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[Yet one more indicator that we are no longer smart enough to govern ourselves as a free nation was the most recent WaPo/ABC poll in which 51% of respondents were satisfied with Bumblebrain’s handling of the economy – ignoring literally every related factor that is promoting the economy coming off of its C19 hiatus (thanks to Trump) while blind to the administrations plans to pass tax and regulation legislation to stifle the economy, launch rampant inflation, and push national debt to historical records not even seen during wartimes.  gjr]

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  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Henry Weinhard has a fancy label put on beer brewed at the Blitz Brewery in Portland. Blitz beer was one of those local-regional beers that sounded like it’s name. Cheaper than real beers. Piss water.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP4Tz1Tq6tk
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iigxaFBTAZ4
    I remember well those “Hey, where are you going with all that beer” commericals.

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Blitz. Better than Blatz. So long Henry.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXk1882z5oo

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  3. Walt Avatar

    Hell.. I can’t stand Coors. Since the statute of limitations expired LONG ago,,(1986) somewhere I have a pic a friend took of me, taking a good wizz in the creek just upstream of the Coors brewery in Col. Someone had to make at least one batch taste better.

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  4. Walt Avatar

    The brush fire in GV yesterday must be a new record for the shortest flight for an air tanker. Take off,, empty the load before the wheels are up. Return to reload.

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  5. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    Looks like the CCP has the same type of young’uns, but stirring the Eastern pot. From the BBC-
    “The pressure on Chinese athletes to perform has never been higher. Anything less than a gold is being seen as athletes being unpatriotic by furious nationalists online.
    … the outrage seen online in China is arguably more pronounced, and not just because its population is massive and internet-savvy.
    “The so-called ‘little pinks’, or youngsters with strong nationalist feelings, have a disproportionate voice online,” said Dr Jonathan Hassid, a political science expert at Iowa State University. “In part, this voice is amplified because legitimate criticism of the state is increasingly unacceptable.”
    Nationalism in China has risen sharply in recent years as its global influence grows and any international criticisms are seen as attempts to target its development.”
    When they get to be in charge there, we may be on the defensive.

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  6. George Rebane Avatar

    Don’t remember Blitz, but do remember Blatz – kinda like the sound you make pissing on a flat rock.

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  7. Walt Avatar

    Now that the eviction ban lifts,, just wait for the sob stories in the proggy press start flooding your news cycle.
    There is this option some may have heard about… It’s called getting a JOB. (Save me the excuses of why not)

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  8. Walt Avatar

    “Official” NEWS from “Cheating bastard” AZ
    https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/this-bs-is-the-official-reply-from-maricopa-county-to-the-lawful-subpoenas-issued-by-the-az-state-senate-they-must-be-held-accountable/
    “This BS is the “official reply” from Maricopa County to the lawful subpoenas issued by the AZ State Senate. They must be held accountable.”
    That is all…

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  9. Walt Avatar

    WOW!! This looks like a cirtain LIB from Nevada City wrote this.
    “A letter from Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel, signed by Civil Division Chief Attorney Thomas P. Liddy, set forward the legal argument for the county’s decision to refuse to provide the additional election information requested by the Arizona State Senate, “The Board of Supervisors objects to this subpoena,” Liddy wrote, for several reasons, including:
    1. … because it was issued while the Senate was out of session. It is not evident that a subpoena issued when the Senate is adjourned is lawful.
    2. … because of its lack of adequate notice…
    3. … to the extent that it is an abuse of process or designed merely to harass.
    4. … to the extent that it is overbroad or unduly burdensome.
    5. … to the extent that it seeks records already in the Senate’s custody and control.
    6. … to the extent that it seeks records in the custody or control of someone other than the Board of Supervisors.
    7. … to the extent that it has been mooted by the actions of the Senate, Senate President [Karen] Fann [R], Senator [Warren] Petersen [R] or their designees.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/03/maricopa-county-letter-arizona-senate/

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  10. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bill
    I compared Bidens and Trumps consensus job approval numbers for Aug 1 for each of their terms, Trump in Aug 1 2017 and Biden Aug 1 2021.
    Once again these are the numbers which show a 26.7 difference in Bidens favor
    Trump disapprove Aug 1 2017-18.5
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html
    Biden approvw Aug 1 2021 +8.2
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html
    Here’s another number-comparing Trumps numbers when he left office compared to Biden today
    Trump disapprove Jan 19 15.0
    Biden approve Aug 1 8.2
    23 point difference
    Hope that’s easy enough for you to comprehend
    Biden is cruising coumpred to Trump who is stuck in the muck

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  11. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    sp cruising compared to Trump

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    That poor old man is mumbling in his polls again.
    😉

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  13. Walt Avatar

    Always living in the past Emery? Now how many cats do you have?

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  14. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Living in the past Walt? No you are not me. You’ve attached yourself to that loser Trump in the idiotic belief he will once again be President. Get over it he lost, never to return. He is the biggest political loser in modern history and you still believe in him.

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Punchy, punchy, punchy.
    Add Rasmussen to the list. That’s now two. I repeat myself. I said Biden’s numbers since he took office 6 months ago are down. You say I am embarrassing myself, yet continue to avoid Biden’s numbers on the three, four main issues Americans are most concerned with. WTF does Trumps number in 2017 have to do with Joe Biden dropping under 50% for the first time? What the heck does the big nosedive in the question ‘Is the country heading on the right trace or wrong track?’ Biden & Co. has taken a double digit nosedive with more people saying ‘wrong track’ since his first day. Killed that optimism.
    Joe Biden stands alone to the voters. In case you have failed to notice, Paul emery, Joey Fingers is in the Oval Office, not Trump. Ok, Joey is in the basement of the WH, but still President right now. The question is polls today, a snapshot of America after 6 months of The Gaffemiester.
    Is this gonna be another era when whenever the topic of Obama’s policies or statements comes up, we all have to hold our horses and stop the discussion dead in its tracks cause you run over here yelling, “Bush did it too!”?? Yes, it’s shaping up that way. No surprise. Can we talk or discuss Biden without bringing up past Presidents? Ok, give us your best LBJ quotes again.
    To repeat, Gallop and Rasmussen, gauging consumer sentiment, say Joey Lick Fingers is down since he was sworn in and the honeymoon stage may be over. Chinks in the amour.
    Paul emergy, good thing you caught me a good mood after a not so fun day. I almost said, “PE, you are kidding, right?” But no need. Ain’t nothing you have not heard before.
    Crime, The Border, the economy, fossil fuels, Q of Life, inflation…..Biden is on the short end of the stick on the important stuff and the cumulative effect is Biden last lost support. Not a whole bunch, but enough to send the WH handlers into a tizzy fit. Trending down.
    TDS is progressive and irreversible. The Grim Reaper awaits to grant you some relief for your tortured soul.

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Those mutha mullahs are running wild because they are not afraid of creepy grampa joe and the socialist appeasers –
    Iranian-backed forces were suspected of seizing an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman last night, just days after Iran was blamed for a drone attack on another tanker that killed a British crew member.
    The Royal Navy’s UK Maritime Trade Operations [UKMTO] agency warned of a suspected “hijacking” incident near the Emirati port of Fujairah but did not give further details.
    The hijacked ship was believed to be the Asphalt Princess, a Panama-flagged vessel. Armed soldiers had reportedly stormed on board.
    The asphalt and bitumen tanker was believed to be travelling to Sohar, a port on Oman’s northern coast, when it was attacked at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday afternoon.
    The incident comes after Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, accused Iran of a “deliberate, targeted, and a clear violation of international law” following a drone attack on the Liberian-flagged tanker Mercer Street last week.
    Britain, the United States and Israel say they are confident that Iran was behind the attack, which killed a British security guard, and have vowed to retaliate.
    There are growing concerns about increasingly aggressive Iranian actions in the Middle East, with Britain, America, Israel and other nations in secret discussions about how to retaliate. A British special forces team is understood to have been sent to the region and there is growing speculation an offensive cyber attack against Iran is being considered.
    Israel’s prime minister on Tuesday called for an international response to the attack on the MV Mercer Street but warned he would be prepared to launch a unilateral strike if an alliance took too long to form.
    “They can’t sit calmly in Tehran while igniting the entire Middle East, that’s over,” Naftali Bennett said. “We are working to enlist the whole world, but when the time comes, we know how to act alone. Iran knows the price that we’ll exact when anyone threatens our security.”
    Israeli television said the country’s defence and foreign ministers would present “hard evidence” of Iranian complicity in the attack on the tanker at a meeting of ambassadors of United Nations Security Council members today
    https://news.yahoo.com/iran-hijacks-oil-tanker-gulf-163419488.html
    😉

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe empowered those mutha mullahs by unilaterally withdrawing defensive might with nothing to show for it and they know the gulf is more vulnerable because of this stupid move by the socialist dems –
    US to pull defence systems, aircraft and hundreds of troops from Middle East: Report
    Pentagon is removing eight Patriot missile defence batteries from Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, the Wall Street Journal reported
    https://acquiaprod.middleeasteye.net/news/us-removing-military-assets-missile-batteries-middle-east
    😉

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Good for them, the mob broke down a gate into a non-public street and threatened to burn their house down but the socialist dems in St Louis still pushed a political prosecution and the guv said nevermind! –
    https://www.yahoo.com/gma/governor-pardons-st-louis-couple-223403393.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink
    😉

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  19. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Yes Bidens numbers are down are down Bill but they are way ahead of Trumps numbers from the same dates. I use the consensus numbers that RCP uses. They are actually a rather conservative news compiler if you read their articles. You are cherry picking polls to get favorable numbers. Comparisons with all things equal show Biden up by 26 over Trump at the same stage of his Presidency and up by 23 when Trump left office.
    Bill
    You remind me of a bumper sticker that made me laugh that reads “I may be slow when I’m ahead of you”. You are still hanging onto Trump the biggest political loser in modern history. Let go of him Bill. He’s an embarrassment to pledge your support for.
    Biden sas not my first choice but I find him to be a man of integrity something I can’t say about your guy Trump.

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    Biden sas not my first choice but I find him to be a man of integrity…

    And that is all anyone needs to know about Paul Emery.

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  21. Walt Avatar

    Hummm.. Your the one drooling over anything Trump Emery.
    How bout that train wreck of a Q and A today with Biden?
    You have a Trump fixation and a dweller in the past. Anything current, your stoner silent. Real zombie like.
    HELL!! Not a peep from you on that “official” news from AZ!
    Cheat’em Co. AZ really has something to hide! Not the mark of an election that was “free and fair”. If it was, they would welcome an investigation just to make them look bad.. That sure has backfired.

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  22. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Now thats fnin funny when the whole family are mid level grifters, not in clintons class but still crooks to the max.
    I find him to be a man of integrity
    Prof of demintia @606!
    😉

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  23. Walt Avatar

    Here Emery,, SEE?? Your side has no reguard for the rule of LAW.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/03/cori-bush-forces-joe-biden-reversal-after-socialist-democrats-demand-evictions-moratorium/
    “The president reversed his decision on Tuesday after it was clear that leftists were furious with it.
    At the White House, Biden complained the courts prevented him from extending the moratorium by ruling against the Centers for Disease Controls order in July.
    “Look, the courts made it clear that the existing moratorium was not constitutional, that it wouldn’t stand,” Biden said.
    Biden’s new eviction moratorium, scheduled for release Tuesday evening, will reportedly extend protections for up to 80 percent of Americans in some of the areas experiencing a rise in cases.
    But Biden conceded his new moratorium would also likely face legal challenges.
    “At a minimum, by the time it gets litigated, it will probably give some additional time,” he said.”
    A real Marxist move.

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  24. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Do you consider Trump to be a man of integrity Don?

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  25. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    No wonder kvmr kicked him to the curb @647!

    The worst in 20 years, thanks creepy grampa joe and the socialists –
    https://www.cnsnews.com/index.php/article/national/patrick-goodenough/surge-number-migrants-stopped-us-mexico-border-july-highest-20
    😉

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  26. Scott O Avatar

    Paul 6:06 – “Biden sas (sic) not my first choice but I find him to be a man of integrity”
    When the truck driver involved in the collision with Biden’s soused wife risked his life trying to avoid the collision, here’s what Biden said:
    “In 2007 Biden said the truck driver “allegedly … drank his lunch.”
    Of course Biden could never provide any proof that he had ever ‘heard’ that rumor. The rumor’s author was Biden.
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/driver-in-biden-crash-wanted-name-cleared/
    ““A tractor-trailer, a guy who allegedly — and I never pursued it — drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly and killed my daughter instantly and hospitalized my two sons,” Mr. Biden said in 2007.
    In a 2001 speech at the University of Delaware, he referred to an “errant driver who stopped to drink instead of drive” and “hit my children and my wife and killed them,” according to a 2008 report in NewsBusters, citing a 2001 “Inside Edition” report.
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/18/joe-bidens-false-claim-about-drunken-driver-draws-/
    Think about that, folks – Biden (a lawyer) claims his wife was killed by an impaired driver whom authorities didn’t charge and Biden then admits he didn’t pursue the matter?
    What kind of monster just shrugs when he believes the authorities let a drunk off the hook after killing his wife?
    Oh yeah – the records are now “LOST”.
    And Paul thinks this guy is a man of integrity.
    Tells us all we need to know about Paul Emery.
    One sick puppy.

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  27. Scott O Avatar

    Biden IS a man of integrity if you consider wads of money to be “integrity”.
    Biden’s record of lying, plagiarism, and complete 180’s on basic policy based on a moist finger in the wind are a matter of open fact.
    Of course Paul wants links.
    I would suggest an 18 hole golf course.

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Just like creepy grampa joe is no clinton cumo is no slick willey –
    Cuomo using ‘Bill Clinton playbook’ in hopes of retaining Democratic stature like ex-president: Marc Thiessen
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/cuomo-bill-clinton-playbook-marc-thiessen
    😉

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  29. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Do you really want me to get started on the plethora of lies that Trump has told Scott? Well start here:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-fact-checker-tracked-trump-claims/2021/01/23/ad04b69a-5c1d-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html
    and here:
    ‘Tsunami of untruths’: Trump has made 20,000 false or misleading claims – report
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/13/donald-trump-20000-false-or-misleading-claims
    and here: Trump Is Lying More Than Ever: Just Look At The Data
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidmarkowitz/2020/05/05/trump-is-lying-more-than-ever-just-look-at-the-data/?sh=589f476a1e17
    and here:
    Trump versus the truth: The most outrageous falsehoods of his presidency
    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-versus-truth-most-outrageous-falsehoods-his-presidency-n1252580
    If you want more I can provide them. This is just a start

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  30. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    How many lies has Biden told about Covid?

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  31. Scott O Avatar

    Paul 7:32 – “Do you really want me to get started on the plethora of lies that Trump has told Scott?”
    Sure, Paul – that would be something totally new and unexpected from you.
    OK – you see, folks?
    Paul is trying to rebut my facts about Biden by talking about Trump.
    TDS has now been shown to completely destroy the reasoning abilities of grown humans.
    Sad.

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  32. Scott O Avatar

    Biden’s latest on the factual findings of the left wing Dems at the NY Atty Gen’s office re Cuomo:
    “Look, I’m not going to flyspeck this [report]. I’m sure there are some embraces that were totally innocent. But apparently the attorney general decided there were things that weren’t.”
    So it’s all a matter of what the AG ‘decided’ and nothing that Cuomo did.
    Got it.
    Lots of integrity there.
    And please, please, please don’t look into the dead people at the convalescent hospitals.
    Well – they died on the ambulance on the way to the hospital, so they don’t count, right?

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  33. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Somebody throw a nickel into his tattered guitar case @732 #sadolTDSaddict
    😉

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  34. Scott O Avatar

    Barry 7:55 – Biden is on record as saying that vaxed people won’t get covid.
    It had already been shown that wasn’t true before he said it, but Biden is a “Man Of Integrity” according to Paul so if you are vaxed and become positive afterwards for covid, it must be because Trump told some lies or something like that.

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  35. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Barry
    do you believe Trump is a man of integrity?

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  36. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The ponytail of ignorance needs to look in the mirror and ask if repeated TDS projectile vomiting makes him a man of integrity.
    😉

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  37. Scott O Avatar

    Yeah, Barry?
    Huh, huh, huh???!!
    Answer now, Barry!
    Yes or no – yes or no!!!!!

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  38. 🐠 Avatar
    🐠

    Posted by: Scott O | 03 August 2021 at 08:02 PM
    TDS has now been shown to completely destroy the reasoning abilities of grown humans.
    Sad.

    Punchy’s reasoning skills….such as they are are fine. He claims Joey Fingers is a man of integrity when 90% of Washington wouldn’t make that claim. His former boss called him a complete fuckup. Joe Biden the Senator from MBNA, insert money here and watch legislation come out Joe’s backside.
    Now if Punch just wanted Biden because he wasn’t Trump….no skin off my ass….we wanted Trump because he wasn’t Hillary but nobody here made the claim that “Trump was a man of integrity” before or after the election. All Paul has done is replace a “lying grifter” (his words) with a “less successful lying grifter” (mine for The Pride of Scranton) and Paul gets to feel like both Woodward and Bernstein for his constant kvetching.
    The cognitive dissonance would be funny if the country didn’t have to take it in the shorts.
    No, the issue isn’t so much that Biden’s not a man of integrity but it’s that Paul isn’t. All that Green Libertarian nonsense for the last decade….that’s just so he could weasel drinks from people at the bar. Run the right line of bullshit, let somebody else pick up the check.

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  39. Scott O Avatar

    re Fish-appearing icon 8:40 – Hey, a gig’s a gig.

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Seems that the ponytail of ignorance was enamored of the cuomos especially fredo, this is what qualified as a man of integrity in the world of the TDS set –
    Chris Cuomo silent on CNN show as NY AG says brother sexually harassed women, host himself appears in report
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-chris-cuomo-silent-andrew-cuomo-ny-ag-report
    😉

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  41. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I wondered what those wails were from the direction of the socialist dem environs, looks like the littlest congressional commies endorsement is not worth a warm bucket of spit –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nina-turner-sanders-ally-concedes-defeat-in-ohio-us-house-race
    😉

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  42. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Scott
    Why is it so difficult for you to say you believe Trump is a man of integrity?

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  43. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Scott
    How about Trumps lies about injecting disinfectants or something like that?
    Here’s the quote
    “”The virus dies quickest in sunlight,” leaving Trump to wonder whether you could bring the light “inside the body.”
    “So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just a very powerful light — and I think you said that hasn’t been checked because of the testing,” Trump said, speaking to Bryan during the briefing. “And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too.”
    We apologize, this video has expired.
    He added: “I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.”
    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-suggests-injection-disinfectant-beat-coronavirus-clean-lungs-n1191216

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  44. Scott O Avatar

    Totally non-Cuomo.
    Just to let everyone know how completely F’d up California govt is:
    https://reason.com/2021/08/02/that-weird-california-computer-ban-isnt-what-it-appears-to-be-its-dumber/
    So – don’t have a natural gas stove – use an electric range with a 50 amp breaker.
    Don’t use a gasoline car – plug in an EV to that special 220 volt outlet in the gay-rauge.
    Oh, wait – OMG!!!! Yer computer uses some milliamps to stay asleep!!!!
    We’re all gonna die!!!!
    And how many wall worts are permantely stuck in outlets?
    We are talking complete insanity, here.
    Complete Insanity.
    And folks wonder why we left.

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Beaker 1-9. Biden drove 18 Wheelers, man. His helicopter brought down by the enemy’s hell fire and brimstone over Afghanistan.
    Only a Democrat (and Dem donor) would be stupid enough to give her husband fish tank cleaner to drink. At first they thought the wife was trying to kill her husband on purpose, so the police looked into that. But, through time, ask grandma around and interviews, they concluded she was really that dumb. Now when someone says in general,conversation, “Nobody is that dumb”, they are speaking falsehoods. Fish tank cleaner lady is really that dumb.

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  46. Scott O Avatar

    Paul – 9:18 “How about Trumps lies about injecting disinfectants or something like that?”
    First of all, what does that have to do with Biden slandering a man who risked his life trying to avoid a collision with Biden’s family in their car?
    Second – what did Trump ever say that was a lie about disinfectants?
    Yes or no, Paul – yes or no!!!!

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  47. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    I think that trump has more integrity than the vast majority of politicians. Why is that hard to say?

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  48. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Biden is a politician. He said that he was going to govern from the center. Lie. He said once you are vaccinated no more mask. Lie. Trump was far more truthful and transparent. In fact and via Twitter, we knew what the leader of the free world thought on a hourly basis. It was refreshing.

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  49. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Speaking of slimy politicians emperor gavin and his team are seeing the numbers going the wrong way, ya think they would have done better not trying to game it with a sept date that the average dem is ignorant of? –
    https://www.breitbart.com/podcast/2021/08/03/vote-to-remove-gavin-newsom-within-margin-of-error-hispanics-favor-recall/
    😉

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