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218 responses to “Sandbox – 13aug17”
He is the featured editorial opinion of Fox News Todd but I guess that’s no biggie.
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Not art work!! Say it isn’t so.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/50765
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Fair and balance Paul Emery. Sometimes I agree with Charles and other times nope. He is wrong on Trump this week.
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Things are falling apart around Trumpworld
….we’ll get back to us when he’s not president any longer.
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“…..well!”
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For your reading pleasure:
Wow Trump drops 10 points in Republican leaning Rasmussen poll in a week. Last week he was down by 8, today he’s down by 18. A drop of 10. This is before his disgusting rant yesterday about Charletsville.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 16 August 2017 at 09:07 AM
…..still president Punch!
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Yes, for now. Look for Republican defections as we get closer to the mid-terms if his poll numbers continue to crash. It’s the way things work Fish.
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No Paul Emery, you are infantile about politics. It will be all about the economy. If it is good, then we will pick up seats. Bad, then we will lose some.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 16 August 2017 at 10:04 AM
…..still president Punch!
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Chaos in the White House. Gen MsMasters or Bannon must go.
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Report: Trump ‘Nervous And Afraid’ Of Firing Alt-Right Hero Bannon
Bannon has the backing of Trump’s most loyal and vocal voters.
The dispute between Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster and political strategist Stephen Bannon has reached a level of animosity that is destabilizing Trump’s team of top advisers just as the administration tries to regain lost momentum, three senior officials said…..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-afraid-firing-alt-right-bannon-mcmaster-kushner_us_59943c11e4b0e789a948550c?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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No Paul Emery, anonymous sources? Please.
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Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 16 August 2017 at 10:16 AM
As someone here who routinely gives you the benefit of the doubt when it comes to some of your more “creative” offerings……what the hell does that even mean?
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I am mocking the use of anonymous sources.
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Business wizard and negotiator blowing it bigtime,
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-ending-two-ceo-advisory-panels-tweet-172633694–finance.html
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Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 16 August 2017 at 10:26 AM
Oddly enough, viewed in that light I kinda get it.
Carry on!
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Fish, you crack me up./
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Bun Bun | 16 August 2017 at 10:37 AM
Who cares except Trump haters like you?
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An interesting angle to police inaction that I hadn’t thought of…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eaQ8-NJa5c&t=4m11s
Up to about 5:30, so it’s only a minute and a half.
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Go back and stick you head in the sand with the rest of the deniers Todd.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/603292f8-040d-30f6-b6cc-5e2705e5cdb9/ss_fox%E2%80%99s-abby-huntsman.html
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BAM! DOW 22,024. 😉
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Posted by: Bun Bun | 16 August 2017 at 01:12 PM
Go back and stick you head in the sand with the rest of the deniers Todd.
YEAH TODD! How dare you challenge Bungs faith?! The Carbon God will smite you!
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Mea culpa fish. You can’t debate a religious fanatic like bummy
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Hey Punch…..this is why I don’t care about the mid terms!
Of course this just means the country fails sooner! You might even be around to see it!
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/16/key-obamacare-subsidies-will-continue-despite-threats-by-trump.html
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Hmmm……Astroturfing…..by the left? That’s unpossible!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-16/why-was-crowd-hire-company-recruiting-25-hour-political-activists-charlotte-last-wee
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The times they are a’changing….
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1149490705184965/?type=3&theater
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re fish 157pm – Come on people, patience please patience! Any year now we’ll have one of our progressive stalwarts explain the whole phenomenon of spontaneous leftwing demonstrations and counter-demonstrations. Anybody yet seen the video from the National Guard?
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re: Another part of that same clip.
This seems like a fair assessment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eaQ8-NJa5c&t=7m20s
up to about 9:20
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More chaos in the Trumphouse
“The White House’s two advisory councils of top business executives disbanded on Wednesday amid intense public blowback against President Donald Trump’s response to the deadly attack by an accused white supremacist in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The move came two days after executives began resigning from the dwindling American Manufacturing Council and hours after the billionaire financier who headed the separate Strategic and Policy Forum hosted a call with other members of that panel.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-business-council-charlottesville_us_59947976e4b0acc593e4757f?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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I was unaware you supported those corporate executives who make 200 times the salary of their workers. You are despicable.
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Never get tired of winning.
“Merkel, in particular, took umbrage at being lectured. But Trump’s harsh message apparently got through to her. Now running for a fourth term as German chancellor, Merkel has said she’ll follow through on her pledge. Separately, Germany’s spending on its own military is up eight percent over last year. That’s another significant win for Trump, since Germany is the most powerful and richest European member of the alliance.”
First Lit-o-Kim, now Merkel and other NATO countries are falling in line. Imagine holding folks accountable to their promises. If you are going to play, you are going to pay. Put up or shut-up. Funny, all these libs, socialists, Leftists, fascists, and countries hate the USA, but sure do love her benefits. Go figure.
Ok, not everybody is pleased about keeping their word. Dumb pacifists: From Germany’s Left Wingnut Social Democratic Party leader:
“Perhaps hoping to appeal to Germany’s significant pacifist population, Schulz has told cheering rallies of supporters that Germany should go back on its NATO funding promise. He went so far as to say that doing what it promised to do is “a really mad idea.”
A really mad idea? Why buy the cow when the milk is free, eh? Sorry, new Sheriff in town. Hmmm. Social Democratic sound similar to Bernie’s self declared description of himself….a Socialist Democrat or was that he calls himself a Democrat Socialist? No matter.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/08/16/much-needed-trump-victory-germany-keeps-its-promise.html
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Deniers like to assume history of everything began with Trump. Look for keyword ‘Obama’
“In the 21st century, we won’t be getting as much help as we got in the 20th,” Merkel said. “We need to greatly increase the Bundeswehr budget to get from 1.2 to 2 percent.”
To meet that target, Germany’s defense spending would have to rise to some 60 billion euros ($65.8 billion). The current planned military budget for the year 2020 is 39.2 billion euros.
Merkel cited pressure from US president Barack Obama. According to the Center for American Progress, the United States spent over $600 billion (550 billion euros) – or 3.4 percent of its government-estimated GDP of $17.947 trillion – on defense in 2015. And there has been criticism from across the political spectrum, including from both Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and onetime Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders, that America’s NATO allies allow the US to shoulder an unfair share of the mutual defense burden.
So are the other members of NATO in essence freeloading – or to quote Obama “free riding” – off of Washington’s enormous military spending?
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October 16, 2016
http://www.dw.com/en/merkel-germany-to-heavily-increase-bundeswehr-budget/a-36054268
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Bun has been chewing on Chernobyl grown produce.
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Bye Bye Bobby Lee and Stoney Jackson
http://www.dw.com/en/merkel-germany-to-heavily-increase-bundeswehr-budget/a-36054268
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Called that one,,,
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/08/16/gettysburg-confederate-monuments-not-moving-battlefield-says-pennsylvania-union
I knew that would be a target.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/workers-remove-baltimore-confederate-monuments-overnight-105623389.html
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Whoa
Republicans like Putin almost as much as they like Trump.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin is enjoying rising popularity among Republicans according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center.
The poll found that the share of Republicans expressing confidence in Putin doubled to 34 percent from 17 percent in 2015, when Donald Trump launched a campaign for the White House that was seen as friendly toward Moscow.”
Support for Trump is currently around 37%
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/16/poll-republicans-putin-russia-confidence-241701
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Merkel better increase the defense budget considering all the jihadists she welcomed into Germany and as a direct result, thousands of German Fräuleins and assorted boys are now being raped as a group sport. Mohammad, the Pedophile Prophet, gave his blessings. Rape is the Muslim word synomous with conquest.
Fun fact:
More Slaves were taken from the European Continent to North Africa than slaves sent from North Africa to the New World. Ottoman Empire and others of the religion of peace are really into that sort of thang. The Pedophile Prophet was most gracious and merciful when he gave the green light.
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Bung Bung hitting the sauce early today….
“>http://www.dw.com/en/merkel-germany-to-heavily-increase-bundeswehr-budget/a-36054268
I had no idea that tearing down confederate memorials was a line item in the German budget? Consider me educated.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 16 August 2017 at 04:40 PM
Support for Trump is currently around 37%
psssst……Punch…….still president!
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Darn. The fakenews lazy flakes are not going to like this.
Legacy media reporters, Democrats, left-wing activists, Never Trumpers, and establishment Republicans have–revealing their laziness, ignorance, or malice–taken former Breitbart News executive Steve Bannon’s “platform for the alt-right” comment during the 2016 election out of context and wielded it as a club to bash Breitbart News and its readers of all backgrounds. Nearly all those who have done so perhaps not-so-coincidentally have opposed Breitbart News’ America-first positions on issues like immigration and trade.
In his New York Times magazine essay, Hylton emphasizes that critics who reflexively criticize and malign Breitbart News have not even taken the time to figure out the context of Bannon’s remark.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/16/harvard-mit-study-breitbart-is-not-alt-right/
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Bannon calls your orange haired boy a fool. Bannon is my hero!
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Only six votes to go,
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-just-six-senate-votes-130457745.html
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This is stating to break. By By Bannon very soon. Porn and meth what a good judge of character, our president is.
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Steve Bannon’s porn and meth house: “You have no idea what kind of evil stuff went on”
By Jason Brad Berry | August 17, 2017
In an exclusive and extensive interview for Shareblue Media, investigative journalist Jason Berry spoke to Lawrence Curtis, who lived in the Florida “party house” — a house with an infamous reputation for drugs and porn — previously occupied by Trump strategist Steve Bannon.
Here’s a teaser from the full article:
“law enforcement found “evidence that tends to indicate that [Bannon] did not intend to or actually did reside” in that county, but there was not sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Bannon had knowingly committed voter registration fraud…
“Each person gave accounts that the house was used to film pornography, had a constant flow of men, women — and even children — at the house and that blatant drug use was occurring at all hours of the night and day,” Curtis said.
At least five people told him tales of drug use and porn at the house.
Felix, a handyman who frequently worked on the property, told Curtis he had personally “witnessed women and men being filmed in the act.” He described the buckets of chemicals and bags of trash and rags he had to remove. He spent hours scrubbing the master bathtub, “which appeared melted by some form of acid.” Felix suspected the bathtub had been used for “making drugs.”
Curtis heard similar stories from the pest control service man.
“In fact,” Curtis said, “he did so in an almost gleeful and boastful manner.”
The pest control worker described witnessing drug use each time he came to the house, “even at early day hours.” He told Curtis it would blow his mind to know what “what went on in the house.”
An unnamed male tenant, he said, who was “a heavy set man,” offered him “girls for sex and/or drugs in lieu of payment,” but he never accepted because he could lose his job…”
You can read the whole story here:
http://shareblue.com/steve-bannons-porn-and-meth-house-you-have-no-idea-what-kind-of-evil-stuff-went-on/
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For your reading pleasure. Trump now down 19% in Republican leaning Rasmussen Poll. How low will he go?
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history
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Yo, po’ ol’ fakenewsman @ 342, by the way shouldn’t that be bye bye?? 😉
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You’re right Don It’s Bye Bye Bannon. Glad you agree.
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More Republican worries about Trumps stability. It’s all falling apart for the poor Trumper right when he needs all the help he can get to wrestle some actual legislation through congress.
Corker: Trump hasn’t shown stability or competence
““I do think there need to be some radical changes,” the Senate Foreign Relations chairman said. “The president has not yet, has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. And we need for him to be successful. Our nation needs to be successful.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/17/trump-bob-corker-charlottesville-response-241751?lo=ap_a1
“He has not demonstrated that he understands what has made this nation great and what it is today,” Corker continued. “He’s got to demonstrate the characteristics of a president who understands that. And without the things that I just mentioned happening, our nation is going to go through great peril.”
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