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Sandbox – 7apr19

[Back from travel.  I hope that some of our readers have been following the trail and travail of foreign correspondent and journalist Lara Logan, recently of '60 Minutes' fame.  She is causing quite a consternation in the lamestream media who have targeted her for destruction since she has blown the whistle on the whole progressives' propaganda machine.  Her interview on tonight's Mark Levin show was superb.  gjr]

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364 responses to “Sandbox – 7apr19”

  1. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    No, Punchy, we’re talking about the newsy class. No one else will read them, if you call looking them over for tidbits to make political hay over “reading”.
    Tell me, Paul… Kennedy, Goldwater, LBJ, McGovern, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Clinton I/II, Bush I/II, Dukakis, Gore, Romney… how many of their IRS tax returns did YOU read?
    I’m going to guess exactly NONE.

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well that’s what you would expect a dictator to say –
    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/04/08/turkey-erdogan-blames-organized-crime-islamist-party-election-loss/
    😉

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  3. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Toes 454pm! Yes, we need to send Geraldo! back to Al Capone’s vault to look for Trump’s tax returns!!!
    It’s the perfect place for The Donald to hide them.

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  4. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    Right to know your tax returns? Not if there is not an established basis of criminality involved. The ‘right to know’ everything is the latest Orwellian take by the Left. Along with millions of others, I would have liked to know Obama’s college writings before people voted for him. There now was something important for voters to understand about a presidential candidate, then President. But I could not claim that as a ‘right’; however every leftwinger believes he can.

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  5. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Regarding the right to privacy… forgive me for repeating this story. Call it a privilege of my advancing age (and get off my lawn!).
    I remember working with a bunch of Jewish/Israeli/South African immigrants (with several being all three) back when Bork was being Borked, with one VP loudly stating Bork was a “right wing Nazi” (Errol was South African and Jewish). A few months later, the SCOTUS overturned a “right to privacy” case, with the settled law being a specific case that had been found to protect privacy by the SCOTUS a few years earlier.
    A friend, David, (one of the combos of all three) came into my office (I had walls and a door in those days) announcing that MY SCOTUS had found there wasn’t a right to privacy in the Constitution. Well, sort of. There really isn’t, although we’ve cobbled together a right to privacy out of the barriers to search and seizure etc etc that we call privacy.
    I then gave him a big smile… do you know who the lawyer was that originally won the case that was overturned? David looked pained… “Don’t tell me it was Bork!” and it was all I could do to not burst out laughing. Yes, it was Bork.
    Justice Kennedy got the chair that should have gone to Bork; now Kavanaugh sits in it. Who knows who will sit in the chair that will be vacated by Ruth Vader Ginsberg sooner or later? That is an interesting question.

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  6. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Hugh George!!!
    You are equating Obama’s college musings with tax returns??? Really, that’s a stretch. I mean audits that last 6 years are a bit of a stretch of credibility but you already admitted Trump lied about releasing his returns after the audit so it’s a moot point. I guess in your view it’s ok to lie to the voters when you’re running for office.

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  7. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    College musings, Punch? He was on Harvard’s Law Review! Not that he wrote much while occupying that role.
    Obama’s college records were sewn up tighter than the fun parts of a teenaged Kenyan girl and no, most college records are open to anyone who wants to know. Unlike tax returns, there’s no criminal penalties for distributing copies.

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  8. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    Equating?! where’d you get that. I’m talking about non-existent ‘rights’. And do I support Donald’s lies over Hillary’s? You bet!

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    G – The pony tail of ignorance is also apparently ignorant of how college’s work, whoda guessed. LOL
    😉

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  10. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    George 536pm
    Jesus… “Those who do not work shall not eat”.
    Lenin… “Those who do not obey shall not eat”.
    Thoughtcrimes are important.
    Amen.

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well it might look that way to an anti-Semitic jihadi –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/08/ilhan-omar-falsely-claims-jewish-trump-adviser-stephen-miller-is-a-white-nationalist/
    😉

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    In other news, who would have thunk.
    https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.254420818025296/1587175331416498/?type=3&source=48
    https://patriotpost.us/cartoons/27272
    https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10220089878425982&id=1495536389&set=a.1339662020363&source=48
    And now…..The Daily Scenes’ Gal report! Sorry about the eyes, Scenes. Pretty hard to replicate those eyes. Those eyes are one of a kind.
    https://www.facebook.com/wrec.brutallife/videos/1310098289129669/UzpfSTEwMDAwMTEwNzM4NDQ2OToyMjE3OTY3OTU4MjUwMDk1/

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    You go girl.
    “Paloma for Trump’s website indicates that she was born in Mexico and came to America after her biological father died and her mother married an American. She added that “we waited for almost 10 years to finalize our citizenship, we paid our dues, we waited in line, and I feel every person who comes to America should not only do the same, but also learn the language, assimilate the culture, respect and love America like I do.”
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/psycho-white-leftist-caught-on-video-calling-mexican-american-woman-racist-for-wearing-maga-hat?fbclid=IwAR0HFJZvSTMCh4BTcWFngw3Cmk1QefXHWdcwh6KTyv2YqsG0qv0C2U1mbrE

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  14. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Toes,
    I generally cringe when I follow your links but the “patriotpost” toon, the DEMOCRAT Ass waiting for the Mueller report with a dryer with two spin cycles was pretty funny. Even better was the latest:
    https://patriotpost.us/cartoons/27273

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh my. Nunes wasn’t kidding. He, like Lindsey Graham, are going full Trump on them.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nunes-files-150m-lawsuit-against-mcclatchy-alleging-conspiracy-to-derail-clinton-russia-probes
    Was heartened to hear that whistle blowers have been approaching Nunes for over two years now begging him to do something…that something smells rotten in government. Bigley rotten. Same with John Solomon being approached by dedicated servants and defenders of the Constitution late one night when he drove home.
    To quote another pundit,
    “Schiff and Nadler are partisan, power-hungry hacks who are out to do whatever they can to stymie Trump’s agenda and prevent his reelection chances.
    “What they are doing in the House every day shows the country what happens when someone really tries to drain the swamp in Washington.”
    The hunters are now the hunted.

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    OH SNAP! When even comrade Bernie admits we can not have open borders you know you socialist-dems screwed the pooch!
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/08/bernie-at-iowa-town-hall-on-open-borders-cant-do-it/
    😉

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Michael Cohen, persona non-grata.
    Cohen was supposed to go to the Federal County Club in March, but got a medical delay until May. Looks like he will keep his date with the Gambino boyz. His usefulness has expired. The Dems will use you up, suck you dry, then kick you out of the car going 90 mph. Just ask Cindy Sheehan and Stormy.
    https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/08/politics/adam-schiff-michael-cohen/index.html
    Hot shot Michael Avenatti said he is scared. Feds coming at him with cases on both coasts and he has a public defender. Yep, I would be scared too. Maybe he can bunk with Cohen.

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  18. Michael R. Kesti Avatar
    Michael R. Kesti

    Paul Emery | 08 April 2019 at 04:46 PM
    “Don’t you think [voters] have the right to know about a candidates[sic] financial dealings as essential information in order to make a decision about who to vote for?”
    No, voters have no such right. They have the power to not vote for candidates who don’t reveal their taxes. In 2016 voters decided they didn’t such a revelation in order to elect Trump. You’re attempting political assassination using good-for-the-voters as a laughably unsophisticated disguise. It isn’t working.

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I am I the only one to notice the pony tail of ignorance is willfully ignoring comrade bernies refusal to release taxes?
    😉

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    edit opsie!
    😉

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    BT @8- Talk about getting the shiffty shaft! So much for the pony tail of ignorance’s fevered fantasies about Mullers leftovers having a pearl left in the shit!
    😉

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  22. Bill Tozet Avatar
    Bill Tozet

    Don @ 8:33 pm
    Guess whatever shocking revelations Cohen has, it must be trivial…or not worth the bad optics of Cohen’s track record. Cohen is a convicted felon for lying to Congress and since his last testimony, he done got himself another criminal referral to the DOJ for lying to Congress again! His Clinton lawyer and fixer Lanny Davis should have never put him in that situation…if he cared about his client. Cohen got his 15 minutes of fame and tried peddling his book…a book that praises Trump of all things. 🙂
    And the Dems got what they wanted. They got Cohen to say that Trump is a dictator and Cohen fears Trump has no plans to ever leave office while offering no supporting evidence. Dictator for life! Dictator for life and a threat to our democracy fed exactly into the narrative….a narrative that confirms Robert Cross’s and Bill Maher worse fears and deeply held beliefs.
    Trump has powers that made Cohen do bad things without Trump ever coming out and telling him to do bad things. Is there nothing Orange Man cannot do!! Such power! Power to get into their minds. Called TDS.
    Now, since Cohen received a medical delay in reporting to prison, how could he possibly have the strength to go through 14 million zillion gazillion files?? Me thinks his medical condition is not that serious.
    Now that they got Cohen to say the exact things they wanted him to say, long time no come see. Yet another who was dusted off, cleaned up, used, sucked dry, and kicked out of the Dem car going 90 mph. Next!

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    One bumper sticker and the even Governor gets involved. Heads roll. A good reminder that the 1st Amendment does not protect you from being offended. Or, my rights do not stop where your feelings begin. A small bumper sticker that says, “Black Rifles Matter.”
    https://www.theepochtimes.com/agency-director-suspended-over-complaint-regarding-black-rifles-matter-sticker_2869137.html
    Follow up. The Alaska human rights commission’s Executive Director, Marti Buscaglia, has resigned.
    https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Following-Black-Rifles-Matter-controversy–508294161.html
    Pushback against the thought police. It’s not angry white men, it’s fed up citizens.
    .

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  24. fish Avatar
    fish

    The next time a Stevie, or a jeffy (journalism…….might as well just go smoke a pistol now!), or a Roberta laments that there are those who post here who are not adequately educated……..

    “Over the weekend, I met a friend in Cambridge, Mass., for lunch. He’s a foreigner studying at Harvard. He told me that his experience there has been quite an education in how the American elite constructs its worldview and reproduces itself. In fact, that is perhaps the most important lesson he has learned from his experience at the top US university.
    I’m writing this with his permission, but I want to be careful about what I say, to protect his privacy. In general, he said it has been a real shock to him — and to the other foreign students in his circle — to observe how “coercive” (his word) the intellectual atmosphere at Harvard is, at least in the areas he’s been studying. He explained that it is quite simply impossible to discuss certain things, and ask certain questions, because of the ideological rigidity of the American students and their teachers. My friend made clear that this is the consensus view of the foreigners he knows there, whether they are on the left or the right.
    My lunch companion said that the elites formed by this most elite American university are people who have set up a world in which they never have to encounter an idea, or a person, that they don’t already endorse or embrace. We were joined at the table by a third person, a left-wing Baby Boomer who works in a very liberal Boston institution (I’ll not name it to protect his privacy), and who said that he finds the ideological rigidity of Millennials and the generation behind them to be insufferable. Such joyless, humorless, incurious people, he said. The foreigner, though a Millennial himself, agreed.
    On our way to the restaurant, I had mentioned to my foreign friend something I’ve heard from several of you readers of this blog who are conservative academics: that as long as old-school liberals remain in charge of faculties and academic institutions, there will be a place for right-of-center scholars. But when the Jacobin-like younger generation moves into leadership, that will be the end. He agreed, and brought up several examples from academia and academia-adjacent institutions (e.g., publishing). He told me one story about a left-liberal scholar he knows who has been turned into a non-person for questioning out loud some of aspects of au courant progressive dogma. I’m not easy to shock about things like this, but this particular story — my foreign friend named names — was for me a sign of how advanced the ideological militancy has become.
    It recalled in fact an e-mail conversation I had last week with a liberal journalist friend who hates to see this closing of the left’s mind. My journalist pal said that he’s seeing on the left a moralistic refusal even to consider ideas, people, and data that contradict these leftists’ moral code. Understand: it’s not that this new breed of progressives disagrees (though they do); it’s that they believe, and believe strongly, that even to confront information that contradicts what they prefer to believe is intolerable.”

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/harvard-glass-menagerie/
    Looking forward to the time when the state pulls funding for 90% of these places of “higher learning”.

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  25. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Lets get the pony tail of ignorance all spun up to start the day –
    The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 53% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-five percent (45%) disapprove.
    The latest figures include 37% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 36% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of +1. (see trends).
    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/current_events/politics/prez_track_apr09
    😉

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  26. AVMan Avatar
    AVMan

    ,,,Is Trump mad at Iran’s Revolutionary Guard???
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-business-ties-irans-revolutionary-152123174.html

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  27. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Looks like bibi holds the line –
    https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/04/09/netanyahu-declares-incredible-victory-as-revised-exit-polls-show-his-clear-path-to-winning/
    😉

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “AOC: ‘BLOOD ON OUR HANDS’ IF U.S. DOESN’T PASS LAW BANNING CLIMATE CHANGE”
    Ok, go down to the beach and order the waves to retreat. Make a law ordering water to run uphill. Then, if you are so powerful, next time you have diarrhea, hold it back. Make it stop. Or pass a law banning it.
    https://news.grabien.com/story-aoc-blood-our-hands-if-us-doesnt-pass-law-banning-climate-ch

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  29. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa Joe is test marketing a campaign slogan –
    Biden 2020
    Cant stop the feeling
    😉

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    TRAITOR!
    At the White House, Jain led a team responsible for cyber incident response and was chairman of an interagency group that reviewed proposed cyber operations by the U.S. government.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/09/ilhan-omar-cair-formed-because-muslims-were-targeted-after-some-people-did-something-on-9-11/
    😉

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    No bounce back yet for Rachel Maddcow. Home & Garden and Nickelodeon surpasses
    Communist News Network.
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/09/msnbc-cnn-rachel-maddow-ratings-drop-april/

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  32. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    OH MY!
    Prime Minister Mcdreamy closes the knauck border to the ones that should be in mexico!
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47874012
    😉

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  33. AVMan Avatar
    AVMan

    ,,,The Whiny Douche in Chief wants the FBI to investigate SNL for mocking him,,,you cannot make this stuff up!!!

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  34. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    AVman 756am – Au contraire Mr AVMan, you most certainly can make this stuff up – link please.

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  35. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Watching Barr at the heatings on his budget is quite entertaining. The democrats are stuck on his four pages and he is making them look pretty stupid.

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  36. AVMan Avatar
    AVMan

    ,,,your wish is my command,,,link follows
    https://ew.com/tv/2019/03/17/trump-threatens-snl-twitter/

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  37. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    AVMan you blew it
    You wrote “The Whiny Douche in Chief wants the FBI to investigate SNL for mocking him”
    The link you provided didn’t mention the FBI but two other three letter bureaus… the FCC and the FEC.
    You made it up!
    To everyone besides “AVMan”… he does appear to be a Jeff Pelline sockpuppet who has taken on some superficial ‘tics’ to appear like his Keachie lickspittle.

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  38. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    You got it backwards Don. Your provided link reads:
    “The latest figures include 36% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 37% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -1”
    Did you make that number up or do you have reading problems
    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/current_events/politics/prez_track_apr10
    Also if you compare that number with January 2017 when Trump had a +13 you get a total drop of 14%.
    Don what is good about that?
    Here’s a link. Stroll down to January 17, 2017
    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history

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  39. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul, your continuing referrals back to the Inauguration Day numbers is getting old. Your desperation is showing.

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  40. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    AVman 952am – Looks like you did make it up – wrong agency, and no expressed imperative to investigate. But I do agree that he should have left well enough alone; we all suspect that the steady anti-Trump drizzle does have what some may call collusion between the lamestream and the Dems. Though I don’t think there is anything illegal about it.

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  41. AVMan Avatar
    AVMan

    ,,,white nationalist racists,,,or Jusse Smollet???
    https://www.yahoo.com/gma/naacp-president-calls-series-church-fires-louisiana-domestic-211800429–abc-news-topstories.html

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The left on the decline in the west –
    On the contrary, the most far-reaching consequence of the 2019 Israeli election may well be that it verified, beyond any reasonable doubt, that there is functionally no left left in Israel. It has become a country with a center, a right, and a far right, but no electorally viable left to speak of.
    Center-left social democratic parties have been in sharp decline in recent years across the Western world. But nowhere has the collapse been more stunning than in Israel, whose founders and ruling class for the first 30 years of the country’s existence were very deeply linked with the labor movement. Labor has been in retreat ever since the collapse of peace negotiations with the Palestinians in 2000. But its showing on Tuesday was truly astonishing: With 5 percent of the vote, the Israeli Labor Party is now less than two percentage points away from failing to clear the minimum threshold (3.25 percent) for winning seats in the Knesset. The party is approaching the possibility of extinction.
    https://theweek.com/articles/834287/there-no-left-left-israel
    😉

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  43. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: AVMan@11:10 Good question. There’s been such a tremendous number of false flags in the last decade that I’m not sure who does that kind of thing until there’s a fingerprint and a perp in custody.
    There’s a lot of crazy people out there and there’s plenty of Trumphate to produce even more.
    re: DonB@11:21 One nice thing about Israel is that they have a purity of vision based on survival. It simplifies matters. Only the fat and comfortable can afford to argue about men in dresses using the womens’ restroom.

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  44. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re:Gregory@10:19AM “To everyone besides “AVMan”… he does appear to be a Jeff Pelline sockpuppet ”
    As good a guess as any given the “you cannot make this stuff up” tagline. I don’t much care as long as he doesn’t spill pie anywhere.
    Interestingly, Pelline is the only person here I’ve ever seen do his thing in person. He was being breathtakingly rude, so I admit that it might nudge my responses now and again. I really should only respond to the text I see.
    The TRUMP THREATENS SNL ‘news’ from the non-news site is a typical example of how the internet makes people crazy. The original tweet is inconsequential, somebody writes a clickbait story, some other politically motivated site picks it up in a list of current Trump crimes, some idiot reads it and does some handwaving. It’s the nature of the times I’m afraid, and it ain’t gonna get any better.
    It would be nice if the Blue Mob authors would stick to genuine issues like healthcare, but I suppose that their ideas (or their own Fearless Leaders’ ideas) really aren’t any better. It isn’t like Maxine Waters, the guy who looks like the old men on The Muppet Show, or AOC are capable of cooking up something, although AOC does have those dreamy dreamy eyes.

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Education
    Learning Hasn’t Improved, But Indoctrination Is Amped
    “If you are under the impression that there are good white people and bad white people, you’re wrong,” UnboundEd CEO Kate Gerson told the teachers this year, according to Hess and Addison. “Gerson informed her charges that racial biases are pervasive, universal, and something ‘you cannot be cured from.’”
    “Once upon a time, Common Core critics were roundly mocked for fearing that the reading and math standards would somehow serve to promote sweeping ideological agendas; today, Gerson and her team are doing their best to vindicate those concerns,” write Hess and Addison.“
    https://thefederalist.com/2018/11/05/9-years-common-core-test-scores-indoctrination/

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  46. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Black church burnings
    https://www.apnews.com/52296e1ac72b4c699f5d2d1cad71461a

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  47. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Spying.
    “The FBI informant, Stefan Halper, is a former Cambridge professor who helped the CIA oversee a spying operation of the 1980 presidential election.”
    https://theintercept.com/2018/05/19/the-fbi-informant-who-monitored-the-trump-campaign-stefan-halper-oversaw-a-cia-spying-operation-in-the-1980-presidential-election/
    Spying:
    The FBI acknowledged placing informants in the Trump campaign as part of what it called “Operation: Crossfire Hurricane,” but insisted the project was merely intended to ensure Russia was not unduly interfering with the United States’ presidential election.
    “Barr suggested the purpose was less innocent.”
    “The generation I grew up in which is Vietnam war period, people were all concerned about spying on anti-war people and so forth by the government and there were a lot of rules put in place to make sure there’s an adequate basis before our law enforcement agencies get involved in political surveillance,” Barr continued. “ I’m not suggesting that those rules were violated, but I think it’s important to look at that. And I’m not talking about the FBI necessarily, but intelligence agencies more broadly.”
    The FBI informant, Stefan Halper, is a former Cambridge professor who helped the CIA oversee a spying operation of the 1980 presidential election.”
    https://news.grabien.com/story-attorney-general-william-barr-i-believe-spying-trump-campaig
    https://news.grabien.com/story-attorney-general-william-barr-i-believe-spying-trump-campaig

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  48. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    People don’t like being lied to and they will never get back their former audience –
    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/fox-news-beats-msnbc-cnn-combined-on-night-cnn-hosted-kirsten-gillibrand-town-hall
    😉

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  49. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Toes 1151am
    A fresher critique of Common Core is here:
    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/04/k12_what_happened_to_bill_gates_and_common_core.html

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  50. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    Are you denying that Trump has fallen 14 points since Jan 2017?

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