[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”
,,,catchy name,,,Molar City, Mexico
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/welcome-to-molar-city-mexico-the-dental-mecca-built-by-americas-high-health-care-costs-104500222.html
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RCP today
Biden26.0
Warren20.8
Sanders17.8
Buttigieg8.0
Harris5.3
Yang2.8
Klobuchar2.3
Booker2.3
Castro1.3
Gabbard1.0
Steyer1.0
Bullock0.8
Delaney0.8
Williamson0.5
Bennet0.5
Messam0.5
Biden +5.2
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What’s a vanity poll?
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Posted by: Arlos Asstaneda | 14 November 2019 at 08:23 AM
,,,Trump’s love interest in Turkey….or…..,,,Trump’s love interest in Russia….or ,,,Trump’s love interest in Ukraine……
So much interest in unrequited homosexual affection in your posts dugsKKKi…….something you trying to get off your chest….or “come out of the closet” if you prefer?
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Posted by: Arlos Asstaneda | 14 November 2019 at 08:48 AM
,,,catchy name,,,Molar City, Mexico
Are you planning on moving dugsKKKi…….? I think you’d like it there!
Kickstarter?
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gr 857am
A vanity poll is apparently a privately commissioned poll that has a result Paul doesn’t want to consider.
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“Biden +5.2”
He’s such an absurd man that I’m liking the idea.
This could be the official portrait. Biden and Taxpayer.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRt2SlmUIAAcuLl.jpg
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The semocrats are pouring money into the Alabama Senate race. And now we see Jedd Sessions joining te fray. The dems have given 30 Million bucks to Jones to try and keep the seat he got when he defeated Roy Moore. It is the moxt raised nationwide for all Senate taces.
https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2020&id=ALS1
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George
It’s like a vanity press where you pay to get your book published. You can hire a vanity poll to get any results you want. They abide by the wishes of their purchaser.
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What? The resident LIBs are trying to bring up anything other than then the dumpster fire full of LIB Depends from yesterday.
The Adam Schitt show should be even better tomorrow.
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Like I said, it’s a poll that isn’t in the RCP osterizer that has a result that Paul doesn’t like.
Punchy doesn’t have any evidence that the pollster in this case has ever lied… it’s just dismissable without thought… because it’s a “vanity poll” and one number among many was 13 percent non-citizen voting.
IF there are 20 million illegals, that would be 2.6 million illegal voters as an estimate. If the polling org got it wrong and it was instead just one percent, it would be 200,000 illegal voters. My sense is it’s probably somewhere inbetween.
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Posted by: scenes | 14 November 2019 at 09:25 AM
Even in an innocent photo he’s gafftacular! There are days I almost feel sorry for the guy!
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PaulE, then who would ever believe the results of a vanity poll that is published for public consumption? It seems that the vanity pollsters real utility is for private clients who want the (confidential) truth for their own planning purposes.
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And IPCC science is vanity science.
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DAMN Emery,, your the Progressive news dud here,,, show us that
“Brick by brick pile of evidence” LIB news says was piling up.
That “Watergate 2.0” didn’t work out as planned. Trump was never supposed to release the phone conversation. DAMN! Trump didn’t erase that “tape”.(just moved to a secure storage) Pajama Boy dickblower was supposed to be your anonymous “deepthroat” with all the dirt, and knows where the body is buried.
Nope Trump didn’t play by the rules.
But some fun for LIBS from yesterday.
https://www.insider.com/drag-queen-attends-president-trump-impeachment-hearings-2019-11
Now you know why Adam Schiff’s eyes were so BIG.
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I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the New York Times
“By now, you’ve already heard about the maladroit attempt to suppress the fact that Senator Elizabeth Warren lies about her personal backstory.
These are some of the worst examples. But nearly every day, the steady paper subtly tries to save the Times from itself. For example, we nearly published a two-star review of Lin Manuel Miranda’s rather mediocre Hamilton.
Don’t get me wrong. There have been bright spots in the last few years. Ken Vogel’s coverage of Hunter Biden’s corruption has been top notch. But even these journalistic triumphs have come with a cost. Vogel was almost featured in a New York Times Magazine cover story on Journalists Enabling Trumpism.
We hope that the Times will rediscover its mission of performing excellent and fearless journalism after the Trump presidency ends in 2025. Until then, please know that there are still editors and reporters at the old gray lady who put paper first.”
https://freebeacon.com/issues/i-am-part-of-the-resistance-inside-the-new-york-times/
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“Temperatures in several major cities fell this week to lows not seen since the Taft Administration, shattering dozens of records as a bone-chilling cold front swept through the eastern half of the United States. As a punishing wave of January-esque Arctic air brought dangerously cold conditions, some cities had low-temperature records that hadn’t plunged that low in more than 100 years.”
It really is just weather. Honest.
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Bless her little heart.
“. . . We also need to move quite quickly because we’re talking about the potential compromise of the 2020 elections,” Ocasio-Cortez ended. “And so this is not just about something that has occurred; this is about preventing a potentially disastrous outcome from occurring next year.”
The Washington Post reported Thursday that Senate Republicans are considering dragging out any impeachment trial to force senators running for the Democratic presidential nomination to be on Capitol Hill instead of on the campaign trail.
“Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden might like that,” Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas) said of the potential plan.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/aoc-says-impeachment-necessary-to-unite-dems-stop-potential-compromise-of-the-2020-election/
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CONAN ON A JOKE ABOUT DAMNING EVIDENCE THAT COULD END TRUMP PRESIDENCY: WE’VE USED THIS CUE CARD 15 TIMES
‘Groundhog Day the cue card’
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walt 833am
“Gregory.. Your (sic) dealing with an idiot.”
Walt, while Punch does seem to be less than average in the IQ department at times, one must consider he’s just punching up for dear life much of the time. Take the punch if you think a soft spot is undefended. Deal with the aftermath later… and another punch in an entirely different direction may derail the conversation enough to render it moot.
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Yes Gregory
“Float like a butterfly sting like a bee.”
You and the other Circle of Jerks are boring to spar with. Predictable and easy to anger which makes you and the others defenseless.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 14 November 2019 at 12:27 PM
You and the other Circle of Jerks are boring to spar with.
……and yet here you are every day..…playing the rhetorical punching bag.
#delusional
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,,,Erdogan throws Trumple’s “don’t be a tough guy” letter back in his face,,,
Trumple,,, International laughing stock!!! Lets real and wannabe autocrats piss on him,,,as long as he can build hotels in their countries…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/return-sender-turkish-president-erdogan-144314338.html
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Posted by: Carlos Asstaneda AKA M for Meshugga | 14 November 2019 at 01:06 PM
Maybe you should floss more……..
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Good song for our unhinged friends…and dangerous foes
https://www.facebook.com/Americanvoicesthedailycaller/videos/754836338352174/UzpfSTEwMDAwMTEwNzM4NDQ2OToyNjE2MzczNTI4NDA5NTM0/
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Nevada City blues. Must be a cultural thing.
https://www.theunion.com/news/nevada-city-mayor-to-face-possible-sanction-removal/
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Breaking the wrong ground. Turnabout is fair play, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Remember Harry Reid’s short sighted ‘Nuclear Option’?
On the use of impeachment as an election strategy
“Second, it further appears that a president cannot even confirm a cabinet unless he or she has a partisan majority in the Senate. Democrats established this precedent by voting in unison against President Trump’s cabinet nominees, with the exception of Secretary of Defense Mattis, who won a near-unanimous vote. Democrats in the Senate voted almost unanimously against Jeff Sessions (Attorney General), Mike Pompeo (Director of Central Intelligence), Rex Tillerson (Secretary of State), Betsy DeVos (Education), Steven Mnuchin (Treasury), Mike Mulvaney (Office of Management and Budget), and Scott Pruitt (Environmental Protection Agency). William Barr was subsequently confirmed as Attorney General in 2019 by a vote of 54 to 45, with but four Democrats voting in his favor. If Republicans did not have a majority, they would not have been able to confirm any of President Trump’s nominations (with the exception of Gen. Mattis).
What do Democrats think is going to happen when they elect a president, but fail to carry a majority in the Senate? Republicans will undoubtedly behave in that situation just as Democrats have acted in relation to President Trump: they will veto his cabinet nominations, or delay them indefinitely to keep the incumbent president from forming a working government. That, after all, is what Democrats hoped to do to President Trump—and they are still doing it. Turnabout is fair play, and in politics is often necessary to deter adversaries from “upping the ante” by adopting more extreme tactics of attack. Looking ahead, there is little chance, for example, that Republicans will vote in the future to confirm a Democratic nominee for Attorney General, just as Democrats tried to block Sessions and Barr (and John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales before them). By contrast, Eric Holder, President Obama’s nominee for Attorney General, and a highly partisan figure, was confirmed by a comfortable bi-partisan vote.
It is unlikely that Republicans will be quite so generous in regard to future nominations for Attorney General, in view of the manner in which Democrats treated Sessions and Barr. That will be the case also in regard to other sensitive policymaking positions—such as the head of the epa or director of the cia. In this way the United States is moving toward a bastardized form of parliamentary government, in that the President must have a majority in the Senate to conduct the business of government and the other party is no longer the opposition party (putting forth alternative policies) but is rather the “obstructionist” party.”…………………………
“Fifth, and finally, Democrats have now turned impeachment into a partisan electoral strategy which, if successful, will establish a precedent for future investigations to come. This is the kind of stratagem that is bound to come back to haunt Democrats whenever they elect a president and do not have a majority in the House of Representatives. What is to stop Republicans from impeaching an incumbent Democrat on a partisan vote in the hope that it will strengthen the hand of the Republican candidate in a forthcoming election? This is, in effect, what Democrats are proposing to do today. Democrats assume Republicans would never do such a thing. They are wrong. Impeachment, far from being rare, is about to become a commonplace event as an instrument of campaign strategy and partisan warfare. Every president going forward, when facing a hostile Congress, will face the threat of impeachment, since Democrats are proving today that it is not difficult to concoct a case if there is a determination to find one. In that situation, Americans might as well forget about Washington as a place where important problems are addressed on behalf of the public.“
Money Quote:
“The U.S. political system is heading at breakneck speed toward some kind of crisis in which partisan warfare overwhelms the capacity of the president and congress to address national problems, as they once used to do in an era of greater national consensus. Judicial and cabinet appointments, the budget, international interests, and now impeachment have been turned into occasions for party warfare. It appears that today the two parties represent different countries, rather than different coalitions of Americans, and thus must negotiate with one another as heads of state negotiate with adversary nations.”
https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/breaking-the-wrong-ground
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Joe Biden can’t get no respect.
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/702603?unlock=OTPZN0JH4NRUTHBE
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/11/14/what_the_entry_of_patrick_and_bloomberg_may_mean_for_biden_141738.html
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,,,Poor Grunion,,,he would not vote for Trumple,,,but developed a strong man crush on the fat man anyway
now he sees the folly of his obsessive attraction with the Orange Man but cannot admit the error of his ways…
#Sad
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Great read, IMHO. Turnabout is fair play….sadly.
https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/breaking-the-wrong-ground
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,,,Poor Grunion,,,he would not vote for Trumple,,,but developed a strong man crush on the fat man Jeffried anyway
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Poor Emery. Not much of a “sparring partner” when all you do is rabbit punch, then run to the corner and hide under the towel.
HELL.. You can’t even land a sucker punch.
“Anger” us you say? Your the laughing stock of the blog!
So you think “highly” of yourself.(naa,, just high) That’s OK… No one else does.
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,,,Yes J’s lavender Bunbun,,,it is interesting how grunion professes to loathe Jeffried yet clings to Orange fat Man like a ,,,well,,, a clinger
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Posted by: Carlos Asstaneda | 14 November 2019 at 03:07 PM
Bitter no less…….
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Student govt. at Harvard votes to condemn student newspaper for asking ICE for a comment
On Sunday, the Harvard student government voted to condemn the school’s daily student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, after the newspaper asked the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for a comment about an anti-ICE protest in September on the school campus.
The story: Over 900 people and several student groups like the Harvard College Democrats have signed a petition calling for the newspaper to “apologize for the harm they inflicted on the undocumented community,” “stop calling ICE,” and “declare their commitment to protecting undocumented students on campus.”
“In this political climate, a request for comment is virtually the same as tipping them off, regardless of how they are contacted,” the petition stated. On Sept. 12, students gathered for a protest organized by the student group Act on a Dream in Harvard Yard to call for the termination of ICE, according to Fox News.
After the event, the Harvard Crimson requested a comment from ICE about the protest for an upcoming story. The newspaper defended its decision to seek comment from ICE, saying in a note to readers that it follows “a commonly accepted set of journalistic standards.”
https://www.lacortenews.com/n/student-govt-at-harvard-votes-to-condemn-student-newspaper-for-asking-ice-for-a-comment?
Hmm. …..it follows “a commonly accepted set of journalistic standards.” Oh, that was then, this is now. Have you seen the journalistic standards lately?
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When the narrative fails just flip the script! –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/14/sad-democrats-scramble-switch-impeachment-narrative-attempted-crimes-after-lackluster-hearing/
😉
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 14 November 2019 at 04:12 PM
Thanks for the Bright Brat slant on things…
I guess you missed George’s admonition to you to try to find actual news sources…
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Yet you have nothing El Gordo.
Now back to liar LIB news and produce some real evidence against Trump. Opinion is not evidence.
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CarlosC 420pm – You’d get a lot more traction with such comments if you or yours would just document a couple of errors or ‘fake news’ items that outlets you don’t like put out.
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Well that’s not going the way they planned –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/14/nolte-impeachment-backfire-trumps-numbers-rise-as-bidens-crater/
😉
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Gotta hand it to El Gordo.. Impersonating a dead guy. Joining him soon?
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OK Emery!! Now your chance to run Nevada City!! You claim to know better than all of us,, PROVE IT!!
https://www.theunion.com/news/nevada-city-mayor-to-face-possible-sanction-removal/
“Nevada City Mayor Reinette Senum will face possible sanction or removal during the next council meeting, Dec. 10, after council member Erin Minett brought the motion forward and the council approved discussion of possible censure.
Minett said she is concerned, and received similar complaints from constituents, about the mayor “not clarifying that the opinion she expressed regarding multiple city matters are her own and that she was not speaking on behalf of the city or the City Council.” ”
Speak up Capt Crickets….
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We don’t need no stinkin’ rules say the jihadi congressional delegation –
But Tlaib’s campaign committee, Rashida Tlaib for Congress, allegedly “reported campaign disbursements that may not be legitimate and verifiable campaign expenditures attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes,” according to a release from OCE that unanimously recommended the Ethics Committee investigate Tlaib.
If Tlaib “converted campaign funds from Rashida Tlaib for Congress to personal use, or if Tlaib’s campaign committee expended funds that were not attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes, then Tlaib may have violated House rules, standards of conduct, and federal law,” the OCE continued.
“The Board recommends that the Committee further review the above allegation concerning Rep. Tlaib because there is substantial reason to believe that Rep. Tlaib converted campaign funds from Rashida Tlaib for Congress to personal use or Rep. Tlaib’s campaign committee expended funds that were not attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes,” it said.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-ethics-committee-announces-probe-into-dem-reps-tlaib-hastings
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WOW… “Glass jaw” Emery ran for the exit.
And Carlos the corps must be smelling up a room somewhere.
Nope, you clowns have nothing on Trump
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Ouch even the washpo hates it –
“The author claimed to be part of a group fighting for America’s democratic while ‘thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses,’ but readers did not learn what sort of work the anonymous writer did or what, if anything, had been thwarted,” Lozada wrote of the op-ed. “However accurate and sobering such characterizations may be, they all belong in a folder labeled Stuff We Already Know. Unfortunately, much of ‘A Warning’ reads like a longer version of the op-ed, purposely vague and avoiding big revelations in order to preserve the author’s anonymity.”
Lozada said he would stop short of calling the author “cowardly” for holding onto anonymity despite the numerous civil servants set to testify as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry. Still, he labeled the anti-Trump White House official “self-defeating.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-anonymous-warning-anti-trump-book
😉
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The chi coms are feeling the heat! –
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/china-industrial-output-grows-slower-232400372.html
😉
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For every action there is an equal reaction.
“October Gun Sales Jump 10 Percent, Continuing Recent Rise”
Americans buying more guns as Democrats propose confiscation
https://freebeacon.com/issues/october-gun-sales-jump-10-percent-continuing-recent-rise/
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Dougy’s splooge from the Nevada City mayor story.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Douglas Keachie
Trump is forever doing,” the United states is/does/says this that and the other things.” Why should mayors be any different? Who made the City Council God? “🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Really Dougy? You equte the mayor of LIBVILLE to Trump?
Trump is doing great things for the U.S.
Mayor of N.C. is out for herself.
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$355,000 is priciest ticket to Obama appearance in Silicon Valley
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/dollar355000-is-priciest-ticket-to-obama-appearance-in-silicon-valley/ar-BBWHPXN?ocid=spartanntp
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Cam has a nice choice of words.. I thought LIBS like her were happy to kill babies?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/14/kamala-harris-i-dare-pathetic-lawmakers-to-view-autopsy-photos-of-school-shooting-victims/
” “I have looked at autopsy photographs. I have hugged the parents of murdered children. This has to stop being a partisan issue, an intellectual issue, an ideological issue. I dare the people that stand on circumstances. I dare them to look at the autopsy photos of their babies, I dare them, and then vote their conscience. Enough. Enough.” ”
What she’s really pissed about, it the fact the shooter didn’t use an AR.
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You might want to stock up on the inexpensive bacon now while it still is. The chi coms are shopping. Pork will be next –
“The United States welcomes China’s decision to finally lift its unwarranted ban on U.S. poultry and poultry products. This is great news for both America’s farmers and China’s consumers,” said U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, who predicted that U.S. poultry exports to China could surpass $1 billion a year.
The decision out of Beijing is effective immediately and the announcement sent shares of major U.S. chicken processers, Sanderson Farms, Tyson Foods and Pilgrim’s Pride to new highs for the year Thursday.
The Chinese market looks especially promising for U.S. poultry producers because an outbreak of African swine fever has devastated a competing protein in China: pork.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-lifts-ban-us-poultry-173258496.html
😉
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