8 New Hospitalizations, 438 New Cases During Past Seven-Day Period

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Press release from Humboldt County Public Health:

Humboldt County Public Health reported today eight new hospitalizations including a resident in their 40s, two in their 50s, three in their 60s, one in their 70s and one aged 80 or older. No new deaths were reported.

An additional 309 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 were announced as well as 129 new probable cases for the period between Tuesday, Aug. 2, and Tuesday, Aug. 9. The total number of confirmed cases in the county stands at 21,041. An additional 4,664 cases are reported as probable.*

Public Health started distributing the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine last week, which is now available at all clinics on a walk-in basis for individuals aged 18 and older.

Novavax differs from the existing Moderna and Pfizer mRNA vaccines in that it uses a traditional protein-based technology. When the Novavax vaccine is injected, the protein stimulates the immune system to produce antibodies and T-cell immune responses. Novavax requires two doses, administered 21 days apart. Both the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA and Novavax’s protein-based technology methods are safe and effective at preventing serious illness and death from COVID-19.

Local vaccination data has been updated on the COVID-19 Data Dashboard. Highlights include:

  • Since the last weekly report on Aug. 3, an additional 90 residents completed their vaccine series.
  • A total of 91,136 individuals, or approximately 67% of the county’s total population, have been fully vaccinated as of Tuesday.

Vaccines remain readily available throughout Humboldt County and, as always, Humboldt’s vaccination and testing services are available free of charge. Walk-ins are welcome at all Public Health clinics and some pharmacy vaccination sites. Appointments can also be made at MyTurn.ca.gov.

OptumServe offers rapid antigen testing and PCR testing services at the Wharfinger Building. Walk-in attendees will receive only rapid antigen testing unless the attendee specifically states they require a PCR test. Appointments for antigen testing can be made at lhi.care/covidtesting or by calling 888-634-1123. Wharfinger testing runs from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and is closed from 11 a.m. to noon and 4 to 5 p.m.

See the schedule below for specific Public Health vaccination and testing clinic dates, times, locations and available services. New clinics have been added for young children 6 months to 5 years old at many vaccination locations. Appointments for the young child clinics are required and can be made at MyTurn.ca.gov. Questions about clinic services can be directed to Public Health at 707-445-6201.

Fortuna— Thursday, Aug. 11, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Fortuna Vets Hall (1426 Main St.)
Pfizer/Johnson & Johnson/Moderna/Novavax
Moderna for 6 months and older (appointments required at MyTurn.ca.gov)

Eureka— Friday, Aug. 12, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Wharfinger Building (1 Marina Way)
Pfizer/Johnson & Johnson/Moderna/Novavax
Moderna for 6 months and older (appointments required at MyTurn.ca.gov)

Bridgeville— Saturday, Aug. 13, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Bridgeville Community Center (38717 Kneeland Road)
Pfizer/Johnson & Johnson/Moderna/Novavax
Moderna for 6 months and older (appointments required at MyTurn.ca.gov)

Eureka— Monday, Aug. 15, 3 to 6 p.m.
Public Health Main (529 I St.)
Pfizer/Johnson & Johnson/Moderna/Novavax
Moderna for 6 months and older (appointments required at MyTurn.ca.gov)

Eureka— Tuesday, Aug. 16, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Eureka Boat Launch
Pfizer/Johnson & Johnson/Moderna/Novavax
Moderna for 6 months and older (appointments required at MyTurn.ca.gov)

Eureka— Wednesday, Aug. 17, 3 to 6 p.m.
Public Health Main (529 I St.)
Pfizer/Johnson & Johnson/Moderna/Novavax
Moderna for 6 months and older (appointments required at MyTurn.ca.gov)

McKinleyville— Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2 to 7 p.m.
Church of the Joyful Healer (1944 Central Ave.)
Pfizer/Johnson & Johnson/Moderna/Novavax
Moderna for 6 months and older (appointments required at MyTurn.ca.gov)

* “Confirmed cases” represent the total confirmed positive PCR test results or detection of SARS-CoV-2 by genomic sequencing, and “probable cases” are individuals who:

  • Have a positive antigen (Ag) test for COVID-19, or
  • Were diagnosed with COVID-19 disease by a health care provider, or
  • Have symptoms of COVID-19 disease after being in close contact with a person having a PCR-confirmed test result, or
  • Were a decedent whose death certificate lists COVID-19 as a cause or significant contributing factor of their death, in the absence of a positive PCR test result.

 

Sign up for COVID-19 vaccination: MyTurn.ca.gov
Check for vaccine availability at a local pharmacy: Vaccines.gov
Local COVID-19 vaccine information: humboldtgov.org/VaccineInfo
Humboldt County COVID-19 Data Dashboard: humboldtgov.org/3246
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grey fox
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1 year ago

“Dreams, like good liars, distort facts.”
(Charlie Chan in Shanghai)

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grey fox
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1 year ago
Reply to  grey fox

8 new hospitalizations. That’s not good…
People still need to use caution..
Hopefully this is just an a anomaly.
Haven’t really checked but case rate seems higher.

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Al L Ivesmatr
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Al L Ivesmatr
1 year ago
Reply to  grey fox

Yes they do. Washing your hands before eating, not unloading a huge sneeze cough without hand over mouth, unzipping your fly and urinating after which you should wash your hands have been effective measures known for hundreds of years. Along with not going out when you have the flu and staying healthy. These are not new concepts dreamt up recently by woke rejects who think they discovered Noah’s Ark. Kinda like not eating shellfish or pigs/bears by certain cultures because in old times you could die.

Liberty Biberty
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Liberty Biberty
1 year ago
Reply to  grey fox

Like the latest FBI so called RAID LOL!

mark
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mark
1 year ago

I’m going to try to debate/illuminate… less heavy handed on this subject.

Be a nicer guy…

1 in every 246 Vaccinated People has died within 60 days of Covid-19 Vaccination in England according to UK Government – The Expose

Early treatment… Zinc/vitamin c quercitin vitamin D3… quinine…. off label use of anti inflammatories such HCQ/Iver… an anti lung crud bacterial anti biotic….. lung vape of hydrogen peroxide…. fight off the lung inflammation any way possible…

A five-day course of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 may reduce the duration of illness – PubMed

Fight it off. You end up in the ICU on the plaxor and the vent… your odds are way down.

I guess I’m so spirited on the subject… as I was on mortician duty during the worst of it…filled two 40′ refrigeration trailers with decedents..handled over 100 confirmed… was in those double occupied ICU units repeatedly.
I am non mRNA…lost my job per the government…not allowed on “campus”.

A leper.

…and lots of people I knew… took the wrong fork..and they are sick long term…or they are dead.

My old friend death.

jean lopez
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jean lopez
1 year ago
Reply to  mark

Still don’t know anyone who has been hospitalized for covid. Now know four people who I believe have died from the jab. SADS is a real thing.They are literally dropping like flies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV4h0kW_Cd0.

mark
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mark
1 year ago
Reply to  jean lopez

Seems to be lots of heart/circulatory/reproduction complications for a segment of the mRNA recipients. Lots of jabbed folks get the “long covid”…. is that from the virus..or the jab… know body admits to any of it one way or another.
Personally…. we have treated over 300 folks in the Rogue Valley with “pre hospitalization” protocols… with the off label use of anti inflamatory drugs… antibiotics..etc.
We did not make anybody sicker…and… get this.. nobody died. Nobody. Still… the pharma and the govt advertise more injections…more corporate alteration of people’s persons.
Of course..what we did..and what we continue to do…is probably illegal. We are strangely comfortable with that….

Ice
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Ice
1 year ago
Reply to  mark

Your first link, The Expose, is owned by National Enquirer. Total bs. Your second link.is from 2021 and has been thoroughly debunked since then.

mark
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mark
1 year ago
Reply to  Ice

Sure. Your correct on all things.
There have been zero…none… nada… side effects from mRNA injections over the entire world.
“The null set”

Javanka
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Javanka
1 year ago
Reply to  mark

From Jun ‘22 Lancet (a rather reputable publication):

“Based on official reported COVID-19 deaths, we estimated that vaccinations prevented 14·4 million (95% credible interval [Crl] 13·7–15·9) deaths from COVID-19 in 185 countries and territories between Dec 8, 2020, and Dec 8, 2021. This estimate rose to 19·8 million (95% Crl 19·1–20·4) deaths from COVID-19 averted when we used excess deaths as an estimate of the true extent of the pandemic, representing a global reduction of 63% in total deaths (19·8 million of 31·4 million) during the first year of COVID-19 vaccination.”

Estimates, sure, but the above is info the vax naysayers never acknowledge much less cite. For all their imperfections, in the grand scheme of things a lotta death was prevented, and multiples of severe illness avoided, as compared to issues vaxxes may have caused.

mark
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mark
1 year ago
Reply to  Javanka

These are good sources… to be taken in kind.
Your dealing with a “virus” …that has the HIV “driller” in it…that has a construct of beast, fish and fowl. The hand of man… an “enhanced lab virus”…. Wuhan was funded partially by the US… After months of denial, U.S. admits to running Ukraine biolabs – People’s World The mRNA…also contains protein from HIV…for “penetration” …. HIV and Messenger RNA (mRNA) Vaccine – PMC The side effects include heart and vascular irritation… places where “blood is life’…. the testicles and the ovaries…. and we don’t know what the breeding results will be of mRNA with mRNA.
We don’t know. It’s experimental. DES daughters – Better Health Channel
I don’t trust government..nor big banking by pharma by govt edict. I have personal experience on govt corruption..the kick backs…. the govt mafia.
Just how I am.
Long Haired Country Boy – YouTube

Javanka
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Javanka
1 year ago
Reply to  mark

Sigh, these posts, rabbit hole delivery system for links. G’day.

Yellow
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Yellow
1 year ago
Reply to  mark

The mRNA…also contains protein from HIV…for “penetration”
This is a lie. The source you cite is a paper about the possibility of creating an mRNA vaccine against HIV. It has nothing to do with COVID-19 vaccines (mRNA or otherwise) containing a protein from HIV, let alone your completely fabricated reason of being for “penetration”.

mark
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mark
1 year ago
Reply to  Ice

Show your work

thetallone
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thetallone
1 year ago

I find these NY Times pages more informative. Open and click the “last 90 days” button.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/humboldt-california-covid-cases.html

mark
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mark
1 year ago
Reply to  thetallone

the data may be correct…the obvious problem with all legacy media…is the CIA is so far up their rear… they are to the small intestine!
The company expression is “plausible deniability”.
kevinshipp.com
Then you go to alternative media..which is also shaky… nobody debates that.
Who Owns and Controls the World – The Herland Report
The 14 Families and the 12 Banks – Keiser Report – YouTube
What I know in my person circle of people is the mRNA triple vacs are the ones repeating the ‘rona cycle. They are sick again..and again..but not sick to death.
I have a young lady friend that took 3 …she has lost her period… in her early 20’s. Then..she caught the ‘rona… and was hospitalized for a week or so.
I also know lots of people that have had really good luck with the mRNA.

Javanka
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Javanka
1 year ago
Reply to  mark

I dunno, kinda thin …

Kevin Shipp works hard to promote … Kevin (Ching-Ching $).

The Herland Report. Hanna Herland, wrote lousy pro-crazy books like “Trump: The Battle for America” and “New Left Tyranny”. Rode the Trump wave … which crashed leading up, into, and beyond Jan6, indictments looming.

Keiser Report, was a top rated program on … RT (Russia Today, Kremlin backed).

mark
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mark
1 year ago
Reply to  Javanka

The journalism colleges…are generally socialist…to communist. Really…no debate about that…it’s a fact. Lester the molester… ABC is the hardest left of the 3… also no debate about that. Fact.
https://vimeo.com/738303896?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=171992514
Maxine Waters wants to nationalize the oil… billions go to Ukraine without any accounting… the current crop of crooks has spent about $1 trillion in debt..what’s that in seconds…a trillion..about 30,000 years?
It’s all crooked. The elections are suspect..the greatest margin ever with biden…was extracted from..what… 16 – 17 counties?
It is the empire of lies.
Next comes nationalization of the 401ks… the private property…
U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time
I rant on… let us hope and pray that people with COVID in Humbolt and nor cal…get better.
That would be a good thing…no?

mark
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mark
1 year ago
Reply to  Javanka

Shipp was a whistle blower…has no CIA retirement… lives off grid…. so… I guess internet beggar is not below him.
How about Jim Richards?
Jim Rickards (@JamesGRickards) / Twitter
Jim says the same thing as Shipp… just didn’t get tangles in the Snowden/Assange bailey wick.

mark
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mark
1 year ago
Reply to  Javanka

https://hannenabintuherland.com/europa/who-owns-and-controls-the-world/
3 major corporations control all the media…as far as Putin and the Rooskies… nobody I know is for war. Nobody. Well..maybe Bolton… the facts are Nato broke both the Minsk and Budapest treaties… the Ukraine porn star president…was the product of co-opting the honest western Ukraine Maiden revolution..to install the CIA shill Zelinsky….
The classic CIA color revolution…text book
The Color Revolution Model: An Exposé of the Core Mechanics |
You have weak to non existent US executive branch leadership… they put nuclear weapons on your borders…they attempt to black mail your natural resources from you… screw it.
Roll the tanks. The US cannot beat Russia…as China has our manufacturing base. The US cannot beat China as they have our testicles in their hands..by funding the US debt. Further… a 4,500 mile supply line to fight in the south china sea… with the air craft carrier groups is moot. The China man has accurate medium range weapons.
How did it turn out..that USA and Canada go communist…and Russia becomes the hope of the free citizens of the world?
Russia. Last Hope of the West? | NC Renegades

brodie
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brodie
1 year ago
Reply to  Javanka

I believe the statistics are still that the Corona Virus is 99.6 percent survivable if you are 70 or younger in good health. I would rather wait to see how the Trial goes long term on the Vaccines. The problem is the Government forced it on healthy people by threatening their jobs or I also know people that wanted to travel and had to get it. Everybody can see now that it doesn’t matter if you are Vaccinated or not you still carry it, get sick from it and spread it but they only want to test the unvaccinated. Everyone should test but you should be able to travel unvaccinated just the same as the Vaccinated both can spread it the same.

Yellow
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Yellow
1 year ago
Reply to  brodie

I agree about vaccine mandates not being a good thing. However, are you also waiting for long term results about the effects of COVID-19? There is already overwhelming evidence that COVID-19 causes long COVID as well as subclinical long-term damage. This is independent from survivability. You can’t really compare survivability of COVID-19 with any possible long-term effects of COVID-19 vaccines. I can see why you don’t want mRNA vaccines though. I think that Novavax is probably the best vaccine for you.

Guest
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Guest
1 year ago

Interesting, thanks for the link, grey fox…

“Steele was released on Aug.1, with the agreement that he would immediately enter the Ukiah Recovery Center, a residential drug treatment facility where a bed had opened up.

If Steele checked into that facility, he didn’t stay long.

According to the Sheriff’s Office, Steele was dating the mother of the two abandoned children, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Just after 2 a.m. on Aug. 2, they had an argument outside a business in the 1700 block of North State Street.

So, Edward Steele was released from jail, on the condition to immediately enter a drug treatment facility, but didn’t, in clear violation of the terms of his release, and instead, MCSO felt he was qualified, and so entrusted him with an infant and a toddler, whose conditions were unknown and unverified, whose mother they just arrested for assaulting him in a domestic violence situation, instead of the MCSO checking on, and looking after the well being of the children themselves, like they were legally obliged to, as mandatory reporters.

That infant may already have been dead, for all MCSO knew, or now know, and they provided the mother with a solid alibi, guilty or not.

Saying MCSO dropped the ball would be an understatement, so, let me rephrase it…

MCSO clearly humped the pooch, as far as their duties were concerned, in regards to these unfortunate children.

Watch as that serious dereliction of duty, that qualifies as criminal negligence, resulting in the death of an infant, and the hospitalization of a toddler, as far as I am concerned, get swept under the rug.

One paper put of ten, vaguely indicates that Steele retrieved these children.

The other 9 do not even allege that.

MCSO, and the mother, left those children behind, at the mercy of the elements, and the mother was callously compelled to leave them, at the hands of the MCSO.

No reasonable person would have left those children in the care of Edward Steele, under the circumstances, and wouldn’t have checked on them, and it’s not unreasonable that the MSCO knew, or should have known, that Edward Steele was supposed to be in rehab, but obviously wasn’t.

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FBI=KGB
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FBI=KGB
1 year ago

Annnnd…. In other news, Biden got lost between the toilet and the Oval Office this afternoon.

Pelosi has provoked China to encircle Taiwan. Will Xi attack while Pelosi is on the ground,
off of her broom?

Locally the CAO continues to catch up on long overdue fiscal reports, netting the local workforce programs much needed funds. Those will come in useful for all the trimmers and growers that are having difficult times making ends meet during Bidenflation. Wouldn’t it be nice if the rest of America got a tax holiday?

And Brett Watson announced another bid for Arcata City Council. You can see how tolerant the Left is of this announcement in the echo chamber… errr! comments section on LOCO.

Many fires in the region, proving that Newsom was unable to convince Californians of the simple advice given by Donald J Trump to rake the forests. Such a simple solution to a horrifying problem…

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago

Squirrel thinks we’d be better off with a conservative candidate other than Trump in 2024 but still the Biden regime’s stormtroopers’ raid on Trump’s Florida residence is concerning, suggesting an impending authoritarian leftists’ assault on our free speech, gun, and other rights. AG Garland better have the goods on Trump otherwise his actions will be known as nothing but use of the weaponized police state to crush political opposition, something all patriotic Americans should oppose.
Joe Biden did that!

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FBI=KGB
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FBI=KGB
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

The FBI wasn’t looking for documents that belong to the National Archives. They were looking for documents that implicated them.

The swamp rats are scared to death of Donald J Trump… and those of us that will stand beside him.

Hell’s coming… and they know it. Vote in November like your life depends on it.

…and it does…

mark
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mark
1 year ago
Reply to  FBI=KGB

The FBI is a failed organization…. it’s weeds among the wheat. The local agents work on drug cartel… human trafficing…. white collar money laundering… while up top… they are just whores. Not pretty whores either.

Liberty Biberty
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Liberty Biberty
1 year ago

Meanwhile, the former great President Trump is harassed by the radical left. This Covid distraction is getting old

Me
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Me
1 year ago

“…the former great President Trump…”. That implies he was great. If he was so great, why didn’t he get elected to a second term? And no, the election wasn’t stolen.

Liberty Biberty
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Liberty Biberty
1 year ago
Reply to  Me

You just hang tight 😆

mark
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mark
1 year ago
Reply to  Me

Let’s go there:
An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election Results: Trump vs. Biden – The New York Times
File:2020 United States presidential election results map by county.svg – Wikipedia

When the “troubles” in the USA become kinetic..the urban areas will burn. The Urban areas need the rural areas…they need diesel..they need commercial trucks. CA ..for example..is currently involved in a war against independent diesel trucking.
After the “burn”…. we will probably have a November election…but will we have a 2024…will Biden still be “functional? Can ka-mala handle the weight..and will Nancy Palosi the “lapsed Catholic baby killer”… handle VP?
They’ve got you by the balls – George Carlin – YouTube

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  Me

Except for the 50 “ex Intel officers”, media, and big tech coverup of Hunter laptop

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

IRS job post ” must be willing to use deadly force”.
87 thousand new jobs.

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Will you ever bother to learn before speaking?!⁷

The Inflation Reduction Act, a landmark climate, health care and tax package that passed the Senate on Sunday and is expected to head to Biden’s desk after the House approves it on Friday, includes roughly $78 billion for the IRS to be phased in over 10 years. A Treasury Department report from May 2021 estimated that such an investment would enable the agency to hire roughly 87,000 employees by 2031. But most of those hires would not be Internal Revenue agents, and wouldn’t be new positions.

According to a Treasury Department official, the funds would cover a wide range of positions including IT technicians and taxpayer services support staff, as well as experienced auditors who would be largely tasked with cracking down on corporate and high-income tax evaders.

https://time.com/6204928/irs-87000-agents-factcheck-biden/

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Will you ever bother to practice what you preach?

Learn this…

https://nypost.com/2022/08/11/irs-faces-online-uproar-over-special-agent-job-posting-requiring-use-of-deadly-force/

“A key requirement” for applicants is that they have to be “legally allowed to carry a firearm,” and “major duties” include “Carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary” and “Be willing and able to participate in arrests, execution of search warrants, and other dangerous assignments,” according to the job posting.

The requirement that agents be willing to use “deadly force, if necessary” drew heated criticism online, although the same language appears in job postings for other law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI. “

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HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

I rarely get reprimanded by Kym if I don’t respond to TRB bait.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he signed up for an IRS job.

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Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Yeah, ☕.

Him starting out his reply to you by saying…

“Will you ever bother to learn before speaking”

… is pretty damn condescending and I find it offensive.

Talk about misogyny.

But, your right, better, probably to just ignore the bait.

I doubt he can clearly elucidate just exactly what percentage of those 87,000 new agents will be armed law enforcement officers willing to “use deadly force if necessary”.

Because for every 10%, of 87,000, the current force will be multiplied by 400%.

TRB emphasizes…

“But most of those hires would not be Internal Revenue agents, and wouldn’t be new positions.”

…as of it proves some kind of unspoken point.

Most?

That sure leaves a lot of 1%’s, to each raise the force by 40%.

Even if only 25% of the new agent hires were law enforcement officers, willing “to use deadly force”, that would mean that the force would multiply by 10 times. (1,000%)

grey fox
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

The IRS does raids in connection with other government agencies. All who are armed.. Drug cartels, organized crime..
Remember who caught Al Capon? Think they went in unarmed?

Here is another example..
Domestically, a series of raids began on July 25, 2012 that resulted in the seizure of US$36 … CBP, ICE, FBIIRSHomeland Security

IRS-CI Special Agents (GS-1811 Job Series) are commonly called criminal investigators. Special agent training begins with the Special Agent Basic Training Program (SABT) at the Federal Law Enforcement Academy (FLETC) in Glynco, Georgia.

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HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  grey fox

2012 was eons ago politically.
No, more likely Melania’s underwear, and Republican Congress and Senators phones and homes.
Who’s next Fox News media maybe?
You can be sure it won’t be anyone on the Dems donor list, no matter how crooked.

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Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

They are actually going to be going after pot growers, for tax evasion.

So many Al Capone’s, so little time…

Priorities…

That’s what they are going to need all the help with…

And all the ammo.

5,000,000 rounds, for 4,500 weapons seems a bit much…

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

My guess is many of our grower friends declared less than all their black market cash on their taxes. Squirrel is a firm believer that everyone needs to pay their full share pursuant to the tax code so I hope the new agents root out the tax cheats and hold them fully accountable. It’s always easiest to just be honest in all business and personal affairs, including taxes, otherwise there’s rightly a more costly price to pay later

The Great Reset
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The Great Reset
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

If only you understood the difference between those who create, and those who take.

grey fox
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

You are confusing the FBI with the IRS..As far as I know no IRS agent was involved in the Mar-a-Largo raid.
The 2012 raid was an example. The IRS to this day is involved in raids with organized crime and drug cartels.
Why are police armed when they do an investigation?
They are armed at all times actually.. And this is because?
All this is about Republicans looking for ammo for mid-terms.
It’s propaganda..

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HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  grey fox

They’re working together. IRS investigating Trump Businesses, FBI Raiding his house.
What president has had that happen before?

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

The one that tried to pull off a coup to stay in power.

Oh ya! There never was one before Trump!

grey fox
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Jul 12, 2022 — IRS audits ‘randomly’ target high-profile Trump enemies … The IRS is headed by Charles P. Rettig, appointed by Trump in 2018.

Well I’ll be damned!

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HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  grey fox
Javanka
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Javanka
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Maybe Melania’s undies are where Donny hid the stolen and classified nuclear documents.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  Javanka

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer warned Trump that Intel officials ‘have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.’

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  grey fox

The IRS has had special agents with guns that go through firearms training for at least decades.

Why do you think they think it’s news today?

🤦‍♂️

Is it simply ignorance?

Why do they try so hard to post so much misinformation is another question.

Kurt Russel
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Kurt Russel
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

The “Inflation Reduction Act” is just another example of these people marketing a bill as the total opposite of what it actually is. It should be called the “Inflation Expansion Act.”

Javanka
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Javanka
1 year ago
Reply to  Kurt Russel

“And that’s why even Democrats and Republicans, former Treasury secretaries, economists across the board have said that this bill will make a positive impact on inflation while also tackling some of the biggest and long-standing issues facing our country, like prescription drugs and like tackling climate change.”
— National Economic Council

(Former Treasury Secretaries backing the bill include Paulson, Rubin, Summers, Geithner Lew. These appear qualified to say.)

Regardless, the opinion of most economists was already in, that inflation is most likely to begin dropping into and through ‘23.

grey fox
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Also people seem to forget this..

The Volstead Act charged the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the Treasury Department with enforcing Prohibition. As a result, the Prohibition Unit was founded within the IRS.

The Untouchables. Lots of machine guns, shootings.

Guest
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Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  grey fox

“Unarmed”?

Who?

Did they catch him by the balls?

Are “they” what it cost him?

Did he come out without “them”?

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Guest
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Guest
1 year ago
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https://primenewsprint.com/politics/why-does-the-irs-need-5-million-rounds-of-ammo-and-4500-weapons/amp/

“According to a Government Accountability Office report, in 2018, there were 2,148 law enforcement officers working for the IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division. They were armed with 4,461 weapons, including 15 fully automatic weapons and more than 5 million rounds of ammunition.”

“The division investigates “potential criminal violations of the Internal Revenue Code and related financial crimes in a manner that fosters confidence in the tax system and compliance with the law.”

“And they need machine guns and 5 million rounds to do THAT?”

“No, I don’t think so. There’s something else going on here, and I shudder to think what it really is.” ”

So they have 2,138 law enforcement officers working for the IRS now.

Even if just 1% of the 87,000 “agent” new hires are armed law enforcement officers, “willing “to use deadly force if necessary” “, that will increase the current force by over 400%!

From the current 2,138, to 10,838.

Why would that be necessary?

And just exactly what percentage of the 87,000 new agents will be armed law enforcement officers?

It could be much higher than just 1%.

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HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

Well, we know they aren’t going after the Biden crooks, Pelosi family, or the Clinton foundation.

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Guest
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Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

That should say “10%” not “1%”..🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
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FBI: Armed subject tried to breach Cincinnati office

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3597015-fbi-armed-subject-tried-to-breach-cincinnati-office/
People remember Lois Learner and her attack on the right.
Did AG Garland start that?

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grey fox
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1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

From your article.. A real hit piece by the way.
GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz introduces bill to ban IRS from acquiring ammunition..

GOP rep Matt Gaetz is being investigated for sex trafficking….
And the fact the GOP rep “Peach Tree” Greene co-sponsored the bill tells me all i need to know….

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Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  grey fox

You still haven’t explained your transgender remark.

grey fox
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1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

Didn’t you get the memo? Ms Kemp asked very nicely…

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  grey fox

Were you not included in her request?

You’re the one that keeps barking up my tree. How about you knock it off?

Don’t jump me, or whine at me, for attention, because I bark back.

🤔Especially when you use transgender remarks.😁

grey fox
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1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

You still don’t get the point, Stick to facts don’t make it personal…..And nobody made a transgender remark..

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Guest
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1 year ago
Reply to  grey fox

Yep. You did.

That is a fact.

You can’t find it?

Keep looking…

Hint: It was “e”masculating…

(Now that’s funny!)

(I claim humor sanctuary)

It’s right in plain sight.

And how about you quit bugging me?, you are just trying to stir trouble. M’kay?

Do the rules not apply also to you?

Mind your own, “P’s and Q’s.”

🤔(And E’s)😁

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

👍

grey fox
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1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Sorry you think I am bugging you. I have merely responded to your posts in a mature and adult manner. I have not brought up any personal adjectives describing you.
Which is what Ms Kemp asked..
Can you please try and do that?

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JT Compton
1 year ago

I can’t even read most of the comments on this site on this subject. Kym allows anyone no matter their mental state or political slant to post their garbage, I get it, free speech and all, but what a bunch of shit that comes out of the mouths of you all! Just garbage.

mark
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mark
1 year ago
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yeah…but… your can read the garbage if you want…watch the dumpster fire…Nazis and Antifa… make no never mind to Kym.
See… she is the US constitution. Just don’t go all violent… don’t threaten people… state your case…some times we see people state emotion…
..it’s all part of the human interaction. I personally think Kym should be congratulated…for her efforts for journalism and free speech. Kind of like running a day care I guess…some of the children dig holes and throw dirt clods…some do the swings…some play four square.
We are lucky…blessed..to have a place to be.. to air it all out. A functional society is a simmering pot… with a lid that allows the steam to leak out…

Holy Is The Lord – YouTube

FBI=KGB
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FBI=KGB
1 year ago
Reply to  JT Compton

I served 8 years of my life protecting your right to an opinion and voicing your opinion.

You’re welcome…

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  JT Compton

“…of you all!”… 🤦‍♂️

(A lot of that, too)…

SMH.

Can’t read ’em? 🤔

What about writing ’em? ✔️

mark
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mark
1 year ago

Hell…I’m in a mood:

‘They put a lot of people’s lives in danger’…HRC Employee Accuses Protestors of Setting Excavator on Fire – Redheaded Blackbelt

2006.. they set our house on fire. Could of killed the wife and kids…

Uneasy Rider – YouTube

… the mRNA is a dangerous man…

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago

Bidenflation continues at an astronomical 8.5% in July by the definition used for ages yet senile Joe claims it’s “zero”. Huh? Is this like his administration trying to change long used definitions instead of accepting the Biden Recession is upon us? These crazy authoritarian leftists seem to be trying to revise our language for their own deceptive purposes and their leftist lapdog propagandist media are going right along. Whatever became of our independent free press always questioning authorities? Guess they’re now nothing more than modern day Goebbles for the fascist Biden regime.
Joe Biden did that!

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

You talk a lot about nothing.

Joe Biden makes you do that.

Nooo
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Nooo
1 year ago
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I wonder whether organized political parties or lobbyists deliberately use sites like this or other internet media to wage what is in essence free campaigns for various goals. Certainly the Democrat Party has in the news lately because they paid for advertising to win nominations for more extreme Republican candidates they think easier to beat than more moderate ones. The questionable morality of that aside, how dangerous is it to encourage worse behavior in the questionable certainty it can be defeated later? The Republicans will as usual be slower on the initiative but will likely do so too. Resulting in a legislature of idiots even more damaging than we have now. Insanity is apparently a communicable disease.

Guest
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Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

Just wait, monkeypox, won’t be monkeypox anymore, in no time…

HotCoffee
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1 year ago
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CDC official: Several hundred polio cases likely circulating in New York

An official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday that a polio case detected in New York last month, the first confirmed U.S. case in nearly a decade, could very well be an indication of “several hundred cases” within that community.
In late July, a 20-year-old man from New York’s Rockland County was found to have developed symptoms of polio, including paralysis. The man was unvaccinated, and no other cases have been identified thus far.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3597090-cdc-official-several-hundred-polio-cases-likely-circulating-in-new-york/

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HotCoffee
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1 year ago
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Dozens of cases of Langya virus have been reported in China, according to new research from scientists who were previously linked to controversial bat coronavirus studies at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The Langya henipavirus — referred to as LayV — belongs to a family of viruses that are “known to infect humans and cause fatal disease,” revealed a group of Chinese-led scientists in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Giant Squirrel
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1 year ago

Biden’s Recession is upon us with new jobless claims the highest in nine months. Batten down the hatches and prepare for the economic devastation Biden’s policies have wrought.
Joe Biden did that!

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HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
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Whole Foods’ John Mackey: ‘I Feel Like Socialists Are Taking Over’The ‘conscious capitalism’ innovator on over regulation, COVID mandates, and why he will be speaking his mind much more freely when he retires.https://reason.com/podcast/2022/08/10/whole-foods-john-mackey-i-feel-like-socialists-are-taking-over/

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago

The stench of Biden’s partisan Justice Department malfeasance is nauseating.
Joe Biden did that!

Dave Kirby
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1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

You do know that Lardo appointed the current head of the F.B.I.

grey fox
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

You are allowed one meme.. We saw the first one already…..

Guest
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Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  grey fox

I only see one meme.

Dave Kirby
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1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

Two here.

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  Dave Kirby

Same meme.
As in, one, and the same.

And there’s nothing GS can do about it, after getting called out on it after 2 1/4 hrs.

It’s a moot point, unless his comment is really directed elsewhere besides GS…

And, it’s not like GS posted nine or ten of them….

It was pretty clearly just an editing error.

Pretty minor.

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grey fox
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1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

I see none now

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grey fox
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  grey fox

I made a statement of fact.
Nothing more nothing less.
Only one meme is allowed

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

Did I post two cartoons or the same one twice? Didn’t mean to but I had a poor signal, trouble loading.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

My signal is like that also.
I figured that’s what happened.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  Dave Kirby

Looks like an accidental double post to me.
And petty whining about it.

Guest
Guest
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1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

🤔Interesting,☕,

I was about to write “petty minor”, instead, of pretty minor”, and just play it off as a grammatical error…

There we go thinking alike again…

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

And I’m not even Physic, hmm 🙂

grey fox
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

You need to stick to facts and not make it personal. Ms Kemp has made that clear..
Hurling insults is not presenting facts.. Care to argue with her about that?

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HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  grey fox

You worry about your posts, and I’ll be responsible for mine.
I don’t even have a clue what post you’re whining about now.
Who elected you posting monitor?

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grey fox
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Ms Kemp makes the rules..Insults not allowed.
Stick to the facts..

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HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  grey fox

If you’re speaking of whining….
Describing an action is not hurling insults at someone… and I am sticking to the facts.
🥱
You do seem desperate to cause trouble for Guest and me, though.
And don’t tell me what to do.

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grey fox
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

The word “whining” isn’t offensive itself in the sense of being vulgar; it’s offensive in the sense of being insulting…

“Whining” is an insult that gets tossed around frequently and casually today…

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HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  grey fox

If Kym has a problem with it, she’s quite capable of speaking for herself.
You have no authority here, deal with it.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Boring !!!!!!
Can’t find anything else to do.
I certainly don’t want to play with you.
Is that clear enough for you to understand?

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HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

I have empathy for your situation, yet I don’t understand why you’re addressing me rather than GF.
He’s definitely an agitator that won’t let any issue rest, as indicated in my last post to him.

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HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Thank you for explaining.

Not Blind
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Not Blind
1 year ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Hey Kym. Please, please, please follow through with your threats. I know that I and (my assumption) many others are sick of the bickering by the same old suspects. I’ve asked some of them to stop, but they seem to lack other outlets for their lack of attention. ✌️🙏♥️ #BANTHEBASTARDS 😉😎🤙

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Javanka
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

Crack me up. I mean here’s Donald Trump, in his own words:

“I am proud to announce Christopher (Wray) as my choice as the director of the FBI. He is an impeccably qualified individual, and I know that he will again serve his country as a fierce guardian of the law and model of integrity once the Senate confirms him to lead the FBI.”
— 2017 Trump Tweet

“We are living in such a different country for one primary reason: There is no longer respect for the law and there certainly is no order. Our country is now a cesspool of crime.”
— Trump, July ‘22

Can’t make this shit up. The guy is simply his own worst enemy. And how many of his supporters will he get locked up (alongside him) as time goes by, let’s watch and see.

Dave Kirby
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1 year ago
Reply to  Javanka

I particularly like his statements about people taking the “fifth” being obviously guilty. This going to be more fun than his barrel of flunkies. I’ll bring the popcorn.

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

Thought I attached a cartoon here. The comment is nonsensical without it

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago

House GOP demands FBI explain reports they reclassified cases to fit Biden admin narrative”FBI officials were pressuring agents to reclassify cases as ‘domestic violent extremism’ (DVEs) even if the cases do not meet the criteria for such a classification,” they wrote

The Republicans cited reports that “FBI officials were pressuring agents to reclassify cases as ‘domestic violent extremism’ (DVEs) even if the cases do not meet the criteria for such a classification.”
They then elaborated on whistleblower claims that Sanborn directly pressured agents to reclassify cases as DVEs to raise the overall number of such cases.
“Whistleblower disclosures made by multiple FBI employees from different field offices suggest that FBI agents are bolstering the number of cases of DVEs to satisfy their supervisors,” they wrote. “For example, one whistleblower explained that because agents are not finding enough DVE cases, they are encouraged and incentivized to reclassify cases as DVE cases even though there is minimal, circumstantial evidence to support the reclassification.”

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/house-gop-demands-fbi-explain-reports-they-reclassified-cases-fit

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Dave Kirby
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

I thank you for linking to your sources. Just the News is known to be a backer of Lardo. A spawn of the right wing propaganda mill. Related to Fox, Washington Examiner, Newsmax, OAN,Gateway Pundit and the world of Tucker Carlson. The crack in the castle wall is Rupert Murdock saying Lardo is unfit to be president. WSW also a Ruprert outlet also sights Lardo as being unfit. Latest from Mar a Lardo.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  Dave Kirby

You’re correct if you’re assuming I don’t get my news from the view, Rachel Maddow, or Wolf Blitzer, Jake Trapper or NPR.
An occasional doze of Pat Thurston on KGO radio is an overdose. Chronic TDS Syndrome.
All backers of an Alzheimer patient that can’t complete a sentence and can’t remember he’s POTUS. Maybe it’s because he’s a Judas.
I do have a large amount of diverse sources though.
My thing in the article is did or did not the FBI pressure people to reclassify reports.

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grey fox
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1 year ago
Reply to  Dave Kirby

👍

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago

Sure, but respect can be lost too, and for good reason.

Everything has conditions.

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grey fox
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

I agree.
Respect also has to be earned..

But I see Ms Kemp’s point..
We all need to work on this.
We need to be respectful of Ms Kemp’s wishes..

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grey fox
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1 year ago

“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.”

William Arthur Ward

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Scott brooks
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Scott brooks
1 year ago

Anywhere you go out right now for a drink is packed and people aren’t following the guidelines. I think the numbers are 10x higher then reported.

grey fox
Member
1 year ago

Most Americans want chance to support abortion rights on state ballot, USA TODAY/Ipsos poll finds.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/10/voters-abortion-rights-state-ballots-poll/10284741002/

Which is how it should be. Not up to judges or legislators.
Let those affected have a say in the matter.
If conservative Kansas can vote pro choice, let the other states put it to a vote.
I would like to see a national referendum on the matter..

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Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  grey fox

???…”Let those affected have a say in the matter”…???

How is that?

That will, in fact, never work.

Is there something wrong with my reading comprehension?

Those affected, as a matter of fact, aren’t getting a say, at all.

If you know what I mean…

“Those affected” all end up dead, killed by, and in, the abortion process.

That would be by definition.

Let only” those affected”, “have a say”, and absolutely nothing will be said, at all.

No ayes…, no no’s…, no mouth…

The votes cast by “those affected”, in favor, or against, won’t need to be counted, at all.

There won’t ever be any even cast.

Because, dead babies can’t vote.

It’s against the law of nature.

grey fox
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1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

OK let’s suppose this hypothetical “baby” had a say.
What if it knew the mother would die in childbirth, that it had fetal anomalies. That if born it would suffer from seizures and die in a few days. Or suffer from a dozen other things.
That it was conceived thru rape or incest.
Would be born to a drug addicted or abusive mother

Multiple reasons why it would not want to be born..

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Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  grey fox

Did you forget the magic word?

Um, no. No thanks, let’s NOT suppose they had a say, because in fact they didn’t, and won’t ever get a say.

Why kid ourselves??? I mean, you can, grey fox, if you wish, that’s your choice.

And let’s not suppose, that there was only one hypothetical one, because that’s just a completely unrealistic fantasy, too, and it isn’t healthy or helpful for me to participate in someone else’s personal figment of their imagination. Not even hypothetically.

I learned that in my EMT training.

It’s not to be done… It’s unprofessional.

And let’s also not suppose all those other things are true, either.

Because those are all merely hypothetical as well, and so they are not.

Let’s be realistic.

How’s that sound?

Wouldn’t that be a little more realistic?

I really think so.

Good day, and thank you very much.

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago

Did I accidently post two cartoons to one article as someone is suggesting? Testing to see if I’m now banned

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Guest
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Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

Gosh, why would they have both been deleted?🤷‍♂️

A glitch?

And the silver lining?

You can post another one now, even a different one, if you want…

Giant Squirrel
Guest
Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

Sounds like software glitch if they aren’t there now

Guest
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Guest
1 year ago

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/11/politics/biden-administration-russia-intelligence/index.html

‘How the Biden administration is aggressively releasing intelligence in an attempt to deter Russia’

“Washington (CNN)For months, the Biden administration has fueled alarming headlines and surprised Washington with a remarkable drumbeat of official disclosures of previously classified intelligence revealing Russian moves as Moscow masses troops on the Ukrainian border.

Administration officials tell CNN the disclosures have been carefully coordinated among the National Security Council, the intelligence community and other national security agencies in an effort to disrupt Russian planning, blunt the effectiveness of any “false flag” operations and, ultimately, deter military action.
And there are signs the strategy is working, US officials say. The Biden administration believes Russian President Vladimir Putin has been caught off guard by some of the releases, according to one senior US official, and intelligence intercepts have picked up Russian military and intelligence officials grumbling about the exposure of their plans, CNN has previously reported.”

Biden released classified information “strategically”???

Now I have heard it all…

How did that work out???

Grumbling…???

Not exactly a decisive Biden victory…

What could Batshit for Brains Biden have been thinking?

Trying to deter Putin with the thought of a mole???

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1 year ago

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/mar/4/joe-biden-under-fire-over-reported-intelligence-sh/

‘Biden under fire over reported intelligence sharing with China ahead of Russian invasion’

“President Biden is under fire over reports that administration officials shared U.S. intelligence with China on Russian troop movements ahead of the invasion of Ukraine.”

“Congressional lawmakers, led by Rep. Ted Budd of North Carolina, are demanding answers from the White House over the allegations. Mr. Budd, a North Carolina Republican who is running for Senate this year, urged the administration to explain its conduct in a letter Friday.”

“As the current crisis in Ukraine has demonstrated, our foreign policy needs to be grounded in a clear-eyed and realistic understanding of which countries are forces for good and those that are not,” Mr. Budd wrote in the letter, which was exclusively obtained by The Washington Times. “Envisioning China as anything but one of those very same uncooperative authoritarian regimes is difficult, if not impossible.”

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Dave Kirby
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1 year ago
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The Washington Times…Are you serious? Does the unification church still own it ?

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago

Was “Jimmy Joe” “Goober” Biden high on blow???

Where’s Hunter???

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/25/biden-administration-publicizes-classified-information/

‘Opinion: Biden must stop the promiscuous publicizing of U.S. intelligence’

John R. Bolton.

“Before Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the Biden administration released substantial intelligence analyses about Russia’s capabilities and intentions, purportedly to deter the attack by making public the extent of U.S. knowledge about Vladimir Putin’s planning. Similar unprecedented revelations continued after hostilities commenced.”

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1 year ago
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grey fox
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1 year ago

Trump pleaded the Fifth more than 440 times during his deposition in New York, answering only a question about what his name is, NBC reports…

The move carries a rich irony for Trump, given his long-standing public insistence that no innocent person would ever do such a thing…
“Pumpkin Head” Trump did that!

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grey fox
Member
1 year ago

Well of course Donald. Like the election was rigged and you really didn’t lose…

Trump Loses It Over Nuclear Docs Report, Again Suggests ‘Planted’ Evidence…

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago

Biden’s Stalinist Gestapo’s recent tactics are just more in the Deep State playbook “by any means necessary” to sustain their administrative power structure. I fear Biden’s targeting of his political rival has charted a course that will greatly destabilize and perhaps break our once great Constitutional Republic. Let’s hope midterms will give the new Congress power to restrain the authoritarian leftist Biden regime or all is lost and our freedoms will be lost to the globalists’ New World Order.
Joe Biden did that!

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HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago

FBI boss Comey’s 7 most damning lines on Clinton

But even as Comey said the FBI wouldn’t recommend charges – the final decision will be made by the Department of Justice – he also delivered a scathing verbal indictment of her behavior. Here are seven quotes from Comey on an issue that is sure to reverberate into the fall campaign:
1. “Extremely careless”“Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”
2. “Should have known”“There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those with whom she was corresponding about those matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation.”
3. “Especially concerning”“None of these emails should have been on any kind of unclassified system, but their presence is especially concerning because all of these emails were housed on unclassified personal servers not even supported by full-time security staff, like those found at agencies and departments of the United States government – or even with a commercial email service like Gmail.”
4. “Still obligated to protect it”“Only a very small number of the emails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information. But even if information is not marked ‘classified’ in an email, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.”
5. “Generally lacking”While not the focus of our investigation, we also developed evidence that the security culture of the State Department in general, and with respect to use of unclassified email systems in particular, was generally lacking in the kind of care for classified information that is found elsewhere in the government.
6. “Hostile actors”“We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account. We also assess that Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal email domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent.”
7. “Sophisticated adversaries”“She also used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account.”

https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/05/politics/fbi-clinton-email-server-comey-damning-lines/index.html

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

7. “Sophisticated adversaries”“She also used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account.”

Equal justice… nah….

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Comey began his address by explaining what investigators found. He said that the probe showed that 110 emails in 52 email chains were determined to include classified information at the time they were received. Within those emails, eight chains contained information that was “top secret” at the time they were sent, 36 had “secret” information and eight more had “confidential” information, the FBI director said.
Addressing emails which were either not provided to the FBI or were deleted before making it to investigators, Comey said there was no evidence of a cover-up.
Comey also said the FBI assessed that there was no direct evidence that Clinton’s personal email domain was hacked. It is possible, however, that hostile actors gained access to her personal email account, he added.

He characterized the investigation findings as showing that Clinton and her team were “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information” but he said there was no clear evidence they intended to violate the law.
Still, Comey said the FBI’s recommendation is that Clinton not face criminal charges for her actions.
“Although there is evidence of potential violations regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case,” he said.
Comey said decisions on whether or not to bring charges are partly based on “how similar situations have been handled in the past.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/05/fbi-director-james-comey-has-concluded-the-investigation-into-clintons-emails.html

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Hurts, home of face-Palm Beach Boy, the prestigious Mar duh Lardo, being freed of sensitive gov documents. Sigh. But maybe a Twinkie Defense to save him is on the horizon. Gawdspeed.

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1 year ago
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How’s it, rimme? Still at it I see…

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?
The militant-minded RW fringe is still going strong, yes. Big hat tip to Donny on Truth Social, for the jump in online chatter (and to think, how good the Gov got at listening to chatter post 911). Now real conservatives, and moderates and progressives, can stand back a little, more, letting Law Enforcement protect Democracy from the Crazies.

“The FLEOA (Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association) vehemently denounces the extreme threats of violence levied against agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation this week. All law enforcement understand their work makes them a target for criminal actors; however, the politically motivated threats of violence against the FBI this week are unprecedented in recent history and absolutely unacceptable.”
—- FLEOA statement, Thursday

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I know, right? I mean the rwnjs and white supremacists are the biggest threat to the USA right now. We need to be vigilant in stopping them and the mandarin candidate! It’s okay rimme, I know we can do it!!!

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1 year ago
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👍

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1 year ago
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Old news from 2016..
The FBI is more interested in why Trump stole secret nuclear documents from The White House…

Was Trump planing of selling top secret documents to foreign agents?
He must be fuming over the fact he appointed Wray head of the FBI…

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Looks like your other comment didn’t pass muster

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It was approved.

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1 year ago
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Dunning-Kruger-Times

F.B.I. Raids Clinton Compound.
Agents on the case were mum on what exactly they were in search of, but left sometime around ten with dozens of boxes in the backs of their vehicles..

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Word of caution with recent events, the Russian Collusion Hoax and its thousands of “credible source” leaks from FBI all turned out to be false, outright lies to manipulate courts and public opinion without accountability. So now here we go again – Garland had better charge and convict Trump this time or the whole escapade will go down in history as Biden’s Banana Republic regime’s effort to destroy our Constitutional Republic and establish single party authoritarian control over Americans. The American leftists must be envious of Xi to pursue this gambit.
Joe Biden did that!

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FBI Recovered 11 Sets of Classified Documents in Trump Search, Inventory Shows

Trump allies claim the former president declassified the documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago.

Vladeck said Trump could still face legal ramifications regardless, because “some of the criminal statutes that are being discussed apply whether or not the underlying information is classified.

WSJ

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1 year ago

America’s Last Line of Defense..

“Taters” are the conservative fans of America’s Last Line of Defense. They are fragile, frightened, mostly older caucasian Americans. They believe nearly anything. While we go out of our way to educate them that not everything they agree with is true, they are still old, typically ignorant, and again — very afraid of everything.

Our mission is to do our best to show them the light, through shame if necessary, and to have a good time doing it, because…old and afraid or not, these people are responsible for the patriarchy we’re railing so hard against. They don’t understand logic and they couldn’t care less about reason. Facts are irrelevant..

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///Moderna’s CEO compared COVID-19 vaccines to iPhones, saying you’ll probably need to get a new version once every year. ///

So the annual shots will be for feckless fools who have more dollars than sense and live a disposable life where self worth is derived from their assumptions about other people’s perceptions based on the lies they believed from corporate ad execs?

That’s a pretty bleak view of things, but I suppose he should know.

Perhaps what he means is that these vaccines will be like iPhones in the sense that he and his pharma c suite peers will rake in an annual windfall for putting out a same product designed to fail quickly?

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1 year ago

My IPhone SE has been working fine for the last 5 years…No problems.. Use it to comment on here daily. Got it thru e-bay…$125.00..Unlocked..
Have seen 2nd gen SE for $200 on E-Bay…See em on Craigs List also..
Just the right size. 5×2 1/2…4 inch screen

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Do you plan to obtain your annual Moderna brand panacea mrna injection by the same means?

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1 year ago

?

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” “I think within a three-to-five years window, where every year, you will get a better product from Moderna, that will protect you for all the things circulating and with more and more coverage of different viruses,” Bencel said. ”

???., So, it will still be three-to-five years, before you will get a better product, every year, from Moderna?

That figures…

Now he fucking tells us…

Here is a great comment from just 10 months ago…

From Festus Haggins…

https://kymkemp.com/2021/10/19/deaths-and-hospitalizations-of-the-unvaccinated-greatly-outnumber-those-of-the-vaccinated-says-humboldt-countys-public-health-officer-provides-graph/#comment-1438347

“Get ready for booster #6!!”

The article that day had a statement from HCDPH, that stated,

“Vaccine immunity is expected to last for years if not a lifetime”…

(Credit for that observation to you, TGIA, good eye!🙂)

And here we are, less that 10 months later, poised for jab #5…

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Haha, wow I wonder if anyone has asked public health how they got that so wrong?

Or how about, since they got that so wrong, how they have adapted their thinking and recommendations?

Is anyone going to ask the CDC when they expect 3+ doses of any of these injections to be fully approved rather than authorized for emergency use? Or do we just pretend those are the same thing now?

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Dang that nonsense about having to keep doing the same things again and again. Like breathing, eating, sleeping, fueling vehicles, cleaning, reroofing… Especially cleaning. Free people don’t clean anything. It’s all a criminal conspiracy by grocery stores/Proctor and Gamble cabals to control…

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Ah yes, cleaning is the same as annual injections of an unapproved pharmaceutical project. That makes sense. Good point

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1 year ago

The only lack of approval you mean is likely your own. Otherwise approvals abound.

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When someone threatens me, because I might not do what they want, that’s when I become very suspicious of their motives.
Especially when they have a long history of using unaware or confined people as test subjects.
The WHO just used covid 19 to claim the power to decide what and when any drug can be forced on you.

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1 year ago
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Two doses of both Moderna and pfizer are approved for ages 12 and up. Additional “booster” doses and initial doses for children under 12 are simply authorized for emergency use. You can learn more here;

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/covid-19-vaccines

How is it possible you’re still so poorly informed about the basics of this topic? You comment with a smug self assurance that would suggest you’ve made the effort to be better informed than average and yet you have consistently demonstrated a failure to understand the basic facts of the situation.

Authorization for emergency use is a less stringent standard used to get potentially beneficial drugs to market more quickly during an acute public health emergency. That is the status of all boosters and all covid vaccines administered to people younger than 12. None of them are FDA approved

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1 year ago

Looks like the whole pro-jabber,

“Vaccinated people are less contagious than unvaccinated people when they get infected”..

spiel…

was all complete BULLSHIT, the whole time…

(It should come as no surprise)…

Boy, we sure heard that one repeated a lot…

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-covid-contagious-study-003864880369

‘Study on COVID vaccination and contagiousness misrepresented’

“AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The study found no significant overall difference in how long patients with the delta or omicron variants were capable of spreading the virus, regardless of vaccination status, according to two authors of the study.”

I wonder how many unsuspecting folks were conned into getting vaccinated by the lie that vaccinated people were less infectious???

Grandma wasn’t protected, at all, by anyone else getting vaccinated, it was all a big lie…

Surprise!, surprise!

A lot of people were spreading such nonsense, and a lot of people probably fell for it…

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Here’s a link to Dr. Ian Hoffman making such nonsense claims… On October 19th, 2021, less than 10 months ago…

https://kymkemp.com/2021/10/19/deaths-and-hospitalizations-of-the-unvaccinated-greatly-outnumber-those-of-the-vaccinated-says-humboldt-countys-public-health-officer-provides-graph/

He says, …

“Post-vaccine cases are milder, less likely to spread to close contacts,…”

Ummm….

Nope.

And here is a comment link, showing that the public was much too easily just completely falling for it…

https://kymkemp.com/2021/10/19/deaths-and-hospitalizations-of-the-unvaccinated-greatly-outnumber-those-of-the-vaccinated-says-humboldt-countys-public-health-officer-provides-graph/#comment-1438334

” “Vaccines continue to be the best, safest, most cost-effective protection against COVID-19 disease for our community. Data continues to support that communities with higher vaccination rates have seen less hospital and death burden during the Delta surge even though there are cases in the fully vaccinated. Post-vaccine cases are milder, less likely to spread to close contacts, and are much less [likely] to result in severe disease.”

Thank you, Dr Hoffman

Get your vaccine, do it today!”

Want to buy a bridge?

Here’s another awesome lie from the same article…

“Vaccine immunity is expected to last for years if not a lifetime”…

What a bunch of bullshit!

Suckers!

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It is so tiresome to keep having to repeat endlessly- vaccines work by creating an immune response to a pathogen just as if to the pathogen itself but in a controlled way so that the immune system is primed to fight the disease with less risk that the pathogen will win the battle first. If the immune system doesn’t create a permanent immunity, it’s due to the limitations of the immune system or the changeability of the pathogen. Not the nature of vaccines in general.
Demanding that a vaccine creates a whole new immune system to satisfy anti vaxxers is equivalent to adolescents (or Progressives) being outraged at find that they are required to earn their daily bread. Life just doesn’t work like that and whining about it endlessly is not what grown ups should do.

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1 year ago
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Exactly…

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“and whining about it endlessly is not what grown ups should do”
So now it’s ok to say someone is whining as long as you approve?
Didn’t you say something about hypocrites? And Respect?
Spare me the excuses, cause I see how you play.

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Why do you waste time bickering with 🐺?

grey fox
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1 year ago
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Time to move on HC..

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🤔🧐

That sounds like something Trump might say… 🙂😉😅😂🤣😁

I kinda like , ☕, too…

Just mixed up with my darn sense of humor…

(The thought had crossed my mind)… 🤷‍♂️

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1 year ago
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You’re straw man needs to get it together. They are making sillier and sillier claims by the week.

Back at the adult table many of us are just wondering why public health agencies believe they deserve our respect and attention when they have gotten so much so wrong. Especially when there was a chorus of disagreement ranging from laymen to eminently qualified health care professionals who were pointing out how they were wrong the whole time.

Instead of owning their mistakes, public health agencies in this country have simply moved on to acknowledging they are wrong, keeping the guidance the same, and trying to shout down and shame the people that were right the whole time. And they expect people to listen to them?

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1 year ago

Doesn’t make sense. I can’t possibly be a straw Man as my too, too solid flesh shows. So try again.

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That’s not as funny as the “Al Capone vs. Al Capon, “transgender comment”, “e”-masculating”, thing…

And speaking of acknowledgements, and what doesn’t make sense, Fauci has finally acknowledged that he created SARS-CoV-2, in his “kitchen”…

I’m not sure if that was before or after Fauci claimed that he “symbolizes consistency, integrity and truth”…

Sure thing, the surest sign, the very epitome of the respectability and conscientiousness of a doctor, is the willingness to joke about how he created a pandemic pathogen that has killed millions, and sickened and afflicted countless others…

Fauci is a maligned malignancy…

That should be clear to everyone now…

grey fox
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1 year ago
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The ignorance on the subject abounds..
Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from the sex that they were assigned at birth. Some transgender people who desire medical assistance to transition from one sex to another identify as transsexual..

You also might try reading up on Eunuchs.
Some rose to become bodyguards, confidential advisers, and even ministers, generals, and admirals.

“He who laughs last, laughs best”
Unanimous Hippopotamus-

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🤔🧐I’m not the one that changed Al Capone’s “gender identity” to “Al Capon”… Was that supposed to be some kind of inappropriate joke?

That could have been taking as a joke in poor taste… Even though it may have been unintentional.

I’m not the one that ” ‘e’-masculated” him…

The lack of a sense of humor on the “subject” abounds…

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LOL!

grey fox
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1 year ago
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So you are saying a man that has been castrated is less masculine?

Also, grammar, punctuation, spelling criticisms should come from parents, teachers, and bosses not anonymous people on the internet. If you can understand what someone says, refrain from telling them how to edit their comments.

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Let’s just say that he would not be quite the same man that he used to be…

And although his family is from Naples, and mine is from Palermo, we are both Italians.

Your “Al Capon” comment, could be construed as an offensive Italian joke.

But, I knew you would play the grammar card…

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No one said you were a straw man. I think that practicing more careful reading and ensuring you understand what you are reading would help you a lot with the confusion you’ve been expressing about this topic

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Let’s say out of 1 hour of watching TV there are 15 minutes of drug commercials, every one of those drug commercials has warnings of possible side effects, most are worse that the condition being treated. They all say, contact your doctor.
Along comes the new mRNA vax, no warnings of complications, and doctors are not allowed to prescribe anything else for their patients, with threats of losing their license if they do. Patients are also threatened with lose of jobs, etc.
Media bans anyone not in compliance.

What’s wrong with that picture?

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1 year ago

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA—Faxing the government agency a detailed invoice days after a raid at the property, a Mar-A-Lago front desk employee reportedly sent the FBI an itemized bill Friday for their 12-hour stay at the resort. “Thank you for visiting Mar-A-Lago, please find an itemized invoice of your expenses attached,” said guest services agent Marie Burns, following up with a courtesy call to the FBI to confirm receipt of the more than $4,500 outstanding bill, which she reminded them must be paid within 72 hours or become subject to a 25% penalty fee every day it went unpaid.
The Onion…..

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1 year ago
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Oh crap. For a moment I thought that someone might actually have a sense of proportion and humor about this farce. Then I saw “The Onion”.

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1 year ago
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PALM BEACH, FL—Noting that it had already been there for almost two weeks, Mar-a-Lago assistant manager Chris Mahoney reportedly wondered Monday if anyone was coming to collect the nuclear briefcase from the club’s lost-and-found. “Someone noticed it in the dining room and dropped it off, and it’s just been sitting at the bottom of the bin ever since,” said Mahoney, adding that he had been asking people coming to collect their lost scarves and sunglasses if they might also have misplaced a briefcase attached to a pair of handcuffs. “You’d think whoever it belongs to would have realized that they lost it by now. Well, I’ll give it a few more weeks—if no one claims it after 60 days, it’s up for grabs, and I can see if someone on my staff wants it.” At press time, a man had mistakenly claimed the briefcase as his own before getting home to discover all the unfamiliar buttons inside..

TheOnion……

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1 year ago

(FLASHBACK)

In January of 2017,

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer warned Trump that Intel officials ‘have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.’ The New York Times reported on Thursday that the whistleblower is a CIA officer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OYyXv2l4-I&ab_channel=NicholasBallasy

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1 year ago

This seems like it might be worth mentioning.

https://neurosciencenews.com/vitamin-d-depression-21230/

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And here we have the delusions of the biggest idiot in government…

https://www.foxnews.com/media/fauci-hammered-saying-symbolizes-consistency-integrity-truth-james-bond-villain

Mr. Flip-Flop in the Flesh…

What a maroon!!!

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Would a man with true integrity and consistency, actually joke about creating the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in his” kitchen”?

What a pathetic loser…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11100047/COVID-Czar-Dr-Anthony-Fauci-booed-fans-throwing-pitch-Seattle-Mariners-game.html

grey fox
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1 year ago

Excuses for Hoarding Classified Documents Are Getting More Absurd..
You can’t work from home for a job you no longer have.
The most absurd feature of Trump’s excuse could be its ham-fisted attempt to relate to the everyday person working from home. “Everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time,” the statement via Solomon read. “American presidents are no different.” Add that to the even more unbelievable assertion that Donald Trump works at all—and you’ll be left wondering, once again, how did things get this stupid.
Lets go Republicans!

MJ

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On a side note..
Trump’s average Gallup approval rating over his term, 41%, was by far the lowest for any president since Gallup began measuring presidential approval in 1938.
Donald Trump did that!

grey fox
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1 year ago

Responding to FBI search, Trump and allies return to his familiar strategy: flood the zone with nonsense..

Well that also happens a lot on here..
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/08/13/politics/fact-check-trump-fbi-search-false-misleading-conspiracy-theories/index.html

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Yet Pelosi-ites do the same thing. That Trump took documents in a casual way that he shouldn’t have? Likely because that is his nature to thumb his nose at regulation. Just as it’s the Democrat nature to use government regulation in a petty as a weapon against him. As do commenters here. There is no outrage small enough that would be handled with circumspection for the sake of the greater good. Remember Clinton’s emails on an unsecured server?

But did Trump cause harm to the country by doing it? Just like the Russian Dossier, the harm potential is small but the Democrat and bureaucracy outrage is huge. There are no heroes in this scenario.

grey fox
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1 year ago
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Trump and his ilk are a “clear and present danger” to this Country.

The sooner him and his kind are neutralized, the better off we will be.

We all need to realize what is really going on in America today.

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As true as that may be, the exact same thing can be said for Biden, Fauci, and their ilk, “they are a clear and present danger”.

Two different sides of the same evil, corrupt, coinage.

“The sooner him and his kind are neutralized, the better off we will be.”

What makes you so sure?

“We” are not so different than “him, and his kind”…

Realistically, that is just divisive.

grey fox
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1 year ago
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I have yet heard Fauci or Biden call for civil war. Or condone talk like that.
Nor anyone of their “ilk” for that matter.

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You speak of “neutralizing” others.

I’d say that qualifies.

And Fauci, your hero, just claimed that he created the original SARS-CoV-2 Strain, WA1.

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Try cutting and pasting…

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1 year ago
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A little over the top, wouldn’t you say?

He seems to have flipped his lid…

Again…

(Those links won’t do me any good.)

I’m not going there…

If there is something you’d like to show me from those links, cut and paste it, please.

Thank you.

grey fox
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1 year ago
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They are all posts you made about the Fauci thing…
Just recently in fact in this same article….
I forget things sometimes myself…

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Links to my own comments?

That’s what I thought.

Why would I need to be referred back to my own comments…???

I wrote them…

I didn’t forget that, at all, contrary to your insinuation.

“The Fauci thing”…???

It’s nothing to joke about.

Does he think he is funny?

Is he a comedian now…

How many millions are dead?

What is so funny about that?

I sure don’t look up to this clown…

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1 year ago
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Just reminding you that you had already brought the subject up twice before. Then you mentioned it to me a third time.

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Good counting!

All the way to 3!

Now maybe you can explain what this comment of yours means?

“The sooner him and his kind are neutralized, the better off we will be.”

-grey fox-

Sounds pretty diabolical to me…

It’s kind of concerning…

Does that include me?

In that context…

Please clarify your definition of, “neutralized”.

And please clarify your definition of, “him and his kind”.

And also please clarify your definition of, the “we”, that will be, as you described, “better off”.

Who does it include, and who does it exclude?

Thank you.

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Is “neutralized” = “killed”? Not an unexpected attitude from the authoritarian leftists, kill their political opponents to establish their unopposed perpetual dictatorship. Will we see Pelosi rip the Constitution in half as well, or will that be done in secret?

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“The last global pandemic, the Spanish Flu pandemic, which
killed on a massive scale, at least 50 million people, was
almost a century ago. I remember this because it deprived me of
ever knowing one of my grandmothers, my paternal grandmother
who died as a young woman in New York in that pandemic.
But in addition to all the medical miracles that were
underneath that veil Pasteur began to peel back, there were, of
course, also dangers. Research that could lead to cures,
extending life for millions, also could kill many if a rogue
pathogen were released either by accident or because it fell
into what I will call evil hands. And it is this paradox of
dual-use research that we gather together today to consider at
this hearing.
Last fall, the world was shaken by the news that two
research teams, working independently had been able to engineer
a new strain of the H5N1 virus, which we know as Bird Flu, that
could easily infect humans. Epidemiologists have long feared
that if the H5N1 virus ever made the jump from a virus mostly
confined to birds to one easily transmitted among humans, it
could swiftly cause a pandemic. The mortality rate for the few
reported cases in humans who have been infected is as high as
60 percent. By contrast, the Spanish Flu, which I mentioned
earlier, had a mortality rate of about 2 percent.
The researchers that I referred to, based both at Erasmus
University in the Netherlands and at the University of
Wisconsin, announced that they were going to publish the
results of their studies in the journal, Science and Nature”

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One big overwhelming problem with the idea that exposing and condemning personally chosen US bureaucrats to be villains in the bioweapon doomsday conspiracy theories is that IT FIXES NOTHING. Even worse, it could, if listened to, cripple any defence. Do you think that by attacking Americans only incidently involved in such bioengineering you find so frightening, it will stop authoritarian dictatorships like the PRC from doing such research? That a country that dumps sand on remote reefs to create islands to extend claims of control over international waters is going to pay attention to your warnings? Really?

All you can do with your uneducated shotgun attacks, and even that’s unlikely, is impair this country’s ability to study and develop countermeasures to a very difficult-to-control problem. You can’t put the genie back into the bottle but, with enough irrational fear mongering, you can keep this country from knowing what other countries are capable of doing. Or dealing with it if it happens.

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1 year ago

TK News by Matt Taibbi
Welcome to the Third World

The FBI really better have something “pulverizing” on Trump, because otherwise we’ve just witnessed one of the dumbest moves in the history of politics

[The Justice Department] must immediately explain the reason for its raid and it must be more than a search for inconsequential archives, or it will be viewed as a political tactic and undermine any future credible investigation and legitimacy of January 6 investigations.
— Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo

Headline from Politics Insider this morning:

Feds likely obtained ‘pulverizing’ amount of evidence ahead of searching Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, legal experts say.

Pulverizing! Hold that thought.

More @ link

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1 year ago
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The Washington Post reported Thursday that the unprecedented FBI raid on Trump’s residence was undertaken in part to recover “classified documents relating to nuclear weapons.” WaPo’s sources, which the outlet referred to as “people familiar with the investigation,” did not elaborate on the claim, nor did they say whether the FBI recovered such documents.
The bombshell report sparked controversy online as to why the FBI waited roughly 18 months to recover such records. Speculation also questioned why, if the nature of the documents was so sensitive, the White House did not know about the raid.
“Just to get this straight, we’re now supposed to believe that the material Trump had stored in his house was nuclear content so sensitive the FBI waited a year and a half to go get it and used the National Archives as a prop to do so?”

grey fox
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1 year ago
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Ah yes Matt Taibbi..

He wrote a book about Trump
called, Insane Clown President..

thatguyinarcata
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1 year ago
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He seems to have distinguished himself over a fairly long career as a reliable source of journalism. Are there some major errors he’s made or misreporting he’s been implicated in?

grey fox
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1 year ago

“A clear and present danger.”

In the days since the warrant was executed, the FBI and DHS have seen an increase in “violent threats” against law enforcement, judiciary and government personnel, including a particular threat to “place a so-called Dirty Bomb in front of FBI headquarters,” according to the bulletin.

“General calls” for “civil war” and “armed rebellion” have also increased in recent days on social media.
Fox News—

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1 year ago

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grey fox
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1 year ago
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Interesting. I wonder if that counts as a Meme? You may have started something that a new rule will have to be applied to..

How did you do it? Is it a secrete? Will have to play with this.

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Try duplicating it, and maybe it will disappear, too.

grey fox
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1 year ago
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Move on son, move on.
I think it’s pretty clever. I just can’t figure out how she did it…

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1 year ago
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It is pretty clever.

I can’t figure out why my last screenshot disappeared after you duplicated it…

Or how or why you duplicated it.

And to you, my name is not son.

That would be an insult.

And it ain’t Karen either.

Same thing.

https://vlipsy.com/vlip/joe-biden-ladies-and-gentlemen-ive-been-dumb-kSRtbOvd

HotCoffee
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1 year ago
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Yep, very rude and demeaning.

grey fox
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1 year ago
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Duplicate what screen shot? I have no idea what you are talking about…

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1 year ago
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Right. The screenshot that spelled out “monkeypox” in Braille…

Then somehow, you duplicated it precisely, in a reply, a little too precisely, and than they both disappeared…

I’m still not sure why that happened…

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1 year ago
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I’m still not sure how ☕ did it, or how Kym did it, but I’m the guy that used to get a lot of heck for not knowing how to cut and paste a link…

I’m pretty sure that my way was different from their way, due to the difference in the size of the display…

Mine came out a little smaller…

grey fox
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1 year ago
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I still don’t see how she did it. That’s a big file but she edited it to fit..
Thanks for the GIF link. That’s a good one.

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1 year ago
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Hi Kym, Am I in trouble again?

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Lighting don’t look to friendly.

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1 year ago
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Got it!
😀

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1 year ago
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Awesome!

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1 year ago
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Thanks

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1 year ago
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1 year ago
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What a face! Cute……………
wink wink.

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1 year ago
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I notice yours is full screen, but mine is not…

I didn’t use an app, did you?

I read something online, but it was about a method I didn’t use…

Too confusing for me…

Did I discover an easier shortcut, but one that only displays a smaller version???

(No app involved)…

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1 year ago
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🤔🧐I can’t believe that I actually was able to do it…😁

My wife gave me the hint I needed, that got me most of the way, but it still didn’t quite work yet….and then I just goofed around until I got it to work!!!

I did do a little research, beforehand….

I’d say that I had to pay for an expensive app, and that it took an hour, but I’m not much in the way of lying..

But it was tempting…

My lips are sealed…

(I’m horrible at keeping secrets, too.)

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1 year ago
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I went here,
https://giphy.com/
copy and paste
because of the settings on my laptop, I can’t do screenshots, so other places I use this.
I haven’t figured out how to resize it here at RRBB but other places I go I can..
I don’t have an i phone no cell service here.
Once upon a time I was tech savey, lost that when I moved up here.
No fee for the gifs they’re free.

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grey fox
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1 year ago
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I think I figured it out. When you copied those files they got compressed…Don’t expand till you open them.
I could be wrong, but you might want to check size.
They seem to be way over the 1 mb limit..

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1 year ago
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Nice…

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1 year ago

Yes.

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1 year ago

Nice, but hey, where did the kitten go?

I think I would have deleted Chan first…

grey fox
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1 year ago
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This kitten? Chan relates to the quote. I deleted the respect thing…

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Yep, that’s a cute one all right.

And chan is definitely a screenshot.

I wouldn’t consider it informational.

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1 year ago

Bidenflation has driven our food prices 11% higher over the last year but Joe falsely claims “zero inflation”.
Joe Biden did that!

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The labor participation rate has fallen to 62.1% as an additional 400,000 Americans exited the workforce since March. Joe Biden’s policies are destroying the motivation to work, many instead choosing dependence on socialist handouts, leaving jobs unfilled, driving labor cost and Bidenflation ever higher, and forcing the Fed to increase interest rates ever higher triggering Biden’s Recession.
Joe Biden did that!

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1 year ago

One year later and Joe Biden’s catastrophic Afghanistan withdraw has made the country the same terrorist stronghold that brought 9/11. Joe Biden, making Al Qaeda great again!

grey fox
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1 year ago
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Donald Trumps far right wing rhetoric is making the US a stronghold for fascist right wing
militia groups…
Best worry about them…..

grey fox
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1 year ago
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Donald Trump has warned that “terrible things are going to happen” as he faces the blame for violence and threats directed at FBI agents.

grey fox
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1 year ago

I have a question.
If nobody is looking at these GIF’s are they still playing?

grey fox
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1 year ago

Oil is dropping like a rock

Crude Oil Futures 88.34 -3.75

Brent Crude Futures 94.24 -3.91

Joe Biden did that!

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1 year ago
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The recession we are now in portends the depression that’s now on the horizon…

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1 year ago
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Endless mRNA vaccines are in the works, as the CDC and FDA play “hide the data”

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05375838?term=vaccine&cond=COVID-19+influenza&draw=3&rank=19

grey fox
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1 year ago
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The US economy didn’t get the recession memo
Consider the following developments:

  • The economy added more than half a million jobs in July alone.
  • The unemployment rate dropped to 3.5%, tied for the lowest level since 1969.
  • Inflation chilled out (relatively speaking) in July for both the consumers and producers.
  • Gas prices tumbled below $4 a gallon for the first time since March.
  • Consumer sentiment has bounced off record lows.
  • The stock market notched its longest weekly winning streak since November.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/15/economy/recession-inflation-economy/index.html

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I pay $6.00 a gallon for gasoline, not $4.00.

The US average per KW of electricity is $0.15, but I pay over $0.31, bottom tier.

(The average went up 3.75% from June to July alone.)

I paid $4.00 per gallon of propane, on my last fill, the US average is just under $3.00 per gallon.

Don’t even get me started on the unaffordable increases in the price of groceries, grey fox…

I should count my blessings that I can still afford burger and chuck…

Booger eater Biden says inflation is at zero percent, but at the same time, blames the biggest single driver of massive inflation all on Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

So, which is it?

When it comes to Government Gospel, I’m a non-believer…

Biden has a spending problem.

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1 year ago
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Didn’t OPEC agree to increase production through Oct. giving temporary relief, When Biden went begging, soon to end?
Someone needs to clue Biden in that changing the definition of a word doesn’t change the reality of the effect.

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grey fox
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1 year ago
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We were discussing recession not inflation which you are now referring to.
It sounds like “they” are personally out to get you.
You are blaming the wrong person for your woes.
Corporate greed is what’s the problem.

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https://nypost.com/2022/08/10/biden-wh-claims-us-has-zero-inflation-despite-high-rate/

“John Cooper, director of media and public relations at the conservative Heritage Foundation, tweeted, “Joe Biden claims, multiple times, that there was ‘zero inflation’ in July. Absolutely false. Year-over-year inflation was 8.5% in July.” ”

“The all items less food and energy index rose 5.9 percent over the last 12 months,” the official report said, referring to so-called “core inflation.” “The energy index increased 32.9 percent for the 12 months ending July, a smaller increase than the 41.6-percent increase for the period ending June. The food index increased 10.9 percent over the last year, the largest 12-month increase since the period ending May 1979.””

Food went up more in one year, than it has gone up in one year, since 1979!

That’s over 42 years!

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Recession, appeared likely, to the general public. This given headlines, certain political rhetoric, social media blather. But qualified heads were not so fast to judge, and now we have the likes of Mark Zandi, chief economist, Moody’s Analytics:
“This is not a recession. It’s not even in the same universe as a recession. It’s just patently wrong to say it is.”

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1 year ago
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“It’s not even in the same universe as a recession”.

“It’s just patently wrong to say it is.”

Just exactly which universe is Mark Zandi in?

It seems he is out of his realm…

He couldn’t possibly be correct.

And who has ever even heard of Mark Zandi, anyway?

He’s a nobody.

grey fox
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1 year ago
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LOL..He is a. nobody?

Right, my go to people for information on recession is anonymous posters on here…

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Yep, just about like my go to people on good judgement on anonymous posters, are other anonymous posters on here!

So what do you suggest?

Do you suggest believing the experts, unconditionally, and never the “anonymous posters on here”, on such subjects as vaccination rate projections, along with recession projections?

Are the anonymous posters on here never more correct than the experts?

You do realize that we are currently still at a mere 67% vaccination rate, right?

And what did the experts project the rate would be by 1-15-2022?

70% to 80%.

And what did the anonymous poster project?

That 70%, let alone 80%,was likely never going to happen?

And was that the truth? (We’re at 67%).

I certainly didn’t believe the experts…

It was obviously a little too rosy…

I’m surprised anyone believed them, and even more surprised that they believed their projections, themselves…

This guy Zandi says the odds of a recession very soon are increasing.

Do you still agree with this guy?

That I would agree with, but I would say we are already there.

Saying that we are not is a little too rosy.

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1 year ago
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You seem to have borrowed your quotes from ‘PEHAL NEWS’…

Here is the link…

https://www.pehalnews.in/analysis-american-recession-fears-collide-with-reality/2321727/

I’ve never read a more grammatically challenged News Site…

It’s just awful.

Much of it is literally incomprehensible.

Totally gobbledygook.

Like this…

“A recession would seemingly contain the lack of not simply lots of of hundreds however hundreds of thousands of jobs. Unable to make their mortgage funds, households would face foreclosures on their houses. And small, medium and huge companies would go below.

None of these issues are taking place in a big approach, no less than not but.”

That’s just terrible writing…

It eventually states… Basically…

The odds of a recession are only increasing…

The lack of admission that we are already in a recession, is really just a denial, and it’s just the equivalent of kicking the can down the road…

Zandi writes…

“The yield curve — particularly, the hole between 2-year and 10-year Treasury yields — stays inverted. And up to now, this has been an eerily accurate predictor of recessions. It has preceded every recession since 1955.
In all, latest financial knowledge means that the potential recession might have been delayed, not canceled altogether.

While the danger of a recession over the following six to 9 months seems to have gone down, Zandi stated, the danger of 1 within the subsequent 12 to 18 months has gone up.

“Recession odds are still uncomfortably high,” he stated.”

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grey fox
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1 year ago
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So we are not in a recession heading to a depression.
And I quote…
“ The recession we are now in portends the depression that’s now on the horizon”

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“Recession odds are still uncomfortably high,” he stated.”

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https://amac.us/are-we-on-the-road-to-americas-second-great-depression/

“A recent Rasmussen poll shows that most of us think that Joe Biden’s recession is bound to result in a catastrophic Depression, with a capital D. The survey shows that 52% of respondents fear that a second Great Depression is “likely” and another 10% cautiously said the “are not sure.” ”

“But the business management consulting firm, ITR Economics, says it sees a second Great Depression coming just in time for the 100th anniversary of the first Great Depression. “A high probability exists that the decade spanning 2030–2040 will be one of lost opportunities, great economic distress, lost fortunes, deep regrets, and despair over what might have been…The trends we see are massive and have so much momentum that they will be difficult to change. Action is imperative. We need to implement economic moves that will protect us, to fight the good fight in an attempt to preclude the next Great Depression from hitting with unprecedented force.””

‘Our nation is just getting started on the road to a Great Depression, according to the experts. The rate of inflation was at about 1.4% when President Biden took office in January 2021. “The Labor Department on Friday said that the consumer-price index increased 8.6% in May from the same month a year ago, marking the highest reading since December 1981,” according to the Wall Street Journal. ”

You were saying, grey fox???

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grey fox
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1 year ago
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In the United States, a recession is defined by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) as “a significant decline in economic activity spread across the market, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales…
And get ready for a surprise again this time: There are virtually no major Wall Street economists who expect the NBER to say the U.S. economy was in recession during the first half of 2022.
Zandi also said..

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Conveniently, the NBER won’t even begin to declare anything about whether the US economy was in a recession was present in the first half 2022 until probably the second half of 2023.

It’s not like they will warn us it’s coming.

By the time they confirm it, it will be at least a year old.

Too little, too late.

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1 year ago
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Here is a surprise or two for you…

The NBER is compromised of 8 members, all white, and privileged, and somewhat related.

Hardly a representative group of all Americans.

There is absolutely no minority representation of any kind.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/30/economy/recession-economists-nber/index.html

And please provide a link or other documentation of this assertion of yours…

“And get ready for a surprise again this time: There are virtually no major Wall Street economists who expect the NBER to say the U.S. economy was in recession during the first half of 2022.
Zandi also said..”

– grey fox-

I find that to be a questionable statement, an I don’t find that it’s attributable to Zandi at all.

There is really so much that seems dubious about it…

Especially since anything the NBER might say about it, won’t happen for at least another year.

In a “K” shaped economic recovery from the pandemic recession of 2020, America is divided.

The affluent may not be experiencing continued economic decline, but the less fortunate minorities, certainly are.

I found the source, and Zandi didn’t say that at all…

The journalist, Jeff Cox, said that…

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/28/the-economy-may-look-like-its-in-recession-but-we-still-dont-know-for-sure.html

Your comment is misleading.

Here is what Zandi actually said, following your misleading statement from Jeff Cox, the CNBC journalist

“We weren’t in a recession for the first half of the year, but odds are rising we will be by the end of the year,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.

And that’s the part that you refuse to acknowledge.

Now why is that?

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California leads the world in production of processing tomatoes — the variety that gets canned and used in commercial kitchens to make some of the most popular foods. The problem is the worst drought in 1,200 years is forcing farmers to grapple with a water crisis that’s undermining the crop, threatening to further push up prices from salsa to spaghetti sauce.
“We desperately need rain,” Mike Montna, head of the California Tomato Growers Association, said in an interview. “We are getting to a point where we don’t have inventory left to keep fulfilling the market demand.”
Lack of water is shrinking production in a region responsible for a quarter of the world’s output, which is having an impact on prices of tomato-based products. Gains in tomato sauce and ketchup are outpacing the rise in US food inflation, which is at its highest in 43 years, with drought and higher agricultural inputs to blame. With California climate-change forecasts calling for hotter and drier conditions, the outlook for farmers is uncertain.
“It’s real tough to grow a tomato crop right now,” Montna said. “On one side you have the drought impacting costs because you don’t have enough water to grow all your acres, and then you have the farm inflation side of it with fuel and fertilizer costs shooting up.”
Read: California governor speeds up drought plan, stops short of restrictions
California restrictions limiting groundwater use and soaring costs for labor, fuel and fertilizer have caused headaches for producers such as Woolf Farming. It costs the Fresno County-based grower and processor around $4,800 an acre to grow and harvest a tomato crop these days compared with $2,800 a decade ago, according to Rick Blankenship, vice president of farming operations. Most of the increases have been in the last two years. This season’s bounty costs more and delivers less.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/spaghetti-sauce-under-threat-water-124539175.html

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1 year ago
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Here’s one article’s headline…

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1 year ago
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Whatevs, grey fox.

Zandi might not admit that we are currently in a recession, but he acknowledges that the odds that we soon will be in one are rapidly increasing…

Was he right about this?

“While the danger of a recession over the following six to 9 months seems to have gone down, Zandi stated, the danger of 1 within the subsequent 12 to 18 months has gone up.

“Recession odds are still uncomfortably high,” he stated.”

Do you really expect the Biden Administration to actually admit that the economy totally tanked and nosedived on their watch?

https://itreconomics.com/depression

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grey fox
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1 year ago
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Look up…🙄..and not at the ceiling…
@NBER

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Yeah, you delete your post about Zandi being right, after you realize that he said, “the danger of a recession 12 to 18 months from now has gone up.”,

And that, “Recession odds are still uncomfortably high.”

Typical.

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grey fox
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1 year ago
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Look up🙄
I see Zandi’s name in the repost…
You keep going back and forth. First you say we are in recession heading to depression, then you use Zandi to say we are headed to a recession.
Ummmm so what is it?
All I am hearing is possibly,
maybe and your Guest opinion..

Did you see this in the article you posted?

While most economists — and Fed Chair Jerome Powell — have said they don’t think the economy is in recession.

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1 year ago
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The only thing that I heard Jerome Powell say was when he was disagreeing with Biden’s ridiculous claim that our nasty inflation was due to Putin invading Ukraine.

grey fox
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1 year ago
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What’s funny is you using Zandi to make a point. A man you discredited earlier

“he is nobody”

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1 year ago
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No, what’s funny is that you disagreed that Zanti didn’t know what he was talking about, until he said that the danger of a recession has gone up, and the odds are still uncomfortably high…

Then your all, delete, delete, delete…

Typical…

So is he full of shit, or not?

He’s denying we are currently in a recession, but confirms that a recession is right around the corner…

And suddenly you distance yourself from Zanti, aaand the anonymous poster!!!

LOL!

Backpedalling like mad…

Trying to cover the tracks…

Crack me up.

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That’s not an answer.

The last resort, when you back a man as credible, who ends up completely contradicting your narrative, is to delete your post…

Get rid of the proof…

And then act like it never happened…

And then start pointing the finger elsewhere…

Typical.

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grey fox
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1 year ago
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Right, the last resort when facts are not available to back a claim. Put a spin on it..
Embarrassing!.
I simply reposted the post in a different place as you well know.
Bottom line.
You said “we are in recession headed to depression” Follow the thread back up to the beginning.
And yes I still back Zandi’s statement as every other economist does. The only one doubting him was you..

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So you agree with Zandi that we are very likely heading into a recession, if we are not already in one?

And every other economist does not back Zandi’s statement.

There are other more accurate measures of whether we are currently in a recession or not…

Like consumer confidence…

“That’s the variable that predicts it, and it has two great characteristics,” he said on the podcast. “It predicts six of the last six. And it also doesn’t give you a false positive.”

Blanchflower prefers consumer confidence data to unemployment because unemployment is a lagging indicator. Consumer confidence data, on the other hand, can pick up turbulence in the economy much earlier, as consumers begin to sour on the economy.

So to answer the question of whether or not we’re already in a recession, maybe consumers — meaning all of us — the best predictors of recession.” ”

And that would mean me…

And I’m saying that we are already their…

And I am confident, that in a year or so, NBER will confirm that I am correct.

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grey fox
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1 year ago
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Nope not you but Zandi might be..
The same Zandi you had this to say about..

“He couldn’t possibly be correct.
And who has ever even heard of Mark Zandi, anyway?
He’s a nobody.“

And you go and find Blanchflower whom I assume you think is “somebody”

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1 year ago
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These self appointed know it alls pretend they know something about the economy. The fact is that the current fiscal atmosphere has nothing to do with Biden. The two main drivers of today’s crisis are the lockdown of the worlds busiest export harbor and the destabilization of of the energy market thanks to Putin’s ambitions.

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1 year ago
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That is quite simply not true.

The writing has been on the wall for quite some time, but some just refuse to properly recognize it….

Actions speak louder than words…

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2022-07-06/blanchflower-us-may-already-actually-be-in-recession

grey fox
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1 year ago
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LOL
Get your news on the US economy from Australian TV?
Put some shrimp on the barby mate….

And yes I know Blanchflower
teaches in the US. Any reason why he is going on Australian TV? Doesn’t care to share with us in the US?

And just looking at the link tells me all I need to know.
I see the word “may”

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Javanka brought up Zandi, not me.

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What about NBER?

Don’t hold your breath for them to decide if we are in a recession or not…

https://apnews.com/article/inflation-covid-health-gross-domestic-product-economy-89cbfc145ad34a91679ffa43e617c896

“Yet the NBER typically doesn’t declare a recession until well after one has begun, sometimes for up to a year.”

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Potato Shortage Emerges In Idaho As Prices Surge At SupermarketsThe next food insecurity problem that may impact the way Americans eat could be an emerging potato shortage that began last year when yields were depressed due to a heatwave, according to Boise State Public Radio

“I’m not sure if you remember last June, but we had some just unbelievably hot temperatures here in Idaho. It did a number on our potato crop,” Jamey Higham, president and CEO of the Idaho Potato Commission, told the Idaho-based media outlet. “And so, our yields were significantly down last year.”

Boise State Public Radio pointed out that last year’s potato crop cycle should last through August, though the lack of the starchy vegetable has already presented consumers with higher prices at the supermarket.

“There is not a gap. There are just less potatoes being shipped right now than there normally are this time of year because of the shorter supply that we started the season with,” said Higham.

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August 14 (King World News) – Egon von Greyerz, Founder of Matterhorn Asset Management (based in Switzerland): The world economy and especially the political and economic situation today consists of a potpourri of lethal ingredients which will have dire consequences.
Let’s look at what this deadly potion consists of:

  • Debts at levels that can never be repaid – sovereign, corporate & private
  • Epic global bubbles in stocks, bonds & property – all about to collapse
  • Major geopolitical conflicts with no desire for peace – major wars likely
  • Energy imbalances and shortages, most self inflicted
  • Food shortages leading to major famine and civil unrest
  • Inflation, leading to hyperinflation & global poverty
  • Political and economic corruption in US, Europe and most countries 
  • No country will afford social security, medical or pension payments 

So what are governments around the world doing to solve these problems.
Nothing of course. 
The only thing they know is to print more money. They have never understood that a debt problem cannot be solved with more debt. All they can try to achieve is to pass the batten to the next leader so it will be his problem. 
This means that all the political, economic and financial mismanagement of the past 50 years will result in a global collapse never seen before in history.

HotCoffee
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Homebuilders say U.S. is in a ‘housing recession’ as sentiment turns negative
Published Mon, Aug 15 2022

  • The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index dropped 6 points in August to 49. Anything below 50 is considered negative.
  • This marks the eighth straight decline in the index.
  • “Tighter monetary policy from the Federal Reserve and persistently elevated construction costs have brought on a housing recession,” said NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/15/us-is-in-housing-recession-homebuilders-say.html

Giant Squirrel
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1 year ago

Biden’s politicization of DOJ & FBI with direct targeting of his political opponents may well have started a chain reaction causing an irrevocable domestic split and the destruction of our once great Constitutional Republic.
Joe Biden did that!

grey fox
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All that is happening is that right wing fascist cockroaches are coming out of the woodwork..
Donald Trump did that!

HotCoffee
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1 year ago

Former president Trump is not without resources and recourse in all this. Though the news media does not follow it, the Trump v Clinton lawsuit trial continues, and it might not go so well for Mrs. Clinton and her friends….

It should be pretty obvious that the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was an attempt to seize evidence likely to be used in former President Donald Trump’s civil lawsuit in the Southern Florida Federal District Court against Hillary Clinton and associated defendants in and out of government for the defamation and racketeering operation known as RussiaGate — AND in any future criminal proceedings that might grow out of congressional investigations-to-come against officials past and present in the DOJ and FBI. The idea is to tie up all those documents in a legal dispute about declassification so they can’t be entered in any proceeding.
Over the weekend, independent journalist Paul Sperry reported that many of the same FBI officers involved in the Mar-a-Lago raid happen to be subjects of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of RussiaGate. Have some of them already been hauled into grand juries? We don’t know. But, with the Mar-a-Lago caper, it looks like the law enforcement apparatus of the federal government is seeking to suppress evidence of its own long-running criminal enterprise.