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[What a bunch of journalistic wimps are the lamestream media.  Already famous for their selective censoring of news which conflicts with their fragile ideology, they now show that they cannot even tolerate a smidgeon of balanced views with NBC hiring and then firing former RNC head Ronna McDaniel when their vaunted cadres of woke talking heads became hysterical at the thought of sharing airtime with a conservative.  You really must have vacuum between your ears to let outlets like that be your news source.  gjr]

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133 responses to “Sandbox – 26mar24”

  1. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Wheee! Clean litterbox!
    Global warming, universal requirements for vaccinations. Pride giving children access to genital vivisectioning.
    Nope.

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  2. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    I’ll take Desperately Mentally Ill for $800 Alex…..

    Trans man transitioned, detransitioned then transitioned again…

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/ar-BB1kyCDM

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  3. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    In an earlier time, that fellow would be a happy butch lesbian without an addiction to ‘script testosterone.

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another day in creepy grampa joe land –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrat-campaign-call-reveals-panic-mode-rfk-jr-white-house-bid-scramble-save-biden-relection-hopes
    Biden claims he took train over Francis Scott Key Bridge ‘many, many times’ – despite there being no rail lines.mp4
    President Biden falsely claimed he had taken a commuter rail over the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland “many many times” even though it did not have any rail lines.
    https://www.foxnews.com/video/6349765827112?dicbo=v2-eJWMNAn
    😉

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Screw the citizens, they never did this for vets or other Americans &$)@&$ that gov, spend the money on deportations –
    On Tuesday, commentator Howie Carr posted a long list of freebies that the state is handing to illegals. His list is extensive and includes costs for housing, food, clothing, rent, and many more expenditures.
    Carr’s list includes $150 per day for each illegal staying in a free hotel room, $64 per day in meal costs per person, free medical care, dry cleaning, housekeeping, free Ipads, cell phones, chargers, clothing, diapers, baby supplies, car seats, education, legal services, and many, many other line items.
    Hochul is suffering from a transparency problem, though. The questions over where all the money is going is a serious one. Recently, the Boston Herald asked the state to supply a full accounting of where all the money is going.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/26/ny-gov-kathy-hochul-dumping-2-4billion-into-migrant-care-pushing-state-funded-housing-construction/

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  6. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Gregory from previous sandbox: “Regarding the upcoming Pride daze… how many Nevada City parents are proud for their children to undergo sterilization as a teenager? As a young adult?”
    I want a new drug
    One that won’t give me fits
    It’ll grow me long blonde hair
    Make me grow, great big tits
    I want a new drug
    One that makes me a chick
    One that won’t make my hair fall out
    Or make my waist too thick
    One that won’t make me crazy
    Wondering what to do
    One that makes my pronouns change to something that’s brand new.
    When I’m alone with you

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  7. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    A politician who is in court partly because he cheated on his wife while she was pregnant and was also accused of groping and grabbing a woman by her pussy in a store and then defaming her is now hawking the “God Bless the USA” edition Holy Bible for profit and to pay lawyer fees for those who are defending him against his sins.
    Of course MAGA loons will lap this swill up.
    You cannot make this stuff up.

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  8. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    George, it’s a free country and businesses can do what they want as far as hiring or firing their employees.
    Why would a mainstream news network like NBC consider hiring an election denier who shills for Donald Trump in his attempts to steal the election like Ronna McDaniels?
    She obviously doesn’t have a problem repeating conspiracy theories and fake news.
    She calls it taking one for the team.
    NBC should have a variety of voices of different political persuasions on their shows, just not a lying MAGA shill.
    Any so-called RINO Republican who is despised by Marjorie Taylor Green, Matt Gates, Josh Hawley, and the freedom caucus would be acceptable in my book.

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  9. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: Individual Juan | 27 March 2024 at 07:33 AM
    You cannot make this stuff up.

    I heard Joe Biden took Amtrak across the Francis Scott Key Bridge every day for a decade. Did you know his son Beau died on that bridge?

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  10. Scott O Avatar

    “George, it’s a free country and businesses can do what they want as far as hiring or firing their employees.”
    Sure – ask anyone in HR. They can do whatever they want.
    Actually – that wasn’t even George’s point, but whatever lie you can think of to try to deflect from the issue is quite amusing.

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  11. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Talk about not being able to make this stuff up……

    Biden Vows To Fight Ban On Pride Flags At US Embassies After Signing It


    Joe Biden was apparently fooled into signing into law a ban on flying gay pride flags at American embassies, with his administration vowing to fight the measure despite his signature approving it.


    Did you know that his son Beau died fighting for the Pride flag…..?
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-vows-fight-ban-pride-flags-us-embassies-after-signing-it

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  12. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    NBC did hire lying CIA assholes to spread BS to throw an election. And Jeff lapped that up.
    BSNBC has been running a brainwashing operation for years.

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  13. Scott O Avatar

    re the provision in the spending bill to authorize US embassies to only fly the American flag:
    It is immediately viewed by the left as an “attack” against the alphabet people.
    Typical.
    “You agree with me or you’re attacking me!”
    Childish twaddle.

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  14. Scott O Avatar

    I think the US military will end up killing more civilians than the IDF.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/18-killed-gaza-trying-reach-aid-pentagon-vows-more-airdrops
    This is our vaunted military who will protect us from our enemies!
    “Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh has noted there have been recent instances of parachute malfunctions when delivering the aid.”
    Yes – but…
    Were the pronouns correct?

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  15. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “She obviously doesn’t have a problem repeating conspiracy theories and fake news.”
    -Jeffy
    You got quotes backing that up?

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  16. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I was reading Der Union this morning and laughing about the front page. Lotsa non-profit talk and general useless handwaving by county government.
    Also, I was reading a science article about butterflies let loose on an island that had parasitic wasps that had parasitic wasps
    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/butterflies-parasitic-wasps-finland
    This gives me a can’t-miss idea. A useless non-profit that gets grants from useless non-profits.
    I mean, seriously, this is a good plan.

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  17. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    GOPMAGA includes what is important to them in the spending bill… banning pride flags is much more important than balancing the budget, funding Ukraine or passing a border bill.

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  18. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    jeffie…and putting meat on the bones of your claims is not important to you. Got it.
    I didn’t expect you’d rise to the occasion.

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  19. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Now that Jeff is here… perhaps he’d expound on his son’s preparation at the Gates high school in town. I was concerned that the last two years of his class were shortchanged by Gidotti. Were they?

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  20. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Todays phrase that pays……!

    Houston Mayor John Whitmire says city is ‘broke’ after decades of overspending that has stopped them from being able to pay firefighters


    ‘I think we can all agree that we’re broke,’ Whitmire said, before proposing the planned cuts.

    Not to worry….I’m sure President Brainstem will be right there to bail them out like he did earlier with Illinois!
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/texas/article-13245311/Houston-Mayor-John-Whitmire-says-city-broke-decades-overspending-stopped-able-pay-firefighters.html

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  21. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    “Famed pilot Charles Lindbergh argued strongly for isolationism as a leading member of the America First Committee in 1940 and 1941. Other prominent Americans, such as former President Herbert Hoover, were also proponents of isolationism. One of the largest anti-war organizations in U.S. history, the committee dissolved 3 days after the Japanese attack in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.”
    “America First”, sound quite MAGA
    And we were bombed at Pearl Harbor.
    #MAGAMORONS
    https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/ww2/Pages/before-isolation.aspx#:~:text=The%20attack%20on%20Pearl%20Harbor%2C%20on%20Dec.,war%20they%20hoped%20to%20avoid.

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  22. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Indy Jeff
    You just can’t stand still and answer rational questions, can you?

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  23. Scott O Avatar

    Hilarious!
    “And we were bombed at Pearl Harbor.”
    Idiot Juanita just found out.

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  24. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    It hasn’t been covered by MSNBC recently.

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  25. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The dark lord of the former liberal lament land needs an editor –
    sound quite MAGA should be sounds quite MAGA ROFLOL –
    😉

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  26. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: Individual Juan | 27 March 2024 at 04:06 PM
    And we were bombed at Pearl Harbor.

    Did you know that his son Beau died fighting at Pearl Harbor…..?

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  27. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    scenes @ 03:39 PM
    Looking at the Nevada County salaries/benefits – I thought that women were only paid 80% of men’s salaries. Half of the 36 highest paid folks are women. Or have women’s names. A shame the 80% rule doesn’t apply to Cali/Nevada – might save some money.
    If there were only some way to get competition to the county govt.- maybe salaries would come down.

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  28. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    ….and in Gregory news!

    Stanford Professor Behind California’s New Equity-Focused Math Curriculum Accused of Bogus Citations

    That’s so gay…..Claudine Gay specifically….that is!
    https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/03/21/stanford-professor-behind-californias-new-equity-focused-math-curriculum-accused-of-bogus-citations-n3785175#google_vignette

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  29. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Jo Boaler is a mathematical ZERO.

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
  31. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    EF@5:30 “Looking at the Nevada County salaries/benefits – I thought that women were only paid 80% of men’s salaries. Half of the 36 highest paid folks are women. ”
    Judging from local radio, every single manager and talking head from county .gov is female. I’d have to guess that their hiring and advancement has been predicated on gender for some time. I admit that I’d probably prefer an emergency services exec to be a grizzled old dude who has seen it all instead of County Barbie with uptalk, but it’s mostly about meetings and reports and stakeholders and whatnot anyway. The money in a grant-based world has to go somewhere and it might as well be the current recipients.
    Dunno if government will be the last holdout of humanity, including make-work, or if GPT-GOV will be a thing real soon.

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  32. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    EF: “If there were only some way to get competition to the county govt.- maybe salaries would come down.”
    There’s always been outsourcing, but you just end up with the office in charge of outsourcing spending as much money as the outsourcing itself, plus the outsourcing goes to your special friends. Twas always thus.
    Over time, I can’t imagine a government that doesn’t become wealthy on the backs of it’s citizens. The combination of monopoly and threat of force will, over time, always lead to the same results, good deeds or not. There’s a reason the GULAG camp commanders could live in luxury, Venetian Doges had good art collections, the Clinton are sittin’ pretty, and it wasn’t from running a successful plumbing supply business.
    I’ve always admired the local government wage ratchet that has happened in my lifetime. (1) We need job guarantees because we don’t make much. (2) We need better benefits because we don’t make much. (3) We need good wage-based pensions because we don’t make much and we are selfless servants (4) We need high wages to attract ‘talent’ (which brings up the pensions, naturally). On the Left there’s the knee-jerk reaction to the goodness of anything ‘union’, on the Right a certain amount of automatic praise of anything public safety oriented.
    It’s all good.

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  33. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: DB@9:40PM Sacramento government + Homeless = disaster.
    Oh well. Now that they are a Transgender Sanctuary City
    https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/sanctuary-city-transgenders-sacramento/
    all will be good. Surgery and drugs for kids is the hobby of ‘health’ officials and hobbyist crazy moms (and, like they say, ‘A transgender 4 year old is like a vegan cat. We all know who’s making the lifestyle choices’) and the effect on society certainly can’t be any worse than the Black Plague or an asteroid strike.
    I’m rather hoping for a full-on Pride Parade locally. There’s something missing in any California polis that lacks men in chaps, activist 6th grade teachers leading their class with signs, overweight drag queens with prosthetic breasts, and cheering mommies holding up their children to watch the show. There really isn’t enough absurdity in life, so I’m all for more of it.

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  34. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    So disappointed in our resident C-lyin….

    Dem special election blowout in ALABAMA!
    MAGA loses again…
    Underscores abortion threat…
    ANOTHER house seat flips…

    There’s all this on Drudge and he can’t be bothered to drop by and gloat?
    …..not a world I want to live in!

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  35. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    A bit of edifying sanity re Baltimore……

    “This deserves a bit more because frankly, I’m getting tired of the nuts.
    Indeed this might get added to my FAQ here (go see the section on “Troofers” for what happens if you run that garbage on my forum, whether in the comment section or otherwise) because it is getting about that stupid.
    Let’s talk a bit about boat handling, especially single-screw vessels. Most props (unless you have twins) are what are called “right hand” screws. When going ahead the torque effect and the rotation of the water column coming off the screw tend to move the stern of the ship to starboard, and since the vessel only has applied moment (force) at the stern this means if the stern goes starboard the bow goes to port. Each vessel has an “effective” pivot center; exactly where it is varies, but it is not in the center of the vessel length-wise. With an outboard it is often at or right near the transom, which can make close-quarter handling quite a mess in snotty conditions at low speed. Gigabite, which was a Hatteras 45′ Sportfish, pivoted at around her engine locations, which was roughly 10-15′ or so from the transom (she had twin Detroit diesels.)
    A twin engine vessel has one RH and one LH screw, and with both engaged she will track more or less straight because the two torque and rotation of the water columns cancel each other out. But a single-screw vessel does not. The other factor is that as way increases the water flow over the keel tends to keep her going in a straight line.
    Further, the rudder gets most of its authority — that is, the ability to steer — from the blast of the prop which is directly in front of it, and at lower speeds through the water it has almost zero authority without the screw turning. Note that the speed over ground does not account for current and the current is almost-never exactly aligned with your direction of travel, so it always, when it is present, attempts to destabilize the path of your vessel. In harbors and similar tidal flow is the primary cause of said currents and of course they shift depending on whether you have a rising or falling tide and exactly where you are. In some cases this can be quite-treacherous, especially if you get other than straight on with or against it; someone who was a dockmate of mine with a sailboat attempted to abort running Destin Pass with friends on board (that was stupid, by the way), got sideways and the boat was knocked down and dismasted. That was a 40 footer too — not a little rowboat. Fortunately nobody was killed and the boat did not sink but two were ejected and had to swim to the jetties.
    It is clear that the power went off on the vessel. Why it went off remains to be determined but that it did, and that the emergency generator started when it did, is known because you can see the power go off and then come back on. It then trips a second time, presumably due to an extreme demand (e.g. the skipper attempting a last-ditch use of the bow thruster at full power to keep off the piling.)
    Until the power went down the ship was in the channel and on a stable heading. It would have had some starboard rudder dialed in — in other words, it was not set dead straight forward — because the normal “walk” of the screw ahead would be to induce a port turn if it was dead straight. When the power goes down that torque and rotational effect disappears and the rudder is now going to try to turn the ship slightly to starboard, and it is locked there with power off. Add to this any current impact if the flow is in any way other than head-on (and as noted it almost never is straight on) and the impact of wind and that the ship began to yaw is not surprising, nor is it surprising it went to starboard.
    Without power you now are riding on 100,000 tons of metal (and cargo) traveling at whatever velocity you were at underway which is subject to external forces you cannot counteract. By the time the power comes back up it is likely there was nothing that could be done to prevent the collision but you can bet they tried — the second power failure made those attempts irrelevant. As you can see from the video when the power comes back again they’re within seconds of impact.
    Older machinery was not reliant on electrical power to work. My boat had two mechanical diesels operated with cables from the bridge to the engines and transmissions; the transmissions (large ships are typically straight-shaft with no gearbox) were hydraulically operated by a pump driven from the engine. Once started so long as they had fuel, air and lubricating oil they run. The steering gear on my boat was hydraulic but with no booster so again, as long as the hoses and lines were intact and it had fluid in it you could steer but without the screws turning you had very little rudder authority. I also had twin screws so at low speed I could steer without the rudder at all, and frequently did, since I could put one screw in forward and one in reverse, along with varying their speed. I did have, during my time owning Gigabite, an electrical failure. It was not a big deal as it occurred during daytime (at night you obviously have no running lights which is serious); we made port without incident and I fixed it.
    Modern emissions requirements make no-electric-required operation impossible. On a modern vessel without electrical power its engine shuts down because it is electronically controlled and the fuel pumps, conditioning equipment for the fuel, any after-treatment of the exhaust and various other required elements all require it, along with mechanical control being insufficiently precise to meet modern emissions standards. While I could operate with no electrical power at all provided the engines were running before the failure occurred this is not true for modern vessels and engines…..”

    Worth a few minutes of your day!
    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251017

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  36. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Says “I’m Sorry” Ahead Of Fraud Sentencing
    It always worked with mommy. Why wouldn’t it work with the judge.
    ….and then we went for ice cream.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-be-sentenced-fraud-today

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  37. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for multi-billion dollar FTX fraud
    Well…uh okay….probably no ice cream then….

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  38. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    fish ole’ @ 09:01 AM
    To put SBF in perspective – Joey B is (over)spending $2T+ annually. What if he were only overspending by multi-billions? We’d be treating him to his favorite ice cream cone for having such restraint and consideration for his fellow Americans.
    Remember, Beau died defending Ben & Jerry’s from the anti-BLT folks.

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  39. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: The Estonian Fox | 28 March 2024 at 09:36 AM
    Remember, Beau died defending Ben & Jerry’s from the anti-BLT folks.

    God bless him for his service! I hate anti-BLT folks……after all who doesn’t enjoy a delicious BLT?!

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  40. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    FALL FROM GRACE Crypto kingpin Sam Bankman-Fried jailed for 25 years over historic $10bn FTX fraud as he admits ‘my useful life is over’
    If by useful you mean shoveling money into the democrat party’s maw I’d have to agree!
    https://www.the-sun.com/news/10914131/crypto-kingpin-sam-bankman-fried-jailed-fraud/

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  41. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for multi-billion dollar FTX fraud”
    A separate issue, but I have mixed feelings about prisons for financial fraud. It always seemed to me that there was something more appropriate for punishment.
    Truth is, I’ll bet you could mostly empty the places by doing something like:
    . Let everyone out for use and possession (personal amounts) of drugs. I certainly don’t care.
    . Public caning/lashing for certain violent crimes rather than jail. I’ll bet it would work better. Maybe add in multiple DUI, some drug dealing etc.
    . Financial crimes are met with financial penalties. Force people to be poor in perpetuity if appropriate.
    . Genuine violent crime goes to jail. As much to keep people off the street as it is punishment.
    perhaps alternatives I’m not listing.
    I realize how hard it would be (and probably then don’t appreciate the magnitude) to redesign something that has organically grown for 100s of years, but use of prisons sure has metastasized.
    As a side note, if you have capital punishment, it’s on live TV. Nothing creepier than behind-the-scenes official state killing.

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  42. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Wonder why they’d do this……

    Philadelphia Fed Admits US Payrolls Overstated By At Least 800,000

    Wonder, wonder, wonder…….?
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/philadelphia-fed-admits-us-payrolls-overstated-least-800000

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  43. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    The rimshot from @12:49PM is a thing I’ve read elsewhere.
    “… but there has been zero job-creation for native born workers since June 2018!”
    Aside from Grand Admiral Levine and the men-in-dog-suits-buggerin’ luggage-stealin’ lipstick-wearin’ Energy Department Secretary Brinton, that’s really the Biden Administration in a nutshell.

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  44. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    157p
    Brinton was never Sec’y. Don’t work there no mo.

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  45. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    deputy assistant secretary, I realize that, but too much typing.

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  46. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    No magnets, nothing to see here move along, MOVE ALONG!
    NYC officials defend prepaid debit card program for illegal immigrants: ‘There is no free money
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/nyc-officials-defend-prepaid-debit-114802640.html
    😉

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  47. Scott O Avatar

    “There is no free money…”
    No sir – ya gotta break federal laws first!
    Say – what laws can I break and demand the govt hand me stuff?
    Asking for a friend.

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