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[I think it's profitable to continue the discussion about how the progressive Left is certain about President Trump's unsuitability for office in light of his domestic and foreign policy record, and the record of investigations that to no avail have sought to nail him.  And in light and in spite of this record, how our Left has become more confident that all their evidence-free allegations and more are true beyond the need for any further substantiation. gjr]

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353 responses to “Sandbox – 19feb19”

  1. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Well hell, just look at what he’s done. Got rid of the mandate for health insurance (I disagree with that, but it doesn’t break my heart), is trying to spend some money on the border (similar amounts have been spent in the past), pushed back on Chinese trade issues, trying to get us out of Syria, appears somewhat unconcerned with global warmcooling (or at least the smallish US percentage of the total hit).
    Good Lord man! The dude is crazy!! Some bigcity psychologists said so!!! Time to break out them pink hats and signs!!!!

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  2. George Rebane Avatar

    Re PaulE’s 944am from last Sandbox – Did McCabe et al commit treason? To the extent that the allegations against them – say, as most recently outlined by VDH – are true, I would then conclude that their efforts went well beyond ‘politics as usual’, and do constitute the Constitution’s requirement.
    Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
    By definition, instigating a coup against a lawfully seated government is to be a de juris enemy of the country, especially since the purpose of the attempted coup is to install a successor government that, by all accounts, seeks to fundamentally transform America into a nation neither bequeathed by our Founders nor desired by a major segment of its current population. Most certainly there is evidence enough to indict a number of the ‘players’ for having committed a number of different felonies.

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  3. AquaVelva Avatar
    AquaVelva

    ,,,looks like we have the MAGA echo chambers trying some preemptive damage control proceeding the release of McCabe’s book
    ,,,sweatin’ bullets are we boys???

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  4. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Also, McCabe and his pals could be Russian agents along the lines of a Manchurian candidate. That might be the next investigation. They used a phony dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton. And perhaps she may be the Manchurian Candidate.

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  5. George Rebane Avatar

    re BillT 955am – I am proudly guilty of my early and enduring assessment that a large share of reporters are profoundly ignorant if not also stupid. And as the news industry has recently both shrunk and transformed (cable and internet), the money to pay for the former numbers of the educated, bright, and ethical have dwindled. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t still a small number of good journalists remaining, but it does mean that it is not unreasonable (in a Bayesian sense) for one to assume that a newly introduced reported has a significant intellectual deficit until more evidence arrives to counter the first take. In short, Mollie Hemingway’s recent tweet confirms my assessment.

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  6. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    Oh my, Todd has become a regular gumshoe.
    “Hey Bullwinkle, maybe those are Russian spies!” “Could be Rocky, let’s keep our eyes peeled.”

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  7. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Pelline you need to be smarter about your troll names. What a hoot!

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  8. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    In the ‘aint no tism like nepotism’ category — AG Barr’s son-in-law is now a WH legal advisor. No conflict of interest there wink wink.

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  9. L Avatar
    L

    Coup? What coup? L

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 19 February 2019 at 09:11 AM
    Who has the authority under the 25th Amendment fish? Show me where they were out of line. I don’t see it.

    Of course you don’t!
    Yes Punch….who has the authority under the 25th amendment? Not McCabe and cabal! I know that when you are LARPing Matlock you think a bold statement like, “McCabe and the others were simply raising the question and rightfully so.” will carry the argument but Trump hadn’t even been in office long enough for them to raise the issue, if it were even legal for them to do so! Which according to legal minds with more credibility than the eminent Paul Emery it wasn’t“……there were no grounds whatsoever for attempting to remove the president on 25th amendment grounds!” (Alan Dershowitz)

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  11. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Paul Emery is hopeless. And boring.

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  12. fish Avatar
    fish

    Hey George Typepad is eating my html corrections!
    Test!

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  13. Aqua Velva Man Avatar
    Aqua Velva Man

    Posted by: George Rebane | 19 February 2019 at 10:01 AM – ,,,the typepad spam filter is still set too high,,,rephasing an earlier ”’canned”’ post
    ,,,McCabe’s book is due out tomorrow. Is this the impetus for the preemptive strike on McCabe???
    ,,,am i sensing the the hair being lit on fire and the sweating of bullets preceding McCabe’s book signing party???

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  14. Walt Avatar

    Let that book come out. It can be used in a court of law against him.

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  15. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    When people can’t refute the facts they try and discredit the source. Probably the impetus for all the ” disgruntled former employee, socialist , commie, proggy, significant intellectual deficit, liberalism is a disease, gov’t employees are bad except soldiers and police, education is broken, Paul Emery is hopeless, trolls, etc. etc. that graces these pages. The far right really doesn’t have much of a leg left to stand on policy wise (making more money for the wealthy excepted), and with trump in office no moral authority, so they have to resort to character assassination to try and mitigate the discrepancies in their brains. Otherwise their entire system of beliefs and values would come under question and you can’t teach an old white dog new tricks…apparently.

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  16. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Dream on BoobieC. There are no “far right” here, just Patriots. You fifth column socialist are pathetic and misguided. You are the party of hate not us.

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    AV Mangina @ 12:16
    Book peddlers? Hair on fire? ROFLMAO. Like Omrsa teasing folks with her posessing secret tape of Trump using the N word years ago during the production of an Apprentice episode?? How absolutely tantalizing. McCabe’s agent must be tickled pink, his lawyers not so much. Now he is backpeddling (pun intended) at a high rate of speed.
    Oh, they all put forth some teasers to peddle books…until the bark is worse than the bite when one actually cracks the cover and realizes they have been snookered again. Click bait.
    ———
    “McCabe spent the bulk of the interview painting himself as a dedicate, apolitical leader interested only in the truth and portraying the president as a volatile bully who was potentially a traitor. But the real bottom line from Sunday’s interview? Pelley pulled his punches and gifted McCabe nearly a half-an-hour of free network air time to slam the president, implicate Rosenstein in a soft-coup conspiracy, and plea his own innocence in any wrongdoing.
    While McCabe probably enjoyed his 15 minutes of revenge, more importantly, the former deputy director needed to get out in front of any potential criminal charges that might be forthcoming under recently-confirmed Attorney General William Barr.
    After all, nothing has yet come of the Office of Inspector General’s scathing report on McCabe’s conduct and the findings that on three separate occasions McCabe “lacked candor” when questioned under oath.
    But McCabe told “60 Minutes” that “he was confused by the investigators’ questions and distracted by the Comey crisis.”
    “There’s absolutely no reason for anyone and certainly not for me to misrepresent what happened,” McCabe said, “So no. Did I ever intentionally mislead the people I spoke to? I did not. I had no reason to. And I did not.”
    Whether the DOJ will indict McCabe under the new leadership of Barr is yet to be seen. But if McCabe is indicted, he had better prepare for tougher questions than the ones “60 Minutes” lobbed his way on Sunday night.“
    http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/19/5-big-takeaways-60-minutes-interview-andrew-mccabe/S
    Hmmm. Now we al know that if your notes do not EXACTY align with your texts or your texts are not in 100% alignment with your emails or oral recollections, then that is perjury, lying to the FBI and thereby obstructing an investigation. Liar! Flynn is a liar! George the Geeky Greek is a LIAR!!….which means Trump has something to hide!!
    https://www.facebook.com/BuckSexton/photos/a.176191582451702/2406569269413911/?type=3&theater

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  18. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Robert Cross: “When people can’t refute the facts they try and discredit the source. ”
    Other quotes by Robert Cross
    In FACT, according to Politifact, 60% of statements on Fox are rated “mostly false, false, or pants on fire.”
    “Fox News is the far away leader in news/commentary.”
    That is the funniest damn thing I have ever heard.
    Limiting your input to the offerings and interpretations of Breitbart, Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, New York Post, Fox news, and WSJ … leaves a pretty big hole in a person’s understanding of what’s happening now.
    Sorry! Breitbart is fake news with zero credibility in the real world.

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 19 February 2019 at 12:51 PM
    Easy Todd…menopause is tough on a gal. I imagine Roberta is cranky pretty regularly.

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  20. Walt Avatar

    This solar crap keeps getting wilder!
    WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) – Maui Electric Company is asking the state Public Utilities Commission to allow the utility to pass the cost – $155,000 – for 1.4 gigawatt hours of solar power that was produced but not used on to customers.
    http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/02/19/maui-power-company-wants-customers-pay-unused-solar-power/

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  21. George Rebane Avatar

    Did anyone understand RobertC’s 1244pm?

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  22. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    Todd 12:51
    “There are no “far right” here, just Patriots”.
    Yes Todd, there is but one religion, one political system, and one way through life. And only you can approve who is the “Patriot”.
    Overcompensating, are we? Just a little? Go watch another re run of Patty Duke. You must be so indebted to Ted Turner.

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Jumping in the mud pudddle and splashing others…with glee.
    Aqua Velva? Aqua Velva? What kind of girlyman would splash that fu fu juice on his manly face?. That chaps my hide. Real men used Noxzema Medicated Comfort Shave. That’s all you need. Well, I have heard of grown men getting manicures and splashing fu fu juice on their faces stinking up the place, making it smell like a French Ho House. Metro sexuals and the like. Aqua Velva? Why not just come out of the closet and use perfume?
    Hmmm. Come to think of it, Noxzema was before John Wayne Bobbit got shaved by his lovely, yet quite angry, bride. Some folks just can’t take a joke. Changed everything.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3TtK7E2un4g
    Man, PC culture ruint so many good thangs
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EkpGM_MvZ2Y
    My Daddy once tried to toss some Vilatis in my hair. My, times have changed.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOPIEpTz1Y
    The good thing with Vitalis was it had no smell. I was once locked up in rehab ward, many moons ago, higher than a kite. Ole Nurse Rachet was circling around me, sniffing the air, searching my pockets, looking under my bunk, in the waste bins, everywhere…. even checking in the toilet bowl tank. She knew I was getting sideways but could not find my stash.
    Finally with the alcohol loosening my lips and lowering my guard, I fessed up. I grabbed a nearby empty water glass and holding it up for her to see and using my thumb and forefinger as a visual aid, I told Nurse Rachet, “This much Vitalis and this much water gets ya where you want to be!”
    Oh, she got all upset, said I was making a mockery of the ward and gave me the boot. What got in to her? Some people have no sense of humor..

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  24. Biil Tozer Avatar
    Biil Tozer

    Oh Bobbie Sue, oh Bobbie Sue.
    “Otherwise their entire system of beliefs and values would come under question and you can’t teach an old white dog new tricks…apparently.”
    White dogs? How come you racists always see everything through the prism of race? No exceptions. Everything is seen through your racist bigoted intolerant lenses. Your anti-white colors are showing. What makes you so fearful of white Christian males? What is it about white Christian males that makes you are Bernie so afraid? What? Tell me? Heck, not all of us here are white dogs and not all of us here are Christians, practicing or otherwise. We be the tolerant ones. I even have a couple of white friends.
    If I may be so bold, you really should look at all the unsightly hate and racism you harbor within your heart. Yes, it takes courage to look into that darkness cohabiting with the bigger better Bobbie. All men of faith have courage. I have faith in you. Look within, then extract that root of ugliness growing larger by the day in your soul. Free yourself of the burden and walk on the sunny side of the street. It ain’t going to go away by itself. It gets worse, never better.
    https://www.facebook.com/TheRedRightAndYou/photos/a.1376591835804895/1451364461660965/?type=3&theater
    https://www.facebook.com/TedCruzMemePage/photos/a.1022605861136363/2218449498218654/?type=3&theater

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  25. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    And the chickens come home to roost on Trump’s lauded space force. Mr Art of the Deal is on a streak. A losing streak with reality.

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  26. Walt Avatar

    Your really out of touch Toad, Space command has been around for a long time. Trump is just expanding it.
    In fact, my Brother was one of the “top brass” before he retired a few years back.
    Ever get tired of losing? ( apparently not)

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  27. Walt Avatar

    Don’t settle out of court!!! PLEASE!!!!!!
    https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/02/19/nick-sandmann-sues-washington-post-for-250-million-over-defamatory-coverage/
    And this is just the FIRST shot across the bow.
    The full broadside will soon follow.

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Coup? Nah, the coup is way bigger than a couple guys shooting the breeze about some amendment and that has never been used or tried.
    The top echolon of the FBI joined at the hip with the Hillary Campaign and the WH (special shoutout to the Obama WH)…well, that’s a real ongoing coup by the cabal. Never happened before in US history
    Rod Rosenstein, the scared little bureaucrat who can’t take the heat and has no problem walking both sides of the hallway with appararent ease, has some splainng to do.
    https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-19/rod-rosenstein-has-some-explaining-to-do
    Let’s see what Andrew has to say. Heard yesterday on some interview somewhere he just came out and said it. Something about Yes, it is a coup attempt and alway has been….still going on or something like that
    Anyway, the target has always been Trump, by any means… The target was never about Russia, not even for one day.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/andrew-mccabe-60-minutes-avoid-discussing-why-russia-factored-in-james-comeys-firing/The
    Yeah, I know. Trump is a racist. Zzzzzzz

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  29. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    And those pesky facts raise their ugly head @339 –
    in 1985, Space Command was renamed Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) and assigned to USSPACECOM as its USAF component command.
    😉

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  30. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    Scenes 12:57 — good job.. of stringing together out of context quotes. That must have taken a long time to track down. A good argument except for one aspect.. You are comparing apples to horseshoes. Your examples refer to the factual accuracy of media outlets as determined by fact checkers that I was passing on to the readers. I was referring to personal attacks by labeling people with names and phrases with negative connotations in an effort to impute them as a person. People can dispute facts all they want, that is what an open discussion is all about.. but name calling is another thing without any merit.

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  31. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    Clarification — the facts are that border crossings are currently at significantly lower levels than previously. People can rationally discuss the need or not of building a wall based on facts. They can’t discuss whether those who disagree are nazi assholes or commies.

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Robert Cross | 19 February 2019 at 06:06 PM

    U mad Bro?
    Denigrating the source is your go to tactic Roberta……no sense whining when somebody calls you on it.

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  33. Scott O Avatar

    So, Bobby LaCross – what’s the difference between impugning a news source instead of directly challenging their actual news and impugning a person instead of directly challenging their statements?
    Answer – nothing.
    What you are doing is called ‘projecting’.
    If someone links a news item to Fox or Breitbart or whatever you need to accept the news or provide facts to back up your challenge to the item, not the source.
    Got it?

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  34. Scott O Avatar

    Hey Bobby – here’s a good example.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/19/former-u-s-prosecutor-trump-russia-collusion-made-up/
    Breitbart! OMG!
    Now read the article and refute it with facts.
    Or just dismiss it out of hand because – Breitbart!
    Your call.

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  35. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    Bessee 5:10
    Air Force Space Command is a far, far cry from the independent military branch that was to be known as Trump’s “Space Force”. But you probably don’t know that. You’re welcome.
    “President Donald Trump first suggested a Space Force during a speech in March 2018: “We’re doing a tremendous amount of work in space – I said, maybe we need a new force. We’ll call it the Space Force.”

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  36. Walt Avatar

    Can Babs tell us if CNN covered that? If they did, I can’t find it.
    All I could find was LIB porn. Nothing but anti Trump stories.
    I,, I feel so dirty I really need to take a shower after having to go ,,”there”… (shithole of LIB news)

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  37. Walt Avatar

    Right Toad,, your a real expert on the subject.
    Better us up there, than your friends in China and Russia.

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  38. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    The Indomitable Robert Cross sez: “of stringing together out of context quotes. That must have taken a long time to track down.”
    Not really. I just searched for Robert Cross and Fox or Breitbart. 30 seconds, max.
    Listen, it’s OK. I just assume a lack of consistency from the local bolshies at this point.
    It’s all about the feelz, mann.

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  39. Aqua Velva Man Avatar
    Aqua Velva Man

    ,,,and the hits just keep on comin’,,,
    ,,,has trumpski been giving nuclear technology to the folks that brought down the World Trade Center,,,ooh, isn’t that special???
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-mideast-oversight/trump-aides-ignored-legal-warnings-in-pushing-reactor-plan-democratic-report-idUSKCN1Q824N

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  40. Bill Tozet Avatar
    Bill Tozet

    Bobbie Sue.
    Come on, no big lower lip or licking wounds cause you got called mean nasty names like Socialist or Commie Bastard,. Very unbecoming. Nobody is disputing the fact that the current numbers of illegals swimming acrossing the Rio Grande or crossing the hostile desert have been much higher in the past, pinko.
    To use your sound reasonings, lets do an analogy. Say, there were 2,000 murders in the year 1999 or 2000 in NYC. Then the murder rate drops to 300 for the calendar year 2017. But, it jumped from 300 to 600 murders in 2018.
    Would you say, “No worries, it’s been a lot higher in the past. Just a jump in 300 murders last year. Ain’t even close to 2,000. Only 300, nothing to see. Extra cops not needed.” Of course not. Only a soulless person would utter such a thing.
    We have seen a substantial year (2017) over year increase (2018) and now month over year for 2019 is really shooting up, like a 18% spike in 1/19 over1/18, Feb (this month) projected to be 25% bump over 2/2018 and we just came off the 2nd biggest November of folks with families on record.
    Think of it like looking at your hockey stick. See that arrow pointing up, up, up and away? It will be just like Mann’s hockey stick.
    If it makes you feel better, we currently don’t have an illegal alien problem, we have an asylum crisis. Can’t handle the requests, don’t have the resources. And we know that a large majority of the asylum requests will be not quality. Rejected.
    And if it makes you feel much better, the “non-concrete” barriers are only one piece of the puzzle to try to get a handle on it.
    Cheers.
    http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/19/wall-alone-cant-fix-emergency-u-s-border/

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  41. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Aqua Velva Man | 19 February 2019 at 07:27 PM
    Well, get back to us if this develops into anything of substance.

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Looks like someone @636 is giving the pony tail of ignorance a run for their money. Its going to be independent like the Marines are independent in the Navy. The unit assets that are morphing are now an AF command and the secret antsat programs. The idea has been around for a long time and the prez bought into it braniac.
    https://www.afspc.af.mil/About-Us/
    In an interview with Space.com, Michael Dodge, an assistant professor in the Department of Space Studies at the University of North Dakota, likened the creation of a Space Force with the birth of the Air Force in the 20th century.
    The early version of the U.S. Air Force existed as the U.S. Army Air Corps, an aerial warfare sector of the U.S. Army. But as planes continued to advance technologically and find their way into mainstream travel, “Congress decided they needed to have a new branch of the military,” Dodge said. The country needed a branch that could “address issues unique to this domain.” The Air Force became the fifth branch of the U.S. armed forces in 1947.
    The Space Force would essentially serve the same purpose, but for space. Dodge said it would “free up the Air Force to focus on what it does best,” as the new branch addressed issues unique to space.
    Dodge noted that this space-oriented, sixth military branch makes the most sense now. ” [O]ur assets are so critical in outer space and everything that we do is so dependent on outer space that we need a new force capable of focusing on that domain by itself,” he said.”
    https://www.space.com/41452-space-force-air-force-space-command.html
    😉

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  43. fish Avatar
    fish

    During a campaign event in New Hampshire, California Sen. Kamala Harris said she would be willing to change the name of Columbus Day to “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.”
    I’m sure she would! After letting Willie Brown grunt and sweat all over her she must figure that she’s through the hard part…. further pandering to the “indigenous” should be a cakewalk at this point!
    https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Kamala-Harris-Columbus-Day-New-Hampshire-2020-race-13629180.php

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Aqua Velva Man | 19 February 2019 at 07:45 PM
    dugsKKKi……shouldn’t you be virtue signaling where people who might give a shit can see you do it?
    I mean your antics here are the equivalent of jerking off with sand! Pointless and unpleasant.

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