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[Nobody seems to know how to address the issue of federal district judges assuming executive branch prerogatives from the bench.  Both Right and Left are haranguing each other on the question of who, the President or the judge, is actually abiding by the laws of the land.  The proper way to approach the solution here is for SCOTUS to first rule on whether such district judges have any standing in general to rule on federal policies.  The proper ruling would be for SCOTUS to make it clear that they have no standing on matters outside their district, and most certainly not on matters that involve federal policies, be they originated by Congress or the Executive.  Keep these black-robed two-bit lawyers in their sandbox.  gjr]

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124 responses to “Sandbox – 23mar25”

  1. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    It seems to me we’re stuck with it until the judiciary decides their own jobs are good enough without becoming a stand in president when presented with the opportunity.
    It’s a shame Dems can’t just suck it up and put up with Trump for his term of orifice.

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  2. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    The Supreme Court decisions are toss-ups, what with Amy Barrett & John Roberts evidently graduating from Law Schools in one country, the 3 lib-women in another, and the other four guys from a third. Did any of those countries have English as their official language, I wonder?

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  3. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Oh well, like it sez in the Act founding the Department of Education:
    “The establishment of the Department of Education shall not increase the authority of the Federal Government over education or diminish the responsibility for education which is reserved to the States and the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the States. ”
    …so what’s the fuss about?

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  4. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Scenes, it’s about all the cash being sloshed to teacher’s unions by the Feds.

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  5. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I keed, I keed. Obviously the feature creep is intense.
    I’d say that a great deal of government is merely taking money from your enemies (or borrowing it) and giving it to your friends.
    There’s nothing new in this world.

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Is the pendulum still swinging –
    • 83% of voters said gas prices are too high in California
    • 73% support fully funding anti-crime Prop. 36, which State Democrat Leaders have refused to do
    • 72% feel homelessness still is a big problem after years of Democrat control Sacramento
    • 71% believe the Democrats in charge have not addressed the state’s high cost of living
    • 69% think Democrats in Sacramento have not done enough to bring down energy/utility costs
    • 62% support a “full independent investigation” of the recent Los Angeles Wildfires
    • Only 24% of Californians think males (transgender) should compete in female sports
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/23/poll-nearly-50-percent-california-voters-considering-voting-republican-gov/
    😉

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  7. George Rebane Avatar

    DonB 738pm – And then the double-dummy Californians overwhelmingly keep returning Democrats to Sacramento. Talk about the definition of ignorance.

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  8. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Yo, Bessee Boy, Prop 36 is about felony charges for those douchebags going on shopping sprees and walking out scott-free from the stores.
    It passed.
    Now you want the nanny state to spend taxpayer money so they can go to 12 step progams.
    Way to LIB, Bessee!

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  9. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    BrightBarf – the defacto MAGA criers.
    Dems are supposed to tell utilities to lower their prices?
    How does that work Bessee?
    And they are somehow responsible for the high cost of living – like rent and housing prices?
    Way to pass the buck Bessee!

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  10. George Rebane Avatar

    RHillBilly 1222pm – There is no passing the buck. Governments that grow, tax, and regulate people into financial brinkmanship are always the real reason for making it hard to make ends meet. It’s up to the voters to determine which parties and policies put a stranglehold on our quality of life. Got any ideas? Start with California.

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  11. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    GRebane 0210pm – DOGE California? Fine by me.
    But Bessee’s post is just more partisan cultural barf from Breitbart.

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  12. Scott O Avatar

    “But Bessee’s post is just more partisan cultural barf from Breitbart.”
    Yep – that’s what the Dems thought nationally before November’s election.
    So BeerBelly – how’d that work out?
    Notice even Greasy Gavin is bailing on the left-wing act.
    Another BeerBelly funny:
    “DOGE California? Fine by me.”
    Sure – we’ve all noticed how much of a fan you are of Trump and Musk.

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  13. Scott O Avatar

    Here’s a good recap of the damage done to our country by the Dems:
    “The 10 million plus illegals that came in over the last four years, you just don’t wake up one day in Central America and say I am going to the Darien Gap, and go to the Mexican border and then meander my way into the interior of the US without a tremendous amount of aid along the way.”
    More than one observer has noted that the marching hordes were nothing more than a photo op.
    They didn’t walk up through Mexico – some one paid their way.
    Millions of non-producers bound to suck up hundreds of billions in tax payer funds until they’re deported.
    Greasy Gavin might not be so quick to make good on his promise that “all” were welcome in CA and here’s your free health care.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ed-dowd-fears-short-deep-recession-coming-doge-exposes-mind-shocking-fraud-propped-bidens

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  14. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    ” Start with California.”
    That would be cool, but I can’t say that people care enough to bother.
    A quick look at https://transparentcalifornia.com/ shows the salaries and crazy number of employees the various arms of government have.
    Some of the local non-profits are obviously there just to overpay a few execs, and that money came from somewhere.
    God knows how much money went into the Bakersfield to Fresno express.
    The state is stuffed with crazy commissions, bureaucracy, needless rules…but no one cares. One person’s waste is another’s Iron Rice Bowl and any attempt to cut costs will just cause a Washington Monument syndrome and a protest by crazy old wimmen at the next ‘Town Hall’. I think I give up before it even starts.

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  15. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I genuinely appreciate the machine these people have created. In a way, they deserve to win.
    ” The wife of former U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves, who led the prosecution of 1,500+ Jan6ers, is on the Board of Indivisible .
    This Soros-backed group is the leading organizer of anti-Trump protests and violent Tesla acts.
    Deleted webpages reveal this connection”
    https://x.com/nataliegwinters/status/1904310471915610199

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    They earned their outcome –
    Top Democrats tell us their party is in its deepest hole in nearly 50 years — and they fear things could actually get worse:
    The party has its lowest favorability ever.
    No popular national leader to help improve it.
    Insufficient numbers to stop most legislation in Congress.
    A durable minority on the Supreme Court.
    Dwindling influence over the media ecosystem, with right-leaning podcasters and social media accounts ascendant.
    Young voters are growing dramatically more conservative.
    A bad 2026 map for Senate races.
    Democratic Senate retirements could make it harder for the party to flip the House, with members tempted by statewide races.
    There are only three House Republicans in districts former Vice President Harris won in 2024, a dim sign for a Democratic surge. There were 23 eight years ago in seats Hillary Clinton won.
    And, thanks to the number of people fleeing blue states, the math for a Dem to win the presidency will just get harder in 2030.
    Doug Sosnik — a senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, and widely followed thinker on political megatrends — told us this is Dems’ deepest hole in at least the 45 years since Ronald Reagan’s victory in 1980. Sosnik said the 2024 election was at least as much a repudiation of Democrats as it was a victory for Trump.
    As Ezra Klein noted this month in his New York Times column, if current population patterns hold, Democrats will suffer a devastating blow after the 2030 census: The party will lose as many as a dozen House seats and electoral votes.
    He points out that in that Electoral College, Dems could win all the states Harris carried in 2024 — plus Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — and still lose the White House
    The big picture: Democrats’ dismal reality is not Republican spin. In fact, there’s broad consensus among Democratic leaders that most current political, cultural, media and generational trends are cutting against them.
    “Democrats are losing working-class voters,” Klein, co-author with Derek Thompson of the new liberal blueprint “Abundance,” said last week. “They’re seeing their margins among nonwhite voters erode and vanish. They’re losing young voters. Something is wrong in the Democratic Party.”
    Shor said on Klein’s podcast, “The Ezra Klein Show,” that his most striking finding — and the one most worrisome to him — is the surging pro-Trump/MAGA/Republican views and voting patterns of young men, immigrants and anyone other than strident liberals.
    Shor estimates a 23-point swing against Democrats among immigrants. The swing is very pronounced among Hispanics who consider themselves conservatives: Democratic support dropped by 50%.
    But it’s the rise of conservatism among young people, mainly men, that spooks him most. “[Y]oung voters — regardless of race and gender — have become more Republican,
    Ali Mortell, director of research at Blue Rose Research, told Axios’ Tal Axelrod: “Millennials were one of the most progressive generations, and it’s looking like Gen Z is about to be one of the most conservative.”
    The thing he’s been most shocked by over the last four years, Shor told Klein: “[Y]oung people have gone from being the most progressive generation since the Baby Boomers, and maybe even in some ways more so, to becoming potentially the most conservative generation that we’ve experienced maybe in 50 to 60 years.”
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/behind-the-curtain-dems-dark-deep-hole/ar-AA1BxlnI?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=52f41cc2ae354029a3507f83339f23b2&ei=221
    😉

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  17. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    The Trump Brain Trust
    https://futurism.com/trump-national-security-bombing-chat
    But Hunter’s laptop…

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  18. Scott O Avatar

    BeerBelly 9:41 – The author is an idiot. She compares a one-off glitch owing to a mistake to Clinton’s deliberate routing of State Dept email through a server in her own home in order to cover-up her selling US foreign policy for her financial benefit.
    Hunter’s laptop exposed how corrupt our fed govt had become under the Dems.
    Both the article’s comparison and yours are just pathetic.
    Maybe you’d be better off at one of your “non-partisan” town hall meetings where you can yell and scream at the ceiling with your fellow losers.

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Reality check –
    Hegseth also said regarding Goldberg: “You’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited, so called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again, to include the, I don’t know, the hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia, or the fine people on both sides, hoax, or suckers and losers hoax.”
    “This is the guy that pedals in garbage. This is what he does,” Hegseth added.
    He also commended the troops who conducted the raids, and the president for ordering strikes against them.
    “I would love to comment on the Houthi campaign, because of the skill and courage of our troops. I’ve monitored it very closely from the beginning … Our troops, our sailors, were getting shot at as targets. Our ships couldn’t sail through, and when they did, shoot back purely defensively, or at shacks in Yemen, President Trump said, ‘No more. We will re establish deterrence, we will open freedom of navigation, and we will ultimately decimate the Houthis,’ which is exactly what we’re doing.”
    Goldberg infamously wrote a story claiming that Trump had called American troops who died in World War II “suckers and losers.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/24/defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-responds-atlantic-report-nobody-texting-war-plans/
    😉

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  20. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Fucking Incompetents

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  21. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    lol. Boy howdy, ain’t that the truth.
    ….
    “If you have to explain to members of your political party why they shouldn’t vandalize your property then you are in the wrong political party.”
    https://x.com/realchasegeiser/status/1904369036240048562

    It’s like the ‘PLEASE PLEASE DON’T BREAK MY WINDOWS AND GUT MY STORE’ Black Lives Matter appeasement posters.

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by:Masticated Porkbelly | 25 March 2025 at 05:53 AM

    Fucking Incompetents

    Funny…..all I remember from the Proglodyte left was excuse making during the Clinton server scandal.
    https://www.wsj.com/video/hillary-clinton-emails-contained-classified-material/BEFDAD34-2ED4-40BF-8E97-A51D046F7EDA

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  23. fish Avatar
    fish

    NOW THIS……is what I expect from Americas tortured, progressive snowflake youth after being processed through the Department of Education directed schools!

    Watch: Lunatics At AOC Rally Brazenly Call For Trump To Be Tortured & Murdered

    Good times ahead for sure!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-lunatics-aoc-rally-brazenly-call-trump-be-tortured-murdered

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  24. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    The main problem here is that it’s practically impossible to go far enough to parody these people.
    https://www.sierrathread.com/thread/heidi-hall-kiley-skips-indivisible-nevada-county

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  25. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    I am still waiting for a national move to get us ANOTHER national holiday – Julteenth. Commemoration of the assassination attempt on Pres. Trump. Hey, we can have a day too. And I’m in favor for one more national holiday for this.

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  26. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Incel Hillbilly 553a
    Yes, those dems are incompetent.

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  27. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    TEF 1234p
    We don’t need another holiday to further dilute the impact of Independence Day.

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  28. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 25 March 2025 at 12:21 PM
    The main problem here is that it’s practically impossible to go far enough to parody these people.

    Yes but you can’t deny the solid effort! B+
    Why again did you guys decide to live there…..?

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    Well of course…..

    Now that Biden’s gone, revise all the numbers down 😂

    “Never underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up!”
    ~ Former President Barry O’ something-something
    https://x.com/profstonge/status/1904556428666249526?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1904556428666249526%7Ctwgr%5Ea49226feed280377d203236bd5109156cf601c0e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F710552%2F

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  30. fish Avatar
    fish

    sacbee.com….by crazy cat ladies for crazy cat ladies.

    Stop gaslighting us, Mr. President. The security breach was way more than a ‘glitch’ | Opinion

    Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article302769084.html

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  31. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    Seems DEI is alive & (un)well in the Miami PD.
    https://wsvn.com/news/local/miami-dade/video-shows-miami-police-officer-sitting-in-cruiser-as-cyclists-beat-up-driver-on-biscayne-blvd-near-arsht-center/
    Lighting wasn’t very good during this daytime (i.e. full-solar illumination) attack – faces of the perps may be lighter than they appear; and hair straighter.

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  32. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Easily led MAGAloons are taught to believe that the reporter hacked into the SecDef’s phone to gain access to the Signal chat.
    The Chinese are snickering.
    Incompetents and fucking liars.

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  33. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Undulating Porkbelly | 26 March 2025 at 06:00 AM
    Frantic Nevada City Hausfrau is frantic………!

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  34. Scott O Avatar

    “…are taught to believe that the reporter hacked into the SecDef’s phone”
    That’s not what I’ve read anywhere.
    Another BeerBelly hallucination.
    I know – you’re trying to be part of the ‘resistance’. Keying a Democrat’s Tesla and posting lies about the Trump admin is the order of the day.
    Very brave!
    LOL!

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  35. Scott O Avatar

    E Fox 4:53 – Give the officer a break. She wasn’t finished with her doughnut.

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  36. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “…are taught to believe that the reporter hacked into the SecDef’s phone”
    The latest hoax Jeffie will never forget that I’ve not read, either.

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  37. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    lol. California gotta California.

    “Homeless people break into a California storage yard and begin living in and destroying the luxury RVs on the property.
    Hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages and the owner is helpless to evict the homeless from his RVs.
    Naturally the city and county do NOTHING to help”
    https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1904884126706262396

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  38. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    TRU DAT! –
    Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson said on Newsmax Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s counter-revolutionary tactics might disrupt the Democratic Party for generations.
    Trump’s current counter-revolutionary tactics include a comprehensive policy overhaul targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs across federal institutions, dismantling the Department of Education and reversing policies established under earlier administrations. During an appearance on “Finnerty,” Hanson said President Trump is a fundamentally different kind of leader, one who is reshaping the Republican strategy.
    “I don’t think they understand Donald Trump. He is not George W. Bush. He’s not a Mitt Romney. He’s not a John McCain. He’s not satisfied to just slow down the growth of the administrative state and neo-socialism,” Hanson said. “He’s a counter revolutionary. Yeah. And he’s saying economically, politically, socially, militarily, this country has gone way to the left, and I’m going to bring it back to the center. And that’s so disruptive.”
    Hanson went on to say that the Democrats’ current lack of significant political power — being without the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House, and the presidency — leaves them with limited tools.
    “They didn’t think any Republican had the courage or the gumption to do that. And he does. He’s serious. And now they’re thinking, ‘My God, the guy is really serious. He could really disrupt us for a generation,’” Hanson said. “And we’ve got to stop him at any means necessary. We don’t have the Supreme Court. We don’t have the House. We don’t have the Senate. We don’t have the White House. We didn’t win the popular vote. We didn’t win the Electoral [College], but we don’t have political power other than the street and our mouth.”
    Hanson did not mince words in describing the ongoing struggles of the Democrats, who, despite recognizing the factors diminishing their public appeal, continue to escalate their rhetoric and actions.
    “Normally any party would self-correct. They did that after George McGovern. They did it after Jimmy Carter, and they went full centrist with Bill Clinton, or at least they feigned centrism. But this is unusual that they know what’s killing them, and yet they double down on it,” Hanson added. “It’s almost like a mixture of, I guess I’d call it smut chic all the way down to terrorist porn, because they’re cutting videos where senators are saying S-H-I-T, or they’re calling Elon Musk a D-I-C-K, or A-S, this horrible, this smut language.”
    Hanson said Democrats’ increasingly provocative media tactics surprise everyone.
    “So I don’t think there’s a bottom to it. There should be, but each day surprises all of us if they get more and more pornographic, more and more smutty, and more and more participating, wink and nod, with terrorism.”
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/victor-davis-hanson-says-trump-s-counter-revolutionary-tactics-may-disrupt-democrats-for-generations/ar-AA1BK7TE?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=5b99db0d20ea44709e43c6dd055bd735&ei=253
    😉

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  39. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    ran into this this fine morning.
    https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
    Check out page 28 marked in the document…under “General Interference with Organizations and Production”
    Too funny. They’ve pretty much described all government and most large organizations.
    Maybe it’s more a description than a plan.

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  40. fish Avatar
    fish

    The latest from the establishments Capuchin Monkey “economist……

    KRUGMAN: INCOMPETENT AND EVIL…

    I like to think that the statement is more contrition on Paulies part than anything else.
    To his credit….once they bought him off with that “Nobel” he stayed bought and reliably spouted the party line for 30 years! Rare these days!
    No linky because he shouldn’t be difficult to find and with the exception of that certain someone “who doesn’t read links” I assume the rest of those who visit regardless of political stripe won’t have any real difficulty!

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  41. fish Avatar
    fish

    God I love your local fish wrap! Because I won’t subscribe or give them an email address it’s really just “Coming Attractions” but still marvelous!
    Nothing online can compete with the delusional ranting and nonsense spewed incessantly by the geriatric boomers who have taken to the foothills……Babylon Bee, The Onion, the late and frequently lamented “Scooper” all pale in comparison!

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  42. Scott O Avatar

    fish 7:34 – I picked that up out of a DK TDS-porn article this morning. Full of giggles:
    “And the same is true of other ongoing disasters, including the shockingly rapid collapse of the Social Security Administration.”
    “collapse”??!!
    Good golly – our fed gov is being “dismantled” and it hasn’t snowed anywhere in the US for years and we’ll never be able to vote again!!
    Too bad Biden didn’t get his second term – he was sharp as a tack and could have fixed all of this.
    No wonder the left has gotten so loony.

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  43. fish Avatar
    fish

    Another attack by one of those “easily led MAGALoons™ “most likely! They are nefarious!

    Mass stabbing leaves multiple wounded in Amsterdam… Developing…
    Dam Square horror…

    Wonder how all the “stabby” personality types wound up in generally peaceful Denmark?
    Wonder, wonder, wonder….!
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14543609/Mass-stabbing-Amsterdam.html

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    Wonder how all the “stabby” personality types wound up in generally peaceful Denmark?
    Sorry….must have been thinking Copenhagen! The Netherlands….!

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  45. Scott O Avatar

    The latest on CA’s Toonerville Trolly:
    “California High-Speed Rail Needs $7 Billion for Bakersfield to Merced by 2026”
    “The California Legislative Analyst’s Office told lawmakers in an Assembly Transportation budget hearing Wednesday that California High-Speed Rail needs $7 billion in funding by June 2026 or else the first Bakersfield to Merced leg of the system could be delayed further into the 2030’s.”
    And then it will be operational? Pinky promise?
    This whole thing was a scam from the start.
    Maybe “Jazz Hands” Gavin can cover this fiasco on his new gab-fest-for-idiots.

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  46. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Scott O | 27 March 2025 at 10:25 AM
    “California High-Speed Rail Needs $7 Billion for Bakersfield to Merced by 2026”

    Well come on Scott….as bustling commute corridors go Bakersfield to Merced is the…..bustlingest!

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