224 responses to “Sandbox – 22dec23”

1. 

   Gregory

   22 December 2023

   aaaah… fresh litter. Reminds me, I need to service the catbox her kittiness uses…
   No, Biden has been less than useful in orifice. He still has his followers.

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   Paul Emery

   22 December 2023

   Gregory
   Let me ask you this, what economy would you rather have, the one that Biden inherited from Trump or the one the next person elected President will have?

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3. 

   fishhole

   22 December 2023

   Posted by: Paul Emery | 22 December 2023 at 03:58 PM
   Depth of the change in the guitar case must have been pretty decent this month for Punchy to voluntarily embarrass himself by drawing economic conclusions from it.

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   Paul Emery

   22 December 2023

   Somehow you ignore the question I posed. Here it is again:
   “Let me ask you this, what economy would you rather have, the one that Biden inherited from Trump or the one the next person elected President will have?”

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5. 

   Paul Emery

   22 December 2023

   fishole
   For you’re convenience I will post the numbers:
   Summary
   The statistics for the entirety of Donald Trump’s time in office are nearly all compiled. As we did for his predecessor four years ago, we present a final look at the numbers.
   The economy lost 2.9 million jobs. The unemployment rate increased by 1.6 percentage points to 6.3%.
   Paychecks grew faster than inflation. Average weekly earnings for all workers were up 8.7% after inflation.
   After-tax corporate profits went up, and the stock market set new records. The S&P 500 index rose 67.8%.
   The international trade deficit Trump promised to reduce went up. The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services in 2020 was the highest since 2008 and increased 40.5% from 2016.
   The number of people lacking health insurance rose by 3 million.
   The federal debt held by the public went up, from $14.4 trillion to $21.6 trillion.
   Home prices rose 27.5%, and the homeownership rate increased 2.1 percentage points to 65.8%.
   Illegal immigration increased. Apprehensions at the Southwest border rose 14.7% last year compared with 2016.
   Coal production declined 26.5%, and coal-mining jobs dropped by 16.7%. Carbon emissions from energy consumption dropped 11.5%.
   Handgun production rose 12.5% last year compared with 2016, setting a new record.
   The murder rate last year rose to the highest level since 1997.
   Trump filled one-third of the Supreme Court, nearly 30% of the appellate court seats and a quarter of District Court seats.
   https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/

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6. 

   fishhole

   22 December 2023

   ”For you’re convenience I will post the numbers:”
   For you are convenience…..???
   I’m sorry Punch but until you can grasp the difference between the possessive “your” and the contraction of “you are” I don’t think you’re ….see what I did there… ready for more advanced topics.
   Feel free to get back to the board after you brush up a bit.

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   Paul Emery

   22 December 2023

   Thanks for correcting my typing error. Once again “Let me ask you this, what economy would you rather have, the one that Biden inherited from Trump or the one the next person elected President will have?”
   Posted by: Paul Emery | 22 December 2023 at 05:20 PM

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8. 

   The Estonian Fox

   22 December 2023

   Things aren’t quite so sunny for this solar company.
   SunPower breaches credit agreement, warns business may go under.
   SunPower, a publicly traded US solar company, has issued a warning about its business in a new regulatory filing, raising concerns about its ability to remain viable.
   https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/12/22/sunpower-breaches-credit-agreement-warns-business-may-go-under/
   Business lost 90% of its market cap in the last 3 years.

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9. 

   fishhole

   22 December 2023

   Posted by: Paul Emery | 22 December 2023 at 06:35 PM
   You need to jot this down somewhere and ask again in January of 2025 Punch…..Joey Fingers hasn’t finished ruining things yet.

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10. 

    Don Bessee

    22 December 2023

    Calis crazy fast food min wage law starts the mass layoffs everyone predicted that they said would never happen, just in time for Christmas –
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/pizza-hut-franchisees-lay-off-more-than-1-200-delivery-drivers-in-california-as-restaurants-brace-for-20-fast-food-wages/ar-AA1lUpCo?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=445750fe6e0747018784fc60909f847e&ei=13
    😉

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    Paul Emery

    22 December 2023

    That’s pure speculation fishole. I’m talking about right now. Which economy would you rather live under. The one now or the one Biden inherited in 2020?

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12. 

    fishhole

    22 December 2023

    Ahh….my senile, nakedly partisan friend…..speculation has nothing to do with it. The economies really need to be compared under complete terms for both.
    I know why you don’t want to do that though (I mean other than the fact that you’re a disingenuous weasel!).

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13. 

    Barry Pruett

    22 December 2023

    Trump’s Covid economy was better than Bidenomics. Lol

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14. 

    Don Bessee

    22 December 2023

    Thats a fact Barry to the tuen of 11k more for the average family to keep the lifestyle that had before bidenomics. I hope he keeps with that bullshit as it is pissing real people off left and right.

    You know how bad it is when this guy is saying enough! They wont change and its another reason he is losing –
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/12/22/jeh-johnson-biden-must-acknowledge-border-emergency-and-raise-asylum-bar-remove-people-quickly/
    😉

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15. 

    George Rebane

    22 December 2023

    Re Trump’s legacy economy vs Bidenomics. If the polls are any indication, the nation overwhelmingly believes that the economy was better under Trump, and that generally the Repubs can manage the country’s economy better than the Dems. Citing Biden’s recovery stats from the depths of the Covid canyon is even more facetious than citing Obama’s stats from the low point of the 2008 recession. Neither were due to their socialist policies but built in resiliency and bounce-back of America’s longstanding market capitalist economy that both did and have done their best to screw up.

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16. 

    Don Bessee

    22 December 2023

    Just sayin’ –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-approval-rating-numbers-dismal-compared-previous-modern-presidents-gallup-finds
    😉

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17. 

    Gregory

    23 December 2023

    Trump’s covid economy sucked, being dragged down by the enthusiastic Lilliputian Democrats wanting to win in Nov 20. Shut it down.

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18. 

    fishhole

    23 December 2023

    Does he have any idea how much change will need to be extracted from the guitar case to cover his share of this??
    

    3 Out Of 5 Illegal Alien Households Are Supported By Taxpayer-Funded Welfare

    Hope he can still swing his ASCAP fees….those things aren’t going to pay themselves….
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/3-out-5-illegal-alien-households-are-supported-taxpayer-funded-welfare

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19. 

    Don Bessee

    23 December 2023

    Creepy grampa joe has empowered criminal gangs across the world to flood us with God knows who and pick our pockets –
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/france-grounds-romanian-plane-carrying-012155050.html
    😉

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20. 

    Don Bessee

    23 December 2023

    Can no one read a map and see what is happening across the world, they are in concert and creepy grampa joe only can think about the next pudding cup and what the aide tells him to say! WTF!  
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/drone-fired-from-iran-strikes-tanker-off-india-s-coast-pentagon-says/ar-AA1lXGTu?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=4091a6cbf4814c6a92368f2b75a466f4&ei=79
    😉

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21. 

    Michael R. Kesti

    24 December 2023

    I’d rather have the economy that Trump inherited from Trump in ’21.

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22. 

    George Rebane

    24 December 2023

    Kesti 102pm – “…Trump inherited from Trump…”??

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23. 

    Don Bessee

    24 December 2023

    None of its ready for prime time in spite of the ‘MANDATES’ –
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/mta-not-confident-electric-buses-are-ready-for-nyc-streets/ar-AA1lZ04p?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=85cb6340a35246c787812685f1c38528&ei=30
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/state-forced-to-cancel-electric-vehicle-mandate-vote-after-widespread-power-outages/ar-AA1lZ1gn?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=85cb6340a35246c787812685f1c38528&ei=44
    😉

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24. 

    Don Bessee

    25 December 2023

    A lump of coal in his stockings –
    Biden scolds media for negative coverage of economy: ‘Start reporting it the right way’
    Only 14% of Americans say Biden’s economic policies have helped them, a recent Fox News poll showed
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-scolds-media-negative-coverage-economy-start-reporting-right-way
    😉

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25. 

    scenes

    25 December 2023

    …and before I leave, I did like this column…

    And So Ends an Era
    “The old politics of right versus left, and Republican opposed to Democrat have now given way to a new existential struggle: Americans must choose between civilization—or its destroyers.” –Victor Davis Hanson
    Now that you, the lucky ones, are beyond your steaming platters of pancakes and mighty rashers of bacon, and perhaps even a dram or two of grog in your coffee. . . and clawed your way through the bales of presents. . . a merry Christmas to all. . . and here’s something else to think about this morning:
    You may have noticed that our country, formerly a republic of sovereign individuals, has become one great big racketeering operation run by a mafia-like cabal with Marxist characteristics — or, at least, Marxist pretenses. That is, it seeks to profit by every avenue of dishonesty and coercion, under the guise of rescuing the “oppressed and marginalized” from their alleged tormenters. Apparently, half the country likes it that way.
    Much of the on-the-ground action in this degenerate enterprise is produced by various hustles. A hustle is a particularly low-grade, insultingly obvious racket, such as Black Lives Matter, DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), and “trans women” (i.e., men) in women’s sports. Some of the profit in any hustle is plain moneygrubbing, of course. But there’s also an emotional payoff. Hustlers and racketeers are often sadists, so the gratification derived from snookering the credulous (feelings of power) gets amplified by the extra thrill of seeing the credulous suffer pain, humiliation, and personal ruin. (That’s what actual “oppressors” actually do.)

    ..etc..

    https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/and-so-ends-an-era/

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26. 

    Smitty

    25 December 2023

    The pope says you are going to hell George. Fare thee well. Good riddance. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/25/pope-weapons-industry-christmas-peace-appeal-00133177

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27. 

    Gregory

    26 December 2023

    Shitty 849p
    Shame on you.

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28. 

    Scott O

    26 December 2023

    “The pope says you are going to hell…”
    An attempt at humor?

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29. 

    Gregory

    26 December 2023

    scotto, 1041a
    Shitty doesn’t have a knack for humor.
    What a message for Christmas day.

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30. 

    The Estonian Fox

    26 December 2023

    What is he doing – actually trying to destroy those vowed to kill all the Jews, then the rest of us, after a brief respite? It’s a good thing the modern U.S. military doesn’t give him advice on how to win a war.
    [Netanyahu had earlier visited Israeli troops inside Gaza, then reportedly told a meeting of his conservative Likud party that “we’re not stopping… We’re intensifying the fighting in the coming days.”]
    https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/benjamin-netanyahu-war-israel/2023/12/26/id/1147175/

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31. 

    Gregory

    26 December 2023

    My expectation is that our military has indeed been giving Bibi instructions as to how to prosecute the war, but Bibi has not taken the bait.
    His alma mater is MIT, whose president has been under fire herself. She should quit.

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    The Estonian Fox

    26 December 2023

    In other news – the Vatican seems NOT to have given its blessing to same sex unions – as has been widely promulgated recently. Would have helped if the message had reached the “good Catholic” Joe Biden when the original BLT ‘civil unions’ were transformed to ‘marriage’ in a matter of milliseconds in the 2000’s.
    “The Church has a very clear understanding of marriage: an exclusive, stable, and indissoluble union between a man and a woman, naturally open to procreation. Only this union can be called ‘marriage.’ … It is not just a matter of names, but the reality we call marriage has a unique essential constitution that requires an exclusive name, not applicable to other realities. It is undoubtedly much more than a mere ‘ideal.’ For this reason, the Church avoids any type of rite or sacramental that might contradict this conviction and suggest that something that is not marriage is recognized as marriage.”
    https://patriotpost.us/opinion/103110-understanding-the-vaticans-statement-on-same-sex-couples-and-blessings-2023-12-21

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33. 

    Don Bessee

    26 December 2023

    So pray tell how creepy grampa joes crime crew allow in millions of illegals who gobble up resources that should be for the poor black, white and hispanic citizens, destroy school district budgets and then claim they will fix the unaffordable housing situation with this PR joke? The illegals will share a house or duplex or apt and drive-up demand and prices so citizens are left in the streets!?
    Ya creepy grampa joe and the kakkler team tell us how this helps Americans? No wonder you have to yell at your own fawning press to report the economy ‘RIGHT’ aka lie your ass off, pretty please!
    ‘We must do more’: Biden administration wants to build 500K starter homes to fix America’s affordable housing crisis
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/finance/news/must-more-biden-administration-wants-121500853.html
    ;-0

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34. 

    Scott O

    26 December 2023

    “US debt will become unsustainable and trigger default in about 20 years, if it stays on current path”
    “”Put differently, US debt is on a secular upward path and past projections have, if anything, underestimated that increase, regardless of the reason,” they wrote.”
    Whose ‘past projections’?
    It’s proceeding along a path quite accurately predicted by those ultra right wing fear mongers.
    Maybe a couple million more illegals on the dole will help?
    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-debt-become-unsustainable-trigger-023726698.html
    Meanwhile Bidenomics is working so well, Biden wants the feds to build thousands of houses because the average wage earner can’t afford a house.
    And that will put upward pressure on home construction prices and add to the debt and fuel inflation. It’s a triple loser deal.

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35. 

    George Rebane

    27 December 2023

    ScottO 956pm – Another example of the truth that socialists do not understand economics and economies.

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36. 

    Don Bessee

    27 December 2023

    As if we did not know that already, time for a change to that –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/27/pregnant-migrants-admit-were-crossing-border-score-birthright-citizenship-for-our-anchor-babies/
    😉

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37. 

    Don Bessee

    27 December 2023

    Karma –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-baltimore-prosecutor-marilyn-mosby-faces-possible-disbarment-ongoing-legal-battles#&_intcmp=fnhpbt1,hp1bt
    😉

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38. 

    fishhole

    28 December 2023

    Did we lose Tozer this week?

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39. 

    Don Bessee

    28 December 2023

    Just another day in the racist shithole empowering the crazy and letting them run amok –
    https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/12/28/nyc-man-who-allegedly-stabbed-two-teens-christmas-day-released-back-onto-the-streets/
    😉

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40. 

    Don Bessee

    28 December 2023

    Creepy grampa joe wants to make berzerkly in merica a reality. They really do hate citizens and girls –
    The Biden administration’s Title IX proposal that would expand the meaning of sexual discrimination to include gender identity and prevent schools and colleges from banning transgender athletes received pushback from a United Nations expert Wednesday.
    Reem Alsalem, a U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, expressed concern the proposed changes would violate biological women and girls’ rights to equality and non-discrimination as student-athletes.
    “I share the concern expressed by women and girl athletes and women sports associations, as well as women and girls on sports scholarships, that the proposed Title IX rule changes would have detrimental effects on the participation of biological women and girls in sports, including by denying them the opportunity to compete fairly, resulting in the loss of athletic and scholarship opportunities,” Alsalem said in a news release.
    “More importantly, it would lead to the loss of privacy, an increased risk of physical injury, heightened exposure to sexual harassment and voyeurism, as well as a more frequent and accumulated psychological distress due to the loss of privacy and fair and equal sporting and academic opportunities,” she said.
    “If the proposed changes are adopted, they would contravene the United States’ international human rights obligations and commitments concerning the prevention of all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls on the basis of sex.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/sports/biden-admins-title-ix-proposal-receivers-stark-warning-un-expert-detrimental-effects
    😉

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41. 

    Individual Juan

    28 December 2023

    George Rebane | 27 December 2023 at 01:44 PM
    Scott is fear mongering again and avoiding his own party’s accountability for past, present and future US debt.
    The population was 203.4 million in 1970.
    The population is around 340 million now.
    Who do think is going to wash all the dishes, pick all the crops, and mow all the lawns if these new immigrants don’t?
    Illegal immigration has been a factor of life for decades, if not centuries.
    That is not why the debt is out of control.
    Those are just MAGA talking points.

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42. 

    Individual Juan

    28 December 2023

    Is there anyone who will still deny that Trump speaks in white nationalist racist undertones?
    “”Illegal immigration is poisoning the blood of our nation”
    The brown people, black people, yes, those non-whites.
    Trump and the MAGA are afraid white people are going to lose the purity of their precious Aryan bodily fluids.
    He only likes that white eastern Euro stuff.

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43. 

    Individual Juan

    28 December 2023

    Now the state of Maine says Trump is a shithole candidate. Game over.

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44. 

    The Estonian Fox

    29 December 2023

    From the LA Times today:
    “Donald Trump will stay on California GOP presidential primary ballot. The former president will be on California’s March 5 primary ballot, despite calls from some officials to disqualify him because of the Jan. 6 insurrection.”
    The headline had a misprint, should have said “insurrection”. Couldn’t afford the extra quote marks.
    Interpretation: state of California says Trump is NOT a shithole candidate. Game not nearly over.

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45. 

    The Estonian Fox

    29 December 2023

    Biden praises new ice cream flavor, says “I see Baskin-Robbins introduced their Banana Republic Ice Cream. My favorite.”

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46. 

    fishhole

    29 December 2023

    Nice take on the $PLC…..looks like they’ve decided that scaring little old black church ladies just wasn’t lucrative enough!
    https://quillette.com/2023/12/27/the-splcs-new-enemy/
    ”Whether your selling cakes or causes it’s really all the same”
    Cool Mo Dees

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47. 

    Scott O

    29 December 2023

    Lonely Juanita:
    “Scott is fear mongering again and avoiding his own party’s accountability for past, present and future US debt.”
    Poor Juanita – I don’t have a “party” and I’ve never excused any R for their part in running our nation’s debt off a cliff.
    Apparently a factual discussion of reality is now considered “fear mongering” to the lefties.
    further:
    “Illegal immigration has been a factor of life for decades, if not centuries.
    That is not why the debt is out of control.”
    Sigh – never said it was, but if fabrication is all you have, then go for it.

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    Scott O

    29 December 2023

    “Who do think is going to wash all the dishes, pick all the crops, and mow all the lawns if these new immigrants don’t?”
    Or wipe Juanita’s ass or blow his nose?

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49. 

    fishhole

    29 December 2023

    ….. or wipe Juanita’s ass
    Maybe it’s not entirely a bad thing than that another herd is on its way! Certainly not the kind of job you’d assign to just one unfortunate illegal immigrant.

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50. 

    Individual Juan

    29 December 2023

    Trump probably already has an immigrant asswiper. Lord knows he is full of shit.

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