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326 responses to “Sandbox – 20may20”

  1. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 24 May 2020 at 07:29 AM
    Interesting to see the various reactions to Lunch Bucket Joe’s latest in a long history of goofs.
    It’s a distraction I tell ya, it’s a friggin distraction. Must not go there…unless you bash Trump, lol.

    Howie Carr is having grand fun rubbing progressive noses in the majesty that is the GaffeMaster!

    “I’m prepared to say that I have a record of over 40 years and that I’m going to beat Joe Biden!”

    https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/05/23/trust-the-man-joe-biden-is-going-to-beat-joe-biden/
    https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/05/14/sleepy-joe-biden-dazed-and-confused-when-it-comes-to-obamagate/
    https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/05/02/howie-carr-if-you-cant-figure-out-what-joe-biden-says-is-it-still-a-lie/

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  2. L Avatar
    L

    Memorial Day has always been May 31. Does anyone know why it was moved up a full week from its usual date and who it is who makes these decisions? This one makes no sense whatever.

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  3. fish Avatar
    fish

    Uh oh….! Those KKKrazy Swedes…..better be right!

    US Expected To Pass 100k Deaths Sunday; Oxford Vaccine Trial Faces Major Setback: Virus Updates

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-expected-pass-100k-deaths-sunday-oxford-vaccine-trial-faces-major-setback-virus

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  4. George Rebane Avatar

    L 1054am – The story I’ve heard for years is that all the holidays that can be moved have been moved to the nearest weekend to make as many 3 or 4-day weekends as possible while keeping the holiday still in the same/original month. I think both the tourist and industrial lobbyists made that happen with the argument that having a holiday in the middle of a workweek is a waste.

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  5. L Avatar
    L

    George @ 11:53- Yeah, that’s my understanding as well. May 31, however is next Sunday, not in the middle of the week. Something wrong with having the extra day fall in the next month? Just make the extra day Friday instead of Monday.
    No, I think there is probably another explanation (probably involving money) out there- anyone?

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  6. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    good news and better news
    Jo Jorgensen is the LP candidate for President
    https://reason.com/2020/05/23/jo-jorgensen-wins-libertarian-party-presidential-nomination/
    The former GOP congressman dropped out and performance artist Vermin Supreme (generally seen wearing a large boot on his head) didn’t make the finals.
    But the best news… cub reporter at The Union, Sam Corey, is moving on to his next job. Bu-bye Sam! Don’t let the door hit you on your backside on the way out!
    I hadn’t talked politics with my son in ages, but was surprised to find out that with the very large field to select from in the California LP primary we both voted for JoJo, for about the same reasons… she wasn’t a prickly nutcase like Vermin and knew the party platform.

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Not one bed used but comrade deblasio still sent pandemic infected folks into nursing homes killing off the oldsters –
    https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/05/24/21-million-brooklyn-field-hospital-shutters-after-seeing-no-coronavirus-patients/
    😉

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  8. Walt Avatar

    Well, they can’t “move” the 4TH of July.

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  9. Mary Wanna Avatar

    Typical desperation move on the part of the RNC. Nevada County had no issues with mail in voting. Many RNC types have been voting absentee for years but they remain as crickets.
    Breaking: The RNC has filed suit against California to stop Gov. Gavin Newsom from mailing ballots to all registered voters ahead of the November general election. Lawsuit comes after Newsom announced the changes in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
    https://t.co/3Im53W1XxJ

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  10. L Avatar
    L

    Dunno about that Walt, I would have thought the same thing about other holidays as well, but there seems to be a breed of people in the last few decades who just enjoy crapping on everything traditional and decent about America. Keach, who hates on everything 24/7 is the perfect example. Imagine enjoying your morning coffee and having nothing more rewarding to do than to post his 6:49 and 7:08 tripe. Wish he’d find something less soul-destroying to entertain himself, ’cause he sure isn’t entertaining anyone sane.

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  11. George Rebane Avatar

    “Breaking: The RNC has filed suit against California to stop Gov. Gavin Newsom from mailing ballots to all registered voters (including tens of thousands of the dear departed to other states and their heavenly reward) ahead of the November general election.” To purge registration rolls of non-voters is considered racist.

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “To purge registration rolls of non-voters is considered racist.”
    Nah, its considered giving up the insurance policy advantage.

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  13. Walt Avatar

    Yes, The LIBS love the idea of a ballot with no chain of custody.
    Read the fine print? Ballots even go to INACTIVE voters.
    The LIBS can make the argument that every grave is an “inactive” voter. Felons at extended stay Folsom, and San Quentin fall into that category too.
    It took weeks just for Nevada County to count the mail in fiasco.
    https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/commentary/database-swells-1285-proven-cases-voter-fraud-america

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  14. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Mary Wanna | 25 May 2020 at 06:41 AM
    I did not read his tweet that way at all. You just hate Trump and now make up your own meaning to his words. What he tweeted is totally accurate.

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  15. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    For your reading pleasure:
    Trumps job approval is the worst since last November-consensus is -10. Down by 12 on Gregory’s favorite poll-Rasmussen and 12 on Fox. How low can he go?
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html

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  16. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 25 May 2020 at 09:19 AM
    Still president Slappy……

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  17. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George, what do you think of Trump’s Memorial Day tweet?

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  18. Walt Avatar

    Still no apologies frome Emery.. Yet still complains about others.

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  19. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “George, what do you think of Trump’s Memorial Day tweet?”
    lol. Sorry about that Paul.
    I thought I’d put up your only other post variety.

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    Hey everybody look! VP Wax Dummy is out of the basement…….
    His handlers have him in a muzzle too so he can’t embarrass himself on this solemn holiday! Smart move.
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-biden/out-of-the-house-biden-makes-first-public-campaign-stop-in-weeks-idUSKBN2311O5

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  21. Walt Avatar

    AAWwwww.. The Proggy Press is whining.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbcs-mika-brzezinski-wants-trump-blocked-by-twitter-a-call-is-being-set-up
    The press complains? Yet they spread lies and smears to 2.5 years.
    Never mind that Scarborough was making jokes about the death.
    Twitter is just another office in the DNC .

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Walt | 25 May 2020 at 09:45 AM
    MIKA BEGS JACK: MAKE IT STOP!

    Karen Brzezinski…..Walt……It’s Karen Brzezinski.

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  23. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 925am – Sounds about right. What did you find wrong with it?

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  24. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    I didn’t write the 9:24. Check it out
    Thanks

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  25. Mary Wanna Avatar

    Thanks Ann for telling it like it is,
    Ann Coulter went on an early Sunday morning Twitter tear, calling President Donald Trump “the most disloyal actual retard that has ever set foot in the Oval Office.”

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  26. Mary Wanna Avatar

    3 years ago, a complete moron of a president told NBC’s Lester Holt, “I was going to fire Comey. … [W]hen I decided to just do it I said to myself, I said, ‘You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story.’” BAM! SPECIAL PROSECUTOR! https://t.co/fIzHtmbOfR
    — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) May 24, 2020
    The most disloyal actual retard that has ever set foot in the Oval Office is trying to lose AND take the Senate with him. Another Roy Moore fiasco so he can blame someone else for his own mess. https://t.co/fIzHtmbOfR
    — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) May 24, 2020
    Trump didn’t build the wall and never had any intention of doing so. The ONE PERSON in the Trump administration who did anything about immigration was Jeff Session. And this lout attacks him. https://t.co/fIzHtmbOfR
    — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) May 24, 2020
    COVID gave Trump a chance to be a decent, compassionate human being (or pretending to be). But he couldn’t even do that. https://t.co/fIzHtmbOfR
    — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) May 24, 2020
    The media is salivating over the former football coach, Tommy Tuberville (choice of the most disloyal human God ever created, DJT). https://t.co/fIzHtmbOfR
    — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) May 24, 2020
    GREAT WORK IN THE LAST ALABAMA SENATE RACE, MR. PRESIDENT! Keep it up and we’ll have zero Republican senators. The next Republican president will be elected in the year 4820. https://t.co/fIzHtmbOfR
    — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) May 24, 2020
    Sessions HAD to recuse himself, you complete blithering idiot. YOU did not have to go on Lester Holt’s show and announce you fired Comey over the Russian investigation. That’s what got you a Special Prosecutor. https://t.co/fIzHtmbOfR
    — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) May 24, 2020
    I can’t wait to see what the media have in store for the former football coach, Tuberville. This is going to be another Roy Moore catastrophe – also engineered by Trump. #SaveTheSenate https://t.co/fIzHtmbOfR
    — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) May 24, 2020

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  27. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    From Fox News Doctor contributor Nicole Saphier
    “I’ll tell you, yesterday North Carolina reported their highest single day increase to date,” Saphier explained. “If they’re following that White House blueprint that was put forth by the experts then they’re not ready to say that they’re going to be able to accommodate 50,000 people in indoor settings come end of August. “We can’t just go back to the business of usual, we’re going to pack everyone in like a herd of cows,” the Fox News contributor added, “and then potentially be transmitting this because then you have schools starting.”
    Nicole Saphier is an American radiologist and the director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth. She is well known for providing her medical expertise as a contributor on Fox News and Fox Business.
    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/fox-news-doctor-slams-trumps-not-smart-plan-to-pack-rnc-convention-like-a-herd-of-cows/

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  28. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I didn’t write it George (9:25). Odd thing. Check the email who sent it George and let me know.

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 25 May 2020 at 11:17 AM
    You and T Rex arms should be encouraging Trump to pack the RNC Convention like “a herd of cows” (absolutely horrible description). While the two of you are safely under the bed in your pastel colored footy pajamas.
    Safe….ever so safe…..!

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  30. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Yeah Mary, Ann Coulter saying Trump is “the most disloyal actual retard that has ever set foot in the Oval Office.” is a position she cannot back away from. There is a general gusher of Conservatives that are practicing serious social and political distancing from our Idiot in Chief. when is it going to be your turn George?

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  31. fish Avatar
    fish

    Oxford scientists working on a coronavirus vaccine say there is now only a 50% chance of success because the number of UK cases is falling too quickly

    Run virus, run as fast as you can…you can’t catch him he the pony tail man!
    https://news.yahoo.com/oxford-scientists-working-coronavirus-vaccine-100847254.html

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  32. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I think it was Scenes George who wrote the 9:24 in my name. He tries to explain it by writing at 9:30:
    “George, what do you think of Trump’s Memorial Day tweet?”
    lol. Sorry about that Paul.
    I thought I’d put up your only other post variety.”
    Can you explain what you meant by that Scenes?

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  33. Walt Avatar

    Knowing just how Proggys operate,, I’m surprised a LIB
    hasn’t come out and said ” freedom is too expensive. We need a Progressive who will bow and apologize to our enemies, and give in to all their demands, so they will like us again.”

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  34. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1014am – I didn’t respond to the 924am, check it out.

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  35. Walt Avatar

    Paul.. You suffering from a micro plastics problem?
    That’s the latest mallidy for everything.

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  36. Walt Avatar

    Yup, the VERY pretty Gavin goes after the VETS first.
    “California veterans home eyed for closure in Gov. Newsom’s proposed budget cuts”
    That should be the last thing on the list.

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ever notice the word PANDEMIC is just the word Dem with panic surrounding it?
    https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10157387588565914&set=a.82108390913

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  38. Mary Wanna Avatar

    POSPOTUS,
    “A little after 8 a.m. on July 20, 2001, a couple arriving for an appointment opened an unlocked front door at an office in the Florida panhandle town of Fort Walton Beach and discovered a woman lying on the floor, dead. Her name was Lori Kaye Klausutis and she was just 28.
    The police said they found no signs of foul play. The medical examiner concluded her lonely death was an accident. She had fainted, the result of a heart condition, and hit her head on a desk, he said.
    Now, nearly 20 years later, Klausutis’s death has captured the attention of the country’s most prominent purveyor of conspiracy theories — the president of the United States — who has without evidence speculated that she might have been murdered and that the case should be reopened.”
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/florida-family-grieves-as-trump-spreads-debunked-conspiracy-theory-to-attack-msnbc-host/2020/05/24/8a0a45a6-9dcd-11ea-b5c9-570a91917d8d_story.html

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Man, is Pocahontas running for VP or what?? First last week she did one of the biggest flip flops in memory by walking back Medicaid for All (not necessary) and now she is going into the wine cave to raise money for Sleepy Joe. Oh my.
    Well, at least Biden hasn’t picked Clinton yet. No matter my distain of Joe Biden, I sure hate to see him suicide himself. Imagine all the memes of Joe Biden did not hang himself.
    ‘Elizabeth Warren, after swearing off top-dollar fundraisers, to hold one for Biden‘
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/after-swearing-off-top-dollar-fundraiser-warren-to-hold-one-for-biden

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  40. Walt Avatar

    Wash. Compost.. Donkey dung. Look who references it.

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Fish @ 11:22 am
    “You and T Rex arms should be encouraging Trump to pack the RNC Convention like “a herd of cows”.
    Remember when Punchy was all discombobulated and upset that T Rex and Putin would take over all the oil in the world. On and on about what might happen. “What concerns me blah, blah, blah. Sound the alarm, battle stations everybody.”
    How Punchy and Always Wrong dare ever show their faces in public again is beyond me. Man, do they ever have some strong defense mechanisms or what.

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  42. Bertie Avatar
    Bertie

    Speaking of trumpy. In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. Combine this with Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Individuals with this disorder exhibit a lack of ability to empathize with others and an inflated sense of self-importance. The hallmarks of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) are grandiosity, a lack of empathy for other people, and a need for admiration.
    that about sums it up now doesn’t it

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  43. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bill
    How you guys can show your face in public is beyond me after predicting the Repubs would pick up houses in the House in the last election in a Red wave. As it came to be they lost 41-yes 41 seats to the Dems

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  44. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George writes:
    “Paul E 1014am – I didn’t respond to the 924am, check it out.”
    So George I take it you don’t care if someone else used my name on your blog. You could at least email them with a reprimand. You have their email.

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  45. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    And a historic gain in the Senate. Can you say appointed for life scoutus that’s about to lay down some giant rulings in a week.
    😉

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  46. Walt Avatar

    LOL!! Someone may have posted under “Emery”,, and THAT’S what upsets him?? Never mind all the Emeryisms that come back to haunt.
    Sure sounded like an Emery post, Looked like an Emery post,,
    even smelled like an Emery post.
    Well Emery,, Flynn got set up,, yet not a bitch from you yet on that crime. But you go right ahead and complain about someone possibly posting as “you”.

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  47. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Kind of hit the nail there –
    A return to balance would be commercially unviable. The best solution may be an honest embrace of bias.
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-liberal-leaning-media-has-passed-its-tipping-point-11590430876
    😉

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