163 responses to “Sandbox – 12jan21”

1. 

   Bill Tozer

   13 January 2021

   Apologies in advance to our host for not putting this under more proper posts. But, but, but the Sandbox is calling. 🙂
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   Another “Duh, tell us something we don’t already know” article. Readers Digest Version
   ‘Dems want to bring down anyone who ever backed Trump: Goodwin‘
   -“In December of 2019, President Trump tweeted a picture of himself bracketed by an unpunctuated caption.
   “In reality they’re not after me” it read. “They’re after you I’m just in the way.”
   ——-
   “The first time around, Dems used impeachment as a campaign strategy to defeat Trump in 2020. They are now using impeachment to try to keep him out of the 2024 race, which would happen under a Senate conviction because he would be barred from ever again holding public office.
   If that were all, the revenge agenda would be loathsome enough. But Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and their co-conspirators in Big Media and Big Tech are proving Trump was right when he said his supporters were the ultimate target. Let us the count the examples in just the last few days.
   Start with the calls from leading Dems for GOP Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz to resign for objecting to the Electoral College results, which amounts to an attempt to decapitate potential heirs to the Trump movement. Hawley and Cruz, forceful and articulate conservatives, essentially did what various Democrats did over the years when Republicans were elected president, yet they are being labeled criminals and traitors as accusers equate their votes with supporting the riot.
   Democrats blowing House control right off the bat with Trump vendetta: Goodwin
   Joe Biden, who keeps insisting he wants to unite the country, even accused Hawley and Cruz of spreading the “big lie.” To make sure his point was clear, Biden referred to Hitler’s propagandist, Joseph Goebbels.
   Imagine that — the next president says two senators who oppose him are acting like Nazis. Apparently the unity agenda will come only after all dissenters are driven from office.
   https://nypost.com/2021/01/12/dems-want-to-bring-down-anyone-who-ever-backed-trump-goodwin/
   Bonus!
   Unfortunately, the question is not whether a far-left government will follow suit. The only question is how long will it take before saying something the ruling class doesn’t want to hear is a crime?
   Tone-deaf pictures
   Reader Harold Theurer is having a flashback. Noting the unflattering photo of Mayor de Blasio and Chirlane McCray dancing in a nearly-deserted Times Square on New Year’s Eve, Theurer asks: “Isn’t this picture the equivalent of the Chris Christie beach chair photo?”
   Touché!
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   Vaccination at a crawl
   From a City Hall press release: “Mayor de Blasio today announced that Citi Field will become a 24/7 mega vaccination site. Operated by the NYC Health + Hospitals Test & Trace Corps, the site is currently slated to launch the week of January 25th.”
   So it isn’t “slated to launch” for nearly two weeks. According to its stats, the city administered about 240,000 vaccines, a piddling average of about 8,300 per day.
   At this rate, it will take far longer to give a shot to every New Yorker than the nine months it took to develop the vaccine.

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   paul emery

   13 January 2021

   FYI
   The Editors of the nation’s oldest conservative magazine The National Review declared in an editorial today that there is “no doubt that Donald Trump has committed an impeachable offense.”
   quotes from the editorial:
   “Some Republicans in the House, most notably the No. 3 Republican, the impressive Liz Cheney, are supporting it. According to press reports, Mitch McConnell is pleased at the prospect of impeachment. If he were to come out in favor of conviction, it’d be a seismic event that would potentially bring a Senate conviction within reach.”
   “People of good will can disagree about the best response to the last two months and especially last week, but about one thing there can be no question — it’s the recklessness and selfishness of one man that brought us to this place,” Also they write:
   President Trump “urged a crowd to march on the U.S. Capitol and pressure his vice president and Congress to abuse their authority” to overturn a free and fair election that Joe Biden clearly won.
   As the mob breached the Capitol, Trump failed to forthrightly tell the rioters to stop, The Editors write, and the violence that ensued was the culmination of Trump’s “ceaseless campaign of misinformation meant to delegitimize an American election.”
   You can Read the full op-ed over at The National Review.
   https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/01/an-impeachable-offense/

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   Barry Pruett

   13 January 2021

   They are wrong too
   Please read this article about incitement. The House of Representatives just impeached the president for lawful speech protected by the first amendment. Not a good look for the communist party aka Democrats.

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4. 

   Scott O

   13 January 2021

   Paul 12:43 – Paul now sides with the never-Trumpers at NR. What a surprise.
   “President Trump “urged a crowd to march on the U.S. Capitol and pressure his vice president and Congress to abuse their authority” to overturn a free and fair election that Joe Biden clearly won.”
   None of that is illegal or violent.
   As to the election being ‘free and fair’ – that is their opinion.
   Trump never instructed anyone to do anything illegal or violent.
   Unlike many Dems in the last year who did.

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5. 

   Barry Pruett

   13 January 2021

   https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/brandenburg_test
   Oops. Forgot the link re what is incitement

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6. 

   fish

   13 January 2021

   Posted by: paul emery | 13 January 2021 at 12:43 PM
   You can Read the full op-ed over at The National Review.
   National Review? They haven’t been relevant for years…..but hey, if you like them.

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7. 

   Gregory

   13 January 2021

   now… countdown to Harris starting the ball rolling for a 25th Amendment ousting of Biden.
   How many errors in the recitation of the oath of orifice will it take?

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8. 

   Gregory

   13 January 2021

   John Tyler (2nd fiddle to Tippecanoe himself who died a month after his inaugural) was known as His Accidency.
   Let me be the first to refer to Harris as Her Accidency.

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   fish

   13 January 2021

   Posted by: Gregory | 13 January 2021 at 01:41 PM
   Let me be the first to refer to Harris as Her Accidency.
   …and her figurehead running mate is “His Fraudulency”.

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10. 

    Walt

    13 January 2021

    Can someone instruct Emery on what “op-ed” means? Is sure as hell don’t mean “fact”.

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11. 

    Gregory

    13 January 2021

    Newsom wants to survive his recall…
    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-13/california-opens-covid-vaccine-eligibility-people-over-65

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12. 

    Walt

    13 January 2021

    Gregory!! C’mon Mannn,,, Gavin wants to survive the “coup attempt” from us militant Conservatives. ( their words)

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    Walt

    13 January 2021

    Prediction time.. Just as soon as Biden is removed because of “diminished mental capacity” Queen Harris will be deemed the second coming of Cleopatra. The “new” smartest woman to walk the earth.

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14. 

    scenes

    13 January 2021

    “Queen Harris will be deemed the second coming of Cleopatra.”
    I strongly suspect that her primary skill set is similar to Cleopatra’s.

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15. 

    Gregory

    13 January 2021

    Different kind of asp.

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16. 

    Walt

    13 January 2021

    Yup,, Willie Brown told us all about it.

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17. 

    Bill Tozer

    13 January 2021

    Silly Paul. You know darned well that the Dems need no excuse to impeach Trump. They don’t need a stinkin’ reason. They had it baked in the cake before Trump took office and were openly advocating for it. No need to hide behind some editorial. Not needed in the least. You don’t even need to quote Republican Icon William Kristol or the Lincoln Project. Or even Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
    What you are seeing is the normal finger pointing after the loss of the Senate and the Oval Office. Things will settle down in a couple of months. It happened to both parties after the very recent election disappointment. Look at the finger pointing within the Dem party after their congressional disappointment in November. Flipping districts to Red in Blue Blue CA Dreamin’ was not even on the table so they blame AOC and Medicaid for All and Defund the Police and day of birth abortions, if not infanticide and their whole platform. The Squad fired back that they were re-elected in comfortable fashion and perhaps the losers would have not lost their seats if they followed the Squad’s blueprint, lol.
    As far as the National Review, they started souring on Trump’s chances after the end of November and were saying, “give it up, Donald. Look at the calendar. You haven’t make your case for Stop the Steal and there is no time left. Many other conservative publications and voices were staying the same thing by mid-December. Just one clear case of an indisputable smoking gun (akin to a bank video of an unmasked bandit sticking up a teller or a tape of some dude knocking off a liquor store with a sawed off shogun, Terminator style) would have changed the entire narrative. But, time ran out.
    There are many opportunists that are and will take advantage of this to attempt to spit the old GOP into two camps. One camp is those who believe in Trumpism, and the other camp who want to go back to a Jeb Bush message (and person) served up from the old GOP by the Bush holdovers. Or, to put it another way, the Trumpism camp are not Republicans per se; they are Constitutionalists. More to the libertarian bent of traditional ‘conservative’ values ‘ of the role of Big Bro in our lives…..more of a don’t tread on me Jeffersonian liberal. Civil liberties defenders. The individual is the one who charts his own future. You do your thing, I do mine. Let it all hang out, but pressure me to condone it. Tolerate? Yes!, unless you sport a man-bun, outside the food prep industry. Stay in your own lane and I will stay in mine. “If your weren’t so busy minding other people’s business, you wouldn’t be minding mine.”
    Anyway, to the main point, the Leftinistas of today don’t need to follow no stinkin’ rules (save Rules for Radicals) to impeach Trump. It’s all emotion based and you can’t argue with feelings. “Insurrection against The Government” is a good one. Good as any excuse.
    The Executive Branch declares war on the Legislative Branch! Seems to me Chuckie Schummer and the Democrat Senators where threatening the Judicial Branch not that too long ago in clear threatening unambiguous language. You better rule this way! We are watching you, oh Independent Court. We are watching you and we will never forget! Dem Senators declare war on Supreme Court!! Spare me. Go quickly Judas and do your dastardly thing.

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18. 

    Walt

    13 January 2021

    The RINOS sure came out of the closet. Seems they can’t wait to get back to the screwing of America.. You know,, as it was before Trump got elected. With Trump they actually had to do something. now with both the LIBS and Repubs,, It back to making promises they have no intention of keeping. Well,,, with the exception of raising taxes, killing the job producing pipe lines, and things of the sort… Oh yessss. “tear down that wall!” The illegals need in.

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19. 

    Barry Pruett

    13 January 2021

    I needed a laugh today and came across this gem!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMcAVZsya_Y

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20. 

    Don Bessee

    13 January 2021

    Well we knew that was coming despite their lies –
    If Congress were to approve a seven-year gap between green cards and citizenship, it could allow many of the huge population of illegals to vote in the 2028 presidential election, when Harris may be running for President.
    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/01/13/kamala-harris-promises-faster-perpetual-amnesties/
    😉

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21. 

    George Rebane

    13 January 2021

    Administrivia – Impeachment related stuff goes under the most recent ‘Dark Days Diary’.

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22. 

    Walt

    13 January 2021

    Where did pharmacist Bob go? He was supposed to tell us just why those that can LEAVE Ca. (and N.Y.) are going.
    He doesn’t buy LIB actions for it.( Like massive taxation, and regulation)
    Now who ran up the cost of living in Frisco Babs? (not to mention it now being a 💩hole under Proggy government)

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23. 

    Bill Tozer

    13 January 2021

    Stop the Steal
    https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-12-at-4.50.48-PM.png?w=1176&ssl=1

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24. 

    Bill Tozer

    13 January 2021

    Daily Quotes
    Insight: “Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.” —Barry Goldwater (1909-1998)
    Friendly fire: “We understand the desire to permanently suspend [Trump] now, but it should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions — especially when political realities make those decisions easier.” —ACLU senior legislative counsel Kate Ruane
    For the record: “If Trump was the foremost offender, Twitter hasn’t done us any favors in this period of our national life. It has fed moral panics and enabled cancellation mobs. It has exposed journalists who once made a pretense of objectivity as rank partisans. It has enticed once serious people into crowd-pleasing clownishness. It has made politicians dumber and cruder. It has distorted political reality for people across the spectrum. It, in short, has helped derange our politics, with the former Tweeter-in-Chief leading the way.” —Rich Lowry
    Observations: “Censorship, wokeness, political correctness, it all points in one direction — authoritarianism, cloaked as moral righteousness. It’s similar to what we’re seeing at Twitter, and Facebook, and Apple, and on too many university campuses. This is not who we are, as Americans.” —Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
    Tone-deaf: “We simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high. We will have nothing left to open. We must reopen the economy, but we must do it smartly and safely.” —Governor Andrew “Trashing Vaccines” Cuomo now that the election is over
    Double standards: “Ahead of the Ugandan election, we’re hearing reports that Internet service providers are being ordered to block social media and messaging apps. We strongly condemn internet shutdowns – they are hugely harmful, violate basic human rights and the principles of the #OpenInternet. Access to information and freedom of expression, including the public conversation on Twitter, is never more important than during democratic processes, particularly elections.” —Twitter Public Policy notice
    Alpha jackass: “We go for all the Republican voters and Homeland Security will take their children away. … We’ll put them into the reeducation camps. Enlightenment camps. They’re nice. They have Sesame Street characters in the classrooms, and they watch PBS all day. Americans are so f—king dumb. You know, most people are dumb. It’s good to live in a place [Washington, DC] where people are educated and know stuff. Could you imagine if you lived in one of these other towns or cities where everybody’s just stupid? … What’s great is that COVID is spiking in all the red states right now. So that’s great … a lot of them [red state voters] are sick and dying.” —now ex-PBS attorney Michael Beller
    The BIG Lie: “I also intend to see that those members of Congress who abetted [Trump]; those members of Congress who had groups coming through the capitol that I saw on Jan. 5 for reconnaissance for the next day; those members of Congress who incited the violent crowd; those members of Congress that attempted to help our president undermine our democracy — I’m going see that they’re held accountable.” —Rep. Mikie Sherrill
    Non compos mentis: “Southern states are not red states. They are suppressed states. Which means the only way that our country’s going to heal is through the actual liberation of southern states, the actual liberation of the poor, the actual liberation of working people from economic, social, and racial oppression. That’s the only way.” —AOC
    And last… “Banning offensive speech encourages radicals in their extremism. We no longer talk to each other. Too many read and listen only to what supports their point of view and demeans people who believe differently. This is unhealthy for a free society.” —Cal Thomas

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25. 

    Don Bessee

    13 January 2021

    EWWWWW –
    FTC Reaches Settlement With Flo Health Over Fertility-Tracking App
    Flo Health accused of improperly sharing data with Facebook, including whether users were ovulating
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftc-reaches-settlement-with-flo-health-over-fertility-tracking-app-11610568915
    😉

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26. 

    scenes

    13 January 2021

    lol. let ‘er rip.
    “#BREAKING: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R–GA):
    “On behalf of the American people—on January 21st I will be filing articles of impeachment on Joe Biden.”
    https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1349519760166428672

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27. 

    Nevada County Right Wing Watch

    13 January 2021

    Hey Don Bessee and the various other fascists here,
    I see you think it funny you’re registered now on a famous right wing watch site but trust me, these groups of monitors don’t fuck around. If you post violent rhetoric like we’ve seen at least a dozen times in 2020, expect a visit from someone. Don, we love you, but we’ve all seen your legal records in Nevada County. It is NOT a pretty sight. So be careful boys what you say ‘cus many of us enjoy laughing at your childish rants and would hate to stop the fun. More information on your monitors can be found at leftcoastrightwatch.org. Check em out. And happy ranting as we move into this new era of Progressive policies and the end of Trumpism.
    Best wishes.

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28. 

    Walt

    14 January 2021

    When is Emery moving to N.Y.?
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/andrew-yang-nyc-mayoral-bid-universal-basic-income
    Free money Emery!!

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29. 

    Gregory

    14 January 2021

    https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-01-14
    well worth a click through…

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30. 

    fish

    14 January 2021

    Seen elsewhere……
    

    Did I hear someone say, nuclear codes? Hello, America you’ve just muscled into office a senile old dote who can’t put two sentences together…he’s got his shaky finger the button now.

    Actually it’s better than that! The resistance managed replace exchange a crooked, lying, grifting, erratic (their words) billionaire for a crooked, lying, grifting, quite obviously senescent (everybody elses …progressive press, regular inept press, alternative press, Barry Obama’s words) multi-millionaire.
    Well done!

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31. 

    scenes

    14 January 2021

    re: Fish@10:30AM
    They should just redesign the Big Red Button in the form of a young girl.
    The President Elect would stroke it with a vengeance.

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32. 

    George Rebane

    14 January 2021

    Gregory 954am – Good pick-up, saw that in this morning’s Union. These are the same people who make public policies to combat global warming and the Covid pandemic.

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33. 

    scenes

    14 January 2021

    In science news, a thing to keep in mind.
    https://i.imgur.com/HcR8HzP.jpg

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34. 

    Walt

    14 January 2021

    Here we go again.. The ECO bastards would rather see the lands burn.
    “RENO — Environmentalists have filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S government to block plans to build up to 11,000 miles of fuel breaks they contend would violate the Endangered Species Act in a misguided effort to slow the advance of wildfires in six Western states.
    Leaders of four conservation groups say the Bureau of Land Management’s project would be shielded from legitimate environmental review under last-minute moves by the outgoing Trump administration.”
    https://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/environmentalists-move-toward-lawsuit-over-wildfire-fuel-break-plan

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35. 

    George Rebane

    14 January 2021

    re Walt 259pm – And these quacks claim to understand science – my, my.
    Very good Mr scenes, that chortle cleared my sinuses.

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36. 

    paul emery

    14 January 2021

    Gregory, Barry
    Both of you were bragging about trumps job approval polls but the truth is he’s down 18.5 in RCP’s job approval averages. That number is the worst numbers he’s had since Dec 12 2017 when he was down 20.6, his all time low. On election day he was only down 6.5. Todays numbers area a drop of over 12 points since the election Here’s a link to confirm my numbers.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html

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37. 

    Barry Pruett

    14 January 2021

    What is trumpism Paul?

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38. 

    Don Bessee

    14 January 2021

    You might as well ask him @650 what is pi out to 25 digits without looking it up. LOL!
    😉

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39. 

    paul emery

    14 January 2021

    Blind support and obedience to Trump and his ideas Barry.

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40. 

    Barry Pruett

    14 January 2021

    What about his ideas of “Making America Great?” Which idea in particular do you disagree with? Regulating legal immigration? Making sure China doesn’t rip us off? Free speech? Combating fake news? Making America strong economically and militarily?

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    paul emery

    14 January 2021

    Does free speech Barry mean the freedom to lie?

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42. 

    Don Bessee

    14 January 2021

    The stench of koolaide is strong in this one @727. One mans opinion is the pony tail of ignorance’s lie. ROFLOL!
    😉

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43. 

    Walt

    14 January 2021

    Really Emery? Try applying that to your FAKE NEWS!
    Hillary? How bout it Emery? Your boy “O”? “Not a smidgin of corruption” “If you like your plan,,,, If you like your Doc…”
    The LIBS that LIED to Congress?
    You DO know the cops can LIE to you,, but not the other way around.
    Let the charges begin with all the elected LIBS Emery
    OK,, now the big one.. The “BIG GUY”… Chancellor Biden LIED about his corruption.
    You sure know how to put your own foot in your ass.

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44. 

    Walt

    14 January 2021

    One more thing Emery,, your CNN is the biggest LIAR.
    You agree with Lemon?? Anyone who voted for Trump is a NAZI??
    His words Emery…

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45. 

    Walt

    14 January 2021

    Simple question for the Buzzard of Broad St.
    Is the 1ST. Amendment under attack?( by the Left, and their Lefty friends.)
    Read it, and see what it says.
    Denying permits to protest would be considered an infringement?

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46. 

    Barry Pruett

    14 January 2021

    Which idea do you disagree with? I know that you are smart enough to know that I am setting you up. My point is the populist ideas that Trump amplified are good policy. He is certainly not the most diplomatic of folks. Lol.

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47. 

    Walt

    14 January 2021

    Emery must be a charter member of AOC’s “squad”.

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48. 

    scenes

    14 January 2021

    lol. Good try Barry@8:06.
    It would be interesting to grind through this
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_executive_actions_by_Donald_Trump
    since EOs are fairly pure plays in ‘policy’. Probably all of us could learn something by a quick scan.
    on this note: “Does free speech Barry mean the freedom to lie?”
    Really, that’s a big complicated question. Also worth grinding through. The internet makes it yet more complex. The law vs. reality on the ground even more so. Generally, I’d say ‘yes’ (including sedition), but there are obviously exceptions like provable slander/libel, plus the role of government, the whole business of common carriers, etc. I could stand to know more about it.
    Something like this is useless because, well, they all do that.
    https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/list/?category=&ruling=false&speaker=joe-biden

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49. 

    scenes

    14 January 2021

    ‘AOC’s “squad”.’
    Thankfully no one got shot when they stopped by N. Pelosi’s office.
    https://s.abcnews.com/images/Politics/protest-pelosi-office-sh-ps-181113_hpMain_16x9_992.jpg

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50. 

    Scott O

    14 January 2021

    Barry P. 6:50 – “What is trumpism Paul?”
    Paul 7:01 – “Blind support and obedience to Trump and his ideas Barry.”
    OK, Paul – Name the people that post here that have ‘blind obedience’ to Trump?
    This should be good.

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