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[I think the Dems will put up a greater and more desperate ‘resistance’ to the Trump2 administration that they did to Trump1 and also the interregnum Trump.  The poor bastards have nothing else to offer thinking Americans – i.e. no policy alternatives that anyone who pays attention would accept.  All they have left is a pathetic program of digging up dirt that doesn’t stick to anything that Trump proposes.  And that effort is patently silly to all except their own hard core socialists/communists and media lackeys.  gjr]

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188 responses to “Sandbox – 22jan25”

  1. Scott O Avatar

    Hey – Biden did “deliver”. He delivered the office of the presidency over to a cabal of left-wing loons while he sat on a beach chair by the sea and watched the waves roll in.
    He signed whatever they put in front of him without reading any of it and tried his darndest to follow the teleprompter once in a while.
    Hunter delivered the dough to the family and Biden delivered pardons to Hunter and all the other crooked liars in his admin.
    Biden certainly delivered.

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  2. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Let’s see how he does”
    Let’s see what you and yours do to derail him.

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  3. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Now Jeff, be aware… it was the fact voters knew what youse guys were up to that caused the catastrophe last November.

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  4. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 25 January 2025 at 11:36 AM
    Now Jeff, be aware… it was the fact voters knew what youse guys were up to that caused the catastrophe last November.

    Well that and the worst desiccated husk of a grifting politician ever to soil the office as candidate plus his cadre of equally destructive fellow travelers!
    I’m sure that was a bit of a wake up call….

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  5. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Animate a corpse and you run the risk the corpse starts falling apart.

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  6. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Animate a corpse and you run the risk the corpse starts falling apart.”
    Speaking of which, the last official act of Joe Biden appeared to be getting lost trying to find the stairs off the stage.
    Maybe he was looking for some brains to eat.

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  7. fish Avatar
    fish

    Progressives live for fear…..like kids and ghost stories it gives them that special tingle!

    Fear is one of the biggest tactics they use.”

    https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/sfpd-confirms-no-ice-activity-on-muni-but-sfusd-helped-to-spread-rumor/

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  8. Scott O Avatar

    Actually, Hillbilly – Captain Kangaroo would do a better job than the last Scty of Defense.
    You might notice they effed the military up so bad, they are falling way short of recruits.
    You just might want to check out Pete’s CV – it’s a bit more than a FOX ‘personality’.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth

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  9. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    scotto 310p
    Hillbully does that to placate his peers in the Democratic Party. “Fox ‘personality’” says everything they need to know about the new SecDef.
    I’m sure Jeffy knows the details… even he isn’t that stupid. Probably.
    Ahhh, Captain Kangaroo… I saw him at the Hollywood Bowl ~65 years ago with a zillion of other LA kids.
    Jeffy would do well to emulate the good Captain K.

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  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Captain Kangaroo would do a better job than the last Scty of Defense.”
    I’m just assuming that he did whatever moved his career forward. Next up is the well-payed gig at a non-profit or school.
    It seems to me it’ll be exciting since the SOP thus far is to undo long-term damage in the least time possible. It’s funny how pensioning-off the men-in-dresses will seem a radical move, but those are the times we live in.

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    TRU DAT!
    Stephen A. Smith calls out liberals with blunt reason for Trump win: He’s ‘closer to normal’ than the left
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/stephen-smith-calls-liberals-blunt-165411614.html
    😉

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    HAHA –
    “The full-scale assault by the conservative movement on liberal domination of the nation’s culture has begun to deliver key victories,” said Edsall, after decades of bitterness from conservatives “over the leftward tilt of academia, the literary world, the press, television and streaming video.”
    This pendulum swing of culture from left to right has also had an effect on cable news networks, according to Edsall.
    Anya Schiffrin, the director of the technology, media and communications program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, claimed in an email to Edsall that conservatives are also winning on the communications front.
    Schiffrin stated that “part of why the Republicans are so successful is the message rather than the medium. Republicans keep their message extremely simple and focus on topics that have salience. Explaining the nuances of crime statistics and telling people not to worry about crime is not persuasive when people go daily to CVS and see all the toothpaste and aspirin are under lock and key or feel threatened on the street or subway.”
    This pushback on progressive ideas also made its way into sports and music, as pointed out by Wall Street Journal reporters Aaron Zitner and Meridith McGraw in their Jan. 19 article, “How MAGA Is Taking Back the Culture.”
    “Instead of taking a knee to call for social justice, N.F.L. players are doing the ‘Trump dance’ in the end zone at football games. Mainstream entertainers, among them the country singer Carrie Underwood and the rapper Snoop Dogg, agreed to perform at events celebrating Donald Trump’s inauguration, something music stars largely shunned eight years ago,” the WSJ reporters said.
    Edsall also placed blame on the elite universities across America for pushing culture to the right.
    “Among the most damaging developments for the left include the failure of elite universities, bastions of liberalism, to deal with antisemitic protests during Israel’s attacks on Gaza; the current exodus of reporters, editors and subscribers at The Washington Post, a mainstay of liberal journalism; the discrediting of academia’s commitment to free speech as a result of the disclosure of their cancellation of controversial speakers; the relative absence of conservative professors in most fields; and the requirement that faculty members file annual mandatory diversity statements.”
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/ny-times-columnist-admits-conservatives-165119249.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink
    😉

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  13. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    You do have to wonder how many of these are going to come out.
    “The following story was told by Michael Shane Daughtry, a J6 survivor.
    I’m going to relay it in the exact same way that he wrote it out. Just when you think his story cannot get crazier, it does. His story is one of full-on corruption, and he exposes names.”
    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1883228690571575373.html
    This election win by Trump looks to have allowed us to narrowly avoid a very nasty world.

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  14. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 26 January 2025 at 08:04 AM
    Confirmation of what Shotgun Joey was thinking when he issued his blanket pardons. That the process is the punishment!
    No way he was going to submit lil Bagman jr. to that!
    Do you suppose that this sort of thing is why progressives in general are so excited at the exercise of Federal Power…..the ability to bully vicariously…..with no physical risk and no stigma after the fact?

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  15. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “the ability to bully vicariously…..with no physical risk and no stigma after the fact?”
    It would explain the discoloration on the BarcaLounger.

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  16. fish Avatar
    fish

    I liked him better playing the Banjo on the porch in Deliverance…..

    “Start your tape right now, because I’m about to tell you the truth. And f-you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I’ve known him for years. The Brzezinskis have known him for 50 years. If it weren’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it.”
    —JOE SCARBOROUGH

    Yeah…..that one aged well!
    https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1882926187124760625

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  17. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    What say you, Circle of Conservative Sycophants?
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/colombias-petro-not-allow-us-150256189.html
    With Trump, it’s all about transactional, tit for tat, strong counter-punching, bullying.
    The gas lighting conservative narrative is that we are the laughing stock of the world and we are getting taken by everybody else.
    When the truth is, we are the most powerful nation in the world and we are constantly blockading, invading, bombing, supplying arms to, basically whoever we want whenever we want.
    Trump is a petty douchebag.

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  18. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “What say you, Circle of Conservative Sycophants?”
    I’m not a Conservative, Jeff.
    “Professional” journalists gaslit the world on Biden’s cognition.
    You are a petty douchebag.

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 26 January 2025 at 11:44 AM
    What say you, Circle of Conservative Sycophants?

    sycophant
    noun
    sy·​co·​phant ˈsi-kə-fənt also ˈsī-, -ˌfant
    Synonyms of sycophant
    : a servile self-seeking flatterer
    sycophant adjective

    Servile….that’s more of a journalist thing jeffy…..!
    Nobody here wants anything more from Trump other than him not being Shotgun Joey!

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  20. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Here you go Trump sycophants. Trump fascists don’t want you to know what’s going on inside the government in the next 4 years.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/colombias-petro-not-allow-us-150256189.html

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  21. Scott O Avatar

    “Trump fascists don’t want you to know what’s going on inside the government in the next 4 years.”
    Hillbilly – you really are one ignorant fool. We had 4 years of the govt lying to the public about darn near everything. And you thought it was just dandy.
    You clearly didn’t read the reason for the temporary halt to the issuance of orders and directives.
    Trump has only just started and you’ve been going off with your hair on fire with all sorts of lies about what his admin has and will do.
    Best to calm down before you burst a blood vessel.

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Scott O | 26 January 2025 at 12:39 PM
    I think he’s just upset because he knows Trump will be the last president of his life.

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  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    ” Trump fascists”
    OK. Fine. Everyone who doesn’t believe in unlimited immigration, racial spoils systems, drag queen story hour, child mutilation as Karen-mom fashion item, is a fascist. People with the attitudes of practically anyone from 20+ years ago are fascists.
    The Trump Police are going to stop by Resurrected Hillbilly’s house and make a lampshade out of him.

    Boo!

    The business with Columbia was genius, although I bet the phone call was a bit heated.
    It’s the age of FAFO and there’s a lot of damage to be undone. It’s surprising given that all these immigrants were so very valuable, you’d think their home countries would be eager for their return.

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  24. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 26 January 2025 at 01:17 PM
    It’s surprising given that all these immigrants were so very valuable, you’d think their home countries would be eager for their return.

    Nothing is more important to Progressive America than cheap yard care. If the loss of valuable human capital prevents a 500lb guy in Nevada City, CA from getting a little sweaty behind the mower….well, Columbia’s loss.

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  25. fish Avatar
    fish

    Quick…..raise the makeup budget….

    French president Macron’s popularity hits new low…

    https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/6/226075/French-president-Macron's-popularity-hits-new-low

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  26. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    We’re not wannabe fascists… as Elon speaks before the far right Germans.
    Elon didn’t do that Nazi salute…
    more than twice…
    https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/europe/elon-musk-germany-afd-protests-intl-latam/index.html

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  27. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    What makes AfD “far-right” vs just plain “right”?
    Same BS that makes Jeffie “moderate” and everyone here “far right”?
    Probably.
    Musk isn’t a German National Socialist. That wasn’t a Sieg Heil salute.

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  28. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Trump is governing like a man who has been shot, indicted, investigated, and impeached and has no fucks left to give.
    It’s glorious.”
    – Eric Matheny on X

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  29. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Gregory: “What makes AfD “far-right” vs just plain “right”?”
    feelz.

    Truth is, you are arguing with a child. There’s no point.

    Resurrected Hillbilly: Some stuff.
    Boo!

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  30. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Resurrected Hillbilly@2:24 – Some stuff.
    Truth is, this whole Elon hand signal thing is just clickbait. Please continue with this important research project.

    Boo!

    Gotta love this timeline, check out the org chart:
    “With the Trump administration axing “diversity, equity, and inclusion” jobs throughout the federal bureaucracy, Mark Spooner, a 79-year-old retired attorney in Fairfax County, unearthed startling documents through a public records request, detailing the price tag for salaries of 52 employees in the “Chief Equity Office” of Fairfax County Public Schools: $6.4 million, or enough to pay about 125 new teachers. ”
    https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/pricetag-of-equity-in-fairfax-county-schools-6-4-million/article_6e14ee46-db8a-11ef-ba7b-4b737bdff938.html
    It’s fun watching this all start to fall apart. Bummer that the BLM grift chick lost 2 of her 3 mansions in the LA fire though.

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  31. fish Avatar
    fish

    It’s okay jeffy…..you can tantrum here! Go ahead….get it out of your system!

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  32. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly
  33. fish Avatar
    fish

    Yes…..let it all out!

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  34. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    The funny thing about quoting X is that all the insane lefties on Reddit, which is most of the site, are blocking it.
    Quick example, first one that shows up in a search.
    https://old.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1i6upny/banning_links_to_twitterx/
    lol. These people are insane. Anyone who thinks like them is insane. Basement living has done no good to a big chunk of the country.

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  35. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Jeffie is doing what Jeffie always does.

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Meanwhile, in Germany.
    https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1ian6ya/100000_march_against_fascism_in_berlin/
    WE ARE INDIVIDUALS! WE HAVE FLAGS! WE HATE THE OTHER PEOPLE! WE WILL MARCH!
    roflmao. It’s baked into the cake I think.
    Ya know, it does occur to me. If there’s trouble sending people back to their actual home countries, I wonder if Germany wouldn’t take them all.

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  37. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The red flags in German protests… no, socialism isn’t the anwswer a’gin national socialism.

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  38. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: fish@4:40PM
    lol. That is a fine story.
    There is nothing the Orange Man cannot do. (except balance the budget).
    The RFKJr nomination should be interesting to watch. There’s every chance that Big Pharma and Big Food are more powerful than Big Defense in the Hegseth case. Thing is, you can hate Trump and still see that Kennedy is a good guy. With the Democrats automatically voting against any Trump nominee, it doesn’t take many shekels changing hands to have insufficient (R) votes. Gabbard is the other test case for the swamp.
    I’m loving all this since the rot in the system is laid bare on a daily basis. Getting rid of a grifter President with dementia was only a small piece of the puzzle.

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  39. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Bromance goes south?
    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2Fjf3u5/

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  40. Scott O Avatar

    scenes – Cute Winter Boots:
    “Beneath the surface, however, lies a clever and coded language of resistance against government policies and censorship.”
    LOL – ‘govt censorship’!! Viva la resistance!!
    So hip, so edgy, so friggin lame I can’t believe it.
    Let me try:
    “Say Hillbilly, how do you like my cute winter boots?
    – wink, wink.
    What a bunch of Barney Fifes. I’m sure the NSA, FBI and CIA are completely bamboozled by all this…
    I guess for some folks it’s going to be a mighty long 4 years.

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  41. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    My gift to Resurrected Hillbilly.
    A group filled with people suffering from the same insanity. It can provide a combination of soothing goodthinkers and a news source for TDS. Maybe even crazier than the DailyKos.
    https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/

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  42. Scott O Avatar

    scenes 7:16 re reddit
    “A group filled with people suffering from the same insanity.”
    Yep.
    Kirstin Elaine Martin has:
    “proof beyond proof that election was stolen and we need to get this out to America and the world.”
    “Data Scientists (who dat?) reported that Kamala got 60 to 70% of the vote and that 30% of Republicans voted for her.”
    Yes – we have gone beyond proof into coo-coo land and “Data Scientists” have the goods. Apparently the new theory is that Musk’s satellites rigged the deal.
    I’m sure we would get to see the proof, but – you know – govt censorship!

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