[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”
“MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid says Trump enforcing immigration law is just like Hitler orchestrating the Holocaust:
“Similarities to what happened in Germany, & what’s happening now in America, are just undeniable. History may not repeat verbatim, but it sure does rhyme.””
The “Hitler” card….played only a little less often than the “racism” card.
…and I guarantee that Joy Reid hasn’t a clue what “verbatim” means.
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Hah…..
NASA……????
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/trump-asks-elon-musk-retrieve-nasa-astronauts-international-space-station
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re 832am – Joy Ann Reid is beyond stupid. Hitler prevented Jews and other undesirables from leaving the country and sent them to death camps. Trump promotes the return of undesirable and illegal aliens to their own countries. Unfortunately Reid’s ignorance is a broad-based deficit common to people of her ideology.
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GR@10:15AM
Ah well, it’s just business as usual.
Liberals think that something they don’t like is the same as a bad thing. Of course, they know scarcely anything about either.
When you have a feelz-based philosophy, it’s all just words anyway. An entire political belief system built on virtue signalling.
As usual, the Karens be Karening.
https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1884680002043519407
lol. What a bunch of lunatics. The fact that they carry water for Big Pharma and Big Ag, while pretending to be for the Little Guy, makes it all better. It’s a crying shame that HL Mencken didn’t live to see this.
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“Senator Bernie Sanders, screaming:
“Are you supportive of the onesies!”
We live in clown world.”
https://x.com/Manhattva/status/1884654448947192072
jaysus. What a jackass.
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“WASHINGTON – Security agents escorted the inspector general of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office on Jan 27 after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.”
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/usda-inspector-general-escorted-out-of-her-office-after-defying-white-house
This is the best timeline of all.
In the meantime, a clip of the Senator from Pfizer doing her thing.
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1884650469210923056
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A private company broke the sound barrier over Mojave this morning.
I am disgusted they were allowed to do this… now we’re left with a major catastrophe: a broken sound barrier.
What is the state going to do about it? What sort of adhesive is available to repair the broken sound barrier?
Governor Hairgel, will you be seeing to this?
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I see reports that an intelligence agency has come to the conclusion that COVID-2019 came from a virology lab.
Wow.
I came to that conlusion in early 2020 and wrote a completely supportable comment on The Union pages, only to have it removed entirely by The Union staff. They were following the lead of our federales to quash misinformation.
The editor who did that is no longer there but no matter… they knew I was right then and there.
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Did creepy grampa joe and the hyena tank the party for a generation?
In the Quinnipiac poll released on Wednesday, 31 percent of voters have a favorable view of the Democratic Party, compared to 57 percent holding an unfavorable view.
“This is the highest percentage of voters having an unfavorable opinion of the Democratic Party since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking this question,” the poll notes.
The poll shows that 22 percent of independent voters have a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party, versus 59 percent having an unfavorable view. Men have a 22 percent favorable view, versus 67 with an unfavorable view, while 39 percent of women have a favorable view of the party compared to 47 percent having an unfavorable view.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democratic-party-handed-polling-blow-on-heels-of-second-trump-term/ar-AA1y5oVw?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=ab7ea41d28fb43c992da5c5543017726&ei=82
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Dont let the door hit you in the ass on the way out –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/president-donald-trump-deport-hamas-sympathizers-college-campuses-defund-crt-new-executive-orders
😉
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Don B. 6:00 – “Did creepy grampa joe and the hyena tank the party for a generation?”
‘Ol Joe has lots of help destroying the Dem party:
“Lenawee County(MI) Democratic Party Chairman Bill Swift called for the death penalty for the president’s supporters.
He described the post as “outlining a very rational argument” about Trump’s inauguration and the president’s immediate move to crack down on illegal immigration.
Swift then extrapolated that to build an argument that Trump and those who support him are Nazis, pointing to Trump’s social media missteps during his campaign and alleged “Nazi imagery and Nazi language” at conservative events.”
Well – it was on FB, but here’s a story I found. This guy is a real sweetie.
https://www.themidwesterner.news/2025/01/lenawee-dem-party-chair-calls-for-death-penalty-for-trump-supporters-hanged-by-the-neck-until-dead/
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“More than 30 bodies recovered from Potomac River, two sources say” from collision last night at Reagan airport in DC of Bombardier (60) & a Black Hawk helo (3 on board).
So, let’s see if the ATC folks (you know, the ones who are dwarfs, partially paralyzed…) from the Biden admin might be responsible.
Just listening now to CNBC – evidently the guy talking didn’t get any useful information from ATC or control tower. So neither plane had radar, or working anti-collision, or ATC was not looking.
Guy on CNBC just said when a flight gets closer (how close – I don’t know) to ground, the anti-collision doesn’t function quite as well due to ground interference. But ATC in the tower should have a way of seeing this.
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CNBC showed video of the collision (looks like from ~1-mile away, probably from near the control tower. Probably no survivors, 9 hours ago, water temp=32F. American Airlines plane was on final. Evidently, Black Hawks & other helos are as common as flocks of birds near DCA.
Correction – There is no audio warning from anti-col at low altitude; but still should be video on the monitor in the cockpit. ‘Yeah co-pilot, we’re at 200-ft AGL, 30 sec. from touchdown, let’s watch that You Tube video.’
Wait for the NTSB report 6 months from now. If ATC had ANYTHING to do with it, maybe they’ll be held accountable by the Trump admin.
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All eyes in the helo should have been focused outside, not on the panel.
ATC called out the traffic to the helo and directed them to pass behind the passenger jet on final. I expect they didn’t see the jet they’d been on a collision course with which would have been a stationary bright light to them.
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Posted by: Gregory | 30 January 2025 at 08:32 AM
I expect they didn’t see the jet they’d been on a collision course with which would have been a stationary bright light to them.
Isn’t a stationary “anything” (either straight ahead or in the periphery) in the flight environment supposed to be a warning. A pretty glaring one too if I recall correctly!
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First, a correction… the helo would have seen a stationary dim light as the landing lights of the jet would have not been aimed at them.
The spot on the runway you are going to land on is the spot that is stationary.
The airliner was blameless, they were where they were supposed to be.
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just get a load of this guy
“WHAT IS HAPPENING??? Senator Michael Bennet asked Tulsi Gabbard a question, and when she opened her mouth to answer, he immediately interrupted her and started SCREAMING.
Tulsi Derangement Syndrome is deadly.”
https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1885017671978148240
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Do tell LOL –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/climate-change-overestimated-new-data-shows-oceans-are-cooling-the-planet-faster-than-predicted/ss-AA1y7Ejn?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=3417477cc7a64187a2aa964f6a6966d4&ei=16
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OH the tragedy –
CNN Democratic guest says women won’t have blueberries for smoothies if illegal immigrants are deported
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/cnn-democratic-guest-says-women-201119207.html
😉
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Who knew that Trump’s newly-found doppelganger is one of the leaders in Syria.
From Reuters – “Syria’s new Islamist leaders are undertaking a radical overhaul of the country’s broken economy, including plans to fire a third of all public sector workers and privatising state-run companies dominant during half a century of Assad family rule.
Critics question fast pace and legitimacy of interim government’s strategy…
Only 900,000 of 1.3 million people on the government payroll actually come to work, Abazeed said, citing a preliminary review.”
I thought the headlines were straight from WaPo, but I was wrong – from DaPo (Damascus Post).
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syrias-islamist-rulers-overhaul-economy-with-firings-privatization-state-firms-2025-01-31/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=Daily-Briefing&utm_term=013125&lctg=5518716c3b35d0e76e8ba69a
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A very memorable person… my first flight instructor
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/sports/iris-cummings-critchell-dead.html
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“Even Progressives Now Worry About the Federal Debt”
A little late now. Oh well.
https://dnyuz.com/2025/01/30/even-progressives-now-worry-about-the-federal-debt/
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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/
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The echo chamber of ideocracy is a gift that will keep on giving. LOL –
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2025/01/31/every-single-dnc-chair-candidate-says-kamala-lost-due-to-racism-and-misogyny/
😉
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Too white 0 said and 10 controllers short at Reagan int. =
The Times report said the tower at the airport was nearly a third below targeted staff levels, with 19 fully certified controllers as of September 2023, citing the most recent Air Traffic Controller Workforce Plan, an annual report to Congress that contains target and actual staffing levels.
The targets set by the F.A.A. and the controllers union call for 30.
The lawsuit represents nearly 1,000 individuals who went to school to become air traffic controllers . They passed the normal test to obtain the position right before the Obama administration said the class was too white and threw out the tests with the applicants, the suit alleges.
Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, who serves as co-counsel for Mountain States Legal Foundation, based in Colorado, is leading efforts for a lawsuit.
“When you travel and have a delay, it’s because there aren’t enough of these people,” Laxalt told the Wall Street Journal last year. “When you see these near incidents in air traffic control, it’s because there aren’t enough people. There are only 14,000 air traffic controllers. A thousand were scrapped a decade ago, and the bottom line is they’ve never made up losing all of this pipeline.”
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/american-airlines-plane-military-helicopter-crash-dc-airport
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Air Traffic Controllers don’t control air traffic. They herd cats that are flying airplanes.
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The cat that was flying the helo in question was flying too high… the maps of the area that define the route bypassing the airport specify the helos are to fly no higher than 200′ above ground (or water). Meaning 201ft will get the pilot into trouble with the FAA.
More likely, they’d be trying to keep level flight at 150′ to avoid the FAA nastygram.
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Amazing. Check this out.
https://seditionhunters.org/
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Oh shit thats gonna leave a big blue mark. ROFLOL –
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/01/31/trump-rule-will-steer-transportation-dept-funds-to-non-sanctuary-districts/
😉
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WINNING –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/venezuela-releases-six-us-prisoners-after-trump-envoy-s-visit/ar-AA1ydbVc?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=8bd507c1b0b44f3faab31632db87c4e7&ei=58
😉
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reason enough to vote for the man.
“The CDC is finally removing the dystopian ‘pregnant people’ nonsense.
Pregnant WOMEN are back!!
No more erasing women. Never again.”
https://x.com/kristenmag/status/1885481485160870345
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Thats so Trumpian, here is a valentines day p;resent lap dogs of the woke and liars to boot LOL –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pentagon-boots-nbc-npr-nyt-and-politico-from-offices-to-be-replaced-by-breitbart-and-one-america-news/ar-AA1yddMp?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=566c5b9e95644bda9a1022c5b47e1e87&ei=57
😉
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The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.
They literally never denied a payment in their entire career.
Not even once.
– E. Musk on X
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I mean, we dodged such a bullet by electing Trump.
“DELETED: GSA’s tech arm, a far-left agency that viciously subverted Trump during his first term, surrendered after an @elonmusk deputy took over. It deleted huge swaths of code dedicated to virtue-signaling rather than mission, such as its “inclusion bot” that lectured staff.”
https://x.com/lukerosiak/status/1885523747425399247
“Federal government-wide computer office @18F, which to this day has a transgender flag as its logo, also deleted where its employee handbook instructed employees to explain what they look like at each meeting so blind people could know if there was sufficient racial diversity.”
https://x.com/lukerosiak/status/1885525490368168426
etc.
You know, I think there’s going to be so much uncovered insanity, grift, and downright illegal stuff that went on that we’ll all get jaded. No one will care about the next huge chunk of thrown away money, crazy person activity, lawfare, just because there’ll be an avalanche of disclosures.
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Well, finally, new research into the 3-year-old China Eastern fight MU5735 Boeing 737-800 crash in SE China. It’s too bad the Chinese never found the 2 black boxes from that accident. Word on the street is the boxes have been buried in the bowels of the FAA/NTSB basement. It’s odd that the Chinese wouldn’t have looked there as the 44th-likeliest place for the boxes by this time. Final report to be issued “soon”.
“Investigation of the Crash Process of China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 Based on Seismic Data ”
(Only the abstract is available w/o payment.)
Evidently, even Chinese PhD students are in need of new areas for papers. They used 3-D data from a seismograph, located about 13 miles from the crash site. Concluded the plane was traveling 200-264 m/s (450-590 mph) on impact. My cat already came up with the same number in 2022, by analyzing the plane plummeting straight down off the video. Yeah, yeah I said to her at the time – 1 body length, 4 frames, whatever.
The authors concluded that their results were “…providing valuable insights into the circumstances surrounding the crash.”
Unfortunately, they weren’t insightful enough to conclude if any of the pilots had his hands pressed hard-up on the left throttle and the control column.
When asked if the CCP fellows were “helpful” while performing their research, Yong Zhang replied “I can’t complain”.
Maybe Trump can bug the FAA to get the report for this China flight released, before the one for the “No Miracle on the Potomac” that just occurred.
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Posted by: scenes | 01 February 2025 at 06:35 AM
You know, I think there’s going to be so much uncovered insanity, grift, and downright illegal stuff that went on that we’ll all get jaded. No one will care about the next huge chunk of thrown away money, crazy person activity, lawfare, just because there’ll be an avalanche of disclosures.
Jacks…..for openers:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/treasury-depts-highest-ranking-career-official-rage-quits-after-musks-doge-team-probes
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breaking news, Doge uncovers subversive reason for recent collision between jet and military helicopter
It was DEI
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Enjoying their delightful ham flavored tears…
https://x.com/MZHemingway/status/1885165158315577487
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