282 responses to “Sandbox – 20apr23”

1. 

   Don Bessee

   20 April 2023

   The whole text of the yellen chi com ass kissing is telling as creepy grampa joes team is bought and paid for and then there is this. –
   The statement made two references to Biden policies that they believe make the U.S. “dependent on China,” and argued that their proposal would reduce that dependency. Republicans have repeatedly expressed concern that increasing U.S. adoption of electric vehicles and solar panels will leave the country reliant on China, which leads the world in manufacturing of those products and mining the rare minerals required for their components.
   The IRA limits tax credits on electric vehicles and solar panels to those whose components are mostly manufactured in the U.S. Those provisions of the law have sparked a domestic manufacturing boom, and climate activists predict that repealing the clean-energy subsidies would cripple a fast-growing industry
   https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/house-republicans-look-to-dismantle-bidens-climate-change-law-195610968.html
   Residents erupt as Michigan Democrats approve funding for Chinese-backed green energy project: ‘I’m angry’
   ‘We are tired of being abused,’ one resident told the state lawmakers
   During the Michigan state Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, lawmakers led by Democratic state Sen. Sarah Anthony, the panel’s chair, gave final approval of $175 million in taxpayer funding for Gotion — a subsidiary of the Hefei, China-based Gotion High-Tech — to build an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Big Rapids. The measure passed in a tight 10-9 vote with every committee Republican and three Democrats voting against it.
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/residents-erupt-michigan-democrats-approve-funding-for-chinese-backed-green-energy-project-im-angry
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   Don Bessee

   20 April 2023

   As if we didnt know the assholes who did the worst get the plum jobs, crackhead bidens lawyers partner appointed to head of DOJ investigations and then this too. –
   An author of the now-debunked public statement from 51 intelligence officials casting doubt on the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story revealed this month to Congress that Antony Blinken, then a senior adviser to the Biden campaign, was the impetus for the statement.
   Former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell testified to the House Judiciary Committee on April 4 that now-Secretary of State Blinken called him about the laptop story just days after the New York Post published it and that the call “triggered” Morell to draft the statement.
   https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/20/testimony-reveals-blinken-as-adviser-to-biden-campaign-spurred-letter-from-51-intel-officials-discrediting-hunter-laptop-story/
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   Bill Tozer

   21 April 2023

   ‘New Zealand’s Strongest Man’ enters women’s powerlifting competition to protest its transgender policy, forcing organizers to change the rules overnight
   https://www.theblaze.com/news/new-zealands-strongest-man-enters-womens-powerlifting-competition-to-protest-its-transgender-policy

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   fish

   21 April 2023

   See Atherton…..when you virtue signal by twice voting for that greasy little chunk of Oprah stool you just might get AFFH’d when you least expect it. And this after they managed to get East Palo Alto to clean up its act a little bit!
   

   ‘Ridiculous’: Atherton residents call for revolt over housing plan revisions

   Enjoy the new “vibrancy” coming to your neighborhood……
   Do Truckee next!
   https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/atherton-housing-element-revisions-multifamily-17907641.php

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5. 

   scenes

   21 April 2023

   re: Atherton
   You know what makes this sort of thing even more fun is that I’ll bet it isn’t only The State that’s on the other side. There’s bound to be a whole universe of ‘non-profit’ grifters that are happy to run lawsuits and keep a little of that sweet cash on the side. Heck, you could probably threaten to sue and wait for a ‘donation’.
   Such is life in Team Blue: World Police. An economy built on protection rackets.
   You know, if I was sufficiently rich and didn’t need to live near the office, I’d probably just bail from clots of people and buy a really large property. Even California is nice if you don’t have any neighbors, especially the sort that walk around with sleeping bags. Need city experiences now and again? Get a luxury apartment in Tokyo and avoid the magic of US street life.

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6. 

   scenes

   21 April 2023

   JHK on RFKJr
   https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/bobby-steps-up/
   (maybe worth a look as a candidate. It’s easy to be against Trump-as-a-person and the Democrats as the worlds-biggest-mafia-except-for-the-CCP)
   Team Blue Lawfare in Action by yer typical low-functioning elected person
   https://www.foxnews.com/media/journalist-matt-taibbi-threatened-prison-time-perjury-top-democrat-over-twitter-files-testimony
   Greenwald on NYT/Washington Post as tools for The Man and His 17 Intelligence Agencies.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxDp6U29tKc

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7. 

   Bill Tozer

   21 April 2023

   Well, if you wore a chastity belt, none of this would have happened to you……
   ‘L.A. Councilwoman Blames Toyota for Catalytic-Converter Theft, Opposes Motion Targeting Thieves’
   “Raman was joined in her opposition by Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez who argued that the motion would “not make our city safer” and that it could have an impact on Latino and Black communities.”
   https://www.nationalreview.com/news/l-a-councilwoman-blames-toyota-for-catalytic-converter-theft-opposes-motion-targeting-thieves/

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8. 

   scenes

   21 April 2023

   “and that it could have an impact on Latino and Black communities.””
   Well, I guess you could consider stealing catalytic converters as a form of jobs program.
   Also, in the immortal words of Ms. Raman:
   “Phasing out gas hookups is absolutely essential if we’re going to avert climate disaster.”
   I rather like the idea of single-sourcing all heat, cooking, water heat, transportation, in addition to AC/lighting/food storage to a single wire somewhere…plus you aren’t allowed to use nuclear power or fossil fuels to make the stuff.
   Hilarity will ensue.
   I wonder how many Tesla Powerwalls you need to get a day’s worth of an all-electric home in the winter.
   Ya know, and I might be wrong here, if you can’t buy a new gas home furnace starting 2030, it might behoove everyone to buy one in 2029. lol, just imagine the ‘lectric drops they’ll have to make to older houses starting in 2030. What about alternative sources of heat? Just imagine the opportunities for pipe freezing on a one week outage, you betcha.

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9. 

   scenes

   21 April 2023

   Reason #234153 why everyone needs to build up their library, their personal social circles, the facilities at home, ignore the bolshies who stop by now and again.
   “A Museum in Aarhus, Denmark has been renamed from ‘Women’s Museum’ to ‘Gender Museum Denmark’ and has created a statue of a Man breastfeeding a baby as a symbol of the ‘hybrid of the masculine and feminine’ in todays modern society. ”
   https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1649376739678728192

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10. 

    Bill Tozer

    21 April 2023

    ‘EXPLOSIVE: Whistleblower Points To Biden Admin Obstructing Hunter Biden Tax Probe’
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/21/explosive-whistleblower-points-to-biden-admin-obstructing-hunter-biden-tax-probe/
    ‘Ex-CIA Official: Blinken Prompted Infamous Intel Statement Calling Hunter Biden Laptop Russian Disinfo’
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/21/ex-cia-official-blinken-prompted-infamous-intel-statement-calling-hunter-biden-laptop-russian-disinfo/

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    Bill Tozer

    21 April 2023

    More on the former 51 Intel agents. Kinda like psul’s 17 Intel agencies including the Coast Guard.
    ‘Ex-top spy admits Hunter Biden laptop letter designed to influence 2020 election, Blinken involved‘
    https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/ex-top-spy-admits-hunter-biden-laptop-letter-designed-influence

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12. 

    fish

    21 April 2023

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 21 April 2023 at 10:55 AM
    Funny but not surprising that Mr. Counterculture/Stick it to the Man/Green Libertarian™ would go all white hard shoes and belt, and polyester suit in his sunset years!
    …….guffaw!

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13. 

    Bill Tozer

    21 April 2023

    fish @ 11:11 AM
    I remember when only Pentecostal preachers wore all white hard shoes.
    ———————————————
    Essay, quite the compilation of topics covered here.
    ‘Silicon Valley’s moral bankruptcy’
    by Victor Davis Hanson
    On the pestilence in Northern California
    https://newcriterion.com/issues/2023/5/silicon-valleys-moral-bankruptcy
    https://newcriterion.com/issues/2023/5/silicon-valleys-moral-bankruptcy

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    Bill Tozer

    21 April 2023

    fish @ 11:11 AM
    I remember when only Pentecostal preachers wore hard white shoes.
    The most popular math teacher in high school, a Mr. Bates, wore two tone wing tips—black and white. He was cool. Never had his class, but he always wore the same pair of shoes.
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/362798462004?

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15. 

    fish

    21 April 2023

    ….so even when presented with evidence that merely passing (or reinterpreting) a law doesn’t make the magic happen, progressive half wits still think they can prevent people from getting guns and drugs via legislation!
    

    The Supreme Court Can’t Stop Underground Abortion Networks. And They’re Thriving

    Good thing we got to see this story before Vice goes the way of Buzzfeed and probably psul’s favorite source for prolefeed….rawsewage.com too.
    https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3g98/mifepristone-supreme-court-ruling-wont-stop-underground-abortion-pill-network

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16. 

    The Estonian Fox

    21 April 2023

    Dr John Campbell reviews a 302-page U.S. Senate report issued 4/19/23. 22-minutes long.
    Theory that Covid-19 jumped from animals to humans in a market, no longer deserved “presumption of accuracy”.
    Advocates of natural transmission theory, “must provide clear and convincing evidence” for their argument.
    The report talks about starting transmission mid-Nov 2019 in China.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XccISIi-yo

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    Paul Emery

    21 April 2023

    Here’s a good one that shows where the Republicans are going with child labor laws.
    “On Wednesday Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former White House press secretary, signed the Youth Hiring Act of 2023, which says that children under 16 do not need to get permission from the Division of Labor to work or obtain an employment certificate verifying their age, work schedule, and written consent from a parent or guardian. In explaining Sanders’s thinking, her communications director claimed that previous permit requirements put an “arbitrary burden on parents.”
    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/sarah-huckabee-sanders-child-labor-laws

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18. 

    fish

    21 April 2023

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 21 April 2023 at 05:19 PM
    Attaboy Mr.Hard White Shoes…..stand up for regs!

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19. 

    Bill Tozer

    21 April 2023

    Did someone say polyester?
    “Biden’s old guard and the new hard Left play a game of mutual advantage. The new majority of radical Democrats allows the old fogies to bask in the limelight until they drop — exempt from counter-revolutionary criticism or inter-party primary challenges or demands to retire. In return, the codgers reassure the nation that old faces like theirs cannot possibly be polyester revolutionary socialists — despite their role in airbrushing and photoshopping the radical catastrophe unfolding before our eyes.” —Victor Davis Hanson
    https://patriotpost.us/articles/96665-friday-short-cuts-2023-04-21?

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    Paul Emery

    21 April 2023

    fish
    So you have no problem with 14 year olds getting a job without parental permission because that’s what this law enables.

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21. 

    🐠

    21 April 2023

    Posted by: psul Emery | 21 April 2023 at 05:44 PM
    So you have no problem with 14 year olds getting a job without parental permission because that’s what this law enables.
    So you have a problem with 14 year olds getting a job without all of the extra bureaucratic folderol….? Good lord but you’re a pathetic old feeb.

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22. 

    Paul Emery

    21 April 2023

    I have a problem with a 14 year old getting a job without parental permission. Do you?

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23. 

    Bill Tozer

    21 April 2023

    Silicon Valley’s moral bankruptcy
    by Victor Davis Hanson
    On the pestilence in Northern California
    https://newcriterion.com/issues/2023/5/silicon-valleys-moral-bankruptcy

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24. 

    Jose Koyote

    21 April 2023

    I have a problem with a 14 year old getting genital mutilation without parental permission. Do you?

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25. 

    🐠

    21 April 2023

    Posted by: psul Emery | 21 April 2023 at 06:10 PM
    There’s that legendary psul Emery reading comprehension on display again!
    You don’t care if 14 year olds have abortions and get sex changes…..but it upsets you if they get a job.
    Glad you’ve got principles psul.

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26. 

    scenes

    21 April 2023

    psul: “So you have no problem with 14 year olds getting a job without parental permission because that’s what this law enables.”
    Did you read the law? (answer: no)
    Do you ever do an research? (answer: no)
    Did you ever have a job a 18 or below? (answer: evidently not)
    From the law:
    “(1) Dispense with the state’s requirement that children under
    25 sixteen (16) years of age have to obtain permission from the Division of
    26 Labor in order to be employed;”
    The difference is that they no longer need a state certificate.
    Good gawd, it’s like arguing with a parrot. Maybe that’s the point of psul’s posts.

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27. 

    Proboscis

    21 April 2023

    I have a problem with a 14 year old getting a chemical sterilization and a mastectomy without parental permission. Do you?

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28. 

    Wile E Coyote’s ACME anvil

    21 April 2023

    I have a problem with a 14 year old immigrant being sex trafficked in America with or without parental permission. Do you?

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29. 

    Don Bessee

    21 April 2023

    Now thats rich, what are they going to arm them with T54’s since thats what they are pulling out of storage and sending to Ukraine? –
    Russia’s Medvedev threatens to arm North Korea if South Korea arms Ukraine
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/russia-medvedev-threatens-arm-north-135445574.html
    😉

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30. 

    Scott O

    21 April 2023

    If Paul actually had a problem with the welfare of children, he’d perhaps look into this:
    https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/04/18/biden-administration-official-unable-answer-whereabouts-85000-migrant-children/
    But that leads to his hero Biden, so that’s a no go.
    Please let me know when our nation is at a crises point with kids wanting to get jobs.
    BTW – both my wife and myself earned money for our labors before we were 14 and I’m pretty darn certain we didn’t have to beg permission from the govt first.

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    Pablo’s ACME 💣

    21 April 2023

    I have a problem with a 14 year old illegal alien being trafficked into slave labor. Do you?

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32. 

    Don Bessee

    21 April 2023

    The truth hurts psul and the biden crime family –
    CNN anchor asks if US wants ‘4 more years’ of Biden when 74% of Americans say US headed in ‘wrong direction’
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-anchor-asks-wants-4-years-biden-when-74-americans-headed-wrong-direction
    😉

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33. 

    Pablo Nariz

    21 April 2023

    I have a problem with a 14 year old getting their hair sniffed by Joe Biden without parental permission. Do you?

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34. 

    Don Bessee

    21 April 2023

    The demise of the 6 BILLION dollar loss girl is gone, wonder why it took so long? –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/21/vice-president-of-marketing-out-at-bud-light-amid-transgender-controversy/
    😉

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    Don Bessee

    21 April 2023

    It takes a lot to destroy a shit hole! –
    NYC Mayor Eric Adams says ‘migrant crisis’ under Biden administration has ‘destroyed’ city
    Eric Adams even took a hit at New York City politicians
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-says-migrant-crisis-under-biden-administration-has-destroyed-city
    😉

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36. 

    scenes

    21 April 2023

    “I have a problem with a 14 year old getting a chemical sterilization and a mastectomy without parental permission. Do you?”
    lol. Why bother.
    When you argue with a Democrat, you are arguing with people who are totally in favor of that.
    https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/04/21/lawsuit-rock-springs-school-district-encouraged-hid-daughters-gender-identity-from-parents/
    They just won’t say so because it’s essentially a thing that can’t be justified.

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37. 

    Gregory

    21 April 2023

    I have a problem with a 14 year old kid getting perfectly functional parts carved off by a butcher of a surgeon with parental permission.

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    Paul Emery

    21 April 2023

    Amazing how all of you avoid the question I presented. Actually it’s what I expected so no surprise. So I then can wrap this up by concluding that you would support 14 year olds working in meat packing plants without parental consent.

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    Bill Tozer

    21 April 2023

    Moral equivalency? Sing it poppenjay.
    https://fb.watch/k3cv_nPGI5/?

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40. 

    🐠

    22 April 2023

    Posted by: psul Emery | 21 April 2023 at 10:36 PM
    Amazing how all of you avoid the question I presented. Actually it’s what I expected so no surprise. So I then can wrap this up by concluding that you would support 14 year olds working in meat packing plants without parental consent.
    …..and there it is.
    Not at all psul. It’s what one does when dealing with a disingenuous weasel. You wait until he eventually discloses what is his real topic is and then respond. If it’s any consolation I’m not in favor, in general of children working in industrial settings.
    I do find it telling that I you ignore completely those other horrors to which I (and others here) referred to earlier because they aren’t on the menu of lefty topics that need to be addressed by you and your fellow progressive wind up toys. Telling ….not surprising.
    It’s not the welfare of the children that concerns you…..only that children can be used as ornamentation for arguments directed against your political opponents. It’s all you ever care about.

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41. 

    Bill Tozer

    22 April 2023

    More child abuse
    ‘European Reviews Find That ‘Gender Transition’ Doesn’t Solve Mental Problems’
    “In findings that will shock no one living in the real world, reviews of evidence in several European countries reportedly found that transgender treatments and surgeries don’t actually solve mental health issues as predicted. Many young people are talked into “gender transitions” because they are told that this is the best or only way to prevent suicide. But the evidence simply isn’t there to back up such a claim.”
    https://pjmedia.com/culture/catherinesalgado/2023/04/20/european-reviews-find-that-gender-transition-doesnt-solve-mental-problems-n1688895

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42. 

    scenes

    22 April 2023

    psul: “Amazing how all of you avoid the question I presented”
    I’ll answer a question for every question you answer you silly little man. You manage to combine the tiresome with the inane. It’s a nice break from Trumphate, but I dearly wish I had a paulfilter to dump the faux ‘questions’ into their rightful place.
    tl;dr fuck off
    everyone else:
    Child labor laws are interesting. There’s a lot more to it than some state-issued certificate to allow a kid to mow your lawn. Imagine telling some farmer that his kids can’t collect eggs without a state license.
    https://www.labor.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/Child_Labor-Rules-July-2-2020.pdf
    It really does hit at the fine line between individual agency, state control, parental control. Naturally there’s people who want The State to control all aspects of the deal. Crafting this kind of rule set looks tricky to me and always seems to accrete over time as all the do-gooders’ good ideas get layered on. Sorta like abortion law I guess, at what point does a proto-human receive a certain amount of legal protection?

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43. 

    scenes

    22 April 2023

    BillT@5:09AM
    The real demons here are, I think, the transgender-industrial complex. There’s a network of true believer educators, medical professionals, crazy (as usual) mental health workers, shoveling kids through this pipeline.
    If Dante were alive, he’d design a very special place for them. The problem is that it’ll be a decade or two before this great crime will be broadly recognized as one.

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    Scott O

    22 April 2023

    “…you would support 14 year olds working in meat packing plants without parental consent.”
    Would this be before or after their body is permanently mutilated without their parents consent or knowledge?
    Honestly, Paul – what kind of home life are you envisioning here? We have plenty of 14 yo’s running around looting and shooting and you’re worried about an outbreak of gainful full time employment? If the parents don’t know or care what is happening to their 14 yo kid, then we have bigger problems than what you’re worried about.
    A 14 yo out working full time? But, but, – they haven’t been fully govt indoctrinated yet!

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45. 

    Misanthrope

    22 April 2023

    Don, Scenes, Bill re: Hunter
    “Would Joe Biden be the president United States if there hadn’t been the laptop cover-up?” he asked. “I doubt it. Would inflation be where it is if there hadn’t been laptop cover-up? I doubt it. You know, we’re paying a price right now for the double standard in journalism.”
    ROTFLMAO!
    That means that Hunter colluded with the laptop repair guy to get Drag Queen Rudy G. to hand deliver the laptop to the RNC.
    So Crossdresser Rudy lost the election for Trump.
    MAGA took the laptop bait at their own peril.
    …and they are doubling down and continue to make fools of themselves over cokehead burnout Hunter.
    The laptop caused global inflation…lol!
    How clueless do you have to be to believe this shit?

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    Scott O

    22 April 2023

    Nice to see folks being honest about their intentions:
    “The Case For Making Earth Day a Religious Holiday”
    The Green Weenies have embraced this religion for some decades, now.
    So let’s get this out in the open and admit this will be the official state religion our forefathers warned us about. The trappings and catechisms are already pretty firmly in place with most all govt officials and electeds. And the money mill of dispensations is in full swing. I wonder if we are to eat bugs on Fridays?
    All will bow down to the electron – none shall consume energy from pagan sources!
    https://time.com/6273684/earth-day-religious-holiday/

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47. 

    Scott O

    22 April 2023

    “The laptop caused global inflation…lol!
    How clueless do you have to be to believe this shit?”
    Well – apparently you are, lil’ Missy. No one else is.

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48. 

    scenes

    22 April 2023

    “Would Joe Biden be the president United States if there hadn’t been the laptop cover-up?” he asked. “I doubt it.”
    I think you could make a case for it, especially if dug into a bit. As the Senator from Mastercard, Mr. Biden has a pretty long trail of crookedness in the family biz, but seems no worse to me than the average major league politician. Once the federal government metastasized to it’s current size, it all started to matter a lot more. Given the average voter’s tendency to follow a trend (just look at psul), even a small thing can have large results.
    The minute that overall control of the population is inorganic, imposed from above, the sleaze is unavoidable. There’s a reason that Soviet officials had special retail stores, nice dachas and cars.
    One dead nuts certainty is that COVID lost the Presidency for Trump via a combination of voting law change and a general feeling of doom. I honestly think that any administration would have been about as hapless, but the truth is that well-designed (or evolved) airborne viruses are simply a thing that humans are incapable of dealing with as of yet. Most institutional actions are pretty valueless.

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49. 

    scenes

    22 April 2023

    “The Case For Making Earth Day a Religious Holiday”
    I think I could live with that, but only if we did it properly.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordicidia

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50. 

    fish

    22 April 2023

    Looks like someone is going to have more time to spend with her ladies book club…
    

    UNEXPECTEDLY!

    Bud Light’s marketing leadership undergoes shakeup after Dylan Mulvaney controversy. Alissa Heinerscheid, who has led the brand since June, takes leave of absence and is replaced by Budweiser global marketing VP Todd Allen.

    When it involves matters beer related you are always in good hands with someone named “Todd”.
    I speak from experience.
    https://adage.com/article/marketing-news-strategy/bud-light-dylan-mulvaney-brands-marketing-leadership-undergoes-changes/2489431

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