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[The Democrats' damage and destruction to America's black population reaches back to ante-bellum years.  In recent decades they have turned their tender mercies for our African-American neighbors onto cynical avenues that have laid waste to black families and the communities in which they live.  Under decades of Democrat rule we can echo the question asked by an enlightened black candidate for Congress – name any city in which life for blacks has improved over the last, say, forty years.  About all this our leftwingers respond with crickets.  Here is a campaign video that spells it out. (H/T to reader)  gjr]

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327 responses to “Sandbox – 24aug20”

  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ah the joys of socialist shit holes –
    NYC sees 3 times more shootings over weekend than same time last year; Chicago records more than double, police say
    😉

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  2. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Rasmussen’s daily poll
    51% approve
    47% disapprove
    punchy has promised us that approval polls aren’t interesting anymore, but I suspect that’s mostly because they aren’t cooperating.

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  3. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    You have to admit that it was a good prediction.
    https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1225100342897119232

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes @ 2:19 pm. Funny, in coury they never refuted Project Veritas’ claims. Not once under oath, even from the big wigs. I guess James O’Keefe should be chsrged with impersonating a baby parts vendor and embarrasing the State and,of course, its Holy Grail and Scared Golden Calf.
    ‘Four Years Later, Planned Parenthood Whistleblower Still Trapped In Kamala Harris’s Persecution’
    https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/20/four-years-later-planned-parenthood-whistleblower-still-trapped-in-kamala-harriss-persecution/

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Cone-a-Virus.
    ‘Restaurant Servers in Maine Ordered to Wear Dog ‘Cones of Shame’ While Serving Food’
    Most of the updates are just a few additions or clarifications to previously released checklists.
    “For example, front-of-house staff in restaurants who choose to wear face shields must now wear them upside down so that they are attached at the collar instead of the forehead, so that their breath is directed up, not down.
    To be clear, servers can wear suffocating masks in a hot kitchen or they can wear cones of shame.”
    https://pjmedia.com/culture/victoria-taft/2020/08/21/restaurant-servers-in-maine-ordered-to-wear-dog-cones-of-shame-while-serving-food-n823081?
    Too bad Halloween has passed. I just got a new idea for a costume. The Cone of Shame to go with Maxwell Smart’s Cone of Silence.

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  6. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Re Gregory 1:04, Trump is under water by 10.6 in RCP Averages Job approval. Rasmussen is the only poll that has him in the lead. what’s so good about that?

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  7. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 421pm
    So, your point is, what? That Rasmussen must be wrong?

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The pony tail of ignorance needs to post every number not just ‘his’ numbers. Thanks in advance! LOL
    😉

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Here’s a link to my sentiment numbers.
    “The CBS/YouGov battleground tracker revealed on Sunday that Biden was 10 points ahead of Donald Trump. This is seemingly good news for Democrats, until you realize the number remains unchanged following the Harris VP announcement and the entire Democratic National Convention.
    Getting no boost after a convention has happened only a few times in modern Democrat Party history. By John Kerry in 2004 and George McGovern in 1972.
    Kerry ended up losing to George W. Bush and McGovern got thrashed by Nixon in an historic landslide beaten only in scale by Presidents FDR and Ronald Reagan.
    In Republican terms, Mitt Romney saw no bump after his 2012 convention. He went on to lose to incumbent President Barack Obama.”
    https://bongino.com/like-losers-john-kerry-and-george-mcgovern-biden-gets-no-post-dnc-boost-in-polls

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well of course the littlest congressional communist caucus member would cheer rioting –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/24/aoc-profoundly-exciting-people-are-discovering-their-own-power-taking-streets/
    😉

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  11. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: The polls and other prognostications.
    This is such a crazy year that I’ve been essentially ignoring all of it. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst and all that.
    Got my video channel picked for the night whilst reading, at least so far.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-aCw18-Ymo

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  12. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    What is your point Don that all the other 9 polls must be wrong?
    I did post every number Don. It is Gregory who only posted one. This link has all the recognized polls RCP used in the averaged number I posted. Here it is for your convenience.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html

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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Looks like the pony tail of ignorance is avoiding scattershots, hmmmm, wonder why?
    😉

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  14. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Boring Don. If you don’t like the educational policies of a college what do you propose to do about it?

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  15. Scott O Avatar

    scenes 5:37 – “Got my video channel picked for the night whilst reading, at least so far.”
    It turns out Gil was wrong – at least in a way:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnJFhuOWgXg

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  16. Scott O Avatar

    Paul 7:18 – “Boring Don. If you don’t like the educational policies of a college what do you propose to do about it?”
    Educational?
    Paul considers that education?
    Says all we need to know about Paul’s so-called ‘thinking’.

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  17. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    What do you propose we should do about it Scott. Any ideas?

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: paul emery | 24 August 2020 at 07:34 PM
    What do you propose we should do about it Scott. Any ideas?

    What are you trying to say Punch?

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  19. Scott O Avatar

    Paul 7:34 – Paul asks another question to divert from his lack of an intelligent answer to the previous question.
    Boring.
    What are YOU going to do about it, Paul?

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    OH MY, nailed that one! LOL
    Trump Jr. calls Biden “the Loch Ness Monster of the Swamp.”
    “For the past half-century, he’s been lurking around in there. He sticks his head up every now and then to run for President, then he disappears and doesn’t do much in between,” he says.
    He previously dubbed him “Beijing Biden” for being the favored candidate of China.
    😉

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  21. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “the Loch Ness Monster of the Swamp.”
    I like that.
    My favorite description of the DNC was this:
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/17/marianne-williamson-dnc-like-binge-watching-a-marriott-commercial/

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  22. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    (same link)
    The Biden Army appears to have some pretty good fires going.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-aCw18-Ymo

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  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    another view of tonite’s burnings.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VezxKunZJ0U

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Trump caused the riots, lol.
    “But the Democratic Party has moved leftward on these questions. It was less than six years ago that Barack Obama made a point of stating that he had “no sympathy at all” for rioters in Ferguson, Missouri, sending 1,500 National Guard troops into the state to enforce a curfew in response to the violence that erupted after the death of Michael Brown at the hands of a local police officer. Then, as now, Obama’s sentiment reflects the views of a bipartisan majority. Yet today, the Democrats are too beholden to their activist base to give voice to such commonsense opinions.
    If our national press were interested in upholding its nominally nonpartisan commitments, reporters would be pressing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to state their position on the disaster in Portland. Don’t hold your breath.”
    https://www.city-journal.org/portland-riots-protests-continue

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  25. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    quote o’ the day.
    “Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
    Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels)

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘While Claiming To Champion Justice, Democrats Are Letting American Cities Burn’
    Regardless of whether Biden or Trump wins in November, we will all be stuck with the Democrats’ choice to let our cities burn
    https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/24/while-claiming-to-champion-justice-democrats-are-letting-american-cities-burn/

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Quote guy is back from his family vacation.
    Re: The Left: “Sen Harris doesn’t even help the ticket geographically in a way that Amy Klobuchar might have. Harris is from California. For Heaven’s sake, Benito Mussolini could carry California so long as he had a (D) after his name.” —Burt Prelutsky
    Friendly fire: “Oh man, [the DNC]: How do you describe it? It’s like — did you ever tune into the Jerry Lewis telethon at like 2:00 in the morning? It was a lot like that.” —HBO’s Bill Maher
    Penetrating analysis: “It’s so sad to see Republicans marching to this drummer. They’re going to have, as I’ve said over and over, major doggy doo on their shoes for a long time to come.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
    Braying jenny: “The president welcomes [Russian meddling]. So, again, it isn’t a question of accepting the [Election Day] result. The question is, is making sure the public knows that they must vote, they must have a plan to vote, they must vote early because their playbook is one that has all kinds of obstacles to participation in our country.“ —Nancy Pelosi
    Belly laugh of the week: “I didn’t feel pressure to select a black woman.” —Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden
    A finger in the wind: “I believe in Joe Biden, I believe in his perspective, and frankly I think that [putting a spotlight on my debate attacks] is a distraction from what we need to accomplish right now and what we need to do.” —Democrat veep nominee Kamala Harris
    Dezinformatsiya: “The television networks are gonna have interesting choices to make … about whether to cut away [from the RNC] if there’s this stream of disinformation happening live.” —CNN’s Brian Stelter
    Famous last words: “I have had no contact with [U.S. Attorney John Durham] and haven’t talked to him. I can’t imagine that I’m a target.” —disgraced former FBI Director James Comey
    Non compos mentis: “Been reading Isabel Wilkerson’s new book, ‘Caste,’ and if you were of the opinion that the United States wasn’t nearly as bad as Nazi Germany, how wrong you are. Can’t encourage you enough to read this masterpiece.” —The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill (“But Kevin Williamson was too much for The Atlantic.” —Ben Shapiro)
    And last… “It’s very telling that at the DNC convention, impeachment was brought up exactly ZERO times.” —Steven Crowder

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  28. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Pic o’ the day. Biden campaign, Kenosha Front. One of Paul’s political enemies.
    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/08/24/21/32331072-8659711-image-a-36_1598301761502.jpg

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  29. Scott O Avatar

    BT 9:31 – That essay from the Federalist pretty well sums it up.
    It’s true and it’s sad.
    There absolutely has to be at least a few in the Dem party at or near the top that know all this and yet…
    Sad.

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  30. George Rebane Avatar

    ScottO 806am – The alternative explanation is that those “at or near the top” got there by being the most dedicated and rapacious socialists in mufti. They are the least conflicted when following the teachings of Lenin and Alinsky.

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  31. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Harris/Biden marshmallow roast in full swing last night.
    https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1298113878958645248
    Hey Paul. If we give KVMR a big donation, will you spare the NC City Hall?
    Asking for a friend.

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  32. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    So Trump believes there is no possibility the American people will select Biden for President when he said on Sunday ‘The only way we’re going to lose this election is if the election is rigged’
    This paves the way for whatever means he decides to deploy to overturn the election and stay in power despite the vote.
    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/512424-trump-the-only-way-we-are-going-to-lose-this-election-is-if-the

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  33. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “This paves the way for whatever means he decides to deploy to overturn the election and stay in power despite the vote.”
    Paul, I’ll bet you $1000 that a Trump who loses the vote will simply walk from the White House.
    What do you say?
    (expect the squeaky little…’well, i don’t gamble’ up next).
    Feh.
    Scenes from the Apocalypse, #1207:
    “This is what fascism looks like… modern day brown shirts demanding you salute them with a fist in the air.”
    https://twitter.com/Harlan/status/1298276096065052672
    Of course, the real Nazis are obvious! It’s the US!
    https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/1297633435377270785

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  34. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Here Paul, a nice little video for you.
    “Looters assault an older business owner trying to defend his business in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 24, 2020.”
    https://twitter.com/after_theaction/status/1298210964018429952

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  35. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 928am – And I want another $1,000 piece of scenes 934am proposed bet. Here’s a chance for you to make a little bundle this fall when Trump loses (as you daily predict). Take our money, we deserve to lose, don’t we?

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  36. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    I don’t support violent protest scenes. What do you see as a solution to the situation?

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  37. fish Avatar
    fish

    Hey Punch…..you been raisin the fist….. Fo teh peepul?

    “This is what fascism looks like… modern day brown shirts demanding you salute them with a fist in the air.”

    Actually Scenes I think that this is really more a Frisch thing….what with “politics being downstream from culture.
    Poor Steve….just dying to get back on the field, back into the proletariat scrum but for that dodgy hip, and hundred extra pounds.
    Sigh….time to “coach” I imagine!

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  38. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Paul Emery: “I don’t support violent protest scenes.”
    Bullshit.
    George, check this one out. Censorship in real time.
    https://twitter.com/JusticeTristan/status/1298292888590118912

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  39. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Can’t afford to gamble scenes because Trump has wrecked the economy but I am convinced Trump will do everything he can to overturn the voters choice if it doesn’t go his way. He’s already sabotaged the Post office and mounted a phony crusade against mail in votes. Being a narcissist he simply cannot accept rejection and he will respond accordingly.

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  40. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Paul Emery: “Can’t afford to gamble scenes ”
    lol. No doubt. How about a $1000 guitar? 100 hours of old man labor?
    Lotsa good video this morning.
    “BLM scumbags demand that diners at restaurant raise their fists for black power. Brave young couple retains dignity, refuses. Be that couple. Don’t be the embarrassing mustachioed coward to the right who has forfeited his dignity for all time.”
    https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1298234362635395073

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    From Scenes 10:11 am
    Mollie
    @MZHemingway
    “I have no idea what the Democratic Party stands for because they won’t tell you.” Herschel Walker says.
    Yep, pretty much sums it up. They only thing I can gather is the Dems are licking their chops to go to war with some country, any country will do. And of course, like Steve and the Pony Tail of Massive Ignorance, they are against violence, roflmao.

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  42. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: paul emery | 25 August 2020 at 10:06 AM
    Can’t afford to gamble scenes because Trump has wrecked the economy

    Really? How did he do that?

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  43. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Scenes
    Show me a quote where I supported violent protests. I’ll be waiting.

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  44. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Gosh and golly scenes gambling is illegal. You are encouraging me to sell my guitar, which is a source of income to me. to engage in an illegal act that you are participating in.

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  45. fish Avatar
    fish

    Can’t afford to gamble scenes because Trump has wrecked the economy
    Really? How did he do that?

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  46. George Rebane Avatar

    Common attributes of those in these pages who don’t support violent protests are 1) continually recognize their existence, 2) identify the instigators and dun them, and 3) propose better response policies. Those who do support the ongoing violent protests can be expected to remain silent on the aforementioned. ALL of our liberal readers qualify as presumed supporters of violence (and blame it on Trump). Thoughts?

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  47. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    fish
    It happened during his watch fish and he had an ineffective response.

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  48. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: paul emery | 25 August 2020 at 10:50 AM
    It happened during his watch fish and he had an ineffective response.

    What would you have recommended?

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