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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”

Bill Tozer

04 July 2018

Faux:
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/rpp.217926015008110/1355587247908642/?type=3&theater
The Wigged out wig
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1088260411324180/?type=3&theater

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Bill Tozer

04 July 2018

Keeping Families Together and those absolutely marvelous Progressive Family Values
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1356714557795911/?type=3&theater
@ 10:57 am.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10211526882593257&set=p.10211526882593257&type=3&theater

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Scott Obermuller

04 July 2018

Now I see why Boardman shows up here and reads the posts. His July 1st in the Union echoes what we conservatives have been pointing out for years. He writes as if he conjured up these ‘ideas’, but in fact has been cribbing from the conservatives for years. A lot of what he writes about goes back to the 60’s or even earlier. When we conservatives write these things, we are way out on the far right. When Boardman writes them… well, you would at least think he would credit those who handed him the facts.

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Walt

04 July 2018

THIS is the LIB’S FBI.
https://www.wired.com/2012/03/fbi-bend-suspend-law/
“The FBI taught its agents that they could sometimes “bend or suspend the law” in their hunt for terrorists and criminals. Other FBI instructional material, discovered during a months-long review of FBI counterterrorism training, warned agents against shaking hands with “Asians” and said Arabs were prone to “Jekyll & Hyde temper tantrums.”
These are just some of the disturbing results of the FBI’s six-month review into how the Bureau trained its counterterrorism agents.”

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Scott Obermuller

04 July 2018

Todd at 12:08 – Paul was so ‘meddled’ by the Rooskies, that he almost voted for Trump. I know that my wife and I were certainly going to vote for a lying, rape-abetting, crooked harpy but those darn Ruski-ites meddled with our minds and we ended up voting against our will in the voting booth! Our hands had minds of their own and we were forced, FORCED! to vote for Trump. Paul Emery has proof. It’s in his files back in the office. That 12K they spent certainly overwhelmed the millions poor, poor Hillary had to spend. Paul will protect her and defend her side without actually admitting it, as he likes to point out – ‘didn’t vote for her’.

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“M”

04 July 2018

Rooskies meddled and trumpski fiddles,,,
https://78.media.tumblr.com/e97288d256230accfe8c779be8f69aa0/tumblr_mlgv6a2jur1s92xmno1_500.gif

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Bill Tozer

04 July 2018

Wow. Punchy just triggered something. Something very important. Can anybody tell me exactly what the Russians did to influence the election. We know their strategy and goals, or at least think we do. But, can ANYONE tell me the Russian tactics? What exactly did they do? All this time people have be claiming what the Russians intended to do, but NO ONE has submitted a concrete list of exactly what they did in terms of tactics.
Please, fill in the blanks for me.
1). The Russians did this: (Fill in blanks)
2 The Russian’s did…………..
3) The Russian’s did this…………
4)The Russian’s also did…….
5) The Russians …….
What the heck did the Russian’s do in the 2016 election????
And don’t give me they hacked the Clinton Campaign’s server or computers. We will never know who because the FBI was prohibited from looking at the server per objections and firm refusal of the Hillary Campaign. What is more likely (because the speed and volume of the “hacked” e-mails that ended up at Wikileaks) is the volumes of e-mails was downloaded onto a USB stick or other quick download portable device, aka, an inside job.
Somebody throw me a bone. What did the Russian actually do in the 2016 election? What tactics were initiated? What did they do exactly??? Success or failure is not the question.

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“M”

04 July 2018

,,,no spidey hole for conservatives,,,
Good ol’ conservative Russell Walker for North Carolina,,, state House of Representatives candidate who recently won the Republican primary has claimed Jews are satanic, U.S. soldiers are being poisoned by the government and that God is a white supremacist.
You cannot make this stuff up!!!
http://www.walkerforhouse48.com/

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Paul Emery

04 July 2018

Bill
Read the report and get back to me. I won’t do your homework for you.

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Walt

04 July 2018

Well Bill,, they gave Facebook some chump change in advertisement.

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fish

04 July 2018

Posted by: Paul Emery | 04 July 2018 at 04:31 PM
Pot meet kettle……

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Walt

04 July 2018

Paul. There is an embargo in place. Any question from you will be ignored.(welcome to that two way street.)

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scenes

04 July 2018

PaulE:
“Read the report and get back to me. I won’t do your homework for you.”
No.
You list specific items. We’ll discuss them. You can tell us what they mean.

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scenes

04 July 2018

Politics in these United States.
https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/1014660151033384960

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scenes

04 July 2018

more Politics in these United States.
https://i.redd.it/9c9n9r462z711.png

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Todd Juvinall

04 July 2018

I knew Paul Emery was making it all up. I and others asked for a list of what he thinks the Rooskies did and he refuses. And the reason as we know they did nothing. They spent less money then tall the Supervisor candidates did here in Nevada County! Anyway, I want all the readers to see what a vacuous air bag Paul Emery really is. And how he tries to spread his propaganda. We know how to smoke them out. Thanks guys!

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Gregory

04 July 2018

Punchy 431pm
The ‘report’ is on the ICA put together in a rush by the outgoing Obama administration. It doesn’t include anything on the “Dossier” that kicked it off.
https://www.burr.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/SSCI%20ICA%20ASSESSMENT_FINALJULY3.pdf
Burr’s home page labels it thusly:
“Unclassified Summary of Initial Findings on 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment”
The investigation is ongoing. There is no additional there there.

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Bill Tozer

04 July 2018

Which reminds me. Whatever happened to all those posts and quotes from author Michael Wolf that graced our pages? Boy, the unhinged got all excited about Mr. Wolf and flooded the airwaves. Guess he was just one of a host of Great White Hopes that the Green Liberatarians hitched their wagon to.
I was going to ask whatever happened to Michael Avenatti, but I did my own homework, albeit from an source not on the approved reading list. Boy, that Michael Afenatti got the libs all hot and bothered as their next Great White Hope to undo what those darn voters did. At least that Michael is sticking around to led the children out of the wilderness.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny-news-avenatti-says-could-beat-trump-loves-daily-news-20180704-story.html
Hmm. What happened to the story that yet another Michael was going to bring the Trump Administration down, down, down? Michael Flynn, that is. Just another of the Lefties’ Great White Hope, I reckon.

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Gregory

04 July 2018

Todd et al, there is nothing in this thing that has any legally admissible evidence to a civil or criminal trial. Just “assessments”. Guesses.

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Todd Juvinall

04 July 2018

Gregory 623, thanks for exposing once again the mindless drivel of Paul Emery and his followers.
On another note. Stormies attorney, the creepy lawyer, was being sued and has lost a ten million dollar judgement against him. One of the provisions was the winner was to receive any payments the creepy guy gets and that includes the 550K Stormi has received for her case against Trump. My my my. What goes around comes around.

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Bill Tozer

04 July 2018

Scenes ?) was right. She does look like a dude. Ole Willy Brown better get his eyeballs checked. He gave her a brand new Mercedes, handed her good paying jobs on commissions, and then she dumped him like a hot rock when she got where she wanted to be. This all could have been avoided if ole Willy had gone to the eye doc much earlier.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1085098261640395/?type=3&theater

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George Rebane

04 July 2018

re PaulE’s ongoing comments. We all note that the man will NOT produce one single shred of evidence that the Russians impacted the 2016 election. To him a guess, allegation, assessment, … is conclusive evidence.

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Walt

04 July 2018

For Paul, it’s the seriousness of the charge. Evidence be damned.

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Bill Tozer

04 July 2018

The Walt special
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1088296567987231/?type=3&theater

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Todd Juvinall

04 July 2018

GeorgeR did you delete the sidebar of those you listed for ease of discovery?

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Todd Juvinall

04 July 2018

Frisch is posting a comparison of the babe and EPA Pruitt with Bundy and the BLM on my blog. Deranged people on the left.

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scenes

04 July 2018

Here’s one I ran into today.
The newly crowned Queen of Green Libertarians.
https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1014127299875270660
Her essentially uncovered-by-the-media Republican opponent.
https://www.stjohns.edu/academics/bio/anthony-pappas-phd

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George Rebane

04 July 2018

ToddJ 820pm – Not sure what you’re referring to; I switched the links to other blogs from right to left sidebar.

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scenes

04 July 2018

…and just for fun.
https://www.weeklystandard.com/tony-mecia/u-s-greenhouse-gas-emissions-falling-under-trump-european-emissions-rising

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Paul Emery

04 July 2018

George
You’re saying if you attempt a burglary and fail you didn’t commit a crime.

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Gregory

04 July 2018

Punchy, attempted burglary is a crime … one can expect half the prison sentence.
Tell us, Punch, what is the punishment for “meddling” in an election?

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Bill Tozer

04 July 2018

Meddling in an election? Heck, I use to make Out Law Chili, guaranteed to drive the In-laws Out, those meddling meddlers.
Well, congrats Dr. Rebane. You have been officially shamed by the News Director. How could you, you Cold Warrior, you! How could you of all people! Shame, shame, shame. And to think it was just last week that our own Gregory got shamed for not being classy enough. Burp.
Well, I once did some homework on a related topic. Took about 4 minutes. Those 17 or 19 Intell Agencies that signed off on the report that Russia was up to no good (like that is something new) and Putin or Putin with Trump hacking our election. 17 I think was the final number.
“Are you saying you believe all 19 of them are wrong!!,!,! Are you saying you don’t believe all the 17 or 19…blah, blah, Yes or no!?!? Yes or No. I really mean it this time.
Bottomline: if an agency like the Coast Guard did not do their own investigation into the matter and the NSA or CIA issues a report, they sign off on it. They sign off on a report of an investigation because, as is protocol, if you don’t raise any objections or dispute something, it is taken as a stamp of approval. If you did not investigate it yourselves, how could you challenge anything in the report? 17 or 19 or 23 don’t matter. Neither does the Post Office or ATF. Only 4-6 players that matter, 7 if your include Hillary’s Machine.
Fireworks make big booms in sky.

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Walt

04 July 2018

But Paul. Muller has indicted Russians. And how well is that going?
It was a stunt at best. Muller had no idea they would fight back.
So “news man”,, when is the trial date?

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Bill Tozer

04 July 2018

The Russians are up to no good again. Chemical warfare. Nerve gas. Interesting that they blocked off a Baptist Church. Ain’t Putin’s style. Spy vs Spy.
http://www.oann.com/british-anti-terrorism-police-called-in-as-unknown-substance-leaves-two-people-critical/

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Walt

05 July 2018

Someone pass Paul the Russian dressing.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/05/trump-russia-conspiracy-lawsuit/
“A federal judge tossed out a lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump’s campaign and former adviser Roger Stone worked with WikiLeaks.
“Plaintiffs assert that defendants engaged in a conspiracy with unidentified Russian agents and WikiLeaks to publish hacked emails,” the judge wrote Tuesday. “The Court will grant defendants’ motions to dismiss, deny plaintiffs’ motion, and dismiss plaintiffs’ suit without prejudice.” “

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scenes

05 July 2018

Green Libertarian political discourse.
https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/viral-video-shows-teen-attacked-for-wearing-make-american-great-again-hat
Just to run this again.
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/fbi-caught-red-handed-set-up-lynch-clinton-tarmac-meeting-according-to-ig-report/
A tragic story.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/05/i-stopped-going-to-the-gym-because-of-trump-now-i-cant-open-jars
Just a random story…
https://nypost.com/2018/07/04/statue-of-liberty-climber-identified-as-immigrant-activist
…but it’s interesting to see which media sources described her heroic feat as ‘climbing the Statue of Liberty’ vs. ‘climbing to the bottom of the feet’.

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fish

05 July 2018

“We must change the demographic. That’s the commandment. More women and people of color in the ranks. We see little evidence that managers and bureaucrats on campus have any other thought in their heads now. Diversity doesn’t amount to anything more than that. It’s a crass ambition, but a potent one because dissenters from it have no effective argument against it. It’s very bluntness and simplicity make it incontrovertible.”

I do hope the Sierra Business Council (SBC) will take this argument to heart….perhaps at the very top! Despite all the posturing they remain pretty much lily white!
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2018/07/02/the-coming-implosion-after-diversitys-victory/

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scenes

05 July 2018

Fish@7:27
I like the article, but the amazing thing is what it references.
https://facultydiversity.ucsd.edu/recruitment/contributions-to-diversity.html
“All candidates applying for faculty appointments at UC San Diego are required to submit a personal statement on their contributions to diversity.”
Check out the kinds of statements that the successful STEM professor applicants have to cook up.
https://facultydiversity.ucsd.edu/_files/BIO_C2D_Statement_Redacted1.pdf
https://facultydiversity.ucsd.edu/_files/Physical%20Sciences%20Statement_C2D_2_Redacted.pdf
https://facultydiversity.ucsd.edu/_files/engineeringC2D_Redacted1.pdf
lol. As a society, we are so screwed.

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fish

05 July 2018

Posted by: scenes | 05 July 2018 at 08:19 AM
Check out the kinds of statements that the successful STEM professor applicants have to cook up.
It’s embarrassing that an institution of higher learning would solicit this flavor of canned bilge! Then again they really aren’t institutions of higher learning any longer (in the humanities and liberal arts anyway), they are merely places where indoctrination is administered for a great deal of money!

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scenes

05 July 2018

fish@8:36AM
Which was then followed by new gatekeepers of course. Just imagine the size of the industry behind this kind of thing.
https://www.uccs.edu/lases/full_program_listings/diversity
Besides being somewhat irritating, it’s a darned shame how many man hours are spent wasted in the diversity industry. Not all of these people are stupid and their time could be spent somewhere else to greater effect.
I guess that in an era where a number of the most talented people spend their careers writing algorithms for feeding the correct ad on Facebook or Google, it’s just a bit more friction in the system.

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Bill Tozer

05 July 2018

Ah, diversity for diversity’s sake. Guess all job applicants must have a serious amount of social justice work in their resumes.
In a related topic, was digging around the subject of Affirmative Action on campus applicants this early morn, aka, the Asian problem. Looks like nobody wants too many Asians represented in the student body. The Asian-American hopefuls have their resumes stacked to the hilt with great grades and extra curricular activities. Above and beyond. Hard work Is evident concerning the many stellar Asian-American applicantions. Harvard has a policy to this sticky problem of having an overrepresention of qualified Asians and not enough other POCs.
The work around is simple, yet ingenious. The applicant is judged on likeablity and leadership skills, not just grades. The grain of rice to tip the scales. This is on top of dinging Asians and whites down a few notches before they are in the starting blocks. Likeablity and leadership skills? Well, that is judged and determined by college admissions personnel who have never meet the aspiring student, lol.
If I had that job to determine who gets in and who does not, who gets put at the heap and who gets buried at the bottom of the pile, I would just go through the applications and toss out half the names that sounded Asian or Angelo-Sexton. No Chins, no McCoys. They lack likeablity. A glum lot.
Interesting to note that SCOTUS has ruled for 150 years that its ok for the government to discriminate at times, sometimes not, sometimes never. Brown vs the Board of Ed touched on it, but Brown was over separate but equal. Even recent court rulings have said that race or ethnicity can be a factor, but not the primary factor in college admissions.
Yes, the war to have a of a color blind society has been lost. Like, it’s over, done, put a fork in it. I am a loser. Got a big L branded on my forehead. If you are Asian and not only meet but surpass the academic standards for admissions into Harvard, you done just got painted with the ole broadbrush.
Taking any individual and placing them into a group by their race or ethnicity, then proceed to judge that person solely by group identity their group was pigeoned holed into to is the very definition of racism.

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Robert Cross

05 July 2018

Try doing a search of “how did Russian hacking affect the election” and you will find lots of proof. With the winner take all electoral college all it took was a few tweeks here and there in selected precincts in selected states where trump only won by a few thousand votes and you have the winner. To think that Russian meddling had no effect is ludicrous. To ignore the fact that they did influence the election is dangerous.

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scenes

05 July 2018

“how did Russian hacking affect the election”
I searched for that phrase and got zero hits on duckduckgo and 1 on google. Just imagine how many more votes Trump would have gotten if that guy hadn’t leaked the infamous Pussy Tape.
How about you post some of those, explain exactly what they are and how many people changed their votes. I’d love some proof on state-level hacking aside from taking the word of the 17 intelligence agencies.
You have to admit that it’s ironic that most of the craziness in the election was merely leaks of misdeeds. The Trump Pussy Tape, election fixing by the DNC, partisan leaking of debates, etc. None of it was false, but evidently ‘who’ did the leak appears to actually matter more.
No doubt the real criminal behavior was the Clinton campaign handling of money, but that’s for a different day.

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Todd Juvinall

05 July 2018

Oh BoobieC please. Give us the official list of the Rooskies meddling by our Intelligence departments, not some DailyKos conspiracy nuts.

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scenes

05 July 2018

BillT 9:09AM
“an overrepresention of qualified Asians and not enough other POCs.”
Realistically, there’s only one color that really counts as a general rule in those systems. They might as well change ‘POC’ to ‘BP’ if they want to be honest about it.

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scenes

05 July 2018

re: Russian hacking and Trumphate
It occurred to me that it’s been a good six months (a year?) since the last Russia Hacking outburst.
It’s a pretty regular thing and there’s probably a sociology paper that could be written on how it (like a virus) shoots through the system to be expressed on different forums.
So, my question is whether we are seeing some sort of cycle? or is RUSSIAHACKING! the kind of thing that pops back up from the background when there’s nothing else to bitch about.
The Children in Cages(tm) story has pretty much run it’s course, so I think maybe that the hacking story is the one you bring up just to keep the engine idling.

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Bill Tozer

05 July 2018

Robert Cross.
It’s not a matter of ignoring, it’s a matter of quantifying the Russian influence. Right now it is pertnear impossible to do so. I would argue with what is currently known, it was not a top factor or major factor, or perhaps even a factor all in all. Yes, a few thousand votes in key states here or there could have swung the election if it went the other way. Suppose Jill Stein’s votes went to Hillary instead Dr. Stein in WI. Hillary said that was a factor in her loss. Suppose Hillary campaigned in WI just once or in rural Pennyslvia just one time. Or suburbs in Michigan.
You had the two most unpopular (unlikeable) candidates vying for President. Trump vs Crooked Hillary. It is easy to lose sight of the fact that Trump could of lost Florida and still won the Electoral College. Wasn’t even close.
One of the two things that will always stick in my mind in 2016 was the crowd size. Yes, crowd size does not equate to winning or a true indicator per conventional wisdom. But, Trump packed them to standing room only capacity, setting arena records in some places, electrifying audiences…. while Hillary was drawing a few hundred in controlled settings, way more if Bruce Springsteen or Beyoncé was the headliner. The whole crowd size and enthusiasm factor reminded me orf Arnold at his rallies verses Grey Davis at the same time addressing his “audiences” in high school cafeterias. Or Obama drawing 200,000 in Germany and 70,000 in Denver in the 2008 race.
The other thing that really really sticks with me is the last night of campaigning for Trump. Actually, it was Election Day in the wee hours of the early morn, around 2:00 am. Trump,was notorious for arriving on time or close to being on time for appearances all through the campaign. Hillary was notorious for being habitually late, but I digress. Heck, Trump even had to climb fences and run (literally) across fields to address the crowds when protesters blocked the entrances to keep him out with human chains after the RNC Convention.
But the last night he was exhausted and running an hour, then 90 minutes, then two hours behind. Had a packed and stacked impromptu schedule flying all over the place, squeezing another appearance in. His last appearance was hastily scheduled midnight rally in Michigan or maybe western Pennsylvania.
The night was freezing bitter cold. Twenty thousand people stood out in a field waiting for Trump’s midnight rally. Then an hour passed, then two. Rumors started that Trump would not make it. The temps were dropping. Yet, without shelter or cover, they waited in the elements. 20,000 pairs of frozen boots and frozen shoes stood that night in that frozen field at the end of the runway waiting for Trump, hoping against hope he would show,up. He did. How do you quantify that? Place that against Russian influence.
Yep, I remember well when Trump announced he was going to Michigan during the race. The media literally laughed at the silly notion. A waste of time, Michigan, Pennsylvania, WI? Trump is so native. Theynare a lock for Hillary. He doesn’t have a prayer there. No Republican does. Maybe it was them Rooskie Commie bastards that swung votes his way. Talk tomthe hand.

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Paul Emery

05 July 2018

Just a refresher Todd because your mempry is short
“There is no doubt that Russia undertook an unprecedented effort to interfere with our 2016 elections,” said Senator Richard Burr, the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in a statement issued with Mark Warner, its most senior Democrat.
“The Russian effort was extensive, sophisticated, and ordered by President Putin himself for the purpose of helping Donald Trump and hurting Hillary Clinton.”
details
https://www.burr.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/SSCI%20ICA%20ASSESSMENT_FINALJULY3.pdf

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Todd Juvinall

05 July 2018

Paul Emery looks like FaceBook is as dense as you. They removed the Declaration of Independence from their web and called it hate speech.
Please list the ways the Rooskies meddled Paul Emery. This is about the tenth time you have tried your propaganda.

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Paul Emery

05 July 2018

They’re listed in the link I provided you Todd. It cracks me up that you are supporting the Russians in this matter

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