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Sandbox – 1feb23

01 February 2023

[About time for fresh sand. Please note the new Trump post for things Trump related. Thanks. gjr]

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273 responses to “Sandbox – 1feb23”

D. Pecker, Enquirer

01 February 2023

scenes,
Are you saying you don’t think all the election denying, Jan. 6 whatever you want to call it, claims of stolen elections are grievances?
Let’s not forget the exploitation of unfounded angst, the fanning of false narratives, and the suppression of democracy.

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Gregory

01 February 2023

peckerwood 1106a
Had this piece run in December instead of February
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
there’d have been a real insurrection stopping the elector count.

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Don Bessee

01 February 2023

So many still have the stench of rancid russian dressing. –
https://www.foxnews.com/media/bob-woodward-condemns-medias-russiagate-coverage-reveals-reporters-ignored-his-warnings-about-steele-dossier
😉

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Bill Tozer

01 February 2023

NBC Shock Report: Feds Could’ve Stopped Jan. 6 Riots From Happening
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2023/01/31/nbc-shock-report-feds-couldve-stopped-jan-6-riots-happening

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Bill Tozer

01 February 2023

CBS Treats College Board With Kid Gloves Over Woke AP Course, Ducks DeSantis Scoring K.O.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2023/02/01/cbs-treats-college-board-kid-gloves-over-woke-ap-course-ducks
What does Queer Theory have to do with AP African American Studies?
Who is they victim today?

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fish

01 February 2023

Posted by: D. Pecker, Enquirer | 01 February 2023 at 11:06 AM
scenes,
Are you saying….
Gee…..which of the regulars who always insists posting with his real name starts 90% of his tantrums with an, “Are you saying…”, or a “So –insert name here-“?
Wonder, wonder, wonder?

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scenes

01 February 2023

“scenes, Are you saying you don’t think all the election denying, Jan. 6 whatever you want to call it, claims of stolen elections are grievances?”
Any complaint is a grievance, so you could argue that any political movement is fraught with them. The primary difference is that Team Red has the occasional outburst (very occasional) while Team Blue has made public demonstrations, mostly peaceful, a near constant feature of modern times. I can see how Jan 6. or the Dudes With Torches at Charlottesville (along with the Challenger of Peace) really stick out as it’s so darned rare.
Turning the US in a giant version of London (universal surveillance, mostly POC, lots and lots of rules, whackin’ big welfare state) is a tricky matter mostly due to angry white men, so I see the problem. You are dealing with the most competent portion of the electorate, in terms of both everyday and war-fighting skills, and I don’t know if they’ll go gentle into that good night. Re-imagining a society requires a lot of egg breaking and I’m not sure whose eggs will be broken.
” the suppression of democracy.”
I’d say that came mostly as the result of absolutely brilliant, and legal (mostly), moves by the DNC. The fasttracking of mail-in ballots with questionable ID requirements due to COVID, the turning of internet communications oligopolies into paid-up members of the Democratic party complete with propaganda and censorship, etc. Add in the winning of a candidate who hid in a basement vs. one with huge retail crowds, and it’s pretty obvious that something hinky happened in 2020.
To be fair, you should see how much sketchiness went into an FDR or Lincoln campaign.

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D.Pecker, Enquirer

01 February 2023

Scenes,
See Gregory’s post above. Plenty of sketchiness back in Lincoln’s day too.
The sketchy part was the disinformation campaign led by Individual One and his shadow groups of grievance influencers.

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D.Pecker, Enquirer

01 February 2023

Lincoln distributed counterfeit tickets for the 1860 Republican National Convention to his supporters to help successfully win the nomination, among other things.
https://wapo.st/3l35zki

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D.Pecker, Enquirer

01 February 2023

Who were the original “woke”.
I am leaning toward religious groups.

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scenes

01 February 2023

“Plenty of sketchiness back in Lincoln’s day too.”
Exactly as I said. A lot of ugly stuff happens in government.
Currently reading a book on the death of Detroit as an automotive power. The amount of chicanery, political grandstanding, etc. from people like Moynihan, R. Kennedy, Ribicoff, is pretty remarkable.
I can think of several ways in which this is worse than larger private organizations (corporations for one).
. Your membership in government, as a subject, is non-negotiable. You don’t have to buy a car from GM or a computer from Apple.
. Government has the ability to kill, torture, imprison, depending on the whims of those running the levers.
. Government’s reach grows over time. A larger percentage of the economy in tax dollars, to redirect to it’s friends. Direct and indirect control of those things it doesn’t outright do.
All this to deal with the issue of village commons, badly behaved neighbors, the occasional bit of standardization.
They always seem to grow until they break.

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D. Pecker, Enquirer

01 February 2023

Detroit is not exactly dead. But it has morphed. It had to. I really enjoyed the Ford v. Ferrari movie. Sometimes the corporate world eats its own.
Some chicanery illustrated there in the various levels of management.
Japan dealt a major blow to Detroit in the aftermath of the 70s gas crunch.

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scenes

01 February 2023

Who were the original “woke”.
I am leaning toward religious groups.

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scenes

01 February 2023

I’ll present this as an example of how the freedom lovin’ people can deal with the religious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drownings_at_Nantes

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Bill Tozer

01 February 2023

ELECTRIFY EVERYTHING, BUT WITHOUT COPPER
Liberals want to electrify everything, from your car to your stove. But they also don’t want to mine copper. Like so many things liberals do, this makes no sense. You might as well believe in fairy dust as in “green” energy
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/electrify-everything-but-without-copper.php

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Bill Tozer

01 February 2023

Court Slaps Down California’s Attempt To Muzzle Doctors Who Dissent From Covid Groupthink
https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/01/court-slaps-down-californias-attempt-to-muzzle-doctors-who-dissent-from-covid-groupthink/

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Scott O

01 February 2023

DPE 1:46 – “Lincoln distributed counterfeit tickets for the 1860 Republican National Convention to his supporters to help successfully win the nomination, among other things.”
So? Does this make the Dems weaponizing the fed govt acceptable?
People go around murdering other people all the time. Dictators start wars.
Just what is your point or is this just babbling to try to distract from the dumpster fire our country is turning into?

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Don Bessee

01 February 2023

Why its an invasion –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/01/border-sheriff-illegal-aliens-admit-theyre-coming-to-u-s-because-of-biden/
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/02/01/gallup-800-million-people-want-migrate-us-europe/
😉

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Scott O

01 February 2023

DPE 3:00 – “I really enjoyed the Ford v. Ferrari movie.”
Half the movie was bull shit. But it’s Hollywood.
Hollywood types love made up reality – that’s why most of them are lefties.

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Bill Tozer

01 February 2023

‘It’s Far Too Late For A ‘Reckoning’ Of The Trump Years. The Corrupted News Media Are Irredeemable’
No amount of ‘painful road of introspection’ can fix what the media did to this country and to American democracy.
“As horrid as the media was pre-Trump, its shortcomings were mostly recognized as “liberal bias.” What they did beginning in 2017 and ever since isn’t bias. It’s dishonest. It’s malicious. It’s evil.”
https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/01/the-corrupted-news-media-are-irredeemable-its-far-too-late-for-a-reckoning-of-the-trump-years/

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Don Bessee

01 February 2023

Woke = racists
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-school-district-hit-civil-rights-complaint-over-segregation-teacher-support-program
😉

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Scott O

01 February 2023

BT 4:37 – “Liberals want to electrify everything, from your car to your stove.”
Actually, it’s the WEF types that are behind this. The useful idiots on the left just go along with whatever they’re told without much, if any, questioning.
I was a subscriber to Solar Age back in the 70’s when it first came out. After a few years, I could see the original idea was being co-opted and morphed into a religion. The original idea was to free yourself from the corp/govt run energy system and live a truly independent life. Look what that turned into.
Even now there are the few intelligent lefties waking up to the fact that the “green revolution” isn’t green. And they are finding out a few things about the lack of free speech that conservatives have been trying to tell them about for years.

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Scott O

01 February 2023

Total hilarity:
“[T]his lady actually had the CAUdacity to say that black people can be racist too… I had to stop the session and give Karen the BUSINESS… [W]e are not the majority, we don’t have power,” she continued.”
So – who was running the class? Who had the power to stop the class and give a white person “the business”?
“We don’t have power” says the person with power.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/woke-department-defense-equity-chief-writes-anti-white-posts-exhausted-white-folx

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Bill Tozer

01 February 2023

Not one, but it’s now TWO hotels the illegal ingrates have closed.
‘This Is A Free-For-All’: NYC Hotel Worker Describes Chaos As Migrants Have Trashed Rooms, Brought In Drugs
https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-a-free-for-all-nyc-hotel-worker-describes-chaos-as-migrants-have-trashed-rooms-brought-in-drugs

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Scott O

01 February 2023

re BT 6:34 – “…Describes Chaos As Migrants Have Trashed Rooms, Brought In Drugs”.
Remember, these wonderfully diverse and colorful folk are our nation’s future!
Oh boy!

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Don Bessee

01 February 2023

HAHAHAHA –
‘Socialist’ Bernie Sanders incinerated for embracing capitalism ahead of book tour: ‘Full of crap’
Sanders is charging up to $95 per ticket to attend his anti-capitalism event
https://www.foxnews.com/media/socialist-bernie-sanders-incinerated-embracing-capitalism-ahead-book-tour-full-crap
😉

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Bill Tozer

02 February 2023

Woke: Erase Women
God Supports’ Abortion? Planned Parenthood Vermont Erases ‘Women,’ Blasts ‘White Women’
The Planned Parenthood political arm in Vermont has refined its terminology … this time to be even more woke, if you can believe it.
The Vermont branch recently called for the term “women” to be eliminated from its “healthcare advocacy,” as Fox News Digital reported.
Looking through the Vermont Planned Parenthood social media pages, it’s clear somebody has drunk the woke Kool Aid — lots of it. And it was high-test stuff. Whether it be calling abortion access an “intersectional issue,” blasting “white women,” pushing for “gender-neutral language” or calling women, “people with uteruses,” its extremely evident that this particular Planned Parenthood branch has gone around Moon Bat Bend.
On TikTok, the page has over 44,000 followers and over 665,000 likes on its videos. It has massive influence to young users online but pushes blatant lies to them. But when you advocate the mass slaughter of human beings, truth just isn’t that important.
One video claimed that the phrase “late term abortion” is just a “political term” while another video claimed that abortion rights are for “people of ALL gender identities.” A different video presented a Planned Parenthood employee flicking off the camera at people who don’t support gender mutilation surgeries for transgender people.” One video also presented the idea that “my version of God supports reproductive liberty.”
Its no surprise that the group is advocating for the removal of the term “women.” Planned Parenthood, like most of the left, cares more about pandering to a progressive, pro-abortion, anti-science rhetoric than professing anything even remotely accurate.
This isn’t the first time Planned Parenthood tried erasing women. Previously, numerous Planned Parenthood chapters urged for the elimination of “women” in K-12 sex education curriculum. As Fox News Digital pointed out, pregnancy and fertilization would not be allowed to be discussed with female or male specific terms, simply by using body parts.
“The new phrasing is inclusive of gender and body diversity; it does not assume all females have vaginas and all males have penises, and acknowledges that some people’s genders are non-binary and they may not identify as male OR female,” it said.
Yes, because a man with a vagina can get pregnant. Glad that what our kids are learning is scientifically accurate information.
Women have a unique role in creating life. It’s a small step from interfering with that role to erasing women altogether.

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Bill Tozer

02 February 2023

‘The Whole Transgender Industry Is Founded On Two Faulty Studies’
Two studies that formed the foundation of the transgender industry in the U.S. should never have been accepted by the professional community.
“Though the Dutch studies were found to have selection bias and multiple, uncontrolled variables, they were broadly applied in the U.S.
“The Dutch study researchers only took healthy kids from supportive and reasonably healthy families,” Levine said. “They carefully screened kids, so if they had major developmental problems they were not included in the studies. But in the U.S. … the vast majority of these kids have a history of psychiatric issues before they developed gender dysphoria. The Dutch rejected these kids from their research.”
The Dutch study had 196 participants initially and only put 70 in the protocol. Only 55 then completed the protocol.
As well as having selection bias, the study was uncontrolled“
https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/01/the-whole-transgender-industry-is-founded-on-two-faulty-studies/

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Bill Evans

02 February 2023

Twitter is, in Musk’s analysis, “a flaming dumpster rolling down the street.”
Elon describes Papi to a tee.

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Bill Tozer

02 February 2023

And so it continues. Closed loop. Once you have memorized the names, they pop right up into your head and it’s the same players. No need to look up. Cambridge, Richard Dearlove, Stefan Halper…..
Any ‘Journalist’ Relying On A Russia Hoaxer To Attack Barr And Durham Should Be Tuned Out
The NYT’s reliance on a quote from Stefan Halper’s attorney to make its case is so laughable, Americans should disregard the entire article.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/01/any-journalist-relying-on-a-russia-hoaxer-to-attack-barr-and-durham-should-be-tuned-out/

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Don Bessee

02 February 2023

The head of the congressional jihadi caucus is no longer on the foreign affairs committee. –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omar-gets-boot-house-votes-off-foreign-affairs-committee-democrats-cite-racism
😉

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fish

02 February 2023

Posted by: Don Bessee | 02 February 2023 at 10:01 AM
Wonderful…..that’ll give her more to to spend with her husband….err…brother!

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Bill Tozer

02 February 2023

Just no pleasing some people
‘Antifa claims responsibility for attack on far-left Portland bar in retaliation for them ‘spreading Covid’ by staying open’
The bar advertised for a January 29 event held in “solidarity” with the “Atlanta forest defenders,” a group of militants that have created an autonomous zone south of Atlanta.
“The group said that phrases and symbols like the anarchist “A,” and “161” which calls out “that it was fascists forces whom originally paved the path of COVID as a genocide since April 2020 through the blood of primarily Black and Indigenous disabled people, a road of bones which now many liberals and ableist anarchists goose-stomp on in collaboration with the fascists to maintain a “normal” for keeping bars and other viral-friendly entertainment operating at the expense of disabled lives.””
The Worker’s Tap, the bar targeted by the vandalism, is a worker-owned and operated beer bar in Portland, Oregon. The bar required proof of vaccination to enter the establishment.
According to its website, “Our business is run democratically and profits are split amongst our members.”
The bar has held other fundraisers in the past for worker’s unions, sex worker organizations, and organizations providing medical care to the homeless.
https://thepostmillennial.com/antifa-claims-responsibility-for-attack-on-far-left-portland-bar-in-retaliation-for-them-spreading-covid-by-staying-open?

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Bill Tozer

02 February 2023

Biden’s Top Economic Advisor Is Out
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2023/02/02/bidens-top-economic-advisor-is-bailing-n2619074
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Oh my
‘Biden’s new adviser is a climate alarmist who claimed to have suffered an ‘acute mental health crisis’ as a result of Trump’s 2016 victory’
Outside her past role as ADVANCE professor for diversity, equity, and inclusion, Cobb has made a show of her ideological bona fides on Twitter, where she has underscored her support for BLM; her belief that “racial justice and equity are inseparable from climate action”; and her support for hiring on the basis of skin pigmentation or sexual preference.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-taps-climate-alarmist-kim-cobb-for-intelligence-advisory-board
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Don B @ 10:01 am
Some people do something

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scenes

02 February 2023

re: Kim Cobb.
Georgia Institute of Technology?
Isn’t that the same school as Judith Curry?
I’ll bet their staff meetings are a sight to behold.

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scenes

02 February 2023

hah…Judith Curry actually hired Cobb to begin with.
Hopefully there’s lots of talk about climate equity.

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Gregory

02 February 2023

Curry retired 5 or 6 years ago, is Emeritus now.
“Curry felt that although she was still able to publish professionally, she had become a victim of mainstream climate science’s overreaction to criticism; she believed the climate community had adopted a fortress mentality, defending insiders and refusing access to outsiders”

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Bill Tozer

02 February 2023

Transgender Inmate Who Committed Kidnapping, Murder Transferred to Women’s Prison
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2023/02/01/trans-inmate-sent-to-womens-prison-n2618969

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scenes

02 February 2023

A new-to-me thing.
Just more proof that MSM mostly consists of utter bullshit.
what it is:
https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/hamilton-68-a-new-tool-to-track-russian-disinformation-on-twitter/
what it really is:
https://www.racket.news/p/move-over-jayson-blair-meet-hamilton?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

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scenes

02 February 2023

“Transgender Inmate Who Committed Kidnapping, Murder Transferred to Women’s Prison”
Sounds like a Roger Corman movie.

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Bill Tozer

02 February 2023

“Sounds like a Roger Corman movie.” Living in a B Movie.
‘What’s Wrong with Hunter Biden’s Legal Team?’
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/whats-wrong-with-hunter-bidens-legal-team/

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The Estonian Fox

02 February 2023

Steve Sailer has another first-come column. He has written some inappropriate thoughts on the Memphis police problem with blacks – black officers, that is. And on the increase of blacks killed in auto accidents in the last 3 years – due to the George Floyd Effect.
He uses Occam’s Razor in the 2nd paragraph – though he doesn’t call it by that name.
He introduces an argument that will make it difficult to correct the lack of competent blacks on the Memphis force, and ends with:
“Second, tolerate less black representation in other careers. Mathematically, that’s the only way it can work.”
Good times a-comin’.
https://www.takimag.com/article/blacks-behaving-badly-in-memphis/

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Scott O

02 February 2023

re Hunter’s latest legal move. You have heard the saying that the best defense is a good offense?
Unfortunately – this isn’t a good offense.
It is, like most of what is on the lap top – offensive, but not the sort of way that will help him.
If he tries to go after folks like Tucker Carlson in civil court, there is that little detail of ‘discovery’.
I would think the last thing Hunter and his legal team would find helpful is prying open that which is not already known. We remember what happened when his baby-mama had to sue for support and Hunter cried poverty and they called his bluff and told him to bring everything to court. Oops!
“Ha ha ha – just kidding, sweet cakes – how many millions do you want?”
It was hushed up and she got plenty. From a ‘broke’ Hunter Biden.
If Hunter wants daddy to sic his legal goon squad on the folks spreading the contents of his lap top around, it looks bad – very bad. And – this still leads back to a court of law and a lot of nasty facts becoming totally legitimized in public.
Right now it looks like a desperate and stupid ploy as the last gasp of some one caught with their pants down (literally) trying to come up with a plausible explanation to the public and the DOJ.
I can’t see at this point why they don’t just charge him with some trifling crime and have Biden pardon him claiming he had to as the MAGA Rs were mercilessly hounding him and his family into financial ruin and some made up mental malady. It will go down well with the faithful and from there the DOJ can continue their radio silence as there is “an ongoing investigation” that will be covered up and shredded some years hence.

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Bill Tozer

02 February 2023

Scott O
For your consideration.
Hunter has been holed up in Malibu for a month with his defense team working on his defense strategy. On the small potatoes front, we now their is and active investigation into tax evasion. Someone in the shadows (Joe Biden donor) stepped up and paid Hunter’s back taxes, but Hunter still faces charges for the crime of tax evasion, and some wrist slapping stuff.
With that out of the way….Hunter has raked up millions in legal fees. The bogus threats to Tucker and others MAY be a ploy to get some donors to step up out of the shadows and pony up to cover those legal fees. He got half a million for his last painting and the rent in Malibu ain’t cheap….neither is his legal team. Its a fundraising ploy to pay off his debts.

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Bill Tozer

02 February 2023

Hispanic Democrats In Connecticut Introduce Bill To Ban Woke Term ‘Latinx’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/hispanic-democrats-in-connecticut-introduce-bill-to-ban-woke-term-latinx
No to the WOKE, no to erasing Hispanic culture.

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Don Bessee

02 February 2023

The pussies are bought and paid for what do you think the chi coms if we tried to pull this shit?!
US government monitoring suspected Chinese spy balloon over northern states
Senior U.S. defense official said government closely monitoring suspected Chinese spy balloon
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-government-monitoring-suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-northern-states
Montana Sen. Daines ‘alarmed’ at Chinese spy balloon, says ‘significant concern’ that ICBM fields targeted
Montana Rep. Rosendale denounces spy balloon as ‘clear example of Chinese aggression’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/montana-sen-daines-alarmed-chinese-spy-balloon-infiltration-calls-senate-briefing
😉

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Don Bessee

02 February 2023

OH damn he actually said it out loud! =
Hakeem Jeffries: Resolution Condemning Socialism Is ‘Fraudulent,’ Would ‘Undermine’ Democrat Agenda
The text of the resolution notes that “many of the greatest crimes in history” were committed by socialist ideologues like Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Hugo Chavez.
“Whereas socialist ideology necessitates a concentration of power that has time and time again collapsed into Communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and brutal dictatorships,” the resolution states.
However, Jeffries argued the anti-socialism resolution would “undermine” House Democrats’ agenda.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/02/hakeem-jeffries-resolution-condemning-socialism-is-fraudulent-would-undermine-democrat-agenda/
😉

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Scott O

02 February 2023

BT 6:48 – I suppose the well is going dry at this point. Now – who can Hunter put the touch on to rustle up a few more millions?
Maybe now the answer is no one?
With daddy’s power weakened badly, it’ll be hard to sell influence as he has been doing for years, so I think leaning on some body with money and something to hide is all Hunter has left.
The paintings only represent:
A – grease my palm and I get you into the oval office. But that wouldn’t seem to be of much value now.
B – grease my palm and I’ll keep your name out of all of this. Trouble with this is that names are spilling out all over. You know, the poor lad IS a druggie and that stuff from China IS awful deadly.
Brandon needs to get a closure on this shit with his kid ASAP.

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Don Bessee

02 February 2023

There are no such things as coincidences. –
Balloon drama is the worst possible lead up to expected Blinken visit to China
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/balloon-drama-worst-possible-lead-035900087.html
😉

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Scott O

02 February 2023

Well – here’s one reason Paul won’t be around here much anymore:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/02/hunter-biden-more-depraved-than-you-knew.php
Apparently there’s a Hunter Laptop Wiki.
Remember:
Hunter is the smartest man Joe Biden knows.
Follow the money.

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