344 responses to “Sandbox – 28jul19”

1. 

   George Rebane

   28 July 2019

   Adding to ToddJ’s comment. The lamestream this morning is all atwitter with the president’s latest tweets highlighting Rep Cummings as one of the almost countless Dems from what many have come to know as ‘the plantation’. These are the representatives who introduce and demogauge policies and laws that maintain the misery they have supported in minority communities since the Great Society days when the now successful assault on the black family began. Cummings has spread lies about President Trump for the last two years, and now remains as a leader of the Dems coalition seeking to impeach the president. When Trump strikes back, pointing out the existential misery that the congressman perpetuates in his district, the Left comes unglued, why? Well of course it’s racism because Cummings is black, and the plantation must be perpetuated for the safe votes they reliably deliver year after year.

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   Walt

   28 July 2019

   Morning gents. First Cummings is all butt hurt, now it Queen Nan’s turn. It’s her shithole city Trump is now referencing.
   Yes, Trump is an equal opportunity offender.
   https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/28/trump-nancy-pelosi-baltimore/
   “The president also argued that San Francisco, represented by Pelosi, is “not even recognizable lately.” San Francisco has notably had a problem with people defecating on the streets, with OpenTheBooks.com recording 118,352 cases of human feces requiring city cleanup since 2011.”

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   Walt

   28 July 2019

   Oh,,,, and in “gun free” Baltimore,,
   https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/28/at-least-5-shot-3-killed-saturday-in-gun-controlled-baltimore/

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   George Rebane

   28 July 2019

   What heartens me is that Trump is the first president to call out the reps from broken down districts which have received uncountable aid dollars over the decades, and responded by continuing to go downhill as indicated by about every applicable social metric. The politicos these benighted citizens send to Congress should be held up to their constituencies as the failures they are, instead of continuing to give them a pass with a courteous sound of silence. Reps can’t effectively criticize each other’s districts for a number of reasons, but the president can and should. Now we finally have someone in the WH who is up to the task.

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   Todd Juvinall

   28 July 2019

   I have been in a Twitter strom on this with the plantation loving white liberals. They are truly unhinged. Of course they have no stats to defend since they are truly lazy ass researchers. I also tweeted the fool in the SacBee article on this who of course is AP. They cannot debate at all. All racist all the time. But they got away with this for many years as wimp ass R’s let them spout with no retort. Now Trump is in charge and he does not bow to them. It is so refreshing to see pushback on the racists of the left.

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   George Rebane

   28 July 2019

   ToddJ 842am – I would not characterize the plantation masters as ‘unhinged’. I think they know exactly what they are doing (and have known it for years) to maintain their grip on power while they lead the nation toward socialism. Since they have no supportable basis for taking us down that path, they must maintain their constituencies ignorant and on destitution’s doorstep so that their narrative against the ‘racist rich’ can carry the day and deliver the ever-hopeful votes to get the money from the rich to relieve their hopeless state. They never understand that their politicians actually want both to maintain and expand that level of destitution across the land so as to increase the national dissatisfaction (victimhood), which in its wholesale state is always the required political gateway to socialist autocracy. These people never understand that socialism is such a good idea that it must be introduced and enforced by the gun. Such Dems are evil.

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   Todd Juvinall

   28 July 2019

   I agree!

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8. 

   Don Bessee

   28 July 2019

   Yup!
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/de-blasio-staffers-reportedly-think-white-house-bid-is-a-joke
   😉

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9. 

   AVMan

   28 July 2019

   ,,,the new shithole districts,,,
   https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-rally-hate-crimes-study-maga-2019-3

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10. 

    fish

    28 July 2019

    Posted by: AVMan | 28 July 2019 at 12:54 PM
    Must feel like coming home…..eh O feculant one?

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11. 

    George Rebane

    28 July 2019

    AV 1254pm – Thank you for supporting your assertion. While I don’t contend that what liberals call ‘hate crimes’ may have increased in Trump districts (from you that list is a doozey), I do withhold accepting the study results from progressive political scientists who call themselves “scientists” – there is no science in political science, a perfidious label if there ever was one.
    If for you and yours the shithole appellation applies to any locale in which your views are not shared, then you can continue that labeling without end because the world is full of places that have very biased and one-sided views about others. And, of course, we on the other side are free to use that lightly-reasoned definition ourselves on some of your favorite places. No, I’m afraid you’ll have to search for stauncher attributes of what is more broadly understood as deserving to be called a shithole country, state, city, county, neighborhood, … . To keep things close at hand, Americans can easily understand that SF, Chicago, and Cummings’ Baltimore district more than qualify for the label.

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12. 

    Bill Tozer

    28 July 2019

    Baltimore fishbowl.
    https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/poll-to-surprise-of-no-one-baltimoreans-have-a-grim-outlook-about-how-the-city-is-faring/?
    Well, it’s about time somebody shined the light on our national disgrace, aka, the hellhole inner cities that our fellow citizens and legal residents have to put up with. Go after them, Mr. Trump, and make them accountable for the squalor they created. The Dems own it and think their constituents are chumps.
    We have been promising our black communities since…at least since civil rights icon Barbara Jordan’s Presidential Blue Ribbon Panel (Jordan Commission) under Reagan that we would protect our black youth and most vulnerable from competing with illegal aliens for jobs. We have been promising our inner city and urban residents their top priorities of school choice and safer neighborhoods for decades but have always been thwarted by the Liberal plantation owners of the Left. The top priorities of the Planation Masters are not what those who actually live in those districts want. You think Maxine Waters lives in her district?? Ha.
    Make them defend their mess, Mr. Trump. Make them defend the Squad calling America a horrible place. We cannot make America Great Again without lifting all Americans out of Leftistina bondage.
    Remember Trump’s Inauguration speech? He spoke of burned out factories dotting the landscape like tombstones. Oh, the Lefties called it a dark speech. Very dark. The popinjays repeated the mantra of “gloomy, a dark speech”. Hillary said it was a dark speech. Then you said, Mr. Trump, that the forgotten man will be forgotten no more. I am tired of all those memes that on the left side is a picture of bombed out Berlin after WW2 or Haiti and on the right side is a picture of Detroit or Newark or some other hellhole. Side by side comparisons. Yes, the did not build Rome in a day and you walk 20 miles into the woods, you walk 20 miles out.
    Keep them on their back heels, Mr. Trump. Pound on them. They deserve to be taken to the woodshed for what they have done to our formerly vibrate great cities.
    Reposted from Scattershots yesterday, if I may be so bold.
    Dear Liberals,
    Don’t dare pretend your ideology hasn’t been the driving force behind the destruction of OUR inner cities. I worked both the NY & Baltimore streets as a cop & a fed agent. You don’t know squat. The POTUS is right, it’s WAY PAST TIME for political accountability.
    Watching liberal media elites, many of whom NEVER leave the Greenroom, pile on while avoiding the real questions about WHY our inner cities are struggling is equally pathetic. The media has become a cosmic embarrassment as they cover full time for liberalism’s grotesque failings.
    And, under no circumstances, should Republicans back away from this fight. It’s LONG OVERDUE. The citizens of these struggling cities deserve better. They deserve a shot at safety and prosperity and the liberal politicians in charge HAVE ABSOLUTELY FAILED THEM.“ —Dan Borgino.
    https://www.facebook.com/TakeBackThisCountry/photos/a.1032125603520777/2284313291635329/?type=3&theater

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13. 

    Bill Tozer

    28 July 2019

    In other news, every so often you come across an article that makes you say, “Say What?” Say what. Well, it has a happy ending…sort of…maybe.
    Judge to rabbi: Compensate woman suspected of vandalizing synagogue
    https://mobile.wnd.com/2019/07/judge-to-rabbi-compensate-woman-suspected-of-vandalizing-synagogue/?

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    Bill Tozer

    28 July 2019

    “the next day they were back to their old form, calling for impeachment because, well, just because. The alternative would be to talk about their ideas-socialized medicine, U.S. taxpayer funded health ins. for illegal aliens, open borders, higher taxes…”‬
    ‪-@derekahunter 7/28/19‬
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    Baltimore….NYT Editorial….(good choice for Ambassador, Mr.Trump)
    “But Baltimore’s dysfunction has been in the spotlight since the Black Lives Matter movement, when a CNN-encouraged riot against police caused law enforcement to pull back from policing in black neighborhoods.
    “The same phenomenon occurred in other cities, especially where elected Democrats declined to support police and backed protests against them.
    “Spikes in homicides in Baltimore, Chicago and the District of Columbia accounted for more than half of the national increase in killings in the 30 largest cities in 2015, according to a final analysis of yearly crime data by New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice,” the Baltimore Sun noted in April 2016.
    The Times magazine article, “The Tragedy of Baltimore,” by Alex MacGillis, described “the crackup of an American city”:
    “In 2017, [Baltimore] recorded 342 murders — its highest per-capita rate ever, more than double Chicago’s, far higher than any other city of 500,000 or more residents and, astonishingly, a larger absolute number of killings than in New York, a city 14 times as populous. Other elected officials, from the governor to the mayor to the state’s attorney, struggled to respond to the rise in disorder, leaving residents with the unsettling feeling that there was no one in charge. With every passing year, it was getting harder to see what gains, exactly, were delivered by the uprising.
    “The violence and disorder have fed broader setbacks. Gov. Larry Hogan canceled a $2.9 billion rail transit line for West Baltimore, defending the disinvestment in the troubled neighborhood partly by noting that the state had spent $14 million responding to the riots. Target closed its store in West Baltimore, a blow to a part of town short of retail options. The civic compact has so frayed that one acquaintance admitted to me recently that he had stopped waiting at red lights when driving late at night. Why should he, he argued, when he saw young men on dirt bikes flying through intersections while police officers sat in cruisers doing nothing?
    “MacGillis noted that it was difficult to talk about Baltimore’s problems partly because “the national political discourse lacks a vocabulary for the city’s ills.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/28/richard-grenell-calls-out-lefts-hypocrisy-on-baltimore-read-the-new-york-times/?
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    Bernie walking down Plantation Alley
    “But anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you’re in a wealthy nation; you would think that you were in a Third World country. … But today, what we’re talking about is a community in which half of the people don’t have jobs. We’re talking about a community in which there are hundreds of buildings that are uninhabitable. We’re talking about a community where kids are unable to go to schools that are decent.“
    https://mobile.twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1155496708853383172?
    BTW: the only persons Bernie ever lifted out of poverty is himself and his imaginary friend. Change my mind.

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15. 

    Walt

    28 July 2019

    Whatever happened to Cross Babs? He was supposed to explain to us how to stop the Commies from “fucking” with our elections.
    Just like any good LIB… Great at bitching, short(just crickets) on any solutions.

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16. 

    Walt

    28 July 2019

    This is how you burn up 50+ bucks real fast.
    I gotta get me one of these.
    https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1020834969/magpul-pmag-d-50-lr-sr-gen-m3-drum-magazine-lr308-sr-25-308-winchester-50-round-polymer-black

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17. 

    Don Bessee

    28 July 2019

    That didn’t take long –
    The United States has shipped several million tonnes of soybeans to China since the two countries’ leaders met in June, Chinese state media said on Sunday, an apparent sign of goodwill before trade talks in Shanghai this week.
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/the-new-olive-branch-u-s-soy-being-shipped-to-china
    😉

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18. 

    AVman

    28 July 2019

    ,,,George 115p,,,hold on, wait 2 seconds,,,are you saying a statistician cannot also call themselves a “political scientist”?
    ,,,did I miss your definition of a geographic shithole???
    let me guess,,,
    must have more than one homeless person
    must be culturally diverse
    majority must vote liberal

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19. 

    Don Bessee

    28 July 2019

    Baltimore agrees –
    The Baltimore Sun published an op-ed on Nov. 9, 2016 — the day Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2016 presidential election — in which the author called for Baltimore to be declared a disaster, and rebuilt.
    The op-ed, by Sean Kennedy, reads in part:
    Donald J. Trump is known for his hyperbole, but not all of his ideas are a stretch. Our inner cities are a “disaster,” as he said in the final presidential debate — and they should be officially declared so.
    Mr. Trump said on the campaign trail that he would “empower cities and states to seek a federal disaster designation for blighted communities in order to initiate the rebuilding of vital infrastructure, the demolition of abandoned properties and the increased presence of law enforcement.” Now that he’s captured the presidency, let’s hope he follows through.
    The idea is radical, revolutionary and just what urban America needs: a federal disaster declaration for our most impoverished neighborhoods hard hit by crime, urban blight and economic malaise.
    When the president declares an area to be a disaster, additional federal assistance can be applied while regulations and rules for rebuilding and revitalizing the affected area are often waived or reduced.
    …
    Declaring our most beleaguered neighborhoods to be “disaster zones” and encouraging entrepreneurial activities through access to capital and microloans would inject capital, expedite much needed infrastructure and give our inner cities hope again.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/28/baltimore-sun-op-ed-2016-trumps-right-declare-baltimore-a-disaster-and-rebuild-it/
    😉

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20. 

    George Rebane

    28 July 2019

    AV 305pm – Not at all; those are the words you are desperately trying to put in my mouth. But here you show yet one more dimension of your naivete by implying that the application of ‘statistics’ yields but one narrow path to truth. Where did you learn this? In unionized public school math classes taught by pressed-into-service history majors?
    The application of statistics to data is an art form for those of us versed in the field. A recent and ongoing application of such art is purveyed by the ‘climate scientists’ who have mangled temperature data beyond all recognition, and then produced ‘earth temperature estimates’ that fit their narrative. Others versed in the field have for years pointed out their follies. I know not only how such statistics are done, but also how to do it. Can you?

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21. 

    George Rebane

    28 July 2019

    DonB 255pm – OK Mr Bessee, when did you as a genuine red-blooded American begin sticking an extra ‘ne’ into ‘tons’?? 😉

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22. 

    Bill Tozer

    28 July 2019

    Baltimore Mayor less than one year ago. Does she smell Elijah or what?
    “As Pugh toured the neighborhood, she said: “What the hell? We should just take all this sh*t down. … Whoa, you can smell the rats. … Whew, Jesus. … Oh, my God, you can smell the dead animals.”
    https://mobile.twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1155574627869122560?
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    Sure as the sun rises in the east….or, from another thread; 1/3 of Demorats think it is racist for a Whitey Politician to criticize a POC Politician.
    From the National Association for the Advancement of People of Color
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/27/naacp-impeach-occupant-of-wh-for-vile-racist-attack-on-cummings/?
    Hmmmm. If they think today is the low point, they ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. “Gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet”…as they themselves have said. Some folks don’t do change gracefully. Ah hell, might as well play the race card, it’s the only card you got.
    —————
    ‪“In my column on Baltimore’s deeply troubled image, I also wrote, ‘There are moments when it seems as if [the director is] filming in a Third World country, the living conditions are so challenging and poor. And that’s depressing.’”
    ‪—@davidzurawik, @baltimoresun 4/22/19‬

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23. 

    Don Bessee

    28 July 2019

    Dr. R It was from the article, after my – so not mine, just cut and pasted.
    😉

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24. 

    Bill Tozer

    28 July 2019

    Ok, time to say something nice about Baltimore. It beats the Twin Cities for economic growth.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/07/baltimore-vs-minneapolis.php
    ————-+
    Baltimore sure has changed since 1962
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2XfbRbbsL20
    Baltimore sure has changed since 1962
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2XfbRbbsL20

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25. 

    AVMan

    28 July 2019

    ,,,Trump is the definition of a shithole…
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-are-african-americans-we-are-patriots-and-we-refuse-to-sit-idly-by/2019/07/26/c02ade6c-af16-11e9-8e77-03b30bc29f64_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8600e6ea6cce

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26. 

    George Rebane

    28 July 2019

    DonB 426pm – OK Mr Bessee, then throw some quotes around it here and there, so we won’t mistake it for your own incisive prose.

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    George Rebane

    28 July 2019

    AV 513pm – Interesting citation from 149 Obama hacks. What else would you expect them to say. They are the part of the black elite team keeping their countrymen on the plantation; they are the ones who are benefiting from the rest of their brethren living in shithole communities. We must always remember that they can change the fortunes of their constituents, but at the cost of giving lie to the false narratives that keep them in office. And that is a cost they will not bear.

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28. 

    fish

    28 July 2019

    Posted by: AVMan | 28 July 2019 at 05:13 PM
    Sounds like dugsKKKi is upset about the presidents description of Baltimore. They should publicly defy Trump by declining that sweet, sweet federal money! Should be no problem for a well run progressive enclave!
    Best of luck to them…..

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29. 

    AVMan

    28 July 2019

    ,,,What do you expect??? Might be hard for Trump hacks to lie their way out of this one,,,
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-born-teen-border-custody-050036492.html

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30. 

    Don Bessee

    28 July 2019

    Will anyone read the correction tucked at the end of an old article or will those who picked it up give the correction the same level of coverage as the lie
    ? I think not ———-
    “If true, the assessment would undercut the basis for ongoing nuclear talks between Washington and Pyongyang. Trump has said he believes Kim has adhered to an agreement to curtail the development of nuclear weapons, but Trump’s critics have accused him of being naive in trusting the North Korean dictator.
    The Journal story would seemingly support the latter interpretation, that Trump has misplaced confidence in Kim. Numerous news outlets picked up The Journal’s report.
    But the reporting about DIA’s assessment is inaccurate, the newspaper now says. The article has been edited to remove the DIA reference, and a correction has been attached at the bottom of the piece.
    “A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that analysts at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency said North Korea could have produced 12 nuclear weapons since the Trump-Kim handshake in Singapore in June 2018. (July 27, 2019)”
    The corrected story now relies on analysis from non-governmental analysts who track the development of weapons of mass destruction. The analysts told The Journal that North Korea has continued developing long-rang missile capabilities and fissile materials that could be used for nuclear weapons.
    https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/wall-street-journal-corrects-‘bombshell’-report-
    north-korea-nukes-69831
    😉

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31. 

    fish

    28 July 2019

    Hey Scott…..congrats……you live in the anti-Baltimore!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Screen%20Shot%202019-04-06%20at%2010.10.42%20AM.png?itok=7PM6zaqC

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32. 

    fish

    28 July 2019

    Posted by: AVMan | 28 July 2019 at 05:32 PM
    Excellent point dugsKKKi…..government screws up routinely……makes me wonder why you senile nitwits want them to run healthcare?

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33. 

    rl crabb

    28 July 2019

    Liberal Baltimore may be a shithole, but when you flush it, it will most likely end up at the bottom of a conservative sewer. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/mississippi

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34. 

    Don Bessee

    28 July 2019

    What do you expect from a Castro? ————–
    “Julian Castro Is ‘Hypercritical’ Of Trump Immigration Policies He Once Praised Under Obama
    Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro, a fervent opponent of the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, was called out for his past praise of former President Barack Obama’s immigration enforcement policies.
    “I want to ask you about immigration which you have made a part of your campaign focus,” said “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan Sunday. “When you were mayor of San Antonio, you testified before Congress and you called for increased border security measures and you praised the Obama administration’s actions.”
    Brennan then played a clip of Castro speaking before a congressional hearing in February 2013. In the clip, then-San Antonio Mayor Castro is seen lauding the Obama administration’s success at removing “dangerous individuals” after beefing up security along the U.S.-Mexico border.
    “In Texas, we know firsthand that this administration has put more boots on the ground along the border than at any other time in our history which has led to unprecedented success in removing dangerous individuals with criminal records,” he said during a 2013 House Judiciary committee hearing.
    “Why did you praise that policy then but when the Trump administration adopt similar language and policies you’re hypercritical of them?” Brennan asked.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/julian-castro-hypercritical-trump-immigration-200100188.html
    😉

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35. 

    Todd Juvinall

    28 July 2019

    So you are calling all those blacks in Mississippi names now? Shame on you.

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36. 

    fish

    28 July 2019

    Posted by: rl crabb | 28 July 2019 at 05:45 PM
    You’re not planning to flush all the progressive run shitholes (Chicago, Camden, Philly, Detroit……) into Mississippi are you RL? That’s too cruel!

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37. 

    George Rebane

    28 July 2019

    RL 545pm – could you please make a case for that; your citation does not.

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38. 

    rl crabb

    28 July 2019

    Nothing I say ever makes a case here, mostly because you fellows are so blind and deaf to anything that doesn’t fit your narrow ideology. But for fun, take a gander at the stats for Ol’ Miss. They come in at the bottom of the barrel in most respects. I’m not saying those cities are anything to be proud of, but there’s a hell of a lot of poverty and dumbass,backward behavior in the red states as well.

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39. 

    Walt

    28 July 2019

    That’s not vary ECO of your Crabbman.
    Just because the LIB social engineering has failed miserably,
    you want to send that waste to pollute places that have done fine without Proggy influence.
    Nevada City was a nice place before Bay aria LIBs showed up, and dragged their big city attitudes with them.
    Ever read the police blotter Crabbs? The “shithole” mentality is already here.

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40. 

    Walt

    28 July 2019

    Just a little evidence for RL.
    “2:04 p.m. — A caller on Church Street, near Commercial Street, reported a transient camp in the area. The caller said they saw trash, sleeping bags and human waste.”

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    Bill Tozer

    28 July 2019

    remember when a young man from Mississippi went out to campaign for Nixon. Nixon encouraged him to keep at it and liked the kid. Mississippi at the time was something like 7% or 9% Republican. The young man’s name was Haley Barber, future chair of the RNC and governor of the Great State of Mississippi. An oddity, fa sure. Lordy knows what got flushed down the Great Mississippi River.
    ————-
    Wow. This guy Victor Blackwell reminds me of Ozz or one of those wack job pocket sock puppets that came over here and cried big ole tears about he was born and raised in California and proud of it and you guys best love it or leave it. Now get.
    Very moving. Poured his little heart out. It just ripped him up when we talked about the the Poop Pile by the Bay.
    No wonder Trump likes Terrance K Williams. He is one funny guy. Trump even tweets some of Terrance’s stuff. Now, take it away CNN. I ❤️ Baltimore.
    https://mobile.twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1155589206208634880
    ———
    You got to feel sorry for the poor immigrants escaping violence and poverty in their shithole countries…only to end up in Detroit or Chicago or Baltimore or in a gang infested neighbor in LA, roflmao.

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42. 

    Don Bessee

    28 July 2019

    Hi Crabman, not to put too fine a point on it but Mississippi has been a shithole for 150 years with a brief good time during the 2nd world war. ——–
    “Mississippi’s rank as one of the poorest states is related to its dependence on cotton agriculture before and after the Civil War, late development of its frontier bottomlands in the Mississippi Delta, repeated natural disasters of flooding in the late 19th and early 20th century that required massive capital investment in levees, and ditching and draining the bottomlands, and slow development of railroads to link bottomland towns and river cities.[122] In addition, when Democrats regained control of the state legislature, they passed the 1890 constitution that discouraged corporate industrial development in favor of rural agriculture, a legacy that would slow the state’s progress for years.
    After the Civil War, the state refused for years to build human capital by fully educating all its citizens. In addition, the reliance on agriculture grew increasingly costly as the state suffered loss of cotton crops due to the devastation of the boll weevil in the early 20th century, devastating floods in 1912–1913 and 1927, collapse of cotton prices after 1920, and drought in 1930
    On August 30, 2007, a report by the United States Census Bureau indicated that Mississippi was the poorest state in the country. Major cotton farmers in the Delta have large, mechanized plantations, and they receive the majority of extensive federal subsidies going to the state, yet many other residents still live as poor, rural, landless laborers. The state’s sizable poultry industry has faced similar challenges in its transition from family-run farms to large mechanized operations.[134] Of $1.2 billion from 2002 to 2005 in federal subsidies to farmers in the Bolivar County area of the Delta, only 5% went to small farmers. There has been little money apportioned for rural development. Small towns are struggling. More than 100,000 people have left the region in search of work elsewhere.[135] The state had a median household income of $34,473.[136]
    As of December 2018, the state’s unemployment rate was 4.7%, the seventh highest in the country after Arizona (4.9%), Louisiana (4.9%), New Mexico (5.0%), West Virginia (5.1%), District of Columbia (5.4%) and Alaska (6.5%).
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi#Economy
    😉

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43. 

    Bill Tozer

    28 July 2019

    Isn’t Mississippi the most obese state in the Union? Either Mississippi or Louisiana. Lots of fat people. Judging by the evacuation of the 9th Ward (medium income $12k/year) during Katrina, some of those citizens could afford to lose a few pounds. Heck, one time I was working down in the real Cajun Country with real Cajuns that have never seen a city in their lives and on a hot day decided to buy some shorts. You know, cut offs, Bermudas. The waist size started at 38 or 40 or 42, so I had to go to the boys section to find a pair that fit.
    Earl hates fat people. Something a lot of Americans have in common. 🙂

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44. 

    George Rebane

    28 July 2019

    Echoing the observations of my ideological colleagues, I would like to see some evidence of a broader range of red whatevers that anywhere near matches shitholes created by the Dems over their years of management. Mr Crabb’s 628pm implication is that there is some level of equivalency between the results of red v. blue governance – and that dear readers is an existential crock.
    So if nothing the man says gets traction here, I suggest two alternatives – 1) either show how your views are mistreated here (they aren’t), or 2) join an echo chamber for your views like the one-sided auto-preening site run by the FUE.
    My druthers are that you stay and show the rightwing commenters the errors of their ways in order to convince the many center-roaders and undecided readers who frequent RR pages. At a minimum you will be lauded by the hefty cohort of leftwing RR readers for showing us what for. They need a reasoned and reasoning champion to do dharma battle here.

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45. 

    Walt

    28 July 2019

    Here we go again.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/28/active-shooter-reported-at-garlic-festival-in-gun-controlled-california/
    Good money says it’s a LIB voter.

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    Bill Tozer

    28 July 2019

    Walt.
    I got one niece living down there in Gilroy. Luckily, they went to Carmel for the weekend and their friends are following the police scanner…and I am following them. They are trying to make it home, but shooter might be loose. One hour ago was one fatality, 4 moderate, 4 severe, no word on shooter under custody.
    Meanwhile, helicopter just landed somewhere on 20 near Smartsville Road. I need to get a scanner…..

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    Steven Frisch

    28 July 2019

    And who owns that “shithole”….https://www.newsweek.com/trump-jared-kushner-baltimore-housing-projects-racked-code-violations-1451479

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48. 

    Don Bessee

    28 July 2019

    The long slow unraveling is in the end stage. Can you say IG? –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/papadopoulos-heads-to-greece-to-retrieve-10k-in-safe-as-senate-investigators-request-bills
    😉

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    Don Bessee

    28 July 2019

    It is what it is, ratas —-
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/28/pbs-aired-rat-film-documentary-about-baltimores-rodent-problem-in-2018/
    😉

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50. 

    Scott O

    28 July 2019

    fish 5:38 – We recently had the family here. First time for most of them. Went downtown to the Capital and walked around the area nearby. Zero graffiti, zero bums lying on the sidewalk, zero poop on the sidewalk, zero urine odor. Lots of folks of way different lifestyles, hair colors, skin colors, cultures. Every different kind of food and beverage option. I hadn’t thought about it beforehand, but I was later thinking how proud I was of showing off downtown Boise. BTW haters, that same downtown voted solidly for Hilary in the last election, so you’ll need to figure out a new way to demonstrate your stupidity. Idaho isn’t poor like Miss or Ala but we don’t have the money to put up with BS from people with with more money than brains.
    There’s this expectation that along with your rights, come responsibilities. Doesn’t matter who you are or how much money you have or don’t have – you are a human and you have the responsibility to act like a civilized human being.
    Sorry – no trigger warning for leftists.

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