[A left-leaning friend, and no friend of Trump, cites the WaPo's latest dire prediction of a coming debt-crash, what with all these companies buying back their stock, returning money to shareholders, and paying additional compensation to their employees. Anyone else hunkering down? gjr]

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275 responses to “Sandbox – 11jun18”
So “M”oron says Trump is a dictator? (still trying to sell that line I see.)
Do point out just what he’s done to earn that title.
Dictators usually impose laws to stifle the masses,(Kinda like “O” did) not remove them.(Like Trump has.) Dictators don’t allow guns in the possession of one’s subjects. (Hummm.. There is “O” again)
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Well well well.. Gotta love that genealogy.
OOHHHH the people you find your related too.
You may address me a SIR. Same Line of kin as Princess Dianna.
She and I share a set of Grandparents, And I happen to be three generations CLOSER to those Grandparents.
Since Paul loves the monarchy rule, he better afford me the proper respect he now owes me.
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While it will be helpful to clean up the rolls don’t expect cali to do this.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/11/supreme-court-gives-green-light-to-ohios-voting-roll-purge.html
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Sacramento County trying to turn 200,000 votes not counted yet into a plus. Same program as Nevada County. Not sure it is on this side of their paywall.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article212844774.html
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” Not sure it is on this side of their paywall.”
Nope……
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For all those patriotic Americans still in denial about the intentions of the ‘religion of peace’, check out what our NATO ally is now threatening in his “war between the crescent and the cross”.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/10/erdogan-holy-war-austria/
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Uh Oh, the election results are still not updates even though we were told they would be at noon.
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For all those patriotic voters in Nevada County watching for the updated election results promised by noon today… they ain’t there yet.
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but they are there now!
https://www.mynevadacounty.com/2538/Election-Results-June-5-2018
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Check out what this new carbon nanotube capacitor can do when combined with lithium batteries in vehicles.
https://newatlas.com/nawa-technologies-carbon-ultra-capacitor/54972/
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The link on the elections page is not operable
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It is now
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“Anyone else hunkering down?”
I’m always hunkered, but I don’t think that I would buy any stock at this point (aside from automatic purchases in mutual fund proceeds).
I’ve been surprised by the behavior of bonds over time, but decided I didn’t know anything. There’s just too much money sloshing around for logic to be applied I think.
Just how long can house prices, company shares, the cost of tuition, medical expenses, etc. rise over time? Longer than you might think it seems.
Bill Maher, of course, is temporarily famous for wishing for a recession in order to get rid of Orange Hitler.
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Better luck next time to John Foster who didn’t make the top two for the runoff, and to Hilary Hodge who didn’t make it to the top one. An also ran also goes to Erin Minett for NC City Council.
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GR@12:09 on batteries.
Interesting. That nut will get cracked over time and electric cars will increasingly dominate. There are just too many advantages.
What I wish I saw more on was the other side of the problem. I can see having a car that can be recharged in a New York minute, but what kind of fueling station capacity and grid capacity to same does that imply? That’s an awful lot of energy to pump over a wire and a lot of cars can show up in a given amount of time.
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Here is one for the po’ ol’ pollhead, more good news for the midterms –
The majority of swing voters say they support imposing tariffs on products imported from China, a new poll reveals.
The vast majority of Republican voters, 75 percent, said they support tariffs on China, while a majority of Americans overall support tariffs on China as well.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/11/poll-majority-of-americans-support-tariffs-on-products-imported-from-china/
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Don.. Your really going to twist off a few Lefties.
You keep using their own words against them,, like “vast majority”.
Lil’”jon” won’t be happy.
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Uh Oh, Miller lost over a hundred of his lead. Now ahead by 100.
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,,,Prince walter,,,Fox reported it, not I
Lord Bessie,,,China yes, they are dishonest like emperor trumpski,,,
But Canada,,,and Mexico,,,idiotic!!!
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He may never get credit from environmentalists, but President Trump is building a unique conservation legacy by focusing on the restoration and rehabilitation of America’s majestic yet long-neglected national parks.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/10/donald-trump-dedicates-national-park-funds-restora/
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COUNTED % Pro Rata
ELIGIBLE 6/11/18 Turnout Votes to Go
D1 15,217 5,286 34.74% 1,578
D2 14,334 4,492 31.34% 1,486
D3 12,718 4,068 31.99% 1,319
D4 14,168 4,408 31.11% 1,469
D5 11,635 2,710 23.29% 1,206
TOTAL 68,072 20,964 30.80% 7,058
28,022 Ballots Received
7,058 To Count
What a cluster
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Ca. looks for more ways to mess with the vote.
They will try anything to keep the proggys elected.
I say let the old folks, and the military vote by mail,, all others show up on election day. The way it SHOULD be.(with ID)
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Still can’t show how Trump is a dictator Capt Clueless?
Sucks to be you.
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The shoes they just keep a dropin’ –
Former Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page has been pursued by Christopher Steele and his dossier, the FBI, Democrats and Russia collusion-minded media.
He has proclaimed his innocence throughout the two-year inquisition.
Last week, he learned he had another adversary, this one hidden.
A federal indictment showed that James A. Wolfe, director of security for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, was leaking secret anti-Page information to the press. His favorite recipient was reporter Ali Watkins, who quickly rose through the Washington journalism thicket from college intern to New York Times reporter at age 26.
The indictment against Mr. Wolfe, 57, said he had a romantic relationship with Ms. Watkins from December 2013, when she was an intern, to December 2017. Two plot twists that month: She won a job at The New York Times, and the FBI confronted Mr. Wolfe. The indictment charges him with three counts of lying when he denied leaking to reporters.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/10/senate-security-director-leaked-anti-page-informat/
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Don. Like I said before. The 1ST Amendment needs a new overhaul.(kinda like what Lefties have done with the 2ND)
This “freedom of the press” has too much freedom. This news is a great reason to end this “unnamed sources” horse shit.
Make false statements in the name of “free press”, go to jail.
The 2ND states,, “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED”,, yet plenty of “infring’n has been going on. The press has help that happen.
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Seattle has caved to big tech and will be repealing the per employee tax. 😉
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Nevada County is a solid blue county as reflected in last weeks election. More votes will be counted but in most races the Dems have solid leads. In partisan races the Dems outpolled the Pubs in the following elections:
District 1 House
District 4 House
Governor
Sec of State
Treasurer
Attorney General
Board of Equalization
Senate
Controller
The only major race that the Pubs lead in is Brian Dahle Assembly
Here’s the latest polls to verify my numbers
https://yubanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Election-Results-Updated-June-11-2018.pdf
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Don @ 1:45 pm
This ain’t the first time the wackjob libs that have taken over Nirvana City Council…er…taken over Seattle City Council have had to rescind a head tax. Last time it was for “transportation” or big brother. The libs can never get enough of OPM. They are like herpes. Just when you think they are in remission, they flare up again. From 9 years ago…this month.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-council-plans-to-repeal-employee-head-tax/
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It appears to me the election results are pretty reflective of the registered numbers. The democrats are to be commended in their drive. We useed to do this including me, but have not sone a drive for a long time.
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This was last weekend in a nutshell. They are pissed because their Marshall Plan is coming to an end. Time to kick the babies out of the nest.
https://patriotpost.us/cartoons/26234
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LOL Paul,, your counting victorys for Nov, and it’s not even half past June.
The local Proggy didn’t even come close.
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Bernie bros who buy into the joys of socialism Venezuela being preached by comrade Bernie.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/11/voluntarily-vagrant-homeless-youth-crusty-urban-challenge.html
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I’m pretty stoked by this new (D) dominance in California. It’s a brave new era. Up until now the rethuglicans were holding us all back.
You can expect large improvements in the homeless situation (free housing perhaps?), free or more affordable college, solidifying our sanctuary state status, even a single payer healthcare system.
The only thing that can keep California from becoming a Heaven on Earth is Orange Hitler.
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DonB@3:27PM
Well, you know what happens when you feed stray cats.
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Sometimes, it’s best just to let them speak for themselves.
Thompson went on to suggest that Trump was just engaging in the high-stakes foreign policy mission because he was “weakened”: “Lastly, there’s also a history of world leaders who themselves in trouble, meeting with weakened U.S. presidents. Brezhnev kissed Nixon, China met with Nixon. And so, this is just history repeating itself.”
Ruhle marveled in response: “You are such the historian. Every time you come, I’m more impressed.”
Ruhle then worried: “But will it be a winning news cycle for the president?” Sherman and Jordan promptly agreed that it would be, while Thompson sounded the alarm: “If those of us in journalism allow it to be. We need to absolutely scrutinize it in the same way every Democratic president was scrutinized going to North Korea. Can’t be this double standard.”
Sherman joined in the complaining about Democrats suffering from a media “double standard”:
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2018/06/11/msnbc-fears-trump-will-get-winning-news-cylce-north-korea-summit
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“O” and Co. paid the fat kid to stay quiet.(along with all the other administrations over the years) Trump hasn’t offered up a dime that we have heard of. Yet one of “O”s minions came out from under a rock.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/11/wendy-sherman-obama-adviser-kim-summit-sitcom/
Has the same whine as “M”, “jon”,, and Paul.
HELL! Trump may even get back that captured destroyer USS Pueblo..
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Well that’s enlightening to know that the peoples republic of cali is ruled by the urban socialists ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman @ 209. DUH. 😉
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Now he did it, slick willy spoke his truth, perhaps a little too much truth for his own good =
“I think the norms have really changed in terms of, what you can do to somebody against their will”
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/11/politics/bill-clinton-al-franken-sexual-harassment/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_allpolitics+%28RSS%3A+CNN+-+Politics%29
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“Yet one of “O”s minions came out from under a rock”
I expect that it wasn’t a rock so much as a planned foray. I’m not much of one for conspiracy theories, but the top level of the ‘Resistance’ is a fairly obvious cadre.
(as a side note, I really admire ‘Resistance’ as a word. It’s like using ‘denier’ for global warming cynics. ‘Denier’ implies holocaust denial, and ‘resistance’ has the notion of the French Resistance built in. After all, anyone you disagree with is a Nazi).
My only opinion on NK and Kim Jong-un is that the latter absolutely has to have an exit plan/golden parachute that works, no matter what the deal is. Living in a place like that is dangerous, but running it is riding the tiger.
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The fakenews business aint what used to be in the age of Trump where the public is optimistic and supporting the policies.
In an embarrassing setback for CNN, the network’s heavily promoted new 9 p.m. show, “Cuomo Prime Time,” finished well behind arch-rival MSNBC during its inaugural week. Observers say it’s the latest sign that CNN’s anti-Trump programming strategy may be faltering.
Most troubling for CNN executives — “Cuomo Prime Time” finished its first week with viewership down 9 percent compared to CNN’s 9 p.m. programing the same week last year. In addition, Friday’s episode lost 23 percent of the viewers who tuned in for last Monday’s much-heralded premiere.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/06/11/embarrassment-for-cnn-as-chris-cuomo-s-new-show-trounced-by-msnbc-in-anti-trump-smackdown.html
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@4:00, Stalking Scenes or maybe not.
I, too. have always liked the word ‘Resistance’ from the get-go. Its like being Pierre in the French underground when the Germans occupied Paris, the magical city of love and romance or running around with tattered fingerless gloves fighting the alien machines in the ruins of our cities. A just cause. But, the Resistance grabbed that rallying cry banner before we did. You snooze, you lose.
There is an interesting concept that I have been kicking around in my head since reading one line in a long piece awhile back. The Resistance? They are the Revolution, see themselves as the Revolution, the agent for chance since Gov. Reagen told them that soap was not a four letter word, try it sometime. Or was that Nixon? Anyway, ever since that era here post WW2. There’s new generation with a new explanation.
Here is the line: The Revolution does not know how to handle a counter-Revolution.
I am seeing that played out on a daily basis. Scenes is right. The Resistance has radicalized the Right. We are the counter-Revolution and, try as they may, they just can’t handle it and know not what to do. At least they are quite articulate. Resist above everything! The cause is just.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1333766156757418/?type=3&theater
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Resignation coming soon?
https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/linda-campbell-trustee-of-nevada-joint-union-board-arrested-on-contempt-charge/
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Good news for the midterms for us, they are doubling down on left wing messaging courtesy Hollywood.
DNC Chairman Tom Perez, several House members and other top elected officials have already met with the group, formed by members of the entertainment industry in the wake of the 2016 election, that participants liken to a TV writers’ room, complete with producers of such programs as “Veep.” The existence of the group and details of the meetings have not been previously reported.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/11/democratic-campaign-messaging-hollywood-637364
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Don……wonder how they got wind of that? Think they take a peep at those “conservative blogs?” Nothing but an extremist alt-right vile bunch who are sooo mean. Why are they so mean and nasty? Why, why, why?
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moi at 4:32 pm
Boy, that did not take long. What has got into Sessions? Trump shoved a flare up his chute or something? Nah. I bet the Left done radicalized him and he is putting his toe into the counter-Revolution. About time.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/11/doj-excoriates-university-michigans-bias-response-team-says-free-speech-is-under-attack.html
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While that old fox Sessions muffed the muller issue he has been doing what was promised @ 451. Then there was also today;
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/11/jeff-sessions-tightens-the-screws-on-bogus-asylum-seekers/
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@ 5:14 pm
Silly boy. This is how they will spin it on Amy Goodman
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2018/6/11/17450374/sessions-asylum-domestic-gang-violence
They have covering that poor woman’s travails for awhile. You are aware that after her long dangerous trek, she was put in a cage and molested by gangs of Border Patrol Agents with leering eyes. And now this! Keep those interpreters handy. Also, the refugees won’t say the wife beaters or rapists’ names cause that would endanger their lives, duh.
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Karen Musalo, co-counsel for the Salvadoran woman and a professor at University of California Hastings College of Law, said the decision could undermine claims of women suffering violence throughout the world, including sex trafficking.
“This is not just about domestic violence, or El Salvador, or gangs,” she said. “This is the attorney general trying to yank us back to the dark ages of rights for women.”
https://apnews.com/c5b237a0b47649de9f047506f0f07fdf/Sessions-excludes-domestic,-gang-violence-from-asylum-claims
And this led to the “c” word and Obama era pics of brown skinned kids in cages and a whole lot of popping melons. Overripe melons.
https://apnews.com/f11e70e3d8c7424d8c0a01ae41ca15a7
Well, if you don’t want to be separated from you family, don’t sneak in here illegally. Use the front door. Much safer and you get treated better. Or, don’t send your kids ahead of you or don’t leave your family behind, or when the time comes, get deported as group of kin folk and stay together.
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Veto fodder –
Most recently, a CBS News/YouGov poll revealed that a plurality of Americans living in swing districts who said mass immigration has changed their communities say overall immigration is making life “worse” in the U.S. About four in nine black Americans in swing districts said immigration is making American life “worse.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/11/gop-amnesty-plan-will-allow-daca-illegal-aliens-to-bring-their-foreign-parents-to-u-s/
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I think I like this a lot.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/11/white-house-official-outlines-trump-doctrine-were-america-bitch/
It would even fit on a bumper sticker.
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note to self:
“We’re America, Bitch” is on a growth trajectory. Watch for it.
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