282 responses to “Sandbox – 4may2018”

1. 

   Walt

   06 May 2018

   What’s wrong with spreading a little freedom and prosperity Paul?
   What’s that you Lefties, and peaceniks yap about? “If it saves one child’s life”,,,
   Tell us Paul,, how do we make the dictators and roving bands of terrorists to simply lay down their guns?
   Oh.. That’s right,, ALL those poor people in those shithole nations simply come to the U.S… Yup,, that would make it ALL better.
   Now answer my questions.. You know,, those words I wrote followed by this.”?”

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   Bill Tozer

   06 May 2018

   Crabbman had a good one in the paper.
   https://www.theunion.com/news/r-l-crabb-it-takes-a-village-idiot-268/
   We really don’t have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem and the wish list just keeps growing and growing with no end in sight. Think the dollar has been stretched to the breaking point. Everywhere one looks, people are clamoring for their pet projects to get more of that federal and Sacramento greenback-a-dollar coming their way.
   Was at the gas pumps the other day and there was a sticker listing all the petro taxes. 27 cents or so to the Feds, 18 cents to the State, a user fee tax, something else, then “approximently 10 cents” for a carbon tax. Gee Wally, I thought the tax two times ago was going to pay for roads and 600,000 homeless abodes. Guess the carbon tax revenues fell short of projections to fund the Brown Streak to Buttonwillows and Moonbeam had to raid the highway taxes to cover the pension shortfalls, lol. This new tax is going for roads…until it too will be raided to cover the pensions and salaries and help pay for the slow train wreck to nowhere….and of course, the General Fund needs a little help…which always finds a way to come not covering everything promised. Nothing a new tax wouldn’t fix…unless you are a crumbling bridge.
   What, me worry?
   https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i1vkHtzsWcY

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   Walt

   06 May 2018

   Better crack open a new bottle of Irish courage Paul. This may sting a little.
   http://www.breitbart.com/2018-elections/2018/05/06/ipsos-poll-shows-spike-trump-support/
   It’s starts with a disclaimer?
   “Every series of polls has the occasional outlier and in our opinion this is one,” the pollster announced. “So, while we are reporting the findings in the interest of transparency, we will not be announcing the start of a new trend until we have more data to validate this pattern.”
   Sorry dude,, this is old news for the Trump crowd.

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4. 

   scenes

   06 May 2018

   Paul@2:35PM
   That strikes me as too general a question. My guess is that you could make an entire career out of studying the history and rules covering classified materials, executive orders, regulations on investigations…and that probably more than a few of those may not make it through a serious court vetting. That’s a long-winded way of saying I don’t know.
   My gut feeling, if I were to write a Constitution, is that the DOJ should be under direct control of the President and subject to Congressional investigations with no limit. The Congress would have no control, but simply the ability to impeach a President. Having said that, I’m not sure how you avoid endless politically-motivated investigations or leaks for political purposes.
   I believe that the DOJ is largely a post Civil War construction, and the way it has metastasized is a good proxy, along with foreign wars and the welfare state, for how the US has evolved into it’s present condition. Once a law enforcement/surveillance organization has grown this powerful, it is bound to become it’s own power center or be too powerful a tool to not use or both.

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5. 

   Don Bessee

   06 May 2018

   Hey ya po’ ol’ putin party parrot, does this sound like coddling?
   https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Navy-to-resurrect-fleet-to-protect-the-East-Coast-12890979.php
   😉

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6. 

   Don Bessee

   06 May 2018

   Now here are some numbers the po’ ol’ pollhead should worry about;
   In the latest poll by the Polling Company, a majority, 52 percent, of swing-voters said they wanted the 250,000 visas allotted to “chain migrants” — the foreign relatives of newly naturalized citizens — eliminated altogether rather than handed over to businesses to allow them to import an additional flood of foreign workers.
   http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/06/poll-majority-swing-voters-oppose-importing-foreign-workers/
   😉

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7. 

   scenes

   06 May 2018

   Discourse in the modern era.
   https://i.redd.it/jnk2juqxj9w01.jpg

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8. 

   Don Bessee

   06 May 2018

   Oh well, why not pile on the po’ ol’ pollhead –
   The spike in apparent support leaves Trump with 57 percent support on the economy, 60 percent support on employment and jobs, 51 percent support on immigration, although he gets only 43 percent on the high-priority issue of healthcare. The poll did not ask about the success of Trump’s efforts to raise wages.
   http://www.breitbart.com/2018-elections/2018/05/06/ipsos-poll-shows-spike-trump-support/
   😉

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9. 

   Scott Obermuller

   06 May 2018

   Say – here’s a new way to ease the housing shortage in Kali.
   https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/06/california-to-require-solar-panels-on-most-new-homes/
   Money quote – “The new standards are poised to hike construction costs by $25,000 to $30,000 (about half of which is directly due to solar), but the self-produced energy is estimated to save owners $50,000 to $60,000 in operating costs over the solar technology’s expected 25-year lifespan.”
   Typical greenie hum bug. The ‘costs’ go up by $25k to $30k. Whose costs? The developer? Add a percentage on top of that to the buyer and then there’s that mortgage thingie. And because the house is now ‘worth’ more, the taxes, insurance and maintenance costs go up. The mortgage runs for typically 30 years, but by then your solar panels have crapped out and you’re facing a huge replacement cost and you are still paying for the original system now in the junk yard. Pretty cool, huh?
   Banks make more money – govt collects more taxes – the developer makes more money – you have to earn more money and then pay higher income taxes as well as higher prop taxes.
   But think of all the money the Chinese solar panel manufacturers are making!
   The homeless in Kali are cheering!

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10. 

    Don Bessee

    06 May 2018

    More room for educating our kids –
    Visas for international students have dropped more than 15 percent under President Donald Trump’s economic nationalist agenda as his key executive order known as “Buy American, Hire American” has taken center stage.
    A new report by Axios’s Stef Kight reveals that visas for international students declined 17 percent in 2017 during Trump’s first year in office. For Chinese students, visas dropped nearly 25 percent, and for Indian students, visas dropped nearly 30 percent.
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/06/report-visas-for-indian-chinese-students-decline-under-trump/
    😉

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11. 

    Bill Tozer

    06 May 2018

    “More room for educating our kids”
    https://www.facebook.com/TheREALCloydRivers/photos/a.533798863323836.1073741824.397092596994464/1686586361378408/?type=3&theater
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1309970129137021/?type=3&theater

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12. 

    Bill Tozer

    06 May 2018

    This comes as no surprise: Slate says 3.9% unemployment rate is “meaningless.”
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tom-blumer/2018/05/06/slate-column-unemployment-rate-39-percent-its-meaningless

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13. 

    scenes

    06 May 2018

    ScottO@7:21
    Interesting, I’d never heard of it. If nothing else it’ll drive up the value of used houses slightly.
    Assuming that solar panels are net energy producers and that they can be profitable, what is the advantage of sticking them on house roofs? It seems to me that taking a couple of acres here and there and filling it with panels would give a cheaper and easier to maintain result. I suppose the beauty of this solution is that you push the cost onto home owners rather than PGE.

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14. 

    Don Bessee

    06 May 2018

    Does anyone really have broad band up in here? I had real hi speed back in the day before I met my strong lady. I am tired of the lies that anyone is going to make it happen soon. How much money did those flashy guys suck up with nothing to show for us?
    Among the pressing issues facing our county, economic development and high-speed internet are strongly linked.
    To attract new businesses that align with our treasured rural environment, and to support small and home-based businesses, we must have wider access to broadband — as well as net neutrality. Indeed, 54 percent of businesses here are home-based, and 70 percent of small businesses are owned and operated by a single person. I’m one of those “solopreneurs” and as a freelance writer and editor, I would not be able to earn my living without broadband access.
    So how does she now??
    😉
    😉

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15. 

    Walt

    07 May 2018

    “MAD” Max came off the rails again.
    http://www.theamericanmirror.com/maxine-meltdown-waters-shouts-damn-this-president/
    Preaching to the wrong crowd? Those union folk are actually working with Trump running things. It was union labor that built his buildings. And wan’t it LIBS (“O” to be exact) that killed union coal mining jobs? ( and Trump get some back to work).
    Mad “Max” didn’t do her homework.

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16. 

    Walt

    07 May 2018

    Ca. does it again. The price of building a new home is about to jump again.
    https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/06/california-to-require-solar-panels-on-most-new-homes/

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17. 

    Todd Juvinall

    07 May 2018

    CSPAN this morning. They interviewed a WAPO and POLITICO set of “journalists”. They are so in the bag for the democrats it is amazing. All blue wabe BS and not one single good work about any R or R candidate or policy. They act like there has been all these victories by dems in the specials yet only one won if I recall. Anyway the bias is so profound that is why Americans are tuning these people our. Oh and Missouri Senate is now tied. Incumbent Dem McCaskill was up huge. Maybe a RED WAVE!

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18. 

    Bill Tozer

    07 May 2018

    Our public schools are one big fraud.
    In a better nation, “success” rates that condemn six in 10 children to compromised futures would be considered appalling. In this one, they are union priorities. And since Democrats are more than willing to march in lockstep with those priorities, it should surprise no one that the worst performing districts are all Democrat strongholds.
    https://patriotpost.us/articles/55791-destroying-america-one-miseducated-student-after-another

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19. 

    Gregory

    07 May 2018

    Rasmussen and Reuters/Ipsos both have Trump at 49/49.
    Michael P Anderson, Paul Emery, Jeff Peeline, Steve Frisch, you need to get serious. Stop pulling your punches. Tell the world what you really think about Trump and the majority of voters in the other 49 states, not to mention the unclean among you who have not yet accepted your invitation to move, or curl up and die already.
    I didn’t vote for Trump in ’16 and I expect I won’t vote GOP in 2020… but I do support the Constitution and I am waiting for the hysteric Anti-Trump brigades to also support the Constitution and accept the results of the last election.

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20. 

    jon smith

    07 May 2018

    Ollie North? My bet would have been El Cheney or El Chapo.

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21. 

    jon smith

    07 May 2018

    Gregory 11:36
    “Trump and the majority of voters in the other 49 states.” Really? I must have missed the recount.

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22. 

    Gregory

    07 May 2018

    Loosen the asshat, Mike, the echo from your large intestine makes it hard to understand what you are trying to say.

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23. 

    Walt

    07 May 2018

    Yup, Col. North for Prez. of the NRA.
    Don’t you fret Lil’”jon”. Not your issue. Us members really like the guy. That’s why he gets my vote.
    Don’t you have a gun to turn in?

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24. 

    scenes

    07 May 2018

    JonSmith@12:21PM
    https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/its-official-clintons-popular-vote-win-came-entirely-from-california/

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25. 

    Gregory

    07 May 2018

    Mike, Trump is lawfully the rightful President of the USA… yes or no?

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26. 

    Walt

    07 May 2018

    Just what is up with this?
    https://twitter.com/BreitbartLondon/status/992418573753630720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Flondon%2F2018%2F05%2F06%2Ffinland-court-migrant-sex-10-year-old-not-rape%2F&tfw_creator=JackBMontgomery&tfw_site=BreitbartNews
    This vary picture was used in our own The Union story,, here,,
    https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/uniting-for-youth-groups-collaborate-to-help-children-in-need-in-nevada-county/
    Now how many were in the belief that the photo was taken locally?
    The Union pic. in the fine print says “stock photo”. OK,, WHO’S??
    It reminds me of the fake dead polar bear pics by the AGW scammers.
    Another way to sucker the people into donating money.

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27. 

    Russ

    07 May 2018

    Don Bessee @ 09:25 PM
    Don Check out my latest post:
    https://ruraleconomytechnology.com/2018/05/07/diy-or-go-without-broadband-part-one/
    Stop waiting, it is not going to happen unless some community leaders take some action to make it happen.
    Russ

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28. 

    jon smith

    07 May 2018

    Gregory 12:56 – “Trump is lawfully the rightful President of the USA”
    I’ve never said otherwise. Not only is he president of the USA, I acknowledge the fact that, for the time being, he is my president.
    That said, the fact remains that the majority of the people did not vote for him as you alleged.
    Waiting for it: But those votes didn’t count. If thousands of illegal Messicans weren’t bussed in, Trump would have won the popular vote

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29. 

    Gregory

    07 May 2018

    Lawfully and rightfully were the modifiers, Mike. Yes or no?
    If you’re choking on majority over plurality, that might be the case. A plurality of voters outside of California… does that resolve your objection?

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30. 

    Todd Juvinall

    07 May 2018

    Funny how the liberals/democrats want to change the rules that have been in place for 240 years. They remind me of little kids at the playground that get mad and take the ball home.

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31. 

    jon smith

    07 May 2018

    Gregory 1:26-
    You still choking over the simple fact that Trump did not get a majority of the “popular” vote?
    Now you have decided that only 49 states are worth counting and you have personally decided California doesn’t count. Curious orchestrated train of thoughts. I’ll get back to ya.

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32. 

    Gregory

    07 May 2018

    Mike 144pm
    I’m not choking over Trump not getting a majority vote at all… and apparently, you’re still thinking Hillary did… she didn’t either, and she lost the electoral college vote quite badly. An incompetent campaign that I’m thankful for.

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33. 

    Gregory

    07 May 2018

    So Mike, you’ve dropped the notion that not being upset over the allegations of Russian collusion Sith the Trump campaign was tantamount to treason… or do you still think I’m a traitor?

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34. 

    jon smith

    07 May 2018

    Gregory 2:10-
    Talking into your hat again? Got rocks in there? I don’t have any idea what you are speaking of.

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35. 

    Don Bessee

    07 May 2018

    Darn it, we cam so close but then New Zealand has tough immigration laws and that whole foundation stink pile would have messed it up anyway.
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/07/hillary-clinton-considered-permanently-relocating-to-new-zealand-after-defeat/
    😉

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36. 

    Bill Tozer

    07 May 2018

    Judicial appointees making a mark.
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/06/trumps-judges-ruling-politics-prayer-executions-race/576848002/

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37. 

    Walt

    07 May 2018

    In case our LIBS didn’t get the memo.
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/07/dccc-fundraising-russia-investigation/
    “If we can gather 1,000,000 signatures, it will FORCE Trump to cooperate with the investigation once and for all,”
    Now if you REALLY believe that,,, “Queen of the DEMned”
    guarantees retaking power too. Umm,,, good luck with that.
    Living the lie, won’t make it so. But LIBS LOVE their lies.
    Just like ours love to lie about who they are.

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38. 

    scenes

    07 May 2018

    h/t to Walt for leading me to this one:
    https://twitter.com/dccc
    Cool. All the responses read like a mirror image of Alex Jones’ folks. Maybe I’ll send them a buck or two to keep the craziness going.

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39. 

    Walt

    07 May 2018

    I just had to look… Now to go take a shower..

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40. 

    Walt

    07 May 2018

    John Kerry is in deep doo doo.
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/07/john-kerrys-spokesperson-just-admitted-he-is-actively-violating-the-logan-act/

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41. 

    scenes

    07 May 2018

    Walt@3:41PM
    Hah, see. The non-partisan press says otherwise. Logan Schmogan.
    https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/05/07/expert-debunks-conservative-attacks-john-kerry-and-logan-act-regarding-iran-deal/220132
    “The act only applies to conduct that is designed to ‘defeat the measures of the United States’ or influence the conduct of foreign governments,” Vladeck said. “If all Kerry is doing is working to keep in place something that’s still technically a ‘measure of the United States,’ I don’t see how the statute would apply even if someone was crazy enough to try it.”
    …
    lol. What a bunch of sophistry. It looks to me like Kerry’s Excellent Adventure is about as clear a violation of that act as you’re going to see. Truth is, they should probably dump the law.

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42. 

    Walt

    07 May 2018

    Scenes,, now isn’t that the kind of “collusion” they have been trying to pin on Trump LLC?
    Kerry has no business butting in. It’s his “F”ed up negotiating Trump is working to fix.

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43. 

    Bill Tozer

    07 May 2018

    The Logan Act? What a bunch of hooey. It’s probably unconstitutional, but the uninformed Popinjay is our resident expert on the Act.
    “Democrats wanted to hang former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn out to dry for supposedly violating the Logan Act, a 1799 law that prohibits private citizens from conducting unauthorized foreign policy, because Flynn had conversations with Russians during the transition into power for the Trump administration. Of course, they’re silent on Kerry. No one has ever been prosecuted under the Logan Act, but Kerry’s “shadow diplomacy” is serious — he’s actively working to undermine the current administration to save a horrible deal in which he has a personal stake……
    .
    It’s arguably treason, and if anyone knows how to get away with treason, it’s John Kerry, who negotiated with the North Vietnamese in 1970, giving aid and comfort to the enemy at a time of open war. He then delivered communist propaganda and slander of American troops in congressional testimony. For nearly 50 years, Kerry has been a disgrace to his country and it’s well past time he faced the consequences.”
    https://patriotpost.us/articles/55801-john-kerry-goes-nuclear-secretly-negotiates-with-iran

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44. 

    Bill Tozer

    07 May 2018

    John Kerry…
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pbdzMLk9wHQ
    https://patriotpost.us/cartoons/26117
    Bonus for Scenes and Mr. Fish….and Bobbie. Never again?
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2057241911015705&set=p.2057241911015705&type=3&theater

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45. 

    Walt

    07 May 2018

    First off,, when the story starts with “A man in Florida,,” you can bet it will be a good one.
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/07/florida-man-charged-with-trying-to-barbecue-sex-offenders-at-motel.html
    I love a good cookout as much as the next guy. But my cookbook say your FRY child molesters.
    Sometimes you gotta let a man finish the job.
    He was preforming a public service BBQ. Florida style.

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46. 

    Todd Juvinall

    07 May 2018

    Oh my the White Knight of the liberals and the New York AG likes to smack women around. Love it when these sleazebag liberals get caught up in their own petard.
    https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/four-women-accuse-new-yorks-attorney-general-of-physical-abuse

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47. 

    scenes

    07 May 2018

    A question answered.
    Q: Will This Man Take Down Donald Trump?
    https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/eric-schneiderman-donald-trump-new-york-214734
    A: No.
    https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/four-women-accuse-new-yorks-attorney-general-of-physical-abuse
    Nothing to see here, just a bit of that Democrat lovin’.

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48. 

    scenes

    07 May 2018

    Darn it Todd, you beat me by a minute.

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49. 

    scenes

    07 May 2018

    Walt@4:42PM
    The way to keep track of doings in Florida is via reddit.
    https://www.reddit.com/r/FloridaMan/

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50. 

    Bill Tozer

    07 May 2018

    Daily quotes
    Walt (?) already posted this one, but it sure looks like Fat Boy got a very big slice of the pie.
    “Happy 200th Birthday Karl Marx! You believed that everyone should have a seat at the table & that the greed of the rich would eventually bring us all down. You believed that everyone deserves a slice of the pie. You knew that the super wealthy were out to grab whatever they could.” —capitalist beneficiary Michael Moore
    I did not vote for That woman either.
    “The most qualified person running was a woman, and look what we did instead. I mean, that says something about where we are. If we as women are still suspicious of one another; if we still have this crazy, crazy bar for each other that we don’t have for men; if we’re not comfortable with the notion that a woman could be our president … then we have to have those conversations with ourselves as women.” —Michelle Obama lamenting that women didn’t line up to vote for the woman
    Thanks, Obama? “I think we have to look at it over a longer horizon than [Trump’s time in office]. If you think about what the economy was like when President Obama took office, we were losing 750,000 jobs a month. Under his watch the unemployment rate dropped in half and it’s encouraging to see that we’re continuing to make progress.” —Valerie Jarrett belittling the Trump economy
    Race bait:
    “[Trump is] certainly racist-adjacent. If you have the evidence that shows you, that leads you to nothing else but this president being racist, then I feel it’s my obligation as a journalist to say it.” —CNN’s Don Lemon
    Too funny. They believe their own hype.
    “The other cable networks have picked sides. I know people like to say that CNN has picked sides. We picked the side of truth. I think in this era, the Trump era, the truth can seem partisan when it’s not.” —Don Lemon

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