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[In updating the government’s butt stupid department, we witnessed today a major speech by SecTreas Janet Yellen assuring the Red Chinese that that US has no intention in surpassing them in international trade and economic progress, let alone outcompeting them in military matters.  Then for what in hell are these people getting paid??  gjr]

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282 responses to “Sandbox – 20apr23”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Talk about colon cowboys. Now we have colon cowgirls.
    ‘Transgender surgery comes under scrutiny after study resurfaces about teen who died‘
    https://justthenews.com/nation/science/trans-surgery-under-renewed-scrutiny-after-trans-teen-dies-following-vaginoplasty
    Ain’t pussy, ain’t asshole. But close

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  2. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 28 April 2023 at 12:02 PM
    ‘Transgender surgery comes under scrutiny after study resurfaces about teen who died‘

    Doubtless “Humphrey” will be back to defend this by bleating about under age marriage……

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  3. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    BillT: “Ain’t pussy, ain’t asshole. But close”
    I would suggest ‘colina’ as it sounds less vulgar.

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    scenes
    I would suggest ‘vulgar’ is not used nowadays, if but rarely. Glad that ‘vile’ has made a comeback. Bring back vulgar.
    “The way Elvis Presley moves his hips…..is vulgar.” —dear ole Mom.
    Kinda gross to think about a fake vagina made of one’s colon tissue. They are using cadavers as well. Think about that the next time to dip your wick when walking on the wild side.
    The average birth canal is nine inches and the average penis is six inches, thus room to spare. Not so with a neovagina or vaginoplasty, if you prefer.
    I reject the term ‘vaginal reconstruction.’ How can you reconstruct something that was never there? I submit that ‘vaginal construction’ is a more accurate term.
    The problem not state, yet is as obvious as the nose on one’s face is that all wounds try to close and heal. It’s how humans are made.
    But being a woman entails a lot more parts than just a having a vagina, real or fake. And one more rib, lest I be amiss.
    Kinda vulgar if you ask me.

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another loss –
    Federal judge grants injunction temporarily blocking enforcement of Illinois gun law
    The federal judge said that the court should be ‘mindful of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution’
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-judge-grants-injunction-temporarily-blocking-enforcement-illinois-gun-law
    😉

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  6. BopBop Avatar
    BopBop

    Florida Update!
    “A South Florida woman suspected of being involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will spend more than a year behind bars — but not for her alleged role in the riot.
    Suzanne Ellen Kaye, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by a federal district judge in West Palm Beach on Monday. The 61-year-old was found guilty of making threats toward FBI agents in a 2022 jury trial.”
    Kaye’s charges date back to January 2021, when the FBI called her up hoping to get an interview.
    The agents wanted to question Kaye about her whereabouts on Jan. 6 as the FBI’s national threats operation center received an online tip that she may have been at the Capitol during the attack, court records say.
    Kaye, who told FBI agents she was retired and couldn’t drive, agreed to meet in her Boca Raton home, according to court records. But before FBI agents showed up, she had posted three videos on her Facebook page, ANGRY Patriot Hippie.
    In the publicly available videos, one of which she captioned “F*** the FBI,” Kaye mentioned that agents wanted to meet with her, court records say. Then, she threatened to exercise her “second amendment right to shoot your f****** a**” if the FBI pulled up to her home.
    Agents learned of her social media posts in February 2021 through a second online tip, court records say. They then paid Kaye a visit more than a week later — and arrested her.”

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  7. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: BopBop | 28 April 2023 at 04:22 PM
    Yeah…..that’s pretty bad…..about the only thing I can think of that rises to that level would be surreptitiously pirating a child’s (Star Wars) movie 🎥 in the Del Oro theater.

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  8. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Glad that ‘vile’ has made a comeback.”
    If somewhat overused. It has come to mean ‘anything that makes my feelz hurt’.
    ….
    “The 61-year-old was found guilty of making threats toward FBI agents in a 2022 jury trial.”
    Seems like that’s the way of the world anymore. Lacking a crime, the feds slam you into the clink for something surrounding the investigation. Conspiracy, didn’t tell what they think is the truth in an interview, some words on the internet.
    You know what they say about grand juries and ham sandwiches, with a federal prosecutor it sometimes seems like all they need is the bread. To be fair, judging from Lincoln, the machinery of grinding ever so finely has always existed.
    You should check out Mike Chitwood vs. 4chan. Dunno if the whole thing will cause people to pipe down with the keyboard commando activity or if folks will become more radicalized. It all becomes more obvious in retrospect.

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    And team creepy grammpa joe thinks he is going to win with this –
    Biden’s approval rating among independents in five of the latest national polls registered at 33.2 percent, while an average of 56.2 percent of independents disapprove of his performance:
    Biden Job Approval: Independents (Apr 27)
    Emerson (A-)
    • Approve — 30%
    • Disapprove — 52%
    Gallup (B+)
    • Approve — 31%
    • Disapprove — 61%
    Fox News (A-)
    • Approve — 37%
    • Disapprove — 62%
    Cygnal (A)
    • Approve — 34%
    • Disapprove — 62%
    😉

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Some muthas will do anything to get the good parking spaces, but seriously this is enabling mental illness like the other trans –
    The point of “changing the identifier” from a psychiatric condition (BIID) to an advocacy term (transableism) is to “harness the stunning cultural power of gender ideology” to the cause of allowing doctors to “treat” BIID patients by “amputating healthy limbs, snipping spinal cords or destroying eyesight,” according to Evolution News and Science Today (EN), which reports on and analyzes evolution, neuroscience, bioethics, intelligent design and other science-related issues.
    Because “some of these persons mutilate themselves; others ask surgeons for an amputation or for the transection of their spinal cord,” that site adds of the shocking steps some are taking.
    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) notes on its website, “Those with BIID desire the amputation of one or more healthy limbs or desire a paralysis.”
    A North Carolina college student called transableism a “cry for attention.”
    The 24-year-old told Fox News Digital, “It’s offensive to people who actually suffer from the condition that you say you need, in order to be your true self.”
    He went on, “It’s embarrassing, and I don’t know if you can be considered a serious human being if you alter your body like this, instead of getting the appropriate mental help you need.”
    One Arizona internist called today’s transableism a “delusional disorder.”
    “In my opinion, both transgender and transabled persons suffer from a delusional disorder,” Jane Orient, a general internist in Tucson, Arizona, and executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, told Fox News Digital via email.
    “The Oath of Hippocrates adjures physicians to do no harm,” Orient said.
    “Mutilating the body is an objective harm even if makes the patient subjectively feel better,” she added.
    https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/transgendered-transabled-people-choosing-identify-handicapped
    😉

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee
  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    About those pesky facts –
    “The Swedish study says ‘sex-reassigned transsexual persons of both genders had approximately a three times higher risk of all-cause mortality than controls’,” Musk wrote in a post. ” … doing surgery or chemical sterilization on minors gains nothing in reduced mortality.”
    “My position is simply that we should wait until an individual is mature enough to make their own decisions before other adults make permanent, serious physical changes to them.”
    He then addressed the argument among trans activists that if a child is not “affirmed” in their transgender claim, that they will kill themselves. He pointed out that the data in the study does not bear that out.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/28/elon-musk-rips-gender-transition-for-minors-calls-term-cisgender-a-slur/
    😉

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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    A wholly owned subsidiary of the chi coms they be and running the country into the ground at light speed –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/28/exclusive-hunter-bidens-lawyer-controls-entity-with-10-stake-in-chinese-state-backed-investment-fund/
    😉

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    A bipartisan rejection of creepy grampa joes kowtowing to the chi coms –
    The 221-202 vote sends the measure to the Senate, where lawmakers from both parties have expressed similar concerns about what many call unfair competition from China. Biden has vowed to veto the measure if it reaches his desk.
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/house-votes-restore-solar-panel-152424925.html
    😉

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  15. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    DonB@7:35PM
    “A Transgender student at a High School in Riverside, California has assaulted a girl after exposing his genitals and spitting at girls in the girls locker room.
    According to a student witness, the transgender boy entered the girls locker room and after being confronted for being in there, spat at a group of girls and exposed his penis to them.
    “He spit on my friends that are girls, females. He shows his genitals in the locker room.”
    A fight then ensued outside between one of the female victims and the Transgender boy.
    The Trans student has now been removed from Riverside’s Martin Luther King High School.

    Source: KTLA / Fox 11″

    lol. That’s the perfect story to sum up this era of history. Somebody should make a time capsule containing items from the end of Western Civilization. I vote for wheelchair Barbie dolls with vitiligo as one of the ritual objects. In the future, elders can pass them around the fire and whisper about the times that were.

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  16. Humphrey Ploughjogger Avatar
    Humphrey Ploughjogger

    Do we need a new Iron Curtain to keep Russia in, an air gap to keep the Russia virus from infecting more countries?
    https://m.jpost.com/opinion/article-739172

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  17. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    ” an air gap to keep the Russia virus from infecting more countries?”
    Dunno. You’d have to ask the people in Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Yemen, Syria, Kosovo, Libya, if they’re interested.

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Yeah…..need to get the word to fake “Ben Emery” that I have to cross RFK off my list!

    The Very Strange New Respect for Authoritarian Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

    I guess fake Ben put aside all his concerns over Oppression, Suppression, Compression, and Obsession…. for Men…..by Calvin Klein™.
    Bummer…
    https://reason.com/2023/04/28/the-very-strange-new-respect-for-authoritarian-democrat-robert-f-kennedy-jr/

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  19. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: fish@10:29AM
    It’s funny how much mileage the anti-RFK folks are getting out of the climate change interview, it’s like the Donald Trump ‘Grab ’em by the pussy’ meme. Any candidate who represents a kind of stick thrown into the spokes of The Big Machine is OK in my books.
    IMO, what’s up is simply the establishment’s immune system at work. There’s no need for central organization of propaganda, but threats are easily established and the media white blood cells immediately go to work.

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 29 April 2023 at 12:11 PM

    Don’t care….anybody claiming the mantle of civil rights champion shouldn’t have said it… let alone thought it. These chowderheads need to learn to be more circumspect lest they chase those on the bubble away!

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  21. fish Avatar
    fish

    Surely this can’t be good!

    “It might cost you $30 billion of capital to buy the bank for free.”

    Rumor has it JP Morgan is doing what they always do….. cherry picking the good stuff and leaving the cancer behind for the taxpayers!
    https://mishtalk.com/economics/no-buyer-for-first-republic-bank-at-any-price-heres-why

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  22. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I was thinking about this one today.
    “New York may soon become the first state in the nation to ban natural gas in new construction under a budget deal announced by Gov. Kathy Hochul.”
    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/nyregion/gas-stove-ban-ny.html
    Which makes sense because, well, reasons…and was considering our own upcoming power armageddon coming up here in sunny California.
    So, besides all the ‘lectric car folderol, my understanding is that you can’t buy a new gas furnace or hot water heater in the state starting in 2030. Generators are verboten in 2028.
    I’d love to hear how people in the Sierras get to deal with all-electric houses during week-long (and longer) outages. You might consider looking up how many watt-hours a furnace uses per day. Generators are out because (a) there’ll be less and less gasoline (b) you won’t be able to buy them and (c) they are impractical for home heating.
    Dunno how many days without heat before pipes start bursting in a cold spell.
    Naturally, a full-on solar setup, assuming you don’t have trees even partly obscuring the panels (and there’s sun, and there’s no snow on the panels) is probably a $100k sort of investment so maybe that’s the answer.
    Seriously, some Champion of the Climate needs to stop by and justify this.

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Purple State Supreme Court Makes Major Ruling On Election Integrity Law, Reversing Previous Decision
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/purple-state-supreme-court-makes-major-ruling-on-election-integrity-law-reversing-previous-decision

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer
  25. Scott O Avatar

    scenes 2:15 – Can you imagine the gold mine it will be to own a power equipment store in the Reno area once the ban kicks in? Are they going to start inspecting RVs coming across the border? Will you still be able to buy “parts” for gasoline powered equipment?
    Is this ban another one of the freedoms Newsom is ranting about in CA?-

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  26. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Scotto@3:43
    I was also thinking in terms of new furnace and hot water heater installs in 2028-2029. An interesting case will be the people buying the gear in Reno and having a furnace installed sans permit.
    There’s already a scad of stuff Amazon won’t ship to California due to some law or the other, so that’s just one more. Driving to Reno or use of smugglers is in the cards.
    Insanity. Between the problems with single-sourcing energy and the lack of power grid reliability what on Earth are they thinking?
    There’s some geniuses in a meeting room somewhere mewling about the brilliance of One Big Machine. Using your EV as a grid-tied battery, microgrids, building solar panels into code (even in areas with trees that you can’t cut down), centrally controlled HVAC during shortages, maybe a bit of rationing now and again. Maybe we can add digital currency to the mix, it’ll make it easier to make everyone behave.

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Check out this watch commercial. Pushback.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5XrTxzr2Wg

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Chucky is cryin –
    “Schumer is in a bad spot because, in the past, he has had kind of this RINO contingent of Republicans that will help him get to 60, that magic number that he needs, but now that the House has acted, now that all the moderates in the House have even gotten on board and everyone has voted for this from across all the ideological spectrums of our Republican Party, the Senate Republicans, no matter what group you’re in, are very comfortable agreeing with House Republicans and saying Democrats need to come to the table,” Gooden said. “And Democrats need to make some compromises.”
    Gooden went on to emphasize that Republicans are “in a really good spot” in negotiations “because Kevin McCarthy got everybody on the same page once again.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/29/exclusive-rep-gooden-schumer-in-bad-spot-as-houses-debt-ceiling-bill-empowers-moderate-senate-republicans/
    😉

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    The last five years and probably fully the next ten…..about little more than catering to progressive mental illness.

    YA THINK? Mascot makeover to avoid alleged ‘OK’ hate symbol may be ‘overreaction’: prof.

    https://www.thecollegefix.com/football-mascot-makeover-to-avoid-hate-signaling-may-be-an-overreaction-professor-suggested/

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  30. fish Avatar
    fish

    Bad press leading into an election year…..

    US Evacuates Hundreds of Civilians from Sudan

    …..is there nothing it can’t do?
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-evacuates-american-civilians-from-sudan/

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