[NYC’s Mamdani is a communist in socialist’s clothing. He is now polling at the 40+% level and sure to be the city’s next mayor. On his current Hate Trump tour he is telling his double dummies that he’s willing to work with Trump as long as the president is ready to federally subsidize his ‘affordability’ projects like free city transit rides and cheap food from city-owned grocery stores. Gerald Baker in the 12aug25 WSJ (here) posits that Mamdani may herald a new kind of class struggle – “It’s the overeducated elites, not laborers or the masses, who are getting behind socialism today.” gjr]
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198 responses to “Sandbox – 12aug25”
George
If true. this will soon explode. We’ll see if it’s valid
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-i-have-ghislaine-maxwells
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“…that Senator Whitehouse (D – RI) has penned a letter to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons William Marshall demanding answers surrounding the redesignation and transfer of convicted serial sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum security facility”
The answer to Punchy is no, it isn’t valid.
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Posted by: Paul Raymond Emery | 12 August 2025 at 12:55 PM
George
If true. this will soon explode. We’ll see if it’s valid
Yeah…you just keep hoping that that pony shows up on Christmas morning Paul Raymond!
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Thinking about the place of my birth, Los Angeles City and County.
Mayor Fat Bass makes me pine for the previous lousy mayor, Sam Yorty.
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We’ll see Gregory
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You’re been waiting for over 8 years for these hairbrained visions of yours.
Sen. Whitehouse is a loon.
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Gregory once again is a Trump loyalist and a fake Libertarian. No wonder the Libertarian Party is such a flop.
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You’re such a dumb fuck, Punch.
I’m not a Trump “loyalist” and am a real Libertarian.
You’re a lousy musician, but then most are.
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I look forward to watching New York starve…..
Socialism always begins with calls for the Universal Brotherhood of Man and ends up with the eating of the pets!
I wonder if they’ll blow the bridges and hole the runways at the various airports to make this a legitimate test of “socialism”?
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” Gregory once again is a Trump loyalist and a fake Libertarian. No wonder the Libertarian Party is such a flop.”
Once again, I must demand Punchy retract this false and libelous statement.
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I am sure the numbers are higher in nirvana silly including the po ol ponytail of ignorance –
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/08/12/woke-fail-just-12-percent-of-americans-find-sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-ad-offensive/
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Billionaire becomes crime fighter, the people love it –
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnns-effort-ridicule-trump-dcs-batman-backfires-social-media-hails-cool-comparison?dicbo=v2-JZYOEID&intcmp=fn_article_br_ob_more_from
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Show me one time Gregory that you opposed Trump on anything in this blog. You always support him. That is a true not false statement.
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George
Who do you think authorized Ghislaine Maxwell to go to a minimum security prison ? She is a horrible and dangerous person. why is it that there are those who are sent to wire cages in the Everglades who have not been convicted of anything and she goes out of nowhere to a minimum security country club prison where she may have work privileges to leave during the day? Who do you think authorized that?
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She was arrested and charged by the federal government in July 2020 with the crimes of enticement of minors and sex trafficking of underage girls, related to her association with Epstein as his recruiter. You know the story George. Don’t you find it odd that at this time she gets a better deal?
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The po ol ponytail of ignorance cannot wrap his brain cell around the fact ILLEGAL alien is
illegal.
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Don
How is it that they aren’t even convicted of anything and still are sent to a wire cage in the everglades and a convicted sex peddler of underage teenage girls goes to a minimum security facility with work privileges?
Can you explain that Don?
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Thats how deportation works foolio. I guess you didnt hear that she gave up all the clinton pictures.
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Posted by: Paul “I have a firm grasp of matters legal” Emery | 12 August 2025 at 08:50 PM
She was arrested and charged by the federal government in July 2020 with the crimes of enticement of minors and sex trafficking of underage girls, related to her association with Epstein as his recruiter. You know the story George. Don’t you find it odd that at this time she gets a better deal?
Whew…..Matlock is on the case….thank god!
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Don’t correct Dear Leader’s bullshit numbers.
Powell fact checks Trump on extra building he add to list recently.
Powell needs to go.
“During a tour of the renovation site in July 2025, Trump claimed that the project’s costs had risen to $3.1 billion. Powell disputed this figure, stating that Trump was including a third building, the Martin Building, which had been renovated and completed in 2021, into the current renovation’s costs.”
Trump Fraud Family
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Poor MAGA stooge…must always agree with Dear Leader even when he is full of shit…
“Representative Kevin Kiley’s RINO credentials are on full display as he locks arms with Governor Gavin Newsom and rejects mid-decade redistricting. Why is he bucking Trump and the Texas MAGA faithful? Chances are he saw the California‘s proposed gerrymander which carves District 3 into pieces. Kiley doesn’t stand up for individuals in his district unless of course those individuals are named Kevin Patrick Kiley. Welcome to the residence, I guess.
Sean Johnson, Grass Valley”
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Punch 837p
I voted for him once.
That’s a pitiful record for a major Trump supporter.
I also expect not to vote for him a’gin.
The “progressive” left is evil.
You need to retract your libels.
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Punch…
Where have you denounced Mamdami?
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Mamdani is a communist.
Any harsh words from Punch?
And it looks like Schiff is in rough shape, finally, after leading the liar’s brigade in the Congress trying to undo lawful elections.
Punch?
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Hillbully…
We have an independent commission for redistricting California.
You’re celebrating Newsom going around it in order to fowl a Texas election cycle and hiding past Democratic Party gerrymandering?
You guys are running scared.
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Another rhetorical and actual loss for the criminal coddles –
A CNN commentator and frequent critic of President Donald Trump ripped Democrats over their response to his federalization of D.C.’s police force in order to combat crime.
“That doesn’t mean it’s a bad political strategy,” Cupp said. “I think it’s a very good one. And the numbers can be what they are. But also people don’t feel that way. And when it comes to two things, crime and the economy, feelings don’t really care about your facts.”
She then critcized Democrats for their response to Trump’s crackdown on crime.
“And I can’t tell you how profoundly stupid it is for Democrats to get up with their facts and their figures and their charts and their graphs and say, ‘Look, you’re safe. Can’t you read this chart, idiots? Why are you complaining? I’m showing you right here how safe you are. So shut up and move along,’” Cupp said.
She also said that Democrats don’t have the best track record for telling the truth.
“I don’t have to tell you how profoundly stupid that is, because voters told you how profoundly stupid that was in 2024, when Democrats said, ‘See these economic numbers? The economy is great. What are you complaining about? See these crime numbers? Crime’s down. You’re safe. See these immigration numbers? Obama deported way more. There’s no migrant crisis,’” Cupp said.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/anti-trump-cnn-commentator-rips-profoundly-stupid-democrats-over-dc-crime-response
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Here’s one ready to explode. Just developing:
“President Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen revealed in a new interview that he handled a rape complaint against him and the late financier Jeffrey Epstein just weeks before the 2016 election.
Cohen mentioned the Jane Doe complaint almost in passing during an interview with journalist Tara Palmieri, who wrote on her “Red Letter” website that the details revealed by the former attorney resembled allegations made at that time by a woman known as Katie Johnson.
“She was a Jane Doe who accused President Trump in three different lawsuits of raping her in Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse in 1994, when she was a 13-year-old aspiring model,” Palmieri wrote. “She was planning to hold a press conference in Los Angeles days before the 2016 election, but instead, she dropped her suit and vanished. Her attorney Lisa Bloom cited death threats. Her lead lawyer, Thomas Meagher, filed a one-page dismissal in Manhattan federal court.”
More to come:
https://www.rawstory.com/katie-johnson-trump-michael-cohen/
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Posted by: Paul “This Time For Sure” Emery | 13 August 2025 at 04:03 PM
Here’s one ready to explode. Just developing:
They always are Paul Raymond….they always are.
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A Raw Story from a decade ago.
Not an indictment.
Not a story.
Is that all you can come up with, Punch?
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Punch,
After over ten years, what it the expectation as to the state of any investigation?
Realllly?
Give it up, If the story doesn’t come from a DA’s orifice just keep it to yourself.
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Gregory
here’s the date of the story
Travis Gettys
August 13, 2025 11:47AM ET
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Gregory
I don’t see you complaining when Trump complains about Obama and the 2016 Presidential election. Thats just another example of your devotion to Trump.
Direct quote from you:
“After over ten years, what it the expectation as to the state of any investigation”
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In your dreams, Punch.
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Taking odds on Trump throwing ketchup bottles tonight…
https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1955411757540970603?t=tZuJLwtULQHaHmrFWN4ykA&s=19
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Unfortunately for the po ol ponytail of ignorance and his years of swallowing whatever the talking points for lefties spewed the documents have now implicated 0 and his team, then again after last nov. At lease now you have been consistently wrong. Per haps you can get a bed in an asylum to blather to the walls and annoy the long suffering care workers.
#sadoldman
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What do these words mean Don “Per haps ” and “At lease now ” ? I don’t know what you’re talking about until you define those meanings.
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Snowball fights in hell?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/s-f-school-district-to-teachers-your-political-opinions-don-t-belong-in-the-classroom/ar-AA1Ku1Hv?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=689d24f9f7224135b86af2c88605800d&ei=152
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Posted by: Paul “Pot Meet Kettle” Emery | 13 August 2025 at 07:55 PM
What do these words mean Don “Per haps ” and “At lease now ” ? I don’t know what you’re talking about until you define those meanings.
Bold words from the barely literate……!
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Fat fingers, guilty. No matter the #sadoldman does not have any comprehension anyway. LOL
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Trump down by 8 in Fox News poll…
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So how does it matter in the real world where he is not running or is he????
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So how many times does it have to fail before the idiots stop pretending they can fix stupid? –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/city-owned-missouri-grocery-store-closes-as-mamdani-campaigns-for-some-in-new-york/ar-AA1KtkSd?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=689d589d26514bf0b15a36baceefeeef&ei=95
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“So how many times does it have to fail before the idiots stop pretending they can fix stupid?”
For folks like Mamdani, communism always works. They have whatever material goods they want and they get to be boss. Works for them. What’s your problem?
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“For folks like Mamdani, communism always works.”
I’d be surprised if he had any sort of philosophy.
From here, he just looks like the average US politician, particularly one in an urban area.
You basically say whatever it takes to get the gig on the ‘issues’ of the day and hopefully belong to the same ethnicity as a large chunk of voters (with the exception of mature white wimmen, who typically vote the swarthy party anymore). Hold hands, shake babies, smile, read speeches from a teleprompter.
It never was that uncommon, it’s just that now gubmint has metastasized into every corner of your life in order to do Good Deeds. It inevitably became a spoils system some time ago, so that’s baked into the cake.
I expect that he’ll get the job and immediately appoint a black or lesbian (or both) Police Commissioner and Police Chief, although some other ethnic group might have their eye on the department.
NYC is a funny case since, like London, it looks to be barely part of the host country.
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The socialist dems are again on the wrong side of a 91 – 9 issue. –
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/08/14/nolte-poll-of-d-c-residents-annihilates-lefts-d-c-is-safe-lie/
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Posted by: scenes | 14 August 2025 at 09:43 AM
I expect that he’ll get the job and immediately appoint a black or lesbian (or both) Police Commissioner and Police Chief, although some other ethnic group might have their eye on the department.
Yeah….the twofer is a huge timesaver and scratches the Ressurected Hillbilly types right in their Than Francithco Valuths!
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Your local “news” paper….it is an endless source of Fading Boomer entertainment for me…..
….yeah…..can’t have any of that “decisiveness” now can we?
Friend of yours Paul Raymond?
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Punch…
Where have you denounced Mamdami?
Posted by: Gregory | 13 August 2025 at 10:44 AM
Funny how this one was just missed!
Probably an innocent mistake on Paul Raymond’s part!
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So sorry gov hair gel –
A POLITICO-Citrin Center-Possibility Lab survey found that 36% of registered voters in California support returning congressional redistricting authority to state lawmakers. Sixty-four percent of voters in the state want to keep the commission.
Broken down further, 66% of Republicans, 61% of Democrats, and 72% of independents want to keep the commission. Just 28% of independents want to pass the authority to state legislators
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/california-voters-reject-overturning-independent-redistricting-commission-poll/ar-AA1KwxDr?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=689e145a82d94e5fae3335882a8d99c2&ei=21
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Re PaulE and Mamdani – My assessment is that Paul is quite sanguine about Mamdani’s public policy proposals for NYC (and the country). He’s had plenty of chance to comment on the socialist cum communist, and the result has been the sound of silence. According to his own standards revealed over the years, if you don’t oppose someone/something then you are automatically in favor of what you don’t oppose.
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