[Islamophobia? Actually, for non-Islamists there is no such thing when we recall that the definition of ‘phobia’ is an unreasonable fear. A correspondent sent a revealing video (here) of British Islamic scholar Anjem Chaudary calmly describing a Europe that will soon succumb to Islam and sharia law. “Democracy will most likely be replaced by Islamic Sharia law in the UK, Belgium and France within 15-20 years.” This prediction is supported by this week’s local elections in the UK – ‘U.K. Local Elections Yield Ominous Islamist Success’. gjr]
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63 responses to “Sandbox – 7may24”
What would Punchy say?
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Bummer….
Can’t win em all Jack!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-classified-document-trial-postponed-indefinitely-days-after-mishandled-evidence
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Otay!
Another trial gone by the wayside. Easy-peasy.
What would Punchy say?
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Gregory
So is it ok by you that Trump had thousands of pages of top secret classified documents in his closet when he was no longer President that he refused to turn them over to the CIA and the FBI when asked for them?
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Aw the poor pitiful ponytail of ignorance gets another reality check. LOL
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What would Punchy say?
If only these document had been kept locked up in the TOP SECRET Corvette in a garage in Delaware and guy who took them was an acknowledged senile old grifter (Hur Report) then all of this unpleasantness could have been avoided.
But I do know why you like Biden so much!
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I’m not sure who is in the CIA that is more trustworthy than a former President who may well be President a’gin.
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So fish are you saying it was ok for Trump because Biden and Pence also did it? Biden did turn over what he had which is something Trump didn’t do.
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Posted by: psul Emery | 07 May 2024 at 08:18 PM
So fish are you saying it was ok for Trump because Biden and Pence also did it? Biden did turn over what he had which is something Trump didn’t do.
So Punch are you saying that President Brainstem would have returned his cache of illegally retained documents if Trump hadn’t been busted for his; only doing so to get ahead of the bad publicity associated with keeping TOP SECRET documents in a Corvette in your garage in Delaware?
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Punchy…
Was Trump the fully vested President of the USA, or was he a Russian asset in the employ of Putin?
I say he was the President of the USA.
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Po’ ol’ pitiful ponytail of ignorance cannot fathom that the president has unfettered ability to declassify anything at will which makes it all a lefty lawfare game. Creepy grampa joe was found with docs from his time as a senator and the VP without the ability to declassify and 0 did not do it for him. Yet no prosecution.
FBI putting covering pages in photos that were not in the files and now mishandling by the assholes pushing this fallacy.
Your guys subverting the rule of law is not lost on the electorate no are the disastrous policies that harmed all citizens which is why you lost the hespanic citizens as well as young blacks.
Foolios!
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Once again Gregory shows he’s a devoted Trump supporter.
So Don can you show me where Trump specifically declassified the documents stuffed in a Mar-a-Lago closet? Does that mean the press then has access to the contents of the documents because they will be no longer classified?
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Posted by: psul Emery | 08 May 2024 at 07:19 AM
Once again Gregory shows he’s a devoted Trump supporter.
An acknowledgment of the facts is hardly an endorsement…..! I don’t expect you to understand that because you’re a senile partisan hack.
Did you know that Beau Biden died retrieving those documents from Mar-a-Lago? Hail of heroic gunfire! No malarkey!
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Color me unsurprised at this ……
….that single moms are taking advantage of this!
All the sex….none of the stigma! In fact another opportunity for the moral preening that progressives so long for!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/denver-sets-host-migrants-your-home-hotline
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Just follow the sci… – uh, money!
“Vermont passes bill to charge fossil fuel companies for damage from climate change”
easy peasy:
“The amounts owed would be determined based on calculations of the degree to which climate change contributed to extreme weather in Vermont, and how much money those weather disasters cost the state.”
Just get out your “Climate Change For Dummies” book and look in the ‘turning CO2 into dollars’ section to find out how much to charge.
“…would similarly mandate that big oil companies and others with high emissions pay for damage caused by global warming.”
Really? Rosneft and Gazprom and Sinopec and CNPC and Shandong Energy and Indian Oil Corp are gonna pay big bucks to Vermont?
“State Sen. Anne Watson, a co-sponsor of the bill, said she hopes that if the law goes into effect, it pushes big oil companies “to become purveyors of renewable energy sources and keep fossil fuels in the ground.””
She “hopes”.
Sounds solid.
I’m sure she’ll come up with a new bill next year to help the citizens of Vermont deal with the crippling new high costs of energy.
The only winners here are a handful of expensive law firms.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/rcna150243
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Punchy…
Was Trump the fully vested President of the USA, or was he a Russian asset in the employ of Putin?
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Why are you making that comparison Gregory?
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It’s a simple question, Paul.
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Okay. He was the “vested President of the USA”. What’s the point?
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And not a Russian asset?
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“Once again Gregory shows he’s a devoted Trump supporter.”
Once again, Fuck You, Punchy”. I will not be voting for Trump… but I will be celebrating his win if it happens. So many tears from the Hard Left to be applauding.
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What happens when the wokesters keep you in the basement and feed you talking points that have no grounding in reality ignoring the fact that more citizens do not have jobs under creepy grampa joe –
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/05/08/biden-theres-corporate-greed-but-people-have-the-money-to-spend-on-more-expensive-groceries/
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Stormy Daniels’ Ex-Lawyer Michael Avenatti Accuses Porn Star of Falsifying Business Records in Blow to Prosecutors in Trump Trial
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/05/07/stormy-daniels-ex-lawyer-michael-avenatti-accuses-porn-star-of-falsifying-business-records-in-blow-to-prosecutors-in-trump-trial/
A rough time ahead for Spermy.
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Emperor gavin has no clothes –
According to the US Treasury Department’s Fiscal Data, California’s current debt is the highest among the states. New York, Connecticut, and the Virgin Islands follow, albeit with far less debt, with $7.5 billion, $227 million, and $81 million respectively.
While other states have paid down their debts, including those with high general-fund debt like Illinois and New Jersey, California continues to struggle with repayments.
A high unemployment rate continued to persist in California. February’s rate hit 5.3%, the highest unemployment rate in all of the U.S.
Another challenge adding to the strain is the projected $73 billion budget deficit for fiscal year 2024. A decline in tax revenue (because residents have begun moving away from California) is to blame.
They’re already struggling to follow a constitutional mandate for a balanced budget.
While they proposed a $17.3 billion cut in budget, the measure — once again — wouldn’t bridge the substantial deficit gap.
Why is California suffering economically? A number of reasons contribute to this situation — overly strict regulations, high taxes, governance issues among them.
Meanwhile, a column in the L.A. Times wrote how California’s unstable tax system caused all sorts of problems. The tax system, the column said, relied too heavily on the rich and “politicians are too cowardly to fix it.”
California does experience job growth, but only in certain areas (government jobs, leisure, and hospitality among them.) And not all the state government’s employment policies are met with open arms.
While the state is attempting to help increase wages for workers, their good intentions are being met with negative consequences. The state increased the minimum wage for healthcare workers to $25 per hour.
The California Department of Finance estimates that the wage increase will cost the state about $2 billion in the budget due to increased labor costs and Medicaid payments to hospitals.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/california-has-the-highest-state-debt-in-the-us-after-reliance-on-tax-payers-backfires/ss-BB1m2yjh?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=13a569e300d84a72a44a1453586782a5&ei=69#image=19
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Correct again…..it is “Costanza Syndrome”….
The most important quality for a politician is the ability to publicly believe your own nonsense…..”remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it Jerry”!
But I understand why Punchy™ is so fond of him!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/polling-data-has-been-wrong-all-along-watch-biden-deny-economic-reality-train-wreck-cnn
Stay tuned for Nevada City’s own Ignatius J. Reilly drop by to whine about the source.
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I like it!
I think I preferred the comment though that suggested calling this nonsense the “Bottomless Mimosa Intifada”
https://babylonbee.com/news/research-discovers-women-will-support-any-cause-no-matter-how-murderous-so-long-as-they-get-to-wear-a-scarf!
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Re DonB 911pm – There is a straightforward explanation for what continues to cause California its fiscal and governance problems according to Rebane Doctrine. It is simply that our state is staffed with legions of ignorant (deficient knowledge base) and stupid (unable to learn) bureaucracies that are continually sustained by vote-buying cynical politicians who are regularly ensconced by an electorate of terminally stupid takers. The combination is irredeemable because first and foremost it cannot be publicly acknowledged.
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re: GeorgeR@9:27AM
Dunno if it’s a purely California issue.
https://uca.edu/acre/citizens-guide-government-revenue-and-spending/
I strongly suspect that we are seeing a nearly insatiable need for poor people healthcare and government salaries and pensions, particularly public safety. Schools, for one, seem to spend more for less every year.
I really do need to get working on my fire safety non-profit though. Being a chump is a bummer sometimes.
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Those bastards at the bee switched linesmen me…..
https://babylonbee.com/news/research-discovers-women-will-support-any-cause-no-matter-how-murderous-so-long-as-they-get-to-wear-a-scarf
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“…..switched linesmen me.”
Sorry….Punchy™ Type II error.
…..switched links on me.
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People are not buying what the global warming acolytes are selling –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/new-survey-suggests-that-the-climate-change-scam-is-becoming-a-joke/ss-BB1mb4iQ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=5c527b0966f44f35980e05e3fbaf9292&ei=52#image=10
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What would Punchy say?
There’s now little chance that another Trump trial will start before the election. The Business Records trial (not about whether or not Trump bonked Spermy Daniels who signed an NDA specifying she wouldn’t do what she ended up doing… spreading the tale far and wide). She did cash the check.
Trump’s organization recorded the check to the liar (ummm, lawyer) as being a legal expense, not that abnormal for checks to one’s lawyer.
There won’t be a cavalcade of trials. This may be it. Savor it.
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So, Punch, or anyone else.
There being no there there, what are you prepared to do?
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So even cnn cant buy what creepy grampa joe is selling –
CNN anchor scolds Biden for defiant defense of economy: ‘Somebody in Washington telling people they’re wrong’
‘Voters don’t like that,’ John King cautioned Biden
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-anchor-scolds-biden-defiant-defense-economy-somebody-washington-telling-people-theyre-wrong?dicbo=v2-HhGkSEn
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Another lie ignorant geezers like the pony tail of ignorance lap up –
While speaking at the fundraiser on Friday, Biden referenced a false claim that Trump had once suggested people “inject bleach” to help treat the coronavirus, saying he wished the former president “had done a little bit himself,” according to the Jerusalem Post.
“Remember him saying the best thing to do is just inject a little bleach in your arm?” Biden said on Friday. “That’s what he said. And he meant it. I wish he had done a little bit himself.”
As Breitbart News has previously reported, and as the White House transcript showed, Trump never suggested that anyone should inject bleach into their arm.
Trump’s comments were in reference to experimental UV technology and how it might possibly be used in the human body.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/10/biden-says-trump-shouldve-injected-himself-bleach/
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JAMES CARVILLE: Trump’s more ahead than he’s ever been, more — fewer people think January 6 was any kind of what it was, an assault on the temple of democracy, our Constitution, whatever you want to say.
It’s going the wrong way. It’s not working. Everything that we’re throwing is spaghetti at a wall, and none of it is sticking, me included. It’s hard starting your 80th year, and like everyone else I have an opinion of myself. And the opinion I’ve come to is I don’t matter.
It doesn’t matter. You can prepare and you can be on TV, you can write pieces, you can have a YouTube channel, you can have a podcast and nothing, nothing!
We’ve got to try to think of something different because what we’re doing in really really not working.
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lol. Gotta love that Carville character.
““If Trump and [John] Roberts and Alito and [Neil] Gorsuch and [Clarence] Thomas and Leonard Leo and the Heritage Foundation, if they get a hold, there will be no government left, there will be no rights left, you will live under theocracy, you’ll end up with Christian nationalism. But that’s all right, you little fucking 26-year-old, you don’t feel like ‘the election’s important to me. They’re not addressing the issues that I care about,’” said Carville.”
You could argue that the party of 3rd trimester abortions, drag queen story hour, and forced purchases of electric cars could get back to their core issues, but they just get crazier and crazier. I suspect that the Psul Party will continue to dominate just because of the mass importation of compliant voters from abroad combined with outright payoffs via student loan forgiveness and cash- and job-flow to a strategically chosen set of ethnic minorities, but they really are losing their minds. A Clinton Democrat would be viewed as a neo-Nazi by a modern Team Blue activist, and God knows what they’d make of a WWII-era person.
You do have to wonder where this Christian Fear thing comes from. Generally, I’d say that people are vastly less religious than previously, even most church-goers, and the era of powerful evangelists is long past, whether it’s Pat Robertson or Aimee Semple McPherson. Hell, even the Catholic church (or the Methodists for that matter) is wildly left-wing compared to it’s history. I guess everyone needs a Two Minutes Hate.
For all I know, maybe the main difference is the heavy backing of exotic belief systems by extremely wealthy people. There’s definitely been a huge sea-change in attitudes by billionaires. Those railroad and industrial magnates of yore have been replaced by Soros, Jobs’ widow, Larry Fink, and a scad of tech company executives in backing politics at all levels with rather peculiar belief systems. You end up with ‘activist’ district attorneys, city councils, non-profits, elections officials, in addition to congressmen and it’s all been in my lifetime. Remarkable.
Maybe all it took was the evolution of work from farming to industry to utter bullshit. Economies based on internet marketing, concert promotion, and finance produce a valueless people doing valueless things.
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Time for Punchy to call U-Haul…..
Enjoy those Than Francithco Valuths!
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/05/11/san-fran-giving-homeless-vodka-courtesy-of-taxpayers-n4928968#google_vignette
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Happened to go through downtown Grass Valley this morning. Nothing says historic gold rush town like having pastel colored umbrellas hanging over Mill Street. Seems like those two former members the city’s historical commission were right about Tim Kiser’s comments about caring about history.
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Looks like Fat Urkel is blowing the case….
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/alvin-braggs-office-deleted-phone-call-records-michael-cohen-and-stormy-daniels-lawyer%5D
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These fools are so ignorant that they support hamas who would like to kill them! –
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/05/12/watch-anti-israel-queers-palestine-protesters-block-access-disney-world-florida/
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Not binging the best and brightest in and going woke has seriously diminished the value of the ivy league grads DEI = dead earnings idiots –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/new-survey-reveals-employers-are-now-souring-on-ivy-league-graduates/ss-BB1lVT7L?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=fef58b7c265141fbb01eabb33c930da8&ei=118#image=12
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I hadn’t seen this until this morning….
Turley seems to think the prosecution is doing well….a triumph for Fat Urkel and Bonky Daniels.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/i-see-dead-people-braggs-case-against-trump-goes-paranormal
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Emperor gavin is sticking it to the working class AGAIN! –
The California Air Resources Board Low Carbon Fuel Standard 2023 amendments impact assessment suggested that drivers would feel the squeeze over the next two years.
Prices are estimated to jump by 47 cents per gallon in 2025 and 52 cents in 2026 – excluding the existing gas tax in the state.
On Monday, the average cost per gallon in California was $5.286 (£4.21), compared to a national average of $3.619 (£2.88).
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/california-gas-tax-set-to-be-hiked-by-50-cents-in-hidden-rise-no-one-knows-about-this/ar-BB1mjQ1v?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=01d82ae2edd14664a7ebde6c3869cc0d&ei=54
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re DB 5:56 – Don’t worry. Help is on the way for high prices in Kali:
“California’s Workers Now Want $30 Minimum Wage”
“Just a month ago, the state implemented a $20 minimum wage, a move celebrated by many workers. However, the initial optimism has given way to concerns as massive layoffs sweep through various industries.”
Now – would that come with the free health care that was promised by the Dems years ago?
Say – how’s that choo-choo train coming along? Are the solar powered terminals/homeless shelters all ready to go?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/california-s-workers-now-want-30-minimum-wage/ss-BB1mjJ4I?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=6dfa26c152f44605b039939f4f91e2f9&ei=20
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We’s gonna have it both ways:
““What we won’t allow is disruptive behavior that prevents the ceremony or services from proceeding in a manner that those in attendance can partake and enjoy,” Thomas told CNN in an interview Thursday.
“So, for example, prolonged shouting down of the president as he speaks. I have also made a decision that we will also not ask police to take individuals out of commencement in zip ties. If faced with the choice, I will cease the ceremonies on the spot If we were to reach that position.””
How long is “prolonged shouting”?
They won’t allow disruptive behavior but won’t let the police haul off disruptive people.
He doesn’t want to let a handful of louts to shut the ceremonies down – he wants to do that!
Does this guy even have a brain?
Leftys are the most idiotic people on the planet.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/us/morehouse-college-graduation-biden-commencement/index.html
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I TOTALLY get why Punchy likes him………
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-biden-thinks-he-was-vp-during-pandemic
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Looks like the trial is still going well!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/you-stole-trump-organization-correct-michael-cohen-hands-trump-prosecution-another
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….and in other news the Catholic Church welcomes a new nun to the order…..!
https://www.newsweek.com/catholic-church-monk-comes-out-transgender-vatican-pope-francis-1902567
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