235 responses to “Sandbox – 17may22”

1. 

   Don Bessee

   23 May 2022

   The disinfecting properties of sunlight –
   State Farm Abandons LGBTQ Children’s-Book Program after Whistleblower Email Leak
   https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/state-farm-abandons-lgbtq-children-022539546.html
   😉

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   Don Bessee

   23 May 2022

   Creepy grampa joe admits it was all part of the plan making gas 6 bucks a gallon –
   President Biden seems to praise high gas prices as ‘incredible transition’ Americans must go through
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/president-biden-incredible-transition-high-gas-prices
   😉

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   Don Bessee

   23 May 2022

   The swamp at work –
   Now, the Census Bureau has issued a report detailing how a number of states were undercounted while otherwise were overcounted. The states that were undercounted include Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas — all but one of which voted twice for Trump in the last two presidential elections.
   The data suggests that voters who twice voted to elect Trump over Democrat candidates were more likely to be undercounted in the 2020 Census than voters who backed Democrats against Trump in the last two elections.
   https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/23/census-bureau-undercounted-5-red-states-overcounted-6-blue-states/
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   Don Bessee

   23 May 2022

   OMG dont tell the truth about it you racist sexist breeder bastards! –
   More cases of monkeypox have been reported amid an ongoing outbreak in countries that don’t typically have the disease, with quite a few of the cases reported from European countries. The outbreaks may have been spread through sexual activity at two rave parties in Europe, an expert said.
   A leading theory for the spread of the disease may be sexual activity at two recent raves in Spain and Belgium, Dr. David Heymann, former head of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) emergencies department who chaired the agency’s advisory group Friday, told the Associated Press (AP).
   https://www.ibtimes.com/monkeypox-expert-says-sex-recent-raves-may-have-led-surge-3518231
   https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/monkeypox-likely-spread-sex-two-raves-europe-expert-says-rcna30055
   UNAIDS said “a significant proportion” of recent monkeypox cases have been identified among “gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men” leading to some portrayals of Africans and LGBTI people gravely “reinforce homophobic and racist stereotypes and exacerbate stigma.”
   https://www.breitbart.com/health/2022/05/23/mind-your-language-u-n-scolds-homophobic-and-racist-monkeypox-coverage/
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5. 

   scenes

   24 May 2022

   Babylon Bee. Satire or newspaper from the future? You decide.
   https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1erwh8THW7KB_Ek2fLBYuIcrsi_9CFc_UthoQ9ChD9SU/edit#gid=0

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6. 

   George Rebane

   24 May 2022

   scenes 922am – Excellent!!

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7. 

   Don Bessee

   24 May 2022

   What crime wave lets handcuff the cops says creepy grampa joe –
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-police-executive-order-anniversary-george-floyd-murder
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8. 

   scenes

   24 May 2022

   re: DonB@2:04PM
   That actually seems pretty logical if you view Biden as The Great Unifier.
   The thing is, he’s trying to unify a group of people who are much more left wing than they were in Clinton’s time (the ‘moderate’ Team Blue) and the more radical folks (the batshit crazy Team Blue).
   The other half of the country can go pound sand.
   Of course, none of this will halt the more egregious angles to federal law enforcement. Arbitrary enforcement of law, political prisoners, prison terms all over the map, the occasional incineration or shooting of a dissident in the back country somewhere.
   The next logical step is an annual national day of mourning for St. Floyd. Mostly peaceful building-burning BBQs, 100% off sale at urban jewelry stores, dance on the police car competitions. Not such a bad idea, there’s a certain thrill to action at a distance and it makes great TV. Like in Portland, people tend to have the mass behavior they deserve.

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9. 

   psfish

   24 May 2022

   Into the dustbin of history…..
   

   Texas AG Ken Paxton defeats George P. Bush in GOP primary in bid for re-election

   Good riddance Bush family!

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10. 

    Bill Tozer

    24 May 2022

    More poetry
    STACEY ABRAMS ON GEORGIA’S SKYROCKETING TURNOUT: ‘WE KNOW THAT INCREASED TURNOUT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SUPPRESSION’
    ‘It’s correlation without causation ‘

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11. 

    Don Bessee

    24 May 2022

    Sure lets crush the lives of our allied citizens instead of drill baby drill to save the world economy –
    Biden administration has not ruled out curbs on exports to ease gas prices, Granholm says
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-restrict-petroleum-exports-ease-gas-prices-granholm
    😉

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12. 

    Bill Tozer

    24 May 2022

    Well, one does not have to be a Nostradamus to see what would happened when you drive the car off the edge like Thelma and Louise.
    ‘Is Trump A Modern Day Nostradamus? Watch His Prediction Of What Would Happen If Biden Won’
    https://thepoliticalinsider.com/is-trump-a-modern-day-nostradamus-watch-his-prediction-of-what-would-happen-if-biden-won/?utm_source=home-headline

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13. 

    psfish

    25 May 2022

    It’s not just spending — Biden’s record regulations are driving inflation too
    How is this possible? I have it straight from the finest economist in Truckee CA that additional regulation on business adds no extra compliance costs and that business is indeed grateful for the enhanced “guidance” provided by these skilled government bureaucrats.
    https://nypost.com/2022/05/23/its-not-just-spending-bidens-record-regulations-are-driving-inflation-too/

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14. 

    psfish

    25 May 2022

    Finest media in the world….
    

    Washington Post deletes tweet that George Floyd was ‘shot’ by police

    …..and it’s not just that they so consistently get the “nuts and bolts” details of a story correct….but the fact that hey…:they do nuance too.
    https://nypost.com/2022/05/24/washington-post-deletes-tweet-that-george-floyd-was-shot/

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15. 

    Gregory

    25 May 2022

    Hogg Watch
    David Hogg has been trotted out on NPR
    Universal Background Checks is his answer… but Ramos bought his rifles legally at retail… getting the magic Background check.
    So did the shooter that propelled Hogg to fame… but that kid was benefitted by a program that kept his dozens of police interactions as a juvenile from ending in an arrest, leaving him with a clean record.
    Hogg’s “Universal” Check isn’t about retail sales, it is about requiring running all transfers through a FFL holder… even those within families and one’s circle of friends. Your son, your daughter, nieces and nephews, cousins. Even your spouse.
    We’ve had the initial impulsive calls for gun owner controls, perhaps we’ll now hear more about the shooter; somehow, I suspect he wasn’t an Eagle Scout.

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16. 

    scenes

    25 May 2022

    Gregory: “perhaps we’ll now hear more about the shooter”
    You have to go to /pol for that kind of news. They were on it first thing, harvesting social media posts before they were bulldozered into the memory hole, etc. Sifting through the porn ads and gratuitous bigotry is a bit of work, but they are the finest news aggregators on the planet.

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17. 

    Gregory

    25 May 2022

    I don’t know what or where “/pol” is.

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18. 

    scenes

    25 May 2022

    My apologies. 4chan ‘politically incorrect’ board.
    Quite a bit more of a mover and shaker than one might expect.

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19. 

    Gregory

    25 May 2022

    I don’t do 4chan.

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20. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 May 2022

    Yet another school shooting committed by a product of a fatherless home. The common denominator is overwhelming.

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21. 

    Gregory

    25 May 2022

    Countdown … what will Frisch say?

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22. 

    Gregory

    25 May 2022

    The good guy with a gun who stopped the rampage was a Fed… a Border Patrol agent who heard about the shooting and did not flinch from entering. He was wounded but walked out on his own two feet.

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23. 

    scenes

    25 May 2022

    “I don’t do 4chan.”
    Ah well. There has been a lot of personal information on the shooter there.
    Like Psul not doing Twitter, you probably save a fair amount of mind damage although I think you can keep better track of matters by rummaging through the dregs of the internet. The Antifa sites can be a wonder to behold.
    I wonder sometimes if the major league political columnists couldn’t simply phone in those essays by simply being given a couple of pertinent facts to vamp on. I never seem to gain much from those.
    In any case, somewhere somehow, our AI Lords and Masters are sifting through it all looking for hot stock tips and new ways to sell soap. The internet displays the splendor of humanity at it’s fullest flower.

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24. 

    Gregory

    25 May 2022

    “Ah well. There has been a lot of personal information on the shooter there.”
    And, no doubt, a lot of personal misinformation, a reason not to ‘do’ 4chan. Just say no.

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25. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 May 2022

    Biden Admin: K-12 Schools Must Put Boys In Girls’ Bathrooms To Get Federal Lunch Money
    https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/25/biden-admin-k-12-schools-must-put-boys-in-girls-bathrooms-to-get-federal-lunch-money/

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26. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 May 2022

    The Cabal. Right all along. It’s was not the agents, it’s was the leadership. Now, another FBI investigation into the FBI. It was the FBI leadership and other rouge department heads that caused people to lose trust in our institutions, and for good reasons. Can’t blame Trump for what the Cabal did.
    ‘Bombshell: FBI agent testifies ‘fired up’ leadership pushed Trump probe despite flimsy evidence’
    FBI agent Curtis Heide testified Tuesday in the Michael Sussmann trial that he learned the Trump-Russia allegation was false within a couple of weeks.
    https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/fbi-looking-culpable-sussmann-leadership-pushed

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27. 

    scenes

    25 May 2022

    re: Gregory@8:25AM
    ‘misinformation’
    I must say that that’s a word I’ve become quite allergic to.
    The Web of a Million Lies is everywhere. From where I sit, the real value is watching the ebb and flow of the Mood of the People. Statements from an individual, whether it’s Victor Davis Hanson or Jen Psaki, is to be believed to the extent that one might a person on Speaker’s Corner. Twizzling out where their imprimatur resides is the interesting part.
    BT: “Biden Admin: K-12 Schools Must Put Boys In Girls’ Bathrooms To Get Federal Lunch Money”
    You do have to admit that it’s an odd hill to die on. Increasingly low T-levels over time? Mass insanity? Highly successful marketing of pretty dresses and makeup? Does ‘increasingly low’ mean anything? Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful in Crazytown.

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28. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 May 2022

    VILLAINS, UNITED? Soros Poured Millions into Groups Trying to Bring Down Musk
    Two notorious leftist billionaires funneled millions into some of the same organizations that attacked Tesla CEO Elon Musk as a threat to democracy.
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/jeffrey-clark/2022/05/24/villains-united-soros-poured-millions-groups-trying-bring

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29. 

    Scott O

    25 May 2022

    Well, as we know – the crazzzzy brings out the stupid:
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/05/24/michael-moore-we-need-moratorium-on-gun-sales-time-to-repeal-the-2nd-amendment/
    “I truly believe if Jefferson, Madison and Washington if they all knew that the bullet would be invented — some 50 years after our revolution, I don’t know if they would have written it that way. They didn’t even know what a bullet was. It didn’t exist until the 1830s. They had any idea that there would be this kind of carnage. You have to believe that the Founders of the country would not support it. I support all gun control legislation. Not sensible gun control legislation. We don’t need the sensible stuff. We need the hard-core stuff that is going to protect ourselves and our children.”
    Ooooh – the ‘hard core stuff’ gets Mikey all excited!
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/24/barack-obama-criticizes-gun-lobby-pushes-action-guns-wake-tx-shooting/
    I agree – lets start with the weapons of war that protect the Obama family. The secret service gets S&W police specials. That’s it. Deal?
    I seem to recall that no school attended by a POTUS’s kids or g’kids has ever had a school shooting.
    Must be just magic or plain great luck, right?

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30. 

    Paul Emery

    25 May 2022

    So come to find out there is voter fraud and it’s the Republicans that are doing it. Just out:
    “The GOP’s efforts to unseat Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, ran into some trouble on Tuesday when the state’s elections bureau determined that five of the ten Republican candidates had faked the signatures necessary for them to appear on the ballot. Because of the bogus ink, half of the field could now be ineligible for the August 2 primary.
    There was quite a bit of fraud, according to the Michigan Bureau of Elections. Some compromised petition sheets “consisted entirely of invalid signatures.” Others showed evidence of being “round-tabled,” the process in which a group of people takes turns signing names so the same handwriting isn’t repeated line after line. A few showed “no evidence of normal wear” and misspellings of voters’ names, suggesting that whoever botched the job didn’t really put their full effort into trying to defraud the Wolverine State. In total, for the governor’s race and other down-ballot contests, an estimated 68,000 invalid signatures were submitted.”
    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/05/its-fraud-time-in-republican-primary-for-michigan-governor.html

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31. 

    psfish

    25 May 2022

    “I truly believe if Jefferson, Madison and Washington if they all knew that the bullet would be invented — some 50 years after our revolution, I don’t know if they would have written it that way.”
    Well Mike if you “don’t know” ….if this is merely more moral preening on your part I guess there is really no reason to have this conversation!
    Thanks for your thoughts on this very difficult matter.

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32. 

    Gregory

    25 May 2022

    punchy 952a
    “The GOP’s efforts to unseat Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, ran into some trouble on Tuesday when the state’s elections bureau determined that five of the ten Republican candidates had faked the signatures necessary for them to appear on the ballot”
    Punchy, there’s no evidence any candidate “faked the signatures necessary”. Someone may have but it probably ain’t the guy or gal wishing to get on the ballot who probably paid good money to people who were paid per signature.
    In addition, getting rid of the clutter might help the GOP chances in MI.

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33. 

    Scott O

    25 May 2022

    Poor Psul – First he claims there is no such thing as voter fraud and then if he’d bothered to READ the whole article it said there was no evidence that any Republicans were involved in the false signatures.
    Sounds like a bunch of pay-per-signature bozos sat around in a bar ‘earning’ money.
    That’s why we have to have verified votes at election time, Psul. Not stacks of crisp, never-folded Xeroxed ‘ballots’.

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    Paul Emery

    25 May 2022

    Scott
    You need to be a registered voter to sign the petitions to get a candidate on the ballot. Pure and simple that makes it voter fraud.

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35. 

    Gregory

    25 May 2022

    Regarding Michael Moore, I suspect a case could be made that his films would have given the Founders pause in writing Amendment the First.
    Bullets (from the French term for “small balls”, boullet) date from the 1400’s. And “arms” include swords large and small.

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36. 

    George Rebane

    25 May 2022

    re Republican election fraud. As pointed out in 1007am and 1031am, there is no evidence of Republican involvement. But it is noteworthy the rapidity and glee with which our loyal leftwinger grappled this piece and gave his breathless report so that we may all be humbled in realizing that it isn’t the Dems who do all the mischief in our elections.
    In the latest Scattershots there is also a little entry on Thomas Jefferson that should interest our Deist commenter.

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37. 

    Gregory

    25 May 2022

    punchy 1042a
    There’s no requirement for someone claiming to be a registered voter to a petition circulator to be a Republican.

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38. 

    Paul Emery

    25 May 2022

    From the New York Times-this is getting ugly
    According to the Times, a Mark Meadows colleague testified to the Jan 6 committee that Meadows “walked into his own office and told colleagues that President Donald J. Trump was complaining that the vice president was being whisked to safety. According to the Times the witness also said that Meadows claimed Trump had suggested Pence maybe did deserve to be hung.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/us/politics/trump-pence-jan-6.html

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39. 

    Scott O

    25 May 2022

    Psul 11:06 – “…and then someone said that they heard that someone else supposedly said that maybe Trump said…”
    Kane’s last word was “rosebud” and Psul’s last word as they nail the coffin shut will be “Trump”.

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40. 

    scenes

    25 May 2022

    re: Michael Moore.
    At least he cuts right to the chase there. No guns for anyone. It avoids all that messy business of effective rates of fire and whatnot. According to Mr. Moore, the history of firearms in the US is POC being gunned down by white folks, so at least you know where to look for the guns.
    Interestingly..
    https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/ft_22-01-26_gundeaths_2/
    Cyclical? Maybe. Perhaps it matches other types of civil unrest cycles.
    Do more people have access to guns? Well, no.
    https://www.statista.com/statistics/249740/percentage-of-households-in-the-united-states-owning-a-firearm/
    Here’s the interesting one. Active shooters.
    https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/ft_22-01-26_gundeaths_4/
    Why is that? It’s not more households with guns. It’s not more murders with guns. Perhaps it’s just that we’ve jump right through crazy people being accepted to crazy people being encouraged.

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41. 

    scenes

    25 May 2022

    Psul Emery: “this is getting ugly”
    Speak for yourself old son.
    Why all the Trump talk? A bunch of school kids just got murdered. Don’t you care about children?
    “…and then someone said that they heard that someone else supposedly said that maybe Trump said…”
    lol. Exactly. It happened right after someone said that she said that Trump said to pee on the bed because he was told to by Russian intelligence operatives who were told by Putin.

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42. 

    Scott O

    25 May 2022

    scenes 11:31 – “No guns for anyone.”
    Oh, please – it’s “no guns for YOU!”
    Mikey and the ‘important’ people will always have available whatever firearms they think they need to feel safe.

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43. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 May 2022

    Add another one to the Biden list.
    ACTIVE SHOOTERS ARE UP UNDER BIDEN
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/active-shooters-are-up-under-biden.php

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44. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 May 2022

    Beto:
    “You’re A Sick Son Of A B****’: Chaos Erupts After Beto O’Rourke Crashes Greg Abbott Press Conference On Uvalde Shooting”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/youre-a-sick-son-of-a-b-beto-orourke-crashes-greg-abbott-press-conference-on-uvalde-shooting
    ———————-
    BEDTIME FOR BETO
    Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke disrupted Governor Greg Abbott’s press conference with to update the public on yesterday’s school shooting. O’Rourke is one of the breed of politicians — politicians without a conscience and with no thought other than themselves — that finds the moment of unspeakable tragedy a fit moment to undertake histrionic displays and hysterical lectures promoting their favored causes. I can’t believe this is even good politics, but it is what it is, somewhere south of disgusting.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/bedtime-for-beto.php
    ———————
    Bedtime for Punchy
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/fertilizer-shortage-try-peeing-on-your-plants-say-experts?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand

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45. 

    scenes

    25 May 2022

    Just in case anyone wants to read a guy at the Speaker’s Corner that they don’t agree with.
    NATO vs Russia: what happens next
    In Davos and beyond, NATO’s upbeat narrative plays like a broken record, while on the ground, Russia is stacking up wins that could sink the Atlantic order.
    https://thecradle.co/Article/columns/10803

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46. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 May 2022

    ‘Fauci’s researchers find better antibody response from natural immunity than Moderna vaccine’
    But immunologist cautions both sides read too much into “transient spike” in antibodies to justify their policy preferences.
    https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/faucis-researchers-find-better-antibody-response-natural-immunity
    —————-
    In other news, Moderna’s CEO announced that the company is tossing 30 million doses of its vaccine. “Nobody wants them.”

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47. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 May 2022

    Already mentioned by Don, but the Dems are truly the Enemy of the Truth.
    ‘After Joe Biden, Media Smeared Georgia Voting Rules As ‘Jim Crow 2.0,’ Non-White Turnout Boomed’
    https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/25/after-joe-biden-media-smeared-georgia-voting-rules-as-jim-crow-2-0-non-white-turnout-boomed/

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48. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 May 2022

    How FBI HQ hamstrung the Alfa Bank investigation
    https://technofog.substack.com/p/how-fbi-hq-hamstrung-the-alfa-bank?

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49. 

    Paul Emery

    25 May 2022

    More about Trump opposing Pence being rescued from mob who were chanting “Hang Pence”‘
    “The Jan. 6 select committee has heard testimony indicating that then-President Donald Trump — after rioters who swarmed the Capitol began chanting “hang Mike Pence” — expressed support for hanging his vice president, according to three people familiar with the matter.”
    https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/25/trump-expressed-support-hanging-pence-capitol-riot-jan-6-00035117

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50. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 May 2022

    For your reading pleasure.
    ‘Biden approval rating at lowest point in Reuters-Ipsos polling’
    https://thehill.com/news/administration/3501051-biden-approval-rating-at-lowest-point-in-reuters-ipsos-polling/
    Looks like the voters have their ropes at the ready.
    ——————
    Yes, let the voters decide. Chuckie sez ‘Wait until November.’
    Schumer Shuts Down Calls For Gun Control ‘Accountability Vote’ For Now

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