hours of poll chat and we wouldn’t need to suffer nearly as much of it as he would have a far less annoying outlet for his fetish.
    I think this could be a real benefit for the citizens of the Nevada City/Grass Valley metroplex!

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29. 

    scenes

    08 July 2020

    You’re absolutely right on that, Paul.
    Future President Biden appears to have hit his stride. Soon he’ll be reaching out to the rest of the world.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbIgz6St9v0
    With the defeat of Drumpf we can strike a blow against the white male heteronormativity that has been strangling the world for these many years.

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30. 

    Bill Tozer

    08 July 2020

    Daily Quotes and a gun story: Today we have two featured posts of note. One from Ilhan Omar the Full Born Marxist (bad) and another from Sen. Kennedy, who is always quote able and spot on (good).
    Upright: “We have got to stand up as a people and remind this generation and the next generation of the greatness of this country, unapologetically, unflinchingly.” —Rep. Chip Roy
    For the record: “When you have the leaders of the black lives movement who are now talking about, ‘If we don’t get our demands, we’re going to burn it down,’ other black people who are talking about working with other whites and other races being viewed as sellouts or called ‘Uncle Toms,’ you start to understand that you are now being controlled.” —actor Terry Crews
    Perpetually moving the goal posts: “Even if we start to fix climate change, the proof may not show up for 30 years.” —The Washington Post (“What an incredible racket the climate brigade has created. Not only have their models been wildly wrong for DECADES, but now they say they won’t even be able to prove their ideas work for 3 more decades! No accountability and no dissent allowed.” —Dinesh D’Souza)
    Non compos mentis, Part I: “The Black Lives Matter movement was started because it was talking about police brutality. If you want an ‘All Black Lives Matter’ movement that talks about gun violence in communities including black communities, then start that movement with that name. But that’s not what Black Lives Matter is about. … So the Black Lives Matter movement is about police brutality and injustice in that matter. Not about what’s happening in black neighborhoods.” —CNN’s Don Lemon
    Non compos mentis, Part II: “If they are going to put someone on Mount Rushmore, considering the history of the country, the first black president should be front and center.” —Don Lemon
    Dezinformatsiya: “President Donald Trump is wielding America’s racial tensions as a reelection weapon, fiercely denouncing the racial justice movement on a near-daily basis with language stoking white resentment and aiming to drive his supporters to the polls. The incendiary discourse is alarming many in his own party and running contrary to the advice of some in his inner circle, who believe it risks alienating independent and suburban voters.” —Associated Press
    Braying jenny: “As long as our economy and political systems prioritize profit without considering who is profiting, who is being shut out, we will perpetuate this inequality. So we cannot stop at [the] criminal-justice system. We must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it.” —Rep. Ilhan Omar
    And last… “Chicago is now the largest outdoor shooting range in America. And other cities are following. It’s not caused by the coronavirus. It’s not caused by racism. It’s caused by nihilism. To kill a child, you have to be a nihilist goon with no values whatsoever. But that is what happens when we defund our police, when we refuse to fix our schools, and we undermine the family unit.” —Senator John Kennedy
    —————-
    Guns: During the past couple of weeks, Guns sales have spiked due to become folks nervous that the police will not show up after calling 911. As if firearms were not already flying off the shelf, sales in CA up 40% already over the past couple of weeks. Sales records are being broken from Virginia to Our Town, USA.
    “ Oliva said 40% of those first-time gun buyers were women, a relatively high rate for that demographic group. Although gun sales have been up across the country, a rise in first-time gun buyers in left-leaning states like California have helped fuel the national uptick in firearms and ammunition purchases, he noted.
    “People are coming off the fences and the sidelines and they’re making decisions with their wallets about where they are in this debate about firearms ownership,” Oliva said.” -CNN (Gun and ammunition sales soar as defund-the-police movement grows)
    ———-
    “I’ve seen the emergence of a new class of students seeking training: anti-Second Amendment liberals.
    https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-illinois-foid-gun-ammo-sales-uncertainty-20200625-pkve27352jagnp4y5dbaubkyoy-story.html

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    Paul Emery

    08 July 2020

    More baaaad news for Trump. He’s losing the “lesser of two evils” vote to Biden by 40 percentage points.
    “President Donald Trump is losing a critical constituency: voters who see two choices on the ballot — and hate them both.
    Unlike in 2016, when a large group of voters who disliked both Trump and Hillary Clinton broke sharply for Trump, the opposite is happening now, according to public polling and private surveys conducted by Republicans and Democrats alike.
    It’s a significant and often underappreciated group of voters. Of the nearly 20 percent of voters who disliked both Clinton and Trump in 2016, Trump outperformed Clinton by about 17 percentage points, according to exit polls.
    Four years later, that same group — including a mix of Bernie Sanders supporters, other Democrats, disaffected Republicans and independents — strongly prefers Biden, the polling shows. The former vice president leads Trump by more than 40 percentage points among that group, which accounts for nearly a quarter of registered voters, according to a Monmouth University poll last week.”
    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/12/donald-trump-haters-joe-biden-clinton-244629

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32. 

    Mary Wanna

    08 July 2020

    More baaad news for POS Roger Stone,
    86’d from Facebook, Instagram,
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/08/facebook-roger-stone/

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33. 

    Gregory

    08 July 2020

    I think “Punchy Now!” would better fit KVMR.

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34. 

    Mary Wanna

    08 July 2020

    WooHoo!
    https://www.theunion.com/news/nevada-county-da-files-motion-to-dismiss-hundreds-of-marijuana-convictions/

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35. 

    fish

    08 July 2020

    Posted by: Gregory | 08 July 2020 at 02:13 PM
    I think “Punchy Now!” would better fit KVMR.
    Mine was a working title……I’m not married to it!

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36. 

    Robert Cross

    08 July 2020

    In the category of “I don’t care if you people in your stupid red hats that I sold you die.. I need adulation”.
    COVID surge in Tulsa after trump’s rally.. the locals didn’t want the A-hole there in the first place and no one showed up but the extremely stupid who are now paying the price (and some could pay the ultimate price) for their misguided political affiliation to the most incompetent President in the nation’s history… Barr none.. (for the discerning reader)

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37. 

    fish

    08 July 2020

    Health official: Trump rally ‘likely’ source of virus surge
    But those riots and that out of control “Urban Shopping” a few weeks ago……conducted under sterile conditions!
    https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Oklahoma-reports-673-new-confirmed-coronavirus-15394606.php

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38. 

    fish

    08 July 2020

    Posted by: Mary Wanna | 08 July 2020 at 02:51 PM
    You should see if you can get them to expunge your children’s movie piracy conviction…..

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39. 

    Don Bessee

    08 July 2020

    Creepy grampa joe shouldn’t count his chickens especially those not black enough –
    Young Black voters say they aren’t enthusiastic about a Joe Biden presidency
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/young-black-voters-arent-enthusiastic-090013613.html
    😉

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    Don Bessee

    08 July 2020

    Well of course they did –
    https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/07/08/media-claim-trump-rally-led-to-tulsa-coronavirus-surge-ignore-sharpton-rally-blm-protests/
    😉

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41. 

    Don Bessee

    08 July 2020

    There is your rancid russian dressing oh great pony tail of ignorance –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/christopher-steele-ordered-pay-damages-dossier
    😉

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42. 

    Gregory

    08 July 2020

    Db 424pm
    It gets better … the health official who made the call, Dr. Bruce Dart… has a mail order doctorate in Health Services from Walden University (MN) an online only college with shaky accreditation in 2005.. Not an MD.

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43. 

    Don Bessee

    08 July 2020

    It appears that kind of racism is ok by the blue mob –
    https://www.sfgate.com/warriors/article/Stephen-Jackson-Kevin-Durant-DeSean-anti-Semitism-15394993.php
    😉

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    Don Bessee

    08 July 2020

    But he’s my brother he is heavy –
    CNN continues to ignore or downplay news that is harmful to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., whose younger brother anchors the network’s most popular show, failing to mention a new report linking a controversial decision by Gov. Cuomo to thousands of deaths inside his state’s nursing homes.
    The Associated Press reported late Monday that “New York hospitals released more than 6,300 recovering coronavirus patients into nursing homes during the height” of the coronavirus pandemic under a “controversial, now-scrapped policy.”
    CNN’S LATEST LOVEFEST CUOMO BROTHERS LOVEFEST SLAMMED: ‘SHAM OF JOURNALISTIC PRINICPLES,’ ‘CLEAR CONFLICT OF INTEREST
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-ignores-ap-report-cuomo-nursing-homes
    😉

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45. 

    keith

    08 July 2020

    Just wanted to say thank you to Tom Fitzsimmons of KNCO for dumping Rush Limbaugh. By also screwing up the Nevada County Insight with your choices of interviewees, (how many times do I have to listen to the lady from Sierra Roots whine), you have managed to rid yourself of the top rated radio programming in America and what few listeners you have left. It’s no wonder you are working at KNCO instead of a larger station.

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    Paul Emery

    08 July 2020

    Tulsa update:
    Tulsa County reported 261 confirmed new cases on Monday, a one-day record high, and another 206 cases on Tuesday. By comparison, during the week before the June 20 Trump rally, there were 76 cases on Monday and 96 on Tuesday.”
    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/tulsa-trump-rally-coronavirus-353708

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47. 

    Barry Pruett

    08 July 2020

    Paul. Folks are going to get sick. It’s an undeniable fact. Aside from not living our lives, there is nothing that we can do. Most importantly who cares how many people get Coronavirus if the death rates don’t increase beyond a controllable level? Infectious disease happen and we can’t control them without massive disruptions.

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    Barry Pruett

    08 July 2020

    https://www.nsc.org/work-safety/tools-resources/injury-facts/chart
    You are over five times more likely to die from choking on food (84 per 100,000) than from coronavirus in California (16 per 100,000). California should ban food. 😂😂

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49. 

    Scott O

    08 July 2020

    Paul 8:48 – Thanks for stopping by again to demonstrate how simpletons can be easily led.
    How does that rise in the number of cases in that time period correlate to the increases in the same time period in other areas of the US? What actual proof was offered that people who attended the rally caused the increase?
    During the same time period the so-called doctor mentioned, Idaho had a very similar sudden increase in the number of cases.
    Did Trump’s rally cause that increase as well?

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50. 

    Mary Wanna

    09 July 2020

    “So if you didn’t catch the recent shitshow, it went basically like this:
    The CDC put out its official recommendations and requirements states should meet before reopening schools.
    Trump went to twitter, shitted on the CDC recommendations, demanding that k-12 schools fully open up in the fall. He threatened to cut federal funding if they do not.
    Then the coronavirus task force held a press conference, minus Fauci, because he’s on the President’s shit list.
    Betsy Devos said she really really really wants kids back in school. She does not know how to do this, offered no suggestions. Just that they need to open, and leaves it up to local officials to figure it out.
    Vice President Pence said children are resilient. Basically made out of cartilage with healthy lungs. They probably won’t get sick, so we shouldn’t worry about them. There is also no disagreement between the CDC and Trump. Trump wants schools to open, and just doesn’t want the CDC’s guidelines to be the reason for schools not opening?
    Yes, he actually said he doesn’t want states to keep their schools closed just because their own CDC says it is not safe to open.
    So the VP says, don’t worry, let’s bring up the Director of the CDC to clarify. -And I could‘ve sworn I heard this guy gulp off camera.
    But the director of the CDC comes up and says he also wants schools to open safely. He said he likes his job and wants to keep it, therefore, he is also in full agreement with Trump, despite the guidelines they released hours before.
    So then Dr. Birx comes on and says half the country has seen a surge of new cases. The country is worse off than it was back at the start of all this. She said they should return to phase 1 and start all over.
    Now, an astute reader may wonder how do half the states return to phase 1, and still expect to open by fall? Good question. ….. And while you were thinking about it, Birx tries to leave the podium.
    But before she gets away, Pence stops her, suggests she ‘talk about that other thing about the children’. She hesitates, then agrees.
    She comes back up to the mic, says most children probably won’t die. Maybe 0.02%. And usually the ones who die were already sick, so you parents at home may want to keep an eye on them. Oh- and we have virtually no data on how transmissible the virus is in children because we’ve barely tested any of them, but let me get out of your hair.
    Pence comes back and says, see, we’re good here.
    ————————-
    So while all that is going Cuomo is holding his own press conference.
    He says I don’t even give a shit what Trump is saying. It’s not worth responding to the clown. States control school openings, and we will do it as safely as possible, end of discussion.
    Other states blew off our warnings, and now they are paying the price. You want to fix your states? Pull your heads out of your asses and follow our example.
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    And Fauci has gone total rogue. He has been giving interviews across the media spectrum, politely telling anyone who will listen that following trump’s orders regarding the Coronavirus will lead to certain doom. Death and economic disaster on a scale never seen before. Please turn back while you still can.
    And now you are filled in.”

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