[If the US was being damaged even a tenth as much as claimed by foreign state-sponsored rogue hackers demanding money, and we did nothing, then we are over as a sovereign nation-state. Rebane Doctrine calls for 10:1 retribution on the infrastructures of such sponsoring states; none of this crap about ‘balanced’, 'measured', or ‘proportional’ responses that we might take some day when we really get pissed off. We’re playing with thugs who worship and understand only force – it’s time to up the ante and convince Russia and China that the price of cyberwarfare just went up. Gjr]
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339 responses to “Sandbox – 19jul21”
That’s the best you can come up with Emery?
Pretty damned lame at best.
I see you whistled past the Biden poll grave site.
I told you once, I’ll tell you again. LIBS don’t criminalize LIBS.. Not even their feral, free range LIBshits.
They can loot, burn and attack cops without prosecution.
Now don’t you have a mule to pleasure somewhere?
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Emery.. “Crack” Hunter Biden is still walking free,, despite LYING on a gun background check form.(FED offence)
Child porn found on HIS laptop. Still working for the RED Chinese… Yet that’s fine and dandy with the Proggy FEDS.
Now witch the names from Hunter Biden to Trump Jr.,, you really think there would be looking the other way? (of course you don’t)
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Ooooh, the walls are closing in on Trump!
Finally, all the ruby slipper heel clicks are paying off!
Punch keys in on indictments and frog walks.
Most adults key on courtroom verdicts.
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Paul, are you saying that there’s no evidence and Hunter Biden cash in on his father’s position in government?
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There are accusations Barry but you as an attorney know the difference between accusations and legally presented evidence. Anybody can accuse anybody of anything. Do family members of Presidents of high level political figures cash in on family connectons? Sure they do. What else in new. Then you get sleazy operations like the Clinton Foundation but there appears to be nothing illegal in that at least enough to have a criminal investigation. So to sum up about Hunter Biden is say what’s new-ho hum.
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Did Emery stay at a Holiday Inn express last night?
He’s trying to play lawyer.
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Something you never see at a Proggy rally.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/07/25/crowd-boos-arizona-sen-ugenti-rita-off-stage-turning-point-rally/
Her chances at re election are slim and none.
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WHO’S PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN?
I don’t know whether these poll data are reproducible, but they are interesting. Most people, first of all, are proud of being Americans. That is a good thing. Conservatives are most proud, but 87% of moderates are proud to be Americans, too.
Hispanics are slightly more proud to be Americans than whites, but Asians, for some reason, are less proud in this survey. Maybe it is a fluke, or maybe quite a few Asians are angry at being discriminated against by institutions like Harvard and Yale, and many less renowned organizations and public bodies.
Basically, the only people who are not very proud to be Americans are “progressive activists.” That, plus Generation Z–no doubt a reflection of our unbelievably bad education system. Those groups are vastly over-represented on Twitter, where journalists and Democratic Party activists go to assess the mood of the American people. Which explains a lot.
Here are the numbers:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/whos-proud-to-be-an-american.php
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The snitch factor
‘The FBI is made of snitches, often trapping Americans into committing crimes’
https://nypost.com/2021/07/24/todays-fbi-of-snitches-often-traps-americans-into-committing-crimes/
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No walt. My statement was incredibly simple not legal talk but you don’t seem to get it. Oh well, who cares.
How about thousands chanting “lock her up” referring to Hillary. Did you support that?
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So when the story is bribery and graft, so long as it is Democrats, it is all good. Nothing new here. Politicians have been ripping people off for years and years and years, and Paul is good with that as well. Paul is a bright example of the left who will turn a blind eye to anything so long as they have power. These are the kinds of people who will allow much worse in the name of power. Lemmings to the slaughter.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 25 July 2021 at 11:23 AM
Oh well, who cares.
You did Friday…….when you were whining.
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I’m not “good with that” Barry. I didn’t vote for Hillary largely because of the Clinto Foundation. Would you vote for Trump next time around?
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Yep. If he is the nominee, I’ll be voting for Trump. That’s no secret. Lol
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Emery will vote party over country every time.
He would vote for Che if he was alive and on the ticket.
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They bought the lies and now know what creepy grampa joe is all about under the control of the socialists. Kiss the mid terms goodbye –
As President Joe Biden completed 100 days in office, the country was optimistic about the coming year, but now, just after hitting the six-month mark, Americans’ optimism about the direction of the country has plummeted nearly 20 points, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds.
A majority — 55% — of the public say they are pessimistic about the direction of the country, a marked change from the roughly one-third (36%) that said the same in an ABC News/Ipsos poll published May 2. In the early May survey, Americans were more optimistic than pessimistic by a 28-percentage point margin. Optimism is now under water by 10 points. Looking ahead to the next 12 months, fewer than half — 45% — now report feeling optimistic about the way things are going, a significant drop from about two-thirds (64%) in the May poll
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/americans-optimism-countrys-direction-over-110100639.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink
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That forgetfulness working again Emery?
Now why were they chanting “lock her up”? Could it be for the laws she broke? Forget the illegal computer server in her possession? Lying about Benghazi?
Breach of national security?
“Gross negligence”( a crime in the legal sense) gets “redefined” for just her, into “extremely careless”.(apparently not a crime) You kill someone and try that. Oh… Forget who she killed Emery? He came from right here. He was an ambassador.. That jog your memory any?
Then there was Billy taking trips on “Pediflight 1”.
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She was not indicted of arrested Walt. Do you believe that she and others should be put behind bars (locked up) without an investigation, indictment, trial and guilty verdict?
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Don
Still much better than Trump at the end of his term.
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You’re wrong Walt. Didn’t vote for Obama 2nd time or Hillary in ’16. Would you vote for Trump again?
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Still nagged by that comprehension issue oh great pony tail of ignorance. Thats not what 1229 is about.
😉
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You’re wrong Walt. Didn’t vote for Obama 2nd time or Hillary in ’16. Would you vote for Trump again?
Now we are getting down to what this really is all about. Tear of another layers of clothes. LeTs see it! TDS vs The Viking Man, mono e mono.
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George writes:
PaulE 815am – “Do you really believe the ‘one hundred police injured’ story? this is from unnder oath testimony concerning the incident,”
“These were among the claims laid out in a scathing statement Wednesday by Gus Papathanasiou, chairman of the Capitol Police Labor Committee, the officers’ union, in response to the acting chief’s disclosure Tuesday that her department had “failed” to protect the Capitol from a pro-Trump mob attack. Nearly 140 officers from the Capitol Police and the D.C. Metropolitan Police departments were injured during the attack, Papathanasiou said.
Officers maced, trampled: Docs expose depth of Jan. 6 chaos
AP NEWS
By MARTHA MENDOZA and JULIET LINDERMANMarch 10, 2021
FILE – In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, U.S. Capitol Police push back rioters trying to enter the U.S. Capitol in Washington. A former State Department aide in President Donald Trump’s administration has been charged with participating in the deadly siege at the Capitol. Court papers say Federico Klein was seen wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat amid the throng of people trying to force their way into the Capitol. Authorities say Klein pushed his way toward the doors, where “he physically and verbally engaged” with officers trying to keep the mob back. Klein resigned from his position on Jan. 19, the day before Joe Biden was sworn in as president. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
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FILE – In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, U.S. Capitol Police push back rioters trying to enter the U.S. Capitol in Washington. A former State Department aide in President Donald Trump’s administration has been charged with participating in the deadly siege at the Capitol. Court papers say Federico Klein was seen wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat amid the throng of people trying to force their way into the Capitol. Authorities say Klein pushed his way toward the doors, where “he physically and verbally engaged” with officers trying to keep the mob back. Klein resigned from his position on Jan. 19, the day before Joe Biden was sworn in as president. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Two firefighters loaned to Washington for the day said they were the only medics on the Capitol steps Jan. 6, trying to triage injured officers as they watched the angry mob swell and attack police working to protect Congress.
Law enforcement agents were “being pulled into the crowd and trampled, assaulted with scaffolding materials, and/or bear maced by protesters,” wrote Arlington County firefighter Taylor Blunt in an after-action memo. Some couldn’t walk, and had to be dragged to safety.
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Even the attackers sought medical help, and Blunt and his colleague Nathan Waterfall treated those who were passing out or had been hit. But some “feigned illness to remain behind police lines,” Blunt wrote.
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The memo is one of hundreds of emails, texts, photos and documents obtained by The Associated Press. Taken together, the materials shed new light on the sprawling patchwork of law enforcement agencies that tried to stop the siege and the lack of coordination and inadequate planning that stymied their efforts.
https://apnews.com/article/docs-expose-depth-january-6-capitol-siege-chaos-fd3204574c11e453be8fb4e3c81258c3
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Did you vote for Trump, Punch? Who has bigger hands. You or Trump?
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That’s just a couple of article out of dozens that recall the situation Capitol Police faced on Jan 6
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Hat tip to Gregory ……I think you nailed it with your guess….that Steveniglio Frigli is indeed the Unions latest commenting poseur.
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WHO ARE THE TWO BIGGEST SCOUNDRELS AMONG DEMOCRATS?
I don’t know. That covers a lot of territory. But if we limit the inquiry to very famous Democrats, the answer might be Andrew Cuomo and Hunter Biden.
They have much in common. Both are sons of very famous fathers. Neither, in all likelihood, would have become prominent but for what their fathers accomplished. That’s certainly the case with Hunter Biden.
Both are the subject of sex scandals, albeit of somewhat different sorts. Andrew Cuomo has been accused of sexual harassment by several women who worked in his administration.
Hunter Biden apparently was a fixture in the VIP lounges of various D.C. “gentlemen’s clubs” where, allegedly, he did crack cocaine with strippers. One stripper says he fathered her child.
And both Cuomo and Biden are under federal investigation.
Cuomo got off the hook to some extent last week when the Biden Justice Department dropped its investigation into COVID-19 deaths at New York’s state-run nursing homes. This was (or would have been) a civil rights investigation under CRIPA, the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act.
I don’t know whether the DOJ’s decision not to press forward with this investigation was justified. For all I know, it might have been. However, I have no confidence that the Biden DOJ made this decision based on the law and the facts. More likely, the decisions was based on politics.
Cuomo is not home and dry, however. Federal prosecutors apparently are still investigating whether the Cuomo administration obstructed justice in its response to a Justice Department request for information about nursing home deaths from the Wuhan virus. I discussed that matter here.
In addition, according to this report, federal prosecutors in New York City are believed to be investigating a state policy in March 2020 that pressed nursing homes to accept COVID-positive residents.
I suspect that the feds will decline to prosecute Cuomo. However, he must still worry about investigations reportedly being conducted by his political rival, Letitia James, New York’s attorney general. She is said to be looking into the sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo, as well the $5 million he received in exchange for writing a book about the state’s COVID response.
As for the Hunter Biden investigation, mum’s the word (as it should be at this point). I would be surprised if anything comes of it while Joe Biden is president, but we’ll see.
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THE MARK OF KLAIN
Matt Continetti takes us behind the curtain in his column “The mark of Klain.” The column is worth reading in its entirety. However, he buries a nugget that belies the farcically self-proclaimed most ethical administration in history in re: the return of the swamp. I found this of particular interest:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/the-mark-of-klain.php
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Exit question: Have any of your appreciated readers been following the massive demonstrations against vaccine passports across Europe? Yuge crowds. Mind blogging. Germany, France, Italy, big ones in Merry-O-England and more. Yuge. 100s of thousands. Like, why isn’t our Lamestream media covering it? Maybe FB is blocking it. MAGA Crowds. Need drones to capture it. Looks like V-E day when the streets where filled in NYC…except the confetti. Conservatives, liberals, common folk and uncommon folk all demostrating in a rather cacophonous voice.
Just wondering. I didn’t think so. Nothing to see here but a 900 pound gorilla in the room. Make that an elephant. It’s like spontaneous combustion. Must be AstroTurf.
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PaulE 222pm – We can all get beyond ‘belief’ if they release the 14,000 hrs of security videos that saw it all. Do you know why they don’t do it?
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Why isn’t this cultural appropriation?!?!
I’m sure the deeply caring will be by shortly to explain why this is completely acceptable?! Steveniglio, Punchy, Lady Roberta of Menopause…….anyone???
https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Bay-Area-Indian-pizza-chain-Fremont-16330074.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight
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This could go about anywhere. Unification? Comply or you will be branded with the Scarlet R.
THE TELOS OF LEFTIST RACIAL IDEOLOGY
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/the-telos-of-leftist-racial-ideology.php
“Another lesson that when it comes to the left, what begins as satire soon becomes reality.”
I guess why that is the reason the Babylon gets fact checked so much. The satire publication’s articles appear so close to the truth that people think, “I bet that could happen”. Or could have happened.
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George
How will more video change the graphic realties of a violent breakin at the Capitol in the videos already released? Do you believe that the breakin and riot was indeed full of “love” as Trump describes it?
“Trump tells his violent supporters who stormed the Capitol ‘you’re very special,’ but asks them ‘to go home’”
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-video-statement-capitol-rioters-we-love-you-very-special-2021-1
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PaulE 902am – How will the release of 14,000 hours of security video NOT continue to support the cherry-picked security videos that have been released? If they do support the already released videos, then why not make them available?
Do you see the selective blindness that lamestream consuming liberals suffer from? You and your kind are not even curious about the content of the 14K videos, or why they have not been released. This is an example of compliance of the converted that Marx wrote about and today’s neo-Marxist Dems continue to promote.
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‘Biden Cancels Trump DHS Proposal Targeting Terrorists, Spies’
“The regulation, opponents most frequently complained, ‘would significantly burden’ them with extra cost and time, would discriminate based on nationality, and would deny them access to ‘immigration benefits.’”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-cancels-trump-dhs-proposal-targeting-terrorists-spies
Aha! Deny foreign students on two year visas to study at expensive universities access to immigration benefits? Sounds like they want to stay in the USA after college…or drop out and disappear into our populous and collect freebies. What about terrorists and spies of foreign governments?
I give Biden an F on Homeland Security as well as National Security.
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Not sure what they could contain that would make material difference to the facts at hand that there was a violent break in at the Capitol and private offices were invaded with many injuries to police. George, your Marx shtick is getting a bit monotonous and certainly doesn’t apply here. People with their own videos of the event are free to do what they want with them as many have. Certainly no evidence of the love-in Trump describes so far.
Why can’t they be released as a FOIA request?
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George, your Marx shtick is getting a bit monotonous and certainly doesn’t apply here.
Says the guy who just can’t get through his day without a poll!
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Says the resident Marxist.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/26/democrats-fed-election-integrity-laws-18-states/
“We in deep 💩 come the mid terms”.
” It will me much harder to cheat!”
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George
do you realize that 14000 hours of video amounts to 583 days of video 24 hours a day. I’m sure you could carve out a love fest out of that if that’s what you want to do. How do you propose that should be made available to the public?
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When it walks like a Marxist, talks like a Marxist, behaves like a Marxist, …
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PaulE 1122am – I don’t have to propose any such thing. That is the responsibility of Nancy Pelosi and her Capitol Police.
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Well, they have been properly labeled the ‘Glum Lot’ for years and for very a very good reason.
It fits like a glove.
‘White Fragility’ Author Robin DiAngelo: Comedy ‘An Excuse To Be Racist’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-fragility-author-robin-diangelo-comedy-an-excuse-to-be-racist
How would you like to be at a party with her standing close by. No thanks.
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George
So you contend that Nancy Pelosi and the Capitol Police whould make nearly two years of video available to the public?
Also are you saying I’m a Marxist George? (11:34)
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Here’s a quote from Trump supporting those who fought police and smashed in locked doors in their breaakin of the Capitol
“Trump tells his violent supporters who stormed the Capitol ‘you’re very special,’ but asks them ‘to go home’”
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-video-statement-capitol-rioters-we-love-you-very-special-2021-1
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The Left is pretty much the NeoMarxist party now Emery. Have you torn up your membership card yet?
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Who would have expected the chi coms to find a new way to buy off the bidens –
The art dealer representing the president’s son has longstanding ties to China and said in 2015 that he wanted to be the art world’s “lead guy in China.”
Georges Berges, who is representing Hunter Biden as he ventures into the art world, has talked about his business dealings in China in the past, but his reported ties could pose an ethics issue as he sells Biden’s art to anonymous buyers.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-art-georges-berges-china
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Can you define Neo-Marxism Walt? Not sure what you’re talking about. Here is a defination of Marxism according to Oxford dictionary
“the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the basis for the theory and practice of communism.”
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=marxism+definition
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PaulE 1237pm – Neo-Marxism is the 21st century version of Marxism espoused and practiced in the radical wing of the Democratic Party by individuals such as Sanders, Warren, the Squad, …, and organizations such as BLM and Antifa. Neo-Marxism is a common concept long discussed in centrist and conservative literature and media, and completely blacked out in the leftwing lamestream media. Save in academia, the notion of social orders labeled Marxist are still noxious to most Americans, therefore the label cannot yet be connected with the Democratic Party in the public forum. You, of course, given your media consumption proclivities, have most likely never heard of neo-Marxism, hence your query.
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Back at you Emery. Explain how that is not happening today.
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George
I wanted to know Walts definition so I could understand the context as to what he’s talking about. So it sounds like Neo-marxism may or may not have any connection with Marxism (capitol letter) as described by Marx. So according to you anybody can be a Marxist if they believe in Social Security or health care for all for example. How about my friends in Denmark? Are they Marxist because they support the Danish Government with high taxation and free education for all?. Pretty much free through a bachelor degree. The rest depends on your academic achievements. Here you have to go into massive debt unless you are from a privileged family.
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