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262 responses to “Sandbox – 5dec22”
from the 2nd Twitter release:
“The practice of limiting the access or reach of users’ content, commonly referred to as “shadow banning,” is something that Twitter has denied doing in the past, and is referred to internally as Visibility Filtering”.
We’ve been ignoring how Joe Biden’s exposure is undergoing the same banning and filtering. He is rarely visible; the words he uses are generally hidden from the public and the news folks; and his press secretary denies everything that is asked of her.
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Stop the presses!
sen kyrsten sinema is now I-AZ
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Sinema has declared she won’t caucus with the Republicans.
Am thinking she wouldn’t caucus with me either, even after a couple rounds of stiff drinks.
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Biden’s pup…..at it again.
Who said that Brinton’s “choice” in clothing was a pretty good tip off that he was stealing luggage?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bidens-kinky-senior-nuke-official-charged-another-airport-luggage-theft
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I think this young man has a bright future in congress…..
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3767342-first-gen-z-congressman-elect-says-he-was-denied-dc-apartment-noting-really-bad-credit/
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SAM BRINTON: OOPS! THEY DID IT AGAIN
At least they caught the person who stole my clothes and has been wearing them.
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Headline surfing:
‘Biden Admin’s Airport Panty Raider Strikes Again’
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Fallen idols: 7 darlings of the liberal press who fell from grace
https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/disgraced-7-darlings-liberal-press-who-fell-grace
Oh Michael Avenatti, you were such a cute child.
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Democrat Claims Any Desire to Track Money Sent to Ukraine is Evil Russian Propaganda
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/democrat-claims-any-desire-to-track-money-sent-to-ukraine-is-evil-russian-propaganda/
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You know its bad when gay journalist are mad at creepy grampa joe for not vetting the crazy head of nuke waste at DOE. Now its worse, he stole another expensive bag and has a federal arrest warrant now. –
Sam Brinton, a non-binary nuclear waste official in the Biden administration, is once again facing charges for attempting to steal luggage from an airport, raising doubts about Brinton’s insistence that the first incident was the result of a mix-up.
Brinton, the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, allegedly stole luggage from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada on an unknown date. There is a federal warrant out for Brinton’s arrest on grand larceny charges for stealing property worth between $1,200 and $5,000, 8 News Now reported.
The Biden administration official, whose appointment was widely touted as a historic accomplishment for the LGBT community, was placed on leave in November after being charged with stealing luggage from a Minneapolis airport. In that incident, Brinton allegedly grabbed a woman’s Vera Bradley suitcase, worth $2,325 with its contents, from baggage claim at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport on September 16.
Brinton has bragged about participating in kink relationships as a “pup handler” — a person, typically a gay man, who enjoys interacting with other typically gay men as they pretend to be dogs.
Potential punishment for the crimes Brinton has been accused could be up to five years in prison and/or a $10,000 fine.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/non-binary-biden-official-charged-142747038.html
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Jim Jordan surprises activist with evidence to squash his credibility after activist claimed Justice Alito leaked court ruling
https://www.theblaze.com/news/jim-jordan-schenck-alito-leak
Next batter please
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Appeals court rules Catholic medical centers can’t be forced to perform transgender surgeries
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/appeals-court-rules-catholic-medical-centers-cant-be-forced-to-perform-transgender-surgeries
Kjkjkjkjkjbb
How Democrats erase women
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/how-democrats-erase-women
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Now with the world knowing how bad the collusion between leftists in gubment especially the cross pollination between fbi, cia and twitter hires the fight is not over. But a win is a win and we need many more –
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/12/09/free-speech-win-u-of-idaho-settles-lawsuit-brought-by-christian-students-it-silenced/
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PGE failed to keep the power on at Casa de Gregory.
On batteries.
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Trump is now openly applauding QANON at Mar-a-logo.
He posed for photos on Tuesday with a prominent QAnon conspiracy theorist Liz Cronkin who was speaking out about Pizzagate which is a conspiracy theory that believes the Clinton family and other prominent Democrats ran a sex trafficking ring through a Washington, DC, pizza joint.
“President Trump made a surprise appearance and spoke,” Crokin said in a post, which contained a video showing Trump delivering these remarks at the event.
“You are incredible people, you are doing unbelievable work and we just appreciate you being here and we hope you’re going to be back,”
How low can he go and he’s still the Repub fave for President in ’24
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-hosts-event-featuring-qanon-pizzagate-conspiracy-theorist/story?id=94701765
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/07/politics/trump-qanon-conspiracy-theorist-mar-a-lago/index.html
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Gregory 1003am – Bummer. What’s the charged usable capacity of your battery pack? Same as advertised?
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Gregory @ 10:03 am
Doing the Lithium Shuffle? :). It does appear that the Casa de Gregory has an inequitable amount of power outages. Its a burden that the privileged has to bear. Stay warm and dry and be grateful you have plenty of propane.
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‘Decolonize the Green Movement!’
https://the-pipeline.org/decolonize-the-green-movement/
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re lies, damn lies and advertised Watt-hours, it’s close enough. Not large enough but it never is. One makes do.
Got 1500 and 500, the latter being very portable and the 1500 being luggable. Yes, my area of Eden gets more outages than most.
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Not about the Twitter Blackout, but about ‘Old’ Twitter.
Twitter has had a problem with child porn on its site for the past ten years. Common knowledge, not really up for dispute….unless you choose to make it a hill worth defending.
What amazes me is that Elon Musk has removed more child porn sites on Twitter in less that a month than Jack Dorsey’s Twitter removed in ten years. Guess old Twitter simply lacked the will. Musk has already blocked 1.5 billion computer generated bots. He makes it look easy-peasy
‘Elon Musk Torches Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Over Alleged Lack Of Action Against Child Porn On The Site’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-torches-former-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-over-alleged-lack-of-action-against-child-porn-on-the-site
Musk fights Child Porn while others fight for Child Porn.
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Batteries are charging once again.
Life is good.
Ommmm.
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Gregory @ 11:20 pm
Background check. If you do not recognize this, you probably did not go to middle school in the west. My thoughts are with you.
https://summereverest.com/collections/best-seller/products/mens-70s-80s-pop-culture-nostalgia-shirt-3514
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Toes, they even sold that design at my high school.
Didn’t have middle schools then. Jr high 7-9 and sr high 10-12.
power off agin. off. on. off.
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Punchy keeps going about the Great Orange Whale.
I hope he manages to keep up with his chores and has two or three squares a day.
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Gregory passed the background test, including the trick question about ‘middle’ schools. Jr High is the correct response. Prize tba. Wonder if they were sold at Jr. Colleges as well.
The Lithium Shuffle continues
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The original power failure was cleared only to be one-upped by a larger outage just minutes later. This one has 7200+ customers off, stretching from Englebright to southeast of Penn Valley, from west of Lake Wildwood to short of the Willo.
I got off my arse to make a pot of coffee which finished brewing before the larger failure started. Good! because while I can make coffee off the battery, it is not well matched 😉
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Punchy’s pal whom he voted for makes the news again.
“De León also suggested that the incident was an attack on democracy.”
‘Democrat Los Angeles Official Involved In Fight At Toy Giveaway’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-los-angeles-official-involved-in-fight-at-toy-giveaway
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Gregory 1120am – I take it that the 1500 and 500 are W-hrs?? If I recall, it takes about 1.3Kw to make toast. So a 3min toast requires 0.05hr*1.3Kw = 65 watt-hrs. For what do you mostly use the battery power?
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I don’t make much toast. Don’t have a toaster.
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Bill
You’re losing it. Can you explain how I could vote for an LA Councilman? Is that the best you can do?
By the way speaking of voting. You voted for Trump twice right Bill
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I mean Bill you voted twice for candidate Trump that is applauding QANON crusaders who were at Mar-a-logo. by saying “You are incredible people, you are doing unbelievable work and we just appreciate you being here and we hope you’re going to be back ”
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Now without a toaster or the power to run it, if I wanted toast there’s always my four burner cooktop driven by propane.
And if I want a beverage that can be called coffee in a pinch, I can boil water and make some instant.
I’ve camped out in my home on occasion over the last 30 years, discourtesy of PG&E. Don’t need much to be happy. Light to read by. Room temperature uisge and clean well water can make do in a pinch.
Now the Starlink terminal takes about 75 watts more or less continuous for the datalink and Starlink router. DSL sipped fewer electrons but Mean Ma Bell couldn’t be bothered.
The only must have is about 15watts at night for CPAP, the off switch for my industrial-strength snoring. For years I’ve just run an extension cord out a window to the car where a cheap inverter would be run from what used to be called a cigarette lighter socket.
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So, PAUL, did you vote for Leon for Senate when the racist ran against Di-Wi? If not, I assumed wrongly when you were upset that I voted for Di-Fi instead of sending a message by voting for Leon. There were only two on the ballot to choose from….unless you voted for someone on the America Independent Party ticke in CA…
George Wallace’s Party in CA.
I could have been wrong and if so, I will gladly promptly admit it. But, you could have voted for Kevin Leon, the racist who hates blacks and limp wristed whites.
Even Gavin has asked him to resign.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_Senate_election_in_California
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Punchy, your people are responsible for Hillary Clinton.
Enough said.
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Leon carried Nevada County, so it’s probably ‘fact’ that Punchy voted for him.
Nevada County. Di-Fi: 22,198 48.1%. Leon the Racist: 23,911 51.9%
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Darn, Gregory. I too have not a toaster, haven’t had one in years. Have not felt the need or desire. Boil water for instant coffee? Well, I just take ground coffee and a filter, tie it up into a little bomb with twist tie (resembling a tea bag), and drop that baby into boiling water on the propane stove. In real emergencies, one can recycle coffee grounds from the trash, throw them in a frying pan, add water, bring to a simmer, filter through a sock of nylon, and viola! Where there is a will, there is a way.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Or as Ben Shapiro would say, “Humans are adaptable.”
‘LA City Council members walk out as embattled colleague tries to return amid outrage over leaked audio’
Council member Kevin de León has been absent from meetings, hiding from protesters as colleagues call for resignation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/09/los-angeles-councilmembers-walk-out-leaked-audio-00073340
Punchy’s buddy. I have long held that Black people make the cutest babies, hands down…..never once thought of them as a fancy handbag…unlike Punchy’s good buddy.
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Robert Reichhhhh.
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Newsom
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-10.08.50-AM.png?
With the band
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sports
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2022-12-03-at-5.34.27-PM.png?
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From the entertainment scene
‘The New York Times: Being Woke and White Comes Back to Bite’
The chickens at the woke New York Times have come home to roost.
“After a forever of accusing this or that Republican of being racist, the white-owned Times is now facing its woke employees who are accusing the paper’s owner of, you guessed it, being racist.
As Fox’s Jesse Watters noted this week, there is an open “revolt” going on inside The Times. And ohhh the irony.
Over 1,000 Times employees stormed out of the paper for a “24 hour strike” over what they called “insulting” contract negotiations. At issue is a ten percent hike in pay — which The Times owner, A.G. Sulzburger, has been unwilling to grant.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jeffrey-lord/2022/12/10/new-york-times-being-woke-and-white-comes-back-bite
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More entertainment. Oh, she was the liberal darling for sure
‘Rebekah Jones Avoids Trial, Admits Guilt in Plea Deal with Prosecutors’
https://ssrnews.com/rebekah-jones-avoids-trial-admits-guilt-in-plea-deal/
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Didn’t vote for him Bill. Also Gregory didn’t vote for Hillary. That year I voted Libertarian.
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prove it, paul.
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Paul. I stand corrected and I was wrong to say you voted for Kevin Leon in the 2018 CA Senate race. Since there were only two choices for Senator in the general that year and both of them Democrat and you did not vote for The Greaser Racist, then you either did not vote for Senator at all that year or you voted for the former Mayor of SF, Di-Fi.
I WAS WRONG to ASSUME PAUL EMERY VOTED FOR KEVIN (not De) LEON and DEEPLY APOLOGIZE TO PAUL EMERY PUBLICLY FOR ACCUSING PAUL EMERY FOR VOTING FOR SUCH A VILE PIECE OF CRAP GREASER AS KEVIN LEON THE RACIST…..even through our BLUE COUNTY VOTED FOR THE VERMIN. WHETHER Paul Emery accepts my apology or not, I was wrong.
I do recall both you and Gregory voting for Gov. Gary in 2016 and you asking me, “ Are you saying Imam throwing away my vote, Bill.” I answered, “Yes!” Protest votes are votes thrown on the editing room floor. Do you think for one minute that anyone looks at protest votes after they are basking in victory on election night?
Brother Ben voted for Dr. Jill. So we had a split in the independent candidates in 2016. As George Boardman pointed out in a recent column, ‘a guy who spent the election season in jail got 15% of the vote for GV City Council.’
Brother Ben, Gregory, and Paul Emery are to be commended. None of these fine gentleman should bring themselves to vote for Hillary, despite the corrupt crack carrying our Blue Nevada County. Kudos gentlemen. Well done.
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Prove what Gregory?
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Correction, typo
“Brother Ben, Gregory, and Paul Emery are to be commended. None of these fine gentleman should bring themselves to vote for Hillary, despite the corrupt crack carrying our Blue Nevada County. Kudos gentlemen. Well done”
Could, not Should
“Brother Ben, Gregory, and Paul Emery are to be commended. None of these fine gentleman COULD BRING themselves to vote for Hillary the despicable twat despite the corrupt crack carrying our Blue Nevada County. Kudos gentlemen. Well done
And apologies once again for accusing Paul Emery for voting for that Racist Leon for Senator in the 2018 midterms.
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The chi coms are not even good liars, too used to internal suppression and telling people what they should think – LOL
BEIJING, Dec. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — As many as 85 percent of respondents in a global survey have praised the concept of “a community with a shared future for mankind” while 94.2 percent of them appreciated China-proposed values of “peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom” for all mankind.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cgtn-poll-85-respondents-laud-081100584.html
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About time! –
Woke corporations are collectively adopting and imposing progressive policy goals that American consumers do not want or do not need. An individual company’s use of corporate resources for progressive aims might violate fiduciary duties or other laws, harming its viability and alienating consumers. But when companies agree to work together to punish disfavored views or industries, or to otherwise advance environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals, this coordinated behavior may violate the antitrust laws and harm American consumers.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/10/house-republicans-launch-investigation-into-major-climate-groups-spearheading-esg-policies/
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Thanks a lot creepy grampa joe –
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/household-wealth-down-by-13-5-trillion-in-2022-second-worst-destruction-on-record-11670623787
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This is not anything new but the details of the who’s names keep popping up are a confirmation to the scheme. DA –
Twitter files: James Baker exemplifies revolving door between government, liberal groups and Big Tech
https://www.yahoo.com/news/twitter-files-james-baker-exemplifies-070421333.html
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Rebekah Jones Signs Deferred Prosecution Agreement, Admits Guilt, Lies about It, Raises More Money
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/rebekah-jones-signs-deferred-prosecution-agreement-admits-guilt-lies-about-it-raises-more-money/
Well, at least they are forcing her to see a shrink once a month, pay for random drug testing, obtain and hold a job, and pay and pay some mula to the People. She is a sick pup, but at least she has been down this road before so it’s nothing new to her.
Liars going to lie.
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The usual yak birds are crying about trading Dr. Death for BG.
Dr. Death sold weapons to bad people. The US sells weapons to bad people. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Dr. Death is pretty much like every country with arms manufacturers that exports weapons.
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HBL – You omit the real problem. She shits on the flag, but as soon as she’s in the pokey for stupid behavior in a foreign country she suddenly wants Uncle Sugar to bail her ass out.
They should have made her kiss the ground when she landed on American soil and if she ever disrespects the flag again, ship her back to Russia.
“Dr. Death is pretty much like every country with arms manufacturers that exports weapons.”
Yeah, you keep telling yourself that – you might even begin to believe it.
And of course, the innocent white male still rots in Russian prison. This was another epic fail by team Brandon.
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Posted by: Scott O | 11 December 2022 at 09:21 AM
This was another epic fail by team Brandon.
Not at all…..more evidence that as long as the empty shell remains upright he can still be used to effect “policy”.
Team Joey just let you know he’s running again.
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