Clint Eastwood: Trump is Taking on The "Pussy Generation"

I don't think he likes Trump all that much, but this much he likes.

ESQ: Your characters have become touchstones in the culture, whether it's Reagan invoking "Make my day" or now Trump … I swear he's even practiced your scowl.
CE: Maybe. But he's onto something, because secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren't called racist. And then when I did Gran Torino, even my associate said, "This is a really good script, but it's politically incorrect." And I said, "Good. Let me read it tonight." The next morning, I came in and I threw it on his desk and I said, "We're starting this immediately."
ESQ: What is the "pussy generation"?
CE: All these people that say, "Oh, you can't do that, and you can't do this, and you can't say that." I guess it's just the times.
ESQ: What do you think Trump is onto?
CE: What Trump is onto is he's just saying what's on his mind. And sometimes it's not so good. And sometimes it's … I mean, I can understand where he's coming from, but I don't always agree with it.
ESQ: So you're not endorsing him?
CE: I haven't endorsed anybody. I haven't talked to Trump. I haven't talked to anybody. You know, he's a racist now because he's talked about this judge. And yeah, it's a dumb thing to say. I mean, to predicate your opinion on the fact that the guy was born to Mexican parents or something. He's said a lot of dumb things. So have all of them. Both sides. But everybody—the press and everybody's going, "Oh, well, that's racist," and they're making a big hoodoo out of it. Just fucking get over it. It's a sad time in history.
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ESQ: What do you think of Hillary?
CE: What about her? I mean, it's a tough voice to listen to for four years. It could be a tough one. If she's just gonna follow what we've been doing, then I wouldn't be for her.
ESQ: But if the choice is between her and Trump, what do you do?
CE: That's a tough one, isn't it? I'd have to go for Trump … you know, 'cause she's declared that she's gonna follow in Obama's footsteps. There's been just too much funny business on both sides of the aisle. She's made a lot of dough out of being a politician. I gave up dough to be a politician. I'm sure that Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician.

In between those parts he discusses the Empty Chair bit he did at the 2012 convention.

Meanwhile, Bret Easton Ellis, the bad boy young novelist of the 1980s, has similar thoughts on his podcast.

The podcast is mainly focused on film, and the issue of social media and modern journalistic discourse bleeds into this area as it has had an unquestionable effect on artistic output in the past couple of years. On a previous episode, guest and Bored To Death creator Jonathan Ames confessed to having recently pulled out of writing an article for a publication simply because he feared the often overwhelming online backlash writers now face.
In the latest instalment but one, ahead of a very interesting, not-unrelated interview with The Invitation director Karyn Kusama which I implore you to listen to, Bret let rip with an opening monologue calling out the "authoritarian language police", with "your strict set of little rules and manufactured outrage, demanding apologies from every sandwich or salad you didn't like".
The American Psycho author would probably be the first to admit that he went a little too far at times, and has previously confessed to delighting in stoking controversy and acting the contrarian on Twitter, but there's some incredibly cogent stuff in there about the paradoxically fascist aspect to the 'this is the only opinion you are allowed to hold' tacit rules of leftist social media.

The podcast is here.

I don't think half of this party gets how sick the other half of us are of this shit. Half of the party is still trying to imitate the left, and set up their own lists of Things You Cannot Say, or trying to rescue the "good parts" of political correctness.

And there are indeed some good parts. But very few. And a lot of the Political Correctness regime seems to be being saved to save just those few defensible parts of it.

This is a major factor in the class-based schism in the GOP: One class, which never had much truck with the leftist-promulgated/college-inculcated speech codes, is completely against this bullshit, and the college educated folk are trying to rescue a Decent Speech Code out of he horrorshow of the left's speech codes.

I'm not sure which side is right. I do know that the college crowd seems determined to rescue far too much of this nonsense; witness the sudden fiction that you're now not allowed to insult a parent who lost his son twelve years ago after he just insulted you.

At some point, politeness seems to just be a polite euphemism for hectoring, harassing speech control.

Speech policing is just another form of the leftists' favorite method of politicking -- rent seeking. And the rent they seek is your deference and your acceptance of their higher-caste status.

And that's huge. It has huge impacts. Crap like that is why Sarah Palin can be called a Temptress Whore but if you make one joke about the "hero" Sandra Fluke, you get boycotted.

Once you accept the (now nakedly stated) premise that some people simply have greater Social Privileges than others, that's the ball game -- you have now accepted that this is a caste-based society, and the castes have a heirarchy of priority of rights.

And guess where you fall in that heirarchy?

Spoiler alert: Not near the top.

Posted by: Ace at 05:55 PM

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1 awesome!

Posted by: nckate at August 03, 2016 05:56 PM (9Pufo)

2 Hillary is crazier than Misty.

Posted by: Clint at August 03, 2016 05:57 PM (xE2DJ)

3 Just saw Gran Torino again, so I read that as if he moaned in between every take.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 05:58 PM (gmeXX)

4 Compare and contrast the pussy generation with this excerpt from my best friend's grandfather's obit (he passed on Monday):

"After
graduating from high school in 1941, he attended David Lipscomb College
and volunteered and enlisted in the Army Artillery December 8, 1942.
On his 21st birthday, March 16, 1945, was spent in the heat of battle at
the Remagen Bridgehead. He graduated from Peabody College of
Vanderbilt University with a B.S. degree in history and economics June,
1948."

He was the gunner on a quad-mount .50 halftrack. After college he was farmer for the rest of his life.

Posted by: Country Singer at August 03, 2016 05:59 PM (GUBah)

5 sounds like Clint pulled a few punches on Scankles. He could have went a lot further.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 03, 2016 06:00 PM (mpXpK)

6 Hard to argue with Clint. He nails it.

Posted by: navybrat at August 03, 2016 06:00 PM (w7KSn)

7 Clint just needs to tell Trump:
"If you save your breath I feel a man like you can manage it. ..."

Posted by: pep at August 03, 2016 06:00 PM (LAe3v)

8 Good old Clint. Not a saint but once he passes, it'll be last of a generation of Men.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 03, 2016 06:01 PM (NdM46)

9 I have always like Clint as an actor all the way back to his Rawhide Days. I though I would not like Grand Torino but after watching it I loved it. I did not like Trouble With The Curve.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 03, 2016 06:02 PM (mpXpK)

10 His pictures need more genocide.
*pets pussy*

Posted by: Auric Williamson at August 03, 2016 06:02 PM (Y9A+8)

11 >>Just fucking get over it. It's a sad time in history.

Clint gets it.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2016 06:03 PM (TjcfH)

12 >>I mean, it's a tough voice to listen to for four years. It could be a tough one.

Truth.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2016 06:04 PM (/tuJf)

13 Clint Eastwood pulling the lever for Trump and badmouthing Obama and Hillary while his offspring are in Hollywood.

Bold move.

Posted by: Cactus of Liberty at August 03, 2016 06:04 PM (Z+1Ng)

14 ESQ: What is the "pussy generation"?

CE: "Everybody who reads Esquire."

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 03, 2016 06:04 PM (SRKgf)

15 OFF TOPIC

I need advice

I've been getting receipts & notices from Pearson Testing.
Apparently someone used my email address. I think it's by accident - the person may not realize it.
Do I -

A) do nothing
B) go to the site, request a new password via my email, log in and find out who this is
C) contact the site
D) ?

Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 06:04 PM (7lVbc)

16 At some point, politeness seems to just be a polite euphemism for hectoring, harassing speech control.

Not to refight the last war, but it's not about what is polite to say, it's about what is smart to say.

Posted by: pep at August 03, 2016 06:05 PM (LAe3v)

17 Good stuff from Eastwood. Very good stuff.

Glad to hear it - a much needed corrective to the 'triggered' insanity of the collective asylum this nation is becoming.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 03, 2016 06:06 PM (51hUW)

18 I'm Morgan Freeman. I don't always agree with Clint's politics but I do know he means what he says. His sincerity is boundless. Also - James Earle Jones sucks at voice over. One note, no range.

Posted by: Morgan Freeman at August 03, 2016 06:06 PM (NjKX7)

19 At some point, politeness seems to just be a polite euphemism for hectoring, harassing speech control.

That's what political correctness has always been about, despite its packaging as "politeness" and "respectfulness."

Posted by: Insomniac at August 03, 2016 06:07 PM (0mRoj)

20 To quote that great philosopher, Don Corleone:
"Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men ..."

Okay, that's not quite right, but I think you get the gist.

Posted by: pep at August 03, 2016 06:07 PM (LAe3v)

21 I'm Morgan Freeman. I don't always agree with Clint's politics but I do know he means what he says. His sincerity is boundless. Also - James Earle Jones sucks at voice over. One note, no range.
Posted by: Morgan Freeman at August 03, 2016 06:06 PM (NjKX7)

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Safe to say that we will not have actors like Eastwood and Hackman any more. Just a different generation and a different way of acting.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:08 PM (gmeXX)

22 A) do nothing
B) go to the site, request a new password via my email, log in and find out who this is
C) contact the site
D) ?
Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 06:04 PM (7lVbc)

A)

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 03, 2016 06:08 PM (SRKgf)

23 main (int argc, char **argv) {
for (;

printf ("pussy\n");
}

Posted by: pussy_generation.c at August 03, 2016 06:08 PM (N6hcZ)

24 >>Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 06:04 PM (7lVbc)

There's a Real Estate Lawyer who has been using one of my email addys for like 5 years. Get all sorts of shit from/for this guy.

You'd think he'd have figured it out by now.

I know he's missed a lot of deadlines.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2016 06:08 PM (TjcfH)

25 That's what political correctness has always been about, despite its packaging as "politeness" and "respectfulness."
Posted by: Insomniac at August 03, 2016 06:07 PM (0mRoj)

Not everyone deserves respect. Respect has to be earned.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 03, 2016 06:09 PM (SRKgf)

26 I could only finish half of American Psycho. It made me physically ill. And I'm still convinced Less than Zero was mostly biographical.

After I read Less than Zero straight through, I lost my innocence.

Posted by: Cactus of Liberty at August 03, 2016 06:09 PM (Z+1Ng)

27 >>>
Not to refight the last war, but it's not about what is polite to say, it's about what is smart to say.

i understand that, but what defines "What is Smart to Say" is how much the leftists have created speech codes in a particular area. And while one can knock Trump for having a poor grasp of risk vs. reward, it would not kill the movement to also push back on the Closing of the American Mind, rather than using the left's speechcrime regime simply because it is a handy weapon of opportunity.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2016 06:09 PM (dciA+)

28 James Earle Jones sucks at voice over. One note, no range.

Posted by: Morgan Freeman

Yeah, because lions are so freaking expressive, Morgan.

Posted by: JEJ at August 03, 2016 06:09 PM (LAe3v)

29 So, Trump is a whiney leftist who isn't politically correct. Yeah, I'm sick of the PC police too, but should we spend trillions of dollars on shit so everyone else accepts it? I fucking hate 2016. I appreciate DT for opening up speech, but I think hes a progressive.

Posted by: West Town at August 03, 2016 06:09 PM (QkmEf)

30 >>>I could only finish half of American Psycho. It made me physically ill. And I'm still convinced Less than Zero was mostly biographical.

After I read Less than Zero straight through, I lost my innocence.

...

i didn't say he was a good novelist.

After I read Less Than Zero, though, I began affecting his too-bored-to-bother-breathing jaded attitude in my own writing.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2016 06:10 PM (dciA+)

31 I always did like Clint Eastwood as an actor. He is Definitely NOT a pussy.

I recently attended an estate sale held by the widow. She was selling her late husbands tools and things. I didn't try to finagle her down in price because things were priced reasonable.

Anyway to the point, there was a picture on the wall in his shop of Clint Eastwood from one of the spaghetti westerns.

I asked how much it was and she told me Clint Eastwood was one of her late husbands favorite actors. She told me just to take it for free and her husband would enjoy someone hanging that up in their shop.

So ole Clint now looks down diligently on the reloading presses, drill presses , saws and such and keeps a weather eye on things for me.

I like to think that ladies husband is somewhere smiling about that.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at August 03, 2016 06:11 PM (cCxiu)

32 I'm on the side that doesn't think there should be any form of political correctness. I mean, what are the good parts? That open racism is socially deadly? Meh. Only if you're a White guy. I think White racism should be just as taboo as Black and brown racism, which is to say not at all. If they decide Black and brown racism are bad also, then I'm okay with re-taboo-izing White racism, but not until then.

Posted by: Anti Antifa at August 03, 2016 06:11 PM (PULa3)

33 Yeah, my instinct is to do nothing. Just wondering if that was safe.

Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 06:12 PM (7lVbc)

34 i understand that, but what defines "What is Smart to Say" is how much the leftists have created speech codes in a particular area. And while one can knock Trump for having a poor grasp of risk vs. reward, it would not kill the movement to also push back on the Closing of the American Mind, rather than using the left's speechcrime regime simply because it is a handy weapon of opportunity.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2016 06:09 PM (dciA+)

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Fair. But this will be a difficult project.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:12 PM (gmeXX)

35 And while one can knock Trump for having a poor grasp of risk vs.
reward, it would not kill the movement to also push back on the Closing
of the American Mind

No argument, but that's where the smart bit comes in. Trump does exactly what they've set him up to do and that isn't smart. He has to realize that the situation is Kobayashi Maru. Unless he changes the rules and does something different than what is planned for, he, and we, lose.

Posted by: JEJ at August 03, 2016 06:12 PM (LAe3v)

36 Political Correctness is the new morality of the Left.

Its entirely subject to their political ends, to make any deviation from the dogma of the party off limits.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 03, 2016 06:13 PM (QlyN5)

37 #BenghaziLivesMatter

#EmailServersMatter

GOP jobs don't matter.

Posted by: setnaffa at August 03, 2016 06:13 PM (jl6Ly)

38 Er....JEJ = pep

Posted by: pep at August 03, 2016 06:13 PM (LAe3v)

39 And while one can knock Trump for having a poor grasp of risk vs.
reward, it would not kill the movement to also push back on the Closing
of the American Mind

No argument, but that's where the smart bit comes in. Trump does exactly what they've set him up to do and that isn't smart. He has to realize that the situation is Kobayashi Maru. Unless he changes the rules and does something different than what is planned for, he, and we, lose.

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Trump is showing that you don't have to play the game by the same rules, but I suspect someone will come along who will perfect the new way to play it. Sort of like Reagan following Goldwater (to use an imperfect analogy).

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:14 PM (gmeXX)

40 Eastwood: "I gave up dough to be a politician. I'm sure that Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician."
________

That's how it used to be, wasn't it? First you establish yourself, then you make your mark, then you enter public life. Like him or not, that's what Trump did (and is doing) in that order.

Posted by: FireHorse at August 03, 2016 06:14 PM (YcAfS)

41 Clint should have been on stage at the RNC. He could have talked to an empty pantsuit.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 03, 2016 06:15 PM (1ZOkK)

42 Clint has more executive (political) experience than Trump.

So there's that.

Posted by: redneckbitterclinger at August 03, 2016 06:15 PM (MCEs2)

43 I always thought of this era as the hothouse era. People cannot survive without the gov't teat feeding them inside the greenhouse in one way or the other. Take them out of the greenhouse, and they are lost. Our enemies see this, too. I expect a major war instigated by a nation-state in the next decade. The older I grow, the more prescient George Orwell seems.

Posted by: Locke Common at August 03, 2016 06:15 PM (1iqqd)

44 Clint should have been on stage at the RNC. He could have talked to an empty pantsuit.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

More like a pantsuit filled with 200 pounds of bullshit and soaked in vodka.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at August 03, 2016 06:16 PM (UPYhp)

45 Go long on Horde usage of the phrase "Get off of my lawn."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 03, 2016 06:16 PM (KEA7I)

46 "your strict set of little rules and manufactured outrage, demanding apologies from every sandwich or salad you didn't like".

Heh. And I'd add, "and cowering in your safe spaces and adult daycare centers."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 03, 2016 06:16 PM (1ZOkK)

47 I love the part where Josey Wales hocks a tobacco lugey on the dog's head.
Kind of sums up the generational difference right there.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at August 03, 2016 06:16 PM (k8tEg)

48 42
Clint has more executive (political) experience than Trump.

So there's that.

Yes, but then Clint married that vapid, not pretty-just waifish redhead. I'm pretty sure she was in some Wendy's commercials.

Posted by: pep at August 03, 2016 06:16 PM (LAe3v)

49 it would not kill the movement to also push back on the Closing of the American Mind, rather than using the left's speechcrime regime simply because it is a handy weapon of opportunity.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2016 06:09 PM (dciA+)
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This needs to be done, but its going to require some serious thought and strategy. Simply being an impolite, boorish bully allows the left to increase their control over what is and isn't acceptable.

A real pushback is going to require time and determination. Opponents of PC are going to need to create or take over media and educational institutions. The Closing of the American Mind took decades to achieve, and it will likely take as long to overturn.

Again, shouting offensive things achieves nothing. It alienates supporters you need.

It is also vital that we draw a line between what is PC and what is common decency. Conservatives need to stand for free speech and the free exchange of ideas. They do not need to stand for rudeness and cruelty (although they need to make it clear that such speech is permissible, just undesirable). This is a difficult distinction, because both sides of the debate tend to jumble up the two concepts.

Posted by: person at August 03, 2016 06:17 PM (mFkVC)

50 Hatchet faced seller of nutmeg!!!

Who got called that?

Politics is a dirty insulting fight. Anyone pretending you have to be polite, isn't on your side. Now you may choose to be polite, but understand, there is a cost benefit analysis. Polite got Romney no where. Might as well TRUMP!

Posted by: simplemind at August 03, 2016 06:18 PM (JTwsP)

51 This needs to be done, but its going to require some serious thought and
strategy. Simply being an impolite, boorish bully allows the left to
increase their control over what is and isn't acceptable.

Agree completely.

Posted by: pep at August 03, 2016 06:18 PM (LAe3v)

52 I disagree, ace. There are NO good parts to Political Correctness.

Political Correctness is essentially You Cannot Say True Things.

Lies and slander are not Political Correctness. Being unable to criticize someone because of race, gender etc is Political Correctness.

I repeat: there are NO good parts to Political Correctness.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 03, 2016 06:18 PM (AroJD)

53 Did you guys see the bit about the Univ. of Houston Student Body VP who is being forced to attend re-education sessions after posting the "All Lives Matter" on her FB page? This was after the cop killings.

Not only must she now be reprogrammed, but she will also have to deliver a public apology confessing the error of her Wrongthought. All as a condition of keeping her silly VP position.

http://tinyurl.com/hh3y8x5

This kind of shit is just appalling. Have these people no sense of history? We're going full-blown Cultural Revolution here, and nobody seems to be saying STOP.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 03, 2016 06:18 PM (8ZskC)

54 Don't blame me. I haven't whined about Trump every day.

Posted by: x at August 03, 2016 06:18 PM (nFwvY)

55 In case no one's pointed it out, I think it should be said that the pussy generation isn't just millenials, it includes a lot of people who are old enough to know better, but continue to insist on going along to get along.

Posted by: Methos, AoSHQ commenter since 2006, now apperently nonvoting democrat at August 03, 2016 06:19 PM (3Liv/)

56 Polite got Romney no where. Might as well TRUMP!
Posted by: simplemind

Ask any of Romney's primary opponents how polite he was. With whom he was polite and whom he was not tells you a lot about him.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at August 03, 2016 06:19 PM (UPYhp)

57 A lot of this goes back to the working class vales vs. middle/upper middle class values Ace has discussed more than once. (although there are a lot of upper/middle folks that still hold working class values, or instinctively take to those values)

and of course that reminds us that class in America is more fluid than in the rest of the world.

From my perspective, working class values are MUCH closer to the American ideal than u/m class values are. Working class values (again, imho) reinforce traditional gender roles, as well, which I think is more realistic in general, if not suited to every individual.

Then take into consideration that the pluralistic part of the upper class view is globalist and hostile to the interests of the working class ( and to the middle class, too, if they would take the 3 or 4 hours of honest research to see it). On top of that, there is a general nanny-state worldview in the uppers. It's too bad that the m-class tends to suck up to u-class pretensions, especially when info consumption is involved.

The working class is tired of being treated like a pussy by the upper class; the upper class doesn't care what the working class wants, and wont until they get a good punch in the mouth from the working class, which they wont even admit is a possibility. The middle class is afraid of rocking the boat and losing the next mortgage payment.

Too many moving parts and possibility of vote fraud/rigged system nonsense for me to guess what happens next. There is very much a part of me that wants the upper class punched in the mouth repeatedly, though.

Posted by: Grad School Fool at August 03, 2016 06:20 PM (swEzU)

58 When the choices are trump or Clinton, Gary Johnson doesn't sound so bad. But, when you are Meg Whitman, and bordering on irrelevance, you make the choice that gets you attention (and probably a nice job in dc later)

Posted by: Tdarrington at August 03, 2016 06:20 PM (ZFzUv)

59 It is also vital that we draw a line between what is PC and what is common decency. Conservatives need to stand for free speech and the free exchange of ideas. They do not need to stand for rudeness and cruelty (although they need to make it clear that such speech is permissible, just undesirable). This is a difficult distinction, because both sides of the debate tend to jumble up the two concepts.

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I would agree. I don't like the apologies, because there is generally nothing to apologize for except to appease the PC crowd. If you have truly offended, you should apologize - usually that is to the one person you truly offended and in private. If its to a group, its generally manufactured outrage.

I think the Khan issue illustrates this well. Trump should feel free to go after Khan. He injected himself into the political arena. But there is a fine line that we all think he did cross. Its a difficult needle to thread. Trump is showing that you can at least say certain things and it isn't political suicide.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:20 PM (gmeXX)

60 ...leftist-promulgated/college-inculcated ...

Posted by Ace
*****

I feel a limerick coming on.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 03, 2016 06:21 PM (NeFrd)

61 47
I love the part where Josey Wales hocks a tobacco lugey on the dog's head.

Kind of sums up the generational difference right there.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at August 03, 2016 06:16 PM (k8tEg)

Ah Outlaw Josey Wales, one of the best Clint movies ever made.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 03, 2016 06:21 PM (mpXpK)

62 This kind of shit is just appalling. Have these people no sense of history? We're going full-blown Cultural Revolution here, and nobody seems to be saying STOP.

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I saw it. If it was me, I'd tell the student body president to go F himself. But that is just me.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:22 PM (gmeXX)

63 @votermom, I think I would let the site know.

Posted by: April at August 03, 2016 06:22 PM (e8PP1)

64 Yes, the political correctness thing alone is reason enough for me to vote for Trump. This absolutely has to be pushed back against. We have ceded too much ground to the Left already. PC is nothing less than thought control. What good does it do to think certain thoughts if you're forbidden to express them, or worse, punished for expressing them?

Posted by: rickl at August 03, 2016 06:22 PM (sdi6R)

65

My couch needs shaved...

Posted by: Couch Fucker at August 03, 2016 06:22 PM (qul7b)

66 >>"Just fucking get over it"

Gawd, I wish this were a video interview. I totally agree with him on all of this. Love the jab about Hillary's voice, too.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 03, 2016 06:22 PM (NOIQH)

67 Ask any of Romney's primary opponents how polite he was. With whom he was polite and whom he was not tells you a lot about him.

Who Romney was or is character wise is not the point. The point is he was a loser, because he lost.

I would not want to lose because we went easy on Hillary or the dems. Take a blowtorch to them and if we lose then, so be it.

Posted by: simplemind at August 03, 2016 06:23 PM (JTwsP)

68 In consideration of hash tag campaigns, twitter wars, political rallies, and assorted Trumpisms, the following consists of the entirety of U.S. Grant's personal campaign for President in 1868 and only related political utterance from the date of his nomination to election:

"Washington, D.C., May 29, 1868
General Joseph R. Hawley, President National Union Republican Convention:

In formally accepting the nomination of the National Union Republican convention of the 21st of May instant, it seems proper that some statement of views beyond the mere acceptance of the nomination should be expressed.

The proceedings of the convention were marked with wisdom, moderation, and patriotism, and I believe express the feelings of the great mass of those
who sustained the country through its recent trials. I endorse their resolutions.

If elected to the office of the President of the United States, it will be my endeavor to administer all the laws in good faith, with economy, and with the view of giving peace, quiet, and protection everywhere. In times like the present it is impossible, or at least eminently improper, to lay down a policy to be adhered to, right or wrong. Through an administration of four years, new political issues, not foreseen, are constantly arising, the views of the public on old ones are constantly changing, and a purely administrative officer should always be left free to execute the will of the people. I always have respected that will, and always shall. Peace and universal prosperity, its sequence, with economy of administration, will
lighten the burden of taxation, while it constantly reduces the national debt.

Let us have peace."

Posted by: RioBravo at August 03, 2016 06:23 PM (NUqwG)

69 I saw it. If it was me, I'd tell the student body president to go F himself. But that is just me.
Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:22 PM (gmeXX)

Yep. I'd give an epic public "apology" that the fascist prick would never forget.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 03, 2016 06:23 PM (8ZskC)

70 I tend to where BeckoningChasm's at. If something happens to be true and also agrees with what a SJW thinks, that`s not even political correctness; it`s just correctness.

When it becomes political correctness, that`s when someone had to cover up a lie.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 03, 2016 06:23 PM (DPMiu)

71 Oh I would never joke about Sandra's Fluke.

Posted by: Sandra's Fluke at August 03, 2016 06:23 PM (BO/km)

72 Trump is showing that you can at least say certain things and it isn't political suicide.
Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:20 PM (gmeXX)
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Noone but Trump will be able to say these things. Trump isn't blazing a trail. The commitment of his core followers coupled with his public persona - the New Yorker celebrity millionaire playboy - allows him to get away with it.

In the next few years, we'll see politicians try to emulate Trump and discover this.

Posted by: person at August 03, 2016 06:24 PM (mFkVC)

73 I tripped across an old episode of "Rawhide" a couple of days ago. Clint looks to be in his early 20's. The show was HI-larious: This odd bunch of hillbillys is trying to force Clint into marrying one of their kin. I loved the show as a kid, it was great fun to revisit.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at August 03, 2016 06:24 PM (SeD0w)

74 I just learned this afternoon that Khan worked closely with the Clintons (the Clinton Foundation and controversial EB-5 immigration program.

Yeah, nothing to see there.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 03, 2016 06:24 PM (1ZOkK)

75 >>Not only must she now be reprogrammed, but she will also have to deliver
a public apology confessing the error of her Wrongthought. All as a
condition of keeping her silly VP position.

Ho-lee shiiiiiite!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 03, 2016 06:25 PM (NOIQH)

76 Pudding face/pudding body Newt is so upset he wasn't picked VP he now calls Trump unacceptable.

So my question is for those who don't see the obvious connection, like it or not, what conduct of Trump post-convention is inconsistent from his pre-convention conduct? Conduct that Newt was sucking up to?

Trump really should not respond. He needs a surrogate, probably Pence, to do it. This race would be hands down a win if the GOP got out of the way.

Posted by: LAST WEEK'S NEWS TODAY at August 03, 2016 06:25 PM (svFmG)

77 All you people are racists. OK now to read the content.

Posted by: gapoz at August 03, 2016 06:25 PM (x0284)

78 Outlaw Josey Wales?

What a flic!

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2016 06:25 PM (TjcfH)

79 looks like my instincts about Suicide Squad being an overhyped turd are coming true. Always a bad sign when you don't screen your product to critics.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 03, 2016 06:25 PM (DPMiu)

80 Noone but Trump will be able to say these things.

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Agree and disagree. I agree that Trump gets some leeway that others may not. But he'll move the old overton window toward the non-PC direction so to speak (and frankly, I don't think he is all that anti-PC). I suspect someone with a little more finesse will come along and be more appealable to the public.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:26 PM (gmeXX)

81 I was in The Outlaw Josey Wales AND Animal House. Hell, that's a career right there!

Posted by: Late Great John Vernon at August 03, 2016 06:26 PM (xE2DJ)

82 I would not want to lose because we went easy on Hillary or the dems. Take a blowtorch to them and if we lose then, so be it.

Disagree, this election is just too important to take that attitude. He should do what he needs to do to win, including sucking it up when there is no way to win a particular fight that will cost him votes.

The presidency is worth a mass.

Posted by: pep at August 03, 2016 06:26 PM (LAe3v)

83 >>Trump is showing that you can at least say certain things and it isn't political suicide

Check out the new Fox poll that was just released. He's getting his ass handed to him by the least popular, most corrupt and dishonest Democrat nominee in history.

He's also showing that there is a limit to what you can say.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2016 06:27 PM (/tuJf)

84 75 >>Not only must she now be reprogrammed, but she will also have to deliver
a public apology confessing the error of her Wrongthought. All as a
condition of keeping her silly VP position.

Ho-lee shiiiiiite!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 03, 2016 06:25 PM (NOIQH)

If there was ever a time for a non-apology apology, this is it.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 03, 2016 06:27 PM (0mRoj)

85 14 ESQ: What is the "pussy generation"?

CE: "Everybody who reads Esquire."

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 03, 2016 06:04 PM (SRKgf)

It's funny because I expected something similar, something like, "You cupcake. Now beat your feet before I bury you in my backyard. Pussy."

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 03, 2016 06:27 PM (4ErVI)

86 Good bit in the Clint article about the value of work and how not only is it the pussy generation, but also the dependency generation. Good article.

Posted by: Samuel L. Fishburn at August 03, 2016 06:28 PM (p/zAr)

87 Libs like to tell you to fuck off all the time, they just think its ok to not use those exact words. They call you a denier, wingnut or xenophobe, etc, then seem surprised when you say "fuck off asshole"

Posted by: The Jackhole at August 03, 2016 06:28 PM (M+Lyo)

88 64 Yes, the political correctness thing alone is reason enough for me to vote for Trump. This absolutely has to be pushed back against. We have ceded too much ground to the Left already. PC is nothing less than thought control. What good does it do to think certain thoughts if you're forbidden to express them, or worse, punished for expressing them?
Posted by: rickl at August 03, 2016 06:22 PM (sdi6R)

I'm repeating myself here, but its a vital point. Trump does not care about pushing back against PC. When faced with a question that does not concern him directly, he reverts to the PC answer. Witness his response on Geller, Scalia, the Kentucky clerk, and the NC bathroom laws.

One of the last thing Trump cares about is the rejuvenation of public debate.

What Trump does care about is his own right to be rude. He does not challenge the institutions pushing PC. The net result of the Trump run is going to be increased control by those seeking to stymie debate in the name of PC.

Posted by: person at August 03, 2016 06:28 PM (mFkVC)

89 "College educated folk are trying to rescue a Decent Speech Code out of he horrorshow of the left's speech codes."

This group of people deserve what will happen to them if Hillary wins the election. Maybe we should import lots of Muslims here:

1. American women want it, then they should get it.
2. American gays want it, then they should get it.
3. Urban folk want it, then they should get it.
4. Paul Ryan wants it, then he should get it.

They want Khan's America then they should have it.

Anyone who has any common sense however, should move to the parts of America that are defensible, organize and begin planning for a new nation of the future. The current edifice has to come crashing down before common sense can re-establish itself.

You know a nation that cannot figure out the world after 9-11 and every thing else that has followed does not deserve to survive. It deserves its fate...that is the ultimate "conservatism".

Posted by: William Eaton at August 03, 2016 06:28 PM (KhJh8)

90 He's also showing that there is a limit to what you can say.

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Oh I think there absolutely is a line that can be crossed, and he probably crossed it with Khan.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:28 PM (gmeXX)

91
"I just learned this afternoon that Khan worked closely with the Clintons (the Clinton Foundation and controversial EB-5 immigration program."

And DT gets hammered for calling him on his BS. The press latches on and uses it to try to bludgeon him and so goes the narrative. DT has to go on the attack IF he wants to win this thing. If he doesn't win he will be right near the top of my shitlist just under HRC.

Posted by: freaked at August 03, 2016 06:29 PM (BO/km)

92 I'd have to say that Clint is my favorite actor, and an ideological fellow traveler through life. I think his opinion carries across generations and partisan lines. But that could just be fanboi thinking.

I do know that he spent a big chunk of cash to defeat one of those professional ADA suing machines, out of principle:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/9we3tme

(SFGate)

Still, the empty chair won.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 03, 2016 06:29 PM (gyKtp)

93 87 Libs like to tell you to fuck off all the time, they just think its ok to not use those exact words. They call you a denier, wingnut or xenophobe, etc, then seem surprised when you say "fuck off asshole"
Posted by: The Jackhole at August 03, 2016 06:28 PM (M+Lyo)

Sure, it's OK when you do it because they're right and you're evil.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 03, 2016 06:29 PM (0mRoj)

94 This needs to be done, but its going to require some serious thought and strategy. Simply being an impolite, boorish bully allows the left to increase their control over what is and isn't acceptable.

Because the thinkers on our side have really been pushing back against it....... Actually they haven't. They've been just as happy to use it.

I think we're beyond polite and reasoned. It's time for some rioting and anarchy (in the verbal sense).

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at August 03, 2016 06:29 PM (Ee2nz)

95 When *they do it. Dammit.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 03, 2016 06:29 PM (0mRoj)

96 No one but Trump will be able to say these things.

I'm not sure about that. We've been saying: political elections aren't about ideas anymore, it's more like reality T.V. OR, politics is Hollywood for ugly people. And especially at the national level, that bears out. Those are the rules Trump is playing by. And it could work. Those are the rules that the LIVs recognize and, well, live by.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at August 03, 2016 06:29 PM (SeD0w)

97 What Trump does care about is his own right to be rude. He does not challenge the institutions pushing PC.

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Which is why I said I didn't find him to be all that anti-PC.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:30 PM (gmeXX)

98 If there was ever a time for a non-apology apology, this is it.
Posted by: Insomniac

Actually it's the perfect time to show up and wheel a sledgehammer directly at the screen.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 03, 2016 06:30 PM (Y9A+8)

99 Evening, Peeps.

Posted by: fluffy at August 03, 2016 06:30 PM (eiFlk)

100 He should do what he needs to do to win, including sucking it up when there is no way to win a particular fight that will cost him votes.

Your theory is that what he needs to do to win is what is the interesting question.

He is at least two standard deviations away from the mean presentation wise from the average politician. Some days that's to the right some days to the left. If he weren't he would be in the middle of the curve and he wouldn't be the nominee.

I get you. I just don't think you are going to do a My Fair Lady on Trump in a week or a month or a year. He is what he is. High risk. He has a very steep re-entry slope. He may burn up on re entry. Romney's was too shallow, he bounced off the atmosphere and is floating off in space now. . .

Posted by: simplemind at August 03, 2016 06:30 PM (JTwsP)

101
It is creepy how the Clintons and Biden have always been political blood suckers.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2016 06:31 PM (iQIUe)

102 And the one job Chelsea held briefly was with a hedge fund bc she was so qualified. /s

I wonder how much money she lost for clients?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2016 06:32 PM (iQIUe)

103
Oh I think there absolutely is a line that can be crossed, and he probably crossed it with Khan.
Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:28 PM (gmeXX)
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To be more explicit about how Trump is increasing the power of PC, he is furthering the confusion between being against stifling speech in the name of PC and being an utter jack***.

He could have challenged Khan in a meaningful way, either based on his statements or on his work with visas. It probably would have been politically unwise, and the press would still have assaulted him, but it would have been a meaningful debate pushing against PC boundaries. He didn't do that.

Posted by: person at August 03, 2016 06:33 PM (mFkVC)

104
Kahn is a straight up demorat political operative. He deserves everything bit of crap that gets slung his way.

Posted by: freaked at August 03, 2016 06:33 PM (BO/km)

105 "Crap like that is why Sarah Palin can be called a Temptress Whore but if
you make one joke about the 'hero' Sandra Fluke, you get boycotted."

Just a reminder that it went way beyond crude attacks on Palin, who after all did throw her hat in the ring as a political candidate.

It went so far as a purported "comedian" making jokes on national network television about an imagined rape of Palin's daughter, who was then 14 years old. He went on to later liken the same girl to a hooker.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 03, 2016 06:33 PM (noWW6)

106 Check out Conservative Treehouse/ link in nic. Trump has a huge rally in Florida, and Hillary has to advertise on Craig's List to get paid attendees. The GOPe is useless. If they dump Trump they will also lose their down ticket voters.

Posted by: Chillin the most at August 03, 2016 06:33 PM (BI43k)

107 Oh I think there absolutely is a line that can be crossed, and he probably crossed it with Khan.
Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:28 PM (gmeXX)

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Those that appease a cruel ideology deserve to live under it.

Posted by: William Eaton at August 03, 2016 06:34 PM (KhJh8)

108 I saw Spoiler Alert and I looked anyway...damn.

Posted by: Goomba at August 03, 2016 06:34 PM (tf/6I)

109
Obama commutes the sentences of 214 non violent drug offenders. Except they were all drug dealers and manufacturers. Not exactly fluffy bunnies.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2016 06:34 PM (iQIUe)

110 Fuck this college-educated vs. non-college-educated bullshit. I have more degrees than a god damned thermometer, and I'm sick of it.

The real divide is between the side that still has men and the one that has biological males*.

It's between the side where women are free to be motherly and/or career-oriented and the one that thinks they should be railing against the patriarchy regardless of the emptiness and loneliness in their lives.

It's between the side where women like men who are men and the one where the women hate men but tolerate biological males.

It's between the side that knows many of us come from fucked up backgrounds but need to get over it and soldier on and the one that wants to treat them like special snowflakes, prepping them for a world that doesn't exist outside of government or academia.

It's between the pussy generation, as Mr. Eastwood properly named them, and those of us who were raised and/or have learned better. Someone lands a blow on real guys and gals from time to time, but pussies live every day in fear.

Posted by: Garthe Knight, Michael's evil twin at August 03, 2016 06:34 PM (q+q63)

111 74: I just learned this afternoon that Khan [whom Donald Trump personally insulted and wants to deport solely on the basis of his religion] worked ... there.

Posted by: Jane D'oh
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I took it upon myself to bring my editing skills to your comment. (J-school degree. Sometimes I can't help it.)

Posted by: FireHorse at August 03, 2016 06:35 PM (YcAfS)

112 It probably would have been politically unwise, and the press would still have assaulted him, but it would have been a meaningful debate pushing against PC boundaries. He didn't do that.

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Don't disagree with you on that. Like I said, I do believe someone will come along who takes some of Trump's strengths to fight and tell it like it is, but in a more reasoned and appealing way. Probably never going to be as brash, but could still adopt some of the things that have worked well for Trump.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:35 PM (gmeXX)

113 Thanks April

Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 06:35 PM (7lVbc)

114 Of course you know "Joe the Plumber" isn't even a real plumber!! Exclaimed my liberal coworker the next day, after they scrounged through his background and published it. . . .

As if that makes any freaking difference. But we get all twisted over a guy waving a constitution while his wife stands wrapped like a mummy two steps behind him. . . False moral equivalence how does that work . . .

Posted by: simplemind at August 03, 2016 06:35 PM (JTwsP)

115 Those that appease a cruel ideology deserve to live under it.
Posted by: William Eaton

And that's the specter our well-meaning concerned friends refuse to face, that their policy of politeness is appeasement.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at August 03, 2016 06:36 PM (UPYhp)

116 Simplemind -
Love the analogy.
Love it.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 03, 2016 06:36 PM (51hUW)

117 And that's the specter our well-meaning concerned friends refuse to face, that their policy of politeness is appeasement.

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Its as if you aren't reading anything we say.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:36 PM (gmeXX)

118 15 OFF TOPIC

I need advice

I've been getting receipts notices from Pearson Testing.
Apparently someone used my email address. I think it's by accident - the person may not realize it.
Do I -

A) do nothing
B) go to the site, request a new password via my email, log in and find out who this is
C) contact the site
D) ?

Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 06:04 PM (7lVbc)

++++

Almost always, email from legitimate businesses will have an unsubscribe link in the fine print at the bottom. If the link is there, I would unsubscribe and then forget about them.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 03, 2016 06:37 PM (R+30W)

119 "witness the sudden fiction that you're now not allowed to insult a parent who lost his son twelve years ago after he just insulted you."

While that is certainly bullshit, it has always been and will always remain true that getting into a back-and-forth with someone who lost their son in uniform over what respect is owed is a shit-head's move for a Presidential candidate in a year divisible by four, particularly after midsummer.

Posted by: Jonestown Courier at August 03, 2016 06:37 PM (jmRB8)

120 Khan is like Amb Steven's mom.
Doesn't matter if their ideology kills their kids, they will defend it to the end.

Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 06:37 PM (7lVbc)

121
I'm repeating myself here
Posted by: person

You can say that again!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 03, 2016 06:37 PM (IqV8l)

122 It's funny that the lefty crowd loves this Bret Easton Ellis character. Personally, I find his stuff to be rather sick and repulsive. American Psycho was okay but the rest of the shit I saw of his was just downright disgusting and retarded. It's nice that he has a little bit of sense about the marxist tyranny of political correctness, but that's like thinking someone is impressive because he's able to breathe.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 03, 2016 06:37 PM (zc3Db)

123 Oh gosh that person is back

Posted by: Backtoga at August 03, 2016 06:37 PM (wYn4I)

124 clint brings the hog's breath to set the record straight.

Posted by: concrete girl at August 03, 2016 06:37 PM (P7snP)

125 He is at least two standard deviations away from the mean presentation
wise from the average politician. Some days that's to the right some
days to the left. If he weren't he would be in the middle of the
curve and he wouldn't be the nominee.

That's true, but a definition of intelligence is the ability to adapt to new surroundings. His "all outrage-all the time, ain't I a bad boy" schtick appealed to a sizable minority of the primary voters and got him the nom, but that won't work in the general. He has to be smart enough to adapt, and so far, he hasn't.

Posted by: pep at August 03, 2016 06:37 PM (LAe3v)

126 Oh gosh that person is back
Posted by: Backtoga at August 03, 2016 06:37 PM (wYn4I)

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Oh gosh, that person who doesn't agree with me is back trying to defend his views.

What will I do?

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:38 PM (gmeXX)

127
The Hwd commies are always portrayed as victims. They are also portrayed as nice guys. However, if you watch the available film footage of them and read the numerous bios., they were huge SOBs. Nasty, hard, men who would have no problem screwing up the lives of people they disagreed with politically. And they wd have been more than happy putting the rest of us in camps when comrade stalin took over.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2016 06:39 PM (iQIUe)

128 >>And that's the specter our well-meaning concerned friends refuse to face, that their policy of politeness is appeasement.

I see Trump getting his ass handed to him with his tough guy shtick. To fucking Hillary Clinton of all people.

Tell me how that's winning?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2016 06:39 PM (/tuJf)

129 A friend of my girlfriend in the 70's said Clint tried but failed to pick up on her in a bar in Carmel.
I said "WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?"

Posted by: wth at August 03, 2016 06:39 PM (HgMAr)

130 Almost always, email from legitimate businesses will have an unsubscribe link in the fine print at the bottom. If the link is there, I would unsubscribe and then forget about them.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 03, 2016 06:37 PM (R+30W)

No, this one would have to have me log on to the account to change preferences. It's not marketing email, it's stuff like - here's the schedule of your test. Here's your receipt. Etc.

Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 06:39 PM (7lVbc)

131 No, this one would have to have me log on to the account to change preferences. It's not marketing email, it's stuff like - here's the schedule of your test. Here's your receipt. Etc.

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Something similar has happened to me with my phone. I would call the company up and say you are reaching out to the wrong person. I only did it because it seemed health related.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:40 PM (gmeXX)

132
Obama commutes the sentences of 214 non violent drug offenders. Except they were all drug dealers and manufacturers. Not exactly fluffy bunnies.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2016 06:34 PM (iQIUe)

I wonder how non violent drug dealers and manufacturers get people to pay up when they don't want to? Small claims courts?

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 03, 2016 06:41 PM (lKyWE)

133
115
Those that appease a cruel ideology deserve to live under it.

Posted by: William Eaton

And that's the specter our well-meaning concerned friends refuse to face, that their policy of politeness is appeasement.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic

Here's another analogy. During WWII, after Enigma was cracked, Churchill didn't respond to every German action or provocation, because he was focused on the long game, and knew that if he did, he lost. He was smart, fought the battles he could win, and ignored the ones he couldn't.

I guess he was a pussy RINO.

Posted by: pep at August 03, 2016 06:41 PM (LAe3v)

134 Eastwood = Trump = Hitler! That's fact not opinion!

Posted by: Fruits & Nuts of Carmel at August 03, 2016 06:41 PM (5df4S)

135 So I'm guessing popcorn is one of those things you're not supposed to have for dinner.

Posted by: Weasel at August 03, 2016 06:41 PM (Sfs6o)

136 Posted by: Garthe Knight, Michael's evil twin at August 03, 2016 06:34 PM (q+q63)

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Good response...obviously Ace is speaking generally, not specifically.

The relative safety we live under has made Americans soft. Soft in many ways too, not just the old fashioned self-reliant way either. Perhaps living through the next decade will sort out Americans...Darwinian Natural Selection. Should not have come to that, but it is increasingly looking like reality.

Posted by: William Eaton at August 03, 2016 06:42 PM (KhJh8)

137 Here's another analogy. During WWII, after Enigma was cracked, Churchill didn't respond to every German action or provocation, because he was focused on the long game, and knew that if he did, he lost. He was smart, fought the battles he could win, and ignored the ones he couldn't.

I guess he was a pussy RINO.

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Some insults you ignore, some you respond to. This is stuff you learn on the playground.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:42 PM (gmeXX)

138 Almost always, email from legitimate businesses will have an unsubscribe link in the fine print at the bottom. If the link is there, I would unsubscribe and then forget about them.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 03, 2016 06:37 PM (R+30W)

No, this one would have to have me log on to the account to change preferences. It's not marketing email, it's stuff like - here's the schedule of your test. Here's your receipt. Etc.
Posted by: @votermom

Don't click links from email. They're just going to resell your address because you've just told them it's a live email account.

Find the 'block address' setting in your email service. Blacklist the address.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 03, 2016 06:42 PM (Y9A+8)

139 Trump needs to learn to do magnanimity. To stay above frays.

After Khan attacked him, Trump should have simply said,

"We Republicans had a bereaved mother speak at our convention. Democrats went after her viciously. One liberal claimed she should be beaten to death. It was horrific stuff they said. I believe that, even if you disagree with them, anyone who has lost a child in that way deserves to be heard out in respectful silence. That's the privilege I extend to the Khan family, too. I won't comment further on this matter."

That would be it. One news cycle. Done.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 03, 2016 06:42 PM (noWW6)

140
No, this one would have to have me log on to the account to change preferences. It's not marketing email, it's stuff like - here's the schedule of your test. Here's your receipt. Etc.
Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 06:39 PM (7lVbc)

Don't do that

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 03, 2016 06:42 PM (lKyWE)

141 Huh. Sr. Justice Dept. officials objected to sending the money to Iran, but were overruled by State.

Fox.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 03, 2016 06:43 PM (1ZOkK)

142 After Khan attacked him, Trump should have simply said,

"We
Republicans had a bereaved mother speak at our convention. Democrats
went after her viciously. One liberal claimed she should be beaten to
death. It was horrific stuff they said. I believe that, even if you
disagree with them, anyone who has lost a child in that way deserves to
be heard out in respectful silence. That's the privilege I extend to the
Khan family, too. I won't comment further on this matter."

That would be it. One news cycle. Done.

Spot on. You RINO appeaser.

Posted by: pep at August 03, 2016 06:43 PM (LAe3v)

143 I've been out at work whole day and listened to fox on the way home and they were all breathless about an intervention for trump? I think they need an intervention, being so stupid cannot be good for their health. Oh, and Clint rocks. Just fucking get over it...lol.

Posted by: IC at August 03, 2016 06:43 PM (KTFfX)

144 I see Trump getting his ass handed to him with his tough guy shtick. To fucking Hillary Clinton of all people.

Tell me how that's winning?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2016 06:39 PM (/tuJf)
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Trump is currently losing.

The people who might be able to meaningfully dent PC are on the run, being hammered by Trump and his establishment backers. A Tea Party guy and member of the HFC lost a primary fight to an establishment favorite last night. The GOPe elite are preparing to pick off other HFC guys. Lee and Cruz are loathed and detested because they denied Trump.

The fight against PC is not on the march. Its worse off then it was a year ago.

Posted by: person at August 03, 2016 06:43 PM (mFkVC)

145 He was smart, fought the battles he could win, and ignored the ones he couldn't.

I guess he was a pussy RINO.
Posted by: pep

You notice the bolded part? He fought. He didn't retreat at every turn because "this isn't the hill to die on." At a certain point you have to draw a line and stand one's ground.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at August 03, 2016 06:43 PM (UPYhp)

146 appealed to a sizable minority of the primary voters and got him the nom, but that won't work in the general.

I get you. Your theory is the orthodox one. That in the general you have to tack to the middle to gain the support of the swing voters. I expect he is going to do the opposite. He believes the swing voters are sick of what they hear on the MSM and he's going to give them an in your face antidote.

It's either going to work or not.

What will not work is if he decides to shallow out his approach. Its not him. He's a cartoon character and he's stuck with it.
That's right I said he's a cartoon character. That's where we are . . .

Posted by: simplemind at August 03, 2016 06:44 PM (JTwsP)

147
I wonder how non violent drug dealers and manufacturers get people to pay up when they don't want to? Small claims courts?
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 03, 2016 06:41 PM (lKyWE)

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Last year some guy he released eithin a year murdered a woman and her children so yo think he wd be more cautious.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2016 06:44 PM (iQIUe)

148 >>>47 I love the part where Josey Wales hocks a tobacco lugey on the dog's head.
Kind of sums up the generational difference right there.

or when he wakes up with the horny toad and looks at it all crazy eyed.

Posted by: concrete girl at August 03, 2016 06:45 PM (P7snP)

149 Why does Clint Eastwood hate persons of color? Brattleboro will not airing anymore of his movies because he does not care about this country and does not appreciate everything Presdent Obama has done to fix the problems created by Bush. Bush lied and now Presdent Obama is trying fix all of these problems, but will need probably another 8 years to fix all the damage Bush has done. A 1% GDP is excellent compared to the growth of stuff under Bush.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at August 03, 2016 06:45 PM (NuElX)

150 You notice the bolded part? He fought. He didn't retreat at every turn because "this isn't the hill to die on." At a certain point you have to draw a line and stand one's ground.

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No one has said otherwise. I probably wouldn't stand my ground on trying to claim my sacrafices were the same as someone who's child was killed in service, but that's just me. Which is why I said, Trump is at least showing you can say some things, and someone with a better sense of where that line is will come along and do it better than he does.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:46 PM (gmeXX)

151 Last year some guy he released eithin a year murdered a woman and her children so yo think he wd be more cautious.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang!

Like he cares?

Or that he will ever be effected or held accountable?

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 03, 2016 06:46 PM (Vq2+a)

152 I see Trump getting his ass handed to him with his tough guy shtick. To fucking Hillary Clinton of all people.

Tell me how that's winning?

As I see it there are only two potential outcomes. Hillary wins or Trump wins. I do not see another option. So, you might as well Trump.

Posted by: simplemind at August 03, 2016 06:46 PM (JTwsP)

153 SH- I only say that as the last thread it was a lot more trolling

Posted by: Backtoga at August 03, 2016 06:46 PM (wYn4I)

154 During WWII, after Enigma was cracked, Churchill didn't respond to every German action or provocation, because he was focused on the long game, and knew that if he did, he lost. He was smart, fought the battles he could win, and ignored the ones he couldn't.

Posted by: pep at August 03, 2016 06:41 PM (LAe3v)
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That makes no phucking sense. Utilizing knowledge of intentions learned via intercepts or not using it has nothing to do with responding to actual actions or "provocations" (in a war, really?) or battles that can or can't be won.

Posted by: RioBravo at August 03, 2016 06:46 PM (NUqwG)

155 Yes, I know better than to click on links in email.
I was thinking of going to their real site.
I know the company - it's a testing company with franchises across the country. They probably have my email from back when I worked, in fact.
I might just change passwords on all my emails and mark them as spam.
What my actual worry / curiosity is - how do I know it's just my email they have?
Could this be actual id theft?

Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 06:47 PM (7lVbc)

156 The fight against PC is not on the march. Its worse off then it was a year ago.
Posted by: person at August 03, 2016 06:43 PM (mFkVC)

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Trump saying the NBA was stupid to move the all-star game because of NC's bathroom law would be standing up to PC. Has he done that or something similar? If he has I missed it. Let me know.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:47 PM (gmeXX)

157 Trump trends to shoot from the hip (or the lip), frequently just minutes after someone attacks him. He doesn't take two weeks and 3 secret polls to 'formulate a response', like the FAB does. She, like TFG, controls the message and rarely does any kind of press conference.

It remains to be seen if his style can survive the process.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 03, 2016 06:47 PM (gyKtp)

158 OT Some people want the express train to hell.

Why would a 'civilized' people need the death penalty? I give you exhibit A.

http://tinyurl.com/zfcr5mg

Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at August 03, 2016 06:47 PM (xyXuS)

159 Headline on Yahoo news (yeah, yeah, I know):

Clint Eastwood: "You know, Trump is a racist."

Shit you not.

Quite a bit different from what he said. I hate these fucking people.

Posted by: chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at August 03, 2016 06:47 PM (G2Sc9)

160 Some insults you ignore, some you respond to. This is stuff you learn on the playground.
Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:42 PM (gmeXX)
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Their is a huge point Trump supporters miss.

When you respond to everything in the same way, that response loses any impact. If you punch out at any slight, it becomes mundane. Trump responds with much the same flailing to Cruz, Clinton, Kahn, the judge, Kelly, etc. Even with slight variations in volume or intensity, it becomes mundane.

If someone like Romney, known for being even tempered, had launched a (more coherent) Trump-like assault on someone like Clinton, it would have had a far greater impact.

Posted by: person at August 03, 2016 06:47 PM (mFkVC)

161 There is nothing decent about speech codes. Nothing.

Now, basic common courtesy and human decency? There is significant value to that.

But I will be damned if I have to accept that other people get to decide what is and is not permissible for me to say. You know who gets to do that? My parents. And even then it's only what I am allowed to say around them.

As the Horde knows, I am a tiny bit fond of profanity. You know what else? I try not even to say damn in front of my parents because they don't like it. I abide by that out of respect for my parents. But I will not and should not be demanded to show respect to those who deny the very possibility of my existence. No. Will not happen.

This motherfucking ballsucking clitnibbling dirty rimming notion that there was things you just can't say and that there are those who have Unquestionable Moral Authority and cannot be questioned is sheer idiocy.

No. A billion times no.

Posted by: alexthechick - love and despair bitches at August 03, 2016 06:48 PM (dEQP3)

162 SH- I only say that as the last thread it was a lot more trolling
Posted by: Backtoga at August 03, 2016 06:46 PM (wYn4I)

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Ok - I just think person is unfairly attacked because he/she does not toe the Trump party line.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:48 PM (gmeXX)

163 "If someone like Romney, known for being even tempered, had launched a (more coherent) Trump-like assault on someone like Clinton, it would have had a far greater impact."

Good luck with that fantasy. It had as much a possibility of happening as Trump shutting his mouth does now.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 03, 2016 06:49 PM (UXa2M)

164 153 SH- I only say that as the last thread it was a lot more trolling
Posted by: Backtoga at August 03, 2016 06:46 PM (wYn4I)
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You mean the one in which I broke news, got called a liar by several posters, and then Ace put up a post about the exact same news a half hour later?

Posted by: person at August 03, 2016 06:49 PM (mFkVC)

165 He was smart, fought the battles he could win, and ignored the ones he couldn't.

Posted by: pep at August 03, 2016 06:41 PM (LAe3v)

Give this a listen.

Actual Churchill.

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 03, 2016 06:49 PM (Vq2+a)

166 After Khan attacked him, Trump should have simply said,
...............

Khan, you've got Genesis, but you don't have me. You were going to kill me, Khan. You're going to have to come down here.

Posted by: wth at August 03, 2016 06:49 PM (HgMAr)

167 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkTw3_PmKtc

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 03, 2016 06:49 PM (Vq2+a)

168 If

IF and buts and candy and nuts and something about Christmas. . . .

That's funny. See that's the past. We have to vote with the candidates we have, not those we wished we have. . .

Posted by: simplemind at August 03, 2016 06:50 PM (JTwsP)

169 106 Check out Conservative Treehouse/ link in nic. Trump has a huge rally in Florida, and Hillary has to advertise on Craig's List to get paid attendees. The GOPe is useless. If they dump Trump they will also lose their down ticket voters.

Posted by: Chillin the most at August 03, 2016 06:33 PM (BI43k)

This is why the Khaaan story has the potential to turn into a big nothingburger. It's a Big Controversy only to the MSM and those few (like us) who follow politics closely. Even the far efties in my chess group this morning (I'm the only conservative there) didn't bring it up.

So, buck up, ye faint of heart.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 03, 2016 06:50 PM (NQ9kZ)

170 Speaking of trolling, have you noticed how the spate of First Name Only trolls during the conventions has now abated?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 03, 2016 06:50 PM (SRKgf)

171
Why would a 'civilized' people need the death penalty? I give you exhibit A.

http://tinyurl.com/zfcr5mg
Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at August 03, 2016 06:47 PM (xyXuS)

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Sounds like the 10 y/o went and hid in the trunk of the car when all shit broke out....

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2016 06:50 PM (iQIUe)

172 For once I agree with Mary C. I do not want to see any growth under Hildebeast's BUSH !!!;

Posted by: Anti-Mary Clogginstien Not From Vermont at August 03, 2016 06:51 PM (kAexP)

173 Ok - I just think person is unfairly attacked because he/she does not toe the Trump party line.
Posted by: SH

No, person is "attacked" because of the constant, non-stop bitching, nagging, brow-beating and berating regardless of the post. We could be having a pleasant ONT conversation about bewbs, buddy flicks, guns and bewbs, and person pops in with some Brand New factoid about how awful Trump is and how we should all be ashamed.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at August 03, 2016 06:51 PM (UPYhp)

174 Huh. Sr. Justice Dept. officials objected to sending the money to Iran, but were overruled by ~~State~~ President Jarrett.
Fixed

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at August 03, 2016 06:51 PM (SeD0w)

175 160 There is a huge point Trump supporters miss.
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Yeah, but I don't think it's his near constant battling. It's the battles he fights against totally inconsequential foes.

Trust your instincts on this: Is the fight against the Khans one against them personally, or is it more properly against Hillary, the woman who stood in front of the Benghazi families and lied to their fucking faces, using the Khans to make a totally disingenuous point?

Sure- fight the battles Trump, but pick your battles. Fight Hillary the Evil Ogre, and leave her sock-puppets out of it.

Posted by: MTF at August 03, 2016 06:51 PM (jtf24)

176 >>>t's funny that the lefty crowd loves this Bret Easton Ellis character.

i don't think they do love him at all. Despite being gay, he's been punching the Gay Mafia (he calls them that) in the nose for like 15 years.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2016 06:51 PM (dciA+)

177 Bravo, torquewrench @ 139!

But you know it wouldn't be done. Trump's follow-up could have been, "Again, I have no further comment on this. Maybe ask someone who voted to go to war and get her comment."

Posted by: FireHorse at August 03, 2016 06:51 PM (YcAfS)

178 155 Yes, I know better than to click on links in email.
I was thinking of going to their real site.
I know the company - it's a testing company with franchises across the country. They probably have my email from back when I worked, in fact.
I might just change passwords on all my emails and mark them as spam.
What my actual worry / curiosity is - how do I know it's just my email they have?
Could this be actual id theft?
Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 06:47 PM (7lVbc)

If its a legit company I would call them (not email them), advise them of the issue and see what's going on.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 03, 2016 06:51 PM (0mRoj)

179 "That voice..."

You're the man, Clint. Always will be.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 03, 2016 06:52 PM (pUDQf)

180 160 If someone like Romney, known for being even tempered, had launched a (more coherent) Trump-like assault on someone like Clinton, it would have had a far greater impact.
Posted by: person at August 03, 2016 06:47 PM (mFkVC)

Romney would not attack Obama or Clinton because he and his kind eat in DC - and I don't mean the restaurants.

Trump evidently does not and so any threat to the gravy train will be stopped by every means necessary.

Whether or not Trump is who he claims to be is for me in doubt. But the fact that he has kicked over the tables of the money-changers, so to speak, and exposed DC for what it is and always has been, is the one good thing from his candidacy, IMHO.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 06:52 PM (9P3OG)

181 This is why the Khaaan story has the potential to turn into a big nothingburger. It's a Big Controversy only to the MSM and those few (like us) who follow politics closely. Even the far efties in my chess group this morning (I'm the only conservative there) didn't bring it up.

So, buck up, ye faint of heart.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 03, 2016 06:50 PM (NQ9kZ)

The Khan thing will disappear. It, specifically, will be little remembered in November. But it contributes to a general, growing sense that voters have of Trump that will determine their actions in the booth.

Posted by: person at August 03, 2016 06:52 PM (mFkVC)

182
That makes no phucking sense. Utilizing knowledge of intentions learned via intercepts or not using it has nothing to do with responding to actual actions or "provocations" (in a war, really?) or battles that can or can't be won.

Because if you start responding to all actions the Germans would have become suspicious that you have have broke their code and would change it.By not responding to everything you keep them dumb and use it when it really counts

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 03, 2016 06:52 PM (lKyWE)

183 'Ok - I just think person is unfairly attacked because he/she does not toe the Trump party line.'

What party line? What is there to debate? We know DT is a shitty candidate. We know HRC is worse. Why keep beating up on our best worst choice? Are you guys trying to make us feel even more bad about it than we already do?

Posted by: freaked at August 03, 2016 06:52 PM (BO/km)

184 Hillary's voice is like the sound of a million ex-MIL's screeching in rage.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 03, 2016 06:53 PM (1ZOkK)

185 138 Almost always, email from legitimate businesses will have an unsubscribe link in the fine print at the bottom. If the link is there, I would unsubscribe and then forget about them.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 03, 2016 06:37 PM (R+30W)

No, this one would have to have me log on to the account to change preferences. It's not marketing email, it's stuff like - here's the schedule of your test. Here's your receipt. Etc.
Posted by: @votermom

Don't click links from email. They're just going to resell your address because you've just told them it's a live email account.

Find the 'block address' setting in your email service. Blacklist the address.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 03, 2016 06:42 PM (Y9A+

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It depends on the business. I have bought things from a company and then ended up on their "let's sell more stuff to our customer" list. Them, I unsubscribe. If it's just spam then it makes more sense to use the spam filter with your email provider. If in doubt about who you are dealing with, you can look them up or just treat them like spam. Pearson Testing looks to be a legit business, but I would check the domain of the email address they are using to be sure.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 03, 2016 06:53 PM (R+30W)

186 i think people here talk more about the Khan/TRump thing than the NYT

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2016 06:53 PM (c6/9Q)

187 181 Posted by: person at August 03, 2016 06:52 PM (mFkVC)

Ann Coulter and her tits had a pretty good takedown over at Breitbart.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 06:53 PM (9P3OG)

188 I guess he was a pussy RINO.
Posted by: pep at August 03, 2016 06:41 PM (LAe3v)

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No better analogy is Pre-WWII Britain making fun of Churchill as a lunatic, bombastic fool, jerk, rude, etc. Remember Gallipoli they said! The Nazis are just wanting back their German homeland after the raw deal they got at Versailles.

Churchill, one of the few men to actually read Mein Kampf in Britain, was roundly hated and renounced by his fellow Britains. By the mid-1930s he started to see the hand writing on the wall and warned of the Nazis...his countrymen on the other hand said that was crossing a red line!

Only when the Nazi knife was at Britain's neck did they beg him to save their country, then when the war was won they dumped him again. Now they are infested with Islam. Lesson obviously not learned...there or here.

Posted by: William Eaton at August 03, 2016 06:53 PM (KhJh8)

189 What I don't understand is why anyone thinks it is possible for even advisable to attempt a My Fair Lady makeover of Trump.

He's a mess. He might still win. If he does it won't be because Rex Harrison teaches him how to talk pretty and hold a tea cup. (Respects to Rex Harrison's Hat)

Posted by: simplemind at August 03, 2016 06:53 PM (JTwsP)

190 Trump can't say enough "dumb things" to make me not vote for him. I have to say I do cringe at some statements. But more "cringe worthy" are the destructive, tyrannical, biased and oppressive leftist subterfuge.

If I have a choice between cringing of watching another four years of anti democratic subversion, dismantling of the law, American cultural destruction, use of the state against liberal enemies, undermining of capitalism, propping up of the fifth column with tax money and loading the judiciary with partisan political acolytes- I'll gladly cringe.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 03, 2016 06:53 PM (Ggjd/)

191 Amazing you do not see Hillary Rod-Bitch Clinton on TV that much. She is walking Charles-Fox and supporting news networks know this.

Posted by: Anti-Mary Clogginstien Not From Vermont at August 03, 2016 06:54 PM (kAexP)

192 What party line? What is there to debate? We know DT is a shitty candidate. We know HRC is worse. Why keep beating up on our best worst choice? Are you guys trying to make us feel even more bad about it than we already do?

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Can we not discuss tactics? Can we not discuss general points - using Trump as the example, because he is current standard bearer?

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:54 PM (gmeXX)

193 When you respond to everything in the same way, that response loses any impact.

Posted by: person at August 03, 2016 06:47 PM (mFkVC)

*KABLOOEY!*

Posted by: Irony Meter at August 03, 2016 06:54 PM (z/Ubi)

194 "So, buck up, ye faint of heart."

A few days ago, I would have agreed. I found it hard to believe that Americans would take to a foreign, Sharia-supporting Muslim waving OUR Constitution in Trump's face. I didn't believe that being rubbed the wrong way by that could be mutually exclusive to saluting his son's service.
But obviously the MSM thinks they got something here so it must be working.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 03, 2016 06:54 PM (UXa2M)

195 129 A friend of my girlfriend in the 70's said Clint tried but failed to pick up on her in a bar in Carmel.
I said "WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?"
Posted by: wth at August 03, 2016 06:39 PM (HgMAr)

An old girlfriend of mine from then got gonged on by Ted Kennedy in a bar at Vail.

She farted him off.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 03, 2016 06:54 PM (SRKgf)

196 And quit calling me a trump supporter I think he's an asshole. At least he's not an evil witch.

Posted by: freaked at August 03, 2016 06:54 PM (BO/km)

197 Because if you start responding to all actions the Germans would have become suspicious that you have have broke their code and would change it.By not responding to everything you keep them dumb and use it when it really counts
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 03, 2016 06:52 PM (lKyWE)
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And if that had been said it may have made sense. But it wasn't and didn't.

Posted by: RioBravo at August 03, 2016 06:54 PM (NUqwG)

198 No, person is "attacked" because of the constant, non-stop bitching, nagging, brow-beating and berating regardless of the post. We could be having a pleasant ONT conversation about bewbs, buddy flicks, guns and bewbs, and person pops in with some Brand New factoid about how awful Trump is and how we should all be ashamed.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at August 03, 2016 06:51 PM (UPYhp)

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THIS. It's like chemjeff and his steak problems or his theory that illegals are all fluffy bunnies and we suck, he has to post it 100 times.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2016 06:54 PM (iQIUe)

199 SH I'm not for towing trump lines so whatever. Disregard my comment then....

Posted by: Backtoga at August 03, 2016 06:54 PM (wYn4I)

200 t's funny that the lefty crowd loves this Bret Easton Ellis character.

i don't think they do love him at all. Despite being gay, he's been punching the Gay Mafia (he calls them that) in the nose for like 15 years.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2016 06:51 PM (dciA+)

Ellis is LOATHED by the most of the Left. Utterly loathed.

How dare he set one little toe off whatever it is that is the Proper Way To Queer at the moment.

Also omg he's soooooo misogynistic omg!

*makes the jack off motion*

Posted by: alexthechick - love and despair bitches at August 03, 2016 06:55 PM (dEQP3)

201 What party line? What is there to debate? We know DT is a shitty candidate. We know HRC is worse. Why keep beating up on our best worst choice? Are you guys trying to make us feel even more bad about it than we already do?
Posted by: freaked

Its coordinated, they are simply trying to drum up 3rd party support.

Over and over again about how we need to be outraged and why oh why did we nominate Donald Trump.

I could understand if this was still the primary, but do you really think Trump is going to be yanked off the ticket?

Posted by: Maritime at August 03, 2016 06:55 PM (1NTNJ)

202 And quit calling me a trump supporter I think he's an asshole.

Correct love him or hate him he's our asshole...

Posted by: donna at August 03, 2016 06:55 PM (O2RFr)

203 If, for whatever reason, you've looked down the barrel of a loaded gun, you learn very quickly that terse and truthful language is welcome compared to the alternative.

For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

Posted by: Fritz at August 03, 2016 06:55 PM (WYh6/)

204 SH I'm not for towing trump lines so whatever. Disregard my comment then....
Posted by: Backtoga at August 03, 2016 06:54 PM (wYn4I)

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I didn't disregard your comment, I simply said what I felt. Others disagree, but I felt like sticking up for person.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:56 PM (gmeXX)

205 "This odd bunch of hillbillys is trying to force Clint into marrying one of their kin."

I saw that one too just the other day.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 03, 2016 06:56 PM (cdIrH)

206 DT is not going to listen to your tactics or mine. He's the FU candidate.

Posted by: freaked at August 03, 2016 06:56 PM (BO/km)

207 *KABLOOEY!*
Posted by: Irony Meter at August 03, 2016 06:54 PM (z/Ubi)
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My own run for President was notoriously unsuccessful.

Posted by: person at August 03, 2016 06:56 PM (mFkVC)

208 182
Because if you start responding to all actions the Germans would have become suspicious that you have have broke their code and would change it.By not responding to everything you keep them dumb and use it when it really counts
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 03, 2016 06:52 PM (lKyWE)

Precisely. When we shot down Yamamoto's plane thanks to intelligence gained from breaking the Japanese code, we continued to fly missions in that area for a time. "Whoops! Guess we just got lucky that once."

Posted by: rickl at August 03, 2016 06:56 PM (sdi6R)

209 Quoting Ace:

"I don't think half of this party gets how sick the other half of us are of this shit. Half of the party is still trying to imitate the left, and set up their own lists of Things You Cannot Say, or trying to rescue the "good parts" of political correctness.

And there are indeed some good parts. But very few. And a lot of the Political Correctness regime seems to be being saved to save just those few defensible parts of it."

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^^This times a billion! ^^

Although I would argue that the good parts of political correctness are such basic parts of decency that being PC is not required to keep them as cultural requirements.

Today, at this point in time, ANY ONE's life can be ruined by being simply accused of racism, homophobia, hostile to Islam, or any other thing the Left deems horrible. Nothing need be proven for you to be cast into the realm of outcast--you just need to be accused and wham, you are guilty." It's why BLM is going to town because folks do not want to be branded as racist for opposing them.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes Ima going long on popcorn and butter futures!! at August 03, 2016 06:57 PM (kXoT0)

210 he has to post it 100 times.
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Was always better when in four paragraphs or more.

Posted by: RioBravo at August 03, 2016 06:57 PM (NUqwG)

211 Trump just says all the things the left says, he is just not as polished or eloquent

Posted by: The Jackhole at August 03, 2016 06:57 PM (M+Lyo)

212 Hillary's voice is like the sound of a million ex-MIL's screeching in rage.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 03, 2016 06:53 PM (1ZOkK)
..............

And Clint has had couple of those and knows of what he speaks.

Posted by: wth at August 03, 2016 06:57 PM (HgMAr)

213 189 Posted by: simplemind at August 03, 2016 06:53 PM (JTwsP)

All he needed to tell Stephanopoulos was that he was a hack and a lifelong Clinton shill and FYNQ, like he did a while back at some press conference, and we were all cheering.

He wouldn't be changing. He'd be going back to the way he was. And having a few facts as well as attacking Hillary at the same time would be a huge bonus.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 06:57 PM (9P3OG)

214 110 Fuck this college-educated vs. non-college-educated bullshit. I have more degrees than a god damned thermometer, and I'm sick of it.

Word.

Completely fucking sick of it.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at August 03, 2016 06:57 PM (72N6L)

215 I think Eastwood pretty much nailed it but I am not willing to shrug it off as a sign of the times.

Spend two minutes anywhere where "young adults" hang out or glance at any social media and you'll see that basic politeness, decency, and even alleged political correctness no longer exist. People are vile. The same girl demanding safe spaces and respect for their virtue are sending around naked selfies and posting videos of themselves having sex.

It's no different than the mandate that no one ever speak "the N-word", yet it is in countless rap songs. Don't ever call someone a fag... but watch fags scream it at parades. "Political correctness" is nothing more than an excuse to vilify someone. It a tool in the left's arsenal to silence dissent.

Equally bad, IMO, are the Trump supporters who go apeshit if anyone states the glaringly obvious:Trump says a lot of really, really dumb shit.

Saying something dumb illustrates a persons cognitive limitations. It does not make someone a racist.

Posted by: Damiano at August 03, 2016 06:57 PM (71OEY)

216 Sure- fight the battles Trump, but pick your battles.

No.

Fight all the battles.

They fight all the battles. And praise those who fight and lose. And that's why they win.

Fight all the battles. You lose 100% of those you don't fight.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 03, 2016 06:58 PM (fiGNd)

217 Posted by: alexthechick - love and despair bitches at August 03, 2016 06:48 PM (dEQP3)

AtC in late, but still scores the win!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 03, 2016 06:58 PM (wYnyS)

218 clint owned the hog's breath inn in carmel.
i never saw him but hey i've got famous neighbors
now and i never see them either.

Posted by: concrete girl at August 03, 2016 06:58 PM (P7snP)

219 It's August 3, 2016. The election is a long way off.
Of course Hilldog is ahead in the polls, did we expect otherwise?
I am surprised she isn't up 20 points with her lackeys in the media and everyone catching the vapors every time Trump farts. Sack up.....it's gonna be a long fight.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 03, 2016 06:58 PM (ej1L0)

220 195, 129

An old girlfriend claimed that she was hit on by both Sebastian Bach (lead singer of Skid Row-who supposedly packing 9") and Keanu Reeves back in the '90's during her NYC clubbing days, and she blew them both off (not the way you're thinking).
But I'm not a fool. I thought to myself, "Yeah, but you're with my loser ass."

I think in reality they were dudes that just LOOKED like them...

Posted by: JoeF. at August 03, 2016 06:59 PM (UXa2M)

221 No better analogy is Pre-WWII Britain making fun of Churchill as a lunatic, bombastic fool, jerk, rude, etc. Remember Gallipoli they said! The Nazis are just wanting back their German homeland after the raw deal they got at Versailles.

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Excellent point.

Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 07:00 PM (7lVbc)

222 I didn't disregard your comment, I simply said what I felt. Others disagree, but I felt like sticking up for person.
Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:56 PM (gmeXX)

****

Bullshit. You posted it just because you like to argue.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 03, 2016 07:00 PM (/FmdI)

223 218 clint owned the hog's breath inn in carmel.
i never saw him but hey i've got famous neighbors
now and i never see them either.
Posted by: concrete girl at August 03, 2016 06:58 PM (P7snP)

Met him very briefly once at a restaurant. When he walks into a room, EVERY head turns.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:00 PM (9P3OG)

224 Horde!

So damned hot I've got my chemicals in the fridge, in anticipation of doing a bit of developing later.

Gonna go walkabout tonight with the old camera and see what I can see.

I see we're still busy slashing ourselves and each other.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 03, 2016 07:00 PM (51hUW)

225 Posted by: alexthechick - love and despair bitches at August 03, 2016 06:48 PM (dEQP3)

Waiter! I'll have what she's having!

Posted by: Country Singer at August 03, 2016 07:00 PM (GUBah)

226 My own run for President was notoriously unsuccessful.
Posted by: person

The elections in Angola are coming up. Chop, chop!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 03, 2016 07:00 PM (Y9A+8)

227 Trump down 10 in new Fox News poll out today.

Free fallin'...

Posted by: Are cheap imports worse than HIV? Discuss. at August 03, 2016 07:00 PM (bhbDH)

228 Bullshit. You posted it just because you like to argue.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 03, 2016 07:00 PM (/FmdI)

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Well I do like to argue. So I felt like sticking up for someone who also likes to argue, especially from the non-popular side on this site.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 07:01 PM (gmeXX)

229 Posted by: Irony Meter at August 03, 2016 06:54 PM (z/Ubi)

I got ya covered. This one is free!!!!!

Posted by: Fainting Couches for Sale at August 03, 2016 07:01 PM (WVsWD)

230 "You are not Politically Correct!"

"OK, I guess that means I am in danger of being kicked out of the Communist Party."

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at August 03, 2016 07:01 PM (4+VII)

231 I honestly think race relations were far better before we had constant racist witch hunts.

Also, even when Trump says something "racist", are you really going to tell me you've never had a friend or family member say something off color and that from that point on they were simply to be written off as evil human beings?

The Mexican judge thing was probably the stupidest (political) thing Trump has said, but I would argue 99% of conservatives here would agree with him that yes, his Mexican heritage is going to get in the way of a fair hearing.

Posted by: Maritime at August 03, 2016 07:01 PM (1NTNJ)

232 So damned hot I've got my chemicals in the fridge, in anticipation of doing a bit of developing later.

Gonna go walkabout tonight with the old camera and see what I can see.

I see we're still busy slashing ourselves and each other.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 03, 2016 07:00 PM (51hUW)

I try to stay out of the slashing. It's really fuckin old at this point.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 03, 2016 07:01 PM (0mRoj)

233 227 Trump down 10 in new Fox News poll out today.

Free fallin'...

Here we go..... Oh, no the sky is falling!

Posted by: donna at August 03, 2016 07:01 PM (O2RFr)

234 All he needed to tell Stephanopoulos was that he was a hack and a lifelong Clinton shill and FYNQ, like he did a while back at some press conference, and we were all cheering.

He wouldn't be changing. He'd be going back to the way he was. And having a few facts as well as attacking Hillary at the same time would be a huge bonus.

Agreed. Some days he's two standard deviations to the right of the bell curve some days two standard deviations to the left. That's who he really is. It would be great if he was always great, but he isn't. Is it better than being consistently average? Well consistently average did not work for Romney. I guess well have the results in a few months. . . .

Posted by: simplemind at August 03, 2016 07:01 PM (JTwsP)

235 216
Fight all the battles. You lose 100% of those you don't fight.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 03, 2016 06:58 PM (fiGNd)

Some battles wind up being for all the marbles. Not saying this one is, but sometimes prudence and a sound battle plan go a long way to ensure victory.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:02 PM (9P3OG)

236 Speaking of trolling, have you noticed how the spate of First Name Only trolls during the conventions has now abated?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 03, 2016 06:50 PM (SRKgf)

Don't worry; we'll be rolling out new waves of concern trolls in September and October after an August lull.

Posted by: HRC at August 03, 2016 07:02 PM (EIB5Y)

237 People want to snidely agree with Paul Ryan. But here is what a real honest man sounds like. He doesn't pander. He acknowledges the obvious uncomfortable truths- that a lot of people have had enough of the liberal autocracy and their Brown Shirts.

People like ryan are cowards and quislings, clinging to the destructive liberal orthodoxy with their fake outrage. In fact, he's everything wrong with our country. That's not leadership. It's collaboration with subversives.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 03, 2016 07:02 PM (Ggjd/)

238 Well I do like to argue. So I felt like sticking up for someone who also likes to argue, especially from the non-popular side on this site.
Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 07:01 PM (gmeXX)
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I appreciate it.

I like to argue as well.

I suspect everyone here likes to argue to some extent.

Posted by: person at August 03, 2016 07:02 PM (mFkVC)

239 >>Trump saying the NBA was stupid to move the all-star game because of
NC's bathroom law would be standing up to PC. Has he done that or
something similar? If he has I missed it. Let me know.

First, he's already said he's OK with the bathroom stuff (referenced Trump sites as welcoming, so I'm not sure that's his opinion on the NBA.

Second, he's not really big on the social issues. He did step in it on abortion a few months ago, but seems to be focused on bigger issues like immigration, jobs, and terrorist threat. I imagine the MSM will be trying to snag him on the same old polarizing social issues stuff as usual: abortion, SSM, trans bathrooms, #waronwomen, etc.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 03, 2016 07:02 PM (NOIQH)

240 >>AtC in late, but still scores the win!

The Empress is never late.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2016 07:03 PM (TjcfH)

241 Meanwhile pay no attention to the civilization wrecking potential of zika and the fact that the progs will NOT let you use DDT to SAVE THE CHILDREN. LITERALLY.

Posted by: simplemind at August 03, 2016 07:03 PM (JTwsP)

242 It's a shitty time to be alive, he's got that right.

The 70's, and the 80's, say what you will, but at least it was fun and all you had to worry about was gas and thermonuclear war.

The 90's ushered in the moody, somber age and we've been headed to hell ever since.

At least I am happy to know that no kid will ever be as carefree today was I was in 1976 watching the bi-centennial, or in 1977 when Star Wars hit the big screen.

Someone had to go and shit in the punchbowl.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 03, 2016 07:03 PM (pUDQf)

243 233 Here we go..... Oh, no the sky is falling!
Posted by: donna at August 03, 2016 07:01 PM (O2RFr)

---

The polls are all rigged!

Posted by: Are cheap imports worse than HIV? Discuss. at August 03, 2016 07:03 PM (bhbDH)

244 Ah, we see once again, it's all the dissenter's fault, the *other* side of the 500-post-per-thread vitriolic arguments has no part in it.

Best to just drown them out, like on Breitbart, whose comment section is almost literally unreadable at this point.

Just bitch and bitch and bitch about how other people are *so triggering*, because that's *so* not PC.

As opposed to just not responding the exact same way 10,000 times over 10 months.

If someone is really spamming, they will end up banned for posting 100 messages with no responses. If you argue with every one, you are having a conversation. A conversation you say you don't want. Which you insist on continuing.

Also, the "inventing intentions for people" shtick is pretty fucking tired.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 03, 2016 07:03 PM (wB8Tg)

245 Well shit I went to intercept a troll and got an arguer instead. Don't want to say he's a troll per se but maybe more or an argumentative close talker.

Posted by: Backtoga at August 03, 2016 07:04 PM (wYn4I)

246 Well I do like to argue. So I felt like sticking up for someone who also likes to argue, especially from the non-popular side on this site.
Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 07:01 PM (gmeXX)
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I appreciate it.

I like to argue as well.

I suspect everyone here likes to argue to some extent.
Posted by: person at August 03, 2016 07:02 PM (mFkVC)

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I would agree. It would be boring if we all agreed on everything.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 07:04 PM (gmeXX)

247 i don't think they do love him at all. Despite being gay, he's been punching the Gay Mafia (he calls them that) in the nose for like 15 years.

Posted by: ace at August 03, 2016 06:51 PM (dciA+)

I meant that they like his work. It's mostly written for them, from what I've seen.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 03, 2016 07:04 PM (zc3Db)

248 211 Trump just says all the things the left says, he is just not as polished or eloquent
Posted by: The Jackhole at August 03, 2016 06:57 PM (M+Lyo)

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Right. Because Hillary's black accent is so eloquent and Joey "fast hands" Bide is so polished. lol

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2016 07:04 PM (iQIUe)

249 I am starting to rebel.

I am still formulating outrageous shit, just to piss off the Left.

Little stuff. Referring to Blacks as Negroes. Referring to Asians (Chinese, etc.) as Orientals.

Pisses them off so much.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at August 03, 2016 07:04 PM (4+VII)

250 Trump down 10 in new Fox News poll out today.

Free fallin'...

Here we go..... Oh, no the sky is falling!
Posted by: donna

But LA Times has him up 2 points. Which poll is right?

And who owns Fox News and the NY POST? oh, a sworn political enemy that is now cheerfully backing Hillary Clinton. Rupert Murdoch.

Posted by: Maritime at August 03, 2016 07:04 PM (1NTNJ)

251 Oh, boy, another one note #NeverTrump fucktard troll.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 03, 2016 07:04 PM (nIGPZ)

252 Bring back dueling. I'm pretty sure as soon as some of these loudmouth ball-less idiots had to put up they'd shut up. Seriously, on the internet you can have huge honking balls even though in reality you are packing .l.

Posted by: Hillary's Idiot Tech Complete with Legal Immunity at August 03, 2016 07:04 PM (SXVyF)

253 182 Because if you start responding to all actions the Germans would have
become suspicious that you have have broke their code and would change
it

FML, in fact they did statistical analyses on their responses so as to keep the Germans from deducing that their code was broken. Some attacks were allowed to happen, that they knew were going to happen, just so there was enough noise in the data to keep the German mathematicians from being sure they were hacked.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 03, 2016 07:05 PM (gyKtp)

254
I would agree. It would be boring if we all agreed on everything.

I would like to give it a try...

Posted by: donna at August 03, 2016 07:05 PM (O2RFr)

255 >>What I don't understand is why anyone thinks it is possible for even advisable to attempt a My Fair Lady makeover of Trump.

I don't think anyone is suggesting anything like this. Just less overt idiocy.

Shouldn't be that much of a challenge, right?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2016 07:06 PM (/tuJf)

256 Some battles wind up being for all the marbles. Not saying this one is, but sometimes prudence and a sound battle plan go a long way to ensure victory.

Nope.

JJ - I like you. A bunch. Seriously. On this - you are wrong.

Progressives fight everything to the hilt. How have they suffered from this ? They have not.

Republicans ... Conservatives ... Whatever The Label ... like to "pick their battles" for one reason only ...

... they find many fights distasteful.

Fight all the battles. Or lose.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 03, 2016 07:06 PM (fiGNd)

257 Fun Facts To Know And Tell:
In Carmel ice cream may not be eaten wile standing on the sidewalk. The law was repealed when Clint Eastwood became mayor.

Posted by: wth at August 03, 2016 07:06 PM (HgMAr)

258 Speech policing requires me to point out that

*makes the jack off motion*

Posted by: alexthechick

it should be jerk off motion for stage directions

and jack off for actual insults - or masturbation.

Posted by: DaveA at August 03, 2016 07:06 PM (8J/Te)

259 'I would agree. It would be boring if we all agreed on everything.'

I agree too. I'm glad we got that over with. Now everyone is going to vote for Donald Trump, right?

Posted by: freaked at August 03, 2016 07:06 PM (BO/km)

260 I would agree. It would be boring if we all agreed on everything.

I would like to give it a try...
Posted by: donna at August 03, 2016 07:05 PM (O2RFr)

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Ok. I'll check back in a few days.

Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 07:06 PM (gmeXX)

261 Donald Trump is strikingly unaffected by the ideological indoctrination that has otherwise overwhelmed the thinking of American elites. Why?

Trump's lack of verbal fluency.

http://takimag.com/article/the_inarticulate_orator_steve_sailer/print

Posted by: andycanuck at August 03, 2016 07:06 PM (LdMbv)

262 242 Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 03, 2016 07:03 PM (pUDQf)

The 90s. Saddam's ass was kicked, the Wall came down, the US was #1 and then frivolity reigned. My political awakening started with Clarence Thomas and completed on 9/11/01.

I had a very strange feeling as the decade drew to a close that it was all going to vanish and we'd all be rudely awakened.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:06 PM (9P3OG)

263 Any legal eagles here?

Am I mistaken or does Sharia permit Slavery?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at August 03, 2016 07:07 PM (4+VII)

264 Trump is a big meanie who is making common cause with Iran by criticising us giving Iran $400 million they probably used for terrorism.

Posted by: Admiral Kirby Likes it in the Rear at August 03, 2016 07:07 PM (nhI+n)

265 238 Well I do like to argue. So I felt like sticking up for someone who also likes to argue, especially from the non-popular side on this site.
Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 07:01 PM (gmeXX)
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I appreciate it.

I like to argue as well.

I suspect everyone here likes to argue to some extent.
Posted by: person at August 03, 2016 07:02 PM (mFkVC)

We're damn good at it, too.

Posted by: rickl at August 03, 2016 07:07 PM (sdi6R)

266 I think a lot of us will be unpleasantly surprised at how many jobseekers show up in response to the HRC ad for "camp" guards!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 03, 2016 07:07 PM (wYnyS)

267 so how many bottle has Joe Biden ae this year?

Posted by: Jake at August 03, 2016 07:07 PM (p1aRY)

268 I'd love to bring back good old fist fights, where the police just said break it up and everyone moved on. That shit solved most problems. When a guy went down, you stopped and the fight was over. Afterwards, you shook hands and life went on.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 03, 2016 07:07 PM (pUDQf)

269 Don't worry; we'll be rolling out new waves of concern trolls in September and October after an August lull.
Posted by: HRC

August is awfully warm in Sankt Peterburg.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 03, 2016 07:07 PM (Y9A+8)

270 I would agree. It would be boring if we all agreed on everything.

I disagree.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 03, 2016 07:07 PM (zc3Db)

271 hmmm,

try abain.

how many containers of paste has Joe Biden ate this year?

Posted by: Jake at August 03, 2016 07:08 PM (p1aRY)

272 256 Fight all the battles. Or lose.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 03, 2016 07:06 PM (fiGNd)

Yeah, but knowing HOW to fight and not just flailing wildly has some advantages, n'est ce pas?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:08 PM (9P3OG)

273 Any legal eagles here?

Am I mistaken or does Sharia permit Slavery?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at August 03, 2016 07:07 PM (4+VII)

Of course not, islam is a religion of piece!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 03, 2016 07:08 PM (wYnyS)

274 270 I would agree. It would be boring if we all agreed on everything.

I disagree.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 03, 2016 07:07 PM (zc3Db)

No you don't.

Posted by: rickl at August 03, 2016 07:08 PM (sdi6R)

275 227 Trump down 10 in new Fox News poll out today.
***

And Trump had ~10k people in Daytona attend his rally today on a Wednesday whereas Hillary had to pad out a gym yesterday in Omaha with high school kids and still didn't fill it to capacity.

Either way it's the 1st week of August.

Posted by: Azathoth at August 03, 2016 07:08 PM (XN0hD)

276 He did step in it on abortion a few months ago,
---------------------------------
But that was quite amusing.

Q: If abortion were illegal should women getting abortions be punished

A: yes

Not conservatively correct and the "abortion is murder" crowd went berserk. Women are the victims.

Then Trump clarified and became CC.

Posted by: RioBravo at August 03, 2016 07:09 PM (NUqwG)

277 238. Person -

No, we don't.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 03, 2016 07:09 PM (51hUW)

278 Piece of the gravy?

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at August 03, 2016 07:09 PM (4+VII)

279 The 90s. Saddam's ass was kicked, the Wall came down, the US was #1 and then frivolity reigned. My political awakening started with Clarence Thomas and completed on 9/11/01.

I had a very strange feeling as the decade drew to a close that it was all going to vanish and we'd all be rudely awakened.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

The 90's were still pretty grand. Not as good as the 80's, but not bad.

I feel so sorry for my kids, they won't know what a good country looked like.

Posted by: Maritime at August 03, 2016 07:09 PM (1NTNJ)

280 clint is 86 now, back in his day people didn't think the KK was racist

Posted by: him at August 03, 2016 07:10 PM (YIWDG)

281
"No, person is "attacked" because of the constant, non-stop bitching, nagging, brow-beating and berating regardless of the post. We could be having a pleasant ONT conversation about bewbs, buddy flicks, guns and bewbs, and person pops in with some Brand New factoid about how awful Trump is and how we should all be ashamed."

This.

Plus, who is it keeps bringing up Khan? Ain't the Trump supporters. This is, what, the sixth day of hearing how it could all have been over in two days?

Posted by: Robert Crawford at August 03, 2016 07:10 PM (BiqZX)

282
The 90s. Saddam's ass was kicked, the Wall came
down, the US was #1 and then frivolity reigned. My political awakening
started with Clarence Thomas and completed on 9/11/01.

I had a very strange feeling as the decade drew to a close that it was all going to vanish and we'd all be rudely awakened.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:06 PM (9P3OG)

Wasn't a horrible decade, but you certainly felt the beginning of the end. By decade's end, the music was sad and pissed off, no one was having fun, chicks started dressing in all black and purple hair and Bill Clinton was sticking cigars in hoo-hoos in the oval office.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 03, 2016 07:10 PM (pUDQf)

283 No you don't.
Posted by: rickl

No true scotsman would say that.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at August 03, 2016 07:10 PM (UPYhp)

284 >>Fight all the battles. Or lose.

This^.

You fight every battle to the last man. Scorched earth.

After a while, you won't have to fight as many. You gain something Republicans haven't had in a long time- respect.

It's not THAT you fight them. It's HOW.

Republicans spend two much time fighting each other on which battles they should choose. Democrats know this and use every opportunity to create fratricide.

It needs to stop.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 03, 2016 07:10 PM (Ggjd/)

285 The election is in November. What are people likely to remember from this week? Trump had a public fight with a muslim. Trump was never going to get the muslim vote. Who thinks people will remember that the muslim guy had a son in the military? If so you are incorrect. If anyone remembers anything it will be that Hillary disrespects military families. Most people don't remember anything that doesn't fit the narrative. By election time LIVs will vote for Trump and expect cheating if Hillary wins. They will vote for Trump for the same reason LIVs buy pit bulls and rottweilers. Protection.

Posted by: Ok at August 03, 2016 07:11 PM (CRXed)

286 As Frank Zappa wrote:

'Cause what they do
In Washington
They just takes care
of NUMBER ONE
An' NUMBER ONE ain't YOU
You ain't even NUMBER TWO

Posted by: Mary at August 03, 2016 07:11 PM (2ly7u)

287 So some Russian doctor is apparently going to try a head transplant with a patient who has a muscle-wasting disease.

I sympathize with the fellow who has the terrible disease, but last week there was a story about how the first guy to get two hand transplants wants both of them amputated now, because they have never worked and have caused him more trouble than they're worth.

So what do you do if its your entire body, not just your hands?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 03, 2016 07:11 PM (NnYnv)

288 Yeah, but knowing HOW to fight and not just flailing wildly has some advantages, n'est ce pas?

How many fights have you been in ? The ones I've been in ? Dude that throws the most usually wins.

JJ - I get what you're saying. You'd like Trump to be slicker. Me too.

But I'll take the guy that brawls over the last few.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 03, 2016 07:11 PM (fiGNd)

289 clint is 86 now, back in his day people didn't think the KK was racist
Posted by: him at August 03, 2016 07:10 PM (YIWDG)

***

Yeah, they did. Now, skedaddle home for your shine box.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 03, 2016 07:11 PM (/FmdI)

290 >>> And then when I did Gran Torino, even my associate said, "This is a really good script, but it's politically incorrect." And I said, "Good. Let me read it tonight." The next morning, I came in and I threw it on his desk and I said, "We're starting this immediately."

How many really awesome scripts are floating out there that will never see the light of day because they spout not PC, inconvenient truths for the left?

Shudder.

Wonder if Clint's ridiculously hot son what is in Hollywood and looks like a baby Clint is in the same political vein of his dad, or went the Ronald Jr way and is a loony lefty.

Posted by: LizLem at August 03, 2016 07:11 PM (hvf9s)

291 282 Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 03, 2016 07:10 PM (pUDQf)

The end of history. Not by a fucking long shot, Fukuyama you schmuck.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:11 PM (9P3OG)

292 Mary is that you? From the bus?

Posted by: freaked at August 03, 2016 07:11 PM (BO/km)

293 Plus, who is it keeps bringing up Khan? Ain't the Trump supporters. This is, what, the sixth day of hearing how it could all have been over in two days?

Posted by: Robert Crawford at August 03, 2016 07:10 PM (BiqZX)

Oh, that's nothing. Bring up someone's arm and see what happens.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 03, 2016 07:12 PM (wB8Tg)

294 288 Posted by: ScoggDog at August 03, 2016 07:11 PM (fiGNd)

We seem to be talking at cross purposes. Anyway, I'm out of analogies.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:12 PM (9P3OG)

295 Q: If abortion were illegal should women getting abortions be punished

A: yes

Not conservatively correct and the "abortion is murder" crowd went berserk. Women are the victims.

Then Trump clarified and became CC.
Posted by: RioBravo

That was a spectacle to watch, the whole hypocrisy of it.

I'd love to know how you effectively outlaw abortion without assigning at least some legal responsibility to the person actually getting the abortion.

So the pro-lifers flipped out by basically sounding like NARAL and Trump said the hell with it.

Posted by: Maritime at August 03, 2016 07:12 PM (1NTNJ)

296 No you don't.

Posted by: rickl at August 03, 2016 07:08 PM (sdi6R)

So I am in the argument thread. I was worried that I opened the wrong post and stumbled into the abuse thread. I paid for an argument!

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 03, 2016 07:12 PM (zc3Db)

297 "The 90s. Saddam's ass was kicked, the Wall came down, the US was #1 and
then frivolity reigned. My political awakening started with Clarence
Thomas and completed on 9/11/01. I had a very strange feeling as the decade drew to a close that it was all going to vanish and we'd all be rudely awakened."

Remember how the elite chattering classes were all so enthralled with Francis Fukuyama and the "End Of History" balderdash?

Posted by: torquewrench at August 03, 2016 07:12 PM (noWW6)

298 ESQ: What is the "pussy generation"?

That's funny coming from 'Esquire'. That's like a men's Cosmo, isn't it?

Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2016 07:13 PM (9mTYi)

299 how about that spot on Hillarys tongue that instapundit pointed out?

grody

Posted by: Jake at August 03, 2016 07:13 PM (p1aRY)

300 So, I saw a piece on this story on Yahoo! news. There is a big picture of Clint Eastwood with the caption: "Eastwood on Trump: 'You know, he's a racist.'"

I am so sick of these dishonest pieces of crap.

Posted by: Paul at August 03, 2016 07:13 PM (Ae4P3)

301 By the time the election rolls around Hillary voters will be voting for Trump. Hillary will have convinced them he is a healthier version of her.

Posted by: Ok at August 03, 2016 07:13 PM (CRXed)

302 >>>We could be having a pleasant ONT conversation about bewbs, buddy flicks, guns and bewbs

And Winona! Don't forget Winona!

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 03, 2016 07:13 PM (ipPNI)

303 >>AtC in late, but still scores the win!

The Empress is never late.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2016 07:03 PM (TjcfH)

The Empress posts a winning thoughtfully composed and elegant viewpoint after reviewing many poorly worded previous comments.

Posted by: Hrothgar Enterprises, Re-Write Division at August 03, 2016 07:13 PM (wYnyS)

304 290 Posted by: LizLem at August 03, 2016 07:11 PM (hvf9s)

If you only knew how the sausage is made in that town. Frankly, had I really known I would not have gotten into show biz. Something meaningful and perhaps profitable.

In the next life.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:14 PM (9P3OG)

305 And Winona! Don't forget Winona!
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy

She was in some buddy flicks, right? I think I covered my bases.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at August 03, 2016 07:14 PM (UPYhp)

306 What a stooped statement from Eastwood. What does cats have to do with these people ???? Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at August 03, 2016 07:14 PM (NuElX)

307 So, I saw a piece on this story on Yahoo! news. There is a big picture of Clint Eastwood with the caption: "Eastwood on Trump: 'You know, he's a racist.'"

I am so sick of these dishonest pieces of crap.
Posted by: Paul at

Yea, yahoo News is so biased it's not even on the same planet

I was pissed at Clint Eastwood until I saw the interview

Posted by: Maritime at August 03, 2016 07:14 PM (1NTNJ)

308 So I am in the argument thread. I was worried that I
opened the wrong post and stumbled into the abuse thread. I paid for
an argument!

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 03, 2016 07:12 PM (zc3Db)
You'll get no arguments here, good sir!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 03, 2016 07:15 PM (wYnyS)

309 I had a very strange feeling as the decade drew to a close that it was all going to vanish and we'd all be rudely awakened.

So did a lot of people, which is why we went to see The Matrix. The 1990s were the pinnacle of our civilisation, but they were a veneer over a fake.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 03, 2016 07:15 PM (DPMiu)

310 Clint should have thrown something in about girlymen, there.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 03, 2016 07:15 PM (zc3Db)

311
Fight all the battles. You lose 100% of those you don't fight. Posted by: ScoggDog at August 03, 2016 06:58 PM (fiGNd)

That only works if you have the superior force,which Trump does not.Clinton has a huge advantage in electoral map,money, manpower,and she the entire media on her side.Ever see how a pack of wolves hunts its prey? They tire it out then pounce

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 03, 2016 07:15 PM (lKyWE)

312 So, I saw a piece on this story on Yahoo! news. There is a big picture of Clint Eastwood with the caption: "Eastwood on Trump: 'You know, he's a racist.'"

The wife read me a headline from ABC news: TRUMP MAY DROP OUT OF PRESIDENTIAL RACE

First line of story: 'Party leaders are planning strategy if Donald Trump dropped out of presidential race.'

Same ABC that employs odious cocksucker Stephanopolous.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 03, 2016 07:15 PM (nIGPZ)

313

The end of history. Not by a fucking long shot, Fukuyama you schmuck.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:11 PM (9P3OG)

Fukuyama is a liberal moron.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 03, 2016 07:15 PM (pUDQf)

314 I paid for an argument!

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

No you didn't.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at August 03, 2016 07:16 PM (UPYhp)

315 Most people don't remember anything that doesn't fit the narrative. By election time LIVs will vote for Trump and expect cheating if Hillary wins. They will vote for Trump for the same reason LIVs buy pit bulls and rottweilers. Protection.
__________________

Today Hillary said in a speech in Nebraska that she wants to raise taxes on the middle class.

She's undoubtedly going to say she mis-spoke, and meant to say "the rich" instead, but hopefully somebody has the video of it.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 03, 2016 07:16 PM (NnYnv)

316 I had a period in my life when I guess that I looked a lot like Nicholas Cage, people would come up to me and think I was him. I may have taken advantage of that once or twice with the ladies.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 03, 2016 07:16 PM (fzZ1i)

317
Regarding the hands transplants - its just flesh attached. Plus, you always have to worry about infection and gangrene. I knew a young woman who was in a serious car accident and shd have had her leg amputated but she refused. So she got around on crutches, couldnt work, was always going into the hospital for infections. Not a very productive life.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2016 07:17 PM (iQIUe)

318 Now Drudge is following ace with a Eastwood lede!

The POWER of the HQ

Posted by: Nip Sip at August 03, 2016 07:17 PM (F1iXz)

319 Trivial Pursuer -

College buddy of mine lost an arm to that flesh-eating bacteria crap.

He got a new arm - well, new to him, anyway. Says it's weird, looking down at a hand that isn't his, attached to an arm that isn't his. Knowing it came off a corpse still gives him the heeby-jeebies.

The full-body transplant guy - he's desperate to stop dying. He's already trapped inside a failing body; it can't get much worse.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 03, 2016 07:17 PM (582vC)

320 the
story now is the illegal ransom obama - hillary clinton employer,
paid to Iran and his nonstop lies; this is so outrageous, Iran was begging for that money for 36 years and now obama gave it to them; also
there is a hostage they are still for 9 years, and they just abducted 2
more. this endangers everyone - grab an American and get paid.

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2016 07:17 PM (c6/9Q)

321 The wife read me a headline from ABC news: TRUMP MAY DROP OUT OF PRESIDENTIAL RACE

He wouldn't do that if he were 50 points behind....He's in it for the long haul.... I still don't get how ,if he is doing so poorly, he can draw such huge crowds?

Posted by: donna at August 03, 2016 07:17 PM (O2RFr)

322 We seem to be talking at cross purposes. Anyway, I'm out of analogies.

Well ... it's your fault. We could be at a bar - knocking down a few. I blame you.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 03, 2016 07:17 PM (fiGNd)

323 I guess this makes Obama King of the Pussies. You know, trading $400 million for hostages instead of threatening to make Tehran look like Carthage circa 149 BC.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 03, 2016 07:17 PM (Ggjd/)

324 Trump is not drawing large crowds..... The news lies.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at August 03, 2016 07:18 PM (NuElX)

325 323 I guess this makes Obama King of the Pussies. You know, trading $400 million for hostages instead of threatening to make Tehran look like Carthage circa 149 BC.

Smart diplomacy!

Posted by: donna at August 03, 2016 07:18 PM (O2RFr)

326 312
So, I saw a piece on this story on Yahoo! news. There is a big
picture of Clint Eastwood with the caption: "Eastwood on Trump: 'You
know, he's a racist.'"

The wife read me a headline from ABC news: TRUMP MAY DROP OUT OF PRESIDENTIAL RACE

First line of story: 'Party leaders are planning strategy if Donald Trump dropped out of presidential race.'

Same ABC that employs odious cocksucker Stephanopolous.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 03, 2016 07:15 PM (nIGPZ)

Funny little words. Funny little ommisions. This is how you shape the news.

P.S. - your Sig ID is funny. You're username should be Sam Jackson.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 03, 2016 07:19 PM (pUDQf)

327 Michael Caine got a hand transplant once. Except the hand was psycho and tried to kill everybody. Even him. Don't get hand transplants!!

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 03, 2016 07:19 PM (ipPNI)

328 322 We seem to be talking at cross purposes. Anyway, I'm out of analogies.

Well ... it's your fault. We could be at a bar - knocking down a few. I blame you.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 03, 2016 07:17 PM (fiGNd)

Anti-semite momzer.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:19 PM (9P3OG)

329 So how many coffins are we going to need for the establishment? Clint never was good at estimating.

"My mistake. Four coffins."

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 03, 2016 07:19 PM (kumBu)

330 the story now is the illegal ransom obama - hillary clinton employer, paid to Iran and his nonstop lies; this is so outrageous, Iran was begging for that money for 36 years and now obama gave it to them;

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2016 07:17 PM (c6/9Q)

Not just gave it to them but in cold, hard cash ... which is funny since all of the globalist turds are now trying to argue that cash should be abolished.

I can't go to MY bank account and take out MY money in cold hard cash without thirty papers submitted to the feral government in triplicate ... but iran gets palettes of cash secretly flown in at midnight - cash that they can hand out to their terrorist buddies around the world.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 03, 2016 07:20 PM (zc3Db)

331 polls will be changing in a week in two weeks - TRump can change his messaging and style, but CLinton cannot change her record and who she is

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2016 07:20 PM (c6/9Q)

332 324 Trump is not drawing large crowds..... The news lies.
Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at August 03, 2016 07:18 PM (NuElX)

The news lies - like Obamacare working and the Middle East is peaceful and Hilary is completely innocent?

Like that?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:20 PM (9P3OG)

333 Ok, it is getting silly now. W now bashing Mr. Trump's policies.

Coordinated dump this week to "fix" the polls for the Harridan who cannot even stay on her fekin bus for long. Oh, wait! Alone in her brown tent dress at a tie factory in CO (important!). Now speaking at a HS in CO, drawing tens of maybe hundreds. (This is no joke, in a previous "rally" at a HS she had high school kids, who don't vote, holding up her signs). Okay! Throw in the white towel of defeat!

And, at quick glance of headlines, all MSM libtards are peeing their pants in anticipation of Mr. Trump dropping out and, wringing hands, "Who will replace him??? How does dis werk?"

Meanwhile, while Rome burns, Nero has his nose picked by his muscular wife. Terror attack levels very high in Europe and Rio, and people are fretting about Mr. Trump dropping out and other squealing. Cue dueling banjos playing in Deliverance or the world's smallest violin playing a dirge. bah. pfft. Stop falling for the bs. Long way til November when the only poll that matters is your vote. And, unfortunately, a lot of fatwa Friday's comin' up.

I am going to read a book. Will not self implode with the ignorant masses. I already have given up on FOX, worthless news junkies and their polls, oh, their polls!!!! Do not read the news. Do not watch the news. Spit. Rinse. Repeat. Bite moi. xoxo

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Infidel Queen at August 03, 2016 07:20 PM (9A4UU)

334 WHO BITCH THIS IS?

Posted by: Everyone over 40 looking at Millenials at August 03, 2016 07:20 PM (k8tEg)

335 clint is 86 now, back in his day people didn't think the KK was racist
Posted by: him at August 03, 2016 07:10 PM (YIWDG)

Oh really? That's news to me. In 1930 they were considered racist. In 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010 and today 2016 they are considered racist. That was the whole point of their existence.

Why do you think the people who came before you were ignorant?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 03, 2016 07:20 PM (ej1L0)

336 I still don't get how ,if he is doing so poorly, he can draw such huge crowds?
Posted by: donna

It's eminently apparent that his base is indelibly racist, of course.
*pets collective pussy*

Posted by: Your Betters at NRO at August 03, 2016 07:21 PM (Y9A+8)

337 312 So, I saw a piece on this story on Yahoo! news. There is a big picture of Clint Eastwood with the caption: "Eastwood on Trump: 'You know, he's a racist.'"
______________________

Yes, they'll happily take Eastwood's quote out of context, but if Trump replays Hillary's quote from today (about how she plans to "raise taxes on the middle class"), the media will scream bloody murder.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 03, 2016 07:21 PM (NnYnv)

338 Wasn't Carthage (and Corinth) leveled 146 BC?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 03, 2016 07:21 PM (DPMiu)

339 331 polls will be changing in a week in two weeks - TRump can change his messaging and style, but CLinton cannot change her record and who she is
Posted by: runner at August 03, 2016 07:20 PM (c6/9Q)

Clinton rope-a-dope. When they want the debates to be opposite NFL football you know she needs to keep her yap shut.

If Trump goes after her just a fraction of how he went after the rest of the field in the primaries - AND throws punches at any moderator if they pull a Candystore Crowley - then he can't lose.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:22 PM (9P3OG)

340 if a news organization is putting up bullshit like "trump to drop out".. yeah that just stupid

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2016 07:22 PM (c6/9Q)

341 So I am in the argument thread.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 03, 2016 07:12 PM

Moose outside should'a told ya.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 03, 2016 07:22 PM (KEA7I)

342 Anti-semite momzer.

You don't know what it's like to grow up Scots-Irish. Olson Johnson didn't even want us.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 03, 2016 07:22 PM (fiGNd)

343 Naruto: Getting a new hand isn't that bad.

Luke Skywalker and Edward Elric: Speak for yourself!

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 03, 2016 07:22 PM (kumBu)

344 >>>back in his day people didn't think the KK was racist
Posted by: him at August 03, 2016 07:10 PM (YIWDG)

THE KRISPY KREME IS RACIST??
Hmmmm.....

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 03, 2016 07:23 PM (ipPNI)

345 >>>Just fucking get over it. It's a sad time in history.

I agree with that sentiment, but I feel this misses the larger issue.

Look at the process: SJWs wet their pants over this or that. Then Amazon or some college administrator or some sports team or some city council or some megacorporation *acts* on it. The last part is the problem. I don't give a shit if some SJW twerp gets apoplexy. The question is, *why* are these twerps being taken seriously all of a sudden? They have always existed.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 03, 2016 07:23 PM (5FZHb)

346
Okay. I'm bored.

Hyapatia Lee.

Much better now.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:23 PM (9P3OG)

347
The full-body transplant guy - he's desperate to stop dying. He's already trapped inside a failing body; it can't get much worse.
_________________

I understand why the guy wants to do it, and I have great sympathy for him and hope that it works. I just keep thinking about the guy with the hands . . . .

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 03, 2016 07:23 PM (NnYnv)

348 There was Generation X.

Then came Generation Y.

Now we have Generation Whine.

God bless Clint Eastwood.

Posted by: Sam Adams at August 03, 2016 07:24 PM (DbadI)

349 Somebody took a CNN ad and changed the caption to These are not reporters; these are political activists.

Which is a 100% true. And even tho we have hard prove that they work hand in hand with the donks, nobody will do anything about it. They will sabotage the debates, too.

Frankly, if a plane load of reporters dropped from the sky, I wd cheer...

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2016 07:24 PM (iQIUe)

350 21. Safe to say that we will not have actors like Eastwood and Hackman any more. Just a different generation and a different way of acting.
Posted by: SH at August 03, 2016 06:08 P

Oh I don't know, what about Chris Pratt & Chris Evans. Both seem like stand up men to me. Added bonus, aside from being smoking hot, both have displayed some serious moron traits.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 03, 2016 07:24 PM (hscyr)

351 I just keep thinking about the guy with the hands . . . .
Posted by: TrivialPursuer

Hey, hey, who wants a neck rub~!!

Posted by: Joey, Joey, Joey Biden at August 03, 2016 07:25 PM (Y9A+8)

352 >>Smart diplomacy!

"Just muscular enough to not be mocked"

(Pretty sure Iran's leaders are mocking O every dang day)

Posted by: Lizzy at August 03, 2016 07:25 PM (NOIQH)

353 Head transplant is not going to work. It is Dr Mengelish and I suspect the surgery will be stopped.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2016 07:25 PM (iQIUe)

354 If Trump goes after her just a fraction of how he
went after the rest of the field in the primaries - AND throws punches
at any moderator if they pull a Candystore Crowley - then he can't lose.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:22 PM (9P3OG)
he is not stupid

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2016 07:25 PM (c6/9Q)

355 Sharia law allows you to have sex with slaves.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2016 07:26 PM (iQIUe)

356 I think God is taking care of this election. People keep saying Trump is making mistakes and all I see is that Trump isn't doing the things that almost lost for W and did lose for McCain and Romney. If W hadn't done tax cuts and Medicare part D he would have lost to Kerry. Obama did a tax cut to get reelected. Obama has raised taxes massively the last two years. Obamacare is a tax but is reported as a positive for GDP. Google:

Obamacare Accounted For 58% Of US "Growth" In The First Quarter

Posted by: Ok at August 03, 2016 07:27 PM (CRXed)

357 Okay. I'm bored.

Hyapatia Lee.

Much better now.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:23 PM

This singular focus is not PC. May I suggest you broaden out?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 03, 2016 07:27 PM (KEA7I)

358 Head transplant is not going to work. It is Dr Mengelish and I suspect the surgery will be stopped.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang!

I have a secluded island. Are they okay with animals?

Posted by: Dr. Moreau at August 03, 2016 07:27 PM (UPYhp)

359 Ok, it is getting silly now. W now bashing Mr. Trump's policies.

You mean the putz who kept his mouth shut for the last 8 years?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 03, 2016 07:28 PM (nIGPZ)

360 The hand of Borgus Weems.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 03, 2016 07:28 PM (IqV8l)

361 355 Sharia law allows you to have sex with slaves.
___________________

As an expert on the law, I can confirm that this is correct.

Also, Trump is a racist for suggesting that good sharia-loving Muslims like me cannot simultaneously be great Americans!

Posted by: Mr. Khan at August 03, 2016 07:28 PM (NnYnv)

362 >>>The full-body transplant guy - he's desperate to stop dying. He's already trapped inside a failing body; it can't get much worse.

Has he considered having his brain put inside a gorilla?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 03, 2016 07:29 PM (ipPNI)

363 Sorry, but this is the Being Kicked in the Balls thread, ThePrimordialOrderedPair.

Ooooowwww.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 03, 2016 07:29 PM (LdMbv)

364 O/T

HA might as well go ahead and declare for Hillary. Everyday almost all their stories are anti Trump.

Do they have a full time guy searching the web for them?

Posted by: Nip Sip at August 03, 2016 07:29 PM (F1iXz)

365 Has he considered having his brain put inside a gorilla?
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy

I like the way you think.

Posted by: Dr. Moreau at August 03, 2016 07:30 PM (UPYhp)

366 Obamacare Accounted For 58% Of US "Growth" In The First Quarter
_____________________

And even with all the government-mandated O-Care spending, growth was still anemic.

That's how much this economy sucks.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 03, 2016 07:30 PM (NnYnv)

367 My best friend's wife is at theHildaveast rally in CO and all I want to do is comment on her constant instagram posts about the olive pantsuit ibut I will have to refrain. Unlike my approach here.

Posted by: Backtoga at August 03, 2016 07:30 PM (wYn4I)

368 Posted by: andycanuck at August 03, 2016 07:29 PM (LdMbv)

You forgot the "my balls!!" part.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 03, 2016 07:30 PM (zc3Db)

369 Sharia law allows you to have sex with sheep and little boys. And cut the clit off little girls. Pardon my french but muslims as a group are a bunch of sick fucks.

Posted by: Ok at August 03, 2016 07:30 PM (CRXed)

370 333
I already have given up on FOX, worthless news junkies and their polls, oh, their polls!!!! Do not read the news. Do not watch the news. Spit. Rinse. Repeat. Bite moi. xoxo
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Infidel Queen at August 03, 2016 07:20 PM (9A4UU)

Yep, I largely quit watching TV news in 2008, including Fox. I cut the cable altogether in 2012.

Posted by: rickl at August 03, 2016 07:30 PM (sdi6R)

371 W was told what to say and he is saying it. i like the guy, but i doubt he knows what "nativism" is

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2016 07:31 PM (c6/9Q)

372 What's that movie that has Rosie Greer and Ray Milan's head on one body? It's fucking classic really bad drive in movie time, but so bad it's good.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 03, 2016 07:31 PM (6Ll1u)

373 Whatevver stupid shit DT says he still wasn't under a federal indictment, raked in tens of millions in a pay for play schemes, failed to protect underlings sent to very hostel area, stole federal records or had sensitive information under very weak security on the internet.

Posted by: Skip at August 03, 2016 07:31 PM (bksJQ)

374
78 year old Trump supporter beats up his 73 year old Hilary supporting wife.

Over at Weasel Zippers.

ugh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:31 PM (9P3OG)

375 329. Broseidon

Yep. Famous line from a famous flick. Both were ripped off from Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo,' (1962), which was, as kurosawa admitted, a samurai version of Red Harvest, by Dashiell Hammett.

Spaghetti westerns are samurai films, and vice versa, with very few exceptions.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 03, 2016 07:31 PM (51hUW)

376 Do they have a full time guy searching the web for them?

Posted by: Nip Sip at August 03, 2016 07:29 PM (F1iXz)

they want a certain message or messages to come across and they find stories to match

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2016 07:32 PM (c6/9Q)

377 Michael Caine in...
My Bloody Hand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQWpxwCRbhU

[3:06 minutes]

Posted by: andycanuck at August 03, 2016 07:32 PM (LdMbv)

378 I am rather in awe of seeing the entire media-elite complex coming out to battle Trump.
Masks being flung off left AND right.
They are truly scared.
I hope "Ok" is right that God is taking care of this election.

Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 07:32 PM (7lVbc)

379 372 What's that movie that has Rosie Greer and Ray Milan's head on one body? It's fucking classic really bad drive in movie time, but so bad it's good.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 03, 2016 07:31 PM (6Ll1u)

"The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant." So low budget, you could see Milland's body in the back seat of the car they were driving.

Poor guy needed the money I guess. Ain't show biz glamorous?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:32 PM (9P3OG)

380 As I always held, the penalty for clit-clipping ought to be a dick clipping. Some GoFo has his daughters or slave girls mutilated, cut his damn dick off. Then shoot him.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 03, 2016 07:32 PM (DW+jj)

381 "Hyapatia Lee. "

Excellent taste, my good man.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 03, 2016 07:32 PM (NsJfy)

382 What's that movie that has Rosie Greer and Ray Milan's head on one body?

The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 03, 2016 07:32 PM (nIGPZ)

383 "And even with all the government-mandated O-Care spending, growth was still anemic."

Corruption is not growth. Taxes don't grow anything. Most of the creative energy in the US is spent hiding things from corrupt officials.

Posted by: Ok at August 03, 2016 07:33 PM (CRXed)

384 Listen to the Hewitt interview with a neverTrumper. He actually think Trump is in the pocket of the Russians and anti-American. The obliviousness is breathtaking.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at August 03, 2016 07:33 PM (Ee2nz)

385 In other news, Ghostbusters II continues to improve its revenues incrementally!

#Winning!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 03, 2016 07:34 PM (KEA7I)

386 [Here comes Santy Claus! ]

Just getting home and I read the whole thing.

Yer plain awesome, ace.

More and more, I begin to think that Trump IS the man of the moment. It may take someone that hotly, uncompromisingly defensive to bring on the conflagration that alone can end this horrid era of speech and thought control.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 03, 2016 07:34 PM (5o5ek)

387 381
Excellent taste, my good man.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 03, 2016 07:32 PM (NsJfy)

My real heartthrob is Desiree Cousteau.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:34 PM (9P3OG)

388 WSJ now saying that DOJ objected to the cash payment to Iran saying it was ransom, State Dept overruled them.

Posted by: Nip Sip at August 03, 2016 07:34 PM (F1iXz)

389 "Poor guy needed the money I guess."

Most actors are attention whores.

Posted by: Ok at August 03, 2016 07:34 PM (CRXed)

390 Obamacare Accounted For 58% Of US "Growth" In The First Quarter

Actually, deficit spending by the feral government accounted for every cent of GDP "growth" .... and then some.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 03, 2016 07:34 PM (zc3Db)

391 The question is, *why* are these twerps being taken seriously all of a sudden? They have always existed.
Posted by: Yuimetal at August 03, 2016 07:23 PM (5FZHb)

Exactly!...a SJW cry's "momma!" because they want someone to change their diaper and Target, Pepsi, CVS fall over themselves changing their policies to make them hush and be a good baby. I wish a CEO would tell one of them to go f off and get a life or stay home and don't buy my shite.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 03, 2016 07:34 PM (ej1L0)

392 "Hyapatia Lee. "

I'll see that and raise you one India Summer. Sort of the same "genre", if you will.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 03, 2016 07:35 PM (DW+jj)

393 >>>Sharia law allows you to have sex with slaves.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2016 07:26 PM (iQIUe)<<<

What?! That's unpossible. The United States created racism and is the only place that has ever had slaves!!!!eleventy!!

Posted by: LIV college students at August 03, 2016 07:35 PM (H9MG5)

394 Listen to the Hewitt interview with a neverTrumper. He actually think Trump is in the pocket of the Russians and anti-American. The obliviousness is breathtaking.

I can point to several people here who could be that caller.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 03, 2016 07:35 PM (nIGPZ)

395 389 "Poor guy needed the money I guess."

Most actors are attention whores.
Posted by: Ok at August 03, 2016 07:34 PM (CRXed)

Not at that point in his career. I think he died not long after that movie was made.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:35 PM (9P3OG)

396 Looking through the newest Fox News poll; it really sucks that the Establishment didn't take the immigration issue as seriously as they should. I mean, it ranked in 3rd place!...wait, that's 3%, just barely ahead of "drug addiction" as the nation's top concern, and below literally everything else.

Thank God the Horde decided this molehill was the one to die on. And boy, what a crazy fucking way you picked to die. Schizophrenic harikari with a dull blade and a bad haircut.

Posted by: The Governor at August 03, 2016 07:35 PM (Ib5sz)

397 there is something very wrong with trying to do the head transplant, gruesome, no ? ..shouldn't there be a cure for cancer first ?

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2016 07:35 PM (c6/9Q)

398 396 Posted by: The Governor at August 03, 2016 07:35 PM (Ib5sz)

ICYMI, we here collectively don't drive a narrative. We're just commenting on things we see and hear. Woulds't that it were the case we did drive the narrative.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:36 PM (9P3OG)

399 Milland did a number of movies for AIP: 'X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes,' 'The INcredible Two-Headed Transplant,' and 'Panic in Year Zero,' which he also directed.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 03, 2016 07:36 PM (nIGPZ)

400 387 381
Excellent taste, my good man.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 03, 2016 07:32 PM (NsJfy)

My real heartthrob is Desiree Cousteau.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:34 PM (9P3OG)

"Heart." Right. Sure.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 03, 2016 07:37 PM (0mRoj)

401 392 "Hyapatia Lee. "

I'll see that and raise you one India Summer. Sort of the same "genre", if you will.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 03, 2016 07:35 PM (DW+jj)

I call. Janette Littledove.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:37 PM (9P3OG)

402 Fight all the battles. You lose 100% of those you don't fight.

Posted by: ScoggDog

Yeah, no.

Posted by: G.A. Custer at August 03, 2016 07:37 PM (LAe3v)

403 399 Milland did a number of movies for AIP: 'X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes,' 'The INcredible Two-Headed Transplant,' and 'Panic in Year Zero,' which he also directed.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 03, 2016 07:36 PM (nIGPZ)

"The Lost Weekend." At the peak of his career.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:37 PM (9P3OG)

404 Options better than head transplant:
Brain in gorilla
Brain in metal exoskeleton
Brain inside bionic Sasquatch
Head attach legs to head like the Thing

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 03, 2016 07:37 PM (ipPNI)

405 And guess where you fall in that hierarchy?
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*glances out the window at secondhand '95 S-10*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 03, 2016 07:38 PM (w35Hj)

406 An online fiend is at the Florida rally and reports that the 10,000 capacity venue is packed.

Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 07:38 PM (7lVbc)

407 333 Ok, it is getting silly now. W now bashing Mr. Trump's policies.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Infidel Queen at August 03, 2016 07:20 PM (9A4UU)

To be fair, he has been pretty outspoken the past eight years about the way Obama has utterly thrown away our hard-earned gains in Iraq and Afghanistan, and rendered the sacrifices of our military personnel meaningless.

Oh.

Right.

Never mind.

Posted by: rickl at August 03, 2016 07:38 PM (sdi6R)

408 Oh boy, another #NeverTrumper troll.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 03, 2016 07:38 PM (nIGPZ)

409 "The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant." So low budget, you could see Milland's body in the back seat of the car they were driving.
Poor guy needed the money I guess. Ain't show biz glamorous?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:32 PM (9P3OG)

Hahaha...yup. I saw it at a drive in believe it or not. Rosie had played for the NY Giants and was considered a big dude back then. I kinda liked it even though it was low budget.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 03, 2016 07:38 PM (ej1L0)

410 Well if that Fox news poll says that immigration is a molehill, it must be a molehill. Derp-de-derp-de-doo!

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 03, 2016 07:38 PM (VdICR)

411 404 Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 03, 2016 07:37 PM (ipPNI)

I seem to recall a not all that terrible, and actually pretty decent, 50s sic-fi film called "Donovan's Brain."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:39 PM (9P3OG)

412 Ginger Lynn.

Anybody got dibs on Ginger Lynn ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 03, 2016 07:39 PM (fiGNd)

413 Posted by: Banana Splits Guy

I saw Bionic Sasquatch open for The Gorillaz at the Gorge in '07.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at August 03, 2016 07:39 PM (UPYhp)

414 Why not have your brain inserted into a mutant elephant?

Posted by: The Snorky Man at August 03, 2016 07:39 PM (BO/km)

415 409 Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 03, 2016 07:38 PM (ej1L0)

Rosie Greer was a big devotee of macrame, believe it or not.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:39 PM (9P3OG)

416 I have been praying and reading my Bible a lot. Psalms 46:10 helped me. My late father always said that "it will all work out." Hubby, the kids and I have just gotten our passports. This election is a nightmare.

Posted by: Jmel at August 03, 2016 07:39 PM (BOD+F)

417 -
Has he considered having his brain put inside a gorilla?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 03, 2016 07:29 PM
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I couldn't f**k a gorilla!

Posted by: Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr at August 03, 2016 07:39 PM (XfEYT)

418 287 So some Russian doctor is apparently going to try a head transplant with a patient who has a muscle-wasting disease.

--

Is his name Dr. Frankensteinovich?

Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 07:39 PM (7lVbc)

419 Posted by: The Governor at August 03, 2016 07:35 PM (Ib5sz)

Sure ... no one cares about illegals. Shilling for illegals in 2006-2007 just cost the GOP the House, Senate and Presidency in 2008 and made the party a pariah among EVERYONE. Shilling for illegals again, after the Tea Party resurrected them to fight BarkyCare (which they refused to do) just got some top leadership tossed out of the House. Standing up for our national sovereignty just won Trump the primary by miles ... but Fox (which shills for illegals and the Vichy GOP) claims that no one cares about illegals, so it must all be a fantasy.

LOL.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 03, 2016 07:39 PM (zc3Db)

420
As I always held, the penalty for clit-clipping ought to be a dick clipping. Some GoFo has his daughters or slave girls mutilated, cut his damn dick off. Then shoot him.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 03, 2016 07:32 PM (DW+jj)
----------------------

I get the impression it's the women who have their daughters mutilated. It's a girl thing, like having babies or getting a boob job.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 03, 2016 07:40 PM (5o5ek)

421 Do they have a full time guy searching the web for them?
Posted by: Nip Sip

Owned and operated by Salem Media.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 03, 2016 07:40 PM (Y9A+8)

422 From Slick Willie's Twitter feed a few minutes ago (I shit you not):

Hillary says the first thing she ever heard me talk about was Arkansas watermelons. In honor of Nat'l Watermelon Day, I salute them again!

Posted by: Azathoth at August 03, 2016 07:40 PM (XN0hD)

423 412 Ginger Lynn.

Anybody got dibs on Ginger Lynn ?
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 03, 2016 07:39 PM (fiGNd)

Just the thighs.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:40 PM (9P3OG)

424 316 I had a period in my life when I guess that I looked a lot like Nicholas Cage, people would come up to me and think I was him. I may have taken advantage of that once or twice with the ladies.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 03, 2016 07:16 PM (fzZ1i)

Raising Arizona Nicolas Cage or Face/Off Nicolas Cage?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 03, 2016 07:40 PM (0mRoj)

425 Ace, you have just been excellent the past couple of days. I wanted to say something on the thread about Khan but couldn't at that time. But that was right on and this is right on.

You may possibly be the only political commentator making sense in America this week.

Posted by: jocon307 at August 03, 2016 07:40 PM (4WPdG)

426 The Ray Milland two headed movie was "The Thing With Two Heads"

"The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant" was a head transplant movie with Bruce Dern.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 03, 2016 07:41 PM (IqV8l)

427 Well if that Fox news poll says that immigration is a molehill, it must be a molehill. Derp-de-derp-de-doo!
Posted by: BourbonChicken

It's not like the owners of Fox have a publicly stated position on the issue or anything.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at August 03, 2016 07:41 PM (UPYhp)

428 415 409 Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 03, 2016 07:38 PM (ej1L0)

Rosie Greer was a big devotee of macrame, believe it or not.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:39 PM (9P3OG)

Only because nobody would dare give him shit about it.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 03, 2016 07:42 PM (0mRoj)

429
An online fiend is at the Florida rally and reports that the 10,000 capacity venue is packed.
Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 07:38 PM (7lVbc)
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WOOO! WOOOOHH!

CHUGGA chugga chugga chugga
CHUGGA chugga chugga chugga

Posted by: Trump Train at August 03, 2016 07:42 PM (5o5ek)

430 406
An online fiend is at the Florida rally and reports that the 10,000 capacity venue is packed.

Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 07:38 PM (7lVbc)

That must be news to The Ocean Center, it only holds 9,000.

Posted by: Nip Sip at August 03, 2016 07:42 PM (F1iXz)

431 399 Milland did a number of movies for AIP: 'X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes,' 'The INcredible Two-Headed Transplant,' and 'Panic in Year Zero,' which he also directed.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 03, 2016 07:36 PM (nIGPZ)

============
I saw man with the xray eyes and panic in the year zero when I was a kid and they both scared me.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2016 07:43 PM (iQIUe)

432 The full-body transplant guy - he's desperate to stop dying.

Some sort of three-way might make sense here.

Posted by: Caitlyn The Bruce at August 03, 2016 07:43 PM (9mTYi)

433 That must be news to The Ocean Center, it only holds 9,000.
Posted by: Nip Sip at August 03, 2016 07:42 PM (F1iXz)

Hey, just misreporting the grapevine news.

Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 07:43 PM (7lVbc)

434 In the Fox Poll, 77% of respondents are at least a little aware of the Khan controversy. Of those, 69% believe Trump is wrong/out of bounds.

Trump is down, 49-39, in that poll. What kind of qualities:
Hillary leads...
Qualified +22
Temperament +27
Knowledge +32

Honest...they're tied @ 36

Posted by: El Skippito Friskito at August 03, 2016 07:43 PM (CGjum)

435 Ok, it is getting silly now. W now bashing Mr. Trump's policies.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Infidel Queen at August 03, 2016 07:20 PM (9A4UU)

Bush didn't mention Trump at all directly or indirectly.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 03, 2016 07:43 PM (MNgU2)

436 Funny, Trump could have booked Daytona Track, it hold over 100,000.

Posted by: Nip Sip at August 03, 2016 07:44 PM (F1iXz)

437 That must be news to The Ocean Center, it only holds 9,000.

Posted by: Nip Sip at August 03, 2016 07:42 PM (F1iXz)

That's 9000 Americans. It holds 10,000 Japanese.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 03, 2016 07:44 PM (zc3Db)

438 If we're going to talk 70s B-movies, I'd rather talk about Pam Grier, not Rosie Greer.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at August 03, 2016 07:45 PM (UPYhp)

439 406 An online fiend is at the Florida rally and reports that the 10,000 capacity venue is packed.
Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 07:38 PM (7lVbc)

Trump holds large rallies filled with enthusiastic crowds.

Exactly like Hitler. Connect the dots, people.

Posted by: rickl at August 03, 2016 07:45 PM (sdi6R)

440 Options better than head transplant:
Brain in gorilla
Brain in metal exoskeleton
Brain inside bionic Sasquatch
Head attach legs to head like the Thing
..........

Head in a jar like Futurama Nixon

Posted by: wth at August 03, 2016 07:45 PM (HgMAr)

441 OK ... fine ... I'll go old school ...

... Taija Rae.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 03, 2016 07:45 PM (fiGNd)

442 People are being told lies about the Khan bullshit. If they were told the truth they might have a different opinion.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2016 07:45 PM (iQIUe)

443 New one. Git along little corgis!

Posted by: Insomniac at August 03, 2016 07:45 PM (0mRoj)

444 That must be news to The Ocean Center, it only holds 9,000.

Probably room for some chairs out on the court.

Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2016 07:45 PM (9mTYi)

445 Trump Nuremberg rally. One zillion people.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 03, 2016 07:46 PM (IqV8l)

446 If you're talking about the Jacksonville, FL Trump rally right now, it's being held at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena. 15k cap.

Posted by: Azathoth at August 03, 2016 07:46 PM (XN0hD)

447 An online fiend is at the Florida rally and reports that the 10,000 capacity venue is packed.

Did we ever get a non-bullshit answer from that fire marshal why a venue that seats 4000 for dinner can't hold more than 1000 theater-style?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 03, 2016 07:46 PM (nIGPZ)

448 407

Knowing what I know now, I would probably have voted for Al Gore in 2000. Don't misunderstand me, I think Gore is a vile kook. It's just that I believe GWB to have been absolutely catastrophic to the Republican party and the conservative cause. That tongue tied feckless RINO idiot should just keep his mouth shut at this point.

Posted by: Reggie1971 at August 03, 2016 07:46 PM (53PrG)

449 "Yep. Famous line from a famous flick. Both were ripped off from Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo,' (1962), which was, as kurosawa admitted, a samurai version of Red Harvest, by Dashiell Hammett.

Spaghetti westerns are samurai films, and vice versa, with very few exceptions.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 03, 2016 07:31 PM (51hUW) "

And then Lucas ripped off a lot of Star Wars: A New Hope from Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress. And the working title for Return of the Jedi was Blue Harvest.

It's homages all the way down.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 03, 2016 07:46 PM (kumBu)

450 OK ... fine ... I'll go old school ...

... Taija Rae.

Candie Evans.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 03, 2016 07:46 PM (nIGPZ)

451 The sound person at the Trump rally in FLA needs to be sacked.
Learn something about the signal to noise ratio, newbie.

Posted by: navybrat at August 03, 2016 07:46 PM (w7KSn)

452 Thank God the Horde decided this molehill was the one to die on. And boy, what a crazy fucking way you picked to die. Schizophrenic harikari with a dull blade and a bad haircut.
Posted by: The Governor at August 03, 2016 07:35 PM (Ib5sz)

You do realize the mess the GOPe is in is because of immigration? They may be too stupid to realize it but flooding the country with statists is not a winning proposition.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at August 03, 2016 07:47 PM (Ee2nz)

453 That's 9000 Americans. It holds 10,000 Japanese.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 03, 2016 07:44 PM (zc3Db)

Which reminds me about the latest study of sex with older men. It seems that 65-80 year old American men have sex about once or twice a week and that Japanese men the same age only have sex once or twice a year.

The guys at my club never knew we were all Japanese.

Posted by: Nip Sip at August 03, 2016 07:47 PM (F1iXz)

454 451
The sound person at the Trump rally in FLA needs to be sacked.

Learn something about the signal to noise ratio, newbie.

Posted by: navybrat at August 03, 2016 07:46 PM (w7KSn)

In his defense, it's a shitty place.

Posted by: Nip Sip at August 03, 2016 07:48 PM (F1iXz)

455 Bounce TV plays old 70's blacksploitation movies all the time.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 03, 2016 07:50 PM (6Ll1u)

456 I'm a bit younger than some of you guys, so I'm going with Chasey Lain.

Posted by: josephistan at August 03, 2016 07:50 PM (7qAYi)

457 If we're claiming porn stars, I'm taking Bobbi Starr. At one of the AVN expos, G4 or w/e was interviewing porn stars on their favorite video games. Most had clearly never even touched one, or maybe played Super Mario Bros once as a kid. Bobbi Starr answered with Zork: Grand Inquisitor, Grim Fandango, and Morrowind.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 03, 2016 07:51 PM (kumBu)

458 If Trump doesn't say anything stupid and is down by more than 10 points next weekend, you have to wonder if his campaign is being deliberately sabotaged from within.

Either that, or he's cooked.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 03, 2016 07:51 PM (UXa2M)

459 "I'm a bit younger than some of you guys, so I'm going with Chasey Lain.

Posted by: josephistan at August 03, 2016 07:50 PM (7qAYi) "

"Dear Chasey Lain, I wrote to explain, I'm your biggest fan..."

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 03, 2016 07:52 PM (kumBu)

460
The MSM is making a big deal out of the fact Nicholas Young was a D.C.transit cop but not a peep about him being a muslim.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2016 07:52 PM (iQIUe)

461 Rosie Greer was a big devotee of macrame, believe it or not.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:39 PM (9P3OG)

Really? I always thought he was a pretty good guy. He played the nice, kinda dumb guy to the other guy's manic, crazy guy sewn up in one body if I remember the movie right. Kinda like Billy Jeff the Rapist and Hillary the Murderess.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 03, 2016 07:53 PM (ej1L0)

462 Without specifically naming the Republican nominee, Bush criticized recent trends toward "isolationism, nativism and protectionism" in a discussion with approximately 400 guests. Bush made the disapproving comments at a private fundraiser in Cincinnati for Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, which raised $1 million in one day, according to a Portman spokesperson.

At the fundraiser, the former president also reportedly said Islamic women should be welcomed in the U.S. to experience the benefits of a free society -- according to the Wall Street Journal, "so they can lead the charge for equality in the Middle East."

Posted by: andycanuck at August 03, 2016 07:54 PM (LdMbv)

463 Trump reminds me of a Hagar the Horrible cartoon where Hagar was telling Lucky Eddie his life dream. Hagar said "I want to be cornered by Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, and Ivan the Terrible. I prepare myself for their attack but they are waiting. I ask them what they are waiting for. They say ... reinforcements."

Posted by: Ok at August 03, 2016 07:55 PM (CRXed)

464 W's always been an Amnesty flack.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 03, 2016 07:56 PM (nIGPZ)

465 I have a feeling that the morning after Hillary is projected the winner (at about 8:10 EST) on Election Night, everyone who voted for her only because they wanted another "historical first" president, is going to be depressed as they all realize the shit show that she's about to inherit---with no Bush in sight to blame.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 03, 2016 07:56 PM (UXa2M)

466 Rosie Greer is still alive.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 03, 2016 07:56 PM (4ErVI)

467 460
The MSM is making a big deal out of the fact Nicholas Young was a D.C.transit cop but not a peep about him being a muslim.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 03, 2016 07:52 PM (iQIUe)

"Nicolas Young?" Somehow I don't think that's his current name. Probably rhymes with "Schmuhammed."

Posted by: josephistan at August 03, 2016 07:56 PM (7qAYi)

468 The MSM is making a big deal out of the fact Nicholas Young was a D.C.transit cop but not a peep about him being a muslim.

If he's trying to join ISIS, that's pretty self-evident.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 03, 2016 07:57 PM (nIGPZ)

469 Wiki: Grier is known for his serious pursuit of hobbies not traditionally associated with men. He has authored several books, including Rosey Grier's Needlepoint for Men in 1973. Grier became an ordained Christian minister in 1983 and travels as an inspirational speaker. He founded American Neighborhood Enterprises, a nonprofit organization that serves inner city youth. He was also a featured speaker at the 1984 Republican National Convention; during its evening session on August 20, 1984, he endorsed President Ronald Reagan for re-election.[2]

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 03, 2016 07:58 PM (nIGPZ)

470 461 Rosie Greer was a big devotee of macrame, believe it or not.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 03, 2016 07:39 PM (9P3OG)

Really? I always thought he was a pretty good guy. He played the nice, kinda dumb guy to the other guy's manic, crazy guy sewn up in one body if I remember the movie right. Kinda like Billy Jeff the Rapist and Hillary the Murderess.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 03, 2016 07:53 PM (ej1L0)

The best part of that movie was when Rosie shows up at his girlfriend's apartment. She hasn't seen him in years, he's out of death row, and has another man's head sewn to his body & without missing a beat she says "I swear, you get into more shit!" I'm laughing just thinking about it.

Posted by: josephistan at August 03, 2016 07:58 PM (7qAYi)

471 I find it funny that the left is in full FUD mode this early in the election...Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, about Trump... projected with bogus polls, manipulation, distortion, omissions, fabrication, lies, spin, deceit, dishonesty, and moral posturing leaves little doubt that these hiccups in history are freaking fucking out about the reality that could well come their way this November. Trump rallies turn away 6,000 for lack of seating capacity on a daily basis as Hillary and her crew of swaggering swine bus in two hundred to an empty townhall in an infested majority democrat city.

Posted by: Tyler Mason at August 03, 2016 07:59 PM (Nrh7e)

472 Rosie Greer is still alive.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 03, 2016 07:56 PM (4ErVI)

Really/ I thought he had passed. God bless him. May be time to do a re-make of the 2 headed thing!

Starring Shack and Ray Romano....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 03, 2016 08:00 PM (ej1L0)

473 458 If Trump doesn't say anything stupid...
Posted by: JoeF. at August 03, 2016 07:51 PM (UXa2M)

I'm going to stop you there for a few questions.

What about if gravity reverses, or if all the water on the planet turns to milk, or if the Houston Astros win the World Series?

Sorry, I just want to plan for the more likely eventualities first before going into bizarre impossibilities.

Posted by: gekkobear at August 03, 2016 08:03 PM (2iR3c)

474 Any of you all Nick Dipaolo fans? He throws some serious humor when it comes to PC. Old comic from the 90's. Dude is real.

Posted by: Citation X Driver at August 03, 2016 08:03 PM (ABJy3)

475 "Bush criticized recent trends"

W seems like a decent man but he was mostly captured by his family interests when in office. In the end GWB has no standing to criticize people who voted for him in the hope he would stop the murder of babies and shrink the size of the Federal Government. The most you can say is that he pulled back from opening the boarders when there was a public outcry. GWB had the money to build a fence and didn't. GWB had support to cut the size of Government and didn't. GWB left the military exposed in Iraq and Afghanistan thinking his replacement wouldn't sacrifice them.

Posted by: Ok at August 03, 2016 08:04 PM (CRXed)

476 "I find it funny that the left is in full FUD mode this early in the election"

As the french would say the left are a bunch of dumb fucks. FUD is Trump's friend. Hillary is the one who has to sell happy-days-are-here-again.

Posted by: Ok at August 03, 2016 08:07 PM (CRXed)

477 The whole thing with Trump reminds me of this quote from Milton Friedman:

http://youtu.be/MEVI3bmN8TI

I viewed Ted Cruz's convention speech as attempting to put that idea into action. To make it politically profitable for Donald Trump to do the right things. Whether he's the wrong person or not, if he can be convinced that it is in his best interest to do so, he will do the right things.

For a century or more, we have made the conditions such that it is politically profitable for the right people to do the wrong things, and maybe we should work on that changing that the other way around.

Posted by: Jonathan G at August 03, 2016 08:10 PM (jT9wB)

478 I haven't talked to Trump. I haven't talked to anybody.

Oh, I feel the same way. I'm not endorsing anyone either until I've had a chance to talk with them, you know, one on one.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 03, 2016 08:11 PM (+azJs)

479 Can't believe this hasn't been called yet.

Annette Haven.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 03, 2016 08:12 PM (fiGNd)

480 Late in the thread - time to write things no one will read.

I hate when people start off a conversation with "I'm not a racist or anything..." We have to apologize before we even might say something wrong. I started adding for them "not that there is anything wrong with that."

Posted by: Drum roll please at August 03, 2016 08:15 PM (VPvxh)

481 Trump pulling 30k + in Florida today.

Campaign meltdown for sure.

Posted by: Czar Peter at August 03, 2016 08:16 PM (JGNQ+)

482 There is a difference between doing the right thing because I am a good person, and being made to do the right thing. Progressives simply don't see this difference - they think they are an EVEN better person if they force you to be good. They want credit for my natural goodness. I say fuck 'em.

Posted by: Drum roll please at August 03, 2016 08:19 PM (VPvxh)

483 Also racism. Seriously how many KKK members are even in the U.S.? last I checked it was estimated at....3,000. There are probably more Bronies (look it up) than there are KKK members. Can we just - never mention them again?

I can't even remember when I last heard anyone say racist shit in a meaningful way. Maybe once in a while in a "That came out wrong" sorta way, or even a "just joshing around way". Yet the whining, for fuck's sake, the WHINING you hear about racism. Like someone is sawing off their god damn foot.

Breitbart was right - there are only two possible answers to progressive thought police 1) "So?" 2) "Fuck you, WAR!"

Posted by: Drum roll please at August 03, 2016 08:25 PM (VPvxh)

484 >>> Oh I don't know, what about Chris Pratt & Chris Evans. Both seem like stand up men to me. Added bonus, aside from being smoking hot, both have displayed some serious moron traits.

Avid hunter is Chris Pratt. SJW fans try to shame him about eating meat he just shrugs it off. Wife Anna buys a special brand of hunting knives he likes as a gift. Company is out if Wyoming. His kid had complications at birth and they know they are blessed to have him.

Not everyone in Hollyweird is bad. Jus feels like 90% are.

Posted by: LizLem at August 03, 2016 08:26 PM (Z08aL)

485 439 406 An online fiend is at the Florida rally and reports that the 10,000 capacity venue is packed.
Posted by: @votermom at August 03, 2016 07:38 PM (7lVbc)
Trump holds large rallies filled with enthusiastic crowds.
Exactly like Hitler. Connect the dots, people.
Posted by: rickl at August 03, 2016 07:45 PM (sdi6R)

So our media betters have decided NOW, post Obama and his stupid Brandenburg columns we have been waiting for, that large rallies are Hitleresque? Nice of them to square that circle

Posted by: LizLem at August 03, 2016 08:31 PM (Z08aL)

486 Clint should have been on stage at the RNC. He could have talked to an empty pantsuit.

He could've done that at the DNC . :;

Posted by: JT at August 03, 2016 08:43 PM (KREV5)

487 If I'm remembering correctly, Rosey Grier tackled Sirhan Sirhan after he shot RFK.

Posted by: rickl at August 03, 2016 08:48 PM (sdi6R)

488 481 Trump pulling 30k + in Florida today.

Campaign meltdown for sure.
__

My friend was at DAB and sent me a pano vid of the crowd, the place was packed.

I expect JAX will bring big numbers, too.

The MSM will bury it.

Hillary isn't drawing the crowds. All she has is fraud.

Posted by: willy at August 03, 2016 08:53 PM (Ffw22)

489 Basic civility still counts for a lot in the real world. It's on-line that jerks feel free to be complete fucking assholes in the name of striking a brave anonymous blow against what they call PC politics.

Posted by: NC Mountain Girl at August 03, 2016 08:56 PM (FB8HU)

490 487 ... For some reason I think it was Rafer Johnson who tackled Sirhan. But I could be wrong.

Posted by: JTB at August 03, 2016 09:15 PM (V+03K)

491 Hillary isn't drawing the crowds. All she has is fraud.

Posted by: willy at August 03, 2016 08:53 PM (Ffw22)

She also has that person.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 03, 2016 09:56 PM (P/kVC)

492 The funny thing about the KKK is fully one in ten is an FBI agent or informant. There never was an organization with so little ability to act.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 03, 2016 09:58 PM (+azJs)

493 Meanwhile, the Procession of the Trojan Horses is being cheered on across the country by people willing to gamble on the chance that terrorists can be sifted out.

And enemies hoping they can't.

We have so many citizens supporting the same legislation as fundamental Islamic jihadists that the deceit is hard enough to explain that it may be supernatural.

Posted by: MMPI at August 03, 2016 10:20 PM (ZedYY)

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