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Sandbox – 2jun24

[A Clarion Call for Rearmament – “Sen. Wicker, ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee, rolled out a report detailing why America’s military budget is inadequate for the “world in which we find ourselves.” America’s military isn’t equipped to deal with potential wars on two continents at once, much less the new threats in space and from artificial intelligence. Mr. Wicker proposes an additional $55 billion for the Pentagon in 2025, a total of $950 billion, as part of a new ‘generational investment.’” (more here)]

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  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    AHHHH fresh kitty litter and not a whif of the po’ ol’ ponytail of ignorance!
    😉

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  2. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    What good is money when our military leaders are concerned mainly with pronouns, arranging abortions and celebrating pride month?
    In 3 days we remember D Day when they put thousands of tons of vehicles and equipment ashore under fire while now we have a complete failure to operate one pier to transport food to Hamas.
    And we don’t have the money. The wacky crazy wild right-wing talk about the cost of servicing our nation’s debt eclipsing the defense budget is becoming a reality. And there is no plan to do anything about it.
    Well – other than jailing Trump. It seems that’s the Democrats’ plan to fix everything.

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  3. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Gunman who shot 2 NYPD cops revealed to be migrant who recently crossed into US via Eagle Pass: sources
    Now this reporting clearly has to be a lie….as I’ve been repeatedly reassured…..President Brainstem is serious about securing the border and strong guns laws prevent those who can’t have them from getting them!
    https://nypost.com/2024/06/03/us-news/two-nypd-cops-shot-in-queens-by-19-year-old/

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  4. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “…and not a whif of the po’ ol’ ponytail of ignorance!”
    Oh, it won’t be long. The BarcaLounger(tm) will get a bit damp and it’ll remind him to go give them Orange Nazis what fer.
    Dunno why he’s so bitchy. I’d say that generally things are going his way. He lives in a place where most political figures are cat ladies. Where’s there scarcely any useful business being done (no mining, commercial agriculture (besides dope), timber, light industry, high tech), what’s left is tourism and Grateful Dead cover bands. Increasing amounts of old-people healthcare. A state favoring unlimited Third World immigration, abortion on demand at any stage, upcoming restrictions on cars/small engines, high gas taxes, umpteen rules for building codes and employers. Various sorts of LGBTLMNOP+ Pride affairs are the high point of the year.
    Honestly, if you’re an elderly concert promoter, things must look pretty good. I can’t see the profit in hassling the old Trumpsters (and Gregory).

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  5. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Sorry scenes I have let you down by not commenting more. My life is very rich right now and I have no time excepting for an occasional blat here and there. It’s kinda sad this once active blog is now down to only a couple three commentators and even our host George seldom participates so it’s become a bit of a relic.
    All for now.

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  6. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Compared to the once active and now obliterated blog of Jeff Pellini, this blog is remarkably alive and kicking.
    I think the oppositional Left is mostly gone from here because they can’t win arguments anymore, not that you ever could.

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  7. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Sorry scenes I have let you down by not commenting more.”

    BARCALOUNGER DAMPNESS ALERT! MORE PASSIVE AGGRESSIVENESS TO FOLLOW! OVER AND OUT!

    I did have to share a wonderful name for a paper I ran into. As a bit of background, the Hakluyt Society is an English organization that prints primary history, typically exploration, sources. Fun to look at and a good way to avoid presentism.
    So…I was hunting on their site for a thing I’m currently interested in, and ran into their annual meeting reports. Naturally they have been (at least partly) taken over by modern insane people. Lots of decolonization talky talk and the like.
    Paper title: “The Black Antarctic: Decoloniality and Queer Ecology in Mojisola Adebayo’s Moj of the Antarctic”
    Sweet. Luckily, there’s no rule that sez you have to read things published after 2000AD or so. Just declare tree leaves as money and we’re all good. See you at the 20th Annual Leonard Cohen Concert.

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  8. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    PaulE 933am – Sorry to hear that. Methinks if you broaden your horizons beyond the longstanding clutches of your TDS, there might be some other issues that would interest you. There is a lot going on in the world.

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  9. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    Interesting:
    “The White House is telling lawmakers that President Joe Biden is preparing to sign off on an executive order that would shut down asylum requests at the U.S.-Mexico border once the average number of daily encounters hits 2,500 between ports of entry, with the border reopening only once that number declines to 1,500, according to several people familiar with the discussions.
    The impact of the 2,500 figure means that the executive order could go into immediate effect, because daily figures are higher than that now.”
    “…2500 BETWEEN ports of entry”
    And they admit the number is higher than that right now.
    So glad our border is secure.
    The Biden admin swears it is.
    And there is no border crisis.
    So – to respond to the non-crisis, Biden will invoke an executive order to deal with the non-crisis.
    And some folks wonder why I have such a low opinion of the people that voted for this piece of dog shit currently occupying the White House.
    Biden didn’t say he would repel these illegals. He didn’t say would stop them from entry. He said he would shut down asylum requests.
    https://apnews.com/article/biden-immigration-executive-order-asylum-border-7cd0b0f28e298036ad1fc6b0c78961e1

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  10. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    They’re starting to be open about what “they” will allow the proles to do:
    “Vacations need to return to their roots, or at least move in that direction. In particular, holidays abroad need to be decoupled from flying, which means — as far as Europe is concerned — train, car or coach.”
    Yes – you slobs mess everything up by flying all over the place.
    That’s for movie stars and important people and so forth.
    Get back in your buses and clatter off to Blackpool.
    This shit is priceless:
    ” Perhaps the solution is to focus on what we really want and need from a holiday — a period of well-earned rest and recuperation that recharges the batteries and sets us up for the next round of the daily grind.
    We should ask ourselves if we have to experience the exotic and the unfamiliar to accomplish this — especially when an increased risk to life and limb attaches to holidays in distant lands — or if we can get it closer to home.”
    What “we” really want…
    https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/27/opinions/climate-crisis-fires-heat-summer-vacations-mcguire/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc
    Remember –
    “You will own nothing and be happy”.

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  11. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Biden To Finally Sign Executive Order Limiting Border Crossings
    Yep….when the daily total exceeds that of two and a half battalions they will shut things down until the following day.
    It puts into perspective just how valuable a grifter like Joe Biden is to the TPTB!
    I totally get why Punchy™ likes him!

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  12. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: scotto@10:28PM
    I admit it seems that people start with a preferred lifestyle and then build a logic scaffolding to prove that it’s the only way possible to live.
    MSM writers will tend to be all about apartments+mass transit+large city+Third Word diversity, although I’m not certain the wildfires in Greece are a new thing. I just spent a couple of minutes using the magic of the internet to read about huge fires there going back decades. It could be that it’s just a place that tends to burn and, like California, has more people living in burnable areas than in the past. Go figger.
    Another variant is the rural-hate you get in (typically) New York based op-eds. Usually a sort of mish mosh about how much the places they don’t like are subsidized by the places they do like. How? Dunno. It isn’t like people in cities do much of anything useful anymore either although they certainly were instrumental in hollowing out small towns.
    OTOH, for all I know I’m dead wrong. Maybe you can build an economy out of real estate agents, concert promoters, internet marketing experts, retailers reselling Hecho en China tsotchkes, wine magazines, selling T-bills overseas. Genuine usefulness might be a form of Dinosaur Economics.

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  13. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: Scott O | 03 June 2024 at 10:28 PM
    Yes – you slobs mess everything up by flying all over the place.
    That’s for movie stars and important people and so forth.
    Get back in your buses and clatter off to Blackpool.
    I remember an article from roughly 15 years ago lamenting the plight of the Centimillionaires having to…the horror.. rub shoulders with the mere single digit millionaires! It was crafted similarly except it wasn’t quite so obtuse when it came to the “Carbon Menace” angle!
    DISCLAIMER: This comment was penned by fish ole’, a nom du blog assigned me by psul Emery who I believe was attempting “fish hole” but screwed it up again even though he got to attend California schools when they still taught proper spelling and grammar (I once attended a skool funktion in the San Juan district that had “Grammer Rodeo” featured prominently on the marquee (still prefer marquis))! fish ole’ spacing and accent added to give another Emery inspired error a little panache.

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  14. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    “Maybe you can build an economy out of real estate agents, concert promoters, internet marketing experts, retailers reselling Hecho en China tsotchkes…”
    People have to eat food and exist in a fairly narrow band of temperature that necessitates energy.
    We don’t ‘need’ the rest of that stuff. Although many people have made a good living at non-essential tasks. There’s a sort of balance that’s required and clearly the important people have decided that too many shlubs are wanting in on the 24/7 party going on in the upper floors of the building.
    Ancient Rome was a great example of this. A relative handful of wealthy and powerful families existed in a sort of semi-comic soap opera of power struggles amid the soirees in their mansions and orating down at the forum. From time to time some upstart from the sticks would party-crash and gain a foothold in the upper tier of power, but the masses were reliably kept in their place by various methods and means.
    America (and some Euro countries) have done well at that game for a spell and the masses were even afforded a much better life than any before could even imagine. But the bread and circus game is getting too pricey, and Gaul, Persia and Asia are no longer available to use as a place of easy conquering and plunder. In fact, those areas are now also looking for the same sort of victims.
    What to do?
    They’ve been trying to formulate this New World Order at Davos for some time, but the natives are getting restless, and wise to the con.
    Fun times ahead.

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  15. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    And much like Rome….

    Ancient Rome was a great example of this. A relative handful of wealthy and powerful families existed in a sort of semi-comic soap opera of power struggles amid the soirees in their mansions and orating down at the forum. From time to time some upstart from the sticks would party-crash and gain a foothold in the upper tier of power, but the masses were reliably kept in their place by various methods and means.

    …..we’ve imported our own Visogoths to really spice things up in a few years!

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  16. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    “the San Juan district…”
    Ah, the San Juan Unified School District!
    The domain of my public education from K through graduation from high school. Watched over mostly by Ferd (yes – FERD) J. Kiesel.

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  17. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    “I just spent a couple of minutes using the magic of the internet to read about huge fires there going back decades.”
    The same con was tried with that disastrous fire in Hana. Global Warming!!!
    A quick perusal of newspaper articles going back decades showed the problem was mainly poor land management and invasive non-native grasses and weeds.
    Combined, of course, with a total failure to warn the citizens of the impending doom. The guy in charge had zero experience and failed his job completely.

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  18. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Fading Great Power indeed….

    We come back to the question of why anybody believed $60 billion could move the needle for Kiev’s cause in the first place. But this question is, alas, difficult to answer because policymaking in Washington is enshrouded under a thick fog that consists of two dominant components: magical thinking and political imperatives. For those who earnestly believed that $60 billion would turn the tide of the war, it is more of the former; for those aligning themselves with the political winds and pretending to support Ukraine much as a mime pretends to be trapped in a phone booth, it is the latter. In many cases it is both, and it is difficult to tell where one begins and the other ends.
    Magical thinking is a recognizable symptom of that particular moment in time when an erstwhile great power is in decline but events have not quite yet forced it to come to grips with that decline. It is also a time of diminished scope for action. In times past, perhaps Washington would have solved a crisis such as Ukraine through crafty diplomacy or orchestrated a formidable proxy war with its industrial might and military expertise. But the US now seems incapable of sophisticated diplomacy and its industrial base has badly atrophied through decades of offshoring and financialization. After mostly fighting insurgencies in recent times, it now has no idea how to fight a peer war. About all that it can muster is aid bills with large dollar figures. If all you have is a hammer, the old saying goes, every problem looks like a nail. If all you have left is a printing press for dollars, then every problem must be solvable by an infusion of money – even if it’s not entirely clear what that money can buy.
    But here we have stumbled onto something interesting: a belief in the omnipotence of money. Perhaps not a sincere belief; are there any sincere beliefs in Washington? Let’s think of it more as an ingrained pattern of thought for confronting a wide range of problems. In that sense, it is a framework suspiciously reminiscent of the approach used to combat financial crises. It doesn’t seem like so much of a stretch to imagine the entire Ukraine aid discussion framed as something that has become very familiar in recent years: a financial bailout.
    A too-big-to-fail financial institution called Ukraine is teetering on the edge of failure and a bailout is needed. Although the bank is far away from the heart of Wall Street, there are fears of contagion – if this one fails, others will follow and soon no bank anywhere will be safe. The bank’s owners may be crooks, but that is not what is preoccupying policymakers. They are nervous about a spread that has suddenly moved against the bank: it is supposed to trade at 1:1 but has blown out to 1:10 (the ratio of artillery fire by Ukrainian and Russian forces). Shoving a $60-billion bailout into the bank should at least put out the fires and calm markets.
    Zoltan Poszar, the legendary former Credit Suisse chief strategist who needs no introduction in finance circles, made a fascinating observation on the topic of the reflexive response of throwing money at a problem. Poszar was speaking narrowly about how a certain group of people approach a certain problem and was not talking about policymaking, much less Ukraine, but his conclusion traces the contours of something deeper.
    When the specter of inflation reemerged in 2021, Poszar made the rounds of portfolio managers and, after talking with them, reached an interesting conclusion: nobody knew how to think about inflation. Nearly everyone on Wall Street is too young to remember the last serious bout of inflation, which occurred way back in the 1980s. So, according to Poszar, they all thought of the spike in the inflation charts as just another spread that blew out on their Bloomberg screens that could be solved by throwing balance sheet at it – a “crisis of basis” as he calls it. The formative experiences for today’s denizens of Wall Street, Poszar explains, are the Asian financial crisis of 1998, the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, some spread blowouts since 2015, and the pandemic. In all of these cases, money was pumped in and eventually the dislocations disappeared.
    To put this in plain English, Poszar’s clients hadn’t encountered a problem that couldn’t be solved – or at least swept under the rug – by simply adding money, in whatever form, whether via an emergency loan or quantitative easing. This is of course a bit of an oversimplification, but it captures something of the essence of the prevailing pattern of thought.

    The election of President Brainstem should have confirmed that if nothing else!
    https://www.rt.com/business/597935-us-ukraine-bailout/

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  19. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gosh Fish, if spelling is a problem with your name why don’t you capitalize it? For example: “Fish Ole”. Is that your first and last name?

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  20. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Personally, I’m expecting a cooling starting any year now and lasting about 25 years.
    Science requires patience.

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  21. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    fish
    Would you prefer I use your real name- David Larsen?
    If not what would be the correct spelling of your preferred name be with appropriate capitalization?

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  22. fish ole’ Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: psul Emery | 04 June 2024 at 11:05 AM
    No offense Punch but you can’t even get your own name right….

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  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Would you prefer I use your real name- David Larsen?”
    Honestly Paul, doxxing is one of the nastiest things a person can do on the internet, even if ‘everybody’ knows it.

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  24. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    David Larsen aka fish
    I use my real name fish. You latched on to a typo months ago.
    Paul Emery

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  25. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    That’s something David Larsen aka fish would need to complain about not you.

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  26. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “That’s something David Larsen aka fish would need to complain about not you.”
    That’s something that any non-sleazy person would complain about.

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  27. fish (because psul forgot how to spell "Fish Hole") ole' Avatar
    fish (because psul forgot how to spell “Fish Hole”) ole’

    Posted by: scenes | 04 June 2024 at 12:56 PM
    That’s something that any non-sleazy person would complain about.
    No worries scenes….psul will almost certainly forget any of this ever happened by tomorrow morning! Just one of the benefits of being psul!

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  28. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    scenes
    Once again all he has to do is ask me on this blog not to use his real name.
    Simple

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  29. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: psul “I think this makes me look like a tough guy….or Joe Biden” Emery | 04 June 2024 at 02:05 PM
    Once again all he has to do is ask me on this blog not to use his real name.
    But “real names” are an obsession of yours Punch™…..second only to your obsession over Bad Orange Man…..

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  30. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    It’s up to you David Larsen-aka fish ole’

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  31. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: psul “yeah…Dirty Harry again… Emery | 04 June 2024 at 02:34 PM
    It’s up to you David Larsen-aka fish ole’
    What’s up to me Punch™?

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  32. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    David
    If you don’t want me to use your real name just ask me not to do it.

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  33. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 04 June 2024 at 03:02 PM
    Punch you can do whatever that senile husk of a brain tells you to do! If I get doxxed or swatted I’ll know who to chat with.

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  34. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Your choice David Larsen-aka fish ole’

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  35. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Here’s a list of Trump appointees and aides convicted of various crimes:
    Trump tops the list with his guilt in 34 felony charges- more to be added later:
    Steve Bannon — Trump’s White House chief strategist — sentenced to 4 months in prison for contempt of Congress — charged with defrauding Trump’s supporters, but pardoned by Trump.
    Roger Stone — Trump’s political “dirty trickster” — sentenced to 40 months in prison for lying, obstruction and witness tampering, but pardoned by Trump.
    Paul Manafort — Trump’s 2016 campaign manager — sentenced to 43 months in prison for bank and tax fraud, but pardoned by Trump.
    Elliot Broidy — Trump’s Inaugural fundraising aide — charged in illegal lobbying scheme, but pardoned by Trump.
    George Papadopoulos — Trump’s campaign adviser — sentence to 14 days in jail for lying to investigators, but pardoned by Trump.
    Michael Flynn — Trump’s national security adviser — convicted of lying to the FBI, but pardoned by Trump.
    Rick Gates — Trump’s campaign deputy chair — pleaded guilty to conspiracy and sentenced to 45 days in prison.
    Rudy Giuliani — Trump’s lawyer — indicted for conspiracy and voter fraud — ordered to pay $148 million in damages to two election workers he defamed — facing disbarment.
    Michael Cohen — Trump’s lawyer/”fixer” — sentenced to three years in prison for tax evasion and campaign finance violations (Stormy Daniels) — disbarred.
    Allen Weisselberg — Trump’s business CFO — sentenced to five months in prison for tax fraud and another five months for perjury in Trump’s civil fraud trial.
    Peter Navarro — Trump’s White House adviser — sentenced to four months in prison for contempt of Congress.
    Richard Spencer — leader of Trump’s Charlottesville “very fine people” — neo-Nazi white supremacist, ordered to pay $25 million for damages caused by the group’s racial violence.
    Mike Lindell — Trump’s “My Pillow” apologist — sued by Dominion for defamation and ordered to pay $5 million to man who disproved Lindell’s claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
    Jerry Falwell Jr. — Trump’s evangelical — forced to resign as Liberty University president amid raging sex scandal.
    Enrique Tarrio — Trump’s “stand back and stand by” Proud Boys leader — sentenced to 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 conspiracy.
    Stewart Rhodes — Trump’s J6 storm trooper — Oath Keeper leader, sentenced to 18 years in prison after he and his cohorts took Trump’s Jan. 6 order “fight like hell” literally.
    Alex Jones — Trump’s blowhorn Jan. 6 cheerleader — conspiracy theorist, ordered to pay Sandy Hook parents he defamed $1.5 billion.
    Jan. 6 insurrectionists — Trump’s mob — 1,230 people charged, 730 pleaded guilty, 170 convicted by judge or jury with many now serving prison time.
    Mark Meadows — Trump’s chief of staff — indicted in Georgia’s election fraud case.
    Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, Jenna Ellis — Trump’s election lawyers — pleaded guilty to interference in the 2020 Georgia presidential election.
    John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark — Trump’s legal minds — criminally indicted and facing disbarment.
    Christina Bobb — Trump’s lawyer/aide — indicted in Arizona fake elector scheme.
    Fox anchors Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs, Jeaninne Pirro — Trump’s propagandists — promoted lies that caused Fox News to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787 million in compensation.
    Boris Epshteyn — Trump’s aide — indicted for election fraud — pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct (stemming from a charge of indecent touching).
    Donald Jr. and Eric — Trump’s sons and business partners — banned from serving as corporation officers in New York State for three years and must pay $4 million each in penalties per the Trump corporation’s loss in the New York civil fraud case.
    https://www.winchesterstar.com/winchester_star/open-forum-laundry-list-of-trump-associates-legal-issues/article_b3da863a-2edc-5bc5-94e6-ee6e6db03587.html

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  36. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: psul Emery | 04 June 2024 at 03:25 PM
    Yawn….whatever Punch™.

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  37. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Add to that 25 women that claim Trump sexually assaulted them, the lawsuit Trump lost for ripping off college Students that attended his fake university, the lawsuit he lost for millions claiming sexual assault and who knows what else and you get an idea about what a con man Trump is.

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  38. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: psul Emery | 04 June 2024 at 04:33 PM
    ….and like that Cap’n psulhab is back to chasing his orange whale.

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  39. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: f. ole’@4:42PM.
    lol. The Great Orange Whale. I like that.
    “To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee; For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee.”
    That BarcaLounger is gonna get a workout.

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  40. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    David Larsen-aka fish ole’ can’t handle the truth about what a crook his guy Trump is.

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  41. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: psul “I’m just not happy unless we’re always talking bout my obsession” Emery | 04 June 2024 at 04:54 PM
    David Larsen-aka fish ole’ can’t handle the truth about what a crook his guy Trump is.
    No by all means continue…..U crack me up Punch™…..wouldn’t dream of interrupting you

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  42. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Didn’t say that David Larsen. You said it was a quote, Here is the entirety of my 4:54 post. Where did you get that quote?
    “David Larsen-aka fish ole’ can’t handle the truth about what a crook his guy Trump is. “

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  43. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    November, please hurry up!
    If it turns out as 2016 did, there will be lots of Punchys walking around in a daze.

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  44. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Add to that 25 women that claim Trump sexually assaulted them…”
    Belay that order. Sexual assault is a criminal offence, and if they couldn’t convince a district attorney it happened, it’s done.

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  45. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: psul “Not getting the concept of literary flourish” Emery | 04 June 2024 at 05:16 PM
    I’m sorry Punch™….you really aren’t capable of engaging on the internet without spinning a main bearing in your brain it seems!
    The quotes in the “posted by” line are not yours (surprised you didn’t know that) they’re mine!
    An example/definition of a “flourish”.

    flourish

    2 of 2 noun
    1: an act or instance of brandishing or waving
    2a: a florid bit of speech or writing
    rhetorical flourishes
    b: an ornamental stroke in writing or printing
    c: a decorative or finishing detail
    a house with clever little flourishes

    So my adding the quotes in the title line….referring to you as Matlock or Clint Eastwood is to demonstrate to the reader an aspect of your personality at the time you made your post in an entertaining way. Mr. Internet Tuff Gai last night daring Scott to “Go for it” was to show my estimation of your state of mind at the time. Not always correct I grant you but I do try and keep them entertaining.
    Anyway I hope this has been edifying and you may now return to endless Trump posts and calling me David Larsen.
    Toodles.

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  46. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    David Larsen aka fish
    Did you read the list of Trump appointees and aides convicted of various crimes I posted in my 04 June 2024 at 03:33 PM?

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  47. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 04 June 2024 at 06:30 PM
    Did you read the list of Trump appointees and aides convicted of various crimes I posted in my 04 June 2024 at 03:33 PM?
    Nope….not interested in your hobby.

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  48. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So then David Larsen you’re not interested in learning the truth about the convicted felon you are supporting for President.

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  49. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    No one cares about the po’ ol’ ponytail of ignorance’s TDS truth. ROFLOL
    😉

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  50. fish ole' Avatar
    fish ole’

    Posted by: psulBot McGillicudy Emery | 04 June 2024 at 08:10 PM
    So then David Larsen you’re not interested in learning the truth about the convicted felon you are supporting for President.
    Nope……
    Ironically psul you have been supporting him far more than I have! He might wind up as president again and he’ll have guys like you to thank for it.

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