[Dear Readers, place your bets. Before the sun sets on Wednesday 6 March, Nikki Haley will 1) suspend her campaign, 2) keep running in hopes of hope that … . gjr]
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79 responses to “Sandbox – 4mar24”
She is not getting out. The swamp won’t let her.
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re: Haley
I hope I can remember, in a year’s time, to see what kind of job she gets as a pay-off.
The donors are a pretty obvious bunch. Reid Hoffman (Linked-in, a famously woke company), Charles Koch, buncha hedge fund managers, but it’s unobvious how she benefits aside from the bit of ego-boost and the inevitable scoooop off of some money from the campaign into a bank account. There’s gotta be a longer term deal that’s been made.
Didn’t she win DC? The momentum is real. Trump is doomed.
Personally, I figure that winning Washington DC as a Republican is the worst kind of black mark (wait, are you allowed to say that anymore?) against a person.
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scenes 1121am – Yes, it’s permitted since black marks matter.
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re: GR@12:04PM
I’ll keep an eye on it here.
https://inclusivenaming.org/
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Furthermore win or lose the swamp won’t let Trump be president again. This year is going to be crazy lit.
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The swamp is fearful that Trump will win and sweep into orifice knowing where the levers of power are.
And they should be fearful.
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I don’t think Haley needs to formally quit, just stand back and stand by…
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Stock up on your favorite popcorn, it’s shaping up to be an entertaining year,
“Steve Bannon’s ‘We Build the Wall’ scheme trial set for May 2024”
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Not even those guys can hide the truth –
https://www.foxnews.com/media/the-view-co-hosts-admit-scotus-colorado-ruling-was-right-decision#&_intcmp=fnhpbt3
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HALEY 2024! IT’S HER TURN!
Landslide victory in Washington DC! 1274 votes! Rethuglican Trumpanzees Doomed!
BP: ” the swamp won’t let Trump be president again”
While I’m lighting a candle for his Revenge Tour (TANNED, RESTED, READY!) I’d sure suggest the man stay clear of any Lincoln Continental convertibles.
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It’s not lying about a BJ but it’s still lying,
“Weisselberg conceded he knowingly misled investigators about his knowledge of the size of the Trump Tower triplex in order to obtain favorable loans, insurance rates and “other economic benefits,” according to Gary Fishman, who presented the perjury case for the Manhattan district attorney’s office”
“Ex-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury charges”
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Indy Jeff
“I don’t think Haley needs to formally quit, just stand back and stand by…”
She won’t need to stand by.
So, Jeff… is your boy graduating this Spring?
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The chi coms and friends of soros have the same agenda –
“While enjoying his affluent life and connections in Beijing, Singham has poured more than $100 million into organizations driving the protest movement in the United States,” Schweizer details. “According to the chief scientist at Thoughtworks, Martin Fowler, Singham sold the company so he could fund his ‘activist work’: radical pro–Communist Chinese causes.”
Schweizer, citing tax records, found that Singham’s largest financial commitment is to a New York project called The People’s Forum. Two co-executives of The People’s Forum, Claudia De La Cruz and Manolo De Los Santos, are members of the PSL (Party of Socialism and Liberation), whose leader once demanded that party members offer a “militant political defense of the Chinese government.”
Schweizer points out how the PSL uses the trans movement, along with many other Marxist, grievance-based movements to push the dismantling of western values.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/04/blood-money-two-of-the-biggest-funders-of-the-radical-transgender-movement-in-the-u-s-are-china-linked-billionaires/
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A dear in the headlights experience…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjIpSxEqhiA
She appears to me to be in need of a good cry.
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“I don’t think Haley needs to formally quit, just stand back and stand by…” Pretty sure that’s what the Romney and McCain and Bush/Cheney types are thinking. The vast majority of Republican voters realize that the Democrats were right and we all got played with weapons of mass destruction. It is time to stop these endless wars and global expansionism. Haley represents more wars. Bye Felicia.
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Noooooo!!! Ukraine’s leader has resigned.
https://www.state.gov/on-the-retirement-of-under-secretary-of-state-for-political-affairs-victoria-nuland/
I wonder what deviltry she’ll be up to next. These people simply can’t leave us alone.
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BPruett: “Haley represents more wars.”
Which means a lot of potential backing, although President Potato seems pretty good on that one already.
I don’t know what the rules are for getting on the general election ballot. What are the chances that Haley is a third party candidate? at least in the few states that matter. Running her beyond expiration date in the Republican races might simply be a marketing move for something else.
As a spoiler for Trump, you could get basically unlimited funding from Woke Corporate America I would think. Stir in a bit of censorship from the internet monopolies, and Bob’s yer uncle.
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BPruett: “The vast majority of Republican voters realize that the Democrats were right”
I can’t remember very many anti-war Democrats at the top of the party, but admit that working-class Republicans used to be the war party.
How times have changed. We’ll fight to the last Ukrainian, and maybe even enlarge the situation, with backup from a street army of Saint Floyd’s Day rioters, Krazy Kids in Black Outfits, and mentally ill cross-dressing elementary school teachers. It ain’t Bill Clinton’s party, but then he’s been remarkably quiet after a few hundred million in ‘talking fees’ and whatnot.
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This should end well…:
Just glad to see Alissa Heinerscheid back on her feet in the marketing world so quickly!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doritos-just-hired-self-described-pedophile-brand-ambassador
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From a recent BBC review of possible VP choices for Trump-
Former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has been on an eight-year political journey that took her from the Bernie Sanders left to Donald Trump’s doorstep. Now she will be headlining a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser in March.
“This is a man who is a fighter,” she said at her CPAC speech on Thursday evening. “His strength and resilience can only come from one place… his sincere love and concern for the future of our country.” She also warned of a growing threat to American democracy – but the danger, she argued, came from the left’s prosecution of Mr Trump.
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As Crocodile Dundee might say: “Now THIS is an insurrection.”
“A mass escape from two large prisons. Gunfire exchanged at the central bank, main airport and national soccer stadium. A direct challenge from a powerful gang leader to an unpopular prime minister.
Haiti’s long descending spiral of violence appeared to hit new lows in recent days as the country’s powerful (“BLACK”) gangs led a series of coordinated assaults in what seemed to be an effort to overthrow the authorities.”
I’m pretty sure that the leftist Dems never used the word “seemed” to describe our own little attempt of a disagreement at the church social.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13155765/biden-illegal-migrant-flying-program-national-security-vulnerability.html
“Joe Biden’s administration has admitted transporting migrants on secret flights into the U.S. and lawyers for its immigration agencies claim revealing the locations could create national security ‘vulnerabilities’.
Customs and Border Protection has refused to disclose information about a program last year secretly arranging flights for thousands of undocumented immigrants from foreign airports directly to U.S. cities.
It means that while record numbers of migrants were flowing over the southern border last year, the Biden White House was also directly transporting them into the country.”
Genius. I mean, you just gotta love Democrats.
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re: Doritos.
I like the cut of ‘Samantha Hudson’s’ jib, so to speak.
Every time one of our local ‘progressives’ types a bon mot here, this is essentially the voice I hear it in:
https://twitter.com/EmmaRincon/status/1764847177262608459
Including the poor dentistry.
https://www.glamcult.com/articles/in-conversation-with-samantha-hudson/
What a timeline to be alive in. Nothing beats all this vibrant stuff.
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Posted by: scenes | 05 March 2024 at 12:04 PM
A TRIGGER WARNING would have been great for that second link!
Madre de dios!
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on Google.
https://www.piratewires.com/p/google-culture-of-fear
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Sorry creepy grampa joe you are not a dictator –
Afederal district court ruled against the Biden administration in a case involving the Christian Employers Alliance (CEA) and employees’ rights to refuse to pay for transgender surgeries, according to a press release from Monday.
“In a victory for religious employers, a federal district court ruled Monday that the Biden administration cannot force non-profit and for-profit religious employers and healthcare providers to violate their religious beliefs by paying for and performing harmful ‘gender transition’ surgeries, procedures, counseling, and treatments,”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-administration-told-by-court-that-the-government-cannot-require-employers-to-pay-for-trans-surgery/ar-BB1jnYyq?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=9cef3517036b4fcdb41f9138e0465845&ei=127
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Well that did not last long –
Doritos, a subsidiary of PepsiCo, fired transgender artist Samantha Hudson as a brand ambassador for Spain on Monday after being alerted to a disturbing tweet involving a 12-year-old.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/05/doritos-fires-trans-brand-ambassador-disturbing-tweet-surfaces/
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Well I’m sure scenes is just as disappointed as I am regarding this latest development……
Damn, damn, DAMN!!
Our quest for entertainment……well….it took a hit today!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna141767
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Its amazing the wokesters are surprised by this reality –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/the-numbers-prove-it-bail-reform-drove-a-66-recidivism-rate-for-repeat-crooks/ar-BB1joiQS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=291caab76a4243d295e73da57fb44907&ei=33
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There are reports of robust snowball fights in HELL! –
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/super-tuesday-primary-election-2024/card/san-francisco-law-and-order-ballot-measures-appear-poised-to-pass-lZfqPRD7RE9vNcbvcBto
San Francisco voters are poised to approve ballot Propositions E and F, public safety measures authored by Mayor London Breed that would expand the powers of the San Francisco Police Department and require drug treatment for some welfare recipients.
In early returns, 63% of voters supported Proposition E and 65% supported Proposition F, with roughly 79,000 votes tallied.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11978236/propositions-e-and-f-in-san-francisco-appear-headed-for-victory
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Whoda thunk –
Proposition E grants police greater leeway to pursue suspects in vehicles, authorizes the use of drones and surveillance cameras and reduces paperwork requirements, including in use-of-force cases. Proposition F makes drug treatment mandatory for adult welfare recipients if they use illicit substances, or else they can be denied cash assistance.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/san-francisco-votes-on-measures-to-compel-drug-18704341.php
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George, go with 1)
from Reuters this morn: Nikki Haley is dropping out of the US presidential race following the Super Tuesday primaries.
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Buh bye then….
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nikki-haley-to-drop-out-of-2024-race-ending-challenge-against-trump-for-gop-presidential-nomination-sources/ar-BB1jpZTk
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“Michelle Obama’s office says the former first lady ‘will not be running for president’ in 2024”
Well, that is a bummer.
After all, she did write ‘Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community’, married a first-rate convincer-of-people, and did some other stuff that I’m not aware of.
Given the mafia that B. Obama is surrounded by, it would probably be the simplest way to go as the same people would keep running things.
It’s worth considering the deep Democratic bench when the inevitable Biden shutdown occurs, at the very least he’ll swoon from the scent of children. I go back and forth on the matter. Newsom? Grand Admiral Levine? Nuland? (fresh from her good work in the Ukraine). Judging from places like reddit, Olbermann might be just the ‘man’.
It’s all good. A solipsist would have to be proud of their ability to amuse themselves with this circus.
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“White Christian Nationalism” when “Ultra MAGA” just isn’t scary enough to rouse your torpid supporters to the polls!
Somebody needs to send the DNC Marketing Department a lovely bouquet of flowers.
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article286228425.html?tbref=hp
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Haley, we hardly knew ye.
All boosted on the backs of nothing but some donor fundage of course. It isn’t like the woman has an ounce of stage presence.
To be fair, I’d say that the only modern politician with much in the way of an ability to work a crowd seems to be Trump, like him or hate him. He can go out there with a scrap of paper for notes (local football coach name?) and work the crowd for an hour. Amazing.
We’ve been treated with gracile non-entities for most of my adult life, nothing like the speechifiers of prior eras. Unless they possessed some super-power of backroom politics that I never saw, you have to wonder how a Bush (II especially), Obama, Carter, Biden ever got the gig. Naturally, reading a teleprompter to the camera lens allows you to run a dog for President, perhaps next up in the Age of AI.
If Biden wins again, I’ll become convinced that ‘Being There’ was a documentary, not a movie and novel.
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“White Christian Nationalism”
I’ve noticed that lately. Dunno if it’s an organic fear or something that came down from on high.
Naturally, any SCARY stuff hits above it’s weight on the internet. All it takes is one vidya and off you go. Pentecostal churches seemed to have peaked in political oomph in the the 1980’s, what with Pat Robertson’s run and lotsa healing on the tube and what not.
It seems to have peaked along with cable television, but is worth a resurrection as a political tool I guess. It’s like how the bad guys are always Russians in modern action-adventure movies. Turn the right knobs and the population will do as you like.
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Posted by: scenes | 06 March 2024 at 06:55 AM
Dunno if it’s an organic fear or something that came down from on high.
Clearly from “on high”……modern “Americans” are like veal calves……not even smart enough to know of what to be frightened.
…..and so easily distracted.
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When all you have left is the pettiness…
You’d think they’d want to broadcast it. Trump gets himself in trouble all the time with his mouth!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/msnbc-cuts-trump-victory-speech-claims-its-irresponsible-broadcast
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White Christian Nationalists.
I have yet to meet one. Where are they kept?
I do live in Nevada City, a local address would be good.
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It seems America’s loss is Italy’s…..loss….
See psulbot….if you had done as I suggested and got that monkey worked into the act you could have dropped into Italy with a turnkey career. The Organ Grinder holds a dear place in Italian street theater!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-BB1jpYYR
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Yesterdays election was great news for the Dems. The Repubs have once again picked Trump for President. He is the biggest Presidential loser in over 100 years and they chose he AGAIN. What a gift to Biden and the Dems. They can cruise on this one cause Trump the loser will come through for them again.
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Yahoo!!!! Trumper Kari Lake is running for the Senate in Arizona.
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Talk about whistling past the graveyard above oh great ponytail of ignorance. Funny you dont want to be on the other thread where you were humiliated badly ROFLOL Thanks shif for brains –
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/democrats-deep-trouble-california-200936008.html
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“He is the biggest Presidential loser in over 100 years and they chose he(sic) AGAIN.”
Let’s see – I recall the glee the Dems had the first time around with Trump. What a LOSER!
Boy – Hillary sure showed HE.
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Gregory 12:01 – “Where are they kept?”
Like all phantoms of the Dem fear machine – “they” are everywhere, incarnating as the outgrowth of the horrible MAGA – yet nowhere as well because to name one would reveal an actual person who is probably quite likable and innocuous.
Obama was a past master of the game. Constantly conjuring up “them”. “They” would do and say all manner of racist and hateful deeds and words.
Some how the poor man could never seem to come up with an actual quote from an actual person.
It plays well with the idiots and the ill-informed.
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Hillary was his only win Scott. In just four years he lost the Presidency, House and Senate. Now that’s a loser.
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Here’s an examp;e of what a loser Trump is. Here’s some quotes from his choice for Governor of North Carolina
“On Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson won the GOP primary to become his party’s nominee for North Carolina governor, presumably with the help of female voters.
But just four years ago, Robinson invoked a bizarre hypothetical in which he said he’d “absolutely” like to return to the days when the 19th Amendment didn’t exist ― when women didn’t have the right to vote.
“I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote,” Robinson said in a newly resurfaced video of his remarks at a March 2020 event hosted by the Republican Women of Pitt County.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/north-carolina-gop-mark-robinson-women-vote_n_65e7d899e4b0f9d26cacc002
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/north-carolina-gop-mark-robinson-women-vote_n_65e7d899e4b0f9d26cacc002
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Here’s another quote from Trump about his choice for North Carolina Governor Mark Robinson:
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Former President Donald Trump likened North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson to Martin Luther King Jr. in an endorsement Saturday, despite the gubernatorial candidate’s long history of controversial comments about homosexuality, religion and victims of sexual abuse.
“This is Martin Luther King on steroids,” Trump said of Robinson at a pre-Super Tuesday rally in North Carolina.
“I told that to Mark. I said, I think you’re better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times two,” he continued as he offered Robinson his endorsement in the Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-compares-north-carolina-lt-gov-mark-robinson-martin-luther-king-rcna141523
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The po ol ponytail of ignorance is such a good putin party parrot! ROFLOL
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