[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”
The Trump Whisperer,
https://twitter.com/Stop_Trump20/status/1340008790519926784?s=20
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Dominion and Smartmatic need to sue Sidney Powell, Guiliani et Al. for defamation, slander, libel.
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Maybe Douchey can explain why Biden can’t get a security clearance.
Maybe because he’s beholden to CHINA?????
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WalDoH!™ link please, and Parler doesn’t count.
Maybe because Trump’s plant, Chris Miller, is playing political games.
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Keach @ 11:40- Yeah, and John Wilkes Booth should have sued the Ford Theater for his broken leg…
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Do your own homework. Your not Emery. D-Bag.
Ouch… Though to be Calif. today.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/18/us-supreme-court-illegal-immigrant-census/
“The court ruled 6-3 against a lawsuit attempting to block Trump’s plan to exclude illegal immigrants from the count, Reuters reported.”
Douchey… That means illegals don’t count for electioneering districts.. Got it? Good… We know you have the attention span of a chigger.
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AS if Trump doesn’t have enough scandals. Now this:
EXCLUSIVE: Jared Kushner helped create a Trump campaign shell company that secretly paid the president’s family members and spent $617 million in reelection cash, a source tells Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-trump-campaign-shell-company-family-ammc-lara-2020-12
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Name’s not Keach, Lar; and your ridiculous response is a non sequitur.
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“…….. , a source tells Insider”
Which is why I Shall Not waste opening that link—a source tells Insider
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So what Paul? Many a LIB has been found to do the same thing.
Mad MAX Waters, The Muslim chick from MN. and AOC. Just to name a few.
You didn’t take issue with THEM.
Gotta love your selective whining.
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Of COURSE,,, Emery will have no problem with THIS.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/18/report-mark-zuckerbergs-419-million-non-profit-contributions-improperly-influenced-2020-presidential-election/
What’s a little skirting of campaign donations laws to help a fellow Proggy??? HummmMMM????
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Notable quotables from Mike Rowe, Dick Durbin, Ilhan Omar, and more.
Upright: “There’s a new word for 40 million people in this country: Non-essential. And it’s crazy. … During this pandemic, I’ve seen firsthand that everybody is essential to somebody, even if you’re just working to pay your own bills. So something is going on here that is fundamentally upside-down. And the fact that these policies are now being instituted by leaders who have shown themselves to be the very definition of rank hypocrisy is, I’m afraid, going to lead us into a place where it’s going to be very difficult to get the poop back in the goose.” —Mike Rowe
A blind squirrel finds a nut: “The Warp Speed project appears to be a dramatic success. I pray that it will be. Although I’ve been a frequent critic of this administration, I want to give them credit for organizing this effectively, and delivering a vaccine in a timely way, almost amazing timely way in this pandemic that we face.” —Senator Dick Durbin
A forewarning: “Let me be clear: I need Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in the United States Senate to get this done.” —Joe Biden in a new Georgia ad
Demo-gogue: “We have great confidence in our son. I’m not concerned about any accusations that have been made against him. It’s used to get to me. I think it’s kind of foul play, but look, it is what it is.” —Joe Biden
The BIG Lie: “My father and over 300,000 people have lost their lives because of dangerous criminal neglect by Trump and his administration. I agree … that it is not enough for us just to issue subpoenas. We have to investigate and prosecute these people who are responsible for these reckless deaths.” —Rep. Ilhan Omar
Non compos mentis: “It’s not, ‘You should wear a mask.’ It should be mandated to wear a mask.” —CNN’s Don Lemon (“Don Lemon himself does not need a mask since he usually has his foot in his mouth.” —Keith Koffler)
And last… “To be fair, Pete Buttigieg is not unqualified to be Transportation Secretary. Anyone is qualified, because the truth is, being a bureaucrat takes very little knowledge or skill.” —Allie Beth Stuckey
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OH… LIBS get butthurt TOO when they lose an election.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/potential-house-vote-overturn-iowa-election-results-could-spell-trouble-another-iowan
Remember? its “50,+1… And now wants to overturn her lose?
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Democrat Rita Hart said she’ll petition the U.S. House of Representatives to ultimately decide who won her congressional contest against Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. It was the closest House race in the nation, with Iowa certifying Miller-Meeks as the winner with a margin of just six votes.”
So let’s see what the queen of the DAMNED does. She needs every win she can get.
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Keach @ 1:15- A joke, ask someone to explain it to you.
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Sorry Lar, no posts at 1:15
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Huge hack of Solar Winds, but crickets are loud here,
https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-head-calls-solarwinds-hack-act-of-recklessness-what-you-need-to-know/
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See? Crickets when a LIB is whining about losing, and wanting her lose nullified.
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Try,, and fail. Dirty tricks by LIBs again.
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/12/18/report-democrats-trying-sneak-waiver-retired-general-serve-defense-secretary-spending-bill/
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“D” 116pm
Your name is also obviously not “D”, so anyone can call you what they want.
I think Keach fits you fine.
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Gregory.. I’m of the rule, you can’t defame a TROLL.
In other news.. Nevada City has a snitch!
“5:43 p.m. — A caller from North Pine Street reported a restaurant was seating customers outside.”
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GR concerning your Q regarding the vaccine staging, who gets it when…
I gather there’s a big pow-wow this weekend where they’ll decide who gets stuck in phase 1b, 2a, 2b, etc.
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Gregory 447pm – Thanks Greg, please keep us informed as this develops.
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New Strzok Texts Show FBI Was Investigating Trump Before Crossfire Hurricane Was Opened
“Newly declassified text messages from former FBI agent Peter Strzok suggest that the FBI began investigating then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and his campaign before the Crossfire Hurricane investigation was opened.
While the FBI claims that investigations into Trump’s campaign began with the opening of Crossfire Hurricane on July 31, 2016, communications between Strzok and his alleged mistress, FBI special counsel Lisa Page, show that the agent asked Page to discuss “[o]ur open C[counter-]I[ntelligence] investigations relating to Trump’s Russian connections” with him on July 28, 2016”
Former FBI Director James Comey denied knowledge of any investigation until “sometime towards the end of September 2016.”
Previously declassified communications from Strzok, however, show the FBI employees’ strong dislike and criticism of Trump as a presidential candidate. In a string of 2016 messages, just weeks after the formal investigation was opened, Page asked Strzok, “[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” to which he replied: “No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.”….
“Strzok was told via text in December of 2016 that the DOJ’s Office of Intelligence, “made it clear [REDACTED] would not support even our discussions let alone a[] [FISA] app” relating to Papadopoulos.
Other text messages released by Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, on Thursday show more information related to the FBI’s investigation into now-disproven Russian collusion by the Trump campaign as well as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server very early into the investigations.”
https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/17/new-strzok-texts-show-fbi-was-investigating-trump-before-crossfire-hurricane-was-opened/
At first I was puzzled why CNN and MSNBC put Brennan and Clapper on payroll and hired them. That seemed odd until it dawned on me that the Enemy of the People put Brennan, Clapper, and Comey on air TO lLIE. That was the whole purpose, nothing else.
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Back to the good ol’ days.. Do things behind the curtain.
“In appointing Gina McCarthy to lead the newly created Office of Domestic Climate Policy, Joe Biden is placing his controversial environmental agenda out of view from the American people. McCarthy is set to join former Sen. John Kerry in a questionable environmental role which doesn’t require Senate confirmation, meaning less congressional oversight. However, when you look at McCarthy’s previous experience, you might understand why Biden doesn’t want her in front of any congressional committee.”
https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/18/behrens-joe-biden-is-building-a-secret-epa/
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“Who do you think I am??,,,, TRUMP??
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-team-refuses-questions-hunter
Trump took on all questions.. Biden,,,, NOT so much.
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The Proggy news just keeps rolling in.
Yup,, Rob Peter to pay Paul..
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/18/tulsi-gabbard-redirect-profits-from-corporations-allowed-to-remain-open-to-small-businesses-forced-to-close/
OK,,, ANY LIB define “excess profit” And just how did you come to that conclusion?
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OMG a blow for free speech in the UK, melting snowflakes on line is not a crime –
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/12/18/free-speech-victory-judges-rule-social-media-users-have-right-to-offend/
😉
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Found a well-turned phrase to share about GOP wins:
“One of the benefits was not having to listen to arrogant, smug (but uninformed), leftist assholes all the time.
You probably have no idea how valuable that is to 1/2 the voters.”
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Well Gregory I would say you are living proof that not all arrogant, smug, uninformed, assholes are leftists.
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You hate the competition, I know, Steve.
That’s some snowstorm back east, ain’t it?
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I fixed it for you Greg,
“One of the benefits (of Trump losing) will be not having to listen to an arrogant, smug (but uninformed), asshole all the time.”
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“The explanations are complex and subject to debate, but it’s impossible to ignore that a portion of the right has descended, quite frankly, into madness. I partly blame a president who has advocated “birtherism” and given a pass to supporters of QAnon, who embrace some inchoate theory involving Satan, politicians and pedophiles.”
https://www.ocregister.com/2020/12/18/lessons-for-halting-the-rights-descent-into-madness/
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re D 850am – The evidence pours in that the polarized sides consider the other to be some combination of insane/ignorant/stupid/evil, in short, not suitable for cohabitation – all giving rise to the Great Divide or tyranny.
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@ D💩’s 8:50..
Yet plenty smarter than you, and able to wipe himself.
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A headline for the true blue Proggy. The Biden illegitimate prezidency is already a dumpster fire.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/18/charles-hurt-bidens-transition-has-been-a-flaming-disaster/
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And a reminder… Biden can’t get a security clearance.
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Keach @ 8:47- that could describe almost any anchor in the MSM. Did you mean Lavender Lemon or Madcow in particular?
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George, at least there is one (the author of the piece) conservative that can admit to the Con insanity.
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“Trump (the Head Cricket) contradicting Pompeo, downplays gravity of massive cyberattack against U.S. government, as well as Russia’s role”
Trump, contradicting Pompeo, downplays gravity of massive cyberattack against U.S. government, as well as Russia’s role
By Ellen Nakashima
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russia-is-behind-the-broad-ongoing-cyber-spy-campaign-against-the-us-government-and-private-sector-pompeo-says/2020/12/19/8c850cf0-41b3-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html
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‘Facebook fact-checker struck deal with Communist China-linked social media company’
“TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a tech company headquartered in Beijing that has been the subject of considerable media attention due to its links with the Chinese Communist Party.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/technology/facebook-fact-checker-defends-contract-chinese-communist-linked-social-media
The rebel in me says, “ Tiananmen Square, Tiananmen Square, Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, Falun Gong,” (all sources of consternation for China’s ruling communist elite.)
If you guys never hear from me again, it’s because I said “Tiananmen Square, Tiananmen Square, Tiananmen Square” on line. Fact checker says I need to be erased. Put “Those darn Progressives where the death of me” on my tombstone. Or on my urn.
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As cyclists and most every politico (except for far right/left gutter dwellers) knows that the road is road is more driveable in the center. That is where things get done.
But the gutter dwellers get the headlines.
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So, Frisch, do you recall our extended discussion here about 8-10 years ago concerning Kali’s utter dependence on others for energy? At the time, direct imports of electricity ran around 30% and imported natural gas was burned locally to account for an additional 50% of electric use. With Diablo Canyon going off-line soon, the dependency is only going to rise and the crazy notion that electric cars will help could hardly be crazier.
Well, nothing has really changed, except the future is beginning to catch up with the rolling blackouts in your part of the state. (Imagine if they turned off the power in South Central LA or SanFran for a couple of days.)
Anyway, now as then, it works fine until a) Kali runs out of money due to an exodus of the productive element and/or b) neighboring states no longer have a surplus of nat gas to sell both because of increased usage due to Kali refugees or Biden’s anti-fracking crusade leads to shortages and Kali’s needs sink to the bottom of others’ barrels.
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Wash. Compost again? Fake news. Speaking of gutter dwellers
just another name for a TROLL to cowardly to use it’s real name.
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What would Herb Cane say, (besides “bring me a nice cup of coffee”?)
Journalism’s Ivory Towers
“In a recent essay entitled “The Resentment That Never Sleeps,” New York Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall explains how a lowering of social status among non-college-educated white Americans has increased that demographic’s anxiety and helped fuel the populism that made possible Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency. Reporters at many of America’s most prestigious journalistic outlets have echoed these sentiments. But none of those reporters ever seems willing to acknowledge their own complicity in the situation. Plenty of jobs that once used to require no university degree or special certification now do. According to a report by the National Conference of State Legislatures, the number of American jobs requiring state certification has risen from one in 20 60 years ago to one in four today. Technically, journalists do not require a university degree in order to practice their trade. Practically speaking, however, they do. No-one who writes for the New York Times, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, or any other major US journalistic venue lacks a college degree. In fact, to write for one of those publications, you’d better make sure that your university degree comes from a highly prestigious institution.
The New York Times has more regular op-ed columnists who are transgender (Jennifer Finney Boylan) than who lack a college degree (none). Transgender people make up anywhere from 0.6 to five percent of the US population. According to the US Census, 36 percent of Americans have a college degree. So, roughly two-thirds of the Americans you see on the street will probably lack a college degree, but walk into the offices of a prestigious newspaper or magazine, and you’ll find almost no-one other than the janitors and possibly the receptionist from this cohort. That is not to say that legacy publications never provide column space for non-college-educated writers (I have been published by the Times on occasion), just that it is exceedingly rare.
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“I don’t blame the Atlantic’s Annie Lowrey for not having been born in a prospector’s cabin like Harold Ross. She writes very well about the economic struggles of the working-class without ever having been a member of that class. And I don’t blame her colleague Emma Green for never having infiltrated a polygamous Mormon fundamentalist sect like Jack Anderson. She too writes well about the religious beliefs of poor and working-class Americans without sharing either their socio-economic status or their fervent Christianity. But I do blame them both (a little, anyway) for not calling upon their employer to give a voice to any of the working-class non-college-educated Americans they both seem to care so much about.
One could argue that once hired by the Times or the Atlantic or some other elite publication, a non-college-educated journalist would instantly become a member of the elite and therefore no longer qualified to speak on behalf of the working-class. But handing such a writer an elite title and a decent salary isn’t going to instantly instill a sudden fluency in critical theory or deconstructionism or any of the other intellectual fads that weaken so much contemporary journalism and analysis. If that kind of thing isn’t instilled in a person early and often during their formative years, it tends never to take root in them. Anyone who manages to escape the clutches of the university until the age of 30 is probably relatively safe from being caught up in the kudzu.”
https://quillette.com/2020/12/15/journalisms-ivory-towers/
I have a niece that wrote published articles for the Boston Globe, did all the research on Whitey Bulgar for a Pulitzer Prize author, and moved back to CA and landed a job at a newspaper covering local government (and the crime scene)….without ever taking a journalism course. And, she has a book out about a Christian sect she became familiar with. I have a friend from Mexico (US citizen) that whenever he needs money on the road, he will pop into a town and get a job at a local newspaper, without ever taking one creative writing or journalism course. His degree is from Princeton in anthropology, lol. What a waste of money.
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Grinch lives matter.
https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2020/12/19/watch-blm-harasses-wisconsin-childrens-christmas-charity-event-attendees/
“The People’s Revolution, a Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization, organized a march to disrupt a children’s cancer fundraiser in West Allis, Wisconsin, Friday night. The group marched down Candy Cane Lane and harassed suburban attendees to the annual charity event where the residents decorate their homes for Christmas and the holidays, Wisconsin.”
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Which one of you Socialist salesmen is happy to pay 45% taxation?(Denmark) or ,43.7 for Sweden?
Netherlands?
€ 0 – 20.384 36.65%
€ 20.385 – 34.300 38.10%
€ 34.301 – 68.507 38.10%
€ 68.508+ 51.75%
And wait months for that “free” health care.(where the rich fly here to get theirs in a timely manner)
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The Brits must have “O” negotiating the Brexit deal.
The Brits are still getting screwed by the LIB loving EU.(those fine Socialist countries)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/12/19/over-95-per-cent-fish-taken-britains-marine-protected-areas-go-eu/
And the EU fishermen sure as hell ain’t “dolphin friendly”.
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AOC ain’t the “hot stuff” she thought she was.
NO seat for YOU!!!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/19/aoc-denied-house-committee-seat-secret-ballot-vote/
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Clueless WalDoH!™ just put it on your China Bank credit card, eh dufus? How do you think we are going to pay our National debts and bring our deficits down?
Oh wait, Trump fixed all that, right, just like he said he was going to.
Bwahahaha
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Posted by: D | 19 December 2020 at 12:20 PM
I look forward to 5 weeks from now when debts and the deficit won’t matter again.
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