263 responses to “Sandbox – 27jul20”

1. 

   George Rebane

   05 August 2020

   Electoral College Predictor – I provided readers with a nifty tool for incorporating their beliefs about what they believe from the polls and put in the hard numbers on a state-by-state basis to compute the probability of which candidate will win. All this to cut out the adjectival bullshit that decorates these comment streams. Download the spreadsheet, put in your numbers, and make your case – othewise it’s only words, words, words, and hot air. But hey, some people thrive on that.
   https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2020/07/election2020-electoral-college-predictor.html

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2. 

   Don Bessee

   05 August 2020

   Pump baby pump –
   The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with pipeline owner Energy Transfer to keep the oil flowing, saying a lower-court judge “did not make the findings necessary for injunctive relief.”
   https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2020/08/05/court-reverses-order-to-shut-down-dakota-access-pipeline/
   😉

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   Gregory

   05 August 2020

   Punch 507pm
   Yes, I did follow that link… but it didn’t match the text claims of your 302pm, which was specifically RCP… and that’s always 2 or 3 weeks behind.
   GR 514pm
   I don’t see the point of the spreadsheet… the only poll that counts is on the first Tuesday of November.

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4. 

   Paul Emery

   05 August 2020

   George
   AS you know the numbers are about the same. the map just looks good.

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5. 

   Bill Tozer

   05 August 2020

   How to get a Phd in White Wokeology.
   J.P. SEARS ON WOKEOLOGY
   https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/j-p-sears-on-wokeology.php

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6. 

   Walt

   05 August 2020

   AAwwwwwww….. Emery is getting marginalized….
   So many holes getting poked in that Emeryinism.

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7. 

   Walt

   05 August 2020

   Yup,, THIS will help Biden with the Black vote.
   https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-to-black-journalist-are-you-a-junkie/
   “Shortly after President Trump’s effort to win reelection was challenged by an interview with Jonathan Swan that goes wildly off the rails, former Vice President Biden turned in his own train wreck of an interview, getting testy with CBS News correspondent Errol Barnett during a virtual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
   BARNETT: Please clarify specifically, have you taken a cognitive test?
   FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: No, I haven’t taken a test! Why the hell would I take a test? Come on, man! That’s like saying you . . . before you got in this program, you’re take [sic] a test whether you’re taking cocaine or not. What do you think? Huh? Are you a junkie?
   BARNETT: What do you say to President Trump who brags about his test and makes your mental state an issue for voters?
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   BIDEN: Well, if he can’t figure out the difference between an elephant and a lion, I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about. Did you watch that — look, come on, man. I know you’re trying to goad me, but I mean . . . I’m so forward-looking to have an opportunity to sit with the President or stand with the President and the debates.
   Unsurprisingly, many are cringing that Biden is, unprompted, asking an African-American journalist if he’s “a junkie” . . . three months after Biden told radio DJ Charlamagne tha God, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”

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8. 

   paul emery

   05 August 2020

   Have you looked at any the 270 to win links Walt? They provide a very easy to understand how the electoral votes line up.

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9. 

   Don Bessee

   05 August 2020

   One wonders how that looked at this time in 2016 oh great pony tail of ignorance @ 624?
   😉

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10. 

    paul emery

    05 August 2020

    Don
    You’re living in the past. This is 2020.
    You thought Measure W was a sure thing and you suckered enough people to believe that to put it on the ballot. Big flop and it was all your idea.

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11. 

    paul emery

    05 August 2020

    You can’t make this up. Forget about Bidens bumbling, Trump is the star:
    Trump mispronounces Yosemite National Park as ‘yo-Semites’ twice in White House speech. I dare you to follow the links.
    “President Donald Trump apparently doesn’t know how to pronounce the name of one of America’s most famous national parks.
    During a speech at the White House on Tuesday following the signing of the bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act, Trump twice pronounced Yosemite as “yo-Semites .”
    “When young Americans experience the breathtaking beauty of the Grand Canyon, when their eyes widen in amazement as Old Faithful bursts into the sky, when they gaze upon yo-Semites, yo-Semites, towering sequoias, their love of country grows stronger, and they know that every American has truly a duty to preserve this wonderous inheritance,” Trump said.”
    https://www.businessinsider.com/video-trump-mispronounces-yosemite-national-park-as-yo-semite-twice-2020-8

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12. 

    George Rebane

    05 August 2020

    Gregory 525pm – Then this means that you don’t see the joy and entertainment that prognosticating elections has brought to the country for over two centuries. Over the years all kinds of tallies have been proposed and worked to get a peek into the future, and that practice continues apace today in more ways than one can conceive. I just took one of these tallies, and made it transparent and available for all to play with – that’s the only point. And your citing a wet blanket tautology about November really dismisses the point of all the pre-election fun and frolic. But then again, you get to do that.
    PaulE 820pm – Don’t you ever want to talk about big people stuff about candidates, e.g. the policies they now endorse, and what they may actually support when they’re in office. We on the right have and continue to cover Trump’s AND Biden’s policies as they are reported. But all you liberals do here and elsewhere in the land is lambaste Trump as a person. Is there a deeper message in that you don’t want to consider what Bumblebrain promises to do when he gets elected? Why not take a stab at defending something material about YOUR candidate?

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13. 

    fish

    05 August 2020

    Posted by: paul emery | 05 August 2020 at 08:20 PM
    Hah….Yo-semite…..! That’s crazy man! The next thing you know he’ll be asking the interviewer if he’s a junkie!
    Thanks in advance for agreeing with me Punch.

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14. 

    Bill Tozer

    05 August 2020

    Just call me Yo-Semite Sam with guns blazing away. Ask any corps-man about that. He will tell ya.
    –Gun Sales Up 135% in July Vs. Year Prior
    https://bongino.com/gun-sales-up-135-in-july-vs-year-prior
    –Study: Tuberculosis Will Kill Additional 1.4 Million This Year Due to Global Lockdowns’
    https://bongino.com/study-tuberculosis-will-kill-additional-1-4-million-this-year-due-to-global-lockdowns

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15. 

    fish

    05 August 2020

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 05 August 2020 at 10:25 PM
    Yo-Semite Sam ……
    I think I will greet a Jewish chap named Sam in this manner the next time the opportunity presents itself.

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16. 

    Bill Tozer

    05 August 2020

    Worth watching a few minutes of Word Salad Joe. Fish is on it already.
    https://www.facebook.com/101043269988443/posts/3406427872783283/

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17. 

    fish

    06 August 2020

    I bring glad tidings for der fuhrer of the Sierra Business Council (feel free to share with all your dimmer minions).

    Conservatism may indeed be unsalvageable at this point. The old guard is too heavily invested in—nay, it benefits too much from the status quo to own up to its failures, correct its leftward drift, and reground itself in the realities of the 21st century. Its business model works, as evidenced by the hundreds of millions of dollars that flow into its coffers each year.
    And yet conservatism, in its dotage, cannot shake the nagging suspicion that it no longer speaks to the country it loves, in particular to those who have no living memory of the Cold War. This dawning realization could be amplified through probing questions: is America today more conservative than it was when the conservative movement began 70 or so years ago? Is conservatism itself as conservative as it was then? On the off chance that the conservative agenda were to be implemented, would it fundamentally transform the United States of America and lead to conservative hegemony (or would it simply save us money and buy us time)?

    Once the venal grasping Old Guard is swept away what comes next is going to be epic!
    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/american-conservatism-is-fiddling-while-rome-burns/

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18. 

    paul emery

    06 August 2020

    George
    How about Trumps promises for a health care plan Zero. He coutrolled the congress for two years and nothing happened.

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19. 

    George Rebane

    06 August 2020

    PaulE 1049am – Ah yes, another familiar barn that invites more circling? Not accounting for the stuff that Obama did not accomplish in his 8 years, all I’ll offer is that Trump’s first two years were involved in putting the economy back into gear after idling under Obama, and doing all this while fending off multiple attacks and stratagems from the country’s political and media Left. By all sober accounting, Trump achieved much more than anyone could reasonably expect.

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20. 

    paul emery

    06 August 2020

    Gregory
    For your convenience I’m including the RCP consensus delegate map that shows that in order for Trump to win the election he has to win almost 80% of the toss up states or flip some of the States in the Dem column. Big hill to climb. Here’s the delegate numbers and a link to the map.
    212 Biden
    211 Toss Ups
    115 Trump
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/2020_elections_electoral_college_map.html

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21. 

    paul emery

    06 August 2020

    George
    Also how about his promised infrastructure bill that has yet to see the light of day.
    Trumps quote
    “We will build gleaming new roads, bridges, highways, railways, and waterways all across our land. And we will do it with American heart, and American hands, and American grit”
    Nothing so far. where’s Trumps leadership George?

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22. 

    Gregory

    06 August 2020

    Right now, Paul, it’s Trump/Pence vs Biden/InsertYourFavoriteBlackProgressiveFemaleDemocratHere.
    And Biden is being hidden lest he flap his lips without a teleprompter.
    Enjoy the show.

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23. 

    paul emery

    06 August 2020

    Gregory
    Trumps approval index on the Rasmussen site is now -11. On Monday it was -1. Bad news for the Trumpers.
    https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history

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24. 

    Gregory

    06 August 2020

    “Bad news for the Trumpers”
    No punch, it isn’t. It’s just noise inherent in the unofficial polling process.

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25. 

    Don Bessee

    06 August 2020

    As if that was not already clear –
    Michelle Obama: Coronavirus an Opportunity to Change ‘How Wealth Is Distributed’
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/08/06/michelle-obama-coronavirus-opportunity-to-explore-how-wealth-is-distributed/
    😉

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26. 

    paul emery

    06 August 2020

    Gregory writes about the polling:
    “It’s just noise inherent in the unofficial polling process.”
    So how come you were applauding Rasmussen’s numbers just two days ago?

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27. 

    Gregory

    06 August 2020

    punchy 1246pm
    How is a deadpan recitation of the numbers “applauding”?

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28. 

    Robert Cross

    06 August 2020

    “BlackProgressiveFemaleDemocrat”. won’t that just frost the butts of fascist, misogynist, white male republicans.. especially considering that right wing noise machine trump acolytes actually believe that Biden will step down. Everything they hate and fear.

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29. 

    Gregory

    06 August 2020

    bobbie 1259pm
    It will also frost the butts of many mainstream democrats, you know, the ones that are ignored.
    Also the non-fascist, non-misogynist white male Republican majority.
    Promising a black female Progressive is racist, misandrous and idiotic.

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30. 

    Paul Emery

    06 August 2020

    Why else would you post them Gregory other than to make the point that Trump is actually doing well? In your view why is Rasmussen so erratic?

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31. 

    Bill Tozer

    06 August 2020

    Biden chose Alexa, the woman with all the answers, for the Mob’s choice for their POTUS…er….VP. Before Joe Dementia realized that she is not an actual person, Alexa was cancelled because she has a white voice. The search continues.

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32. 

    Gregory

    06 August 2020

    punch 122pm
    Maybe a point was that Trump isn’t facing the disaster you keep claiming?

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33. 

    Robert Cross

    06 August 2020

    Greggy–“Also the non-fascist, non-misogynist white male Republican majority.” —Oh…. you mean the one’s like Mitt Romney, George Conway, and the other never trumplers. My bad!!

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34. 

    Gregory

    06 August 2020

    Bobbie 216pm
    Your bigoted misandry is noted.

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35. 

    Robert Cross

    06 August 2020

    Greggy. — your fascist, misogynist, white maleness is noted especially since your claim of “misandry” is probably based on fish’s (Clouseau’s) assumption that I am the female person who ran for congress. LOL!! what a bunch of dunces…Dunning-Kruger all the way..

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    Paul Emery

    06 August 2020

    Gregory
    The reality that at this time Trump faces the need to win 80% of the toss up states delegates, according to the averaging of RCP of polls, to win the election sounds like a problem to me.
    How you manage to put a smiley on that beyond logical thinking and reflects kind of a wannabe on your part.

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37. 

    Gregory

    06 August 2020

    Misandry isn’t confined to women, Bobbie. You sound like a self hating white male yourself… how will you ever live down your white fragility?

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38. 

    Todd Juvinall

    06 August 2020

    Cracks me up that BoobieC and Paul Emery are supporting a white male racist pig who sniffs little girl’s hair and has them rub his leg hair. a man called Joe Biden. Whayt a bunch of racist dogs the democrats and libs have pushed forward. You should be ashamed but we know you are not.

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39. 

    Gregory

    06 August 2020

    punchy 329pm
    So… what was Trump’s pickup in 2016, without being an incumbent president?
    Do you really think Texas, Florida, Georgia are all going to fall for Biden/InsertYourHopesHere?
    The Trump ticket campaign ads are all but writing themselves.

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40. 

    fish

    06 August 2020

    Posted by: Wine Aunt | 06 August 2020 at 03:14 PM
    Greggy. — your fascist, misogynist, white maleness is noted especially since your claim of “misandry” is probably based on fish’s (Clouseau’s) assumption that I am the female person who ran for congress. LOL!! what a bunch of dunces…Dunning-Kruger all the way.
    Oh I don’t know Bertie…..maybe the reason that I think you’re a woman is because you write and emote just like everyones favorite Wine Aunt.
    Just sayin…..

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41. 

    Scott O

    06 August 2020

    Booby X 12:59 – “”BlackProgressiveFemaleDemocrat”. won’t that just frost the butts of fascist, misogynist, white male republicans..”
    That’s about it, isn’t it?
    No idea of how to lead the country, no idea of how to recover our economy, no idea of how to improve the lives of the down and out…
    It’s all about a juvenile and vindictive desire to ‘piss you off!’
    What Booby and his fellow left-wing idiots don’t realize is that they’re just projecting. Conservatives don’t look to the govt or its elected officials for our happiness nor do we desire or need anybody to ‘validate’ our feelings. We’re not the ones screaming at the sky when Obama was elected and we won’t get a “low-grade depression” if Biden wins.
    I will feel bad for the bottom end of the financial spectrum as it will just get worse for them.
    And plus one on the call out for Booby X blowing the word ‘misandry’. He obviously doesn’t know what it means. He then calls us a “bunch of dunces”!
    Hilarious!

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42. 

    Don Bessee

    06 August 2020

    Creepy grampa joe sure is good at pissing of the brothers when Trump is getting 20% of the black vote. That’s going to suppress turnout and help down ticket R’s –
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/08/06/biden-unveils-general-election-ad-aimed-at-black-america-amid-troubling-polls/
    😉

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43. 

    Don Bessee

    06 August 2020

    Gee looks like one of the PC VP picks was lining her own pocket laundering the money thruough a non-prof she founded. Bad socialist, bad. –
    A Los Angeles Times review of Bass’s financial disclosures found that her State Assembly campaign committees paid the Community Coalition nearly $100,000 between 2008 and 2011. And in 2010, the Community Coalition paid Bass a total of $70,500 in consulting fees, an amount that nearly doubled her State Assembly salary that year.
    Financial disclosures show that Bass’s campaign made two major donations to the nonprofit organization that she co-founded.
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/08/06/karen-basss-campaign-gave-nearly-100k-to-nonprofit-she-co-founded-which-paid-her-70k-for-consulting/
    😉

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44. 

    fish

    06 August 2020

    HA!!!!
    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha……breathe……hhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!
    

    Government Misconduct Frees Cliven Bundy

    
    Politically charged prosecutions — even ones that are thoroughly justified — often end badly for the justice system. So it appears with the federal prosecutions of Cliven Bundy and his sons. The government blew its case against Bundy’s sons by overcharging them, resulting in a jury acquittal in 2016. Today, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of Bundy’s own federal indictment (as well as that of several of his co-defendants) on the grounds that the government had waited until the middle of trial to disclose information that would have helped Bundy’s case, in violation of Brady v. Maryland. The misconduct was so severe and prejudicial to the Bundy clan’s case that the court barred the government from bringing the same charges again. The opinion was written by Jay Bybee, a George W. Bush appointee, but joined by judges appointed by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
    The Bundy indictment charged extortion, threats to federal officers, and a variety of related crimes due to the armed standoff around the Bundy ranch arising from a longstanding dispute over unpaid grazing fees claimed by the Bureau of Land Management. The trial court rejected the Bundy clan’s self-defense theory, but, as the court wrote, “A central pillar of the government’s case was the allegation that the defendants recruited armed followers by intentionally deceiving those followers into believing that the Bundys feared for their lives because government snipers surrounded their ranch,” a charge that was touted in the government’s opening statement to the jury.
    

    Yeah….I remember when Federal Law Enforcement and Steve Frisch were still really into each other!
    https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/government-misconduct-frees-cliven-bundy/

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45. 

    fish

    06 August 2020

    Well I believe him……..
    https://social.infogalactic.com/images/posts/8fa4e9b5-a819-4c58-ac35-bf569bda34f4/original-52ddd57bfe3f3fe655b2d4dca1875f57.png?v=63763945981

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46. 

    Don Bessee

    06 August 2020

    Well thats odd, i heard every major news outlet, paper and pundit say they were all peaceful protests……
    https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2020/08/06/video-portland-police-chief-calls-end-violent-protests-enough-is-enough/
    😉

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47. 

    Don Bessee

    06 August 2020

    Money ,money, moneeeeyyy –
    Massive month of fundraising for @realDonaldTrump & RNC:
    🔥 $165M+ raised in July (beating Biden/DNC by $25M!)
    🔥 $300M+ cash on hand
    🔥 $1.1B+ raised this cycle
    Thank you to all our supporters who donated!!
    Ronna McDaniel
    @GOPChairwoman
    Your support is fueling the largest grassroots army in GOP history.
    Unlike Biden, we already have 1.8M volunteers making millions of calls and door knocks every week to re-elect @realDonaldTrump and Republicans.
    …and the enthusiasm is only growing!
    5:00 PM · Aug 5, 2020
    The Trump campaign said it is continuing in its efforts of “powering the largest field program and data operation in Party history,” with the RNC hiring 300 field staffers, “bringing the total Trump Victory operation to over 1,500 – double that of Biden’s field operation,” according to the campaign’s release.
    “With a grassroots army of 1.8 million Americans, the Trump Victory field effort is on pace to surpass the 2.2 million volunteers that helped re-elect President Obama in 2012,” the release added.
    Trump Victory data obtained by Axios this week indicated that the campaign’s ground game is continuing to reap positive results. The GOP is reportedly closing the voter registration gap in key swing states such as Pennsylvania, Florida, and North Carolina:
    According to the data obtained by Axios, the GOP has “lessened the margin by 133,000 registered voters in Pennsylvania and 87,000 voters in Florida” while gaining “a net 216,410 voters since Election Day 2016” in North Carolina.
    Republicans have also reclaimed a voter registration advantage in Iowa and are outpacing Democrats in Arizona.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/06/trump-campaign-outraises-team-biden-by-millions-in-july/
    😉

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48. 

    Paul Emery

    06 August 2020

    Gregory at 1:13 writes concerning Bidens VP choice
    “Promising a black female Progressive is racist, misandrous and idiotic. ”
    Why did Trump chose the Bible Thumper Pense for VP and McCain picked Tea Party Fave Sarah Palin. It’s for strategic reasons. Can anybody here tell me how Sarah Palin was qualified to be President if McCain were to fall?

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49. 

    Scott O

    06 August 2020

    Paul E 7:15 – “Can anybody here tell me how Sarah Palin was qualified to be President if McCain were to fall?”
    Assuming the McCain/Palin ticket had been elected, then the Constitution provides that in the event the POTUS has died or is unable to fulfill the duties of office then the VPOTUS is to become the POTUS.
    Slept through civics class, did we Paul?

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    Scott O

    06 August 2020

    Don 6:20 – Don’t forget that Biden’s ads are becoming re-election ads for Trump!

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