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223 responses to “Sandbox – 25jul17”
As expected, Leviathan begins to show itself.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-24/former-cia-director-calls-coup-if-trump-fires-mueller
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The Senate R’s need to get some brass. Change the rules to get things done. 51 votes. Since the country is evenly divided that is the only way. We saw that play out in the mid-nineties here in California.
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re: TJ@8:05AM
I don’t have the impression the the Senate Republicans even have a philosophy to legislate towards, I can’t say that it would make all that much difference.
It’s a three party system now.
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Collusion with the domestic terrorists.
https://patriotpost.us/posts/50356
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re BT at 8:47 – So, it turns out the only ‘Putin Smoocher’ that posts here is the green libertarian. Hilarious.
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Cartoon of the day.
https://i.redd.it/pwvyl9t8oqbz.png
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For your readig pleasure
Trump down an astounding 16% in the Conservative Rasmussen Poll, the one that Trump and Todd were bragging about just 6 weeks ago when polling was even. This poll was before Trumps disgusting “speech” to teen age Boy Scouts yesterday when he was totally inappropriate to a crowd that averaged 12 years old. From Fox News:
” President Donald Trump’s fiery speech at the National Scout Jamboree in West Virginia has infuriated parents and former scouts.
Standing before thousands of school-aged Scouts, Trump began with a bit of profanity Monday night and then went on to rage for more than half an hour against the media and other perceived political enemies.”
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history
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Watched it Paul,, another nothing burger. Want fries with that?
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Paul, I predict Trump will hit 41% within a week and will still be President.
You heard it here first.
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So Walt you think Trumps speech was appropriate for 12 year olds?
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It was fine when “O” “talked” to grade school kids. I don’t recall you bitching then.
HELL! You even voted for him once.
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AAAHhhhh…. Chuck E. Cheesey, is whining about the vote to end healthcare for those who don’t pay a dime.
Looks like Trump is doing his job.
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Paul, here’s the transcript of Trump’s speach to the Scout Jamboree.
http://time.com/4872118/trump-boy-scout-jamboree-speech-transcript/
What is your favorite inappropriate-for-12-year-old-kids section?
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Must be Trump saying the polls were fake polls? Punchy likes polls. I like Chex.
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The spineless LIBS are refusing to cast one vote today. And that JUST to begin debate.
The LIBS in the SEN. remind me of Paul.
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Gregory, Walt
in your view Is this language and material appropriate for 12 year olds?
‘Who the hell wants to speak about politics when I’m in front of the Boy Scouts?’ Right?”
“Today, I said we ought to change it from the word ‘swamp’ to the word ‘cesspool’ or, perhaps, to the word ‘sewer.’”
“I saw him at a cocktail party, and it was very sad because the hottest people in New York were at this party.”
Trump is speaking to a crowd of teenagers. And recounting his glory days in New York City high society — decades before they were even born.
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Paul Emery, your pals in Sacramento have allowed or mandated sex education on LGBT-Q ‘s in Elementry school. Plus forcing the Scouts to allow homosexuals as Leaders. I think you have set the low bar for any dialog in America. Trump is actually many steps above you and your ilk in communicating.
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All good Paul. LIBS want the young to vote. Your gripe is meaningless.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/10/27/let-children-vote-even-13-year-olds/?utm_term=.c3e3e9df0ddb
Seems the Scouts are old enough by LIB standards. What’s wrong? They won’t vote the way you hope they will?
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Walt
Trump was takig advantage of the Scouts meeting to push his political agenda. Astounding lack of class but that’s no surprise.
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Oh my Trump was taking advantage! Spank him Paul Emery.
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And “O” didn’t? Your double standard is alive and well. These are future voters Paul, in the NEAR future. Some, by Trump’s next election, and some, by the next.
Thanks.
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Hackers Paul!!!
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/07/25/riverside-county-da-hackers-changed-voter-party-affiliations-2016/
Changed from Repub to DEM?
The gripe,,,
“Hestrin said the hackers accessed voter information via California Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s election website. But the site did not retain IP addresses for those accessing information. Therefore the location of the hackers is unknown.
He observed, “I have no idea who they are, or why they did this,” He added, “Not sure who did it, not sure why, just know it was happening across a broad section.” ”
The denial
Padilla has led nationwide opposition to President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission, refusing to hand over data partly because of his contention that doing so would “legitimize false claims of massive election cheating last fall.”
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OMG Trump said hell in earshot of 12 year olds? What has the world come to?
Was that before the crowd chanted “USA! USA! USA!”?
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So you agree with me Walt that Trump was using the Scouts gathering to further his political agenda.
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Oh the Trump is something else, is he not? The BSA has been condemned by the Left for being some kind of anti-gay homophobic fascist scourge upon society. Something to do with the BSA’s refusal to let gay men and assorted dangerous faggots be Scout Masters and take young boys on overnight camp outs. Gee, the Left has a problem with that, proving once again (just like the Lefties embracing criminal illegal aliens, Islamofacists treatment of women/young girls, letting exposed testicles inside female spas, rape crisis centers, battered women’s sheltes, not to mention shower rooms)……er……once again the Looney Left proves they care nothing about the safety, privacy, sensibilities and well being of our womenfolk in addition to 12 year olds. Freakiness for freakiness sake is their mantra.
So tell me, what is appropriate? Exposed testicles parading around women’s health spas and shower rooms, trannies demanding to bunk in battered women’s shelters, and openly gay men taking 12 year old boys camping in the woods?
Spare me your feigned outrage of Trump’s words. The scouts were chanting, “We love Trump, we love Trump, we love Trump!” That is all I need to know.
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Like I said. You didn’t complain when LIBS do it. “what’s good for one,,,”
Besides. Dad took me to every political gathering he could from an early age. I came out just fine, and chose the America loving side of politics. What did the Left produce?
Dirty hippies and freeloaders. Now we have those yellow snowflakes.
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It would make sense for The Paul to put this on continuous loop for a while. It would get his mind right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNJMbGfkfnM
I wouldn’t sweat it Mr. Emery. There’s even a place for you in Doctor General President-for-Life Trump’s America. You could become one of his traveling troubadours. A strolling minstrel lauding Trump’s mighty deeds.
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Oh my. Another Go Fund Me site? Couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of Libs. That is what happens when you are sloppy, careless, live in a bubble, and run out of other people’s’ mula. Sweet!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-24/snopescom-implodes-resorts-gofundme
This one is kinda sweet, not surprising in the least.
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/07/24/schweizer-majority-dems-not-requiring-security-codes-stop-fraudulent-donations/
Once shackecd with a women and we played house. She was a foreign national, permanent resident, been here 35 years. It was campaign season. She drove to Grass Valley and talked to the Dems. She was open about her lack of US citizenship and asked if she could make a donation. They told her they would gladly accept her money. She walked out, didn’t give the wackos a dime. Then she went by the Republican storefront somewhere in GV. They refused to take her donation, explaining it was against the law. When she came home and related the story, I replied, “See, I told you so. You owe me five bucks”, which was our bet Stubborn cuss she was. Never paid me either. Eventually she ran out of my money, lol.
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H E double hockey sticks, OMG, protect those po’ ol’ faknewsmans virgin ears! Seems like the party parrot does not know what is on TV and the internet nowadays.
Wow a President said something timely and political, could someone explain to the po’ fakenewsman that the venue was the jamboree but the message was to everyone watching on TV or live streaming on the web (you know Al Gore invented that right?). 😉
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Hey at least Paul’s hero Bill Clinton taught all the little girls in America that oral sex was not sex. And guess what happened later? Liberals crack me up.
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Folksinger like Bob Roberts Scenes?
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Snopes…. Like any self respecting LIB with access to money.
No wonder its going tits up.
“The arrangement with Proper Media follows revelations that David Mikkelson secret PayPal account to allegedly funnel advertising revenue from Snopes into his personal accounts so that he could travel around the world banging whores behind his wife’s back – according to court documents obtained by Wesearcher / Gotnews. ”
To be fair,, the wife was taking her “cut”
“In the same divorce papers, David Mikkelson fired back, claiming his ex-wife Barbara took millions from their joint account and bought property in Las Vegas.”
She must have some Conservative leanings. She bought investment property.
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re: PaulE@12:56
Come gather ’round patriots
Wherever you stand
And admit that the swamp
Around you was planned
And accept it that soon
It will have to be drained
If your future to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start shovelin’
It won’t be such a strain
For the times they are a-changin’
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re: Walt@12:58PM
Snopes really is an interesting case. A nice bit of agitprop hidden away as a ‘nonbiased’ arbiter, it’s not too different from the SPLC, although less successful as a money-making endeavor.
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Walt is doing his look over there dance as Republican party hides in shame.
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“O”‘s minions still at work.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/environment/article163526403.html
“The case revolves around a controversial provision of the Clean Water Act known as “Waters of the United States,” or WOTUS. The rule is supposed to protect “navigable” rivers and streams, but the government has been expanding the rule to cover wetlands that feed into rivers. Former President Barack Obama expanded the rule in 2015 to cover more territory, although the Trump administration began a formal process last month to roll back Obama’s decision.”
It should be null and void, since the POS law has been repealed.
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For your reading pleasure
trump on the threshold of all time low for him in the polls-16.3. He’s already surpassed historic lows for the last 70 years
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html
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A “jon” wannabe show up. (probably never to be heard from again.)
“scenery”?? How come I don’t buy that? Post your mug shot pic. as proof.
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At least Obummercare has now started the “dead law walk’n” process.
Trump sure put those that stumped on “repeal” on notice. ” If you vote no, your constituents will see, your OK with “O” care.”
And one who is up for re election took heed. I call that a win for Trump.
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PE 140pm
“He’s already surpassed historic lows for the last 70 years”
Paul, name an election where the losers started campaigning to overturn the election the next day?
That’s arguably the historic low we’re experiencing.
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re: Gregory:2:10PM
1860, naturally.
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When Nixon lost to JFK. “They stole it fair and square”-Nixon.
Today, Nixon is owed an apology. Nixon had nothing on “O” and Co..
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Scenes, that question was for Paul, you’ve ruined it!
Besides, it’s been the better part of a year and California still ain’t seceded.
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I think Pail Emery has lost what was left of his noggin. If a dead horse was beaten as much he’d have hash.
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re: Gregory@2:32
Oops. Sorry.
It would have gone unanswered then. It isn’t like they put the American Civil War on CNN, Drudge Report, or the Daily Kos.
Gotta love the newswarriors.
https://i.redd.it/yo9snkmkurbz.jpg
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Julian Assange sez:
https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/889903881404256256
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Maybe Paul will chime in to enlighten us about the essential difference between President Donald Trump revealing classified material and Secretary Hillary Clinton revealing classified material?
Emery?
Emery?
Emery?
Emery?
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http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/basics/symptoms/con-20025568
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Hay Cross. “O” and Hillary fit that diagnosis. Yet now you gripe?
Trump is giving back freedoms and reducing regs. You can’t say that about ANY Lefty.
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Robert Cross 326pm
“Most amateur diagnosticians have mislabeled President Trump with the diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder. I wrote the criteria that define this disorder, and Mr. Trump doesn’t meet them. He may be a world-class narcissist, but this doesn’t make him mentally ill, because he does not suffer from the distress and impairment required to diagnose mental disorder.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/opinion/an-eminent-psychiatrist-demurs-on-trumps-mental-state.html
Better luck with your amateur shrinking in the future. Heal thyself.
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