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Sandbox – 6feb19

06 February 2019

[Our leftwing commenters keep reporting that all of our border problems are nothing but rightwing propaganda, so why have the national news been reporting illegal entry numbers surging, caravans at the border trying to get in, and more caravans on the way from central America? And how come Dems keep saying that walls don't work, and the border security authorities keep testifying and presenting data that they do? gjr]

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368 responses to “Sandbox – 6feb19”

Gregory

11 February 2019

Or Ragnheiður Ragnheiðurdottir….
Personally, I was also unaware of Eric Ericson. I suspect my life will be complete enough keeping that as is.
We’ve been watching Icelandic TV and movies via streaming. Great names. Old Norse lives.

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Don Bessee

11 February 2019

Oh this is going to drive the godless socialists crazy! Aw, he is just some dead old white guy…
“Washington, who was the General in Chief of the Continental Army during the war and President of the Constitutional Convention makes a remarkable statement in this powerful letter: his victory in battle and his stewardship over the Convention that led to our Constitution came with the guiding influence of a higher power,”
https://www.foxnews.com/science/george-washington-letter-on-god-and-the-constitution-surfaces
😉

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Don Bessee

11 February 2019

Another lefty narrative fails –
To determine this, the professors took advantage of different timing of the implementation of voter ID laws in different states to construct a “difference-in-differences” analysis, looking at how voters behave in states that do and do not have strict voter ID laws, before and after those laws were implemented. They used data from the progressive data service Catalist, “a U.S. company that provides data and data-related services to progressive organizations and has a long history of collaborating with academics.”
The data from Catalist contained both demographic information—age, sex, race, and party affiliation—as well as information on whether or not a surveyed person was actually registered. This means that the paper’s authors could test whether or not voter ID not only stopped registered voters from voting, but discouraged unregistered voters from registering.
“Strict ID laws have no significant negative effect on registration or turnout, overall or for any subgroup defined by age, gender, race, or party affiliation,” the paper’s authors found.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/study-voter-id-laws-dont-stop-people-voting/
😉

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Walt

11 February 2019

Poor Emery. Not his week for Trump Polls.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6691891/Trumps-approval-rating-likely-voters-soars-best-23-MONTHS-52-cent.html
“Donald Trump’s job approval rating among likely U.S. voters hit 52 per cent on Monday in a daily tracking poll”

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Bill Tozer

11 February 2019

Eric Erickson
I have posted some of his quotes on Daily Quotes and even some of his writings (links) from the Patriot Post on occassion. Just because folks like Erickson are (were) Nevertrumper conservatives, they still offer good insights on issues and worth reading, depending on their familiarity/knowledge of certain issues and the writers’ own strengths, expertise, and weaknesses.
Like several Nevertrump conservatives, they have come around to Trump because of Trump’s actions, not because of his mannerisms or what he puts out there on his Twitter machine. Simetimes quickly, sometimesslowly. Levin, Ben Shapiro, Beck, and others come to mind. Actions (results) speak louder than words.
“At least we can all now be sure that reasonableness for much of the left is tied to opposing Donald Trump and anyone who might vote for him is unfit for consideration by the left. That, of course, says way more about the left than about anyone who would support the President.
The moral of the story here is to do what you think is right and not worry about what people on the internet think.”.— Eric Erickson, today’s blog.
https://theresurgent.com/2019/02/11/the-people-most-outraged-by-my-decision/
Today’s quote from another source: “The Left is united around taking out Trump, which also will prove to be their downfall.”

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Paul Emery

11 February 2019

Sorry Walt that’s the discredited Rasmussen poll you cite. They are a Right wing vanity poll that was 8 points off in the midterms. They are not taken seriously by anyone3 except RR Circle of Jerks types.

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Don Bessee

11 February 2019

@313 Does the po’ ol’ pollhead have a pollheadache?

God bless em –
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/photo-two-boys-stopping-recite-pledge-allegiance-flag-raised-fire-department-goes-viral-213633850.html
😉

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Todd Juvinall

11 February 2019

Rasmussen is discredited? No that is just your lamestream that doesn’t like the competition from a agency that is more accurate.

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Gregory

11 February 2019

Paul, 313pm, you’re full of crap.
They were 8 points off one obscure mixed poll that wasn’t any given race… the generic congressional poll that they also had as Congressional… both House and Senate. But regardless, something drew them off base in the last few days.
The sampling per House district was about four. Meaning four people asked in total per district.
They are not “a right wing vanity poll”. Period.

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Todd Swallows

11 February 2019

Todd 3:22-
Rasmussen only polls likely voters. Likely voters are a small subset of registered voters. They are typically older, white, male Republicans. Of course their polling is skewed. Admit it or admit you are too stupid to understand. As an ex government employee currently sucking on the Federal teat, you should know this.

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George Rebane

11 February 2019

ToddS 235pm – I’d call RR a socio-political blog with a definite conservetarian bias Mr Swallows. And your reading it to get some feeling for sentiments from another side is welcomed. However, please don’t think that these sentiments are restricted to RR, even though some of them may appear here first.
PS. I’ve been curious as to your nom de plume. Is ‘Swallows’ the plural for birds that regularly return to Capistrano, or is it a verb?

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Todd Juvinall

11 February 2019

Oh my TS just makes it up. Having been involved in polls for forty years, I think I trump the troll TS.

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Todd Juvinall

11 February 2019

Likely voters have always been the best info for a election.

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Bill Tozer

11 February 2019

Daily Quotes:
The Gipper: “For you see, my fellow Republicans, we are the change!” —Ronald Reagan
Demo-gogues: “We have a moral responsibility to protect God’s creation for generations to come. That is why today, we named members to the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi laughably invoking “God” to justify her socialist “climate change” agenda
Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley responded: “Does God’s creation not include protecting babies as well Madame Speaker? A committee on that issue would be welcome.”
Well in that case… “As long as America continues its wickedness, the Iranian nation will not abandon ‘Death to America.’ … It means death to American rulers.” —Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Non Compos Mentis I: “We are standing on native land, and Latino people are descendants of native people. And we cannot be … criminalized simply for our identity or our status.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Non Compos Mentis II: “Virginia needs someone that can heal. There’s no better person to do that than a doctor. Virginia also needs someone who is strong, who has empathy, who has courage and who has a moral compass. And that’s why I’m not going anywhere.” —Gov. Ralph Northam
The BIG Lie: “[Socialism] is a society coming together to increase the standard of living of our seniors. And that is pretty much the definition and the president’s attacking it.” —Sen. Jeff Merkley
Braying Jenny: “By the time we get to 2020, Donald Trump may not even be president. In fact, he may not even be a free person.” —Elizabeth Warren
That’s sexist! “Women are the smartest of the sexes and they always have been. We would be a whole lot better off if women were running things — more things in this country — and I mean that.” —CNN’s Don Lemon
And last… “It’s amazing how many people seem to think jokes about Elizabeth Warren pretending to be Native American are more offensive than Elizabeth Warren pretending to be Native American.” —Allie Beth Stuckey
BONUS QUOTE: Ralph Northam is fighting to bring himself to full term.

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Gregory

11 February 2019

Swallows 328pm
No, Rassie polls all registered voters but applies a fudge factor to the results like everyone does. Age, gender, education, all go into the mix to correct the total to look more like the population that is known to vote.
There were something like 200 million voters registered before the November 2016 election, and maybe 130 million presidential votes were cast. That 70 million sat on their hands isn’t the fault of private pollsters, and the likely voters aren’t a small subset… they’re most registered voters. Maybe 2/3rds.
Older white college eddicated guys with a libertarian or conservative bug up their yin/yang are more likely to vote than a heavily tatted kid just out of high school. That’s just the way it is.

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Walt

11 February 2019

Paul and the LIBS like the polls that most likely get illegals to “vote”.

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Bill Tozer

11 February 2019

Polls? At this time in the 2016 election cycle, Jeb Bush was the R frontrunner. He ended up in the single digits. Right now, Biden is the D front runner. He never broke 2% in his last two attempts. Polls are meaningless, except to show trend lines. It’s like following the stock market on a daily basis. Up today, down the next, up the next, down the next two…show me 90 day moving averages for short term peek-a-boos.
Interesting to note that Trump never hired a pollster until seven months after he declared his candidacy. He just read them in the papers. Why waste the money when you have your finger on the pulse of America. Some call that being a populist, lol.
Speaking of Biden and the upcoming elections, has anybody figured out how much of Bernie’s surprise showing in 2016 was due to anti-Hillary votes and how much was due to Bernie’s policies?
If Bernie does jump in the race, that will help Warren from being labeled the oldest candidate on the Left.
Of all the R’s and D’s who condemned Omar’s latest of her many anti-Semitic statements (including Nancy Pelosi), none of the Left’s declared canidates condemned IIlhan Omar. Zero. That is a non poll to watch. :). It’s who they are.

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Paul Emery

11 February 2019

Why was Rasmussen 8 points off the mark in the midterms Todd?

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Paul Emery

11 February 2019

Also Todd you picket the Republicans to gain in the House but they lost 40 seats. Why were you so wrong?

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Gregory

11 February 2019

They weren’t “8 points off the mark in the midterms” Paul. Just on one meta race, the total vote for congress, house and senate, R vs D. There is no ballot for “generic congresscritter”.

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Gregory

11 February 2019

Todd’s buddy LaMalfa won, Paul. Audrey Denney lost. As expected by the Democratic Party.

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Todd Swallows

11 February 2019

George 3:34-
Though some may conclude Todd Swallows is an observation of what one on this board does (with homosexual reference), it is actually a proud and revered family name.
Hark: from Middle English swal(e)we, swalu ‘swallow’, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble the bird, perhaps in swiftness and grace. habitational name from a place in Lincolnshire, so called from the Swallow river on which it stands.
Relation
https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_Jack_Swallows

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Paul Emery

11 February 2019

Gregory
Todd predicted the Republicans would increase their house numbers and they lost 40. LaMalfa’s win was pr4edictable but only one of seven Republicans to win in the Congressionals in California. Yes that’s a total of 7 for the state. Astounding rebuke or the pubbers. Why do you care anyway Gregory? You’re not a Republican.

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Gregory

11 February 2019

Paul, Todd was filling the role of an optimist. Close your eyes, click your heels together three times and say we’ll win by 3.
That’s not me, but if everyone had my attitude, there’d be a lot fewer mindlessly happy people out there to brighten everyone’s day.
The GOP won the seven statewide without vote “harvesting”, and people who have not given their employer, the state, express permission to take money from their paychecks to give to the union that claims them as a member without their consent has not ended (see Janus v. AFSCME) in California.
Then there’s the mass idiocy over Climate Change that has the state’s testicles in a salad shooter, but that’s a mid-term problem that will blow up eventually, and resolving it will not be pretty.

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Don Bessee

11 February 2019

Badass good buys with guns –
Palmetto, Florida’s Manatee School for the Arts is employing two armed combat veterans to protect students and teachers while at the school.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/11/florida-school-hires-armed-combat-vets-protect-students-teachers/
😉

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Paul Emery

11 February 2019

Why do you care so much that you carry the Republican flag on this blog Gregory?

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Gregory

11 February 2019

I don’t “carry the Republican flag” here, Punchy. I just take potshots at our common foes.

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Walt

11 February 2019

Paul had his hissy fit, and shook his cain in his far left hand.. On to bigger things.
Now what the hell could POSSABLY go wrong?
https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/iowa-democrats-to-take-caucus-to-the-virtual-world
The Dark LIBS will be pulling the handle behind a new curtain.
The less real eyes on the “public” process the better they like it.

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Walt

11 February 2019

Then AGW takes another “oh shit” moment. This goes against any rational thought that our rock is getting hotter.
Explain it away all you like.. There is to plan “B” excuse,,”It’s just weather”.
https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/Hawaii-recorded-what-may-be-the-lowest-elevation-13607099.php
“On Sunday, Maui’s 10,ooo-foot Haleakala received a thick dusting and snow also accumulated at 6,200 feet in Polipoli State Recreation Area.
Officials at the Department of Land and Natural Resources say this could mark the lowest-elevation snowfall ever recorded in the state.”

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Bill Tozer

11 February 2019

The Northern California Coast got a dusting of snow. Humbolt County area. It’s only weather….like the droughts in the ladder 70’s…
13 hours to get to Reno last week. Good thing I carried gas and a generator in the back of my electric Flintstone mobile.

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Paul Emery

11 February 2019

Gregory
You write that:
The GOP won the seven statewide without vote “harvesting”, and people who have not given their employer, the state, express permission to take money from their paychecks to give to the union that claims them as a member without their consent has not ended (see Janus v. AFSCME) in California.
Now Nevada County voted blue in practically all state and Fed elections in the last two cycles. In Fact if all Counties in District 1 Congressional would have voted like Nevada County LaMalfa would not be District 1 Congressman. My question to you is was Nevada County aided by vote “harvesting” as you contend in the above quote as the main reason California went Democratic by such a historic level ?

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Gregory

11 February 2019

In fact, the other counties didn’t vote as Nevada County did, and The Union didn’t exactly do their job covering Denney’s inconsistencies. She lied about a number of things, and the local Dems threw normal behavior out the door with LaMalfa’s town meeting which caused him to not come back.
We don’t know what the county vote is doing. It was easier to trust the process when it was simple and quick, with ballots kept together. And it’s heading out to the rest of the state.

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scenes

11 February 2019

Gregory: “…and the local Dems threw normal behavior out the door with LaMalfa’s town meeting which caused him to not come back.”
I guess it depends what ‘normal’ means anymore.
Is it this event?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h62gH3ExEA
If so, I’ll have to check it out to hear the shrieking of the oppressed.

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Paul Emery

11 February 2019

That’s shocking scenes. Poor Baby LaMalfa I feel so bad for him.

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Bill Tozer

11 February 2019

Circling the barn again. Yes, it’s a fool’s errand to replay the tapes, but I rather like this one. Since Chuckie the Clown came into politics about 30 plus years ago, all he was ever done is attack Republican presidents, bar none. Decade in, decade out. If that said, there is nothing, absolutely nothing in The Botox Queens and Chucky’s clown car that ever gave a hint of opposing barriers.
https://www.facebook.com/derekmke/videos/496318770892960/UzpfSTUxMjE4ODUyMDo2MjU4Njc5Mjc4NjgzMjE/
You never want to be the guy who throws a lame party right across the street from a rip roaring booming kegger. Tonigh, Beto was that guy.
As Beto was speaking, suicide from the Trump rally a quarter mile away was audible…

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Gregory

11 February 2019

LaMalfa wasn’t the loser in that town hall debacle, Punch… the losers were the people who attended expecting adult behavior, and the people who didn’t attend (like me) who expected the antics that occurred.

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Paul Emery

11 February 2019

So you attribute those reasons for LaMalfa losing so solidly in Nevada County?

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Bill Tozer

11 February 2019

Gregory
Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing this. It is so true.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrbOVeRonQ

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Walt

11 February 2019

To this day, Paul has yet to condemn the actions of his feral LIB rats. The hecklers veto is fine and dandy. And Paul is supposed to be a 1ST lover? i wonder what Paul would say if a few rednecks gave a LIB speaker a fine uh, welcome? Made sure that LIB go a good dose of “our” opinion.
What’ya say Paul?,, Can two play the same game?
Maybe you can come up with a reason why not?

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Gregory

11 February 2019

Punch, I attribute LaMalfa’s loss here mostly to his deciding not to seriously contest Nevada County, having the election in the bag. If the local left play stupid games, they can win stupid prizes.

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Paul Emery

12 February 2019

What do you attribute all the other Dem wins in Nevada County to including the Presidential, Gov etc?

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Gregory

12 February 2019

50% +2
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history

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Todd Swallows

12 February 2019

The slathering reds chased LaMalfa away from Nevada County. He was disgusted by the belly crawl groveling displayed by Todd who paid him $2,500 for his autograph!! Not to be outdone LaMalfa tried in vain to get Trump to sign his cowboy hat – Trump admonished him and finger waved him away as one would do to a small child. Must have been like a hit to the gut for LaMalfa.
Todd, do you have that autograph from LaMalfa prominently displayed? Do you ever let on you had to buy it?

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Don Bessee

12 February 2019

Blame it on the chronic –
However, Harris graduated from Howard University in 1986 and was finished with law school by 1989. She was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1990.
Snoop Dogg’s debut album “Doggystyle” was released in 1993. Snoop made music prior to his first album, appearing on Dr. Dre’s 1992 album “The Chronic” and the soundtrack of the 1992 film “Deep Cover,” but they were both released years after Harris finished school.
As for Tupac, his first album “2Pacalypse Now” was released in 1991. The rap legend also recorded music as part of the group Digital Underground, but it was also released in the early 1990s after Harris finished school.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-says-she-listened-to-snoop-dogg-tupac-while-smoking-weed-in-college-years-before-they-made-music
😉

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Walt

12 February 2019

Having to sleep with Willy Brown to get where she wanted had to have taken plenty of weed.. And they still say weed is harmless.

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Todd Swallows

12 February 2019

Bessee – of all people!! Telling us about Chronic (do you even know what that means??) Tupac was doing beat box and rap and playing under the name MC New York since 1986. Even a lil ol white boy like me know that. You must have been hitting one of them Bessee Blunts for breakfast.

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Don Bessee

12 February 2019

That’s going to go over well in Iowa, not –
https://freebeacon.com/politics/cory-booker-this-planet-simply-cant-sustain-people-eating-meat/
😉

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Walt

12 February 2019

LOL!! Fluffer tries to make excuses for Obummer in a skirt.
Her words !! Her lies….

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Todd Swallow

12 February 2019

Todd my kept man, please take this for a spin and tell us how Trump gets a win. A year ago Trump killed a deal to get $1.6b for his wall. He shut down the Government and threw the economy into shambles. Looks like today he is going to get on his knees and accept $1.35b.
Tell us how bigly he wins. What a genius! 3-D chess and all that stuff you were crowing about.

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Bill Tozer

12 February 2019

8:53 am
Too funny. Reminiscent of that woman who is prominently featured featured at the Black History Muesum in DC who claimed Clarence Thomas referenced to watching the porno flick Long Dong Silver way before the spanky movie was even even made or released, lol. Anita Hill or something. For the record, I did not have sex with THAT woman.
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Morning Walt. Did you hear that the military transport aircraft carrying members of Congress to the funeral of former Congresserson John Dingle of Detroit this morning had to turn around because of heavy snow and treacherous weather made landing unsafe at any speed. All dressed up and nowhere to go. Blame Climate Change.
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Not only did David Duke rush to the defense of Congressperson Ilhan Omar for her anti-Semetic remarks, Jew hater Linda Sarsour has also rushed to her defense, ROFLMAO.
No word yet if Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, has also rushed to Omar the Misunderstood’s defense…with a glowing public statement being witness to her character.
“Rep. Rashida Tlaib penned a 2006 guest column in the Nation of Islam’s official newspaper run by notorious anti-Semitic preacher Louis Farrakhan.
Ms. Tlaib’s piece titled, “Bills must stop deportations for minor offenses,”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/11/rashida-tlaib-wrote-op-ed-louis-farrakhans-final-c/
Me thinks the Leftinistas not only have an anti-Catholic problem, they may have an anti-Semitic problem….but what do I know.
http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/11/democrats-anti-semitism-problem-isnt-going-away/

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