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[Been on travel the past week with connectivity a sometime thing.  Will be home soon, so everyone try to keep a lid on it until then.  Anyone know who is the foul-mouthed jerk ‘Donny Jr’?  gjr]

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380 responses to “Sandbox – 14aug22”

  1. fish Avatar
    fish

    UNEXPECTEDLY! The White House Claimed It Had No Prior Knowledge of the Raid on Donald Trump’s House. The White House, Once Again, Lied.
    No complaints about lying from the White House this time it seems.
    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/biden-white-house-facilitated-dojs-criminal-probe-against-trump

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Yelp Flags Crisis Pregnancy Centers for Not Killing Babies’
    For the abortion-worshipping left, every live baby is a missed opportunity. For every unterminated pregnancy there’s a woman who can no longer have a big powerful career, carefree autonomy and meaningless casual sex. It’s a feminist nightmare.
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/matt-philbin/2022/08/23/yelp-flags-crisis-pregnancy-centers-not-killing-babies
    ——————-
    ‘Maddow Gushes Over Fauci: There’s Never Been Anyone Like Him!’
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2022/08/22/maddow-gushes-over-fauci-theres-never-been-anyone-him
    ———————-
    ‘WashPost Is Upset DeSantis Wants to Keep Murderers, Sex Criminals From Voting’
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2022/08/23/washpost-upset-desantis-wants-keep-murderers-sex-criminals-voting
    Best line: “The Post explained that their gripe derived in part from the fact that “the tiny number of cases brought so far underscores the paucity of voter fraud” and excused away the actions of the defendants due to what they speculated was some confusion:”
    Hmm. “what they SPECULATED was some confusion:”

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  3. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bill 12:49
    Most of the debt was a combination of the debts during Trumps 4 years and financial commitments that Biden inherited from Trump’ I recall when Trump came into office George and the other RR’s claimed he had no responsibilities for the first years debt because it was the result of Obama’s tenure.

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    that was a nice talk.

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  5. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    2020 mail in ballots just arrived in Baltimore from the post office to the voter.
    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/baltimore-post-office-discovers-2020-mail-ballots
    But elections are secure and 2020 was the best ever. Lol.

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So farmers, truck drivers and amazon workers have to pay for rich folks student loans!?! –
    Student loan cancellation could cost $900B and favor top earners, analysis shows
    Penn Wharton: Majority of student loan debt forgiven would boost top earners
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/student-loan-cancellation-could-cost-900b-favor-wealthy-americans-analysis-shows
    😉

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Student loans: one third of the adults in our country have a college degree. The mantra has been all my life has been to go to college and you will receive in turn higher earnings than someone with no degree.
    So, that means the vast majority of adults who did not go to college are stuck with paying off the debt of the minority of Americans who are higher wage earners? WTF is that all about?
    The ones who are screwed are the college dropouts who took out loans. They did not receive the benefit of higher lifetime earnings via a degree, are not eligible for student loan relief, and are stuck paying both their student loans and paying off the prep school kids’ college loans when they graduate. Ouch.
    AOC drives me nuts. I wish I had a dollar for every time she has mentioned her college loan debt of $17,000. She makes $174,000 a year, bought a new Tesla (because it’s the only EV at time of purchase that old make it DC to NYC without a recharge) and still keeps talking about her $17,000 student debt. After a few years of talking about her still $17,000 student loan debt, one would think she would take a measles five grand and pay it down.
    But, noooo. New car, fancy nice DC apartment, nice NY apartment, good pay, and must of taken the temporary freeze on paying back student loans cause she still owes the same amount as she did pre-pandemic.
    Me thinks Congresswoman AOC does not pay off or down her Federal loan because she likes to keep it as a crutch to ail about debt forgiveness. She definitely is NOT like her mother or father.
    When AOC’s father became and died, AOC’s mother went to the bank for some help. The bank worked with the widow, made some temporary payment plan, put her nose to the grindstone and in time paid off the mortgage herself…with children. That showed character and both AOC’s parents had to learn how to speak English to get ahead.
    AOC certainly is an apple who fell far from the tree. Mercy. Wants the government to forgive her loans and also reroof her grandmother’s very nice upper middle class home in Puerto Rica.
    At least Stacy Abrams paid off her loans in full, , which were about $170, 000. Lots of money to be made in the poverty industry. Mega money..

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    POWER LINE’S LEXICON OF LEFTIST TERMS, UPDATE 2
    Some new definitions of popular lefty terms have reached us, and I thought it is high time to update the whole list, since it is such a handy reference. We’ve got new definitions for “woke” and “nationalism,” among others. Herewith:
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/08/power-lines-lexicon-of-leftist-terms-update-2.php

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    An indication that messing with folks kids is a big no way jose from parents to wokesters –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/23/leftists-crushed-school-boards-across-florida/
    😉

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So the dems say things are wonderful yet we face blackouts and these stores are suddenly proliferating. Granny eating dog food again like the peanut farmers economy writ large by creepy grampa joes destruction of our standards of living –
    https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/inflation-salvage-food-stores-dented-dated-items-traction
    😉

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 7:43 pm
    Bravo, bravo to the forgotten people.
    ———————-
    Turn the clock back 24 hours and if you lived in NY’s 12th Congressional District, who would you vote for? The Monocle Man or The Blonde?
    Carolyn Maloney rips Jerry Nadler as ‘senile’ to close nasty NY-12 primary fight
    https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/carolyn-maloney-rips-jerry-nadler-as-senile-to-close-ny-12-primary-fight/
    Another view:
    https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/CM-scaled.jpg?
    https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/107107831-1661254485935-gettyimages-1242644653-NY_POL089_082122.jpeg?
    ————
    Miss me yet?
    ‘No One Misses Biden or Karine Jean-Pierre’s Briefings, Huh?’
    https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/no-one-misses-biden-or-karine-jean-pierres-briefings-huh/

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    OH YA, she would have had a way worse outcome if it were not for the meddling dems but OH OH –
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/new-poll-indicates-a-liz-cheney-presidential-run-would-hurt-biden-more-than-trump-162214168.html
    😉

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 9:05 pm
    Yes! The Dent Can store is back! For those who may not remember, stores like the Grocery Outlet in the beginning were affectionally called by my contemporaries ‘Dent Can Stores’. And GO and those other outlets that stocked canned goods and supplies involved in train wrecks (salvaged goods) certainly had a bunch of dent canned peaches . Sort of like Harbor Freight’s roots.
    To be fair, the Grocery Outlet has straightened out its act and dent cans are not only no longer prevalent, they are quite hard to find. While calling the G Outlet (and other stores that have disappeared over time) ‘dent can stores’ May no longer be accurate, the Grocery Outlet will always be the dent can store to me.

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  14. fish Avatar
    fish

    All looking good for the brainstem in the White House……..

    “Tsunami Of Shutoffs”: 20 Million US Homes Are Behind On Power Bills

    ….can you say coattails? I knew you could!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/tsunami-shutoffs-20-million-us-homes-are-behind-energy-bills

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  15. fish Avatar
    fish

    Chicago Mayor Lightfoot blasts ad that ‘darkens’ her image…
    If I were Mayor Lightfoot I would be more concerned that every photo makes me look like Admiral “Its a trap” Ackbar late of Star Wars fame!
    https://www.looper.com/391566/the-touching-meaning-behind-admiral-ackbars-character-design/

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  16. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Toes 828a
    Gross me outlet, barfing market
    Lowest price fresh eggsies in town

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gregory @11:00 am
    They don’t K-Mart ‘Come Apart” fer nuthin’. It’s a curse.
    ———————————
    Lest We Forget….
    If This FBI Spy’s Scorched-Earth Legal Strategy Backfires, He’ll Finally Pay For Russia Hoaxing’
    This would be quite the turnabout given that for more than five years Halper has avoided indictment for lying to the FBI.
    https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/24/if-this-fbi-spys-scorched-earth-legal-strategy-backfires-hell-finally-pay-for-russia-hoaxing/
    A theory behind the timing of the RAID is the Durham methodical target of the bigger and bigger fish. He doesn’t care about small fry convictions or Sussman walking free as a bird. No, each step along the way he is gathering more and more information on what players were involved in the Russian Collusion Hoax (Trump is a Russian spy, a traitor,)and of course SPYGATE where a current Administration spied on an opposing candidate during a Presidential election and afterwards. All to frame an innocent man.
    Trump has all the goods and what he don’t have, Durham does. Trump is really for revenge and Durham is seeking Justice for harm done. Me thinks it is not Hillary that is the target, but Obama and names we are not familiar with.
    With folks not believing the spin doctors in media nor trust the FBI and various government agencies and spokespuppets, it was a panic move by ‘them’ to call for the RAID because the tools in their toolbox just don’t tighten the nuts like they used to.
    We are witnessing the “Deep State” running scared shitless for the first time I can remember. They are acting like panicked drowning men and they don’t have the time or luxury of doing their evil in the shadows. They are being smoked out into the daylight where more and more regular folks can’t help but notice.
    Exciting times bro.

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    No matter how hard I try….I will never achieve the levels of snark like Iowahawk does.
    …..sigh.

    Given that for over a century, the Democrats’ organizing principle has been the Moral Equivalent of War, the connection between 9/11, COVID and stiffing the taxpayers for student debt it must have seemed logical in President Klain’s mind. In any case, as Iowahawk tweets, “Thank god we’re finally addressing the plight of America’s most disadvantaged community, Harvard Law graduates.”

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Iowahawk? The Hawkeye State. What about the Showme State? You show me yours and I will show you mine.
    ‘Radical Gender Theory Comes to the Heartland’
    A Missouri school district promotes the idea that “gender is a universe.”
    https://www.city-journal.org/radical-gender-theory-comes-to-the-heartland

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    States rights.
    Kenosha Pledges To Stop Using Ballot Drop Boxes After Wisconsin Supreme Court Ruled They’re Illegal
    https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/24/kenosha-pledges-to-stop-using-ballot-drop-boxes-after-wisconsin-supreme-court-ruled-theyre-illegal/

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  21. fish Avatar
    fish

    Macron warns ‘sacrifices’ ahead after ‘end of abundance’
    For you he means. There will be no change in his $10,000/month makeup budget. After all…..its important for a progressive man to feel pretty.
    https://www.france24.com/en/video/20220824-macron-warns-sacrifices-ahead-after-end-of-abundance
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/25/french-president-macron-has-spent-30000-on-makeup-services-in-just-3-months/

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    California State Water Board Tells Ranchers To Stop Taking Water For Agriculture
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-state-water-board-tells-ranchers-to-stop-taking-water-for-agriculture

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    lol. Truer words were never spoken.
    “Bring on the food trucks,” Grass Valley City Councilwoman Hilary Hodge said during Tuesday evening’s council meeting.
    One is too many, one hundred is never enough.

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Lol. Where do they find these wack jobs?
    DEMOCRACY FOR AMERICA’ CEO YVETTE SIMPSON: ‘I THINK THE TIDE IS TURNING ON INFLATION BEING A MAJOR ISSUE FOR FOLKS’
    ‘The threat to democracy is actually more of a concern than cost of living for people right now’
    https://news.grabien.com/story-democracy-america-ceo-yvette-simpson-i-think-tide-turning-in
    “I think” is were her flaw begins.

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Will the Republicans really win back the Congress?’ Victor Davis Hansen
    https://jewishworldreview.com/0822/hanson082522.php

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  26. fish Avatar
    fish

    Many leftists tout Canada’s socialized health care system as something America should emulate, claiming government-run health care is more humane. But it seems Canadian officials are more interested in urging doctors to help patients to kill themselves than to treat them.
    How does this make me feel…..? How does this make me feel?
    Makes me feel great…that’s how it makes me feel!
    Next time psul goes on at length about how great government health care is he can take his own advice and go to Canada instead of Denmark for the euthanasia. The savings on the travel alone should pay for the drugs they use to kill him!
    A win/win!
    https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/08/24/canada-is-euthanizing-its-sick-and-poor-welcome-to-world-of-government-health-care/

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  27. fish Avatar
    fish

    The following is not a political endorsement….

    Cynthia Hren: Vote for Kevin Kiley

    I was just thinking that with the comments section going away over at the Pennysaver of the Pines now might be an opportune time to invite some of the locals who were happy to work out their personal issues in a spittle flecked rage at letters like that submitted by Ms. Hren to RR’s where their positions could be more closely examined. psul is sadly in reruns all the time these days with his “Orange Man Bad Flower Power Hour” and a little fresh progressive blood might liven matters up a bit. Lord knows the Jensen’s M, Cooke’s Cheryl, and Alfreds et al. are probably going through commenting withdrawal right about now!
    Can you offer them any relief?
    What say you George…..time for an open invitation for your local crazies to join your extant cast of irregulars?

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Fish @9:07 AM.
    re: withdraws
    I know full well that the closed comment section is for my own good. Too much time wasted with the those older libs who are up here in God’s Country, miles away from the stink and everything is well and dandy. They do not even know what the Dem Party actually stands for in 2022, and seem to fall in line and agree with the new far left advocates. Anyway.
    It will be rather nice not hearing Kenny Johnston and the gang bashing Jo Anne when she writes her next column. That must them hurt bad, lol. Bigley bad. Foaming at the mouth and getting even retired Mr. Howell to chime in with agreement that they can’t believe The Union wastes it time to publish such rubbish. Then they gather around Jo Anne’s or George’s head on a stair and start chanting, “Kill the Beast, Kill the Beast. Book burner!
    Oh, they follow us alright. I started calling Psul and the Dems “The puritans” here and some dickhead fires a letter that it’s us science deniers who are the Puritans that want to force women to have babies with spousal abusers….who watch Faux News, not the Dems!
    They are just going to have to do it the old fashioned way. Next time Manny writes his piece, they are going to sit down and fire off an angry e-Mail to Hits & Misses…or a letter to the editor.
    August 17. Four comments to about Thea. Four! Usually 1 or 2. Humans adapt. I included a non-Thea ‘Miss’ as the first entry because it’s about….you know who. Just the mention of his name sets them off.
    MISS (from reader Margaret Munson): To twice-impeached ex-President Donald Trump, who if he cared about the American people, or even just his cult, would issue a plea that there be no more violence and no more bloodshed. But he will not do that because his immature ego requires chaos, no matter the cost. Why did he take classified papers to Mar-a-Lago ? The answers will be: for his betterment and our detriment.
    MISS (from reader Frank Williford): To Editorial Board member Thea Hood, for claiming that the Biden Administration raided former President Donald Trump’s residence. The search of Mr. Trump’s residence was conducted pursuant to a valid search warrant issued by a judge, carried out by the FBI, with the approval of the Justice Department, all without any involvement of the current administration. To suggest otherwise is to promote yet another Big Lie.
    MISS (from reader from Michael Ireland): To Thea Hood. In response to a “Miss” concerning the search by the FBI at Trump’s residence, I’d like to offer the following comments. First off, I appreciate Ms. Hood’s political perspective derived from her Zimbabwe experience and her concern that the U.S. not use similar tyrannical tactics. But, come on….there is no comparison between what is suggested and the legal process with which the Justice Department deemed a search was necessary.
    MISS (from reader Kim Reed-Jones): Thea Hood should take an afternoon drive to Lake Oroville and take a look. Afterward, maybe meet up with Brian Dahle and check out Lake Shasta. Seems like her “HIT” and “MISS” got mixed up.
    Thank you Union for saving me from myself.

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 25 August 2022 at 10:10 AM
    I had forgotten about Rich “as an educator” Howell…..dang!
    Despite your concerns William the opportunities for “dialogue” are intriguing!
    We have any Brother Ben Emery sightings recently? He dropped by briefly after Todd passed and disappeared as quickly as he returned.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ok, three Thea comments. Gravitational force.
    fish on the TV dinner tray:
    The new reader is watching us. Should we pretend to be something we are not? “Rebane’s blog? I have been to that cesspool. Cesspool.” Hmmm. And lived to tell about it. Lotta dickheads waddling around the comments section without the decency to wear a big condemn to cover their melons.
    But, of course Punchy gets old and ever so boring, especially when his mind gets stuck on the endless loop playing 24/7 inside there. Sometimes the noise in Punchy’s noggin starts to bother me. Rope-a-Dipe or not, he is ending up more like Ali in the Champ’s final days than Ali when he floated like a butterfly and stung like a be. Heck, Boring Paul even told us to address him as Psul Emery, lol.
    Fresh faces, new ideas are fine and welcomed. The Union is not the place to find new ideas or fresh faces.

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  31. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 25 August 2022 at 10:39 AM
    The new reader is watching us. Should we pretend to be something we are not? “Rebane’s blog? I have been to that cesspool. Cesspool.” Hmmm. And lived to tell about it. Lotta dickheads waddling around the comments section without the decency to wear a big condemn to cover their melons.

    Ah yes…..Mr. Jones……or “Pelline Lite” as I prefer to think of him. He too would find respite on these pages.

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  32. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Wow !!!
    Fetterman up by 8 over the Oz in Penn.
    Great pick Trump…Thanks. The loser keeps on losing
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/pa/pennsylvania_senate_oz_vs_fetterman-7695.html

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  33. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 1225p
    The polls don’t open for a couple of months, Grasshopper.
    And by likely voters, the spread is about 4. Plenty of time for Oz’s staff to get their act together and for Fetterman to lose more working brain cells.

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  34. George Rebane Avatar

    All are always welcome in the comment streams of RR, and even as byline authors to do more serious venting of their POVs.

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  35. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    As of now Fetterman up by 8 over the Oz in Penn in RCP consensus polls. That is a fact.

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  36. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy 210p
    It is a fact that the RCP “consensus”polls are made up of some polls of all registered voters, and others that are choosing “likely voters”. The polls of LV have the race pegged at 4.
    The RV tallies are there to give you something to rave about. A blend that satisfies the customer.
    Fetterman is a Bernie Bro with a stroke. I suspect the shine will be off by November.

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    HAVE LIBERALS NO SHAME?
    Well, we all know the answer to that question. But I confess to being a bit shocked by this: liberals in San Francisco and Los Angeles are capitalizing on the Uvalde shootings to urge residents not to move to Texas:
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/08/have-liberals-no-shame.php

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  38. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Those polls are what they are Gregory and show Fetterman up by eight. You can make what you will of them.

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  39. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The poll that skews the blended total for Fetterman by 13 is an amateur collegiate poll from Pennsylvania… they also called the state to go for Hillary by 11 in 2016.
    It went to Trump by .7%. Ooops.
    https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/pennsylvania
    This is what comes of you being blind, punch.

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  40. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    That’s one source that RCP, a conservative web site, uses as a poll in it’s consensus averaging.

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  41. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    By the way Gregory Fox has Fetterman up by 11. Here’s a link for you to check out.

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    No wonder Mark Levine has been saying for years that the NYT is full of anti-Semites. He has given tons of examples and add more to the long list.
    The Time’s editors, their writers, the comments they make at other venues…..wonder why they even bother to fire them. They would lose 1/2 their writers and department heads if they fired all the anti-semites at the Old Grey Lady.
    ‘Two more NYT Palestinian freelancers caught praising Hitler, terrorists after paper cut ties with another’
    Multiple NY Times freelancers reporting on the Israel-Gaza conflict have a history of making anti-Semitic posts
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/two-more-nyt-palestinian-freelancers-caught-praising-hitler-terrorists-after-paper-cut-ties-another?intcmp=tw_fnc

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘The Line Between Anti-Racism and Racism Keeps Getting Fainter’
    How an antisemitic bigot named Laith Marouf built a lucrative career as a Canadian government-funded ‘anti-racist’
    https://quillette.com/2022/08/25/the-increasingly-blurry-line-between-anti-racism-and-racism/

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  44. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 438p
    So what? Fox’s polls aren’t anything special.

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  45. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    What poll is “something special” Gregory? You infer there must be some.

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  46. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy, two of the four recent polls in the realclearpolitics blender were of Likely Voters. Both had Oz down by 4.
    Go look.

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  47. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Good bye Mary Poppins. It’s official this time.
    DHS Axes Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board After MRC Exposed Soros Link
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/joseph-vazquez/2022/08/25/dhs-abolishes-orwellian-disinformation-governance-board

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  48. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 25 August 2022 at 04:38 PM
    Wait…..Fetterman…..the one who lived off his parents money until he was nearly 50? That Fetterman?
    No wonder psul likes him…..kindred spirits.

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