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[Law professor Turley of George Washington University makes the case that in the Texas vs Feds border tussle, Biden has the upper hand over Gov Abbot.  And it’s got nothing to do with justice, executive responsibility, or what the Constitution requires.  It’s all about how our corrupt courts will adjudicate the matter in favor of the administration (more here and here).  gjr]

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207 responses to “Sandbox – 27jan24”

  1. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Trump Chumps, take into account whatever polls indicate a Trump lead over Biden don’t take into account that Trump is the biggest political loser since the 1800’s. That means he will find a way to lose. In politics seldom do losers turn into winners. RR’s, can you show me some examples of that? The Dems should be grateful Trump is the likely Repub candidate.

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Lets see Jefferson, Rosevelt etc and once again the ponytail of ignorance is proudly waiving his ignorant freak flag high. LOL
    😉

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  3. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    They were over a 100 years ago Don. Try again. I made the claim that Trump was the biggest political loser in over 100 years. That would be 1924 Don. You seem to have a math problem. Show me another former President in the last 100 years that lost reelection, the House and Senate in one term.

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  4. Scott O Avatar

    What a maroon:
    “In politics seldom do losers turn into winners. RR’s, can you show me some examples of that?”
    Sure – no problem.
    Paul – are you saying you don’t know of a loser who turned into a winner?
    Hmmmm?
    Why are the leftists that post here so proud of not knowing things?

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  5. Scott O Avatar

    Typical Paul
    from his 7:43 – “…that Trump is the biggest political loser since the 1800’s.”
    Then at 8:49:
    “I made the claim that Trump was the biggest political loser in over 100 years. That would be 1924 Don. You seem to have a math problem.”
    Hilarious! Looks like Paul has the problem with math.

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  6. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Nah
    Scott. Both of my statements are true. Are you contending that Trump is not a big loser? !00 years sure. Since the 1800’s sure. Both are true. You are such a Trump Chump

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  7. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Scott
    Show me the last time a Presidential loser went on to win re-election.

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Blissfully ignorant again and again @931 ROFLOL
    ;-

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  9. Scott O Avatar

    Paul – you have rocks in your brain.
    You said “since the 1800’s”.
    Then you posted:
    “I made the claim that Trump was the biggest political loser in over 100 years.”
    You lied, Paul. You said 1800’s and then changed it to 1924. 1924 is not the 1800’s.
    What a maroon.
    Hilarious:
    “Show me the last time a Presidential loser went on to win re-election.”
    Why?
    I never claimed there was one.
    Why should I answer your never-ending series of questions that seem to “evolve” every time you ask them.
    You ask an idiot question and then realize how stupid it makes you look, then you come back with a similar but different question.
    And all of this is because you can’t hack the reality that your precious Biden is a lying, perverted, crooked, senile sack-o-shit POTUS with the lowest approval rating of any sitting president.
    Enjoy!

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  10. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Scott
    Simple question:
    Show me the last time a Presidential loser went on to win re-election.

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  11. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Show me the last time a Presidential loser went on to win re-election.”
    Grover Cleveland.
    have fun reading, although it’s more than a paragraph long.
    https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/11/16/few-former-presidents-have-run-for-their-old-jobs-or-anything-else-after-leaving-office/

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  12. Scott O Avatar

    scenes 10:07 – Your answer doesn’t count.
    Remember that you’re playing Uncle Punchy’s “change the rules of the game as we go”.
    Remember the new, new, new date range. It changes every time he posts the question, but he will swear up and down it didn’t.

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  13. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    Scenes, I am not sure what you were getting at with your Taylor Swift reddit comparisons.
    I see basically the same posts in both threads, for example ‘Pentagon’ has to talk down crazed MAGA conspiracy theorists.
    The Politics version topics include the word ‘MAGA’ more often in the titles but the subject matter is similar.
    But both threads speak to the conspiracies generated by MAGA sportos who don’t like seeing Taylor Swift on the JumboTron

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  14. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    Don B.
    I am not seeing any cheering over Dow Jones or US oil production records being broken lately, or low unemployment figures, or lower lower inflation numbers.
    You do understand that these records are being broken because Orange Jesus made them happen.
    Did you lose your Pom Poms?

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  15. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    Senator Lankford is now being censured by the crazed MAGA Okies in his state for actually working on a border bill – how dare he!

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  16. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Duh Scott,,,Can’t you see they are both accurate. I was trying to give your guy a break. Sad for you Scott that you are such a Trump Chump. How much money have you contributed to his campaign that went to pay his legal fee’s ?

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  17. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    Subscribe today!
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    Every week, Marc will bring you behind the scenes of the political movement that ate the Republican party. This isn’t “who’s up and who’s down.” It’s what’s happening and why.
    If you want to understand this moment in American history, you need to understand MAGAville. Subscribe to Bulwark+ to get Marc in your inbox.
    You’ll be glad you did. —JVL”
    https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/desantis-super-pac-failure?publication_id=87281&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=26vbls

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  18. Scott O Avatar

    “I was trying to give your guy a break.”
    BS Paul – you got caught in another lie.
    You asked an idiot question with an answer that’s as plain as the ass on a goat. So you changed the question and claimed the second question was the same as the first.
    Have a nice day, Paul.

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  19. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Who cares Scott What you refuse to acknowledge is that both of my statements are true. You are a hard core Trump Chump for sure, the biggest political loser since the 1800’s

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  20. fishhole Avatar
    fishhole

    Posted by: Scott O | 05 February 2024 at 12:36 PM
    BS Paul – you got caught in another lie.

    So Monday then……?
    I remember when we were all “Putin Cuddlers”! psul would show up dressed up like George Boardman…..blue polyester suit, white belt and hard white shoes. Twirl what was left of the hair in a spaghetti pile atop that bald pate and scream at us that we were all dupes of the international communist conspiracy!
    Good times indeed!

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  21. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    I give them an ‘A’ for effort,
    Goofy ‘God’s Army’ convoy on Texas border shows Trump’s MAGA movement is just one long con,
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/goofy-gods-army-convoy-texas-172018391.html

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  22. Scott O Avatar

    Well sometimes Paul is honest. Got to give props where they’re due.
    I called him out for lying (again) and he doesn’t even deny it anymore:
    “Who cares Scott” (We’ll assume there was supposed to be a comma after ‘cares’).
    Yes indeed. Who does care if Paul is caught lying again. I certainly don’t. Not like it’s something new.
    We’ll leave Paul fuming with his nonsense that I am a “hard core” Trump Chump. Never given the man a dime and don’t intend to. Wouldn’t vote for him in a primary if you paid me. Never campaigned for him nor would I lie for him to make him look better.
    Paul considers that a “hard core” Trump Chump.
    Wondering what superlatives Paul would come up with for some one who, say, actually sent Trump a donation of maybe five bucks.

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  23. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Scott
    Is it true or false that “Trump is the biggest political loser since the 1800’s. ”
    Is it true or false that ” Trump was the biggest political loser in over 100 years.”

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  24. Scott O Avatar

    Idiot Juanita 4:32 – Yeah, the link said it was under “news” but actually that was an opinion piece, dude.
    It would really help if the Dems came up with a coherent story that made sense. Remember how we were told Trump’s MAGA crowd were violent and dangerous? Why – they almost toppled the American govt!!!!
    Now the op-ed piece says:
    “It’s time for non-brainwashed Americans and the media at large to accept something: Former President Donald Trump’s “MAGA movement” is a tissue-paper tiger.”
    Oh.
    Wait – it flips again:
    “The reality is that it has brought dangerous, violent groups into our beautiful, peaceful city.”
    It actually sounds like a bunch of folks went out to some ranch in Texas and are having a party.
    And Juanita wasn’t invited.

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  25. Scott O Avatar

    Paul 5:11 – Dude, you forgot about the question you asked at 7:43:
    “In politics seldom do losers turn into winners. RR’s, can you show me some examples of that?”
    And then the question at 9:31:
    “Show me the last time a Presidential loser went on to win re-election.”
    Do try to keep up with at least your own posts, dude.
    C’mon, man!

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  26. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Once again Scott you accused me of lying when I stated:
    “Trump is the biggest political loser since the 1800’s. ”
    ” Trump was the biggest political loser in over 100 years.”
    Are those statements lies? Yes or no.

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  27. fishhole Avatar
    fishhole

    Is it true or false that “Trump is the biggest political loser since the 1800’s. ”
    Is it true or false that ” Trump was the biggest political loser in over 100 years.”

    Boy psul really want his new quiz show to do well! Nothing but “Lightning Rounds”!

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  28. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So David Larsen,who prefers to call himself Fishole):
    Is it true or false that “Trump is the biggest political loser since the 1800’s. ”
    Is it true or false that ” Trump was the biggest political loser in over 100 years.”

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  29. Scott O Avatar

    Paul 6:15 – No Paul – I stated you lied because of what you posted was a lie.
    Those 2 statements at 6:15 are not accurate quotes from your previous posts.
    Nice try.
    Have a nice day, liar.

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  30. fishhole Avatar
    fishhole

    Nahhh psul…..not a big fan of Trump related quiz shows!! But thanks in advance for agreeing with me!

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  31. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Paul. Is the Trump in the room with you now?

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  32. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Trump is the biggest political loser in 100 years. Biden be like, “hold my Ensure.”

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  33. fishhole Avatar
    fishhole

    I know why psul likes him…..

    Biden tells crowd he recently met with Mitterrand, former French president who died in 1996

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-tells-crowd-he-recently-met-mitterand-former-french-president-who-died-1996

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  34. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    David Larson, Scott
    Thanks for the opportunity to once again say:
    “Trump is the biggest political loser since the 1800’s. ”
    ” Trump was the biggest political loser in over 100 years.”

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  35. fishhole Avatar
    fishhole

    Thanks for the opportunity to once again say:
    “Trump is the biggest political loser since the 1800’s. ”
    ” Trump was the biggest political loser in over 100 years.”

    If you keep answering the quiz questions people are going to lose interest …..
    “The answer is 4 pi alpha!”
    “Wait….what are you doing
    “Answering question, winning Physics Bowl!”
    Our agreement was that I’d answer all the questions!
    You didn’t answer question.”
    Look you might have democracy in your precious Russia now but here I rule with an iron fist.”

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  36. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    fish @ 8:03PM-
    Instead of “…rule with an iron fist”, did you mean “…rule with an iron FISH”?
    As in exocetidae ferrifera, the dreaded iron-bearing flying-fish? The Yemenis seem to have a bunch of those things flying hither & thither. Unless intercepted by a well-designed counter-force, they can be quite effective. Haven’t seen any well-designed counterforces in the local waters lately though.
    And they’re always on the look-out for Nemadactylus monodactylus (aka St. Paul’s fingerfin), a typical bait fish.

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  37. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    Been following the WSJ as you recommended I do for conservative slanted news and this is what I fond:
    “Republicans demanded border measures last year as the price for passing military aid for Ukraine, Israel and Pacific allies,” the editors wrote. “Democrats resisted at first but later agreed to negotiate and have made concessions that are infuriating the open-borders left. Will Republicans now abandon what they claimed to want?”
    The WSJ then argued that Republicans are dropping the deal in order to help former President Donald Trump’s political prospects with the belief that outrage over border crossings could help propel him to the White House again…….
    You can read the editorial here:
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-border-security-bill-james-lankford-republicans-immigration-biden-border-patrol-asylum-bc2f9543

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  38. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    sp what I found

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  39. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Paul Emery: “Been following the WSJ as you recommended I do for conservative slanted news and this is what I fond:”
    ‘found’ I assume.
    Do you actually have a WSJ account or do you just read headlines?

    If you have an account, cut and paste the article.

    Side note to anyone else. Is the WSJ ‘conservative’? I just assume that they dial into the views of large corporate America headquartered in New York. There’s no reason to assume that Murdoch is really all that much different from Bloomberg or Larry Fink.

    Once again, Paul. Do you have a WSJ account? or are you just repeating headlines and maybe the first paragraph?

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  40. fishhole Avatar
    fishhole

    Shorter psul…..
    “Enough about you let’s talk about Trump!”

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  41. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    Yes Pablo, WSJ (the paper of record for actual conservatives) editorial board supports the border bill.
    But because that left-wing hippie from Oklahoma, Senator Lankford, worked on it and supports it, the Trumper MAGA loons are going to vote against it.
    The total hypocrisy of the Republicans is now in plain view.
    Republicans say they are against abortion, but don’t have a problem with aborting this bill, before they have even read it… because Ayatollah Donald Trump says so.
    How week-kneed can you get?
    …and all because they want some old ego maniac to be re-elected.

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  42. fishanthrope Avatar
    fishanthrope

    Good to see the Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy of Trump Talk up and at em on this fine drizzly morning!
    Oh and extra props to you IJ for The Nevada City’s Loneliest Pirate Blog” now officially an annual publication I believe!
    “Actual conservatives”…..hah…..you kill me!

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  43. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “WSJ (the paper of record for actual conservatives) editorial board supports the border bill.”
    I just think of them as The Mouthpiece for Corporate America. Naturally they are for anything that drives down the price of labor.
    “…and all because they want some old ego maniac to be re-elected.”
    All Presidential candidates are egomaniacs. I admit that Trump strikes me as a useful hand grenade rolled in to interrupt a bit of the movement towards Minitrue/Minipax/Miniluv/Miniplenty. Admittedly, he would do little to stop the Surveillance State from growing like Topsy, but at least there would be fewer abominations like Sam Brinton in the works.
    We probably just have Woodrow Wilson to blame for the insanity.
    Psul’s mindless sports-fan obsession with Orange Man Bad is crazy making, but shared with many of his class. Merely repeating some headline you saw on Drudge Report or Daily Kos is the nature of the beast. The worst people in that world then send off the Very Important News Article to 100 people on an e-mail list.
    From here on, any observation that ‘THEY’RE JUST DOING IT FOR THE UPCOMING ELECTION’ merely shows that someone fell off the turnip truck. Of course it’s all staged for politics. N-word, please.

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  44. fishhole Avatar
    fishhole

    “…and all because they want some old ego maniac to be re-elected.”
    Surely you can’t be this stupid…..GOPe desperately hoped that one of their mediocrities would catch fire this time and derail Trump so they could get back to pontificating about “The American People” and their tag-team grift with TEAM EVIL!
    Then again you’re (Hey Punch….see what I did there? “You’re”….the contraction of “You” and “are”.) an admitted “I like to watch Face the Nation” viewer …..so yeah you probably can be!

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  45. fishhole Avatar
    fishhole

    The environmental president….
    When I’m not chatting with Francois Mitterrand I like to enable coal exports to India so Nevada City dunderheads will think I’m serious in the fight against climate change
    ~I’m Joe Biden and I approve this message.

    Biden Makes Coal Great Again As Exports Soar To India

    Fortunately as all climate scientists know CO2 burned in a 3rd world country stays right over that 3rd world country! So by exporting that coal Joe Biden has reduced Climate change…..over the US…..shit I think that’s what that pamphlet said!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/biden-makes-coal-great-again-exports-soar-india

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  46. fishhole Avatar
    fishhole

    Ooopsy…..(or Opps as our dear departed friend Mr. Tozer was fond of saying)
    Fortunately as all climate scientists know CO2 burned…..
    CO2 is one of the combustion products of the coal burned! Not that which is burned!
    We apologize for any inconvenience this misunderstanding this might have caused!

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  47. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    “As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and a complete narcissistic moron.” — H. L. Mencken

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  48. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    Fish,
    Republicans voted for Trump once, then they cheered his every move during his term.
    Then Republicans voted for Trump again, and did everything they could to make sure he got into office.
    Now, the plain folk of the heartland, the Red State good old boys are doing everything they can to get Trump elected.
    Yep,the Republicans.

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  49. fishanthrope Avatar
    fishanthrope

    Posted by: Individual Juan | 06 February 2024 at 08:43 AM
    In which confirmation is provided that you are indeed that stupid.

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  50. fishanthrope Avatar
    fishanthrope

    Posted by: Individual Juan | 06 February 2024 at 08:43 AM
    ….the Red State good old boys are doing everything they can to get Trump elected.

    So what is with you and all the “Good Ol Boy” hate…….you see Brokeback Mountain one too many times and start to feel guilty about it?

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