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Biden, the killer president – When the tally of all the deaths resulting from his announced policy of abolishing our southern border is calculated, the numbers will now reach well over a 100,000 annually during his term in the White House.  The deaths occur on both sides of what used to be our border.  Thousands have died trying to make it from their native countries before reaching the US, thousands die in transport after crossing over, but the overwhelming number of Biden deaths occur all over the land in America from drug overdoses.  The major cause now is Chinese-produced, cartel-delivered fentanyl that daily floods into the US in amounts that can kill our entire population.  Local jurisdictions are overwhelmed with the number of overdosers dying and requiring critical care (example here).  And the primary cohort of victims is made up of our black, Hispanic, and Indian populations.  Reading the NYT this morning, and monitoring other lamestream outlets, there is no mention of this national emergency of deliberate, ongoing, and cataclysmic human tragedy and flaunting of America’s border and immigration laws.  From the Left nothing but silence and ongoing lies about systemic racism, white supremacy, and social injustice.  If ever there was a reason to impeach the entire executive branch as criminal sacks of … .

Woke medical schools have arrived.  Mandatory woke ideology and CRT curriculum has now infected another STEM field – medicine.  “Future doctors will be obliged to learn how health relates to ‘systems of oppression.’” (more here)  Medical students and residents will be expected to master new “diversity, equity, and inclusion competencies” according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.  These additional courses will be required in all accredited medical schools.  And make no mistake, including this added curricular crap is going to displace real medical education required for today’s physicians to keep up with the rapidly accelerating technology that impacts all aspects of healthcare.  Today’s physicians are already woefully behind on diagnostics, treatments, and pharmacology, as can be verified by any patient with some technical training.  From here on out, according to the AAMC, “aspiring doctors will have to become fluent in woke concepts such as ‘intersectionality’ (defined as) overlapping systems of oppression and discrimination that communities face based on race, gender, ethnicity, ability, etc.’ Med students who managed to avoid learning critical race theory in college will now get an immersive course.”  Medical mistakes already take more than 200,000 lives annually (here).  And when we calculate the new stats on medical morbidity and mortality, all of us will pay for this next helping of death by government.  Socialism on the march.

[31jul22 update]  President Newsom without a single cast vote.  People are now beginning to accept the likelihood of Biden’s early retirement; something that has been often foretold on these pages.  All the Democratic and socialist leadership of our country don’t want Bumblebrain to run in 2024, and everyone knows that the country’s First Kackle is a joke and will remain a joke.  A feasible and likely scenario has Kamala being offered big bucks (by, say, Soros) to resign and accept a position on the board of a global leftwing organization, purportedly working to save the world from one of many capitalist ills.  Kamala understands that it’s the best deal she can get after her embarrassing performance as VP – she accepts and resigns.  Ol’ Joe is then spoon-fed the reason for his early departure, and the need to make a deal with a compliant and drooling Gavin Newsom.  Newsom becomes VP, and soon thereafter Bumblebrain resigns for health reasons.  Newsom becomes president and immediately pardons every available Biden within that terminally corrupt family.  Newsom appoints his VP – someone like Stacey Abrams or one of the other well-known double dummies.  They go into Dems’ 2024 convention as incumbents, and to loud cheers and lamestream adulation, they emerge as the Democratic candidates for the party’s top of the ticket.  The scenario is perfectly legal and already tested by Richard Nixon when his VP Agnew was caught holding a sack of cash that didn’t belong to him.  Gerald Ford became VP, and the rest is history.

Speaking of double dummies, consider those sharp-witted journalists on the various rightwing media outlets starting with FN and FB interviewing the legion of liars that the administration fronts as their economic experts.  For decades, recession has been defined as two successive quarters of GDP contraction.  This definition has been used by the Fed, ensconced in economics textbooks, and touted by every politician over the last fifty some years.  Biden’s mangling of our vibrant economy during 18 months in office now requires rejection of the established definition.  We’re told by Team Biden and their lamestream lackies that the old definition was never correct (even though everyone is on tape having used it).  They tell us that recession is a more complex matter that has a technical definition which is never mentioned by the leftwing economic experts.  But what’s missing from all these interviews is the question that always goes begging – well then, tell us what is the correct definition of a recession.  There has not been a single journalist with the wherewithal between their ears to immediately ask that question when a Democrat again moves the recession goal posts.  Am I the only one who has noticed this dereliction of journalistic professionalism?  Please tell me it ain’t so.

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122 responses to “Scattershots – 27jul22 (updated 31jul22)”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Who are these people using the ‘R’ word which must not be uttered from human lips. No say recession. Hate speech or misinformation or something worse than dead naming someone who, like the Biden economy, is transitioning.
    Yet another recession montage.
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2022/08/02/recession-deniers-networks-parrot-white-house-redefining-tanking

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  2. Wile E Peyote’s ACME Anvil Avatar
    Wile E Peyote’s ACME Anvil

    Translation: Job openings fell after US entered recession.
    ‘Job Openings Plunge as Employers Pull Back From Hiring’
    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/08/02/job-openings-plunge-as-employers-pull-back-from-hiring/

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Supporting Tax Hikes In A Recession Won’t Help Vulnerable Democrat Senators Win Tight Races
    https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/02/supporting-tax-hikes-in-a-recession-wont-help-vulnerable-democrat-senators-win-tight-races/

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  4. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    BT – from a closed comment session-
    я не русский тролль.
    Я не говорю “гей”.
    Ok? sorry, на русском “Ok”.

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Suur tänu, ok?
    Suur-suur aitah! Ok?
    Tuhat tänu!

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  6. George Rebane Avatar

    My goodness, are we ever getting multi-lingual and multi-cultural. See on mulle väga meeldiv.

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Public Schools Are Cesspools Of Wokeness And There’s No Bringing Them Back
    https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/01/public-schools-are-cesspools-of-wokeness-and-theres-no-bringing-them-back/
    жопник

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The WH swings and misses. Strike 4!
    WHOSE RECESSION?
    The Biden administration has tried to redefine “recession” to avoid responsibility for two consecutive quarters of GDP decline. Has that rather pitiful effort worked? No, according to Rasmussen Reports:
    Despite denials from the White House, most voters think the American economy is in a recession – and agree that Democrats are to blame for it.
    A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports finds that 62% of Likely U.S. voters believe the U.S. economy is currently in a recession, while 23% think it’s not. Another 15% are not sure.
    So much for White House spin. The real question, though, is: regardless of whether you call it a recession, who is to blame for the current economic decline? Rasmussen’s polling is eye-opening:
    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said: “Democrats inherited an economy that was primed for an historic comeback, and promptly ran it straight into the ground.” Fifty-nine percent (59%) of voters agree with McConnell’s statement, including 45% who Strongly Agree with the Kentucky Republican. Thirty-five percent (35%) disagree, including 27% who Strongly Disagree with the quote from McConnell.
    If those numbers are anywhere near correct, it is hard to see how the Democrats can avoid a blowout in November.

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    re: Double Whammy Dummies
    ‘Why we lost trust in the expert class’
    By Victor Davis Hanson
    Excerpts: (a few)
    “Accordingly, many European Union governments followed the advice of green experts. They eagerly shut down coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants to transition immediately to “renewable energy.”
    Most citizens were afraid to object that in cloudy, cold Germany solar panels were not viable methods of electrical generation — especially in comparison to the country’s vast coal deposits and its large, model nuclear power industry.
    As a result, German government officials warn that this winter, in 19th-century fashion, families will have to burn wood — the dirtiest of modern fuels — to endure the cold. And there is further talk of “warm rooms,” where like pre-civilizational tribal people, the elderly will bunch together within a designated heated room to keep alive.“
    “FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith admitted to altering a federal court document in efforts to convict an innocent suspect.”
    “At the height of the massive 2020 enforced quarantine and lockdowns, some 1,200 medical and health “professionals” signed a petition claiming that thousands of left-wing protestors should be exempt from the very quarantine they had insisted on for others.
    The experts absurdly claimed that denying tens of thousands the right to break quarantines to protest in the street was a greater health threat than COVID-19.”
    https://jewishworldreview.com/0822/hanson080422.php

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  10. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    aq4punch
    What is the factual basis for thinking a half billion partisan Zuckbucks spent in swing states had no impact on the election?

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  11. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    What are Zuckbucks Gregory? That slang is not part of my vocabulary

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  12. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    It should be, Punch.
    You just can’t answer the question… or don’t want to.

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  13. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    W
    hy can’t you provide a definition of Zukebucks as it applies to your question Gregory?

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  14. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    SP Zuckbucks

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  15. Scott O Avatar

    Paul – you need a dictionary. Look up the word “peevish”.
    It’ll have your photo.

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  16. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Scott O | 04 August 2022 at 11:38 AM
    Paul – you need a dictionary. Look up the word “peevish”.
    It’ll have your photo.

    Funny….I was going to say the same thing….but under the word “foreskin”.

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  17. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punch, 25 states have passed.legislation forbidding Zuck bucks. You got.google, I assume.

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  18. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    What is the factual basis for saying ” half billion partisan Zuckbucks” were spent in swing states? Until I knowe that and have a definition for Zuck bucks there is not much I can comment on.

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Its clear the ponytail of ignorance does not knowe squat if he does not knowe that the billionaire lefties spent tons in that cycle.
    😉

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  20. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    What “cycle” are you referring to Don?

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I knowe you are still burdened with that comprehension issue @224!
    😉

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  22. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Manchin is selling out all of us for a pipeline back home. &$%(@)Y&^@ –
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/230-economists-warn-manchins-spending-bill-will-perpetuate-inflation
    😉

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  23. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy, you have to use Google if you don’t read the news.
    Zuckerberg spent $419 million dollars (in round numbers, a half billion) funding government election offices. They were not even handed with the cash and about 90% went to democratic strongholds for get out the vote efforts.
    And 25 state legislatures have closed that door after the horse got out two years ago.
    Like I’ve said, the election wasn’t stolen, it was purchased.

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  24. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    Do you have a couple of credible links to verify your contention Gregory?

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  25. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    There’s zillions of links, Punch. Google “zuck bucks”.
    Or use Duck-duck-go, my favorite at the moment.
    Here’s one, courtesy a website you frequent:
    https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2022/03/02/show_me_the_zuckerbucks_how_outside_money_infiltrated_missouris_2020_election_819427.html#!

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The ponytail of ignorance waving that freak flag high @342 just wallowing in ignorance or pretending to….
    😉

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  27. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy is just looking for a place to punch.

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  28. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Checked out your link. Goodness Gregory…What a shocker! People with money influence politics. You just now discovered that? Can you cite any law they broke?

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  29. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The shocker is they came up with a novel way to do it… they took over GOVERNMENT election offices.
    There are definitely laws against it now. There might have been laws against it before November 2020.
    And ordinary folk think it dirty pool.

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  30. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    You mean dirty pool like coming up with fake electors and storming the Capitol in the attempt to stop Biden from taking office by delaying the inauguration process?

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  31. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The Zuck Bucks dirty pool started th
    Paul Emery
    Gregory
    You mean dirty pool like coming up with fake electors and storming the Capitol in the attempt to stop Biden from taking office by delaying the inauguration process?
    Posted by: Paul Emery | 04 August 2022 at 06:04 PM
    e ball rolling and had it been understood on Jan 6, the riot might never have taken place.

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  32. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The Zuck Bucks dirty pool started the ball rolling and had it been understood on Jan 6, the riot might never have taken place.

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So you’re blaming the riot on the Zuck Bucks Gregory. I thought the riot happened because of what Trump called Stop the Steal which was a rebellion to flip the legal and verified election and install Trump as the winner of the election.

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  34. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The Zuck Bucks was an essential part of the steal, Punch. I thought you knew that.

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  35. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Never heard that Gregory. Can you provide some documentation?

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  36. psfish Avatar
    psfish

    Never heard that Gregory. Can you provide some documentation?
    Used to be psul liked using the ol “rope a dope” …..as of late though almost no rope, nearly 100% dope.

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  37. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I accept your forfeit, Punch.

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  38. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Hence the ponytail of ignorance crown @823 ROFLOL
    😉

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  39. fish Avatar
    fish

    What are Zuckbucks Gregory? That slang is not part of my vocabulary
    W
    hy can’t you provide a definition of Zukebucks as it applies to your question Gregory?
    What is the factual basis for saying ” half billion partisan Zuckbucks” were spent in swing states?
    What “cycle” are you referring to Don?
    Do you have a couple of credible links to verify your contention Gregory?
    Never heard that Gregory. Can you provide some documentation?

    I love it when we go back to the classics…….“Uncle Punchy’s Super Happy Fun Question Time Show™…….. sponsored by Lucky Strikes…..and now in color.

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  40. George Rebane Avatar

    re PaulE 823pm – The insularity of the liberal mind. Those who restrict their inputs to lamestream sources never hear of anything going on that gives lie to the progressives’ narrative. Silly me, by now I thought the whole country knew how Zuckerberg sprayed Zuck Bucks around a select group of the nation’s election precincts. Doing that has even come up in Congress where some legislators want to pass a law prohibiting such blatant enabling of a favored political party.

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  41. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    George, Punchy just punches.
    His playing dumb is an act. Mostly.

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  42. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “But the Inflation Reduction Act isn’t just misnamed because it won’t do what its title promises — it will likely make inflation worse by raising the cost of producing goods and services and lowering their overall supply. The higher cost and consequent lower supply of goods means that money circulating in the economy is used to purchase fewer goods, thereby pushing up the price of goods, leading to higher inflation.”
    -a b-school econ prof
    https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/inflation-bill-sinema-manchin-senate-horribly-misnamed-rcna41712

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  43. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    T
    hanks for restating my questions fish. Still waiting for answers to most questions. The most important one is “What is the factual basis for saying ” half billion partisan Zuckbucks” were spent in swing states?” What Gregory has provided is allegations but no facts.
    George, can you provide a couple links about the legislators who want to pass a law prohibiting such “blatant enabling of a favored political party.”

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  44. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “What is the factual basis for saying ” half billion partisan Zuckbucks” were spent in swing states?”
    -Punchy
    Found by searching “IRS Zuck Bucks”:
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/16/irs-filings-confirm-left-wing-zuck-bucks-recipient-funneled-millions-into-manipulating-2020-election-for-biden/

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  45. psfish Avatar
    psfish

    Posted by: psul Emery | 06 August 2022 at 06:43 AM
    …..can you provide a couple links about the legislators who want to pass a law prohibiting such “blatant enabling of a favored political party.”

    S
    ure psul……here you go.
    <a href="https://www.google.com…..and…..”>https://www.google.com…..and….. https://www.google.com/
    That should help the lazy hippy within you find just what he’s looking for.

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  46. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    One can lead a Punchy to facts but one cannot make him think.
    Punchy just reverts to punching.

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  47. psfish Avatar
    psfish

    Posted by: psul Emery | 06 August 2022 at 06:43 AM
    T
    hanks for restating my questions fish.

    I didn’t “restate” your questions.
    Moron.

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  48. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/pennsylvania-bans-zuck-bucks-as-midterm-elections-approach
    Search “Zuck Bucks legislation”
    Learn to use search engines, Paul! It’s fun and easy!

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  49. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 643am – Not at all Paul. Since you never even heard of Zuck Bucks, finding out the desire to legislate against such election interference is left as an exercise for the student.

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  50. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George can you at least provide the names of the legislators who “want to pass a law prohibiting such blatant enabling of a favored political party.”?
    Your quote George.

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