[As repeatedly predicted in these pages, you don’t seek win-win agreements with tyrants who only understand zero sum (win-lose) relationships. The proper tactic for bringing Iran’s mullahs to heel is to keep up a systematic sequence of destroying their infrastructure – transportation, communications, power grid, and finally energy – while the negotiations are ongoing. Therefore the longer they continue recalcitrant, the weaker they become and more vulnerable to a general uprising, which must remain our goal. There should be no hopeful reports of ‘agreements’ with the thugs, only accounts of their succumbing to verifying inspections. Any other approach just enables their delaying tactics to weaken our political resolve. gjr]
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63 responses to “Sandbox – 7jul26”
The Platner saga…..presented so even progressives can understand it…..
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“Platner offered many on the left something they’re desperate for: working class aesthetics married to uncompromising lefty politics. Many progressives want to believe that with a sufficiently populist message and style, they can win over voter alienated from the Democratic Party, obviating the need for ideological concessions. Platner seemed to embody this possibility, and that made a lot of people look past a lot of Red Flags until it was almost too late.”
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I imagine Plattner made a fair percentage of the soft handed academic intelligentsia more than a little lightheaded with unrequited lust.
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“The great secret of the last hundred years is that Progressivism is an elitist, technocratic ideology crafted by academia. It has NO working-class foundations at all. This desperate search for a believable marionette is hopeless.”
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This was in large measure why the “Black Community™ voted for Sugar Frosted Barry O’s…..not because he was going to make anything better for them but simply because he looked like them. That’s really all it took!
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Link not embedded because WordPress sucks!
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fish – try to post the link with a couple of arbitrary prescript characters and see if that will fool WordPress.
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Nope! One would think that into the Internets middle age that the handling of a hyperlink wouldn’t be particularly challenging!
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Apparently Not….!
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Nor double-spacing without need of a character to “hold the line”!
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re: Platner. Huh, never heard of him.
Perfect modern politician.
Says any old thing to get the job. Supports the Free Shit Army, anti-billionaire. 100% disabled veteran who runs an oyster farm and a dive service and runs for office. Accused of rape by some magazine in the nick of time to ruin his candidacy. No proof or police record. Might have done it, who knows? Has (or had) 3rd SS Panzer tattoo.
Thing is, gynocratic Karens and opportunistic guys have always existed…well, at least the opportunistic guys. The main problem isn’t that Senators and Governors and Presidents are sleazy half-wits, but that it matters a heckuva lot more than it did pre-FDR (or pre-Lincoln maybe). Why anyone thinks that making government even more Leviathanish is a good idea is beyond me.
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“Why anyone thinks that making government even more Leviathanish is a good idea is beyond me.”
You need only look at the pre and post net worth of most of our nation’s ‘leaders’ to see the reason for that. There is an ocean current of money to be fished. The more nets the govt can dip into the water, the more power and moolah they can catch. Works for lefty political parties as well. So many good works to do with tax dollars when you have so many different agencies with employees to invent them. A few years ago, who would have thought there was a pressing need for trans-sexual operas in other countries? Who could have possibly imagined that Stacey Abrams would fix our earth’s climate with a mere billion dollars? The bigger that our govt gets, the more wise we become in the ways of the world.
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“who would have thought there was a pressing need for transsexual operas”…
Who would have thought there was a need for hundreds of racist Patriot Front goons parading about in Washington DC?
— https://www.reuters.com/pictures/photos-show-hundreds-masked-patriot-front-white-nationalists-marching-dc-2026-07-04/
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“Who would have thought there was a need for hundreds of racist Patriot Front goons parading about in Washington DC?”
Nothing more frightening than well-behaved white men peacefully engaged in a lawful march. Note the photo of them on the Metro next to non-whites harming no one. But RH thinks the leftists that tear down public property, harass citizens, burn buildings, shoot people dead, and steal private property are just wonderful. Because: TRUMP!
Also – the PF isn’t using any tax payer dollars.
So – a very poor comparison, dude – you really need to try harder.
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That which upsets is a tell……
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“who would have thought there was a pressing need for transsexual operas”…
Who would have thought there was a need for hundreds of racist Patriot Front goons parading about in Washington DC?
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God forbid that ugly men in dresses don’t get to shake their equipment at <s>children</s>….err.. opera patrons on the taxpayers dime!
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“Patriot Front”?!? Man I’d like to have the khaki, polo shirt and matching hat concession to equip those young FBI go-getters!
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You’ll need to look for the “Who was safer on the metro?” memes..Iryna Zarutska or random black woman surrounded by Feds!
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Just imagine if Fetterman had dared criticize men in dresses shaking their junk at children (….hi jeffy!).
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The state of white men in the Democrat party: Guy who dresses like a hobo recovering from a stroke tells a pretend socialist with multiple homes to stop promoting a rapey guy with a Nazi tattoo.
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https://x.com/FischerKing64/status/2074683142481547759?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2074683142481547759%7Ctwgr%5E489b851edc60511fbf4ef22eea3416b2d6db5257%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F808881%2F
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“Platner would have gotten nowhere without his billionaire funders – Reid Hoffman, co-rapist with Jeffrey Epstein – and Laurene Powell Jobs, who owns The Atlantic. Both media billionaires. The media fronted this Nazi.”
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George
Direct quote from Trump. i can’t believe he is our Pesident.
“I told this story yesterday: we had 111 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan,” Trump said, an almost-certain attempt to reference the Islamic Republic of Iran. “They were shot at the aircraft carrier!”
Direct quote from Trump
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Direct quote from Trump. i can’t believe he is our Pesident.
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I can’t believe he’s our “Pesident” either.
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You never complained about the gaffes and “senior moments” from his predecessor….what with communicating with the long dead or claiming he had done things (truck driver, cowboy, Indian chief…okay I made the last two up but you get my meaning) he clearly hadn’t done.
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So Punch, thank gawd Pesident Hairist lost.
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psul: “Direct quote from Trump. i can’t believe he is our Pesident.”
If the US can elect such bad people to be Pesident, why continue to grow the government? Why should it be involved in so many matters?
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Biden had a few but nothing to compare with Trump , His quote was while speaking at a NATO summit in Ankara this week. How embarrassing for our country.
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“Biden had a few but nothing to compare with Trump”
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So much Copium.
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#sad
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Remember that “higher education” is now and has solely been the province of progressives for 65 years….
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Some College Students Are Testing At The Level Of 10-Year-Olds
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….or dare I say former newsreaders at the local community radio stations..
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https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/some-college-students-are-testing-level-10-year-olds
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Saint Paul: “Biden had a few but nothing to compare with Trump”
lol. Uh huh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFPrVTFvH9I
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When will the double dummy buffoon get a clue?
But Joe Biden!!!
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-says-ceasefire-over-calls-iran-leaders-scum
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Japan rhymes with Iran, lol!
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Hypocrisy is alive and well!
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Not to harsh anyone’s Trump vibe, but you do have to laugh at local fire news.
About the only way to find out something is to check out some kind of online flight mapping service, eavesdrop on public safety scanners, some local person will post a thing on social media. Maybe the government administrators will post a thing in a day or two.
Hopefully the thing by Twin Cities Church stays contained.
Maybe they’ll invent some new concept involving ‘zones’ in a county meeting room.
Back to your Daily Trump Crime o’ the Day direct from the damp BarcaLounger.
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Hypocrisy is alive and well!
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Yeah….I’m sorry Graham Platner didn’t work out for you guys as well!
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But Sexual Assault!
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Graham Platner sexual predator!
But DJ Trump convicted felon and sexual abuser!
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Re: sexual predators…
Graham Platner issues strong denial – steps down.
Matt Gaetz issues strong denial – OAN welcome him and give him a political talk show.
Convicted felon DJTrump (serial liar) issues strong denial and defames his accuser – Magaloons cheer –
Trump plays oligarch card and gives Carroll close to $6 million.
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Graham Platner sexual predator!
But DJ Trump convicted felon and sexual abuser!
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But for a decade you pinheads have been caterwauling that those things are bad! Guess I missed the memo from DNC HQ that they’re okay now!
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Good to know!
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Where did you get that idea? Maga pinheads are the ones who gave Matt Gaetz and Trump a pass.
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Where did you get that idea? Maga pinheads are the ones who gave Matt Gaetz and Trump a pass.
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We learned it from you! Conservatives/Libertarians are evil according to progressive holy writ. Whereas we believe that you are merely stupid (we’re correct by the way!).
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Was just curious when the Democrat Papal Bull was issued that said sexual assault was now just Okey Dokey.
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Of course I could be wrong and simply be addressing the rantings of someone whose Greek Fishermans Cap™ is much too tight on a hot day!
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Yesterday during the fire, the circuit flown by the tanker had one end over my house… was happy to not see or smell smoke… it was in the end a tiny fire.
For you Nazi lovers, Plattner got his Totenkopf from a tattoo shop in Croatia. There were Croat Nazis (Ustase) in WWII, and unlike in Germany, there was no scrubbing their symbols after the war. They had death camps that were quietly cleaned up so as to not embarass the ruling Croat class who managed to butcher more Serbs than Jews in their camps.
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For those Karen’s who are freaking out about a tattoo, Nazis were defeated in 1945.
If a Native American has a tattoo of a swastika, are they a Nazi or Nazi lover?
If a woman has a tattoo above her derriere, is she a tramp, is it a welcome mat?
when did dry drunk Hegseth get his tattoos, and were they to impress his Bros in the bunker?
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“For those Karen’s who are freaking out about a tattoo, Nazis were defeated in 1945.”
Given that anyone who is for immigration enforcement, against nationalization of healthcare, against wet foot/dry foot abortion law, believes that all levels of government/megacorporations shouldn’t be run by HR harridans, or thinks that black actors are a poor choice for ancient Greek movie making is a Nazi, I would beg to disagree.
It does make me wonder what the average adult from the 1950s would be called. MegaNazi? UberHitlers? Also, there probably needs to be a new word for Trump himself that blends stupidest-man-in-the-world with evilest-man-in-the-world, maybe a portmanteau. Admittedly, a world without Trump would result in a lot drier BarcaLoungers.
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Plattner’s tattoo is just a small and confirming part of his whole socio-political repertoire available to anyone who wants to google him. His offensive and out-of-mainstream Democrat Party favor falls into categories such as his emerged record of sexual assaults, comments on racial stereotypes and black people, views on police, self-identification as a communist/socialist, proponent of political violence, and comments on rural Americans. Republicans are sorry to seen him go.
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“For those Karen’s(sic) who are freaking out…”
No one is freaking out, moron. We just thought it was “interesting” that the Dems were running a guy with a NAZI tattoo and considered it no biggie. You know damn well if it had been an R, you lefties would be freaking out. The burn on you lefties is the total double standard you run with. And he lied about it. His gal pal said he totally knew what it was and bragged about it. Not to mention his wishing a fellow American soldier had died and wanting to rape anyone who broke into his house. Sounds like a mentally unstable bully. Plus we find out his “oyster farmer” shtick is BS. He just sells a few to his mommy for her restaurant. And we find out he’s on 100% VA disability. Does he look disabled? Just what is his disability? You Dems know how to pick ’em!
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“Yesterday during the fire, the circuit flown by the tanker had one end over my house”
Good to hear. It sounded like they had trouble accessing it on the ground.
Hopefully the County gets back to work publicizing the new ‘Zone’ concept that’s different from the old one that nobody knew.
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OK – I tried twice. George, could you check the penalty box for my comment? Just delete the 2nd one if you find both. Thanx!
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Oh – there they are. Wonder what the big delay is about?
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ScottO – 2nd comment removed.
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The only freakout over the totenkopf was by Jeff Pellini.
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Lol!
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But Hunter Biden’s Laptop!
MAGA lies unravel..
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/11/hunter-biden-defamation-suit
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Breaking…
https://futurism.com/health-medicine/taco-bells-explosive-diarrhea?utm_source=beehiiv&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=futurism-newsletter&_bhlid=6991ea17ad1efa814728a7aca12cb31d1a5b8f45
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“But what American, European and United Nations officials won’t say openly is that the power behind the R.S.F. is the United Arab Emirates. Although the Emirates denies it, its backing of the R.S.F. is well established. Yet the Emirates is rich and influential, so it has become The Country That Must Not Be Named.
Tough public comments and other pressure from Washington and European capitals might shame the Emirates enough for it to tell its murderous friends in Sudan to back off; similar pressure led the Emirates to pull most of its forces out from a brutal war in Yemen in 2019. Instead, world leaders today tiptoe around the Emirates’ role.
The Emirates has particularly close financial ties to the Trump family. Indeed, Trump’s family income surged last year partly because an investment firm tied to the Emirates paid hefty sums for a stake in the family’s main crypto company.”
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“The Emirates has particularly close financial ties to the Trump family. Indeed, Trump’s family income surged last year partly because an investment firm tied to the Emirates paid hefty sums for a stake in the family’s main crypto company.”
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Ahhh….good to see that the “Conscience of Nevada City” has moved on from whining about tie sales and hotel rooms to loftier topics!
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Whole lotta’ quid pro quoin’ going on between the Emirates and wannabe Emir Trump
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Whole lotta’ quid pro quoin’ going on between the Emirates and wannabe Emir Trump
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…and oh so much whining from the Sierra Foothills geriatric proglodyte contingent!
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“California’s dairy industry panics over August recycling deadline”
CA Dems at work once more to drive up consumer costs. The “more educated” citizens vote these guys into office for endless good works. Following quote proves the Dems and their supporters are brainless fools:
“Rather than forcing taxpayers and ratepayers to shoulder these costs, we are ensuring companies that profit from this mass pollution help pay for its cleanup,” (Dem state Senator Ben) Allen said.”
https://www.kcra.com/article/california-dairy-industry-panic-recycling-deadline/
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“Pretty fucking amazing that the Dems are just admitting that requiring proof of citizenship will cost them elections for years to come and we are all just sitting around like it’s no big deal and letting them get away with it.”
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Yeah…they seem completely fearless in this regard! They used to at least to pretend that there were rules!
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https://x.com/DrunkRepub/status/2076769125716709432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2076769125716709432%7Ctwgr%5E879259e724eb13beb490fdce1147c8e66772ae5b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F810001%2F
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I can’t understand how this is possible…..
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“California finished at the top of the list as the most difficult state to recover after quitting a job, followed by Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, according to Affordable Contractors Insurance.
California’s combination of a sluggish labor market and high living expenses pushed it well ahead of every other state. The report found there are roughly 1.6 unemployed workers for every available job opening, while the state’s unemployment rate stands at 5.5%—the highest in the nation. Employers are also adding workers at a relatively slow pace, with monthly hiring reaching just 3% of the workforce. Meanwhile, everyday expenses remain about 40% higher than the national average, increasing the financial pressure on anyone searching for work.”
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….in a state administered by the selfless one? Fortunately Governor Bateman hopes to share his largesse with the rest of the nation!
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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/these-are-riskiest-states-quit-your-job
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Los Angeles International Airport Railway is now $1 BILLION over budget and years delayed. The contractor is now suing the city for blaming them for the delays and claims that they are actually the city’s fault. Another Newscum failure reeking of corruption
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The takeaway line…..”Only one billion over budget? No wonder it’s years behind schedule — they need extra time for the grift.”
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But emoluments……!
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https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2077447123419681229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2077447123419681229%7Ctwgr%5E13d80dba9efe2f14a036f5140af2ec853e75499e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F810543%2F
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Have you moved out of state yet Fish?
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