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329 responses to “Sandbox – 24feb18”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Quotes.
    Now, who came up with that bright idea?
    “The call to let 16-year-olds vote is a call to amplify the votes of teachers’ unions. If you think political indoctrination in the schools is bad now, wait until it has the direct power to tip election results.” —Robert Tracinski
    Drop your drawers and I am yours. Hmmm. Isn’t our Popinjay a white male?
    “Not all men are mass shooters, but most mass shooters are men. … If we can equate femininity to passivity with little statistical evidence, why is it that we cannot equate masculinity to gun violence with large statistical evidence? … We often label these folks as ‘madmen’ with ‘mental illness,’ but when will we begin to label masculinity as having gone ‘mad’? … The question is not if masculinity is a social construct, but rather how many more lives will it take to transform this construction?” —Rutgers University student Francesca Petrucci
    Now, this is how you do it, libs. Put Pocahontas right on it.
    Sure, if they want to ensure mass unprofitability: “Here’s an idea. What if the finance industry — credit card companies like Visa, Mastercard and American Express; credit card processors like First Data; and banks like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo — were to effectively set new rules for the sales of guns in America? Collectively, they have more leverage over the gun industry than any lawmaker.” —New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin on “How Banks Could Control Gun Sales if Washington Won’t”

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  2. Scenes Avatar
    Scenes

    Since Trump has done an at-least adequate job on foreign policy and the economy, the kind of stuff you actually hire a President for, I can certainly see the value in doubling down on identity and grievance politics.
    Russia didn’t work all that well. Pussy grabbin’ kind of backfired taking Hollywood with it. Mexican nationals wanting to import all their relatives has kind of fallen off the telescreen. I think that organizing kids for political purposes makes a ton of sense. They’re photogenic and you can organize with maximum bellyfeel.
    I had a good idea this morning. You could really ramp up the kid astroturf and put together a Child’s Crusade. Start in Florida and head for Barbra Steisand’s house in Malibu for a rally and cookies. Millions of children heading for California with justice in their hearts.

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  3. MAGA Covfefe! Avatar
    MAGA Covfefe!

    Trump,,, Walmart,,, Dick’s and the rest are telling NRA freaks and little Wayne LaPierre, Jr. to grow up or F..K OFF!

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  4. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: MAGA Covfefe! | 01 March 2018 at 08:25 AM
    Dicks will probably in Chapter 11 within the next 18 months.
    Climb back into your box dougski!

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  5. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    NRA is 40% democrats.

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  6. Scenes Avatar
    Scenes

    I think that Mr. MAGA needs a new hobby for his garage.
    https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Gunner-Micro-CNC-Machine/dp/B0742MQ93S
    Go out and buy a stack of 80% lowers, let’s say $50-$100 apiece, and make up your own batch of rifles. Nothing silly like registration or serial numbers involved, although I doubt that this is legal in CA anymore.

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  7. George Rebane Avatar

    re MAGA 825am – I wish there were some practical way we could make a market on some of these cocksure predictions that appear in our comment streams.

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  8. Walt Avatar

    On the subject of “predictions”,, we sure got lied to bout the snow level.
    Friscogate said I would have a foot of snow by now.

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  9. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: George Rebane | 01 March 2018 at 08:56 AM
    You can short Dicks stock if you think they are in some trouble or buy for the long term if you subscribe to dougskis position.

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  10. MAGA Covfefe! Avatar
    MAGA Covfefe!

    Yep,,,she’s got ‘brains’!!! MAGA
    Melania Trump entered the United States in 2001 after receiving a green card visa designated for people with “extraordinary ability,” according to a new Washington Post report.
    The wife to President Trump was one of only five people from Slovenia who entered the United States in March of 2001 under the EB-1 program, which has been described as the “Einstein visa.” This detail surrounding the first lady’s immigration journey comes after Melania’s own parents recently faced criticism for potentially relying on an immigration process referred to by some as “chain migration” that their son in law wants to end.
    In the late ’90s and earlier 2000’s, a then Melania Knauss could be seen gracing runway shows in Europe, billboard cigarette ads and the pages of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit edition. The EB-1 program, which was written into U.S. immigration policy via the Immigration Act of 1990, was built to let in researchers, business executives and others who demonstrated “sustained national and international acclaim.”
    According to the Post, over one million green cards were granted in 2001 alone, and only 3,376 were issued to immigration with “extraordinary ability.”

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  11. Walt Avatar

    The tax hungry state is never satisfied. Didn’t we just get a big hike in fuel tax? Nope, not enough!
    http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article202757129.html

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  12. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: MAGA Covfefe! | 01 March 2018 at 09:25 AM
    She managed to marry our billionaire president.
    Extraordinary!

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  13. George Rebane Avatar

    re MAGA 925am – Now here’s an Exhibit A for ignorant envy. Upon arrival, the woman was immediately a productive tax-paying worker and soon thereafter started a business that created jobs, created wealth, and paid taxes – and still does. But then, more often than not, hate knows no bounds.

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  14. MAGA Covfefe! Avatar
    MAGA Covfefe!

    Whatever you say George@939,,, now feeling SAD for the Slovenian ‘BRAIN’ drain that resulted when Melania jetted off to the BIG APPLE!!! What a HOOT!

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  15. George Rebane Avatar

    re MAGA 1005am – I’m at a disadvantage here. Can anyone make any sense out of what Mr Covfefe is trying to communicate? I would appreciate an interpretation.

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  16. Walt Avatar

    George.. Just envious hate.

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  17. George Rebane Avatar

    Walt 1048am – Agreed. Op cit my 939am.

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  18. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    I predicted this many years ago. Looks like the ANC of South Africa will be confiscating all White-owned land in tha country. We saw how well that worked in Rhodesia. And since Mugabe ws booted the new Zimbabwe leaders want to reconcile with the whites. Looks like the commies of the ANC did not pay attention.

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  19. MAGA Covfefe! Avatar
    MAGA Covfefe!

    Melania is an obvious MENSA!!! Well worth the ”’Einstein Visa”’!!! Of course she deserved to get out of that shithole country. No argument from Trumpers,,,well,,,maybe a whimper…
    http://www.gossipextra.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Melania-6.jpg

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  20. MAGA Covfefe! Avatar
    MAGA Covfefe!

    Stocking the swamp,,,I mean pond,,,the creature from the Black Lagoon strikes!!!
    https://www.yahoo.com/gma/ben-carson-asks-hud-cancel-order-31-000-172204658–abc-news-topstories.html

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  21. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: MAGA Covfefe! | 01 March 2018 at 12:17 PM
    Now dougski….you’re clearly over overwrought! So you can’t land a supermodel……just fate…..and your constant need for adult diapers!

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I’m sure Melania and her lawyers are negotiating an exit plan as we speak. It will be worth millions and will involve her keeping her mouth shut. I mean paying off porn stars and playboy bunnies is probably just a start. Bonking a porn star four months after their son is born has got to be an insult to a woman of her character of which I find no fault.
    Perhaps Trump can once again redefine sex but Bubba, another slime bag beat him to it.

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  23. Walt Avatar

    What happened Dougy? The Daily Caller finally kick you off the comment board? So you come here to TROLL… Got it.

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  24. MAGA Covfefe! Avatar
    MAGA Covfefe!

    No comment from any Trumpers,,,because they know I am RIGHT!!! Y’all talk a good story but when faced with your double standard world view you LOSE!!!

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  25. Walt Avatar

    No, dung,, no feeding TROLLS here.

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  26. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: MAGA Covfefe! | 01 March 2018 at 01:14 PM
    Hardly dougski….I rarely pay attention to your arguments at all. Like listening to the rants of homeless drunks!

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  27. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy 1227pm
    I can’t remember a single Trump or GOP related prediction you’ve been right on… is there a reason to pay attention to this one?
    Now, let’s think about the last forty+ years. In 1976, Jerry Brown gave collective bargaining rights to public employee unions in California, and in 1977, “Abood” was decided by the Supremes that ensured public employee unions rights to money from public employee paychecks without having to get them to join the union. Even if they actively opposed the union on virtually everything. And awash with money, public employee unions became the 800lb gorilla in California politics.
    The smart money is on Abood going bye-bye in a couple months.
    https://reason.com/blog/2018/02/27/justice-kennedy-takes-aim-at-public-sect
    http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-scotus-unions-20180227-story.html
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/02/19/gorsuch_is_deciding_vote_in_key_labor_union_funding_case_136307.html
    No, that doesn’t mean the GOP will be taking California back anytime soon, but politics won’t be the same for California Dems.
    “Revenge is a dish best served cold”
    -old Klingon proverb

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  28. Scenes Avatar
    Scenes

    re: Paul Emery@12:27PM
    “but Bubba, another slime bag beat him to it.”
    Hey, it’s just sex. No big deal. There’s a reason that all modern humans are the result of just 40% of historical males.
    Seriously, my bet is that your opportunity for ‘bonking’ someone who is that good looking throughout your life is roughly 0%.
    re: Todd@11:41
    That is actually a pretty big deal, it’s good to see that it’s getting out to some extent. The upcoming meltdown of South Africa is going to be an ugly thing. The Boers and English settlers are screwed, the aboriginal people are essentially extinct, and the invaders from the north are going to be swinging their blades. Given the anti-white attitude of Europe and a large part of the US and Commonwealth countries, there won’t be much help when the whip comes down. I’ve been considering what little help I can give to these people. No doubt Team Pelline wants them pushed into the sea.

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  29. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    25% tariff on steel?? How many will actually prosper on that move? There goes your tax savings! Hey Don, my man, how about a market report. Lizard got your tongue?

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  30. George Rebane Avatar

    Re new tariffs. I don’t think that the net jobs analysis will pencil out in favor of the American worker – most certainly not the American consumer. I think Trump screwed up. It is one campaign promise kept and gone awry.

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  31. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    George Clooney and Justin Beibers agent forgot to check the date before announcing a march on the DC mall.
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/01/florida-students-march-lives-next-month-d-c-facing-venue-challenge-national-mall-already-booked/
    😉

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  32. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    The tariff issue may be a problem short term but it might be the way to get fairness from those exporting nations. I will wait to judge it’s effect.

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  33. Walt Avatar

    As for the proposed tariff, The last doom and gloom prediction “Them jobs just ain’t coming back”,,sure didn’t pan out as hoped by the Left. Time will tell.

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  34. Paul Emery Avatar

    George
    As a Conservative and a supporter of free trade what is your view on Trumps tariffs on China’s exports on steel and aluminum to the US? From Fox News:
    “GOP lawmakers responded warily to President Trump’s announcement of new tariffs on steel and aluminum Thursday, with House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., asking the president to “consider the unintended consequences of this idea.”
    In a statement, Ryan suggested that Trump “look at other approaches before moving forward.”

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  35. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 240pm – It always pays to read the comment stream before commenting so you don’t look like you believe all new threads start with you.

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  36. Paul Emery Avatar

    Good call George I didn’t refresh my browser.

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  37. Walt Avatar

    Free trade you say Paul? It’s not all that “free” for us.
    You have a problem with “made in America”?
    Forget so soon the substandard steel from China for the Frisco Bay Bridge? Years of the ECO regs ran our jobs and metal production off to foreign lands.(where ECO regs and labor standards are pretty much non existent)
    And you wonder why us regular folk love Trump. He’s Restoring our nation to it’s former glory.

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  38. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So they show their true self, suing for making it hard for illegal aliens to vote!
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/aclu-sues-over-law-making-012344121.html
    😉

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  39. Walt Avatar

    Good show LIBS,, Your knowledge of firearms is staggering.
    Ban what doesn’t exist!
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/01/martin-heinrich-gas-assisted-gun/
    “There are a couple of things I can think of that I think are possible now. Increasing age limits. Certainly somebody who’s 18, 19, 20 years old shouldn’t be able to purchase an assault rifle, an AR-15 or other gas-assisted receiver firearms when they can’t buy a simple handgun, so that should be changed.”
    Making a whole new definition on the fly? Nothing new there…

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  40. Paul Emery Avatar

    So you do not support Free Trade Walt?

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  41. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Free trade is a two way street. Trump used Harley-Davidson as an example a few days ago. To sell a Harley in I think it was Japan,(could have been China) they tack on a 100% tariff. We have a ZERO on theirs. So free trade YES. FAIR TRADE YES.

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Team 0 played dirty with everyone-
    https://pjmedia.com/trending/sharyl-attkisson-accuses-doj-secretly-switching-computer-hard-drives/
    The department of injustice should have been the name under 0.
    😉

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  43. Walt Avatar

    Wiki…. RRRIIGGhhhtttt…
    OK smart ass, let me know where I can get one.
    The BOLT is gas operated.(not assisted) NOT the damned RECEIVER.
    One thing is for sure. No one will ever accuse you of being intelligent.

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  44. Walt Avatar

    BUSTED!!!
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/01/doj-report-expected-to-cast-harsh-eye-on-mccabe-for-leaking-to-press-about-confidential-investigation.html
    “The Justice Department’s inspector general is expected to criticize former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for approving a leak of information about the Hillary Clinton investigation to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times reported late Thursday.
    According to the Times, which cited four people familiar with the investigation into the department’s handling of the Clinton probe, McCabe will be censured for disclosing the investigation’s existence to the Journal. “

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