[Am considering starting a series of posts about the progressive’s promised ‘resistance’ movement against Trump’s administration. These posts would be a place under which to gather thoughts and comments about this newest phase of anti-Trump doings by our Left. Any thoughts? gjr]

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252 responses to “Sandbox – 13nov24”
The people have spoken –
Democratic stronghold state votes to protect natural gas and gas stoves, a Biden administration bugaboo
A top proponent called outgoing Washington Gov. Jay Inslee a ‘pompous turd’ for his criticism of the measure
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrat-stronghold-votes-protect-natgas-gas-stoves-biden-admin-bugaboo
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The progressive left does not need to do any sabotage of Trump’s agenda when 3/4 of Republicans in the Senate are Never Trump RINO’s who will do it for them, and who just replaced their current leader McConnell with his moral equivalent. Example: what do you think are the chances that Gaetz will get confirmed as AG? Less than the proverbial snowball’s?
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@550 Recess appointments!
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Well. That’s a bummer.
“LA Times Owner to Create a New Editorial Board in Light of Trump Presidency – and ‘The Newsroom Is Pissed’”
https://www.thewrap.com/los-angeles-times-editorial-board-trump-win-patrick-soon-shiong/
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“The progressive left does not need to do any sabotage of Trump’s agenda when …”
I can’t believe any plan will survive contact with the enemy. We’ll see what shakes in six months.
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The total insanity just doesn’t stop.
Trump will eliminate the federal government.
Betcha didn’t know that!
The clown show continues with lefties getting oxygen through tubes routed from their rear ends.
“Wake Up! – The Quiet Coup to Eliminate the Federal Government is Underway”
Won’t that make it kinda difficult to have the fed govt death squads if there’s no fed govt?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/13/2286124/-Wake-Up-The-Quiet-Coup-to-Eliminate-the-Federal-Government-is-Underway?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web
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Now I’m not sure this is fair at all…..
As near as I can tell being “qualified” was strictly correlated with the ability to carry bucketloads of taxpayer money to Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Oh…..being black helped…..helped the political class I mean!
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Funny…..I don’t remember the media using the term “purge” when Obama replaced serving officers with his political appointees.
Not coming to mind! Nope….don’t remember that at all!
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rkr311u7z1g
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/197-military-officers-purged-by-obama/
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Hey….props to our new Secretary of HHS and guy in government who looks the least ridiculous without his shirt on!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GcX5w5-XQAAYJ0Q?format=jpg&name=360×360
As opposed to the guy in government who looks the most ridiculous without his shirt on!
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/u-s-senator-charles-schumer-announced-2476524063
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Follow the science ya right –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientific-american-editor-steps-down-after-election-comments-draw-backlash/ar-AA1u6KOZ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=f69ae5ffd83f45beb19c5a7ad2ba9c04&ei=111
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Well this is progressive…….
https://instapundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/rfkhealth.jpg
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Below is a complete list of those Democrat progressives /sports/Hollywood stars who SAID they would leave the U.S., and ACTUALLY did leave the country:
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Gregory
Nevada County votes solid blue for President giving Harris an 8% edge over Trump.
https://yubanet.com/election/nevada-county-election-results/
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Now thats funny @856! You lose the trifecta and crow about that shit, #patheticoldmandelusions –
Reality bites the religion of global warming –
What’s collapsing here—aside from a German coalition—is the political method of net zero. That method, devised by activists and evangelized by political, business and media converts, was to shift the issue out of the political realm and into an otherworldly space where stopping climate change became a religious mission for moral redemption. But governments deliver budgets, not salvation. And when it comes to budgets, politics always wins.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/opinion-germany-s-government-gets-mugged-by-climate-change-reality/ar-AA1u5V9M?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=690504643098414a941ec78f0d7e7073&ei=351
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Paul – “Nevada County votes solid blue for President”
“solid blue” – that would be every single vote was for Harris. Paul clearly has not mastered a basic grasp of the English language. But if holding on to that one last little bit of fantasy keeps him from jumping in front of a semi on 49, then God bless.
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Re 856pm – if so then we live in the midst of some very poorly read neighbors.
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I’ll save a deep dive long enough for Adona to get some votes actually counted but for now, 46.0% Trumpish and 52.6% Harris isn’t a landslide.
That’s Purple. Barely a win for the Dem side.
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You live in a community George where the majority of voters won’t support a candidate for President that gives a public speech to a crowd that has women and children in it where he talks about the size of Arnold Palmers dick. Trump is mentally ill.
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Posted by: Weez Emery | 15 November 2024 at 08:11 AM
Trump is mentally ill.
….still president Weez!
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“Trump is the biggest loser in over 100 years and now he’s going to destroy what’s left of the Republican party.”
– psul
lol. I guess he’s now the BIGGEST LOSER OF ALL TIME IN NEVADA COUNTY!
I’d suggest just easing back in the Barcalounger, put on a train cap, and work on promoting “1000 More Kisses Deep – This Horse Ain’t Dead Yet”
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Posted by: scenes | 15 November 2024 at 08:23 AM
“Trump is the biggest loser in over 100 years and now he’s going to destroy what’s left of the Republican party.”
– psul
….he’s going to destroy what’s left of the Republican party.”
That alone would elevate him into the pantheon of great presidents.
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“These posts would be a place under which to gather thoughts and comments about this newest phase of anti-Trump doings by our Left. ” -GR
I don’t expect much. Just a batch of posturing by harridans like Senator Karen and spittle-flying from Joy Reid, Cenk Uygur, and the local activist retirees
As usual, the main thrust will be examining all Trump nominees down to their behavior in kindergarten. The bureaucracy won’t like any of them, so the full force of The State will be applied on this effort. The thing is, the only people who can change things are people disliked by gatekeepers, it’s unavoidable.
Assuming that the tide has turned and a certain amount of sanity is prevailing (and that we aren’t all speaking Chinese in 50 years), you do have to wonder what the history books of the future will show. Obama will be known only for his race (or half of it). The Bushes will become Jeopardy questions along with Coolidge. The last administration will be personified by a cross-dressing luggage-stealing lunatic as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Nuclear Energy since his pictures are so damn funny.
In the meantime, the insane people will do their best to get RFKJr replaced by Maggie De Block since she more resembles them.
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“I don’t expect much. Just a batch of posturing by harridans like Senator Karen and spittle-flying from Joy Reid, Cenk Uygur, and the local activist retirees”
That’s the face of it. Behind the curtain there’s a group of genuine crooks, grifters and liars who face actual prison sentences if justice is ever meted out.(not holding my breath) Reid and Behar only gain from hysterical screeching about Trump and company. That’s their act. There are others who have actual skin to lose.
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I figure that the outrage-of-the-day will know come from local governments (and state in the case of California).
Since school boards, urban district attorneys, elections offices tend to be run by left-wing activists, a genius move on their party, you’ll see a bunch of skirmishes like this break out:
“Members of the Durango School District 9-R Board of Education on Tuesday indicated support for the drafting of a resolution that would back the display of the progress pride flag and the Black Lives Matter flag.
Such a resolution, if adopted, could allow Durango schools to display those symbols without opening the door to all political speech in schools or running afoul of constitutional protections of the right to free speech, was the general consensus of some board members.”
https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/durango-school-board-may-consider-action-to-sanction-certain-flags
If you really want to dump the insane people, it’ll take years of local politickin’. To be fair, the local communities probably deserve the city councils they have.
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Posted by: scenes | 15 November 2024 at 09:15 AM
If you really want to dump the insane people, it’ll take years of local politickin’.
All a mere rearrangement of the deck chairs until the Dept. of Education is yanked out by the roots!
Still you have to start somewhere….
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Lol, the Drumpf clown car is reaching capacity as it heads for D.C.
Meanwhile it’s crickets and frogs on these pages re Dear Leader’s Cabinet picks.
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“To be fair, the local communities probably deserve the city councils they have.”
The problem in CA is if a local city or school district tries to become sane, the state lads quickly act to put the kibosh on it. See: Huntington Beach for voter ID. And there was some dustup at a school district – Temecula? And it was put in its place pronto.
But, yes – even in red Texas our daughter said the local school district had gone lefty-wacko because folks weren’t paying attention and there was finally an effort to wake the folks up to issues other than just national ones. I think most people hear about the insanity and assume it just couldn’t be happening where they live, but sadly it probably has.
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Posted by: Constipated Hillbilly | 15 November 2024 at 11:05 AM
Lol, the Drumpf clown car is reaching capacity as it heads for D.C.
Meanwhile it’s crickets and frogs on these pages re Dear Leader’s Cabinet picks.
Au contraire jeffy/Psychotic, childs movie stealing Colonel Sanders look alike.
and
“>https://instapundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/rfkhealth.jpg
I’m guessing you’re more of a “Schumer” guy….
And you remain as shitty at your job as you always have been!
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“Meanwhile it’s crickets and frogs on these pages re Dear Leader’s Cabinet picks.”
False statement.
– but what else can we expect from the Hillbilly?
Best be packing your bags, Hillbilly – them ultra-right-wing-MAGA death squads are a commin’ for ya.
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Not worried Scotto, right wing extremists are having their day in the sun…
but that doesn’t mean they’re not whack jobs.
How Trump’s Pentagon pick Hegseth fell out of love with the U.S. military – https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-trumps-pentagon-pick-hegseth-fell-out-love-with-us-military-2024-11-15/
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….but that doesn’t mean they’re not whack jobs.
If you don’t want “whack jobs” maybe you fucknuggets should find somebody electable.
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in other news… The Planned Parenthood offices in Oregon are being overwhelmed by women from maga Idaho… Cannabis dispensaries also are doing a brisk business because of Neo-Nazi governmental curtailment of individuals freedoms and rights in Idaho.
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Posted by: Constipated Hillbilly | 15 November 2024 at 12:32 PM
In other news… The Planned Parenthood offices in Oregon are being overwhelmed by women from maga Idaho… Cannabis dispensaries also are doing a brisk business because of Neo-Nazi governmental curtailment of individuals freedoms and rights in Idaho.
Only two rights in progressive America….abortion and unprotected anal sex.
Take it from Doug Emhoff….”time to put your heads down and get to work!”
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Hilarious!
“How Trump’s Pentagon pick Hegseth fell out of love with the U.S. military”
I have a cousin who is ex AF and now works as a civilian contractor at Edwards. His son is active duty Army.
They have a different story about what “the military” thinks of Hegseth.
I’m sure the useless soon to be out of a job sort in the military don’t like him – so what?
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“If you don’t want “whack jobs” maybe you fucknuggets should find somebody electable.”
‘Whack job’ is short for ‘regular guy who isn’t a lifelong bureaucrat’
“Only two rights in progressive America….abortion and unprotected anal sex.”
There’s probably a folk tune in that somewhere.
“They have a different story about what “the military” thinks of Hegseth.”
I’ll bet. Institutional rot and oversupply of administrative generals is an old story with those situations. There’s a reason so many generals get fired after a real-deal war starts. The long-hanging fruit, so to speak, of transgender soldiers is hopefully dealt with pretty quickly. Maybe the thing to do is put together some sort of military-adjacent gigs to soften the landing. What I really want to see is the removal of women from combat arms, although the number is not huge. It’s probably also a no-brainer for ship duty, but will cause more uproar.
Once the military becomes a jobs program rather than a tribal endeavor for young men, you’ve got a problem.
Maybe all the fuss is temporary given mechanization.
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scenes – re women, trannies, etc in the military:
The big problem is when they lower the standards to reach their quotas of a “rainbow” military force. This lowering of standards has f’d up police, military and civilian work forces all over our nation.
And yes, Virginia – they have lowered the standards – that’s not just some Republican talking point.
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“are being overwhelmed by women from maga Idaho”
Wow – a 30 to 45 minute drive. Really sucks to have to drive that far to kill your kid. If they don’t like the drive they can always move to OR or CA.
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Posted by: Scott O | 15 November 2024 at 02:44 PM
“are being overwhelmed by women from maga Idaho”
Wow – a 30 to 45 minute drive. Really sucks to have to drive that far to kill your kid. If they don’t like the drive they can always move to OR or CA.
Don’t really care if some future Karen yanks the subatomic fetal timebomb out of her plumbing but I’m glad you mentioned travel time. The same Teen Vogue aficionado who wouldn’t give a second thought to driving four states over to bone that “hawt guy she met at the concert” is miffed because driving from the Panhandle into Washington is somehow equivalent to wandering 40 years in the desert.
Oh well…Generation Participation Trophy!
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Maybe a cookbook would help?
What wine goes with roast infant?
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Posted by: scenes | 15 November 2024 at 01:10 PM
Once the military becomes a jobs program rather than a tribal endeavor for young men, you’ve got a problem.
It’s been both for a long time and served pretty well in that dual role. It was when Obama’s commissars took root that the struggle sessions started and everything went off the rails.
The next war we fight is going to have to go nuclear because we can’t fight conventional ground combat and win anymore.
Still costs a shitload though….we got that going for us!
Maybe a fundraiser….Leonard Cohens Greatest Martial Hits?
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Cost more, lower resale price than gas cars and cost tons more to fix. What could go wrong –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/electric-vehicles-are-bankrupting-hertz/ar-AA1ualoa?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=da7086837fd84a2eba53d5e3625c77b6&ei=115
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Really?
“Neo-Nazi governmental curtailment of individuals freedoms and rights in Idaho.”
Haven’t you loons on the left kinda blown out the usefulness of the NAZI-scare shit? There are no curtailments of any rights in our state that I’m aware of. Maybe Hillbilly can check something called “the bill of rights” and get back to us.
Meanwhile in CA the Dems are openly working hard to curtail your 1st and 2nd A rights. Fortunately the courts are slapping down most of it.
But it shows the anti-freedom attitude the Dems have in that state.
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“What wine goes with roast infant?”
Gotta ask Jonathan Swift.
“Haven’t you loons on the left kinda blown out the usefulness of the NAZI-scare shit?”
I think they are just getting started. There’s a lot of investment in the crazy thus far, and that requires going full-crazy.
Never go full-crazy.
Trump is smart to stay out of the whole abortion thing. If you are pro-fourth trimester child killin’, I would suggest Oregon as the place to be. They probably have better coffee shops to idly type on MacBooks while bitching about the ex-husband. It does make me laugh how restrictive places like Denmark are, they’re probably Nazis too.
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“Gotta ask Jonathan Swift”
Indeed.
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“Never go full-crazy”
A lot already have.
“No more federal government!”
“You’ll never be able to vote again!”
They used to put those folks in the loony bin.
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“A lot already have.”
I figure that anyone prattling on about some Trump appointment needs to be forced to put a picture of Sam Brinton on their desk and stare at it for ten minutes a day.
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Meanwhile….out in California
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-13-at-8.48.42%E2%80%AFAM.png
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Let’s try this again….
https://www.yahoo.com/news/watch-kamala-harris-mural-painted-205111498.html
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re: fish@8:35AM
Link needs cutting ‘n pasting to work.
Good picture though. I wonder how Team Blue would have fared if there were any (at all) Democratic politicians with a lick of stage presence and speaking ability. The Grift shines strong in Democrats at the national level.
It’s not clear to me if it’s just that K. Harris was a crummy candidate, the Trump campaign was better run generally, or if normal folks were just sick of the insane people. It isn’t like ‘activists’ have gone away (just go to a local city council meeting) but it sure seems as if all the commoners had just had enough. Why psul and his friends had hitched so much political mojo to men with fetishes is kind of a mystery to me, it isn’t like tax rates and gubmint healthcare is necessarily attached.
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I just thank god that the US empire won’t suffer the same fate due to poor leadership and imperial overstretch!
Certainly nothing in the last 50 years has set the stage for that……
Go long chickens and real estate in Ravenna!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14087827/Roman-Empire-collapse-discovered.html
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