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Sandbox – 29jun18

29 June 2018

[OK boys and girls, it's time for SCOTUS roulette. Make known your odds that one of your favorite candidates will get the presidential nod. gjr]

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253 responses to “Sandbox – 29jun18”

fish

01 July 2018

LEFTIST LANDSLIDE IN MEX?

Well kudos to AMLO……since a leftist/socialist nation provides everything its citizens need for a happy life there is no reason for illegals to remain in the dog eat dog US!
We bid you farewell and hope you prosper in your socialist workers paradise!

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Walt

01 July 2018

Didn’t you hear fish? The new lefy gov. of Mex. was MORE to flood the border, get in, take jobs, and send the money back.

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fish

01 July 2018

Posted by: Walt | 01 July 2018 at 07:04 PM
That can’t be right Walt…..socialism is the superior system! It provides everything the citizen needs. A system that provides for equitable distribution of the fruits of the proletariats labor, guided by a technocratic elite for the benefit of all!
Mexico should be in Apple Pie order in no time at all,

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fish

01 July 2018

Posted by: Walt | 01 July 2018 at 07:04 PM
In any case Walt, America will just have to muddle through with the citizenry it has…..we shouldn’t deprive Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, the Honduras etc. of the human potential it so desperately needs just so snobs from the Bay Area can have cheap lawn care!

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Walt

01 July 2018

I don’t want the U.S. to keel over like Guam.

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Walt

01 July 2018

Oh.. Paul. Are you waiting with baited breath, that our election season will soon look like El Mexico’s? Where wannabe politicians are open season? The last one still alive gets the gig?
Will you support politician hunting permits? Just think of the revenue gov. would rake in.

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Walt

01 July 2018

Who’s game?
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/environment/fl-reg-eating-iguana-south-florida-invasive-20180627-story.html
I will even give this a try on the grill
“While many people view South Florida’s invasive iguana population as an annoyance at best and a pandemic at worst, Ishmeal Asson sees something else: lunch.”

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Bill Tozer

01 July 2018

Poll
I keep seeing this inch along, slowly, a point here, a quarter point there, after awhile it’s a slight trendline. Start picking up a few here, a few there. Better than the arrow pointing down.
https://katrinapierson.com/new-poll-shows-massive-shift-with-millennial-voters-moving-to-the-right/

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George Rebane

01 July 2018

BillT 926pm – The acid test confirmation of that trendline is if we start hearing strong denials of it from our leftwing friends. Their silence on it does not bode well Mr Tozer.

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Bill Tozer

01 July 2018

Dr. Rebane
Just looking for a half point or two here or there, not a wave. More than a mist, maybe a trickle, not a firehouse. A small leak in the dyke, pay it no mind.
I don’t see the Dems imploding. I see the Maxine Waters and Pocahontases of the world are on the deep blue coasts and just they don’t have the numbers or represent a large cross section. The Berinistas. I will be generous and say almost 30% tops. But, that is enough for them to sabatoge themselves out of another election cycle. With that said, I see a few Dems in Ohoi sitting this one out or start to wander off the reservation.
Wonder what the DNC’s internal polling shows. Bet they are showing that Trump is starting to be view as legitament, something that was never supposed to happen. Plan was to have him totally deligitimatized (if not gone) within 6 months. That what resist is all about. Bet internal polling funded by those big think tanks shows they aren’t going to drive Trumps numbers down under 30% like they did Bush, and make him a lame duck by default. Even those Nevertrumpers like Beck, Goldberg, Willam Krystal and his entire gang of pundits, most all of the Bush people….even they are starting to see Trump as legit, or warming up to the idea….and they can read the tea leaves.
I will agree to disagree and call it a trendline. Riding above flatline, still under the radar, not rockets propelled arrows going vertical on the graph. Very slow and steady.

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fish

02 July 2018

Somewhere an old man with a pony tail quietly weeps…..
From the always invaluable Instapundit!
IF TRUMP PROPOSED THIS, THEY’D CALL HIM HITLER:

Starting at the age of 1, “ghetto children” must be separated from their families for at least 25 hours a week, not including nap time, for mandatory instruction in “Danish values,” including the traditions of Christmas and Easter, and Danish language. Noncompliance could result in a stoppage of welfare payments. Other Danish citizens are free to choose whether to enroll children in preschool up to the age of six.
Denmark’s government is introducing a new set of laws to regulate life in 25 low-income and heavily Muslim enclaves, saying that if families there do not willingly merge into the country’s mainstream, they should be compelled.
For decades, integrating immigrants has posed a thorny challenge to the Danish model, intended to serve a small, homogeneous population. Leaders are focusing their ire on urban neighborhoods where immigrants, some of them placed there by the government, live in dense concentrations with high rates of unemployment and gang violence.
Politicians’ description of the ghettos has become increasingly sinister. In his annual New Year’s speech, Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen warned that ghettos could “reach out their tentacles onto the streets” by spreading violence, and that because of ghettos, “cracks have appeared on the map of Denmark.” Politicians who once used the word “integration” now call frankly for “assimilation.”

So much for multiculturalism!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/01/world/europe/denmark-immigrant-ghettos.html

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“M”

02 July 2018

,,,lots of denial coming from the trumpskiites trying hard to rationalize allowing a Justice to be nominated close to an election even though they whined like little girls when Obama was nominating a Justice. The big excuse for the double standard is that it is not a presidential election year. No,,, but it a congressional election year just like the last one!!!

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“M”

02 July 2018

,,,po’ ol’ trumpskiites,,,elected a real loser,,,
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-02/donald-trump-s-ineptitude-is-no-joke?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=bd&utm_campaign=headline&cmpId=yhoo.headline&yptr=yahoo

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Don Bessee

02 July 2018

In another glaring example of ignorance we have @ 1121 –
Obama picks Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/10/AR2010051000067.html
Note the month in that midterm year. 😉

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Todd Juvinall

02 July 2018

The open borders people who marched on Saturday are the same ones that think Russia is trying to influence the American elections. Is the fact these idiots support the unfettered invasion of actual people a concern regarding our elections? Looks like it isn’t. But those darn Rooskies that paid $100,000 to Facebook in a two billion dollar campaign are the buga-boos. You cannot make this stuff up.

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Don Bessee

02 July 2018

WTF? Importing spies? –
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/02/obama-administration-granted-citizenship-to-2500-iranians-during-nuclear-deal-iran-official.html
😉

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Paul Emery

02 July 2018

Todd writes:
” But I think the left is self-destructing rapidly before our very eyes.”
Not in Nevada County where the Dems are increasing their margin over the Repubs with every election. Lots of cheap land in Plumas County Todd for your type.

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fish

02 July 2018

Posted by: “M” | 02 July 2018 at 11:21 AM
Guess that the Man from D.I.A.P.E.R. will want to throw his considerable influence behind retaking the senate the next time you have a democrat chair warmer in the executive to make the process work as written!
Really dugski….I almost feel sorry for you on days!

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Bill Tozer

02 July 2018

Todd, the open borders crowd is still just the OWS gang. They have their own deplorables, but keep them down at the drum circles while the real power brokers sleep in $900-$1,200 a night suites in the hotels up the street with room service. They are the betters of the street people and only use them to pull them out of a jam. Useful tools the street rats be, but don’t linger too long amidst them. Ain’t safe nor civilized.
This is the same group who went gaga over little Boss Hogg, told us we all must listen to him, do everything he says, and let’s drop the voting age to 16, like right now! Then they chased over that Stormy lawyer as the next Great White Hope to take Trump down. Before that it was that Yale phycologist on CNN a zillion times who, even though she is no longer legally licensed to practice her trade, is The Expert to prove Trump is crazy and have him removed from office. And their hopes still burn for Meuller to come up with something, anything. Make it close enough for hand gernades and horseshoes. Best keep a candle going in the window on that former slam dunk.
Gosh, they are even protesting removing children from their parents when caught illegally entering the US, even though Trump has dumped the policy, ROFLMAO.
Now they are going loco for Coco Puffs over some clean young articulate nice looking Latina who speaks English without an accent as the next Great White Hope to led the Occupy Wall Street Liberal bowel movement. Cortez is her name, the Conquering Cortez. Wonder if she wants to burn the libraries and historical records like what the other Cortez did to the Aztecs. Nevermind that the stunning upset and instant Lefty media darling captured the primary in a very heavy Dem District with only 16,000 votes. There are numberous precincts with more than 16,000 votes counted for a candidate out there, lol. The best thing about Cortez is suddenly she makes Kamalla Harris look like a withered dock denizen by comparison.
They will run after the next shinning object soon enough. I have already forgotton each new thing they run after. Too many to remember. The Logan Act looked like the cure at one time. They suddenly over night fell in love with Gov. John Kasich, then back in love with John McCain and probably Little Marco Rubio. They are but lost children, unmoored, leaderless, and are like children following the Pied Piper. I would take it all with a grain of salt. Consider the source.

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Todd Juvinall

02 July 2018

Paul Emery | 02 July 2018 at 12:33 PM
Are you that ignorant of math Paul Emery? And as far as laving you are better off in San Francisco, maybe Pelosi’s district since you are so enamored of the democrats. And you know you so stop the lying. I lived here all my life you are a newcomer. It is you that should move.

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Don Bessee

02 July 2018

If it gives you comfort to repeat your mantra over and over @ 1233, have at it if it makes you feel better ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman. 😉

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“M”

02 July 2018

,,,nice try Donny Boy,,, Kagan was nominated before Mitch McConnell started crying and stamping his feet until a NEW PRECEDENT was set.
Now, waiting until after the election is the norm!

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“M”

02 July 2018

,,,the pubber propaganda media blitz has begun,,,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/31/conservative-group-launches-10m-campaign-to-support-trumps-supreme-court-pick.html

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Todd Juvinall

02 July 2018

No “M” the deal is the Joe Biden rule. Set by your hero in 1989. Only in a Presidential year. Of course you know that but you want to obfuscate.

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Don Bessee

02 July 2018

2010 midterm election, 2018 midterm election. What don’t you get, oh wait, willful ignorance is bliss for team lefty. 😉

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Bill Tozer

02 July 2018

Are we a blue county yet?

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“M”

02 July 2018

,,,Po’ ol’ FAKE NEWS TODD!!!
”’Biden’s floor speech was on June 25, 1992, more than three months later in the election cycle than it is now.
There was no Supreme Court vacancy to fill.
There was no nominee to consider.
The Senate never took a vote to adopt a rule to delay consideration of a nominee until after the election.
Nonetheless, Biden took to the floor in a speech addressing the Senate president to urge delay if a vacancy did appear. But he didn’t argue for a delay until the next president began his term, as McConnell is doing. He said the nomination process should be put off until after the election, which was on Nov. 3, 1992.”’
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/mar/17/context-biden-rule-supreme-court-nominations/

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“M”

02 July 2018

Bessie,,,time to refuel,,,you are low on cud!!!

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Todd Juvinall

02 July 2018

Biden said it M. You can’t change the facts. You faker you.

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Todd Juvinall

02 July 2018

Here “M”. This was in February of 1992, a Presidential Year. Watch it then go change those diapers.
https://youtu.be/cZlzhULrJC0

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Bill Tozer

02 July 2018

@1:12 pm
Todd, I am appalled by you. Please don’t drop the F Bomb on the wayward children on the Left. Everybody knows they recoil at Facts, the mother of all F bombs. They have never heard such language in all their,lives. 🙂

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“M”

02 July 2018

,,,try to get it through your thick skull Todd,,,it was Biden’s opinion,,, so what???
It was never acted on voted on by the Senate!!!

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Todd Juvinall

02 July 2018

“M” you don’t understand the simplest things. You really are dense. Sure it was his opinion, he was the leader and trying to make it so. Now they are the opposite. We call that flip-flopping. You are a FF so live with it.
Tozer, you need to scurry over to the Union’s article on the Saturday gathering. Read some of those loons.

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Bill Tozer

02 July 2018

@ 12:54 pm
Only 10 million? That seems way too low, but then again, a bargain at twice the price.
I do love the new phrase, which may make spending money by conversative groups to advocate for a particular SOTUS new justice a moot point. I love this phrase so much I must say it again and again.
“Harry Reed’s Republican Legacy.” Also known as ‘da nuclear option’. Thank you Senator Majority Leader, much obliged. And your exercise machine thanks you as well.
Harry Reed’s Republican Legacy. Music to my ears. Got to say it again just to hear the sweetest of notes this side of,Paradise. “Harry Reid’s Republican Legacy”.
Hey, we tried to warn him to not be soooo short sighted as it may come back to bite his ilk on the gluteus maximus, a very large muscle. Glad he refused to,listen.

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scenes

02 July 2018

“The best thing about Cortez is suddenly she makes Kamalla Harris look like a withered dock denizen by comparison.”
Harris does have an advantage in that she learned a lot under Willie Brown.

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Paul Emery

02 July 2018

Here’s the bad news for the Repubs like Todd.
In 2000 Bush won over Gore by 7% 54%-37%.
In 2016 Hillery won over Trump by 5% 47-42%.
Huge change twords the Dems.
Here’s the documentation.
https://www.mynevadacounty.com/806/2016-Historical-Election-Results

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fish

02 July 2018

Posted by: scenes | 02 July 2018 at 01:48 PM
Harris does have an advantage in that she learned a lot under Willie Brown.
….and a disadvantage in that she looks like “she” is in drag!

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scenes

02 July 2018

re: PaulEmery@1:48PM
Unlike Todd, I’m willing to cede the point that Nevada County has become more Democratic over time. It’s an odd kind of trend, though.
Presidential election votes…republican (or, as you charmingly say, ‘pubbers’) vs. democratic vs other
2016 42.53% 23,365 47.43% 26,053 10.05% 5,517
2012 48.35% 24,986 47.73% 24,663 3.92% 2,027
2008 46.12% 25,663 51.43% 28,617 2.46% 1,367
2004 53.39% 28,790 44.92% 24,220 1.69% 910
2000 54.76% 25,998 37.22% 17,670 8.02% 3,811
1996 50.40% 21,784 35.56% 15,369 14.03% 6,066
1992 39.24% 17,343 34.92% 15,433 25.85% 11,425
My gut tells me that the underlying trend is Democratic. A combination of a slightly higher Hispanic vote, decline in working class jobs, decline in ‘old school’ engineers at places like GVG, an increase in Pelline + PaulE + ReinetteS (difficult to tell apart without a program).
I feel for Todd, since it’s hard to watch an area pivot away from people who actually work for a living.

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George Rebane

02 July 2018

BillT 1101pm – Did my 1015pm imply that I see the Dems “imploding”??

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Bill Tozer

02 July 2018

Todd @ 1:22 pm
I scrurried over to the Union site per your prodding. Talk about a nothing burger. How big was the Inaugural crowd? How big was the Brunswick Burger Basin Crowd? It’s was 800 folks. No, it was 200 folks. Waste of time.
Yes, I have broken my own rules by commenting on the Union’s FB page lately. Not a lot, but a trend I feel,is unproductive. But, once I do, I adjust my setting to “mark as read” so I don’t have read any feedback or have the likes or contemptible distain on my FB page.
The whole shebang is they just do not see any difference between legal and illegal foreign nationals. Zero. You cannot get it through their mushy filled melons that all those unsightly images of little crying bambinos being ripped ripped ripped pulled stitched and rippppppppeeeeeeeeedd while being torn to shreds from their caring mother’s arms could be so easily avoided if the caring parents simply showed up at a point of entry.
So simple. So avoidable. So easy. But, no.
Waste of time. It’s all on the parents who made the conscious deliberate decision to sneak in on their own terms. Now they expect (and believe) they call all the shots, set all the terms, and have the final say. Guess our family value friends on the Left don’t think about a few Islamist terrorists or those already barred from entering ( for darn good reasons)from sneaking in with a child in tow.
Again, what kind of parent would put their young daughters on top of a train, hand them a few packages of the morning after pill, and place them with human (and sex) traffickers solely because once the child is placed, the ruthless parents get a meal ticket entry to the US at a later date. What kind,of animal,would do that to their own children? Their own little daughters?
Ah, nevermind. Wrong thread to discuss this anyway. The unhinged unthinking and ultimately uncaring have fallen into the abysss and don’t even know what an abyss is. Not a good idea to argue on FB, generally, IMHO.

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Todd Juvinall

02 July 2018

Paul Emery, are you daft? I placed the current (last week’s from Elections) numbers here and you already commented. Of course, I see the democrats with a 1.5% plurality here. That does not make us a blue county. But there is no logic from you about this. Sorry you are just so partisan left.
BillTm thanks for checking out the lunacy of the lefty commenters on the article. Cracks ,e up. I was there but I guess I am not supposed to believe my lying eyes. LOL!

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Paul Emery

02 July 2018

Lots of cheap land in Idaho Todd for Republican refugees like you.

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Todd Juvinall

02 July 2018

No, I like it here. I love goosing you phonypbaloney commies of the left. Make me happy. But no one stopping you from moving to Ms. Cortez Dist 14 in NYC. You go guy. And she is cute.

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Don Bessee

02 July 2018

So why didn’t you win any races (Diaz was not really in a contested election, no R endorsement) In the County then ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman?
Bitch and moan about the SCOTUS but its our appointment. How many more will we get! Bummer for team lefty. Elections have consequences. 😉

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Bill Tozer

02 July 2018

Dr. Rebane @ 2:02 pm
Not at all, Good Doc. You are not the target of my (sometimes incoherent, always hard to follow) ramblings. I jumped from a small trend line topic to another topic. That second topic was about slapping down some of the exhiberant comments found readily across the Internet in the wake of the Maxine Water’s glorious maxims, Mr. Manny’s column in The Union, and here implied by some of my brothers in arms. Not you.
The Leftinistas may be in disarray, unhinged, suffering from TDS on steroids, but implosion? That is being way more than cautiously optimistic. What was that phrase former Fed Chair Greenspan coined…..oh yeah, it was “Irrational exuberance.” Irrational, in spite of all the near term evidence to the contrary, because they just do not understand the vastness and depth of the the wasteland we call the liberal mind. Never underestimate the enemy and all that stuff.
While I have your ear, I have been meaning to tell you this without sounding too much like a brown noser. That post your wrote titled “No Abyss for Progressives” is one I had to read and reread at least 5 times. One of the best you have penned. I had this sinking feeling I was missing something. The point about Manny having a flaw in his agrument. It was there right in front of me the whole time, but I was too blind to see it. To apprendend the point, not merely comprehend it is what I am saying and struggling with.
“The American electorate is now hopelessly divided into those too dumb to be informed, and those too smug who think that they need do nothing but wait for Divine Justice to strike through a parting of the clouds to “implode the progressive movement” of dastardly and seditious anti-Americans. Meanwhile, with apparent impunity, the Left continues to field platoons of political thugs…………The logic, totally absent from the Left’s mindset and to which Mr Montes appeals in his arguments, is shared today by a diminishing minority –
How can we point out the abyss to them when they are already blissfully unaware that they are in the abysss already and like it that way?
Opps, I combined topics again. 🙂

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Don Bessee

02 July 2018

Something tells me there is going be some serious fallout over this –
A Belgian couple and an apparent Iranian diplomat were among four people arrested over the weekend in connection with a planned bomb attack at a large rally held by Iranian opposition groups and attended by President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, authorities in Brussels said Monday.
The Iranian-heritage couple, identified only as 38-year-old Amir S. and 33-year-old Nasimeh N., were apprehended on Saturday after police stopped them and searched their car in the Woluwé-Saint-Pierre neighborhood of Brussels. Investigators found more than a pound of TATP explosives and a detonator, said Eric Van der Sijpt, spokesman for the Belgian prosecutor’s office.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/07/02/belgian-couple-arrested-in-plot-to-bomb-iranian-opposition-event-attended-by-giuliani-gingrich.html
😉

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Walt

02 July 2018

The Socialist Dems have a yellow streak.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/02/antifa-democratic-socialists-dallas-protest/
You left your Fascist pals to take all the heat.
HAa Haaaa,,,,,

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Don Bessee

02 July 2018

Go Socialist Dems Go, now tell the voters why Bernie’s paradise is a good idea again.
The lack of clean water is the latest in a string mass shortages experienced in Venezuela under the rule of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro. Access to basic resources from food to medicine is now extremely limited, mainly as a result of hyperinflation that has rendered its Bolivar country as practically worthless. Based on real worth exchange rates, the country’s minimum wage is roughly equivalent to one dollar ($1) a month.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/07/02/venezuela-further-protests-country-begins-running-water/
😉

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Paul Emery

02 July 2018

Todd
Shannon Moon was not the choice of the Republican Party in this election Todd.

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Don Bessee

02 July 2018

The po’ ol’ fakenewsman needs to stay out of subjects where his depth of knowledge is micron thin. Shannon was a registered republican and our Guest at the Spring Dinner. She decided to switch to DTS in a tactical electoral move but NOT DEM.
A DTS is not eligible for an endorsement in a race with 2 other registered republicans. You best stop digging. 😉

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