[On the face of it I am not in favor of withdrawing US troops from Syria, especially viz the Kurds. My own long-stated Rebane Doctrine is that the US must continue its role as the world's white hat policeman (hegemon) using responses and methods that will evolve with needs and time. But before we continue hyper-ventilating on the withdrawal, can someone cite the exact parameters of Trump's withdrawal announcement – e.g. is it more than pulling a few tens of troops back from the 20-mile buffer zone? gjr]
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432 responses to “Sandbox – 8oct19”
Queen nan and Adam the steaming pile of Schiff, must be livid..
GOOD!!!!
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In other news closer to home…..Gavin is diverting 5 billion gas tax dollars from repairing and building roads to the “Climate Change Scope” plan by Executive Order.
“Republicans say Newsom is shifting resources away from the road repairs voters expected when they rejected Proposition 6 last year — a ballot measure that would have repealed the 2017 gas taxes.
Carl DeMaio, a candidate running to replace to Congressman Duncan Hunter in San Diego, led the effort in support of Proposition 6. He called Newsom a “bald-faced liar” and said the governor will likely use gas tax revenue to fund “pet projects.”
Assemblyman Jim Patterson, R-Fresno was equally upset.
“The executive order basically says your own personal automobile is the problem and we’re going to force you out of your automobile by spending your gas tax money on things that don’t improve roads, highways, and streets,” Patterson said.
Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article235925402.html#storylink=cpy
Hate to tell you I told you so, so I won’t. 🙂
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In news closer to home, Gavin diverts 5 billion in gas tax funds from road building and repair to “Climate Change Scope”……by Executive Order.
“Republicans say Newsom is shifting resources away from the road repairs voters expected when they rejected Proposition 6 last year — a ballot measure that would have repealed the 2017 gas taxes.
“Carl DeMaio, a candidate running to replace to Congressman Duncan Hunter in San Diego, led the effort in support of Proposition 6. He called Newsom a “bald-faced liar” and said the governor will likely use gas tax revenue to fund “pet projects.”
“Assemblyman Jim Patterson, R-Fresno was equally upset.
“The executive order basically says your own personal automobile is the problem and we’re going to force you out of your automobile by spending your gas tax money on things that don’t improve roads, highways, and streets,” Patterson said.
“What the hell were you thinking?” he said of Newsom’s directive. “I don’t normally talk like this, but it’s hard for people who are out of touch in Sacramento to fully understand what it’s like to try to fix Highway 99. The governor doesn’t use 99 like the rest of us do. He has escorts driving him. He’s out of touch with what the people have to deal with in California, and I think it’s going to bite him politically.”
Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article235925402.html#storylink=cpy
I hate to tell you I told you so, so I won’t.
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Does anyone, anywhere, wonder why after years of talk by the Dems about how evil Trump is and how they have solid evidence of the crimes he has committed – they have yet to even start to do anything formally about impeachment?
And the leftys that post here are just hilarious. Not one single one of you rock-throwers has shown anything other than TDS.
What are any of you losers for?
Other than bragging about hanging out in upscale whitey-white enclaves?
What candidates are you promoting?
Anybody?
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Some perspective for the ignorant trolls peddling the socialist dem party line –
The Pentagon stated on Monday that Turkey has been removed from the “air tasking order” employed by members of the anti-Islamic State coalition operating in Syria.
This means Turkish planes will have considerable difficulty entering Syrian airspace to support the invasion threatened by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and will not benefit from surveillance data collected by the coalition.
“If you’re not on the air tasking order, it’s really hard to coordinate flights in that area,” explained Pentagon spokeswoman Carla Gleason.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/10/08/u-s-effectively-blocks-turkey-operating-syrian-airspace/
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Try it again. There is a glitch! The Matrix is not perfect.
Gavin diverts 5 billion in gas tax funds to ‘Climate Change Scope’. Republicans are pissed.
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RobertC 317pm – You have a profound misunderstanding of what the Constitution says. And this explains the failure of almost all of your attempts to bolster your progressive narrative.
JBarron 355pm – You have the most coherent explanation of the political sleaze that Nancy is practicing on the lightly read to defeat Donald Trump. Yep, that’s what’s going on.
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And NONE have the nads to stand up to say who they will vote for against Trump… Now why is that? The bitch here, and when the time comes,, hide behind that curtain and vote Trump.
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BT 5:28 – Making it soooo easy to be glad I’m out of Cali.
How much more of this shit are you folks willing to take?
Democracy?
What a joke.
Go ahead and vote for something and they just piss in your face.
Enjoy.
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Dementia? –
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/10/08/hillary-maybe-we-need-rematch-with-me-and-trump-i-can-beat-him-again/
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Slow down? It he slows anymore he would be going backwards –
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/464928-sanders-says-hell-slow-down-on-campaign-trail-after-heart-attack
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Fake news redux – “Billionaires paid less in taxes than the working class last year for the first time in U.S. history, a study found.”
Really?
Oh.
“The wealthiest 400 families had a 23 percent tax rate, compared to the bottom half of households, which had a 24.2 percent tax rate.”
Ah – ‘rate’ not ‘amount’.
And
“Jason Furman, an economist at Harvard, told the Post that the study is misleading because it doesn’t include refundable tax credits, thus making tax burdens appear higher than they really are.”
Well, yeah – but how many of the filthy rich bought Teslas and got a rebate on that purchase, huh?
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/domestic-taxes/464935-billionaires-paid-lower-tax-rate-than-working-class-for-first
So – what actual amount did the wealthiest top 1% actually pay vs the lower working class?
Strangely, that sort of info was not included in the article.
Last time I checked, our govt runs on money, not rates.
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Scott 5:27
You are a short sighted fool. This has NOTHING to do with impeachment or kicking Trump out of office. It is entirely about building public perception and paving the way to Trump’s loss in 2020. The longer you people think this is about impeachment, the longer Nancy has to swirl Trump into the drain by framing him as someone who has something to hide from the American people. He and his ego are playing directly into her hands. The more times Trump stonewalls, the more imbedded the public perception. That you can’t see that befuddles me. But it makes me happy to.
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There are a million jokes to had out of this one. Politician being part of screwing taxpayers is the easiest! –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/08/florida-democrat-distributes-condoms-with-her-photo-to-celebrate-come-out-with-pride/
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The wheels on the train go round and round, round and round, round and round, The wheels on the train go round and round, and now they’re falling off. Who was that brilliant politician who once said “fool me once shame… shame on you, Fool me… You can’t get fooled again!” But apparently some people can get fooled all of the time. How can trumpler survive? Tune in to “Reality Government: America” and find out.. in the mean time life as we know it could quickly come to an end as the band played on.
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WOW!! The soon to be power outage has already got you two in a mental breakdown.
Neither one of you can come up with even one half baked reason Trump will lose. Nor just which Commiecrat even stands a chance.
Yet here you yap and salivate at Trump’s demise that will never happen.
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Posted by: J. Barron | 08 October 2019 at 08:36 PM
Whew……! Just politics then…..OK ……carry on then!
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It’s playdoh and kitten vids for Von Proggy. Judging by his post, he’s in the fetal position in the corner, wrapped in a blanket, switching the light on and off.
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JB 8:36 – So I’m a fool for noticing just what you admitted?
It’s all about the narrative, isn’t it?
It’s all about telling one lie after another about Trump to try and undo the election.
Better tell Bobby the news. There isn’t going to be an impeachment.
Can’t have it both ways.
And we all notice none of you leftys has one good thing to say about the Dems running in the clown car for POTUS.
Not one.
What a bunch of gutless little losers.
Sad.
“The more times Trump stonewalls, the more imbedded the public perception.”
And the more the Dems scream ‘impeachment’ and can’t follow through, the more the public will realize what a waste of time they are.
You leftys have painted yourselves into a corner.
You pound the table for impeachment for years and can’t deliver.
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Well, Nancy has her strategy, so in a way Jreta Von Barron has a point. Very clever. Very deceitful, very dishonest, yet clever. Clever cruelty.
-Scott, you almost got it right, IMHO.
“You pound the table for impeachment for years and can’t deliver.” Its not that they pound the table and jungle drums into a frenzy for impeachment and can’t deliver, it’s that they WON’T deliver. That’s the strategy.
“Speaker Pelosi Resists Official Impeachment To Keep Control Of The Process”
https://www.oann.com/watch-source-speaker-pelosi-resists-official-impeachment-to-keep-control-of-the-process/
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How dare you. How dare you
https://www.facebook.com/groups/284355732079933/permalink/717663442082491/
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Power off at 315am. Outside it’s DEAD CALM, and has been so all night. Does anyone know of any high wind in the Sierra right now that might justify PGE’s politically punitive power outage?
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Not a leaf moving down here.
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Hello everyone. I thought I’d check in and see how the Zombie Apocalypse/Carrington Event is coming.
My personal weather sense is showing 0.01 mph wind thus far, although it seems to be going down from that. Beaufort scale 0 for those keeping track.
PG&E Restoration date: TBA Restoration time: TBA.
For full effect, I expect they might wait until all the grocery store freezers are room temperature, cellphone towers are down for a skosh, global warming protestors set up shop outside city halls.
And so it goes (h/t to Linda Ellerbee)
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About time you showed up. Nice to see your post again.
Witness protection?
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Hi scenes. Someone said power was out, but I haven’t a clue…dredging for gold and living in a van down by the river. Had a great campfire last night and the smoke went straight up to the gods. They were pleased with my offering of toilet paper smoke.
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“Witness protection?”
Nah, just bored with Paul being both silly and argumentative at the same time. The stupid, it burns.
re: Toilet Paper Smoke Offerings.
They only work properly with the proper holy songs. Judging from our local FM station, the words go ‘hey yah, hey yah, hey yah, hey yah’. It seems to be a rather limited vocabulary, but then who am I to judge?
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AOC wants to have a serious convesation, roflmao.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-calls-for-abolishing-prisons-in-the-united-states
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Please continue your power outage bitches & moans (and thoughtful comments) at’Outrageous Outages’, thank you.
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Aha! I knew it. If you support Greta von Barron, your white priveledge is showing and you ARE a racist just like our local lefties here on RR. How dare they.
http://dlvr.it/RFrLr2
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In the “grab’em by the pussy”. category — a new book, “All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator,” lists 43 NEW woman who say trump attacked them. Was he just joking? Is each and every one of trump’s accusers lying like Sarah Huckster says? Tune in to Reality Government, it’s on every day just like all the other soap operas. Oh yes, and all you ruminators keep scrambling to come up with excuses and deflections.. it’t really funny to watch you squirm and compromise your morals in support of a deranged sick puppy trumpy.
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Posted by: Roberat Cross | 09 October 2019 at 10:53 AM
Oh yes, and all you ruminators keep scrambling to come up with excuses and deflections.. it’t really funny to watch you squirm and compromise your morals in support of a deranged sick puppy trumpy.
Excuses and deflections? It’s not Hillary …. at this point in history…..that’s enough!
Why did you nominate a woman who the country hated more than Trump?
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In the ‘truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” category: Trumpler only made 66 false claims last week. During the last 13 weeks he has averaged 60 false claims per week putting his total since taking office somewhere near 13,000. But it’s all fake news, and deep state shenanigans, and media lies. Now the intelligence community is out to get him so he is cutting funding on executive oversight within those agencies. Nothing to hide folks, don’t worry, it’s not obstruction of justice to ignore the Constitution because all these people are conspiring to oust the Don and they are all bad people…every one of them..not a patriot in the bunch. The only real patriots are the yes men he has surrounded himself with in the administration who do what the Don tells them to do.. disagree and YOU’RE FIRED. So far 66 high ranking appointees have either been fired or resigned due to conflicts with the Don.
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Looks like she used her secret weapon. Samson and Delilah. You show me yours and I’ll show you mine. Nothing new under the Sun or under the sheets.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/09/defense-intelligence-agency-worker-arrested-for-leaking-to-reporters.html
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Posted by: Roberta Cross | 09 October 2019 at 11:38 AM
It’s really going to suck for you guys if he beats you again……! But hey, Hillary is thinking about getting back into the fray so I’m sure it’s all good!
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So much for beating Trump AGAIN in 2020 –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/09/ronan-farrow-claims-hillary-clinton-pressured-him-kill-weinstein-story/
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Well,,, you can start diggin that new grave for another Proggy President wannabe. Beto soon to be tits up.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/09/end-road-beto-orourke-failed-meet-polling-threshold-november-debate/
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I heard Bernue is up in Canada getting his medical treatments for his heart and scripts filled. Gotta walk the talk.
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Biden and Trump smackdown. Game on.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-calls-for-trump-impeachment-trump-smacks-sleepy-joe-with-ukraine-video
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Guns: SCOTUS sez no walking away.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/supreme-court-refuses-to-throw-out-new-york-gun-rights-case/
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Is anyone surprised? –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/09/nyt-whistleblower-redacted-third-fact-suggesting-potential-bias-against-trump/
😉
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George
This is the guy you support being President of the United States. This is his opinion of the Kurds. The man is mentally ill and ignorant but he’s your guy George as you’ve stated over and over again
“Trump on the Kurds: “They didn’t help us in the Second World War, they didn’t help us with Normandy, as an example.” He suggests that they battled alongside U.S. forces for “their land,” and adds, “With all of that being said, we like the Kurds.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-kurdish-forces-world-war-ii_n_5d9e624ce4b087efdba7a1c3
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Trump “Does not endorse” Turkish invasion of Syria after we open the gates by removing our troops. WTF does “does not endorse” mean? WTF “does does not endorse” mean to a 26 year old Kurdish man who has spent his entire life defending American ideals and (should we mention) American soldiers and American hard assets (oil refineries)?
This boy who has had our backs, must be happy to know Trump has his while a bayonet goes into it.
Those of you support Trump and his notions of being an American president can go to hell. He does not represent THIS American, and Rebane is welcome to ban me from his site for speaking my mind against you bastards who believe otherwise.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 09 October 2019 at 06:27 PM
So waddya wanna do about it Punch?
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Let me tell you about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees and the moon up above and a thing called love. Oh never mind
https://babylonbee.com/news/progressive-parents-sit-their-kids-down-for-talk-about-the-birds-and-the-bees-and-the-birds-who-want-to-become-bees-and-the-bees-who-identify-as-birds-and-buckle-up-kids-this-might-take-a-while/
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Wednesday Short Cuts
Notable quotables from Peter Suderman, Jim Geraghty, Hillary Clinton, and more.
Political Editors · Oct. 9, 2019
Insight: “It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.” —Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961)
Sad but true: “Trump is president, and he has allowed the deficit to soar beyond the increases that were already projected to happen. And Republicans in Congress have reacted with muted concern at best, and more like a collective shrug. Trillion-dollar deficits under a Democrat were a national emergency. Trillion-dollar deficits under Trump are no biggie. It’s almost like the real problem, for many Republicans, wasn’t the deficit.” —Peter Suderman
For the record: “Corporate America doesn’t care if their products, ads, or messaging offend you, insult you, belittle you or demonize you. They’ll stand up to your complaints every time. But the moment an employee offends the Chinese government, they pee themselves and beg and grovel for mercy.” —Jim Geraghty
Good question: “Hey, Adam Schiff… How can an anonymous whistle-blower be receiving death threats if they are anonymous? You are so used to lying you don’t even know what comes out of your mouth anymore.” —Ryan Fournier
Food for thought: “What if the whistleblower had once worked for Biden? That would be wild.” —David Harsanyi
Braying jenny: “Maybe there does need to be a rematch. I mean, obviously I can beat him again.” —Hillary Clinton
Braying jackass: “I hope that in this country people who say that they’re Jesus-loving, God-loving, that they pay more attention to God-loving, Jesus-loving people on this side of the border with brown skin that are desperate, that are being treated cruelly by this president because he clearly doesn’t care about them.” —Julian Castro, who should have been arrested for human trafficking after bringing illegals across the border
And last… “Think about how China is reacting to a single tweet sent by a guy in Texas. Now imagine what it’s like to be an actual citizen of that country, entirely subject to its government’s whims. In conclusion, communism is bad. Very, very bad.” —Matt Walsh
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Fish
The Repubs should be responsible for nominating someone else to replace him of force him to resign. Otherwise he will either be impeached for various reasons or surely be defeated in the election bu the Dems. What in your view should we do about it? Glad you’re concerned.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 09 October 2019 at 07:12 PM
It doesn’t appear that the republicans have any plans to nominate anyone else. If you are certain that he’ll be defeated in the next election why beat the drum for impeachment?
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Punchy 712pm
It takes a special disconnect from Reality to expect the GOP, who overwhelmingly approve of President Trump (in the vicinity of 85%), to do the work of the Democrats to force him out of the oval orifice.
No, you’ll just have to run a Dem against him and hope for the best.
If you don’t think Quid Pro Joe or Fauxcahontas are up to the job, Hillary sounds like she’s tanned, rested and ready.
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Emery 7:12 – I believe you were asked to explain what should happen in Syria re the Kurds.
As usual, you wimp out. Like all losers, you have nothing positive to say. You complain that Trump will start a war and then when he doesn’t you complain that he won’t fight.
Since you consider yourself to have a superior view of this matter, we await your plan of action.
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