Sandbox - 19aug20

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Here's one to ruminate on.

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1296115228896182273

The thing is, CRT is like a roach. If you see one instance, there's a hundred.

[D]

Inhabitants of this blog would do well to attend the next Sandia, white male, re-education camps.

[D]

Trump true believers are starting to suffer from PTSD = Post Trump Stress Disorder now that Trump Barge is listing to starboard.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-19/trump-s-goodyear-boycott-rant-is-particularly-shortsighted?srnd=opinion

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You know, the funny thing about white male, re-education camps is that the main side effect will be to turn a whole generation of white males into the thing they are accused of being. Prior to this whole religious movement, they were essentially oblivious to ethnicity (except for the unfortunates who end up in jail of course).

It should be interesting.

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There's something to be said for home schooling.

https://twitter.com/unsafespace/status/1288194448975736832

[Don Bessee]

Someone has an enthusiasm problem -

Democratic convention draws 18.7 million TV viewers, down 28% from 2016

https://www.yahoo.com/news/democratic-convention-draws-18-7-185934250.html

;-)

[fish]

Posted by: D | 19 August 2020 at 12:33 PM

Inhabitants of this blog would do well to attend the next Sandia, white male, re-education camps.

dugsKKKi….is that you?

[Paul Emery]

George

So it appears that we may have a Constitutional crisis if Trump decides to challenge the election results and refuses to leave office. What are your thoughts about this? I am first to admit I am not a constitutional expert that some on this blog claim to be. This is a major issue.

[Scott O]

Paul - "So it appears that we may have a Constitutional crisis if Trump decides to challenge the election results and refuses to leave office."

Poor Paul - it must suck to live your life in fear of fabricated problems.

The Tangerine Terror is inside of Paul's head 24/7.

[fish]

Posted by: Paul Emery | 19 August 2020 at 02:09 PM

This is a major issue.

This is how I know that “this isn’t a major issue”.

(Ostentatious “pearl clutching” with vague open ended question to follow.)

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Yeah George! This completely ginned up controversy where Trump might not leave office is a major issue! Some commentators, a crazy lawyer, and a member of the House said so!

Paul, why don't you dig a little deeper up your ass for a topic next time.

[George Rebane]

PaulE 209pm - Were Trump to contest the election, it would indeed become a constitutional crisis. But that’s why the Founders invented SCOTUS. It would be up to them to adjudicate the matter, declaring the winner, calling for a new election, or something else. However, I wouldn’t worry too much about it. The Dems have been contesting Trump’s election for almost four years now, and all they’ve been able to achieve is hobble the administration of a duly elected president and thereby harm the country along with setting a very destructive precedent for the future. But no constitutional crisis yet.

[Scott O]

D(uh) 12:33 - "Inhabitants of this blog would do well to attend the next Sandia, white male, re-education camps."
Wouldn't that be a hoot?
I'd bring a cooler with some adult refreshments and ask questions like: 'do white women trannies have to get re-educated to free themselves from white male toxicity'?

[Paul Emery]

You're confusing two different issue George. I'm surprised you took the bait on that one. Exactly what is it that the Dems did that was unconstitutional in their resistance to Trump and exactly how was it different than the Repubs futile attempt to impeach Clinton?

[Paul Emery]

RE SCenes 2:30

These are the exact words of White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany to the question as to what Trump would if he was defeated in the election “The president has always said he’ll see what happens and make a determination in the aftermath,”

He has responded several times in the same way to that question.

[Don Bessee]

OUCH!

DNC Ratings for 2nd Night Plummet 48% from 2016

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/19/dnc-ratings-for-2nd-night-plummet-48-from-2016/

Joe Biden’s lead over Donald Trump in the national popular vote in the 2020 presidential election has virtually evaporated just days after the former vice president named Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as his running mate because of a significant decline in support from black and Hispanic voters, according to a poll released by CNN on Sunday evening.

Ten percent of black and Hispanic voters have changed their support from Biden to Trump in just two months.

This decline in support for Biden and increase in support for Trump among black and Hispanic voters has caused Biden’s lead among registered voters to drop from 14 points — 55 percent to 41 percent — in the same nationwide poll conducted for CNN by SSRS in June, to four percent — 50 percent to 46 percent — in the nationwide poll of 987 registered voters conducted for CNN by SSRS between August 12 and August 15. The poll has a margin of error of four percent, which means the race for president is now a statistical tie.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/19/rrasmussen-poll-bidens-lead-over-trump-falls-2-points-after-naming-kamala-harris-running-mate/

[Paul Emery]

Here's another response from Trump to the same question asked on FOX News:

“I have to see,” he told interviewer Chris Wallace. “I’m not going to just say ‘yes.’ I’m not going to say ‘no,’ and I didn’t last time either.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-could-happen-if-donald-trump-rejects-electoral-defeat

[The Estonian Fox]

From IntellectualTakeout.org:
"This Friday, Uber and Lyft are set to entirely shut down ride-sharing operations in California."

Boy, just when you thought that jobs were scarce. I guess you guys must have a surplus of them.

Taxi!

[Don Bessee]

The TDS runs strong in this one @335!

;-)

[George Rebane]

PaulE 318pm - Silly me, I didn’t know you were “baiting” me. The two issues you’re confused about share the fact that both involve not accepting the results of a duly conducted election. Trump has yet to do that, save in the fevered brains of progressives, but the Dems already did deny the 2016 results. And they did that in sleazebag way by trumping up fabricated charges. But you are confusing the Clinton impeachment here, since that involved no one contesting Clinton’s election, but an impeachment on charges that Clinton admitted he was guilty of. The Senate was wise enough to acquit him and not kick him out of office which would not have caused a constitutional crisis, caprice?

[Paul Emery]

Trump refuses to disavow QAnnon. Wat a nut case we have for President.

" In Wednesday’s coronavirus press briefing, a reporter asked President Donald Trump for his thoughts on QAnon, the far-right conspiracy theory gaining steam amid the coronavirus pandemic that has been labeled a terroristic threat by his own FBI. The president refused to disavow it, saying he didn’t know the basics of the theory but he had heard “they like me very much.” When the reporter clarified, saying, “The crux of this theory is that you are secretly saving the world from Satanic pedophiles and cannibals,” the president said “Is that supposed to be a bad thing? … If I can save the world from problems, I’ll do it.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/trump-slammed-for-refusing-to-disavow-cult-conspiracy-theories/

[Robert Cross]

What Paul Revere would say if he were to ride out today to warn the patriots: "the brownshirts are coming... the brownshirts are coming...Trump endorses Q-Anon". He said this "“I don’t know much about the movement, other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate. I have heard that it is gaining in popularity … I’ve heard these are people that love our country.” typical of trumpler to like the backing of right wing terrorists..just like his choices in foreign leaders like Kim and Duterte...You want an endorsement from trump, just kiss his ass..he likes it..a little too much..

[Paul Emery]

Another example of Trump smooching with QAnon-this time with a Repub Congressional candidate.

“Congratulations to future Republican Star Marjorie Taylor Greene on a big Congressional primary win in Georgia against a very tough and smart opponent,” Trump tweeted. “Marjorie is strong on everything and never gives up - a real WINNER!”

Here's a quote from her ""Q is a patriot, we know that for sure," Greene said in a video from 2017, in which she recapped some of Q's predictions and why she supports them.

"There's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it," she said, referring to Trump"

The conspiracy includes a wide variety of shifting and often-contradictory predictions and allegations, but it centers on an anonymous figure named "Q" who asserts that a wave of mass arrests are about to take down high-ranking Trump opponents.
What Is QAnon? The Conspiracy Theory Tiptoeing Into Trump World
Politic

Followers of "Q" often believe that the world is controlled by elite members of a secretive satanic child sex-trafficking ring.

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901628541/qanon-supporter-who-made-bigoted-videos-wins-ga-primary-likely-heading-to-congre

[Paul Emery]

One more thing,

QAnon flags were flying high last week on Sunday in Nevada City from the counter protesters who assaulted the peaceful demonstrators on Broad street while wearing t-shirts that said "Trump Fights Back"

[Don Bessee]

More bad news for the TDS set -

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/19/poll-assimilated-second-generation-hispanics-prefer-trump-over-biden/

;-)

[Gregory]

The Dem convention lost to America's Got Talent in the audience ratings last night,.. That may be behind punchy's searching for something to crow about.

[Don Bessee]

In the name of piling on -

The poll, taken between August 12-13 and 16-18, has a margin of error of +/- 2 percent.

Trump has gained ground in recent days as Biden’s lead continues to shrink. Like the Rasmussen Reports survey, a recent CNN poll showed Biden up by just four percent nationally and “by even less across 15 battleground states that will determine who wins the electoral college,” as Breitbart News reported:

The top line national number of a four-point race represents a double-digit shift in Trump’s direction from CNN’s last national poll in early June. That survey, two months ago, had Biden up 14 points — meaning this latest survey represents a ten-point swing Trump’s way as the summer has progressed heading into the conventions.

In an article explaining the significant movement in Trump’s direction against Biden, CNN’s polling director Jennifer Agiesta wrote that the president has shored up several demographics that he was slipping in before.

“The movement in the poll among voters nationwide since June is concentrated among men (they split about evenly in June, but now 56% back Trump, 40% Biden), those between the ages of 35 and 64 (they tilt toward Trump now, but were Biden-leaning in June) and independents (in June, Biden held a 52% to 41% lead, but now it’s a near even 46% Biden to 45% Trump divide),” Agiesta wrote. “Trump has also solidified his partisans since June. While 8% of Republicans or Republican-leaning independents in June said they would back Biden, that figure now stands at just 4%. And the President has boosted his backing among conservatives from 76% to 85%.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/19/rasmussen-poll-donald-trump-gains-ground-joe-biden-up-by-4-nationally/

;-)

[Don Bessee]

HAHA!

https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2020/08/19/fact-check-biden-green-energy-policy-has-a-california-problem/

;-)

[fish]

Punchy and Wine Aunt…..a couple of old queens who got trolled by 4Chan…….!

Qanon told me to say that!

(what a couple of rubes…..! This is why I still come here after 8 years!)

[Bill Tozer]

And to think that once a few moons ago, Punch copied and pasted a link from the Storm Trooper, not realizing it was a true bone-fied White Nazi rag, roflmao. Oh, he was using it to make his point, which had the complete opposite effect. He was quoting it to take yet another anti-racist stand. But, we won’t talk about that. Let’s talk Whatz happening now. Biden? Lol.

That’s all. Haven’t seen a paper or news fed in a couple of days...and it’s rather nice. Almost a week without an hour of The Greatest Show on Earth.

Gregory’s abode didn’t get burnt to a crisp so all is good. Then I find out the Rebane’s hightailed it out of here and then came sneaking back in the dead of night, breaking into their own abode. Shameless.

With Punchy swinging wildly in the air, one does not need to keep up with the latest news cycle. It’s the same old story, same old song and dance. There is a comfort in familiar territory.

[Don Bessee]

BT How's it hanging! Smoke gets in your eyes and mine too and i don't think i will like that song going forward.

Ya totally its just like 2016 but with a big dose of 1968 mayhem in the socialists zones, but you have to be honest that 80 plus days of insurrections may have caused that move of 10 points to Trump from our black and brown brothers.

Oh ya, then add a layer of pandemic and power plays by the shit hole commissars.

No corner rite aide to get grandmas 11 prescriptions anymore in too many places and the companies wont come back to any DEFUND THE POLICE areas.

While the prez may not win cali it looks like he may have the highest minority voter numbers of any Republican ever! SWEET!

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Don @ 9:45 pm

While Dr. Rebane has admonished you fine gents about putting the Harris-Biden ticket gabfest in anything but The Sandbox, I will go out a limb and say:

*What in the Tarnation is going on here? Kamala is the “Black candidate” and Biden draws more black votes than her, roflmao. So, why did he pick her? The lady who came bursting out of the starting blocks to an opening day crowd of 20,000, who soared up to a top tier candidate, the woman who once was the front runner in the polls......only to run a horrible horrible horrible campaign and drop out before the first primary. In Blue Blue Bluest of Blue State of Kaliforication, she polled 5th!! That’s cause we know her better. Guess Dem voters were not that in to her....until the day she was picked to have Biden sniff her hair and rub his nose in the soft sweet smelling adornment.

Point: Biden draws more blacks than Harris and Biden is drawing less blacks than Hillary. Let’s not be amiss and forget the Latinos, formerly known as the artist ‘Hispanics’. Old Jorge Ramos has gone completely bonkers, yelling at his viewers to not do a 2016 and have Trump grab 30% again. He is screaming and ranting and raving. Those Latinos are some hot blooded folks, cha, cha, cha.
It is appearing more and more that Harris was the mastermind behind the Kavanaugh assassination attempt. How low can you go? F*&k her.

Just keep on keeping on saying “peaceful protestors” and all cops are bastards and day of birth abortion, and no more rent and no more homeschool, and release all the criminals, and it’s racist and offensive to say my life matters and Climate Change is going to fry us Fritos corn chip...or pork rinds. They have lost their ever lovin’ minds.

[D]

"Trump praises QAnon supporters: "I understand they like me very much"
"When reminded by a reporter for NBC News that the movement's followers believe he is fighting to stop a satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals, he asked: "Is that supposed to be a bad thing?"
I approve this message - Donald J. Trump

[Bill Tozer]

D quoted,
“When reminded by a reporter for NBC News that the movement's followers believe he is fighting to stop a satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals, he asked: "Is that supposed to be a bad thing?”

Lol. Yep, only the Left would find fault with thwarting pedophiles and cannibals. The Left loves their pedophiles, from hard core pedophiles like Epstein to soft pedophiles like Biden and they release from jail all the other pedophiles in between. It must be a bad thing to the Leftinistas to stop “love”.

Bill Barr sat in Congress recently and challenged the Democrat members, ANY Democrat member on Capitol Hill, to say burning Federal Courthouses is not a good thing. Despite the AG’s efforts, Barr could not get one single Democrat to say or agree torching Federal Buildings is a bad thing. No agreement there, bucko.

The Dems think burning Courthouses is a good thing and going after pedophiles is a bad thing. Oh my. The Dems are some real messed up people.

[fish]

Posted by: D | 20 August 2020 at 06:34 AM

Once trolled, always trolled!

Qanon told me to say that!

[fish]

Posted by: D | 20 August 2020 at 06:34 AM

I confess to being somewhat surprised that you don't have your panties in a bunch over the Bannon arrest?

I suppose Qanon is more fun for the left.

Qanon told me to say that!

[Bill Tozer]

More items that the Dems simply cannot bring themselves to say it is a good thing. Free political prisoners.

GOOD NEWS: FEDS HAVE ARRESTED MORE THAN 1,000 IN OPERATION LEGEND

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/good-news-feds-have-arrested-more-than-1000-in-operation-legend.php

Defunding the police is a good thang, eh? Trump thinks that is a bad thing.

[Bill Tozer]

One man’s opinion. Opps, make that two men’s opinion.

MORE EVIDENCE THAT SHUTDOWNS ARE USELESS

“What is the conclusion?

The data suggest that lockdowns have not prevented any deaths from covid-19. At best, lockdowns have deferred death for a short time, but they cannot possibly be continued for the long term. It seems likely that one will not have to even compare economic deprivation with loss of life, as the final death toll following authoritarian lockdowns will most likely exceed the deaths from letting people choose how to manage their own risk. After taking the unprecedented economic depression into account, history will likely judge these lockdowns to be the greatest policy error of this generation.

That is what I think, too.“

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/more-evidence-that-shutdowns-are-useless.php

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re: BillT@8:23AM August 20, Year Zero.

I thought that the problem was the not-enough-ventilators issue that Trump single handedly caused. Go figure.

At this point, you think that there would be enough ongoing experiments (called 'different countries') to draw some conclusions, but what with a Biden to get elected you're not going to hear any unpolitical theories for a while.

I was considering the War on Rent this morning (aka, Defund Landlords).

https://reason.com/2020/04/20/ilhan-omars-bill-would-enable-the-feds-to-seize-landlords-properties-for-trying-to-collect-rent-during-coronavirus/

etc.

It's funny how our local Team Blue, mostly consisting of baby boomers who are fairly conservative except they think that single payer health plans aren't such a bad idea (JUST LOOK AT DENMARK!!) are mostly a front for a real-deal communist insurgency. Go figure.

I guess that it took pressure on the whole system for peoples' real goals to be uncovered.

[Gregory]

"It is difficult to work within a group when you are omnipotent" -Q

[Bill Tozer]

‘Trump Won't Disavow QAnon, Yet Dems Still Promote Debunked Russiagate‘
The Russiagate conspiracy theory has done the most damage to our institutions.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/72868-trump-wont-disavow-qanon-yet-dems-still-promote-debunked-russiagate-2020-08-20?
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‘Senate Concludes: No Evidence of Trump/Russia Collusion’

“On Tuesday, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its fifth and final volume on its investigation into Russia’s 2016 election interference. The nearly 1,000-page report boils down to one main point: The committee found no evidence to support the Democrats’ loudly asserted claim that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians during his presidential campaign. The bipartisan investigation came to the same conclusion as that of Robert Mueller’s special counsel — the evidence for collusion is simply not there.

While finding no evidence of collusion, the committee did find evidence of Russian meddling. But even more disturbing, as committee member Marco Rubio (R-FL) noted, were the “actions taken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, particularly their acceptance and willingness to rely on the ‘Steele Dossier’ without verifying its methodology or sourcing.”

So, after three and a half years in a highly politicized environment, every investigation into the charge that Trump colluded with the Kremlin has failed to prove the charge. Of course, these findings won’t stop the Democrats and their Leftmedia cohorts from continuing to promulgate the fallacious narrative. But we do note at the same time their refusal to investigate Joe Biden’s shady behavior with Ukraine.“

https://patriotpost.us/articles/72868-trump-wont-disavow-qanon-yet-dems-still-promote-debunked-russiagate-2020-08-20?
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The Troll Master strikes deep into the Dem’s hearts and minds:

‘Susan B. Anthony Pardon Is Trump's Best Trolling’
Democrats hate the president for defending a heroine of women's suffrage.

“By today’s standards on racism, of course, Anthony would be canceled by the Left, which already hates the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List. Maybe Trump pardoning a heroine for women’s rights will finally push them to cancel her for good. If so, chalk it up to Trump’s trolling.“

https://patriotpost.us/articles/72836-susan-b-anthony-pardon-is-trumps-best-trolling-2020-08-19?

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lol. Speaks for itself.

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1296335674161811456

It's worth considering whether events like the French Revolution pushed the mentally ill to the front of the mob.

The kind of situation that our local crack news team might consider.
https://twitter.com/JJusseroKIRO7/status/1296271397690384384

[Todd Juvinall]

Paul Emery, Rasmussen has it 51-47 approval for Trump. Get your worry beads ready.

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Really somebody should start building an archive of the amateur/third party produced political ads. They'll be a historian's delight in 100 years.

https://twitter.com/AceSix4/status/1296182735137054722

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Here's one way for Democrats to raise money.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8645813/Portland-protester-25-run-BEGGING-MONEY-kicking-unconscious-truck-driver.html

He'll probably get some of that sweet AntifaBLM money since he gave that 'racist' what fer.

Quick replay, the Protestor of Peace does his thing at about 20 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jETcaLSRTmI

Coming soon to a city near you unless you vote for Biden. Not a bad marketing campaign.

[Paul Emery]

Don't get too excited Todd about the Rasmussen Polls. I don't even read the job approval polls much these days. these are the only numbers that are important-the delegate count based on state polling. RCP averages all the state polling and shows Biden up 212-115 with 211 tossups. Trump has to win around 75% of the tossups to get to 270. It's been virtually unchanged for a Month so so far no Trump Bump. Here's a link.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/2020_elections_electoral_college_map.html

[fish]

Posted by: Paul Emery | 20 August 2020 at 03:45 PM

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[Gregory]

punchy doesn't read anything that doesn't give him the good news he's looking for.

[Todd Juvinall]

Oh Paul Emery, it appears you don't understand the job approval polls. Good.

[fish]

......and in today’s “Cone of Shame” moment!

CORONAVIRUS: Governor of Maine Orders Restaurant Staff to Wear COVID Visors Like Dog Cones

https://summit.news/2020/08/20/governor-of-maine-orders-restaurant-staff-to-wear-covid-visors-like-dog-cones/

[robert Cross]

Steve who? Barely know him just like Epstein, Manafort, and Cohen. I might have met him once.

[Don Bessee]

Since the pony tail of ignorance is afraid to go to scattershots and the socialist dems helping the prez win we will bring the scattershots to him -

ts going to be an issue everywhere not just in Michigan -

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-debbie-dingell-warns-democrats-that-concerns-over-violence-could-be-more-important-than-trade-this-election-year-002500849.html

;-)

Posted by: Don Bessee | 20 August 2020 at 01:10 PM

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This couldn't be more perfect.

"‘Fort Lori’: Chicago police ban protests on Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s block, order arrests for anyone who won’t leave"

https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-police-lightfoot-protests-20200820-57vxhaa57jhijo3xllrflztcse-story.html

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Speaking of Chicago.

"Riding in trucks and U-Hauls, vandals came to downtown Chicago on Sunday. They jammed streets around the Magnificent Mile, home of the city’s most important shopping district. They came prepared with tools like crowbars to pry open gates and take all the merchandise that they could pack. It was a strike directed at the heart of the city."

https://www.city-journal.org/looter-vandals-sack-chicagos-north-side

Welcome to the future the Democrats have in store for everybody. U-Haul reparations.

[paul emery]

Oh Todd, you don't understand that Presidential elections are won by delegates and right now Trump is down in all delegate polls. RCP which averages all state polls have him behind by 212-115. Since you like job approval polls take note that Trumps behind by 10.5% the average of all polls. Rasmussen is your cherry picked poll but it's 15% of the average mark.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html

[Don Bessee]

A big one handed clap for the comic stylings of the pony tail of ignorance whistling past the graveyard. LOL

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Since his failure to find any polls recently lets help the po' ol' codger -

Across 15 battleground states, the survey finds Biden has the backing of 49% of registered voters, while Trump lands at 48%.

The movement in the poll among voters nationwide since June is concentrated among men (they split about evenly in June, but now 56% back Trump, 40% Biden), those between the ages of 35 and 64 (they tilt toward Trump now, but were Biden-leaning in June) and independents (in June, Biden held a 52% to 41% lead, but now it's a near even 46% Biden to 45% Trump divide).

Trump has also solidified his partisans since June. While 8% of Republicans or Republican-leaning independents in June said they would back Biden, that figure now stands at just 4%. And the President has boosted his backing among conservatives from 76% to 85%.

';-)

[Scott O]

Booby X 5:04 - And who indicted and arrested Steve Bannon?
Oh, that's right - President Trump's justice dept.
And was Bannon arrested for anything to do with Trump?
No.
In fact, Trump had said he didn't think private money being used for the wall was a good idea.
Another lefty that shows up here swinging wildly and ends up smacking himself in his own face.
The Bannon affair actually proves you leftys are totally wrong about Barr being a Trump-puppet getting Trump's pals off the hook.
Now you'll have to find another non-issue to get all excited about.
Your pathetic empty suits over at Dem HQ certainly don't excite anyone save the Chi-Coms.

[Don Bessee]

Emery? Emery? Emery? so CCC it is! LOL

;-)

[Don Bessee]

LETS GET READY TO RUMBLLLLEEEE!!! Its the miserables v the deplorables

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-nicknames-dnc-speakers-biden-campaign-coalition-of-the-miserable

;-)

[Don Bessee]

S So what does it say when the dems draw flies on their face? Just wonderin'?

Fly steals Bloomberg's thunder by landing on his face during DNC speech
A fly previously graced Hillary Clinton's forehead during a 2016 presidential debate

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bloomberg-fly-face-democratic-convention

;-)

[paul emery]

RE Don 6:58

What polls are you referring to? Also can you provide a link. Thanks

[paul emery]

Lindsy Graham praises Biden

"Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump's fiercest allies, praised former Vice President Joe Biden in the highest terms in a 2015 interview that resurfaced this week.

In the clip from a Huffington Post interview, Graham gets emotional while calling Biden "as good a man God ever created" and "the nicest person I think I've ever met in politics."

also

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Joe Biden: "If you can't admire Joe Biden as a person then probably you've got a problem, you need to do some self-evaluation....He is as good a man as God ever created."

https://www.businessinsider.com/lindsay-graham-called-joe-biden-good-man-god-ever-created-2019-11

[Bill Tozer]

There is a lot of egg our local newsman needs to remove from his face. 4 years worth and counting. Oh Don, do my homework for me, please.
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When does the DNC convention start?? Anybody know? Nobody seems to want to discuss the event or get a mile close to it. Odd.

[Don Bessee]

@919 they don't want to get fly's on their face!

;-)

[paul emery]

What is so difficult about providing a source and link Bill? I'm sure Don will come through.

[George Rebane]

PaulE 917pm - People change.

[Bill Tozer]

Famous last words: “I’m sure Don will come through.” Mercy.
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Great video....for whats it worth. What a field day for the heat.. I may repost this over on R.L. Misses by a Mile and dedicate the song to him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=qTJzPeg8if4&feature=emb_logo

[Bill Tozer]

That 2015 Lynsey Graham interview was circling the web months ago. I think Bobbie the Super Twat or the Punch Drunk One posted that link twice in one day...again, months ago.

It does show how Graham, not Biden, is the magnanimous one of the two, even back in 2015. You will never hear those kind words out of Biden’s mouth, even if insincere. The only ones Biden talked highly about were his fellow Democrat segregationists. He had kind words for them, alright.

Lynsey, like many conservatives, does not think it is right to make fun of Dementia Joe. It’s a horrible thing to see someone, even like Biden, succumb to such a wrenched mind destroying disease. I even heard Biden has half a mind to run for President. Crazy times, bro.

Guess the bottomline is the Dems are sooooo excited about their candidate and the big convention pow wow going on that they are scrapping the bottom of the barrel looking for something....anything....to dig up and throw at us. Even old forgotten half day stories. Talk about recycling garbage. Suppose it’s a lot better than talking about the current doings and going ons in the fractured Dem Party.

Guess the real Bottomline is the wack jobs and unhinged are out of ammo again. That means it’s time to call us racists, as surely as night follows day. Their MO is predictable worn out, as well as pathetic. But, what would you do when you are surrounded and out of ammo? Call the deplorables names, that’s what you would do when there is that much egg on your face.

[Bill Tozer]

Well, here is the convention bump in the polls that is to be expected, but not expected in the usual way. So much for tried and true convential wisdom.

'Trump Approval Surges During DNC'

https://bongino.com/trump-approval-surges-during-dnc

Imagine throwing a hate-fest national party and Trump strolls in and flushes the liberal's punch bowl. How rude!

[Gregory]

A MUST READ:
https://quillette.com/2020/08/16/the-challenge-of-marxism/

[fish]

Posted by: paul emery | 20 August 2020 at 09:17 PM

Politician praises another politician.......Punchy feels tingly in his nether regions.

As a newscrafter I thought you understood that overly effusive praise of one politician for another is merely for public consumption.

Do get equally excited when they call each other “the distinguished gentleman from Crapville” or “the gentle lady from Bumfuck” on the Senate floor?

In any case why would you post that here? You can’t really believe that it’s going to change any minds?

[scenes]

BillT: "Guess the bottomline is the Dems are sooooo excited about their candidate and the big convention pow wow going on that they are scrapping the bottom of the barrel looking for something....anything....to dig up and throw at us."

Obviously that's typical politician behavior. There's a big three ring binder filled with oppositions research that is fed to the press on a schedule. The fact that old school MSM is completely in the pocket of one party (did that happen before? I honestly don't remember anything like that. Perhaps during FDR's reign.) plus the internet's ability to add simultaneity to the mix makes it all more special.

I wonder what the best move for Trump will be. You've got two career politicians with sketchy records to sift through, but I'm not sure that anyone really cares that much about Biden's graft or Kamala's behavior as a prosecutor (or time under Willie Brown). It might be simply enough to run hundreds of hours of rioters looting, beating people, heaving IEDs at police with a 'do you want America to look like this?' sort of tagline.

The geniune danger to the Republic, of course, is CRT (Crazy Race Theory) which has taken hold at large organizations throughout the land. That's the thing that will land us in the soup, or a re-education camp, potentially. Dunno if a Man With a Twitter Account can deal with that one, it'll probably take a countervailing mass movement and potentially greater side effects than hurt feelings.

In the meantime, our local Team Blue seem to be 1980's Democrats who want national healthcare and 'common sense' gun laws. Perhaps it's just simply due to living in an insulated area. Perhaps they think that the 'adults' will take over at some point. Perhaps they don't care so long as Trump is gone. So far they haven't spent a lick of time defending modern progressive 'thought'.

In any case, the pricking in my thumbs continues apace.

[scenes]

Gregory: "A MUST READ:
https://quillette.com/2020/08/16/the-challenge-of-marxism/"

That really is an excellent article, although you know as well as I that anyone who really needs to read it, won't.

A key quote:

"The most basic thing one needs to know about a democratic regime, then, is this: You need to have at least two legitimate political parties for democracy to work. By a legitimate political party, I mean one that is recognized by its rivals as having a right to rule if it wins an election. For example, a liberal party may grant legitimacy to a conservative party (even though they don’t like them much), and in return this conservative party may grant legitimacy to a liberal party (even though they don’t like them much). Indeed, this is the way most modern democratic nations have been governed.

But legitimacy is one of those traditional political concepts that Marxist criticism is now on the verge of destroying. From the Marxist point of view, our inherited concept of legitimacy is nothing more than an instrument the ruling classes use to perpetuate injustice and oppression. The word legitimacy takes on its true meaning only with reference to the oppressed classes or groups that the Marxist sees as the sole legitimate rulers of the nation. In other words, Marxist political theory confers legitimacy on only one political party—the party of the oppressed, whose aim is the revolutionary reconstitution of society."
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I can see the strength of historical analogy in trying to understand our current situation, but haven't yet run into the current (usually unread) Marxist Bible or Great Man for the troops to rally around. Many of the same points could made by comparing the Blue Mob's actions to the French Revolution or even the behavior of early Christians in their destruction of the classical world. The French situation needs more study by moi.

Having been through this before, and seeing the danger of a US run by crazy zealots, it would be nice to see the current Russian thinking on this situation. Gotta look around.

[George Rebane]

Gregory 1239am - good one.

[scenes]

Speaking of current Russian thinking, I caught this mentioned in Pravda.

https://bsc2020.net/7-VI-2020

"We announce an initiative to Decolonize Byzantine Studies. We invite reflections on the question: Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? The first forum for discussion will be a webinar, “Towards a Critical Historiography of Byzantium,”"

lol. You just know this isn't going to end well.

[scenes]

James Howard Kunstler speaks:

"And so, the party of the Resistance has completed its solemn four day confab of info-ceremonials and sent forth its Primero Ingenioso Hidalgo, Joe Biden, on his limping horse of platitudes, armored by news media hosannahs, a saintly woman-of-color at his side to assist, tilting onward with his lance of moral instruction to bring love, hope and light to a world darkened by the shadow of MAGA-Diablo, Trump-the-Terrible. Plus, Joe promised to stop Covid-19 and cure cancer.
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The Democrats have not called off their war-dogs and really everybody is aware of that. Antifa rioters have insulted the public order for eighty-some nights in Portland, Oregon, while the Democratic mayor, Ted Wheeler and the Democratic governor, Kate Brown, do absolutely nothing to stop it. Similar campaigns against civil order are run by Democratic mayors Lori Lightfoot in Chicago and Bill DeBlasio in New York City to the degree that these places may never return to the old normal. Mayor Jacob Frey allowed “social justice” mobs to burn down Minneapolis, leading the city council to logically propose abolishing the city’s police force. The Democratic regime in California uses hordes of the mentally ill homeless to prod its productive citizens to flee the state. Baltimore, Philadelphia, St Louis, Richmond, Louisville all yield to Democratic Party inspired violence and anarchy.
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https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/good-trouble-and-not-good-trouble/

[Scott O]

Paul Emery 9:17 - We've been asking Paul to come up with some reason (any reason) why we should vote for Biden and this is the best Paul can do: "Lindsy Graham praises Biden" (2015)
That's it.
That's all Paul can come up with.
2015? Biden could probably articulate a complete thought in those days.

[Scott O]

scenes 6:25 and 7:51 - "The geniune danger to the Republic, of course, is CRT (Crazy Race Theory) which has taken hold at large organizations throughout the land."
Yep - it doesn't seem to matter who is POTUS. We're stuck with institutionalized CRT. In the schools, universities, at work (govt and private) and on the streets.
And it doesn't stop people from 'wrong thought' it just pushes it underground. The rulers lose track of reality and end up thinking that everybody is on board with a headlong rush into left-wing insanity and they start implementing some really fun stuff like a cash-less society that monitors for 'wrong purchase'.
If that sounds silly to you leftys - consider that it's already being implemented by some of the larger financial institutions. Legitimate, legal businesses being cut off from access to funding.
C'mon leftys - do you really think it can't (or won't) happen to you?
Look at history.
While you're still able to.

[scenes]

"2015? Biden could probably articulate a complete thought in those days."

Looking back in the archives, he actually wrote real posts.

It's hard to tell whether he's simply going down that dark path of age-related mental issues or perhaps he finds it impossible to justify how off-the-rails his side has gone in the last few years.

A third possibility is that any sane thinking gets you kicked off the KVMR gravy train. It's best to stick to clickbait articles and Trump polls when in a downtrend. It would be hard to give up a social life and the opportunity to play gawdawful old folk music that you think people need to hear.

[Scott O]

More on - "it doesn't matter who's in the White House":
https://katu.com/news/local/ted-wheeler-releases-19-point-plan-to-achieve-racial-justice-in-portland
The Dems may be in charge of the worst areas for violence, but that doesn't stop them from 'fixing' the problem.
Money quote: ""These actions are long overdue," Wheeler said about his plan, "but they are not enough to dismantle institutional racism."
So he admits he's too late with too little - but hey! Vote for us again next election!
Be sure to click on the link in the article for the whole list of full-on bureaucratic wonk-babble BS.

[fish]

Well....to her credit....it's not as wacky as many of the other democrat "get out the vote" programs.

Sumter mayoral candidate accused of faking her own kidnapping, beating for publicity

Plus.....some bonus Kanye and his policy prescriptions at the link!

https://www.thestate.com/news/state/south-carolina/article245135460.html

[fish]

And from America’s Newspaper of Record: Man Who Has Been In Government For Nearly 50 Years Promises To Fix Government.

Now in Joey Fingers defense it was like 37th on his list! He might now just be getting to it.

https://babylonbee.com/news/man-who-has-been-in-government-for-48-years-promises-to-fix-government

[Paul Emery]

Scott

Did you watch Biden's acceptance speech last night?

[Paul Emery]

Fox News applauds Biden's speech:

"Although President Donald Trump has tried to portray Biden as “not all there” and “mentally shot” as well as a captive of the far left, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace said the president will have a tough time with that argument after Biden’s speech at the Democratic National Convention.

“I thought that he blew a hole, a big hole, in that characterization,” Wallace said. “It seems to me that after tonight, Donald Trump is going to have to run against a candidate, not a caricature.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-hosts-praise-biden-speech_n_5f3f6e9cc5b6763e5dc18e60

[Paul Emery]

270towin polling map shows Biden up 301 to 119. Looking grim for Trump. Absolutely no bounce after his major address on economic issues last week.

https://www.270towin.com/maps/biden-trump-polling-map

[Todd Juvinall]

Oh my Paul Emery shows what a person can become when he thinks someone else agrees with him that he has always hated. Chris Wallace is a never Trumper bub. And it looks really good for Trump's election if we can keep the democrats from stealing it. And all those Millenials won't be showing up either as Kamala is on the ticket. I thnk you for that pick.

[George Rebane]

PaulE 1103am - To achieve their 'fair and balanced' goal, FN also features liberal program hosts and commentators (don't expect any of that from the Dems' lamestream lackeys). Chris Wallace is a dyed-in-wool liberal, so you should always expect favorable reviews of liberals from him (including mushball questions to liberals on his Sunday show). Having Wallace applaud Biden is far from FN doing that as a network. Hope this helps.

[fish]

Posted by: Paul Emery | 21 August 2020 at 10:58 AM

Scott

Did you watch Biden's acceptance speech last night?

I trust that Scott has better uses for his time than listening to that sacrificial democratic hack.

[paul emery]

Are you speaking for Scott as his agent nowadays fish?

[scenes]

Speaking of applauding. The only bit of the DNC anointing of their puppet that I've seen.

https://twitter.com/michaelbeatty3/status/1295909576450088960

Cringe City here we come. I'm assuming that his earpiece said to stand up.

[paul emery]

George

Chris Wallace is the News Anchor for Fox News which means he's the #1 guy on the news team. He's the Editor to ompare his role with print journalism

[scenes]

A TV anchor is not the same thing as a newspaper editor. You are probably thinking of some form of producer.

I see that 270towin showed Clinton v. Trump as 227 to 163 on Aug. 21, 2016.

[fish]

Posted by: paul emery | 21 August 2020 at 12:32 PM

Are you speaking for Scott as his agent nowadays fish?

Mere supposition on my part Punch. Technically I believe that even you would have spent your time more productively had you not wasted time watching Joey Fingers drone on about some mythical “unity” that he promises to deliver.

[paul emery]

Scenes writes:

I see that 270towin showed Clinton v. Trump as 227 to 163 on Aug. 21, 2016-up 64

Today Biden is up 301 to 119-up 182 Quite a difference

[fish]

Posted by: paul emery | 21 August 2020 at 12:32 PM

Are you speaking for Scott as his agent nowadays fish?

What are you getting at Punch?

Thanks in advance.

[paul emery]

Self explanatory. You are speaking for Scott. Are you his agent and did he give you permission to speak for him?

[scenes]

Some of that free speech thang from Portlandia.

https://mobile.twitter.com/KittyLists/status/1296628991445491712

[Bill Tozer]

Scenes Unleashed @ 12:33 pm, Year Zero.

re: celebrate, good times.

That one broad shouldered busty blonde in the Trans-Rights shirt looks like she could break every bone in a man’s spine by crossing her legs and putting him in the scissors squeeze, larger bosoms not withstanding. I won’t mess with that non-uterus woman, no siree.