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[WASHINGTON—President Trump is elevating the issue of immigration, which drove his 2016 campaign, with the aim of animating Republican voters in a midterm election that threatens to derail his agenda if Democrats retake the House.  Mr. Trump’s latest comments came Thursday as he warned about an “onslaught” of migrants reaching the southern U.S. border with Mexico and threatened to deploy the military if the caravan isn’t stopped.]

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473 responses to “Sandbox – 19oct18”

  1. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “The Nazi also hated Trump.”
    To be fair, I expect that the handful of bonafide Nazis in the US are more pro-Trump than they are the other major Presidential candidates. The real thing were also pro-national healthcare, so the world is a complicated place.
    I expect that Pol Pot would have been more in favor of Bernie Sanders than Donald Trump. The real question is whether the Nazis like the Roadrunner or the Coyote better.

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    This should have the dems worried, very worried –
    Chants of ‘We love Trump, U-S-A!’ echoed across the East Room of the White House before, during, and after President Donald Trump’s address to hundreds of young black conservatives.
    The President’s address was part of the Young Black Leaders Summit (YBLS), a four-day conference focused on millennial-aged, conservative black Americans. The student-activist group, Turning Point USA, is hosting the event.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/young-black-conservatives-unite-around-president-trump
    😉

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  3. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    It sure didn’t take long for the usual suspects to start yapping about gun control.
    At least our gun rights are safe with the new SCOTUS lineup.

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  4. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    squirm squirm squirm. Every time some psycho guns down a bunch of people the right squirms like a worm to make excuses and pass the blame on to anything or anyone else. “The killer hated trump” how absurd! It was the hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric trump spewed that sets nutcases off, regardless of the target. It is about hate, not politics but the politics of hate largely contributes to the problem. Every single person who got a bomb had been publicly attacked/threatened by trump. So some nut takes him up on it. That is the politics of hate. What is next, canceling the elections after the Whitehouse mysteriously burns down, martial law, closing the border?
    if “never let a tragedy go unexploited is the motto of the left” then the motto of the right is “don’t miss the chance to sell a gun and who cares if they kill a bunch of people with it. Money is more important than people’s lives anyway.”

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  5. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “pass the blame on to anything or anyone else.”
    Actually, I would tend to blame the psycho.

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  6. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Damn Bobby,, Passing the pipe with “M” now?
    This dude was full of hate. Try getting out more often.
    BTW. The “gun free zone” signs work SO well. ( you know,,, dog whistle for “shoot here first”)

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I dunno. When a person gets arrested for DUI, they usually blame the car, right? In London, they banned guns. Then they banned knives. Now they are banning cars in sections of London.
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101854141732376&set=gm.503142706867900&type=3&theater

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    No one can be surprised that the cross top bun one is not letting facts get in the way of talking points for lefties. “Reasonable arms initiatives’ = gun grabs in PC speak. They work so well in Cali and Chicago don’t they.
    😉

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  9. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Looks like the Muslims in Gaza wanted to get in on the action on the news of the shooting here.
    Plenty of rockets came flying out of Gaza unprovoked.
    Israel returned fire, and now the Muslims complain. “It was the other guys!”(translation)

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  10. Bill tTozer Avatar
    Bill tTozer

    “My point is simply this: No one goes on a bombing spree because of something heard at a political rally. No normal person is moved to murder because he hears an ideological firebrand demonize his opponents. People who engage in mass-murder and other forms of terrorism are either committed to a violent movement or mentally disturbed. In neither event is that attributable to political rhetoric.
    Of course we should elevate our discourse. If you want to condemn reprehensible speech because it is reprehensible, I’m right there with you. But let’s not pretend it’s something it’s not. Terrorism and murder are heinous offenses that we punish severely because they involve agency — the people who commit them make a conscious, individual decision, for which they are responsible. We should not, in order to score political points, trivialize such atrocious conduct by suggesting it has been triggered by purple political prose.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/mail-bomb-threats-political-rhetoric/

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  11. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    In the “never let a tragedy go unexploited” category: trump is claiming the media is using the pipe bomb episode to hurt republicans. How does one spell hypocrite?
    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-media-pipe-bombs-republicans_us_5bd3ab97e4b0a8f17ef7bd1e

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    YA they never let the facts get in the way of an opportunity for indignation, no matter how fake the indignation is –
    NBC News published a bombshell report Thursday that undercut claims made by Michael Avenatti and his client, Julie Swetnick, regarding Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
    The company is coming under fire in the wake of the report because the series of events its Thursday report described occurred three weeks ago, before the Senate voted on whether to confirm Kavanaugh. The conservative jurist was confirmed by a narrow 50-48 margin on Oct. 6.
    “Was this an intentional attempt to mislead our reporters? Evidence points that way…,” wrote NBC anchor Chuck Todd, apparently suggesting that Avenatti and Swetnick misled NBC journalists.
    https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/26/nbc-story-michael-avenatti-julie-swetnick/
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/27/abortion-giants-we-still-believe-julie-swetnick/
    😉

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “What CNN omits from its headline, but is found buried in the article, is that even the previous $10-$19 increases are mostly due to workers making up for subsequently lost hours by working second jobs outside Seattle’s city limits.
    Imagine you’re a low-skilled worker who received a cut in hours due to minimum wage hikes, and now you must look for a second or even third job far beyond a reasonable commute. All that to make a meager $10 more a week? Not exactly what I’d call a “boosted income.”
    Not only does the cited study show that a quarter of workers were forced to pick up second jobs in effort to offset hour cuts, but it also reports that employee turnover decreased by 8 percent, accompanied with a significant reduction in the overall rate of new entries into the workforce. The study’s authors suggest that Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance brought marginally higher pay to experienced workers at the expense of reduced opportunities for the inexperienced.”
    http://thefederalist.com/2018/10/26/data-seattles-minimum-wage-hike-gets-workers-measly-10-per-week/
    https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1460504907416875/?type=3&source=54

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  14. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Gregory | 27 October 2018 at 02:35 PM
    Bite me.If anyone stinks it up it is you. And you really need to look in the mirror bub.

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  15. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Funny how some people think they are important. I am usually the only person on the comments at the Union against a number of commies and liberals and socialists. Heck I even got physical threats from one dude last week. He published my address. Anyway, I submitted a column as I was told I had been banned from the comments only. We will see. And the outpouring of support for me has been great. Thank you to all on the email and FB. Of course, there are always those that take other peoples thunder as their own and claim some phony high ground. I usuall call them out and keep on trucking. And to all those that sit on their asses and don’t help elect decent people, shame on you.

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  16. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    The Lefty loons are coming out of the woodwork.
    They just have moved on to WMDs!
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/unhinged-wisconsin-liberal-activist-arrested-for-attempting-to-purchase-radioactive-material-with-intent-to-cause-death-video/
    “A Wisconsin man is accused of trying to buy a lethal dose of a radioactive substance on the Internet to try and kill someone.
    Justin Tolomeo, Special Agent in Charge of the Milwaukee Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a news release Jeremy Ryan, 30, of the Town of Madison has been charged with attempted possession of radioactive material with intent to cause death.”

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  17. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Walt@9:45PM
    My, that is a nice story.
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/25/jeremy-ryan-paul-ryan-primary-challenger-sought-le/
    Like any other left wing crazy guy or false flag graffiti emergency, it’ll end up in the memory hole. No matter, the Blue Mob is the dangerous thing on a national level, not whacked-out individuals. Things like the 10’s of thousands of Trump assassination threats on social media are just kids being kids indulging in internet-era speech. The Mob, on the other hand, is the thing that chases your kids out of restaurants and burns your car.
    I see that the free-speech version of reddit (Gab.com) got suddenly kicked off it’s hosting service because Nazi shooter guy posted some stuff on it. It seems to me that the Mob’s final frontier will be political control of the actual wire to your house.

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Robert Cross | 27 October 2018 at 02:44 PM
    U.S. The rhetoric of hate and racism incites yet another crazed individual for the second time this week. Way to go trumpskiites and the gun lobby who blocks reasonable arms initiatives.

    Whew…..bobsy…..finally coming around to our side! Have you sent your protest letter to The NY Times regarding the Trump assassination fantasy piece they printed last week?

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  19. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Looks like the people in the invasion force have turned down Mexico’s offer for visa’s and work and food and shelter. They are coming and no amount of goodwill will stop them.

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 8:12 am
    Excellent post. Short, sweet, précise, and complete.
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=279233419369826&set=gm.503734393475398&type=3&theater

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  21. ***M*** Avatar
    ***M***

    ,,,Todd@852am,,, Boo, you little fraidy cat!

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