[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”
I’ve not seen a good estimate of the number of Democrats who voted for Haley in the GOP primary in SC.
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Ummm, George… not sure what your numbers were referring to. 65/35% seemed to be reversed.
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Greg 207pm – In the Republican primary the percentage of independent/undeclared voters for Haley was 65%, and for Trump was 34%.
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In case anyone wanted to read the article.
“The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin”
https://archive.is/ZrJph
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Partisan source, naturally, but to the point.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/nearly-half-nikki-haleys-voters-south-carolina-open
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It’s like a Former Union Editor with the usual political axe to grind (GO TEAM FEELZ!) went to work for the bureau….
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-chooses-stock-image-well-dressed-white-women-depict-organized-retail-crime
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So which economy would you rather inherit….?
…..Trump or Biden’s??
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/food-is-taking-a-bite-out-of-your-income-these-consumers-are-getting-creative-e51a3d46?mod=hp_lead_pos8
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Gotta love Twitter.
re: Letitia James.
https://twitter.com/Villgecrazylady/status/1762544911205724618
I do like this ‘ghost donor’ concept.
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re: moi@8:16AM “”The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin”
Forgot to mention that it’s worth considering why the NYT, a fully paid-up propaganda outlet of the intelligence community, would release this article? What are they really after here?
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He is not wrong –
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/02/27/schweizer-biden-doesnt-want-to-confront-china-on-fentanyl-due-to-his-familys-money/
😉
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You really have to feel for Toyota…..delivering the best all round green vehicle but not complying with President Brainstem’s idiotic “pure electric” vision!
They even managed to make the newest Prius a little less stodgy!
There’s a reason Joe Biden was widely considered the dumbest man in the senate….“Never underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up!”!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/the-greenest-car-in-america-isn-t-an-ev/ar-BB1j2nwl
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Hey….looks like “Cocaine Mitch” is punching out!
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WAIT…….let me guess…..crickets from the usual suspects!
If only you could see the surprise on my face…..
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/02/28/obamas_cia_asked_foreign_intel_agencies_to_spy_on_trump_campaign_150565.html
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They might be right about those snowflakes –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/how-a-generation-forgot-what-it-is-to-be-resilient/ar-BB1iXrdK?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=b0b89935d55643cd9ccac7655a67006b&ei=101
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Fich Taco, asking is one thing, don’t you think that the CIA is in Ukraine and has been in Ukraine? They were probably following Rudy Giuliani around when he was trying to figure out where Hillary hit her server.
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Oh, Brave New World –
“But as the legal scholar James Grimmelmann has observed, just because it’s fair for a person to do something for self-education doesn’t necessarily mean it’s fair for a corporation to do it on a massive scale for profit.”
So – it’s all right for you to read books and educate yourself, but not OK for a machine, because…
PROFIT!
As we all know, authors always write for fun and they never make any money – right?
MASSIVE SCALE!
Uh, almost every single thing you buy is a product that used to be slowly hand-crafted and is now made on a ‘massive scale’.
All you whiners out there losing your job because a machine can do it better and faster need to do what the Dems told the coal miners – “learn to code”.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/generative-ai-is-challenging-a-234-year-old-law/ar-BB1j6h7g
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Posted by: Individual jeffy | 29 February 2024 at 07:17 AM
Ahh…distract, distract, distract …..even better than crickets!
So you and the missus back from floating around the Caribbean? Or was it something else this year?
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“…from floating around the Caribbean”
Was a ship involved?
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Posted by: Scott O | 29 February 2024 at 08:55 AM
Was a ship involved?
Apparently there was last year. Cemetery blog had a photo up for a full year until he pulled the plug and put it out of its misery.
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Don B 08:34 PM
In the article, Prof. Furedi notes that “Life has always been difficult. There are relationship breakdowns and failings and struggles. But children have been taught that these difficulties are psychological issues that need medicalising, and not a normal part of life.”
And all this while a safe and comfortable home, abundant food, and pure water is provided by the parents, or government. Try having a comfortable home without the natural gas that the Biden folks want to eliminate; try growing abundant food when the Biden folks want to eliminate crude oil (and so fertilizer and gasoline) for crops & tractors. That’s when the physical problems start. We don’t realize exactly how well we live in our naturally dangerous world.
Ask the third-worlders how much they envy our American ingenuity – they would take it in a minute. Of course, many are taking it by invasion, and we are letting them, without a complaint. We are forgetting how much maintenance, physical and mental, is required to keep our first-world abundance.
Psychological stress is largely self-induced. Wait until the physical stress begins if you think it’s bad now. Not many years away.
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“Try having a comfortable home without the natural gas that the Biden folks want to eliminate; try growing abundant food when the Biden folks want to eliminate crude oil (and so fertilizer and gasoline) for crops & tractors. ”
My working theory on that is that policy makers simply don’t understand the physical world very well and, more importantly, take the tactic that if you abolish something a replacement will be found through the genius of science. If the easier/cheaper thing still exists, particularly true of mined energy, no one will bother to replace it. Neither the Law of Unintended Consequences or physics matters much. An answer will magically be provided given the pressure of an artificial emergency.
Of course, legislating something out of existence is not only easier than replacing it, but is a sure-fired way to ratchet up your own wealth and status.
At least we know about how many people the planet can support without fossil fuels in a more primitive fashion. Gonna be ugly getting there though. Hope everyone has a spare bedroom available for the flood of undocumented citizens.
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Well, of course – that must be the reason:
“Greene also confirmed Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-KY) statement that Hunter testified he joined the board of Burisma Holdings to counter Russian aggression. “He said he was picked to serve on Burisma ‘s board to defend democracy and Burisma was stopping Russian aggression,” Greene said.”
Yessir – Burisma’s board knew they were being investigated for corruption by the then current prosecutor, but being patriotic they knew the important and critical thing they needed to do was to hire an American drug addict to defend their country against Russian aggression.
Turns out they paid all that dough to Hunter to no avail – Putin invaded anyway.
But son of a bitch, the drug addict’s dad just by total coincidence got rid of that pesky prosecutor!
And Idiot Juanita and Paul totally believe this shit.
Hunter Biden – defender of Mother Ukraine!
Hilarious.
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Not to be outdone – Pelosi comes up with her own wild tale:
“Pelosi said, “Let’s see what the title is, Life at Conception Act. So they have to know what that means. I’ve said for years that people on the other side of the aisle need a lesson in the birds and the bees because sometimes they don’t seem to understand.
Sez the party of “men can get pregnant”
Anyone want to post here that human life does not begin at conception?
Go ahead – explain it to us.
Not holding my breath.
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So funny to read the comments from all the Republicans on this site as they fumble around, Trump style, talking about gas stoves, gender issues, yada yada yada.
Biden just owned Trump at the border, calling him out to actually do something besides complain.
But the Republican party is the party of grievance and conspiracy theories.
This election cycle feels like a replay of the Carter Reagan election.
As with Reagan and the hostages, Trump wants to keep the border problems alive until after the election. He also even admitted he would like economy to crash before the election.
How about that Hunter Biden story?
The freedom-fried brainiacs of the freedom caucus continue to conspire and scrabble around for anything they can in order to keep the Hunter Biden BS conspiracy going even after being basically laughed out of chambers.
What a hoot!
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Posted by: Individual Juan | 01 March 2024 at 07:00 AM
Ahhh……he hasn’t been delivered yet! No wonder you’re so upset! Have a care sweet, sweet Guatemalan relief is a mere 1200 mile stroll away!
Jeez…..
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“So funny to read the comments from all the Republicans on this site as they fumble around, Trump style, talking about gas stoves, gender issues, yada yada yada.”
Sorry about that Paul 2.
I can’t say that I’m interested in Trump until the general campaign really starts up. In the meantime, it’s just a bunch of shrieking by the usual suspects trying to invent drama and drive clicks.
Courtesy of hackernews, I’ll give you something to read while getting control over your blood pressure.
On the Ocean Conditions of Hycean Worlds
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.12330.pdf
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Speaking of politics, this story in The Union got me into a spate of self-reflection.
Is it better to simply ignore everyone or to simmer a bit on what idiots the people in this area can be?
“Before adjourning Wednesday evening’s city council meeting in Nevada City, Mayor Fernández assured members of the community that she and Councilmember Petersen are working to arrange for a public dialogue session with individuals on both political sides of the current war in Gaza….”
https://www.theunion.com/news/mayor-fern-ndez-announces-efforts-to-bring-the-community-together-and-address-the-war-in/article_0a252d44-d756-11ee-9c04-035cd9593476.html
God protect us from ‘activists’, including those in local government.
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Idiot Juanita 7:00 – You’re getting to sound pretty desperate, dude. Why did Biden go to the border? There’s no problem or issue there, right? That’s what the Biden admin has told us for years. Everything all hunky dory, right? Just Republican talking points, right? Looks like they lied and Idiot Juanita totally bought into the lie.
And Idiot Juanita is now making my point about Hunter Biden. Juanita totally buys the story that the Burisma board hired Hunter to fight off Putin! Hilarious! Say – that must be why Hunter had to buy his shootin’ iron! He was going to fight the Russkies with it!
I see California is dealing with climate change these days. The end of snow, remember? But it’s OK because the voters passed a multi-billion dollar bond years ago to build more dams. Right? How many dams have they built? Lots, right?
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PUTIN CUDDLERS……..!
Who knew how the lusts of Baron Fatkonnen of Nevada City for delicious Guatemalan dishwashers and yard help would play into the hands of arch fiend Vladimir (they even share a first name so it has to be true!! emoji, emoji, emoji!!!) Putin!
Shame….!!!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/revealed-putin-weaponising-migration-destabilise-213000105.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kcnVkZ2VyZXBvcnQuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAI6ZHgPtXISY3x1RRKZrv5-H7sUDvm4kHAdjXVbCkjvgcAiQT0mDX-18GdpoJePOoUIBfcbYwaVRl_-QAs_26Hkx4k7ax9fpns48-WOg55cD-IWJvV7EnHN-I1YEEV0B495vrKmhwyZ2i0Q54MX93sgZprPCXMLoKnnqC9BGq7fl
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Actually I think this is a requirement for DEI types…….
Look up the “Gay Protocol”……it’s all right there!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/columbia-university-hospital-dei-chief-accused-plagiarizing-wikipedia-27-others
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re: fish o. @8:45
Now that is a beautiful thing. I don’t know whether to be more outraged at the plagiarism, the award of a PhD for a 100+ pages of word salad bullshit, or the inevitable well-paid sinecure that you get when on that gravy train. There is a lot to like here, but you can’t blame a dull-normal youth for taking advantage of a situation. It isn’t like your average Kommissar was the sharpest tool in the shed.
lol. We are so fucked as a culture. The choice of President really makes little or no difference when there’s so much sand in the bearings. Soon enough most people will be living in unpowered high-rises throwing their sewage down a non-working elevator shaft.
Got the man’s dissertation on the other screen here and I’m thinking it’s a perfect bit of random nonsense. Maybe this kind of paper could be used as a one-time pad.
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fishy – from Hemingway’s blog:
“…and I suspect at some point they will claim they care more about “diversity” than honesty.”
That ‘point’ has already arrived. They’ve declared facts to be all racist and shee-it.
It’s all about his “lived truth” and “life experiences”.
It’s the NARRATIVE!
He HAD to plagiarize because it was his way of surviving in a white-controlled racist world!
So what if the bridge fell down – the design team was diverse and multicultural!
Let’s pay attention to what’s important, here.
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scenes – “you can’t blame a dull-normal youth for taking advantage of a situation.”
Absolutely. Like the whole DEI multi-million dollar grift. Grifters gonna grift. It’s the patsies who should know better and use investors’ and tax-payers’ dough to pay off these clowns. That’s where my ire is directed. Is it no wonder that once the proles realized all they had to do was buy Coors Lite instead of Bud Lite, they could actually fight back just a little?
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If you all want to see an idiot in action, check a Trump recent rant,
https://www.yahoo.com/news/want-know-weird-donald-trump-090621910.html
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112011907420497354
Grievance, conspiracies and 4th Grade (Gregory level) insults.
What a hoot!
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Wow.
So Jeff, will your son be graduating this Spring?
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Hey Juanita – did you get any photos of Hunter fighting the Russians? You know – post cards from the front?
What a maroon.
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Posted by: Individual Juan | 01 March 2024 at 11:50 AM
If you all want to see an idiot in action, check a Trump recent rant
Idiot in action….why click on anything….that’s what you’re here for! What a hoot indeed!
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More good news for psul on the democrats are the party of fiscal rectitude……
Good thing that god sent Shotgun Joey to save America!
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/01/the-us-national-debt-is-rising-by-1-trillion-about-every-100-days.html
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“U.S. national debt rising $1 trillion every 100 days…”
That’s the current rate – wait til the smarties in DC “fix” the problem.
They’d better hurry up with the national digital money program – the rubes might start to catch on.
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Wow – looks like this would include Idiot Juanita and Paul:
““Tom, I’ll start with you,” began Mika Brzezinski. “Why are rural white voters a threat to democracy at this point?””
Uh oh.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/taibbi-msnbc-paul-krugman-panic-over-white-rural-rage
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“Tom, I’ll start with you,” began Mika Brzezinski. “Why are rural white voters a threat to democracy at this point?”
I’ll take ‘they’re not buying our bullshit anymore’ for $800 Alex!
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Usually it takes longer for me to be right about these things…..!
Cue Nevada City’s Bachelor Rhetoretician (hat tip Gregory) to defend the…..ahem…. colonel’s ….err…position! Yeah position!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/transgender-space-force-colonel-says-using-pronouns-emails-will-help-win-wars
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Couldn’t happen to a bunch of lefty liars –
CNN Hosts Anderson Cooper, Chris Wallace, More on the ‘Chopping Block’ Amid New CEO Mark Thompson
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cnn-hosts-anderson-cooper-chris-140655088.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink
😉
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More on the “danger” of white, rural hicks:
“…then Schaller read off small town America’s charge sheet: rural whites, he said, are the most “racist,” “xenophobic,” “anti-immigrant and anti-gay,” “conspiracist,” “anti-democratic,” they “don’t believe in an independent press or free speech,” and are “most likely to accept or excuse violence,” for starters.”
…for starters!
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Even the Coast Guard wont play calis crazy global warming game –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coast-guard-refuses-to-enforce-california-s-new-environmental-regulation/ar-BB1jc2Xo?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=164711bf2f424bffb479529946cbb2b5&ei=5
😉
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The show trial in GA cannot even convince the lib networks –
MSNBC host bashes Fulton County attorney in Fani Willis hearing: ‘Is this the best the DA’s team has?’
MSNBC’s Katy Tur called Georgia prosecutor ‘kind of hard to watch’
MSNBC host Katy Tur slammed Georgia prosecutor Adam Abbate on Friday for his performance on behalf of embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, asking if that was the “best” the county could do.
Multiple news outlets reported on Abbate’s halting speaking style during the course of the hearing. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was one such news outlet to note the “long pauses and halting answers as he at times struggled to answer questions from Judge Scott McAfee”
“I’m struck by… this lawyer is kind of hard to watch,” Tur said. “I mean, as a layman, he’s kind of hard to watch. Is this the best the DA’s team has to put up?”
“When you talk about these nuanced arguments, I don’t know if this is something he’s used to presenting,” she conceded.
“As opposed to taking the bait from the defense and starting your argument off responding arguing to them, as opposed to enabling yourself to settle in, say what you were going to say and ‘then, by the way, Judge, what they said was wrong, let me tell you why.’”
At one point, Abbate accidentally referred to Willis as “Ms. Wade” before correcting himself, confusing her last name for that of her former romantic partner.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-host-bashes-georgia-attorney-in-fani-willis-hearing-is-this-the-best-the-das-team-has-to-put-up
😉
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fishanthrope@8:20
re: ‘Bree Fram’
While it’s difficult to beat the straight-to-the-point comment on the story from one ‘JoeyChernenko’
“Fram is a mentally ill attention seeking male who’s been promoted within the military to further a maniacal agenda with the primary goal of destroying the USA. Period.”
Maybe it’s more a matter of using the normalization of mental illness as a way to achieve status. Lotsa gold in them thar affirmative action and non-profit hills. The first Furry SecDef is only a matter of time.
After spending a bit of time perusing Ms. Fram on YouTube, and after the inevitable wondering about all the decorations you can get in those gigs anymore, I decided it was simpler to just be damned glad to live in this era where I can see such marvels. You can argue that making the military crappier keeps the country out of overseas adventures and, by golly, I get to laugh and laugh at the absurd situations presented as Good Things. I think that ‘progressives’ were put on Earth just to crack me up between one thing and another.
It’s as if modern life is a screenplay written by Dick Shawn.
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…wait wait wait. I’ve got it figured out.
The United States of America is turning into a giant Kids in the Hall sketch.
Next up. General Cabbage Head. Secretary of State Chicken Lady.
The Space Force dude:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/85lEVvA3Uk4?start=35&end=38
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“You can argue that making the military crappier keeps the country out of overseas adventures …”
Nope.
You just get more of the disastrous and deadly debacles exampled by our military humiliation in Afghanistan.
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Posted by: scenes | 02 March 2024 at 07:03 AM
“Fram is a mentally ill attention seeking male who’s been promoted within the military to further a maniacal agenda with the primary goal of destroying the USA. Period.”
I don’t think they want to destroy the United States as such…..that’s when the grift stops! The screwballs and the pet politicians don’t get to participate in what happens after….the asset stripping! That’s the province of bigger players and Shotgun Joey and his Merry Band of Idiots aren’t in that club.
Right now all of the public face of progressivism just wants things on a shallow glide slope to disaster…..keep the infernal party going as long as possible!
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