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[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”

  1. Walt Avatar

    Dougy made a funny. Your the ones on the losing end.
    How’s your political dumpster fire going? Nice uncivil war you got going in your Russian mule party.

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  2. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: odlaw | 24 February 2020 at 01:50 PM
    I go where the need is and your bonehead ilk are in dire need of constructive criticism!!!

    Worse than a crime….an error!
    ……as is almost always the case with the progressive set you are boring.
    Biden…..waaah……political bullshit…….waah……sniffle…….progressives…….waaaah…..nobody buying our nonsense anymore…..waaah…..thinking about buying Greek fishermans cap……waaah..…to look intellectual…..waaaah!

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    REPORT: SOLEIMANI’S ASSASSINATION LEAVES REVOLUTIONARY GUARD REELING
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/report-soleimanis-assassination-leaves-revolutionary-guard-reeling.php
    I dunno. The source is the Wa Compost, so believe it, or take it with a big lump or salt, or don’t.

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  4. Walt Avatar

    The deep state is no more……. Because a LIB says so…
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/24/democrat-mike-quigley-there-is-no-deep-state/
    Gotta love this line.
    “not only the president in the White House, but also the State Department, Defense, Homeland Security, getting rid of people whoever expressed dissent — or trying to — and stocking it with President Trump’s loyalists.”
    It was fine when “O” did it.
    “O” demanded complete loyalty.

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The economy is doing so good that Obama is taking credit for it.
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/284355732079933/permalink/835189366996564/

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    I wonder if being short linked to being politically tone deaf!
    https://twitter.com/juliacarriew/status/1230978424971259905

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Donald Trump the Macho Man holds MAGA rally in India.
    https://mobile.twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1231872531704868865?

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  8. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 24 February 2020 at 04:20 PM
    Yes Bill the guy is so stupid and needy for attention he holds a rally in India…and you were glued to the tube…what a joke!!!

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  9. Walt Avatar

    Stupid? He President, and you ain’t. He has made millions, and your broke.

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well you can sure tell our trollish set don’t have access to a globe or perhaps a chi com cuddler @628. Dollars make sense and our store is open and we are going to steal military biz from the resurgent soviet. Go suck some rancid russian dressing or something….. your pink pussy hat is unraveling.
    Meanwhile in the real world this what your cherished chi coms are doing in real time, oh what a paradise says mini mike. LOL!!! –
    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/02/24/expert-chinese-scientists-sell-lab-animals-meat-black-market/
    😉

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  11. Walt Avatar

    A little dose of the Burnie plan.
    “Bernie Sanders released a fact-sheet Monday night explaining that he’d pay for his sweeping new government programs through new taxes and massive lawsuits, among other methods.
    The effort sought to head off complaints from Republicans and some rival Democrats that his plans were economically unrealistic, especially after a head-turning CBS News interview in which the frustrated Vermont senator said he couldn’t “rattle off to you every nickle and every dime” about his proposed expenditures.
    He released his plan on his website just minutes after promising to do so during a CNN town hall.
    But, the fact-sheet highlighted for the first time that many of Sanders’ expected cost-saving measures relied heavily on conjecture. For example, Sanders’ projections stated without providing details that his Green New Deal plan would create “20 million new jobs,” thus ensuring $2.3 trillion in “new income tax revenue.” ”
    20 million new jobs? Now how will that happen with the staggering tax increases the Commie somebitch is looking to stick to the economy?

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  12. Walt Avatar

    https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/24/bernie-sanders-socialist-proposals-paid-for-60-minutes/
    Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he didn’t have a price tag for all of his proposals during an interview with “60 Minutes.”
    Cooper asked the Senator if he had any idea what the total cost of all his proposals would amount to, saying “Do you have a price tag for— for all of this?” to which Sanders responded, “We do. I mean, you know, and — and— the price tag is — it will be substantially less than letting the current system go. I think it’s about $30 trillion.”
    Cooper immediately pressed him on the answer, “That’s just for Medicare for All, you’re talking about?” To which Sanders said, “Yes.”
    See that number? $30 trillion
    Our GDP is only 19 T.
    Gotta love Commie math. That’s everything everyone makes. Just about twice over.
    Get your paycheck,, send it in.
    Go ahead. Bitch about Trump.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Daily Quotes
    Insight: “Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.” —Ronald Reagan
    Observations: “When The New York Times isn’t busy demonizing our founding, what else is it doing? Well, Friday’s front page of America’s ‘Paper of Record’ was filled with the false narrative that Russia is stealing the 2020 election. Further in you’ll discover that the ‘Gray Lady,’ as the Times is often called, gave over the editorial page to the Taliban. Sirajuddin Haqqani, a Taliban leader, who has a $10 million bounty on his head and is responsible for the murder of many Americans and countless Afghanis, is being allowed by the left’s flagship newspaper to tell us what his demands are. That’s what New Yorkers read Friday morning in the city that was attacked on 9/11 because the Taliban allowed Al Qaeda to plot the attacks in Afghanistan. But according to the left the real threat to America is Donald Trump and Mike Pence.” —Gary Bauer
    For the record: “The alleged ‘wage stagnation’ that Bernie and others are constantly referring to is a myth. For one thing, ‘wage stagnation’ fails to take into account the health-care benefits, pensions, vacations, family leave, and other perks now embedded in job packages — somewhere around 30 percent of an employee’s overall benefits. Once those benefits are added, Americans probably have seen about a 45-percent wage increase since 1964.” —David Harsanyi
    The BIG Lie: “It’s not run by the government. Medicare allows you to go to any doctor you want for better or worse, this is not socialized medicine. This is keeping the same system intact, but getting rid of the private insurance companies, giving people another card, which allows them complete freedom.” —Sen. Bernie Sanders
    Non compos mentis: “We’re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba, but, you know, it’s unfair to simply say everything is bad. … When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it?” —Bernie Sanders
    Braying jenny: “Putin’s Puppet is at it again, taking Russian help for himself. He knows he can’t win without it. And we can’t let it happen.” —Hillary Clinton
    Demo-gogues: “A guy has 12 assault weapons with bump stocks, which means you can fire it faster. You can pull the trigger faster. Why in God’s name should anyone … be able to own that? It’s just wrong. … I’m the only guy that has beaten the gun manufacturers. I’m the only guy that has beaten the NRA nationally, and I did it twice, nationally. And gun manufacturers, I’m coming for you. Period.” —Joe Biden
    A distinction without a difference: “I would vote for socialism over authoritarianism.” —Joe Walsh
    And last… “The Nazis were big into government health care, vegetarianism, and literacy. But if a candidate praised Hitler the way Sanders praises communist dictators … well, actually much of the media would give him a pass, wouldn’t they.” —Erick Erickson

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  14. fish Avatar
    fish

    Well of course he is……

    Biden Says He’s ‘Candidate for the United States Senate’…

    There, there Joe……you sit down here with dugsKKKi. Someone will be along to change those nappies in a minute!
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/25/brain-freeze-joe-biden-says-hes-candidate-for-the-united-states-senate/

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @6:51 am
    Vote for the other Biden!
    “Campaigning in South Carolina, Biden bragged about one of his great accomplishments from the Barack years: “And folks, one of the things I am proudest of is getting passed, getting moved, getting in control of the Paris Climate Accord. I am the guy who came back after meeting with Deng Xiaoping and making the case that I believe China will join if we put pressure on them. We got almost 200 nations to join.” Deng died in 1997”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/joe-biden-remembers.php
    Lest we forget, Creepy Joe was arrested in South Africa protesting Apartheid and his helicopter had to make an emergency landing due to enemy flack over Syria (or Afghanistan?).
    Lest we forget, Joe hopped on his bicycle and raced to Margaret Stoneman High to comfort those who experienced the carnage.

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Piling on
    ‘Biden in his prime’
    “Mary McGrory once described him as “a collection of good instincts and incoherent utterance, pleasant, energetic, but not in control.”
    In the New Yorker, Elizabeth Drew wrote that he was “knocked out by a weakness that was going to catch up with him … intellectual barrenness.” He was a “nice guy who hasn’t demonstrated depth or mental or verbal discipline,” and she saw no heft in his mantra of “change.”…..
    “”I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do,” he shouted at one questioner during a town hall-style event. “I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my class.” It wasn’t even true. Biden ranked 80th of 100 students in his first year of law school and 76th of 85 in the last. In his first year, he failed one class and was forced to repeat it. He included in a paper he claimed was his own five pages from a law school review without attribution.
    Biden also claimed he had been named “the outstanding political science student … at the University of Delaware” and that he had graduated with three undergraduate degrees. The three degrees were actually one degree with one double major, and the “full academic scholarship” was half need-based, not merit-based.
    These judgments were made by liberal writers for liberal publications, who probably liked Biden and his positions but found these hysterics a little too much.“
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/biden-in-his-prime

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  17. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 25 February 2020 at 07:15 AM
    “Deng died in 1997”

    Hey…..they all look alike to the Gaffemaster!

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  18. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    BillT: “Demo-gogues: “A guy has 12 assault weapons with bump stocks, which means you can fire it faster. You can pull the trigger faster. Why in God’s name should anyone … be able to own that? It’s just wrong. … ” —Joe Biden”
    There’s a lot of people with bump stocks.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gUnuyoVvFI

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  19. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I kind of hate seeing My Pal Joe crash and burn. There’s no great flame of intellect there, but he’s probably no worse than your average congressman.
    A lesson he should have picked up from his old boss is to never (or rarely) speak extemporaneously.
    From a voter’s standpoint, that probably just the thing you want. Reading from a teleprompter merely gives you a network anchorman as the country’s CEO. Stick those guys on stage with no notes and an hour of free time, the audience shouts out a topic. Go!!
    Warren could probably do it, albeit in an irritating voice. Trump can just wing it for as long as the clock runs. Bernie, taking the well-oiled role of argumentative Jewish guy from Brooklyn would manage OK. The other people not so much I think.

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  20. Walt Avatar

    Silence of the LIBS.. How bout that Burnie? He’s universal “everything”. Everything seems to be a “right” in his world.
    Breadline Bernie is out to make everything “free”.
    So Lefties,, ready to pay for it?

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  21. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    ,,,FishBait…he so funny!!!
    Thinks I whine…but is deaf to Trumpskiii’s constant whining
    Now Agent Orange Rind thinks RBG and Sotomayor need to recuse because of who they voted for…
    …come on FishBait…what are you afraid of???

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  22. Walt Avatar

    Voting for Bernie Dougy? Free Depends is a human right these days.
    His third day in office, the demographic your in will be required to report to the local Soylent Green facility.
    (or biomass power generator)Just a cost saving measure. Gotta have more makers than takers.

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Nibbling away at the base and it wont take much more to flip the script –
    A full one-third wish Democrats had “someone else” running for president, and only 70 percent say they will vote for whoever wins the Democrat nomination.
    Granted, 70 percent is a whole lot, but if 30 percent, or even 20 percent stay home or pull the lever for Trump, that’s a catastrophe for Democrats.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/25/nolte-poll-shows-trump-eating-into-democrat-black-vote/
    😉

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh my. I remember a certain POTUS calling out the Supreme Court telling them they got it wrong, wrong, wrong before a national televised audience of millions at his SOTUS. He is the same dude that said he was going to fundamentally change America and stop the sea levels from rising.

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  25. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: odlaw | 25 February 2020 at 10:59 AM
    …come on FishBait…what are you afraid of???

    Mimes……..!

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The gig economy is freeing people across Africa…..banned in CA. A man cannot truly be free without economic empowerment that capitalism provides the individual. The Left seeks fairness and equality, while the right seeks liberty and freedom. And thus the twain shall never meet.
    “Uber for Everything” Is Revolutionizing Africa’s Economy’
    https://www.americanexperiment.org/2020/02/uber-for-everything-is-revolutionizing-africas-economy/

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    UNCONSTITUTIONAL PRO-UNION GAG LAW CHALLENGED
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/unconstitutional-pro-union-gag-law-challenged.php
    ————————
    In related news…….
    ‘Cenk Uygur Urged ‘Young Turks’ Staff NOT To Unionize.’
    “The reality is we’re in a precarious position,” Uygur reprotedly said. “We’re in a digital media landscape where almost no one makes money or is sustainable.”
    “For a smaller digital media company, those are absolutely real considerations,” the “Young Turks” founder continued. “It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a union. Everyone should know the full context.”
    Uygur’s anti-union position, it seems, only stands for his business — at least in relation to his past statements in support of unions.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/cenk-uygur-urged-young-turks-staff-not-to-unionize-ben-shapiro-responds
    Oh, this is medicine to my veins! Fire it up and give me more. The very successful Young Turk Youtube Plattform brought to you by the far-far-lefty Uygur is saying he cannot afford to stay in business and pay all the perks and bennies he promotes for other workers, roflmao.
    Mainline more of that good stuff in my veins! I am feeling the love.

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  28. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “,,,FishBait…he so funny!!!
    Thinks I whine…but is deaf to Trumpskiii’s constant whining
    Now Agent Orange Rind thinks RBG and Sotomayor need to recuse because of who they voted for…
    …come on FishBait…what are you afraid of???”
    Good Gawd. So this is what the Blue Mob is down to now?
    I never thought I would pray for a Frisch drive-by or a Paul Poll.
    Dude, sit back down at that qwerty and type something better than that.

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  29. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    ,,,Donnie,Donnie,Donnie… don’t jump!!!
    Posted by: Don Bessee | 25 February 2020 at 11:15 AM
    Try reading your own article. It says the Police reported it as consistent with suicide..

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    That’s what happens when you sell rancid Russian dressing for so long, people stop listening. –
    Fox News achieved its highest ratings in its 24-year history, according to Nielsen Media Research, averaging 3.5 million total viewers in prime time during the month of February.
    The big ratings marked the 44th consecutive month Fox News has been the most-watched channel in all of basic cable.
    Overall, among the three major cable news networks, Fox averaged 3.53 million viewers, followed by MSNBC’s 1.78 million and CNN’s 1.05 million.
    In the 25- to 54-year-old demographic sought by advertisers, Fox News was first in the category with 587,000 viewers in prime time, followed by MSNBC’s 317,000 and CNN’s 296,000.
    Sean Hannity’s, Tucker Carlson’s and Laura Ingraham’s programs were the top shows in cable news. Each of these hosts’ shows hit all-time highs for a month.
    Hannity finished with 4.3 million total viewers, while Carlson was second with 4.115 million and Ingraham third with 3.6 million. Ingraham’s average audience marked a record for a female cable news host.
    https://thehill.com/homenews/media/484592-fox-news-primetime-lineup-delivers-highest-ratings-in-network-history
    😉

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dem debate in SC. Quick analysis for those of us who didn’t bother watching or listening. The
    DEM FIELD ATTACKS SANDERS. . .FOR A LITTLE WHILE
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/dem-field-attacks-sanders-for-a-little-while.php
    ———-
    https://www.facebook.com/TakeBackThisCountry/photos/a.1032125603520777/2722630774470243/?

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  32. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    ,,, Trumpskkki sets us straight on Corona virus…
    https://twitter.com/HerrThorsten/status/1232661206986567685?s=09

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  33. Walt Avatar

    Ya Dougy, it’s running rampant and unchecked within our borders. Right?
    Frisco has declared a state of emergency!!(without one case)
    Maybe Frisco will start checking those CONEX containers coming off the ships from China? Mexicans ain’t the only illegals.
    But to be on the safe side, be sure to tell someone if your running a fever.. That way you can be put down. Just on the outside chance you have it.
    A good Trump policy,,, OK?

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  34. Scott O Avatar

    Yeah – I saw this coming from checking with DK. The left is already trying to blame Trump if anyone dies in the US from CV. It won’t matter what he does or doesn’t do, when it starts spreading in the US it will be all of Trump’s fault. Just more TDS.
    It’s just like the economy. The left doesn’t care if the poor suffer, they want the economy to crash before the Nov election. Just so they can be rid of Trump. Now they’re praying for mass die-offs from CV just so they can blame Trump. These people are mentally ill.
    Maybe if the CDC stopped wringing their hands over gun deaths and get to work on disease control, there would be some positive effects. Most of the containment issue will lie with local officials and the actions of individuals. I’m sure all the Dem candidates will bloviate about how if they were POTUS, they’d handle it perfectly.
    TDS – it just doesn’t end. Its spread and effects are worse than CV.

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  35. Walt Avatar

    In other news,,,Latest polls show Biden 5 points ahead in his Senate race.

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  36. Walt Avatar

    The Proggy Press has issues.
    https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/26/abc-news-david-wright-suspended-project-veritas-statement/
    “Suspended ABC Reporter Will ‘No Longer’ Cover Politics After Admitting ‘Bosses See No Upside’ In Reporting Fairly”
    It didn’t help that he comes out of the Commie closet either.

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  37. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    scotto: “Maybe if the CDC stopped wringing their hands over gun deaths and get to work on disease control, there would be some positive effects.”
    hah, that’s a good point. The redirection of the CDC is not dissimilar to the way that NASA or the Department of Energy were veered into being climate change divisions of the government. The Ways of Bureaucracy are mysterious, but green policies tend to be all about the green.
    It’s odd that we are swinging into an election where of the main candidates, Bernie/Trump/WeeMan, Trump is the moderate. Go figure.
    The weaponization of the coronavirus by Team Blue should be interesting. It might be a good chance to amp up border security.

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “The weaponization of the coronavirus by Team Blue should be interesting. It might be a good chance to amp up border security.”—-Scenes
    I will pipe in am say yesterday when I heard that The Botox Queen from the streets San Fransisco and Chucky the Clown Schumer from the streets of New York City blame Trump for handling of the Coronavirus, I was rather disgusted. But, TDS never sleeps, never tells the truth, and the MSM lies to their own viewers. How convenient.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    One man’s opinion
    Intelligence and the Democrats’ Internal Affairs
    “In a nutshell: the ruling class’s establishment element, which has long used its intelligence and media components against conservatives, has taken to using them to fight off a challenge from its left wing.
    But by so empowering this combine to help decide a contest for power within itself, the establishment is embittering its own divisions, mounting a tiger, and whetting the tiger’s appetite.
    How should anyone expect the Sandersistas, were they to take control of the party, not to avenge themselves? And why should not the security-media combine, having tasted the power to make and unmake presidents, not decide at some point to wield Praetorian power on its own account?
    The history of ruling classes in other places that have used intelligence to decide who will rule is replete with instances of purges and reprisals.
    That is why the ruling class’s establishment—intelligence and media included—seem more worried about Bernie Sanders than Donald Trump. During the past three years or so, the establishment has learned that Trump barks but mostly does not bite. Nobody fears Trump. Trump’s presidency notwithstanding, the establishment has done very well for itself. They can count on this state of affairs continuing under another such presidency.
    Sanders’ takeover of the party, never mind possibly of the federal government, is something they know they can’t survive. That is because Sanders’ movement is composed of a large cadre of serious people, many of whom are admirers of the control systems by which progressive ruling classes have empowered themselves over the peoples of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
    And let’s face it: Sanders did not choose to spend his honeymoon in the Soviet Union blissfully unaware of how the joint was run, or of the purges by which its masters had secured themselves against the party and the KGB.
    The Democratic Party’s establishment—very much including the intelligence and media combine—would be the first to experience the Sandersista regime’s delights. That, and not fear of Trump, is what explains their panic.“
    https://amgreatness.com/2020/02/25/intelligence-and-the-democrats-internal-affairs/

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  40. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    One thing to keep in mind is that the War Against Western Civilization is being fought on a thousand fronts, not just US Presidential politics.
    https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/02/17/94749/
    “The Oxford Student has been notified about a proposal by the Classics faculty to remove the study of Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid from the Mods syllabus, a decision which has surprised many across the faculty.”
    “The Mods course, which is assessed by a set of ten exams at the end of Hilary, has been increasingly criticised in recent years, due to the attainment gaps found between male and female candidates, as well as between candidates who have studied Latin and/or Greek to A-Level (Course I) and those who have not (Course II). “

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  41. George Rebane Avatar

    Administrivia – Hear ye! Collect your incisive and insightful corona virus thoughts under the latest Ruminations.

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  42. Walt Avatar

    WINNING!!! More bad news for the sanctuary LIBS.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/court-hands-trump-win-in-sanctuary-city-grant
    “A federal appeals court on Wednesday handed a major win to the Trump administration in its fight against “sanctuary” jurisdictions, ruling that it can deny grant money to states that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.”
    The VERY PRETTY Gavin Nuisance is NOT going to be happy.
    Neither will Frisco.

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  43. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    ,,,Mic Drop!!! From 2016 but still good today!!!
    Donald Trump Gets Heckled at New Hampshire Diner: ‘Enjoy Your Burger, Racist!’
    https://archive.fo/2mWrY#selection-1907.0-1907.78

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  44. George Rebane Avatar

    odlaw 223pm – Since you gleefully celebrate that epithet, are you able to cite any evidence of racism in Trump’s behavior or policies?

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  45. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    That should help the reelection –
    Green New Deal would cost swing-state households around $75G in first year: study
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/study-green-new-deal-trillions-households-swing-states
    😉

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