[Many apologies for letting the last sandbox getting a bit overfilled. We are now in the Houston terminal waiting to board our flight to Sacramento – it’s been a long three weeks and we’ve seen a lot of our US of A that has changed so much from the pre-Covid days. Everywhere you turn, insanity rules. Much more to be said about the fundamental transformation now in full swing. Gjr]
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232 responses to “Sandbox – 11may21”
As evidenced by the state of journalism both nationally and even locally, fake news prevails. There is no such thing as objective news anymore but only rhetoric. One must read primary source documents for themselves in order to come up with any accurate conclusions as to what is actually going on. And yes Paul even your polls are fake news.
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Barry
I assume you include Fox News in your cavalcade of fakeness.
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Here you go Paul.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/conservative_viewers_are_better_informed_about_important_topics
😂
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I thought you didn’t believe in Polls Barry.
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I am simply making a point to you Paul that you’re playing in the shallow end of the pool with polls and with what other people think, namely the media. We have been trying to engage you on a philosophical and ideological level for quite some time. You seem to be stuck with fake news, rhetoric, and polls. Please tell me, in your own words, how any of the policies of the Biden administration have benefited the American people.
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biden “approval index” down to -11.
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Sure
To start his handling of the Covid distribution has been brilliant. Especially compared to Trumps pathetic efforts In Dec and Jan. Trump lost all credibility especially when he recommended injecting disinfectant. Biden has restored integrity to the Presidency.
Here’s Trumps own words:
” I asked Bill a question that probably some of you are thinking of, if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous—whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light—and I think you said that that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that too. It sounds interesting…
And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, you’re going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds—it sounds interesting to me.”
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Where did you get those numbers Gregory Link? There are no negative polls in RCP consensus.
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punchy 943am
they’re in the same place they’ve been since you quoted them four years ago. over and over.
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Oh yeah Good ol Rasmussen polling. RCP uses the total negative and positive for their consensus averages. You use the strongly approval for your pathetic nit picking so you can feel fulfilled. No problem Gregory. You need positive reassurance that your guy Trump is doing ok and you found it.
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it’s the difference between strong approval and strong disapproval, punch. you loved it four years ago… and now, Biden’s strong approval numbers are going south.
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No change in consensus polling support. You only are looking at one poll Gregory. So be it . It seems to make you feel good that one part of one poll supports your view so lets let it go at that.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 18 May 2021 at 11:02 AM
….you sad, little old man.
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fish
You’re resorting to silly personal attacks because you have nothing to say. Kinda sad but it’s what I expect from the Circle of Jerks that reside here.
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it isn’t a consensus average, punch… it’s what it just is. strong approval minus strong disapproval.
“everything is a social construction to the social constructionists”- j petersen
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It’s one part of one poll Gregory but if it works for you so be it.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 18 May 2021 at 11:32 AM
You’re resorting to silly personal attacks because you have nothing to say. Kinda sad but it’s what I expect from the Circle of Jerks that reside here.
That is correct……and you are still a sad, poll obsessed, little man.
Politics….show biz for ugly people!
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fish
Thanks for agreeing with me about your emotional deficiencies. Counseling is available but you probably know that.
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PaulE 925am – I suppose handling the vaccine distribution is really the only place that one can hope to get purchase in attempting to list Biden’s high points; there really are no others. But unfortunately for our lefties, even the distribution kudo will not hunt. It was under Trump’s Warp Speed that the military set up the distribution network to the states and started operating it during the last two months of the Trump administration when vaccine supplies were still low and the pharmas were ramping up production. All that Biden has done since then is attempt to stand out of the way and let the states communicate their needs to the distributors. Biden doesn’t have anyone in his administration yet who can rub two neo-cortical neurons together.
And your dissembling with the Trump quote is an ongoing treasure. There was nothing wrong with any of what Trump said at the time he said it. He was just musing about different response possibilities to communicate encouragement that Warp Speed was going support all kinds of (economically and pharmacologically) risky approaches. I believe that in a forthcoming after-action report we will even see that Trump’s recommendations to consider HCQ and ETC were prescient. But the bottom line is that all that doesn’t matter (save as a liberal diversion) since Warp Speed performed brilliantly, and we achieved the development and release of multiple vaccines with historically unprecedented speed.
Were you more receptive, this would give you a hint why so many tens of millions have been able to overlook Trump’s character flaws, celebrate his achievements, and consider his return to politics. But alas, that remains one bridge too far.
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Talk about putin cuddling –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-waive-sanctions-putin-crony-174856244.html
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 18 May 2021 at 12:21 PM
Thanks for agreeing with me about your emotional deficiencies. Counseling is available but you probably know that.
The “Thanks for agreeing with me…” bit. A Punch Emery staple.
But I guess if you’ve got nothing else….
PS: When did “emotional deficiencies” become part of the discussion? You said, “You’re resorting to silly personal attacks because you have nothing to say”.
Which I largely agree with.
But if we’re talking about emotional issues lets talk about an 80 year old who breathlessly hangs on every political poll like they’ll keep him alive another day!
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This is so sweet:
A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction
Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction
https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/1_STRIDE1.pdf
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George writes:
“There was nothing wrong with any of what Trump said at the time he said it.”
You’ve got to be kidding. What he was proposing was ludicrous and goofy even to the most casual observer and is the “musings” of an ignorant and somewhat damaged personality.
Distribution was a mess when Biden took over and he rejuvenated it and exceeded even his most optimistic predictions when he took office.
In reality Biden was shorted necessary time during the transition and Trump was way behind his own prediction for manufacture and distribution of 100 million doses by the end of Dec. with only 2 million available by Dec 28.
“Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler criticized Trump for the lack of prepared doses. Kessler wrote, “Trump in his campaign rallies repeatedly promised a 100 million vaccine doses by end of 2020. Three days left for 98 million doses.”
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PaulE 114pm – Where is the evidence that Biden did anything differently? Even liberal news outlets reported that he was essentially continuing what Trump had already started.
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punch
your obsession with the rcp mush polls is getting old .
distribution was not a mess before biden took office, and when biden promised 100 million doses in his first 100 days, there were already a million doses per day going into arms.
what was a mess was the forces of equity mucking with the priorities… had everyone stuck with the age based priorities there would not have been the confusion.
remember teachers fighting to get ahead of the old folks? and how many went back to work afterwards?
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PaulE, while I (and others of your CofJs) regularly take Trump and the Republicans to task for their foibles. There is none of that reciprocity evident from you and yours in these pages. The Dems daily foibles, especially now that they’re in power, are legion, yet you are blind to or ignorant of all of them. All you do is quote a bunch of extremely dubious polls the results of which have many explanations, including a very overriding one that I have presented here –
https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2021/05/all-the-news-youse-can-use.html
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punch 925am
Again, repeat after me: Trump never suggested people inject themselves with bleach.
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Trump did the vax. NOT Biden. There was nothing for the dodard to do.
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Here is another of the pony tail of ignorance’s bros eating his words –
Beto O’Rourke’s claim that Gov. Greg Abbott ‘killing the people of Texas’ comes back to haunt him
O’Rourke claimed Gov. Abbott was ‘killing the people of Texas’ by lifting mask mandates
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-coronavirus-mask-mandate-greg-abbott-beto-orourke#
😉
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Here’s a bit of love from Instapundit going out to that Ol Putin cuddler Punch “I’m just as fuzzy mentally as the president” Emery
Oh Punch….I hope you find lots and lots of extra change in the guitar case this week….you Old Putin Cuddler!
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So the wokester nobody has a talking 1 year old? –
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/05/18/shay-mitchell-learning-to-have-conversations-about-racism-with-her-one-year-old/
😉
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Here Emery,, another far fetched “LIBS will WIN” prediction.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/05/18/howard-dean-well-educated-suburbanites-are-sick-of-republicans-dems-will-win-house-in-2022/
LIBS will BK them with the soaring cost of living, and they will still vote Proggy.
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Enough is enough say the french having learned the hard way –
he polling reveals that 71 per cent of French believe that the country has taken in enough immigrants and do not have a desire to see more let into the country. 64 per cent said that France should no longer accept refugees as they were increasing the risk of terrorism in France.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/05/18/poll-71-per-cent-of-french-say-country-has-had-enough-immigration/
😉
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Gregory
The RCP polls are the most professional and accepted in the business today. You just don’t like what they come up with. What polls, other than Rasmussen which we know you are infatuated with, do you see as being more viable and accurate than the dozen or so in the RCP consensus roster ?
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Dance POLL dancer,, DANCE!!! Just Emery porn…..
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He might start by looking in the mirror and at the woke socialist dem content for shrinking ratings –
“Somehow when everyone’s stuck in their houses with nothing to do but watch TV for the past 14 month and we still managed to lose ratings,” Kimmel joked.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/jimmy-kimmel-scorches-broadcast-tv-222942785.html
😉
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Emery forgets the poll that states most Americans believe the election was RIGGED!!! Emery ignores that bit of fact
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The pony tail of ignorance aka the po’ ol’ pollhead forgets how his fawning over the rcp forgets there was no blue wave as promised, got slaughtered in the states and barely got the house. LOL
Is anyone surprised that the marxists would align with the terrorists –
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2021/05/18/black-lives-matter-declares-solidarity-palestinians-committed-ending-settler-colonialism/
😉
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Breaking News Huge story !!!
Trump organization now under criminal investigation in New York and Manhattan..
“New York Attorney General Letitia James is joining the Manhattan district attorney’s office in a criminal investigation of the Trump Organization, James’ office said Tuesday.
The attorney general office’s investigation into the Trump Organization, which has been underway since 2019, will also continue as an ongoing civil probe, but the office recently informed Trump Organization officials of the criminal component.
“We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature. We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA,” James’ spokesman Fabien Levy told CNN. “We have no additional comment.”
A lawyer for the Trump Organization declined to comment when reached by CNN.”
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/18/politics/new-york-attorney-general-trump-organization-criminal-probe/index.html
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George
You might recall that I did react to “Dems daily foibles” in the past in 2012 and 2016 when I voted Libertarian in both of those Presidential races. When is the last time you broke ranks and voted for someone other than a Repub for President? Also would you vote for Trump if he were to be the Republican candidate in 2024?
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WHY, WHY, WHY!? @803 How droll.
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Ya just like he would not be sworn in and dozens of your cry wolf stories oh great pony tail of ignorance @738 ROFLOL
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Punchy, let us know when there’s real news with video… That perpwalk you were expecting since feb 2017, maybe…
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In the category of “goombah goombah goombah’:
What is your response to the Trump Organization being notified that the investigation into its financial activities was moving from civil to criminal in nature?
fake news? democrat lies? the deep state? paranoia? innocent until proven guilty? trump is a crook and I finally have to admit it?
lies, impeachment, lies, more lies, the stolen election, even more lies, insurrection, new lies, old lies, criminal investigations …what next? Reality TV has never been this good. Trump is a genius.
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Oh you silly lefties. Trump hired his criminal lawyer 2 weeks ago for the TDS NY thang. Got him by the Oxnards now!
Breaking news?? Breaking news??? I suppose it is breaking news when you are leading from way way behind. Maybe breaking news if you are always 3 steps behind. Wake up and smell the coffee. Ok, how many fingers am I holding up?
Please, please you fine examples of grunt sandwichs…please try to keep up. You are embarrassing yourselves again. And again. Ok, it’s not like this has been the first 200 times.
Yes, there must is a certain comfort for you by being consistently looking like squirrels trying to pass a pinecone. Familiar terrority. And because it’s so familiar to you, it is comforting and indeed your safe place. Peace at last.
The old redhead sea hag Joy Behr on the View (who looked “so adorable” describing herself when she went as a Negro dressed up for a Halloween Party) has been getting her Depends all soaking wet and twisted in knots waiting for Trump and Melania and The Greaser and Ivanka and the entire Trump clan hauled out of the White House in handcuffs. Been breathlessly waiting for that to happen since 2017 with Bobbie echoing every unhinged word. Guess that did not happen. Neither did Trump call our troops who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country in France during WWI as “losers” or Trump is going to declare martial law on the 4th of July and take over the country with tanks rolling down Pennsylvania Ave a couple of 4th of Julys ago. Dat no happen either.
Those manyv tale tales conceived in diabolical lefty melons are so crazy that only the insane would ever actually believe them.
Yo, Earth calling Leftists; is there any sign of intelligent life in your noggins? Rhetorical question. The noose is tightening again. They really mean it this time. Yes, they said it a thousand times before, but it’s really going to happen this time.
Burp.
And I have said a 100 times the reason the conservatives moved out of the outhouse is because Bobbie and the Green Libertarian Socialist Democrat and Joy Reed and Joy Behr and Democracy Now! were making too much noise in the basement.
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Bobbi… yes, the walls are closing in. Wake me when it happens.
I am partial to innocent until proven guilty, especially in alleged financial crimes.
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Gregory
Well the news is so bad for Trump that it will likely disqualify him from running for President again in 2024. That’s really bad new for the Dems since he would be a sure loser if he ran and would extend his losing streak beyond it’s already all time modern history record.
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PaulE 803pm – Spending years daily promoting and hailing all manner of Dems’ perfidies in these pages, and then months/years later quietly claiming to have voted for another party in two elections is what I consider low grade ore as your contributions to exposing the Left’s foibles. Most certainly it doesn’t contribute to the issue debates we have in RR comment streams. But if polls is all you can do, then I guess we’ll have to live with that.
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Posted by: George Rebane | 19 May 2021 at 08:43 AM
But if polls is all you can do, then I guess we’ll have to live with that.
Think of it as having a Parrot.
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George
My 8:43 and the criminal investigatin into the Trump businesses have nothing to do with polls.
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