[… and I would also draw your kind attention to the 28jan19 update of the last Ruminations. gjr]

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286 responses to “Sandbox – 28jan19”
You never get a second chance to make a first impression..
Must confess, I did love the timing of the first dump. Surprise, surprise. Nancy walks right into the fireworks. What a way to start a National Convention…with love and unity. And nary a word about it in the article. Can’t keep that one a secret.
Probably just about the time CNN and ABC and the popinjays were screaming at the screen, “Don’t read them! It’s against the law to read them! Don’t download them. Illegal, don’t do it! Do Not read them.”
Boy, that sent us all racing to read them. Loved it when Trump referenced them. Sweet. They are still pissed at that one. Smoked them bastards out. Let’s do it again!
“With two of her grandchildren at her side, Pelosi said she’d met with plenty of Sanders supporters who were pleased that their demands had been accommodated in the platform.
Others, she implied, don’t realize how well they had it.”
https://www.rollcall.com/politics/california-delegates-boo-speakers-convention-breakfast
Gee, that was kinda creepy, Beaver. 🙂
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You mean like political campaigns cybersquatting oh great pony tail of ignorance?
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I heard someone say once something to the effect…….”every socialist, every would be commissar imagines themselves sitting atop a pile of human skulls……humanity is now perfect”.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/01/28/what-will-it-take-to-make-you-understand-and-accept-that-they-hate-you-n2540309
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Paul Emery show me the laws you say exist about hacking and I will certainly pat you on the back. But so far all you do is bloviate propaganda. As far as my dating service? Well maybe that would get you excited so go for it. I am very popular and have so much fun you would pro=bably explode trying to keep up.
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Ya think?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/28/axelrod-kamalas-oakland-base-not-a-natural-fit-for-the-heartland/
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…..and if I had been reading a bit more carefully I would have seen what Don offered upthread.
Wonder if Dick is ready to take one for the team…..post on line where his children (assuming he has any) attend school. C’mon Dick…the “Personal is Political”…..time for you to earn your stripes!
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Todd
I’m signing off to avoid further embarrassing you.
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I love the smell of orange jumpsuits in the morning!
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I love the smell of orange jumpsuits in the morning!
I figured you had the stink of “hot prison love” about you………
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Ah, the moment your realize they will never stop hating us is like a lost of innocence. Painful, but it will be ok……
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Leaks: looks like all the hate and vitriol preceded the first WikiLeaks dump. They were fired up already. Article does not even mention the e-mails tell the very bottom. Not much of an influence, all in all.
http://time.com/4422889/democratic-convention-protests-opening/
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@9:12 pM
I think the Dems took the House in 2018 primarily on the backs of the more moderate (least Crazy) Democrats in district races than any taking of seats by the far-left crazies. Hopefully, Harris will be far left enough. The wackier, the better. That’s what I think.
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Codswallow. That be chained heat. Sizzling.
I liked her better in The Exorcist
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7YZOEt2tfpE
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Looks like I put Paul Emery’s propaganda in a box and he vamoosed afraid he was caught. Makes my day.
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Holy crap! That’s Todd’s face tattooed on Roger Stone’s back! I knew it looked familiar and then Todd brought up his dating service “explosion” and everything clicked.
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I agree with an earlier link today. Maybe we shouldn’t walk away from the Covington story or sweep it under the carpet just yet….
America has reached an inflection point. In a nation built on individual liberty and God-given rights, leftists have decided they should be the sole arbiters of what is or isn’t acceptable in modern society. With relentless help from the rank propagandists who have killed journalism, they have determined that anything that doesn’t comport with progressive dogma is not only wrong, but evil. Evil that can be completely dismissed at best — or eliminated, possibly violently, at worst. The current focus of their unrestrained rage is a red baseball cap with Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” printed on the front.
Who’s hurting whom? In addition to Joseph, a quick search using the words “people attacked for wearing MAGA hats” yields a number of equally contemptible instances of people being harassed or assaulted, including a trans activist assaulted in Hollywood, a Brooklyn man attacked with a broken bottle in a Manhattan bar, a Texas teen assaulted at a Whataburger in San Antonio, and an Arizona man who had his ankle broken in a Tucson encounter…….
Sadly, nothing is new here. The collective demonization that inexorably reduces groups of people to sub-human status enabled the guillotines of the French Revolution, the gas chambers of the Nazis, and the gulags, torture chambers, and mass starvation and mass executions that took place in the Soviet Union and Communist China.
For far too many leftists, the MAGA hat provides a springboard for rationalizing similar sub-humanization.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/60798-first-they-came-for-maga-hats-dot-dot-dot?fbclid=IwAR2pNQdY-CNafYU8Yc3q28kgP9hHMn7VnZaM2Wicb5oqhNzpgyeedR33KF8
Ironically, the children bought their Mega hats at a vendor after the March as they were heading over to the meeting place to lad up and take a hat 10 hour bus ride home…..ah, it makes no matter when or where they bought those MEGA hats. The crime is they had those hats and wore them in public.
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BillT 1220am – this would be good under ‘The Real Issue …’ Mr Tozer.
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,,,BillyT,,,are MAGAs the new N-words?
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,,,Are MAGAs the new ‘’’gays’’’???
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Looks like I attracted another troll here. You libs are just a hoot!
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,,,Are MAGAs the new ‘’’gays’’’???
Are the Democrats the new heterophobes? Poor Howard Shultz
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Howard Shultz is the new Ross Perot.
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Also see Ruminations update.
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Trump up 25 points over Nancy Pelosi today.
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@7:56
I read this BEFOE Howard’s rude welcoming yesterday at a Barnes and Nobel, of all places. If there remains any doubt about media bias and joining at the hip with the Leftinistas, one need only to put Orange Man out of mind and look how they were reaching aroused lisssull climax reporting on the evisceration of Howard Shultz. I thought 2016 would be the moment for a 3rd Party gain traction, but it was not to be…in the traditional sense of the meaning.
“However, I sense that we’re approaching the time when an independent or third party candidate will be a strong force in a presidential election. The GOP isn’t likely to become less conservative and the Democrats aren’t likely to stop moving leftward. Thus, the space for someone claiming to be a sensible centrist will keep growing. In bad economic times, and we’re bound to have some, that space will be all the larger.
The last time a third candidate made a substantial run for president was 1992, fairly bad economic times or so it was said. In that election, the GOP candidate was a “kinder, gentler” conservative and the Democratic candidate ran as a “new Democrat,” not wedded to the party’s liberal past. Thus, the space for Ross Perot’s centrist candidacy was not huge. Nonetheless, he did fairly well.
With the centrist space widening by the day, I don’t see why a latter day Perot couldn’t mount a serious challenge for the presidency. But I don’t think it will happen in 2020.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/01/a-howard-schultz-independent-run-for-president.php
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Hey BillT, your new gal (lol) might get a primary challenge. She is pretty cute but what a dolt she is.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/427364-some-dems-float-idea-of-primary-challenge-for-ocasio-cortez
Those deep state democrats can’t hack her.
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The arts are so uplifting. Listen to the (liberal) children.
https://www.facebook.com/1075579372604366/videos/336659250510257/UzpfSTExODg1NTQ4MTQ6NjE4MTcxNTExOTcxMjk2/
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Yo Todd @ 8:42 pm @ 8:42 am. My New Gal has already effected real change.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10217915877759397&set=gm.617836548671459&type=3&theater&ifg=1
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Midwesterners for Global Warming.
https://bongino.com/trump-begs-global-warming-to-come-back-fast-as-polar-vortex-slams-midwest/?fbclid=IwAR0Uh3zcylM7URmwNvBztDI50M-PQ9RABcqFRfwzu0u_wnqe3Ee10Eg7gds
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While the article makes it sound like a mystery its obvious why a 24 hour location would have problems after the virtue signaling bathroom policy by starbucks –
Handlrey believes one contributing factor might be a reduction in Bay Area residents living outside San Francisco who used to come into the city for a show, to eat at a restaurant and to shop. The city’s issue with people living on the streets and traffic have contributed to this decline, he says.
“Now it’s a hassle to get into the center of the city with the changes in streets, the reductions in lanes,” he says. “And the people who get off at the Powell Street BART station…and the homeless issue.”
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/24-hour-Starbucks-San-Francisco-Union-Square-close-13559579.php
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Todd, what poll do you cite in your 8:16 ?
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Your favorite
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Crisis of lawlessness. No, it not Roger Stone.
In one large group of 247 people, 50 of them had to be taken to the hospital, requiring nearly every available agent to leave the field to tag along.
“Smugglers and traffickers then use these large groups as ‘cover’ while USBP resources are utilized to arrest and [for] detention-related duties associated with the large groups,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/24/cartels-use-groups-sick-migrants-distract-agents/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S9nqREcW9UM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR21PmoZMyJld9w62Z-gieYBpp4cXiBE1AP8Y22igawky324wTWF5mz0H-E
https://www.kvia.com/news/border/bp-detains-2nd-large-migrant-group-1st-group-used-as-distraction-to-smuggle-drugs-into-us/980887840
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Quotes from the early start to silly season.
Friendly fire: “Elizabeth Warren wants a ‘wealth tax.’ It might backfire.” —Washington Post editorial
Observations: “The left thin[k]s everything is about identity politics, so they falsely claim [Republicans] don’t like [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] because she is a ‘female, millennial, working-class Latina.’ That’s a terrible analysis. I don’t like her because she’s a liberal, anti-Israel socialist who supports a 70% tax rate.” —Ari Fleischer (“I have often wondered whether the left’s identity politics shaming is grounded in their abject ignorance of what conservatives actually believe or their just raw, cynical politics.” —David Limbaugh)
Food for thought: “Think of all the stupid, useless books you were made to read in school. Then consider that you explicitly were not made to read the most influential book in the history of the world. What reasonable person could possibly oppose Bible literacy?” —Michael Knowles
Braying Jackass: “The Catholic Church doesn’t believe in a woman’s right to choose.” —NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo defending his state’s ghoulish abortion law (No, the Catholic Church believes in the right to life.)
Alpha Jackass: “[Trump] betrayed our country and I don’t say that lightly.” —Rep. Eric Swalwell
Non sequitur: “You can be in favor of the Second Amendment and also understand that there is no reason in a civil society that we have assault weapons around communities that can kill babies and police officers.” —abortion advocate Kamala Harris
Hot air: “I support a Green New Deal. Climate change is an existential threat to all of us, and we have got to deal with the reality of it.” —Kamala Harris
What? “We are literally as a world on a collision course with time.” —former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz warning about climate change
Non Compos Mentis: “The least sexy part of socialism is effective, efficient bureaucratic administration but the project lives or dies based on it.” —MSNBC’s Chris Hayes (“I think the least sexy part is the death toll and complete stripping of individual rights. But that’s just a matter of different taste, I guess.” —David Harsanyi)
And last… “Kamala Harris apparently got a head start on her career by having sex with a married man. She’s a champion for women — except the woman whose husband she slept with. Seems like rather a conspicuous caveat.” —Matt Walsh
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Class warfare?
Last week, I noted that Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren had suggested a new program of confiscating the assets of wealthy Americans on an annual schedule, a “wealth tax” with no constitutional basis and very little to recommend it economically. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has recommended a confiscatory income tax. Progressives have taken to describing the class of people they hate in eliminationist terms: Representative Ocasio-Cortez insists that it is “immoral” for “billionaires to exist.” Two influential progressive economic thinkers, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, have written that one of the benefits of confiscatory taxes is that they would cause the class of high-income Americans to “largely disappear.” Marshall Steinbaum, the research director of the progressive Roosevelt Institute, wrote: “It’s increasingly clear that having wealthy people around is a luxury our society can no longer afford.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/economic-inequality-helps-drive-growth/
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Why can’t we just work together?
https://www.facebook.com/DSouzaDinesh/videos/270828133631285/UzpfSTExODg1NTQ4MTQ6NjE3ODkyNTgxOTk5MTg5/
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The socialist international comes to the rescue –
Scripps College in Claremont, California, hosted an event on Monday, featuring speakers who defended the dictator of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, in an attempt to impress students with a positive view of the socialist regime.
The college hosted two speakers who defended socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro, and who also scrutinized the idea of foreign countries intervening in Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis, according to The Claremont Independent.
The event, entitled, “Venezuela is Irrevocably Free,” featured Akinyele Umoja and Jeanette Charles, who used their speaking opportunity to celebrate the endurance of the socialist dictator, whose forces have killed thousands of his nation’s citizens.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/29/scripps-college-hosts-event-defending-venezuelas-dictator-maduro/
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So it begins comrade –
A draft of a new committee rules package expected to be approved this week would strike the phrase, “So help me God,” from the oath witnesses take when they testify before the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Fox News says it received an exclusive copy of the committee’s draft that places the phrase in red brackets, a sign the words are slated to be eliminated.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/29/house-democrats-to-strike-so-help-me-god-from-oath/
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Todd
Can you give me the specific name Todd. The only polls I take seriously are the RCP consensus polls and they don’t have a specific polling on that topic.
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There you go.
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Can you point me to a direct polling comparing Trump and Pelosi if that’s what you’re referring to?
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Peeeewwww, it reeks of po’ ol’ pollhead in here!
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No you can go find it.
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There you go Todd. You can’t even refer to a poll to support your position. No wonder you were such a loser in politics and got fired by an organization that you claim to have founded. What a joke.
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Bessee- You have a problem with Congress upholding the No Religious Test clause of the Constitution? BTW have you checked out your name brand reefer in the marijuana store?
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,,,Paul,,, I think I found the poll that Todd was referring to,,,Is this it Todd??? These are the same pollsters you use to determine your popularity also I think.
”’Trump Surges Ahead of Clinton in Poll Conducted by His Brain”’
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,,,Trump v Pelosi,,,
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/poll-voters-trust-pelosi-over-trump/
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,,,good fun,,,
https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2018/11/20/7429973380389095274/1024x576_MP4_7429973380389095274.mp4
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Still investing in that rancid Russian dressing oh great pony tail of ignorance?
The main takeaway from informal presidential adviser Roger Stone’s arraignment Tuesday is that the Russian collusion narrative has collapsed. If there were anything there, we’d know about it by now.
Stone was hauled in to federal court Friday morning after a theatrical, televised arrest that should be the subject of a Justice Department investigation or congressional inquiry. Why the excessive threat of force? Though CNN denies it, many still wonder whether the network was tipped off. The extreme intimidation tactic might have been intended to send a message, but it only tended to confirm the biases of those who see special counsel Robert Mueller’s entire effort as a rogue operation.
The “process crimes” Stone is charged with, such as lying and witness tampering, are potentially serious. But he was not charged with facilitating Trump campaign collusion with Russian hackers, and the indictment itself gives little reason to believe there ever were any.
It was certainly not a crime for the Trump campaign to be interested in what WikiLeaks had on Hillary Clinton or other Democrats. WikiLeaks had established itself as a reliable — though notorious — source for purloined information. Weeks before WikiLeaks published the emails, Democrats had made public that their computer systems had been hacked, allegedly by Russian operatives, though WikiLeaks has denied that Moscow was its source.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/01/29/roger-stone-not-guilty-plea-donald-trump-russian-collusion-bail-column/2710177002/
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@445 ‘BTW have you checked out your name brand reefer in the marijuana store?’
Which store?
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Bessee 4:57-
Fair enough!
With all the legal MJ businesses popping up, despite predictions and well funded efforts from a well known prohibitionist, it can be hard to keep up. The Elevation “adult use” MJ store in Nevada City has (or at least has had) Bessee blunts named in your honor. I hear children all over the county are getting hooked and committing outlandish crimes to feed their new fangled marijuana habit.
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No Dougy,, The State isn’t happy with the dopers. They are NOT buying “legal” weed in the “stores”. So their grand plan is to reduce the tax. Good luck with that.
Yes, some are. But most are still getting the good old fashioned way. Down on Weedman St.
There is so much weed, it’s being given away. (well,, maybe not to you)
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Santa Barbara City College has decided to stop saying the pledge as their Trustees say is is white nationalism Check the twitter or FB and tell them how you feel. I did.
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