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[So what's Bloomberg's entry into the Dems' presidential race going to do to the Dropout Derby?  Will there be a rush to the exits by those who can't get traction?  How will the current 'Final Four' go after the new white billionaire vying for office?  gjr]

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423 responses to “Sandbox – 8nov19”

  1. Carlos Castaneda Avatar
    Carlos Castaneda

    ,,,Yes Wally,,,I taught that prof everything he knows!!!

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  2. Carlos Castaneda Avatar
    Carlos Castaneda

    ,,,Kleenex is as Kleenex does,,, Guess what? I am vetting the candidates as time goes on and I can see the pluses and minuses of each of them,,,but if you actually used your own noggin instead of putting everyone else down you might realize that my choice of candidate is irrelevant. I live in California so not a swing state vote, and I don’t have a say in what DNC decides to put up as The TrumpSlayer…

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  3. Walt Avatar

    No,, just no balls or self worth. That’s the usual noise from a coward that hides behind sock puppets. No guts to put your name to anything..
    Now back to your usual gutter sniping from under a rock.

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  4. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@4:08PM
    Quite a surprise.
    Am I wrong, or was it a bad move for NC to buy a bunch of that land? It seems to me that private property gives you a lot more latitude in moving transients. I suppose that the easiest solution would be for Nevada City to provide 100 or so apartments with free utilities for those folks and then clean up the hill. No problem.
    Seriously, it’s a funny situation. So far as I can tell it’s a smart move to avoid growing, and even shrink, public property in order to avoid homeless issues and their legal write to squat.
    Maybe our local Team Blue can pipe up with mechanisms to avoid burning down the whole region with warming fires.

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  5. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    CC: “I live in California so not a swing state vote, and I don’t have a say in what DNC decides to put up as The TrumpSlayer”
    Heck, you can ask why even care about the guy so much. You’d be hard pressed to find a single way he has changed your daily life. All the fuss stems from reading internet articles. For all you know, it’s just part of a psychology experiment.

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  6. Walt Avatar

    DOXers don’t like to get DOXed.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/12/rep-dan-bishop-names-alleged-impeachment-whistleblower-hes-not-voldemort/
    “Eric Ciaramella is a career CIA analyst whom Real Clear Investigations suggests is the likely so-called “whistleblower” in a report last month. However, Ciaramella had been floating around as the possible “whistleblower” long before the bombshell report.
    Ciaramella also has links to the infamous anti-Trump dossier and reportedly “interfaced about Ukraine with individuals who played key roles in facilitating the infamous anti-Trump dossier produced by Fusion GPS and reportedly financed by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee,” as Breitbart News reported.”

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt,
    Just waiting to verify the facts when Joe Biden AND the whistleblower were on the same plane together….to Ukraine.
    ——————————-
    Holy Smokes. Now the Washington Post sets its sights on Pretty Boy Gavin, his sister and his wife this morning! On the front page!!! Don’t know why The Compost is trashing one of their own. Timing is a bit suspicious. Maybe they don’t want Gavin to hop in the race and crowd Hillary out.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/11/11/pge-helped-fund-careers-calif-governor-his-wife-now-he-accuses-utility-corporate-greed/
    For those behind the paywall, give it time. I will find a Readers Digest version in due time.
    Here is a partial
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/gavin-newsom-pge-fire-pay

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Break news! New polling tells us what we already knew.
    “DEMOCRATS HATE AMERICA
    This won’t surprise anyone who has been paying attention, but there is a stark difference between the parties: Republicans love America, while Democrats can’t stand her. Rasmussen Reports has the numbers:
    Democrats really don’t like America and think it’s time to move on from the culture that got us here.
    A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that just 38% of Likely Democratic Voters believe American society is generally fair and decent. Fifty-one percent (51%) say it’s unfair and discriminatory.
    By comparison, 74% of Republicans and unaffiliated voters by a 49% to 36% margin view American society as fair and decent.
    That sums it up pretty well. If you hate your country, there is a party for you! You are a Democrat. If you love your country, you have only one plausible home: you are a Republican. Never has this difference been so stark. In 2020, pro-Americans will vote for President Trump and the Republican Party. Anti-Americans will vote for the Democratic nominee, whatever goofball that may prove to be, and socialism, the most disastrous system ever devised.
    The difference couldn’t be more stark.“

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  9. George Rebane Avatar

    BillT 615pm – Thank you for posting that updated datum Mr Tozer. A fundamental tenet of Rebane Doctrine has been that the Left and the Democratic Party have become the virulent anti-American political faction in the land. There is very little about our country and its history that they can tolerate, and there is nothing about its unique history and embracing culture that they want to communicate to our young. They want to change everything they see and witness in this country into some compliant second rate nation that no longer will be the dream destination of most of the world’s population.

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Lettuce Pray: Climate Change, Neo-Paganism, and the End of the World
    “However, rather than seeking to redeem humanity in the “next life,” sustainability promises to stave off the end times and save sinners in the “here and now.”
    Some episodes have emphasized the climate cult’s resemblance to neo-paganism. Sumantra Maitra at The Federalist pointed to an event at Union Theological Seminary in New York City where students confessed their sins to plants. Maitra argued that this means climate activists are “pagan animists.” In other words, they believe that worshipping nature enables one to “grow as a living soul connected to the universe.”
    Maitra also highlighted a gathering at the Glarus Alps where 250 Swedes hosted a funeral to mourn a melting glacier. And Martha Sheen at The Irish Times identified shades of paganism in the climate gospel’s code of how to live, which prescribes “ritualistic sacrifices” like abstaining from meat to “satisfy the gods.”
    “Maitra and Sheen noted that, as opposed to Christians, Jews, and Muslims, who worship a personal creator that engages humanity from without space and time, neo-pagans worship Earth and other created things.
    The emergence of pagan themes in climate activist circles is part of a trend away from Judeo-Christian-based faiths and toward religions like Wicca, which has surged in popularity among millennials, the demographic that worries most about climate change.
    Wiccans aren’t the only neo-pagan sect. “Druids, Goddess worshipers, Heathens, and Shamans” count too. And although neo-pagan beliefs vary, historian Ronald Hutton of Bristol University has said that neo-pagans practice “forms of worship which regard nature as sacred.”
    Some worship inanimate objects such as “trees, plants, and animals” to glorify the “soul” of each. Pre-Christian Celts, for example, worshipped the River Boyne in Ireland as Boann, the “Celtic Goddess of Poetry, Fertility, Inspiration, Knowledge, and Creativity,” to quote one feminist writer. Almost all pagans consult an astrology guru and play with tarot cards.
    Neo-pagans form a small segment of Americans, but their ideas have permeated elites. Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in March indulged fans who obsessed over what her time of birth and horoscope meant for the future of the republic. In response to “fervent public interest,” she allowed astrologer Arthur Lipp-Bonewits to tweet the information.
    Singer and climate crisis believer Lana Del Ray described herself in 2017 as a “witch” and said she hexed President Donald Trump. She bade her Twitter followers do the same, directing them to “bind” the president on dates that “corresponded to monthly waning crescent moons.”
    https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/08/lettuce-pray-climate-change-neo-paganism-and-the-end-of-the-world/
    Exit question: Is it just me, or does Greta Von Thunberg look a lot like Vladimir Putin. Big Bro is watching you.
    https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2019/11/1862/1048/greta-thunberg-mural-AP.jpg?ve=1&tl=1

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The govenator drove a what to get his arugula? –
    Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor-turned-climate activist, reportedly drives ‘tank’ to run errands
    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/arnold-schwarzenegger-drives-tank-climate-change
    😉

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    More BREAKING NEWS that we already knew: Dems are making up crimes!
    http://dlvr.it/RJ5wRP

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    It’s safe to say that the Alabama “baby Trump” balloon-popper is not sorry for his actions.
    “Man Who Slashed ‘Baby Trump’ Balloon: ‘First Time’ Liberals ‘Mad About Chopping Up A Baby’”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-who-slashed-baby-trump-balloon-first-time-liberals-mad-about-chopping-up-a-baby?

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  14. Walt Avatar

    Yet here you are doing the same damned thing… El Gordo.

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  15. Walt Avatar

    The morning weather report for the AGW “true believers”.
    https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/200-million-americans-to-experience-harsh-record-challenging-cold-this-week/622611
    ‘Dozens of major cities saw record low temperatures across the eastern two-thirds of the United States. As a punishing wave of January-esque Arctic air brought dangerously cold conditions, some cities saw low-temperature records that hadn’t plunged that low in more than 100 years.’

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  16. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “James Biden isn’t a big name in the business of residential housing development, so what exactly qualifies him to work at a construction company and share in the winnings of a $1.5 billion project to build affordable homes in Iraq?”
    https://nypost.com/2012/10/23/crony-capitalism-joe-bidens-brother/
    You have to admit that the Biden family makes Warren’s fake lineage and $429k from Harvard for not much (or Sander’s wife’s alleged bank fraud) look like small potatoes.
    I suppose you could argue that honest people make ineffective Presidents.

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  17. Don Juan Avatar
    Don Juan

    How many of you Boyz are watching the hearings? You want to hear it for yourselves rather than filtered through Faux news and breitbart, don’t you?

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  18. Walt Avatar

    Well “Don”,, while your watching your political porn, Sauncho is giving your wife what she’s been missing…. For a LONG time.

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  19. Don Juan Avatar
    Don Juan

    You really don’t want to know the truth do you Wally.. you are happy being told what to think as long as it fits your trump is god syndrome.

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  20. Don Juan Avatar
    Don Juan

    https://youtu.be/7isd0MPqMUo
    Republican sponsored ad now playing on Fox and Friends.

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  21. Carlos Castaneda Avatar
    Carlos Castaneda

    ,,,Yes Mr. Juan@858,,,Republicans have changed. Now Republicans are Russia lovers…
    ,,,and support the Turkish goon running that place who is more aligned with Russia than America…

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    https://youtu.be/7isd0MPqMUo
    Republican sponsored ad now playing on Fox and Friends.
    Posted by: Don Juan | 13 November 2019 at 08:58 AM
    Carlos Castaneda
    ,,,Yes Mr. Juan@858,,,Republicans have changed. Now Republicans are Russia lovers…
    ,,,and support the Turkish goon running that place who is more aligned with Russia than America…
    Posted by: Carlos Castaneda | 13 November 2019 at 09:47 AM

    It is so weird watching you talk to yourself in real time! Do you use hand puppets?

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  23. Don Juan Avatar
    Don Juan

    “the whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves”. Bertrand Russell

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  24. Carlos Castaneda Avatar
    Carlos Castaneda

    13 November 2019 at 10:21 AM,,,
    In a sea of the blind, the one-eyed grunion is King…

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  25. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Don Juan | 13 November 2019 at 10:24 AM
    “the whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves”. Bertrand Russell

    And in keeping with the esteemed Mr. Russells aphorism it looks like the pretty, pretty face of the California Party of “fools and fanatics” Has been caught in the pocket of “Big Electric”! Almost 3/4 of a million dollars for Gavins Election War Chest….Inauguration party…..etc! $350,000 of that to Gavins wife…..the “film maker” her “charity”…..for some completely unknown reason! Oh yes….how silly of me….another chunk to his sisters breast cancer awareness charity too!
    I’m sure it’s fine though…..Gavin assures us that he never considers any of this when he’s doing Californias business!
    ………grifter…..grifter……grifter……..goombah…..goombah…..goombah

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  26. George Rebane Avatar

    It’s good not to confuse “fools and fanatics (who) are always certain of themselves” with flaneurs (cf Taleb) who present reasoned apologetics in support of credos which remain open to revision.

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  27. Don Juan Avatar
    Don Juan

    “fools and fanatics (who) are always certain of themselves” = climate deniers who are certain it has nothing to do with fossil fuels.

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  28. George Rebane Avatar

    DonJ 1127am – who in these pages are certain that fossil fuels have nothing to do with climate change? (see also 13nov19 Ruminations update)

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  29. Carlos Castaneda Avatar
    Carlos Castaneda

    ,,,yes grunion,,,
    “Has been caught in the pocket of “Big Electric”! Almost 3/4 of a million dollars for Gavins Election War Chest….Inauguration party…..etc! $350,000 of that to Gavins wife…..the “film maker” her “charity”…..for some completely unknown reason! Oh yes….how silly of me….another chunk to his sisters breast cancer awareness charity too!”
    Same reason that all those vying for Trumple’s favor stay at his hotel in DC

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  30. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Carlos Asstaneda | 13 November 2019 at 11:35 AM
    Then why no spittle flecked rage from you progressive good government types about Newsome?
    Oh that’s right…..hypocrisy! Silly me!

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh, I listened to Kent’s opening statement (some of it) about his and his daddy’s stellar resume of public service. When Kent started comparing the Ukrainians fight for freedom with out Revolutionary War and how we had to have the help of a foreign power (Lafayette) to win our freedom from our adversary just as the Ukrainians need our military aid to win their independence from Russia, I turned it off. Why? Why did I turn it off, you may ask?
    Glad you asked! Because Kent lined out our foreign policy in regards to Ukraine for the past 8 years of so. Total hogwash. Obama (and Kent under him) sent the Ukrainians blankets. The Ukrainians were begging Washington to send them military aid. Literally desperately begging the Obama Administration for armor and hardware to fight the Russians. All they got was blankets and advisors. Yeah, compare that to the Revolutionary War, ROFLMAO.
    Trump sent them the military aid they requested under Ukraine’s last Presidente and that which Obama refused because 0bama (Zerobama) was afraid to upset the Russians . Oh course Trump told both Presidents he was pissed that our (and their) European allies were not helping out and the US was stuck paying the whole tab for Ukraine’s military defense against the Russians. Also, Trump told both Presidents that the corruption was a problem.
    Bottomline: Multiple witnesses of experts and Deep State Department bigwigs in the closed door sessions in Shiftylipps basement admitted under oath that Trump’s policy concerning Ukraine is better than Obama’s policy and has helped reached their objectives. Mo better. Much mo better.
    Revolutionary War? Body armor? No, they needed much more than blankets. They needed what Trump sent them and they need more. Things that actually kill Russian tanks and has thwarted a Russian ground encroachment since Trump first sent them Javelins. And they got more. Again, mo better.
    That, my ignorant friends of the Shift Show, is why I am not going to breathlessly watch the circus and simply wait for the Senate hearings to hear both sides of the story. If those are the first and best witnesses paraded out today, then the Dems don’t have Jack Diddley. They do, however, have Diddley Squat.
    Don’t think the Revolutionary War was won by the French sending the rag tag army blankets. What a crock. Spare me the tears.

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Is it just me or did anyone else notice that Shiftylipps looks like a turtle that has been ripped out of his shell?
    —————
    DAILY QUOTES
    Demo-gogues, part I: “Bribery … as the founders understood bribery, it was not as we understand it in law today. It was much broader. It connoted the breach of the public trust in a way where you’re offering official acts for some personal or political reason, not in the nation’s interest.” —Adam Schiff
    Demo-gogues, part II: “When you consider the serious terms of whether the president has committed an impeachable offense, the fact that the scheme was discovered, the fact that the scheme was unsuccessful, doesn’t make it any less odious or any less impeachable. If the president solicited for help in the U.S. election, if the president conditioned official acts on the performance of these political favors, whether Ukraine ever had to go through with it really doesn’t matter. What matters is: Did the president attempt to commit acts that ought to result in his removal from office?” —House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff
    Demo-gogues, part III: “I have to hope that my Senate colleagues on both sides of the aisle will keep an open mind, will do their constitutional duty, will set aside the party of the president. Because otherwise, why are they even there and what does their oath of office really mean?” —Adam Schiff
    Keep dreaming: “I think about what kind of president I would have been all the time. I think about what I would have done. How, obviously, I would have been different. How I think I would have been a better, more successful president.” —Hillary Clinton
    Missing the forest for the trees: “Trying to live a gusty life doesn’t mean you are always successful in doing so. And I think about the presidential campaign of 2016. I thought I was as gutsy as I could be, but I probably could have been gutsier — if I figured out a way to reveal what was happening in a more effective way.” —Hillary Clinton
    Non compos mentis: “It would be disruptive to classes and two unfortunately with gun violence in the U.S., there was some concern that we would cause a panic if someone heard gunshots on grounds.” —University of Virginia President Jim Ryan on why the traditional Veterans Day 21-gun salute by members of UVA’s ROTC was canceled
    Village idiots: “We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes. Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted.” —incoming San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin
    And last… “No doubt we want more Americans to do better economically. But what’s the main driver of affordability? Minimum wage or prices? It’s prices. What drives down prices? Free markets. Competition. Choice.” —Rep. Dan Crenshaw
    ——-
    Exit Question. If the Deep State is going run our foreign policy, why even have elected Presidents?

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  33. George Rebane Avatar

    I wonder if any of the Repubs on the committee will pick up on the blankets vs tank killers aid to Ukraine.

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  34. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Irrelevant to the question at hand George. CAn you explain why you feel it’s important?

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I am bored of the lower chamber’s Impeachment Inquiry already. But, I never get tired of Adam Shiffy’s amusing charades.
    Clue circus music for the lackluster and formerly “Greatest Show on Earth.” See the bearded lady, the strongest Man on Earth and death defying feats! Only one thin dime, only one tenth of a dollars. Step right up folks, hurry , hurry, hurry!
    “The main problem now is that, three years after Trump’s election, these constant hair-on-fire screams sound and feel like partisan politics pretending to be apolitical. The smell of a continuing dirty trick is hard to ignore.
    “Schiff, of course, comes by his current role honestly in the sense that he has been a chief proponent of anything and everything that might turn the public against the president. He insisted that Trump was guilty of collusion for two years before Mueller said otherwise and then continued to say it despite Mueller.
    “Mueller found no Trump collusion with Russia, not enough evidence for obstruction: Barr
    But after the special counsel’s public testimony turned out to be the dud of all duds, Russia, Russia, Russia dropped off the Earth and Schiff instantly proclaimed Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine the new crime of the century.
    “In a rational world, where facts matter and credibility counts, Schiff would already be consigned to history’s dustbin alongside Sen. Joe McCarthy. Like the infamous red baiter who saw a commie behind every desk, Schiff sees evidence of “high crimes and misdemeanors” every time the president opens his mouth. It’s been that way since before Trump was inaugurated.”
    https://nypost.com/2019/11/12/goodwin-trickster-adam-schiff-conjuring-guilt-out-of-thin-air/

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  36. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1222pm – Of course Paul. One of the main staves of the Dems’ impeach platform is to prove that Trump’s Ukraine policy has been against US national interest because it weakened our ally Ukraine. The facts show that to be blatantly false. Trump is the first president to provide Ukraine with real military aid with which to counter Russian aggression. Obama did nothing of the sort, and therefore did weaken our ally in the face of the Russian onslaught. In short, that’s another argument of the Dems that can’t join their desperate list of impeachable offenses.

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  37. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Trump’s Admin has supplied aid to Ukraine for three straight years. Obama sent pillows. Schiff and his cabal on the committee were trying to make hay that Trump was placing Ukraine at risk by the 55-day delay in one year’s taxpayer largesse to them. Paul Emery must have missed the testimony today. The Rs won it hands down by exposing the democrats crooked impeachment. Hell Schiff said on live TV he never met or talked to the WB/spy! More lies. But Paul Emery thinks Schiff is AOK.

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  38. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So George you contend there was no quid pro quo in this situation? In your view if there was would that be an impeachable offense?

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, it looks like not all of them evil Republican are going to roll on their backs like a dog and have the Lefties rub their tummies. (Thanks Walt for that one.) Not breaking news, not today’s news, just buried news.
    https://www.oann.com/blue-state-of-new-jersey-had-a-red-wave-in-early-voting/

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  40. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 200pm – You’ve done it again. You explain nothing, illuminate nothing, provide no new perspective, share no belief, …, but are expert at changing direction and asking another disconnected question which would perhaps deliver the sought after gotcha. How would you answer those questions?

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  41. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Every country that wants our taxpayer money agrees to a “quid pro quo”. But there was none in this case.

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  42. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Are we adding the latest democrats and how do we do that?

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  43. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Nah George
    Not looking for a gotcha just interested in your core beliefs in this matter. Personally I believe if Trump was trying to hold up funding for Ukraine defense for his own personal gain-in this case dirt on Biden-he would be unfit for office amd should be impeached.
    Just a reminder that it was the Republicans who impeached Clinton for far less an offense.

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  44. Carlos Castaneda Avatar
    Carlos Castaneda

    Posted by: fish | 13 November 2019 at 11:41 AM
    ,,,still Governor, grunion…still Governor

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  45. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Personally, I think Paul is off his rocker; another interpretation is that Trump asked for an investigation into corruption in Ukraine as a precursor to military air because, on the face of it, the Bidens stink of corrupt intent.
    Quid pro Joe.

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  46. Carlos Castaneda Avatar
    Carlos Castaneda

    ,,,then why no spittle flecked rage from you progressive good government types about Newsome?
    Oh that’s right…..hypocrisy! Silly me!
    Posted by: fish | 13 November 2019 at 11:41 AM
    ,,,grunion,,,I don’t remember you being upset at anything Trumple, his crew of misfits, or his family has done to date
    ,,,so why the double standard???

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  47. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Clinton was impeached for perjury in a civil action taken by a subordinate of his in Arkansas. The lie was to hide the fact that he had a subordinate polishing his pole in the Oval Orificei. Perjury is a real crime.
    He also lost his ability to practice law in the aftermath, but the judge, a Clinton appointee, gave him a break by not disbarring him until after the Senate decided not to remove him from office.

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  48. Walt Avatar

    Sorry Emery, what you “feel” isn’t evidence.
    Still, your and yours have nothing on Trump.
    But let the steaming pile of Schiff keep this game up. Every hearing will expose the LIBs for what they are.

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