[Union columnist Darrell Berkheimer posted a good piece here in today's (14dec24) edition of the newspaper on 'Our slide toward ignorance' – worth a read. gjr]
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103 responses to “Sandbox – 14dec24”
Starting to read the room? –
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/12/17/disney-removes-transgender-storyline-from-upcoming-pixar-childrens-series-win-or-lose/
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“Instead of acting on facts presented by books and objective news publications, many voters are acting on emotions, opinions and misinformation as presented by social media.”
-Berkheimer
Funny guy… what are the “objective news publications” that pass muster with that mister?
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Thats a must do to make doge work and they are really doing it –
Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., is introducing a bill on Monday that would repeal a measure that forces the president to direct the federal government to spend the full amount of money allocated by Congress every year.
Clyde told Fox News Digital on Thursday that he also plans to introduce the bill in the next Congress, when Republicans control the House, Senate and White House – and that the issue is already being discussed in Trump’s circle.
“That was certainly a topic that was brought up” with Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk when they were on Capitol Hill earlier this month to discuss the Department of Government Efficiency, Clyde said.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/trump-allies-push-more-white-141326498.html
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Well this is a relief….
…..the conspiracy theorists have had a far better success rate the the David Lightman’s of the legacy media/establishment marketing department!
(Link doesn’t work but it’s in the SacBirdCageLiner.com if you’re interested)
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Looks like a major loss for the gov of the 51st state, conservative 66 percent prime minister dreamys team 16 percent. –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/special-election-loss-adds-to-misery-for-canada-pm-trudeau/ar-AA1w1ki0?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=045d6990d72d403085ff7246f99c1fb6&ei=145
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Local man upset about election…..cuts and pastes from Wikipedia in defiance!
Other than to not give them my email address to sell I really wonder why I waste my time with the Pennysaver of the Pines?
https://www.theunion.com/news/community/ideas-opinions-richard-w-schaut-trump-is-no-savior-manny-montes/article_a5d0a27c-bcad-11ef-8e41-ffe89d61ab57.html
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I thought the tragedy of inbreeding had been eliminated generations ago…..
— Co-host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, March 6 rejecting claims Biden was slipping mentally.
I guess nobody in the Scarborough household got the memo
https://x.com/newsbusters/status/1869410852496945593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1869410852496945593%7Ctwgr%5Ecfd9f9269433923f64336e8771d1a9eb9d0d96bb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F691116%2F
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re: fish@6:49AM
roflmao, the word ‘lacky’ (sic) used unironically.
Gotta be someone from the liberal arts education mafia.
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I don’t claim to understand our progressive counterparts even a little bit but I get a whiff of their dislike of Republicans when things like this CR makes an appearance…..
They should be working up a primary challenger for Johnson as of right now f’ing now….!
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/12/18/johnsons-massive-cr-extends-censorship-entitys-life-n4935236#google_vignette
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oh jeez, this is a surprise.
‘REVEALED: DHS Under Secretary for Policy Confesses Trump Win Is “Traumatic” and a “Crushing Blow” to the Biden Administration; Reveals Biden’s Mental Decline ‘Accelerated 12 to 24 Months’ into Biden’s Presidency
During meeting’s in the White House, Under Secretary Robert P. Silvers (
@DHS_Policy
) admitted there were times where “he’s [Biden] in there, and it’s a blank.”
“[Biden] just can’t get the words out.”‘
https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1869520285445353653
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Oh look a little sanity taking away the illegal magnets –
Mike Lee looks to halt welfare for illegals going on under Biden with key budget process
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/mike-lee-looks-halt-welfare-090013503.html
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Roughly coincident with Bowl Season and the holidays…..
(that’s good….definitely want to cast a “Warding Spell” to keep evil spirits at bay).
….it’s Hate Hoax Season….truly ”The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”!
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1869526920523563398?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1869526920523563398%7Ctwgr%5E7f44c3440c0fcf83187e1178c68910e422a7a178%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F691231%2F
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Looks like all you progressive idiots were wrong! Not that that’s a surprise….
We really need to find out who was exercising executive authority during the useless husks term and see that they never see the outside of a prison cell again!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14210053/white-house-conceal-joe-biden-decline-hired-voice-coach.html
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Another dead end and the ny conviction will die on appeal and it all over with. Someone get the po ol ponytail of ignorance to his fainting couch.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/19/georgia-court-appeals-disqualifies-fani-willis-rico-case-against-donald-trump/
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Poor little vlad, just realizing that its never guns and butter so do the creepy grampa joe and blame the victims. –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/vladimir-putin-pressure-evident-as-leader-lashes-out-at-out-russian-population-s-eating-habits/ar-AA1wabe1?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=532b9004c1d242679c80b6ecacad5c2d&ei=108
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Sow and ye shall reap,
suckers
https://www.yahoo.com/news/government-shutdown-risk-trumps-demands-162543907.html
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A few weeks of shut down is worth waiting to the first week of jan. when we have both chambers. You guys got suckered by a bunch of 30 something staffers and ‘dr’ jill running creepy joe from the get. Then you guys got suckered by the hyena. What a maroon @538 ROFLOL!
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Go long pitchforks and torches……
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14211289/Joe-Biden-health-Jill-exposed-MAUREEN-CALLAHAN.html
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Winning –
Announcing details of the plan, Canada’s minister of finance and intergovernmental affairs said the federal government would devote C$1.3bn ($900m; £700m) to the plan.
The measures “will secure our border against the flow of illegal drugs and irregular migration while ensuring the free flow of people and goods that are at the core of North America’s prosperity”, Minister Dominic LeBlanc said on Tuesday.
The five pillars of the plan cover the disruption of the fentanyl trade, new tools for law enforcement, enhanced coordination with US law enforcement, increased information sharing and limiting traffic at the border.
They include a proposed aerial surveillance task force, including helicopters, drones and mobile surveillance towers between ports of entry.
The government is also giving the Canada Border Service Agency funds to train new dog teams to find illegal drugs, and new detection tools for high-risk ports of entry.
And LeBlanc provided further detail on the so-called “joint strike force” for Canadian and US authorities, saying it would include “support in operational surges, dedicated synthetic drug units, expanded combined forces, special enforcement units, binational integrated enforcement teams, and new operational capacity and infrastructure”.
The new plan appears to correspond to the concerns publicly disclosed by Trump in recent weeks: the flow of fentanyl and undocumented immigrants into the US.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/canada-announces-border-rules-following-013815417.html
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That should make for some interesting reading considering its the list of hidden payoffs to staff for harassment etc. My guess it is dem heavy! LOL
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/matt-gaetz-s-gop-buddies-are-preparing-to-carry-out-his-revenge-plan/ar-AA1wbnHv?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=9ae345d44465408483ca6dede2a4337e&ei=79
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noise at 5:38 – “Sow and ye shall reap,
suckers”
Dude – it’s a feature, not a bug!
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I admit that the Last Days of the Biden Administration are fixin’ to look like the Fall of Saigon. Crazy.
On a (slightly) different note, this article cracked me up, and just to prove that the insane people are not a US-only phenomena.
“The Canadian Armed Forces has been deploying “gender advisors” to international operations, including in Ukraine and Haiti, as part of a broader push to integrate gender ideology into military activities abroad.”
https://tnc.news/2024/12/19/canadian-military-deployed-gender-advisors-ukraine
roflmao. So just how do you get one of those gigs? Are there hot chicks?
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“The most significant media scandal of the Biden years was how they did not just hide what the public knew — Biden’s severe cognitive decline to the point he couldn’t remotely govern — but their aggressive attacks on anyone pointing it out as “disinformation agents.””
– Glenn Greenwald on X
Here’s a thought.
How are they going to handle the betting markets if Harris is the 47th President? That’s a definite possibility.
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Posted by: scenes | 20 December 2024 at 07:41 AM
roflmao. So just how do you get one of those gigs? Are there hot chicks?
There are but make sure to do a hand and Adam’s Apple check first or you might get a “special delivery” of Than Franthithco Valuths….
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Really looking forward to seeing the “talent” sitting at the bottom of a freeway off ramp with a cardboard sign saying “WILL LIE ABOUT JOE BIDEN’S MENTAL ACUITY FOR FOOD”…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cnn-sees-one-lowest-ratings-173926866.html
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“The Biden mental competence story has now fully morphed into a Monty Python sketch about a dead parrot the owner insists is perfectly healthy. I can’t even listen to people claiming Biden is perfectly fine without hearing a British accent.”
– Scott Adams on X. Aug 10, 2020
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Posted by: scenes | 20 December 2024 at 09:51 AM
…..nailed it!
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….and right on cue it’s time to whine about Elon!
Now progressive America decides to whine about who’s really in charge?
For four years not a peep about the second coming of Edith Wilson…
https://www.the-express.com/news/politics/158204/Elon-Musk-Donald-Trump-government-shutdown-congress
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The most “scenes” X post ever…..
https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1776334401233637578
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Hilarious political panic porn:
“US lawmakers raced Friday to prevent a government shutdown due to bite within hours, after Donald Trump and Elon Musk sabotaged a bipartisan agreement that would have kept the lights on well beyond Christmas.”
No one is racing and it bites no one. There was no sabotage and I’m sure the fed lights will shine brightly.
Hill-William and Paul will damn near choke themselves to death clutching at their pearls over this.
Senators sob:
“How can I grift for my pay-off if I can’t deliver promised pork?”
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/us-hours-government-shutdown-over-132811257.html
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Not just heading towards Scott but “hurtling”…..I say….HURTLING towards shutdown!
I don’t know what the absolutely craptacular Sac Bee is embedding in their links but they are doing something that kills posts here! Anyway, if you feel like wasting 45 seconds of your life you can see the article along with a lovely photo of the very pensive looking “Bathhouse” Mike Johnson you can see it there!
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I say….HURTLING towards shutdown!
Oh noes! Does it mean Santy won’t have NORAD tracking him on that special night?
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???
It’s OK with me if the last acts of the Biden/Harris Administration is a failure to cover their bills.
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Looks like jill biden was another Mrs Wilson –
Damning Report on Biden Reveals How He Was Struggling From Beginning
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/damning-report-reveals-biden-aides-200226068.html
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DB 6:44 – Struggling from the beginning??!!
Gasp – you don’t say! Seems like the conservatives and the conspiracy theorists here on George’s blog had it correct all along.
Maybe the Hillbilly or Paul will chime in to present their side of the matter.
Or not.
You can have your own opinion and your own Democracy but not your own facts.
No wonder Paul won’t engage here any more.
Biggest political loser ever on George’s blog.
Paul Emery used to brag and brag about how keen he was to vote for a corrupt, lying, senile, pervert.
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God finally caught Ricky at 2nd……
https://nypost.com/2024/12/21/sports/rickey-henderson-baseball-legend-dead-at-65/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost
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In more ways than one it appears….
Unilever comes in for a well deserved kicking as well! In the words of Paul R. Emery of Nevada City, California…..check it out.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3267058/san-franciscos-new-weight-stigma-czar-propped-up-by-ice-cream-manufacturer/
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Scotto: “No wonder Paul won’t engage here any more.”
Oh well. He does seem to have something of a glass jaw. Dr Trump’s Butthurt Salve would be just the thing.
I did see that DJT not only is thinking about Canada as the 51st state, but mentioned that it might be worth taking back the Panama Canal on Truth Social. I like both of these plans.
There is nothing the Orange Man cannot do.
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lol. They are really piling on.
“…
The families said the octogenarian leader’s decision to snooze on the tarmac instead of greet them was an insult to the memories of their loves ones.
Biden “made us wait an extra three hours to receive the bodies of our dead family members because he couldn’t pull it together,” Roice McCollum told the DailyMail.
McCollum’s brother, Rylee McCollum, was killed in the airport massacre.
A military officer told her Biden was snoozing on the plane, Roice said.”
https://nypost.com/2024/12/21/us-news/biden-forced-military-families-to-wait-while-he-napped/
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It couldn’t happen to a better bunch of socialist liars and groomers –
What do you want me to do, be a hypocrite and pretend this news doesn’t delight me straight down to my toes? Find another huckleberry. Allow me to put it this way: I feel as bad about these people losing their jobs as they do when a coal miner loses his job. Fair enough?
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/12/21/nolte-15000-media-entertainment-jobs-lost-in-2024/
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I understand why Paul R. Emery of Nevada City, California likes Joe Biden oh so very much….
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/12/26/couldnt-even-wait-26-days-biden-squeezing-in-1-final-tropical-vacay-before-leaving-office-n2405712
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From somebody doing a “Year in Review” British style…..
Evidently a sufficient amount of “mental health support” services could not be accessed.
I’m sure you’ll enjoy the reveal towards the end!
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2024/02/role-models-you-say.html
Really though…..is somebody putting something in the water in the former country known as Great Britain?
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There is going to be a lot of truth coming out next year –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fbi-s-covid-19-lab-theory-kept-from-biden-scientist-claims/ar-AA1wxp2k?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=3a48dc8df1b64400b181e66b8986f86b&ei=82
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Yeah it’s a shame Bidenomics caused this surge…..
But is anyone surprised?
That the AP has rediscovered it now that Shotgun Joey is in his waning days I mean?!
https://x.com/LOLNeverTweet/status/1872707148683386907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1872707148683386907%7Ctwgr%5E4bc3f24baa472472ffa1ab919ab7a34537cf28a2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F692834%2F
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The deep state at its lowest –
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) withheld photographs of then-Vice President Joe Biden meeting business associates of his son, Hunter Biden, in China until after the 2024 election — but pursued then-former President Donald Trump over records that eventually became the subject of a major federal prosecution.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/27/national-archives-withheld-biden-photos-after-targeting-trump-over-documents/
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New to them not to us –
Poll: Overwhelming Majority of Americans Don’t Care About Celebrities’ Political Opinions
Just under 40 percent of Democrat respondents said they approved of celebrities sharing their views on politics, while just 11 percent of Republicans and 12 percent of independents said the same.
The answers regarding professional athletes were about the same — 39 percent of Democrats approve of them piping up, but just 16 percent of Republicans and 15 percent of independents were in agreement
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/12/27/poll-americans-especially-republicans-do-not-care-about-celebrity-political-opinions/
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Another Christmas present –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-shelled-out-80b-for-irs-enforcement-congress-has-already-pulled-back-half-of-it/ar-AA1wAl3i?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=f8be20cd8433447a9144dee4c9fc1d0a&ei=94
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Winning! –
Court orders Biden admin to stop selling border wall materials, was ‘illegally subverting’ laws: Texas AG
Texas has said it intends to do all it can to help the incoming administration build the wall at the southern border when Trump enters office
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/court-orders-biden-admin-stop-selling-border-wall-materials-illegally-subverting-laws-texas-ag
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Well this can’t be good for those who toil to fill the guitar case……
I seem to recall a certain subset of RR commenter assuring us that this wasn’t going to happen.
https://boingboing.net/2024/12/27/irs-goes-after-gig-workers-instead-of-billionaire-tax-dodgers.html
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So who thinks the hyena will show up to certify the election? –
Exclusive — Jacob Chansley: Harris Needing to Certify Election Results on January 6 ‘Evidence that God Has a Sense of Humor’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/28/exclusive-jacob-chansley-harris-needing-certify-election-results-january-6-evidence-god-has-sense-humor/
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