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338 responses to “Sandbox – 13sep21”
It just does not end –
https://nypost.com/2021/09/13/biden-claims-first-job-offer-from-idaho-lumber-company-no-record-of-it/
I think the reason B/C can’t find any record of it is because they thought he meant a job as a lawyer.
They forgot Biden was a trucker. He wanted a job driving a logging truck!
Complete with the usual Biden habit of drifting off into space:
“He added: “And in the meantime there was a war going on. Anyway…”
Spanish American War? Who knows? And what has that got to do with the story he was making up?
Get the hook!
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Walt 4:12 – Got to wonder what drugs these people are on:
“…as much as I blame Donald Trump after years of vandalism, the near-collapse of the government of the United States.”
The more we see the damage the Dems are causing our country, the more deranged the charges are against Trump.
“near-collapse…”
I think TDS has and will do more damage to peoples’ brains than any flu possibly could.
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Posted by: Scott O | 14 September 2021 at 04:41 PM
President Abraham Biden….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQDKSE2m73I
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LOL Fishy!!
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I’m sure the Spector of Emery will show up sometime after 8.
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Anyone surprised –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/14/joe-biden-breaks-pledge-raises-taxes-on-americans-earnings-over-50k/
😉
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C’mon Don,, You know how Emery gets, He hasn’t done it.
He’s not to blame. Some RINO will vote for it, and Emery will blame him.
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Before the pony tail of ignorance shows up, even if gavin survives the mark of doom is on the socialist dems –
“The marked decline in support for President Joe Biden and his administration nationally and in key swing states indicates that the Democratic Party could endure a blowout defeat in the 2022 midterm elections,” Schoen wrote.
The political consultant outlined the dichotomy between Biden’s current position of weakness and the more stable positions that President Barack Obama and President Clinton experienced as they approached their first midterm elections:
Moreover, Biden is in a significantly weaker position now than both of his most recent Democratic predecessors — Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — at this point in their presidencies, which suggests that Democrats could suffer even more substantial losses in 2022 than the party did in 1994 and 2010.
According to poll numbers that were published on September 8, Biden’s approval rating has dipped to 39 percent which marks the lowest of his presidency to date. The poll showed that 49 percent of Americans disapprove of the job the President is doing
While nearly 86 percent of Democrat voters approved of Biden’s performance 2 weeks ago, 77 percent now approve of his work, marking a nine percent drop in only a week.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/14/clinton-bloomberg-consultant-lose/
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Could you imagine having your kid in his class –
VA teacher says encouraging behaviors like ‘following directions’ is White supremacy
Critics of the Virginia teacher’s TikTok are calling for him to be fired
https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-teacher-behavior-following-directions-white-supremacy
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Lets not forget that newsome did it to himself –
As California voters descended upon their polling centers Tuesday to decide the fate of Governor Gavin Newsom, a restaurant critic noted that the recall election would not be possible without Newsom’s infamous French Laundry scandal from November of last year.
In an op-ed for the New York Times, California restaurant critic Tejal Rao that the images of Gavin Newsom dining maskless at the most luxurious, exclusive restaurant in the Golden State while ordering small businesses to comply with his crippling coronavirus restrictions kicked the recall into high gear.
Though she opposed the recall election, Lisa Bonos of the Washington Post agreed that Newsom’s French Laundry scandal fueled the recall effort in a way that was not previously possible.
“The recall effort was underway long before Newsom sat down to dinner here. But the meal provided red meat for Republicans opposed to his liberal policies and others who see the governor as elitist and out of touch,” noted Bonos.
During the fall of 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom kept restaurants from serving food indoors and at full capacity, a rule that prompted cries of hypocrisy after photos leaked of him attending an in-person dinner at Napa’s luxurious French Laundry restaurant. Award-winning journalist Adam Housley — a previous Emmy, AP, and RTNDA recipient — claimed that the maskless dinner had 22 guests and ran up a bar bill of over $15k.
“Because Yountville is my hometown..and where the French Laundry is located…I thought I’d do some digging. Facts about the Newsom dinner. The bar bill was around 15-thousand. 22 people in attendance, not 12. No masks. All indoors. They got so loud, other patrons complained,” Housley tweeted.
“There was ‘zero effort’ to go outside and there was no social distancing of any type. I’m also told some of those there are now privately laughing at the controversy. Remember this is my little hometown. The walls speak,” he added.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/14/restaurant-critic-california-recall-not-possible-without-gavin-newsoms-french-laundry-scandal/
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https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-pressured-manchin-1-9t-stimulus
“”If you don’t come along, you’re really f—ing me,” Biden said during the call, according to the book, which was excerpted by the Post.”
Well, did you get a kiss first? Then you would really know.
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It sure as hell looks like the reports of peaceful protests were overlooking something –
But Uptown appears frozen in time since that night in August.
Much of the main commercial corridor is still boarded up or crumbling, the brick walls of empty businesses streaked with soot. Inside the shells of buildings that burned, debris is slowly rotting, the smell of mold wafting onto the sidewalk.
“You barely see people here anymore,” said Darrayal Jenkins, 40, as he walked past several burned buildings in July. “It’s like a ghost town.”
https://news.yahoo.com/unrest-scarred-kenosha-still-waits-182922837.html
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WOW!!! Gotta ask Emery about this.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/14/fauci-to-minaj-cousins-friends-swollen-testicles-claims-bogus-no-mechanistic-reason-that-it-would-happen/
“Fauci to Minaj: Cousin’s Friend’s Swollen Testicles Claims Bogus, No ‘Mechanistic Reason’ That it Would Happen”
Fauci ain’t known for telling the truth… So Emery,, If you get the shots now, they might grow to regulars size. Impress the Nevada City hippie chicks in whatever dive your strumming at.
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Empreor xi spit in creepy gampa joes eye –
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/biden-failed-secure-summit-chinas-210413452.html
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Well Trump is calling it BS,
““The good news is that the story is Fake News concocted by a weak and ineffective General together with two authors who I refused to give an interview to because they write fiction, not fact. Actions should be taken immediately against Milley, and better generals in our Military, of which we have many, should get involved so that another Afghanistan disaster never happens again. Remember, I was the one who took out 100% of the ISIS Caliphate. Milley said it couldn’t be done,” he added.”
https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/14/donald-trump-china-mark-milley-reports/
It could just be a hit job.
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Now hold your horses about Milley. Oh he did bad by America alright, but……
Richard Grenell
@RichardGrenell
Bob Woodward has become the Michael Wolff of Washington, DC.
It’s hard to believe anything the two of them write.
Trump isn’t a war starter and I don’t believe Milley thought he was.
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GEN. MILLEY: A TRAITOR, OR NOT?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/09/gen-milley-a-traitor-or-not.php
I remember in 2016 a Trump Campaign car caravan when through some tree lined neighborhood and there was old fat disheveled Bernstein in his white underwear with robe wind open and drunker than a skunk standing on the doorway yelling “FU Trump” as the cars and cameras rolled by….in the friggin morning. He has definitely got the red puffed up alkie face last time I saw him on Lamestream Cable. Too much slipper time.
So, guilt by association. Go pound sand Woodward and Bernstein. Forget where you came from? Or like Fauci, been in DC too long.
Wonder how much Milley was involved in the Ukraine phone call.
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Sad day for the RR’s
It’s a rout. Elder will join Trump in the losers Hall of Shame.
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They are calling it 67-32 for recall Pathetic Elder effort
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32? Really. We picked up more Hispanic and Latino voters than I thought. Looking good. Still have a ways to go.
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Rigged Emery, People still standing in line to vote all over the state. But you don’t care about cheating. The end justifies the means. Not once have you ever denounced LIB cheating.
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Just because LIB news “calls” a winner,, don’t make it so.
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Bill, Walt
62% of the vote in. No is winning 67% to 33% So Bill with approx 38% yet to come in do you really think the Yes can make up those numbers?
https://www.latimes.com/projects/newsom-california-recall-election-live-results/
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They are calling it 67-32 for recall Pathetic Elder effort
Posted by: Paul Emery | 14 September 2021 at 08:39 PM
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I am surprised you did not call Larry Elder, the Sage of South Central, a ‘coon’ our ‘houseboy’. That’s what your comrades have been calling Larry Elder for years. More recently, the White Supremist….just like they keep trying to pin on Candace Owens.
Enjoy your racist celebrations. Go ahead and call Elder a ‘coon’. Get it off your chest and wake up feeling yourself.
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Paul @ 9:11 pm
No, those numbers are hard to overcome. Give it 1 in 200 chance. But, I have seen a lot more stranger things happen. But, this isn’t the 2020 federal election either.
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You didn’t support Obama Bill so does does that make you a racist?
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 14 September 2021 at 08:25 PM
Sad day for the RR’s
How do you figure Punch?
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Punchy is just rehearsing his abysmal winner act.
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It was a rout for no recall. Also Nevada County reaffirmed it’s Blueness voting 60-40 at last count for no recall.
What exactly is a abysmal winner act Gregory. Also when such a dreary candidate as Newsom wins so big something is really wrong with the Repubs.
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Paul supports “…such a dreary candidate as Newsom…” What does that say about you? Lol.
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It’s what you’re doing, Punch. Acting as a classless, abysmal winner… meaning you chose a side that apparently is winning by a smaller margin than you are claiming. You didn’t have a thing to do with it.
Elder blew out the cattle call. Not bad for a newbie.
There will be interesting takes on the election in the coming weeks, just not by Punchy.
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Gregory: “It’s what you’re doing, Punch. Acting as a classless, abysmal winner”
The thing is, if you’re in the same corner as the ruling class you’re going to win most of the time. ’twas ever thus.
Now that the Democrats have distanced themselves from people who actually do useful things for a living there’s no guilt for their various mouthpieces…non-profit drones, school administrators, ‘activists’, bar musicians, surveillance advertising computer programmers. An economy built on borrowing from the Chinese, spying, speculative investments, and gubmint checks should be sustainable in perpetuity.
In any case, if it wasn’t Newsom in office, it would simply be his doppelganger. My take is to kick back and enjoy the show.
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Here’s an interesting take, from The Bee (Babylon, not Sac):
SACRAMENTO, CA—The nation is cheering this morning after Gavin Newsom defeated a recall election, ensuring that the Democrat Newsom fans who live there will stay put.
“We were getting ready to escape the state if a black man had been elected governor,” said one local insane Communist Democrat Newsom fan while taking his morning poop on the sidewalk. “But now that our favorite progressive governor is safe, we know we can stay!”
Experts are warning that some Democrats may still leave the state in spite of having a progressive governor, in search of things like food, water, electricity, shelter, and jobs. Several states are preparing for the potential onslaught of California refugees by building tall border walls to keep escaping Democrats out.
Still, many believe that keeping Gavin Newsom as governor will result in many Democrats staying in California where they belong.
“This is sad news for California, but wonderful news for the rest of us!” said Texas Governor Greg Abbot. “Stay put in California, Libs! Say ‘hi’ to Newsom for me! Yee Haw!”
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“In any case, if it wasn’t Newsom in office, it would simply be his doppelganger. My take is to kick back and enjoy the show.”
This….
In our case the show…..localyl…..consisted of a poll obsessed screwball who couldn’t explain why Newsome’s departure would have had any impact on the state at all.
I guess when you have a butterfly collection all you want to talk about is butterflies.
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“Elder blew out the cattle call. Not bad for a newbie.” —Gregory @ 10:13 pm
I agree 100%. Not bad for a novice like Elder throwing his hat into the ring. For awhile there we got to watch them sweat. Sweat big time. While the actual Recall petition started awhile back and was focused solely on Gavin Newsom, the Dems playbook was to make it all about Elder.
I don’t mind Punchy doing the Moon Dance. It was David vs Goliath from the get-go and Punch has had not much to celebrate with Biden’s polls moving in a direction more towards hell than heaven.
While not all votes are counted yet, I will make lemonade when life gives you lemons: Looks like Nevada County, CA has a higher percentage of voters voting Yes on Recall than the state’s results. Over 40%. 🙂
Yes, let Punchy do a jig. Can’t stop him anyway and the libertarian streak in me would not allow it. Kinda ironic that Elder is more Libertarian than Punchy.
The most probable outcome now is the schools will be shut down again.
Speaking of schools…..back to normal. Or is it? The fight must go on
‘Mayor Tells School Board Resign Or Be Charged With ‘Child Porn’ Over Assignment, Parents Erupt In Applause’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/mayor-tells-school-board-resign-or-be-charged-with-child-porn-over-assignment-parents-erupt-in-applause
Murder she wrote.
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Barry
What does that say about Elder that I would prefer a “dreary candidate?” such as Newsom
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That you are a partisan hack. There were many many candidates to choose from.
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Quote of the day.
https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1437624758334492672
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The moment there is a speck of good news for the LIBS, Emery comes out of his coffin in broad daylight. All of a sudden he has something to say.
Keep trying Emery, your sill a member of the party where racism is alive and well.
As for Gavin Nussolini, what has he done about homelessness, other than expand it?
We have water issues.. Where are the new dams? Housing? Where is his call to role back choking regulations?
He’s too busy throwing “look at me” parties. and dining at the French Laundry.
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“I think after seeing all the celebs without masks or social distancing … at the Met Gala we should pretty much move on with our lives.” —Janice Dean
And more quotes:
Insight: “Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.” —Alan Watts (1915-1973)
“If you are serious about wanting to improve education, do not vote more money for the education establishment that has been dumbing down the schools for years. Vote for vouchers, tax credits, or anything else that will transfer decision-making power to parents.” —Thomas Sowell
“The Democrats’ inflation is turning American workers’ pay raises into effective pay cuts, essentially pickpocketing American families. You might think this would give our Democratic friends some pause and encourage them to deal in reality.” —Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell
“Let us #NeverForget that it was the Islamist ideology which inspired the terrorist attacks and declaration of war against America on 9/11. And it is this Islamist ideology that continues to fuel terrorist attacks around the world and is the foundation for so-called ‘Islamic’ countries like Pakistan, Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia’s discriminatory policies against Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Atheists, etc.” —Tulsi Gabbard
Democrat infighting: “I don’t know that young lady [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] that well. I really don’t. I have met her one time, I think, between sets here. But that’s it. So we have not had any conversations. She’s just speculating and saying things because she wants to.” —Senator Joe Manchin (“Manchin has weekly huddles w/ Exxon & is one of many senators who gives lobbyists their pen to write so-called ‘bipartisan’ fossil fuel bills. It’s killing people. Our people. At least 12 last night. Sick of this ‘bipartisan’ corruption that masquerades as clear-eyed moderation.” —AOC, September 2)
The BIG Lie: “Look, I don’t want to punish anyone’s success, but the wealthy have been getting a free ride at the expense of the middle class for too long. I intend to pass one of the biggest middle class tax cuts ever — paid for by making those at the top pay their fair share.” —Joe Biden
Demagogue: “That sunny American optimism, so key to our national identity, has been replaced by a growing sourness and divisiveness in the land. … We have a once in a generation opportunity to rebuild our economy and rekindle faith in America’s future.” —Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
Friendly fire I: “The notion that General Milley said that ‘nothing I or anyone else indicated a collapse of [the Afghan] army or this government in 11 days,’ I just don’t think that’s true. If the administration really said, ‘Nobody could see this coming,’ then that probably suggests that the contingency planning for something that was a real possibility wasn’t all that it should have been.” —Democrat Senator Tim Kaine
Friendly fire II: “I’m very disappointed that Secretary [Lloyd] Austin declined our request to testify today. … I expect the secretary will avail himself to the committee in the near future. And if he does not, I may consider the use of committee subpoena power to compel him.” —Democrat Senator Bob Menendez
Friendly fire III: “The execution of the U.S. withdrawal was clearly and fatally flawed.” —Bob Menendez
Non compos mentis: “I’m puzzled by these people who continue to say they’re forced to get vaccinated… If you do not want to get vaccinated, you can work from home. You can homeschool your children. You can shop online.” —MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle
Dr. Flip-Flop: “I would support [a vaccine mandate]. If you want to get on a plane and travel with other people [then] you should be vaccinated.” —Anthony Fauci, September 2021 | “I don’t see [a vaccine mandate] on a national level merely because of all the situations you have upon encroaching upon a person’s freedom to make their own choice of their own health.” —Anthony Fauci, July 2020
Grand delusions: “[The Statue of Liberty] is a strong, powerful woman with her hand up saying if you’ve been oppressed anywhere in this world, you come to our harbor. This is the safe harbor for people suffering from oppression. My friends, that oppression, in my judgment, is going on right now in the state of Texas, and our harbor is open for people to come here and understand that we will be there to take care of them and protect them.” —New York Governor Kathy Hochul
Village idiot: “I see the U.S. is having its dumb little annual pity party again.” —University of Toronto professor Jonathan Weisberg vis-à-vis 9/11
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Best AOC Gala meme I saw so far was AOC in her lovely gown with the bold red letter words “Let Them Eat Cake” written across her backside.
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Solid 57-42 lead in Nevada County for no recall affirming Nevada Counties solid Blue status.
https://yubanet.com/regional/recall-election/
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-gymnasts-biles-maroney-raisman-nichols-nassar-investigation-fbi-testimony
Maybe if the FBI was actually interested in investigating real crimes and not playing partisan politics, the FBI would have protected these young girls. Under the leadership of Comey and during the Obama administration, these girls were not protected despite knowing what was going on. Get back to real crime investigation and stop with the deep state partisan politics maybe.
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Really Emery? Then that explains the bad smell.
Cheering the Frisco-ing of Nevada County.
How many times now has the imported constituents of Frisco almost burned down Grass Valley?
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Good news for Emery. Another business is leaving the state from Nevada County. Another electrical contractor is packing up and heading for Texas. Kiss those tax dollars goodbye.
Ain’t state LIBism great? It’s now the #1 job killer.
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“That you are a partisan hack. There were many many candidates to choose from.”
Posted by: Barry Pruett | 15 September 2021 at 08:58 AM
Quite true about many candidates to choose from, Barry, but lost in the static. Wonder how Bruce Jenner did. A celebrity, won the Olympic Gold in the men’s decathlon, had his picture on the box of Wheaties……guess CA ain’t ready for a transgender as Governor.
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As far as Punchy being a partisan hack….well, this is my take:
Imagine a younger Paul Emery, just a kid really, but a man. His weekend assignment at the time with the Guard (Reserves) was to spend all day off loading American flag draped caskets of our fallen brought back from Nam. Must have off-loaded hundreds if not thousands of soldiers, Airmen, Marines, and Sailors. That must of taken a emotional toll. Maybe not, but probably.
All those planes full of caskets and Punchy dutifully and respectfully welcomed each one home, back to the USA. Now he supports a President that purposefully by design left Americans behind in another hellhole of a foreign land.
A soldier’s prayer during the Korean War was, “God, please don’t let me die in this frozen rice paddy.” The soldier who wrote those words described what it was like during his death process. They found his words written on paper on his body. God, please don’t left me die in this hellhole. He wanted to die at home…America, his home.
I do applaud a younger Paul Emery for doing his small, yet important, part in bringing our fallen home. Not exactly a popular thing to do at the time when the returning vertical were spit on and reviled by his contemporaries on the Left. He did his part in ensuring no one left behind. We had a hand in bringing our boys “home”. Home to America, the home of the brave.
Turn the page and that same Paul Emery now vigorously supports the man who made the decision to leave Americans behind. What makes it worse is they are unarmed civilians. Fodder for the slaughter. Collateral Damage for political advantage. Left behind. Left behind. Left behind. I could never ever support Left Behind. Not in a thousand lifetimes.
Punchy a partisan hack? America was never great?
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For yesterday’s news tomorrow, I’d sure like to hear more about how 300 ballots got into a crackhead’s car.
we won’t have elections for all to believe in until we get back to in-person voting and Photo ID.
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Bill
In your very brief critique of the Afghanistan situation you do not mention in any way the neglected responsibility of bringing our troops home from the last three Presidents who created the situation. In the last 20 years we lost thousands of lives and trillions of dollars occupying a country that really didn’t want us there and refused to defend themselves when we decided to leave. Are there unfortunate victims? You bet there are but the damage was already done due to Bush, Obama and Trump not Biden.
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You bet there are but the damage was already done due to Bush, Obama and Trump not Biden.
Very true……and the cherry on the sundae that is Afghanistan was President Craps his Pantz utter fuck up on the withdrawal. Of course we direct your attention to Joeys former boss…..”Never underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up….”
(I again notice that you omit Biden’s ongoing support for not just Afghanistan but Iraq, and others while he warmed a chair as a senator.)
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Fishbreath
There is such a thing as learning from your mistakes. When we first got into Afganistan 20 years ago it was to confront the Osama situation that let to 9/11. It was not even remotely proposed that were we to stay there 20 years. How did that come to be Bill and fish and who was responsible?
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“Bush, Obama and Trump not Biden.”
Biden had been a Senator for a lifetime already, and it was bin Laden who subverted the Afghans in the first place.
Give the man some peace and a soft serve ice cream cone.
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Administrivia – I draw your kind attention to the topics covered in the next ‘Ruminations’.
https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2021/09/ruminations-14sep21.html
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