[When the smoke clears after Super-Tuesday, I wonder how many of the Dems will still be running for president – both Biden and Warren are candidates for the dear departed. Whoulda thought? And how will Team Pelosi put a bullet in Bernie's candidacy? gjr]
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302 responses to “Sandbox – 13feb20”
Creepy grampa joe is bleeding out –
Former Vice President Joe Biden was grilled Friday about the Obama administration’s record of detaining migrant children in what some lawmakers and activists have described as “cages” — with the 2020 hopeful claiming the government did it to keep them “safe.”
Biden, who served as VP for both of then-President Barack Obama’s terms, has cited his experience as a reason he should be the Democratic nominee. But with the Democratic Party shifting to the left on matters related to immigration in recent years, he has faced increased scrutiny about the administration’s policies from those claiming they were cruel.
BIDEN FACES NYC PROTESTERS CHANTING ‘DROP OUT JOE!’
In an interview Friday posted on Facebook, Univision journalist Jorge Ramos took issue with a claim that Biden made in September in a debate in Houston that the Obama administration never put migrant children in cages — in contrast to the Trump administration.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-biden-grilled-obama-record-argues-we-kept-them-safe
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Obama didn’t build that and didn’t give a shit about fraud –
President Trump’s new executive order on welfare reform has laid the groundwork to get more Americans back to work while protecting and strengthening the safety net for the truly needy. Federal agencies must take advantage of this opportunity to roll back harmful Obama-era policies that have trapped families in dependency and cost taxpayers billions.
Right now, America combines near-record-low unemployment with near-record-high welfare dependency — the result of state-level eligibility exemptions, federal loopholes and policies that put work on the back burner. Many of these policies created incentives for able-bodied adults to sit on the sidelines — even though there is good, well-paying work to be done. The resulting safety net isn’t a safety net at all — it has entrapped able-bodied adults in dependency and threatened resources for the truly needy.
But welfare reform can change that. And the Trump administration has just given agency leaders a road map to do so.
The executive order, signed Tuesday afternoon, lays out principles to encourage economic mobility through work — a tactic that we’ve seen succeed in states across the nation. It calls for a strengthened work requirement for able-bodied adults, building off the requirement established in the 1996 bipartisan welfare reform that requires able-bodied adults on food stamps to work, train or volunteer for at least 20 hours per week.
Despite evidence that work requirements work — cutting time spent on welfare in half, doubling incomes and moving adults into over 600 diverse industries — the Obama administration approved waivers for those requirements in most states, citing high unemployment and severe job shortages.
What happened when states no longer required able-bodied adults to work to receive benefits? Predictably, the number of able-bodied adults on food stamps skyrocketed, more than tripling since 2000, while the cost to taxpayers went up fivefold.
Even though unemployment has since rebounded to near-record lows and more than 6 million jobs are open nationwide, these Obama-era waivers are still in place and many states continue to operate expanded welfare rolls under them.
Federal agencies should follow the White House’s guidance to change that by declining to renew these waivers and strengthening the work requirement for able-bodied adults, returning the food-stamp program to the law’s original bipartisan intent and rolling back the unsustainable spike in welfare recipients.
Based on the experience of states that reinstated work requirements, this common-sense reform would move millions of able-bodied adults from welfare to work while saving taxpayers billions — ensuring the safety net is in place for those who truly need it.
The good news doesn’t end there. Because the executive order spans multiple programs — including Medicaid and food stamps, among others — agency leaders have the opportunity to bring much-needed change to all welfare programs. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services must continue to approve states’ waiver requests to implement work requirements for able-bodied adults in Medicaid, as more and more states follow the example set by Arkansas, Indiana and Kentucky. Agencies should look to eliminate loopholes that allow automatic enrollment into welfare programs without asset tests or other tests of need, and should look to implement anti-fraud initiatives to crack down on welfare fraud and preserve limited resources for the truly needy.
The Trump administration hasn’t been shy about its desire for welfare reform — and rightly so, given out-of-control enrollment and spending that has resulted in a massive dependency crisis. This executive order provides a pathway to a welfare system that protects the needy without trapping the unwary.
History and experience tell us that if federal and state agencies follow through on the reform principles the president has laid out, we can protect the safety net for the needy while filling millions of open jobs and creating billions of dollars in federal and state budget savings.
That would be a good day’s work.
https://nypost.com/2018/04/10/trump-just-took-a-giant-step-towards-actual-welfare-reform/
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How long before Nevada City’s oldest and wrinkeliest teenaged girl breathlessly arrives with this…..?
“Guys…..didja see this!?!? Guys! GUYS……LOOK OVER HERE!!
C’mon ……! Guys!”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/vermonts-republican-governor-refuses-to-support-trumps-re-election-endorses-challenger
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Good Lord Mr. Fish. The Vermont Governor? It’s the beginning of the beginning of the beginning of the end for the Trumplers and the pubbers and the circle nazi jerks! Oh man.
No real punch line, but this makes for some amusing background music. It takes a couple of minutes to hit the stride of the whole piece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGRKpkkFxrk
Kind of the Alex Jones of the Left sort of like comparing Democraticunderground to Stormfront. Everybody has their share of crazies when they represent 1/2 the population.
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Posted by: scenes | 16 February 2020 at 08:23 AM
Before Trump so many on the “progressive” side of the ledger could at least maintain the appearance that they were sane.
No longer!
Trump….is there nothing he can’t do?
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I’m not sure what’s going to slow him down more…….his past…..or potentially having Hillary as a running mate?!
Please Wokesters….turn out en masse for Bloomary! For the yucks….and the hypocrisy!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/michael-bloomberg-women/
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Posted by: fish | 16 February 2020 at 08:54 AM
Sounds like Oosik will be voting for Bloomburger,,,he so much like Trump and so much richer!!!
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Posted by: odlaw | 16 February 2020 at 09:05 AM
Nahh…..I’m a Californian…..I can sit back enjoy the weather and do nothing!
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Posted by: Walt | 15 February 2020 at 06:15 PM
Here you go Walrus…you poor brainwashed soul…I guess the good news for you is that the number of SNAP recipients is not increasing under Agent Orange Rind…
https://snapvisualizations.net/yearly-trends
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Posted by: odlaw | 16 February 2020 at 09:09 AM
I guess the good news for you is that the number of SNAP recipients is not increasing
Put dugsKKKi down as being in favor of more poor people.
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Good job Dougy, you just posted positive news for Trump.
Never mind the record number of same when your boy “O” was running the show.
Yup, something only Trump can pull off.
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/trump-daytona-500-the-beast-limo
“President Trump is set to rev up NASCAR’s Daytona 500 on Sunday with a lap around the famed oval track in the armored presidential limo, dubbed “The Beast,” a first for any U.S. president, Fox News has confirmed.”
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I just sent a very nice donation.
Samantha Bee Attacks Conservative ‘Prager U’ In Six Min Segment. It Completely
Backfires.
http://dlvr.it/RQ51Wr
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,,,Po Lil Putin…doesn’t like pussy rioters…I guess like Trump he also likes to grab the pussy…
…hey the good news…they will be in Berzerkley soon!!!
https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-police-shut-down-pussy-riot-group-s-video-shoot-for-second-straight-day/30427869.html
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Posted by: Walt | 16 February 2020 at 09:26 AM
,,,Walrus is still a believer…good for you…I don’t think I heard you cheering when SNAP recipient numbers declined during Obama’s term…???
it is called the economic recovery stupid…been going on for over a decade…
Exit question::: what caused the economic downturn and recession and necessitated the bailouts after 2007-08 – – – runaway capitalism or runaway socialism???
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Posted by: Walt | 16 February 2020 at 09:26 AM
Wow Walrus,,,just Wow!!!
Trump and the Beast make Daytona!!! The first time ever!!! Wow!!!
That is almost like putting a man on the moon!!!
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Exit question::: what caused the economic downturn and recession and necessitated the bailouts after 2007-08 – – – runaway capitalism or runaway socialism???
The willingness to accept excessive risk knowing that Barack Obama (or some other yahoo) would cave and bless a Bail Out of financial institutions that should have been allowed to fail. An implicit backstop of Wall Street stupidity if you will!
Barry didn’t “Save Capitalism”, indeed there is nothing Capitalistic about Bail Outs, he merely deferred a greater collapse!
When……ugh….I wish I knew! I’m surprised that it’s gone on this long!
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Still living rent free inside your head Dougy,, you should be paying me just to show up. (what a shithole it is in here)
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in the ‘goombahs r us’ category – 1,100 former DOJ officials say AG Barr should resign for interfering in the Roger Stone sentencing. ““It is unheard of for the Department’s top leaders to overrule line prosecutors, who are following established policies, in order to give preferential treatment to a close associate of the President…..Governments that use the enormous power of law enforcement to punish their enemies and reward their allies are not constitutional republics; they are autocracies,”
Only in trumplandia were the rule of law is an inconvenient obstacle to the trumpler oligarchy. Why not just make him president for life and get it over with?
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“cross top”? ,, “jon” is back.
Who gives a shit what “former” LIB boot lickers have to say?
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re AG Barr – I wonder if our rabid TDS sufferers have considered any conceivable reason why an accomplished lawyer and former AG with an impeccable reputation like Barr would be a toady to Trump – money? women? drugs? prestige? a night in the Lincoln bedroom? stock tips? …
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Far from the “yes man” and faithful stooge Eric the withHolder was for “O”.
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Posted by: George Rebane | 16 February 2020 at 11:15 AM
,,,We will see if Barr ”’inexplicably”’ leaves his post to ”’ spend more time with his family”’
Barr carries water for Trump…Holder carried water for Obama…
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No Dougy, he wore knee pads.
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Roger Stone? Can you say “malicious prosecution”?
https://www.redpillsentinel.com/home/the-malicious-prosecution-of-roger-stone-cannot-stand
Yet the dirty McCabe walks.
That’s LIB justice for you.
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Posted by: CrossBert | 16 February 2020 at 11:00 AM
“The high in Northern California will be in the low 70’s with a 20% chance of precipitation closer to the Oregon border….in other news…..a local Nevada City woman whines about something else government related.
We’ll be back after these messages…….”.
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Canadian Feminism…..helping keep the lesbian dating pool full since the 50’s.
Straight (No pun intended) from Central Casting……
https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/funding-for-womens-group-under-review-after-call-for-ban-on-man-woman-relationships
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Shoulda put an 01 on the side of the Beast.
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George Rebane | 16 February 2020 at 11:15 AM
The left wingnuts say AG Barr and Trump are Russian assets along with Tulsi. Allegiance to Lenin.
Of course, the real trojan horse and the Manchurian candidate is Bernie. They are trying to divert attention from Commisaar Schiff and the rest.
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Just watched Trump say “gentlemen start your engines” at the Daytona 500. I bet the pajama boys in their momma’s basements will be shredding the airwaves with that misogynist opening statement. Proving once again Trump hates women and demeans them. LOL!
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Barr needs to carry water for no one. Holder was a nobody before, and is now after he got done with Obama’s coattails. He just finished another Democrat disaster as mayor of Chicago. Still would like to know the liberal logic of why Barr needs to carry water for Trump or anybody – just sayin’ it’s so, don’t make it so.
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Russian assets. Same camp of beliefs. That is the lefty mantra, Simple as that.
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ToddJ 1237pm – Again, do they provide any evidence, or is it another one of their empty allegations devoured by the lamestream?
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Posted by: George Rebane | 16 February 2020 at 12:35 PM
Why did Trump dump Sessions…because he would not carry Trump’s Camelback…
Why did he select Barr???…because he would not recuse himself???
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Comrade deblasio and his sjw mob give you too many of these to document –
A New York City man who’s now been arrested 139 times thanked Democrats for guaranteeing his immediate release despite repeatedly swiping hundreds of dollars from unsuspecting subway commuters since the state’s new bail reform law went into effect Jan. 1.
“Bail reform, it’s lit!” Barry yelled to reporters Thursday outside the NYPD Transit District 1 headquarters in the Columbus Circle station before officers transported him to Manhattan Central Booking. “It’s the Democrats! The Democrats know me and the Republicans fear me. You can’t touch me! I can’t be stopped!”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-bail-reform-law-nyc-subway-thief-thanks-democrats-139th-arrest
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re: Barr
I rather like it when the Head of DOJ has some tension with the GEOTUS. My preferred result is that more and more stuff is declassified and simply put out on the table. Voters can make a decision.
The real evil of the Obama hold-backs wasn’t that they spied on the new President, but they were using the near-infinite power of the Justice Department to go after his allies. This BS ‘impeachment’ was another example. More information for everybody is good, armed federal agents at your door is not so good.
Whether it’s Ruby Ridge, Antifa, or Roger Stone’s arrest, the same institutional thumbprint is visible. Currently it’s allied with the Democrats but that’s no guarantee of Republican purity.
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“Funding for women’s group under review after call for ban on man-woman relationships”
Good article, but it’s hard to care what crazy people think. The real question is why they got a .gov subsidy to begin with, they’re welcome to publish any old dreck that they like.
Sweet. There is nothing the Orange Man can’t do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjMkpCxvFrs
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The beast needed a #45 on the door. Official desinater,, “NASCAR1”
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Oh jeez, Biden just can’t catch a break. Even the famous ‘Talcum X’ isn’t feeling the love.
https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1222849290785251329
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ROFLMAO
1,100 former DOJ say they agree with 9 years in prison is a fair sentence for Stone. Ok, 1,100 former prosecutors said their superiors and those who are charged with oversight must not dare ever ever to question their decisions ever ever. 1,1000 former DOJ officials say their decisions are above reproach, never wrong, and the benefit of the doubt goes to the Government, never the defendant. 1,1000 former DOJ officials say they run the show, not the one who runs the DOJ.
1,1000 former DOJ officials is the same number who said Trump should be impeached or something like that about 6 months ago, another roflmao. Man, I forget what it was, but is was 1,100 former DOJ prosecutors agreed with The Huff-n-Puff post. Maybe Trump it was Trump is crazy.
And Barr should recuse himself from/for exactly what? Investigating Russian-DNC-HRC-Rouge Deep State-Administrative State-Swamp Creatures role in our 2016 elections? All Barr is doing is going “beyond the four corners of the Mueller Report,” as Shiffilis would say.
A posted here predicted about 6 weeks ago that they would be coming after Barr with a vengeance, attacking him with hate and every lame boomerang and lame legal theory they have at their disposal. That Poster is being proven correct….again. Like shooting fish in a barrel.
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“1,100 former DOJ say they agree with 9 years in prison is a fair sentence for Stone.”
I wonder to what degree the feeling comes from jailing a Trump ally vs simply their innate need to throw people in a hole and throw away the key.
My gut feeling is that there are a boatload of people in the federal prison system that simply don’t deserve those sentences. Dig into Comey’s past in any deep way and you’ll run into beaucoup dirty dealings that ruined peoples’ lives.
Maybe the truth simply is that the American legal system can be as arbitrary and unfair as ones in the past. There’s just the appearance of modernity.
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Good quote of the weekend.
“The Democrat Party is like the neighborhood cat lady.”—Gutfeld.
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Life In These United States
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1229039575546421248
the 420th Volunteers could stand to read that post and think about it.
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Get real! If Obama tried to get away with half the crap trump is getting away with you all would be screaming for a good old fashions Mississippi lynching. You keep bringing up Obama. If Obama was so crooked then why didn’t the rubber majority in congress impeach him? Answer: because, unlike trump, there was nothing to investigate or they would have conducted the same kind of witch hunt Starr pulled, a fishing expedition that only turned up a blue stained dress by accident. Does the term ‘Duh’ strike a chord?
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Posted by: Celeste Togglesnarf. | 16 February 2020 at 01:46 PM
Hi Roberta…….
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CelesteT 146pm – You really can’t think of any other reason the Repubs didn’t impeach Obama, can you? And what has the blue stained dress have to do with anything? (that’s an extra credit question)
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Looks like the trollish set here is posting from a comrade Bernie event while they are performing. LOL –
Topless protesters storm stage as Bernie Sanders campaigns in Nevada
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-bernie-sanders-topless-protest-20200216-pz2tvkclpjektiwqinclvvzw6q-story.html
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Local boy does GOOD!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_DiBenedetto
The current LEADER!!
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The Dems have a creditability problem, an anti-Semitic problem, and now a big Bernie problem. Oh, what to do, what to do? They are quietly telling Biden to disappear soon because Buttijudge-judge and Wash My Comb Amy are taking votes away from each other. CNN is leading the charge against Bernie,along with the usual suspects.
All Chris Matthews and the Ragin Cajun are hollering about is they want their Democrat Party back! Sorry, that ship has left the dock and is drifting aimlessly on the high seas. Can Short Stuff Bloomberg do it? Will Mike be coming after my 16oz Big Gulp? What to do about those cow farts? What to do with Bernie?
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‘The Media’s Bernie Sanders Makeover Begins’
“Just you watch: By the time Election Day rolls around in November, liberal columnists will be telling us that Bernie Sanders is the “real conservative” in the presidential race.
Many among the center–left commentariat are struggling to come to terms with the likelihood that the Democratic Party will nominate an authoritarian leftist for president. A lot of this anxiety is, no doubt, driven by recent polls that find a majority of Americans are more open to voting for a non-binary Martian atheist than for a socialist.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/02/the-medias-bernie-sanders-makeover-begins/
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re: Bernie v. Topless Wimmen.
It does make a beautiful photograph.
https://cyclicmint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/topless-protester-confronts-bernie-sanders-de-blasio-at-nevada-campaign-rally-1200×1200.jpg
The photographer was smart enough to make what appears to be a hijab-lady the centerpoint of the pic.
““Bernie, I’m your biggest supporter, and I’m here to ask you to stop pumping up the dairy industry and to stop pumping up animal agriculture,” she said. “I believe in you…” she continued, before the mic suddenly went dead and security moved toward her.
Sanders moved to the edge of the stage as a string of women then paraded across holding images of cows — followed by a topless woman, who gestured to Sanders as members of his security detail positioned themselves between the two.”
https://nypost.com/2020/02/16/topless-protester-confronts-bernie-sanders-de-blasio-at-nevada-campaign-rally/
Kinda thing you get when you don’t really have a party, you gotta coalition of people each with their own kink. This is the best timeline to be alive. Hopefully he confiscated their coats.
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Got milk?
That Bernie is a chick magnet.
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