[In the last sandbox Bro Gregory cites a WaPo story that brings up the notion that large, violent caravans heading north for the US border might become the norm. My strong belief is that they will indeed become the norm if President Trump is not able to either get Mexico to disperse them before reaching the border, or that our border security fails (due to political pressures from our anti-American Left) and thousands of illegal new migrants suddenly find themselves successfully on American soil. gjr]

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326 responses to “Sandbox – 2nov18”
,,, whitefishbait,,,good to see they let you out of the IRON LUNG to play you po ol bottom feeder!!!
,,,don’t forget you are out of your depth!!!
,,,here is something to pass the time with when you are back in the aquarium,,,
http://appshopper.com/games/trump-vs-the-wall
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,,,yes billboard scenery,,, reduced expectations can be tough to handle,,,get used to it!!!
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Posted by: M | 06 November 2018 at 07:11 AM
Much better dugsKKKi……at least you seem to be trying this morning! Must be a fresh diaper!?
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,,,yes ‘bait,,,a freshie in the morning is a great way to start the day!!!
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One down… Issa already concedes his district will go Dem
“Quite frankly, we know the results already, there will be a Democrat representing La Jolla and Solana Beach for the first time in a number of years,” he said. “For now, California is leaning very hard to the left.”
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Posted by: ”’M”’ | 06 November 2018 at 07:30 AM
I can only imagine…..
Were you out early today……voting for pretty, pretty Gavin Newsome?
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Gregory re California one party
You can blame the Republicans in California for being so pathetic and letting the Dems push them around. Come on Pubbers, stand on your feet and be a viable political party. sad Sad Sad…
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,,,yes ‘bait,,,I am a metrosexual man like winsome Newsome and us sharp dressers rule!!!
,,,4 more years!!!
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I think today will likely put the final coat on the blueness of Nevada County.
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,,,lock in your prices today before you get caught in the Blue Wave riptide!!!
http://www.kbennett.com/index.asp?PageId=2962&msclkid=e6bf2672a4351d9246c97d931dae2436
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Has Audrey Denney given her congratulatory call to LaMalfa?
Somebody claiming to be named “Audrey” wrote on the blog that shall not be named, “If you don’t vote you have no right to live in our democracy!”.
How is this wrong? Let me count the ways… people who don’t have the right to vote, can’t, or at least, shouldn’t. If you aren’t at least 18 years old, for example, or not a citizen of the country, or a resident of the state or county or city.
No right to live in “our democracy”?
Then there’s the fairly obvious… we don’t have a democracy, we have a Republic, if we can keep it. And everyone, save a few sitting in a dismal timeout in places like Sing-sing waiting for the appointed time, has a right to live.
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,,,G,,,you are grasping at straws here. What you need is a life preserver!!!
It is not clear if the Jefferson Free Staters in LaMalfa country will be able to stop the Blue Wave. But if this Blue Wave doesn’t do it the next one might…
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Since there is a one or two percent difference in dem and R registrations I doubt today will indicate “blueness”.
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,,,my previous link didn’t work. Get you Idaho real estate here now!!!
http://www.kbennett.com
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Blue Mob @ 7:47AM “You can blame the Republicans in California for being so pathetic and letting the Dems push them around. ”
One problem is that if you do push back, you’re called a Nazi. Just wear a MAGA hat in coastal CA and watch what happens.
What would you suggest for self-protection for Republicans, aside from going completely underground? Traveling in groups? CCWs?
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According to fivethirtyeight, for Denney to beat LaMalfa, it would likely have to be a tsunami… Dems taking eighty seats away from GOP orificeholders. Far down the tail of a Gaussian distribution, eyeballing, a three sigma event.
But don’t let the mathematics sway your enthusiasm, Keach. Revel in your precinct results if you like them better than the district results.
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,,,hehe,,, whatever you say dopester!!!
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Punchy 747am
The reason for the relative weakness of the GOP in California, and the Libertarian Party for that matter, is the role of public employee unions in funneling public cash into Democratic Party campaigns. Thank Jerry Brown v.1 for that.
And it’s fun to rack up a massive debt to spend like a drunken sailor on shore leave.
Now, the state Dems are walking the plank for Global Warming, betting the state on the catastrophe foreseen by their Chicken Littles in Sacramento… just in time for (as is widely predicted) a solar minimum that many think will result in a few decades of low temperatures.
It’s a lot like the election, one needs to have patience, political parties crash on their own schedule. Ommmmm.
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I’m talking Nevada County Gregory. District one is a tough one for Dems but how NC votes is important when you contemplate the County we live in and the people who live here.
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Actually, some “political parties crash on their own schedule” which lasts decades, especially when their objective is to establish a large autocracy cum tyranny.
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Another coat of blue? Well, if the primaries serve as any example, we won’t know until late November…..
Best not to take off one’s armor before the battle is begins. Newsome will win, you think? Really? My, such as risky prediction. At least M tampered his enthusiasm with “But if this Blue Wave doesn’t do it, the next one will.” Duplicity?
Oh the drama.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7WAwuSK36Gw
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For what it’s worth Nate Silver predicts District One 53-47% LaMalfa Last election La Malfa won in double digits by over 15% as I recall. The Trump Slump seems to be evident in District 1. We’ll see if Nates numbers hold up.
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,,,It won’t be over until all the votes are counted,,,gonna have to wait for weeks to get the certified votes.
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,,,,bwahahahaha,,, now Ivanka wants to make voting machines!!! GEE, I wonder how well those will work???
https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-grants-more-trademark-approvals-ivanka-trump-firm-081554966–finance.html
BWAHAHAHAHA
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,,,will they be be paved with rhinestones???
Bwahahahahaha
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Bookies: current odds pays 13/1 if Cruz wins by 10. Hmmm.
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Yes, Punch 913am, I know you want the wrong-thinking people to move out but you would likely be happier if you could drop the political bigotry.
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I wonder what are the comparative and demonstrated business acumina of Ivanka Trump and Laughing Boy M.
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,,,well George,,,first off my daddy needs to me $413 Million dollars. I can then give my kids some “how to start a business” kits and we can compare notes.
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Posted by: M | 06 November 2018 at 11:13 AM
Excellent point…..with that kind of money you could buy your own theater and tech people how to pirate movies in comfortable surroundings dugsKKKi!
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,,,yes ‘bait,,,I have my eye on the Colfax theater. I will be offering cell phone friendly showings!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO6BCpHk_pE
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So how will this impact turnouts?
As polls opened across the country, residents of several states were contending with severe weather conditions that could affect voter turnout.
A line of storms moved through the Deep South overnight and early Tuesday morning, knocking down trees and power lines from Louisiana to South Carolina. There were no serious injuries, but an estimated 11,000 residents were left without electricity.
A separate storm front in central Tennessee killed one person, injured two others and left thousands without power.
The National Weather Service warned of a possibility of high winds, severe thunderstorms and possible tornadoes Tuesday around Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and the Mid-Atlantic region.
Dry weather was forecast for the West and Southwest, but significant snow accumulations were expected across the northern Rockies.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/election-day-storms-down-power-lines-across-deep-143702100–politics.html
😉
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Maybe a Blue Wave is a’coming. Last night Trump was brushing up on his Spanish. He said “They are losing it folks. Really losing it. They have gone loco. Loco.”
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Promise?
Sinead O’Connor: “Truly I never wanna spend time with white people again”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sinead-o-connor-truly-never-142922669.html
😉
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Gregory writes:
” I know you want the wrong-thinking people to move out but you would likely be happier if you could drop the political bigotry.”
Just extending the invitation to Todd because he seems so uncomfortable here now that Nevada Couny has gone blue.
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Your vote matters
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10103267890867554&set=gm.508573569658147&type=3&theater&ifg=1
How come the anti-gun crowd always comes to take away other people’s guns?
https://mobile.twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1059223011897815046?fbclid=IwAR0zho9qg0188d7d5Y7kD01U84guYKhB9FMpXuPlAr8Aj_EgrCf177Dt0cQ
Buck nails it again. Maybe this goes under Ruminations…….
https://www.facebook.com/BuckSexton/photos/a.176191582451702/2195950693809104/?type=3&theater
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,,,ol Buck, rhymes with…,got the dem message to make the Blue MAGA.
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re M’s 1113am – What a devastating repartee, I never thought of that! If I get the message from our proto-socialist (‘you didn’t start that business!’), then all the businesses built with invested capital don’t count, since anyone could have done it. That, of course, is part and parcel of the Obama/Warren theory of enterprise, hence a bigger government is really needed to handle all those sectors of our economy. (BTW, whatever Ivanka got from dad was either equity capital or a loan, else Ivanka would have had an enormous tax bill.)
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@12:57am
Oh, our little M just hates rich people and private school/ boyz, and the like. Class envy, class warfare kind of guy. Rich people suck! Occupy Wall St…or the overpass over Broad St if your on a budget.
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Nothing in the news. Just the same ole same ole song and dance. Boring.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2018/11/06/washposts-capehart-if-you-vote-republican-youre-okay-racism
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Even Fox news is fake according to Hannity.
Hannity referred to media in the room — including Fox News employees — as “fake news.”
“By the way,” Hannity told the crowd, “all those people in the back are
fake news.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/im-fcking-mad-fox-news-staffers-erupt-rage-sean-hannity-campaigns-trump/
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Gosh and Golly George according to Trump his daddy only gave him 1 million. Who do you believe here?
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 06 November 2018 at 11:54 AM
Poor Sinead…..once an attention whore always an attention whore!
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No big talk of the Blue Tsunami? Talk about lowered expectations.
Oddmakers on R’s taking the house: 3.34/1. Under/over Texas Senate Race: Cruz +2.
Living the dream.
https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1471447552989277/?type=3&source=48
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 06 November 2018 at 01:07 PM
…and finally agreement. Punch and Sean Hannity …..whoda thunk it?
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That’s a good little po’ ol’ fakenewsman, the article revalued to account for inflation to todays dollars and did not count the actual total dollar amount’s put into the shell company. But we would expect nothing else from your team. You can not go wrong expecting the worst from fakenews.
😉
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PaulE 110pm – You again misunderstand (my 1257pm), since I’m not concerned about those kinds of wealth transfers. You should be interviewing Mr M and his breathless report (true or not) about Ivanka’s good fortune, there is a man who apparently disapproves and would like to change things (maybe when Pelosi is again the Speaker).
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,,,oh George,,,let us not forget Ivanka married well to a guy who got a bunch of money from his daddy,,,
there is something remarkable about a business that fails even when the founder has managed to leverage herself into a powerful position in the White House and proceeded to shamelessly exploit it for business purposes, likely in violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution, with no repercussions whatsoever.
In Trump’s case, she has even managed to induce Hatch Act violations from White House staffers so eager to enable her profiteering that they promote her products on cable news shows, as Kellyanne Conway did on national television last year. The executive office has presented numerous new opportunities for Trump to meet with potential new business partners, get trademarks approved in other countries and pursue new potential avenues of financing.
So how did Trump lose a game that was so heavily rigged in her favor?
The simplest and most obvious explanation for any business failure would be that the product is bad, that the business failed because the clothes are terrible, and no one wants to buy them. But what does terrible mean in that context? Is the quality low? Is the aesthetic unappealing? Is the brand ill-defined?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/07/25/the-game-was-rigged-in-ivanka-trumps-favor-how-did-her-brand-manage-to-fail/?utm_term=.9ddb52d05f04
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,,,po lil Ivanka,,,I guess daddy’s trade war killed her business of importing cheap Chinese junk
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M 132pm – no matter the outcome, it was done with private monies. That was not the case when millions of my and your (you do pay taxes?) money was pissed away by the subsidized Enrons et al.
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“I was literally in it” says northern California man.
dugsKKKi……you didn’t tell me you were traveling! Shame on you!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2018/11/06/bay-city-man-sits-feces-delta-flight-michigan/1900563002/
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