Occasional Reader 12/12/2020 9:04:30 AM

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Happy Saturday. Well, in a way. As the party that supports the Chinese communist party prepares to take the White House:

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/419742/

Kosh's Shadow 12/12/2020 9:52:21 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 1:

On a similar note, the Mad Dog seems to have been tamed:

Just look at former U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, President Trump’s first secretary of defense, who unhappily left the Trump administration over a dispute over Syrian war policy.

In a recent piece in Foreign Affairs, Mattis, with the applause of Trump-hating progressives ringing in his ears, attacked Trump’s “America First” policy, and called on President-elect Joe Biden to “eliminate” it.

In his letter of resignation to Trump on Dec. 20, 2018, Mattis called for an “unambiguous” approach to China and Russia. “It is clear that China and Russia, for example, want to shape a world consistent with their authoritarian model — gaining veto authority over other nations’ economic, diplomatic and security decisions — to promote their own interests at the expense of their neighbors, America and our allies. That is why we must use all the tools of American power to provide for the common defense.”

In foreign policy, Mattis, now an influence peddler, changed his views on China, suddenly sounding more like a soft-on-China Joe Biden than a hard-on-China Donald Trump.

“Cooperation across different ideological systems is difficult but necessary, and there should be opportunities to cooperate with China in areas of overlapping interests, such as a pandemic response, climate change and nuclear security,” Mattis wrote.

Trump’s Mad Dog is now Biden’s Pet Dog.

Begging for a bone from the Biden administration?

Occasional Reader 12/12/2020 9:55:23 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:

CLIMATE CHANGE hosannah hosannah

turn 12/12/2020 9:59:35 AM

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turn 12/12/2020 10:02:37 AM

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In #2 Kosh's Shadow said: Begging for a bone from the Biden administration?

Sure sounds like it to me, that’s quite an about face.

Kosh's Shadow 12/12/2020 10:06:20 AM

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In #3 Occasional Reader said: CLIMATE CHANGE hosannah hosannah

And if someone believes in climate change, they should be forcing China to enter the Paris Accords.

All the developed countries joining it does is move production to where it is cheaper and more polluting - China!

JCM 12/12/2020 10:06:26 AM

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Reply to turn in 4:

The answer is defeat the liberals.

How is the problem. The are squeezing out legal and non-violent options. Elections are rigged so the legislative process is not viable. The courts suborned so any legal challenges are moot, and executive side is bought and paid for.

The homeless are pawns in the Cloward Piven strategy and Covid the biggest move to date on that front.

Kosh's Shadow 12/12/2020 10:10:30 AM

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In #7 JCM said: The answer is defeat the liberals.

They are actually bringing the very rich/very poor dystopia they claim not to want.

The other thing to do is for all sane people to move to places that have bad winters and let the rest of the country collapse.

Boston is run by liberals, but the winters make most homeless move elsewhere, and then, why would they come back?

Occasional Reader 12/12/2020 10:12:00 AM

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In #4 turn said: on the back trails

Do you have the option of arming yourself when you are on these trails?

Occasional Reader 12/12/2020 10:13:45 AM

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In #8 Kosh's Shadow said: and let the rest of the country collapse.

No. Ultimately you will not be able to escape from the negative affects of that. 

We take the country back.

turn 12/12/2020 10:14:00 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 1:

And I can tell you without giving away too much intelligence, this is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the leverage that China is putting on our politicians. There are many, many more,” adding, “There’s a variety of mayors, governors, senior people.”

Holy shit, we’re f%^*’d now. The CCP has it’s grip on our nation, and Biden is at the helm with the MSM complicit in the coverup.

turn 12/12/2020 10:18:00 AM

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In #7 JCM said: The homeless are pawns in the Cloward Piven strategy and Covid the biggest move to date on that front.

Totally agree, it appears their strategy will finally succeed. It seems almost irreversible at this point.
Please explain how I could be wrong.

turn 12/12/2020 10:23:45 AM

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In #9 Occasional Reader said: Do you have the option of arming yourself when you are on these trails?

I suppose so but I never thought it would come down to that. Hopefully this was an isolated incident, however the way things are going it would be foolish to think so. I do carry a knife for what good that might do me in a confrontation with a freak like this guy.

Kosh's Shadow 12/12/2020 10:25:26 AM

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Reply to turn in 11:

One possibility is that COVID was a deliberate release, and China is supplying a vaccine to those who kowtow to it. (The CCP would not have deliberately released something that could sicken and kill its senior leadership. Millions of its people? Sure. But not the senior leaders.)

I think this theory comes under the range of conspiracy theories, and I would think it would have gotten leaked with the number of people who would have to get the vaccine or cure. But it does explain why Newsom and other Dems feel free to ignore their own COVID restrictions - they know they and their families and their Chinese lovers are safe.

Kosh's Shadow 12/12/2020 10:26:22 AM

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In #13 turn said: I do carry a knife for what good that might do me in a confrontation with a freak like this guy.

I hope it is a Crocodile Dundee knife.

turn 12/12/2020 10:33:56 AM

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In #15 Kosh's Shadow said: I hope it is a Crocodile Dundee knife.

Now that’s a knife! 

Sadly no, mine only has a three inch blade.

turn 12/12/2020 10:37:55 AM

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In #8 Kosh's Shadow said: They are actually bringing the very rich/very poor dystopia they claim not to want.

They can’t make their ideological omelette without cracking a few eggs!

Kosh's Shadow 12/12/2020 10:38:05 AM

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Reply to turn in 16:

I only carry a basic Swiss Army knife, but one place I worked, someone else had a small Swiss Army knife. When we had to open packages (nice "new" prototype computer, refurb, because we couldn't get new ones), I'd pull out my knife and say "You call that a knife?"

turn 12/12/2020 10:44:10 AM

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In #10 Occasional Reader said: We take the country back.

Having tried, and failed, at electing Trump seemed like our last best effort of that. I apologize for being so negative this morning, with all that is going on politically it’s very hard for me to avoid it.

turn 12/12/2020 10:46:32 AM

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In #18 Kosh's Shadow said: I'd pull out my knife and say "You call that a knife?"

Ha!

turn 12/12/2020 10:54:33 AM

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In #14 Kosh's Shadow said: One possibility is that COVID was a deliberate release

I firmly believe that had it not been for Covid Trump would have easily won his second term. It was the perfect political weapon against him and that is the reason I do suspect it was intentional on China’s part. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you will, those are my suspicions.

Kosh's Shadow 12/12/2020 11:12:10 AM

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Reply to turn in 21:

The only reason I don't think COVID was deliberately initially released (as opposed to being deliberately spread around the world after it got out due to sloppy practices at the Wuhan labs) is that there is really no evidence they have a vaccine or cure and they would not have released something that would make the senior leaders of the CCP sick or dead.

And it has been long enough that they could be saying they developed the vaccine or cure faster than other places due to their superior science, and selling it openly.

I doubt the Dems could keep it quiet. Now, if they had an oral cure or vaccine, or something that can be combined with a "recreational" drug, that could explain a lot - give it out at Antifa and BLM riots for fun, and they don't get sick, but few people know why, and they can keep it secret.

Also, this could be used to pressure judges and others, but I'd hope at least one would refuse and tell. Except how would he tell anyone? Facebook, Twitter, etc would flag it as COVID misinformation and suppress it.

I'm talking myself into believing it now.

Have we heard of COVID among Democrats, Antifa, BLM? Now, that could be suppressed easily by ignoring the relation to the rioters. 

turn 12/12/2020 11:35:33 AM

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In #22 Kosh's Shadow said: I'm talking myself into believing it now. Have we heard of COVID among Democrats, Antifa, BLM?

It appears to me that Covid has disproportionately stricken Republican politicians however the media may have played a part in skewing that perception in an effort at portraying conservatives as anti-science, being opposed to masking and lockdowns for example. I’ve haven’t heard of a single member of either BLM or Antifa having been stricken by Covid which does seem awfully suspicious to me. I’ll try googling that.

Kosh's Shadow 12/12/2020 11:43:02 AM

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In #23 turn said: It appears to me that Covid has disproportionately stricken Republican politicians however the media may have played a part in skewing that perception in an effort at portraying conservatives as anti-science, being opposed to masking and lockdowns for example.

Nor have we heard of Democrat politicians who flout the rules and go to various events getting COVID

turn 12/12/2020 11:46:04 AM

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Reply to turn in 23:
Try googling “Covid spike Black Lives Matter” and you will see how the media has downplayed the issue, giving them a free pass as to the Covid risk the protests posed. I’m still trying to find one single example of either a BLM or Antifa organizer having ever been stricken.

Kosh's Shadow 12/12/2020 11:50:08 AM

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In #25 turn said: Try googling “Covid spike Black Lives Matter” and you will see how the media has downplayed the issue, giving them a free pass as to the Covid risk the protests posed. I’m still trying to find one single example of either a BLM or Antifa organizer having ever been stricken.

Which would make sense if the riots are being run from China and they distributed a vaccine to the organizers.

turn 12/12/2020 11:54:25 AM

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Government official, politician, and candidate deaths, diagnoses, and quarantines due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020

turn 12/12/2020 11:58:23 AM

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In #26 Kosh's Shadow said: Which would make sense if the riots are being run from China and they distributed a vaccine to the organizers.

Im not going to go that far down the conspiracy theory bunny trail ...

turn 12/12/2020 12:02:03 PM

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In #25 turn said: I’m still trying to find one single example of either a BLM or Antifa organizer having ever been stricken.

Not getting anywhere with this, time to drop it seems like a waste of time.

Kosh's Shadow 12/12/2020 12:08:08 PM

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In #28 turn said: Im not going to go that far down the conspiracy theory bunny trail ...

I've been trying to convince myself that it is an absurd conspiracy theory but the result has been the opposite.

doppelganglander 12/12/2020 12:57:38 PM

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Reply to turn in 23:

Democrats don't announce publicly that they've tested positive, as Republicans do. This enables them to maintain the fiction that only maskless Trumptards get Covid. As we know they are a bunch of hypocrites galivanting about BLM protests, fancy restaurants, and big weddings, it's only a matter of time before they start dying.

Occasional Reader 12/12/2020 1:03:24 PM

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In #26 Kosh's Shadow said: Which would make sense if the riots are being run from China and they distributed a vaccine to the organizers.

Um.  No.  Think of who these creeps are. You really think they would be able to keep something like that secret? They would have the discipline to maintain that secrecy?  Come on. 

Kosh's Shadow 12/12/2020 1:19:48 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 32:

Most of them, no. The organizatizerrs, maybe. For the rest if it was presented as a recreational drug, they'd take it and have nothing to leak. But I didn't think that was likely

turn 12/12/2020 2:01:07 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 31:
The media has then successfully skewed public awareness, as I suspected. The media and the Democrats, one and the same, have successfully used Covid as a political weapon against conservatives and were able to tip the presidential election by using it. Their scheme involved using collaborators like Fauci, the WHO, and I suspect China as well. Trump should never have fallen for their Covid lockdown scam, but then again hindsight is always 20-20. It is what it is.

Alice in Dairyland 12/12/2020 2:02:07 PM

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In #19 turn said: I apologize for being so negative this morning,

As someone wiser than I said just this morning, "don't give up until Trump gives up".  I'm going with that.

Occasional Reader 12/12/2020 2:10:06 PM

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Reality is strange enough that we don’t have to make up fiction:

Seattle city council contemplates legalizing theft

https://notthebee.com/article/seattle-considering-making-it-legal-to-steal-as-long-as-youre-poor-and-plan-on-selling-the-items-wait-what

Kosh's Shadow 12/12/2020 2:36:46 PM

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In #36 Occasional Reader said: Seattle city council contemplates legalizing theft

What are they going to do when all the honest businesses leave and there is no tax base to pay their salaries, or protection for their homes?

Ask Auntie Kamala for a bailout?

Occasional Reader 12/12/2020 4:07:46 PM

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In #37 Kosh's Shadow said: Ask Auntie Kamala for a bailout?

Dingdingdingding

JCM 12/12/2020 4:17:28 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 36:

Defacto the policy already.

Oh and crime is down just ask Mayor Durka Durka.

Misdemeanors and many low level non-violent felonies are not charged.

Then instead of using crime reports to compile crime stats they use the charging data.

Occasional Reader 12/12/2020 4:28:53 PM

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Reply to JCM in 39:

And that is why criminologists have recognized for a long time that homicides are the best way to measure overall crime. Not infallible, but the least prone to manipulation.

Kosh's Shadow 12/12/2020 4:38:27 PM

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Reply to JCM in 39:

And eventually, there won't be much left to steal, unless the government supplies it.

buzzsawmonkey 12/12/2020 5:11:54 PM

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In #37 Kosh's Shadow said: What are they going to do when all the honest businesses leave and there is no tax base to pay their salaries, or protection for their homes? Ask Auntie Kamala for a bailout?

Cuomo, today, when shutting down indoor dining or bar-going, said that the federal government must bail out these business owners.