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258 responses to “Sandbox – 11dec20”

  1. Walt Avatar

    Mark Levin really pissed off big Pharma.
    Mark has been building a CBD enterprise in his spare time.
    He just announced his product on live TV,, “It’s cheaper and better” Big Phama sales tanked, and his stuff was sold out.
    Big Pharma said they were going to SUE!!! Levin came back with
    “free samples for anyone”.
    As soon as the Mrs. forwards thet to my email,, I will post it here.
    Damn… How one Right wing guy can affect the sales of big pharma. Now that’s some pretty big influence.

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    More on the corrupt morons.
    “BREAKING: DNI Declassifies Handwritten Notes From John Brennan, 2016 CIA Referral On Clinton Campaign’s Collusion Operation”
    On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified and released to Congress handwritten notes from former CIA Director John Brennan as well as a CIA investigative referral to James Comey and Peter Strzok requesting that they investigate Russian knowledge of Hillary Clinton’s anti-Trump collusion smear operation
    “Ratcliffe also declassified on Tuesday portions of a formal CIA investigative referral sent on Sept. 7, 2016, to fired former FBI Director James Comey and fired former counterintelligence official Peter Strzok asking them to investigate the Clinton campaign’s anti-Trump collusion smear operation in light of Russia’s knowledge of the plan and the likelihood it could be tainted by deliberate Russian disinformation. Rather than act on the CIA investigative referral in the same manner they had launched a full-blown counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign, Strzok and Comey refused to initiate an investigation.”……..
    “During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the matter last week, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) asked Comey point blank whether he remembered receiving a referral from the CIA personally addressed to him. Comey claimed that he had zero recollection of the CIA asking him to investigate whether the Clinton campaign was potentially compromised by Russian disinformation artists.
    “That doesn’t ring any bells with me,” Comey claimed under oath.
    “You don’t recall this inquiry I just read about September 2016?” Graham followed up, referring to the CIA referral sent to Comey on Sept. 7, 2016.
    “No, as I said it doesn’t…It doesn’t sound familiar,” Comey again claimed.
    Following a lengthy investigation of FBI abuses of power under Comey’s watch, the Deparment of Justice (DOJ) Office of Inspector General (OIG) concluded in its summary report that Comey had repeatedly violated FBI policies and cast a cloud over the entire bureau, damaging its reputation and that of its 35,000 employees.
    “Comey set a dangerous example,” the reported stated. Although the OIG referred Comey to DOJ for criminal investigation and potential prosecution, DOJ ultimately refused to hold Comey accountable. Comey’s deputy, Andrew McCabe, was similarly referred for criminal investigation after he repeatedly lied to DOJ officials under oath, but DOJ also refused to prosecute McCabe for lying under oath.
    One of Comey’s attorneys at the FBI and a member of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s legal team recently pleaded guilty to charges of fabricating evidence in an application to spy on former Trump campaign affiliate Carter Page.“
    https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/06/breaking-dni-declassifies-handwritten-notes-from-john-brennan-2016-cia-referral-on-clinton-campaigns-collusion-operation/
    With Biden picking Lying Benghazi Susan Rice, the group is getting back together again.

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Nothing new under the sun.
    ‘Chris Cuomo: Get In The Closet, Serious Christians, Your Kind Aren’t Welcome In Public Life’
    The left believes Christians should be free to worship whatever sky-fairies they want, providing it’s a part-time commitment behind closed doors
    https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/19/chris-cuomo-get-in-the-closet-serious-christians-your-kind-arent-welcome-in-public-life/
    It’s probably just me, but has anyone else notices that (conservative) writers are now speaking out more about their faith and even tossing in a scripture now and then? I noticed this trend lately.. Christians, please go underground and meet in secret. It’s like 1610 never happened.
    It’s my opinion that the separation of church and state (a line not found in the Constitution) has been misread, sometimes misused, and misconstrued. The Constitution is a list of Government prohibitions. The government cannot enter religion or establish a church or religion, nor favor one a religion (church) over another.
    But, religion can enter government, people of faith can express their opinions publicly, and its a one way street. Government is prohibited, religion is not. That’s all fine and dandy….but not the case where the rubber meets the road, especially in the media, schools, and academia. And choosing judges.

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Correction to 5:29 am
    “Christians, please go underground and meet in secret. It’s like 1610 never happened.” should have read, “Christians, please go underground and meet in secret. It’s like 1620 never happened.” 1620, a very important date in this nation’s history.

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  5. D Avatar

    Remember the Alamo! Texas just lost their last stand again! They want to secede. Maybe Biden can sell it back to Mexico.

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  6. D Avatar

    JUST RELEASED: Emergency Directive 21-01 calls on all federal civilian agencies to review their networks for indicators of compromise and disconnect or power down SolarWinds Orion products immediately. Read more: https://t.co/VFZ81W2Ow7
    https://cyber.dhs.gov/ed/21-01/

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  7. D Avatar

    SolarWinds’ comprehensive products and services are used by more than 300,000 customers worldwide, including military, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and education institutions. Our customer list includes:
    More than 425 of the US Fortune 500
    All ten of the top ten US telecommunications companies
    All five branches of the US Military
    The US Pentagon, State Department, NASA, NSA, Postal Service, NOAA, Department of Justice, and the Office of the President of the United States
    All five of the top five US accounting firms
    Hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide
    https://www.solarwinds.com/company/customers

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  8. D Avatar

    Evangelical leader Beth Moore trends on Twitter after calling Trumpism ‘seductive and dangerous’

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  9. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Thanks Doug. You know who else uses solar winds? Dominion voting systems. 😂😂

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  10. D Avatar

    So Bar, does that mean the Rooskies elected Biden?

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  11. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    It doesn’t mean anything. I was just updating your list for accuracy.

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  12. fish Avatar
    fish

    Starting to look like the second coming of Mrs. Wilson is flanking “The Coalition of the Fringes” that got The Senator from MBNA elected……

    Mickey Kaus thinks that Biden is filling the majority of cabinet postions with trusted friends as a 25th Amendment coup prophylactic measure. The non-cabinet, non-25th Amendment “The President is disabled” voting positions can be safely filled with potential backstabbers.

    Brilliant!
    ….and to think they mocked you for your mere doctorate in education.

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  13. Walt Avatar

    Praise the LORD and the NRA.
    HO-HO HOOoooo…🖕Screw you, politically correct Mall Santa.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/nra-delivers-nerf-guns-illinois-child-christmas
    A mall Santa refused Michael DeCarlo’s request for a Nerf gun for Christmas, so now the National Rifle Association is stepping in to help the 4-year-old expand his toy arsenal.
    The gun rights group released a video of Santa delivering a sack of the popular toys to the child’s home in Illinois as part of their “mission to make Michael’s Christmas the best ever.”
    “Mean Santa won’t be happy I have this,” DeCarlo says in the clip before emerging victorious in a Nerf battle with this more generous – and sunglasses-wearing – version of St. Nick.

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Addicted to Outrage are outraged. No surprises here.
    THE WASHINGTON POST THROWS A MINDLESS FIT
    We all knew that heads would explode at the Washington Post if President Trump won reelection. But who knew that, with Joe Biden about to be declared the winner, heads at the Post would explode anyway?
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/12/the-washington-post-throws-a-mindless-fit.php

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  15. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 14 December 2020 at 08:24 AM
    The authors claim that Trump and GOP lawmakers are engaged in “an unprecedented attack on the peaceful transfer of power.”

    Sad…..Empty Headed Joe hasn’t been denied a second of his Idiot King’s reign and they still can’t shut up!
    Remember…..if progressives are whining about it it’s usually because they’re upset that you might be running plays from their playbook.

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Violence against property is not violence! Besides, they have insurance. It’s not like they will suffer lost. Businesses can afford it. It’s not violence, it’s really not!
    Ok, fine. Tell that to the insurance companies.
    Portland business owners report insurance woes following months of looting, destruction
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/portland-protest-insurance-business

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  17. Walt Avatar

    Subversives-don’t-have-a-big-enough-seat-at-the-table-with-the-biden-team
    There… Fixed that…..
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/12/14/ilhan-omar-progressives-dont-have-a-big-enough-seat-at-the-table-with-the-biden-team/

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, this explains a lot. I was casting a suspicious eye on Lead Stories and other Fact Hiders…er…fact checkers. Now it makes sense. Follow the money.
    ‘Nonpartisan’ Facebook Fact-Checking Arbiter Trashed Republicans On Russian Propaganda Outlet
    The ‘independent certifier’ who retweeted the claim that all Republican voters are racists approved as a Facebook fact-checker an organization funded by Chinese Communists and U.S. Democrats.
    https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/14/facebooks-nonpartisan-fact-checking-arbiter-trashed-republicans-on-russian-propaganda-outlet/
    Funded by Chinese Commies and the Democrat Party. Another no surprise. That is a non-brainer. Blame Russia. Blame anyone but China!

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  19. D Avatar

    Yes, Fox and Friends said this,
    “Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade poured some cold water on Trumpworld’s fantastical hopes of overturning the election, asking Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller on Monday morning if President Donald Trump has “the worst legal team” while noting they have lost more than 50 cases now.”

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  20. Walt Avatar

    No Fret Douchey,, Biden will be in court soon enough… ALL of them.
    Now where is all the hoopla and “we are going to get this done” “Unleash the economy” “Get people back to work” Or any of the supposed “great things” from the Lefty vermin? You got your straw man elected,,, NOW WHAT?
    The only news about the stock market going up, is BIG TECH. and BIG Bizz. LEAVING Kalif.

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  21. George Rebane Avatar

    Has anyone seen a leftist’s response to the big business exodus from California? Or is that another of the long list of topics that they neither see nor acknowledge?

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: George Rebane | 14 December 2020 at 10:36 AM
    I have it on good authority from a local business maven that increased regulation doesn’t bother business at all.

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  23. Walt Avatar

    George.. This will explain your Lefty inquiry.
    🙈🙉🙊

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  24. D Avatar

    Posted by: George Rebane | 14 December 2020 at 10:36 AM
    HP, Oracle, Tesla moving to Texas is a big win-win!
    Lots of housing will free up as workers sell resulting in a buyer’s market – Win!
    Lots of young progressives moving to Texas will turn it Blue – Win!
    Don’t forget George, many corporations are registered offshore to avoid taxes. Not sure if any of the above mentioned companies are.

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  25. D Avatar

    With all the pearl clutching over businesses relocating out of state, Cali still is not doing to shabbily,
    https://united-states.reaproject.org/analysis/comparative-trends-analysis/gross_domestic_product/tools/60000/480000/

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  26. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: D | 14 December 2020 at 11:23 AM
    HP, Oracle, Tesla moving to Texas is a big win-win!
    Lots of housing will free up as workers sell resulting in a buyer’s market – Win!
    Lots of young progressives moving to Texas will turn it Blue – Win!

    Logic that shoddy practically demands a degree in journalism.

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  27. George Rebane Avatar

    Repeating my 411pm – “Re D 159pm – and now we know how society’s scum spreads to infect all green pastures.”

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Actually D, Texas has reported that the Californians fleeing the Regulation State are conservative and some more conservative than the average Texan.
    I know it sounds counterintuitive, but it makes sense when (if) you ask yourself why did all the folks I know that were born and raised here, some 2 and 3 generation Californians,decide to leave the only place they have called home. The place where they raised families, worked, and had spent most, if not all, their lives?
    Yes, its a win-win. A win for you because it means less Constitutionalists here and more room for the 1/3 of the nation’s welfare receiptants that reside in the Regulation State. Its also a win for those that have left CA in their rear view mirrors. As the young folks working at Google’s big campus HQ in Silicone Valley like to say, “cash rich, house poor.”

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  29. Walt Avatar

    My Grand kid who was a Calif. rabid Proggy moved to TX. to go to school. She’s not so LIB anymore. She even voted for Trump this time around.
    So much for ridge rat news.

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  30. Walt Avatar

    I’m sure Douchey and his pals will be happy to make up the diff in state taxation. All that dope tax… UUMMmmmm.. Tax it more!
    Kinda like what they did with cigs.

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  31. D Avatar

    Alone among the 13 presidents since World War Two, Trump will exit the White House with fewer Americans employed than when he started.
    Homeland Security just got hacked by Russia on his watch.

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: D | 14 December 2020 at 01:02 PM
    …..I mostly come for the interviews.

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “I have it on good authority from a local business maven that increased regulation doesn’t bother business at all.” —fish
    Yes, and my good authority says taxes do not affect people’s behavior. Of course, the same esteemed authorities bitch when Ca cannot deliver power to their abodes (and businesses) on a consistent basis. At least the Golden State is #1. Top Dog. Number One State in the nation for importing electricity from those places that the left despises with their entire beings. 25% of our electricity was imported last month. It will be more when the Green New Deal is implemented.
    But, it’s not just Big Tech or even outfits like Charles Swabb that have left our state. Thousands of middle income workers have left as well. AND, drumroll please….and Black folk have emigrated out of the State as well. Less blacks live in LA and CA’s major cities than there were 10 years ago. Why? Because all humans desire better schools for their kids, low(er) crime areas to call home, can’t go outside without stepping over a bum or what they left behind, a better life, better QofL, and because they are human with the same dreams we all have: to be free to chart their own destiny. To feel the burden of excessive and intrusive Big Bro Lift from their shoulders when they cross the state line heading to other destinations.
    https://www.hoover.org/research/california-businesses-leave-state-thousands
    https://www.tecma.com/manufacturers-leaving-california/
    While I am not saying Texas is the place to be, it is worth noting that most of all the jobs created during the Great Recession came from one state. Guess which one. Why is that?

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  34. Walt Avatar

    OK Douchey,, let’s put the blame where due… LIB Governors,and Mayors. THEY are the ones with a finacual gun to employers heads.

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  35. George Rebane Avatar

    I wonder what our progressive worthies conclude from D’s 103pm. Their insights and logic reveal why socialism is always the road to destitution.

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  36. Walt Avatar

    When the 32 year old leach can’t get free wifi.
    https://www.theunion.com/news/sheriffs-office-battery-suspect-upset-over-losing-access-to-free-internet/
    “Authorities said a 32-year-old man, angered by the loss of free internet, attacked his 73-year-old stepfather before fleeing.
    Mika Angelo Brue was taken into custody on charges of elder abuse and battery causing serious bodily injury, and remained Monday in the county jail on a $50,000 bond, court records state.”
    G

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  37. D Avatar

    Wow, Bill Barr could not even wait 6 more weeks to get away from Trump!
    Bwahahaha

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    This one is right up Fish’s (and moi) alley. Popcorn time.
    DEM DIVERSITY BLUES (2)
    Two days ago we reported on how the intersectional diversicrats are wreaking havoc on Joe Biden’s selections for senior appointments, and today the New York Times returns to the subject to confirm one of the victims of the diversicrats: Mary Nichols, who had been the obvious choice to run the EPA until she ran afoul of the racial justice fanatics.
    “Chaser: This from the Times story is comedy gold:
    The influence of those groups, and Mr. Biden’s reactions to their push, appears to be another signal of the increasing tensions between the left and moderate factions of the Democratic Party. Mr. Biden has already been subject to criticism from the left for some of his cabinet picks, even as he explicitly attempts to build a cabinet of racial and gender diversity.“
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/12/dem-diversity-blues-2.php

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  39. L Avatar
    L

    Well, Mr. Keachie, since you seem desirous of distancing yourself from the vile entity calling itself “D”, perhaps you could help your credibility by denouncing the chickenshit cheapshot dished by that yorbo at 1:02?
    After all, you know as well as the conservatives here that the Trump employment numbers were exploring record territory before D’s favorite polity unleashed the wuflu to destroy our economy and with it employment gains under the orange ogre.
    Just as you also know that the non-stop Ruskie collusion flap is also utter bullshit.
    What does it tell you that 50 ex-gov security guys blame the Biden hard drive on Russian misinformation just a couple weeks before the FBI and everyone else decides it’s as authentic as can be?

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  40. Walt Avatar

    Some top LIBS said ” Accusers MUST be believed!”
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/12/14/cuomo-sexual-harassment-charge-against-me-just-not-true/
    “During a press conference on Monday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) denied the sexual harassment allegations against him and stated that he believes “a woman has the right to come forward and express her opinion and express issues and concerns that she has,” but the charge is “just not true.”
    Cuomo said, “I heard about the tweet and what it said about comments that I had made, and it’s not true, Zack. Look, I fought for and I believe a woman has the right to come forward and express her opinion and express issues and concerns that she has, but it’s just not true.” ”
    She said so,,, so it MUST be true.
    Biden said so.
    https://www.newsweek.com/after-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-allegations-biden-said-you-must-presume-what-shes-talking-about-1501437

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  41. Walt Avatar

    Some Proggy porn for Emery and the Douche.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-message-to-nation-its-time-to-turn-the-page
    Biden looks as if he’s already paid a visit to the undertaker.
    Yes, you ARE an illegitimate president. Don’t fret Commilla will have you removed soon enough. That Dementia can only be covered up for so long.

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  42. Walt Avatar

    Now wait a minute.. didn’t SBC supposedly already deal with China on this?
    https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2020/12/14/china-debuts-ambitious-environmental-plan-increases-co2-emissions-decade/
    “Chinese dictator Xi Jinping announced at this weekend’s Climate Ambition Summit that his nation, the world’s leading carbon dioxide emitter, would continue to increase carbon emissions through at least 2030, but “aim” to stop doing so before then.”

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  43. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    They just love their murderers –
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-ice-detainer-child-murderer
    😉

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    HEH: “When I first started teaching at Stanford, someone remarked to me that he had never met a physicist who used ‘Dr.,’ and never met a Ph.D. from the Education school who did not. This has held true in my experience for decades now.”

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Espionage Emergency: China ‘Floods’ America with Spies
    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16853/espionage-china-spying-us

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  46. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Report: Huge Data Leak ‘Exposes’ Chinese Communist Party Members ‘Embedded’ In Western Companies And Governments
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-huge-data-leak-exposes-chinese-communist-party-members-embedded-in-western-companies-and-governments
    He does look like Winnie the Pooh

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  47. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Yesterday’s quotes today. I liked the last two, albeit for different reasons.
    Insight: “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.” —Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
    Good questions: “We’re being told that … Chinese spy [Fang Fang] was compromising Rep. Swalwell for nefarious purposes. At some point the FBI approached the congressman with disturbing information about her true identity. One would expect that the FBI would have arrested and charged Fang relatively quickly. But that’s not what happened. She fled the country. So inquiring minds want to know: Was she tipped off that the FBI was on to her? Was it Rep. Swalwell who tipped her off? Is that why he doesn’t say anything negative about her because he knows what she knows about him? Swalwell would have a really good reason for wanting her out of the country because a trial would expose him as well as her. We need a special prosecutor.” —Gary Bauer
    Missing the point: “Is it the worship or the building? … You don’t have to sit in the church pew for God to hear your prayers.” —Virginia Governor Ralph Northam
    Alpha jackass: “While others were sleeping, members of the United States Senate declared war, launched a vicious and evil attack on the most vulnerable people in America. Herod is on the loose. Herod is a cynical politician who’s willing to kill children and kill the children’s health program in order to preserve his own wealth and his own power. … The United States Senate decided by a slim majority to pick the pockets of the poor, the sick, the old, and the yet unborn in order to line the pockets of the ultra-rich. Don’t tell me about gangsters and thugs on the streets. There are more gangsters and thugs … in the Capitol.” —”Reverend” Raphael Warnock in 2017 regarding the GOP Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
    Non compos mentis: “The coronavirus is the third-leading cause of death for black Americans. So the most vulnerable and marginalized communities, because of the comorbidities of structural racism, because of unequal access to healthcare, because of transportation deserts and food apartheid systems, have been the most vulnerable to contracting this virus and have the highest rates of fatality.” —Rep. Ayanna Pressley
    And last… “It’s important to understand that the media didn’t make a mistake by failing to cover this [Hunter Biden] story. They intentionally failed to cover this story. They knew that the Hunter Biden drama would affect Joe Biden’s prospects of winning the election and they didn’t want him to lose and so they suppressed this in every way.” —Mollie Hemingway

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