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[The lamestream is now reduced to reporting on every Russian who ever had anything to do with US, or who traveled to America and in some way dealt with Trump or let his shadow fall on a Trump property.  What does that say to the work product of special prosecutor Mueller after all these months?  And we are still being informed that Russia has meddled in our elections, and will likely do so again – as if we just fell off the pumpkin wagon, or was it they who were so unfortunate?  gjr]

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250 responses to “Sandbox – 2mar18”

  1. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Gregory thanks for the kudos. Linda/jon truly is a piece of work. Having someone like her on the Board having to do with our children is very scary. I attended her censure hearing after Linda/jon threatened the Tea Party gals. She was a chicken and did not show up for her just desserts.

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  2. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    So busted. I thought no one would ever know I was Linda. Damn you Todd.
    But Todd, didn’t you discover, only a few weeks ago I didn’t even live anywhere near here??
    Carry on with Peggy.

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials announced this week that the four-day raid led to the arrest of 232 illegal immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area.
    Of those 232, 180 “were either convicted criminals, had been issued a final order of removal and failed to depart the United States, or had been previously removed” from the country and had come back illegally.
    Another 115 “had prior felony convictions for serious or violent offenses.”
    The numbers might have been greater, but for the intervention of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who tweeted out a warning of the impending raid, tipping off others who might have been caught.
    Acting ICE Director Tom Homan said on “Fox & Friends” that Schaaf’s warning meant that there are roughly 800 illegal immigrants they were unable to locate.
    “What she did is no better than a gang lookout yelling ‘police’ when a police cruiser comes in the neighborhood, except she did it to a whole community. This is beyond the pale,” he said.
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/03/violent-criminals-among-illegal-immigrants-caught-in-california-raid-derailed-by-dem-mayor.html
    Time to pay the piper-
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5453161/Justice-Department-launches-investigation-Oakland-mayor-Schaaf.html
    😉

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Somebody’s act has worn thin with the real people but hey she still will get to be on 2nd rate talk shows.
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/03/03/box-office-poison-j-laws-red-sparrow-bottoms-17-million/
    😉

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  5. Mary Wanna Avatar

    Local pubbers alternately trash Obama (or Hillary or whomever) yet sing the cricket chorus about what is happening in real time with Trump et al. They like living in the past I would assume (preferably the 1950s, but any decade will do in a shitstorm).
    The latest misinformation Trump and the Russian trolls are peddling is that Obama did not do enough about the Russians before the election so it is all Obama’s fault.
    Maybe the following article will help explain things to our local pubber illuminati. Spoiler alert, the blame lies with the pubber (primarily Mitch McConnell’s) response to the Russian meddling. What were they afraid of?
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/obama-putin-election-hacking/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.2b34f23e83d7

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  6. Scenes Avatar
    Scenes

    Apropos of nothing, but I did like this video.
    Alex Jones sings:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWd6XgBVIcg

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  7. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Mary- That is an excellent piece but your post is wasted here. No one will read past the third paragraph (Todd will just look at the pictures). Of course it is to be discarded as fake news because it doesn’t fit the fart right narrative.
    ~Linda from some place far far away

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  8. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: jon smith | 04 March 2018 at 09:04 AM

    EXCELLENT PIECE: DEF – something that that errr….who are you again….agrees with.
    You’re right though….nobody gives a shit about your propaganda. Just as you don’t give a shit about ours.

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  9. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Posted by: jon smith | 04 March 2018 at 09:04 AM
    What’s wrong with pictures Linda Campbell? They are pretty and way more interesting than your propaganda from your figmented noggin.

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  10. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Fish- It might amaze you to realize I actually read this forum to learn from your side of society. If I were a head-in-the-sand kind of person I’d stick with the left wing forums which, warm and fuzzy as they might be, are not very educational and are filled with just as many delusional people as this place.
    This is more fun, especially when thin skinned tools like Todd and Don start sputtering and trying to act as if they had any education beyond the 11th grade.

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  11. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    How many of you agree with trump that the idea of a “president for life” is “worth a try?”

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  12. George Rebane Avatar

    re MaryW 830am – A most interesting and comprehensive piece by WaPo which describes a lot of high level intelligence activities in the Obama administration viz Russian interference in the 2016 election. Its obvious purpose is to show Team Obama as being aware, concerned, and engaged against Russia. However, what the careful reader will note is the absence of any evidence of Russian interference save the multiple restatements of the allegation that they did interfere in ways that mysteriously left no residue of detectable mediations or identifiable impacts on the election itself. The only ‘proof’ that WaPo and the Left have yet to offer about Russian interference is that Hillary was supposed to win, and so it must have been Russian interference that made her lose. Usually such apologetics are part and parcel of circular reasoning.
    None of this says that Russians did not attempt to interfere, all countries do that in their national interest. But confusing evidence of attempts with evidence of achievement is all that the Left has been able to spread across the land.

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Robert Cross | 04 March 2018 at 09:31 AM
    Move along bobby…..Punch-E has the “Uncle Matlocks Happy Fun Time Question Hour Show” schtick covered already.

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  14. George Rebane Avatar

    RobertC 931am – Your belief in Trump’s making that as a serious proposal is akin with the belief in the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy. It is, however, undeniable proof that suffering from TDS is an intellect debilitating disability.

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Robert Cross
    Obama, the college Constitutional quasi-Lecturer toyed with the idea until some low level aid pointed out some vague prohibition from doing so in some obscure Amendment to the aforementioned Constitution. Something to do with the New Deal or that dark chapter when thousands of Americans of Japanese decent were rounded up and sent off to interment camps during WW2. Something to do with that era…lest we forget.

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  16. fish Avatar
    fish

    Speaking of propaganda…..and from an impeccable source!

    Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden’s Middle Class

    Of course the Times being the Times can’t come out and say it but it’s Malmo so I’m sure you can noodle it through!
    So “jon”……you were a big backer of importing the Middle East into Scandinavia….something about economic benefits if I recall?
    https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/world/europe/sweden-crime-immigration-hand-grenades.html?referer=http://drudgereport.com/

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar

    @ 9:44am
    That line about forever lightened the burden from my shoulders as my thoughts drifted to Bobbie instantaneously refilling his overdue freshly changed diaper and Morning Joe blowing his red red very red melon. Warmed the cockles of me weary heart. Then Trump put the icing on the cake that got all those popping heads going like a bag of Jiffy-Pop when he added that nobody does self deprecating humor better than he, which got me howling.
    Life is splendid indeed.

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  18. ArchieBunker Avatar
    ArchieBunker

    Fish, “In Sweden the street price of a hand grenade is 100 kroner, or $12.50.”
    Why is everything so expensive here? I bet I couldn’t buy a grenade for $100 in Sacramento. Shipping costs?

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Dictator for life! Bill Maher was right! Readers Digest Version
    “Nobody does self-deprecating humor better than I do,” said Trump, who skipped last year’s bash. He also said: “I was very excited to receive this invitation and ruin your evening in person. That’s why I accepted.”
    —on his son-in-law: “We were late tonight because Jared could not get through security.”
    —on Vice President Mike Pence: “He is one of the best straight men you’re ever going to meet … he is straight. Man.” Trump also said, “I really am proud to call him the apprentice ”
    —on Attorney General Jeff Sessions: “I offered him a ride over and he recused himself. What are you going to do?”
    —on The New York Times: “I’m a New York icon. You’re a New York icon. And the only difference is I still own my buildings.”
    —on former chief strategist Steven Bannon: “That guy leaked more than the Titanic.”
    —on the first lady: Trump said he doesn’t understand why everyone says #freemelania. He said she’s actually having a great time.
    Toward the end of his comments, Trump couldn’t resist some of his favorite themes, revisiting his election night victory and chiding reporters to be fair.
    He closed by saying: “I just want to say this, this is one of the best times I’ve had with the media — this might be the most fun I’ve had since watching your faces on election night.”

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  20. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    George 9:44 — The fact that you seem to pass off trump’s comment as a joke is as astonishing as him saying that in the first place. In case you all missed it, or more likely, don’t want to face up to the facts, trump was dead serious. He enjoys the power and attention. So rather than answer the question as to whether or not you want a president for life (maybe if it was trump) you deflect it with the usual babble.
    Bill: “Obama, the college Constitutional quasi-Lecturer toyed with the idea”. I bet you either made that up or got it off Breitbart or Drudge or some other fake news site.
    Move along fishy.. here’s your koolaid and the cliff is just over the hill.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar

    From centerfield:
    No wonder Hillary blamed Nigel Farage as one of the reasons she lost the election that was rightfully hers…and Obama’s. “I is sorry Mr. President, i is sorry.”
    Yep, My Gal wrote in “WTF Happened” that Nigel said mean things about her at a Trump rally. Well, for once, Hillary may have accidentally told the truth. Blame Nigel. He does have a way with words.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bypLwI5AQvY

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Robert Cross | 04 March 2018 at 11:05 AM
    You’re beautiful when your angry bobby!

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  23. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Why is it th left has no ability to recognize Trump’s humor? We on the right have a brain while JonSmith/Linds and RCross have a lack of that gray matter.

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Assault Rifles in Sweden???
    “I’m gonna go to Sweden in a couple of weeks and lead the parade in Sweden through the Muslim ghetto… Because last year, you’ll remember that the Swedish authorities, the Swedish government, you know these far-left social justice lunatics who are trying to create a progressive paradise in Sweden, well I’ll tell you what a progressive paradise is like: A broke country where all the women get raped.
    A year ago, Swedish authorities told a gay march off for being too unnecessarily provocative for marching through a Muslim area. Now to my mind, the point of gay pride was always to be brave and defiant in the face of hateful social conservatism, right? I thought that was it. That’s what they’re doing.
    So I’m gonna go and I’m gonna be there in Sweden in a couple of weeks and march through this heavily Muslim area to remind people, and I hope it will remind people in Europe at least, what the problem is today.
    “It’s not Buddhists, or Christians, or Zoroastrians, or Confucians, or even much blind Atheists. None of these people are taking to the streets with assault rifles to kill gays.
    —————————-
    Because it’s become dangerous to be gay again. Why? Islam. It hasn’t become physically dangerous to be gay in America because of evangelicals, because of Mormons, because of Zoroastrians. It’s not the fucking Buddhists, you know, that have got police out protecting gay pride marches.
    “It is Islam, and that is the case everywhere you look in Europe where Islam has had a huge influx. It’s in Germany, it’s in Sweden… Malmo, now the rape capital of Europe. They attack women, they attack gays.” —-The Dangerous Faggot
    Hmmmm. No wonder the Lefties hated Milo. I thought he was fabulous and fabulously outrageous, speaking solely for myself.
    One for the road, might explain Bobbie’s pouty face.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5145985/Milo-Yiannopoulos-stuns-Parliament-feminism-speech.html

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  25. Walt Avatar

    LOL “Archie”,, the old adage applies. “you get what you pay for”.
    Go right ahead with your bad self. Just go El Southa’ of the border
    and you get 13 for that price. Ten bucks says it goes off the moment you pull the pin. Please test that.

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar

    “President for life ain’t such a bad idea”
    Ok, I will bite and throw this out there to all to ponder or not.
    Question: Which President in our history do you think became the closest to being a dictator? Besides 44; was there anyone else in or history that comes to mind? Lincoln during the War Between the State’s? Andy Jackson allelegly telling SCOTOS to go pound sand? Who came the closest….or took it the furthest?

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  27. Walt Avatar

    One for our gun grabbers and “gun control”.
    See?? It works GREAT in Mexico.
    http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/03/03/mexican-cartel-continues-stockpiling-military-weapons-mexican-border-city/
    I guess all those automatic weapons are to aid in getting MMJ into Calif.

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  28. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Will President-for-Life The Donald have a book… Quotations from President Trump?
    Yes, Crossman, here’s another vote for it to be yet another joke from DJT. You weren’t in on it.

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  29. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The harder the leftist, the less they are able to laugh at Trump’s humor.
    I’m still laughing at his asking for Russia to give Hillary’s emails to our newsmedia… at a time when her server was decommissioned and sitting on a shelf at the FBI, wiped not with a cloth but BleachBit.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar

    President for life? You mean like Mao or Castro or Stalin what that El Presidente is doing right now in Venezuela, formerly the richest and wealthiest country in South America? Don’t see any upside.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zYjlZVNFjiI

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  31. Scenes Avatar
    Scenes

    re: BillT@12:33PM
    I suppose that the most common answers for defacto dictator would be Lincoln and FDR. It speaks well for the system that it veered back towards the middle after both, although you can argue that they each had to keel over to cause that to happen. No doubt a serious war will do that to a President.
    I do like George’s concept that there musta been Russkies because how else could Hillary have lost? When the fix is in, and it doesn’t happen, there has to be a scam somewhere.
    I’m afraid the Doctor God Emperor For Life Trump will have to amp it up a bit to be considered a dictator. Merely shutting down a few Obama executive overreaches (DACA, parts of the healthcare bill, the odd bombing-for-no-good-reason), actually giving a crack at enforcing immigration law, tweaking in a few tariffs, shepherding a tax bill through Congress, etc. hardly constitutes dictatoring.
    I’d say that the most valuable activity of this whole election cycle, aside from the occasional pussy grabbin’, has been the flushing out of the Left. It’s a heckuva lot more obvious now what they consider truly important.

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  32. Walt Avatar

    Our proggys forget (maybe) that “O” floated the idea to run for a third term.
    “On 15 May 2014, the National Report published an article reporting that Barack Obama had (in defiance of constitutional provisions) shockingly proclaimed he would be seeking a third term as President of the United States”
    In jest most likely,,But we all KNOW he really wanted to.
    He loved using that pen to make laws, all he had to do was write an exec. order abolishing term limits.( His minions here and elsewhere would have gone right along with the plan.)

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Is it just me or does Punchy’s fill in Bobbie sound a lot like our Popinjay lately. Must be the JV Team subbing during the flu season. Phrases just seem so familiar this morning. And just as predictable.
    George, I am shocked, shocked I tell ya that you would take Trump’s appalling comment as a joke. He was serious. Good. I can now assume that you agree with me that Trump really meant it.
    George, oh George! My van is stuck down by the river. Can you come get me? Good. I can assume you are on your way. George, oh George!

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  34. Paul Emery Avatar

    Well I don’t disagree on everything Trump supports. This is contrary to most RR contributors who are strong backers of the War in Iraq.
    “President Trump blasted former President George W. Bush on Saturday over the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, calling it “the single worst decision ever made……”That was Bush. Another real genius. That was Bush,” Trump joked.”
    http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376605-trump-hits-bush-invading-iraq-the-single-worst-decision-ever-made

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  35. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Faint praise is a sin Paul Emery.

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Go ahead President Trump and slap those bitches around. Go full Nigel on them.
    “While the mainstream media in Britain and Europe has gone out of its way to paint President Trump’s proposed aluminium and steel tariffs as unreasonable, it is true that the EU imposes tariffs of 10 per cent on American cars, while the U.S. imposes tariffs of just 2.5 per cent on EU-made cars — making American cars more expensive for British consumers and hurting American exporters.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/03/president-trump-gets-tough-eu-juncker-threatens-taxes-jeans-bourbon-harley-davidsons/

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  37. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Toes 1233pm… President-for-Life… that would be the man himself, FDR. His NRA was unanimously declared unconstitutional by the Supremes…
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Recovery_Administration
    He tried a scheme for packing the Supremes, and forced retirement at 70, but didn’t bother after he’d gotten a couple more votes on his side.
    https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roosevelt-announces-court-packing-plan
    Had he lived longer, he’d have been President longer. He was President-for-Life.

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar

    There’s that date again. Jan 5, 2017. The date Susan Rice made sure we knew everything was by the book when she did her selfie e-mail on Jan. 20th, 2017, aka, Inauguration Day. Not on the calendar? Jan 5, 2017 was the day before Comey testified to Congress.
    http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/5744200672001/?#sp=show-clips

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  39. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Brother Bill 4:46: Do you completely ignore the inequities in our trade “deals” The big candy makers have moved to Mexico and Canada since Bush caved to big sugar and made it more expensive here than any place in the world. 3 big companies (think opec) in Florida pretty much decide how much they’ll charge consumers each year and the tariffs on imported sugar rise based on their whims. Rice is price supported to a ridiculous extreme. Cotton . . .

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  40. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    So that is why my Butterfinger costs more?

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar

    So, that’s why my Butterfinger got smaller?
    Oh jon, years ago when sugar in those little restaurant packages started jumping in price here, I searched to buy some stock in sugar refineries/ producers. None of three in the US were even worth it, being co-ops or losing money or closing down. Sugar cane in Hawaii was going for something like 7 bucks a ton in the 80’s, 90’s. C&H sugar was coming from the Philipines, much cheaper.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLuXQRlwFh8

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  42. Walt Avatar

    Ms.”jon” never takes LIBism into account.(candy gripe)
    Overpaid Unions? ( they ran Twinkies and Hostess into BK and now MEX owned)
    Driving up the cost supplies, the cost of transport, TAXES, packaging requirements, warning requirements.
    Ya, Ms.”jon”, just why in hell did any Co. flee our boarders?
    Anyone who can, business or otherwise, is headed out of this state.
    LIBS run this state, now kick back and watch it die by a thousand cuts.

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  43. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    A friend of mine has a large building n Stockton and has been forced to come clean up the mess the homeless have made on and around the place. I saw a video of what these people have done and I have to say, they sure know how to destroy a place in a short period of time. And that multiplied across the state has made us truly a third world state. Thanks, democrats and your sanctuary state. Traitors all.

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Change of pace: The Jacknian influence of Trump’s foreign policy. 8 pages if ya got the time…..clock full of money quotes.
    DONALD TRUMP AND THE NEW JACKSONIANS
    A resurgent Jacksonianism and ‘America First’ unilateralism could lead to a new US game plan in the Asia Paci c, argue David Martin Jones and Nicholas Khoo
    https://www.cis.org.au/app/uploads/2017/03/33-1-jones-khoo.pdf

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