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[Looking at the increasing number of stores with empty shelves and long lines of customers waiting to buy what’s left, we are told by Biden’s lackies that all this signifies another administration success as a sign of a booming economy where the people are exhibiting their ample ‘buying power’ that outpaces the nation’s ability to manufacture enough goods.  The same arguments were made in the USSR when newsreels showed Russians standing in long lines waiting to get into stores with empty shelves.  gjr]

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  1. George Rebane Avatar

    End of an era – It appears that Anna Haynes has given up running NC Voices, a reliable website that updated content on local blogs and websites run by local media, government, and institutions. Thank you for the years of your service Dr Anna.

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  2. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I still vividly recall when I first met Ahnna Haynes… in a Broad St. Cafe. I was having a lovely chat with a friend (a defrocked commercial pilot who used his forced time on the ground as a bon vivant favoring bourbon) laughing over the Climategate email revelations, only to have this stranger interrupt our festive recounting to offer remedial instruction in climate science if we wanted to wade out of the primordial pool we were splashing in.
    I asked her the basis of her knowledge and she said “I have a PhD, from Harvard “. I had to ask what subject, she said biology.
    She had a real deer in the headlights look when I gave my bs physics/ms ee bona fides and began sharing my interpretations of climate realities… she ran off soon after.

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  3. Walt Avatar

    This is one Jack in the Box I will not stop at.
    “Workers at a Jack In The Box restaurant in Folsom say management there threatened to call immigration enforcement after the employees made complaints …”
    It hired illegals. You know,, the ones that have no legal right to work here.
    No point in a link… It’s SAC Bee paywalled.

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  4. Gregoory Avatar
    Gregoory

    from thelocal.de
    ” Supermarkets in Frankfurt and the surrounding region can now implement rules that only allow vaccinated and Covid-recovered people onto their premises.”
    So… their final solution is to starve the unvaccinated?

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  5. Walt Avatar

    Got a new geetar tune for Emery to play in Nevada City.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biESBU9v04k
    Just a little tune about “Joe Brandon”.

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Zuckerbucks 101: How A Media Mogul Took Over The 2020 Election And Why GOP Leaders Must Never Let It Happen Again’
    The last election was unacceptable. And before the next one, more Republican leaders must wake up to the mess that was created in 2020 and refuse to accept another sloppy round
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/14/zuckerbucks-101-how-a-media-mogul-took-over-the-2020-election-and-why-gop-leaders-must-never-let-it-happen-again/

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well comrad deblasio can play games on the way out the door the new guy is not going for it, will he save Jefferson too? –
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/yorks-likely-mayor-plans-preserve-163820595.html
    😉

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ya about those folks civil rights! –
    US Commission on Civil Rights members blast AG Garland for memo on parents protesting school boards
    Members ask Garland to provide examples showing how federal involvement is needed in parent protests
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-commission-members-on-civil-rights-pen-letter-blasting-garlands-memo-on-parents-protesting-school-boards
    😉

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    More election irregularities –
    Now, Berlin’s state Constitutional Court will need to decide if elections will need to be redone in two districts of the city, the western Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district and the eastern Marzahn-Hellersdorf district.
    Berliners were forced to wait for hours at polling stations that ran out of ballot papers, with the Berlin marathon causing delays in bringing more ballots. Many voters reported receiving the wrong type of ballots, and it is claimed that loopholes allowed minors to vote, according to state broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
    Lolita Cigane, the head of the Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) in Europe’s election-monitoring team, said that approximately ten per cent of polling centres in the city experienced voting irregularities, or 207 out of 2,257 stations.
    Berlin Election Commissioner Petra Michaelis, who resigned last month following the polling day chaos, said that violations of election regulations could have impacted the results of the state election.
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/10/16/berlin-election-faces-possible-redo-amid-voting-irregularities/
    😉

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  10. Jose Pastrami Avatar
    Jose Pastrami

    In the category of “how stupid are Texans anyway”. In response to the new Texas law aimed at “presenting both sides to the story” (like ‘good people from both sides were at the Charleston white supremacy march or CRT tries to rewrite white history) school administrators in South Lake, Texas told teachers that they had to present both sides to the Holocaust. Why question is: What is the other side to the holocaust? Is it ‘it never happened’..’the Jews and gypsies deserved it because they were not Aryians. How fuc*ing stupid of a position is that? sort of like the election was stolen.

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  11. Scott O Avatar

    Don 3:48 – re the letter:
    “Four out of the eight members of the U.S Commission on Civil Rights have penned a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland…”
    So half of the US Commission on Civil Rights think it’s okie dokie for the feds to go after parents voicing complaints at the local school board???!!!!
    Yeah – especially that really whacked-out guy complaining about something as trivial as the school trying to cover up the fact that his daughter had been raped on campus by some nut job in a dress.
    Who are these 4 that didn’t mind a complete over-reach by the feds?
    And the letter is just way too mild. They shouldn’t ASK anything of Garland. They should send him a copy of the Constitution, a reminder of what the FBI is supposed to do and a some notes of the FBIs inaction after folks were bused in from other states to riot and loot and burn businesses.
    The Dems are on their knees begging for violence.
    Hold yer fire, boys.
    Not yet – not yet.

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  12. Walt Avatar

    You can do better than that Jose’,, Hitler was just a misunderstood Socialist art painter and book writer. Ya’ gotta make the excuse at least half baked.

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  13. Scott O Avatar

    If anyone is trying to figure out how F’d up we are as a nation, I offer these 2 items as evidence.
    First:
    “After their 16-year-old daughter died in a car crash, David and Wendy Mills wondered whether she would be alive if federal rules on rear seat belt warnings had been issued on time.
    The teenager was riding in the back seat of a car to a Halloween party in 2017 just a mile from her house in Spring, Texas, when she unfastened her seat belt to slide next to her friend and take a selfie. Moments later, the driver veered off the road and the car flipped, ejecting her. Kailee died instantly.”
    So she voluntarily undid her seat belt for a selfie.
    If only the fed govt would make us be good all the time! When will this happen?
    https://apnews.com/article/auto-safety-rules-overdue-nhtsa-biden-only-on-ap-7acc35657ff857c925cd9bce937e6fe9
    And:
    A woman was raped by a stranger on a commuter train in suburban Philadelphia in the presence of other riders who a police official said “should have done something.”
    Well – isn’t that the job of the FBI? I mean don’t the feds take care of every little thing in our lives?
    Of course an armed citizen – male or female – could have ended the trouble pronto. But no.
    https://apnews.com/article/business-arrests-pennsylvania-philadelphia-1d0c62ae547165eabfc40fc6a20f25be
    I feel very badly for the dead and abused people in these stories, but you lefties want stupid, unarmed, morons that recoil in terror waiting for mommy to fix everything.
    Enjoy!

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  14. Walt Avatar

    This is about where the Titanic broke in half.
    ” President Joe Biden’s job approval continues to crash with a new low of 36.4 percent during the first nine months of his presidency, according to a Zogby poll, after facing a botched Afghanistan withdrawal, and more recently, a supply chain crisis.”
    Just what will Fire Marshal Joe set fire to next next?
    It’s justa matter of days.

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The wokesters running the city of brotherly love have left the streets to the animals –
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/woman-raped-train-bystanders-nothing-police-say
    😉

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  16. Walt Avatar

    What the hell could go wrong this time?
    “Joe Biden’s U.S. Agency for International Development launched a new $125 million dollar project with Washington State University and foreign collaborators to discover over 10,000 novel viruses in nature.”
    https://thenationalpulse.com/news/bidens-usaid-launches-project-to-find-novel-viruses/
    Go ahead.. Find and mess with something worse than Ebola.

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Will Minneapolis be the tipping point that sinks the socialist dems nationwide? –
    This much is clear: Although they are extremely vocal, Democrats who support the “defund the police” movement hold views that are frankly frightening to the majority of Americans across the ideological spectrum. If a progressive stronghold like Minneapolis effectively votes to dismantle its police department, it will send shockwaves across the political ecosystem and deliver Republicans a powerful talking point.
    Minneapolis will be seen as a city of lawlessness, and Democrats will be blamed. This is a narrative arc that will feed perfectly into the Republicans’ framing that Democrats just aren’t that good at governing anyway.
    Need more proof? Republicans will just point to Congress. Despite controlling both the executive and legislative branches of government, Democrats’ internecine dysfunction has already stalled President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda. Coupled with the Biden Administration’s disastrous handling of the military withdrawal from Afghanistan on the foreign policy front, we can see an entire party already bracing for severe voter backlash in 2022.
    It’s going to be tough enough already for Democrats in 2022. And “Question 2” on the Minneapolis ballot could make things a whole lot worse.
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/minneapolis-defund-police-ballot-alarm-023054539.html
    😉

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  18. Scott O Avatar

    Walt 7:52 – Will they go to the Wuhan bat cave?
    Hahahahahaha
    This is miss-direction on a major scale.
    Lookie, lookie over here!
    Don’t look there.
    What about the disappeared Chinese scientists?
    What about Chinese govt non-cooperation?
    Oh, oh – lookie over here!
    10,000,000 new viruses we just want to talk about now.
    Lookie, lookie!

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  19. Scott O Avatar

    Just like his hero, Paul refuses to engage.
    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/577020-biden-giving-stiff-arm-to-press-interviews
    Biden’s excuse is he’s got dementia.
    We’re waiting for Paul Emery to explain his lack of response to the F’ups his hero has graced us with.
    Let’s Go Brandon!

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  20. Scott O Avatar

    The Dems control the fed govt as well as the 2 most populated states in our country.
    It’s all going to tears.
    Paul Emery: “Trump”
    No wonder the little fella is hiding.
    We were setting up the DVR and the PBS station was playing in the background.
    Alcinder: “Inflation IS up”
    News babe: “But Americans are very comfortable.”
    OK.
    PBS station has a promo for a news show: “The Child Care Crises!!!”
    And what do they show on the promo? Biden talking about his human infrastructure plan.
    Pretty cool, Dems.
    Tax dollars spent to promote your nonsense with hysteria on Public TV.
    “It’s a crises!!!!”
    Hold yer fire, boys – not yet.

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  21. Walt Avatar

    Now don’t forget to check between the ears.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-79-physical-exam-soon-psaki
    “Biden, nearly 79, plans to undergo physical exam ‘soon,’ Psaki says
    Biden is the oldest man ever to serve in the Oval Office — and is nearly four years older than former President Bill Clinton, who was recently hospitalized”

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Pics. Various current topics
    THE WEEK IN PICTURES: SHATNER > BRANDON EDITION
    Brandon is still trending yuuuge, but this week definitely belongs to Shatner. Brandon will be around for a while, but really, how often do we get to indulge a full on Kirkasm? Meanwhile, Biden and Harris continue to be the ghost ship White House. How’s that reconciliation package coming? Maybe Southwest Airlines can help them land it. Oh, wait.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/10/the-week-in-pictures-shatner-brandon-edition.php

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Jose Pastrami-less Bobbie Bobblehead Edition:
    Just kidding. More empty shelves and quality of life issues in the Golden State of Decay”
    CULTURE
    REVIEW: ‘San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities’
    The Mismanagement of Man
    https://freebeacon.com/culture/review-san-fransicko-why-progressives-ruin-cities/
    ———————————————————-
    Bonus:
    Chaser—A reminder from earlier in the week:
    Bow-and-Arrow Rampage in Norway Treated as Apparent Terrorist Attack
    A 37-year-old man was charged on Thursday in connection with a bow-and-arrow rampage in a small town in Norway that killed five people and wounded three others, in what the authorities said was an apparent act of terrorism.
    The police identified the suspect in the grisly assault in the town of Kongsberg, about 50 miles southwest of Oslo, as Espen Andersen Brathen. . .
    Officials said Thursday that the assailant was a Danish citizen who lived in the town and who had converted to Islam, but did not say when that happened, why his conversion had raised concerns or what action the authorities had taken.
    “We have previously been in contact with him regarding worries about radicalization,” Ole Bredrup Saeverud, the regional police chief, said at a news conference before the suspect was named. Asked whether the assailant might have been motivated by extreme religious ideology, he added, “We don’t know that, but it’s natural to ask the question.”
    “Natural to ask the question.” You don’t say.
    [Friggin Vikings, a savage bunch. Vikings to Columbus: hold my beer.]

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  24. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Not hiding at all Scott
    Had a great concert with a good turnout with Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Hass. More shows at the Nevada Theatre this week. No idle time to hang out here. Besides the Circle of Jerks are self stimulating and don’t need me around. I might pop in here and there though.

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Seattle, Frisco, LA…..pick a major city in the USA run by Dems for 50 years and I will show you trash and homeless and fires caused by homeless trash.
    ‘Squalor By the Seaside’
    Homelessness and RV fires have overrun Venice Beach, California.
    “Unlike neighboring Santa Monica, Los Angeles has no urban-runoff recycling program, so everything that lands in our streets—feces, needles, trash, and debris—ends up in our storm drains and is pumped into the Pacific Ocean. The notorious Rose Avenue storm drain, located a block from an encampment, empties directly onto our sand. Locals avoid the spot, but the city does little to warn the public about it.
    Bonin, L.A.’s most progressive city council member and self-proclaimed social and environmental justice warrior, tells us that climate change is an existential threat, but you wouldn’t know it from his inattention to local trouble spots. The nearby Ballona Wetlands, an ecological gem and state-protected park, has become a locus for shootings and other crime and is now home to a makeshift RV camp, with more than 45 RVs illegally parked there. A recent brush fire at the wetlands required nearly two hours and 54 firefighters to extinguish, destroying more than five acres. It’s doubtful that any fires in Bonin’s district can be attributed to climate change.
    Fires, pollution, and disarray are increasingly common not only in Venice but also around Los Angeles. The city’s 15 councilmembers act as demi-mayors, directing policy and policing in their districts. Mayor Eric Garcetti has seemed missing in action in the two years since his failed presidential attempt, leaving a vacuum to be filled by anarchy and lawlessness.
    Garcetti’s legacy of inaction and incompetence has led to blighted living conditions in Los Angeles that are starting to rival those of the Third World. It’s somehow fitting that the city’s failed mayor aspires to be named ambassador of India: he has created conditions in Venice Beach that evoke some of the suffering in that country, along with a modern-day caste of homeless untouchables, exempt from laws and accountability.“
    https://www.city-journal.org/homelessness-and-rv-fires-have-overrun-venice-beach-california
    And the solution is to tell retail stores with over 500 employees that they can no longer segregate girls toys from boy toys from gender neutral cyborg looking toys. That makes shopping that much harder. That GI Joe toy used to be at eye level and now I gotta let’s look through the pink stuffed ponies and Suzie Homemaker Cupcake Machine for GI Joe, but so far have only found those blasted Ken Dolls!

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  26. Walt Avatar

    Says the head jerk-off.

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  27. Walt Avatar

    Here we go with the CRT right here.. And the usual LIBS are in favor of it.
    https://www.theunion.com/news/school-board-to-hear-from-group-against-critical-race-theory/
    So Bobby,, Have you denounced your whiteness?
    Teaching the Bobby clan just how racist they are?

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    At what point do they realize he has been wrong all along and lied about the biggest issues like gain of function funding?!?!? –
    NBC fact-checks Fauci’s fear that college football games would be COVID super-spreaders: ‘Never happened’
    ‘Cases are now in steep decline in every college football state across the south’
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/nbc-fact-checks-fauci-college-games-covid-spreaders
    😉

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘White House not stolen, but bought with Zuckerberg’s money: Goodwin’
    https://nypost.com/2021/10/16/white-house-not-stolen-but-bought-with-zuckerbergs-money-goodwin/

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Media [including Raw Story) rip NC Lt. Gov. Robinson for calling explicit LGBTQ books ‘filth,’ then blur offending images
    Robinson took a swipe at the media, saying they can dig up old social media posts but “can’t find pornography being disseminated to our children in our public schools.”
    https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/media-criticizes-nc-lt-gov-robinsons-filth-comment-explicit-lgbt-books-then
    Tell it like it is Big Guy.

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  31. Walt Avatar

    Boss Hogg Jr. loses again.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/david-hogg-rebuked-again-youth-shooting-more-popular-ever-post-covid
    “Gun Control activist David Hogg can’t seem to catch a break. His viewpoint that younger people are more anti-gun appears to be continuously rebuked by new reports from this post-COVID world.
    Most recently, the NRA reported that the USA Clay Target League (USACTL) had its biggest year yet for student-athletes. Almost 40,000 will be participating in programs in the fall. Both male and female students compete on the same team, meaning that not just young males are represented here. “

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Altanic Magazine takes on the Babylon Bee. Mano e mona
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/10/loose-ends-139.php

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Then they came for that woman…with the Hatch Act, lol.
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/liberal-watchdog-group-demands-investigation-into-psaki-for-allegedly-breaking-the-law-during-press-briefing
    Where’s Bobbie crooning about Trump and the Emoluments Clause? One could make an excellent arguement about the Biden Crime family enriching their pockets with The Big Guy getting his cut.
    Oh, those entanglements.

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  34. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ya sure sounds good in theory but cali can not generate enough energy and sends out dont charge your car alerts. What a bunch of marrons in sac! –
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/gas-stoves-and-water-heaters-face-a-climate-change-reckoning-183007213.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink
    😉

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  35. Walt Avatar

    Electric is the most inefficient way to heat anything.

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  36. Walt Avatar

    “WASHINGTON, DC—News of the horrifying takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban who are raping and beheading opposition as they go made its way to Congress today and some people are not happy.
    “I can’t believe they’re using gas-powered trucks to rape and pillage the country,” US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said. “Don’t they understand that the world is going to end in 12 years because of climate change? Use electric vehicles when you’re driving around terrorizing the countryside!””
    https://genesiustimes.com/aoc-disappointed-taliban-is-using-gas-powered-trucks-to-rape-and-pillage-instead-of-hybrids/

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The hypocrite in chief, but the question is does he even know where he is? –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-caught-violating-dc-mask-mandate-at-posh-georgetown-restaurant
    😉

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I certainly have enjoyed all the BLM artwork the summer before last.
    ‘Trained Marxist’ BLM Co-Founder Appointed As A Los Angeles County Commissioner’
    “She said she “came back and hit the ground running” after “some much needed time of rest.” In May, Cullors stepped down as executive director of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation following a controversy surrounding her property purchases.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/trained-marxist-blm-co-founder-appointed-as-a-los-angeles-county-commissioner

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  39. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Hey look they are announcing the kakkler in chief train wrecks in advance –
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday will highlight the problems caused by Western drought as she visits Lake Mead in Nevada and makes the case for the Biden administration’s infrastructure and climate change proposals that have stalled in Congress.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/harris-discuss-drought-climate-change-230210181.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink
    😉

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Water for the people and our energy for American Citizens! Screw the chi coms who own the biden clan scumbags. –
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/finance/news/exclusive-china-looks-lock-u-225951458.html
    😉

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  41. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “‘Trained Marxist’ BLM Co-Founder Appointed As A Los Angeles County Commissioner’”
    Well, you could see that coming. That’s the beauty of public jobs, there’s so much largesse to be handed out. Nothing new except for the modern scale of the thing.
    The fact that a Marxist founder of BLM is a member of the ruling class should be no surprise to anyone. With the new centralization of power in this country, given surveillance and the growth of monopolies, I don’t see turnover anytime soon.
    I think that our local Team Blue being on the same ‘side’ as the 17 intelligence agencies and the internet monopolies is a beautiful thing, but I honestly doubt they see the irony.
    Gotta keep an eye on just how much Patrisse Cullors makes at her gig, some of them do pretty well.
    https://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/PositionDetail.aspx?employeeid=27870981
    The main thing is that those boards and commissions give people untold opportunities to pass on yet more public money to the ‘proper’ people who need paying off.
    Your tax dollars at work.

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  42. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    Posted by: scenes | 18 October 2021 at 06:34 AM
    But, but, but…Völkischer Beobachter…….Völkischer Beobachter?!?!?
    Hey….it looks like it worked for in 7th grade…..why not now!

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  43. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    I can’t imagine that this will muddy the issue ……at all.

    “Fully Vaccinated

    Former SecState Colin Powell Dies From COVID Complications”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/former-secstate-colin-powell-dies-covid-complications

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  44. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    Your tone-deaf, feeble, crooked Mick grifter, observation/quote of the day!

    A pandemic so deadly that an 80 year old can enjoy a maskless evening out while my five year old is required to cover his mouth and nose nonstop for seven and a half hours a day including recess.

    Let’s go Brandon……
    https://twitter.com/sarahbeth345/status/1449929087686905860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1449929087686905860%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fhypocrite-joe-biden-caught-violating-dcs-mask-mandate-georgetown-restaurant

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