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[Well, Happy 2023 everyone and we might as well start the new year off with a fresh sandbox.  In the 19dec22 Sandbox Mr scenes offered an intriguing suggestion (830am) in an attempt to eliminate the detritus of TDS and things gratuitously Trump from continually contaminating practically every other topic with yet another boring lap around the Trump barn.  He suggested that RR add a Trump category and restrict posting of Trump-centric comments to that category.  I envision it being structured like the Sandbox with dated, and perhaps even topical, labels so that the comment streams don’t become too long.  I need to noodle on this and invite readers’ ideas about how it would work.  gjr]

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  1. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    lf 1015a
    Keach isn’t the only serial abusive sock puppet given to arguing with himself.

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  2. Bill Fish Avatar
    Bill Fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 22 January 2023 at 11:02 AM
    Yes and that’s the Unbearable Lightness of Being Douglas Chester Keachie. He’s been such the shameless puppet master it hardly matters if you’re wrong occasionally. Most of the time you will be right.
    Even when he shows up and posts as “Doug Keachie” you can be pretty sure it a fake!

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  3. fish Avatar
    fish

    Hey….kudos to the management at The Fat Girl Gazette….the blond TikTok reader is pretty easy on the eyes and I feel no immediate compulsion to close the window!

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  4. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    the “LA” shooting of 10 by an “Asian” man was in Monterey Park, on Garvey Blvd, a marital dispute gone way bad.
    Forbes Magazine had an article in the ’80’s about my home town titled “Little Taipei”. Now, it sports the best selection of Chinese restaurants in SoCal.

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish

    This is interesting……but I have no idea what it has to do with a student learning the vast array of personal pronouns?
    https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/01/avatar-movie-valkarie-antimatter-rocket-design-is-a-real-design.html

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The reality of wind and solar –
    The United Kingdom is presently calm, cloudy, and cold, leaving the burning of natural gas picking up the slack for becalmed ‘renewable’ generation, and even coal-fired power plants saved from being decommissioned this winter ordered back online to keep the lights on.
    Three coal-fired power plants, two at Drax in Yorkshire and one at West Burton in Lincolnshire, were ordered to make themselves ready for use in the early hours of Sunday morning as a cold snap — predictable for winter, perhaps — combined with short cloudy days and very little wind sees solar and turbines producing little energy.
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/01/22/cold-weather-wind-not-blowing-sees-uk-bring-coal-power-plants-back-online/
    😉

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Anybody want to talk about Trump’s taxes? Didn’t think so. Ok, how about Happy Birthday Citizens United!
    ‘Democrats Propose Overturning The First Amendment’
    “For one thing, even if wholly neutral restrictions of political speech were possible, they would still be restrictions on expression. It doesn’t matter one whit if you find those restrictions “reasonable” or “neutral.” The right of free speech isn’t contingent on fairness or outcomes or your good faith limitations. It is a free-standing, inherent right protected by the Constitution, not prescribed to us by the state in portions. It’s amazing that this has to be said.“
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/20/adam-schiff-and-his-merry-band-of-democrats-propose-overturning-the-first-amendment/

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The myth of the peaceful antifa scum –
    Social media users discovered that David Peisner, the freelance journalist who suggested on CNN that Antifa wasn’t using violence during the Atlanta riots, supported the violent protester at the center of the uproar.
    Peisner originally faced intense online backlash after claiming that the fiery uproar seen in Atlanta over the weekend does not necessarily prove that Antifa members are violent.
    “You keep using these words ‘violent, violent, violent, violent’… The only acts of violence against people that I saw were actually police tackling protesters,” Peisner said on “CNN Newsroom” Saturday.
    Prior to his appearance, however, his Twitter account showed that he retweeted a GoFundMe page in support of Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, who allegedly shot at Georgia state troopers.
    “Please donate to the family of Tortugita, murdered by GSP for defending the Weelaunee Forest and fighting to #StopCopCity,” the tweet read with an image of Teran.
    Protesters instigated a night of chaos upon the news that Teran was killed by the police after he allegedly refused to listen to demands from authorities and fired a shot against state troopers at the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. “Totuguita” (“little turtle” in Spanish) referred to the name Teran went by with reports saying that Teran identified as a nonbinary person with they/it pronouns.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-guest-defended-atlantas-violent-protests-promoted-gofundme-alleged-cop-shooter
    😉

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Looking back over the last two weeks, one particular story stands out and makes me smile. Tippy canoe and planting evidence too.
    https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1613648072885800961?

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 3:04 pm
    “Antifa is learning really fast that Atlanta isn’t Portland.”
    https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1617115836044509184?cxt=HHwWgIC8gZ-Sk_EsAAAA
    —————-
    @ 3:12 pm
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2023/01/swtc6uxt3tba1.jpg

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The morons spew the standard lefty drivel and are again the fools –
    NY Sen. Schumer, Rep. Schiff, other liberals blame Monterey shooting on ‘bigotry’ before facts come out
    Authorities say that the suspected gunman was an Asian man between the ages of 30 and 50
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ny-sen-schumer-schiff-liberals-blame-monterey-shooting-bigotry-before-facts-come-out
    😉

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  12. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    it’s Monterey Park, a few hundred miles south of Monterey.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Animal Study Found Puberty Blockers May Cause Depression — Decades After Doctors Began Administering To Children
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/animal-study-found-puberty-blockers-may-cause-depression-decades-after-doctors-began-administering-to-children

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  14. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “The gunman suspected of killing 10 people late Saturday in Monterey Park, Calif., east of Los Angeles, fatally shot himself Sunday after police officers tried to pull over a vehicle he was driving, authorities said.”
    -WSJ.com
    Nice to have a tidy end to a mass shooting.
    Now awaiting retractions from the likes of Schumer and Schiffilis.

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gregory
    “Now awaiting retractions from the likes of Schumer and Schiffilis.”
    Lol. That will never happen. Funny guy.
    Schiffilis just said yesterday or the day before that he did not meet with the whistleblower before the Ukrainian impeachment hearings…..a lie he already copped to. I did not met with the whistleblower and I saw with my own eyeballs proof that Trump is a Russian asset.
    Our next Senator? Perfect match for our blue state.

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “The president has decided to pose as a dedicated public servant who has nothing to hide from law enforcement. Don’t fall for it.”
    13 hour search of Biden’s house (not the beach house) raises some flags. Joe, Hunter, Jill, and a Chinese business partner had keys to the Penn Biden think tank, not searched by the FBI.
    Contrary to various opinions, I still see the Classified docs as a nothingburger. Oh, the media will slap Sloppy Joe on the wrists, act all astonished to save their own reputations,…as damaged and totally tarnished as the media’s horrid reputation is now…and in the end all coalesce around Joe and continue down their happy road to destiny. They are just pissed that Joe has delayed their burning Trump at the stake for his classified docs. The “Kill the Beast, Kill the Beast” chant and pounding jungle drums will just have to wait for a couple months.
    One thing about the Dems. They will stick by their man or woman all the way up the stairs and up to the front doors of the penitentiary.

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    lol. Global North Dominion sounds really really bad.
    UN Committee Rejects Screening Of Daily Wire’s ‘What Is A Woman?’ At Upcoming Women’s Event
    “The new guidelines state that participants must acknowledge that “sexism, racism, classism, heterosexism, transphobia, global North domination and other institutionalized forms of oppression exist.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/un-committee-rejects-screening-of-daily-wires-what-is-a-woman-at-upcoming-womens-event

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gays against groomers
    https://www.gaysagainstgroomers.com/about
    I am going to donate. We cannot be chemically castrating children, sterilizing them, give them drugs that cause swelling of the brain, early osteoporosis and disfigurement of their bodies before the age of consent.
    Sad to see the Dems stand 100% behind these barbaric Dr Josef Mengele experiments on children.

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  19. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Toes 835p
    Get with the times… in Kali, gender-affirming vivisectioning is the young person’s individual right no matter the opinions of parents.
    By 11 a kid knows if they’re a boy or girl… so lob off the inappropriate bits already.

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gregory, transgender youngis. It’s an issue that chaps my hide. Spur in the saddle. Blood on the saddle.
    In CA a physician/surgeon HAS to preform bodily disfigurement on the patient no matter what. No matter if the doc is opposed to it. Probably lose medical license and never work again if they object…if I correctly understand things. Worse, the surgeons/Dr Josef Mengeles have immunity from lawsuits. And I can’t even get into bottom surgery without feeling contaminated and sickened.
    As Bill W said, it’s my cross to bear. But, I am not alone by any means. No siree. They have the gun of the government, the school teachers and superintendents and boards, they have the law and the medical establishment behind them….but ours is a noble cause.
    https://www.gaysagainstgroomers.com/
    —————
    https://www.gaysagainstgroomers.com/blog
    —————
    ‘John Money: The Godfather of Gender Identity and Pedophile Apologist’
    https://www.gaysagainstgroomers.com/post/john-money-the-godfather-of-gender-identity-and-pedophile-apologist

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Now, turning my sights back on the R’s. Unfinished business. Housecleaning started when we sent Eric Cantor packing and got interrupted by Presidential elections. Still work to do on our side of the aisle.
    TIME TO CALL OUT THE COWARDS
    “One of Stan Evans‘s many great quips was that it was fortunate Republican politicians were pro-life, since they spend so much time in the fetal position. The lack of fight in congressional Republicans was a source of endless frustration for Stan, and despite some indications the new House GOP majority may pick some worthy fights, in some areas they are already proving to be a colossal failure.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/time-to-call-out-the-cowards.php
    Just being pragmatic.

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  22. S. Butler Avatar
    S. Butler

    Don @ 3:04
    Can you find credible sourcing that Antifa is actually involved in Atlanta over cop city demonstrations?
    All the sourcing I’m seeing is only far tight stuff that isn’t substantiated.
    Not saying it’s not possible, but their m.o. is generally presented as an opposition to the proud boys types or tiki torchers,
    you know, the fascist types that they are anti against.
    Far right media hates them and tries to tie them to everything because they have opposite goals and ideology’s.
    Anti-fascism should be an agreed upon goal in my opinion, but the right is fighting it pretty hard. Wonder why that’s true.

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I dunno. The black hoods and calling each other ‘comrade’ might be a clue. Smashing windows and burning cop cars might be a second clue.
    They don’t trust this site either. ‘Gotta do better than that.’ No, I don’t.
    Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter co-founder, featured in GOP ad: ‘We are trained Marxists’
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/25/patrisse-cullors-black-lives-matter-co-founder-fea/
    They can whitewash their website, but there is always the Wayback Machine. Obsessed with destroying the nuclear family. Engles stuff. Better not trust that site with, asshat.
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/25/patrisse-cullors-black-lives-matter-co-founder-fea/

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Opps. Wayback Machine. Where did you hear that stuff? Faux News.
    https://fee.org/articles/black-lives-matter-s-goal-to-disrupt-the-nuclear-family-fits-a-marxist-aim-that-goes-back-a-century-and-a-half/
    Where did the 60 million go?

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    FBI is losing trust because of the FBI colluding with Russia
    https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1617573332064534528?

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  26. L.Ron Avatar
    L.Ron

    Another JanSixer goes down.
    He said he was not represented by a jury of his peers.
    He meant there were no Proud Boys on the jury.
    Such whiners.
    “WASHINGTON (AP) — An Arkansas man who propped his feet up on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the U.S. Capitol riot was convicted on Monday of joining a mob’s attack on the building two years ago.
    A jury deliberated for approximately two hours before unanimously convicting Richard “Bigo” Barnett on all eight counts in his indictment, including felony charges of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding.
    Barnett lounging at a desk in Pelosi’s office made him one of the most memorable figures from the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, the day when Congress convened a joint session to certify President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
    U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper is scheduled to sentence Barnett on May 3. The judge agreed to let Barnett remain free on certain conditions until his sentencing.
    Outside the courthouse after the verdict, Barnett vowed to appeal his conviction, calling it an “injustice.” He noted that the judge had rejected his request to move his trial from Washington to Arkansas.
    “This is not a jury of my peers,” he told reporters.
    Prosecutors asked the judge to jail Barnett while he awaits sentencing. Justice Department prosecutor Alison Prout said the jury concluded that Barnett took a weapon into Pelosi’s office.”

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  27. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Becoming more worried for GR’s health. George?
    Back to my old home town:
    The 72 year old former dance instructor employee of the ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park met his ex wife there; divorced in 2005.
    The pistol was apparently a knock off of the Uzi/Mac-10.

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  28. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    The little guy expels the big guy.
    The Estonian ambassador in Russia has been ordered to leave the country by 7 February after the Kremlin accused the country of “Russophobia”.
    In a statement, the Russian foreign ministry said Estonia had “purposefully destroyed” relations with Moscow. Estonia responded by asking the Russian ambassador to leave by the same date.
    Russia’s move against Mr Laidre comes after Estonia recently ordered a reduction in the size of the Russian Embassy in Tallinn.

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  29. L.Ron Avatar
    L.Ron

    Estonian Fox
    Then they gave all their 155mm howitzers to Ukraine! lol
    Slava Ukraini
    https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/estonia-to-give-ukraine-all-its-155-mm-howitzers-in-largest-aid-package-so-far

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Turns out the head of the rancid russian dressing was in fact the one colluding with russia –
    Retired top FBI counterintelligence agent who led Trump-Russia probe arrested for own ties to Russian oligarch
    Charles McGonigal charged with breaking US sanctions against Russia oligarch Oleg Deripaska, money laundering
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/retired-top-fbi-counterintelligence-agent-led-trump-russia-probe-arrested-own-ties-russian-oligarch
    😉

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  31. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I’m going to guess “L. Ron” is in fact Jeff Peeline, not Doogie Keach.
    Biden has now gone one better than Trump… he’s the first sitting president who had their home raided by the FBI.

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gregory @ 10:40 am
    “Becoming more worried for GR’s health. George?”
    We are all sitting in the waiting room. A place I never liked…sitting in the waiting room waiting for news. A place unique. There are 872 posts on this Sandbox, so something is up. Just gotta remain in the waiting room…patiently waiting between two closed doors….waiting for one to open.
    Dr. Rebane, during absences and vacations, has previously told us to behave ourselves in his absence. His blog is low priority for him at the present, as well it should be. My assumption.

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory?
    Who do you guess fish is Gregory?

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ukraine War.
    I just don’t know and I certainly do not like a blank check given to Ukraine each time they demand more. It’s always more. Need 500 more or this, need more artillery, need 500 more of that. That tells me what has been depleted.
    I must remind myself that when this whole think started, Ukraine was the largest and poorest country in Europe.
    A contrary take. Suppose Russia never intended to take Kiev. Suppose Russia never intended to take Odessa. Suppose it is Russia that has determined the battlefield and the master plan. Put 20,000 soldiers outside of Kiev and It ties up 40,000 Ukrainian soldiers. Put 12,000 soldiers (and mercenaries) outside Odessa and it ties up 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers. Perhaps the Russian military plan is to tie up as many Ukrainian forces as possible with as few Russian troops as possible while making the real battlefield the Russian speaking eastern Ukrainian ‘states’ or providences.
    Russia appears to do the old style ground war with tanks and artillery and troops in separatist and pro- Russian speaking Ukrainian areas.
    That’s why Ukraine needs tanks, 500 tanks to met the Russians on the real battlefield. It’s winter. It’s a slog fest. Depopulate the region and have another Battle of Stalingrad.
    I could be wrong. When we ousted the pro-Russian President of Ukraine (the one Manafort and John Podesta did PR work for) and the militant Nazis took over, the first thing the new government did was open up and shell the civilian towns and strongholds of pro-Russian eastern Ukraine. Then we put the TV personality in, the current President of Ukraine. First thing he did was squelch all the independent press and had state control of all the media.
    I mention this because Ukraine has never been a democracy, free speech has not be allowed, and they remain the largest and poorest country in Europe…..and much beyond Burmisa, Ukraine has been noted as one of the most corrupt counties on planet Earth year after year.
    Is Russia calling the shots? The war ends when Russia says it ends. That’s always been my view. What pisses me off the most is Nancy saying we are defending democracy in Ukraine. There is not democracy in Ukraine….only popular voting. Russia has popular voting too and neither are what we would call democracies. Nancy is a liar. We are not defending democracy.

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  35. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punch 1143a
    not peeline is my guess

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  36. psfish Avatar
    psfish

    Posted by: psul Emery | 23 January 2023 at 11:43 AM
    Who do you guess fish is Gregory?

    He knows my name psul or knew at sometime in the past. He mentioned that he’d found me in the FAA database.
    Glad to see you’re back! Always wonder if we should send the authorities to perform a “Welfare Check” (the kind where they make sure you’re not dead, not the kind where a hippy might get himself money from Uncle Sugar) or drag the the Yuba for your carcass when you don’t post for a while.

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    All persons arrested in Atlanta on terrorism charges are not from Georgia. Terrorism is exactly what they are engaged it. Not the Atlanta Autonomous Zone they expected, lol
    ————-
    Seattle running out of dead body storage due to fentanyl ODs
    https://mynorthwest.com/3788318/rantz-seattle-running-out-of-dead-body-storage-due-to-fentanyl-ods/
    Border, border, border, border.

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Expurgated Declaration of Independence
    Kamala Harris made a convenient edit when she mentioned the Declaration in her celebration of abortion yesterday:
    “A promise we made in the Declaration of Independence that we are each endowed with the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
    https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-expurgated-declaration-of-independence/
    ———
    Kamala explains the Russia-Ukrainian conflict.
    https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1498742845196443649?

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  39. Dead psul Avatar
    Dead psul

    Gregory?
    Do you guess fish is Gregory?
    Posted by: Psul the Asshole Emery | 23 January 2023 at 11:43 AM

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Not so woke if it costs us money –
    Sixty-two percent agree “states should not do business with companies that advocate for policies that hurt their state’s economy,” while only 22 percent disagree.
    Sixty-eight percent agree “states should not do business with companies that advocate for policies that make electricity more expensive for the state’s consumers,” while 20 percent disagree.
    Seventy percent agree “states should not do business with companies that advocate for policies that make gasoline more expensive for the state’s consumers,” while 20 percent disagree.
    Seventy-two percent agree “states should not do business with companies that advocate for policies that make gasoline more expensive for the state’s consumers,” while 19 percent disagree.
    Seventy percent agree “states should not do business with companies that help build coal plants and pipelines in China while trying to shut down coal plants and pipelines in the United States,” while 17 percent disagree.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/23/exclusive-poll-americans-want-investment-funds-focus-maximizing-profit-not-combating-climate-change/
    😉

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  41. L.Ron Avatar
    L.Ron

    Anti-woke imbeciles cancel Pink Floyd because they depict the refraction of light through a prism on their 50 anniversary of Dark Side of the Moon.
    Who’s woke now?

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  42. Hunter Bidens' Laptop Avatar
    Hunter Bidens’ Laptop

    Trump obstructed justice – a crime – when he played footsie with classified docs.
    But that fact is conveniently left out as the Desperate GOPers attempt to find some equivalence to Team Biden voluntarily doing document housekeeping.
    But Hunter Biden’s Laptop

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  43. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    lr 139p
    Jeff?
    Did that make you feel better about yourself?

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Blue Lives Matter. All lives matter. Antifa lives matter?? Maybe not.
    Top CBS Morning, Evening Shows Ignore Anti-Cop Riot in Atlanta
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2023/01/23/top-cbs-morning-evening-shows-ignore-anti-cop-riot-atlanta
    ‘GoFundMe Allows Fundraiser For Left-Wing Activist Accused Of Shooting Cop, Has Shut Down Right-Leaning Fundraisers In Past’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/gofundme-allows-fundraiser-for-left-wing-activist-accused-of-shooting-cop-has-shut-down-right-leaning-fundraisers-in-past
    Alleged Far-Left Rioters Attack Police, Smash Office Buildings In Atlanta
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/alleged-far-left-rioters-attack-police-smash-office-buildings-in-atlanta
    Water boy: laptop, laptop, laptop, laptop, laptop.

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  45. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    Paul 11:43 AM
    fish’s name`, well hidden, is in reality = Adam Psfischiff

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