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[Ideology – n. A structured and communicable belief system that in its best expression is composed of tenets defendable by and malleable to reason. Ideologue – a person who is willing to communicate his ideology.  A more dubious definition of an ideologue is “a person who zealously advocates an ideology”.  The adverb 'zealously' denotes doing something in an "ardent, devoted, or diligent manner".  Hence, I confess again that I am an ideologue.  But then what does one call a person who advocates an ideology in a non-zealous manner?  gjr]

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263 responses to “Sandbox – 23jul18”

  1. George Rebane Avatar

    fish 725pm – You might try holding off on italics until you can manage HTML without training wheels 😉

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    What do you do on fourth and forty? Good job Fish. Teamwork.
    Is it just me, or did anyone else notice yesterday that Trumps polls are the highest they have ever been, even after mass hysteria over cages and Putin’s puppet? Odd. Could it be the tick up coincides with the open arms greetings the Dems gave The Bronx Bomber, the new kid on the block, the one and only OC and her Shooting Stars! Just as Mad Max told everybody to go out and get them Trumpers and tell them they are not welcome here. Just when Democratic Socialism became is cool, and let’s put ICE on ice. Follow the timeline. Or is this but another colletation does not equate to causation?
    Wonder how many folks (besides here) noticed that every issue that is important to the the Alt Leftinistas is not even on the radar for normal Americans’s top priority. Russian Collusion did not even make the starting gate and failed to register and climate change is at the bottom of the heat along with open borders. Important to them, not to the majority. Guess they must of taken some internal polling that showed Trump rising and them sinking and put out the memo, “Change direction now!”
    The Dems’new plan is Trump-lite.
    https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/democrats-economic-policies-job-skills-infrastructure/
    Another correlation does not equate to to causation? They saw the light!

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  3. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    “They are doing all they can to stifle democracy and kneecap our government!!!”
    Any concrete examples? No – I didn’t think so.
    M needs a bib to keep all of his saliva off of his new jumper.

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  4. "M" Avatar
    “M”

    ,,,why does trumpski continue to lie about his win in Wisconsin???
    ,,,he keeps repeating the lie that Wisconsin hasn’t been won by a pubber since Eisenhower???!!!
    ,,,it has been won by pubbers 7 times!!!
    What a buffoon!!!

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish


    ,,,why does trumpski continue to lie about his win in Wisconsin???

    He is trying to emulate members of the democrat party?

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    Looks like it is working just fine……

    Amazon’s face ID tool mismatched 28 members of Congress to mugshots: ACLU

    http://news.trust.org/item/20180726120000-51gft

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  7. "M" Avatar
    “M”

    ,,,trump youth,,,good to know trumpski is a comedian!!!

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  8. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: “M” | 26 July 2018 at 09:04 AM
    Yes dugski….yet another blessing of not having that Soviet style, post menopausal, California DMV type bureaucrat as Chief Executive.
    See….your getting it now!

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Keep on keepin on there team lefty –
    Certainly, this is concerning for Democrats, as recent polls reveal that the party is simply not winning on this divisive—and potentially decisive—issue. Notably, according to a July Quinnipiac poll, 60 percent of voters say Democrats in Congress are more interested in “exploiting the nation’s immigration issue for political gain,” instead of actually resolving the issue of immigration. Most Americans view the Democratic rhetoric against Trump’s immigration policies as political grandstanding, and not as a sincere motivation to enact helpful policy.
    Even more revealing is the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll conducted in July, which found that 56 percent of Americans see Democratic candidates as out of step with the mainstream, an increase of 8 percent since 2016. This surge can at least partially be attributed to the progressive left candidates themselves, and the direction that they are pushing the party in as a whole.
    Indeed, Democrats should be most concerned over the fact that Trump’s approval rating just hit an all-time high, according to a new poll from the Wall Street Journal and NBC. This rating is driven by his strong approval from Republicans, who overwhelmingly approve of the president.
    http://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/398786-calls-for-open-borders-wind-up-closing-doors-for-democrats
    😉

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  10. "M" Avatar
    “M”

    ,,,oh dear,,,she be monkeywrenched,,,
    Betsy DeVos yacht set adrift,,,I claim salvage rights!!!
    https://tinyurl.com/y6uaafjp

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    That did not last long. She’s back. Street rage is ok, it’s the American way. Peaceful assembly and all that.
    During the interview, she also said, “[Trump is] one of the most deplorable people I’ve ever encountered in my life.”
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/25/maxine-waters-screaming-trump/
    https://external-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQAt93BDqqtHLfHx&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2Fl41YdsBZC6Im0L8cM%2Fgiphy.gif&_nc_hash=AQCoAa6cStsw8YnP

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  12. Paul Emery Avatar

    Oh Oh This will make Trumps pants poopy. His top financial guy who knows everything supeoned by a Federal Grand Jury. From the conservative Wall Street Journal:
    “Allen Weisselberg, a longtime financial gatekeeper for President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in the criminal probe of Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, according to people familiar with the investigation.
    Mr. Weisselberg is considered a witness in the investigation, the people said. It isn’t known whether he has already appeared before the grand jury or what questions prosecutors of New York’s Southern District have had for him. The date of the subpoena couldn’t be determined. ”
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-organization-finance-chief-called-to-testify-before-federal-grand-jury-1532622947

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  13. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1220pm – Yes Paul, hope springs eternal.

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  14. Paul Emery Avatar

    Hoseguy Don writes:
    “Trump’s approval rating just hit an all-time high.”
    You’re cherry picking the polls again Hoseman.
    Huh? Not according to the RCP consensus poll shows him down by 9.8.
    https://www1.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another exhibit that our po’ ol’ fakenewsman has some reading ability but ZERO comprehension. Those were the words of the author of the link, pathetic.
    😉

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “His top financial guy who knows everything”
    Now wait a cotton pickin’ minute. I thought Flynn knew everything. No, wait, Manafort knows everything. Stop. Gates knows everything! Man, I am just spoiling myself all over the place. Looks like an elephant has been in here.
    Kinda funny how they are now investigating Trump’s Tweets…going back in time. Aha, the secrets are coded in Trump’s tweets. Best place to hide something is right in plain sight. Amazing.
    https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1380583685408998/?type=3&source=48
    Hey, I call cultural appropriation. Foul. Fowl.
    https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1380611182072915/?type=3&source=48.

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  17. Paul Emery Avatar

    By the way Hoseman. Would you rather I call you hoseguy or hoseboy? Some use one others use another. Let me know which one you prefer.

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  18. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Paul ‘Crickets’ Emery@12:29PM
    If there’s a trend, at least a local one, I’d say that it’s up or neutral. Not much of a story there.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html
    Hey, you’re going to piss off people if you’re going to save the West. The God-Emperor has work to do.

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  19. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@10:23
    Of course Obama was behind it all. A big life simplifier is just to view him as a homosexual version of Lyndon Johnson. Same instincts, different base appetites.
    re: Twitter
    https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1022483413843025920

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  20. Paul Emery Avatar

    So it’s not a big deal George when you’re top financial guy is called to testify in front of a Grand Jury. Nothing for Trump to be concerned about if.
    “This Weisselberg is the same one the Wall Street Journal referred to as “Donald Trump’s Loyal Numbers Man” two years ago. He is 70 years old and has reportedly been working for the Trump Organization since the ’80s.
    “He plays an integral part in the Trump Organization’s growth and continued financial success,” Ivanka Trump was quoted in the “Loyal Numbers Man” story. “He is deeply passionate, fiercely loyal and has stood alongside my father and our family for over [three] decades.”
    In fact, Weisselberg is so central to Trump Organization activity that when Trump was president-elect, he left control of a trust with his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, but also with Weisselberg.
    https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/a-witness-allen-weisselberg-in-the-michael-cohen-probe-has-been-named/

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  21. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 26 July 2018 at 12:50 PM
    You left off your trademarked small town journalist catch phrase “Murrow of the Mountains”!
    YES OR NO!?!? Yes or no?

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  22. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The joys of dem/socialist/communist governance –
    Just days after the International Monetary Fund issued an eye-catching forecast — inflation of 1,000,000 percent in Venezuela this year — the data on the ground suggests that even that number may turn out to be too low.
    The price of a cup of coffee measured in Bloomberg’s Cafe Con Leche Index soared to 2,000,000 bolivars this week from 1,400,000 bolivars the week before. Back in late April, the price was 190,000 bolivars. That three-month increase equates to an annualized rate of 1,227,638 percent.
    https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/The-cost-of-a-cup-of-coffee-in-Caracas-just-hit-13107735.php
    😉

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Perhaps we should deport the occupy-Antifa class?
    Cleanup has begun at what, for five weeks, was the Occupy ICE PDX camp. Portland Police Bureau officers limited access to the site earlier [Wednesday], calling it a biohazard.
    The mayor’s office confirmed to FOX 12, the city will pay for a portion of the cleanup bill, as will TriMet. Both are part of the consortium that owns the land on which protesters set up their camp.
    https://www.infowars.com/occupy-ice-pdx-protesters-leave-heaps-of-trash-human-waste-for-city-to-clean-at-taxpayers-expense/
    😉

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  24. Walt Avatar

    Just a public service post. ( rat bastards,,,,,)
    https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/07/26/safe-boxes-stolen-drilled/
    “Susan Nomi says when she went to open her Bank of America safe deposit box of 16 years, the entire box was gone.
    That’s where she kept her family’s jewelry and her dad’s coin collection.
    “I was in shock; I was just like what happened to my box,” said Nomi.
    So if you have one,, make sure it’s still there.
    Gotta love the reply.
    “They say thanks for letting us know,” she says.”

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  25. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: DonB@1:20PM
    My take is that you could track voting patterns by mapping the amount of poop in the street.
    Hang on, I thought of a way to test that.
    https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7576027/trump_map.jpg
    https://i.amz.mshcdn.com/hR8aRIe0nVZD6jMnUKaRN0IJqnM=/950×534/filters:quality(90)/2014%2F11%2F22%2F04%2Fpoop.63057.jpg
    Bingo.
    You know, there probably is a research paper here somewhere. I wonder if I could get some of that sweet sweet .gov grant money.

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  26. "M" Avatar
    “M”

    ,,,a picture is worth a thousand words,,, and no, she is not American
    https://tinyurl.com/y9mxx63b

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  27. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Clearly a product of the dem/socialist/communist educational system. What’s yours is mine, ya baby and I will take the bike while I am at it you greedy, selfish gezzers. Just die and give us you money!
    http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/07/26/california-teen-wakes-up-couple-to-ask-for-wi-fi-code-as-burglarizes-their-house-police-say.html
    😉

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee
  29. Walt Avatar

    Poor guy…. Being a Proggy shill comes back to bite?
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/mark-zuckerberg-loses-over-15-billion-in-less-than-a-day

    Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg experienced on Thursday after the social media giant’s shares plunged 19% erasing over $119 billion in market cap in just one day, the most ever for a public company, according to our partners at WSJ Market Data Group. It is also the worst percentage drop for the company ever.”
    He’s in Frisco. That’s just might make him “low income”.
    New benefit receiver!

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  30. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Cool.
    http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/399005-mueller-reviewing-trumps-tweets-as-part-of-obstruction-investigation
    Remember back when the ‘Mueller Investigation’ was to look into Russian influence on the campaign. I do.
    lol. You gotta hand it to Team Blue, they don’t give up easily in their efforts to bring down Western Civilization. Biggest fishing expedition in history.

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  31. "M" Avatar
    “M”

    walt,,,Zuckerberg must be bummed he dropped two places on the world’s richest list

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  32. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Must be mercury in retrograde, now they start to care about ratepayers instead of trendy PC group thought –
    We’re extremely disappointed in today’s Public Utility Commission of Texas’ decision rejecting our Wind Catcher proposal,” Melissa McHenry, an American Electric spokeswoman, said in an email. “We are evaluating our options.”
    Oklahoma Project
    The project that Invenergy LLC is developing in Oklahoma needs approvals from both Texas and Oklahoma to move forward, American Electric’s Chief Executive Officer Nick Akins said Wednesday during an earnings call with analysts. Oklahoma’s attorney general and a state administrative law judge concluded in February the company failed to prove there was an economic need for the project and that it left customers shouldering too much of the risk.
    https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/largest-u-wind-project-dealt-170646474.html
    😉

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  33. Walt Avatar

    Don. Looks like another Solyindra in the making. If it’s that great,
    Ol’ Buffet can finance it all.

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  34. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Blood on the hands of the open boarders dem/socialist/communists hands, again!
    Desmaret was previously arrested in 2011 after a standoff with police and arrested multiple times for trespassing. His most recent arrest was in March 2017. The illegal alien should have been turned over to ICE following his first arrest, but never was.
    😉

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  35. Walt Avatar

    Since Paul won’t do his damned job here,,
    https://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/07/26/michael-avenatti-bars-media-from-california-bankruptcy-court-proceeding-on-his-firm/
    The same asswipe demanding transparency out of Trump, now wants his own dirty laundry to stay behind closed doors? You hypocrite bastard.
    ” were not going to be leveraged by other people who are trying to get famous and take advantage of the situation.”
    LOL!!! The same thing you are doing, and did?… What a weasel dick.
    Now how come LIB news isn’t going apesh*t and demanding access? They should be poo flingers by now, and buttsore to no end.
    But, nope,,, seems their “cool” with it.
    There Paul. Just cleaning up after you again.

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  36. "M" Avatar
    “M”

    ,,,asswipe, weasel dick, poo flingers,,,what we call lawyers hereabouts,,,butt-sore is when you get the bill

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  37. Walt Avatar

    For once I agree with ya’.

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  38. fish Avatar
    fish

    Whew! That’s a relief….Shotgun Joe is going to need all the non felons he can muster in the 2020 race!
    PICTURED: Joe Biden’s glamorous niece wins sweetheart plea deal and avoids jail after she faced felony charges for a $100,000 credit card scam
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5996609/Joe-Bidens-niece-Caroline-avoids-jail-faced-felony-100-000-credit-card-scam.html

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  39. Walt Avatar

    Pay up the earthquake coverage.
    http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/07/26/big-one-coming-earthquakes-off-west-coast-could-eventually-trigger-global-event.html
    If the entire 650-mile long Cascadia Subduction Zone (which includes the Juan de Fuca plate) were to experience a full rupture, it could not only trigger a 9.0 earthquake, but a tsunami as well.
    The Juan De Fuca plate stretches from Northern California to British Columbia and the Cascadia Subduction Zone stretches from N. Vancouver Island to Cape Mendicino, California.
    OK,,, Key word,,”IF”.

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  40. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Hmmm. Let’s see what’s been happening out there. Somebody smashed up Trump’s Star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, somebody unmoored Betsy Devos’s yacht, and Sean Spicer got yelled all and called a piece of garbage at a Barnes and Nobel in Brooklyn. Sounds about right.
    I just don’t see any equivelancy to how the Right behaved when Obama was President. The violence, the vitriol, the unhinged outbursts always comes from the Left. Leftist violence is just a fact of life. A one way street.
    “ Spicy” Spicer can handle that kind of thang easily. Being Trump’ former press secretary, he faced those kind of people on a daily basis.
    https://www.mediaite.com/trump/watch-sean-spicer-get-brutally-heckled-at-brooklyn-event-youre-a-real-piece-of-garbage/

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  41. George Rebane Avatar

    re BillT 714pm – Another tranche of additions into the collection of what we may term as Exhibit A of the asymmetric thuggery of the Left.

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    What store was Trumps star in front of I wonder? Well folks I will gladly exchange a bit of colored rocks and a couple of mooring ropes for something worthwhile.
    You know like the golden ticket, the 5th vote on the way to say what 7 SCOTUS? It helps in the real world across the country too. Like trade deals and stealing energy biz from the evil empire.
    Another narrative fail for the po’ ol’ putin party parrots. We all know those folks.
    😉

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, I thought we were compensating illegals already. Learn something new everyday.
    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/07/25/hot-new-idea-from-democrats-compensating-illegal-aliens-n2503681
    I am starting to be convinced here is no upside to illegal immigration. And I am confused. Now that the outcry of separating illegal aliens from their children has been addressed and is being dealt with the best we can with the resources we have, the ACLU wants a seven day delay on deportations of the reunited families to make sure the family as time to review their deportation orders and make sure the child’s “rights” are adjudicated.
    Ok, the family has been reunited and now they (ACLU) are ok with the family being separated again pending weighting the choice of being deported as a family or leaving the child behind…..or doing a much belated application for aylumn after receiving deportation orders….which would separate the family again, lol.
    “The Trump administration took children, including babies, from their parents and did not return them for weeks and often many months. In fact, some children will remain separated after the court’s deadline because the government failed to track their parents, and may in fact have deported them already.
    The government simply does not have ground to stand on when it argues that it cannot wait a mere seven days to remove families who are reunited, so that they can be informed of their rights before making life-altering decisions.”
    https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/deportation-and-due-process/governments-rush-deport-reunited-families
    Loved the quote: “In fact, some children will remain separated after the court’s deadline because the government failed to track their parents…..”
    Nothing to do with the parents giving bogus addresses or failing to inform the government of change of addresses or current contact info. Nothing to do with liars lying.
    Kinda hard to shed tears for any person who wants to be allowed live here as a fine upstanding asset with good character when the first thing they did sneak into the country. Given the first chance to prove they are good reliable folk, they blow off showing up at their hearings, not to mention using fake addresses and contact numbers. Kinda puts doubts on their character. Actions speak louder than words.
    A family that is deported together stays together

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  44. "M" Avatar
    “M”

    re GeorgeR 734pm – “re BillT 714pm – Another tranche of additions into the collection of what we may term as Exhibit A of the asymmetric thuggery of the Left.”
    ,,,The same can be said of the Right,,, seeing as the United States has never seen the kind of bizarre behavior, vitriol, lies, name calling, twitter rants and so on from a sitting President of these United States!!!
    Which came first,,,the reality TV thug president,,,or people yelling, untying some knots, and some petty vandalism???

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  45. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    the “reality TV thug president” was lawfully elected President. Harassment and vandalism (like untying a vessel from its mooring) isn’t lawful or productive.
    Again, “M” is expected to be one Douglas Keachie, a former public school teacher, in his ’70’s, who should know better.

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  46. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    M
    Go ahead and minimize and justify and rationalize the Leftinistas’ actions all day long. Sure, it’s hard to feel bad for a evil 1%er who sustained $10,000 worth of damage tomthe family yacht. Petty vandalism? It’s not the yacht, it’s the attack on property associated with the person. No boundaries.
    What about yelling and ranting and hurling non-repeatable profanities in front of a Trumpster’s children while dining out or getting an ice cream cone? In from of their children, for what?….wearing a red ballcap? Lines are being crossed. Whatever I perceived Obama did or did to me (be it real or imagined), I kept his supporters’ kids out of it and never In their presence if I wished to confront the adult. What, the Devil Trump made them do it?
    What makes you think that behavior is a qualifier to ever to be in power or be in control of anything ever again? You guys are like cars without brakes going downhill.

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  47. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Regarding untying the gaudy family yacht, it isn’t the $10k damage, it’s the danger to life and limb inherent in a big boat being adrift. Completely innocent and unrelated to the intended targets.

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  48. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don’t know where to put this. Maybe under talk radio where discussions like this and callers like this exist. Sandbox for now.
    https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/10156070907511939/UzpfSTEwMDAwMTEwNzM4NDQ2OToxODQ0NzI3NTIyMjQwODA5/

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