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126 responses to “Sandbox – 14jul25”

  1. fish Avatar
    fish

    In this mornings….”I’d like to thank the Academy” moment!

    Remember that woman who Democrats and the media claimed was kidnapped from a parking lot by ICE, shoved into an unmarked car, held in a building, starved, to force her to self-deport???
    Turns out she staged the entire “kidnapping”
    She’s now facing criminal charges for conspiracy and making false statements to federal officers

    “Street Theater”…always gets you trouble…..!
    https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1945936203628359787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1945936203628359787%7Ctwgr%5Ef5a23d64d2ba9e9bcdc6e2d35ae5b138d9b5f45c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F732677%2F

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  2. fish Avatar
    fish

    You’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh!

    To Celebrate NPR Losing Federal Funds, Here Are Seven Of Its Worst Stories
    NPR publishes hard-hitting journalism about everything from gay immigrants to transgender dinosaurs.

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/to-celebrate-npr-losing-federal-funds-here-are-seven-of-its-worst-stories?topStoryPosition=undefined&author=Catherine+Maxwell&category=News+and+Commentary&elementPosition=1&row=1&rowHeadline=Top+Stories&rowType=Top+Stories&title=To+Celebrate+NPR+Losing+Federal+Funds%2C+Here+Are+Seven+Of+Its+Worst+Stories

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  3. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Posted by: Barry Pruett | 17 July 2025 at 08:16 PM
    It is simple, believe whatever Dear Leaders says, and do whatever Dear Leader wants.
    How about that WSJ (America’s newspaper of record) release of the Trump/Epstein birthday card/love letter?
    Dear Leaders says don’t believe it…how will MAGA react?

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  4. Scott O Avatar

    “It is simple, believe whatever Dear Leaders says, and do whatever Dear Leader wants.”
    So – there actually isn’t any MAGA after all.
    BeerBelly can’t name a single person that fits that description.

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  5. Scott O Avatar

    The feds pulled 4B of our tax dollars out of the California Choochoo scam. Good.
    If the CA leg. had any brains they’d pull the plug on this.
    As long as the Dems keep getting their slice of this stinking pile – they’ll keep jacking the CA tax payers to continue it.

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  6. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Genuine question.
    I see that NC just got a cool half million from this
    https://business.ca.gov/cannabis-equity-grants-program-for-local-jurisdictions/
    Can someone please explain what a ‘Cannabis Equity Grant’ is beyond purest griftery?

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  7. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 18 July 2025 at 12:37 PM
    Can someone please explain what a ‘Cannabis Equity Grant’ is beyond purest griftery?

    Virtue signaling white NC progressives buying indulgences from their lessers with your money.

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  8. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    The next time psul prattles on about anything that matters, just think of this:
    “Newly declassified records from @DNIGabbard are additional, compelling evidence that the 2016 Russia Collusion narrative was not rooted in credible intelligence reporting, but manufactured to fit a preferred political narrative.
    Gabbard has taken the rare and transparent step of declassifying a December 2016 draft of the President’s Daily Brief or PDB.
    This highly classified record, which is a daily national security analysis for the President, assessed that “Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against (election) infrastructure.””
    etc.
    https://x.com/C__Herridge/status/1946267580475580622

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ya dont say –
    Obama admin ‘manufactured’ intelligence to create 2016 Russian election interference narrative, documents show
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-admin-manufactured-intelligence-create-170255319.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink
    😉

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  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    fish: “Naw had nothing to do with shitty ratings and an outrageous salary for no billables for ads since no one watches -”
    I saw that the show costs $100m/yr to produce.
    A small quote from X:
    “The canceling of Colbert is proof that Boomer liberalism is dying.
    It will take years, if not decades, to repair the damage caused by this nightmarish ideology, but the sooner we start the better.”

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  11. fish Avatar
    fish

    fish: “Naw had nothing to do with shitty ratings and an outrageous salary for no billables for ads since no one watches -“
    Not me but I agree with the sentiment!

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  12. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Post by Matt Taibbi:
    “The new documents released by @TulsiGabbard leave no doubt – none – that the @BarackObama White House invented a phony espionage scandal to hang on the incoming Trump administration. The sole question is, why? What idiot thought this would work, that it was a good idea?”
    That’s not a bad question and I simply don’t know, not being an insane person.
    Perhaps psul could help us out here. I’m always willing to give a made-up reason a listen.

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  13. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Posted by: scenes | 18 July 2025 at 12:37 PM
    Not sure why you think it is negative.
    Why shouldn’t tax dollars collected thru MJ sales be put back into commuties where there might have been adverse outcomes because of allowing MJ sales (this should give the whiney old ladies like our own Don B. some comfort)

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  14. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Waiting for the usual “spotted owl” excuses…
    https://eastoregonian.com/2025/07/18/shutting-down-the-pilot-rock-sawmill/

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  15. fish Avatar
    fish

    Ahhhh….there’s that progressive compulsion for “safety” again…!

    California radio station says Trump public media cuts make ‘America less safe’

    Makes you wonder how they ever leave their (see Paul Raymond….the possessive “their”! Not “they’re the contraction for “they are” which you almost certainly would have used in this instance) homes?!
    Seen elsewhere…..
    What NPR listeners think they get!
    Regular NPR listener somewhere in the Midwest: “Honey, I think I just saw a funnel cloud! Quick turn on NPR.”
    What they really get….!
    NPR: “David is an artist who lives in Nebraska with his two husbands. Here’s why he fears deportation…”
    Original headline at CrapBee.com ….for the link incapable!

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  16. fish Avatar
    fish

    Really not the same when a bunch of whiny Boomer geriatrics are out there LARPing like hardcore activists as opposed to John Lewis who at least was down with taking the “Wood Shampoo” for the cause!

    National Anti-Trump “Good Trouble” Protests Fizzle With Little Fanfare

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/national-anti-trump-good-trouble-protests-fizzle-little-fanfare

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  17. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Gaza Officials Say”
    That means the news is as reported from Hamas. Not the truth.
    Even less truthful than from Punch.

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Hamas by way of huffpost is exactly the kind of propaganda fools like the ponytail of ignorance lap up and regurgitate ad nauseum with no critical thinking involved, well that is if he could even if he wanted to. LOL

    So can they explain how a small change kicking off ineligibles that has not even gone into effect could possibly have an impact? Ya didnt think so! –
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-slashed-food-aid-grocers-in-small-towns-and-rural-areas-are-taking-the-hit/ar-AA1IUC3v?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=7b4f7ebd81f74f2486ef8e1255d53c61&ei=70
    😉

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  19. Scott O Avatar

    Paul doesn’t understand what goes on in a war zone.
    “Mahmoud Mokeimar said he was walking with masses of people, mostly young men, toward the hub. Troops fired warning shots, then opened fire.”
    The “mostly young men” were Hamas. They steal the food and sell it to the women and children who were supposed to get it for free.
    Most people with functioning brain cells obey the orders of folks with machine guns. And wait until the appointed time. And even after that they were only warning shots. After that – play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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  20. gjrebane Avatar

    DonB 122pm – Excellent question which by the silence of its response from our liberals again testifies that they are unprincipled liars telling impactive lies that actually do influence the votes of our light thinking neighbors.

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    RIP Bob Newhart, Gena Rowlands and Big George Foreman! There may be something to the pattern of 3s.
    😉

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  22. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Breaking! Trump talks Coke into using real sugar!
    …How bout those Epstein files? LoL

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    It was absolutely orchestrated from the WH (wokesters?) and the rest of the thought police –
    The government documents, obtained by America First Legal, “conclusively prove” a memo from former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland “mobilized the full force of the federal government’s firepower against concerned parents—not to protect schools, but to silence dissent” and the ensuing investigation was “politically orchestrated and coordinated with the Biden White House,” America First Legal charged Friday.
    These never-before-seen documents—uncovered only because of AFL’s relentless efforts over the past three and a half years—expose not only the Biden White House’s involvement in pushing a weaponized DOJ, but also strong dissent from careers within the Department’s Civil Rights Division, who warned that there was no federal authority or legal basis to target these parents in the first place because their speech is protected by the First Amendment.
    One DOJ attorney wrote to colleagues in an email on October 3, 2021:
    I read the letter from NSBA, and looked at the links for a handful of footnotes, and it appears to me that the vast, vast majority of the behavior cited cannot be reached by federal law. I only saw three stories that involved what sounded like a possible “true threat” … Almost all the language used is protected by the First Amendment; the main issue seems seems to be the disruption and obstruction of school board meetings, which can be reached by local trespassing laws or disturbance of the peace laws, but nothing remotely federal. So it seems we are ramping up an awful lot of federal manpower for what is currently non-federal conduct.
    As Breitbart News reported in 2022, two Republican congressmen said that a whistleblower alleged that the FBI launched dozens of investigations into parents after Garland directed the agency to do so.
    The Biden Administration appears to have engaged in a conspiracy that was ultimately aimed at depriving parents of two fundamental rights—the right to speak, and the right to direct the upbringing of their children. They did so with political intentions, most immediately by attempting to influence the Virginia gubernatorial election, and to more broadly chill dissent across the United States.
    Some of the most publicized school board protests were in Virginia.
    Fox News’s reporting on the released documents also cited Garland’s frequent response when asked by lawmakers — that his DOJ always worked independently of the White House on high-profile legal matters.
    The new emails about the school board letter contradict that message, the news outlet pointed out.
    https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2025/07/19/documents-biden-ag-white-house-conspired-chill-local-parents-school-board-protests/
    😉

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Thats your sanctuary bitches, illegal murderers get to walk the streets –
    Immigration authorities in Chicago arrested a Mexican illegal immigrant accused of decapitating a missing Illinois woman and storing her body in a storage container filled with bleach.
    Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, 52, of Waukegan, Illinois, was arrested in April and charged with concealing a corpse, abusing a corpse and obstruction of justice, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
    Immediately after his first court appearance, Lake County Judge Randie Bruno released Mendoza-Gonzalez from custody.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-arrests-illegal-immigrant-accused-decapitating-illinois-woman-after-judge-set-him-free.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-arrests-illegal-immigrant-accused-decapitating-illinois-woman-after-judge-set-him-free
    😉

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  25. Scott O Avatar

    “…How bout those Epstein files? LoL”
    How ’bout Obama knowing the Russia collusion story was all a hoax?
    “…in 2016 then-President Barack Obama and his national security team “manufactured and politicized” phony intelligence to help frame Donald Trump as a Russian asset when they knew it was untrue.”
    LOL, my ass.

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  26. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Looks like they are closing in on Trump
    Check this out:
    Donald Trump once hosted a party featuring “young women” where Jeffrey Epstein “was the only other guest,” the New York Times reported over the weekend.
    In an article titled “Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein,” Alan Feuer and Matthew Goldstein write that, “For nearly 15 years, the two men socialized together in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla., before a falling out that preceded Mr. Epstein’s first arrest.”
    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/us/politics/inside-trump-epstein-friendship.html

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  27. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Paul and RH look like the coyote and Trump is the roadrunner! Meep Meep!

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  28. Scott O Avatar

    “Looks like they are closing in on Trump”
    Paul is so excited.
    There must be a pony under THIS pile of manure!

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  29. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy is just punchin`.
    I’ve spent the last hour listening to crapital public radio… not a whisper.

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  30. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory, Scott
    Direst quote from Trump. what a liar your guy Trump is :
    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonaldTrump
    “My Poll Numbers within the Republican Party, and MAGA, have gone up, significantly, since the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax was exposed by the Radical Left Democrats and, just plain “troublemakers.” They have hit 90%, 92%, 93%, and 95%, in various polls, and are all Republican Party records. The General Election numbers are my highest, EVER! People like Strong Borders, and all of the many other things I have done.”
    https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114885474879269820

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  31. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Here’s some Republican poll numbers about Trumps support. Trump is an outright liar on this.
    https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/17/trump-jeffrey-epstein-polls-00460245

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  32. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Sad So-So finds a new conspiracy to obsess about Lol! Obama, Clinton, Hunter Lol
    Anything to forget about Epstein Lol?
    Patriot Act Deep State has the 411 on Epstein.
    They recorded everything…
    What is Trump afraid of?
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Klein

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  33. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 20 July 2025 at 07:19 AM
    Direst quote from Trump.

    “Direst”?!
    I’ll reiterate something I’ve said on multiple occasions Paul Raymond Emery of Nevada City, California.
    Proofread! Always!
    There is literally nothing that you have to say that is so original, so important that you shouldn’t double….err….triple check (given your obvious limitations) before you post! Your opinions alone make you look idiotic! There’s no sense in compounding that with the oft repeated spelling, syntax, and grammar errors that haunt your offerings here!
    I say this as a friend!
    ps: Trump still President

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  34. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punch, the bad orange man will go away in January ’29. Promise.
    In the meantime, I’m not sure what part of the quote I’m supposed to think is a falsehood.

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  35. gjrebane Avatar

    Administrivia – Epstein comments under Scattershots please.

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  36. Scott O Avatar

    “..finds a new conspiracy to obsess about”
    Nothing new, dude. Years old. But you goobers always said it was just a bunch of BS.
    You’re ending up like Baghdad Bob insisting there’s nothing to see while the American tanks rolled in behind him.
    Ya got hosed, dude – but you look like a total clown the more you deny it.

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  37. fish Avatar
    fish

    Hey….Hilljeffy….in your ongoing quest for cheap yard work and house cleaning you might want to shy away from this guy!

    Illegal Migrant Accused Of Decapitating Illinois Woman Captured By ICE

    Now this guy was out a day after his arrest…..! Illinois doncha know…..and it looks like ICE picked him up again. Still there are no guarantees in this life and who know when he’ll be released again so be careful!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/illegal-migrant-accused-decapitating-illinois-woman-captured-ice

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  38. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Naughty boys caught with their hands in the cookie jar –
    “The more information that is revealed about the GGRF, the shadier the entire scheme looks,” Michael Chamberlain, director of PPT, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The irony is that when federal employees finally start cutting red tape and expediting a process, it’s to make sure taxpayer money is irrecoverable to taxpayers. It’s clear from these documents that Biden’s EPA cut corners to get the money ‘obligated’ before the funds expired on September 30, 2024, even if it meant ‘finalizing’ agreements with grantees they fully intended to re-negotiate later. In the private sector, this is the kind of thing that sometimes lands people in jail.”
    “Now we really know what throwing gold bars off the Titanic looks like,” Chamberlain said, referencing a video covertly recorded by conservative activist group Project Veritas in which a Biden EPA official likened the rush to fund green groups before Trump’s arrival to hurling money off a sinking ship. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has also repeatedly cited the Project Veritas video in comments about the GGRF.
    Several of the GGRF grantees are laden with Democrat donors and former high-level Obama and Biden administration officials. Established under Biden’s signature 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the multi-billion-dollar program budget far exceeded any previous EPA budget. Federal reviewers flagged “excessive” executive pay and questionable financial statements ahead of the final GGRF grantee selections, the DCNF previously reported.
    Coalition for Green Capital (CGC), Power Forward Communities (PFC) and Climate United Fund (CUF) are among the three grantees loaded with Democrat donors and insiders that federal reviewers flagged for seemingly unjustified high executive salaries.
    “The more you look at this, the worse it gets. Not only was the Biden EPA tossing billions of taxpayer dollars ‘off the Titanic,’ to borrow their language, but under every stone you find more well documented incidents of self-dealing and conflicts of interest, unqualified recipients, and intentionally reduced agency oversight,” Zeldin told the DCNF. “These grants were rightfully terminated months ago, and Congress just fully repealed the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program in the One Big Beautiful Bill.”
    The agency’s inspector general, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI are investigating the GGRF for potential fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars, and Zeldin has highlighted the program as a key example of Biden-era corruption on numerous occasions.
    EPA froze 129 Citibank accounts holding the funds in February, and in response, several grantees sued the agency and Citibank, arguing that the freeze lacked legal justification and that the EPA had acted properly in distributing the money. An appeals court intervened to stay an earlier ruling that would have forced the EPA to free the frozen funds.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-biden-epa-scrambled-to-beat-clock-and-route-billions-to-political-allies/ar-AA1IWEr7?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=687d4c3c3ed643ceb1e49ab2e270edd9&ei=15
    😉

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  39. Scott O Avatar

    “MAGAns want felons to have guns…”
    But you’ve already established there are no MAGAns, fool. And it’s only SOME felons – learn to read.
    “but what about the vote?”
    Convicted felons that have served their sentence already have the right to petition to restore their voting rights – years ago.
    “Over the last few decades, the general trend has been toward reinstating the right to vote at some point…”
    Try to keep up, BeerBelly.
    https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/felon-voting-rights
    You leftists are slooooow.
    BeerBelly shows up to throw monkey poo again and it ends up all over his own face!

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The irrational socialist greens have a societal suicide complex –
    The primary reason for the significant rise in costs has been the green energy transition imposed on the country by successive governments, which has compelled grid operators to extensively convert equipment to better handle so-called renewable forms of energy.
    This cost has mostly been passed on to consumers and businesses. In 2015, the average German household paid a grid network fee of 6.59 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity. Now, a decade on, the average household pays 11.62 cents for the same amount of energy.
    However, while the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines and the rising costs have been a convenient excuse for the soaring cost of energy in Germany, other factors, such as the move by the previous Social Democrat-led government of Olaf Scholz to fully decommission the country’s nuclear power station fleet, have also plaid a role.
    Embarrassingly for green agenda proponents in Berlin, a report last year from Norwegian engineer Jan Emblemsvåg found that if Germany had invested in nuclear power, rather than wind and solar, it would have been cheaper and the country’s carbon emissions would have also been significantly lower.
    The Norwegian University of Science and Technology researcher calculated that if Germany had invested in nuclear power at the start of the century, emissions would have declined by around 73 per cent, compared to the mere 25 per cent decline seen under the green energy transition.
    Emblemsvåg also estimated that even if Berlin had merely maintained its previous nuclear fleet — rather than shutting the plants down — it would have saved the country around 600 billion euros. If major investments were made into nuclear, he said that the country would have still saved 300 billion euros compared to the investments into supposedly renewable sources of energy.
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/07/20/german-electric-grid-costs-doubled-over-past-decade-as-a-result-of-green-transition/
    😉

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  41. Scott O Avatar

    I’m wondering if the fed govt has ever paid George for his efforts on this blog – because if they haven’t then according to the Dems they’re trying to silence him.
    The local NPR head honcho was recently on the air complaining that if the govt cuts the tax payer funding of their station then they won’t continue to be “independent”. How independent are you if you are, in fact, dependent on govt money?
    The left and the Dems complaining that ending the Late Show because of Trump when they know for a fact it’s losing money is more of the same boo-hooing about nothing but sour grapes because the public is tired of the BS and lies from these people.
    The Dems and the left pound the table with the “my democracy” line day and night, but when the Internet brought actual democracy to the information age, the response from them was to try to censor content they didn’t like.

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  42. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    BBCF
    Bring Back Craig Ferguson,
    Geoff, his gay robot sidekick skeleton,
    and Sid, the hand puppet bunny who likes to cuss.

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