[Here’s the latest goings on in our idiot nation. The leftwing lamestream media are cancelling Jason Aldean’s ‘Try that in a small town’ song that he recorded in front of the Maury County courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee. Why? Because they claim people are outraged by the song’s lyrics protesting progressive riots and criminality in general, and the choice of its venue as having been where a black man was lynched in the 1920s. Those outraged come from the eternally ignorant cohort of Americans who couldn’t identify the Atlantic Ocean on a world map, but somehow know such historical esoteria connected with an obscure mid-western courthouse. gjr]
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275 responses to “Sandbox – 20jul23”
It’s been interesting watching the Democratic Party apparatchiks going after the one nationally prominent Democrat who seems to be a decent guy.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4107697-democrats-tear-into-rfk-jr-during-weaponization-hearing/
When your party is a coalition of special interest groups, I guess that divvying up the carcass of the country is the most practical way forward.
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Scenes
How about the way Trump aht the Trumpers goes after anybody who disagrees with them about anything?
Here’s an example
““We are never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove and Jeb Bush,” he vowed. “If those opposing us succeed, our once beautiful USA will be a failed country that nobody will even recognize, an open borders, lawless filthy communist nightmare.”
https://nypost.com/2023/03/04/trump-to-attack-bush-republicans-in-cpac-speech/
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“How about the way Trump aht the Trumpers goes after anybody who disagrees with them about anything?”
(aht? perhaps that is ‘and’? )
So you are saying that Trump and all Trump supporters always go after anybody who disagrees about anything?
That sounds like a tough thing to prove old son. A single instance, or even multiple ones, doesn’t meet that requirement.
Sounds to me like you are just exaggerating to stir some shit, but that’s what trolls do.
Don’t you have a minor 2nd to practice or something?
Gotta run. I’m saving up special libations for whatever memorial site you end up with.
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Ooopsy….
psul is going to be pissed…..you know how much he hates lying in government.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-official-admits-under-oath-they-knew-hunter-biden-laptop-was-real
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fishing with rope 3:42 – “psul is going to be pissed…..you know how much he hates lying in government.”
Yes indeed – remember how he told us he had INTEGRITY!!
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The White House Is Now Hiding Joe Biden’s Trips Up and Down Stairs on Air Force One
I was thinking that maybe they could install the Chairlift™ on the air stairs……President Brainstem could just ride up and down to the door of Chair Force One in quiet dignity.
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Well….that’s Joe Biden’s America for you!
Sexy, talented ……and evidently not very well paid singer has to take a second job just to get by….and in Alabama no less!
What will her progressive “friends” think?
Probably needs the extra cash to pay her taxes…..maybe money the government needed for psul’s new hip.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12323645/Lana-Del-Rey-shocks-fans-working-waitress-Waffle-House.html
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Punchy, go punch yourself.
Anyone catch the following article at Reason, the ‘libertarian’ opinion magazine?
https://reason.com/2023/07/19/does-trumps-alternate-electors-plan-justify-criminal-charges-against-them-and-him/
Turns out alternative electors were Democratic in 1960 and 2016.
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re: Gregory@1:03PM
I’ll take a look.
Mostly what I did, as usual on that kind of thing, is do a googlesearch on news limited to dates previous to Trump. It’s not a bad idea generally as they all went insane in 2015-2016.
The Kennedy/Nixon situation came up quite a lot. Hoo-whee that must have been a crooked election although any Modern Major Democrat would consider the chicanery and results as ‘good’.
Naturally, and to send like a broken record, I think that lawfare has the desirable result of pulling back the covers on the way that things really work. If Trump can’t put together a mafia as ruthless and powerful as his opponents, you can argue he’s not qualified to be President. I’d say that he’s as principled as LBJ or the Kennedys, but maybe hasn’t put together the organization and has relied too much on a supernatural ability to do retail politics.
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The internet is a gift to humanity.
Hard core academic research paper o’ the day.
“Attack Helicopters and White Supremacy: Interpreting Malicious Responses to an Online Questionnaire about Transgender Undergraduate Engineering and Computer Science Student Experiences ”
https://bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/2/1-2/4/2769-2124_v2_i1-2_p67-94.pdf
page 12 (marked as ’78’) is the meat of the scientifical study.
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Posted by: scenes | 21 July 2023 at 02:25 PM
This is how Rome ended……with men in dresses inviting in the Visigoths!
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…not with a bang but a simper.
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dammit, I mistyped…
not with a wang but a simper.
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scenes 119p
Punchy needs some discipline… charges announced or brought are meaningless… what is important is jury verdicts.
I am disgusted by the unamerican lawfare because Dems don’t want to trust the citizens with the votes to make sense of it all.
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Posted by: scenes | 21 July 2023 at 06:20 PM
Probably that cursed Autocorrect!
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Gosh and golly Gregory I don’t recall you bringing up that topic when Trump and his followers were chanting “lock her up” referring of course to Hillary who was not even arrested for anything at the time. Just one of many examples of your support for Trump.
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I never chanted “lock her up” and so, by your own standards, I was never a Trump follower.
You fucking idiot.
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ah Gregory, the guy who is so comically unaware of how ridiculed he is when he denies his right wing, MAGA credentials. No one in Nevada County likes you Greg. You’re a coward and bully, but more than that a joke.
Get a clue and get a life. Nothing wrong with being MAGA, it only means you’re a loser in this part of the world. You need to hear the truth. You have no friends.
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Posted by: psul Emory | 21 July 2023 at 09:42 PM
Still White Knighting for Hillary Clinton…..after all these years Punch…..sad.
You are a walking “Kids in the Hall” routine……
…..SAUSAGES……I WANT MY SAUSAGES…..
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JHK produces a nice turn of phrase..
“It is amazing to look back and see how the mighty Blob congealed after that election — like a giant rogue macrophage — to surround and eliminate Mr. Trump, who apparently did not know for many months what he was up against: the entire permanent bureaucracy. ”
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-downfall-of-blobism/
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Hmm… 1122p, Friday night. Ĺooks like someone drank their fill of Bud Lite and didn’t have a date.
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Posted by: scenes | 22 July 2023 at 06:47 AM
👍
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One of those things you run into.
“Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis”
“…The core issue is that changing political mores have established the systematic promotion of the unqualified and sidelining of the competent. This has continually weakened our society’s ability to manage modern systems. At its inception, it represented a break from the trend of the 1920s to the 1960s, when the direct meritocratic evaluation of competence became the norm across vast swaths of American society.
…”
https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont-survive-the-competence-crisis/
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Gregory @ 7:09 AM
Lol. 👏👍
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 22 July 2023 at 07:56 AM
WILLIAM…..how you feeling?
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🐠 @ 7:56 AM
To tell you the truth, I am feeling a bit exhausted and oddly, a bit rambunctious. Like, whatever I do or eat today ain’t going to kill me. 🙂 So, bring on those vanilla ice cream fruit smoothies. I am on the Chemo diet now. Screw you, American Heart Diet. Figure I got about a month left. Chemo ain’t going to work at this stage. Radiation therapy ain’t going to work…..unless I want to everyday exhausted. Not quality of life in that. Left lung collapsed and I did not feel a thing. Right lung filling up with cancer. That small cell cancer has a mind of its own and moves with breathtaking speed. Kinda admire the way small cell cancer is the least understood, just like me!! And only a special minority get it! Rebel without a cause, rebel without a job. :). And I was born in the back of a Greyhound Bus rolling down Highway 61.
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The Democrat Party Of The Proudly Unwell And Perverts
“To be mentally ill, dangerous, or both is quickly becoming the norm in Democrat politics.”
https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/21/the-democrat-party-of-the-proudly-unwell-and-perverts/
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709a and 834a
BT!
Yes, cancerland has its days. Stay as rambunctious as you want and as you can be.
It is special to be one of the folks who knows they’re dying and what’s killing them with an idea when it will be.
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Posted by: Interested Independent Reader of Nevada County | 21 July 2023 at 11:22 PM
Michael P Anderson, of Clientworks fame… is that you?
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Earl, on his webpage, has an inspired ‘toon where he browbeats a MAGA guy with a tirade including the obligatory how “can you continue to support Trump despite his lies about the RIGGGED election…”
The NY Post: “WASHINGTON — A senior FBI official told Twitter that Hunter Biden’s laptop was legitimate on the same day The Post published the first article in a bombshell reporting series on documents linking President Biden to his son’s foreign business deals, according to deposition testimony released Thursday by the House Judiciary Committee.
That confirmation was not shared with voters ahead of the 2020 election as dozens of former intelligence officials and then-presidential candidate Joe Biden falsely suggested that incriminating documents were Russian
disinformation”
Mr. Crabbman… that’s how elections wet are rigged in 2020. Baldfaced lying by three letter SWAMPY agencies. It ain’t just “SPITE” standing up to RL Crabb’s lies.
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 22 July 2023 at 08:34 AM
Well you do it up right my friend…..ice cream and Bourbon…:good for what ails ye!!
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Hey fellas. We got the election records from Nevada county after suing them. https://www.sierrathread.com/thread/nevada-county-superior-court-orders-county-to-disclose-illegally-withheld-public-records
#winning
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BarryP 1100am – Is Sierra Thread going to analyze the election records and then report on the findings?
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re: BarryP@11:00AM
“Such a statement begs the question of why the election office and Adona fought Young so fervently for nearly two years and expended tens of thousands of dollars attempting to prevent the legal disclosure…”
A decent question. I suppose there are different possibilities. Too much of a hassle. Sketchy doings. Disagreement with those records being public at all for some aesthetic reason. Because ‘I told you so’, seeing as how public officials tend to cloak themselves in some kind of holiness of the office. Dunno.
Being somewhat tired of political activists, I think I miss the days when local politics in practically any place was run by prominent businessmen (are there any anymore?) and crooked property developers. There’s an honesty in self-interested behavior that you don’t get in world-savin’ folks.
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from the BillT article.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1682155781314031616
lol. Now that is a beautiful thing. You know darned well that most of those dudes will end up looking like that after a few years of poundage increase and male-pattern baldness kicks in.
Note to self: invest in wig manufacturers.
You do have to wonder what the next form of kink that the Democrats fully accept and then is rammed through the legal systems as normal and admirable will be. I’m waiting for the first bondage-gear wearing Secretary of State who gets married to an anime character. They’ll be tied to the whippin’ post during press conferences.
It’s all good.
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scenes 7:40 AM-
Great (long) reference article. Very scary. Maybe all of the failures discussed in the paper would have occurred without having the new “equity hires” employed. These folks were known as incompetents a short 40 years ago.
Toward the end of the piece:
“The U.S. has embraced a novel question: what happens when the men who built the complex systems our society relies on cease contributing and are replaced by people who were chosen for reasons other than competency?”
Ooh, ooh teacher, I know, I know! Let’s do an experiment and find out. Oh wait, you said we started that experiment 20 years ago. I must have missed it – that was about when I retired.
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Sorry – follow-up needed. I hadn’t read the article’s last sentence, which is shown below, with my correction.
“Absent a step change in the quality of American governance and a renewed culture of excellence, they prefigure (I prefer to use the word “augur”, ‘prefigure’ is too wishy-washy) the country’s future.”
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Yes George. The records are currently being analyzed and there will be a report. Multiple is suspect.
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Huh? ‘Multiple is suspect.’
😉
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As a further follow-up for the competency & complex system problems the U.S. might be having-
https://wilderwealthywise.com/category/competence/
The author points out that none of these technology failures are under 100 years old. Train derailments – been doing that since 1830; bad drinking water – cf. Dr. John Snow & chlorinating water 1854; airplane crashes – W. Wright 1903; U.S. Navy collisions at sea – 4000 BC – they’ll ruin your day.
So when will Cali have another sizable electricity outage this summer – take your best guess? Later? or sooner?
One thing we don’t have to worry about much now – having a bad check. Who uses a paper check anymore? Society has eliminated any chance of scamming or swindling using that 5000-year-old invention of paper. Whew – that’s a relief. Hold on a minute while I check this email from Lagos.
Look at that website above, if only to see the cartoon about Senator John Fetterman- Where oh where have I seen that face before???
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Posted by: The Estonian Fox | 23 July 2023 at 06:28 AM
Good link EF!
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‘The Jaw-Dropping Hunter Biden–Investigation Revelations’
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/07/the-jaw-dropping-hunter-biden-investigation-revelations/
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William….how much Ice cream and 🥃 bourbon yesterday?
I’m looking for big numbers from you heading into the home stretch!
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VIDEOS: SKEWERING “TOLERANCE” AND LEFTIST LOGIC
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/07/videos-skewering-tolerance-and-leftist-logic.php
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Posted by: scenes | 21 July 2023 at 02:25 PM
Jeez scenes…two of the, ahem….scholars…involved with the paper! Straight from Central Casting….right down to the clown world uniform and the very affected first name of one of them….”Qwo-LI” Driskill…….and of course, the “Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies” is located at Cereal Liar’s alma mater, Northwestern University.
Certainly no surprise there….
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Extremely poor form…..forgetting the link. Punchy will be devastated!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/woke-researchers-spin-mockery-stemtrans-survey-laughable-online-fascism-paper
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‘The Jaw-Dropping Hunter Biden–Investigation Revelations’
Ah well, you know how it goes.
1. It didn’t happen.
2. If it did happen, it doesn’t matter.
3. If it matters, it’s not as bad as something Trump or his kids did.
4. If it’s worse than Trump or his kids, it’s too late to do anything about it so why bother.
5. LOOK! A SQUIRREL!
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fishing with rope 2:25 – Look at the “adult in the room”:
Devlin Montfort
Associate Professor
Organizations
Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering
Ph.D. Civil Engineering – Washington State University 2011
M.S. Civil Engineering – Washington State University 2007
B.S. Civil Engineering – Washington State University 2005
He actually looks pretty normal.
What does he do?
“Devlin Montfort’s research interests include the epistemology of engineering practice and education, how to develop conceptual understanding of complex natural and engineered systems, and how to promote success for students on their own terms. Qualitative research methods: semistructured interviews, thematic analysis, and ethnographic and phenomenological observations.”
In other words – he couldn’t design a friggin dog house.
My Grandfather and my father were civil engineers. They had the funny old fashioned idea that they were to design durable infrastructure that would be useful to society.
I’m glad neither lived to see the likes of this.
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Posted by: Scott O | 23 July 2023 at 05:27 PM
An awful lot of “word salad” for what is supposed to be an area of research interest in one of the more rigorous disciplines! I guess if one is angling for research dollars in today’s America working in “ethnographic” and “thematic analysis” are pure gold though.
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re: Scotto@5:27PM
To quote Dr. Montfort from “Accounting for Context beyond Domain: An Authentic Practice-based Framework for Advancing Personal Epistemology Research”:
“The focus on epistemic practices suggested strong interrelations among some dimensions of
personal epistemology because the epistemic practices related to the acquisition of
knowledge were undergirded by a more complicated network of personal epistemological
beliefs than would be first assumed or is typically recognized by personal epistemology
researchers. ”
Checkmate mf’er.
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“…were undergirded by a more complicated network of personal epistemological
beliefs than would be first assumed or is typically recognized by personal epistemology
researchers.”
In other words – “I found me a grift you fools walked right past”.
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