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246 responses to “Sandbox – 19aug20”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Needs no intro, skip to the bottom.
    CLUELESS JOE BIDEN: WRONG ON THE CORONAVIRUS, AS USUAL
    “said that as vice president, Biden presided, along with President Obama, over the depletion of the national strategic stockpile of the PPE equipment that health professionals require in an epidemic. The Obama-Biden administration did not replenish it. Thus, the equipment that was needed most by health care professionals was no longer available when the virus hit the U.S.
    Finally, Rove said that in a televised interview with Joy Reid two weeks ago, Biden listed six elements of his plan to deal with the pandemic. According to Rove, all six elements of his plan are things Trump has already done.
    UPDATE: Here are Rove’s specifics regarding how Trump has already done the things Biden says need to be done in response to the pandemic.“
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/clueless-joe-biden-wrong-on-the-coronavirus-as-usual.php

    Soon it may be Shoeless Joe as well as Clueless Joe. Saw an interesting poll (2 polls now actually) asking folks whom they think will be the Democrat Party nominee in November. I found it rather astonishing…er…strike that……rather non-astonishing nor unsurprising for those outside the bubble that a polling company would be hired to even ask such a question about any major party nominee in normal times. That has to be a rare jewel in the polling business. The desert blossom among the bush rats.
    Who do you think will be the Democrat Party Nominee come November?

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  2. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: paul emery | 21 August 2020 at 01:39 PM
    Self explanatory. You are speaking for Scott. Are you his agent and did he give you permission to speak for him?

    I realize that you’ve lost a step or two mentally (probably why you are so enamored of Grandpa Badfinger as a candidate). But my making the observation that Scott has more productive uses for his time than listening to a senile democrat grifter blather on about whatever he was blathering on about in no way means that I’m speaking for him.
    Maybe it’s time to seriously consider assisted living Punch?

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  3. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 21 August 2020 at 01:50 PM
    Some of that free speech thang from Portlandia.

    Liked the caravan of rolling political adverts. How come those are so much better than what the Biden campaign came up with legitimately?

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  4. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Who do you think will be the Democrat Party Nominee come November?”
    I’ll take a flier at Michelle Obama.

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Nobody watched the socialist dem telethon not even the big moment, couldn’t even draw shrillary’s crowd from last time. OH YA ya’ll got that enthusiasm thing going NOT!
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/21/joe-bidens-dnc-acceptance-speech-gets-21-lower-ratings-than-clinton-2016/
    😉

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  6. Scott O Avatar

    fish 2:55 – Gee. I’m out in the back 40 for an afternoon and come back to Paul ranting about you being my ‘agent’ because you remarked as to how I might want to spend my time. The fact that Paul can’t understand the difference in the first place leads me to believe he won’t understand even after you try to explain it to him.
    I’ll listen to Joe when he’s in a situation where he has to think for himself (no ear bud) and regulate his breathing and maintain saliva control all at once.

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  7. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Scott O | 21 August 2020 at 03:42 PM
    Paul can’t understand the difference in the first place leads me to believe he won’t understand even after you try to explain it to him.

    Yes…..we are back to the “showing the dog a card trick” problem.

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  8. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Don Bessee | 21 August 2020 at 04:09 PM
    I’m really looking forward to not watching the NFL this fall either!

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Before the pony tail of ignorance claims that a jillion people were live streaming it remember that one they had to watch a Trump ad before they could watch and two web traffic is now in the mix for ratings ya po’ ol’ terminal TDS dude. LOL
    😉

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    I’m really looking forward to not watching the NFL this fall buying Goodyear tires either!
    https://saraacarter.com/leaked-audio-reveals-goodyear-lied-it-endorsed-blm-and-banned-blue-lives-matter/

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  11. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE – At FN Chris Wallace is at best #3 on the news team following Bret Baier #1 and Martha McCallum #2.

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Hate to pull your wispy pony tail too hard oh great pony tail of ignorance but wallace does not even show up on the top 10 news ratings. He is just a liberal for balance DUH! Do you even remember who his dad was? But hey you never let facts get in the way of talking points for lefties! LOL –
    Fox News had the top five most-watched cable news programs during the first quarter of 2020.
    With the coronavirus pandemic increasingly taking up much of the media’s focus, prime-time hosts Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson had the top two shows, averaging more than 4 million viewers a night, according to Nielsen Media Research.
    The Five, which starts at 5 p.m. ET; Laura Ingraham’s evening program, which airs at 10 p.m.; and news anchor Bret Baier’s program, which airs at 6 p.m., rounded out the top five. Each program averaged more than 3 million viewers. These five shows also finished in the top five of the key 25-54 age demographic, which helps determine ad rates.
    MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who in recent quarters competed for the top-rated show against Hannity and Carlson, slipped out of the top five to sixth place. Her show also dropped an additional spot in the 25-54 age demographic, behind Fox News’s The Story with Martha MacCallum, which airs at 7 p.m. ET. Maddow averaged an audience of 3 million people per day. Her viewership has rebounded somewhat, despite the drop in the rankings, as the numbers have also risen for Hannity and Carlson.
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fox-news-sweeps-top-five-most-watched-cable-news-programs-for-first-quarter-of-2020
    😉

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  13. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “The Fox TV broadcast of Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace delivered 1.46 million Total Viewers and 389,000 A25-54 viewers. The cable replays combined for 3.345 million Total Viewers and 586,000 A25-54 viewers. Combined with the first-run broadcast, that’s roughly 4.8 million Total Viewers and 975,000 A25-54 viewers tuning in to FNS on Aug. 9.”
    #1 Sunday show, Meet the Depressed with Chuck Toddster:”The first-run broadcast of MTP on Aug. 9 averaged 3.20 million Total Viewers. That figure is +17% (+456,000) more than ABC’s This Week, but only +1% (+23,000) more than CBS’ Face the Nation.”
    So, MTP shows once on Sunday getting 3.2 million viewers, while FNS is shown several times and gets 4.8 million, in 4th place but with the most viewers by far. Make sense?
    https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/aug-9-sunday-show-ratings-meet-the-press-with-chuck-todd-remains-no-1-across-the-board/451515/

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    OH SHIT!! Creepy grampa joe and what’s her name got beat out for the cover of People by a washed up usta be singer! You could interpret that as an absolute acknowledgement that no one is interested. They are after all a for profit woke kind of rag. LOL
    Biden-Harris ticket loses out to Brandy for People cover after magazine lands first Dem ticket interview
    Both Biden and Harris formally accepted their party’s nomination for president and vice president this week
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/people-magazine-biden-harris-brandy-cover-story
    😉

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  15. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    More applause from Fox News
    Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “hit a home run in the bottom of the ninth” with his speech to the virtual Democratic National Convention in Wilmington, Del., on Thursday evening, according to “The Daily Briefing” host Dana Perino.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dana-perino-biden-dnc-speech-home-run

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  16. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    More applause from Karl Rove
    “He had a balancing act here tonight,” Rove said of Biden. “He was trying to balance two different things. One was … portraying himself as a unifier who would bring the country together. He did so very effectively and if I were a Republican strategist in the Trump campaign, I’d be worried about how long and how effectively he carries that theme forward, because that’s the thing that will keep the swing voters in his camp, if they are in his camp, or bring them to him.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dana-perino-biden-dnc-speech-home-run

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  17. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 648pm
    So what?

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  18. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    That’s because Fox is fair and balanced. Viewers hear both sides and folks will call it as it is and not how you want to see it. You would never see Trump get positive press from CNN or MSNBC…They have an agenda

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  19. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Well Gregory for some reason the RR regulars were afraid to watch Bidens speech and it appears for good reason.

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    #sadpoolfakenewsman

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  21. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 735pm
    Where did you get the idea anyone was “afraid” to watch Biden’s speech?

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  22. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Gregory
    Afraid to see the truth that Biden is not the “bumbler” RR’s hope him to be and he’ll shine with debating Trump who is so illiterate he can’t even pronounce Yosemite.

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    @809 Well that sounds so great and sooths your rampant TDS but nobody was tuned into the least viewed for awhile but keep repeating the mantra.
    What does the crack newsman say about the 10 point shift from Hispanic and Black likely voters to the Prez after what’s her name got the gig?
    😉

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  24. Scott O Avatar

    Paul – “Well Gregory for some reason the RR regulars were afraid to watch Bidens speech…”
    Yeah Paul – It turns out ‘I’m afraid’ to waste my time watching any canned political speech. Including Trump, Biden – anyone.
    They’re all just a bunch of actors on the stage reading lines with the occasional phoney-baloney emotional sob stories.
    I’m far more interested in actual policy and the record of the pol.
    And Biden stinks. His record is clear. He’s a political hack who’ll do whatever his handlers tell him. He and Obama had 8 years to ‘fix’ all the things he now claims he’ll fix. Except he doesn’t seem to offer any specifics beyond a bunch of tired, useless, left-wing talking points.
    The only person I see that’s scared is Hidin’ Biden. He can’t/won’t do an interview with someone like Tucker Carlson. Trump sat with an adversarial interviewer and answered the questions. When Biden is willing to answer something beyond puff-balls – I’ll watch.

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  25. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE, do you make all this crap up out of whole cloth about what everyone here does and thinks?

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  26. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 809pm
    I had every expectation he’d manage to keep it together with the help of the best pharmaceuticals available to deliver a rehearsed and tested speech. On video.

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  27. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: paul emery | 21 August 2020 at 08:09 PM
    Afraid to see the truth that Biden is not the “bumbler” RR’s hope him to be and he’ll shine with debating Trump who is so illiterate he can’t even pronounce Yosemite.

    ……and there it is……desperation.
    Even if it turned out that Biden was still what he was 20 years ago do you think that for a single second it would change any minds here?
    From what I hear Biden had a decent speech and managed not to shit himself on stage while delivering it…and you could positively hear the collective sigh of relief (from the left) across the land. They will spend the next 6 weeks arguing the “Joe is fine” no need for a debate…”You all saw him, no backsies”! They’re desperate to keep him in a controlled environment where he won’t decide to ad lib and tell America that “you ain’t black”, grope a small child while a camera is running, or publicly cut another back room deal for Hunter with the PRC.
    It’s all good Punch……!

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  28. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Don
    Can you show me a link where you got the information in your 8:23? If you do I’ll comment on it.

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  29. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Scott
    Do you think the country is in better shape now than when Trump took office in ’16?

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  30. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul… if Trump wins a’gin, will you accept the will of the people of these United States, this time?

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  31. Scott O Avatar

    It was in much better shape until the Chinese Flu clobbered the world’s economy. Although we’re doing better than most of the rest of the world, we need to get our free-market capitalistic system cranking again. Biden is promising a top-down govt controlled system that has already proven itself to be a failure.
    And of course – the left-wing violence aided and abbeted by the Dems in power in some large cities. They are willing to let their cities be destroyed in order to try to get rid of Trump. Then they’ll want fed money to re-build.
    Biden refuses to address, let alone denounce this violence. There is little Trump can do as the violence is usually in jurisdictions outside of fed control.
    And there is the continuing ruination of our so-called ‘higher education’ into a left-wing morass of dim-witted thugs bullying and harassing and driving out the better people of these once fine world-class institutions. This started long before Trump and there is nothing he can do about it, save the bully-pulpit.
    Trump has greatly improved our courts with his picks for judges. Once the left has come back into power in the court system our Republic will collapse into some sort of autocratic socialistic ruin.
    So – basically I would say our country is in much better shape with Trump right now certainly than it would have been if Clinton had won.
    That’s for sure.

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  32. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Sure Gregory. Will you accept the will of the people if Biden wins?

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  33. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    You didn’t last time, paul.
    And I will of course accept defeat of jo jo by either Trump or Biden.

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  34. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Yo Yo Yo ya ol pony tail of ignorance??? Sounds like a ready to lose it again but we won the popular vote right. LOL!!
    Just sayin’
    😉

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  35. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Nah, Biden will likely win the election but you never know. Nate Silver has the odds at 70-30 in Biden’s favor. I’ll keep you informed as to how the polls look. Right now it looks good for Biden.

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  36. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Paqul Emery why would you support someone that is OPK with the communist BLM? Looks like you might be one too.

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  37. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    George Rebane: “PaulE, do make all this crap up out of whole cloth about what everyone here does and thinks?”
    It doesn’t take much. Paul just pounds out the same couple of messages over and over and watches the 20 or so responses. It’s classic troll behavior each with a tiny endorphin rush.
    I was thinking about the excellent article Greg posted up from Quillette about modern Marxism and wanted to suggest an alternate tack (not a full replacement). It makes sense in viewing the modern Left in a Marxist framework and certainly there is occasional overt use of that philosophy but it seems to me that this is about power.
    In short, a lot of what you are seeing is simply an attempt to tear down existing systems and then to acquire a place of prominence in the new ones. Any underlying structural theories will be malleable to suit the situation but the important thing is ownership of resources.
    The classic Communist takeover always had that flavor but our current situation seems to be more oriented that way.

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  38. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Paul Emery the Troll: ” Nate Silver has the odds at 70-30 in Biden’s favor. I’ll keep you informed as to how the polls look. Right now it looks good for Biden.”
    Nate Silver on Aug. 22, 2016.
    Hillary Clinton 84.8%, Donald Trump 15.1%

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  39. Scott O Avatar

    July unemployment figures are out – Idaho 5%
    California 13.3%
    Paul wants a fed govt run by the same folks that run CA.

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  40. Scott O Avatar

    More happy news for Paul – “Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says he would do whatever was needed to keep the country safe amid the coronavirus pandemic even if that meant shutting down the country.”
    ‘Cept of course the lootin’ and riotin’ – ah, good times!
    https://idahonews.com/news/coronavirus/biden-says-hed-close-the-country-if-experts-said-to

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  41. George Rebane Avatar

    scenes 754am – A main tenet of Rebane Doctrine has always been that leftwing (modern) liberalism is the gateway ideology to full-blown Marxism, and to the extent that it dominates any jurisdiction’s political base (e.g. California), it puts that jurisdiction on the slippery slope through socialism to communism. The cynical part of this slide is that it will be funded by other jurisdictions (states, fed) during its progress toward single-party dominance – this is Lenin’s ‘selling us the rope’ paradigm. I think Hazony does a great job connecting the key elements of Marxist political corruption.

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  42. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    My daughter and her hubby moved to the Boise area last November. So gappy they can now express their conservative opinions and second amendment happiness. In San Jose they could never o that.

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  43. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Oh and she called me after the people there ran off the BLM thugs when they tried to come into their town. And they forced a billboard company to take down an anti-cop billboard after just one day. Great State!

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  44. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Republicans are dumping Trump in droves. Here’s today’s example:
    “A Statement by Former Republican National Security Officials
    We are former national security officials who served during the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and/or Donald Trump, or as Republican Members of Congress. We are profoundly concerned about the course of our nation under the leadership of Donald Trump. Through his actions and his rhetoric, Trump has demonstrated that he lacks the character and competence to lead this nation and has engaged in corrupt behavior that renders him unfit to serve as President.
    For the following reasons, we have concluded that Donald Trump has failed our country and that Vice President Joe Biden should be elected the next President of the United States.
    To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him.
    Adm. Steve Abbot
    Fmr Dep Homeland Security Advisor
    Mary Catherine Andrews
    Fmr Special Asst to the President
    Richard Armitage
    Fmr Deputy Secretary of State
    Christopher Barton
    Fmr Director, NSC Staff
    John Bellinger
    Fmr Legal Adviser, Dept of State
    Adm. Kenneth Bernard
    Fmr Special Asst to the President
    Amb. Robert Blackwill
    Fmr Deputy National Security Advisor
    Linton Brooks
    Fmr Under Secretary of Energy
    Kara Bue
    Fmr Dep Asst Secretary of State
    Amb. Richard Burt
    Fmr US Ambassador to Germany
    Victor Cha
    Fmr Director, NSC Staff
    Thomas Christensen
    Fmr Dep Asst Secretary of State
    Eliot Cohen
    Fmr Counselor of the Dept of State
    Joseph Collins
    Fmr Dep Asst Secretary of Defense
    Heather Conley
    Fmr Dep Asst Secretary of State
    Chester Crocker
    Fmr Asst Secretary of State
    Patrick Cronin
    Fmr Asst Administrator, USAID
    Amb. Sada Cumber
    Fmr US Special Envoy to the OIC​
    Mike Donley
    Fmr Secretary of the Air Force
    Raymond DuBois
    Fmr Acting Under Secretary of the Army
    Amb. Eric Edelman
    Fmr Under Secretary of Defense
    Gary Edson
    Fmr Deputy National Security Advisor
    Richard Falkenrath
    Fmr Dep Asst to the President
    Aaron Friedberg
    Fmr Dep Asst to the Vice President
    Janice Gardner
    Fmr Asst Secretary of the Treasury
    Amb. James Glassman
    Fmr Under Secretary of State
    David Gordon
    Fmr Director, State Dept, Policy Planning
    Colleen Graffy
    Fmr Dep Asst Secretary of State
    Michael Green
    Fmr Senior Director, NSC Staff
    Sen. Chuck Hagel
    Fmr Secretary of Defense and US Senator
    Gen. Michael Hayden
    Fmr Director of the CIA and the NSA
    Amb. Carla Hills
    Fmr US Trade Representative
    Ash Jain
    Fmr Member, State Dept Policy Planning
    James Kelly
    Fmr Asst Secretary of State
    Rep. Jim Kolbe
    Fmr Member of Congress
    David Kramer
    Fmr Asst Secretary of State
    Stephen Krasner
    Fmr Director, State Dept Policy Planning
    Ken Krieg
    Fmr Under Secretary of Defense
    Amb. Frank Lavin
    Fmr Under Secretary of Commerce
    Rep. Jim Leach
    Fmr Member of Congress
    Bruce Lemkin
    Fmr Dep Under Secretary of the Air Force
    Michael Leiter
    Fmr Director, National Counterterrorism Ctr
    Peter Lichtenbaum
    Fmr Asst Secretary of Commerce
    James Loy
    Fmr Dep Secretary of Homeland Security
    Peter Madigan
    Fmr Dep Asst Secretary State
    Bryan McGrath
    Former US Navy Officer
    David Merkel
    Fmr Dep Asst Secretary of State
    John Mitnick
    Fmr General Counsel, Department of Homeland Security
    Holly Morrow
    Fmr Director, NSC Staff
    Amb. John Negroponte
    Fmr Director of National Intelligence, and Fmr Deputy Secretary of State
    Elizabeth Neumann
    Fmr Asst Secretary of Homeland Security
    Sean O’Keefe
    Fmr Secretary of the Navy and NASA Administrator
    Daniel Price
    Fmr Dep National Security Advisor
    Paul Rosenzweig
    Fmr Dep Asst Secretary of Homeland Security
    Nicholas Rostow
    Fmr NSC Legal Adviser
    Kori Schake
    Fmr Prin Dep Director, State Dept Policy Planning
    Wayne Schroeder
    Fmr Dep Under Secretary of Defense
    Robert Shanks
    Fmr Dep Asst Attorney General
    Rep. Christopher Shays
    Fmr Member of Congress
    John Simon
    Fmr Senior Director, NSC Staff
    Stephen Slick
    Fmr Senior Director, NSC Staff
    Amb. William Taft
    Fmr Deputy Secretary of Defense
    Shirin Tahir-Kheli
    Fmr Special Asst to the President
    Miles Taylor
    Fmr Chief of Staff, Dept of Homeland Security
    William Tobey
    Fmr Dep Administrator, Nat Nuclear Security Admin
    Amb. Robert Tuttle
    Fmr US Ambassador to the United Kingdom
    John Veroneau
    Fmr Dep US Trade Representative
    Michael Vickers
    Fmr Under Secretary of Defense
    Ken Wainstein
    Fmr Homeland Security Advisor
    Sen. John Warner
    Fmr US Senator
    Matthew Waxman
    Fmr Prin Dep Director, State Dept Policy Planning
    William Webster
    Fmr Director of the CIA and FBI
    Dov Zakheim
    Fmr Under Secretary of Defense
    Philip Zelikow
    Fmr Counselor of the Dept of State”
    https://www.defendingdemocracytogether.org/national-security/

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  45. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    You should se the thousands dumping you and your ilk from the democrat party. Breathtaking. Ten to one dems leaving over R’s. I’ll take that diffenece all day long. Thanks for being a Marxist enabler Paul Emery, American patriots don’t like you.

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  46. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    For Fish. It seems like good memes are hard to find lately. Tough times, bro.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/the-week-in-pictures-all-male-voting-edition.php

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  47. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Round and round he goes, where Punchy will stop nobody knows.
    Yep, with each passing week, the horse race to the WH is shaping up just like in 2016. I take Trump’s 30% odds any day of the week in August. Looking good.
    Is it time to cancell the Democrat Party? I guess we should have given Hillary and Creepy Joe a participation trophy to make the libs feel better about themselves.

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  48. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Punch Drunk One @ 10:09 am
    Oh, thats simply called “draining the swamp”.

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