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Sandbox – 1feb23

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

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  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    UH OH they are going to cut off the crackheads and the big guys cashflow! –
    https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2023/02/04/china-threatens-repercussions-for-downed-spy-balloon-reserves-the-right-to-take-further-actions-in-response/
    😉

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Boy, do the Dems have a problem or what? Gotta feel sorry for Biden. As VP, Obama had him go down and negotiate with Congress over spending bill. Now, it’s President Biden doing the heaving lifting by himself face to face cause he has no one to negotiate with the Senate from the WH. Not really.
    Omaha put VP Biden in charge of the Ebola outbreak, The Spring Recovery Tour, Ukraine, and more. But, poor Joe. Our VP ain’t up to the task. Covid, the border. Oh, she is going to a funeral.
    The Dems have a problem and it ain’t going away.
    TUCKER TO KAMALA HARRIS IMPERSONATOR: JUST FOR MASOCHISTIC REASONS, CAN YOU DO THE CACKLE AGAIN?
    https://news.grabien.com/story-tucker-to-kamala-harris-impersonator-just-for-masochistic-reasons-can

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    One way streets. The disunion
    THE GREAT SORT CONTINUES
    Last part:
    Ziegler provided another stunning data point, noting that one million net new people have moved to the state and registered to vote since DeSantis first took office.
    “Out of a million, about half a million have registered as Republican, and only 17,000 have registered as Democrats. So we’re just obliterating the Democrats,” he said.
    “I did not believe it. I had to go back and redo the numbers because I just couldn’t believe it, but it ends up being true,” he added.
    If the Great Sort continues, and America comes to consist mostly of hard-core red and blue states, with a diminishing number of purple battlegrounds, the possibility of disunion will become real. As I have said many times, the alternative to disunion is a rebirth of federalism. The days when New York and California could dictate policy to Texas and Florida (and many other states) are gone. If the blue states want to drive off a cliff, we may not be able to stop them. But the rest of us are not going along for the ride.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/02/the-great-sort-continues.php

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  4. Misanthrope Avatar
    Misanthrope

    The GOP crying room is full,
    The spy balloon visits while Trump was in office undermined outrage by Republicans who complained that Biden didn’t order the balloon this time around shot down quickly enough — or that he shouldn’t have allowed the balloon to enter U.S. airspace to begin with.
    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) falsely claimed that Trump would never have allowed a China spy balloon from reaching the U.S.
    “Would Trump have let China fly a spy balloon over our country?” Rep. Jim Jordan asked on Twitter.
    Craig Singleton, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told AP that Chinese surveillance balloons were sighted several times in the past five years. Some of them have been spotted near U.S. military bases in Hawaii, he said, though he did not specify when.
    Trump himself joined the call for the Biden administration to destroy the most recent balloon in a message Friday on Truth Social, saying: “SHOOT DOWN THE BALLOON.” But he did not discuss his own administration’s experience with China spy balloons.

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    We warned them –
    One of the main draws for cartels is that operating an illegal grow is only a misdemeanor offense in California and that business is cash only. Additionally, the region does not have enough law enforcement officers to patrol those grow sites and enforce laws against illegal growing operations, USA Today reported.
    https://www.breitbart.com/border/2023/02/05/mexican-cartel-style-violence-spreading-in-california-over-marijuana-grow-fields/
    😉

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Hold that thought, just some creepy grampa joe deflection –
    The anonymous official says, “Chinese balloons briefly transited the continental United States at least three times during the prior administration.” There’s no other details about when exactly this might’ve happened, or to what degree … namely, did they do full fly-overs???
    In the wake of this Dept. of Defense official getting Trump’s name in the mix, a handful of former Trump administration officials have come out of the woodwork to deny this ever happened during his time in office. And we’re talking heavy hitters — guys who’d know.
    The former Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, went on FOX News to flat-out refute what the DoD has said publicly … noting, if this had in fact happened during the Trump years like they claim — it would’ve been spotted and certainly reported by the media.
    Former Sec. of Defense Mark Esper also denied that 3 Chinese spy balloons had been here before, as did ex-Sec. of State Mike Pompeo. In other words, the claim is now in contention.
    😉

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  7. Misanthrope Avatar
    Misanthrope

    Don,
    DoD doesn’t agree with you.
    https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3287173/dod-statement-on-high-altitude-surveillance-balloon/

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘History, Not Ideology’
    The College Board’s recent revisions to its AP black history curriculum are proof that Ron DeSantis’s critiques were on point.
    “It is, in short, exactly the sort of unsparing yet aspirational, mainstream, apolitical African-American history course that DeSantis’s critics accused him of opposing. And now that the College Board has tacked back to the middle, DeSantis’s far-left critics have dropped their masks. The Human Rights Campaign lamented the exclusion of the “names of major black writers and scholars associated with critical race theory.” The National Black Justice Coalition complained that the College Board had “removed topics of critical race theory, Black Lives Matter, Black Feminism, and the Black LGBTQ+/Same Gender Loving (LGBTQ+/SGL) experience.”
    From “they’re not teaching critical race theory” to “how dare they not teach critical race theory!” Law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, who coined the term “critical race theory,” told the New York Times she was stunned that her law review article defining the concept of “intersectionality” would not be taught to high school students.“
    https://www.city-journal.org/desantis-schools-the-college-board

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 12:52 pm
    I would not take the word of any Defense Department that armed the Taliban with over a billion dollars of our high tech weapons.

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  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    The balloon gap is probably the most stupid Trump v. Biden argument I’ve seen yet.

    Congrats to Miss Anthrope and Don B.

    The fact that there is even such a thing as an ‘illegal’ grow shows how stupid California public policy is. I’ll bet that scarcely anyone wants a legal grow because of the amount of government sticking it’s nose up your business that that entails. The whole marijuana thing was presented as an EZ way to generate more cash money to be wasted by state and local officials, the result is obvious.
    Simply let Big Tobacco grow the stuff to some health standard, make sure the price crushes the folks in the woods, sell it via the retail liquor license people, done.
    I just love this kind of thing. From: https://www.theunion.com/cannabis/cannabis-representatives-talk-thc-taxes/article_ebee6207-6b5c-509c-8801-40de87f7a588.html
    “Let’s say cannabis flower that is grown on the ridge sold at a potential dispensary here in Grass Valley that has a 26% THC, which is considered a low THC – that business would pay and an additional 9% of gross receipts in addition to baseline of 4% of gross receipts that all consumers pay for concentrate – let’s call it a 60% concentrate of THC – the business would pay and additional 43% tax on gross receipts. There’s a business in Nevada City called Emerald Bay Extracts – they produce Rick Simpson Oil which is a high concentration of THC which helps alleviate symptoms related to cancer – that product, sold in Grass Valley would be served an additional 43% tax on their gross receipts plus the additional baseline of 4%.

    It seems that the only thing more ridiculous than a County Stupidvisor is a member of a city council.

    ‘Intersectionality’ is one of those words I’d love to never read again. The people involved in that grift are some of the biggest con artists ever to have been created, so there is a certain genius to it all. I guess if those folks didn’t make a living being outraged and stealing money from the rest of us, they’d just wander out into traffic and get hit by a bus.

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another loss for creepy grampa joe and the luddites –
    Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., introduced the “Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act” last week amid the Biden administration’s discussions of proposed restrictions on gas stoves.
    Their bill would prohibit the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) from advancing regulations on existing or new gas stoves that would ban their use or “would otherwise substantially increase the average price of gas stoves in the United States.”
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/cruz-manchin-propose-bill-blocking-biden-admin-banning-gas-stoves
    😉

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Empowering the new red guard, only right thought is allowed! –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/05/state-department-offers-free-speech-grants-only-woke-activists/
    😉

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 7:56 pm
    Last week or so, I say a new one from the Transgender protestors. Can’t remember if they were protesting a professor who said the wrong thing or some ban on Drag Queens performing for children or the exact circumstances. The sign read, “No Kink Shaming.” No kink shaming.
    That struck a cord. Once ‘they’ added gender identify to the mix to replace biology (science), things went from LBG to kink. And the kinkier, the better. Whole new ballgame. Kinky like Sam Brinton, a top nuclear waste official.
    And of course, they must be applauded and embraced or else. More over unhealthy Fatso, it’s now no kink shaming, you bigoted homophobe heterosexual.
    If you are offended by the word groomer, then you probably are one. Gays, lesbians, and Bisexuals act normal. They act like heterosexuals. Not so with the Kink.

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    That’s it. Just keep on moving. Farther, farther, farther north. Perfect.
    Migrants abandon NYC for Canada with taxpayer-funded bus tickets
    https://nypost.com/2023/02/05/migrants-abandon-nyc-for-canada-with-taxpayer-funded-bus-tickets/

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Nothing good thats for sure –
    Sixty-two percent of Americans say President Biden has not achieved much during his first two years in office, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows, despite efforts by Democratic leaders to frame that time as the most productive in Washington since Lyndon Baines Johnson’s “Great Society” agenda.
    Ninety-three percent of Republicans said Biden has accomplished “not much” or “little or nothing.” That view was shared by 66 percent of Independents and only 22 percent of Democrats.
    The poll shows the challenge Biden and Democrats in Congress face in selling their accomplishments to voters before the 2024 presidential election.
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/most-poll-biden-hasn-t-145345757.html
    😉

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    POSTED ON FEBRUARY 6, 2023 BY STEVEN HAYWARD IN THE DAILY CHART
    THE DAILY CHART: GREEN ENERGY REALISM
    All you need to know about how mindlessly stupid the fanatical green energy crusade is can be seen in this chart:
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/02/the-daily-chart-green-energy-realism.php

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Brainwashing our kids, time to kick the mouse house to the curb, they already have ruined many once valuable franchises –
    “This country was built on slavery, which means slaves built this country,” the song repeatedly stated in the Disney+ episode of “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder,” which reviewed the history of Juneteenth.
    “The descendants of slaves continue to build it, slaves built this country and we the descendants of slaves in America have earned reparations for their suffering and continue to earn reparations every moment we spend submerged in a systemic prejudice, racism and white supremacy that America was founded with and still has not atoned for,” the children chanted.
    “We made your families rich,” the sound continues. “From the southern plantation heirs to the northern bankers to the New England ship owners, the founding fathers, former presidents, current senators, the Illuminati, the New World Order.”
    Manhattan Institute fellow Christ Rufo shared a clip of the episode on Twitter, calling it “pure critical race theory.” The song also promoted the idea that President Abraham Lincoln did not actually free the slaves.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/disney-slammed-anti-white-propaganda-proud-family-reboot
    😉

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Disney Cuts ‘Simpsons’ Episode That Mentions Forced Labor Camps From Chinese Platform
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-cuts-simpsons-episode-that-mentions-forced-labor-camps-from-chinese-platform

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Emperor gavin should look in the mirror and at creepy grampa joe, cali has chased energy companies out and regulated them to death. 2 of the last remaining gas companies left the state they are strangling whats left so we import it all instead of producing in cali.
    Creepy grampa joe has decimated US energy production and has us beholden to importers while the war rages. DRILL BABY DRILL! Bunch of green new deal luddites! Buy more electric cars even though we do not produce enough electricity and ya shut down nat gas power plants while you are at it. They really do hate Americans. –
    Natural gas consumption hit a record high nationwide on Dec. 23. This upward pressure on natural gas prices was exacerbated by a drop in supply.
    “Net natural gas flows from Canada dropped by 4% in the first three weeks of December compared with the second half of November, and 9% less natural gas was delivered from the Rocky Mountains,” the EIA wrote last month.
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/california-gov-newsom-asks-federal-government-investigate-high-natural-gas-prices?dicbo=v2-onzzcnn
    😉

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dawn Patrol
    You go girl.
    Bongino clip
    https://fb.watch/iy33Dv_vMR/

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  21. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “”This country was built on slavery, which means slaves built this country,” the song repeatedly stated in the Disney+ episode of The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder,”
    I had to hunt around for a second, not the sort of thing I’d watch normally. Thought it would be interesting.
    After sifting through tunes for the show, which all seem to be stuffed with that mechanistic, Auto-Tuned voices, Pro Tools sound, I ran into this.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0kCH-ACgM8
    So there you go. Luckily they managed to carve out a graphic for the most important science done in US history, the promotion of the peanut. Probably not enough room to add the groundbreaking work for ‘application of air conditioning for trucks’ and ‘variation on a traffic light’.
    I’m tearfully pulling for a follow-on song, hopefully about how the Pyramids were built with highly advanced Wakandan power.

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  22. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Bongino clip”
    lol. Yeah, I had seen that before. Don’t know that gotchas really make any difference, even when there are scads of them, but it’s funny in any case.
    It seems to me that applying a simple model to ‘Progressive’ behavior keeps it all in perspective. While they might actually believe in all their feelz, I think the primary point is just accumulation of status and money. Those folks are simply working what they’ve got in order to keep some non-profit alive, some grant money flowing, a position in the Big Company Inc. DEI Department, control of a government agency. They would easily slot into some apparatchik gig in 1930 Russia rubberstamping God knows what, the actual belief system is unimportant.
    One central problem is that if you don’t know how to do anything observably useful, are unwilling or unable to learn, and don’t want to be a washerwoman (or washerman-in-a-dress), you have to take advantage of a movement. Naturally, most of the power here only exists to the extent we give it power. If you kneel, it wins. Where the rubber hits the road is in capture of monopolistic organizations…government, extremely large companies, the education-industrial complex…as they are much harder to ignore, and the first one is armed.

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  23. D. Pecker, Enquirer Avatar
    D. Pecker, Enquirer

    Bill, Scenes,
    accost
    – to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way.
    What happened to the right to free speech and to protest?
    I think Nancy Mace is a good representative to have in Congress and it is a good thing to point out the hypocrisy on both sides of the equation.
    But here she, and Bongino is echoing and amplifying in a very partisan way, is using the word “accost” incorrectly as a way to play to her base.

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  24. Don T Avatar
    Don T

    Bill Tozer 2:21
    How good is the word of someone that released 5,000 Taliban prisoners in September 2020?

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  25. fish Avatar
    fish

    The IRS, flush with a boosted enforcement budget that they totally promise is to go after rich people has… announced a crackdown on service industry tipped workers
    Wonder what they have in mind for the guitar case change collectors?
    Progressives = Suckers
    https://twitter.com/KevinWGlass/status/1622975029918203911

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  26. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    DP,Enq: “What happened to the right to free speech and to protest?”
    I don’t know how, in current US law, attempting to rile up a group of people to physically confront a public official is treated. Do SCOTUS members get special protection? In days of yore, if you stood on your soapbox and shouted at a crowd to go over to a Justice’s house and give ’em what for, it probably fell under some existing statute. The internet adds a funny twist. Is it accosting? does the resulting mob accost? is Nancy Mace accosting (answer: yes)? What is the illegal part? What is the immoral part?
    Truth is, the person questioned is a mentally ill dude who somehow has found a sweet grifter living feeding on outrage. To some extent, you have to give crazy people a pass. I’m more mad at all of us together for allowing those people a platform, money, and some power.

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    D. Pecker @ 10:55 am
    “But here she, and Bongino is echoing and amplifying in a very partisan way, is using the word “accost” incorrectly as a way to play to her base.”
    She was using the ‘accost’ in correct way according to your definition. The hearings were all about rhetoric. Rhetoric. Violent rhetoric. The kind of rhetoric that says the Supreme Court Justices (some) should NEVER know peace. Never? Not even for 5 minutes. That’s violent rhetoric and we all know words will trigger people who hear that kind of rhetoric, like the guy that tried to assassinate Associate Justice Brent Kananaugh.
    accost
    – to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way.
    Hmm. Like saying (tweeting) that a member of SCOTUS could not have a peaceful moment? Not even two minutes.? Never ever? That sounds like to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way. Very aggressive, IHMO.
    I am all for feee speech. Sure, you can’t threaten someone, but besides that and a few libel stuff, I see the answer to free speech is more free speech. I can’t approach you and say 1) “I am going to fuck you up”, but I can say, “F off or F off and die motherfucker or go F yourself..” The first is a threat of bodily harm, the others are free speech.
    The right to protest? Yes, we have a guaranteed right to “peacefully assemble”. Peacefully is the operative word. Yes, there may be required permits to obtain first in various locales….especially if it is going to impede traffic or block roads. And there can be reasonable curfews on right peacefully assembly.
    The obvious point of Bongino’s clip was if you are going to denounce hate speech or what have you and even try to censor said speech, then you best clean up your side of the street first.
    The witness testifying to the Committee did not have her free speech or right to peacefully assemble impeded at all.
    Speech, as all actions do, have consequences. She can say what she (the anti-Supreme Court lady) feels like and I and Dan and Nancy Mace can say what she feels like. There is no right that one’s rhetoric will go unchallenged or the opposing views cannot be heard.

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  28. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “She can say what she (the anti-Supreme Court lady) feels like”
    Also, if we’re going to be pedantic about the word ‘accost’, it’d be nice to be specific about what the words ‘lady’ and ‘she’ means.
    The telescreen is informing me that it was a Doubleplus good Ladyman. Off to the joycamp.

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  29. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    This is not the lamestream racist party line its the direct impact of the defund the police, blm woke bullshit that makes cops flee dem cities. Plain and simple. –
    That points to a dangerous confluence of trends that Memphis’ police chief acknowledged have dogged the department as the city became one of the nation’s murder hotspots: a chronic shortage of officers, especially supervisors, increasing numbers of police quitting and a struggle to bring in qualified recruits.
    Former Memphis police recruiters told The Associated Press of a growing desperation to fill hundreds of slots in recent years that drove the department to increase incentives and lower its standards.
    “They would allow just pretty much anybody to be a police officer because they just want these numbers,” said Alvin Davis, a former lieutenant in charge of recruiting before he retired last year out of frustration. “They’re not ready for it.”
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/deadly-brew-amid-soaring-crime-055518706.html
    😉

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Nothing new under the sun. Striking similarities. For a brief change of pace…..
    FEBRUARY 6, 2023
    THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: THE GIPPER VS. THE WOKE
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/02/thought-for-the-day-the-gipper-vs-the-early-woke.php

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  31. fish Avatar
    fish

    With Tyre Nichols’ family watching, President Biden pleads for assault weapon ban
    Way to conflate the issues you senile old grifter!

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Well….that should make it easier….

    NBC, MSNBC employees plan walkout in protest of layoffs…

    Going to be hysterical if they don’t see any change in how things function.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nbc-msnbc-employees-plan-walkout-in-protest-of-layoffs/ar-AA17fmvh

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  33. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: fish | 08 February 2023 at 08:51 AM
    Pity….only seven “journalists”. Ahh well….one can dream.

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  34. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “NBC, MSNBC employees plan walkout in protest of layoffs…”
    I admit that the irony measure here approaches near-infinite.
    Pretty soon, it’ll just be ChatNBC running on Amazon servers. They’re still working on getting the language models to tell the right lies though.
    of general interest: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    Worse than a crime…..a mistake! Well no…..actually a crime!

    Nord Stream Sabotage Was CIA, US Navy Covert Op: Seymour Hersh Bombshell Prompts White House Response


    Biden in February of last year: “There will be no longer a Nord Stream 2, we will bring an end to it.”

    Way to usher in WWIII you senile dummy!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nord-stream-sabotage-was-cia-us-navy-covert-op-seymour-hersh-bombshell-prompts-white

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  36. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Not a crime. Act of War.

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  37. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    In the meantime:
    “Former prime minister Boris Johnson suggested 100 planes and tanks should be given to Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces.”
    (meaning 100 of each)
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/boris-johnson-volodymyr-zelensky-ukraine-rishi-sunak-parliament-b2278316.html
    a quick looks at the RAF Order of Battle shows something on the order of 120 Typhoons and 20 some odd F-35s in their inventory. Naturally, some are broken. What he’s essentially talking here is giving all the RAF’s inventory of their primary fighter planes to Ukraine.
    Bummer that the Bureaucratic State that runs our lives, including Paul’s Beloved 17 Intelligence Agencies, has decided to go to war.

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Year Zero, a broken record. These kind of analysis all point to the same thing lately. It is upon us, not them, to stand and deliver. Up to us to save ourselves.
    ‘Far from the year America settled into ‘normalcy,’ 2022 was the year the basic systems we all count on started to break down.’
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/06/the-year-americas-basic-systems-started-to-crumble/
    When will we hit rock bottom and have our moment of clarity?

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Posted by: fish | 08 February 2023 at 09:07 AM
    “Pity….only seven “journalists”. Ahh well….one can dream.”
    Yes, the headlines say massive layoffs or employees given the boot, put the devil is in the details. 7% of the work force here, 125 employees laid off out of 20, 000 total there, and the stories repeat themselves. Just small fractions compared to the whole.
    And yet, collectively, tech has dumped 200,000 jobs….which is no small number. Media axes a few here and there, and yet it seems like they are going under, never to darken our eyes again. Wa Po cuts it’s weekend ‘Prospector’ magazine and bleeds money…yet it ain’t going anywhere.
    Ah well, I can dream. The only one that has taken a meat cleaver instead of a scalpel to the dead weight is Musk at Twitter. And Twitter, despite its popularity and coverage within the elite circles, is a relatively small outfit compared to the big boys. All Twitter did was take text and put the texts into a open format.

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  40. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “When will we hit rock bottom and have our moment of clarity?”
    “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” V.I. Lenin (actually, probably not, although it’s a good quote. Marx did say something similar but not so well-formed being an irritating bore and all).
    What we need is a good ol’ feedback loop. It occurred to me that societies that swing into rentseeker mode might well have a common breakdown and timing. The idea is that everyone goes hell bent for leather when the jig is closer to being up. Get yours while you can and all that, like a stock market rush to the door. The increase in activity brings the house down around it. The fight is not just for wealth but also for status.

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  41. fish Avatar
    fish

    Ooooh……Disney…..-7000!
    Nice quarter!

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    COVID and vaccine stuff. Takes awhile for the records to emerge….for those who are not on the cutting edge of Big Bro lies. The Kool-Aid drinkers are not to blame for eating what was put before them.
    1). Evidence-based medicine publisher held up mask meta-study because it lacked ‘right answer’: author
    https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/evidence-based-medicine-publisher-held-mask-meta-study-because-it
    ————
    Fauci paper suggests feds knew COVID vaccines were doomed from the start: ‘Decidedly suboptimal’
    “Systemic immunity” through intramuscular injection has never worked for respiratory viruses, ex-NIAID chief admits after stepping down, promoting “mucosal immunization” long advocated by critics.
    https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/decidedly-suboptimal-fauci-paper-suggests-feds-knew-covid-vaccines-were
    ———
    Masks had no benefit. Wonder how many people in GV and Nivarna City who boycotted restaurants and establishments forever because of not having a mandatory mask up policy
    (AND showing what the establishments really felt about their fellow man) are still boycotting the places? “I will never eat at Sour Dough & Co again!”- Little Kenny J
    Just wondering. But it was great for virtue signaling, lol. Only the selfish assholes who do not care on iota about their neighbors refuse to mask up. Right……
    One mo time.
    https://nypost.com/2023/02/07/the-cdc-grossly-exaggerated-the-evidence-for-mask-mandates/amp/

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    A bit old, a week ago.
    NY-CRT? Eric Adams presses city workers into ‘racial equity’ training: report
    https://nypost.com/2023/01/30/nyc-employees-mandated-to-complete-racial-equity-training-report/
    ‘Equity’ and our Constitution cannot co-exist. Racists push for Equity.

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    Bill Tozer

    What a surprise…..not.
    ‘Dem-Led City Reports Highest Violent Crime Rate In 15 Years After Defunding Police’
    https://dailycaller.com/2023/02/07/seattle-violent-crime-15-year-high/
    Best for Seattleites to move to farther north….keep on trucking

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    Don Bessee

    Already bored by creepy grampa joe –
    Less than 30 million people watched President Biden’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday evening, according to Nielsen Media Research data.
    The number of total viewers is down significantly from the 38 million who watched Biden’s speech last year and is almost half the 45.6 million who watched former President Trump’s first address in 2018.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/television-ratings-biden-state-union-233733834.html
    😉

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    Bill Tozer

    Normal vs Crazy
    ONLY SOCIALISTS CAN TEACH OUR STUDENTS?
    From Virginia, an appalling story: a woman appointed to the state’s Board of Eduction by Governor Youngkin was voted down by the Virginia Senate because she believes in America and opposes socialism:
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/02/only-socialists-can-teach-our-students.php
    Source:
    https://www.breitbart.com/education/2023/02/08/virginia-education-board-member-denied-confirmation-after-criticizing-socialism/

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    Don Bessee

    OH NO HE DIDNT! Telling the truth is a sin for socialist dems –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-hot-water-his-party-woke-democrats-drive-away-minority-voters
    😉

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    Bill Tozer

    Elon Musk says this unknown government agency is the worst for censorship
    https://www.based-politics.com/2023/02/07/elon-musk-says-this-unknown-government-agency-is-the-worst-for-censorship/

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    Don Bessee

    Cue the heat is on music now we know why creepy grampa joe had to take out a second mtg on his vacation home. LOL –
    “This is a desperate, frivolous, and laughable attempt to silence political critics of President Biden and his corrupt family,” he said. “It won’t work, and it will backfire—legally and politically—on the Bidens.”
    “I hope Hunter Biden is stupid enough to file a lawsuit, because the discovery—including Hunter’s videotaped deposition—will be manna from Heaven,” Davis added.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/08/hunter-biden-sends-giuliani-bobulinski-desperate-frivolous-and-laughable-letter-to-preserve-laptop-from-hell-records/
    😉

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    Bill Tozer

    About SOTU….VDH
    The mess of an address
    https://jewishworldreview.com/0223/hanson020923.php3
    ————-
    Joe Biden Tried Multiple Times To Cut Medicare And Social Security
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/08/joe-biden-tried-multiple-times-to-cut-medicare-and-social-security/

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