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334 responses to “Sandbox – 3mar19”

  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ahhhhhh, fresh kitty litter and without the flock of little birds.
    😉

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, the conservatives have written off CA, now they have pretty much written off colleges. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
    Trigger warning. Written by an unapologetic Christian young lady. I do admire the young lady’s courage to write this and pushing her religious beliefs aside, there is undoubtedly a bigger agenda going on. No surprise.
    “They are also guilty of creating environments hostile to those who challenge their (often liberal) positions in front of the classroom and shun the person who disagrees with them instead of rebutting their arguments or encouraging a healthy discourse.
    Some students either stand in solidarity with the left’s doctrines in the classroom or risk being cast out. Before the “prefrontal cortex” is developed in adults between the ages of 18 to 25, which is responsible for our impulsive decisions, they’re being taught to accept certain beliefs uncritically.
    That’s the antithesis of critical thinking which college professors are ideally supposed to foster in their classrooms.
    This is paralyzing for not only the student who wants to challenge groupthink but to the group standing in solidarity because, according to authors Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff who have studied campus culture extensively, “Solidarity can interfere with the group’s efforts to find the truth, and the search for truth can interfere with a group’s solidarity.”
    And that is predatory.
    https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/commentary-college-professors-are-predatory-heres-how-one-almost-robbed-me-of-my-faith

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Be careful out there!
    As for the worst intersections in Nevada County, the top five are Brunswick and Greenhorn Roads, Combie Road and Higgins Road, Ridge Road and Rough and Ready Highway, Dog Bar Road and Cole Way, and Pleasant Valley Road at Commercial Avenue. The top five road segments with the highest concentration of collisions were portions of LaBarr Meadows Road, Wolf Road, Dog Bar Road, Rough and Ready Highway, and Magnolia Road…
    https://knco.com/the-five-worst-intersections-in-nevada-county/
    😉

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  4. Walt Avatar

    The House of the DEMNed never learns. Changing rules that all of a sudden they don’t like. Now how did that work out in the Senate?
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/04/freshmen-dems-motion-to-recommit/
    It was fine when THEY used it.. Repubs just used it better.
    grab guns, or protect their beloved illegals… Designations,, designations. Vote wrong, get put on a “list”. (Vary Commie if you ask anyone)
    What next? Only the majority’s vote will do? The minority in the house will have no say?
    I can’t wait to see the LIBS claim the President has no VETO power over them… “‘NO!! NO, HE can’t DO that! It’s abuse of power!!!”

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  5. Keith Avatar
    Keith

    Did all the swallows fly south? I understand it is beautiful this time of the year when they return to Fowler in Fresno County along with cross Bobby.

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    How about a smoke and a pancake: Quotes from our time in space
    Belly laugh: “This is a time, my friends, when fundamental rights, civic virtue, freedom of the press, the rule of law, truth, facts, and reason are under assault. And make no mistake, we are living through a full-fledged crisis in our democracy.” —Hillary Clinton
    A blind squirrel finds a nut: “Here’s the deal — the conservative movement in this country … is now the leader on this issue of [criminal justice] reform. … Take some dadgum credit for being smart. Take some dadgum credit for getting it right.” —Van Jones
    Slippery slope: “You cannot go too far on the issue of climate change. The future of the planet is at stake.” —Bernie Sanders

    Braying Jenny I: “You’ve just called America’s most anti-LGBT elected leader ‘a decent guy.’ Please consider how this falls on the ears of our community.” —Cynthia Nixon’s memo to Joe Biden
    Braying Jenny II: “I followed Pence’s history on LGBTQ Americans, and I don’t think that is a decent position.” —Elizabeth Warren, who probably thinks her fraudulent claims of Native American ancestry is decent
    Alpha Jackass: “Anti-choice advocates care about babies…until they’re actually born and need healthcare, parents with a living wage, quality education, and freedom from detention centers.” —Women’s March
    And last… “The same people who accused Mark Meadows of being racist for bringing Lynne Patton to the House Oversight Committee hearing last week are the same people who continually dismiss Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitism.” —Ryan Saavedra

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gregory
    Trivia: Can you name who. “X” is? I know you can. You might have even met him, or not. Gary Hart conncection. Indulge me with one guess…..or not.
    “Residents told X they liked two seemingly opposite candidates: Bobby Kennedy and George Wallace. Kennedy was a liberal icon, preaching racial harmony, outreach to the poor, and ending the war. George Wallace, as observers have noted, shares much in common with Trump — inciting violence at his racially charged rallies, scapegoating distant elites and intellectuals, and reveling in being ostracized by respectable politicians.
    “Even then, X was known for being disheveled. One memorable contemporary description compared him to “a figure out of Dostoyevsky, a large man hunched inside an unpressed wardrobe, a shambling gait, and a brambly, dark beard.” Another account said he was “just barely civilized — sloppy, rude, forgetful, tempestuous. It was as if he was raised by wolves.”
    X saw that Perot’s success was not a unique situation but rather a sign of permanent social discontent now reshaping the traditional political system. He said that David Duke and Vermont’s Bernie Sanders — one the head of the KKK and the other a Jewish socialist, both with rising profiles in national politics — were “supping out of the same pot.”

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  8. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Todd writes:
    Trump is gaining huge support across America. Many democrats are joining the Trump train. Paul Emery is living in some bubble of ignorance.
    Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 03 March 2019 at 09:17 AM
    Todd
    How do you explain trump dropping 16 points in the Rasmussen Poll, your favorite, since Jan ’17. Also losing 40 seats in the house which is a reflection of weak public support.
    Here are the Rasmussen poll numbers;
    JAN ’17 +12
    Today March 4 ’19 -4
    That’s a 16 point swing. How does that represent someone who is “gaining huge support” ?
    Here’s a link to validate my numbers:
    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history

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  9. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Bill 1:14-
    “Can you name X? . . . a large man hunched inside an unpressed wardrobe, a shambling gait, and a brambly, dark beard.” Another account said he was “just barely civilized — sloppy, rude, forgetful, tempestuous. It was as if he was raised by wolves.”
    That would be Walt.

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  10. Walt Avatar

    Nope, not me. You never have been good at identification Dougy.
    HELL! You couldn’t pick me out of a close up picture YOU TOOK!!
    Forget that snowy day ? LOL!! You running around in traffic in shorts and a Hawaiian shirt snapping pics. Then asking where I was.
    GOOD GOD your pathetic.

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  11. Walt Avatar

    Serious testing on animals today. Which spices and BBQ sauce goes with which critter. The label said “Smart chicken”.. I don’t think so… Not too smart if it wound up plucked, cleaned, and packaged.
    False advertisement?
    There are good sized pigs for sale at the corner of Bitney Springs and Pleasant Valley Rd. Almost got one, till they said it’s name was Doug. “uhhh,,, Never mind.”

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Blood Brother Walt @ 2:58 pm
    I was going to comment, but I see things are in good hands. 🙂

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  13. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gosh and golly Todd. You say Trump “gaining support throughout America” Seems like things are falling apart for Trump. He can’t even count on his own party anymore.
    “Rand Paul thinks at least 10 Republicans will vote against Trump’s ‘national emergency’
    In a press conference Monday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) reiterated his opposition for President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration saying that there is a crisis on the border.
    More, however, Paul said that he knows of at least 10 fellow Republicans who are unwilling to support the president’s efforts. Thus far, four Republican Senators have said that they will not support Trump’s efforts, but it was previously unknown that there were as many as ten.
    Democrats have already passed the bill in the House, and it is slated to be voted on in the Senate this week. Trump will likely veto the bill and it’s unclear if the Senate would be willing to hold a vote to override the veto.”

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes from prior Sandbox
    “”You know, I think that the Soviets at their height were never this whacked out. Perhaps it’s the kind of thing you’d hear around the camp fire at a Shining Path meeting? Maybe it’s new to our part of the multiverse.
    “In any case, the proof is in the pudding as regards to our current mass insanity. It could be that Western culture will simply be a footnote in Long Time. People speaking a descendant of Mandarin will marvel at the Parthenon, Mont-Saint-Michel, and Graceland. Learned tomes written on the descent of a martial and somewhat expansionist culture into a group version of Williams Syndrome.
    Posted by: scenes | 03 March 2019 at 02:17 PM
    https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/how-animal-farm-playing-out-democrat-party

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  15. Walt Avatar

    It’s good to know ya’ always have my back Brother Bill.
    Just give me a hint where to leave the next test run of BBQ.
    I will leave a survey ribbon in the nearest tree.

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  16. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Trump’s speech at CPAC has put him over the top and he will be a huge victor in 2020. Common sense.

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  17. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Todd
    The Rasmussen Poll was after he did his speech and he dropped 4 points. Also the senate vote has not yet occurred and he’s losing not gaining support from the Republicans in the Senate. What is the “common sense” in your statement that I fail to see?

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  18. AVMan Avatar
    AVMan

    ,,,po ol pollwatcher Todd,,,already calling the election,,,always good for a laugh

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  19. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Todd-
    Trump was preaching to the choir and solidified his reputation as an unhinged, delusional wing nut. He couldn’t string three coherent sentences in a row. If you somehow believe that his two hour rambling at CPAC broadened support beyond his fringe base you are completely delusional. But, we already knew that.

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  20. AVMan Avatar
    AVMan

    ,,,po ol Walt,,,always seeing dougy behind a tree,,,posting on a blog,,,where’s Dougy now???

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  21. Walt Avatar

    Damn ,, dougy,, gotta keep up the sock puppet game?
    Jump from Anally Violated, to nutty Osborn? Yup, your the first rider on that Crazy Train.
    BTW.. Great memory I have.. Right? I thought you would love that one.

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Yeah, Todd is pretty pathetic. Using a boxing analogy Trump is like a slugger with a good chin getting the crap beat out of him and offering no offense who staggers back to his corner dazed and bloodied saying “I’m just waiting him out”. Much like the “no mas” man Roberto Duran when he fought Sugar Ray Leonard.”

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  23. Walt Avatar

    Still President Paul… The only poll that counts is in 2020.
    Will you hold on that long?

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  24. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Bessee-
    The world is going to pot. What new holier than thou crusade are you going to pursue? Let us know first so we can invest. In the other side 🙂
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6769849/Higher-education-Colleges-add-cannabis-curriculum.html

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  25. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Yeah OZZ
    The Nevada City Chamber of Commerce is announcing a ribbon cutting Thursday for Nevada Counties first legal pot shop. Are you going to be there Don? why don’t you show up with “yes on W” posters and sell them as relics of times gone by.
    https://www.nevadacitychamber.com/nevada-city-chamber-ribbon-cuttings-please-join-us/

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The masters of the universe colluding with the chi coms behind the scenes –
    The group has identified ongoing work on a batch of code that is associated with the China search engine, according to three Google sources. The development has stoked anger inside Google offices, where many of the company’s 88,000 workforce previously protested against plans to launch the search engine, which was designed to censor broad categories of information associated with human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest.
    https://theintercept.com/2019/03/04/google-ongoing-project-dragonfly/
    😉

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  27. Walt Avatar

    Toke up Paul!! Bring the grandkids! Meanwhile, all the usual dopers will buy the old fashioned way. From the guy down the street.
    Only fools will pay triple. Whatever floats your boat.

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  28. Walt Avatar

    A link you won’t read.
    https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-crackdown-pot-black-market-20190219-story.html
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/18/california-national-guard-pot/
    “California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is hoping to pull National Guard troops away from the U.S.-Mexico border to help protect his state’s struggling marijuana industry.
    Faced with competition from a robust black market, the legal cannabis industry in California has not experienced the growth that supporters had expected. Newsom — who enjoyed hundreds of thousands in campaign donations from the marijuana lobby — wants to aid the industry by redeploying at least 150 California National Guard troops from the U.S.-Mexico border and instead use them to combat illegal grows in Northern California.”

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ozz @ 2:46 pm
    Ok, assuming you are the other jon joe smith, I will play pin the tail on the donkey with you. Can you put a name on ‘X’? More hints:
    ‘X’ was suddenly a national star at 21, attending classes at Harvard in the mornings and holding press conferences for national media in the afternoons. At one point, Harvard informed him that he wouldn’t graduate unless he passed the customary swimming test. And so, rather than return from the campaign trail, X swam in a California hotel pool and had his strokes judged by Theodore White, who was on the Harvard Board of Overseers, and Hunter S. Thompson”……..
    -Biden’s campaign began well — until a New York Times reporter noted that Biden had stolen much of his speech from a British Labor politician. A reporter from the San Jose Mercury-News dug through Biden’s speeches from earlier that year and found that one contained phrases stolen verbatim from Bobby Kennedy’s, in 1968. The speech was written by ‘X’. Television networks showed the speech given by Biden and Kennedy on a split screen, to devastating effect.
    -The ascension of Bill Clinton to the White House in 1992 meant he was shut out of Democratic circles — during the campaign for the party nomination, he had advised Clinton’s primary rival, Jerry Brown. And, not coincidentally, around the same time, he began his anti-Democrat shtick. “My friends are more corrupt than my enemies,” he said. Washington was “corrupt to the core,” destroyed by the “political, economic and media elite.”
    ‘X’ visited Trump Tower during the campaign and took a bag of Trump ties offered by the candidate. (“They’re $100 ties — what the fuck, why wouldn’t I?”)

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  30. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Walt
    MJ derivatives vastly outsell grams of bud. Pretty sure the “guy down the street” isn’t selling CBD cream, tinctures, or infused beer. I’m getting the idea you don’t have a clue. Why do I keep repeating that?

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  31. Walt Avatar

    Whatever dude. The states tax revenue says otherwise.
    So is the VARY pretty Gavin lying? No need to take the troops off the border to pull up illegal grows?
    Illegal extraction labs are still going “BOOM!!!!”
    The crackdown on butane is coming.

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  32. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Bill 4:42
    That would be Walt? Rumor is he got busted for washing his hair in a bird bath or something. Probably getting ready for another trip to get a free tie.

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  33. OZZ Avatar
    OZZ

    George-
    All kidding aside (for the moment). Finishing up a book you would probably enjoy. “City of Thieves” by David Benioff. Couple of friends coming of age in Leningrad during WWII. NYT best seller. 5 stars.
    https://www.amazon.com/City-Thieves-Novel-David-Benioff/dp/0452295297/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=city+of+thieves&qid=1551747977&s=gateway&sr=8-1

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Can’t find any original material there fool?
    Whatever.
    Yes. PLEASE buy more dope. I lost 100 bucks today. My pot stocks slid by 25 cents a share.

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Brother Walt @ 4:42 pm
    “California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is hoping to pull National Guard troops away from the U.S.-Mexico border to help PROTECT his state’s struggling marijuana industry.”
    Well, one thing goobbrment hates is competition. Guess Gavin is getting a good lesson in the workings of the Laffer curve. Darn, I haven’t seen the National Guard rollling down the highway since the race riots back in the day. Must be serious. Burn baby burn.
    That Gavin never got over me selling him a bag of oregano for twenty-five bucks when he was a snot nosed teenie bobber. He could have got a better deal for less. Some folks can’t take a joke. Newsome is coming and boy is he pissed.

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  36. Walt Avatar

    Another school is anti Trump.
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/04/arizona-high-schoolers-trump-false/
    OH NO!!! We didn’t say that!!
    “Parents claim students at an Arizona high school got in trouble over wearing President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) logo on Friday as part of spirit week activities, but the principal said the accusations were “false.” ”
    BUT,,,,,, The video says otherwise.
    https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2019/03/03/perry-students-parents-attacked-after-being-targeted-for-pro-trump-views/
    https://youtu.be/umciciPpYEI
    Someone will be looking for a job real soon.

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You got that right!
    David Axelrod, who served as senior adviser to former President Barack Obama, criticized House Democrats on Monday for their blanket demand for documents from more than 80 people associated with President Trump, warning it could play into the characterization of a witch hunt.
    “Maybe I’m missing something, but the hazard of an omnibus document demand by House judiciary versus discreet, serial ones is that, however legitimate the areas of inquiry, the wide-ranging nature of it is too easily plays into the ‘witch-hunt’ meme,” he tweeted.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/04/david-axelrod-calls-out-democrats-for-making-investigations-look-like-witch-hunt/
    😉

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  38. Walt Avatar

    So this “ozz” is showing just what kind of a dick he is fresh from changing his skin?
    “Rumor is he got busted for washing his hair in a bird bath or something. ”
    The scumbag did that in the Holy water basin in St. Patrick’s Church. Kinda like you.. Just to be a prick. The Holy water basin is a “bird bath” to you..
    See that LIBS? He’s all yours. So scumbag,, have any idea how many church goers are Democrats?
    You do a fine job of making an ass out of yourself… Keep up the good work.

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  39. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The littlest commiecongress-critter has more problems –
    Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday.
    The cash transfers from the PACs — overseen by Saikat Chakrabarti, the freshman socialist Democrat’s chief of staff — run counter to her pledges to increase transparency and reduce the influence of “dark money” in politics.
    Chakrabarti’s companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how the political donations were used.
    The arrangement skirted reporting requirements and may have violated the $5,000 limit on contributions from federal PACs to candidates, according to the complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group.
    Campaign finance attorneys described the arrangement as “really weird” and an indication “there’s something amiss.” They said there was no way of telling where the political donations went — meaning they could have been pocketed or used by the company to pay for off-the-books campaign operations.
    PACs are required to disclose how and when funds are spent, including for expenditures such as advertisements, fundraising emails, donations to candidates, and payments for events and to vendors.
    The private companies to which Chakrabarti transferred the money from the PACs are not subject to these requirements.
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/ocasio-cortezs-chief-of-staff-ran-1m-slush-fund-by-diverting-campaign-cash-to-his-own-companies
    😉

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  40. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    OZZ…..guess again. BTW, a memo found by Gerry Ford said X,, on an institutional basis was one generation ahead of the other canidates.
    In a 1979 memo, X warned with eerie prescience that if alienation continued, “America could yield to a man on horseback” — an authoritarian leader whom desperate citizens empower. Now the man on horseback has arrived, but instead of working to defeat the autocrat, X has saddled up to join him.
    X said that the Democratic Party “has become no longer a party of principles, but has been hijacked by a confederacy of gangsters who need to take power by whatever means and whatever canards they can.”
    Throughout the 2000s, X shed whatever Democratic connections he had left. He detested the 9/11 Commission, he hated the New York Times, and he reviled John Kerry’s presidential campaign, led by his former business partners, whom he described as “political crypto-gangsters who have taken over the heart and soul of the Democratic Party in Washington,” adding that “their job is [to] hold on to power and hold on to money.”
    He argued that the media was executing “a coup d’état” against American democracy by ignoring Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. Polls were rigged, electing Clinton would turn America into a Third World country, and “globalism” was a serious threat to the nation. “Reporters are like cockroaches,” he even said, Still a registered Democrat, he voted for Bernie Sanders in the South Carolina primary. Though Sanders was a democratic socialist with a philosophy and record completely at odds with the crony-capitalist Trump, the Democratic Party establishment opposed him, and that was enough for ‘X’.
    Obama was a “raging narcissist who ha[d] no grip on reality,” he said. Choked up with emotion and sitting beside Ann Coulter, he said the media was “a fundamental threat to American democracy and the enemies of the American people” for ignoring Hillary Clinton’s treachery in Benghazi. It is tough to keep X on track with any subject besides the perfidy of the media, the Democratic Party, and establishment Republicans. One day he phones me to say he’ll be able to meet with me the following week, and also that “no one wants to know anything” about how the country is being destroyed from within by the media.
    The morning of the election, X virtually alone among pollsters, predicted a Trump victory. In an interview where he also concocted a fantasy of Clinton’s campaign engaging in widespread voter intimidation, he said that swing voters would turn out en masse for Trump. They did, and Trump should have thanked X for his assistance.
    X had been blasting the polls showing Hillary ahead, saying they were wrong and pollsters were conspiring to elect her. X still had his mic on when Trump called him from his plane. X smiles as he tells the story. ●

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  41. Walt Avatar

    RED cortez is in HOT water.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortezs-millionaire-chief-of-staff-violated-fec-rules-to-hide-885g-fec-complaint-alleges
    “Ocasio-Cortez, chief of staff illegally moved $885K in campaign contributions ‘off the books,’ FEC complaint alleges”
    But of course,, LIBS will make every excuse they can dream up.

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another massive leftie narrative fail –
    The New York Times has admitted that many Latino migrants are being raped by the cartel-affiliated coyotes who traffick them to jobs in Democratic-run cities.
    Under the headline, “‘You Have to Pay With Your Body’: The Hidden Nightmare of Sexual Violence on the Border.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/04/new-york-times-admits-mass-rape-latino-migrants/
    😉

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  43. AVMan Avatar
    AVMan

    ,,,Po ol Walt,,,all that soggy ground makes it hard to dig a ditch
    Jonesing for your Jug of Cyder??? Check the tracking on it and let us know when it will get here and maybe we won’t have to listen to you bitch for a minute!!!

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  44. Walt Avatar

    To the dear readers. That is what you get when you put your kid in the microwave to speed dry it’s hair. (repeatedly… Apparently) It didn’t help that it was conceived(?)when drug experimentation was more than exceptionable.
    One too many hits of LSD? Who knows.
    But you wind up with a yapping buttplug in the end.

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  45. Scott O Avatar

    Ah – crony capitalism. It only works when you have a crooked govt.
    https://www.axios.com/amazon-cashless-store-ban-carveout-d338958f-7a32-45e3-843b-fb1a7f42c7d9.html
    Cause Amazon is special.
    So much for equal treatment under the law. A company can’t make you do anything, but a govt can.

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  46. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Andrew McCarthy
    Plainly, Steele uncovered neither the Russian hacking of DNC emails, nor that Russia used WikiLeaks to publish them. Steele had no foreknowledge even though, right up until the moment the emails were published, he was leaning heavily on what he and Simpson portrayed as Steele’s well-connected Russian sources. By the time Steele discussed the hacked emails in one of his faux “intelligence reports,” days had already passed since the Clinton campaign and the DNC began publicly blaming the Kremlin. On July 24, for example, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook related that “experts are telling us that Russian state actors broke into the DNC, stole these emails, [and are] releasing these emails for the purpose of helping Donald Trump.”
    Steele did not discover anything. He simply echoed the narrative that the Clinton campaign was already spouting, folding it into a document that he stamped “intelligence report.” The subsequent investigation by U.S. intelligence agencies, which concluded that Russia was behind the hacking, does not corroborate Steele. He was just repeating what lots of people were saying.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/trump-russia-steele-dossier-claims-old-news/

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  47. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Don Bessee | 04 March 2019 at 10:35 PM
    I don’t know Don……Hillary has been out on the circuit speaking in her southern drawl! That’s her campaigning voice! We need to check her other “tell” …….hot sauce in her purse!

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