[The Left’s constant message drizzles into people’s ears that the rich are taking money from the middle and the poor, causing untold suffering across the land. The real data on the economy and the spending behavior of consumers contradicts all of this. But under tight socialist teachings and control none of this information reaches the “over educated” public. They are led to believe that the rich are hiding their great wealth under mattresses where it does not contribute to the common good. These geniuses have no idea nor do they even think to ask where does all the capital come from that is used to build factories, data centers, … create/sustain the millions of jobs in the country’s workforce, and pay for the poorly managed government maintenance of our infrastructure and wasteful wealth redistribution programs. Here’s a hint: it comes from corporate retained earnings and the savings of millions of makers. Government does not generate wealth, it only enables its generation by a few enlightened policies and mainly staying out of the way. gjr]
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59 responses to “Sandbox – 28aug26”
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I would expect nothing less from the chi-coms
Nat’l Security Experts Warn Chinese Bots Targeting U.S. Data Center Debate
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Go ICE!!!
“Milo Yiannopoulos, a British national known for his near-constant reinventions as a vizier within far-right American politics for more than a decade, has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Louisiana, according to the department’s records.
While it’s not clear which detention facility Yiannopoulos is currently being held in, the ICE directory instructs any family or legal representatives to contact the Enforcement and Removal Office in Alexandria, Louisiana, a processing center for the central part of the state, about 200 miles from New Orleans.”
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Trump brown-nosing Congresscritters rally to Trump’s defense!
“(The Hill) — Rep. Jimmy Patronis (R-Fla.) ripped country star Jason Deford, whose stage name is Jelly Roll, after the singer’s late-night monologue made fun of President Donald Trump’s weight, with Patronis saying the singer is no longer welcome in his Florida Panhandle district. Jelly Roll returned as a guest host on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday night, where he poked fun at Trump’s weight. The rapper-turned-country singer said he had shed 300 pounds, comparing that weight loss to “an entire Donald Trump.” “And let’s be honest, based on his approval ratings, it seems like most of the country wants to do the same thing,” he said. He continued, “From one fat pig to another, take it from me that physical fitness is very important. Trust me, you’ll be happy to see your pe— again.”
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Magaloons are lining up to support Gloria Romero for California Lieutenant Governor.
She checks all the boxes important to the MAGA culture,“…her campaign is a cesspool of culture-war issues and election denialism.
On social media, she suggested that she was boycotting “The Odyssey” because the movie featured Black and transgender actors and professed her love for Aunt Jemima, which Quaker Oats retired in 2020 due to the character’s origins in racial stereotypes.
After the June primary, Romero tweeted that Los Angeles County’s voting machines were “40% fraudulent by design” and alleged that Michael Tubbs, one of her opponents for lieutenant governor in the June primary, had benefited from “nefarious balloting” — even though Tubbs finished fourth. She also suggested Nithya Raman, the Los Angeles City Council member running for mayor against incumbent Karen Bass, could attract Republican voters who’d voted for Spencer Pratt, the third-place finisher, by “admitting fraud in this election.”
You Go Girl!
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Eh….not my first choice but far and away better than any democrat still living.
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NBC NEWS EXCLUSIVE: PETE HEGSETH IS TALKING ABOUT A POSSIBLE RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2028, SOURCES SAY
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….and you can trust the source…umm….because major media.
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https://t.e2ma.net/message/co0z8j/8clp0hnc
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Things look grim for the Repubs in the mid-terms. Incumbents have only gained seats in 20 of the last 22 midterm House elections and they are virtually dead even as of now with Repubs only up by 6 seats. that means 4 flips would lose the House for them and the polls currently look grim.
Repubs hold 53 Senate seats compared to Dems 47 meaning the only have to flip 4 seats to take the Senate. Six GOP seats are now toss-ups or lean Democratic.
Pretty grim especially if you look at the polls.
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Looks like the TDS has rotted the last two brain cells the po ol ponytail of ignorance had – ” Incumbents have only gained seats in 20 of the last 22 midterm House elections ” HUH?!?!?!
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WINNING!
“ Flynn praised the deal, arguing it could lower prices for years and that U.S. technology could transform Venezuela’s oil industry.
“I think this is a win. It’s a generational win for Americans because it is [going to] lead to a generation of low prices,”
Oil trader says Venezuela oil deal is a ‘generational win’ for Americans | Fox News
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Thank you Don for noticing my mistake. It’s the complete opposite. Here are the right numbers. Incumbents have only gained seats in 2 of the last 22 midterm House elections.
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That’s incumbent Presidents Party to make it simple for you
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If only someone could have predicted this…..
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Taxpayers Lost $65 Billion On Obamacare Fraud Last Year
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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/taxpayers-lost-65-billion-obamacare-fraud-last-year
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At least someone got to him to tell him to shut up about saying “I read it in the Bible”!
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James Talarico Says Jesus Inspired His Plan With Mark Cuban to Break Up ‘Healthcare Monopolies’ Like CVS
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Talarico looks like what results when the dark side tries to make a copy of “Richie Cunningham”.
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It would take a heart of stone not to laugh……!
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Laura Owens, daughter of Bay Area radio legends, pleads guilty to ‘Bachelor’ pregnancy fraud
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Fraud it seems, runs in the family!
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https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/laura-owens-clayton-pleads-guilty-22409831.php
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Here you go Paul Raymond Emery of Nevada City, California…..
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An influencer petted a Mount Rainier marmot. A national park ranger called his parents.
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….more marmot related content!
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https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/mount-rainier-marmot-fine-22406369.php
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You contend that “Taxpayers Lost $65 Billion On Obamacare Fraud Last Year
You’re source is zerohedge.com. Who are they and what gives them the credibility to make such a statement? What is their source?
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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/taxpayers-lost-65-billion-obamacare-fraud-last-year
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Yes….”my are” source is zero hedge.com.
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You contend that “Taxpayers Lost $65 Billion On Obamacare Fraud Last Year
You’re source is zerohedge.com. Who are they and what gives them the credibility to make such a statement? What is their source?
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They are a financial website (primarily, with political legal and conspiracy websites linked to as well) and usually retail stories found online at other websites (Bloomberg, Jonathan Turley, other financial and banking sources). The report in question came from a Paragon Health Institute analysis (they are a conservative health analysis organization in DC I believe) that was distilled by the eponymous “Tyler Durden”, a character from “Fight Club” a book/movie from which a number of the regular posters to the site took posting handles.
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Really not so different from rawsewage.com a site that operates in similar fashion but hasn’t prompted you to inquire about its sources/methods even one single time of which I’m aware and has a far worse reputation than zerohedge.
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Now how about those marmot links I provided…..? Pretty keen huh? After all…who doesn’t like marmots?!
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“LOS ANGELES – MapQuest has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. navigation app rankings after the mapping service decided not to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,” following President Donald Trump’s executive order, the company said Monday.
MapQuest said its app reached No. 1 among navigation apps and No. 8 among all free apps in the U.S. Apple App Store, with downloads surging since Thursday when Trump signed the order.”
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https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDKSxkKY/
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Jeffie… how small your world must be.
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re: Lake America.
It’s been something of a cause célèbre on Reddit. The hivemind, in close synchronicity with Mr.Hillbilly and Mr. psul, has been hosannaing about how MapQuest gave the Orange Tornado what for.
I rather like the idea from a business standpoint. For the terminally-online wavers of virtual placards, it’s a lo-cost way to show your high morals. A place like MapQuest can ignore the gubmint and choose it’s own names for most everything. Native Americans, at least whoever owned the property last, can moniker everything with large many-syllabled names. Verboten word place names can be stricken from the record. Mountains can be renamed after such worthies as AOC and Bernie. All streets can become Martin Luther King Blvd.
There’s definitely money to be made in becoming a politically oriented company. Personally, I’d slip the Pride Rainbow of Quality in all my ads.
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The lack of self-awareness in the po ol ponytail of ignorance is comical. He of all people challenging sources about things he is totally ignorant of just puts a big bright spotlight on being the ponytail of ignorance. LOL
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In other news another example of the global warming acolyte’s virtue signaling running headlong into reality. Ya gotta love it. –
Aug 31 (Reuters) – A federal judge ruled on Monday that New York cannot enforce a state law it enacted in 2024 that sought to force oil companies to contribute $75 billion over 25 years into a fund that will pay for damage caused by climate change.
Chief U.S. District Judge Brenda Sannes in Syracuse sided with a group of Republican state attorneys general and industry groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in finding the Democratic-led state’s measure was preempted by federal law.
New York cannot enforce $75 billion climate ‘superfund’ law, US judge rules
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“Who are they and what gives them the credibility to make such a statement? What is their source?”
As opposed to “who are you – and what gives you the right to challenge their statement?”
Do you have a source to refute the statement?
Hmmmm?
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Note to the UN, the jessie jackson school of shakedowns has long been closed and rev al is a scarecrow now. Its biggest graduate the SPLC is going to lose its tax exempt status and it has officers indicted already. Stop thinking you can keep shaking down the west. It was after all black tribesmen conquering other tribes that fed the monster. The Americans had a civil war over it and it was the dems that gave us the KKK. The brits went to war against the slave traders too. Cali was a free state and so on and so on. Wokesters keep finding other gove/nonprof jobs to spread the cancer of woke. UN racial discrimination committee presents legal case for broad slavery reparations LOL
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scotto: “Do you have a source to refute the statement?”
But do you have a source to refute psul’s refutation?
Checkmate. The BarcaLounger has spoken.
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from D.Bessee’s link:
“Countries are legally obliged to provide broad reparations for harms resulting from both direct and indirect involvement in the transatlantic African slave trade, a United Nations committee said on Monday.”
roflmao. Well, that certainly is convenient. Not slavery generally, the normal state of affairs for most of human history with plenty of more current examples like the Barbary trade and all the people shipped around by Arabs in Africa, the Indian Ocean, etc, but a very particular one.
Hopefully Brazil is up to the expense as their slave importation was on the order of 10x the US version.
I’m not sure why modern times are basically just a series of shakedowns and grift, maybe it’s just a lack of useful things for people to do. You could argue that repatriation might be the answer if the victims’ current situation is suboptimal.
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Now you have to source your source to have a dialogue with PaulE. Is that a clear admission that he’s losing his argument? Is sourcing your source’s source, and then having to also source that source the next iteration in a liberal’s logic?
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“She wasn’t perfect (nobody is), but one thing is certain: she would never have destroyed the White House, she would never have given $40 billion to a foreign country at the expense of her farmers, she would never have betrayed the U.S. Constitution. She would never start a new war against Iran. She would never call a journalist a “Piggy”. She would never sleep in the Oval Office. Did I miss something?”
But, but, who is he talking about?
Doesn’t really matter, no one else that has been president or run for president is that much of a douchebag.LikeLike
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Trump doesn’t like losers…
Maj. Alex Klinner was killed March 12 during Operation Epic Fury. His widow said Sunday death benefits aren’t being provided as the war wasn’t formally declared. MAGA is too weak to actually declare war & is leaving dead soldiers’ families holding the bag. Pathetic
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Newly minted religious nutjob JD Vance: I’m trying to focus on doing as much of God’s work as possible. And if that leads to the end times, okay”
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The donor class should be billed directly…
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Magaloonism in a nutshell…
2024 candidate Donald Trump said:
“Venezuela Oil is Like Tar. It’s the dirtiest, Worst Oil anywhere in the World”.
But that was when Biden was President. Now that Trump is the President it’s actually the Best Oil in the World.
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RH: “Maj. Alex Klinner was killed March 12 during Operation Epic Fury.”
*during*
No doubt you are just scouring the internet for anything harmful to Orange Man and His Minions (a band name if there ever was one), but it’s genuinely an interesting question.
Is a crewman in an airplane flying over friendly territory near a sort of combat zone (were they even actually refueling at the time, or just going from one place to the next) killed in action in a war? I genuinely don’t know. Let’s say he died from a heart attack while boarding the plane.
Is some PFC in Germany killed by a pallet of food sliding into him while loading a shipment to the ‘war’ zone due some sort of extra consideration?
What are the edges to these cases? Any non-troll willing to take a try? I expect it’s spelled out somewhere, but that never stops the 420th BarcaLounger Brigade.
I don’t believe that U-2 pilots over the USSR received any combat pay. Maybe Trump is at fault there too.
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I know it is hard for you Scenes, but try to have some compassion…
“To the comments asking why my husband joined the military if he didn’t want to be in a war: No one joins to military because they want to go to war,” she wrote.
“Service members don’t enjoy being deployed. They chose to defend their country knowing they could be sent to war but hoping they won’t be. They also join with the assumption that a war would be the last resort, which was not the case in Iran.”
“To those commenting that I’m posting this for attention: I suggest that you reserve judgment about what I’m doing until you’ve had to bury your spouse.”
When she revisited the issue on Monday, she told those “saying unkind things, I’d ask you to think about why you would want to say something hurtful to someone who is already hurting.”
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More unintended consequences of Trump Stupidity Syndrome…
“The Dutch central bank (DNB) has confirmed that billions of dollars in gold has been taken out of north America and relocated to London, citing “increasing geopolitical unrest”.
DNB said on Wednesday that 86 tonnes of gold had been removed from the US and Canada in a complex operation that took several months. It is now being held by the Bank of England, where the precious metal can be traded more easily “in a crisis situation”.
Bank president Olaf Sleijpen said the move was “necessary to strengthen our resilience and preparedness”.”
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Trump bragging about how much money “we” are taking out of Venezuela. Venezuela is a very happy place now.
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https://x.com/JFKcomentary/status/2094990496649130300?s=20
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What most leftists don’t understand is that before Trump there was no money in Venezuela to take out. With Trump the US can take out a generous amount and leave even more for the people of Venezuela to rebuild their country. TDS is truly a devastating syndrome.
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“I know it is hard for you Scenes, but try to have some compassion…”
I would suggest that the ‘compassion’ might be used by the people wallowing in a death as a kind of political football. Obviously we would never hear about this, and people die all the time in organizations as large as the US military, except for the opportunities for Trump bashing. The retail activists pick it up from Amy Goodman or the Daily Kos and then indulge in their need to Speak Truth To Power, none of which is original.
Strangely enough, I seem to remember that fatality rates actually went down for large military units sent to the Middle East during one of the Gulf Wars. There are a lot fewer ways for young men to meet their demise in a tightly controlled environment.
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You mean steal from the Venezuelans, right?
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Breaking news: Trump to repay the national debt with new program!
The US Mint will sell you 25 $1 coins with Trump’s mugshot for 61 bucks.
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And we know it’s all bullshit anyway, right? Because there is no infrastructure to pump oil from these fields.
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That said, I do like the fact that most of the 17 oil fields in the deal were previously operated or controlled by Chinese and Russian companies. The White House used the Pentagon to help purge this foreign influence from South America.
The question is, will the Pentagon just absorb all the funds to pump up the war machine, or will these newfound dollars be used to pay down the debt?LikeLike
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Constant and unrelenting Dug/jeffski whining…….sweet, sweet music!
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It is hilarious that the former dark lard of liberal lament land pretends he cares about the debt. LOL
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GOOD! Appeals court: Judge who wiped out Bowe Bergdahl conviction lacked jurisdiction
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Not whining, just keeping you up to date with all the ‘truths’ Faux News will not tell you.
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Of course ghillie fashionista Bessee does not worry that Trump is responsible for soon to be 30% of the entire national debt. Bessee looks the other way when Trump blows money on ballrooms, arch d’ trump, reflecting pools, iran wars, blowing up drug boats, lawsuits, and whatever else suits his fancy…oh, and gold plated coins with his mugshot on them.
ROTFLMAO
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Not whining, just keeping you up to date with all the ‘truths’ Faux News will not tell you.
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You can tell it’s whining when the whining is denied! It’s okay….you need the cardio!
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“Bessee looks the other way when Trump blows money on ballrooms, arch d’ trump, reflecting pools, iran wars, blowing up drug boats, lawsuits, and whatever else suits his fancy…oh, and gold plated coins with his mugshot on them. ROTFLMAO”
None of that factors into the 99.9% of the spending that’s drained the Treasury.
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A proto fascist feel-good article.
“You see a young Muslim woman dressed warmly for early spring walking down the street when she’s approached by a man in civilian clothes. She shouts as he places his hands on her. At that moment, a second man in civilian clothes arrives and appears to pull out a badge. Within moments she’s surrounded by plainclothes officers.
They handcuff her and take her away.
If the video had recorded the arrest of a violent criminal, it wouldn’t be shocking at all. It would look benign, relatively peaceful even. But you’re not watching the arrest of a violent criminal. Instead, it’s the arrest of a Turkish graduate student at Tufts, Rumeysa Ozturk, who had been lawfully present in the United States on a student visa.
And why was she arrested? For helping to write an op-ed. That’s the reason for the swarm of officers and the handcuffs.”
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A proto fascist feel-good article.
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“….And why was she arrested? For helping to write an op-ed. That’s the reason for the swarm of officers and the handcuffs.”
That’s a valid point….after all it’s not like she was doing anything dangerous or threatening like praying silently outside an abortion clinic (the Progressive Church). But let’s be honest if that’s something you can still manage….it was always heading this direction under both factions. The United States as you knew it is stone cold dead dug/jeffskkki. As dead as Elvis, as dead as your exercise goals, as dead as Paul Raymonds pecker!
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It won’t be coming back.
To end on a happy note…..after she’s deported she can enjoy the full freedom of political speech in that bastion of it…..Erdogon’s Türkiye.
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