[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”
Trump musta though Bedtime for Bonzo, Ape Man Bongino needed a handler.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bondi-patel-tap-missouri-ag-additional-fbi-co-deputy-director-alongside-bongino
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re: Sr. Fish@11:07AM
Evidently what consists of an ‘economy’ is hair farming from poor Vietnamese women and mystery chemicals from China, largely paid for from government funds extracted at the point of a gun.
No wonder Elon wants to go to Mars.
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from scotto: “The far right is surging in the United States, driven in part by white nationalists exploiting economic anxieties and a populace increasingly frustrated with the political status quo”
It’s not so far from true given the huge swing in belief systems you can see in young people, particularly males.
Of course, ‘far right’ is code for ‘practical things that everyone used to think not so long ago’.
I wonder if the NYT wouldn’t be more readable if you stuck some sort of LLM filter on the the thing that got rid of all the pearl clutching terminology exuded by female Brown University grads in coffee shops.
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So cue the po ol ponytail of ignorance to start ranting against the swiss –
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/08/19/switzerland-says-it-would-grant-putin-arrest-immunity-for-peace-talks/
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Anyone surprised?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-ignored-doj-warnings-over-legally-flawed-autopen-pardons/ar-AA1KPDvY?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=68a50aa0c1324b868d4410d3cf3601fd&ei=95
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Blood on his greasy hands, again –
The semi-truck driver, who allegedly killed three Americans while making an illegal U-turn in Florida, failed an English language proficiency test and also failed to accurately identify highway traffic signs.
In a press release from the Department of Transportation (DOT), it was revealed that officials with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) had launched an investigation into the deadly crash in Florida, which left three people dead.
During an interview with the driver, who has been identified as Harjinder Singh, investigators administered an English Language Proficiency (ELP) assessment. Singh failed the assessment and only provided “correct responses to just 2 of 12 verbal questions,” and he only accurately identified “1 of 4 highway traffic signs,” according to the press release.
“If states had followed the rules, this driver would never have been behind the wheel and three precious lives would still be with us,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement. “This crash was a preventable tragedy directly caused by reckless decisions and compounded by despicable failures. Non-enforcement and radical immigration policies have turned the trucking industry into a lawless frontier, resulting in unqualified foreign drivers improperly acquiring licenses to operate 40-ton vehicles.”
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/08/19/illegal-trucker-fatal-u-turn-failed-english-language-test/
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Yes Don B. the semi-truck driver probably had greasy hands.
Better check with De-Sanctimonious on this. He is also pretty greasy.
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Dumb as dirt – Both Trump and Dog Killer
CorTen is plenty warm in the sun…but they use ladders and cut holes in the Big Beautiful Wall, LOL!
https://apnews.com/article/trump-border-wall-paint-black-immigration-crossings-978acd21269cd917b97ba6cb9077bc71
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But the real question is will anyone notice or care?
https://www.foxnews.com/media/star-wars-actor-mark-hamill-reveals-he-considered-leaving-us-when-trump-won-reelection
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@645 Thats the best your rhetoric sheepskin can come up with. ROFLOL !
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You are welcome Ghillie Boy!
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Proto Fascist Trump continues his “white” washing agenda
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Trump targets the Smithsonian again, says it focuses too much on how bad slavery was – https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-targets-smithsonian-again-says-it-focuses-too-much-how-bad-slavery-was-2025-08-19/
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This is why they will continue to lose –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/man-who-threw-subway-sandwich-at-law-enforcement-in-dc-becomes-symbol-of-resistance/ar-AA1KPeYF?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=cdb80bc9c4e3421a8cb7ca42cbbb33f5&ei=128
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Re: Smithsonian
— “Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future,” Trump wrote on his social media platform.”
Yeah, museums are all about “the future”
History Bad
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Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 20 August 2025 at 06:22 AM
Yeah, museums are all about “the future”
“Fat, Drunk, and Stupid is no way to go through life son!”
~ Dean Wormer
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Re: Smithsonian
Trump is following the Stalinist playbook, don’t like the narrative – erase it.
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“Edward R. Martin Jr. is a prominent figure within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), holding multiple high-profile roles under the Trump administration. He currently serves as the Director of the DOJ’s newly established “Weaponization Working Group” and as the U.S. Pardon Attorney, positions to which he was appointed in May 2025.
Martin was initially appointed Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia on January 20, 2025, but stepped down from that role in May after his nomination faced bipartisan opposition, partly due to his past defense of January 6 rioters.” – The Internet
Weaponization Working Group – MAGA weaponization at work
Why was Ed Martin, DOJ investigator hanging around Letitia James house in a Sherlock Holmes London Fog jacket in 86 degree temperature?
Measuring for drapes?
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/16/doj-special-attorney-investigates-letitia-james-mortgage-fraud-ed-martin-adam-schiff-ny/
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Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 20 August 2025 at 08:32 AM
Measuring for drapes?
Why not….Bill Clinton was just delivering Chinese Takeout to Loretta Lynch on the tarmac at the Phoenix Airport!
Wonder if Loretta “tipped” him?
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With the current collapse of the Democratic party, there may not be successful election fiddlings in Jeff’s future.
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Nooooo…..
Local Nevada City Trump obsessive hardest hit……
https://deadline.com/2025/08/dr-phil-countersued-trinity-broadcasting-bankruptcy-1236492708/
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…..sigh
At first glance I thought it said Starmer!
https://metro.co.uk/2025/08/20/streamer-found-dead-bed-10-days-torture-sleep-deprivation-23955458/
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Hey jeffy….err…um …Hillbilly…..you never did answer! Why did you give up the vibrant anti-racist streets of Than Fran for the dull, staid and fairly quiet, crime free streets of Quainty Town USA?
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(he who blew Bubbles) 934am
…Because it was far enough away from Roseville and Sakotomatos and the airports were less busy.
It’s still a little too far from the Mustang Ranch and the Nevada state tax advantage.
But now Reno is getting Rosevill’d, sad.
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Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 20 August 2025 at 09:55 AM
Wow…you answered a question! Not completely like Paul Raymond after all…..
But now Reno is getting Rosevill’d, sad.
Yes it is! Concur!
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Lol! Dr. Phil is such a douche.
Christian TV sucks.
Religious bullshit has been the cause of most of the bloodshed in the last 2,000 years.
Keep religious indoctrination out of our schools!
https://ffrf.org/
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The Trump Ghettos
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/psychological-warfare-internal-data-shows-181332753.html
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Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 20 August 2025 at 10:09 AM
Keep religious indoctrination out of our schools!
Not to worry….the most effective way make sure something isn’t learned is to teach it in the American Public School System.
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re “Trump Ghettos” – these are detention camps in which illegal aliens are being held pending the resolution of their deportation status. By definition these are at a minimum law-breakers or worse with no intrinsic constitutional rights to any due process save immediate deportation. And where they are held in the interval are quarters more sanitary and safe than the Democrat urban ghettos that dot the land in which their minority constituents live.
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Yes, let’s keep “religious bullshit” out of the schools… including religions based on hegelian dialectics.
100 million killed in the 20th century alone.
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“Keep religious indoctrination out of our schools!”
roflmao. Did I just read that?
I guess if you occasionally drive through a town that puts up Pride Flags like some mini-Nuremberg Rally, you don’t notice them in schools either.
Thank God the ship is starting to change course.
“Religious bullshit has been the cause of most of the bloodshed in the last 2,000 years.”
roflmao. Did I just read that?
Oh well, it’s an automatic response from California hippies.
I guess it’s true except for both World Wars, the US Civil War, the Russian Civil War, the hijinks of the Roman Republic and Empire, Hutu v. Tutsi., Steppe tribe expansions.
Honestly, it’s kind of hard to think of ‘religious bullshit’ wars. The Arab invasion of North Africa and Spain and a few Crusades (none of which were that big in the grand scheme of things). Netherlands vs. Spain maybe?
You have to wonder just how much history people really know. Thing is, it’s just one damn thing after another and there’s a helluva lot of it. I’d say that knowledge of the past and theories on causalities is probably the largest Dunning-Krugeresque thing everyone suffers from.
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In the current experience there is no religious indoctrination per se in public schools – no prayers, liturgical citations, or sectarian lectures – that teach human transcendence. This cannot be said for leftwing union dominated schools. There is taught a constant drumbeat of how students should view the world through socialist, Marxist, or generally collectivist lenses. Evidence across the country is overwhelming for this; see for example the legions of young double dummies who firmly believe Mamdani that increasing taxes on the rich, and giving away free stuff/services will make everyone’s life better. The history kept from the poor bastards tells a starkly different story.
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Time to pay the piper for dudes in ladies locker rooms, DEI and the march of the wanna be collectivists. –
Perhaps more troubling for Democrats, the data suggests Democrat Party activists can no longer rely on the party’s tried-and-true methods to reverse the trend, leaving panicked party leaders and pundits unsure how to resurrect the party’s electoral prospects.
The numbers are staggering.
“Of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between the 2020 and 2024 elections — and often by a lot,” the report reads. “That four-year swing toward the Republicans adds up to 4.5 million voters, a deep political hole that could take years for Democrats to climb out from.”
“All told, Democrats lost about 2.1 million registered voters between the 2020 and 2024 elections in the 30 states, along with Washington, D.C., that allow people to register with a political party,” the report adds. “(In the remaining 20 states, voters do not register with a political party.) Republicans gained 2.4 million.”
“I don’t want to say, ‘The death cycle of the Democratic Party,’ but there seems to be no end to this,” Michael Pruser, director of data science for Decision Desk HQ, told the Times. “There is no silver lining or cavalry coming across the hill. This is month after month, year after year.”
More trends paint a similarly dire picture for Democrats.
By 2024, the Republican party’s share of new registered voters nationwide “had overtaken Democrats’,” rising by nine points compared to 2018, the report details, while Democrats’ fell by almost eight percent.
Due to the makeup of Trump’s new Republican Party coalition, achieved through gains across multiple demographics, Democrats are unable to go back to the well of recruitment of racial minorities to reverse their downward trajectory. The Times report reads:
For years, the left has relied on a sprawling network of nonprofits — which solicit donations from people whose identities they need not disclose — to register Black, Latino and younger voters. Though the groups are technically nonpartisan, the underlying assumption has been that most new voters registering would vote Democratic.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/20/democrat-party-upended-voter-registration-crisis-there-seems-no-end-this/
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Cannot keep up with the orange tornado and eating his dust trying to attack what happened days ago because they have to wait to get the approved talking points for lefties –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/20/exclusive-harrison-fields-trump-white-house-momentum-leaving-democrats-and-media-with-no-idea-how-to-stop-it/
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Boy George, your 12:59 is a stretch. What’s this obsession with Mamdani? He’s a primary candidate on one State yet you make up all this stuff that he represents the Democratic party. In the meantime our current President springs a new batch of lies evey day and you are silent about that. Here’s examples:
“Trump sometimes emphasized that he was speaking literally, scoffing at critics who said he couldn’t end the war that fast. “I’ll get that done within 24 hours. Everyone says, ‘Oh, no, you can’t.’ Absolutely I can. Absolutely I can,” he said at one July 2023 rally in Iowa. He said at a Pennsylvania rally later that month: “Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after we all together win the presidency, we will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled. It will be settled. The war is going to be settled. I’ll get them both – I know Zelensky, I know Putin, it’ll be done within 24 hours, you watch. They all say, ‘That’s such a boast.’ It will be done very quickly.”
Here’s more:
“Fact check: It wasn’t ‘in jest.’ Here are 53 times Trump said he’d end Ukraine war within 24 hours or before taking office ”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/fact-check-trump-ukraine-war
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It’s the feel good story of the year…..
Maybe the decade….Im sure Paul Raymond agrees!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrats-hemorrhaging-voters-voter-registration-crisis-accelerates
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re fish 04:41… Spoken from a Trump supporter by the fake name of fish. That’s because he doesn’t want to embarass his family by supporting such a sleaze and convicted sexual assaulter.
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Posted by: Paul Raymond Emery | 20 August 2025 at 06:21 PM
re fish 04:41… Spoken from a Trump supporter by the fake name of fish. That’s because he doesn’t want to embarass his family by supporting such a sleaze and convicted sexual assaulter.
You continue to top yourself Paul Raymond! That may be the clunkiest sentence you’ve ever written!
Well done!
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Punchy—” What’s this obsession with Mamdani? He’s a primary candidate on one State yet you make up all this stuff that he represents the Democratic party.”
A Communist, Mamdani is the clear favorite for mayor of the premiere Capitalist city of the USA… facts that you are oblivious to.
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Why the dems are demolishing voters like they opened up their femoral arteries yet keep scratching their heads as to why while insulting all of them –
Comedian Dave Foley Rants About MAGA ‘Sub-Breed’ with CNN Host Michael Ian Black: Trump Supporters ‘Hate Whoever They’re Told to Hate’ and ‘Support Fascism’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/08/20/comedian-dave-foley-rants-about-maga-sub-breed-with-cnn-host-michael-ian-black-trump-supporters-hate-whoever-theyre-told-to-hate-and-support-fascism/
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 20 August 2025 at 07:26 PM
Meh…..Dave Foley hasn’t been funny since ”The Kids in the Hall”!
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Another business calling out greasy gavin and his failures –
“We’re taking a stand because it’s time for common sense,” the statement reads. “Businesses deserve the chance to succeed. Employees deserve jobs that last. And customers deserve fair prices. California’s system delivers the opposite.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gov-newsom-reacts-to-bed-bath-beyond-s-refusal-to-open-stores-in-california/ar-AA1KUfPL?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=587e7f13969945b9950664e8b316eea1&ei=24
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Yeah Democrats too…..
But instead of occupation……money…..boxcars full of taxpayer dollars*!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-gop-portray-cities-as-chaotic-dystopias-in-need-of-occupation/ar-AA1KW69K
*See Chicagos CTA appointed pointy haired shakedown artist.
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Beat Nevada Citys’ snobbiest transplant to it….
Too generic……! Why not not just go with the super generic black block letters
on a white background like they did in the late 70’s, early 80’s?
https://dnyuz.com/2025/08/20/maga-loses-it-over-new-cracker-barrel-logo/
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I guess the first thing to go is “self awareness”!
It’s okay Paul Raymond….we understand.
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Posted by: fish | 21 August 2025 at 06:36 AM
Don Jr. would be right at home as a member of the Nevada City sign ordinance committee.
I say bring back the old white cracker and his pickle barrel… but just go with the hip ‘CB’
initials.
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…maybe include something like…
‘More Fun Than a Barrel of Crackers’
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Its going to be funny when the democrats pratfall their way back into power and then retain every last vestige of what they claim to hate from Trump!
….including the cool cop cars!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ice-aims-to-spend-millions-on-decked-out-vehicles-for-d-c-operation/ar-AA1KUDjY
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PaulE 415pm – Paul, your news sources hide the fact that it is the Democrats who are obsessing about the portents of Mamdani in NYC and Omar Fateh in Minneapolis, giving strong indication that they are the future of the Democratic Party, a party that will then fail utterly at the polls. Your ‘duck and cover’ about this ongoing news is another boring tranche of stale TDS vitriol. Recommend you actually watch FN and read the WSJ.
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Actually reading Real Clear Politics is another path to sanity.
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Posted by: Gjrebane | 21 August 2025 at 10:15 AM
Your ‘duck and cover’ about this ongoing news is another boring tranche of stale TDS vitriol.
“Tranche”, “vitriol”….? You might as well be speaking Swahili to Nevada City’s “Stalwart Man About Town”!
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