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Sandbox – 9jan22

09 January 2022

[Apologies for such a big interval between fresh sand. Too many other good topics to address directly. gjr]

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158 responses to “Sandbox – 9jan22”

Bill Tozer

11 January 2022

Paul……you have quite the task ahead of you convincing folks how absolutely marvelous the Biden economy is. Firing on all eight cylinders cruising like a hot rod Lincoln. It’s just a messaging problem. It has to be. The public is just too dumb to realize how good they have it now. Folks simply do not feel it. Can’t argue with feelings.
Well, I suppose that is what makes the America public the American public. Ungrateful softies, spoiled sniveling brats we be.
‘AP Poll: Economy, Inflation Americans’ Top Concerns, COVID-19 Takes Back Seat As Midterms Approach’
“Other insights from the poll show….
Two-thirds think Biden’s leadership is at least somewhat responsible for inflation — and about the same number blame regular economic cycles. Larger and roughly equivalent majorities blame the pandemic, government spending and regulations, and company price gouging.
Rising prices over the last six months have caused financial hardship for two-thirds of voters. That climbs to three-quarters among those living in lower-income households.
By more than two-to-one, people say the president’s economic policies have hurt rather than helped them personally. That’s largely driven by almost two-thirds of Republicans saying they’ve been hurt — nearly five times the number of Democrats who say the same. For comparison, one-third of Democrats said they had been hurt by former President Donald Trump’s economic policies in a December 2018.
Just 1 in 6 voters say they are better off financially than they were a year ago, and a majority rates their personal financial situation negatively. That’s a reversal since August, when over half said their finances were in positive shape.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ap-poll-economy-inflation-americans-top-concerns-covid-19-takes-back-seat-as-midterms-approach
What have you done for me lately?

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George Rebane

11 January 2022

ScottO 9003am – Re your ‘cleaning house’ you say, “You can snicker and sneer all you want, but in the end this is not utopia or dreaming. It is doable and possible. It is impossible to be perfect but it is possible to start at the top and work our way down.”
Do you know of any such top-down house cleaning that has been successful as a civil process in a sovereign nation-state, instead of rapidly evolving into a violent revolution or civil war? (Kazakhstan may be a current example.)
I may be myopic here, but I just don’t see how any of our civil institutions or processes can be used to purge the utter evil endemic in the Democratic Party, and the thoroughly subverted progressive Deep State. Both are working hand-in-glove to destroy constitutional America. Where would you start?

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Scott O

11 January 2022

re George 9:35 – Good question. And there are answers.
Our country can do it but not with folks like McCarthy. We have a court system that can be used but there needs to be a general push by the populace and there-in lies the crux of the biscuit.
Only a minority of the population knows about or cares that the FBI (as just one example) has become corrupt to the point of being a danger to our country.
As long as it is a never-no-mind to most of the voters and the corrupt politicians then nothing will be done.
So – yes. Eventually this clown show clomps along until either the conservatives just give up or some kind of flash point occurs and violence does break out. What is possible and what is probable are usually 2 different things and I try to always keep the differences in mind. I’m a happy warrior who always looks to the possible but am also an H L Mencken realist grump when I have to make a decision about my family’s welfare. And yes, I do walk around with contradictory ideas and attitudes in my daily life – thanks for asking. I can only be certain about reality for so long before some new kind of fish slaps me in the face.
I still am having a hard time understanding how this tranny nonsense continues to prevail while almost no one actually believes any of it.

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Bill Tozer

11 January 2022

Addicted to outrage, addicted to fear.
The liberal justices’ lies reveal the left’s addiction to virus fears
“Sotomayor was not alone in spreading misinformation.”
https://nypost.com/2022/01/10/liberal-justices-lies-reveal-lefts-addiction-to-virus-fears/
Having ignorant dummies on SCOTUS does not bode well for our nation. At least the CDC director finally came clean. Always a silver lining.

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George Rebane

11 January 2022

ScottO 1002am – If I understand correctly, you see the top-down cleaning starting through grassroots initiatives through our judicial system. This assumes that our legal institutions are neither corrupt nor politicized for any such suits to gain traction.
Larry Arnn of Hillsdale College argues also that our hope lies in grassroots civil disobedience that will spread like wildfire and attract support from the ever trend-following politicians. To me this is a longshot given that the overwhelming share of voting age Americans are the product of leftwing unionized public schools with no (or a pernicious) idea of our history or structure of government.
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-way-out/

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Scott O

11 January 2022

George – “…with no (or a pernicious) idea of our history or structure of government.”
Yes – along with a whole lot of all sorts of realities they have no idea of. Basic physics and economics, to start with.
I am heartened to see that all over the world the volk are starting to get the idea they’ve been hornswoggled with lies and contrary BS about covid.
It’ll be interesting to see how much longer the swells can travel and party maskless while imposing draconian restrictions on the general public.
Rules for thee, but not for me.

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Barry Pruett

11 January 2022

George: “Paul, 2+2=4.”
Paul: “George, please provide a link that supports your assertion.”
Lol

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Barry Pruett

11 January 2022

Civil disobedience is also advocated by Havel in his book called “Power of the Powerless.” The creation of parallel social structures outside the regime is the cure.

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Scott O

11 January 2022

BT – “Having ignorant dummies on SCOTUS…”
Gasp!
But she’s a wise latinX!!
She doesn’t have to have any accurate knowledge of reality – just a permanent grudge against people she doesn’t like.

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W

11 January 2022

Crap… Caught the damned kung flu
Good news,, I hope,, getting the new and improved antibody cocktail Trump got.
Lying bastards said the shots were a vaccine.. someone needs to read them the definition of vaccine.
Proof positive masks don’t do a lick of good

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scenes

11 January 2022

“George: “Paul, 2+2=4.”
Paul: “George, please provide a link that supports your assertion.””
I’ve got you covered on that one.
“2+2=4? New York professor says purity of math reeks of ‘White supremacist patriarchy’ and Internet loses it”
https://meaww.com/brooklyn-new-york-college-professor-says-purity-math-reeks-of-white-supremacist-patriarchy
I would suggest that you get up-to-date on ethnomathematics.
https://math.hawaii.edu/~mchyba/documents/syllabus/Math499/Ethnomath/Ambrosio1.pdf
I’d say that COVID is a piker compared to the mind virus of Blue Mob craziness.

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scenes

11 January 2022

W: “Crap… Caught the damned kung flu”
Shit. I’m sorry.
I’m absolutely not not not a doctor. This is not medical advice. Do not pass GO.
https://m.ufhealth.org/news/2021/two-common-compounds-show-effectiveness-against-covid-19-virus-early-testing

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W

11 January 2022

Bring on the horse paste.

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George Rebane

11 January 2022

Walt 127pm – Sorry or happy (if it’s a light case) to hear that Walt. While my doctorate is not in medicine, I can share what the larger Rebane family response is to C19 symptoms. The regimen includes HCQ and IVT, along with zinc and Vit D3 to which we add Quercetin. It’s probably overkill, but it has worked every time.

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Walt

11 January 2022

Not sure what they give me for later on.
Just got the iv stuff they gave Trump.
This is going to suck.

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Paul Emery

11 January 2022

Scenes
George is perfectly capable of providing his on links to support his opinion.

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Paul Emery

11 January 2022

sp “his own links”

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scenes

11 January 2022

“George is perfectly capable of providing his own links to support his opinion.”
What? That 2+2 = 4? Do you even read the things you respond to?
They’re just symbols anyway, they can mean anything you like.

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Don Bessee

11 January 2022

Ah so 2+2 = 5 in lefty land got it======== Now we know what the creepy grampa joe’s team thinks you –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/education-secretary-cardona-solicited-nsba-letter-comparing-parents-domestic-terrorists-email
😉

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Don Bessee

11 January 2022

Creepy grampa joe got stood up by stacy abrahms and he lied about an imaginary arrest protesting civil rights, too bad the footage of him fighting against bussing. ROFLOL
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/11/watch-joe-biden-suggests-to-black-students-he-was-arrested-during-civil-rights-struggle/
😉

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Scott O

11 January 2022

So much to cover today. Here’s a good one:
https://slate.com/business/2022/01/bronx-building-fire-twin-parks-affordable-housing-icon.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Well – what’s a few more black bodies? White leftists that set up and control this govt run crap don’t live anywhere near these tax payer funded instant slums.
And this is the ‘green’ future the left has in mind for the general population.
From the article:
“Twin Parks was a closely watched experiment in getting inner-city housing right. Apartments, facades, and public spaces were built according to surveys of resident preferences. The buildings included three day care centers and three schools, family-size two-story apartments, programs like a tenant orientation course, and countless touches of thoughtful design.”
I’d rather live in a shack with no running water or electricity than ever have to dwell in one of these “experiments” with “thoughtful design”.
Funny how none of the people involved in this experiment ever had to actually live there.

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Scott O

11 January 2022

One reason I like to read this blog – where else would I find a link to an article with quotes like this:
“YES! This attends to the Cultures/Histories dimension of RM (addressing Western/Eurocentric maths). And, we also want to attend to the Living Practice dimension (which is more about imagining a version that builds upon ancestral knowings, but does not yet exist).”
scenes 12:54
https://meaww.com/brooklyn-new-york-college-professor-says-purity-math-reeks-of-white-supremacist-patriarchy

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Scott O

11 January 2022

BP 11:43 – “The creation of parallel social structures outside the regime is the cure.”
It doesn’t even need to be civil disobedience.
Look at the growing number of children being educated at home or in low cost private schools.
Most of them will gain skills rather quickly that will help to propel them forward in life ahead of the kids stuck in govt run schools that increasingly spew agit-prop and group hate in lieu of a proper education.

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Scott O

11 January 2022

DB 4:16 – Actually he just said “it seems like only yesterday the first time I got arrested.”
Probably lewd conduct with a child.
The NEXT time he was arrested was in South Africa.
In his mind.

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Don Bessee

11 January 2022

Says the idiot millionaire –
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/01/11/whoopi-goldberg-black-people-still-are-where-we-were-under-the-emancipation-proclamation/
😉

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Scott O

11 January 2022

Don 5:38 – “where we were under the Emancipation Proclamation”
Who is ‘we’?
Only the Lord Almighty is keeping the body of Frederick Douglas from arising out of the ground to slap that woman’s face off of her skull.

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Bill Tozer

11 January 2022

Now Scott, be nice….I know, I know. This one gets me almost ready to start packing. A new CA Constitutional Amendment. Ok, Scott, have you fun at our expense. I will give some highlights.
‘California Wants to Double Its Taxes’
– “All told, the new tax package is intended to raise an additional $163 billion per year, which is more than California raised in total tax revenue any year prior to the pandemic,” he writes.
-It’s not just income taxes, though. The state wants to implement a payroll tax as well, with the top rate applying to taxpayers making only $49,990 in annual income.
-The most insane part of the proposal, however, is a 2.3 percent gross-receipts tax. Only seven states levy gross-receipts taxes, which are especially harmful to economic growth because they are based on business revenue, not profits. Even if businesses lose money, they still pay the gross-receipts tax because they still made revenue, even though costs exceeded that revenue.
-Most gross-receipts taxes, however, are below 1 percent. California’s proposed rate of 2.3 percent is basically a giant flashing neon sign that says, “Don’t open a business here!” Walczak notes that the gross-receipts tax “would be imposed in addition to tangible property taxes and an 8.84 percent corporate income tax, and an aggressive one at that, the only state-level corporate income tax in the country with a worldwide tax base.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/california-wants-to-double-its-taxes/

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Don Bessee

11 January 2022

I wondered what had happened to colin kappernick, still has that hair –
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-antisemitic-attack-israel-defense-forces-hoodie-arrested-hate-crime
😉

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Bill Tozer

11 January 2022

The new crime wave: That’s cold. The ole survival instinct, sure. But still, that’s cold. Or, maybe her power came on and someone felt she won’t be needing these panels as much as I do.
2:03 p.m. — A caller near Harmony Ridge Road and Highway 20 reported a subject was on her property taking her solar panels apart.

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scenes

11 January 2022

re: BillT@6:42.
You can imagine how big the whole thing is given that it’s larger than the current state government in terms of $$$$.
I was thinking about the gross receipts angle. Companies like grocery stores, who probably net less than 2.3 percent to begin with, will probably just pass the cost to the consumer (disproportionately messing with the poor, as usual).
But reading this:
“(1) An annual excise tax is hereby imposed upon a qualified business, as defined by the Legislature, for the privilege of doing business in this state at a rate of 2.3 percent of the gross receipts of that qualified business minus the first two million dollars ($2,000,000) in annual gross receipts of that business.”
(gotta love ‘qualified business’, obviously they’ll give a break to their friends, gotta love ‘privilege’ just because)
What exactly is ‘doing business’. Most of the large businesses are going to be incorporated in Delaware, home of the Senator from Mastercard, so maybe that doesn’t matter. Do they mean worldwide receipts? or just sales in California? Does every company who does business in California need to pay this on their entire sales?

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Walt

11 January 2022

Denial is the first stage.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/11/nancy-pelosi-house-democrats-good-shape-heading-midterms/
“Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the House Democrats are in “good shape” heading into the midterms and predicted the Democrats would remain in the House majority, despite the 26 congressmen who have announced plans to leave after the current term.”
I’m sure Emery agrees with the queen.

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Bill Tozer

11 January 2022

re: The Voting Rights Law. Not a bad Readers Digest version.
VOTING RIGHTS, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE
President Biden and most Senate Democrats want to make “voting rights” a hill to die on. They want to “carve out” the Senate filibuster rules to ram their current bill through. Biden is headed to Atlanta today to perform in support of the Senate version of the bill. In its Senate incarnation it is titled the “Freedom to Vote Act.”
Byron holds that the bill seeks to “federalize U.S. election procedures on terms favorable to Democrats,” which is exactly right, but I would put it slightly differently. It seeks to normalize and aggravate the anomalies adopted for the 2020 election.
Byron’s summary itemizes operative parts of the bill. It would throw out every state voter ID law in the country, would legalize ballot harvesting nationwide, would mandate universal mail-in ballots, would mandate nationwide same-day and automatic voter registration, would mandate nationwide acceptance of late-arriving mail-in ballots, would remake the campaign finance system, “and much, much more.” Under the “much more” category, see Brad Smith’s NR column “Democrats Propose a Federal Speech Czar.”
Why? “All this in the name of stopping voter ‘suppression’ that is not happening.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/01/voting-rights-lies-and-videotape.php
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Hark. Cat Scratch Fever approacheth. The big push, the climax, the period of raw and uncontrolled emotions knocks on the door. The hill to die on.

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Scott O

11 January 2022

BT 6:42 – Nope. I take no pleasure in seeing a state that was home to several generations of my family commit suicide.
And we still have friends and family there.
It’s just sad.

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Don Bessee

11 January 2022

They really dont care about victims –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/11/usa-today-tries-to-destigmatize-pedophilia-fails-miserably/
😉

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scenes

11 January 2022

re: Voting law.
Well, the NYT made a statement on some of it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/us/politics/as-more-vote-by-mail-faulty-ballots-could-impact-elections.html
It’s a pretty good issue. Dear Leader gets to look all leaderly and shake his old man fist, the base gets to speak all knowingly how black voters can’t be expected to have an ID or go vote somewhere, staff members get to write laws that are cleverly constructed to add more (D) and not so many (R), it moves attention away from Bidenflation and The Plague. What’s not to love?

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Scott O

11 January 2022

Oh, lookee here, we made the big time again!
The local McClatchy rag manages to gin up a story that gets a link in Drudge.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article257095707.html
Some high school kids spray paint some crap and some crank distributes a few flyers.
And it all ties in some how with people the Dems don’t like even though there’s zero connection.
“Prinzing said he thinks hateful acts have been emboldened by state leaders who have “stood with,” “contributed to” or even “coddled extremism.”
Ah, there it is – pretty convincing evidence.
Why, oh why do we even allow wrong-thinkers in the first place?

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Bill Tozer

11 January 2022

‘NEA hid votes on ‘white fragility,’ Black Lives Matter, reparations amid new scrutiny’
The nation’s largest teachers union even scrubbed from its website its 2019 vote against ‘renewed emphasis on quality education.’
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/nations-largest-teachers-union-hides-its-vote-against-renewed-emphasis
Little dumb me posted about the NEA two years ago here. I remember. All about their big National elections and now it is memory holed……exactly like those lovely founding members of BLM being upfront and truthful and definitely unapologetically stating they are trained Marxists and have much distance for the nuclear family. Tear it down, all of it.
Anyway, because of the internet, things are not solely stored in the backs road of my melon.
Biker Bill sez: BLM is a Marxist Group with Marxist roots.
Lefties (2021) Prove it! Fake news!
Biker Bill’s Reply. Ok, BLM scrubbed their own web site and all their videos are now disappeared. I will
dig up some archives from archive sites. There you go, enjoy.
Lefties response. That rag, lol. Fake news. Snoops says do not trust. You got to better than that.

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Bill Tozer

11 January 2022

“I’m sure Emery agrees with the queen.”
He did play for the Queen, after all. It’s his biggest claim to fame (besides playing in the Amtrak bar car) and don’t you ever forget it. If you do forgot, he will remind you. He played for the Queen so of course Emery agrees with the queen.
How you doing Walt? When I say the post by W, I thought, “Who the heck is W? Probably a troll trying to mock us dregs of society. Never made the connection…for awhile. W. Go figure.
As my painter friend once said, “I may be slow, but I sure am sloppy.” Keep the updates coming.

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Don Bessee

11 January 2022

Well BT it could have been a guy in a dress…..
😉

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Bill Tozer

11 January 2022

Well Don, it could have been a guy in a one piece Dale Evans turquoise bathing suit with a ruffled swim cap. Looking good there Walt. 🙂
https://www.headcovers.com/ruffle-swim-cap/?

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Walt

11 January 2022

Cell phone. Yup I am responsible for W.
Doing OK so far. Doc thinks I caught it yesterday. Still no
real signs. Went to the Doc for another issue I thought was unrelated….Wrong……A real surprize when he walks in all hazmated up and gives me the news. WWHHAAAA???
Now to see if the antibody treatment works as advertised.
Now how come Emery hasn’t offered up his UV light yet? No syringes full of Clorox? Is he keeping the cures to himself?

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Don Bessee

11 January 2022

Yo Walt , prayers that live to BBQ another day bad ass!
😉

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Bill Tozer

11 January 2022

He (generic he) is probably still sitting on the UV light. He has taken quite a liking to it long after the treatment phase pasted.
Hazmat suit to approach you or not, you will probably just make the COVID sick. Probably make the virus feel the same way you did after getting food poisoning from a local take-out.

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Barry Pruett

12 January 2022

Tonight the school board of the high school is going to vote to ditch all COVID mandates. The high school has lost over 200 students this year ($4,000,000). Teachers will be laid off soon. Parents spoke with their feet and now the elected officials are screwed. See you there.

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scenes

12 January 2022

Scotto: ” Why, oh why do we even allow wrong-thinkers in the first place?”
Seriously, that’s the perfect hobby for edgy high-school aged kids (I hesitate to say ‘teenager’ as that usually means some story involving assault or looting).
Get a little spray paint, tag up a couple of XXX SUCK! where XXX is something that gets the national press in a tizzy, immediately covered with gray rectangles. Man oh man, if you are looking for maximum uproar at minimum risk/work, that has to be the ticket. The story-referenced Hate Crime Detective roars over in a MRAP, praying that it’s not simply going to end up in https://www.fakehatecrimes.org/
It’s more exciting than ‘Famous Potatoes’, so there is that.

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scenes

12 January 2022

substack is firing on all cylinders lately. I did like this essay:
“The old boys club is dead. But a new one—with its own litmus tests and landmines—is rapidly replacing it. ‘This is all going to end in a giant class-action lawsuit.’”
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/hollywoods-new-rules
….but I mostly mentioned it because the responses section had a Soviet joke I’d never heard.
‘Khrushchev visits a pig farm and is photographed there. Later there’s a discussion In the newspaper office about how to caption the picture. “Comrade Khrushchev among pigs,” “Comrade Khrushchev and pigs,” and “Pigs surround comrade Khrushchev” are all rejected as politically offensive. Finally, the editor announces his decision: “Third from left: Comrade Khrushchev.”‘

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scenes

12 January 2022

jeez louise.
George, could you check your spam folder again? What is up with that?

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Bill Tozer

12 January 2022

“Why, oh why do we even allow wrong-thinkers in the first place?”
I prefer the term ‘broken thinker.’ Kinda like a person who keeps ending up in bad relationships over and over again. It’s not really their fault, they just have a broken picker.

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Bill Tozer

12 January 2022

Biden Education Secretary Planting NSBA Letter Takes A Page From Russia Collusion Hoax Playbook
https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/12/biden-education-secretary-planting-nsba-letter-takes-a-page-from-russia-collusion-hoax-playbook/
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Biden’s America: December Inflation Surges 7 Percent To Highest Level Since 1982
https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/12/bidens-america-december-inflation-surges-7-percent-to-highest-level-since-1982/
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Tech Censorship Of Robert Malone Is Not About Misinformation, But Power
https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/12/tech-censorship-of-robert-malone-is-not-about-misinformation-but-power/
When the Federalist gets shadow banned, they just come back harder.

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George Rebane

12 January 2022

Scenes 730am – Recovered. Perhaps TypePad is one of Putin’s agents instructed not to diss the former USSR.

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