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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”

scenes

09 February 2020

BillT@4:22PM
Another article:
“I keep talking about how in the West, we are swiftly moving into a culture that resembles communist totalitarianism — this, based on what people who grew up under communism tell me. It’s not about gulags or secret police; it’s about building a post-liberal culture defined by militant progressive ideology, and enforcing it by destroying, personally and professionally, those who dissent. Part of this is inculcating fear and self-loathing within the minds of people living in those cultures. You don’t need the secret police when you have taught people to police themselves according to your totalitarian principles.
Today the New Totalitarianism took a new scalp, in a way that ought to scare the hell out of all of us, on both the left and the right, who value free speech and inquiry. And it happened to someone born in a communist country.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/amelie-wen-zhao-learns-to-love-big-brother/
It’s funny how our local Blue Mob never ever has anything to say about these culture war goodies. I guess that waiting for Trump to have a bit of toilet paper stick to his shoe is a full time job.

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George Rebane

09 February 2020

People in the GDR policed themselves where one of three citizens reported to the Stasi. This is coming here.

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odlaw

09 February 2020

,,,Mrs Doubtführer
https://www.facebook.com/1473849506066277/photos/a.1474547035996524/2631400800311136/?type=3

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Bill Tozer

09 February 2020

“It’s funny how our local Blue Mob never ever has anything to say about these culture war goodies. I guess that waiting for Trump to have a bit of toilet paper stick to his shoe is a full time job.
Posted by: scenes | 09 February 2020 at 06:00 PM”
Scenes—now you are sounding like Dr. Rebane! Where have all the flowers gone?
Silence is golden, duct tape is silver.

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Walt

09 February 2020

Damn Dougy,, Really having to go to the bargain basement
these days.
You get that from your pal Himmler? How’s he doing BTW?
He keeping those jackboots nice and shiney?

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Bill Tozer

09 February 2020

Link @ 5:27 pm
“The New Puritans show no sign of tempering their fanaticism or of submitting to reasoned argument the arcane dogmas and flagellatory demands of social justice. Packer is a committed liberal who “regretted [pulling my daughter out of] the public-school system,” whose family is obsessed with Hamilton—so much so that his daughter was “shocked and a little disappointed” to discover that the actual Founding Fathers were white—and whose children “sobbed inconsolably” when Trump was elected. Nonetheless, Packer admits to being confounded by the pseudo-religion of the authoritarian Left, a religion that skips over salvation and goes straight to inquisition. “At times the new progressivism, for all its up-to-the-minuteness, carries a whiff of the seventeenth century,” he writes, “with heresy hunts and denunciations of sin and displays of self-mortification. The atmosphere of mental constriction in progressive milieus, the self-censorship and fear of public shaming, the intolerance of dissent—these are qualities of an illiberal politics.”
How quickly a whiff becomes a stench.“
Ain’t that the truth.

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Walt

09 February 2020

OHHH LIBS!!!!!! Your Queen of the DAMNED may be in REAL deep shit.
That “copy” she ripped to shreds were not just “any” copy of the speech. It was the formal “original”.
Explained here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIEJAI17hpc
A criminal act.

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Bill Tozer

09 February 2020

No one is above the law

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Bill Tozer

09 February 2020

Rood Center, Gov. Center,
Solar Panels Blown Off Parking Structure onto the Ground. $$$

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Walt

09 February 2020

I can’t wait to see the HAZMAT disposal bill we have to fork out on that Bill.
I’m sure the resident in depth reporter Emery will keep us well informed.

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scenes

09 February 2020

moi: wondering why the Blue Mob goes radio silent when any discussion about crazy SJW behavior comes up.
comma-man: “Scenes—now you are sounding like Dr. Rebane! Where have all the flowers gone?”
In that case, chief blogger speaks heap big truth (as E. Warren would say).
Honestly, I just think it would be fun. There’s a ton of stories about the insanity of the modern university and just general intersectional mayhem out there. I’d love to see someone give a shot to justifying all of this. Maybe I’ll take on the task on a boring morning.

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Bill Tozer

10 February 2020

The next scandal is on the horizon. VDH
“Some of that skullduggery and more are currently the subjects of a criminal investigation by U.S. Attorney John Durham. The American public has been assaulted for four years by an array of fake scandals, fake bombshells, and fake televised analyses that camouflaged a systematic and terrible assault on our constitutional freedoms.
But soon the worm may turn. The real scandal is back on the horizon, and at last, we may learn that no one is above the law, and most certainly not a group of smug and mediocre apparatchiks who assumed they had the moral right to destroy a presidential candidate and later an elected president.
In sum, this real scandal, dormant for over four years, had been overshadowed by a series of progressive-government-media driven melodramas, aimed at both injuring the Trump presidency—and, in preemptive fashion, shielding a virtual coup to destroy an elected president.”
https://amgreatness.com/2020/02/09/the-once-and-future-scandal/

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Bill Tozer

10 February 2020

Not something you read about everyday.
DONALD TRUMP, THE TOAST OF NIGERIA
“This may be part of what Nwaubani is getting at in her snarky concluding passage:
Perhaps. . .another reason Nigerians love Trump [is that] with all the outlandishness his presidency has unleashed, he has shown that America isn’t some ideal place where leaders and the media and the opposition always conduct themselves with decorum. He has exposed the “African” in all of you.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/donald-trump-the-toast-of-nigeria.php

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Bill Tozer

10 February 2020

FBI Director: Carter Page Surveillance Was Illegal
https://patriotpost.us/articles/68445-fbi-director-carter-page-surveillance-was-illegal-2020-02-10?

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Gregory

10 February 2020

Here’s something to think about
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/angry-chinese-ambassador-slams-us-senator-absolutely-crazy-theory-coronavirus-biological

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odlaw

10 February 2020

Posted by: Bill Tozer | 10 February 2020 at 07:38 AM
VDH joins Deven Nunes,,,Nunes’ cow and Kevin McCarthy of the tumbleweed district in the Trump Deluded Masses tent…
‘’’You can just grab em by the pussy Trump’’’
grabbed Magoo Mitch Lilly Livered Lindsey Graham by their pussies and got them to throw the Impeachment trial…
It is going to be fun watching all the ads against Agent Orange Rind…waiting for the famous 2016 quotes by Lindsay Graham, Ted Cruz, Mitt Romney calling Trump a total Douchebag!!!
https://twitter.com/mikebloomberg/status/1226580658807504897?s=21

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scenes

10 February 2020

Speaking of China. Real speech begins at about 1:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1BbswU3i10

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Walt

10 February 2020

Selling your buttsore creme for 4th rates memes now?
Rough Times Dougy?

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Bill Tozer

10 February 2020

Settling All Family Business?
Coup participants the Vindman twins and Amb. Sondland got off easy.
“As described by the hysterical media, you would think that President Trump had “settled all family business” in the manner portrayed in The Godfather’s climactic scene when Michael Corleone has the heads of New York’s five Mafia families whacked.
But the truth is altogether to the contrary. In May of this year, Alexander Vindman will enroll in the Army War College. This is a highly sought and selective program and a singular opportunity to advance one’s military career. It is open only to the favored few who are being groomed for top leadership positions in the military.
Similarly, Yevgeny Vindman is set to work in the Office of General Counsel of the Army at the Pentagon. Neither this assignment nor the slot at the Army War College can be considered as punitive. Put another way, neither qualifies as the equivalent of being reduced in rank and placed in charge of the PX at Camp Frostbite, Alaska.
As for Sondland, he is a hotel magnate who was a big contributor to Trump’s 2016 campaign. Recalling him is not the equivalent of terminating the livelihood of a career State Department official. Sondland can go back to his day job of running his hotel empire. And, since the Obama regime is no longer in charge, he can do so without fear of the IRS auditing his company, OSHA inspecting his hotels, and ICE vetting his employees.
As retaliation goes, removing the Vindmans from the National Security Council and stripping Sondland of his ambassadorship is pretty weak stuff. Which raises the troubling question as to whether such pallid measures will be enough to deter others who may wish to emulate Sondland and the Vindman twins in any future coup attempt..
https://spectator.org/settling-all-family-business/

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Bill Tozer

10 February 2020

Keep an eye on Sen. Chuck Grassley. Another investigative report by Margot Cleveland.
‘Senators: IG FISA Abuse Report Misled Public About Crossfire Hurricane’
‘[C]ertain sections of the public version of the report are misleading because they are contradicted by relevant and probative classified information redacted in four footnotes.’
https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/10/senators-ig-fisa-abuse-report-misled-public-about-crossfire-hurricane/

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Bill Tozer

10 February 2020

@ 9:06 am
Another excellent find, Mr. Scenes

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Walt

10 February 2020

That didn’t take long.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/10/chuck-schumer-inspector-general-letter-donald-trump-whistleblowers/
“INVESTIGATE THE SOMEBITCH!!!”

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Bill Tozer

10 February 2020

Walt
Any bets on which month the next impeachment articles will be drawn up before the 2020 Elections?
Meanwhile, all eyes are focused on The Granite State.
https://www.oann.com/president-trump-to-shake-up-the-dems-a-little-bit-at-his-keep-america-great-rally-in-n-h/

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fish

10 February 2020

I am going to miss the corrupt bastard when he finally gets the message……!

Thank Goodness: Joe Biden Believes in ‘Rational’ Gun Policy – Like Not Having ’50 Clips in a Weapon’

https://www.redstate.com/alexparker/2020/02/09/thank-goodness-joe-biden-believes-in-having-a-rational-gun-policy-like-not-having-50-clips-in-a-weapon/

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Bill Tozer

10 February 2020

Oh my, that will get to Trump where it hurts, ROFLMAO. We are sooo wounded.
‘California bill would ban stays at Trump hotels for state employees’
“If passed, Low’s proposed measure wouldn’t be the first time California has put restrictions on travel by state employees.
In 2017, Attorney General Xavier Becerra added Texas, Alabama, South Dakota and Kentucky to the list of places where state employee travel is restricted after lawmakers passed legislation the previous year banning non-essential travel to states with laws the state claims discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. North Carolina, Kansas, Mississippi and Tennessee are already on the list.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-bill-would-ban-stays-at-trump-hotels-for-state-employees

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Don Bessee

10 February 2020

Winning – Drain that Swamp –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/10/report-trump-administration-has-removed-70-obama-holdovers-at-the-nsc/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/10/claim-white-house-reportedly-identified-will-remove-anonymous-resistance-official/
😉

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Bill Tozer

10 February 2020

………… sleuths have been unable to find a direct film source for Joe Biden’s inexplicable recall of “lying dog-faced pony soldier,” but I think for Joe’s next rhetorical trick, maybe he’ll let loose with “sallywagin’ hornswogglin’ cracker coaker” from Blazing Saddles, which was duly pronounced “authentic frontier gibberish.”
In fact, this scene looks like pretty faithful rendition of Biden’s increasingly senile campaign (just 1:48 long):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=108&v=DNC3OciAF3w&feature=emb_logo
Now who can argue with that? Joe does indeed express a courage little seen in this day and age.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/video-the-authentic-frontier-gibberish-of-joe-biden.php
That’s no malarkey.

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Don Bessee

10 February 2020

While the wokester stars wallowed in wokeness nobody paid attention. When will the studios realize how much money they are missing out on in box office receipts. The more PC the move the worse the box office. –
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/oscars-hit-all-time-low-tv-ratings-sunday-feb-9-2020-1278364
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Bill Tozer

10 February 2020

Amy Wax: “Woke” Lawyering and the Rule of Law Don’t Mix“
“As already noted, the wokeness cult dictates that important issues that were previously debatable are placed above legitimate dispute, and made unquestioned and unquestionable items of faith. This means that law students today are increasingly schooled and encouraged to regard certain ideas or arguments — those considered at odds with the woke paradigm of victimhood, identity politics, and oppression — as not only evil, but as inflicting unbearable distress and upset, and grievous psychological, emotional, and dignitary harm, on victims and on those who are forced to think about, consider, or make them. Woke warriors have taken to asserting that arguments and facts that contradict progressive cult precepts and understandings traumatize and cripple them, threatening their emotional well-being, and fatally compromising their ability to function as people and professionals. It is the law schools’ job and sacred duty to create “safe spaces” designed to protect students from these dire effects. This can only be done by banishing untoward ideas.”…
“Would someone like Maureen Mahoney, from either side of the aisle, take on such a role today? Or would he or she demur, invoking mental distress and psychological trauma, the need for a safe space, and the imperative of protecting victims, and herself, from the other side’s evil and intolerable position? Such a reaction is hardly far-fetched in today’s legal world. And even those who do not profess such intolerance and vulnerability, and who still believe in the old-fashioned principle of everyone’s entitlement to their best defense, are unlikely to risk sticking their necks out on behalf of a politically unpopular position. Witness the reaction to Harvard Dean Ronald Sullivan’s decision to take on the representation of alleged sexual harasser and rapist Harvey Weinstein. After many students criticized and attacked him for his role, Sullivan lost his job as the co-master of Mather House at Harvard College. Although some legal scholars and commentators came to his defense, many others did not. In contrast, I never recall hearing any lawyer or legal academic — right, left, or center — publicly fault or criticize Maureen Mahoney for defending Michigan Law School ‘s affirmative action program. This shows how times have changed, and not for the better.
In light of these developments, one wonders how the rule of law, which is integral to our rights and our democracy, can long survive. In an atmosphere dominated by woke progressivism and the voracious demands of political correctness, and peopled with gods, devils, sacred objects, despised blasphemers, and above all approved and unapproved positions, the very principles of fair procedure and fair representation are under attack. Our precious system, fragile in the best of times, grows weaker by the day. Let’s hope the cultish forces can be stopped before it’s too late.”
https://www.lawliberty.org/liberty-forum/woke-lawyering-and-the-rule-of-law-dont-mix/

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Don Bessee

10 February 2020

The botox queen is the twitchy face of the dems –
Nancy Pelosi looked like a malfunctioning Stepford wife as she sat behind President Trump during his State of the Union address last week. Her lower face twitched, she muttered to herself, shook her head, smiled inappropriately, gazed around, chewed her lip or remained glued to her seat during standing ovations in honor of special guests.
It was a bizarre enough performance before she rose to her feet and dramatically ripped up her copy of the president’s speech in what will go down in history as the most unseemly display of partisanship in this partisan era.
That moment was when the myth of the “master political strategist” was busted, and we saw Pelosi, 79, for what she is. Pretending to be classy and prayerful when she is full of petty hatreds and is incapable of holding her party together, a woman who parades her Catholicism while advocating no-holds-barred abortions, feigning to pray for the president while deriding him as “sedated.”
As the leader of the Democrats, until they select a presidential candidate, Pelosi is everything that is wrong with the party.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/miranda-devine-petulant-nancy-pelosi-is-everything-wrong-with-democratic-party
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Don Bessee

10 February 2020

You ain’t in South Bend any more, welcome to the real world –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pete-buttigieg-uniquely-disliked-democrats-174141690.html
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Don Bessee

10 February 2020

The congressional jihadi caucus only believes in their free speech –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cops-remove-fmr-dem-pol-from-tlaib-event-after-he-asked-about-anti-semitism
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Gregory

10 February 2020

Anyone here know of the Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci?
Anyone here read Gramsci? Who did the translation?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pete-buttigiegs-father-was-a-marxist-professor-who-lauded-the-communist-manifesto

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Bill Tozer

10 February 2020

Pete Buttigieg High School Essay Praised ‘Profile In Courage’ Bernie Sanders
https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/08/pete-buttigieg-high-school-essay-bernie-sanders/

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Bill Tozer

10 February 2020

Obama-Produced Film Wins Oscar, Producer Quotes Communist Manifesto In Acceptance Speech. Obama Praises.
“Commentator Jordan Schachtel wrote: “The 100 million victims of communist regimes would like to have a word.””
https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-produced-film-wins-oscar-producer-quotes-communist-manifesto-in-acceptance-speech-obama-praises

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Bill Tozer

10 February 2020

‘Being Fired by Trump Does Not Make You a Holocaust Victim’
‘Get a grip: The president’s critics are not being rounded up and sent to death camps. They’re landing book deals and TV gigs.’
“Benjamin Wittes, one of the media’s favorite Donald Trump antagonists, took to Twitter this weekend to pen a transcendently nonsensical thread comparing the firing of a handful of bureaucrats to the rounding up of political undesirables in the lead-up to the Holocaust.
It’s wouldn’t be a huge deal, except that this kind of hysterical reaction has now been normalized in American discourse, illustrating that once-rational people have either lost all sense of history or are willing to belittle the past for short-term political gain. My bet is on the latter.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/02/being-fired-by-trump-does-not-make-you-a-holocaust-victim/

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Walt

10 February 2020

😂🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/02/10/george-conway-5-days-after-impeachment-we-may-have-to-impeach-trump-again/
” Trump may need to be impeached a second time — in response to the firing of alleged NSC leaker Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman. Conway’s op-ed in the Washington Post was published a mere five days after the U.S. Senate acquitted President Trump on two articles of impeachment.”
Just how stupid do LIBS want to look?
What will the Queen of the DAMNED do for her next stunt?

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Don Bessee

10 February 2020

The feds are coming for you socialist sanctuary cities, DA’s and states –
He concluded, “Today is a significant escalation in the federal government’s efforts to confront the resistance of ‘sanctuary cities.’ But by no means do the efforts outlined above signify the culmination of our fight to ensure the rule of law, to defend the Constitution, and to keep Americans safe. We will consider taking action against any jurisdiction that, or any politician who, unlawfully obstructs the federal enforcement of immigration law.”
Barr’s new sanctions come as the Trump administration has already announced other initiatives targeting illegal immigration in the wake of the president’s State of the Union address last week.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/barr-announces-new-sanctuary-policies
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odlaw

10 February 2020

,,,Trump 2020…No more bullshit…
Really??? That is a campaign promise???
Looks like he just broke another promise…
https://twitter.com/HowardMortman/status/1226727717401505792?s=09

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Don Bessee

10 February 2020

Creepy grampa joe is doing the slow crash and burn –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-biden-incoherent-second-amendment-230202853.html
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Walt

10 February 2020

Ya Dougy, Trump has been pretty easy on you Proggys.
I can’t wait to see him give you guys a real boning.
Hard and dry.
Trim the budget, by shutting down government a time or two, yup that would really twist you clowns off.

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Don Bessee

10 February 2020

The joys of socialist dems –
https://www.foxnews.com/media/arizona-state-trump-slash-republican-throats
NYC cops ‘declaring war’ on Mayor de Blasio, union says, following ‘assassination attempts’ on officers
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-union-declares-war-on-mayor
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/10/students-for-bernie-sanders-in-new-hampshire-his-policies-ease-the-stress-of-the-real-world/
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odlaw

10 February 2020

Posted by: Walt | 10 February 2020 at 03:59 PM
,,Oh Dear…Looks like Wally and Lemmings are taking another high hard one from Trumpski…
Restated jobs numbers don’t look as good now…
Turns out Trumpski ain’t doing any better than Obama did…
#BrainwashedLemmings
https://slate.com/business/2020/02/trumps-jobs-bls-obama-economy.html

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Walt

10 February 2020

Slate? Really?? Have at it Dougy. You go with that.
About as reliable as the tits up NC scooper for factual info.

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Walt

10 February 2020

But Look who just won Frisco, Freeattle, and Portlandia.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/10/watch-buttigieg-doubles-down-no-jail-time-for-heroin-meth-possession/

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Walt

10 February 2020

Even the courts have found Jesus.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-judge-indefinitely-postpones-sentencing-of-michael-flynn
Looks like they are more likely to weld bars on the windows of the F.B.I. and chain the doors shut. The real criminals are inside.

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Don Bessee

10 February 2020

Its the economy stupid’s –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/10/poll-69-percent-of-small-business-owners-say-they-have-benefited-from-the-2017-tax-cuts/
Americans say they feel the current economy is the best since the late 1990s
https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Americans-say-they-feel-the-current-economy-is-15045620.php
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Bill Tozer

10 February 2020

Let’s roll. Barr
https://www.facebook.com/Breitbart/videos/199412804512129/

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Walt

10 February 2020

Bill. Here is a good one. “The paperwork is just TOO HARD”
https://www.facebook.com/Breitbart/videos/the-horror/795731477602038/?__so__=permalink&__rv__=related_videos

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Bill Tozer

10 February 2020

Quotable Quotes from ‘Scarborough: I’m Getting ‘Panicked Calls’ From Dems About 2020’
“When the Democrats hit the panic button, the media are never far behind”
“So there is a lot that we are up against, which is why I was like, stop fussing about him, put him aside. He is in everybody’s brains.”
Jansing struggled with the advice: “But as you know, it’s much easier to say than to do.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2020/02/10/scarborough-im-getting-panicked-calls-dems-about-2020
Well, well, well. Now Scarborough is getting a taste of his own hysterical bedwetters. Such Drama Queens, such faint of heart. Everybody knows the Dems will rally around whoever they choose to be unlucky enough to face Orange Man Bad in the general election and rally around that person was he marches them up to and inside the Gates of Hell. It’s what they do best.
What, me worry?

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