[Well, the congressional Repubs can really futch up President Trump and the country if they don't settle quickly on selecting a Speaker. Operational competency of our political parties is in the toilet. The Dems have historically led the way, but the Repubs are doing their best to now take the title. gjr]

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179 responses to “Sandbox – 30dec24”
Ya think years of lies even before creepy grampa joe are why no one watches anymore? –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trust-in-journalism-at-all-time-low-after-lack-of-media-scrutiny-over-biden-s-decline/vi-AA1wLUdt?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=89bdd8a7cd674ea58a2525d5afb41c70&ei=151
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Good for them!
https://www.sfgate.com/northcoast/article/mount-shasta-ski-park-virgin-mary-statue-20009118.php
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We can only take this as acknowledgement that the denizens of DC are incapable of successfully managing this very simple traffic maneuver!
And yet there is a subset of the population desperate to have them do all their thinking for them!
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/transportation/right-turns-on-red-now-banned-at-all-dc-intersections-but-enforcement-varies/3803868/
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Oh Newt….from “Brash Outsider” to utter failure to grateful cog in the DC System…..
Just go away you useless piece of shit!
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/suicidally-stupid-newt-gingrich-rages-against-house-republicans-who-did-not-vote-for-johnson/
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A DEI hire drops the ball bigly, what isis flag? Nothing like an agent with a nose ring lying their ass off –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fbi-declines-to-say-whether-it-will-fire-discipline-agent-who-said-attack-was-not-a-terrorist-event/ar-AA1wUJlQ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=d76cc215ab564237bc8f9151bf5355af&ei=51
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Talk about dodging a bullet –
VP Harris mocked for flubbing opening line of Pledge of Allegiance: ‘What an embarrassment’
One stunned user remarked, ‘Tens of millions of Democrats voted for this woman to be president just weeks ago…
https://www.foxnews.com/media/vp-harris-mocked-flubbing-opening-line-pledge-allegiance-what-embarrassment
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fish 3:21 – Newt seemed to be solid until he had control and then the Rs totally fumbled the ball away.
Or something else. I don’t think it’s corruption as much as what Hoover discovered as he climbed the ladder of power.
Dirty laundry.
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Who got the ‘Presidential Medal of Freedom’ from Biden?
Soros and Hillary got the ‘Presidential Medal of Freedom’.
roflmao. They aren’t even trying to hide it anymore.
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Posted by: scenes | 04 January 2025 at 06:20 AM
Who got the ‘Presidential Medal of Freedom’ from Biden?
Soros and Hillary got the ‘Presidential Medal of Freedom’.
roflmao. They aren’t even trying to hide it anymore.
….and here I thought you were kidding.
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“FBI declines to say whether it will fire, discipline agent who said attack was ‘not a terrorist event’”
Name of the agent – Alethea Duncan – yeah, a young black woman. Chance of her being let go – zero. They would lose 2 DEI points if she were sent elsewhere.
On a lighter side, with the proper cryptographic transformation of the letters of her name, it becomes an anagram for “incompetent”. She was relieved of her MAGA hat though. You know, Make Alethea Great Again. That hat.
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So funny everyone is going ‘hair on fire’ over some premature comments by officials in Louisiana.
It is the DEEP STATE at work!lol
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“Looking forward to Biden giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom (posthumously) to Pol Pot and Count Dracula.”
JD Vance on X
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“It is the DEEP STATE at work!lol”
No – it’s the incompetent DEI hires at work.
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What you get when you dei hire a failure from oakland –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/exclusive-new-orleans-planned-new-bourbon-street-barriers-only-crash-rated-to-10-mph/ar-AA1wYalv?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=a17d448cee9543edb4eddc1cd382888c&ei=56
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It sure is swell the gub-mint rooted out all them white supremacists, ‘hard core’ Christians, and other flag-waving Constitutionalists from the military. They were scary.
Adherents of the Religion Of Peace get the free pass to make our military diverse. Yippee!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bourbon-street-terrorists-bombs-made-extremely-rare-explosive-officials-say
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Another one bites the dust –
https://www.foxnews.com/world/canadian-pm-justin-trudeau-announce-resignation-early-monday-report?dicbo=v2-Tq3W33D
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The dumb get dumber, who wants teachers who cannot read or write? DEI acolytes thats who, sure lets have ignorant fools as teachers but, but, but dei! Cry the stupidest of them all –
New Jersey ends basic reading and writing skills test requirement for teachers
The New Jersey Education Association called the test requirement a ‘barrier’ for educators
https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-jersey-ends-basic-reading-writing-skills-test-requirement-teachers
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“Had this election not been won by @realDonaldTrump, civilization would be lost”
– Elon Musk on X
I think there’s more than a little truth to that.
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Hasn’t America suffered enough…..,
On a good day Paul R. Emery’s of Nevada City, California’s Man of Integrity is unlistenable……make him all pouty and whiny after being shown the door…..no thanks!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-deliver-two-major-speeches-final-days-office-rcna186257
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good idea.
https://x.com/laralogan/status/1876338414326518008
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“Trump Jr makes surprise visit to Greenland
A source told Euractiv that a meeting between Trump Jr and the Greenlandic premier was possible.”
– Euractiv.com
There is absolutely nothing the Orange Man cannot do.
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Jan. 6
A Day That Will Live in Infamy
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Just can’t get over the country being past that, eh?
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Scenes
Do you think those rioters who are visibly filmed beating the crap out of police on Jan 6 2021 should be pardoned?
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/01/10/capitol-riot-officer-beating-trump-go-home-message-sot-vpx.cnn
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Punchy…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ashli_Babbitt
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Oh look what crawled out from under the bed @801 LOL
Its only going to get worse for your ilk, it started today, well before that just ask former prime minister dreamy haw the bad orange man has already changed the world for the better!
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“visibly filmed”
Are there other kinds?
We all remember Paul being incensed when the rioters attacked the police during the “summer of love” in Portland and Seattle.
Not.
Did the FBI go on a years long man hunt looking for those rioters?
Equal and proportionate justice is all I ask for.
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“Do you think those rioters who are visibly filmed beating the crap out of police on Jan 6 2021 should be pardoned?”
That’s it? roflmao. That guy is either an FBI agent or has been in a federal cell for four years. If that’s ‘beating the crap out of’ you were never a boxer.
I’d pardon the whole bunch of them, this is getting ridiculous.
Time to go after the embedded agents who were driving on the crowds, Ms. Cheney and anybody else who withheld evidence, Adam Schiff on general principles. It’s a lot harder to truly erase records than it used to be, too many copies, and there’s plenty o’dirt to be dug up.
Saving Western Civilization was never going to be straightforward or 100% on-target, but it is what it is. The Child Abuse Party is still pretty powerful.
There is nothing the Orange Man cannot do.
Elon appears to be on to saving the UK, so that should be interesting.
Turn about is fair play and there’s no point in ‘fairness’ anymore.
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Of course, speaking of pardons:
“Biden admin releases 11 Yemeni detainees with suspected al Qaeda ties from Guantanamo Bay — including two alleged former bin Laden bodyguards”
https://nypost.com/2025/01/06/us-news/biden-admin-releases-11-yemeni-detainees-from-guantanamo-bay
it’s part of that ‘honorable’ thing that Biden does so well.
In the meantime, Zuck bends the knee.
long version: https://x.com/esaagar/status/1876612227807236310
short: https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1876606147903496277
plus, bonus footage, Don Jr. in Greenland. I’m assuming he brought his checkbook.
https://x.com/amconmag/status/1876637090865451368
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“Turn about is fair play and there’s no point in ‘fairness’ anymore.”
Now, having said that, you can certainly make a case for an exchange of hostages.
For example, let go of the small handful of overly rowdy J6 rioters, while not sending a bunch of government brass to jail. We’d all be better off without the drama. Go ahead and pardon Liz Cheney.
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So according to scenes, Scott and Bessee it’s ok to smash through locked doors, beat the police with clubs and flagpoles whie chanting “hang Pence”, the Vice President. Did each of you watch the link I provided?
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“Did each of you watch the link I provided?”
No.
Why would I watch a link of yours?
To be fair, four people did die at the Capitol that day.
begone, silly troll man.
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So you’re saying scenes that you would have no problem with a crowd smashing the doors and storming through you’re house and that they would deserve to be pardoned.
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psul@7:17AM
No, I’m saying you’re a silly troll man, plus the biggest political loser in history.
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on an unrelated matter, I had to laugh at a description of H5N1. Somebody just died of it and it came up on my news feed.
Desiring to be up on this, I looked up the symptoms.
mostly: some combination of cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle or body aches, headaches, fever, and tiredness,
of course –
common cold: some combination of cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle or body aches, headaches, fever, and tiredness
flu: some combination of cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle or body aches, headaches, fever, and tiredness
COVID: some combination of cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle or body aches, headaches, fever, and tiredness
Whooping cough: some combination of cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle or body aches, headaches, fever, and tiredness, and then awful
whooping cough, at least, is followed by weeks of awfulness after the part that’s indistinguishable.
It’s funny how little forward motion there is in easy identification or treatment of any of this. Super hard problem I suppose. At least the viral ones.
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Posted by: Paul R. Emery of Nevada City, California | 07 January 2025 at 07:17 AM
So you’re saying scenes that you would have no problem with a crowd smashing the doors and storming through you’re house and that they would deserve to be pardoned.
……sigh
Yes Paul Paymond….I would be perfectly fine if someone smashed through “you are” house.
How goes the Leonard Cohen research…..?
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Posted by: Paul Raymond Emery of Nevada City, California | 07 January 2025 at 06:43 AM
Did each of you watch the link I provided?
Did you?
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for Mr. Fish.
The Burn of the Day.
https://x.com/scott_stringle/status/1876645868285333696
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Sure Zuck…..whatever you say.
I imagine the minute another censorious Democrat is in the Whitehouse and needs protection from “bad think” this policy will vanish like a fart in the wind!
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/zuckerberg-nukes-facebook-fact-checkers-favor-community-notes-following-musks-lead-x
Click the link if only to see a billionaire look like a Jewish Hippie from the 60’s!
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To quote one of the few Brits remaining whose opinion I might care about…….
……”Oh no! Anyway……”.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-us-special-relationship-under-threat-due-musks-incendiary-rhetoric-grooming-gangs
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Who wears it better…..
Zuck – https://x.com/BasedBeffJezos/status/1876602383754789079?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1876602383754789079%7Ctwgr%5E8ad3bf6ae7fb83629e9f49ffb45c43c822bd79d4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Ftechnology%2Fzuckerberg-nukes-facebook-fact-checkers-favor-community-notes-following-musks-lead-x
Or Howard? https://shorturl.at/ZdHBS
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Influenza is a serious disease that kills many people every year.
Not just H5N1.
On a different subject, if it would stop Punchy’s silliness, I would be good with Trump pardoning all J6 folk as his first act upon finishing the oath of orifice.
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“On a different subject, if it would stop Punchy’s silliness, I would be good with Trump pardoning all J6 folk as his first act upon finishing the oath of orifice.”
My sincere hope is that seconds after he takes the oath of office, he snaps his fingers, and all the flags nationally go to full mast.
What a cool piece of showmanship that would be. Maybe have Hulk Hogan run the halyard.
Hope returns to America.
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Talk about chumming for Emery….
That’s the mostich Paul Raymond bait evah!
https://pjmedia.com/daniel-mccarthy/2025/01/07/donald-trumps-worldwide-election-n4935734
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I can do without Hulk Hogan being involved. Sorry Hulksters.
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The ‘Gulf of America’ does have a nice ring to it.
The winning never stops.
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This is for Punch!
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/01/07/sorry-democrats-there-will-be-no-orange-jumpsuit-for-donald-trump-at-nyc-sentencing-n4935738
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“Residents in the Greenland capital of Nuuk wear MAGA hats and listen to a message from Donald Trump. Donald Trump, Jr. is currently touring the country.”
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1876662126267515119
Somewhere there’s a MAGA hat with Paul’s name on it. Redemption arcs are real.
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The Orange Man…….
…….his fans are legion!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14259155/black-onyx-empire-trump-tattoo-minor-yuma-arizona.html
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Posted by: fish | 07 January 2025 at 01:04 PM
Orange Jesus has attained Super Mario status among the clueless youth.
Posted by: fish | 07 January 2025 at 01:04 PM
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