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[The rabid Left is now advising all who would listen across the land not to hire or have anything to do with people who were part of the Trump administration.  And sure enough, that aspect of our now-arrived cancel culture is taking hold.  Today many of the Left’s lackies are publicly putting such people on their permanently banned list (part of their national unity campaign).  But how would it be if those of the counter-cancel culture grew some balls and started advertising for employees whose desiderata showed they had been a part of Trump’s administration – if not on the WH staff, then in one of the cabinet level departments or other agencies that were led by political appointees who brought along their high level colleagues and former staffers to help administer the federal bureaucracies calcified with thousands of career leftwingers?  If they can do it, why can’t we?  gjr]

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249 responses to “Sandbox – 2mar21”

  1. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    George
    Lets start with his handling and distribution of the Covid vaccine after Trumps dismal failure to fulfill his promise of 100 million vaccines by Dec.
    “President Donald Trump promised to have 100 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine prepared by the end of 2020, but only 2.1 million doses have been administered thus far. Production delays may have severely undercut the actual number of manufactured doses to about half of Trump’s pledged amount.”
    https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=trp&hsimp=yhs-001&grd=1&type=Y61_F1_148993_102720&p=trump+promise+Dec+vaccine
    Also his spearheading leadership for the Covid Aide bill set to pass within days. Trump advocated for $2000 financial assistance but couldn’t get it passed. Biden will succeed at that.

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  2. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1047am – What promise? You and I have profoundly different definitions for ‘promise’. Trump made C19 vaccines possible in the 20-21 timeframe, for that alone he should become a Nobel laureate. And I didn’t agree with Trump’s $2,000 checks, nor do I agree with anyone who subsequently promises to send out such stimulus when we still have $1T of unspent previous stimulus.

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  3. Walt Avatar

    Hell! Biden ain’t even going to give 2000 bucks AS HE PROMISED
    “On day one”.
    How’s that work’n for ya’ Emery?

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  4. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    George
    It was Trump not Biden that didn’t spend the $1T in stimulus. Do you know why that is?
    You sure didn’t speak out about your opposition to the $2000 stimulus when Trump was Pres but not it’s a big deal. Curious about your line of thinking that matter. Biden fulfilled Trumps policy or soon will.

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  5. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1118am – Actually, it has been the states that have not spent the money available to them under Dem drafted stimulus package. Re timing my opposition – there are too many things that I support and oppose for me to comment on all of them. My stated policy on such ‘stimulus spending’ is a matter of record in these pages, and it most certainly covers opposition to air-dropping such checks across the land (remember how effective was ‘Helicopter Ben’ Bernanke with his checks?).

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    Debt Punch……you were vehemently against more debt when Trump proposed it! Now that Grampa Joe wants to blow through two trillion (there is also discussion about a further 4 trillion after Joey Fingers bails out democrat cities abysmal fiscal management policies….congrats….taxpayers across the country will be paying the bloated pensions of Illinois state employees. So make sure to shake all the coins out of your guitar case Uncle Sugar is going to need them!) you are completely sanguine about it.
    Why wouldn’t you be completely in favor of more debt….you won’t be paying it….no heirs either…..pretty sweet!
    Punchy McFreeclinic strikes again!

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  7. Walt Avatar

    JEZZZzzzz Emery, Trump could have proposed 4000 bucks and your friends the freeloaders would have cheered. Now tell us.. You REALLY THINK the queen of the DEMNED would give Trump that “win”? Trump could have backed a 4 trillion spending.(You proggys LOVE spending other people’s money) And your queen would nix it.
    Your so full of shit,, we can smell you in PV.

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  8. Walt Avatar

    Well,, I’m sure Emery has no worries….
    https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2021/03/04/florida-man-20-years-prison-severing-wifes-lovers-penis/
    “here hunn,,, “sausage” for breakfast.”…. Look familiar?

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  9. Walt Avatar

    One more for “no voter fraud” Emery.
    Yup,, mail in ballots are safe and secure, as Emery stated before the election.
    https://dailycaller.com/2021/03/04/paterson-new-jersey-voter-fraud-indictment-alex-mendez-michael-jackson/
    “Two Paterson, New Jersey city council members were indicted by a state grand jury for alleged election fraud related to a May, 2020 special election, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced Wednesday.
    The investigation began after Paterson City Councilman Alex Mendez, won the May special election to fill a council seat. Voter fraud claims soon surfaced, however. The U.S Postal Inspection Service alerted Grewal’s office that “numerous” mail-in ballots were found stuffed in a Haledon mailbox. Hundreds of mail-in ballots were also discovered stuffed in a Paterson mailbox, according to Grewal’s announcement.
    Grewal charged Mendez, Paterson City Councilman Michael Jackson and two others in June.
    Mendez allegedly approached multiple voters in Paterson – where he was running for office – to collect their official mail-in ballots for delivery. Grewal’s office alleged Mendez delivered the ballots to the Passaic County Board of Elections “without information identifying the bearer, in violation of state election laws.””

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  10. Walt Avatar

    Iceland update
    “A magnitude 8.54 earthquake shook the country, according to information from the Icelandic Meteorological Office. The earthquake is in a similar area as previous earthquakes, at Fagradalsfjall. ” (just a few minutes ago)
    https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2021/03/04/staersti_skjalftinn_i_ruma_tvo_solarhringa/
    WOW!! The globe is getting whacked like a redheaded stepchild.

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  11. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    I was noting the hypocrisy fish of the Trumpers who were also Tea Partiers who were so much against deficit spending but never said a peep about the $7 Trillion debt that Trump ran up in just 4 years, an all time record. Probably over $8 Trillion when you add in his bill for the Pandemic relief that he supported in early Jan before he was tossed out of left. Remember he gave huge tax breaks for the rich with just chump change for the working class.
    Trump inherited a steady growth economy from Obama who inherited a trashed economy from Bush. Trump then ran it into the ground. No wonder he lost the election.

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  12. Walt Avatar

    You have yet to say just which poor bastard gave you a paying job Emery.
    Oh… Wait… You worked for a government subsidised radio station.

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  13. Walt Avatar

    DAMN,, Emery,, Basement Joe is MIA
    “Joe Biden is showing himself to be an “absentee president” by not holding a solo press conference or scheduling an address to Congress despite having been in office for more than six weeks, Joe Concha told “America Reports” Thursday.”
    Gotta hide the cognitive deficiencies at all costs.
    “Where am I?” Biden isn’t up for the job…. But we knew that before the rigged election.

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee
  15. Walt Avatar

    Sad to see Emery’s mind is as gone as Biden’s.
    Back to BDS, “O”zero is still his hero.
    That Sundowner syndrome has taken hold but good.
    What you whining about Emery? You got the crashed economy from the Kung Flu you and all the LIBS were hoping for.
    Your pals in RED China gave you your wildest desire. What else could ruin Trump’s great national revival? You even got states to break their own election laws. “Mail in ballots” the best way to rig an election.. No chain of custody. No ID’s to worry about.

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  16. Walt Avatar

    Looks like Emery is on Biden time,,, puts a “lid on it” around 7.

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Quotes
    Insight: “Government will not fail to employ education to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.” —William Godwin (1756-1836)
    Upright: “The authors of the Constitution worried that Congress would try to seize control of presidential selection using dirty tricks like those in HR 1. … The framers provided in Article II, Sec. 1 that only state legislatures would have the power to determine how the president is chosen. No national rules. But Pelosi has no qualms about trashing the Constitution to kneecap her opponents.” —Betsy McCaughey
    For the record: “Election reform is a national imperative, but under our Constitution, election reform must be undertaken at the state level. Our Founders limited Congress’ role in conducting our elections for good reason: They wanted elections to be administered closest to the people, free from undue influence of the national government.” —Mike Pence
    Re: The Left: “New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is calling for the state legislature to revoke Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s emergency powers, joining nine Democrats as well as the state’s Republicans in doing so. … But why now? … Sexual harassment is indeed terrible, particularly from a position of authority, and especially from a position of public trust. A proven charge stands alone as reason to fire a man. But what about spending months lying and blaming others for 15,000 deaths in vulnerable elderly care facilities? Was that not enough to immediately end emergency authorities when it was exposed and then admitted? … The real reason for Cuomo’s coming fall are that power and ambition have seen weakness and smelled blood. Just as Attorney General Cuomo once took down a wounded Spitzer, a man who had called himself ‘a f–king steamroller,‘ before taking his place, a weakened Cuomo now finds himself in the cross-hairs.” —Christopher Bedford
    A trip down memory lane: “The recent revelations about sexual assault and harassment pervasive in our society are most disturbing. We are leading the way forward with the nation’s most comprehensive reform package.” —Andrew Cuomo, March 19, 2018
    That didn’t age well: “Too many women are sexually assaulted while in college. Joined @NYGuvCuomo to discuss why #EnoughIsEnough!” —Nancy Pelosi in 2015
    Race bait I: “Retail pharmacies told to prioritize vaccinating teachers but not getting extra supply. This means taking vaccine away from higher-risk persons & communities of color to vaccine young healthy teachers. This is an ANTI-EQUITY move. Teachers skew white.” —Celine Gounder, who served on Team Biden’s COVID-19 Advisory Board
    Race bait II: “We have to call out the privilege behind the largely white wealthy parents driving the push for a rushed return [to in-person learning].” —United Teachers Los Angeles President Cecily Myart-Cruz
    And last… “Just remember Cardi B’s ‘WAP’ was NPR’s song of the year, but Dr. Seuss books are offensive.” —Lisa Daftari
    memes
    https://patriotpost.us/memes/78169-john-brennan-2021-03-04?
    https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10158089100850914/?

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I am sorry folks, but you have to be a citizen to vote. Or, we can trust and not verify. Boy, are they ever trying to cram this through In warp speed.
    Pelosi’s H.R. 1 Is an Authoritarian Outrage
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/03/pelosis-h-r-1-is-an-authoritarian-outrage/
    “What Pence failed to mention in his op-ed is that the bill would also mandate 15 days of early voting, automatic voter registration, and online voter registration. It would compel states to count ballots cast by voters who are in the wrong precincts, prohibit election officials from reviewing the eligibility of voters, and bar officials from removing ineligible voters from the rolls. It would create a Soviet-sounding “Commission to Protect Democratic Institutions” to circumvent the judicial system.
    Now, even if you support some of these proposals on a state level, most of them didn’t exist in any state a few years ago.“

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  19. Walt Avatar

    WOW,,, gotta give a hat tip to the guy.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fired-texas-electric-grid-chief-refuses-800000-severance-package
    “A spokesperson for ERCOT told Fox News that Bill Magness has said he will not “seek or accept” any severance package – a safety net equating to more than $800,000, which is one year of his base salary, according to his employment contract. “

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    What the hell else would you expect from the owner of the compost!! Kind of fits the bill in many ways of a Gobbles clone just not as much of a speaker, kind of like the tech master of the universe who needed a booster seat at a federal hearing !-
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/amazon-cancel-censor-content-clarence-thomas-michael-brown-gender-books
    😉

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  21. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Biden is cruising
    AP poll puts Biden job approval at 60 percent
    Other public polling published this week has shown Biden with similar margins of support.
    A solid majority of Americans say they approve of President Joe Biden’s early job performance, according to a new survey, with even more respondents giving him positive marks for his management of the coronavirus pandemic.
    The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released Friday reports that 60 percent of U.S. adults surveyed approve of Biden’s handling of his job, including 94 percent of Democrats and 22 percent of Republicans.
    https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/05/poll-biden-job-approval-60-percent-473849

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  22. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 849am – Do you believe that there are 60% of Americans who even know what Biden has done in his “early job performance”? Hint1: You can bet the ranch that 94% of Democrats have no clue about Bumblebrain’s ‘accomplishments’, most certainly not their disastrous impact on our lives. Hint2: I asked you a question.

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  23. Paul E Crossote Avatar
    Paul E Crossote

    I love Joe Biden. He is a wonderful President. I keep my President Joe figurine in my purse and take it out to rub his legs to calm my stress.

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  24. Walt Avatar

    Emery just proves “polls” are bullshit.
    Only donkey strokers buy into them.

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  25. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: paul emery | 05 March 2021 at 08:49 AM
    Biden is cruising…..

    Well of course he is……it’s not like he’s President McOrangehitler…..the prestige press can get back to their preferred role of democrat fellators (although I’m not sure Xho Bai Den gets much out of it these days!) a veritable army of compliant Punchy Mc Bidenpuffers hyping the feeble old pol.

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  26. Walt Avatar

    This may put a cramp in the AGW true believers style.
    ““If an eruption occurs, it would likely mark the beginning of such a [volcanic] period – lasting a few centuries, I believe,” states Magnús Á. Sigurgeirsson, geologist at ÍSOR Iceland GeoSurvey – a consulting and research institute in the field of geothermal sciences and utilization.
    “That’s at least how it has been the past three times, and even dating further back, but we don’t have as exact data available on that,” he tells mbl.is . He is referring to the uncertainty regarding whether an eruption can be expected soon on the Reykjanes peninsula, Southwest Iceland.”
    https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2021/03/05/could_volcanic_period_be_ahead/
    Better sacrifice yourself to Gyia Emery,, You might save the planet.

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  27. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    George asks me: “Do you believe that there are 60% of Americans who even know what Biden has done in his “early job performance”?
    George, I think it’s mainly a question of character that influences people although Bidens handling of the covid vaccine distribution has met with general satisfaction. A rebound of the economy will then follow and is already starting to be evident. George, remember when “character” was an important issue during Bush vs Clinton in ’92? What is your opinion of Trumps character?

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  28. Walt Avatar

    Just what has Biden done Emery? (Jack shit is the answer)
    Biden is riding Trump’s coattails.
    Remember? your happy with all of Biden’s ending of Trump achievements. From killing jobs, to raising prescription drug prices.
    C”mon ol’ boy.. cheer for the high fuel prices… You got what you wanted.

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  29. Walt Avatar

    Yup, it’s STILL Trump’s economy.
    “Carney: Donald Trump Left Us With A Much Stronger Economy Than Anyone Thought
    “the economic picture has failed to live up to the “dark winter” that President Joe Biden said America was facing. Instead, the weight of the economic data demonstrates that the economy at the tail end of the Trump administration was far stronger than it was given credit for.”
    Sorry LIBS,, Biden and LIBS have done nothing to help the economy,, But have done plenty to put a boot on its neck.

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  30. Walt Avatar

    See O ponytail of stupidity?
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/several-lawmakers-will-demand-answers-from-interior-dept-on-oil-and-gas-issues
    Can’t claim ignorance.. That can be fixed.. But you can’t fix stupid.

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  31. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1107pm – First, thanks for the answer. Re character: I believe Biden to be one of the finest snake oil salesman in America. The lamestream has burnished his ‘character’ to an extent that no Democrat knows of his actual (non)accomplishments or the influence peddling corruption that he and his family have used to make their fortune. So naturally, Bumblebrain keeps coming across as a kindly old gentleman whose copy has been and will be managed to a fare-thee-well by his handlers. That deficit is the prime reason that his will continue as the most opaque and disastrous administration, far eclipsing Obama’s record. For the nation’s light readers all this comes across in an aura of expertly manufactured ‘character’.
    Given the record in these pages, there is little more that I can say about Trump’s character – it starts out with bad optics which he constantly reinforces, and from there day-in day-out it continues to be amplified and even distorted by the lamestream

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  32. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Look what creepy grampa joe has done for the black community. With new new flood of illegals expect it continue to rise –
    The unemployment rate for Black Americans rose to 9.9%, the highest among all race groups tracked, the Labor Department said Friday.
    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/black-unemployment-rate-rises-despite-143209839.html
    😉

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  33. Walt Avatar

    Well,,, we sure didn’t see any of this when Trump was President.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/iranian-terrorists-claim-active-cells-washington-dc
    “Iranian militia groups claim to have active cells of operatives stationed in Washington, D.C., and other U.S. cities, according to chatter in online forums used by these groups.”

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Look who is thanking Bieden(other than Emery)
    “Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, crowed at Thursday’s OPEC meeting that the American energy revolution is over, OPEC would soon regain control over oil markets, and “Drill, baby, drill is gone forever.””
    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2021/03/05/saudi-energy-minister-declares-end-american-energy-revolution-drill-baby-drill-is-gone-forever/
    So Emery and fellow ECO nuts,, how come you’re not pushing solar on those with the most sun?

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  35. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe needs another months rest in the basement –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/psaki-biden-press-conference-before-end-month
    😉

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  36. George Rebane Avatar

    I wonder how our liberal neighbors are tracking the Big Lie that our southern border is not in crisis and out of control. With our president violating his constitutional duty to secure the nation, and instead opening the border to INVITE hundreds of thousands (cum millions) of aliens to illegally cross our borders and disappear into our hinterland, only to re-emerge at some not-so-distant future time with their hands out seeking to get first in line for every imaginable benefit that our tax payers can buy, and then be put on the path to citizenship as the cherry on the cake. And our pea-brain progressives identify and sell these illegal aliens as some kind of undocumented and deserving immigrants to whom America owes an unending debt and responsibility. In the meantime our black citizens continue to be bamboozled by their Democrat plantation masters who convince them that all these new Hispanics will have no impact on their own fortunes which are again sinking now that Trump is gone.

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  37. Robert Avatar
    Robert

    To anyone here besmirching the character of one Donald J. Trump remember this – he brought two new ideals under the umbrella of conservative family values. Divorce and adultery. That’s right. He cheated on his first wife with his second, his second with his third and her with a pornstar! To be forever known as the hat trick of integrity…top that Joe Biden! Also he cheats at golf…nuff said.

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  38. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Robert | 05 March 2021 at 02:45 PM
    To anyone here besmirching the character of one Donald J. Trump remember this – he brought two new ideals under the umbrella of conservative family values. Divorce and adultery. That’s right. He cheated on his first wife with his second, his second with his third and her with a pornstar! To be forever known as the hat trick of integrity…top that Joe Biden! Also he cheats at golf…nuff said.

    Remember when Bill Clinton told us that….”even presidents have private lives” (except when your spending all that time on Epstein Island)….guess what…..we listened!
    Babsy….no one was looking to him for moral clarity…..they were looking to him because he wasn’t Hillary Clinton.
    ….nuff said.

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  39. fish Avatar
    fish

    During his opening monologue on Thursday, Fox News’s Tucker Carlson excoriated the ongoing military occupation of Washington, D.C. and explained why it’s still there and what has liberals so fearful.

    While the left is admittedly scared of pretty much everything, he acknowledged, fear of “the other” has them most wound up now.
    “When you’re a liberal, the world is a very scary place, but there is one fear that rises above all other fears in the liberal mind: The fear of “the other.” Like all primitive cultures, modern liberalism is tribal,” he said. “Liberals understand most of the American continent as a mysterious dark space, like a medieval map populated by drooling Trump voters and violent illiterates with extra chromosomes.
    “Liberals despise people like this, of course, and on some level, they know they’re hated right back,” he continued. “They worry that someday there will be a backlash against the people in charge, which, of course, is them. That’s their biggest fear, a peasant revolt.”
    And so, D.C. looks like Baghdad’s Green Zone, he said.
    The left and right were fully prepared for another “insurrection” on March 4, but like a child fearful of the monster in the closet, the threat wasn’t real.

    Not a single weapon found except the horns on that screwballs helmet…….progressives wetting themselves over an “armed insurrection”!
    I remember a time when the left wasn’t comprised primarily of pearl clutching pussies!
    ……the good old days!

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  40. Walt Avatar

    More Rx Bobby! MORE Rx!!! Your TDS is getting worse!
    But you voted for “Finger bang’n” Biden. Hair sniff’n just wasn’t enough. Now run along and play with his blond leg hairs…..

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  41. Walt Avatar

    Sorry Bobby,, no raise for you as burger flipper at the greasy spoon.
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/8-democrats-minimum-wage-sanders
    Your beloved Proggys just gave it ya’ hard and dry.
    Better do a good job, there is an illegal who will take half of what you demand.

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    And the bodies keep falling in comrade deblasios shit hole –
    NYC sees 75% jump in February shootings; de Blasio insists: ‘We are the safest big city in America’
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-february-shootings-de-blasio-safest-big-city-in-america
    😉

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    What has eluded our dear unfriends on the dark side of the street is why, in 2016, the people revolted and for the first time in our nation’s history, enough folks elected someone who did not have a prior military background or was a politician.
    They still haven’t figured it out. Why, why, why?? No comprende. Clueless.

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  44. Walt Avatar

    This NEVER happened when Dad was a military food contractor.
    Food quality was the most important thing.
    https://dailycaller.com/2021/03/05/national-guard-washington-dc-metal-shavings-undercooked-food-capitol/

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  45. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You have to wonder if the DC scum bags gave the contract to a fellow traveler @713 –
    😉

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  46. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    What’s that smell? Good Lord, it smells like rats.
    OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS: WORSE THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE
    “A shocking discovery out of a Baltimore City high school, where Project Baltimore has found hundreds of students are failing. It’s a school where a student who passed three classes in four years, ranks near the top half of his class with a 0.13 grade point average.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/03/our-public-schools-worse-than-you-can-imagine.php
    ———————
    Click bait: ‘DESANTIS MUST BE DESTROYED’
    Oops, that belongs under “Unity” stuff. 🙂

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