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Sandbox – 22sep20

[Reminder to keep all SCOTUS related comments under ‘Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – RIP’ until President Trump announces her replacement nominee.  Then I’ll post a new commentary under which we can comment on and debate the ensuing congressional confirmation hullabaloo.  gjr]

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313 responses to “Sandbox – 22sep20”

  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Now that’s funny –
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09/24/harry-and-meghan-have-made-the-best-trump-promo-video-evah/
    😉

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  2. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Todd
    Can you provide some links to support your 1:27 contention?
    Readers. what usually happens is Todd disappears when you ask for support documentation to his fanciful statements.

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  3. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Whaaa???? The Queen of the DEMNED gets a moment of sanity and knows when she’s beat? Don’t want to lose anymore seats from stunt pulling?
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-no-trump-impeachment-scotus
    I was looking forward to watching her lose her mind trying another impeachment.

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Just read up the thread oh great pony tail of ignorance. LOL
    😉

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  5. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy 143pm
    The last question I posed for you, before you disappeared, was how many COVID-19/Wuhan SARS related fatalities would there be had Trump been as perfect as the best imagined Democrat.

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  6. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Trump now surging in Florida. Bye Bye Biden!

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Daily Quotes
    Observations: “In a recent Pew Research survey, only 16% of men and 17% of women said that marriage is ‘essential for a … fulfilling life.’ Only 16% of men and 22% of women said having children is ‘essential for a … fulfilling life.’ This compared with 57% of men and 46% of women who said ‘having a job or career they enjoy’ is essential. As we dismiss our Creator from our public spaces, as we exchange love and meaning for crass materialism, we exchange a culture of life for a culture of death. And by doing so, we put the future of our nation in jeopardy.” —Star Parker
    Nailed it: “I love the Obamas, but I’m going to be honest. I hear all of the racial statements they’re making today and I’m like, ‘You were in office for eight years. What did you do to change anything?’ You didn’t do anything to change anything for anybody, so don’t come out now talking about it because you had an opportunity [as] the most powerful man in the world, and you did absolutely nothing.” —Herschel Walker
    Upright: “Some of the reactions I’m seeing regarding the decision by the grand jury in the Breonna Taylor situation demonstrate what I’ve often said: many social justicians don’t define ‘justice’ in terms of equality before the law, but in terms of preferred outcomes — despite the law.” —Darrell B. Harrison
    For the record: “[Breonna Taylor’s] death is sad. It’s a tragedy, but it wasn’t an act of racism. There’s no evidence for that, and if there was, we would admit it. But [the media] don’t care. All they care about is getting people to believe that this dystopia they describe is real. Why? It’s an election year. If enough property burns, if enough public streets are impassible, in the end, people may decide, ‘I’ll vote for Joe Biden to make it stop.’” —Tucker Carlson
    Alpha jackass, Part I: “I think you have to always look at party. Party is the religion now in America — especially for Republicans. Don’t look at the fact that [Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron] is black. That does not mean anything. He is a Republican through and through. He spoke at the RNC [Republican National Convention]. He told you who he was. Believe him.” —MSNBC’s Joy Reid
    Alpha jackass, Part II: “I think what I saw this morning was a Bull Connor speech in 2020. … Unfortunately, it was being given by a black prosecutor.” —Black Lives Matter cofounder Alicia Garza
    Non compos mentis: “The white supremacist institution of policing that stole Breonna Taylor’s life from us must be abolished for the safety and well being of our people.” —Colin Kaepernick
    Non sequitur: “All the kind words and lamentations about Justice Ginsburg from the Republican majority will be totally empty if those Republicans ignore her dying wish and instead replace her with someone who will tear down everything she built.” —Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (“That, of course, is not the standard. Under the Constitution, members of the judiciary do not appoint their own successors.” —Senator Ted Cruz)
    Braying jenny: “What would Christ do? We always say that. Well, there’s a big difference between what Christ would do and what they’re honoring.” —fake Catholic Nancy Pelosi ridiculing the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, where Trump gave the keynote address
    Demo-gogue: “I beat the socialist. … That’s how I got the nomination. Do I look like a socialist? Look at my career — my whole career. I am not a socialist.” —Joe Biden
    And last… “What should be done to address … gross disparities? … The best thing that we can do is clean up our language. That will have the added benefit of straightening out our thinking so that we do not permit leftists to get away with making us feel guilty and believing in utter nonsense.” —Walter Williams

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  8. Regina Grumpler Avatar
    Regina Grumpler

    Whitehouse say it will accept the outcome of a “free and fair” election.. but trumpler gets to decide if it was free and fair… which if he loses we know it wasn’t…. right?

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  9. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    re BillT 310pm – Herschel Walker’s observation should resonate across the land, and especially in the brainpans of self-righteous progressives. Most certainly none of our local liberals would ever touch that little item with a ten footer. Love to see the likes of our self-proclaimed center stripe sitters Crabb and Boardman take a cut at that.
    Regina 332pm – Wrong. Trump said he’ll accept the ruling of a full SCOTUS on any contested outcome. That’s more than your Hillary is willing to do – she counseled Dems never accept defeat under any circumstances. Just like she has yet to admit defeat in 2016 election.

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Very bad news for the TDS set to ignore –
    Fifteen focus groups of Hispanic Americans and polls of white and black Americans, conducted by Ian Haney López and Tory Gavito, reveal that Hispanic Americans are the most convinced by campaign rhetoric that opposes illegal immigration and defunding local police departments.
    Black Americans, at the same rate as white Americans, were convinced by the rhetoric, Edsall writes:
    Another data point they found “even more sobering”: López and Gavito asked eligible voters how “convincing” they found a dog-whistle message lifted from Republican talking points. Among other elements, the message condemned “illegal immigration from places overrun with drugs and criminal gangs” and called for “fully funding the police, so our communities are not threatened by people who refuse to follow our laws.”
    As they expected, “almost three out of five white respondents judged that message convincing.”
    More disconcerting to López and Gavito, both liberals, was that “exactly the same percentage of African-Americans agreed, as did an even higher percentage of Latinos.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/24/survey-hispanic-americans-most-opposed-to-illegal-immigration-defunding-police/
    😉

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Who’s got the mo? –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/key-az-senate-race-polling-shifts-in-martha-mcsallys-favor
    😉

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  12. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    LOL Grumpy, you still haven’t accepted the last election results.

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  13. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Dirty FED agents can buy professional liability insurance?
    WTF??
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/24/new-fbi-texts-agents-bought-liability-insurance-over-russia-investigation/
    “In one text, an agent speculated that they would be “screwed” when a new attorney general began asking questions about the investigation, possibly after leaks to the New York Times or other media outlets.One text, dated Jan. 10, 2017, read: “we all went and purchased professional liability insurance.” Other texts discussed the rules for reimbursement of that insurance.”
    That should be worthy of three extra years in club FED.

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The joys of dem socialist shit holes –
    One SF neighborhood sees 75% increase in burglaries
    https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Burglaries-San-Francisco-increase-homes-15594895.php
    😉

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  15. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Libs LOVE to say Trump is a dictator.. Forget what Dear Leader “O” did? Yes,, the things Commie dictators do.
    “In 2009, as part of the Obama-Biden administration’s taxpayer-funded bailout of GM, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) terminated the pension plans of about non-unionized 20,0000 Delphi workers. In some cases, workers had their pensions gutted by 30 to 70 percent.
    Three years later, federal documents unveiled how the Obama-Biden administration’s Treasury Department worked to gut the pensions of the Delphi workers despite repeated claims that it was the sole decision of the PBGC.”
    Trump is about to fix that unjust, taking.
    Oh… Who was “O”‘s VP? That’s right BIDEN……

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  16. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George Quote from 3:33 about Hillary:
    “Just like she has yet to admit defeat in 2016 election.”
    However this is a direct quote from Hillary’s concession speech:
    “Last night, I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country. I hope that he will be a successful president for all Americans.”
    How does that comment not “admit defeat” as you put it? Sounds like a concession speech to me.
    Do you anticipate Trump will give a similar statement should he lose the election?

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  17. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy… you didn’t answer the question.

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Sounds like the pony tail of ignorance @543 forgot her sniveling tour line that it was stolen by a bunch of conspiracies.

    But there seems to be a solution Walt@506. The fact is that they said screw the non-union members and kill 29 plants not to mention the bond holders.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/24/trump-mulls-returning-pensions-to-20k-delphi-workers-stolen-by-obama-biden/
    😉

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  19. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Emery. Trump can only lose if your Proggys cheat.
    Cheat by mail is already showing just how unsecure votes are.
    Great chain of custody… From the mailbox to the nearest secluded ditch.

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  20. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Called that one.
    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/24/amy-coney-barrett-faith-420928
    ”
    Judge’s faith becomes early flashpoint in Supreme Court fight
    ”
    But LIBS don’t give a shit about what the law is.
    https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/interpretation/article-vi/clauses/32
    “After requiring all federal and state legislators and officers to swear or affirm to support the federal Constitution, Article VI specifies that “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” This prohibition, commonly known as the No Religious Test Clause, banned a longstanding form of religious discrimination”
    Yet that’s going to be the fist attack right out of the gate.

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  21. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Here Lefties!! Another act of batshit crazy futility.
    https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/24/house-democrats-bill-impose-term-limits-supreme-court/
    “Democrats in the House of Representatives are planning to introduce a bill Tuesday that would impose a term limit of 18 years on Supreme Court justices.
    The legislation would allow every new president to nominate two justices each term and would cancel lifetime appointments.”
    A: NEVER make it through the Senate.
    B: Trump would NEVER sign it.
    I’m pretty damned sure it would take a Constitutional amendment. Not some power starved LIB from Frisco demanding her flying monkeys vote for it.

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  22. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Gregory@5:51 “punchy… you didn’t answer the question.”
    You mean this question?
    Gregory@2:12 “Punchy 143pm
    The last question I posed for you, before you disappeared, was how many COVID-19/Wuhan SARS related fatalities would there be had Trump been as perfect as the best imagined Democrat.”
    That’s actually a pretty good question.
    Say, Paul. How many COVID-19/Wuhan SARS related fatalities would there be had Trump been as perfect as the best imagined Democrat?

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  23. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Gregory
    For a start Trump claimed Trump saved billions of lives with whatever actions he took restricting travel from China. Do you believe that to be true? there’s around 8 billion people in the world so “billions” could be 25 to 50% of the entire population of the world. that’s quite an accomplishment Gregory.
    “Trump made his outlandish “billions” claim at his press briefing Saturday. Based on some models, the COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. was predicted to reach 100,000 to 220,000, he noted. “I really believe it could have been billions of people [who died] had we not done what we did,” he added. “We made a lot of good decisions.”
    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-saves-billions-us-pop-350-million_n_5e9bd2bec5b6ea335d5cb120

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  24. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Say, Paul. How many COVID-19/Wuhan SARS related fatalities would there be had Trump been as perfect as the best imagined Democrat?

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  25. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Walt
    Trumps own FBI does not in any way confirm voter fraud on a scale that could swing a national election. Here’s some direct quotes:
    “FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday cast doubts on concerns raised by some conservatives that mail-in voting could pose an increased chance of voter fraud, with Wray telling a Senate committee that widespread voter fraud would be a “major challenge” for a foreign adversary to pull off.
    “We have not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election whether it’s by mail or otherwise,” Wray testified to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee during a hearing on threats to the homeland. “We have seen voter fraud at the local level from time to time, so my comments should in no way be construed as minimizing how seriously we take our responsibility to investigate such incidents.”
    https://thehill.com/policy/technology/518095-fbi-director-casts-doubt-on-concerns-over-mail-in-voting-fraud

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  26. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Say, Paul. How many COVID-19/Wuhan SARS related fatalities would there be had Trump been as perfect as the best imagined Democrat?

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  27. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    I have no idea what that number would be.
    Here is an early estimate from Columbia University
    “A study has estimated there may have been 36,000 fewer coronavirus-related deaths had the US entered lockdown a week earlier in March.
    The Columbia University research also estimated that around 83% of deaths could have been avoided if measures had been taken two weeks earlier.
    It suggested that 54,000 fewer people would have died had cities begun locking down on 1 March.
    President Trump dismissed the report as a “political hit job”.
    The study, which has not been peer reviewed yet, covers data up to 3 May, at which point there had been just over 65,300 coronavirus-related deaths in the US.
    There have now been more than 93,400 coronavirus-related deaths in the United States, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.”

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  28. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    link
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52757150

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  29. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    The Hill? LIB rag,,,
    FBI still infested with Proggys.
    Humm.. “historically” You understand the meaning of that word?
    Nothing to see here Emery,, Right?
    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/yes-america-there-voter-fraud-these-recent-cases-prove-it
    “Many news media, political activists and social media giants have gotten on the bandwagon that voter fraud is fiction. It is not.
    A review of court cases and recent indictments – including one this week in Philadelphia against a former congressman – finds there have been at least four dozen cases in criminal and civil court since the last presidential election in 2016 in which voter fraud has led to charges, convictions, lawsuits or plea deals.
    The schemes have ranged from old fashion ballot box stuffing to absentee and mail-in ballot fraud.
    In 2019, former Gordon, Ala., Mayor Elbert Melton was convicted of absentee ballot fraud in a mayoral race he won by just 16 votes. ”
    And more examples if you dare read.
    Nope, you keep your head buried deep in denial.
    You don’t care how Trump loses. Just as long as he does.
    If it’s a rigged vote, The end justifies the means.
    Oh.. Biden busted in even more lies.

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Who knew the po’ ol’ fakenewsmans rancid russian dressing was really a product of mother russia you putin party parrot!!
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-previously-investigated-steele-dossier-source-as-russian-agent
    😉

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  31. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Paul.
    So you are saying that Trump should have forced each individual city to lockdown ‘a week earlier’? I’m not even sure that there’s a legal basis for that. The feds basically supply research through a couple of labs and money (usually after the fact).
    As an example, here’s NY Magazine from March 1, 2020.
    ““We all ask ourselves the question after seeing the CDC guidance,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference on Wednesday, “what would we be able to do if this became a much deeper crisis?” So … what will New York City look like if there is a coronavirus outbreak here?”
    (updated March 1, 2020) “This post has been updated to note the first confirmed coronavirus case in New York.”
    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/how-would-new-york-city-respond-to-the-coronavirus.html
    So…basically Trump should have forced de Blasio to lockdown NYC when the outbreak hadn’t happened yet?
    Have you considered that when you blame Trump, you are just full of shit? You have no clue what you are talking about? You have no clue what the federal role actually is?

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  32. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    scenes
    Would it not have been worth it to shut down earlier and save tens of thousands of lives?

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  33. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Here’s the study that Paul didn’t read.
    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.15.20103655v1.full.pdf
    The idea is that simulations show that a couple of weeks earlier lockdown would have a measurable change in infection rates…probably a safe bet for any epidemic, but I’m looking through it to see just how they estimate the efficacy of the measures.
    You do have to wonder why Sweden (no real measures taken) has essentially the same death rate as the UK (lotsa measures taken). Fewer fat people? I would guess that they are similar in terms of urbanization. Some difference in reporting standards? Perhaps people don’t know what they are doing (my bet)?
    The amusing concept is, of course, the D. Trump would know to magically jump in a week early and basically federalize state and local health policy. Essentially a form of martial law. All before it was a problem.
    This is one of the purest versions of TDS I’ve seen and I’m rather tired of it.

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  34. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    PaulE 543pm – Hillary’s concession speech, you are kidding aren’t you? Here speech not withstanding, that broad has spent the last four years doing everything she could to delegitimize and derail the Trump administration. And here I thought you could see through that.

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 4:37 pm
    Looks like Oz has not dealt with his Daddy issues yet. It’s not like it’s just gonna go away by itself.
    Drop the rock.

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  36. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Hot off the press!!!
    Fox news shows Trump with solid leads in Nevada-11 points, Pennyslavania-7 points and Ohio-5 points. Remember, Trump has to win all battleground states and flip a blue or two to win and in these States things are headed the other way. Sad for the RR’s but true..
    “Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is leading President Donald Trump in the battleground states of Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to Fox News polls released Thursday.
    The polls conducted among likely voters showed Biden with an 11-point lead over Trump in Nevada, where 52 percent of respondents said they wanted the former vice president to be elected. In Pennsylvania, 51 percent supported Biden and 44 percent supported Trump. In Ohio, 50 percent supported Biden and 45 percent supported Trump.
    Trump’s 2016 victories in Pennsylvania and Ohio were critical to his electoral win that year. Nevada narrowly voted for then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/24/trump-biden-fox-news-poll-421466

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  37. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    LOL Emery!! The crap you gave Trump for shutting thing down when he did! He was “xenophobic” “overreacting”(to use your words)
    Now you try and complain he did act fast enough.. Sorry,, no bitching both ways.

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  38. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Emery want Biden to be President. Biden can’t make it past 10:00AM without calling it a day.. Of course the Proggy Press is making excuses and flying cover. But what do you expect from the second branch of the DNC?
    Will Biden even make it to the halfway point come debate night?
    Trump is going to expose that Dementia for what it is.

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    scenes

    “Democrats prepare bill limiting U.S. Supreme Court justice terms to 18 years”
    “The new bill, seen by Reuters, would allow every president to nominate two justices per four-year term ”
    https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN26F3L3
    Good idea? No?
    I believe that the Constitution implies lifetime appointment, 18 (4.5 Presidential terms) is rather arbitrary, you could easily end up with an even number of Justices, no words about adding more seats…which could easily turn into an arms race. Probably lots of unintended consequences.
    I doubt you’ll see Congressional term limits come up as a bill with any legs.
    My own prejudice is to work to lessen the importance of the federal government. None of this would matter so much if it wasn’t so all-encompassing.
    Now that I think of it, does a federal circuit court make sense? I’m uncomfortable pasting together California and Alaska.

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    scenes

    Walt: “Will Biden even make it to the halfway point come debate night?”
    My guess is that he will claim COVID, that he got from Hunter, who got it from a pole dancer.
    Seriously, if he does drop out, how do they deal with it on ballots? There’s probably 50 states’ worth of law here. The Harris/Obama ticket might be sought after by their constituency. It’s hard to beat 1.5 black women as the Democratic Dream Team in an era of identity politics.

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  41. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    It wasn’t Hillary leading the charge George. She has no power or influence.
    I mean Trump is his own worst enemy and he will likely lose due to his own incompetence and absolute lack of decency or character.

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  42. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Don’t recall ever saying those things Walt. Show me a quote or two. thanks in advance .

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  43. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    The next logical step in the Biden campaign.
    “BREAKING: Rioters have smashed windows to the #Louisville city library and have thrown a flare inside.”
    https://twitter.com/SVNewsAlerts/status/1309298555513909249

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dr. Rebane @ 7:58 pm
    I do believe that in this one particular case, Paul was kidding. Nobody is stupid enough to quote Hillary’s concession speech as she has been….well…it’s a cliche now….as she has been spending the last four years trying to overthrow the results of a democratic fair election. Yep, Paul was just pulling your chain to get a rise out of you. Come on man, not even Paulbelieves that horse pucky.
    I never appreciated Paul Emery the News Director’s humor. “Sounds like a concession speech to me.” Good one.
    ———-
    I belIeve it was Paul the News Director who was not referring to the popular vote in mid-Oct. 2016 when he stated that Hillary only needs 15 Electoral College votes and Trump needed all 120 to win. The experts predicted at the time that it would be something like 330- 216 or maybe 303-227. WOW! It just occurred to me. Punchy nailed it. The final result was 304-227 in 2016, Trump over Hillary Rodclam Clinton, the lady with the killer chocolate chip cookie recipes. That’s when he popularity was the highest…as the First Lady in the kitchen.

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    scenes

    Paul: “Don’t recall ever saying those things Walt. Show me a quote or two. thanks in advance ”
    You are probably safe. Typepad has incredibly bad search, I mean incredibly bad.
    Generally, it was Biden screeching ‘xenophobia’, this was also about the time that Pelosi was inviting people to large celebrations in Chinatown.
    Using the Wayback Machine, we see:
    “As a result, foreign nationals, other than immediate family of U.S. citizens and permanent residents, who have traveled in China within the last 14 days will be denied entry into the United States for this time.”
    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/press-briefing-members-presidents-coronavirus-task-force/
    This was Jan 31, 2020. Just imagine how much difference it would have made if they had announced it a week earlier!!! That Trump, why, it’s outrageous!!!

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  46. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Yes Bill, Hillary lost the 2016 election. You just can’t get enough of it. That’s your little winning streak. The House caved in two years later and now Trump is on the ropes and the Senate is shaky but still you obsess about Hillary. Go for it if it makes you feel good. This is the place for it here on RR’s playground.

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  47. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Anyone catch Lindsey Graham whining on Fox News tonight cause he can’t raise any money? He was so pathetic it wasn’t even funny. If you didn’t see it check it out.
    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/lindsey-graham-forced-to-go-on-fox-news-and-beg-for-campaign-cash-i-am-being-ed/

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    re: L. Graham
    ““My opponent will raise almost $100 million in the state of South Carolina,” said Graham. “The most money ever spent in the state on a Senate race was by me in 2014 when I spent $13 million. ”
    lol. $100M. Just think about it.
    Remember when the Republicans were the party of the rich and big business? Those days are over. Maybe KVMR can get some of that sweet sweet Monsanto money.

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  49. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    On Paul the News Director. Wasn’t it YOU who went on and on and on about Trump will get wiped out in 2016 and the Republican Party would be a shell of its former self. Dead, relegated to a small regional party in the Deep South or something. You went on and on and on and on all the way on the Yellow Brick Road to the White House. In fact, you are re-playing the same tapes you played in 2016, almost word for word.
    No, Paul Emery the News Director of a tiny FM radio station that cannot survive without government handouts, it is not about Hillary. It is all about YOU.
    So Paul the News Director, as you are reciting the same exact song and dance in 2020 that you parroted in 2016, why should anyone listen to YOU? Not Hilary, but YOU. Why, I say, should one person listen to you on any matter of import? Why, why, why? It’s all about YOU.
    Look at the silver lining, Paul Emery. At least your track record is better than Bobbie Cross’s. The best thing about Bobbie ran down his mama’s legs.

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    re: campaign money spent (from OpenSecrets)
    2008 McCain – $333M Obama – $730M
    2012 Romney – $449M Obama – $721M
    2016 Trump – $433M Clinton – $769M
    Bush was slightly higher than Kerry.
    This seems to indicate a thing I’ve been considering. Something happened to the Democrats in 2008. The switch from representing the working class to selling your ass to the highest bidder became complete. Trump, intelligently, picked up the working class.
    Is it enough? It seems to me that a state change (the chemical kind) is happening and it’s likely that Trump just put off the inevitable. A combination of communications/internet monopolies, mass immigration, chronic unemployment due to offshoring and automation, the encouragement of identity politics, all leads you to a post-American future. The California ideal of chronic homelessness, income inequality, a multitude of rules, and warring over the government pie will be exported everywhere.
    It was nice while it lasted. Watch yer six.

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