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[While not overflowing, the last Sandbox was getting a bit dated.  So here's a fresh one that you can fill with holiday cheer, or not.  gjr]

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402 responses to “Sandbox – 27nov21”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    A Simple Test for Determining a Person’s Level of PC Craziness
    https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/a-simple-test-for-determining-a-person-s-level-of-pc-craziness/

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  2. Scott O Avatar

    E Fox 10:45 – “Well, finally, prosecutors who believe that violating gun laws should have some consequences”
    Of course. They ARE white. And they are Trump supporters.
    Did I mention Trump?
    When will they charge the folks that let Darrell Brooks Jr. out on the public?
    Huh?
    Who?

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  3. Walt Avatar

    WOW!! Biden gets credit for dropping the price at the pump!!!
    All of 2 CENTS!! 1 cent in Calif.!
    It was all over the news on the radio this morning.
    That will surely get him re-elected.

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  4. Scott O Avatar

    Meanwhile back in real life in the Blue, Blue areas – everyone has to put up with a knifing once in a while…
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/parolee-fatally-stabs-columbia-student-knifes-second-victim-before-his-arrest-in-central-park-ny-police-say/ar-AARrKJM?ocid=msedgntp
    Who could have possibly predicted that this fine chap would commit such a crime?
    I’m sure he was planning on becoming a brain surgeon before he ‘became involved’ with the criminal justice system.
    Move along, nothing to see here.

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  5. Walt Avatar

    Another dose of news that says AGW is BS.
    Snow on Hawaii’s mountain tops again.
    If there was any hint of “warming”, it would affect places on or near the equator FIRST.
    I’m sure some true believer will have a fine excuse to claim it’s just “weather”.

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘GOP candidate declared winner in Virginia state House race, Republicans will gain control of chamber’
    “The recount was one of two requested by Democratic candidates in General Assembly races, from which Republicans emerged with 52 state House districts and Democrats with 48.
    The second recount is scheduled for next week, but Greenhalgh’s victory ensures GOP dominance in the House, which the party lost in 2019.
    Democrats will remain in control of the Virginia state Senate, in which they hold a 21-19 majority. The November election, however, proved disastrous for Virginia Democrats, who lost both the state House and the governor’s mansion, in what some are viewing as an early indication of how 2022 elections might play out.”
    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/gop-candidate-declared-winner-virginia-state-house-race-republicans-will
    We lost the State House in 2019 and we got it back already? If this is what the local 420 Brigade called us ‘toast’, the dustbin of history, losers in 2018 and 2020, then take my slice, toss it in the toaster, and make mine burnt.
    Speaking of making toast, Biden in one of his less lucid moments said you put bread in and out comes toast. Where did the bread go?

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    BIDEN BUNK BRIGADE AT IT AGAIN TODAY
    Having yesterday celebrated a 2-cent drop in gasoline prices like it was V-J Day, the Biden circle (this time in the form of Steven Rattner, the Obama Administration’s “car czar”) lit out with this howler about the tiny uptick in today’s jobs report:
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/biden-bunk-brigade-at-it-again-today.php
    ————————.
    Wow. They are coming to take you away.
    AUSSIES GONE MAD [UPDATED]
    I used to think that Australians are a freedom-loving people, but that has turned out not to be true. Crocodile Dundee is dead; Pajama Boy now rules.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/aussies-gone-mad.php
    I thought the Aussie cops pepper spraying a teenage girl(s) point blank in the face for not wearing a mask outside the mall was bad enough. I thought the cops tackling to the ground and arresting a suburban man who walked down his street a block to smoke a cig and get some fresh air during lockdown was bad enough. He was there all by his lonesome. But, we ain’t seen nothing yet.

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    lol. Checkmate.
    ‘UN official calls out Elon Musk to help end starvation with $6B check. Musk responds, adds one stipulation.’
    “In response, Musk said he would liquidate $6 billion worth of Tesla stock to finance Beasley’s request. However, Musk added that the U.N. would need to prove that every penny donated went toward feeding people.
    “If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it,” Musk said. “But it must be open source accounting, so the public sees precisely how the money is spent.”
    In response, Beasley said his comments were mischaracterized. In fact, $6 billion would not solve world hunger, he said.
    “Headline not accurate,” Beasley responded. “$6B will not solve world hunger, but it WILL prevent geopolitical instability, mass migration and save 42 million people on the brink of starvation. An unprecedented crisis and a perfect storm due to Covid/conflict/climate crises.”
    Musk responded by reaffirming his commitment to transparency.
    “Please publish your current & proposed spending in detail so people can see exactly where money goes,” Musk said. “Sunlight is a wonderful thing.”
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/un-elon-musk-end-starvation
    Crickets.

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Liberals supported soft-on-crime policies — now that crime has come to campus
    “In a different era, university presidents would call for more preventative policing. But that’s a delicate proposition now. When Smith died just off Berkeley’s campus, the chancellor used its statement on his murder to give a short lecture on police brutality. Police brutality had absolutely nothing to do with Smith’s murder. Berkeley may as well have used its student’s death notice as an excuse to opine on climate change or global poverty.”
    https://nypost.com/2021/12/03/liberals-supported-soft-on-crime-policies-now-that-crime-has-come-to-campus/

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  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Worth checking out.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGFdWcJU7-0
    Welcome to the future.

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  11. Scott O Avatar

    It just gets better:
    ““This kid died to stop a school shooter whose mother echoed the Trumpist Fascism of @stoolpresidente and @barstoolsports.”
    Portnoy and Trump radicalized a 15-year-old sophomore to shoot up Oxford High School. You need proof? Well, Olbermann pointed to a 2016 blog post written by the alleged shooter’s mother. The blog post praised Trump.
    “Mr. Trump, this is why I voted for you. I see the change that we desperately need. I see jobs coming back, people having to work for their handouts, money going to who really deserve it. If this blog even makes it to your eyes, thank you. From the bottom of my heart.””
    It’s pretty obvious a woman who praised Trump for increasing the number of people earning a living is totally racist and hate filled. Not sure where Portnoy fits into this but, golly – we’ll just have to take their word.
    Funny how no one else ran out and shot anyone dead because of this but who are we to question the wisdom of our betters?
    The kid was having some deep problems and was trying to tell those around him about it.
    But Trump!
    And Trump!
    Did I mention Trump?
    Meanwhile –
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/florida-boy-stabbed-murdered-homeless
    Just a white kid – probably a racist since all white kids are racists and he wasn’t in school since now we know that a school is the only place a person should feel safe.
    Not on the street or in a park. That’s just white fragility.
    Only in the schools. The experts have told us so.

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    14 arrested for LA smash-and-grab robberies all released on zero-bail policies
    https://nypost.com/2021/12/03/14-arrested-for-l-a-smash-and-grab-robberies-all-released-on-zero-bail-policies/

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  13. Walt Avatar

    Is Iceland going to see another volcano blow?
    From the “experts”.
    “GPS measurements in Grímsvötn show that the ice-cap has subsided by about 45 meters.
    The discharge in Gígjukvísl river this morning 2220 m3/s yesterday.
    Examples are that volcanic eruption can occur in Grímsvötn after water is drained from there. It is believed that volcanic eruptions can occur after sudden pressure release due to reduced water level in the lake. The last time something similar happened was in 2004, 1934 and 1922.
    Written by a specialist at 04 Dec 15:08 GMT”

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Taking a page out of the Looney Left playbook.
    ‘Fifteen States Respond to ‘Woke Capitalism,’ Threaten to Cut Off Banks That Refuse to Service Coal, Oil Industries’
    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fifteen-states-threaten-to-cut-off-banks-that-refuse-to-service-coal-oil-industries/
    Next up: The Left is turning pro-nuclear power. It’s for the survival of the planet and our grandchildren.

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  15. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@7:54AM
    Yah know, as the country descends into madness, any US-based CEO that isn’t a fully paid up member of Team Blue should probably start thinking about offshoring their legal presence, management, and operations.
    It’s not like Chevron isn’t a worldwide presence in any case and I don’t see things improving.
    An obvious case is Elon Musk. The Bidenistas really really don’t like him and his two main companies look to have too many eggs in the US basket. I’m afraid that Mary Barra is the future of this country, not Musk.

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 8:05 am

    You could be right. But, but, but what about the Interstate Commerence Clause?

    Not much to add to this. The Grim Reaper cometh. The Destroyer of The Good.
    PRAGER: A Brief Guide To Leftist Destruction
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/prager-a-brief-guide-to-leftist-destruction

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  17. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “what about the Interstate Commerce Clause”f
    “Congress shall have power “[t]o regulate Commerce with foreign Nations”
    At least that doesn’t involve choosing which banks will deal with you, what your Board of Directors looks like, shut-off of VISA, Paypal, etc. if they don’t like the cut of your jib, union issues.
    (it’s worth looking at how President Potato screwed over Tesla in terms of subsidies. You can argue that they shouldn’t exist at all of course).
    To be fair, it isn’t like operations in China, southeast Asia, etc. don’t have their own problems. Maybe they are easier to deal with since it’s simply a matter of a little baksheesh (usually) rather than someone’s woke religion. You can see why Elon Musk wants to go to Mars although I doubt escaping the Blue Mob will be that easy. It’s like thinking that moving to Texas or Arizona allows you to escape Californians.

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  18. Walt Avatar

    I hate to be an I told ya’ so,,,, BUT,,
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-suspends-cannabis-tax-dispensaries-compete-drug-dealers
    Taxing weed would NEVER work. Dope smokers will always go to the dude on the street.

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    RIP Bob Dole.

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt
    Now here is a good reason to mask up.
    Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN)At least 14 people are dead and hundreds are displaced after Mount Semeru, a volcano in Indonesia’s East Java province, erupted on Saturday, authorities said.
    https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/04/asia/indonesia-mount-semeru-eruption-intl/index.html

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  21. Walt Avatar

    Good find Bill. I just watched some video of the eruption on youtube.
    Volcanos seem to be popping off all around the globe.
    The one in the Canary islands is only getting bigger.
    Another new vent opened last night.
    Look at the bright side. None on our side of the ring of fire
    has signs of waking up.

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Happy Monday morning. i found this article delightful.
    ‘Matt Walsh’s ‘Johnny The Walrus’ Hits #1 On Amazon’s ‘LGBTQ+’ List. His Response Is Priceless’
    “I now have the number one LGBT book in the country. Any further criticism of me or my book is now homophobic,” Walsh wrote to Twitter Sunday morning. “Checkmate.”….
    “I am stunned by these bigoted one star reviews attacking my number one bestselling LGBT book.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walshs-johnny-the-walrus-hits-1-on-amazons-lgbtq-list-his-response-is-priceless
    talk about a twist no one saw comjng

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  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Apropos of nothing, I was considering electrification this fine morning
    Obviously the Great State of California (and Blue America) is pushing for 100% electric cars, home heating, water heating and cooking, etc. From a simplistic engineering standpoint, there’s an elegance to having one great big power source with highly controlled (or no) emissions. I doubt that residential solar panels will ever cover anything beyond wall plugs in a house. Heating is not trivial.
    So, basically you have a single point of failure (well, two. Power source and transmission lines) for everything giving you a life with post-1850 technology. But I ran into a funny side issue. These kinds of pics….
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqEwLle8xKU (Long Line of Electric Cars Wait for a Charge )
    https://www.autospies.com/images/users/Agent009/main/drivers-tesla.jpg
    The thing is, if people start doing 90% of their fueling at home via the grid, there’ll never be refueling stations to the extent there are now. There’s normally no need. They’ll never build enough refueling stations to deal with emergencies (or Thanksgiving travel), never have enough local fuel available with any kind of interruption. Peak usage will not be part of any build-out. In short, the envisioned system is brittle, there’s no spring. Period. Good luck with that hurricane, fire, holiday travel, big ol’ midwestern snowstorm.

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Buy an expensive EV and race back to your apartment and try to figure out how to plug it in. “Let them eat Teslas.”—new mother Mayor Pete.

    Oh goodie! This should be fun. Afterall, there are reputations to be saved and faces to be washed of egg. Lets do a redo.
    ‘Feds could release ‘alternative’ Mueller report soon’
    “An unpublished investigative compilation sometimes referred to as the “Alternative Mueller Report” has been located in Justice Department files and could be released soon, according to a letter filed in federal court Thursday.”
    https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/02/mueller-report-alternative-release-523703

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  25. Walt Avatar

    Thanks Bill,, I just got a chance to to see your “gift”.
    Some things we just bury deeper.

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Evening Walt.
    Guess I will put crime here…..the crime wave AOC and Dem leaders sez it don’t exist.
    “No doubt leaders of the Democratic Party are anxiously trying to figure out how they should deal with political fallout over the whirlwind of crime they have unleashed. Denying its existence seems like one of their less promising strategies. But, to be fair, it is not easy to see what more plausible line they can take.”
    CRIME? WHAT CRIME?
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/crime-what-crime.php

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Lawyer for dying COVID patient who recovered after court-ordered Ivermectin urges new thinking’
    “There are obviously remedies that we’re not looking at,” attorney Kristin Erickson says. “And we need to think outside of the current standard of care.

    Within days. Ng recovered and is now back home walking and enjoying life, Erickson said.
    “After one day, he was able to do a breathing test he couldn’t do for 22 days,” she said in an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast. “After three days, he was off the vent for two hours. And then by the fifth day, he was off it entirely. So the hospital tried to file for, you know, a physician report, after he was off the vent, saying that ivermectin is not the reason he’s better. But clearly it is.”
    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/lawyer-dying-covid-patient-who-recovered-after-court-ordered-ivermectin

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  28. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Mr Kunstler jots down some notes on the nature of the times…
    https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/a-brief-history-of-epic-mass-madness/

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  29. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    My favorite news article of the day:
    https://apnews.com/article/texas-lawsuits-dallas-race-and-ethnicity-voting-rights-9e120f7578628a5fb0ed6a65bc2b2872
    “The lawsuit notes that most of Texas’ population growth over the past decade came from Black, Latino and Asian people, but alleges that the new maps scatter these voters across districts, diluting their votes and denying them opportunities to choose their representatives.
    …(immediately followed by)…
    It also argues the maps pack Black and Latino communities into bizarre-shaped districts”
    So I guess that Black and Latinx voters are both scattered and packed simultaneously. It must hurt.
    District drawing is a funny beast. I remember hearing for years about how some districts were drawn specifically to group black voters together so that they could have one of ‘their’ people be the representative (blood being thicker than geography and all). It’s also been used (by everbody) to squeak out another vote or two in a legislature. Basically, if you agree with the aim it’s a good thing, if not, it’s gerrymandering. Modern Democrats should cut to the chase and come up with a plan making voting work like their ideal for university admissions.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “Can’t give away our sources and methods” is a lame, yet effective defense. It’s for thenational security of our children.
    ‘CIA staffers weren’t prosecuted for sex crimes with children: Report’
    https://justthenews.com/government/security/cia-staffers-werent-prosecuted-sex-crimes-children-report

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Misremembering Pearl Harbor’ VDH
    The tactically brilliant but strategically crazy attack on Pearl Harbor unleashed incalculable furor against a once sophisticated Japanese empire, which foolishly attacked the United States at peace
    https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/05/misremembering-pearl-harbor/

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  32. Walt Avatar

    Good for Santa! It’s about time! In some of the hoods he has to go?
    Better watch out,, better not try,, Santa’s pack’n and you better know why,,,,
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2021/12/06/santa-gets-a-pistol-permit-liberals-go-nuts-n1539313
    “Santa is packing, and I don’t mean his sleigh.
    The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado tweeted a picture of Santa getting his concealed carry permit (CCP).”

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Governments warn of heart problems from COVID vaccines, but Twitter calls research ‘unsafe’
    Japan follows Nordic countries in citing higher-than-expected risks in young people.
    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/governments-warn-heart-problems-covid-vaccines-twitter-calls-research-unsafe

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Well ain’t that special??
    Elon Musk is now anti subsidy! The same SOB that got rich using
    subsidies.
    Has Tesla even turned a profit yet? (he might even stand a chance now that he’s fled Calif.)
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/elonmusk-has-it-all-wrong-on-subsidies/2021/12/07/6845d06e-5773-11ec-8396-5552bef55c3c_story.html

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    And those with their heads in the bubble just can’t understand why some, like our Founding Founders, do not trust government. An necessary evil that must be restrained, first and foremost.
    A law unto themselves. The Andrew A. Weissmann playbook: do not seek justice, do not seek truth. Seek only convictions.
    ‘GOP’s Fortenberry Targeted In Yet Another Questionable And Politicized Case From Troubled Department Of Justice’
    No major reforms have taken place at the Department of Justice or FBI even as its politicized bungling of prosecutions and investigations has made major news.
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/07/gops-fortenberry-targeted-in-yet-another-questionable-and-politicized-case-from-troubled-department-of-justice/

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  36. Walt Avatar

    Where is EMERY???? Biden requests his help!!
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/jesse-watters-biden-nerve-better-press-coverage
    “”The Five” co-host Jesse Watters tore into The White House for reportedly begging news organizations to afford President Biden more “favorable” press coverage as his failures surrounding inflation and gas prices continue to dominate national headlines.
    “Do you realize how bad things must be for a Democrat president to be begging Democrats in the media for a better spin?” Watters asked on Wednesday’s show.”
    Maybe Biden should actually talk with the press?
    Naaaaa…. His dementia would really show.

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    They are stating to make this easy for next year with their tone deafness ties into Walts 505 –
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-gushes-gas-prices-falling-eight-cents-big-economic-relief-millions
    😉

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  38. Walt Avatar

    Anyone happen to come across these photos yet?
    https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/12/08/aoc-loses-her-mind-over-lauren-boeberts-christmas-gun-pic-n488278
    The Massie family sports some REALLY COOL firepower.
    Rep. Massie owns an M60??? And Mamma with a Chicogo typewritter.
    I bet that made AOC wet herself on the spot.

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  39. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The scum bag DA in lala land is going full blown soros while the bodies hit the ground all around –
    “In less than 24 hours, two children have been killed by gunfire,” he wrote Wednesday. “Instead of holding press conferences with out-of-state prosecutors celebrating “accomplishments,” we need a DA of the People who is going to stand up and say enough is enough! Public safety should be mission #1.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-da-george-gascon-blasted-over-tone-deaf-press-conference-amid-spiking-crime-an-embarrassment
    😉

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  40. Scott O Avatar

    scenes 12:14 – from the article:
    “…diluting their votes and denying them opportunities to choose their representatives.”
    That’s some mind bending word-smithing there.
    “…diluting their votes”
    To what? 1/2, 2/3rds of a white man’s vote?
    “…denying them opportunities to choose their representatives.”
    Well – they aren’t denied the vote, so how are they ‘denied’ the ‘opportunity’ to choose their representative?
    Well, of course – ‘their’ representative.
    Meaning a proper lefty Dem because ALL latinx vote that way.
    According to the white males that tell them that.
    If a bloc of straight white conservative males started living in downtown SF would the howling rock apes in the so-called ‘Justice Dept” make sure those folk would be able to choose ‘their’ representative?
    It sure doesn’t hurt to try the case. It’s not like it’s Garland’s personal funds being used to finance the prosecution. After getting caught trying to use the Justice Dept to go after people that might jeopardize his family’s CRT public school hustle, Garland needs a win some where.

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  41. Scott O Avatar

    Walt 5:05 – And Paul and his lefty buddies would have sooo much to brag about!
    Even MORE dead from covid than when Trump was pres!
    Winning!!!
    Cause we know only conservative ant-vaxers die from covid, right?

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    While the lefties pretend it aint so while the actual people suffer in so many ways –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sheriffs-group-rebuts-white-house-claim-it-is-helping-combat-surge-in-retail-thefts
    😉

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  43. Scott O Avatar

    Don 6:37 – from the article:
    “Gascon chided a legal system he said allows easy access to firearms to those who should not possess weapons.”
    What are the chances of criminals illegally obtaining a firearm when they’re in prison vs when they’re free on the street due to “equity” justice?
    As Jen would say – “moving on…”

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