[The Union tells us that there will be demonstrations 'Striking for the Earth' at the NC and GV city halls this Friday. These deluded citizens have no idea that their anthropomorphized Earth doesn't give a big rat's ass about ongoing climate change. And what still eludes these sincere but factually deficient folks is that consensus science is NOT science – discovering ground truths about our universe is NOT a democratic process. gjr]

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329 responses to “Sandbox – 18sep19”
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what are many pictures worth? Priceless?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/09/the-week-in-pictures-buffoonpalooza-edition.php
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For your reading pleasure.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_sep20
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 21 September 2019 at 10:37 AM
Goddammit Tozer…..you owe me a new computer!
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Its going to be fun to watch the self immolation –
A group of Arizona Democrats are demonstrating why President Donald Trump will more than likely be a two-term president.
The party’s liberal wing simply cannot resist the temptation to shoot itself in its Birkenstocks.
Witness the liberals riding in on their unicorn, hoping to censure the first Arizona Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate in 30 years.
It seems Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is just not Democratic enough. So the party’s progressive caucus is asked the Arizona Democratic Party to censure her on Saturday. The party has decided to push the vote to its annual meeting in January.
“We really support Kyrsten Sinema, we want her to succeed, we want her to be the best senator in the country,” Dan O’Neal, state coordinator for Progressive Democrats of America, told The Republic’s Yvonne Wingett Sanchez. “But the way she is voting is really disappointing. We want Democrats to vote like Democrats and not Republicans.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/progressive-revolt-against-arizonas-kyrsten-090010912.html
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We stand against socialism. Socialism is not compatible with the Constitution. Fun read.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/20/d-c-rally-tea-party-patriots-warn-against-growing-socialism-in-america/
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Candace Owens schools white progressives
https://www.facebook.com/101043269988443/posts/2578488465577232/
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Walter E Williams
Racist Exam Questions?
“The conclusion that Baltimore County’s written test for police officer recruits was unfairly biased against black applicants is tragic. It allows Baltimore public schools to continue to produce fraudulent education. You say: “Hold it, Williams! You can’t blame everything on schools.” You’re right. One cannot blame schools and teachers for students who are hostile to the education process. One cannot blame schools and teachers for a rotten home environment or derelict parents. But there is one thing entirely within the control of educators. That’s their power to issue diplomas. When they confer high school diplomas on youngsters who cannot read, write and compute at or near a 12th-grade level, they are engaging in fraudulent conduct.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/52057/williams-racist-exam-questions-walter-e-williams?
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Facebook and Iphones spawn trolls and this behavior too perhaps? The loss of the ability to have a human face to face conversation has consequences. –
https://www.breitbart.com/local/2019/09/21/youth-sports-officials-referees-dropping-out-due-to-parents-belligerent-behavior/
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PolitiFact Somehow Blames PJ Media, Not NY Times, for Kavanaugh Accuser Mess
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2019/09/20/politifact-blames-pj-media-not-ny-times-kavanaugh-accuser-mess
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Year-old texts contained in a Senate Judiciary Committee report show that New York Times reporter Robin Pogrebin engaged in questionable journalistic tactics to shape a false narrative against Kavanaugh by telling a source what to say and by asking sources to confirm information she herself had given them. And despite including a highly opinionated discussion of the text exchange in their book, the authors never admitted that Pogrebin was a key player in the exchanges.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/20/new-york-times-kavanaugh-reporter-told-source-what-to-say/
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ENJETI: But your paper did.
POGREBIN: But our paper—No. At our paper we did this Deborah Ramirez excerpt, which that was also one paragraph. Unfortunately, that line was removed. And it was out back and corrected.
Once the public discovered that the person leveling the accusation (Max Stier) against Kavanaugh was a Clinton flack, it became even clearer that the claims were dubious. To Stier’s affiliations, Enjeti got Pogrebin to extraordinarily admit that they willing kept them out of their book (click “expand”):
ENJETI: I do want to talk about that, because the person who allegedly saw this incident, Mr. Max Stier. As I understand it, he was on the opposing team from Kavanaugh during the Clinton impeachment and his wife was denied a federal judgeship by the GOP. Did you include that information in your book? I mean, that’s seems like pretty clear evidence of a vendetta against Brett Kavanaugh.
POGREBIN: You know, we didn’t include it in the book but we do talk about what he’s been doing for most of his career, which is non-partisan
ENJETI: Don’t you think germane? I mean, for somebody to accuse somebody like this and the victim does not recognize – does not even remember this incident, you don’t think that is germane detail?
POGREBIN: Do you think it’s germane that Brett Kavanaugh wrote the Starr Report?
ENJETI: Yes, absolutely! And he was grilled for that during his [confirmation] hearing.
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“[A]nd if he had an agenda, why didn’t he do it during the hearings when he could have blown it up,” Pogrebin bitterly demanded to know. “Well, he did do it during the hearings when he sent to these investigators,” Enjeti corrected her.
Pogrebin went on to argue the Stier “had no interest in going to the press.” That also appeared to be misleading because it had been reported that the accusation had been shopped around to multiple news outlets, who passed on it because of how shady the accusation was.“
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The poo bag blows up in Wile E. Proggy’s face,,, Nope can’t catch the ever cagey Trump, no matter how many times you use ACME Mole INC.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ukraine-trump-zelensky-biden
“A top Ukrainian official on Saturday defended President Trump’s July phone call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, during which Trump reportedly urged authorities in Kiev to investigate dealings in the Eastern European county by the son of former Vice President Joe Biden.
“I know what the conversation was about and I think there was no pressure,” Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko told the Hromadske media outlet. “There was talk, conversations are different, leaders have the right to discuss any problems that exist. This conversation was long, friendly, and it touched on many questions, sometimes requiring serious answers.” ”
AND the PROGGY Mole, only got it third or fifth hand.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/21/report-white-house-whistleblower-didnt-have-direct-knowledge-of-trump-communications/
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YOU GO GIRL! –
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/09/21/candace-owens-democrat-policies-are-more-threatening-to-black-america-than-white-supremacy/
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Walt @ 5:00 pm
Does Biden really want to open this can of worms? Call Acme Rents for more deliveries to Wile E Proggie. Biden says not one serious news outlet has even reported on his role in the Ukrainian scandal. Must be fake news, no one cares.
Flashback: April, 2019
“Two years after leaving office, Joe Biden couldn’t resist the temptation last year to brag to an audience of foreign policy specialists about the time as vice president that he strong-armed Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor.
“In his own words, with video cameras rolling, Biden described how he threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
“But Ukrainian officials tell me there was one crucial piece of information that Biden must have known but didn’t mention to his audience: The prosecutor he got fired was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings that employed Biden’s younger son, Hunter, as a board member.
U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden’s American-based firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers into one of its accounts — usually more than $166,000 a month — from Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period when Vice President Biden was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine and its tense relations with Russia.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived
NBC NEWS’ MIKE MEMOLI IN MAY: JOE BIDEN ENCOURAGED THE FIRING OF UKRAINE’S TOP PROSECUTOR
‘’The firing of this prosecutor … was a priority of the Obama Administration.”
https://news.grabien.com/story-nbc-news-mike-memoli-joe-biden-encouraged-firing-ukraines-to
CNN IN JULY: BIDEN PRESSURED UKRAINE TO FIRE PROSECUTOR INVESTIGATING HUNTER BIDEN’S ENERGY COMPANY
‘There is no evidence that Joe Biden actually did anything wrong or did anything to sway things in Hunter Biden’s favor’
https://news.grabien.com/story-cnn-july-biden-pressured-ukraine-fire-prosecutor-investigati
(Sorry, CNN is not a serious news outlet. Mea culpa)
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July, 2019 from the New Yorker
“In December, 2015, as Joe Biden prepared to return to Ukraine, his aides braced for renewed scrutiny of Hunter’s relationship with Burisma. Amos Hochstein, the Obama Administration’s special envoy for energy policy, raised the matter with Biden, but did not go so far as to recommend that Hunter leave the board. As Hunter recalled, his father discussed Burisma with him just once: “Dad said, ‘I hope you know what you are doing,’ and I said, ‘I do.’ ””
Biden’s Claim He Hasn’t Spoken to Son About Ukraine Apparently Conflicts With New Yorker Story
https://www.mediaite.com/election-2020/bidens-claim-he-hasnt-spoken-to-son-about-ukraine-apparently-conflicts-with-new-yorker-story/
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TRUMP TELLS MEDIA TO ‘KEEP PLAYING UP’ WHISTLEBLOWER STORY ‘SO YOU CAN HAVE A BIGGER DOWNFALL’
‘You will look really bad when it falls’
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BT @ 535 That would fit nicely in this books list –
https://www.breitbart.com/tag/50-things-they-dont-want-you-to-know/
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And liberal snowflake heads commenced exploding –
The tweet, posted on Friday on the Twitter account of the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS), took aim at UFO fans and curiosity seekers who poured into the Nevada desert this week, after an online campaign to “storm” the U.S. military base long rumored to house government secrets about extraterrestrial life and spaceships.
Alongside a photo of military men and women standing at attention in uniform in front of a B-2 stealth bomber, it read, “The last thing #Millennials will see if they attempt the #area51raid today.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/stealth-bomber-area-51-crowd-234741330.html
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Silence of the Emery… Corner stool at the mineshaft saloon?
Drinking the cheap Irish stuff to drown the sorrows?
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_sep20
“The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance.”
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Trolls banished. G’nite
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NOW IT ALL MAKES SENSE:Trudeau Claims He Was Known As ‘Corn Pop’ Until A Cool White Dude Turned His Life Around.
https://babylonbee.com/news/trudeau-claims-he-was-known-as-corn-pop-until-a-cool-white-dude-turned-his-life-around
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Should have kept his mouth shut instead of bragging about strong arming Ukraine –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-campaign-coming-to-an-end-thanks-to-ukraine-story-linked-to-hillary-clinton-nunes-says
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Wow…..was noted social justice scold Justin Trudeau ever not in blackface?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/canadas-wokest-pm-just-took-hit-polls-after-blackface-scandal
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To quote Punch Master Flash:
“For your reading pleasure…..”
….figuring it out a lot faster than in the past!
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The carnage, time to confiscate motorcycles! –
Moreover, numerous other causes of death outnumber those from mass shootings, even when shooting death figures are reported higher than they actually are.
For example, Forbes reports there were nearly 5,000 motorcycle deaths in America in 2017. If we divide 5,000 by 12, for the 12 months of the year, we see roughly 416 deaths by motorcycle each month, versus the report of 53 deaths via mass shootings in August 2019.
The National Safety Council reports that 5,051 people died from choking in 2015. Which means eight times as many people died from choking, on average, each month–420 people–than did from mass shootings in August 2019.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports approximately 3,536 drowning deaths in the U.S. annually, which works out to about 294 a month.
FEMA reported 3,645 deaths by fire in 2017, which is roughly 304 deaths by fire a month on average. Monthly levels of death by drowning and death by fire are much higher than the report of 53 deaths in a month from mass shootings.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/22/obesity-fire-water-mass-shootings/
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Super Intergalactic Presidential Mega Troll level attained……!
https://static.pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Screen-Shot-2019-09-22-at-4.42.47-PM.png
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Schiff shafts Biden. Call Acme Rents.
“There is also a very strong similarity between Schiff’s consistent lies about the Mueller investigation and the phony Russian Collusion story and the effort to remove the President for trying to repair relations with Ukraine, relations jeopardized by the former administration’s corruption. He hopes the moribund press will broadcast his claims loudly and readers will not go beyond those headlines. In the meantime, as is their wont, the hysterical press on the left is drooling over the possibility of another impeachment angle, all else having failed to work and the President’s popularity growing as their candidates manage to turn off tranche after tranche of voters.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/schiff_shafts_biden.html
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Comey and Baquet — united against Trump — have caused a nonstop feeding frenzy
“It began with the Times’ report of a new sexual allegation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Before the paper belatedly confessed the “victim” had no memory of any such incident, the charge provoked a gaggle of Democratic presidential candidates to call for Kavanaugh’s impeachment.
Then, just as the mob started to realize there was no there there, a new media storm appeared, this one saying the president had made an alarming promise to a foreign leader.
In an instant, the frenzy was back and some of the same jackals again lurched for the I-word. Sen. Elizabeth Warren even denounced fellow Dems, saying those opposed to impeachment were “complicit.”
You don’t have to be a cynic to see a pattern. It’s a game, with news organizations competing to see which one can get the story that brings down the president, and other media and 2020 candidates piling on in knee-jerk fashion. It’s a rinse-and-repeat exercise.
Indeed, the so-called whistleblower complaint recalls the early days of Trump’s presidency when Comey and other Barack Obama holdovers were poisoning the well. Even the word “whistleblower” suggests something untoward happened.“
https://nypost.com/2019/09/21/goodwin-comey-and-baquet-united-against-trump-have-caused-a-nonstop-feeding-frenzy/
It’s a rinse-and-repeat exercise
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Too many meltdowns at the NYT to list. Maybe they are the Enemy of the People….or the Enemy of the Truth…or just neurotic SJWs with TDS. Did like the last one about women too afraid to poop. Blame the patriarchy!
“New York Times’ Disastrous Summer of Fake News and Public Meltdowns”
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/09/21/new-york-times-disastrous-summer-fake-news-public-meltdowns/
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 22 September 2019 at 03:17 PM
The only organization with a worse reputation than the Times as of late is the FBI.
“Roberta” will be along shortly to tell us how the Times remains the “paper of record” and the most reputable news source available.
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As if we didn’t know that already –
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/09/22/bbc-veteran-kremlin-style-bbc-thought-police-want-to-mould-uk-in-liberal-lefts-image/
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Where is Roberta Crass? More “facts” from the NYT
Exclusive — Another New York Times Editor Made Racist, Anti-Semitic Comments
“The newspaper made a massive investment in the 1619 Project, through which it aimed to redefine America’s understanding of the history of slavery. Hughes was no small part of the newspaper’s work on this, as she was on the byline of one of two major feature pieces on the broadsheet print edition of the special”
“It is unclear if the Times knew of Hughes’s prior controversial tweets before allowing her to undertake a project of such means. Representatives for the paper did not return requests for comment.
“The revelation of Hughes’ tweets come shortly after the Times declared it intended to hone in on racial issues leading up to the 2020 presidential race. Those efforts, though, have been severely undercut by multiple revelations concerning the paper’s staff using racist, anti-Semitic, and generally disparaging comments.“
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/09/22/another-new-york-times-editor-made-racist-anti-semitic-comments/
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NY Times Reporter Slimes Blasey Ford Friend Unwilling to Demonize Kavanaugh
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2019/09/22/ny-times-reporter-slimes-blasey-ford-friend-unwilling
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Chuck Todd Is Appalled That You Won’t Let Him Define The News
“Big Media’s total lack of self-awareness has hurled it into full eclipse. Its irrelevance is complete. Had there been a willingness to show a genuine effort to recalibrate in even the slightest degree, perhaps some standing could have been salvaged.
“It was not to be. Chuck Todd and his cohorts are determined to defiantly stand on their collapsing soapboxes and wag their fingers at people who have long stopped paying attention to anything they have to say.”
https://www.libertynation.com/chuck-todd-is-appalled-that-you-wont-let-him-define-the-news/
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The plot thickens. The Russian spy who wasn’t?
“Svetlana Lokhova pieced together an apparent coordinated effort that connected U.S. and British intelligence and media outlets to paint her as a Russian spy and take down Flynn — creating a scandal for President Trump.”
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/20/the-russian-spy-who-wasnt-defamation-case-accuses-u-s-u-k-intelligence-of-using-michael-flynn-for-spygate-hoax/
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Those bidens can not get their story straight –
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/09/22/hunter-biden-versus-joe-biden-father-son-contradict-one-another-regarding-ukraine-scandal/
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Two days and no jiggered one? They leave him by the creek somewhere guarding a trash pile?
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Humm… Does the girl child comprehend the words “we don’t have the votes”,,, well apparently not.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-pelosi-impeachment-back-lawlessness
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Women’s March. That did not last long. Vote new board member on, then turn around and vote her off.
“Unfortunately, the move did little to cleanse the organization of anti-Semitism. They quickly picked up Zahra Billoo, the leader of San Francisco’s chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and herself a noted anti-Israel activist and supporter of BDS.
After Billoo’s commentary came to light — commentary that included claims that Israel “commits war crimes as a hobby” and “kills children as a hobby” — she was also booted from the Women’s March board. She took to Twitter to denouce the move as driven by “Islamophobia” in a 25-plus-tweet social media tantrum.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/52091/rashida-tlaib-defends-latest-womens-march-board-emily-zanotti
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The administration has played hardball and the chi coms are stumbling and it shows! –
“We understand this initiative from the Hangzhou city government aims to foster a better business environment in support of Hangzhou-based enterprises. The government representative will function as a bridge to the private sector, and will not interfere with the company’s operations,” Alibaba said in a text statement. Representatives for Wahaha and Geely didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
“They might be checking whether the Communist party units are working effectively within the companies,” said Paul Gillis, a professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management. “While China legitimized capitalism, the level of government influence was never intended to disappear. Occasionally private entrepreneurs forget about this and are reminded of it.”
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/china-steps-government-presence-alibaba-033730567.html
China already lost in the trade war with the U.S. Although you will never hear Chinese authorities, especially President Xi Jinping, admit it as such, the evidence is everywhere and only becoming more compelling by the day.
Researchers at the Brookings Institute estimated that China had inflated its GDP growth rate by close to 2 percent every year between 2008-2016. So in reality, China hasn’t seen a 6 percent growth rate for nearly a decade (someone should send a copy of this to Premier Li). Moreover, the actual size of the Chinese economy was an estimated $10.9 trillion, 18 percent lower than the officially stated $13.4 trillion, as of 2018.
Beijing can’t count on Chinese consumers to stimulate economic growth either because of rising pork prices. Pork is a staple food for Chinese households. Since the trade war began, China had imposed higher tariffs on agricultural products from the U.S., with the tariff on pork rising from 12 to 62 percent. China hoped that causing pain to U.S. farmers would pressure Trump to back off his trade war. That strategy failed spectacularly in two ways. First, while U.S. farmers are suffering and are critical of the trade war, their support for the president is growing. Bloomberg reports that, “about 67 percent of farmers are saying that they’d back Trump for reelection in 2020.”
China exempted U.S. farm products, including soybean and pork, from additional tariffs, effective Sept. 17. This announcement was seen widely as a goodwill gesture ahead of the October trade talks between U.S. and China. But this seems to be a desperate, self-serving measure, because all the other pork exporting countries combined couldn’t fill China’s supply shortage. Simply put, China has a need of pork from the U.S., and its suspension from additional tariffs is, in essence, a tactical and indirect acknowledgment that it won’t be able to sustain this trade fight for much longer.
It also doesn’t help that, after Iran attacked Saudi oil facilities this month, oil prices spiked and may stay elevated. Nathaniel Taplin of the Wall Street Journal called China “the biggest loser of rising oil prices,” because it is the world’s largest crude oil importer. A combination of higher oil and food prices will not only increase pressure on an already slowing Chinese economy, but will also make some of China’s go-to stimulus measures, such as the devaluation of its currency, more risky. Ironically, China has poured billions into the Iranian economy through China’s “One Road One Belt” initiative. Chairman Xi probably didn’t expect the Iranian regime to pay him back this way.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/helen-raleigh-china-lost-trade-war
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Rasmussen poll… after several days of constant Scandalpalooza / Impeachmentpalooza over a whistleblower… Trump is up to 52/46, +6% in the daily Presidential poll.
This is, of course, impossible, so Dems are calling for impeachment. Still.
I’d like to hear more about what the fruit of Biden’s loins was doing in Ukraine.
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,,,oh dear!!! Another Trumpski backed candidate goes down!!!
Buh bye Bibi,,,
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-election-explainer/explainer-only-bibi-no-more-israels-netanyahu-seeks-power-sharing-deal-idUSKBN1W81DG
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MmmGood | 23 September 2019 at 06:46 AM
And how did you conclude that? He seems to be in power in a Parliamentary still government where one must “share”.
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Mmmm”not so”good Dougy ,,, the anti Semite, likes that kind of news.
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,,,get a clue Wally, BIbi’s successor is also a Semite
,,,Jeez!!! Too much ‘shine with your Jerky last night???
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,,,Here is the Jerky Boy solution to US energy needs,,,
https://www.yahoo.com/news/inside-americas-most-toxic-nuclear-123900510.html
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,,,Nobody believe Sarah the Hucksters lies anyway so why keep doing press conferences,,,
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/white-house-press-secretary-stephanie-151720466.html
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Again….and much like Auntie Maxine…..Sheila is the perfect representative for her district!
Morons representing morons…..!
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/sheila-jackson-lee-confuses-ar-15-for-10-moving-boxes-and-a-heavy-machine-gun/
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Posted by: MmmGood | 23 September 2019 at 09:04 AM
dugsKKKi…..take it up with WWII….after all you are the idiot spawn of that generation!
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Gregory @ 6:40 am
“I’d like to hear more about what the fruit of Biden’s loins was doing in Ukraine”
Oh, there is so much to hear that we will hear crickets. Let’s just forget about Hunter and the yet to be mentioned John Kerry’s son. :). Oh my.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1176135979389861888?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today
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,,,Look over there Tozey, Biden, Biden, Biden,,,nothing to see in Trumplandia
,,,did you forget about those three rotten peaches, Eric, Don Jr. and Ivanka and their wheelin and dealin with Rooskies, Chinamen, and Ragheads???
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Fish @ 9:36 am
“Sheila Jackson Lee Confuses AR-15 for 10 Moving Boxes and a Heavy Machine Gun”
I think we are all dumber for reading what Sheila had to say.
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MmmGoopgobbler
No worries. Ukraine is nothing compared to what Hunter, Mr. Pelosi, and especially what Mr. Feinstein pulled out of China. Hunter flies over with Sleepy Creepy Joe on AF2 and comes back with 1.5 billion in yen (US). That can buy a lot of coke.
Lest we forget, the previous administration encouraged and instructed Ukraine to interfere in the 2016 election to help Hillary and target Trump. My Gal needed all the help she could get. Yep, Wile E. Proggy was trying to kill off the roadrunner. One little cute Roadrunner against all that ACME Rents could muster. Drafts, foiled again.
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Posted by: MmmGood | 23 September 2019 at 10:12 AM
……still president dugsKKKi.
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Mollie Hemingway asks what is Dougski smoking?
The media corruption on display in one paragraph.
“Every single assertion of this paragraph isn’t just wrong, but the opposite of right. In each sentence, Trump is being blamed for things his political opponents have done. Let’s take a look at some examples.
“ ‘Trump’s sense of himself as above the law has been reinforced throughout his time in office.’
In fact, the main problem during the Trump administration has been the way the self-annointed “Resistance” in the media, unelected bureaucracy, and political institutions have treated Trump as if he were below the law. Traditionally, hard-fought losses are usually followed by an acceptance of the reality of election results, even if grudgingly.
In the case of Donald Trump, his campaign was spied on prior to the election by the intelligence services and government apparatus controlled by the opposing party. They used wiretaps, national security letters, human informants, and other surveillance. His transition was undermined by leaks suggesting that the FBI took seriously an uncorroborated and ludicrous collection of tall tales, “research” later determined to have been secretly funded by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee.
President Trump has yet to be treated as the legitimate winner of the free and fair election he won in 2016. Some 70 Democrats refused to go to his inauguration in protest. The weaponized opposition material from Trump’s political enemies was used to get his national security advisor terminated, his attorney general sidelined from any oversight of his agency, to scare foreign leaders from effectively engaging in foreign policy discussions, to keep good people from serving in his administration, and to ruin the lives of anyone who worked with Trump to secure his victory.
“Elites in the media, government, and political institutions have discussed ousting him through the 25th amendment, impeachment, manipulation of the economy, and other extreme measures. Fired FBI director James Comey was found to have violated Trump’s civil liberties when he violated FBI policies governing investigations. Rucker, Costa, and Bade, it might be noted, provide no evidence in support of their regurgitation of the Resistance talking point that Trump views himself as above the law.
‘As detailed in the Mueller report, he received help from a foreign adversary in 2016 without legal consequence.’
What in the world? What are Philip Rucker, Bob Costa, and Rachel Bade smoking? This was not “detailed” in the Mueller report. This is not even a remotely accurate summation of that report, even while acknowledging how partisan of a report it was.”
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/23/media-corruption-on-perfect-display-in-one-washington-post-paragraph/
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Hey, isn’t Weld on the board of directors lobbying for some legalize cannibals company with vast land holding along side John Boehner, the original Orange Man Bad?
GOP Primary Challenger Bill Weld Accuses Trump of Treason over Ukraine Call
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/gop-primary-challenger-bill-weld-accuses-trump-of-treason-over-ukraine-call/
Suck it up, buttercup
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 23 September 2019 at 11:22 AM
“…….for some legalize cannibals company”
Cannibals company?
……not sure I have any interest in patronizing them!
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