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Sandbox – 17jul19

17 July 2019

[The Secure Act going through Congress will do a significant modification of how you can and must dispose your retirement accounts, and it will also open the door for the gummint to come in and tax a portion of it. And we know what will happen to the size of that 'portion' as time passes. All in favor, say Aye. gjr]

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312 responses to “Sandbox – 17jul19”

Don Bessee

20 July 2019

So how many were you married to at once? –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-ilhan-omar-stonewalling-hometown-125600938.html
😉

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Bill Tozer

20 July 2019

Yo, Mr. Trump, can you help a brother out? You will? Gimme five on the white side.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7267981/Trump-honors-promise-call-Swedens-PM-behalf-jailed-rapper-AP-Rocky.html

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Bill Tozer

20 July 2019

This must be before she was a rock star in her James Brown wig.
https://www.facebook.com/terrencekwilliams/videos/2002027079860149/

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Russell Steele

21 July 2019

This one is for Walt
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/20/zero-emissions-construction-digger-runs-out-of-power-in-2-hours-requiring-it-to-be-recharged-using-a-diesel-generator-for-8-hours/
And the lefty above called ditch diggers stupid. Who was stupid enough to build a zero-emissions ditch digger?

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Todd Juvinall

21 July 2019

Trump is no racist. But the media and the four gals are surely racist. They spew their hate and division all the time and now someone is calling them out and they and the media scurry like cockroaches when exposed.Time for the lefty whiners to go home to their districts.

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Walt

21 July 2019

OHHHHH RUSS!!!!!!!!🤪🤪🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Leave it to British JCB to come up with that.
What? No solar panel on the canopy?
Gotta love the reaction from they guy filming it.

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Walt

21 July 2019

Look what some of the anti war folks want! WAR with Sweden because of a jailed rapper.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/21/sweden-asap-rocky-donald-trump-not-released-tmz/
“This is absolute garbage. With 25% of people supporting military action to free him, it should be on the table more now than ever.”

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Walt

21 July 2019

And one for the lovers of the 15 buck an hour plan.
It sure sucks when it bites you in the ass.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign-announces-it-will-cut-hours-to-pay-staffers-15-minimum-wage-prompting-mockery

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Russell Steele

21 July 2019

Galactic Cosmic-Rays Research Rains On Man-Made Climate Change Parade
A pair of new international studies which punched holes in the absoluteness of man-made climate change have gotten little-to-no attention in the corporate media.
Researchers from Kobe University in Japan found that high-energy particles from space known as galactic cosmic rays affect the Earth’s climate by increasing cloud cover, causing an “umbrella effect.”
A second study, a paper published by researchers from the University of Turku in Finland, concluded that even though observed changes in the climate are real, the effects of human activity on these changes are insignificant. Such findings create cognitive dissonance for celebrity and media actors committed to the narrative that human behavior is killing the planet.
“We have to recognize that the anthropogenic climate change does not exist in practice,” the study concluded.
sierrafoothillcommentary.com/2019/07/21/galactic-cosmic-rays-research-rains-on-man-made-climate-change-parade/

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Russell Steele

21 July 2019

Better link: https://wordpress.com/post/sierrafoothillcommentary.com/4309

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Walt

21 July 2019

Since Russ brought up the UK,, I have an Irish road construction
sign coming my way, thanks to the sign maker.
I had to ask them about it, and just was meant by it.
“STUD FITTING AHEAD”….
OK gents,, figure that one out.
They are sending me one out of professional courtesy. Free of charge.

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Scott O

21 July 2019

Of course there’s a Y Tube video complete with Irish rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MTqft1N58s

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Don Bessee

21 July 2019

Even a black baseball hall of fame player is not safe from the wokeinistas –
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2019/07/21/daily-beast-declares-mariano-rivera-far-right-because-he-is-a-christian-who-supports-israel/
😉

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Don Bessee

21 July 2019

So the real world hits comrade bernies campaign just like all the workers who made less after big urban minimum wage hikes, not to mention the closures that inevitably came to pass. –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign-announces-it-will-cut-hours-to-pay-staffers-15-minimum-wage-prompting-mockery
😉

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Walt

21 July 2019

DAMN,, Scott,, you just had to spoil the fun.
But when we passed the crew with the sign,, they were just filling potholes.
WE just throw a dab of glue on the pavement and slap them down.

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Don Bessee

21 July 2019

Shhhh… –
Helen Raleigh: ‘The squad’ is now the face of the Democratic Party and that means Trump’s gonna win
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/helen-raleigh-the-squad-trump-democratic-party
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Walt

21 July 2019

Scott..Then there is the hard way to install those things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvHF7g3LA3Q
Now notice the safety precautions…(or lack there of.)

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George Rebane

21 July 2019

If you want to see what a double-dummy posterchild sounds like in print, then roll an eyeball over this from Umair Haque, our favorite communist vacuum-head.
https://eand.co/dear-america-you-need-to-stop-dismissing-fascism-as-mere-racism-12e56501e1bd

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Bill Tozer

21 July 2019

@ 1:15 pm “There’s the President leading a chant of “send her back”, issuing tweets that attack the opposition by dehumanizing them.”
Leading the chant? Dehumanizing the opposition? And it only goes downhill from there. Me thinks the writer sees things differently than I. The only difference is I don’t care. They have pulled the same card for the last 50, 60, 70 years.
“ And to (Trump), a lack of torture equals an open border. He literally cannot think of an immigration system where we don’t hurt innocent people”. AOC
We cannot wait. As we wait, we risk having the blood of somebody on our hands…”‬
‪—@RepAlGreen 7/17/19‬
‪“Michelle always says, ‘When they go low, we go high.’ No. No. When they go low, we kick them. That’s what this new Democratic Party is about. “‬
‪—@EricHolder 10/21/18‬

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Paul Emery

21 July 2019

More Trump thumping from Fox News-Chris Wallace no less:
In an interview on Fox News, host Chris Wallace asked Miller to explain Trump’s “go back” remark and the “send her back” chant at a recent presidential rally.
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“That is not protecting the American people, that is playing the race card,” Wallace said. “Let’s take the Obama birther — you don’t think that questioning whether the first black president is [a citizen]…”
“That’s not a race question!” Miller interrupted.
“I fundamentally disagree with the view that if you criticize someone and they happen to be a different color skin that that makes it a racial criticism,” Miller complained. “If you want to have a colorblind society, it means you can criticize immigration policy, you can criticize people’s views, you can ask questions about where they’re born and not have it be seen as racial.”
“And can you also say ‘go back’ where you came from?” Wallace wondered.
Miller argued that “the president was clear” that he disagreed with the “send her back” chant at his rally.
“He let it go on for 13 seconds and it was only when the chant diminished that he started talking again,” Wallace noted. “He said nothing there or in his tweet after the rally that indicated any concern about the chant.”
According to Miller, the audience chanted the racist phrase because they are tired of being “beat up” by liberals.
“During his 2016 campaign and even as president Mr. Trump has been as critical of this country as anything The Squad [of Democratic congresswomen] has said,” Wallace observed. “He said President Obama was the most ignorant president in our history. But about [Russian President Vladimir Putin], he says, ‘You think our country is so innocent?’”
“You don’t think the president ran on ‘lock her up?’” Wallace pressed. “Nobody has any problem with what the president’s policies have been, it’s when he goes into stoking racial fears. I’ve never called any of his tweets racist, but there’s no question that he is stoking racial divisions.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/chris-wallace-burns-down-stephen-miller-over-trumps-racist-lies-the-let-send-her-back-chant-go-for-13-seconds/

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Walt

21 July 2019

Go back to sleep Emery. I watched it. Trump didn’t “lead” any chant.
Rawstory again?

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Paul Emery

21 July 2019

Nope Walt
Fox News. Follow the link for the actual broadcast.

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Bill Tozer

21 July 2019

@ 9:35 am
“Trump is no racist.” Best line of the morning!
I have been thinking the exact same thing for the last few days. The mantra “Trump is a racist” has been repeated 24/7 so often by thousands each day for three straight years that the very statement, “Trump is a racist” seems so matter-of- fact that Todd’s words @ 9 35 am appears like a strange foreign new concept.
As I look at all the pics of Trump with Jesse Jackson and other black leaders like Al Sharpton in various venues being presented with awards through the years, when I think of all the years Trump has had his picture on the cover of hundreds of magazines, when I think of all his ten of thousands of interviews and working with (and talking to) tens of thousands of people decade after decade, the question begs an answer. When did Trump become a racist?
Trump became a racist the day he rode down the Golden Elevator and announced his run for the presidency. Talking about removing the criminal element, the bad hombres who are terrorizing neighborhoods. That’s the day Donald J. Trump became a racist.
Folks have looked behind every nook and cranny, leaving no stone unturned. Like a disciplined man with a metal detector, they dig every hit. People have dug high and low, searched tens of thousands of hours of tapes, interviewed thousands, hunted down rumor and gossip from the disgruntled or fired, have come up with the Access Hollywood tape and a pic of Trump shaking hands with Epstein in 1992, but on the hit that Trump is a racist, the evidence is yet to be found. Not even smoke. The evidence has yet to exist.
Trump, after 70 years on the planet, became a racist the day he announced he was running against the Anointed One.

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Bill Tozer

21 July 2019

Brother Walt
In case you missed the important stories this week, here is a recap of the Top 5.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6NntmrheD6E

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Walt

21 July 2019

Choke on it Emery.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/453735-trump-says-he-disagrees-with-send-her-back-chant
Go back to trying to pick up hippie chicks.

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George Rebane

21 July 2019

re PaulE 214pm – RR readers were informed years ago that Chris Wallace is a liberal, and part of the balance that FN delivers with him and Sheppard Smith. No lamestream media dare have conservative anchors, then they wouldn’t be lamestream.

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Bill Tozer

21 July 2019

Oh Walt @ 3:02 pm.
You are wasting your time, but my all means, have some fun. Punchy has already acknowledged that he is glad Trump disavowed The Chant here on this site to Dr. Rebane.
Never forget that Punchy has said here on at least two occasions that the ONLY reason he visits here is to throw punches. He is just trying to get more mileage out of a dead horse. Like poor Melania holding a baby to her breast as Trump is cheating on her, yet all the while launching into a 6 hour tirade about the shoes Melania wore when boarding a flight. See, it’s a waste of time because the sole reason is to throw,punches, not tany particular topic at hand. Whether it’s a quote by Flake or Coons or Chris Wallace or Ann Coulter, it matters not. They only thing that matters is grabbing a handful of mud and straw and launching a mud pile. As sure as the sun rises in the East, Punchy will grab mud that is too dry or too wet, add too much straw, launch it, and his mud falls apart long before it hits the ground. He wants a piece of ewe. But enough of that.
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Fun fact: Mueller (Weismann) sent more guns, firepower, and men to arrested 66 year old Roger Page in his bathrobe than the Obama Administration sent to to Benghazi to rescue our diplomat.
Hang him high, Hang him high!
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/roger-stone-john-brennan-should-be-hung-for-treason

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Bill Tozer

21 July 2019

It’s not often that former DOJ prosecutor Andy McCarthy of the NY Southern District wanders into the political opinion arena, but he weights in on The Chant. Good read.
Kill the Ump!
“All good populist demagoguery needs a villain. President Trump hardly has the market cornered on this. Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton studied Alinskyite community organizing. The organizer, a self-styled renegade against The Establishment, is instructed to avoid abstractions when picking an opposition target. You’ve got to make it personal, to polarize the adversary in stark terms. Trump’s persona is to hit back harder than he is hit. No surprise, then, that he is a practitioner of this demagogic art, since he is also the Left’s No. 1 target.
“Most Republican villains the Left selects (the Bushes, Mitt Romney . . .) respond by trying to prove they’re not really villains. This is a futile strategy. The demagogues making the accusation already know it’s not true. They do it because it always works. Or at least it used to. It’s different with the president, who is from the Leo Durocher School: “I come to play. I come to beat you. I come to kill you!” Trump vexes the Left because he revels in the mud wrestle. Sure, he craves admiration, but he wants to win more, and he doesn’t in the slightest mind winning ugly. In that the Left must see a lot of itself, but that doesn’t mean it has figured out an effective response………
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“Welcome to the show, Congresswoman.
“The president thrives on this stuff. His supporters may chant send her back! He’s happy to have her front and center in Washington.
“Of course, there has been no shortage of outrage about the chanting, which was so deplorable, as it were, that Trump himself disavowed it the next day — even if he didn’t seem too upset while it was happening. Sorry to say, I can’t get too whipped up about it.
“If it were up to me, I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-beard weirdo who burns the American flag.” I don’t know if you could quite fit that into a rally chant, but it is a memorable bit of reactionary sentiment from Justice Antonin Scalia. Shortly before he died, the great jurist was explaining why he voted against the criminalization of flag-burning (in the Supreme Court’s controversial 1989 ruling in Texas v. Johnson). With characteristic pith, he was illustrating something that ought to be patent: We often express passionately our most visceral feelings; but we do not act on these outbursts in actually lived life.”—-Justice Antonin Scalia
“You want to condemn rambunctious chants? Knock yourself out. But let’s not exaggerate their significance. No one is going to make Ilhan Omar stop spouting her bile as long as she refrains from urging violence. We can probably also survive a little “send her back!” without the Republic’s crumbling.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/no-one-really-wants-to-send-her-back/

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Don Bessee

21 July 2019

Who will be the next to be sacrificed on the high alter of political correctness –
“It’s become kind of… a Medieval established religion. There’s an inquisition, there’s an index of forbidden books and forbidden thoughts which you’re not supposed to read or think.
“There is a strict moral patrol to make sure that you are not caught thinking things you shouldn’t be thinking or saying things you shouldn’t say. And it’s the antithesis of freedom.”
However, Kessler claimed some classical liberals are looking at the leftward shift in the Democratic Party and not agreeing with what they are seeing.
They, “are looking around them and saying we don’t recognize the America that these people are leading us towards. It doesn’t seem to be a free country anymore.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/mark-levin-charles-kessler-political-correctness-trump-deplorables
😉

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Bill Tozer

21 July 2019

@ 4:00 pm
“If you look at the Democratic presidential candidates, if you look at the ‘squad’ in Congress, their agenda is driven by political correctness, and political correctness means you hate and cannot tolerate the imperfection — the moral imperfection — of your fellow Americans.”
Did I hear a ‘Bingo!’?? Yes, I believe I did. The problem with PC and Social Justice experimentation is that it is just too rigid for any one to live up to. “….cannot tolerate imperfection” crystallizes it all. It’s ok to have moral and philosophical convictions galore, but down here where the rubber meets the road are imperfect humans….every last one of us, great and small. The intolerance of imperfection leaves one in eternal turmoil and frustration.
When inclusiveness collides with fairness:
“Sports associations around the world are trying to balance inclusion against fairness, seldom successfully and never without resentment from some participants.”
“Males invading female sports may regard themselves as abolitionists carrying a flag of freedom for transwomen. What they really are is colonialists staging a coup for their own benefit. Just as in the days of Raj, when ne’er-do-well English gentlemen went to India to plunder its riches, transwomen are elbowing real women aside and grabbing their gold.”
https://www.mercatornet.com/conjugality/view/transforming-the-world-of-sports/22673

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Paul Emery

21 July 2019

Gosh George
Those Libs are everywhere. Even Fox News has been polluted. What’s a Trumper like you to do to find a favorable press?

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Don Bessee

21 July 2019

Knucklehead Rashid has a ring to it, lefty fraudsters the lot –
The Detroit Economic Club said that Tlaib and other protesters who attempted unsuccessfully to disrupt the Trump speech then had committed fraud to enter the event.
“A misguided 23-year-old man fraudulently bought a new membership and invited female guests to do his dirty work,” Detroit Economic Club Beth Chappell wrote in an email to the organization’s members according to the Detroit Free Press. “New memberships were reviewed during the hectic few days leading up to the Trump meeting. His 20 guests could have raised a flag but did not since he purchased the membership under the name of a very reputable company. Turns out the perpetrator was let go from the firm two years ago. Important lesson learned.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/21/video-knucklehead-rashida-tlaib-being-forcibly-ejected-security-2016-trump-detroit-speech-resurfaces/
😉

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Bill Tozer

21 July 2019

Circling the wagons one last time.
The Demagogue in his own words. “Remember Deplorables? That sounds worse…”
https://www.facebook.com/dan.bongino/videos/2034530553313907/

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Walt

21 July 2019

WOW.. LIBs at FOX.. Nothing new there,,Buzzard of Broad St.

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Bill Tozer

21 July 2019

And the Oscar goes to….
https://www.facebook.com/terrencekwilliams/videos/669890270152417/

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George Rebane

21 July 2019

PaulE 438pm – I hope that little piece of snark didn’t provide too much enjoyment. What all should note is that you as a liberal support my 313pm. Why don’t you contribute and provide some apologetics for why your fellow brethren in journalism of the liberal vein cannot countenance on your own media the ‘balance’ that you falsely claim adorns your own reporting? Your sidestepping response was expected.

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Don Bessee

21 July 2019

Could this be why the socialist wokesters @1239 are making him a target –
Mariano Rivera closes Hall of Fame induction ceremony as 1st player unanimously voted in!
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/big-crowd-gathering-in-sweltering-heat-for-hall-of-fame-inductions
😉

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Bill Tozer

21 July 2019

Peeking ahead, Circus is coming to town. That means we will see Adam Shifflips everywhere. What do you do when it’s fourth and forty???? Another Hail Mary one for a a pass interference penalty? Oh, the bombshells, the
drama, the “bad news for Trump”, da evidence, the Rachel Maddows talking in unison with the Amy Goodmans of the world wide broadcasting. Like surround sound, but with moving pictures.
https://nypost.com/2019/07/20/dems-take-desperate-final-shot-at-trump-with-mueller-testimony/

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Bill Tozer

21 July 2019

Gee, Trump was right. All the enthusiasm is on the garage people side. Cool.
This comes as no surprise. The Lefties could turn a wedding into a funeral…and they do! What a glum lot. And they call us bitter clingers? Sweet. Just be thankful you don’t have to wake up to one of them sourpusses. Ah ignore them. It’s dancing time. Kick up those heels and do some high steppin’.
“Meanwhile, a slew of negative comments about Trump’s appearance at the wedding appeared on Twitter and other social media platforms Sunday, tinged with bitterness and partisan overtones.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-maga-wedding-attendees-chant-usa

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Bill Tozer

22 July 2019

I don’t mean to wax philosophical, but the question is to wax or not to wax.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/gabriel-hays/2019/07/22/ricky-gervais-called-transphobe-defending-women-refusing-wax
No dipping the wick?

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George Rebane

22 July 2019

BillT 1040am – Mr Tozer, don’t you dare NOT wax philosophical. RR is the place to do exactly that, and you have been a treasure – wax forth!!

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Bill Tozer

22 July 2019

When Trump said at CPAC earlier this year that when Hayden Williams was assaulted at Berkeley, “He took a hard punch in the face for all of us”, I felt it was a game changer even though I lacked the words to articulate that gut feeling. “The forgotten (and despised) will be forgotten more more” works. Or, “No thanks, I have had enough” keeps it short and sweet.
Read short read:
· “…in these times, ’send her back’ is normal for people incessantly being told that their deeply held beliefs are racist, fascist, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, misogynist and -Hitler-esque.’”
—Will Alexander 7/22/19
https://townhall.com/columnists/willalexander/2019/07/22/send-her-back-was-not-just-about-omar-n2550388?amp=true&fbclid=IwAR3-9xk6JIhKlyxyJGgM1HB5j-9uDfqUcRXLTpuaVaXJLkrvczE7vJVUh-c

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fishlarious@lariousfish.com

22 July 2019

Simultaneously sad and hilarious……it’s “sadlarious”!

‘We are stronger together’: Hillary invokes campaign slogan during speech…

Looks like someone wants to climb back into the ring.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/2020-vision-hillary-tells-civil-rights-org-not-time-to-look-backwards-time-to-reassert-commitment-to-future/

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Don Bessee

22 July 2019

What with it being in NY they are sure to have some TDS types on the jury so it might work –
Lawyer: Man who killed mob boss thought he was helping Trump
https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawyer-man-killed-mob-boss-191938967.html
😉

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Bill Tozer

22 July 2019

Hey, Fish’s Sparatcluz quote made the Daily Quotes!! Good job, Mr.Fish.
Alpha Jackass: “[Trump’s] a lot more George Wallace than George Washington.” —Joe Biden
Alpha Jackass II: “The reality is [Trump] is a guy who is worse than a racist. He’s actually using racist tropes and racial language for political gain, trying to use this as a weapon to divide our nation against itself and this is somebody who is very similar to George Wallace.” —Sen. Cory Booker
Non Compos Mentis: “I know everybody always describes me as being rich. That is not how I see myself.” —billionaire Tom Steyer
Leftspeak: “The Apollo 11 mission patch: No American flag. No space hardware. No Astronaut names. In that regard, unique among space emblems. Affirmation that walking on the Moon was an achievement of the human species, to be shared by all.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson
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What’s worse than a racist? A: Somebody who uses racism FOR political gain…like George Wallace. Ok, can you think of any other examples?? Perhaps like Kamala Harris or Corey Booker? Or Joe Biden or the woman who never lost a political race…the lovely and gracious Stacy Abrams.
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Bonus quotes
“Don’t let the media treat our border agents the same way they treated our Vietnam soldiers. -anonymous
“[The] issue is not that [Ilhan] Omar is merely a Muslim. It is that she is an Islamist fellow traveler. Despite Washington’s best efforts, Americans grasp the difference between (a) Islam as a personal religious affiliation and (b) sharia supremacism as an anti-Western political ideology. They don’t see Omar as simply a Muslim. They see someone who is hard-wired to blame the United States for jihadist terrorism. They see someone who is steeped in anti-Semitism, and indistinguishable from her Muslim Brotherhood friends in hostility to Israel’s existence.” —Andrew McCarthy
Buzzword of the day: George Wallace.

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Bill Tozer

22 July 2019

In other news……
Short Story
https://bongino.com/explosive-report-ig-has-evidence-of-comey-covert-operation-against-trump/
Longer story. Hey, there is that date again, Jan. 5th, 2017. That is the day Susan Rice referenced in her post dated e-mail she wrote at the exact hour Trump was being sworn in on Jan 20, 2017.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/07/22/comey_under_scrutiny_for_own_inquiry_and_misleading_trump_119584.html
“Comey’s meeting with Trump took place one day after the FBI director met in the Oval Office with President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden to discuss how to brief Trump — a meeting attended by National Security Adviser Susan Rice, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and National Intelligence Director James Clapper, who would soon go to work for CNN.
“In his recently published memoir, “A Higher Loyalty,” Comey denied having “a counterintelligence case file open on [Trump],” though he qualified the denial by adding this was true only in the “literal” sense. He also twice denied investigating Trump, under oath, in congressional testimony.
“Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, who has written extensively on the Trump-Russia probe as a columnist for National Review, said that just because the president’s name was not put on a file or a surveillance warrant does not mean the Comey FBI was not investigating him. “They were hoping to surveil him incidentally, and they were trying to make a case on him,” McCarthy said. “The real reason Comey did not want to repeat publicly the assurances he made to Trump privately is that these assurances were misleading. The FBI strung Trump along, telling him he was not a suspect while structuring the investigation in accordance with the reality that Trump was the main subject.”
“But, former FBI counterintelligence agent and lawyer Mark Wauck said, the FBI lacked legal grounds to treat Trump as a suspect. “They had no probable cause against Trump himself for ‘collusion’ or espionage,” he said. “They were scrambling to come up with anything to hang a hat on, but had found nothing.”
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“At the same time Comey was personally scrutinizing the president during meetings in the White House and phone conversations from the FBI, he had an agent inside the White House working on the Russia investigation, where he reported back to FBI headquarters about Trump and his aides, according to officials familiar with the matter. The agent, Anthony Ferrante, who specialized in cyber crime, left the White House around the same time Comey was fired and soon joined a security consulting firm, where he contracted with BuzzFeed to lead the news site’s efforts to verify the Steele dossier, in connection with a defamation lawsuit.
“Knowledgeable sources inside the Trump White House say Comey carved out an extraordinary new position for Ferrante, which allowed him to remain on reserve status at the FBI while working in the White House as a cybersecurity adviser.
“In an unprecedented action, Comey created a new FBI reserve position for Ferrante, enabling him to have an ongoing relationship with the agency, retaining his clearances and enabling him to come back in [to bureau headquarters],” said a former National Security Council official who requested anonymity.
“Between the election and April 2017, when Ferrante finally left the White House, the Trump NSC division supervisor was not allowed to get rid of Ferrante,” he added, “and Ferrante continued working — in direct conflict with the no-contact policy between the White House and the Department of Justice.”

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Don Bessee

22 July 2019

OUCH! 66% of dems think open borders are a bad idea, way to go socialist clown car and please keep it up!
https://theweek.com/speedreads/854249/even-most-democrats-dont-support-decriminalizing-border-crossings-poll-finds
😉

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Don Bessee

22 July 2019

The power of plastic straws –
Team Trump rakes in $200,000 in one weekend through the sale of plastic straws — buy a pack to ‘own the libs’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/25442096-2cff-3ebc-97c2-85caafbce105/team-trump-rakes-in-%24200%2C000.html
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Bill Tozer

22 July 2019

@3:42 pm
Yes, border walls are bad….but don’t you dare say they are for open borders. Deportations are bad, but don’t say they are for open borders. Don’t tar the Leftinistas with that broad brush. Must not do that.
Yes, ICE should be de-ICE’ed and no enforcement in the interior. Yes, illegal entry should be decriminalized, but don’t say they are for Open Borders. Yes, if a person enters the USA illegally (no person is illegal), then the tax payers are FORCED to pay for their medical costs, however steep the price….but don’t say they are for Open Borders.
With 40% of the Border Agents now tied up with detention centers and baby sitting them there and watching them and transporting them around like a travel agency leaving the Border wide open….it’s all good just as long as you don’t call it open borders. And don’t call them Socialists! Come on, they be Socialist Democrats or is that Democratic Socialists? I get them confused. They all look alike to me. If you disagree, that is because you are a big mean racist fascist racist.
I can’t believe they are going so far left that they are making it impossible to swing back to pick up the middle come the DNC Convention in 2020. 🙂 Especially after Orange Man Bad painted the Fab Four Hit Squad the face of the opponent. ).

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Don Bessee

22 July 2019

Keep on truckin’ all the way to total defeat in 2020! –
“They should make it $1,000 an hour and cure income inequality inside of a month, obviously,” joked Ben Shapiro. “These radical Democratic policy proposals are the political equivalent of the pitch for the Fyre Festival.”
Democrat presidential contenders are set to debate again on July 30 and 31, and could be asked about Tlaib’s now-viral proposal. The party’s embrace of once-radical proposals — including Medicare-for-all, health care for illegal immigrants, and decriminalization of border crossings — has alienated moderates, some analysts contend.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tlaib-calls-for-20-an-hour-minimum-wage
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