[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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240 responses to “Sandbox – 16oct21”
Is this Fred Flintstone or Barney Rubble?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1450907341650599945
It’s no laughing matter – actually it is.
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He is absolutely right about that –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/sen-kennedy-biden-administration-is-owned-lock-stock-and-barrel-by-the-wokers/vi-AAPLz0a?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
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Looks like nations are waking up and dont want to subscribe to national suicide and the shakedown artist. The socialists and the luddites have run into 5 gallon gas, 150% nat gas prices no meat and idiots shutting down power generation we need. Power FOR the people!
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58982445
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‘PEOPLE ARE CATCHING ON (2)’
I wrote here about Trafalgar poll data indicating that most Americans (56%) think that Joe Biden is not directing policy and agenda for “his” administration. A doughty minority of 36%, in that poll, thought that Biden was really in charge. That was in July.
Since then, things have gone badly downhill. This is the latest of many, many instances where Joe Biden clearly appears not to be in full possession of his faculties, which were never outstanding to begin with.
Today, Rasmussen asked a different, more pointed question: “How confident are you that Joe Biden is physically and mentally up to the job of being President of the United States?” That is brutally clear, and the responses are not encouraging, if you are a Democrat:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/10/people-are-catching-on-2.php
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Next up, censorship of peer-reviewed academic papers. I feel stupid as hell for not seeing this one coming.
“More Censorship/Cancel Culture. The authors were not notified of this “Temporary Removal” action. I have never seen anything like this, ever, in my entire scientific career.”
https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1449142757335863297
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At this point, it’s pretty obvious that Blue Mob Culture is all about dominance rather than improvements to society. Resisting them in any way gives you the same bad response as telling a cop to pound sand for pulling you over for a burnt-out license plate light. You are not being arrested, you are just being detained.
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“At this point, it’s pretty obvious that Blue Mob Culture is all about dominance rather than improvements to society.”–Scenes
‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Author Under Fire For Tweeting Article That Asked Why We Can’t Say ‘Woman’ Anymore’
But [in 2018] Atwood went on to criticize #MeToo, claiming that vigilante justice — making claims about harassment and then demanding men be punished without trial, destroying careers and ending families — violated the accepted civilizational norm of affording due process, and turned radical feminists into tyrants.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/handmaids-tale-author-under-fire-for-tweeting-article-that-asked-why-we-cant-say-woman-anymore
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‘Byron York’s Daily Memo: Why is the Democratic spending bill such a mess?’
“If you want to skip to the end of the story, the Democrats will ultimately pass something. It will be big — too big — by any reasonable estimation, but it will fall well short of the party’s FDR- and LBJ-sized ambitions. It won’t be because of Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema’s scheming. It will be because the Democrats’ ambitions far outstripped their numbers. And no amount of big talk and fawning media attention will change that.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-yorks-daily-memo-why-is-the-democratic-spending-bill-such-a-mess
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Its hard, but don’t let them break you.
https://www.facebook.com/100044252088762/posts/443759653775767/
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Oh boy – more money for the choo-choo trains.
Cause it’s all about subsidizing other people’s ride.
“I got more money for passenger rail than the entire Amtrak system cost to begin with,” he said. “We’re going to change the nation in a big way.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/21/joe-biden-vehicles-highways-trains/
It might help if the govt could at least stop women from being raped on trains.
Billions more dumped into a money losing operation.
Sounds peachy.
Trying to remember the last time I wanted to take the family to a train station…
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re: Trains
Dunno what the fascination with trains is all about. They work great if you are transporting a great big bunch of people from a few big places to a few big places. Sextuple bonus points if they go between the two big places on a daily basis rather than on a yearly vacation.
No doubt freight trains need a different system than passenger. Less need 4 speed, different car and engine design, more practical to go from many places to many places.
Also, given the huge push for virtual meetings and general lack of importance for being in the same place at the same time, there’ll be less business travel and going home to see gramma over time.
I’m sick of hearing about trains from the Crazy People(tm). It’s pure pork barrel politics driven by virtue signalling (choo choo!!).
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So having a diversity head results in wider achievement gaps, could that be because they are more focused on wokesters agenda and crt? –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/21/report-school-districts-with-diversity-officers-expanding-achievement-gaps-between-white-and-minority-students/
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re: choo-choos coming down the line:
There is only one Amtrack corridor in the entire nation that is profitable (don’t loose mula). That one line is from Washion DC to New York, New York. The one Biden rode a million miles and once played Engineer Bill.
Also the one AOC uses as her idea of people movers. Great for folks who commute or those urbanites who don’t have a car, many never owning one. To expensive to pay for parking the ‘caa’ everyday.
Thats all they know. Trains are good, grrreat way to get around if you want to go to Buttonwillows. Then catch the Greyhound to other parts south….
The monorail push is for Boston.
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Thomas Sowell does not dig CRT
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/10/thomas-sowell-vs-critical-race-theory/
Condoleezza Rice does not dig CRT.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/10/21/condoleezza_rice_on_crt_we_dont_need_to_make_7-year-olds_feel_bad_about_their_race.html
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Since integrated circuits are at the heart of our modern world (trains, computers, refrigerators!!, cars…), let’s see what Bob Noyce had to say.
Here is a snippet of Wikipedia’s article on Robert Noyce.
Noyce kept active his entire life. …In his last interview, Noyce was asked what he would do if he were “emperor” of the United States. He said that he would “…make sure we are preparing our next generation to flourish in a high-tech age. And that means education of the lowest and the poorest, as well as at the graduate school level.”
Word on the street is that one Warren Wilhelm Jr. was the interviewer, but got pissed that Noyce kept calling him Weiner-Weiner. Things just went downhill from there. At least New York City will soon be free of him.
So Bob Noyce seemed to be inclusive for education, not so much for Weiner-Weiner.
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Well we now know one of the tails that is wagging the dog –
https://freebeacon.com/campus/white-house-knew-about-letter-that-compared-parents-to-domestic-terrorists/
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Here’s a direct quote by Steve Bannon on his podcast. No wonder he’ll be arrested soon for refusing to appear in the House inquiry on Jan 6.
“You made this happen and tomorrow it’s game day. So strap in. Let’s get ready. All hell is going to break loose tomorrow, It’s all converging, and now we’re on the point of attack tomorrow.”
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Prove it @523 no link no play
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That quote was from his Jan 5 podcast and of course he’s referring to the planned insurrection on Jan 6.
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Prove it.
Another sign its going to be a blood bath for the dems next year –
Voters are worried about the classroom.
The latest Fox News national survey finds 73% of registered voters are “extremely” or “very” concerned about what public schools are teaching children.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/high-concern-schools-teaching
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You find it Don. Here’s a link to his podcasts. The date was Jan 5
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/bannons-war-room/id1485351658
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Who’s willing to take the mutterings of someone who has terminal TDS! ROFLOL
Be afraid be very afraid! –
James Carville is ‘scared to death’ that Terry McAuliffe will lose Virginia governors race
Carville said, ‘I’m scared to death. And other Democrats should be.’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/james-carville-scared-to-death-mcauliffe-will-lose-virginia-race
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I’ll make it easier. Follow this link and make your choice of sources.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=+So+strap+in.+Let%E2%80%99s+get+ready.+All+hell+is+going+to+break+loose+tomorrow%2C
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I’ll make it easier. Follow this link…..
https://www.rawstory.com/steve-bannon-doj-prosecution/
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Lie like a dog. And the beat goes on and on.
‘Biden Retells Already Debunked Story for the Fourth Time’
https://bongino.com/biden-retells-already-debunked-story-for-the-fourth-time
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The shit hole mayor in SF lied through her teeth about store closures –
SFPD tells Globe Mayor Breed falsely claims it’s not about theft, begs company to stay
This store loses $25,000 a day to shoplifting,” an SFPD officer told the Globe in lengthy, taped interviews conducted this week. “That’s $25,000 that walks out the door on average between 9 and 6 every day.”
This store does between $80,000 to $120,000 in sales every day. And they lose 25 of it [meaning $25,000]. Even if they’re making 25% profit, the stealing takes that down to zero.”
“They don’t care. There’s no consequences. Literally zero consequences. I’ve kicked out… I’ve been here since 9 AM today. I probably have already kicked out eight or nine people and I’ve recovered a thousand dollars worth of stuff alone off of that. Whether we kick them out, tell them they can’t come back, whether I put them in handcuffs and take them down to the county jail—there is no difference. Because they will not be prosecuted by the district attorney. Therefore, there is nothing documented that they can’t come back here. You know, they get no time in jail to think about what they did, right? There is zero consequence. And that’s why in this store the same exact people come in every other day and in the city the same couple percent of people are the same people committing all the car break-ins, all the robberies and all the shootings, any aggravated assaults right in town where there’s more street people, people fighting. It’s all the same exact people, and there are zero consequences. Therefore you take them to jail they get out of jail. They do it again. It’s a big circle.”
https://californiaglobe.com/local/san-francisco/exclusive-iconic-target-store-in-mission-district-to-close-amid-a-shoplifting-tidal-wave/
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Here’s a great waste of govt’s time:
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2021/10/21/congress-seeks-findings-nfls-investigation-washington-football-team/
“The letter was prompted, at least in part, by the release of emails containing racist and misogynistic language between former Raider coach Jon Gruden and then-Washington Football Team President Bruce Allen.”
Our current POTUS is on record with several openly racist remarks including the recent event where he referred to an African-American govt official as “my boy”.
When does the investigation of this racist asshole begin?
I know – never.
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Liar liar. Now Dr. F is blaming his buddy Peter Daszak for not telling him that the grant Fauci approved was for for gain of research, roflmao. Liar, liar.
‘NIH admits US funded gain-of-function in Wuhan — despite Fauci’s denials’
“It’s another Fauci flub.
The National Institutes of Health has stunningly admitted to funding gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at China’s Wuhan lab — despite Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly insisting to Congress that no such thing happened.
In a letter to Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) on Wednesday, a top NIH official blamed EcoHealth Alliance — the New York City-based nonprofit that has funneled US funds to the Wuhan lab — for not being transparent about the work it was doing.
NIH’s principal deputy director, Lawrence A. Tabak, wrote in the letter that EcoHealth’s “limited experiment” tested whether “spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.”
https://nypost.com/2021/10/21/nih-admits-us-funded-gain-of-function-in-wuhan-despite-faucis-repeated-denials/
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Punchy’s “Man of Integrity”…….
Another prudent decision by America’s foremost Mick Grifter Douchebag. Let the northeastern democrat strongholds burn…..the fuck do I care.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/10/21/joe-biden-first-responders-police-refuse-vaccine-mandates-fired/
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Here Emery, Your favorite lying son of a bitch.
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2021/10/22/biden-i-made-all-the-vaccinations-happen-ap-fact-checker-no-you-didnt-n424091
” Biden was asked about the pace of COVID vaccinations around the country. The President was quick to try to take credit for the progress made thus far, stretching back to events that happened before he was even in office. He said, “When I first was elected, there were only 2 million people who had COVID shots in the United States of America — and the vaccine. Now we got 190 million, because I went out and bought everything I could do and buy in sight and it worked.”
As the fact-checkers were quick to point out, virtually nothing he said in that statement was true. And the bits that might arguably be described as “partially true” are a significant stretch.
THE FACTS: No, that’s not how the vaccine rollout in the U.S. happened. Biden is overstating his part.
First, it’s not true that 2 million people had shots when he was elected in November. The COVID-19 vaccines were still awaiting emergency authorization then. The first shots were administered to the public in mid-December.
Nearly 16 million doses had been administered by Jan. 20, the day Biden took office.”
I bet you will vote for him again.
Seems your tune has changed about liars.
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Lets go Beavis
https://nypost.com/2021/10/22/biden-town-hall-prompts-mockery-beavis-and-butthead-comparisons/
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Thats cornholio @1010! ROFLOL
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A skeptic might think it was meant that way. Hmmmmmmm –
New York’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for city employees could end up reducing the NYPD work force by a third. That’s just what defund-the-police activists want.
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/bb04ab85-e7bb-305e-993d-78bf5dc92259/vaccine-mandates-may.html
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Now thats funny! –
Hypocrisy exposed
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow
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Don. Is that a Greek fishing hat on that dude?
The schnoz looks familiar as well… Just say’n….
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When LIBS cheat, it’s swept under the rug. “nothing to see here”.
But when a Repub gets caught,, well,, it’s newsworthy.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nevada-man-voter-fraud-ballot-dead-wife
As Emery would say,, “what’s the big deal? It didn’t help change the election”.
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Word of the day. ‘Phragmite’.
“If you want a picture of things converging toward an unfortunate outcome, imagine “Joe Biden” playing chicken with the future of the nation. Trouble is, the future is a very big thing — so big, you can’t see where it ends — while “Joe Biden” is one mere mortal, small and feeble… and the old jalopy he’s driving looks like it’s veering off the road….
The net effect is that life will go on in ways as-yet-undetermined upon this land-mass between the great oceans, but the vehicle “Joe Biden” is driving will end up a smoldering wreck, upside down in a drainage ditch with the phragmites and discarded Bud Lite cans. The passengers in the back seat are the economy and the social order of the USA, lying motionless with eyes Xed out in the twisted wreckage……”
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/what-am-i-doing-he-asks/
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So will they cancel him and protest? Doubt it…
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/10/23/activist-behind-netflixs-dave-chappelle-protest-has-racist-homophobic-anti-asian-tweets-exposed/
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Not a peep from the wokesters oh right they are communists so they get a pass –
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/10/23/chinese-dune-poster-removes-black-actress/
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Conspiracy to commit fraud and obstruction and lying to federal investigators. Trouble coming for Sullivan, Elias, Sussman, CrowdStrike, Clinton Campaign, et al
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Saturday Night Live, did a good job skewering Biden.
https://youtu.be/gUCaOV5nbyk
Sorry Joe,, you ain’t “O”.
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Hope everyone has battened down the hatches, and hauled in the outdoor furniture. That table umbrella might be found somewhere in Placer County tomorrow.
8 in. of rain? This is going to get good!
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TUNING BIDEN OUT
The Hill’s Joe Concha reports on the ratings for the CNN town hall with President Biden this past Thursday evening:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/10/tuning-biden-out.php
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SOROS-BACKED VIRGINIA PROSECUTOR LOSES AGAIN
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/10/soros-backed-virginia-prosecutor-loses-again.php
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All I will say is:
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/10/t3eqf87z2cu71.jpg?
Ah heck. I lied. I will say a lot more: the week in pics
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/10/the-week-in-pictures-supply-chain-edition.php
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Walt @ 8:33 am
Morning Brother Walt. Apparently SNL is going down the toilet fast as viewers are not tuning in. Not even a staff of comedy writers can make Joe Biden funny or watchable. With the ratings tank (Biden and SNL) the regular Joe’s out there are saying “we just are not that much into you.”
Dur to a recent unfortunate event, SNL is bringing in Donald Trump to play Alec Baldwin playing Donald Trump. 🙂
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Is it a burn day? Probably too windy.
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Morn’n Bill.. Ironic that Baldwin, a real big anti gun dude,
kills his boss with a gun. (by accident no less)
The question that has yet to come out in public, is “who in hell put the real bullets in the gun!?”
Now why would an anti gun nut, take a roll in a movie where he’s supposed to handle a firearm?
Another ” It’s OK when we do it”.
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And who’s bright idea was this?
https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/biden-brings-out-disabled-man-named-brandon-in-apparent-attempt-to-co-opt-lets-go-brandon-meme/
“Biden’s choice of a disabled man named Brandon to do a public appearance with, possibly in an attempt to head off the ‘Let’s Go, Brandon’ chant that’s swept the nation.”
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Walt 839am – Sierra County perhaps.
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That didn’t take long,, power knocked out already, and the big stuff has yet to hit,
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Get a load of this.
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2021/10/24/reporter-has-an-uncomfortable-reminder-for-terry-mcauliffe-after-he-again-invokes-donald-trump-n462549
A campaign yard sign that states ” Keep parents out of the classroom” ” Keep Virginia blue”
Yup,, that’s going to win votes. No wonder the fool is hemorrhaging votes.
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Walt. Hate to polk ya in the eye, but my power is on. Did dim for two seconds. But, the weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed, if for the courage of the fearless crew, the Minnow would be lost. 🙂
Even the old Guardian Dog with his choice of shelter under the house of between forks in trees at ground level came knocking on the door in his polite way. Was lying against front door, He does not like to be in the house, especially since this currently his kind of weather from heaven. His time to shine. Haven’t been able to call him in for the last few nights out for the rains. Out there in the rain barking at movements in the brush and sleeping like a baby…..until early this morning. :). He is sleeping near the back slider now and enduring his time out punishment.. The other one has no intention of going outside. Same with me and mine. 🙂
Good day to wash ceiling and walls.
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