Say, How Come Bill Kristol Was Very Noticeably Absent from the AEI Awards Dinner Held In His Own Father's Name?

From insiders, here is the sequence leading up to Bill Kristol's very visible non-appearance at the Irving Kristol Award dinner.

For weeks, it had been rumored that, owing to donor discomfort with Bill Kristol's past speeches at the Irving Kristol dinner -- which were unrestrained in mockery of Trump supporters, many of whom were actually donors to AEI and the dinner -- that Bill Kristol had not been invited this year, and in fact was specifically asked not to come.

Kristol usually gives the introductory speech, as you would expect.

But Kristol was causing controversy among the people paying the bills.

As he does. Being a spiteful little donation-parasite that can't keep a civil tongue even with the people paying his big-time mortgage.

So rumor had it that he wasn't invited -- or was specifically disinvited -- from the dinner this year.

Many rejected this rumor as too incredible to be believed.

And yet, as the dinner took place a couple of days ago, rising to the podium to give the introductory speech hitherto always given by Bill Kristol was... not Bill Kristol.

Good evening everyone. I'm Robert Doar, president of AEI, and, on behalf of our chairman Dan D'Aniello and the entire AEI community, I welcome you to our Annual Dinner. We’re so glad you could join us this evening, when we have the privilege of celebrating two great Americans: Irving Kristol and Ambassador Nikki Haley.
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Those of you who have been with us before know that it has been our practice in the past at this point in the program to invite Bill Kristol up to say a few words about the Irving Kristol Award and to extend greetings from his mother, Bea Himmelfarb, and their family. But Bea and Bill could not be here tonight, though they still send warm greetings and good wishes to all of us and to Ambassador Haley. And I know we send the same to them.

I'm told by a party attending the event that there was confusion and surprise that the not-at-all-august presence of Bill Kristol was not at all present, augustly or otherwise, and people went to their phones to text "What's going on?" or the like to others.

I'm further told that a donor explained that he believed, based on statements from AEI officials, that Bill Kristol was not merely absent, but that his radiant feminence was asked to not be present. Owing to prior discourtesies rendered at the stage in the several years past.

Is this merely chatter? Does this donor know this for a fact?

The AEI officials were not explicit on this point -- they just implied that Bill Kristol had been politely suggested to grace the event with his absence.

Or so I hear.

But consider the sequence of events here: It had been rumored for a time before the event that Bill Kristol had been disinvited. People showed up not believing this rumor, and expecting Kristol to show up and insult swathes of the gathering, as he had done before, and just be an absolute glutton with the hors d'ouvures, because, I mean: Just look at him.

This is not a man who turns away a stuffed mushroom or nine lightly.

This is not a sentimentalist fool who believes in the outdated chestnut of "Women and children first" at the shrimp-bar.

This is a man who knows one must post-up just outside the gates leading from the kitchen to the dining hall, and work to box-out and muscle-out any encroaching competitors.

But then he didn't show up. For a dinner given in his father's honor.

No bacon wrapped scallops for Bill this night.

I guess he had a more important and more prestigious event scheduled for the night of October 29.

Or spending some quality time with people he loves.

Or pursuing further groundbreaking philosophical inquiries into bold new areas of inquiry hitherto undreamt of.

Either that or he was jerking off with Twitter, as usual.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 05:25 PM

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1 SPONGE!

Posted by: Heirloominati at November 01, 2019 05:27 PM (+J//Q)

2 MAJOR TROLL IN THE THREAD BELOW.

Please ban him.

Posted by: buzzion at November 01, 2019 05:27 PM (Z7lwY)

3 What's goin' on?

Posted by: Heirloominati at November 01, 2019 05:28 PM (+J//Q)

4 st

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Warm Yourself Up with Torrid Taunts from teh Outrage Outlet! at November 01, 2019 05:28 PM (rJm6y)

5 >>>This is not a man who turns away a stuffed mushroom or nine lightly.

total burn! he's such a creep.

Posted by: trapper's girl at November 01, 2019 05:28 PM (HRaIF)

6 Dang it, read the content.

It sounds like NeverTrump is wearing out its welcome, its appeal becoming much more selective.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Warm Yourself Up with Torrid Taunts from teh Outrage Outlet! at November 01, 2019 05:29 PM (rJm6y)

7 lolgf

Posted by: Ghost of Irving Kristol at November 01, 2019 05:29 PM (1CjJc)

8 Bill cancelled? Fantastic.

Posted by: Ever at November 01, 2019 05:29 PM (ZZDMQ)

9 Yikes!
Thought the frost would've tamped them down.

Posted by: Heirloominati at November 01, 2019 05:29 PM (+J//Q)

10 @BNONews 35 seconds ago

BREAKING: Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat from Texas, is dropping out of the race for president - NYT

Posted by: Tami at November 01, 2019 05:29 PM (cF8AT)

11 I've said it before and I will say it again. Poor Irving Kristol, his wife cheated on him. Because there is no way that that guy is his son.

Posted by: Richard Head at November 01, 2019 05:30 PM (LLUXC)

12 He had to have been dis-invited. being the publicity whore that he is, no way he would not have turned up otherwise.

Posted by: IC - soon to be de-energized at November 01, 2019 05:30 PM (a0IVu)

13 Sorry for the OT ace....

Posted by: Tami at November 01, 2019 05:30 PM (cF8AT)

14 POTUS was right about Never Trumpers. Human scum

Posted by: Jmel at November 01, 2019 05:30 PM (+WVuA)

15 10 @BNONews 35 seconds ago

BREAKING: Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat from Texas, is dropping out of the race for president - NYT

Posted by: Tami at November 01, 2019 05:29 PM (cF8AT)

Guess 'we are taking your guns' was not a winning proposition, eh?

Posted by: IC - soon to be de-energized at November 01, 2019 05:31 PM (a0IVu)

16 MAJOR TROLL IN THE THREAD BELOW.

Posted by: buzzion at November 01, 2019 05:27 PM (Z7lwY)

Relax...it's cool.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Anti-Semite at November 01, 2019 05:31 PM (wYseH)

17 His well-known flatulence?
Allegedly. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at November 01, 2019 05:31 PM (bDqIh)

18 Maybe Cap'n Bill was imprisoned on the poop deck

Posted by: Northernlurker at November 01, 2019 05:31 PM (n1yOz)

19 Proper nood whistle given

Posted by: Heirloominati at November 01, 2019 05:31 PM (+J//Q)

20 Take this president...please!

*silence*

*taps microphone*

Is this thing on?

Posted by: Bill Kristol at November 01, 2019 05:32 PM (j3npP)

21

Bill was tied up. Cuck Night at the Dungeon Club.

Posted by: Tex Nihilo at November 01, 2019 05:32 PM (IX2lg)

22 Huh! Well good, there should be some consequence for that level of insane.

Posted by: petunia at November 01, 2019 05:32 PM (4FqDg)

23 10 @BNONews 35 seconds ago

BREAKING: Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat from Texas, is dropping out of the race for president - NYT
Posted by: Tami at November 01, 2019 05:29 PM (cF8AT)
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Not unexpected but welcomed all the same. Buh Bye.

Harris is next.

Posted by: WisRich at November 01, 2019 05:32 PM (G0vdT)

24 BNONews 35 seconds ago

BREAKING: Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat from Texas, is dropping out of the race for president - NYT

Posted by: Tami at November 01, 2019 05:29 PM (cF8AT)

Guess 'we are taking your guns' was not a winning proposition, eh?
Posted by: IC - soon to be de-energized at

He wants to spend more time with his furry friends.

Posted by: LASue at November 01, 2019 05:32 PM (A54vd)

25 CBD always rides in for the rescue.

Posted by: trapper's girl at November 01, 2019 05:32 PM (HRaIF)

26 This is not a man who turns away a stuffed mushroom or nine lightly.

Ok, good burn, but who among us hasn't had a few too many delicious mushrooms when they're offered?

Posted by: bonhomme at November 01, 2019 05:32 PM (9t0Zz)

27 Cocktail Events for Cuckservatives

(set theory logic symbol indicating "Does not intersect with")

Me giving one fuck

Posted by: zombie at November 01, 2019 05:32 PM (fK2gX)

28 A Captains work is too important for a stupid award show!

AHOY!

Posted by: Capt'n Bill Kristol at November 01, 2019 05:33 PM (nGRyX)

29 Furries now have no representation.

Posted by: Northernlurker at November 01, 2019 05:33 PM (n1yOz)

30 16 MAJOR TROLL IN THE THREAD BELOW.

Posted by: buzzion at November 01, 2019 05:27 PM (Z7lwY)

Relax...it's cool.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Anti-Semite at November 01, 2019 05:31 PM (wYseH)

Well of course you were cool with it

Posted by: buzzion at November 01, 2019 05:33 PM (Z7lwY)

31 But then he didn't show up. For a dinner given in his father's honor.
.........

Couldn't get his shirt buttoned.

Posted by: wth at November 01, 2019 05:33 PM (v0R5T)

32 It happens in famous families. Generational decay. Bill is to the Kristols as Drew is to the Barrymores. But Bill has bigger boobs.

Posted by: Ted K. at November 01, 2019 05:33 PM (FJYfm)

33 I think they did ban that putz. You know this thread will be catnip to him.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at November 01, 2019 05:33 PM (ykYG2)

34 >>>Ok, good burn, but who among us hasn't had a few too many delicious mushrooms when they're offered?

yeah I felt like a super-hypocrite writing that.

I have really gone to town on open shrimp-bars. I was practically begging for a "George, the ocean called" insult.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:33 PM (PbpT7)

35 Either that or he was jerking off with Twitter, as usual.

Wouldn't that require the ability to locate and reach the necessary tool?

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 05:33 PM (TdMsT)

36 BREAKING: Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat from Texas, is dropping out of the race for president - NYT

Posted by: Tami at November 01, 2019 05:29 PM (cF8AT)

Whew. I have been terrified of President Beto coming to my door in his sheep costume to take our ARs.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:33 PM (ptqGC)

37 10 @BNONews 35 seconds ago

BREAKING: Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat from Texas, is dropping out of the race for president - NYT
Posted by: Tami at November 01, 2019 05:29 PM (cF8AT)

Maybe his reception at Newtown finally woke him up.

Or not. These scum are retards.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at November 01, 2019 05:33 PM (NbtMM)

38 >>>Or spending some quality time with people he loves.

Or possibly with people his wife loves.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 01, 2019 05:34 PM (Vgw1E)

39 16 MAJOR TROLL IN THE THREAD BELOW.

Posted by: buzzion at November 01, 2019 05:27 PM

Relax...it's cool.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Anti-Semite at November 01, 2019 05:31 PM

Again with the Klingons?!

Posted by: Heirloominati at November 01, 2019 05:34 PM (+J//Q)

40 Beto got beat out of the race.

Posted by: dantesed at November 01, 2019 05:34 PM (5wbZ4)

41 21

Bill was tied up. Cuck Night at the Dungeon Club.
Posted by: Tex Nihilo

I got to watch!! It was a lovely evening!

Posted by: Capt'n Bill Kristol at November 01, 2019 05:34 PM (nGRyX)

42 Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:34 PM (PbpT7)

43 Hey, I like Drew Barrymore movies. 50 First Dates and Whip It were original and good.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at November 01, 2019 05:34 PM (ykYG2)

44 It's possible he knew that one brave AEI donors might have publicly confronted him . He is a cowardly cuck .

Posted by: Easy Andy at November 01, 2019 05:34 PM (mesZS)

45 I wonder what's next for Beto? Biden's VP?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:34 PM (ptqGC)

46
BREAKING: Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat from Texas, is dropping out of the race for president - NYT

If a tree falls in the forest and there are no supporters around to hear, does it make a sound?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 01, 2019 05:35 PM (oVJmc)

47 >>BREAKING: Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat from Texas, is dropping out of the race for president - NYT

Beto - 0
Righteous Newtown mom - 1

He really couldn't bring it, eh?

Posted by: Lizzy at November 01, 2019 05:35 PM (bDqIh)

48 BREAKING: Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat from Texas, is dropping out of the race for president - NYT
****
What a fail. A perennial 8th place ribbon winner trying again for POTUS

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 01, 2019 05:35 PM (h1jJh)

49 Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:34 PM (PbpT7)

My pleasure. But I do want to hear more about these "open shrimp bars."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Anti-Semite at November 01, 2019 05:35 PM (wYseH)

50 BREAKING: Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat from Texas, is dropping out of the race for president - NYT
.........

Just wants to spend more time with his skate bruhs.

Posted by: wth at November 01, 2019 05:35 PM (v0R5T)

51 That's all right, he'll be the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention in 2020.

Posted by: ShainS at November 01, 2019 05:35 PM (/16tK)

52 Hey, I like Drew Barrymore movies. 50 First Dates and Whip It were original and good.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at November 01, 2019 05:34 PM (ykYG2)

I liked her last coupling with Adam Sandler.

Blended.

Posted by: Easy Andy at November 01, 2019 05:35 PM (mesZS)

53 the International Quranic Studies Association now asks us to front a tenner to attend the reception. I hope that wasn't my fault.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at November 01, 2019 05:36 PM (ykYG2)

54 >>>My pleasure. But I do want to hear more about these "open shrimp bars."

it was at a wedding. The shrimp were fucking huge. The size of cats.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:36 PM (PbpT7)

55 I do want to hear more about these "open shrimp bars."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Open clam bars are even better

Posted by: zombie at November 01, 2019 05:36 PM (fK2gX)

56 or the reception after a wedding, rather.

Though, I'd sure like hors d'oevures service during weddings.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:36 PM (PbpT7)

57 But I do want to hear more about these "open shrimp bars."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Anti-Semite at November 01, 2019 05:35 PM (wYseH)
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#MeToo. Like an address and timeframe, kind of thing.

Posted by: bluebell - get a conservative sample Fairfax Co. ballot here! at November 01, 2019 05:36 PM (aXucN)

58 Beto was done for once Gay Beto made a splash.

Gay Black Beto is still in, though.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 01, 2019 05:36 PM (oVJmc)

59 It's kind of disappointing that Bill didn't go, only to have his zombie dad rise up and smite him at the dinner.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:36 PM (ptqGC)

60 Pretty sure that @billkristol has some bots in his feed.

Otherwise, why?

Posted by: Golfman at November 01, 2019 05:36 PM (M3a0a)

61 BREAKING: Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat from Texas, is dropping out of the race for president - NYT

Posted by: Tami at November 01, 2019 05:29 PM (cF8AT)

What???

You're telling me my dream of having a "Hispano"-Irish successor to the Kennedys is dead???

Or at least of being able to use the phrase "Beta O'Rourke" 850,000 times in the next year?

Time to go sob into my bourbon, I guess.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 01, 2019 05:37 PM (Vgw1E)

62 So, he picks up his skateboard and goes home?

Posted by: dantesed at November 01, 2019 05:37 PM (5wbZ4)

63 I don't even care if this is true.

He and the rest of the cucklings take great joy in Mean Girl gossip. Time to slap him with some.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 01, 2019 05:37 PM (GbPPJ)

64 Hey, I like Drew Barrymore movies. 50 First Dates and Whip It were original and good.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at November 01, 2019 05:34 PM (ykYG2)

Still, that's a pretty serious drop from Lionel and John. But maybe I should have went with Bill is to the Kristols as Chaz is to the Bonos.

Posted by: Ted K. at November 01, 2019 05:37 PM (FJYfm)

65 Just wants to spend more time with his skate bruhs.
_____________

And his fellow furries.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at November 01, 2019 05:37 PM (k4dH2)

66 seriously I ate so many shrimp I was very uncomfortable and pretty sure people were noticing my shrimp consumption.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:37 PM (PbpT7)

67
Ace sussed out where cocksucker kristol was that night -- on twitter tweeting about the stupid baseball game he was watching.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at November 01, 2019 05:37 PM (9jXLi)

68 But Bea and Bill could not be here tonight

...and the armed guards will release him as soon as the dinner is over.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 01, 2019 05:37 PM (I2/tG)

69 Is it a disgrace if he's not gracing a place with his presence??

Posted by: andycanuck at November 01, 2019 05:37 PM (Dh1wo)

70 34 >>>Ok, good burn, but who among us hasn't had a few too many delicious mushrooms when they're offered?

yeah I felt like a super-hypocrite writing that.

I have really gone to town on open shrimp-bars. I was practically begging for a "George, the ocean called" insult.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:33 PM (PbpT7)

But are you going to insult your hosts when you're stuffing your face and filling your cheeks with shrimp like a chipmunk getting read for winter?

Posted by: buzzion at November 01, 2019 05:37 PM (Z7lwY)

71 his fervent support and his many athletic supporters will go to Spartacus Booker

or not; who gives a sh*t ?????????

Posted by: Andersonville Cooper Vanderbilt Gettysburg at November 01, 2019 05:37 PM (8KSPd)

72 it was at a wedding. The shrimp were fucking huge. The size of cats.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:36 PM (PbpT7)

You should have been at the TX Mome. Thirty lbs of Kristol-sized shrimp from the gulf.

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 05:38 PM (TdMsT)

73 I've camped near the Bottomless Shrimp Bowl at many shindigs.
For the Gainz.

Posted by: Heirloominati at November 01, 2019 05:38 PM (+J//Q)

74

Shrimps are good until someone points out you're eating sea bugs.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at November 01, 2019 05:38 PM (9jXLi)

75 You should have been at the TX Mome. Thirty lbs of Kristol-sized shrimp from the gulf.
Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 05:38 PM (TdMsT)
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Amen. And done to perfection by Jane d'oh and her husband.

Posted by: bluebell - get a conservative sample Fairfax Co. ballot here! at November 01, 2019 05:38 PM (aXucN)

76 Little Billy was busy accepting a lifetime achievement award at the annual 2019 NAMBLA Awards Dinner to attend the AEI thing.

Priorities, priorities.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 01, 2019 05:38 PM (Z+IKu)

77 another story i'll never forget.

Posted by: trapper's girl at November 01, 2019 05:39 PM (HRaIF)

78 Bill Kristol was just a whiny defeatist on his BEST days.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at November 01, 2019 05:39 PM (XZgzl)

79 seriously I ate so many shrimp I was very uncomfortable and pretty sure people were noticing my shrimp consumption.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:37 PM (PbpT7)

Am I the only one who read that as "constipation?"

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at November 01, 2019 05:39 PM (NbtMM)

80 Bill Kristol is just so grossly fat.

It's doubly off putting because he's short as well.

He's basically Danny Devito but with more snobbery and drawn butter on his chin.

Posted by: MJ at November 01, 2019 05:39 PM (gAMkn)

81 it was at a wedding. The shrimp were fucking huge. The size of cats.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:36 PM (PbpT7)

"Jose Grecos de Muertos. Flamenco dancers of death!"

- - Vince Ricardo, ex-CIA

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2019 05:39 PM (zBaqJ)

82 Can't imagine why a guy openly calling for a coup against the elected President of the United States might be a problem for fundraising.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 01, 2019 05:39 PM (I2/tG)

83 Waiting for Trump to Twitter stomp Beto.

You know it's coming.

Posted by: Ha at November 01, 2019 05:39 PM (jKqaK)

84 I'd like to believe that never trump cucks have worn out their welcome. And eventually they will wear out the chicken.

Clucks fucking the cluck tend to get old and kind of pathetic after the chicken starts to rot.

Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at November 01, 2019 05:39 PM (0OmEj)

85 it was at a wedding. The shrimp were fucking huge. The size of cats.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:36 PM (Pbp

Were they declawed?

Posted by: Easy Andy at November 01, 2019 05:39 PM (mesZS)

86 Maybe he got so large that he became his own black hole and that's why we can't see him. Gravity. Even the light particles can't bounce off his pasty forehead to escape. etc.

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at November 01, 2019 05:39 PM (xptlg)

87 Open clam bars are even better!

Just don't photograph it.

Posted by: Ex-Rep. Katie Hill at November 01, 2019 05:39 PM (vGJY7)

88
Bill Kristol is a Cos-Play Conservative. Foam armor, cardboard sword and an ill-fitting mask.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2019 05:40 PM (zBaqJ)

89 Great minds talk about ideas.
Mediocre minds talk about events.
Small mind talk about people.

~attributed to Elenor Roosevelt

I went through that twitter link. The never-Trumpers distinguish our side and their side with less ambiguity than JK Rowling talking about the house full of hero children and the house full of baddie children.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 01, 2019 05:40 PM (LxTcq)

90 This actually is good evidence for the proposition that Kristol, Goldberg, etc. actually are that damn dumb.

After the depth of their madness and illogic became clear, I assumed the money men were responsible. Donor pay for sock puppets, not principles.

It's not clear that there's much of a market for this, though. I'm assuming that the paymasters expected some kind of return for their money - a shift in opinion, at least among conservatives.

So I guess they're being cut loose.

Speaking of AEI, how many "chairs" does Goldberg's fat Asness take up now?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 01, 2019 05:40 PM (cfSRQ)

91 66 seriously I ate so many shrimp I was very uncomfortable and pretty sure people were noticing my shrimp consumption.

Posted by: ace

I'm a pro at consuming free food inconspicuously. You have to VARY your choices (e.g. first shrimp, then mushrooms, then a cocktail, then back to shrimp, etc.) come at the buffet table from different angles, retire to different seats/tables in different parts of the room for the consuming, etc. Mix it up. Also, pretend to chat to random strangers when getting/eating the food. Makes it look like the food is not your primary activity.

Posted by: zombie at November 01, 2019 05:40 PM (fK2gX)

92 Did anybody say " hey ace,the ocean called and said they are running out of shrimp"?

Posted by: steevy at November 01, 2019 05:40 PM (KNsKs)

93 What does it matter, ace? Bill Kristol is our biggest seller.

Posted by: the dummy factory at November 01, 2019 05:40 PM (Dh1wo)

94 Beto is out!BETO IS OUT

Posted by: GrandMa Bell at November 01, 2019 05:40 PM (kujHr)

95 The real slight in this story is Kristol's absence meant three tons of food had to be discarded.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 01, 2019 05:40 PM (bkUtD)

96
Posted by: bluebell - get a conservative sample Fairfax Co. ballot here! at November 01, 2019 05:38 PM (aXucN)

OMG yes. Jane and Mr D'Oh certainly know their way around a shrimp.

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 05:40 PM (TdMsT)

97 The AEI officials were not explicit on this point -- they just implied that Bill Kristol had been politely suggested to grace the event with his non-presence.
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Which is think is the proper way to have handled it. Decorum. As opposed to Congresswoman BatGirl from yesterday.

Posted by: bluebell - get a conservative sample Fairfax Co. ballot here! at November 01, 2019 05:41 PM (aXucN)

98 92 Did anybody say " hey ace,the ocean called and said they are running out of shrimp"?
Posted by: steevy at November 01, 2019 05:40 PM (KNsKs)

"Moar krill!"

- - Moby O'Donnell

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2019 05:41 PM (zBaqJ)

99 it's sad I probably read as much commentary in college as I did national review and the new criterion, that's where roger Kimball comes from,

I know Omidyar is paying for his digs, for a while anyways, and he's in a partnership with Chertoff and General Hayden, hunting Russian trolls, be wery quiet, but he seems to have become unhinged,

I think Irving were he alive today, would be as disappointed as norman podhoretz is, don't know if he would be a full fledged trump supporter, but he'd be much more understanding,

Posted by: gaius martius at November 01, 2019 05:41 PM (x+C/t)

100 >>>My pleasure. But I do want to hear more about these "open shrimp bars."

Might I interest you in an avocado?

Posted by: Beatoff at November 01, 2019 05:42 PM (1CjJc)

101 Maybe Cap'n Bill was there described as an empty chair.

Posted by: Northernlurker at November 01, 2019 05:42 PM (n1yOz)

102 88
Bill Kristol is a Cos-Play Conservative. Foam armor, cardboard sword and an ill-fitting mask.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2019 05:40 PM (zBaqJ)

Kayfabe Conservative.

Posted by: buzzion at November 01, 2019 05:42 PM (Z7lwY)

103 >>>Beto is out! BETO IS OUT

That will probably end his political career, as it was.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 01, 2019 05:42 PM (bkUtD)

104 *I* think.

Posted by: bluebell - get a conservative sample Fairfax Co. ballot here! at November 01, 2019 05:42 PM (aXucN)

105 I served a yuge shrimp bowl at our son's Eagle Court of Honor years ago, and my husband's sis, the ATL life coach, went in the church kitchen, found a takeout container, and even as nearly 50 people were still in line for the buffet, loaded up the container with jumbo shrimp for the ride home.

I couldn't even.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:42 PM (ptqGC)

106 94 Beto is out!BETO IS OUT
Posted by: GrandMa Bell at November 01, 2019 05:40 PM (kujHr)

That's too bad. Every time he opened his cake hole it was good for at least a few thousand more Trump swing votes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2019 05:42 PM (zBaqJ)

107 66
seriously I ate so many shrimp I was very uncomfortable and pretty sure people were noticing my shrimp consumption.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:37 PM (PbpT7)

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I'm guessing that put a cramp in your effort to make time with one of the bridesmaids.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 01, 2019 05:42 PM (cfSRQ)

108

Is Irving Kristol the one who was a secret fag with Malcolm Forbes?

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at November 01, 2019 05:42 PM (9jXLi)

109 >>>I'm guessing that put a cramp in your effort to make time with one of the bridesmaids.

nah, she smelled like shrimp, too. I denounce myself.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 01, 2019 05:43 PM (bkUtD)

110 With Robert Francis O'Rourke's withdrawal, where will the Irish vote go?

Posted by: Ted K. at November 01, 2019 05:43 PM (FJYfm)

111 10 @BNONews 35 seconds ago

BREAKING: Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat from Texas, is dropping out of the race for president - NYT
Posted by: Tami at November 01, 2019 05:29 PM (cF8AT)
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The DNC probably had a little sit down with table jumper. He was throwing those hail mary's on gun confiscation and they likely wanted him to put a lid on it. Takes a lot of cheek to want to yank private property that he himself is legally incable of owning.

Posted by: DC at November 01, 2019 05:43 PM (/TvO8)

112 For weeks, it had been rumored that, owing to donor discomfort with Bill Kristol's past speeches at the Irving Kristol dinner -- which were unrestrained in mockery of Trump supporters, many of whom were actually donors to AEI and the dinner -- that Bill Kristol had not been invited this year, and in fact was specifically asked not to come.

This seems likely. I mean the guy has turned into everything his father fought against, and is being a colossal jackwagon to all his father's old friends and followers so...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 01, 2019 05:43 PM (KZzsI)

113
A dinner without Bill Kristol is like a dinner without salmonella poisoning.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 01, 2019 05:43 PM (7rVsF)

114 Not clicking on Kristol tweet-links. No one should.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 01, 2019 05:43 PM (l9m7l)

115 the reception at IQSA 2015 in da ATL was memorable for not serving enough food. I never believed the meme about starving academics until I witnessed the scrum at the canapes. I overheard one of the attendees liken it all to The Hunger Games.

Last year in Denver we just went to a pub and let them sort it out.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at November 01, 2019 05:43 PM (ykYG2)

116 it was at a wedding. The shrimp were fucking huge. The size of cats.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:36 PM (PbpT7)

You did a Mitzvah! The Bride's dad got his money's worth!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2019 05:43 PM (wYseH)

117 Beto - didn't even make it to Iowa, LOL! And so dies Beto's political career, and there was much rejoicing.

As we've said over and over, all he's done with his attempts to win the far-left sweepstakes has been to destroy his ability to ever run for office in Texas again. Well, not for a state wide race - he could probably become Mayor of Van Horn or something pathetic.

but I think he's done with Texas now. I think he and wifey are gonna head up to NYC and park in one of daddykins condos on Park Avenue, and he'll hang out in trendy lib bars and grace MSNBC with his glorious presence from time to time. And with that, he's gone from the stage, a strutting player full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

(I couldn't resist that last part, I love to say it)

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2019 05:43 PM (Kpl3J)

118 @BNONews 35 seconds ago

BREAKING: Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat from Texas, is dropping out of the race for president - NYT
Posted by: Tami at November 01, 2019 05:29 PM (cF8AT)

There's going to be a big scramble to appeal to his 6 or 7 supporters

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 01, 2019 05:43 PM (kw5n8)

119 By not inviting Billy the catering costs were greatly reduced.

Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at November 01, 2019 05:43 PM (s0KeO)

120 I served a yuge shrimp bowl at our son's Eagle Court of Honor years ago, and my husband's sis, the ATL life coach, went in the church kitchen, found a takeout container, and even as nearly 50 people were still in line for the buffet, loaded up the container with jumbo shrimp for the ride home.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:42 PM (ptqGC)
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Posted by: bluebell - get a conservative sample Fairfax Co. ballot here! at November 01, 2019 05:44 PM (aXucN)

121 ah cun eat fifty boiled shrimps

Posted by: Cool Hand Ace at November 01, 2019 05:44 PM (Tnijr)

122
OMG yes. Jane and Mr D'Oh certainly know their way around a shrimp.

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 05:40 PM (TdMsT)

Ya know, I never so much as ate one shrimp we prepared that night. And we cooked them perfectly.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:44 PM (ptqGC)

123 Poor Beta. He should have just remained a lowly, mouthy congresstwat.

Posted by: Poll This at November 01, 2019 05:44 PM (4Eo4+)

124 Shrimp the size of cats? Oh, lobsters.

Posted by: wth at November 01, 2019 05:44 PM (v0R5T)

125 That will probably end his political career, as it was.

Now that the people in his 80% Hispanic former congressional district know that he's not actually Hispanic.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 01, 2019 05:44 PM (I2/tG)

126 The real story here is that Ace knows the kind of people who could conceivably get married.

Posted by: zombie at November 01, 2019 05:44 PM (fK2gX)

127 LOLGF, son.

Posted by: Zombie Irving Kristol at November 01, 2019 05:45 PM (dOV9E)

128 105 I served a yuge shrimp bowl at our son's Eagle Court of Honor years ago, and my husband's sis, the ATL life coach, went in the church kitchen, found a takeout container, and even as nearly 50 people were still in line for the buffet, loaded up the container with jumbo shrimp for the ride home.

I couldn't even.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:42 PM (ptqGC)

I'mnot surprised! Didn't you submit the pickled shrimp recipe in TDG? I made it. OMG.

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 05:45 PM (TdMsT)

129 This episode gives a whole new life to the phrase, "Wouldn't his father be proud?"

Posted by: m at November 01, 2019 05:45 PM (vFhit)

130 So, after traveling most of the day, we finally arrived at NAS Oceana.

Now for a stupid question, after 6 hours of talk radio on the interstate.

Do 49% of poll respondents really wish to do away with our system of justice, not hold a senate trial, and simply up and remove a duly elected serving President without a conviction?

Read the actual question as reported on the radio.

To impeach and remove.

NOT impeach, and if convicted...remove.

Sort of a linguistic difference....yes?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 01, 2019 05:45 PM (jg1QG)

131 >>>Ya know, I never so much as ate one shrimp we prepared that night. And we cooked them perfectly.

In my division in North Philly, they're called skrimps.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 01, 2019 05:45 PM (bkUtD)

132 LOLGF, son.

Posted by: Zombie Irving Kristol at November 01, 2019 05:45 PM (dOV9E)

THREAD WINNER

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:45 PM (ptqGC)

133 I don't think their disinvite was subtle.

It was Kristol Clear.

Posted by: jsg at November 01, 2019 05:45 PM (wlamb)

134
Ya know, I never so much as ate one shrimp we prepared that night. And we cooked them perfectly.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:44 PM (ptqGC)

Why not? Didn't you feel well?

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 05:45 PM (TdMsT)

135 Bill Kristol, on behalf of the American Diabetes Association...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 01, 2019 05:45 PM (I2/tG)

136 Has Lurking Lurker explained yet how the booming stock market has come "too early" for Trump and therefore will doom his reelection?

Posted by: Poll This at November 01, 2019 05:46 PM (4Eo4+)

137 Didn't you submit the pickled shrimp recipe in TDG? I made it. OMG.
Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 05:45 PM (TdMsT)
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She sure did. And we put it on every other page just so people wouldn't have trouble finding it.

Posted by: bluebell - get a conservative sample Fairfax Co. ballot here! at November 01, 2019 05:46 PM (aXucN)

138 Did you know there is a day in Nepal dedicated to thanking dogs for their friendship and loyalty?
Off topic, I know.

Posted by: Northernlurker at November 01, 2019 05:46 PM (n1yOz)

139 126
The real story here is that Ace knows the kind of people who could conceivably get married.

Posted by: zombie at November 01, 2019 05:44 PM (fK2gX)

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Not only that, they have the money for a decent spread.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 01, 2019 05:46 PM (cfSRQ)

140 Either that or he was jerking off with Twitter, as usual.

__________

... and a stuffed mushroom or nine, but mostly a stuffed mushroom or nine.

Posted by: ShainS at November 01, 2019 05:46 PM (/16tK)

141 This is not a man who turns away a stuffed mushroom or nine lightly.

I like stuffed mushrooms. Gotta figure out a keto version though, maybe with crushed almonds instead of bread crumbs.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 01, 2019 05:46 PM (nRWPy)

142 it was at a wedding. The shrimp were fucking huge. The size of cats.

We call those lobsters, Ace.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 01, 2019 05:46 PM (HaL55)

143 107 66
seriously I ate so many shrimp I was very uncomfortable and pretty sure people were noticing my shrimp consumption.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:37 PM (PbpT7)

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I'm guessing that put a cramp in your effort to make time with one of the bridesmaids.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 01, 2019 05:42 PM (cfSRQ

No one was going to come back to his place for pancakes after all the free shrimp.

Posted by: buzzion at November 01, 2019 05:46 PM (Z7lwY)

144 True story: Last night at a fundraiser Chris Christie was mistaken for Bill Kristol.

Posted by: MJ at November 01, 2019 05:47 PM (gAMkn)

145 Well, you won't have Beatoff to kick around any more.

Posted by: Beatoff O'Furball at November 01, 2019 05:47 PM (sWM8x)

146
She sure did. And we put it on every other page just so people wouldn't have trouble finding it.
Posted by: bluebell - get a conservative sample Fairfax Co. ballot here! at November 01, 2019 05:46 PM (aXucN)

That's right!

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 05:47 PM (TdMsT)

147 sad I probably read as much commentary in college as I did national review and the new criterion, that's where roger Kimball comes from

My thing was National Review (Buckley) and The New Republic (Sullivan especially, to be fair; also Kelly and Lane, tho' it was meh under Kinsley).

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at November 01, 2019 05:47 PM (ykYG2)

148 Why not? Didn't you feel well?

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 05:45 PM (TdMsT)

I've forgotten how many dozen we cooked on the Weber grill, but I was hot and my ankle was hurting.

It's kind of like when you cook a huge Thanksgiving dinner, you're not hungry when it's on the table.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:47 PM (ptqGC)

149 Trump is onstage for a rally at 7pm EST.

He's gonna roast Beto. I can't wait.

Posted by: MJ at November 01, 2019 05:47 PM (gAMkn)

150 Notice ALL of today's Official Government Revisions were to the Positive?

We need to harvest the organs from the Civil Service and start anew.

Posted by: garrett at November 01, 2019 05:47 PM (Byj9q)

151 The mushroom is stuffed.

I repeat, the mushroom is stuffed.

Posted by: AEA Headquarters! at November 01, 2019 05:48 PM (I2/tG)

152 Crushed pork rinds. instead of bread crumbs. That is the low carb solution.

Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at November 01, 2019 05:48 PM (0OmEj)

153 >>>I'm a pro at consuming free food inconspicuously. You have to VARY your choices (e.g. first shrimp, then mushrooms, then a cocktail, then back to shrimp, etc.) come at the buffet table from different angles, retire to different seats/tables in different parts of the room for the consuming, etc. Mix it up. Also, pretend to chat to random strangers when getting/eating the food. Makes it look like the food is not your primary activity.

I tried to do that but the shrimp were in a big glass bowl right in the middle of the table. There was no stealth option. The caterers had tried to leverage a buffet pantopticon to create Social Pressure to against overconsuming shrimp.

In my case, they failed spectacularly.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:48 PM (PbpT7)

154 I'm about to view Bill Kristol's speech from last year at the award show, I'll let you know what I find.

Posted by: Pierre Delecto at November 01, 2019 05:48 PM (4e+hS)

155 I couldn't even.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:42 PM (ptqGC)

And yet, even after I've heard a bit of your own family's lore, I think you remain a very nice person!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at November 01, 2019 05:48 PM (BiNEL)

156 Shrimps are good until someone points out you're eating sea bugs.

Doesn't bother me.

Lobsters and shrimps are delicious sea bugs I want in my mouth.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 01, 2019 05:48 PM (9t0Zz)

157 132
LOLGF, son.

Posted by: Zombie Irving Kristol at November 01, 2019 05:45 PM (dOV9E)

THREAD WINNER

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:45 PM (ptqGC)

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lolgf

Posted by: Ghost of Irving Kristol at November 01, 2019 05:29 PM (1CjJc)

Left out in the cold, like the loser son of Irving Kristol.

Posted by: Ghost of Irving Kristol at November 01, 2019 05:48 PM (1CjJc)

158 That was masterful, Ace.

I never want to be the subject of Ace's fidking.

Posted by: chique d'afrique at November 01, 2019 05:48 PM (9hauA)

159 *fisking*

Posted by: chique d'afrique at November 01, 2019 05:48 PM (9hauA)

160 My husband is suddenly anaphalactically allergic to shrimp. It's annoying. But the ER visit is more annoying.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 01, 2019 05:49 PM (nRWPy)

161 t's kind of like when you cook a huge Thanksgiving dinner, you're not hungry when it's on the table.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:47 PM (ptqGC)

I completely relate to that. I often lose my appetite preparing large meals.

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 05:49 PM (TdMsT)

162 The caterers had tried to leverage a buffet pantopticon to create Social Pressure to against overconsuming shrimp.

In my case, they failed spectacularly."

A "Buffet Panopticon" - LOL! ok that's my favorite phrase of the week, by far!

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2019 05:49 PM (Kpl3J)

163 >>>Gotta figure out a keto version though, maybe with crushed almonds instead of bread crumbs.

as someone else said, crushed pork rinds aka pork rind panko.

Add parmesan and butter and some spices and maybe a bit of bacon over the top and you got yourself a low-carb treat.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:49 PM (PbpT7)

164 Isn't there a Seinfeld episode about over-serving oneself at a buffet? Or am I remembering a double-dipping ep?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:49 PM (ptqGC)

165 Cough all over the bowl of shrimp. It'll be all yours!

Posted by: JuJuBee at November 01, 2019 05:49 PM (RqQOX)

166 I tried to do that but the shrimp were in a big
glass bowl right in the middle of the table. There was no stealth
option. The caterers had tried to leverage a buffet pantopticon to
create Social Pressure to against overconsuming shrimp.

In my case, they failed spectacularly.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:48 PM (PbpT7)

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Did you bellow "HEY, HEY, HEY!" as you waddled up to the bowl?

Ostentatiously loosen your belt and unbutton your shirt collar?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 01, 2019 05:49 PM (cfSRQ)

167 Got to eat some rock shrimp recently. I'd forgotten how good they were.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 01, 2019 05:50 PM (HaL55)

168 >>Either that or he was jerking off with Twitter, as usual.

How do you stuff mushrooms?

Posted by: garrett at November 01, 2019 05:50 PM (Byj9q)

169 I'm sure many people were thankful for Kristol's disinvitation, but only one person was most thankful of all.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at November 01, 2019 05:50 PM (sWM8x)

170 Crustaceans are not "sea bugs."

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 01, 2019 05:50 PM (nRWPy)

171 I completely relate to that. I often lose my appetite preparing large meals.
Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 05:49 PM (TdMsT)

for me, it's mainly because as I'm cooking I taste a little bit, and then I taste a little bit more, and then I taste a little bit more....

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2019 05:50 PM (Kpl3J)

172 Is Beto O'Dork still gonna come get my gun?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 01, 2019 05:50 PM (flINI)

173 So, classy Bill Kristol, whose classiness outclasses declasse Trump, cannot bring himself to be polite for a few minutes' speech.

Do I have that right?

Posted by: chique d'afrique at November 01, 2019 05:50 PM (9hauA)

174 Why isn't Stuffing Mushrooms a euphemism for something dirty?

Posted by: garrett at November 01, 2019 05:50 PM (Byj9q)

175 If they invite me to be the speaker, I promise to start with "ahoy".

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 01, 2019 05:50 PM (r+sAi)

176 no but seriously I've done all the things I accused Bill Kristol of doing, including scoping out the entries from the kitchen and angling for a prime position to intercept the servers.

if you ever talk to me at a reception, I'm not listening. I'm just watching for patterns in Server Circulation Routes.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:51 PM (PbpT7)

177 My husband is about roasted oysters and steamed crab the way some people are about shrimp.

He'll eat until he's nearly sick.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:51 PM (ptqGC)

178 I'm dropping out to spend more time with my Autism. I may have to amputate my arms, but it could be a good look for me.

Posted by: Beta O'Spork at November 01, 2019 05:51 PM (vGJY7)

179 170 Crustaceans are not "sea bugs."
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 01, 2019 05:50 PM (nRWPy)

"Trayf."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2019 05:51 PM (zBaqJ)

180 The caterers had tried to leverage a buffet pantopticon to create Social Pressure to against overconsuming shrimp.

In my case, they failed spectacularly.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:48 PM (PbpT7)

This is a professional!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2019 05:51 PM (wYseH)

181 For a guy whose aspirations are to purge all the Trumpers from the GOP with extreme prejudice, he's not exactly on a winning streak.

Being disinvited or whatever to a dinner with your own father's name is a massive "tell". The big money donors and powerbrokers in the GOP know that Kristol has become a joke and a Tokyo Rose for the Dems

Posted by: kbdabear at November 01, 2019 05:52 PM (qAR6u)

182 BREAKING:
Robert Frances O'Rourke drops out of 2020 presidential race.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 01, 2019 05:52 PM (d7Ww2)

183 175
If they invite me to be the speaker, I promise to start with "ahoy".

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 01, 2019 05:50 PM (r+sAi)

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Any Morons present will respond with the traditional volleys of farts and belches.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 01, 2019 05:52 PM (cfSRQ)

184
t's kind of like when you cook a huge Thanksgiving dinner, you're not hungry when it's on the table.

That's because I've been taste testing everything but the bird.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 01, 2019 05:52 PM (HaL55)

185 Pork rinds leave a weird consistency in my throat, like I coated it with crisco. (stop with the gross thoughts soon to be comments, morons). I hear there is a brand that doesn't but I can't remember what it is.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 01, 2019 05:52 PM (nRWPy)

186 for me, it's mainly because as I'm cooking I taste a little bit, and then I taste a little bit more, and then I taste a little bit more....
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2019 05:50 PM (Kpl3J)

I can't sample along the way. Then the meal is completely ruined for me.

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 05:52 PM (TdMsT)

187 Opening lines at next year's dinner: "And we proudly dedicate this dinner to the Great Man who sadly left no descendants behind, Irving Kristol!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2019 05:53 PM (Kpl3J)

188 174
Why isn't Stuffing Mushrooms a euphemism for something dirty?

Posted by: garrett at November 01, 2019 05:50 PM (Byj9q)

Do not urban dictionary that.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 01, 2019 05:53 PM (1CjJc)

189 Is Greta's next stop China? They are then ones that need a talkin to. Maybe they will shut her the fuck up.

Posted by: freaked at November 01, 2019 05:53 PM (Tnijr)

190

Maybe they invited The Paolo instead

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 01, 2019 05:53 PM (kw5n8)

191 Beatoff O'Dork choosing to spend more time Beating Off

Posted by: Austere Religious Scholar at November 01, 2019 05:53 PM (BqBId)

192 >>>Pork rinds leave a weird consistency in my throat, like I coated it with crisco.

crushed pork rinds might not do that, because they're, well, crushed. Also, they're usually mixed with parmesan cheese or something.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:53 PM (PbpT7)

193 dagny, I have a box of pork panko in the pantry.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:54 PM (ptqGC)

194 When I go to a lot of trouble to cook something, I'm always disappointed and then don't want it. Everyone tells me that it's great and I'm "meh."

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 01, 2019 05:54 PM (nRWPy)

195 OT-I always have enjoyed Daniel Greenfield's writings at "FrontPage" and of course I knew that he is Jewish and conservative politically. Here he speaks about his faith and how believes that a leftist cannot be a devout Jew. I thought the questions and comments had a lot of depth and it made me appreciate Mr. Greenfield even more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdr23jLkFC4

And I think Daniel Greenfield does not look old enough to have had a father who was a teen during WWII.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 01, 2019 05:54 PM (WI7YS)

196 160 My husband is suddenly anaphalactically allergic to shrimp. It's annoying. But the ER visit is more annoying.
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As in air passage restriction!?

Not to be morbid, but that seems far more than annoying. I know the family of an individual who went to a buffet picnic with a known allergy (and epi-pen on person) but still passed away that day from unseen seafood in one of the dishes.

Posted by: DC at November 01, 2019 05:54 PM (/TvO8)

197
156 Shrimps are good until someone points out you're eating sea bugs.

Doesn't bother me.

Lobsters and shrimps are delicious sea bugs I want in my mouth.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 01, 2019 05:48 PM (9t0Zz)

Have you seen the clip of Jamie Oliver showing kids how chicken nuggets are made and expecting them to not want to eat them after?

https://youtu.be/mKwL5G5HbGA

Posted by: buzzion at November 01, 2019 05:54 PM (Z7lwY)

198 185 Pork rinds leave a weird consistency in my throat, like I coated it with crisco. (stop with the gross thoughts soon to be comments, morons). I hear there is a brand that doesn't but I can't remember what it is.
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 01, 2019 05:52 PM (nRWPy)

As soon as you started that post, the men in your house should have started yelling "RED ALERT! ABORT! ABORT!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2019 05:54 PM (Kpl3J)

199 dagny, try using almond flour instead of bread crumbs, maybe.

I've also had them with cream cheese in place of bread crumbs. Those were good.

Posted by: bluebell - get a conservative sample Fairfax Co. ballot here! at November 01, 2019 05:54 PM (aXucN)

200 Was his dad the 142nd fastest gun in the west?

Posted by: klaftern at November 01, 2019 05:54 PM (RuIsu)

201 Pretty sure crustaceans are arthropods, same as cockroaches and spiders. They are decapods (10 legs instead of 6 or

but otherwise, exoskeletons made of chiton, antennae, segmented bodies...yeah, pretty much sea bugs.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 01, 2019 05:54 PM (87EdW)

202 Mr. Kristol regrets he couldn't be here this evening as he had to wash his hair. *cough*

Posted by: JuJuBee at November 01, 2019 05:54 PM (RqQOX)

203 Why isn't Stuffing Mushrooms a euphemism for something dirty?

You're new here, aren't you?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 01, 2019 05:55 PM (HaL55)

204 My husband is about roasted oysters and steamed crab the way some people are about shrimp.

That's me and scallops. The first barf I remember was after eating too many of those on a trip to Maine. I think my head spun around when I was upchucking it all.

I still can't quit 'em.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at November 01, 2019 05:55 PM (ykYG2)

205 dagny, I have a box of pork panko in the pantry.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:54 PM (ptqGC)

How is that? I don't like the rinds and I like almost everything cept grapefruit, Satan's fruit.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 01, 2019 05:55 PM (nRWPy)

206 Imonna get all fourteen of Beatoff's supporters!

Posted by: Joe Biden, Leader of the Free Range Penis at November 01, 2019 05:55 PM (sWM8x)

207 Very benign speech by Kristol last year.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 01, 2019 05:55 PM (4e+hS)

208 Of course Kristol is another Soto fan. Soto is a douche, I don't care how good that 28 yr old is he is disrespectful to the game. No he is not 21 he is from the DR he's at least 5 years older than he says he is.

Posted by: batterup at November 01, 2019 05:55 PM (K4I9O)

209 Pork Panko? Keto-friendly? I'm in!

Posted by: Concerned People's Front, Unbanned Chapter at November 01, 2019 05:56 PM (vGJY7)

210 As soon as you started that post, the men in your house should have started yelling "RED ALERT! ABORT! ABORT!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2019 05:54 PM (Kpl3J)

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"Men?"

Kind of rude, don't you think?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 01, 2019 05:56 PM (cfSRQ)

211 Whenever my wife and I are at one of the dealios with passed appetizers she eats enough to satiate a football team.

And the bitches HATE her for it because she's super thin.

Posted by: MJ at November 01, 2019 05:56 PM (gAMkn)

212 I made a scallop casserole for dinner a couple of nights ago. Man, it was good. Instead of topping it with panko, I just used more parm.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:56 PM (ptqGC)

213 Jane, I apologize for taking advantage of your kindness.

The shrimp were indeed exceptional, or so I heard because I didn't have any either.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 01, 2019 05:56 PM (T1Aes)

214 ... Bill Kristol was not merely absent, but that his radiant feminence was asked to not be present.
++++++++++++
That's solid gold right there, Ace.

Also, you owe me a new monitor...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2019 05:56 PM (I2dne)

215 Robert Francis, who claimed he was "born for this" evidently... wasn't.

Maybe he can spend the free time to kick whatever the hell it is he's on when he's out campaigning.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 01, 2019 05:56 PM (KZzsI)

216 Hlllloo nrs!

Tpng wit zp ties is hrrd!

Posted by: Insomniac at November 01, 2019 05:56 PM (NWiLs)

217 @realDonaldTrump 5 minutes ago

Oh no, Beto just dropped out of race for President despite him saying he was "born for this." I don't think so!

Posted by: Tami at November 01, 2019 05:56 PM (cF8AT)

218 Guess Francis realized his anti-gun stance was a non-(starter pistol)

Posted by: Cucks Eveywhere at November 01, 2019 05:57 PM (3H9h1)

219 Gurta meets Leoretardo in Smell A to
squall about climate change

https://tinyurl.com/y6jttl2b

Posted by: wth at November 01, 2019 05:57 PM (v0R5T)

220 realDonaldTrump's avatar
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
4m
Oh no, Beto just dropped out of race for President despite him saying he was "born for this." I don't think so!
*******
Galactic Troll Lord

Posted by: Austere Religious Scholar at November 01, 2019 05:57 PM (BqBId)

221 It's ok. Pierre said Bill gets to be the "maid of honor" at all the "Bulwark-Dispatch Galas" this year ... to be held at a random interstate truck stop each and every first and third Tuesday of the month.

Posted by: Bulwark Event Calendar at November 01, 2019 05:57 PM (hdzef)

222 If Ace studied nuclear physics the way he studies buffet tables, we might already have cold fusion.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 01, 2019 05:57 PM (cfSRQ)

223 You would think that there wouldn't be much face left to shoot after as many times as Little Billy Kristol has shot himself in the face

Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 01, 2019 05:57 PM (flINI)

224 Who cares about Kristol, anyway?

The Who Dis? girl from Morning Rant?

{please, office bet}

Posted by: socalcon at November 01, 2019 05:58 PM (Roy2Z)

225 212 I made a scallop casserole for dinner a couple of nights ago. Man, it was good. Instead of topping it with panko, I just used more parm.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:56 PM (ptqGC)

Stop teasing us landlubbers!

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 05:58 PM (TdMsT)

226 Jane, I apologize for taking advantage of your kindness.

The shrimp were indeed exceptional, or so I heard because I didn't have any either.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 01, 2019 05:56 PM (T1Aes)

It was a pleasure to cook them. I felt useless just standing around. I've actually never cooked shrimp in a pan on a grill before, but I may do them that way for parties in the future. Good and simple is best. And those shrimp were yuge!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:58 PM (ptqGC)

227 OT: In Paul Sperry's article about Ciaramella, he states that a "House member" is planning on giving a speech on the floor of the House outing him, along w material from the 40 page dossier created on him. Can that House member be sanctioned by Nancy?

Posted by: Ever at November 01, 2019 05:58 PM (ZZDMQ)

228 I've also had them with cream cheese in place of bread crumbs. Those were good.

Promising! I think I've made them by dicing up the stem, adding garlic, Parmesan and spices but some cream cheese, yum. Like jalapeno poppers!

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 01, 2019 05:58 PM (nRWPy)

229 I served a yuge shrimp bowl at our son's Eagle Court of Honor years ago, and my husband's sis, the ATL life coach, went in the church kitchen, found a takeout container, and even as nearly 50 people were still in line for the buffet, loaded up the container with jumbo shrimp for the ride home.

I would have called her out so loudly.

"I HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE. IF ANY OF THE PEOPLE STILL IN LINE DON'T GET SHRIMP, YOU CAN THANK SPAZZ AND HER JUMBO TAKEOUT BOX HERE. IT LOOKS LIKE SHE HAS ABOUT THREE POUNDS IF YOU DON'T MIND RELIEVING HER OF IT."

Posted by: bonhomme at November 01, 2019 05:58 PM (9t0Zz)

230 >>>Soto is a douche, I don't care how good that 28 yr old is he is disrespectful to the game.

I'm just happy the Nats won. Not because I like them (I don't) but because that douchebag Harper won't get a ring.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 01, 2019 05:58 PM (bkUtD)

231 @realDonaldTrump 5 minutes ago

Oh no, Beto just dropped out of race for President despite him saying he was "born for this." I don't think so!
Posted by: Tami at November 01, 2019 05:56 PM (cF8AT)
--------

And so it begins . . . .

Posted by: bluebell - get a conservative sample Fairfax Co. ballot here! at November 01, 2019 05:58 PM (aXucN)

232 207
Very benign speech by Kristol last year.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 01, 2019 05:55 PM (4e+hS)

---
Followed by 12 months of utter jackassery.

Hence the ban.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 01, 2019 05:58 PM (cfSRQ)

233 dagny, the pork panko crumbs aren't actually greasy. They have the texture of panko bread crumbs.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 05:59 PM (ptqGC)

234 Bill Kristol was not merely absent, but that his radiant feminence was asked to not be present.

Well as long as you're working on stuff like this, being absent when fake stormfront lefty troll was puking all over is forgiven

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 01, 2019 05:59 PM (KZzsI)

235 And with that, he's gone from the stage, a strutting player full of sound and ~~fury~~ furry, signifying nothing.

(I couldn't resist that last part, I love to say it)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2019 05:43 PM (Kpl3J)

Posted by: chique d'afrique at November 01, 2019 05:59 PM (9hauA)

236 Oh G-d, LOL.

How do DJT's teabags feel on your face, Beto?

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at November 01, 2019 05:59 PM (ykYG2)

237 I saw The Ace Of Shrimps open for Pierre Omidyar And The Traitors at the Irving Kristol Awards Dinner in 2011!

Posted by: Dierre Pelecto at November 01, 2019 05:59 PM (LLUXC)

238 176 no but seriously I've done all the things I accused Bill Kristol of doing, including scoping out the entries from the kitchen and angling for a prime position to intercept the servers.

if you ever talk to me at a reception, I'm not listening. I'm just watching for patterns in Server Circulation Routes.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:51 PM (PbpT7)

But you're appreciative of the hosts. Unlike Kristol who is going to take the free food and proceed to piss in the punchbowl.

Posted by: buzzion at November 01, 2019 05:59 PM (Z7lwY)

239 >>I'm just happy the Nats won. Not because I like them (I don't) but because that douchebag Harper won't get a ring.

*High Five*

You, Sir - are a Great American!

I'm gonna spin some Ramones next, in your honor.

Posted by: garrett at November 01, 2019 05:59 PM (Byj9q)

240 I have no idea how I put a sunglasses smiley where 8 was supposed to be

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 01, 2019 05:59 PM (87EdW)

241 Promising! I think I've made them by dicing up the stem, adding garlic, Parmesan and spices but some cream cheese, yum. Like jalapeno poppers!
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 01, 2019 05:58 PM (nRWPy)
------

Yep. The cream cheese kind of held it all together like the breadcrumbs would.

Posted by: bluebell - get a conservative sample Fairfax Co. ballot here! at November 01, 2019 05:59 PM (aXucN)

242 This is a loss for all in attendance. The only person that could replace him would have been Mitt Romney.

Posted by: Pierre Delecto at November 01, 2019 06:00 PM (vKhgw)

243

Posted by: eleven at November 01, 2019 06:00 PM (tH5fk)

244 And so Beto is... OUT!?

He's... OUT!!??

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 01, 2019 06:00 PM (8t2Nj)

245 that douchebag Harper won't get a ring.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 01, 2019 05:58 PM (bkUtD)

He has managed to give most of baseball-loving America the impression that he is a total douchebag. And I think it's a result of him being a total douchebag!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2019 06:00 PM (wYseH)

246 Scallops are good eating but they seem wasteful. You eat one little bit of the poor thing with all those blue eyes.

I like pork rinds but its really one of those foods its best not to think too much about.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 01, 2019 06:00 PM (KZzsI)

247 Hysterical since Beto thinks his white privilege is what made him lose support instead of his being a f-reaking moronic racebaiter and weirdo.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 01, 2019 06:00 PM (nRWPy)

248
*quickly scans grey boxes

* checks pockets

* checks under sofa cushions

NFTG

Posted by: Sock Monkey...proud graduate of Back Ally University at November 01, 2019 06:00 PM (O9ArM)

249 Is Beto O'Dork still gonna come get my gun?
Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 01, 2019 05:50 PM (flINI)

No he got all the donor money he could so he doesn't need to threaten to take guns anymore.

I am sad to see him go - he was useful to bleed money off of more viable candidates.

Posted by: batterup at November 01, 2019 06:00 PM (K4I9O)

250 Two tricks to the buffet panopticon: take one and taste it, then say wow these are good, have you tried them, while putting 10 on your plate, or the tried and true 2 plate method, one for you and one for your "wife".

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 01, 2019 06:00 PM (r+sAi)

251 Pro Tip : When you hop on your Vespa, to make your getaway, Put. Down. The. Shrimp Cocktail.

Posted by: garrett at November 01, 2019 06:01 PM (Byj9q)

252 Bill and Bea decided to go to Home Goods to browse for autumn decor instead of going to that boring old dinner. If Bea doesn't buy him that pink ceramic pumpkin he's had his eye on, he's going to sulk all night.

Posted by: JuJuBee at November 01, 2019 06:01 PM (RqQOX)

253 I wonder how much longer Beto's marriage will last now that he has more time to spend with the family?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 06:01 PM (ptqGC)

254 Beto is out? BETO IS OUT? If he's out, what the hell does Yang think he's doing?

Posted by: t-bird at November 01, 2019 06:01 PM (Ry8mf)

255 >>>OT: In Paul Sperry's article about Ciaramella, he states that a "House member" is planning on giving a speech on the floor of the House outing him, along w material from the 40 page dossier created on him. Can that House member be sanctioned by Nancy?

well, i know from a case about the super-corrupt NY Congressman Adam Clayton Powell that there are sharp limits to the sort of sanction you can impose. Voters are entitled to have their chosen representative present and voting in Congress.

I don't really know what she could do, if anything.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 06:01 PM (PbpT7)

256 216 Hlllloo nrs!

Tpng wit zp ties is hrrd!

Posted by: Insomniac

how did you get your phone?

all right, who's helping him?

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 01, 2019 06:01 PM (d7Ww2)

257 147 My thing was National Review (Buckley) and The New Republic (Sullivan especially, to be fair; also Kelly and Lane, tho' it was meh under Kinsley).
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at November 01, 2019 05:47 PM (ykYG2)

Mine, too; that's exactly what I read in college.

Posted by: m at November 01, 2019 06:01 PM (vFhit)

258 Beto has decided to spend more time with his cocaine.

Posted by: eleven at November 01, 2019 06:01 PM (tH5fk)

259 So Democrat voters aborted Beto?

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 01, 2019 06:01 PM (87EdW)

260 Trump humiliates them all.

One. By. One.

Posted by: Ha at November 01, 2019 06:02 PM (jKqaK)

261 That Vindman guy who apparently worked for the Ukrainians against Trump is a Democrat stooge who had to be reprimanded by his superiors for his America bashing. https://is.gd/Fkz1GB

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 01, 2019 06:02 PM (4e+hS)

262 To bad Beto dropped out, but that will get to the end faster and make Democrats latch on to Warren, Bernie or Crazy Uncle Joe.

Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2019 06:02 PM (ZCEU2)

263 217 @realDonaldTrump 5 minutes ago

Oh no, Beto just dropped out of race for President despite him saying he was "born for this." I don't think so!

Posted by: Tami at November 01, 2019 05:56 PM (cF8AT)

I'd start trolling him asking if he is going to keep his promise to not run for any other office.

Posted by: buzzion at November 01, 2019 06:02 PM (Z7lwY)

264 251 Pro Tip : When you hop on your Vespa, to make your getaway, Put. Down. The. Shrimp Cocktail.
Posted by: garrett at November 01, 2019 06:01 PM (Byj9q)

"OH MY GOD HE'S BLEEDING OUT!"
"Nah, that's just cocktail sauce."

Posted by: Insomniac at November 01, 2019 06:02 PM (NWiLs)

265 I'm not listening. I'm just watching for patterns in Server Circulation Routes.

Isn't there a yiddish word for someone who does that?

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 01, 2019 06:02 PM (nRWPy)

266 Beto O'Rourke sure did look different when he put on his glasses:

https://gab.com/Montag/posts/103059272351471598

Posted by: Monty James at November 01, 2019 06:02 PM (Zqz9o)

267 You made trollop casserole?

Posted by: wth at November 01, 2019 06:02 PM (v0R5T)

268 240 I have no idea how I put a sunglasses smiley where 8 was supposed to be
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 01, 2019 05:59 PM (87EdW)

The combo 8 followed by a close-parenthesis gets interpreted by pixy's software as the smiley sunglasses emoji. Nothing you can do about it except insert a space between the two.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 01, 2019 06:02 PM (8t2Nj)

269 Two tricks to the buffet panopticon: take one and taste it, then say wow these are good, have you tried them, while putting 10 on your plate, or the tried and true 2 plate method, one for you and one for your "wife".
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

Don't you have any respect for your self ??

Posted by: Greg Marmalard at November 01, 2019 06:02 PM (ykYG2)

270 I'm learning a lot from Ace about how to do the buffet thing. Should come in handy at my next office Christmas party.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 01, 2019 06:02 PM (xPJvm)

271 I wonder how much longer Beto's marriage will last now that he has more time to spend with the family?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 06:01 PM (ptqGC)
++++++++++++
As I am sure she doesn't genuinely like being served baby turds to eat, I'll bet that Mrs. O'Rourke ensures that her creepy insane husband has plenty of hobbies and events to keep him out of the house. Things like basket-weaving classes, I reckon.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2019 06:02 PM (I2dne)

272 >>>I'm gonna spin some Ramones next, in your honor.

One of my all-time favorite bands with the Psychedelic Furs. Greatest disappointment is I never saw the Ramones live. Truly fantastic band.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 01, 2019 06:02 PM (bkUtD)

273 215 Robert Francis, who claimed he was "born for this" evidently... wasn't.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 01, 2019 05:56 PM (KZzsI)

I guess Lady Gaga won't be singing that at the inaugural ball for him

Posted by: kbdabear at November 01, 2019 06:03 PM (qAR6u)

274 Pro Tip : When you hop on your Vespa, to make your getaway, Put. Down. The. Shrimp Cocktail.

Posted by: garrett at November 01, 2019 06:01 PM (Byj9q)

---
Meh. Ace's messenger bag was full of shrimp.

"For later."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 01, 2019 06:03 PM (cfSRQ)

275 Nacho will become a spokesman for some weed concern.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 01, 2019 06:03 PM (T1Aes)

276 But I like Beto in, all his hatred of the US and white people was great to hang around the dems necks.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 01, 2019 06:03 PM (nRWPy)

277 Ace, Fox was reporting earlier that PDT is considering giving a "fireside address" to read the transcript.

I think it would be brilliant.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 06:03 PM (ptqGC)

278 >>>He has managed to give most of baseball-loving America the impression that he is a total douchebag. And I think it's a result of him being a total douchebag!

LOL, so true.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 01, 2019 06:03 PM (bkUtD)

279 That pull quote of Robert Doar literally 'splainin' away Cap'n Bill was a thing of beauty. Very slick and fast. Poof.

Deft is the proper term, I think.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 01, 2019 06:03 PM (HaL55)

280 Ramones Shows were always a fun time. Saw them a lot growing up.

Posted by: garrett at November 01, 2019 06:03 PM (Byj9q)

281 Trump humiliates them all.
One. By. One.
Posted by: Ha at November 01, 2019 06:02 PM (jKqaK

Revenge is a dish best served...

BY TRUMP!!!

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 01, 2019 06:04 PM (8t2Nj)

282 Jane, your shrimp recipes sound great! My husband loves shrimp. We moved to a little barrier island about a decade ago, where the shrimp is fresh and cheap. As soon as we moved here, he discovered that shell fish were on his banned list. It kills him to go to parties and half the dishes are shrimp this or that.

Posted by: Ever at November 01, 2019 06:04 PM (ZZDMQ)

283 I'm just flashing back to six months ago when the media was tongue bathing Robert Francis O'Rourke and treating him like a golden glowing icon of JFKObama wonder. Then he cratered, hard.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 01, 2019 06:04 PM (KZzsI)

284 "As God is my witness, I thought threatening people with SWAT team raids and prison if they didn't turn over their rifles would win me the Presidency".

--Beto O'Rourke

Posted by: Monty James at November 01, 2019 06:04 PM (Zqz9o)

285 Nacho will become a spokesman for some weed concern.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 01, 2019 06:03 PM (T1Aes)

Ashley Roachclip hardest hit.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 01, 2019 06:04 PM (xPJvm)

286 Beta will be skateboarding the Appalachian Trail.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front, Unbanned Chapter at November 01, 2019 06:05 PM (vGJY7)

287 169 I'm sure many people were thankful for Kristol's disinvitation, but only one person was most thankful of all.
Posted by: Nikki Haley at November 01, 2019 05:50 PM (sWM8x)

Jeez, that was unexpected. Snort!

Posted by: m at November 01, 2019 06:05 PM (vFhit)

288 Per his Twitter bio, he hosts something called "conversationswithbillkristol.org"

Riveting stuff, I'm sure.

I mean that literally. It's probably like being riveted to a steel plate.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2019 06:05 PM (I2dne)

289

Former Texas Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke announced on Twitter Friday that he is ending his 2020 presidential campaign.

Posted by: Brexit at November 01, 2019 06:05 PM (aKsyK)

290 if you ever talk to me at a reception, I'm not listening. I'm just watching for patterns in Server Circulation Routes.
Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:51 PM (PbpT7)

That's ok. We don't read your posts either.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at November 01, 2019 06:05 PM (NbtMM)

291 Haha, people did show up to Blizzcon wearing Winnie the Pooh costumes.

Posted by: buzzion at November 01, 2019 06:05 PM (Z7lwY)

292 I want to Thank Nacho. He bled a whole shit ton of money out of a lot of Libs.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 01, 2019 06:05 PM (T1Aes)

293 At most Church event reception buffet tables I've been to, they never buy quite enough so the big contest is to race to see if you can get in the first half of the line, otherwise there's going to be nothing left but little bits of raw broccoli florets with ranch dressing. And you didn't go to the buffet to get stuck with that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2019 06:05 PM (Kpl3J)

294 But I like Beto in, all his hatred of the US and white people was great to hang around the dems necks.

I agree, he was so wierd and radical and daffy that it was useful to have him in the mix and point at him. "there's your Democrats." Especially back when the press was gushing over him and how dynamic and wonderful he was.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 01, 2019 06:06 PM (KZzsI)

295 Beto's campaign wasn't a serious one, anyway. It was milking the rubes as far as it could go, and this was the limit.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 01, 2019 06:06 PM (oVJmc)

296 Thanks, Muse. I guess it's not comething that gets typed a lot. Word does the same thing to me when I type 501 (c) 3, makes the (c) a copyright symbol.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 01, 2019 06:06 PM (87EdW)

297 >>>I want to Thank Nacho. He bled a whole shit ton of money out of a lot of Libs.

he'll need it to escape his crippling debt... Oh wait, he's filthy rich.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 01, 2019 06:06 PM (bkUtD)

298
Jane, your shrimp recipes sound great! My husband loves shrimp. We moved
to a little barrier island about a decade ago, where the shrimp is
fresh and cheap. As soon as we moved here, he discovered that shell fish
were on his banned list. It kills him to go to parties and half the
dishes are shrimp this or that.

Posted by: Ever at November 01, 2019 06:04 PM (ZZDMQ)

Oh, no. I think it would kill my husband to be unable to eat shellfish. He has no sweet tooth (which is good because Type 1 diabetes), and doesn't care much for carbs, but he's a carnivore and seafood lover.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 06:06 PM (ptqGC)

299 Beta will be skateboarding the Appalachian Trail.
Posted by: Concerned People's Front, Unbanned Chapter at November 01, 2019 06:05 PM (vGJY7)
++++++++++++
That's code for "trolling for slatterns in South America," right?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2019 06:06 PM (I2dne)

300 BETO, like Kramer.....IS OUT!

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at November 01, 2019 06:06 PM (FiUMj)

301 How to make a hog of yourself at an hors d'oevres reception:

Place one or two dainty things on cocktail plate. Join group of attendees. Eat items.

Excuse yourself. Throw plate away.

Get new plate, place one or two dainty things on cocktail plate. Join different group of attendees. Eat items.

Excuse yourself.

Repeat process ad nauseum.

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 06:06 PM (TdMsT)

302 I can just about eat my weight in shrimp, crab, lobster and scallops.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 01, 2019 06:06 PM (NWiLs)

303 279 That pull quote of Robert Doar literally 'splainin' away Cap'n Bill was a thing of beauty. Very slick and fast. Poof.

Deft is the proper term, I think.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 01, 2019 06:03 PM (HaL55)

Maybe so, but the fact that the actual reason Cap'n Bill couldn't be there wasn't mentioned is a very big "tell".

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 01, 2019 06:06 PM (8t2Nj)

304 Haha, people did show up to Blizzcon wearing Winnie the Pooh costumes.

Playing WoW I can assure you that people are very, very unhappy with Blizzard/Activison and mock them ruthlessly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 01, 2019 06:06 PM (KZzsI)

305 182 BREAKING:
Robert Frances O'Rourke drops out of 2020 presidential race.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 01, 2019 05:52 PM (d7Ww2)

Like flies!

Posted by: m at November 01, 2019 06:06 PM (vFhit)

306 Where was Bill? He was watching me enjoy myself, sitting quietly in the corner as I told him to do.

Posted by: Susan Kristol at November 01, 2019 06:07 PM (NVYyb)

307 294
But I like Beto in, all his hatred of the US and white people was great to hang around the dems necks.

I agree, he was so wierd and radical and daffy that it was useful to
have him in the mix and point at him. "there's your Democrats."
Especially back when the press was gushing over him and how dynamic and
wonderful he was.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 01, 2019 06:06 PM (KZzsI)

I like to take these times to reflect back to all the glowing pieces of these turds by the gaslighters and propagandists trying to make them something.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 01, 2019 06:07 PM (1CjJc)

308 A fireside address by Trump, while he pats a certain dog sitting devotedly next to him.

Posted by: JuJuBee at November 01, 2019 06:07 PM (RqQOX)

309 BTW, "Steve" Glass is still workin'
czrlaw.com/special-ops-trial-team/stephen-glass/

He seems to have redeemed himself; hasn't fucked up his sort-of legal career in the decade he's been there

Posted by: Greg Marmalard at November 01, 2019 06:07 PM (ykYG2)

310 Place one or two dainty things on cocktail plate. Join group of attendees. Eat items.

Excuse yourself. Throw plate away.

Get new plate, place one or two dainty things on cocktail plate. Join different group of attendees. Eat items.

Excuse yourself.

Repeat process ad nauseum.
Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 06:06 PM (TdMsT)

That's a lot of nerve, throwing their china away like that.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 01, 2019 06:07 PM (NWiLs)

311
*shakes fist a sky*

Bastards!!!!

Now, we're going to miss out on the nation's -

First Faux Hispano-Furry!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 01, 2019 06:07 PM (XCfh1)

312 .soc

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 01, 2019 06:08 PM (ykYG2)

313 Repeat process ad nauseum.

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 06:06 PM (TdMsT)

In other words, eat until you throw up?

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 01, 2019 06:08 PM (8t2Nj)

314 Ben Had bought some of the most beautiful shrimp (and a ton of them).

As Ben and I will tell you, the secret is never to boil shrimp. Just slowly simmer them, or roast them in an oven for a few minutes.

Nothing worse than tough shrimp.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 06:08 PM (ptqGC)

315 Hey Bito! When turkeys fly!

Posted by: klaftern at November 01, 2019 06:08 PM (RuIsu)

316 Someone has to man the bridge.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 01, 2019 06:08 PM (xSo9G)

317 302 I can just about eat my weight in shrimp, crab, lobster and scallops.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 01, 2019 06:06 PM (NWiLs)

I could but then I'd die....although, it might be worth it.

Posted by: Tami at November 01, 2019 06:08 PM (cF8AT)

318 255 ace

If some House member opens up a 40 page dossier on Ciaramella and starts reading, I would not be surprised if Nancy had the Sergeant at Arms person arrest him/her. Louie Gohmert, maybe, would be brave enough.

Posted by: Ever at November 01, 2019 06:08 PM (ZZDMQ)

319 >>Per his Twitter bio, he hosts something called "conversationswithbillkristol.org"

Someone needs to hook him up for a dinner with Saira Rao and her pal, the ones who get white women to pay to have dinner with them and be scolded for their white privilege.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 01, 2019 06:08 PM (bDqIh)

320 316 Someone has to man the bridge.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 01, 2019 06:08 PM (xSo9G)

Beats being a dentured servant

Posted by: Insomniac at November 01, 2019 06:09 PM (NWiLs)

321 It's kind of scary that you can suddenly develop a deadly allergy

Posted by: steevy at November 01, 2019 06:09 PM (KNsKs)

322 Never read Aoshq on an empty stomach.

Posted by: eleven at November 01, 2019 06:09 PM (tH5fk)

323 Poor Beto dead and gone.
Left us here to sing his song.

Posted by: dartist at November 01, 2019 06:09 PM (K22Va)

324 Trump's support among Republicans has dropped 13 points, according to the new ABC/Wash Post poll

Posted by: Pierre Poisson at November 01, 2019 06:09 PM (kk6Ba)

325 Someone needs to hook him up for a dinner with Saira Rao and her pal, the ones who get white women to pay to have dinner with them and be scolded for their white privilege.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 01, 2019 06:08 PM (bDqIh)
++++++++++
Forcing someone to listen to a Kristol/Rao banter would land you in the Hague.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2019 06:09 PM (I2dne)

326 Hey Bito! When turkeys fly!
Posted by: klaftern at November 01, 2019 06:08 PM (RuIsu)

Yeah. (cough) About that...

Posted by: Mr. Carlson at November 01, 2019 06:09 PM (xPJvm)

327 At most Church event reception buffet tables I've
been to, they never buy quite enough so the big contest is to race to
see if you can get in the first half of the line, otherwise there's
going to be nothing left but little bits of raw broccoli florets with
ranch dressing. And you didn't go to the buffet to get stuck with
that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2019 06:05 PM

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We had that happen at a Command Christmas Party when I was stationed at RTC Great Lakes.

Some idiot decided we were going to do a buffet dinner and said there would be 100 people. They did not tell the caterer that the first 50 people in line would be huge fat women. When it got to the end of the line we had nothing left and I made a McDonald's run for 20 people.

We never did a buffet again.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 01, 2019 06:09 PM (JUOKG)

328 The president of Blizzard gave an "apology" but didn't admit that they are sucking off China.

Posted by: buzzion at November 01, 2019 06:09 PM (Z7lwY)

329 I agree, he was so wierd and radical and daffy that it was useful to have him in the mix and point at him. "there's your Democrats." Especially back when the press was gushing over him and how dynamic and wonderful he was.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 01, 2019 06:06 PM (KZzsI)

What I laughed at was that a guy who looked like Toad from American Graffiti was presented as a "DREAMY HUNK" by that same media

Posted by: kbdabear at November 01, 2019 06:09 PM (qAR6u)

330 I like how Trump takes scalps as he passes by the fallen.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 01, 2019 06:09 PM (r+sAi)

331 Beto's campaign wasn't a serious one, anyway. It was milking the rubes as far as it could go, and this was the limit.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 01, 2019 06:06 PM (oVJmc)
..........

Now him and Swalwell can go on a binge with Hunter Biden using all that sweet cash. Maybe invite Kamalama along so they can save money on hookers.

Posted by: wth at November 01, 2019 06:10 PM (v0R5T)

332 As Ben and I will tell you, the secret is never to boil shrimp.
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This is what happens when people from other places move to the coastal South. They start messing with the culture.

;-)

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 01, 2019 06:10 PM (xSo9G)

333 BREAKING:
Robert Frances O'Rourke drops out of 2020 presidential race.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I wonder why?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2019 06:10 PM (Gzt/W)

334 271 I wonder how much longer Beto's marriage will last now that he has more time to spend with the family?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 06:01 PM (ptqGC)

First, I think he's moving to NYC, because she's a New York girl and he's got no more use for El Paso, since the Congressional gig is over. Second, he's gonna have nothing to do and a lot of money to do it with, and guys like that tend to always get themselves in trouble pretty fast, and they tend to get in the same kind of trouble as far as the wife is concerned.

So it'll be fun reading about that in the future.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2019 06:10 PM (Kpl3J)

335 Beto was such a media darling once.

Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2019 06:10 PM (ZCEU2)

336 Oh those crazy Canukis - a Canadian ad agency trademarked the term: 'Fake News' and sent the White House a Cease and Desist.

Posted by: kallisto at November 01, 2019 06:10 PM (EXxnH)

337 Bill could not be here tonight

The tide was out.

Posted by: DaveA at November 01, 2019 06:10 PM (FhXTo)

338 I could but then I'd die....although, it might be worth it.

Posted by: Tami at November 01, 2019 06:08 PM (cF8AT)

Tami, I have a best friend who was allergic to shellfish most of her adult life, and then one day wasn't.

Same with my MiL who was allergic to pork. One day she tried a small bite and didn't break out in hives, and now eats all things pork.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 06:10 PM (ptqGC)

339 So it'll be fun reading about that in the future.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2019 06:10 PM (Kpl3J)
+++++++++++++
It's adorable that you think that.

Posted by: The Press at November 01, 2019 06:11 PM (I2dne)

340 I actually feel bad about Irving Kristol's widow. Isn't she a real, serious, scholarly intellectual who writes history books and articles about Victorians and such?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at November 01, 2019 06:11 PM (LnhNX)

341 how did you get your phone?

all right, who's helping him?
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 01, 2019 06:01 PM (d7Ww2)

Ya know, we could have used you here last night.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at November 01, 2019 06:11 PM (NbtMM)

342 So we won't have Betoff to kick around any more. He was always good for comic relief.

Now does the Fiercely Heterosexual Cory Booker have anything he'd like to tell us? I mean, about his campaign? Because he's not about to come clean about the other thing ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 01, 2019 06:11 PM (jOoJR)

343 Oh, NO, another bad poll for Trump!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 01, 2019 06:11 PM (oVJmc)

344 Guess that play of taking away all firearms wasn't a campaign winner after all.

Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2019 06:11 PM (ZCEU2)

345 RSBN:
Trump rally in Tupelo,Mississippi
starts at 7:00, crowd starting to fill up
https://tinyurl.com/y3vx8rxg

Posted by: redridinghood at November 01, 2019 06:11 PM (wiXsO)

346 197 Have you seen the clip of Jamie Oliver showing kids how chicken nuggets are made and expecting them to not want to eat them after?

https://youtu.be/mKwL5G5HbGA
Posted by: buzzion at November 01, 2019 05:54 PM (Z7lwY)

Ha. Not 'til now.

Posted by: m at November 01, 2019 06:12 PM (vFhit)

347 Beto was such a media darling once.

Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2019 06:10 PM

---

He was going to turn Texas blue if you listened to the msm here.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 01, 2019 06:12 PM (JUOKG)

348 What I laughed at was that a guy who looked like Toad from American Graffiti was presented as a "DREAMY HUNK" by that same media

Posted by: kbdabear at November 01, 2019 06:09 PM (qAR6u)

The meme pic of him next to Butthead of Beavis and Butthead is uncanny. The somebody already took Beto's guns joke for his flu pic, etc. He will be missed.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 01, 2019 06:12 PM (1CjJc)

349 Posted by: Pierre Poisson at November 01, 2019 06:09 PM (kk6Ba)
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OMG! OMG! Now I'm concerned!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 01, 2019 06:12 PM (xSo9G)

350 What I laughed at was that a guy who looked like Toad from American Graffiti was presented as a "DREAMY HUNK" by that same media

Posted by: kbdabear at November 01, 2019 06:09 PM (qAR6u)

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Compared to the soy neckbeards in the media, he was.

Always remember that the DC press corps is packed with utter losers perpetually high on Ritalin.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 01, 2019 06:12 PM (cfSRQ)

351 Some idiot decided we were going to do a buffet dinner and said there would be 100 people. They did not tell the caterer that the first 50 people in line would be huge fat women. When it got to the end of the line we had nothing left and I made a McDonald's run for 20 people.

We never did a buffet again.
Posted by: Mr. Scott

You can do buffet. But you always go heavy on the head count.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2019 06:12 PM (Gzt/W)

352 kk6Ba troll alert.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 01, 2019 06:12 PM (ykYG2)

353 At most Church event reception buffet tables I've

been to, they never buy quite enough so the big contest is to race to

see if you can get in the first half of the line, otherwise there's

going to be nothing left but little bits of raw broccoli florets with

ranch dressing. And you didn't go to the buffet to get stuck with

that.

I make it a rule at church receptions, and here at home, to always serve more food than I expect I'll need.

I always have to-go containers for people. I buy them in bulk at Sam's Club.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 06:12 PM (ptqGC)

354 We support ISIS and we do real polls!

Posted by: Wapo at November 01, 2019 06:12 PM (jKqaK)

355 First, I think he's moving to NYC, because she's a New York girl and he's got no more use for El Paso, since the Congressional gig is over. Second, he's gonna have nothing to do and a lot of money to do it with, and guys like that tend to always get themselves in trouble pretty fast, and they tend to get in the same kind of trouble as far as the wife is concerned.

So it'll be fun reading about that in the future.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2019 06:10 PM (Kpl3J)

The only thing that will save him is his judgment.

So you're right, he's a train wreck waiting to happen.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 01, 2019 06:13 PM (jOoJR)

356 Posted by: Pierre Poisson at November 01, 2019 06:09 PM (kk6Ba)
******
Early night then ?

Posted by: Austere Religious Scholar at November 01, 2019 06:13 PM (BqBId)

357 298 Jane

He has suffered greatly bc everywhere we go here it's shrimp time. Glad your hubby has the seafood/beef to enjoy, even without the sweets.

Posted by: Ever at November 01, 2019 06:13 PM (ZZDMQ)

358 I just saw this picture in the thread on one of the Kristol tweets. This is utterly foul on *many* levels:

https://tinyurl.com/yxcglv23

Completely SFW, but might result in vomit on your desk.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2019 06:13 PM (I2dne)

359 I'm a pro at consuming free food inconspicuously. You have to VARY your choices (e.g. first shrimp, then mushrooms, then a cocktail, then back to shrimp, etc.) come at the buffet table from different angles, retire to different seats/tables in different parts of the room for the consuming, etc. Mix it up. Also, pretend to chat to random strangers when getting/eating the food. Makes it look like the food is not your primary activity.
Posted by: zombie at November 01, 2019 05:40 PM (fK2gX)

*takes notes*

Posted by: chique d'afrique at November 01, 2019 06:13 PM (9hauA)

360 >> Beta will be skateboarding the Appalachian Trail.

What an excellent idea! I was thinking I need to find another out of state adventure to keep him from coming home---er, busy now that the campaign is over. . .

*opens up trivago.com on iPhone*

Posted by: Mrs. Beto, who's had enough of his mid-life crisis and wine moms 4Beto at November 01, 2019 06:14 PM (bDqIh)

361 Oh those crazy Canukis - a Canadian ad agency trademarked the term: 'Fake News' and sent the White House a Cease and Desist.
Posted by: kallisto

LOLGFY.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2019 06:14 PM (Gzt/W)

362 wth - if pixy had the feature, I would give you a 'follow'. You funny!

Posted by: kallisto, totally not a stalker at November 01, 2019 06:14 PM (EXxnH)

363 Beto was a fucking bomb thrower who didn't do the Dems any favors with his antics. I'm surprised it took them this long to get the hook out.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 01, 2019 06:14 PM (j3npP)

364 Wonder if the Trump rally will be on tv?

Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2019 06:15 PM (ZCEU2)

365 We never did a buffet again.

Posted by: Mr. Scott

You can do buffet. But you always go heavy on the head count.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2019 06:12 PM

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Yep, we should have told them 200 people instead of 100. I might have gotten something to eat other than McDonald's, but we didn't have any more MWR money.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 01, 2019 06:15 PM (JUOKG)

366 Maybe so, but the fact that the actual reason Cap'n Bill couldn't be there wasn't mentioned is a very big "tell".

Yeah, I couldn't believe what I was reading. It just kept on getting better. His own daddy's organization didn't want him there?

bwahhahhahhahhahahh *gasp* HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Manly men doing manly things aboard The Raging Queen.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 01, 2019 06:15 PM (HaL55)

367 288 Per his Twitter bio, he hosts something called "conversationswithbillkristol.org"
Riveting stuff, I'm sure.
I mean that literally. It's probably like being riveted to a steel plate.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2019 06:05 PM (I2dne)

I went to that site so you won't have to.

It's basically videos of Cap'n Billy talking to various people, many of whifh I have never heard of, for example.

Jim Manzi III: On global warming, climate change, and what to do about it.
Date Added: June 1, 2019

So I wonder if they're just assuming the correctness of the climate alarmism of the progressives rather than challenging some assumptions?

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 01, 2019 06:15 PM (8t2Nj)

368 Jane, I go with that plan also. I'd rather everyone have some to take home than ever have anyone not have enough to eat.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 01, 2019 06:15 PM (T1Aes)

369 In other words, eat until you throw up?
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 01, 2019 06:08 PM (8t2Nj)

No!!! I never want to throw up again! Ugh!

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 06:16 PM (TdMsT)

370 I've always thought Beto looks like he has fetal alcohol syndrome
0

Posted by: Northernlurker at November 01, 2019 06:16 PM (n1yOz)

371 Clinton on Beto: Why arent I 50 points ahead?

Posted by: socalcon at November 01, 2019 06:16 PM (Roy2Z)

372 354
We support ISIS and we do real polls!

Posted by: Wapo at November 01, 2019 06:12 PM (jKqaK)

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How far off the final result were they? 15 points or so?

But yeah, now they have it fixed.

Pull my other finger.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 01, 2019 06:16 PM (cfSRQ)

373 Charge the Canadians sales tax on US sourced health care.

Posted by: klaftern at November 01, 2019 06:16 PM (RuIsu)

374 Oh those crazy Canukis - a Canadian ad agency trademarked the term: 'Fake News' and sent the White House a Cease and Desist.
Posted by: kallisto

Prior art, dickholes.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 01, 2019 06:16 PM (oVJmc)

375 Don't you just miss ol' Shemp smacking his worn out lips and spewing how the stack market is diving and, "meh, recession!" ?

*opens newly arrived Oct. 401k statement*

Posted by: JC. Just JC. at November 01, 2019 06:16 PM (377Zs)

376 364 Wonder if the Trump rally will be on tv?

.

Dunno but RSB is in YouTube.

Posted by: Ha at November 01, 2019 06:16 PM (jKqaK)

377 So I wonder if they're just assuming the correctness of the climate alarmism of the progressives rather than challenging some assumptions?
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 01, 2019 06:15 PM (8t2Nj)
++++++++++++
It'll be a man with a stronger stomach than I who finds out. Life is finite. Consuming it listening to Bill Kristol talk about climate change is slightly below "passing the time by smashing my own knees with a hammer."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2019 06:17 PM (I2dne)

378 361. it's doubtful the trademark application will be approved.

Posted by: kallisto at November 01, 2019 06:17 PM (EXxnH)

379 Ben Had!!!

I sent you a little package a couple days ago.

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 06:17 PM (TdMsT)

380 This just in: Newsom is now threatening to have the state take over PG&E. You know, to bring that vaunted California state government efficiency to bear on this problem.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 01, 2019 06:17 PM (jOoJR)

381 Posted by: chique d'afrique at November 01, 2019 06:13 PM (9hauA)

Holy crap, I'm a buffet amateur compared to you!

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 01, 2019 06:17 PM (8t2Nj)

382 Tami, I have a best friend who was allergic to shellfish most of her adult life, and then one day wasn't.

Same with my MiL who was allergic to pork. One day she tried a small bite and didn't break out in hives, and now eats all things pork.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 06:10 PM (ptqGC)

Ok, I'll do it...but if I die, you don't get my stuff.

Posted by: Tami at November 01, 2019 06:17 PM (cF8AT)

383
Jane, I go with that plan also. I'd rather everyone have some to take home than ever have anyone not have enough to eat.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 01, 2019 06:15 PM (T1Aes)

THIS. And I still cannot get those chile rellenos out of my head.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 06:17 PM (ptqGC)

384 This just in: Newsom is now threatening to have the state take over PG&E. You know, to bring that vaunted California state government efficiency to bear on this problem.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 01, 2019 06:17 PM (jOoJR)
+++++++++++++
It's a solution to the liability problem. Sovereign immunity means never having to say you're sorry.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2019 06:18 PM (I2dne)

385 THIS. And I still cannot get those chile rellenos out of my head.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 06:17 PM (ptqGC)

SWOON!!!

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 06:18 PM (TdMsT)

386 Prior art, dickholes.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles

Not only that, but Canadian "art".
It might be time for the US to call bullshit on Ottawa and simply make separate treaties with each province, starting with Quebec and Alberta.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 01, 2019 06:18 PM (ykYG2)

387 380
This just in: Newsom is now threatening to have the state take over
PGE. You know, to bring that vaunted California state government
efficiency to bear on this problem.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 01, 2019 06:17 PM (jOoJR)

---
He's tired of the temporary blackouts and wants permanent ones.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 01, 2019 06:18 PM (cfSRQ)

388 Ok, I'll do it...but if I die, you don't get my stuff.

Posted by: Tami at November 01, 2019 06:17 PM (cF8AT)

Just promise not to haunt me.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 06:18 PM (ptqGC)

389 277 Ace, Fox was reporting earlier that PDT is considering giving a "fireside address" to read the transcript.

I think it would be brilliant.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 06:03 PM (ptqGC)

Yes, I'd vote for that.

Posted by: m at November 01, 2019 06:18 PM (vFhit)

390 Tami, I have a best friend who was allergic to shellfish most of her adult life, and then one day wasn't.

Same with my MiL who was allergic to pork. One day she tried a small bite and didn't break out in hives, and now eats all things pork.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 06:10 PM (ptqGC)

Cool. Antibodies can decrease over time, but part of that is because your immune system isn't what it used to be. Still best to do a food challenge at the allergist's office.

Posted by: CN at November 01, 2019 06:19 PM (U7k5w)

391 370 I've always thought Beto looks like he has fetal alcohol syndrome
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Posted by: Northernlurker at November 01, 2019 06:16 PM (n1yOz)

St. Greta of Thunberg REALLY looks like she has fetal alcohol syndrome.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 01, 2019 06:19 PM (jOoJR)

392 This just in: Newsom is now threatening to have the
state take over PGE. You know, to bring that vaunted California
state government efficiency to bear on this problem.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 01, 2019 06:17 PM

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Pretty much everyone here predicted that was going to happen. Good luck in his endeavors to seize a private company. The Feds tried that a couple of times and it went badly for them.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 01, 2019 06:19 PM (JUOKG)

393 how did you get your phone?

all right, who's helping him?

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 01, 2019 06:01 PM (d7Ww2)

Some otter guy.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at November 01, 2019 06:19 PM (1CjJc)

394 No!!! I never want to throw up again! Ugh!
Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 06:16 PM (TdMsT)

Right? Vomiting is one of the worst experiences of my life. I haven't thrown up for many years and I hope I never do again.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 01, 2019 06:19 PM (8t2Nj)

395 Wasn't Newfie originally a non-Canadian colony of the Crown, come to that? which then got shotgun-married to Canada because Newfie defaulted on a bill?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 01, 2019 06:19 PM (ykYG2)

396 Gavin go full Fascist, Californians will love it.

Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2019 06:19 PM (ZCEU2)

397 Just promise not to haunt me.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 06:18 PM (ptqGC)

I make no promises....

Posted by: Tami at November 01, 2019 06:20 PM (cF8AT)

398 to bring that vaunted California state government efficiency to bear on this problem.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 01, 2019 06:17 PM (jOoJR)

Ah yes....the lines would be maintained by DMV workers with lots of seniority. It would be marvel of efficiency.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2019 06:20 PM (wYseH)

399 Nurse and Insom make me happy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 01, 2019 06:20 PM (xPJvm)

400 392 This just in: Newsom is now threatening to have the
state take over PGE. You know, to bring that vaunted California
state government efficiency to bear on this problem.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 01, 2019 06:17 PM

( *steeples fingers* )

Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.

Posted by: Zombie Ayn Rand at November 01, 2019 06:20 PM (8t2Nj)

401 Jane, I can get the recipe for you.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 01, 2019 06:20 PM (T1Aes)

402 361 Oh those crazy Canukis - a Canadian ad agency trademarked the term: 'Fake News' and sent the White House a Cease and Desist.
Posted by: kallisto

Oh, FFS!

You can't trademark something in common usage.

In the same way that you can't patent the wheel.

Canucks - Too rich to be Mexicans. Too retarded to be Americans.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 01, 2019 06:21 PM (XCfh1)

403 Going out to Cucina Something-or-othah for some pasta and chianti.

Fun place, kinda loud, and one can walk in wearing a MAGA cap without a prob.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at November 01, 2019 06:21 PM (4ZE6o)

404 Heh. Joe Biden said he would sign the Paris Peace Accords if he is elected.

There appears to be a hole in his marble sack.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 01, 2019 06:21 PM (r+sAi)

405
Right? Vomiting is one of the worst experiences of my life. I haven't thrown up for many years and I hope I never do again.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 01, 2019 06:19 PM (8t2Nj)

Throwing up twenty times yesterday morning is certainly enough for the rest of my life!

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 06:21 PM (TdMsT)

406 When it comes to buffets, I go nuts with the breakfast buffets. You've never lived until you've had bacon, butter, and bananas stuck between two pancake slices.

I also recommend strawberries jammed into scrambled eggs

I think hotel security teams pass around a grainy BOTA photos of me.

Posted by: kbdabear at November 01, 2019 06:21 PM (qAR6u)

407 He's tired of the temporary blackouts and wants permanent ones

Priceless!!

Posted by: Floridachick at November 01, 2019 06:21 PM (+Obdm)

408 380
This just in: Newsom is now threatening to have the state take over
PGE. You know, to bring that vaunted California state government
efficiency to bear on this problem.

They must not be paying enough extortion to operate in his state.

Posted by: dartist at November 01, 2019 06:21 PM (K22Va)

409 396 Gavin go full Fascist, Californians will love it.
Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2019 06:19 PM (ZCEU2)
----------------

Not all of us, kimosabe.

Posted by: blake - are you DMV experienced?
at November 01, 2019 06:21 PM (qC1Sy)

410 It's a solution to the liability problem. Sovereign immunity means never having to say you're sorry.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2019

Here's the keys show us how it's done, CA.

Best.

Posted by: Ha at November 01, 2019 06:21 PM (jKqaK)

411 Furry nood

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 01, 2019 06:21 PM (cfSRQ)

412 I liked it better when Beto was running and not hanging around here all the time.

Posted by: I-10 Rest Stop Glory Hole at November 01, 2019 06:22 PM (Z+IKu)

413 396 Gavin go full Fascist, Californians will love it.
Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2019 06:19 PM (ZCEU2)

Hell yes. He should give it to them good and hard.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 01, 2019 06:22 PM (8t2Nj)

414 99 Nurse and Insom make me happy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 01, 2019 06:20 PM (xPJvm)

They make me happy, too!

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 06:22 PM (TdMsT)

415 Jane, I can get the recipe for you.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 01, 2019 06:20 PM (T1Aes)

Wow! That would be great!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 01, 2019 06:22 PM (ptqGC)

416 392 This just in: Newsom is now threatening to have the
state take over PGE. You know, to bring that vaunted California
state government efficiency to bear on this problem.

Everything was just fine until Dickless here shut off the containment grid.

Posted by: Roy at November 01, 2019 06:22 PM (ABjxW)

417 I'm just happy the Nats won. Not because I like them (I don't) but because that douchebag Harper won't get a ring.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 01, 2019 05:58 PM (bkUtD)

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Harper is a pernicious clubhouse poison. No team with him on it will ever win a ring.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 01, 2019 06:22 PM (flINI)

418 >>>403 Going out to Cucina Something-or-othah for some pasta and chianti.

I wrote an off-broadway play called La Cocina.

Posted by: George Constanza at November 01, 2019 06:22 PM (PbpT7)

419 Cute Irish girl talks about 10 crazy things she got wrong about America.

https://youtu.be/U6Rr4R1fYM8

Posted by: buzzion at November 01, 2019 06:22 PM (Z7lwY)

420 Make haste, my good man, - ram that feeding tube in my gullet and commence pumping the foie gras!

Posted by: Cap'n Willie Kristol at November 01, 2019 06:22 PM (wo3c/)

421 Blake - sorry forgot the sarc part

Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2019 06:22 PM (ZCEU2)

422

Glad they brought out the good crystal this time.

There is always the Golden Corral Bill.

Posted by: saf at November 01, 2019 06:22 PM (5IHGB)

423 Throwing up twenty times yesterday morning is certainly enough for the rest of my life!

Posted by: Ladyl at November 01, 2019 06:21 PM (TdMsT)

Something you ate?

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 01, 2019 06:23 PM (8t2Nj)

424 Manly men doing manly things aboard The Raging Queen.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 01, 2019 06:15 PM

Ummmmm, would you happen to have some more information concerning this?

Asking for our friends the lumberjacks.

Posted by: Men In Tights at November 01, 2019 06:23 PM (T06DR)

425 Scott Horton, who is very anti-war, will be debating Bill Kristol at the Soho Forum next May. I for one can't wait to see that PAB get his ass handed to him. He will probably cry like he did that one time on Morning Joke.

https://tinyurl.com/y6fnqc9q

Posted by: Augustine at November 01, 2019 06:23 PM (Alp4m)

426
Harper is a pernicious clubhouse poison. No team with him on it will ever win a ring.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 01, 2019 06:22 PM (flINI)

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In many ways, this is the story of Manny Machado.

Posted by: blake - are you DMV experienced?
at November 01, 2019 06:23 PM (qC1Sy)

427 Well, I'm home from the rehab place. I actually got home about 1:00 this afternoon, but it took awhile to get settled and go through my phone calls and e-mail. Probably 90% is spam, but I needed to go through it and delete stuff. I was wobblier on my feet than I thought I would be, but I've been walking with the cane and am feeling a little better now.

Posted by: rickl at November 01, 2019 06:23 PM (yQlY7)

428 Now does the Fiercely Heterosexual Cory Booker have anything he'd like to tell us?

"One fewer in competition for the VP position!"
--Spartacus McHeterosexual

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 01, 2019 06:24 PM (KZzsI)

429 This just in: Newsom is now threatening to have the state take over PG&E. You know, to bring that vaunted California state government efficiency to bear on this problem.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 01, 2019 06:17 PM (jOoJR)
........

During the statement his men's hair products caught fire, blew across the street and destroyed another forest.

Posted by: wth at November 01, 2019 06:24 PM (v0R5T)

430 Has Newsom visited Nicaragua for his policies? Because it sure looks like it.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 01, 2019 06:24 PM (r+sAi)

431 421 Blake - sorry forgot the sarc part
Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2019 06:22 PM (ZCEU2)
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Oh no, you were mostly right.

I always thought the phrase was, "Will the last one out, please turn off the lights" but, it appears CA will turn out the light before we all get the chance to leave.

Posted by: blake - are you DMV experienced?
at November 01, 2019 06:25 PM (qC1Sy)

432 427 Well, I'm home from the rehab place. I actually got home about 1:00 this afternoon, but it took awhile to get settled and go through my phone calls and e-mail. Probably 90% is spam, but I needed to go through it and delete stuff. I was wobblier on my feet than I thought I would be, but I've been walking with the cane and am feeling a little better now.
Posted by: rickl at November 01, 2019 06:23 PM (yQlY7)

And you're willowed. Nood.

Posted by: m at November 01, 2019 06:25 PM (vFhit)

433 When I was growing up, my Dad LOVED the Buffet restaurants that were popular in the 60's and early 70's, Smorgasbord this and that, and I still remember all the Healthy Eating tips he would coach my brother and I with. "Now, when you go up there, they first have you walk by this table with lots of salads and jello and things, but DON"T BE FOOLED! It's a trick! That's the cheap stuff, if you wanna get your money's worth you skip that salad table completely and go straight to the meat! Especially if they got a guy carving something. And the best part if you just stick to the meat is that you can then load up on about 3 of 4 of those good looking desserts at the end!!!"

yep, health tips from Dad.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2019 06:25 PM (Kpl3J)

434 feeling a little better now.
Posted by: rickl at November 01, 2019 06:23 PM (yQlY7)

Awesome. The Horde was worried, brother.

God bless.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 01, 2019 06:26 PM (xPJvm)

435 rickl, Take it easy. I will put your group hug T-shirt in the mail on Monday.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 01, 2019 06:26 PM (T1Aes)

436 How many in the MSM have known all along that that ERIC CIARAMELLA was the whistleblower?

Posted by: redridinghood at November 01, 2019 06:26 PM (wiXsO)

437 81 it was at a wedding. The shrimp were fucking huge. The size of cats.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 05:36 PM (PbpT7)

"Jose Grecos de Muertos. Flamenco dancers of death!"

- - Vince Ricardo, ex-CIA

Next time we're in Tehada Shel don't let me forget. They make a chicken sandwich down here they serve it up, on a hard roll, with orange juice. Or pineapple juice. Or coffee. You like coffee Shel? Expresso, with that wonderful foam. Oh Jesus pigs!

Posted by: Vince Ricardo at November 01, 2019 06:32 PM (BRpqW)

438 The one guy who could have beaten me has dropped out. That's a relief.

Posted by: President Richard Punch at November 01, 2019 06:34 PM (9dzlp)

439 >>>"Jose Grecos de Muertos. Flamenco dancers of death!"

- - Vince Ricardo, ex-CIA

Next time we're in Tehada Shel don't let me forget. They make a chicken sandwich down here they serve it up, on a hard roll, with orange juice. Or pineapple juice. Or coffee. You like coffee Shel? Expresso, with that wonderful foam. Oh Jesus pigs!

Posted by: Vince Ricardo

...

Hey great to see you, Vince. i just watched a relative of yours in Murder by Death and am thinking about renting a movie called The Cheap Detective, which I've never seen.

Posted by: ace at November 01, 2019 06:34 PM (PbpT7)

440 I'm such a good driver it's a wonder to me they took away my license.

Posted by: Also Vince Ricardo at November 01, 2019 06:35 PM (PbpT7)

441 435 rickl, Take it easy. I will put your group hug T-shirt in the mail on Monday.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 01, 2019 06:26 PM (T1Aes)

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Hope you like it, rickl!

Posted by: SMH at November 01, 2019 06:40 PM (RU4sa)

442 No, THIS is the finest, bestest, most bitchinest song ever in the history of Rock-n-Roll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw

Posted by: Gunslinger at November 01, 2019 06:41 PM (R2gO3)

443 427
Well, I'm home from the rehab place. I actually got home about 1:00
this afternoon, but it took awhile to get settled and go through my
phone calls and e-mail. Probably 90% is spam, but I needed to go
through it and delete stuff. I was wobblier on my feet than I thought I
would be, but I've been walking with the cane and am feeling a little
better now.

Posted by: rickl at November 01, 2019 06:23 PM (yQlY7)

Hip?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at November 01, 2019 06:43 PM (9dzlp)

444 Hip?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless
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rickl is a very cool guy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 01, 2019 06:54 PM (CDGwz)

445 I heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend that heard if from another that Old Irving came back from the dead to disown Billy boy.

"That smirking idiot is not my son. He did not spring from these loins."

Posted by: Niles at November 01, 2019 07:02 PM (5fSr7)

446 Ace, you crack me up.

Posted by: bour3 at November 01, 2019 07:14 PM (uDfo+)

447 Does Bill Kristol have a life, a wife, etc?

Or is it abnegating neocon 24-7?

Posted by: Skookumchuk at November 01, 2019 09:44 PM (P6snd)

448 Kristol has not harangued any Trump supporters at the AEI Dinner.

Speeches are on YouTube. Bill said nothing in 2017 about Trump. In 2018 he said nothing about Trump. He joked 'for the Kristols magazine editor is the highest title.'(award winner was Boris Johnson) This was about a month before the Weekly Standard was closed, and you can see it in his face.
In 2016, Kristol said he was gloomy about the election, but takes comfort that one of the two candidates must lose. He quotes McCain, that it is always darkest before it is pitch black.

Posted by: MikeN at November 01, 2019 09:46 PM (o/eHL)

449 "No bacon wrapped scallops for Bill this night."

Ooof, that's low.

Posted by: RokShox at November 01, 2019 10:30 PM (fW/Hg)

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