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[There are a couple of House bills that will break up Amazon and other big tech companies.  “One of the proposed measures, titled the Ending Platform Monopolies Act, seeks to require structural separation of Amazon and other big technology companies to break up their businesses. It would make it unlawful for a covered online platform to own a business that “utilizes the covered platform for the sale or provision of products or services” or that sells services as a condition for access to the platform. The platform company also couldn’t own businesses that create conflicts of interest, such as by creating the ‘incentive and ability’ for the platform to advantage its own products over competitors.”  This would change the face of online businesses; thoughts?  gjr]

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242 responses to “Sandbox – 11jun21”

  1. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Walt screeds “Trump? Oh… Lets see…. More votes than any repub guy running before him? ”
    Well
    Biden?…Oh lets see 2020 votes….Biden 81,268,924[5] Trump74,216,154
    Gosh and Golly Walt-Biden had more than 7 Million more votes than Trump. Biden received the most votes in Presidential HISTORY

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ya that about sums it up –
    Political cartoon of the day: Art of the deals
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow
    😉

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  3. Walt Avatar

    Swing and a miss Emery. Your forgetting the cheating
    that won’t work a second time.
    I see you refused to read the facts on that.
    And your crew lost over 13 LIB seats to Repubs?
    You keep ignoring that fact.
    And Biden ain’t goin to be on the ticket.
    You have another deadly virus to set loose?
    Putin going to help this time? Maybe N.K.?
    So.. Emery’s unicorn ranch must have a shoe in to beat Trump.
    TROLL on Emery!! GOD your so fun to poke with a pointy stick.
    Free entertainment is the best.
    But keep at it Emery,, keep showing how you got no ammo.

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  4. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So WAlt you are saying that “cheating” accounted for the over 7 million votes that Biden had over Trump. How exactly did “they” pull that off? What’s your best guess?

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    That wont matter next year oh great pony tail of ignorance! LOL
    😉

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You would think someone who proposed this would be fired asap but NOOOO it ‘academia’ =
    It says “speciesist” hate speech is as bad as racism.
    The proposals — published in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies — would see cats, dogs, farm animals, even seagulls safeguarded.
    And the plans ignore the fact animals can’t be offended by words.
    Last night Tory MP Nigel Mills branded the idea “utter woke nonsense” and “a complete waste of time”.
    Dr Josh Milburn and Dr Alasdair Cochrane of the University of Sheffield suggest it could be hate speech to say the lives of a non-native species matter less than a native one.
    They say it would be impractical to censure wounding words “only if they actually wound”.
    https://www.the-sun.com/news/3105534/hate-speech-law-for-animals/
    😉

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  7. Walt Avatar

    Keep trying O ponytail of stupidity.. Care to dig up just how many votes were the discrepancy? You sure suck at facts.
    Biden didn’t “win*” by 7 million votes.
    Is that Greek math?

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  8. Walt Avatar

    So who’s going to run against Trump? No name?
    Goofy? Donald Duck? Arnold? Maybe one of the Kardashians?
    Oh That’s it!! Stacy Abrams!!! You know, the GOV. of Georgia.

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  9. Walt Avatar

    Sure fun feeding Emery with a slingshot.

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  10. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    It’s the official vote count Walt that’s all. So is that count fake according to you? Here’s a link for you.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_candidates_by_number_of_votes_received

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  11. Walt Avatar

    Poor Emery can’t do any math. What a chicken shit try Emery.
    I would tell you, but you would put a lid on it for the night.
    No comment on the vote audit facts? It was required reading for you yesterday.
    More unverifiable votes than what Biden (supposedly) won by.
    No chain of custody.”Uhh,,,, lost”. Now missing ballots.. Hummm.. I wonder why?
    Nope,,, your MIA where the facts are concerned.

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Name don’t ring a bell, but good article. Nicole who?
    Without Trump, they have nothing, are nothing, and are but unmarked graves people walk over thinking about more important stuff….and not the ashes of the resistance. Boy, was she ever full of stuff. Nicole who?
    “MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace has suffered a roughly 80% decline in viewership in the 25-54 age demographic since President Donald Trump left office, the Washington Free Beacon reports, citing data provided by the Nielsen Media Research.”
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/msnbcs-nicole-wallace-suffers-ratings-implosion

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  13. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Do the math Walt
    Biden votes: 81,268,924
    Trump votes: 74,216,154
    Simple subtraction Walt-remember that?
    Biden + 7,052,770
    Try it Walt and let me know what you get

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Former Obama Ethics Chief Says Biden Admin Family Hires Are ‘F*** You’ to Watchdogs’
    “Former Obama-era Office of Government Ethics chief Walter Shaub called the Biden administration’s hiring of multiple relatives of senior staffers a disgraceful repudiation to the mission of restoring ethics in government.
    “I’m sorry, I know some folks don’t like hearing any criticism of him. But this royally sucks. I’m disgusted. A lot of us worked hard to tee him up to restore ethics to government and believed the promises. This is a a real ‘f*** you’ to us—and government ethics,” Shaub wrote on Twitter”
    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/former-obama-ethics-chief-says-biden-admin-family-hires-are-a-f-you-to-watchdogs/

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So where is the pony tail of ignorance on the current state of putin cuddling by the folks who crafted the russia hoax?? The CCC is in full effect, impeachment in 23′ –
    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2021/06/18/pollak-what-biden-did-to-ukraine-is-worse-than-what-trump-did/
    😉

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  16. Walt Avatar

    Popular vote don’t mean squat Emery. That still hasn’t sunk in.
    Care to try again? The actual meaningful votes is a diff. of less than 150,000. Those 18,000 questionable votes in GA.
    would have given Trump GA.
    Grasp the concept yet?
    In other words ,, your still full of shit.
    Still can’t name a Proggy to take on Trump?

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Why Is the Society for American Archaeology Promoting Indigenous Creationism?
    https://quillette.com/2021/06/13/why-is-the-society-for-american-archaeology-promoting-indigenous-creationism/

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  18. Walt Avatar

    What’s up Emery? The fear of Proggy retaliation have you on edge? Dare not speak ill of ANY LIB? LIB trolls may pay you a visit in the dead of night? Might get publicly shamed for uttering any truth about a fellow Leftist? Yup,, you may wind up Nevada City political enemy #1.
    We see what they did to John Stewart for speaking the truth about the Kung Flu… The public shaming has yet to end.

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  19. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I’m done or now. This last “conversation’ witH Walt illustrates how delusional Trump supporters are. FACTS MEAN NOTHING Trump the loser still has his core supporters and I hope they get him the nomination so the Dems will win easily since Trump is such a loser and that will get only worse.
    As a sparing partner Walt doesn’t even cause me to raise a sweat. I’m sure the RR’s can do better than that but who knows maybe not and more than that who cares,

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Who cares @902? ROFLOL
    😉

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    It sounded like a good progressive idea at the time but, but, but we didnt think of that –
    Career experts told Insider’s Erin McDowell asking the salary range before interviewing can be tricky, as employers are turned off by applicants that appear unprofessional, and online salary crowdsourcing sites like Glassdoor and Payscale can be inaccurate.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/colorado-forced-companies-disclose-salaries-223832005.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink
    😉

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  22. Walt Avatar

    LOL Emery,, the “if I say the BS long enough someone might believe it” don’t work here.
    I say 13 seats is a bigger loss. But you have never been good a math.
    It sure must suck to have the need to cheat to win… The end justifies the means. (facts given.. You have no answer)

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  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    BT@8:26
    That is a sweet article on archeology. Cultural anthropology has been dead for some time so it’s good to see the crazy people roll up it’s brethren. These are fairly small communities so seizing the departments and funding is not an impossible task for a tightly knit group.
    It’s hard to beat this kind of language for an amusing few minutes of reading.
    https://blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2021/01/14/running-safer-sessions/
    So, after we auger in as a people, will the West re-form after an interregnum? will the Chinese win the field? will our robot lords and masters take over management in a fit of digital pique? It’s hard to tell.

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So they want you to give up your car for a leaf, however reality has set in, its cool if you have to go down the street but you are screwed if you need to actually road trip so they are giving them back. –
    Roughly 20% of electric vehicle owners in California replaced their cars with gas ones, a recent study shows.
    The main reason drivers made the switch was the inconvenience of charging.
    The findings suggest new challenges facing the growth of the nascent electric vehicle market.
    See more stories on Insider’s business page.
    In roughly three minutes, you can fill the gas tank of a Ford Mustang and have enough range to go about 300 miles with its V8 engine.
    But for the electric Mustang Mach-E, an hour plugged into a household outlet gave Bloomberg automotive analyst Kevin Tynan just three miles of range.
    “Overnight, we’re looking at 36 miles of range,” he told Insider. “Before I gave it back to Ford, because I wanted to give it back full, I drove it to the office and plugged in at the charger we have there.”
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/1-5-electric-vehicle-owners-164149467.html
    😉

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  25. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    on EVs: c’est la vie, a dedicated charger is essentially a no-brainer since a car is going to need at least (probably more) what they have now in terms of power storage (70kwh on one of those Fords?) and a house circuit only has what it has. No way around it. Improvements in battery tech won’t make much difference except for a bit of weight reduction.
    Electric cars will phase in (so to speak) bit by bit as prices reduce, and people like the idea of near-zero maintenance, low fuel cost, and not having to deal with the utter torture of smog checks(tm). No need to force the issue, but no doubt the State will try. The fun part will be the lack of sufficient generation capability to meet the needs of cars and new housing construction if they force everyone off of natgas.

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  26. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I was having an enjoyable morning reading about the ‘transabled’ and ran into this essay.
    https://hwfo.substack.com/p/a-detailed-look-at-woke-update-mechanicsories
    It’s filled with plenty of funny stories, but the money shot is the last paragraph
    “If you’re Anti-Woke, you need to get your head straight about what you’re fighting. Attacking Woke Dogma piecemeal may get you Twitter followers or Patreon money, but it does nothing to diminish the Woke. In fact, it gives them ideas about where to evolve their thing next, like with Dolezal. In order to fight this thing you need it’s clone, your own 4GW program with its own means of establishing controlled updates to “basic human decency” that doesn’t have the inherent flaws in the Woke’s beta test. Without that, you’re just going to get overrun.”
    It’s worth considering what that program might be. Building a sustainable program from mocking insane people or pearl-clutching about other peoples’ rapidly increasing tribalism is not a plan. Any suggestions are welcome.

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  27. Walt Avatar

    On the subject of (no so)ECO friendly cars,, I get a kick out of seeing those charging stations at the likes of 7-11.
    Another morbid joy, is to hear the news in the car about Sac., Frisco, and other big LIB cities putting a moratorium on nat. gas for any new construction and going all elec.,, then followed by “FLEX ALLERT”- There may be rolling blackouts due to elec. shortage”.
    So where is the power going to come from to supply the demand for all these “all elec” dreams?
    I bet your going to love your power bill just for this last week. That power meter has been spinning like a top.
    I guess PG&E needs to recoup money somehow to crawl out of BK.

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  28. Walt Avatar

    Well well.. Even “green jobs” take a hit thanks to Biden.
    https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/17/green-energy-joe-biden-john-kerry-white-house-climate-change/
    So new bird blenders will now come from CHINA?
    ““Starting 2022, the tax credit will phase out for wind energy and that has something to do with [Biden’s] production tax credit for wind and fossil fuels,” Dockter said during the interview.
    On June 8, MFG announced it would shut down its South Dakota factory in August, blaming a variety of factors including Biden’s tax policies. The factory has produced wind turbine blades since 2007, the company said.
    “The closure comes as a result of changes in market conditions, foreign competition and proposed revisions to tax policies impacting the wind energy industry in the United States,” MFG said in a statement.”
    I see new Trump voters.

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  29. George Rebane Avatar

    Administrivia – I draw your kind attention to the recent update of Scattershots.
    https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2021/06/scattershots-14jun21.html

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gregory. Good, it’s now making the rounds. Start at 2:00 and watch last 30 seconds, but whole thing good. It’s you.
    Naked Link
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/massie-reporter-vaccinated

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  31. Walt Avatar

    WOW Libs,, pissed because you won’t get paid for not doing your duty? Walking out because you couldn’t get your way?
    Now YOU complain? Payback’s a bitch.
    https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/19/texas-governor-voting-reform-legislature-funding/

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  32. RXCross Avatar
    RXCross

    I call your attention to the ‘Joys of goombah’ — it seems Commerce Sec. Wilber Ross picked up at least $53 million from private companies, some of which he was supposed to be monitoring, while collecting his government salary and watching out for the pubic’s interests.
    Acccording to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, “Even in an administration characterized by corruption, Ross became notorious for mixing personal business with his government role” including, according to Forbes, setting up “a special purpose acquisition company that reportedly attracted $300 million from investors. He established the company in the Cayman Islands in January while he was still in public office.”
    He was also engaged in trade negotiations with China that were in conflict with his personal holdings in Navigator Holdings and Diamond S Shipping.
    goombah goombah goombah.. you have to love it. Trump and co. pulled of the biggest con in American history and here you guys have your panties in bundle over recognizing the fact that vast fortunes were obtained through slave labor. Damned if you are and damned if you’re not.

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  33. Walt Avatar

    So Bobby,, he is doing what LIBS do.. Yet no complaint about that. Why is that Babs?
    You going to buy some of “Crack” hunter’s fine art?

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  34. George Rebane Avatar

    RX 530pm – Your report is somewhat confusing. If the man was involved in criminality, shouldn’t he be under indictment by the current Biden DoJ? Do you trust your sources?

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  35. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    A fevered brain is a major handicap, no source as usual. LOL
    😉

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  36. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    WARNING BUZZ KILL TRIGGER WARNING –
    Joe Biden returned from his sojourn to the UK and Europe to face a growing list of domestic headaches as his big-spending policies stalled and were also blamed for rising inflation.
    Mr Biden’s initial “American Jobs Plan” called for a record $2.3 trillion in infrastructure spending. Republicans fought hard to stop that and it is now bogged down in Congress.
    While Mr Biden was meeting Vladimir Putin in Geneva a bipartisan group of 21 senators – 11 Republicans and 10 Democrats – came up with a compromise that would almost halve the amount to $1.2 trillion over eight years.
    The resulting gridlock explains why a Monmouth University poll this week made worrying reading for Mr Biden after Air Force One landed back in the US.
    His approval rating was 48 per cent, down six points from April and below 50 per cent for the first time in a Monmouth poll.
    The number of Democrats who think the country is “moving in the right direction” has plummeted from 83 per cent in April to 59 per cent now.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-returns-triumphant-world-tour-112436833.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink
    😉

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Hey its racist to expect them to report their income, right? But it might help explain the multi million dollar real estate portfolio –
    Patrisse Cullors failed to disclose significant donations: report
    Dignity and Power Now also reportedly did not disclose its donations to the California attorney general, which regulates charities in the state
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nonprofit-patrisse-cullors-dignity-and
    😉

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  38. RXCross Avatar
    RXCross

    Speaking of brain dead..Don Bessee. “no source as usual”. ..if you are referring to me then what is ” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington” or Forbes if not a source, a antifa rioter dressed in a MAGA t-shirt and hat?
    George; if you are so confused maybe you ought to polish up your reading skills.

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  39. Walt Avatar

    This guy sure knows how to piss off LIBS.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-supporter-sues-new-york-town-for-25m-theyre-trying-to-silence-me
    So Dipshit Bobby,, just where was YOUR SURCE? from your above line of crap?

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So put the links because that lets folks read it all otherwise its just more approved talking points that are cherry picked. #toolazyorscaredofanalisys LOL
    😉

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  41. Wilber Ross Avatar
    Wilber Ross

    IMPOSTER ALERT! IMPOSTER ALERT!
    ‘Trump official set up a $300 million acquisition company in the Caymans — while he was still in office’
    https://www.rawstory.com/wilbur-ross/
    Oh Wilbur.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LND1PypBnrU

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  42. Scott O Avatar

    X-dude 9:19 – “George; if you are so confused maybe you ought to polish up your reading skills.”
    You lefties are a scream.
    Zero evidence there was any wrong-doing.
    Zero evidence the man didn’t do his job well.
    ANYTHING to keep from seeing what goes on at the Biden Crime Syndicate.

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  43. Walt Avatar

    Here we go again with the weaponized IRS.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/19/denies-christian-profit-tax-exempt-status-bibles-teachings-affiliated-republican-party/
    A Christian non-profit is challenging the Internal Revenue Service after the agency denied them tax-exempt status saying “the Bible’s teachings are typically affiliated with the Republican Party and candidates.”
    Yet the LIBS are bitch pissed because the Church is about to deny them communion?

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  44. Walt Avatar

    ” But Repubs are pro death penalty” (yes, for the vermin of the earth. Not the innocent unborn) You know some of that “eye for an eye” that in the scripture.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/20/pro-abortion-congressman-ted-lieu-dares-bishops-to-deny-him-holy-communion/

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  45. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Roberta Cross | 19 June 2021 at 09:19 PM
    Hmmm…that comment sounds strangely like something 600 lbs of Sophistication might offer.

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  46. Walt Avatar

    They are going to lose their seats, so why not phuck over
    the REPUBs before they get kicked to the curb?
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/06/20/sen-portman-11-gop-senators-absolutely-committed-to-infrastructure-deal-it-helps-biden-keep-pledge/

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  47. Walt Avatar

    Adam, the steaming pile of Schiff, must be real edgy. His name is pretty sure to come up as a leaker of info.
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/06/20/schiff-im-pressing-ag-garland-for-full-investigation-of-gross-abuses-of-trump-doj/
    TDS as bad as Emery’s.

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  48. George Rebane Avatar

    fish 832am – Agreed, he sure has the hubristic syntax of the FUE. He also makes clear he does not know the meaning of ‘indictment’.

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  49. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Sad but true. Silly me, I thought she was relegated to the Dustbin of History after she was given the boot after her false stories and downright big lies and criminal history came to light. But, she is back, bigger than ever. I am sooo naive.
    ‘A Grad Student Tried to Correct a Misleading COVID Narrative. Rebekah Jones Tried to Ruin His Career for It’
    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/a-florida-graduate-student-wanted-to-correct-the-record-on-covid-deaths-rebekah-jones-tried-to-ruin-his-career-over-it/?

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