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[Apologies for letting the last sandbox become a little overused and festered.  Here's some fresh sand that I'm sure will be welcomed.  gjr]

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151 responses to “Sandbox – 1may25”

  1. gjrebane Avatar

    ScottO – I got rid of your repeated comment. Thanks.

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  2. fish Avatar
    fish

    I’m just glad that todays modern American progressives decided during the last administration that trading on one’s fathers name and position was perfectly acceptable!

    REPORT: Don Jr. the new Hunter Biden…

    Hopefully there is less “Hookers and Blow” this time around! Most unseemly!
    https://archive.is/Zbr6a

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  3. scenes Avatar
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    Now, this is quite surprising.
    “..Instead of adding almost 800,000 jobs during the middle of last year, the economy likely shed more than 160,000 of them. The next annual benchmark will probably be a (retroactive) reduction of jobs under Biden that exceeds this year’s large downward revision….”
    https://townhall.com/columnists/ej-antoni/2025/05/12/labor-department-admits-hundreds-of-thousands-of-biden-jobs-were-fake-n2656813

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    The Cato Institute speaks:
    “JD Vance Is Correct: Immigration Increases Housing Prices, and That’s Okay”
    https://www.cato.org/blog/jd-vance-correct-immigration-increases-housing-prices-thats-ok
    lol. That’s where we’re at now.

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  5. scenes Avatar
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    Wheels within wheels.
    “Naming the people and NGOs behind the Biden’s “Soul of the Nation” speech”

    https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1921961472995004839

    “Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition”
    https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g-s1-65988/episcopal-church-white-afrikaners-ends-partnership-u-s-government
    If Trump has a superpower, it’s his ability to get people to take off their masks.

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Funny we have not heard from the knome of nevada city aka the ponytail of ignorance, too much winning? Funny how the shout the injunctions from the mountain tops but the appellate reversals hardly get an article.
    Judge refuses to block IRS from sharing tax data to identify and deport people illegally in U.S.
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/judge-refuses-block-irs-sharing-214524107.html
    😉

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    May 11 NY Post:
    “Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg bashed his own party for being too hostile toward men, arguing it is a major factor Dems’ massive defeat in the 2024 election.
    “What I think happened last election is younger men — they would rather vote for somebody who they don’t completely agree with, they don’t feel judged by,” Hogg told “Real Time with Bill Maher” Friday, “than somebody who they do agree with, that they feel like they have to walk on eggshells around constantly because they’re going to be judged or ostracized or excommunicated.””
    May 13 NY Times:
    “D.N.C. Takes Step to Void Election of Hogg and Kenyatta as Vice Chairs”
    roflmao. That didn’t take long.

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  8. scenes Avatar
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    Seen on X:
    “EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden’s physical deterioration was so severe that advisers privately discussed the possibility he’d need to use a wheelchair if he won re-election, @jaketapper and @AlexThomp write in their new book.”
    Now that is truly a beautiful thing. He could have been the Captain Pike of Presidents.
    PRESIDENT BIDEN, WOULD YOU LIKE SOME MORE ICE CREAM?
    beep

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  9. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 13 May 2025 at 07:54 AM
    “EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden’s physical deterioration was so severe that advisers privately discussed the possibility he’d need to use a wheelchair if he won re-election

    …and the Biden Puppeteers would point and say “How brave….just like FDR!”

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    TODAY WE RECEIVE A GREAT GIFT……!

    “It’s As If God Has A Sense Of Humor…”

    I give you…..THE NEW POPES BROTHERS …let the shenanigans ensue!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/its-if-god-has-sense-humor

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  11. fish Avatar
    fish

    Well….that’s Joe Biden!

    ‘He Totally F*cked Us!’ Top Harris Campaign Aide Torches Biden in Blockbuster Book Preview

    Leaving destroyed nations, economy’s and political parties in his wake!
    But I understand why Paul Raymond is so very fond of the man being a “MAN OF INTEGRITY” and all!
    https://www.mediaite.com/news/he-totally-fcked-us-top-harris-campaign-aide-torches-biden-in-blockbuster-book-preview/

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  12. scenes Avatar
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    re: fish@9:26AM
    I seem to remember psul stating that, so I thought I’d check.
    Naturally, typepad, being the worst software in the world and all, has a bad search algorithm.
    I did get this result:
    ‘Sorry, there were no results returned for “integrity emery”’
    But then it occurred to me that there was a message here somewhere.

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  13. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    How is your Dear Cult Leader doing?
    “The dramatic reduction in tariffs exceeded expectations in China and sent the dollar and stocks soaring—providing some much-needed market relief for the US president, who is facing pressure as inflation looks set to speed up at home. China equities also surged as the deal—though only a 90-day delay—ended up meeting nearly all of the Chinese president’s core demands. The “reciprocal” tariff for China, which Trump set at 34%, has been suspended—leaving America’s top rival with the same 10% rate that applies to US allies like the UK.”
    “This is arguably the best outcome that China could have hoped for—the US backed down,” said Trey McArver, co-founder of research firm Trivium China. “Going forward, this will make the Chinese side confident that they have leverage over the US in any negotiations.”
    Bloomberg

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  14. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Retardipated Billy | 13 May 2025 at 10:05 AM
    I guess it just sucks to be you. Maybe next time time don’t nominate someone whose sole qualification was fellating her way up the democrat political chain and can’t string a coherent sentence together.
    Really….what were you guys thinking?!

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  15. Scott O Avatar

    “The dramatic reduction in tariffs exceeded expectations in China…”
    Source?
    Expectations of who in China?
    BeerBelly actually believes the writers at Bloomberg know what the CCP officials in China really think?
    Of course BeerBelly still thinks Biden is sharp as a tack.
    Even now after the liars in the LSM are admitting Biden was washed up years ago.

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    I really had to admire this bit of Newspeak from some apparatchik in South Africa.
    https://www.polity.org.za/article/anc-rejects-uss-decision-to-grant-refugee-status-to-afrikaners-2025-05-13
    ““…they flee not from persecution, but from justice, equality and accountability for historic privilege,” said ANC national spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri.”
    Of course, any of our local ‘progressives’ will cheer on any disaster for Afrikaners. God knows the lesbian agnostics running the Episcopal Church have shown their attitude on the matter. SA is the kind of place, like most, where things will happen in a hurry when they finally happen.
    Once again, the Orange Man did the right thing, but he could stand to ramp it up.

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    On a separate matter, it always cracked me up how people view NPR as anything but a propaganda arm of the DNC.
    “Meet NPR CEO Katherine Maher.
    This photo should be enough reason to pass my legislation to defund NPR once and for all.”
    https://x.com/Jim_Banks/status/1922334336856072383

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well thats one less wokester judge –
    MILWAUKEE — A federal grand jury indicted a Wisconsin judge on May 13 on charges that she tried to assist an undocumented immigrant escape arrest from her courtroom last month, putting her at the center of the growing dispute between President Donald Trump and the judicial system.
    The two-page indictment accuses Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, 66, of obstructing a U.S. agency and concealing an individual to prevent an arrest. The two charges carry a maximum penalty of six years in prison and a $350,000 fine
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/13/hannah-dugan-grand-jury-wisconsin-judge-indicted/83610034007/
    😉

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  19. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    I didn’t nominate Trump sardine.
    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjP5e4sB/

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Modulated Headcheese | 13 May 2025 at 09:52 PM
    TikTok…..? What are you….a nine year old girl 🧒?

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  21. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
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    fish

    Posted by: Unsophisticated Choadbelly | 14 May 2025 at 07:59 AM
    Maybe the democrats could address this kind of thing if they weren’t so busy larping as The Avengers™ outside of ICE facilities!
    But no…..!

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  23. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Sorry sardine, the Rep Party owns this administration,,,so far…

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  24. fish Avatar
    fish

    See….there go the democrats….trying to overturn another election!

    Circling The Firing Squad: Democratic Party Moves To Negate Earlier Election Of David Hogg

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/circling-firing-squad-democratic-party-moves-negate-earlier-election-david-hogg

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  25. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Sad Hypocrites on these pages defending the Trump Crime Family 24/7/365,
    here you go,
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-qatar-air-force-one-b2749687.html

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  26. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Adiposity Crapbilly | 14 May 2025 at 11:27 AM
    Sad Hypocrites on these pages defending the Trump Crime Family 24/7/365,

    Sad Hypocrites on these pages defending the Trump Biden Crime Family 24/7/365
    It really is a multipurpose headline….with just a tweak here and there…..!

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  27. Scott O Avatar

    Resurfaced BeerBelly 11:27 –
    “the Trump Crime Family”
    Hilarious!
    What crime? The article never cited a single crime.
    BeerBelly didn’t even read the article.

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    progressives doing progressive things:
    “Palo Alto schools are doing away with Honors courses in the latest assault on excellence.
    Starting in September, freshmen will no longer have the option of taking a more rigorous Honors Biology class. Instead, the district will have one “foundational” course.
    The Palo Alto Unified School District voted in January to nix the advanced class after an hours-long debate with dozens of concerned members of the public in attendance. Honors English has already been sidelined.
    Proponents argue that “de-laning” — removing different “lanes” for students based on achievement — will promote equity and encourage all kids to pursue science throughout their high school career.”
    https://nypost.com/2025/05/13/us-news/silicon-valley-schools-ditch-honors-classes-but-its-a-bad-idea/

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    Meanwhile, a couple of months ago in Denmark, the very bestest nation in the world since someone here visited it once.
    https://nypost.com/2025/03/05/world-news/three-piglets-stolen-from-art-exhibit-where-they-were-meant-to-starve-to-death/

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  30. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Bu,bu, but Biden! Let’s talk about using Big Daddy’s influence to make money for his kids.
    https://www.threads.com/@release_the_brikabracken/post/DJphPcgyTvV?xmt=AQF0PlpY7SaMTLfQhsALUecw5loc3pRKKeblDzzPL-hC8g

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  31. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Flaccid Tardbilly | 15 May 2025 at 07:07 AM
    Bu,bu, but Biden! Let’s talk about using Big Daddy’s influence to make money for his kids.

    Didn’t care about it when President Brainstem was being puppeted by seemingly everyone for fun and profit…. too late to whine about it now!
    And yes….you did “nominate” Harris! After a fashion…..or however progressive democrats choose their puppet after the previous one smokes his hard drive in real time during a presidential debate for all to see! You should have taken Gregory’s advice and had Biden just go full “John Gill” with recordings and his face blocked by the oversized microphone…you guys could still be auto-penning your way to progressive nirvana!

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Not surprised….

    Springsteen attacks ‘corrupt and treasonous’ Trump, demands ‘freedom’…

    He’s always been such a tedious old queen……
    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/reviews/bruce-springsteen-review-manchester-tour-31645297

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  33. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Had Springsteen not sprung there’d be no Born in East L.A.
    Cheech Marin!
    Jan Michael Vincent, maybe Billy Bob Thornton, Elvira, a cast of tens.
    Unlike Born in the USA it was funny as hell

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  34. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Local MAGA response to everything.
    Just save the link and use to reply to all my comments sardine.
    Your welcome
    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj5ffoeR/

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  35. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Everyone knows it but a MAGA
    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj5fy7vh/

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  36. Scott O Avatar

    BeerBelly – “Let’s talk about using Big Daddy’s influence to make money for his kids”
    Fine – tell us what crimes are being committed and let us know what his son is supposed to do while he’s the prez. Just stop working?
    BeerBelly: “duh huh? wut?”

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  37. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    ScottO, true MAGA sap.
    See my 431PM
    “American taxpayers may have flown Donald Trump to the Middle East, but he’s not there to negotiate on behalf of our strategic or national interests—he’s on the prowl for goodies, and happy to make policy changes in return. Like, the new Syrian president offering a Trump Tower in Damascus: Zap, sanctions on Syria are over. Or the jumbo jet-giving Qataris requesting that Trump go ‘easy’ on Iran: ‘Not a problem, no sirree.’ Sorry to all the hawkish Trump voters out there who thought he’d deliver a maximum pressure campaign on Tehran. Plus, Russia’s Potemkin peace talks with Ukraine, and another installment from ICE’s cold-blooded deportation campaign.”
    https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/michael-weiss-all-bribes-accepted?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=26vbls

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  38. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Mike Lindell, true MAGAloon sap
    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj55SNrF/

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  39. scenes Avatar
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    I wonder sometimes why I read anything online. It’s like everyone needs to go to jail.
    “New Information Suggests Senior Pfizer Executives Conspired to Delay COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Testing to Influence 2020 Election.
    One exec was so scared about this being investigated that he asked to be relocated to Canada!
    MASSIVE SCANDAL uncovered by @Jim_Jordan”

    https://x.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1923046327136485732

    “We are aware of the recent social media post by former FBI Director James Comey, directed at President Trump. We are in communication with the Secret Service and Director Curran. Primary jurisdiction is with SS on these matters and we, the FBI, will provide all necessary support.”
    – Kash Patel on X

    Seriously, you’d think Comey would have the good sense to lay low and raise petunias somewhere. Guys like that have egos that won’t allow them to do that I’m afraid.

    re: ResurrectedHB@6:07
    Source: trust me bro
    I’m happy to read any kind of primary sources, memos, whatever. Op-eds are kind of a waste.

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  40. Scott O Avatar

    BeerBelly 6:07 – So, still no crimes or anything about Don Jr. Nothing.
    Just a person who hates Trump concocting a very abbreviated and misleading view of Trump’s trip to the Mideast.
    Maybe he could provide some proof that Trump did not negotiate anything for our country. Alas, no.
    Maybe he could provide proof that Trump will “go easy” on Iran? Nah – nothing.
    Trump is already rich as Croesus. Baubles and trinkets don’t turn his head.
    I know you lefties are disappointed Trump won’t rush into a war with Iran. Maybe later.

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  41. Scott O Avatar

    “It’s like everyone needs to go to jail.”
    Oh, not everybody. Best to keep in mind that history shows us that most of the ones that should go to jail won’t.
    No matter – it’s still good to see that some people are interested that we are able to shine a light on just how corrupt it’s all become.
    “Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes,” and “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.”
    Mencken wasn’t a cynic – he was a realist.

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  42. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Fuckticated spazbelly | 15 May 2025 at 04:31 PM
    Local MAGA response to everything.
    Just save the link and use to reply to all my comments sardine.
    Your welcome

    Tik Tok…..?
    No thanks….if I need help with the Tide Pod challenge or need to watch a fat gassy old failure of a wedding photographer win a geriatric dance contest then maybe but until either of those needs arise I’m going to go full Paul Raymond Emery of Nevada City, California and say I don’t click on Tik Tok links! Good to see “your” taking spelling and grammar hints from Paul Raymond….that can only be good for you!

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  43. fish Avatar
    fish

    Well he’s not wrong…..

    President of United States calls Springsteen ‘Dried Out Prune, Mentally Incompetent’…

    https://www.the-sun.com/news/14253910/trump-taylor-swift-bruce-springsteen-not-hot/

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    This is the kind of endorsement that a Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, or dare I say Gavin Newsome could never hope to receive….!

    Serial killer praises Trump in final words before lethal injection…

    Talk about appealing to the entire spectrum…………..
    https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/serial-killer-glen-rogers-praises-1153807

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  45. fish Avatar
    fish

    About that Tik Tok jeffsKKKi (or dugsKKKi)…..

    Meet Ivan Martinez, the Sacramento-area TikToker who eats tacos to learn Spanish

    Eh…some stupid gin commercial blocking the site address but the point stands!
    In the SacFishWrap.com…..

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  46. scenes Avatar
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    “It only takes 30 seconds to understand the repercussions of progressive democratic policies in Los Angeles”
    https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1924117762521415864

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