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431 responses to “Sandbox – 14jan19”
Punchy, I was able to find it with one search. Think first… Russ quotes the piece… so take a unique sentence or fragment thereof and Google that … with quotemarks.
It would be too easy to just give you the link to the story, or the links to the NPR/Marist poll it contains.
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I usually include links to m assertions Gregory. Why is that so hard for you to do?
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Punch, don’t whine, it’s unbecoming a grown man. And besides, I told you how to easily find the source document, the reason I don’t whine when you don’t give a link.
Teach a man to fish, you feed them for life.
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No evidence seen but ran with the story anyway –
One of the BuzzFeed News reporters who broke the report that cited two anonymous sources claiming President Donald Trump directed Michael Cohen to intentionally lie to Congress appeared on CNN’s “New Day” Friday to discuss the bombshell.
Anthony Cormier shared that he had “not personally” seen the evidence to support his reporting, but said his sources had “access to a number of different documents.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/01/18/buzzfeed-bombshell-reporter-says-he-has-not-seen-the-evidence-to-support-report/
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An excuse so feeble only Roberta Cross would believe it……….
Let’s just fix that for you Nancy.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Trump-Pelosi-feud-heats-up-again-13543460.php
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 18 January 2019 at 10:20 AM
Anthony Cormier shared that he had “not personally” seen the evidence to support his reporting…..
Oh Don….if you could only see my “shocked face” right now!
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,,,BUILD THAT WALL!!! Bwaahahahaha!!!
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/largest-single-group-migrants-ever-tunnels-under-border-114208863–abc-news-topstories.html
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Gosh!!! Maybe if Trumpksi paid the 800,000 fed employees some would have noticed the little brown gophers!!!
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,,,and for the Wall Believers, after the Great Wall of DumbTrump is build they will just have to dig a little deeper!!!
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Posted by: M | 18 January 2019 at 10:43 AM
I’m surprised it took you this long to find that?! I would have thought that you’re desperate need for a low cost gardener and housekeeper would have had you gleefully responding at 3:00 am!
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Posted by: M | 18 January 2019 at 10:48 AM
Indeed they will!
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Yuck…..!
“thought that you’re desperate need for”
your!
I need an editor!
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What the wall/fence/… criticizers miss is that even if a tunnel is dug (or some other method of breaching is accomplished), overwhelmingly such infrastructures still reduce the border’s porosity and reduce the need and exposure of human border patrol agents.
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Winning!
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Bye Bye Trade War? China Plans $1 Trillion Buying Spree to Reduce US Trade Deficit
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China has extended the olive branch back to the United States by offering a path to eliminate Washington’s burgeoning trade deficit with the country, Bloomberg reported Friday. The news comes less than a day after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration was considering lifting tariffs amid the ongoing trade war.
China Proposes Six-Year Buying Spree
Citing sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported Friday that China has offered to significantly boost its purchase of U.S. goods over a six-year period in an effort to re-balance trade between the two superpowers. By increasing its annual imports from the United States, Beijing would reduce its trade surplus to zero by 2024. That would require a spending boost of more than $1 trillion.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/bye-bye-trade-war-china-160627486.html
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oopsi above
Jessee who?
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2019/01/18/jesse-jackson-calls-trumps-fast-food-meal-for-clemson-tigers-disgraceful/
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The ministry of truth says NO!
The ad that Loeb and Allen attempted to run was simply a link to a Hollywood Reporter article about the film. The ad featured a link to a post featuring a picture of actor Jon Voight along with the hashtag #BringRoevWadeToLife.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/18/facebook-refuses-ads-for-roe-v-wade-film/
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Paul @ 08:30 AM
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/shock-poll-trump-gains-19-points-with-latino-voters-during-border-wall-shutdown/?fbclid=IwAR3KhDO7h8l7ODSlz1GdBPavbKHesAIdp3DjrEAyrzsoZvz6E-3-f3S6U_4
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“Oh Don….if you could only see my “shocked face” right now!”
Hmmm. Buzzfeed. Rings a bell. Oh yeah, they were the ones who had the big breathtaking scope on Trump watching Russian prositutes pee on the bed marked “Michelle and Barry slept here”, lol. Sweet.
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Quotes and a meme.
Insight: “No matter whose lips that would speak, they must be free and ungagged. The community which dares not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves.” —Wendell Phillips (1811-1884)
A blind squirrel finds a nut: “A wall … that protects people is not immoral. I think the issue is whether it works.” —House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer
Dezinformatsiya: “Let’s talk about [Trump’s] conduct in office, the way he speaks about people and targets individual Americans. He’s intimidating witnesses. He’s calling African nations s—hole countries. He’s blowing up alliances. He’s taking the notes away from the interpreter. The list goes on and on and on. What more does the House need in order to debate fitness for office?” —MSNBC’s Katy Tur
Non Compos Mentis: “Karen Pence is the wife of the vice president. She’s teaching art at a place where the application requires would-be employees to initial next to a list of beliefs, including certain moral misconduct, [which] includes homosexual or transgender identity as being disqualifying or any other violation of the unique roles of male and female. … The point is that the value of exclusion is embraced here, and our vice president’s wife, in the place where she is, it does the same thing, and it adds to the anxiety for people around why this White House, why this president doesn’t speak out against a member of his party [Steve King] that embraces a message that isolates the same kinds of people that are being singled out with the vice president’s wife works.” —CNN’s Chris Cuomo
Friendly fire I: “I cannot imagine having such mild feelings over such a furious hatred of an entire people. [Louis Farrakhan] calls us termites. I’m heartbroken but im [sic] gonna stay hopeful because I don’t wanna give up on Tamika [Mallory].” —Sarah Silverman regarding the Women’s March co-chair
Friendly fire II: “I must walk away from the national Women’s March organization, and join local marches who distanced themselves from national leaders allied with bigotry. We must demand the same principles from our movement as we do from our society.” —Debbie Wasserman Schultz
The BIG Lie: “Let’s be clear: crisis pregnancy centers are NOT health centers. They lie to people about medical facts.” —Planned Parenthood Action
And last… “Here’s what separates the March For Life from any other march: nobody in attendance is marching for themselves. Nobody is demanding rights or privileges for themselves. Everyone is marching on behalf of those who cannot march.” —Matt Walsh
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I just wish that Trump waited to pull the military transport aircraft until after he Dems landed in Afghanistan.
https://m.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10156144637930914/?type=3&source=48
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OOPS: CHINA RAMPS UP COAL, PULLS PLUG ON SOLAR, WIND
China has backtracked on policies implemented to increase solar power, announcing it would not approve any wind and solar power projects unless they can compete with coal power plants strictly on the basis of price.
Under a plan announced in May 2018, the Chinese government had granted large solar power projects a per-kilowatt-hour (kWh) subsidy. The government is cancelling that subsidy for new projects immediately.
In addition to cost considerations, the government said the rapid expansion of wind and solar power had created logjams on the electric power grid, resulting in wasted electricity due to lack of capacity to transmit and distribute the rapidly fluctuating power. In 2017, capacity issues resulted in 12 percent of wind generation and 6 percent of solar electricity generated being wasted.
According to plans announced by China’s National Development and Reform Commission, no new solar and wind projects would be approved through the end of 2020. Any projects proposed beginning in 2021 will have to show they can beat the price of coal power and demonstrate the electric power grid can handle their output. The national government will allow local governments to continue to offer their own subsidies for wind and solar projects if they wish, as long as any projects they support meet the second condition. The national government also announced it would no longer provide support for local solar or wind manufacturing facilities.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnparnell/2019/01/10/china-no-wind-or-solar-if-it-aint-as-cheap-as-coal/?
Will California ever get the message that solar and wind cannot provide competitive power!
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Not even the rich chi coms can afford to be pc trendy @151.
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Granny got a gun and got game too!
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/two-deer-one-shot-she-003753973.html
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He might be talking to firschy too –
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dad-children-pose-family-photo-carrying-guns-hey-gillette-offend-200917178.html
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Emergency declaration?
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/18/trump-says-he-will-make-a-major-announcement-on-saturday-about-border-and-shutdown.html
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“China has backtracked on policies implemented to increase solar power, announcing it would not approve any wind and solar power projects unless they can compete with coal power plants strictly on the basis of price.”
Beautiful, the ChiComs have learned a lesson.
Let’s see how long it takes our Rocket Scientists in Sacramento to learn the same thing… My guess is that it won’t be until AGW proponents are laughingstocks.
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Shhhhhhhhhh don’t tell Gavin –
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-17/norway-readies-big-brother-gps-based-taxation-mile-driven
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370 migrants tunnel under the 28′ concrete, slat, and razor wire wall instead of even bothering to walk 6 miles to go around it. Hilarious! Let’s spend $30 billion for more wall!!
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Posted by: George Rebane | 18 January 2019 at 11:07 AM – still trying to sell the ol Wall is better than nothing argument???
Boots on the ground say Meh,,,
https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-gop-rep-hurd-border-133734467.html
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Seems like the troll @427 is so focused on the talking points for lefties that it misses they are making the real point that the old wall/fence/whatever does not work.
Thanks!!
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Don 4:35
How much higher would you build it?
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I do think this forum is more than a bit difficult for Mr Brandon. Does he even see the need to identify the evidence for Pelosi’s assertion that border barriers are “ineffective”??
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AAnd that troll Brandon fails to accept the Border Patrols comments this week that the walls do work. But you can’t fix stupid.
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What a maroon @ 438!
NEWS FLASH!
Time to grab your pearls oh great pony tail of ignorance!
Muller just announced that the story about the Prez ordering Cohen to lie to congress is false. I know, what a buzz kill on the start of a holiday weekend.
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Hummm.. I wonder which line of Branson this guy is?(if he’s one at all.) (maybe “jon” just being “jon”)
I know most of my living kin. I have yet to even find one who votes LIB. (and NONE named “Brandon”.)
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BTW Jr.,, Tunnels under the border are nothing new.
Now did you hit the GO FUND ME page to help “ladders for the wall”? “Wire cutters for the border fence?” Shovels for the wall”?
Give till it hurts.
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Sometimes piling on is funny!
Mueller’s office disputes Buzzfeed story on Michael Cohen
Reuters 52 minutes ago
WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) – U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office issued a statement late on Friday taking issue with a report in Buzzfeed that President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen said Trump told him to lie to Congress.
“BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate,” Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller office, said in the statement. (Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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Buzzfeed said ‘two former officials’ told them Cohen was told to lie. Hmmmm, Holder, Susan Rice, Bruce Orr, Comey the suspects list is too damn long!
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@ 6:37 pm
I see it different. First, why did Team Meuller wait until 7:30 pm EST to make the announcement after letting the story run for hours….letting it go from the story breaking in the media tools of the Deep State Race and straight to impeachment???
Because people where starting to call for a leak investigation. A serious felony leak investigation into Meuller’s team. The FBI would go in with a lie detector and ask questions. Not questions concerning only the Buzzfeed article, but questions such as “Have you ever talked to a news organization? Have you ever talked to the press? Did you feed someone information through a third party that talked to any new organization, ever? And they would watch that needle move. Meuller had to stop a leak investigation in its tracks, be it for these leaks or prior leaks. Not good to see members of the Special Counsel team carted away in handcuffs. That’s my take.
If you follow the timeline, Meuller was forced to make the denial statement (a rare occurrence) only after a leak investigation was called for. Coincidence? Otherwise the story would have run all weekend and we would have montages of popinjays spouting the same phrase “rises to the level of impeachable offense.”
Heck, I could, if so inclined, put together a montage of the Mouthpieces of the Deep State all saying the the Impeach word today….before the call for a investigation….any leak prior or recent, lol.
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/levin-find-who-the-criminals-are-in-mr-muellers-office/
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Opps, I wrote to soon. Here is a montage of impeachment.
https://news.grabien.com/story-montage-media-was-already-calling-trump-impeachment-followin
Now, ask everyone on Meuller’s team (including clerks) “have you ever talked to this reporter? That reporter? Buzzfeed? NYT, ever in your life? When? CNN? Watch that needle on the polygraph machine and not say a word. 🙂
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George, in the interest of fairness and balance, I’d like to give a hat tip to Trump and his administration with regard to the announcement of a second summit with N. Korea. Press Secretary Sanders was on point with her tough words coupled with rapprochement.
On the subject of impeachment—as someone who shouted from the rooftops demanding that scumbag Clinton resign so Gore could cement his election in 2000–I would encourage you and your fellow Retardicants to get Trumply and VP Pencil ✏️ to resign so that a solid conservative partisan is poised to take the electoral mantle in 2020.
On another note, a question for fish: are you a Russian agent? Yes or no.
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I’m still waiting Don. 370 immigrants tunneled under a 28′ wall of concrete, iron slats, and concertina wire. It was easier than walking 6 miles to do around it. It took 45 minutes. You say that is proof we need a wall? Amazing. How much higher do you want that wall?? Talk to me.
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How po’ ol’ fakenewsman of you @918!
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Am I the only one who noticed that 842 and 918 have the same device avatar, just sayin’.
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Very convincing argument Don. You are one hell of a salesman! Again, how high do you want your wall?
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BrandonB 918pm – had you bothered to check, then you’d have discovered “where an old model of border barrier rises about 12 feet from the sandy ground. The stretched agency only had three agents patrolling that 26-mile-long section of the border.” ABC News. Now let’s see if you can draw some cogent conclusions from this about increasing border security.
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Any fence helps. The steel slat is pretty good and easily improved with things like concertina wire. Here, drone surveillance and border patrol mobile units will make things much easier for everyone on both sides of the border. The US border is what brings the cartels to N. Mexico. Close the border and they’re out of business and at war with the Mexican government over who runs that place.
In more serious situations, I’ve seen much less impressive physical barriers that were impervious due to the addition of mines, machine gun posts, etc. In short, the border can easily be protected physically with a “wall”. L
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Start with slat guy, drones, patrol (obvious dirt road on our side, easily patrolled.
There went 90% of the problem. But as noted above, it’s easily adjustable in response to developments in political and public opinion circles. Walls Work!@L
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GR 9:56
Sounds like a lack of technology rather than the porosity of a wall. It was only 12 feet high and they still decided to go UNDER it! Will a 30 foot barrier dissuade them? How about 60 feet topped with broken glass and barking terriers? Maybe we should be discussing how deep the wall will go rather than how high. Or how thick. Maybe what color?
We can do better than a wall. Satellites can track a speeding vehicle and read the license plate. Most likely they can see the occupants through the windshield and identify them. You tell me we don’t have the technology to observe humans plodding across the desert on foot? The wall is nothing but a symbol. An edifice to Trump and his followers.
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Please tell me how you’re going to tunnel under it under drone surveillance, gets to be a long tunnel real fast, and there’s the old mining problem of tailings. Detection is simple using seismology and is easily deterred or destroyed. As noted above, the fence can be adjusted to meet local requirements, as it largely is now.
I live here, 30mi from the border.
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Your second paragraph is everyday reality where I live. The border patrol agents are omnipresent in their green and white speeders, very unobtrusive, mostly latin or whatever I’m supposed to call them, swell guys you bump into in dollar stores and hog stands, Nicos… so yeah, there are lots of ways of getting the job done, but cost is important as well. Unless you’re stupid enough to imagine that immigration numbers don’t matter. End rant. L
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