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Sandbox – 13feb19

13 February 2019

[Would El Chapo’s billions paying for border infrastructure satisfy Trump’s “… and Mexico will pay for it.”??

… and by their fruits shall they be known. gjr]

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Todd Swallows

13 February 2019

From previous kitty litter:
George 12:53
“Interesting that you now ascribe FN and USA Today as leftwing lamestream outlets.”
I used FN and USA Today as juxtaposed media examples. But I think you are smart enough to understand that.

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Walt

13 February 2019

Not as fun as walling up the LIBS, but just as tasty.
“This week, CBS Miami reported that Cuomo “blamed budget shortfalls on the state of Florida. … He said New Yorkers are fleeing to the sunshine state to save big time on taxes.” ”
Well NO SHIT!!!
“CBS Miami talked to Barry Horowitz, “a CPA and estate planner [who] says last year was one of his busiest” because wealthy New Yorkers are desperate to get out from under that state’s crushing tax burden”
AND of course,, Trump is to blame. NOT the “tax the sh*t out of ya’” LIBs.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/13/andrew-cuomo-blames-florida-2-3b-budget-shortfall/
You see,, this is how the real “redistribution” of wealth works.
We take our wealth and LEAVE.

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Bill Tozet

13 February 2019

El Chapo? Isn’t that a Mexican Resturant in East LA?
Coming full circle Part 1.
Representative Ilhan Omar has recently been forced by Nancy Pelosi and other Democrat Congresswomen to apoligize for her racist and anti-Semitic remarks. Today she found her voice again and characterizes all criticism of her as racism.
Coming full circle Part 2. When I was a kid, ‘moron’ jokes were the thing. Later came Pollock jokes, which were just recycled moron jokes with the word moron exchanged for the word Pollock. Then came the Blonde jokes about dumb blondes. Well, we have come full circle. We are back to Moron jokes.
https://www.facebook.com/TheModernConservatarian/photos/a.555647461170761/2151993094869515/?type=3&theater&ifg=1

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Todd Juvinall

13 February 2019

New York audits Rush Limbaugh every year even though he left there in 1997. And he left because of high taxes. My guess is Cuomo is running out of other people’s money. And now that they are murdering babies, his monetary future is uncertain for the state at best.

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Bocephus

13 February 2019

,,,Altered Walter is whining about a Muslim congress member mentioning something about Israel,,,remember the tiki torcher white supremicists mob,,,all good people,,,chanting ‘’’the jews will not replace us’’’???

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Bocephus

13 February 2019

We take our wealth and LEAVE
Posted by: Walt | 13 February 2019 at 02:37 PM
see ya,,,wouldn’t want to be ya

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Walt

13 February 2019

She’s your kind of gal KKKeachie. Didn’t have enough bucks to attend the tiki torch party? Funny you woul remember what they were yapping about.

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Walt

13 February 2019

I guess we (well,, I) can give Swallows a break. I found many of “him” out there.. Life sure must have been HELL in high school. (poor bastard)
Yaa,,, I would have turned LIB too.

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Russ

13 February 2019

Kamala Harris Got So High Smoking Weed in College She Thought She Was Listening To Snoop Dogg and Tupac.
In an interview yesterday with the radio show The Breakfast Club, Harris admitted to smoking weed in college (“I did inhale,” she said, laughing, “I just broke news!”) and that she listened to Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur while getting high. Here’s the problem: Harris graduated from Howard in 1986 and law school in 1989. Snoop Dogg, then known as Snoop Doggy Dogg, didn’t get started until 1992 and Tupac’s “career did not take off until the early 1990s when he debuted in Digital Underground’s ‘Same Song’ from the soundtrack to the 1991 film Nothing but Trouble.”
So either Harris was baked enough to time travel or she hit the bong after being in school. Not cool for a candidate whose slogan is “speaking truth, demanding justice.” Most likely, she’s just trying to curate a playlist that sends the right message. In this, she’s hardly alone.
Source: Instapundit Tom Sullivan KFBK 1530 AM covered in extensively on his radio program today.

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Walt

13 February 2019

Russ.. Did she explain her sleeping with Willy Brown?
She HAD to be real stoned to do that.

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scenes

13 February 2019

“remember the tiki torcher white supremacists mob,,,all good people,,,chanting ‘’’the jews will not replace us’’’???”
Sure, there’s always a few of those people. There was also the Challenger of Peace(tm), although I think the guy just panicked and ran into a group of people.
However, they weren’t members of Congress.
“Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. ”
Of course, if Robert Cross ran for office, we’d be poking the Israelis into the sea with bayonets.
Recent immigrants always seem to haul along the baggage of their home countries. The trick is to make them into Americans, and I’m afraid those days are over.

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Bill Toz

13 February 2019

My inner conspiracy theorist said from Day One that whole blackface non-story was just to distract from the horrid optics of the Far Far Left cheering wildly in NYC and Virginia the killing of newborn babies. Not fetuses, not a clinical blob of cells, not something that cannot survive outside a woman’s womb, but babies. Babies. It’s a line that had not been crossed up to that moment in our country’s history. Like the NGD, let’s not talk about it in polite company.
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“I can tell you exactly what would happen,” Northam said. “The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and family desired. And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”
You might be turned off by Trump’s use of the word “execute,” but his contention is accurate. Haberman, who is ostensibly an unbiased professional journalist, has yet to explain why she would forward an obvious falsehood to her many readers.
The same game is being played with the Green New Deal proposal……”
http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/12/political-journalists-are-trying-to-gaslight-america/
Well, if the media refuses to talk about it, our President will. He don’t care about being PC.
https://globalnews.ca/video/4950851/trump-criticizes-virginia-governor-for-blackface-incident-stance-on-abortion

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BillTozer

13 February 2019

Quotes from this moment in time and space:
Throwing down the gauntlet: “Getting attention does not equal effective leadership. That is a reality that U.S. House Rep. Ilhan Omar urgently needs to grasp as she settles into her new role representing Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District. … With an apology comes the expectation of change and personal growth. Omar’s two tweets from the past weekend made it clear that hasn’t happened. The flippant tone of one of her statements also underscores doubts about her judgment, particularly when this latest communications crisis could have been easily avoided.” —Star Tribune editorial
Race bait: “Republicans have prospered as a party that has appealed to fear for years. … The appeals to fear are always sort of the man behind the screen, or now the man in front of the screen, in Republican Party politics. So because we don’t have candidates that do that and we don’t have a recent party history of doing that, we will not produce anybody like Donald Trump from a crowded primary field.” —Sen. Sherrod Brown
Braying Jackass: “The reason that they [ICE] are already 8,000 [beds] over their budgeted amount — so they’re violating the budget — is because of the president’s zero-tolerance policy that has turned everyone, regardless of their record, into a criminal. For example, if you cross the border undocumented, [Trump] has now made you a criminal. If a person has a driving while under the influence violation, he is now making that, saying that’s criminal.” —Sen. Bob Menendez
Non Compos Mentis: “Don’t let Mitch McConnell fool you: this is nothing but an attempt to sabotage the movement we are building. He wants to silence your voice so Republicans don’t have to explain why they are climate change deniers.” —Sen. Ed Markey complaining that McConnell will actually hold a Senate vote on the Green New Deal
And last… “[The Green New Deal] sounds like a high-school term paper that got a low mark. It would shut down American energy. … It would shut down a little thing called air travel. How do you take a train to Europe?” —Donald Trump
Bonus Quote: “What I heard Trump say at the SOTUS was he would uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. He did not say those exact words, butthat what Iheard.” ——another anonymous Never Trumper that has has found a home.
https://m.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10156201221360914/?type=3

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George Rebane

13 February 2019

Mr Tozer, might not another 241pm spelling of your “Pollock” be Polak, or something similar?

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Bill Tozer

13 February 2019

Dr. Rebane, don’t be Pullock. :).

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George Rebane

13 February 2019

BillT 347pm – Now I definitely feel like the outclassed slow student; oh well.

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Bill Tozer

13 February 2019

CA versus NV
This is not something I have read or heard….just been thinking.
When the illegal alien up in the Carson City/Reno area murdered 4 elderly Americans, he was held in a Nevada jail. At the time of his arrest, his only crime at that time was perhaps suspicion of burglary. Perhaps being in possession of some stolen property of no great value. No gun was found, no hard evidence of murder. Just a suspect.
How lucky for all of us he was arrested in Nevada, not CA. First, in CA he would been OR’ed and released. Nothing to hold him on. Maybe a 24 hour hold, max. Not true for Nevada. They held him on an immigration hold. In CA, no criminal record, no real immigration hold, just a misdemeanor. No bail needed.
Imagine if Nevada was like CA and the suspected murderer was released. He might have gone straight to Truckee and murdered some more there. He might have made it to Nevada City or The Ridge. He might still be walking around free as bird.
Yes, it’s all speculations and “what if’s”, but thank goodness he was in a non-sacturary State when he did the heinous crimes. Thank our lucky stars.

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Bill Tozer

13 February 2019

She is just saying what the far left has been saying all my life.
“[Immigrants are] coming to our border asking for their human rights to be recognized to seek asylum,” said Omar, a Muslim immigrant from Somalia who won her House seat in November 2018. “And we are welcoming them to torture, detention, separation and more pain or heartache. So today, and every day until this nightmare ends, this stain of our country’s history ends, we say ‘not under our watch.’”
http://www.floppingaces.net/2019/02/12/a-cancer-in-the-house-of-representatives/?fbclid=IwAR2WNxlRlL9voAG_uWUQA9qvMzrq1tQA9J0uxR47mpJ2AU2h_WAsBgnKiGs

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Bill Tozer

13 February 2019

From Walt’s topic on prior Sandbox and reintroduced by our host to open this new Sandbox.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/43390/sen-ted-cruz-proposes-unique-border-wall-solution-emily-zanotti?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro

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Walt

13 February 2019

Well things could be worse Swallows,, you could have had this guy’s last name.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/13/assman-last-name-personal-plate/
“The government denied David Assman a personalized license plate featuring his last name because it contained an explicit term for rear end”
It could even get worse.
“Late-night talk show host David Letterman did a segment in 1995 that covered the story of Dick Assman, a Regina gas station worker”
I do happen to know a gentleman by the name of Titman.(lucky bastard.) Judging by the looks of his wife, he lives up to his name.

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Don Bessee

13 February 2019

DAAA!
Unfortunately cruel heartless manipulative political actors and radicals have taken advantage of those in need, and are utilizing them now as lethal weapons of invasion of political influence, and as their own private parties of picketing mobs. That’s what this is,” he said.
“Let’s not lose our real capacity of analysis. The migrant caravans are not spontaneous. They are being politically orchestrated and well-funded with a specific political objective.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/13/guatemala-intel-minister-migrant-caravans-are-well-planned-not-spontaneous/
😉

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Don Bessee

13 February 2019

I am SHOCKED, shocked I say!
https://pjmedia.com/trending/panera-breads-socialist-pay-what-you-want-experiment-fails-miserably/
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Walt

13 February 2019

Portland and Frisco love their terrorists, as well as illegals.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/portland-oregon-pulls-out-of-fbi-terrorism-task-force-following-san-franciscos-lead
“Over the objection of the city’s police chief and mayor, Portland, Oregon’s city council on Wednesday narrowly voted to stop cooperating with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), citing alleged surveillance of left-wing activists and arguing that the partnership between local officials and federal authorities was ultimately ineffective.”
Gotta protect ANTIFA…. A domestic Terrorist ORG.

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Don Bessee

13 February 2019

OH NO your can not include ANTIFA in the domestic terrorists list so we are taking our toys and going home meanies! But ya we know you can still do your thing fascists say the socialist –
Over the objection of the city’s police chief and mayor, Portland, Oregon’s city council on Wednesday narrowly voted to stop cooperating with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), citing alleged surveillance of left-wing activists and arguing that the partnership between local officials and federal authorities was ultimately ineffective.
Law enforcement officials said a similar decision by San Francisco officials in 2017 had endangered the public, and that the NYPD’s membership in the JTTF had helped foil numerous terrorists, including would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad.
Portland, a virulently left-wing city whose mayor has said he “can’t wait” to leave office, has had a rocky relationship with the JTTF. The city joined the partnership in the 1990s, left shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and signed back up in 2015
2015.https://www.foxnews.com/politics/portland-oregon-pulls-out-of-fbi-terrorism-task-force-following-san-franciscos-lead
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Bocephus

13 February 2019

,,,sounds like fun spending those billions El Chapo supposedly has but you don’t know how much money is there or where it is,,,
something you won’t hear at the ‘’’Build the Wall’’’ roundtable is that ‘’’Furthermore, most Texas Republicans in Congress have expressed opposition to the wall, and it has no support among Senate Democrats.’’’
https://www.forbes.com/sites/doliaestevez/2017/04/26/call-for-former-drug-kingpin-el-chapos-assets-to-pay-for-border-wall-unlikely-to-fly/#82834c1321ee

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Walt

13 February 2019

Nope! LIBS do not like the Daily Caller. It actually asks the good questions.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/menendez-threatens-to-call-capitol-police-after-reporter-asks-him-about-green-new-deal
““I am wondering why you won’t answer questions on the Green New Deal?” Rodgers asked.
“I won’t answer questions to the Daily Caller, period! You’re trash,” Menendez responded.
“Why do you think we’re trash, sir?” the reporter followed.
“Don’t keep harassing me anymore or I’ll race to the Capitol Police,” the New Jersey Democrat threatened.
Hey Bob.. It’s not a good idea to pick fights with those with a REAL BIG readership.

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Todd Swallows

13 February 2019

El Chapo MIGHT be worth $14b, but the Mexicans say his worth is now more like $4b (down from $10b last fall.) They aren’t giving Trump a red cent. By the time the US lays hands on any of it, it will be worth a few pesos. Trumpster and Rebanistas can dream on if they think Mexico will give up pesos largo to build a wall.
I believe this issue was raised Jan 8 by Mr Cruz and is only now being resurrected by the Circle of Jerks. Through lack of diligence. the Circle of Jerks only learned of this today and are outraged (unhinged) they weren’t kept in the loop by Fox news. Should have been watching NPR all along.

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Bill Tozet

13 February 2019

Here is a issue that reaayv has chapped my hide. Thank you Mr. Pres for closing this Obama loophole that gave those lying fraudulent piece of shit dishonest illegals thousands of dollars our rad earned tax dollars a year. Thank you,thank you, thank you. If you tax return is bigger than the taxes you paid, you ain’t a taxpayer.
6 minute video, so I don’t expect anyone to watch it. How Obama, the IRS, and DeLeon encouraged illegals to use stolen SSI numbers. Thank goodness that piece of shit DeLeon lost to that Chinese spy loving Feinstein. The Left always puts foreigners ahead of citizens. Always.
https://www.oann.com/president-trumps-tax-plan-blocks-spending-on-illegal-families-saves-billions/

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Gregory

14 February 2019

50% +1
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history

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George Rebane

14 February 2019

re ToddS 1007pm – Actually, this has been known for some time, but Sen Cruz’s proposal was brought up again and made national news earlier this week as Congress was negotiating the border security amount to avoid the next shutdown. Someone again was not looking beyond the lamestream.
And we note the Left’s constant reference to RR commenters as the “Circle of Jerks”, a circle of which membership they make up at least half of those who regularly comment here. Perhaps they distinguish themselves only by the content of their comments.

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Walt

14 February 2019

Well Lefties,, you have a Calif. LIB running for President who is making BS up already. Can’t she do simple math?
Then when one pays LESS in taxes, you will get LESS in a refund.
So rich guy didn’t skim off his share.(as Swallows and Bobby would like to believe)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-fact-checked-over-nonsensical-claim-trump-hiked-taxes-on-middle-class
“Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., a 2020 presidential hopeful, is under fire for claiming that lower tax refunds are a sign that the Trump tax cuts are “a middle-class tax hike”
““The average tax refund is down about $170 compared to last year. Let’s call the President’s tax cut what it is: a middle-class tax hike to line the pockets of already wealthy corporations and the 1 percent,” she said in a tweet.”

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Todd Swallows

14 February 2019

Closing a deduction is a tricky way for Trump to raise your taxes and still claim he didn’t raise your taxes. Tax prep fees, casualty and theft losses, IRA fees, many donations, moving expenses, etc., etc., etc, are no longer deductible however, maintenance and fees on your PRIVATE JET are now deductible. Now tell me the little guy didn’t just get hosed at the rich cats expense. Or maybe you have a private jet?
I thought this one was especially odious. Hire an attorney to sue on your behalf. When you win the judgement a prearranged fee goes directly to your lawyer – it is his income for being your lawyer – but YOU get to pay the income tax on his earnings. The fat cat lawyers are laughing all the way to the bank. Put that in your pipe and tell us again how Trump is fighting for the little guy.

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Bill Tozer

14 February 2019

Polls, polls.
1) We have covered this for years. Boardman and others have written editorials about it in the Union. Numerous links covering the business outflow of California from the Orange County Register (which covers business outflows to other states) have been posted on these boards from Russ and others. Nothing new here, just another poll.
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A new poll reveals that 53% of California residents are considering leaving the Golden State because of the high cost of living.
The “Trust Barometer” poll, by Edelman Intelligence, was conducted January 4-20 among 1,500 California residents, with a margin of error of 2.5%. A special oversample of 400 tech workers in the San Francisco Bay Area was also conducted, with a margin of error of 4.8%.
The results are sobering. Nearly two-thirds, 62%, of respondents said they believed the best days of California were in the past.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/14/majority-of-california-residents-want-to-leave-poll/
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2) Another poll. Support for single payer Medicare for all is down 50%

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George Rebane

14 February 2019

Walt 905am – With statements like that, Kamala Harris confirms that she resides somewhere between stupid and evil. Drawing such conclusions without citing the actual tax amounts paid (i.e. taxes saved) is the kind of intellectual pabulum that her constituents (some commenting above) consume with relish. It’s not nice to lead your light thinkers into the weeds of innumeracy.

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Bill Tozer

14 February 2019

Taxes, taxes, taxes and wage earners.
I was surprised that the standard deduction was raised to $12,000 for single filers. Child credit was also raised. That will help renters the most on the standard deduction and the child tax credit helps families. Don’t see how renters being capped at 10K for mortgage, property tax, and interest deductions will hurt, lol. Some always get helped, some always get pinched….from filing status to exemptions to deductions to source of income. AGI is the bottom line. Then there are those who file Schedule D, C, E, etc.
The IRS redoing the withholding tables who those who draw a stray paycheck seems to lead to confusion. Having less taxes withheld from your weekly or biweekly paycheck means smaller refunds at filing time.
I remember following the private plane repair deductions awhile back during the previous administration. It was pushed hard by the mechanics and machinist unions. I also remember the temporary cut of SSI witholdings Obama implemented during the Great
Recession. I opposed that because SSI is unsustainable (shaky ground) at current projections looking over the horizon . Knocking an employee’s FICA from 6% to 4% seemed shortsighted to moi. Sure, it resulted in a 2% bump in take home pay (average 6 bucks a weeek) but it was in reality a 33% FICA cut going into the SS Trust Fund. When that ended, people thought they got a tax hike, lol. Now
Now, folks got a smaller return but more taxhome pay and the media says Trump scewed the little guy. Insert lol here.
To support Walt’s 9:05 am
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2019/02/13/network-freak-out-outrage-turmoil-panicover-lower-taxes

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Walt

14 February 2019

Come on now Swallow,, you can’t have it both ways.
Bitch about people not paying “their fair share” then griping about what you can’t deduct. So as long as that “fair share” ain’t coming from you,,,, well you SHOULD get the idea…
Or are you just that butt stupid?

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Walt

14 February 2019

OK Swallow,, want more money next time? Build in more withholding.
You CAN do that. So give the GOV. a free, no interest loan.
What? can’t deduct tax prep? Use Turbo Tax! It’s FREE!(do your own damned taxes.)
Didn’t the LIBS demand loopholes get closed? OK,, loopholes closed.
You got what you wanted.

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scenes

14 February 2019

If not brought up before, I’ve found a funding source for The Wall:
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article226242390.html
lol. Boy howdy, wouldn’t that burn everyone’s ass.

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Walt

14 February 2019

Scenes,,. The vary pretty Gavin can’t give it back. Brown and crew already pissed it away.

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Bil Tozer

14 February 2019

Scenes @ 10:44 am
Hotter than a goat’s butt in a pepper patch. ::). Devil is in the details. Both Gavin and Trump are wrong, but the Twitter jabbing is fun. If not Trump, then who will take it to them? Who speaks for the little guy left holding the bag?
The contact (from memory) says that 120 miles of line has to be completed by 2022 or the 3.5 B goes back to Uncle Sam. That’s what all parties agreed to. So, Gavin has time and Trump has his devilish fun. The forgottten man is forgotten no mas. Give ‘em Harry!
I don’t think 120 miles from Fresno will make it to Butttonwlllows. And the State prop said it has to pay for itself,, i. e., self sustaining. Those will be some expensive tickets.

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Walt

14 February 2019

Proggys… TRAITORS!!! One and all. You wanted your illegals,, YOU GOT’M.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/02/14/border-security-bill-provides-aid-buses-legal-shields-migrants/
The border spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security offers “$192,700,000 for improved medical care, transportation, and consumables to better ensure the health and safety of migrants who are temporarily in U.S. Customs and Protection] custody,” according to a congressional Explanatory Statement of the provisions.
The spending includes funds to aid and feeds economic migrants as they journey across the border towards jobs in U.S. cities, as well as funds to bus the migrants from the border to pro-migration non-profits:
To facilitate these additional requirements, the conferees provide $192,700,000 above the request to include $128,000,000 for contract medical professionals, $40,200,000 for increased consumable commodities such as food, infant formula and diapers.
Border officials are also directed to bus migrants from reception centers directly to the welcome centers run by pro-migration aid groups:
Within the $114,147,000 increase above the fiscal year 2018 funding level for the Transportation and Removal Program, ICE is directed to provide for the transportation of migrants to such shelters based on where collaborating organizations have open sheltering capacity, including during surge periods. ICE shall immediately notify the Committees in advance of any decision to deny such transportation.
The flow of cheap workers to U.S. cities is a boon to business groups because it lowers their payroll costs and spikes their sales of food, autos, and housing to migrants. Government agencies also benefit from the inflow of more poor people — while ordinary Americans pay the price of reduced wages and raised housing costs.

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Bocephus

14 February 2019

,,,What a hoot!!! Trump to sign bill to keep gubmint open,,,then plans to go all tin pot dictator and declare an emergency
,,,the emergency declaration being for the purpose of propping up his egg shell thin massive EGO!!!

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Todd Juvinall

14 February 2019

Corna Diddily is Linda Campbell. What a hoot!

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Bocephus

14 February 2019

Donnie!!! Weakest retail sales since 2009!!!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-retail/weakest-u-s-retail-sales-since-2009-cast-pall-over-economy-idUSKCN1Q31XG
Auto loan delinquencies highest since 2002!!!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-12/auto-loan-performance-worsens-on-rise-in-subprime-delinquencies
“Americans carry $686 billion in credit card debt that is not paid in full each month. This estimate includes people paying interest, as well as those carrying a balance on a card with a 0% intro rate. We based the estimate on a CFPB study of credit card account data that found 29% of total credit card balances are paid off each month, implying 71% of credit card balances revolve each month. We applied the percentage to the Federal Reserve’s revolving credit balance data less $74 billion in non-credit card revolving debt to reach $686 billion in credit card balances carried over month to month.
43.8% of credit card accounts aren’t paid in full each month, according to the American Bankers Association. Those who don’t pay in full tend to have higher balances, which is why the percentage of balances not paid in full (71%) is higher than the percentage of accounts not paid in full (43.8%).
The average credit card balance is $6,348 for individuals with a credit card, according to Experian. This excludes store credit cards, which have an average balance of $1,841. Both figures include the statement balances of individuals who pay their balance in full each month.”
https://www.magnifymoney.com/blog/news/u-s-credit-card-debt-by-the-numbers628618371/
And income tax refunds are not as high as expected with trumpski tax breaks for the rich!!!
Where is the po ol trumpski cheerleader???

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Bill Tozer

14 February 2019

Walt.
Since you (wisely) don’t do FB,, I will spelll it out for ya.
Last year 449,000 Californians received a jury summons to which they replied…….
“I am not a citizen, therefore I cannot site on a jury.”
The number one source of jury summons candidates is the VOTER REGISTRATION list.
Think about that for a minute.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/442017982919984/permalink/626958711092576/
Buck sez:
https://www.facebook.com/BuckSexton/photos/a.176191582451702/2397429533661218/?type=3&theater

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Bocephus

14 February 2019

correction,,,Auto loan delinquencies highest since 2012

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Bocephus

14 February 2019

,,,Trumpski planning Valentine’s Day massacre,,,plans to shoot himself in the foot by declaring a National Emergency,,,just to save his fragile ego!!!

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Bocephus

14 February 2019

,,,The Wall is Falling, The Wall is Falling,,,cries Chicken Little Trumpski as he plans National Emergency declaration

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Bill Tozer

14 February 2019

Quotes from this moment in time and space:
Upright: “If your first response to Democratic nut-jobbery is to get defensive about Republican blowback, you’re no longer a journalist. You’re merely a hack. You are, as President Trump would put it, ‘fake news’ — an activist masquerading as a journalist. I suppose this means I’m pouncing on the media, though.” —Ben Shapiro
Predictions: “Even if the special counsel regulations did not mandate confidentiality, ordinary Justice Department guidelines against public commentary about uncharged persons would do so. … There is thus a very good chance that … Mueller’s report will not result in any statement about the president other than that the investigation is closed.” —Andrew McCarthy on the likelihood of a “nothingburger” report
For the record: “I understand the Democrats that proposed [the Green New Deal] immediately tried to retract that white paper that went along with their resolution. And too many people in the media have been complicit in the Stalin-like or 1984 technique of disappearing it, sending it down the memory hole.” —Sen. Tom Cotton
Friendly fire: “I am for a jumpstart of the [Green New Deal] discussion and a framework. … I’m not for reducing air travel.” —Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Moon shot: “There’s a lot of people now going back on the Green New Deal. They’re like, ‘Oh, it’s impractical. Oh, it’s too expensive. Oh, it’s all of this.’ If we used to govern our dreams that way, we would have never gone to the moon.” —Sen. Cory Booker
Sounds like you’ve already boxed yourself in: “I’m not going to box myself in, but should I become [the Democrat nominee], you know I’ll be looking to women first.” —Cory Booker
And last… “As I’ve said many times, abolish the withholding system and make people actually write a check to the government. America will be transformed for the better overnight. People will finally realize how much the government is really taking. True accountability will follow.” —Matt Walsh

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14 February 2019

BIllT: “The contract (from memory) says that 120 miles of line has to be completed by 2022 or the 3.5 B goes back to Uncle Sam.”
Fresno to Bakersfield is 114, or so claims google maps.
That’ll be a perfect coda to the whole affair. If it comes to pass, I’ll go there and have a cocktail on the Fresno Flier.
If we wait for a while, we’ll hear about the economic importance of the Fresno to Kettleman City spur line.

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