[I have a hard time trying to imagine the proposed meeting between Zelensky and Putin. One is an heroic leader of a small country besieged by a world-class dictator, kleptocrat, and thug who, in addition, openly seeks to murder the man with whom he will negotiate. How in hell will the two talk to each other when Putin is the unprincipled tyrannous maximus who has gratuitously attacked his neighbor with the demonstrated intent to kill as many civilians as he can in order to bring Ukraine to its knees? How do you talk to a man who wants you dead and has several hit squads in the field under orders to kill you? gjr]

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76 responses to “Sandbox – 2apr22”
re: Kamala
Another one jumps the ship. Every politician has that one long time aid who has been with them from the beginning. Hillary had (has) her Huma. But, not so with Kamala Harris.
It’s the same story from her time as DA of San Fransisco, to her time as the CA Attorney General (no one in the office liked her nor any of her prosecutors) to her campaign for President (supported by Dr. McAteers’s son working on her campaign), to her time so far as VP. The common thread is that it is not her staff who bails on her, but the real problem is her: That woman. No one who works for Kamala sticks around. Not one loyalist…taking about the important staff positions. They all leave. Not one loyalist.
Sure, some folks love campaigns and naturally are brought in as aides and consultants with a politician into office. But they are campaign people and after a year leave to do what they love most…running a campaign. But, Harris keeps losing the top staffers. National security advisers, communications directors, etc. All the top dogs never have stayed with her long during her entire career. No one. Even her own sister.
The problem is a good top staffer spends hours and hours and hours devoted to preparing briefings so that Kamala is informed with the best information available and she is well informed and knowledgeable on any issue….or the issue she is about to address at some appearance. Here is the rub. Kamala, for whatever reason, does not read her aides’ briefings. Been that way her entire life in public service.
All that hard work and research goes out the window. Imagine preparing briefs for Harris with days of research by many aides before her trip to Poland, just to have her not even read the brief to prepare herself, and goes on stage and wings it. The frustration of her top aides must be beyond frustrating. Poland is just one small example. After the flack Stacy Abrams took for appearing unmasked at a room full of masked children and teachers, one would think that she would have caught on. One would think that Kamala’s advance team would have briefed her about her upcoming school classroom appearance. But noooo. Kamala followed the footsteps of Stacy Abrams and appeared massless in a room full of kids and teachers required to mask up. That tells me her advance team quit and/or she did not bother to read the briefs before her appearance.
The names and positions of tough seasoned aides who have been through the heat of battle on campaigns and politics of office that have bailed tells us that it is not them or the usual turnover…but it’s HER. That woman.
If Kamala was Biden’s age, we could write it off as a bit of cognitive decline, losing a bit of speed on her fastball. But, out VP is much younger. Thus, the only conclusion we can draw is that our VP is really that dumb, perhaps the dumbest VP we have ever had in the history our this great nation. Yes, Kamala Harris, with the best aides money can buy, is really that dumb. And we all know how she got where she is…but let’s leave Willie out of it in case children are reading this.
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The Media Are Silent Over One Particular Story Relating to Kamala Harris
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/04/08/the-media-is-silent-over-one-particular-story-relating-to-kamala-harris-n2605643
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THE DEMOCRATS’ DYSARTHRIA
I’ve finally figured out why Democrats are so monomaniacal about imposing ever stricter federal price controls on prescription drugs. It’s because they are freebasing Xanax these days in large quantities to treat their high anxiety over their steadily eroding political prospects. (Also, it helps explain President Biden. One of the side effects of Xanax is “dysarthria”—slurred or slow speech. And now you know.)
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/04/the-democrats-dysarthria.php
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It could also be rip van wrinkle –
Gingrich: The ‘Rip Van Winkle’ presidency of Biden is embarrassing DC’s elite
Biden seems to prefer his weekends in Delaware, he suggests
“It’s an embarrassment to watch him in Warsaw blurt out things that … the State Department has to rush out and say aren’t true,” he said. “It’s embarrassing to watch his vice president. It’s embarrassing to realize that if you watched him hanging out with Barack Obama looking like he was the grandfather who’d been invited to the Thanksgiving dinner and everybody was ignoring him.”
“Not only are his policies terrible and destructive, and people are suffering from gasoline prices and food prices, from the border — but in addition, you have a president who you’re not sure is completely there.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-boring-presidency-rip-van-winkle-gingrich-democrats
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Show me where it is in the constitution –
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2022/04/08/border-chief-mayorkas-equity-is-u-s-core-founding-principle/
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6:53 pm
Ouch. “It’s a little bit like watching somebody who’s already retired, but they make him show up and pretend to be working,” he said.
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Yuck. They smell like Walmart shoppers.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=5708721912477923&id=216213438395492
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Team creepy grampa joe blinked –
“From the RGV to Terrell County, a large majority of the communities that originally reached out for support through this operation have now said that the federal government has stopped dropping migrants in their towns since the governor’s announcement on Wednesday,” Mr. Christensen added.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced orders Wednesday for state officials to charter buses to transport migrants to Washington, D.C. in response to the Biden Administration’s plans to end the Title 42 coronavirus protection protocol and begin large-scale mass releases, Breitbart Texas reported.
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2022/04/09/biden-admin-slows-migrant-drop-offs-in-texas-after-governor-orders-them-bused-to-dc/
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Have you read Woodward’s new book on Trump?! Did you read what Michael Wolff wrote about Trump’s White House! Did you read Omarosa’s book or Bernstein’s new book on Trump? Here, and I quote…..
Chuckle of the Day:
(Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff Drew Hammill). “Many books will be written about the challenges of legislating during the pandemic and a period of unprecedented Republican obstruction, and we won’t be commenting on the works that substitute gossip for fact.”
‘Nancy Pelosi ripped AOC and Ron Klain, forthcoming book reveals’
“Pelosi has also warned that the internal battle may very well cost Democrats the House in November, according to the book, telling one senior lawmaker that the party has “alienated Asian and Hispanic immigrants with loose talk of socialism.”
“In some of the same communities…,” the book, due out May 3, reportedly adds, “Democrats had not been careful enough about the way they spoke about abortion among new Americans who were devout people of faith.””
https://nypost.com/2022/04/08/nancy-pelosi-ripped-aoc-and-ron-klain-forthcoming-book-reveals/
Darn it people, hide that that day of birth abortion on demand and all that,loose,socialism talk from the voters!!!! What is wrong with you???
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They have gotten so comfortable lying that they dont even try anymore –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/psaki-claims-covid-exposed-harris-wore-mask-inside-before-jackson-ceremony-but-video-shows-otherwise
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We are happy to hear that in today’s America “loose talk of socialism” is still something to be avoided. Those who champion socialism must only talk about it in guarded ambiguities or not at all, lest the people prematurely discover the Democrats’ true objectives while they can still do something about it.
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You have to wonder why there is no comment bug on this union article????
https://www.theunion.com/news/law-reduced-prison-time-for-man-tied-to-sacramento-shooting/
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Don
That’s because it’s an AP article. Not an Union article, not written by our one newspaper town staff.
BTW, I believe it was Mr.Fish who once said he had to answer a bunch of survey questions to read a Union article of interest.
I have one device that has never logged on to the Union site. I use it to read, but cannot comment, which is probably a good thing. Anyway…. when that survey wall of grey blocks everything, I just hit “take the survey”, scroll down to the skip survey option, and I am in like Flint. A friendly tip. :). I ain’t taking no friggin survey, no way, and I ain’t ever going to log on on that one special devise. It’s still a virgin.
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Let’s put our hands together and welcome John Solomon
Missouri Supreme Court sides with John Solomon in Sunshine Law case against St. Louis prosecutor
“The Missouri voters and the American public deserve to know what went on in this case, and we now have an opportunity to tell them the facts,” said the editor-in-chief of Just the News.
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/missouri-supreme-court-sides-john-solomon-sunshine-law-case-against-st-louis
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The numbers for creepy grampa joe on policy portend not just a wave but a sunami , and note the spread for the orange bad man is growing. Grab your pink pussy hats and dust them off you may need em again. I wonder if there is anything left the ponytails of ignorance’s ann coulter doll or clutching pearls? LOL –
According to a March poll, a plurality of voters (39 percent) blames Biden for the high gas prices. Only 18 percent blame oil companies that have been crushed by newly set lending standards by the administration. The lending standards make it more difficult for oil companies to finance new projects, further increasing the price of oil production.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/07/poll-trump-leads-biden-by-5-points-in-potential-2024-rematch/
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Freirean education revealed and explained.
https://newdiscourses.com/2022/04/paulo-freires-politics-of-education/
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Gregory 414pm – Good stuff, thanks Greg.
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Creepy grampa joe and the socialist greens know it’s bad when –
Al Sharpton goes off on ‘limousine liberals,’ DC ‘elites’ ignoring crime: They ‘don’t live in the real world’
Sharpton joined MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough in warning liberal Democrats that they were losing support of minority voters
https://www.foxnews.com/media/al-sharpton-limousine-liberals-dc-elites-crime-real-world
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Ah the joys of cali shitholes –
USPS stops deliveries to California neighborhood after repeated attacks on mail carriers: Report
United States Postal Service suspended services in Santa Monica because one suspect accused of assaulting and threatening carriers ‘has not been located or apprehended’
https://www.foxnews.com/us/usps-suspends-deliveries-california-neighborhood-attacks-mail-carriers
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How The Biden Administration Is Aiding And Abetting The Biggest Border Fraud In U.S. History
https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/11/how-the-biden-administration-is-aiding-and-abetting-the-biggest-border-fraud-in-u-s-history/
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It looks like dementia runs in that family –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-sister-argues-democrats-pro-life-party-abortion-new-memoir
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Funny that vlad finished what Trump started in getting NATO to live up to their treaty obligations and now fully integrate the EU. Sucks to be you vlad –
Finland and Sweden are set to join NATO as early as this summer, extending the organization’s borders alongside Russia by hundreds of miles, U.S. officials told the British newspaper the Times. Finland is expected to submit its application for membership in June, with Sweden to follow.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/report-sweden-and-finland-to-join-nato-over-ukraine-invasion-173515441.html
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Another narrative bites the dust. Again
Buffalo police officers cleared for pushing over 75-year-old protester
https://thehill.com/news/3263748-buffalo-police-officers-cleared-for-pushing-over-75-year-old-protester/
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But no one will actually hear about it @819.
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8:42 pm
Quite true, Don.
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Small New England Town Cuts School Board Budget—in Half
Croydon, New Hampshire’s move is drawing attention to the lack of accountability in America’s schools.
https://fee.org/articles/small-new-england-town-cuts-school-board-budget-in-half/
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Noticed today that Philly is the first big city in the USA to return to indoor mass mandates. I laughed, remembering a study from a few years ago that 76% of the teacher in Philly sent their own children to private schools. It’s what any caring parent with the means would do. 🙂
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I just love that on the same day vlad warned Sweeden and Finland to never join NATO or there would be consequences they both Said they will join NATO in short order!
With a quarter of your armor dead as well as your best troops and 14 senior officers dead your bark is not what it used to be vlad! ROFLOL NATO also announced the so-called trip wire program of small NATO footprints in former soviet satellites is over. So the Polish desire for a large base in the east that would have been fort Trump will actually happen as well in the others! Screw you vlad. Now you are talking deterrence! –
Ukraine War: Russia warns Sweden and Finland against Nato membership
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61066503
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This is my pistol, this is my gun. One is for shooting, the other is for fun.
Whatever Joe had on his mind, it certainly wasn’t Jill.
‘Biden Speaks: ‘Imagine Had The Tobacco Industry Been Immune To Prostitute Being Sued, Come On’.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-speaks-imagine-had-the-tobacco-industry-been-immune-to-prostitute-being-sued-come-on
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Lol. Chuckle of the day.
‘Two Quick Things’: Ben Shapiro Triggers Applause, Laughter Responding To ‘F*** You’ Heckler
https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-quick-things-ben-shapiro-triggers-applause-laughter-responding-to-f-you-heckler
“I’m a mathematician and a physicist!” and I am not impressed. 🙂
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