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230 responses to “Sandbox – 6apr23”
Chicago mayor explains the trouble. Walmart is at fault.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahE8RIh-6s0
You know, a tricky thing on youtube anymore is how to avoid MSM. It tends to give youtube a leftward bent, but there’s a lot of Foxnews on there too. I’ve got zero interest in talking heads in a studio somewhere cherry picking some video footage. The real value is some-dude-on-the-street with a cellphone, but it waay harder to track down anymore
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Posted by: scenes | 17 April 2023 at 08:14 AM
I ran into that one too. Naturally, my first inclination was to check and see if the code words ‘teen’ and ‘youth’ meant what I thought they meant. So, off to YouTube.
Yes….they mean exactly what you thought the code words meant!
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Andrew Gillum was almost elected Florida governor. Now he’s on trial in federal court
His only real crime….not winning the election! All else can and would be forgiven by progressivism had he prevailed. Dare I say they may have been career enhancing!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/andrew-gillum-was-almost-elected-florida-governor-now-he-s-on-trial-in-federal-court/ar-AA19VaKm
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Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson said the city needs a “comprehensive approach to improve public safety.”
Ooooh…..difficult without locking up a noticeable percentage of his constituency and pissing off an even larger fraction of the rest!
Anyway…….let us know how it goes Brandon (really bad news to have share this…. presidents nickname)!
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“Comprehensive” means roping in lots of “experts”, think tanks, lefty NGOs, and a boatload of federal money. Turn it over to them as a firewall for the mayor’s office and then start making the usual word-salad speeches about the issue. After a few months of the problem getting worse, blame Trump.
Let’s Go, Brandon!
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Posted by: Scott O | 17 April 2023 at 09:57 AM
“Comprehensive” means roping in lots of “experts”, think tanks, lefty NGOs, and a boatload of federal money. Turn it over to them as a firewall for the mayor’s office and then start making the usual word-salad speeches about the issue. After a few months of the problem getting worse, blame Trump.
Let’s Go, Brandon!
Its really no fun for the rest of us when you just blurt out the punchline!
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Ye ole Broadbrush.
SUSAN RICE: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BLACKS COST THE US $16 TRILLION
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/susan-rice-discrimination-against-blacks-cost-the-us-16-trillion.php
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HOW TO HUMILIATE A LIBERAL IN 10 SECONDS OR LESS
“At a private Manhattan fundraiser in 2016, then-candidate Hillary Clinton famously described Donald Trump supporters as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it.” This was Clinton’s updated version of former President Barack Obama’s snide remark in 2008 about the people living in small-town Pennsylvania, whom he depicted as bitter folks who “cling to guns or religion or antipathy.”
Liberals are fond of making these blanket statements about Republicans and conservatives because they know if they are repeated enough times, they will stick. And they have. This characterization is now commonly accepted wisdom among the Left.
Democrats also know they will never be asked to support these claims with specifics. Evidence is not required.“
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/how-to-humiliate-a-liberal-in-10-seconds-or-less.php
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Chicago? How about LA?
‘Compton deputies back on patrol following gas station looting’
https://abc7.com/compton-arco-gas-station-looting-los-angeles-county-video-of-looters-investigation/13142336/
What is not in the link is the Arco owner called 911 and got no answer. The cops were busy with the street takeover and had no officers to spare. Too little, to late.
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Satire is dead….
https://babylonbee.com/news/new-chicago-mayor-warns-that-if-local-walmart-locations-close-people-will-have-fewer-places-to-shoplift
Important announcement regarding Miss Anthropes blog……apparently it’s a quarterly now.
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“”Comprehensive” means roping in lots of “experts”, think tanks, lefty NGOs, and a boatload of federal money. ”
You have to admit that sluicing money into the schools and midnight basketball offers plenty of opportunities for your brother-in-law to get a good job, no attendance required. It’s probably always been a feature of cities.
Given that Chicago already spends $29k/student/year and Idaho spends $8300, my guess is that the best answer is to give the Chicago school systems more fundage.
lol. When I think about the quality of my own high school’s facilities (average. not heinous, not great) and compare that with some of those magnetcollegeprep schools in cities stuffed with teens and youths, it’s enough to make you laugh. We were as poor as church mice.
https://www.cato.org/blog/public-school-spending-theres-chart
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fish 11:49 – “…..apparently it’s a quarterly now.”
Priorities are important…more quality time will now be available for Little Debbies.
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https://twitter.com/CWBChicago/status/1647998114542829571
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The 9th circuit no less HAHA! –
A federal appeals court ruled unanimously Monday that a natural gas ban proposed by the City of Berkeley, California, would illegally circumvent federal law.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that Berkeley’s natural gas piping ban, which the city’s government passed in 2019 as part of its climate agenda, violated the federal Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) of 1975. By banning gas pipes in new building construction, the city effectively violated the EPCA which prevents local regulations from impacting the energy use of natural gas appliances.
“Instead of directly banning those appliances in new buildings, Berkeley took a more circuitous route to the same result,” Judge Patrick Bumatay wrote in the opinion of the court Monday. “It enacted a building code that prohibits natural gas piping into those buildings, rendering the gas appliances useless.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-appeals-court-strikes-down-democratic-citys-natural-gas-ban-backed-biden-admin
😉
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Resort to infancy.
‘Why the trans movement is so intolerant’
Political self-pity is the new enemy of freedom
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/17/why-the-trans-movement-is-so-intolerant/
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Men Punching Women
“It boils down to this. Men get to invade women’s privacy. Men get to expose themselves to them without permission. Men get to “compete” against them physically. Men get to rob them of records and take scholarships from them. And if women have the temerity to object—men get to blame them and shame them. And if after all that a woman decides to stillspeak up…
Men get to punch them.”
https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2023/04/16/men-punching-women-n2622018
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scenes 1:21 – Now, what did Scott Adams advise her to do?
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Societal breakdown. A thin blue line which keeps society from descending into violent chaos.
‘Portland REI to Close Due to Record Number of Break-Ins, Thefts’
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/rei-in-city-of-portland-to-close-due-to-record-number-of-break-ins-theft/
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BT 5:22 – “A thin blue line…”
It isn’t even that.
If some one has the audacity to get the thieves arrested, they’re just put back on the street in minutes with no repercussions.
Rinse, repeat. Ad nauseam.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/penguin-removes-unacceptable-words-from-p-g-wodehouse-novels-adds-trigger-warnings-for-outdated-language
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
– another English author.
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moi@6:44PM
I just read a good turn of phrase.
‘Code of the Wokesters’. (hey, I’m easily amused)
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When you’re accused of being wrong by both the left and the right, you must be on target.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F0jE1UAdt8
FOX news is now “pro war”?
Tucker is laughing.
Is the new Pentagon military leak a good thing or bad?
As Adams points out – “is the truth about something bad?”
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Proud racists they be-
It said the “woke” company “proudly” discriminates based on race, color, national origin and sex under the “cloak of equity.” It cited the company’s Leadership Accelerator Program, which provides mentorship, executive interaction and other opportunities but excludes White and Asian Americans.
“This is not a regular corporate program – rather, the company describes the role as focusing on hiring the next generation of leaders within the North American Sustainability and Procurement department,” the letter states. “In other words, it is a fast-track program to executive leadership positions at Anheuser-Busch, and it is limited to candidates based on race.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/anheuser-busch-accused-of-racist-hiring-practices-under-cloak-of-equity
😉
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https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR3wpjmY/
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It’s funny how many ways, big and little, that the government tries to actively manage the economy.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/18/software-firms-face-huge-tax-bills-that-threaten-tech-startup-survival.html
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lol. E. Musk is OK by me.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1648135878454177794
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No surprise there –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/office-of-special-counsel-finds-hhs-secretary-becerra-violated-federal-law
😉
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Fox folds-admits guilt and settles
” Fox News agreed to settle a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems on Tuesday for $787.5 million, according to an attorney for the voting technology company, representing a stunning conclusion to one of the most-watched media trials in decades. The judge dismissed jurors just hours after they had been selected. ”
More later.
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l
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/18/dominion-fox-trial/
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re: psul@1:53
Cool. I’d like to see all of MSM crash ‘n burn. The worst ones are the ‘news’ outlets owned by billionaires (Washington Post/Bezos, The Atlantic/Jobs) as hobbyist activist propaganda farms.
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“Fox folds-admits guilt and settles”
When will the NYTs and the Washington Compost do the same?
Never, of course.
Ah, well.
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re: Scotto@3:14PM
Nicholas Sandmann for one. I think he got money from WP, CNN, NBC.
In a just world, Kyle Rittenhouse would be stuffing a billion dollars in his pocket from the Leftist press.
…or nothing at all since it’s fair to assume that all modern news organizations, at least in the US, are simply clickbait outrage machines.
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Punchy says “Fox folds-admits guilt and settles”
No Paul. Read it a’gin.
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You see, Punch, to get the clear signal, they had to risk Losing. Instead, they accepted a 51% discount to settle.
Why? Because they didn’t want to risk it all.
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GOP turns tables on Dems as Biden administration loses track of thousands of migrant children
“House Republicans are expected to grill Office of Refugee Resettlement director at hearing Tuesday on HHS failure to vet, monitor and track unaccompanied migrant children, whose arrival at the border has grown more than 10-fold under Biden.
Four years after Democrats made political hay out of migrant children being separated from their parents at the border, Republicans have turned the tables on the issue amid evidence the Biden administration has lost track of as many as 85,000 minors it allowed to enter the country unaccompanied by parents, leaving many prey to cartel extortion, forced labor, abuse and trafficking.”
https://justthenews.com/government/security/tuegop-turns-tables-vulnerable-migrant-children-biden-administration-loses
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So Gregory am I hearing you right that losing 787 million $ is not losing?
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“So Gregory am I hearing you right that losing 787 million $ is not losing? ”
You need to clear out the earwax from your eyes.
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Typical Paul. Posts BS and when he’s called on it, he tries to lie about what he originally posted.
Pathetic.
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In the “timely as today’s news” portion of the program….
Yes….I can imagine.
So much condensed sad in responding to a post from 14 years ago at local pirate Miss Anthropes online mausoleum.
No response yet from the proprietor.
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Early bird catches the worm 🐛.
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Gregory
Here’s Fox’s statement admitting that they lied.
“Fox’s statement said. “We acknowledge the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false. This settlement reflects FOX’s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards. We are hopeful that our decision to resolve this dispute with Dominion amicably, instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial, allows the country to move forward from these issues.”
If paying nearly a billion dollars to settle isn’t an acknowledgement of guilt what is?
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/18/fox-news-reaches-settlement-with-dominion-in-defamation-lawsuit-00092621
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Posted by: psul Emery | 19 April 2023 at 07:47 AM
Yeah…..I suppose it was only a matter of time before Fox was revealed to be as crooked as ABC, CBS, NBC……of course NPR…..all court scribes for the progressive power structure.
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“Here’s Fox’s statement admitting that they lied.”
Where?
“If paying nearly a billion dollars to settle isn’t an acknowledgement of guilt what is?”
It’s called “cut your losses and move on”.
Paul’s new dead horse. Expect him to beat on this one for weeks.
Remember when Paul claimed he couldn’t post because he was “too busy”?
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psul: “If paying nearly a billion dollars to settle isn’t an acknowledgement of guilt what is?”
Realistically, it’s a business decision based on the likelihood of winning a lawsuit.
I don’t know what the actual details in the case were (and neither do you of course), but a company running elections is a funny case. Should you be allowed to say any old thing about something that is innately political in nature? Team Blue radio/tv/internet news are certainly able to make wild claims about Republican politicians without dire consequences. I wonder what the edge really is.
Just imagine the uproar if an oil pipeline or fracking company went after everyone who made untrue claims about them. What if Rise Gold did?
That would be amazing. A Rise Gold lawsuit against everyone writing one of those heart-felt columns in the newspaper that were willfully incorrect in any way.
Honestly, I’m not really sure what the rules should be.
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“The eye-popping $787.5 million sum is enormous in the annals of defamation cases, but with Fox claiming some $4 billion in cash on hand in its most recent quarterly earnings report, it’s not exactly going to bankrupt the company. And there did not appear to be any provision in the settlement deal requiring any kind of apology from Fox or from any of its most visible figureheads like Maria Bartiromo or Tucker Carlson.”
No “admission of guilt”. No squirming.
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O’Reilly on Fox
https://fb.watch/j-MlDwfGky/?
Somebody went to bed thinking about Fox and woke up thinking about Fox. hint: not me.
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‘No “admission of guilt”.’
I agree. They looked at the situation and made a business decision. They stated that they ‘acknowledge the Court’s rulings’ which is to say that they understand them.
They might be guilty as all hell of something, although I’m not quite sure what that is and how it’s different than 1000 other similar situations.
Personally, I’d dump voting machines in a New York minute if I were running matters. Not enough chances for auditing, too many chances for chicanery.
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scenes @ 8:49 pm
When Mayor Pete was mayor, he was dubbed Pothole Pete. Pothole sez: “Black and Brown Americans, Tribal and RURAL Americans…”
Nice wide streets with good lightening and crosswalks and sidewalks sounds more like a municipal issue/responsibility.
Know matter the issue, Pothole Pete brings it all back to racism. Everything is racism. During PP’s Presidential campaign, he scored 0% support among black voters.
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re Less-Than-Useless Pete
Here I had thought John Kerry was the most openly ridiculous waste of oxygen on the planet.
Just one example:
“Taking Private Jet to Iceland for Environmental Award: ‘the Only Choice for Somebody Like Me’”
https://news.yahoo.com/kerry-defended-taking-private-jet-171410846.html
I have to admit that this type of clown-class in our national “leadership” do employ a special power that most others do not have.
They are able to say and do these kinds of inane jaberwocky on a regular basis without having to ever have folks nearby breaking out into open laughter at them. It’s a magic derision shield.
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Lordy lordy! The whitewashing machine here is permanently stuck on the spin cycle.
https://www.rlcrabb.com/inept-vs-insane/rupert-to-the-rescue/
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