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Sandbox – 2feb20

02 February 2020

[Lots and lots to talk about as the Dems start their post-acquittal assault on President Trump. Go for it, I have my usual $100 bet with my east coast pal, so I'm gonna watch the Super Bowl. gjr]

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370 responses to “Sandbox – 2feb20”

Bill Tozer

08 February 2020

It’s all Kavanaugh now.
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/02/Screen-Shot-2020-02-07-at-6.52.21-AM.png?w=934&ssl=1
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Oh Odlaj
Hitler drank water. Trump drinks water. Aha! You made the connection. Well done. Opps, strike that. Trump drinks Diet Cokes.
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Gregory

08 February 2020

odliD 904am
… and you just look at repurposed pictures.

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Barry Pruett

08 February 2020

Got my ballot yesterday. Let the shit show begin. 😂

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scenes

08 February 2020

I never watch political debates, it’s just an entertainment show masquerading as news, but ran into this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzeiPTUIANk
lol, that gives me hope for the Republic.

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scenes

08 February 2020

re: BillT
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/02/Screen-Shot-2020-02-07-at-8.07.07-PM.png?w=1196&ssl=1
lmao. Now that’s funny.

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Bill Tozer

08 February 2020

@ 9:28 am
Thanks Scenes for that video. I must be slipping. I did not even know there was a Dem Debate last night until late afternoon when somebody said, “Whose bright idea was it to schedule the debate on a Friday night?” I thought it was Oscar night. In fact, last night I could not bring myself to read one article on the Granite State Debate. Come to think of it, that video was the first I saw of it. Thanks again!
The Dem Debate. Normally I would post this under ‘They’re Off!’, but I feel this is on thread, thus app-pro-pro.
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And here is the whole lot of those pics.. They always bury a gun picture last. Odd.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/the-week-in-pictures-mega-trumpy-edition.php

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fish

08 February 2020

Posted by: odlaw | 08 February 2020 at 09:04 AM
,,,Trumpski does read…Mein Kampf
Rookie mistake dugsKKKi……if you’re going to play the Hitler card …..again….at least call him “Trumpler” like RR’s transsexual in residence Roberta Cross does!

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fish

08 February 2020

Posted by: scenes | 08 February 2020 at 09:31 AM
lmao. Now that’s funny.
Unfortunately no-one younger than 45 gets the reference!

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fish

08 February 2020

Why does every single democrat nominee seem to go so joyfully off the rails…..

VIDEO: Bloomberg Says The Midwest Isn’t Intelligent Enough To Understand Trans Rights.

Hmmm….maybe not! Probably smart enough though to tell white lefty billionaire with #metoo problems to pound sand though!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfzmXyqxW30&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2VvtcMbfJPI0b0YHrRpMJV9KlRN2AIv9XI3l7ck5c-Yw16olvJLcwNzM4

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Bill Tozer

08 February 2020

What did Trump do during the Dem Debate and when did he do it?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-trump-trolls-democrats-during-debate-with-video

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fish

08 February 2020

No real dog in the Kobe Bryants memory v Gayle King but the post raises yet another hypocritical action by Twitter Soy Tech Boy Jack Dorsey!

Snoop Dogg Threatens “Funky Dog Head Bitch” Gayle King On Instagram: “Back Off Before We Come Get You”

My guess is that even with all of Jacks money and private security staff Angry Calvin makes Jacks heart go pitter patter!!
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/snoop-dogg-threatens-funky-dog-head-bitch-gayle-king-instagram-back-we-come-get-you

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Todd Juvinall

08 February 2020

Open Secrets has some interesting contributors to people opposing our Congressmen. Denney has a bunch of churces and locally AJA and Telestream.
<cClintock’s opponent has a sizable donation from Facebook.

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George Rebane

08 February 2020

ToddJ 1224pm – I’m interested in what you’re reporting, but can’t parse your language. Could you give us another more expanded version of it? Thanks.

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scenes

08 February 2020

re: GeorgeR@12:39
opensecrets.com district 1 of California race shows the various contributors.
I’m seeing $3370 from AJA and $2945 from Telestream (weren’t they bought by some sort of investment firm? maybe this merely show contributions by employees?)
In a 1M$+ campaign, while it might show the political kinks of a business owner, it’s probably not such a big deal.
Contributions by church (seem to me) merely show the split between denominations. Those that still believe in Christian doctrine go (R), those that eventually lose any pretense of that tend (D). Just an observation, not a judgement.

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Todd Juvinall

08 February 2020

GeorgeR “open secrets” is website that lists all the candidates for office.

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Todd Juvinall

08 February 2020

https://www.opensecrets.org/races/election?id=CA.

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Walt

08 February 2020

A great video for America lovers. (but will make LIBS soil themselves) PLENTY of firepower in civilian private ownership.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDpCJfvP0O8

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Don Bessee

08 February 2020

The botox must have gotten to her for her not to have thought about the videos that were going to raise funds for the re-election campaign. LOL! –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-demand-twitter-yank-edited-video-of-pelosi-ripping-state-of-the-union-speech-posted-by-trump
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scenes

08 February 2020

Good Lord, Trump has earned my vote 10x over for this one.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90460145/trumps-executive-order-would-impose-classical-style-on-federal-buildings-should-we-be-worried
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/arts/design/federal-building-architecture.html
https://archinect.com/news/article/150182600/read-the-draft-text-of-president-trump-s-classical-architecture-executive-order
No doubt the Blue Mob will equate classical architecture to Hitler. Belittling their heritage is standard operating procedure after all.
I thought that judge appointments would be the longest lasting policy, but any new buildings will be around for 100+ years. There is nothing the Orange Man can’t do.

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fish

08 February 2020

Hey Roberta…….
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/02/Epstein-Valentines-day-Hanging.png?w=796&ssl=1
Don’t leave me hangin…..!

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scenes

08 February 2020

re: moi@1:48PM
Expect Albert Speer’s name to come up as the Mob waves their Tyrannosaur arms about Nazis and whatnot.
Good gawd what a tiresome bunch of people.

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Don Bessee

08 February 2020

The fear is palpable in the socialist dem clown car –
While Democrats see Trump as a corrosive figure and a threat to the nation, they also see the president and his well-funded campaign tailoring a reelection bid around the strong economy and visceral appeals to his ardent supporters.
Trump’s robust political standing came into view this past week, as he claimed vindication from his acquittal in his Senate trial despite damaging House testimony about his conduct with Ukraine – and set off on a path of retribution by ousting some officials who were witnesses. At the same time, his Gallup approval rating ticked up to 49 percent, its highest point yet.
The developments have generated convulsions of angst among Democrats, who watched their first-in-the-nation Iowa presidential caucuses conclude in a chaotic fiasco and deliveran inconclusive result. Many in the party are now soundingthe alarm that denying Trump a second term could be far more difficult than they had calculated.
https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Trump-s-resilience-causes-Democrats-to-sound-the-15040965.php
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Don Bessee

08 February 2020

Meanwhile back at the socialist dem circular firing squad –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-campaign-ad-mocks-buttigiegs-experience-as-south-bend-mayor
😉

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George Rebane

08 February 2020

ToddJ 113pm – My problem was with “churces” which I should have recognized as contributing ‘churches’ which @1256pm cleared up. Thanks.

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Walt

08 February 2020

Here ya’ go Tesla lovers.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/02/08/tesla-remotely-removes-features-from-used-cars-without-warning/
at at the bottom of the story,
Following his conversation with Tesla customer support, Alec decided to reach out and see what the company’s response would be if he requested that Autopilot and FSD be removed from a used Tesla vehicle he was interested in purchasing, Tesla told him that “…if it’s added and it’s a used car they just simply will not remove it.”

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scenes

08 February 2020

Hot news of the day:
https://i.redd.it/6zwlmh2brpf41.jpg
Oops:
https://i.redd.it/rdccah5o5qf41.jpg
The truth of the matter:
https://i.redd.it/cm424l2ebtf41.jpg
Good point:
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Don Bessee

08 February 2020

While we have the socialist dems who want to destroy the economy we also have the external communist’s that are doing everything to deconstruct democracy using our own freedoms. Thanks comrades deblasio, warren and sanders –
China’s Communist Party has infiltrated various levels of America’s infrastructure and is working to destroy the values of the United States, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a speech Saturday, while also warning state governors to be wary of China’s infiltration.
“We can’t ignore China’s actions and strategic intentions,” he said while addressing the National Governors Association winter meeting. “The Chinese government has been methodical in the way it’s analyzed our system… it’s assessed our vulnerabilities and it’s decided to exploit our freedoms, to gain an advantage over us at the federal level, the state level and the local level.”
“Competition with China is happening. It’s happening in your state,” Pompeo added. “In fact, I’d be surprised if most of you in the audience had not been lobbied by the Chinese Communist Party directly.”
He said groups loyal to communist China are operating out in the open in Virginia, Minnesota, Florida and dozens of other states all around the country. Other Chinese groups, however, practice their nefarious actions in the shadows in an attempt to exercise influence over U.S. citizens and lawmakers.
Pompeo cited a letter from a diplomat at the Chinese Consul in New York to the speaker of an unnamed state legislature, advising that U.S. officials refrain from independent interaction with Taiwan.
“You add a diplomat from China, assigned here to the United States, a representative of the Chinese Communist Party, in New York City, sending a letter urging that an American elected official shouldn’t exercise his right to freedom of speech,” he explained.
NIKKI HALEY WARNS OF CHINA THREAT, CALLS BEIJING ‘OUR FOREMOST NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERN’
The secretary said this isn’t an uncommon event and that Chinese officials based in the U.S. are actively seeking to sow seeds of chaos at the state and local level — specifically in the realm of education on college campuses and K-12 classrooms.
“Maybe some of you have heard about the time when the Chinese consulate paid the UC San Diego students to protest the Dalai Lama,” he continued. “It shows depth. It shows systemization. It shows intent.”
He added: “Chinese Communist party officials, too, are cultivating relationships with county school boards and local politicians — Often through what are known as ‘Sister City Programs’ … This competition is well underway.”
Pompeo also spoke about China’s campaign to recruit U.S. scientists and academics to share vital secrets, in exchange for monetary gain through their “Thousand Talents Plan,” a campaign that has already targeted scientists and professors on campuses such as Virginia Tech and Harvard and triggered investigations by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
He also explained how Beijing pressures Chinese students in the U.S. to keep an eye on their fellow countrymen and report back to the government about their activities.
“China’s propaganda starts even earlier than college. China has targeted K-12 schools around the world,” he said. “Do you know that we have no ability to establish similar programs in China? We should have reciprocity in all things. Today they have free reign in our system and we’re completely shut out from theirs… Beijing knows that today’s kids are tomorrow’s leaders.”
Pompeo then warned state governors about doing business with China and said it is common to indirectly finance communism without realizing it. He then extended the hand of the federal government and said the Trump administration is standing by, ready to help states with this growing problem.
“I want to urge vigilance on the local level too,” he said. “It’s worth trusting but verifying. There are federal officials prepared to help you work your way through these challenges when they arise. Don’t make separate individual deals that undermine our national policy. I know none of you would do so intentionally. Let us help you.”
“I hope you will all take on board what I’ve said today,” Pompeo added. “Don’t lose sight of the competition from China that’s already present in your state. Let’s all rise to the occasion and protect our security, our economy, indeed all that we hold dear.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pompeo-warns-governors-of-china-infiltration
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Walt

08 February 2020

Beware Brother Bill. The spillover of nutjobs from the ridge
have migrated down your way.
3:24 p.m. — A man from Highway 20 and Mooney Flat Road reported a Middle Eastern person with carrier pigeons. He knows this “might sound strange,” but terrorists are trying to find new ways of infiltrating the country.
Just shoot those pigeons on the safe side. I have a good rotisserie recipe if you bag a few.

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Bill Tozer

09 February 2020

Walt @ 9:39 pm
There is enough nut jobs on Mooney Flat that drive TO the Ridge taking the back roads for the Ridge to worry about, not me.
So, they described me as ‘Middle Eastern’, eh? I prefer ‘Siberian’. 🙂

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Bill Tozer

09 February 2020

When Trump makes the election about him, Trump wins. When the media makes the news cycle about his latest tweet, Trump wins. And they thought impeachment and 24/7 carpet bombing would damage/weaken Trump entering the 2020 election? Wrong.
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“The press is all out of bullets. So are Democrats. I knew this would happen. That was why I wrote in September, “Go ahead, media. Impeach my day.”
“Democrats and the press have gone out of their way to not “normalize” this presidency, however they are the ones who look abnormal to the rest of us. Too late, they realize this.
He’s a borg. Resistance is futile.”
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2020/02/wapo-notices-obvious.html

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scenes

09 February 2020

re: BillT@7:28.
An opinion.
I like how the columnist describes the tactical problems of Team Blue. If nothing else, they simply have poor marketing skills. Ironic given the huge advantage in terms of both media ownership and dominance in entertainment.
The important thing that I think this writers miss is a huge underlying difference between Teams Red and Blue. The Trump voters appear to represent a bloc of the country with a lot in common, maybe not 100% an ethnic thing but a general philosophy. Let’s call it traditional America. They finally got tired of being pushed around and they like their General just fine.
OTOH, Team Blue is a coalition. They’re hard to describe as an overarching group. A bunch of highly motivated special interests each with their own kink. The La Razans normally wouldn’t even speak to our local Blue Mobsters, it isn’t like a monolithic voting group such as urban blacks cares a lick about climate change when compared to a San Francisco tech bro.
Maybe it’s easiest just to see it all as a spoils systems. Team Red likes getting subsidized Medicare but otherwise desires just being left alone, Team Blue has cut a thousand deals within it’s ranks as to how to cut up the carcass.

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scenes

09 February 2020

Here’s one way to keep the cost of rent down.
https://reason.com/2020/02/05/l-a-politicians-want-to-seize-private-apartment-building-to-prevent-rent-increases

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George Rebane

09 February 2020

DonB 852pm – Thanks for that important and good report Mr Bessee.

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fish

09 February 2020

Will we hear the same shrieks of outrage from TEAM LEFTY after this incident that we heard after Charlottesville? No fatalities fortunately but there certainly could have been! Hardly a peep from MSM so far……

Trump Supporters Attacked After Van Plows Through GOP Voter Registration Tent In Florida; Suspect Arrested

Magic 8 Ball says………“Outlook not so good.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-supporters-attacked-after-van-plows-through-gop-voter-registration-tent-florida

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fish

09 February 2020

Oh Magic 8 Ball……is there nothing you don’t know?

ABC, CBS Uninterested in Van Attack Against Trump Supporters Registering Voters

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/02/09/abc-cbs-uninterested-van-attack-against-trump-supporters

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Bill Tozer

09 February 2020

You go girl! Speak that truth.
“Tulsi Gabbard Defends Trump Firing Vindman Brothers, Sondland. Rips DNC, Bloomberg.“
“Ultimately, whether people like or not, there are consequences to elections,” Gabbard responded. “And the president has, within his purview, to make the decisions about who he’d like serving in his cabinet.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-defends-trump-firing-vindman-brothers-sondland-rips-dnc-bloomberg

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Walt

09 February 2020

Looks like Joe’s dementia meds took way longer to kick in.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-is-running-out-of-gas?ref=scroll
People are just showing up to see what goes wrong.
Inside the Rex Theatre it was almost impossible to find an actual Biden supporter. Most of those in attendance were not even from New Hampshire, and those who were said that they’d come not to lend their support so much as to survey their options
“Forty-five minutes after Joe Biden’s first campaign event was supposed to start on Saturday, his crowd had grown restless. The former vice president wasn’t at the Rex Theatre in downtown Manchester and those crammed inside were wondering just how much longer they’d have to suck in the heated air before they get to see him speak.
“We Want Joe!” the voices said, overpowering the soundtrack of classic rock and commercial motown that had been playing on blast to keep the crowd from completely dozing off.

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Don Bessee

09 February 2020

Creepy grampa joe again shows his true self –
Perhaps the pressure is getting to him.
On Sunday, Joe Biden snapped at a voter in New Hampshire, calling him a “lying, dog-faced pony soldier.”
The dust-up came after the voter asked Biden, “How do you explain the performance in Iowa and why should the voters believe that you can win a national election?”
“You ever been to a caucus?” Biden replied.
After the voter said she indeed had attended a caucus, Biden shot back: “No you haven’t. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier.”
https://news.grabien.com/story-biden-calls-skeptical-new-hampshire-voter-lying-dog-faced-po
😉

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Bill Tozer

09 February 2020

@ 11:58 AM
“He broke me.” That’s a Nancy quote, but Joe is now saying it too. 😉

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Don Bessee

09 February 2020

No conversation other that the approved group think in the EU –
“The idea that young people are seriously committed to stopping climate change — we could call it Greta syndrome — permit me my doubts,” Borrell, a 72-year-old Spanish socialist, said in reference to Greta Thunberg, the teenage Swedish climate worrier. “It is fine to demonstrate against climate change so long as nobody asks you to pay for it.
“I wonder if the young people demonstrating on the streets of Berlin to call for measures against climate change are aware of the costs of those measures — and if they are willing to reduce their living standards to compensate Polish miners.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/09/wrongthink-e-u-diplomat-apologizes-regrets-mild-criticism-of-greta-thunberg/
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scenes – lying dog-faced pony soldier

09 February 2020

“lying dog-faced pony soldier.”
lmfao. I really like that turn of phrase.

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fish

09 February 2020

Posted by: Don Bessee | 09 February 2020 at 11:58 AM
GaffeMaster Joe and Snoop Dogg reading from the same Big Book of Progressive Insults”!
Who is the presidential candidate?
….. “FUNKY DOG HEADED BITCH”
vs.
……“A LYING, DOG-FACED PONY SOLDIER”
Who’s the rap impresario?

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fish

09 February 2020

dugsKKKi’s lost weight……still in fine voice though!
https://twitter.com/sft_asu/status/1225214752068030464

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Bill Tozer

09 February 2020

“lying dog-faced pony soldier.” That’s no malarkey. That was the bees knees, the knuckle sandwich special. Skirts, I tell ya.

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Don Bessee

09 February 2020

But they are entertaining in a nascar wreck kind of way –
Why it matters: In less than 200 hours, Democrats botched Iowa, watched Trump hit an all-time popularity high, debated ousting the DNC chair, and watched a socialist soar and an ideological civil war intensify.
https://www.axios.com/democrats-worst-week-iowa-caucus-1897dc63-341b-4f5d-a274-566c6704cbdb.html
😉

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Walt

09 February 2020

You gotta love sore losers (yes,, that’s you LIBS) They really help one savor WINNING. From Nancy losing it and going into a paper tearing rage, to little LIBshits yelling in the streets.
Almost better than fine BBQ.(almost)

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Bill Tozer

09 February 2020

Walt @ 2:43 pm
It’s the taste of Lib tears added to the sauce that gives it its fine flavor. Not too little, not too much, but just right. Goldilocks style. It’s going be a delightful Bar-B-Que season, pun intended.
Love how they are going mad, mad, mad from the older ones who know better to the little Miss Sunshines. The Day of Reckoning approacheth.

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Bill Tozer

09 February 2020

Don @ 2:16 pm
There must be fifty of those ‘Dems in Disarray, Dispirited, Having Doubts” articles going around right now, the lion’s share of the reporting coming from the Left, lol. Warms the Cockles of me hearth. Oh my. Popcorn time.
VIDEOS: CHRIS MATTHEWS’ TURN AT BERNIEPHOBIA (UPDATED: BIDEN UNPLUGGED?!?!)
“Meanwhile, with all the drama Trump provided this week with the State of the Union conflict with Speaker Pelosi, the Senate impeachment acquittal, and the Prayer Breakfast bravado, it is significant that last night Saturday Night Live passed on any of these story lines in favor of a quickly-produced parody of the Democrats’ Friday night New Hampshire debate—and the Democrats don’t come out looking very good:
When you’ve lost Chris Matthews and Saturday Night Live. . .”
Update: “This is just breaking—did Joe Biden really call someone a “lying dog-faced pony solider” in New Hampshire today? Why yes—yes he did:
Though I’m thinking this may be the most intelligent thing Biden has ever said”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/video-chris-matthews-turn-at-berniephobia.php
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Rolling Stone: First half is pretty good. I might start calling the Bernie Bros the ‘Doobie Brothers.’
‘Yesterday’s Gone: Iowa Was Waterloo for Democrats’
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iowa-caucus-democrats-disaster-trump-sanders-949655/amp/
Pssssssss…….I hear the air going out of their ball. Bummer. Enjoy their deflation now while it lasts. They will be coming back over here full of vim and vigor, piss and vinegar, and itching for a fight soon enough. Anger is the fastest way out of a depression.

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Bill Tozer

09 February 2020

‘The New Puritans; Today’s cultural scolds demand that artists pass ideological and behavioral purity tests.’
Quotable Quote: “With the rise of social media and ‘woke’ activism, membership in the School of Resentment has swelled immeasurably.”
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“Commit yourself to around-the-clock content on every aspect of pop culture, and you will hit on the social-justice and moral-outrage angles eventually. Add to this a stable of writers trained to think in terms of power relations, racial oppression, and the victimhood hierarchy, and it becomes impossible not to weigh in, as the Times did in 2017, on, say, the “whitewashing debate” surrounding the casting of a white instead of an Asian actor to play the white Marvel superhero Iron Fist in Netflix’s eponymous series. The press, in other words, has an economic incentive to inform us of every cultural sin, and an audience exists that is eager to spread the word and shame the sinners.”
https://www.city-journal.org/cultural-moralists
What scolds! Outraged Puritans, what could be worse? Alas.

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Bill Tozer

09 February 2020

Before venturing headlong into this week, I must pause, chuckle, and reveal my favorite reading from last week Now I can look ahead.
James Carville: “Mayor Pete has to demonstrate over the course of a campaign that he can excite and motivate arguably the most important constituents in the Democratic Party: African Americans. These voters are a hell of a lot more important than a bunch of 25-year-olds shouting everyone down on Twitter.”
So he’s not happy. Democrats won’t like Carville when he’s not happy. I wonder if Carville was watching last night, and if so whether there are any un-smashed TV screens left in his house this morning.”

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