COVID-19 Updates for March 9 from CDPH

California COVIDPress release from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH):

Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released the most recent statistics on COVID-19 in California. The most up to date data is available on the state’s COVID-19 data dashboard.

Statewide COVID-19 Data

Rates of cases, hospitalizations and deaths are highest among unvaccinated individuals and lowest among boosted individuals. This is true for all age groups. See additional data for unvaccinated and vaccinated cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.

CDPH COVID stats for March 9, 2023

Vaccinations

  • 88,280,319 total vaccines administered.
  • 72.7% of the population has been vaccinated with a primary series.
  • 8,995 people a day are receiving COVID-19 vaccination (average daily dose count over 7 days).

 

Cases

  • California has 11,146,227 confirmed cases to date.
  • Today’s average case count is 2,612 (average daily case count over 7 days).
  • During January 2023, unvaccinated people were 2.6 times more likely to get COVID-19 than people who were vaccinated with at least a primary series.

 

Testing

  • The testing positivity rate is 5.9% (average rate over 7 days).

Hospitalizations

  • There are 2,375 hospitalizations statewide.
  • There are 279 ICU patients statewide.
  • During January 2023, unvaccinated people were 2.6 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than people who were vaccinated with at least a primary series.

Deaths

  • There have been 100,640 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
  • COVID-19 claims the lives of 17 Californians each day (average daily death count over 7 days).
  • During January 2023, unvaccinated people were 2.9 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than people who were vaccinated with at least a primary series.

 

COVID-19 Guidance Updates

Last week, CDPH announced updates to several state public health officer orders that have guided Californians on how to best protect themselves and their families throughout the pandemic. Critical tools to fight COVID-19 remain available to everyone at low or no cost. This includes access to COVID-19 vaccines, testing, and treatment.

Your Actions Save Lives – How You Can Help Slow the Spread

Protect yourself, family, friends, and community with prevention measures and information.

  • Get Vaccinated and Boosted for COVID-19: Real-world evidence continues to show that the vaccine prevents severe illness, hospitalization, and death. Public health officials urge Californians to get vaccinated and boosted as soon as they are eligible. It is recommended that every individual six months of age and older receive their primary COVID-19 vaccine series and booster dose, if eligible. Find a vaccine near you by visiting myturn.ca.gov or calling 1-833-422-4255. Visit Vaccinate All 58 to learn more about the safe and effective vaccines available for all Californians six months of age and older.
  • Wear A Mask: California’s COVID-19 mask guidance aligns with CDC COVID-19 Community Levels. Know your community level to evaluate risk and inform your decision on when to mask. Local policies may go beyond state requirements based on local conditions.
  • A Healthy School Year: The Safe Schools for All Hub consolidates key resources and information related to COVID-19 and schools. Learn more about the COVID-19 mitigation strategies to keep students, staff, and communities safe in the 2022-23 K-12 Schools Guidance.
  • My Vaccine Record: Get your digital vaccine record for an easy way to show vaccination status at venues or businesses that require proof of vaccination. Visit myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov today to get your vaccine record.

 

  • Travel Tips: Do not travel if you are sick or have tested positive for COVID-19. Make sure you are up to date on your COVID-19 and other vaccines before travel (both domestic and international). See the CDC’s full travel guidance.
  • Add Your Phone to the Fight: Sign up for COVID-19 exposure notifications from CA Notify. Individuals who test positive for COVID-19 – including those who test at home – can alert others of a potential exposure more quickly and conveniently. For more information, please visit the “Notify Others” page on CA Notify.

 

  • Sign-Up for COVID-19 Policy Alerts and Notifications: COVID-19 Policy Alerts provide up-to-date information regarding CDPH COVID-19 guidance and policy, including changes to orders, mandatory guidance and more. Sign-up for the COVID-19 Policy Alerts emails today.

 

  • Check With Your Local Health Department: Local health departments may have policies in place that are stricter than state guidance.

 

Tracking COVID-19 in California

 

Health Care Workers

  • As of March 8, local health departments have reported 192,269 confirmed positive cases in health care workers and 602 deaths statewide.

 

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stevo
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stevo
1 year ago

Good journalism requires questioning the broad brush claims of the CDPH

  • Get Vaccinated and Boosted for COVID-19: Real-world evidence continues to show that the vaccine prevents severe illness, hospitalization, and death. Public health officials urge Californians to get vaccinated and boosted as soon as they are eligible. It is recommended that every individual six months of age and older receive their primary COVID-19 vaccine series and booster dose, if eligible. Find a vaccine near you by visiting myturn.ca.gov or calling 1-833-422-4255. Visit Vaccinate All 58 to learn more about the safe and effective vaccines available for all Californians six months of age and older.

We have never seen the studies that support the claims that it prevents severe illness, hospitalization and death.

The Cochrane Review on masking disputes the claim of masking for this plandemic.

spamned
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spamned
1 year ago
Reply to  stevo

The “Cochrane Review” study was headed by a troll who doesn’t even admit to airborne spread.

Corruption in that organization has been visible for a few years now (see the dismissal of Peter Gotzsche) https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare/dp/1846198844

politicized pandemic and eugenics

Deathray
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Deathray
1 year ago
Reply to  spamned

Face it, your a victim of the Covid scam but wont admit you were duped. Eventually you’ll have to come to grips that you bought into this scam hook line and sinker. At this point the hole youv’e dug for yourself is too deep too get out of.

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Deathray

NewEmptySuttonIsADeathray

Tim
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Tim
1 year ago
Reply to  stevo

“We have never seen the studies that support the claims that it prevents severe illness, hospitalization and death.”

That’s because you haven’t looked for them. Here’s a quote from one published a few months ago:
“A comprehensive systematic literature search was performed using several databases to identify studies reporting the effectiveness or the efficacy of the vaccines. Only 42 studies met our inclusion criteria, which revealed that the COVID-19 vaccines have successfully reduced the rates of infections, severity, hospitalization, and mortality among the different populations.” Published here: Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2022 Dec 31;18(1):2027160. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2022.2027160. Epub 2022 Feb 3.

Libertybiberty
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Libertybiberty
1 year ago
Reply to  Tim

Sorry bud, it’s still not a vaccine.
You mean the gene therapy shot?

bearjoo
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bearjoo
1 year ago
Reply to  Libertybiberty

its like having On Star feature built in for government track n trace surveillance of humanity. Microchip injections according to Hancock that British dick.

Ted Nougat
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Ted Nougat
1 year ago
Reply to  stevo

Also wear a helmet when you ride your neighbors bicycle. Thank me for this important PSA.

spamned
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spamned
1 year ago

*ventilation*

clean the air like we clean the water…

sooner or later, Covid will kill you (cumulative damage)

Not Blind
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Not Blind
1 year ago
Reply to  spamned

Uh… Should I be dead? I’m unvaccinated and someone named spammed told me I was definitely going to die. When should I be expecting to die? How long do these “cumulative damages” take to manifest? Should I talk to my doctor about speeding up this process via injections?

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago

Is this charade still going on? There are no more “conspiracy theories” now that they’ve all been proven true.

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Oliver Sutton
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Oliver Sutton
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

Just one more but I think I know why they won’t release the list…

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Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliver Sutton

C’mon, holiday and all just one-one more …

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Not Blind
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Not Blind
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

I thought kym said no more homoerotic fan fiction from you, rimme? Uh, I mean, sigh…

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Not Blind

“homoerotic fan fiction”? Sounds paranoid. Relax, U. Just two guys, doubled up, famous old-west style, think Far Eastwood Spaghetti Western. Both are infamous womanizers, adulterers, their business sure but at least one a likely rapist.

Not Blind
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Not Blind
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

No. You’ve posted multiple images like this under your other pseudonym, rimme. All I can infer is that you romanticize trump and Putin as lovers. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Not Blind

They do make a great pair, wanna be superviors, twin-like.

namer
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namer
1 year ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Hey Kym, remember when you got played by the Babylon Bee?

bearjoo
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bearjoo
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

so sad someone downvoted that when they know its true

Al L Ivesmatr
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Al L Ivesmatr
1 year ago

Forward progress soldiers of the Democrats Army!

Soldiers of Jah Army abstain

EmptyTheBastilleInDC
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EmptyTheBastilleInDC
1 year ago

Tired old bureaucrats repeating a tired old trope while a tired old grifter shuffled around the White House.

And Capital Police Officers are tour guides to sightseers on vacation. This country needs an enema.

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago

Tired old guest repeating tired old guest-isms under dozen different screen names.

EmptyTheBastilleInDC
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EmptyTheBastilleInDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

And still you bite. Every… single… time.

It’s the same bait, just a different flashy spinner above the hook.

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago

“And still you bite” Ah, admitted trolling. Niiiiiiice.

EmptyTheBastilleInDC
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EmptyTheBastilleInDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

A troller to an admitted trout in a barrel… or a sheep…

Yes. A sheep

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago

💋

EmptyTheBastilleInDC
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EmptyTheBastilleInDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

Now we’re talking… have a great weekend, Rimme!

Sigh
Guest
Sigh
1 year ago

Love you, Guest. Enjoy Life of Spam xox

Oliver Sutton
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Oliver Sutton
1 year ago

Well well well . Newsom bails to go on Baja vacation during state of emergency and comes back with his second case of Covid. Karmas a …

https://amp.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article272921780.html

EmptyTheBastilleInDC
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EmptyTheBastilleInDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliver Sutton

Oh no! I believe the Grease Stain is vaccinated and boosted. Why did the article not tell us what strain he acquired?

He’s doomed…

Not Blind
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Not Blind
1 year ago

Not if he gets the 5th booster! Someone help this man! He’s gonna be president one day!

🤢🤮

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago

Responding to yourself again.

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago

Biden: “All told, we’ve created more than 12,000 jobs since I took office.”

https://t.co/m9TzDKZIyP
Video at link. 12,000 doesn’t seem like many jobs over two years in a country our size.

GrumpyOldGuyD
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1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

About 211,000 people moved out of California over the past year alone. Newsom should get a medal for doing his part in creating more job opportunities in California, by the people that moved out.

D'Tucker Jebs
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

311,000 jobs in Feruary alone. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jobs-report-february-2023/
You really need to stop getting your news from Twitter.

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  D'Tucker Jebs

Watch the video, right out of senile uncle Joe’s mouth

D'Tucker Jebs
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

Provide a link to a reputable news source. Too many edited and out-of-context posts on Twitter for it to be taken seriously.
*edit.
Nevermind, I did it for you. 12 million jobs. Even Fox admits as much. https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-misspeaks-creating-12000-jobs-since-i-took-office

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Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  D'Tucker Jebs

We all knew that, just senile Joe again

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago

Newsom has just allowed the groundwater basin to be polluted by unregulated storm runoff…

What could go wrong…???

Groundwater that’s no longer fit to drink…???

https://ktla.com/news/california-wire/gov-newsom-signs-order-to-divert-rain-to-groundwater-basins/

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

Oliver Bastille

Oliver Sutton
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Oliver Sutton
1 year ago

Today House voted unanimously and bipartisan 419-0 to declassify intelligence on COVID-19 origins, sending bill to Biden’s desk. Let’s see what he does with it.
https://apnews.com/article/covid-origins-china-wuhan-intelligence-7018f8016c7346cfaa8193933ec10063

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago

Well, we were warned long ago. As to how many comments on the board, and pretty much everyday, is same poster using multiple names and email accounts. Kind of sad, that. Wishing them (them, lol), and Kym and staff, all the best.

Oliver Sutton
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Oliver Sutton
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

Is Putin really the bad guy? Let’s not forget that his was the only country that dedicated a memorial for the victims of 911:

“ To the Struggle Against World Terrorism (also known as the Tear of Grief and the Tear Drop Memorial) is a 10–story sculpture by Zurab Tsereteli that was given to the United States as an official gift from the Russian government as a memorial to the victims of the September 11 attacks in 2001, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.[1] It stands at the end of the former Military Ocean Terminal in Bayonne, New Jersey. Ceremonial groundbreaking occurred on September 16, 2005, in a ceremony attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin.[2] The monument was dedicated on September 11, 2006, in a ceremony attended by former U.S. President Bill Clinton.[1][3]”

The sides represent the twin towers and the teardrop for the victims.

Ukraine gave us nothing…but corruption.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Struggle_Against_World_Terrorism

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Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliver Sutton

It just gets better and better.
“ You have to be trolling. I’ve suspected it before.”
— Moderator responding to NewsomsAGuestStain

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliver Sutton

Yes, Putin is the bad guy in every way. Corruption was not the issue and doesn’t justify raw naked aggression even if true. His war was a land grab for some personal vision of a Russian return to world power and he was caught by his lack of perspective into killing people for it.

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

Too late.

Oliver Sutton
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Oliver Sutton
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

And how do you feel about the nordstream pipeline then. Blowing up a NATO ally pipeline is cool right? To keep power? Zelensky also killing his own people to cover for the Biden crime family, sex trafficking, bio labs, and supporting neo nazis, persecuting Roman Catholics, all for power.

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliver Sutton

Miss Nordstream. Three pipes, I think. But heck, mutiple Sybil’s abound here as well, alas.

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

We saw the Seymour Hersh news article documenting US Intel involvement in Nordstream sabotage then more recently Intel leaks saying it was a Ukrainian group responsible. Either way seems an attempt to trigger WW3 don’t you think?

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliver Sutton

Not the point. None of that, which is mostly fantasy and misdirection anyway, justifies dropping missiles on apartment complexes or hospitals in a foreign country.

Oliver Sutton
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Oliver Sutton
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

Hmm, so Ukraine dropping missiles on Poland and blaming it on Russia is not corruption? Look up Minsk Agreement and see how the EU violated it by stacking nuclear weapons on the Russian border. Zelensky sending his people to the slaughterhouse and the US is funding it , essentially prolonging the agony, and killing innocent ukranians. 10% for the big guy.

EmptyTheBastilleInDC
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EmptyTheBastilleInDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliver Sutton

Putin is a Christian, despises pedophiles and rightfully secures his country from the creep of Left wokeism. Russia and the US should be a natural alliance.

The corruption in Ukraine must be destroyed. Putin recognizes that and it’s telling that Russia is still gaining ground in Ukraine as the corrupt NATO bloc shores up the perverted Ukrainian president’s defenses.

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago

Well that certainly is Putin’s belief. And Putin’s propaganda machine is working overtime spreading it.

EmptyTheBastilleInDC
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EmptyTheBastilleInDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

“Ain’t no stopping a man that knows he’s in the right and keeps on coming.”

Louis L’amour

Winston
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Winston
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliver Sutton

That giant vagina and clitoris is a 9/11 tribute? Huh

bearjoo
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bearjoo
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliver Sutton

the Bad Guy = anyone not on their 12th booster shot.

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

Rules only allow one name per post article

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

Honor system only, obviously, given obvious multiple-personality posts … even debating themselves other names, just hilariously pathetic attempt to cover tracks, something. Sheesh, short handful of email accounts and changing names often, easy-peasy, as ya already know.

Deathray
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Deathray
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

You’re the master of projection. All we have do is wait till you accuse us. That’s how we find out what your really up to.

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Deathray

Ah, now Deathray is back, how interesting.

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  Deathray

I think it’s a toss up…

Did you see the comment from his faithful buddy about Sigh “being tag teamed by a duet”…???

Classic…

SMH…

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

Triplets … or maybe just quintuplets (counties 5 maga voters?)

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago

Biden administration’s policies quadrupled our inflation rate, drove interest rates skyhigh, and now caused the failure of our 16th largest bank. I hope everyone has repositioned your retirement savings mostly in risk free 4-5% government backed securities as the markets are looking extremely bearish. Biden’s spending like a drunken sailor caused this.
Joe Biden did that!

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EmptyTheBastilleInDC
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EmptyTheBastilleInDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

Biden Administration* appears to be orchestrating another hyperinflation period as SVB bank collapses spectacularly. Despite “safeguards” put in place to shore up financial institutions under “The Divider-In-Chief” during the last recession, here we are with banks collapsing. Is this a start of “contagion”? Are other banks going to collapse under yet another Democrat Administration*?

One would think Joe would have learned something the last time he lived through a Depression…

Oliver Sutton
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Oliver Sutton
1 year ago

The Elites are playing their last card. Now they play the alien mothership card.

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliver Sutton

Sybil

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago

Came across great book in bookshop fiction section . About a rural online news site. Seems one person got their rocks off playing online version of Sybil. Owner of the site knows the perp but let’s it slide, which for dopamine-hungry Sybil = de facto encouragement. Hours and hours of staff time have been spent moderating fiasco’s created by the serial Sybil-like poster. Strange story but mostly … sad. Putting the book back on the shelf the store owner said “Oh there it is, that book actually goes on non-fiction shelf”.

Oliver Sutton
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Oliver Sutton
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

Crack me up Chris, Rimme, Sigh. Btw where’s that Fox been hiding lately? Did he go down a rabbit hole? Covid? Or the new Guest?

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliver Sutton

On one hand, maybe good the handful of Crazy supporters have somewhere to go. They’ve been mostly shut out of Loco (one in particular, always getting his stuff deleted). On other hand, RHBB comment section has been shown to be perfect place to spawn. But I feel for the unaware reader, teenagers, others, stumbling into online fecal lairs. And there’s the yer eye folk, how many ongoing accounts, screen names. Imagine, being the site owner. Can’t be easy.

EmptyTheBastilleInDC
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EmptyTheBastilleInDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

Mass shooting in Germany?

How can that be? It’s very difficult for citizens of Germany to obtain and possess a firearm. So difficult in fact, that it is mainly the security teams of the corrupt global elite that can own and carry arms in Germany. The leaders of the corrupt EU and corrupt NATO bloc must be very concerned about this developing story.

EmptyTheBastilleInDC
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EmptyTheBastilleInDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

I would assume teenagers and younger schoolchildren are more concerned with administrators obsessed with their sexuality than they are with the cadre of patriots bringing truth to blogs across the USA.

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago

Yes, teenagers and kids are always concerned about … administrators. I’d hope the kids would want to ride a speeder. But no, they don’t.

EmptyTheBastilleInDC
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EmptyTheBastilleInDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

I appreciate your concern and your position, Rimme, but I would be remiss if I did not remind you that the Biden Administration* has scrambled to try to shut down TikTok. Teenagers and kids are on that platform, I’m sure, much more often than local blogs. The damning thing is that the reason for limiting TikTok is because the Left cannot control its content like they could with the FBI’s infiltration of Twitter, Facebook and Meta, not for the official Party positions they espoused to the mainstream media.

Al L Ivesmatr
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Al L Ivesmatr
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

Do you collect those projectors that they used to use in Elementary school? Thought so. Pretty soon, you will have the worlds biggest collection. You can take the show on the road to Portland and Seattle and host weekly film nights to the lost children of the PNW.

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliver Sutton

Forgot to ask, you running, next race, for Supervisor?

Oliver Sutton
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Oliver Sutton
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

I’m more worried about the schools gettin’ to the teenagers and kids. You know, the drag shows, gender reassignment lesson plans that come complete with sex change operations, and the white guilt lesson plans, to name a few.

D'Tucker Jebs
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliver Sutton

“Gender reassignment lesson plans”?
What the Hell are you talking about?
Same goes for every one of the other cockamamy platitudes you mentioned.

Oliver Sutton
Guest
Oliver Sutton
1 year ago
Reply to  D'Tucker Jebs

You know , where they teach biological boys to be trans girls, and Vice versa. Did you see the ufc fight where the trans woman caved in and fractured the skull of the biological female?

https://bjj-world.com/transgender-mma-fighter-fallon-fox-breaks-skull-of-her-female-opponent/

D'Tucker Jebs
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliver Sutton

You can’t teach a straight kid to be trans any more than you can teach a trans kid to be straight.

guest`
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guest`
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliver Sutton

He continues to brag about it too. Women should refuse to fight these men. Women and girls should just sit down and refuse to compete against men and boys in their sports. It will be a loss though. It’s a loss either way for the women and girls.

EmptyTheBastilleInDC
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EmptyTheBastilleInDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

“May you live in interesting times.”

We do. And truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

Have a great day!

Sigh
Guest
Sigh
1 year ago

Thank you. Speeder flag op indicated a true Sybil of merit. Thanks FBI, great technique!

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

Wonder if Trump has some kind of online multiple-personality disorder. He tweeted that although he disagrees with McConnell he wishes him well and a speedy recover … buthis former lawyer, Jenna Ellis, posted a tweet including video of a turtle falling down the stairs. Maybe Trump runs the Ellis Twitter account.

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

The J6 video is clear, he was escorted by Capitol police, they even opened the door to chambers to help him enter. J6 committee chair says he hadn’t seen this video before Tucker aired it, neither had defense team so prosecution illegally withheld exculpatory evidence. Every government lawyer involved in violating this citizens rights should be disbarred.
#FreeJacobChansley

EmptyTheBastilleInDC
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EmptyTheBastilleInDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

All American tourists wrongly held in the DC Bastille must be released now.

The corrupt FBI withheld damning video evidence contrary to federal prosecutors cases from defense attorneys. All American tourists wrongly convicted of touring the People’s House on 1/6/21 shall have their sentences commuted immediately.

Tour Guide Michael Byrd shall be arrested immediately for the murder of Ashley Babbitt.

“Say her name!”

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago

Feed them hay, clip their feet, those tourists

Sigh
Guest
Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

Mm, maybe the video was clipped, little bits at a time, then filed down. Could however use little drop of purple stuff, if infection.

Giant Squirrel
Guest
Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

100% of J6 video is being released to the public so perhaps you’ll have an opportunity to prove that statement, otherwise…

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

Otherwise … yeah, yeah, we know — the Donny fourth-reichers live another day. And the more Mike Pence pounds nails into their coffin, the harder they work to break down the doors or pound at their keyboards, heavy breathing.

guest`
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guest`
1 year ago

Silicon Valley Bank Risk Management

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fq83jO0XwAEE9Io?format=jpg&name=medium

I’m sure their DEI bonafides are excellent and their risk management is bankrupting.

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  guest`

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Oliver Sutton
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Oliver Sutton
1 year ago
Reply to  guest`

They’re going to do a “bail in”. The difference between a bail out and a bail in, is in a bail out the government uses tax payer dollars to bail out the bank. In a bail in, the bank uses the account holders money to bail themselves out.

Oliver Sutton
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Oliver Sutton
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliver Sutton

From the fdic website. Basically you will get a certificate for your uninsured money that can be redeemed when they sell their assets .

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guest`
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guest`
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliver Sutton

Go woke and go bankrupt.

Oliver Sutton
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Oliver Sutton
1 year ago

The Covid vaccine is like a condom… it gives you a false sense of security while you’re getting screwed. 😆

guest`
Guest
guest`
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliver Sutton

Yes, women should stop fucking unless they want to get pregnant. Men should accept “no”.

EmptyTheBastilleInDC
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EmptyTheBastilleInDC
1 year ago
Reply to  guest`

“I guess a blowjob’s out of the question?”

“The Sweetest Thing” – 2002

However the concept itself of old Hollywood has-been’s threatening to slam their legs shut when the unconstitutionality of Roe vs. Wade was rightfully upheld provided much mirth.

No one wants to get at them anymore, anyway!

guest`
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guest`
1 year ago

Homosexual men are all about that. Why don’t you ask?

EmptyTheBastilleInDC
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EmptyTheBastilleInDC
1 year ago
Reply to  guest`

Maybe I have and do? I’ve never believed in limiting my options.

Thanks for the interesting conversation!

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago

How serious will Biden’s Bank Run be come Monday morning? His Crazy spending triggered Bidenflation and massive run up in interest rates leaving long bond holding banks with massive unrealized losses and inability to return all their deposits. Don’t be surprised if Biden’s Bank Run causes a big sell off in stock markets as well.
Elections have consequences.
Joe Biden did that!

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

Hmm, off to the Bastille! Sutton, if I were to, er, maybe guest’ of a Guest. What does Sybil think?

Oliver Sutton
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Oliver Sutton
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

😅

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guest`
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

I think both the TransRightsActivists and the MagaHats are both destroying the country. Both are just happy to be so extreme and insane to completely destroy the planet socially and financially.

Men are male.
Women are female.
It isn’t a human right to force people to play along with a delusion.

https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium/status/1634341761081397248

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1 year ago
Reply to  guest`

Stanford apologizes the Judge for their DEI Dean for whipping up the students into a near riot.

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1634702924201750535?cxt=HHwWjsCz5cDp0K8tAAAA

guest`
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guest`
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

No, actually Trump changed the rules for banks at SVB’s request. They wanted less scrutiny from the feds. Now they are bankrupt the money is gone. Whee…….another MAGA moment for the crooks.

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  guest`

Biden Regime now says they’ll make all Silicon Valley Bank depositors whole when doors open in the morning and somehow (they claim) it won’t cost taxpayers anything. If that’s true and it’s that ready then why didn’t Yellen do this Friday and avoid spooking everyone? Somehow I’m suspect whenever anyone promises free lunches. Smells like Biden’s crony capitalism

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Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

Looks like Biden is giving banks and elites cheap loans on inflated value of assets that suffered tremendous losses in his two years in office. Can he do the same for my 401k?
Joe Biden did that!

EmptyTheBastilleinDC
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EmptyTheBastilleinDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

The catch is that the FDIC will only guarantee up to $250K in deposits. Going to be a whole lotta woke millennial techies crying over their soy lattes this morning.

Which Silicon Valley bank is next? First Republic? PacWest? Signature?

What we had last week was an old fashioned bank run, ala 1929. If anyone can recall how dreadful the start of the Depression was, it should be Joe Biden. Guess his memory really is shot.

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago

The $250k cap, the sky is falling, which bank is next, the sky is falling! The Folgers crowd, freaking out online, question-marks everywhere. Coverage goes beyond $250k, read reputable news ok. Alright, what’s the next false-flag freak out, Putin launching nucs, a drag show, double-up horse riding, what.

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/13/silicon-valley-bank-intervention-live-updates/

‘The banking system is safe,’ Biden says after failure of Silicon Valley Bank’

Biden says we can all breathe easier now…

Biden is obviously lying…

Biden says that everything is fine and dandy…

Translation:

We’re all fucked…

‘Several bank stocks halted amid volatile trading’

By Aaron Gregg

“Stock exchanges halted trading of several midsize and regional banks in the aftermath of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse.

The banks include PacWest Bancorp, First Republic Bank, Western Alliance Bancorporation, Customers Bancorp, Zions Bancorp, Comerica Incorporated Common Stock, Regions Financial, East West Bancorp and others, NasdaqTrader.com reported.

The stock exchanges cited Securities and Exchange Commission rules that require trading be halted when it reaches a certain level of volatility or when prices reach an upper or lower limit.

Several stocks experienced steep drops in early trading Monday. First Republic was down 77 percent at midmorning, while PacWest tumbled 53 percent and Zions dropped 31 percent.” ”

_____________________________________

Joe Biden did that…!!!

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Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

“We’re all fucked” and by Joe. It’s true, saw it on RHBB Covid comment section! It doesn’t matter if wobbly Silicon Valley banks are venture-capital banks, nor that 500+ US banks have failed last 20 years, we must run and withdraw!

EmptyTheBastilleinDC
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EmptyTheBastilleinDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

You’re so right, Rimme. 500+ during the Divider-In- Chief’s Administration* alone (2008-2016)

https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/

Sigh
Guest
Sigh
1 year ago

Ah, other personality, sucker-fish in barrel. That SybilExposer, an efficient and effective Sybil community detection algorithm. Run, off to the bank, sky is falling, posted on RHBB, crack we up.

EmptyTheBastilleinDC
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EmptyTheBastilleinDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

Money in paid for real estate is golden. When Democrat policies* tank shares on Wall Street, great time to pickup blue chip shares at deep discounts.

EmptyTheBastilleinDC
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EmptyTheBastilleinDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

Maneuver your finances to weather Biden’s legacy* of long term inflation…

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago

If want to make back on rail toy failure, best bet is to bargain-buy those bank stocks and asap. But funny is, it would be just like the Donny crowd to cheer any kind of financial crises under Joe By-Don term … oh, wait, or is it Don’s 2nd term. Sigh.

EmptyTheBastilleinDC
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EmptyTheBastilleinDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

Not sure where you’re going with the “rail toy failure”. That’s all Moonbeam’s and Grease Stain’s failures. (High speed rail built at a snails pace and billions going to their handlers).

Not cheering Joes ineptitude (“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f¥€£ things up.” – Barack Hussein Obama -The Divider In Chief). Any one with a lick of economic sense could see that the rapid rise in inflation and interest rates wouldn’t work out well.

Let’s Go, Brandon!

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago

Grease Stain, oh yeah, that other stage name. Hey, what’s with needing to plug Obama ‘s middle name in, scared of Arabic names … and people. What’s next, lol, ya thinking he wasn’t legit President, Donny’s racist birther campaign. Oh wait, you did a post hour ago using “Divider-In- Chief’s Administration* … (2008-2016)”. It’s been proven unite-the-right thinking is unhealthy, proven long ago, make the change to healthy, yes we can.

EmptyTheBastilleinDC
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EmptyTheBastilleinDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

Methinks a racist would point out the proper use of a man’s full name, but YMMV.

Donald John Trump never provided proof that President Obama was not born in America. Became a non issue awhile back, but hang onto perceived transgressions if that works for you.

In the meantime, the reality is Joe tripped again (and again, and again, and again) making the Divider In Chief look like a soothsayer.

State banking regulators in California (Democrat appointees, perhaps?) failed in their over sight of SVB as did Federal Regulators (again, possibly appointed Democrat shills?) allowing this venture capital bank to fail and now The Biden Administration* is saying… “but, but, but it’s not a bailout!” Right… bank fees at all institutions will rise to try to cover the costs, but they won’t make up the difference, so taxpayers will be on the hook again for another failed Democrat attempt to “waken” economics.

Buying low interest T-bonds and not hedging assets and diversifying caused a classic bank failure. Perhaps the principals at SVB were focused on Green policies instead of sound fiscal management of green money?

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago

Ah, more added to “Divider-In- Chief’s Administration* … (2008-2016)”, asterisk suggesting Obama presidency was illegitimate. Only reason anyone has ever suggested illegitimacy is the birther bit. You double-confirmed sentiment with “Donald John Trump never provided proof that President Obama was not born in America”. Nice work.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

‘Modern-day slavery’: Kenyan domestic workers tell of abuse in Saudi Arabia

Kenyan government urged to act as migrant housekeepers complain of physical, mental and sexual abuse in Gulf state

Saudi Arabia is known for its poor labour and human rights record, and is widely considered one of the most dangerous places to work in the world. Employers in the Gulf state have been dogged by allegations of physically, mentally and sexually abusing their migrant housekeepers for years; claims which continue to resurface.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/27/modern-day-slavery-kenyan-domestic-workers-tell-of-abuse-in-saudi-arabia

Dave Kirby
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

Joe Bye Don.

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago

PS – love the asterisk*, another telltale sign. * also implies it’s Trump’s 2nd term, and how’s that going lol. And such memories we have of his first term, when he’d publicly browbeat Fed Powell into pushing interest rates lower, lower, to the realm of zero, giving so very much money away. Oops. Why, that was when Silicon Valley Bank put billion$ of their depositors money into US government bonds. Oops, rates hiked. Set up for failure, thanks Donny. Sybil-crowd, playing horsey, follow-up with trying to hang Obama with Bush-era mortgage crises bank failures. Ya guys, doing great!

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

You’re being tag teamed by a duet that has been performing, advertising and manipulating RHBB comment sections for 5+ years.

Good job. It means you’re right in what you’re doing.

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Yeah, more than one Sib. Interesting is they could just get together on a political site, or play footsie in person. Heck, maybe they call each other and say “hey, wanna go make mischief on kym’s site?”. The bear thread, guessing one or two Sib’s over there, in the mix.

Thatguyinarcata
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Thatguyinarcata
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

😂

Keep up the good fight rimme. You’re really making a difference

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago

If it brings your thanks, icing on the cake.

Guest
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Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

“The U.S. banking system is on the verge of a much bigger collapse than 2008,” said economist Peter Schiff, known for his dire predictions.

“Banks own long-term paper at extremely low interest rates. They can’t compete with short-term Treasuries. Mass withdrawals from depositors seeking higher yields will result in a wave of bank failures.”

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

Ask your bank, one year CD’s are 4+% just like broker money market funds

Sigh
Guest
Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

Someone once said “when the going gets hot, use other account”.

Griffon
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Griffon
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

You are doing a great job filling the void left by a certain poster.

A couple of recommendations:

Throw in some Marxist’s or communist’s quotes.

Feel free to use fact checking sites that align with your viewpoint.

Post more! You aren’t quite the volume poster that your mentor was.

All in all, great job though, I look forward to reading your and others discord.

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Griffon

Thanks … but I’m much less a poster of original content, more a replier to original-content garbage, if you notice, here … Griffon.

Griffon
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Griffon
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

Yes, I notice you also play victim quite well. Taught by one of the best!

Sigh
Guest
Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Griffon

Trying to recall how many personalities Sybil has … Griffon. Welcome back!

Griffon
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Griffon
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

You do seem obsessed with this Sybil?

I guess I’m too new here to understand the backstory. Paranoia is a hell of a drug though. Carry on

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Griffon

Too new, prolly not. And paranoia, maybe that’s requesting Marxist/communist blah blah. Reads: Oh no, Biden is out to get us!

Griffon
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Griffon
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

I was simply saying if you are going to spam the threads like fox, you might as well go all the way.

For the record, I don’t think Biden is a Marxist or a communist.

I think he is a crook. Most politicians are…

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Griffon

You simply said … what ya said. It’s OK, I chuckle. I don’t like Fox, mostly just respond to some stinky habitual game players, one or more whom have gone on these awesome Commie 10% Fauci-criminal spam rants.. Brian and some others know well, the scuz here. But my data set is coming right along, the algorithms be smooth, almost complete. Wonder if one of them is paid by the site but gets carried away, meh, who knows.

Thatguyinarcata
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Thatguyinarcata
1 year ago
Reply to  Griffon

It’s easier to imagine that there’s some hard working troll running a dozen sock puppet accounts on the comment section than to come to grips with the fact that there’s a lot more diversity of belief in your community than your personal echo chamber indicates

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago

Actually, if you’ve paid attention, Kym has said just as much.

You’re not paying attention though.

Thatguyinarcata
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Thatguyinarcata
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

No, Kym has said that there is a particularly nasty troll who returns periodically to spew vitriol before having another email banned.

You, and now sigh, are the only people asserting that one person is using multiple names on a single thread. You and sigh have asserted that whole threads (only ones that contain perspectives you regard as wrong and bad) are actually just a single person creating false conversations.

It’s a ridiculous claim that you have never substantiated.

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago

“Kym has said that there is a particularly nasty troll who returns periodically to spew vitriol”
I’d like to see that from her in print. But Sigh (Bob Dole- and … squirrel-ism there, lol) has never “assessed that whole threads (only ones that contain perspectives you regard as wrong and bad) are actually just a single person creating false conversations”.

Kym Kemp
Admin
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

There are several people that have used other names. But one particular person has been banned repeatedly under a variety of names. But, again, as several here well know, many people use more than one name over time.

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Been pretty clear thus far I’m not talking just other names day to day. At least one regular using 2-3+ names same day, even pretending to debate/agree with self, plus other shenanigans. I don’t doubt it’s more than myself and Brian who smells it (maybe yourself as well). Gnight.

Thatguyinarcata
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Thatguyinarcata
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

Someone using the name “Sigh” and Brian have indeed asserted that multiple people who share alt right/trumpist/fox news views are a single character posting under multiple names.

Sigh even joked that there were only 5 “MAGA voters” in this thread. Around 1/3 of humboldt voters have gone for Trump in his 2 elections. There lots of people who fall somewhere between supporting Trump and hating the cultural trappings of the modern Democratic party. The level of right wing shit posting on this site is totally unsurprising for the make up of this county.

The problem with Brian’s quest, which you seem to have joined, is that there’s a call for quieting a “wrong” political belief under the guise that its “just a.troll”.

It’s the same problem the Maxx vaxx adherents ran into. Regardless of the cost/benefit calculation of any dose of any covid vaccine, the people insisting you must accept some level of injection to participate in society are the actual danger to our society.

People have historically committed the most atrocious crimes when they convinced themselves they were doing the most good

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago

In the county, 5 in the county. Ok, 6. Maybe coincidence a syb or two are trumpers. But if you want to persecute moderates or Libs, go right ahead. The last paragraph tho, a doozy. But a good fit, rhbb covid thread!

Thatguyinarcata
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Thatguyinarcata
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

Closer to 20,000 voters in the county who are Trump fans. And then all the non voters, a larger group and I suspect a larger proportion of Maga types. You’re “evidence” of multiple personas operated by one person is simply that you don’t believe there are many people who believe these things that you characterize as fringe. The reality is clearly that you have simply insulated yourself from political beliefs you don’t accept as valid. They are very common sentiments in this community.

I’m again reminded of the vaccine fanatics who were shocked, shocked I say, that there was such a strong resistance to an experimental vaccine in this area. And they insisted anyone who was skeptical must be right wing. I’m forced to wonder if the people who express this sentiment, or the people like you and Brian who insist that right-wing/trump/republican opinions are over represented on this comment section, actually live around here.

Just about everyone I know from the emerald triangle is either right wing or an antivaxxer, before covid, and they were not the same people until they merged during covid.

As to my last paragraph, I’d be very interested to hear your examples of historical tragedies in which the perpetrator didn’t think they were acting for the greater good. I’m open to being persuaded but my opinion is based on my understanding of history so im going to need some counter examples

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago

Starting to sound little unhinged. 7

Thatguyinarcata
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Thatguyinarcata
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

As usual, nothing substantial to add. Just trolling in an effort to…reduce trolling?

Good luck with that

Sigh
Guest
Sigh
1 year ago

”you don’t believe there are many people who believe these things that you characterize as fringe”

Guy, there areof millions of “people” in the USA who believe “these things”. They are adherents of kooky garbage, one brand or another, or a mix. Of the worst of Fox News garbage, of sickly Alex Jones garbage, Q garbage, the worst of Trumpism, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, and hundreds if not thousands of alt-right “independent news sites”.

Conduct a survey, in this county alone, you’d find the vast (vast) majority of folks are tired of the kook-speak. Sure, some facts and truths are part of the speak, purposefully mixed in (as the likes of the Kremlin well knows) to dupe and suck folk in further. Here, on this site, there are folks who truly believe the worst of the far- and alt-right fodder online-available. Some have a mixed bag of beliefs, that the Government, BLM, the Commies, the Immigrants, the Globalists, and/or Trans, and so on and so forth, are destroying the country or whatever. And when some of these folk are called on garbage spewed, more than one can go silent for a spell, or they start dancing away, burying something kooky in subsequent posts.

Thatguyinarcata
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Thatguyinarcata
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

I definitely sympathize with the weariness with the extremist political nonsense. Unfortunately, it seems to be a growing phenomenon.

Where I think you are mistaken is with the commonality of the belief. If you truly belive that “kook-speak” is believed by a serious minority of this county then I suspect you haven’t spent much time out in the hills.

And even assuming your preconceptions about how many people believe in things you choose to perceive as preposterous, the ides that 5-10 people who belive those things would be regular posters on this site is not surprising.

Sigh
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Sigh
1 year ago

Used to be hippies and actual Conservatives in the hills. Now the hills are partially filled with green-rushers sporting infowar hats, the remaining Conservatives and hippies pulling over to let Info-wardozer pass high-rate of speed, Conservative saying to hippy at gas station “stay safe, and to think we thought you we’re scary”.

Thatguyinarcata
Guest
Thatguyinarcata
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

Haha you clearly don’t spend too much time in the hills. Or at least you haven’t for some 20 years.

It’s the offspring of the “actual conservatives” (the loggers and ranchers) as well as many tentacles of the ungainly culture creature that people have long called “hippies” around here that have long held far out beliefs.

Lizard people ruling the world, hologram planes and exotic weapons on 9/11, viruses aren’t real, lemurian city under mt shasta, and more are things that local hill folk swore up and down were true long before Trump or covid were on the horizon. The fact that chunks of that culture have picked up trump/q memes isn’t surprising at all. Emerald triangle hillbillies have long been elite level conspiracy theorists.

Some of the craziest stories I’ve ever heard have come from old men who’s family has been around here since about the start of European occupation. This isn’t new and it’s not a recently imported culture to these hills

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago

It’s a ridiculous claim that you have never substantiated.

Bullshit;

https://kymkemp.com/2019/11/03/are-vaccines-really-as-safe-and-effective-as-weve-been-told-asks-documentary/#comment-882901

If you care to take the time, start there. Scroll through the next 300 comments too, to really know.

And then know that I never stopped (until recentl) communicating about that particular troll.

Who, by the way, operating as at least 4 names in the last week, 2 new and 2 regulars, made references to this thread in the last 2 weeks to me on the sly.

Not even Kym is catching it, or her updated comment verification systems.

And how many times do I need to point this out to specifically you?;

https://kymkemp.com/2021/12/30/3-hospitalizations-45-new-cases-reported/#comment-1467050

Thatguyinarcata
Guest
Thatguyinarcata
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Honestly Brian, comments like these make me concerned for your mental health.

Your theory is that there is a pernicious troll operating multiple pseudonyms that they change constantly ,but they continually communicate in an obtuse code that only you can see. And their whole purpose is to give the impression, on a regional news blog, that a commonly held political world view is…commonly held?

Make a flow chart of comments, complete with date stamps and with indicative language highlighted. Maybe a PowerPoint presentation you could share, or at least a website where you lay out your evidence. Because your stance that it’s “obvious” to you, and only you, is profoundly unconvincing.

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago

Right, because more data will help you.

Thatguyinarcata
Guest
Thatguyinarcata
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

You don’t provide data Brian, you make assertions and allude to data that you have. You’ve consistently demonstrated an inability to support your assertions with any evidence, instead you repeatedly have insisted that your assertions are proof. That’s not how making a convincing argument works.

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago

Hey dude, go to that thread I linked you to, find the names I battled and accused, and then tell me where they went.

Data says Kym deleted them, along with saying a troll uses multiple names.

Stop denial dude.

Thatguyinarcata
Guest
Thatguyinarcata
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

No one is denying that commenters change names between threads. No one is denying that trolls get banned and then come back with new email addresses.

Somehow you think that those things equate to one person commenting under multiple names on single threads to give the appearance of more people agreeing. That’s the claim that you make over and over and never prove when challenged. I get that hyper paranoia about an elaborate conspiracy to accomplish very little is an important part of trinity County culture, but man you’ve really cooked up a humdinger here.

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago

Literally that thread is filled by one person using over 7 names to talk to himself and fight me.

Those names are banned and I guarantee you that those are one person and Kym agreed at the time.

So yes, I’ve shown it happening repeatedly.

Thatguyinarcata
Guest
Thatguyinarcata
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

No Brian, none of your accusations about one person running multiple commenter names on a single thread have ever been confirmed. If you believe they have feel free to link the actual comment confirming your grand conspiracy theory.

I don’t know why it’s so hard for you to accept that there are lots of people in our community who hold right wing, alt right, and other fringe political beliefs. But there are. It seems like you need to get out of your bubble a bit more because it appears that a large part of the local population is so invisible to you that you feel the need to invent a phantom troll to explain the presence of 6 or 7 people who get their political opinions from places like OAN and Newsmax

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago

Confirmed by Kym.

Do you want to run the same lap again?

This has been a pathetic attempt on your behalf.

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Thatguyinarcata
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Thatguyinarcata
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Link the confirmation them Brian. It’s certainly possible I’ve missed it, but every time I’ve seen her comment on the subject (including on this thread) she has not confirmed your claim that one person is using multiple names on one thread.

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago

@Kym, am I asking you too much to let Guy know that “one person has used multiple handles in one thread”?

@ Guy, Do you think she created the rule of one name per thread for absolutely no reason? This is what I would call “common knowledge”.

Thatguyinarcata
Guest
Thatguyinarcata
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Every forum that I’ve ever been a part of has had a rule against running multiple accounts simultaneously. It’s the most basic safeguard against spam.

The only reason that I care about is this obsession of yours is that you have used your claims of spamming to advocate for your preferred version of censorship. And you justify your desire for censorship by claiming that most of the opinions you disagree with are just one person working to shift the narrative.

That’s a major accusation that you never prove and you use that unproven accusation in a very overt attempt to control the narrative to your liking.

Kym Kemp
Admin
1 year ago

There has been and are multiple commenter names being used by one person. When I ferret it out, I delete and ban them unless I feel it was a misunderstanding rather than a flouting of the rules.

To my knowledge, it does not occur as frequently as Brian feels it does.

Mostly, it’s serial commenting. Getting banned under one name and then popping up with a new one.

Oddly, one thing that the commenter formerly known and banned as Syd does is start a new name or refresh one he’s used a few times before when he’s ready to burn bridges and get banned on the one he’s been commenting under most frequently.

That said, there are a lot of folks with opposing opinions to Brian’s that are not fake accounts.

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The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

I don’t even think you answered my question, tbh.

1) In at least the thread I linked to, wasn’t “Sid” using “more than one name in one thread”?

2)Also Kym, you’re slighting against what I think, but wouldn’t you admit that you’ve been convinced that “Sid” is still using names after I’ve alerted you?

(In other words, it happens more than you’ve originally thought?)

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Why only focus on “Sid” and his “ilk”…???

Surely you’ve noticed the obvious “others” which you clearly favor…

Why do you ignore “them”…???

It’s really only “them” that have caught my attention, not Sid…

So, at least I know what you are saying is true, as far as banned commenters obviously returning as multiple other pseudonyms…

And yes, they previously conversed with themselves in previous threads…

Moreso now even, I suspect…

If it’s so obvious to me, and you have ways of being more observant, by using “markers”, etc., how has this “other” slipped by you…???

Or do you just let “some” preferred commenting rules violators slide…???

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

I’ve never seen a left wing nut carry conversations on with himself to convince others that multiple people are talking about a subject.

I’ve never seen a left wing nut use multiple names to combat one commentor as has happened to me and others.

That’s what I’m talking about.

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

What difference does it make what handed wing nut they are, or who they address…???

It sounds like you know, and are aware of, “who” I’m talking about, and that “they” are banned, and that they have, and continue to post under different names in the same thread…???

Is that true…???

🤔🧐Let me get this straight…

You are saying that the behavior itself is not what bothers you…?¿?

It’s only bothering you, because it’s bothering YOU, and those that you feel, like you, and that are like you…?¿?

You feel it’s acceptable or unacceptable, depending on who is doing it…?¿?

If it bothers those that you don’t like, or who you feel, are unlike you, then the behavior is acceptable to you…?¿?

In other words, are you saying, it’s AOK as long as it’s coming from your same handed, like minded “comrades”…?¿?

So, you’re not going to call “them” out, for doing exactly the same thing…?¿?

Hopefully, if so, you do realize that would be totally biased and unreasonable.

I see it as being exactly the same violation, no matter who is doing it…

If you are going to call out the behavior, shouldn’t you be calling out the behavior even handedly, regardless of the political leaning and social media circle of it’s source…???

That’s what I’m talking about…

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Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

“I don’t see why these questions are being avoided.”

Sigh
Guest
Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

others, them, some. othersthemsome. side of potstickers.

HotCoffee
Guest
HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

What You Should Know About Attention-Seeking Behavior in Adults
For adults, attention-seeking behavior is a conscious or unconscious attempt to become the center of attention, sometimes to gain validation or admiration.

Attention-seeking behavior can include saying or doing something with the goal of getting the attention of a person or a group of people.
Examples of this behavior include:

fishing for compliments by pointing out achievements and seeking validationbeing controversial to provoke a reactionexaggerating and embellishing stories to gain praise or sympathypretending to be unable to do something so someone will teach, help, or watch the attempt to do itAttention-seeking behavior may be driven by:

jealousylow self-esteemlonelinesshttps://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/attention-seeking-behavior#common-causes

Hmm,
3+ years of Syd drama, that consistently requires Ms. Kemps attention.
Different people observe different things.

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Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Grey fox, etc. = Sigh, etc…

But “they” are allied with TRB, so TRB overlooks it…

I’m sure he knows…

Sigh
Guest
Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

As they* know, as to Grae Faux, Grae Faux Grae Faux, train won’t go, woe, woe, woe.

Kym Kemp
Admin
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Don’t add to the drama.

HotCoffee
Guest
HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

What rule did I break this time?
No accusations, just an observation after reading an “expert’s definition”
Or are only some people allowed to create drama…..

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HotCoffee
Guest
HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

And I’m pretty sure he has your email if he didn’t want it to be an endless public debate.
Kinda of odd that 3+ years of this isn’t drama, don’t ya think?

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Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Kym, I noticed a slight glitch on the website…

Tapping the green “Novel Coronavirus/Covid -19 Coverage” bar doesn’t open the “history”…🤷‍♂️

Kym Kemp
Admin
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

Thanks for catching that. Fixed. Hit refresh and it should be there now.

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

You’re welcome.

Yep. It’s working again now…

Thanks.

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

How does HCs post attack an idea?

(It doesn’t)

And how will you ignoring my questions and leaving up her insult help me think any better of my perception of your bias?

(It won’t)

Courtesy would dictate that you just say, “I don’t want to answer your questions”.

As you never responded to my question, but to now HC and Arcata Guy with an obvious slant against me.

But answer those questions honestly and the slant would not be visible, because I’m pretty sure you could have just said “No, Brian, none of that is true”.

And what’s the drama?

This is a multi day discussion and I’m leaving max 2 to 3 comments in discussion with Guy.

Geezuzz.

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

https://kymkemp.com/2023/03/09/covid-19-updates-for-march-9-from-cdph/#comment-1618570

Does attention-seeking behavior examples include you and Squirrel constantly pushing more comments, constantly needing to be the first and last comments on any given thread of topics that are wholly unrelated to your outbursts of fear?

Hmmmmm.

HotCoffee
Guest
HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

I don’t recall ever posting first, although it may have rarely happened.
The last post at the bottom of a thread is not usually the actual last post in the thread, keep trying, without lying.
How exactly does a person push a comment? Enlighten me please. People either choose to read them, or they don’t, pretty simple, right?
C’ on TRB who’s really having outbursts of fear, Hmm? No one is posting because they are out to get me, instead of inspecting everyone else, maybe look at your own posts. Not agreeing with you doesn’t make someone a potential Sid.
Ms Kemp has agreed it has happened, but how often, as compared to how often you accuse people?

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The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

I don’t see why these questions are being avoided.

Kym Kemp
Admin
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

I didn’t see this earlier. But my answer is the same. Yes, as stated before some commenters use more than one name in the same article. Yes, Sid did that.

Giant Squirrel
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Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Is using multiple names on same article common, uncommon, rare, or “one article in every hundreds”? I haven’t noticed this before but I suppose you’re looking at email and IP

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

It’s probably been happening pretty regularly, and I believe it’s been happening with increasing frequency and additional extra personas since, let’s say, the end of…

Oh nevermind…

To the associated determined individual, with an obsession to do so, there are workarounds to the email and IP identifications.

It would be as simple as multiple different devices, and multiple different emails…

It would just take a little dedication, a twisted purpose, maybe a vendetta, the inability to take no for an answer, and nothing better to do, than the deceptive obsession.

A multiple device internet subscription would probably save on the cost…

Not too difficult though…

It’s probably been happening pretty regularly, and I believe it’s been happening with increasing frequency and additional extra personas since, let’s say, the end of…

Oh nevermind…

To the associated determined individual, with an obsession to do so, there are workarounds to the email and IP identifications.

It would be as simple as multiple different devices, and multiple different emails…

It would just take a little dedication, a twisted purpose, maybe a vendetta, the inability to take no for an answer, and nothing better to do, than the deceptive obsession.

A multiple device internet subscription would probably save on the cost…

Not too difficult though…

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

It would be as simple as multiple different devices, and multiple different emails…

Not even that hard, one cellular device has fluctuations in IPs endlessly through the day.

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

I was speculating.

I wouldn’t know.

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

Maybe you should do a lot less of that.

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1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Take your own advice.

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Thank you for your time

Thatguyinarcata
Guest
Thatguyinarcata
1 year ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Thank you for clarifying. I don’t envy the job of forum/ comment moderation and appreciate that you go about it the way you do, even though a heavier hand would probably make your life easier

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago

Ok Arcata Guy,

Here you are, confirmed, please let it rest now as confirmed from the bottom to the top.

https://kymkemp.com/2023/03/09/covid-19-updates-for-march-9-from-cdph/#comment-1618570

Thatguyinarcata
Guest
Thatguyinarcata
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Yes Brian, now that it’s been confirmed that the site owner believes it happens less frequently than you and that she deletes the comments she believes results from that behavior I can rest easy that she isn’t being drawn into your paranoia.

Good luck with this Sid person, I hope they stop causing you so much distress sooner than later

Not Blind
Guest
Not Blind
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Well, buddy… I did read through those comments. ALL of them. You didn’t prove anything other than gross paranoia and hatred for a commenter named “Sid.” And allusions to them being “Dane.” Now, like then, you only have provided speculation; not “proof.” I’m also not sure who “Rosa” is, but apparently you hate her too. Supposedly the reason you hate these people is because they’re spreading “misinformation.” This seems like a common trope for you, bud. I hope you can learn to deal with other’s opinions in a way that is less obsessive and healthier for you mentally.

One thing I did learn from those comments is why AO/nooo/guest is so jab-happy. She apparently has injuries from a disease that she could have been vaccinated against. It makes so much sense why she hates the people she calls “antivaxxers.” Sad, but good information to learn as to how she formulates her views on medical procedures and those who conceptually disagree with her.

Thatguyinarcata
Guest
Thatguyinarcata
1 year ago
Reply to  Not Blind

Yes, the nice thing about people who stick to a single name (or in her case a strong persona, the switch back to guest makes things confusing but you can usually see her derisive attitude toward certain groups and tell its her) that you can come to understand their perspective over time. That always help with empathy and makes it easier to conversate rather than just devolving directly into bickering

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Not Blind

I’d have to be an obtuse idiot to think you randomly care about this.

You may fool Kym with 10 names a week, but not me.

Each time I bring it up, there’s another “random” right winger ready to continue the “beat TRB game” and libs game.

From:

https://kymkemp.com/2019/11/03/are-vaccines-really-as-safe-and-effective-as-weve-been-told-asks-documentary/#comment-883540

To:

https://kymkemp.com/2023/03/07/beltway-intrigue-and-mendo-street-art-collide-when-aoc-wore-the-velvet-bandits-tax-the-rich-slogan-did-she-commit-an-ethics-violation/#comment-1614664

Oh, methinks thou protest too much.

Oh, Tragedy and Hope is suuuuuch a great book.

Oh fucking right.

HotCoffee
Guest
HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

You mention a few names banned on your 3+ yr Sid hunt at RRBB, Perhaps you could spare a mention of how many you’ve falsely accused or are they of no consequence in your quest.
Is RRBB supposed to be your private security service?
Hire a private investigator.

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Absolutely everytime without fail, here you are at this conversation yet again and again and again..

Like you have something invested in it.

Here’s the fucking deal; The owner and operator of the site does not disagree with me even though she hates me.

So buzz off if you never had anything to do with this topic.

Or keep poking if you did.

HotCoffee
Guest
HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

As someone you falsely accused, I’ll say whatever I please.

And I’ll bet nothing gives your Sid person more joy than watching your constant fretting and blaming innocent people for 3+ years at RRBB.
Carry on!

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The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

There is no way to prove me wrong about you

Kym Kemp
Admin
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

I do not hate you, Brian. I have opinions about your behavior that are not flattering. But I find you very helpful when you are not bitter at me for not 100% agreeing with you.

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Fair enough

Not Blind
Guest
Not Blind
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Well… You’re starting to confirm your first sentence.

I don’t really care about this, but I am humoured to explore the basis of your neurosis. So, am I Sid now too?

What other names have I posted under this week?

I’d really consider talking to a counselor/friend/therapist, Brian. I think you need some outside perspective.

Also, WHY does this matter so much to you? It has to be more than “combatting misinformation,” right?

Griffon
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Griffon
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

I just read through those threads, and you are correct about one thing.

Not much has changed on the comment sections except the names are different. People still hold beliefs different than you, and you still complain a lot.

Imagine living in a society where people have different views on a wide range of topics.

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Griffon

Never heard that before!

Actually what I’ve never heard of is some random person reading 600 comments (my link) to get the jist of a discussion between two people (me and Arcata guy).

Further, those names are banned and assumed to be one person by the operator of this website as shown by me and only me, ever.

It’s not me bragging, it’s me telling you the facts.

Infact it’s most likely that the same person who was banned under multiple names in that link, who backed himself in conversations as different names, is still around under multiple changing names.

I still see many suspicious comments come up per week with names that I eventually don’t see again.

I don’t bother Kym about asking how many bans per month that she suspects is the same old person, but I suspect its a few.

Now. Why do you post as a member sometimes and sometimes not?

Also, what brought you to RHBB and when?

Griffon
Guest
Griffon
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

That’s fine and you have repeated your “facts” many times. The reality is you want to suppress speech you disagree with.

As to your other questions:

Not sure I have ever posted as a member. I’m not sure how to do that. Don’t really care to learn.

I’ve followed the blog for years for the local news. Never really cared to comment until Covid.

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Griffon

Wow, I took a day to see your comment and respond.

You took 13 minutes.

I guess you just have a lot of time to read 600 old comments and respond momentarily to new ones. Must be nice.

Look, you’re already a member:

https://kymkemp.com/2022/08/11/they-put-a-lot-of-peoples-lives-in-danger-hrc-employee-accuses-protestors-of-setting-excavator-on-fire/#comment-1547922

I guess you cared to learn 🤷‍♂️

I’ve wondered about certain thumb votes before, I guess I’m catching on that you create member accounts but may use the guest setting mostly…

Griffon
Guest
Griffon
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Lol!

And you say I’ve got time on my hands…I post from my phone, this is how they transmit. Honestly not sure what benefit member vs. guest posting grants.

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Griffon

In honor of an old commentor, “Yeah, sure”.

Sigh
Guest
Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Bingo.

Sigh, a name change is on the horizon. Maybe to …Guest.

HotCoffee
Guest
HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

The CNN panel was jaw-agape as Kevin O’Leary appeared earlier today to inform them the decision by Joe Biden to guarantee every deposit in U.S. regional banks is akin to “Joe Biden just nationalized the U.S. banking system.”
O’Leary is correct, and anyone who is holding assets like stocks or bonds in U.S. banks now needs to reconsider the disappeared line between government and the bank assets. If the government can assume, control and backstop every single account balance within the bank, the government can assume and control all activity of the bank.

theconservativetreehouse.com/

HotCoffee
Guest
HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

More……………

“Downstream…. think about the consequences. Remember the frozen bank accounts in Canada as a result of defining truck protest supporting Canadian citizens as domestic extremists?
Now think about the government no longer needing to ask the bank to take action, the govt has a regulatory ability to demand the bank to take action. This takes “debanking” to an entire new level. People are wondering why cryptocurrencies went up in value today. There’s your answer.
Comrade citizens, at the end of this rainbow of bank nudges, we will find ourselves at the footsteps of a government controlled central bank digital currency.”

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GrumpyOldGuyD
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

Silly me…..I didn’t realize it was bank collapse season already. I still have my train derailment decorations up.

HotCoffee
Guest
HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  GrumpyOldGuy

I still recall Biden tooted his horn over settling the railroad strike, the one where the workers were striking for more safety and better working conditions.

EmptyTheBastilleinDC
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EmptyTheBastilleinDC
1 year ago
Reply to  guest`

Bi-partisan Senate and House voted to loosen regulations in the Dodd-Frank bill in 2018. Trump couldn’t have signed it into law if 17 Democrat Senators and 33 Democrat Representatives didn’t join with Republicans to pass it, despite the shrieks of Elizabeth Warren and the objections of the old, rich Socialist, Bernie Sanders.

While hay is being flown to cattle in rural California, can’t a chopper swing by the Capital and take those old Boomers out to pasture?

Sigh
Guest
Sigh
1 year ago

Dang sharp rhetoric …. squirrel-like even.

EmptyTheBastilleinDC
Guest
EmptyTheBastilleinDC
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

🥰🤡

Giant Squirrel
Guest
Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

I’m only Squirrel

Sigh
Guest
Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Giant Squirrel

Me, too … but you’ve more followers, I think they’re in love.

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago

Meanwhile, while Biden slowly ponders whether or not to veto the release of the classified information on the origins of Covid, Fauci mysteriously reappears out of nowhere, to ridiculously claim that a lab leak could be considered a natural occurrence…

It sounds to me like the classified information that Biden is about sign on to declassify and release, is going to point to a lab leak/ lab release…

And by stalling, Biden has given Fauci a chance to dream up some cockamamie story to try and keep them both from looking like completely corrupt, lying idiots, especially Fauci, for trying to pin what was an obvious lab leak all along, on a zoonotic transfer covid origin…

Fauci is a fraud, and always has been a lying sidewinder…

Do you think the Fauciphiles will finally alter their errant course, or will they also morph the origin hypotheses into being at one all along, and play along with Fauci, as if it isn’t complete bullshit…

https://wibc.com/147458/fauci-says-coronavirus-lab-leak-could-still-be-considered-a-natural-occurrence/

‘Fauci Says Coronavirus Lab Leak Could Still Be Considered A ‘Natural Occurrence’ ‘

“Dr. Anthony Fauci said on CNN Saturday that he still believes the COVID-19 virus could have been caused by a “natural occurrence” if the definition of lab leak meant that someone was infected in the wild and went “into a lab,” was studied in a lab, and then “came out of the lab.” ”

” “A lab leak could be that someone was out in the wild, maybe looking for different types of viruses in bats, got infected, went into a lab, and then came out of the lab. But if that’s the definition of lab leak, then that’s still a natural occurrence,” Fauci said.”

“He said the other possibility was that a virus “accidentally” escaped a lab after being taken from an environment.”

“The former top medical advisor to seven US presidents has been accused of lying to Congress about the NIH funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab.”

“Fauci has maintained that the organization did not finance the study of how to make viruses either more lethal or more transmissible and said the research at the lab did not contribute to the creation of COVID-19.”

________________________

Fauci is a lying scumbag.

The research…, whether it was in the US, or China, or wherever… led to the covid 19 pandemic…

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Guest
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Guest
1 year ago

You can find “Fauci”, alphabetically, between “Fabrication”, and, “Fiction”…

His bullshit is just getting deeper and deeper…

https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2023/03/11/fauci-responds-to-covid-lab-leak-theory-acostanr-vpx.cnn

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago

Dr. Anthony Fauci says…

“Lab Leak = Natural Origin”

[Maybe they just tweaked it a little bit]…

“The other possibility is someone takes a virus from the environment that doesn’t actually spread very well in humans, and manipulates it a bit, and accidentally it escapes or accidentally infects someone and then you get an outbreak,” he said.”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-fauci-claims-coronavirus-lab-leak-could-still-be-considered-natural-occurrence

________________________

Fauci is backpedaling like mad, now that the previously withheld facts are about to be released…

Imagine that…

He’s a fucking crook…!!!

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Sigh
Guest
Sigh
1 year ago

OK, back back popular demand is some original-content posting:
In court facing sentencing, one Jan 6 Crazytrain tourist, Tristan Stevens, went on a rant claiming insurrection was a Fed “entrapment operation”, he was touring the Capitol “because of the Biden laptop”, and the kicker — that Fauci had lunched a “bio weapon” to impact the outcome of the Presidential election. That Fauci, knows how to really git ‘em going.

Giant Squirrel
Guest
Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

Did you see story today Fauci Wuhan lab operations funded by DoD for years

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago

Biden is gonna make it cost a lot more for a less effective washing machine…

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-washing-machine-rule-would-make-americans-dirtier-stinkier-raise-prices-manufacturers

Never underestimate “Joe’s ability to Fuck Things Up”…

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Giant Squirrel
Guest
Giant Squirrel
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

So will Biden’s new washing machines require we run our clothes two cycles to get them clean? How does that save water and energy?

The Real Brian
Member
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

Never underestimate FOX’S ability to overstate and rile up uneducated whites about absolutely useless absurdities.

Guest
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Guest
1 year ago
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Sigh
Guest
Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

Isn’t worth the hype. Banks fail all the time, and SVB isn’t Lehman, 2023 isn’t 2008. And Joe-schmo, he got on top of it fast enough, direct TV address, saying Gov is there for you. Helped calm, among others, the online freak-out crowd. Dam Gov, ruining a good crises.

rollin
Guest
rollin
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

So, the 2nd and 3rd biggest bank failures in history “happen all the time” and OBiden taking your money to bail them out, then claiming “government is there for you” is your idea of a snarky quip? LOL! Weren’t you the same genius claiming OBiden’s sanctions were gonna destroy the ruble? Perhaps it’s time again to change your name and slink away quietly like Auntie did.

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  rollin

You mean slink away like grey fox…???

grey fox slinked away just in time to avoid addressing Fauci’s “Lab Leak equals Natural Origin” insanity…

Just goes to show you how whacked out Fauci has been all along…

Not one faithful Fauciphile has stepped up to address Fauci’s latest complete nonsense…

Not that I blame them…

Will they start parroting the cockamamie “Lab Leak equals Natural Origin” bullshit as well…???

Kym Kemp
Admin
1 year ago
Reply to  Guest

Grey Fox did not voluntarily leave. He was banned.

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

I had that feeling…

He’s definitely back…

Or still here , I should say…

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Sigh
Guest
Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  rollin

Hi Rollin. Bank failures do happened all the time, and in this case the government stepped up and onto the fray, calming alarmism. Sanctions destroying ruble, what.

rollin
Guest
rollin
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

The 2nd and 3rd biggest bank failures in history DO NOT happened all the time. Where do you suppose “government” gets its money from? You are utterly clueless if you believe alarmism has been calmed. Anyone with a brain is alarmed. This shit storm is just getting started.

And yes, you claimed Russian sanctions were effective. They have done NOTHING, kinda like the vaccine you endlessly advocated. Forgot about that too huh? Did you forget about claiming the economy was raging and the natural origins “theory” too while you were forgetting the monicker you used?

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Sigh
Guest
Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  rollin

You say: “Anyone with a brain is alarmed”. Then follow through and panic, Rollin. Even go social-media with it. Even pulling money from bank if you’ve an account. With both separate and joint accounts, thus fidic for $1million, I’m shopping for cheap bank shares. Your 2nd paragraph, don’t fall over in rocker.

HotCoffee
Guest
HotCoffee
1 year ago
Reply to  rollin

Cheering Silicon Valley Bank Bailout, Gavin Newsom Doesn’t Mention He’s a ClientAt least three of the California governor’s wine companies are held by SVB, and a bank president sits on the board of his wife’s charity.
[edit: please don’t bypass media paywalls] silicon-valley-bank-bailout-gavin-newsom-doesnt-mention-hes-a-client%2F

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Yep… I saw that, also…

Plus, someone at SVB, (CEO?), gave that charity $100,000…

rollin
Guest
rollin
1 year ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Yup. I love it when libs say stupid shit like: we ARE the goverment!
They (government) live by a different set of rules. We are mere subjects.

Sigh
Guest
Sigh
1 year ago

For study, have to reach original post quota:
“SVB (bank failure) is what happens when you push a leftist/woke ideology and have that take precedent over common sense business practices“ — Donald Trump
Yeah, let’s link bank failure to woke-paranoia campaign. And this from a guy sporting multiple bankruptcies, crack the world up!

Sigh
Guest
Sigh
1 year ago
Reply to  Sigh

The other Sigh, replying to himself (isn’t this fun?):
Looks like the SVBank fail was first Twitter-led panic-run. Twitter, figures. Like meth in the hands of the digital-hooked, Elon grinning ear to ear. Anyhoo, most of the biz news press coverage is about stable markets, bank stocks rebounding, even inflation down near half-point (but for how long). Old cog dec Joe, guy has 990 lives, or at least hires mostly competent folk. The Globalists, holding it all together … with band-aids, Lol.

Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/14/moodys-cuts-outlook-on-us-banking-system-to-negative-citing-rapidly-deteriorating-operating-environment.html

‘Moody’s cuts outlook on U.S. banking system to negative, citing ‘rapidly deteriorating operating environment’ ‘

“We have changed to negative from stable our outlook on the US banking system to reflect the rapid deterioration in the operating environment following deposit runs at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Silvergate Bank, and Signature Bank (SNY) and the failures of SVB and SNY,” Moody’s said in a report.”

“The move followed action late Monday, when Moody’s warned that it either was downgrading or placing on review for downgrade seven individual institutions.”

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Guest
Guest
Guest
1 year ago

🤔🧐That’s funny, same volume of posts… starts posting the same time of day, also…

Hmmm….

Clever disguises can’t conceal revealingly repetitive behaviors…🤷‍♂️

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“Clever disguises can’t conceal revealingly repetitive behaviors”
True

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1 year ago
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Number one song on iTunes today:

President Donald John Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance between stanzas of the national anthem sung by the January 6 political prisoners wrongfully held in the Bastille in Washington DC.

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1 year ago

I wonder if one of the singers was the person who drug this police officer into the crowd of rioters. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mpd-police-officer-confronts-jan-capitol-attacker-sentencing/story?id=92211175 The officer who suffered a heart attack during this stated, the attack “cost me my career, it cost me my faith in law enforcement and many of the institutions I dedicated two decades of my life to serving.”

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Rather telling (from the article)

… prosecutors played out Fanone’s bodycam footage in which you can hear Head’s voice after grabbing Fanone, seemingly assuring he would protect him. “I’m going to try to help you out here. You hear me?” Head said. Fanone then replied, “Thank you.” Seconds later, however, Head called out to the violent mob, “Hey! I got one!”

The ‘political prisoners’ … taking LE prisoners.

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I wonder if that “officer “ would have acted as a tour guide like many others did would have not suffered a heart attack due to self induced stress.

In the meantime, American tourists denied due process and the right to a speedy trial, have been wrongfully detained for over 700 days as political prisoners by a tyrannical regime and Michael Byrd walks free after murdering tourist and veteran Ashley Babbitt.

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Sorry this “officer” is faithless after his failure to keep order when excited tourists visited the peoples house. Trust in institutions is misplaced. I served almost a decade in the USMC. My oath was to the constitution, not an institution. My faith is only in God and the will of free men to govern themselves.

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Doing the work here of 10 comment-board Moderates, combined.

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“In God We Trust”

“… with Liberty and Justice for all”

“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

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1 year ago

If “free” men grab others by the head, drag them to be badly beaten, and then claim to be tourists, I’m really happy they are in prison. And I think that a former president supporting what they did in his name is a criminal act.

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1 year ago
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I acknowledge your opinion, although I disagree with it, Kym. That’s the beauty of the 1st amendment.

But them being in prison without due process and without a speedy trial is a travesty and demonstrates the abuses and usurpations of a corrupt Justice Department. You always post a note on LEO press releases of arrested individuals
“The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty”

Do you truly believe the note you post on LEO press releases but are happy individuals have been arrested and imprisoned for over 700 days without a trial and conviction?

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1 year ago

Without links, I’m not sure exactly what you are referring to but the defense has to waive the right to a speedy trial and they usually do that because they perceive that to be to their advantage. If something else is happening, I’m not aware of it.

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Kym we love you but the internet is libertarian liberal and some folks are National Socialist on the left. All we are saying is give peace a chance.

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1 year ago
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I’m not sure what you are trying to say. But if giving peace a chance means being okay with mobs shouting about killing law makers, beating officers until they have heart attacks, breaking into the capitol and calling the whole thing a tourist excursion…I think you are not likely to see me agree to that.

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1 year ago
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Sadly, individuals like EmptytheBastilleinDC are impervious to facts, reason and logic. They ignore anything that doesn’t align with their
biased and preconceived notions.

Every single rioter that’s been charged has benefited from due process of law at every turn. And yes, every single one has had the option to waive time or go directly to trial. As you correctly point out, most waive their right to a speedy trial in the belief that it’s to their advantage to draw things out.

PS: Help me out here, Kym, I’m trying to remember the last time a crowd of violent tourists attacked police, smashed windows and doors and forced their way into the County Courthouse when it was closed cuz they wanted to admire the paintings in the lobby, but I just can’t place it.

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I’m having a hard time placing any similar event.

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BLM marches in ST. Louis, Indianapolis, Kenosha, etc?

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2018 : In 2018, liberals and Democrats protesting against Judge Brett Kavanaugh stormed the Capitol and Supreme Court, disrupting and desecrating them.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing in the Senate this week was frequently disrupted as protesters were removed from the hearing room by police, with more than 200 people arrested.

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-court-protests/hundreds-arrested-in-multi-day-protests-of-u-s-supreme-court-nominee-idINKCN1LN2K6

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Stormed the Capital?
“At the Kavanaugh sessions, the disruptions began several minutes after Republican Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley gavelled the hearing open on Tuesday.”
“Each day, members of the public arrived by 7 a.m. to queue up for hearing tickets. They then waited in line for 20 to 30 minutes within the hearing room. One after another, activists stood to protest Kavanaugh’s positions on healthcare, abortion, gun rights or the proceeding itself, interrupting lines of questioning and irritating some Republican committee members.”

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1 year ago
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I can almost understand why you are having a hard time telling the difference between vigorous protest by folks trained in non violent civil disobedience and attempting to overthrow the government. These two images from the two events are…for heaven’s sake not all similar. Lining up to get tickets is not breaking windows is not tasing officer. Peacefully protesting by getting arrested is not the same as beating an officer until he has a heart attack.

Look, I watched hours of video from the Jan 6 riot/insurrection. While I don’t agree with disrupting the Kavanaugh hearing no matter how appalling I find picking him was, disruption is not even close to an accurate description of the behavior of many (though, of course, not all) of those on Jan 6 at the Capitol.

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It’s rather embarrassing to keep up the idea that this one policeman was beaten at all in order to believe that the Jan 6 rioters were rabid insurrectionists while actual police are shot in other protests called peaceful.

” found that officer Brian Sicknick suffered two strokes after the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, with no sign that any injury or reaction to chemical irritants played a role.

Media coverage in the days after his death was of mixed accuracy.”

https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/apr/20/update-capitol-police-officer-sicknick-died-natura/

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This is the officer that I referred to in my earlier link. Metropolitan Police Department officer Michael Fanone. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mpd-police-officer-confronts-jan-capitol-attacker-sentencing/story?id=92211175

While I’m sure there are people who refer to all BLM protests as peaceful, you are conflating me incorrectly with them. I believe that the vast majority of BLM protesters were nonviolent but police officers were shot and buildings were burned during them. I also believe that the vast majority of people that were attended President Trump’s Speech and even a good portion of those on the Capitol grounds were nonviolent. BUT I also witnessed officers beaten, mobs chanting hang Mike Pence, and swarms of Trump supporters break down windows while attempting to change the will of the people’s votes by force.

While the violence of BLM riots existed, in my mind, there is a difference between that and violence directed at overthrowing democracy–the latter is an insurrection. But in no case is it the tourist excursion that Tucker Carlson and his supporters try to pretend. I watched what happened as it unfolded and I thought it possible our democratic institutions could fall then.

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That in the 60’s we would be AGAINST wars…period. Not sending tanks and peace bombs and peace rockets.
We would DEFINITELY be against mandatory shots. Come on. Love You.

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I am against mandatory shots. I have been all along. I fail to see a strong connection between COVID vaccinations and shouting Hang Mike Pence while attempting to change the will of the people so a man with a gold plated toilet can be king.

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And I was for using weapons to stop Nazis from killing people in concentration camps and taking over countries. And I’m for assisting the victims of a despot so desperate to leave his mark on the world that he is willing to send young Russians to die while trying to kill Ukrainians in their homes.

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check out John Mearshiemer on Youtube (a Realist) for a different perspective on NATO expansionism. Bless.

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There was no chance of “NATO Expansionisn” until Russia invaded the Ukraine a second time. Now there is. Maybe you can explain why the same group who screamed online that covid vaccinations were a plot to kill people now rushed to repeat Russian propaganda wholesale? Are they just so naive that they swallow any self hateful spew from any enemy just to regurgitate it in their own nest like any left wing revolutionary who sucks up any anti American spew from the same source and preens over being so much wiser than everyone else?

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NATO expanded dramatically prior to any activity in Ukraine and discussion of Ukrainian membership in NATO preceded it as well

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Like how? But even if it did, there is zero sense in Putin declaring NATO has come too close so he launches an invasion to move closer.

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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the Russian Federation has watched (and expressed opposition to) the following countries join NATO;

Czechia
Hungary
Poland
Bulgaria
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Albania
Croatia

Montenegro and North Macedonia were added in the last 5 years.

But those first dozen countries were all added over the 2 decades between now and the formation of the modern Russian Federation, all added under protest from the Russians, all bringing the anti Russia alliance closer to thei4 border, and all accompanied by the most aggressive military power of the era.

The idea that the US has not participated in any provocation is laughable and must be rooted in a belief in the inherent correctness of US military behavior

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1 year ago

The will of a country that wants to join NATO, which has kept PEACE in Europe for 60+ years, shall not be obstructed by authoritarianism.

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If you’re unwilling to understand how Russia would perceive the expansion of an anti Russian military alliance bringing the resources of the largest and most violent military ever closer to their borders then you are being willfully ignorant of half of the story. We have been the most militarily active and aggressive force in Europe for almost 80 years now.

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Yet Putin said he would join NATO.

Seems like your just sipping what he’s pouring at any time.

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Yes, Russia suggested they join NATO in response to claims that it was not an explicitly anti Russian organization. They were not accepted and more offensive military gear was moved to their border.

We’ve been engaging in a policy of military encircling and economic sanctions for the better part of 30 years and we keep being told its the only way to change Russian behavior. But it hasn’t done that in those 30 years and suggestions to try anything else are dismissed as unworkable.

It reminds me of the crime debate in the states, the only solution ever discussed is more prisons as if mass incarceration wasn’t the policy that the current crime situation arose under

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Czechia
Hungary
Poland
Bulgaria
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Albania
Croatia

Most people in those countries smelled the croissants and good coffee, other side of the curtain. And they were tired of oppression, tired of paranoid paid-neighbors narcing them out to the State, tired of being disappeared. The vast majority of people WANTED out of the Russian system, then, to be part of NATO. If that’s what the majority want, regardless of what the US wants, why shouldn’t they get it? Anyway, they got it, they ARE NATO, they know Putin’s game. Period.

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That is certainly the position of the US military and its industrial partners. It’s been a wildly profitable position for them so I don’t see it changing anytime soon

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Forget the position of the US military and partners. MY first trip to Europe wasn’t forever-ago but ‘86. If you haven’t yet been, sling a pack and travel the former (now) eastern block countries. I can almost guarantee that 4 out of 5 or more folk will say Russia concerns them, greatly. And, no, it’s not because the conspiracy bit, that the US Government is trying to freak them out. When a country borders Russia, said country is nervous.

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1 year ago
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Most these anti nato heads have never been out of the US, or even their homestate.

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Most of these pro nato heads have ingested so much US military propaganda in the course of their life they won’t blink while they insist that war is peace.

Just another 30 billion for the military, that’ll bring peace on earth. Unless Russia dusts off a couple more Soviet tanks, then we’ll probably need to bump the military budget up to a trillion. That’ll bring peace for sure

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NATO is racing to arm its Russian borders. Can it find the weapons?Allies are worrying about dwindling war chests just as NATO seeks commitments for new stockpiles and troops along the eastern flank.

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BRUSSELS — Add NATO’s military planners to the list of those concerned about having enough shells. 
In the coming months, the alliance will accelerate efforts to stockpile equipment along the alliance’s eastern edge and designate tens of thousands of forces that can rush to allies’ aid on short notice — a move meant to stop Russia from expanding its war beyond Ukraine. 
To make that happen, though, NATO must convince individual countries to contribute various elements: Soldiers, training, better infrastructure — and, most notably, extensive amounts of pricey weapons, equipment and ammunition.

A push for ‘readiness’There are several tiers of “readiness.”
The first tier — which may consist of about 100,000 soldiers prepared to move within 10 days — could be drawn from Poland, Norway and the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), said Heinrich Brauß, a former NATO assistant secretary general for defense policy and force planning. It may also include multinational battlegroups the alliance has already set up in the eastern flank.

A second tier of troops would then back up those soldiers, ready to deploy from countries like Germany in between 10 to 30 days. 
But the process could get tricky. Why? Because moving so quickly, even given a month, requires lots of people, equipment and training — and lots of money. 
Some militaries will have to up their recruitment efforts. Many allies will have to increase defense spending. And everyone will have to buy more weapons, ammunition and equipment.
Ben Hodges, former commander of U.S. Army Europe, said that “readiness” is “basically, do you have all the stuff you’re supposed to have to do the mission assigned to a unit of a particular size?”
“An artillery battalion needs to shoot X number of rounds per year for planning purposes in order to maintain its level of proficiency,” he said. A tank battalion needs to hit targets, react to different situations and “demonstrate proficiency on the move, day and night, hitting targets that are moving.”
“It’s all very challenging,” he said, pointing to the need for training ranges and ammunition, as well as maintaining proficiency as personnel changes over time. “This obviously takes time and it’s also expensive.” 
And that’s if countries can even find companies to produce quality bullets quickly. 
“We have tended to try to stockpile munitions on the cheap … it’s just grossly inadequate,” said Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security. “I think the problems that our allies have in NATO are even more acute because many of them often rely on the U.S. as sort of the backstop.”

The big test Once NATO’s military plans are done, capitals will be asked to weigh in — and eventually make available troops, planes, ships and tanks for different parts of the blueprints. 
A test for NATO will come this summer when leaders of the alliance’s 30 member countries meet in Lithuania.

“We are asking the nations — based on the findings we have out of our three regional plans — what we need to make these plans … executable,” said the senior NATO military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive planning. 
“I think the most difficult thing,” the official added, “is the procurement.” 
Some allies have already acknowledged that meeting NATO’s needs will take far more investment. 
“More speed is needed, whether in terms of material, personnel or infrastructure,” German Colonel André Wüstner, head of the independent Armed Forces Association, told the newspaper Bild am Sonntag.
The German military, for instance, is carrying out its assigned missions, he said, “but that is nothing compared to what we will have to contribute to NATO in the future.”
And while Berlin now has a much-touted €100 billion modernization fund for upgrading Germany’s military, not a single cent of the money has been spent so far, German Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces Eva Högl said earlier this week.
Underpinning the readiness issue is a contentious debate over defense investments.

https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-is-racing-to-arm-its-russian-borders-can-it-find-the-weapons-eastern-edge-military-leaders-james-j-townsend-jr-us-one-billion-citizens-army-europe/

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More at the link………….

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Lately it seems like this ukrain excursion may be the most effective pro Trump meddling we’ve ever seen from Russia. Will our NATO “allies” step up to meet our unwavering commitment of critical military stock piles to Ukraine? Or are they the fork tongued moochers that Trump always insisted?

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I have never denied that those countries wanted to join NATO for a legitimate reason. What I have said is that during the post societ era the US military has been, unquestionably, the most violent force on the planet. Able to mobilize weaponry at a scale that the entire rest of the planet combined would struggle to match and showing a willingness to use that weaponry to visit tremendous violence on laughably weak targets.

Combine that with the very anti Russian stance of the US government and its easy to understand why Russia would see NATO (US military) expansion up to their border as a serious threat.

The most workable solution that I see would be to create a demilitarized neutral zone from the Baltic to the Balkan/Black Sea region. Actually remove the offensive military hardware from the region with the understanding that the masses of military weapons and personnel in Europe will step in in the event of an invasion.

Instead, the psychopaths that hold the reins in the pentagon have opted to load more and more weaponry closer and closer to the psychopaths holding the reins in the Kremlin (or whatever their military headquarters is called) and then act all giddy about the chance to engage in all out war when the Kremlin reacts

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Yes, the US military is a bully behemoth. Why? Didn’t just develop out of thin air.

We proved too slow responding to Hitler. America was divided. Roosevelt had to be careful. He was too careful: millions of Jews were slaughtered, great parts of Europe ransacked, hundreds of thousands more dying. And, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact just prior, between … Hitler and Stalin, lol. A certain something was buried within the pact; that Hitler and Stalin would divide up Europe in the event of war. Right Hitler starts said war, invades Poland. Stalin invades Poland from the east. Hitler doesn’t stop, invading all over. Which brings us back to the USA in Europe. Europe wanted us there, begged us there. The USA saved Europe. Did. Mother Russia helped, sure … but mostly to save Mother Russia from Hitler’s invading forces. Russia repelled, ultimately occupying Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe was scared of Stalin only a little less than they were of Hitler! Then, boom, the Cold War. The US Military has been huge presence in Europe, via invitation, then as a thankful presences, bulwark, against Soviets then Russia. The Eastern Bloc countries, 1950’s through 80’s they wanted Russia out … with the welcomed help of the good ‘ol USA . Then they wanted to join EU. Then NATO.

Yes, US Military is behemoth, gnarly, sometimes rather nasty, especially when used inappropriately (Central America, Southeast Asia, Middle East and Afghanistan).

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Yes I’m well aware that the industrialization of the US military occurred in response to a justifiable threat…90 years ago. And since then, the military-industrial complex that one of the generals of that justifiable war warned us against has successfully leveraged the spectre of the Red Menace to gin up support for all of those “rather nasty” and “inappropriate” adventures over the decades.

All the more impressive considering that it’s been 30 years since the justification (the USSR) collapsed spectacularly. Putin isn’t Stalin and the Russian Federation isn’t the Soviet Republic, let alone nazi Germany. We’re back to that same issue you evaded last time we discussed this, is Russia poised to steamroller Europe or are they barely able to maintain control of a small handful of Ukrainian provinces that are among the most sympathetic populations in all of Europe to Russian rhetoric?

I really appreciate that you acknowledge those specific instances of misguided military adventures. Let’s take a look at them, eh?

Central America and Southeast Asia? Military saber rattling about the theat of Russian influence is used to commit countless atrocities, decimate the regions physically and economically, and ultimately insert decades of US directed exploitation. The negative repercussions are dominant forces in our political/cultural landscape to this day.

Middle East and Afghanistan?
Military sabre rattling about Russian aggression is used to justify the arming of regressive religious fanatics that ultimately collapse the region into a couple generations of turmoil and devastation, ultimately leading to the installation of some of the most repressive regimes on earth, countless atrocities by US military, trillions of dollars in money burned up and millions of lives lost. The fallout, economic and psycho social, haunts us to this day.

So yeah, some of us might be a little skeptical of this of latest round of sabre rattling about the threat from Russia. Especially when the rattlers and their supporters won’t even acknowledge the flagrant disparity in capacity and willingness to deliver violence over the last 3 decades.

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Zapad, the name of a Russia military exercise (Zapad translates to “West”). Conducted every 4 years. 2021 conduct was Russia’s largest military exercise in 40 years (40 years). Putins spear-tip, poised, pointing at Europe, which includes country of Ukraine. Putin invades. Would have taken weeks at most, Russia’s own military estimate. And/or, maybe there’s even more going on than meets the eye.

Maybe Xi and Putin are playing good-cop bad-cop, Xi saying“respect territorial integrity” (translation: USA stay out of Taiwan, don’t invade when we assert control of our territory”.)

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So your belief is that Russia is feigning weakness in Eastern Ukraine as part of some grander strategy involving a secret military alliance with China?

Do you have any sources you’d care to share that have influenced this belief of yours?

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Obviously holding back, could obliterate with juiciest conventional goodies if they chose to. Pyrrhic short-term victory, if any Ukraine non-conventionals already in Russia, waiting for signal.

I’d suggest nothing is ever off the table these days, including a no-secret alliance with China, option to exercise at various gradations of collaboration, different spheres. (Germany and Japan gave things a go, but got stretched way too far, too thin.) Heck, North Korea could jump into a Pacific fray, 800K troops (a percentage fighting in rags with sticks). Or present Ukraine war could begin to shift bigly enough, Putin steps or is pushed back. Xi could pause Taiwan plans. Either way, find out at some point.

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1 year ago
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Well, yeah, anything could happen. I’m struggling to understand what benefit the Russians get from dragging things out. But once you consider the myriad secret military alliances they may have it really opens the door.

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The Real Brian
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1 year ago
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The same group of 3 years ago, wrapping even you in utter nonsensical conversations, still gets you today.

Unbelievable. I hope you remember even half of the markers you used to.

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1 year ago
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I doubt many condone Putin’s actions but just how much should we be willing to risk worldwide nuclear Armageddon in a dispute over Russian speaking provinces in Eastern Ukraine? And why did Blinken/Biden sign an agreement to hasten Ukraine’s admission into NATO at the end of 2021 when Russia had said NATO missiles on their border with Ukraine was a red line? It seems the US welcomed this conflict before it began. It’s unbelievable to me how many Americans seem unconcerned about risk of the devastating societal changes from strategic nuclear weapons exchange, half of Americans would be killed by blast, radiation fallout, and resulting starvation from broken food supply chains, yet most seem to say “10% chance of end of the world? Oh well, it’s the principle of the matter”.
All I can say is if we launch against Russia then better strike China at the same time otherwise US will become China’s toady

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If all Putin has to do to get what he wants is a bit of sabre rattling, he would be content. He would rattle his way to what used to be East Germany. Being willing to back off makes it a forgone conclusion. It’s not the “principle of the thing” at all. It’s being aware of the consequence of appeasement. Which created the second world war. It’s a nasty mind that can say the US welcomed this war‐ it’s just that they knew it was going to happen. They remember their history.

Eventually, without aking at an expensive choice for Putin, that’s where it would certainly end up and with a much greater chance of a nuclear exchange. It is more concerning that there is a small but vocal client base for Putin’s propaganda.

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1 year ago
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Putin wouldn’t expand conflict to NATO nation, he knows it would bring full western response. That’s just a scare tactic used by the warmongers

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That you think that fear of NATO is a reassuring strategic presence that prevents Putin from invading while simultaneously assign it as the cause of Putin’s invading shows it is an idea not really thought through.
That’s obviously Putin’s thoughts. He was surprised that any little political entity would even dream of objecting to becoming a puppet state of Russia. As apparently you are to

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Kinda of reads “Crazy Putin has nukes, he can do what he wants”. Applying that logic, then so should the USA, China, North Korea, Israel, Pakistan, India, France, Great Britain and whomever else has ‘’em tucked away. Besides, if anything, Putin has invited NATO closer. And even if the USA didn’t get involved in Ukraine, you can bet Finland, Sweden, and whomever else would still be crawling through the windows to join. Why would Putin invite NATO closer? Is it some kind of perverse “See what’s happening, only I can protect you pure children of Mother Land Russia”, a BSing of the Russian people as he draws NATO closer? All I can say is, it’s obvious (obvious) all EU NATO countries, and more, are happy the USA is a member stepping up. And this assertion of yours “It seems the US welcomed this conflict before it began”. The US has had a clear enough policy, Dem and GOP administration’s alike (RHINO Donny don’t count), indicating otherwise. Putin’s nuke saber-rattling is a tactic, too many on the American far-right taking the bait.

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1 year ago
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your rap is strong!

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1 year ago
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There’s a few particularly bad actors deserving prosecuting for J6 just like the BLM/Antifa riots of preceding summer that caused more deaths and far more property destruction. Yet the BLM/Antifa rioters were rarely prosecuted while even the most genteel J6 trespasser is persecuted. Those that weren’t violent should have been given trespassing fines and released, same should’ve been done for BLM/Antifa crowd.

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That is incorrect.

“An Associated Press review of court documents in more than 300 federal cases stemming from the protests sparked by George Floyd’s death last year shows that dozens of people charged have been convicted of serious crimes and sent to prison.
The AP found that more than 120 defendants across the United States have pleaded guilty or were convicted at trial of federal crimes including rioting, arson and conspiracy. More than 70 defendants who’ve been sentenced so far have gotten an average of about 27 months behind bars. At least 10 received prison terms of five years or more.”

Only a handful of the nearly 600 people who’ve been charged in the insurrection have received their punishments so far, and just three people have been sentenced to time behind bars. The vast majority of the most serious cases — involving those accused of assaulting police officers or conspiring to block the certification of Biden’s victory — remain unresolved.”
https://apnews.com/article/records-rebut-claims-jan-6-rioters-55adf4d46aff57b91af2fdd3345dace8

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One point might be made that the Jan 6 rioters were charge in the hundreds for very minor crimes while the BLM rioters were charged for serious crimes and charges dropped for the things that the Jan 6 rioters went to jail over.

The bottom line is that if you’re going to scare people, scare shop owners, not Congressmen.

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Your earlier posting of “Bullshit” was more accurate.

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But not conducive to respectful conversation.

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Speaking of BLM…..

Parents of Murdered Children Deserve Answers from BLM Leaders
Sylvia Bennett-Stone

The movement to hold BLM accountable is growing. A new initiative involving the original 10 BLM chapters—the BLM 10 Plus movement—is now seeking transparency and accountability from the organization about how and where donated funds have been used. The father of Michael Brown Jr, the black teen shot by police in Ferguson in 2014, has joined the movement.

The deaths of Black Americans shouldn’t be buying luxury homes for BLM leaders. The movement’s first priority should be to support the families of victims and to foster community-based approaches to ending violence and discrimination against innocent Black victims. I’m sick of Black Lives Matter leaders profiting off our murdered children. It needs to stop.

n January, I helped launch a new initiative called Voices of Black Mothers United to honor the lives of our murdered children by creating communities that are safe for everyone. We are bringing together mothers of fallen children and community partners to heal and strengthen communities by supporting intervention and sensible police reform.
We join a growing chorus of parents and community activists demanding accountability and transparency from BLM.
BLM and its affiliates should be very clear about their priorities so that people understand what they are supporting when they send a check. If BLM doesn’t intend to operate as a charity, it should be up front about that. But more than anything, its leaders need to be willing to answer for the rise in neighborhood violence that occurred in the wake of their call to defund the police. Crime is skyrocketing and police officers are quitting in droves.
Activist groups like BLM should support families grieving the loss of a child to homicide. The first step is to provide wellness checkups, and assess the need for mental health assistance, financial assistance and other services to ensure the family’s stability.

https://www.newsweek.com/parents-murdered-children-deserve-answers-blm-leaders-opinion-1604851

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Cont…

“The Wall Street analyst and investor who called the 2008 Lehman Brothers’ collapse has revealed what bank he thinks will hit insolvency next amid Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) closure shockwaves.”

” “The problem is the bond market, and my prediction, I called Lehman Brothers years ago, and I think the next bank to go is Credit Suisse,” the Rich Dad Company co-founder Robert Kiyosaki said on “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” Monday, “because the bond market is crashing.” “

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How long is this going to keep sitting on Biden’s desk…???

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/10/congress-bill-declassification-covid-00086563

‘Congress sends bill requiring declassification of Covid-19 origin intel to Biden’

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Until Fauci is done spinning his yarns…???

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By law, 10 days is the timeframe.

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That would be the maximum…

Not including Sundays…

No reasonable reason to stretch it out that far, though…

The bill was passed unanimously…

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1 year ago

Very convenient…

https://www.businessinsider.com/gavin-newsom-svb-biden-silicon-valley-bank-wineries-bailout-lobbying-2023-3

‘California Gov. Gavin Newsom failed to publicly disclose his SVB ties while lobbying for a bailout’

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Silicon Valley Bank chief pressed Congress to weaken risk regulationsCEO Greg Becker personally led the bank’s half-million-dollar push to reduce scrutiny of his institution – and lawmakers obliged

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/11/silicon-valley-bank-weaken-risk-regulations-svb

Obama official, Hillary donors, improv actor: Meet SVB’s board of directors

nypost.com/2023/03/14/obama-aide-hillary-donors-improv-actor-meet-svbs-board/

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Hunter Biden, Burisma,
and Corruption:
The Impact on U.S.
Government Policy and
Related Concerns

U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs
U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
Majority Staff Report

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
II. INTRODUCTION
III. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
IV. THE VICE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE AND STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS WERE
AWARE OF BUT IGNORED CONCERNS RELATING TO HUNTER BIDEN’S ROLE
ON BURISMA’S BOARD.
V. SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY FALSELY CLAIMED HE HAD NO
KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN’S ROLE ON BURISMA’S BOARD.
VI. STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS VIEWED MYKOLA ZLOCHEVSKY AS A
CORRUPT, “ODIOUS OLIGARCH,” BUT VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN WAS
ADVISED NOT TO ACCUSE ZLOCHEVSKY OF CORRUPTION.
VII. WHILE HUNTER BIDEN SERVED ON BURISMA’S BOARD, BURISMA’S
OWNER, ZLOCHEVSKY, ALLEGEDLY PAID A $7 MILLION BRIBE TO
UKRAINE’S PROSECUTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE TO CLOSE THE CASE.
VIII. HUNTER BIDEN: A SECRET SERVICE PROTECTEE WHILE ON BURISMA’S
BOARD.
IX. OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS AND A DEMOCRAT LOBBYING FIRM
HAD CONSISTENT AND SIGNIFICANT CONTACT WITH FORMER UKRAINIAN
OFFICIAL ANDRII TELIZHENKO.
X. THE MINORITY FALSELY ACCUSED THE CHAIRMEN OF ENGAGING IN A
RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN AND USED OTHER TACTICS TO
INTERFERE IN THE INVESTIGATION.
XI. HUNTER BIDEN’S AND HIS FAMILY’S FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS WITH
UKRAINIAN, RUSSIAN, KAZAKH AND CHINESE NATIONALS RAISE
CRIMINAL CONCERNS AND EXTORTION THREATS.
XII. CONCLUSION

https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC%20-%20Finance%20Joint%20Report%202020.09.23.pdf

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Biden’s Billionaire Bailout is funded on the backs of small savers who will receive less interest and pay higher fees to benefit the wealthy

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And you complained people were hysterical over covid.

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JP Morgan estimates Biden’s Billionaire Bailout program will inject $2 trillion into economy stoking ever higher Bidenflation costing all us average Americans even more than the $10,000/yr cost of Bidenflation to each of our families since Biden took office.

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Remember this?
By Matt Taibbi……………..

Secrets and Lies of the BailoutThe federal rescue of Wall Street didn’t fix the economy – it created a permanent bailout state based on a Ponzi-like confidence scheme. And the worst may be yet to come

January 4, 2013

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/secrets-and-lies-of-the-bailout-113270/

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1 year ago

J6ers are fascists

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“ Federal election data compiled by Open Secrets indicates that Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) received $8,300 from Silicon Valley Bank affiliates, including $5,800 from individuals and $2,500 from the company’s political action committee during the 2022 midterm election cycle. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) also received $5,800 directly from Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker, the maximum allowable individual contribution, according to more data from Open Secrets.
President Joe Biden received some $66,700 from Silicon Valley Bank affiliates in the 2020 election cycle, while the DNC Services Corporation received $21,400.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-and-schumer-took-money-from-silicon-valley-bank-affiliates-before-company-imploded

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🤣🤣🤣 more names!

Federal investigators are adding potential money laundering to the suspicious activities under examination in an ongoing probe of Trump Media & Technology Group.

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For once I agree with you, and AOC, Brian

“ Any member of Congress who helped plot a terrorist attack on our nation’s capitol must be expelled.

This was a terror attack. 138 injured, almost 10 dead. Those responsible remain a danger to our democracy, our country, and human life in the vicinity of our Capitol and beyond.”

AOC- twitter oct 24, 2021

Now that we discovered that Pelosi was the mastermind….get her fascist crew expelled immediately.

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“Now that we discovered that Pelosi was the mastermind”
What, at his SF home in his underwear … being attacked with hammer by unhinged tourist-style maga-nutter.

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It’ll be three years tomorrow since the most consequential and disastrous government policy decision in American history, the lockdowns and school closures, that caused immeasurable financial, psychological, and sociological damage to our country giving rise to authoritarian government practices. This wasn’t based on science! The proper action would have been consistent with Barrington Declaration – identify and isolate only the most vulnerable while the balance of society continued normal life, most getting, recovering, and attaining natural covid immunity.
Fauci and Trump did that, Biden perpetuated the mistakes!

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The Dawn of Authoritarian America:

Dr. Fauci: The small print here. It’s really small print. “In states with evidence of community transmission, bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms and other indoor and outdoor venues where groups of people congregate should be closed.”

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The Great Barrington Declaration. Mixed bag, at best. Gorski puts it well enough (even if he’s been a little rough sometimes as to alt medicine):

“(The Great Barrington Declaration – GBD) signatories advocated a “let ‘er rip” approach to the pandemic in which the virus should be allowed to spread through the “healthy” population, the better to reach “natural herd immunity” within 3-6 months, all while using “focused protection” to keep safe those at highest risk of severe disease and death, such as the elderly and those with chronic health conditions that predispose to severe disease and death. Notably, how, exactly, to implement “focused protection” was never really well explained, leading to GBD advocates to retrofit strategies that never would have worked anyway because it’s impossible to fully protect those most vulnerable to bad outcomes when a virus is spreading unchecked through the rest of the population. Let’s just say that the GBD is a profoundly eugenicist document that basically falsely claims to protect the vulnerable while leaving them at the mercy of a deadly virus.”

What’s really gets me about GBD is the “focused protection” part, or as you put it “identify and isolate only the most vulnerable”. Government, directing in the identifiers, sending in the isolating storm troopers, for a country of 300+ million. And pay for it, in a thousand and one ways, including those who say “what is this, it’s a free country, get your paws off (me, grandma, uncle, etc)” as they pull their firearm. And you, always going off about Authoritarian Government, Lol.

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Barrington Would have offered isolation and support for the most vulnerable but, of course, they could refuse just as everyone should have been given choice about vaccination. Each to their chosen risk. Anyone’s that scared could choose to self isolate on their own nickel too

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Sorry but, based on your ongoing anti-gov bits, if Barrington had happened I can’t help but think you’d be singing same Authoritarian this and that. You said in your post, to “identify and isolate”. I can just picture Barrington in practice, months in, a million rounds of ammo stockpiled in thousands of Waco compounds all over the country, banners flying “You can’t take vulnerable Grammy away, just try it you jackboots!”. Why, there’d be compounds all over the Emerald Triangle, some commenters here manning the peepholes, yourself on outside with bullhorn saying “Squirrel backed the policy, come out with your hands up”.

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China’s Xi touts new “Better World Order” is in the offing with China preeminent but without US style hegemony and bullying. So what becomes of US?
Joe Biden did that!
10% for the Big Guy!

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And now that Mexico and Saudi Arabia are joining gold backed BRICS, the SWIFT dollar backed payment system is losing dominance. The dollar is becoming Monopoly money, due to careless printing and bailouts. Thanks to the current administration, we are becoming a third world nation.

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This Chinese Man Pissed off an Entire African Country
Why are people shouting “China must go” on the streets of Kenya?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjP9_xGKJ3U&ab_channel=serpentza

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I respect your opinion, however I somewhat disagree. We have all been shown the same cherry picked videos since 2020. Recently, over 40,000 hours of never before seen footage has been released, which more accurately depicts the mood of the day. Here is a video of Jacob chansley being peacefully escorted by the police, and he got 4 years…

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1632912031882805250?s=46&t=PYsNBO1yF2gKlExKauZ_dQ

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That is an excerpt cherry-picked from hours that Chansley was participating in the Jan 6 riot/insurrection. Here he is part of the crowd that broke in through the windows and door of the Capitol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbxng-nIMu0 He pled guilty to doing that and breaking other laws and signed this admission of what he did while there. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1430996/download

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He was coerced into signing that in exchange for a lighter sentence. I saw jacob go through an open door in your video. Besides (looks like 3 bad actors, dressed in antifa clothing, breaking windows) the crowd is peaceful. Let’s not forget that ray Epps was telling people to go into the capital, and that Nancy and Epps were exchanging dozens of texts prior to and during the j6. Also Nancy’s son in law took a photo with Jacob.

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You know…if there’s a mob of folks banging on your door threatening to hang folks inside and one walks in with that crowd without actually being caught on camera breaking anything…I’m sure you’d welcome him as the tourist he is.

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Wingding apologist, full stop. And Ray Epps being there and prior has been gone over fine-toothed comb by actual pros, conclusion: nothingburger, side of enthusiasm.

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Continued trotting out of Chansley-stroll video and similar. Right on schedule. Tucker Carlson, he thinks it’s a movement of Crazies led by a Moron. But Tucker, member of the elite, makes $35,000,000 A YEAR to entertain, even if it keeps the Crazies primed, duped, and conditioned for next event. Chansley should be a very rich man by now, the Crazies sending him millions in get-well-we’re-using-you-$, Tucker paying him a % of his $420 Million net worth.

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Don’t shoot the messenger, as sigh would say..

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In case of Capitol “tourist” foo-foo, you mean the super-spreaders. Doing great!

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1 year ago

Quick, nobody learn anything.

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March 19, 2023

Coordinated central bank action to enhance the provision of U.S. dollar liquidity
For release at 5:00 p.m. EDT

The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, and the Swiss National Bank are today announcing a coordinated action to enhance the provision of liquidity via the standing U.S. dollar liquidity swap line arrangements.
To improve the swap lines’ effectiveness in providing U.S. dollar funding, the central banks currently offering U.S. dollar operations have agreed to increase the frequency of 7-day maturity operations from weekly to daily. These daily operations will commence on Monday, March 20, 2023, and will continue at least through the end of April.
The network of swap lines among these central banks is a set of available standing facilities and serve as an important liquidity backstop to ease strains in global funding markets, thereby helping to mitigate the effects of such strains on the supply of credit to households and businesses.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20230319a.htm
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That last sentence is nonsense.  When was the last time the ‘central banks’ worried about the supply of credit to households and businesses? Total and complete nonsense. What they are worried about is the need to have readily available dollars, faster, to backstop banks that are supposed to be holding deposits.
Nothing quite inspires ‘global banking confidence’ like the need to swap dollars rapidly, from country to country on a daily basis, because the amount of currency in bank, within any western nation, at any given time, might disappear.
TCT

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Silicon Valley Bank failed just 14 days after KPMG LLP gave the lender a clean bill of health. Signature Bank went down 11 days after the accounting firm signed off on its audit.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/kpmg-faces-scrutiny-for-audits-of-svb-and-signature-bank-42dc49dd?mod=djemalertNEWS

Lots of links, so read it for yourself.

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1 year ago

I finally got the latest booster yesterday.
I’d been too ill to get it.
Reminder to SENIORS out there,
It’s not too late to get the booster from last fall with coverage of the latest variants.
The nurse at the clinic said that going forth, we only need to get boosted annually, like the flu shot, and you can do them simultaneously.