[Thoughts on the new 'Executive Branch' exclusive club in Georgetown started by Donald Trump Jr et al that has a membership fee of $500,000 which will allow members to network and mingle with administration officials out of the public eye? (more here) gjr]
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175 responses to “Sandbox – 19may25”
Fresh sandbox – all raked out neatly.
“Americans in Race for European Residency See Doors Slamming Shut”
So the Americans that can’t stand our ‘racist’ immigration policy find out the country they want to go to has the same deal.
Why not just be the illegal immigrant you champion?
They’ll give you thousands in freebies and you can parade around trashing the country you just moved to while you fly the American flag.
Right?
https://archive.is/Lyl0B#selection-1155.0-1155.64
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Yeah probably…..
…..and Biden still looks like an idiot!
Sometimes the universe is just!
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In discussing how to solve word problems in math with middle-schoolers, I tell them translating from English to math is the most difficult part of the problem.
Well, it seems that translating from AI-lawyerese to courtroom English has the same disconnect from reality.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116823/how-ai-is-introducing-errors-into-courtrooms/?utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=&utm_content=05-20-2025&mc_cid=738b2ecae7&mc_eid=def9e9ed43
The relevant term seems to be “AI hallucinations”. We’ll be hearing/seeing more of this.
Even Asimov’s revised novel, “AI, Robot”, didn’t see this coming! A bad error for him, especially since his initials are a mirror image of AI.
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The Executive Banch should become a favorite hangout for lobbyists and Trump fan boys.
it’s all part of the Grift n Graft that goes on daily in Trump world.
Digging into the one big beautiful bill shows how it’s done,
https://www.facebook.com/reel/692168940175409?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
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Speaking of grift…
“BREAKING: A federal judge blocks the Trump administration from taking over and dismantling the U.S. Institute of Peace.”
– Associated Press
“Reminder that DOGE revealed the ‘Institute of Peace’ had a $130,000 contract with a former member of the Taliban and deleted 1 Terabyte of accounting records when DOGE entered headquarters.
Maybe ‘A Federal Judge’ should look into that…”
– ALX on ‘X’
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Posted by: Dilapidated Hillbilly | 20 May 2025 at 07:32 AM
it’s all part of the Grift n Graft that goes on daily in Trump world.
Funny…..not a peep about earlier Executive malfeasance…..! Greek Fisherman’s cap must be too tight for you to remember as far back as the Brainstem Administration.
Sad…..
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A thing I ran into that cracked me up and, surprisingly, has nothing to do with the primary points of George’s blog (Trump and Paul Emery’s life)..
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/ghost-machine-rogue-communication-devices-found-chinese-inverters-2025-05-14/
“However, rogue communication devices not listed in product documents have been found in some Chinese solar power inverters by U.S experts who strip down equipment hooked up to grids to check for security issues, the two people said.
Over the past nine months, undocumented communication devices, including cellular radios, have also been found in some batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers, one of them said.
Reuters was unable to determine how many solar power inverters and batteries they have looked at.”
It’s funny how opacity in modern tech leads you to weird places. Things are hidden in chips (Intel ME) or simply due to the sheer size of the thing (large FOSS software like Linux) or just about anywhere in a modern car or big piece of military gear.
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“not a peep about earlier Executive malfeasance”
Looking around, you can argue that having a President with dementia and cancer that was hidden for probably ten years is the best we deserve.
For all I know, the outrage over the billions and billions (trillions) of dollars spent on Team Blue hobby projects via gubmint and grifty non-profits maybe doesn’t matter if improvements in AI blow up the economy in some new and interesting way. Dunno if our new robot Lord and Masters will continue all the affirmative action and unlimited immigration, I guess it depends if it helps the paper clip manufacturing.
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Posted by: scenes | 20 May 2025 at 09:50 AM
Looking around, you can argue that having a President with dementia and cancer that was hidden for probably ten years is the best we deserve.
I get to keep blaming “Biden” until Real President Klain (and any follow on Real President) fesses up to helming the autopen because President Brainstem was ….well….President Brainstem!
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Resurfaced BeerBelly – “it’s all part of the Grift n Graft that goes on daily in Trump world.”
Unfortunately you have yet to document any graft.
But it’s fun to just throw rocks and laugh, I guess.
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Godspeed Normie!
https://www.rgj.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/05/20/george-wendt-dies-cheers-norm/83751102007/
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Punchy… don’t you have something to say?
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scotto: “Unfortunately you have yet to document any graft”
Oh well, there probably is a fair amount, although the whole non-profit and/or DEI thing that Elon’s minions were digging up is amazing.
I have to admit that I think The State is going to long outlive any attempts by E. Musk or any other Trump appointee to do any cleanup. I expect Elon will leave soon enough as he finds out that the giant grift machine is both too large and too self-healing to permanently damage.
You can see it in any local non-profit, city council, Board of Supervisors, school board…insane activists, mostly females and gracile males…augering the whole mechanism of state into the ground in a barrage of Good Deeds. The days of prominent local businessmen being involved is long over.
Real change will only come with collapse I think. It always happens eventually. Ongoing population replacement, changes in tech, industrial-scale deficit spending, overseas adversaries, some or all of the above. The Somali roadblocks in Minneapolis will set up as they chat on their iPhone 20s, bartering in the new currency of GPU chips and canned food.
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“Real change will only come with collapse I think”
Yes indeed – collapse does tend to be the ultimate Black Swan Event.
I’m thinking it will be something like the ’07/’08 financial domino meltdown but somewhat worse due to
everyone being leveraged out further on the limb.
It will enable a nationalization of most all of the financial sector as well as a convenient excuse to switch over to a govt controlled digital currency.
They will blame “capitalism” on the collapse and the need for a govt controlled economy by the ‘experts’. Folks like Krugman and Reich and Yellen – then the REAL fun begins.
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“govt controlled digital currency.”
That’ll be sweet. Much better opportunities for tax collection except for, of course, government-favored folks in the tax (and perhaps barter) economy. Much better opportunities for unlimited inflation. Much better opportunities for taking money from your enemies and giving it to your friends. Much better opportunities for a social credit system like those truck drivers in Canada.
It’s for the children of course.
I don’t consider it a real collapse until the theater kids lose power, girl-jobs disappear, the main apparatchik at the county who is, naturally, a female, stops making $450k/year, the Pride Flag Nuremberg Rally is forgotten, commerce becomes local again. We’ll probably see a certain amount of mayhem in the meantime. Things will happen slowly, and then all at once.
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There is nothing the Orange Man cannot do.
“This is undoubtedly one of the single greatest moments in presidential history.
Donald Trump asked what it will take for him to believe there is no white genocide going on in South Africa.
President Cyril Ramaphosa offers a preposterous answer.
Donald Trump then plays five minutes of South African political leaders calling to kill white South African farmers.
Watch Cyril Ramaphosa’s stupid smile, ultimately fade into a grimace.
Although I make a prediction: MSM is going to fact check Trump on the crosses memorial at the end of the video. They are going to say it is a memorial for ALL farmers killed, not just white farmers.
They will not tell you that over 87% of all farmers killed have been white.”
https://x.com/thevivafrei/status/1925256364978262414
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Reuters: “Trump confronts Ramaphosa with false genocide claims”
roflmao. Just when you think the MSM isn’t ridiculous enough, they manage to outdo themselves.
Remember folks, when you waste time arguing with the local ‘progressives’, this is who you are fighting with.
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Kill the Boer – kill the farmer!
It’s just an old folk song – don’t get excited.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL-sbov3vUE
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OH NO…..
There goes the House of Lords and almost all of the BBC!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/35062767/paedophiles-sex-criminals-chemically-castrated-labour/
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While the pundits go ’round and ’round about how Trump is “dismantling” the fed govt and our nation’s solons blather about starving children to give tax cuts to the wealthy –
Please read this – some of you might already know and folks like Paul won’t read it because there’s no Trump-hate porn in it. I don’t agree with some of the solutions but overall the author lays out exactly what the problem is with a few charts and graphs.
As Massie just said:
“Congress can do funny math, fantasy math, if it wants,” Massie added. “But bond investors don’t.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/boomers-lets-face-it-math-doesnt-work
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Not a clue…..?
Because California thrives on mediocrity?
Sure….the weathers great…..but….!
https://apnews.com/article/kamala-harris-2028-democrats-california-president-governor-6d3b5bef946b9c51c8096328865d3a84
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But Biden….
https://www.rawstory.com/newark-air-traffic-chaos-terrible/
Dividends from Trump’s Grift and Graft Tour, A Qatari jet they have been trying to sell for several years.
Trump brags is worth $400 million, but a new one (with no interior) cost $367 Million in 2019, and this one is 17 years old. LOL!
Trump bullshit!
https://www.corporatejetinvestor.com/aircraft/boeing-bbj-747-8-buyers-investors-guide/
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Posted by: Craptaculated Whinebilly | 22 May 2025 at 11:27 AM
Really dugsKKKi….are you ever not whining? You must have been a real treat as a child!
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Revenant Hill @ 11:27 AM
I guess you didn’t finish the article. Cost to install an interior is estimated $25-$50M, so we’ll call it $400M. Trump’s number is right.
“The 747-8i gifted by Qatar was built in 2012…” – it’s 13 years old. Your number is wrong. Air Force One is 35 years old – nearly three times the age of the ‘new’ gifted one.
An outfitted private 747 can fit up to 100 normal-sized folks. So how many of you could fit in the cabin?
Boeing has burned through $3B+ so far for the non-delivery of two 747s for Air Force 1 & 2 replacements. In 2018, the Air Force issued a contract to Boeing to convert two 747s to eventually serve as new Air Force One aircraft, for $3.9 billion. In 2019, the Pentagon estimated that the total estimated cost of building, equipping and testing the planes would be higher, at about $5.3 billion.
The project has been plagued by delays and cost overruns. The jets were supposed to be ready by last year but may not be delivered until 2029.
That would be 11 years total to deliver two airplanes. My cat could build them in less time.
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Well here we go…Trumps economy in our town.
Today I bought a pound of Caroline’s coffee at SPD and the cost was $19.99 for a pound. Around two months ago at SPD I bought the same coffee for $16.99.
Can anyone tell me what is good about that?
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Buy something else, Punch… maybe Carolines is above your budget now.
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Posted by: Paul “I’m a coffee gourmet” Emery | 22 May 2025 at 06:41 PM
Can anyone tell me what is good about that?
Try Folgers…..
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Here you go Paul Raymond…..
https://www.costco.com/kirkland-signature-colombian-coffee-dark-roast-3-lbs.product.100361434.html
$16.99 a pound for coffee…..you need your head examined!
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Up $3.00 in two months. That’s the story. I like good coffee and have always bought that from Carolines.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 22 May 2025 at 07:43 PM
Next time you’re there you should ask them why they are such price gougers.
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“Can anyone tell me what is good about that?”
Yeah – Caroline’s is making more money than ever off of a Biden stooge. Sounds great to me!
Seattle’s Best from Amazon 20 bucks for 3 12oz packages. I can get it cheaper sometimes on sale from BiMart.
Next Paul will complain about the cost of caviar.
BTW – anyone care to wager what guzzle-lene will cost Californians after the Dems finish chasing out the oil companies?
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Also there are lots of empty shelves at SPD.
What does that mean?
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Bad news ya po ol ponytail of ignorance your team says its global warming and inflation is low-
https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/adverse-climatic-conditions-drive-coffee-prices-to-highest-level-in-years/en
The current annual inflation rate is 2.3%, now the closest it’s been to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target since the post-pandemic inflation surge began in early 2021.
https://www.bankrate.com/banking/federal-reserve/latest-inflation-statistics/
😉
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Ponytail of ignorance @903 –
Perhaps they need workers like many businesses in the area.
😉
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“What does that mean?”
It means that when you saw the shelves – there was nothing on them.
You could have asked the manager of the store about that but you’d rather show up here displaying how ignorant and lazy you are.
Is it any wonder you are a Biden voter?
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re: coffee.
Just go to Grocery Outlet. Done. Buy everything there, accept the fact that occasionally they won’t have it.
Every other store in the area is grossly overpriced and has crazy-slow checkers.
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GrossMeOutlet barfing market
My favorite.
Eggsies and milk.
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Posted by: Gregory | 23 May 2025 at 07:49 AM
GrossMeOutlet barfing market
Sometimes frugality comes with a bit of dyspepsia….
After you mentioned that Carolines might be just a bit above Paul Raymonds station, I as he is so fond of saying checked it out….and oh my goodness….how deep does the change in the guitar case have to be in order to feel comfortable shopping at SPD Market? I had no idea that our own Paul Raymond Emery of Nevada City, California was so well off financially!
You guys really do live in the “Tiburon of the Timbers”!
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Please tell me that this wasn’t too late for the beachgoers to be Springbreakers!
That would have really been your “Feel Good Friday” link!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14741819/Army-Rangers-open-fire-Florida-beach-Pirate-Festival.html
PS: Anybody seen George Boardman? A while back he hinted at spending more time here regaling us with his homespun foothills style wisdom. So far not so much!
What gives George?
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Remember way back when the lefty that posts here scoffed at the idea that ‘green’ energy had something to do with Spain’s blackout?
Once again – reality intrudes:
“Spanish scientists ‘were experimenting with how far they could push renewable energy’ before country-wide chaos.”
Oops.
Shrug.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/05/they-experiment-you-die.php
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Good thing we yielded control of education to progressives……
They have one job and they can’t do it
Actually this is sort of a trick post! College English majors aren’t really in college to learn English! Certainly not acquire a love of it, it being the language and culture of the oppressive colonizer!
College English majors are there to be groomed into the next generation of sinecure occupying (A sinecure is a do nothing job that pays pretty well Paul Raymond…“a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit”) activist/evangelist/apparatchiks in the “education” factories of this formerly great nation of ours!
Well it was a good run!
At this point probably more appropriate to just teach your children how to fight!
https://kittenbeloved.substack.com/p/college-english-majors-cant-read
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Posted by: Scott O | 23 May 2025 at 08:46 AM
“Spanish scientists ‘were experimenting with how far they could push renewable energy’ before country-wide chaos.”
Shades of Chernobyl!
Well it looks like they found out….so they’ve got that going for them…which is nice!
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Jeez….busy F’in Friday!
Given how Obama’s third term turned out I’d claim I didn’t know him either….
Anybody else think that maybe it’s time to raze Columbia University to the ground, scatter the staff to the four winds (although like cancer cells they’ll probably just take root somewhere else and start the process anew!), and salt the ground upon which it sat?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/never-heard-him-notable-columbia-prof-says-he-isnt-sure-obama-attended-columbia
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Trump is a total liar and embarrassment to our country
This was just published:
JOHANNESBURG, May 22 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump showed a screenshot of Reuters video taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of what he falsely presented on Wednesday as evidence of mass killings of white South Africans.
“These are all white farmers that are being buried,” said Trump, holding up a print-out of an article accompanied by the picture during a contentious Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
In fact, the video, published by Reuters on February 3 and subsequently verified by the news agency’s fact check team, showed humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma. The image was pulled from Reuters footage shot following deadly battles with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.
With Trump yu can’t believe a word he says.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/trumps-image-dead-white-farmers-came-reuters-footage-congo-not-south-africa-2025-05-22/
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Posted by: Paul Raymond Emery | 23 May 2025 at 09:54 AM
Trump is a total liar and embarrassment to our country
Much like you are to poor George’s blog!
Well maybe it is and maybe it isn’t!
The problem Paul Raymond is that the media has so little credibility these days…. unless people see something with their own eyes nobody believes it any more!
Joe Biden…sharp as a tack…a tack I tells ya!
Way to go you silly halfwit!
PS: How was coffee this morning?
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Paul – white farmers are being targeted and murdered by blacks in So Africa and have been for quite a while. The govt does little to nothing to solve the murders. This is isn’t something new that Trump came up with. It is not a lie. But your limited news sources don’t want to talk about it. Violence and slave trading by blacks in Africa is an abomination that is winked at by the whites elsewhere in the world because they believe blacks aren’t to be held to the same standards as whites. It’s called racism.
Trump is doing a wonderful job uncovering what our previous admins refused to do.
C’mon Paul – sing along:
“Kill the Boers – kill the farmer!”
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Trump total liar fish. Either that or he has a totally incompetent staff that fed him this garbage. If who he should have apologized.
Direct quote from Trump:
“The footage played by Trump in the Oval Office showed rows of white crosses stretching off into the distance along a rural road. Trump claimed: “These are burial sites right here. Burial sites. Over a thousand of white farmers.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9vxve994ro
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Aargh – typepad ate another one
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Posted by: Paul Raymond Emery | 23 May 2025 at 11:15 AM
Trump total liar fish.
My …..what a wonderfully minimalist sentence!
Ironically Paul Raymond it doesn’t matter! Your spastic Trumphate was bound to be right once or twice (of course it’s interesting that you couldn’t identify a single lie out of Biden) over the course of Trumps tenure. But nobody …at least nobody who’s been paying attention…. believes the legacy media anymore (National Propaganda Repository ring a bell)!
Trust and believability ratings lower again this year than last!
Wonder why that is?
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Punchy total liar Punchy.
You kept telling lies about your grandfather, your grandmother and your mom.
Shame!
In short, your grandfather and grandmother were interviewed by La Migre at Ellis Island, they were allowed in to establish a residence and they didn’t have anything in common with illegals currently in the USA.
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