[The lamestream is now reduced to reporting on every Russian who ever had anything to do with US, or who traveled to America and in some way dealt with Trump or let his shadow fall on a Trump property. What does that say to the work product of special prosecutor Mueller after all these months? And we are still being informed that Russia has meddled in our elections, and will likely do so again – as if we just fell off the pumpkin wagon, or was it they who were so unfortunate? gjr]
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250 responses to “Sandbox – 2mar18”
Oh Don, Kobe was raised in France or some place like that so it makes sense. Americans are so uptight about sex.
Noticed they weren’t black gowns on the Red Carpet, so it’s time to declare victory and move on. The casting couch will remain as the career enhancer it has always been. Actors are the most neurotic people on earth and live with their heads in the clouds, but not far from applause. And the couch is the way to the applause. You really do love me! They need to be loved….or maybe Kobe and Ryan Seacrest are the first signs of Male pushback. Black gowns went the way of pussy hats. Milo was right again!
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Time to cross Pomona off your list……..
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10586
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Thanks to BillT for the article on Jacksonian thinking.
re: fish and CampusReform. Too funny. That site is really a perfect spot for viewing the insanity of the modern Left, although it doesn’t give me a lot of enthusiasm for the future. Probably our only hope is to push AI research as hard as possible since I would probably welcome our robot lords and masters more than the product of most modern universities.
One that I liked:
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10583
It’s likely that you won’t get any arguments from our hippy posters on these school crazies, there’s mostly radio silence on that matter. In any case, xe didn’t vote for Obama the second time.
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Gary Oldman won the Best Actor Oscar last night. I did not watch them. He was fantastic as Churchill in “The Darkest Hour”. Of course he saved western civilization almost single handily with his people. But what fascinates me about what he did is , no one gets taught any of that these days. A true hero and man for the ages, Churchill who mother was an American, should be revered as we revere Washington.
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Dear Leader Trumpski sure fawns over Putin who never loses an election,,,I wonder why??? and wannabe president for life Chinaman Xi Jinping,,, is that Jacksonian Thinking Mr. Bill,,,or Little Kim thinking???
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Todd 7:41
“Churchill who (sic) mother was a revered American, should be revered as we revere Washington”
No Todd, that was Paul Revere
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Ms. “jon” doesn’t know her history.
Epic fail.
“Jennie Spencer-Churchill CI RRC DStJ, known as Lady Randolph Churchill, was an American-born British socialite, the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and the mother of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill”
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One for our history buffs.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/the-oklahoma-city-attacked.html
Some things we just never hear about. Yup,, some would have preferred it stayed that way.
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Repubs rebellion
“Congressional Republicans are frantically lobbying President Donald Trump to reconsider his move to slap tariffs on steel and aluminum — even considering legislative action to try to stop him if he refuses.
“We are extremely worried about the consequences of a trade war and are urging the White House to not advance with this plan,” said Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong. “The new tax reform law has boosted the economy and we certainly don’t want to jeopardize those gains.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/05/trump-tariffs-republican-response-436382
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Another JonSmith load of crap. He must be drunk already today.
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These are the numbers the Republicans are flipping out about- Dems up by 9.3 in generic Congregational midterm poll. Midterms are historically unkind to the prevailing Party.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/2018_generic_congressional_vote-6185.html
Direct comparison to other midterm polls show the dramatic decline in support for the Republicans
Midterm 2014 Republicans up by 5.7
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/generic_congressional_vote-2170.html
Midterm 2010 Republicans up by 6.8
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/2010_generic_congressional_vote-2171.html
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Oh Mary Wannabe @ this am: that is Little Metrosexual Fat Kim’s thinking.
Trump is just in line with some other Republican Presidents….Ike, and then Nixon with Detente. Reagan with his toning down his evil empire rhetoric after Gorbachev implemented bold new policies and openness called glasnost and perestroika. Peace through strength, America First. Gorbie even asked Reagen to come Moscow U to give a speech on economics. Secretary of State George Shultz, a former Standford economics professor, secretly was teaching/informing Gorbbie on economics and economic systems the USSR could implement. In Reagen’s case, it wasn’t just about human rights in forgein countries,. It was about communism, a system seen as an existential security threat to America, a nation founded on personal liberty, individualism, and uniquity.
I, for one, was hoping for a real reset in dealing with Russia. What SJW’s call intersectionality I call confluence, where mutual interests and benefits meet. Fighting ISIS the most obvious example. Never being blind to Russia’s bad behavior, but isolating Russia lets China run roughshod over neighbors as it expands its terrority and claims spheres of influence, including building roads and trade routes straight across the southern former USSR’s terrority above China’s border.
Also, I am opposed to the expansion of NATO. One little country going through the process of becoming NATO’s newest member boasts of a standing army of 6,000. Want to be engaged in a war with Russia over some tiny speck on the map I cannot even remember the name of because NATO is expanding eastward right up to Russia’s borders? Expansion of NATO eastward is an extensional threat to Russia.
My hopes for peace through strength and mutual points of benefits instead of being entangled in unneccesry foreign conflicts in shithole countries while trying to push our democracy down their throats has been challenged with the Russian Collusion hysteria. Diminished, but not squelched. I don’t see Trump invading Libya or Venezuela. The State Department under Obama (Hillary) was diverting funds for Embassy security around the globe to built electric car recharging stations in Paris and push for LGBTQ rights as a top diplomatic priority. America First should be our top 5 priorities.
Little Rocket manchild and Iran having nukes is an existential threat to the USA and must be stopped. Oh yeah, add the Supreme Leaders in Iran and North Korea to the list of dictators for life.
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PaulE 1044am – It is clear, if past years’ evidence holds, that you will be carping for months anticipating the disaster about to befall the Republicans this November, as you quote poll after never-ending poll that amplifies your joy. A more meaningful and interesting tack you might take is actually to make a little book on the upcoming election – specifically, give us some odds on specific numbers of House seats turning toward Democrats. For example, give odds (or use a MAB) on the difference (Dems – Repubs) when the new House is sworn in January 2019. Then we can see the actual strength of your beliefs, and perhaps make appropriate wagers to elevate this matter above the otherwise layer of hot-air in which you will engulf us.
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Let Paul get his hopes up. The higher he gets the further he gets to fall.
Maybe Paul can explain why people will vote for a LIB who will do it’s damnedest to put the pack mule sacks back on said voter?
” I will work to restrict your rights, work to raise your taxes, raise your cost of living, work to put you out of work.”
Do tell us Paul, why people will vote for that.
Who is the poor guy that’s going to pay everyone’s 20 dollar an hour paycheck?
Burger flippers are getting replaced by robots that don’t bitch.
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Are you kidding me?!?!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/03/05/facebook-asked-users-if-pedophiles-should-able-ask-kids-sexual-pictures/395535002/
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Walt 1138am – Maybe you answered your own question Mr Branson. The Dems are betting the farm on votes from burger flippers who are getting replaced by robots that don’t bitch. To the flippers and their like, the Dems are promising a redistributionist nirvana.
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Well, here’s some LIB election dirty pool coming to light. (not one damned bit surprised)
http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/05/watchdog-files-complaint-against-pro-doug-jones-super-pac-for-concealing-donor-identities/
The “by any means” rides again.
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Well, a couple of months ago the genetic D vs R congressional poll had the D’s up 15, or the R’s down 15, depending on how you look at the same oak tree. Now it’s up/down only 9? That is a nice movement.
Of course, Congressional races really do get down to the local candidates, local issues, local interests more than Presidential contests Much depends on how good or bad of a Congressional district candidate each party runs. Roy Moore was a bad candidate in a heavly Red State and Scott Brown won a 59% victory in blue MA, to use Senate races as an example. Yes, those were outliers. Congressional races have been decided on a candidates’s position on an proposed increase on DMV fees, which has nothing to do with Congress. Go figure.
Will gun control be a top issue in November? Illegal immigration has staying power. The economy? A new rogue foreign country saber rattling? Will it just be a referendum on Trump or Nancy? Or…..something that has not appeared over the horizon as of this writing?
So far, the movement of 6 points since the tax cuts has been slightly encouraging. Slow and steady. From the first week of March to the first Tuesdayin November is several lifetimes in political circles.. Once a candidate gets Big Mo behind him/her, there is nothing to stop him/her from victory no matter how far down they are today. Big Mo is momentum. It creates is own energy.
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There will be a seat up in Pennsylvania in a week I think. Let’s see what happens.
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George
My post illuminated two undeniable facts. First, the midterms historicaolly have not been kind to the prevailing party-look at the past three midterms for proof on that contention. the second is that in in comparing polls with the last two midterms the Republicans have lost considerable ground as evidenced by thei8r 9 point deficit at the current time.
How this will play in the fall elections will reveal itself in fundraising and allegiance to Trump whom many candidates may see as a liability. The Russia probe will go on even if Trump attempts to fire Mueller because much of the investigation is now in the hands of a Grand Jury that will not be effected by a Mueller firing.
We’ll know soon but things do not look good for the Republicans in the House. The Senate is a tougher task though due to their being more vulnerable Democrats up for re-election than Republicans.
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Screw History Paul, it’s not relevant. Trump is proof of that.
“Poll” said Trump would NEVER win.(let alone make it to the starting line)
“History” proves gun control is an epic fail.( ask the Jews and Mexico.. Well Hitler would think otherwise) Yet that has yet to stop the hopefuls.
Now Paul.. Just what will Proggys running for office stump on?
” I hate Trump” ain’t going to get them vary far.
What will the freebie be? An illegal in every home as free help?
Free healthcare?( They already tried that)
If you claim LIBS are going to win, you better have more than “history” to sell.
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One last shot at the Oscars.
https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913.80726.51560645913/10155466843520914/?type=3&theater
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Walt
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”
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You might try another analogy Paul.
When our storms come from the North, the wind “we” feel,, comes from the South.
So Yes,, some of “you” do need to be a “weatherman” to know.
Where was your “weatherman” when Trump won?
But dodge my pointed questions.. No weatherman needed to know what not coming. “history” proved that already.
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Paul..I guess I was that “weatherman” when Trump won.
Funny,,, you didn’t listen then,, so why would you now?
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We all saw this coming-
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/05/nra-memberships-surge-wake-of-anti-nra-protests-media-bias/
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TV Ratings: Oscars Drop to All-Time Low 26.5 Million Viewers
The telecast stumbles an unfortunate 19 percent from 2017.
If socialist Hollywood keeps it up there will by no viewers at all in not too many years. 😉
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WOW!!! Who needs a gun when you “have a bad day”?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/05/police-chicago-woman-pushed-stranger-onto-train-tracks-because-she-was-having-a-bad-day/
Just wanted to kill someone. Welcome to Chicago.
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There must be more train control! @ 433 😉
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Of course the Oscars had their ratings drop. Who wants to watch a bunch of perverts, pedophile supporters, sexual harassers, or airheads who spread their legs to get ahead in life?
When you think about it, the Metoo# movement designed to take down Weinstein’s and expose bad behavior in the entertainment industry actually painted an accurate picture of the entire entertainment industry. Sure, it took down Senator Stuart Smiley, a few broadcast heavies, and a handful of others in the book publishing and art world along with a couple of clothing designers worn by models on the runway. But, all in all, the Metoo# movement was so concentrated on Hollywood, who wants to watch those folks?
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The Australian diplomat who started the FBI-Russian probe
http://thehill.com/376858-australian-diplomat-whose-tip-prompted-fbis-russia-probe-has-tie-to-clintons
If the Russians interfered in our elections, why isn’t Meuller asking to see Hillary’s e-mails? There are Russian fingerprints all over the DNC, the Hillary Campaign, and Hillary herself. Why isn’t Meuller investigating who had contacts with the Clinton Campaign, who had contacts with low level Clinton advisors and did they have brief contacts with Russian businessmen years ago? Why haven’t Robbie Mook’s phone and bank records been subpenaed? Didn’t the Russians interfere with both campaigns, four if you add Bernie and Jill. Why are no Democrats under scrutiny for any contacts staff had with any Russians, no matter how brief or long ago? Why, why, why? :).
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“I think that, you know, we’re the entertainment industry. At some point, there has to be a separation between politics and the entertainment industry or we’re going to suffer.” —actress Jennifer Lawrence, who promptly added, “I think the problems is guns, not the entertainment industry”
“The reason people are frustrated when celebrities talk about gun control, open borders, higher taxes, etc., isn’t because their job excludes them from having an opinion. It’s because their opinions are so hypocritical.” —Allie Stuckey
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PaulE 142pm – Paul, we know what your 1044am illustrated. My 1100am just asked whether your belief could be backed up by something more substantial. I take it that the answer is no.
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re: BillT@5:25PM
Quote from your Hillsdale article, and answers the Australian’s question:
“That said, Trump’s nascent presidency has coincided with perhaps the greatest violation of political norms this country has ever seen—a violation that has nothing to do with Trump’s behavior. Since the election last November, there has been a sustained, coordinated attack on Trump’s legitimacy as president following his victory in a free and fair election. This has the potential to cause far more lasting damage to America than Trump’s controversial style.”
Bam. Exactly. That pretty much sums up the main point of the Green Libertarian prattle.
What I find the most interesting is that they can’t see this happening. It’s an astounding blind spot.
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J. Jordan’s name is dirt in Fla. now-
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/05/broward-sheriffs-captain-who-gave-initial-order-to-stage-not-enter-stoneman-douglas-is-idd.html
😉
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My, my, my. Tomorrow the 2018 mid-term races begin! This should be fun watching them eat their own. I smell much entertainment to go with the popcorn.
The infighting pours salt on a wound still open from the 2016 election when supporters of Bernie Sanders accused the DNC of favoring Hillary Clinton, and now progressives are pushing back against the DCCC as they once again see the party tipping the scales in favor of moderate candidates over far-left activists.
http://www.oann.com/dccc-posts-opposition-research-on-democrat-candidate-in-texas-race/
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Not necessarily no George. I await details.
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George
The poll numbers are not hot air especially when you compare them with similar polls over the last few years and the election results. Is it not even a concern of your that they indicate a rough going for the Repubs this fall?
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As much as your pearl clutching predications circa 2016! @ 748. 😉
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Australian diplomat whose tip prompted FBI’s Russia-probe has ties to Clintons
http://thehill.com/376858-australian-diplomat-whose-tip-prompted-fbis-russia-probe-has-tie-to-clintons
Now, why am I not surprised?
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Collusion begins with a C like cash, crooked, crass, criminal, coughing and Clinton! 😉
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Well Don speaking of pearl clutching did you actually believe Measure W would win? If you didn’t, how do you justify the $75000 it cost NC taxpayers. So yes or no did you believe it would win?
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Also you and Todd were believers that Romney would win in ‘2012.
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Do I hear foot stomping @ 817?
If you’ve ever wished someone a “Merry Christmas” or said “God bless you” when someone sneezes, you’ve committed an act of “Islamomisic microaggressions,” according to college librarians at a Massachusetts college.
The Anti-Oppression Library Guide at Simmons College in Boston is a collaborative effort among the school’s librarians, reported CampusReform.org.
“Islamomisic Microaggressions are commonplace verbal or behavioral indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicates hostile, derogatory, or negative slights in relation to the beliefs and religious practices of Muslims,” the librarians argue. “They are structurally based and invoke oppressive systems of religious/Christian hierarchy.”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/05/college-librarians-argue-christians-who-say-god-bless-are-islamophobic.html
😉
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Don
Did you honestly believe Measure W would win?
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Do I hear a po’ ol’ putin party parrot squawking in the distance?
Well that explains why snowflakes don’t seem to have blood flow to their brains!
Youn suffers from “tech neck,” or forward head syndrome, a painful, increasingly common condition caused by slumping over devices for hours a day that leads the neck to lose its natural curve — and triggers a physiological imbalance in the upper body. Previously seen in middle-aged-or-older desk jockeys and dentists who hunch over patients, it’s now materializing in younger generations who grew up with smart phones, tablets and other personal devices.
“Now, 20-year-olds have the spine health of a 30- or 40-year-old. It’s an epidemic,” says Kang.
https://nypost.com/2018/03/05/tech-is-turning-millennials-into-a-generation-of-hunchbacks/
😉
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Don
what a wimp. You can’t even admit to supporting something you were chief spokesperson for. No wonder it lost. You didn’t even support it. Waste of money that could have been used for something useful.
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Russ @ 8:01 pm
I never swallowed the line about some unheard of brief Trump campaign volunteer who just happens to walk into a watering hole in London and lo and behold, George Papadopoulos just happens to sit down and shares a few drinks with a diplomat from the Australian Foreign Service, now the Ambassador to England, who of which is also not coincidently a long time Friend of Bill and Hillary.
Yep, Drunk George even had his girlfriend believing that he was a big time mover and shaker Adviser to Trump and the Trump Campaign.. So, the small fry Big Time Charlie legend in his own mind Georgie Porgey tells the guy he is drinking with that an old professor he knew told him that he (the professor) heard Russia has Hillary’s missing 30,000 e-mails, ROFLMAO. That was all it took to open the full blown all out assault on Trump.
The whole story is way too tidy, way too much of a coincidence. Two ships passing in the night, right? A chance meeting of two lonely strangers in a foreign country seeking some social company and social lubricants down at the pub, eh mate? I don’t buy it.
There is more where theses two came from.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/rpp.235086849974878/1010361495780739/?type=3&theater
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Now I am sure I hear the raspy squawk of a po’ ol’ one trick putin party parrot!
Why do lefties like to help the Iranians so much, didn’t the left used to be against anti-Semitism? Now they are anti-Semitic.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/argentine-ex-president-kirchner-tried-iranian-cover-case-204337614.html
😉
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10:12 pm
Oh Don. Don’t you know that is darn near impossible to say “I am a Progressive and I stand behind Israel” in the same sentence or universe. Never happened, never will.
@ 9:27 pm, spines
Figured there was not enough oxygen getting to the brain, judging solely by the written record. Or it could be arrested development, the frontal lobe never developed and all. Hunchbacks? Yep, explains a lot. Have you seen their women? Makes perfect sense.
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