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[No doubt Jackson, MS (thanks for correcting my MI blooper) is also a shithole city under Democrat rule, and has been for decades.  Today’s water system breakdown is typical of how Soviet-style jurisdictions took care of their infrastructure with public monies going mainly into the pockets of corrupt politicians.  Today’s mayor of Jackson is Chokye Antar Lumumba, a proud textbook socialist who describes himself as a “progressive, socialist, and political revolutionary”.  Like with most of his ilk, maintaining a functioning infrastructure is not high on his governance to-do list.  Again, the overwhelmingly black residents of the city continue to bring it on themselves.  (more here) gjr]

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  1. Scott O Avatar

    fish – I watched a little of it after the fact but was put off by the lights being played back and forth in my face. There’s a great vid of it on Y Tube posted by a Leni Rief-something.

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  2. Scott O Avatar

    Gregory 7:44 – “Biden has drawn the battle lines in the sand… confusing the Democratic Party with our democracy.”
    Yep- and…
    Confusing ‘our govt’ with ‘the people currently in power running our govt’.
    This nation’s biggest threat is China and the WEF.
    But Biden is paid to keep his mouth shut about that.

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  3. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Better in the original German?”
    Very well said.
    As I’ve written in the past, the difference between Leni R. and Michael Moore is that Riefenstahl akways looked absolutely smashing in a tight sweater.

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  4. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 02 September 2022 at 08:07 AM
    Wish I could claim it as original work……!

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gregory.
    Lest I forget. Good luck on your travels down south. Maybe this time you can sleep in your old bedroom, you black butch you. Princesses always ride on the back so there are advantages to being the butch.

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 02 September 2022 at 08:07 AM
    As I’ve written in the past, the difference between Leni R. and Michael Moore is that Riefenstahl akways looked absolutely smashing in a tight sweater.

    Moore as well…..!
    It’s just that when you see him and “smashing” is being bandied about, sweater or not, it means that Tokyo is in danger!

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    About last night. I have not bother to read much this fine morning in September, save a brief post about ‘Biden’s Repulsive Speech’. Seems the optics overshadowed the words.
    Per usual, our beloved fish bet me to it with his excellent 9:08 pm comment that seems to crystallize what the pundits are saying. Bad optics …not the background per se, but Creepy Joe being the bad optics.
    https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2022/09/Nazi-visual.png?

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  8. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bill writes:
    Never never never in my lifetime have I seen a political party apparatus in full manic panic mode.
    He is of course referring to the Republican Party who because of Trumps control is in big trouble in the fall. I mean even Sarah Palin couldn’t even win a seat in Alaska of all places.
    Dems are cruising in the Senate and rising in the polls.

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    About last night, part two…initial thoughts.
    First up, Biden’s ever so acute press spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre:
    “When you are not with what majority of Americans are, then you know, that is extreme. That is an extreme way of thinking.”
    Now let’s take in a more complete expression of this thought about the rightfulness of the majority:
    “If legality and illegality can be arbitrarily at the disposal of the majority, then the majority can, above all, declare their domestic competitors illegal, that is, hors-la-loi, thereby excluding them from the democratic homogeneity of the people. Whoever controls 51 percent would be able to render the remaining 49 percent illegal. The majority would be permitted to use legal means to close the door to legality, through which they themselves entered, and to treat partisan opponents like common criminals, who are then perhaps reduced to kicking their boots against the locked door.”
    Who said this? Carl Schmitt, in Legality and Legitimacy (1932), the German thinker usually scorned by the left for his association with the Nazis. Maybe the staging of Biden’s speech wasn’t just a coincidence.
    ‘It was a dark speech. Dark and Gloomy. Dark, vary dark.’ —psul Emmerrhiod on Trump’s Inauguration Speech, Jan 2017. Vary Dark speech. Gloomy, dark.

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  10. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bill is reeling from the bizarre reality that the Repubs can’t even re-elect Sarah Palin in Alaska. Sad, but he is a colorful writer. Next up personal attacks on me because can’t handle the facts of the grim state of the Republican party

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  11. Whole Foods Avatar
    Whole Foods

    This blog is silly with MAGA misinformation and propaganda.
    Case in point, Jackson MI.
    “City will apply for $3M loan to help fund lead water service line replacement in Jackson Updated: Jun. 09, 2021”
    “Still no state funding for Jackson to replace 11,000 lead water service lines Updated: Oct. 12, 2021”
    “(October 12, 2021 4:20 PM) Over the next 35 years, more than 11,000 lead water service lines will be removed and replaced in the City of Jackson. With such a massive undertaking on the horizon, the City has launched Lining Up Jackson to keep residents in the loop.
    By visiting cityofjackson.org/liningupjackson, residents can learn everything they need to know about the City’s lead line replacement program. This website features education on why the changes are happening, replacement progress, and upcoming construction schedules. A short video produced by the City gets residents up to date on Jackson’s plan to replace lead service lines.
    The City’s $120 million plan to switch out all 11,339 lead service lines is being paid for by water rate increases, City funds and other governmental funding sources. So far, 335 service line replacements have been performed over the past three years, but hundreds of lines will need to be swapped out every year to keep up with the State of Michigan’s requirement.”
    Not many places in California where you can buy a fixer for $30k.
    112 2nd Street
    Jackson, MI 49201
    3 beds 2 baths 1,300 SF • #22036323
    ACTIVE
    $30,000

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  12. psfish Avatar
    psfish

    Posted by: psul “the accusation is the evidence” Emery | 02 September 2022 at 08:48 AM
    Next up personal attacks on me because can’t handle the facts of the grim state of the Republican party

    Nahh…. the personal attacks come because you’re a tone deaf whiner…..Republican Party notwithstanding.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Whole Foods.
    Good morning. Yep, sounds like Flint. It is not just a matter of replacing lead water pipes from the treatment plant (which is not that hard), but replacing the lead pipes in the home that is the real stickler. There is after all a point of demarcation when the city’s or water company’s responsibility ends and the homeowner’s responsibility ends. Newer houses do not lead pipes leading to the kitchen sink. as evidenced by two of Flint’s nine water sections that have no lead in the water problems. Those be the rich folks, lol. Nah, those two areas draw the same water as the rest of Flint does, except they be rich folks in newer homes.
    Detroit has houses for sell for $8,000. Of course, the taxes on the abandoned homes are 10k a year, 20k in taxes to buy and get into the humble abodes.
    BTW, Whole Foods, your middle initial isn’t the letter T is it?
    For more on Jackson, MI, see my lastest thoughts this morning under ‘California Exodus Refuted?’
    Hotter than a pepper sprout.

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  14. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Whole Paycheck | 02 September 2022 at 08:54 AM
    Way to mash up your Jackson’s dugsKKKi!

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Good morning Paul Emery. Come on down!…in my Bob Barker voice that needs work.
    No worries this morning about ‘next up, personal attacks.’ You had that more than covered last night with you rage against fish ‘the fake who does not count’ and the rest of the Circle of Jerks who, if they used their real names….connecting the dots…. would be embarrassed to be here. Yet here you are. I am not embarrassed in the least, are you? I love it when you connect the dots. It is stunning.
    “fish doesn’t count because he’s a fake and everyone knows it cause he won’t even use his real name because he’s embarrassed to be here.
    All for now.”
    Who can argue with that. You own it.

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Whole Foods. Excuse my numerous typos. The point of demarcation is the exact point where a utility company’s responsibility ends and the homeowners responsibility begins.
    I see a theme forming this morning. Michael Moore in tight tee-shirts and Flint, Michigan. And Dem controlled shithole cities.

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  17. ShowMeKid Avatar
    ShowMeKid

    Emery @ 7:10…bad Trump, but is it ok for Kamala Harris to help rioters get bailed out in 2020???

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  18. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy 848a
    “Bill is reeling from the bizarre reality that the Repubs can’t even re-elect Sarah Palin in Alaska”
    Palin wasn’t an incumbent, punch, I thought you knew that.

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  19. Beep Beep Avatar
    Beep Beep

    psfish reply to Paul Emery.
    “Nahh…. the personal attacks come because you’re a tone deaf whiner…..Republican Party notwithstanding.
    Posted by: psfish | 02 September 2022 at 09:02 AM”
    The person known as fish came here originally to respond to the Michael Moore of the Berekely of the Foothills of the Sierra (no S on Sierra, people), aka, a person known as The FUE. Our own Michael Moore look alike. The FUE brought fish here and you have kept him here, Psul. It’s all your fault.
    Like the old saying in these parts, “Come to Nevada County on vacation, leave on probation.”

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  20. Scott O Avatar

    Hole Foods 8:54 – “This blog is silly with MAGA misinformation and propaganda.”
    Yes?
    And that would be?
    Hmmmm…
    Nothing, apparently.
    “Case in point, Jackson MI.”
    Cities should take care of their own water supply. Why should anyone else bail them out? Care to guess what happened to the money?
    Ah yes – “equity”.
    So much more important than clean drinking water.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Whole Foods @ 8::54 am
    “The City’s $120 million plan to switch out all 11,339 lead service lines is being paid for by water rate increases, City funds and other governmental funding sources. So far, 335 service line replacements have been performed over the past three years, but hundreds of lines will need to be swapped out every year to keep up with the State of Michigan’s requirement.”
    Wow. Great minds think alike and all that stuff. You, too, where thinking of Flint, MI and Michael Moore. It’s easy to confuse MI and MS, but it’s one and the same to most folks…with the exception of Wicked Gretchen running the state.
    Yep, hundreds of lines will need to be swapped out every year to keep up with the State of Michigan’s requirements. Could not have said it better myself.
    Good morning indeed, fine sir.

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  22. Whole Foods Avatar
    Whole Foods

    Blogger Rebane appears to have misidentified Jackson MS as Jackson MI in his Sandbox intro.
    The so called shithole city mayor has only been in office since 2017. The city’s water issues predate that mayor by many years.
    “Wealthier white people fled Jackson, starting in the ’70s and ’80s, following the integration of public schools, which eroded the city’s tax base. Jackson is now nearly 83 percent Black, up from 47 percent Black in 1980, and roughly a quarter of its residents are below the poverty line. That means there’s far less public money for repairing the city’s infrastructure, some of which is more than 100 years old.
    Ongoing tensions between the city and state have only made infrastructure upgrades more challenging. While spreading out the cost of repairs to the state would help cover the expenses, many white people in the suburbs aren’t compelled to help and many Jackson residents fear ceding control of such a vital service, Mississippi Today’s Anna Wolfe reported last year.
    “It’s twofold,” Wolfe wrote. “Systemic racism is an unmistakable underlying cause for Jackson’s stripped resources, and while it may be clouded by a mutual distrust today, racism continues to prevent future investment.”
    https://www.vox.com/2022/8/31/23329604/jackson-mississippi-water-crisis

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  23. fish Avatar
    fish

    Cue Queen……bada bump, bump, bump, another one bites the dust…..!

    CNN’s John Harwood quits as new boss Chris Licht cleans house

    Licht can clean house all he wants…..CNN=Dead Man Walking….!
    Maybe Toobin and Harwood can hangout together…..workout buddies or something….they both are doing nothing, share similar interests….yeah….similar interests!
    https://nypost.com/2022/09/02/cnns-john-harwood-is-out-as-new-boss-chris-licht-cleans-house/

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  24. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I was referring to her being elected as Governor Gregory. The fact is that she lost the election for the house. Perhaps my language was confusing to you. I’ll make things simpler for you in the future. Apparently you didn’t know she was once Governor. Fact is she bailed and quit after two years.

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  25. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bill refers to “and the rest of the Circle of Jerks who”. Thanks Bill for using that description. It’s been a long time since I’ve used it. From now on I’m going to use the language : “Who Bill refers to as the Circle of Jerks” thanks Bill for reviving that very accurate description of the silly little cluster of adolescents on Rebanes blog.

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Beep, Beep.
    Not to split hairs (ok, Inamorata splitting hairs, but that well worn saying in this neck of the woods is ‘Come to Nevada County on vacation, stay on probation.’ Tomatoe, tomato.
    Word is that Jake Tapper’s days at CNN are numbered. Advertisers not happy with the ratings. It’s not the networks or the Woke who call the shots on TV news. It’s the advertisers who have the real power. Jake on the chopping block? Say it is not so.

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  27. Scott O Avatar

    Hole Foods – “”Wealthier white people fled Jackson, starting in the ’70s and ’80s, following the integration of public schools, which eroded the city’s tax base.”
    I’d bail too.
    You’re not allowed to ‘discipline’ black school children and the other students aren’t allowed to get better grades.
    And this is not just because of the blacks. White lefties push this crap because they don’t really think blacks can behave like civilized people so they don’t hold them accountable.
    Funny how when Y-tee leaves the tax base goes down. Why is that? The house didn’t leave. Sumpin happen when Y-tee left?
    It’s not skin color or national origin, dude. It’s the whole package that these days makes folks just want to leave. Just like the thousands of middle class pouring out of CA.

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Whole Foods.
    One hundred year old pipes? That might be a problem. Sounds like Grass Valley when they finally replaced the pipes in downtown, we’re the action is. They found wooden pipes. At least GV had to wisdom to hold back on buying solar panels until the 100 year old pipes were replaced.
    About 25 years ago, I briefly meet a roofer who was replacing a roof on downtown Mill Street near Bank St. He was filthy dirty to the max. He said the old roof was cover with two feet of dirt. Lasted for years and years, but like everything built (be it machinery or anything made by MAN, it breaks down over time.

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  29. psfish Avatar
    psfish

    Posted by: psul “Change is Good….Nickels, Dimes, Quarters….Quarters best” Emery | 02 September 2022 at 11:26 AM
    From now on I’m going to use the language : “Who Bill refers to as the Circle of Jerks” thanks Bill for reviving that very accurate description of the silly little cluster of adolescents on Rebanes blog.

    ….sniff…sniffle, snort…..whine….Attacks….why always with the personal attacks??? I’m telling!

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well Scott, I never heard of anyone ever moving TO Jackson , Mississippi nor Flint, Michigan for that matter. If you want to talk about racism, check out Jackson, CA. It’s were the progressive urban rats flee to. They ones who are afraid to leave the state.
    Go back to Berkeley, stink-asses.
    ———————
    Whole Foods: I wished you just came out and blamed bad structural racism from the get-go. You are sounding like Steve now, throwing a red herring out first before getting to the real root of the matter. It’s racism, pure and simple. Got it. Well, when the white flight occurred, the hard working black folks moved into the homes Y-T moved out of. Besides lead, wonder it they have rust problems as well.

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  31. Scott O Avatar

    Now this will be fun…
    Fall Preview: ‘The Woman King’ comes for the throne
    https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-canada-movies-viola-davis-25b331be489a09eccd370a668e1c7e89
    Hilarious quotes:
    “…that puts female power front and center at a time when women’s rights are imperiled.”
    and…
    “We can look up on the screen and see the warrior in these woman and believe we all have this innate warrior in ourselves and believe that we can stand up and fight.”
    Grrrr…
    Grrrrl Power.
    Sounds like Toxic Femininity to me.
    I wish them well. It could actually be a good movie although it’s strange that it comes out at a time when I’m being told it would be bad manners to act like that.
    Ah well.

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  32. Scott O Avatar

    BT – “I never heard of anyone ever moving TO Jackson , Mississippi nor Flint, Michigan for that matter”
    Funny that.
    When Obama and other black multi-millionaires put down roots we notice it’s never in black-majority areas.
    Never.
    Now…
    Why is that?
    Where did Obama send his precious lil’ darlings for proper schooling?
    Hole Foods knows but he’s not allowed to mention it. Lefties are just not allowed to talk about reality.

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Thanks for re-posting my observations fishbrain Greatly appreciate it. Here it is:
    “Who Bill refers to as the Circle of Jerks” thanks Bill for reviving that very accurate description of the silly little cluster of adolescents on Rebanes blog.”

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  34. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Hole Fools 1055a
    Anne Wolfe was from Washington State and transferred to Mississippi state to get her BA. Took precalculus as a jr or sr. A real rocket scientist.
    “Journalist in Mississippi. Complicating the narrative on poverty, the workforce, race, health, local and state politics, government and the environment through the stories of her people. Providing job security to FOIA officers.”
    Generally, the more complicated the thinking, the less true it tends to be. The Farce of CRT is strong with this one.

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: psul “might be Paul, might be psul….I don’t really know who I am any longer” Emery | 02 September 2022 at 12:22 PM
    Thanks for re-posting my observations fishbrain Greatly appreciate it. Here it is:
    “Who Bill refers to as the Circle of Jerks” thanks Bill for reviving that very accurate description of the silly little cluster of adolescents on Rebanes blog.

    My pleasure! The least I can do for you after what appears to be a bad week
    psul! So bad a week apparently that even a likely Fetterman victory over Dr. Charlatan PLUS the Palin loss and you’re still fussing like a colicky infant.
    Hang in there dude….at least President Dirlewanger made the media needle move a little last night! Remember…..no such thing as bad press!

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well Scott, the good pastor Dr. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, upon retirement bought himself a fine 6 million dollar home in a rich white area of town. G-D America.
    It’s called bettering one’s lot in life. It was a universal human trait in days gone by. Everybody wants out of the crime infested dangerous ghettos and barrios, and some do. Millions have and are as we speak. Some cannot get out for a variety of reasons. As Morgan Freeman told Don Lemon when asked about people who say ‘the game is rigged, I am stuck here’ because of racism, Morgan replied “Bull Shit.” In America today? Anyone can make it in America today. You and I leaving proof of that. Anyone can take the next bus out of town. I did. (He came from poverty shacks in Memphis during Jim Crow and has seem racism.). Then, yes. Now? Bull shit.
    It’s a different Don Lemon now.

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  37. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 1117a
    A former governor running for a legislative seat isn’t an incumbent running for reelection.
    I figured you didn’t know that but was trying to give you cover.
    That’s ranked choice voting for you. Turned a 60% GOP turnout into a 49% loss. Just Say No.

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  38. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Actually having a great week fishmouth. Just putting the final touches on a 13 concert series at the Historic Nevada Theatre starting in Mid Oct through the first two weeks of Nov. Also I have a great show this Wed at the Miners Foundry in Nevada City with the Fanna-Fi-Allah Qawwali Ensemble. They are local musicians now in the midst of a world tour. You can get more information at https://paulemerymusic.com/category/nevada-city-live/
    Check it out

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  39. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    toes 1246p
    Patrisse Cullors turned her BLM windfall into a lovely multimillion dollar property in the Santa Monica mountains, far from Inglewatts.
    You go, girl!

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  40. psfish Avatar
    psfish

    Posted by: psul “Here’s where I tell them how awesome my life is…” Emery | 02 September 2022 at 01:00 PM

    Then why so whiny and fussy? You’re all a bunch of adolescents ….Stop calling me psul….Why don’t you use your real name?….All for now…..Cam you provide a link….waaaaahhhh
    The litany is seemingly endless!
    If this is a good week I’d hate to see you when things go wrong!

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  41. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punch 100p
    “They are local musicians now in the midst of a world tour.”
    They look and sound more like Trimmigrants. Will the world tour resume after the harvest?
    Cultural appropriation used to be denounced as a bad thing by you people.

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    meh.
    Over and out. Time to toil under sun or take a Dougie walk on the wide side. Decisions, decisions.
    Catch you all on the circle back. And to all my brothers from other mothers, give me five on the white side going out the door.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A834CwzNHI

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  43. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Y
    ou don’t know what you’re talking about Gregory. Here is their website. Check it out and educate yourself.
    https://fanna-fi-allah.com/

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    meh
    PS Paul Emery: tanks for walking into that little trip wire I set for you last night. Got you all wound up this morning going on the Bill rant. What a way to start the morning. Oh, you were fit to be tied. Welcome to my parlor said the spider to the fly. Too easy. Tanks, tanks a rocket. Trigger easily?
    meh.

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  45. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Taking a page from putins playbook –
    As the speech concluded, images of the president standing before a red and black backdrop with military soldiers flanking his sides poured out all over social media, evoking comparisons with the Third Reich, the USSR, and even the gates of hell.
    Even prominent Never Trumper Jonah Goldberg admitted the speech was a “terrible mistake.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/02/joe-bidens-dark-maga-speech-deemed-a-terrible-mistake-over-bad-optics/
    😉

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  46. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Already did, punch.
    Even George Harrison caught crap for going to India to study with Ravi Shankar and then performing on the sitar. They appear to be a bunch of euro whities posing.
    If they’re “locals” now… for how long? Do they know the local food banks are crowded during harvest times?

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  47. fish Avatar
    fish

    Babylon Bee 🐝 on fire last night after President Dirlewanger’s speech!
    https://babylonbee.com/

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  48. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    They are in the midst of a world tour. If you would have checked out their website which I gave you a link to you would have known that. Thats an example of self enforced ignorance-don’t expose yourself to anything that might enlighten you.
    That’s what grants you membership in what Bill describes as the Circle of Jerks. Kinda sad, you being a musician not allowing yourself the freedom to explore new music and cultures.

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  49. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “They are local musicians now in the midst of a world tour.”
    Punchy: English… Do you speak it?
    So… they aren’t “local musicians now”?

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  50. fish Avatar
    fish

    The irony……IT BURNS……

    Thats an example of self enforced ignorance-don’t expose yourself to anything that might enlighten you.

    Says the man who brags about not reading links! Remember…..busy, busy, busy!

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