[Well, my proposal in the 12feb20 Scattershots for a new Dem candidate reader participation contest heading into the convention went over like a fart in church. It would have been fun to see how the perceived fortunes of Super-Tuesday's survivors changed over the next few months. Oh well, … sigh. gjr]
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450 responses to “Sandbox – 18feb20”
Since Emery just LOVES to discuss LIARS,
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/19/michael-bloomberg-ads-nearly-double-child-gun-death-figures-by-including-adult-teenagers/
As long as there is a chance to beat Trump,, it must be all good.
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,,,The Stalin style purges continue…
,,,President Donald Trump has ousted the Pentagon’s top policy official who had certified last year that Ukraine had made enough anti-corruption progress to justify the Trump administration’s release of congressionally authorized aid to Kyiv in its conflict against Russian-backed separatists.
John Rood resigned Wednesday, saying he was leaving at Trump’s request.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-ousts-top-defense-official-163101053.html
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Cry us a (Russian)river Dougy, Trump is the policy writer.
So tough shit.
That’s what happens when you don’t do what the boss says.
Is that why the tossed you from Berkeley?
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Posted by: George Rebane | 19 February 2020 at 01:57 PM
– there must be something new you can bring to this party.
No….there really isn’t.
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Posted by: Walt | 19 February 2020 at 02:44 PM
If the Chicago Bathouse Attendant had scripted something similar at a SOTU dugsKKKi would still be turgid……
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I didn’t say specifically he lied George. I said he was either ignorant or he lied. which way do you see it?
I was referring to the Tea Party which you were such an admirer of and the disappointment they must feel with Trump exercising policies that lead to a Trillion a year added to the deficit.
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Punchy 409pm
That’s a false dichotomy. Just another punch.
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Punch… do you the difference between the deficit and the national debt?
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Punch… do you know the role of the Speaker of the House in budgets, spending and the deficit?
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Emery, is it your contention Trump should shut down the Government till the swamp Queen cuts spending,, BIG TIME??
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So Gregory did Trump lie when he made that promise or was he ignorant?
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Another for the liar investigator Emery.
http://www.capradio.org/articles/2020/02/07/californias-lone-march-ballot-measure-a-15-billion-school-bond-with-a-confusing-name/
From the this tax scam,,
“State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who supports the bond, said it would help make aging schools earthquake safe and remove mold, asbestos and lead pipes.”
How many times will we do this? And the real kicker,,”lead pipes”
I call bullshit. Nice scare tactic. School water have been tested for decades looking for it. And every time it’s been found, the school closed because of it.
How do I know? I was one of those guys going around getting the water samples in the 90’s.
The same with asbestos. The ONLY place you will still find it is on the sides of old homes.
I’m sure Emery will let these lies slide. It’s “for the children”
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Punch, the answer is probably no, as it is with most false dichotomies so posed.
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Again the trollio @ 306 keeps sucking in the talking points. It seems to have forgot that the guy in question was outed in foreign policy magazine as a nightmare boss as reported by staff.
Remembering the fact they all serve at the pleasure of the president the guy just got fired and allowed to resign to keep his resume clean.
If there were any Stalinist terminations you would not hear about and the terminations would be terminally fatal so you would not hear a peep from the folks fired.
What a maroon!
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As usual, “Crickets” Emery has no answers.
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THIS is what Trump supporters do.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/19/trump-supporters-wwii-vet-seat-phoenix-rally/#disqus_thread
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What you couldn’t get an actual black guy so you go with this fraud but why, I hear Rachel Dolezal is available. LOL
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/18/shaun-king-white-man-who-claims-he-is-black-stars-in-bernie-sanders-ad/
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Bernie, Bernie, Bernie. Oh, remember when they booed Hillary at the DNC Convention in 2016?
Well, now it’s Hillary who is out of touch with the mainstream Democrat Party.
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‘Bernie Sanders Is The True Face Of Today’s Democrat’s’
“The only thing that has changed lately is that the party’s elites are finding it increasingly difficult to pretend that the Democratic Party is mainstream.
If they don’t like that, they should devote their time and energy to educating the rank and file about the error of their views, rather than complain about who they nominate to run in November.”
https://issuesinsights.com/2020/02/19/bernie-sanders-is-the-true-face-of-todays-democrats/
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About Judith Curry….
PLAUSIBLE SCENARIOS FOR GLOBAL WARMING
“In other words, cooling trends reflecting natural variability are likely to cancel out, for the most part, any effects of increasing concentrations of CO2 over the next 30 years. This is an interesting conclusion. One interpretation is that climate disaster will strike after 2050, when natural variability may turn toward higher, rather than lower, temperatures. But by then, pretty much everyone will have given up on global warming hysteria. Which, in my view, will be a good thing no matter what happens after 2050, since global warming hysteria is all about power politics, not the environment.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/plausible-scenarios-for-global-warming.php
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WATER FOR THE PEOPLE!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-signs-memorandum-diverting-more-water-to-california-farmers
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Oooooopsies we didn’t mean to say it out loud but still like it wapo –
The headline, which originally read, “It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president,” was changed to “It’s time to switch to preference primaries” without any editor’s note after the op-ed was blasted on social media.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-changes-headline-after-op-ed-calls-for-elites-have-bigger-say-choosing-president
😉
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Don @ 7:00 pm
I watched his talk today in Bakersfield. Basically, the hard one (Fed regulations) are out of the way. Now, it’s up to CA. He gave a special shout out to Tom McClintock, Nunnes, , Kevin McCarthy, and the first female to head the Department of Reclamation and the first female POC to head the Fish & Wildlife for all there hard work.
Every farmer (in plaid shirts and no ties) that spoke said the same thing; ‘promises kept, President Trump for keeping your promise to us in 2016 in Tulare.’
Interesting that CA has built no new water storage facility since 1997. And yet the population is up 70%.
Did like the line about ‘mortgaging the farm’. With the inheritance tax for small farms eliminated, many can keep the family farm and with more water deliveries, they won’t have to mortgage the farm. 🙂
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Pre-debate: selling one’s soul to the company store.
‘Panicked Democrat Establishment Turns To Bloomberg
Even if he can buy the Democratic nomination, he’s not what their base voters want‘
“They (Dem Establishment) spent years getting high on their own supply about Biden’s strength and Trump’s weaknesses, but now they’re coming out of their narco haze and they’re panicking. They’re so desperate that they’re willing to sell the party nomination to Mike Bloomberg, of all people. While his views are at odds with many of the Democratic Party’s base voters, it’s hard to get more establishment than Bloomberg, who made billions selling his terminals to Wall Street.
This week the establishment is really amping up its flirtation with the wee New Yorker. The billionaire businessman hasn’t won any votes yet, and isn’t even on the ballot in the next two states holding elections, but he has won the support of many major media figures. The New York Times yesterday had eight stories about Bloomberg on the politics page of its website, compared to zero for ostensible delegate leader and young mayor Buttigieg. That’s not an accident.
Last Sunday’s political shows featured non-stop questions and commentary about Bloomberg, not the current odds-on favorite to win the most delegates, Sanders. Until and unless he crashes in a debate or underperforms on Super Tuesday, there is an argument that Bloomberg should be presumed to be the front-runner because he is the establishment’s clear favorite of the remaining contenders. And in the Democratic Party, that establishment support means a great deal.”
https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/19/panicked-democrat-establishment-turns-to-bloomberg/#.Xk02plTY_at.twitter
Where is all the enthusiasm from our Lefty friends??? How about some good ole excitement? Tell us again Trump has zero chance to win….or were those unequivoble statements pure ignorance or just another Lefty lie??
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Rep. Doug LaMalfa
2 hrs ·
Thank you, Presdent Trump and Interior Secretary Bernhardt, for issuing a memorandum and Record of Decision finalizing the biological opinions that would reduce the California water that is wasted by flushing it into the ocean. This is bad for farmers, cities and towns, and wildlife refuges who have routinely suffered at the hands of Sacramento politicians siding with extreme environmentalists. Bringing back this common sense water policy that protects North State water rights is another promise kept by President Trump.
https://lamalfa.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/lamalfa-praises-trump-administration-for-california-water-rights?
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WATER FOR THE PEOPLE AND THEIR CRITTERS!!
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So anything happen last night…..?
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,,,Trump welcomes another corrupt swampthing to the swamp tent…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/blagojevich-declares-himself-a-freed-political-prisoner-thanks-trump/2020/02/19/ffea1a44-5331-11ea-929a-64efa7482a77_story.html
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Posted by: odlaw | 20 February 2020 at 07:00 AM
…….lifelong democrat Swamp Dweller Blagojevich.
Flail dugsKKKI……..flail about wildly……desperate to make a point……any point.
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…….bring on that global warming!
Not shown ……areas washed clean of bum feces!
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/sea-level-rise-San-Francisco-Bay-landmarks-15068567.php
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Blue Mob News. Thursday Mourning Edition.
Keep in mind that Trump’s crime is firing people and wanting to reconsider Roger Stone’s (obviously) political trial results. Also keep in mind that this is a MSM magazine, not just some crazy guy-on-the-web.
https://www.salon.com/2020/02/15/can-we-stop-tiptoeing-around-the-fact-that-trump-is-behaving-like-a-dictator/
“Folks, let’s not mince words: This is the kind of stuff we read about happening in dictatorships like Russia and North Korea and Iran. And yes, it’s the kind of rule by strong-arm fiat that was practiced by Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany.
Before this week, I would have thought it an exaggeration to compare Trump’s frequent rallies to the infamous Nuremberg rallies Hitler held during the 1930s. No longer. Trump’s rallies are unnervingly close to those held in Nuremberg. The MAGA hat has become a kind of Trumpian Nazi helmet. The denunciations of hated minorities are the same. As is his insane bellowing before a crowd screaming its slavish obeisance. ”
lol. Yah. It’s just exactly like HitlerStalin.
They really have lost their minds you know.
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That’s porn for Dougy Scenes,, One of his favorite goto sites.
And some wonder why he’s “F”ed up in the head.
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fish@8:06 re: sea level
I do have to say that sea level change is by far the weakest reason to worry about human-driven climate change. Just imagine the effect on beach front property if we had the minus 130 meters from the last ice age.
I guess it’s a good alarmist viewpoint since (a)climatistas tend to live in cities and (b)cities tend to be near coasts. Generally, at least in the US, the hinterlands are viewed by city dwellers as a good place for power generation, garbage dumps, limited mining, and hiking. The people who actually live there are besides the point.
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There’s a lot to like in the article. Check out the lawyers’ tithe.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/02/19/caltrans-settles-claims-of-unconstitutional-homeless-sweeps-for-5-5-million/
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@8:31 am
Made my day. Lest we forget, Obama recalled and replaced every ambassador Bush appointed and fired 100 generals.
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Oh well, so much for the Great Mustached Hope of Team Blue.
“ABC News White House and Capitol Hill reporter Katherine Faulders tweeted Thursday: “In audio obtained by ABC News, John Bolton said during remarks at Vanderbilt University that his testimony ‘would have made no difference to the ultimate outcome’ of impeachment and said he can ‘sleep at night because I have followed my conscious.’”
Faulders further tweeted that Bolton also described the impeachment inquiry as “malpractice” in his remarks and said House Democrats “made a mess” of the process while ensuring it was “grossly partisan.””
https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/20/john-bolton-malpractice-impeachment-grossly-partisan/
Nothin’ to see here folks. Time to gin up some new Trumpcrime.
You know, when he is out of office in a year or 5, we should do a timeline of local Blue Mob Trump outrages and how they came to nothing.
Maybe at that point they’ll see how unhinged they look.
Nah.
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“So anything happen last night…..?”
Posted by: fish | 20 February 2020 at 06:32 AM
Well, the gloves came off and the brass knuckles came on. I have never seen such vitriol in public in all my born days. Staggering.
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THE WASHINGTON POST COMES CLEAN
“What the Washington Post means by “democracy” is not what you and I mean. Keep this in mind next time you hear a liberal say that President Trump is a threat to our “democracy.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/the-washington-post-comes-clean.php
Speaking of InstaPundit.
BERNIE: I’m not paranoid, but those nasty tweets from my supporters are probably actually by Russian agents.
Meanwhile, everyone on the Dem debate stage seems unbalanced — they look so angry that they’re about to either hit someone or burst into tears. It’s bizarre.
Bloomberg brought a wallet to a gun fight.—Glen Reynolds
https://static.pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/DCDB8324-14BC-4DF8-AE22-F7E50FEEFF63.jpeg
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 20 February 2020 at 09:31 AM
Well now you’re just lying Bill. Those were democrats…..progressive democrats….on that stage! The most civilized and inclusive people who have ever lived.
I simply refuse to believe that any poor behavior was on display last night!
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,,,Trump Ally Roger Stone Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison,,,
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Posted by: odlaw | 20 February 2020 at 10:13 AM
,,,Trump Ally Roger Stone Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison,,,
Somebody pat the silly old feeb on the head and give him a cookie for breathlessly reporting that which was on drudge a half hour ago!
Jeez dugsKKKi….just last week you were crowing “that you had a life”….. go Thki the Farth Starths or something.
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Oh my. The libs will not like this one bit. Opps, strike that. They wrote it!
Campaign Donations Show Letter Demanding Barr’s Resignation Comes From Leftist Hacks Pretending To Be ‘Bipartisan’
“Had liberal outlets bothered to act like journalists, they would have quickly discovered evidence of a partisan bias underlying the letter calling for William Barr’s resignation.”
https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/19/campaign-donations-show-letter-demanding-barrs-resignation-comes-from-leftist-hacks-pretending-to-be-bipartisan/
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Well, it looks like Punchy won’t be quoting his favorite lawyer today. What ever will he do?
-“Napolitano on Roger Stone case: ‘Only a pardon can fairly undo this mess‘“
-“Roger Stone did not get a fair trial: Andrew Napolitano”
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Yes….yes……stay in….reveal just what progressives will do when they have to bow and scrape for money!
https://spectator.us/michael-bloomberg-isnt-beaten/
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Interesting that Trump and Bloomberg might be the only two politicians in America that aren’t for sale; contrary to M. Keach, neither needs the money.
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“,,,Trump Ally Roger Stone Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison,,,”
C’est la guerre. A weaponized Justice Department is nothing to fool with. He won’t be the only political prisoner in the Federal system.
re: BillT and the Leftist Hacks.
That’s a good article. The Federal government as a source of spoils for a ruling party (post US Civil War?) seems to be something of a problem when the civil service itself becomes a ruling party. My guess is that it’s unavoidable. Until the whole system spins apart, inevitable at some point, it’s a situation that will simply increase in severity.
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Stone vs. The Blue Mob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZnXLBVoQ_M
If he actually ends up in a cell, hopefully it’s not Epstein’s.
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That’s what you get for lying your ass off for 4 years starting with rancid Russian dressing –
The far-left CNN, a hate network that spreads conspiracy theories and promotes violence against President Trump and his supporters, could not even average a million viewers during the same week New Hampshire came out to vote.
Worse still, CNN’s chief nemesis, Fox News, annihilated the fake news network in the ratings by averaging more than three times — three times! — as many primetime viewers as CNNLOL.
Here’s the primetime breakdown of average viewers during the week of February 10:
Fox: 3.2 million
MSNBC: 1.677 million
CNNLOL: 969,000
As you can see, during the first presidential primary in four years (Iowa is a caucus), CNNLOL belly-flopped into ninth place, losing to HGTV, TLC, the History Channel, and only barely beating the Hallmark Channel.
How is that even possible?
Wait, it gets worse…
Here’s the total day viewership average for that same week:
Fox: 1.743 million
MSNBC: 920,000
CNNLOL: 630,000
Seriously, how is it even possible for a cable channel that’s currently available in some 85 million homes to attract only 630,000 average viewers throughout the day — especially during the week of the New Hampshire primary?
Here’s a better question…
How is it possible that CNN chief Jeff Zucker, who has not only failed to dig CNN’s ratings out of the dirt, but who has forever destroyed the credibility of CNN as a respected brand, still has a job?
Numbers this low do not just point to a failure to attract viewers, they point to a flat-out rejection of CNNLOL by the American people.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/02/20/nolte-fox-news-more-than-triples-cnns-collapsing-viewership/
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Hopefully a #SandersWarren ticket … Then he can legalize the weed federally … Currently the local permitted farmers hv decided to unload a few thousand lbs on the unregulated market to pay for getting their farms permitted …
The laws and regulations need to be standardized with interstate commerce …
No wonder no local tax revenue yet …
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To quote Chris Rock……
………I guess that was just how she was raised?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8013283/Ilhan-Omar-DID-marry-brother-reveals-Somali-community-leader.html
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Hey Freedom Grower do you have any idea which of the local supervisor candidates are pro cannabis business?
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