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[California’s 2021 population shrank for the second year in a row. (here)  Our local leftwingers have continued to ignore this phenomenon in the large, and most certainly deny its most proximal cause that can be remedied by rolling back the atrocious tax and regulatory policies with which our one-party monopoly legislature has burdened the once Golden State, and continues to do so unabated.  Reporting on this, the lamestream media (e.g. NPR) explains to its audiences that all this is due only to lower birthrates, Covid deaths, and not enough ‘immigration’ (aka influx of illegal aliens).  Nowhere is mentioned the ongoing Great California Exodus of businesses and workers numbering in the hundreds of thousands annually.  The state’s Democrats continue to count on their double dummy constituents to keep them in office and pay no attention to those behind the curtain who have put California at the bottom in about every measured QoL category. gjr]

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  1. Scott O Avatar

    Don 1:50 – Psul said he’d ‘respond’ – he didn’t say he’d answer the question.

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    VIVA Ukraine! Everything they destroy is one less thing we have to worry about down the road. Now we know who the real paper tiger was. The untested chi coms have to be worried –
    U.S.-based think tank the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in its latest update on the unfolding war that Ukrainian forces have gained ground northeast of Kyiv as of May 11, forcing Russian troops “onto the defensive” and adding pressure for the Russians to seek reinforcement.
    The ISW does not mention that Ukrainian troops have already advanced so much as to push back the enemy to the Russian border, but last weekend it declared that it could be a matter of days or weeks before that happens.
    The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) wrote in its latest intelligence update dated May 12 that Ukrainian forces have recaptured several towns and villages towards the Russian border. It also confirmed that Russian troops were backing off and withdrawing units from the Kharkiv region to “reorganize and replenish its forces following heavy losses.”
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-troops-reach-ternova-town-on-russia-border-as-invasion-reversed/ar-AAXbwuU?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=609c359d167148198c9c583447cede2a
    😉

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    VIVA Ukraine! Everything they destroy is one less thing we have to worry about down the road. Now we know who the real paper tiger was. The untested chi coms have to be worried –
    U.S.-based think tank the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in its latest update on the unfolding war that Ukrainian forces have gained ground northeast of Kyiv as of May 11, forcing Russian troops “onto the defensive” and adding pressure for the Russians to seek reinforcement.
    The ISW does not mention that Ukrainian troops have already advanced so much as to push back the enemy to the Russian border, but last weekend it declared that it could be a matter of days or weeks before that happens.
    The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) wrote in its latest intelligence update dated May 12 that Ukrainian forces have recaptured several towns and villages towards the Russian border. It also confirmed that Russian troops were backing off and withdrawing units from the Kharkiv region to “reorganize and replenish its forces following heavy losses.”
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-troops-reach-ternova-town-on-russia-border-as-invasion-reversed/ar-AAXbwuU?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=609c359d167148198c9c583447cede2a
    😉

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  4. Scott O Avatar

    Don – “The untested chi coms have to be worried”
    About what?
    The Chinese economy and military might are several orders above the Russians. Not saying they are invincible, but the Chi-Coms can incur loses far above what the Russians are experiencing and not bat an eye.
    They do have to keep their volk in line and right now the natives are fairly well pissed off at the draconian measures the Chinese govt has imposed on the work force. If the Chi Coms do strike Taiwan it will be a blitz lasting no more than a few days. My 2 pennies.

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  5. Scott O Avatar

    Hmmmm –
    I see that my last post showed up twice. Typepad was acting a bit wonky last night.

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 9:46 pm and 9:47 pm
    My 2 pennies indeed. Double the pleasure, double the fun.
    ————————————
    FAUCI WAS PAID FOR UNDERMINING TRUMP
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/fauci-was-paid-for-undermining-trump.php
    ————————————-
    ‘Add Homeschooling To List Of Things The Left Says Is Racist’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/add-homeschooling-to-list-of-things-the-left-says-is-racist
    ————————-
    Before Waco, there was Rudy Ridge.
    Randy Weaver, Man At Center Of Ruby Ridge Standoff, Dies
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/randy-weaver-man-at-center-of-ruby-ridge-standoff-dies

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    re: Ukraine. “There is no off-ramp.”
    A Reckless Policy Of ‘Bleeding Russia’ Risks Getting The United States Into A Foolish Foreign War
    https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/12/a-reckless-policy-of-bleeding-russia-in-ukraine-risks-getting-the-u-s-into-a-foolish-foreign-war/

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  8. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    ” Before Waco, there was Rudy Ridge. ”
    Oh well. The surest way to get killed in this world is to do nothing, then call up the cops and say that can’t take you alive.
    Authority is mostly about authority, secondarily about keeping order.

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  9. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    ” FAUCI WAS PAID FOR UNDERMINING TRUMP”
    A million bucks?
    Hell, I’ll saying thing Psul wants for a million bucks. I’ll get the gofundme going this afternoon.

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  10. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Authority is mostly about authority, secondarily about keeping order.”
    that does seem Natalie Adona’s modus operandi.

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  11. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “that does seem Natalie Adona’s modus operandi. ”
    The people who want elected gigs the most are often the worst choice, but it’s hard to overcome the singleminded drive of someone doing God’s Work while giving their ego access to the big microphone. A few words with she/her current coworkers would be interesting but unlikely to be available.
    I imagine she/her will win. A bit of name recognition including lots of access to the local MSM lately combined with a ready-made constituency of activist harridans who see a fellow traveler is a pretty good leg up.
    It should be interesting watching the shrieking for Sheriff’s Office security and appearances on larger news outlets if any Republicans poke their noses in the door. It’s like having your own Soros-appointed DA in Mayberry.

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    IF not for double standards they would have none at all –
    Twitter allows White House to make ‘clearly false’ claim that COVID vaccine wasn’t available until Biden era
    White House statement was ‘very clearly false,’ one fact-checker wrote
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/white-house-shares-misinformation
    😉

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  13. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    scenes 122p
    Especially with two people to split the anti-Adona vote.
    If she wins, the good news is I can’t see her happy there for long.
    If the kid wins, the good news is that if he fails, there’s always tar and feathers. But it’s a low bar to cle
    Adona has had a lot to do outside of the county… making her bona fides across the state… probably why she had to slow walk the work of the Office.

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    G@229 There could be a significant under vote in that race.
    😉

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Michele Bachmann warns Biden maneuvering to cede US health prerogatives to World Health Organization’
    https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/conservative-worried-biden-about-subject-us-world-health-organization
    Two hour comment period allowed only on one day??????? To cede US authority to the UN?

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Award for best comment of the day goes to scenes @ 1:22 pm.
    “It’s like having your own Soros-appointed DA in Mayberry.”
    Full disclosure: scenes articulated in one sentence what I have been thinking for some time now in our one newspaper town. Clear, concise, complete. So, yeah, I am biased.
    Heidi Hall came to town with a pic of her with Nancy as one of the Pelosi girls that completed their lib training. I have searched and searched for that picture the Union ran back then to no avail. Scrubbed clean, gone. All I found out was she hired a firm in Seattle to run the campaign. She worked for the State on the water quality board or State clean air folks…..
    Charlie Brown ran for the Congressional District and was spotted sitting next to Pelosi at the place he was giving a speech p or debate in Auburn. After his defeat, Charlie Brown went to Washington to work for the Dems….er…..the Dem Administration in some department.
    Guess Heidi Hall is smart enough to learn quick that this ain’t Sac and pictures of her and Pelosi may not have the desired effect she was seeking as an intro to the local public. Or did she know her constituents in her BOS district and that was a great icebreaker?
    Out of town people with out of town donors. Adona IS like having a Soros backed DA in Mayberry.

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  17. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    from the 9:59PM Daily Quotes:
    ““The more I study the history of intellectuals, the more they seem like a wrecking crew, dismantling civilization bit by bit — replacing what works with what sounds good.” —Thomas Sowell”
    It seems to me that it’s only a certain type of intellectual at work here. There’s a particular sort whose stock-in-trade is building scaffolds of language, perhaps an internally consistent word salad, that leads to a virtual world that needs implementin’. The fact that a)it collides with organically arrived at systems, b)it’s likely to be wrong, and c)is an emotional need justified with pretend-logic, never stops anyone.

    It’s our own damn fault for funding these people, they could just as easily be spinning their stories on the transmission line at Chevrolet.

    I was considering Soros DA’s and the interest for their installation. Aside from the naked attempts at power by aiding and abetting a street army, it seems to me that it hits smack dab into an interesting tension in society. It goes like so…simply put, you need to over-punish to produce relatively safe societies if you lack a well-behaved homogeneous culture with strong peer pressure.
    So, you either have seemingly unfair punishment applied for street crime, should you jail someone for six months for shoplifting? Without it, you have industrial-scale shoplifting. It looks to moi that there’s really no workable compromise position between ‘fairness’ and effectiveness, especially when some groups are given a pass because of ‘historical injustice’.
    Until the pendulum swings, I’d simply expect passive security measures to expand (fortresses in cities, or moving outside of them) plus private security pushing the boundaries of the law.

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  18. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So Scenes do you consider ourt host George Rebane to be a “intellectual” ?

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  19. Acrostigma Emery Avatar
    Acrostigma Emery

    So scenes, do you consider ourt Psul to have any “intelligence”?
    ‘Send the Democratic Party into history — it’s got nothing left to offer America’
    https://nypost.com/2022/05/13/the-democratic-party-has-nothing-left-to-offer-america/

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Shouldn’t that be ‘to be an intellectual’ psul?
    😉

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  21. Scott O Avatar

    Psul – you spelled ‘scenes’ with a capital S.
    He will only answer when summoned by the proper spelling of his name. Dems da rules. Remember?
    And scenes did point out that the problems seem to stem from only a certain type of “intellectual”.
    Don’t worry Psul – the problem with you has nothing to do with intellect.

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Whomever posted the 1:21 is appareantly afraid to use their real name instead is using my last name. George,; you know who the real poster is. Could you instruct them not to use my name?

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  23. George Rebane Avatar

    “Whomever posted …”?? Back in the old days our schools taught ‘Whoever posted …’ as the correct English grammar, which today has become optional or even racist for all we know. Those of us who learned our readin’, ritin’, and ‘rithmetic in those days get numerous daily chuckles when we hear today’s college educated with advanced degrees continue to misuse ‘I’ in their compound objects – e.g. ‘She likes him and I.’

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  24. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    gr 221p
    What about “ze and zim”?
    punchy 139p
    There’s a wide range of intellects in town. George is one of the above average crowd. You are not.

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  25. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Ms. Only Marginally Rational, Natalie Adona, is mentioned in an election story a’gin today. In her role as the person doing the job the election is said to be settling. The guy currently in the office, Greg Diaz, is apparently missing in action. Taking an in office early retirement?
    The Union should be ashamed of itself.

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  26. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    G 254p
    Well, the Unyun deleted Adona’s name from the online story (Mr. Peabody and his Wayback Machine is nowhere to be found for the print editions) but golllleeee!
    Adona managed to send out 75,503 ballots but there are only 69,960 registered voters. So there will be 5,543 extras floating around.
    Sounds like sumbody screwed up.

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  27. Plagiolepis alluaudi Emery Avatar
    Plagiolepis alluaudi Emery

    The Emperor has no coattails.
    Joe Biden became the first new incoming President in over a hundred years to lose House seats during his initial presidential victory. What a loser.

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  28. George Rebane Avatar

    Joe Biden’s mentality. Watching the news tonight, we again saw a number of video clips of our president’s statements from behind the podium. It is literally mind-numbing to watch that man perform in the public forum. Has anyone any recollection or record of a POTUS more ignorant, dumb, and butt-stupid than Joe Biden? It is incomprehensible for me to believe that our republic can survive when such a large share of our fellow Americans believe this mental cretin is the better choice for any office in the land.

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  29. CREMATOGASTER ASHMEADI EMERY Avatar
    CREMATOGASTER ASHMEADI EMERY

    Democrats’ Real Liability in the House
    “Joe Biden marked an unexpected and unwanted milestone this month when he won a clear popular-vote majority in the presidential election but saw his party suffer substantial losses in the House of Representatives.
    That unusual combination of results—the first time it’s happened in more than 120 years—crystallizes the core challenge Democrats face in translating their consistent victories in the popular vote into congressional power.”
    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/bidens-popular-vote-win-didnt-help-house-democrats/617211/
    Obama won about 1,000 counties in the US. Trump won about 800 counties. Joe Biden won 400 counties.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ole Joe the Nose and his fellow mental midgets put women last once again. First, he tried and they are still trying to groom kindergarten school children. Then they put a low priority on a child’s learning and education. Genitalia comes first and let’s play Doctor. Then they slammed women horridly as evil if they were not pro-murder. Now he has taken our women’s baby formula away and is trying to kill our babies that weren’t aborted.
    Hey Joe, save some kids so they can rub your golden hair legs, perv.

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  31. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well thats refreshing they actually deplatformed a radical lefty group, well they are breaking federal law harassing scotus –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pro-choice-activist-group-ruth-sent-us-tiktok-account-permanently-banned
    😉

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    They ain’t listening to the Woke nor will they be shaken down no more
    BLACKROCK BACKS OFF
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/blackrock-backs-off.php
    ——————————
    THE WEEK IN PICTURES: ULTRA-MAGA EDITION
    You mean MAGA comes in pints?! Hooray. Thanks Joe. Now I have a whole new level to aim for. If it means a return of 2 percent inflation, $2 diesel, and the government recognizing “women” again, then I’m down for it.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/the-week-in-pictures-ultra-maga-edition.php

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  33. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Well, the Unyun deleted Adona’s name from the online story”
    Huh. That’s odd. Maybe it costs extra to put in more words on the internet? internet readers don’t like longer articles?
    Online:
    “…The June 7 election is under four weeks away, but many county voters already have received their vote-by-mail ballots.
    By mid-afternoon Friday, 75,503 ballots had been mailed to registered voters, according to the county Clerk-Recorder’s Office. About 100 completed ballots have been returned.
    The county currently…
    Print:
    “…The June 7 election is under four weeks away, but many county voters already have received their vote-by-mail ballots.
    By mid-afternoon Friday, 75,503 ballots had been mailed to registered voters, said Natalie Adona, assistant clerk-recorder/registrar of voters. She estimated about 100 completed ballots have been returned.
    “We’re still gathering from our drop boxes, so I don’t have an exact number” she said.
    The county currently…”
    No word from the County Clerk-Recorder, the Ghost of the Rood Center.

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  34. mumbogumbofish Avatar
    mumbogumbofish

    Another great day for the 2nd amendment. Do you think that if the Buffalo shooter cries and claims he was threatened by shoppers carrying grocery bags he will get off?

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  35. Ergonautfishwrap Avatar
    Ergonautfishwrap

    Buffalo shooter proves that CRT is a bunch of baloney and there is no race problem in America.

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    (I’ll take pity and respond to mumbogumboergonautfishwarp)
    “Buffalo shooter proves that CRT is a bunch of baloney ”
    I suppose it just proves that for every action, there’s an equal and opposite mostly peaceful reaction. I suspect that the current news half-life for Payton Gendron will be a lot longer than it was for Darrell Edward Brooks though.
    If the wypipo get it in their heads to build their own Crazytown, it’ll be a good time to make sure that your canned goods are stocked and your relationship with the neighbors is in order.

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  37. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    scenes 821a
    The online version originally also had Adona named; it only got deleted after I flagged it as inappropriate.
    Adona managed to send out 75,503 ballots but there are only 69,960 registered voters. So there will be 5,543 extras floating around.

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  38. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “The online version originally also had Adona named; it only got deleted after I flagged it as inappropriate.”
    That seems fair. I would think that the newspaper got it’s information from the person favored by Diaz to do God’s Work and then simply jotted down what they knew.
    There’s usually some mafia or the other backing any candidate for those jobs and if it happens to be a national one that’s just the nature of the times. Activism and quasi-religious belief systems seem hard to avoid at this point. No doubt the other two candidates are being excoriated as chestfeeder hatin’ election deniers, the outrage endorphin rush burns so good.

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  39. Scott O Avatar

    mumbler 9:53 – “Another great day for the 2nd amendment.”
    Amusing little whine.
    The shoppers in Buffalo are not allowed by the Dem state of New Yawk to legally carry for self defense.
    So – no, it was a sad day for the dead and grieving citizens denied their Constitutional rights.

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  40. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Merciful scenes. Yes, Darrell Brooks Jr. popped in my noggin as well.
    Those daddy issues really come out of left field….bigly. It’s hard to be a Phil Donahue man in 2022. Did notice that the shooter hated FOX News. At least Jig Wiggles has that in common with the Buffalo shooter.
    Do you know who the number one target of White Supremacists in the USA is? A black guy? A gay man? A black woman? No, not Asians. It is Ben Shapiro, the Jew. Number one target. Jig Wiggles hates Ben Shapiro also. That’s two things he has in common with the White Supremacists.
    Buffalo reminds me of the dude that shot up the crowded Mosque in Australia. And the dude who shot up the El Paso Walmart. All three wrote manifestos that has this insidious Green Radical Agenda. Make to the Earth Movement recycled again and again.
    FYI, the first domestic terrorism folks labeled such as a group by the FBI were the radical violent Eco-Terrorists. ‘National Environmentalists’ is a new one. Anyway…..most of that tree spiking gang that torched new car lots and subdivisions under construction now work for the Biden Administration.
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  41. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Payton Gendron (an amazing name if nothing else)
    Just further proof that there’s a lot of insanity abroad in the land.
    There’s a whole generation raised without the prospect of useful work and careers, no opportunity for starting and raising a family, exposed to highly addictive 24/7 advertising/propaganda.
    Naturally, it’s fun to play world changing revolutionary until shit gets real. There’s a chemical high from wearing uniforms (all-black or camo) and feeling The Lord course through you. The ruling class even picks up on the panic with meeting rooms a’plenty inventing good ideas for one and all. Next up will be national restrictions on purely defensive measure like protective vests and lotsa web surveillance and ‘misinformation’ control from Scary Poppins.
    The best answer is to avoid idiots as often as possible. Anyone carrying a sign is first on the list followed by That Guy who neeners on about how things oughtta be.

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  42. the artist formerly known as fish Avatar
    the artist formerly known as fish

    Posted by: Ergonautfishwrap | 15 May 2022 at 10:09 AM
    Wonder of wonders…..one of FedGuvs wind up toys decides to twist off roughly concurrent with Roe decision leak and abysmally bad poll numbers for the empty husk occupying the Oval Office.
    You’d have to be crazy to think there was a coincidence…..

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    He Looked At The Data And Discovered The BLM Narrative About Cops Was A Lie. Then He Was Fired

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/he-looked-at-the-data-and-discovered-the-blm-narrative-about-cops-was-a-lie-then-he-was-fired

    new poll…yawn. 3 out of 4 say America is on the wrong track. You have to hop in the Way Back machine to find numbers like that.

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: mumbogumbofish | 15 May 2022 at 09:53 AM
    Another great day for the 2nd amendment. Do you think that if the Buffalo shooter cries and claims he was threatened by shoppers carrying grocery bags he will get off?

    2 weeks ago –
    9 killed, 26 others wounded in Chicago weekend shootings
    No Mumbo…..
    6 days ago –
    6 dead, 18 wounded in weekend shootings in Chicago
    No Mumbo……
    Today
    5 Dead, 31 wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago
    No Mumbo…..
    Why do you hate black people Mumbo. You so cavalierly dismiss their sufferings.

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  45. Scott O Avatar

    Oh poo – too bad for you lefty haters. Turns out the Buffalo murderer is a lefty! A ‘green’ lefty!
    The gov of New Yawk is plenty upset and lets everyone know she wants the tax payers to make sure he has a free meal ticket along with free medical and dental while he gets a college degree and enjoys sex for the rest of his life.
    The feds want to kill him not because he murdered people but because of him offing people that are more important than you.
    At least I haven’t heard anyone spout the “too many people killed” line so popular with dim-witted politicians. I’m always keen to hear what they believe the correct number of folks are you can kill before it gets to be “too many”.
    The good gov is pretty sure that state censorship will do the trick:
    “In the wake of the shooting, Hochul said her state is taking “proactive measures” to monitor social media platforms and called on internet companies to boost their monitoring of hate speech that “comes under the guise of white supremacy and terrorism,” including by hiring more people and changing their algorithms to more quickly identify hate speech.”
    ‘Proactive measures’
    And those would be?
    But only against ‘white supremacy’ – other violent extremists like Muslims are OK.
    Say – what happened to the black dude that mowed down a bunch of white persons? Are the feds gonna kill him?
    Nothing like equal justice under the law.

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  46. Scott O Avatar

    From what I’ve read so far, the Buffalo killer wanted to be a civil engineer like mommy and daddy but you need to be able to do thinking and logic and math and stuff but this poor bastard wasn’t up to the task.
    He thought there were too many non-whites and apparently thought getting rid of 10 would be helpful?
    A thorough examination of his life would probably be interesting. He was a loser and he knew it. May as well just kill a few folks you don’t know and be done with it. He was too cowardly to even have it out with the cops. If we are going to lower our freedoms down to where the bottom of society like this are safe from bad thoughts then we may as well tear up the Constitution. Mommy and daddy had their careers – they had no clue what they had raised.

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  47. fish Avatar
    fish

    Well this is a fine how dya do!

    White House Admits It Lied About Vaccines

    I imagine the green libertarians and Nevada City Cross Dressers will be along shortly to condemn mendacious behavior!
    I mean if they didn’t want to be seen as miserable hypocrites.

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  48. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The FED in Dallas kills the creepy grampa joe green narrative on gas prices –
    The price of gasoline reached record highs this week, and some politicians, including the President of the United States, began pointing fingers at U.S. oil producers.
    But what these critics fail to explain is the petroleum industry – from the well head to the gas tank – is a mixture of thousands of companies from coast-to-coast each segment providing different services to deliver a much needed product to consumers.
    Two economists –Garrett Golding and Lutz Killian, both with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas – authored a study this week explaining some of the reasons oil producers in the U.S. should not be criticized for higher gasoline prices.
    “Independent oil and gas companies—those without refining assets—are responsible for 83 percent of U.S. oil production and about half of the oil consumed in this country,” Golding and Killian wrote.
    “Oil is sold in competitive markets at prices reflecting global supply and demand. It is refined into gasoline, diesel and other fuels whose prices are similarly set in competitive markets.
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/u-oil-producers-no-position-050006841.html
    😉

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