[Not sure why the pundits (save Gerard Baker here) conclude that Trump may lose to Biden because he’s not able to attract independent/undeclared voters as well as Haley. They seem to think that the South Carolina percentages of these voters for Haley(65%) and Trump(34%) are cast in concrete. The primary vote presents voters a different choice than the November election. Given the choice of Trump OR Biden, many(most?) of the 65% will not opt for another four years of Bumblebrain or (gasp!) Kamala. They will vote for Trump even if they have to hold their noses. gjr]
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91 responses to “Sandbox – 26feb242”
Was that nearly 8 trillion in debt that happened under Trumps leadership part of that “shallow glide slope to disaster” you refer to fish? Should we anticipate that happening again if he becomes President?
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re: fishole@10:54AM
As mentioned, the quote is from someone else at Zerohedge.
I honestly don’t think that universal goals become a thing after a certain point. Like most group movements, ‘progressivism’ becomes an exercise in self-aggrandizement after a purty short time span. People like Randi Weingarten, Ibram X. Kendi, Tim Wise, or your local school board, have a genius for perverting a seemingly selfless movement for their own advancement, and heroes like ‘Bree Fram’ (thank you for your service) manage to ride their own debauchery to public renown. Destroying the USA is simply collateral damage in indulging in one’s own feelz, avarice, and perversion.
It’s funny how people who were so quick to see the falseness in megachurch-style Christian nationalism, like the now-insignificant 1980s TV evangelists, are so susceptible to the lures of men-in-dresses, Wakanda, and the placement of sexually-aberrant books in elementary school libraries. Maybe, at heart, ‘progressives’ all want to be one of Sam Brinton’s pups.
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Posted by: psul “I am the Sea Lion” Emery | 02 March 2024 at 12:02 PM
What up C-Lyin?
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We are Spartans!…er…Spartets?
https://spartapride.org/bree-fram/
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Posted by: Individual Juan | 02 March 2024 at 12:28 PM
Always there to chat favorably about female impersonators aren’t you jeffy?
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Posted by: psul “damn look at all that change in the guitar case” Emery | 02 March 2024 at 12:02 PM
Three years in Biden is at 6 trillion…..but the cherry on the sundae is the trillion every hundred days now his administration is racking up psulbot! Roughly 1460 days in a four year presidential term…..so I think you can expect on top of Biden’s 8 trillion at the end of this term another 15 trillion by the end of his next!
No worries though……I’m sure you’ll “hog and jog” out of this life hippy style before the punchbowl is completely empty! So it’s all good.
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I. Juan@12:28PM
ooh, thanks for the web site. It’s full of absolutely insane people for me to ponder over.
Behold, the SPARTA Board Secretary and US Army Major.
https://spartapride.org/spar/
Nope. Everything is fine. Just normal people doin’ their thing.
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We are back in the helium!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/helium-discovery-northern-minnesota-may-225900218.html
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Hey….where C-Lyin be?
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Can it get any crazier in socialist dem sac? Steal taxpayers money to subsidize first time home buyers and give it to illegals? WTF!
https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-california-bill-make-illegal-immigrants-eligible-first-time-homebuyer-loans
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Creepy grampa joe opened the floodgates to illegals, ruined the economy for citizens and lost the hispanic vote –
Between candidates Biden and Trump, 46% of Hispanics who responded to the poll said they would vote for Trump, while 40% said they would support Biden. That’s a big difference from Biden’s 2020 general election support from Hispanics. Biden won 59% of the Hispanic vote to Trump’s 38% that year, according to Pew Research.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/trump-leads-biden-among-hispanics-191557568.html
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Another pointy headed liberal global warming solution meets reality –
Contra Costa County officials will stop enforcing building codes that require most new buildings to be all-electric — at least for now.
The about-face comes after a three-judge panel in April struck down Berkeley’s first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new construction, ruling that cities do not have the authority to prohibit the installation of natural gas plumbing in buildings.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/contra-costa-county-pauses-all-electric-building-requirements-natural-gas-ban-for-new-construction/ar-BB1jeidt?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=b7134f04c29e402e8a54365402cf7eb4&ei=78
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re: DonB@8:00PM
Doesn’t matter, they’ll ban natural gas in any case.
From the article:
“Notably, the ruling doesn’t impact cities that have taken a building code-based approach to natural gas bans”
If you spend some time on a site like reddit, where there are scads of people exuding their feelz, it basically all boils down to this:
. The world will end unless certain measures are taken and these measures are known with utter certainty (let’s say lessening use of natural gas).
. There’s only one set of ways to lessen use of natural gas. This is done with a very particular set of products and technologies (heat pump and PG&E control of ‘smart’ thermostat perhaps).
. The only way to achieve this end is to use government to mandate these products and technologies.
. You are not allowed to escape the mandate via wealth, geographic location, or any other ‘inequitable’ means.
It’s the kind of techno-fascism you might run into for transportation issues, communications, food production. Inventing rules is it’s own reward.
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I think that Ben Shapiro is an overly-whiny sort of creature, but it’s cool for him to accumulate things that crack me up.
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1763638253507235996
“1/ BREAKING: We’ve obtained internal emails from UCLA’s medical school — supposedly one of the best in the country. If you want to understand how DEI and anti-white, anti-American hatred have been mainlined into the medical profession, you need to see this”
etc.
One takeaway, to me, is that it’s probably not a bad plan to do a minimal background check on any facility or surgeon that does something life-saving/threatening to you. It’s one of the few cases where it’s practically impossible to avoid ‘activists’ doing their magic to you personally.
Shapiro also introduced me to the word ‘Indigeneity’ here, so I am eternally grateful.
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When I see articles like this I find myself inspired that there are still outlets like the Sierra Business Council that are fighting this trend by hiring pretty much only native white people to whomp out policy papers and Climate Action Plans™ ……
https://www.wsj.com/economy/business-immigrant-low-skilled-labor-addiction-bf009a83
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From the increasingly irrelevant Drudge Report…..
It’s an election year, time to…..
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How did I miss this? So sad, Large Marje and a few of her MAGA brained cohorts lost their supreme court challenge against having to pay fines for not wearing masks in Congress.
The fines get deducted from her paycheck, lol
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/02/20/supreme-court-rejects-mask-mandate-marjorie-taylor-greene/72670400007/
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“pay fines for not wearing masks in Congress”
What a f’ing stupid rule. Do people actually think those things made a bit of difference? Masks were all about a combination of hysteria and power dynamics. Though shall wear a mask and we can force you to.
I did run into a case showing the value of the internet though. Helium mining. I wondered where in the heck helium came from since you’d think that the natural tendency for the less dense to go up would result in any residual helium disappearing long ago.
Looked it up. Alpha particles are helium minus a couple of electrons. Duh. Natural radioactivity’ll make it over time. I still don’t know why it would collect with natural gas deposits.
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“The justices, without comment, declined an appeal from Reps. Tom Massie, Ralph Norman and Marjorie Taylor Greene in their suit against former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Lower courts had said Pelosi could not be sued because courts don’t have jurisdiction over Congress’ internal rules
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There was no Supreme Court ruling made, Jeff.
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‘fish’ emery: ” hiring pretty much only native white people to whomp out policy papers and Climate Action Plans”
No biggie.
It’s like getting mad at the dog for stealing a steak off of the coffee table, the non-profit fundage is there for the taking.
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Am I the only one here who’s seen the new Dune movie?
My sweetie and I took it in at Del Oro on our way to the airport yesterday… she has a moot in NYC. Good movie.
Fortunately, the blizzard didn’t materialize in our part of Nirvana Silly.
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“Am I the only one here who’s seen the new Dune movie?”
Didn’t see the movie, but I reread the book lately in kind of a quick ‘greatest hits’ run through of pulp fiction I read as a kid. It (and a couple of other Herbert novels) held up better than a lot of SF novels of the era I think.
I always think of the March 1965 Analog cover when it was first serialized.
I do have to wonder if the quickly improving ability to build synthetic movies will result in a burst of output, or the death of the concept as something else takes it’s place. The opportunities for interactive entertainment are one way the whole deal could veer.
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I read Dune circa 1969 after I read through the Lord of the Rings and had to keep feeding.
Can’t find my old paperbacks.
While the new Dunes are superior to the old Dune movie from Dino De Laurentis, I did like that one too. A simpler movie from a simpler time.
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Idiot Juanita: “How did I miss this?”
Oh, Juanita – there is sooo much that you miss.
Don’t you worry your pretty little head. Just keep reading Slate and Salon and hang on every word that issues from the White House. I’m sure you have enough money and standing in the “correct” political crowd to get you through most of the world’s reality.
Look at your glee that people you hate are punished for nothing beyond being people you hate. You remind me of teacher’s pet smirking because you ratted out someone in class you don’t like and now they have to sit in the corner.
I suppose if that’s all you have left as enjoyment in your life…
Sad.
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See there is hope jeffy….errr….juan….
If you just push away from the cornucopia of Hostess™ products you have stashed in the pantry and instead have a Triscuit now and again you can recover some of your cognitive function!
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-daily-fiber-supplement-older-adults.html
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Read em and weep –
The CBS News/YouGov poll released on Sunday contains very dark warnings for Biden and great news for Trump. First off, the former president leads the current president 52 percent to 48 percent in a head-to-head matchup. That Trump is in majority support territory should be very troublesome for Biden—that means Trump has a majority of the country with him according to this survey. That lead is also the biggest lead CBS has ever recorded in its history of polling Trump versus Biden—a terrible fact for the current president. But drilling down even deeper into the numbers, one finds some more boons for Trump and pitfalls for Biden. Among independents, the CBS News poll found Trump at 57 percent and Biden at 42 percent—a 15-point lead for Trump among the decisive bloc that could swing November’s contest.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/03/slate-polls-show-trump-opening-firm-lead-biden-general-election-begins/
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Boy did creepy grampa joe piss off the hispanics –
Between candidates Biden and Trump, 46% of Hispanics who responded to the poll said they would vote for Trump, while 40% said they would support Biden. That’s a big difference from Biden’s 2020 general election support from Hispanics. Biden won 59% of the Hispanic vote to Trump’s 38% that year, according to Pew Research
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/trump-leads-biden-among-hispanics-191557568.html
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Not sure if this showed up on RR- Kind of goes with the new helium mine. Always had a good feeling about elements 1 & 2.
https://newatlas.com/energy/geologic-hydrogen-gold-rush/?itm_source=ocelot&itm_medium=recirculation&itm_campaign=ocelot_e079a01&itm_content=recommendation_1
Primary hydrogen on earth was found in 1987 in Mali, yet virtually no info produced about it in the U.S. Why didn’t we know about this 37 years ago? Hydrogen has never been a primary source of energy on earth, because there just ain’t none in the free state anywhere. Yet here is a bunch of it. If this is real, looks like Deus ex machina might come true. Even though the info is 37 years late. Did the greens have this up their sleeves all the time, just keeping it quiet?
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“Did the greens have this up their sleeves all the time, just keeping it quiet?”
The only thing up the “greens” have up their sleeve is a hammer and sickle tattoo and a smelly arm pit.
If there is really that much energy available in a form that is cost effective in calories per dollar at point of sale, then we would not only be hearing about it, but using it by now. I remember in the 70’s when Solar Age and Popular Science magazines were claiming that old Mr Sol would power everything in a decade.
We already know that beneath our feet is enough heat energy to power everything we can possibly dream of for eons. Also that our sun will eventually obliterate all life in our solar system.
An interesting development for sure but my hopes rise only as high as the reality I wake up to every morning.
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Sorry – one too many “up”s.
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Boy are the reality check piling up of the woke lefties –
Oregon lawmakers have voted to recriminalize certain drugs after a surge in overdose deaths resulted in the governor declaring a state of emergency for Portland’s fentanyl crisis – all but ending a flagship liberal policy.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/liberal-oregon-u-turns-passes-123610631.html
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“It’s hard out here for a pimp…”
“Lauren Boebert skipped campaign event after ex-husband threat to toss her stuff in a pond.”
https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boebert-husband/
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Ooopsy…….!
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/04/supreme-court-rules-in-trump-colorado-ballot-case.html
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“Supreme Court puts Trump back on Colorado Republican primary ballot”
My guess is that most MSM won’t mention the number of Justices who voted to put him back on.
I have to admire the amount of scorched earth lawfare that has been going on. Given the amount of time it takes to correct a power imbalance, or for The Woke to age out, you do have to wonder where you’ll end up as people get crankier about it. It’s tough to run a competent country with a consortium of cat ladies, crossdressers, rent-seeking POC diatribers, and a scattering of old-school neocons who want to blow up the world.
In the meantime, it makes for great entertainment.
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Just a quick example to show how far-ranging the societal rot is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhOvYgpA6Qs
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Posted by: scenes | 04 March 2024 at 07:50 AM
In the meantime, it makes for great entertainment.
Yeah….right up until it doesn’t.
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I’m sure “The Fattest little Pirate” in Nevada City will be back presently to tell us we’re being mean to Hunter again…..
Apparently the buying of the Biden’s is/was a highly cost effective way of undermining the United States. Not that most in your fair burgh care……just as long as the proper pronouns were used during the …
bribery….negotiations!https://www.zerohedge.com/political/agent-hunter-ex-partner-says-5-million-sought-quash-ukrainian-indictment-undisclosed
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Important legal analysis from
failed sportscaster…..eminent legal scholar Keith Olberman.https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1764672353378652544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1764672353378652544%7Ctwgr%5E29d90f976a2d09062ef133d2ef96464f6d63d0b1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F634993%2F
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There’s a reason that it’s now the new newspaper of record…..
https://buff.ly/49CXGGH
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When you really want your conversations to be “overheard”….
To be United States enemy is dangerous….to be the United States ally is fatal!
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/generals-discussed-secrets-ukraine-war-using-shelf-video-phone-tech-one-dialed-hotel
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9-0 scotus win sure shut the mouths at certain unwatched so called news channels. Someone needs to call a welfare check on the ponytail of ignorance. LOL
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