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Sandbox – 13sep21

[New revelation about Facebook’s history of selective gatekeeping and lying was discovered by the WSJ and is reported here.  gjr]

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  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Weekly pics (2)
    https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/09/IMG_4814.jpeg?
    https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-15-at-5.00.15-PM.png?
    And a bunch more pics.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/09/the-week-in-pictures-met-gala-edition.php
    ————————————
    For Whom the Bell Tolls: “Surprise, surprise, surprise!”-Gomer Pyle
    ‘After Learning She’s the ‘1 Percent,’ Whoopi Rants Against AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ Message’
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2021/09/14/after-learning-shes-1-percent-whoopi-rants-against-aocs-tax-rich

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    This one is telling a little too much truth –
    Master plan
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow
    😉

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Common theme. Obama’s birthday bash, AOC gala. Frisco values are Lib values.
    ‘San Francisco Mayor London Breed breaks mask mandate at club’
    https://nypost.com/2021/09/17/san-francisco-mayor-london-breed-breaks-mask-mandate-to-go-clubbing/

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    To the victor goes the spoils.
    ‘Democrats Want New Tax Break for Union Members’
    “Some workers in non-right-to-work states are required to pay union agency fees but not fees for the political and lobbying portion of the dues. Under the proposed strictures, if a worker is only paying the agency fee but not the political portion, that worker cannot deduct his or her dues, Greszler explained.
    “It is only allowing the deduction as long as you are a member that’s contributing to the lobbying and the political campaign contribution part of the union membership,” she said.”
    https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/democrats-want-new-tax-break-for-union-members/?

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The hollow headed grumpy creepy grampa joe –
    Biden aides set up a ‘wall’ to shield him from unscripted events, book claims
    The book describes the internal White House staffers’ process as a ‘cocooning’ of the president
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-aides-wall-shield-unscripted-events-book-claims
    😉

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    MLB give jobs to the chi coms –
    MLB moves bat production company from United States to China
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/mlb-moves-bat-production-company-124513322.html
    😉

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  7. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    DC cops attempt to arrest undercover FBI who infiltrated J6 protestors today. Really? So FUBAR on all levels. Lol
    https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1439312268701863939?s=20

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  8. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Just got back from town. Nice parade of cars and trucks.
    Getting with the “F*ck Joe Biden” program. In solidarity with the protest in D.C. at Fort Pelosi.

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  9. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BarryP@2:34pm
    lol. That’s a beautiful thing.
    Cue up new Star Wars stormtroopers theme. ‘March of the Quisling’.

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You might think the brainiacs in sac would get a hint but NOOOOOOOOO –
    Anna Shiryaevskaya, Rachel Morison and Isis Almeida
    Fri, September 17, 2021, 11:30 PM
    (Bloomberg) — Europe is bracing for a tough winter as an energy crisis that’s been years in the making leaves the continent relying on the vagaries of the weather.
    Faced with surging gas and electricity prices, countries from the U.K. to Germany will need to count on mild temperatures to get through the heating season. Europe is short of gas and coal and if the wind doesn’t blow, the worst-case scenario could play out: widespread blackouts that force businesses and factories to shut.
    The unprecedented energy crunch has been brewing for years, with Europe growing increasingly dependent on intermittent sources of energy such as wind and solar while investments in fossil fuels declined. Environmental policy has also pushed some countries to shut their coal and nuclear fleets, reducing the number of power plants that could serve as back-up in times of shortages.
    “It could get very ugly unless we act quickly to try to fill every inch of storage,” said Marco Alvera, chief executive officer of Italian energy infrastructure company Snam SpA. “You can survive a week without electricity, but you can’t survive without gas.”
    Energy demand is rising from the U.S. to Europe and Asia as economies recover from the global pandemic, boosting industrial activity and fueling concerns about inflation. Prices are so high in Europe that two major fertilizer producers announced they were shutting plants or curtailing production in the region.
    And it’s not just businesses. Governments are also concerned about the blow to households already contending with higher costs of everything from food to transport. As power and gas prices break records day after day, Spain, Italy, Greece and France are all stepping in to protect consumers from inflation.
    “It will be expensive for consumers, it will be expensive for big energy users,” Dermot Nolan, a former chief executive officer of U.K. energy regulator Ofgem, said in a Bloomberg TV interview. “Electricity and gas prices are going to be higher at home than everybody would want and they are going to be higher than they have been for about 12 years.”
    Europe’s gas prices have more than tripled this year as top supplier Russia has been curbing the additional deliveries the continent needs to refill its depleted storage sites after a cold winter last year. It’s been hard to get hold of alternative supplies, with North Sea fields undergoing heavy maintenance after pandemic-induced delays, and Asia scooping up cargoes of liquefied natural gas to meet rising demand there.
    Higher gas prices boosted the cost of producing electricity as renewables faltered. Low wind speeds forced European utilities to burn expensive coal, depleting stockpiles of the dirtiest of fossil fuels. Energy policy also played a role, with the cost of polluting in the European Union surging more than 80% this year.
    “Gas supply is short, coal supply is short and renewables aren’t going great, so we are now in this crazy situation,” said Dale Hazelton, head of thermal coal at Wood Mackenzie Ltd. “Coal companies just don’t have supply available, they can’t get the equipment, the manufacturers are backed up and they don’t really want to invest.”
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/finance/news/europe-faces-bleak-winter-energy-063000504.html
    😉

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  11. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Dud protest in DC Dud Recall in California Dud President in Trump biggest loser in modern history Dud Dud Dud

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  12. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Only a fool would go to DC today and be surveilled by your own government. Lol. Deep state at work.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 3:56 pm
    Sounds like here in the USA. Everything Biden touches turns into boneless brown trout.
    “Electricity and gas prices are going to be higher at home than everybody would want and they are going to be higher than they have been for about 12 years.”

    “Coal companies just don’t have supply available, they can’t get the equipment, the manufacturers are backed up and they don’t really

    ‘American Who Lost 18 Family Members In Kabul Bombing And Was Left Behind: Biden Admin ‘Broke Me’

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-who-lost-18-family-members-in-kabul-bombing-and-was-left-behind-biden-admin-broke-me

    Congressman Releases New Photos Of Biden’s Growing Crisis In Del Rio: ‘Has Reached A Boiling Point’

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/congressman-releases-new-photos-of-bidens-growing-crisis-in-del-rio-has-reached-a-boiling-point

    6Bonus:
    U.S. Lawmaker Representing Del Rio: Biden’s Border Crisis Causing ‘Food Shortages In Grocery Stores’

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Sounds like the ponytail of ignorance was hoping for burned cars, looted and burned stores or something, thats you new red guards job remember? AKA an antifa/blm peaceful protest.
    😉

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Barry @ 4:46 pm.
    They only ones who got all foaming at the mouth and spewing spittle all over themselves was The Fake News Lefty media and their like minded brain dead minnons like The Ponytail of Ignorance. Trump told folks to stay away, its a setup. Shows his instincts are once again soot on. “No thanks,” said the critter to the snare.
    Bet the number of undercover LE from multiple agencies in the crowd of a few hundred outnumbered the peaceful protestors 2-1.

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I do miss her radio program at 6 am. I forgot how good she is. she ain’t no dummy like you see on across the entire Left
    All things Joe Biden:
    https://www.facebook.com/100057426335060/videos/285848066361942/

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  17. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Speaking of duds,, Emery fell out of his casket again.
    OK Emery,, just what good has Biden done? Lost a war? Check.
    Got American killed? Check. Destroyed the economy? Check.
    Inflation sky high? Check. Kung flu running rampant? Check.
    Illegals by the thousands show up every day? Check.
    Miss Trump yet? Check.

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    That’s odd no mention of the benefit to americans, oh ya they don’t like working americans, disgraceful to take food from the mouths of our working poor, money from their pockets in supressing wages, money for schools gobbled up and more and more –
    The post includes data and studies that suggest providing undocumented immigrants with legal permanent residence would allow them to apply for jobs that better suit their skill sets, raise their wages and lead to improved their language skills, education and health.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-makes-economic-case-100034953.html
    😉

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  19. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    The marine’s have landed!
    https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/18/marines-stranded-woman-floodwater-jimlaporta/
    Dress uniforms and all.

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  20. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    The Soros stooge of Maricopa county AZ. ain’t happy.
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/soros-funded-maricopa-county-sheriff-disturbed-county-cooperation-failed-leadership-will-cause-us-pay-dearly/
    Looks like something gave way in the election audit, and the Proggycrats are peeved.
    So Emery, I’m sure you know who George Soros is. A big Commiecrat backer. Lets see if he bought and election, as well as a sheriff.

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Now thats funny, the dressmakers who cater to the anointed wokesters does not pay their tax and have the nerve to say tax the rich when they are stealing from their workers. Perfect partners for the littlest commie congresscreitter. Now who does that remind me of…..?
    Most of luxe-living James’ arrears center on Cultural Brokerage Agency, an LLC she formed in 2011 to serve as the parent company of her fashion brand, which today is known as Brother Vellies. It’s a favorite of people like Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Meghan Markle.
    The company racked up three open tax warrants in New York state for failing to withhold income taxes from employees’ paychecks totaling $14,798, the state Department of Taxation and Finance told The Post. The debts — which were incurred before the pandemic — stem from 2018 and 2019. The company has been hit with 15 warrants in total since 2015.
    The company got into a deeper hole with the feds. Between April 2018 and April 2019, the Internal Revenue Service placed six federal liens on Cultural Brokerage Agency totaling $103,220. The liens specifically cite the company’s failure to remit employee payroll taxes.
    “Just because they take it out of your paycheck doesn’t mean they’re sending it to the government,” David Cenedella, a Baruch College taxation lecturer explained after reviewing the liens. “It’s certainly not something you want. I would not say your average business out there has this. Something went wrong.”
    While James apparently has no problem stiffing the Taxman, she isn’t shy about taking money from taxpayers — her company received in $41,666 in pandemic relief aid.
    Over the years Cultural Brokerage Agency has also faced multiple legal challenges as a result of habitual nonpayment of worker benefits.
    In October 2019 the state Worker’s Compensation Board slapped the company with a $17,000 fine for not carrying worker’s-comp insurance between March 2017 and February 2018. The company currently owes $62,722 and no payments have been received to date, a rep for the board told The Post. Workers’ comp is paid out when an employee is hurt at work and misses time.
    Ex-staffers blasted the operation as a sweatshop that relied on legions of unpaid interns working full-time jobs.
    “I experienced a lot of harassment when I worked for her,” one former contract employee told The Post. “Aurora would ask me to do things that were not in anyone’s job description, like scheduling her gynecological appointments. The work environment was so hostile that I was afraid to ask for my check.” The employee was ultimately terminated.
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/aoc-tax-the-rich-dress-designer-tax-debt-multiple-states
    😉

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  22. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe has had one bad week after the other just like we thought he would –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/18/joe-bidens-very-bad-friday-dead-afghan-civilians-fda-unapproved-booster-france-recalls-ambassador/
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/18/president-joe-bidens-polling-average-under-water/
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/09/18/brooks-on-bidens-approval-numbers-the-underlying-issue-is-incompetence-like-jimmy-carter/
    😉

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  23. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    They had fun today in D.C. A game called “spot’a FED”
    https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/09/18/people-play-spot-the-fed-at-todays-insurrection-as-embarrassing-spectacle-unfolds-n444951
    We know one got spotted, and removed.
    Just like the good ol’ days of the Tea Party rallies. Infiltrators were the problems.
    LIBS were so sure the Tea Party were out for trouble.
    And not one arrest. The rally spot was always cleaner the before they got there.
    Can a LIB claim the same record? (Frisco park a real dump after the crowds of “Earth Day”)

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 7:06 pm; the maker of the gown.
    AOC attacked the attacks on her as racism, of course. She also defended using the dress maker as AN IMMIGRANT WOMAN OF COLOR, which means she not only is above criticism, if you criticize the dress you are a xenophobic white bad person.
    It’s true. The poor immigrant opposed woman is Black, she is female, and she is from….drumroll please……she is from Toronto. Immigrant true, but we usually don’t think of Canada when referring to the poor black female immigrants. Haiti maybe, not Ca-Na-Da. At least she does not have to learn the language her. 🙂
    When someone tweeted the gown looked like a take out bag from Chick-fil-A, I can’t get that imagine out of my head.
    Repost: https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/09/IMG_4811.jpg?

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  25. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Here Emery,, just for you. What thousands of people think of your demigod Biden.
    https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/18/college-football-fk-joe-biden-chants-week-three/

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I have lower myself to post more about extra security ‘I thought I was going to be raped’ AOC. Yes, we know. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley tried to have her murdered.
    ‘AOC’s Dress Wasn’t About Hypocrisy, It Was About America’s New Social Hierarchy’
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/15/ocasio-cortez-dress-wasnt-about-hypocrisy-it-was-about-americas-new-social-hierarchy/
    Nothing new about human nature. The Golden rule: He doth has the gold….

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  27. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The hanging question is did they chant fuck joe biden? –
    https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2021/09/18/kamala-harris-tosses-coin-at-college-football-game-as-border-implodes/
    😉

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    OOOOOPSIE lost the home team did creepy grampa joe and the truth slipped out to the world! LOL =
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/18/tv-networks-spotlight-border-chaos-and-dhs-changes-policy/
    😉

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  29. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe must have gotten an urgent text from emperor xi –
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/blinken-deletes-replaces-tweet-vowing-000159155.html
    😉

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  30. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    You know what I would like to see a politician do George? I want someone to recreate the federal government with a plan on how to streamline government so that it actually works efficiently. I mean besides the departments of state, war, treasury, justice, and interior what else is necessary that can’t be done at the state level?

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “The only issue more worrisome to voters is inflation and higher prices (82 percent concerned).”
    https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2021/09/1344/756/Poll-Concern-about-issues.png?

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  32. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Queen Nan Goes to England! LOL!!!!
    She also rewrites a famous quote.
    https://defiantamerica.com/video-nancy-pelosi-visits-the-north-of-england-and-is-given-a-proper-northern-welcome-by-locals/
    “Nancy Pelosi remarked: “We were reminded of it last week when we saw the anniversary of 9/11. Benjamin Franklin said ‘Freedom and security – if you don’t have both, you don’t have either’ And that’s what this is all about””
    Emery should remind her that it’s “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
    Then Queen Nan gets a nice welcome crowd.
    ” ” Trump won!… You’re not welcome here… Go back to Epstein Island!… We don’t want you!… The whole world knows that Trump won the 2020 election!””

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  33. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Proof positive Clueless Joe lives up to it.
    https://defiantamerica.com/photos-maga-kids-troll-clueless-joe-biden-at-shanksville-pa-he-didnt-knew-what-was-going-on-again/
    “A group of very young Trump supporters hilariously trolled Joe Biden in Shanksville, PA over the weekend – much to the horror of Biden’s handlers.
    Joe posed with the children for a photo, blissfully unaware that the kids were all decked out in pro-Trump gear.”

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt, 9:25 and 9:40 pm.
    Did you know that Ben Franklin once advocated for having Canada and Ireland included in the new nation? The Imperialist Franklin quoted by the Imperialist Queen Nan of French Laundry. But, at least Franklin did not want to see the French flag flying over Canada. Cost too much in blood in treasure to drive them out in the previous war. 🙂
    Gotta love the kid on the end wearing the Trump as Terminator ‘I’ll Be Bach’ red tee shirt. Such a delighted mischievous child.
    Have you noticed in all the pics we never see Joe Biden’s right hand? Noticed to the older girl in other pics is where Joe Biden choice to stand. Probably much ado about nothing.

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  35. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    BarryP 756am – Don’t a politician can accomplish that. Such a government was already anticipated in and enabled by our Constitution. It was the power-grabbing, vote-buying politicians that added on all cobwebs and entanglements of a perennially growing government. It would require a constitutional convention to get us back to basics, but it’s hard to predict what will come out of a convened constitutional convention if one were ever to be held again.

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  36. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The wheels are starting to come off of creepy grampa joes agenda and the mainstream are turning on him too –
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/chuck-todd-biden-has-big-credibility-issues
    😉

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Tanking in only 8 months –
    Biden’s poll numbers are tanking on the heels of a controversial vaccine mandate, an inflated economy, a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, and a drone strike that killed 10 innocent Afghan civilians, including seven children.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/19/56-of-americans-disapprove-direction-country-under-biden-fox-news-survey-shows/
    😉

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    This train is headed southbound, this train
    ‘Americans Souring on Biden—and Washington’
    https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/americans-souring-on-biden-and-washington/

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  39. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Another volcano has popped it’s cork. This one in the Canary Islands.
    And it putting on a show.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9KGsX1nBNY

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Not much better than fiddling while it all burns down and of course he wont ask questions without his cheat sheet with illustrations! LOL
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-goes-for-bike-ride-at-the-beach-amid-national-crises-refuses-to-answer-questions
    😉

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  41. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    ooopsi that should be he wont answer question! DOH
    😉

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The left loves them some race baiting. Of course this truth will not play on mainstream at much less than the lie got played –
    It was not until nearly two months later that I learned what had been reported was wildly inaccurate. Programs like the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) No Place for Hate had been quick to brand the teenagers on the team as racist but it was a 40-year-old man named Luke Serna that had brought the tortillas. He has been described by the townspeople as a Coronado alum who had not been to a game all year, a latino, a president of a local union and a political activist with ties to the island’s left-wing groups that advocate for critical race theory (CRT). It was this man who told the players, cheerleaders and fans to throw the tortillas in the air in celebration if Coronado won.
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/rush-to-judgement-an-autopsy-of-racial-power-grab-in-coronado
    😉

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  43. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joes agenda is DOA –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/19/senate-parliamentarian-crushes-democrat-amnesty-illegal-aliens/
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/19/report-joe-manchin-pushes-strategic-pause-3-5-trillion-infrastructure-bill-next-year/
    😉

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  44. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Now that funny, true but funny –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/19/exclusive-rep-claudia-tenney-slams-secstate-blinken-acting-like-baghdad-bob-biden-admin/
    😉

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  45. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    It looks like no one told creepy grampa joe that hispanic citizens hate illegal immigration –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/19/texas-poll-joe-biden-approval-rating-tanks-hispanics/
    😉

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  46. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ya what about that? –
    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/19/viewers-rage-at-maskless-emmys-but-kids-have-to-wear-a-mask-to-school-what-the-fk/
    😉

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  47. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I hate it when that happens.
    Weekly Biden Report Card: Border bungle and Afghanistan attack spoil Newsom win news.
    JV Team bad.

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  48. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Darn. I hate it when The Grim Reaper smiles like he is Cocaine Mitch.
    Senate Leader Mitch McConnell Cheers After Democrats Suffer Blow In $3.5T Bill: ‘I’m Glad It Failed’

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  49. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Darn it. I really hate it when this happens. What a way to start the week. Might as well go back to bed and pull the covers over my head. How much more bad news can I take?
    SENATE PARLIAMENTARIAN RULES AMNESTY OUT OF RECONCILIATION

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  50. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Unbelieveable. Darn it, more bad news. Time to get up and hide under the bed.
    BIDEN’S STRING OF BROKEN COVID PROMISES EXPOSED

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