[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”
Burnie’s so old he can’t even remember “when”.
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Luckily, Ms. Warren has the voice of command.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewpZg9g0Cao
Good Gawd, imagine listening to that for four years.
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The joys of chi com governance. –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/armed-gang-steals-toilet-rolls-panic-buying-hit-021750782.html
😉
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“Burnie’s so old he can’t even remember “when”. this coming from a person who can’t even remember “how”
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Really? I bet your ol’ lady knows otherwise.
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About time the accusation of being a fascist is thrown in the right direction.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/15/mike-bloomberg-heckled-fascist-virginia/
“Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg was heckled by several pro-Second Amendment activists during a Saturday evening campaign stop in Virginia.
As the former New York City mayor was speaking, protesters yelled “You’re f**king fascist!” and “You’re a racist!”
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“”Burnie’s so old he can’t even remember “when”. this coming from a person who can’t even remember “how””
Yet more poison spewage.
Go find us a funny anti-Trump article or something. Chop chop.
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re: Walt@8:09PM
That gun thing in Virginia is really heating up. Looking for crime where crime is seems practical, but political advantage is found wherever it can be extracted. Bloomberg is gonna get hammered with racist hullabaloo whether it’s deserved or not.
When dealing with the modern Left, the other Lesson of Trump (the first being the now disclosed presence of the real center of power in Washington) is simply to never apologize. Mini Mike might brazen his way through stop ‘n frisk, but apologizing merely implies being torn to shreds by the crowd.
It’s the inherent weakness of the Left I guess. Each group making up that coalition has it’s own set of nonnegotiable demands and they ain’t the same. Scrabbling over the carcass of the West is a likely result as they each try to slice off their special tasty piece.
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Wally!!! How was Trump’s hot lap??? Was it everything you thought it would be???
Too bad it got rained out…
Oh look,,,Team Trump is using Bush Daytona pics as their own!!!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/16/politics/parscale-tweet-daytona-500-air-force-one-photo/index.html
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re: comma-man @ 10:26
Hah, somebody is going to get a spanking.
Cool flyover though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txBSED-1eA0
After all, these are his people.
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Social Justice Rites
“Anyone who has thought about identity politics—the great intellectual disorder of our age—must conclude that the term obfuscates more than it illuminates. Identity politics is first and foremost not a politics of identity, but an obsession with oppression and victimization. Only those who claim to be victimized get to have their identity recognized, affirmed and honored.”
https://www.lawliberty.org/liberty-forum/social-justice-rites/
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re: BillT@7:40AM
I’ll add a slight addendum to that. For a successful oppression-based group, you need to find a subset of the oppressors (easy to spot in a crowd) and get them firmly in your court. Dunno why you can always find some straight white males, often gracile, to loudly proclaim their oppressorhood, it’s an oddity of the age. Guys like the ever-embarrassing Tim Wise spontaneously come out of the population while the likelihood of a La Razan marching for transsexuals is pretty darned low.
In the past, I just guessed that obsequiously progressive dudes were simply on pussy patrol, but it appears more common now. Perhaps an epidemiologist could explain it all.
The irony is high that you need white males to work for your victim group in order for it to be generally recognized. I guess it’s no different from the message given by those Bernie protesters that women have to take off their clothes to be noticed. Kinda makes it hard for our local political harpies.
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Posted by: scenes | 17 February 2020 at 08:10 AM
I just guessed that obsequiously progressive dudes were simply on pussy patrol…..
Today’s modern SJW white progressive male…..”pussy” probably isn’t xis motivation even if xe identifies as straight.
….self abasement is its own reward!
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,,,Trump massive waste of jet fuel to prop up his massive but fragile ego…
goes round and round at Daytona in his lead sled but goes nowhere… as usual…
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@ 8:10 & 8:21
Ah, where the girls are. I watched an old clip of Steven Crowder (back in the Milo ‘Dangerous Faggot Tour’ days. He told the male students (and male adjunct professors) that the only reason they got into the humanities is to spout whatever their professor said and repeat it to the female students so they can get laid. Chicks fall for that kind of stuff. :).
I do like the phrase, ‘The end result of Identity Politics is a group of one.’ or something worded much better.
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Posted by: odlaw | 17 February 2020 at 08:30 AM
…..4 more years……4 more years…..4 more years…..!
dug……he will be your last president.
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Lil ol mike aint gonna get there ragging on the deplorables –
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/02/17/mike-bloomberg-belittled-farm-and-manufacturing-jobs-for-not-requiring-brain-power/
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,,,EL PASO, Texas – Smugglers in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, have engineered camouflage hook-and-ladders made of rebar that blend in so well with the border wall that it can be hard to detect, according to U.S. Border Patrol. The ladders are the same rust brown color as the mesh panels or steel beams of the fence.
El Paso’s urban stretch of border is littered with the rusted rebar ladders at the base on both sides — ladders lying in wait on the Mexican side, ladders pulled down by border agents or abandoned by smugglers on the U.S. side. One of the rebar ladders was poking out of a dumpster in a lot near the Chihuahuita neighborhood on Thursday.
“Somebody is making money off those ladders,” said Agent Joe Romero, pointing to a mangled version tossed in the dirt on the U.S. side. “The agents pulled it off the wall and cut it up so it can’t be used again.”
,,,Get in on the ground floor of this amazing business opportunity!!!
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Good Quotes today, almost too good for the Sandbox. :). The last quote is the best. I love that man.
Insight: “We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefitting from their success — only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free. Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.” —Ronald Reagan
Observations: “I guess the logic of running Bloomberg against Bernie is that even the absolute worst person in the country who isn’t a socialist is still better than a socialist.” —Frank J. Fleming
Friendly fire: “Bloomberg must be the front-runner because liberals are calling him a racist. Keep booing. That’s how you lost the last election.” —HBO’s Bill Maher
The BIG Lie: “I had no intention of [tearing up Trump’s speech] when we went to the State of the Union. … I made a niche on a couple of pages thinking, ‘You ought to remember what was on this page, this page,’ then I realized most every page had something in it that was objectionable. So it wasn’t a planned thing. … It seems that if you want to [entice the] press you have to get attention. So I thought, ‘Well, let’s get attention on the fact that what he said here today was not true.’” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Grand delusions: “Trump is so scared of facing Biden in a general election that the president got himself impeached for trying to get a foreign leader to damage Biden’s campaign.” —political analyst Juan Williams
Dangerous territory: “There should be more guidance and regulation from the states on basically — take political advertising as an example — what discourse should be allowed. Or, on the balance of free expression and some things that people call harmful expression, where do you draw the line?” —Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
Non compos mentis, part I: “It’s one thing to deplore eugenics on ideological, political, moral grounds. It’s quite another to conclude that it wouldn’t work in practice. Of course it would. It works for cows, horses, pigs, dogs & roses. Why on earth wouldn’t it work for humans? Facts ignore ideology.” —atheist Richard Dawkins
Non compos mentis, part II: “Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary people are non-binary. All gender identities are valid.” —London Mayor Sadiq Khan
And last… “The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn’t work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.” —Thomas Sowell
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The dems in Virginia blinked because of fears of the electoral fallout of gun grabbing –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/virginia-lawmakers-reject-assault-weapon-135453056.html
😉
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Posted by: odlaw | 17 February 2020 at 10:17 AM
Smugglers in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, have engineered camouflage hook-and-ladders made of rebar that blend in so well with the border wall that it can be hard to detect…..
Now this is good news for you dugsKKKi……your stream of low cost protein will continue to flow unabated! If you keep it on the down low this could continue indefinitely. Dahmer got away with it for years and he lived in an apartment, with proper bone and tallow management you should be fine!
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 17 February 2020 at 10:23 AM
And last… “The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn’t work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.” —Thomas Sowell
I like this one better….
Toby Young
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NARRATIVE FAIL….NARRATIVE FAIL….NARRATIVE FAIL….NARRATIVE FAIL….NARRATIVE FAIL….NARRATIVE FAIL….!
THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:‘Obama Personally Asked the FBI to Investigate Someone on Behalf of George Soros,’ Says Alan Dershowitz.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/obama-personally-asked-the-fbi-to-investigate-someone-on-behalf-of-george-soros-says-alan-dershowitz/
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The nine miles of pavement and a long rope is beginning to bring them in. Whose walls are tightening?
“Source: Democrat Senator Held Secret Meeting In Munich With Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif
Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut and other Democratic senators had a secret meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during the Munich Security Conference last week, according to a source briefed by the French delegation to the conference. Murphy’s office did not respond to repeated requests for comment by press time.
Such a meeting would mean Murphy had done the type of secret coordination with foreign leaders to potentially undermine the U.S. government that he accused Trump officials of doing as they prepared for Trump’s administration. In February 2017, Murphy demanded investigations of National Security Advisor Mike Flynn because he had a phone call with his counterpart-to-be in Russia”
https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/17/source-democrat-senator-held-secret-meeting-in-munich-with-iranian-foreign-minister-zarif/
Damn, that smells like Logan Act stuff. Or is it the Hatch Act?
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That’s five probes going on right now.
‘Barr taps network of prosecutors to review Russia-Ukraine cases’
“Attorney General Bill Barr has tapped a growing number of federal prosecutors across the country to review high-profile Russia probes involving Trump associates and consider emerging allegations tied to Ukraine, in a bold but risky move that comes as he faces mounting criticism and even resignation calls from congressional Democrats who allege he’s protecting the president.
On Friday, Fox News reported that Barr appointed Jeff Jensen, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, to review the case of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Justice Department officials told Fox News Jensen would be working hand-in-hand with Brandon Van Grack, the lead prosecutor in the case. It marked the latest example of Barr bringing on a federal prosecutor to examine a politically charged case.“
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/barr-taps-network-of-prosecutors-to-review-russia-ukraine-investigations
Whose walls are closing on whom?
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Bernie bros brawling amongst themselves –
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/02/17/video-fight-bernie-sanders-rally-denver/
😉
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re: Socialism
A man goes into a store and asks, “you don’t have any meat?”
Saleslady sez, “we don’t have any fish”, “it’s the store across the street that doesn’t have any meat”.
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You go boy!
https://www.foxnews.com/media/nj-fedex-driver-picks-up-folds-fallen-american-flag-you-have-to-do-something-whether-people-are-watching-or-not
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Posted by: scenes | 17 February 2020 at 01:22 PM
Yes…..!
Life In Hell
A young, ruthless executive died and went to hell. When he got there, he saw one sign that said Capitalist Hell, and another that said Socialist Hell.
In front of the Socialist Hell was an incredibly long line, while there was no-one in front of the Capitalist Hell. So the executive asked the guard, ”What do they do to you in Socialist Hell?”
You have to eat two shovels full of shit every morning and then you’re free to go about your day” the guard replied.
”And what do they do to you in Capitalist Hell?”
”Only one shovel full”, the guard answered.
”Then why is everybody in line for Socialist Hell?”
”Because in Socialist Hell, they’re always out of shit and somebody always forgets to bring the shovels.
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re: Berniefight@1:21
One of the comments, quick as a wink, was:
“I think the white guy was probably upset that the black guy wasn’t woke enough to the plight of young black men.”
lol. Perfect. I am so looking forward to the Blue Mob national convention.
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Fellin’ the love –
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2020/02/17/don-trump-jr-helps-teen-nascar-star-haile-deegan-get-helmet-signed-by-the-president/
😉
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Doomburg’s healthcare plan.
Is Dougy, Babs and Emery looking to sign up?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/17/watch-bloomberg-in-2011-suggested-denying-cancer-treatment-to-elderly/
“Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg once suggested denying cancer treatment to elderly Americans as a solution to overcrowding in hospitals.”
Naaaa… No death panels.
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Bloomers job training.
“It’s a process,” Bloomberg said in 2016. “You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn. You could learn that. Then we had 300 years of the industrial society. You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow and you can have a job. And we created a lot of jobs.”
https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/17/mike-pence-video-farmers-mike-bloomberg/
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The 420th Volunteers appear to have been on a field trip.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/plymouth-rock-graffiti-vandalized-trnd/index.html
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
-George Orwell
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Doubts about creepy grampa joe from his own voters –
Voter to Biden: ‘What the hell is going on with your campaign?’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/voter-biden-hell-going-campaign-231032298.html
😉
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Tough times for the chi coms –
Locust plague reaches coronavirus-hit China after wreaking havoc across Africa
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/locust-plague-reaches-coronavirus-hit-21513111
😉
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scenes 409pm – Correctamundo! The Left learned that generations ago, and our progressives are students of Orwell. We no longer teach American history in our public schools, and instead, have substituted Zinn’s alternative narrative.
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GR 409pm
… “and Howard Zinn is the American embodiment of a Gramscian intellectual, the organic intellectual par excellance”.
https://radicalteacherblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/howard-zinn-gramscian-intellectual
And let’s remember who Gramsci’s English translator was … Joseph Buttigieg, who also founded the International Gramsci Society and sired “Mayor Pete”.
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Gregory 541pm – Indeed, and a timely reminder which I hope will be revived should the unlikely event occur that he becomes the Dem nominee. Thanks.
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It looks like we have a new owner of the title patronizing pander bear –
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/02/17/ttom-steyer-brings-taco-truck-mariachi-band-to-las-vegas-rally-ahead-of-caucuses/
😉
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Those who do not know history are bound to repeat the mistakes. When people feel good about their pocket books and bill paying time is not a time to sell socialist dem doom and gloom from millionaires. Its the economy stupid’s!! –
We are supposedly living in the final, dystopian hours of Late Capitalism. And the wretched, miserable 99 percent will soon force radical change on an exhausted, corrupt system. But if true, what to make of the result of last night’s New Hampshire primary result, where the moderates beat the “big, structural change” progressives by some 20 percentage points? If Democratic primary voters aren’t ready for “democratic socialism” or whatever Bernieconomics really is, then who is?
Moreover, there’s all the recent polling data suggesting maybe we’re really not all that miserable and wretched. Gallup finds 59 percent of Americans agreeing they’re financially better off than they were a year ago, the highest such percentage on record. Likewise, CNN finds that 76 percent rate economic conditions in the US today as “very or somewhat good” — the highest share since 80 percent in February 2001. And another Gallup poll reports that nine in 10 Americans are “satisfied with the way things are going in their personal life,” a new high in the four decades that the firm has asked the question. And three–fourths of us expect tomorrow will be better than today.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-59-percent-americans-think-163700460.html
😉
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DonB 824pm – To overcome all this good news, the Democrats will simply tell lies which their lapdog lamestream will amplify. These are consequential lies which none of our progressive readers will recognize let alone tally like they do with Trump’s ‘lies’ that now in their ledger number in the tens of thousands.
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The truth will set you free.
😉
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Talk about squandering billions. They have more money than brains when it comes to Climate Crisis.
THE LEFT IS AWASH IN MONEY
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/the-left-is-awash-in-money.php
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My response to anther loony guy’s attack on us and Trump.
“Oh my, since you don’t like how Rebane wrote her letter you get to do one yourself. You whine she left out the guy that screamed out “you lie” when Obama was actually lying. Oh my did that hurt your feelings? Your ilk screams everyday. We hear you scream on TV and in the newspapers. We hear you scream on the radio. We hear you scream at us when we wear a MAGA hat pr T-Shirt. We see your antifa thugs beating up little people at rallies. We see your lying Congressmen and women lying about Russian collusion. We see your lying “Deep State” pals trying to force a coup on Trump and his 63 million voters. I have to say I believe you are all experiencing Trump Derangement Syndrome. Now we see your latest lying candidate call farmers and working people stupid and worse. We have you all pegged. Get ready for another four years of Trump. Better get a prescription for TDS..
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IN the “ain’t no rule of law for goombahs when you are king” category –trump says stone’s conviction should be overturned. Yet another witch hunt. a lot of hunts but no witches in trumplandia. Does anyone find it odd that given all the multiple convictions of trump associates by the legal system.. it is the legal system that is flawed and not trump?
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Cross Word ” it is the legal system that is flawed and not trump?”
Why not? The jails have a lot of people who shouldn’t be there and are lacking a lot of people who should be there.
Perhaps you need to get back to worshiping the emerging surveillance police state in this country. Those boots aren’t going to clean themselves.
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Yes, a lot of people who should be there like Trump, Barr, Stone, Flynn, and on and on and on. Perhaps you should return to worshiping the naked king who claims all of his misdeeds are fake news. How can it be that every single accusation against the orange man is false? It defies the odds.
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TDS has really set in with Cross dresser.
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The flavor of this month is Barr is un-American and this is Obama’s economy. He built that
Obama Touts His Economy, Axios Says Trump Avg. GDP Growth Outpaced His
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2020/02/17/obama-touts-his-economy-axios-says-trump-avg-gdp-growth
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MSNBC Panel Suggests AG Barr Is ‘Un-American’
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2020/02/18/msnbc-panel-suggests-ag-barr-un-american
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Sounds like Punchy:
Q: “How can it be that every single accusation against the orange man is false? It defies the odds.”
A: Look who is doing the accusing.
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