[‘Making English Our National Language Is One Step Toward A More Unified Country’ is a true statement, and long overdue. I grew up in a bilingual environment, speaking only Estonian at home with my parents. But we all recognized the importance of speaking English as one of the main bonds unifying us as Americans with everyone else in the country. gjr]
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157 responses to “Sandbox – 8mar25”
“It is official the paper of MAGA record WSJ has determined that MAGAloons are idiots.”
It is official… Hillbilly Ejaculate is delusional.
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“It is official the paper of MAGA record WSJ has determined that MAGAloons are idiots.”
The official paper of MAGA is X.
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Jeffie hillbilly has a poster of the mentaly ill it on their wall –
“Hello everybody, it’s JD. I use they, them and turtle for my pronouns. I’m in the Springfield-Eugene area and I get to be part of the council,” Holt said during a Dec. 20 virtual OCAC meeting. Gender Wiki, a website that documents the list of non-binary genders, describes “turtlegender,” sometimes called “tortoisegender,” as “a xenogender identity in which one feels a gendered connection to turtles.”
“WHAT TO DO AT AN ICE CHECKPOINT, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE WHITE and/or FEEL THE NEED TO JAM UP THE WORKS,” Holt wrote in a Jan. 29 Facebook post. Holt’s post encouraged people to yell and scream at federal immigration authorities and make their jobs as “difficult and uncomfortable” as possible.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/oregon-mental-health-advisory-panel-includes-member-identifies-turtle
😉
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So a pos rust bucket manages to run into a contract super tanker holding USAF reserve jet fuel and it turns oot the captain of the rust bucket was a russian! Hybrid warfare it be. –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/cargo-ship-that-crashed-into-tanker-carrying-us-army-jet-fuel-had-russian-captain/ar-AA1AMYE8?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=3599a327f43a443bb421b998938434c8&ei=80
😉
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Well that sucks –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/hackers-are-using-recaptcha-to-trick-users-into-infecting-their-own-pcs-with-malware-how-to-stay-safe/ar-AA1AEb2f?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=3599a327f43a443bb421b998938434c8&ei=116
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Insanity laid bare –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/12/doge-cancels-nih-grants-to-prevent-pregnancy-in-transgender-boys/
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United States of MAGA sleasiness
and stupidity
As a “show of confidence” in his buddy Elon Musk, president Donald Trump on Tuesday turned the White House lawn into a Tesla advertisement in all but name. The day before, Trump had promised that he’d immediately buy a brand new Tesla to support Musk, whose automaker is currently facing falling sales and a plunging stock price.
The resulting spectacle was a bizarre and alarming mingling of the official powers of public office with naked salesmanship. Here was a sitting president plugging the cars made by his close confidante and biggest donor, who bankrolled his campaign to the tune of an astonishing $288 million.
In short, it exuded that brand of sleaziness unique to American car dealerships. And nothing exemplifies this more than Trump’s speech notes from the event, which a photographer managed to capture clearly.
“Teslas can be purchased as low as $299/month or $35k,” reads one part of the handwritten notes, indistinguishable from what you’d hear from the booming narrator of a car commercial.
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re R. Hillbilly@6:40AM
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/12/well-well-democrats-forgot-about-bidens-car-show-n4937845
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Trump will turn America into a has-been while China dominates,
https://spectrum.ieee.org/chinas-thorium-molten-salt-reactor
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“Trump will turn America into a has-been while China dominates,”
Posts some article about Chinese nuclear reactor experiment.
roflmao
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Posted by: Resurrected Fatbelly | 13 March 2025 at 06:59 AM
Trump will turn America into a has-been while China dominates,
No need. Progressives already got that covered! By eviscerating education they not only guarantee the America’s youth can’t build thorium reactors but don’t know what thorium is and couldn’t spell thorium if they did.
We will lead the world in personal pronoun research however.
Let us know how your coronary bypass turns out!
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Look who thinks he has the remotest chance at being President…..
With apologies to Paul Tsongas……”Pander Bear” redux!
https://www.wsj.com/politics/gavin-newsom-election-2028-e878c02e
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Yeah and I remember when you progressive dimwits would whine about the $10,000 aircraft toilet seat….
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fema-launches-probe-ngos-who-helped-traffic-illegal-migrants
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It’s funny the griftiness that pops up now and again.
“MAHA: The American Heart Association is actively fighting legislation to prevent food stamps from being used to buy soda and candy. Why? The NGO relies on funding from Pepsi and Kelloggs.”
https://x.com/amuse/status/1899776955462942806
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Resurrected Beer-belly:
“Trump will turn America into a has-been while China dominates,”
First of all, China’s eclipse of the US is old, old, old news.
But the good news is that President Potato told us that China isn’t our enemy!
Anyway – we’re way out in front of China in making high-end coffee drinks!
Just relax.
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Oh well…..might have been a little wiggle room here if only Gavin hadn’t decided to invite the entire 3rd world to California for a check up!
Nice going slicky boy….only 3.44 billion!
Again it’s in the SacFishWrap which doesn’t seem to allow links….
There’s also…
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/12/california-medicaid-shortfall-00227904
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re: Medicaid.
So basically every single legal person in Sunny California gets to pay $225. Family of four? $1100/year for illegal aliens’ healthcare. About $5000/yr per illegal. Nice.
re: from the ‘popular program’ helping students pay for college article:
“But the program is labor-intensive for universities to run. The report notes half of its total funding has been spent on administrative costs at both the state and campus levels.”
lol. I bet it is popular…among the iron rice bowl crowd.
Only grifty Democrats can find a way to have giving away a dollar cost a dollar. We’d probably be better off just dumping Benjamins out of a plane.
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I admit that I appreciate the sheer unadorned griftiness of the US Left.
“The Department of Justice is investigating the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $27 billion program that was part of Joe Biden’s $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act. Created in the spring of 2023, and managed by the Environmental Protection Agency, the fund was supposed to be a first-of-its-kind program to address the climate crisis while revitalizing communities that it considered “historically left behind.”
But it appears little of the $27 billion revitalized anything—except the coffers of a range of environmental nonprofits associated with former Obama and Biden administration officials.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/a-20-billion-slush-fund-nonprofits
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Let’s celebrate a great song from the past… Blame Canada!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxPRHXgYVlk
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fish 11:09 – from Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas:
“But let’s be clear: We will not roll over and leave our immigrants behind.”
By all means let’s get our priorities straight!
And how much was that surplus that Newsom was bragging about?
Don’t forget the 39 billion the feds “forgave” CA for the unpaid unemployment money that deadbeat state welshed on.
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Posted by: Scott O | 13 March 2025 at 05:14 PM
“But let’s be clear: We will not roll over and leave our immigrants behind.”
Well what I’m sure he would have said had he been honest is something like: But let’s be clear: “We will not roll over and leave our unchallengeable one party rule behind and that means numbers. Of course those undocumented democrats will need to be in adequate physical condition to pull the lever for us so medical attention to some degree is warranted. It’s what we do for Our Democracy™.”
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Yes…..but reluctantly and only when a public “recantation” of his nefarious deeds while in office is quietly offered. Words or deeds…either will suffice.
https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/steven-soderbergh-trump-movie-villain/
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‘This is a Hitler-screaming-in-his-bunker-at-generals level of lunacy’
So sad that the circle of Trumpers now have to throw WSJ under the bus now.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1900170358386315506?t=m2EtOPzKSJp7JK9clb8xLw&s=19
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Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 14 March 2025 at 06:30 AM
Ugh…..Aaron Rupar. Good choice jeffy, he’s a eunuch like you….
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re: fish@6:41AM
Huh. I’ve never heard of the guy.
https://www.twincities.com/2024/11/01/aaron-rupar-city-pages-substack-trump-rallies/
So basically he’s like the local Trump Hate people, but with enough additional writing skill to make a living at it.
lol. What a way to make a living and certainly a far cry from professional journalists from a long time ago, but it sells. Guys like that get views in the same order of magnitude as CNN or 60 Minutes. Brave New World. Real media power is in the hands of someone like Elon Musk, not just the reins to X but his account has 220M followers.
In terms of WSJ-under-the-bus just keep an eye on X, Trump’s base has little to do with old school Republicans (or, honestly, George R for that matter). There’s been a generational change and worrying about traditional MSM is a fogey hobby. The New Way is to get everything from social media, often siloed, and read it on your smartphone. The value of the NYT, WSJ, Washington Post, etc, is only in that they are quoted by well-known people with accounts on the various websites. (this is all obvious, but thought I’d indulge my typing Tourette’s for a moment).
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Posted by: scenes | 14 March 2025 at 07:23 AM
So basically he’s like the local Trump Hate people, but with enough additional writing skill to make a living at it.
I don’t really know because after the second paragraph of the first thing I ever read that he authored I knew everything there was to know about Mr. Rupar. If I have a quibble it’s that photo he uses. I’ve seen some of his others (Google Images) and they aren’t terrible.
That he deliberately stays with the shot that makes him look as rodent like as possible is telling!
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Rupar didn’t make the Trump post up. Trump did.
Typical MAGA moron, shoot the messenger mentality.
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Posted by: Resurrected Porkbelly | 14 March 2025 at 08:43 AM
Rupar didn’t make the Trump post up. Trump did.
Typical MAGA moron, shoot the messenger mentality.
Nobody cares jeffy. And all you and the senile feeb do is “shoot the messenger” with your constant whining about sources.
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How is you Fatboy doing sardine?
https://youtu.be/ZHOoA-VRTFE?si=Apf1SjK-e1cJCwAD
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Posted by: Resurrected Porkbelly | 15 March 2025 at 06:52 AM
Hmmm…..a different progtard puppeteer this morning? An aficionado of the Greek Fisherman’s cap?
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How is you Fatboy doing sardine?
Never learned about punctuation – clearly.
Just where does the comma(s) go?
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Posted by: Scott O | 15 March 2025 at 08:05 AM
If I’m wrong and it’s the usual “Porkbelly” puppeteer remember that it takes 80K and a masters degree to achieve that level of writing skill.
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The Union and RL Crabby are in cahoots with “Indivisble Nevada County”, who have announced a “town hall” at Miners Foundry; Kevin Kiley has been invited!
Isn’t that special?
Everyone who thinks “Indivisble Nevada County” is trying to split the county, raise their hands.
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Gregory 11:22 – It’s a group therapy session for TDS sufferers. Getting liquored-up before they go will enhance their experience.
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scotto… a new low for The Union. They let the folks hosting the charade get away with announcing a “town hall” with our congresscritter without a chat with Kiley’s office to verify the veracity of the bat shit crazy “Indivisible Nevada County”.
And Crabbman was a supporting bad actor.
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“Indivisible Nevada County”
“We invite all ages and genders to join the resistance.”
roflmao. There’s a lot to like there, although they might reconsider their name.
Why a Congresshuman would go to something to be yelled at by the usual suspects is beyond me. People with talking sticks never listen.
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re: Gregory@5:47PM
I’m really digging on the name “Batshit Nevada County”.
They can carry on, take turns writing screeds to the newspaper, worry about abortion laws in other states or places like Denmark, wear Handmaid costumes and talk about how ‘Drumpfs America is just like that TV show!!’, talk about their jobs as apparatchiks or aromatherapy experts.
It’ll be great.
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Excellent. Dragon just docked a few minutes ago. You really have to hand it to SpaceX.
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re Indivisible Nevada County – they do have a Facebook page:
“Group rules from the admins
1 I agree to:
Only engage here in ways that: Focus on productive, healthy dialogue and empowerment; is credibly sourced, timely and relevant; is not intended to incite division.”
The lack of self-awareness in that statement is telling. This is Hive-Mind 101 on steroids.
There will be a business opportunity available outside the “town hall” meeting. Sell paddles with “Trump Sux” and “Torch A Tesla” printed on them.
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Posted by: Scott O | 16 March 2025 at 08:55 AM
Only engage here in ways that: Focus on productive, healthy dialogue and empowerment; is credibly sourced, timely and relevant; is not intended to incite division.”
Sounds a lot like three nine year old girls at a sleepover penning the bylaws of the Pillow Fort by flashlight.
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re: fish@9:28AM
Post-menopausal nine year old girls who wear scarves and funny little hats.
I haven’t paid any attention, but I imagine that they hassle Kiley all the time. DNC-captive news organizations make it sound organic and like some sort of major uprising. The ‘Indivisible’ organization is something of a political hydra.
Naturally, there’s bound to be plenty of self-satisfied meetings where the hive mind gets to talk and much bitching is done about things that other people ought to be doing. No one really cares, but it fills a few column inches.
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Posted by: scenes | 16 March 2025 at 09:37 AM
They’re running the same game on Amodei in Reno right now too and I imagine others they think may be vulnerable. Same complaints, language and coordination with local captive media (the bossy fat girl from the prom decorating committee at the Sac fish wrap and some other media non-entity whose name escapes me at the RGJ).
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“Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.”
A retweet by Musk.
I’d have written “Mao, Stalin and Hitler” in order of their regimes’ body count, or perhaps “Činggis Khan, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot” widening the spread a bit.
Imagine Punchy dependent upon The Party for his daily pudding cups…
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It would take a Heart of Stone not to laugh…..
Gotta go towel off….I’ve been cackling like a Gibbon for the last half hour!
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/16/democrats-hit-rock-bottom-as-internal-numbers-reveal-total-collapse-n4937967#google_vignette
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fish: “They’re running the same game on Amodei in Reno right now too”
lol. I’ll say. I just searched for ‘protest town hall’ under Google news and they’re all over the country all simultaneously.
Somebody is pulling the puppets’ strings all at once.
Honestly, I’d feel kind of insulted to be part of a big ol’ astroturf project.
Gregory@10:22
I did see that. Naturally, the Iron Rice Bowl Brigade is up in arms:
https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1jaul4n/musk_retweets_a_message_blaming_public_sector/
The fact that a lot of people view it as unconstitutional to lay-off public sector employees kind of blows me away, but ultimately shows the wisdom of the takeover of prosecutor offices and judge seats by ‘activists’…money well spent in the slow motion takeover of the US. No doubt Team Blue will double down on how ‘TRUMP AND MUSK ARE GOING TO STEAL GRANDMAW’S SOCiAL SEcurRITY AND LOOK AT OUR TAX RETURNS!!!’.
I wonder sometimes what this is all the inevitable result of. Representative democracy and the free lunch? Female suffrage? Replacement of church and social institutions by The State? Deindustrialization? Replacement of English Protestants by the 3rd World? Death of self-employment and self-sufficiency? At least our downfall so far is not as extreme as the UK.
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Kevin Kiley A.W.O.L
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Reconstituted Beerbelly:
“Kevin Kiley A.W.O.L”
He’s on the public dime. Why should he waste that time to show up for a hate-fest populated by mentally unsound people?
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Jeffy:
Turn on.
Tune in.
Grow up.
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“Kevin Kiley A.W.O.L”
Good for him. Why show up to a thing that isn’t really voters but is just a bunch of organized harridans out to getcha? Purest astroturf.
https://apnews.com/article/republicans-town-hall-north-carolina-trump-ba90438a9265bc868cf1e3ade150a943
https://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/local-protesters-are-calling-for-a-town-hall-with-congressman-doug-lamalfa/article_52e18a3c-012b-11f0-ad92-639616989705.html
https://apnews.com/article/republican-town-halls-north-carolina-wyoming-c63270c2da6973a078982baa9717f42e
https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/martin-county/2025/03/14/hundreds-of-protestors-demand-a-town-hall-with-u-s-rep-brian-mast/82411638007/
many etcs….
I mean, seriously dude, don’t you get tired of having your strings pulled? It’s not like there’s a Fortress of Solitude where AOC and Schumer are planning the destruction of the country, but it seems darned close sometime.
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“Why should he waste that time to show up for a hate-fest populated by mentally unsound people?”
To be fair, everyone responds to Paul.
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