[Bumblebrain’s foreign policy bungling and catastrophes have boosted the fortunes of America’s enemies who have now organized themselves into the Shanghai Cooperation Organization of Asian nations, anchored by China and Russia with India and Pakistan already ensconced, Iran ready to step aboard, and Erdogan working to bring Turkey into the fold. The SCO promises to become China’s answer to NATO and support its Belt and Road advances into the Middle East and Africa. While the US continues tangled up in its political nightmare, Team Biden knows as much about this as it does about our "secure" southern border. (more here) gjr]

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245 responses to “Sandbox – 22sep22”
Sure sounds like an invasion –
A Texas farmer who owns a 150-acre ranch along the U.S.-Mexico border recently shared footage of migrants running onto his property and barricading themselves inside the home where his grandparents live.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-farmer-near-border-says-migrants-bull-rushed-property-broke-elderly-grandparents-house
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Sounds like somewhere you know? –
In Europe, political analysts are pointing to Sweden and Italy as possible harbingers of a political mood shift across the continent driven by a growing wariness of immigrants as well as anger over rising crime rates.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/immigration-crime-propel-europes-move-to-right-analysts-say-202748280.html
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For you Bastiat fans, from the RealClear website
https://fee.org/articles/how-to-create-like-a-bastiat/
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“How does a man who rapes an innocent teenage girl walk the streets to sexually attack [five] more innocent [people], including a homeless woman?” one Manhattan cop fumed.
I’ll take “Progressive Democrats” for $800 Alex……
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But then Bastiat wasn’t an impetus for our Revolution, that was John Locke:
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/misunderstanding-locke-in-america/
(Link from the same RealClear page)
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Under reason #190,732,584 to not trust the media here is a the latest variation on the “Republicans Pounce” narrative!
“A driver charged with fatally striking a teenager in North Dakota allegedly told investigators he purposely hit the teen with his SUV after they had a political argument, according to court documents.”
Can you find the missing piece of data? I’ll let you read it again if you must, but pay attention to the words “political argument.” And of course, we know that Brandt told police he ran Cayler down because he was a “Republican extremist.”
But the Associated Press, which, it should be noted, feeds newsrooms across the nation, decided to omit the fact that Cayler was murdered by Brandt for allegedly being a Republican.
You can read the full story here.
Other AP headlines as of Thursday night included:
Trump’s legal woes mount without the protection of the presidency
Alex Jones testifies in trial over his Sandy Hook lies
Bank officials urge firing of Trump official over ethics probe
Ex-Illinois cop charged in 2020 fatal shooting of Black man
Ohio GOP House candidate has misrepresented military service
“Art of the steal”: Trump accused of vast fraud in NY suit
Notice anything? While all of those stories are true, the AP has no problem spinning headlines and stories to fan the flames of outrage and cast conservatives in the worst possible light. Can you say “partisan”? But when one of the Left’s own commits an atrocity that cannot be swept aside, the story is whitewashed to remove any progressive culpability. Running an 18-year-old down and killing him for being a conservative becomes a “political argument.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/lincolnbrown/2022/09/22/reason-190732584-not-to-trust-the-legacy-media-including-the-associated-press-n1631619
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Fucking dickiess British Soy Boi chickenshit! If you’re going to set yourself on fire do it Vietnamese monk style and not just your right forearm like a drunken “Ooopsy I spilled some Tequila on my arm and now its on fire” sorority girl at a tennis match!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/climate-protester-sets-himself-fire-roger-federers-last-match
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-burning-monk-1963/
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Nothing to see here, no grooming going on, move along, move along –
In Chicago, the city’s largest children’s hospital offers ‘kink’ and ‘trans-friendly’ sex toys for minors
The collaboration between Lurie’s Children’s Hospital of Chicago and gender activists is very troubling
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/chicago-citys-largest-childrens-hospital-offers-kink-trans-friendly-sex-toys-for-minors
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Hey we didnt really mean it when we said we were sanctuary cities, we just wanted to virtue signal and poke Trump in the eye –
New York Mayor Eric Adams said last week that 8,500 of the 11,000 migrants who have come to the city are still living within the shelter system. The influx has led the mayor’s office to reassess “the city’s practices with respect to the right to shelter,” a law that guarantees that the city provides shelter to anyone who asks for it.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/sanctuary-cities-straining-support-thousands-144353091.html
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Irony fail –
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/norway-threatens-shut-down-wind-farm-wind-destroys-turbines?dicbo=v2-8b909f5f60cee66dba2885e67791e17e
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The true paper tigers –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/russia-s-weapons-use-old-and-even-western-electronics-report-shows/ar-AA12acDB?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=4c408633433a4b6ade538878647a3379
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Well, looks like Roberta won’t be complaining about fifty bucks a day to heat his home in the future.
‘California Will Crack Down On Gas-Powered Home Appliances To Meet Climate Targets’
“California’s proposed standard is part of a larger effort to cut household emissions by phasing out gas-powered appliances such as heaters and stoves as space and water heating account for almost 90% of all building-related natural gas demand, according to CARB estimates. The proposed ban would also make California the first state to ban gas-fueled furnaces and water heaters in homes.”
https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/23/california-will-crack-down-on-gas-powered-home-appliances-to-meet-climate-targets/
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Toes 430a
Wow.
“The move comes after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed 40 climate bills on Sept. 16 to achieve statewide “carbon neutrality” by no later than 2045 by cracking down on oil drilling and accelerating carbon capture projects. California will also invest $54 billion to cut carbon emissions and develop “clean energy technologies,” according to the California Climate Commitment.
California will also ban the sale of all gas-powered cars after 2035 and is mulling a ban on medium and heavy trucks to fight a legacy of racist practices, according to a CARB report.”
It’s about time something was done about racist medium and heavy trucks. Thank you, CARB.
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It Ends as it Began: As a Political Ploy
“Consider, however, that many times as many people die from COVID daily in the U.S. (300-400) than when the U.S. first announced the outrageous lockdowns of March 16, 2020. In those days, deaths were approaching 50 per day, mostly in New York. It will very likely get worse over the winter months.”
https://intellectualtakeout.org/2022/09/it-ends-as-it-began-as-a-political-ploy/
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The Chicago Way.
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2022/09/IMG_3036.jpg?
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Why not send a couple of cops instead of a 25-30 person SWAT Team. The latest whistle blower (2nd) was suspended for not joining his SWAT team in on a raid on a house…for a misdemeanor!
FBI SWAT Team Conducts Early-Morning Raid, Arrests Pro-Life Activist At Pennsylvania Home: Report
https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-swat-team-conducts-early-morning-raid-arrests-pro-life-activist-at-pennsylvania-home-report
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Election 2022. The tight races. K-12 Education is a top priority among Black males and Hispanic females. Take Stacy Abrams in the Georgia Gov’s race. In 2018, Kemp got 3% of the black vote. Currently she is losing 30% of the Black male vote (less likely to vote than Black females) and even Black female votes for a 13 point loss of that demographic, 10% down from 2018. Why? Yes, the economy and inflation comes in 1-2. Well, the Georgia Blacks consider good education for their kids is the hope for their future and desire for their children to have a better life than they have.
Nevada is currently the closest race with razor thin differences in polling. Yet, the momentum is swinging towards the Senate challenger, a R. Why? Hispanic women want better schools for their kids. Unlike many, they are more optimistic about their kids’ future and look to which party can deliver better schools.
You can parlay that across many Gov and Senate races (and even State House offices) and the Dems have not offered better public education solutions, improvements, nor school choice. The schools clamor for money with no meritocracy, accountability with fewer students.
Declining public school enrollments are not just a Blue State problem. Accounting for birth rates, immigration and emigration, and all the usual factors in the pipeline….accounting for all that the Red State and Blue States are seeing declining enrollments. Where did the students go? 7%, give or take, have been yanked by parents and are now being homeschooled or enrolled in private schools. Yes, even in Red States. That tells me that public education is a top priority for those with children across the board. It was the winning formula in Virginia’s Gov race.
Parental disgust and alarm with public education is a factor in 2022. Generally, R voters are more likely to have children than Dems, whether one likes it or not. When Stacy Abrams is losing some the most likely Dem supporters (educated black females), then that tells you something. Actions speak louder than words. Just my observation.
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White House Midterm Plan: Deny Reality
https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-midterm-plan-deny-reality
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Let’s not talk of Biden’s policies or Biden’s stances. Let’s talk about Republicans, lol.
‘Doocy EXPLODES After KJP Ducks His Abortion Question: ‘You Did NOT Answer My Question!’
“Continuing to stammer her way along, Doocy fact-checked her by noting Graham’s proposal is only for 15 weeks and not an outright ban.
Jean-Pierre continued to lie, claiming “it’s a national ban, which will take us backwards and will put at risk the health of women” and would be the first step by “extreme Republican officials” in ending “privacy” and “contraception” and attacking “marriage” (as in gay and interracial marriages).
“I’m not going to get into specifics here. I’m just going to lay out what — what they have said that they’re going to do,” she hilariously added.
Doocy seized on that nonsense: “Why not get into specifics? The Republicans are saying we don’t want abortion after 15 weeks. Why can’t you say how many weeks the President thinks the limit is?”
Jean-Pierre again diverted by invoking House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and the House GOP’s Commitment to America, but Doocy wasn’t having it, saying he’s “not asking about Kevin McCarthy” and instead about “Joe Biden and his position on abortion.”
After being asked one last time “how many weeks,” Jean-Pierre filibustered with a meandering answer about Republicans “trying to take away the rights and freedoms of Americans.” Doocy tried to push back, but Jean-Pierre moved on to Bloomberg Government’s Courtney Rozen.
Doocy almost always complies when Jean-Pierre (or Jen Psaki) would move on, but not on this day as he exclaimed, “[y]ou did not answer my question”.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2022/09/23/doocy-explodes-after-kjp-ducks-his-abortion-question-you-did-not
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Should have checked their pronouns at the door.
Registered Democrats are sick of the radical left—and some are switching sides
https://nypost.com/2022/09/24/some-registered-democrats-sick-of-the-left-are-switching-sides/
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‘If He’s Elected, The Stock Market Will Crash’: Trump’s 2020 Warning About Biden Comes True
https://www.dailywire.com/news/if-hes-elected-the-stock-market-will-crash-trumps-2020-warning-about-biden-comes-true
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‘Mugged by reality? Dems pivot on law and order as soft-on-crime liberals assaulted, burglarized’
With crime on the rise, Republicans are hammering their opponents as Democrats fear “defund the police” policies will turn off voters.
https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/mugged-reality-democrats-pivot-law-and-order-soft-crime-liberals-assaulted-burglarized
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OUCH in NYC no less, not going to be a fun ride for the left –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nancy-pelosi-booed-during-surprise-appearance-nyc-music-festival-videos-appear-show
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jen-psaki-says-democrats-know-they-will-lose-midterms-referendum-president-biden#&_intcmp=hp1bt1,hp1bt
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Attending a recent Marching Presidents shindig and listening to the folks at my table make deprecations pointed at Republicans, I pointed at the one party rule in Sacramento saying at least here it’s great the Democrats can do what needs to be done.
I’d bet they were all Dems and none of them agreed… it took a few moments for them to figure out I was speaking tongue-in-cheek.
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Don @ 11:34 am second link
The R’s are trying to make the mid-terms all about the current President while the Dems are in overtime trying to make the 2022 mid-terms all about a former President.
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Me thinks Liz Cheney has an over inflated sense importance. He says if Trump is nominated in 2024, she will quit the party. She does not want the R’s to take Congress in November, either.
Well, we never like to lose one vote, but Liz Cheney is just one vote among 150 million. Losing one vote in this case is something we will just have to learn to live with. And she can only vote in WY this election in November.
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‘Biggest, Best Gift I’ve Ever Received’: Kari Lake Reacts To Liz Cheney’s Vow To Campaign Against Her
“Lake responded on Twitter to Cheney’s remarks, saying, “She’s putting more energy into electing Democrats than she did into winning her own primary lol.””
“Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) replied to a video clip of Cheney vowing to campaign against Lake, writing, “In 2020, when Liz Cheney was the GOP House conference chair, she backed my primary opponent. I won that race 81% to 19%.””
“Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) also replied to the clip, tweeting, “Liz Cheney gets crushed in her ‘home’ Wyoming by 40+ points… But now we are supposed to believe she has the juice to take on [Kari Lake]?”
According to a recent poll by The Trafalgar Group, Lake is leading Hobbs 50% to 45.6% with 4.4% undecided. Cheney lost her primary to Hageman 66.3% to 28.9%.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biggest-best-gift-ive-ever-received-kari-lake-reacts-to-liz-cheneys-vow-to-campaign-against-her
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Team creepy grampa joe has chosen poorly on issues –
According to the survey produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates in New York City, the economy (89%), education (77%) and inflation (76%) topped out the issues voters consider “highly important” as midterms loom, but those issues were followed closely by crime at 69%, which beat out abortion at 62%.
Immigration and climate change brought up the rear at 61% and 50%, respectively.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/crime-trumps-abortion-voter-concerns-giving-gop-largest-lead-issue-more-than-30-years-poll
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Creepy grampa joe really does hate Americans –
Biden’s push to more quickly get border crossers and illegal aliens into American jobs comes as 11.5 million Americans are jobless but want full-time employment and another 4.1 million Americans are stuck in part-time jobs wanting full-time work.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/25/biden-makes-securing-us-jobs-easier-for-border-crossers/
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No wonder the Dems like to hide their candidates. Liked the second video. The first shows Johnny’s wit.
Reminder
FLASHBACK: Unlike Today’s Late Night Hacks, Johnny Carson ZINGED Biden on Plagiarism
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2022/09/24/flashback-unlike-todays-late-night-hacks-johnny-carson-zinged
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Facebook ‘silencing’ activity related to FBI whistleblower Steve Friend
https://nypost.com/2022/09/25/facebook-silencing-activity-related-to-fbi-whistleblower-steve-friend/
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If Barring White People From Getting The Monkeypox Shot Isn’t Racism, What Is It?
https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/26/if-barring-white-people-from-getting-the-monkeypox-shot-isnt-racism-what-is-it/
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Mexico is cratering
‘The Border Crisis Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg. In Mexico, A Cartel Crisis Looms’
“The rot in the Mexican state, the report makes clear, goes to the very top. In 2018, just before President Enrique Peña Nieto left office, Ivan Reyes Arzate, a high-ranking member in the Mexican Federal Police, was found guilty in U.S. federal court on charges of obstructing a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation of international drug trafficking and money laundering. The case “represented the first time a high-level foreign law enforcement officer was held criminally accountable in a U.S. courtroom for interfering with a transnational organized crime investigation,” according to the TPPF report.
But if Peña Nieto’s time in office was marked by a curtailment of U.S.-Mexico law enforcement cooperation, Mexico’s current president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has sought to shut down such cooperation almost entirely. Thanks to a new law pushed by López Obrador’s administration aimed at curbing the operations of foreign agents (clearly aimed at the DEA), decades of U.S.-Mexico bilateral cooperation has been effectively ended. In addition to this new law, López Obrador in April shut down an elite anti-narcotic unit that had worked with the DEA for 25 years.
Since taking office, López Obrador has pursued a posture of passivity toward the cartels, especially the Sinaloa Cartel, the country’s most powerful. In so doing, Mexico’s president has transformed his naïve campaign slogan, abrazos no balazos (“hugs not bullets”), into a policy framework that can only be understood as a rebuke of the United States in favor of the cartels.”
https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/23/the-border-crisis-is-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-in-mexico-a-cartel-crisis-looms/
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How Liberal Elites Detest Middle America
https://buchanan.org/blog/how-liberal-elites-detest-middle-america-159617
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‘Misunderstanding Equality’
If confusion between moral and empirical claims persists, we will find ourselves asked to choose between the truth and our ethical preferences.
https://quillette.com/2022/09/26/on-the-idea-of-equality/
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BumbleTrump says Make America Gay Again!
Now that Snowden has been given Russian citizenship will he be drafted to fight in Ukraine?
Or will he be in charge of cyber security?
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signs of the time
https://fb.watch/fNIFUcoiev/
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Crypto is way off its highs.
Gold is down to 2020 levels and so is the Dow Jones.
What to own, guns and ammo?
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The economy. This has stuck for over a week now.
I am still gobsmacked (h/t to Gregory) what the Fed Ex Chairman said last week or so. Fex Ex is laying off employees and closing offices. Fed Ex? Fed Ex closing centers?
Fed Ex is one of those macro-economic indicator companies. They do not make anything, but deliver goods from a huge variety of businesses and manufactures. After revising its forecast ASAP, Fed Ex is telling us that the economy is in trouble. Think of all the companies that use Fed Ex and Fed Ex sees less business. If it was all their customers were switching to UPS or USPS, I could understand the revised down forecast.
Walmart has announced it is hiring 40,000 seasonal workers for the holidays. Sounds like a lot until you consider last year Wal Mart hired 150,000 seasonal employees.
The Fed is trying to pull the proverbial rabbit out of the hat and affect a soft landing. There can be no soft landing with inflation unchecked. Maybe it will be a soft recession.
I happen to agree with this fellow. No pain, no gain. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
‘Atlanta Fed Chief: U.S. Economy Needs To Feel Pain Of Recession Now To ‘Avoid Deep, Deep Pain’ Later’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/atlanta-fed-chief-u-s-economy-needs-to-feel-pain-of-recession-now-to-avoid-deep-deep-pain-later
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“ATLANTA (AP) — The tale of breached voting equipment in one of the country’s most important political battleground states involves a bail bondsman, a prominent attorney tied to former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and a cast of characters from a rural county that rarely draws notice from outsiders.
How they all came together and what it could mean for the security of voting in the upcoming midterm elections are questions tangled up in a lawsuit and state investigations that have prompted calls to ditch the machines altogether.
Details of the unauthorized access of sensitive voting equipment in Coffee County, Georgia, became public last month when documents and emails revealed the involvement of high-profile Trump supporters. That’s also when it caught the attention of an Atlanta-based prosecutor who is leading a separate investigation of Trump’s efforts to undo his loss in the state.
Since then, revelations about what happened in the county of 43,000 people have raised questions about whether the Dominion Voting Systems machines used in Georgia have been compromised.
The public disclosure of the breach began with a rambling phone call from an Atlanta-area bail bondsman to the head of an election security advocacy group involved in a long-running lawsuit targeting the state’s voting machines.
According to a recording filed in court earlier this year, the bail bondsman said he’d chartered a jet and was with a computer forensics team at the Coffee County elections office when they “imaged every hard drive of every piece of equipment.”
That happened on Jan. 7, 2021, a day after the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and two days after a runoff election in which Democrats swept both of Georgia’s U.S. Senate seats.
The trip to Coffee County, about 200 miles south of Atlanta, to copy data and software from elections equipment was directed by attorney Sidney Powell and other Trump allies, according to deposition testimony and documents produced in response to subpoenas.
Later that month, security camera footage shows, two men who have participated in efforts to question the results of the 2020 election in several states spent days going in and out of the Coffee County elections office.
The footage also shows local election and Republican Party officials welcoming the visitors and allowing them access to the election equipment. The video seems to contradict statements some of the officials made about their apparent involvement.
The new information has made Coffee County, where Trump won nearly 70% of the vote two years ago, a focal point of concerns over the security of voting machines. While there is no evidence of widespread problems with voting equipment in 2020, some Trump supporters have spread false information about machines and the election outcome.
Election security experts and activists fear state election officials haven’t acted fast enough in the face of what they see as a real threat.
The copying of the software and its availability for download means potential bad actors could build exact copies of the Dominion system to test different types of attacks, said University of California, Berkeley computer scientist Philip Stark, an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the voting machines lawsuit.
“This is like bank robbers having an exact replica of the vault that they’re trying to break into,” he said.”
https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-technology-lawsuits-donald-trump-voting-6a1324cc6cf45c95ca086a5c81617b15
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Boop Boop @ 12:48 pm
The Dominion voting machines are not hooked up to the internet. So, how could one hack the machines? If not on the internet, how can one (like a bank robber) break into the machine? Interesting county case nonetheless. Coffee County? Love that name. Time will tell.
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About the FBI dropping its case against Mark Gaetz because the prosecution star witnesses was deemed ‘not believable’. The FBI’s own guidelines prevent prosecution of a case they cannot win…or deemed unlikely to win. Case dropped.
‘The FBI’s Matt Gaetz Operation Sidelined An Effective Republican Voice At A Crucial Time. That Was The Point’
https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/26/the-fbis-matt-gaetz-operation-sidelined-an-effective-republican-voice-at-a-crucial-time-that-was-the-point/
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‘Feds award $1 million to nonprofit that funneled tax dollars to Chinese bat coronavirus lab’
EcoHealth Alliance was a conduit for funding from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s NIAID for controversial bat coronavirus experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology widely suspected to be the source of COVID-19.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/waste-fraud-and-abuse/national-science-foundation-awards-1m-ngo-funneled-us-funds
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A little history reminder for the ponytail of ignorance –
Danchenko served as the primary source for the salacious anti-Trump dossier authored by ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. The dossier was commissioned by opposition research firm Fusion GPS and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee through law firm Perkins Coie.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/grassley-johnson-demand-answers-why-181159021.html
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“[@DarrellIssa] is not a [Select] committee [on Benghazi] member and non-committee members are not allowed in the room during the deposition. Those are the rules and we have to follow them, no exceptions made.” — @TGowdySC, Chairman, House Select Committee on Benghazi, 6/15/2015″
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Bill,like the refugee flight, Gaetz was just performing another political stunt.
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Boop Boop @ 1:34 pm.
Surely you are not equating the WA Post and your media sources slimming Matt Gratz with the most despicable charges at man can be charged with; child sex trafficking and pedo, and underage stuff as a ‘political stunt’. Opps, surely you are. Next thing you will be telling us is some expert at Oxnard Jr. College told you that a Russian bot cannot lie. Just ask them. Surely you are.
Well, best to get some more mileage from the political stunt. Should go under the One Day Humanitarian Crises, but I knew that in advance.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/the-week-in-pictures-marthas-vineyard-sequel.php
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Our horrid public school system: The Bloat
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/the-daily-chart-public-school-bloat.php
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A blind squirrel finds a nut
WASHINGTON POST CLIMBS THE LEARNING CURVE
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/washington-post-climbs-the-learning-curve.php
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Boop Boop. You team is red hot, our team ain’t Diddley Squat.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/moments-senior-moments.php
Speaking about squirrels, I heard that one ran up Newsom’s pants leg and starved to death.
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REP. TLAIB SAYS QUIET PART OUT LOUD: YOU CAN’T SUPPORT ISRAEL IN TODAY’S DEMOCRAT PARTY
https://news.grabien.com/story-rep-tlaib-says-quiet-part-out-loud-you-can-t-support-israel-in-today-s
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 26 September 2022 at 02:35 PM
Yes…much like the president’s spokeshole inadvertently answering a question correctly last week, now a brief glimpse of truth behind the curtain from the Troll doll fronting Michigans 13th district.
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Italy and the UK? Oh my, Brussels will not like this. Wonder what the unelected head of the EU will say about this?
‘Italians have dealt another blow to the establishment’
Giorgia Meloni isn’t a threat to Italian democracy – the European Union is.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/26/italians-have-dealt-another-blow-to-the-establishment/
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MARGARET THATCHER 2.0?
British Prime Minister Liz Truss is going big. Her Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, has unveiled an aggressive program of permanent tax cuts. The Wall Street Journal likes the plan:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/margaret-thatcher-2-0.php
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Replay yet again….just because I like Nigel addressing the EU head. I am stuck in a time warp…again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bypLwI5AQvY
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Theodore, we are not in Kansas anymore.
Woke Kansas Governor Flip-Flops on Males In Girls’ Sports
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/jay-maxson/2022/09/26/woke-kansas-governor-flip-flops-males-girls-sports
You can run, but you don’t hide very well.
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Just when you thought creepy grampa joe could not get weirder and creepier, he does. Should he be called the pedo prez? –
“Well folks, guess we’re going to do something now, that is uh … a reception,” he said to the team, who remained in position for the photo.
When the group reminded him that they had to take a few pictures first, Biden agreed but held his jersey folded up at his waist as the cameras clicked.
The president turned his head and began talking to the team as the cameras continued taking pictures, and then turned to leave again.
Photographers encouraged him to remain still, some reminding him to hold up his jersey for the pictures.
The president dutifully held up the jersey, but spotted a group of children in the audience, and encouraged them to come closer.
“Guys, c’mere,” he said. “Everyone under 15, c’mere. C’mon.”
He met briefly with some boys and turned to an older girl and beckoned.
“C’mon, honey,” he said, urging her to come over.
“I’ve got a daughter that’s two-team all-state, so c’mon,” he said.
He later knelt down on one knee to look at a young boy, pulled his arm to bring him closer, and pivoted him for a picture.
One of Biden’s staffers quietly approached the stage, motioning him to leave
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/26/confused-meandering-joe-biden-calls-everyone-under-15-take-pictures-white-house-atlanta-braves-event/
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Defund the police but pay 10 times more to protect privileged little me says the ltgov –
Barnes has “averaged more than 13½ hours of security protection a day — including weekdays, weekends and holidays — at a daily cost to the state of $660 for patrol officers’ wages. That’s more than 10 times the number of hours as his predecessor,” according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/26/audit-committee-probes-defund-police-lt-gov-mandela-barnes-rising-personal-security-costs/
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