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326 responses to “Sandbox – 20may20”

  1. Walt Avatar

    The Queen of the Damned won’t impeach Joementia.
    If we retake the House, well that’s another story.
    Just like that rabid LIB who would vote for Biden even if he ate at the Planned Parenthood Grill, Plenty of nuts will toe the Proggy line. Party before country.(Commie bastards, one and all)

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The grim reaper points a finger at botox Nancy
    Best line of the day goes to Don!
    Maybe it’s time to send Cocaine Mitch a couple more keys of Peruvian Flake and watch him go. 🙂 He prefers the old stuff, and is leery of the Columbian…you never know what it is cut with. They don’t call him Cocaine Mitch for nuthin’. And Nancy did not name him the grim reaper for no particular reason.
    The grim reaper points a finger at botox Nancy – Lol. Good one.

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The 0 judge has been called to task to defend his outrageous reaction to the shut down of the star chamber –
    A federal appeals court on Thursday directed the judge hearing the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn to respond to a petition by Flynn for the charges against him to be thrown out.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-appeals-court-judge-flynn-case-dismiss
    😉

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  4. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bad news….Trump down by 10 in Fox poll. He’s starting to flip out.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
    ‘Crazy thing to do’: Health experts alarmed by Trump’s use of unproven drug
    There have been only limited results from studies on whether hydroxychloroquine could be effective as a prophylactic measure. Given the drug’s potentially harsh side effects, medical experts strongly cautioned they wouldn’t prescribe the drug to patients as a preventive measure.
    “That seems to me to be a crazy thing to do,” said David Juurlink, head of clinical pharmacology at the University of Toronto. “If the drug had no side effects, it would be a reasonable thing to do.”
    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/18/trump-hydroxychlrorquine-health-experts-267066

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  5. Walt Avatar

    Poor Emery. Sorry O Buzzard of Broad St. Hate to break it to ya’ people LIE to pollsters. Just to give people like you a false hope.
    And when a pollster is paid to take a poll, they will give the one signing the check news they want to hear.
    You know,, kinda like the AGW scam.

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  6. Walt Avatar

    See the posts “no voter fraud “Emery? PLENTY!! And a LIB! Took BRIBES! Busted,, CONVICTED!
    Need a reminder? Do you have any comments? inquiring people want to know.. Care to retract your previous statements on the matter? The list of what said, and what’s actually true keep growing.

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  7. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 21 May 2020 at 07:22 PM
    It would take a heart of stone to not laugh!

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  8. Walt Avatar

    Hey Emery. DOPE is still an unproven drug. Yet you still endorse it, and even stumped to legalize it.
    What was it? “cures anything from ingrown toenails, to brain cancer” Now did all the sick people in Nevada County recover since MMJ was legalized? The”statistics” by your MMJ friends, had 70% of the county in need of “MMJ”. “People need their medicine”… Remember that line of crap?
    Buy HEY!! gotta find something to throw at Trump,,,, right?
    Now how bout that voter fraud?

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  9. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    More bad news-Trump loses by 8% to Biden in Fox election poll. Pretty grim for the Circle of Jerks favorite guy
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_biden-6247.html

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Word to the pony tail of ignorance, its the states that drive the electoral college but of course you need to seek refuge where you can. LOL
    😉

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  11. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    I see Paul Emery stops by to drop his turds for review. The man is unhinged!

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  12. Walt Avatar

    The ponytail of cowardice still won’t deal with facts.

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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another ray of light –
    U.S. secures 300 million doses of potential AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/astrazeneca-gets-first-supply-deals-064316122.html
    😉

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    TJ @825 It is called the sandbox! LOL
    😉

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  15. Walt Avatar

    Not one crazed Lefty can give ANY reason why the masses would
    vote to cut their own throats. (well, we know a LIB would)
    Back to massive taxation, high unemployment, free healthcare you can’t afford to use.
    Sound like a winner of a deal. Right Emery?

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  16. George Rebane Avatar

    Mary 344pm – Not sure I understand where you’re going. Are you saying that you’re not for policies that require bigger govt and more regs?

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The Grim reaper leaves another one in the ditch –
    “Well, we know these are desperate times as a result of the pandemic,” he said. “The CARES Act, which we passed a few — a month or so ago, on a bipartisan basis, only about half of that money has gone out yet. I think there’s a high likelihood we will do another rescue package. But we need to be able to measure the impact of what we have already done, what we did right, what we did wrong, correct that. And we’re not quite ready to intelligently lay down the next step, but it’s not too far off. Let me tell you what it won’t be. It won’t be a $3 trillion left-wing wish list that passed the House that they almost — couldn’t get all the Democrats to vote for, that Senator Schumer is in favor of. That’s not going to pass the Senate. It’s not going to become law.”
    “We need to work smart here, help the people who are desperately in need, try to save as many jobs as possible, and begin to open up the states, which are decisions by the governors that are going on all over America now, and get this economy growing again,” McConnell added.
    Widely panned by Republicans as a “messaging bill,” McConnell said another drawback of that effort was it incentivized unemployment.
    “The problem was, by paying people more not to work than to work, it’s making it difficult to get people back to work,” he explained. “You can understand that. We do need to continue unemployment insurance. It’s extremely important at a time like this. But to pay people more not to work than to work doesn’t encourage resuming your job. And that will end in July. And we think that, in order to create jobs, we need to incentivize people to go back to work, not encourage them to stay home.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/05/21/mcconnell-dems-trying-to-incentivize-unemployment-in-latest-coronavirus-relief-bill/
    😉

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  18. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 722pm – I seem to remember that when the first news came out about the potential benefit of HCQ re covid, then there was a run on prescriptions that exhausted the local drugstores. It seems that physicians were stocking up on it by prescribing it for family and friends. Is any of it still available at our local pharmacies?

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Its the trendy thing to do don’t ya know. But hey the chi coms will still have the dollar stores. LOL –
    The plans, which have been code named ‘Project Defend’, include identifying Britain’s main economic vulnerabilities to potentially hostile foreign governments as part of a broader new approach to national security, the newspaper reported, adding that the efforts are being led by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.
    Two working groups have been set up as part of the project, according to the report, with one source telling The Times that the aim was to diversify supply lines to no longer depend on individual countries for non-food essentials.
    Johnson told lawmakers he would take steps to protect Britain’s technological base, with the government review also expected to include personal protective equipment and drugs, the report added.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/uk-pm-johnson-orders-plans-234148068.html
    😉

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I was wrong. Here I thought the Great Leftinista Media Hydroxychloroquine Meltdown was over. Silly me. Glad to see someone bringing up the rear. A day late and a dollar short. TDS never rests, never sleeps, and knows neither the limits of time and space.
    Resentment means to re-feel. A lot of refeeling about Trump and the Great Hydroxychloroquinegate still going on in scattered corners, I reckon. Thought that was a one day news cycle thang. What does WHO and China say?
    TDS on top of BDS leads to meltdown of the mind and emotions. Irreparable damage to mind and soul. Some would sell their souls to see Trump defeated. Somewhere along the line they lost touch with who they are. Oh well.
    Remember during the build up to the release of the Mueller Report all the stories about the dying elderly who refuse to go to the other side or give up the ghost until they found out if Trump committed Treason and Kushner and Don Jr the Greaser (or is Kushner the slimeball greaser?) and Trump’s slut daughter would be “frog marched” out of the White House to share a cell at Devil’s Island for the rest of their pathetic natural lives. Barron too, butnot the sockpuppet Barron.
    Yep, old people glued to CNN and the View and Maddcow the Peter Pan boy….all hoping if they will live long enough to not kick the bucket before Müeller laid bare the goods on Trump. Oh, the drama. I just gotta know! I got to got-to got-to know.
    Surprise, surprise. Should have worn cowboy boots so they wouldn’t have stubbed their toe when the kicked the bucket. They should have watched old Westerns or reruns of sitcoms instead of Fakenews.
    Truly, the well deserved moniker ‘The Enemy of the People’ applies. A law unto themselves

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh, must we argue the Great Debate endlessly. To Hydroxychloroquine or not to Hydroxychloroquine is the current question of the daily crisis.
    THE NOT SO GREAT HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE DEBATE
    “ A final point. Trump’s critics claim that the president’s touting of hydroxychloroquine may produce real harm by causing people to take the drug recklessly.
    Conceivably. But I wonder whether the left’s drumbeat against the drug — Joe Scarborough says it will kill you — will cause people who need the drug not to take it when prescribed, for example to treat lupus.
    The best thing would be for Trump and his critics to stop talking about hydroxychloroquine until the results of solid medical research are in. But you know that’s not going to happen.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/05/the-not-so-great-hydroxychloroquine-debate.php

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  22. Walt Avatar

    For a “WTF”?? quote of the morning,
    Joe Biden: “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black,”

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  23. fish Avatar
    fish

    To quote Punchinello….STUPID, STUPID, STUPID….! Joey Fingers whitesplains to black guy….hilarity ensues!
    Let’s watch!

    BIDEN: ‘You Ain’t Black’ If Can’t Decide Between Me and Trump…

    …..at least he didn’t have to break out the “Apology Chain” like he did with Corn Pop!
    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-you-aint-black-if-you-cant-decide-between-me-and-trump/

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  24. Walt Avatar

    HA HA,,,, Beat you to it Fish…

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  25. Walt Avatar

    Since it’s thump on Biden time,
    The guy sure is full of mule shit.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/22/fact-check-joe-biden-did-not-call-for-country-to-be-shut-down-one-week-earlier/
    ““If he had listened to me, and others, and acted one week earlier to deal with this virus, there’d be 36,000 fewer people dead. Dead! Dead! And you guys are wondering, what’s he doing? Come on, man! Get a life! Get a life!” Biden said.”
    Uh,, No,,, no you didn’t… You called Trump “Xenophobic”
    for shutting down travel.
    And to think you have people like Emery and Dougy want you as President.

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  26. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Walt | 22 May 2020 at 07:08 AM
    And to think you have people like Emery and Dougy want you as President.

    Even Slappy and Crappy know that Bidens sell by date is about 10 days after the election (should he manage to prevail). I only hope Biden is aware of what’s happening….well as aware as Joe Biden can be…..when someone slips him the needle!
    All any progressive cares about now is the Veep!

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  27. fish Avatar
    fish

    I really hope that this turns out to be legit!
    https://twitter.com/trumpjew/status/1263810546727555073
    It means we have a 50%/50% chance of not only electing the greatest GaffeMaster in history to the office of president but one who has real “Ron Burgundy” skillz too!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3zfP14pLxc

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  28. Mary Wanna Avatar

    George 926pm: I am saying I am on the spectrum (Fish, Wally, and Billy will love this term), as I think we all are. But that does not fit with the Great Divide (Black/White) Syndrome.

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  29. Walt Avatar

    “Slappy and Crappy” I like that!
    Just what drugs is “Crappy” on this morning?
    Having one of his ” I smoked’m ” moments?

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  30. Walt Avatar

    So by Joe’s thinking, you MUST be black to vote for him….. Right?

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  31. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Walt | 22 May 2020 at 10:51 AM
    Just what drugs is “Crappy” on this morning?

    Thorazine???

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  32. Walt Avatar

    Fish..
    Could be,, could be…..

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  33. Walt Avatar

    AND, the damage control swings into action.
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/05/22/biden-campaigns-symone-sanders-you-aint-black-was-said-in-jest/
    “Senior Joe Biden campaign advisor Symone Sanders asserted Friday that the former Vice President’s “you ain’t black” gaffe on The Breakfast Club was actually a joke.
    “The comments made at the end of the Breakfast Club interview were in jest, but let’s be clear about what the VP was saying: he was making the distinction that he would put his record with the African American community up against Trump’s any day. Period,” she added. ”
    Now, if you actually heard the words come out of Joe’s yap,, he was more pissed than anything.
    How dare a Black man question him?…

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  34. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Nice way to own the weekend news cycle just not the way his handlers would have wanted –
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/05/22/9-reasons-joe-biden-you-aint-black-interview-was-a-disaster/
    😉

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Daily Quotes and a yet decided meme or two.
    Insight: “Bodies grown fat through sloth are weak, and not only labour, but even movement and their very weight cause them to break down. Unimpaired prosperity cannot withstand a single blow; but he who has struggled constantly with his ills becomes hardened through suffering; and yields to no misfortune; nay, even if he falls, he still fights upon his knees.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65)
    For the record: “The media’s focus on the current pandemic risks missing the bigger picture of the challenge that’s presented by the Chinese Communist Party. China’s been ruled by a brutal, authoritarian regime, a communist regime since 1949. For several decades, we thought the regime would become more like us — through trade, scientific exchanges, diplomatic outreach, letting them in the World Trade Organization as a developing nation. That didn’t happen. We greatly underestimated the degree to which Beijing is ideologically and politically hostile to free nations.” —Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
    Food for thought: “The Big Apple is dying. Its streets are empty. The bars and jazz clubs, restaurants and coffeehouses sit barren. Beloved haunts, storied rooms, perfect-slice joints are shuttered, many for good. The sweat equity of countless small-business owners is evaporating. Instead of getting people back to work providing for their families, our mayor talks about a fantasyland New Deal for the post-coronavirus era. Open the city. All of it. Right now. Broadway shows, beaches, Yankees games, the schools, the top of the freakin’ Empire State building. Everything. New Yorkers have already learned to socially distance. Businesses can adjust. The elderly and infirm can continue to be isolated.” —New York Post columnist David Marcus
    Upright: “Mail-in ballots are a very dangerous thing. They’re subject to massive fraud.” —Donald Trump
    Non compos mentis: “Voting is under assault. It is both from a systemic … nationwide campaign of voter suppression and from the coronavirus. The fear of getting sick threatens some not to go to the polls. People should not have to choose between voting and preserving their good health and that of their families. Because no matter what you do when you go out, you bring it home. Again, no one should be forced to vote for their health or vote.” —Nancy Pelosi
    And last… “The media have made a bigger deal about Trump taking hydroxychloroquine than they did about Obama using cocaine!” —Gary Bauer
    ————
    https://patriotpost.us/memes/70854-cake-2020-05-22?fbclid=IwAR1mdygGz3N2YImVgHQl3KI1FDcGq3fM-HTJffiHmuMQ1ByFF08WLJ_reDk
    https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1984027178397976&set=a.254420818025296
    https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1983301931803834&set=a.217983685002343
    or three

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  36. Mary Wanna Avatar

    Lindsay, the gift that keeps on giving,
    https://wapo.st/2LQa4Kw

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The chi coms have killed their once golden goose by breaking the treaty on hong kong –
    Congress teed up action with the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act last November, obliging the State Department to certify each year whether China is in compliance with the Sino-British accord. If Hong Kong is no longer deemed sufficiently “autonomous”, it loses its special treatment and commercial privileges under US law.
    The enclave would no longer be recognised by Washington as an independent member of the World Trade Organisation. It would be treated like any other Chinese city and face the same tariffs. There is now a mounting likelihood that this will be activated.
    “Hong Kong’s future as a global city is in doubt,” said Mark Williams from Capitol Economics. Loss of US recognition would be a body-blow to the city’s status as a global financial entrepot. “Without autonomy and an impartial legal system, Hong Kong risks being eclipsed by Shanghai in finance and other mainland ports in trade and logistics.”
    The 1,400 US companies operating there would drift away, many to Singapore. So would the 650,000-strong army of foreign residents. The bustling enclave would risk the sort of steep decline that has befallen so many trade and banking centres over history – Venice, Antwerp, or Amsterdam – when political shifts robbed them of their unique advantage.
    US sanctions – or more accurately, loss of privileges – would hit 13pc of Hong Kong’s GDP (including re-exports) and come at a critical moment when the tourist industry is on its knees. The economy contracted 8.9pc in the first quarter.
    Williams said optimists have long assumed that China benefits too much from Hong Kong’s current status as an investment and technology gateway to risk jeopardising the arrangement. Two-thirds of foreign direct investment flows into mainland China through the enclave. It now appears that Beijing is willing to pay that high price in order to contain the bacillus of democracy.
    China is taking a huge political risk with its ultra-nationalist “wolf warrior” diplomacy ,breaching treaties and threatening countries around the world with rhetorical echoes of the 1930s. It is a far cry from Deng Xiaoping’s “lie low and bide our time” doctrine in the early post-Mao years, which served China so well.
    It is also a huge economic risk because China has not yet broken definitively out of the “middle income trap” and is badly overextended. The In­ter­na­tional In­sti­tute of Fi­nance estimates that China’s debt-to-GDP ratio hit a record 317pc in the first quarter. The potency of new credit has been falling for a decade and productivity growth has been slipping.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/hong-kongs-future-global-hub-154856461.html
    😉

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  38. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    DonB@4:55PM
    A decent little article, but the most interesting thing to me were the comments.
    Take a minute and check them out, then click on the posters and check out their other comments. It smells remarkably like some sort of organized Chinese posting sweatshop, from the laser focus on what they post about to the somewhat odd use of the language.
    I don’t run into a textbook case of this sort of thing all that often.

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  39. Walt Avatar

    Biden sure pissed off the black vote.

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Tue dat @ 610! The ministry of propaganda on overtime! LOL
    😉

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  41. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Dems should stay away from the breakfast club show –
    James said Biden should think “long and hard” about what he said.
    “And also, your use of the word ‘ain’t.’ You should also make sure you carry hot sauce in your purse next time,” he ended.
    That dig was in reference to a 2016 incident where Hillary Clinton told The Breakfast Club — the same program where Biden made his now-infamous statement — that she carries hot sauce in her purse, a remark widely seen as pandering to the black hosts.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/22/john-james-bidens-you-aint-black-comment-pathetic-carry-hot-sauce-in-your-purse-next-time/
    😉

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  42. Walt Avatar

    Lets hear it from shakedown Sharpton.
    “Sharpton: Biden’s Comment ‘Ludicrous,’ ‘Inappropriate’ — But Trump Is ‘Racist’ ”
    And just has Trump said or done to explain that charge?
    I guess gainful employment and off of the government doll, an DEM plantation is “racist”.

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  43. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Walt | 22 May 2020 at 06:38 PM
    Sharpton: Biden’s Comment ‘Ludicrous,’ ‘Inappropriate’ — But Trump Is ‘Racist’ ”

    I wonder how much Al will charge the DNC for that comment……..?
    Rest assured…Snitchy Al isn’t particularly well liked by the black community! Al is the slightly edgy black guy that gives white liberals the “tingles”.

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  44. Walt Avatar

    Lets just make more crap as you go.
    Maybe Joe can explain away the record revenue intake because of the tax cuts.
    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/05/22/fact-check-biden-says-without-evidence-that-tax-cuts-hurt-governments-coronavirus-response/

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  45. Walt Avatar

    Well… Still no reply from “no voter fraud” Emery.
    Kinda like the news blackout from the Proggy Press.
    “Al Schmidt, vice chairman of the Office of Philadelphia City Commissioners, which runs elections, said his office found that DeMuro’s 36th Division had a history of more votes being cast on machines than the number of voters who signed poll books. His said his office referred the division’s troubling vote numbers from 2014 and 2015 to the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.”
    And just think when unsecured ballots of “cheat by mail”
    pass through the hands of dirty “collectors” and postal people. Whos to say that some Proggy postal prick won’t smuggle all he/she can carry and get busy “correcting” ballots?
    Your the one who stated that there is no voter fraud, and it was just a figment of Repub imagination.
    Looks like your “Bigfoot” just walked into town.

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