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Sandbox – 20jan21

[From this day on, Pravda reigns.  gjr]

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  1. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Pretty funny.
    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/gamestop-reddit-stock-shares
    https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/reddit-and-elon-musk-made-gamestop-stock-jump-even-more-in-after-hours-trading/
    https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/gamestop-short-sellers-squeezed-losses-reddit-traders-army-cohen-palihapitiya-2021-1-1030006226

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  2. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Some poetic justice.
    If BIG TECH can block use of THRIR service because they don’t like what you say,,,
    The YOUR politics has consequences as well. “HEY!! It’s a “private” business.
    https://www.teaparty.org/lol-biden-voters-stunned-when-gun-store-refuses-to-sell-them-weapons-ammo-461340/
    “The appropriately named Trigger Firearms and Reloading LLC in Jefferson City, Missouri announced on Facebook on Inauguration Day last week:
    “We don’t have guns or ammo for Biden Supporters. Sorry for the inconvenience.”
    It’s not hard to imagine why, precisely, this is—they have no interest in assisting those who would vote out the Second Amendment rights of their fellow citizens with freely and hypocritically practicing their own.”

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  3. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Beautiful thing. Yer state government at work.
    “SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — As much as $31 billion in California unemployment funds have been paid out to scammers, California EDD admits.”
    https://abc7news.com/california-edd-unemployment-fraud-ca-scam-insurance/10011810/
    Thirty..one..billion..dollars.
    That’s the beauty of government. It tends to pick your pocket and either (a)get scammed, (b)buy useless things, (c)shunt money to it’s friends.
    It’s gonna get a lot worse as the President Harris administration appears to be rather liberal with the EO’s. It’s all about coercion, but a person can make themselves more immune to control by the crazy people simply by withdrawing from them to the degree possible. Build your own Order of Leibowitz in your home.

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  4. 🐟 Avatar
    🐟

    Posted by: scenes | 27 January 2021 at 08:24 AM
    Build your own Order of Leibowitz in your home.
    👍

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  5. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Breaking news!!!
    Big fire in Nevada City. Across from the Bonanza Market.
    N.Pine and York St. Other houses threatened.
    Scratch that, TWO structures on fire.

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  6. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    Administrivia – Please note Scattershots 27jan21 update and ‘Our mega-fraudulent Covid …’ post, and continue your topic relevant comments there. Thanks.

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  7. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: NC fire. Homeless person no doubt.
    re: more Gamestop fun.
    I’ve been watching this whole story for a few days, what an amazing thing. Short squeezin’ heading into the pink sheets. Financial warfare.
    It would be funny for a reddit group to bring down a part of the financial system but then look at Albania. When your system of wealth is built on top of purest BS, these things happen.
    My guess is that either the trading platforms get shut down or the SEC steps in to favor the large houses on the losing side of the trade. Especially with President Xiden in power Wall Street runs the show, but it’s an amazing show right now.
    Of course CNN has a handle on it, after they got done gushing about the new Presidential dogs.
    “How Trumpism explains the GameStop stock surge”
    https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/politics/gamestop-stock-surge-trumpism/index.html

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  8. fish Avatar
    fish

    Godspeed Frau Blucher!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdIID_TGwhM

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  9. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    moi@11:51
    or Door Number Three, the social media groups who are messing with the hedge funds get shut down.
    “just in: Discord has shut down the /r/WallStreetBets server for “hate speech, glorifying violence, and spreading misinformation”, a spokesperson for Discord tells me. “To be clear, we did not ban this server due to financial fraud related to GameStop or other stocks””
    https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1354570005686398979

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    WHICH PARTY WILL “WIN” THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL
    “Most conservatives I know are disgusted that the Senate is going to try Donald Trump even now that he’s no longer president. At the same time, most think that holding the trial will either benefit Republicans or be a political wash.
    However, Andy McCarthy believes that it’s the Democrats who will come out as winners. He argues that the trial will “unite the Left while intensifying the Right’s internecine conflict.” He also says the trial will “distract attention from the new administration’s unimpressive start on vaccine roll-out.”
    As to the latter point, I’m not sure how distracting the trial will be. I doubt that many Americans will follow it. Few want to revisit the tumultuous final days of the Trump administration.
    In any case, if Americans believe Joe Biden is doing a poor job fighting the Wuhan coronavirus, a week-long impeachment trial of an ex-president isn’t likely to help him avoid a backlash.
    But won’t the trial divide Republicans? It doesn’t look that way. It looks like the GOP, with a few “usual suspect” exceptions, will unite to vote against convicting Trump.
    This will help the Party, in my view. It may demonstrate to Trump’s base that the GOP mainstream isn’t looking to throw Trump under the bus. The trial gives mainstream Republicans another chance to stand up for a man who still commands strong support within the party, and do so at no real cost.
    The worst thing that could happen to the Republican Party right now would be for Republicans who have become ardent Trump supporters to drift away from the Party as the Trump presidency recedes. The hope is that, as Biden’s leftist presidency comes into its own, Trumpites will stay with the GOP on ideological grounds. An impeachment trial in which nearly all Senate Republicans back Trump should help keep the party united in the meantime.
    Therefore, I’m guessing that the impeachment trial will either be a win for Republicans or, at worst, a non-factor in the ongoing struggle between the two parties.”
    ————————
    Well, the Hillary Machine tossed up ‘Trump got his Kneepads on and is going down on his buddy Putin and they are in cahoots together to do some big time conspiring’ horseshit to distract from the huge e-mail scandal Hillary never dealt with. What do you mean the State Department has zero records concerning communications with Ambassador Chris Stevens, any Benghazi records of repeated pleads for more security…..no State Department records at all? None? How could this be? What do you mean State Department records are on Hillary’s private server with gmail address in the linen closet in Bill and Hillary’s home. Trump is a Russian asset! Traitor!

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Have my G5 idling i will be there soon after i crush good paying jobs, they thought wrong when they got those good paying jobs. Now they can compete with all our new illegal alien voters for crappy jobs –
    Cruz blasts Kerry for ‘arrogant’ statement that solar power job is ‘better choice’ for workers
    ‘The Democratic elites have decided that blue-collar workers … they’ve made the wrong choices,’ Texas Republican tells ‘Fox News Primetime’
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ted-cruz-john-kerry-solar-power-better-choice-workers
    😉

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  12. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    What the HELL?? Just think if a Trump tried this.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-brother-promotes-relationship-with-president-in-inauguration-day-ad-for-florida-law-firm-report

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Walt | 27 January 2021 at 10:38 PM
    What the HELL?? Just think if a Trump tried this.
    The chorus of, Grifter, Grifter, Grifter….Emolument, Emolument, Emolument….Goombah, Goombah, Goombah would be deafening!
    To be followed shortly thereafter by Roberta whining for a Valium, Valium, Valium!

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  14. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    So it begins-the unraveling of Trumps illegal doings with Campaign money. And he gave Bannon a pardon from ripping off contributors to the Wall.
    “The supplement, filed Thursday morning with the Federal Election Commission, is in part based on Insider’s reporting in December about American Made Media Consultants, a secretive shell company that operated inside Trump’s 2020 campaign committee,” said the report. “American Made Media Consultants, the shell company, along with a political firm owned by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, ‘served as conduits that hid the ultimate recipients of nearly half of the campaign’s overall spending,’ the updated complaint states. ‘These schemes disguised which firms or individuals were working for Trump’s committees, how much and when they were being paid, and the purposes of those payments,’ it continued.”
    https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-campaign-complaint-legal-law-ammc-kushner-guilfoyle-2021-1

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  15. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    OHhh.. The Liberal shows up. More TDS?
    Too embarrassed to even mention the mentally deficient
    emperor who rules by exec order? (just signs whatever is put in front of him.)
    And even more ruling by decree today. You should be so pleased.
    Can you tell us how many jobs he’s created since being placed on the throne? The body count still rises of killed jobs.
    So Liberal,, tell us how happy you are.

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  16. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Of course Trump never used the Executive Order right Walt. Most of what he’s doint is reversing Trumps EO’s

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  17. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    that’s the LIBERAL’S excuse?
    OK LIBERAL,,, how many jobs did Trump kill by exec. order?
    Trump’s signatures did the country good. made things better.
    Go ahead LIBERAL,, prove that wrong.
    Never mind the lies he’s made. Promises MADE,, Promises BROKEN.
    Trump kept his promises. Your Master, not so much.
    Better take glass cleaning classes LIBERAL. Oh… You can’t get that job.. The ILLEGALS get those jobs.

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: paul emery | 28 January 2021 at 11:56 AM
    Of course Trump never used the Executive Order right Walt. Most of what he’s doint is reversing Trumps EO’s

    Well Punch….much like the debt (something else you’ve lost all interest in) President Le Petomaine is already way out in the lead on the EO front!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRB1mpEFeCQ

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  19. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    The big money whores of wall St. again rigg the system.
    https://www.breitbart.com/news/asian-shares-drop-after-us-stocks-worst-day-since-october/
    Some of the “little guys” stuck it to the short sellers.
    Now the traders show their cards and only allow the
    “big boys” to buy.. Everyone else can only sell.
    So some LIB behind the curtain has ended the “free market”.
    It’s not just Robinhood.. Scott trade and others are also in on the “freeze”.

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  20. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    To the LIBERAL… Chanslor Biden will make plenty of jobs for
    “going out of business” sign makers.
    Even the Proggy Press is slamming Chanslor Biden for writer’s cramp.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-white-house-cries-foul-after-new-york-times-editorial-board
    ” The House and Senate won’t pass my agenda, so I will just do it with a phone and a pen”
    Oh.. That’s right!!! The LIBERAL,, is a dictator fan.
    There is a Queen that he adors. He was even mad because we broke away from England. King George would have loved him.

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  21. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Walt | 28 January 2021 at 01:03 PM
    Here you go Walt……
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/7087-billion-reasons-why-exchanges-betrayed-retail-customers

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Not looking good for the shorts……

    How much? According to financial data analytics firm Ortex, short-sellers – mostly hedge funds – are sitting on estimated losses of $70.87 billion from their short positions in U.S. companies just in 2021 alone! Add puts and other underwater derivatives, and the real loss will be even greater. And just as striking: Ortex data showed that as of Wednesday, there were loss-making short positions on more than 5,000 U.S. firms.
    This means that virtually every hedge fund that had short positions on was getting hammered. So when dozens of these giant asset managers sat down and decided to polite call one broker after another what do you think happened.
    That’s right: Joe Sixpack was quickly sold down the river.

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  23. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    This is a direct quote from one of the nutcases Republicans have elected to the House:
    QAnon-loving Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in 2018 posted a bizarre conspiracy theory on her Facebook page involving then-California Gov. Jerry Brown using a giant space laser to deliberately start wildfires.
    Media Matters on Thursday revealed that Greene, in a since-deleted Facebook post from November 2018, speculated that Brown started the fires in order to clear out forests in areas where he wanted to build a high-speed rail line up the California coast.
    At the center of Greene’s theory was a partnership between utility company Pacific Gas and Electricity (PG&E) and renewable energy startup Solaren.
    Greene argued that PG&E and Solaren sent solar power generators up into space that were then used to beam the sun’s energy back down to Earth to start the California wildfires.
    “If they are beaming the suns energy back to Earth, I’m sure they wouldn’t ever miss a transmitter receiving station right??!!” she wrote. “What would that look like anyway? A laser beam or light beam coming down to Earth I guess. Could that cause a fire? Hmmm, I don’t know. I hope not! That wouldn’t look so good for PG&E, Rothschild Inc, Solaren or Jerry Brown who sure does seem fond of PG&E.”
    https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/marjorie-taylor-greene-penned-conspiracy-theory-laser-beam-space-started-deadly-2018

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  24. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I’ll trade you Maxine Waters for Greene… a duel, 10 paces. Hamilton and Burr.

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  25. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    The LIBERAL posts from the Proggy Press.
    Media(don’t)matters? Commie Press, LIBERAL.
    Did you get a free tinfoil hat just for taking the clickbait?
    The LIBERAL has yet to state it’s point of view for voting for the loss of 30,000 jobs(and climbing) Not just pipeline workers,, Truck manufacturers, Caterpillar, and all equipment builders, which takes out the ones those paychecks were spent on.
    First rule about LIB club,, is you don’t talk about LIB club.
    The LIBERAL will NEVER speak ill of his Dear Leader.
    You would think the LIBERAL is shining the shoes of Lil’ Fat kid.

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  26. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    See LIBERAL?? Was I correct or what??
    https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/01/28/chinese-defense-ministry-taiwan-independence-means-war/
    “The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will take all necessary measures to “crush” efforts supporting Taiwanese sovereignty because “Taiwan independence means war,” a spokesman for China’s Ministry of National Defense said Thursday.”
    Your friends know damned well “glassjaw” Joe has no balls to fight China. You LIBS are cowards.

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  27. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Really Gregory!!! That’s your choice
    Greene is a QAnon follower you know. Here’s a direct quote from her:
    “QAnon is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out.”
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/us/politics/qanon-candidates-marjorie-taylor-greene.html

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe gives away the farm to putin in first call like a good little putin cuddler –
    Biden’s predecessor, President Donald Trump, was skeptical of the New START treaty and pushed for significant concessions from the Russians, or better yet a new trilateral agreement that would include China. The Russians proposed a one-year extension of New START, which was due to expire in February 2021, but Biden surprised them by offering five.
    There was no mention of any reciprocal concessions from the Russians.
    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2021/01/27/biden-gives-putin-win-start-treaty-upgrade-agreement/
    😉

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  29. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    That must be the LIBERAL’S “new” religion. the belief of “Q”..
    He has been know to change religions like a snake sheds skin.
    Has the LIB kissed Emperor Biden’s ass today?
    But Biden has licked Putin’s.

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  30. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    It’s your gal Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene who is into QAanon Walt. You must agree with her when she says “QAnon is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out.”

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  31. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    WOW LIBERAL,, you feeling some guilt?

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  32. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    LIBERAL…. You have no room to point fingers at one’s beliefs.
    Like I said.. You have shed skins more times than a certain TROLL has sock puppets.

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  33. fish Avatar
    fish

    If there’s ever an Olympic event for frantic pearl clutching I think you’ve got the Gold Punch!
    QANON told me to say that – END COMMUNICATION

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  34. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    The LIB seems to really understand the “Q”.. A closet believer?
    He does hang on their every word.

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  35. Q🐟 Avatar
    Q🐟

    Oh……this is why Punchy is under his bed….!

    GOP Congresswoman Blamed Wildfires on Secret Jewish Space Laser

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/marjorie-taylor-greene-qanon-wildfires-space-laser-rothschild-execute.html
    You should just man up and deal with reality Punch! Let Ruth Marcus be your Spirit Animal
    Ruth Marcus
    @RuthMarcus
    ·
    40m
    This Jewish space laser thing makes no sense to me. Because, as every Jewish mother knows, you could put an eye out with that!

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  36. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    The funny thing is, the LIBERAL believes,,, SHE believes it.
    People like the LIB are so fun to watch take the bait.
    Someone needs to take the LIB bigfoot hunting when the season opens. (21ST century snipe hunt?) But hey!! What a way to drag in revenue selling hunting permits.

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  37. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    The LIBS wanted “redistribution of wealth”… Right?
    Well the shot sellers are the rich and powerful of the left!
    The Reddit gang did a little “redistributing”,, and who’s pissed? The Left!
    Some asswipe wants to compare what these people did to the “attack” on capitol hill? So rich LIBS got beat at their own game and cry foul? There are some rich young day traders today.

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  38. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Doesn’t feel like there is less transparency with “President Biden?” Lol

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Freebie: new: one hour documentary on Thomas Sowell. He had a rough start out the gate, but preserved anyway.
    ‘Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World’
    https://patriotpost.us/videos/77293-thomas-sowell-common-sense-in-a-senseless-world-2021-01-27?

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Wong think on the march –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/28/peta-using-animal-names-verbal-insults-supremacist-language/
    😉

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  41. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Yes Barry,, “transparency”..We can see right through them.(and their BS)

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    OH NOES that was wong of me er a wrong.
    😉

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  43. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Now I thought they were talking about the LIBERAL.
    Even tootsie roll getting squeezed?
    https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/01/27/why-tootsie-roll-stock-is-suddenly-spiking-higher/

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Re: The transfer of billions from the very wealthy to the common man, aka, the Reddit Revolution. If you know a little bit of basics of short selling, you can skip to 16:00 mark. Or 18:00 mark, or 24:00 mark if you are into political ramifications. Interesting moments of unity.
    VIDEO: The Reddit Revolution, GameStop and Melvin Capital
    One of the most interesting and potentially significant conflicts to happen in some time — not just financially but culturally and politically — deserves serious scrutiny.
    By Glenn Greenwald
    https://greenwald.substack.com/p/video-the-reddit-revolution-gamestop-c69

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  45. fish Avatar
    fish

    ……the funny!

    AYFKM?! Dem Sen. Diane Savino shrieks over violent political quote and demands ACTION UNTIL she learns it came from Maxine Waters

    https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2021/01/29/ayfkm-dem-sen-diane-savino-shrieks-over-violent-political-quote-and-demands-action-until-she-learns-it-came-from-maxine-waters/

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  46. fish Avatar
    fish

    Reading material…….
    https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-28-at-7.53.43-PM.png?w=1004&ssl=1

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  47. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    For Walt….and Fish….and Scott…..and all you little people out there with broken thinkers. 🙂
    THE WEEK IN PICTURES: REDDIT HOOD EDITION
    This is the week that Reddit became a greater menace to the modern world than Donald Trump’s defunct Twitter feed. Or at least that’s what the major media trying to hold on to their three readers would have you think. Hasn’t President Biden come up with an executive order that will make everyone come out even, and deliver cute free puppies while we’re at it? If only GameStop made solar panels. Oh, and we’re not quite done with Bernie memes yet.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/01/the-week-in-pictures-reddit-hood-edition.php

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  48. NC Right Wing Watch Avatar
    NC Right Wing Watch

    Back again to visit Rebane Ruminations, the Home of White Christian Nationalism in Nevada County!
    leftcoastrightwatch.org
    Our friends at the home office have really enjoyed reading some of your posts. You boys have been on good behavior for the most part but Walter B, you have become a favorite of my friends for your prolific use of LIBERAL 30 times a day. LIBERAL. LIBERAL LIBERAL. Like its a bad word. Liberals actually won the election Walter. The majority of the nation voted for Liberals. Great fun.
    Everyone is having a good laugh at you Walter.
    How did you like last night’s news about your Colleagues and Brothers in Arms, The Proud Boys? Several members of which are facing 20 years in the slammer. You must be very proud of these brave patriots. Too bad that racist cabal will be in tatters after the Merrick Garland and the Feds get done with them. And all the other organizations you guys associate and sympathize with. Its going to be very satisfying to watch these racists and terrorists get put away.
    Be good or be gone.
    Check us out on Twitter
    leftcoastrightwatch.org

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  49. fish Avatar
    fish

    More from the Xho Bi Den administration …….

    Biden has said vaccine distribution was in “worse shape than we anticipated.” White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain said a Trump administration plan “did not really exist.” Adviser Cedric Richmond said they “didn’t leave a plan.” Xavier Becerra, Biden’s choice for health secretary, said it was like taking over a plane in a nosedive.
    But while Biden’s approach to the virus — frank warnings about the pandemic, mask mandates on federal property — is a reversal from Trump’s policies, his administration’s distribution of vaccines so far looks little different from that of its predecessor. Before Biden was sworn in, vaccines already were being delivered at a pace to meet his goal of 100 million doses in his first 100 days as president.
    The Biden administration has said they’ll order new doses, but will do so by exercising options in contracts negotiated by the previous administration, which thought it premature to do so. They say they’ll use the Defense Production Act, which Trump used repeatedly. Rather than a total overhaul, they have otherwise made course corrections and modest shifts. Data released Friday by Johnson & Johnson will fuel hopes that a third vaccine soon could hit the U.S. market. -Bloomberg

    We thank Xho Bi Den for bold leadership in satisfying Mandate of Heaven.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/biden-plagiarizes-again-after-bloomberg-points-out-virus-plan-basically-trumps

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  50. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    fish 348pm – good summary Mr fish. The endless march of Democrat Big Lies started long ago, and now is getting into full swing. Progressive pravda will engulf all, and the lightly read will follow like lemmings.

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