[So now the C19 vaccines are arriving in backwoods counties like ours. Does anyone know of a list or policy that prioritizes who should get the vaccine and when (and where)? The news about its distribution stops with vague references to healthcare workers and old folks in care facilities being somewhere near the top of the list. gjr]
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183 responses to “Sandbox – 18dec20”
PaulE 408pm – Exercise for the astute student – delineate the situational differences that dictated Obama’s and Trump’s spending.
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For the record: “Robert E Lee was a far better and more impressive man than all of the people pulling his statues down.” —Matt Walsh
Double standards: “So $1,200 in Trump tax cuts is crumbs, but $600 in covid stimulus is significant, according to Pelosi?” —Liz Wheeler
Observations: “The covid relief bill is indeed a crap sandwich. All bills now are. The size and scope of government is the problem; there’s a case to be made that the earmark ban actually effectuates MORE pork barrel spending.” —Ben Shapiro
Interesting insight: “[Democrats are] trying to essentially use the COVID lockdown model for the climate emergency model. And they are going to go from COVID lockdowns to climate lockdowns.” —Marc Morano
The Grinch: “Here is the simple truth: Our darkest days against COVID are ahead of us, not behind us.” —Joe Biden
Braying jackass: “I’m counting down the hours ‘til [Trump’s] gone. I plan to pull him out of there by his hair, his little hands, and his feet.” —Nancy Pelosi
And last… “[Democrats] want to make rich people poorer, and poor people more comfortable.” —Mike Pence
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Shovel ready jobs Emery,, Remember those? Now can you tell us what your boy “O” said about those? “O”‘s trillion dollar crap,,, uh,,, stimulus? DO tell us where all that money went.
(hint…. into thin air)
Gov. motors ring a bell? How many got phucked with that deal?
” Bin Laden is dead, and GM is alive!” (on life support with OUR money) Then handed over to the UAW.
How much was “given” to health insurers? They got rich while we got crappy health care.
Take your memory loss meds Emery,, your way behind.
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GEorge
Obama inherited a trashed economy under Bush with the great recession which happened under his watch. Remember Bush inherited a virtually balanced budget due to the Clinton and Gingrich policies and efforts. Under his leadership we ended up with the Great Recession. Obama had to deal with that and left the economy with slow but steady improvement when he left office. Biden now has inherited a totally trashed economy and has to start over just like Obama, to pull things together. That’s the background to where we are today.
As far as the “situational differences” they are obvious. what economy would you rather inherit? The one that Obama inherited or the one that Bush inherited? Also would prefer inheriting the Obama economy or the one that Biden will face?
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Keep making those excuses Emery. You forget you Proggys held the House AND the Senate with Bush? BDS again Emery?
Yet Trump fixed most of “O”‘s and Biden’s damage. Nope,, you refuse to see that.🙊🙉🙈
Hope your looking forward to a repeat of the O’loser years.Just worse.
Your Proggycrats will never be able to accomplish what Trump has done..(they have no intention to.)
OK Emery,, DO tell us how people are going to pay their taxes. No worry about income taxes,, since MOST (thanks to Proggyism) did make any money.
Is the bastard prez. going to make all the states forgive property taxes?
You really don’t think past yesterday do you???
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https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-education-sec-choice-helped-oversee-curriculum-influenced-by-critical-race-theory
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Andrew Yang has taken out papers to run for Mayor of NYC.
Anybody would be preferable to David Durkins or the current mayor, Warren Wilhelm Jr. Some call him de Blasio. Guess Bloomberg did a decent job as mayor. Do you remember way back in the day when the Democrat Party was desperately seeking an alternative to No Malarkey Joe, any alternative to a Biden, and they got all excited about Bloomberg? Another Great White Savior that went from the Penthouse to the outhouse at the speed of an elevator descending from the 130th floor with a snapped cable. Reminded me of Kamala Harris’s campaign. She was the first Indian woman to win a seat in the US Senate, farther back in the day. Now she is the first Black woman to be VP.
He could have been the One, but nooooo. The Dems got stuck with Biden for a couple of years, maybe less. An asterisk placeholder will suffice. Anybody except Joe was that Party’s mantra. That was back in the past, back in 2019.
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Pardon me sir, did you say “Merry Christmas”?
TRUMP PARDONS PAPADOPOULOS [UPDATED
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/12/trump-pardons-papadopoulos.php
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‘Top DOJ Officials In ‘Ongoing Discussions’ About Appointing Special Counsel In Hunter Biden Criminal Probe: Report’
“A second source told Fox News that high-level officials at the department believe that a special counsel is “warranted” in the case and noted that the special counsel statute was created for situations like the Hunter Biden criminal investigation.
“It was passed to deal with a potential conflict of interest of the attorney general or the president of the United States,” the source told Fox News. “A president-elect coming in, where his appointed attorneys will be investigating his son? That’s textbook conflict.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-doj-officials-in-ongoing-discussions-about-appointing-special-counsel-in-hunter-biden-criminal-probe-report
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Duke University Official Admits ‘It Would Be Easy’ To Remove Due Process Protections From Accused Students Under Biden Administration
https://www.dailywire.com/news/duke-university-official-admits-it-would-be-easy-to-remove-due-process-protections-from-accused-students-under-biden-administration
What the media and universities overlook is the disappropiate number of students accused of “rape” and booted out of college without a minimum of due process like seeing evidence and knowing accusations BEFORE the Kangeroo Court are black students.
Where is BLM when a brother needs them?
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Beads:
‘Politico Hails Justin Trudeau’s Mighty Beard, Mockery Ensues’
Rafael Cruz asked “Tell me, why is ‘Significant’ capitalized?”
Daily Caller asked “Is this journalism or fan fiction…?”
Cam Edwards, whose beard is headed for ZZ Top territory, joked “That is not a Significant beard.”
Derek Hunter just wrote “Adults produced this.”
Giancarlo Sopo tweeted “Did Justin Trudeau’s abuelita write this?”
And Joe Gabriel Simonson made it personal:
my mom: you need to shave, i want to see your face
me: The beard is Significant, a symbol of a once-youthful prime minister who was now older and wiser and battle-scarred.
Politico Canada’s Maura Forrest wasn’t entirely complimentary, but this gurgly clickbait prose is how they tried to attract readers:
At the very beginning of this interminable year, Justin Trudeau grew a beard. The beard was Significant, a symbol of a once-youthful prime minister who was now older and wiser and battle-scarred. Many headlines were written. It was a simpler time, when we had nothing better to do than debate the merits of facial hair as an indicator of gravitas. But beard or no, this year has changed Trudeau’s image….
Way back in the before times, those battles seemed to be setting the stage for Trudeau’s second mandate, given they embodied all the issues that were most important to him: climate change, Indigenous reconciliation, natural resource development….
The image: Some argue Trudeau grew into that beard this year. In the Toronto Star, Chantal Hébert claims Trudeau has become more “cold-blooded,” while the Liberal government’s “days of being associated with unicorns and rainbows are definitively behind it.” In Maclean’s, Shannon Proudfoot reminds us that Trudeau will turn 50 next year and will likely head into his next election campaign “as a grizzled veteran, and not some impetuous wunderkind.” PM photographer Adam Scotti has published this series of photos of 2020, including several of Trudeau looking very tired.
The record: But if Trudeau’s image has been altered for good, much of what he’s promised to achieve sits where he left it in March.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2020/12/24/politico-hails-justin-trudeaus-mighty-beard-mockery-ensues
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WORST OF 2020: The Media’s Trump Derangement Syndrome
(Video Clips of the Enemy of the Truth)
Stopping the Looting = “Declaring War on Americans”
Russian Hoax Redux
GOP Affirmed “Most Mediocre White Man” In History
Appalled by “Dictator” Donald’s “Viperous” Victory Speech
Trump Would Totally Throw Us In Jail If He Could
Trump’s Post-Election Challenges = 21st Century Kristallnacht
Belittling “Wannabe Dictator” Trump
Trump’s “Sneak Attack” On Protesters Just Like Pearl Harbor
Lizza’s Ludicrous Inquiry
“Dictator” Trump’s “Fascism” Is the “End of Democracy”
Dictator Trump’s Speech a “Repugnant” “Crime” Heralding “End of America”
Condemning Trump’s “Obesely Immoral” Debate Behavior, “New Low”
Trump Took a “Dump” on Debate
Do You Want to Live In the America of “Bad” Man “Bull Connor” Trump?
Trump Era of “Cruelty” and “Meanness” Is “Coming to an End”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2020/12/24/worst-2020-medias-trump-derangement-syndrome
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This is how trickle down works-for the rich,
“Tucked away in the 5,593-page spending bill that Congress rushed through Monday night is a provision that some tax experts call a $200 billion giveaway to the rich.
It involves the tens of thousands of businesses that received loans from the federal government this spring with the promise that the loans would be forgiven, tax free, if they agreed to keep employees on the payroll through the coronavirus pandemic.
“High-income business owners have had tax benefits and unprecedented government grants showered down upon then. And the scale is massive,” wrote Adam Looney, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former Treasury Department tax official in the Obama administration, who estimated that $120 billion of the $200 billion would flow to the top 1% of Americans.
The new provision allows for a classic double dip into the Paycheck Protection Program, as businesses get free money from the government, then get to deduct that largess from their taxes.”
https://news.yahoo.com/fine-print-5-593-page-130020410.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=2_04
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Trump is stocking the swamp as he bails out. Jared’s dad? Hired a hooker for his brother-in-law so he could blackmail him.
Scum!
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‘8 Of The Craziest Items In The $900 Billion COVID Blue-State Bailout Bill‘
The prohibitively long and oddly complex document that bails out states that have decided to harm their own citizens contains ridiculous provisions with no connection to the pandemic
[One example]
“The last COVID spending spree severely hampered states’ ability to increase school choice with their education allocation. In the CARES Act, $3 billion was allotted to Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund (GEERF), which gave governors the flexibility to fund whatever educational initiatives they deemed important. GEERF funds were allocated at the discretion of the governors, but could be used to strengthen school choice programs, as was done in Florida, Oklahoma, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina.
The new bill specifically undid this flexibility, stating the money cannot be used to “provide tax support vouchers, tuition tax credit programs, education savings accounts, scholarships, scholarship programs, or tuition assistance programs” or provide indirect help for any organization that grants scholarships for “elementary or secondary education.”
https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/23/8-of-the-craziest-items-in-the-900-billion-covid-blue-state-bailout-bill/
Oh, the Kennedy Center has been clamoring for a government bailout for years. Senators like attending concerts there as well.
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It’s it time to pardon Martha Stewart? Some say yes.
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Dr. Biden’s husband speaks…..and Kamala is rejoicing
BIDEN: ‘FOLKS, GOOD AFTERNOON, ACTUALLY IT’S STILL MORNING’
‘I heard there was a sighting of a sleigh — Santa Claus’
https://news.grabien.com/story-biden-folks-good-afternoon-actually-its-still-morning
Corn Pop was a bad dude, man.
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“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i684AgXRYvg
Enjoy this beautiful song and Andrea Bocelli’s voice from God on this glorious day! Merry Christmas to each of you and good tidings.
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Jeff Epstein should have hung in there, he’d be a free man now.
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Defund the Military! – Donald J. Trump
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D writes “Scum” in reference to Jared’s dad. He’s Trumps kinda guy D. If you recall Trump was bonking a porn star while his wife had a babe in arms. TRUMP, the admitted pussy grabber bragging about sexual assault. That’s just the beginning but all for now
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Paul, don’t you have an election in Georgia that needs stealing? Git on it, and stop insulting people whose boots you’re not fit to polish!
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Don’t tell emperor gavin –
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2020/12/24/cuban-communists-add-rodent-meat-to-the-family-dinner-table/
😉
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Beat me to it Don.. We have more than one Cuban Commie supporter here,,, maybe they should try that Cuban dinner and tell us all about it.
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In the “goombah goombah goombah” category– trump’s pardons: family, war criminals, convicted liars, and crooked politicians who supported him. What else is there to say.;
have a Merry Christmas y’all..most wars between Christian nations have a Christmas cease fire.. so there you go..
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PRESIDENT TRUMP PARDONS STEPHANIE MOHR
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/12/president-trump-pardons-stephanie-mohr.php
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punchy 1134am
what proof do you have that Trump was “bonking” a porn star?
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@ pharmacist bobby… Better than the terrorists your boy “O” set free.(in trade for a traitor)
Now have a good read Babs,,
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/obama-pardons
REAL criminals. Not ones caught up in a Proggy witch hunt.
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Merry Christmas from the GOP!
“GOP blocks $2,000 checks as Trump leaves COVID aid in chaos”
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It’s OK D-.. Your Proggys refused to divert funds to their cronies in other countries, or pet pork spending. So blame THEM.
Here is a thought,, reopen the economy.. You know, get people back to work.. This poor attempt to “corral the Kung Flu” has done NOTHING.
Your hero, Dr. Fauci lied.
“Fauci has admitted that he lied to Americans about herd immunity to manipulate their acceptance of a new coronavirus vaccine.”
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Old news Gregory Research it yourself.
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Old news that was disputed and never proven, Punch.
What’s Avenatti up to nowadays?
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A win for the Defund the Police and a loss for gun violence reduction advocates….simultaneously.
“Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland spearheaded an effort in June to “increase police accountability and reinvest in black and brown communities.” He proposed over $7 million in shifts from the police bureau, which included dissolving the city’s Gun Violence Reduction Team in favor of seeking ways to “fundamentally re-shape” shooting prevention.
Portland — where rioters recently established the “Red House Autonomous Zone” — almost immediately witnessed a jump in shootings. Though year-to-date shootings had risen 10.8% by May, the months of June, July, August, and September witnessed 96.8%, 186.1%, 195.1%, and 243.8% hikes respectively.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-police-officers-fleeing-in-unprecedented-numbers-a-win-for-defund-the-police-movement
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re BillT 740am – We must never forget that these computable marginal deaths are the direct result of horribly misshapen public policies, and that the people who make, implement, and volubly support them should be held accountable.
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