270 responses to “Sandbox – 19feb23”

1. 

   Bill Tozer

   24 February 2023

   Common sense is spreading!
   ‘Transsexuals Pen Letter Asking U.S.-Based Medical Organizations To Reject Ideology In Favor Of Evidence’
   “Activists have created confusion about what ‘trans’ is by couching it in an academic theory that deliberately obscures any definitive categories,” the letter continues. “In addition, they employ intimidation campaigns against any individual or organization that seeks clarity.”
   https://www.dailywire.com/news/transsexuals-pen-letter-asking-u-s-based-medical-organizations-to-reject-ideology-in-favor-of-evidence

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   Bill Tozer

   24 February 2023

   if you do not acknowledge a problem, it does not exist.
   A few minutes with Eric Erickson….a straight shooter through thick and thin and former Never Trumper.
   https://fb.watch/iVdXFYm-C3/

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3. 

   Misinformationrope

   24 February 2023

   ‘PolitiFact Kneecaps Media Attempts to Blame Trump for Ohio Train Disaster’
   The leftist fact-checker conceded Feb. 17 that even if the 2015 Obama-era regulation “requiring high-hazard cargo trains to be equipped with electronically controlled pneumatic brakes by 2023” was still in effect, it wouldn’t have made a difference in preventing the Ohio train disaster.
   “[The rule] would not have applied to the Norfolk Southern train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, because it was not categorized as a high-hazard cargo train,” PolitiFact wrote.
   https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2023/02/24/politifact-kneecaps-media-attempts-blame-trump-ohio-train
   Give then nine miles of track and a long rope.

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4. 

   Burp Burp

   24 February 2023

   What say you now Kenny Jonesy, Sheryl Cooked, and Dumbshit Howling Dick? Nevermind our local dumbshit teachers.
   ‘The New York Times Finally Admits Masks Don’t Do A @#%*& Thing’

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5. 

   Scott O

   24 February 2023

   I’d like to know why if the left thinks the Obama train safety rule was so damn important, then why didn’t Biden re-instate it?
   Apparently what they really want isn’t train safety – just something to try to club Trump with.

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6. 

   Scott O

   24 February 2023

   “The New York Times Finally Admits Masks Don’t Do A @#%*& Thing”
   Not so
   They helped an endless number of people to commit crimes without being recognized and they provided the left with a cheap, but highly visible virtue signal.

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7. 

   Don Bessee

   24 February 2023

   Looks like reality is setting in for the dems in the shitholes-
   For years, Republicans have sought to win over voters by depicting Democratic-led cities as lawless centers of violence that need tough-on-crime policies. In Chicago, some of the Democrats running for mayor are deploying the same strategy as they debate how to make the city safer.
   One leading candidate, who touts his endorsement from the Chicago police union, says “crime is out of control” and the city needs hundreds more officers patrolling its streets. Another hopeful says that if suspects flee a crime scene, officers should be able to “hunt them down like a rabbit.”
   Even incumbent Lori Lightfoot, the first Black woman and first openly gay person to serve as Chicago mayor, has used language right out of the GOP playbook, accusing a top rival in her reelection bid of wanting to defund the police.
   The shift in rhetoric reflects the degree to which concerns about crime have dominated Tuesday’s mayoral election in Chicago and threatened Lightfoot’s reelection bid. Far from being an outlier, the nation’s third-largest city is just the latest Democratic stronghold where public safety has become a top election issue.
   The increased attention on public safety follows a spike in crime rates in many communities that coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic.
   there has been disagreement even among Democrats about so-called progressive public safety policies such as ending cash bail or providing safe injection sites for drug users.
   The difference, he said, is that crime is no longer largely isolated to some predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods. As more crime is occurring in other parts of the highly segregated city, including in the downtown and other areas frequented by tourists, public safety is also top of mind for white voters
   Chicago has a higher per-capita homicide rate than New York or Los Angeles, but it’s lower than other Midwestern cities, such as St. Louis and Detroit. Still, the number of homicides in Chicago hit a 25-year high in 2021 with 797, according to the Chicago Police Department.
   https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/chicago-mayors-race-dominated-concerns-052259099.html
   😉

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8. 

   Misinformationrope

   25 February 2023

   The New York Times Finally Admits Masks Don’t Do A @#%*& Thing
   https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-new-york-times-finally-admits-masks-dont-do-a-thing
   The fat lady sang.

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9. 

   scenes

   25 February 2023

   BillT@4:57 from the article
   “Before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Albert Speer, who became the Third Reich’s Armaments Minister during World War II, blamed the dangers of modern technology, rather than the decisions he and others had made, for the catastrophes of the war and the Holocaust.”
   You know, there’s probably some truth to that. The ‘modern technology’ could be thought of as including improved organizational skills in addition to more mastery of the physical world. The sheer scale of the GULAG system is another example.
   Thing is, whether it’s Edward I expunging Jews from England or the French chasing around Huguenots, the dominant tribe stomping the lesser one is baked into the cake of humanity, it’s just that we’ve become more efficient at it.
   Them German philosophers sure can be a read though. Lotsa phrasing that sounds funny in English, a certain amount of word salad. If anything, a lot of this stuff lacks predictability. The seeds are always there. When you combine moral superiority with opportunities for personal advancement, most anything can happen.
   Dunno if it’s worse when the two sides are more evenly matched.

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10. 

    scenes

    25 February 2023

    from up above somewhere:
    “Boeing is broke, or Boeing is part of the welfare industrial complex, or both?”
    Both maybe?
    Aviation appears to have gone down the same Moore’s Other Law path that high-end semiconductors did. Every so many years the development cost doubles.
    At some point the situation looks to be so intertwined with government, and all it’s absurdities, that it breaks. The grit of monopsony and monopoly gets pounded into the bearings of the economy and things get ugly.
    There’s certainly no reason for government to encourage real marketplaces as it makes .gov control of it all more difficult. It’s a lot harder to build a bureaucratic empire atop a hoard of smaller businesses.
    C’est la vie. We’ll just have to hope that organizations like the Boeing DEI Department pull everything together through the superpowers of diversity and equity. It’s our only chance. Elon Musk would be well advised to steer clear of the airliner biz.

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11. 

    Scott O

    25 February 2023

    “Boeing is broke, or Boeing is part of the welfare industrial complex, or both?”
    Hardly matters. At this point, they’ve reached the Golden Plateau of “too big to fail”.
    I always wondered who Lehman Bros pissed off or who they didn’t pay off. Everyone else at that level got the bail out.

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12. 

    scenes

    25 February 2023

    “At this point, they’ve reached the Golden Plateau of “too big to fail”.”
    A really funny thing about that piece of our wondrous economic pie is that the Soviets had significantly more competition between aviation and space organizations (design bureaus) than the US did post-WWII. I believe that there were three separate space efforts at one time.
    There’s a decent book about Sergei Korolev (author: James Harford) out there. Naturally, the local library wouldn’t have it, not being a self-help or Ibram Kendi book.

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13. 

    Don Bessee

    25 February 2023

    The chickens are coming home to roost in the peoples republic –
    Seattle reverses course on defunding police as crime ravages locals: ‘A huge crisis’
    Seattle increased funding for law enforcement for the first time since 2020
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/seattle-police-defunding-crime-ravages-locals-huge-crisis?dicbo=v2-dfwrxsy
    😉

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14. 

    scenes

    25 February 2023

    re: DonB@12:54
    Seattle always cracks me up, so your post got me to some googlin’.
    I like this one.
    https://komonews.com/amp/news/local/seattle-homeless-crisis-encampment-washington-police-department-most-response-tow-company-pink-toe-truck-crime-2022-violence-attack-unsheltered-king-county-kcrha-tent-spd
    lol. It’s the very model of a modern Major-Clusterfuck,
    Blue United States of America in a nutshell. Even Red states get the same treatment because you can’t escape The Blue anywhere.
    Here’s the deal. If you don’t want insanely bad behavior from all of those perps, you have to be mean to them. The zombie hoards only understand a certain amount of force. Instead, there’ll be meeting handwavin’ about More Resources and whatnot.

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15. 

    Gregory

    25 February 2023

    dt’s 122p
    August 2020 had a great many threads unraveling. The one I was focused on was the publishing of Cynical Theories by the academics Pluckrose and Lindsey. Have you bothered to read it?
    Sorry (not sorry), the world does not revolve around Fox Snooze.

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16. 

    Dawn Tea

    25 February 2023

    ‘Woke Revolutionaries Versus Americanists’
    Some words of advice for Jim Banks’s new anti-woke caucus.
    https://americanmind.org/memo/woke-revolutionaries-versus-americanists/

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17. 

    scenes

    25 February 2023

    lol. Scott Adams jumps the shark.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6TnAn7qV1s
    begins at about 13:30
    enjoy the uproar.

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18. 

    scenes

    25 February 2023

    Nothing to do with US politics.
    Holy crap, check this out.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11790981/Mega-prison-El-Salvador-gangsters-80-beds-100-people-welcomes-inmates.html

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19. 

    Don Bessee

    25 February 2023

    Another peoples republic shithole –
    Armand Martens, an 83-year-old Vietnam veteran who also lives next to the property, told Fox 12 Oregon that he “felt safer when I was walking around in downtown Saigon when I was in Vietnam than I do here in Portland.”
    “It seems like all of the stuff they’re doing is enabling the homeless people,” Martens added.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-family-terrorized-fires-set-homeless-squatters-next-door-my-wife-was-screaming
    😉

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20. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 February 2023

    @ 2:29 and 2:54 pm
    Wow. Great doubleheader. While headline scrolling earlier today, I saw that Scott Adams did something very racist. I said within myself, “Scott Adams?”, and got involved in other things. Thanks for the rest of the story.
    https://www.rawstory.com/dilbert-cartoons/

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21. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 February 2023

    ‘ Biden Pentagon Orders Military Chaplains To Bless Putting Male Soldiers In Female Showers And Bedrooms’
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/24/biden-pentagon-orders-military-chaplains-to-bless-putting-male-soldiers-in-female-showers-and-bedrooms/

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22. 

    Don Bessee

    25 February 2023

    Harvard must be so proud of potato head, i heard they pay him in doughnuts –
    Brian Stelter on Friday falsely claimed Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop “wasn’t” labeled Russian disinformation by the establishment media after he continually furthered the false narrative as a CNN anchor.
    Stelter, who was ousted by CNN and hired by Harvard, was among the numerous media personalities that pushed the false narrative for months. At least 15 media personalities claimed Hunter’s laptop was likely Russian propaganda before New York Times admitted it was authentic in 2022, directly contradicting many in the Democrat-allied media
    https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2023/02/25/brian-stelter-falsely-claims-laptop-from-hell-wasnt-labeled-russian-disinformation/
    😉

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23. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 February 2023

    Damn it. Arrest his doctor ASAP for elderly cruelty. This is getting too painful and embarrassing to watch any longer.
    WATCH: Australian News Bursts Out Laughing At Biden
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-australian-news-bursts-out-laughing-at-biden

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24. 

    Scott O

    26 February 2023

    re Scott Adams – yeah, the left definitely doesn’t want the general population to hear the whole pod cast. Just pick out a couple of sentences and pound the table with them. I’m sure Adams couldn’t care less about the reaction. He knows how the news media in general will play it.

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25. 

    Misanthrope

    26 February 2023

    What are you afraid of Scott Perry?
    “The chief judge of the federal district court in Washington, D.C., secretly rejected Rep. Scott Perry’s bid to shield more than 2,000 messages relevant to Justice Department investigators probing efforts by Donald Trump to subvert the 2020 election, according to newly unsealed court filings.
    U.S. District Court Chief Judge Beryl Howell unsealed her extraordinary Dec. 28 decision on Friday evening, determining that the “powerful public interest” in seeing the previously secret opinion outweighed the need for continued secrecy.
    Perry, a Republican lawmaker from Pennsylvania, had urged Howell to block the Justice Department from accessing 2,219 documents stored on his phone, which was seized and imaged by the FBI last August as part of the 2020 election investigation.”
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-rejected-perry-bid-shield-032912391.html

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26. 

    Misanthrope

    26 February 2023

    Posted by: Dawn Tea | 25 February 2023 at 02:12 PM
    More claptrap from the Claremont Institute?

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27. 

    Gregory

    26 February 2023

    Scott Adams is intentionally poking the woke with a sharp stick.
    This is apparently the beginning of the third act of his three act play.

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28. 

    Gregory

    26 February 2023

    Posted by: Misanthrope | 26 February 2023 at 09:47 AM
    More claptrap from Jeffie.

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29. 

    Gregory

    26 February 2023

    Worth watching despite the text to speech narration:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U23Ho0m_Sv0&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D
    Horkheimer wrote “Traditional and Critical Theory”.
    In a very real sense,‘Woke Revolutionaries Versus Americanists’ is just that… Americanist being the traditions the Woke are doing their damdest to tear down.

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30. 

    Bill Tozer

    26 February 2023

    Jordan Peterson reads his own editorial
    https://fb.watch/iWSKpH6xVN/

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31. 

    Scott O

    26 February 2023

    Missy 9:44 – “…her extraordinary Dec. 28 decision on Friday evening, determining that the “powerful public interest” in seeing the previously secret opinion outweighed the need for continued secrecy.”
    Wouldn’t the contents of Hunter’s lap top have served the public interest?
    And that is why they covered it up until after the election.
    Yeah – extraordinary because if it was say, Pelosi’s “secret” messages we’d never see them.
    Ever.
    Funny how justice only flows one way these days.
    I thought the law was to be equally applied.
    Old white man thinking, I guess.

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32. 

    Gregory

    26 February 2023

    Ouch
    Wrong link in my 1026a
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5hn4hLq26P0

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33. 

    Don Bessee

    26 February 2023

    What you get when the eco warriors take control and an advance view of what newsom has instore for cali –
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/02/26/cost-of-net-zero-fruit-and-vegetable-rationing-in-britain-could-last-until-may-warn-farmers/
    😉

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34. 

    Don Bessee

    26 February 2023

    So we just saw what happens when you lower standards that led to 5 black cops beating a guy to death –
    Bass’ summary of goals for police reform includes a list of provisions as well as dates by which the department must report back regarding progress. One provision says a deputy mayor will work in conjunction with a “third party” to “evaluate the personnel process and identify obstacles to entry for recruits who fail to qualify for training.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/la-mayor-bass-calls-root-out-right-wing-extremist-police-signals-lowering-bar-new-recruits
    😉

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35. 

    Bill Tozer

    26 February 2023

    Migrant encounters at southern border hit 1,000,000 mark for FY 2023, outpacing prior year: sources
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/migrant-encounters-southern-border-hit-1000000-mark-fy-2023-sources
    ————-
    More common sense spreading.
    ‘Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Condemns ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Children’
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/benbartee/2023/02/25/association-of-american-physicians-and-surgeons-condemns-gender-affirming-care-for-children-n1673755
    Woke equals butchery, no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

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36. 

    Bill Tozer

    26 February 2023

    ‘Childish Beliefs Drive Energy and Agricultural Agendas’
    https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2023/02/25/childish-beliefs-drive-energy-and-agricultural-agendas-n2619959

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37. 

    Bill Tozer

    26 February 2023

    ‘Team DeSantis Shows The Only Way To Beat The Lying Media Is To Cut Them Off’
    “Just this week, NBC’s longtime purveyor of propaganda Andrea Mitchell wrongfully claimed during an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris that the Republican governor “says that slavery and the aftermath of slavery should not be taught to Florida schoolchildren.””
    “DeSantis’ office didn’t just shame Mitchell for spreading lies about the governor and Florida law, which requires students to learn about slavery, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, and more. The governor’s press secretary Bryan Griffin also called out NBC for being “maliciously intent on deceiving people” and threatened to cut off the media giant’s access to information, comment, and interviews from the governor, who is one of the top polling Republicans for the 2024 presidential ticket.”
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/23/team-desantis-shows-the-only-way-to-beat-the-lying-media-is-to-cut-them-off/

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38. 

    scenes

    27 February 2023

    In local news.
    Looking outside at 10:00AM, you do have to wonder what the plan is when everyone lives in the Great State of California Gubmint goal of all-electric apartments.
    Ideally, the few people not using mass transit will have a Tesla which is also used as battery back-up for the grid.
    All run by unreliable solar and wind power. Hallelujah.
    We’ll have less CO2 in the air but a lot better survival skills heating up canned goods with a match. George R’s childhood would serve everyone well in our brave new future.

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39. 

    Beep Beep

    27 February 2023

    sterno rules the world.

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40. 

    scenes

    27 February 2023

    “sterno rules the world.”
    What I’ve found works a treat when you live in an area with Third World electricity is a high quality butane stove, instead of one of those $20 ones. It’s the kind of thing the Japanese do a good job of making.
    Come to think of it, they make a lot of really good products at the high end, everyone should own a Nepros wrench. Not an easy sell in the US, where everyone wants to stuff their house full of kipple.

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41. 

    Don Bessee

    27 February 2023

    The chi coms are laughing their asses off at the stupid west destroying their economies on the altar of global warming –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/china-unleashes-massive-coal-power-expansion-despite-john-kerrys-climate-pleas?dicbo=v2-gpvwopc
    😉

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42. 

    The Estonian Fox

    27 February 2023

    DB 12:57 PM- Re China coal plants:
    “with many projects sprouting up, gaining permits, obtaining financing and breaking ground apparently in a matter of months.”
    Too bad we don’t have such quick turnaround on govt permits for our electrical-grid power plants. Sounds like the Chinese have a nirvana for capitalistic efficiencies.

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43. 

    Don Bessee

    27 February 2023

    Team global warming now says everything is caused by global warming –
    How climate change is making California’s weather more extreme
    California has been hit with an especially cold and wet winter, in which low temperature records have been set and the Sierra snowpack is poised to eclipse its all-time high
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/how-climate-change-is-making-californias-weather-more-extreme-215510428.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink
    😉

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44. 

    Scott O

    27 February 2023

    scenes 12:03 – A two-fer! I’d never heard of Nepros tools or the term kipple. The Nepros tools appear a bit pricey but if you have the dosh, go fer it.
    I find the newer Harbor Freight hand tools to be actually quite good – I’ve never broken a single one and the chrome is perfect so far. The off-shore Craftsman tools are junk. Flaking chrome and soft metal. I look for the older American made ones on flea-bay or yard sales. I do have some Koken sockets (Whitworth) from 1970 that have served well and can recommend them. I do love good tools made when quality was paramount. My fine measuring tools are mostly Starrett (est 1880 Athol, Mass) but Mitutoyo ones are in there as well.
    Kipple is an interesting term and I admit it is a constant fight to rid my life of the stuff. About 40 pounds of the stuff went into the garbage can last week.

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45. 

    Don Bessee

    27 February 2023

    Get woke go broke they could not even give it away –
    Like other woke Hollywood awards shows, the SAG Awards is facing dwindling public interest, with ratings plummeting to alarmingly low levels. In 2013, the SAG Awards drew more than 5 million viewers, which was considered low at the time. Last night’s viewership represents less than 30 percent of that.
    As a result, broadcasters like TNT and TBS are opting to dump the low-rated broadcasts for which they would normally have to pay a hefty price to the awards organizer. The IFC Channel recently decided it won’t air the low-rated Indie Spirit Awards, which will now be streamed on YouTube.
    As Breitbart News reported, Netflix announced in January a multiyear deal to stream the SAG Awards. This year’s broadcast was streamed on Netflix’s YouTube channel, with plans to stream the event live globally on Netflix’s platform starting next year.
    This year’s Golden Globes broadcast on NBC also saw its ratings tumble to a new low.
    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/02/27/woke-ratings-fail-sag-awards-viewership-drops-to-1-5-million-even-when-streaming-for-free-on-youtube/
    😉

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46. 

    Scott O

    27 February 2023

    Don B 3:42 – Dude! You are soooo totally late 1900’s! Global Warming might have been “settled science” but science has been re-settled to now proclaim “climate change” and increasing “extreme weather events” to be the booga-booga needed to get the cattle herded in the proper direction.
    Mindless fear has worked for eons to let the ruling class have their way. The facts no longer matter when you’re dealing with ignorant zealots at the bottom and evil lying scum bags at the top.

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47. 

    Bill Tozer

    27 February 2023

    That Crazy Cuban: Rafael Edward Cruz, Latino heat. Sizzling.
    Ted Cruz Tees Off On Dr. Fauci: ‘Done More Damage Than Any Bureaucrat In The History Of The United States’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/ted-cruz-tees-off-on-dr-fauci-done-more-damage-than-any-bureaucrat-in-the-history-of-the-united-states

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48. 

    Bill Tozer

    27 February 2023

    When all else fails…..
    ‘Her Time is Up:’ Lori Lightfoot Torched for Claiming Voters Oppose Her Because She’s Black
    https://www.dailyfetched.com/her-time-is-up-lori-lightfoot-torched-for-claiming-voters-oppose-her-because-shes-black-2/
    Hmm. You mean the same voters who elected her to office?

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49. 

    Scott O

    27 February 2023

    Bill T – “You mean the same voters who elected her to office?”
    Stop it, Bill – you know what logic does to the left. It’s like teasing a retarded dog.

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50. 

    Don Bessee

    27 February 2023

    Massive narrative failure again by team creepy grampa joe –
    Washington Post Reviews ‘Every Possible Regulatory Change’ Made Under Trump, Finds None Contributed to East Palestine Train Derailment
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/27/washington-post-reviews-every-possible-regulatory-change-made-trump/
    😉

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