[Does everyone know what Nevada County Supes are planning to vote on tomorrow? Heidi Hall (District1) plans to introduce Urgency Ordinance Measure 37 that would impose draconian fines on local residents for not wearing a mask, even while social distancing. This is the latest of the power-mad disease infecting political pinheads across the country. Write your supervisor or be there. gjr]

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263 responses to “Sandbox – 27jul20”
punchy, the “trump approval” numbers don’t have anything to do with Biden.
Think first. Type later.
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Rewrite for your convenience
This edit makes it simple to see the extent of Rasmussen’s mood changes. Who knows what it will be next week. Check out the link
Rasmussen is all over the place. Last Wednesday Trump was down by 9. Why do you think that is Gregory? They are the only poll with such mood swings. Glad it makes you feel good. Trump still down by nearly 8 in RCP election votes averages and down by 107 in RCP electoral vote polls.
check the approval numbers here and you’ll find Trump down by 9 on Wed:
Trump Approval Index History
Date approve Disapprove
31-Jul-20 50% 48%
30-Jul-20 48% 51%
29-Jul-20 45% 54%
28-Jul-20 45% 54%
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history
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By the way Rasmussen has Biden up by 6 in their last election poll.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history
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Wrong link
here you go with Presidential
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2020/white_house_watch_jul29
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punchy
breathe in, breathe out.
Wax on. Wax off.
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Lordy Lord is someone having a massive TDS eruption or what? Talk about frothed up, must not like the trend lines or something. LOL
I think the pony tail of ignorance has yogi Berra catching up with him but dont look back!!
It is sure looking like deja vu all over again for the TDS set!!!
😉
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Do you really think Trump will win Don?
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Grab those pearls team TDS –
Cuccinelli gives Supreme Court ‘two enthusiastic thumbs up’ for latest border wall decision
Acting deputy DHS secretary says feds will ‘certainly get well over 400 miles’ of border fence built by year’s end –
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ken-cuccinelli-supreme-court-border-wall-decision
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:Fauci is trying to dodge Jim Jordan right now, but it’s clear Fauci won’t say a word of criticism specifically about massive BLM protests as a risk to public health
Fauci is a Democrat, folks.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1289209278142779393?
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Don’t go away mad, Paul. Just go away.
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lol Emery!! That’s a joke,, right?
HELL!!!!!!! YOU can’t even give a half assed reason to vote for Hide’n Biden.
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For Fish, mostly.
THE WEEK IN PICTURES: BARR NONE EDITION
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/the-week-in-pictures-barr-none-edition.php
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Since Emery just LOVES the ly’n bastard Biden,, Here is a little more,
https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/31/biden-startup-health-howard-krein-ppp/
“Howard Krein, who is married to Biden’s daughter, Ashley Biden, and also serves as an informal advisor to the Biden campaign, is the chief medical officer of StartUp Health, which as of September 2018 had built up an investment portfolio valued at over $31 million. The firm received a PPP loan valued between $150,000 and $350,000 on April 12 to retain the jobs of 18 people, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Nine days later, on April 21, Biden accused Trump in a Medium post of leaving small businesses with less than 20 employees behind in his administration’s management of the PPP.”
Still loath LIARS Emery? Or is that just selective loathing of liars?,, They can LIE like a rug as long as they have a (D)(P)(Commie) next to their name…..Can you please confirm that?
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 01 August 2020 at 11:27 AM
You always get me the nicest gifts William!
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For our local lunatics on the Left: go pound sand, ye lying sacks of shit.
‘New Disclosures Confirm: Trump Himself Was the Target of Obama Administration’s Russia Probe’
Assertions that the focus was ‘the Trump campaign’ are now known to be ludicrous
“There is still plenty of paper trail to uncover. I haven’t even referred here to the Steele dossier, which investigators knew was bogus but relied on to seek — and obtain — court-authorized eavesdropping. I haven’t mentioned the unmasking of Trump officials indirectly targeted in foreign-intelligence collection. We haven’t considered the collaboration of American and foreign intelligence agencies in the scrutiny of Trump, or the collaboration of Obama officials and congressional Democrats, as well as the media, to promote the narrative that Trump was a Russian operative. There is much still to learn and to weigh.
But this much we know: In the stretch run of the 2016 campaign, President Obama authorized his administration’s investigative agencies to monitor his party’s opponent in the presidential election, on the pretext that Donald Trump was a clandestine agent of Russia. Realizing this was a gravely serious allegation for which there was laughably insufficient predication, administration officials kept Trump’s name off the investigative files. That way, they could deny that they were doing what they did. Then they did it . . . and denied it.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/new-disclosures-confirm-trump-was-the-target-of-obama-administrations-russia-probe/
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Why bother stealing it when creepy grampa joe and the socialist 5th column will give it to them if they win –
“Once again we see the People’s Republic of China (PRC) facilitating the theft of our nation’s ingenuity and hard work as part of their quest to rob, replicate and replace any product they don’t have the ability to develop themselves,” said John C. Demers, the assistant attorney general for national security. “Far from being an isolated incident, we see the PRC implicated in around 60 percent of all trade secret theft cases. This continued economic belligerence runs contrary to the values and norms that facilitate the success of our industries and countering it remains among our highest priorities.”
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/08/01/couple-plead-guilty-stealing-childrens-hospital-trade-secrets-china/
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Rest in Peace, Wilford Brimley.
My wife remembers him as always playing comforting roles. I remember him in The Thing being very discomforting. Also with a real double-barreled shotgun in his hands at a SoCal skeet range (we were all similarly armed).
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Now who didn’t see this coming?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/02/clinton-aide-advises-joe-biden-whatever-you-do-dont-debate-trump/
“Whatever you do, don’t debate Trump. Trump has now made more than 20,000 misleading or false statements according to the Washington Post. It’s a fool’s errand to enter the ring with someone who can’t follow the rules or the truth. Biden will undoubtedly take heat from Republicans and the media for skipping the debates. But it’s worth the risk as trying to debate someone incapable of telling the truth is an impossible contest to win.”
AND of course, they plan is to call Trump a liar.
Never mind all the lies Joe has been busted on… THOSE were just fine….. Joe being Joe.
The real fact is,, Trump will eat Biden’s lunch, and all Biden will be able to do is sit there and watch.
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Lets ruin this Sunday for the TDS set –
A new poll released this weekend shows President Donald Trump, the incumbent GOP president, has taken a national and battleground states lead over his Democrat challenger presumptive nominee former Vice President Joe Biden.
The survey, from the Democracy Institute commissioned by the Sunday Express newspaper, shows Trump leading Biden 48 percent to 46 percent. What’s more, Trump has opened up a bigger lead according to this poll in the crucial battleground states, meaning the president by this pollster’s estimates currently is projected to win 309 electoral votes—more than he did in 2016.
Overall, this poll has Trump nationally at 48 percent to Biden’s 46 percent with six percent undecided. Among white voters, Trump leads 53 percent to 46 percent. Trump is surprisingly strong with black voters at 20 percent in this poll—he got about eight percent of the black vote in 2016—while this survey has Biden at 77 percent. Hispanic voters in this poll break for Biden 51 percent to 38 percent, which would also represent an increase for the president over his 2016 performance with Hispanics.
“Crucially, President Trump has a lead of 48 percent to 43 percent in the swing states Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin which would put him back in the White House with an electoral college tally of 309 to Biden’s 229,” David Maddox, the political editor for the Sunday Express, wrote about his newspaper’s survey.
“The polling suggests Mr Trump is emerging as the race leader because of a belief he is best in handling the economy,” Maddox wrote. “With a third of voters putting the economy as the top election issue and 66 percent thinking that the economy is bouncing back after coronavirus, voters believe that Trump is better for the economy by 57 percent to 43 percent.”
Although Biden remains in a competitive race with Donald Trump, and may well do so until election day, his support isn’t growing,” Basham said. “And, tellingly, almost all of the issues that matter most to voters are trending in President Trump’s favour. More Americans are concerned about the economy and keeping their current, or getting a new, job. They don’t especially blame Trump for the lockdown-induced economic contraction, and they think he’ll do a better job of righting the economic ship than Biden.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/02/poll-trump-takes-lead-over-biden/
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DB 303pm
For folks not wanting to go to Breitbart, here is the link to the originator of the poll and the story:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1317435/donald-trump-polls-us-election-2020-joe-biden-latest-news
Don, is it so hard to read the story and use the original, not the Xerox copy?
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And Emery is frantically looking of a Proggy poll to counter with…..
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Welcome to comrade deblasios revolution –
The uptick in violence has reportedly affected every borough, with at least 942 people — either dead or injured — accounting for the victims.
Saturday night’s victim told police he was near the Mitchel Houses project in Mott Haven at 135th Street and Alexander Avenue when he was caught between crossfire.
Mario Martinez, a neighbor who’s been living in the area for more than half a century, told the Post he has “never seen it this bad.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-shootings-surpass-2019-police
😉
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Another winning position –
Overall, about 70 percent of all voters said they support excluding illegal aliens from such counts
Across party and racial lines, Trump’s decision is hugely popular. About 72 percent of white Americans, 67 percent of black Americans, and 57 percent of Hispanic Americans said they supported counting either only citizens or citizens and legal residents when determining congressional representation for the states.
A majority of Republican voters, 52 percent, said they support counting only citizens in the counts, while 57 percent of Democrats and 65 percent of swing voters said they support excluding illegal aliens.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/02/poll-7-in-10-voters-support-trumps-exclusion-of-illegal-aliens-in-congressional-apportionment/
😉
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Hey the peoples republic of portland can keep up with comrade deblasios socialist paradise –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/02/portland-july-2020-shootings-more-than-double-one-year-ago/
😉
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Now they care about government overreach…………
https://www.chron.com/news/article/DHS-official-whose-office-compiled-intelligence-15451258.php
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Until mere moments ago I hadn’t seen much posting from Punch……maybe he’s been on the East Coast annoying the wildlife…..!
https://www.redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2020/08/03/north-carolina-bear-spotted-with-trump-2020-sticker-on-collar-reward-offered-to-find-culprit-seriously/
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If my sources are correct (which have a near perfect battling percentage), then Joe Biden’s condition has exasperated and has taken a rapid turn from bad to worst.
Thus, does anyone out there think Biden will not show up to debate Trump? I do. Its a lose-lose proposition for Drolling Joe.
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BillT – Nailed it again Mr Tozer.
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So today is the day Trump was going to announce his plan for health care. Gosh and golly, I seemed to have missed it. Can anyone update me about what he announced?
“In a FOX News interview taped July 17 and aired two days later, Trump told Chris Wallace:
“We’re signing a health care plan within two weeks, a full and complete health care plan that the Supreme Court decision on DACA gave me the right to do.”
Let’s break that down. First, it’s been two weeks. Have you seen a health care plan? Has Trump? Just weeks before that, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar admitted they have no plan. That’s because there isn’t one and there never has been. Second, the Supreme Court ruling on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival immigration program ― DACA ― did no such thing.”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/320263-trump-obamacare-replacement-to-come-in-a-couple-of-weeks
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Posted by: paul emery | 03 August 2020 at 06:03 PM
Punch…it’s really very simple….if you aren’t satisfied with his performance as president then don’t vote for him.
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fish
I’m just so disappointed that Trump has let us down. People were breathlessly waiting on his great healthcare plan that was coming out today and not a peep, I thought keeps his promises that what you and the COJ’s claim . I’m sure he’ll have it tomorrow.
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LOL… Emery “disappointed” in Trump. Now that’s rich..
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Look Emery,, your side wanting to rewrite history.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/03/chicago-leaders-cancel-history-classes/
““When it comes to teaching history in Illinois, we need to end the miseducation of Illinoisans,” Ford said in the release. “I’m calling on the Illinois State Board of Education and local school districts to take immediate action by removing current history books and curriculum practices that unfairly communicate our history.”
“Until a suitable alternative is developed, we should instead devote greater attention toward civics and ensuring students understand our democratic processes and how they can be involved,” he continued.”
Care to say just what that “suitable alternative” could be?
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Posted by: p | 03 August 2020 at 07:28 PM
I sense your disappointment…..if only the democrats hadn’t run a candidate so utterly hated by half the population none of this unpleasantness would have been necessary. Perhaps they will learn from this.
I’m sure that during his second term he “will have more flexibility”.
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“People were breathlessly waiting on his great healthcare plan that was coming out today…..”
Think that is bad, get this. A couple of Dem donors drank some fish tank cleaner.
I didn’t hear a peep today from the media being all hot and bothered and breathlessly awaiting the Breaking News story of some kind of healthcare plan. They were too busy repeating the words, “peaceful protestors”. Not a peep. Maybe cracked pot Amy Goodman scowled about it, but highly unlikely. It lives in the hallowed chamber of TDS lore.
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CRAZIEST TWEET OF THE DAY
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/craziest-tweet-of-the-day.php
Forget the tweet. I enjoyed the 30 second photo bomb clip.
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For Walt
https://www.facebook.com/TakeBackThisCountry/photos/a.1032125603520777/3128838610516122/?
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In dramatic expansion of Russia probe, Senate investigators target CIA, State records
https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/dramatic-expansion-russia-probe-senate-investigators
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Thanks Bill!! Now that’s something I would actually do!
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George
Here’s the latest Trump quote from last night. I can’t believe you’d support him after this…
“President Donald Trump again extended well-wishes to accused sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, apparently expressing sympathy for Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime companion.
“Her friend, or boyfriend, was either killed or committed suicide in jail. She’s now in jail,” Trump told Axios’ Jonathan Swan in an interview that aired Monday night on HBO.
“Yeah, I wish her well,” he said. “I’d wish you well. I’d wish a lot of people well. Good luck. Let them prove somebody was guilty.”
The president’s latest remarks on Maxwell come after he drew significant criticism two weeks ago for his initial reaction to the news of her arrest.
“I’ve met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, and I guess they lived in Palm Beach. But I wish her well, whatever it is,” Trump told reporters at a White House coronavirus briefing.
The French-born socialite and publishing heiress was taken into custody by the FBI early last month after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging her with four felony sex trafficking charges stemming from her alleged grooming of teenage girls to be sexually assaulted by Epstein”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/04/trump-well-wishes-ghislaine-maxwell-391274
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punchy 747am
So, you’d like presidents to go back to the “obviously guilty” pronouncements of Nixon?
Remember,she has yet to go to trial… had he said what the prematurely vindictive would have him say, he’d be roundly (and rightly) criticized by the civil libertarians amongst us.
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Why should he say anything Gregory. What an idiot Trump is. Remember, he was supporting the “lock her up” cheer against Hillary. She was not even arrested or under investigation
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PaulE 747am – I think Gregory’s 825am pretty much nails it for me. And in your 841am you forget that Hillary was indeed under investigation (twice) by Comey’s FBI – recall the two infamous press announcements he made regarding the FBI’s findings and his own overriding recommendations about her prosecution.
But the bottom line here again is that not only can you have your own opinions and facts, but also your own sense of justice. And after all these months you still don’t understand the trade offs between our braggadocious president and Bumblebrain Biden. Nevertheless, I patiently await your epiphanies on these and other matters, and will celebrate them with you when they arrive. Until then, barn circling is the order of the day.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 04 August 2020 at 08:41 AM
Why should he say anything Gregory.
Finally a statement not completely blithering in its idiocy Punch! Yes…why say anything about this issue at all!
There are days I think he is trying to throw the election!
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So George Trump saying “let them prove she is guilty” for someone who has been arrested for sex crimes against children is ok in your view for a President of this country to comment on.
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PaulE 927am – Correctamundo. In my book it’s OK for “a President of this country to comment on” anything he wants. What’s on your list of proscribed presidential pronouncements?
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Posted by: George Rebane | 04 August 2020 at 09:44 AM
I’m so disappointed……I thought you would remind Mr. Newscraft that the state proving the accused guilty is the way our judicial system is designed!
Really George….how will he ever learn?
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fish 900am
Trump said it well… she did travel in his social circle. He wishes her well and did nothing to change her jailed status.
Punch will go on to the next shiny object soon enough.
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George
I’m not talking about his rights George but my goodness do you think that comment is good for the President to say? He is implying sympathy for someone charged with a vicious crime against children. I mean prepping girls for a life of prostitution is as bad as it gets.
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Perhaps trumpler’s expressions of support for Maxwell are code for. ‘keep your mouth shut about me and you will get the same treatment as Stone and Flynn.. You know, lie and you will be saved.
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