[Under the last Scattershots reader Mr Bill Tozer posted a link to a very important essay on the migration of California, its current condition, and its journey to becoming the leading shithole state in the Union. I draw it to your kind attention – 'Be Afraid, Very Afraid: CALIFORNIA AS CASE STUDY OF AMERICA’S POSSIBLE FUTURE'. gjr]
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350 responses to “Sandbox – 5oct20”
Don.. That’s Emery and D- repellent.
No guts to confront the facts.. They are just upset they got caught.
They just move on to Trump not wearing a mask.
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DAMN!!!!!!!!! There was a Trump rally in town and I missed it!
Still stuck in bed recovering…
I’m surprised the LIB rag called The Union actually covered it.
(Still buried at the bottom of the page) Not quite the same fan fair it gave the cop haters up in Nevada City. We see where the priorities lie.
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Now how bout that?? Even Drudge has yet to post the Russiagate blockbuster news. Nowhere to be found.
Emery working there now?
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It is quite interesting when digging into the Russian Hoax seemingly all roads lead through London to Ukraine. Not so much on Spygate and the
cover up of a sitting President‘s surveillance of an opposing political opponent’s campaign and the weaponing of the departments of the Executive Branch to frame an innocent man. Opps, strike that. The US Embassy in Kiev was involved in Spygate. Mea Culpa.
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Anyone watching knew it the knew fix was in. NBC needs to file a donation in kind report or they could be up on campaign donation violations. But hey he only had 4 bumblebrain senior moments or was it 5 or 6?. LOL! –
‘Undecided voters’ at NBC’s Biden town hall were featured on MSNBC as Biden voters
Critics described the televised event as a ‘Biden infomercial
https://www.foxnews.com/media/undecided-voters-nbc-biden-town-hall
😉
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Walt 909pm – drudge moved to the dark side several months ago.
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So what could go wrong?
“Portland Mayor @tedwheeler is polling double digits behind the self-described antifa mayoral candidate”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1313248817295179776
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The very sweetest story of the day.
“America’s most influential media stylebook is discouraging the nation’s newspapers from reporting on mass urban violence, on the grounds that writing about what’s happening is “stigmatizing.””
https://nypost.com/2020/10/06/the-associated-press-advises-suppressing-the-truth-about-riots/
lol. We are so screwed. Year Zero is real.
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I’ll try again.
The sweetest story of the day.
America’s most influential media stylebook is discouraging the nation’s newspapers from reporting on mass urban violence, on the grounds that writing about what’s happening is “stigmatizing.”
https://nypost.com/2020/10/06/the-associated-press-advises-suppressing-the-truth-about-riots/
We are so screwed. Year Zero is real.
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The likely winner of the Portland mayor’s election.
Paul ‘n Robert should find a lot to like here.
https://twitter.com/sarah2020/status/1309535409567748097
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George. I noticed that too. Now they are full blown Proggy Press.
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more readable version of Sarah Iannarone’s manifesto.
https://threader.app/thread/1309535375442866177
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A horror bedtime story for Emery.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/06/poll-donald-trump-nearly-four-points-ahead-in-ohio/
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Re: Sarah Iannarone’s manifesto
Scenes, your 10:31 pm should have come with a trigger warning. It was awful having that in garbage in my head upon retiring. Awful. Horrible. No wonder a neighbor girl growing up became an adult, moved to Portland, retired as a EMT, and moved back to CA. I don’t now which is worse. Portland or CA.
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THE DUMBEST TWEET OF 2020? (UPDATED)
“I know Twitter is an abyss that knows no bottom, and I’ve joked that if I ever get my hands on a time machine, I’m going to go back in time and strangle Baby Twitter in its cradle.
So to single out a Tweet as the dumbest of 2020—a year already marked out for extreme imbecility—is a tall order, but Washington state’s dimwit governor Jay Inslee has made a bid for the prize:”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/the-dumbest-tweet-of-2020.php
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For Scenes.
GOODBYE, PORTLAND
This is a video, tweeted by Guy Benson, of an Antifa member addressing Portland’s Mayor and City Council. You know, Antifa–the organization that no leading Democrat has denounced, to my knowledge, and whose existence some, like Joe Biden, apparently deny. It is sobering to watch this psychopath and those who cheer him on, and to consider how far we have declined:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/goodbye-portland.php
“I titled this post “Goodbye, Portland,” but I wonder whether it might more appropriately be “Goodbye, America.””
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No real surprise. Look who likes our Commiecrats.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/10/07/russias-putin-praises-ideological-links-between-democrats-soviet-communism/
That means YOU Emery.. You have an admirer. You big Putin cuddler you…
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Dirty progressives in power used “top secret” and “classified” designations to hide their criminal activity. Not one bit had anything to do with national security. Just Liberal political security.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-call-to-declassify-russia-collusion-clinton-documents-sparks-fierce-debate-online
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Walt, is that you or are you a Russian bot?
There is a frequent commentator on the Union site that accused Gregory (and anyone he does not personally know) of being a Russian bot, roflmao. Get this. The genius said twice I am aware of that iIF you are a Russian bot, you have to answer honestly when asked, “Are you a Russian bot.” Those are the carved in stone facts.
Unfortunately or fortunately, for better or worse, I stopped reading the Union comments. It leaves me slack jawed with the ignorance of the commentators surpassed only by their confidence. Reading Scenes’ 10:31 pm is like reading those comments. It’s the far right wingers causing all the violence, we are just protecting our city. And Trump has made it worse. He hates our military, don’t you know?
I am seriously concerning just dropping the Union. It’s a decision. Nine bucks a month to read the police blotter…or can I live without it? Decisions, decisions.
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Walt, we’re all interested in your progress and wishing you well; can you give us an update?
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Sure George,, Two weeks out of the hospital now. Just starting to be allowed to eat soft foods. Still can only take short walks around the house. Getting my strength back is turning out to be a slow process. Dropped 40 LBS.. Not a weight loss program I would recommend.
The wounds are healing nicely. My fiestyness is coming back as you can well see.
But still stuck in bed most of the day..😒
Dr. says he’s still not convinced there isn’t another “problem” lurking “in there”. But so far so good.
Now if anyone knows who is selling good firewood, let me know.
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Gregory. Todd, fish and scenes
Bad news from Rasmussen. Trump is now behind Biden by 12 points in direct voter preference. Massive collapse over the last two weeks. They cite the debate disaster as a prime reason.
“President Trump’s debate performance followed by his coronavirus diagnosis appear to be digging an even deeper hole for him this week. Democrat Joe Biden now has a 12-point lead over the president in Rasmussen Reports’ weekly White House Watch survey.
The latest national telephone and online survey finds Biden leading President Trump 52% to 40% among Likely U.S. Voters. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate. Another four percent (4%) are undecided. ”
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2020/white_house_watch_oct07
Also a massive collapse in job approval from Rasmussen:
Rasmussen Reports approve 44 Disapprove 54 -10
He has dropped an astounding 14 points in the approval index in two weeks !!
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history
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Why did Ross try to end the Census count early? Trying to skew the numbers for Trump?
“Ross asked if ending census earlier would produce numbers in Trump’s current term”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/politics/census-incomplete-count/index.html
https://www.nyic.org/2020/09/after-losing-bid-to-end-2020-census-a-month-early-secretary-ross-attempts-to-end-count-by-monday-october-5-via-twitter/
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Posted by: paul emery | 07 October 2020 at 11:37 AM
I truly do pity you you sad little man!
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You “pity” me for noting the truth scenes? Really? Am I supposed to be delusional like you to be ok?
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The SEC should investigate Trump for stock market manipulation. Or is is just steroid derangement syndrome?
Trump says he will not discuss the Stimulus Package until after the election – the markets go into a nosedive.
The next day Trump says he wants to send out a bunch more stimulus checks making sure his name is on them. Wake up folks! That is not Trump’s money he is giving you. That is your grandkids money, suckers!
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Posted by: paul emery | 07 October 2020 at 11:47 AM
Again…you can’t keep Biden and Trump poll positions separate (which is hysterical because the subject seems to be the only thing you care about) and you only rarely know to whom you are responding.
Like I said….sad.
#sadlittleman
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D 1150am – Tell us again how they taught you in civics class that the president can give anyone money. And if money-giving is the subject, did you and yours not notice that it’s your scumbag Pelosi who has been trying to pad the stimulus bill with all kinds of Democrat vote-buying goodies that have nothing to do with the C19 pandemic, as she hides that fact by lying to Americans that it’s the president and Senate that don’t want to help pandemic stricken Americans? Didn’t think so.
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Posted by: D | 07 October 2020 at 11:50 AM
That is your grandkids money, suckers!
It’s OK (D)ugsKKKi……every time I see a kid I just tell them in order to have a decent life they’re going to need to kill Medicare. They seem to be OK with the notion!
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Paul ‘the often wrong’ Emery sez: “You “pity” me for noting the truth scenes? Really? Am I supposed to be delusional like you to be ok? ”
say what? When did I say that?
I don’t pity you, that would typically imply some empathy. There’s plenty of people as unlettered as you so I mostly just shrug it off.
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Seperate fish?. Biden up by 12. What do you mean about”separate”? You are sounding desperate as well you should.
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Posted by: paul emery | 07 October 2020 at 12:04 PM
Desperate? Hardly…..I conceded yesterday that I thought Biden will likely win…but you forgot that already didn’t you? I’m looking forward to seeing Kamala shiv Joey Fingers about 6 weeks in and then crashing the economy.
“Separate” refers to your constant switching of Trump with Bidens while breathlessly delivering new poll numbers…..oh…..you forgot doing that too.
#dementia
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George
Trumps policies and tax giveaways have mostly profited the Billionaires while causing millions of working class Americans to lose their jobs. $1200 ? I’ll take it but it’s chump change compared to what he gives the wealthy,
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/how-trump-is-helping-tycoons-exploit-the-pandemic
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Posted by: paul emery | 07 October 2020 at 12:34 PM
It’s always chump change compared to what the government gives the wealthy…… did you already forget about Obama and the banks too Punch?
Oh Punchy…..?
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polling update!!!
Things keep getting worse for Trump..
529to win just updated their state by state polling maps showing Biden now winning in electoral votes based on polling consensus by 319 to 125. that means in order to win Trump has to win all 94 tossups plus flip 52 votes now in the Biden camp. Grim reality especially with the Trump slump in full bloom at this time.
Do any of the RR’s have ideas how Trump might change the momentum?
fish has already conceded they Biden will probably win and Gregory stated that he won’t vote for Trump so that leaves just a handful of Trump faithfuls hanging on.
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link
https://www.270towin.com/maps/biden-trump-polling-map
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Emery is making shit up now. The middle class has prospered with Trump. Unlike when his boy “O” was running the show.
Jobs came back.. YES OR NO Emery? The ones “O” said would “NEVER COME BACK”
Trump DID have that magic wand.
Unemployment near ZERO… YES OR NO Emery?
Then your pals the Chinese set free the Kung Flu world wide..
But you go right ahead and put the blame on Trump.
You know,, back when you and yours claimed Trump was overreacting. Now your excuse is he didn’t do enough..
What more would you like him to Do Emery? Spill it.
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Fish @ #dementia
And here I thought our local News Redirector was showing us his internals. Herd mentality, Herd immunity, interchangeable, right?
Class warfare goes back to before the serfdom days. We live in the Kingdom of California and boy is Nancy trying to get rid of Trump’s SALT deduction cap. The billionaires in CA, NY, and other blue states are screaming bloody murder to the high heavens for the face sliding Botox Queen to fix it, now! You can hear the lamentations of Blue State billionaires from here. I would not count on funding Utopia using those blue state billionaires to pay for millions of people sitting around the barn and eating all the hay. If only they airheads of the world could get their hands on all those Billionaires filthy money, then life would be splendid and equal and all outcomes the same. Social Justice is not justice, but we all knew that.
Screw the whales, save the beautiful people, the million trillion billion quadrillionaires!
Save the beautiful people!
Of course, it’s not all Karl Bernie Marx class warfare anymore. This ain’t your grandpappy’s Democrat Party class warfare. It’s PC group warfare now. The SJW racial justice warfare now.
Funny, in the Breonna Taylor case the formerly peaceful protestors were chanting, “No Justice, No Peace!” Then when the two officers were not charged with murder (kinda hard to charge homicide when ballistics show it wasn’t the cops inside that fired the deadly round…and being shot at first)….well the mob got the justice under the law they were demanding, and still give normal folks and business owners and passerbys no peace. Zero peace for you. Like the Soup Nazi on Steinfeld. No peace.
Me thinks the Dems demand pre-determined outcomes, not justice nor peace. They offer neither
Eliminate Trumps Salt deduction cap. Save our billionaires.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngKT3MIfwpo.
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Well, that didn’t last long.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ca-officials-topple-giant-trump-sign-overlooking-405-freeway-citing-life-and-safety
“The sign, visible on the hills near the Sepulveda Pass as Los Angeles drivers began their Tuesday commute, was first reported just before 7 a.m. by a driver who “was apparently concerned it could spark a blaze” after the state’s history of “destructive brush fires in the past few years.””
lol. Paul, are your people ever even slightly embarassed?
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fish
I agree about Obama and the banks. That’s why I didn’t vote for him the second time and why you should not vote for Trump this time. None the less Biden is the lesser of two evils because Trump is mentally ill and not fit to serve as President.
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“Patriots erected Massive Trump sign in Los Angeles. It’s going viral!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQtaMFB7-Yw
Excellent.
paulE: “I agree about Obama and the banks. That’s why I didn’t vote for him the second time and why you should not vote for Trump this time.”
So basically you vote against things.
I guess it makes for a simpler world view. It also saves the trouble of having to justify anything. That’s why I call that concept ‘Emerianism’.
Is that how you order things in a restaurant? Look through a menu and mark off all the stuff you don’t like?
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Posted by: paul emery | 07 October 2020 at 02:01 PM
Biden truly is your candidate…..on so many levels.
#getthesesquirrelsoffofme
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Massive sign…
Silly things from people with nothing better to do. If they really wanted to help Trump why don’t they export themselves to a tossup state and work on his campaign. Biden is up by around 30 in California so what good does it do to launch a huge sign. Goofy…
And Trump is your candidate fish. All you do is gush about him, never a word about his character or mental health.
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“Massive sign…”
View it as an art installation. God knows it’s more entertaining than one more Leonard Cohen tribute.
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Posted by: paul emery | 07 October 2020 at 02:14 PM
Silly things from people with nothing better to do. If they really wanted to help Trump why don’t they export themselves to a tossup state and work on his campaign.
Yeah….almost as loopy as you volunteering to work on reconstituting the California Republican Party.
How’s that going by the way? Progress being made?
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Paul is voting for Satin. Paul has no love for America.
If Biden wins. this nation is done. We would be wishing for an “O” economy.
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Posted by: Walt | 07 October 2020 at 02:49 PM
OK…I had been out of the correct the grammar/spelling business but dude this one I gotta help you out with!!
You just stated that Punch is voting for the shiny, slippery fabric used in little girls dresses or the sheets found in trashy motel rooms! “Satan” is what you are going for here!
Gratis my friend!
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I stand corrected. But you got my point.
Remember when “O” and Co. was appeasing every wild ass Proggy group? A bathroom for every one of the 23 genders?
You can identify as any sex, no matter how fantiful it may be?
Now “non binary” is a supposed sex? Thank LIBS for that stupidity. But it pandered to votes.
If you think the riots will stop, think again. Biden will hand over Seattle and Portland to ANTIFA,, That’s a fact. Just tp appease the Communists.
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The ‘New England Journal of Medicine’ had this to say about the Trump administration:
“We rarely publish editorials signed by all the editors…This crisis (the pandemic) has produced a test of leadership. With no good options to combat a novel pathogen, countries were forced to make hard choices about how to respond. Here in the United States, our leaders have failed that test. They have taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy. Anyone else who recklessly squandered lives and money in this way would be suffering legal consequences. Our leaders have largely claimed immunity for their actions. But this election gives us the power to render judgment. When it comes to the response to the largest public health crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent. We should not abet them and enable the deaths of thousands more Americans by allowing them to keep their jobs.”
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Here Emery, You and Hanoi Jane think the same.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/10/07/jane-fonda-says-covid-19-is-gods-gift-to-the-left/
“Joe Biden fundraiser and long-time left-wing actress Jane Fonda is insisting that COVID-19, which has killed over 211,000 Americans, devastated the lives and livelihoods of countless more, and tanked the global economy, is “God’s gift to the left.” ”
Only a sick, twisted person would think that.
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