[The value of anything is highly subjective, always determined by a 'seller' and 'buyer' when they strike a deal. Therefore the value of any given 'thing', e.g. human life, varies according to who is the human and who is the 'buyer'. Any values set by third parties with no skin in the game are arbitrary and quickly circumvented by/in markets. So consider the back window yellow diamond sign that reads 'Drive carefully, Baby inside', and another one reading 'Drive carefully, young PhD in neuro-science inside', or even one that reads 'Drive carefully, Community organizer inside'. How would you rate the implied value of these lives? to you? to society? gjr]
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rebanesruminations.com 
365 responses to “Sandbox – 18jun20”
Mary also 9:06 – “…in white supremacy land.”
This, from Nevada County?
Careful there, white girl…
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scenes 10:15 – re Grant.
But you see, he was white and had a drinking problem.
BLM is expanding their scope to folks with personal issues.
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Thanks for conceding the point on the text messages Gregory. When you are confronted by the direct evidence there are no other options except to look like a total idiot.
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When you are confronted by the direct evidence there are no other options except to look like a total idiot.
WOW….I’m sure that was difficult admission! See, even at your advanced age there is room for personal growth.
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Paul Emery | 20 June 2020 at 10:27 AM
You should take your own advice Mr.Fakenews.
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Re VP pick.
Damn, Scenes, Susan Rice is in the news, calling Trump the father of lies and defending Obama’s honor. Then she tops it off with this. Obama had his Biden, Biden has his Rice.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/503671-susan-rice-calls-trump-administration-racist-to-its-core-says-senate
**What is lost on many folks is the irony that Biden discriminated against males by saying his VP pick will be a female. Then Amy endorses discrimination even further against white females with her, “ Put A Woman Of Color On That Ticket”.
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 20 June 2020 at 10:50 AM
What’s really sad……in an Obama administration Susan Rice was still an Affirmative Action hire.
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Gregory
I agree with you totally that the text messages are total bullshit and should be ignored. That statement is good advise to anyone approached by Trumps campaign for campaibn contributions based on obvious lies that they are the only one out of a 100 that didn’t respond. Yhe fact that it came from various different people affirms it is a lie.
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Punchy 1053am
It’s deeper than than, punch. I can’t tell if the message itself is even connected with Trump’s campaign.
Here’s another bit of AWAITING MODERATION at The Union comments salt mine:
Awaiting moderation Yes, John, really. It might be that the soft bigotry of low expectations is at the heart of your ‘understanding’. That, or a desire for unrest, especially given you won’t be living in the ruins of riots for twenty years or more.
“Excess violence” is wrong: yes or no?
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Paul is a source of endless amusement. He’s going on and on about how frightened he is of a political rally he has no intention of attending, and now he’s squawking about some one else being asked to contribute to Trump’s campaign.
It’s OK, Paul – no one is dragging you off to the Braunhemden Rally and you really don’t have to donate to Trump’s campaign.
We realize that free will and free association bothers you leftys, but honestly – “Can’t we all just get along?” (famous black intellectual quote).
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Oh Punchy, get all worked up about a 6-12k campaign elections fine. Nobody is going to be charged with anything but a fine. You do read the Dem campaign mailers, don’t you? Of course you do. You are on it. Read those mailers for the Democrats and Nancy tells some big fat whoopers. Humongous and misleading. Standard fare.
Don Jr ain’t going anywhere. And to think someone here called him a greaseball, a derogatory term for people from Puerto Rico, Latins, Mexicans, and even folks from Sicily…spicks. Greaser or grease ball ain’t cool, Y-T.
Probably just a pigment of your imagination?
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Great day to compare the Grant Administration vs Obama’s eight years in office on the issue of civil rights. Grant was better! He sent troops to South Caroline to hunt down the KKK!
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punchy 1027am
“Thanks for conceding the point on the text messages Gregory”
Why are you lying, Paul? No concession was made.
The entire point you were making was bogus. There is/was no basis for a lawsuit.
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Scott O | 20 June 0000 at 11:03 AM “Paul is a source of endless amusement. He’s going on and on about how frightened he is of a political rally he has no intention of attending, and now he’s squawking about some one else being asked to contribute to Trump’s campaign.”
Oh well, it’s just a tactic. There’s no point in consistency if you are fighting in one-sentence fragments. He reads like a less charming version of Microsoft Tay.
In the future, the crack KVMR news team dreams of dancing in the moonlight, atop the rubble of the bar once called ‘The Mineshaft’, while a Blue Mob Spetznaz team fans out to look for MAGA stragglers. #lootingforgeorge continues apace and you can hear a suspicious racket at the Rood Center as administrators are replaced with politically reliable party members.
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No takers on who was the better healer of the nation and defender of civil rights: Grant or Obama? Ok, fine. I will have the last word then.
Quote from Frederick Douglass about Grant:
“To him, more than to any other man, the Negro owes his enfranchisement,” Douglass said. Douglass eulogized Grant as “a man too broad for prejudice, too humane to despise the humblest, too great to be small at any point. In him the Negro found a protector, the Indian a friend, a vanquished foe a brother, an imperiled nation a savior.”
But then, liberals hate Douglass, too.
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The message is from Trump Jr Gregory and the link is to his campaign.
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Paul E. 12:22 – So Paul – how much did the Junior scam you out of?
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BT 11:58 – Douglass is next. He acted too white.
Wait until the BLM mob gets to Wakanda.
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A reminder to the pony tail of ignorance of why the historic gain in the Senate mattered so much –
Trump is about to land his 200th federal judge. The impact will last ‘generations.’
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-land-200th-judge-190125023.html
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re: ScottO 20 June 0000 at 12:43PM
“BT 11:58 – Douglass is next. He acted too white.
Wait until the BLM mob gets to Wakanda.”
At this point, I don’t think that it matters who the statue is. The important thing is that the statue is important to the people they hate. This has little to do with destroying history (although it’s a desirable side effect) or punishing a bad person, but is to force submission onto traditional Americans.
Hell, it’s worked pretty well so far.
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punchy 1222pm
prove it
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Gregory you’re starting to lose it. Hang in there, your guy trump will ease your insecurity so have a great time tonight with the other circle of jerks bonding in glee.
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punchy 125pm
You have lost it.
There is no wire fraud case to be had.
Rawstory lies.
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No bombshells in the book but a good shot through his own foot –
Bolton Scores Pyrrhic Victory in Court Ruling on Trump Book
(Bloomberg) — A federal judge excoriated former national security advisor John Bolton for exposing the U.S. to harm with his tell-all memoir about President Donald Trump but said it’s too late to issue an order that would stop publication of the book.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington on Saturday rejected the Justice Department’s last-ditch attempt to block the publication on national security grounds, paving the way for “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir” to go on sale June 23.
In his judgment, Lamberth slammed Bolton for gambling with national security and going ahead with the book before it cleared a pre-publication review by the Trump administration to ensure it did not contain classified information.
“He has exposed his country to harm and himself to civil (and potentially criminal) liability,” the judge wrote. “But these facts do not control the motion before the Court. The government has failed to establish that an injunction will prevent irreparable harm.”
He also wrote that the government is likely to prevail as the case moves to the next stage of the breach-of-contract lawsuit, which could allow it to seize Bolton’s $2 million book advance as well as any royalties he receives. President Trump unleashed on Twitter, saying Bolton must “pay a very big price.”
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-administration-fails-delay-release-143331613.html
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Don: Bolton is a patriot. Trump is not. I applaud Bolton’s effort to save America from the Clueless Buffoon Trump.
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Fish: my avatar is your hero Trump taking a crap every time he his called out on his corrupt motives. Glad to approve.
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Posted by: Mary Wanna | 20 June 2020 at 02:04 PM
Don: Bolton is a patriot.
A patriot……Bolton? John Bolton? I seem to recall when the left considered Bolton Public Enemy #1 when he wanted to to finish the PNAC “Securing the Realm” plan while kicking the crap out of every sand country in the Middle East!
I had no idea you were such a NeoCon? Have you told your family yet?
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The hysterical fake news is really doing its best to destroy the Trump rally but not gonna happen. The HILL had a story on Drudge about the clash of Trump supporters and the mob. ONE WOMAN! Total BS. And the virus stats they use are the old “percentage” tricks. Check out Montana that had a 100% almost increase in cases as they reported. Went from 4 to 8.
https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-pandemic-south-arizona-oklahoma-trump-dbd813f7-52a8-4474-872d-624212bd257c.html
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Mary’s hero Bolton, just may land his ass in jail for his butthurtness. The “teasers” that have already come out have been proven to be lies.
Hummm,,, Slander comes to mind, making public, classified info
is sure to cramp his style.
But that’s Marty (in drag) idea of a “patriot”…
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See what the judge said dickless Mary?
“Lamberth said that Bolton’s rush to publication could expose himself to further government lawsuits if the book did include classified information.
“This was Bolton’s bet: If he is right and the book does not contain classified information, he keeps the upside mentioned above; but if he is wrong, he stands to lose his profits from the book deal, exposes himself to criminal liability, and imperils national security,” he wrote. “Bolton was wrong.”
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Oh Dear, Trump’s got a crowd size problem again,
https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1274469949260599302?s=09
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No Walt, Bolton might have to do time to make sure Trump goes down.
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Charges Dropped Against Armed Citizen Who Shot Albuquerque Protester
https://trib.al/CApB2OW
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 20 June 2020 at 05:19 PM
But the narrative…..what of the narrative?
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The trump Tulsa rally was a dud. The overflow crowds never showed up causing the cancelation of trumpy’s address the overflow crowd outside the arena. An hour before showtime only 12 people were in the overflow area. Inside the story was a little different. Ten minutes before show time the inside crowd was pretty much in the lower levels with the upper decks mostly empty. As OK spikes how many lives were saved by people NOT attending? Only time will tell.. stay tuned
And now the lies and excuses start as to why people didn’t show up. Of course, number one on the list is always “radical protesters” and certainly not the warnings and pleas by local officials who repeatedly asked that the event be postponed due to the virus.
The campaign issued this statement, “Sadly, protestors interfered with supporters, even blocking access to the metal detectors, which prevented people from entering the rally. Radical protestors, coupled with a relentless onslaught from the media, attempted to frighten off the President’s supporters. We are proud of the thousands who stuck it out,”
Multiple news teams from various networks reported seeing no such activity. Fake news I suppose once again.. Those damn lying reporters trying to take trumpy down…..again….and again… and again.. not to mention the deep state, the CIA, FBI, and numerous people who have been fired from their jobs for… duh… doing their jobs and reporting facts.
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You tell em girl! –
We cannot look to white liberals and liberal politicians to lead us toward full inclusion. Their way of thinking is the elephant in the room. All too often, they go behind closed doors to discuss the “black issue.”
And all too often, we in the black community are not included in those early discussions. White politicians speak to one or two black people, think they understand centuries of marginalization, and begin to create policies that will impact us all.
In each of the major cities with large black populations, one would be hard-pressed to find a conservative thought. These cities have been in the pocket of the Democratic Party for decades. There’s little-to-no diversity in thought or political competition.
Here’s a shining example of the subtle racism of low expectations towards black people: Liberal leaders have called out to the American people to just “give space” to rioters and looters after the killing of black people by police. They claim that there is so much pent up frustration over oppression in the black community that we just need to be allowed to vent.
Well, black people are not animals. We are not stupid. We can string together coherent sentences to communicate our frustrations, our hopes and our desires for our community. We do not need to pick up bricks, light fires and destroy our own communities to convey our need
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/george-floyd-police-rayshard-brooks-kathy-barnette
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During the days of slavery, white owners viewed us as property – and it seems as though not much has changed for some white liberals in how they view the aptitude of blacks.
Where we go from here is not a Democratic issue or a Republican issue – it’s an American issue. Respecting the dignity of every individual is key.
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Keep smoke’n that “wanna” Marty. Bolton will be dumpster diving when Trump gets through with him.
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A vote for creeepy grampa joe is a vote for this –
A task force on criminal justice reform, charged with shaping Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s public policy agenda and intended to guide the Party’s 2020 platform, is composed of extremist members with radical views directly tied to organizations that believe America is an inherently racist country that must be fought through a radical transformation.
“Weaponized whiteness” poses an existential threat to people of color in the U.S.; police departments must undergo radical change to “better serve a race of people historically oppressed by it;” and “anything less than a radical transformation” of the U.S. is unacceptable. These are just some of the views promoted by members tasked with shaping the Democratic Party reforms of the justice system, should the party gain power in the upcoming 2020 elections.
Chiraag Bains is co-chair of the criminal justice reform task force that is guiding Biden’s policies vis-à-vis overhauling the justice system.
He is currently the director of legal strategies at the far-left George Soros-funded Demos think tank, which is currently working closely with radical activist organizations such as the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) to support “the critical and increasingly dangerous” work of protesting and organizing and stands in solidarity with the group’s demands and their declaration that anything less than a “radical transformation” of the U.S. is unacceptable.
Breitbart News previously reported that M4BL seeks a revolution to topple the U.S. capitalist system and its replacement with a socialist-style government replete with universal income, collective ownership, and the redistribution of wealth.
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/06/19/weaponized-whiteness-meet-extremists-shaping-joe-bidens-2020-agenda/
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Breaking news for Emery and the loony Left,, “CNN…. Riots are just peaceful protests”
Ask the burned out and looted shop keepers if they agree with that…
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Time to get out of the Alamo and make our country safe again. Time to go on the offense.
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BT 5:19 – That video makes it pretty clear. He was assaulted and he tried to retreat. The mob pursued him and yelled they wanted to kill him.
Tried by twelve or carried by six.
Notice the DA has said nothing about charging the murderous mob.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
We also notice that the Dems and the leftys that post here do not renounce a murderous mob.
Speaks volumes.
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The nice part is they didn’t listen last time and they wont this time. Just wait for the debates! LOL –
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/06/20/michael-moore-warns-dems-while-you-laugh-at-trumps-base-in-tulsa-theres-no-massive-intense-love-of-joe-biden/
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Scott @ 7:17 pm
Yep. The Wa Compost chick’s headline of the event merged two stories into one. There was the tear down the monument of some 16th Century Conquistador story and there was the shooting story. The Wa Compost story said the disputer(shooter) backed up a few feet, while their own video shows him backing up at least 30 year across the street. He was attacked and pursued.
Too much work to deconstruct every dopey piece from the lying Leftinista Media. They found their proof of White Supremacy run amuck, lol.
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Ah – living out here in rural America!
Saturday was here and the temp was 85. Folks were mowing the lawn and doing yard work and tending to their chickens and their vegetable gardens. The children were playing and all was well.
No one was wearing masks or keeping 6 feet apart. No one was sick or dying. No one was tearing anything down – everyone was productive and building things up.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/20/all-remains-sane-calm-here-rural-america/
But you leftys have the answer – yes, we’ve seen it on the news.
No – we’re not white supremacists – we’re just supremacists. As in – supreme.
Go ahead – vote for Biden. We’ll still be supreme.
And sadly – the poor blacks will still be pulling the white lefty wagon. Then what silly avatar will you affect to signal your virtue?
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Don 7:37 – No ‘massive’ love for Biden?
All they need is Michael Moore – he’s massive enough!
Does the left really, really think Americans are going to vote for de-funding the police, riots, building burning and general chaos?
C’mon you old leftys – 1968?
Chicago?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention
That massive upheaval ushered in Nixon – thank you very much!
Not that the Dems were any better.
Gee – what happened to that ‘center’ that the crabb middle of the road crowd talk about?
I suppose it’s fun to believe in unicorns, but really – this is real life.
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Brightbitch Don: “The reason he is not facing that charge right now is because this investigation is not complete.”
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Scott O @20 June 0000 at 07:17 PM
“We also notice that the Dems and the leftys that post here do not renounce a murderous mob.”
Honestly, they never discuss anything beyond polls or some clickbait article on a Trump tweet or toilet paper sticking to his shoe.
Consider all the crazy things of the day. The insanity of the modern university (how many thousand articles could you find on that one topic?), cancel culture, politically-based censorship on the tech ‘platform’ monopolies, cities burning, statues toppling, the abasement of large companies to the mob, multiple etcs., with nary a word to be said.
Seriously, these are interesting things and you could go back through months and months of Mary ‘n Paul one sentence posts and it’s just the same ol’ trivial Trump stuff. It’s hard to find a bigger sin than just being flat out boring.
I’d just love to see someone try to justify the insanity, maybe they’d have some angle I hadn’t thought of. If you string their posts all together, it’s just valueless logorrhea.
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Administrivia – some misplaced comments may go missing.
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Scott O @ 7:48 pm.
Great article. Great because it’s true.
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Poor Trump,
“My 16 year old daughter and her friends in Park City Utah have hundreds of tickets. You have been rolled by America’s teens. @realDonaldTrump you have been failed by your team. You have been deserted by your faithful. No one likes to root for the losing team.”
https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1274484153963016193?s=19
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Poor Mary – I’m wondering when it was that I went to bed and then arose the next morning day after day with only one person on my mind?
Ah – decades ago – a young blond gal.
I married her.
Poor Mary.
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