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[With today’s signing of the trillion plus ‘infrastructure bill’ the Democrat perfidy is made visible.  The bill contain1s so little (about $100B) for actually fixing roads, bridges, etc that municipalities are not prepared to issue massive new amounts of municipal bonds – usually a jurisdiction’s ‘matching funds’ to garner federal subsidies.  Therefore, the outstanding tax-free municipal bond prices are rising and their yields falling.  The infrastructure bill is yet another Biden travesty that misses the mark as the feds (the Fed) continue printing new money.  So the question stands – name ONE thing that Bumblebrain has done right.  gjr]

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  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes @ 2:08 pm. re: Jefferson Statue.
    ‘They were always going to come for Jefferson’
    “So-called “experts” dismissed conservatives’ concerns about the Left’s push to dismantle history, writing them off as a “false slippery slope.” But those of us who have been paying attention to the radicalization of the Left knew this was inevitable. They hate Jefferson and the other founders — not because of what they did, but because they represent a nation the Left wants to destroy.
    Jefferson won’t be the last statue they try to tear down. They’ll come for Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and maybe even Martin Luther King Jr., as he advocated for a color-blind society…..”

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  2. Scott O Avatar

    re accusations of inflation and Biden’s falling support numbers:
    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/23/2065904/-Why-is-Joe-Biden-smiling-History-is-on-his-side
    Money quote: “…but what will likely make the biggest difference in price inflation is time.”
    Yeah – that’s it!
    Just wait around a few years before you buy anything and the prices will surely come right back down solely due to time!
    That’s the ticket.

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scott O
    From your link I found this…among many similar.
    ‘Shelves aren’t empty, oil prices are heading down, but Republicans are locked into a disaster story’
    “The same thing is happening in 2021. Inflation is increasing because the nation is once again being pulled out of the ditch by Democrats. And if some of those numbers are currently unusually high, that’s because Trump was such an incredible low.”
    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/23/2065882/-Gas-prices-are-declining-but-Republicans-won-t-let-that-get-in-the-way-of-disaster-narrative?

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Thats our media doing what it does best; telling us not only what to think but of more crucial import, how to think.
    Waukesha Police Chief Knocks Down Silly ‘Fleeing From a Crime’ Cover Story Pushed by CNN
    https://redstate.com/streiff/2021/11/22/waukesha-police-chief-knocks-down-silly-fleeing-from-a-crime-cover-story-pushed-by-cnn-n480184

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  5. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Here’s one from a month or so ago that’s worth considering.
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/illinois-high-school-student-gets-probation-slave-ad-hate-crime-n1282032
    Here’s the short version.
    . Black and white 14 year olds are friends
    . White 14 year old pulls dick-move (being 14)
    . Takes picture of black 14 year old, puts on Craigslist with ‘Slave for Sale’ ad
    . (here’s the good part) local DA charges white 14 year old with 2 felonies and a misdemeanor
    . Kid pleads guilty, gets probation, now has 2 ‘hate crime’ felonies.
    Think about this for a minute. I ran into some similar situations but won’t spam the topic.

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  6. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Life in Blue Mob America. Those wacky teens edition.
    ” An 82-year-old man was surrounded and assaulted by a group of people riding dirt bikes and ATVs in Boston last Thursday. Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying the suspects.
    The victim, a Brookline man, suffered serious injuries and remains in the hospital. He is expected to survive.
    State Police said the man was driving his 1996 Buick Century from Park Drive to Boylston Street when 30 to 40 dirt bike and ATV riders forced him onto the curb. Several of the suspects then began smashing windows of the victim’s car.”
    https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/11/24/brookline-man-attacked-dirt-bike-atvs-boston/

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 8:17 am. A Clockwork Orange has arrived. There will be hundreds of similar stories across the land.
    Somewhere scenes posted four possible explanations of the left-media-mob mindset for an reasonable person to make heads or tails of. Make sense out of it all. From the top of my head four horsemen ranged from were Ignorance to full blown evil. Covers the bases pretty well.
    Boy, did Andy Ngo grab those screen shots and videos posted by the alleged Christmas Parade Mow Down suspect or what? He grabbed them before they were taken down and is blow the narrative completely out of the water.
    That dude is one sick MoFro. Pimping bitches across state lines. How did he know she was a minor. Took her from LA and pimped the bitch in Vegas. I don’t think he cares for white people much or getting popped to add to his rap sheet. Oh my. Taking out the Marching Grandmas is something I would not do, but nobody’s perfect. Grandma died doing what she loved best.
    What is it with wannabe rap stars and criminals? It seems the glove does fit.
    Anyway, kudos to Andy Ngo.

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    What did you except would happen. All people in prison are political prisoners, right? Ok, not all, but most are, lol. I go for the old cause and effect on this one. Nature abhors a vacuum and all that stuff.
    ‘Deadly result of progressive arrogance on bail reform’
    https://nypost.com/2021/11/23/deadly-result-of-progressive-arrogance-on-bail-reform/

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  9. Scott O Avatar

    BT 9:49 – “There will be hundreds of similar stories across the land.”
    Well – at various Blue enclaves across the land.
    “…when 30 to 40 dirt bike and ATV riders forced him onto the curb.”
    Let me guess – the Amish again?
    Show this article to Beto – THIS is why we do need 30 round clips.
    Anyway – as the DA in the Rittenhouse case cheerfully explained – “we all git a beatin’ now and then!”
    Just part of life!

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee
  11. Walt Avatar

    The only “accomplishment” is destruction of life as we knew it.
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/11/24/hillary-clinton-americans-dont-appreciate-bidens-accomplishments/
    “HILLARY CLINTON: Democracy is messy. People got kind of frustrated looking at the messy process of legislation. They didn’t really appreciate that within a year, the Biden administration has passed two major pieces of legislation through both the House and Senate. They’ve passed another major piece through the House that will soon be in the Senate. By any measure, those are extraordinary accomplishments and they will help millions of Americans with health care and prescription drug prices, as well as climate change and so much else. But because of the way we are getting our information today and lack of gatekeepers, and people who have a historic perspective who can help us understand what we are seeing, there is a real vulnerability in the electorate to the kind of demagoguery and disinformation that the other side is really good at exploiting.”
    Miss Trump yet?

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So if they are not teaching CRT how come they retaliated on the whistleblower?? –
    Indiana teacher who exposed CRT teaching put on leave, has email locked, banned from school buildings
    The award-winning teacher has been put on paid leave
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/indiana-teacher-exposed-crt-teaching-leave-email-locked-banned-school-buildings
    😉

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  13. Walt Avatar

    WOW!!! Don’t get your way then quit?
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/11/24/swedens-first-female-prime-minister-resigns-after-less-than-eight-hours/
    “Magdalena Andersson, leader of the Social Democrats, was selected in a Riksdag (Parliament) vote as Sweden’s 34th Prime Minister on Wednesday morning, replacing outgoing migrant-crisis era leader of the Social Democrat Stefan Löfven. Yet just hours later the Speaker of Riksdag announced the search for another new Prime Minister would begin after Andersson’s government collapsed before she’d even had chance to be sworn into the role.”

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    While the admin alternates between dont believe your lyin eyes and let them eat cake, meanwhile tone deaf creepy grampa joe jets off to feast at a billionaires mansion for turkey day there is actual food rationing happening –
    NBC’s South Florida affiliate reported the empty shelves are not set to be restocked anytime soon, nor are the food shortages just confined to holiday foods.
    “The limits are for all stores in our seven-state operating area,” a Publix representative told the station. “There is not a set time determined for these limits, and the list can change to include more items or remove items.”
    Though Publix has not yet rationed turkeys, Winn-Dixie, another massive grocer, has rationed the turkeys.
    A Winn-Dixie spokesperson told the NBC affiliate the rationing is to “ensure all families have an opportunity to enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving meal.”
    Foods costs have skyrocketed in recent months.
    Breitbart News reported the price of turkey has increased by more than 24 percent from 2020.
    According to the Orlando Sentinel, the list of rationed foods include the following:
    Canned cranberry sauce
    Jarred gravy
    Canned pie filling
    Canola and vegetable oil
    Cream cheese
    Bacon
    Rolled breakfast sausage
    Paper napkins
    Disposable plates, cups and cutlery
    Bath tissue
    Refrigerated snacks (Lunchables-type items)
    Sports drinks
    Aseptic-type juices (Capri Sun)
    Canned cat food (variety packs)
    Refrigerated pet food
    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/11/24/joe-biden-claims-shelves-are-well-stocked-as-grocers-ration-food/
    😉

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  15. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I like the idea of Biden Ration Cards. Won’t be long now.
    In other news, here’s one that’s been cooking for a while. I really do wonder what the results will be in a couple of hundred years.
    “George Floyd portrayed as Jesus in paintings displayed at Catholic University
    On Monday, it was revealed that The Catholic University of America has on display a painting and multiple prints depicting George Floyd as Jesus.”
    https://thepostmillennial.com/george-floyd-jesus-paintings-catholic-university
    At the very least you should see verified miracles sometime soon.

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Hey remember the troll who loved grifter, grifter, grifter. Who knew he was actually talking about the bidens and the crackhead –
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/11/24/josh-rogin-hunter-biden-has-done-business-with-all-sorts-of-shady-foreign-actors-and-helped-china-secure-crucial-resources/
    😉

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  17. Scott O Avatar

    DB 7:25 – “…he will be canceled…”
    Nah – they’ll just down play it or erase it.
    The important thing here is to hang these 3 guys for “what should have happened” in the KR trial.
    The feds are already planning to charge the 3 without a shred of evidence that the crime was racially motivated. The LSM can’t even present a truthful description of what happened in the AA case even after the guilty verdicts. The video clearly shows the kid running over TO the guy with the gun and fighting him. Take your fists to a gun fight and I’m pretty sure you’re going to lose. A stupid white guy and a stupid black kid. That’s all there is to this case. Just because you’re casing houses doesn’t give anyone the right to go after you with a fire arm.
    That Catholic Univ. better make room for another painting of a new ‘saint’. Funny how the black kids that actually do go to college and get good jobs are called names by the lefties when they decide to leave the Democrat Plantation and have ideas of their own.
    And we note that even though the white guys were found guilty, Biden says there’s ‘more’ that needs to be done. I guess he’s mad because the stores don’t re-stock fast enough for the looters.

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  18. Walt Avatar

    Anyone hear anything about Doug K. lately?
    https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/24/north-korea-executes-man-squid-game-netflix/
    “A man was allegedly executed after smuggling copies of Netflix’s hit show ‘Squid Game’ into North Korea, Forbes reported Wednesday.
    The man faced a firing squad when North Korean officials caught the man distributing illegal copies of the Netflix show. Others will reportedly face severe repercussions for playing a role in the scheme, according to Forbes.”

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  19. Scott O Avatar

    I had hopes the New Yawkers would do somewhat better in their choice of Da Mayor, but no.
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/11/24/nyc-mayor-elect-eric-adams-america-is-on-trial-our-children-can-get-guns-and-not-laptops/
    More BS and lies.
    “What are 17-year-olds doing with guns in this country?”
    Well – if they’re black and live in a Dem-run shit hole they usually shoot people. If they’re white and live in a conservative state, they usually target practice and hunt. Next question?
    “We have an over-proliferation of guns.”
    Really? What’s the amount we’re allowed to have?
    “And our children can get guns and not laptops, iPads, computer things that they need.”
    OK, we’re done here. Once you just start lying through your teeth, there’s no point in conversation.
    Looks like NY city is still headed for the toilet.

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Will the Poles be the next eu exit? The eu should be nice to Poland since there the ones facing vlad –
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/polish-tribunal-rules-european-rights-172036922.html
    😉

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The fact that they need to give reporters a security guard in the shitholes should but wont change the way they apologize for the shit hole da’s destruction of society! –
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-tv-news-crews-security-guard-shot-during-attempted-robbery-while-reporter-was-covering-robbery#
    😉

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, it’s not bail reform but has the same result. Darn, it bothered me that Biden and Kerry just up and gave away our leverage over Iran and now now this.
    DeSantis Slams Biden For Removing Marxist Terrorists From Terror List: ‘Will Embolden Terrorist Groups’
    “As if taking off the Houthis in Yemen from the list of terrorist organizations wasn’t bad enough already,” retired U.S. diplomat Alberto Miguel Fernandez said. “The Biden Administration now rewarding the narco-leftist FARC in Colombia.”“
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-slams-biden-for-removing-marxist-terrorists-from-terror-list-will-embolden-terrorist-groups

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  23. Scott O Avatar

    Let’s get back to the Covid “crises”. Lock downs and violent riots in Europe and Oz. Yet the cases are rising. Compare to our state where the cases are plummeting. At the present rate we should be down to around a hundred new cases a day by Christmas for the state.
    And what is our unemployment?
    4th in the nation at 2.8%.
    https://idahonews.com/news/local/idaho-unemployment-rate-drops-to-28-among-best-in-nation
    We just went through a large amount of Nebraska twice this fall including an overnight stop. No one was wearing masks or following any sort of Covid ‘protocols’. They’re the top of the list for unemployment. Idaho has one of the lowest rates for “fully vaccinated” and yet we best not only other states, but most Euro states for the lowest amount of cases. I read about the restrictions the rest of our nation is going through as well as the rest of the world as if they were all on another planet. Here the children play outdoors per normal and the neighbors all mingle as well as those going downtown and to the stores and work without a thought of covid fear. Is this is because Idaho and Nebraska etal are ‘isolated’? Not at all. Consider that places like Australia can easily isolate and have outrageously rigid lock downs and still have covid while places in the American west have zero lock downs and laughably loose protocols with far less covid cases. Meanwhile Biden invites millions of illegals into the country with zero covid testing and uses tax payer money to fly infected illegals to areas no where near where Biden or his cronies live.
    People positive with covid are allowed to mingle with the general population in restricted areas because they have vaccine ‘passports’ while those with no covid are denied because they have natural immunity and haven’t bowed to the govt dictates. Covid is real. It came from China under obviously suspicious circumstances that no other country is willing to investigate and it is being used to subjugate the populaces into hideous and overt usurpation of civil rights. The govt, military and major industries are being purged of free thinking and strong minded people. This is the equivalent of the NAZIs and Commies getting rid of the intelligencia by whatever means. In the 30s those people had the free world to flee to. Whence do they flee now?

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Trigger warning for socialist dems, it will be interesting to see how hard they come down on this guy for telling the truth about the dems destruction of the concept of black families with the so called ‘great society’ and virtually every other dem brainstorm ‘helping legislation’.
    https://www.breitbart.com/education/2021/11/24/anti-woke-black-leader-post-racial-america-starts-with-two-parent-black-families/
    😉

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    re: Andy Ngo, the gay Asian reporter and his reporting:
    ‘Journos and Other Libs Can’t Defend Darrell Brooks, So They Attack Andy Ngo’
    When in doubt, change the subject’
    https://jimtreacher.substack.com/p/journos-and-other-libs-cant-defend?r=17yh5
    The Daily Yeast? Good one

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  26. George Rebane Avatar

    Actually, the defense of Darrell Brooks is easy, and the lamestream is already ahead of the game. The man was simply on his way to the parade when he had an accident with his SUV. It could have happened to anyone.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-waukesha-parade-attack-caused-by-suv

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dr Rebane.
    I kept waiting for you to post the Norman Rockwell thanksgiving pic until I realized that horrid pic is triggering to so many folks nowadays. Not only on the white privileges and white supremacy angle, it also makes people feel sad that they don’t have such a large non-functional family. Thankgiving is NOT a warm fuzzy Rockwell Thanksgiving, but one based on oppression and bad juju.
    With that said, Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family, your loved ones and to all those who make up the vast Glum Lot. Gobble, gobble.

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  28. Walt Avatar

    Happy Thanksgiving to all.
    I say TRIGGER AWAY!! Headed to the eldest Daughter and Son-in-law’s place tonight. Something a little different tonight.
    Individual “turkeys”. (Cornish game hens)
    His parents are Berkeley LIBS (this should be fun)
    OK..OK…. I won’t wear my “I love Trump” shirt.

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  29. George Rebane Avatar

    Gentlemen – My apologies, the Rockwell pic is on the way. I beg forgiveness.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 12:53 pm
    “Happy Thanksgiving to all.
    I say TRIGGER AWAY!!”
    So does Matt Taibbi!
    https://taibbi.substack.com/p/thanksgiving-is-awesome

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Los Angeles Public Schools Teach Students That Celebrating Thanksgiving Is Evil’
    LAUSD discouraged students from celebrating Thanksgiving, instead pushing division to erode the quintessential American holiday and undermine our traditions.
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/26/los-angeles-public-schools-teach-students-that-celebrating-thanksgiving-is-evil/
    At the end of times, good will be called evil and evil will be called good.

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  32. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    It’s a crying shame that the new, super special, COVID won’t be dubbed the ‘Xi’ variant (it was skipped).

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  33. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe is a racist –
    Flashback: Biden suggested Trump’s coronavirus travel ban was ‘xenophobic’
    The Biden administration restricted travel from several African countries on Friday
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flashback-biden-suggested-trumps-coronavirus-travel-ban-xenophobic
    😉

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    But, but, but Trump is eroding trust in our institutions.
    No, the institutions and the media are to blame for the eviscerating our trust in our institutions. Sorry for the redundancy. The media is the institution of the weaponized left, used masterfully by our institutions. As water and teas make tea, so does the government and the media mingle to produce a product that is indistinguishable for its separate entities. Anyway….
    ‘Five Trump-Russia ‘Collusion’ Corrections We Need From the Media Now — Just for Starters’
    https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/11/24/five_trump-russia_collusion_corrections_we_need_from_the_media_now_-_just_for_starters_804205.html
    Just maybe 3-4 short years ago, outside of our servicemen and women, the FBI was the most trusted institution of the United State government. It took decades to rid the Bureau of the stain J Edgar Hoover left on the FBI’s reputation because of Hoover’s politicization (corruption) of the Department. Decades. Folks still refer to it to this day.
    I will not be able to see the trust in our institutions restored again in my lifetime. Will take more years than I have left. Ala, lo am I.

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  35. Walt Avatar

    Well, one sees the coming train wreck.
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/11/26/were-fed-says-dem-strategist-as-focus-groups-show-party-in-shambles-n1536698
    “‘We’re F***ed’ Says Dem Strategist as Focus Groups Show Party in Shambles”

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Huh. I’m not 100% on-board with this article, I think he’s hitting a few wrong notes, but I’m surprised that someone in regular-journalism land finally noticed.
    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-rise-of-the-neoclassical-reactionaries

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Epic fail in only 10 months! –
    Biden-Harris dream team suddenly Dems’ worst nightmare after just 10 months
    Perhaps Hillary Clinton or John Kerry is available for one more political rodeo?
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-harris-dems-worst-nightmare-colin-reed
    😉

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “Now why why why would looters hit the Home Depot on Black Friday,” I thought within myself. What, are they going to converge on HD and run out with sheets of valuable plywood. It would look like the Keystone Kops banging into each other trying to carry out with those 4’x8’ with their view blocked hauling out the loot. A comic relief watching the security tapes.
    Why, why, why? Silly me. They need more hammers to smash and grab and pillage and loot. Home Depot is where the tools of the trade are. Come to think of it, I am looking for a 5lb medium length handle thumper; a mini-sledge hammer if you will. If HD had them, there probably are on back order now. Oh well.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/looters-hit-la-home-depot-bottega-veneta-on-black-friday/

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  39. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@9:10AM
    lol. That’s absolutely brilliant. It isn’t like most of those people actually own work tools, so you can view this as part of a full-employment plan. A burner wrecking bar is just the thing for Black Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
    There’s nothing really new here. Non-enforcement of law is as powerful as enforcement in terms of achieving the ends of the State and has been done before. God knows crowd-sourcing policy is the cheap way to go.

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