[While I'm much in favor of opening up the economy sooner than later, I can't understand the Trump/Cuomo pissing match now going on (here). The President is all wet in asserting that it is only he who gets "to call the shots" on opening up the country. The country was not 'closed' on the basis of some federal imperative, and so it does not stand that it awaits the President's removal of such a non-existent imperative. In the meanwhile, the governors are in charge of lawful public intercourse in their states. As usual, Trump is burning up political capital better put to use elsewhere, and the lamestream is eating it up. gjr]
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373 responses to “Sandbox – 14apr20”
Let’s start fresh with this.
First the A-hole from CNN say this,
https://nypost.com/2020/04/13/chris-cuomo-trashes-cnn-gig-during-covid-19-meltdown/
Then says something else.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chris-cuomo-clarifies-hes-happy-at-cnn-i-never-meant-it-1290216
This keeps getting better and better….
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George. Does the “war powers act” have anything to say on that?
It has been activated.
Then again,, there are Progressives all over this land trying to impose martial law. Somehow THEY think they can suspend the Bill of Rights all on their own.
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Trump’s role model is Capt. Bligh. Figures,
“Tell the Democrat Governors that “Mutiny On The Bounty” was one of my all time favorite movies. A good old fashioned mutiny every now and then is an exciting and invigorating thing to watch, especially when the mutineers need so much from the Captain. Too easy!” – Donald J. Trump
And Twitter responds,
“Mutiny on the Bounty was about the ruthless, unjust, tyrannical Captain Bligh of the HMS Bounty who shackled his own crew and tortured so many of his own men that they mutinied against him. It’s fascinating that Trump sees himself as Captain Bligh. It’s quite terrifying as well.”
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Posted by: Mary Wanna | 14 April 2020 at 12:20 PM
“It’s quite terrifying as well.”
Yes…..but everything terrifies you.
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Emery come back in drag again?
You need some historical reference? Under the war powers “stuff”, The mines right here were ordered by the “G”man
to stop mining gold. The ONLY thing there were to mine was the manganice and tungstone.(war metal) That sure took a toll on the local economy, and was done by the “FED GOV”.
Now the states are getting money from the FED gov.
Mary Emery thinks that is string free.
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Speaking of “Mutiny on the Bounty” Mary Emery,,, Forget the ending? Bly was found innocent, and the mutineers HUNG.(at least the ones caught.)
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Adam Schiff and his impeachment fairies go full Wuhan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/13/adam-schiff-and-his-impeachment-fairies-go-full-wu/
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Walt, I am looking forward to the part where Bly is set a drift in a row boat off the coast of Mar-a-Lago. Buh bye!
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Merry Wanna, you’re obviously referring to the fantasy Bligh of the movie(s), not the real Bligh, not a strict taskmaster, who piloted an open craft for a month and a half, 3500 miles with limited provisions, but not losing a single soul.
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Mary Emery ,,, dementia setting in? Reality not quit the way you remember it? That “boat” you mention, he has been “captaining” since election day. And still has held a true course.
Better read that book again.
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Mary, your literary ignorance matches your general-purpose inanity. Mutiny on the Bounty is only the first volume in Nordhoff & Hall’s masterpiece trilogy. In volume II (Men Against the Sea), you’ll see Captain Bligh as he really was, a superb seaman who led 22 men in a longboat on a 5600 mile sail to Timor and rescue when the criminal mutineers thought they had assigned him and his loyalists (who were the majority of the crew) to certain death. Bligh saved every man of them against impossible odds, returned to England and led the later hunt for the mutineers. Those who feared retribution went with F. Christian to remote Pitcairn Island where they killed each other over the careless understocking of native women (vol. III Pitcairn’s Island). All but one were dead when the island was rediscovered in, I think, 1804. Bligh was a very great man indeed, a fact you might have taken notice of before using him as an example of your understanding of anything.
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More douchery from Ron DeSantis.
Linda McMahon made her fortune as a WWE executive. DeSantis just saved WWE from breaching their Fox TV contract and losing $205 million per year. McMahon currently runs Trump’s SuperPAC.
https://twitter.com/BryantD/status/1249900424141791232?s=19
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Bloomers loves the Chinese.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/14/bloomberg-news-censor-story-china-chinese-communist-party-npr/
“Bloomberg News allegedly killed a story about the wealth of Communist Party elites in China six years ago to appease the country, and then sought to silence both the reporter and his wife.
The publication not only successfully censored the story at the time, but also was able to silence all reporters involved in the story, according to NPR, who broke the news. Bloomberg News reportedly tried to keep one of the reporter’s wife silent in an attempt to kill the news.”
And this asswipe wanted to be President? I’m sure the Proggy Press would have kept this quiet at all costs too.
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Gregory and L: You two brainiacs must have missed Trump’s quote, “One of my favorite movies. But thanks for the history lesson from the Apologists.
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For the record, Captain Bligh was also the mentor of the better-known and equally excellent Captain James Cook who, among other things accomplished on three epic voyages to the Pacific, is credited with the discovery of Hawaii.
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Boy, Governors and local grunt sandwich mayors have gone power mad. Completely off the rails powermad. They lust for it and their appetites are insatiable. Like fire, always consuming, never satisfied.
A dude in CA was paddle boarding all by his lonesome on the water and got popped. Violation, violation, big nasty fine coming your way, criminal! Don’t have a clue how a lone soul on the water is any threat to anybody or has to do with stopping the Plague.
A guy was at the park alone with his son in Connecticut (or Vermont, NJ ?). playing caught with the baseball and the dude got arrested!! Son taken too. Hope he doesn’t lose his boy to CPS and the minor becomes a ward of the State. That’s fighting the Plague for sure.
Yesterday I posted about Michigan where the Gov ordered big box stores to not sell any items not on her list of approved items, i. e., food, medicine and the bare necessities. Aisles containing flooring, paint, etc must be closed off, including the nursery departments.
So, no tomato seeds for Walt, no new toilet handle rod for the toilet handle mechanism that just broke (me), and no paint can be sold.
Seems to me if a fellow comes in the paint department to buy some paint (with a note from the wife approving the color in advance), well that man or woman is taking advantage of the mandated ‘Stay Home sucka!’ and plans to hunker down painting the bathroom, bedroom, panty, back of the house or the tool shed. What, a gallon of paint is going to kill us all???
Today, at random, not the most shocking example, but run of the mill. Fuck heads have gone power mad and nobody is saying anything.
WALSH: Police In North Carolina Arrest Peaceful Protestors, Declare Protesting A ‘Non-Essential Activity’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-police-in-north-carolina-arrest-peaceful-protestors-declare-protesting-a-non-essential-activity
Wonder when this National Pandemic Emergency is over if they will joyfully and voluntarily? Fooled ya. Stupid question. It will be harder than pulling teeth. Just a foretaste of when they assume power again and declare Climate Emergency. Good thing the paddle boarder was using a trolling motor. Always a silver lining.
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Opps for the umpteenth millionth time. Copy editor sez:
“Wonder when this National Pandemic Emergency is over if they will joyfully and voluntarily GIVE BACK THEIR ADDICTING taste of absolute power? Fooled ya. Stupid question.” It will be harder than pulling teeth.
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Posted by: Mary Wanna | 14 April 2020 at 02:06 PM
It’s OK to be frightened “Mary”…..no need to lash out.
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Fear is the big one. “It’s ok to be frightened” is what a good Sarg tells his paratrooper greenhorns maggots on their first jump…..before his boot kicks them out of the plane. :). It’s ok.
Forget guns, ammo, pot, distilled spirits, libations, and TP. Forget generators. Freezers are moving off the show room floor at a high rate of speed….going fast. The velocity of the dollar. 🙂
It is an unnatural act to jump out of a perfectly good airplane and it is an unnatural act to hoard a lifetime supply of toilet paper. TDS in and of itself is a very unnatural state of mind….unless you are a Lefty blinded by hate and pride….then its normal.
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Keep going Mary Emery,,try and justify your idiotic position.
Speaking of ships,, your commenting is going down like the Titanic. Nowhere near enough excuse lifeboats.
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George
Doesn’t (and I quote you here) “laying out the groundwork of the beliefs, principles, and interests of the participants before the negotiation/discussion starts ” mean supporting the expression of ones religious beliefs whatever they may be? Seems to me your support Pompeo’s religious expressions under the banner of being a Christian should also mean that you would support religious beliefs being expressed from persons being Buddists or, Moslem’s for example.
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I can see Peterless Paul and Mary donning their wigs with big curlers and moo-moos on trying to get into the life rafts first. Mary Paul clutching her Ann Coulter doll and saying children and ladies first, ladies first. Watch your hands there Mister. Men are such beasts.
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The kiss of death has arrived.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/04/14/watch-barack-obama-formally-endorses-joe-biden-for-president/
“O” finally gives his “endorsement” to Biden.. Long past Biden’s sell by date.
” I,,I,,I,, have full,,, confidence that, uh,, Joe,,a uh,, good friend, uh, who helped me, uh through the seven plagues that, uh, struck, this nation, uh,, while, umm,, I was President,,🤢🤮”
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Rag, mamma, rag.
“………….should also mean that you would support religious beliefs being expressed from persons being Buddists or, Moslem’s for example.”
Aha, connecting the dots. Operative word is ‘should’. Should also mean that YOU would support… Ah yes, Emmanuel Kant’s categorial ‘if/then imperativere.
I am still having trouble connecting the dots. Moslems? How demeaning to ragheads.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=moslem
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punchy 301pm
Keep digging holes, maybe someone will stumble into one of your traps, someday.
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Posted by: Mary Wanna | 14 April 2020 at 12:20 PM
“Trump’s role model is Capt. Bligh. Figures,”
and
Posted by: Mary Wanna | 14 April 2020 at 01:28 PM
Walt, I am looking forward to the part where Bly is set a drift in a row boat off the coast of Mar-a-Lago. Buh bye!
So….in little over an hour you forgot how to spell “Bligh”? Maybe you should consider running for president on the democratic ticket…..you certainly seems to have the “skills”.
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Fish @ 3:21 pm.
Gotta Hand it too you, Mr. Fish. I don’t know you actually do it. You must have a cast iron constitution. I haven’t read a complete Mary Wannabee post in at least ten days, just a sentence and a half usually,and you act like actually read his/her/it’s/bot’s posts! I bet you do. Amazing.
It’s true, it’s true. You really do pick the scab (against your better judgement) and open up the jar with the stuff in it your science teacher gave to you on day one of class (again against your better judgement). Just can’t help yourself from popping the stink jar. Kudos. 🙂
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Gregory, by the way your favorite poll (Rasmussen) has Trump down by 13 points. The worst polling for him in two years. Trump is the one stumbling into the hole he has dug.
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Sorry Gregory, my mistake Trump is down by 15 in Rasmussen’s approval poll not by 13.
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L: And Captain Cook also brought novel viruses to the Pacific islanders resulting in many deaths.
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Fish Troll: See Walt’s response. I didn’t want him to feel bad so I used his spelling.
Thanks though.
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Trump is all about rigging the election. Withholding help for the Postal Service is deplorable. But Trumpers aren’t called Deplorables for nothing.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/november-election-post-office-bailout.html?sid=5388f2f2dd52b8ed11006c50&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=TheSlatest&utm_campaign=traffic
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Deer in the headlights in South Dakota. Kristi Noem from the DeSantis school.
Toilet paper is coming back but the rush for bacon is on!
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/South-Dakota-s-governor-resisted-ordering-people-15198247.php?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR1TTrC1OYNfOe3W5junXVj2_R8LKRpYheUvvtiJr8NNkFk7VzkZMygvEbU#
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Trump only wants ass kissers in his administration and at his briefings,
“The more we learn about what went on behind the scenes during the critical early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the more Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar had emerged as a rare and unlikely hero pushing the White House for an early response.
Speaking truth to power has its price in the Trump administration. The former Eli Lilly executive was shouted down by White House aides as “alarmist” and sidelined by Jared Kushner, Mike Pence and others willing to give the president a more rosy view. And on Sunday night, Trump lashed out at Azar by name for the first time, following a New York Times report that Azar had “directly warned Mr. Trump of the possibility of a pandemic during a call on Jan. 30, the second warning he delivered to the president about the virus in two weeks.”
After complaining about “mayhem” at the White House, Azar’s future is uncertain but his attempts to get top officials and President Trump to pay attention to the coming pandemic should not be lost in the fog of war as Trump recasts history in his favor.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-didn-t-azar-warnings-080620165.html
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Mary W has gone full keachie.
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Posted by: Mary Wanna | 14 April 2020 at 04:24 PM
Fish Troll: See Walt’s response. I didn’t want him to feel bad so I used his spelling.
Thanks though.
What likely happened is that you didn’t know how to spell it either, went with Walt’s spelling, and corrected after the fact. Thanks though.
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Posted by: Gregory | 14 April 2020 at 05:01 PM
Mary W has gone full keachie.
…and you know what they say about that?
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Never do it…..!
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Funny,, Emery never denied being Mary. Now Mary is supposed to be Dougy? Would not surprise me in the least.
Proggys are interchangeable. Nope, NEVER admit who you really are.
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PaulE 301pm – Well, of course (I said before). Laying out elements of your belief system that will be relevant to the discussion at hand is not evangelizing. Do you have a clue on the direction you’re trying to take this?
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Looks like the trolls bromance jake tapper is vying for the title of po’ ol’ fakenewsman –
But to anyone paying attention, something was off… Was way off, and Tapper, who has become one of the most shameless liars in all of media, lied to his few viewers by way of omission. You see, Tapper did not want his audience to know that publicly Fauci had been telling the country everything straight through to March 9.
As we reported Monday, Fauci’s previous comments don’t jibe with the premise he accepted on CNNLOL — that he had recommended closing the country in mid-February and Trump refused to listen.
You see, on March 9, Fauci told America it was still an act of “good judgment” to hold a political rally in certain areas, and that it was still okay to book a cruise if you weren’t elderly or sickly. On February 29, he told America it was okay to go the mall, the gym, and the movies.
But this glaring contradiction didn’t interest Tapper and the rest of the fake media. They had their sound bite! They had The Only Man To Listen To During This Crisis paying off their gamble.
And then, during Monday evening’s briefing…
It all exploded in their fat, smug, lying faces…
In an impressive act of grace and humility, Fauci stood in front of the world and took back what he said on Sunday. He not only took it back, he took it back without caveats or reservation. And then he did something even more important…
The Only Man To Listen To During This Crisis completely and forever annihilated the New York Times’ report along with the fake news media’s most treasured narrative, the one that falsely claims Trump did not listen to the experts.
In the ultimate vouch, Fauci informed us that Trump did and does take his advice, and that the president acted on every formal health recommendation made to him, acted on them immediately, acted on them every single time.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/04/14/nolte-jake-tappers-fauci-gotcha-backfires-in-epic-fashion/
😉
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Mary @ 4:22 Almost certainly, social diseases were carried to the Pacific from Europe, but very doubtful that a Royal Navy ship on a multi-year expedition will have had any contagious diseases aboard. They checked military for such problems then, as now. So, probably not Captain Cook or any of his people- try again or come up with chapter and verse to support your blanket criticism of Western civ.
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L 6:37 – Actually, Cook’s own log shows that he was aware that some of his men had STDs and he tried to keep them from spreading them. Many of the island women made obvious displays of wanting sexual congress in graphic and open displays. Do the math.
The idea of blaming Cook (or Columbus, et al) for spreading disease is pointless. I grow weary of the ignorant and tiresome rantings of the left as to the bad, evil white men and the simple, childlike POC and the destruction of Eden by sailing adventurers.
It turns out now that POC (the Chinese) have spread (more than once) deadly diseases due to their backward customs and their vile, and criminal govt.
But we are not to speak of it lest we be censured as ‘racist’.
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Xi NN sounds good aka the chi com party parrot on loan from the Clintons –
https://www.foxnews.com/media/don-jr-blasts-jim-acosta-for-saying-trump-is-scapegoating-china-for-virus-cnn-more-like-xi-nn
😉
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George 6:11 – Give it up. Paul flails endlessly at trying to bolster his own pathetic world-view by virtue of finding any sort of fault in other people.
His lives in his own sad little trap of endless sin-sniffing while constantly being be-deviled by the fact that he has to then find a fault-less and blameless champion that doesn’t exist.
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DB – That’s a good one!
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So, it gets back to those AC/DC Greek. sailor boys, eh? I suspected as much.
Boy, it was the Greek Sailor’s cap that really brought them out of the worm farm. Bad commentors, bad. Down dog, down.
Hmmm I remember many moons ago the Presidential Exploratory Committee for Don Regan’s Potential run was sunk in its tacks when he made a reference to Greek Sailors.. Something t do with the spreading of AIDS I recall. His campaign self destructed faster than Michael Bloomberg’s, and that was very fast.
Since this is Dr. Rebane’s blog and since Dr. Rebane does not appreciate comments of ‘that topic’, I shan’t go there or continue……save to say the Greeks should have stuck with olive pickin’.
Do you have any wool? “Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.” —Alexander the Grape.
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“US chain McDonald’s has apologised after a sign telling black people they were banned from entering a branch in southern China prompted outrage online, following reports of discriminatory treatment towards Africans in the city.”
Priceless!
White boys in the US have to apologise for racist Chinese in China.
I’m sure the usual lefties that post here have the proper explanation.
Not that I actually feel sorry for the pathetic suck-ups at corp hq.
If they had any balls, they’d properly denounce the actual perps and fire every one of them.
“But, but, but – my annual review is coming up”.
https://www.france24.com/en/20200414-mcdonald-s-apologises-after-china-store-bans-black-people
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Oh my. Actually a good read. Excellent read. The Enemy of the People strikes again.
ANOTHER DISHONEST SMEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST [WITH COMMENT BY PAUL]
“Yesterday’s Washington Post carried an attack on South Dakota and its governor, Kristi Noem, under the headline South Dakota’s Governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots. The Post’s article is popular on Twitter, as liberal “blue checks” use it to express their hope that lots of South Dakotans die as punishment for their temerity in electing a Republican governor.”……..
“But wait! It is obvious even to a casual reader that the Post’s attack makes no sense. The article acknowledges that the Smithfield plant had already “been deemed essential by the federal government,” so no order Noem might have issued would have applied to it in any case. The Smithfield experience had nothing to do with Noem’s policy.
One is tempted to stop there. The Post’s attempted smear obviously missed its mark. But let’s continue.“
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/04/another-dishonest-smear-by-the-washington-post.php
Yes, let’s continue.
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BT 8:50 – “But now South Dakota is home to one of the largest single coronavirus clusters anywhere in the United States, with more than 300 workers at a giant pork-processing plant falling ill.”
Gasp! 300!
Yeah, that beats the pants off of NYC.
This is all getting absurd.
Maybe if all the farmers and food processors went home and ‘sheltered in place’ our nation would be all tickety-boo in no time flat!
Good grief.
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