[‘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”
Stay tuned for another episode of “Tales form Progressively Governed City’s”
Maybe he couldn’t get his Ozempic™ prescription filled ….eh Porkbelly!
https://www.mediaite.com/weird/nyc-man-caught-in-viral-video-calmly-eating-raw-dead-rat-on-busy-sidewalk-in-broad-daylight-this-is-how-zombie-movies-start/
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It’s a foreign concept to the progressive left that other people, such as Kiley, are as independent an actor as folk like Jeff Peeline.
You can’t summon him to a meeting by renting the Foundry and putting out a press release.
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LOL –
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/03/15/learn-to-code-ai-programming-assistant-refuses-to-help-humans-offers-career-advice-instead/
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Looks like she has the pelosi botox got the brain disfunction – LOL
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hochul-tells-sharpton-she-wants-understanding-with-trump-that-new-york-won-t-allow-him-to-just-take-people-off-the-streets/ar-AA1B35xK?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=80306ade01da477090108800abbfa85a&ei=10
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I had to steal this from X.
In recent times, the Seven Deadly Sins have all been renamed:
“Wrath: protesting
Envy: paying your fair share
Lust: hook up culture
Sloth: cannabis culture
Greed: socialism
Gluttony: body positivity
Pride: actually not renamed, but celebrated for a whole month”
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scenes 12:20 – Loved that one story about protesting against La Malfa:
“Dozens of people braved the cold, wet weather to protest recent actions by President Donald Trump’s administration.”
So BRAVE! Have they any idea that millions go out to work every day in worse weather?
Best idiot sign:
“Tax the Billionaires!”
What a sorry bunch of ignorant sheep. Have any of them reflected on the fact they were lied to about Trump for years?
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re: scotto@7:35AM
It would be interesting to track the organization behind all of this. Obviously there’s a ‘Town Hall’ effort going on right now, it reminds me of how people connected to political parties seem to have regular letters-to-the-editor with the message of the day.
I’d be interested some day in really understanding right wing public demonstrations as they’re largely non-existent in the US. Of course, European ‘right’ and US ‘right’ are different beasts. The first loves uniforms, the second wants to be left alone on the family ranch.
The US Left appears to be fueled by good-boy points, mobs built on top of upvotes and praise from within the group. I wonder if a Nazi operated that way? Probably. Scrabbling for acceptance is a strange thing. The whole point of shouting with signs is group solidarity, not convincing others.
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scenes 810am – “The whole point of shouting …” Excellent reminder to us all, thank you.
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Kevin Kiley is hosting a phone in town moot at 630 this evening.
Shame on the folks who caused this.
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About that gutting of medicaid, no more free ride for able bodied lazy folks –
One of the biggest problems in Medicaid is that its expansion under Obamacare to include all adults below a certain income threshold corrupted state priorities. In the 41 states that have expanded Medicaid, the federal government pays for 90 percent of the costs for the expansion population, including a new class of able-bodied adults who mostly don’t work. By contrast, the federal government only covers an average of 57 percent of costs for traditional Medicaid recipients, such as seniors, children, and people with disabilities.
The result is a perverse incentive for states to cut services for the truly needy. As Medicaid spending has taken over state budgets, governors and state lawmakers have looked for ways to control costs. In Medicaid expansion states, there’s little appetite to cut spending on able-bodied adults who bring in $9 in federal money for every $1 the state spends. Instead, states look to cut spending on the vulnerable, who bring in as little as $1 in federal funding for every $1 in state outlays. The fiscal logic is as clear as it is awful: Who cares about the needy if they aren’t making the state money?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/republicans-have-the-moral-high-ground-on-medicaid-reform-opinion/ar-AA1B6SwB?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=9c5a6dfce09e4970ba1a51c1f179491b&ei=42
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Just how far beyond satire is “Climate Change” these days?!
https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/firefighters-rescue-conference-snow-big-bear-20226553.php
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There will be more of that in the future.
Valentina Zharkova’s research has been holding up.
There will be more by the mid term elections.
Democrat frontal lobes will be melting down for our amusement.
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@545 Ya that pesky global warming is not following the approved narrative! LOL
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Looks like the brits are already disgusted by their irrational socialists –
Voters in more than half of the constituencies in the UK would prefer Reform UK leader Nigel Farage as prime minister over Labour PM Sir Kier Starmer, a poll has found.
A survey conducted by JL Partners on behalf of the Adam Smith Institute has found that citizens in 335 constituencies would support Nigel Farage as the next prime minister of the UK, compared to 291 for incumbent Starmer.
In a further blow to the governing leftist party, the poll found that ten per cent of voters who backed Labour in last year’s general election are now considering voting for Farage’s Reform party, GB News reports.
Perhaps most concerningly for Labour, which faces a tough battle from Reform in the upcoming local elections in May, the survey found that Farage is leading Starmer in multiple key battleground constituencies.
Commenting on the findings, JL Partners co-founder Tum Lubbock said: “Keir Starmer is in a race for popularity with Nigel Farage, and at the moment, this data shows that Nigel Farage is the preferred choice for Prime Minister in more than half of constituencies vs the Prime Minister.
“That extends to 1 in 10 of those who actually voted Labour last year who now say that Nigel Farage would be a better PM than the man who actually holds that office – Keir Starmer.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/03/17/farage-tops-starmer-in-prime-minister-preference-in-over-half-of-uk-constituencies/
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How’s your FatBoy doing today?
“President Trump’s attack on Judge James Boasberg is juvenile, civically illiterate, and perilous to the rule of law. But the chief justice’s rebuke is notable for what it doesn’t say.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/03/trump-justice-roberts-impeachment-judge/682087/
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Can’t argue with that…
“We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States. ‘America First’ always meant America alone, a predatory America whose role in the world is no longer based on democratic belief. America voted at the United Nations earlier this week against Ukraine, siding with Russia and China against almost all of its fellow democracies. Is this who Americans want to be? For this is what America is being turned into,” writes David Frum.”
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“We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States”
That was accurate under Obama and Biden.
NOTHING destroys a country like debt and deliberately raising the cost of energy.
Trump is trying to do something about that.
All you leftists can do is yell and torch other people’s property.
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What a good little TDS parrot it is @538 ROFLOL
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What about that all ya TDS setters?
Charlamagne tha God: ‘Why Are Folks Fighting’ About Trump Deporting Gang Banging Criminals
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/03/18/charlamagne-tha-god-asks-why-are-folks-fighting-about-trump-deporting-criminals/
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Republicans just want to have fun.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/minnesota-justin-eichorn-arrested-soliciting-minor?sfnsn=mo&fbclid=IwY2xjawJHxJVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUlaR6oBjMaz2qqral2enJPaE0afClLIt8w9u7qw9bcfuTn20cb1iOi28g_aem_YNMsG_6MUrz6Ghublxla0w
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Bessie is a real ‘TDS’ adopter. A Greek Fisherman’s Cap tip to Bessie.
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Posted by: Resurrected KKKski | 19 March 2025 at 08:55 AM
Bessie is a real ‘TDS’ adopter. A Greek Fisherman’s Cap tip to Bessie.
Ahh dugsKKKi is puppeting today……entertain me dug!
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Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 19 March 2025 at 08:54 AM
Republicans just want to have fun.
Funny how all the other sexual oddities are just lifestyle choices when it’s a democrat. I still maintain that if George Santos had a -D after his name you dimwits would still be defending him….and his Than Francithco Valuths.
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“Funny how all the other sexual oddities”
The article sort of confuses me. It isn’t like a 17 year old female has any interest, beyond monetary, in a 40 year old man. They’re too smelly and wrinkledly (although less than the posters here), but what is the age of consent in Minnesota? I would guess 16. Is it some ‘state line’ thing (which is kind of peculiar in itself)?
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TDS – Trump Denialist Syndrome
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“Trump Denialist Syndrome?”
Poor Porkbelly – you leftys have no idea of how to create memes or funny monikers.
You can’t just parrot the conservatives – although we know you leftys do have to look to us to try to figure out how to do political and social satire. You have to demonstrate that we conservatives are in denial of something to do with Trump.
Good luck with that.
Meanwhile Porkbelly still believes he won’t ever be able to vote in an election again, that there isn’t any snow in the Sierras, that men can get pregnant, that Manhattan is under water and that Joe Biden is ‘sharp as a tack’.
What a maroon!
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You reap what you sow –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/greenpeace-found-liable-for-300-million-in-damages-over-dakota-access-protests-risking-bankruptcy/ar-AA1Bg4Pz?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=41d8a91aa6b24d5db4e3998913cf4b7b&ei=12
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And they still dont know why they lost so badly, willful ignorance? –
With an estimated 1.9 million illegal immigrants and $9.5 billion spent by Medi-Cal on their healthcare, the state is spending approximately $5,000 per illegal immigrant on healthcare this year.
The average illegal immigrant in California earns $13 per hour, often in untaxed cash, or $27,040 per year if working 40 hours a week. If taxed, this wage would produce $464 in state income taxes. Assuming 30% of remaining income goes to rent and the rest goes to sales-tax qualified spending, that’s another $1,372 in state sales taxes.
This means a working illegal immigrant may contribute approximately $1,846 per year in state taxes — well short of the $5,000 spent by Medi-Cal, let alone other services such as CalFresh, the state’s food assistance program, and other benefits they may claim on behalf of their children born in the United States.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/newsom-s-medi-cal-requests-6-4b-bailout-spending-9-5b-on-noncitizens/ar-AA1BgW9R?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=f956928d56a04020afd8db9bd40b0bd0&ei=108
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But if we shut down government agencies little children will starve…..
Get out there and busk harder Paul Raymond Emery! Remember, you need to pay your fair share!
https://www.dailywire.com/news/fmcs-slush-fund-abolished-by-trump?topStoryPosition=undefined
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re: DonB@10:24PM
There’s quite a range of net negative value to illegal aliens, depends on the source, but there’s always that 2% or so of them that work in big agriculture. So much for Cesar Chavez, the push to lower wages defeated him in the long run.
My favorite part about the argument is all the whoppers told about how ‘THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS ENFORCING IMMIGRATION LAW’ or ‘IT’S AN IMPOSSIBLE PROBLEM’…the second that Trump started actually deporting people the truth became obvious, Democrats never had an intention of slowing or reversing the people pouring in from the 3rd world. The less related to you that people are, the more important they are. Suicidal empathy is a thing.
Thinking about how Team Blue wants to save the world by importing it, was that always true? Have people changed or did already-present absurdly empathetic people move into positions of power. Maybe it’s related to the metastasizing of useless government/megacorp girl jobs in the last few decades.
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Oh Snap…..
Caitlyn Jenner weighing in……
More concentrated suck in the Newsome podcast than a black hole…..
https://x.com/Caitlyn_Jenner/status/1902359159246557669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1902359159246557669%7Ctwgr%5E8e49ea8461237b5a86f985b0adfb8dfcc0d7e771%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Ftim-walz-my-masculinity-intimidates-maga-voters
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“L.A. city budget shortfall grows to nearly $1 billion, with layoffs ‘nearly inevitable’
…L.A.’s financial problems exploded into a full-blown crisis on Wednesday, with the city’s top budget official announcing that next year’s shortfall is now just shy of $1 billion…
Looks like Mayor Bass has burned up the mayor’s office surplus, and will be panhandling amongst the homeless for budget help. Good luck with that, Karen.
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Check out Team Blue’s latest hijinks.
“A website called “Dogequest” has posted a searchable map with the alleged names, addresses, location and phone numbers of every single Tesla owner in the United States, in an attempt to shame them into selling their cars.
The website also shows the location of every Tesla showroom, charging station and the known addresses of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees.
FBI Director Kash Patel’s home is also listed on the map, which uses a molotov cocktail as its cursor.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-musk-hackers-share-names-135328688.html
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moi@4:21PM
To be fair, you could dummy this up and have the same effect.
This whole business of torching Teslas and Tesla dealerships is an interesting problem. Here was Team Blue’s one chance to get Republicans into EVs and they blew it.
If they don’t buy a Tesla, they’ll probably not get any other EV now. Probably buy big ol’ diesel pickups.
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Physiognomy is Destiny.
https://x.com/Elias_Funez/status/1902909219625648354
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Him and all his jihadis too –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/it-s-absolutely-legal-to-deport-hate-monger-mahmoud-khalil/ar-AA1BkxRW?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=4f1d118b910a4eac963f932a44d5aae4&ei=51
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How’s your Fat Old Boy doing?
Still a Genius?
“BREAKING: In a bizarre moment, the President of the United States expresses astonishment that his college age son can turn a laptop on after he turned it off, wondering “How’d you do that?” This is abnormal.”
https://x.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1902773300490535186?t=7kmJUgBKhYWzc2xjCzSRMQ&s=19
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Posted by: Unregulated Porkbelly | 21 March 2025 at 08:12 AM
How’s your Fat Old Boy doing?
Still a Genius?
Let’s see….Billionaire, President, married to supermodel, winning court case after court case against the Dinosaur (read dead) media and various law firms…..
I’d say he’s doing okey dokey!
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Forget disease, starving children, political oppression, mimes…..this is the saddest headline you’ll read today.
I imagine they are consulting with taxidermists as we speak.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/bidens-want-back-in-rcna196956
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EW — On March 19, a masked male suspect hunted down a woman for driving a Tesla in the Seattle area.
The suspect allegedly followed the victim, cut her off, stopped in the middle of the road, exited his vehicle, and demanded she sell her Tesla, stating it was a “Nazi” car.
This incident occurred in Lynnwood, WA, where there have been several attacks on Tesla vehicles and store property.
https://x.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/1902951863819112867
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Posted by: scenes | 21 March 2025 at 08:31 AM
The suspect allegedly followed the victim, cut her off, stopped in the middle of the road, exited his vehicle, and demanded she sell her Tesla, stating it was a “Nazi” car.
A more compelling argument for concealed carry and summary justice I can’t imagine!
Of course I would exercise “Mostly Peaceful” justice I assure you!
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If one of the benefits is weight loss I’m going to suggest strongly that some of the regulars consider following Rosie…….
https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/21/iconic-comedian-reveals-health-benefits-quitting-trumps-us-ireland-22766448/
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Sorry Bro @ 21 March 2025 at 08:19 AM
You are talking about decades old stuff,
IL Douche is the oldest President ever to be elected.
All he does is sue and take everyone to court.
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Posted by: Relegated Porkbelly | 21 March 2025 at 10:35 AM
…..yawn…!
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Posted by: Big Flatus Johnson | 21 March 2025 at 10:35 AM
All he does is sue and take everyone to court.
He wins a lot too!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/instead-suing-columbia-university-bends-knee-agrees-trump-conditions-restore-400-million
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fish @ 02:30 PM
Those were words that Columbia U agreed to. Easy to get out of or around. Some DOJ lawyer will have to sit over them to ensure that C.U.’s promises are kept. They are not to be trusted.
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Posted by: The Estonian Fox | 21 March 2025 at 03:04 PM
They are not to be trusted.
You’ll get no argument from me.
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Tales from the Blue States…….
If only there had been a Federal agency to watch over the states this sort of thing never would have happened.
A Department of Education maybe. Just spitballing here!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11774133/Report-reveals-no-students-proficient-math-reading-60-Illinois-schools.html
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RIP George Foreman.
;-(
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db 755p
Yes, indeed. A class act.
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