[Agreed, that last sandbox was getting a little ripe. Question – will Dems be able to keep the 'would/wouldn't' dust devil alive until November? gjr]

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278 responses to “Sandbox – 18jul18”
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,,,well said,
‘’’The press conference confirmed that Mr Trump believes protecting his own reputation – and the legitimacy of his 2016 election victory – is more important than investigating Russia’s attempts to wreck America’s democratic process. Astonishingly, it revealed he is prepared to sell out his own intelligence agencies – and exonerate Putin – in his attempt to do so. As ever, Trump tried to backtrack later and blame others when he saw the scale of the outrage at his performance. But the damage had been done.’’’
Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/ruth-davidson-putin-sychophant-trump-will-never-destroy-western-democracy-1-4770151
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,,,ain’t that sweet,
The US paid trumpsk’s Turnberry $50,000,
,,,of course, the tax haters see nothing here,
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/donald-trump-s-turnberry-firm-paid-50-000-by-us-government-for-weekend-visit-1-4770069
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,,,make that £50,000,,,
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No problem with that George. there’s new dust devils every day. His comment on Russian attacks ending just an hour ago is example. George, this guy is a real idiot. sooner or later you’re gonna accept that.
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Who in Nevada County besides Douglas Keachie reads or cites “The Scotsman”?
That’s a bad batch of haggis, laddie.
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A reporter asked Trump is the Rooskies are still meddling. He said NO. The media is now in therapy./
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Todd
Once again Trump contradicted his intelligence team. Very bad. It’s the Republicans that are in therapy. the anti Trumpers are in party mode. He’s the gift that keeps on giving. what an idiot.
His Staff is as we speak is freaking out because he did it again. They bailed him out last time but it may not work this time.
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The democrats are the gift that keeps on giving. Just watched them arguing for a “carbon tax” And then they are all running for the baseboards and away from voting for their own idea of getting rid of the ICE. ICE was named something like “Barbara Jordan” whatever. Anyway I say keep it up you lefty nuts. Americans are going to boot you out for a generation.
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You know, everywhere the Leftinistas gleefully look into and dig up, there is a buried Dem skeleton to be found and brought back to life. Back to the Future!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/18/clinton-controversies-return-to-spotlight-in-kavanaugh-confirmation.html
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Bad day for the gun grabbers –
Gun rights advocates on Tuesday won another round in the fight against a state law that aims to ban high-capacity gun magazines.
The California law restricting gun magazines to 10 bullets was set to go into effect last July, but U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez in San Diego granted a preliminary injunction until a lawsuit by gun owners could be litigated further.
On Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeal upheld the preliminary injunction in a 2-1 ruling.
Meanwhile, the case — Duncan v. Becerra — has been moving through the district court. The ruling means the law won’t go into effect until the case can be litigated in full. The district judge is considering a motion for summary judgement, which is a major step that dictates if the case goes to trial.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sd-me-magazine-ruling-20180717-story.html
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I beat you to it by 12 hours, DB, I should have asked George to transfer it to the new sandbox:
Remember that proposition that banned large capacity magazines (as if anything more than 10 is large capacity) in California… that was to go into effect last July?
You miscreants with large cap magazines were going to have to get rid of them by the D-day.
Well, there was a lower Federal court that put in a restraining order in time to keep it going into effect, and there was an appeal to the 9th Circus challenging the order.
http://michellawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Duncan-2018-07-17-Memorandum-Affirming.pdf
Lo! and behold! the panel (pinch me, it’s the 9th Circuit!) upheld the restraining order on 2nd Amendment grounds.
Now, we just gots to get us another textualist or two onto the Supremes because that’s where its headed.
Posted by: Gregory | 17 July 2018 at 11:58 PM
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Here is the meeting video from this morning. Go to the last minute or so and listen to the President. No wet dreams for democrats that I can see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1oqIsM7x0g
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Someone say 9th Circuit Court of Appeals? Blue slips? We don’t need no stinkin’ blue slips.
http://www.pfaw.org/blog-posts/judicial-nominee-ryan-bounds-is-yet-another-ideological-extremist-selected-by-trump-for-his-extremism/
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The precedent-breaker looks to be Ryan Bounds, a 44-year-old federal prosecutor in Oregon. At its first meeting in June, the Judiciary panel is on track to endorse him for a seat on the 9th Circuit, even though the state’s senators, Democrats Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, have refused to turn in blue slips. After Bounds was chosen from a roster of four recommended by an independent screening committee, his inflammatory writings as a college student — about sexual assault and gay rights, among other topics — were labeled disqualifying by the senators.
“It’s a very significant mistake for this committee to have gotten rid of this tradition,” Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island told Judiciary last week. “We will rue the day.”
Once the custom is shattered, Trump could feel emboldened to try to fill three California vacancies on the 9th Circuit with people opposed by the state’s senators, Democrats Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris. And their blue-slip behavior could be powerless to stop him, even though both sit on the Judiciary Committee.
https://www.rollcall.com/news/hawkings/blue-slip-judicial-nominees-custom
Ok, Fregory, maybe McConnel can stay. :).
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,,,toes 1140,,,no, just you and Faux News living in the past,,,look over there!!!
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,,,cover your ears pubbers,,,
https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/1019537276869791744
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As if the voters have missed this –
And a sharply leftist political agenda that once produced eye rolls – on everything from their opposition to capitalism to their questioning the very existence of prisons – has become a serious topic of discussion on social media, and in mainstream political debate.
In short, it’s going according to a plan by the Democratic Socialists of America, a group that’s dedicated to pushing an anti-capitalist, socialist platform by infiltrating and working within the Democratic Party, and pushing it further and further to the left.
“Progressive and socialist candidates who openly reject the neoliberal mainstream Democratic agenda may choose for pragmatic reasons to use the Democratic Party ballot line in partisan races,” wrote Joseph M. Schwartz, vice chairman of the DSA, in the socialist Jacobin Magazine last August. “But whatever ballot line the movement chooses to use, we must always be working to increase the independent power of labor and the left.”
The Democratic Socialists playbook, detailed on its website, calls for a methodical march to becoming a truly national force – where they can run candidates and push ideas under a Socialist Party banner – by first working from within the Democratic establishment. That strategy paid off big with the recent congressional primary victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old DSA member who much of the media has ordained the new face of the Democratic Party.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/18/socialists-working-from-within-to-push-democratic-party-further-left.html
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,,,a very stable genius,,,
“‘The president shrewdly executed some kind of mind jiujitsu on Putin by purposely discounting the U.S. intelligence assessments that have said Moscow interfered in America’s political process and, instead, giving credence to the Russian leader’s denials of such efforts.
“The president just looked right back at [Putin] and with the same straight face… basically sent a message: ’If you can sit here and tell me that with a straight face and that’s what it takes it to move forward in other negotiations, I most certainly can match you on this, and in fact I can stand here and say, ‘Of course you didn’t do it,’ even though we all know that [you did],’” Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota told reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday.
“The reality is,” Rounds continued, expounding on his theory of Trump as a fourth-dimensional chess master, “‘I know you did it, you know you did it, and you know that I know that you did it.’ So to me, Mr. Putin tried to tell the whopper with a straight face and President Trump basically laid out, ‘You wanna play that game? Fine. I can do the same thing because we all know you did.’”’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-senator-offers-craziest-theory-214123599.html
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,,,end trumpski’s reign, vote Democrat!!!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/lifelong-republican-james-comey-tells-151236544.html
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The buzz words of the month are animus and hubris.
And to think some are worried about Trump disrespecting our fine upstanding civil servants.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57189-comey-outs-himself-as-a-democrat-partisan-hack
The more they speak, the more we see them for what they are.
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Could things get any worse there? Well they could mandate that a psychotic homeless person be on the Board of Supervisors for reasons of inclusion. Would anyone notice the difference?
https://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/07/18/san-francisco-opens-non-citizen-voting-in-school-board-elections/
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Could things get any worse there on MSNBC?
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/cody-leach/2018/07/18/msnbcs-barnicle-rewrite-constitution-and-remove-trump-now
I love the smell of popping heads in the morning.
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Looks like the democrats fell on their own petard. They wanted to get rid of ICE but it went down in flames. And the lames in charge of them in the House voted PRESENT! That was always Obama’s favored voting method when he chickened out. The R’s called the bluff of the libs and won again.
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“… by purposely discounting the U.S. intelligence assessments that have said Moscow interfered in America’s political process and, instead, giving credence to the Russian leader’s denials of such efforts.”
Would these be the same intelligence assessments as the ones warning us about Saddam H’s nukes?
Besides – the idea that Moscow successfully ‘interfered’ in America’s political process is laughable. Obama did far more to interfere in our political process by having the IRS slow-walk and stall conservative 501C3 applications. That was our own govt weaponised to insidiously and illegally tilt the field in favor of the then-current admin.
I think you poor, feeble-minded lefties can some how shake off the evil mind control of the commies if you really want to.
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,,,who are these pubbers who dare to speak out against DUFUS POTUS,
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-17/trump-s-putin-defense-proves-too-much-for-some-republicans
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,,,wacky doodle pubber fundamentalists, the new Taliban,
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/womans-vile-breastfeeding-facebook-post-angered-lots-lots-people-164444960.html
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Elon Musk for President,,,not a game show host,,,
http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-efforts-humanitarian-crises-and-their-status-2018-7
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Toes 103pm
McConnell has shown his value as of late. I tried to tell you GOP partisans to hang tight, but GOP congresscritters (House and Senate) don’t bend under the whip like DEMs do, and there is little a bare majority in the Senate can do with a President in opposition.
Let me assure the both eyes closed brigade (that’s RL Crabb) that I’d much rather a Libertarian Party be one of the two major parties, but in the meantime, I’m satisfied with the courts applying the text that is in the constitution rather than the text the Living Constitutionalists want to see. And with Donald Trump being the lawfully elected President of the US, it’s time to stop the Resistance. Trump is not as bad as your hallucinations make him out to be, and he is the President until 2020, and that could be until january 2025 if the Resistance keeps the BS up.
The Democratic/Democratic Socialist Party has been a disaster for the USA. Time to cool it, folks.
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The asswipe picked the wrong store to try and sucker.
https://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/07/18/watch-sacha-baron-cohen-flees-after-being-called-out-by-gun-store-owner/
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Fox 11 quotes Sweidan saying, “He comes in, off the bat you can see in the video I’m looking like, this guy does not look like a Hungarian immigrant, tight ass leather pants, a beard, it just didn’t fit. The moment his words came out of his mouth I was like this guy is full of s***.” “
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“M” aka Doug Keachie 241pm
Musk is ineligible to be President. Born in Africa. 😉
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duh
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Walt @ 2:54 pm
Great find. Oh, the sights and sounds of sweet justice. He chose a real deplorable instead of a politician and ending up running out for his life, lol.
Headsup: That guy got some real bad footage making some gun trainers and CC folk look real real embarrassing to all. Left will go nuts They said stupid stuff. Showtime. Servers him right now that the word is out.:)
Hey, solved the mystery of that blob in the sky at the crack of dawn over the PV sky.
It was one of these:
https://patriotpost.us/memes/57151-trump-baby-sees-you
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Bill.. More from Ms. shit for brains.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/18/socialist-ocasio-cortezs-false-claim-unemployment-low-because-everyone-has-two-jobs/
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Oh, unemployment is low, everything is fine,’ right?” she said, adding, “Well, unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs. Unemployment is low because people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week and can barely feed their kids.” ”
Pure BS.
And this is what the idiot LIBS elected?
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,,,Walt,,,7.4 million Americans have multiple jobs. Are you saying they don’t matter?
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,,,trumpski now says no ‘time limit’ to denuclearize North Korea!!! Now that is GENIUS!!!
Bwahaha!!!
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Here M, let me sing ya a song while Mommie takes that diaper off you head and put one on your freshly powdered bun bun. Heck, you are a big bo now, you can do it yourself. WHAT! I meant put on a fresh one. Crap.
Here, I sing you a song to soothe the savage beast while we try it again.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KkM71JPHfjk
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Looks like @ 344 does not count any better than the limousine communist cortz. Oh my 7m have double jobs out of 130m. LOL
Hold their collectivist feet to the fire!
Democrats are under growing pressure from their progressive base to block ICE’s popular immigration reforms. But that is electoral poison, so Democratic leaders have been trying to shift attention back to higher priorities issues such as healthcare.
Only 18 Democrats voted for the GOP’s pro-enforcement resolution, while 34 Democrats voted against the resolution and 133 abstained by voting “present” in the hope of minimizing the blowback from ordinary voters or the progressive base.
https://www.breitbart.com/2018-elections/2018/07/18/house-gop-dunks-167-democrats-abolish-ice-vote/
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Posted by: “M” | 18 July 2018 at 09:40 AM
Oh dugski……that pillow is so you!
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,,,Bessie,,,i know you don’t care ‘cause you are on Medicare!!!
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The gift that is giving way more than the Dems want –
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/07/18/joe-lieberman-rips-socialist-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-supports-crowley-says-democrats
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The thought police are going to keep trying –
https://www.toddstarnes.com/faith/cease-desist-town-orders-family-to-stop-hosting-bible-studies-on-farm/
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Right on time Dougy, Leave it to you to get it wrong, and defend the idiot. Try actually reading the evidence… Oh wait. I know how you are when it comes facts. Clueless.
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,,,Bessie,,,that is in Pennsylvania,,,what goes on there,,,I don’t care
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,,,waltz,,,the BiteMe article said 5% Mensa man!!! Did you miss what her district is??? It is on the other side of the country in a densely populated area unlike Penntucky!!!
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If your here stinking up the place, that means you got 86ed from the Daily Caller. No one likes you Dougy,, you sure know how to win friends and influence people. HELL! Even Lefties give you the shun.
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Aww, isn’t that cute @ 437 – it thinks someone cares what it thinks. 😉
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Welcome to the real world prime minister dreamy –
Since January 2017, more than 30,000 people have illegally crossed the Canada-U.S. border to file refugee claims in Canada. Many have told Reuters they did so because they did not feel safe pursuing refugee claims in President Donald Trump’s United States.
(Graphics: https://tmsnrt.rs/2FHLRFk)
The numbers dropped significantly in both May and June with an average of about 42 people a day crossing in June, compared to about 85 a day in April, according to government figures.
But the federal Liberal government has come under fire from political opponents for not taking more aggressive action on the issue. This week the opposition Conservatives and NDP demanded an emergency study of the government’s response.
Ottawa has also butted heads with Ontario’s new populist government under Premier Doug Ford. Ford and his immigration minister blamed the Liberals for creating a “mess” and demanded they cover the cost.
Canada and the United States have an agreement under which asylum seekers who try to cross at formal ports of entry are turned around and told to apply in the first country they arrived in. People have crossed illegally between those formal crossings, where the agreement does not apply. Once in Canada they have a right to file refugee claims.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-07-18/canadas-trudeau-facing-criticism-appoints-border-security-minister
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They say that Cortez filly has a degree in international relations. I would be suing for a refund, myself. You go girl
. Everybody man the battle stations …er…people the battle stations, block ICE, get the Underground Railroad going, open the jail cell doors and let em out…all you who ain’t working, that is.
OWS crowd rides again! Come on people, get off you kesters and hit the pavement. We be socialists, all ideology, no smarts. History begins today. Got much work to do. They will listen to us and heed our great ideas.
Oh, she is the best thing that could have ever arrived on the scene. Perfect timing. just as they we starting to come together. Bernie’s mini-me. Rip that Democrat Party out of momma’s arms and make mama cry real tears. You go,girl.
https://patriotpost.us/memes/57159-dreaming-big
Ah, just take off everyone’s front door and make it easier for all involved. Need a place to crash, bro?
Little does she know that the reason 9 and 11 year old immigrant kids worked in sweatshops back in the day is because they had to. Not enough food in the house, Papa
didn’t make enough to feed the whole family, Mama did what she could. Hard working kids, hard working folks. No welfare, no unemployment insurance, work long long hours 6 days a week. And now great grandma’s little Princess has come of age. Timing couldn’t be better.
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M at 2:38 – perfect example of why we laugh at you.
“wacky doodle pubber fundamentalists, the new Taliban…”
It was one single person, no mention of religion or political affiliation and really – Taliban? Clearly the M has no idea of what it’s talking about. Looks like the left is getting desperate for any real stories about life in the USofA to keep the public’s attention away from bad stuff happening in Dem run cities like SF. They finally got the mayor out to actually look at the shit on her own city’s streets.
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M keeps throwing manure at it’s own face.
“Bessie,,,that is in Pennsylvania,,,what goes on there,,,I don’t care”
So, M – where was the big boobie feeding brew-ha-ha?
Your credibility is already underwater. Are going for subterranean?
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