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Sandbox – 4nov25

[First Sandbox on WordPress. It is remarkable that the conservative media ore giving a pass to the polls showing that 1 of 3 Dems consider political violence to be an acceptable expression of opposition to policies they don’t like. The lamestream is, of course, silent on the news. But were those number applicable to Repubs, they would be screaming their heads off. gjr]

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108 responses to “Sandbox – 4nov25”

  1. sierrafoothillsretort Avatar
    sierrafoothillsretort

    So, Jeff… what do you think about the impending death of global warming?

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  2. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    “made by slave labor.”

    RH doesn’t care – it’s no one he knows. Not to mention all the “unaccompanied minors” trafficked during the Biden open border years. They weren’t anyone he knew – who cares?

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  3. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    “RFK Jr.’s most brutal critic just entered the arena…

    “250 years after America was founded and our country is at a turning point. It’s a crisis at every level, a cost of living crisis sponsored by the Big Beautiful Bill, historic cuts to social programs working families rely on,” Schlossberg said in an Instagram video. “Healthcare, education, childcare, a corruption crisis…”

    “The president has made almost a $1 billion this year. He’s picking winners and losers from inside the Oval Office. It’s cronyism, not capitalism,” he stated. “And a constitutional crisis with one dangerous man in control of all three branches of government.”

    “He’s stripping citizens of their civil rights and silencing his critics. The worst part is, it doesn’t have to be this way and it wasn’t always,” he continued. “We deserve better and we can do better and it starts with the Democratic Party winning back control of the House of Representatives.”

    “With control of Congress, there’s nothing we can’t do,” said Schlossberg. “Without it, we’re helpless to a third term. My name is Jack Schlossberg and I’m running for Congress to represent my home, New York’s 12th Congressional District where I was born and raised, where I took the bus to school every day, from one side of the district to the other.”

    “This is the best part of the greatest city on Earth. We have the best hospitals and schools, restaurants and museums, the financial and media capital of the world,” he went on. “This district should have a representative who can harness the creativity, energy, and drive of this district and translate that into political power in Washington.”

    “I’m not running because I have all the answers to our problems, I’m running because the people of New York 12 do,” he said. “I want to listen to your struggles, hear your stories, amplify your voice, go to Washington and execute on your behalf.”

    “There is nowhere I’d rather be than in the arena fighting for my hometown,” said Schlossberg. “Over the next eight months, during the course of this campaign, I hope to meet as many of you as I can. If you see me on the street, please say hello. If I knock on your door, I hope we can have a conversation because politics should be personal. Thanks, more to come soon, and I’ll see you on the trail New York 12!”

    Schlossberg has already carved out a level of public awareness by ruthlessly attacking his cousin RFK Jr. over his dangerous anti-science beliefs and his support of the fascist Trump administration. He’s referred to RFK as “an embarrassment” and “a prick” and mocked him for “choking so badly LIVE” during his Senate testimony.

    “RFK Jr. is a dangerous person who is making life and death decisions as secretary of Health and Human Services,” Schlossberg said in an interview. “And you don’t have to take my word for it. Now we have an actual record to go on. He has cut a quarter of the people who work in his agency. He fired all the vaccine experts on the [Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices] and replaced them with anti-vaxxers.”

    Schlossberg is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School and already has a sizable foothold on social media, with 728,000 followers on Instagram and roughly 173,000 followers on X.

    At 32 years old, Schlossberg represents a future generation Democratic leadership. Contrast his bold focus on education, healthcare, and education with what future Republican leaders are focused on. It seems that hardly a week goes by without younger conservatives getting caught in some horrifying Nazi scandal. They have the likes of hatemongers like Nick Fuentes while we have men like Schlossberg.” – the Internet

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  4. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    “Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving together. In 2017. While Trump was President of the United States.
    That’s not a rumor — that’s from the newly released emails obtained by House Democrats this week from Epstein’s estate. One email chain, dated November 23, 2017 — Thanksgiving Day — lists the names of guests Epstein expected to see that weekend. Among them: “david fizel, hanson, trump.”

    At that time, Trump was at Mar-a-Lago, his private Florida club and the same place where Epstein’s trafficking ring first recruited underage girls.

    Let that sit for a second.

    For years, Trump claimed he “banned” Epstein from Mar-a-Lago decades ago. But these emails — alongside thousands of other documents — tell a different story. Epstein and Trump were still FRIENDS while Trump occupied the White House.
    And there’s more.

    In a 2011 message to Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein wrote that a young woman “didn’t want to come early to find Trump in your house.”

    In another, Epstein said: “I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body.”

    If that’s the assessment of a serial pedo rapist, it’s hard to imagine how dark this might get.

    The public deserves answers about why a sitting president was having Thanksgiving with a convicted sex trafficker… Although, anyone with half a brain can connect the dots.

    If the emails are genuine — and no one’s denying they are — then we’re looking at direct contradictions of Trump’s own public statements, and possibly, the moral collapse of an entire political culture. .

    This moment demands more than outrage. It demands accountability.
    No more cover-ups. No more “hoax” talk. No more pretending this is partisan.
    Because when a predator’s network reaches the Oval Office, it’s not politics anymore — it’s a national reckoning.

    And history won’t forget who tried to look away.” – The Internet

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish

    It is simply not possible that WordPress software is this bad!

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  6. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Trump job approval averages in the RCP consensus poll is -12.3 lowest ever with not even one poll out of 14 in his favor. Even the Conservative Rasmussen poll shows him as -9. That’s from a couple days ago and will be getting worse with the latest Epstein news.

    The fun is just beginning. https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating

    p

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  7. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Trump is at an all time low in the RCP consensus poll with all 14 polls in the negative for job approval. He’s at -12.3 with not one poll in his favor. Pretty grim and fading fast.

    https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating

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  8. fish Avatar
    fish

    A smarter man would have automated his poll related tedium.

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  9. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Sorry the truth is so harsh fish.

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    Truth has nothing to do with it! You haven’t had an original thought in that poor wrinkled head of yours since Trumps first election and since you never say anything original, interesting, or worth listening to and all you ever do is is post polls that nobody here gives a crap about one would think that you would have just found away to post links to RCP and the various other polls sites without any of the senile blather that accompanies, taking valuable time away from producing puppet shows (finally something worthy of your (“talents”) and wearing the Greek Fishermans cap (the hat of fools).

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  11. sierrafoothillsretort Avatar
    sierrafoothillsretort

    So Punch… Trump is good for keeping his job in DC… until when?

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  12. sierrafoothillsretort Avatar
    sierrafoothillsretort

    … Punch… there is no “Conservative Rasmussen poll”.

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  13. sierrafoothillsretort Avatar
    sierrafoothillsretort

    And checking the Rasmussen Reports website, the last time Trump hit such a low percentage approval was… in early April… it was right at the same percentage. Exactly.

    Punch, lighten up. Trump will be president for another three years +.

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  14. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    “New investigation shows the Trump team LIED about the raid in which goons zip-tied naked children! They found NO dangerous criminals and NO gang members — just terrified kids, immigrants, and US citizens who they proceeded to brutalize!
    The nation was horrified a month ago when Trump’s deportation thugs raided an apartment building in the middle of the night, dragging naked kids from their beds and zip-tying them before tossing them into unmarked vans — along with their parents and anyone unlucky enough to be in the building — to be taken off to detention centers.
    “They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other,” said witness Eboni Watson. “That’s all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where’s the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, ‘f*** them kids.’”
    The Trump administration justified this appalling show of violence by claiming that the building was a hotbed of Tren de Aragua members, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump team blames for everything wrong in America.
    A ProPublica investigation found that — surprise! — they were f*cking lying again!” – The Internet

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  15. sierrafoothillsretort Avatar
    sierrafoothillsretort

    Looks like sloppy reporting to me.

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  16. fish Avatar
    fish

    “Looks like sloppy reporting to me.”

    …….and really, is there any other kind these days?!

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  17. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    “…lists the names of guests Epstein expected to see that weekend…”

    Wow – a guest list of people EXPECTED…

    These emails were available before Trump ran against Harris and they are coming out now?

    You lefties aren’t even trying very hard any more.

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  18. sierrafoothillsretort Avatar
    sierrafoothillsretort

    fish, I got used to reporting slop when Jeff was at The Union.

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  19. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    “…dragging naked kids from their beds and zip-tying them before tossing them into unmarked vans…”

    Oh my! I’m sure if the vans were marked, it would have been much better. I just read the article from the ProPublica web site and it said nothing about “naked children dragged from their beds and zip-tied”.

    On the whole it sounds like the worst part of it was the fact that a bunch of the people they were after got away despite a massive law enforcement presence. I’m getting tired of these BS cry-baby stories about illegals getting deported. They are here illegally and committing crimes. Bye bye!

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  20. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Would be nice if Congress did something…

    Weapons makers have ‘conned’ US military into buying expensive equipment, Army Secretary says – https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/weapons-makers-have-conned-us-military-into-buying-expensive-equipment-army-2025-11-14/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=Daily-Briefing&utm_term=111425&lctg=63fa144280351be5fc0578fa

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  21. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    Wow – RH is praising the Trump admin…

    “”The system has changed. You will no longer be allowed to do that to the United States Army,” Driscoll said.”

    Not to mention the tens of billions spent on lefty do-gooder crap that simply acts as a slush fund for the Dems and their left-wing NGO buddies.

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Jeez….you’d think that a guy like Terry Lamphier would have the good sense to shut up about the law, constitutional or criminal given his less than savory interaction with it.

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  23. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    ScottO or should I say Chump for Trump, “lefty do-gooder” … not sure why you are such an asshole, but you do you.

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  24. sierrafoothillsretort Avatar
    sierrafoothillsretort

    Dessicated Hillbully, what a Jeff Pellini thing to say!

    You are doing you.

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  25. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    “not sure why you are such an asshole”

    Wow – more hard-hitting stuff from RH.

    The reason you’re so mad at me is because you post BS and I calmly point out the facts.

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  26. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    Europe descends into darkness:

    ““Freedom of speech remains for everyone,” one assures. At the same time, however, “citizens must be free from interference.” 

    Yeah – you don’t want all that confusing stuff from non-government-approved web sites to clutter up your brain. Just sit quietly and follow the instructions on your screen. 1984 has turned out to be an instruction manual, not a warning.

    https://www.eunews.it/en/2025/11/12/eu-unveils-controversial-democracy-shield-with-new-information-monitoring-centre/

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  27. fish Avatar
    fish

    At Drudge Report in bright red 36 point type…………

    “DOJ SCRUBBING EPSTEIN FILES?

    If the media weren’t constantly such partisan liars and pathetic fuck ups when not lying I might be worried about this but… you know…the mainstream media as currently configured is little more than the marketing arm for the Democrat Party!

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  28. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    fish – This has to be the funniest theory from the Dems ever! We’re supposed to believe that Merrick Garland had all this salacious dirt on Trump cavorting with underage girls that could have been released during the last election that could have finished off Trump, but they kept it all under wraps because…. well – it just wouldn’t have been sporting!

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    “This has to be the funniest theory from the Dems ever!”

    Yeah….I remember the good old days when we were the “Conspiracy Theorists”!

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  30. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    “Chicago homeowners are being walloped with a record property tax hike, with some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods absorbing the steepest increases even as downtown office owners see their bills fall, according to new data from the Cook County treasurer’s office.”

    It’s known as the “doom cycle”. You drive away the producers of value and the tax base falls – you try to fill the gap by increasing rates which accelerates the drop in property values and the tax base falls further.

    Hopefully they can kick the can down the road a bit until gov Hair Gel ascends to the White House and the Dems control the House and a bailout ensures another few years of glory.

    https://illinoisanswers.org/2025/11/17/record-property-tax-increases-slam-chicago-homeowners/

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  31. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Here is another example of the results of clueless MAGA voters putting the Trump Crime Family in office…
    Israeli man admits conspiring with convicted Ponzi schemer and others to defraud investors of tens of millions of dollars, to launder money, and to obstruct justice

     

    More In Our Agency

    Date: May 28, 2024

    Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov

    Trenton, NJ — An Israeli man today admitted conspiring with Eliyahu “Eli” Weinstein, whose 24-year federal prison sentence was commuted after being twice convicted of defrauding investors of a total of $230 million, and others to defraud investors of more than $35 million in a new fraud scheme, and to conspiring to engage in money laundering and obstruct justice, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

    Shlomo Erez of Israel, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp in Trenton federal court to an information charging him with one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice.

    “Shlomo Erez admitted to helping Eliyahu ‘Eli’ Weinstein, a twice convicted fraudster whose sentence was commuted by the then President of the United States, hide his identity from investors, ripping them off to the tune of millions of dollars and evading hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution to victims of Weinstein’s prior fraud schemes. This scheme used phony identities and false promises of access to deals involving scarce medical supplies, baby formula, and first-aid kits supposedly destined for wartime Ukraine to defraud victims. Erez will now face justice for his crimes, and we will continue to prosecute the other alleged conspirators.” U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger

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  32. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    MAGA snowflake gets professor suspended
    … but free speech!
    … they felt uncomfortable!

    “A professor who showed a graphic labeling the “Make America Great Again” slogan as covert white supremacy has been removed from teaching a class under a new Indiana law meant to foster “intellectual diversity.”

    The professor’s lesson came to light after an Indiana University student filed a complaint with a U.S. senator, Jim Banks, a staunch ally of President Trump. The senator then contacted the campus.”

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  33. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    “Donald Trump’s crusade to kneecap public media just suffered a massive legal humiliation — and it’s one that exposes the breathtaking corruption behind his attempts to silence reporters who refuse to bow to him.

    On Monday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting quietly crawled back to court and agreed to revive a $36 million contract with NPR — the very contract it killed after intense pressure from the Trump White House.

    This reversal didn’t happen because CPB suddenly rediscovered its mission. It happened because a federal judge all but laughed CPB’s defense out of the courtroom.

    Judge Randolph Moss told CPB lawyers point-blank: their story wasn’t credible. Their excuse? That they suddenly dumped NPR to “foster digital innovation.”
    Sure. Totally normal to discover a passion for innovation the day after a top Trump official told them not to “do business with NPR.”

    The truth spilled out in depositions: CPB’s board chair and executives met with a White House budget officer who openly declared her “intense dislike for NPR.” And within 48 hours, CPB reversed a decades-long partnership — clearly terrified of a president hell-bent on censoring journalists who report facts he doesn’t like.

    And yet, in its court filing, CPB still pretends it did nothing wrong.

    Yeah, right.

    This entire fiasco happened because Trump turned public broadcasting into his newest culture-war punching bag. He smeared NPR and PBS as “radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news’” — because nothing triggers him more than reporters who can read, ask questions, or use verified information.

    Then he went further: on May 1, he signed an executive order banning all federal money from going to NPR and PBS. That’s right — the self-proclaimed defender of “free speech” used government power to defund news organizations for reporting the truth.

    NPR sued, alongside local stations. And CPB — the nonprofit created by Congress to protect public media from political interference — folded like a wet paper towel.

    But CPB’s cowardice didn’t save it. Instead, the courts forced it to admit that Trump’s executive order was exactly the kind of political interference the law was designed to prevent.

    Meanwhile, Trump’s allies in Congress took it even further, rescinding all $1.1 billion in future public broadcasting funds. The result? Layoffs at PBS, financial strain at NPR, and local stations across America left fighting for survival — all because Trump can’t stand journalism that doesn’t flatter him.

    And now, the attempted purge has collapsed under the weight of its own corruption:
    CPB is restoring the $36 million deal.
    The judge is preparing to hear NPR’s First Amendment case.
    And the Trump administration’s effort to silence public media is on track to become yet another spectacular legal backfire.

    This isn’t just a victory for NPR. It’s a victory for the First Amendment, local journalism, and every community that depends on public media for real news — not propaganda.

    Trump tried to defund the truth. The courts just told him: Not today. Not ever.”

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  34. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    “MAGA snowflake gets professor suspended
    … but free speech!
    … they felt uncomfortable!

    Actually:

    “During class, the instructor spoke on White Supremacy and showed a graphic that listed Make America Great Again (MAGA) as worse than police killing people of color and stated that MAGA is socially unacceptable white supremacy,” the complaint reads. “Also lists Columbus Day and ‘colorblindness’ as White Supremacy.”

    A teacher being paid by tax money is not free to instruct students left-wing BS and Dem talking points as fact to students. This poisonous hate-filled crap is one thing if the teacher wants to post it online as a personal view, but is completely unacceptable to present in a classroom. This is a complete failure of professional standards.

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  35. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    “This isn’t just a victory for NPR. It’s a victory for the First Amendment…”

    RH and the left have no understanding of the 1st A. It does not guarantee you the right to pick the public’s pocket in order to express your views.

    “all because Trump can’t stand journalism that doesn’t flatter him.”

    Completely false statement. Calls for defunding NPR and PBS of govt money have been going on for years before Trump ever took office. Their left-wing and pro-Dem bias has been amply displayed and proven for anyone to see.

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  36. sierrafoothillsretort Avatar
    sierrafoothillsretort

    “all because Trump can’t stand journalism that doesn’t flatter him.”

    No, it’s Trump’s allergy to ‘journalists’ lying from behind the 1A.

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  37. sierrafoothillsretort Avatar
    sierrafoothillsretort

    Now, let’s talk about the 2A…

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  38. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Local gun nut arrested…

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02f85aZiY556Xi7rZqoGJuzYS4J85P5rbPq84quqjzYUKqWpSowUd2NFvpv3iyYWHHl&id=100069317255099&mibextid=CDWPTG

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  39. fish Avatar
    fish

    “Resurrected Hillbilly

    18 November 2025

    Local gun nut arrested…”

    There, there…..you’re safe now! The bad man who probably was just working through his law enforcement fetish won’t ever hurt you ever again!

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well well well, it was absolutely the state who caused the fire by not allowing the FD to fully extingush the smoldering from 2 days before that rekindled. An eco nut told the FD, no you cannot use a bulldozer here to tget to the source of the smoldering. Not only that the state got caught lying to the judge but citizens video blew them up with the truth. Greasy gavin said the prepositioned fire gear but CAL Fire tetified it did not preposition any trucks. Greasy gavin has had a bad week or so. His cheif of staff caught embezzling and now the fire faiures laid bare. Photos contradict California’s denial of involvement in Palisades Fire response

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  41. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Have you MAGA boys got your lady friends signed up?

    The Mar-a-Lago Face: America’s New Luxury Aesthetic https://share.google/DIj8jEKaZN6zwZGHu

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  42. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    …and you MAGA Largo boys too can have that “quietly dominate face”🤣

    And Yes—Men Are Getting It, Too

    “What began with women is now seen in men: sharper jawlines, undereye filler, subtle brow lifts, and Botox (Brotox) for a “quietly dominant” look. Aging is out. Aging strategically is in.”

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  43. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Lol!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago_face

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  44. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    More Jan 6 pardon dividends for Trump brown nosers

    https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/pardoned-capitol-rioter-child-molestation-charges-florida/4304151/

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  45. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    “Botox (Brotox) for a “quietly dominant” look. Aging is out. Aging strategically is in.”

    Wow – botox treatments. Been around for at least a decade. What happened to the big Epstein scandal?

    Turns out it’s a Dem scandal. So – time to change the subject to a brand new invented Trump-hate topic.

    RH really knows how to lock onto issues that have no bearing on reality.

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  46. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    “More Jan 6 pardon dividends for Trump brown nosers”

    More RH BS. There was no “dividend”.

    Are lies all you have, RH?

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  47. fish Avatar
    fish

    I’m sure it will be fine…..

    https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/us-viewpoints/article312997620.html

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  48. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    from the editorial:

    “But we certainly hope California voters elect better leaders at the next available opportunity. Preferably leaders with basic budgeting skills and appreciation for even rudimentary math.”

    Actually, their math skills are just fine – they know exactly how much to spend in order to get the votes they need to stay in power.

    And Greasy-Gavin is the Dem’s leading POTUS contender!

    The fact that this was put out under the SacBee masthead speaks volumes.

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  49. fish Avatar
    fish

    “And Greasy-Gavin is the Dem’s leading POTUS contender!”

    As he should be! Greasy, duplicitous, and entitled. Three qualities mandatory in todays modern democrat.

    Gavin Newsome is just Joe Biden from 45 years ago and without the overt neurological damage that made Biden such a useful puppet.

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  50. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Aww! Cute! Greasy-Gavin! I see you have embraced the Trump lame duck presidency and are very forward looking!

    Crying about spending on prisons from the “lock them up” crowd? Can’t have your cake and eat it too?
    Sad

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