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[A reader sent me a link that reminds us that the contention that a large fraction of Democrat voters are developmentally challenged is actually a fundamental truth that the Democratic leadership and liberal elites jealously believe in and fight/oppose public policies that will expose its fallacy.  Yes, it is the Dem leadership and elites who believe that their constituents are simply too dumb to figure out how to get voter IDs (more here).  gjr]

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239 responses to “Sandbox – 3aug18”

  1. Paul Emery Avatar

    What is your point Bill? This is a private matter between Todd and I. I’m trying to help him with his memory problems.

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  2. Paul Emery Avatar

    George
    This seems to be coming from your side of the aisle. Organized by a Republican.
    Portland’s Patriot Prayer Rally Could Be Most Violent Since Charlottesville, Activists Say
    The last far-right rally by Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer was declared a riot. Experts think this weekend could be even worse than 2017’s deadly “Unite the Right” event.
    Members of the two violent far-right groups, Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys — both of which have deep ties to white supremacist organizations — plan to rally in Tom McCall Waterfront Park at noon Saturday. The so-called “Gibson for Senate Freedom March” is being organized by Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson, who is running for Senate as a Republican from Washington state.
    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/portland-patriot-prayer-proud-boys-rally_us_5b646217e4b0de86f4a0ba04

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    HAHAHAHAHAHA @ 246 ‘This is a private matter between Todd and I’ – that the po’ ol’ fakenewsaman is playing out in a highly viewed public blog!
    Here is one of his sisters of the left –
    In addition, Jeong repeatedly tweeted about killing men, and joked that, even if only “bad men” were killed, that would still include all men.
    She tweeted in 2014, “kill more men,” and seemed to sadly state at one point,
    White women were not spared from Jeong’s rage — during the 2016 election she eloquently tweeted “fuck white women lol.”
    She also tweeted “fuck the police” on several occasions, including one with a gif of anime characters actually physically attacking a police officer.
    In one tweet from 2014 she wrote, “let me know when a cop gets killed by a rock or molotov cocktail or a stray shard of glass from a precious precious window.”
    “Cops are assholes,” she said in 2015.
    “If we’re talking big sweeping bans on shit that kills people, why don’t we ever ever ever ever talk about banning the police?” a tweet from 2016 asserts.
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/03/nyt-sarah-jeong-cop-men-tweets/
    Sounds like a soul sister to a local mayor. 😉

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  4. '''M''' Avatar
    ”’M”’

    ,,,for a guy who was going to -drain the swamp- trumpski must have been the victim of a bait and switch,,,he has stocked his pond with some nasty creatures
    But thanks to Warden Mueller many of these pernicious bottom feeders have been quarantined.

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  5. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Poor Paul Emery, he can’t make up his own mind what he is.

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  6. '''M''' Avatar
    ”’M”’

    ,,,po ol Bessie, digging through the daily caller dumpster for tidbits. Breitbart has nothing for you???
    How about those cops who were so afraid what a guy with a knife might do to the lady with a walker that they shot her to save her!!! Trigger happy cops suck!

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  7. Paul Emery Avatar

    I’m a Green Libertarian Todd. Proud of it too.

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  8. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: ’’’M’’’ | 03 August 2018 at 12:51 PM
    ……Omarosa says trumpksi showed signs of mental decline during an interview.

    Funny dugski……I’ve thought the same about you!
    …..a mind beset and all doncha know!
    🤣

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    2:51 pm
    Oh Don, that is too funny. As discussed here for a long time (with Scenes’ invaluable input among others) the SJWs that slithered out from their Grievance Studies classes will tell you you cannot be racist against whites, particularly white men. Impossible. You can say anything you want against or about a white male and it is not being racist, duh. We are the cause and sole source of all society’s ills because America is bad and America is bad because it was founded by White Males…..and not just White People, but….drumroll please….White Christians!!! Gasp, the horrors, the horrors.
    If pressed, they will say that not liking a group of people is not racism. I reckon they are technically correct, but I would not be one to experiment with that theory on these boards. Ok, I can’t resist. ‘I don’t like albino Pygmy eskimos…but I do not judge them or feel superior to them. I just don’t like them. Fuck them. I hope they die a slow painful death.’ See, not racist in the least. 🙂
    When pressed, the Grievance Studies majors will tell you that Y-Ts don’t need no stinkin’ safe place because all of America the Racist Place is the whitey’s safe place. Makes sense to me.
    The real issue here is not if the new NYT editor should be fired or hired. They can hire anyone they choose. The real issue here is the NYT laid down the marker. No longer are old tweets from decades ago or tweets from even two years ago are to be counted against one and being called out on the carpet for those racist tweets….as long as the target is white folk. Old white folk, suffering old white folks, white women is ok. Joy Reid tweeted homophobic Tweets, and got some heat, but apologized and not fired. Guess that is ok. She did not do what Rosanne did, cause only white folks can be racists, duh. Yep, a new marker has been thrown down and we be on the wrong side of the tracks.
    And interesting sidebar to the Jeong story is that her defenders say she was just being satirical. That we white folk just don’t get her kind of comedy. Hmm. I reckon they are right. And all this time I accused the America Haters of being a glum lot with no sense of humor. Hey, Chris Rock stopped doing stand up comedy routines on college campuses because he said they have no sense of humor. Guess Mr. Rock and I were wrong. Mea Culpa. They do have a funny bone, but that sardonic stuff must be over my head. I am such a worm.
    https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1390896507711049/?type=3&source=48

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: ”’M”’ | 03 August 2018 at 02:59 PM
    But thanks to Warden Mueller many of these pernicious bottom feeders have been quarantined

    Yes…..Warden Mueller…..providing the discipline that dugski craves!

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  11. ’’’M’’’ Avatar
    ’’’M’’’

    ,,,pernicious bottom feeders any relation to you fishbreathe???

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  12. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: ’’’M’’’ | 03 August 2018 at 03:44 PM
    You order your new hat dugski? If you can only find bright red Depends to accompany!

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  13. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Hey {Paul Emery, I just saw that your heroine, Dianne Feinstein’s chauffeur was a Chinese agent over the last twenty years. You must be proud.

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  14. Paul Emery Avatar

    Mind sharing your source Todd? New one to me.

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  15. '''M''' Avatar
    ”’M”’

    ,,,toes,,,Friday pubber porn, yeah! More more more, I will get the popcorn popping!!!

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    It seems that everything happening in the real world is ‘new one to me’ @ 408 – I wonder how that truth sits with the KVMR management ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman? That story has been in play all week. Sad. I can understand why it did not make the talking points for lefties! LOL
    😉

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  17. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 408pm – It’s all over the national news that’s not gone lamestream. Bret Baier on FN again reported it less than an hour ago. Also –
    https://www.speroforum.com/a/ZWEVYGKDDK47/83776-Democrat-Sen-Feinstein-employed-Chinese-spy-for-20-years-new-details#.W2TlCyhKhXU

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The loss of a warrior like this is a loss of a national resource what ever the cause, 2 Silver Stars. RIP 1st Delta, Sgt. Maj. and Hero –
    Nelms was twice awarded the Silver Star, the military’s third-highest award for valor, during a 28-year Army career that he began as an infantryman before moving to the Army National Guard’s 19th Special Forces Group. He returned to active duty in 2008 and was selected for Delta, with whom he deployed six times to Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/soldier-secret-unit-dies-training-accident-202109847.html

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Talk about a pyric victory, this will be overturned so fast based on just this –
    In closing the brief, the judge wrote that at no point in this ruling, or the previous one, did the court contend that the DHS didn’t have “the statutory or constitutional authority” to end the program.
    “Rather, the court simply holds that if DHS wishes to rescind the program – or to take any other action, for that matter – it must give a rational explanation for its decision,” the judge wrote.
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/03/daca-program-should-be-fully-restarted-federal-judge-rules.html
    😉

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  20. Walt Avatar

    Dougy didn’t tell us he illegally crossed the border. The proof is right here!
    http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/08/03/weird-monster-captured-on-film-stalking-moose-in-canadian-wilderness.html
    Even a moose won’t give you the time of day.

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  21. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    The Judicial system of America has been so corrupted by the left it is truly scary. A Judge back east ruled that DACA must be re-upped. Now we had a SCOTUS that said it was unconstitutional as Obama did it with a EO. And Trump is trying to honor the law by getting it over to the Congress and rescinding a unconst EO. Honest to GOD how does a man with a brain see all this and rule the way he did? A Uncinst EO is to be allowed? This is lunacy.
    Paul Emery sure is out of the loop on most issues. DiFi’s driver a Chinese spy was off his radar. But Paul Manafort’s suits were on. WOW!

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  22. Walt Avatar

    A LIB accidentally tells the truth.
    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/03/sen-mark-warner-strays-from-dem-talking-point-says-foreign-interference-didnt-favor-any-party/
    “Warner stated: “This is one where ‎there is no Democratic or Republican ‎answer since clearly the goal of our ‎adversaries was not to favor one party ‎over the other. It was to wreak havoc and ‎split divisions.”
    Warner made those brief closing remarks at the end of Wednesday’s Senate intelligence committee hearing on “foreign influence on social media” that focused significantly on the 2016 election.”

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Re: the video Dr. Rebane included in his Sandbox post.
    ID required? Which side are you on?
    Activists said the policy could even snare U.S. citizens, usually older and poorer and often minorities, who don’t have a driver’s license or passport.
    “The hysteria over Russia’s interference in our election is now biting the anti-borders left in its behind. In the big picture, I’m not sure it matters one way or the other, but the irony’s delicious.”
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/2/illegal-immigrants-say-facebook-discriminates/

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    It’s not racism, it’s white vagility. I be woke.
    http://www.fox5ny.com/news/man-attacked-on-bus-for-being-white-.
    In a related matter, I wonder what the new NYT editorial board member Sarah Jeong thinks of discrimination against Asians in college placement. 🙂

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  25. Paul Emery Avatar

    Well George it’s time she retires anyway. Never much cared for her myself. Nothing on Breitbart, my usual source for news from the shrill right. Apparently it’s old news that no one really cares about.

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    1). “Nothing on Breitbart, my usual source for news from the shrill right. Apparently it’s old news that no one really cares about.”
    Punchy, you are kinda embarrassing yourself, but that’s none of my business. It’s been on the front of the Drudge Report all day long. Apparently, CBS Frisco, that right wing shrill, cares about it. But, by all means, continue on embarrassing yourself and your employer, Mr. News Director.
    https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/08/01/details-chinese-spy-dianne-feinstein-san-francisco/
    2). Common ground! There is something about Sarah.
    https://mobile.twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/418962430459269120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E418962430459269120&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fbig-journalism%2F2018%2F08%2F03%2Fnew-york-times-bigot-sarah-jeong-repeatedly-trashed-the-new-york-times%2F

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    1) More right wing shrill from the SF Chronicle, where an award winning journalist was everybody’s favorite coffee boy. Yep, old news…two days ago.
    https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Sen-Feinstein-had-a-Chinese-connection-she-13121441.php
    2). Who is Tom Friedman and why does Sarah hate him so much? More common ground! Yep, there is something about Sarah. She is one funny Gal.
    https://www.thewrap.com/sarah-jeong-trashes-new-york-times-editorial-board-in-old-tweets/

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  28. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Ever notice that when a liberal is caught with their pants down on most everything, like DIFI they blow it off as no biggee? They all do that as they have no core values except just one. They want your stuff and they will riot to het it.

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    SHOCKER: Facebook Uncovers Web of Accounts Spreading Disinformation to Influence Election . . . in Favor of Democrats.
    Local NPR jockey could not be reached for comment.
    https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/08/facebook-uncovers-web-of-accounts-spreading-disinformation-to-influence-election-in-favor-of-democrats/

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  30. George Rebane Avatar

    BillT 816pm – ‘My side’ on the voting franchise requires some demonstration of knowledge, ability to reason, and vetted citizenship. Vetted membership in various classes in our society is already required and demonstrated by the presentation of an appropriate document (e.g. passport for international travel, and soon ‘Real ID’ for domestic travel).
    http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2012/12/who-should-not-vote.html
    http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2013/07/equality-questioned.html

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  31. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    FISH, good find. But we all knew that was true. The lamestream media has been picking and choosing what they decided was the “news” all my life. Having experienced lying Editors and “journalists” personally in my tenure as a Supe and Chairman of the NCRCC the populace has been subjected to “fake news” forever. Paul Emery is a student and practitioner of fake news and has zero cred anyway. But it is fun to poke his belly with the truth.

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  32. ’’’M’’’ Avatar
    ’’’M’’’

    ,,,fishbreathe finally gets the hint,,,dems have been trying to convince the bullit head pubbers that rooskies have been messing with us but trumpski and you local choirboys won’t sing that tune,,,

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  33. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: ’’’M’’’ | 04 August 2018 at 09:15 AM</>
    Oh duhski..loosen the Velcro!

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 7:52 am
    “Which side is Facebook on?” the groups demanded, suggesting that the internet giant must choose between law enforcement and illegal immigrants”
    I have no doubt which side is your side or my side is on. I found the “irony’s delicious” and the parallels between the arguments pro and con for voter ID, illegal alien immigration, santuary cities, and buying an ad on FB. Do you side with law and order, or do you side with the illegal aliens? You don’t need an valid ID for just international travel. You need a valid ID to board any commercial aircraft, even to fly from Sacramento to San Jose. Who do you side with? National Security or illegal aliens? Who do you side with? Terrorists of law abiding citizens?
    Who do you side with? An establishment that requires ID to buy alcohol or illegal aliens? Who do you side with? The rule of law or the rule of the mob?
    Just the fact that illegals are demanding FB take sides is informative in and of itself. In fact, they expect that FB sides with them over all else. The laws and policies of both the public sector and private sector do not apply to them. Wonder who put that notion in their heads? 🙂
    Hmmmm. Spoken to the Public Safety Committee Of all places.
    Kevin De Léon defended the widespread practice by illegal aliens of using fraudulent documents to work and obtain taxpayer-paid benefits.”
    https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017/02/06/senate-leader-half-of-my-family-eligible-for-deportation-under-trump-order/
    ————-
    “How do you reconcile in your head about allowing people to disavow the law?
    And the second part of my question is this — if you need to go home tonight and line up your babies as you say, and your grandbabies, which one of them could you look in their eyes today, and tell them that they’re expendable for another foreign person to have an a nicer life? Which one would you look to say, you, my child, are expendable for someone else to come over here and not follow the law and have a nicer life?”
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/01/31/mother_of_son_killed_by_illegal_to_pelosi_which_one_of_your_children_is_expendable_for_an_illegal_life.html

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  35. George Rebane Avatar

    fish 922am – You did it again – terminating italics (I fixed it). You know, you could give your penchant for italics a rest for a while. It really wouldn’t detract from the power of your repartees.

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  36. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Its the economy stupid, From the Bureau of Labor Statistics –
    Manufacturing jobs in 0’s 8 yeas (192,000)
    Manufacturing job in Trumps 18 months +373,000
    😉

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    This was long past due –
    Congress fulfilled that goal in two ways. First, the definition of a “covered transaction” has been massively expanded, with a focus on “critical technology” industries. In the past, there was an expectation that a foreign entity had to essentially buy out a company in order to trigger a CFIUS review. That jurisdiction has now been expanded to include such actions as adding a member to a company’s board of directors, even in cases where an investment is essentially passive.
    The second element Congress added was requiring that CFIUS receive all partnership agreements that a company has signed with a foreign investor. Often in a transaction, there is a main agreement spelling out the overall structure of a deal, and then side agreements with individual investors with special terms not shared with the wider syndicate, such as the right to access internal company data or intellectual property. By requiring further disclosure, CFIUS will have a more holistic picture of a deal and any risks it might add for national security.
    https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/04/washington-hit-china-hard-on-tech-influence-this-week/?yptr=yahoo
    😉

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  38. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Kevin Leon (his name before he spruced it up) must be happy about DiFi’s ChiCom mole, him being the only other choice for Senator on the ballot in November.

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  39. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    But Gregory, wouldn’t Kevin’s socialist base consider having a fellow traveler in the Senators office a good thing? 😉

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  40. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    From the FB article:
    “Facebook’s attempt to stop Russian interference in the U.S. elections has enraged activists who say illegal immigrants will be banned from buying political ads on the internet platform.”
    That is a beautiful sentence. I think I’ll re-read it a couple of times and shake my head wonderingly.
    Radio Sputnik is running a story on Facebook right now.
    It’s funny what an ugly deal FB is in any case. Everyone has friends/acquaintances that feel the need to blurt out political stuff 24/7 on Facebook. They should stick to political forums and leave the straights alone. It’s a matter of using an appropriate space for your own particular kinks. Twitter is probably ground zero for that kind of thing.
    I like reading posts from Doug Whathisname and Crickets on GeorgeR’s blog. On Facebook it would get darned tiresome.

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes,
    Finally finished the Milo article. I cleared my mind and masticated it slowly piece by piece over several days. One does not read brilliance like that everyday or in a rush.. The part towards the end about Middle Age art really got to me . Yes, there is no other culture that can compare in uniqueness or beauty or the soaring spirit of man. From the mundane to the Divine. Also helps explaines so much going on today in the socio-political realm, as well as dishonesty, tunnel vision, authoritarian behavior, and laziness of our SJWs and humanities departments. The why behind it all. Thanks again.

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  42. Paul Emery Avatar

    George
    Trump is calling you a fool. He said only fools would disagree with his tariffs, something I know you are opposed to. .
    Trump tweets today
    ..Tariffs will make our country much richer than it is today. Only fools would disagree. We are using them to negotiate fair trade deals and, if countries are still unwilling to negotiate, they will pay us vast sums of money in the form of Tariffs. We win either way……

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  43. Walt Avatar

    Paul. Tariff is just another form of subsidy. We know how you despise subsidies. So keep pointing that bony finger. A few more are pointing back.

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    If you think the economy is going good today, just wait until fair trade kicks in. We ain’t seen nothing yet. Yes, there will be some short term hits to specific industries, which is a given. The goal is the reduction of tariffs. We hit China with 200 billion more in tariffs, they responded with 60 billion, lol. We have a 20 trillion dollar economy and the Chicken Littles are running around screaming the sky is falling over 60 billion in higher tariffs. We hold all the cards. Noticed the price of Canadian blueberries has dropped like a rock at the supermarket. The big rush before the tariffs kick in, I reckon.
    Conventional wisdom sez trade wars are bad, everybody looses, nobody wins. As Reagan increased our nuclear arsenal to get the Soviet Union to reduce theirs and back to the negotiating table, what appeared counter-intuitive worked like a charm.
    Conventional wisdom sez the R’s will lose 32 House seats or so in 2018. Conventional wisdom sez a shut down of the government will hurt the R’s….the party causing the shut down. The shut down led by Newt in the Clinton years resulted in a wholesale slaughter of the D’s in the following elections and the shut down led by Reagon resulted in passing his defense bills getting through.
    Conventional wisdom said there was zero chance of Trump winning the electoral college, not even a hundred to one chance given all scenarios. To this very hour, the ones looking like fools are our discredited popinjays. Maybe blaming it all on TAD is being too charitable.

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  45. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    Sorry, but po’ ol’ Bessie is posting rightwing propaganda again. No wonder you people are so out of touch, living in an alternate universe of fact like you do.
    The American Mirror is a sham website..”extreme bias, overt propaganda, poor or no sourcing to credible information and/or is fake news….” known,”to publish hoaxes and/or disinformation….may be very untrustworthy…Not all stories are sourced to credible information.”
    Oh yeah, it’s the dems who are mentally ill not trumpski.. the book by Omarosa is pure fiction.. she was only around him for years. she might know if he is losing it or not. Have any of you ever met the man in person, been around him for long periods of time? I didn’t think so, but you know he is not mentally losing it, like many professional therapists seem to think, because he said so.. right?

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  46. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Robert Cross | 04 August 2018 at 07:28 PM
    …..thanks bobby.

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  47. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ok Robert Cross, now it’s your time to shine! Please show us where Don’s Post is inaccurate. Was the video of the Botox Queen fake? Where her words put into her mouth by someone else?
    Please, please, please back up your claim that the contents of the link Don posted is fake, inaccurate, and proof positive of “ living in an alternative of fact”.
    Please, Mr. Cross, please point out what you dispute in the link so we all can be informed like you. Was the color of Nancy’s dress wrong? Please, enlighten us! Please point out the errors. Heaven forbid we live in an alternative universe of fact..
    Come on, Mr. Cross. It’s he monent you have been waiting for. Prove Don wrong.
    “They did this handing a massive tax cut to the wealthiest families. 83 percent of the benefits went to the top 1 percent, couple trillion dollars added to the national debt. And then they said, ‘How are we going to be pay for that? We’re going to cut Medicare and we’re going to cut Social Security. $1.4 billion dollars in Medicare — no — $1.4 trillion dollars in [Medicaid] and half a trillion in Medicare. It’s stunning. Together, two trillion, 1.4 Medicaid, half a trillion Medicare.”
    https://www.democraticleader.gov/newsroom/8218-2/
    Tic toc, tic toc tic toc tic toc tic toc…

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