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George Rebane

In a democracy it's never the minority, but always the lightly read majority that votes in the tyrant.

“… scientific evidence supporting facemasks’ efficacy is lacking, adverse physiological, psychological and health effects are established.”  So reports our NIH here.  And it’s federal law that you have to wear a face mask during your entire flight when traveling.  Another righthand/lefthand confusion by government that no liberal in the land notices as they back more and more things an ever larger government will do to us.  The rest of us see it for what it is – perennially expanding state power and control.

Rebane’s “far right ideology” continues to be a characteristic of my political demeanor that is oft cited, yet unsubstantiated, by local liberals.  Now don’t get me wrong, I may have no problem being characterized with that label if I or my detractors knew the tenets of a far right ideology, tenets which I share as demonstrated by my published credo and extensive oeuvre of socio-political commentaries.  I am truly interested in getting some liberal of sufficient intellect to offer up a cogent list (it doesn’t have to be long) of evidence that places me in their concept of the far right of our political spectrum.

[1may21 update]  Not one of our leftwing worthies would/could? step up to the plate and give even one substantive example of my ‘far right’ attributes.  This, of course, speaks to the larger problem shared by our semantically simplistic Left.  They have no idea what are the definitions of the everyday words they use, like  ‘racist’, ‘white supremacist’, ‘white nationalist’, ‘misogynist’, ‘rightwinger’, …, and now ‘far right’.  To them it is all part of the approved narrative passed to them from their thought leaders – it’s completely acceptable in their circles to simply parrot, as long as you parrot the proper words.  And speaking of semantically simplistic, to them such terms as ‘socialist’ and ‘socialism’ have binary meanings.  If a person or country does not explicitly subscribe to ALL the attributes that define a socialist, then neither he nor the jurisdiction is socialist.  The same goes for socialism; it’s all or none – nothing is seen to progress toward socialism until its final attribute is in place and verified.

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173 responses to “Scattershots – 21apr21 (updated 1may21)”

  1. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    George, since they won’t do it, I guess I’ll have to. Short list.
    Reasons why you are far right:
    1. Educated. In science no less. You thrive on facts;
    2. Know the difference between facts and opinions/feelings;
    3. Has read the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence more than once;
    4. Opposes illegal aliens coming into the U.S., all 20+M of ’em;
    5. Are a member of a religion;
    Shah mat!

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  2. George Rebane Avatar

    Efox 411pm – Shah mat! indeed. You’ve expanded the indictment to encompass attributes beyond the demonstrated right wing tenets that I requested. And you’re right, of course, their indictment does encompass attributes regardless of tenets expressed or not.

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  3. Walt Avatar

    Gotta love Ca. and their never ending ideas for building codes.
    I just learned this one today.. You know those trash enclosures
    you find behind every commercial building? Walled in, great roof,, now get this! Hot and cold water is to be supplied!
    You know,, to clean out the dumpers…. Right? Oh.. Grease traps and drains to the city sewer as well…
    Talk about an invitation for the local bum population to lay claim to.

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Not the article, but get a load of the picture. The Del Oro makes the big time. Oh, I reckon the article may be on topic.
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/22/pandemic-policies-that-slashed-government-regulations-deserve-to-stay-permanent/

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Wait didn’t they all just say the immigration crisis was caused by racism???
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-to-put-together-anti-corruption-task-force-to-take-on-immigration
    😉

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don’t hold your breath. A lefty will apologize for lying when hell freezes over.
    ‘Will the Times apologize for lying about Officer Sicknick’s death?’
    https://nypost.com/2021/04/22/will-the-times-apologize-for-lying-about-officer-sicknicks-death/

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  7. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Ah well, as Poll Emery so artlessly stated on Jan 9, 2021.
    “After Capitol Hill Police Officer Brian Sicknick was murdered during Wednesday’s insurrection by Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol, Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker Nancy Pelosi called his grieving family to offer their condolences. ”
    I expect that the Times and the local newshound will apologize in a joint statement.
    Pretty well sums it all up:
    https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/peak-national-dysfunction/
    At this point, I’d say that fence straddling is over. An argument about the fine details of current abortion or environmental law can wait until the real threat either dissipates or reigns throughout the land.

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  8. fish Avatar
    fish

    PEAK NATIONAL DYSFUNCTION

    ……you ain’t seen nothing yet.

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  9. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Scenes
    I have yet to see you distance yourself from Trump and his +30,000 lies before being dumped by the voters. When you do I’ll comment. Here’s a link for your convenience
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/

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  10. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Citing the Washington post is analogous to citing the Ministry of truth. Paul you just have to do better

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  11. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Barry
    Something like the Federalist or Kustler.com or Walts favorite The Daily Caller. Do you consider those sources to be bastions if truth and wisdom?

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  12. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paywall, punch.
    How many of the ‘lies’ are pure hyperbole or inconsequentialities?
    Like what is your your favorite color?
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0D7hFHfLEyk

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  13. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    I don’t read any of that stuff except I occasionally read a federalist article here and there. I also glean the Internet for facts not opinions. I know what rhetoric and an agenda looks like and do my best to filter by bias. You should try it.

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  14. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    sp “bastions of truth”

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The pony tail of ignorance is right in line with huffpo –
    At no point did HuffPost show Republicans had done anything but fill vacancies, which does not fit the definition of “court-packing.”
    “HuffPost is apparently partaking in the new liberal trend to redefine words – they have erroneously conflated filling judicial vacancies with ‘court packing’ and then based on that conflation, accused Sen. Cruz of gaslighting. It’s patently absurd and if anyone’s guilty of gaslighting, it’s the editors at HuffPost,” a spokesman for Cruz told Fox News.
    The term refers to a failed effort first undertaken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to expand the size of the Supreme Court from 9 to 15 judges. Biden, when he was in the U.S. Senate, referred to Roosevelt’s ploy as a “bonehead idea.”
    Critics unloaded on HuffPost’s framing of the issue, accusing the site of gaslighting themselves, lying, and engaging in propaganda.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/huffpost-ted-cruz-republicans-court-packing
    😉

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  16. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    What a difference a year makes. What a breath of fresh air Biden is. Our President Trump one year ago is quoted as saying this:
    ‘After senior DHS official Bill Bryan said that experiments have shown the novel coronavirus does not survive well in sunlight, warm temperatures or humidity, Trump began proposing his own solutions at the coronavirus task force update on Thursday.
    “Suppose that we hit the body with tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that it hasn’t been checked and you’re going to test it,”
    “Suppose you can bring the light inside the body.”
    “Then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in one minute,” Trump continued. “Is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning? … It would be interesting to check that.”
    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-suggests-injecting-disinfectant-light-fight-coronavirus_n_5ea218a0c5b6d376358c7711

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    4 Pinocchio’s for huffpo and the ponytail of ignorance. The full text does not support the fraud, there was in fact a new process where a fiber optic emitter is inserted into the lung and ultraviolet light is used. Dont know where it ended up but it was real.
    😉

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  18. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Are you denying that Trump said that Don?

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  19. Walt Avatar

    Ahhhhh. Emery buys the Huffpuff LIES…
    Redefining “court packing”. The LIBBY way.

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  20. Walt Avatar

    I see Bobby is still under his rock. Can’t find his reply anywhere. Kinda tough to defend your Proggyism???

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  21. Walt Avatar

    So when does Herr Gavin get slammed for being anti LGBQ?
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsom-raise-money-tying-caitlyn-jenner-to-trump
    “California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s campaign team wasted no time coming after Caitlyn Jenner as she entered the recall race to take his seat.
    A few hours after Jenner, a Republican, announced her candidacy”
    Trans are only supposed to be LIB?

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Walt
    At least we have an intelligent person as President, not one who would ask
    “Suppose you can bring the light inside the body.”
    “Then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in one minute,” Trump continued. “Is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning? … It would be interesting to check that.”

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  23. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Walt | 23 April 2021 at 04:45 PM
    Walt…..we need to give Roberta a little latitude. With her recent announcement….she probably can’t post as often as she would like.
    https://www.axios.com/caitlyn-jenner-california-governor-run-710153ef-7a89-460d-b9ec-9efed2a9399f.html
    ….and let’s be understanding of Punch as well….this is the first time he’s truly had a President who represents him. No hippies, no mediocre musicians, but a senile grifter oozes into the Oval Office….and Punch finally has someone with whom he can identify.

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  24. Walt Avatar

    Just what are you smoking Emery? Biden?? Intelligent??
    He barely remembers his own name… Let alone job title.
    He can’t even handle a press conference without a picture guide.
    Bring it Emery,, prove his intelligence as you jest.
    So where are those jobs he promised Emery?(good luck with that. Hint…. They are headed to China)

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  25. Walt Avatar

    I see Emery is redefining the meaning of “intelligence”.
    See how fast Trump gets begged to run for re-election Emery.
    First “O” gave us Trump, now Biden will chisel it in stone..
    BTW Emery,, the “Miss Trump yet?” bumper stickers are already on the road.

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The po’ ol’ fakenewsman lies like a cheap rug! ROFLOL
    😉

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  27. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Trump running for President would be an incredible gift to the Dems. Please Please Please make it happen Walt. I’m counting on you and the RR’s to make it happen.

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  28. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 23 April 2021 at 06:12 PM
    Yeah…..Xho Bai Den getting one more denture enabled bit at the presidential apple…..glorious!

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  29. Walt Avatar

    Stopping in at Elevation WTF and scoring some legal mind altering local grown stuff Emery?
    All those LIB union jobs Biden snuffed? 🙄🤦‍♂️🤣 People were doing GREAT with Trump. Even LIBS.. With Biden,, uh,, not so much.
    But tell us again how many seats you scored in the House.(Your only up by ONE.
    Stealing two in the Senate will come back to bite.
    Yaa, Emery,, tell how great it will be for LIBS when Trump comes to finish what he started…
    Yup,,, your geezer Bumbles (well,,, Commie Cummila by then)
    Oh… You really think that open border from Mex. is going to help? You have yet explain who’s going to pay their keep…. YOU???

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  30. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I’m counting on you Walt to help Trump win the nomination. You can do it. I have total confidence in you and the RR Trump loyalists that contribute here. Trump running for Pres in ’24 is my fondest hope. Go get um Walt…..

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  31. Walt Avatar

    Poor Emery… Back to TROLL status. Just can’t back up your donkey dung.

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  32. Walt Avatar

    And just what do your LIBS have to offer Emery? social justice?
    Free money? (until that runs out) Tax the rich? Yup,, that will pay off big. Just wait till the man behind the curtain tells Biden how to redefine rich. If you made a million bucks in your lifetime,,, well technically you’re a millionaire. Tax your ass.

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  33. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 23 April 2021 at 06:50 PM
    Trump running for Pres in ’24 is my fondest hope. Go get um Walt…..

    Of this I have no doubt…..the progressive contingent who post here (doughy white guys ….Frisch, jetsi, Roberta in a fabulous red cocktail dress, one or two others) toting your cardboard casket to the polling place, lifting your decomposed hand one last time to pull the lever for the party of handouts….consistent till the very end (and beyond it would seem)…Punchy McFreeclinic grifter….voting for the King of the Grifters, The Senator from MBNA, and the Pride of Scranton…..Shotgun Xho Bai Den! (that last bit should be read in the style of the ring announcer hyping the champion boxer as he climbs the ropes into the ring).

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Yup,, the dead have the right to vote… LONG past their expiration date. Long live mail in ballots. No checks, no IDs,
    no accountability, no chain of custody, so what if 300 ballots go to the same address?
    Doi we even know if Emery is still actually on the green side of the grass, and not the root side? It could be Bobby posting in his place. Maybe even Dougy. Russian Bots never answer questions.

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  35. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    You got it right this time fish. Trump for Pres as a Repub is the Dems biggest hope. Keep up the good work you, Don, Bill and Walt with George cheering from the sidelines and an occasional chirp from Gregory and Barry. That’s about it for the RR’s now days. Kinda sad.

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  36. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 23 April 2021 at 07:24 PM
    …..grifter, grifter, grifter.

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  37. Walt Avatar

    Which bar you at tonight Emery? Your yapping like your on your 6TH shot of the cheap stuff.
    Still waiting on that proof of intelligence on cadaver Biden.

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  38. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Ask George Walt. Had lunch with him last week. He can verify I’m alive. This is really getting pathetic. Cracks me up.

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  39. Walt Avatar

    Last week? But this is today. Hooper and Weaver must have great wifi

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  40. Walt Avatar

    Is this proof of intelligence Emery?
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/23/photos-costs-mount-as-biden-administration-holds-on-border-wall-projects/
    “Shortly after taking office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order temporarily halting any further progress on border walls so individual contracts could be evaluated. With the exception of “make-safe” activities at worksites, construction projects immediately came to a halt, Breitbart Texas reported. The continuation of the pause keeps the contractors on site pending a final decision—one that does not appear to be imminent, according to the source.
    The pause in construction costs taxpayers about $6 million per day, Breitbart Texas learned from the source. The expenditures are based on materials ordered before but delivered after the work stoppage plus compensation for equipment rentals or ownership costs.
    Equipment sits idle in Mission, Texas, known as the Southwest Valley Constructors (SWC) site. SWC was awarded more than $1.5 billion in wall contracts in South Texas and Arizona. At the Mission site, concrete mixing machinery and aggregate materials plus stacks of steel gather dust.”
    Six million a day, to do nothing…
    Yup,, that’s showing some real intelligence Emery.
    So that’s over 600 million by now.

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  41. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 23 April 2021 at 08:06 PM
    Walt. Had lunch with him last week.

    Yes, you’ve mentioned this before and it’s always puzzled me….
    What on earth the two of you could discuss that you might understand and simultaneously not bore our genial host to the point of coma.
    Perhaps like taking a four year old for ice cream.

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  42. Walt Avatar

    Something tells me George had to pick up the tab.

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  43. Walt Avatar

    More stupidity for Emery to ponder..
    Even working LIBS hate the idea of paying 7 dollar a gallon gas.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/23/gavin-newsom-to-phase-out-fracking-in-2024-end-oil-extraction-in-california-by-2045/
    Yup,, that would be enough for a true Blue LIB to vote Repub.

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  44. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Race huckstering pays even for the discredited –
    On his way to the Midwest Monday, Sharpton tweeted a video of himself sauntering up to a private jet, inviting blowback over what critics called tone-deaf and out of touch.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/al-sharpton-private-jet-daunte-wright-eulogy
    😉

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  45. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The pony tail of ignorance should keep putting his faith in huffpo! ROFLOL –
    HuffPost slammed as ‘propaganda,’ ‘stupid liars’ for claiming Republicans ‘engaged in court packing’
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/huffpost-ted-cruz-republicans-court-packing
    😉

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  46. Walt Avatar

    Hey Emery!! Some morning heartburn for ya’, to go with the cheap booze hangover.. ” joblossjoe.com” In N.Y. City no less.
    You know,, the “Blue ball” state. Only state bluer than Kalif.
    https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2021/04/24/job-creators-network-billboard-across-from-mlb-headquarters-calls-out-commissioner-rob-manfred-all-strikes-and-no-balls/
    Yessiree BOB! That’s a LIB voter getter for sure.

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  47. Scott O Avatar

    fish 8:30 – “What on earth the two of you could discuss that you might understand and simultaneously not bore our genial host to the point of coma.”
    Paul babbles away about the latest poll and how evil Trump is and George makes notes on his study of primitive life forms.

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  48. Walt Avatar

    One more for Emery to realize.. Trump did what Carter and others “said they would do”,, but didn’t.( no guts)
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/pentagon-ufo-report-acknowledged-reality-whistleblower
    “The U.S. government is actually gearing up to share information about the “reality” of UFOs with the public — and not a moment too soon, says the man who claims to have run the Pentagon’s UFO program for 9 years.
    Former President Donald Trump’s $2.3 trillion appropriation bill for 2021 contained a mandate that the Pentagon and spy agencies must file a report about “unidentified aerial phenomena” or UAP. Most of us just call them flying saucers or UFOs.
    Whatever the jargon, noted whistleblower Luis Elizondo — former head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which operated out of the secretive fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring — told The Post about the resulting blockbuster document, which is reportedly slated for release in June.”

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  49. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    DEMOCRATS VOTE TO CONTINUE DISCRIMINATING AGAINST ASIANS
    With race the topic du jour, it is odd that more attention isn’t being paid to the most obvious discrimination in our society: that against Asians. While employers commonly engage in such discrimination, the most viciously discriminatory organizations in our society are universities. Thus, Senate Republicans offered an amendment to the new “COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act” that would have ended federal funding of universities that discriminate against Asian American applicants. The amendment, sponsored by Ted Cruz and John Kennedy, was narrowly defeated by Senate Democrats. Aaron Ginn comments:
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/04/democrats-vote-to-continue-discriminating-against-asians.php

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