Sandbox – 22jan25

[I think the Dems will put up a greater and more desperate ‘resistance’ to the Trump2 administration that they did to Trump1 and also the interregnum Trump.  The poor bastards have nothing else to offer thinking Americans – i.e. no policy alternatives that anyone who pays attention would accept.  All they have left is a pathetic program of digging up dirt that doesn’t stick to anything that Trump proposes.  And that effort is patently silly to all except their own hard core socialists/communists and media lackeys.  gjr]

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[The Estonian Fox]

Maybe the liberals will realize how much Trump has been talking and DOING, compared to Joe Biden. This in 2 days. It would take Joe more than a month to do similar things. Trump seems super-prepared to DO stuff, compared to his first time in office. Even the liberals must be impressed in comparing the two.

And JD Vance & Rubio are capable of responding without teleprompters or notes as well.

Not sure pre-emptive pardons is a legal thing - appears that a federal crime has to be committed. Article II Section 2 of the Constitution:

"he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States". I read this as you having to have committed a Federal crime to be pardoned, not applying to a pre-emptive pardon. But I'm not a lawyer.

[Don Bessee]

A return to merit based hiring means increased safety for all -

I hereby order the Secretary of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administrator to immediately return to non-discriminatory, merit-based hiring, as required by law. All so-called DEI initiatives, including all dangerous preferencing policies or practices, shall immediately be rescinded in favor of hiring, promoting, and otherwise treating employees on the basis of individual capability, competence, achievement, and dedication.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/22/trump-directs-faa-return-merit-based-hiring-system/

;-)

[The Estonian Fox]

Maybe the FAA has already responded to DEI changes. Old procedure:

"In early 2020, FAA staff offices collaborated to achieve two pressing goals — filling mission critical jobs and improving diversity within the air traffic control workforce.

The result is the agency’s Aviation Development Program, an innovative approach to opening doors for people who may otherwise lack access to career opportunities. The initiative offers Persons with Targeted Disabilities (PWTD) the opportunity to gain experience as air traffic controller trainees. Targeted disabilities may include partial and complete paralysis, missing extremities, dwarfism, and other conditions."

Links showing the actual regulations have been discontinued or unavailable (Page not found; This site can't be reached). I don't know if this was initiated months ago, or just in the last 2 days, since I don't check those FAA pages frequently. At least it's taking into account that old Chinese saying: "Never reach finish line if don't start." Seems we may have started.

And of course, I've always interpreted "DEI" as the Latin, meaning "of God". Not sure what the translation 'of Trump' would be.

[scenes]

"Maybe the liberals will realize how much Trump has been talking and DOING"

I think there's a genius to this. Obviously they've had some time to plan a bunch of these moves.

One advantage is that if you bury everyone with a bunch of policies, the DNC-run MSM and DNC-run judges and the like can't keep up. The public only has so much interest in this and you can push through a bunch of things in a hurry.

Naturally, there'll be knock-on legal efforts by activist judges, so we'll see.

I rather like the idea of an air traffic control center being staffed by Stephen Hawking clones. It just reinforces my tendency to drive places. It sounds like a natural place to introduce AI but no doubt there'll be a lot of conservatism in any introduction.

In the meantime, there's the Lesson of Twitter. That you can take hugely metastasized organizations and cut them by 75% and no one notices. There might be a bit of that sort of thing upcoming.

[scenes]

on a different matter.

Aleksandr Dugin on the Ukraine.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1882422205415665664

[Resurrected Hillbilly]

I get it, gaslight Trump sycophants were convinced by all the lies, exaggerations, and pie in the sky promises and became convinced that the country was on the verge of collapse, and evil psycho illegal aliens were hiding in the bushes around every house.

But of course the truth is markedly different than their fevered imaginations were telling them.

Oh look, egg prices are not 50% cheaper with Trump.
Why isn't gas $2.00?

It was all just a PR campaign.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/world/video/danish-official-responds-donald-trump-greenland-purchase-digvid

[scenes]

A good point.
---

"There are now thousands of unemployed DEI "experts."

They have useless degrees, minimal skills, wildly unrealistic salary expectations and delusionally-high opinions of themselves.

These people are unemployable.

They're toxic, bad energy, team-killers, and walking lawsuits.
etc.
"

https://x.com/JohnLeFevre/status/1882249029435916774

[Scott O]

Ah, the loser Hillbilly is projecting again. That's quite a fabulous tale about what Trump voters believed.
The reality was and is that the leftist/Dem policies have worsened every single aspect of our American govt, economy and society.
The socialist policies of our govt were long in coming and will take years to undo if ever. I see America as a failed state in the long run no matter who is POTUS although the left and the Dems would surely hasten our economic and societal collapse far quicker than the Rs. In the end, very few Americans will tolerate the necessary changes to our lives and our economy.

[fish]

It was all just a PR campaign.

Well it’s CNN so sure….it has to be! It’s certainly not “news”!

[scenes]

" I see America as a failed state ..."

Unless we see some sort of technological revolution, one thing I think we can be assured of is how the grossly unbalanced budget will be dealt with.

Currency devaluation and collapse.

Impossible to tell when, but it'll be obvious in retrospect. No doubt 'economists' will be able to explain it all with their typical 20:20 hindsight.

To be fair, all states are future failed states.

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I think the local liberals are mostly sad with the failure of Biden to have another term because they wanted a President who looks and acts like them.

It's a natural impulse.

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Meanwhile, on Politico.

"Time to Admit It: Trump Is a Great President. He’s Still Trying To Be a Good One.
The most consequential presidents divided the nation — before “reuniting it on a new level of understanding.”"

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/21/harris-column-trump-great-president-00199564

There is nothing the Orange Man cannot do. Except maybe balance the budget.

[Scott O]

"...one thing I think we can be assured of is how the grossly unbalanced budget will be dealt with."

It's actually worse than that. Overall it comes down to how much value Americans collectively produce vs how much value we collectively consume. And that includes the people that work - not just the millions that won't work. It's completely out of balance due to our increasing abandonment of the free market system. We've gone from a country that doesn't want to see anyone go hungry to a nation where we don't want to see anyone go without the latest smart phone and large screen TV.
People of the world used to flock here for an opportunity to better themselves despite uncertainty and hardship. And that is how we built the nation.
We had cheap labor here until we collectively wouldn't tolerate it. Now we depend on overseas cheap labor that we don't have to look at.

[Scott O]

"Well it’s CNN so sure….it has to be! It’s certainly not “news”!"

Yes - that's quite the hot anti-Trump "scoop" CNN dug up there. One single "official" in Denmark who is probably their AOC equivalent F-bombs Trump. Wow.

[Resurrected Hillbilly]

Georgia Magaloon, 'nuff said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-member-wants-bishop-added-224103604.html

[scenes]

The grift is written deep into the DNA of Democrats.

"And I was told this came from on high at Politico: Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop. And the only thing Politico wound up writing was that piece that called it disinformation, which charitably could be called misinformation, at the least.”

https://www.mediaite.com/news/dont-write-about-the-laptop-dont-talk-about-the-laptop-ace-reporters-claim-politico-killed-negative-biden-stories/amp/

[Scott O]

Hillbilly at 11:17 is doing his darnedest for the "resistance". One nothing-burger after another.
Off hand comments that go no where because there's nothing to them.
Here's a pro tip for Hillbilly - try to find stories about something that has actually happened as a matter of policy or a comment made by someone who actually has the power to make to make that comment turn into policy.

[scenes]

Interesting statement:

"Paul Buchheit on the trajectory of AI progress

“Everything prior to 2012 was fake in my opinion. It was really deep learning that started to deliver on AI.

Now what’s happened in the last 10 years is that we’ve found the right objective function, which is simply to predict the next token.

Intelligence in its most raw form is simply predicting what comes next.”"

https://x.com/Overlap_Tech/status/1882823586987352170

[scenes]

"Hillbilly at 11:17 is doing his darnedest for the "resistance". One nothing-burger after another."

I think it's just a mob looking for a raison d'etre.

[fish]

Posted by: scenes | 24 January 2025 at 08:56 AM

I think it's just a mob looking for a raison d'etre.

Oh they have it…..TRUMP! (It works better if you say it in a high pitched sing song voice like Cardi B….TWUMP!!)

The Tangerine Tornado is truly the life essence that allows Joe Biden impersonator Paul Raymond Emery of Nevada city, California to drag his desiccated carcass out of his coffin every morning.

[fish]

And as long as we’re discussing random deportations I’d like to start with Nevada City’s Fattest Little Pirate himself AKA the Constipated Hillbilly, AKA multiple pseudonyms, AKA jeffy for threatening the Food Security (that's the marketing term the progressive grifters favor right now) of the United States!

Such a gross waste of resources simply screams out for punishment!

[scenes]

"TRUMP JUST KILLED NIH AND FEDERAL RESEARCH GRANTS TO HARVARD AND OTHER UNIVERSITIES WITH DEI PROGRAMS
-DEI will be removed from all contracts
-Contractors (universities) must "certify that it does not operate any programs promoting DEI"
-Agency heads (NIH) must take measures to deter DEI at "institutions of higher education with endowments over 1 billion dollars"
-Attorney Genera will issue guidance to end DEI at "institutions of higher education that receive Federal grants" in 120 days."

...Paul D. Thacker on X

[fish]

Well maybe you shouldn't have let 15+ million waltz across the southern border on behalf of the business and entrenched government communities Spartacus!

https://x.com/SenBooker/status/1882639166682677365?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1882639166682677365%7Ctwgr%5E26713b5b7551d1001709877f13d7cd20f80221a1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Fus%2Fmayor-rages-as-u-s-military-vet-nabbed-in-trump-s-much-hyped-ice-raids%2Far-AA1xMEeI&mx=2

[Resurrected Hillbilly]

More Magloon Bullshit

“President Trump has consistently taken a strong stance that weaponizing the government to go after pro-life advocates and other ideological opponents is wrong. There is no question these prosecutions were political. Even ex-FBI director Chris Wray admits the overwhelming majority of abortion-related threats and violence since Dobbs is directed at pro-life Americans – not done by them. We look forward to the end of Biden’s anti-life discrimination under Attorney General Pam Bondi.

https://sbaprolife.org/newsroom/press-releases/promise-kept-trump-pardons-imprisoned-pro-life-americans

But the interesting thing is what Christopher Wray actually said...

"Approximately 70% of abortion-related threats of violence in the US since the Dobbs decision have been against pro-life groups, according to the head of the FBI.

FBI Director Christopher Wray gave the statistic while speaking at a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security Committee."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pro-life-centers-targeted-70-abortion-related-violent-threats-dobbs-decision-fbi

Come on Trump Brown Nosers, you got this. Let the gaslighting begin

I guess you can just make this shit up.

LOL!

[Resurrected Hillbilly]

And the Magaloon Bull has OD'd on Magnesium'
the shit is flying now!

"Ogles’ resolution is tailored specifically to permit Trump to serve a third term, but not to allow three out of the four living former presidents to serve third terms.

″No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms,” the amendment states.

Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all served two consecutive terms, and thus would be barred from being elected to a third term.

But not Trump, who is the first president since Grover Cleveland in 1892 to be elected to a second, non-consecutive term.

“It is imperative that we provide President Trump with every resource necessary to correct the disastrous course set by the Biden administration,” Ogles said in a statement."

Fourth Grader Ogle whines, give Trump 3 terms...but not those bad men Clinton, Bush and Obama.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/trump-third-term-amendment-constitution-ogles.html

Sad, just sad

[fish]

Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 24 January 2025 at 11:38 AM

I guess you can just make this shit up.

Indeed! It's what Progressive America has feasted upon for 50 years.

Mangia jeffy....mangia!

[fish]

Good....make Mikey spend it all!

Bloomberg charity to cover UN funds revoked with Paris Agreement withdrawal

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5103697-bloomberg-philanthropies-paris-climate-agreement-withdrawal/

[fish]

Hey look...."A Strange New Respect" posting in the wild! You so rarely see those. They're usually reserved for journalists.

.... give Trump 3 terms...but not those bad men Clinton, Bush and Obama.

Bush.....yeah....I remember the Good Ol Days when he was Hitler!

Good times!

[fish]

Good to see Progressive America out themselves as the cheap labor party!

California's food industry readies to fight 'the cruelty and the stupidity' of Trump

The new president's proposed initiatives could have a huge impact on agriculture, restaurants and more

You've never heard "Karen" yell louder to speak to the manager than when her brunch bill is $4.00 higher than it was last time!

https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/trump-administration-food-industry-california-20038946.php

[scenes]

"Good to see Progressive America out themselves as the cheap labor party!"

Just wait until RFKJr outlaws another food coloring.

It's funny how little labor content there is in food. The increase in retail price by doubling the wages (or automating) is pretty small.

My favorite part about the whole Invasion of the 3rd World was all the posturing that a)it's not that bad, you're exaggerating b)we need someone to pick oranges c)well, what are you gonna do about it.

The (now famous) chart is all you need to know. Liberals prefer strangers over family members or even countrymen. Everything else follows.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Heatmaps-indicating-highest-moral-allocation-by-ideology-Study-3a-Source-data-are_fig6_336076674

[Resurrected Hillbilly]

So happy TikTok is back.

Thank Trump!

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2L3hD7W/

[Gregory]

Jeff, no matter how hard you cry and stomp your little feet, Trump will be the President until this time in 2029.

That'll be President Vance, possibly. And another pretty first lady.

[Resurrected Hillbilly]

Just keeping you honest and busting MAGA myths, Gregory

[Resurrected Hillbilly]

Magaloons flipping out, as per usual,

“I’ll never understand why Leftist media that tried to destroy @JDVance and @realDonaldTrump are rewarded with exclusive interviews as opposed to those who were supportive and ethical,” MAGA extremist Laura Loomer wrote on X.

“Why is Vance rewarding a corrupt Democrat partisan who tried to rig a debate with his first interview as VP?” said Sean Davis, founder of the fraudulent conservative website The Federalist.

“Why would @JDVance even do this interview, let alone as his first? Don’t resuscitate your dying enemy,” right-wing radio host Rich Baris wrote.

“VP Vance rewards a left-wing media outlet by giving them his first interview,” wrote Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist’s editor in chief."

Well Looney Tunes let me explain it to all's y'alls, Face the Nation is very well respected, unlike MagaTunes podcasters like Simian Man Bongino, Alex Jones humor podcast, etc.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/maga-loses-mind-over-jd-151749845.html

[Resurrected Hillbilly]

Thanks Joe Biden.
How about that price of eggs Trump?

US arms exports hit record in 2024 on Ukraine-related demand - https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ukraine-related-demand-sends-us-arms-exports-record-2024-2025-01-24/

[scenes]

"Face the Nation"

Good Lord, I hadn't heard of that show in years, maybe decades.

Looking it up, I've got no idea who 'Margaret Brennan' is, but I'm sure she's 'very well respected'.

They seem to have decent ratings for a modern news broadcast thing, basically 10% of what Walter Cronkite used to get. The funny thing is that the 25-54 demographic looks to be 1/6 or less of the total. Dead man walking. Their YouTube numbers are hilariously low.

A person would probably be better off getting their news from some 2:00AM shortwave programming.

I can see why normal working-age adults think old people are so out of touch.

[fish]

Just keeping you honest and busting MAGA myths, Gregory

You only make me laugh inadvertently but that was pretty funny!

[fish]

Well Looney Tunes let me explain it to all's y'alls, Face the Nation is very well respected....

Damn....there's another one! You keep this up and you could have a real future in stand-up!

[Gregory]

Federalist.com a fraudulent website?

You're bending low for that one, Jeff.

[Gregory]

Deface the Nation?

Margaret Brennan is OK for a DEI hire. Prove she isn't one.

[Scott O]

"busting MAGA myths"

Really? Maybe name a few you've "busted".
And you don't get to invent any myths.

[Scott O]

"the fraudulent conservative website The Federalist"

That means:
"I don't like what they have to say, but it turns out they're correct and I have no answer."

See Hillbilly? We grok your newspeak.

[Scott O]

Hillbilly is really going for the comedy today:

"US arms exports hit record in 2024 on Ukraine-related demand"

Oh, whoopee! And who shelled out the money for all these arms going to Ukraine?
Not Ukraine.
What a maroon.

[Scott O]

Oh, please! Do it!

"California secession? Ballot initiative to make state a country is cleared to gather signatures"

Now, will they wait to secede after the rest of the country bails them out? Or will the newest failed state go begging to the UN?
https://www.kcra.com/article/california-ballot-initiative-independent-country/63536323

[scenes]

Congratulations Pete Hegseth.

[Gregory]

Well... yes, Hegseth is in.

Jeff... so, Trump has been President for nearly 5 days.

How's it going?

[fish]

$852,000 spent to fly 80

Funny….I don’t remember this being a concern when the Biden Administration was flying these people into the country (all around the interior….as well) At least until they tried to deposit them in Martha’s Vineyard. That’s when they called out the National Guard….when wealthy white people were scared and inconvenienced.

[Scott O]

fish 8:05 - I'll bet we save more than 100K on every one we kick out.

[scenes]

"Well... yes, Hegseth is in."

I was considering this morning the attack vector that Democrats really seem to specialize in.

Any Presidential appointment that's not a shoo-in bureaucracy person, usually a guy, has umpteen gumshoes aimed at him to dig into his personal life. You interview people back to their second grade teacher and look for personal failings, ability and/or domain knowledge be damned.

Kavanaugh. Thomas. Gaetz. Hegseth. Tower. even Bolton.

Maybe it's just a gender difference in the two parties. Republicans will tend to be men, usually more manly than Democrats. Democrats have been largely taken over by mean girl middle-aged women. An interesting side effect looks to be how lesbians hit way above their weight (which can be considerable) in local governments and NGOs like the teachers organizations.

I'm thinking there's an underlying logic or reason here, but haven't arrived at it yet.

[scenes]

fwiw

"BREAKING: Inside the MASSIVE Trump DOJ shake-up you need to know about. A thread that will blow your mind...

1/16"

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1882849055417799096.html

[Resurrected Hillbilly]

Fox TV personality named SecDef - so Trumpian

Let's see how he does.

[fish]

Well yes …..keeping the grift flowing to the right people is kind of delivering.

Liberal Media Scream: CBS sucks up to Biden to the end: ‘Did deliver’

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3292540/liberal-media-scream-cbs-sucks-up-to-biden-till-end-he-did-deliver/

[Scott O]

Hey - Biden did "deliver". He delivered the office of the presidency over to a cabal of left-wing loons while he sat on a beach chair by the sea and watched the waves roll in.
He signed whatever they put in front of him without reading any of it and tried his darndest to follow the teleprompter once in a while.
Hunter delivered the dough to the family and Biden delivered pardons to Hunter and all the other crooked liars in his admin.
Biden certainly delivered.

[Gregory]

"Let's see how he does"

Let's see what you and yours do to derail him.

[Gregory]

Now Jeff, be aware... it was the fact voters knew what youse guys were up to that caused the catastrophe last November.

[fish]

Posted by: Gregory | 25 January 2025 at 11:36 AM

Now Jeff, be aware... it was the fact voters knew what youse guys were up to that caused the catastrophe last November.

Well that and the worst desiccated husk of a grifting politician ever to soil the office as candidate plus his cadre of equally destructive fellow travelers!

I’m sure that was a bit of a wake up call….

[Gregory]

Animate a corpse and you run the risk the corpse starts falling apart.

[scenes]

"Animate a corpse and you run the risk the corpse starts falling apart."

Speaking of which, the last official act of Joe Biden appeared to be getting lost trying to find the stairs off the stage.

Maybe he was looking for some brains to eat.

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As usual, the only thing more absurd than a liberal is two liberals.

"The San Francisco Unified School District fanned a wave of panic on Thursday after sending emails to public school families notifying them that a middle school student claimed to have been approached by an “immigration law enforcement officer” on a No. 29 bus in Visitacion Valley, an immigrant-heavy part of the city.

The district emailed parents and teachers informing them that the Visitacion Valley Middle School student claimed an agent “approached” them and “asked for identification and where they were from.”"

https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/sfpd-confirms-no-ice-activity-on-muni-but-sfusd-helped-to-spread-rumor/

It makes me laugh how when the rubber really meets the road, Team Blue is absolutely behind unlimited immigration to the US from the Third World. If we could just get them all to move to Guatemala it would be a life simplifier.

[fish]

Progressives live for fear…..like kids and ghost stories it gives them that special tingle!

Fear is one of the biggest tactics they use.”

https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/sfpd-confirms-no-ice-activity-on-muni-but-sfusd-helped-to-spread-rumor/

[Scott O]

Actually, Hillbilly - Captain Kangaroo would do a better job than the last Scty of Defense.
You might notice they effed the military up so bad, they are falling way short of recruits.
You just might want to check out Pete's CV - it's a bit more than a FOX 'personality'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth

[Gregory]

scotto 310p

Hillbully does that to placate his peers in the Democratic Party. "Fox 'personality'" says everything they need to know about the new SecDef.

I'm sure Jeffy knows the details... even he isn't that stupid. Probably.

Ahhh, Captain Kangaroo... I saw him at the Hollywood Bowl ~65 years ago with a zillion of other LA kids.

Jeffy would do well to emulate the good Captain K.

[scenes]

"Captain Kangaroo would do a better job than the last Scty of Defense."

I'm just assuming that he did whatever moved his career forward. Next up is the well-payed gig at a non-profit or school.

It seems to me it'll be exciting since the SOP thus far is to undo long-term damage in the least time possible. It's funny how pensioning-off the men-in-dresses will seem a radical move, but those are the times we live in.

[Don Bessee]

TRU DAT!

Stephen A. Smith calls out liberals with blunt reason for Trump win: He’s ‘closer to normal’ than the left

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/stephen-smith-calls-liberals-blunt-165411614.html

;-)

[Don Bessee]

HAHA -

"The full-scale assault by the conservative movement on liberal domination of the nation’s culture has begun to deliver key victories," said Edsall, after decades of bitterness from conservatives "over the leftward tilt of academia, the literary world, the press, television and streaming video."

This pendulum swing of culture from left to right has also had an effect on cable news networks, according to Edsall.

Anya Schiffrin, the director of the technology, media and communications program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, claimed in an email to Edsall that conservatives are also winning on the communications front.

Schiffrin stated that "part of why the Republicans are so successful is the message rather than the medium. Republicans keep their message extremely simple and focus on topics that have salience. Explaining the nuances of crime statistics and telling people not to worry about crime is not persuasive when people go daily to CVS and see all the toothpaste and aspirin are under lock and key or feel threatened on the street or subway."

This pushback on progressive ideas also made its way into sports and music, as pointed out by Wall Street Journal reporters Aaron Zitner and Meridith McGraw in their Jan. 19 article, "How MAGA Is Taking Back the Culture."

"Instead of taking a knee to call for social justice, N.F.L. players are doing the ‘Trump dance’ in the end zone at football games. Mainstream entertainers, among them the country singer Carrie Underwood and the rapper Snoop Dogg, agreed to perform at events celebrating Donald Trump’s inauguration, something music stars largely shunned eight years ago," the WSJ reporters said.

Edsall also placed blame on the elite universities across America for pushing culture to the right.

"Among the most damaging developments for the left include the failure of elite universities, bastions of liberalism, to deal with antisemitic protests during Israel’s attacks on Gaza; the current exodus of reporters, editors and subscribers at The Washington Post, a mainstay of liberal journalism; the discrediting of academia’s commitment to free speech as a result of the disclosure of their cancellation of controversial speakers; the relative absence of conservative professors in most fields; and the requirement that faculty members file annual mandatory diversity statements."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ny-times-columnist-admits-conservatives-165119249.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink

;-)

[scenes]

You do have to wonder how many of these are going to come out.

"The following story was told by Michael Shane Daughtry, a J6 survivor.

I'm going to relay it in the exact same way that he wrote it out. Just when you think his story cannot get crazier, it does. His story is one of full-on corruption, and he exposes names."

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1883228690571575373.html

This election win by Trump looks to have allowed us to narrowly avoid a very nasty world.

[fish]

Posted by: scenes | 26 January 2025 at 08:04 AM

Confirmation of what Shotgun Joey was thinking when he issued his blanket pardons. That the process is the punishment!

No way he was going to submit lil Bagman jr. to that!

Do you suppose that this sort of thing is why progressives in general are so excited at the exercise of Federal Power…..the ability to bully vicariously…..with no physical risk and no stigma after the fact?

[scenes]

"the ability to bully vicariously…..with no physical risk and no stigma after the fact?"

It would explain the discoloration on the BarcaLounger.

[fish]

I liked him better playing the Banjo on the porch in Deliverance…..

"Start your tape right now, because I'm about to tell you the truth. And f-you if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I've known him for years. The Brzezinskis have known him for 50 years. If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it."

—JOE SCARBOROUGH

Yeah…..that one aged well!

https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1882926187124760625

[Resurrected Hillbilly]

What say you, Circle of Conservative Sycophants?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/colombias-petro-not-allow-us-150256189.html

With Trump, it's all about transactional, tit for tat, strong counter-punching, bullying.

The gas lighting conservative narrative is that we are the laughing stock of the world and we are getting taken by everybody else.

When the truth is, we are the most powerful nation in the world and we are constantly blockading, invading, bombing, supplying arms to, basically whoever we want whenever we want.

Trump is a petty douchebag.

[fish]

Dollar Store Obama……!?!?

That’s going into the rotation!

https://x.com/DrewHLive/status/1883203513771258019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1883203513771258019%7Ctwgr%5E17f22a9fdb05196bd961fb3405d03263c3fb4c6f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fdemocrats-threaten-righteous-litigiation-over-trumps-shutdown-dei-offices

[Gregory]

"What say you, Circle of Conservative Sycophants?"

I'm not a Conservative, Jeff.

"Professional" journalists gaslit the world on Biden's cognition.

You are a petty douchebag.

[fish]

Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 26 January 2025 at 11:44 AM

What say you, Circle of Conservative Sycophants?

sycophant

noun
sy·​co·​phant ˈsi-kə-fənt also ˈsī-, -ˌfant

Synonyms of sycophant

: a servile self-seeking flatterer

sycophant adjective

Servile….that’s more of a journalist thing jeffy…..!

Nobody here wants anything more from Trump other than him not being Shotgun Joey!

[Resurrected Hillbilly]

Here you go Trump sycophants. Trump fascists don't want you to know what's going on inside the government in the next 4 years.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/colombias-petro-not-allow-us-150256189.html

[Resurrected Hillbilly]

Correction : https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/trump-administration-orders-health-communications-pause-cdc-hhs-fda/

[Scott O]

"Trump fascists don't want you to know what's going on inside the government in the next 4 years."

Hillbilly - you really are one ignorant fool. We had 4 years of the govt lying to the public about darn near everything. And you thought it was just dandy.
You clearly didn't read the reason for the temporary halt to the issuance of orders and directives.
Trump has only just started and you've been going off with your hair on fire with all sorts of lies about what his admin has and will do.
Best to calm down before you burst a blood vessel.

[scenes]

huh. That didn't take long.

https://x.com/PeteHegseth/status/1883578158936649844

[fish]

Posted by: Scott O | 26 January 2025 at 12:39 PM

I think he’s just upset because he knows Trump will be the last president of his life.

[scenes]

" Trump fascists"

OK. Fine. Everyone who doesn't believe in unlimited immigration, racial spoils systems, drag queen story hour, child mutilation as Karen-mom fashion item, is a fascist. People with the attitudes of practically anyone from 20+ years ago are fascists.

The Trump Police are going to stop by Resurrected Hillbilly's house and make a lampshade out of him.

Boo!

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The business with Columbia was genius, although I bet the phone call was a bit heated.

It's the age of FAFO and there's a lot of damage to be undone. It's surprising given that all these immigrants were so very valuable, you'd think their home countries would be eager for their return.

[fish]

Posted by: scenes | 26 January 2025 at 01:17 PM

It's surprising given that all these immigrants were so very valuable, you'd think their home countries would be eager for their return.

Nothing is more important to Progressive America than cheap yard care. If the loss of valuable human capital prevents a 500lb guy in Nevada City, CA from getting a little sweaty behind the mower….well, Columbia’s loss.

[fish]

Quick.....raise the makeup budget....

French president Macron's popularity hits new low...

https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/6/226075/French-president-Macron's-popularity-hits-new-low

[Resurrected Hillbilly]

We're not wannabe fascists... as Elon speaks before the far right Germans.

Elon didn't do that Nazi salute...
more than twice...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/europe/elon-musk-germany-afd-protests-intl-latam/index.html

[Gregory]

What makes AfD "far-right" vs just plain "right"?

Same BS that makes Jeffie "moderate" and everyone here "far right"?

Probably.

Musk isn't a German National Socialist. That wasn't a Sieg Heil salute.

[scenes]

"Trump is governing like a man who has been shot, indicted, investigated, and impeached and has no fucks left to give.

It’s glorious."

- Eric Matheny on X

[scenes]

Gregory: "What makes AfD "far-right" vs just plain "right"?"

feelz.

Truth is, you are arguing with a child. There's no point.
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Resurrected Hillbilly: Some stuff.

Boo!

[Resurrected Hillbilly]

Hello you far-right German populists!

https://x.com/TaylorIndiana/status/1883341861248794949?t=Qa731H0sGRuKIDb_KVotwQ&s=19

[Resurrected Hillbilly]

Good Morning Vietnam!

https://x.com/jamc666/status/1883536961333608722?t=o7q7-B2COvPsU7rKTP6hTw&s=19

[scenes]

Resurrected Hillbilly@2:24 - Some stuff.

Truth is, this whole Elon hand signal thing is just clickbait. Please continue with this important research project.

Boo!

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Gotta love this timeline, check out the org chart:

"With the Trump administration axing "diversity, equity, and inclusion" jobs throughout the federal bureaucracy, Mark Spooner, a 79-year-old retired attorney in Fairfax County, unearthed startling documents through a public records request, detailing the price tag for salaries of 52 employees in the “Chief Equity Office” of Fairfax County Public Schools: $6.4 million, or enough to pay about 125 new teachers. "

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/pricetag-of-equity-in-fairfax-county-schools-6-4-million/article_6e14ee46-db8a-11ef-ba7b-4b737bdff938.html

It's fun watching this all start to fall apart. Bummer that the BLM grift chick lost 2 of her 3 mansions in the LA fire though.

[fish]

It’s okay jeffy…..you can tantrum here! Go ahead….get it out of your system!

[Resurrected Hillbilly]

What a jerk, you own this guy.

https://x.com/TheRichFromCali/status/1883546636636561579?t=iSOICvm0-eSnsxbkMNkizg&s=19

[Resurrected Hillbilly]

There is so much good stuff on X these days,

https://x.com/Fernand46357857/status/1883273643398242701?t=4shReAHJ3T-b6LmLHMunvg&s=19

[fish]

Yes…..let it all out!

[scenes]

The funny thing about quoting X is that all the insane lefties on Reddit, which is most of the site, are blocking it.

Quick example, first one that shows up in a search.

https://old.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1i6upny/banning_links_to_twitterx/

lol. These people are insane. Anyone who thinks like them is insane. Basement living has done no good to a big chunk of the country.

[Gregory]

Jeffie is doing what Jeffie always does.

[scenes]

Meanwhile, in Germany.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1ian6ya/100000_march_against_fascism_in_berlin/

WE ARE INDIVIDUALS! WE HAVE FLAGS! WE HATE THE OTHER PEOPLE! WE WILL MARCH!

roflmao. It's baked into the cake I think.

Ya know, it does occur to me. If there's trouble sending people back to their actual home countries, I wonder if Germany wouldn't take them all.

[Gregory]

The red flags in German protests... no, socialism isn't the anwswer a'gin national socialism.

[fish]

Chronology…….

The tariffs were issued from the 3rd hole and Colombia caved by the 8th hole

https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1883612835542102225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1883612835542102225%7Ctwgr%5E1c0491e95915a7605a3aec32bc2d47e16935f9ad%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F698520%2F&mx=2

[scenes]

re: fish@4:40PM

lol. That is a fine story.

There is nothing the Orange Man cannot do. (except balance the budget).

The RFKJr nomination should be interesting to watch. There's every chance that Big Pharma and Big Food are more powerful than Big Defense in the Hegseth case. Thing is, you can hate Trump and still see that Kennedy is a good guy. With the Democrats automatically voting against any Trump nominee, it doesn't take many shekels changing hands to have insufficient (R) votes. Gabbard is the other test case for the swamp.

I'm loving all this since the rot in the system is laid bare on a daily basis. Getting rid of a grifter President with dementia was only a small piece of the puzzle.

[Resurrected Hillbilly]

Bromance goes south?

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2Fjf3u5/

[scenes]

cool. one of the many 'resistance' sort of things going on.

https://old.reddit.com/r/CUTEWINTERBOOTS/

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/cute-winter-boots-a-resistance-movement-disguised-as-a-tiktok-trend-explained/articleshow/117558524.cms?from=mdr

https://www.usermag.co/p/tiktok-cute-winter-boots-meaning-explained-algospeak

Probably dead already since MSM has picked it up.

[Scott O]

scenes - Cute Winter Boots:

"Beneath the surface, however, lies a clever and coded language of resistance against government policies and censorship."

LOL - 'govt censorship'!! Viva la resistance!!

So hip, so edgy, so friggin lame I can't believe it.

Let me try:

"Say Hillbilly, how do you like my cute winter boots?
- wink, wink.

What a bunch of Barney Fifes. I'm sure the NSA, FBI and CIA are completely bamboozled by all this...

I guess for some folks it's going to be a mighty long 4 years.

[scenes]

My gift to Resurrected Hillbilly.

A group filled with people suffering from the same insanity. It can provide a combination of soothing goodthinkers and a news source for TDS. Maybe even crazier than the DailyKos.

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/