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[Today the Dems’ Big Lies are dropping faster than I can record them.  Some major moves in the lamestream include the sudden silence of 1) reports on the progress of fighting C19, and 2) ignoring the historical and momentous progress toward lasting Mideast peace, Palestinian resolution, and thwarting Iran that President Trump’s foreign policies have achieved – not to mention the much-needed realignment of relations with Russia, China, and North Korea.  And, of course, then there’s the robust health of our economy that has been able to weather the C19 lockdowns initiated by the states, and is now on a solid road to pre-C19 recovery.  All of this must be kept from the nation’s sheeple.  gjr]

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  1. George Rebane Avatar

    ‘Trump’s Promise to Revive Coal Thwarted by Falling Demand, Cheaper Alternatives’ read the headlines. Coal production has continued to fall under President Trump in spite of his relaxing of anti-coal regs and continuing endorsement of the fossil fuel. It’s just that renewables continue to get cheaper along with the increased production and price drops in fracked natural gas. Now, does this count against Trump as one of his ‘lies’ or ‘broken promises’ as our liberals would have us believe?
    And when we return to the streets, then there’s this –
    https://congressionalpost.com/senate-majority-drops-bombshell-video-exposing-dems-plans-to-fuel-the-riots/

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Continuing Dr. Rebane’s 10:05 am
    ‘Study: Up To 95 Percent Of 2020 U.S. Riots Are Linked To Black Lives Matter’
    A report accompanying the data project, however, reads like an upscale attempt to blame the police for criminals’ decision to steal, kill, and destroy.
    “Contrary to corporate media narratives, up to 95 percent of this summer’s riots are linked to Black Lives Matter activism, according to data collected by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED). The data also show that nearly 6 percent — or more than 1 in 20 — of U.S. protests between May 26 and Sept. 5 involved rioting, looting, and similar violence, including 47 fatalities.”
    https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The ‘Coffee Boy’ Makes Peace in the Middle East
    Trump’s negotiators buck the wisdom that led to decades of bipartisan failure
    https://freebeacon.com/national-security/the-coffee-boy-makes-peace-in-the-middle-east/

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Media Pushes Unverified Gossip To Hide Trump’s Amazing Economic And Foreign Policy Achievements’
    With the most dynamic economic comeback in U.S. history and unprecedented progress towards peace in the Middle East, what did the media establishment choose to cover?
    https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/15/media-pushes-unverified-gossip-to-hide-trumps-amazing-economic-and-foreign-policy-achievements/

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    To quote Jimmy Buffet, “If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.”
    ‘Minneapolis City Council, which voted to dismantle police, unsettled by rise of crime and demand action from law enforcement’.
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/minneapolis-city-council-which-voted-to-dismantle-police-unsettled-by-rise-of-crime-and-demand-police-action
    ———————
    REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN AIDE MURDERED IN MINNEAPOLIS
    “Lacy Johnson is the Republican who is challenging Ilhan Omar in Minnesota’s 5th District. Lacy is an excellent candidate fighting an uphill battle.
    Last night, two of his campaign volunteers were shot in North Minneapolis. The local CBS outlet has the story:
    The 17-year-old boy killed and another man hurt Monday in a north Minneapolis shooting were members of a Republican congressional candidate’s campaign.
    The Lacy Johnson campaign says the two victims were members of the outreach team and were not performing campaign duties when the shooting occurred Monday afternoon at the intersection of North Fremont and Dowling avenues.
    Minneapolis police say a group of people were standing outside of a Super USA convenience store when one or more shooters opened fire. The teenager and the man were hit, and emergency crews brought them to Hennepin Healthcare for treatment. The teenager was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
    Investigators are still searching for the shooters, who fled the scene on foot.”…..
    “The CBS story concludes:
    Minneapolis has experienced a surge in gun violence this summer. According to police, this year is on track to double 2019’s homicide total.”
    One wonders whether Black Lives Matter and Antifa will ever be held accountable for the wave of violence they have encouraged and helped to unleash.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/09/republican-campaign-aide-murdered-in-minneapolis.php
    ———-
    LOVELY
    “As far as I can tell from the Post’s report, the findings Mayor Warren relied on don’t dispute this. Instead, they use subjective words like “insularity, acceptance, and. . .callousness,” with “cavalier” and “unsympathetic” thrown in for good measure.
    It’s challenging enough for officers to deal with thugs and aggressive nut jobs who are out to harm them. Expecting officers to be sympathetic towards this “client base” is asking too much.“
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/09/lovely.php
    ————
    Cut the police budget and add more social workers. Or, let the people “police” themselves, like we saw in Chaz City in Seattle. How did that work out? Rape, murder and extortion to add to the Lists of Demands. Mercy.

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  6. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Speaking of lies George how about this one. Is Trump lying or is he just plain illiterate or stupid when he said this. Keep in mind this man is President of the United States which is why I support any available alternative. It could have been a Republican if the Repubs had the courage,which they don’t, to replace him. Trump quote:
    “With time it goes away,” Trump said during an ABC News town hall in Pennsylvania when pressed by host George Stephanopoulos on his public comments about the virus. “You’ll develop, you’ll develop herd — like a herd mentality. It’s going to be, it’s going to be herd-developed, and that’s going to happen. That will all happen. But with a vaccine, I think it will go away very quickly.”

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Aha! Politico takes a page out of the Punchy Playbook.
    ‘INVISIBLE MAN? Joe Biden Goes Unmentioned in Politico Playbook’
    “Although Tuesday’s Politico Playbook PM by Anna Palmer, Jake Sherman, Eli Okun, and Garrett Ross runs over 2200 words and covers a wide variety of political subjects, the number of times that Joe Biden is mentioned is…ZERO.
    Yes, despite this being in perhaps the most important election in many years, a major party candidate for president has gone down the rabbit hole in a section detailing the intricacies of politics.”….
    “Apparently Biden is unconsciously being treated by Politico as a mere empty vessel whose only role is not being Trump. Oh, and somehow the Playbook missed that the “Not Trump” made his second campaign appearance outside of Delaware since Labor Day in Florida on Tuesday. As of this writing “Not Trump” will be taking a “lid” day on Wednesday so at least you will have an excuse for not mentioning him in the next Politico Playbook. In fact, with all his embarrassing gaffes, best not to even write about “Not Trump” in too much or, better yet, any detail.“
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2020/09/16/invisible-man-joe-biden-goes-unmentioned-politico-playbook

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  8. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Trump up four today. Looks bad for Biden/Harris or is it Harris/Biden?

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  9. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 1121am
    You ask if Trump is lying, illiterate or stupid, based on a short verbal statement to an unfriendly questioner about the virus du jour.
    Paul… are you lying, illiterate or stupid?

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  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Life In These United States.
    “BLM protesters in Milwaukee, Wisc. surround a man’s house. He has a Trump & US flag on the outside. He appears to ready a gun from inside the home. He was reportedly arrested for brandishing the weapon.”
    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1306072075564531713

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  11. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Nice.
    Here’s a longer version of the guy in Milwaukee.
    This is the world the Blue Mob wants to bring you.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFLVOde824Q&feature=youtu.be

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  12. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Thanks for confirming my observation Gregory that there is no connection between Trumps mouth and his brain. I mean he can’t even pronounce Yosemite (twice) when it’s written out for him. It was like he never heard of it before.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Daily Quotes
    Upright: “At the civic, constitutional level the United States is not systemically racist. But systemic racism, at a theological level, is a real thing. … Why? Because people are sinners. … The problem with churches engaging civicly on the theological front on this is simple — the United States demands a separation of church and state. The answer to systemic racism is the gospel of Jesus Christ. The United States will not accept that answer. Therefore, churches are left to do what exactly? Work with those on the left who reject Christianity to enact public policy solutions that are devoid of Jesus, implemented by sinners who do not recognize systemic racism as a sin, and fueled by a moment that sees everything as an allocation of power? Good luck with that.” —Erick Erickson
    Observations: “No personal agency is required, or indeed is any part, of a systemic phenomenon. And there’s the beauty of systemic-racism theory: ‘who’s to blame’ is never answered with any particularity that will fix responsibility on known persons, for the answer is ‘why, everyone!’ What could be more impervious to contrary evidence than a wholly impersonal conspiracy theory about human behavior?” —Matthew J. Franck
    Political futures: “The ability for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Republicans to stop a potential Biden administration from passing the Equality Act or the Green New Deal would essentially be gone if Democrats take back the Senate and vote to remove the filibuster. This plan being devised by Democrat strategists to radically shape our country is unlike anything we have ever seen before. At stake in this election is not just the difference of a few executive actions or policy preferences but rather the difference between a country in which all human life is valued, families flourish, and religious liberty thrives or one that seeks to destroy innocent life, undermine families, and is hostile towards religion.” —Tony Perkins
    For the record: “Over the past four years we have watched as factions within the Justice Department and the Pentagon have unilaterally decided that the American people made a horrible mistake in 2016 — a mistake that must be nullified. It is true that Trump’s volatility and habit of naming officials who are antagonistic to his goals doesn’t help his cause. It is also true that at no time in modern history has the bureaucratic machinery of the executive branch worked so openly to undermine the legal policy goals of the president.” —David Harsanyi
    Nailed it: “Instead of us doing business with China and that leading to China becoming more free, what has happened is a place like China has bought our silence with their money. They have just completely shut down critical content about human rights abuses in China.” —Hollywood director Judd Apatow
    Non compos mentis: “It’s bold. It’s feminist.” —”Cuties” director Maïmouna Doucouré
    And last… “[Football’s] not for protesting one way or the other. What color you are, what you think, this or that. You play football. That’s it. You’re privileged. You got a gift from God that you can play the game because you got a body you can do it with. I don’t really understand what you’re protesting. … I would tell those players go to another country and play football there. You don’t have to come out. You don’t have to come out if you go to another country. You can’t! Because the game’s only played in this country. And if you can’t respect this country, get the hell out of it.” —Hall of Fame coach Mike Ditka

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  14. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1121am – And what do you consider was false about the Trump statement you cite?

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  15. Walt Avatar

    LOL Emery, Words from the Harris/Biden Administration supporter.
    Biden even has Harris as running for President.
    Go back to the overpass and bark at cars. Who knows.. So free healthcare is in your future,, Get all high and mighty and stemo in front of a truck.

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  16. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    What exactly is “herd mentality” George and how does that apply to the virus? I wrote that Trump is either “lying or is he just plain illiterate or stupid.” Seems like you defer to the ” just plain stupid” option that I present.

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  17. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Gregory suggests that Trump said those things because he was in front of an ” unfriendly questioner ” Poor baby Trump just can’t handle that according to Gregory.

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  18. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 1122am and 1248pm
    Paul, you are a useless bloody looney. I didn’t say or suggest what you’ve hallucinated.

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  19. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 1245pm
    “What exactly is “herd mentality” George and how does that apply to the virus? ”
    It seems like you defer yourself to the just plain stupid category.

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  20. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    You gave that as an excuse. Why else would you have said it?
    Direct quote from Gregory, Trumps clean up guy on RR:
    “You ask if Trump is lying, illiterate or stupid, based on a short verbal statement to an unfriendly questioner about the virus du jour”

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  21. Walt Avatar

    WOW Enemy, “herd mentality”… Riots and looting come to mind.
    Then have the stones to call it reparations.

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  22. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 111pm
    What made that statement of fact “an excuse”, Punch?

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  23. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Why else would you say it Gregory? You are Trumps biggest supporter on this blog and support everything he does or says. Show me an exception and I may change my opinion of you.

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Now thats funny @124 as if anyone cares about what your opinion of them is! ROFLOL
    😉

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  25. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    WAs that Paul Emery is front of that Trump supporters house? And doing the watusi dance? Seems that PE has a bad case of TDS and the only cure is Trump in a landslide. Since he seeks to be rising in the polls the loons like PE get more and more frustrated and nitpick Trump’s words. Of course no praise for getting the troops home or a peace deal in the middle east. Seems it was not long ago PE was criticizing about the USA involvement there. What his words prove is there is nothing Trump can do that will ever give PE back his brain cells. Too much ganja.

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  26. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 124pm
    You’re trying to channel Mika Bftzplk (yes, I check rawst*ry when you’re off on a tangent) but you just don’t have the legs for it.
    Sorry, Punch, but standing up to your bs (or Mika’s) is not equivalent to supporting Trump.

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  27. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    More bad news for the TDDS set ignore –
    “The survey of 2,500 Likely Voters was conducted September 9-10 and 13-15,” per the polling firm, and this is more proof of Trump’s momentum. In this same poll last week, Biden was up 48 to 46 percent. The week prior Biden was up 49 to 45 percent. That is a steady five point total shift in Trump’s direction over two weeks.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/16/nolte-national-poll-donald-trump-47-joe-biden-46/
    President Donald Trump’s job approval number in the latest Rasmussen polling jumped to 52 percent approve and 46 percent disapprove on Wednesday
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/16/nolte-donald-trumps-job-approval-rebounds-to-52-just-46-disapprove/
    😉

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  28. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    taking inventory, I think BT, Walt, George and especially the Toddster all support Trump more than I. Hell, I expect they even voted for him.
    So Paul, why are you lying about me?

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  29. Walt Avatar

    Well gents, Emery is TRIGGERED but good.
    The BLM is show their color of thuggery(He’s a supporter if you didn’t know.)
    Joementia is going down on the polls like a submarine with screen doors..
    Now when is that first debate? Maybe Emery can tell us how Biden will survive that? Just walk off the stage like he does when a question he can’t take gets asked?

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  30. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Not lying Gregory, just noting your constant support for Trump no matter what he says or does. George is critical of Trump on occasion but you’ve not spoken a word of concern for example that the debt will rise around 7 Trillion bucks under Trumps first term. As a self declared Libertarian you should be appalled by that but not a chirp from you on it.

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  31. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So it looks like the pony tail of ignorance is whistling past @152.
    😉

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  32. Walt Avatar

    Now there you have it.. The Emery mentality as shot to shit as Biden’s.
    You better stick to supporting the newest fool in Nevada City.
    The one in the tree limbs “save the trees”.

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  33. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “You are Trumps biggest supporter on this blog and support everything he does or says.”
    I might be the only person on this blog (besides you) who didn’t vote for Trump. Ever.
    In this case, because he picked the wrong word speaking to Steffie, you (and Mika) were off calling him lying, illiterate or stupid.
    I can’t wait to see how you deal with Biden’s upcoming gaffes. Or deal with the ones he’s been making all along.

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Poor Emery..His heros are going down.
    “The committee voted 8-6 to authorize the subpoenas.
    The committee also authorized subpoenas for Sidney Blumenthal, former Obama chief of staff Denis McDonough, former FBI counsel Lisa Page, former FBI agent Joe Pientka, former ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, former FBI director of counterintelligence Bill Priestap, former White House national security adviser Susan Rice, former FBI agent Peter Strzok, former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith – who pleaded guilty to making a false statement in the first criminal case arising from U.S. Attorney John Durham’s review of the investigation into links between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign – among others.”
    Your subversives (real criminals) are getting closer to judgment day.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-homeland-security-committee-authorizes-subpoenas-for-testimony-from-obama-officials-as-part-of-russia-probe

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  35. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Yeah Gregory “You are Trumps biggest supporter on this blog and support everything he does or says”. What in the heck is that all about?
    lol. I keed, I keed.
    Hey Paul. Why do you support everything that George Soros supports? Why do you hate this country?

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  36. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I love this country scenes. That’s why I want Trump out of office. This country deserves better than a mentally ill crook and liar as our President.

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  37. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “I love this country scenes.”
    No you don’t. You are lying. Try it on someone else.

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ROFLMAO
    “What exactly is “herd mentality” George and how does that apply to the virus? “
    OMG. That one got my jaw to drop. How many posts has Dr. Rebane written and posted under topic on herd mentality concerning the virus. Charts and graphs and many many words. Too many to reference right now. Hundreds upon hundreds of news organizations did segments and articles about COV-19 and herd mentality. Sweden in particular.
    Well, we found ourselves the one news director on the planet that has to ask, “What exactly is “herd mentality” George and how does that apply to the virus? “.
    Where to these ass hats come from? And all this time I thought the term of endearment ‘Pony Tail of Ignorance’ may not 100% accurate. I thunk wrong. Too funny.
    Hey GEORGE, what is this herd mentality of which you speak? What the heck does it have to do with the Wuhan Virus? Whatever it is, Trump lied.

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  39. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So scenes what you are saying is that if you don’t support Trump you don’t love our country.
    I guess that includes Gregory who hasn’t voted for Trump in the past. If he votes for Trump he loves our Country if he doesn’t that means he doesn’t . That also includes all the people who vote libertarian or third party.
    Thanks for clearing up what it means to love our country.

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  40. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “So scenes what you are saying is that if you don’t support Trump you don’t love our country.”
    Not at all. I’m saying that you are a liar. It’s a smaller claim.
    lol. I do love the ‘what you are saying’ business. Do you actually interview people on the radio and use that? Good Lord.
    In other news, it’s been fun watching the Li-Meng Yan drama. She finally made it to Tucker’s show and the internet near-monopolies crashed down on her and him both. I guess that the folks running things didn’t like that particular message. Check it out.

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Once again, the Native Americans have been erased. Money only for Blacks and one other group.
    ‘San Francisco to give $1,000 monthly stipend to pregnant Black, Pacific Islander women’
    “Pregnant Black and Pacific Islander women in San Francisco will get a $1,000 monthly supplement during and after their pregnancy in a first of its kind initiative meant to help improve health outcomes for both the mom and the baby.
    Starting next year, 150 women will receive the supplement for the duration of their pregnancy and the first six month of their baby’s life. The new initiative, called the Abundant Birth Project, has the goal of eventually providing the supplement to women for up to two years after pregnancy.”
    https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness/san-francisco-give-1000-monthly-stipend-pregnant-black/story?
    I suppose this applies to Born Males of the color of the month category who get pregnant. Two years? Sign me up! And this from the Evil Doers who want to destroy the nuclear family. On my.
    Gender is just a social construct they said…..
    Good thing the Dem Platform will provide fathers.

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  42. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    BillT: ” Sweden in particular.”
    I was thinking about Sweden yesterday. You’ve got the UK, who no doubt had a stricter regime than the US, with a higher COVID fatality rate….and then Sweden, who did essentially nothing, with a lower COVID fatality rate. Some of Latin America high, some low. Reporting issues or real?
    Since the tendency is to use COVID as a political tool, and it’s normal to somehow blame D. Trump, a lot of genuinely interesting things might get left on the cutting room floor. Are death rates based on latitude? Asians vs. non-Asians (the former being more likely to wear masks and/or already somewhat immune due to exposure and/or immune due to genetics)? obesity levels? urbanization? Hopefully someone with expertise actually looks into this and it isn’t just all internet experts getting in a tizzy.

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  43. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 253pm
    Paul, you are swinging wildly. Stop it.

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  44. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    BillT: “Once again, the Native Americans have been erased. Money only for Blacks and one other group.”
    Well, it is funny how there’s really only the one minority. Latin-Americans have to feel really dissed by all this, not to speak of the Hmong.
    You can usually tell who is in favor by watching TV commercials, they’re pretty quick to respond to the signals from on-high. The lack of men in dresses in Gillette ads is distressing, but that’ll change over time.
    What with all the new benefits coming onstream, I’m seriously concerned about how the goodies will get divied up. Do black people from the Caribbean get the University of Chicago slots? Are we going to reinvent quadroons and octaroons as a concept to plug into an equation somehow? I’d really like to know in order to not offend.

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  45. Walt Avatar

    Emery says “I love this country” I call BS!!
    Emery has gripped day in and day out how America sucks.
    From the “illegal” revolutionary war to blame America first.
    (pick the topic)
    Other nations are “much better” Your rampant Socialist drumbeat
    sure are not the words of an America lover. Neither is sucking up to BLM cop haters.

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  46. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Sorry it’s difficult for you Gregory otherwise why do you tell me to “stop it” whatever “it” is.

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  47. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Gregory: “Paul, you are swinging wildly. Stop it.”
    It’s those Tyrannosaur arms, there’s just something about them.

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  48. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punch, you aren’t that f’ing stupid. Just stop it.

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