[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”
https://www.mariowiki.com/File:MvDK_NS_Mario.png
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This sounds firm but fair …..
https://freebeacon.com/media/cnns-high-profile-defamation-trial-is-underway-and-jurors-appear-open-to-10-figure-payout/
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The failure tour?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/harris-will-travel-to-asia-mideast-and-europe-during-her-final-week-in-office/ar-AA1x7Rmd?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=aad7491ffbfb48a7b6e47017ebc6c469&ei=96
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Yes and start with the team 0 neutered selections –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/yes-us-generals-should-be-fired/ar-AA1x9jAM?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=d6c9394b42964cf0a3385e245ccb1272&ei=49
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My son and his family are hunkered down in Santa Monica, in sight of flames in the Palisades, and stepson’s house power is out… his home is a stone’s throw below the Griffith Park observatory.
Crackle crackle. Not good.
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re:Gregory@9:39AM
a suggestion for keeping track of such things. For this fire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZtppdZq–Q
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One has to wonder what McPaper gets for providing President Grifty another self-serving forum…..
Truly a vile human being……!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/01/08/exclusive-joe-biden-interview-donald-trump-election/77378693007/
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Will oakland jump from the frying pan into the fire after recalling the mayor and soros da?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/after-losing-senate-bid-california-s-former-u-s-rep-barbara-lee-runs-for-oakland-mayor/ar-AA1xbQSx?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=64ad4300aaa2419696cc8eba8b858bdf&ei=115
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re: DonB@8:29PM
From the article:
“Working together, we will provide shelter/services/programs to our unhoused residents, invest in public safety and violence prevention programs, and provide more housing, education, and economic development in historically underrepresented communities.”
roflmao. Direct from central casting. It doesn’t matter, it’ll all crash and burn in any case. Whatever is actually required will never be voted for or done, too many grievances, too many iron rice bowls.
The LA Fire continues. Pretty crazy. The row of houses next to the ocean in Malibu show it’s not merely a matter of keeping the brush cleared.
I expect that the California home insurance market just blew up, but we’ll see. It’s an interesting thought problem to consider making homes genuinely fireproof from external fires of whatever cause…and no, sticking a sprinkler system in/on the things ain’t gonna help.
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This should play well….
I’d say Karen Bass is likely done politically.
Sorry Barry!
https://x.com/The_Real_Fly/status/1877206039080075668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1877206039080075668%7Ctwgr%5E5618812e3cc8bed535fa219c503c599560e2b154%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fweather%2Finferno-chaos-la-fire-spreads-hollywood-hills-2000-buildings-destroyed-over-130000&mx=2
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re: fish@6:40AM
To be fair, I doubt it would have made a bit of difference. Too many years of bad decisions combined with a bad situation.
Favorite pics of the day:
“Former President Barack Obama casually and amiably chats with Adolf Hitler as the latter is set to assume power in 11 days, end American democracy, and impose a white nationalist dictatorship.”
https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/1877373503713759642
Harris listenin’ in.
https://x.com/Melissa_WongMT/status/1877377433264922697
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“I’d say Karen Bass is likely done politically.”
Oh probably. Unlucky politicians get the boot, like unlucky sea captains.
You’d think the country would get tired of the Incompetent Angry Black Woman as a political trope.
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I like this Karen Bass resume.
“Watch any video of LA Mayor Karen Bass.
She has a room temperature IQ and represents the steroid age of DEI and identity politics:
– Started as a Community Organizer for the Venceremos Brigade, a pro-Cuban group, in the 1970s, and then visited Cuba eight times
– Never held a job in the private sector
– Founded Community Coalition in the 1980s and then parlayed that into a California State Assembly seat
– Was gifted a Congressional seat in 2010 by the identity-politics-box-checking DNC to replace the retiring Diane Watson
– Added fake credentials with a Masters degree in Social Work from USC in 2015 as a 62-year-old Congresswoman
– In 2016, she called the death of Fidel Castro a “great loss to the people of Cuba”
– After Biden announced that he would pick a black woman as his VP in 2020, she made the short-list
– In 2022, she was “democratically elected” (installed by Barack Obama) as Mayor of LA”
https://x.com/JohnLeFevre/status/1877344911386660928
Honestly, she seems like just the thing for Blue State America.
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Posted by: scenes | 09 January 2025 at 07:59 AM
Yes….a resume very much like all the “community organizer” resumes. Less “Meat”….more “meat byproduct”.
To her credit she managed to obtain a Physicians Assistant credential. I don’t know if she ever worked in the field!
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Between the official communications between the Fire Department and this Karen’s upward progress will be blunted….
Ineptitude is fine in politics…..the appearance of ineptitude is unforgivable!
Still curious why Gavin is being protected…..I can’t imagine Team Evil wanting a pampered nepobaby white guy to front them going forward!
Note – link is from Em Es Em .com and it kills the post when I paste it in to typepad (no surprise there)! No need to run down the link Paul Raymond….I know you’re busy.
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“Epic Adam Carolla rant from a hotel after the LA wildfires forced to evacuate from his home, where he predicts Hollywood leftists will be so frustrated by the rebuild effort that they will not vote Democrat:”
https://x.com/EricAbbenante/status/1877207054105886836
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Posted by: scenes | 09 January 2025 at 10:01 AM
Oh I don’t know….I imagine calls have already been made to the right people greasing the skids for the rebuilding effort! After all…..we’re not talking about unimportant North Carolinians!
These people matter!
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I don’t think they matter as much as some faceless arbitrary bureaucratic commission member. A planning commission or building department can defeat anyone.
That’s the beauty of the Great State of California, an insane nobody can outrank an insane celebrity.
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Posted by: scenes | 09 January 2025 at 11:00 AM
Well regardless I’m sure it will be fun to watch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOKWnZpqYIs
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“Behind the Curtain: Trump’s ever-expansive power”
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/09/trump-gop-power-expansion-tech-ceos
BUT WHAT ABOUT ARNOLD PALMER’S DICK!1!1!
lmao
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Something else to consider…..
https://hotair.com/generalissimo/2025/01/09/lessons-painful-at-times-are-only-lessons-if-theyre-eventually-learned-n3798625
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“Something else to consider…..”
The included video hit that for the wealthy folk on the beach.
It’s pretty certain (I think) that no one will be allowed to rebuild on the water side of the highway.
No one has more Blue State crazy winemom power than the Coastal Commission.
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from the article: “The homeless problem, which has exploded on his watch, especially in L.A. County, is an arson problem year-round. Much of the people on the streets and living in the edges of society are psychotic, largely from extended drug use. To them, when the winds blow, they see fireflies flitting around when they start fires, and it all seems so pretty. We have no idea who started all these fires, but social media is full of timelines of people who when the winds began to blow, spotted homeless people starting fires. If you hear no reportage in the next few weeks about what or who started the fires, trust me. It was sparked by the homeless, and that fact will be deep-sixed by a regime media committed to the leftist narrative that would be forever destroyed if that detail leaked out. ”
You don’t need to be crazy. I utterly guarantee that the first thing you do at night, except on the very hottest nights (and probably even then), when you live on the street is to light a fire. It’s built into human nature at a low level.
Naturally, the homeless industrial complex uses that as a tool for more money, those non-profit exec gigs don’t pay for themselves. “GIVE EVERY ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE AN APARTMENT OR WE’L cough THEY’LL BURN YOUR TOWN DOWN.”
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Looks like the “Redheaded Libertarian” wins the internet today…..
In response to Fauxcohantas below:
https://x.com/SenWarren/status/1877355663346528585
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Well you guys were the ones who constantly reassured us Shotgun Joey was “sharp as a tack”….
Evidently Nevada City’s most prominent political analyst didn’t see the memo!
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/01/09/cnn-joe-biden-flat-out-bonkers-for-thinking-he-could-have-beaten-trump-n4935813
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Sheer genius.
“This man explains perfectly why Trump is changing the name to the Gulf of America. Biden banned offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Chess not checkers. Try to keep up! Drill baby Drill!”
https://x.com/TexasRepublic71/status/1877189975734636805
There is nothing the Orange Man cannot do.
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Posted by: scenes | 09 January 2025 at 02:43 PM
The Orange Jesus can try. I guess he wants to punch back at Mexico for sending all those illegals over our border.
But what does he have against the Native Americans? I like ‘Denali’. Would you want to drive a McKinley to the store to pick up your groceries?
Maybe OJ is still pissed that those pesky indians get casinos.
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More OJ fun,
The loudmouth inserts his opinion as the 10th Justice
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-utterly-bizarre-message-supreme-court-scotus-tiktok-bytedance-china?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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scenes @ 06:20 AM
I keep a copy of the report for the East Hills Bay fire in October 1991 (renamed as the Oakland Hills, then re-re-named as the Tunnel fire). I read it every year to show me how intense and overpowering is a firestorm. From page 28:
“Engine 8’s captain directed his crew and a ride-along volunteer to lay a supply line from a hydrant and set up to protect three large houses that were in the path of the fire. They met up with the crew from Engine 24, one crew member from Engine 16, two from Engine 19, and a volunteer who had been helping to fight the fire on the hillside. They were soon joined by five EBRPD firefighters who drove two of their vehicles out of the smoke and flames.
As they set up to protect the structures, the fire that had blocked their path to the west, sweeping down toward the Parkwood Apartments, came back from below their position and cut them off to the east. Seven civilians were trapped along with them. A power line burned through and dropped around the hydrant, burning a hole in the hose and dropping their water pressure. Engine 8 contacted the incident commander to obtain emergency assistance, but there was nothing available to send until the mutual aid strike teams arrived. The captain had his crew members force entry into a large three story house and put all of the civilians inside the concrete block garage. The house was newly constructed and was equipped with an automatic sprinkler system, although he recognized that the sprinklers could never protect the structure from the approaching fire.
The firefighters operated master streams and hoselines on the exterior of the house to keep the wood siding from igniting, flowing an estimated 2,500 gpm, as the fire swept over and around them. Fog nozzles had to be used to protect the members operating the larger handlines that were directed to wet the structure. For an estimated five to eight minutes the fire storm raged around them, burning one of the adjacent houses to the ground, but the exposure protection tactic worked and 20 people survived.”
The best I can get out of my garden hose is 4-5 gpm, far from 2500 gpm. Several areas of this report are identical to the conditions at the Palisades or Altadena. They called them the “Diablo” winds in Oakland, rather than the Santa Ana, however.
From page 1 – “The fire completely overwhelmed the firefighting forces of the area, consuming everything in its path, and was only stopped when the Diablo wind conditions abated.” Lessons learned? Evidently none. The fire responders encountered one problem – the CoCo firemens’ hoses had a different connector-thread that didn’t match the Oakland fireplugs’ threads, and they didn’t have adapters on their trucks. At least that complaint may have been taken care of in LA.
I appreciated the term “force entry” by the fire captain.
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Administrivia – please continue your discussion of things related to the LA wildfires under the 9jan25 post. Thank you.
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It is a puzzle….
https://x.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1877499069246947447/photo/1
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So we now have a convicted felon as our next President. How embarrassing to out country.
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Posted by: Paul Raymond Emery….of something, something Sierra Foothills | 10 January 2025 at 08:52 AM
How embarrassing to out country.
I’m not embarrassed! Your Joseph R. Biden – Man of Integrity is merely a felon in waiting!
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“How embarrassing to out(sic) country.”
Not at all – the prosecution was bogus and will be overturned. The kangaroo court that heard the case was an embarrassment. Electing a senile crook as POTUS was an embarrassment. The Dems back room deal inserting a low-IQ DEI replacement to run in his stead with an incompetent, lying bozo for a running mate SHOULD have been an embarrassment.
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From Instapundit….
Which sums up the entire sordid affair nicely.
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No fine.
No jail time
No scarlet letter tattoo
No amputations
But Trump can now take it to an appellate court
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Scott
We have a convicted felon soon to be President no matter what you think and that the “prosecution was bogus and will be overturned” hasn’t happened so until then we’ll have a convicted felon for President.
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Trump is now a convicted felon. You can’t deny that Gregory
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Zuck on Joe Rogan:
“HOLY SHLIT. Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.””
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1877785122314875330
psul, you must be sooo proud of your people.
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absolutely hilarious:
“How I fooled @FortuneMagazine and Kali Hays:
A thread exposing how unreliable mainstream media can be!
Fortune published an article based on false information I sent them from an anonymous email address.
They didn’t even bother to verify the details.”
https://x.com/fortune_exposed/status/1877740830057992428
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Trump is now a convicted felon. You can’t deny that Gregory
You can’t.
Which is why I didn’t post any follow up to his last statement. Paul Raymonds poor understanding of the facts in general (lawfare, third world style political tactics) coupled with his inability to tell the truth on a wide range of matters makes me think that when he does make a factual statement however inadvertently it should be allowed to stand.
After all he is running out of time to balance the ledger!
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I can and do deny it. A bogus finding if there ever was one.
Democrats are now brainless and shameless. That was a fake trial. A sham.
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“the “prosecution was bogus and will be overturned” hasn’t happened”
The bogus prosecution has happened and it was a travesty. The trial was bogus and it will be overturned as surely as the sun sets in the west.
Maybe Paul ‘Matlock’ Emery can explain how a jury can be instructed to find someone guilty of a felony for a misdemeanor that was charged past the statute of limitations and not even have to be unanimous in their decision.
It is not an embarrassment to be convicted of a crime you didn’t commit. It is an embarrassment that our govts legal system would be used to haul a politician into court for the sole purpose of keeping them off the ballot. At least is is for some of us. Paul hates Trump so much he doesn’t mind Gestapo tactics in our country.
Trump did not commit a crime.
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ALAN DERSHOWITZ, HARVARD LAW PROFESSOR EMERITUS: Well, what the Judge Merchan and the Democrats want is a hunting trophy with Donald Trump’s head in the hunting — in the trophy. They want to be able to say they have a convicted felon.
So even if it gets appealed and he wins the appeal, they can still say, well, at least for a period of time, 34 convictions. Of course, 34 times zero equals zero because there is no case. In my 62 years practicing teaching criminal law, I have never seen a case like this in the United States and rarely in any other countries where you make up a case out of whole cloth and you base it on testimony which is constitutionally not subject to being use in a case.
But they don’t care. They want that trophy. They want — even if it’s only for a few days to be able to say, a convicted felon — convicted — he’s been sentenced 34 charges. They know it will be reversed on appeal but that’s why generally, it would be a good idea to let the sentence go forward then to get appeal, but in some respects, playing it through his hands.
I met with Donald Trump on Saturday night. We talked about this and he understands this game and he knows that the only purpose for this has nothing to do with the law. It has to do with trying to paint him in a negative way as a convicted felon, as he assumes the presidency so that he’s weakened in the eyes of the world. This hurts America as much as it — as it hurts the Republicans or Donald Trump.
And that’s why every American, whether you’re for Trump or against Trump, should be against this abusive lawfare.
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Gregory
Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts by a jury therefore becoming the first President to be a convicted felon. This is fact and you cannot deny it.
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“This is how Washington really works:
GOP Senators are telling Tulsi Gabbard that the only way she has a chance to be confirmed is if she renounces her long-standing opposition to mass FBI/NSA domestic spying powers, and vows to support FISA Section 702:”
– Glenn Greenwald on X
Figures. The blob extends to both sides of the aisle.
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“Paul hates Trump so much he doesn’t mind Gestapo tactics in our country.”
Well, of course he does. It’s a big life simplifier.
Saving the country from the psuls of the world will take some doing.
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Merchan is corrupt and Punch is a brainwashed idiot,
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Paul – What you are denying is that the charges, the trial, and the convictions are bogus.
Life-long Dems who are legal experts have admitted it stinks.
It was a ploy to try to keep Trump from being re-elected and it didn’t work.
You should be ashamed to be the one voting for the people that caused this miss-use of our justice system.
It is the same sort of thing that imprisoned and executed innocent blacks in the Jim Crow era.
It is the same sort of crap that 3rd world hell-holes use to get rid of opposition and critics.
It is a stain on our nation.
Trump has nothing to be ashamed of, or to apologize for in this matter.
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Note to the po ol ponytail of ignorance as the scouts noted Trump will deal with the inadmissible evidence in the nY sham will be dealt with on appeal. In other words it will be vacated long before it could get to scouts. LOL
😉
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