[Wow! Didn't mean to let the last sandbox overfill with over 300 comments. But lots of important stuff to discuss and provide links for, among the unfinished ones being the asymmetrical Cambridge Analytica turmoil and the latest findings surfacing about Mueller's doings at the FBI. gjr]
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243 responses to “Sandbox – 20mar18”
Todd
Is she a member of the Communist party?
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In the “we used to use cement overshoes and their ain’t no such thing as the ‘blue wall’” dept. It seems that recently fired (two days before his retirement) FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was overseeing a criminal investigation into none other than his boss Jeff Sessions concerning Sessions “lack of candor” during his confirmation hearings with regard to contact with those damn Ruskies, again. They just keep popping up all over the place.
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For those of you that think Trump can fire Mueller and end the investigation here’s some sad news.
Trump Can Fire Mueller, But Not a Grand Jury
The president can’t shut down the Russia investigation, even if he gets rid of the special counsel.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/14/trump-can-fire-mueller-but-not-a-grand-jury-216975
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Still lapping at that puddle of rancid Russian dressing ya po’ ol’ party parrot? 😉
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 21 March 2018 at 04:58 PM
What does that matter Punch….where’s your Green Libertarian card?
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Fish
Us Green Libertarians don’t need no stinking card
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re RobertC 500pm – In the ‘fake news’ department, there is no evidence of a criminal investigation of Sessions, nor of McCabe overseeing such an investigation. If Mr Cross traces back his sources, I’m sure he’ll find that cornucopia of crap and maybe alert the rest of us as to its identity.
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OH YA, ABC exclusives well at least this latest fakenews did not spook the markets like the last ‘bombshell’ from ABC.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-fired-fbi-official-authorized-criminal-probe-sessions/story?id=53914006
From Jan-
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/367726-trump-abc-news-reporter-should-have-been-fired
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Putting all politics and TDS aside, do any of you see a bigger picture in this Facebook news? Just over the horizon, AI coming, jobs lost forever, guaranteed living wage or guaranteed income, people sitting around getting fatter than today (as opposed to reading philosophy as the Pollyannas believe) and a psychological warfare going on across their scenes. Mind control, and not just politics.
Some of us grew up with the story of the Navy battle testing some virus or bad ju ju upon the then good folks of San Franscico one foggy morn. I never checked it out, just assumed it was true.
They need to test psychological warfare on the battlefield (to make the bad guys unable to or lose the willingness to fight. A FB type site would be the perfect place to do mind control and testing….for domestic and military consumption.
And there is your conspiracy theory of the day.
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Boy, Punchy is sweating bullets with his lad whistling in the dark walking past the graveyard stiff upper lip. Punchy just keeps bringing it up over and over again. Trump can fire Meuller anytime he bloodily well feels like it. It’s what dictators for life do best.
I recommend Trump waits for the IG Report in the next 2-5 weeks before canning Meuller’s carcass, but what do I know? Boy, the libs would soil their drawers big time. Thar she blows!, lol
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Better luck next time.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/21/federal-judge-conspiracy-exxon-chevron/
The lawyers thank you.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5495177/CBS-says-work-needed-Daniels-interview.html
I quite well remember CBS and the other national channels going wall to wall with interviews and news with Clinton’s busty sex mates!
Have fun lefties. You pointed out it was his private sex life and none of our business – even when he was raping women.
Of course, he felt their pain.
None of this is new or news, but it’s all the left has to run with since the Russia gate deal went tits up.
China and Russia are laughing their asses off.
The left in this country are like cats. Just dangle a bit of string in their face and they will ignore a slobbering pit bull coming up behind them.
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Yep, if they can’t get Trump on crime, they go after him on dirty. No biggie. Just fine tuning their Roy Moore playbook.
Oh my, now those deplorables are attacking the libbies’ Sacred Cow.
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/dear-david-hogg/
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GeorgeB, by Islamic law, Obama was born Muslim. His step dad in Indonesia was also a Muslim. I doubt seriously that he has any religion at present, but he most certainly was a muslim. L
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But, but Walt @ 715, think of the polar bears that survived Al Gores projections! Sniff, sniff. 😉
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Buzz kill for the dirty ol’ fakenewsman’s stormy fantasy life-
Adult film star Stormy Daniels went on a 24-hour long tweetstorm about her purported affair with President Trump in 2006. “Technically I didn’t sleep with the POTUS 12 years ago. There was no sleeping (hehe) and he was just a goofy reality TV star. But I digress,”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/stormy-daniels-goes-tweetstorm-alleged-210334169.html
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Yaaa Yaaa!!! Us next!! US next!!!!
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/03/21/california-cities-seek-defy-sanctuary-state-revolt-spreads/
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How dare you use our data against us!!!
http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/21/chevron-agrees-global-warming/
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Hey here is something the po’ ol’ fakenewsman can focus on now that stormy ruined his fantasy fantastic.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/03/21/employee-fired-after-news-broadcast-gets-interrupted-by-vulgar-audio-clip.html
😉
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I am shocked, shocked, that social media collects data on users. If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product.
“Facebook claims that its policies are clear and that the company takes its users’ privacy very seriously. Or at least it takes privacy seriously depending on who is using the data.
In 2012, Barack Obama’s campaign used Facebook to gather data on voters. Over one million people downloaded an Obama 2012 Facebook app that gave the campaign access to users and their friends, totaling upwards of 190 million people — nearly four times the Cambridge Analytica haul. Facebook, which was billing itself at the time as a resource for political candidates looking to reach voters, had no problem with this use of its users’ data. Obama was “the man,” after all. And the Obama campaign’s use of the social media giant was considered a game-changer and lauded for its ingenuity. But the Trump campaign’s use is being called conspiratorial and exploitative.”
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54869-this-just-in-facebook-collects-data-about-users
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,,,crazy uncle joe biden and blowhard bully trumpski are trading blows again,,,bully trumpski says po’ uncle joe would be down on the ground cryin’ after he got through with him,,,what a fine example we are providing to the world!!!,,,leader of the free world,,,not any more!!!
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Posted by: obeehave | 22 March 2018 at 08:42 AM
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I am rightfully schooled by the Circle of Jerks residing on this blog about my spelling and grammar errors but not a peep about our “highly intellegant” President when he sends his middle of the night tweets.
“President Trump, who frequently boasts about his intelligence, has just as frequently stumbled in spelling errors in his tweets — even about sensitive topics, such as special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of interference in the 2016 election.
On Wednesday, for example, Trump used Twitter to relay a statement from Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz about Mueller. The president’s tweet had four errors and a typo.
“‘Special Council [sic] is told to find crimes, wether [sic] crimes exist or not. I was opposed the the [sic] selection of Mueller to be Special Council [sic], I still am opposed to it. I think President Trump was right when he said there never should have been a Special Council [sic] appointed,” Trump tweeted.
The president deleted the tweet and reposted it — correcting the misspelled “whether” and double “the,” but leaving the multiple misspellings of “Council” intact.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/covfefe-council-trumps-trouble-spelling-unpresidented-172931307.html
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Paul – Trump reminds me of John Goodman in “King Ralph”. He is such a bore.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zUW5Zq9FBhk
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Not even the Republican-controlled Congress will pay for Trump’s wall. Maybe he can get the billionaires in his cabinet to pay for it.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-congress-wall_us_5ab31622e4b008c9e5f3ffd6
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11 billion for rail tunnel under hudson river between ny and nj,,, ny and nj commit to half the cost,,,and local misers whine about a rail project in california,,,
”’Gateway project
Despite opposition from Trump, a project to build a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River could get some funding through this bill.
The Gateway project has garnered bipartisan support among many New York and New Jersey lawmakers, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and New Jersey Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, a Republican who chairs the House Appropriations Committee.
The House spending bill initially allocated $900 million for the project, according to NJ Advance Media. The spending bill removed the earmark that protected funding for the project, but a Schumer aide said it should still get significant funding.
The Gateway Project could receive as much as $540 million, the New York Post reported.
New York and New Jersey have committed to picking up half of the estimated $11 billion cost.”’
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/22/whats-in-congress-spending-bill-5-things-to-know-about-omnibus-package.html
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Paul and Arch….two menopausal hens whining about the president!
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Hey Bessee, is this a good entry point for the Trump stock market, or should I wait until it goes down another 700 points?
I can’t wait for the reaction of all of those Republican farmers in the midwest when China puts tariffs on their exports.
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I give it a 30% chance right now that Trump will veto the abdominal spending bill.
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PaulE 1011am – Does it look to anyone else that you appear to be channeling the FUE on the rag about The Union?
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Right wing Christian terrorist organization in Texas. Looks like Kelly Killmore made it through basic bullets and bibles training. But of course he isn’t a “real” terrorist because he isn’t a Muslim.
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Holy cow! Trump tariffs just cost the Dow 700. He’s making America great alright. Don Bessee, please show me the light. This is good news, right?
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Don’t read his blog George. Can you summarize?
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re jons 329pm snark. Yes, Killmore is a terrorist, but the net required to stop him is a very different one than that for a Muslim terrorist. How much effort and what kind of effort we put into operating each net depends on the numbers that characterize the threat (and some other factors).
Mr smith does demonstrate a very simplistic view of things here.
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Amazing that Trump chose hard core Neocin John Bolton to replace McMaster as National Security advisor, his third at that position in a little over a year. As you recall Trump campaigned hard agaisnt the Bush era NeoCons even calling for Bush’s inpeachment for his lying about the reasons for war against Iraq. You can’t believe a word Trump says because he believes in nothing and just wings it from day to day. Here is his call for the impeachment of Bush and his oppositions to the policy of the Neocons of which Bolton was a chief spokesman.
“I was surprised that she didn’t do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush. It was almost — it just seemed like she was going to really look to impeach Bush and get him out of office, which, personally, I think would have been a wonderful thing.”
Blitzer: “Impeaching him?”
Trump: “Absolutely, for the war, for the war.”
Blitzer: “Because of the conduct of the war.”
Trump: “Well, he lied. He got us into the war with lies. And, I mean, look at the trouble Bill Clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant. And they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense. And, yet, Bush got us into this horrible war with lies, by lying, by saying they had weapons of mass destruction, by saying all sorts of things that turned out not to be true.”
“I was surprised that she didn’t do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush. It was almost — it just seemed like she was going to really look to impeach Bush and get him out of office, which, personally, I think would have been a wonderful thing.”
Blitzer: “Impeaching him?”
Trump: “Absolutely, for the war, for the war.”
Blitzer: “Because of the conduct of the war.”
Trump: “Well, he lied. He got us into the war with lies. And, I mean, look at the trouble Bill Clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant. And they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense. And, yet, Bush got us into this horrible war with lies, by lying, by saying they had weapons of mass destruction, by saying all sorts of things that turned out not to be true.”
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/feb/16/our-principles-pac/anti-trump-ad-says-he-backed-impeaching-bush/
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Paul – Another one bites the dust
https://www.vevo.com/watch/queen/another-one-bites-the-dust/GB2100700001
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All hail Melania Trump’s cyber-bullying campaign. Did hubby get the memo?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/03/22/melania-trump-cyberbullying-campaign-cold-comfort-donald-targets-column/445448002/
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Archie 4:35 – How dare you. We are outraged that you would post such fake news. Lies, lies, and more lies. Trump a blowhard and a bully? What about, about, uh . . . Obama? Or Clinton? Or any other Democrat since LBJ.
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Sorry jon, what was I thinking?
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Yeah Archie. I suppose grabbing women by the pussy assuming they succumb to sex because you are rich and famous is not bullying in Melania’s eyes?
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Bolton thought going into Iraq was a splendid idea. If Trump is “crazy like a fox” as so many Repubs keep claiming every time he goes off the rails, his pick of Bolton is crazy like a fox with dementia.
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GR 3:54- Ted Kaczynski was labeled by Homeland Security as a domestic terrorist. Yet the right wing Christian, Kelly Killmore is simply a “troubled young man.”
Yes, I apparently have a simplistic view of things because this makes total sense to y’all, but to us with perhaps a less rigid outlook on all things life in America it is hypocritical to the max. Please, do tell, why this cowardly Christian who targeted niggers (his words) with bombs is not a terrorist.
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Wow just got back and I see the trolls of the liberal persuasion are on fire. Paul Emery calls the posters here a “circle of jerks”. How nice. And in my opinion Paul Emery is in the center and getting pummeled by a flow of something. And he deserves it.
Kelly Killmore was unknown to me when I checked and it was a mailing to name from the terrorist in San Antonio. Yes, he is a terrorist and millions of dollars and government people were after the guy.
John Bolton is a hawk, no doubt aout it. But he is really smart. I think he can be trusted.
The other libs here are on their period again. Sad.
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jons 550pm – your question indicates that reading comprehension is also not one of your strong suits. Please give us a hint, there must be something in which you are competent. We don’t want to prejudge.
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Yeah Bolton sure was a mental giant when he led the charge into Iraq Todd. Even Trump says the war was a mistake
“Likely Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has condemned former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s decision to join the invasion of Iraq as a “disaster.”
“In an interview with Piers Morgan on British television on Tuesday, the billionaire construction magnate said Britain should never have joined forces with the U.S. in the conflict that took the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, including thousands of coalition troops.
The Iraq War “was a bad decision—maybe the worst,” he said on ITV’s Good Morning Britain. “But you folk were brought into it, I don’t know why you were allowed to be.”
He continued: “Tony Blair made a mistake. You can’t go in haphazardly. You guys got involved like we did and now look at it.”
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-condemns-tony-blair-iraq-war-disaster-460564
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https://www.yahoo.com/sports/eric-reid-will-stop-anthem-protests-teams-shun-free-agency-013238648.html
😉
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Paul Emery I don’t recall Bolton leading the charge into Iraq. In fact, he was a recess appointment by Bush as the democrats would not confirm him as the UN diplomat. Please supply the readers here with your pre-invasion information by Bolton.
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GR – An expected response. Obfuscate the facts and baffle ’em with bullshit. Straight shooting has never been your strong suit when placed in a position of discomfort.
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Jon’Linda, no, Mr. R is on the mark. You libs can’t handle the truth. That is your cross to bear. Never knowing the truth. Sad.
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jons 913pm – Pray, what possible discomfort did you put me in, please explain??
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