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Sandbox – 5oct20

[Under the last Scattershots reader Mr Bill Tozer posted a link to a very important essay on the migration of California, its current condition, and its journey to becoming the leading shithole state in the Union.  I draw it to your kind attention – 'Be Afraid, Very Afraid: CALIFORNIA AS CASE STUDY OF AMERICA’S POSSIBLE FUTURE'. gjr]

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  1. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Taxes.
    A least Joe Biden puts up his taxes. Here’s one example.
    https://go.joebiden.com/page/-/vpdocs/Biden%202018%20Amended%20Federal.pdf
    But, I almost immediately ran up against some mysterious things called the ‘Celticcapri’ Corporation and the ‘Giacoppa’ Corporation where the fundage appears to swirl into mysterious waters.
    I naturally expect the Bidens to get some of that sweet Clintonesque money you get from overpaying for speaking fees, overpaying for book deals, overpaying for teaching a class a month at some university (naturally, it’s all probably influence peddling, but that’s just an opinion), so you hit the typical articles.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/28/joe-biden-allegedly-exploited-s-corporation-loophole-to-avoid-paying-medicare-social-security-taxes/#
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-used-tax-code-loophole-obama-tried-to-plug-11562779300?shareToken=st4ab8b5d1fcd14a4893fce7f23ce81ee8
    As usual, it’s all (probably) quite legal and the ‘loopholes’ have some reasonable argument at their base.
    To tell you the truth, I’ve never considered what a ‘fair’ tax system would look like. The gubmint has metastasized so much since the early days that the system was always bound to get ridiculous. Like the way that the financialization of the economy has redirected assets (and human talent) to largely non-useful overhead, and so much of new investment goes into non-useful internet and communications technology, you can see how the average person is left in the dust.
    Maybe a reset really is the best thing.

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The NYT says it, I believe it, end of story, right? More anonymous sources about 17 Intel agencies? Oh my, the walls are closing in on Trump. Anyway……
    WASHINGTON POST’S JENNIFER RUBIN CALLS TO ‘DEFUND’ WALTER REED AFTER TRUMP ANNOUNCES WHITE HOUSE RETURN
    https://news.grabien.com/making-washington-posts-jennifer-rubin-calls-defund-walter-reed-aft
    Defund Walter Reed? Another item on the Democrat’s long wish list. Their hope chest is,getting full.
    ———
    JOE CONCHA: NYT IS ARGUING TRUMP SHOULD NOT BE ON THE BALLOT AFTER TWO MILLION VOTES ALREADY CAST
    https://news.grabien.com/story-joe-concha-nyt-arguing-trump-should-not-be-ballot-after-two

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “You ain’t black if you ain’t stocking a grocery shelf for Joe Biden.”
    Biden suggests people were able to quarantine because ‘some Black woman was able to stack the grocery shelf’ in viral clip
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-suggests-people-were-able-to-quarantine-because-some-black-woman-was-able-to-stack-the-grocery-shelf-in-viral-clip

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  4. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@7:58PM October 5, Year Zero
    I’m really enjoying J. Rubin’s twitter feed.
    Honestly, I should probably stay away as she, like Paul Emery, just reinforces my views on the anti-Trump zealots. I’d be better off reading something convincing that I don’t agree with.
    https://twitter.com/jrubinblogger

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    California Dreaming
    ‘Gavin Newsom’s Art of the Diversion’
    Which areas of the country are worst for African Americans? “At the bottom,” Kotkin argues, “are mostly deep-blue metropolitan areas such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Chicago, and San Diego.” It just so happens that four of these worst cities, the least amenable to African-American economic growth, household ownership, and upward mobility, are located in the most progressive state in the union: California.
    California’s “draconian anti-climate-change regime,” as Kotkin describes it, has negatively impacted working-class minorities. Before the pandemic, one in five Californians lived in poverty, while gas and electricity prices soared way above the national average. Kotkin observes that this “energy poverty has risen most among the minorities and the poor, particularly the heavily Latino working class.” Meanwhile, key industries for the working and middle classes — manufacturing, energy, and construction — have continued flounder. “Amid the wealth generated by the tech sector,” Kotkin writes, “85 percent of all California jobs have been in the low-paid service sector. California’s ability to create middle-income jobs ranks among the lowest in the country.”
    Did this suffering benefit the environment? Will those bearing heavy economic costs see anything in return for their penury? According to Kotkin, nothing much has changed since the state’s mini Green New Deal. “California has accounted for only 5 percent of the nation’s greenhouse-gas reductions,” Kotkin states, and it “ranks a mediocre 40th in per capita greenhouse-gas reduction over the past decade.” Worse yet, California’s landmark environmental legislation may have had the opposite effect than what was intended. “State policies,” Kotkin claims, “may be increasing total emissions by pushing people and industries to states with less clement climates.
    Governor Newsom, however, still believes that failures — over which he presided — can in fact be sold to Californians forever. Failure in his state can be repackaged as a task force on reparations, or a ban on gas-powered vehicles. Why help the homeless population in San Francisco — 37 percent of whom are African American — and address skyrocketing rent and housing prices, when one can social-engineer utopia with the price of a woke task force, and reparations à la Ibram Kendi? Why help the homeless when one can simply blame Trump? Or, on the issue of the 2020 wildfires, which have now burned “well over 4 million acres,” why revamp forest-management and firefighting services when one can score progressive points by blaming climate change and Trump for the destruction?
    Newsom’s diversion politics cannot hold for much longer. Something must give. People are leaving California in droves. Newsom’s “alliance of the rich and the dispossessed,” as Kotkin sees it, “may not prove sustainable.” But for the time being, Newsom will showcase his art of the diversion, as the AB 3121 Task Force is set to disband in July 2023. 2023, then, might be the perfect year for Newsom to launch his bid for president, should Trump win in November. While his “nation state” crumbles, Newsom would gladly pack his bags and flee for the White House. There, he would surely preside over another yet progressive disaster, marred by diversion and delusion.“
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/gavin-newsoms-art-of-the-diversion/#slide-1

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The law will neuter the socialist dem agendas at the end of the day but right now too!
    South Carolina is the latest in a string of states to side with President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign in upholding voting laws ranging from ballot harvesting regulations to Election Day deadlines.
    On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with state Republicans in reinstating a South Carolina voting requirement that absentee ballots have a witness’s signature, a mandate federal courts had deemed an unnecessary imposition because of coronavirus.
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/10/05/team-trump-turns-tide-in-voting-law-legal-battles/
    😉

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “I guess it’s okay to spread conspiracy theories and hysterical quotes so long as you work at Vanity Fair and not InfoWars, and include the appropriate amount of wink-wink, nudge-nudge hedging in your copy.
    Juliette Kayyem didn’t even do that. She is a national security analyst for — what else — CNN. Here she is on Twitter making yet another ridiculous, completely unsubstantiated Russian collusion claim. Again, note the retweet numbers…..”
    ———-
    ‘Corporate Media Is Vomiting Trump Coronavirus Reporting All Over The Bed’
    The latest news cycle over President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis illustrates yet again how destructive the U.S. corporate media are to national unity and a clear understanding of reality
    https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/05/corporate-media-is-vomiting-trump-coronavirus-reporting-all-over-the-bed/

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    A peek into today’s institutions of higher learning.
    ‘Radicalized Antiracism on Campus—as Seen from the Computer Lab’
    https://quillette.com/2020/09/29/radicalized-antiracism-on-campus-as-seen-from-the-computer-lab/

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    OH my –
    Joe Biden to Girls: I Want to See Them Dance ‘When They’re 4 Years Older’
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/05/joe-biden-girls-see-dance-four-yrs-older
    😉

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  10. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    BT @ 10:18PM-
    Great link to Stuart Reges’s article. He gives actual data proving his point. I suspect he will be forced to resign his position (30 years teaching Comp Sci classes) soon.
    He presents his data in a table based on the following:
    “Because the pandemic forced us to switch to online teaching in the spring quarter, I was able TO TRACK HOW MUCH TIME my students spent watching each of the lectures. Lecture-watching was highly correlated with course performance, as the table below attests.”
    Grades were monotonically decreasing along with the % time watching his lectures. Is technology racist or what!?

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  11. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Stuart Reges
    That got me to checking out the UW student newspaper, which is filled with about what you’d expect. It’s fun to read the crazy though, it’s a shame that our local Blue Mob steers clear from the topic but basing your online screeds on being exclusively anti-Trump is ever so much simpler.
    In any case, I was struck by a phrase. In: http://www.dailyuw.com/opinion/article_860ccf00-013c-11eb-b6c7-7711833b717b.html , which has no surprises, it finishes with this:
    “In the efforts to diversify the UW Greek Community, only time will tell how much change will genuinely occur. Reforms are important and could possibly enact changes, but it’s also very possible that things may just cycle back to the system staying the same — a return to the status quo — and abolition may be necessary.”
    ‘abolition may be necessary’.
    That’s really the heart of the thing. ‘Abolition’ means different things to these folks and none of them are pretty.

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  12. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    EF: “Is technology racist or what!?”
    I’ll say.
    Just imagine all the woke folks at Google/Facebook/Twitter madly turning knobs to get the desired result.
    Sometimes I feel left out. Being in the middle of something like ‘decolonizing mathematics’ and running a gigantic jape on society like that has to be an invigorating situation. There’s some money to be made which can be well-used to outfit your cabin in Wyoming while the world goes crazy. I’d say that Elon Musk has it right in his efforts to get off-planet, but who’s to say if the mind-virus follows.

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  13. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Here we go:
    Trump campaign discussing plans to appoint its own state electors — no matter the results: report
    Trump campaign officials and legal advisers are reportedly preparing to appoint their own state electors as a way to secure victory in a contested election, a move that would precipitate an unprecedented constitutional crisis.
    The country will in all likelihood not know the outcome of the presidential election on Election Day. It is likely, given a raft of threatening public statements from President Trump, that he will reject unfavorable results.
    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/trump-campaign-discussing-plans-to-appoint-its-own-state-electors-no-matter-the-results-report/

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  14. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Good Morning RR’s
    Here’s a breakfast treat for ya
    A CNN poll published Tuesday reports that a majority of likely voters surveyed, 57 percent, prefer Biden, while 41 percent favor Trump. The previous version of the same poll, conducted in late August and early September, did not survey likely voters but showed Biden with an 8-point lead among registered voters, 51-43 percent.
    The latest CNN poll was conducted last Thursday through Sunday, after the first presidential debate last Tuesday night and mostly after Trump’s public announcement last Friday that he had tested positive for Covid-19. He was discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and returned to the White House on Monday evening.
    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/06/poll-biden-national-lead-election-day-426688

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  15. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    First!
    Here we go.
    “Three hours from San Francisco, cultural divisions are on stark display in this idyllic town, cropping up online, spilling into the streets and becoming part of residents’ daily lives”
    https://www.sfchronicle.com/culture/article/In-Nevada-City-politics-and-protests-stoke-a-15609974.php
    Check the byline. Absolutely no surprise there.

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  16. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: CNN polls.
    “Hillary Clinton has a 12-point lead over Donald Trump and has reached 50% support nationally among likely voters, a new ABC News tracking poll shows.”
    https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/23/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-presidential-polls/index.html
    What does it all mean? Who knows?

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  17. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Exclusive scoop.
    Donald Trump seen leaving Walter Reed Hospital.
    https://postimg.cc/SYkzPg4T

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    TOM BEVAN: CNN WINS!
    Doing the job that all but a few Americans refuse to do, RealClearPolitics co-founder and president Tom Bevan is keeping up with the news as transformed and transmitted by CNN. Tom is, shall we say, a knowledgeable and sophisticated consumer of media. This morning he declares CNN the winner in a stiff competition for media bias. I think Tom is unfairly slighting CNN’s many competitors among the Democratic Party’s media adjunct, but I respect his judgment.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/tom-bevan-cnn-wins.php

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 06 October 2020 at 07:47 AM
    It astounds me that a geriatric hippy like you is still this obsessed with politics. At least when you are molesting your guitar you get a smidgen of exercise…..but the constant obsession with democrat politics and questionable polls is pathological.
    #sadoldman

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Against Fear’
    President Trump’s handling of his coronavirus diagnosis models positive masculinity—rational and unbowed.
    Heather Mac Donald
    October 5, 2020
    “The long-known facts about the distribution of mortality risk from the coronavirus—relatively high at the upper age and illness range, negligible in the young—have made no difference to the tyranny of fear. On average, the coronavirus is, according to new WHO data, not more deadly than the flu, yet the conflation of cases with deaths is now absolute. When California State University, Long Beach, a campus of 37,000 students, shuts down because five students tested positive for the virus, we are in the realm of hysteria. When the New York Times portrays a 101-year-old military veteran as a coronavirus fatality, as opposed to someone who died of old age; when the Milwaukee coroner does the same for the death of an 89-year-old male with dementia, hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, and chronic renal failure, you know that the media and public-health establishments are looking for any excuse to inflate the death numbers”
    Last paragraph:
    “Last week, Trump gave a debate performance embodying what the Left likes to call toxic masculinity. Today, anticipating his departure from the hospital, Trump tweeted: “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life.” The mainstream media blew its top, calling the tweet “dangerous,” “gross,” and “almost impossible to believe.” Let them fume. Trump is now modelling masculine leadership at its best: upbeat, rational, and unbowed.”
    https://www.city-journal.org/trump-coronavirus-diagnosis-models-positive-masculinity

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  21. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 06 October 2020 at 08:08 AM
    Exclusive scoop.
    Donald Trump seen leaving Walter Reed Hospital.
    👍⚠️

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Yeah Trump is a real stud Bill. Just ask the 20 or so close associates and staff members who now have covid because they believed in him. As you quote he’s ” now modelling masculine leadership at its best: upbeat, rational, and unbowed.”

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  23. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    NYT fake news: Here’s just one list of “controversies” (aka fake news) involving NYT reporting for those liberals who believe the newspaper is the journalism’s paragon of truth, goodness, and light.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involving_The_New_York_Times

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  24. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Just off the press!
    Trump up by 4.1 in battleground averages. Highest lead in two months. Remember he has to win all the battleground states plus a little to win the election. Grim especially combined with his wacko last couple days which have yet to calculate in the polls.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/trump-vs-biden-top-battleground-states/

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  25. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 06 October 2020 at 08:48 AM
    Not wallowing in fear like that certain someone…….
    Really Punch…..you need to find something else to do with your time!

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  26. fish Avatar
    fish

    Trump up by 4.1 in battleground averages. Highest lead in two months. Remember he has to win all the battleground states plus a little to win the election. Grim especially combined with his wacko last couple days which have yet to calculate in the polls.
    Bill……you want to correct Punch over his switching of Trump for Biden a third time or should I?
    Really….he gets just so excited over his polling.

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  27. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George re NYT
    this is from the past 100 years or so. Many involve simple corrections and clarifications. Thst’s typical for all media. What print journalism source do you recommend for readers?

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  28. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I guess I’m politically dyslexic fish. What a hoot. Doesn’t change the fact that “Biden up by 4.1 in battleground averages.”

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 06 October 2020 at 09:24 AM
    And whatever will you do with yourself when Biden occupies (however briefly) the White House. I assume that you’ll go completely silent on deficit spending and debt even though he has promised to deficit spend trillions on the Green New Deal. Biden has throughout his entire career been in the pocket of the banks so I guess you’ll have to bite your lip over that too. Make sure you report all that change you collect in your guitar case….taxes are going up…..of course maybe people will stop throwing any to you when the economy grinds to a halt! It’ll really be interesting if Biden gets us involved in another military action……I’ll be watching to see how you spin “he’s a danger to the country and the planet” when old senile Joe is “in charge”!

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  30. fish Avatar
    fish

    Oh yeah Punch…almost forgot.…will your obsession with “pussy grabbing” wane when Grandpa Badfinger… sorry….President Badfinger is the one doing the grabbing or will the most moral man in Nevada City just stare at his feet and check his watch multiple times prior to disappearing?

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  31. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Silent on deficit spending fish? Where have you and all the Tea Party types been while Trump has been racking up a likely 7 Trillion deficit in only 4 years?
    By the way you seem to have conceded the election to Biden when you write things like this:
    “And whatever will you do with yourself when Biden occupies (however briefly) the White House.”

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 06 October 2020 at 09:50 AM
    Silent on deficit spending fish? Where have you and all the Tea Party types been while Trump has been racking up a likely 7 Trillion deficit in only 4 years?
    By the way you seem to have conceded the election to Biden when you write things like this:
    I think that I’ve mentioned on a couple of earlier occasions that I think that the full weight of the propaganda arm of the DNC (the MSM), 17 intelligence agencies, COVID lockdown, and the St George of Floyd riots were probably enough to tip the thing to Biden. Its also why I never was terribly interested in your breathless daily delivery of poll numbers except to note that the behavior made you look even more ridiculous than usual.
    Where have you and all the Tea Party types been while Trump has been racking up a likely 7 Trillion deficit in only 4 years?
    Tea Party was ridiculed out of existence by you and your brethren Punch! Remember?
    And there was no distress from you when Obama was spending his 8 trillion to save the banks but when it was Trump then you suddenly became a deficit hawk. From your tone I can guess that once Biden is in office it won’t bother you anymore. So you got that going for you….which is nice!
    Plus if he had spent a penny less you would have just whined more about how “Trump just doesn’t care….”
    See Punch….we both get something from a Biden administration! You get an old mans peace of mind! My wife and I remain reliably employed as we both work in industries dealing with managing business/government regulations!
    Bonus for me….I also get to see you confirmed as a complete hypocrite regarding government spending!
    Good when we can find common ground eh Punch?

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    President Biden will try to enact the day of birth execution ritual. Baby is born, put on the steel rolling medical table, then a discussion is made with the mother if see wants to keep the human or toss it in the medical waste bin. That’s what the Left calls “no restrictions”. Or, if that seems to graphic and hate mongering or makes one uncomfortable and scared, just call it a woman’s right to choose up to the day of abortion, very late term style.
    Punchy, like most Americans, are ok with 13 weeks, first trimester. Some are ok with 2nd trimester. Biden, Harris, Bernie, Hillary, Nancy, Chuckie the Clown, Warren de Blasio, and 99% of the far left extremists that run he Democrat/Media Party are all open to “no restrictions, up to the moment of birth.”
    Fortunately, the Dem position is out of the mainstream, off kilter what the majority of the American populace think and believe. 13 weeks ok for abortion, infanticide not ok. Ironically, the biggest believer in infanticide since Margaret Sanger is that black face baby doctor turned politician, good old Governor Ralph Northam of the Commonwealth of Virginnie. Odd, he tested positive for C-19 too.
    With President Biden (and AOC, Dirty Cop Harris, and wackos running the show), Punchy will have to support day of birth abortions and ‘evolve’ his current beliefs, roflmao. It’s for the children. Listen to the children. David Hogg gave a very moving speech. You should listen to him.

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ANOTHER GREAT MOMENT IN JOURNALISM
    The media freakout over President Trump’s 1) contracting COVID, 2) quickly recovering, apparently, from COVID, 3) returning to the White House, and 4) urging Americans not to allow our lives to be devastated by the virus, has likely been unprecedented in its absurdity. There is no point in dissecting all or any large number of the ridiculous press accounts (although you should check out CNN’s prize-winning entry), but I will offer, without comment, this contribution to the dumbing-down of America by a local news outlet
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/another-great-moment-in-journalism.php

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  35. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Did Emery complain when so many got fucked by his boy “O” saving GM? “O” screwed over bond holders and handed GM to the UAW union Voided stocks and printed new ones.
    All to pander to Proggy unions.
    Remember that Emery? Where was your complaint then?
    You need to get the facts right. Your boy “O” spent more than ALL Presidents combined.
    Fast forward to today.. Been paying attention to the spending spree your Queen of the DAMNED has been trying to rack up?
    Go to blame that on Trump too? Trilions Emery,, Trillions.
    Now why don’t you act like a “news man” you claim to be, and take a good look at what that bitch is trying to piss away money on.

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  36. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Some news for Emery.
    Portland OR. “300 businesses permanently CLOSED”(and counting)
    You can thank those “peaceful” riots and looting.

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    CNN Reporter Complains About Trump Taking Mask Off; Trump Campaign Shows Her Taking Her Mask Off Inside WH
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-reporter-complains-about-trump-taking-mask-off-trump-campaign-shows-her-taking-her-mask-off-inside-wh
    ———
    CNN should not have gone after FOX. FOX was already turning lefty anyway. But, noooo.
    ‘CNN’s Chris Cuomo slammed for coronavirus hypocrisy after ‘off-the-wall rant’ attacking Trump’
    ‘This was from the same guy who was caught breaking his own quarantine while he was still contagious,’ critic says
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-chris-cuomo-coronavirus-trump
    ————.
    -CNN Melts Down Over Maskless Trump: WH is ‘Chernobyl;’ Trump ‘Doesn’t Care’ About Saving Lives!
    -CNN’s Berman: ‘Don’t Even Put It [Trump not wearing mask] on the Screen! That’s Going to KILL People!’
    -CNN Compares Trump Release from Hospital to ‘Dear Leader’ Autocrats
    https://www.newsbusters.org/
    —————————
    The trouble with the NYT is they purposely hit the Holocaust during WW2 with all their might, save a random and infrequent two paragraph blurb at the bottom of page 23 or 36. They haven’t changed a lick. Strike that. They got worse.

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  38. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Here Emery,, some law news from LIB town.
    https://www.opb.org/article/2020/10/05/portland-pulls-officers-from-federal-deputations-but-legal-questions-swirl/
    One of the city’s gripes.
    “City and state law enforcement officials said the deputations will allow federal prosecutors to charge anyone who attacks an officer with assaulting a federal officer — a charge that brings a harsher penalty than the state equivalent.”
    Well now.. I guess assaulting police is acceptable.
    Nope We ain’t charging criminals.
    “Portland police officers have made relatively few arrests for assaulting an officer during more than four months of protests for racial justice in the city. But they’ve made scores of arrests for interfering with a peace officer, a low-level misdemeanor that police have applied loosely during demonstrations, and a charge Schmidt has said he likely wouldn’t pursue.”
    So Emery and LIBS in hiding, It’s your feral LIBshits turning what used to be beautiful cities into 3RD world shitholes.
    Congratulations.

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  39. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    LOL!! Eating guidelines from GOV. Nanna..
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-govs-diners-masks
    ““Going out to eat with members of your household this weekend?” an Oct. 3 tweet from the governor’s office says. “Don’t forget to keep your mask on in between bites.”

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  40. D Avatar
    D

    Tough talkers Trump and Gov. Christie run to hospital in fear for their lives at a positive Covid test – then go all John Wayne machismo so as not to be owned by the LGBTQ.

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Intel Sources: CIA Director Gina Haspel Banking On Trump Loss To Keep Russiagate Documents Hidden’
    Haspel is hoping Trump loses his re-election bid so she can run out the clock on Russiagate document declassifications, multiple intelligence community officials told The Federalist
    https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/05/intel-sources-cia-director-gina-haspel-banking-on-trump-loss-to-keep-russiagate-documents-hidden/
    ———————————-
    Now, a review of the above article:
    IS THE CIA STILL COVERING UP?
    “As Scott has written repeatedly, it seems likely that we will never get entirely to the bottom of America’s worst scandal. If Trump loses, as now appears quite possible, investigations will be shut down permanently, and whatever is hidden will remain hidden. Still, I think the outlines are very clear, and the key facts are not in doubt. History will not be kind to either the Democratic Party or the federal bureaucracy. Assuming there is any difference.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/is-the-cia-still-covering-up.php
    Someone(s) do not want to be humiliated. Embarrassed is too gentle of a word.

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘State Dept. officials told they broke law by monitoring Americans during Ukraine scandal’
    Revelation undercuts impeachment testimony; conservative watchdog claims coverup
    “The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch first raised concerns earlier this year that the U.S. embassy in Kiev run by then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch had created an “enemies list” by ordering the monitoring of social media accounts of prominent Americans last year when the Ukraine scandal about Joe and Hunter Biden first surfaced.
    After a protracted legal fight, the State Department released memos to the group last month confirming the embassy did in fact monitor the accounts of 13 Americans, including Fox News personalities Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Lou Dobbs, the president’s son Don Jr., his lawyer Rudy Giuliani as well as this reporter, whose articles in The Hill first shined a light on the Bidens’ possible conflict of interests in Ukraine.”
    https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/state-dept-officials-told-they-broke-law-monitoring
    Darn those Russian bots. You gotta pry those docs out of their cold cold hands. They act like they own the store.
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    ‘Deliberate coverup.’ Nunes says CIA withheld information from Russia collusion probe
    Nunes says that the intelligence community is overrun by Obama/Clinton loyalists who withheld the truth from Congress
    https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/devin-nunes-says-cia-withheld-information-clinton
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    McCabe drops from testifying at Russia hearing Tuesday, citing coronavirus outbreak
    McCabe says it would be unfair to testify remotely and dangerous to testify in person after three senators tested positive for COVID-19
    https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/mccabe-drops-testifying-russia-hearing-tuesday-citing
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    Joe Biden defense of his son’s overseas business deals conflicts with public evidence
    Documents tie Hunter Biden to Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina and a $3.5 million payment despite Joe Biden’s denial.
    https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/joe-biden-defense-his-sons-overseas-business-deals
    Gotta go with the ones with the proven track record of truth.

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    Walt

    Awwwww D- mad because Trump went to the hospital.
    And the real pisser, out in 48 hours.
    Trump is out being a President, while your geezer Biden had been hiding in a basement all tis time…
    What a joke! Biden buys a train for just him! Now there was a waste of money. Funny,, only DOZENS show up… LOL!

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  44. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well lookie there they knew the whole time –
    EXCLUSIVE: Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Tuesday declassified documents that revealed former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Obama on Hillary Clinton’s purported “plan” to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as “a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server” ahead of the 2016 presidential election, Fox News has learned.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dni-brennan-notes-cia-memo-clinton
    😉

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 12:05 pm
    Looks like Ozzie Mmm still hasn’t gotten over his Daddy issues. Carries it everywhere he/she goes.

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  46. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: DonB@12:12PM
    I’d read that was going to happen but hadn’t seen the actual text.
    From John Brennan’s personal notes:
    “We’re getting additional insight into Russian activities from [REDACTED],” Brennan notes read. “CITE [summarizing] alleged approved by Hillary Clinton a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service,”
    lol. It’s an expected outcome of course.
    Question: How do you found and maintain a useful intelligence agency that doesn’t, in time, consume the country it is supposed to ‘protect’. Bush Sr. was the US version of Andropov. This mechanism can’t depend on ‘good’ people since there’s no guarantee of their existence.
    Stalin managed by ginning up a conspiracy and killing/imprisoning the top brass every decade or so, and Khrushchev really cleaned house after the Man of Steel keeled over. Darned harsh thing to do though.

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    scenes

    re: moi@12:41
    From BillT’s link:
    “Nunes added he believes an “absolute clean up” of the spy agencies is the only way to save U.S. intelligence from going the way of “third world countries.”
    “All these seniors officials have to be let go,” the congressman said.”
    Absodamnlutely. I wonder sometimes what the result would be if several of the three letter agencies were simply shut down. Would there be any real difference in the long run? Perhaps setup a new sort of NSA that is concerned with privacy rather than violating it.

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  48. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Do tell?
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/06/over-2000-la-county-voters-received-faulty-ballots-no-way-to-vote-president/
    😉

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  49. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Emery, and D- should have plenty to say about all their Proggys LYING to Congress. From “O” on down committed criminal acts against the people. The only thing the Proggys are sorry about is getting caught.
    See Emery? All those “anonymous sources” you relied on to
    attack Trump were LIARS, or nonexistent.
    Three years of lies and deceit from the House and your Queen of the DAMNED.
    Yes LIBrats stay good and quiet.

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  50. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    And another fine example of Lefty intolerance.
    Be Proud Proggys, You own it.
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/10/06/california-farmers-trump-devin-nunes-battle-vandals-keep-signs-up-busy-intersection/
    “They erected the signage around Labor Day, but quickly discovered that some people in America today don’t believe in free speech unless you agree with their radical left policies.”
    Dolieslager said he and his neighbors and employees spent the next month battling vandals who regularly spray painted or damaged the signs and eventually stole the Trump banner.
    ““The radical left is lashing out violently throughout the country, attacking cops and even everyday citizens,” Nunes said. “Simply expressing your political views, if they’re contrary to those of the left, is now an act of bravery and defiance.””

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