[Checking back to my 1jan17 post below, I can’t help but smile as I reprise that posting and again advise RR readers to prepare for a 2018 that will both entertain and astonish those of us who take a keen interest in the world’s stage on which the play of comedy and farce – i.e. of politics and politicians – will quicken its pace. Without an unforeseen intervention by the Almighty, the Dems will rue the day that they offered to the American electorate replays of the Trump Derangement Syndrome as their only public policy of record. Happy 2018! gjr]
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[Again a Happy New Year to all RR readers and its diligent band of commenters of all political shades who do their dharma battles on these pages. This year promises to be even more exciting than 2016 – who knew that Trump would win? – if one can conceive that possibility. Last New Year’s day (1jan16) I opened a new sandbox with these words.
Happy New Year! to all RR readers. This year will turn out more exciting and surprising than any of us can anticipate. From the socialists' perspective, they are at the cusp of a victory from which they can deal a deathblow to American capitalism and institute their new economic order as part of the country's fundamental transformation that Obama promised and has already launched. We conservatarians also see this as a cusp year, but given the disarray of the Republicans, it will be one from which a 2016 Democrat defeat will deliver little besides delaying the day of reckoning between collectivism and open markets capitalism. So I thought it would be appropriate to start the year with a fresh sandbox. gjr]
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193 responses to “Sandbox – 1jan2018”
OMG……hysterical if true!
……and she still couldn’t beat him!
Morons!
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html
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Hillary ain’t the prez, fishy.. your guy trump is..Why don’t conservatives take responsibility for their bad judgment. You voted for him and now the onus is on you. Stop trying to deflect your poor decisions with Hillary Hillary Hillary. woulda coulda shoulda doesn’t apply. Own up to the fact that you are ideologically crippled and seek professional help. The Dems could have run Jesus and you fools would have still voted for trump. You are a self confessed trumpeter, you know.. gimme the money, lies before truth, treason, collusion, mental illness, WWIII, my button is bigger than your button..
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You voted for him and now the onus is on you.
Actually I didn’t.
Stop trying to deflect your poor decisions with Hillary…..
See item #1.
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1) National healthcare coming to a train wreck near you.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/badly-strained-uk-hospitals-delay-non-urgent-procedures-102502267.html
2) This comes as no surprise.
“The authors concluded that 92 percent of the additional crimes recorded could be attributed to the increase in refugee numbers.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/study-influx-young-male-migrants-fueled-rise-violence-123755219.html
3) This, too, comes as no surprise.
Now the cacophony caused by the “we’re not racist” backslapping has ended, the true implications of a Khan mayoralty are being realised.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/01/02/sadiqs-london-knife-crime-gun-crime-theft-burglary-rape-homicide-massively/
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Fish: “Actually I didn’t. [vote for trump}” them why defend him now?
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Jeeze for a year all we heard from the left and the democrats was how goofy Bannon is. Now he is their GOD! You cannot make this stuff up. These liberals would bed down satan if he came out against Trump.
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Posted by: Robert Cross | 03 January 2018 at 11:29 AM
Because anybody who upsets progressives as much as he does is doing something right!
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I love Tammy Bruce. Definitely not a faux feminist. Go get ‘em, Tammy.
Alyssa Milano is a famous American feminist who presents herself as a champion for women and the downtrodden. Yet she is reduced to a shivering infant because the president confidently and proudly promotes an agenda that is improving everyone’s lives.
“Hollywood’s smug infant feminists would do well to read Rita Panahi, an Iranian-born Australian and a columnist at the Herald Sun. She wrote, “In Iran, the changes that stripped women of their rights were not accepted without a fight. In 1979, about 100,000 women bravely took to the streets of Tehran to protest the imposition of Islamic law. … Some of the protesters were stabbed by Islamists, others were imprisoned, and ultimately the fight was lost. To see the feminists of the 2017 Women’s March embrace the hijab as a symbol of diversity and empowerment is an affront to many women forced to wear it. Those who fetishise the hijab, niqab and burqa ignore the plight of millions of oppressed women in the Muslim world.””
As the Iranian people rise up and Ms. Milano curls up, the Obama gang echo-chamber is desperately trying to keep Mr. Trump and America from helping the desperate Iranian people. The same ship of fools that sent at least $1 billion dollars in unmarked cash to that terrorist cesspool, is now out in force telling the president to shut up about Iran.
Tell them to go pound sand, Tammy.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/01/03/hollywood-obama-holdovers-and-faux-feminists-curl-up-and-deny-power-trumps-agenda.html
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Muller is not God and is fallible-
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/trump-ex-campaign-chair-manafort-sues-mueller-rosenstein-and-department-of-justice.html
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Its about time-
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/economy/2018/01/02/chinese-firm-abandons-plan-merge-dallas-based-moneygram-us-regulators-raise-red-flags
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Its the economy you stupid lefties-
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-03/manufacturing-in-u-s-accelerates-to-cap-best-year-since-2004
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I do hope everyone running for Congresscritter will be asked if they would vote for Impeachment if elected and sworn in January 2019. How could anyone face the electorati in November without making this known?
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Fish @ high noon. Living the dream. Never can get too much fun.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/973516146131941/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/970194623130760/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/973513069465582/?type=3&theater
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School discipline; the unintended consequences. Kids feel less safe in school.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2017/11/27/obama-school-discipline-policies-hurt-wisconsin-kids/888583001/
Betsy is under fire….a good fire for once.
http://www.oann.com/education-dept-faces-calls-to-rescind-obama-era-school-discipline-policy/
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Winning! Dow 24,922, triple record day and the vix at a historic low. Optimism is contagious-
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-03/manufacturing-in-u-s-accelerates-to-cap-best-year-since-2004
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Bill, “Suddenly they think Steve Bannon is credible. Now they believe anything and everything he says. My, things can turn on a dime.”
Yes, amazing isn’t it Bill.. Just a year ago you folks thought Bannon was God. And now all of a sudden he’s liar. With trump things do turn on a dime, friend today enemy tomorrow.
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Mr. Cross
Politics ain’t for pussies for sure. Neither is it for woosies. Tom wrote a great book, should be a best seller. Good for the economy.
In its review of Wolff’s book Burn Rate, Brill’s Content criticized Wolff for “apparent factual errors” and said that 13 people, including subjects he mentioned, complained that Wolff had “invented or changed quotes”.
In a 2004 cover story for The New Republic, Michelle Cottle wrote that Wolff was “uninterested in the working press,” preferring to focus on “the power players—the moguls” and was “fixated on culture, style, buzz, and money, money, money.” She also noted that “the scenes in his columns aren’t recreated so much as created—springing from Wolff’s imagination rather than from actual knowledge of events.” Calling his writing “a whirlwind of flourishes and tangents and asides that often stray so far from the central point that you begin to wonder whether there is a central point.”
“This piece gives us more insight about the twisted worldview of Michael Wolff than it does about The New York Times.
This is one of the most cynical things I’ve read in a long time. It’s disgusting, frankly”
http://archives.cjr.org/the_audit/michael_wolffs_high_cynicism.php
“But seven of the main characters and six others portrayed in-or familiar with-events in the book, disagree. They say Wolff invented or changed quotes. And none of those quoted recalls Wolff taking notes or recording the discussions, some of which took place three years ago.
Wolff says he has notes and e-mail that back him up, but refuses to release them. “I’m sure people are very surprised to see these meetings come back to life,” he says. “But that’s good writing. That may be great writing.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20120718061524/http://www.brillscontent.com/burn.shtml
Yep, should be great reading. Fantastic. Got the libbies falling for it. Good job, Steve, working on the outside in to make the bedwetters look like the “proglodyte morons” they are. I love it. Great TV, keep those monkeys busy trying to hump the football.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/976306735852882/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1231080027026032/?type=3&theater
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Mr. Cross:
Yep, everything they say about Trump is true.
Around 2014, I looked at what the R’s were putting out as the next standard barrier. Jeb Bush or another one of the Gang of Eight. No thanks. Low Engery Jeb didn’t even get double digits by the time Trump was through. Pretty Boy Little Marco? Trump beat him in his home state of FLA., lol. Walker faltered on his own. Cruz was hated by the RINO’s more than by the Dems. The Establishment of both parties couldn’t stand the former Democrat Trump , but they really hated Cruz even more. Got down to Trump or Cruz and Trump won the nomination.
Trump was the only one of the final two candidates after the conventions that was more comfortable with cabbies and construction workers than he/she was with their Limousine Liberal Friends. A no-brainer.
Oh, Mr. Cross, I can think of 3 regulars here (not libs or the Green Libertarian)…3 real regulars that are right of center that DID NOT vote for Trump, FYI. And that is just off the top of me melon. That’s about half of the real regulars, according to my finger counting.
But, everything you say about Trump is true. But, no one else could fill his shoes?. The right tool for the right job at the right time. He was elected to stop the Progressive Agenda. Pretty simple.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/974612536022302/?type=3&theater
Yes, Mr. Cross, it’s all true. It’s twue, it’s twue.
https://youtu.be/w0MyA4XKpK8
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Burning files ahead of the subpoenas?
http://chappaqua.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/fire-contained-at-bill-hillary-clintons-chappaqua-compound/730294/
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What voters really think of the Presidents immigration policies! Special for the po’ ol’ pollhead-
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/03/poll-massive-support-trump-immigration-policies/
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So now we know why the President said the button on his desk works-
http://theweek.com/speedreads/746504/north-korea-accidentally-hit-cities-missile-report-says
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This just in….
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/367141-congressional-investigators-find-irregularities-in-fbis-handling-of
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Hmmm. Their vote did count afterall. Their strategy is working just as they said it would.
An ode dedicated to my Libertarian friends. You know who you are.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/01/03/john-stossel-is-2018-year-libertarian-party.html
Bonus: I know you like this stuff as much as I do. It’s priceless beyond my wildest dreams. Sweet. They still don’t get it. It ain’t Trump, Its always been the Deplorables, Irredeemables, those unnamed salt of the earth types, and you that they have taken their rage out upon for years before Trump. They looked down their noses at us. They did not even try to say “hi” to you.
We both have our axes to grind, and we both enjoy the common enemy going stark raving mad. It’s worth all the trouble….for now. SCOTUS will be around long after everything Trump does will be erased. SCOTUS will be his legacy and another tree will be dropped on the tracks. It’s guerrilla warfare, and we are the true resistance. Let them make it all about Trump.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jake-tapper-slams-trumps-latest-round-of-outrageous-tweets-not-stable-behavior/
Yo Jake, look over there!
https://youtu.be/kifJ_mQdpZA
That was fun, but it’s time to ignore them and get moving the ball along. Better than kicking the can.
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File this one under ” Justify your miserable, and expensive existence.”
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/37184935/auditors-couldnt-figure-out-what-the-state-energy-office-does-or-what-it-plans-to-do
“Just what does this office do????
Remind you of anyone “we” know?
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Did any else notice that Cabbage Patch Little Rocketman dumped his Mao suit and reopened the hot line to S. Korea after Trump’s last tweet? Anybody with an IQ over 4 knew exactly what that “juvenile” tweet meant. “Don’t threaten us, we can shoot one right up your ass.”
Nice gray suit, Little Kim. Looking good. And nobody thinks for a second that the hotline will accomplish anything. See ya at the Winter Games.
Guess not everybody has an IQ over 4, especially the pundits toward the bottom, where they belong. 🙂
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/rep-crowley-trumps-north-korea-nuclear-button-tweet-is-adolescent-behavior-at-best.html
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Yeup, I backed, and voted for the right guy. Takes no crap from anyone. He tells ya’ what’s on his mind. No dancing the D.C. two step, or the Capital hill jig.
The way things look, he’s could be mighty handy with a switchblade, and packs two Darengers. Yup, I got the street fighter I hoped for.
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…..and anyone with an IQ over six knows that Trump was looking over the head of the Cabbage Patch kid and speaking right into the eyes of China. You can’t look at N. Korea without seeing China…..if your IQ is over 6. Bigger toys for bigger boys.
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Hey Punch…..here’s your “Single Payer”……enjoy!
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-03/metrics-and-unintended-consequences-in-health-care-and-education
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fish 739am – Thanks for that reminder Mr fish. Those stories are all too familiar in Great Britain, and the EU, and also in Canada as we have pointed out in these pages. Nationalized healthcare bureaucrats see no profit in caring for the extra-sick who will just make their numbers look bad, and we must always remember that they get no marginal reward for making a name for themselves going all out for the patients as customers. They know they are a monopoly, the customers have no place else to go.
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Speaking of the ill, Jeff Pelline has not floated to the top in his blog bog since his last narcissistic rage three days ago, but Frisch has called George’s sanity into question a couple hours ago:
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Steven Frisch says:
January 4, 2018 at 8:21 am
“I believe the present state of affairs in the world order are the result of the spontaneously coordinated efforts of fundamental Islam and western socialism’s striving to meet Agenda21 objectives. ” George Rebane.
One does have to think about the basic sanity of some of the commentators.”
The thread is “The sociopaths who are internet trolls”. Cute, isn’t it?
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Gregory 1052am – Thanks for the update. I have no idea where or what Frisch posts, but am heartened that he keeps up with the latest on RR 😉
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Well my oh my, the Virginia House will remain in the hands of Republicans after a drawing of names by random selection. I say this is a good sign for future things. LOL!
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BUZZ KILL and a 1,2 punch from the Trump administration-
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/04/justice-department-crack-down-legal-marijuana-roll-back-obama-policy/1003183001/
Drill baby, drill-
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/04/trump-administration-dramatically-expands-offshore-drilling.html
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Happy New Year. BAM! DOW 25,073, triple record closes! That did not take long. 😉
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Have you had enough winning yet?
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/04/job-cut-announcements-in-2017-see-lowest-level-since-1990-challenger.html
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Well,,,, Ca. has really peeved the FEDs. You can bet Trump is going to make an example out of Ca. Moonbat and the Proggys thinks they run their own country these days. ” WE don’t have to listen to what D.C. says.” Yet still loves to get the FED handouts.
Weed was just the last “F U” to fly.
Let the FED busts begin. From dope to illegals. It’s time law and order gets fixed. “O” and Co. ain’t here anymore.
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Gee Walt, I thought you guys are all about states rights like election laws, gun laws, etc. I guess it’s like everything else you trumpeters do… cherry pick what ever suits you and screw the rest. What would you have to say if the feds decided to confiscate your AR 15? You would scream like a stuck pig or…. let the assault rifle confiscations begin.
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Have another bong rip bobbie, its supposed to help keep you from being cross. 😉
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Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb, the Carrie Nations of the Marijuana temperance league!!! MAGA MAGA MAGA!!!
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RobertC 435pm – I don’t think you can demonstrate that it’s as cavalier as you assert. There are certain constitutionally mandated rights and obligations reserved for the federal government, and immigration, foreign policy, and border security are among those. States willing to go crossways on those must be prepared for the consequences from Washington. However, that doesn’t give the feds a blanket to pass laws they can’t/won’t enforce, especially those in areas which are not spelled out in the Constitution. I know it’s hard to maintain the liberal narrative and keep consistent on this, but you should at least make a better attempt.
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Sorry Jr. Paul is the “states rights” guy. Gun rights you say? In Calif.??? LOL!! Election laws? The LIBS were the ones whining, so Trump says FINE!! “We will look into rigged elections.” Who were the first to cry foul?? LIB STATES!! “Uh Never mind!”
Ya. Bobby,, cry me a river.
“State’s rights” does not give the “state” the “right” to break FED laws. Jail time may be coming to those politicians. Time will tell.
Washington State. is finding out what teeth the Commerce clause has.
Wash. refuses to allow coal exports. Sorry,,can’t block it because you don’t like it.
Got guns? Like to grow or smoke dope? Better pick which is more important. ( I’m kinda like my 2ND Amend.)
The state isn’t going to save you from the FEDS when and if the “G” man comes calling. ( dope and guns at the same time makes you a felon when caught.)
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Yes, Donni I get a sense of pride every time you quote Dow records, and low unemployment figures knowing the it is all because of Obama!!!
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Keep dreaming PVT.
Now for some ethnic humor.
My Norwegian friend will like it.
“The Battle of Copenhagen”
Ten thousand Swedes ran through the weeds,
chased by one norwegian.
Ten thousand more ran to the shore
in the battle of Copenhagen.
Way, way back in history,
back when the world was new,
norwegian searched all over,
to find some snoose to chew.
They fished for Lutefisk and Torsk,
it helped to make them strong,
and you and me, we know a Norsk,
cannot do nothing wrong.
But swedes and danes were envious
of Viking trips and raids.
The Viking shields and helmet horns,
made all those folks affraid.
Throughout the world the Vikings sailed,
to Ireland and to France.
The even found America,
one afternoon by chance.
My grandpa says, and he should know,
the swedes made up the minds.
To beat the Norsky Vikings,
and kick a few behinds.
But history, so grandpa says,
show that the Norskies won.
They clobbered all the swedes and danes,
and made it lots of fun.
Ten thousand swedes ran through the weeds,
chased by one norwegian.
The dust from the weeds,
made snoose for the swedes,
and they called it Copenhagen,
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0? You mean the same 0 who told us 1- 2% growth was the new normal and we better get used to it? That is the 0 you are refereeing to is it not? 😉
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This snowflake is going to popular in the showers-
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180104/serial-rapist-not-happy-with-77-year-prison-sentence?rssfeed=true
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Don
Sessions mandate is a dream come true for the renegade pot growers. Interfere with the legalization choice of states and leave the states with an an unenforceable federal law that the states won’t enforce. No matter what Sessions does pot won’t be against State law and the States have no business enforcing federal law. Imagine teams of feds running around he Ridge? What a joke.
Colorado is pissed. Just saw the Governor on TV railing agaisnt Sessions. Also the Repub Senator of Colorado is threatening to take action and hold up appointments.
“Three days after California legalized the use of recreational marijuana, Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday indicated he intends to reverse an Obama-era federal policy that discouraged federal prosecution of the drug in states where it was legal.
Lawmakers in states that have legalized the drug for medical and/or recreational purposes reacted negatively to the news, many of them calling out Sessions’ inconsistency on states’ rights.
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), whose state legalized recreational use of the drug in 2012, called out the attorney general in a fiery speech on the Senate floor Thursday, claiming Sessions has gone back on a private assurance he gave before his confirmation at the Justice Department.
Gardner also railed against the Trump administration’s habit of making drastic policy changes on a dime……
“This must be left up to the states,” Gardner had tweeted earlier, adding that he is “prepared to take all steps necessary,” including holding up Justice Department nominees, until Sessions stands down.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/politicians-react-jeff-sessions-reverse-marijuana-legal_us_5a4e58dde4b06d1621bddc48?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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How did that work out on highway speed limits ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman @756? I believe the public is intrigued with your sudden respect for legislators involved in the vast right wing conspiracy. So we can take from that you support their positions on abortion and gun rights? 😉
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Don’t have a clue about what you’re talking about. Just reflecting Sen Gardners position on Pot.
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There is no mention of marijuana in the Constitution, nor nary a word about Social Security. There are, however, mentions of the right to bear arms, which states have no say about, and the Federal government exclusive role in immigration policy, which again, states have no say about.
Some things belong under the Fed’s preview, others under Federalism….in a perfect world. Most counties will be lucky to get 11-19% of the renegade growers to come out of the cold and go legit anyway. Controlled seed to end product. The recreational dispensaries now open do not sell to customers anything close to an ounce. Grams. Still $250 a pound on the ridge, by the garbage bag……
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Colorado Governor Higgenlooper is going to ignore Sessions blat
Governor John Hickenlooper says that Sessions’s memo will not change his responsibility to carry out the will of the people, who voted to legalize recreational cannabis in 2012.
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