[From the comment stream under 'America Askew' it's interesting to note that no one cares much about how California's electorate is composed. California is not the only state that both invites and enables voting by the disenfranchised among us. Please post your belated concerns under the referenced commentary, and your 'here's why I don't give a crap' hereunder. gjr]
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307 responses to “Sandbox – 15nov19”
Looks grim for the Trumpers. Biden up by 8 in Georgia of all places!!!!
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LOL!! One of those “Emery” statistic polls.
Now ain’t it great when you have your own non profit to profit off of?
https://www.breitbart.com/local/2019/11/17/report-al-sharpton-paid-1-million-his-own-charity-2018/
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The wokester would rather have a pr stunt than a job, even the guy that got the work out for him is pissed.-
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2019/11/17/report-jay-z-disappointed-kaepernick-for-turning-nfl-workout-into-pr-stunt/
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putz 202pm
Golly, punch, you’ve been singing of the demise of the GOP for four years.
Back to Loosyana… again, all politics is local. The GOP candidate, a loudmouthed 70 year old businessman with no elective experience and short on specifics, ran against a fairly popular Democrat incumbent who is a West Point graduate, signed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country and is pro 2nd amendment.
He’d be run out of the Democratic Party in this state as he’s more of a Republican than Ahnold ever was.
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Paul Emery | 17 November 2019 at 02:02 PM
HAHAHAHA!
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Georgia? I remember when the Dems were creaming their jeans right up to November, 2016 spouting that Georgia was in play….along with Texas.
Stacy Abrams still has not conceded after losing in Georgia by 65,000 votes in 2018. Boy that was a razor thin state election, not. Can’t blame a woman for taking the Hillary playbook and not wrapping her head around losing. It just does not compute. All her FB fans wanted her to win.
Well, it looks like we know now where at those California’s are moving to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0F9lh8TiSM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UC96g1A4Nc
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It’s Officially the Tenth Anniversary of Climategate – and they’ve learned nothing
It was ten years ago today that Charles Rotter at Watts Up With That download the Climategate files from the anonymous Russian server. Charles writes: “That set in motion a series of events still affecting the outcome of worldwide energy and environmental policy today. The whitewashers at the BBC, The Guardian, and elsewhere have started putting up their officially sanctioned narrative version, amounting to little more than nothing to see hear move along.”
More here by Charles and Anthony Watts.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/11/17/yeah-its-officially-the-tenth-anniversary-of-climategate/
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I am shocked, shocked I say! NOT! –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/17/emails-open-society-kept-alleged-whistleblower-eric-ciaramella-updated-on-george-soross-personal-ukraine-activities/
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Football Sunday
https://www.facebook.com/807975260/posts/10162616132720261/
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Just one big team 0/soros happy family! AKA the resistance of the swamp crestures! –
Eric Ciaramella, whom Real Clear Investigations suggests is the likely so-called whistleblower, received emails about Ukraine policy from a top director at George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
The emails informed Ciaramella and a handful of other Obama administration foreign policy officials about Soros’s whereabouts, the contents of Soros’s private meetings about Ukraine and a future meeting the billionaire activist was holding with the prime minister of Ukraine.
A primary recipient of the Open Society emails along with Ciaramella was then-Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, who played a central role in the anti-Trump dossier affair. Nuland, with whom Ciaramella worked closely, received updates on Ukraine issues from dossier author Christopher Steele in addition to her direct role in facilitating the dossier within the Obama administration.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/17/emails-open-society-kept-alleged-whistleblower-eric-ciaramella-updated-on-george-soross-personal-ukraine-activities/
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Polls, polls, and more poles.
THE DEMOCRATS AREN’T FOOLING ANYONE
Rasmussen asked this question about the Democrats’ politicized impeachment charade: “When they write or talk about the impeachment effort, are most reporters trying to help impeach President Trump, or block his impeachment? Or are most reporters simply interested in reporting the news in an unbiased manner?”
The results:
Most voters don’t expect fair play from the media when it comes to news coverage of the Democrats’ impeachment attempt.
Fifty-three percent (53%) of Likely U.S. Voters think most reporters are trying to help impeach President Trump when they write or talk about the impeachment effort. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that just 32% believe most reporters are simply interested in reporting the news in an unbiased manner. Eight percent (8%) say most are trying to block Trump’s impeachment.
My guess is that most of those who say the press is merely reporting the news don’t actually believe it, but are just Democratic Party loyalists.
Interestingly, minorities are more skeptical of reporters’ motives than whites:
Other minority voters (60%) believe even more strongly than whites (51%) and blacks (53%) that most reporters are trying to help impeach Trump.
I expect President Trump to do quite well with all the principal minority groups (blacks, Hispanics and Asians) in next year’s election.
Quote, unquote
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He must watch a lot of MSNBC and CNN.
Lowell Hill Rd.,Husband dug hole in back yard, buried self, claims Russians are after him.No Guns, but danger to self & others. Wife safe. unit in route, welfare check. Must lead L.E. into house. Very complex roadways. Meeting.
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Gregory
You need to be refreshed on the 233-197 seat lead in the House the Dems achieved during the Blue Wave House midterm elections . Now it seems the Pubbers can’t even win Governors races in strong Republican States-Kentucky and Georgia of all places. You can thank Trump for that.
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Kentucky was a bad R Governor and not liked. All the rest of the statewide races went R. Louisiana, not Georgis you dope, was the Gov was liked and pro gun and anti-abortion. All the rest of the statewide races went R. And the Sec of State race was a huge blowout for the R and not the close one the Gov’s was. Rassmussen has Trump at 50-50 and better than Pelosi and Schumer. The R’s need to pick up 21 House seats to gain the majority. You really have a hard time with defeat analysis and it sure shows.
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About time to clean house! –
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/11/17/france-shuts-down-mosques-and-schools-linked-to-islamism-in-15-neighbourhoods/
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DB 5:05 – Way too late. Are they going to close the maternity hospitals?
The Mohammedans can easily out-breed the sterile native French.
“He added that in his view political Islamism should not be conflated with the religion of Islam more generally.”
The fool needs to actually study Islam. Islam demands a govt run by the clerics. Perhaps a quick review of most all majority Islamic countries would open his pea brain just a bit.
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Oh com on now ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman, the historic win was the senate, can you say lifetime judicial appointment? Didn’t think so. LOL
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putz 447pm
You’re repeating yourself, punch.
The Kentucky gov’s race was lost because the GOP candidate was not liked. An incumbent who had 4 years in office to make his case and the people said no. All the other statewide races were won by GOP candidates.
And in Looseyana, the Democratic incumbent was wellliked and more of a Republican than most Republicans in California… seems to be a modern Blue Dog Dem.
In other words, Paul: stop lying through your teeth to try to manufacture a false talking point.
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Paul steps on his own feet – “You need to be refreshed on the 233-197 seat lead in the House the Dems achieved during the Blue Wave House midterm elections . Now it seems the Pubbers can’t even win Governors races in strong Republican States-Kentucky and Georgia of all places. You can thank Trump for that.”
Uh, Paul…
I could have sworn that Trump was destroying our democracy.
Can’t have it both ways.
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Funny how Trump who has never held a single political office until 2017 is to blame for decades of problems in the US.
Virginia has been turning from red to purple to blue over years. It’s mostly due to the number of federal employees in the state who are about 90% Dem. Now, the college that Thomas Jefferson himself founded (U of V) is now hell bent on removing his name or any reference to the name…not to mention George Washington.
On top of that, they elected a Governor who wore a Klans hood, a Lt. Gov that has raped black women (with 10,000 times more evidence than what was used against Kavanaugh), and a Attorney General who donned black face.
Just like old times. Yep, the Dem south shall rise again.
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Quote of the day…..maybe.
“I was surprised when Epstein killed himself, but not as surprised as Epstein.”
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Interesting discussion about the gov not being able to change election rules…It’s been done before by F.D. Roosevelt as mentioned here.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President of the United States four times: 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944. … As a result of FDR’s unprecedented four terms, the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1951, limiting all future presidents to two elected terms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_inauguration_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt
Makes ya wonder doesn’t it?
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putz 447pm
“You need to be refreshed on the 233-197 seat lead in the House the Dems achieved during the Blue Wave House midterm elections”
Punchy needs to be refreshed as to what had been happening in the two years between Nov ’16 and ’18… Trump was derided by your buddies as perhaps even a Russian asset, and beginning with the initial Mueller start, a countdown to the next election and the Mueller results which was expected to right the wrong of Nov ’16.
Didn’t happen.
While the Congress changed hands, not by a huge majority, many of those seats were from areas that Trump carried handily… and if the ‘impeachment’ doesn’t end with a removal… ’20 might not work out as planned.
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Barnie – Yeah – funny how all of those things the Trump Haters said Trump would do, actually were done by a famous Dem POTUS. Whom the left still idolizes.
FDR said that being a servant is all an African American would be good for. And he put American citizens in concentration camps. Based on race.
And he signed the bill to take job opportunities away from Blacks.
But Trump is EVIL, because he just maybe, might do what they fantasize he will do.
But has never done.
The fact that he proves them wrong every day enrages them.
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” the Trump Haters said Trump would do”
I’m not altogether sure they believe all of that either. My theory on the matter is that Trump is a guy that they viscerally can’t stand, the loud guy on the football team that made fun of them in the locker room, so you accuse him of being the absolute worst thing you can think of.
The urban left, humming ‘The Internationale’, think of him as a Nazi, ready to round up Jews and marching in jackboots towards Russia (well, maybe not Russia, Berkeley perhaps). Feminists? He’s a rapist mysogynist bastard who reminds them of their ex-husband. The Republican-hating African-Americans? KKK personified, putting up Nathan Forrest statues and interfering with naming every main street in America after MLK. (hmmmm, maybe an idea for Broad St?). Open borders zealots? He’s Vlad the Impaler tearing infants from their mothers’ breasts, impaling them on spikes, keeping hundreds of millions from rejoining families in the promised land.
They whisper the stories to each other in a peculiar sort of fear pornography. The horror, the horror.
Naturally, his backers of whatever policy persuasion combine all those features.
Really all you’re seeing is an argumentative guy who went to Washington without a pre-built shadow government ready to roll. Oh well.
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Oh my. Victor Davis Hansen takes his gloves off against Max Boot and David French. A man can only take so much of the Unhinged. Rather long for the average sock puppet.
The Wages of Trump Fixation
First paragraphs:
“Max Boot recently wrote that my arguments against the impeachment inquiry are prima facie proof of why the Democrats should, in fact, impeach Trump: “If even the great historian Victor Davis Hanson can’t make a single convincing argument against impeachment, I am forced to conclude that no such argument exists.”
In fact, I made 10 such arguments, all of which Boot attempted, but has failed, to refute. In this context, Boot’s intellectual erosion as a historian and analyst is a valuable warning of stage-four Trump Derangement Syndrome. I offer that diagnosis with regret given I once knew and liked Boot. But his commentary over the last three years has become sadly unhinged.
Most recently Boot declared—and then quickly retracted it only in embarrassment after popular outrage—that chief ISIS mass-murdering psychopathic Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi did not kill himself in cowardly fashion as Trump had described: “The assertion that Baghdadi died as a coward was, in any case, contradicted by the fact that rather than be captured, he blew himself up.”
When Baghdadi was cornered by American forces, he chose to murder three innocent children rather than surrender—consistent with his entire venomous career of ordering the beheading, burning, and mutilating of innocent captives from a safe distance. The murder of defenseless children is cowardly.
No one should know better the horrific crimes of a mass-murdering Josef Stalin than the Russian-born Boot. Stalin’s purges, orchestrated famines, gulags, show trials, liquidation of the officer class, and atrocities during World War II perhaps accounted for over 20 million Russian deaths. So how could Boot write, “I would sooner vote for Josef Stalin than I would vote for Donald Trump”? Twenty million dead souls don’t quite match Boot’s hatred of Trump.“
Last paragraphs:
“As to specifics, it was not Fox News whose anchors falsely assured us about every month or so that the “walls” of the Mueller effort to get Trump “were closing in on him.” Throughout this entire sad saga, it is also not Fox News but rather CNN that has been frequently forced to fire or reassign a large number of marquee reporters, analysts, and anchors for unprofessional, unethical, or simply incompetent journalism.
At many levels, the psychological pathology of projection has characterized this entire three-year effort to remove Trump. That syndrome also applies to the NeverTrump rump that for over 1,000 days has misled and smeared in its self-righteous pursuit of supposed truth and civility.”
https://amgreatness.com/2019/11/17/the-wages-of-trump-fixation/
What you sow is what you reap. Funny how that works.
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 18 November 2019 at 08:21 AM
,,,Max Boot??? Where does he get his shoes shined??? Who cares??? Is he running for President???
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,,,oh,,, I see,,,VD is a military historian,,,and so is Max Boot
just another dick measuring exercise between those two I guess…
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,,,Putin has Fast Eddie Snowden,,,now he wants Maria Butina,,,
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-offers-job-maria-butina-172441526.html
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Carlos Ceechie 947am
No, it’s an example of an old fashioned “argument” generally described as a coherent series of reasons, statements or facts intended to support or establish a point of view.
I’d suggest you give it a try but I don’t think you’ve the knack for coherence.
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,,,Gregory,,,nah,,,just a couple of partisan loudmouths with big egos,,,
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,,,lots of shoot em ups on the news lately,,, sure is great having all those guns floating around…looks like Trump is deranging the entire country!!! With America Doing So Great Now why all the shootings???
Have you heard Trump wants to make auto/truck pollution requirements a standardized federal standard???
That is what is needed for gun control…one federal standard so you cannot buy a gun in one state with little to no background checks and take it to another state.
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@ 7:14 am
“Really all you’re seeing is an argumentative guy who went to Washington without a pre-built shadow government ready to roll. Oh well.”
True dat.
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Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Subpoena of Trump Financial Documents
“For the first time in our nation’s history, Congress has subpoenaed the personal records of a sitting president from before he was in office,” read a statement last week from Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow. “And, for the first time in our nation’s history, a court upheld a congressional subpoena to the president for his personal papers. Those decisions are wrong and should be reversed.”
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 18 November 2019 at 11:39 AM
,,,That is good news for Trumpski Bill,,,but the State of New York is not Congress…
once those docs make it to New York the leaks will begin…
Maybe WikiLeaks will release them just in time for the election!!!
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,,,Republicans for Trump are mouthing about how Impeachment rarely happens and how it should only be used for the most serious offenses…like lying about a Blow Job
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CC 10:41 – “That is what is needed for gun control…one federal standard so you cannot buy a gun in one state with little to no background checks and take it to another state.”
And pray tell what ‘standard’ would that be?
What evidence do you have that the recent shootings in Cali involved guns brought in illegally from another state?
Ah, yes – that’s right.
None.
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.Rather on CNN: ‘Truth Is Closing In’ on Trump! Also, He Runs a CULT”
Dan Rather, eh? Well, blame than one on Botox as well. I thought they gave him a gold watch and showed him the door for not living up to journalistic standards. Opps, strike that. Dan lives up to today’s journalist standards.
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,,,A candidate in the 2020 presidential race wants the federal government to seize the private property of dozens of Texans under the dubious pretext of a national emergency,,,
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/trump-seize-private-property/602161/?utm_medium=offsite&utm_source=yahoo&utm_campaign=yahoo-non-hosted&yptr=yahoo
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Hey Car-load! How about letting us in on that national ‘standard’ you said you wanted.
Or maybe you don’t have a clue?
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You knew this was coming…….
If it saves just one life…..it will have been worth it!
https://babylonbee.com/news/supreme-court-allows-obese-people-to-sue-utensil-manufacturer
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,,,Try using your noggin Kleenex,,,key words might include Universal and Federal…
This might be breaking news to you but I don’t make the laws
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See…….now this is obviously Fake News……it’s impossible for crimes like this to happen in California…….because laws!
People don’t get shot in California like this……again……because laws!
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/18/780477253/fresno-police-backyard-where-10-shot-likely-targeted-we-just-don-t-know-why
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Not a bad speech.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-19th-annual-barbara-k-olson-memorial-lecture
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LOL!! The queen of the DAMNED thinks we are too stupid to decide come election day? That includes every LIB!!!
https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/18/pelosi-weak-dangerous-people-decide-election/
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doubled down on impeachment Monday, telling her Democratic colleagues in a memo that it was “weak” and “dangerous” to back off and let the American people decide in 2020.”
I say,, SCREW YOU BITCH!!! You have been in that ivory tower WAY too long.. And you say the Constitution is in jeopardy?
YUP!! From the likes of you….
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Google is the “other” performer in the Tijuana donkey show.
And the donkey can’t be more happy.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/11/18/wsj-investigation-further-debunks-googles-claim-of-no-manual-intervention-in-searches/
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Car-load flunks out again – “…key words might include Universal and Federal…”
Dude, you’re just repeating yourself – you already said that.
And I asked “what standard” –
He side steps by letting us all in on the fascinating news that –
“…I don’t make the laws”
Well no shite, you don’t even make any sense.
I asked you what standard you wanted.
Car-load hasn’t got a friggin’ clue.
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,,,Kleenex has blown his mind,,,
nuff said…
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,,,Trump cannot make up his mind…as usual
“Just two months ago, President Donald Trump responded to the growing health crisis fueled by e-cigarette use, particularly among teens, by calling for a ban on flavored vaping products. Six weeks later, however, Trump indicated—without giving his reasoning—a softening in his stance on e-cigarettes. Now, just over two months after his initial statement, the initiative to ban flavored products favored by teens appears to have been completely snuffed out. Why? “As he had done so many times before,” the Washington Post reports, “Trump reversed course—this time on a plan to address a major public health problem because of worries that apoplectic vape shop owners and their customers might hurt his reelection prospects.”…Slate
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/11/trump-reversal-flavored-e-cigarette-vape-ban.html?sid=5388f2f2dd52b8ed11006c50&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=traffic&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=TheSlatest
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“Car-Load”……..brilliant!
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