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Uncle-Tom Deplorable Still Shackled by White Patriarchy

Or, and this may just be crazy talk, an alternative take on the plight of Black America that takes into account actual, real facts and data.

My take on Trump's first year as an African-American mom and veteran

Now that we’ve arrived at the one-year mark of the Trump presidency, I’ve done some soul-searching regarding my support of the man elected by the American people to lead our nation. As a black woman, a mother and a veteran, am I doing the right thing to continue backing President Trump? Is he really as awful – even evil – as his critics claim? Are his ideas half-baked and dangerous? Is he harming the nation I love?

And what does my support for President Trump say about me? By backing a man so hated by some am I compromising my integrity and values? Can I be pro-Trump and still be a good person?


I don't like the Balkanization of America. One day in the future we will be judged and see ourselves as the content of our characters rather than the color of our skin, or our genitalia. But I fear that for the next generation we will be forced to carve off chunks of the electorate and appeal to them based on those factors. We didn't make the rules, but we need to take advantage of them to be successful.

Anyway, this lady makes some sense. I just wish that she would discard the progressive manipulation of the political landscape that allows them to call into question our integrity and goodness as people if we support President Trump.

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1 Nood.

Oh wait. I may be going it wrong.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 21, 2018 11:57 AM (KEGIV)

2 Race and gender is what its all about

Posted by: Skip at January 21, 2018 11:58 AM (aC6Sd)

3 1. Look at color of skin on hand
2. Vote accordingly

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 21, 2018 11:59 AM (KEGIV)

4 It started as a melting pot but now its every race for themselves and how high up the ladder they can get for victimization. Move off that plantation and you are a outcast.

Posted by: Skip at January 21, 2018 12:01 PM (aC6Sd)

5 Should I feel guilty about voting for and supporting someone that the MSM and Leftists (who are fundamentally against everything I believe in) hate irrationally?


Fuck no.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at January 21, 2018 12:02 PM (/o9Qk)

6 My concern for the feelings of never-Trumpers and the SJW's does not register.

Posted by: Deplorable Fedreral Employee at January 21, 2018 12:02 PM (iiixZ)

7 As a black woman, a mother and a veteran, am I doing the right thing to continue backing President Trump?

That's one way to look at it. Another would be "As an American...."

Posted by: pep at January 21, 2018 12:02 PM (LAe3v)

8 HYPE WILLIE
@Cam_Vaughn
That's Fox News facts right there. Like this country, P[lanned ]P[arenthood] had some bad ideas in its inception but have since moved away from them. Now they provide much needed healthcare for women.

-
Ahhhh. Wbat bad ideas were those?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Help! The Deranged Beavers Are Trying To Kill Me! at January 21, 2018 12:03 PM (+y/Ru)

9 I commend her for looking past all the bullshit and concentrating on the important things...policies. What the man has done is so important.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at January 21, 2018 12:04 PM (/o9Qk)

10 I hear the phrase "the personal is political" all the time. It's a mantra that gets drummed into people's heads, to the point where so many people are inured with it, they can't dig out of the concept without wondering if they're betraying their class.

Whatever class(es) in which they find themselves. This is, of course, not unintentional. It's what keeps so many decent people caught in the left's web.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 21, 2018 12:04 PM (Pz4pT)

11 From the last thread:

I was thinking about that false alarm in Hawaii and wondering if they will see a bulge in the birth rate 9 months hence due to "missile sex".

Posted by: navybrat at January 21, 2018 12:04 PM (7NKxb)

12 I would like Balkanization without the civil war. This is a bad marriage and we have no kids as an excuse to keep it going.

Or we can be like the old black couple on In Living Color.

After they have one of their vicious drag out fights they end with the catch phrase - But were stilllll married!

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 21, 2018 12:05 PM (3QAtO)

13 I like the article in spite of that cringe worthy intro paragraph. Good on her for opening going against the flow.

Posted by: PaleRider, simply irredeemable at January 21, 2018 12:05 PM (84F5k)

14 Top twenty

Posted by: Traveling Man at January 21, 2018 12:05 PM (R5lpX)

15 OT, but I've been waiting for a new thread.

Looks like there was a rocket launch Saturday night that I completely missed. A private company, Rocket Lab, successfully sent their Electron rocket into orbit from New Zealand carrying three tiny satellites. It was only Electron's second test flight, the first one having failed last May. Not too shabby!

I was dimly aware of their existence, but I had not been paying attention to Rocket Lab or Electron at all. This launch blindsided me. I have spent all morning playing catch-up trying to educate myself.

Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab

Rocket Lab's own website:
https://www.rocketlabusa.com/

Electron is one of the smallest rockets ever to achieve orbit. It's comparable to the Vanguard rocket from the 1950s, but is more efficient so it has a larger payload capacity.

Here is a good video about small rockets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1bZO16em2c

Electron also employs some advanced technology. The rocket is mostly made of carbon fiber, its Rutherford engine uses electric motors instead of traditional turbopumps, and many parts are 3D printed.

Here is a video made around the time of the first test flight last May, which gives some details about the rocket:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXGfK6keS2Q

Note the size comparison to SpaceX's Falcon 9. Like Falcon 9, Electron also has nine engines on the first stage and one on the second stage. But it looks like a dollhouse version of Falcon 9!

Finally here is the complete webcast from Saturday night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg5234BOED8


I am really sorry I missed it. This would have been a fun one to watch live.

Posted by: rickl at January 21, 2018 12:05 PM (sdi6R)

16 If you're going to have missile sex, first, you'll need a missile.

Posted by: Bob Dole at January 21, 2018 12:06 PM (KEGIV)

17 Then the real question becomes, "what is more important...the safety and prosperity of my family and country? Or the color of my skin?"


Unfortunately, many choose the latter.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at January 21, 2018 12:06 PM (/o9Qk)

18 Argh. OPENLY going against the flow.

Posted by: PaleRider, simply irredeemable at January 21, 2018 12:06 PM (84F5k)

19 13 I like the article in spite of that cringe worthy intro paragraph. Good on her for opening going against the flow.
Posted by: PaleRider, simply irredeemable at January 21, 2018 12:05 PM (84F5k)

--------

She could not point to one single thing that PDT has done that has harmed black people and she has a list as long as her arm of positive things. Yet she's still angst-ridden about her support for him.

Gah. Spare me all the drama.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 21, 2018 12:08 PM (KEGIV)

20 12 I would like Balkanization without the civil war. This is a bad marriage and we have no kids as an excuse to keep it going.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 21, 2018 12:05 PM (3QAtO)


I'm more of a Pollyanna: I keep hoping that there will be a cataclysmic event that turns liberals against leftist rubbish. Maybe this intel memo will do the job, or at least start the job.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 21, 2018 12:09 PM (+RVKP)

21 I remember as a child first discovering about my family's heritage. How excited I was to learn we had come from these other countries. And my parents firmly told me, "We're Americans."

And that is all that matters. Not where we came from. But who we are.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 21, 2018 12:09 PM (2+EWn)

22 Then the real question becomes, "what is more important...the safety and prosperity of my family and country? Or the color of my skin?"


Unfortunately, many choose the latter.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at January 21, 2018 12:06 PM (/o9Qk)


And there are many white and black folks who think it's rayciss to want to move away from cities. So they stay. And get robbed and raped, then wonder why they feel miserable all the time.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 21, 2018 12:10 PM (Pz4pT)

23 some AAs are starting to 'get' that their needs are pushed to the back of the line in favor of trannies and gays.

Posted by: kallisto at January 21, 2018 12:12 PM (UsFoH)

24 Yeah. Good headline on the Fox article. So Trump has been identifying as an African-American mom and veteran for the past year or did he have some sort of operation and no one noticed?

Posted by: WTP at January 21, 2018 12:12 PM (WQfDg)

25 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 21, 2018 12:09 PM (+RVKP)

I just see the inevitable one step forward two steps back scenario continuing for the long run. Still makes us better than everyone else though so we got that going for us.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 21, 2018 12:13 PM (3QAtO)

26 Well she may be trying to resonate with folks that she wants to persuade Cicero. That was not written for the HQ. In spite of the angst I still rate the entire article as at least a B.

Posted by: PaleRider, simply irredeemable at January 21, 2018 12:13 PM (84F5k)

27 What was it that that old devil LBJ once said.....

Things that make you go mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 21, 2018 12:13 PM (EoRCO)

28 It's Okay to be American.

Posted by: RI Red at January 21, 2018 12:15 PM (4E1nt)

29 I just see the inevitable one step forward two steps back scenario continuing for the long run.
I can't decide if you are correct, or if it's two steps forward and one back, or, on a good day, that the fever of the Obama years is finally breaking, and people will be embarrassed to admit they once bought his nonsense.

Posted by: pep at January 21, 2018 12:15 PM (LAe3v)

30 Trump can continue increasing the GOP's support among black voters by one issue more than any other: school choice.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at January 21, 2018 12:16 PM (398bZ)

31 15 Looks like there was a rocket launch Saturday night that I completely missed. A private company, Rocket Lab, successfully sent their Electron rocket into orbit from New Zealand carrying three tiny satellites. It was only Electron's second test flight, the first one having failed last May. Not too shabby!

Posted by: rickl at January 21, 2018 12:05 PM (sdi6R)


Nice find! I got a chuckle upon seeing that the name of the flight was, "Still Testing."

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 21, 2018 12:16 PM (NL6wI)

32 Content of their character or color of their skin?

I can't decide.

Posted by: The Democratic Party at January 21, 2018 12:16 PM (Ndje9)

33 I remember as a child first discovering about my family's heritage. How excited I was to learn we had come from these other countries. And my parents firmly told me, "We're Americans."

And that is all that matters. Not where we came from. But who we are.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 21, 2018 12:09 PM (2+EWn)


^^^^^^ this X 1000

Posted by: 1921 C DRUM at January 21, 2018 12:16 PM (h7sWp)

34 24 Yeah. Good headline on the Fox article. So Trump has been identifying as an African-American mom and veteran for the past year or did he have some sort of operation and no one noticed?

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Yeah. Trump's second year as an African-American mom and a veteran should be much improved with a year of experience under his belt.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 21, 2018 12:17 PM (KEGIV)

35 and if the dreamers get voting rights commie candidates will never have to pretend they like going door to door in the hood, like Chelsea did for her maternal unit.

Posted by: kallisto at January 21, 2018 12:17 PM (UsFoH)

36 Jen Statsky, a writer and comedian who has written for "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon;" Parks and Recreation" and "Broad City" even tweeted that "if you support Trump you should have your children taken away, etc etc."




And the undesirable parents are sent to the happy fun gulags. And what's etc, etc for or is she doing a Yul Brynner impersonation?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 21, 2018 12:18 PM (SiINZ)

37 Not entirely OT, but take a look at GE's fortunes. Prospering under crony-capitalism for eight years, and now falling apart as the Trump economy takes off.
I'm almost sorry I retired. I may have to get back in the game.
No, forget I said that.

Posted by: RI Red at January 21, 2018 12:18 PM (4E1nt)

38 28 It's Okay to be American.
Posted by: RI Red at January 21, 2018 12:15 PM (4E1nt)

--------
*eyeroll*

Posted by: A Hipster Douchebag Driving a Prius With A COEXIST Sticker On The Bumper at January 21, 2018 12:18 PM (KEGIV)

39 America has been Balkinized for the last 15 years not including the overt hatred, scorn, and mockery directed towards the South and Christians by DC, San Fran and other big urban areas along with propagandists of the Entertainment industries and academic institutions.

I've never understood why the South (including Texas) and now recently rural red America puts up with this bull shit.

Posted by: Monk at January 21, 2018 12:19 PM (g4lFK)

40 It has been the two steps back in the military that has me pessimistic. If we can turn that around I will be back on board that we can save the country.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 21, 2018 12:20 PM (3QAtO)

41 What did the Left think would happen when they went down the Identity Politics rabbit hole? They segregated Congress in 1973 and now wish to rule for the benefit of Mexicans.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 21, 2018 12:21 PM (vV/gB)

42 What most cracked me up the other day wigh Sen Booker getting all bent out of shape over what President Trump said of Haiti was what does he have to do with Haiti? But it was all about his solidarity with black Haitians I think.

Posted by: Skip at January 21, 2018 12:21 PM (aC6Sd)

43 Like many people who joined me in voting for Donald Trump in 2016, I've attended several of his campaign rallies. I have never been more warmly welcomed. My children had surrogate parents, uncles, aunts and cousins for a night, and were enveloped in the excitement and pride of being an American.




Yet Trump and Trump supporters are all racists and members of the Klan according to the left. We some how have to break the fantasy world the left has created and pushed onto the country via the schools and media

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 21, 2018 12:21 PM (SiINZ)

44 23 some AAs are starting to 'get' that their needs are pushed to the back of the line in favor of trannies and gays.
Posted by: kallisto at January 21, 2018 12:12 PM (UsFoH)

And illegals. Progressive checklist. Use welfare to destroy black families, check. Tear down more public housing than built in last 40 years, check. Create inner city kingdoms of serfs and rules in most major cities, done. Use public education to create voting block and kickback schemes and destroy urban literacy, TADA. Black vote around 93% democrat in the national elections. No reason for Dems to support them and must go after the illegal vote.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 21, 2018 12:21 PM (BtQd4)

45 I am sick to death of "identity" politics, which is just another way of telling people that if they're "authentically" black, Hispanic, female, LGBTWTFBBQ, etc. etc. they MUST vote Democrat.

Posted by: Insomniac - mostly stable at January 21, 2018 12:22 PM (NWiLs)

46 I've never understood why the South (including Texas) and now recently rural red America puts up with this bull shit.
Posted by: Monk at January 21, 2018 12:19 PM (g4lFK)


.....for now....

Posted by: 1921 C DRUM at January 21, 2018 12:22 PM (h7sWp)

47 42
What most cracked me up the other day wigh Sen Booker getting all bent out of shape over what President Trump said of Haiti


**raises hand** Pardon me, Senator Booker, how many times have you vacationed in Haiti?

Posted by: pep at January 21, 2018 12:22 PM (LAe3v)

48 GE didn't exactly prosper under Immelt, crony capitalism notwithstanding. In a decade-long rising market its stock price went 40 to 16.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 21, 2018 12:22 PM (KEGIV)

49 I was thinking about that false alarm in Hawaii and wondering if they will see a bulge in the birth rate 9 months hence due to "missile sex".

Posted by: navybrat at January 21, 2018 12:04 PM (7NKxb)


PronHub had some statistics and a graph showing traffic to the site before, during, and after the 'attack warning'. Let's just say from the 'after' spike that many Hawaiians took matters into their own hands.

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 21, 2018 12:23 PM (2FqvZ)

50 "One day in the future we will be judged and see ourselves as the content of our characters rather than the color of our skin, or our genitalia."


I can't wait for the day we are judged on the content of our genitalia.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at January 21, 2018 12:24 PM (Dp6qK)

51 If your charity involves forcing others to participate even if they do not want to, then is it really charity. And if you require others to acknowledge that your altruistic endeavors are good, aka, virtue signaling, maybe you should examine your intentions a little closer.

Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at January 21, 2018 12:24 PM (rdl6o)

52 48
GE didn't exactly prosper under Immelt, crony capitalism
notwithstanding. In a decade-long rising market its stock price went 40
to 16.


Well, if the quality of their top of the line oven (they've now sold off their appliance business) is any indication, it's not hard to understand why. I mean, seriously, how hard is it to build a freakin' oven?

Posted by: pep at January 21, 2018 12:24 PM (LAe3v)

53 Suppression of views like hers is paramount for the left, which is why Maxine Waters and John Lewis are calling Trump racist every time a mic is in front of them.

And CNN, MSNBC, the AP, WaPo, and the NYT "report" their pronouncements as "news."

Posted by: Git back 2 yur shitholes at January 21, 2018 12:24 PM (Cfpg/)

54 The left must be exposed as having no interest in uniting our country, except as united in submission to their fascist commie state.

The globalist cabal is the other branch of that uniparty, as they see individual liberty (Americanism) as a threat to their open border global cabal.

The US (Americanism) versus Them (NYDC statists) is the real "balkanization", as the connected demand obedience of the serfs.

It would appear the fascists have their tentacles run all the way down to the local gun runner and drug dealer, that has to be linked to the Holder preferred FastnFurious guns. The Chicago Mob (which generated so many like Obama, Ayers) has their structure complete right down to the "ward bosses".

But on the normal person level, blacks, Hispanics, gays ... generally all can work together just fine. The agitators have a big job keeping so many neighborhoods stirred up in some false agitprop.

Using media they have done pretty well at creating the current hysteria. It is demonstrably false and can be broken. imo

Posted by: illiniwek at January 21, 2018 12:25 PM (otAqJ)

55 I can't wait for the day we are judged on the content of our genitalia.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at January 21, 2018 12:24 PM (Dp6qK)

-------

You'll need a trampoline to get it all out.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 21, 2018 12:25 PM (KEGIV)

56 Black folks will not like riding in the back of the bus with the rest of the American citizens in favor of illegal invaders.

Posted by: Monk at January 21, 2018 12:25 PM (g4lFK)

57 PronHub had some statistics and a graph showing traffic to the site before, during, and after the 'attack warning'. Let's just say from the 'after' spike that many Hawaiians took matters into their own hands.
Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 21, 2018 12:23 PM (2FqvZ)

Well, when you got nobody you make do with what you have at hand, to coin a phrase.

Posted by: Insomniac - mostly stable at January 21, 2018 12:26 PM (NWiLs)

58 The inherent difference between Progressives, who believe that The State is their mother/father/life partner, etc. will inherently put all kinds of emotional baggage into the Leader of the State. That is, they will judge the President by standards of whether he "cares" about them as a father should, embodies the virtues they'd expect to see in a life partner, etc.

We can quibble with their actual analysis of the facts, i.e. how they turn the most mundane things into "OMG Binders full of women-he-gives-children-cancer" etc. But the fundamental difference is that reasonable, non-Progressives don't even try to judge a President as their Virtue Signaler in Chief and substitute Daddy/Mommy/bestest besty ever.

The black woman author who ultimately concludes Trump is not The Devil frames her whole analysis in practical terms, as in whether DJT is doing the right JOB for which he was elected, and concludes in the affirmative. That in itself is a conservative analysis. If we want to change minds once in awhile we might start with that issue to help frame the debate correctly. Basically, you're not looking to marry the guy, but hoping he can do an incredibly important job in the best interests of the country.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at January 21, 2018 12:28 PM (BsGS1)

59 I am so sick of the "Trump is racist, because he won't import every single person in the whole wide world" bullshit. I have even started to vocally challenge it with proglodytes and the gullible. Trump was never considered racist before he ran for President, then like any GOP he had to be rebranded. I usually finish by asking my opponents (who are often bitching about taxes) if they'd really like to support Pope Francis' army of need that has been infiltrating our nation and contributing poverty.

Posted by: CN at January 21, 2018 12:28 PM (5gaNQ)

60 The left must be exposed as having no interest in uniting our country, except as united in submission to their fascist commie state.

=============

I would think their support of shutting down the government for illegal aliens is an indication that unity is not their biggest concern.

Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at January 21, 2018 12:29 PM (rdl6o)

61 51: Very well stated. Forced "charity" is theft

Posted by: CN at January 21, 2018 12:30 PM (5gaNQ)

62 54. I saw a movie about that, I think it was called Blue Collar. About a group of buddies who were umaware of ethnic/racial differences until political actors instigated them.

Posted by: kallisto at January 21, 2018 12:30 PM (UsFoH)

63 Black vote around 93% democrat in the national elections. No reason for Dems to support them and must go after the illegal vote.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 21, 2018 12:21 PM (BtQd4)


You'd think it would be obvious that the place to be is in the middle, so that the two parties vie for your support. When you're all-in on one side, there's nothing to be gained by either party by pandering to you.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 21, 2018 12:31 PM (+RVKP)

64 62. And we know who those agitators were, don't we?

Fvcking Belgians. Every time.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 21, 2018 12:31 PM (fA1SL)

65 >>I can't wait for the day we are judged on the content of our genitalia.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke

Wouldn't that make you a penis?

Posted by: Aviator at January 21, 2018 12:31 PM (2cuLk)

66
I think that perhaps many older African Americans who had decent jobs and careers that took a nose-dive post Y2k when the Labor Participation Ratio began an almost two decade long free-fall *might* just be advising the next generations to vote *for* jobs.

It's a clear line in the sand between the two parties.

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 21, 2018 12:33 PM (2FqvZ)

67 60. Still subscribe to the theory that the shut down is largely a distraction.

Something big is coming. They know it.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 21, 2018 12:33 PM (fA1SL)

68 And really, don't forget how many of us think that people that voted for Hillary! are idiots.

I know that I do. Really, immoral idiots. They've been told a pack of lies about how good Hillary! was, yet anybody who has been alive and aware since 1992 has to question this. They rationalize it by TRUMP IS WORSE! HE'S A NAZI! WORSE THAN HITLER!

I mean really, "The Art of the Deal" is really JUST LIKE "Mein Kamp".

We all fall into the trap of turning our political opposition into The Other.

I sometimes think that Trump is a bit of an as*h*le, but I voted for him with conviction, and sent him a lot of money (for me). And I'd do it again without hesitation.

We don't have to invest our whole lives in politics, our whole being. This is a cultural Marxist trap, that they want us all to fall into. Politics has to become the totality of all that we are, displacing religious beliefs, family, personal friendship, our work or profession, object beliefs of what happens in the world, and on and on.

It's a cancer that can eat us all up.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at January 21, 2018 12:34 PM (S6Pax)

69 Ugh.

While running errands I heard Meet The Press on the radio, when Chuck Todd introduced a segment on the DACA issue like this (paraphrasing): Republicans are/should reconsider DACA because 30 or so of them who are up for re-election in 2018 live in districts with 20+% Hispanics.

Get it? They have to vote for DACA because they have high numbers if Hispanics so that they'll have even more Hispanics in their (and other districts) who must be then catered to even more going forward!.

Cute trick, Chuck. I wish I could believe the Republicans were on to this scam, but I don't think so.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 21, 2018 12:34 PM (W+vEI)

70 Something big is coming. They know it.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 21, 2018 12:33 PM (fA1SL)


How I hope that that's true.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 21, 2018 12:35 PM (+RVKP)

71 @67
I think the shutdown rhetoric started on its own but the Dem leadership is indeed trying to push it now, in significant part, to distract from the imminent release of the classified House Intelligence Committee memo that will implicate Mueller & Co in much more specific terms, and really make the despicable coup attempt even more obvious.

They're just hoping to dominate the news cycle with other drama so their media cronies can run confusing, passive-voice written, bottom-of-the-fold articles on our actual, Constitutional crisis until it becomes "old-news-we've-already-covered-that."

Posted by: xnycpeasant at January 21, 2018 12:37 PM (BsGS1)

72 I am so sick of the "Trump is racist, because he won't import every single person in the whole wide world" bullshit. I have even started to vocally challenge it with proglodytes and the gullible.
Posted by: CN at January 21, 2018 12:28 PM (5gaNQ)


My standard line is, "Do you lock your doors at night? Stop doing it, because I want to come into your house and help myself to your food and drink and sleep in your bed. If you refuse me you're the kind of person that doesn't like 'my kind' of people."

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 21, 2018 12:37 PM (2FqvZ)

73 >>Still subscribe to the theory that the shut down is largely a distraction.



Agreed. They need a big squirrel to distract from what the OIG investigation has netted - already House members who have seen the FISA 702 memo are saying people will/should go to jail, not just lose their jobs.


Posted by: Lizzy at January 21, 2018 12:38 PM (W+vEI)

74 We don't have to invest our whole lives in politics, our whole being. This is a cultural Marxist trap, that they want us all to fall into. Politics has to become the totality of all that we are, displacing religious beliefs, family, personal friendship, our work or profession, object beliefs of what happens in the world, and on and on.

It's a cancer that can eat us all up.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at January 21, 2018 12:34 PM (S6Pax)


We elect a CEO, not a guru, an imam, a priest, a rabbi, a minister, a life coach, a shrink, or whatever. We want someone who makes generally sound decisions in the interests of the nation, who does so in a timely manner and who implements them effectively.

That's it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 21, 2018 12:38 PM (+RVKP)

75 We don't have to invest our whole lives in politics, our whole being. This is a cultural Marxist trap, that they want us all to fall into. Politics has to become the totality of all that we are, displacing religious beliefs, family, personal friendship, our work or profession, object beliefs of what happens in the world, and on and on.

It's a cancer that can eat us all up.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at January 21, 2018 12:34 PM (S6Pax)


Well said. I have been able to mostly tolerate politics, by not paying attention to it. It manages to seep in anyway. But I live my life as if politics does not inform my choices. I know it affects my life, I'm not stupid. I just don't allow it to consume my thoughts.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 21, 2018 12:38 PM (Pz4pT)

76 Cicero, I think the decline of GE goes back to the departure of Neutron Jack and the subsequent departure of GE from its core mission to manufacture good stuff to its "socially responsible corporate citizen" business plan.
If it can't get its act together in this economy, it deserves to die. Sadly. My dad worked for GE for 45 years.
Back on topic: Upthread it was pointed out that leftists want to be in thrall to their leaders. We only want to have them work for us.

Posted by: RI Red at January 21, 2018 12:39 PM (4E1nt)

77 I don't tweet but do a bing search for "Dear Lord, the screams"/twitter....hi-larious

Posted by: tankkiller69 at January 21, 2018 12:39 PM (lQTH7)

78 Trump exploding Lefty heads with this voicemail message heard when calling The White House today:

Thank you for calling the White House. Unfortunately, we cannot answer
your call today, because Congressional Democrats are holding government
funding, including funding for our troops and other national security
priorities, hostage to an unrelated immigration debate. Due to this
obstruction, the government is shut down. In the meantime, you can leave
a comment for the president at www.whitehouse.gov/contact. We look
forward to taking your calls as soon as the government reopens.

Posted by: ShainS at January 21, 2018 12:42 PM (BiLU+)

79 The MFM is in ecstasy over the wymyn's march yesterday. The Chicago "press" is acting like it's the biggest news story ever only because it's just more promotion of the lefty agenda

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 21, 2018 12:43 PM (SiINZ)

80 Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at January 21, 2018 12:34 PM (S6Pax)

We elect a CEO, not a guru, an imam, a priest, a rabbi, a minister, a life coach, a shrink, or whatever. We want someone who makes generally sound decisions in the interests of the nation, who does so in a timely manner and who implements them effectively.

That's it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 21, 2018 12:38 PM (+RVKP)


Why, it's almost as if the effort to destroy and replace the prior sources of culture and morality with politicians was done on purpose.

Almost.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 21, 2018 12:43 PM (Pz4pT)

81 64 62. And we know who those agitators were, don't we?

Fvcking Belgians. Every time.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 21, 2018 12:31 PM (fA1SL)


"Miserable Fat Belgian Bastards."

Posted by: AoSHQ Style Guide at January 21, 2018 12:44 PM (NL6wI)

82 72: I am borrowing that

Posted by: CN at January 21, 2018 12:45 PM (5gaNQ)

83 Good headline on the Fox article. So Trump has been identifying as an African-American mom and veteran for the past year or did he have some sort of operation and no one noticed?

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Is there nothing that man can't do?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Help! The Deranged Beavers Are Trying To Kill Me! at January 21, 2018 12:48 PM (+y/Ru)

84 Trump can be very persuasive one-on-one and when speaking directly to the camera ( so long as he doesn't go too off track) so it's surprising to me why he doesn't make a televised speech directly to the American people laying out just what the Democrats are up to and why he is fighting them. If it's as effective as I think it would be. he would put pressure on the Democrats to explain why they want unlimited numbers of immigrants pouring into the country.

Posted by: JoeF. at January 21, 2018 12:48 PM (7uYFy)

85 I had no idea Trump was a Buffalo soldier.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 21, 2018 12:49 PM (qJtVm)

86 I am borrowing that

Posted by: CN at January 21, 2018 12:45 PM (5gaNQ)


Then, if you get lucky... they'll ask, "Your kind of people? What are you?"

You then say ''American''.

Haven't pulled that card yet, but it's in the stack. Waiting.

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 21, 2018 12:50 PM (2FqvZ)

87 84: would it be covered by anyone except Fox?

Posted by: CN at January 21, 2018 12:50 PM (5gaNQ)

88 Never let a good distraction go to waste. Hence: Squirrel.
Oh crap....Dennis DeYoung (Lady) on the radio... manhood draining to zero... no strength left to change the station...

Posted by: ro-man at January 21, 2018 12:51 PM (RuIsu)

89 Joef, I think Trump is biding his time, letting the shutdown play against the Dems. I suspect he has a master plan. A yuge one.

Posted by: RI Red at January 21, 2018 12:51 PM (4E1nt)

90 I had a "discussion" at work with a prog woman. She was bent out of shape because she believes the "dreamers" will be sent packing. I asked her how many of these people she was willing to host at her house and in general be responsible for.

Crickets.

Posted by: Deplorable Fedreral Employee at January 21, 2018 12:52 PM (iiixZ)

91 Here's the thing: Is it really pointless "otherizing" when the Opposition, for all intents and purposes, really is another culture entirely, one descended from the same roots, but entirely different in so many ways?

I can count at least five or six different cultures in play within the formerly United States. How on God's green earth is that a sustainable dynamic?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, this space for rent! Call 1-800-MORON-AD for details! at January 21, 2018 12:52 PM (lLeln)

92 I don't like the Balkanization of America.

Posted by: CBD
________

If America must be Balkanized, let's be Slovenia.

Posted by: FireHorse at January 21, 2018 12:52 PM (y+SdL)

93 What always gets to me is how the Republicans get the blame for being racists when it's the Democrats who always make appeals to the voters on the basis of race.

I know, I know. Rhetorical. But how do you fight this?

Posted by: JoeF. at January 21, 2018 12:52 PM (7uYFy)

94 It's almost as if emotion was guiding our policies out of DC for the last 2 decades or more.

Posted by: Monk at January 21, 2018 12:53 PM (g4lFK)

95 Good morning from Philly where crews from the city are greasing the light poles with Crisco to prevent #Eagles fans from climbing after the #NFCChampionshipGame tonight.

Eagles fans. Stay the hell away from them.

http://bit.ly/2DuBmUZ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Help! The Deranged Beavers Are Trying To Kill Me! at January 21, 2018 12:53 PM (+y/Ru)

96 One day in the future we will be judged and see ourselves as the content
of our characters rather than the color of our skin, or our genitalia.


Never happen.

Posted by: Teh Ghey Mafia at January 21, 2018 12:53 PM (Tyii7)

97 Tribalism is the norm. We're the odd ducks...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 21, 2018 12:54 PM (7LY+6)

98 AoSHQ Prayer List

rickl- Lung cancer.

redc1c4- General Health. Would like to be healthy enough to look for a j*b.

kbdabear- Mother's dementia.

CaliGirl- Mom's boyfriend Arthur has cancer. --(12/26/17)- The gold digger that is elder abusing a friend of ours and making everyone miserable with ridiculous demand letters has claimed her first victim. I'm sad to report the special needs son of the elderly victim was found dead today. I have no idea how he passed. He was in his 50's and had no health problems.

Hrothgar- Lost Son in accident; (1/6/18 ) I'd appreciate Horde prayers for my grandson and granddaughter, both still very devastated by the loss of their father, and I truly fear for their futures. The grandson is in real emotional distress, but the granddaughter seems to be pulling out of it, but I can't really be sure.

Ritabootoo- Passed Friday, December 8th. Prayers for Family and Friends. Frequenter of the Pet Thread and our beloved friend.

Fenelon Spoke- Healing for my son and ability to pay healthcare bills.

RedMindBlueState- Cousin Agnes has passed. Prayers for her friends and Family. If you could add her husband Mel, who has Parkinson's and moved into assisted living now without his wife, to the list, I'd appreciate it.

Dr. Strangepork- Friend may have had a stroke.

Bebe's boobs destroy- Former co-worker's four year-old has cancer.

Mindful webworker- Wife's health due to longstanding issues.

ibguy- Sister's brain cancer, (gioblastoma).

pookysgirl- Husband's suicide attempt and mental health.

Jade Sea- Husband's cancer

Moron Pundit- Father-in-law's heart surgery.

junior- Employment

Duke Lowell- Son in need of healing.

Miley- Future employment, big move, Mother's cellulitis of leg.

Captain Whitebread- Mother's health and stable employment.

Jinx- Mother's passing.

Emmie- Continued relationship with Daughter.

Vic- Return of cancer.

ReneeTX- Terminal brain cancer.

Booknlass- Relationship with Daughter.

Just wondering- My sister Lisa had a large brain tumor removed, is partly paralyzed and wheel chair bound with memory issues and heart failure - needs prayers for her encouragement and recovery.
Also, our family needs prayers after the recent death of our father, after the passing of our mother last year. We've been through a rough patch.

Lin-duh fell- My FIL passed away 9/27/17. Could use the prayers for my husband finding a job.

Blacksheep- Stage 2 prostate cancer.

Weirddave and Gingy- Gingy's father passing away.

Alexthechick- Father's dementia.

Molly K- Niece killed by elderly driver.

Donna V- Bills to be paid and an alcoholic Brother.

Gushka- Infection after being bitten by her horse. Her friends' mental health after returning from battle.

TonyPete- Friends' terminal diagnosis, Wife's, (Renee), terminal illness.

bergerbuilder- Multiple strokes, out of hospital at end of September.

Chi- Friend's passing, (Lewis), after battle with cancer.

huerfano- Father's recovery from heart failure.

The Oort Cloud- Thalassemia, genetic blood disorder, complicated my hemolytic anemia. "Given" two years by doctor.

Hopped up on Something- Immediate Family member with cancer. Bone pain without opioids, Hospital Policy.

Publius- Father's health. Rheumatoid arthritis, severe pain during flare-ups. Stamina, in general.

Cannibal Bob- Our brother-in-law (my sister's husband) passed away yesterday morning. We are mourning the loss of the gentlest of souls who shared his gift of listening, was a Good Samaritan to any in need and was so close to the earth that you were grounded and at peace just being around him.
-Also, Bob's cousin who just finished chemo has been pronounced in remission. Praise the Lord!
-Our other brother-in-law with the cancer around his heart is doing well with chemo/radiation. We pray that it continues successfully and with few side effects.

Insomniac- 1) That my autoimmune disorder will stay under control. 2) That the work situation I have will continue to come together and grow.

OregonMuse- Shoulder replacement and recovery.

Slapweasel- Father's dementia and Mother's attitude.

Jane D'oh- Son's Best Friend was in a terrible automobile accident. Surgeries and long recovery ahead. (1/9/18 )

USNtakim- My MIL, (73), is going in for surgery 11/22/17 for bowel re-sectioning. Please pray for her and her family.

Iron Mike Golf- My grandsons. Safety and peace for them. Mrs IMG is scheduled for surgery.

Cheri- Lost Son, (21), in February to hiking accident.

Teresa in Ft. Worth- Lost Daughter, (26) to suicide on September 7th.

Alf767- Employment. 60 y.o. ex-pilot in aviation industry.

Backwards Boy- B'Gal has Congestive heart failure, COPD, scleroderma and arthritis.

Dang- Esophageal cancer. Starting radiation and chemo week of 11/26/17.

Methos- (12/12/17) Mother has Alzheimers and friend Herb died shortly before Thanksgiving, leaving a wife with unspecified memory issues and three adult children.

LCMS Rulz!- (12/12/17) 1) Advancing dementia in my Mother-in-Law: we're going to have to move her all-too-soon;
2) Praise and Glory be for the near simultaneous cancer healings among three of my in-laws.

Michael the Texan- (12/12/17) Difficult divorce from longtime physically abusive wife. Please pray for my wife, too, as this divorce will leave her with much less financial freedom.

Elisabeth- (12/12/17) Chronic stress from my perpetually low income is worsening my known autoimmune problems and probably some that haven't yet been diagnosed, and I've just started my fifth course of antibiotics for a recurrent sinus infection and nothing I've tried to improve my income situation (finding a better job, asking for a raise, selling my work, finding cheaper housing) has worked. Plus, I need new glasses but can't afford the eye exam.

Redinabluestate- (12/12/17) Prostate cancer.

Physics Geek- (12/12/17) Both my mother and stepdad (divorced and not together) are suffering from dementia, with my stepfather's case being somewhat further along.

NoLongerInTheBellyoftheBeast- (12/18/17) I need to have prayers added to the list for a friend and cow-orker named Renee who just got diagnosed with endometrial cancer. I could also use prayers for myself. Major joint pain and long term major depression. And prayers for better finances to pay medical bills.

Johnny- (12/19/17) About a year and a half ago my wife divorced me. It was all very civil and amicable. Today she told me (texted me) that she is now engaged. This whole time, I've been torn up and depressed, of course, but, I don't know, maybe I was in denial or something, because when she told me that.. Gah. It's really over. That life that I was so excited about, will never come to pass.

Tone Staple- (12/19/17) For a relative with Pick's Disease, and for his family. Pick's Disease is a form of dementia that starts with gradual loss of language.

Arch Stanton- (12/19/17) My dad is recovering from having a pacemaker put in, and battling COPD.

Captain Whitebread- (12/19/17) I've had to go to the local hospital ER a couple of times since heart surgery because I was concerned I might be having more heart trouble. I didn't, but since I didn't have insurance, the bill was huge. I tried paying a little every month, but sometimes I missed because money is really tight.
Monday, I was served with a court summons. The collection agency working for the hospital is taking me to court. I owe $4500. I have no way of paying in full. I have to appear in court with the next 35 days.
All I am asking from the Horde is prayers that a workable solution might be found. I am not asking for money; everyone has done more than enough after my heart surgery and when I almost had my electricity cut off a couple of years ago. I believe that with enough prayer, a way will reveal itself. At this time, I don't know what it is. But I believe there is one.

Ladyl- (12/20/17) My dad is back on Hopice and isn't doing great.

Anonymous- (12/19/17) ...Her family has to leave the R.V. park because her husband lost his job two months ago. He has a job prospect in Texas so he is going after it. There are 7 of them living in a 16 ft. trailer but the children are always clean and happy. She has been driving for Uber just to keep food on the table. She's scared about moving, trying to be normal for the kids, doesn't know what will happen if this job prospect doesn't work out. She's got such a good heart and is trying so hard, right now she feels a little desperate and tired.
Please pray for her and her family. I know how much it helps.

Anonymous- (12/22/17) A dear friend who survived cancer--twice--died unexpectedly Thursday night. Not from cancer. He was one of the kindest, sweetest people I've known. His widow is in shock, and sitting in their house looking at the tree they decorated together, and their gifts to each other under it.

Patrick from Ohio- (12/24/17) Can you add my Sister In Law Denise she suffers from LUPUS like symptoms and nothing is really working.

JQ- (12/26/17) 'Twas an otherwise Merry Christmas, because it might be Dad's last, as he has advanced cancer. Dad (80s) is ambulatory but slowing down...
The reality of Dad's situation hit hard tonight after I got home and my heart is breaking.
Prayers welcome, if you would please.
Thanks, Merry Christmas, and God bless you all.

Jim, Sunk New Dawn- (12/26/17) From a rather chilly Orlando, FL. 89 y/o Step Mom in deteriorating health. One way trip, and a contest as to what gets her first. Water around enlarged heart, or OldTimers.
Looks like I'll have to make a hasty long term TDY to Orlando, for however long time is left.

DaninMN- (1/8/18 ) Daughter came home from NICU and met her 19 Month old Sister.

mpfs- (1/1/18 ) Mom was taken by ambulance yesterday afternoon to the hospital. Possible stroke. When they took her sugar last night it was... 759. Even the neurologist did a double take.

Catman- (1/2/18 ) My dad died tonight.... Please prayers.

Ron- (1/2/18 ) Please pray for the family of Zack Parrish, the Douglas County Sheriff's
Deputy who was slaughtered in an ambush in Highlands Ranch, CO on December
30. He was a true follower of Jesus Christ. Zack was 29. Please pray for his
wife Gracie and the two little daughters he left.

rocketeer67- (1/2/18 ) Praying for strength to get through a totally unexpected, unforeseen and unwanted divorce from my wife of 20 years. Praying for understanding as to why she has asked for it. Prayers that her eyes would be opened to the hurt that this is causing everyone around her, even if we're all trying to accept it (with varying degrees of sucess moment by moment) with dignity, grace, and love. Most importantly, prayers for our young children, who while appearing to be bearing it better than expected are clearly (at least to me) not themselves.


AllenG- (1/9/18 ) None of my normal pith tonight. I desperately covet the prayers of the Horde.
The 9 yr old son of one of my old HS/Church youth group friends wouldn't wake up this morning. They took him to the ER and an MRI found a mass in his brain. A first surgery to remove it was only partially successful, he still hasn't woken up, and he's been back I surgery for the lady couple of hours.
His name is Brody Nelson. I grew up with his mom, Courtney. They and their family could really use a miracle right about now...

Gabe- (1/9/18 ) I have a couple of good friends, Patrick Porter and Barbie Turner who are both battling cancer. A petition to the almighty by the horde would be huge IMO.

Commander Cobra- (1/9/18 ) Prayers for active Service Members and those who have served.

sulla- (1/9/18 ) I'd ask to have my mother and sister-in-law added. My mother broke her shoulder this week, and my sister-in-law is recovering from a liver/kidney transplant.

Fox2!- (1/14/18 ) Please add a friend to the list. She is in ICU, sedated and intubated.

jeannebodine- (1/14/18 ) feeling particularly low right now in this brutal winter. My 68-year old husband suffers from Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease and he is deteriorating rapidly.
We have no family around us and friends are thin on the ground, even though we always had many friends throughout our lives. Even close friends have disappeared.
It sure is a different world out there than the one I grew up in. Prayers would be so appreciated for my husband and for me, a full-time spouse caregiver.
Thank you so much. Prayers for you and the Horde from my end.

Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing- Job issues; (1/16/18 ) A friend's wife of barely 2 years was killed by a train. No word on whether it was an accident or suicide. Prayers for him and his daughters.

Nathan- (1/16/18 ) Kitsapbass (and family) homeless. Long story short. Wife's ex husband has custody of elder two kids, goes to jail. We move in because state is mandating parent must be in residence, requiring us to break lease. Ex-husband kicks all (including kids he has custody of) out of house because he is upset that we are in the house (even though he knew all this was required by state).

Kim Jong-nun- (1/16/18 ) Please pray for the complete recovery of Wayne DuPree's sister who has the most virulent form of breast cancer.

Northernlurker- Wife has passed, (1/17/18 ).

Czarkazm- (1/17/18 ) We are grateful to God for taking care of our daughter in her first semester at college while earning a 4.0 GPA.

thathalfrican- (1/19/18 ) My mother for healing from her cancer and weight gain. My father for having the weight of the world on his shoulders. My siblings for being so young and having to endure all this. My wife for a safe finish to her pregnancy and delivery of our child.
Some good fortune for my family would be helpful heh.




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Please contact me through email, homemadegravy71 at the hooya, as I cannot be around for many of the posts in most threads. Feel free to copy and paste others' prayer requests and send them to me.

If I can post in your "voice", I'd like it better. It personalizes the prayer, instead of my shorthand.

I'd also like to pray for the people who aren't on this list. For those who don't choose to publicize their trials and maladies, I understand. You won't suffer in silence. A candle will be lit in your name.

Please remember the Prayer of St. Francis:

http://www.prayerguide.org.uk/stfrancis.htm

Corrections, additions and updates can be sent to the email in my nic.

Be as specific or as vague as you need. Anonymity is, of course, welcome.

-This list will be posted nearly every Sunday, as close to Noon as possible.

Let us console others, O Lord.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 21, 2018 12:54 PM (Ckg4U)

99 Oh crap....Dennis DeYoung (Lady) on the radio... manhood draining to zero... no strength left to change the station...

Posted by: ro-man
________

My Pandora is playing "Am I Evil" by Metallica. I'll cover for you. Let the song finish and regroup.

Posted by: FireHorse at January 21, 2018 12:55 PM (y+SdL)

100 Eagles fans. Stay the hell away from them.

And, how.

Posted by: Santa Claus at January 21, 2018 12:55 PM (Tyii7)

101 Joef, I think Trump is biding his time, letting the shutdown play against the Dems. I suspect he has a master plan. A yuge one.
Posted by: RI Red at January 21, 2018 12:51 PM (4E1nt)

I'd like to believe so--and down deep I do suspect he has a plan--but if the Republicans crumble before the daily onslaught of negative press, he'll be standing alone with his dick in his hand.

Posted by: JoeF. at January 21, 2018 12:55 PM (7uYFy)

102
Joef, I think Trump is biding his time, letting the shutdown play against the Dems. I suspect he has a master plan. A yuge one.

Posted by: RI Red at January 21, 2018 12:51 PM (4E1nt)


Either that or the Democrats said to him, "We have a problem, we know the American people aren't behind immigration but we need to go through the bukkake theater to make it look like we really, really tried. So just play along and then we'll make a deal. Short shutdown over the weekend, no one will notice."

That's my theory. Or the Dems are nutzz. One of those.

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 21, 2018 12:56 PM (2FqvZ)

103 Related:

https://tinyurl.com/ycoydvrr

*In other words, there are paid trolls sitting side by side somewhere in
St. Petersburg hate quoting each other s troll account, helping to shape
divisive attitudes in the U.S. among actual Americans who think of the
other side as a caricature of itself.*

Well, duh. Read the whole thread.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at January 21, 2018 12:56 PM (YWtf/)

104 Eagles fans. Stay the hell away from them."

Limits on battery purchases?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 21, 2018 12:57 PM (7LY+6)

105 Greetings fappers and fappees.

"Can I be a good person and support our President?" I'm surprised that's even a question, but it's been the one that Progda has fabricated over the past couple of years.

Of course, to them, if you support their agenda, you're a good human being who possesses all of the necessary qualities of a modern human. You'll have their approval.
Never mind that they want desperately to control everything you think, do, and say and will do anything to get that adrenalin rush of ordering others around.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 21, 2018 12:57 PM (tRaq7)

106 84: would it be covered by anyone except Fox?
Posted by: CN at January 21, 2018 12:50 PM (5gaNQ)

Good question. But I think they would because he's good for ratings and because they still believe he's an oaf who will beclown himself before the voters.

Posted by: JoeF. at January 21, 2018 12:58 PM (7uYFy)

107 to prevent #Eagles fans from climbing after the #NFCChampionshipGame tonight.

Or hanging themselves...

Go Vikings !

Posted by: jsg at January 21, 2018 12:58 PM (/FL4O)

108 Republicans are/should reconsider DACA because 30 or so of them who are up for re-election in 2018 live in districts with 20+% Hispanics.

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How many of them are up for re-election in districts with 50%+ Americans?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Help! The Deranged Beavers Are Trying To Kill Me! at January 21, 2018 12:59 PM (+y/Ru)

109 Eagles fans. Stay the hell away from them."
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 21, 2018 12:57 PM (7LY+6)

I know. All they want to do is hear "Hotel California" again and again and again.

Posted by: JoeF. at January 21, 2018 12:59 PM (7uYFy)

110 The problem with immigration is partly that they no longer become American, they are taught (by Dems) to stay in their groups (and vote D).

But another problem is IQ, (except allegedly for the Asian immigrants, though I'm not sure they give tests in the back alleys). It may be the average legal immigrant is going to be smarter, that is indicated by their ability to come legally.

But the biggest issue is cultural, as most have lived their whole lives under tyranny and corruption, and their enclaves will perpetuate more of that, and cause great conflicts here.

this is American Thinker, "What I learned in the Peace Corps, Trump is Right"

https://tinyurl.com/y87s9ye4

Posted by: illiniwek at January 21, 2018 01:00 PM (otAqJ)

111 I barely escaped Philly with my damned reindeer.

Posted by: Santa Claus at January 21, 2018 01:00 PM (Tyii7)

112
Been a long time since a Philadelphia sports team won a major championship. A lot of pressure built up. The Eagles have never won a Super Bowl -- however they won the championship the year before it got titled that. I call it Super Bowl -1.

Fifty two years. Yeah, it could get wild.

I'd hate to be an employer with the Eagle fan employees filing in to work tomorrow. They're gonna be useless, whatever happens.

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 21, 2018 01:02 PM (2FqvZ)

113 Either that or the Democrats said to him, "We have a problem, we know
the American people aren't behind immigration but we need to go through
the bukkake theater to make it look like we really, really tried.


Almost right. I don't think they talked to Trump about it, but I think they realize they're in a box canyon. They're doing the shutdown so as to mollify the loonier part of their base, but they now know who will win, and it ain't them. They want it to go away.

Posted by: pep at January 21, 2018 01:02 PM (LAe3v)

114 I sure could use a hand job right about now.

Posted by: Tom Brady at January 21, 2018 01:04 PM (Tyii7)

115 Sally Short Bus Kohn beclowning herself again

https://tinyurl.com/y8t3c2hx

Posted by: jsg at January 21, 2018 01:05 PM (/FL4O)

116 Even when dims don't have feet, they manage the worst response

Posted by: coffee, stove, dogs, coffee at January 21, 2018 01:05 PM (4u7kU)

117 As DNC Chair Tom Perez tries to rally his liberal base and blame Republicans for the Schumer Shutdown, it's worth noting that he is reportedly "miserable" and "hates" his job.

Hey, Tom. If at first you don't suceed, lie, lie again.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Help! The Deranged Beavers Are Trying To Kill Me! at January 21, 2018 01:06 PM (+y/Ru)

118 Thanks for your Prayer List, Slappy. It and the prayers are greatly welcome.

Back when I was a real live Boy, they were called "good vibrations" or "positive vibes" (there was no religious component because it wasn't seen as being "cool.")

Today, they're "what goes around, comes around," with a genuine spiritual aspect of wishes for good things to happen to others.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 21, 2018 01:06 PM (tRaq7)

119 Well if this is nearly in the bag then it's time for the GOP to surprise everyone with a tactical surrender.

Posted by: Weasel at January 21, 2018 01:06 PM (Sfs6o)

120 Thanks, FireHorse...

Fixed the radio, now recharging with a little live Hendrix (Jimi), Blue Suede Shoes.

Posted by: ro-man at January 21, 2018 01:07 PM (RuIsu)

121 It's a catch 22 for our administrative state. Stopping Unregulated immigrants means a collapse of the entitlements in the near future and welfare state falls. Allowing unregulated immigration allows one culture to replace another and America dies anyway after becoming a 3rd world shithole.

They have gone with the latter.

Posted by: Monk at January 21, 2018 01:07 PM (g4lFK)

122 Sure hope the fans give me a nice hand when I'm coming out of the tunnel.

Posted by: Tom Brady at January 21, 2018 01:07 PM (Tyii7)

123 Making good on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's earlier promise, Turkey launched a blistering wave of air strikes on U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in [Syria's] Afrin province and crossed the border with troops and artillery. Details are sketchy, but at least for the moment the Kurds claim to have beaten back the attack.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Help! The Deranged Beavers Are Trying To Kill Me! at January 21, 2018 01:08 PM (+y/Ru)

124
Democrat strategy: Sometimes you have to get the losing out of the way. Big picture? A loss of 10 Senate seats and 60-40 Republican majority.

Take the loss, punt the ball, and move on.

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 21, 2018 01:09 PM (2FqvZ)

125 Gotta hand it to coach. He's a genius.

Posted by: Tom Brady at January 21, 2018 01:11 PM (Tyii7)

126 Dang! I'd do any of the gals in the 'My Pillow' commercials!

Posted by: Bill in Chappaqua at January 21, 2018 01:12 PM (bc2Lc)

127 See what I did there? I crack me up. Okay, I'll stop.

Posted by: Tom Brady at January 21, 2018 01:13 PM (Tyii7)

128 Since drive by psychiatric exams are all the rage these days, I got one for Obozo. He hates America and white people because his cracker mom abandoned him. Plus his banker grandmother was a racist who didn't want to be raped and murdered.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Help! The Deranged Beavers Are Trying To Kill Me! at January 21, 2018 01:14 PM (+y/Ru)

129 Uh Oh this is gonna get some people riled up lol

https://tinyurl.com/y8bjyyeh

Oxford University has extended time for maths and computer science exams in a bid to help women get better grades.

Posted by: jsg at January 21, 2018 01:15 PM (/FL4O)

130

There is no Melting Pot.

Now we are a candle made of 20 different crayon colors, each melting and dripping down, running over each other, towards the bottom, but never blending.

The Puddle of Many Colors.

Posted by: In Vino Veritits, Deplorably Useless at January 21, 2018 01:16 PM (e2ieZ)

131 113 Almost right. I don't think they talked to Trump about it, but I think they realize they're in a box canyon. They're doing the shutdown so as to mollify the loonier part of their base, but they now know who will win, and it ain't them. They want it to go away.

Posted by: pep at January 21, 2018 01:02 PM (LAe3v) >>>

I think this is part of a Dem plan to re-take the House. It may be a poor plan, but it's a plan. Supporting data: On Meet the Press today, Chuck Todd showed that a fair number (sorry, I cannot recall any of the figures - was still sleepy) of current R House districts in CA, AZ, NM, TX, and FL have a pretty high percentage of Hispanics, including x districts where the R incumbent is not running for re-election (one example: Issa).

So, the logic goes (and as said almost literally by Todd), all of the Dem DACA-related drama is aimed at stirring-up voter turn-out this November.

If so, I dislike it not least because it's a callous strategy (the Dem politicians and money-people don't care about the DACA individuals or any of the illegals), and I hope it fails.

Posted by: Gref at January 21, 2018 01:17 PM (AMIL/)

132 I a big Eagle fan has never been to a game, but will cross the Walt Whitman tomorrow driving by the Linc decked out in green and over dead Viking fans along the way.

Posted by: Skip at January 21, 2018 01:18 PM (aC6Sd)

133 I retired from the electrical industry. The company I worked for really wanted to emulate GE because GE was the big dog on the block when Welch was leading them. My company failed in their quest to be the second coming of GE. They never expanded past the core businesses that made them what they are today. That stock is trading today at $138/share.
GE did this to themselves like so many other companies. They expanded past their core competencies.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at January 21, 2018 01:18 PM (N3JsI)

134 AW - You forget abandonment by his African father who he had to go searching for after he was gone.

Posted by: Skip at January 21, 2018 01:19 PM (aC6Sd)

135 all of the Dem DACA-related drama is aimed at stirring-up voter turn-out this November....
Posted by: Gref


I agree, but I think they've miscalculated which voters will be enthused. Trump plays the game by his own rules, not theirs, and they're having difficulty adapting.

Posted by: pep at January 21, 2018 01:20 PM (LAe3v)

136
anti-nfl thread in our near future?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at January 21, 2018 01:20 PM (0zeTt)

137 128: Obama is the malignant narcissist they accuse Trump of being, Dems always accuse the other side of their behaviors.

Posted by: CN at January 21, 2018 01:21 PM (5gaNQ)

138 Listening to Schumershutdown Schumer. Gagh!

Say's he gave Trump his number for funding on the Wall but then wouldn't disclose what that "Fully funded" number was.

Here's what he offered: $1.8B, not the $18B needed. Nick Mulvaney had the details in his press conference yesterday.



Posted by: WisRich at January 21, 2018 01:21 PM (OAlmw)

139
The assimilated Hispanic voters have no love for the border jumpers. The Puerto Ricans who escaped PRs terrible employment were supposed to hand Florida to Hillary. Guess what? They preferred having jobs to glass ceilings.

Chuck Todd can eat a BOD. He's wish-casting with magical thinking.

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 21, 2018 01:21 PM (2FqvZ)

140 GE did this to themselves like so many other companies. They expanded past their core competencies.

Graft and rent-seeking?

Posted by: pep at January 21, 2018 01:21 PM (LAe3v)

141 I agree, but I think they've miscalculated which voters will be enthused. Trump plays the game by his own rules, not theirs, and they're having difficulty adapting.

Posted by: pep at January 21, 2018 01:20 PM (LAe3v) >>>

Concur.

Posted by: Gref at January 21, 2018 01:21 PM (AMIL/)

142
A thread to discuss Heat Pumps and other HVAC units?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at January 21, 2018 01:21 PM (0zeTt)

143 142. Swamp cooler and a barrel full of chopped up furniture.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 21, 2018 01:23 PM (fA1SL)

144 pep. lol, not exactly. Although my husband did work for a company who's president and cfo both ended up in jail for tax evasion and general unlawfulness.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at January 21, 2018 01:23 PM (N3JsI)

145 Judging by the latest polls, The GOP may week pick up some seats in the house. They will certainly pick up 4-6 in the Senate

Posted by: coffee, stove, dogs, coffee at January 21, 2018 01:24 PM (4u7kU)

146
Swamp cooler and a barrel full of chopped up furniture.


Hillbilly pellet stove?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at January 21, 2018 01:24 PM (0zeTt)

147
There is no Melting Pot.

Now we are a candle made of 20 different crayon colors, each melting and dripping down, running over each other, towards the bottom, but never blending.

The Puddle of Many Colors.
Posted by: In Vino Veritits, Deplorably Useless


When I was in the Navy we were sent to a race relations class. The premise was that we were not a melting pot but rather a Mulligan Stew where in each ingredient had its own unique flavor to be savored.

That class was in 1974.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 21, 2018 01:24 PM (IqV8l)

148 144 pep. lol, not exactly. Although my husband did work for a company who's president and cfo both ended up in jail for tax evasion and general unlawfulness.
Posted by: never enough caffeine at January 21, 2018 01:23 PM (N3JsI)

Company = Mob ???

Posted by: coffee, stove, dogs, coffee at January 21, 2018 01:25 PM (4u7kU)

149 142
A thread to discuss Heat Pumps and other HVAC units?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at January 21, 2018 01:21 PM (0zeTt)

What is a heat pump ?

Posted by: coffee, stove, dogs, coffee at January 21, 2018 01:26 PM (4u7kU)

150 Racist spottec in St. Louis!

"This message is for black folk," Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards, who is black, said from the podium.

. . . .

He said that black people have to look in the mirror and address the black-on-black homicides if they want to move forward and continue MLK's dream.

http://bit.ly/2EXSAGr

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Help! The Deranged Beavers Are Trying To Kill Me! at January 21, 2018 01:26 PM (+y/Ru)

151 148 144 pep. lol, not exactly. Although my husband did work for a company who's president and cfo both ended up in jail for tax evasion and general unlawfulness.
Posted by: never enough caffeine

Company = Mob ???
Posted by: coffee, stove, dogs, coffee
---
Even lower on the honor scale - a bank.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 21, 2018 01:27 PM (tr2D7)

152 More cracks in the Schumershutdown Dam:

"Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that he would consider funding for President Trump's border wall if that's a "ransom" that the president wants in exchange for protecting recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program."

Posted by: WisRich at January 21, 2018 01:27 PM (OAlmw)

153 138 Listening to Schumershutdown Schumer. Gagh!

Say's he gave Trump his number for funding on the Wall but then wouldn't disclose what that "Fully funded" number was.

Here's what he offered: $1.8B, not the $18B needed. Nick Mulvaney had the details in his press conference yesterday.


Posted by: WisRich at January 21, 2018 01:21 PM (OAlmw) >>>

On Chris Wallace's Fox show this AM, Mulvaney said Schumer offered to approve "authorizing" money for wall construction. Mulvaney pointed out that money must be appropriated to actually be spent. He reminded Wallace that wall construction is already authorized!

The Dems may not be able to get away with their double-speak word games in 2018 as in the past!

Posted by: Gref at January 21, 2018 01:29 PM (AMIL/)

154 I was in high school for Nixon's first election. I was aware of how betrayed by him Republicans felt. I have wondered for years what it would take for leftists to feel that way. I have come to the conclusion that they are incapable of feeling betrayed. they have no sense of honor to be betrayed. Apparently anything can be justified or denied.

Posted by: lurking grandma at January 21, 2018 01:30 PM (sujqA)

155 >>>By backing a man so hated by some am I compromising my integrity and values? Can I be pro-Trump and still be a good person?


Gah. That's silly. Barack Obama was "hated by some". Every candidate will be "hated by some". It's like saying "Can I back a man who's 5'10" with brown hair"? Simply irrelevant. These people are trying.

Posted by: Messrs. Dorsey, Zuck & Schmidt at January 21, 2018 01:32 PM (/qEW2)

156 To me it looks like Nancy Pelosi's face is starting to cave in like Jupiter in 2010.

Posted by: jsg at January 21, 2018 01:33 PM (/FL4O)

157 Chad Pergram@ChadPergram
McConnell says Schumer "shut down the gov't..because he didn't get everything he wanted in a mtg Friday with the President"

Turtle coming out of his shell?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Help! The Deranged Beavers Are Trying To Kill Me! at January 21, 2018 01:33 PM (+y/Ru)

158 If Lovin' Trump is wrong, I don't wanna be Right!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 21, 2018 01:33 PM (V2Yro)

159 127
See what I did there? I crack me up. Okay, I'll stop.


Posted by: Tom Brady at January 21, 2018 01:13 PM (Tyii7)

I dont get it.


Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at January 21, 2018 01:33 PM (YWtf/)

160 154: We'll DO the betraying, thank you very much!

Posted by: Donks at January 21, 2018 01:34 PM (5gaNQ)

161 http://popculture.com/trending/2018/01/20/
statue-of-liberty-ellis-island-
closed-government-shutdown/

Press + Park Service applying the weaponization of ShutDown.

Time for a Mr. Park Ranger tear down this banner speech.

Posted by: DaveA at January 21, 2018 01:34 PM (FhXTo)

162 Wonder why I never hear an Anita Bryant tune on XM/Sirius radio.

Things that make you go mmmmmmmm.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 21, 2018 01:34 PM (EoRCO)

163 No, not the mob, he worked for Tyco Intl. Anyone remember the multi thousand dollar umbrella stand? Mostly it was the tax evasion and spending company money unwisely that did the president in. I believe he's out of jail already.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at January 21, 2018 01:35 PM (N3JsI)

164 so it's surprising to me why he doesn't make a televised speech
directly to the American people laying out just what the Democrats are
up to and why he is fighting them.


Soon.

There's still dealing going on.

Posted by: DaveA at January 21, 2018 01:36 PM (FhXTo)

165 I have wondered for years what it would take for leftists to feel that way. I have come to the conclusion that they are incapable of feeling betrayed. they have no sense of honor to be betrayed. Apparently anything can be justified or denied.

Posted by: lurking grandma at January 21, 2018 01:30 PM (sujqA)


========

It's worse. They'd feel betrayed if their guys behaved ethically instead of fighting dirty to win. If the DNC didn't pay for the dossier and abuse FISA, they'd feel betrayed. They're rabid animals attacking in a pack. Moral considerations don't arise for them.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at January 21, 2018 01:36 PM (/qEW2)

166
Keep this in mind: DACA is essentially OPEN-ENDED Amnesty for the ENTIRE world.

If the Left gets DACA, they get: Unfettered-Chain-Migration-in-Perpetuity

What DACA is NOT: There is no SET CUTOFF DATE for these Fake Children who are citizens of other countries. DACA will be for ALL "children" who are brought here illegally from yesterday until Forever.

AND, THEN all these "children" will be able to bring in all their "relatives."

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at January 21, 2018 01:37 PM (0zeTt)

167 I'd hate to be an employer with the Eagle fan employees filing in to work tomorrow. They're gonna be useless, whatever happens.

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at January 21, 2018 01:02 PM (2FqvZ)

I'm likely to be laid off Wednesday, so I don't care what shape I'm in Monday.

Posted by: josephistan at January 21, 2018 01:37 PM (ANIFC)

168
DACA is an OPEN BORDER & Amnesty.

DACA is an OPEN BORDER & Amnesty.

DACA is an OPEN BORDER & Amnesty.

DACA is an OPEN BORDER & Amnesty.

DACA is an OPEN BORDER & Amnesty.



Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at January 21, 2018 01:38 PM (0zeTt)

169 166: Well the whole family must coalesce around the new American citizen to help him on his way...all 30 of them.

Posted by: Donks at January 21, 2018 01:38 PM (5gaNQ)

170 You guys need to remember. Dems depend on convincing others they are always the victim. And what will cure all their ills is more govt programs. And once we get you on those we have you! It's why drug dealers give their first dose for free. I've seen nothing that indicates Trump is a racist. Unemployment for black people is at a low not seen in years. The problem is the left, media (redundant) has done a great job painting everyone opposed as a rayyycisss!

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 21, 2018 01:39 PM (L3YlV)

171
DACA is NOT just amnesty for the 800K* "children"** already here.

* fake estimate
**fake children -- these people are adults

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at January 21, 2018 01:39 PM (0zeTt)

172 Stopping Unregulated immigrants means a collapse of the entitlements in the near future and welfare state falls.

That's so stupid it's not even wrong.

Posted by: DaveA at January 21, 2018 01:40 PM (FhXTo)

173 I don't like the Balkanization of America. One day in the future we will
be judged and see ourselves as the content of our characters rather
than the color of our skin, or our genitalia. But I fear that for the
next generation we will be forced to carve off chunks of the electorate
and appeal to them based on those factors
---
Is someone making a point of regularly reminding current welfare recipients that every illegal alien that democrats protect reduces the amount of welfare available for them?

Because that seems like it would be helpful.

Posted by: Methos at January 21, 2018 01:40 PM (XQvuQ)

174 Many years ago the Eagles were in the playoffs. We were returning from an overseas trip and our home airport at the time was Philly. Landed just fine but couldn't get our luggage. Sunday afternoon of the playoffs and the second shift at the airport called in sick. Waited 2 plus hours for our luggage to appear because they were short staffed and the first shift that stayed overtime wasn't particularly motivated.
How we despised that airport. Gave it the middle finger on the way out of town the last time.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at January 21, 2018 01:40 PM (N3JsI)

175 170 You guys need to remember. Dems depend on convincing others they are always the victim. And what will cure all their ills is more govt programs. And once we get you on those we have you! It's why drug dealers give their first dose for free. I've seen nothing that indicates Trump is a racist. Unemployment for black people is at a low not seen in years. The problem is the left, media (redundant) has done a great job painting everyone opposed as a rayyycisss!
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 21, 2018 01:39 PM (L3YlV)

He's making mass numbers of black people work. Just like slavery in the Old South!

Posted by: Insomniac - mostly stable at January 21, 2018 01:40 PM (NWiLs)

176
DACA is automatically the permission for all the "dreamers" entire families to stay here, too.

And then ALL those people will be able to bring in their families.

Essentially, DACA will mean everyone in Mexico and elsewhere will Free Pass to cross the border and stay legally in the USA with full benefits.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at January 21, 2018 01:41 PM (0zeTt)

177 25 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 21, 2018 12:09 PM (+RVKP)

I just see the inevitable one step forward two steps back scenario continuing for the long run. Still makes us better than everyone else though so we got that going for us.

Which is nice.

Posted by: Pete Seria at January 21, 2018 01:41 PM (2WfB0)

178

DACA is the biggest fraud perpetrated on the citizens of the USA since global warming.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at January 21, 2018 01:42 PM (0zeTt)

179 Here's what Trump knows about negotiating that Schumer and Ryan and McConnell and none of those political idiots seem to know: When you're holding a winning hand, you don't need to do anything. When you have the power, you say nothing, you wait for the other side to show their desperation by making offers to you.

If you've ever watched two dogs fight, it's always the dog that's losing that does all the yelping and whining. The Big Dog has got lots more important things to do than make noise.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 21, 2018 01:42 PM (V2Yro)

180 How well would it be received if I said as a white man, why shouldn't I....

Not well I'm guessing. Not well at all no matter what came next except "live."

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at January 21, 2018 01:44 PM (3BFzK)

181 One more thing to watch for - as this week goes on, Schumer and the dems are going howl more and more loudly that Trump won't negotiate, that Trump won't engage, that Trump is completely Unreasonable and Intransigent. You can measure how close they are to capitulating by how loudly they shriek.

Let me repeat - in a negotiation, when you have the power, you don't need to say anything. You just need the nerve to wait.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 21, 2018 01:45 PM (V2Yro)

182 DACA is the biggest fraud perpetrated on the citizens of the USA since global Madoff warming.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Help! The Deranged Beavers Are Trying To Kill Me! at January 21, 2018 01:46 PM (+y/Ru)

183 She sounds like the typical brain washed progressive trying to shed her chains. Frankly I don't give a flying fork what liberals think of me and that includes the media.

Posted by: Rose at January 21, 2018 01:46 PM (30UCB)

184
To me it looks like Nancy Pelosi's face is starting to cave in like Jupiter in 2010.
Posted by: jsg


ATTEMPT NO LANDING !

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 21, 2018 01:47 PM (IqV8l)

185 it is no fault of their own that trust fund babies are worth millions, so never get to work and develop as normal adults, facing life's adversities.

In the spirit of DACA (not their fault) ... we should take their money and subject them to real life, maybe even pair them up with an illegal alien.

I mean, the point is the parents should have no influence on the children. All third world foreigners must be made equal with all American children. /s

Posted by: illiniwek at January 21, 2018 01:47 PM (otAqJ)

186 When I was in the Navy we were sent to a race relations class. The premise was that we were not a melting pot but rather a Mulligan Stew where in each ingredient had its own unique flavor to be savored.

That class was in 1974.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 21, 2018 01:24 PM (IqV8l)
---
I went to one in the early 90's where a short film was played praising Mauritius, with its "salad bowl" multiculturalism, versus America's "melting pot" style. I've been to a few places like this, and what ends up happening is that each ethnic or racial group carves out its own niche, but one group always ends up on top and they prefer to promote from within. They live together relatively peacefully but they don't mingle socially.

I have also heard the new citizenship style called "hotel style", as in you live there but you really don't feel ownership or a citizen of the place you're visiting.

They really want us to move in parallel tracks.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 21, 2018 01:47 PM (qJtVm)

187 The scary thing is that the media still has so much power over the left side of the bell curve.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at January 21, 2018 01:48 PM (3BFzK)

188 95 Good morning from Philly where crews from the city are greasing the light poles with Crisco to prevent #Eagles fans from climbing after the #NFCChampionshipGame tonight.

Eagles fans. Stay the hell away from them.

http://bit.ly/2DuBmUZ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Help! The Deranged Beavers Are Trying To Kill Me! at January 21, 2018 12:53 PM (+y/Ru)

Ooh yeah, and I'm right in the thick of it. If Da Iggles lose I'll have to seal up the house and move the family into the basement for safety. Probably do the same if they win. Plus if they win all my coworkers will be insanely insufferable.

(My prediction: Iggles and Patriots in the SB. Pats win, 45-20 and I get a nice schadenboner at work.)

Posted by: joncelli, Deplorable Yet Fuzzy at January 21, 2018 01:48 PM (1FhAQ)

189 See what I did there? I crack me up. Okay, I'll stop.

Posted by: Tom Brady at January 21, 2018 01:13 PM (Tyii7)



I DO BUT DON'T WORRY I WON'T SPOIL THE JOKE.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 21, 2018 01:49 PM (/qEW2)

190 Amazing, innit? The concept of the nation state - deemed 'obsolete' if not outright evil by 'thought leaders' and our mediocre kakistocracy - turns out to be not only valid and necessary, but even good and proper. All this and more from a single year of the Trumpening.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 21, 2018 01:49 PM (fA1SL)

191 As an illegal black muslim tranny, I can kill people and be Scott free. Hell, I might even get a book deal and millions of dollars.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at January 21, 2018 01:49 PM (3BFzK)

192 So, Bradley Manning is running for Congress. What's his slogan? "Vote for me because I have a twat."

THE FUNNY THING IS HE DOESN'T!

Posted by: JAS at January 21, 2018 01:50 PM (7JbXq)

193 186. Singapore has that, in spades. Brazil, too, but theirs is a messier version.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 21, 2018 01:51 PM (fA1SL)

194 If DACA was an executive order, why can't it be reversed? What am I missing?

Posted by: Infidel at January 21, 2018 01:51 PM (EGFUD)

195 Democrat strategy: Sometimes you have to get the losing out of the way. Big picture? A loss of 10 Senate seats and 60-40 Republican majority. Take the loss, punt the ball, and move on. Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division

Don't worry, Democrats. You have nothing to fear from a Republican majority.

Posted by: Republican Majority at January 21, 2018 01:52 PM (Ndje9)

196 Can I be a good person? Tell you who is not qualified to answer that question for me: the Left.

Posted by: t-bird at January 21, 2018 01:54 PM (cW490)

197 the media still has so much power over the left side of the bell curve.

Always thought they were 'the left' from some old parliamentary seating arrangement. But your version is MUCH better!

Posted by: t-bird at January 21, 2018 01:57 PM (cW490)

198 Nood cigars in places you'd never guess.

Posted by: dartist at January 21, 2018 01:57 PM (nisXv)

199 What's his slogan?

#IHadThis!

Posted by: Manning's Privates at January 21, 2018 01:59 PM (Ndje9)

200 The problem with leftist minorities and feminists is they don't want fair treatment. They want a power grab. So yes, there must be balkanization.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at January 21, 2018 01:59 PM (/qEW2)

201 This needs wider dissemination: troops-go-without-pay-pelosi-treats-house-dems-taxpayer-funded-dinner-party

https://preview.tinyurl.com/yczyntvl

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 21, 2018 02:01 PM (hyuyC)

202 What am I missing? Posted by: Infidel

The Hawaii Judge Clause of the Constitution.

Posted by: Hawaii Judge at January 21, 2018 02:05 PM (Ndje9)

203 A previous President who was never all that popular, but who knew how to fight and win - U.S. Grant. Nobody in Washington ever liked him very much, except Lincoln. And the voters.

Sherman once said of Grant "I'm twice the general he is. But Grant's got 10 times my nerve." Among his many unusual personality traits, Grant was known for being one of the most unbeatable poker players in the army, and this from a group of players who could put a lot of today's pro's to shame.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 21, 2018 02:06 PM (V2Yro)

204 BackwardsBoy:

Check out the links in my #15. I think you will like them.

Posted by: rickl at January 21, 2018 02:07 PM (sdi6R)

205 This is the same trick as with Obama: vote for me or you are racist.

Only now, as with the boy who called wolf, returns are diminishing.

Result: WINNING !

Posted by: She who shall be Nameless at January 21, 2018 02:10 PM (CjE8v)

206 191 As an illegal black muslim tranny, I can kill people and be Scott free. Hell, I might even get a book deal and millions of dollars.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at January 21, 2018 01:49 PM (3BFzK)

Cultural appropriator.

Posted by: Scott at January 21, 2018 02:10 PM (Dp6qK)

207 Sherman once said of Grant "I'm twice the general he is. But Grant's got 10 times my nerve." Among his many unusual personality traits, Grant was known for being one of the most unbeatable poker players in the army, and this from a group of players who could put a lot of today's pro's to shame.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 21, 2018 02:06 PM (V2Yro)

Must have been weird for that cracker to see his own picture every time he upped the bet to $50.

Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee at January 21, 2018 02:10 PM (7uYFy)

208 193 186. Singapore has that, in spades.
---
I wasn't gonna name names, but yeah.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 21, 2018 02:11 PM (qJtVm)

209 This is the same trick as with Obama: vote for me or you are racist.

Only now, as with the boy who called wolf, returns are diminishing.

Result: WINNING !
Posted by: She who shall be Nameless at January 21, 2018 02:10 PM (CjE8v)

That trick ain't gonna work again. A bit different, but it didn't work with Hillary....

Posted by: JoeF. at January 21, 2018 02:12 PM (7uYFy)

210 As an illegal black muslim tranny, I can kill people and be Scott free. Hell, I might even get a book deal and millions of dollars.

-
Burn, baby, burn!

http://bit.ly/2BikYAM

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Help! The Deranged Beavers Are Trying To Kill Me! at January 21, 2018 02:15 PM (+y/Ru)

211 If DACA was an executive order, why can't it be reversed? What am I missing?

Posted by: Infidel at January 21, 2018 01:51 PM (EGFUD)

It is my understanding that it was reversed by Trump with a delayed effective date... the broohaha now is our betters trying to re-institute it without us plebs lynching them (solely politically of course since tar and feathers have sadly gone out of fashion).

Posted by: redbanzai at January 21, 2018 03:10 PM (FTXAT)

212 Loved her comment about locking doors not because we hate the people outside our homes, but because we love the people inside.

Great way to express it.

Posted by: Gem at January 21, 2018 03:42 PM (XoAz8)

213 If "white privilege" is so powerful, why did Liz Warren pretend to be a minority.

Posted by: SMOD at January 21, 2018 04:03 PM (e8kgV)

214 Probably a dead thread, but

Eagles fans. Stay the hell away from them.

And, how.
Posted by: Santa Claus

We're passionate fans!

Posted by: Dennis Reynolds, An Eroctic Life at January 21, 2018 08:16 PM (+Tibp)

215 Update: The Eagles won big. Some poles were climbed despite the grease. Nobody died, there was no riot...sorry haters.

All bets are off, though, if the manage to win the Big One.

Posted by: Fortunato at January 22, 2018 01:20 AM (yX+tl)

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