[Embracing conservatism within the ranks of the Republican Party is becoming harder by the day. And remaining a conservetarian therein is almost impossible. The California Repubs have issued a major retreat call to their members. They have announced the next capitulation from their party platform that is yet another “humiliation the more than 5 million registered Republicans still living behind enemy lines in the Golden State probably weren’t expecting, (and which) is an additional stab in the back from their own party. The California Republican Party recently released its regularly scheduled updates to the party platform (here), and, given the content of the changes, voters could be forgiven for mistaking it for the Democratic platform from a couple decades ago.” gjr]

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294 responses to “Sandbox – 17aug23”
I want to thank evangelicals for your devotion to me.
Recent surveys suggest that 60 percent of you in Iowa continue to idolize me.
Because you have been indoctrinated by strong, father figures every Sunday you have naturally gravitated to me and my message that the world will end unless we take the teachings of the Bible and use it to create and further a cultural divide.
Together we have become a force greater than the Ayatollahs could have imagined.
Our followers are true zealots, praise be!
Overthrowing a government, punishment by death for flying a pride flag, thuggishly attacking peaceful marchers in small towns are all examples of our fanaticism.
Through your efforts abortion clinics have been bombed, books are being closely reviewed for any signs of suspicious thought, and the culture war cries are heard on all our choses news outlets.
Thank you for believing in me, a failed talk show host, 4 time indicted with over 90 criminal counts to my name, a man a judge called a rapist, a cheater who covets porn stars, a philanthropist whose charitable foundation was shut down for self dealing providing me with a painting of myself, and a serial liar and conspiracy theorist, among my many sins.
Hail Mary,
Hail Mary,
Hail Mary…
Pardon Me
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Posted by: Jesus of Naranja | 22 August 2023 at 10:30 AM
Wow…..someone really wants to distract from yesterdays fuckup linking the Japanese guy to Trump.
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Another self-centered entitled lefty with no self-awareness whatsoever –
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/sam-bankman-frieds-lawyers-complain-ftx-founder-not-getting-vegan-diet-in-jail
ROFLOL!
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Finally ….some blatant racism that I can get behind…!
There exists no lower form of life than the cringing, cowardly, submissive, offering his pucker up for the plucking delicate white male college president/dean! The only creature even close is todays modern male journalist!
Good riddance….and when we’ve rid higher education of this vermin and filled it with affirmative action women and minorities that will be the signal to end the Cult of College entirely as it will now be staffed with incompetents, whiners, and losers and clearly in need of mercy killing by then!
Goddamn it is shaping up to be a fine afternoon!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/too-many-old-white-male-college-presidents-american-council-education-says
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Showing again that The Fat Girl Gazette is confused on the concept of “rights”.
Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article278467229.html#storylink=cpy
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Wait, what the American Bar Association is now for free speech?!? They must see a new revenue source.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/american-bar-association-proposal-requiring-us-law-schools-crack-down-free-speech-disruptions?dicbo=v2-yJlePRY
😉
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fish emoji 8:41 – Are the authors the same folk that tell us fear of crime is just a MAGA talking point? Increased violence against alphabet people must be caused by the police. Pretty sure that’s what the left was telling us just a while ago.
Hard to figure out what lefties think when their opinions mirror the logic of a squirrel on crack.
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Don B at 08:49 PM
From the article –
“Proposed Standard 208 seeks to ensure that law schools properly protect academic freedom for teachers and freedom of expression more broadly…”
I guess for law students, just having 207 standards wasn’t quite enough. Sure glad that group wasn’t around in the 1780s to ‘help’ write our constitution.
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Team Trump, we must get even with Trump Employee 4, my IT guy at Margo Largo. My legal team was paying for the IT guy because I am such a nice guy.
But for some reason my IT guy went with a public defender and switched his story incriminating me in conspiring to delete the security cam tapes.
But screw Jenna Ellis and Rudy G., they can go jump in a lake.
How do you like the red, white, and blue color scheme at Fox News these days? This debate is going to a really, really, big shew.
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Quote o’ the day.
“how many federal agents, were on the planes that hit the Twin Towers”
Vivek Ramaswamy
I guess he is going for the RFK vote.
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I like to ski, I like astronomy, I like rural living and children and animals and I love my wife. I’m not a complicated man, but I live on a very screwy planet, people wise. I am beset with a brain that comes up with outside-the-box observations, and ideas about improving things, and, if I have a “mission” in life, it is to share these, which typically show up after a good night’s sleep.
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Smells like Keachie.
The box one must stay in is Reality.
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So, Keach… did you attend the county Fair? Spend some time sitting on the benches/stonework by Gate 1?
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Saturday, vicinity of 7PM?
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Maybe, if that guy waddling by was you…
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Gregory, I see you are tuned into the Pulse of the Nevada County Fair…
Usually the fair is a meeting place where people meet and talk together…
but not for you I see.
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Hunter, meet the Trumps
Hunter must be envious
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-foreign-business-scandalous-unless-113549485.html
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I thought so. I sat near you for the better part of a half hour. You sat down after I did, so I wasn’t the one who “waddled by”.
I spent many hours at the fair talking to folks who were interesting. Not you, Doug.
You’ve spent too many hours behind short term names for me to want to talk to you.
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Posted by: Stu Pederast | 23 August 2023 at 10:04 AM
Gregory, I see you are tuned into the Pulse of the Nevada County Fair…
Speaking being tuned into the pulse of Nevada County….
I’m not sure who should be more distressed …jeffy because he writes so much like Keachie or Keachie because he writes so much like jeffy?
Yet another example of life’s difficult questions!
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Playing for keeps in Eastern Europe….
I guess he wasn’t that great a Russian General…..apparently there were some things he didn’t learn during his apprenticeship! Kinda like the Russian doctors who kept inexplicably walking out of 5th floor windows.
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fish 10:54 AM
I think Jeffrey Epstein was on board that flight too, according to the manifest.
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Fish and Tropes, Curious as to the other passengers and to a second Wagner jet that landed safety back in Moscow.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66599733
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Posted by: Judgement of Putin | 23 August 2023 at 12:07 PM
Not a clue dugsKKKi…..I’m sure the story will change a dozen times before we have a reasonable explanation of today’s events.
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Heck ya lets dig a bigger shithole sprinkled with God knows who flooding the sanctuary city the prols wont squawk and will keep voting for socialist dems –
Meanwhile, this same New York City, which is a proud sanctuary city, is drowning under tens of thousands of illegal aliens.
Oh, how I love it when people get what they voted for:
Nearly 160 Wall Street firms have moved their headquarters out of New York since the end of 2019, taking nearly $1 trillion — yes, that’s a trillion with a “T” — in assets under management with them, according to data from 17,000 companies compiled by Bloomberg.
Looking to dodge rampant crime, stiff taxes and an increasingly exorbitant cost of living, 158 fed-up financial firms representing a whopping $993 billion in assets have packed up and left the Big Apple, taking thousands of high-paid employees with them, the data shows.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/23/nolte-democrat-run-nyc-loses-trillion-wall-street-firms-flee/
😉
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Lol! Biden booed, no surprise,,, but MAGA don’t like Asa or Christie😂😂😂
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Lol! Rich Men North of Richmond😂😂😂
MAGA Confederate Men South of the Mason Dixon line😂😂😂
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Nikki and Vivek give some shit to the old codgers💥
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Pence is stuttering🦨
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Keach, stifle.
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Nikki Haley has it right on the abortion issue, but all the men are throwing out talking points accusing of Biden wanting abortions the day before birth, fail, fail, fail.
Hutchinson,Pence, De sanctimonious, Burgum lose points.👎
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Lol, The crowd is not buying that the Democrats want to defund the police and that’s the reason for all our problems. 😂😂😂
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De sanctimonious spins off into conspiracy series about George Soros, what, no Bambi 😂😂😂
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Asa tosses Trump under the bus. Will De sanctimonious punch back following his marching orders from his super pac, stay tuned after the break!!!💥💥💥
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Ahhh…..that’s nice….dugsKKKi got his Tee Vee privileges back….and just in time to waste them on the Republican debate!
Bad call dude….!
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Good fun, fish on dope
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MAGA does not like criticism of Orange Jesus.
Vivek comes out swinging at Christie to defend orange Jesus 💥💥💥
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Getting good now,hammering Vivek over foreign policy.💥💥
Lots of boring talking points from the sanctimonious one, and now Burgum, blame Biden💤💤💤
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Should have watched this one dugsKKKi….
…..less a waste of your valuable retiree time.
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-to-host-live-stream-of-debates-where-he-insults-the-other-candidates-mst3k-style
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No fish on dope, I want to know how the goober heads south of Richmond are thinking…
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Posted by: Jesus of Naranja | 23 August 2023 at 07:56 PM
I want to know how the goober heads south of Richmond are thinking…
…..and you went to a Republican presidential TV charade for that? Probably need to adjust the tensioner in the Greek Fisherman’s cap….sounds like it’s too tight. Guitar string too tight…
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HEY??? Where’s The Man of a Thousand Misspelled Names? It’s Mugshot Day…..thought for sure he’d already be up and prancing around in his prettiest summer frock to celebrate!
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Donald Trump-former President of the United States- Coming soon to a jail near you…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/24/trump-surrender-fulton-county-jail-georgia-indictment/
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That’s what I was looking for……!
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You should be proud fishhole. He’s your guy
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Why would I be proud? Are you proud of President Brainstem?
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Punch is proud of being on the winning side, no matter how bad it is.
He may already be a wiener.
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Are you proud of President Brainstem?
That would be no then…..
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Who skewed the facts in the GOP debate?
Eight Republican presidential candidates sparred over foreign aid, abortion limits and climate change in the first GOP primary debate ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Our team heard many false and misleading claims. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy lamented a climate change agenda “hoax.” South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott repeated a well-worn falsehood about the Justice Department labeling parents “domestic terrorists.” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others mischaracterized Democrats’ abortion views as allowing abortion up to “the moment of birth.”
Former President Donald Trump didn’t join them, though he loomed large in the discussion, which examined topics such as his record and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
PolitiFact reporters were up late covering the two-hour show. Here’s a rundown of five moments, fact-checked. Read our final story for full coverage, and check back in today for more.
Vivek Ramaswamy: “The reality is the anti-carbon agenda is the wet blanket on our economy. And so, the reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.”
Ramaswamy didn’t explain his evidence, and it was unclear what he was referring to — his campaign didn’t immediately respond to us. But data from a number of credible sources shows the human toll from climate change is significant.
Worldwide, extreme weather disasters worsened by climate change caused more than 2 million deaths between 1970 and 2021, the World Meteorological Organization said in a May 2023 report. The World Health Organization reported in November that at least 15,000 people died because of the heat in 2022. And the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that 600 people a year die from heat-related illnesses, although experts told PolitiFact that number is likely an undercount.
Summer 2023 has set record temperatures in the U.S. and around the globe, with July the hottest month on record. Extreme temperatures that month were made at least three times likelier because of human-caused climate change, one research group found.
“I don’t know of any climate policies that are killing people,” said Andrew Dessler, atmospheric sciences professor and director of the Texas Center for Climate Studies at Texas A&M University. “Fossil fuels, however, kill millions of people every year from air pollution.”
Dessler pointed to 2021 research published by Harvard University in collaboration with other institutions that found more than 8 million people worldwide died in 2018 from fossil fuel pollution.
Nikki Haley: Vivek Ramaswamy wants to “defund Israel!”
Ramaswamy has expressed interest in cutting aid to Israel, but not immediately. In an August interview with actor Russell Brand, Ramaswamy said, “I believe in standing by commitments that we’ve already made.” He referred to the 2016 agreement for the U.S. to provide Israel with $38 billion in military aid covering 2019 through 2028.
But Ramaswamy said he wants to negotiate “Abraham Accords 2.0” with Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Indonesia to “get Israel on its own two feet.” The Abraham Accords in 2020 normalized diplomatic relations among Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco.
“Come 2028, that additional aid won’t be necessary in order to still have the kind of stability that we would actually have in the Middle East by having Israel more integrated in with its partners,” Ramaswamy said. “Then it puts us in a position, everybody’s position, to say we don’t have to meddle.”
On Aug. 18, Ramaswamy posted that “we will not leave Israel hanging out to dry – ever.”
Ron DeSantis: On Ukraine funding, “I will have Europe pull their weight. Right now, they’re not doing that.”
Europe has more than kept pace with the U.S. in providing Ukraine aid, both in money and as measured by share of gross domestic product.
The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German research organization, has been tracking global commitments to Ukraine. Its most recent data, through June 2023, covers the first 16 months of the Russia-Ukraine war.
The United States leads among donor nations, having given more than 70 billion euros, the institute’s data shows. However, the next 12 European nations collectively have provided nearly 87 billion euros.
European countries’ role is even bigger when considering their gross domestic product, which is the standard measure of a national economy’s size.
Nineteen European nations are spending a larger share of GDP on Ukraine than is the United States. Atop the list are many countries near Ukraine’s border — including Poland, Estonia, Latvia, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia — which are supporting refugees fleeing the war.
The U.S. stands alone in providing the most military aid to Ukraine, accounting for more than half the international amount.
Tim Scott: “Parents who show up at school board meetings, they’re called, under this DOJ, they’re called domestic terrorists.”
This is False. This narrative emerged in October 2021, after Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo directing the FBI to address violent threats against school board members. The memo did not call parents “domestic terrorists.” It noted that “spirited debate” is protected by the U.S. Constitution.
In 2022, a judge appointed by Trump found that Garland did not apply this label to parents and that no parents’ rights had been violated.
Chris Christie: In 1980, Jimmy Carter “was defeated by a conservative governor (Ronald Reagan) from a blue state who knew how to get results.”
Christie, who was elected as a Republican governor of blue New Jersey, tried to compare his situation with that of former President Ronald Reagan, but the comparison falls short. California is a blue state today, but it was not when Reagan won it in the 1980 presidential race on his way to winning the presidency.
In six of the seven presidential elections before 1980, the majority of Californians voted for the Republican candidate, backing Dwight Eisenhower twice, Richard Nixon three times and Gerald Ford once. The only time in those seven elections when the state’s voters chose a Democrat was in 1964, when Lyndon B. Johnson won the state in a national landslide.
California’s presidential preferences changed in 1992, more than a decade after Reagan’s first victory there, when Bill Clinton lavished attention on the state and won it.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/aug/24/fact-checks-first-republican-presidential-debate/?utm_source=PolitiFact&utm_campaign=2471aaed72-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_08_24_06_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-2471aaed72-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
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Trump under arrest, soon to be out on bail.
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No camping in the fast lane, Tesla semi coming,
https://www.overdriveonline.com/channel-19/article/15543031/tesla-semi-passes-diesel-trucks-on-donner-pass-steep-grades
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