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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. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Something about fish has stuck in Punchy’s caw. Well done, fish. Replacing TDS with FDS is a feat lesser men could not accomplish.
    The old expression here is Nevada County: come on vacation, stay on probation. But fish has done one better. Come for the FUE, stay for the Former News Director. Hat tip, sir.
    Why does not fish use his real name? Why, why, why? To the new reader, fish does not use his real name!! Bad Estonian Fox, bad scenes, bad L. Ron, bad Hunter’s Laptop, bad, bad, bad! And very bad psfish. Everyone must be like Punchy or else you have no credibility.
    Only those who use their real full name should be allowed to comment here….says the control freak professional court jester Punchy. Dance for us Psul, dance!

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  2. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 23 January 2023 at 01:50 PM
    Jeff?
    Did that make you feel better about yourself?

    A guy needs to get his cardio in somehow….

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  3. Dead psul Avatar
    Dead psul

    I was never a hippy, fish.
    I thought you knew that.

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe says all is well yet those pesky facts keep getting in the way –
    As President Biden touts the state of the U.S. economy under his stewardship, a striking number of Americans with auto loans are struggling to make their monthly payments.
    The juxtaposition between Biden’s rhetoric and the harsh economic realities for many people highlights what’s become a constant thorn in the president’s side: high inflation, which continues to eat away at household income, and public opinion disapproving of his handling of the economy.
    Car loans are the latest sign of such economic problems. Indeed, loans delinquent by more than two months increased by 5.3% in December compared to the prior month and skyrocketed by 26.7% from a year ago, according to recently released data from Cox Automotive.
    Of all December loans, 1.84% were severely delinquent (generally defined as more than 90 days behind on payments), marking an increase from 1.74% in November and the highest rate since February 2009, when the financial crisis crippled the the U.S. economy.
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/biden-touts-us-economy-americans-202838948.html
    😉

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don B.
    As I see it
    During COVID, folks like me actually saved money. Holed up, stayed home, and checks keep coming from Uncle Trump and Uncle Gavin. Other folks got generous unemployment benefits. Except for small businesses, a bunch of people were banking money and spending less.
    However, a big switch started happening during Biden’s time as President. People started to empty their savings, put more on the credit card, and got squeezed by inflation. Big time. Gas and food. Real inflation as measured like they used to do is probably 13%. Anyway, interest rates on everything from CC cards to adjustable rate mortgages, to rents to…..well, inflation ate up any gains in wages. Prices of used cars skyrocketed. Stuff the working stiffs need….food and cars to get to work for non-office workers who can’t work remotely.
    Eggs are way up. Yes, a big avian flu wiped out millions of chickens, but even a chicken ranch of 275,000 hens that was not affected by the avian flu had their prices spike from everything from egg cartons, feed, diesel…everything to do with eggs.
    Don’t look at 2020 stats. Things have changed dramatically in the last 18 months, exponentially if you prefer. Border crossings, inflation, oil and gas domestic production, crime, lower school scores, military preparedness….everything the Dems have touched in the last 18 months has gone to shit.
    Eggs hitting 9 bucks a dozen on the East Coast and on their way to a buck an egg.
    I am old enough to remember when eggs and toilet paper were so cheap we throw them at houses. :).

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You go boy stand up fpr the idiot who got snared in a chi com honey pot and shciff for brains who reeks of rancid russian dressing –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democratic-house-leader-hakeem-jeffries-demands-mccarthy-reappoint-schiff-swalwell-intelligence-committee
    😉

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You cant fix stupid and a VP has no classification authority droopy –
    Whoopi Goldberg speculates Biden declassified all documents when he was vice president!
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/whoopi-goldberg-speculates-biden-declassified-documents-vice-president
    😉

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Wonder what they found in Jill’s underwear and lingerie. Probably just hand written notes. Haven’t seen any pics of the secret docs spread out on the floor.
    ‘Discovery Of More Biden Docs Proves Mar-A-Lago Raid Was Just Another Russia-Collusion Hoax’
    The discovery of more Biden documents highlights the ridiculous plot to destroy Trump that culminated in the raid of his Mar-a-Lago home.
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/23/discovery-of-more-biden-docs-proves-mar-a-lago-raid-was-just-another-russia-collusion-hoax/
    ————————-
    How ‘The Twitter Files’ Undermine The J6 Report
    Twitter employees’ desire to rid the platform of Trump kept them from telling the truth about the company’s capability for censorship.
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/23/how-the-twitter-files-undermine-the-j6-report/
    ——————
    Yo Don B. How do you know that the “far left Antifa affiliated folks at the Atlanta Autonomous Zone who had a shoot out with the police were not the Proud Boys? Or Oath Keepers? What proof do you have? They look like Tiki Torch Boys to me. I do not trust your sources. 🙂

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ya what the hell is up with that tree huggers? –
    Popular Mechanics
    Giant Wind Turbines Keep Mysteriously Falling Over. This Shouldn’t Be Happening.
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/finance/news/giant-wind-turbines-keep-mysteriously-180400058.html
    😉

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Hunter Bidens’ Laptop | 23 January 2023 at 01:48 PM
    But that fact is conveniently left out as the Desperate GOPers attempt to find some equivalence to Team Biden voluntarily doing document housekeeping.

    Yes….document housekeeping chores from….from ….2009? When “The Pride of Scranton” was sniffing the pre-pubescent as a Senator!
    Ok Groomer!

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Classified Damage
    Hillary vs. Trump vs. Biden—who’s the biggest loser when it comes to document drama?
    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/classified-damage/
    Hunters Laptop, Hunter’s Laptop, Hunter’s Laptop shows that Joe Biden is a foreign agent.
    And to make matters worse, they are stuck with Joe because the thought of Kamala Harris taking over is Joe’s insurance policy.
    How are those firsts working out for the Dems? First woman Indian Red Dye #2/Jamaican Vice President, first black female lesbian immigrant WH Press Secretary, first gay Transportation Secretary, first female Sec of Treasury, first USPrez to hit 80 years of age while in office, first…….
    Stuck with Joe so they might as rally around him. Don’t have many options. Maybe Jan 6 will carry some weight. Americans tend to blame the economy on the Prez, not those in Congress.
    Trump had a better lock on his storage area…with surveillances cameras.

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  12. MM, tutor to dumbshits Avatar
    MM, tutor to dumbshits

    Homework for the room temperature IQs, why haven’t The Muskrat’s data drops to Matt Taibbi included Republican efforts to manipulate Twitter?
    “I will never leave that woman,” Mr. McCarthy, a California Republican, told the friend, who described the private conversation on the condition of anonymity. “I will always take care of her.”
    “Mr. McCarthy has gone to unusual lengths to defend Ms. Greene, even dispatching his general counsel to spend hours on the phone trying to cajole senior executives at Twitter to reactivate her personal account after she was banned last year for violating the platform’s coronavirus misinformation policy.”

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: MM, tutor to dumbshits | 24 January 2023 at 07:18 AM
    Mmmmmmm……I see your booboo face.

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  14. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    HOT off the presses, a conversation between Jordan Peterson and Victor Davis Hanson, a must listen at an hour and 45 length…
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SUC2Xk2YW9M

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  15. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    MM, dumbshit tutor 718a
    “…why haven’t The Muskrat’s data drops to Matt Taibbi included Republican efforts to manipulate Twitter?”
    Possibly because Twitter had become a weapon of the Hard Left.

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  16. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    MM “Homework for the room temperature IQs, why haven’t The Muskrat’s data drops to Matt Taibbi included Republican efforts to manipulate Twitter?”
    Muskrat? Do you mean Elon Musk?
    Are you some sort of child? Do you honestly think that Twitter favored the Republicans just as much as the Democrats? or does any sort of pro-Republican move negate the entire DNC-orientation of Twitter? Throw us a bone here.
    As usual, we’re reading someone passing on an opinion from some crazy op-ed site. They haven’t read Taibbi’s substack, haven’t read his Tweets, haven’t read any of the leaked emails.
    Naturally, the entire point of the uproar is missed.
    The central issue in the matter is that the bureaucracy, currently leftist (including, oddly, the most hardcore pro-war people at this time) has been outsourcing censorship and control of speech. They’ve always done this to some extent, regardless of the niceties of that obsolete piece of paper, The Constitution, but the problem has metastasized due to media monopoly and the ability of computers to surveil and modify en masse.
    Oh well. It’s always good to know what the cat ladies of Democratic Underground think on the matter from their armchairs. If they’re not working on new HOA rules, they’re writing ‘Other Voices’ columns.

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I see Tutor For Dumbshits is losing the narrative and very unhappy about it. Still trying to remain revenant and always the last to know. Old man bellowing at sky.
    Gotta to do better than that.

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    They ARE tetrorists, Tutor for dumbfucks.
    https://fb.watch/ifGQB4Ox3h/

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  19. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Speaking of Elon Musk (or ‘Muskrat’ as he is so cleverly referred to)
    https://www.tiktok.com/@mrjaywilliamsforex/video/7180043669536378117

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  20. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    lol. There is so much enjoyable stuff here from useless people that I have to push myself away from the computer. Yard work. Maybe the lawn needs cutting or something. What a gigantic waste of time the internet is.
    https://www.tiktok.com/tag/techlayoffs

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    White punks on dope
    The woke, spoiled children trying to set fire to Atlanta: Maine millionaire’s son, award-winning clarinetist, trans nonbinary activist and the middle-class vegan all arrested for domestic terrorism during Antifa riots
    Francis Carroll, 22, from Kennebunkport, Maine, is one of six people charged after riots over the death of a protester who allegedly shot a police officer
    He was previously arrested in December after another violent protest in Atlanta
    Other thugs who allegedly clashed with police on Saturday night include a classically-trained clarinetist and trans nonbinary archaeology graduate
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11666641/Son-millionaire-Maine-surgeon-arrested-Antifa-rioting-Atlanta.html
    As the mostly peaceful far left terrorists went running to crackpot Democracy Now!, they forget to mention that the bullet removed from the shot State Troope’s body matched the gun used by the Antifa terrorist. In the camp was found bomb making materials as well.
    Most peaceful terrorists.

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  22. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@9:54AM
    Exciting times in Atlanta, although the blue-haired folk probably won’t hold a candle to Sherman.
    It occurred to me that the cops there already have the perfect modern police training facility setup already. Simply arrest the occasional tree-sitter, draw in more, wash/rinse/repeat. They’ll have all the middle- and upper-class mentally ill people in the world to practice on.

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    scenes. More details on white rich kids on dope.
    They (he) studied archaeology at Oberlin College with a focus on decolonization and once wrote a blogpost for the American Scientist about ‘gatekeeping medical transition’.
    Oberlin College. What a surprise.
    The punk Francis Carroll, 22, from Kennebunkport, Maine….
    Kennebunkport, Maine. That is where the billionaires play. A proposal to build low income housing in Kennebunkport was quickly shot down. Not in my backyard!

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Good thing NY is a sanctuary state. Defund ICE!
    ‘Four migrants bused to NYC arrested for shoplifting $12K from Macy’s’
    https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/four-migrants-arrested-for-shoplifting-12k-from-ny-macys/
    Out on bail
    ———————
    Biden admin gives left-wing groups hundreds of millions to help illegal immigrants fight deportation
    The government money has primarily gone toward keeping illegal immigrants in the country
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-gives-left-wing-groups-hundreds-millions-help-illegal-immigrants-fight-deportation

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh, they are not terrorists. They are misunderstood and trying to make a better life for themselves. Have you no heart??
    Terror Watch List Arrests At Southern Border Soar Under Biden Administration
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/terror-watch-list-arrests-at-southern-border-soar-under-biden-administration

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Blame it 100% on the tudors grooming Dumbshits. The Tudors done did it to themselves.
    Americans overwhelmingly back school choice, parental rights in education: poll
    By a 2-1 ratio, parents backed school choice “voucher programs that allow tax dollars to follow children to the schools of their parents’ choice.”
    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/americans-overwhelmingly-back-school-choice-parental-rights-education
    We don’t like you.

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  27. fish Avatar
    fish

    From the Fat Girl Gazette
    DATELINE SACRAMENTO- “California was just inundated with much-needed water. Too bad we didn’t save much of it” | Opinion
    Yeah….that really sucks guys!
    Morons!

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  28. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    toes 1045a
    That’s the problem the new “Criminal Tourist Visa” was supposed to solve.

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    Hey….great news….now you silly fucks can actually …umm…chat… with a “real”….well realish… fascist instead just pretending to when you post here.

    AI app faces backlash for allowing users to ‘chat’ with Hitler…

    Finally the opportunity for you soft headed progressive douchnozzles to take it to the source!
    What a great time to be alive!
    https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/24/ai-chatbot-app-faces-backlash-for-allowing-users-to-chat-with-hitler-18154680/

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Language is very important. A girl hits a cop or a dude, no big deal. Only girly men complain. A dude hits a cop or a girl, he gets his ass kicked by bystanders or the cop. Big difference in perception. All I know is the Congresswoman’s bio says she has three sons.
    ‘Broadcast Networks Silent as Top Democrat’s Kid is Arrested for Assaulting a Police Officer’
    “Last night, my daughter was arrested in Boston, Massachusetts. I love Riley, and this is a very difficult time in the cycle of joy and pain in parenting. This will be evaluated by the legal system, and I am confident in the process.”
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/bill-dagostino/2023/01/24/broadcast-networks-silent-top-democrats-kid-arrested-assaulting
    Men are such aggressive beasts.

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  31. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Last night, my daughter was arrested in Boston, Massachusetts. I love Riley, and this is a very difficult time in the cycle of joy and pain in parenting. ”
    – Rep. Katherine Clark.
    lol. Her ‘daughter’ to boot.
    https://www.ibtimes.sg/who-jared-riley-dowell-nonbinary-son-top-democrat-katherine-clark-arrested-assaulting-police-68724
    Allowing the mentally ill to run this country is truly a beautiful thing. You just have to laugh your ass off. The local Team Blue are creating a world they so richly deserve.

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  32. Hunter Biden's Laptop Avatar
    Hunter Biden’s Laptop

    ROFLMAO
    Docs found at Pence’s house

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  33. Hunter's Laptop Avatar
    Hunter’s Laptop

    ROTFLMAO
    Docs found at Pence’s home

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  34. BopBop Avatar
    BopBop

    “Green energy projects have spiked in Republican-led states like Texas since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.”
    Let the protests by anti-wokers begin!

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  35. BopBop Avatar
    BopBop

    ROTFLMAO
    Docs found in Pence’s home

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  36. BopBop Avatar
    BopBop

    “For context, roughly 25% of our total national debt incurred over the last 230 years actually occurred during the 4 years of the Trump administration. That’s right. 25% of our entire national debt, all during the Trump years.”
    But, but, we are the conservative party

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  37. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: BopBop | 24 January 2023 at 01:50 PM

    …and if he’d spent a penny less the whining from the left would have been deafening! It took a long time but you’ve convinced me……spend the country dry….the fuck do I care!

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  38. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    bangbang 150p
    While Trump was president for four years Pelosi was speaker for half of that time.
    “You People” keep ignoring the root of the power to tax and spend in Washington being in the Speaker’s orifice.

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  39. BopBop Avatar
    BopBop

    Gregory,
    Pelosi was neither President nor Senate majority leader. Try again.

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  40. BopBop Avatar
    BopBop

    Fish,
    Red States and counties are the welfare zones.

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  41. BopBop Avatar
    BopBop

    GOP vets rejoice!
    “After an unusual delay, the Supreme Court finally issued its first opinion of the term on Monday: a unanimous decision in Arellano v. McDonough siding against disabled veterans who seek compensation for disabilities related to their service. Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s opinion for the court denied these veterans (and their survivors) the ability to obtain benefits retroactively if they filed a late claim—even if the delay occurred because of their disability, or some other factor beyond their control. It’s a painful blow to military members who were injured while serving their country, and a puzzling one: At oral arguments, the justices sounded divided, yet all three liberals lined up behind Barrett’s harsh opinion. Maybe they genuinely believed that Congress intended to impose an exceedingly stringent deadline on disabled veterans. Or perhaps the three-justice minority is so outnumbered that it has decided to pick its battles, and Arellano was not worth the fight.”

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  42. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: BopBop | 24 January 2023 at 03:30 PM

    You shouldn’t pay it Chester.

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Predator’s Paradise’
    On the grounds of creating a more welcoming environment for LGBTQ youth, State Senator Scott Wiener is making California a haven for human trafficking.
    https://www.city-journal.org/predators-paradise
    Chester, they are playing your song

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “DEMAND MANAGEMENT” IN BRITAIN
    Shivering in the dark is what people did in ancient times and the medieval era. Until recently, it wasn’t something we expected in the developed world. So far, the shivering and darkness have been minimized because in a pinch, the U.K., like the U.S., burns coal and natural gas. But left-wing governments want that to stop:
    “At the moment we fill the gaps with gas-generated power, but once that has been removed from the grid, as the Government intends to do by 2035, all we will have to save us from unplanned blackouts is demand management – which is really just blackouts through bribery.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/demand-management-in-britain.php

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    British healthcare system on verge of collapse.
    ‘Ukrainian refugees give up on crisis-hit NHS and travel home to war zone for medical treatment’
    https://inews.co.uk/news/ukrainian-refugees-nhs-crisis-travel-home-war-zone-treatment-2083233

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  46. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    No shit sherlock –
    The top five worst cities for homicide, beginning with #1 are: Atlanta, Ga., Baltimore, Md., Detroit, Mich., Las Vegas, Nev., and Kansas City, Mo.
    The top five best cities for homicide rates, beginning with #40, are: Scottsdale, Ariz., Anchorage, Alaska, Fort Worth, Texas, Dallas, Texas, and St. Petersburg, Fla.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/atlanta-baltimore-detroit-study-shows-democrat-run-cities-highest-homicide-rates
    😉

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  47. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    More details on corrupt FBI in charge of NYFO
    Ex-FBI Official Who Helped Launch Crossfire Hurricane Charged With Laundry List Of Crimes
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/24/ex-fbi-official-who-helped-launch-crossfire-hurricane-charged-with-laundry-list-of-crimes/
    ——————-
    Visual aides!! Dan Bongino’s take. Never wrong Dan Bongino. Worth a watch
    https://fb.watch/iggie7v1ul/

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  48. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    About going green when there is no wind and cloudy and shut down the cheapest energy, natgas. Idiots dont let the falling windmills hit you –
    But research from the AA published on Monday finds that recharging an electric car even using a slow public charger at peak times can be more expensive, per mile driven afterwards, than for refuelling a comparable petrol car.
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA deep breath HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA another deep breath HAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/24/nolte-brits-pay-more-charge-electric-car-than-gas-up/
    😉

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  49. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Red States and counties are the welfare zones.”
    Naturally.
    Manufacturing has largely moved overseas and ownership of small town and rural America has moved to the cities. Big box retail destroyed small retail, farms are owned by megacorps, ‘ranching’ is now a 100k cattle getting improper food stuffed down their gullet in feedlots.
    People in cities own bits of paper that represent this ownership. Some of the money is metered back to the flyover folks. Admittedly, the South Bay is hell on wheels at writing surveillance advertising software which appears to have great value.
    So, Bop Bop, tell us what you did or do that represents being on the positive side of the economic ledger.
    Would I be proud of that as a Blue Urbanite? I sure as hell hope not.

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  50. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: DonB@5:55PM
    Huh. That’s actually possible. I looked up the price of a kWh in the UK, current cost of diesel, winged the amount of power you get out of a generator. Kinda similar.
    It’s worth bearing in mind that the desired end game is that everyone (minus the folks who run things) a)lives in an apartment and b)uses public transit.
    With decent insulation and high enough density, maybe you could heat the apartment buildings with body heat. Treat the sewage between levels and all you need is a water tank on top of the building. We’ll all do ‘knowledge’ work. HR will stop by if you glare at the loud immigrants next door. It’ll be great.
    As usual, it’s for the children.

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