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[As a self-proclaimed journalist fired TV anchor Don Lemon is a lemon.  His claims of doing in-your-face journalism, contributing to the disruption of an in-progress church service, is on video and totally contradicts his claim to any membership in a profession that is already circling the drain.  gjr]

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39 responses to “Sandbox – 31jan26”

  1. fish Avatar
    fish

    “In all seriousness: the fundamental practical message of the Democratic Party is that you should expect to pay European-level taxes for South African-level public services. Nobody in the Party really offers a solution, though their brightest think we should build more housing.”

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  2. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    …and in other news of far more importance, our Deranged President Trump is still claiming he won the 2020 election and wants to nationalize our elections.

    His current development of the 2026 Stop the Steal conspiracy base is in full swing in order to attempt to invalidate the upcoming election.

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  3. fish Avatar
    fish

    “…and in other news of far more importance, our Deranged President Trump is still claiming he won the 2020 election and wants to nationalize our elections.”

    See….this is what progressives get when they countenance the use of a dead body for four years in lieu of a real President! All of this that you and your brethren are whining about….well, you brought it on yourselves!

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  4. scenes Avatar
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    lol. Gotta love it. This is an opportunity for the Fightin’ 420th to do their thing.

    —-

    JUST IN: Even MORE leftist anti-ICE roadblocks are being set up near Minneapolis, with residents forced to STOP and identify themselves THIS IS WHAT CARTELS DO IN MEXICO. Walz and Frey are allowing Americans to be TERRORIZED in the streets.

    https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2018414713663578559

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  5. Rebane Avatar

    Re last scenes – I want readers to note the leftwing crickets responding to this latest development from Minneapolis. It is always the Left that implements autocratic population controls while accusing the other side of these sins.

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  6. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Oh well, as Billie Eilish said at the Grammys: “Nobody is illegal on stolen land”

    Now, how land is stolen if no one is illegal is something of a conundrum, but then asking a musician about politics is like asking a cat about differential equations.

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  7. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Question: Will the tariff income be applied to offset the National Debt, or… what’s the plan?

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  8. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    I watched this clip and Lemon is not doing anything disruptive, he is standing to the side doing journalism. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/watch-don-lemon-live-streams-as-anti-ice/

    George, let’s see your video…

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  9. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Heavy drinkin’ Pirro can’t make up her MAGAmind. Pirro walks back threat to lawful gun owners traveling to D.C. https://share.google/bWwCdIoBGQ9umLLvP

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  10. Rebane Avatar

    RH re Lemon – you’ve been watching the wrong leftwing video clips. Here is a reasoned discussion of Lemon’s ‘journalism’ during the church service disruption.

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  11. fish Avatar
    fish

    “I watched this clip and Lemon is not doing anything disruptive….”

    Neither were most of the J6’ers! You seemed fairly sanguine about their arrests.

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  12. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    So, MAGAs are freaking out that Lemon did not leave when asked, which would be considered trespassing at that point. Radical Terrorism!

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  13. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Nice Whataboutism, but not equivalent.

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  14. sierrafoothillsretort Avatar

    “So, MAGAs are freaking out that Lemon did not leave when asked, which would be considered trespassing at that point”

    No one is freaking out, Jeffy.

    Lemon is a lemon of a journalist. So are you.

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  15. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    “I watched this clip and Lemon is not doing anything disruptive, he is standing to the side doing journalism.”

    Don and the others broke the law as soon as they went into the building during service. He wasn’t there to join the service, he was there to “do journalism”. There is a very specific law that he broke by doing that. By admitting that he wasn’t inside to be part of the service he has admitted to breaking the law.

    But of course he’s a black gay lefty, so the laws don’t apply to him.

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  16. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    “…in order to attempt to invalidate the upcoming election.”

    Yes – right along with the FACT that you will never be able to vote in another election and he will round up all the non-whites and have them shot.

    I wonder if RH ever gets the stray thought in his head he’s been played and he finds out and still goes along with the very next stupid monkey trick they teach him?

    What an idiot bobble-head.

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  17. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    The cluelessness of brainwashed Magaloons is apparent…

    Cato study: Immigrants reduced deficits by $14.5 trillion since 1994
    Immigrants have cut deficits by nearly one third over three decades.

    https://www.alexnowrasteh.com/p/cato-study-immigrants-reduced-deficits

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    The cluelessness of brainwashed Magaloons is apparent…

    All this unpleasantness because you’re too fat to bend over and pick up a rake!

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  19. Rebane Avatar

    RH 4feb26 – And here is an example of the unfortunate use of ‘immigrants’ to confuse with ‘illegal aliens’. Given the share of American citizens and legal residents who are immigrants (e.g. I am one of them), the Cato researched deficit reduction is not a surprise. But your point as a leftie is that illegal aliens were the major contributors to this dollar figure. Given the number of illegals in our population over the years, and especially the very recent advent of millions, your interpretation is just another unsubstantiated Democratic talking point and argument for open borders.

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  20. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    Every study about illegals in our country points out that they cost the tax payers money. Not to mention the thousands of lives of American citizens lost and ruined by their crimes. Crimes that would not have happened had these illegals not been in our country. Even Dem mayors realized they were going broke providing freebies for illegals.

    The illegals should not be in our country and they need to go. If you think otherwise, then you are arguing for anarchy. We have laws or we don’t. If you want to pick and choose what laws you want to obey, then everybody gets to pick and choose.

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  21. fish Avatar
    fish

    Wonder how much this guy contributed to the GDP…..

    ICE lodges detainer for illegal immigrant charged with rape of 14-year-old autistic girl in California

    https://thepostmillennial.com/ice-lodges-detainer-for-illegal-immigrant-charged-with-rape-of-14-year-old-autistic-girl-in-california

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  22. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    AI knows more than you do….

    “Evidence suggests that undocumented immigrants likely reduce the U.S. national deficit. A 2026 Cato Institute study indicates that, between 1994 and 2023, immigrants overall reduced the deficit by $14.5 trillion, with undocumented immigrants alone estimated to have reduced it by at least $1.7 trillion. This is primarily because they pay taxes—including income, sales, and property taxes—while having limited access to federal, state, and local benefits.”

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  23. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    “This is primarily because they pay taxes—including income, sales, and property taxes—while having limited access to federal, state, and local benefits.”

    Some illegals pay taxes – most are on the public dole. Ask the mayors of cities where they are dumped just how overflowing the cities coffers are once they arrive. Not.

    And the argument that seems to be offered here from RH is that it’s all right for them to break the law with impunity since they allegedly help balance our govt’s budget! Then by all means get a few billion more in here posthaste! We’ll pay off the debt – and have trillions in surplus to boot! Nirvana!

    Good lord – RH is one laugh after another. And he still hasn’t figured out how badly he’s had his undershorts pulled over his head with the Biden admin.

    Sharp as a tack! Yessir.

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  24. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    I can pose questions to AI as well:

    New York City: The city reportedly spent $8 million per day during peak times to manage the influx of migrants.

    El Paso, Texas: In one month, El Paso spent nearly $10 million processing new immigrants.

    Long-Term Costs

    The costs associated with illegal immigration extend beyond immediate expenses. They include long-term expenditures for housing, healthcare, and education for migrants, which will impact city and state budgets for years to come.

    Overall, the financial implications of illegal immigration during the Biden administration have been significant, with billions spent across various levels of government.”

    Think about the upward pressure on housing costs from 10s of millions of illegals not to mention the money spent on schooling from K – to 4 years of college. Limited access to benefits? What a laugh.

    Here’s more from a non-AI source:

    “The Cost of the Border Crisis: $150.7 Billion and Counting”

    And that’s just the feds. It doesn’t even start to add up the additional financial burdens on local health and safety systems. Not to mention the costs with our judicial system.

    https://budget.house.gov/press-release/the-cost-of-the-border-crisis-1507-billion-and-counting

    What part of illegal is so hard for RH to understand? The illegals are an insult to the immigrants who played by the rules and came legally. It’s no different than standing in line to pay for groceries while the Dems escort shop-lifters out right in front of you while yelling at you that you’re the problem for even noticing.

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  25. fish Avatar
    fish

    AI knows more than you do….

    Just like those good old journalism days…..still outsourcing your thinking!

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  26. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    But your ilk doesn’t mind spending $10 Billion a year to drag people off their lawnmowers, assault and detain American citizens… right?

    Mind your Business…

    “The 1787 Fugio cent, designed by Benjamin Franklin and authorized by the Continental Congress, is considered the first official U.S. coin. It features a sundial and the phrase “Mind Your Business” on the obverse, symbolizing a call to productivity, diligence, and economic focus (Time flies/Fugio, so mind your business).”

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  27. fish Avatar
    fish

    This is the funniest thing you’ve ever posted here….

    “The 1787 Fugio cent, designed by Benjamin Franklin and authorized by the Continental Congress, is considered the first official U.S. coin. It features a sundial and the phrase “Mind Your Business” on the obverse, symbolizing a call to productivity, diligence, and economic focus (Time flies/Fugio, so mind your business).”

    “Minding your own business” is something that American progressives are wholly incapable of doing!

    Self awareness just not your thing….!

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  28. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    “…to drag people off their lawnmowers, assault and detain American citizens… right?”

    Well – if the authorities want to arrest some one and they happen to be mowing a lawn – and they won’t get off their lawnmower – then they lay hands on the dude and “drag” him off the lawnmower. What part of this scenario is new or particular to ICE?

    As far as “assaulting and detaining” American citizens – please give an example – I think you’ll find you kinda left out the part where the American citizen was doing something illegal and needed to be detained.

    Honestly – RH is the perfect example of a lefty bobble-head who parrots any sort of lefty click-bait without checking into the facts.

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  29. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I think there’s too much tut-tutting in this article.

    “Stanford’s Fake Disability Crisis Is America’s Future

    When 38% of students at America’s most elite university claim disability status, the system isn’t broken—it’s working exactly as designed.”

    https://garryslist.org/posts/stanford-cheating

    It seems to me that in a country where the institutions, school, career government, non-profits, media, are run by ‘progressives’, the kids are being trained in exactly the skills they need to succeed.

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  30. ScottO Avatar
    ScottO

    Who says the AI age eliminates jobs for humans? There’s plenty of opportunity even for RH and Paul!
    RentAHuman.ai
    https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/dystopic-f-k-website-lets-ai-bots-rent-humans

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  31. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    lol. I tried to paste a YouTube video here and it went crazy. Seriously, the current software is even worse than Typepad, and that’s a difficult bar to clear. After 30 years, you’d think that posting to a thread would be a solved problem. I guess that Usenet was designed by ancient aliens.

    In any case, a video I genuinely found interesting. Go to YouTube and search for “I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) – Smarter Every Day 308” and behold the state of US manufacturing. We are screwed.

    No surprises since most people are concert promoters, retired government employees, DEI HR Karens at large companies, ‘activists’.

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  32. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: GR at some unknown time on 06 February.

    Cool. Perhaps they didn’t test it against my commonly used browser and commonly used OS.

    In other news, your tax dollars at work:

    “Why Los Angeles Quietly Stopped Repaving Its Streets

    Federal disability rules have turned routine maintenance into a legal liability.”

    https://www.city-journal.org/article/los-angeles-streets-repaving-disability-rules

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  33. sierrafoothillsretort Avatar

    That’s not a “dude”. She was apparently born with vag. Never had a dick,.

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  34. fish Avatar
    fish

    In response to the endless “Poor Me-ing” from the now soon-to-be coders who used inhabit the WaPo.

    “I live in the Midwest. I’ve seen entire factories—employers that kept a little cornfield town alive—disappear overnight after production was moved to Mexico or China. Complete devastation for an entire close-knit community. No tears, no 4,000-word eulogies in WaPo, no hyperventilating on Twitter. Anonymous suffering, broken families, people forced to uproot their lives just to survive. The overeducated, overpaid, overvalued, overprivileged activists-disguised-as-journalists who spent years whipping up climate hysteria and fomenting racial division while destroying the reputation of a once-great American newspaper have no idea what devastation looks like.

    Good luck with your Substack, Ashley.”

    It would take a “Heart of Stone” not to laugh!

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    Matt Drudge did America a great disservice when he sold “Drudge Report” to the ignorant neck beards who run it now!

    TRUMP VIDEO DEPICTS OBAMA, MICHELLE AS PRIMATES…

    They are primates! I’m a primate. Our Genial host is a primate. Poor soft headed Ben Emery (now a novelist) is a primate. The hillbilly is some sort of gelatinous slime mold.

    The point is that we all inhabit a location somewhere in the generally accepted Biological Taxonomy. The former president and his “wife” are indeed primates.

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “She was apparently born with vag.”

    or more properly

    ” ‘She’ was apparently born with vag.”

    I’m thinking that’s BS. It’s the kind of knowledge that is passed around like a game of ‘Telephone’, and built up over time as a kind of origin story. Being deformed or ambiguous in some way is probably a better opinion, but I can’t guess not being there at the time.

    It’s pretty obvious that they should simply do a quick gender test on athletes. Assign a gender to the various chromosome anomalies. Gender-specific sports exist for a reason and you might as well be practical about the matter…unless, of course, a person belongs to the modern crazy religion where anything is possible.

    The dude from Algeria is a perfect Motte and Bailey argument. It’s kind of a corner case due to the medical oddness, but is used to justify kinky men-in-dresses as normal. At least Drag Queen Reading Hour seems to have largely died off. Historians of the future will marvel at our peculiarities.

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  37. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “The hillbilly is some sort of gelatinous slime mold.”

    lmao.

    Maybe there’s a gelatinous slime mold primate.

    Homo Slimilus or something. It really is the only explanation.

    After watching the YouTube video I mentioned on making grill scrapers, I’d like to assign the Washington Post ‘knowledge’ workers and reporters to the task of putting together a bolt factory. The country needs it, and it would do them good. I admit that it’s a far cry from typing your feelz into a Macbook down at the coffee shop.

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