[Well, Happy 2023 everyone and we might as well start the new year off with a fresh sandbox. In the 19dec22 Sandbox Mr scenes offered an intriguing suggestion (830am) in an attempt to eliminate the detritus of TDS and things gratuitously Trump from continually contaminating practically every other topic with yet another boring lap around the Trump barn. He suggested that RR add a Trump category and restrict posting of Trump-centric comments to that category. I envision it being structured like the Sandbox with dated, and perhaps even topical, labels so that the comment streams don’t become too long. I need to noodle on this and invite readers’ ideas about how it would work. gjr]
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1,208 responses to “Sandbox – 1jan23”
The former self-described Green Libertarian is delusional.
Paul, assuming you think there may be a valid measure of intelligence called IQ… what’s yours? Is it less than 85?
Or is it your honesty and ethics that are broken?
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Paul – Income tax is based on income.
Please get some help, Paul.
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A most excellent piece, all save Punch should read this unsigned editorial:
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2023/1/the-mob-comes-for-madison
VDH may have had a hand in its creation.
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George, a post of mine made this morning kicked the typepad bit bucket… might it be resurrected?
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: RAYMOND ARON ON CLASSICAL LIBERALISM
Liberalism as understood by Raymond Aron:
“The liberal believes in the permanence of humanity’s imperfection, he resigns himself to a regime in which the good will be the result of numberless actions, and never the object of a conscious choice. Finally, he subscribes to the pessimism that sees in politics the art of creating the conditions in which the vices of men will contribute to the good of society.”
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I once thought this article might be premature. Not no more. Everyday is a day I have to plan for the man’s arrival.
The Tax Man Cometh
https://intellectualtakeout.org/2022/12/the-tax-man-cometh-jeff-minick/
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Great fun watching the Republicans self destruct. Very entertaining. I wonder who their script writer is?
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Nevada City Leftists:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/california-turns-into-transgender-sanctuary-state-for-kids-trying-to-modify-their-gender_4957515.html
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Warning
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=579891812765445
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Gregory 655am – Done.
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National Park In Florida Keys Closes Indefinitely After 300 Migrants Land On Shores
https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-park-in-florida-keys-closes-indefinitely-after-300-migrants-land-on-shores
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re: BillT@9:48AM
Is this mentioned in there? (got tired of the paywallish thing)
“Jeffrey Younger has lost his court case to prevent his ex-wife from taking their son to California, where he could be medically transitioned. Younger has been trying to stop this from happening for years, and said that he has now reached the end of the line.
He wanted the courts to stop his ex-wife from taking the children to California and to protect his boys from medical mutilation at the hands of their mother, who is a pediatrician. The courts prevented him from forcing the mother to bring the boys back from California. Younger has accused her of using the children to help advertise her “inclusive,” “gender affirming” practice.”
Seriously, who was to know that turning kids into a lifestyle device to raise your own status would become the prime directive of Democrats. It wasn’t enough to have all those buildings burn down during the Summer of Love.
re: Slavery.
I’m still looking for reparations for the Protestant galley slaves held by the French until just before the Revolution.
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The Baleful Cargo of Woke Diversity Worship
https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/01/the-baleful-cargo-of-woke-diversity-worship/
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Mr. scenes @ 10:31 am
“Is this mentioned in there?” No, but I was looking for your Jeffery Younger heartbreak earlier. State sanctioned irreversible sterilization and genitalia mutilation of those under the age of consent is a crime against humanity and to be thrown upon the pile of the Lefty sins against Nature, Nature’s God, and Mankind.
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‘Affirming Deception’
An unexpected concession by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health reveals dishonesty in the American gender-medicine establishment.
https://www.city-journal.org/wpath-finally-acknowledges-europes-restrictions-on-gender-affirming-care
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Majority of Content on Twitter Competitor Mastodon Is Child Porn, Report Finds
https://humanevents.com/2023/01/02/majority-of-content-on-twitter-competitor-mastodon-is-child-porn-report-finds?
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What a hoot to watch the pathetic Republicans trying to pick a House leader. The Dems are enjoying every moment of it.
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Posted by: psul Emery | 03 January 2023 at 12:40 PM
Get back to me after you get your monkey……after that we can discuss correcting the course of your career. And as I’ve sure you noted based on the response to your first stab at Republican Leadership chat nobody here seems to give a crap.
So….monkey first ……then we’ll see if we can find a way to get more change tossed into the case!
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Punch prefers the spectacle of congresscritters goose stepping to the oldies that the House under Pelosi was soooo good at.
This can go 5 or 10 times or more. There will be a resolution eventually and I don’t care too much what the resolution looks like.
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Correlation vs causation vs coincidence.
Joe Biden goes to Ukraine, prosecutor investigating bank fraud, bribery, and corruption fired. Joe Biden goes to the US Virgin Islands…..
‘Virgin Islands Prosecutor Fired Days After Suing Major Bank Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/virgin-islands-prosecutor-fired-days-after-suing-major-bank-over-jeffrey-epstein-ties
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Shoot Paul. I am enjoying it too! Lol.
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Barry… you think a Speaker will be chosen by February?
March would be ok… there’s plenty of money waiting to be spent . No hurry.
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Depends how much of a narcissist Kevin McCarthy is. Lol.
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…balanced by the collective narcissism of the “freedom caucus” and offset by the absolute megalomania of the House Democrats.
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McCarthy paid the nickel to the establishment for years. Now he has to ride the ride.
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Barry, much as a I’d like to see someone else, McC is probably the best your party will get, but please, do continue sawing off the nose to spite the face. For a few days.
Dems can hang together to pass huge bills and get them passed without anyone able to read them… you don’t have the margin to make that kind of call.
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Here is one for the ponytail of ignorance, the final nail in the coffin of the rancid russian dressing lies –
Twitter deliberately exaggerated the extent of Russian influence on its platform in an attempt to appease the media and Democrats, even after internal investigations into the matter proved a “dud,” according to journalist Matt Taibbi, who released another batch of the Twitter Files today.
Twitter initially tried to stay out of the spotlight on the Russia issue in 2017, hoping Facebook would remain the main target of scrutiny from the media and Democrats. Twitter’s PR department even agreed on a media strategy to “keep the focus on FB.”
But the task force found little evidence of significant Russian involvement on the platform. In October 2017, the task force reported that it had found “no evidence of a coordinated approach, all of the accounts found seem to be lone-wolf type activity (different timing, spend, targeting, <$10k in ad spend).”
After reviewing 2,500 accounts manually, the task force could only find “32 suspicious accounts and only 17 of those are connected with Russia, only 2 of those have significant spend one of which is Russia Today…remaining <$10k in spend.”
“We think this is exhaustive,” concluded the task force.
What followed was a torrent of pressure from the media, liberal academics, and politicians. In a quote to Politico, one “intelligence expert” — Johns Hopkins professor Thomas Rid — said “were Twitter a contractor for the FSB… they could not have built a more effective disinformation platform.” Politico claimed that Twitter had “deleted data potentially crucial to Russia probes.”
In November, Buzzfeed released a report based on findings from the University of Sheffield in the UK, alleging a “new network” on Twitter that had “close connections to… Russian-linked bot accounts.”
Internally, Twitter concluded that while the accounts were linked to Russia, there was no evidence of them being linked to Russian intelligence. Moreover, the platform concluded that they were primarily German-language, and not active in the U.S. election.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/01/03/twitter-files-company-exaggerated-russian-influence-to-appease-media-democrats/
😉
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I will tell you what is happening right now. Congressmen are hearing from their base. In fact, I gave my ex-wife who starts her 15th year working for Comgressman McClintock, a piece of my kind this morning. Lol. And the base hates Kevin McCarthy. They know who he is. They know that he has always been an establishment, used car salesman who will do whatever is popular. The base wants principled government and principal leadership. Consequently, McCarthy will start losing votes. He won’t be speaker without major concessions.
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Barry, it takes a real big tail to wag the dog from the rear.
Good luck with that.
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“Barry, it takes a real big tail to wag the dog from the rear.”
What are the odds he starts passing out deals to Democrats for votes?
Lotsa handwaving about ‘bipartisanship’ and all that, as if the uniparty didn’t exist already.
My favorite fantasy football is Trump as Speaker, but obviously the votes aren’t there.
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Barry
Who would you like to see be Speaker of the House?
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Sweet. The Future is Now.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01181
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re: Psul@6:52PM
I asked ChatGPT for an answer.
“It’s a tough choice, but if I had to pick one of the current members, I would say that [candidate’s name] would make an excellent Speaker of the House. [He/She] has a proven track record of standing up for Republican principles and fighting for what is best for our country. [He/She] has the experience and leadership skills necessary to effectively lead the House and push back against the Democrats’ agenda. I have no doubt that [he/she] would be a strong and effective Speaker.”
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In general, I see the GOP base is upset that their legislators are not able to make home runs with the hands voters vote them.
After all, the power made Democrats do very well with that their voters give them, what with the help the deep state gives them and the cash that falls into their pockets public employee unions and non-public employee unions give them. SEIU, anyone?
Dems don’t fight fair. Don’t throw away the good because the perfect would be better.
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Gregory
The biggest advantage the Dems have over the Repubs is that they’re smarter, much smarter.
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Just like you oh great ponytail of ignorance? LOL
😉
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Punch, and your smarts saw you through the 12th grade?
They’re not smarter, Punch. Sneakier. Better cheats.
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The Dems are totalitarians. Plain and simple. If you don’t see that by now Paul you never will. The federal government needs to be dismantled. I am for that speaker.
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Barry, that Speaker wasn’t nominated and if they were, wouldn’t get to the magic 218.
If the choice is the socialist from New York and a shitekicker from Bakersfield, who would you choose?
Btw I do like Scalise as a purple heart winner having survived being hunted by a bernie bro.
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Where do you start when you “dismantle” the Government Barry-How would that process work?
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A different view:
“I’m personally not all that shaken. We had nine ballots to pick a Speaker in 1923. We had 133 ballots to pick a Speaker in 1855. So this is not unprecedented.”
Newt Gingrich
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Punchy 1040p
Low hanging fruit… can you list the kids the Department of Education is responsible for educating?
That’s a trick question, as the D of E doesn’t educate anyone.
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I take it this blog has Trump PTSD because of their desire to make their former guiding light and hero disappear from the airwaves.
But it is not to be. Trump is a media mogul and keeping his name in the news is his stock in trade. Sorry to say it but MAGA, like COVID, is endemic now.
Have you tried Psilocybin?
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“Cereal Liar” (Keachie?) is the only poster mentioning that former president at this moment.
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Are there any ‘Progressives’ who aren’t grifters?
“Co-founder of queer Indigenous artists’ collective in Wisconsin is unmasked as a WHITE woman – after claiming she was Native American and two-spirit”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11596179/Co-founder-queer-Indigenous-artists-collective-Wisconsin-unmasked-white-woman.html
“Kay LeClaire, who went by Nibiiwakamigkwe has claimed to be Native American”
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You limit budgets and get rid of entities that are redundant at the state level. Dept of education. Dept of energy. FBI. CIA. DHS. DNI. We have like 17 intelligence agencies. How about we just have one? The money isn’t being used to help anyone for real. The money mainly goes to nonprofits and other entities in order to maintain control of the dialogue and control of the narrative. We have an expensive government that can’t solve problems. So let’s save money and get rid of it.
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Barry, there is now less than 5% of the house-elect wanting a hard GOP line.
This might not be the time to dig in your heels.
The 8th ballot might be a good point to surrender and declare victory.
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“We have like 17 intelligence agencies. How about we just have one? ”
How about a privacy agency? Fund something at the level of the NSA that makes sure that people can’t have their keyholes peeped through?
Yeah, yeah, I know. It’s for the children.
There’s probably a political rule of thumb here. Any intelligence service given sufficient time, people, money, comes to own the country they ‘serve’.
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This really is the best timeline.
https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1610395644052504580
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Scenes 949a
There is no right to privacy in the Constitution.
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scenes @ 10:43
Man o man, mind went immediately to Morticia Addams and Uncle Fester, with little Eddie Munster with his arms crossed.
https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/proxy/8OGUSNW1G1m6Ajf2V1UwAnrYlNNyc27wwzbidg2pvQ9Uy-jj4YE7imk3JvsPvb5wEP8WGYQ1mOejypfT6NWzhGY3kbL2ZebT8vwP_CS5fsexpH-bKQ=w720-h405-rw
Or perhaps Lily Munster and Uncle Fester. Shrek goes to Washington. Awesome, man.
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“There is no right to privacy in the Constitution.”
Is the implication that only things spelled out in the Constitution are in the domain of government?
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…to finish up my thought (I had to buy gas in preparation for the strongest storm of the year so far)
plus, I believe that privacy & security (intertwined ideas) fall as readily into the area of defense as, well, Defense. (worth nothing that the Air Force is not in the Constitution, only land and naval).
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