[It's now established that we have a full-service House Speaker in Nancy Pelosi. She has donned the additional mantle of Congressional Spiritual Adviser. And as her first task in that new responsibility, she has taken the President under her wing with pointed counsel directing his scriptural pursuits. We already know of her as a woman of manifold talents and a multitude of concerns – her capacity to care knows no bounds. However, pursuant to this new expansion of duties, were I the current House Chaplain, Fr. Patrick J. Conroy, S.J., I would be very worried. The Lord does indeed work in mysterious ways. gjr]
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160 responses to “Sandbox – 2jun20”
Firm but fair……
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And so the leftists begin the destruction of the cities in a strategic sense. How many of those dollars will actually help people after all the administrators and lickspittles get their cuts –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/03/los-angeles-mayor-eric-garcetti-cut-150-million-from-police-reinvest-in-communities-of-color/
😉
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Our convictions of “O” and Co. are just getting started Emery.
I know your slow. Tough days for you are coming soon.
Your subversives day is at hand.
You sure suck at being a news guy. You have no clue what’s in it.
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 03 June 2020 at 09:05 PM
Probably should give the black communities that money and pull out of policing them all together. I mean the Hollywood cognoscenti want the police eliminated….the black community wants the police eliminated….the Democrat Party has been making noises to this effect.
Let blacks police themselves…..as long as they keep those behaviors that they enjoy restricted to their neighborhoods. No need to Whitesplain anything to them except “keep it in the hood”.
Sounds like something that will make all sides happy.
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Here is a bedtime snack for the trollish TDS set –
Donald Trump Is the President of Our Nightmares. And He Might Get Reelected
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-president-nightmares-might-113000413.html
😉
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So GOOD Fish!! We gotta send that somewhere. Tucker?
Glenn Beck? Ya.. Glenn will have a field day with that one.
Send it on pal, that’s gotta go viral. The NRA sure needs a copy.
You know within two weeks those cities will demand WE help pay for the rebuild. Phuck’m
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Posted by: Walt | 03 June 2020 at 09:23 PM
Alas Walter not an original of mine! Larry Correia.
https://www.facebook.com/larry.correia/posts/4131113506899547
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Who knew Ted Cruz followed RR, its just like he is talking directly to the pony tail of ignorance –
Cruz calls Obama, Biden actions in Russia probe ‘much, much worse’ than ‘everything Richard Nixon did’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ted-cruz-obama-biden-worse-than-nixon
😉
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If LIB politicians will allow their cities to burn, and businesses to get looted, they better not ask for money to fix it. Trump and the Repubs didn’t do it.
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Walt
You are talking at what might be-
I am talking about the facts and what is truth.
As of now
Obama 0 indictments 0 convictions.
Nixon
69 indicted 48 convicted
These are facts. that’s why I’m a News person and you are known as sputtering Walt
Let me know when it gets close. Till then there’s no need to visit this topic.
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Walt…….kudos…….if nothing else, you got Uncle Hippy to do his own homework for once.
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Mr.Fish, h/t to @ 8:54 pm, sir.
I felt a tingle go up my leg. What they are hoping against hope to do is to have us rednecks talk about defending our hood and talking about loading up the boyz in the pick-em-up trucks and go looking for some punk Antifa scum and beat them back all the way back into their mother’s wombs. Head busting time. Just like the Democrat Party union goons busting up melons of the opposition.
They want a Helter Skelter. They want to draw us in. They are begging us to react. Then they can be the victims and sing ‘This Land is my land, your land is my land,” in front of the adorning cameras. Like a bunch of coyotes scattering, cowards and scum they are. Pussies. When the Boyz came out to play, Georgie Porgy ran away.
They want to play the international racism card sooooo bad. It takes two to tango.
To tell a truth, Black Lives do matter, but if you bust in my abode, you life don’t matte all to me, no matter what color your outer shell is. Your punk ass don’t mean nothing to me at that point. My life matters. Ones I care about lives matter. But, we can’t talk like that. It upsets Punchy, the guy who leaves it up to the government to defend his squeeze. That is his right and decision. Hope he never loses cell service. Best have a Plan B. Bear spray don’t work as advertised.
I have no problem with the Guard patrolling the shit holes. Looking at the graffiti left behind at Lafayette Park, the White House is situated in a shit hole city.
Get this: Besides defacing the Veterans Memorial, up in Boston they busted up the monument honoring the Yankee Blue Coats who fight in the Civil War. And they think we have anything in common with them? They are so dumb ass grunt sandwich stupid, that during the monument tear done phase abolishing the nation’s history, they tore down the statue of Joan of Arch On horseback in the French Quarter…down in Narleans. WTF does Joan of Arch have to old white slave owners?
The only good thing about the Lock Downs here and opening up the cell doors to let the criminals run wild is that the Libs finally found out you just can’t go on-line and order a gun and have Amazon deliver it to your door. They were shocked to find out they were led to believe a bunch of Lefty narrative written in stone hogwash from the Lefties leaders. It’s is not easier than buying cold medicine at Walgreens. They now know they had been lied to and snookered to boot. Always a silver lining.
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Have no fear oh great pony tail of ignorance, the Durham grand jury is working hard and the unmasking team is just getting going. (cue star wars music)
Going full po’ ol’ fakenewsman is the tell that you know this is coming. Hey Ted is talking to you can you feel it?
You have never been able to come up with a good tag handle oh great pony tail of ignorance! LOL
KVMR must be so proud!
😉
PS remember measure S before you stomp your little feet and hold your breath and sputter measure W for the thousandth time. BWAHAHAHAHA
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You know, I was willing to believe that George Floyd was strangled by the guy holding him down, but there’s some funny doings here.
https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/documents/Autopsy_2020-3700_Floyd.pdf
Check out the heart description and the lung weights (“The right and left lungs weigh 1085 and 1015 g, respectively.”)
(re: some words on lungs,
https://www.captodayonline.com/drug-overdose-deaths-and-toxicology-tests-lets-talk/
“Case No. 1: Opioid-related death occurring outside hospital setting. A 57-year-old male with a known history of substance abuse was found dead in his bed. A medical examiner autopsy was performed. Internal examination revealed pulmonary emphysema and mild atherosclerosis. The combined lung weight was 2,040 grams…..The markedly heavy lung weights in this case represent a classic finding in opiate-related deaths. ”
Normal Organ Weights in Men: Part II-the Brain, Lungs, Liver, Spleen, and Kidneys
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22182984/
)
drugs:
A. Blood drug and novel psychoactive substances screens:
1. Fentanyl 11 ng/mL
2. Norfentanyl 5.6 ng/mL
3. 4-ANPP 0.65 ng/mL
4. Methamphetamine 19 ng/mL
5. 11-Hydroxy Delta-9 THC 1.2 ng/mL; Delta-9 Carboxy THC 42 ng/mL; Delta-9 THC 2.9 ng/mL
6. Cotinine positive
7. Caffeine positive
B. Blood volatiles: negative for ethanol, methanol, isopropanol, or acetone
C. Urine drug screen: presumptive positive for cannabinoids, amphetamines, and fentanyl/metabolite
D. Urine drug screen confirmation: morphine (free) 86 ng/mL
etc.
It’s hard to find lethal levels of fentanyl and related, but those numbers appear to be well within the autopsy studies I’ve run into for cause of death(blessed be Sci-Hub).
Plus the COVID.
Possibilities:
. The report was doctored (heh) to protect the police.
. I’m reading it wrong, only playing a medical examiner on TV and all
. This entire revolution is built on top of a false narrative
Do yer own research, but I’m just not seeing how a fair trial results in the outcome that the mobs are calling for. Of course, no fair trial is possible. Such is life in 2020.
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Scenes, you were willing to believe…but now??? Irrelevant factoids Scenes.
Why wasn’t Floyd tased, cuffed and hauled off?
Many folks have underlying conditions that make them more susceptible to Covid or to have knees on or neck and chest.
Insulting post by you Scenes.
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Video to help you decide in November,
https://youtu.be/OPC43SK3eR0
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Kelly Ann Conway approved, you decide,
https://youtu.be/M5FvBtu3gB4
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Posted by: scenes | 03 June 2020 at 10:33 PM
Floyd had health problems and engaged in personal behaviors that were contributory to his death….not the least of which was passing counterfeit $20’s ……which put him into close proximity with Officer Friendly.
In a world full of cell phone video cameras nothing in your post matters.
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WHY He/she, WHY!!???
WHY did you get run out of your previous town?
Being a Proglodite makes you susceptible to terminal TDS. An underlying condition of BDS,, which in turn has signs of chronic BS.
Being a confirmed He/she, gives you the ability to actually go phuck yourself.
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Note to Emery.. People LIE to polsters. A GOD given right.
You have a magin for “F.U. phone scammer” in that mix?
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This is for Paul Emery. If it works it blows you whiny theories on race to smithereens
https://twitter.com/i/status/1268193092798054401
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“Why wasn’t Floyd tased, cuffed and hauled off?”
And then Floyd dies from being ‘electrocuted’ and you send your armies off to burn the cities?
Dunno what difference that makes.
“insulting post”
lol. Pound sand.
The push, of course, will be to make life more dangerous for the police (who have to rassle with people 100’s of times a year with the attendant risk), or simply to quit policing in the cities. Personally I would vote for the latter, making urban areas free-fire zones for drugs and drunk driving would reduce interactions with the cops and make for good TV at the same time. I mean, the Left-caused death of social glue along with the disappearance of law enforcement, what could go wrong?
fish: “Floyd had health problems and engaged in personal behaviors that were contributory to his death”
I’m suggesting that he didn’t die from airway restriction at all, at least until convinced otherwise. More than ‘contributory’. Knee to neck makes bad optics but is not an uncommon practice.
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Fentanyl and Meth are totally fine.
HCQ and Zinc will kill you dead.
That’s our media in 2020.
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It doesn’t really matter if the Minneapolis cop is charged with 3rd, 2nd, or 1st degree murder. That guy will die in prison. Not predicting he will get shanked, but saying he will never be let out.
ELLISON ENTERS STAGE LEFT
“Never having been called to account for his past work with the Nation of Islam, Ellison is now Attorney General of the State of Minnesota. If it is some kind of a perverse joke, perhaps the man and the moment have met. Governor Walz has now handed Ellison responsibility for the prosecution of the four MPD officers charged in the death of George Floyd.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/ellison-enters-stage-left.php
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“In a world full of cell phone video cameras nothing in your post matters.”
I do have to agree with that. Appropriate level of punishment doesn’t matter, facts don’t matter, expertise doesn’t matter, numbers don’t matter, context doesn’t matter, between video and social media we live in a world of feelz. Unpopular opinions are evil. The Mob uber alles.
I don’t see it getting better. The difference between a kneeling bunch of well meanin’ white folks on the Broad St. bridge and having your house burn down courtesy of our local thought leaders is more trivial than you might think. Nationallly, you’ll probably see a fair amount of relocating when things clear up a tad.
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Posted by: scenes | 04 June 2020 at 08:06 AM
Knee to neck makes bad optics but is not an uncommon practice…..
And “knee to neck” is exactly what christened this past week’s festivities!
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Don writes
Cruz calls Obama, Biden actions in Russia probe ‘much, much worse’ than ‘everything Richard Nixon did’
Are you referring to Ted Cruz Don? He’s a known liar. Eve your guru Trump believes that, Here’s a direct quote from Trump about Cruz
“He’ll say whatever he wants to say. I actually think he’s a very unstable person. I really believe that. I think he’s a very unstable person. “
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Looks like someone is attempting to cultivate some street cred…….
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/instagram-gangster-nabbed-759012
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Lol. Punchy quotes “known liar” Trump to prove Cruz is a “known liar”. Belly laugh of the morning.
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According to Emery, “O”‘s weaponization of gov. against political opisition is perfictly acceptabel.
Just as long as Repubs don’t EVER do it.
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re: police shooting boy
‘Here’s the Truth Behind the ’13-Year-Old Boy’ Killed by Police Tuesday’
https://www.westernjournal.com/truth-behind-13-year-old-boy-killed-police-tuesday/
13 or 34. At least they got the 3 right.
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Lies, lies, and more lies.
‘The Media Are Lying To You About Everything, Including The Riots’
The media lied about the Russia collusion hoax, about the Mueller probe, about impeachment, about the coronavirus—and now they’re lying about the riots.
“On Sunday, as American cities were burning and looters were rampaging through the streets, Lemon implored America, “Open your eyes. We are teetering on a dictatorship.” He didn’t mean a dictatorship of the mob, which would have actually made sense given the facts. No, for Lemon and his CNN colleagues the real threat is Trump, who had the audacity to declare that if mayors and governors couldn’t get their cities under control, he would.
“Is the president declaring war on America? What is happening here?” asked Lemon, later declaring that Trump is “playing a very dangerous game, because this will backfire.”
To answer Lemon’s question, what’s happening here is the same thing that’s been happening for years now: the media, not Trump, have declared war on America, they are indeed playing a dangerous game, and it will most certainly backfire.“
https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/03/the-media-are-lying-to-you-about-everything-including-the-riots/
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Survey sez: Fredo’s ratings drop by half. (Updated May 30, 2020)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8370587/CNN-host-Chris-Cuomos-viewership-plunged-HALF-contracted-coronavirus.html
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And was every war in the 20th century started with a Democratic president, resulting in the massive loss of life, including defenseless citizens? Yes or no, Emery.
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Now.. Say a Tea Party march wanted to go through a Black neighborhood… Would THEY get the same protections?
https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/03/merrick-long-island-new-york-black-lives-matters-protesters-go-west-patch/
I remember plenty of permits were refused due to “safety concernes”.
I don’t think these people got a permit.
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re MaryW “insulting post” admonition. True to form, our progressives immediately assume the moral high ground to judge others on degrees of social suitability of their thoughts and words. It doesn’t matter if you just relate facts or non-partisan propositions; if it doesn’t support their narrative du jour, then you have committed a social sin which will be with you forever. The Lord has provided for absolution from past sins, the progressive elites have not. If they can dig up something that in their eyes you did wrong as a teenager, then that will continue to condemn you forty years later as needed. And these investigations into the past are strictly partisan, no such archaeology is possible or permitted on the backgrounds of leftists.
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PaulE 826am – Don’t know whether this is news to you or not Paul, but did you know that Democrat candidates during the heat of election seasons have taken other Democrat candidates to task? What kind of credibility should we give to dredged up Dem-on-Dem accusations and attributions? I’m sure you would have brought some of these up had you known about them. Anyway, your views on such intra-party attacks would be of interest to all.
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Good news Emery,, all the subpoenas that Repubs wanted on “O”&co.’s subversives have been approved!
Now don’t fret,, indictments come next, after each scumbag points the finger at the other scumbag, and throws guy above him under the bus.
None of this “no need to take the oath” crap.
OK Emery,, your a bet losing man,, care to say how many will sell their soul and plead the 5TH?
You know they will have lawyers well in tow.
Your team in the House took their best shot at taking Trump Down,, now it’s Trump’s team that gets to return fire.
The BIG differnce is, better ammo and plenty of evidence with turncoats ratting each other out.
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George
Just applying Trumps quote to the question at hand, which is the credibility of Cruz and the opinion of our President in this matter. Of course Trump never tells a lie according to you and most of the co9mmentators on this blog so my post is entirely justified and credible.
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Shit… That’s what I get for watching shoot from the hip news…
News said “subpoenas OKed”.. Uh,, No….. Holding off till next week…
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Si Walt agrees that ” weaponization of gov. against political opisition is perfictly acceptabe” when the Republicans do it.
Thanks for the clarification Walt.
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so Walt when you get indictments and convictions on Obama and h is team give us an update and we’ll compare them to the Nixon corruption legacy.
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One more-so much to report on
So it begins, the political distancing from Trump
“Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) on Thursday praised former Defense Secretary James Mattis for speaking out against President Donald Trump, and then suggested she may not back his 2020 reelection campaign.
As reported by Politico’s Andrew Desiderio, Murkowski described Mattis’s statement denouncing the president as “true, honest, necessary and overdue.”
“Perhaps we’re getting to the point where we can be more honest with the concerns that we might hold internally, and have the courage of our own convictions to speak up,” Murkowski added.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/gops-murkowski-praises-mattiss-honest-and-overdue-trump-criticism-and-suggests-she-wont-back-his-2020-campign/
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Alcoholic news again Emery?
Rawnerve is more like it.
Unlike you I make the correction when I see I “F”ed up.
You just keep going.
then THIS turns up.. Better get a bag of Depends from Dougy..
You may need it.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-homeland-security-committee-authorizes-subpoenas
“The Senate Homeland Security Committee on Thursday voted to authorize subpoenas to the FBI and other agencies for records and testimony from Obama-era officials related to the bureau’s original Russia investigation and the Justice Department inspector general’s review of that probe.”
Plenty of committees are sinking their teeth into your side of corruption.
The difference is,, it all legal and above board.
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Perhaps a bit optimistic but Schlichter always raises good points……
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blockquote>This riot crisis will pass, and then it’s nothing but bad choices ahead for Badfinger Biden, not that he realizes it. He’s too far gone and far too busy watching his stories on the tee-vee to negotiate the crucial strategic decisions he faces if he wants to win. Even if not he has not already disembarked the short bus in Seniletown, he’s at least wandering aimlessly through its suburbs. The calls he has to make – about reacting to the failing Antifa/Democrat insurrection, about picking a veep, and about how to handle the only guy who seemed to grow younger, healthier and sharper in the Oval Office – would not be easy one for someone on the ball, much less someone giggling as he chases a ball around his backyard.
The uprising by the Antifa-Democrat axis, where state and local Democrat politicians wink at the violent, militarized wing of their party’s criminal antics in order to intimidate the normal, is going to be a disaster for the Dems. Oh, the media wants to present it as this dire nightmare for Trump, but within 24 hours five people personally (putting aside online folks) told me they were going to become first time gun owners. I’ll take anecdotes over media narratives any day, as President Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit should have. The Secret Trump Vote on 11/3 is gonna be huge.
There were several factors that the bad guys (uh oh, assuming genders again!) failed to appreciate when they decided to exploit the protests. First, there was the sense of betrayal it would create. People agreed that the actions of the Minneapolis cops were unacceptable, but they also saw through the cynical effort to leverage that tragedy into an excuse for radical violence. The essential insincerity of Antifa and the Antifa-curious was confirmed when we saw black law enforcement officers dead on the ground and it was received with a collective shrug by the Dem pols, trust fund terrorists and kneeling suburban mommies who wail about their privilege.
The media, aiding and abetting the “protests” (that lying label grated too) were unable to control the narrative – the attacks on innocent business owners, and the threat to formerly off-limits (liberal) areas like Beverly Hills made normals identify with the victims of the riots, and destroyed any sympathy outside of Twitter blue checks, Hollywood Schiffheads, and progressive posers. Sure, the middle- and upper-class blue voters love to virtue signal by electing hard-left Dems, but they didn’t vote for themselves being the target. Turns out that useful idiots are always first against the wall, and that makes revolutionary cosplay a lot less fun.
The Orange Man might be Bad, but having rioters in your neighborhood is worse.
Another factor was Donald Trump’s performance. To a remarkable degree, he did not make himself the story and allowed the Democrat mayors and governors who had previously played footsie with these savages to sweat. Trump could have sent in the active-duty Army under the Insurrection Act, but in doing so he would have bought his enemies’ mess. He was too smart for that. He’s going to make the Dem mayors beg him to rush in the 101st, and thereby make them – what’s that favorite word of the #Resist idiots? – “complicit.”
Biden’s big decision is how to react to the crisis. He could babble incoherently in a church – this was hours before Trump made it bad to be around churches – and he could read off a teleprompter, but it’s his strategy that’s the challenge. He has to take a stand, and threading the needle he needs to thread would be tough for someone who wasn’t a step or two away from long talks with invisible bunnies.
He can embrace law-and-order, but he gets nothing from that since Trump has captured that high ground. All Biden gets from that option is to alienate the radicals. Or he can continue with his coy embrace of these Antifa scumbags, which Trump will jam down his throats. Neither expands his base; both options shrink it in some way. Trump can only gain support from going law and order…unlike the Dems, he has no pro-chaos constituency.
And just wait until Trump starts up on the hacks on Biden’s staff who were only to happy to tell the press that they were donating money to the bail fund for rioters…until America decisively turned against the rioters. Everyone knows that if elected, his cronies will run the show, so this is a doubly potent weapon. Trump’s gonna take that bonehead maneuver and go all De Niro as Capone with a bat.
How’s a guy you can’t rely on to remember his pants to think his way out of that strategic cul-de-suck?
And then there’s the vice-presidential choice. Amy Klobuchar’s going to be tossing dishes at the help because she’s out. Besides bearing the stink of Minnesota Democrats in general, she specifically failed to charge the killer cop the last time he tried to take out an unarmed black man. And Governor Karen from Michigan is out. Between her grotesque love of bossing folks around and her husband’s “Don’t you know who I am” antics, she’s also a person of pallor and modern anti-racism demands that people be evaluated by nothing but their race. Biden can’t choose Big Chief Warren despite her status as a make-believe minority because – and this is the saddest thing ever – she would overshadow him.
So, maybe he chooses Stacy Abrams, who has offered subtle and cryptic hints that perhaps she is interested in the job. Governor Abrams (D-Diabetes) would be a great choice in my view, but I’m biased because I want Trump to win.
This leaves the politically and otherwise flexible Kamala Harris. She checks the minority box, and they can certainly patch things up over her calling him a racist on a nationally televised debate stage. When he tells her he will “forgive and forget,” she can be sure about the forgetting part. But Harris, the former prosecutor, has a record that actually allows Trump to slide to her left on criminal justice (she liked to lock up hopheads and condoned prosecutorial antics) as well as to her right (he supports the death penalty).
Who will Hoover’s dad choose? Will he remember who he chose the next day? Now, his advisors might well be expected to strongly recommend a candidate, but you know how stubborn weird old people get. I can definitely see him putting his foot unsteadily down for his choice of Stacy Abrams because she once brought him a yummy oatmeal cookie.
And then there’s going up against Trump. Have you seen him lately? He’s slimmer, and he looks like he’s glowing. Most presidents decay in office. Trump is thriving, and he’ll be going up against a guy who looks more like Jennifer Rubin every day.
On the plus side, there will be no debate, probably. Again, Gropey Joe’s vanity might be such that he insists on it, but if you were one of his handlers would you let him anywhere near a stage with Trump on it? Think Godzilla versus Tokyo, and not from one of those crappy, woke remakes.
You can’t beat Trump in a stand-up fight, and the trail of broken, mangled careers that lies twitching in his wake attest. You have to out-think him, and Biden can’t even pull of the “think” part, much less the “out.”
The last time Biden had to make a key strategic decision his choice was “#MeToo? Just kidding!” There’s no way he suddenly does better with the hard calls coming toward him. Sadly for the Dems, despite their fantasies about replacing him on the ticket, they have no choice but to rely on Biden’s skill, savvy and brains.
They are doomed.
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…..kinda hard not to like the cut of his jib!
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Emery. You need to do something about this.
https://www.tmz.com/2020/02/22/prince-harry-meghan-markle-queen-elizabeth-royal-own-word/
We know how you stand where royalty is concerned.. Loyal to the crown!( you entertained her as a court jester!)
How dare the young piss off the Queen!
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George: what do you think the purpose of Scenes post was? Just digging up a little dirt on the victim as the DA would do to try to discredit and get the cops set free?
The guy died because he tried to buy some food with some homemade money from an inkjet printer.
The cops wife wrote a bad check for twice the amount and she can still breathe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/us/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-worked-together.html
https://nypost.com/2020/05/29/wife-of-cop-in-george-floyds-death-once-wrote-a-bad-check/
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Here’s where it gets interesting…….how much does the progressives favorite whipping boy extract from Uncle Stupid in order to maintain a presence in democrat run urban Shitholeistans?
https://wbbm780.radio.com/articles/mayor-lightfoot-pleads-with-walmart-to-not-abandon-chicago
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Don’t tell Bessie, it is from one of his favorite news sources,
“In 1982,… riots broke out in Buenos Aires against the military junta of General Galtieri. I remember vividly one news report shown at the time on British television. It depicted Galtieri with a handful of his fellow generals strutting in front of the city’s Metropolitan Cathedral after soldiers had beaten a path for them through protesters crowding the Plaza de Mayo, in a vain attempt to show Argentinians that the junta was still in charge.”
Sound familiar?
https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/commentary/2020/06/04/when-to-hold-the-line/
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Posted by: Mary Wanna | 04 June 2020 at 11:34 AM
George: what do you think the purpose of Scenes post was? Just digging up a little dirt on the victim as the DA would do to try to discredit and get the cops set free?
The guy died because he tried to buy some food with some homemade money from an inkjet printer.
The cops wife wrote a bad check for twice the amount and she can still breathe.
Oh don’t worry dugsKKKi…..Chauvin is going to burn…..you still get to do your soggy chair dance over that.
The other three……toss up!
You are correct though….we generally don’t impose the Death Penalty over counterfeiting…especially for such trifling amounts! Still you have to wonder if passing fake twenties to “buy food” is a sound strategy when you’re loaded up on Fentanyl and other various and sundry recreational chemicals! Maybe his dealer just shoots the guys who use inkjet printed currency and he thought it was a safer bet to pass it at the Quickie Mart?
Hows the cap fitting today? Looking extra authentic in the “Revolutionary” environment we find ourselves these days?
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