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Sandbox – 28feb22

28 February 2022

[A lot of folks can't understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in our country. Well, there's a very simple answer. Nobody bothered to check the oil. We just didn't know we were getting low. The reason for that is purely geographical. Our OIL is located in: ALASKA, California, Coastal Florida, Coastal Louisiana, Coastal Alabama, Coastal Mississippi, Coastal Texas, North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Texas. But our dipstick is located in the White House! (H/T to correspondent)]

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245 responses to “Sandbox – 28feb22”

Bill Tozer

06 March 2022

test
https://rumble.com/vw2opx-flashback-msnbc-admits-what-they-really-think-their-job-is.html?mref=22lbp&mc=56yab

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fish

07 March 2022

Sometimes my analysis is a little too good…..!

Settling one of SF’s biggest burrito rivalries once and for all

San Francisco newspapers…..the burrito reviewers indispensable reference!
PS: Godspeed Jonathan Szeles!
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/SF-street-performer-Amazing-Johnathan-dies-16975497.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight

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fish

07 March 2022

Wait…..I thought you competent progressive thinkers said O’Dummycare was going to fix all of this…..

Millions in California will lose health care coverage if pandemic’s stopgap measures expire

From the Sacramento Valley Fishwrap……(you’ll need to do your own checking…..it’s paywalled and I won’t give SacBee a dime or my e-mail so they can make money off me)

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scenes

07 March 2022

re: fish@8:32AM
“Millions of Californians face the prospect of losing health coverage this year as federal measures that vastly expanded the ranks of the insured amid the COVID-19 pandemic are set to expire this year. Because of increased federal financial help from the American Rescue Plan, for instance, two out of every three state residents who enrolled through Covered California were able to get policies that cost $10 or less per month. The state-based insurance marketplace reported a record enrollment of 1.8 million after at the conclusion of this year’s open enrollment period, up from 1.6 million for the comparable period a year earlier. “The law lowered premiums and boosted enrollment — with the biggest beneficiaries being communities of color, lower-income Americans and many in the middle class who got help paying for their coverage for the first time,” said Peter V. Lee, executive director of Covered California. “In the absence of federal action to extend these policies this year, people in California and across the country will have their access to health coverage and care dramatically reduced.” Even middle-income Californians saw a significant benefit, with their policy costs dropping by hundreds of dollars because of the Biden Administration’s push to ensure that every American would have coverage if they were to contract COVID-19. The federal financial help will no longer be available when 2022 ends. Californians who depend on Medi-Cal coverage also will be affected if another pandemic-related measure ends as expected in mid-April.”
What exactly was the COVID subsidy? As I understand it, CoveredCA already has quite a subsidy built in, although there’s a big ol’ hockey stick in how the subsidy is constructed vs. reported income. If it’s actually a big deal, it’s just one more example of how a government benefit very rarely disappears. Did ‘communities of color’ (non pink I assume) get a special break? That’s how it reads.
My guess is that if the US were to ever have some system of universal healthcare it would have to appear to be free, people would bitch about a Swiss-style system. Of course, you’ll never see anything with Euro-style fundage since healthcare professionals would have to take a 50% haircut in pay.

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fish

07 March 2022

Posted by: scenes | 07 March 2022 at 08:52 AM
Always the frantic plea…..more money or people will die. This of course concurrent with, “my effectiveness as a bureaucrat is being judged. Failure to wheedle supplemental funding from a gullible populace will reflect poorly on my career going forward!”

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fish

07 March 2022

Note here how the Sacramento Valley Fishwrap omits any mention that the incident at McClatchy was …..tah dah…..another Hate Hoax™ committed by a black student…..who absolutely hasn’t been suspended, expelled, or prosecuted.

“And then the question will be what the next steps are relative to suspension, expulsion, potential juvenile prosecution, or whatever the appropriate next steps will be.”
School staff painted over the graffiti as soon as it was discovered, according to district officials.
Support services have been offered to students and staff “traumatized by this racist incident.” “It is appalling that anyone would target a school with racist graffiti and subject students, staff and families to messages of hate,” Superintendent Jorge A. Aguilar said in a news release last month.
The vandalism at Abraham Lincoln closely followed an incident at C.K. McClatchy High School in which a student scrawled the words “colored” and “white” over white fountain, referencing racist polices from the segregation-era.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/equity-lab/representation/article259150843.html

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scenes

07 March 2022

Well now, national news and all.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/07/california-far-right-militia/
‘In Nevada County, southeast of here, an angry electorate has accused its Board of Supervisors of “crimes against humanity” for imposing mask mandates and using coronavirus-infection tracing. A petition drive is underway to recall the entire five-member board.’
Some day I’ll figure out what ‘not-so-far-right’ is. Maybe Mitt Romney.
Step Two. Somehow tie the HARD_RIGHT_MILITIA people to the worst thing in the world. Putin boot lickers. The only thing worse than Nazis. or Vaxxers. Crazytown has a list and is checkin’ it twice.
Hey, maybe the Red Cross will send deliveries to the camps. A bar of soap would be most appreciated.

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fish

07 March 2022

Posted by: scenes | 07 March 2022 at 02:21 PM
Time to mobilize Nevada City’s Fightin 420th and their Truckee auxiliaries! To arms….to arms…..!

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Bill Tozer

07 March 2022

EXCLUSIVE: In Leaked Audio Former NIH Director/New Biden Science Adviser Laughs Over Threatening Unemployment To Force Vaccines, Blames Trump For COVID-19 Deaths
https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-in-leaked-audio-former-nih-director-new-biden-science-adviser-laughs-over-threatening-unemployment-to-force-vaccines-blames-trump-for-covid-19-deaths

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Paul Emery

07 March 2022

Here’s some verified contet Barry:
Barry
Biden up nearly 5 points since late January. He is now down 10,1. On Jan 24 he was down 14.4. That’s a 9 point gain in 6 weeks.
Trump on the other hand was down 14.9 on March 7 2018, same day in his Presidential term as Biden.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html

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Bill Tozer

07 March 2022

Who is the mystery 1/6 bomber?
https://fb.watch/bCytjEZmJz/

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Don Bessee

07 March 2022

@743 Verified content! The ponytail of ignorance sounds like a fakenews/facebook clone drone. ROFLOL
😉

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Scott O

07 March 2022

“verified” contet(sic)!
Just like Hunter Thompson’s “true rumors”.

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Paul Emery

07 March 2022

Do you deny the consensus poll numbers from RCP Scott ?

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Scott O

07 March 2022

Paul 9:45 – Hilarious!
Do I deny the numbers? Certainly not!
Those numbers are as real as the sunrise!
There they are – standing proud and tall. I support numbers of any color or creed. No matter how they got there or what sort of bull-shittery caused their existence. They are NUMBERS!
Now – what numbers does Paul deny?
Some?
None?
Ones that aren’t convenient?
$6 dollar a gallon gas is a number.

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Gregory

08 March 2022

Punchy… do you actually believe the NPR poll, the reason for the ‘good news’ you celebrate?
I listen to NPR for hours most days… they are as slanted as the left’s caricature of Fox Snooze.

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scenes

08 March 2022

Paul: “Biden up nearly 5 points since late January.”
I guess that going to war with the Russians is a good idea. Anything for The Party. Carry on.
Naturally, in the age of war, disease, pending economic disaster, the KVMR actionable news team has the perfect topic…TRUMP! No surprises, entertainers looove being the center of attention and Paul has found the perfect mechanism for George’s blog.
Pete Boottigieg and the VP appear to have the answer to throwing a spanner in world economics flow, buy an electric car.
Don’t fool yourself for a minute that there isn’t a largish swath of the US elite that welcomes ultra-high gas prices. The State Department’s monkeying around in Ukraine and the Russians fears give them a great opportunity to save the world climate. Unless there’s some chance that the Democrats are viewing election disaster in the face, nothing will be done. Move to the city and buy a bicycle you filthy Deplorables!

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Paul Emery

08 March 2022

Gregory
If you woud have opened the link you would have found that the RCP poll is a consensus poll. Over a dozen polls averaged. Thought you knew that.

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fish

08 March 2022

Yes Gregory….if you had only opened the link you would have known that.
Jeez….

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Bill Tozer

08 March 2022

Gregory
If you woud have opened the link you would have found that the RCP poll is a consensus poll. Over a dozen polls averaged. Thought you knew that.
Wow. Learn something new everyday. Who would have thunk that the RCP is a consensus poll, with more than a dozen polls averaged. Thanks for the info, Paul.
I did read a couple of days ago that Biden got a normal SOTUS bump. Wonder what was happening in March of 2017. Oh yeah, I remember, if memory serves me correctly. In March of 2017, the NYT and the Wa Post were breaking stories of Trump colluding with the Russians and the Dems had an anonymous mole inside the Trump Organization….but it was not spying. 🙂
It’s been a long drough for Paul with his daily “For your reading pleasure….”, do let him do his post SOTUS graveyard dance. Don’t think at Trump is running in 2022, but I could be wrong. Joe Biden will be on the ballot in 2022 in every Senate and Congressional race.
A consensus poll, you say? I did not know that.

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Bill Tozer

08 March 2022

‘Millions in forgivable COVID relief loans meant for small business diverted to unions: report’
Teachers’ unions and unions for state and local government employees across the country received funding, even though they were not affected by the sorts of economic shocks private businesses were.
“Loans determined through the loan review process to have been made to ineligible borrowers will not be forgiven,” SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza wrote after a critical investigator general report.
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/eligibility-timing-question-ppp-loans-12-million-went-pennsylvania
Yet the Freedom Foundation noted that $24.2 million of the $36.7 million in union loans have already been forgiven.
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Chicago Public Schools To Lift Mask Mandate, Teachers Union Immediately Pushes Back
https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-public-schools-to-lift-mask-mandate-teachers-union-immediately-pushes-back

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Gregory

08 March 2022

Punchy, I visit RealClear daily, usually spending over an hour reading the articles linked.
The “consensus poll” you like is affected by outliers, and PBS claiming Xiden is approved by 47% is ludicrous, although they might get that high a result with a listener poll.

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scenes

08 March 2022

Gregory: “I listen to NPR for hours most days… they are as slanted as the left’s caricature of Fox Snooze.”
Crazytown Radio has a pureness I kind of appreciate.
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/24/960060957/understanding-multiracial-whiteness-and-trump-supporters
In the land of word salad, the crazy man is king.

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Bill Tozer

08 March 2022

‘Half The Country’ Did Speak The Covid Truths The CDC Director Insists ‘Nobody Said’ — And They Were Smeared
Like elitist hubris, the gaslighting never stops.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/08/yes-the-half-the-country-the-cdc-director-despises-actually-did-say-all-the-accurate-covid-things-she-insists-nobody-said/

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scenes

08 March 2022

re: BillT@2:26PM
From the article: “Nobody said … ‘What if it’s not as potent against the next variant?’””
Anybody in the virus biz who says that should be immediately fired.

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Bill Tozer

08 March 2022

Polls. I stand corrected. No SOTUS bump for Biden. Only Paul could find -11 a reason to dance. Yep, with all that manure, there has to be a pony in there somewhere under it all.
‘No Bump For Biden: Polls Find ‘Anemic’ Increase In Approval Post-SOTU’
“In addition to the IBD/TIPP poll, Quinnipiac found much the same thing, showing a minimal increase in approval rating for Biden post-SOTU. The survey of 1,374 adults conducted from March 4-6 found that just 38% approved, while 51% disapproved of Biden overall, compared to 37%-52% last week. Biden’s approval among Independents stood at a paltry 30%, with 51% disapproval. On Ukraine, 42% approved of Biden’s handling, while 45% disapproved. Rasmussen Reports’s daily tracking poll also found that Biden’s approval moved minimally after the State of the Union as well. Biden’s total approval stood at 41% approve, 57% disapprove, as of March 1, before Biden gave the address. His approval inched up to 42%-56% on March 2, and 44%-54% March 3, but has since dropped down to 41%-58% as of Tuesday. An NPR/PBS/Marist poll conducted between March 1-2 found a sizable 8-point jump in approval, but it appears to be an outlier, the only post-SOTU poll to find such an increase, according to the RealClearPolitics average.“
According to CNN….
The weak rebound for Biden’s approval rating comes after a State of the Union address that garnered the lowest viewership in 30 years, as The Daily Wire reported. Biden received just 38 million views for his speech, compared to former President Trump, who took in an estimated 45.5 million viewers for his first SOTU speech, and former President Obama, who pulled 48 million viewers in his first address. According to CNN, Biden also received the lowest number of “very positive” reviews in nearly 15 years of instant polling. Just 41% of viewers felt “very positive,” compared to 48% who responded that way to both Trump and Obama’s first SOTU addresses, and 51% who felt that way about Biden’s unofficial State of the Union last April.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-bump-for-biden-polls-find-anemic-increase-in-approval-post-sotu
Move those feet Paul, and dance. Do the Swim, do the jitterbug, do the twist, twist and shout and to the Watusi. Go Paul, go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdVMaOJnN8Q

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Bill Tozer

08 March 2022

Polls
HOW LOW ARE THE DEMOCRATS’ STANDARDS?
“So it seems that as long as Biden remains upright and breathing, Democrats will say they approve of his performance. I have thought for a while that Biden’s job approval numbers are inflated. Basically what pollsters are measuring is the number of people who are so committed to the Democratic Party/leftism/hating Donald Trump that they will pretend to think that Biden is doing a bang-up job. There can’t be many people who actually believe it.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/03/how-low-are-the-democrats-standards.php

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fish

09 March 2022

All those jokes about lazy potheads…….

Curbside pickup for marijuana? California agency is poised to allow it indefinitely

The Bee so no link…….”Let’s go Breton”!

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scenes

09 March 2022

““So it seems that as long as Biden remains upright and breathing, Democrats will say they approve of his performance.”
Breathing is optional.
Honestly, I can’t say that ‘Democrats’ means much here, except as a marketing concept for voters.
A coalition of The Swamp (which Joe Biden is a mouthpiece for), the Surveillance-Media Complex, and Crazytown is pretty hard to beat, especially given The Swamp’s power in the Republican establishment. Performance might not be that much of an issue if you have the ability to frame narratives and memory-hole the bad parts.
I did have one thought though, the US needs an official national band. I would suggest Sam Brinton and The Pups.

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fish

09 March 2022

Breathing is optional.
One would think that a properly embalmed and lacquered Joe Biden would be far better.

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Bill Tozer

09 March 2022

The Walrus is back in the news. Say what you will, but Bolton was a darn good UN Ambassador.
‘Iran plotting assassination of John Bolton, others, even while Biden negotiates nuclear deal’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/iran-plotting-assassination-of-john-bolton-others-even-while-biden-negotiates-nuclear-deal?

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Bill Tozer

09 March 2022

The government has announced a 15 day ‘No Driving’ to flatten the gas price curve.
‘Pain IS Their Plan’
Your pain at the pump isn’t an unfortunate accident. It’s the whole point of the left’s radical energy policy agenda.
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/86783-pain-is-their-plan-2022-03-09
Progressive Democrats have been telling us for years that they hate America. Younger Americans are the least patriotic generation in history. And there’s a reason for that: Radical leftists in the government-run schools have been teaching our children anti-American history.
“They have been teaching them Marxist critical race theory, telling them that the country of their birth is evil, that it was evil at its founding and must be “fundamentally transformed.” That’s why left-wing youth are tearing down statues of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln.
As I have noted before, why would anyone fight to defend an “evil, systemically racist” country founded on “slavery and genocide”?
That’s just a rhetorical question at the moment. But given recent headlines, it’s a question parents, policymakers and educators should take much more seriously.
And it’s just more reason why the fight to get critical race theory out of our schools is so important!”

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Bill Tozer

09 March 2022

Moving domestic oil over here. Compartmentalise, if you will.
‘Joe Biden Has a Problem With Facts – We Produce LESS Oil Not More Than Under Trump’
https://redstate.com/tladuke/2022/03/08/joe-biden-has-a-problem-with-facts-we-produce-less-oil-not-more-than-under-trump-n533220
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Biden also lies about oil and gas leases.
‘Oil industry debunks Biden admin’s narrative meant to deflect from hostile policies as gas prices skyrocket’
https://www.theblaze.com/news/oil-industry-debunks-biden-narrative-meant-to-deflect-from-hostile-policies-as-gas-prices-skyrocket

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scenes

09 March 2022

re: BillT@4:36PM
Seen all over the internet: “Fact Check. Republicans Wrongly Blame Biden for Rising Gas Prices”
Hah. Checkmate.

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Don Bessee

09 March 2022

Scardy cat –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/energy-sec-granholm-dodges-questions-energy-crisis-aides-block-camera-video
😉

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Paul Emery

09 March 2022

So George here’s a video of guy Trump on you tube. Can you conceive of where we would be at if he was President at this time?
Donald Trump was interviewed on the Nelk Boys podcast at his Mar-a-Lago resort and asked about what he would do in the ukraine and he said.
“Well, and I said this a long time ago, if this happens, we are playing right into their hands. Green energy. The windmills, they don’t work, they’re too expensive, they kill all the birds, they ruin your landscapes, and yet, the environmentalists love the windmills,” Trump complained after being asked about the war in Europe.
“I’ve been preaching this for years, the windmills,” Trump argued.
“And they don’t work,” Trump falsely claimed.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1501733405423251456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1501733405423251456%7Ctwgr%5Ehb_0_8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2Ftrump-windmills%2F

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Don Bessee

09 March 2022

Windmills dont work when there is no wind as it was when they almost crashed the TX electric grid.
Were he the prez we would be pumping so much gas and oil that the loss of vlads gas would mean nothing and we would not be kissing mutha mullah ass and begging the dictator in venezuela. We would be keeping our bucks at home and generating high paying energy jobs.
Walked right into that one oh great ponytail of ignorance! lol
😉

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Paul Emery

09 March 2022

He was asked what he would do in the Ukraine Don and he responded by talkinga bout windmills. Did you watch the link I provided with him saying that?

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Paul Emery

09 March 2022

George
Do you think Trump is mentally fit to be President?

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fish

09 March 2022

<i.Posted by: Paul Emery | 09 March 2022 at 07:18 PM
Do you think Trump is mentally fit to be President?
You don’t seem to have any heartburn with the dried out husk currently being used as the White House political scarecrow.
Probably don’t want to go down the question if someones “mentally fit” route Punch…..as commenter or democrat political cheer team member.

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fish

09 March 2022

Mentally fit?

“It’s Appalling”: In Hilarious Reversal, Biden Admin Now Slams Shale For Not Raising Output

Zero Hedge was good enough to use the Biden photo where he appears looking like a 4 year old child staring outside on a rainy day. Appropriate I think.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/its-appalling-hilarious-reversal-biden-admin-now-slams-shale-not-raising-output

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show me kid

09 March 2022

Come on, man…..I’m sure that Emery is “marginally rational”.

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Don Bessee

09 March 2022

Someone get the ponytail of ignorance his clutching pearls, fainting couch and smelling salts. His gang failed to crush the Trump empire –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/trump-a-pariah-new-100-million-bank-loan-suggests-not/ar-AAUQuYX?ocid=msedgntp
😉

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George Rebane

09 March 2022

PaulE, mentally fit?? Your glass house won’t survive a rock fight.

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Don Bessee

09 March 2022

With creepy grampa joes screwups letting lose the dog of war and destroying US citizens stability at every turn is bringing back the slick willey grift game to fund the next try –
The Comeback Kid
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow
😉

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Paul Emery

09 March 2022

Good one George. Very creative. Did you watch the video I posted? This Trump guy is a true nut case. If you watch the video how can you deny that?

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Don Bessee

09 March 2022

SO oh great ponytail of ignorance what is you projection on the dem losses in the house and the senate this cycle?
😉

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Don Bessee

09 March 2022

Why is no one calling out lerch kerry or paski for rehashing the failed al i created the internet algore end of the world shit! Still polar caps and white bears but but but global warming er a cough now climate change. OH RIGHT there is a hot war in eourope. Then there are these socialist greens, must have seen the one who said covering the war is racist.
Singing don’t worry be happy is not a policy –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/09/new-york-senate-democrats-apologize-for-comparing-climate-change-to-9-11/
😉

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Paul Emery

10 March 2022

Don
re:9:53 request:
Now and in the future I will not respond to any question unless address it to my name. Paul Emery or just Emery will do.
Thanks

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fish

10 March 2022

I wouldn’t worry Don….he does this every now and then…..

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