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Sandbox – 8apr24

[Been contemplating soliciting reader submissions of the most stupid and/or unreasonable thing that prominent leaders/spokespeople for the Republicans and Democrats have done during a given week.  Candidates would NOT include some dumb thing someone in the party’s fringe has said or done.  I’m talking about nationally recognized people and proposed/passed public policies.  An example candidate would be CA’s $20/hr minimum wage law, or Biden’s national security adviser telling the country that Biden’s threat to withhold aid to Israel (if they don’t clear their operational war plans with Washington first) does not represent a change in US policy toward Israel.  Such examples would serve to confirm that there is no common ground between our two sides to begin a path to rapprochement. gjr]

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  1. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Honestly, the main problem is not that people like that exist, knock yerself out, but that Democrats persist in lionizing them. Mental illness is not only presented as normal, but as a kind of superior mode of living.”
    -scenes
    It’s more a shaming of the folks who react against it. Folks like the reprobates here.
    From the recent op-ed by Mrs. Rebane and the follow up denigrations from the usual suspects, it appears the local high schools have nearly collapsed.

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  2. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    FIle under: “Headlines that don’t surprise me!”

    Biden Scrambles To Buy Votes With New Taxpayer-Funded Student Debt Relief Scheme

    But I get why Punchy likes him……
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-scrambles-buy-votes-new-taxpayer-funded-student-debt-relief-scheme

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You could say she and the other global warming acolytes are dumber than a box of rocks but that would be insulting to the rocks –
    The View’s Sunny Hostin blames eclipse, earthquake and cicadas on ‘climate change’
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/the-views-sunny-hostin-blames-eclipse-earthquake-cicadas-climate-change
    😉

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    While the left calls anyone who disagrees a nazi they might need a little history education about the real NAZIs and the so called palestinas (there was neve a nation called palistine) and how so many NAZIs post WW2 went to work the Arab League such as Hitlers favorite commando Otto Skorzeny setting up sabotage and intelligence groups and so on and so on. Good for the Israelis putting a spotlight and those facts! –
    Hitler receives the Grand Mufti of Palestine, with whom he speaks about future relations between Germany and the Arabic world, December 12, 1941, Germany – Second World War.
    Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations spoke out forcefully against the notion of Palestinian statehood during a U.N. Security council meeting on Monday, going so far as to suggest that the U.N. had backtracked on its original goal of preventing the spread of Nazi ideology by supporting Palestinian statehood.
    While speaking in the General Assembly, Erdan held up a World War II-era photo of Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, speaking with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
    Al-Husseini, whom Erdan described as “one of the founding fathers of Palestinian nationalism,” was an enthusiastic Nazi supporter whose anti-Semitism was well documented. The Grand Mufti had pleaded with Hitler for assistance in getting rid of the British Mandate and the Jewish immigrants coming to the Holy Land
    Erdan said the Palestinians’ goal of annihilating the Jews was clear long before the establishment of the U.N. or the State of Israel in the years following World War II.
    “And from then until today, the root of this conflict has not changed. It is not a political conflict or about partitioning land,” Erdan said. “It is solely about the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews.”
    Erdan accused the U.N. of committing itself to “reinforcing modern-day Nazi Jihadists [by] considering forcing the establishment of a Palestinian terror state.”
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/israel-un-ambassador-during-meeting-225904871.html
    😉

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The fix is in and a pay day for for the failed chitown former mayor who is her own train wreck –
    The Village of Dolton in Illinois voted Monday to hire former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot as a “Special Investigator” to look into Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard.
    Starting Tuesday, Lightfoot will be paid $400 an hour to gather information on Henyard’s alleged spending and finance mismanagement as well as “any state and federal violations.”
    Ahead of Monday’s vote, Lightfoot said she understood the residents want to go in a different direction from Henyard, and promised to “follow the facts where they lead.”
    At the end of her investigation, Lightfoot will present a report to the Village of Dolton on her findings. The findings in the report will determine what happens beyond that.
    Trustees also re-voted on issues the Dolton mayor had previously vetoed and about paying vendors and invoices that have not yet been paid by the Village.
    The Village of Dolton, Illinois’ monthly town hall meeting once again made headlines last week for fiery confrontations with the scandal-ridden mayor.
    Henyard has been accused of misdeeds ranging from weaponizing police in retaliatory business raids to spending taxpayer money on luxuries like traveling to Las Vegas. Last month, Henyard reportedly vetoed the board’s resolution to probe her spending over purported misuse of funds.
    While the FBI has allegedly already begun to investigate Henyard for purportedly misusing her local police force, the board’s resolution had called for the FBI to do further investigation into her spending of the town’s money.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-hired-investigate-controversial-mayor-dolton-400-hour
    😉

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  6. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    MAGA Mothership Missive,
    You must now hate RFK.
    That is all
    https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/maga-takes-aim-at-rfk-jr-radical-kennedy?publication_id=87281&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=26vbls&utm_medium=email

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  7. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Gregory: “From the recent op-ed by Mrs. Rebane and the follow up denigrations from the usual suspects, it appears the local high schools have nearly collapsed.”
    Ah well, if it’s the letter to the editor about the drop in test scores, I suppose you can just drop measuring things into the white supremacist bucket along with being on time, individualism, nuclear families, and the like.
    I haven’t seen them, but no doubt the usual suspects are merely drawn from the normal self-interested groups:
    . The theater arts speech club kid who dearly wants to be a thought leader in an academically unrigorous world. (note: these folks genuinely benefit from the current situation).
    . The older version of same, often wrapped up in both a bandanna and local ‘non-profit’ activity.
    . Retired school administrators
    . Local Democratic party apparatchiks who never seem to mention that fact.
    Once LLMs have mastered the type, letters to the editor can flow like water. I suspect this is already true.
    I do have to laugh at politically active K-12 teachers since in days of yore, at least in my experience, we not only didn’t know a bit about their inclinations but didn’t even know if these people were married or not. In the Era of Feelz, every school is a madrasa.

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  8. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Individual Jeff: “MAGA Mothership Missive, You must now hate RFK.”
    ooh. This isn’t a battle you want to get into. I can find 1000 anti-RFK statements from the Left for every one from the Right. If nothing else, he appears to view (correctly I think) that most anti-COVID measures were bullshit, so you can expect that to come up again and again and again due to the heavy investment people have in their epidemiological religion.
    Now that he’s in the mixmaster of modern American politics, the poor man will simply find himself used as a spoiler by both sides. Any news articles referenced are bound to be partisan nonsense.

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  9. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: scenes | 09 April 2024 at 07:57 AM
    Great….now you’ve confused him! It’ll take his poor wife a week to talk him down.

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  10. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Well so much for hunting reflecting a respect for the majesty of nature…….

    Wyoming hunter parades tortured wolf with tape around mouth inside bar before killing it…

    Sometimes the small penis references make sense! Nice going assshole!
    https://www.the-sun.com/news/11032258/cruel-hunter-parades-tortured-wolf-animal/

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  11. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    RFK is also eloquent in supporting the view that the CIA murdered his Uncle Jack.

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  12. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    This is an interesting article. Most of it is an admission from the inside of NPR what we had already noticed for years. But this was the real reveal:
    “But the role and standing of affinity groups, including those outside NPR, were more than that. They became a priority for NPR’s union, SAG-AFTRA—an item in collective bargaining. The current contract, in a section on DEI, requires NPR management to “keep up to date with current language and style guidance from journalism affinity groups” and to inform employees if language differs from the diktats of those groups. In such a case, the dispute could go before the DEI Accountability Committee.
    In essence, this means the NPR union, of which I am a dues-paying member, has ensured that advocacy groups are given a seat at the table in determining the terms and vocabulary of our news coverage.”
    When you control the language, you can control the thoughts. It’s right there in the contract. And when he writes – “…given a seat at the table…” – does anyone not believe that seat is at the head of the table? Just who at NPR would have the nerve to openly so much as quibble with the new masters?
    Always remember this outfit is kept alive with your tax dollars.
    https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust

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  13. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    Invisible Scenery,
    It goes without saying that maga must stand against any competition for Trump. The same goes for the anyone but Trumpers.

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  14. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    Here is an example stupid things nationally recognized politicians and parties have done this week,
    Trump and his so-called “abortion statement”,
    and not to be outdone, Arizona comes up with some archaic law from the 1800s, sounds typical for Kari Lake’s neck of the sagebrush.
    “Arizona’s top court revived a law dating to 1864 on Tuesday that bans abortion in virtual all instances, another setback for reproductive rights in a state where the procedure already was barred starting at 15 weeks of pregnancy.”

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  15. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    “Arizona comes up with some archaic law from the 1800s,…”
    Yeah – those old laws against rape and torture and murder and such…
    Don’t worry, Juanita – if you should happen to get your paramour of whatever gender pregnant, CA will let you kill the kid the very moment you can see the head coming out.

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  16. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    folks in AZ have some work to do if they want local MD’s to kill their kids in utero.
    Otherwise, they’ll have to travel to Cali like my biomom did about 70 years ago.

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  17. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Individual Jeff: “It goes without saying that maga must stand against any competition for Trump. The same goes for the anyone but Trumpers.”
    Naturally. It’s like any political campaign. Of course, it didn’t keep you from saying it.
    Everyone has to pretend that Orange Hitler has a secret plan to save the world and that President Potato isn’t a pervy old man with dementia being led by his staff (in both senses I guess).
    You have to hand it to The Donald for being so robust, choosing the right parents is a gift. His other gift is working a crowd for an hour or two sans notes. That is not a trivial ability.
    I simply view Trump as a hand grenade thrown into the perfect spot, into the middle of an anti-Western Culture bureaucracy staffed by insane people. Like the asteroid that hit the dinosaurs, you have to hope that the end result is better than the status quo.

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  18. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Arizona and abortion.
    Really, about all the Democrats have going for them is abortion at this point as any practical person is sick with all of their other nonsense.
    Class warfare is out as the Big Money is firmly in Team Blue (remember Occupy Wall Street? lol. I don’t either.) We can mostly agree that inflation is bad. Just reg’lar folks don’t have a gain in unlimited immigration, of course they don’t have a say either. COVID was a mess under both administrations. The antiwar folks and Biden’s puppet masters are at odds. Seriously, a lot of people are tired of men-in-dresses (MID). There’s still a bit of grifting money left in student loans and affirmative action of course, but those votes are already counted.
    So what’s left? Abortion. We’ll ignore any nuance here and just have the human-life-at-conception people fight with the if it ain’t breathin’, it ain’t a human gang. I have to admit that it’s funny how much more radical pro-abortion forces are here than law in Europe (even Denmark!!!).

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  19. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Oh, and Jeffie 1046a…
    It appears that Trump has staked out the middle ground with the SCOTUS. It’s up to the states.
    A cool place to be at the moment.

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  20. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Gregory@1:51
    Well, according to Senator Karen on Twitter.
    “Remember: this is brought to you by Trump. He supports cruel bans like these, & he made them possible by overturning Roe.”
    – Elizabeth Warren.
    So obviously Trump wants to make the world JUST LIKE THE HANDMAID’S TALE!!!
    Speaking of crazy wine women, I did like this one. It was a big ol’ petition by members of the publishing biz so that Penguin Random House wouldn’t publish anything by Amy Coney Barrett.
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vToh2N4z_Q509Beuyw3oMR9nZCk5PI84TqIR4-sw9lXicS3v4pXzSM8RCf0La0WSBFwnwbinDJ-Tr3L/pub
    I mention because of this absolutely wonderful phrase at the start:
    “As members of the writing, publishing, and broader literary community of the United States, we care deeply about freedom of speech. We also believe it is imperative that publishers uphold their dedication to freedom of speech with a duty of care.”
    So powerful and brave.
    I realize that in the long run most of this will die off, but then it took 75 years for the Soviets to run the car into the wall. I guess that plate tectonics will end up being stronger than crazy activists, so it’s all good.

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  21. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    jargon alert. This is one I hadn’t heard before. From a UK government jobs posting…
    “The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a global majority background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit.”
    “Global majority background”.
    I really like that. Maybe it means that they’ll only take Han Chinese applicants, but I somehow doubt it.

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  22. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    scenes @ 01:14 PM
    “choosing the right parents is a gift.” Unfortunately, as we have all found out, those same parents skipped the part in which their 4-year-old son became civilized, by practicing give & take with his fellow 4-yo. It seems that the word “give” was excised from the Donald’s vocabulary at that time, never to be heard from again. But that’s just a personal note.
    On a much more alarming note, the leftists have deputized the entire govt. to take – from everyone, so it isn’t just a personal, but an entire governmental conspiracy to take. Even Jason Bourne only had so much to give to his govt. Conservatives have run out of ‘give’. They have to begin taking.

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The great dumbing down at warp speed –
    A new version of Scrabble is set to be released for the first time in 75 years and the updated rendition of the iconic board game is reportedly aimed at a Gen Z audience.
    The updated version, to be released in Europe, will include two sides, one side with the original game for players who want to stick to the traditional version and a second, “less competitive” version to appeal to Gen Z players, BBC first reported. The second side, called Scrabble Together, will include helper cards, using a simpler scoring system that will be quicker to play and allow people to play in teams.
    Broadcaster and British Scrabble president, Gyles Brandreth, told BBC Radio 4 Today that Mattel, the maker of the game, had done some research and found that younger, Gen Z people don’t like the “competitive nature” of the game as much as older generations. In response, he said the newer version would be “easier” and “more inclusive.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/scrabble-releases-less-competitive-more-inclusive-version-game-appeal-gen-z
    😉

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  24. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: The New Scrabble.
    Good Lord. I thought you were kidding.
    I wonder if the ‘N’ tile is worth -10 points.
    Maybe it’s time to invent a Monopoly game with squatters once a house is bought. Bank loans that are never repaid. Hundreds of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ cards. The mind boggles.

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  25. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The perfect dem congress critter, its a wonder that she did not say the moon looks that way because of global warming. –
    Spaced out: Sheila Jackson Lee tells Texas students ‘planet’ moon is ‘made up of mostly of gases’
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/spaced-out-sheila-jackson-lee-tells-texas-students-planet-moon-made-up-gases
    😉

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  26. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    “I wonder if the ‘N’ tile is worth -10 points.”
    Sure – for example: n’clusive!

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  27. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: scotto@7:08AM
    It occurs to me that there’s money to be made in Scrabble variations. A whole cottage industry erupts.
    A good start would be Gender Scrabble.
    Seriously, you could build quite a Scrabble dictionary from things like this:
    https://lgbtqia.ucdavis.edu/educated/glossary
    https://lgbtqia.ucdavis.edu/educated/pronouns-inclusive-language
    https://foster.uw.edu/about-foster-school/fostering-diversity/dei-glossary/
    etc.
    It would also serve to properly program the youth, a sort of memorization of ‘progressive’ times tables.
    Since we all live in Grift Nation now, it’s time for everyone to monetize the crazy.

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  28. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Whew….just in time….!

    Scoop: Biden plans order to limit southern border crossings by end of month

    Somebody woke C-nizzle up before the fifteen millionth and first u registered democrat made it across!
    Not to worry I-jeff if you’ve put off buying your brown belly warmer till this point….I imagine this Executive Order will be rescinded when President Brainstem is re-elected and prices will plummet when supply surges after the holidays.
    The important thing is to not pay too much now…..they’ll be far cheaper in January/February!
    https://www.axios.com/2024/04/10/biden-border-executive-order-immigrants-asylum-limit
    PS: Have you picked out a new name for him or will you go with the one his poor parents selected?

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  29. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: scenes | 10 April 2024 at 07:38 AM
    It occurs to me that there’s money to be made in Scrabble variations. A whole cottage industry erupts.
    A good start would be Gender Scrabble.
    Seriously, you could build quite a Scrabble dictionary from things like this:
    Scrabble at least makes a pretense at following the rules of the language! For now!
    Make it LGBTQIA Boggle and shake yourself through a wholesome night of family fun and confusion for ages 8 to 80!

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  30. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    C’mon…..you can do it…..push the lid up, drag that wrinkly carcass out of the casket! I know the sunlight burns but stand strong…..there’s gloatin to do!

    Joe Biden is Now Beating Donald Trump in the Majority of Polls

    Sad though…….no reason to go on living after Bai Den wins again eh Punch™! I mean really……how many times can a guy sit through a Leonard Cohen medley without wishing the sweet release of death?
    https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-donald-trump-polls-presidential-election-2024-1888914

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  31. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    Here’s a great example of how to profit from our nation’s preoccupation with leftist twaddle:
    “Nakeema Stefflbauer, PhD, is the founder and CEO of the nonprofit FrauenLoop. She writes and speaks about how to center marginalized communities within digital ecosystems. She is currently a Public Voices Fellow on Technology in the Public Interest with The OpEd Project in partnership with The MacArthur Foundation.”
    Lord only knows how many tens of thousands produce “work” of this nature. I’m sure it’s great for Nakeema.

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  32. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: scotto@10:08AM
    God knows how large the ESG biz is. Obviously, it’s essentially all a form of mafia fire insurance (nice building ya got here). I imagine that the net result, besides non-profit profits, is to offshore industries. It isn’t like Chinese (or Russian, Indian, Mexican) manufacturers give a rip about this kind of thing.
    It also wouldn’t surprise me if this is also a measurable push towards automation as robots don’t have gender or ethnicity for now. Economically, Grift Nation is just sand in the bearings of commerce.
    Maybe in the future we can all have our own non-profits. A big ol’ interlocked grift machine of grant writing, studies, and peculiar jargon. Amazon robots will deliver turquoise jewelry directly to your door produced by Chinese prisoners operating under an AI factory manager while we sell them US treasuries and swap ideas for charities, DEI notions, and activism concepts amongst ourselves.

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  33. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Occasionally you read something surprising.
    “The laptop was newsworthy. But the timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched. During a meeting with colleagues, I listened as one of NPR’s best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren’t following the laptop story because it could help Trump. ”
    https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust
    Well, not really that surprising.
    Seriously, if psul were to read that article, assuming he reads any article, does it just look like a blank page? A foreign language? Really blurry? There must be some explanation.

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  34. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: scenes | 10 April 2024 at 01:23 PM
    Seriously, if psul were to read that article, assuming he reads any article, does it just look like a blank page? A foreign language? Really blurry? There must be some explanation.
    “There must be some explanation.”
    There is……

    Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.

    “Protective stupidity”…..Punch could teach a Master Class!
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime

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  35. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    It’s a progressive/democrat run city….I’m sure they’ll have things turned around and “ship shape” in no time!

    The Real Estate Nightmare Unfolding in Downtown St. Louis

    https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/doom-loop-st-louis-44505465

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  36. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well it looks like West just gave Michigan to Trump and perhaps more –
    West’s selection of Abdullah, a Muslim Black woman and a member of the board of directors for Black Lives Matter Grassroots, could further advance his outreach to Muslim Americans and Black Americans disenchanted with President Joe Biden.
    West’s choice of a Muslim running mate accentuates his push to appeal to Muslim American voters who are dissatisfied with Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war. West has met repeatedly with pro-Palestinian activists across the country, including in the battleground state of Michigan, and regularly describes Israel’s military actions in Gaza as “genocidal.”
    West used the recent police shooting of Dexter Reed in Chicago and the Israel-Hamas war to draw a contrast between him and Abdullah and Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/cornel-west-announces-fellow-academic-162052367.html
    😉

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Tru dat –
    “He does two or three events a week where he’s cutting a ribbon on a bridge. And here’s a bridge,” Klain said. “Like I tell you, if you go into the grocery store, you go to the grocery store and, you know, eggs and milk are expensive, the fact that there’s a f‑‑‑ing bridge is not [inaudible].”
    Klain, who served as Biden’s chief of staff for two years before leaving in February 2023, acknowledged it was a “positive thing” that Biden’s administration had signed legislation investing significantly in infrastructure projects, but he called it a “fool’s errand” for the president to spend so much time highlighting it
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/ex-biden-chief-staff-president-140225635.html
    😉

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  38. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    scenes 1:23 – Power Line had a run with that story and it led to this from 30 years ago:
    https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/how-do-i-hate-npr-let-me-count-the-ways/
    Basically the same story but from over a generation ago. Here’s the best part:
    “One of the most telling moments of my ordeal-by-NPR came while Linda Wertheimer was interviewing a computer developer on what will happen when computers are linked into televisions—the so-called intelligent TV. He predicted the development of literally hundreds of new interactive television networks and services “that would give the individual TV viewer an incredible amount of power to program for their own tastes rather than have to rely on these programming guys.”
    Replied a perturbed Wertheimer: “Is there any way we can dodge this bullet?””
    Wow – from 1993!
    It turns out ‘they’ have certainly been trying to dodge the bullet for some time now. Back then it was bad enough that a fat white man from Cape Girardeau was on the radio telling people stuff they weren’t supposed to be told, but here’s a tech guy telling NPR that soon Americans could have the freedom to do their own programming! Yikes!
    “Is there any way we can dodge this bullet?”
    Indeed – she’s not stupid. She groks the deal at once.
    Americans having access to different lines of information??!! Horrors!!
    Remember when well meaning, but naive voices proclaimed that the internet couldn’t be controlled and would open the entire world up to all information?
    The Blob was not amused and took action.

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  39. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    “Credit-Card Delinquency Rates Were Worst on Record in Fed Study”
    It’s election year…
    C’mon, Biden – you know you want to.
    Think of all the grateful voters…
    I’m sure there’s some kind of executive action you could take!
    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/credit-card-delinquency-rates-were-191416468.html

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  40. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    The Biden admin is hilarious!
    “US Slams Strikes on Russia Oil Refineries as Risk to Oil Markets”
    Hey Ukraine – we just wanted you to kill Russians.
    Not the petro depots, fer Gawd’s sake!!!
    Ha ha – I mean, going after the bad oil people – that’s just what we do in California!
    That’s not what you should do, damnit!
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-09/us-slams-strikes-on-russia-oil-refineries-as-risk-to-oil-markets

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  41. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    It just does not stop:
    “California has failed to adequately monitor the outcomes of its vast spending on homelessness programs, according to a state audit released Tuesday…”
    Welcome to America.
    Since when have we worried about the end result of money spent by the govt in pursuit of “hopes and dreams”?
    “If it saves one life”
    and
    “It’s for the children”
    Don’t worry – our printing presses at the mint are the fastest in the world.

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  42. Individual Juan Avatar
    Individual Juan

    Come on guys, you can come up with a way to blame Biden and Democrats for “New Scrabble”,
    can’t you?

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  43. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: scotto@8:08PM
    That was a good article.
    It’s probably just best to view NPR as a sort of ‘progressive’ mood music. It’s a kind of soothing background to your life with calming voices telling you how smart and caring you are, clucking at bad things, with the occasional knowing (wink wink) joke.
    Like any zealots, the modern Left will always find the choke point for control. Search engines are steered to goodthink, social media (up until the liberation of Twitter) only allowed doubleplusgood posts, movie and TV series plots and casting rectifies the past, and AI will be steered to create unpersons and duckspeak as needed. If anything, the internet serves the purpose of prolefeed more than as a source of oldthink.
    I’d say that AM radio (and any other uncontrolled broadcast media) will fade out over time, statues will topple, all media centralized and bowdlerized, as we sail into a future designed by white wine swilling cat-collecting Karens. It’s unlikely that Emmanuel Goldstein will save the day.

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    scenes

    ” a way to blame Biden and Democrats”
    It seems to me that those are both symptoms, not prime movers. God knows that Biden, a husk of man and never the sharpest tool in the shed, isn’t driving the ship.
    The problem is that the Democrats, being opportunists like any political party, are surfing a wave of insanely dysfunctional people.
    A person who can’t see that is willfully blind.

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    scenes

    Apropos of nothing.
    https://nypost.com/2024/04/10/us-news/us-navy-warship-commander-mocked-after-being-photographed-holding-rifle-with-scope-mounted-backward/
    Probably a disliked officer. There’s some armorer out there who is now a living legend.

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    fish ole’

    Posted by: scenes | 11 April 2024 at 09:00 AM
    Hey….why’s everything so small?

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    Scott O

    There’s probably fresh boot black on the “eyepiece” as well. The photographer either is ignorant as well or else in on the gag.

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    Individual Juan

    “a wave of insanely dysfunctional people”
    Have you been keeping track of McClintock and Johnson’s House Repubicans?

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    Gregory

    It’s all I can do to keep track of Individual Jeff’s insane ravings.

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    Scott O

    “Have you been keeping track of McClintock and Johnson’s House Repubicans?”
    Actually – I think it’s the sign of a healthy govt at work. Principled people with strong views fighting for what they feel is important.
    The Dems are, of course, much smoother. The money comes in – orders are given – and the bobble heads on the left all fall into line and vote as they are told.
    The Blob Republicans and RINOS are getting smoked out.
    Their little cocktail party is over. Good.

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