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[My internet has been mostly off all week long, and ATT doesn't know where the fault is.  But they've finally isolated it to somewhere up here on Hind Tit Rd.  Patience please.  gjr]

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258 responses to “Sandbox – 11dec20”

  1. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Squirrel chew…

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  2. Walt Avatar

    D- with wire cutters?

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “My internet has been mostly off all week long, and ATT doesn’t know where the fault is. But they’ve finally isolated it to somewhere up here on Hind Tit Rd. Patience please. gjr]”
    They are trying to silence you, Good Doc. It’s been the local lefties’s wet dream for years. 😉
    ———————————
    As if sorting through the post election legal briefs (and various opinions and yet to be tried legal theories) isn’t enough to consume one’s time and energy, now we have to sort fact and fiction concerning the Hunter Sleaze. I ‘ll let ‘by the book’ Andrew McCarthy do the heaving lifting for me.
    ‘Hunter Biden Investigation: Overt and Primed for a Special Counsel’
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/12/hunter-biden-investigation-overt-and-primed-for-a-special-counsel/
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    Barr’s Critics Should Reconsider
    “…..Does any of that fit a man who knew that his department was in the early stages of a criminal investigation of the son of the Democratic nominee, and kept it out of the newspapers?”…
    “Why did Barr’s critics misjudge him so badly? Because despite their proclamations of open-mindedness, they have a very limited worldview. Despite their confidence in their ability to see a complicated world of nuance and shades of gray, they’re actually pretty Manichaean in their worldview — you’re either a progressive Democratic good guy or you’re aligned with one of history’s greatest monsters. No one is allowed to be merely mistaken or wrong; all of the opposition’s arguments must be made in bad faith and they must be driven by malevolent motives.
    Most Democrats and progressive commentators couldn’t accept that Barr could have good-faith disagreements with them on matters of law. Also, “Barr Is Mistaken, But It Is a Good-Faith Mistake” makes for a less dramatic headline than “Bill Barr is setting the stage to interfere in the election” or “Bill Barr, Trump henchman, is sending armed agents to ballot-counting locations.””
    https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/barrs-critics-should-reconsider/
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  4. Walt Avatar

    Now lets see if Joementia gets grilled about his Son’s dirty dealings as if he were Trump.
    You know damned well if it was one of the Trump kids, the LIB news would be on them like a pack of wolfs.

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish

    Glorious…..simply glorious!

    IS THIS WHY THE MEDIA IS SUDDENLY REPORTING ON HUNTER BIDEN’S CORRUPTION?

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why-media-suddenly-reporting-hunter-bidens-corruption

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  6. Walt Avatar

    AAAwwwww. The Queen of the DEMNED suffers another LOSS.
    In more ways than one.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/van-duynes-texas-24th-district-cast-pelosis-most-bitter-loss-republicans

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Morning Walt. China, China, and mayors and others getting oral sex in their cars ftom fine Chinese spies gobbling the goop. Love at first sight.
    US politicans now ownthe new casting couch for Chinese spies, especialkt them lady spies.. Odd how the Commie Bastards pick Democrats on the intelligence committees. Opps, Di-Fi was on the judicary committee,. Call it a one-off.
    A few minutes of Dan on what was said on Fox last night. I warned the Dems about do they really want to open up the Urkaine thang? Do they really know that when they opened up that can of worms used for impeachment(and rhe Russian Hoax) that all roads lead to the Chi-Coms?
    Anyway Brother Walt, a few minutes of Dan asking the obvious. The covert has now moved into the overt.
    https://www.facebook.com/101043269988443/posts/3809674775791922/

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  8. D Avatar

    George, have you seen this? It might be worth looking into.
    https://www.starlink.com/

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  9. D Avatar

    How about that AG Ken Paxton. Not very good optics for an AG to be under indictment for FRAUD!
    https://www.texastribune.org/2019/06/19/ken-paxton-criminal-case-timeline-texas-attorney-general-fraud/

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  10. Walt Avatar

    AAAhhhhh. Douchey TROLLING the less traveled back roads of the net looking for a cheap,,, uh,,, “story”.
    Dragging a dollar bill through trailer park again D-?

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  11. Walt Avatar

    China PISSED! Chow Mein scattered from floor to ceiling.
    The DIMS were supposed to keep the cat(dinner) in the bag!
    ” As if 2020 weren’t already chaotic enough, it’s coming to a close with revelations of a federal tax investigation into President-elect Joe Biden’s son and severed ties between a House Intelligence Committee and a Chinese spy.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/china-hunter-biden-eric-swalwell-beirelationship-beijing
    Access to W.H. all “F”ed up now. Xi no happy one bit!
    OK Proglodites,, just why in hell are “no background check” foreign nationals (especially from CHINA) allowed to “intern”
    on Capital Hill? Talk about cheap (free) labor. Your LIBS love it.( and the nob slobb’n can’t be bad either)

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  12. D Avatar

    WalDoh! showing us what abject hypocrisy looks like.
    Hunter Biden again? A private citizen’s taxes being looked into? But Fraudster Texas AG Ken Paxton being under indictment is not newsworthy?
    How about a President that you are a lemming for making hush money payments and under investigation for tax evasion and multiple other crimes?
    Nothing to see there?

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Worth repeating. Grand Juries do not investivate civil matters. Impaneled grand juries only investigate criminal cases, as the TWO grand jury criminal investigations going on right now into the son who did not fall far from the apple tree, aka, the Big Guy
    Is it just me or does anyone else believe the Dems will not be demanding the release of grand jury testimony… in Hunter’s case(s).
    FYI, in the on going effort by Dems on the impeachment and Russian Hoax committees to get some court to order the release of Grand Jury testimony, witnesses, and all records has met another setback and big roadblock. Court says ex-nay to that idea. And Barr ain’t going to release anyone’s GJ testimpny either, be they good, bad, or ugly. Be they Left or Right, the POTOS or Hunter Biden. Rule of law, not men

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    PS; the FBI has confirmed the e-mails found on Hunter’s laptop are authetic. No futher details given, no anonymous sources named, and no leaks. Just an FBI short statement. How refreshing. How unusual in the Trump years. How unDemocrat Party way of doing things.
    PSPS. Pilgram D, you are free to discuss the Lt Gov of Texas to your heart’s desire here. And others are free to discuss Hunter Biden and Joe Bidin’s brother latest grand jury investigation to our heart’s desire.
    I hear you frustration turn into exasperment. I feel your pain. For a few years straight, everytime we would discuss any Obama policy or his AG becoming the first Attorney General to be held in contempt of Congress in our nation’s history (no penalty), Punchy would race in with his hair on fire breathlessly stating, “Bush did it too!”
    Yep, my frustration turned into exasperation for those years. BDS proceed TDS. Now, I mostly just tune it our.
    Its only politics and politics has pushed its way into areas of our lives where it does not belong. The Great Divide.
    Truly, D, I feel your pain.

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  15. Walt Avatar

    News FLASH!!! Illegitimate Prez. Elect Biden, runs off stage when asked about Hunter. ” I’m proud of my son”…

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  16. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/us/johns-hopkins-university-founder-slaves-trnd/index.html
    Looks to me like Johns Hopkins is going to get canceled.😂😂😂

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  17. George Rebane Avatar

    Yep, we’re all waiting for reliable broadband. Starlink is a definite possibility – anything but ATT.

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  18. Walt Avatar

    Voting machines that connected to the net were such a FINE idea.

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  19. Walt Avatar

    Herr Gavin is beginning to sweat… GREAT!!!!!
    https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/11/gavin-newsom-aides-worry-forced-special-election-possibility-recall-reaches-milestone/
    ““Today our efforts to Recall California Governor Gavin Newsom have entered a dramatic new phase, and we cannot be prouder of everyone who is working tirelessly to remove America’s worst governor from office,” the effort’s lead proponent Orrin Heatlie, said in a statement.
    “The campaign is full speed ahead,” said senior adviser Randy Economy.
    The campaign has gained considerable momentum over the course of the last few months, Netter previously told the DCNF. He credited Newsom with being the best representative for the campaign in light of recent scandals.”

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  20. Walt Avatar

    And a sense of humor too..
    12:16 p.m. — A woman dialed 911 accidentally. She was told to provide her address or law enforcement would perform a welfare check. She said, “I’m not on welfare and never have been,” before hanging up.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt, I know many woman who are tough birds like the one in your link. “If you take the white man’s money, you sell them your soul,” comes from an old tough woman on the rez, Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma. She should know.
    Speaking of a sense of humor…
    LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE
    Ted Cruz gets the last word on the Eric Swalwell fiasco: More than once, I’ve said “screw the Chinese communists.” Little did I know how closely Swalwell was listening. — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 10, 2020
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/12/laughter-is-the-best-medicine.php

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  22. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    George re ATT
    That’s what I have and it’s fairly reliable but sometimes so slow it’s almost useless. Let me know what you find for an alternative

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  23. Walt Avatar

    Dougy is wizzing all over himself on the Daily caller .
    His latest post “The kraken has landed.”

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  24. D Avatar

    WalDoH! what name was I using, Lavender again?

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  25. D Avatar

    Poor Sidney Powell, eh WalDoH!? She pulled that Kraken out of her poop chute! So it looked and smelled like what her and Guiliani’s case was.

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  26. D Avatar

    German magazine Der Spiegel names Trump “Loser of the Year”

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  27. George Rebane Avatar

    Internet again on/off.

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  28. George Rebane Avatar

    Internet again on/off.

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  29. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    GR
    Sorry to hear of your internet woes.
    I’ve had ATT ADSL (6MBPS, about 5.2M down, 0.8M up) for maybe fifteen years… originally through NCCN/Spiral, now Om. Rarely any problem, but a couple of times a squirrel chewed into the lines.
    Starlink sounds interesting. Not sure I’d want to be an early adopter.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I heard it a thousand times. Like John Brennan, they are all long time pubic servants who have dedicated their lives in service to our country and you have the audacity to question them! Shame on you!
    Ok, fine.
    ‘Key impeachment witness gave 2017 corruption warning about Hunter Biden-tied Ukraine firm’
    “Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., who led Republican efforts to defend the president during impeachment proceedings, said the evidence that has emerged since the hearings raise questions about Yovanovitch’s testimony.
    “If prosecutors indicted Roger Stone for lying to Congress, they should be taking a long, hard look at Yovanovitch’s testimony,” he said.”
    https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/key-impeachment-witness-gave-warning-2017-hunter-biden

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    TODAY’S CALIFORNIA ENERGY EMBARRASSMENT
    “Yesterday we noted the embarrassment announced in understated fashion by the U.S. Department of Energy that California imported 25 percent of its electricity in 2019. It seems almost as if someone at the very excellent Energy Information Administration has a thing about California’s silliness, because today’s EIA “Today in Energy” brief has another understated but devastating smackdown for California’s energy pretensions.
    In one sentence, today’s brief essentially says, “Without lots of natural gas-fired power, California is screwed.” Of course that’s not the actual language—these are government analysts were talking about. But it’s not hard to read between the lines. Let’s start with the chart:”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/12/todays-california-energy-embarrassment.php
    Goodie. I have grown fond of exit questions.
    “Question: What will happen to natural gas “peaking” demand after California closes its last nuclear power plant in a couple years, and supposedly replaces it with wind and solar power? Good times for natural gas I suspect. And the promises of carbon-free electricity by 2035 or 2050 will go poof faster than an Eric Swalwell emission on MSNBC.”

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Moving on to Georgia on my mind.
    BIDEN: LIE ABOUT DEFUNDING UNTIL AFTER JANUARY 5!
    Someone leaked a zoom call that Joe Biden had with “civil rights leaders”–i.e., grifters like Al Sharpton–on Tuesday. It is interesting in several respects. Here, Biden urges his audience to lie low in talking about the police until the Georgia Senate elections have been decided on January 5, since “That’s how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that we’re talking about defunding the police.” Yes, and it worked, because numerous Democratic Party leaders have said that when they say “Defund the police,” they mean “Defund the police.”……..
    ….l But don’t worry, Biden says–once the Georgia elections are over, we can come out of the closet:
    “But I guarantee you, there will be a full-blown commission. I guarantee you it’s a major, major, major element.“-Joe Biden
    Just don’t talk about it until January 6
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/12/biden-lie-about-defunding-until-after-january-5.php

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  33. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I’m sure not everyone has run across the latest person of our history to be at risk for cancellation… Johns Hopkins has been discovered to have been a slaver.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins#Abolitionism
    It’s only a matter of time before degrees conferred by JHU are looked at askance.

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  34. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Racist school. Lol

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  35. D Avatar

    No, Mr. President, you can’t fire Justice Gorsuch, Justice Kavanagh or Justice Barrett.

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  36. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 12 December 2020 at 12:35 AM
    “But I guarantee you, there will be a full-blown commission. I guarantee you it’s a major, major, major element.“-Joe Biden

    It’s OK Bill….forming a commission is pretty much a guarantee that the matter is “slow walked” until it quietly dies! Joe knows his “supporters”. Rest assured that both he and the Democrat party apparatchiks want them adequately policed.

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  37. Walt Avatar

    Joe has a moment of rational thinking. “No, I can’t ban guns by executive order”. I’m sure his keepers helped him with that.

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  38. Walt Avatar

    Facts of the Hunter and “big guy” start flowing out.
    All hand on deck cheating bastards,, it’s damage control time.
    https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/11/hunter-joe-biden-cefc-office-mates/
    “Hunter Biden sent an email to the manager of his Washington, D.C. office building in September 2017 asking her to make keys for his “office mates” Joe Biden and Gongwen Dong, who he said was the “emissary” for the chairman of the Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC.
    Hunter Biden’s dealings with CEFC in 2017 were at the center of Tony Bobulinski’s October allegation that Joe Biden was “plainly familiar” with his family’s Chinese business dealings.
    Multiple news outlets have reported this week that a federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s “tax affairs” is focused on his foreign business activities, including with CEFC.”

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  39. Walt Avatar

    And ANOTHER assumes room temp.
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-plans-execute-second-federal-inmate-many-days-n1250915
    This was the “fine upstanding citizen” Lefties want to keep living.
    “A Louisiana man on death row for more than 15 years for the abuse and murder of his young daughter was executed Friday evening, the second death penalty case in as many days to be carried out by the federal government.
    Alfred Bourgeois, 56, was executed by lethal injection. He was pronounced at 8:21 p.m., according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
    Bourgeois, a long-haul trucker, was convicted of torturing his 2-year-old daughter physically, sexually and emotionally, and during a delivery route to the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Texas, beating her to death after she tipped over her potty training seat, according to the Department of Justice.”
    Thank You President Trump for sending this POS to the 8TH level of Hell where he belongs.

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  40. D Avatar

    Gotta love how WalDoH!® leaves out Jill Biden and Hunter’s uncle Jim.

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Rather than bury this in ‘In the Wake of the Lying Leftwing Lamestream, Nov 25,’ I will bury these here: No worries Crime Family Boss Joe about your son, we got you covered. Election is approaching and we got it all under control.
    Ben Weingarten
    ‘Why Does Corporate Media Amplify John Brennan’s Neverending Lies?
    The only inadvertent benefit of Brennan’s airtime is that it exposes how unmoored our ruling class is from the public it is supposed to serve’
    “Former Obama administration Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan lies. He doesn’t just lie in the sense of speaking hyperbolically, spinning events, or painting in shades of gray out of purported fealty to national security considerations. Brennan tells outright falsehoods, in venues from television studios to Congress, on matters of utmost importance.
    One must ask: Why does corporate media continue to give someone who has proved to be a uniquely deceptive character, whose most noteworthy activity since leaving government has been spewing invective against the president on Twitter, valuable airtime?“
    -Brennan Lies About Russiagate
    -The Media Doesn’t Care About the Truth
    -The Media Loves the Ruling Class
    https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/09/why-does-corporate-media-amplify-john-brennans-neverending-lies/
    You know, Brennan called Trump a traitor (again), but even he had to walk it that one back. Exemplary behavior one would expect from a former CIA Chief, eh? And he does not even have access to the new intel info flowing in.
    “You say Hunter, I say Russian Propaganda. You say Hunter Biden’s laptop, I say Pravda! You say let’s look a bit closer, I say bury it.”—John Brennan’s demon within.

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    THE WEEK IN PICTURES: TIMEOUT EDITION
    I was going to call this week’s gallery the “Swallowing Swalwell Edition,” because who doesn’t love a great sex scandal involving foreign spies? But then Time magazine gave its “Person of the Year” designation to two people, Biden and Harris. Is this a subtle acknowledgement that together they might add up to one person, or at least one brain? If so they’re still short at least one frontal cortex, and in any case, given the media coverup of the Hunter Biden scandal, isn’t it time to give the media a Time-out in the corner somewhere.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/12/the-week-in-pictures-timeout-edition.php

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Yo Walt, check this video out. Signs of our time
    Video: TV Journalists Flat-Out Lying About Hunter Biden’s Laptop
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/bill-dagostino/2020/10/26/video-tv-journalists-flat-out-lying-about-hunter-bidens-laptop

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Is Our Second Civil War—also a ‘Forever War’?
    “American politics will be even more poisoned and polarized than it has been for the last four years. Tens of millions of Americans will see themselves as disfranchised and believe that the greatest champion they have had in decades was illegally driven from power by the same deep state-media conspiracy he fought for four years. Reinforcing this perception is the sudden revelation this week that Biden’s son Hunter is indeed the target of a federal tax investigation.
    That is a story the mainstream media not only refused to cover but sought to bury. And it further buttresses a widespread belief that the mainstream media were in the tank for Biden and will use the power they have to fix the outcome of future American elections in favor of the establishment to which they belong. For scores of millions of Americans, the mainstream media have lost any credibility and moral authority they once had.
    The media have spent four years promoting the falsehood that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump conspired to steal the 2016 election, a charge for which the two-year Robert Mueller investigation could not find any substance at all. They championed the cause of impeachment of Trump over a single comment in a phone call to the president of Ukraine. And all the while, they painted Trump as racist, sexist, homophobic, and treasonous, and his followers as torch-carrying deplorables. The hypocritical calls from the mainstream media today for us all to come together, after the atrocities they perpetrated, boggle the mind.
    Amazing. And now that the Democrats appear to have captured the White House, the message is, “Can’t we all just get along?”
    What lies ahead?
    Some see secession. But though secession is unlikely, a secession of the heart has already taken place in America. We are two nations, two peoples seemingly separated indefinitely. Can a nation so divided as ours, racially, ideologically, religiously, still do great things together, as did the America of days gone by, to the amazement of the world? “
    https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/is-our-second-civil-war-also-a–forever-war–/

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  45. Walt Avatar

    Here denying Proggys,, these guys “ain’t leaving” Kalif. either.
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/oracle-moving-from-cali-to-austin-joins-tesla-hewlett-packard
    “The smart money may be sticking together and sticking it to California.
    Oracle is joining Tesla and Hewlett Packard Enterprise in moving some operations to Texas, detailing the move in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission late Friday.”

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  46. Walt Avatar

    A nice part of the Constitution I know you cheating SOBs haven’t read.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness… it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security”
    LIBS, Progressives, or whatever you are calling yourselves this week, have become destructive, and corrupt.
    And no,, your socialist ways are far from it.

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  47. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe has the mark of the chi com beast –
    Hunter Biden requested keys for new ‘office mates’ Joe Biden, Chinese ’emissary’ to CEFC chairman, emails show
    Joe Biden has repeatedly denied involvement with son’s business dealings
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-requested-keys-new-office-mates-joe-biden-chinese-emissary-cefc-chairman
    😉

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  48. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So why do the same people who say follow the science fail to follow the science? –
    https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/12/11/gov-andrew-cuomo-shuts-down-indoor-dining-nyc-less-2-coronavirus-cases-traced-restaurants/
    😉

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  49. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oracle is following Telsa and HP’s lead and moving to Texas.

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