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334 responses to “Sandbox – 8oct21”

  1. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Nevada County Public Health
    Looking at the staff job titles (at least in 2019), practically the entire group is oriented towards ‘behavioral health’. You know, it could simply be that no one was prepared to deal with infectious outbreaks. Honestly that would explain a lot, I had never really thought about it.
    I suppose there were no affordable folks with the appropriate credentials even available once this whole situation got going.

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Konstantin Kilimnik, Russiagate’s Last Fall Guy, Speaks Out’
    The Senate Intelligence Committee, the Treasury, and even Robert Mueller pointed fingers. But none bothered to question him.
    https://taibbi.substack.com/p/konstantin-kilimnik-russiagates-last

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You might think that creepy grampa joe and the socialist greens hate Americans hmmmmmmm……
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/from-cars-to-gasoline-surging-prices-match-a-13-year-high
    😉

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    She would know –
    Virginia mom who survived Maoist China says DOJ, school board association use ‘communist tactics’
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/virginia-mom-survived-maoist-china-110407042.html
    😉

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You have to give creepy grampa joe and the socialists for the height of gall after doing everything to dismantle the energy industry that gave us the best production in the world of clean nat gas only a year ago –
    The White House has asked energy companies to help lower fuel prices amid a worldwide rise in energy costs, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
    Oil and gas companies have spoken with the White House in the preceding days regarding the request, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. One of those sources said the Biden administration has been internally discussing ways to lower fuel costs.
    “We are closely monitoring the cost of oil and the cost of gas Americans are paying at the pump,” a White House official said in a comment. “And we are using every tool at our disposal to address anti-competitive practices in U.S. and global energy markets to ensure reliable and stable energy markets.”
    The report comes after U.S. oil prices rose above $80 a barrel for the first time in seven years on Monday. The average gas price in the U.S. is currently $3.29 per gallon, according to AAA.
    In an effort to counter rising fuel costs this summer, the Biden administration asked OPEC+ nations to increase production. That request was rejected. The administration had previously implemented policies to curtail some domestic production, including a ban on new oil and gas drilling leases on federal lands and the cancelation of the Keystone XL pipeline.
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/white-house-reportedly-asks-energy-182723542.html
    😉

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Looks like trouble for the dem in ol viginy –
    A new CBS poll of Virginians shows that school curriculums — particularly those pertaining to race and history — will be a major factors in their voting decisions as they head to the polls to choose their next governor.
    Sixty-two percent of voters say curriculums will be a “major factor” in their voting decision, including 77 percent of self-described conservatives and 54 percent of moderates. Liberals, on the other hand, are less concerned with education than they are vaccine mandates — 71 percent call candidates’ position on them a driving force behind their choice.
    Crime and the economy are, however, the two issues that most motivate both Virginians more generally and the all-important moderate demographic. Sixty-seven percent of both groups call the former a key consideration, and more than 70 percent of both groups say the same of the latter. Most voters believe that Youngkin would be the better pick on both issues, and by a ten point margin in the case of crime.
    The poll did not ask which of the candidates was preferred by voters on the issue of education specifically, but past polling has demonstrated that a sizable plurality of Virginians agree with Youngkin’s position that critical race theory should be banned in public schools. McAuliffe has stated that any discussion of whether critical race theory should be banned in schools is “racist” and a “dogwhistle.” Notably, more black than white, and more women than men called school curriculums a major factor for them in the CBS poll.
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/majority-virginians-school-curricula-major-181548037.html
    😉

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  7. Walt Avatar

    Maybe it’s in Emery’s best interests not to say a word about
    Der Leader.
    https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/lets-go-brandon-meme-goes-worldwide-as-joe-biden-becomes-global-laughing-stock/
    ““Let’s Go Brandon” Meme Goes WORLDWIDE As Joe Biden Becomes Global LAUGHING STOCK!”
    Yup, Putin and RED China will fear Biden far more than they did Trump….🤣👍

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe done burned up all his goodwill in no time at all THANKS! –
    https://news.gallup.com/poll/355838/americans-revert-favoring-reduced-government-role.aspx
    😉

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    GETTING MINDS RIGHT AT YALE
    Quotable quote (Eldik to the student): “As a man of color, there probably isn’t as much scrutiny of you as there might be of a white person in the same position. I just want to acknowledge that there’s a complexity to that too.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/10/getting-minds-right-at-yale.php

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Judge blocks United Airlines from suspending employees over vaccine mandate
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/judge-blocks-united-airlines-vaccine-mandate
    What, paid leave ain’t good enough? What, you want to work instead? Some people, I tell ya. 😉

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe and the socialist have managed to piss off the world and the EU is missing Trump! LOL –
    With a domestic approval rating of just 38%, Joe Biden is fast becoming one of the most unpopular presidents in modern U.S. history at such an early stage of a presidency. The catastrophic Afghanistan withdrawal, a massive crisis on the southern border, and a Socialist-style big government economic agenda have all combined to disillusion American voters.
    Is the leader of the free world though faring any better on the international stage? After all, Biden boasted on the campaign trail about “restoring” America’s standing and credibility across the globe after the supposedly reckless approach of the Trump era.
    Yet after just nine months in office, the Biden administration is increasingly viewed as a disaster among U.S. partners, who haven’t taken kindly to being unceremoniously thrown under the bus after fighting alongside the United States in Afghanistan for nearly two decades.
    Countless European officials have told me privately that they simply can’t trust the Biden presidency. Some are actually reminiscing about the Trump days, with a high degree of buyer’s remorse – even in Paris.
    Trump’s administration was arguably the most pro-British since the Reagan presidency of the 1980s, when the partnership between the United States and United Kingdom was at its peak. Many leading Trump officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley were, and remain today, stalwart allies of the United Kingdom.
    I have traveled twice to London in the past few weeks, meeting with dozens of officials, members of Parliament and political advisers, as well as newspaper editors, media commentators and think tank experts. I can barely recall a single positive word said about Biden and his presidency. I doubt that any American president in the modern era has been more unpopular in the U.K. with those who are directly shaping British policy.
    And the condemnation of Biden is not only on the right. One senior figure in the House of Commons told me she could not think of a single MP of any party who would stand up and defend Joe Biden
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/why-britain-cant-stand-joe-biden-nile-gardiner
    😉

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well creepy grampa joe has turned his back on Americans so why not the press too? –
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-turns-back-on-reporters-exits-without-taking-questions
    😉

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  13. Walt Avatar

    Well Don,, we know someone else that don’t take questions either. He has a ponytail.

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  14. Walt Avatar

    “NO!! I won’t let you expose the voter fraud.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/14/georgia-judge-dismisses-2020-election-voter-fraud-lawsuit/
    You know, from tha same damned county the shredder team just got fired from.

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Joe Rogan Grills CNN’s Sanjay Gupta: Does It Bother You ‘That Your News Network Lies?’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-rogan-grills-cnns-sanjay-gupta-does-it-bother-you-that-your-news-network-lies?

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  16. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Creepy grampa joe and the socialist have managed to piss off the world and the EU is missing Trump! LOL -” -DonB
    To be fair, my gut tells me it’s not a Biden thing at all. He was something of a midwit before a combination of likely senility and fer sure old age took hold. It’s probably safe to assume that ‘his’ policy is simply the manifestation of warring groups of advisors, government departments, donors, etc.
    You’re bound to get a dog’s breakfast when different mafias of 30 year-old Georgetown grads put their hands on the patient and extract a signature or two.

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    How to stick a knife in economic recovery:
    Biden corporate tax hikes will hinder investment, economic growth, study concludes
    https://justthenews.com/nation/states/study-biden-corporate-tax-hikes-will-hinder-investment-economic-growth

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  18. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Biden corporate tax hikes will hinder investment, economic growth, study concludes”
    Jeez, who knows how a tax hike, particularly one that is at the top for the First World, will change matters?
    You just know that those financial wonks who actually run large companies (as opposed to marketing, manufacturing, engineering) both (a) hate uncertainty and (b) will simply move large amounts of money around with any significant change in tax law. The side effects are probably unknown at this point.
    Taxes for big companies are so arcane that I’m always cracked up by hippies prattling on about ‘maann, if those companies just paid for hospitals and schools maaannn’. It makes me lose my will to live.

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    AS IF anyone is going to buy that bullshit anymore, well there are the terminal TDS cases like the po ol ponytail of ignorance will be parroting whatever the minime reporter is spinning –
    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/10/14/george-stephanopoulos-to-redeem-pee-dossier-hoaxer-in-debut-project-of-his-abc-news-disney-production-studio/
    😉

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  20. Walt Avatar

    Special delivery for “no voter fraud” Emery.
    https://dailycaller.com/2021/10/14/democratic-staffer-voter-fraud-conspiracy-philadelphia/
    “Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbitter Williams filed the federal charges against Beren, a then-staffer for Philadelphia City Councilmember Mark Squilla, Philadelphia Magazine reported. Williams alleged that Beren took part in a voter fraud scheme in various voting divisions in Philadelphia and falsified votes through 2015 and 2019, the outlet reported”
    Well get a load of that!! A Liberal..

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  21. Walt Avatar

    LOL!!
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/14/bidens-court-packing-commission-blames-republicans-for-polarization-over-judiciary/
    Never blame your own.
    As for Garland . We are seeing the Repubs were right about NOT advancing him to SCOTUS.
    “President Joe Biden’s commission on expanding (or “packing”) the Supreme Court issued a set of draft documents Thursday that blamed Republicans for current polarization over the judiciary, due to their refusal to confirm Merrick Garland in 2016.”

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  22. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “CALIFORNIA’S CONTINUING COLLAPSE”
    It’s interesting to think how a person could redesign a pharmacy to meet current law enforcement standards (ie. none). Of course, everything has to be passive measures since you are also not allowed to protect your own property in Blue Mob America.
    A good place to look for ideas is the CharlieBo313 channel. He goes all sorts of places you can’t, but there are scads of security notions in them. Basically, you turn the Walgreens into a great big bulletproof vending machine using people as the machinery.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkICZmB_C0Q
    https://www.youtube.com/c/CharlieBo313/videos
    So what does the SF Walgreens of the future look like? Maybe a combination of the GM Futurama and a jail.

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  23. Scott O Avatar

    Here’s a great interview with Yellen.
    “Over the next 10 years, we have a ‘tax gap’ of 7 TRILLION bucks!”
    That’s because the ‘rich’ aren’t paying their fair share. So we have all the banks report every transaction over 600 bucks.
    Like the couch or TV you just bought.
    Cause you be ‘rich’.
    I’m so glad Biden’s budget blow out won’t cost a penny because it seems we already have a ‘tax gap’.
    WARNING – WARNING – WARNING!!!
    Because this is a facsimile of Yellen doing deep fake CGI, Paul will claim it’s ‘doctored’. You be the judge!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzH0Pa6PfFQ

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe probably does not remember but we do and its his ass now and the kakkler. ROFLOL –
    FLASHBACK: Biden blamed food shortages under Trump in 2020 on ‘lack of leadership’
    ‘We don’t have a food shortage problem, we have a leadership problem,’ Biden said in 2020
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flashback-biden-blamed-food-shortages-under-trump-2020-lack-leadership
    😉

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  25. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    See what i mean @503 –
    #EmptyShelvesJoe trends on Twitter as supply chain crisis threatens to derail holiday shopping
    Social media users voiced their concerns with stark photos from local grocery stores that appear to have been impacted by the shortage
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/emptyshelvesjoe-twitter-supply-chain-crisis-holiday-shopping
    😉

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  26. Walt Avatar

    LOL Don,, Biden blames Trump, the when the shit hits the fan under his watch, blame everyone else.
    Funny, has yet to do anything he claimed he WOULD do.

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  27. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Look at the piece of shit economy Biden inherited from Trump. That’s the Republican way. Come in with a stable economy, trash it then leave the house in a mess. Same thing happened with B>ush.

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Go tell it the central committee commissars oh great ponytail of ignorance! The people know better what happened with the lies from the party parrots who would destroy anything to have power. 2022 is upon us and it will be the doom of the socialist green dems.
    Hell people already know creepy grampa joe is an abject failure and the kakkler is in so over her head its a sad joke. Cant take questions needed child actors for her psycho rant.
    No blow up dolls or ann coulter dolls for you this Christmas ya old druid. LOL!
    😉

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Obama’s Defense Secretary Unloads On Biden: Watching Disaster In Afghanistan Made Me Physically Sick
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/obamas-defense-secretary-unloads-on-biden-watching-disaster-in-afghanistan-made-me-physically-sick
    Day 46 of leaving Americans behind….on so many ways.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Top Obama Economist: Inflation ‘Worse’ Than Expected, ‘Very Serious’ Cause For Concern, ‘Wokeness’ An Issue
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-obama-economist-inflation-worse-than-expected-very-serious-cause-for-concern-wokeness-an-issue

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  31. Walt Avatar

    Give it a rest Emery, Things are far worse than when Trump left. We were in pretty good shape. the your hero Biden and cronies really fucked it up.
    What’s Biden done Emery? You never have an answer…Oh wait!! He’s done NOTHING of value. There I helped you out.
    But he’s sure fucked up the economy. Go ahead and deny that.
    Begs OPEC to pump more oil after screwing over American energy independence. Now wants our oil producers to lower prices after he screws them over.
    Yup,, they will get right on that.
    FED mandates to keep people home and not work. Great idea.
    Now what?
    Big rigs need OIL to get goods to the stores..
    You and I will be paying that higher price in shipping.
    Miss Trump yet?

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  32. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Walt
    Compare the economy that Trump inherited from Obama to the one he left Biden.
    Also compare the economy Bush left Obama to the one he inherited from Clinton.
    Let me know what you find.

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  33. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    What a #sadoldman who still has deep seated comprehension problems and is the textbook party parrot.
    Keep whistling past the grave yard, here is a reality check from your own team oh great ponytail of ignorance. –
    his fall, Democrats have struggled to push their legislative agenda through Congress. They’ve argued among themselves, put off votes, and radically trimmed bills to try to get past the fact that their margin in the House is tissue-thin and in the Senate barely exists.
    But what if, in terms of political power, this is as good as it gets for the Democratic Party for years to come? What if, electorally-speaking, they are doomed?
    That’s a discussion that’s exploded among party activists and officials in recent days as they take a hard look at their prospects in upcoming elections. Democrats could easily lose both the House and Senate in 2022, given the map of seats up for grabs and the truism that the party that holds the White House typically loses ground in midterm votes.
    Beyond that, things actually look worse, according to some Democratic strategists and political experts. The concentration of Democratic voters in cities, and the dispersion of Republican voters throughout rural and exurban areas, gives the GOP a built-in advantage in the Senate and the Electoral College. Educational polarization – voters with college degrees moving to Democrats, and non-college voters shifting to the GOP – may be accelerating this geographic trend.
    Democrats’ underlying fear is that an era of minority rule may lie ahead. Given the partisan bias of the Electoral College, due to the number of thinly-populated safe red states, Democrats have to win 52% of the popular vote just to have a 50-50 chance of winning the White House, according to one estimate. The Senate has even more of a partisan lean – it may be effectively 6 to 7 points redder than the country as a whole
    Some members want to use their current majority to enact as many big, meaningful changes as they can – believing this may be their last chance for a while. Others argue if the party is seen as overreaching, it will only further alienate the very voters it must win back if it has any hope of holding onto power.
    At the heart of this debate among Democrats is a key issue: is it possible, or desirable, to win back some of the white working-class voters who have moved en masse to Mr. Trump in recent years?
    “In an era when so much of this is no longer worked out behind closed doors, we are seeing the Democratic Party negotiating among its members in public. That’s really instructive,” says Daniel Hopkins, a political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania. “Whose voices do they want to elevate?
    The bad news for Democrats is rooted in structural imbalance, in Mr. Shor’s view. The Senate privileges rural states – Wyoming has as much power in the chamber as California. The GOP created some Western states in the late 1800s, such as North and South Dakota and Montana, in part to provide reliable party votes, which they still do.
    Overlaid on that today is a Democratic coalition that’s increasingly diverse and urban. In recent years, college-educated voters have moved toward Democrats, and non-college-educated voters – both white as well as some Black and Hispanic – have become increasingly Republican. The Trump era accelerated that movement, locking in the GOP’s ability to win national power with a minority of votes.
    To break this cycle, Democrats need to win back states that lean Republican, according to Mr. Shor. But at its top levels, the party is dominated by a cosmopolitan, progressive elite that doesn’t understand rural and working-class voters
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-democrats-may-facing-generation-165752034.html
    😉

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  34. Scott O Avatar

    Paul continues to deny reality.
    “Look at the piece of shit economy Biden inherited from Trump.”
    The economy was waaaay better when Trump was in office.
    The part that really pissed off Paul was that non-white workers wages under Trump were better than under any other pres ever. Including Obama. But under Biden, no longer. Paul is pleased that the darkies are back in their place. What a guy!
    Now we have rising unemployment, inflation out of control, we are no longer energy independent – Paul claims this is better.
    Hilarious.

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  35. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    This is a nice post script to my 737 emphasizing how out of touch they are and dont care about screwing over working citizens –
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-reconciliation-bill-breaks-biden-s-middle-class-tax-pledge/ar-AAPx4Pi?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
    😉

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  36. Walt Avatar

    Trump turned the Oloser economy around just about over night.
    Your pal Biden hasn’t done a damned thing right.
    The facts. Pure and simple.
    “”We have plenty of food,” Biden added. “It’s being plowed under. You’ve got– you’re euthanizing cattle and pigs. They’re out there making sure that they’re pouring thousands of gallons of milk into the ground. It’s not a food shortage. It’s a lack of leadership– a lack of leadership.”
    Biden added that if he were president at the time he would have “ordered the government to buy food from farmers and send it to food banks” and that Trump “failed to step up” by not doing that.
    “I’d harness the restaurant industry to help get food to those who need it and help get millions of laid off workers back to work and the job…this is not rocket science. It’s leadership.”
    So Emery, why hasn’t your dear leader done what he said he would “have done”?
    YAA?????
    We were ALL better off with Trump.
    DO come up with facts and links that say otherwise.

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “Jen Psaki explains away all the Biden f#ck-ups as nothing but part and parcel of the administration “incentivizing fundamental change to the American economy.” Has anyone told them that they’ve already achieved such fundamental change by turning our economy from increasing workforce participation, keeping inflation in check, destroying energy independence, flooding the country with unvetted illegals, and attempting to pass a socially destructive spending program that will cripple the economy for the next generation of Americans (at least)??:
    George Rebane- topic of Sczttershots.

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  38. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Unemployment Scott? How about comparing unemployment now with Jan 2021 when Trump left office. Here are the numbers:
    Todays unemployment: 5.2 percent
    When Trump left office: 6,3%
    Which is better Scott?
    https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2021/unemployment-rates-lower-in-january-2021-in-33-states.htm

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  39. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 14 October 2021 at 08:05 PM

    “Never underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up….”

    Barack Hussein something, something

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  40. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Biden’s Inflation Costing Families $2.1K a Year
    “We’re actually accumulating debt at the rate of over $2 million per minute.”

    https://patriotpost.us/articles/83424-bidens-inflation-costing-families-2-dollars-dot-1k-a-year-2021-10-14

    ‘Top White House official retweets post calling inflation, supply chain issues ‘high class problems’
    Prices are jumping in large part because container ships are stranded at ports and because unloaded goods are waiting for trucks
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-white-house-official-retweets-post-calling-inflation-supply-chain-issues-high-class-problems

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  41. Walt Avatar

    Keep going Emery, Your real good at trying to bring shit up you have no clue of.
    There is a ponytail attached to that ass.
    Unemployment you say? You mean that the advice of Lord Fauci?
    Biden was supposed to the Kung Flu ended by now. Remember?
    How that work’n?
    Biden bragging about getting people FIRED.. Real prezidential.
    And to think you voted for that piece of shit. You sure know how to pick’m.

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I give you my word as a Biden. Blood is thicker than water.
    ‘Report: Associate Shuffled Money Between Joe Biden, Hunter Biden Accounts; President Potential Target Of FBI Investigation, Expert Says’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-associate-shuffled-money-between-joe-biden-hunter-biden-accounts-president-potential-target-of-fbi-investigation-expert-says

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Excellent news. A remnant will be spared.
    Another Massive Fall Exodus from U.S. Public Schools
    https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/another-massive-fall-exodus-from-u-s–public-schools/

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  44. Scott O Avatar

    Paul 8:12 – Nice cherry-picking, Paul.
    If you care to actually read, it’s not a nation-wide number. And the numbers for Trump right at the end were when the governors had shut everything down.
    The governors have mostly opened things back up.
    Why don’t you just admit Trump’s excellent numbers for non-white workers is what really pissed you off?

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer