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Sandbox – 24oct19

24 October 2019

[Power still out on Cement Hill with no wind, while Sonoma County burns. Am looking for local readers' reports on the return of power. gjr]

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209 responses to “Sandbox – 24oct19”

Gregory

26 October 2019

Prior to being nominated to her current post by Obama,Judge Beryl Howell of the US District Court worked for Senator Pat Leahy.
A partisan.

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scenes

26 October 2019

Aftershocks from the Age of Obama.
https://www.westernjournal.com/man-accused-hate-crime-refusing-sex-transgender-male-genitalia
I ws thinking about upcoming home design in the new PG&E-run era. Heat is impractical from an electrical standpoint, so anything that makes it should be gas or wood. Lighting and home entertainment can be run from a reasonably sized solar setup (although it’s a bummer how many watts a big flat screen tv can use), so you’re left with refrigerators and washing machines.
I’m thinking there’s a real market for a modern ice box. Some kind of chest thing that’s outrageously insulated. In the meantime, it’s probably time to get into the wringer washing machine biz.
Gotta love Club Blue here in California. Scads of homeless? Yep. Poop and needles? Yep. Electricity? Nope. English speaking? Nope over time. Gas? Super expensive. Lotsa rules? Yep.
There’s always the beach and employment for some occupations, but that’s about it.

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Paul Emery

26 October 2019

Gregory
Are you proposing that “partisans” should not be allowed to serve on the judiciary? Where do you place Kavanaugh in that scenario?

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Walt

26 October 2019

Good question Emery,, care to explain all the LIBS? Like Ginsburg?, Sotomayor? I’m sure they are just fine in your book.

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Herbert Hobart

26 October 2019

Lies, lies, and more lies.. from the 10/21 cabinet meeting. source: The Annenberg Public Policy Center
Trump claimed, without evidence, that President Barack Obama tried to call North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “11 times” but that “the man on the other side … did not take his call” due to a “lack of respect.” Obama’s national security adviser and deputy national security adviser both called Trump’s claim false.
Trump took credit for making a “deal” between Turkey and the Syrian Kurds that he said “people have been trying to make” for years. One expert called this claim “nonsense.” The deal is only a five-day pause in the conflict that arose when Trump pulled U.S. troops from the Syria-Turkey border.
The president boasted that “nobody has ever done” a National Prescription Drug Take Back Day until he took office. In fact, it started in 2010.
He wrongly claimed that “many” of the “ambassadors” House Democrats are interviewing in the impeachment inquiry were “put there” by past administrations. Seven of the nine officials who have testified behind closed doors so far were appointed to their most recent positions under Trump’s administration.
Trump made the illogical and unsubstantiated claim that there was no informant who provided information to the whistleblower, whose complaint triggered an impeachment inquiry. And even more absurdly, Trump suggested the informant was Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House intelligence committee.
In defending the quashed plans to hold the next G-7 at his own resort, Trump suggested that Obama getting a book deal was like “running a business” while Obama was in office. The deal came after Obama left office.
Trump said, “China is doing very poorly — worst year they’ve had in 57 years.” China announced its economy grew by 6% in the third quarter of 2019, when compared with the same period the previous year. That was “the weakest pace in at least 27-1/2 years,” according to a Reuter’s analysis of quarterly data.

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Walt

26 October 2019

the jiggered one has a new sock puppet.

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Walt

26 October 2019

Could THIS be the reason for the “big guy’s” short trip to China?
https://www.foxnews.com/world/organ-harvesting-china-survivors-victims
Now THERE is some government run healthcare for ya’.

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Herbert Hobbit

26 October 2019

You tell them Robert. I know Herbert Hobbit and he does not post here. HH.

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Bill Tozer

26 October 2019

Sign of the times?
“Europe’s Populist Wave Reaches Portugal”
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15053/portugal-populists-chega

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Paul Emery

26 October 2019

Yeah Herbert it’s thoroughly documented time and time again that Trump is a LPOS (lying piece of shit) and is a joke internationally. The fact that he has support from around a third of Americans is ample evidence of what our host George Rebane refers to as the dumbing down of America.

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Herbert Hobbit

26 October 2019

Under the category of the absurd, the latest member to be included on the UN Women’s Rights Council is Iran. Is that the nation that cuts off ladies’ lips for wearing lipstick? Guess it safer to wear a hijab…safer for the women, that is.

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fish

26 October 2019

Posted by: Paul Emery | 26 October 2019 at 12:36 PM
……documented time and time again that Trump is a LPOS (lying piece of shit) and is a joke internationally.
Mmmm…….more salty progressive tears……delicious.
Punch, what’s a tired old hippy like you doing sounding like a kid just back from “Boys State”?

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I love ewe

26 October 2019

He is so cute when he is triggered.
I didn’t vote for Biden the second time. I thought you knew that.

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Gregory

26 October 2019

The lying POS is the duly elected President and will retain presidential powers while he remains president.
And partisan POS jurists need to be challenged. Go ahead and whine about Bret K., he may be called as one of the nine Ringwraiths (ooops, Justices) who could judge her claim that the House shenanigans are valid impeachment proceedings.

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Walt

26 October 2019

And no impeachment.. Tough times Lefties. It’s sure fun to what them convulse, and have tantrums.

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Walt

26 October 2019

Gotta eat good, so the rotisserie has two game hens spinning.
Those battery motors do pretty good. (1 D cell)
So when the power goes, no worries….

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Don Bessee

26 October 2019

Still going, the news said they are not yet seeing the expected winds but they think they will show up tonight as originally advertised. How that plays out with the black out to be seen.

Comrade Bernie is the new pander bear! Felons surrounded by cash and weed, how’s that going to work out………..
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/26/sanders-floats-10-billion-federal-program-help-ex-convicts-work-marijuana-industry/
😉

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Walt

26 October 2019

Getting a slight breeze here, Not yet enough to blow the door closed,, but more than when the lights went out the first few times…..

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Don Bessee

26 October 2019

Does anyone know if we have an extradition treaty with New Zeeland??
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/were-asking-you-to-dig-deep-biden-seeks-to-steady-finances-as-allies-fret/ar-AAJnGzs
https://news.grabien.com/story-comey-trump-winning-2020-ill-be-my-new-home-new-zealand
😉

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Bill Tozer

26 October 2019

Did James Baker flip? I heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from…..
https://www.oann.com/oan-exclusive-former-fbi-official-james-baker-flipped-cooperating-with-barr-investigation/

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Don Bessee

26 October 2019

I am pleased to see that pge has been more on the ground actual conditions focused this time as it was calm today but I here in Alta Sierra am just starting to see a little wind.
😉

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Biguns

26 October 2019

,,,Why would Baker flip after the abuse he took from Trumpski Bill???
https://tinyurl.com/yyvyrdmm

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Bill Tozer

26 October 2019

Maybe for leaking classified info and signing the FICA warrants…..he is a small fry and cornered. The (former heads) of the DOJ-National Security Division John Carlin and GCHQ chief Robert Hannigan have been in my sights for many moons. Too complicated to explain to those in the dark.

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Don Bessee

26 October 2019

So if you are a fan of it how do you cry foul like this!? Sounds like a ton of snowflake what am I supposed to rage against this week! Talking points for socialists. –
“Fans cry foul over racy Halloween costumes”
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/controversial-halloween-costumes-220938252.html
😉

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Walt

26 October 2019

The walls are closing in on the rat bastards. Get the deals while you can. He who comes clean first, does less FED time.
Now will he have an accident before he talks? A sudden stroke or heart attack? His health has just become a major concern.
He’s in more danger than the un-named whistleblower.

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fish

26 October 2019

From SFGate.com…..

US deficit hits nearly $1 trillion. When will it matter?

I predict it will matter until the next progressive democrat is elected…..then SFGate.com (and the rest of the mouthpiece media) will conveniently ignore the debt again.
https://m.sfgate.com/news/us/article/US-budget-deficit-hits-984-billion-highest-in-7-14562747.php

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Scott O

26 October 2019

Paul E 12:36
St Paul of Spring Street has a hard time understanding how elections work. Folks like me voted for Trump largely because we didn’t want Clinton to win. We figured Trump would make mostly good on his aims and he has. Solid judicial picks, confronting China’s on-going trade war against the US, dismantling the idiot AGW con by the feds, and generally appointing a better class of people in positions of power.
That doesn’t mean I ‘support’ everything he does nor does it mean I ‘support’ him in his life style.
If you don’t want to vote for a liar, then you’ll be pretty limited in choices.
Jesus wouldn’t run if he could and Chauncey the gardener is just a made up persona.
Still waiting for Paul to explain why when some people lie it’s OK but it’s never OK for Trump.
And still waiting for Paul to put a stake in the ground for his pick.
‘Nun of the above’ is a stupid joke for cowards.
You won’t ever get perfect but you have to be for something or you are just a waste of oxygen.

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Bill Tozer

26 October 2019

Taken from a Scattershots post, @ 8:12 am. It’s child’s play, only a small tight group involved. But, draining the swamp is easier said than done. The ruling class includes large corporations, the permanent bureaucracy, academia, NGO’s, R’s, D’s, Media…..and they will not go silently into the deep still night. And what they are share in common is contempt for those who are not members of the ruling class, inside and outside of government.
Interview
Q: There was one quote, I forget who it came from, but it came out of an interaction of one of the reasonably high-up war planners in the Defense Department and a journalist for, I think it was, The Atlantic. And the quote was that power creates its own reality. So it doesn’t matter what we say, because even if it’s not true now, by the time we’re finished we will make it true. And therefore there is no real difference between statements that are true or false, as long as we make them.
Do you have the sense that a similar attempt to manufacture reality was at play in what at this point are the still-unknown interactions between the CIA, the FBI, and the Obama White House with regard to the surveillance of Donald Trump’s associates, and the attempt to suggest some vast Putin-Trump conspiracy to game American elections, and whatnot?
A: I don’t think that it went that far. Or I should say, I don’t think the people involved thought about it that deeply.
Q: I would agree.
A: I think what you had was a small pooling of resources to tweak the news cycle with regard to the hacking of the Democratic National Committee, which then turned into something very major.
Q: After the election.
A: After the election. It was, like Watergate, a minor attempt to gain marginal advantage. Which then, unintended by the people involved at the time, became something very big, which escaped everyone’s control.
I believe that there are a whole bunch of people in Washington right now who are quaking in their boots because the House Intelligence Committee has shaken loose some of the documents involved. Because in the long run there are no secrets in Washington. And one can then wonder about the quality of the people who imagined that the things they did could remain secret.
It really was a marvel. The idea was that if we all say it together long enough and we shout it loud so nothing else can be heard, then it will become the effective truth, Machiavelli’s verita effettuale. But I mean, there is a limit to this. I have some close personal friends who are more on the left, and I said to them: OK. Where’s the evidence? Who did what when to whom? Where are the quids and where are the quos? What’s going on here? And all they could say is, “Well, the investigation is going on.”
What is not clear is just how much of the reality will come into the public’s consciousness.
Q: Whose fault is this?
A: The fault here is not of Democrats on the left. The fault here is of Donald Trump and his friends who have refused to enforce the most basic laws here. The most obvious one is Section 798, (18 U.S. Code), the simple comment statute. Now anybody in the intelligence business knows that this is the live wire of security law. It is a strict liability statute. It states that any revelation, regardless of circumstance or intent, any revelation period, of anything having to do with U.S. communications intelligence is punishable by the 10 and 10. Ten years in the slammer, and $10,000 fine. Per count.
Now the folks who went to The Washington Post and The New York Times in November and December of 2016 and peddled this story of the intelligence community’s conclusion that Trump and the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia, these people ipso facto violated §798.
Considering these matters are highly classified, and that the number of the people involved is necessarily very small, identifying them is child’s play. But no effort to do that has been made.
Q: But doesn’t that failure in turn point to what is, to some extent, the root of this entire drama, which is that Donald Trump seems unfamiliar with and temperamentally at odds with the executive function that he has now assumed?
A: That’s certainly true. But you have to go beyond Donald Trump, to Republican power holders in general. These people far more than Donald Trump would be inclined to forbear for the sake of comity with the ruling class. And what kind of comity are we talking about? We’re talking about social comity. Because if you follow the law in this case, you end up putting former directors of CIA, FBI etcetera behind bars. They, and a whole bunch of their subordinates. Maybe a dozen people here would end up behind bars.
Q: We’ve come to accept that certain classes of people are in fact above the law.
A: We have come to accept that.
The election of 2016 was precisely about whether anyone in America is above the law. The reason why so many people did not vote for Hillary Clinton is the feeling that she and her ilk were above the law, were acting as if they were above the law, which happened to be entirely true. Now the fact that the Trump administration is acting according to the same premise, i.e., that some people are above the law, is evidence that the revolution that the voters wanted in 2016 has only just begun.
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“ The fault here is not of Democrats on the left. The fault here is of Donald Trump and his friends who have refused to enforce the most basic laws here. The most obvious one is Section 798, (18 U.S. Code), the simple comment statute.”……..until now.

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Walt

26 October 2019

If Emery won’t vote for liars,,, How bout this one Emery?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/26/joe-biden-falsely-claims-he-got-started-out-of-a-historically-black-university/
How bout the Irishman claiming to be a Mexican Beto?

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Bill Tozer

26 October 2019

Scott O
While Punchy can certainly speak for himself and I am either authorized or qualified to speak for the Punch Drunk One, I heard from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard from a friend that Punchy has put down his Ann Coulter doll and picked up an Amy Klobuchar doll to entertain himself with.
I think Tulsi is more up his alley. Only Dem running who believes in choice up to 13 weeks (then it becomes problematic and Punchy’s personal view), currents serves in the Guard, wants to bring troops home from the endless Middle East conflicts, distains Trump, pushes big social programs, and not a known liar. And the Establishment has already tried to paint her as a tool of Putin, so you know they consider her a threat. Hillary, for reasons unknown, feels threatened by the woman too…which is another good sign that Tulsi is on the anti-corruptible mark. She is way left yet doesn’t promise the moon, holds her own and eludes a good presence.
But, then again, Amy can do some wicked things with her comb that only a Druid would appreciate. Decisions, decisions.
Harris is too much of a flip flopper, as if she has no core in her soul. Yesterday (FRIDAY) Kamala announced she was boycotting a conference in South Carolina because they gave Trump an award for his second chance for felons legislation….legislation Kamala herself supported, lol. This morning (Saturday) Kamala announced she was going to the conference….after she found out she was the only one boycotting and Creepy Joe, Spartacluz, Warren, and the whole gang was attending. Hope she caught an early flight cause the conference is today. 🙂
But, I have already made my pick….so I will kick back in the peanut gallery and boo down on the Clown Car.
You know things are going badly for the Clown Car when Hillary feels she is the only one who can actually beat Trump. All dressed up and just waiting for her coach to take her to the ball. Hope she makes it home by midnight before her coach turns into a pumpkin.

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Bill Tozer

26 October 2019

Raghead dead.
http://dlvr.it/RH2ZgP

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Walt

27 October 2019

Have dry eyes after reading this.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/arkansas-woman-texting-father-every-day-response
Yaa… Even YOU with the Daddy issues.

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Bill Tozer

27 October 2019

Sick people do very sick things. SNL opens with this:
“And where are you from?’ Baldwin asks Davidson’s character after inviting him up onto the stage.
‘ISIS!’ Davidson responds. ‘I was a prisoner in Syria until last week when you freed me, so I just wanted to say, thank you for bringing jobs back to ISIS.
He then cheers: ‘I promise that I will make ISIS great again!’
Baldwin, as Trump, responds: ‘Terrific. What that great guy. ISIS is back in a big, big way, folks. And we love that, don’t we?’

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Don Bessee

27 October 2019

It is hilarious that schiff for brains whimpered they didn’t tell me about it when asked for a comment by a reporter on getting bagdaddi.
Right as if anyone trusts schiff for brains enough to let him in on it before the fact. The lives of those 8 helicopters full of special forces depended on tight security.
Way to go Mr. Pres, WINNING!
😉

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Bill Tozer

27 October 2019

More on the Greatest Story Never Told
https://nypost.com/2019/10/26/goodwin-why-are-democrats-acting-like-they-have-something-to-hide/

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Walt

27 October 2019

Then you have the Washington Post.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/27/twitter-users-rip-wapos-religious-scholar-al-baghdadi-headline/
“‘Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at the helm of Islamic State, dies at 48’
No. Not an Onion spoof of the politically correct insanity of the left-liberal media, but an actual headline from the Washington Post.”
We know just whose side they are on.

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fish

27 October 2019

Hey kids……it’s time for another game of rhetorical Twister™……..!

“It’s genuinely fascinating watching Democrats in real time struggle to figure out what to say about this. They want to be patriotic and anti-ISIS, but also need a way to malign Trump without contradicting their gushing Obama praise over OBL: not an easy balancing act. Good luck!”

Glenn Greenwald
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1188454394876039168

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Bill Tozer

27 October 2019

I am so glad Brietbart is on Bobbie’s forbidden fruit list. I feel rather naughty for even going there. Gotta keep up theit talking points, however distateful our bettors speak.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/10/27/hollywood-uses-al-baghdadi-death-to-attack-trump-piece-of-sht/

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Don Bessee

27 October 2019

Go do that on your own time and not with paid staff –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/27/report-democrat-katie-hill-resign-allegations-improper-relationship-staffers/
😉

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Don Bessee

27 October 2019

SF paper says some people will not go back on Monday and stay dark through the Tuesday – Thursday event.
DOH!

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Walt

27 October 2019

Been sending the kids that live elsewhere pictures of cooking on the wood stove. A pot of beans and tortillas. The guilt trip worked as planned. The sorrowful texts and phone calls soon followed.

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Walt

27 October 2019

What? The Frisco type hasn’t come to her rescue?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-katie-hill-resigns-amid-ethics-probe-into-reported-affair-with-staffer
She’s the perfict LIB. Smokes dope, and swings both ways… At the same time.

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Don Bessee

27 October 2019

That’s got the socialist dem clown car in a what do we do now tizzy –
This morning, however, Trump found himself in a better position than at any time in the three years of his presidency to issue a rejoinder to the critics of his foreign policy. In authorizing the Special Forces raid that killed the Islamic State’s founder and leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, his message was essentially: My transactional and tactical approach to alliances, and to limiting America’s military presence in the Middle East in particular and overseas more generally, just worked in spectacular fashion, fulfilling “the top national-security priority of my administration.”
Here was a vivid demonstration of his ability to reduce the United States’ role in the world and still carry out core national-security missions, a proof of his proposition that alliances can fray and fracture and exist in perpetual flux even as mutual interests—in this case opposition to ISIS—persist amid all the wreckage. Here was the payoff from, as the Heritage Foundation’s James Jay Carafano once put it to me, the president’s bet that “at the end of the day, people will like the sausage, and they’re going to forgive me because they don’t like how the sausage gets made.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/10/trump-approach-alliances-just-worked/600892/?utm_medium=offsite&utm_source=yahoo&utm_campaign=yahoo-non-hosted&yptr=yahoo
😉

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fish

27 October 2019

Oooh….wrong answer…..working exactly as intended!

California’s Rollout Of Automatic Voter Registration Didn’t Go As Planned

But DMV officials later found more than 100,000 registration errors in the first year, including some voters registered to the wrong party. And at least one noncitizen (state officials still are investigating how many in total) was accidentally signed up — a significant error since noncitizens aren’t allowed to vote.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/californias-rollout-automatic-voter-registration-didnt-go-planned

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Bill Tozer

28 October 2019

For those who had a bad weekend due to an interpution of relable power, count your lucky stars. It could have been worse. You could be Lunch Bucket Joe reminding everyone why you got 1% the last two times you ran for Prez. A true 1%er
https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-disastrous-weekend-democrat-presidential-candidate-fumbles-through-carolinas
Nothing could be fina than the smell Carolina in the morning.

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Bill Tozer

28 October 2019

On a slow news day, TDS and Insanity is more widespread than even little moi imagined. They need to give mental evaluations to the whole lot. Anybody know what nomenklatura means? VDH
https://amgreatness.com/2019/10/27/our-bankrupt-nomenklatura/

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Bill Tozer

28 October 2019

To this simpleton, it appears that the country of Ukrane was crawling with US diplomats, Democrats, Democrat politicians, businessmen and lobbiests all seeking the favor of the oliguards and Ukranian goverment officals to divide up the spoils of the country….just like Russia did after the collaspe of the USSR.
The President’s personal attorney was there. What was he doing there? No, not Rudy, but Craig; Obama’s personal attorney. And what was Mark Penn and the other Obama pollster doing there? Perhaps to run the election of the Administration’s favored canidate? Of Hillary’s choice? Odd.
Then one thing unexpectly happened. Actually two. Donald Trump crushed Hillary in the demonized electrol college and a TV comedy host won the election in Ukrane. Odd that Tony Podesta closed up shop in a blink of an eye in Ukrane and done went broke as a high powered Washington lobbiest. Odd that a TV host won the Presidency in Ukrane. Odd that the Democrats were dividing up the spoils of the country prematurely, leaving the oliguards scambling for an audience with the new Administrtion. But, what do I know?

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fish

28 October 2019

The “Usual Suspects” should be ecstatic at this state of affairs…..

Federal Income Taxes and Federal Spending Both Set Records in FY19

I’m sure Roberta will be along smartly to say that I’ve posted an unapproved and unauthorized link!
https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/terence-p-jeffrey/federal-income-taxes-and-federal-spending-both-set-records

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Biguns

28 October 2019

,,,Nice to see Trump getting unsolicited opinions about his incompetent leadership at Game 5.
Lock him up!!!
Impeach now!!!

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Todd Juvinall

28 October 2019

I was rooting for the Nats until the swamp creatures dissed the President. Astos all the way!

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