30 responses to “Sandbox – 28may26”

1. 

   fish

   29 May 2026

   ”The purpose of a system is what it does, and what the political system in Los Angeles, as in most big, blue cities, does is generate crime, homelessness, rampant drug use, and decayed common spaces.

   It doesn’t do normal things because it doesn’t want to do normal things, and it doesn’t want to do normal things because, at core, leftism doesn’t want things to be normal. Why that is is open to interpretation (personally, I think it’s because leftists want the outer world to be as disgusting and disordered as their inner selves) but the pattern is there. And you can get away with it, so long as people think the decline in their world stems from some sort of organic causes, rather than being a choice.

   But decline is a choice.”

   The above sentiment sums up the current situation in the “Blue Zones” pretty well. As always read the whole thing and while you do, think about the mentality of a person in their 60’s pirating a child’s movie while sitting in a local theater. That’s a pretty good indication of the “spoiled child” behavior that animates the left today.

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   https://instapundit.substack.com/p/bringing-back-normality?r=9bg2k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

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2. 

   fish

   31 May 2026

   blocked huh….?

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3. 

   fish

   31 May 2026

   Lets try again…..

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   POLYMARKET: BASS EASY FRONTRUNNER IN LA MAYOR RACE…

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   Los Angeles deserves Karen Bass!

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   fish

   31 May 2026

   Hmmm….maybe just the phone then!

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5. 

   scenes

   31 May 2026

   re: LA mayoral contest.

   Given that large cities are essentially giant grift machines consisting of public unions, large-scale contractors building poorly made things on the public dime, the occasional large company held hostage by local government, one gajillion people on public assistance, it’s fairly obvious just what sorts of candidates are successful.

   It’s funny how small liberal towns have different motivations. That’s a case where love of the microphone and your own personal kinks give you ‘activists’, HOA Karens, and the whole diversity/peculiar sex habits kind of thing. Different, but the same political party. Odd.

   I always wonder to what extent the death of the small family farm gave us modernity. After a 100 year fling with manufacturing of physical goods, now largely dead, you end up with a population broken by lack of useful things to do.

   Sterling Hayden: “What does a man need – really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in – and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment.”

   Lacking genuine accomplishment, you end up with a broken people.

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6. 

   scenes

   02 June 2026

   Speaking of griftery, here’s a fun one I was idly browsing through:

   https://data.usatoday.com/paycheck-protection-program-loans/

   Type in the town or business of your choice. Watch the money flow. In this area there were a few people that really knew how to work the system. Dunno why they pretended they were ‘loans’ (and on Trump’s watch no less, lol).

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7. 

   Don Bessee

   02 June 2026

   Now thats funny – What’s stopping California lawyers from going back to work? Climate change, of course

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8. 

   scenes

   03 June 2026

   re: YAY! IT’S PRIDE MONTH!!!

   I’ll have to take a swing down through Pride Town, but no doubt there are flags everywhere (that’s ‘flags’, son) in a veritable Nuremberg Rally of Pride.

   I see that Facebook fights have broken out already between the more frisky conservatives and the ‘progressives’ who specialize in Motte/Bailey Defenses. The Motte, naturally is ‘DO YOU THINK GAYNESS SHOULD BE PUNISHED BY LIFE IN PRISON!!!’, the Bailey is an entire set of political belief systems that come with that flag…obviously it’s no different than turning Pride Town into MAGA Town for a month a year and making the Other Half a bit irate.

   What I’d like to film, maybe a sort of short documentary, would be to get the gay dudes a bit liquored up and have them explain their dirty weekends to all the crazy old ladies with signs. That would be a sight to behold.

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9. 

   scenes

   03 June 2026

   here, I’ll try again. Seriously, GR managed to find software that was even worse than WordPad. Not his fault, but Good Lord. Forums had to have been a solved problem 30+ years ago.

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   re: YAY! IT’S PRIDE MONTH!!!

   I’ll have to take a swing down through Pride Town, but no doubt there are flags everywhere (that’s ‘flags’, son) in a veritable Nuremberg Rally of Pride.

   I see that Facebook fights have broken out already between the more frisky conservatives and the ‘progressives’ who specialize in Motte/Bailey Defenses. The Motte, naturally is ‘DO YOU THINK GAYNESS SHOULD BE PUNISHED BY LIFE IN PRISON!!!’, the Bailey is an entire set of political belief systems that come with that flag…obviously it’s no different than turning Pride Town into MAGA Town for a month a year and making the Other Half a bit irate.

   What I’d like to film, maybe a sort of short documentary, would be to get the gay dudes a bit liquored up and have them explain their dirty weekends to all the crazy old ladies with signs. That would be a sight to behold.

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10. 

    Rebane

    03 June 2026

    scenes – not sure I understand what your complaint is. I notice you’ve posted the same comment twice.

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11. 

    scenes

    03 June 2026

    George. Sometimes they post. Sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they take a few minutes to actually come up. Sometimes your software simply tells me that I can’t post for some reason or the other. Sometimes it takes a few refreshes.

    It’s absolutely crazy making. It could all be done as simple text with a few images, but instead there’s 160MB of magic.

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12. 

    fish

    03 June 2026

    It’s absolutely crazy making. It could all be done as simple text with a few images, but instead there’s 160MB of magic.
    

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    Yep….

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13. 

    fish

    03 June 2026

    If it’s the right sort of “piecework”

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     Far-left Southern Poverty Law Center reimbursed Klan members for cross-burnings: feds.

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    …it can still be lucrative!

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14. 

    scenes

    04 June 2026

    re: SPLC.

    Good catch, it’s hard to get griftier than the SPLC. It’s a lot worse than our local grifty non-profits in that it’s basically an extortion organization rather than simply a way to funnel public money into private pockets.

    I had to laugh at one of the Great Minds on local Facebook today. Evidently, some guy named Steve Hilton (governor candidate?) was MENTIONEDINTHEEPSTEINFILES!!!!!

    So, like a dummy, I check it out. ‘Steve Hilton’ was mentioned in passing as a David Cameron staff member, and was mentioned for being on Fox. That’s it. This is the sort of thing people feed on now.

    re: Yep…

    I wonder how hard it is to self-host a reasonable clump of forum software that is performant and doesn’t mine the users identities for a few shekels. It sure could be snappy. I always think of this as a proof of concept.

    https://based.cooking/

    Especially amusing when you consider that recipe sites are probably the only thing worse than newspapers for excessive cruft. Enshittification is real, and coming for everyone. The internet was OK while it lasted. It’ll all be AI nonsense soon enough.

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15. 

    fish

    06 June 2026

    When the party deems that you are of no further use…..!

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    State officials investigating Swalwell for possible campaign finance violations

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    Team EVIL is usually pretty good about protecting their F-up’s (see Biden, J. Senator MBNA) but in a high profile race in an unusual important election year moves are made!

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16. 

    Resurrected Hillbilly

    11 June 2026

    The Idiocracy is here now…

    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBH9f3fH/

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17. 

    fish

    11 June 2026

    Jennifer Welch….?!?! I always knew you were nothing but a whiny hillbitchy at heart.

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    You could have at least linked that interview of Krugnutty now that his testicles have atrophied and he looks like Tante Krugman instead of the feeble attempt to resemble Che Guevara where he said that he wants to bring “Arbeit macht (WordPress spellcheck doesn’t care for “Macht”….it corrects to “macho”! Make of that what you will.) Frei for Trump voters. I do love it when the kind and compassionate progressive mask drops!

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    You’re going to need to learn to “Embrace the Suck” cuz it’s only going to get worse from here! The next guy will make Trump look like Jimmy Carter!

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18. 

    Resurrected Hillbilly

    11 June 2026

    Fun, fun, fun! https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/spacex-late-stage-capitalism-trillionaire-race-war-elon-musk-ipo-x?utm_source=direct&r=26vbls&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

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19. 

    fish

    11 June 2026

    Ugh….still with the Bulwark….what, linking to the “Log Cabin Republicans” a little too Than Franthithco Valuths for you today?

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20. 

    Resurrected Hillbilly

    11 June 2026

    Jennifer Welch? Not familiar…

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21. 

    fish

    11 June 2026

    Jennifer Welch? Not familiar… (I think you’re fibbing but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt)

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    In which I’m forced to issue a retraction …..not Jennifer Welch (FYI she’s just another pampered white woman with an opinion and a compulsion to share it! She’s like Paul Raymond but a little less ugly).

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22. 

    fish

    11 June 2026

    Another demonstration of the progressive democrat voter base analysis of causative vs correlative!

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    KNICKS Fans Credit Taylor Swift for Breakng ‘Trump Curse’…

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    Wonder how many of them are holders of the vaunted “BACHELORS DEGREE”….may you quiver in terror before it!

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23. 

    fish

    11 June 2026

    Yeah….only Trumps AG appointees were bad choices concerned solely about politics!

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    Internal emails from the Biden-era Department of Justice (DOJ) show that senior officials objected to then-Attorney General Merrick Garland’s plan to use the FBI to investigate parents opposed to school policies. Critics at the time said the policy change, which was contained in a memo signed by Garland, was calculated to intimidate parents protesting policies such as mask mandates and curriculum. Many of those who protested the memo were themselves heavily criticized by memo supporters.

    The DOJ’s internal communications suggest that top officials in the DOJ opposed the policy days before it was publicly unveiled.

    A DOJ source who did not wish to be identified confirmed to The Epoch Times late on June 10 that the emails, posted on X by independent journalist Lara Logan, were authentic.

    The controversy itself goes back almost five years. Garland released a memo on Oct. 4, 2021, that called for federal law enforcement to deal with harassment and threats of violence allegedly made against school board members, teachers, and school employees.

    “Threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to our nation’s core values,” he said at the time.

    “The Department takes these incidents seriously and is committed to using its authority and resources to discourage these threats, identify them when they occur, and prosecute them when appropriate,” he wrote in the memo.

    In an email thread dated two days before that, senior DOJ officials discussed the upcoming shift in enforcement focus.

    Minutes after Associate Deputy Attorney General Kevin Chambers advised his colleagues of the policy change, they began to push back.

    Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Nicholas McQuaid wrote, “I strongly object to adding school official threats to the USAO meetings,” referring to meetings of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, a subagency of the DOJ that represents the federal government in court.

    “They are not equivalent and treating them as such will damage our election threats work without actually having any real benefit in my view.”

    Deputy Assistant Attorney General Kevin Driscoll wrote:

    “I don’t think it’s possible to state how strongly I object to this.

    “It will completely and totally nuke our election threats efforts, and will damage the reputation of the Public Integrity Section into the bargain.

    “It’s like [they’re] affirmatively trying to make this thing not work and look political. If they do this, they might as well rename the damn thing the Anti-MAGA Task Force.”

    Corey Amundson, head of the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section, replied:

    “Exactly! Stupid, stupid, stupid.”

    Driscoll answered, writing, “We will not do this. There is no conceivable connection to [Public Integrity Section] (indeed, I’m not seeing a federal interest of any kind). And if they’re going to make the AG’s memo to the field about this and election threats, I’m going to strongly recommend that they not send it.”

    Amundson replied, saying, “Agreed. Also, makes no sense to have DOJ/FBI suddenly become the threats police. No limiting principle at all.”

    Months after the memo was released, Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans, led by Sens. Charles Grassley of Iowa and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, asked detailed questions concerning federal targeting of parents who voice their opinions at local school board meetings.

    The 11 Republican lawmakers on the committee told then-Secretary of Education Michael Cardona in a Jan. 18, 2022, letter: “We recently learned that you may have requested that the National School Boards Association (NSBA) send to President [Joe] Biden its September 29, 2021, letter, which compared concerned parents speaking out at local school boards to domestic terrorists.

    “That letter was the proximate cause of Attorney General Garland issuing a memorandum on October 4, 2021, directing the FBI and the various U.S. Attorneys to focus on harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence directed at school officials.

    “That action by Attorney General Garland has created a dramatic chilling effect on parents throughout the country and is an inappropriate deployment of federal law enforcement.”

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    https://d2ee8866ac583500b23e086aa24e4c0c.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-45/html/container.html

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24. 

    scenes

    11 June 2026

    “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”. 

    or ““I’m from the government, and I’m here to take”. 

    A quick look at the local government salaries will show you really what it’s all about. The headcount of uptalkin’ administrative Karens must be a sight to behold, and there are ever more laws to enforce and sweet rolls and coffee to consume at the snack area.

    I was thinking about sales tax recently. Pushing 10% in a lot of California.

    There’s something truly beautiful about a system where government makes a higher profit margin than many (most?) retail. Car dealerships and grocery stores make barely anything, clothing stores are at 7ish% net, but those people pushing paper in the gubmint office do just fine.

    So is the smart money in starting a ‘non-profit’ or becoming an assistant city manager or ‘Risk Reduction Manager’. As a growth industry, there must be some way to invest in this.

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25. 

    fish

    11 June 2026

    As a growth industry, there must be some way to invest in this.

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    If you could find a way to short it! Because it’s coming!

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26. 

    scenes

    11 June 2026

    “If you could find a way to short it! Because it’s coming!”

    Unlikely.

    Smaller groups of highly self-motivated people always hit above their weight, and the ownership of force is nearly total.

    Look how long the Soviet system lasted, complete with vacation homes and special stores for the apparatchiks. The whole she-bang had to fall before they lost hold of that sweet deal.

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27. 

    Rebane

    11 June 2026

    scenes – “The whole she-bang had to fall before they lost hold of that sweet deal.” And that was under a regime in which the entire population understood the operation of the thugagracy and opposed it. Our voters are 40-50% ignorant of or in favor of the government’s takings as is. Witness the beliefs of our leftwing commenters.

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28. 

    Resurrected Hillbilly

    12 June 2026

    Trump, MAGistas, Trumpism explained…

    Re: Pulte appt.

    “To make sense of this otherwise bizarre appointment, consider the words of Friedrich Hayek, who said it best in his 1944 book about totalitarian systems, The Road to Serfdom, in the chapter “Why the Worst Get on Top”:

    The totalitarian leader must collect around him a group which is prepared voluntarily to submit to that discipline they are to impose by force upon the rest of the people.

    Advancement within a totalitarian group or party depends largely on a willingness to do immoral things.

    To be a useful assistant in the running of a totalitarian state, therefore, a man must be prepared to break every moral rule he has ever known if this seems necessary to achieve the end set for him.

    Public criticism or even expressions of doubt must be suppressed because they tend to weaken support of the regime.

    America under Donald Trump is not a totalitarian state. Free institutions are too strong here. Trump’s methods are too chaotic and lazy. Trump’s goals are more fundamentally larcenous and criminal than ideological and political. But Trump does aspire to cripple the rule of law—and the proper functioning of institutions—at every opportunity. In Bill Pulte, he has the perfect tool for any improper goal, an appointee who is plainly willing “to do immoral things.” Friedrich Hayek had Pulte’s number before either Pulte or Trump was even born.”

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/bill-pulte-hayek/687399/?gift=OW6XrngNZ_wcvZyWIevOwNX3MGzW4wsZfGo9c_ksaBw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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29. 

    scenes

    12 June 2026

    Well, it’s good to see what hyper-liberal heiress Laurene Jobs’ people have to say about a matter. It’s good to watch money that was earned the old-fashioned way being frittered away on this sort of thing. I’ll bet she gets invited to all the fun parties though.

    Up next, some hard-hitting journalism from the SPLC about ‘sundown towns’.

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30. 

    fish

    12 June 2026

    Trump, MAGistas, Trumpism explained…

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    Shorter Hillbitchy…..it’s wrong when they do it.

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