[Well, does Mueller have anything on Trump and the Russians, or are he and his boys just continuing to manufacture crimes so that in the end they can point to some accomplishments, while hoping to distract all from the charter that gave rise to their commission? Sure would like to see what he would have escrowed when I first suggested it. gjr]
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317 responses to “Sandbox – 19dec18”
“M” so does Shepard Smith.
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,,,Todd???
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,,,Mexico, please help us out and loan us $5 Billion for our Big Fence. That way our Idiot President can say you paid for the wall. The meatheads will be happy and can brag that Mexico paid for the wall.
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SCOTUS upholds the ban on Evil Trumpski’s scheme to restrict immigrant asylum requests!!!
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Russians my ass. Look for the closest LIB.
The head of the firm behind a report on ongoing Russian influence campaigns in the United States was part of a Democratic project to create fake Russian bots during the Alabama special election in October 2017.
The chief executive of cybersecurity firm New Knowledge, Jonathan Morgan, was one of the operatives on a self-described “false flag” operation meant to link Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore to Russian bots in order to boost his Democratic opponent, now-Sen. Doug Jones. The project sought to spread misinformation about foreign interference in an American election.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/21/senate-russia-report-russian-bot/
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Posted by: M | 21 December 2018 at 03:44 PM
So dugsKKKi …..just how many should we invite in?
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Here is some troll chow –
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/melania-trump-haters-attacked-first-lady-throughout-2018-from-mocking-accent-to-slamming-christmas-decor
😉
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Taibbi speaks.
“Donald Trump just violated the only real taboo in American politics – crossing the war party.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-syria-withdrawal-772177/
Even the 420th Nevada City Volunteers are up in arms.
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Now that’s funny – ‘ Even the 420th Nevada City Volunteers are up in arms.’ It is fun to watch TDS trump the peacenick ethos. Will they be on the Brunswick bridge with invade Syria banners on Christmas?
😉
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Scenes does it again… I don’t know where you come up with things like that,, but keep’m coming.
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@4:29 pm
“We’ll see a lot of hand-wringing today from people who called themselves anti-war in 2002 and 2003, but now pray that the “adults in the room” keep “boots on the ground” to preserve “credibility.”
“We’re about to have a very graphic demonstration of the near-total uniformity of the political class when it comes to the military and its role. The war party is ready for a coming-out party.”
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We have already seen it from our Popinjays the second Trump said NATO should pay their fair share. It’s in the agreement. The response was something along of the lines of Mean o Trump making those countries pay that which they cannot afford. It’s not fair! We should foot the bill. Akin to “ they are just poor hard working people trying to provide a better life for their families!”
The puppies are so cute. Can’t we take them all in? Look how adorable are. Can’t we keep them all? I promise to take care of them, Daddy, I promise.
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,,,Trump is busy getting rid of all his advisors in an attempt to become a self made autocrat who intends to rule along with Ivanka and Jared,,,just like the Romanofs!!!
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Interesting. Trump does not need 60 votes in the Senate.
“How do you get Democrats to stop talking? This is where Senate Rule XIX, “the two-speech rule,” comes into play. The rule explicitly prohibits individual senators from speaking “more than twice upon any one question in debate on the same legislative day.” Given that Republicans preside over the chair and control the floor, they can refuse to officially adjourn, opting only to recess temporarily, and keep the Senate in the same legislative day indefinitely. This will ensure that even the Democrats who are willing and able to speak for a long time will eventually be forced to relent.
“This never happens and is never enforced, because Republicans never force Democrats to hold the floor in the first place and McConnell simply won’t bring up legislation without a unanimous consent agreement or without 60 votes to ultimately shut off debate. But if he forced the minority to hold the floor and enforced Rule XIX, Democrats would exhaust themselves very quickly. This is a strategy laid out by James Wallner, an expert on Senate procedure who is currently completing a manuscript on the history of the Senate.”
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/trump-doesnt-need-60-senate-votes-to-fix-the-border-and-short-circuit-a-shutdown/?fbclid=IwAR2SETgWz7YTaYFt08I9J9cxf_lo_YT1eZuexe2IL7JZnYzxLeauFLv8TOU
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That’s a good LIB press. Downplay the issue. Her keepers will keep her on life support till Trump is out of office.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/21/supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-85-reportedly-undergoes-lung-procedure-.html
It’s just a “little” lung cancer.
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M writes:
“Trump intends to rule along with Ivanka and Jared,,,just like the Romanofs!!!”
that’s funny “M”. You can add Bannon as Rasputin the Mad Monk
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Funny? Naaaa,,, just as asinine as usual. Name a dictator that gives freedoms and LESS taxes BACK to the people.
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Re the SCOTUS decision – when did illegal entrants suddenly get “rights” to step into the front of the immigration line to stay in the US? Another notch toward open borders.
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Look at the money pile up!
https://www.gofundme.com/TheTrumpWall
$13,560,919 of $1.0B goal
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punchy257pm
Shep Smith is a toad sucker.
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The Crisis
by Thomas Paine
December 23, 1776
THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.
Whether the independence of the continent was declared too soon, or delayed too long, I will not now enter into as an argument; my own simple opinion is, that had it been eight months earlier, it would have been much better.
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The red like in the sand man AKA lurch the appeaser chimes in. Funny they put under the entertainment section, its is awfully funny in a missing the irony sort of way.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/john-kerry-trump-apos-move-204157874.html
😉
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Those icky people just keep spewing carbon and causing global warming!
It comes a day after drone attacks by suspected eco-warriors caused holiday carnage with a raft of cancellations.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8042572/gatwick-airport-drones-arrests-latest/
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Posted by: ”’M”’ | 21 December 2018 at 05:28 PM
So how many dugsKKKi?!
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Gregory at 6:00 – ‘toad’?? Is that what the kids call it now?
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George at 5:44 – oh c’mon, man – we gots new rights all the friggin’ time.
If we wants sumpin’ we jus say it’s our ‘right’. Don’t tell me you’re agin’ our ‘rights’?
Rights, as do hope – spring eternal.
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Walt at 5:44 – Give it up. They have no proof, facts or reason.
It’s called the big lie. Just keep repeating it over and over and their fevered little brows are wet with the perspiration of fervor.
Trump is LITERALLY Hitler. It’s a fact without any foundation but it’s all they got. Lord knows what they’ll call the next Republican POTUS.
Maybe Satan Double Plus?
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Bill Tozer 6:08
Thanks for Thomas Paine’s observation regarding slavery. So true.
“Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth.”
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Paul 2:56
“Trump pulled troops out of Syria and is looking to withdrawal about 7,000 troops out of Afghanistan.”
If true…good for Trump. Big waste of money all over the world while America is being flushed down the political toilet by those who hate America. Those troops would be doing a great job for our pocketbooks and freedom building the wall.
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SO 755pm
Them toad suckers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0luZiyf3JJM
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8:21 – Ah, I see.
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Fish asks:
“Paul, how would you go about reconstituting a coherent oppositional group to provide effective resistance to the excesses to the socialist left in California?”
Been out all day so I haven’t had time to get into this. First of all are you asking me to design a strategy for the Republican Party in California?
Reconstitution implies by definition a renewal process so I assume you have an era or time frame that you would like to emulate. That, of course, brings up Ronald Reagan as Governor and later President. Reagan was a man of charm and cleverness. Of course he must be compared to Trump who is crude and shallow. Since the Republicans in California are stuck with Trump for at least two years as their flag holder and he so phenomenally
unpopular there must be a distancing from him before the Party can get any traction for a rebuild. They need independent voices with a California style actually like Reagan had when he distanced himself from the Rockefeller Republicans.
The thing to remember is the Republican Party is now the Party of Trump
A dynamic independent California First Republican party has to emerge out of the current rubble. I cite Brian Dahlie as an example of someone who can get things done and influence the direction of the future of California.
All for now. More tomorrow.
Todd, take notes.
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I think the best chance, if any, concerning any recovery for the R’s in CA is just stand back and let the libs run this place into the ground, showing their true colors. Taxing text messages to going to jail for using wrong pronouns to illegals welcomed here…you name it, the Progressives own it.
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Getting closer.
“The first shots rang out just after 1 p.m. on Sunday, on a road lined with orange trees in Exeter, Calif. A farmworker standing on a ladder heard a car slam on its brakes, then felt himself falling in a hail of bullets. As he hit the ground, he realized that he had been shot in the chest.
“The random drive-by shooting at the orchard marked the beginning of what local officials would later describe as one man’s “reign of terror” in agricultural Tulare County. Within 24 hours, Gustavo Garcia would kill one, injure at least six others, rob thousands of dollars from a convenience store and lead a wrong-way chase down a busy highway in a stolen truck, according to police, who believe he may also have been responsible for a second homicide that is still under investigation.
“Now, the area’s top law enforcement official is placing the blame on California’s controversial “sanctuary state” law, known as Senate Bill 54, or the California Values Act. Garcia had previously been deported and was arrested just days before his violent rampage, Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux told reporters Wednesday. But because of the law, he said, his officers were unable to coordinate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“That tool has been removed from our hands,” he said. “And because of that, our county was shot up by a violent criminal.”
Before his alleged crime spree, Garcia, 36, had been removed from the U.S. twice, first in 2004 and then again 2014, ICE officials said in a statement to local media outlets on Wednesday. Before his second deportation, he had spent 27 months in federal prison for illegally reentering the country. A statement from the agency called the weekend’s violence “an unfortunate and extremely tragic example of how public safety is impacted with laws or policies limiting local law enforcement agencies ability to cooperate with ICE.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/20/after-shooting-suspects-reign-terror-california-sheriff-blames-states-sanctuary-law/?utm_term=.ca91705845c0
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“I think the best chance, if any, concerning any recovery for the R’s in CA is just stand back and let the libs run this place into the ground, showing their true colors. Taxing text messages to going to jail for using wrong pronouns to illegals welcomed here…you name it, the Progressives own it.”
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Now other than the fact that progressive political screwups are deliberately ignored by an “house organ” MSM this was the sort of advice that I thought helpful and productive!
I hope Team Stupid heeds your advice to “do nothing” William…..not that they have much chonce in the matter at this point.
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from Paul’s highly detailed plan for advancing Republican fortunes in Sunny California:
“Reagan was a man of charm and cleverness. Of course he must be compared to Trump who is crude and shallow. ”
So basically Republicans need to put a smiley face on TV.
I hope everyone is taking notes.
A better bet. Given:
https://a.scpr.org/i/d81e73f420f2d2ba5890aed5465d9c33/83761-full.jpg
I’d simply examine elections in Mexico and use their marketing techniques. The party would need to change completely, but smiley faces on TV do sell soap rather well. Demographics is destiny after all.
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Bill writes:
“I think the best chance, if any, concerning any recovery for the R’s in CA is just stand back and let the libs run this place into the ground, showing their true colors.”
Wow Deep thinking from ill Bill. Sounds like the hippies in the 60’s waiting for it all to fall down.
“stop hey what’s that sound,
everybody looks whats coming going down”
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Scenes
The California Republicans lead an inspirational leader. Trump is not that. 31% in the general election Really!!!
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“The California Republicans need an inspirational leader. Trump is not that.”
lol. Nope, Trump isn’t inspirational at all. No new movement there. No packed halls. The pubbers need more Hillary Clintons and Gavin Newsoms.
Perhaps you might consider the fact that California is different than the rest of the country. What you might consider common sense is viewed with a bit of horror by people in the traditional US.
It’s time for the one-party state (until it splits in half at some point) of California to put up or shut up. Single payer healthcare, free schooling, the magic of open borders. It makes me a bit teary eyed thinking of the utopia that’s on it’s way. WE ARE THE WORLD, WE ARE THE CHILDREN, WE ARE THE ONES WHO MAKE A BRIGHTER DAAAAAY.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 22 December 2018 at 08:57 AM
Speaking of deep thinking…..
At least I got you to expend a very small amount of honest labor in presenting your “solutions” instead of you merely trying to dispatch someone else to do you bidding.
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A couple of essays:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/opinion/sunday/immigration-border-policy-citizenship.html
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/beyond-cynicism-america-fumbles-towards-kafkas-castle/
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PaulE 857am – Paul, I’m surprised that you are surprised. One out of three votes for Rs is remarkably good given that we are a state that caters to the indigents, illegals, and every other kind of gimme that lives in the land. When you add the globalist elites to those whose automatic vote is for the party that puts government’s hand into the pockets of those who pay taxes, you should be surprised that its only two of three doing so. Even the Greeks of old knew that democracy was a short-lived experiment that would last only so long as the 51% didn’t know they could just vote for the government gun to get their income from the remaining 49%.
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The Punchy/dugsKKKi dilemma…..
https://static.pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/warconundrum-400×600.jpg
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Mr. Fish @ 7:36 am
……not that they have much choice in the matter at this point.
Exactamondo. What difference at this point does it matter anyway? The extreme left owns the State Assembly and State Senate by something like a zillion to eight as well as the Gov’s office and every lever of power from top to bottom in the Gavin Administration, including the Secretary of Voting. Nothing to stop them no matter how great the need or wish.
Now they can put in practice every thing their little hearts desire in CA. Free health care, free college, free family leave, higher wages, higher taxes, more taxes, then more taxes. The sky is the limit! There are no limits.
No stopping the Lefties in Ca. Nothing. It’s their playground. Law just passed that the board of directors of companies in CA have to have at least half women on the boards or else pay the State fines. If there are 6 board members, 3 must be women…or else. Housing is a right. Healthcare is a right. End homelessness. Tax guns, yearly. And the is Big One is stop Climate Dispurption. Carbon taxes are not high enough, not by a long shot.
Nothing can stop them now. The only limit is the limit of imagination.
Right now there are hordes of them hunkered down in brain storming sessions figuring out ways to get their hands and laws on more and more of the priveldged’s money to fund all the grand schemes…to make it fair, of course. How can they get more of that sweet green stuff they are addicted to is the only question. Ah, the smell of other people’s money in the morning. Let’s go power mad and bring them all under compliance to California Values. Use a straw, go to jail. The candy store is open.
https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1505600369573995/?type=3
Short Version: “William, not that have we have much choice in the matter at this point.”
Yep, best to stand out of the way. Resistance is futile.
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HELL just froze over. I gotta agree with the Commie chick.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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@Ocasio2018
Next time we have a gov shutdown, Congressional salaries should be furloughed as well.
It’s completely unacceptable that members of Congress can force a government shutdown on partisan lines & then have Congressional salaries exempt from that decision.
Have some integrity.
Where is my comfort critter??? My 90 proof Wild Turkey !!! Where are you??
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,,,FishKKKi,,,End War Good v. End War Bad,,,you have discovered TrumpsKKKis Easy Buttons!!!
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Fishwifey goes Xmas shopping,,,
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1379777/Woman-throws-racist-tantrum-Hispanic-woman-J-C-Penney.html
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” 51% didn’t know they could just vote for the government gun to get their income from the remaining 49%.”
A bit of a right wing propaganda line don’t you think George? That comparison is totally ludicrous. The whole notion of ‘makers and takers’ was ginned up by monied interests to deflect attention away from and somehow justify their own egregious greed.
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Posted by: M | 22 December 2018 at 11:26 AM
Fishwifey is of Indian blood…..feather not dot…..and would be more than happy to put “two Hispanic women” in a hole if they gave her any crap……not to mention dispatching your flabby geriatric Scottish goat humping ass dugsKKKi.
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Dr. Rebane @ 9:51 am
“One out of three votes for Rs is remarkably good given that we are a state that caters to the indigents, illegals, and every other kind of gimme that lives in the land….”
We got one out of three votes? Remarkably good indeed! No way. We broke 30%? A miracle I tell ya, a bloody miracle. Think it was Robert Cross that ran over here a couple of months or so ago so gleeful that the R’s were polling at 30% and we are doomed. I replied something along that the R’s were about 24% in CA, so 30% seemed rather high.
I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard after the primaries from life long actie ad informed voters, “If Cox was not on the ballot, I would not even bother to vote in November.” First time for everything. To tell you the truth, I thought about not voting in the midterms. Seriously thought about it and it wasn’t just a passing thought. The only reason I did vote was to lodge a protest against another gas tax to fund the State payroll and pension liabilities due now.
At least I tried. Tried to save the State from going full Paris, but it was not meant to be.
It’s all Kaanaugh Hearings, the Seuel from here on out. 1/3? Oh, that is too high. Not acceptable. Must have full compliance. Annihilate the Deplorables! Destroy all of them, obliterate them, ,wipe them off the face of the earth;, give them no rest, no quarter, defeat them utterly. Rid them from OUR land, our beautiful blue land.
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Posted by: Robert Cross | 22 December 2018 at 11:33 AM
“There’s a snake in my boot!”
– Sheriff Woody
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Posted by: M | 22 December 2018 at 11:25 AM
…….hmmmm…..”Orange Man bad” then…..!?
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