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246 responses to “Sandbox – 19aug20”

  1. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Here’s one to ruminate on.
    https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1296115228896182273
    The thing is, CRT is like a roach. If you see one instance, there’s a hundred.

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  2. D Avatar

    Inhabitants of this blog would do well to attend the next Sandia, white male, re-education camps.

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  3. D Avatar

    Trump true believers are starting to suffer from PTSD = Post Trump Stress Disorder now that Trump Barge is listing to starboard.
    https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-19/trump-s-goodyear-boycott-rant-is-particularly-shortsighted?srnd=opinion

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  4. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    You know, the funny thing about white male, re-education camps is that the main side effect will be to turn a whole generation of white males into the thing they are accused of being. Prior to this whole religious movement, they were essentially oblivious to ethnicity (except for the unfortunates who end up in jail of course).
    It should be interesting.

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  5. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    There’s something to be said for home schooling.
    https://twitter.com/unsafespace/status/1288194448975736832

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Someone has an enthusiasm problem –
    Democratic convention draws 18.7 million TV viewers, down 28% from 2016
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/democratic-convention-draws-18-7-185934250.html
    😉

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  7. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: D | 19 August 2020 at 12:33 PM
    Inhabitants of this blog would do well to attend the next Sandia, white male, re-education camps.

    dugsKKKi….is that you?

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  8. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    So it appears that we may have a Constitutional crisis if Trump decides to challenge the election results and refuses to leave office. What are your thoughts about this? I am first to admit I am not a constitutional expert that some on this blog claim to be. This is a major issue.

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  9. Scott O Avatar

    Paul – “So it appears that we may have a Constitutional crisis if Trump decides to challenge the election results and refuses to leave office.”
    Poor Paul – it must suck to live your life in fear of fabricated problems.
    The Tangerine Terror is inside of Paul’s head 24/7.

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 19 August 2020 at 02:09 PM
    This is a major issue.

    This is how I know that “this isn’t a major issue”.
    (Ostentatious “pearl clutching” with vague open ended question to follow.)

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  11. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Yeah George! This completely ginned up controversy where Trump might not leave office is a major issue! Some commentators, a crazy lawyer, and a member of the House said so!
    Paul, why don’t you dig a little deeper up your ass for a topic next time.

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  12. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 209pm – Were Trump to contest the election, it would indeed become a constitutional crisis. But that’s why the Founders invented SCOTUS. It would be up to them to adjudicate the matter, declaring the winner, calling for a new election, or something else. However, I wouldn’t worry too much about it. The Dems have been contesting Trump’s election for almost four years now, and all they’ve been able to achieve is hobble the administration of a duly elected president and thereby harm the country along with setting a very destructive precedent for the future. But no constitutional crisis yet.

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  13. Scott O Avatar

    D(uh) 12:33 – “Inhabitants of this blog would do well to attend the next Sandia, white male, re-education camps.”
    Wouldn’t that be a hoot?
    I’d bring a cooler with some adult refreshments and ask questions like: ‘do white women trannies have to get re-educated to free themselves from white male toxicity’?

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  14. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    You’re confusing two different issue George. I’m surprised you took the bait on that one. Exactly what is it that the Dems did that was unconstitutional in their resistance to Trump and exactly how was it different than the Repubs futile attempt to impeach Clinton?

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  15. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    RE SCenes 2:30
    These are the exact words of White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany to the question as to what Trump would if he was defeated in the election “The president has always said he’ll see what happens and make a determination in the aftermath,”
    He has responded several times in the same way to that question.

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    OUCH!
    DNC Ratings for 2nd Night Plummet 48% from 2016
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/19/dnc-ratings-for-2nd-night-plummet-48-from-2016/
    Joe Biden’s lead over Donald Trump in the national popular vote in the 2020 presidential election has virtually evaporated just days after the former vice president named Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as his running mate because of a significant decline in support from black and Hispanic voters, according to a poll released by CNN on Sunday evening.
    Ten percent of black and Hispanic voters have changed their support from Biden to Trump in just two months.
    This decline in support for Biden and increase in support for Trump among black and Hispanic voters has caused Biden’s lead among registered voters to drop from 14 points — 55 percent to 41 percent — in the same nationwide poll conducted for CNN by SSRS in June, to four percent — 50 percent to 46 percent — in the nationwide poll of 987 registered voters conducted for CNN by SSRS between August 12 and August 15. The poll has a margin of error of four percent, which means the race for president is now a statistical tie.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/19/rrasmussen-poll-bidens-lead-over-trump-falls-2-points-after-naming-kamala-harris-running-mate/

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  17. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Here’s another response from Trump to the same question asked on FOX News:
    “I have to see,” he told interviewer Chris Wallace. “I’m not going to just say ‘yes.’ I’m not going to say ‘no,’ and I didn’t last time either.”
    https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-could-happen-if-donald-trump-rejects-electoral-defeat

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  18. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    From IntellectualTakeout.org:
    “This Friday, Uber and Lyft are set to entirely shut down ride-sharing operations in California.”
    Boy, just when you thought that jobs were scarce. I guess you guys must have a surplus of them.
    Taxi!

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The TDS runs strong in this one @335!
    😉

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  20. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 318pm – Silly me, I didn’t know you were “baiting” me. The two issues you’re confused about share the fact that both involve not accepting the results of a duly conducted election. Trump has yet to do that, save in the fevered brains of progressives, but the Dems already did deny the 2016 results. And they did that in sleazebag way by trumping up fabricated charges. But you are confusing the Clinton impeachment here, since that involved no one contesting Clinton’s election, but an impeachment on charges that Clinton admitted he was guilty of. The Senate was wise enough to acquit him and not kick him out of office which would not have caused a constitutional crisis, caprice?

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  21. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Trump refuses to disavow QAnnon. Wat a nut case we have for President.
    ” In Wednesday’s coronavirus press briefing, a reporter asked President Donald Trump for his thoughts on QAnon, the far-right conspiracy theory gaining steam amid the coronavirus pandemic that has been labeled a terroristic threat by his own FBI. The president refused to disavow it, saying he didn’t know the basics of the theory but he had heard “they like me very much.” When the reporter clarified, saying, “The crux of this theory is that you are secretly saving the world from Satanic pedophiles and cannibals,” the president said “Is that supposed to be a bad thing? … If I can save the world from problems, I’ll do it.”
    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/trump-slammed-for-refusing-to-disavow-cult-conspiracy-theories/

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  22. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    What Paul Revere would say if he were to ride out today to warn the patriots: “the brownshirts are coming… the brownshirts are coming…Trump endorses Q-Anon”. He said this ““I don’t know much about the movement, other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate. I have heard that it is gaining in popularity … I’ve heard these are people that love our country.” typical of trumpler to like the backing of right wing terrorists..just like his choices in foreign leaders like Kim and Duterte…You want an endorsement from trump, just kiss his ass..he likes it..a little too much..

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  23. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Another example of Trump smooching with QAnon-this time with a Repub Congressional candidate.
    “Congratulations to future Republican Star Marjorie Taylor Greene on a big Congressional primary win in Georgia against a very tough and smart opponent,” Trump tweeted. “Marjorie is strong on everything and never gives up – a real WINNER!”
    Here’s a quote from her “”Q is a patriot, we know that for sure,” Greene said in a video from 2017, in which she recapped some of Q’s predictions and why she supports them.
    “There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it,” she said, referring to Trump”
    The conspiracy includes a wide variety of shifting and often-contradictory predictions and allegations, but it centers on an anonymous figure named “Q” who asserts that a wave of mass arrests are about to take down high-ranking Trump opponents.
    What Is QAnon? The Conspiracy Theory Tiptoeing Into Trump World
    Politic
    Followers of “Q” often believe that the world is controlled by elite members of a secretive satanic child sex-trafficking ring.
    https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901628541/qanon-supporter-who-made-bigoted-videos-wins-ga-primary-likely-heading-to-congre

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  24. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    One more thing,
    QAnon flags were flying high last week on Sunday in Nevada City from the counter protesters who assaulted the peaceful demonstrators on Broad street while wearing t-shirts that said “Trump Fights Back”

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  25. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The Dem convention lost to America’s Got Talent in the audience ratings last night,.. That may be behind punchy’s searching for something to crow about.

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    In the name of piling on –
    The poll, taken between August 12-13 and 16-18, has a margin of error of +/- 2 percent.
    Trump has gained ground in recent days as Biden’s lead continues to shrink. Like the Rasmussen Reports survey, a recent CNN poll showed Biden up by just four percent nationally and “by even less across 15 battleground states that will determine who wins the electoral college,” as Breitbart News reported:
    The top line national number of a four-point race represents a double-digit shift in Trump’s direction from CNN’s last national poll in early June. That survey, two months ago, had Biden up 14 points — meaning this latest survey represents a ten-point swing Trump’s way as the summer has progressed heading into the conventions.
    In an article explaining the significant movement in Trump’s direction against Biden, CNN’s polling director Jennifer Agiesta wrote that the president has shored up several demographics that he was slipping in before.
    “The movement in the poll among voters nationwide since June is concentrated among men (they split about evenly in June, but now 56% back Trump, 40% Biden), those between the ages of 35 and 64 (they tilt toward Trump now, but were Biden-leaning in June) and independents (in June, Biden held a 52% to 41% lead, but now it’s a near even 46% Biden to 45% Trump divide),” Agiesta wrote. “Trump has also solidified his partisans since June. While 8% of Republicans or Republican-leaning independents in June said they would back Biden, that figure now stands at just 4%. And the President has boosted his backing among conservatives from 76% to 85%.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/19/rasmussen-poll-donald-trump-gains-ground-joe-biden-up-by-4-nationally/
    😉

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  27. fish Avatar
    fish

    Punchy and Wine Aunt…..a couple of old queens who got trolled by 4Chan…….!
    Qanon told me to say that!
    (what a couple of rubes…..! This is why I still come here after 8 years!)

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    And to think that once a few moons ago, Punch copied and pasted a link from the Storm Trooper, not realizing it was a true bone-fied White Nazi rag, roflmao. Oh, he was using it to make his point, which had the complete opposite effect. He was quoting it to take yet another anti-racist stand. But, we won’t talk about that. Let’s talk Whatz happening now. Biden? Lol.
    That’s all. Haven’t seen a paper or news fed in a couple of days…and it’s rather nice. Almost a week without an hour of The Greatest Show on Earth.
    Gregory’s abode didn’t get burnt to a crisp so all is good. Then I find out the Rebane’s hightailed it out of here and then came sneaking back in the dead of night, breaking into their own abode. Shameless.
    With Punchy swinging wildly in the air, one does not need to keep up with the latest news cycle. It’s the same old story, same old song and dance. There is a comfort in familiar territory.

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  29. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    BT How’s it hanging! Smoke gets in your eyes and mine too and i don’t think i will like that song going forward.
    Ya totally its just like 2016 but with a big dose of 1968 mayhem in the socialists zones, but you have to be honest that 80 plus days of insurrections may have caused that move of 10 points to Trump from our black and brown brothers.
    Oh ya, then add a layer of pandemic and power plays by the shit hole commissars.
    No corner rite aide to get grandmas 11 prescriptions anymore in too many places and the companies wont come back to any DEFUND THE POLICE areas.
    While the prez may not win cali it looks like he may have the highest minority voter numbers of any Republican ever! SWEET!
    😉

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 9:45 pm
    While Dr. Rebane has admonished you fine gents about putting the Harris-Biden ticket gabfest in anything but The Sandbox, I will go out a limb and say:
    What in the Tarnation is going on here? Kamala is the “Black candidate” and Biden draws more black votes than her, roflmao. So, why did he pick her? The lady who came bursting out of the starting blocks to an opening day crowd of 20,000, who soared up to a top tier candidate, the woman who once was the front runner in the polls……only to run a horrible horrible horrible campaign and drop out before the first primary. In Blue Blue Bluest of Blue State of Kaliforication, she polled 5th!! That’s cause we know her better. Guess Dem voters were not that in to her….until the day she was picked to have Biden sniff her hair and rub his nose in the soft sweet smelling adornment.
    Point: Biden draws more blacks than Harris and Biden is drawing less blacks than Hillary. Let’s not be amiss and forget the Latinos, formerly known as the artist ‘Hispanics’. Old Jorge Ramos has gone completely bonkers, yelling at his viewers to not do a 2016 and have Trump grab 30% again. He is screaming and ranting and raving. Those Latinos are some hot blooded folks, cha, cha, cha.
    It is appearing more and more that Harris was the mastermind behind the Kavanaugh assassination attempt. How low can you go? F
    &k her.
    Just keep on keeping on saying “peaceful protestors” and all cops are bastards and day of birth abortion, and no more rent and no more homeschool, and release all the criminals, and it’s racist and offensive to say my life matters and Climate Change is going to fry us Fritos corn chip…or pork rinds. They have lost their ever lovin’ minds.

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  31. D Avatar

    “Trump praises QAnon supporters: “I understand they like me very much”
    “When reminded by a reporter for NBC News that the movement’s followers believe he is fighting to stop a satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals, he asked: “Is that supposed to be a bad thing?”
    I approve this message – Donald J. Trump

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    D quoted,
    “When reminded by a reporter for NBC News that the movement’s followers believe he is fighting to stop a satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals, he asked: “Is that supposed to be a bad thing?”
    Lol. Yep, only the Left would find fault with thwarting pedophiles and cannibals. The Left loves their pedophiles, from hard core pedophiles like Epstein to soft pedophiles like Biden and they release from jail all the other pedophiles in between. It must be a bad thing to the Leftinistas to stop “love”.
    Bill Barr sat in Congress recently and challenged the Democrat members, ANY Democrat member on Capitol Hill, to say burning Federal Courthouses is not a good thing. Despite the AG’s efforts, Barr could not get one single Democrat to say or agree torching Federal Buildings is a bad thing. No agreement there, bucko.
    The Dems think burning Courthouses is a good thing and going after pedophiles is a bad thing. Oh my. The Dems are some real messed up people.

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  33. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: D | 20 August 2020 at 06:34 AM
    Once trolled, always trolled!
    Qanon told me to say that!

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  34. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: D | 20 August 2020 at 06:34 AM
    I confess to being somewhat surprised that you don’t have your panties in a bunch over the Bannon arrest?
    I suppose Qanon is more fun for the left.
    Qanon told me to say that!

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    More items that the Dems simply cannot bring themselves to say it is a good thing. Free political prisoners.
    GOOD NEWS: FEDS HAVE ARRESTED MORE THAN 1,000 IN OPERATION LEGEND
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/good-news-feds-have-arrested-more-than-1000-in-operation-legend.php
    Defunding the police is a good thang, eh? Trump thinks that is a bad thing.

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    One man’s opinion. Opps, make that two men’s opinion.
    MORE EVIDENCE THAT SHUTDOWNS ARE USELESS
    “What is the conclusion?
    The data suggest that lockdowns have not prevented any deaths from covid-19. At best, lockdowns have deferred death for a short time, but they cannot possibly be continued for the long term. It seems likely that one will not have to even compare economic deprivation with loss of life, as the final death toll following authoritarian lockdowns will most likely exceed the deaths from letting people choose how to manage their own risk. After taking the unprecedented economic depression into account, history will likely judge these lockdowns to be the greatest policy error of this generation.
    That is what I think, too.“
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/more-evidence-that-shutdowns-are-useless.php

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  37. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@8:23AM August 20, Year Zero.
    I thought that the problem was the not-enough-ventilators issue that Trump single handedly caused. Go figure.
    At this point, you think that there would be enough ongoing experiments (called ‘different countries’) to draw some conclusions, but what with a Biden to get elected you’re not going to hear any unpolitical theories for a while.
    I was considering the War on Rent this morning (aka, Defund Landlords).
    https://reason.com/2020/04/20/ilhan-omars-bill-would-enable-the-feds-to-seize-landlords-properties-for-trying-to-collect-rent-during-coronavirus/
    etc.
    It’s funny how our local Team Blue, mostly consisting of baby boomers who are fairly conservative except they think that single payer health plans aren’t such a bad idea (JUST LOOK AT DENMARK!!) are mostly a front for a real-deal communist insurgency. Go figure.
    I guess that it took pressure on the whole system for peoples’ real goals to be uncovered.

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  38. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “It is difficult to work within a group when you are omnipotent” -Q

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Trump Won’t Disavow QAnon, Yet Dems Still Promote Debunked Russiagate‘
    The Russiagate conspiracy theory has done the most damage to our institutions.
    https://patriotpost.us/articles/72868-trump-wont-disavow-qanon-yet-dems-still-promote-debunked-russiagate-2020-08-20?
    ——————————————
    ‘Senate Concludes: No Evidence of Trump/Russia Collusion’
    “On Tuesday, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its fifth and final volume on its investigation into Russia’s 2016 election interference. The nearly 1,000-page report boils down to one main point: The committee found no evidence to support the Democrats’ loudly asserted claim that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians during his presidential campaign. The bipartisan investigation came to the same conclusion as that of Robert Mueller’s special counsel — the evidence for collusion is simply not there.
    While finding no evidence of collusion, the committee did find evidence of Russian meddling. But even more disturbing, as committee member Marco Rubio (R-FL) noted, were the “actions taken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, particularly their acceptance and willingness to rely on the ‘Steele Dossier’ without verifying its methodology or sourcing.”
    So, after three and a half years in a highly politicized environment, every investigation into the charge that Trump colluded with the Kremlin has failed to prove the charge. Of course, these findings won’t stop the Democrats and their Leftmedia cohorts from continuing to promulgate the fallacious narrative. But we do note at the same time their refusal to investigate Joe Biden’s shady behavior with Ukraine.“
    https://patriotpost.us/articles/72868-trump-wont-disavow-qanon-yet-dems-still-promote-debunked-russiagate-2020-08-20?
    —————————
    The Troll Master strikes deep into the Dem’s hearts and minds:
    ‘Susan B. Anthony Pardon Is Trump’s Best Trolling’
    Democrats hate the president for defending a heroine of women’s suffrage.
    “By today’s standards on racism, of course, Anthony would be canceled by the Left, which already hates the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List. Maybe Trump pardoning a heroine for women’s rights will finally push them to cancel her for good. If so, chalk it up to Trump’s trolling.“
    https://patriotpost.us/articles/72836-susan-b-anthony-pardon-is-trumps-best-trolling-2020-08-19?

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  40. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    lol. Speaks for itself.
    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1296335674161811456
    It’s worth considering whether events like the French Revolution pushed the mentally ill to the front of the mob.
    The kind of situation that our local crack news team might consider.
    https://twitter.com/JJusseroKIRO7/status/1296271397690384384

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  41. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Paul Emery, Rasmussen has it 51-47 approval for Trump. Get your worry beads ready.

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  42. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Really somebody should start building an archive of the amateur/third party produced political ads. They’ll be a historian’s delight in 100 years.
    https://twitter.com/AceSix4/status/1296182735137054722

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  43. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Here’s one way for Democrats to raise money.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8645813/Portland-protester-25-run-BEGGING-MONEY-kicking-unconscious-truck-driver.html
    He’ll probably get some of that sweet AntifaBLM money since he gave that ‘racist’ what fer.
    Quick replay, the Protestor of Peace does his thing at about 20 seconds.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jETcaLSRTmI
    Coming soon to a city near you unless you vote for Biden. Not a bad marketing campaign.

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  44. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Don’t get too excited Todd about the Rasmussen Polls. I don’t even read the job approval polls much these days. these are the only numbers that are important-the delegate count based on state polling. RCP averages all the state polling and shows Biden up 212-115 with 211 tossups. Trump has to win around 75% of the tossups to get to 270. It’s been virtually unchanged for a Month so so far no Trump Bump. Here’s a link.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/2020_elections_electoral_college_map.html

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  45. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 20 August 2020 at 03:45 PM
    When do you think he’ll make his move?
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  46. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy doesn’t read anything that doesn’t give him the good news he’s looking for.

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  47. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Oh Paul Emery, it appears you don’t understand the job approval polls. Good.

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  48. fish Avatar
    fish

    ……and in today’s “Cone of Shame” moment!

    CORONAVIRUS: Governor of Maine Orders Restaurant Staff to Wear COVID Visors Like Dog Cones

    https://summit.news/2020/08/20/governor-of-maine-orders-restaurant-staff-to-wear-covid-visors-like-dog-cones/

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