[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”
Individual Jeffie 425p
“Our team heard many false and misleading claims”
Your “team”?
“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others mischaracterized Democrats’ abortion views as allowing abortion up to “the moment of birth.”
That is the law in California, Jeff. Amended the state Constitution. Or didn’t you read the stuff that came with the ballot?
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I guess I might have to stop using MAGA to describe my followers and start using ULTRA!
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1694765774450119111?t=dWX7fX34dCAWDx7tkIPADg&s=19
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Twatters and Ryan are flipping out about Trump’s mugshot on Fox
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Posted by: Fat One| 24 August 2023 at 05:59 PM
Thank you!!! Was not paying any attention to this evenings festivities but that is one awesome photo! He’s going to make a billion dollars over the next couple weeks!
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So 12 million watched the vice prez derby but then there is this, should give pause to the socialist dems and the TDS set. LOL
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/tucker-carlson-s-x-interview-with-donald-trump-racks-up-more-than-200-million-views-so-has-elon-musk-created-a-cable-news-network-killer/ar-AA1fJAtv?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=5e26c276b8da42919f0e09b7c8d67ebd&ei=113
😉
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Posted by: 500 lb Barbara Walters impersonator | 24 August 2023 at 04:25 PM
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.”
Nobody is listening to you.
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A grand jury indictment is a lot of nothing. It comes from a proceeding, held behind closed doors, where one side puts forth their evidence with no cross examination of witnesses, no rebuttal presentation and no evidence to the contrary. In 32 years in our legal system, I participated in many grand juries. In all that time, not once did a grand jury fail to return an indictment. As the expression goes, “a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich.” But it does get all kinds of headlines and leaves people like Emery, clutching pearls while lying on the fainting couch enjoying some kind orgasmic euphoria.
Let’s see what happens after legal examination of evidence and witnesses. If there is a conviction in a court of law, then Emery can get excited.
And in answer to the typical retort, I didn’t use my real name, because I didn’t want to.
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Speaking of the grand jury – check out the foreperson – total ditz.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-grand-jury-foreperson-emily-kohrs-laughs-through-media-tour-cnn-nbc-news
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9:21 commwent ” I didn’t use my real name, because I didn’t want to. ”
Why didn’t you “want to” showmekid ? I have no problem using my real name to take responsibility for what I write.
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“I have no problem using my real name to take responsibility for what I write”
… but you don’t.
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I have no problem using my real name to take responsibility for what I write.
Nothing you write is important, therefore there can be no assumption that “responsibility” is at issue.
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Trump Pays $12 Extra To Get The Cool Laser Background Mugshot
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-pays-12-extra-to-get-the-cool-laser-background-mugshot
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So supporting the legality of the 2000 elections is not important fishhole?
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So supporting the legality of the 2000 elections is not important fishhole?
Do you spend much time here revisiting Bush v Gore….or are we having another “senior moment”?
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fish fish fishy 1106a
It’s a sloppy senior moment.
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fishhole
Gore accepted the results of the election on Dec 12 after the election. Trump still hasn’t accepted that Biden beat him and is the legitimate President by claiming to this day that the election was stolen. You agree with Trump on this.
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20+ minutes and that’s the best response to your earlier screwup you could manage?
Ugh…..sad!
…….you may now return to your regularly scheduled Trump obsession.
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C’mon Emery….Let’s hear about your vast experience with the legal system. Other than being arrested.
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You agree with Trump on this.
Was this meant as a question or a statement?
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fishhole
Thats just one example that apparently you have no response to. Of course that’s whats to be expected from a Trumper like you who is too embarrassed to use his real name.
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Thats just one example that apparently you have no response to. Of course that’s whats to be expected from a Trumper like you who is too embarrassed to use his real name.
So you were off on your elections by a full 20 years. Good to know!
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punchy 1128a
…and Trump vacated the White House in time for Joe and Dr. Jill (she has a doctorate in Ed) to move in.
The disgusting morbidly obese Stacy Abrams has been claiming for years she’s the elected Governor of JawJaw… go after her.
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Slavery is fun!
https://themessenger.com/news/prageru-claims-its-controversial-videos-will-be-featured-in-texas-schools
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‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ Singer Oliver Anthony Slams Use of Song at Republican Debate: ‘I Wrote That Song About Those People’
😂😂😂
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He was asked for permission for its use, Jeff, by foxsnooze. Got paid for it.
The centrists and righties love the tune.
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“You agree with Trump on this.”
Was this meant as a question or a statement?
Okay…when caught out I realize that it is frequently easier on your psyche to just lay low for a while until things blow over so I’m just going to assume that this was a statement and not another of your grammar, function, and word selection screwups.
I went back and “checked the tape” as one of our former posters was so fond of saying. I can’t say that I’ve been able to find any posts where I claim election fraud (agreeing with Trump…). I found a couple where you make statements to/about me where I haven’t posted (you talking to invisible rabbits again) but hey….that’s Emery.
If you’d like to provide evidence of my “agreeing with Trump” on the issues surrounding the election I’m happy to discuss them with you.
….psssst…..there won’t be. Doing ones own research as opposed to whining for links and other evidence provided by others violates the Hippy ethos that he lives by…..maannnnnn!
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…..maannn! Always seems to screw up html….who knew!
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Of course Gregor, Fox News wouldn’t understand Oliver Anthony was talking about them, the Murdoch Family, and those on the stage…and neither would you, apparently. 😉
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Oh, and Gregor, I forgot to mention the Richest Orange Man from North of Richmond who had to move to Florida to shelter his income.
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Social Media Influencer Orange Jesus does what he does to stay relevant,
“John Bolton didn’t hesitate when asked to describe Donald Trump’s glowering mug shot, released after the former president was booked on Thursday in the Georgia election interference case.
“He could’ve smiled. He could’ve looked benign. Instead he looks like a thug,” Bolton said on CNN, using a racially charged word.
Bolton, who served as national security adviser under Trump, said the image was likely carefully staged, as most things are around Trump.
“I think it’s intended to be a sign of intimidation against the prosecutors and the judges,” he told CNN.”
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Question: Whom did Trump pay to have his height and weight recorded in Fulton County Jail,
“Trump’s booking record declared the former president’s height to be 6-foot-3 and his weight 215 pounds — nearly 30 pounds lighter than his disclosed weight at the time of his last official White House physical.”
I am sure MAGA totally believes this.
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As far as I can tell the only folks who hate Rich Men North of Richmond are on the hard left.
Folks like you, Jeff.
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Posted by: Corpulent Juan | 25 August 2023 at 01:50 PM
Trump’s booking record declared the former president’s height to be 6-foot-3 and his weight 215 pounds — nearly 30 pounds lighter than his disclosed weight at the time of his last official White House physical.”
Really……you of all people are playing the weight card?
That’s a bold strategy Cotton….let’s see if it pays off for him!
via GIPHY
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Yes, Jeff Pelline is making fun of Trump’s weight. Sad, isn’t it?
The whole spectacle is about stripping Trump and friends of any vestige of personal dignity. Bread and circuses. Come and see!
If it doesn’t result in an unelectible Trump, Jeff and Friends will be in deep shit.
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Fish and Tropes, it’s not about weight, it’s about a lying sack of shit who is the front running Republican candidate.
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“Mmmkay! And I’m 110lbs and a virgin 😂! I’m not a scale or a doctor but I have spent some time beneath 215lb men and Tiny was not one of them.”
– Stormy Daniels
😂😂😂
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Posted by: Individual Juan | 26 August 2023 at 06:46 AM
Now would be the time for one of your delightful Dr. Phil references followed by an ALLCAPS ROFLOL.
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“The campaigns have sometimes been effective at planting Russian narratives in the Western press, according to the intelligence. Maxim Grigoriev, who heads a Russian NGO, made multiple speeches to the UN presenting a false study that claimed the humanitarian group the White Helmets – which operates in Syria – was running a black market for human organs and had faked chemical attacks by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, with whom Russia is allied. Those claims eventually found their way into a television report on the far-right OANN in the United States, according to open-source materials provided by the official.”
Welcome to independent news sources that “Independents” Fish and Gregorio rely upon.
ROTFLMAO😂😂😂
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And they wonder why their parks are empty, no one goes to their groomer movies and the stock has tanked like the titanic –
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/08/26/video-from-disturbed-visitors-shows-men-dressed-in-drag-greeting-children-at-disney-princess-makeover-boutique/
😉
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showmekid writes | 25 August 2023 at 11:42 AM.
“Let’s hear about your vast experience with the legal system. Other than being arrested.”
Don’t recall ever being arrested showmekid. Can you provide details for our readers and me?
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Posted by: Corpulent Juan | 26 August 2023 at 08:39 AM
So no Dr. Phil reference then….?
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“Welcome to independent news sources that “Independents” Fish and Gregorio rely upon.”
Not an “Independent”, Mr Pellini, and OANN isn’t my go-to source. I’m also not far right.
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In Ramaswamy’s Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence, he proposes the idea of a 59% minimum inheritance tax.
Want To Get LEGAL and SAFE Ivermectin? Here’s How…
Ramaswamy draws the number from suggestions proposed by economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez.
Piketty, an avowed socialist, authored Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021.
“Piketty argues that the time has come to support an inclusive and expansive conception of socialism as a counterweight against the hypercapitalism that defines our current economic ideology,” the book’s Amazon description reads.
Saez co-authored The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay, which advocates a “form of capitalist reformism similar to that of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren,” according to World Socialist Web Site.
“If anything, I’d take the figure Piketty and Saez arrive at as a minimum. We shouldn’t allow people to become billionaires just by having rich parents,” Ramaswamy wrote.
BurmaShave!
https://wltreport.com/2023/08/22/vivek-ramaswamy-supports-massive-tax/
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Don B sure seems to like those drag/kid videos…
BlightBarf, excellent reference also, bro…
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Posted by: Corpulent Juan | 26 August 2023 at 09:53 AM
I thought that we’d already established that you were the guy desperately protective of fat middle aged white guys dressing up like Mimi from Drew Carrey Show, shaking their kit at children?
Just another example of those heartfelt Than Franthhithco Valuths….
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The lying sack of shit of Nevada City wrote,
“Fish and Tropes, it’s not about weight, it’s about a lying sack of shit who is the front running Republican candidate.”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/08/18/cnns_jake_tapper_so_trump_was_right_and_biden_was_wrong_about_hunters_overseas_business_during_2020_debates.html
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Ok never been arrested. Congratulations, Now how about your vast legal and judicial system experience Emery
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Godspeed Bob Barker….
https://www.tmz.com/2023/08/26/bob-barker-dead-dies-99-price-is-right-game-show-host/
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showmekid
What gave you that idea in the first place that I had been arrested? Did you make it up? Lots of experience covering trials etc when I was a full time radio journalist. Tell us about your experience in that field.
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What gave you that idea in the first place that I had been arrested? Did you make it up?
Lots of experience covering trials etc when I was a full time radio journalist.
What he’s saying Kid is that as a full time radio journalist he has extensive experience “making things up” and that you as a non-journalist shouldn’t attempt it.
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