The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

It is an indictment of our educational system and the quality of our national leaders that the vile, murderous political philosophy of Lenin and Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot and a host of other power-hungry sociopaths isn't rejected on intellectual grounds, on moral grounds, and on practical grounds.

But here we go...the policy goals of the Communist Party of The United States of America and Democrat party are so closely aligned that they now consider themselves allies. Gone is the time when the Democrat party could be counted on to support the portion of the political philosophy of our founders that respected individuals and freedom and liberty. Because if history has taught us one thing, communism is about one thing...the concentration of power at the top of the party hierarchy. And there is no cost too great to be paid by the people.

'A gangster masquerading as president': American Communists plan Trump 2020 takedown

CHICAGO — America’s Communist Party concluded its national convention seemingly united on two themes: that they are a significant ally of the increasingly powerful left wing of the Democratic Party and that a viable future remains for the Communist Party USA.
As to the question of whether the CPUSA emerges in control or is absorbed into the broader socialism movement peppering the platforms of Democrats running for president in 2020, officials expressed confidence that the red star of their party will continue blazing.

China: 70,000,000
USSR: 60,000,000
Korea: 3,000,000
Cambodia: 2,500,000

And Afghanistan and Vietnam and Ethiopia and Yugoslavia and Mozambique and Romania and Cuba and Angola and...

Get the picture?

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Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 first

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:02 AM (9cans)

2 How many will it take to convince them it won't work?

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 25, 2019 11:02 AM (J+mig)

3 noice

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:02 AM (9cans)

4 2 How many will it take to convince them it won't work?
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 25, 2019 11:02 AM (J+mig)

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A whole lot more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:02 AM (9cans)

5 SCREAM AND LEAP!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 25, 2019 11:03 AM (ClOmq)

6 But this time the right people will be doing it, like Bernie and AOC and...DAMN.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 25, 2019 11:03 AM (RD7QR)

7 hiya

Posted by: ALH at June 25, 2019 11:03 AM (uLuPn)

8 6 But this time the right people will be doing it, like Bernie and AOC and...DAMN.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 25, 2019 11:03 AM (RD7QR)

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"I'll be in control and I'll be well cared for."
-Secret thoughts of every statist

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:04 AM (9cans)

9 How many will it take to convince them it won't work?
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 25, 2019 11:02 AM (J+mig)

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They know it doesnt work.

They are betting THEY get to be on the Politburo.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 25, 2019 11:04 AM (8XRCm)

10 This is always the reply from a communist:

I bet you can't even define communism vs socialism vs maoism. Only a stupid reich winger would say something like this parroting Faux News lies. All the left wants is equality and an end to racism, figures you're against that.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 25, 2019 11:04 AM (FiUMj)

11 But here we go...the policy goals of the Communist Party of The United States of America and Democrat party are so closely aligned that they now consider themselves allies.

At some point we are going to have to start killing commies.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2019 11:05 AM (21UM+)

12 9 How many will it take to convince them it won't work?
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 25, 2019 11:02 AM (J+mig)

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They know it doesnt work.

They are betting THEY get to be on the Politburo.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 25, 2019 11:04 AM (8XRCm)

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"I volunteered at a Bernie rally in 2016! I'll definitely get some kind of magistrate position!"
-Idiot plebe

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:05 AM (9cans)

13 Gangster, hooligan, idiot......call Trump what you want, Imma vote for him again.

Posted by: BignJames at June 25, 2019 11:05 AM (ykq7q)

14 It's a death cult. Nothing more, nothing less.
Jim Jones was as racist as possible, see also, Woodrow Wilson, et al.
Manson wanted a race war in which he thought he'd emerge as some kind of ruling potentate.
It's tiring and boring and I have to watch my mouth and keyboard so I don't get banned.

Posted by: Winston a dreg of society at June 25, 2019 11:05 AM (TkuZ0)

15 What can possibly go wrong this time? After all, we've learned so much from our mistakes!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 25, 2019 11:05 AM (AZxMX)

16 Art thread pic was hotter

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at June 25, 2019 11:05 AM (bcbK8)

17 Communism - always one massaaway from utopia.

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at June 25, 2019 11:05 AM (dm05u)

18
But this time the right people will be doing it

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Sorry. Pass.

Any economic and government system that requires benevolent genius dictators for it to function properly is not a properly designed system.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 25, 2019 11:06 AM (8XRCm)

19 10 This is always the reply from a communist:

I bet you can't even define communism vs socialism vs maoism. Only a stupid reich winger would say something like this parroting Faux News lies. All the left wants is equality and an end to racism, figures you're against that.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 25, 2019 11:04 AM (FiUMj)

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I am against statism, the idea that the state has greater claim to the individual than the individual himself. Communism, socialism, Maoism, Chavism, whatever. It's all the same shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:06 AM (9cans)

20 How many will it take to convince them it won't work"

"Won't work"?

That is how it works

Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 25, 2019 11:06 AM (6qErC)

21 Do we have any laws still on the books allowing communists to be shot down like rabid dogs?

Asking for friends.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at June 25, 2019 11:07 AM (bcbK8)

22 How many will it take to convince them it won't work?

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 25, 2019 11:02 AM (J+mig)

Yes, I know there's supposed to be no math on the blog, but there is a term for the number:

A countable infinity!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 25, 2019 11:07 AM (AZxMX)

23 WHOA! Speaking of communist insurgencies....

Emerson Poll released this morning

Biden: 34
Bernie: 27
Warren: 14
Harris: 7

The lead is down to 7 for Slow Joe.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 25, 2019 11:07 AM (FiUMj)

24 The National
@TheNationalUAE
Saudi led coalition in Yemen captures ISIS leader, known as Abu Osama Al-Muhajir.

More to follow
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Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at June 25, 2019 11:07 AM (BqBId)

25 "I volunteered at a Bernie rally in 2016! I'll definitely get some kind of magistrate position!"
-Idiot plebe

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:05 AM (9cans)

Commisar!

Posted by: BignJames at June 25, 2019 11:08 AM (ykq7q)

26 Gangster, hooligan, idiot......call Trump what you want, Imma vote for him again.
Posted by: BignJames

AMEN Brutha !

Posted by: JT at June 25, 2019 11:08 AM (HwnaO)

27 Any economic and government system that requires benevolent genius dictators for it to function properly is not a properly designed system.
Posted by: fixerupper at June 25, 2019 11:06 AM (8XRCm)

Philosopher Kings.

Posted by: DR.WTF at June 25, 2019 11:08 AM (aS1PU)

28 10 This is always the reply from a communist:

I bet you can't even define communism vs socialism vs maoism. Only a stupid reich winger would say something like this parroting Faux News lies. All the left wants is equality and an end to racism, figures you're against that.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 25, 2019 11:04 AM (FiUMj)

The problem is the socialists and communists have successfully muddied the waters as to the definition of their philosophy.

When your average 20-something thinks of socialism they think of Sweden, when in fact Sweden DOES NOT have socialization of the means of production, which is what socialism actually stands for. The Scandi countries are high-tax welfare states; there is still personal property and private means of production.

But the kids with the heads full of mush don't understand that.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 25, 2019 11:08 AM (RD7QR)

29 What do the numbers represent, party members?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2019 11:08 AM (19g6/)

30 The lead is down to 7 for Slow Joe.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 25, 2019 11:07 AM (FiUMj)

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Now THATS progress.!!!!!

...... can i sniff your hair? pleeease?

Posted by: Sleepy Joe at June 25, 2019 11:08 AM (8XRCm)

31 state has greater claim to the individual than the individual "

The greatest success of the West was the ascension of the individual over the tribe... unlike the rest of human history

Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 25, 2019 11:08 AM (6qErC)

32 Cambodia: 2,500,000

dont be sad
1 out of three aint bad

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2019 11:09 AM (JFO2v)

33 Art thread pic was hotter

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at June 25, 2019 11:05 AM (bcbK

Think I will be revisiting that thread throughout the day!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 25, 2019 11:09 AM (AZxMX)

34 "Those are just statistics, man! They distort reality and don't factor in the most important thing. How I feel about shit! Oh, yeah, and the workers and unions and dictatorship of the people stuff"--Spokesxir for the CPUSA.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 25, 2019 11:09 AM (m79Dg)

35 What do the numbers represent, party members?

Nitwits, No-loads and bums !

Posted by: JT at June 25, 2019 11:09 AM (HwnaO)

36 The lead is down to 7 for Slow Joe.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 25, 2019 11:07 AM (FiUMj)

If only Obama would endorse him...

Posted by: ALH at June 25, 2019 11:09 AM (uLuPn)

37 OK, my rant from the previous thread:

I just cannot fathom this Lena Dunham - Amy Schumer performative ugliness and self-hatred.

It's like: Motherhood is a beautiful thing, so I have to find a way to make it ugly AND then claim this as some sort of feminist 'embrace all the bad parts of motherhood as a badge of honor' thing.

These people are f'd up in the head and they want you to stare at it.

Link to ugly Amy Schumer Instagram pic:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BydW9_UJNb3/

*Notice how Amy is making the baby all about her? I pity that kid, he will be his mom's accessory for life; he exists to help her generate material for her "comedy."

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2019 11:09 AM (bDqIh)

38 23 WHOA! Speaking of communist insurgencies....

Emerson Poll released this morning

Biden: 34
Bernie: 27
Warren: 14
Harris: 7

The lead is down to 7 for Slow Joe.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 25, 2019 11:07 AM (FiUMj)

Sanders/Warren, the dual socialist ticket! Slogan: Pasty Old White People for Tomorrow!

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 25, 2019 11:09 AM (RD7QR)

39 "Won't work"?

That is how it works

Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 25, 2019 11:06 AM (6qErC)

sheer genius.

Posted by: BignJames at June 25, 2019 11:09 AM (ykq7q)

40 It's amazing how many Portland progressives are dropping the mask, and admitting that they are full-on Communists.

We already have a transgender member of the Communist Party USA running for the state legislature.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2019 11:09 AM (I2/tG)

41 The fatal flaw of Socialism is in redistribution. In the name of material equality, they empower a government agency to control the entire economy. "A small group that controls all the wealth" is an aristocracy.

Creating an aristocracy in the name of any kind of equality is utterly self-defeating. And as GK Chesterton said, there has never been an aristocracy that didn't behave exactly like a small gang. Once it has absolute power, it no longer matters why the power was given.

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 25, 2019 11:10 AM (J+mig)

42 23 WHOA! Speaking of communist insurgencies....

Emerson Poll released this morning

Biden: 34
Bernie: 27
Warren: 14
Harris: 7

The lead is down to 7 for Slow Joe.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 25, 2019 11:07 AM (FiUMj)

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Where's powerhouse Buttigieg? Oh, wait, he's never been more than a media creation.

Joe wants to follow the Trump route to the nomination, where he gets a plurality of votes in enough states to simply stamp out the rest of the field.

The problem is that Trump was actively trying to appeal to the forgotten part of his party's base. Biden, on the other hand, is actively trying to appeal to the part of the Democratic base that literally every other candidate is running towards at full speed.

Why vote for foolish old Joe to be your progressive guardian when you have 19 other choices? Why vote for good ole Joe when he's squashing any sense of his moderation with every flip flop?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:10 AM (9cans)

43 Commisar!

Posted by: BignJames at June 25, 2019 11:08 AM (ykq7q)

Get in line, Comrade!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 25, 2019 11:10 AM (AZxMX)

44 Cambodia: 2,500,000

dont be sad
1 out of three aint bad
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2019 11:09 AM (JFO2v)

Just another example of a country that didn't do Communism right. Should have been at least 5,000,000.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 25, 2019 11:10 AM (m79Dg)

45 Joe Biden, the Leonid Brezhnev of American politics!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2019 11:10 AM (I2/tG)

46 They don't care that it won't work. It's not about working.

It's about the power.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 25, 2019 11:10 AM (oVJmc)

47 socialism - vote yourself into it, shoot your way out of it

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 25, 2019 11:11 AM (5l6gb)

48 27 Any economic and government system that requires benevolent genius dictators for it to function properly is not a properly designed system.
Posted by: fixerupper at June 25, 2019 11:06 AM (8XRCm)

Philosopher Kings.
Posted by: DR.WTF at June 25, 2019 11:08 AM (aS1PU)

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A concept dreamed up by a philosopher.

"Put me in charge, I'll get it all right," is always wrong, no matter who says it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:11 AM (9cans)

49 And with the Republicans opposing them we should all welcome our new communist masters!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2019 11:11 AM (1ISKN)

50 Joe Biden, the Michael Dukakis of American politics!

Posted by: ALH at June 25, 2019 11:11 AM (uLuPn)

51 The leaders of communism know it doesn't work, they just want to control and kill people who they have a political disagreement with.

Posted by: bhagi at June 25, 2019 11:11 AM (Yiuwe)

52 Link to ugly Amy Schumer Instagram pic:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BydW9_UJNb3/

*Notice how Amy is making the baby all about her? I pity that kid, he will be his mom's accessory for life; he exists to help her generate material for her "comedy."
Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2019 11:09 AM (bDqIh)

She's going to park the baby carriage and mosey over to the field and start munching the alfalfa.

Posted by: DR.WTF at June 25, 2019 11:12 AM (aS1PU)

53 tie them at the hip and shout it to the rooftops.

Posted by: Quint at June 25, 2019 11:12 AM (n13/j)

54 The leaders of communism know it doesn't work, they just want to control and kill people who they have a political disagreement with.
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The power to say who lives and who dies is intoxicating to many. Hence, the moaning harpies of abortion.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 25, 2019 11:12 AM (eEfW5)

55 49 And with the Republicans opposing them we should all welcome our new communist masters!
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2019 11:11 AM (1ISKN)

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"The conservative case for welcoming a communist revolution because Trump offends my cultural sensibilities."
-David French

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:12 AM (9cans)

56 How about a beer...I think I'll have a beer.

Posted by: Lizzie Warren at June 25, 2019 11:12 AM (fZcn6)

57 Gangster, hooligan, idiot......call Trump what you want, Imma vote for him again.
Posted by: BignJames at June 25, 2019 11:05 AM (ykq7q)

What they fail to understand is that even if they convince a few people that Trump is bad, they can't convince those people that any dem is better. The economy is so blatantly better under Trump, and Congress is so screwed up under Pelosi, that even the dimmest LIV will at most decide not to vote-to avoid shooting themselves in the foot by voting dem.

Posted by: Chillin the most at June 25, 2019 11:13 AM (lonOK)

58 Why vote for good ole Joe when he's squashing any sense of his moderation with every flip flop?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:10 AM (9cans)

My flip flopping just shows that I can work with the other side of the aisle. Or is it fip fapping. Because I do that too!--Sleepy Joe with his aluminum brass knuckles.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 25, 2019 11:13 AM (m79Dg)

59 Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2019 11:09 AM (bDqIh)

I have no idea why either one of them became famous. They are both incredibly unattractive, unfunny, and look like trailer trash.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 25, 2019 11:13 AM (Ez6QX)

60 In a completely OT thought, but maybe related to art, I would love to see the Treasury announce the new design for the Harriet Tubman $20 bill, and it's just Aunt Jemima right off the pancake box, the original version.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2019 11:13 AM (Kpl3J)

61
A concept dreamed up by a philosopher.

"Put me in charge, I'll get it all right," is always wrong, no matter who says it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:11 AM (9cans)

Ah, but in my case it is actually true. Epaulettes for all!

Posted by: Someguy at June 25, 2019 11:13 AM (QHOe8)

62 56 How about a beer...I think I'll have a beer.
Posted by: Lizzie Warren at June 25, 2019 11:12 AM (fZcn6)

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I am so surprised at her polling resurgence.

She's fake, unpleasant, and deeply dishonest about everything.

The Democratic field sucks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:13 AM (9cans)

63 The gorilla with the kitten was more attractive than Amy and her post-birth appendage.

I'm also less worried for the kitten than I am for Amy's child.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at June 25, 2019 11:13 AM (bcbK8)

64 I wonder sometimes how did we get there so quickly, then I remember we've always been here and it's just that the communists and socialists are just way more open about it now.

Posted by: IP at June 25, 2019 11:14 AM (cn3ZE)

65 "I'll be in control and I'll be well cared for."-Secret thoughts of every statistPosted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:04 AM (9cans)

Last Thought: "When Comrade Ocasio hears about this she will put a stop to it!"

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2019 11:14 AM (rOka2)

66 What do the numbers represent, party members?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2019 11:08 AM (19g6/)

Deaths.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 25, 2019 11:14 AM (wYseH)

67
The fatal flaw of Socialism is in redistribution.

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The fatal flaw is that Socialism expects humans to behave contrary to human nature.

Socialists thinks that producers will continue to produce at a high level when they are are producing for nameless faceless masses that will receive the fruits of their efforts. This.Is.Wrong.

Human beings will always act first in their own self interest. Its their nature. They will not exort themselves if there is nothing in it for them.

Posted by: Sleepy Joe at June 25, 2019 11:14 AM (8XRCm)

68 Posted by: Sleepy Joe at June 25, 2019 11:14 AM (8XRCm)

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Shit sock.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 25, 2019 11:14 AM (8XRCm)

69 Joe Biden, the Leonid Brezhnev of American politics!

Why, the resemblance is uncanny!

https://tinyurl.com/y4jgovwr

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2019 11:15 AM (I2/tG)

70 52 Link to ugly Amy Schumer Instagram pic:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BydW9_UJNb3/

*Notice how Amy is making the baby all about her? I pity that kid, he will be his mom's accessory for life; he exists to help her generate material for her "comedy."
Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2019 11:09 AM (bDqIh)

She's going to park the baby carriage and mosey over to the field and start munching the alfalfa.
Posted by: DR.WTF at June 25, 2019 11:12 AM (aS1PU)
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She would fit in perfectly with the "Wal-Mart Shopper" meme the liberals like to make fun of.

Posted by: WisRich at June 25, 2019 11:15 AM (G0vdT)

71 Posted by: bhagi at June 25, 2019 11:11 AM (Yiuwe)

That's a beango

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2019 11:15 AM (rOka2)

72 *Notice how Amy is making the baby all about her? I pity that kid, he will be his mom's accessory for life; he exists to help her generate material for her "comedy."
Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2019 11:09 AM (bDqIh)

What's the over-under on what age she declares him a transgender of love?

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 25, 2019 11:15 AM (m79Dg)

73 Where's powerhouse Buttigieg? Oh, wait, he's never been more than a media creation.

Joe wants to follow the Trump route to the nomination, where he gets
a plurality of votes in enough states to simply stamp out the rest of
the field.

The problem is that Trump was actively trying to appeal to the
forgotten part of his party's base. Biden, on the other hand, is
actively trying to appeal to the part of the Democratic base that
literally every other candidate is running towards at full speed.

Why vote for foolish old Joe to be your progressive guardian when
you have 19 other choices? Why vote for good ole Joe when he's squashing
any sense of his moderation with every flip flop?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:10 AM (9cans)

You were right about his staying power so far. And any look at that poll shows he has to do the Trump thing and go rogue. He won't do it and can't do it. He could take a huge gamble and act like a normal but no way he risks it. Better to go along and slowly fade away.

Posted by: Quint at June 25, 2019 11:16 AM (n13/j)

74 Make me dictator and I will be too lazy to meddle in your peasant lives for only a modest fee!

Posted by: Someguy at June 25, 2019 11:16 AM (QHOe8)

75 72 *Notice how Amy is making the baby all about her? I pity that kid, he will be his mom's accessory for life; he exists to help her generate material for her "comedy."
Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2019 11:09 AM (bDqIh)

What's the over-under on what age she declares him a transgender of love?
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 25, 2019 11:15 AM (m79Dg)

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"I gave my 6 month old 'boy' a Barbie, and he played with it! Fuck you, Trump! My vagina!"
-Amy Schumer's single original joke in her next set

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:16 AM (9cans)

76 Emerson, Lake, and Palmer Poll released this morning:

Hoedown: 34
Lucky Man: 27
Karn Evil #9: 14
Jerusalem: 7

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2019 11:16 AM (Kpl3J)

77 I am against statism, the idea that the state has greater claim to the individual than the individual himself. Communism, socialism, Maoism, Chavism, whatever. It's all the same shit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:06 AM (9cans)

Individualism vs. Collectivism is the ideological battle of this age, and has been since the Bolsheviks took power in Russia. Are we free men, or are we subjects of some allegedly all-knowing state?

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 25, 2019 11:17 AM (J+mig)

78 If the commies really cared about The People, wouldn't they be horrified about what their policies have done to them?

Same thing with the Democrats about minorities.

But they're not. No commie cares that Stalin killed tens of millions of his own The People, or Mao. They don't care about The People.

It's about The Power.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 25, 2019 11:17 AM (oVJmc)

79

History is an M. C. Escher stairway.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2019 11:18 AM (aKsyK)

80 Deaths.

Many of which were Party members, appropriately.

People jumping on the socialism/communism bandwagon now should ask themselves how many Russian Party members in 1917 were still alive in 1940.

Most of them got nine grams of lead to the back of the head, or were worked to death in a labor camp.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2019 11:18 AM (I2/tG)

81 73 You were right about his staying power so far. And any look at that poll shows he has to do the Trump thing and go rogue. He won't do it and can't do it. He could take a huge gamble and act like a normal but no way he risks it. Better to go along and slowly fade away.
Posted by: Quint at June 25, 2019 11:16 AM (n13/j)

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I, for way too long, imagined him staying above the fray of the Democratic primary and just saying relatively common sense things. His intended audience was going to be the Midwestern voters that went Obama-Trump. They have a huge say in the primary and will determine the next general election.

Instead, he's been bowing to every pressure from the Left, leaving the moderate voices of the party no reason to vote for him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:18 AM (9cans)

82 Wonder if CrAzY BeRnIe will run 3rd party this time. It's his last chance.

Posted by: Del-Aware at June 25, 2019 11:18 AM (4Eo4+)

83 I think that Amy's baby will be as safe and sane as any New York City Democrat' child raised by an illegal nanny and the television.

Posted by: Downcast at June 25, 2019 11:18 AM (RYKp8)

84 The fatal flaw is that Socialism expects humans to behave contrary to human nature.

Socialists thinks that producers will continue to produce at a high level when they are are producing for nameless faceless masses that will receive the fruits of their efforts. This.Is.Wrong.

Human beings will always act first in their own self interest. Its their nature. They will not exort themselves if there is nothing in it for them.
Posted by: Sleepy Joe

There is nothing stopping any group of like minded individuals from starting a commune and living how they want.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2019 11:19 AM (21UM+)

85 Teen Vogue tweeted this out a couple of days ago...

@TeenVogue

The legacy of Karl Marx's ideas and how they're relevant to the current political climate:

https://tinyurl.com/y4m7k6l9

Posted by: Tami at June 25, 2019 11:19 AM (cF8AT)

86 Joe is just too mentally weak to play things smart.

Posted by: Someguy at June 25, 2019 11:19 AM (QHOe8)

87
Marx's communist utopia was a deliberate lie.

The concept of historical materialism was designed to trick people into believing that there is something better than a free-market system with an emphasis on personal freedom and strong protections of property rights. Get enough idiots on board with this idea, and society reverts back to its default state, feudalism.

Leftards welcome this because they are the idiots who believe they will be among the aristocracy if only the dice can be cast again.

This is consonant with all epistemology that came after rationalism and the scientific method. Kant and his intellectual heirs were entirely full of shit. Formal deductive reasoning is the only way to point us toward truth. Individuals who are incapable of mastering logic are bad enough, but shitheads who can but choose to believe instead in mumbo jumbo like dialectics are far worse.

It is impossible to exchange ideas with an individual who willfully denies truth.

Posted by: sunflower at June 25, 2019 11:19 AM (I54dk)

88 82 Wonder if CrAzY BeRnIe will run 3rd party this time. It's his last chance.
Posted by: Del-Aware at June 25, 2019 11:18 AM (4Eo4+)

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If he feels that the DNC screwed him, I imagine he would.

If he simply loses because he's not the only alternate choice in a 2 person primary, then no. He'll take his 15-20% of the vote count and the subsequent delegates and be a good loser, granting them (or whatever) to the eventual winner.

I really hope the DNC screws him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:20 AM (9cans)

89 What do Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot have to do to get some evilness credit with the media? All they ever talk about is Hitler, Hitler, Hitler.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at June 25, 2019 11:20 AM (JgA4k)

90 Human beings will always act first in their own self interest. Its their nature. They will not exort themselves if there is nothing in it for them.
Posted by: Sleepy Joe at June 25, 2019 11:14 AM (8XRCm)

It can have two fatal flaws, of course. They convince themselves that they can change human nature and create a "New Soviet Man", so they think they can change human nature in the long run. The aristocracy problem, however, sets in immediately. There is no long run.

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 25, 2019 11:21 AM (J+mig)

91 Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.

Posted by: Inner Party O'Brien at June 25, 2019 11:21 AM (I2/tG)

92 OK, one more celebrities being a$$holes:
What happens when NYC'ers have a wedding in Wyoming:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BzGS5FqAj0A/

Did the invitation specify: Cartoonish Western wear Preferred? LOLGF, preferably in your own shithole state.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2019 11:21 AM (bDqIh)

93 90
It can have two fatal flaws, of course. They convince themselves that they can change human nature and create a "New Soviet Man", so they think they can change human nature in the long run. The aristocracy problem, however, sets in immediately. There is no long run.
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 25, 2019 11:21 AM (J+mig)

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"Humans are born purely good, and it's society that corrupts them, comrade."

"What about the first humans? There was no society then."

"To Siberia with you!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:22 AM (9cans)

94
When your average 20-something thinks of
socialism they think of Sweden, when in fact Sweden DOES NOT have
socialization of the means of production, which is what socialism
actually stands for. The Scandi countries are high-tax welfare states;
there is still personal property and private means of production.

But the kids with the heads full of mush don't understand that.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 25, 2019
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*
. . .
Carefully noted, for the next time my writing-group colleague brings up Sweden as an example of "successful Socialism." I've pointed out to him that even if Sweden's setup were socialist, it has seemed to work only because of three things:

1) Small, homogeneous population;

2) North Sea oil profits; and

3) NATO, aka the U.S., takes care of their defense.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 25, 2019 11:22 AM (ClOmq)

95 Fantastic post, CBD.

And not just because it echos my hard-won thoughts. This needs to go to every legislator funding schools.

We, and our tax dollars, funds failure.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 25, 2019 11:22 AM (u82oZ)

96 Demunist Commiecrats.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at June 25, 2019 11:23 AM (ujg0T)

97
Huh, our delicious omelet turned into a big pile of shit.

Anyway, we meant well.

Time to break some more eggs!!!

Posted by: Communists/Democrats Everywhere at Any Time at June 25, 2019 11:23 AM (r1/AF)

98

How many will it take to convince them it won't work?
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 25, 2019 11:02 AM (J+mig)

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They know it doesnt work.

They are betting THEY get to be on the Politburo.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 25, 2019 11:04 AM (8XRCm)

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"I volunteered at a Bernie rally in 2016! I'll definitely get some kind of magistrate position!"
-Idiot plebe

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:05 AM (9cans)

Being part of the nomenklatura once the mass murders are done isn't the point. The point IS mass murder, shooting kneeling Kulaks in the back of the neck. They don't actually CARE what comes afterwards. They just want blood.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2019 11:23 AM (veoSD)

99 It is impossible to exchange ideas with an individual who willfully denies truth.
Posted by: sunflower at June 25, 2019 11:19 AM (I54dk)

Subjective ideologies are just a modern form of magical thinking. Nothing more.

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 25, 2019 11:23 AM (J+mig)

100 98
Huh, our delicious omelet turned into a big pile of shit.

Anyway, we meant well.

Time to break some more eggs!!!

Posted by: Communists/Democrats Everywhere at Any Time at June 25, 2019 11:23 AM (r1/AF)

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"It turned to shit because of the wreckers!"

"They were in charge?"

"No, they were in Siberia in prison. But they're existence ruined everything!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:24 AM (9cans)

101 Prayer list note

My plans got delayed, so if you have a prayer request, praise report or update, please send it to me by 3;00 p/m. EST today. I will need to submit them to Oregon Muse by today, as I will not have internet access again until Thursday afternoon.

Please note-It is my plan to just do updates and new prayer requests for tomorrow without posting the entire list. Thanks and thanks for praying!.

FenelonDirection18 at sign gmail. com

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2019 11:24 AM (ivkO2)

102 Neighbor lady wanted to become President of our HOA.

I told her if she won, I'd buy her a sash with "El Presidente" on it, a set of epaulets and a pair of mirrored sunglasses.

The assembled quorum laughed loudly, she withdrew her self-nomination and sat her (considerable) ass down.

The latent Tyrant lies deep within that one, seeking only it's chance to rule, and to destroy.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 25, 2019 11:24 AM (QzJWU)

103 CPUSA Newsletter Headlines

Kulaks undermine Peoples Republic

Ukraine farmers undermine new quotas

Hoovers American Relief Administration could have fed more children

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2019 11:24 AM (JFO2v)

104 84 The fatal flaw is that Socialism expects humans to behave contrary to human nature.

Socialists thinks that producers will continue to produce at a high level when they are are producing for nameless faceless masses that will receive the fruits of their efforts. This.Is.Wrong.

Human beings will always act first in their own self interest. Its their nature. They will not exort themselves if there is nothing in it for them.
Posted by: Sleepy Joe
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Thus why communism must follow socialism.

Posted by: WisRich at June 25, 2019 11:24 AM (G0vdT)

105 12>>>

The biggest commie I ever knew basically said it like this : "I'm IT. I'm Tech, and Tech is going to run the party. So yes, I am going to get to decide who dies."

Posted by: Hikaru at June 25, 2019 11:24 AM (AcVM5)

106 94 In other polls, 76% of Americans say immigration is a good thing--the highest number since Gallup started asking the question.
Posted by: The Blocky Head of Dan Bingo Bongo at June 25, 2019 11:22 AM (EMsb2)

And of course, the kinds of types of immigration are not asked by such polls, ever. :-P

Posted by: Curmudgeon at June 25, 2019 11:24 AM (ujg0T)

107 In other polls, 76% of Americans say immigration is a good thing--the highest number since Gallup started asking the question.

Posted by: The Blocky Head of Dan Bingo Bongo at June 25, 2019 11:22 AM (EMsb2)

How do they feel about illegal immigration? Were they even asked?

Posted by: BignJames at June 25, 2019 11:25 AM (ykq7q)

108 There is nothing stopping any group of like minded individuals from starting a commune and living how they want.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2019 11:19 AM (21UM+)

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True.

I find the case study of the Pilgrim fascinating and crommulent to the thread.

They were originally founded as a commune. Bounty was to be shared with all. The problem was the able bodied farmers and hunters werent so keen on working to suport layabouts that didnt want to plant or hoe.

The almost starved to death.

It was only after Bradford and Standish allocated plots for ownership and that the owners could do with their bounty as they wished that the small villlage became self sufficient. They produced so much plenty that started a bounty festival we now know as THanksgiving.

Thats the REAL story about the beginnings of Thanksgving. A rebuke of communes.

Item #456,623,9898 of shit you wont learn in public school.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 25, 2019 11:25 AM (8XRCm)

109 The way to change the yuuutes is to figure out a way to make them understand Amazon and Google and Twitter wouldn't exist in a communist country. Neither would Apple or any of the 5281 craft breweries in their city.

That's how this war will be won, not talking about Cambodia.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 25, 2019 11:25 AM (FiUMj)

110 "I'm not gonna vote for you unless you gimme my free chit!"

This isn't a kids game anymore, its serious and sad but it really counts in 2020 where we go as a nation.

Posted by: IP at June 25, 2019 11:25 AM (cn3ZE)

111
What do Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot have to do to get some evilness credit with the media? All they ever talk about is Hitler, Hitler, Hitler.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at June 25, 2019 11:20 AM (JgA4k)

Murder-wise, compared to those three commies, Hitler was an underachiever.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2019 11:25 AM (veoSD)

112 I wish the left and communists would come right out and admit they want to return to feudalism, with themselves as "Lord of the Manor" and the rest of us as serfs.

Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 25, 2019 11:26 AM (qC1Sy)

113 Sweden as an example of "successful Socialism."

Sweden also carefully nurtures its large, private companies.

No "workers owning the means of production" crap there, like Bernie would like to.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2019 11:26 AM (I2/tG)

114
Carefully noted, for the next time my writing-group colleague brings up Sweden as an example of "successful Socialism." I've pointed out to him that even if Sweden's setup were socialist, it has seemed to work only because of three things:

1) Small, homogeneous population;

2) North Sea oil profits; and

3) NATO, aka the U.S., takes care of their defense.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 25, 2019 11:22 AM (ClOmq)

Your three points apply to Norway, not to Sweden. So far as I know, it is Norway and Great Britain that share the North Sea oil beds and profits.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 25, 2019 11:26 AM (pNxlR)

115 Prayer request for the horde: Hubby getting scoped today, we're worried the stomach cancer might be back. He's been feeling not good for a while. UGH.
Thanks.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2019 11:26 AM (bDqIh)

116 116 Prayer request for the horde: Hubby getting scoped today, we're worried the stomach cancer might be back. He's been feeling not good for a while. UGH.
Thanks.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2019 11:26 AM (bDqIh)

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Good luck.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:26 AM (9cans)

117 wouldabeen-willowed thoughts

Don't usually go to fast food places, but local Braum's does good burgers - reputedly Oklahoma Angus. Fries aren't bad.

ChikFilA opened a store in town ... last? year... so we had to try it. Didn't think much of the chicken we got - kinda dry, as I recall (shrug- only time we've had fast-food chicken in many years), and the much-touted (on A&spades) waffle fries were soggy and cold. The peach shake was okay. I'd go back for one of those. And maybe give the fries another try.

Whew. Now, I can go on to the chimp post.

Posted by: mindful webworker - click for Turing test-imony at June 25, 2019 11:26 AM (Z5Idj)

118 116 Prayer request for the horde: Hubby getting scoped today, we're worried the stomach cancer might be back. He's been feeling not good for a while. UGH.
Thanks.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2019 11:26 AM (bDqIh)
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Prayers up Lizzy.

Posted by: WisRich at June 25, 2019 11:27 AM (G0vdT)

119 The lead is down to 7 for Slow Joe.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 25, 2019 11:07 AM (FiUMj)

If only Obama would endorse him...

Posted by: ALH at June 25, 2019 11:09 AM

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He won't endorse anyone until they win the Primary. He has an 0 for 150 track record on endorsements.

His endorsement is the kiss of death.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 25, 2019 11:27 AM (JUOKG)

120 Communism is a form of atheist theocracy

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at June 25, 2019 11:27 AM (dm05u)

121 It is an indictment of our educational system and the quality of our
national leaders that the vile, murderous political philosophy of Lenin
and Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot and a host of other power-hungry
sociopaths isn't rejected on intellectual grounds, on moral grounds, and
on practical grounds.

Yeah, it's a real mystery how that happened.

Posted by: Big Brother, Inc. at June 25, 2019 11:27 AM (LL1Be)

122 Prayers up Lizzy!

Posted by: Tami at June 25, 2019 11:27 AM (cF8AT)

123 122 It is an indictment of our educational system and the quality of our
national leaders that the vile, murderous political philosophy of Lenin
and Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot and a host of other power-hungry
sociopaths isn't rejected on intellectual grounds, on moral grounds, and
on practical grounds.

Yeah, it's a real mystery how that happened.
Posted by: Big Brother, Inc. at June 25, 2019 11:27 AM (LL1Be)

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"There was no way we could have imagined such a result!"
-The Bush family, education first politicians

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:28 AM (9cans)

124 116 Prayer request for the horde: Hubby getting scoped today, we're worried the stomach cancer might be back. He's been feeling not good for a while. UGH.
Thanks.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2019 11:26 AM (bDqIh)

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Prayers offered.

Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 25, 2019 11:28 AM (qC1Sy)

125 109>>>

It's not about wanting a commune.

It's about getting to tell people to their face exactly when and how they're going to die, and telling them who gets yo be the one to kill them.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 25, 2019 11:28 AM (AcVM5)

126 2 How many will it take to convince them it won't work?

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As long as they and their buddies are on top, who cares?

Posted by: Vlad the implaer, whittling away like mad at June 25, 2019 11:28 AM (FPEPu)

127 Will pray for your husband and for you, Lizzy, and will add him to the prayer list,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2019 11:29 AM (ivkO2)

128 prayers for your hubby, Lizzy

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at June 25, 2019 11:29 AM (dm05u)

129 Murder-wise, compared to those three commies, Hitler was an underachiever.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2019 11:25 AM (veoSD)

Hitler was the Slow Joe of Murderous Socialist Tyrants.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2019 11:29 AM (r1/AF)

130 130 Murder-wise, compared to those three commies, Hitler was an underachiever.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2019 11:25 AM (veoSD)

Hitler was the Slow Joe of Murderous Socialist Tyrants.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2019 11:29 AM (r1/AF)

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It was that vegetarian diet that slowed him down.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:29 AM (9cans)

131 113>>>

They want a blood aristocracy which cam choose to kill the little people on a whim.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 25, 2019 11:30 AM (AcVM5)

132 prayers up!

Posted by: Quint at June 25, 2019 11:30 AM (n13/j)

133
Item #456,623,9898 of shit you wont learn in public school.
Posted by: fixerupper

No more Little Red Hen

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2019 11:30 AM (aKsyK)

134 132 113>>>

They want a blood aristocracy which cam choose to kill the little people on a whim.
Posted by: Hikaru at June 25, 2019 11:30 AM (AcVM5)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-dJPoSlPfU

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:30 AM (9cans)

135 Nate McMurray
@Nate_McMurray
YEP. I'M COMING FOR YOUR AR15

You heard me. No apologies. The same reason you don't need a lion to protect your home, is why you don't need a rifle that shoots at 3X the speed of sound and splits concrete like ice. It's an unreasonable risk.

End the mass shooter era in America

-
Wait. Lions aren't included in the second amendment? Just bears?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 25, 2019 11:30 AM (+y/Ru)

136 I'm having a really rough time lately, a lot of things going wrong at the same time, I'm running on empty. Please pray for me. Not sure that God hears me prayers but maybe He'll hear someone elses

Posted by: josephistan at June 25, 2019 11:30 AM (7HtZB)

137
*Notice how Amy is making the baby all about her? I pity that kid, he will be his mom's accessory for life; he exists to help her generate material for her "comedy."

My baby's name is Teacup Chihuahua!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 25, 2019 11:30 AM (pNxlR)

138 Carefully noted, for the next time my writing-group colleague brings up Sweden as an example of "successful Socialism." I've pointed out to him that even if Sweden's setup were socialist, it has seemed to work only because of three things:

1) Small, homogeneous population;

2) North Sea oil profits; and

3) NATO, aka the U.S., takes care of their defense.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 25, 2019 11:22 AM

And just this week, Sweden (along with France) were notable in a recent experiment that showed Swedes are more discriminatory in hiring. Very "unwoke" preference for white immigrants over native-born POC.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 25, 2019 11:30 AM (/+bwe)

139 Human beings will always act first in their own self interest. Its their nature. They will not exort themselves if there is nothing in it for them.
Posted by: Sleepy Joe at June 25, 2019 11:14 AM (8XRCm)

There's one important exception - human beings can be truly altruistic when the altruism is contained to tightly knit family groups of about 30 individuals or less. This is probably because in very tightly knit family groups, people's identity as "part of this family" is just as, if not more important, than their identity as individuals.

Socialism takes this inborn willingness to support Family and attempts to co-opt and replace it, thinking it can then apply to Everyone in the system. (it can't, we're wired to only feel that way towards people we are closely related to and who we know intimately) It's also why socialism wants to destroy Family identity, because that it it's greatest rival. Of course never realizing that if you destroy the Family, you destroy Civil Society in general.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2019 11:30 AM (Kpl3J)

140 Funny that Go-ogle is all in on this statist utopia yet in one of the videos released a woman makes a statement to the effect that when they "all got together to conclude was was acceptable, they could not come to an agreement"

But somehow, someway, adding an additional 310 million people to the equation it's gonna work out just right

Posted by: Horus Hearsay at June 25, 2019 11:31 AM (DB16e)

141 Hitler was the Slow Joe of Murderous Socialist Tyrants.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2019 11:29 AM (r1/AF)

Which raises a very interesting question. Which is worse: Genocide or a face-lift and hair plugs?

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 25, 2019 11:31 AM (m79Dg)

142 You forgot Venezuela.

Apparently, so has our entire media.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2019 11:31 AM (PxX58)

143 89>>>

They probably don't even know what the Holodomor is.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 25, 2019 11:31 AM (AcVM5)

144 15 What can possibly go wrong this time? After all, we've learned so much from our mistakes

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If one learns from mistakes then they should be fcuking omniscient by now.
The sure talk as if they know everytning.

Posted by: Vlad the implaer, whittling away like mad at June 25, 2019 11:31 AM (FPEPu)

145 Posted by: mindful webworker - click for Turing test-imony at June 25, 2019 11:26 AM (Z5Idj)

I don't think I've ever had dry chicken there. Maybe they were training new staff.

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 25, 2019 11:31 AM (J+mig)

146 @Nate_McMurray

YEP. I'M COMING FOR YOUR AR15

Here you go.

Muzzle first.

Posted by: Big Brother, Inc. at June 25, 2019 11:31 AM (LL1Be)

147
@Nate_McMurray
YEP. I'M COMING FOR YOUR AR15

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Who ???

Posted by: fixerupper at June 25, 2019 11:32 AM (8XRCm)

148 I was just shopping an Eisenhower Nixon bumper sticker huh

Posted by: i give up on nics at June 25, 2019 11:32 AM (g4428)

149 142 Hitler was the Slow Joe of Murderous Socialist Tyrants.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2019 11:29 AM (r1/AF)

Which raises a very interesting question. Which is worse: Genocide or a face-lift and hair plugs?
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 25, 2019 11:31 AM (m79Dg)

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Do you want the vegetarian dog owner for your leader or the guy who smokes several cigars a day and starts drinking at breakfast?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:32 AM (9cans)

150 off BB,inc. sock

Posted by: mikeyG : G stands for Garbage Person at June 25, 2019 11:32 AM (LL1Be)

151 I'm having a really rough time lately, a lot of
things going wrong at the same time, I'm running on empty. Please pray
for me. Not sure that God hears me prayers but maybe He'll hear someone
elses

Posted by: josephistan at June 25, 2019 11:30 AM (7HtZB)

prayers offered.

Posted by: Quint at June 25, 2019 11:32 AM (n13/j)

152 Welfare state, communism socialism? Meh. We're taking over no matter what you call it.

Posted by: Sweden's Islaists at June 25, 2019 11:32 AM (FiUMj)

153 Holodomor is.
Posted by: Hikaru at June 25, 2019 11:31 AM (AcVM5)

That's the big guy in Game of Thrones, yes?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Hate-Filled Lion of the Right at June 25, 2019 11:33 AM (xPJvm)

154 144 89>>>

They probably don't even know what the Holodomor is.
Posted by: Hikaru at June 25, 2019 11:31 AM (AcVM5)

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Watched Bitter Harvest, about the Holodomor, a couple of weeks ago.

It was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Like the writer/director watched Schindler's List and said, "This needs more sword fights with an elderly Terrence Stamp! Then it'll be good!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:33 AM (9cans)

155 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge at June 25, 2019 11:33 AM (9gDA7)

156 Call it Modern or 20th Century Totalitarianism instead of Communism and include the Nazi death count.

Posted by: ShainS -- There are but two Parties now: Traitors and Patriots at June 25, 2019 11:33 AM (WqPYg)

157 I really like Ike.

Posted by: Quint at June 25, 2019 11:33 AM (n13/j)

158 10 This is always the reply from a communist:

I bet you can't even define communism vs socialism vs maoism.

To which the reply is, "You're right. I can't. What difference does it make what the person wearing the boot in my face calls himself?"

Posted by: pep at June 25, 2019 11:33 AM (wW03z)

159 Act like you've been there before applies to sideboob as well, guys.

Posted by: Coach at June 25, 2019 11:33 AM (eibb3)

160 I saw Atheist Theology open for Black Sabbath at the Devil's Playground in '83.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 25, 2019 11:33 AM (+y/Ru)

161

Socialism/Communism--one genocide away from success.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 25, 2019 11:33 AM (KATBx)

162 Trump should just go all Khmer Rouge and send all the educators into the fields now. Why wait?

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at June 25, 2019 11:34 AM (Jj+59)

163 136 Nate McMurray
@Nate_McMurray
YEP. I'M COMING FOR YOUR AR15

You heard me. No apologies. The same reason you don't need a lion to protect your home, is why you don't need a rifle that shoots at 3X the speed of sound and splits concrete like ice. It's an unreasonable risk.

End the mass shooter era in America

-
Wait. Lions aren't included in the second amendment? Just bears?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 25, 2019 11:30 AM (+y/Ru)

NO, I need an AR15 to protect myself from an over reaching Tyrant, like one that would forcefully take my guns away.

Posted by: Don Q at June 25, 2019 11:34 AM (NgKpN)

164
"I'll be in control and I'll be well cared for."
-Secret thoughts of every statist

"I'm safe. They'll only be going after kulaks, wreckers, counterrevolutionaries and foreign spies." - More secret thoughts of every statist

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2019 11:34 AM (BWL+E)

165 It can have two fatal flaws, of course. They convince themselves that they can change human nature and create a "New Soviet Man", so they think they can change human nature in the long run. The aristocracy problem, however, sets in immediately. There is no long run.
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 25, 2019 11:21 AM (J+mig)
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The fatal flaw of *all* utopianism. It is the question that exposes fundamental political ideology/alignment:
"Do you believe that man is perfectible or not?"

If you believe that man is perfectible, you're susceptible to utopianism and virtually any sin is acceptable as you're working toward the perfection of man. Slavery and murder are just fine, so long as you're working toward a perfect version coming out the other side.

If you don't believe that man is perfectible, you'll instead work toward a system that can compensate for his imperfect reality - one that encourages the good and discourages the bad. You will accept that this system will not be perfect and look at averages to determine how to move them. Consistent, deliberate, equitable and minimal government/state action in combination with markets are the best system of the latter type we've found thus far.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 25, 2019 11:34 AM (I2dne)

166 I've pointed out to him that even if Sweden's setup were socialist, it has seemed to work only because of three things:
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I just saw a PragerU vid from a Danish economist covering those very issues. Always told the kids that it only works on a very small scale like small European country vs China/Russia. I also mentioned that cold climates are a little more tolerant of helping others than warmer climates. Then I reminded them of Aesop and Little Red Hen. They actually got the message.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 25, 2019 11:34 AM (MIKMs)

167 164 NO, I need an AR15 to protect myself from an over reaching Tyrant, like one that would forcefully take my guns away.
Posted by: Don Q at June 25, 2019 11:34 AM (NgKpN)

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We should invade Carthage to prevent the next mass shooting. It'll have the same effect as banning AR-15s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:35 AM (9cans)

168 3X the speed of sound? Wow that's impressive. I kinda want an AR15 now.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 25, 2019 11:35 AM (FiUMj)

169 Do you want the vegetarian dog owner for your leader or the guy who smokes several cigars a day and starts drinking at breakfast?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:32 AM (9cans)

That's a tough one! I'm partial to people that love dogs. But, there's something to be said for the breakfast of champions!

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 25, 2019 11:35 AM (m79Dg)

170 They probably don't even know what the Holodomor is.

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Play time on the Starship Enterprise?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 25, 2019 11:35 AM (+y/Ru)

171 Heh - just got an email for the announcement of Prime Day on Amazon.

Did you know that students, EBT and Medicaid card holders can save 50% on Prime Membership?? Woo hoo!

Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 25, 2019 11:35 AM (vg8iE)

172 106 12>>>

The biggest commie I ever knew basically said it like this : "I'm IT. I'm Tech, and Tech is going to run the party. So yes, I am going to get to decide who dies."
Posted by: Hikaru at June 25, 2019 11:24 AM (AcVM5)

I'm always amazed at the arrogance and naivette of people who actually believe that, and yes, I think most of the techies do. What they can't imagine is that it's only true until the end of civil society, which is a lot more fragile than they think.

And once civil society ends, then it's the thug with the gun in his hand who decides who lives, and who dies. Right then and there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2019 11:35 AM (Kpl3J)

173 Wait. Lions aren't included in the second amendment? Just bears?

Oh my. I guess I will use subsonic rounds then.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 25, 2019 11:35 AM (5l6gb)

174 Vampires - stake in the heart.
Zombies - shot in the head.
Commies - put up with their lying shit then they really kill people.

There's some flaw in this plan.

Posted by: DaveA at June 25, 2019 11:36 AM (FhXTo)

175 Posted by: The Blocky Head of Dan Bingo Bongo at June 25, 2019 11:22 AM (EMsb2)
*******
Yes you illiterate fool, Immigration NOT ILLEGAL immigration

Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at June 25, 2019 11:36 AM (BqBId)

176 You heard me. No apologies. The same reason you don't need a lion to protect your home, is why you don't need a rifle that shoots at 3X the speed of sound and splits concrete like ice. It's an unreasonable risk.

So......you're envisioning a Matrix sort of weapon, where the bullets move slowly so you can dodge them?

Posted by: pep at June 25, 2019 11:36 AM (wW03z)

177
Wait. Lions aren't included in the second amendment? Just bears?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler

What about tigers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2019 11:36 AM (aKsyK)

178 The POS that killed the seven bikers has suddenly been found to have a history of drugs, arrests, and tractor trailer accidents.
MF'er needs to be hung up.

Posted by: IP at June 25, 2019 11:36 AM (cn3ZE)

179 171 They probably don't even know what the Holodomor is.
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Play time on the Starship Enterprise?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 25, 2019 11:35 AM (+y/Ru)

no, that's Holoboner.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2019 11:36 AM (Kpl3J)

180 Did you know that students, EBT and Medicaid card holders can save 50% on Prime Membership?? Woo hoo!
Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 25, 2019 11:35 AM (vg8iE)

Oh FFS.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 25, 2019 11:36 AM (Ez6QX)

181 By the way, it is entirely possible that the reporter is a lurker...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 25, 2019 11:36 AM (wYseH)

182 I would never own a vegetarian dog nor elect someone who did.

Posted by: Quint at June 25, 2019 11:36 AM (n13/j)

183 Liz Mair was served a discovery request from the Devin Nunes lawsuit today. The suit claims she slandering and defamed him and he is going after her with hammers.

Surprisingly she is whining like a little beyotch. I shall require more popcorn.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2019 11:36 AM (PxX58)

184 @Nate_McMurray
YEP. I'M COMING FOR YOUR AR15

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Who ???
*******
Fred McMurray's Grandson ?

Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at June 25, 2019 11:37 AM (BqBId)

185 The POS that killed the seven bikers has suddenly been found to have a history of drugs, arrests, and tractor trailer accidents.
MF'er needs to be hung up.

Posted by: IP

Have they ever determined motive?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2019 11:37 AM (21UM+)

186 Oregon Governor proposes "Re-Education..." https://tinyurl.com/y63h8ggn

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at June 25, 2019 11:37 AM (ABuva)

187 5
SCREAM AND LEAP!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 25, 2019 11:03 AM (ClOmq)

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I know keeping up with memes is now a full-time job, but I missed the origin of this one that I'm seeing in lots of comments the past couple days. Can somebody enlighten me? Thanks in advance ...

Posted by: ShainS -- There are but two Parties now: Traitors and Patriots at June 25, 2019 11:37 AM (WqPYg)

188 184 Liz Mair was served a discovery request from the Devin Nunes lawsuit today. The suit claims she slandering and defamed him and he is going after her with hammers.

Surprisingly she is whining like a little beyotch. I shall require more popcorn.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2019 11:36 AM (PxX5

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"The conservative case for selective enforcement of slander and libel standards to disadvantage conservatives."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:37 AM (9cans)

189
Cloistered religious orders are also successful because of a shared creed. Still, there's an abbot or prioress in charge.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2019 11:38 AM (BWL+E)

190 Posted by: The Blocky Head of Dan Bingo Bongo at June 25, 2019 11:37 AM (EMsb2)
******
Yes I like to help the Retarded

Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at June 25, 2019 11:38 AM (BqBId)

191 181 Did you know that students, EBT and Medicaid card holders can save 50% on Prime Membership?? Woo hoo!
Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 25, 2019 11:35 AM (vg8iE)

Oh FFS.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 25, 2019 11:36 AM (Ez6QX)

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"student" lol. I keep thinking of signing up to take 1 class at a community college, get the student card and then cancel the class. With that card I could get a lot of discounts.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 25, 2019 11:38 AM (FiUMj)

192 The biggest commie I ever knew basically said it like this : "I'm IT. I'm Tech, and Tech is going to run the party. So yes, I am going to get to decide who dies."
Posted by: Hikaru at June 25, 2019 11:24 AM (AcVM5)

Yeah, no. It doesn't work that way.

Posted by: Leon T. at June 25, 2019 11:38 AM (wW03z)

193 @Nate_McMurray
YEP. I'M COMING FOR YOUR AR15

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Who ???

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Donk (well, duh) House candidate from NY 27th.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 25, 2019 11:38 AM (+y/Ru)

194 194 The biggest commie I ever knew basically said it like this : "I'm IT. I'm Tech, and Tech is going to run the party. So yes, I am going to get to decide who dies."
Posted by: Hikaru at June 25, 2019 11:24 AM (AcVM5)

Yeah, no. It doesn't work that way.
Posted by: Leon T. at June 25, 2019 11:38 AM (wW03z)

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Personal friends of the guy in charge will decide who dies. They're less ideological than you might think.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:39 AM (9cans)

195 Have they ever determined motive?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2019 11:37 AM (21UM+)

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The cynic in me looks at his surname and the fact that all the bikers are Marines.

But. Thats just me.... and Im an asshole.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 25, 2019 11:39 AM (8XRCm)

196 3X the speed of sound? Wow that's impressive. I kinda want an AR15 now.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker

He had another tweet claiming that AR-15s left a wound the size of a cantaloupe and that church shooting victims were so mutilated that they were unrecognizable.

Posted by: Bert G at June 25, 2019 11:39 AM (tOP4K)

197
The Democratic field sucks
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Well, government of the people, by the people, and for the peoples thends to look like the people.
So, yeah, Democrats.

Posted by: Vlad the implaer, whittling away like mad at June 25, 2019 11:39 AM (FPEPu)

198
110 The way to change the yuuutes is to figure out a way to make them understand Amazon and Google and Twitter wouldn't exist in a communist country. Neither would Apple or any of the 5281 craft breweries in their city.

That's how this war will be won, not talking about Cambodia.

won't work. communism is about divvying up what is here, not dreaming about what might be.

Posted by: Anachronda at June 25, 2019 11:39 AM (sGtp+)

199
vegetarian dog owner

"Salad? Again?" - the Dog

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2019 11:39 AM (BWL+E)

200 I see a time when you have to have Prime membership for lots of things.

Posted by: Quint at June 25, 2019 11:39 AM (n13/j)

201 202 I see a time when you have to have Prime membership for lots of things.
Posted by: Quint at June 25, 2019 11:39 AM (n13/j)

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Like voting rights?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:40 AM (9cans)

202 Sad to hear that, Josephistan. It's terrible when everything seems to be turning against you at the same time. Thoughts and prayers for you to be given the strength to cope with them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2019 11:40 AM (Kpl3J)

203 >> Did you know that students, EBT and Medicaid card holders can save 50% on Prime Membership?

EBT Cards? Because handouts should be freer?

Posted by: garrett at June 25, 2019 11:40 AM (CHPeX)

204 Thats the REAL story about the beginnings of Thanksgving. A rebuke of communes.

Item #456,623,9898 of shit you wont learn in public school.
Posted by: fixerupper at June 25, 2019 11:25 AM (8XRCm)

Rush Limbaugh's children's book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, should be on every parent's and grandparent's list of books to read. It tells the true story of the pilgrims travels and struggles in the New World without getting political. It was written with oversight by actual accredited historians and contains photos and illustrations from England and Massachusetts , which is why it's always laughable when places such as Salon would call it a liar's fantasy book.

Good read for adults, I learned things I never knew or had forgotten.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 25, 2019 11:41 AM (f8X1c)

205 I know keeping up with memes is now a full-time job, but I missed the origin of this one that I'm seeing in lots of comments the past couple days. Can somebody enlighten me? Thanks in advance ...
Posted by: ShainS -- There are but two Parties now: Traitors and Patriots at June 25, 2019 11:37 AM (WqPYg)
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It dates forward to the Man - Kzin wars and the peace resulting thereof.

Louis Wu is challenging a Kzin to a duel and the Kzin gets annoyed at the speechifying and tells Wu the proper etiquette is "Scream and Leap."

Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 25, 2019 11:41 AM (qC1Sy)

206 Remember, the margin of error in estimating the number of innocent people slaughtered by socialism is larger than that other leftist mass murder, the Nazi Holocaust

Posted by: TANSTAAFL at June 25, 2019 11:41 AM (k58xs)

207 208 Remember, the margin of error in estimating the number of innocent people slaughtered by socialism is larger than that other leftist mass murder, the Nazi Holocaust
Posted by: TANSTAAFL at June 25, 2019 11:41 AM (k58xs)

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Nothing compared to the death toll from Net Neutrality, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:41 AM (9cans)

208 When the primaries start we will see how powerful the Far Left faction of the Democrats actually is, that is, whether their strength actually matches their hype.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Celebrate Independence Day With American Made Gripes from The Outrage Outlet! at June 25, 2019 11:41 AM (0QYMt)

209
@Nate_McMurray
YEP. I'M COMING FOR YOUR AR15

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Who ???
*******
Fred McMurray's Grandson ?
Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT

He's coming for My Three Guns!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2019 11:42 AM (aKsyK)

210
Not sure that God hears me prayers but maybe He'll hear someone elses

Posted by: josephistan at June 25, 2019 11:30 AM (7HtZB)

*rrrrring!*

"Heaven Help Desk.... For josephistan?... You got it!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2019 11:42 AM (BWL+E)

211 188: That's what the fucks said about manufacturing jobs. Some people make a killing, others find their livelihoods killed.

Posted by: CN at June 25, 2019 11:42 AM (U7k5w)

212 I just saw a PragerU vid from a Danish economist covering those very issues. Always told the kids that it only works on a very small scale like small European country vs China/Russia. I also mentioned that cold climates are a little more tolerant of helping others than warmer climates. Then I reminded them of Aesop and Little Red Hen. They actually got the message.
Posted by: mustbequantum

Also helps if you are of the same demographic.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2019 11:42 AM (21UM+)

213 The biggest commie I ever knew basically said it like this : "I'm IT. I'm Tech, and Tech is going to run the party. So yes, I am going to get to decide who dies."
Posted by: Hikaru at June 25, 2019 11:24 AM (AcVM5)

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Techies always have an outsized view of themselves. I work in tech, not as a developer or anything overly technical, but in business/management role. I've had to smack down a few of them who didn't understand their role. Basically it's shit the fuck up and code, the adults are busy making important decisions here.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 25, 2019 11:43 AM (FiUMj)

214 Have they ever determined motive?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2019 11:37 AM (21UM+)

I don't think "motive" really applies to someone who's on drugs and weaves into the oncoming traffic.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2019 11:43 AM (Kpl3J)

215 He had another tweet claiming that AR-15s left a wound the size of a cantaloupe

Aristotlian Argument for Gun Ownership:

1) AR-15s leave a wound the size of a cantaloupe

2) I like cantaloupes.

3) Therefore, I like AR-15s

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2019 11:43 AM (r1/AF)

216 Have they ever determined motive?

Officially not that I have heard, but close friend was there a week or so before on his bike and suspects the truckdriver crossed over the centerline on a curve at or above the speed limit coming down the hill. Under the influence of something is probable but not provable and he was arrested this morning in MA (on 7 counts of reckless homicide I think).

Posted by: IP at June 25, 2019 11:43 AM (cn3ZE)

217 I'm going to watch John Wick 2 now.

But for crying out loud, why didn't Viggo kill Wick when he was tied to a chair right in front of him? He didn't have an issue killing Marcus. Bunch of Bond villains.

For that matter, why didn't Wick kill Viggo after the vault destruction?

Eh, just a movie.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at June 25, 2019 11:43 AM (tVWQB)

218 It was written with oversight by actual accredited historians and contains photos and illustrations from England and Massachusetts , which is why it's always laughable when places such as Salon would call it a liar's fantasy book.

Good read for adults, I learned things I never knew or had forgotten.
Posted by: Jen the original at June 25, 2019 11:41 AM (f8X1c)

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Yeah..... Salon actually postulated that Bradfords and Standishes own journal writings on the subject of "privatization" should be discredited because they weren't reliable.

Fact based reality indeed.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 25, 2019 11:43 AM (8XRCm)

219 Cloistered religious orders are also successful because of a shared creed. Still, there's an abbot or prioress in charge.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2019 11:38 AM

And those are voluntary associations.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 25, 2019 11:44 AM (/+bwe)

220 216 Techies always have an outsized view of themselves.

yeah, well, arrogance is an important character trait for a techie. it's what lets you get so deep into trouble that you have to learn something to get out.

Posted by: Anachronda at June 25, 2019 11:44 AM (sGtp+)

221 http://bit.ly/2XAESGp
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VIDEO: Reporter Asks Bill Gates if He Will Donate to Treasury in Absence of Tax Hikes | Trending

Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at June 25, 2019 11:44 AM (BqBId)

222 Speaking of commies...
As per the sidebar story about e-cigs in San Francisco. In Seattle marijuana is legal, most drug offenses are ignored, almost all offenses are ignored for POCs, illegals are welcome. But light up a cigar and you are screwed. And not in a good way.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2019 11:44 AM (axyOa)

223 210 When the primaries start we will see how powerful the Far Left faction of the Democrats actually is, that is, whether their strength actually matches their hype.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Celebrate Independence Day With American Made Gripes from The Outrage Outlet! at June 25, 2019 11:41 AM (0QYMt)

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They are not that strong in terms of actual vote numbers, I surmise.

Whoever wins the primary should be the one who appeals to Democratic voters in MI, IA, SC, MS, TN, etc. These are not Democrats of the coastal variety. They are largely Democrats of the "My granddaddy was a New Deal Democrat and we've been like that ever since. We go to church and think that babies are people."

The fact that every prominent Democrat running is desperate to fly their progressive flags as much as possible means that these cultural Democrats in the flyover states are going to get very turned off by the party as a whole and the media is going to have to work overtime (if they even try) to moderate the eventual winner's image.

Remember, for all of 2008 we were told by the NYT, CNN, NBC, and the rest that Barack Obama was a moderate centrist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:45 AM (9cans)

224 Aristotlian Argument for Gun Ownership:

1) AR-15s leave a wound the size of a cantaloupe
2) I like cantaloupes.
3) Therefore, I like AR-15s

Posted by: naturalfake

Your logic is flawed. You neglected the honeydew exception.

Posted by: Leon T. at June 25, 2019 11:45 AM (wW03z)

225 @Nate_McMurray
YEP. I'M COMING FOR YOUR AR15

It's really kind of funny that the best answer to this is always one of the oldest answers ever given:

Molon Labe.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2019 11:45 AM (Kpl3J)

226 220 I'm going to watch John Wick 2 now.

But for crying out loud, why didn't Viggo kill Wick when he was tied to a chair right in front of him? He didn't have an issue killing Marcus. Bunch of Bond villains.

For that matter, why didn't Wick kill Viggo after the vault destruction?

Eh, just a movie.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at June 25, 2019 11:43 AM (tVWQB)

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I really like John Wick. I found Chapter 2 to be a boring slog.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:46 AM (9cans)

227 Remember, killing people with your car is awful, terrible...unless you're Caitlyn Jenner, in which case, eh, it happens.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 25, 2019 11:46 AM (oZ6kz)

228 Additionally, Zhukovskyy was arrested on a drunken driving charge in 2013 in Westfield, Massachusetts, state motor vehicle records show.

Sanctuary state.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2019 11:46 AM (I2/tG)

229 @Nate_McMurray
YEP. I'M COMING FOR YOUR AR15

I'm your huckleberry.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2019 11:46 AM (21UM+)

230 I have had an Amazon account since the mid 1990s. I had Prime for years, but I dropped it several years ago. Now you can barely shop at WF without Prime. Who knows what is next? Favorable treatment in the Washington Compost? I know I will never purchase that crap again.

Posted by: Quint at June 25, 2019 11:46 AM (n13/j)

231 Your going to love this:

So TheHill has a story:

"Biden leads among Hispanic voters in key states: polls"[/]

and in the story mentions:

"Hispanics in each of the four areas said they preferred to replace President Trump rather than reelect him."

Okay I say to myself. I continue to reading.

"That margin was closest in Florida, where 34 percent of respondents said they would pick the incumbent again while 56 percent picked to have him replaced."

Hey wait a minute: 34% would vote for Trump and 8% undecided for a total of 42%!

So now I'm wondering "What percentage did Trump get in 2016?"

They have an answer.

Many GOP strategists predicted that Trump's rhetoric about immigration on the campaign trail would hurt him among Latino voters in 2016; however, he ended up winning 28 percent of the Hispanic vote that year based on exit polls

So Trump, with all his talk of illegal immigration crackdowns and immigration reform, has improved his position with Hispanics.

Jeebus, talk about burying the headline.

Posted by: WisRich at June 25, 2019 11:46 AM (G0vdT)

232 It dates forward to the Man - Kzin wars and the peace resulting thereof.

Louis Wu is challenging a Kzin to a duel and the Kzin gets annoyed
at the speechifying and tells Wu the proper etiquette is "Scream and
Leap."

Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 25, 2019
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. . .
Yes, from Larry Niven's masterpiece Ringworld. Kzinti are 8-foot-tall orange beings who look like fat tabby cats with ratlike tails, and they make Star Trek's Klingons look like warrior wannabes. Speaker-to-Animals, a kzin ambassador, tells the human Louis Wu:

"Louis, I found your challenge verbose. In challenging a kzin, no words are necessary. You scream and you leap."

"Scream and leap," said Louis. "Great."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 25, 2019 11:46 AM (ClOmq)

233 I'M COMING FOR YOUR AR15

No, no you're really not..

Posted by: IP at June 25, 2019 11:47 AM (cn3ZE)

234 test

Posted by: WisRich at June 25, 2019 11:47 AM (G0vdT)

235 arggghhhh

Posted by: Leon T. = pep at June 25, 2019 11:47 AM (wW03z)

236 I like to think about it not just as communist/socialist murder, but as murder by government.

Posted by: David Prince at June 25, 2019 11:47 AM (JkygK)

237 Louis Wu is challenging a Kzin to a duel and the Kzin gets annoyed at
the speechifying and tells Wu the proper etiquette is "Scream and Leap."
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Silly me, I thought it was a derivative of 'Twist and Shout'.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 25, 2019 11:47 AM (MIKMs)

238 >>VIDEO: Reporter Asks Bill Gates if He Will Donate to Treasury in Absence of Tax Hikes

Bill Gates had to laugh, heartily, at that.

Posted by: garrett at June 25, 2019 11:47 AM (CHPeX)

239 The modern Democrat Party is nothing but a shell. Within that shell are housed some of the most extreme and destructive threats to our democratic republic.

Every one of their proposals can be traced back to an authoritarian effort. Each can be traced to negative liberty or a surrender of sovereignty.

That's because the Democrat Party is not concerned with America or our well being. They want to rule, not govern, so it's about conquest and forcing an agenda down the throats of ordinary Americans.

There is no despicable tactic they won't use. They will brainwash, undermine, propagandize, subvert, break the law, distort the Constitution and use the levers of government like a hammer to get their way.

It won't stop until they are completely destroyed.

Any person voting or supporting them is culpable for all that will predictably happen.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 25, 2019 11:48 AM (VpIIl)

240 Sorry for the bad formatting. missed a /

Posted by: WisRich at June 25, 2019 11:48 AM (G0vdT)

241 Techies always have an outsized view of themselves.

yeah, well, arrogance is an important character trait for a techie. it's what lets you get so deep into trouble that you have to learn something to get out.
Posted by: Anachronda at June 25, 2019 11:44 AM (sGtp+)

Arrogance is also an important character trait for lefties. Coincidence?

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 25, 2019 11:48 AM (m79Dg)

242 Communisim presupposes that you will sacrifice just as much for a stranger's baby as you would for your own.
This is, of course, pure bullsh*t.

Posted by: Vlad the implaer, whittling away like mad at June 25, 2019 11:48 AM (FPEPu)

243 228
@Nate_McMurray

YEP. I'M COMING FOR YOUR AR15

It's really kind of funny that the best answer to this is always one of the oldest answers ever given:

Molon Labe.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2019
*
*
. . .
Very simple and to the point. Which is where we get the word "laconic," from the Spartans' name for themselves, Lacedemonians or Laconians.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 25, 2019 11:48 AM (ClOmq)

244 But light up a cigar and you are screwed.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2019 11:44 AM

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Monica at June 25, 2019 11:49 AM (eibb3)

245 Ask Gates if he deducts his charitable contributions.

Posted by: garrett at June 25, 2019 11:49 AM (CHPeX)

246 How many will it take to convince them it won't work?
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est

Those numbers, to them, mean it does work.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2019 11:49 AM (lK7fO)

247 That's what the fucks said about manufacturing jobs. Some people make a killing, others find their livelihoods killed.
Posted by: CN at June 25, 2019 11:42 AM (U7k5w)
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Yup. Government types in general - and lefty government types in particular - look at people, places, jobs, skills, etc. as essentially interchangeable. I have noticed (purely anecdotal, of course) that the smarter the person is, the more easily he can come to believe this. If you are really competent and smart and can pivot into something new and keep up, it's probably easier to believe that other people can, too. If you also have your hands on the levers of power, it can lead to really bad policy.

But people, places, jobs, skills, etc. are *not* essentially interchangeable. They are to some degree, of course. If you're a machinist in a car plant, you can probably slide over to QA at an electronics plant with some retraining. But sliding from from a machinist in a car plant to a junior accountant at a firm will be much harder and depending on the person may be impossible. Cincinnati is a lot like Pittsburgh - but your aging parents may not be in Cincinnati and moving, while possible, may be decidedly non-trivial.

The viewing of people, places, skills and jobs as essentially interchangeable regardless of any other context or relation between the source and the destination is, in my opinion, a mark of profound contempt for people and is probably sociopathic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 25, 2019 11:49 AM (I2dne)

248 @Nate_McMurray
YEP. I'M COMING FOR YOUR AR15

****

Looks are newly purchased Hi-Point TKS-4595.
Chuckles to self...

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2019 11:49 AM (axyOa)

249 Molon Labe.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2019 11:45 AM (Kpl3J)

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YES!!!! PREACH IT BRUTHAH !!!!!!!!

oh..... wait..... I thought you said:

COLON LUBE !

Posted by: fixerupper at June 25, 2019 11:49 AM (8XRCm)

250 human perfection at the hands of fed govt

Posted by: i give up on nics at June 25, 2019 11:50 AM (g4428)

251 252 YES!!!! PREACH IT BRUTHAH !!!!!!!!

oh..... wait..... I thought you said:

COLON LUBE !
Posted by: fixerupper at June 25, 2019 11:49 AM (8XRCm)

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Definitely not a sock fail here.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:50 AM (9cans)

252 I'M COMING FOR YOUR AR15

No, no you're really not..
Posted by: IP at June 25, 2019 11:47 AM (cn3ZE)

Well, I'll send someone else, then. *raspberry.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 25, 2019 11:50 AM (m79Dg)

253 YES!!!! PREACH IT BRUTHAH !!!!!!!!

oh..... wait..... I thought you said:

COLON LUBE !
Posted by: fixerupper at June 25, 2019 11:49 AM (8XRCm)

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Definitely not a sock fail here.
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I was socking fixerupper!

Posted by: Mayor Buttplug at June 25, 2019 11:50 AM (vg8iE)

254 oh..... wait..... I thought you said:

COLON LUBE !

Posted by: fixerupper at June 25, 2019
*
*
. . .

Well, some of the ancient Greeks would have gone for that too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 25, 2019 11:51 AM (ClOmq)

255 Ask Gates if he deducts his charitable contributions.

Posted by: garrett at June 25, 2019 11:49 AM (CHPeX)

does he even make them? I know he has a foundation worth billions and is tied in with Buffett. I am not at the charitable foundation level but I am sure it is tax efficient.

Posted by: Quint at June 25, 2019 11:51 AM (n13/j)

256 255 I'M COMING FOR YOUR AR15

No, no you're really not..
Posted by: IP at June 25, 2019 11:47 AM (cn3ZE)

Well, I'll send someone else, then. *raspberry.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 25, 2019 11:50 AM (m79Dg)

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Still, you should set out some tea and coffee at least. Manners cost nothing, you know.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:51 AM (9cans)

257 Still, you should set out some tea and coffee at least. Manners cost nothing, you know.

Perhaps a nice brisket?

Posted by: pep at June 25, 2019 11:52 AM (wW03z)

258
The fact that every prominent Democrat running is desperate to fly their progressive flags as much as possible means that these cultural Democrats in the flyover states are going to get very turned off by the party as a whole and the media is going to have to work overtime (if they even try) to moderate the eventual winner's image.

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I think it's too far out of control, anymore. The Democrat Party is largely insulated from its voters to a degree that the Republicans are not (as evidenced by the rise of Trumpism).

However, Trump also showed that they are losing hold of those moderates at general election time, when they can no longer completely guide events. As the Left wing Maoist faction of the Party spins further and further from the center, it can only get worse.

I don't think the Party wants to or even can prevent a radical of some stripe from taking the nomination, and they will not be able to convince centrist Dem voters that he/she is moderate as they did with Obama. They're all too crazy, too outspoken, and have a record of nutso behavior behind them.

Instead, the media's tactic will be to silence pro-Trump people wherever they can, which is a pretty extensive reach, while increasing the pitch, frequency, and volume of their "ORANGEMANBAD!!!!!111! REEEEEE!!!!" messaging, in an attempt to play off fear, anger and, oppositional defiance.

I don't think it will work.

*fingers crossed*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2019 11:52 AM (fUqBx)

259 How many will it take to convince them it won't work?
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 25, 2019 11:02 AM (J+mig)

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They know it doesnt work.

They are betting THEY get to be on the Politburo.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 25, 2019 11:04 AM (8XRCm)

and they are usually the first against the wall crying "why me, I was one of the good guys..."

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 25, 2019 11:52 AM (8D42x)

260 does he even make them? I know he has a foundation worth billions and is tied in with Buffett. I am not at the charitable foundation level but I am sure it is tax efficient.

Every 'foundation' is a tax dodge.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 25, 2019 11:52 AM (oVJmc)

261 >>does he even make them?

He has to make some.
That's part of the game in high society.
And.
How you get the invites.

Posted by: garrett at June 25, 2019 11:52 AM (CHPeX)

262 222 Cloistered religious orders are also successful because of a shared creed. Still, there's an abbot or prioress in charge.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2019 11:38 AM

And those are voluntary associations.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 25, 2019 11:44 AM (/+bwe)

and when you read actual accounts of them from the middle ages, a lot of them (maybe even most) were not at all like what their hype proclaimed them to be. In large part, especially in England, they became proto-corporations where the member swore to abstain from marriage and kept all wealth in the community. (didn't stop many of them from having women and kids on the side, of course)

One of the big reasons that Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries is that it was estimated that by his time, the various religious orders owned 1/4 of all the wealth and all of the land in England. Of course he took all of it for his own, which is what cemented his power.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2019 11:52 AM (Kpl3J)

263 Still, you should set out some tea and coffee at least. Manners cost nothing, you know.

Perhaps a nice brisket?

He'll hide behind the cops. Put out donuts.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2019 11:52 AM (axyOa)

264
As to the question of whether the CPUSA emerges in control or is absorbed into the broader socialism movement peppering the platforms of Democrats running for president in 2020, officials expressed confidence that the red star of their party will continue blazing.

The German model says no.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 25, 2019 11:53 AM (TAmPV)

265 and tells Wu the proper etiquette is "Scream and

Leap."

....
Yes, from Larry Niven's masterpiece Ringworld. Kzinti are 8-foot-tall orange beings who look like fat tabby cats with ratlike tails, and they make Star Trek's Klingons look like warrior wannabes. Speaker-to-Animals,

Also provoking them into a bad reactionary move is the most common monkey trick to winning in the wars.

I may have taped a Speaker to Animals tag onto an FAE cannon made out of Fosters 25oz steel cans at one point.

Posted by: DaveA at June 25, 2019 11:53 AM (FhXTo)

266 Tits.

Posted by: Tits at June 25, 2019 11:53 AM (hu22E)

267 Put out donuts.

Sorry, he ain't gettin my Krispy Kremes

Posted by: IP at June 25, 2019 11:53 AM (cn3ZE)

268 Deaths.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 25, 2019 11:14 AM (wYseH)

Well, murders, really. People were killed because they got in the way.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2019 11:54 AM (WG6O9)

269 267
As to the question of whether the CPUSA emerges in control or is absorbed into the broader socialism movement peppering the platforms of Democrats running for president in 2020, officials expressed confidence that the red star of their party will continue blazing.

The German model says no.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 25, 2019 11:53 AM (TAmPV)

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I imagine the relationship will be somewhat similar to the one between the Democratic Party of NY and the Worker's Family Party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:54 AM (9cans)

270 "@Nate_McMurray

YEP. I'M COMING FOR YOUR AR15 "

Of course, he won't personally be coming for it. They expect to send our LEO's, whom they have already set their supports against, to come and take them.

But they won't, and the increasing resistance to carrying out these unconstitutional fiats from that community is increasing.

I believe the best response is indeed, molon labe, a reminder that LEO's are increasingly ignoring Democrats unconstitutional actions and a final reminder that he doesn't own one.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 25, 2019 11:54 AM (VpIIl)

271 Co worker just dropped a fresh apple fritter on my desk with some fresh coffee.

wonder what shift she wants me to cover.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2019 11:54 AM (d7Ww2)

272 274 Co worker just dropped a fresh apple fritter on my desk with some fresh coffee.

wonder what shift she wants me to cover.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2019 11:54 AM (d7Ww2)

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Dump them in the trash in her view and then ask, "So, what's up?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:55 AM (9cans)

273 274 Co worker just dropped a fresh apple fritter on my desk with some fresh coffee.

wonder what shift she wants me to cover.

Cynic. She's just living the socialist ideal of sharing the wealth.

Posted by: pep at June 25, 2019 11:55 AM (wW03z)

274 Co worker just dropped a fresh apple fritter on my desk with some fresh coffee.

wonder what shift she wants me to cover.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2019 11:54 AM

*****

You know it...Holiday coming up.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2019 11:56 AM (axyOa)

275
@Nate_McMurray

YEP. I'M COMING FOR YOUR AR15

Nuts

Posted by: Zombie General McAuliffe at June 25, 2019 11:56 AM (TAmPV)

276 I never get apple fritters...

:::kicks the floor and sulks away:::

Posted by: IP at June 25, 2019 11:56 AM (cn3ZE)

277 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 25, 2019 11:46 AM (ClOmq)
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Wow, I actually got it right?

I read that book a good 20+ years ago.

Funny how certain things stick in your mind.

Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 25, 2019 11:56 AM (qC1Sy)

278 @Nate_McMurray
YEP. I'M ~~COMING~~ SENDING SOMEBODY ELSE FOR YOUR AR15

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 25, 2019 11:56 AM (+y/Ru)

279 I feel almost bad for these C to F list celebrities who want to read the Mueller rport. it's unreadable.

Posted by: Keto not Beto at June 25, 2019 11:56 AM (JziUy)

280 "If you believe that man is perfectible, you're susceptible to utopianism..."

And belief in perfectibility is a purely relgious belief. Science flat-out states perfection is impossible; it's only possible with foreknowledge and that violates causality.

The "party of science", the "reality based community" are some of the most fanatical religious zealots the world has ever known.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at June 25, 2019 11:56 AM (i+OJ+)

281 Yes, from Larry Niven's masterpiece Ringworld.
Kzinti are 8-foot-tall orange beings who look like fat tabby cats with
ratlike tails, and they make Star Trek's Klingons look like warrior
wannabes. Speaker-to-Animals,

Also provoking them into a bad reactionary move is the most common monkey trick to winning in the wars.

I may have taped a Speaker to Animals tag onto an FAE cannon made out of Fosters 25oz steel cans at one point.

Posted by: DaveA at June 25, 2019*
*. . .
"Who expects rational behavior from kzinti? . . . It's not as if they're a real threat. They'll always attack before they're ready."-- Beowulf Shaeffer, reflecting from a time period 200 years later and free of Man-Kzin wars

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 25, 2019 11:56 AM (ClOmq)

282 "274 Co worker just dropped a fresh apple fritter on my desk with some fresh coffee.

wonder what shift she wants me to cover.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2019 11:54 AM (d7Ww2) "

When that happens to me, it usually by someone in a low cut blouse, leaning forward just at the right angle.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 25, 2019 11:57 AM (VpIIl)

283 Co worker just dropped a fresh apple fritter on my desk with some fresh coffee.

wonder what shift she wants me to cover.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2019 11:54 AM

Ask her if it has carbs.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2019 11:57 AM (1ISKN)

284 274 Co worker just dropped a fresh apple fritter on my desk with some fresh coffee.

wonder what shift she wants me to cover.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2019 11:54 AM (d7Ww2)
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She just wants you to regain your strength for your next visit with insomniac.

Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 25, 2019 11:57 AM (qC1Sy)

285 Maxine is looking particularly fetching this morning......fetching a barf bag that is.............

Posted by: saf at June 25, 2019 11:57 AM (5IHGB)

286 And in the name of free speech and tolerance of other ideas we allowed them to get a possibly unbreakable stranglehold on our culture and politics.

Nelson Muntz would be speechless.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they are gaslighting us 24/365 at June 25, 2019 11:57 AM (jg9de)

287 261
Instead, the media's tactic will be to silence pro-Trump people wherever they can, which is a pretty extensive reach, while increasing the pitch, frequency, and volume of their "ORANGEMANBAD!!!!!111! REEEEEE!!!!" messaging, in an attempt to play off fear, anger and, oppositional defiance.

I don't think it will work.

*fingers crossed*
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2019 11:52 AM (fUqBx)

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Unless they silence Trump himself, it won't work, I don't think.

I also believe it will be a very difficult task to moderate the nominee's image, but they will certainly try. Whether it's ignoring past statements (and treating Trump like a crazy person for bringing them up) or making something like voting rights for current inmates sound reasonable, they will try.

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that this year may be the best shot in a couple of generations to see a brokered convention, which could actually split the Democratic Party.

Whoever prayed for 2020 to be an interesting cycle is getting their money's worth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:57 AM (9cans)

288 I was always impressed with the Kzin, until I found out on the internet that Brak was a Kzinti, and that image has never left my mind.

Of course I could watch Brak for hours.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2019 11:59 AM (Kpl3J)

289 What this country needs is a good 50 cent women's soccer team.

Posted by: Cy.Borg.Robot.Drifter at June 25, 2019 11:59 AM (cwQ4k)

290 When that happens to me, it usually by someone in a low cut blouse, leaning forward just at the right angle.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 25, 2019 11:57 AM

***

Dear Playboy Advisor,
You just aren't going to believe this...

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2019 11:59 AM (axyOa)

291 Geez, that dudes Twatter feed gets the record for hyperbole and tough guy talk from people who look like Paul Schaffer, weaker, retarded brother.

Yeah, come and get my AR15 or something.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 25, 2019 11:59 AM (VpIIl)

292 Co worker just dropped a fresh apple fritter on my desk with some fresh coffee.

wonder what shift she wants me to cover.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2019 11:54 AM (d7Ww2)

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Dump them in the trash in her view and then ask, "So, what's up?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:55 AM (9cans)

Well, what if she's hawt? Maybe you could negotiate a trade-off? A blowjob for covering her shift, maybe?

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 25, 2019 12:00 PM (m79Dg)

293 Apple fritters are The Lords most perfect pastry.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2019 12:00 PM (AmeQT)

294 233 I have had an Amazon account since the mid 1990s. I had Prime for years, but I dropped it several years ago. Now you can barely shop at WF without Prime. Who knows what is next? Favorable treatment in the Washington Compost? I know I will never purchase that crap again.
Posted by: Quint at June 25, 2019 11:46 AM (n13/j)

What's WF?

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 25, 2019 12:00 PM (Ez6QX)

295 Bernie is a good little commie. He won't buck the party.

And he DIDN'T get screwed last time. He ran knowing he was there to generate interest, get names, and raise money for The Hag. It's his dumbass followers that got screwed.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2019 12:00 PM (rOka2)

296 297
What's WF?
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 25, 2019 12:00 PM (Ez6QX)

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Whole Foods, bought by Amazon a few years back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 12:00 PM (9cans)

297 nurse, leave the fritter, take the covfefe

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at June 25, 2019 12:01 PM (dm05u)

298 I don't think it will work.

*fingers crossed*
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2019 11:52 AM

***

Concur.
I don't think it will either.
When he packs stadiums wherever he goes, there will be no silencing. Even if ignored by the national media, the local media will be forced to cover it.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2019 12:01 PM (axyOa)

299 The viewing of people, places, skills and jobs as essentially interchangeable regardless of any other context or relation between the source and the destination is, in my opinion, a mark of profound contempt for people and is probably sociopathic.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 25, 2019 11:49 AM (I2dne)

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People are interchangeable in the macro sense. And you can't make economic policy on an individual basis. If there's a better job in Pittsburg but your parents are in Cincinatti, that's a decision you make. But we shouldn't stop that job in Pittsburg from being created because moving is tough. Mobility is one of the reasons we became an economic power. Willingness to drop everything and move 1000 miles away for a new job or business opportunity is a uniquely American thing.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 25, 2019 12:01 PM (FiUMj)

300 @Project_Veritas 54 seconds ago

.@YouTube is LOSING their censorship battle. How do we know? Dozens of #BigTech insiders have come to Project Veritas in the last 24 hours.

Posted by: Tami at June 25, 2019 12:01 PM (cF8AT)

301 That "all star reading" from the sidebar. Its like they think the report is packed with secret awful things that if only people heard, they'd hate the president. You know why they think so? Because they've not ever read the thing themselves and just assume because Orange Man Bad.d

George Clooney and Meryl Streep reading a dull report isn't going to make it any less dull.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 25, 2019 12:01 PM (39g3+)

302 298 Bernie is a good little commie. He won't buck the party.

And he DIDN'T get screwed last time. He ran knowing he was there to generate interest, get names, and raise money for The Hag. It's his dumbass followers that got screwed.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2019 12:00 PM (rOka2)

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Did you see his face at the convention?

He got screwed, and he hated it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 12:01 PM (9cans)

303 "Dear Playboy Advisor,
You just aren't going to believe this...
Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2019 11:59 AM (axyOa)"

True story. There are a few that still try to pull that crap. I've been around long enough I don't take the bait. The key is they always look at the right time to see if YOU are looking. When you don't glance at the cleavage, they know buying you breakfast was a total waste.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 25, 2019 12:01 PM (VpIIl)

304 And belief in perfectibility is a purely relgious belief. Science flat-out states perfection is impossible; it's only possible with foreknowledge and that violates causality.

The "party of science", the "reality based community" are some of the most fanatical religious zealots the world has ever known.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at June 25, 2019 11:56 AM (i+OJ+)
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Depends on by whom, I think. I suspect most Christians and Jews probably think that man can be perfect in the Kingdom of Heaven, but is imperfect and imperfectible on Earth. Down here on the physical plane, you have to accommodate imperfection and discourage the basest of behaviors. Perfection is your eternal world, not your transient earthly one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 25, 2019 12:02 PM (I2dne)

305 Sanders proves the proverb theres no fool like an old fool.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2019 12:02 PM (AmeQT)

306 Carefully noted, for the next time my writing-group colleague brings up Sweden as an example of "successful Socialism." I've pointed out to him that even if Sweden's setup were socialist, it has seemed to work only because of three things:

1) Small, homogeneous population;

2) North Sea oil profits; and

3) NATO, aka the U.S., takes care of their defense.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 25, 2019 11:22 AM (ClOmq)

You are confusing Sweden with Norway. Norway has the North Sea oil, not Sweden, whose coastline is on the Baltic Sea. Norway is the NATO member, not Sweden, which is neutral, and has their own fairly respectable military, and the industrial capacity to build it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2019 12:02 PM (WG6O9)

307 Bernie is a good little commie. He won't buck the party.

Especially if he's paid off again like last time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 25, 2019 12:02 PM (39g3+)

308 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:57 AM (9cans)

The nominee is already chosen. They will win fair and square (har har).

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2019 12:02 PM (rOka2)

309 The "party of science", the "reality based community" are some of the most fanatical religious zealots the world has ever known.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at June 25, 2019 11:56

that's why I said communism is an atheist theocracy

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at June 25, 2019 12:02 PM (dm05u)

310
I don't think it will work.
*fingers crossed*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2019 11:52 AM

We are well past peak ORANGEMANBAD.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 25, 2019 12:03 PM (TAmPV)

311 311 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 11:57 AM (9cans)

The nominee is already chosen. They will win fair and square (har har).
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2019 12:02 PM (rOka2)

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Gotta get those votes counted just right, though.

Still a lot of work to do to convince the world that Kamala's win is genuine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 12:03 PM (9cans)

312 Did you see his face at the convention?He got screwed, and he hated it.Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 12:01 PM (9cans)

I don't buy it. They say DC is Hollywood for ugly people for a reason.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2019 12:03 PM (rOka2)

313 Wait, is this a lesbian thing? Because I have some days off coming up and a whole lot of frequent flyer mileage to use?

Posted by: Marcus T at June 25, 2019 12:04 PM (VpIIl)

314 True story. There are a few that still try to pull that crap. I've been around long enough I don't take the bait. The key is they always look at the right time to see if YOU are looking. When you don't glance at the cleavage, they know buying you breakfast was a total waste.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 25, 2019 12:01 PM

****

Twenty years in the Army...best cleavage I ever saw included two frags and two smoke grenades.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2019 12:04 PM (axyOa)

315 Whole Foods, bought by Amazon a few years back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 12:00 PM (9cans)

Ah thanks. We don't have one of those here.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 25, 2019 12:04 PM (Ez6QX)

316 The nominee is already chosen. They will win fair and square (har har).

I honestly don't think that's true this time. I think they assume that Trump will win (a fair guess) and are just jockeying for leadership of the Democratic Party.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 25, 2019 12:04 PM (39g3+)

317 best cleavage I ever saw included two frags and two smoke grenades.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2019 12:04 PM (axyOa)

uh ... that's hot?

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at June 25, 2019 12:04 PM (dm05u)

318 People are interchangeable in the macro sense. And you can't make economic policy on an individual basis. If there's a better job in Pittsburg but your parents are in Cincinatti, that's a decision you make. But we shouldn't stop that job in Pittsburg from being created because moving is tough. Mobility is one of the reasons we became an economic power. Willingness to drop everything and move 1000 miles away for a new job or business opportunity is a uniquely American thing.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 25, 2019 12:01 PM (FiUMj)
++++++++++
It surely is. But that's not what they're talking about in Oregon, and causes matter. Did the market evolve and force adaptation? It happens all the time, and is very disruptive. Does the state have an interest in mediating the effects of those changes through programs like job training? Maybe.

What's going on in Oregon (and throughout many places), though, is not that. It's the deliberate destruction of non-obsolete industries through policy because they don't care on whit about the people involved, and view those people as drones who can be reassigned by their local commissars.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 25, 2019 12:04 PM (I2dne)

319 Joke goes like this:

Jeff Bezos asked Alexa to buy something from Whole Foods. She misunderstood and bought While Foods instead.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 25, 2019 12:05 PM (FiUMj)

320 269 Tits.
Posted by: Tits at June 25, 2019 11:53 AM (hu22E)

Uptwinkles

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 25, 2019 12:05 PM (RD7QR)

321 Workers are cogs in he socialist machine
Everything for the greater good

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at June 25, 2019 12:05 PM (dm05u)

322 The ettes around here taught me that when people start asking or commenting about your hands, you should run. That is apparently the number one sexual come on.

Who knew?

Posted by: Marcus T at June 25, 2019 12:06 PM (VpIIl)

323 Still a lot of work to do to convince the world that Kamala's win is genuine.Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 12:03 PM (9cans)

I think the sheep will follow their master's call and xhe (if it's xer and I still believe it is) will get a lot of votes.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2019 12:06 PM (rOka2)

324 319 The nominee is already chosen. They will win fair and square (har har).

I honestly don't think that's true this time. I think they assume that Trump will win (a fair guess) and are just jockeying for leadership of the Democratic Party.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 25, 2019 12:04 PM (39g3+)

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Win the nomination this time, lose to Trump, and be first in line for 2024?

Possible motive, but unrealistic.

Romney didn't even run in 16, but he wouldn't have come close to winning, and his kingmaker role in the party led to nothing for him.

Maybe Democrats can keep better control of their party than Republicans, but I kind of doubt it now. The Establishment ceded too much control to the activist Left after 16, especially within the DNC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 25, 2019 12:06 PM (9cans)

325 ""Who expects rational behavior from kzinti? . . . It's not as if they're a real threat. They'll always attack before they're ready."-- Beowulf Shaeffer, reflecting from a time period 200 years later and free of Man-Kzin wars"

*pushes taped glasses up*

Actually, Beowulf Shaeffer's remark predates the Ringworld stories, as he's later revealed to be Louis Wu's biological father. He disappears from the records shortly after Wu's birth, 200 years before Ringworld -- which opens with Wu celebrating his 200th birthday.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at June 25, 2019 12:06 PM (i+OJ+)

326 It surely is. But that's not what they're talking about in Oregon, and causes matter. Did the market evolve and force adaptation? It happens all the time, and is very disruptive. Does the state have an interest in mediating the effects of those changes through programs like job training? Maybe.

What's going on in Oregon (and throughout many places), though, is not that. It's the deliberate destruction of non-obsolete industries through policy because they don't care on whit about the people involved, and view those people as drones who can be reassigned by their local commissars.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 25, 2019 12:04 PM (I2dne

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Oh I agree with you there. Oregon is fucked up and also CA where they destroyed thousands of farms to protect a fish. But in the greater sense, I disagree with the notion that viewing people as interchangeable is sociopathic.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 25, 2019 12:06 PM (FiUMj)

327 Well, what if she's hawt? Maybe you could negotiate a trade-off? A blowjob for covering her shift, maybe?

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 25, 2019 12:00 PM (m79Dg)

Nurse wants a blow job? kinky.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 25, 2019 12:06 PM (8lGpb)

328 That "all star reading" from the sidebar. Its like they think the report is packed with secret awful things that if only people heard, they'd hate the president. You know why they think so? Because they've not ever read the thing themselves and just assume because Orange Man Bad.d

George Clooney and Meryl Streep reading a dull report isn't going to make it any less dull.

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the moooler team did their hardest to make everything sound bad but it's really some fascy shit.

"trump adviser met with russian X" narrator: he was a state dept agent.

"imagine that any act that does anything is obstruction" trump did an act, so it could be, if that doesn't freak your commie mind out.

Posted by: Keto not Beto at June 25, 2019 12:07 PM (JziUy)

329 You are confusing Sweden with Norway. Norway has the
North Sea oil, not Sweden, whose coastline is on the Baltic Sea. Norway
is the NATO member, not Sweden, which is neutral, and has their own
fairly respectable military, and the industrial capacity to build it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2019
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I thought it applied generally to the Scandinavian countries. Does Norway have the same kind of high-tax welfare state as Sweden?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 25, 2019 12:07 PM (ClOmq)

330 323 269 Tits.
Posted by: Tits
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mmm tits

Posted by: Keto not Beto at June 25, 2019 12:07 PM (JziUy)

331 nude

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2019 12:07 PM (d7Ww2)

332 >>I thought it applied generally to the Scandinavian countries. Does Norway have the same kind of high-tax welfare state as Sweden?

Yes.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2019 12:08 PM (PxX58)

333 How many will it take to convince them it won't work?
That is just getting rid of their "deplorable"! That is what must be done....Comrade!

Posted by: Paladin at June 25, 2019 12:08 PM (quX0S)

334 "best cleavage I ever saw included two frags and two smoke grenades.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2019 12:04 PM (axyOa) "

You've never seen a few M107 155mm HER's side-by-side, have you?

Posted by: Marcus T at June 25, 2019 12:08 PM (VpIIl)

335
The US Women's Soccer Team is not representing the US, it's representing US Women soccer players. So, no, forget it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2019 12:08 PM (BWL+E)

336 Sara A. Carter @SaraCarterDC
1h
Hearing there is more and more info the IG is looking into - if that's the case then it's a good thing it's taking longer. Remember IG's office is the opposite of what happened with senior Obama folks investigating Trump under false evidence. Oh, and they don't leak false stories

Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at June 25, 2019 12:08 PM (BqBId)

337 The ettes around here taught me that when people start asking or commenting about your hands, you should run. That is apparently the number one sexual come on.

Who knew?

Posted by: Marcus T at June 25, 2019 12:06 PM

****

***checks tape over camera***

There may be something to this.
I suggested a little morning fun to Mrs D and her response was, "Oh come on...are you serious?"

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2019 12:08 PM (axyOa)

338 312 The "party of science", the "reality based community" are some of the most fanatical religious zealots the world has ever known.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at June 25, 2019 11:56

that's why I said communism is an atheist theocracy
Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at June 25, 2019 12:02 PM (dm05u)

Which is a good explanation as to why every system built on it collapses so quickly. Of all possible systems, one of the most idiotic possible is a religious based theocracy that has no god, just the rules that go along with it.

And I always feel the need to point out that China is *not* communist, although they use the word - China has an upgraded and slightly reformed version of the same old Imperial system they've used for 2,300 years now. It's brutal, but it works. President and Chairman Xi has powers that most of the old Emperors could only dream of.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2019 12:08 PM (Kpl3J)

339 What's going on in Oregon (and throughout many places), though, is not that. It's the deliberate destruction of non-obsolete industries through policy because they don't care on whit about the people involved, and view those people as drones who can be reassigned by their local commissars.

The cap-and-trade policy is designed to screw everyone outside of Portland, for the benefit of crony capitalists and people who bicycle to their "progressive" nonprofit jobs in downtown Portland.

In particular, it is designed to devastate rural Oregon.

Portlanders go through a two step process, which has been going on for years:

1) Ban as much economic activity in rural areas as they possibly can.

2) Complain that the rural areas are poor, and require subsidies.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2019 12:09 PM (I2/tG)

340 "***checks tape over camera***

There may be something to this.
I suggested a little morning fun to Mrs D and her response was, "Oh come on...are you serious?"
Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2019 12:08 PM (axyOa)"

And yet, they want to know why we spend so much time at the range....

Posted by: Marcus T at June 25, 2019 12:10 PM (VpIIl)

341 Oh I agree with you there. Oregon is fucked up and also CA where they destroyed thousands of farms to protect a fish. But in the greater sense, I disagree with the notion that viewing people as interchangeable is sociopathic.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 25, 2019 12:06 PM (FiUMj)
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Yeah, I was unclear in my initial post. There are huge differences between natural and synthetic selection. When the market evolves one way or the other and sidelines people, that is one thing. There may be things the state can do to help, maybe there aren't - but the state shouldn't interfere aggressively in natural developments. Those natural developments are how progress is made. The state should acknowledge the disruption and determine if there is a positive interest in micro-level interference. That, I agree, is not indicative of evil in any way.

But synthetically forcing the destructive of non-obsolete industry or forcing the incubation of non-existing industry (oil in the former, solar in the latter, for example) because you view people as drones is a different scenario. I did not make that nuance clear in my initial post, and thanks for calling it out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 25, 2019 12:11 PM (I2dne)

342 @Nate_McMurray

YEP. I'M COMING FOR YOUR AR15

Here you go.

Muzzle first.

Posted by: Big Brother, Inc. at June 25, 2019 11:31 AM (LL1Be)

Be a real pity, wouldn't it, if somebody shot that guy, in the head, with a Revolutionary War musket?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2019 12:12 PM (WG6O9)

343 Tits.
Posted by: Tits at June 25, 2019 11:53 AM (hu22E)

Uptwinkles
Posted by: joncelli

Jazz hands.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2019 12:13 PM (21UM+)

344 Art thread pic was hotter

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at June 25, 2019 11:05 AM (bcbK
Compared to the OTN pic of AOC "Party Girl"? Showing she will do whatever it take for out team to WIN.

Posted by: Paladin at June 25, 2019 12:13 PM (quX0S)

345 Romney didn't even run in 16, but he wouldn't have come close to winning, and his kingmaker role in the party led to nothing for him.

Yeah but this is about conflicting factions within the Democrat Party, not the individuals they are promoting. Nobody has real control and they all want it, so they're fighting over it, using proxies.

In particular, it is designed to devastate rural Oregon.

I don't think the legislature is rubbing its hands together and twirling moustachios, whlie cackling maniacally about their dastardly plan to destroy rural Oregon. I think they believe they are saving the world and doing the right thing, and are simply ignorant about the damage that it would do, and reject any warnings or complaints as being oil money and evil Rethulikkkans. Besides, they are all enlightened and good and right and can fix anything, because they are so virtuous and smart. That's their thought process at least.

Almost nobody does anything just to be evil and horrible.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 25, 2019 12:13 PM (39g3+)

346 328
""Who expects rational behavior from kzinti? . . . It's not as if
they're a real threat. They'll always attack before they're ready."--
Beowulf Shaeffer, reflecting from a time period 200 years later and free
of Man-Kzin wars"

*pushes taped glasses up*

Actually, Beowulf Shaeffer's remark predates the Ringworld stories,
as he's later revealed to be Louis Wu's biological father. He disappears
from the records shortly after Wu's birth, 200 years before Ringworld
-- which opens with Wu celebrating his 200th birthday.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at June 25, 2019
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Ah, you're right -- Bey's adventures predate Ringworld; he's the [pilot who took the super-fast starship Long Shot far enough to see that the core of the galaxy was exploding. Still, he was able to make his remark about kzinti in the confidence, in 2600 or so, that the Man-Kzin Wars were long over.

However, I always though Bey's friend, Carlos Wu, the certified genius with the unlimited breeding license, was Louis's biological father. Bey and his wife Sharrol wanted children, but Earth wouldn't give Bey a license; so they asked Carlos to father their children. I think -- think -- Carlos or Bey mentions "little Louis" in there somewhere. So presumably Bey came back to Earth and helped raise Louis, who 200 years later would go on the Ringworld expedition.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 25, 2019 12:13 PM (ClOmq)

347 *facepalm*

"I'm coming for your AR15"

... with what?

Presumably something better than an AR15...

Two AR15s?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2019 12:13 PM (Ct55T)

348 You've never seen a few M107 155mm HER's side-by-side, have you?
Posted by: Marcus T at June 25, 2019 12:08 PM

Pfffft. Mere 8 inchers.

Posted by: U.S.S. New Jersey at June 25, 2019 12:14 PM (eibb3)

349 I honestly don't think that's true this time. I think they assume that Trump will win (a fair guess) and are just jockeying for leadership of the Democratic Party.Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 25, 2019 12:04 PM (39g3+)

My opinion is the D party can't afford to have someone go rogue, and gain popularity based on truth bombs and non-left positions. ESPECIALLY after what happened with Trump. That means they have no choice but to rig it again (ooh don't throw me in that briar patch). If someone they don't own gets in, it's more than a disaster it's the end of their power grab.

The media simply didn't get the job done last time. They HAVE to rig it.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2019 12:15 PM (rOka2)

350 Posted by: Tits at June 25, 2019 11:53 AM (hu22E)

You don't really have to announce yourself here, Everybody knows what tits are.

They either have them or have played with them or have had someone else play with them. So what? That's all you have to say? Surely you could post some pictures of yourself?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2019 12:18 PM (ivkO2)

351 *facepalm*

"I'm coming for your AR15"

... with what?

Presumably something better than an AR15...

Two AR15s?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Whew! My M4geries are safe!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2019 12:20 PM (21UM+)

352 Compared to the OTN pic of AOC "Party Girl"? Showing she will do whatever it take for out team to WIN.
Posted by: Paladin

She'll do whatever it takes, except brush hog it.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2019 12:21 PM (21UM+)

353 I told my husband Oregon would start talking about job training. Sure enough...

I got a Novell CNE back in the day. One of the classes had a tractor mechanic. His job was going away, so they offered him training. I don't know how they sold it to him but they scheduled all seven Novell training classes, back to back and put him up in a hotel for the month it would take. He knew within the first hour that he was in over his head. He was out of a job, with useless training.

Posted by: notsothoreau at June 25, 2019 12:24 PM (JKNZq)

354 WA state legislature passed a law that required an expensive study before you could put in a new well. It shut down housing starts in Eastern WA as a result, since it added about $20k to the costs. Of course, the cities did not have to do any expensive studies about how their services impacted the aquifers.

Posted by: notsothoreau at June 25, 2019 12:31 PM (JKNZq)

355 Some of us seek to add tits to our life lists.

Posted by: Birders at June 25, 2019 12:33 PM (eibb3)

356 I thought it applied generally to the Scandinavian countries. Does Norway have the same kind of high-tax welfare state as Sweden?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 25, 2019 12:07 PM (ClOmq)

Yes, they do. The deal with the small, homogeneous populations is spot on, though. Except they are now fucking that up by importing muslims.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2019 12:34 PM (WG6O9)

357 224 the AR15 leaves a wound the size of a canteloupe...

*paging through Cheaper Than Dirt cammo atalogue*

Item number?

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at June 25, 2019 01:04 PM (YYpoe)

358 .

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2019 01:32 PM (c/0Nr)

359 If you are serious about fighting communism and educating the younger generation about its terrible ideology, history, and legacy, please consider supporting the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

www.victimsofcommunism.org

And if you are a teacher, please take a look at the teacher website:

teachers.victimsofcommunism.org

Posted by: MSYB at June 25, 2019 01:38 PM (WmXqT)

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