Locked Down Blue vs. Re-opened Red States
American people are more divided than at any time since the Civil War (War Between the States for Mullet, KH and the Texans). We see it in so many ways. According to Gallup, 69% of Democrats trust the media while only 15% of Republicans do.
It would be foolish to believe there would be any less of a divide in determining how to handle the coronavirus pandemic. Democrats overwhelmingly want to see lockdowns continue (supposedly to save lives) while the majority of Republicans want the economy reopened.
Beauty salons and barber shops (businesses where social distancing is impossible have reopened in 26 states, 22 of which have Republican governors. Georgia was one of the first to re-open and it is experiencing a reduced number of coronavirus confirmed cases and deaths. Apparently there aren’t any major problems in the other states that have reopened or CNN would be covering it 24/7.
Let’s take a closer look at the divide:
The novel coronavirus currently working its way through America isn’t political, we’ve been told repeatedly, and doesn’t discriminate between Democrats or Republicans. This much is true. But after two months of social distancing and government mandated stay-at-home orders, Americans are increasingly viewing the pandemic, and our leaders’ response to it, through a partisan lens.The political divide among the public is stark. According to a CBS News/YouGov poll released Thursday, 88% of Democrats believe the top priority of America is to “stay home, slow virus spread.” Only 12% said the top priority should be “back to work, get economy going.” Sixty-two percent of Republicans, on the other hand, favored getting the economy going as the top priority, while 38% felt staying at home is the top priority. Put another way, the net difference between Democrats and Republicans on what the top priority of the country should be is 50 percentage points.
Not surprisingly, these partisan differences show up when voters are asked about the re-opening of specific places and institutions. In a survey released earlier this week from The Economist/YouGov, Republicans were roughly four times more supportive than Democrats of “definitely” re-opening parks and schools, five times more in favor of re-opening restaurants and beaches, and nearly seven times more in favor of re-opening churches.
Looking forward, Democrats have a much more pessimistic view about when the economy can safely be allowed to get back up to full steam. Sixty-eight percent of Democrats said it would take “several months” or “about a year or longer” before it would be safe to fully re-open the economy nationally. Only half that number of Republicans (34%) said the same, while a roughly equal number of Republicans (31%) said it will be safe to fully re-open the economy nationwide in “about two weeks” or “a month or so.”
Yesterday (Friday actually), in an interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo, President Trump touched on this debate, saying that he felt the push to keep the country locked down was “a political thing.”
He continued, “You know, if it was up to some people, ‘Let’s keep it closed for a long time … and watch the United States go down the tubes.’ Not gonna happen. Never gonna happen on my watch.”
The day before, Nancy Pelosi appeared on “Morning Joe” where she said she supported the decision by local authorities to extend the stay-at-home order in Los Angeles County by three months, and also the decision by the California State University system to cancel all in-person classes this fall.
Less than six months from the 2020 election, the political battle lines have been drawn. Donald Trump and many Republican governors are leading the “re-open right” while the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and many Democratic governors are part of the “lockdown left.” The latter group is emphasizing public health and safety, while the former is increasingly focused on America’s economic health.
Hat tip: realclearpolitics.com
More WWE Divas. This is the time of the year when hockey season is normally winding down. We’ll be back in the fall with college cheerleaders (hopefully).
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From the previous post:
Justrand:
THIS leads the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. “Dr.” Ferrer’s bio describes her as “philanthropic strategist, public health director, educational leader, researcher, and community advocate”
She is NOT a medical doctor nor scientist…yet she leads the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, and is at the core of their DEMAND (under penalty of law) that all Angelinos remain LCOKED DOWN for “at least 3 more months”.
This picture is the most flattering one I could find of her…no kidding. Apparently if Angelinos follow her demands they can be as, um, “healthy” as her.
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JR –
JR #27 –
Several healthy states on the left coast remain shut down even though their confirmed cases are relatively low. Bolded states have reopened:
Here are the number of deaths per million residents from some of the worst states, the left coast and states where BJGers reside:
New York: 1,417.4
New Jersey: 1,155,1
Michigan: 488.6
Georgia: 150.5
Ohio: 137.7
Washington: 133.4
Arizona: 93.3
California: 81.4
North Carolina: 64.5
Texas: 46.2
Oregon: 32.5
Wyoming: 12.1
Hawaii: 12.0
The count of states that has re-opened is 28 of which 22 have Republican governors. You can see that a number of blue states have favorable death per million residents rates. You have to question whether it’s a philosophical thing (being more cautious) or the Democratic governors want to do their part to tank the economy.
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Breaking: Was Wuhan virus taken into market by a human?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8326823/Landmark-study-Virus-didnt-come-animals-Wuhan-market.html
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It’s becoming clear: deaths are bad. But more cases means more survivors with antibodies and that makes things safer for us all. Someone who’s had the infection and got better can’t be reinfected and won’t infect others.
Dead = bad.
Infected/survived = good.
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HEH: California City To Allow Reopenings, Declares Itself A ‘Sanctuary City’ For Business.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/373675/
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Pic 5: double Vag!
LoL
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Rand,
What is the max amount a person can receive in unemployment pay per week in CA?
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JR – Your gal pal:
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/i-dont-make-decisions-by-myself-l-a-county-health-director-barbara-ferrer-responds-to-criticism-of-her-credentials/
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Sure, maybe Biden is gonna win (*rolls eyes*).
But really, Dems have been attacking the low and middle class with fierce determination.
The hairdresser in TX. Nursing home deaths.
Crippling the economy. Even in entire counties where there are 0 cases and 0 deaths.
And, maybe, ObamaGate will get traction.
Our “bad Prop13” went down to defeat in the March primary, even though ALL Dems, many celebs and half the Repubs came out in favor. Plus CA-25 special election was such a big win, Dems gave up on cheating.
To get to the point: could this be a wave election?
Here’s the latest outrage.
“Lindsey Graham reopened her hair salon to feed her kids and that fascist bint in OR gubnuh Brown had OSHA show up and fine her $14,000 and sent the kid coppers in to check on her runts while she was at work.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jeff-reynolds/2020/05/15/outrage-oregon-governor-targets-fines-salon-owner-who-opened-against-orders-sends-cps-after-her-kids-n393886
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Chinese this week. But I really only come for the articles 😂
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Texas was bit lucky. Spring came a bit early and we had some warmer days throughout which suppressed the virus.
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Michigan residents flock to Ohio as it reopens:
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/05/15/michiganians-flock-ohio-reopening-coronavirus/5201930002/
It’s probably like this for most closed states. Toledo is bigger than most border cities.
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JimNorCal #9 –
Oregon’s Kate Brown is probably worse than Whitmer. She just doesn’t throw herself in the spotlight like Whitmer.
As you can see from post #2, Oregon has one of the most favorable coronavirus records.
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Who ever wouldda thought that barbers and hair stylists would be leading the fight against tyranny?
https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/05/barbers-giving-away-free-haircuts-on-capitol-lawn-at-next-weeks-protest.html
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How baseball will change for 2020 (if there’s a season):
https://apnews.com/fa448199aebdc7993e0d742f4dc13a88
New poster boy for spoiled MLB players:
https://apnews.com/c67f74efed9ea30b1ccdf821e3ab842d
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Anti-lockdown demonstrations hit Europe:
https://www.trtworld.com/europe/arrests-at-anti-lockdown-demonstrations-in-uk-germany-and-poland-36373
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15,
Wonder how he would fare on Fla unemployment benefits??
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Oh I don’t know. The last time we got this pissed off we had a insurance man, a couple of lawyers, scientist, publisher and a couple of well heeled farmers leading the charge. Wonder what Elon Musk would look like in a wig?
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Trump is a point short of the magic 50 to lock a win in November if you believe in historical norms.
RTWT — https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/trump-approval-at-gallup-highest-better-than-obama-bush
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Talk about hubris — https://greatgameindia.com/italian-politician-demand-bill-gates-arrest-for-crimes-against-humanity/ — Stick to what you know Bill.
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drdog09 #20
Developing operating systems that are subject to viruses and easily hacked?
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BC, this one is for you.
A list of the ongoing layoffs in media — https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2020/here-are-the-newsroom-layoffs-furloughs-and-closures-caused-by-the-coronavirus/ — Appears they are maintaining this as an evergreen list. Ha!
Goes without saying — “Learn to code dudes.”
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drdog09 #22 –
Of all the cuts, the Tampa Bay Times, McClatchy, LA Times and Tribune Company are the most satisfying.
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bc3b and drdog, I paired your comments in #14 & #18 and posted it up on Facebook. The only reason I remain on FB is to rabble rouse. 🙂
Those two comments are splendid…thx!
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19 DR,
Want to bet Gallup never shows Trump at 50%?
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BC,
I agree with Snell, time to cancel the season.
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Eph #25 –
I’m surprised the NBA and NHL haven’t cancelled their playoffs.
I think Minor League Baseball is dead for this year. If it started July 1, 60% of its normal season would be over.
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btw…the Revolution was also led by a brewer and a silversmith, et al 🙂
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28,
Indeed.
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Eph, 25,
It *was* a gallup poll. 🙂
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Fred Willard, RIP, 86. Comedian, actor, writer. One of those types who made a boat load career playing second fiddle.
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Who said Covid-19 doesn’t lead to humor…unintentional but truly hillarious!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9ucBJWwVS7g
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30. DR
That’s my point.
Gallup will never show Trump at 50%
Their all time high will always be 49%
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For all us geeky nerds ….
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34,
Aaaah the good ole days! When a 20Gb hard drive was only for the guys in white coats, COBOL was king and you thought you were hot s#$^ is you were using K&R ‘C’ for the first time on a Digital Vax 11/780! Oh and you were an asshole if you caused a guy to trip with his card deck who you KNEW did not put sequence numbers punched into the cards.
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“BOOM! GOP Senator John Kennedy: Republicans Tried To See Chi-Com Virus Relief Pelosi’s Way, ‘But We Can’t Get Our Heads That Far Up Our Rear Ends’”
Propose a silly bill, win great retorts.
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drdog: you were an asshole if you caused a guy to trip with his card deck who you KNEW did not put sequence numbers punched into the cards.
“Good times … good times…” 🙂 🙂
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Biden has NOTHING like this — https://twitter.com/mad_liberals/status/1250126745426169857 — His tech team is so lame they can’t even do a podcast right.
Watch the cut ins of the crowd scenes, pretty funny stuff. 16M views and counting.
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Texans can get a script for hydroxychloroquine — https://thetexan.news/pharmacy-board-loosens-restrictions-on-hydroxychloroquine-prescriptions-reversing-course/ — no test/diagnosis required. That means you could make a tele-med request and have the script delivered to your druggist with little or no questions.
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NJ to run a mail-in election — https://twitter.com/GovMurphy/status/1261343107976699906
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If you are an opponent of the USA —
Here is why you don’t want to lose air superiority.
Sorry for the string of posts. Did my once and awhile walkabout thru Twitter. For such a ‘locked down’platform conservatives seem to be able to light it up.
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Sorry, this is long. It was posted to my NextDoor neighborhood chat. It got rave reviews for about 36 hours, then the Army of Karens came out in full force LOL.
It’s a pretty nice summary, IMO. From a Facebook post by a lady in a small town of Georgia according to a fellow on ND who went looking for where it came from.
I am seeing so much anxiety about resuming business, and so much anger about continued regulations. People are feeling the need to catapult to one side or the other, then fight the opposition.
Here’s my perspective, from a mainstream medical model. I think a lot of folks have fallen into the idea that social distancing was meant to stop the viral spread. It wasn’t-it was meant to SLOW it while we put medical infrastructure in place. It has worked. We have, in most parts, not been overwhelmed like we likely would have been without protective measures. In the meantime, our testing procedures have gotten better. We’ve increased our ventilator count. We’ve gotten a little better handle on PPE supply chains, and many have helped by making masks and gowns. It’s not perfect, but it’s much better than it was seven weeks ago.
A vaccine is a long way off and not everyone will choose to get it. That is their choice. At some point, people have to be systematically exposed to begin the building of (hopeful) herd immunity. We will likely begin to experience a real increase in cases after reopening. Ideally, that exposure is controlled and calculated, in phases, to allow our medical community to respond adequately, and reduce the number of severe or fatal cases. That’s where we are.
Whether you feel like opening is too soon, or not soon enough, we were never going to social distance this thing into nonexistence. You now need to proceed as your health, wallet, and conscience allow.
If you are medically vulnerable, you do not need to be a part of what is about to happen. Stay home if you can. If you’re not, or if your financial vulnerability trumps your health concerns, you need to proceed in ways that continue to protect yourself, and the elderly and medically vulnerable around you.
All of us need to calm down. Quit telling people who are financially struggling that they don’t care about human lives. Quit telling people who are truly at risk of dying from this virus that they are cowering in fear. Remember that until you’ve walked in someone else’s shoes, you should probably be careful in your judgements and subsequent harsh words.
We don’t HAVE to choose an either/or proposition and fight. We could choose other ways to be. Examples include but are not limited to:
“I think this may be too soon, so I will continue to shelter myself, and pray/make masks/ check on those who can’t.”
“I really need to go back to work, so I will do so, but I will be careful and try to protect myself, my family, and those around me with healthy strategies.”
See how those positions allow each of us to do what we need to, and also respect those who are choosing differently?
One thing that allows us to do this is humility. I can acknowledge that I am not an epidemiologist/economist/whatever, that I am making decisions based on my understanding of complex subjects and my own personal health and financial situation, that I am not all knowing, always right, and an expert in all fields, and that each person around me is doing their best too. We can make different choices and still be a supportive community. We can learn and evolve in our understanding of these issues.
Give one another the benefit of the doubt and the compassion of compromise.
Much love and prayers for everyone in making their own personal decision.
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Here are 3 “must read” articles for every honest, American citizen to read.
This one documents how the Coronavirus outbreak is essentially over except for nursing homes where, depending on the state, nearly 40-80% of ALL CORONA deaths have occurred:
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-simple-arithmetic-demonstrates-epidemic-outside-nursing-homes-essentially/
This one shows that for people under 60 your risk of death from Coronavirus is essentially as statistically close to ZERO PERCENT as humanly possible. Even those in the 80’s and 90’s have a 93-95% chance of survival even with other medical issues:
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-one-chart-exposes-lie-behind-universal-lockdowns/
And this article shows how we destroyed our way of life, freedoms & Constitutional rights, and will likely have tens of millions of needless deaths in the near future because of our stupid, simple-minded, fear-innduced, and ideologically driven rush to “lockdown” the world for a minor illness:
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-bad-medicine-devastating-shocking-effects-covid-19-lockdown/
What went on is nothing less than CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE (to be nice & charitable about it) that the political class, the MSM and the so-called “public health” experts are complicit in.
There should be Nurenberg-style Coronavirus criminal trials in the near future if the world is at all just especially for those politicians & medical autocrats who ordered infected people to be moved into nursing homes – that was a death sentence for thousands!
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A couple of old data processing stories:
When I was in the Air Force the guys in the computer section couldn’t stand their NCO so they coded him as a volunteer for Greenland on a punch card and he got the assignment.
I worked at NCR when they were one of IBM’s “little sisters.” There was a gorgeous blonde with a body that wouldn’t stop, and a brain wouldn’t start. Her job was to push a cart with magnetic disks around the marketing headquarters. The highlight of the day was when she pushed her little cart past my cube.
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Check out the map at this link. It seems to be the case that NY spread the virus far and wide. Remember when the MSM said “Mark this day” because Georgia would re-open, everyone would die and fleeing Georgians would spread the virus?
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/373821/
This New York Times map could be misinterpreted merely as travel, but as the article notes, it’s based on the “56,000 mail-forwarding requests from New York City” received by the United States Post Office in March, “more than double the monthly average. In April, the number of requests went up to 81,000, twice the number from a year earlier. Sixty percent of those new requests were for destinations outside the city.”
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https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/15/100000-businesses-have-permanently-collapsed-under-pandemic-lockdowns/
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Mission accomplished.
Pic#4 😉
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Muslim invader kills Swedish girlfriend, chops her into pieces:
https://barenakedislam.com/2020/05/17/sweden-muslim-invader-charged-with-murdering-his-swedish-girlfriend-and-chopping-her-into-pieces/
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38 – Thing is with everyone covering for them they don’t really need to do anything right, all they have to do is avoid complete disasters that can’t be overlooked or brushed aside.
New MLB rules…. fuck it, on second thought, if you’re gonna screw with it that much than just cancel the season – or maybe the sport entirely if they’re gonna act like children (especially the players). I figured they could squeeze in half a season, WITH fan attendance, if they’re so paranoid they can’t allow fan in, and all the rest of that long list of bs – what is the point (beyond everyone trying to salvage their tv contracts,etc).
As for the players whining – overall I’ll say what I’ve said since the 94 walkout\strike a another some years later … fuck’em. Plenty of hungry minor league players willing to replace them. I was hoping the season would come back not because of them but because of all the second and third order jobs involved – but if the players and owners gonna be babies then to hell with it.
All this just strikes me as stupid.
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48 – Watch him get off by saying he didn’t know this was not allowed in Sweden, like some of the imported rapists have that were caught there. Surprised he even got charged maybe Wilma was connected so they couldn’t just sweep it under the rug.
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Jim, 46,
If you gander at the provided graphic it tells you something else — media personalities and entrouge are a bunch of pussies. They left one media centered location for the only thing they know, another media centered location, LA. This sort of explains the mindset —
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170 years on and its still true. You can find more here — https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-05-16/you-lucky-lucky-bastiat
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Comparing FL with NY and NJ
I think the NJ Gov is a RINO
“Blame governors for coronavirus deaths in nursing homes”
https://nypost.com/2020/05/16/blame-governors-for-coronavirus-deaths-in-nursing-homes-goodwin/
Florida got the message and implemented a model response. Despite its vast enclaves of long-term care homes, it reported under 750 deaths in them, or slightly more than one for each of its 615 facilities.
The striking contrast between Florida on one hand and New York and New Jersey on the other can be traced largely to policy decisions by their governors. Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York and Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey issued almost identical orders in late March requiring nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients being discharged from hospitals. The orders barred the homes from even asking if the patients had the virus, lest they be discriminated against.
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Apparently my county intends to be in Shutdown until … forever.
Seen on the Silicon Valley Assoc of Republican Women
“While Gov Newsom’s public health director sets the parameters for the state lockdown, it is up to the local counties to implement.
Here in Santa Clara County, Dr. Sara Cody calls the shots and she is not going to lift restrictions until there is a vaccine for Covid-19.”
For the family of corona viruses (COVID, common cold, SARS, …) how many vaccines have been found in the entire history of the world?
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Who remembers Mt St Helen?
https://mobile.twitter.com/Kamscan/status/1262291891543924738
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State of Washington. Pretty chilling.
Lynnwood Times
@LynnwoodTimes
For those individuals that refuse to cooperate with contact tracers and/or refuse testing, will not be allowed to leave their homes to purchase basic necessities such as groceries and/or prescriptions.
lynnwoodtimes.com/2020/05/12/gov…
https://twitter.com/LynnwoodTimes/status/1260429498966847494
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We should ALL cooperate fully with “Contact Tracers”. I keep a few responses in my head in case I am ever “asked” (read: “required”) to provide my information to one:
Ozzie and Harriett Nelson
1822 Camino Palmero Street
Los Angeles, CA
Fred and Wilma Flintstone
Bedrock, USA
George and Jane Jetson
Orbit City
Mr. & Mrs. M. Mouse
Orlando, FL
and so on…of course, if they ask for I.D. I will skip the above responses and simply tell them to FU@K OFF.
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JimNorCal #53 –
New Jersey’s governor was a RINO. It’s now Phil Murphy, a far-left Democrat.
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But…but…I have been assured that once guns were banned there would be NO MORE CRIME. Our Democrat Overlords told us the criminals would lay down their weapons and respect signs reading “Gun Free Zone”. Golly, I just don’t know what to think now?!?
https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2020/05/18/nz-gun-crime-rates-soar-gun-bans/
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KH #53 –
To illustrate how baseball has changed: Al Kaline (Mr. Tiger), who died last month, once turned down a $100,000 contract. He told the team, “I’m not worth $100,000” and ended up signing for $90,000. A Hall of Famer and considered one of the best fielding outfielders of all time, all Al Kaline wanted to do in life was play right field for the Tigers. A native of Baltimore, he stayed in the Detroit area after retiring (probably because we have such nice winters). Different era; different type players.
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JR #59 – Something CNN won’t be covering:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/colorado-inmate-released-early-because-of-coronavirus-accused-of-murdering-21-year-old-woman
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The New Jersey Governor has called in a SWAT Team to take down a gym that opened up in defiance of the Governor!
Well, since there is apparently no more crime in New Jersey, I guess the SWAT Teams have nothing else to do.
In fact, across the country I imagine the training “Combat Towns” that used to simulate Jihadis taking over towns, and kidnappers holding hostages, are now being re-configured to let SWAT Teams simulate taking down rouge hair-stylists, barbers and gym owners.
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JR #62 –
New Jersey’s Phil Murphy is just trying to keep pace with the other Democratic governors. Gretchen Whitmer stripped a barber of his license. Oregon’s Kate Brown not only fined a salon owner $14,000 but also had the state’s Child Protective Services agency investigate her.
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Tables being turned on the plotters? — https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/tables-turned-mueller-prosecutors-ten-actions-ripe
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DJIA 24,499.73 +814.31 3.44 H24,552.82 L24,059.9
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Talk about essential business:
https://kdvr.com/news/local/strip-club-at-colorado-wyoming-border-reopens-with-strict-cleaning-social-distancing-guidelines/
When the girls finish their act, all they will be wearing is a face mask.
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Who gets the pole cleaning job, EPH?
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DisneyWorld Issues Disclaimers; “Guests” Accept All Risks:
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/disney-visitors-assume-all-risks-reopening-disney-springs
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Crowd cheers as police refuse to enforce NJ governor’s order:
https://twitter.com/TheAtilisGym/status/1262403490929876993?s=20
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This lying piece of filth — https://www.zerohedge.com/political/obama-staffer-scrambles-salvage-political-campaign-after-russia-lies-exposed-implies-zero — is running for Congress.
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Whitmer folds — https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/100-million-chinese-back-under-lockdown-millions-americans-europeans-flock-parks
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Media firings and furloughs continue:
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/351490/quartz-cuts-40-of-staff-amid-ad-losses-chicag.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline&utm_campaign=118433&hashid=BIRIIdNISgnNlQshmjJN0mGTVuM
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BC….. #72 – Behold the field where I grow my fucks… and see that it is barren.
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54 – It’s all just one huge naked power grab.
60 – Isn’t the league minimum now like 400k?
62 – Was that tha Atilis gym? predictable attempt.
64 – Tables aren’t turned till those people are in jail or equally bankrupted, till then it’s just words.
69 – Not as predictable – good on them for now, tomorrow it’ll probably be state troopers sent instead of the locals.
73 – lol
In a normal state Farkas would be fked, but she’s running in NY so I don’t even know what she’s worried about, she could wear being a lying pos as a badge of honor and it would probably work.
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The Islamization of Europe continues:
https://neonnettle.com/news/11339-france-to-begin-teaching-arabic-in-french-schools-for-linguistic-diversity-
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Tyrannical governors aren’t having much luck with judges:
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/498392-oregon-judge-halts-statewide-health-restrictions
https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/18/federal-judge-overrules-north-carolina-governors-restrictions-on-worship/
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Latest from Barr: My whitewashing of this entire thing continues.
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77, nice!
The WI Gov, Evers, is falling back too. Neither the courts nor the legislature will support him
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The author is a lawyer, and always VERY careful with his words. Even being careful he is describing CRIMES of the highest order committed by the Obama administration. If heads DON’T roll, then we no longer have a Republic
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/05/obamas-treasury-department-spied-on-trump-associates.php
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80: We are no longer a republic, Barr just made statements that Biden and Obama will not be looked at\investigated by Durham, didn’t say not charged, but not even investigated. Tells me all I need to know that he’d go out of his way to say that at this juncture (i mean kinda knew this anyway but why go out and out right state it?). BTW So much for not commenting on on going investigations.
Then again the mule told Trump he wasn’t a target when in fact he was entirely the target so there is that ‘give them fake sense of safety’ play, but I really don’t think that’s what’s going on, not even remotely.
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More vote by mail shenanigans.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/huge-scandal-oregon-changes-hundreds-republican-ballots-non-partisan-denying-gop-voters-right-participate-primary/
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McConnell Taps Sen. Marco Rubio to Lead Intelligence Committee — After He Famously Supported Mueller Probe Against Trump
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So from bad to worse…. thanks again Mitch!
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https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/18/fbi-cia-spying-j-edgar-hoover-michael-flynn/
“Conservative historians worry history is repeating itself.”
Newflash, it’s not really repeating itself, what happened then, never stopped happening. The only thing that changed were the names and tactics involved.
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The beaver is dead. RIP
“Ken Osmond, the Mischievous Eddie Haskell on ‘Leave It to Beaver,’ Passes Away at 76”
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Considered read — http://twelveround.com/blog/colossal-failure-of-government
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Pavlov dogs — https://www.zerohedge.com/political/revenge-bobo-clown-how-media-inadvertently-reelecting-donald-trump — the media are.
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68 – Should be standard everywhere, now open the stadiums and concert venues as well.