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To: locogringo who wrote (264999)	2/19/2021 3:27:31 PM
From: Honey_Bee	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Respond to of 457768

Not hilarious at all, Loco! It's totally understandable! You only post the most interesting and entertaining news items and comments on the World-Wide-Web! :)

To: locogringo who wrote (264999)	2/19/2021 4:51:24 PM
From: FJB	4 Recommendations Recommended By HairBall Honey_Bee locogringo Schnullie Respond to of 457768

HELPING IRAN GET NUKES AND PISSING OFF THE SAUDIs. WHAT ARE DEMENTIA'S BOSSES TRYING TO DO IN THE MIDDLE EAST. SOUNDS LIKE THEY WANT MORE WAR THERE... Biden administration will release intelligence report on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents next week in new blow to relations... The Biden administration will release an intelligence report that concludes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the 2018 killing...

To: locogringo who wrote (264999)	2/19/2021 5:54:03 PM
From: FJB	3 Recommendations Recommended By Honey_Bee locogringo Maple MAGA Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 457768

Watch Dementia attempt to speak. You might be able to comment if you are fast enough... 100% negative. youtu.be

To: locogringo who wrote (264999)	2/19/2021 6:24:04 PM
From: FJB	4 Recommendations Recommended By Honey_Bee Jack Jackson locogringo Sr K Respond to of 457768

That's nothing. I GET RECCOMENDATIONS!!! LOL

To: locogringo who wrote (264999)	2/19/2021 6:50:21 PM
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Manchin Dashes Democrat Hopes of Confirming Neera Tanden as OMB Director …Biden Faces First Major Senate Defeat Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced his opposition to Neera Tanden’s nomination to serve as director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget on Friday, likely signaling the Biden administration will not have the votes for confirmation.

To: locogringo who wrote (264999)	2/19/2021 7:13:56 PM
From: FJB	4 Recommendations Recommended By Honey_Bee locogringo Shoot1st Thehammer Respond to of 457768

Opinion: US Should Emulate Poland on Fining Big Tech Censors Roger L. Simon www.theepochtimes.com /us-should-emulate-poland-on-fining-big-tech-censors_3703705.html Who knew years ago that the United States would be lagging far behind countries like Poland and Hungary in free speech? They evidently learned something from years under the iron fist of the Soviet Union. The Poles are proposing new laws that would impose fines of $13.5 million on Big Tech social media companies that censor users or remove posts for ideological reasons. Their Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki put it this way, ironically in a post on Facebook: “We are now increasingly faced with practices we believed were left in the past. The censoring of free speech, once the domain of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, is now back, but in a new form, run by corporations, who silence those who think differently.” He sounds more like Jefferson or Madison than our namby-pamby politicians who thus far—in the midst of the Goebbels-like “cancel culture”— wish to do little more than reform Section 230 that might, depending on the wording, make Big Tech somewhat more responsible for what it publishes. In our corrupt system those same Big Tech mega-donors have essentially bought our leaders. They have become virtual toadies (pun intended) to their tech masters, doing little more than holding meaningless hearings, which often have the opposite effect from what was intended. So we have been left with that cancel culture that not only stifles our democracy, it bores into the brains of our children, making them terrified to pursue the truth, a new generation of quiescent potential totalitarians. We, and they, have to listen politely to, be inundated by actually, reactionary intellectual garbage like systemic racism and critical race theory without being allowed to contradict it ourselves lest we are cancelled by social media or, worse, lose our jobs. Why shouldn’t the other side have to listen to our supposedly traditional, fuddy-duddy values from the Bill of Rights? As Chairman Mao put it, “let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.” (Mao was lying about that but we shouldn’t.) The root of cancel culture is abject fear. If you weren’t afraid of your opponent’s ideas—maybe even suspect they were right—you wouldn’t be so intent on canceling them. Some of that lies behind the behavior of Big Tech. Also at play is a kind of developmental ignorance augmented by group think. The founders and executives of these companies are trained technically (often to the point of genius) and economically but hardly steeped in political philosophy. Almost all of them come from a generation when civics was rarely, if ever, taught in the schools—and if so in the most cursory manner. Yes, some of this can be corrected by creating alternative structures like Parler, but only to a limited extent. Besides having to compete with companies that have a distinct, even dominant, “first mover” advantage, these same new structures, admirable as they may be and despite their pledges of “openness,” become nearly mirrors of their more totalitarian opposites, dividing our already divided society yet more. Everyone chooses up sides and ends up “preaching to the choir.” Is that how to govern a republic in the 21st Century? I doubt it’s the way to “keep it,” as Benjamin Franklin famously warned. The Poles have a better approach. What is inherent in their fines is forcing social media into being public squares without a flotilla of jejune twenty-somethings censoring every opinion they believe (or are told to believe) is out of line. I generally lean libertarian but in this case I’m for putting that ideology aside (all ideologies have limitations) and making these companies public utilities. Time for our politicians to put on their proverbial big boy (or girl) pants, give up those donations for a change and follow the lead of modern Poland. Roger L. Simon is an award-winning novelist, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, co-founder of PJMedia, and now, editor-at-large for The Epoch Times. His most recent books are “ The GOAT” (fiction) and “ I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism Is Destroying Our Republic, If It Hasn’t Already” (nonfiction). He can be found on Parler as @rogerlsimon.

To: locogringo who wrote (264999)	2/19/2021 7:16:20 PM
From: FJB	3 Recommendations Recommended By Honey_Bee locogringo Thehammer Respond to of 457768

Poll: 72% of GOP Voters Say Republican Party Should Be ‘More like Former President Trump’

To: locogringo who wrote (264999)	2/19/2021 7:17:01 PM
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Biden Ends Trump Industry Apprenticeship Program President Joe Biden signed an executive order this week revoking former President Donald Trump’s order providing federal funds to apprenticeship programs created by industries, calling for more government-controlled alternatives.

To: locogringo who wrote (264999)	2/19/2021 7:49:17 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Respond to of 457768

BIDEN TOWNHALL TUESDAY DREW 3.6 MILLION VIEWERS. THAT IS BASICALLY WHAT TUCKER HAS EVERY NIGHT. Wednesday, Feb. 17 Scoreboard: Fox News’ Rush Limbaugh Coverage Helps It Win the Day in Total Viewers and the Demo By A.J. Katz on Feb. 18, 2021 - 5:45 PM Donald Trump called into Fox News shortly before 1 p.m. ET, and 2.1 million were tuned in during the 1 p.m. hour. That's a substantial audience for mid-day.