The Morning Rant

What's the endgame for NeverTrump? Their business plan seems to be:

1. Down with Trump!
2. ??
3. Profit!

They want Trump gone, obviously, and something called 'Trumpism' gone, but then what? Do they actually think it's possible to go back to the way it was before? What do I mean by that? What was it like before? Well, it wasn't that long ago when NeverTrumpers like Bill Kristol and Tom Nichols and Rick Wilson could claim to be influential. They were columnists and campaign consultants and they had the ear of men with clout in Washington DC. Conservatives would pay them money for their books and magazines and speaking engagement and cruises (ahoy!).

Do they really think that old status quo ante will be restored with Trump gone off the stage?

Because first they attacked Trump, which didn't work, as they were all like the buzzing of flies him. He never listened to them before, and he wasn't about to start. Because even though Trump may do conservative things, he's not really a doctrinaire conservative, so he doesn't care.

So then the NeverTrump maniacs started going after Trump supporters. Not only is a Trump a bad person, but you're a bad person, too, and probably a racist to boot, if you voted for him. But weren't we the ones that used to be their customer base? A friend of mine once went on one of those National Review cruises. But he voted for Trump, so I guess they don't want his money.

None of this is particularly smart. It reminds me of the presidential candidacy of Joe Walsh (no, not the Eagles' guitarist, the ex-congressman from Illinois), whose campaign slogan was, basically, "Eff you Trumpists, vote for me!" which didn't work out so well for him:

Walsh called the Republican Party a "cult" and suggested that he would likely support the Democratic nominee in the general election, stating he would rather have a devout socialist win the election than Trump.

So Joe Walsh is conserving conservatism by insulting conservatives and voting for socialism. Which is what all of the other NeverTrumpers are doing, too. And it gets crazier. Do you remember when when Evan McMullin all but explicitly endorsed Beto O'Rourke over Ted Cruz in their senate race? I mean, why? In what universe does that make sense? Cruz is about as conservative as you can get.

So after this is all over, what do they expect, that we'll just go back to sending them money to pay for their books and magazines and alimony payments? If so, they're really deluded. We're not going to forget what they did. We're not going to forget that when the battle got hot, they switched sides.

Trump has altered the political landscape and it's not going back to the way it was before. I'm not sure what it's going to look like, but it won't be what the NeverTrumpers are going to like. They've made threats to boot Trump supporters from the party after Trump is gone (not sure how they're going to accomplish this), but it looks like they're the ones who are going to be leaving. Even National Review is calling the Lincoln Project a bunch of grifters.

So there's no future for them where they are. They won't be the first conservatives to switch sides. I'm old enough to remember when David Brock wrote for the American Spectator. And they more their alienate actual conservatives, the more money from that source will run dry and they more they will rely on left-wing sources to pay their bills and so they will do things and write things to insure a steady cash flow. And so the Lincoln Project, and the Bulwark, and the rest of NeverTrump Inc. will slowly be assimilated into the progressive hive mind. Like Joe Scarborough, only with fewer suspicious deaths. We hope.

Trump's Enemies Are A Blessing:

Ya dirty rats! https://t.co/RlIju9EVXc
— 𝐃𝐫 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐲 (@CarrollQuigley1) August 1, 2020

The Democrats Are Getting Back To Their Roots In Portland:

Wow. Portland sends a message. pic.twitter.com/ItcO0ZlSAg
— TheMorningSpew2 (@TheMorningSpew2) August 1, 2020

Raise Your Hand If You've Ever Done This:

"Rules For Thee But Not For We"

DC Mayor Exempts John Lewis Funeral Attendees From City’s Quarantine Restrictions https://t.co/lcWfLzMWjk pic.twitter.com/l0viBCyrMh
— The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) August 1, 2020

This Is Not Wrong:

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Friday's Who Dis: Not only were Jean Wallace and Cornel Wilde married for a time, but they made a number of B-movies together. The one I saw was the noir filmThe Big Combo.

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Posted by: OregonMuse at 11:10 AM

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1 Mornin

Posted by: CN at August 03, 2020 11:10 AM (ONvIw)

2 Kathleen Turner and Ted Danson, who were both in Body Heat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:10 AM (rpbg1)

3 WooHoo!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 03, 2020 11:10 AM (axyOa)

4 Danson and Turner!

Posted by: CN at August 03, 2020 11:10 AM (ONvIw)

5 Top 10?

Posted by: RKinRoanoke at August 03, 2020 11:11 AM (KopDd)

6 Hard to think of them in Body Heat now!

Posted by: CN at August 03, 2020 11:11 AM (ONvIw)

7 Lincoln Project founders have ties to Russia and tax troubles, docs reveal

All 4 have not paid their cucks in the last 2 months and their wives are way behind in serious fuckings.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 03, 2020 11:11 AM (JFO2v)

8
In before whomever is next!

Posted by: Roland THTG at August 03, 2020 11:11 AM (88+cf)

9 Wolfus needs a handicap on these.

Posted by: RKinRoanoke at August 03, 2020 11:11 AM (KopDd)

10 Kathleen and Ted do not know the connection

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 03, 2020 11:12 AM (JFO2v)

11 2 Kathleen Turner and Ted Danson, who were both in Body Heat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:10 AM (rpbg1)

That seems like ages ago, doesn't it?

Posted by: CN at August 03, 2020 11:12 AM (ONvIw)

12 2 Kathleen Turner and Ted Danson, who were both in Body Heat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:10 AM (rpbg1)

You are correct, sir!

And 300 quatloos for the trifecta.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 03, 2020 11:12 AM (mWQzz)

13 That seems like ages ago, doesn't it?
Posted by: CN at August 03, 2020 11:12 AM (ONvIw

1981. That's nearly 40 years ago.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 03, 2020 11:13 AM (mWQzz)

14 I liked the pic of Turner in her Maggie the Cat slip. Do women wear slips anymore? I don't have one.

Posted by: CN at August 03, 2020 11:13 AM (ONvIw)

15 not first

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 03, 2020 11:13 AM (UWqZJ)

16 missed it by > < that much

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 03, 2020 11:13 AM (pw+jk)

17 Hows about this pic of Ted

https://tinyurl.com/y27qqy2g

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 03, 2020 11:14 AM (JFO2v)

18 They want Trump gone, obviously, and something called 'Trumpism' gone, but then what?

Then their useful life ends. Who needs traitors once you've got full control?

Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2020 11:14 AM (UMXod)

19 What's Kathleen up to these days?...About 250?

Posted by: BignJames at August 03, 2020 11:14 AM (X/Pw5)

20 Probably heresy here but Kathleen Turner never really did anything for me.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 03, 2020 11:14 AM (dfRN6)

21 12 2 Kathleen Turner and Ted Danson, who were both in Body Heat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:10 AM (rpbg1)

You are correct, sir!

And 300 quatloos for the trifecta.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional

***

**Looks at diminishing pile of quatloos**

Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at August 03, 2020 11:15 AM (axyOa)

22 Kathleen Turner and Ted Danson?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:15 AM (d1uFV)

23 14 I liked the pic of Turner in her Maggie the Cat slip. Do women wear slips anymore? I don't have one.
Posted by: CN at August 03, 2020 11:13 AM (ONvIw)

getting a peek of a slip is always fun!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 03, 2020 11:15 AM (JFO2v)

24 Never Trumpers: If we get rid of Trump we get back to reasonable politics in this country. How bad can 4 or 8 years of liberal politicians be?

Liberal politicians: We're going to give the vote to 40+ million illegals, ban any non-woke thought from the public sphere, and throw Christians in jail. Oh, and let's get rid of the police and replace them with paramilitary groups loyal to the party.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2020 11:15 AM (qlFIA)

25 I'd love to see the Lincoln scumbags in jail, Chaz Bono Conway the most? Would he get girl jail or guy jail?

Posted by: CN at August 03, 2020 11:15 AM (ONvIw)

26 Wolfus needs a handicap on these.
Posted by: RKinRoanoke at August 03, 2020

*
*

Some mornings I'm away from my computer. Does that count?

Besides, I don't know actors and actresses well from before about 1940-45, and after about 1990.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:15 AM (rpbg1)

27 Not Shwarma, but I tried some garlic hummus this week. It was good, would buy again.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:16 AM (d1uFV)

28 19 What's Kathleen up to these days?...About 250?
Posted by: BignJames at August 03, 2020 11:14 AM (X/Pw5)

250 251 whatever it takes

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 03, 2020 11:16 AM (JFO2v)

29 21
**Looks at diminishing pile of quatloos**

Sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes at August 03, 2020 11:15 AM (axyOa)

==========

It's the inflation that'll really get ya.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 03, 2020 11:16 AM (UWqZJ)

30 I think the NTs are hoping that the Fascists will put them in the camps last.

They know that the GOP will never put them in camps.

Posted by: blaster at August 03, 2020 11:16 AM (ZfRYq)

31 Being against Trump seems to drive reason and intelligence from the brain. Of course Kristol et al think they'll get their positions back.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 03, 2020 11:16 AM (E+OcO)

32 During the burning times at the rectification of names, few would argue that Rick Wilson shouldn't be the first to get rectified.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 03, 2020 11:16 AM (ZT7+C)

33 Y'all really should rerun the post Ace did about the NeverTrumpers, and where they were headed, about 3 years ago. Everything he wrote there has come to pass. A regular prophet, this Ace fellow was.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 03, 2020 11:16 AM (Kpl3J)

34 I liked the pic of Turner in her Maggie the Cat slip. Do women wear slips anymore? I don't have one.
Posted by: CN at August 03, 2020 11:13 AM (ONvIw)

I think Mrs. Muse has several.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 03, 2020 11:16 AM (mWQzz)

35 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 03, 2020 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

36 I find it fascinating that Antifa's choice of colors for their logo seem to align perfectly with Imperial and Nazi Germany's national colors.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 03, 2020 11:16 AM (ch6++)

37 Easy to identify but hard to connect.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 03, 2020 11:17 AM (nkCeM)

38 Joe Walsh. That's the LOLNO guy we were just talking aboot in the lasty.

Posted by: eleven at August 03, 2020 11:17 AM (XTyi0)

39 Ted Turner and Kathleen Danson

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 03, 2020 11:17 AM (NWiLs)

40 Kathleen Turner had legitimate sex appeal. It was like a switch, when she turned it on...things happened.

Killer legs, husky voice...rowr.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:17 AM (d1uFV)

41 Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 03, 2020 11:14 AM (dfRN6)

Didn't do anything for me either, but for that matter, neither did Ted Danson.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 03, 2020 11:17 AM (oDRcK)

42 China is clearly supporting Biden, I mean hell they were giving money to BLM and antifa....and his son.

I wonder which way Russia is going now. Trump's domestic energy policies are TERRIBLE for them. But...Biden will basically be a puppet of China, which is also a problem for Russia.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2020 11:17 AM (qlFIA)

43 Kathleen Turner and Ted Danson, who were both in Body Heat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:10 AM (rpbg1)

That seems like ages ago, doesn't it?
Posted by: CN at August 03, 2020 11:12 AM (ONvIw)

Especially since Turner's been acting like a drunk tranny for at least 20 years.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 03, 2020 11:17 AM (y7DUB)

44
Whoopie Goldberg and Ted Danson.

*needs dental sink to spit-rinse

Posted by: stumck at August 03, 2020 11:18 AM (w9Wax)

45
*Gorilla*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 03, 2020 11:18 AM (EGyGV)

46 Had no idea Ted Danson was in Body Heat.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 03, 2020 11:18 AM (nkCeM)

47 Kathleen Turner and Ted Danson.

They did blackface together?

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 03, 2020 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

48 Sam Malone and some bint.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 03, 2020 11:18 AM (9X5NA)

49 Kathleen Turner and Ted Danson, who were both in Body Heat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Kathleen Turner and Ted Danson, who were both in Body Heat.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at August 03, 2020 11:18 AM (Isn+8)

50 Kathleen was lava-hot in Body Heat -- an excellent re-do of Double Indemnity with a different ending. (Watching it in the theatre, I wondered why this modern Florida town didn't seem to have air-conditioning anywhere.)

And it was when I first noticed Danson, who plays an assistant DA (I think) who moves like a dancer. Other characters comment on it, and in one scene at night we see him doing the Astaire bit on the wharf by himself.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:18 AM (rpbg1)

51 36 I find it fascinating that Antifa's choice of colors for their logo seem to align perfectly with Imperial and Nazi Germany's national colors.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 03, 2020 11:16 AM (ch6++)

Prolly cause Antifa was a Nazi joint to begin with...

Posted by: blaster at August 03, 2020 11:18 AM (ZfRYq)

52 WhoHer - Don't recognize her. Did she do pr0n?

Don't usually go through the WhoHim pix, but I did today, and it's funny how only one of them looks like I think of Danson. Of course, I never watched Cheers or whatever.

Posted by: mindful webworker
because somebody had to be
at August 03, 2020 11:18 AM (NLny5)

53 Some mornings I'm away from my computer. Does that count?

Besides, I don't know actors and actresses well from before about 1940-45, and after about 1990.

NP, I think OM threw us all a softball in the hopes that Aug 2020 is the start of the upslope.
Even I knew all three.
Oh, and any actress born after 1995 is more than likely unknown to me.

Posted by: RKinRoanoke at August 03, 2020 11:18 AM (KopDd)

54 I would argue that Trump isn't a conservative at all.

Neither are the vast majority of us.

A conservative wants to preserve the status quo.

What is the status quo these days? Leftist media, Leftist academia, Leftist entertainment industry, Imperial courts, etc, etc.

I don't want to preserve that. Our culture is no longer the default.

We are now outsiders. We are now a reform movement that desires to change the status quo. We are classical liberals, in the mold of the Founders.

Our language must adapt to this new reality.

It's time to abandon the conservative label, and let the grifters who brought such dishonor to it keep it.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 03, 2020 11:18 AM (JETnb)

55 Yay, Gorilla Pundit!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 03, 2020 11:19 AM (2JVJo)

56 INTO THE MUD SCUM QUEEN !!

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 03, 2020 11:19 AM (nkCeM)

57 I'd love to see the Lincoln scumbags in jail, Chaz Bono Conway the most? Would he get girl jail or guy jail?
***

If we get President Biden and the camps I'm claiming to be a woman. I'm not shaving my goatee though.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2020 11:19 AM (qlFIA)

58 Being against Trump seems to drive reason and intelligence from the brain. Of course Kristol et al think they'll get their positions back.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 03, 2020 11:16 AM (E+OcO)
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Yeah, for supposedly smart people, the lessons of history are lost on them. They'd be some of the first against the wall.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at August 03, 2020 11:19 AM (WEBkv)

59 Holy moly. George Conway has enough chins for a Chinese phone book.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at August 03, 2020 11:19 AM (lgiXo)

60 This is the first who dis where I knew both instantly.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 03, 2020 11:19 AM (l6b3d)

61 I wear long skirts so a petticoat, not a slip. I do have a couple of dresses I should buy a slip for. Vermont Country Store sells slips.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 03, 2020 11:19 AM (YynYJ)

62 Just so you know the burning cross is a fake. That poster admits it in the replies. But he also points out it's not much of a stretch since they're burning churches and bibles.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 03, 2020 11:19 AM (u/HW3)

63 Have I mentioned how much poison ivy SUCKS?

Because it does.

My arm is dripping all over the place.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 03, 2020 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)

64 19 What's Kathleen up to these days?...About 250?

Posted by: BignJames at August 03, 2020 11:14 AM (X/Pw5)

Yes, Ms. Turner has aged amazingly... not well.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 03, 2020 11:19 AM (mWQzz)

65 since they're burning churches and bibles.
___

And....Christians themselves are next on the list.

Posted by: Some Antifa at August 03, 2020 11:20 AM (qlFIA)

66 >>It reminds me of the presidential candidacy of Joe Walsh ...

He's living a life of illusion.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2020 11:20 AM (ZLI7S)

67 Or maybe not. Looks like there are more posts showing video

Posted by: Buzzion at August 03, 2020 11:21 AM (u/HW3)

68 I thought K Turner was hot in her prime.

She did not age well.

at all.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 03, 2020 11:21 AM (oAY8z)

69
Yes, Ms. Turner has aged amazingly... not well.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 03, 2020 11:19 AM (mWQzz)

And her VOICE!

Oh my...she sounds like she's had a 5 pack a day smoking habit for 40 years and a vocal cord removed.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 03, 2020 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

70 54 I would argue that Trump isn't a conservative at all.

Neither are the vast majority of us.

A conservative wants to preserve the status quo.

What is the status quo these days? Leftist media, Leftist academia, Leftist entertainment industry, Imperial courts, etc, etc.

I don't want to preserve that. Our culture is no longer the default.

We are now outsiders. We are now a reform movement that desires to change the status quo. We are classical liberals, in the mold of the Founders.

Our language must adapt to this new reality.

It's time to abandon the conservative label, and let the grifters who brought such dishonor to it keep it.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 03, 2020 11:18 AM (JETnb)

Agreed.
Just need to find a shorter version of:
Constutuionalist, small government, pro sex but otherwise socially conservative gun nut.

Need a good acronym, maybe.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:21 AM (d1uFV)

71 I find it fascinating that Antifa's choice of colors for their logo seem to align perfectly with Imperial and Nazi Germany's national colors.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle

The only difference between the Nazi Antifa and our Antifa flags are the direction the flags are facing.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 03, 2020 11:21 AM (Isn+8)

72 I don't care for a beef sharwarma, but I do want a nice rare roast beef sandwich after work.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 03, 2020 11:21 AM (2JVJo)

73 Danson was this cool doctor character in body heat

I remember him jogging with Jeff Bridges or whoever the star was lol and stopping for a cig

very accurate depiction of 80s physicians!

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at August 03, 2020 11:21 AM (j9HX3)

74 since they're burning churches and bibles.
___

And....Christians themselves are next on the list.
Posted by: Some Antifa at August 03, 2020 11:20 AM (qlFIA)

Onward Christian soldiers

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 03, 2020 11:21 AM (nkCeM)

75 I think the cross burning image is fake. I wouldn't put it past them. But there was a flag burning that someone photoshopped into a cross.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 03, 2020 11:21 AM (l6b3d)

76 65 since they're burning churches and bibles.
___

And....Christians themselves are next on the list.
Posted by: Some Antifa at August 03, 2020 11:20 AM (qlFIA)

Some Smart Guy said sell your cloak and buy a sword.

Posted by: blaster at August 03, 2020 11:21 AM (ZfRYq)

77 It's Monday and rick wilson is still a smelly dwarf.

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade internet villain at August 03, 2020 11:21 AM (bML9A)

78 I can't see anyone with a smidge of conservatism can be anything but repulsed by the Democrats.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at August 03, 2020 11:22 AM (lgiXo)

79 1. Down with Trump!
2. Dress in women's clothing a call yourself a woman.
3. World Communism!

Posted by: Rachel Levine at August 03, 2020 11:22 AM (IHxQZ)

80 Have I mentioned how much poison ivy SUCKS?

Because it does.

My arm is dripping all over the place.
Posted by: Sponge

Leaves of three = Indian TP.

Seriously, Zanfel. $45/ounce. Dried up in three days, mostly gone in about 4.

Honest. I have been seriously allergic to it all my life.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 03, 2020 11:23 AM (Isn+8)

81 Anyone have a link for a quatloos to dollars conversion chart?

Posted by: The Frugal Scotsman at August 03, 2020 11:23 AM (PR+wx)

82 Time to rearrange the deck chairs on the cuck cruise ship.

Posted by: Roy at August 03, 2020 11:23 AM (pSoPH)

83 66 >>It reminds me of the presidential candidacy of Joe Walsh ...

He's living a life of illusion.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2020 11:20 AM (ZLI7S)

Plus he spent the last year Rocky Mountain Way.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:23 AM (ifmtJ)

84 >>I thought K Turner was hot in her prime.

Always had a bit of a Man Face.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2020 11:24 AM (Ev+gq)

85 And it was when I first noticed Danson, who plays an assistant DA (I think) who moves like a dancer. Other characters comment on it, and in one scene at night we see him doing the Astaire bit on the wharf by himself.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:18 AM (rpbg1)

I remember that scene and wonder if Danson had some hoofing experience earlier on in his life. Because he seemed pretty good at it.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 03, 2020 11:24 AM (mWQzz)

86 A conservative wants to preserve the status quo.

Sure, semantically. A "C"onservative wants to preserve the Constitution. Well, to be more accurate, return to the Constitution.

Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2020 11:24 AM (KDCRD)

87 I don't care for a beef sharwarma, but I do want a nice rare roast beef sandwich after work.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

I'd love a good Greek Giro.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 03, 2020 11:24 AM (Isn+8)

88 Guy on the left in the Lincoln lineup looks like Mike Rizzo.

I knew MLB went down the political tubes but this is sad, sad.....

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 03, 2020 11:24 AM (dfRN6)

89 You know who else was in Body Heat?

Mickey Rourke.

Posted by: eleven at August 03, 2020 11:24 AM (XTyi0)

90 looks like cross burning is photoshopped

they are burning bibles though, so there's that

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 03, 2020 11:24 AM (oAY8z)

91
What's Kathleen up to these days?...About 250?

Posted by: BignJames at August 03, 2020 11:14 AM (X/Pw5)

Yes, Ms. Turner has aged amazingly... not well.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 03, 2020 11:19 AM (mWQzz)

True. Although to be fair, a big part of that is the drugs she's had to take for some of her long term health issues.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 03, 2020 11:24 AM (EGyGV)

92 Chlorinated pool will dry the Poison Ivy up.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 03, 2020 11:24 AM (9X5NA)

93 83 66 >>It reminds me of the presidential candidacy of Joe Walsh ...

He's living a life of illusion.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2020 11:20 AM (ZLI7S)

Plus he spent the last year Rocky Mountain Way.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:23 AM (ifmtJ)

But life's been good to him so far

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 03, 2020 11:25 AM (NWiLs)

94 Over on the Tabbi article there is a great comment....the highlights

You are born with nothing in the middle of the country. You are told manufacturing is gone, and your only hope of success is going to college. So you get started. You major in STEM, which everyone says corresponds to a national shortage. You graduate. Contrary to public opinion, there is a ridiculous amount of competition. You have to compete with outsourced labor from China (slaves) and in-sourced labor from India (whose immigration status is contingent on keeping their job). You will be unemployable by the time you hit 40, unless you hit management. Who is the primary supporters of this regime? All the Democrats and half the Republicans. However, it's the Democrats that use race and identity politics, which is infinitely more effective, than Rhino arguments on efficiency, etc. Also, unlike the left, there is enormous, real opposition of this scheme from the right.

Orite, so you don't do Engineering. You major in the liberal arts and go to law school or business school. But you can't go to any business school or law school because liberal elites think you are a piece of shit unless you go to elite schools. So you rack up 250k in loans and graduate from Columbia. You learned nothing at Columbia because liberal professors aren't there to teach you, they are there to teach you "how to think," and hey, they got to get paid some serious coin from Uncle Sam in the process (all guaranteed by the tax layers of course).

You graduate Columbia law school or business school with no real skills and you go to work for McKinsey or Cravath. YAY!!!! You are rich under the current tax code, which was written in the 40s and 50s and assumed stable and humane employment. You make 190k a year working 100 hours a week for people who absolutely hate their lives. Half your money goes to taxes because, hey, you are rich, so that 190k becomes 85k. You have to live in NYC or San Fran or DC for those jobs, so you pay another 40k in rent (and that's cheap). You are down to 45k. You have to pay your loans off (3k a month minimum if you want them gone in under a decade). You are left with 10k. You rich bastard! If you manage to survive working like that for a decade, you have a zero net worth you rich bastard and maybe you can have what an autoworker in 1965 had by the time you are 60. 99 percent burn out and have nothing.

Orite, so you don't go to college, you get the message. You learn a trade. You learn a trade, but wait! An undocumented alien is willing to do your job for half the price and for cash compensation. This works for the undocumented alien because he or she can use the money to build a real life in his or her home country and he or she can have many expenses subsidized by the government because he or she isn't declaring the cash as income. You aren't down with this? You racist!

This is how social mobility ends.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2020 11:25 AM (qlFIA)

95 >>It reminds me of the presidential candidacy of Joe Walsh

He lost his license, now he don't drive.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2020 11:25 AM (Ev+gq)

96 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:21 AM (d1uFV)

I think Trump is a populist opportunist. It's not a popular position here but I think his philosophy is fluid. Currently he is on the the Right side of the spectrum.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 03, 2020 11:25 AM (nkCeM)

97 Leaves of three = Indian TP.

Seriously, Zanfel. $45/ounce. Dried up in three days, mostly gone in about 4.

Honest. I have been seriously allergic to it all my life.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 03, 2020 11:23 AM (Isn+8

Yeah, I know what it looks like, but didn't see any anywhere near where I entered the woods. Damn golf.

I will give the Zanfel a look.

Last time I had it, it wasn't THIS bad.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 03, 2020 11:26 AM (Zz0t1)

98 I thought William Hurt was in Body Heat

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 03, 2020 11:26 AM (oAY8z)

99 96 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:21 AM (d1uFV)

I think Trump is a populist opportunist. It's not a popular position here but I think his philosophy is fluid. Currently he is on the the Right side of the spectrum.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 03, 2020 11:25 AM (nkCeM)

He's always been very pro-America and that counts for me.

Dunno. I can't tell what's in his heart or his head. All I can do is watch his actions and approve, bigly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:26 AM (ifmtJ)

100 Do they really think that old status quo ante will be restored with Trump gone off the stage?
++++++++++++
I don't think so. They're on the Left, and they associate constantly with Leftists. The jig is up and they know it. They are hoping only to help deliver the country to their masters while they sock away as much as they can for the future. I don't think they *want* to live in the future they're making, but they're willing to gamble - or perhaps even have convinced themselves that it won't be like that this time - on a disastrous outcome to avoid the consequences of their loss of position and intellectual power.

They're vain and foolish. They know what they're doing. And I suspect they have little hideaways where there they will be safe. Maybe in the rural Appalachia that Kevin Williamson hates so much, or maybe in a foreign country or outlying territory. At least, they'd better. If they haven't managed that much by now, they're stupider than I ever imagined.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 03, 2020 11:26 AM (hYcqw)

101 Since the left is running around calling Trump Hitler....what are they going to call the guy that follows him up if he fails?

Trump is no Charles Martel or Augusto Pinochet. He's the last stop before we get one of those guys.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2020 11:27 AM (qlFIA)

102 98 I thought William Hurt was in Body Heat
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 03, 2020 11:26 AM (oAY8z)

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There is only allowed one actor per movie. Them's the rules.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 03, 2020 11:27 AM (UWqZJ)

103 >>You make 190k a year ... Half your money goes to taxes

>>so that 190k becomes 85k.

Anyone else want to tell him?

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2020 11:27 AM (Ev+gq)

104 More like the Lincoln Brigade. Which was actually, what, a reinforced company?

Posted by: Fox2! at August 03, 2020 11:27 AM (qyH+l)

105 Bezos' ex wife gives $1.6 billion to leftwing causes and groups.

Posted by: Last Days of the Republic. at August 03, 2020 11:27 AM (ktZTZ)

106 In abandoning the conservative label, most of the Left's "party flip" mythology that they've used as a Dolchstosslegende to cover for their own sins and failings will fall apart.

The lie that we are also right-wing extremists would then fall apart as well. In the original definitions, the Left was republicans, liberals, and anti-monarchists and the Right was monarchist and conservative.

If we are both Republican and classical liberal, as we are, we cannot be anything other than a left-wing movement.

Being that the other side favors top-down centralized solutions to all of life's problems up to and including a hangnail, the case could be made that they are clearly on the same spectrum as monarchism.

We're the left, they're the right, and decades of their attempt the build a specter of right-wing terrorism now works against them.

If they want to play fast and loose with language, as they do with sexual identity, then let's weaponize the dictionary as well.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 03, 2020 11:27 AM (JETnb)

107 Anyone have a link for a quatloos to dollars conversion chart?

I see it's a "cryptocurrency". A quatloo is worth about 1.2¢.

Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2020 11:27 AM (z36Kd)

108 Danson was this cool doctor character in body heat

I remember him jogging with Jeff Bridges or whoever the star was lol and stopping for a cig

very accurate depiction of 80s physicians!
Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at August 03, 2020

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Was he a doctor? All I recall is his having lunch with William Hurt, the main character, in this diner with fans going, and later his solo dance sequence. I thought he was involved in the law in some way.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:27 AM (rpbg1)

109 It reminds me of the presidential candidacy of Joe Walsh ...

He's living a life of illusion.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2020 11:20 AM (ZLI7S)

Plus he spent the last year Rocky Mountain Way.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:23 AM (ifmtJ)

But life's been good to him so far
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 03, 2020 11:25 AM (NWiLs)

And he likes tits for breakfast. Eggs Benedict tits.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 03, 2020 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

110 Not sure how GOPe or NT move forward after two terms of PDT. Their former voter base will be used to electing someone who actually tries to keep his campaign promises, puts American interests first, and fights back against the insanity of the Left. All foreign concepts to them.
I think there's an excellent national level future for Tom Cotton, Mike Pompeo, and Ron DeSantis. Not sure who else can take up the mantle of Trump.

Posted by: Greyman27 at August 03, 2020 11:27 AM (RKLPC)

111 Who Dis:
Joan Wilder and Sam Malone.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 03, 2020 11:27 AM (k/TB6)

112 she did have a bit of a man face, but still managed to be sexy and not in a tranny way

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 03, 2020 11:27 AM (oAY8z)

113 98 I thought William Hurt was in Body Heat
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 03, 2020 11:26 AM (oAY8z)

He was. Danson was a supporting character

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:28 AM (ifmtJ)

114 >>Anyone else want to tell him?

Math is a cruel mistress.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2020 11:28 AM (ZLI7S)

115 101 Since the left is running around calling Trump Hitler....what are they going to call the guy that follows him up if he fails?

Trump is no Charles Martel or Augusto Pinochet. He's the last stop before we get one of those guys.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2020 11:27 AM (qlFIA)

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They'll call the next one Hitler, just like they called W Hitler, Bush Hitler, Reagan Hitler, Ford Hitler, Nixon Hitler, and Eisenhower Hitler. Oh, and Dewey Hitler. They called him Hitler too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 03, 2020 11:28 AM (UWqZJ)

116 >>Yeah, I know what it looks like, but didn't see any anywhere near where I entered the woods. Damn golf.

>>I will give the Zanfel a look.

Shit works.

TecNu(?) Scrub works, too.

Also, a sharp blade and some bleach. That works best.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2020 11:28 AM (tUhCq)

117 I thought William Hurt was in Body Heat
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah

No that was John Hurt. Or maybe John Heard.

Posted by: eleven at August 03, 2020 11:28 AM (XTyi0)

118 93 83 66 >>It reminds me of the presidential candidacy of Joe Walsh ...

He's living a life of illusion.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2020 11:20 AM (ZLI7S)

Plus he spent the last year Rocky Mountain Way.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:23 AM (ifmtJ)

But life's been good to him so far
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 03, 2020 11:25 AM (NWiLs)

heh

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:28 AM (ifmtJ)

119 I have to admit, Ted Danson's Becker character was hilarious.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 03, 2020 11:28 AM (k/TB6)

120 How can we be on GO before I even get out of bed?

Posted by: Igotnothing at August 03, 2020 11:29 AM (xf2hT)

121 He's always been very pro-America and that counts for me.

Dunno. I can't tell what's in his heart or his head. All I can do is watch his actions and approve, bigly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:26 AM (ifmtJ)
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And, he's the most pro life president we've had since Roe V Wade.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at August 03, 2020 11:29 AM (WEBkv)

122 Well they tried to burn down St. Johns in DC, burned bibles and tore down religious statues, so I could see them moving to cross burning.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 03, 2020 11:29 AM (r+sAi)

123 Dem Rep. Jim Clyburn: I Feel Very Strongly Trump Is Like Hitler

First this cunt calls all Federal Officers the Gestapo and now PDT is Hitler?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 03, 2020 11:29 AM (tsZQ+)

124 They are hoping only to help deliver the country to their masters while they sock away as much as they can for the future.

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I've actually gotten a similar response from most of the upperwardly mobile leftists I know.

"The country is already fucked, I've just got to get enough cash to join one of those gated communities before everything falls apart!"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2020 11:29 AM (qlFIA)

125 >>You make 190k a year ... Half your money goes to taxes

>>so that 190k becomes 85k.

Anyone else want to tell him?

It's a tax on your taxes!

Posted by: CJ John Roberts at August 03, 2020 11:29 AM (z36Kd)

126 GO = GP

Posted by: Igotnothing at August 03, 2020 11:29 AM (xf2hT)

127 That fucking Maserati does 185.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 03, 2020 11:29 AM (9X5NA)

128 110 Not sure how GOPe or NT move forward after two terms of PDT. Their former voter base will be used to electing someone who actually tries to keep his campaign promises, puts American interests first, and fights back against the insanity of the Left. All foreign concepts to them.
I think there's an excellent national level future for Tom Cotton, Mike Pompeo, and Ron DeSantis. Not sure who else can take up the mantle of Trump.
Posted by: Greyman27 at August 03, 2020 11:27 AM (RKLPC)

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This is why they're becoming outright Democrats.

They know they have no future in the Republican Party, but their current space in the political environment requires that they maintain a facade of Republicanism even if no one actually believes it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 03, 2020 11:29 AM (UWqZJ)

129 Anyway, Turner is rotten inside and out. PP and angry donk. I thought it was funny that at age 40 she was surprised to be offered roles of "mothers". What did she expect, young femme fatales or girls next-door?

Posted by: CN at August 03, 2020 11:29 AM (ONvIw)

130 You know who else aged terribly? Maria Schneider of Last Tango in Paris. She was only 19, and smokin' hot in that film... though she ain't aging any more. Now.

Posted by: Rachel Levine needs the butter at August 03, 2020 11:29 AM (IHxQZ)

131 Morning Horde! Another Monday, ugh.

Posted by: zeera My tomatoes are doing GREAT at August 03, 2020 11:30 AM (zUdXR)

132 Yeah, I know what it looks like, but didn't see any anywhere near where I entered the woods. Damn golf.

I will give the Zanfel a look.

Last time I had it, it wasn't THIS bad.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe!

Blasphemer!!!
Don't blame the Golf.
If it isn't a tournament, move the damned ball. Last time I hit into tome leaves of three, there was a big damned snake laying there...and he was kinda pissed.
Yup...moved the ball and DID NOT take a stroke.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 03, 2020 11:30 AM (axyOa)

133 I think Clyburn said that Trump was Hitler, Mussolini, AND Putin.

All in one.

Which is stupid, but, to be fair, so is Clyburn

Posted by: blaster at August 03, 2020 11:30 AM (ZfRYq)

134 I thought the flaming cross pic was a fake?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 03, 2020 11:30 AM (aKsyK)

135 Just need to find a shorter version of:
Constutuionalist, small government, pro sex but otherwise socially conservative gun nut.

Need a good acronym, maybe.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:21 AM (d1uFV

Liberal.

It's our word, largely out of use, and the Lefties have abandoned it for "Progressive".

Let's steal it back. That it'll sow confusion among old actual liberals who have been voting straight D since JFK will only be a plus.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 03, 2020 11:30 AM (JETnb)

136 101 Since the left is running around calling Trump Hitler....what are they going to call the guy that follows him up if he fails?

Trump is no Charles Martel or Augusto Pinochet. He's the last stop before we get one of those guys.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2020 11:27 AM (qlFIA)

Don't tease me

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:30 AM (ifmtJ)

137 hmm maybe Ted Danson WAS also a lawyer in that! he was fun tho as a character. possibly it was more the jogging and then smoking that amused me.

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at August 03, 2020 11:30 AM (j9HX3)

138
Anyone else want to tell him?
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Remember this is a math optional, smart military blog.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2020 11:31 AM (qlFIA)

139 You know who else was in Body Heat?

Mickey Rourke.
Posted by: eleven at August 03, 2020

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Yup. He plays the career criminal, one of W. Hurt's former clients, who gives him advice on how to commit a murder. A wonderful performance, very real.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:31 AM (rpbg1)

140 They burned a cross? I will ask the stupid question, why isn't this being plastered everywhere for all to see? And followed by, how is that supposed to make black folks feel?

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 03, 2020 11:31 AM (nFRLh)

141 68 I thought K Turner was hot in her prime.

She did not age well.

at all.
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Neither did Ted Danson. He looks ancient.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 03, 2020 11:31 AM (k4dH2)

142 Yesterday, the organization in charge of running equine competitions, US Equestrian( formerly known as USEF) decided to cancel the end of one large national horse show and fully cancel the US Pony Finals being held at the Kentucky Horse Park when two attendees ( braider and groom) tested positive for Covid 19.

This is a premier event for kids and a stepping stone for them to move up into the next level of equestrian riding. Kids and their ponies come from across the US to attend this event. It's incredibly expensive to attend and often parents save up for several years as their youngster works to qualify to attend. I saw some facebook pages yesterday of little girls crying that their one chance possibly to ride in this premier event is now gone while they are actually standing in the barns at KHP with their class schedule in their hands.

This is asinine. People are acting like this virus is flying around with great powers, waiting to hop onto someone twenty feet away and infect them ,putting them immediately in ICU.

And yes, the protocol at this show included being masked at all times on the grounds, six feet distancing unless you were a family unit ( which were given color/numbered badges to show they belong together) , etc.

So now as soon as someone tests positive at a large, mostly outdoor event, the entire 1,000 person plus event is cancelled?

Posted by: Jen the original at August 03, 2020 11:31 AM (DN4+z)

143 He's always been very pro-America and that counts for me.

Dunno. I can't tell what's in his heart or his head. All I can do is watch his actions and approve, bigly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:26 AM (ifmtJ

I agree he is and always had been Pro American.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 03, 2020 11:32 AM (nkCeM)

144 Getting killed by a storm named Isaias would be flat out embarrassing.

What the hell is an Isaias?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2020 11:32 AM (ZLI7S)

145 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 03, 2020 11:32 AM (arJlL)

146
I remember that scene and wonder if Danson had some hoofing experience earlier on in his life. Because he seemed pretty good at it.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 03, 2020 11:24 AM (mWQzz)

See #44

Posted by: stumck at August 03, 2020 11:32 AM (w9Wax)

147 You know who else aged terribly? Maria Schneider of Last Tango in Paris. She was only 19, and smokin' hot in that film
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Is she the one that claimed that Brando raped her on set?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2020 11:32 AM (qlFIA)

148 Poison Ivy - I am lucky I have never had a bad reaction to it, but some relatives experience suggests that one's reaction actually gets worse the more you're exposed to it, as though your body becomes sensitized to whatever antigen is triggering the response.

benadryl is often helpful in these situations, it's a general immune response suppressant, which is why it is helpful with sinus problems. The poison ivy response is all immune system overreaction.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 03, 2020 11:32 AM (Kpl3J)

149 Surprised none of you fappers have mentioned Kathleen in Prizzi's Honor, a hilarious dark comedy.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 03, 2020 11:32 AM (6F/Ju)

150 Who is Ted's lady friend in pic 3 there?

Posted by: jhawk90 at August 03, 2020 11:32 AM (/ZYFC)

151 144 Getting killed by a storm named Isaias would be flat out embarrassing.

What the hell is an Isaias?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2020 11:32 AM (ZLI7S)

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A big, dumb, balding North American ape... with no chin.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 03, 2020 11:33 AM (UWqZJ)

152
I'm old enough to remember when David Brock wrote for the American Spectator.

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That's really the problem. It seems that the Conservative Media Ecosystem™ would hire any two-bit grifter who wandered in off the street. David French or Bill Kristol or S.E. Cupp? Really?

And Brock is the prime example. An unbalanced, coke-sniffing Communist could get paid for being "conservative."

I'm kicking myself for never getting in on this when literally anyone could get cut a big check for this bullshit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 03, 2020 11:33 AM (Tm4zg)

153 They should call the Lincoln Project the Benjamin project because that's all they are in it for: the Bens

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 03, 2020 11:33 AM (KZzsI)

154 Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 03, 2020 11:31 AM (nFRLh)

Because it's a photoshop.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 03, 2020 11:33 AM (nkCeM)

155 I saw something somewhere about reporters warning Biden to not agree to debating Trump because it would be unfair to ask him to respond all of Trump's lies.
A) What lies are we talking about?
B) Wouldn't provable lies be easy to respond to?
C) When has Joe been honest?

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at August 03, 2020 11:33 AM (lgiXo)

156 It's our word, largely out of use, and the Lefties have abandoned it for "Progressive".

Let's steal it back. That it'll sow confusion among old actual liberals who have been voting straight D since JFK will only be a plus.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est

Gawd no It is permanently stained. I'm seeing commercials now for Dems that proudly claim to be Progressive. Eff 'em!

I like Constitutionalist.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 03, 2020 11:33 AM (axyOa)

157 What the hell is an Isaias?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2020 11:32 AM (ZLI7S)

Isaiah. Except in Spanish.

Posted by: blaster at August 03, 2020 11:33 AM (ZfRYq)

158 I have to admit, Ted Danson's Becker character was hilarious.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 03, 2020

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An *honest* sitcom character.

In one episode he tells a young kid with his baseball cap on backwards, "I'm guessing you have no idea how stupid that looks."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:33 AM (rpbg1)

159 Was he a doctor? All I recall is his having lunch with William Hurt, the main character, in this diner with fans going, and later his solo dance sequence. I thought he was involved in the law in some way.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:27 AM (rpbg1)

No, I think you're right, Danson's character was the DA or an asssistant DA.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 03, 2020 11:34 AM (mWQzz)

160 What's the NeverTrump end game?

They want one last sneer to make toward us.

They don't care if we're all in the same line trudging through the mud toward a shallow grave--it'll be worth it to them to then sneer, "Where's your Trump now?"

It's hard to understand the grievous wound we inflicted on their very soul when we chose Trump over them.

From Hell's heart they will stab at us.

Posted by: RoyalOil at August 03, 2020 11:34 AM (A6ixi)

161 I had forgotten all about Danson's role in Body Heat. I think he was a lawyer friend of William Hurt and he did stupid soft shoe dance routines throughout his on screen time in it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2020 11:34 AM (O+I8R)

162 They know they have no future in the Republican Party, but their current
space in the political environment requires that they maintain a facade
of Republicanism even if no one actually believes it.
Right on. We're never going back to the days of electing worthless pushovers who value style and collegiality over substance and achievement. Opposition to the current occupant of the White House should not make anyone who actually believes what they say abandon ALL of the supposed corp principles.

Oh, and Romney will be a one-term Senator.

Posted by: Greyman27 at August 03, 2020 11:34 AM (RKLPC)

163 Oh and another Becker line:

Someone asks him where his ex-wife is. He says:

"NO idea. A house fell on her sister and I haven't seen her since."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:34 AM (rpbg1)

164 Mornin', Horde.

Can't believe I couldn't remember Turner's name.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 03, 2020 11:34 AM (ejd/p)

165 What the hell is an Isaias?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2020 11:32 AM (ZLI7S)

It's a British Isaiah, (I-zay-yah) although they pronounce it I-ZYE-OSS.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 03, 2020 11:35 AM (Kpl3J)

166
Also, a sharp blade and some bleach. That works best.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2020 11:28 AM (tUhCq)

Yeah, the chemical burn isn't my style.

But that could be why there's no blistering and just raw, draining skin.

Tried that already.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 03, 2020 11:35 AM (Zz0t1)

167 I *think* the plan is:

1. Get Trump and other GOP Senators (e.g. Collins)

2. Failure Theater trifecta achieved: Dem House/Senate/Wh

3. GOP needs their "consulting services" to get back GOP majorities in House, Senate, and WH = PROFIT

I really think they are relying on their lizard brain functioning here: "GOP loses = Moar GOP campaign consulting business!!!"

Posted by: Lizzy at August 03, 2020 11:35 AM (bDqIh)

168 I liked the pic of Turner in her Maggie the Cat slip. Do women wear slips anymore? I don't have one.
Posted by: CN

(In Mr. Haney's voice)

"YOU don't have a slip ?"

Posted by: JT at August 03, 2020 11:35 AM (arJlL)

169 That burning cross...great optics, Democrats and friends.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2020 11:35 AM (O+I8R)

170 Blasphemer!!!
Don't blame the Golf.
If it isn't a tournament, move the damned ball. Last time I hit into tome leaves of three, there was a big damned snake laying there...and he was kinda pissed.
Yup...moved the ball and DID NOT take a stroke.

Posted by: Diogenes

Moved the ball and damn near had a stroke.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 03, 2020 11:35 AM (Isn+8)

171 shawarma is really tasty, wish I could get some around here.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 03, 2020 11:36 AM (KZzsI)

172 What lies are we talking about?

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Yeah, this is an interesting one that gets thrown around a lot. The answers you get are usually something like "Trump said Hillary was a criminal!" or "Trump said they wiretapped him!"

Or some other bullshit that you have to lawyer to get to it being a lie. For example, if the FBI was listening into to Trump's communications (they were), but were not literally tapping his phone wire, that's a "lie".

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2020 11:36 AM (qlFIA)

173 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 03, 2020 11:33 AM (Tm4zg)

His sexuality is his only focus. Once he believed the Right was out to oppress him the Ends Justified the Means and he joined the dark side,

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 03, 2020 11:36 AM (nkCeM)

174 Forgot Ted was in Body Heat.

SCTV did a great parody of that film: Prickly Heat starring Edith Prickley.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 03, 2020 11:36 AM (wtvvX)

175
Isaiah. Except in Spanish.

Posted by: blaster at August 03, 2020 11:33 AM (ZfRYq)

I thought that was Hose B.

Posted by: Roland THTG at August 03, 2020 11:36 AM (88+cf)

176 150 Who is Ted's lady friend in pic 3 there?
Posted by: jhawk90 at August 03, 2020 11:32 AM (/ZYFC)

I believe that's Mary Steenburgen.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 03, 2020 11:36 AM (mWQzz)

177 Is Isaias a feminization of Isaiah? Isaiah would be a better name for a hurricane.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 03, 2020 11:36 AM (oDRcK)

178 Is there anyone left who doesn't know the Lincoln Project people are scum?

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at August 03, 2020 11:36 AM (lgiXo)

179 So now as soon as someone tests positive at a large, mostly outdoor event, the entire 1,000 person plus event is cancelled?

that's AWFUL Jen! See now I feel bad complaining about kids' baseball. at least we're DOING it huh

just seems dumb to make kids wear the masks in the heat they're not even close to each other

then we went inside at the same facility and there was a big girls basketball tourney and no masks! they were like "why do THEY not have to wear the masks?!?! they're all over each other!!"

it's all so STUPID I can't STAND it anymore!

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at August 03, 2020 11:37 AM (j9HX3)

180 Surprised none of you fappers have mentioned Kathleen in Prizzi's Honor, a hilarious dark comedy.

That actually was quite good. Boy those two were stupid.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 03, 2020 11:37 AM (KZzsI)

181 Blasphemer!!!

Don't blame the Golf.

If it isn't a tournament, move the damned ball. Last time I hit
into tome leaves of three, there was a big damned snake laying
there...and he was kinda pissed.

Yup...moved the ball and DID NOT take a stroke.
Was it a casual snake or a snake hazard? Red stakes or no?

Posted by: Greyman27 at August 03, 2020 11:37 AM (RKLPC)

182 So now as soon as someone tests positive at a large, mostly outdoor event, the entire 1,000 person plus event is cancelled?
Posted by: Jen the original

They probably can't believe how long we're going along with their scam.

Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2020 11:37 AM (2nFxy)

183 >> Is Isaias a feminization of Isaiah? Isaiah would be a better name for a hurricane.

Isaac the Hurricane.

Would come in a Coconut with a straw and a Tiny Umbrella.

Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2020 11:37 AM (tUhCq)

184 Who is Ted's lady friend in pic 3 there?
Posted by: jhawk90 at August 03, 2020

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His wife, Mary Steenburgen. Are they still married? Hard to be sure with H'wood folk.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:37 AM (rpbg1)

185 I havent heard of any police depts around the country using that skunk spray to disperse the 'peaceful' protesters yet. It would be nice if some antifa parents got wind of what their kids were up to.

Posted by: Rex B at August 03, 2020 11:38 AM (TXrfZ)

186
Joe Walsh now has a radio show out of Evanston IL. It's the same inane Trump is the worst ever, he's destroying the country, any Democrat is better drivel.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 03, 2020 11:38 AM (Un9AW)

187 >>> This is how social mobility ends.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2020 11:25 AM (qlFIA)

State school engineering -> petroleum/chem engineer, aerospace/mech engineer defense or construction machinery. Yes there's competition from foreign slave wages but you do not reach a 40ish ceiling if you apply yourself and are willing to jump ship or be a jobshopper. An going into defense you limit your foreign competition. This may change. There's big money and effort going into automating engineering with design of experiment, deep learning etc. But making good money with a cheap'ish is still possible. Be a jobshopper if you're young and not with a family and make $100K + in your 20s, $200K+ in your 30s. A con with job shopping used to be no insurance but everyone's insurance ducks now.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 03, 2020 11:38 AM (l6b3d)

188 Moved the ball and damn near had a stroke.

Posted by: rickb223

No sh*t!!!
I thought it was a stick at first...then it moved.
One of the foursome was a retired Sergeant Major from one of the Ranger Battalions. After he was done laughing at me, went in there to play with the damned thing.
Asshole, I didn't tell him about the poison ivy.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 03, 2020 11:38 AM (axyOa)

189 I wouldn't put it past them. But there was a flag burning that someone photoshopped into a cross.

Yeah I think so too, even antifa isn't that idiotic to echo KKK acts. The Bible burning thing was EVERYWHERE, and well confirmed. This would be too, if it happened.

What kind of lame stunt is it to burn a stack of Bibles anyway, what does that prove other than that you are honest about your hate?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 03, 2020 11:38 AM (KZzsI)

190 Helpful hint: Do not watch Body Heat with a parent, or your kids, lest you burst into flames from uncomfortable and awkward embarrassment.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2020 11:39 AM (O+I8R)

191 The Dems will keep the Never Trumpers around for a while to show they are committed to allowing opposing views and and dissent. and tolerate their blather while they consolidate control and arrest everybody else. The commies always do that when they seize power.

Then it will be off to camp with the deplorables.

Posted by: Ripley at August 03, 2020 11:39 AM (MxEKc)

192 It's time to abandon the conservative label, and let the grifters who brought such dishonor to it keep it.
Posted by: Cato
Probably true of the label Republican also. They want us to pick a team. While I hate team D, I am not such a fan of team R. If Mitch and the CoC are Rs. I will be something else. Just vote for the guys closest to my philosophy.

Side topic, Kathleen Turner is not my type, but Body Heat was an excellent movie, and just watched Turner and Deborah Winger in Black Widow a few weeks ago. Also very interesting.

Posted by: MikeM at August 03, 2020 11:39 AM (RKnjF)

193 If it isn't a tournament, move the damned ball. Last time I hit
into tome leaves of three, there was a big damned snake laying
there...and he was kinda pissed.

Yup...moved the ball and DID NOT take a stroke.

You're only cheating yourself, you know.

Posted by: eleven at August 03, 2020 11:39 AM (XTyi0)

194 No, not aflac. "sucks"

Posted by: banana Dream at August 03, 2020 11:39 AM (l6b3d)

195 I wear long skirts so a petticoat, not a slip. I do have a couple of dresses I should buy a slip for. Vermont Country Store sells slips.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Go on......

Posted by: JT at August 03, 2020 11:40 AM (arJlL)

196 Dem Rep. Jim Clyburn: I Feel Very Strongly Trump Is Like Hitler

First this cunt calls all Federal Officers the Gestapo and now PDT is Hitler?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 03, 2020 11:29 AM (tsZQ+)

As I have said to several (no longer) friends when they bring up that shit - "I wish Trump really were the fascist you childish assholes pretend he is, because you'd be nothing more than smoke up a chimney right now."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 03, 2020 11:40 AM (2JVJo)

197 I think the NTs are hoping that the Fascists will put them in the camps last.
Posted by: blaster at August 03, 2020 11:16 AM

The Never Trumpers are hoping they will be the Kapos in the camps.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 03, 2020 11:40 AM (d/5jB)

198 Can we rant about the young Christians who were arrested for defacing public/private property in DC because they - get this! - wrote "BLACK BABY LIVES MATTER" in **chalk** in front of Planned Parenthood?

Think of all the vandalism in DC, at Lafayette Park, on the nearby historic church, on the monuments - were there any arrests for that?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 03, 2020 11:40 AM (bDqIh)

199 I like Constitutionalist.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 03, 2020 11:33 AM (axyOa)

It conveys intent well, but 6 syllables is too many. Brevity counts for a lot in political labels - how much space does it take up on your bumper sticker?

Reformist might work better.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 03, 2020 11:41 AM (JETnb)

200 The War of the Roses was a hilarious nasty divorce movie. And Peggy Sue Got Married was good even though Kathleen was horribly miscast as a teenager.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 03, 2020 11:41 AM (6F/Ju)

201 As I have pointed out before, the first time we see them naked in Body Heat Kathleen is leading William Hurt around by his dick. Most people don't notice that because boobies, but it is there. It is an excellent metaphor for the movie plot as a whole.

Posted by: An Observation at August 03, 2020 11:41 AM (Ce58v)

202 I wear long skirts so a petticoat, not a slip. I do have a couple of dresses I should buy a slip for. Vermont Country Store sells slips.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Petticoat Junction was a funny show.

Complete with hot chicks.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 03, 2020 11:41 AM (Zz0t1)

203 196 Dem Rep. Jim Clyburn: I Feel Very Strongly Trump Is Like Hitler

First this cunt calls all Federal Officers the Gestapo and now PDT is Hitler?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 03, 2020 11:29 AM (tsZQ+)

As I have said to several (no longer) friends when they bring up that shit - "I wish Trump really were the fascist you childish assholes pretend he is, because you'd be nothing more than smoke up a chimney right now."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 03, 2020 11:40 AM (2JVJo)

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"I'm going to report you to my local Republican leader. You'll be in the camps by week's end."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 03, 2020 11:41 AM (UWqZJ)

204 You're only cheating yourself, you know.

Posted by: eleven

I can live with it.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 03, 2020 11:41 AM (axyOa)

205 SCTV did a great parody of that film: Prickly Heat starring Edith Prickley.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 03, 2020

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I wouldn't have been surprised if the characters in the original, and the actors, had gotten prickly heat. The diner where Hurt eats, his house, his office, none of them have A/C -- and this was not set in 1944 but in '81. I know, Lawrence Kasdan, the writer, was setting up a reflection of the two leads' heated passions, but it struck me as odd.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:41 AM (rpbg1)

206 I believe the nevertrumpers are easy to understand. They started out with the absolute position on illegals (they're for 'em), and when Trump made that a centerpiece of his campaign, they had no other choice but to be against Trump.

Mainly because the people who pay them insisted on it, because the people who pay them are globalists.

It's like any other whore. Whatever you pay them to do, that's what they do.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 03, 2020 11:41 AM (hku12)

207 Side topic, Kathleen Turner is not my type, but Body Heat was an excellent movie, and just watched Turner and Deborah Winger in Black Widow a few weeks ago. Also very interesting.

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Black Widow was Deborah Winger and Teresa Russell, I believe.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2020 11:42 AM (O+I8R)

208 Anyone remember The War of the Roses?

Man, THAT was dark.

Posted by: eleven at August 03, 2020 11:42 AM (XTyi0)

209 Kathleen Turner and Ted Danson, who were both in Body Heat.

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Greatest rule against perpetuities movie ever made!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 03, 2020 11:42 AM (+y/Ru)

210 Dem Rep. Jim Clyburn: I Feel Very Strongly Trump Is Like Hitler

First this cunt calls all Federal Officers the Gestapo and now PDT is Hitler?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 03, 2020 11:29 AM (tsZQ+)

And not ONE GOP member in Congress will submit a censure request.........

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 03, 2020 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)

211
If it isn't a tournament, move the damned ball. Last time I hit

into tome leaves of three, there was a big damned snake laying

there...and he was kinda pissed.

Red Touch Yellow - Do not poke.

Red Touch Black - Take a stroke.

Posted by: Roland THTG at August 03, 2020 11:42 AM (88+cf)

212 211
If it isn't a tournament, move the damned ball. Last time I hit

into tome leaves of three, there was a big damned snake laying

there...and he was kinda pissed.

Red Touch Yellow - Do not poke.

Red Touch Black - Take a stroke.
Posted by: Roland THTG at August 03, 2020 11:42 AM (88+cf)

Billy Squier approved

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:43 AM (ifmtJ)

213 They probably can't believe how long we're going along with their scam.
Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2020 11:37 AM (2nFxy)
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I doubt it. Look at it from a corporate standpoint. Almost all of them are in one of two positions:
1) Down with the cause and eager to help
2) Terrified of liability

#2 outnumbers #1 by a wide margin. No one is going to buck the trend when it could cost them everything they've worked a lifetime for. The single best way to fix this would be an EO affirming - as is the reality, of course - that going about your business in public is assumed risk and there is no legal recourse if you contract COVID outside of recklessness. Not even carelessness would result in liability. Just like bungee jumping, skiing, and other assumed risk activities.

Life is assumed risk. And until the liability question is answered, it hangs over every businessman like the Sword of Damocles, and they will continue to comply out of self preservation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 03, 2020 11:43 AM (hYcqw)

214 We should recall the last day of Joe Walsh's inglorious primary campaign, because it was hilarious. It was at the Iowa Caucuses, and Walsh had convinced himself he was gonna have a big following. He went in to talk to the Iowa Republican Caucus persons, and he was shocked to find that he was booed and hooted off the stage, and cursed by all as he stalked away. The next morning he quit his primary race, and started talking about how republicans were now nothing but cult members.

He actually really believed that voters were going to welcome him, he really did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 03, 2020 11:43 AM (Kpl3J)

215 Do they really think that old status quo ante will be restored with Trump gone off the stage?

They don't care, so long as left-wing billionaires fund them.

They're grifters.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 03, 2020 11:43 AM (I2/tG)

216 I really think these cucks believe they will get more work from GOP candidates.

Steve Schmidt interviewed with Trump after famously, openly stabbing Palin in the back in 2008 and then dining off it for years with his work on the HBO "Game Change" movie and an MSNBC guest gig.

WHy would *anyone* trust him after tha?
And yet, Schmidt had the audacity to try to sell his services to Trump in 2016. Just another job where he rakes in GOP donor dough while taking out the candidate behind the scenes.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 03, 2020 11:43 AM (bDqIh)

217 103 >>You make 190k a year ... Half your money goes to taxes

>>so that 190k becomes 85k.

Anyone else want to tell him?
Posted by: garrett at August 03, 2020 11:27 AM (Ev+gq)

I was told there would be no maths required.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 03, 2020 11:44 AM (JFO2v)

218 You can move your ball a club length from an ant pile without a penalty stroke, I think you can do the same for a snake.

By the way , when I play with one of my friends you wouldn't believe the number of ant piles he hits his ball into.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 03, 2020 11:44 AM (nkCeM)

219 Aline invasion in 2020 is a forgone conclusion.

Posted by: Asshoes at August 03, 2020 11:44 AM (3sol3)

220 "Trump is like Hitler" is one of the most ludicrous things I've ever heard in my entire life. And it's unconscionable for Clyburn to say that. But they have zero conscious, so it's not a problem for them to say such idiotic things.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2020 11:44 AM (O+I8R)

221 Side topic, Kathleen Turner is not my type, but Body Heat was an excellent movie, and just watched Turner and Deborah Winger in Black Widow a few weeks ago. Also very interesting.

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Black Widow was Deborah Winger and Teresa Russell, I believe.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2020 11:42 AM (O+I8R

Correct. Interesting movie but dated.

Posted by: LASue at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (Ed8Zd)

222 214 We should recall the last day of Joe Walsh's inglorious primary campaign, because it was hilarious. It was at the Iowa Caucuses, and Walsh had convinced himself he was gonna have a big following. He went in to talk to the Iowa Republican Caucus persons, and he was shocked to find that he was booed and hooted off the stage, and cursed by all as he stalked away. The next morning he quit his primary race, and started talking about how republicans were now nothing but cult members.

He actually really believed that voters were going to welcome him, he really did.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 03, 2020 11:43 AM (Kpl3J)

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I'm all for vigorous primaries at every level. It's a way to keep office holders honest and in touch with their base.

I'd say it's pretty safe that Trump is on good terms with his base.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (UWqZJ)

223 His wife, Mary Steenburgen. Are they still married?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:37 AM (rpbg1)

Imdb say yes.

Married since 1995. That's like, forever, in Hollywood terms.

Two children.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (mWQzz)

224 Ok the pyramids taking flight back to the mother ship would be appropriate for 2020.

Posted by: eleven at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (XTyi0)

225 The single best way to fix this would be an EO affirming - as is the reality, of course - that going about your business in public is assumed risk and there is no legal recourse if you contract COVID outside of recklessness. Not even carelessness would result in liability. Just like bungee jumping, skiing, and other assumed risk activities.

Life is assumed risk. And until the liability question is answered, it hangs over every businessman like the Sword of Damocles, and they will continue to comply out of self preservation.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 03, 2020 11:43 AM (hYcqw)

You describe the risk perfectly - and an EO can't do anything about it, because EO's can only affect the implementation of Federal Law. Trump does not have the power to do a thing about State Law, and that's where any liability claims would be filed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (Kpl3J)

226 Much of the insanely positioned opposition to Trump you see from either side is basically "the best defense is a good offense".

If lefties everywhere don't go on offense like this, Trump is going to "fundamentally transform" them all out of relevance and jobs. And they know it.

It's not principled or even logical. You don't examine the behavior of a cornered rat without at least acknowledging the corner.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (wTcTC)

227 It's counter culture. We are the counter culture revolutionaries now.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (YynYJ)

228 And Peggy Sue Got Married was good even though Kathleen was horribly miscast as a teenager.
Posted by: Captain Hate at August 03, 2020

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Peggy Sue suffered from the "Look at How Silly These People Are; People in My Time Are Smarter" syndrome in time travel stories. Back to the Future beat that: Marty is the odd guy out, and when he mentions 1985 things in 1955, everybody looks at him like he's nuts.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (rpbg1)

229 "The Lincoln Project"

They keep putting ads up on YouTube.

Every one I see I post my standard answer:

Poor #NeverTrumpers.

They used to be important. Now they are reduced to being pseudo-Republican Pomeranians, circling and yipping, trying to bite President Trump's ankles, a nattering pack of insufferable sissies.

Posted by: Mr. Trashbag, Shoggoth and Eater Of Toes at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (fBtlL)

230 208 Anyone remember The War of the Roses?

Man, THAT was dark.
Posted by: eleven at August 03, 2020 11:42 AM (XTyi0)

Devito has a great line

Phone rings
No Carla cannot come to the phone because she has my dick in her mouth!
hang up
God I love wrong numbers

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (JFO2v)

231 One of the core things Hitler did was to force all the businesses and social groups in Germany to go along with National Socialism.

Which is....exactly what the left is doing with woke-ism

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (qlFIA)

232 Good post btw, OM.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (wTcTC)

233 220 "Trump is like Hitler" is one of the most ludicrous things I've ever heard in my entire life. And it's unconscionable for Clyburn to say that. But they have zero conscious, so it's not a problem for them to say such idiotic things.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2020 11:44 AM (O+I8R)

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More or less ludicrous than Eisenhower is Hitler? Cause some contemporary Democrats did throw that around.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 03, 2020 11:46 AM (UWqZJ)

234 Man With Two Brains was Turner's best role.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 03, 2020 11:46 AM (nkCeM)

235 What time does the hurricane drinking start?

Posted by: BluesFish at August 03, 2020 11:46 AM (rxV3x)

236 It conveys intent well, but 6 syllables is too many.

Freedom Fighter. Might be too triggering, though.

Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2020 11:47 AM (lIIT7)

237 You describe the risk perfectly - and an EO can't do anything about it, because EO's can only affect the implementation of Federal Law. Trump does not have the power to do a thing about State Law, and that's where any liability claims would be filed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (Kpl3J)
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Right. I meant EOs. Plural. One for the Feds and one in each state. This will never happen, of course, but it doesn't need to. The first state to do it will ride a rocket to the top and at least a quorum if not a majority of the rest will follow quickly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 03, 2020 11:47 AM (hYcqw)

238 Trump is the worst ever

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Except for all the others.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 03, 2020 11:47 AM (+y/Ru)

239 Phone rings
No Carla cannot come to the phone because she has my dick in her mouth!
hang up
God I love wrong numbers
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (JFO2v)
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Wrong movie.

That was "Ruthless People."

That's one of my all time favorite comedies.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at August 03, 2020 11:47 AM (WEBkv)

240 Saying Trump is like Hitler should be evidence of cognitive impairment.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at August 03, 2020 11:48 AM (lgiXo)

241 And Peggy Sue Got Married was good even though Kathleen was horribly miscast as a teenager.

Yeah it was kind of a neat idea that wasn't as good as it could have been because she wasn't convincing in the role and everything is portrayed as stupid and wrong back then.

I thought Pleasantville was more complex in its portrayal of the times. Some things were worse, but a lot of the changes they introduced to make things "better" actually made things worse.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 03, 2020 11:48 AM (KZzsI)

242 I believe that's Mary Steenburgen.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 03, 2020 11:36 AM (mWQzz)
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Oh wow - she looks really different there to me. Huh.

Posted by: jhawk90 at August 03, 2020 11:48 AM (/ZYFC)

243
Now they are reduced to being pseudo-Republican Pomeranians, circling and yipping, trying to bite President Trump's ankles, a nattering pack of insufferable sissies.

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Now, now. Don't insult Pomeranians - an intelligent, happy, loyal breed - by comparing them to a pack of scurvy seditionists.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 03, 2020 11:49 AM (mht8P)

244 The War of the Roses was a hilarious nasty divorce movie. And Peggy Sue Got Married was good even though Kathleen was horribly miscast as a teenager.
Posted by: Captain Hate at August 03, 2020 11:41 AM (6F/Ju)

Wasn't that the point of Peggy Sue? A middle aged woman being transported back in time? I guess they could have cast a different actress in those scenes, but you know, half the audience might not have gotten it.

As for War of the Roses, I hated that film. Such ugly people, doing ugly things. I can't stand watching a film where nobody is worth rooting for.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 03, 2020 11:49 AM (hku12)

245 The illegal aliens shall not be counted.
EOEO Aye!

Posted by: POTUS at August 03, 2020 11:49 AM (+y/Ru)

246 Black Widow was Deborah Winger and Teresa Russell, I believe.
Posted by: Lady in Black
Yup. Thank you.

Posted by: MikeM at August 03, 2020 11:49 AM (RKnjF)

247 Saying Trump is like Hitler should be evidence of cognitive impairment.
Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at August 03, 2020 11:48 AM (lgiXo)
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Being a leftist is sufficient evidence of cognitive impairment.

I always thought Michael Savage was being over the top when he said liberalism is a mental disease. I now think Mr. Savage was and is spot on.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at August 03, 2020 11:49 AM (WEBkv)

248 Man With Two Brains was Turner's best role.

Miss Uumellmahaye

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 03, 2020 11:49 AM (KZzsI)

249 "I'm old enough to remember when David Brock wrote for the American Spectator."

Hell, I'm old enough to remember when Garry Wills wrote for National Review!

But "Never Trump!" is a matter of style over substance. Trump's boorishness (and let's be frank, the man is a boor of the first order) is really off-putting. He comes across at times like the guy who's trying to sell you a time-share over the phone. In the same way, Obama's neatly pressed slacks and smooth manner are attractive - like the guy who's trying to talk you into investing in his (rather shady) business. But, as the nuns used to teach me, "Actions, not words". I'll take the boor over the con-man any day of the weeks; and Trump's accomplishments - not the least of which are unmasking the American Left and the Chicoms - have been of great benefit to the broad, diverse anti-totalitarian coalition that is called "the American Right".

Posted by: Brown Line at August 03, 2020 11:50 AM (S6ArX)

250 Have you guys seen the 404 page for www.donaldjtrump.com? Seriously, go make up a page on that domain and see what pops up. Hilarious.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2020 11:50 AM (O+I8R)

251 They are getting desperate. The nyt has an op ed on why the Presidential debates are a bad idea.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 03, 2020 11:50 AM (JUOKG)

252 Reagan was literally hitler too.

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2020 11:50 AM (A3w0Q)

253 208 Anyone remember The War of the Roses?

Man, THAT was dark.

Posted by: eleven at August 03, 2020 11:42 AM (XTyi0)

Best anti-divorce movie ever.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 03, 2020 11:50 AM (mWQzz)

254 Phone rings
No Carla cannot come to the phone because she has my dick in her mouth!
hang up
God I love wrong numbers
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (JFO2v)

I *think* that was in Ruthless People, which is a very funny movie, in spite of Bette Midler being in it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 03, 2020 11:50 AM (Kpl3J)

255 224 Ok the pyramids taking flight back to the mother ship would be appropriate for 2020.
Posted by: eleven at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (XTyi0)

Or being used to land Go'a'uld assault ships.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 03, 2020 11:50 AM (JETnb)

256 Unexpectedly.

@PPDNews

ISM #Manufacturing Index (PMI) Beats Forecast in July, Continuing Expansion Cycle

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2020 11:50 AM (ZLI7S)

257 163
Oh and another Becker line:

Someone asks him where his ex-wife is. He says:

"NO idea. A house fell on her sister and I haven't seen her since."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:34 AM (rpbg1)

Another funny one - He is treating a meat head who is a gifted baseball pitcher.
Becker "Are you going to take the full ride scholarship to Stanford?"
Athlete "Nah, I hate Connecticut."

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 03, 2020 11:51 AM (k/TB6)

258 228 And Peggy Sue Got Married was good even though Kathleen was horribly miscast as a teenager.
Posted by: Captain Hate at August 03, 2020

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Peggy Sue suffered from the "Look at How Silly These People Are; People in My Time Are Smarter" syndrome in time travel stories. Back to the Future beat that: Marty is the odd guy out, and when he mentions 1985 things in 1955, everybody looks at him like he's nuts.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (rpbg1)

Ryan George on YouTube has a fun series of 'The 90's Time Traveler'. All about how today tech and society sounds insane by 1995 standards.

He's right. The Matrix is right. I think we peaked at 1999.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:51 AM (ifmtJ)

259 As TMJ has pointed out, the Left have done this ridiculous name calling and illogical comparisons for decades. Marxists are the same mentally defective people from generation to generation.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 03, 2020 11:51 AM (nkCeM)

260 Saying Trump is like Hitler should be evidence of cognitive impairment.

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Trump is like . . . You know the guy!

Posted by: Broken Brain Biden at August 03, 2020 11:51 AM (+y/Ru)

261 Red Touch Black - Take a stroke.
Posted by: Roland THTG at August 03, 2020 11:42 AM (88+cf)

Billy Squier approved
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:43 AM (ifmtJ)
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If only he'd had someone close to him that said "hey y'know what, maybe not dance like that for this here "Rock Me Tonight" video." He was kind of on his way to becoming a sorta big deal until then.

Posted by: jhawk90 at August 03, 2020 11:51 AM (/ZYFC)

262 231
One of the core things Hitler did was to force all the businesses and
social groups in Germany to go along with National Socialism.

Which is....exactly what the left is doing with woke-ism

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (qlFIA)

What no love?

Posted by: Book Burnings and Smashing Other Peoples Stuff at August 03, 2020 11:51 AM (CRhwy)

263 244 The War of the Roses was a hilarious nasty divorce movie. And Peggy Sue Got Married was good even though Kathleen was horribly miscast as a teenager.
Posted by: Captain Hate at August 03, 2020 11:41 AM (6F/Ju)

Wasn't that the point of Peggy Sue? A middle aged woman being transported back in time? I guess they could have cast a different actress in those scenes, but you know, half the audience might not have gotten it.

As for War of the Roses, I hated that film. Such ugly people, doing ugly things. I can't stand watching a film where nobody is worth rooting for.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 03, 2020 11:49 AM (hku12)

And they destroyed a beautiful antique car, too

Posted by: josephistan at August 03, 2020 11:51 AM (Izzlo)

264 227 It's counter culture. We are the counter culture revolutionaries now.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (YynYJ)

This.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 03, 2020 11:51 AM (JETnb)

265 I miss Silly Putty.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 03, 2020 11:52 AM (axyOa)

266 250 Have you guys seen the 404 page for www.donaldjtrump.com? Seriously, go make up a page on that domain and see what pops up. Hilarious.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2020 11:50 AM (O+I8R)

Haha!

Go to www.donaldjtrump.com/madeupstuff

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 03, 2020 11:52 AM (mWQzz)

267 > I think the NTs are hoping that the Fascists will put them in the camps last.

They're like that French nobleman who changed his name to "Phillipe Egalite" and voted for the execution of the king.

His head wound up in a basket just the same.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at August 03, 2020 11:52 AM (unn44)

268 So now as soon as someone tests positive at a large, mostly outdoor event, the entire 1,000 person plus event is cancelled?
Posted by: Jen
It is ridiculous. I will be so impressed when one group/event, whatever, announces, that we do not believe Covid19 to be a threat to any of our participants, or fans, and we will be proceeding as normal. I know the government hierarchy will then get a chance to mess things up, so it would have to be in a state where that chance is minimized.

Posted by: MikeM at August 03, 2020 11:52 AM (RKnjF)

269 Have you guys seen the 404 page for www.donaldjtrump.com? Seriously, go make up a page on that domain and see what pops up. Hilarious.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2020

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Ha! DJT trolls the Left again!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:52 AM (rpbg1)

270 247 Saying Trump is like Hitler should be evidence of cognitive impairment.
Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at August 03, 2020 11:48 AM (lgiXo)
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Actually, if you consider that statement as being "Trump is just like some other guy that our corporate overlords told us not to like, either!" then it makes perfect sense.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 03, 2020 11:52 AM (Kpl3J)

271 *It's counter culture. We are the counter culture revolutionaries now.*

Time to get my freak on. Going to work and paying a mortgage is far out.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 03, 2020 11:53 AM (OeBYn)

272 They are getting desperate. The nyt has an op ed on why the Presidential debates are a bad idea.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 03, 2020 11:50 AM (JUOKG)

Biden's dementia is becoming undeniable.

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at August 03, 2020 11:53 AM (lgiXo)

273 If only he'd had someone close to him that said "hey y'know what, maybe not dance like that for this here "Rock Me Tonight" video." He was kind of on his way to becoming a sorta big deal until then.
Posted by: jhawk90 at August 03, 2020 11:51 AM (/ZYFC)
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Yeah, the director and choreographer of that video destroyed Squier's career. However, they may have had orders to do so after "The Stroke."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at August 03, 2020 11:53 AM (WEBkv)

274 Have you guys seen the 404 page for www.donaldjtrump.com? Seriously, go make up a page on that domain and see what pops up. Hilarious.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2020 11:50 AM (O+I8R)

LMFAO!

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 03, 2020 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)

275 I miss Silly Putty.

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Me too! Silly Putty and the Sunday paper's colored comics. Fun stuff as a kid.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2020 11:53 AM (O+I8R)

276 April Ryan, propagandist for the DNC, said on CNN if Joey Bidet becomes the next President American viewers will be treated to a split screen of the inauguration and of Trump being physically removed from the White House by police and military.

April... you are nucking futz. And bless your itty bitty heart.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 03, 2020 11:53 AM (9Vgrl)

277 Trump is at 51% approval today at rasmussen. The riots are backfiring on the democrats. He is 7 points higher than obama was on the same day of his presidency.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 03, 2020 11:54 AM (JUOKG)

278 Romancing the Stone and a Dumbass.

Oh and Shawarma? You stole that from the Greeks! Gyro,

Posted by: Archer at August 03, 2020 11:54 AM (gmo/4)

279
Trump is Bormann! How's that?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 03, 2020 11:54 AM (mht8P)

280 That was "Ruthless People."

That's one of my all time favorite comedies.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at August 03, 2020 11:47 AM (WEBkv)

Everyone was so well cast in that, particularly the sadly deceased Anita Morris.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 03, 2020 11:54 AM (6F/Ju)

281 I miss Silly Putty.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 03, 2020 11:52 AM (axyOa)

Too bad it got nasty pretty quick if, you....ya' know...played w/it.

Posted by: BignJames at August 03, 2020 11:54 AM (X/Pw5)

282 Oh my - NYT has an article on conservatives such as Mollie Hemingway (who rocks), and Jen Rubin tweeted a link plus this:

@RubinBlogger
You cannot understand these people without understanding 1. They never had the respect of better known conservatives 2. they are not smart 3. they crave fame and $

PROJECTION much?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 03, 2020 11:54 AM (bDqIh)

283 April... you are nucking futz. And bless your itty bitty heart.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 03, 2020 11:53 AM (9Vgrl)
*******
No RETARDED

Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at August 03, 2020 11:55 AM (1Dmt5)

284 Whoops...sorry margins.

Posted by: BignJames at August 03, 2020 11:55 AM (X/Pw5)

285 The Left is not GETTING desperate; it is and has been extremely desperate. that's why it's "eating itself" - i.e. destroying it's own people and homes (the cities).

It's a shame but oh well.

Do you feel it? Mom and Dad are coming home from the shore. It's August. Everything is going to change, and fast. The Real People are home from the beach.

Silly season is coming to an end. And there's no good news in this for the Bidens.

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at August 03, 2020 11:55 AM (j9HX3)

286 Ryan George on YouTube has a fun series of 'The 90's Time Traveler'. All about how today tech and society sounds insane by 1995 standards.

Today seems insane by 5 years ago standards!

Posted by: eleven at August 03, 2020 11:55 AM (XTyi0)

287 282 Oh my - NYT has an article on conservatives such as Mollie Hemingway (who rocks), and Jen Rubin tweeted a link plus this:

@RubinBlogger
You cannot understand these people without understanding 1. They never had the respect of better known conservatives 2. they are not smart 3. they crave fame and $

PROJECTION much?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 03, 2020 11:54 AM (bDqIh)

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So Jen is open to a debate against Mollie about Russian Collusion, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 03, 2020 11:56 AM (UWqZJ)

288 And it's unconscionable for Clyburn to say that.

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Well, Clyburn has no conscience so . . .

Posted by: Broken Brain Biden at August 03, 2020 11:56 AM (+y/Ru)

289 279
Trump is Bormann! How's that?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 03, 2020 11:54 AM (mht8P)

Trump is Vlad the Impaler!

Actually, that wouldn't be a bad thing...

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 03, 2020 11:56 AM (mWQzz)

290 I got fed up with some bint and the Trump is Hitler stuff. Told her if he was that bad, somebody would be goosestepping through the door any minute and blow her brains out. So she starts saying somebody should shoot him. This was a clerk at a convenience store. Hate to bust anybody's rice bowl, but when I got home I called their local office. She's probably sitting at home collecting that sweet $600 extra a week.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at August 03, 2020 11:56 AM (C1Lsn)

291 "I miss silly putty"
What am I ? Chopped Liver?

Posted by: Slinky at August 03, 2020 11:56 AM (cCxiu)

292 BWAHAHAHA....got my doctor's note for no mask in the workplace today.

Hahaha...fuck these assholes.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at August 03, 2020 11:56 AM (vg8iE)

293 Peggy Sue suffered from the "Look at How Silly These People Are; People in My Time Are Smarter" syndrome in time travel stories. Back to the Future beat that: Marty is the odd guy out, and when he mentions 1985 things in 1955, everybody looks at him like he's nuts.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (rpbg1)

It's been a long time since I've seen it, but maybe you guys watched a different movie than I did.

The WHOLE point was, this middle aged woman going back in time. From her perspective, of COURSE those people were naive and clueless, because none of them know what she knows now.

And that's all it is, from her perspective.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 03, 2020 11:57 AM (hku12)

294 Trump is Vlad the Impaler!

Nadler could burn for weeks... if Trump set fire to the House.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 03, 2020 11:57 AM (9Vgrl)

295 I just looked up the late Anita Morris. Her son is James Badge Dale, who was in 13 Hours, and was Bob Leckie in the Pacific. I like him.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, All Het Up Again at August 03, 2020 11:57 AM (xPJvm)

296 @RubinBlogger
You cannot understand these people without understanding 1. They never had the respect of better known conservatives 2. they are not smart 3. they crave fame and $

PROJECTION much?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 03, 2020 11:54 AM (bDqIh)
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No, not in this case. The operative point of Rubin's tweet is point #1, and she wasn't even smart enough to bury it in the middle. Rubin and her ilk - the "conservative" Smart Set - had the respect of conservatives. Institutions. Publications. Cruises. Lecture circuits. They did have that. And they lost it. They don't have respect anymore, from anyone. They got found out. Their game is up. And that is the real problem. The grifting was probably secondary for a lot of them. It was the ability to be the voice of power and influence that they adored, that they crave, that they lament having lost.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 03, 2020 11:57 AM (hYcqw)

297 Trump is Genghis Khan.

KHAAAN

Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at August 03, 2020 11:58 AM (lgiXo)

298 290
I got fed up with some bint and the Trump is Hitler stuff. Told her if
he was that bad, somebody would be goosestepping through the door any
minute and blow her brains out. So she starts saying somebody should
shoot him. This was a clerk at a convenience store. Hate to bust
anybody's rice bowl, but when I got home I called their local office.
She's probably sitting at home collecting that sweet $600 extra a week.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at August 03, 2020 11:56 AM (C1Lsn)
She isn't collecting that sweet $600 now. It expired last week.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 03, 2020 11:58 AM (N39Ws)

299 >> I miss Silly Putty.

It's been improved: https://puttyworld.com/
And the story about the guy who created this is fabulous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPe91NuhT7g

Posted by: Lizzy at August 03, 2020 11:58 AM (bDqIh)

300 Trump as Tamerlane

Throne of skulls would be glorious

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 03, 2020 11:58 AM (9Vgrl)

301 The only good part of "Peggy Sue Got Married" was Grandpa and his lodge brothers doing their time travel ritual.
The rest wasn't very funny.

Posted by: Archer at August 03, 2020 11:58 AM (gmo/4)

302 @Alicia_Smith19

AZ corona update:
The positive rate today was 12.89%. This is down from yesterday (18.83%) and down from same day last week (16.14%).
The number of people currently hospitalized with covid continued to fall today, now at its lowest point since June 21

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2020 11:59 AM (ZLI7S)

303 300 Trump as Tamerlane

Throne of skulls would be glorious
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 03, 2020 11:58 AM (9Vgrl)

Shake and bake and I helped.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 03, 2020 11:59 AM (ifmtJ)

304 They don't have respect anymore, from anyone. They got found out. Their game is up. And that is the real problem. The grifting was probably secondary for a lot of them. It was the ability to be the voice of power and influence that they adored, that they crave, that they lament having lost.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 03, 2020 11:57 AM (hYcqw)

That was one of the ponts I was trying to make, but you said it better.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 03, 2020 11:59 AM (mWQzz)

305 Wrong movie.

That was "Ruthless People."

That's one of my all time favorite comedies.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at August 03, 2020 11:47 AM (WEBkv)

crap you are right

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 03, 2020 11:59 AM (JFO2v)

306
235 What time does the hurricane drinking start?

Don't drink the 2nd hurricane!

Posted by: Every Native New Orleanian at August 03, 2020 11:59 AM (w9Wax)

307 I think the NTs are hoping that the Fascists will put them in the camps last.

They're like that French nobleman who changed his name to "Phillipe Egalite" and voted for the execution of the king.

His head wound up in a basket just the same.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth)

He saved a bundle on hats after that.

Posted by: JT at August 03, 2020 12:00 PM (arJlL)

308 LMAO. This is what the bint who wrote the op ed about ending the debates wrote in the article:

"This, by the way, isn't written out of any concern that Donald Trump
will prevail over Joe Biden in the debates; Mr. Biden has done just fine
in a long string of such contests," she writes.

Dear Lord that is exactly what this is all about. They won't even let him out of the basement to answer questions.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 03, 2020 12:00 PM (JUOKG)

309 The only good part of "Peggy Sue Got Married" was Grandpa and his lodge brothers doing their time travel ritual.
The rest wasn't very funny.

Posted by: Archer at August 03, 2020 11:58 AM (gmo/4

Best 'lodge brothers' scene in a movie was in Bye Bye Birdie. I think that entire movie counted as porn to me as a kid.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 03, 2020 12:00 PM (nkCeM)

310 As for War of the Roses, I hated that film. Such ugly people, doing ugly things. I can't stand watching a film where nobody is worth rooting for.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 03, 2020 11:49 AM (hku12)

And they destroyed a beautiful antique car, too
Posted by: josephistan at August 03, 2020 11:51 AM (Izzlo)

Hopefully not a new one.

I mean, I guess the film is a metaphor, but often metaphors are difficult to look at because they're too on the nose.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 03, 2020 12:00 PM (hku12)

311 Jen Rubin was only masquerading as a conservative. Just like Paul Ryan.

Posted by: CN at August 03, 2020 12:01 PM (ONvIw)

312 Yeah, I know what it looks like, but didn't see any anywhere near where I entered the woods. Damn golf.

I will give the Zanfel a look.

Last time I had it, it wasn't THIS bad.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 03, 2020 11:26 AM (Zz0t1)
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Try TECHNU. It is a liquid soap. Never had poison ivy but have had poison oak. First, you have to get the oil off your skin to fight it.

I'm with you I would trounce around in poison oak and never get it until I turned 40. Then I started getting it. By 50, I would get it bad.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 03, 2020 12:01 PM (pw+jk)

313 That article on the NYT about no debates is obviously from the top of the DNC. They're not going to allow any debate, no matter how bad it looks. It'll be up to Trump to capitalize on Biden's refusal, he should start planning the ads on it now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 03, 2020 12:01 PM (Kpl3J)

314 I don't know if anyone (maybe Sefton) already posted this stuff:

1 -- seen at yahoo: Andrew Yang:

"I think Joe Biden is licking his chops to debate Donald Trump. I think he has been waiting for it for months. I have been on the debate stage with Joe. Joe's going to clean his clock. Nothing will hold him back from doing that."

2 -- seen at Twitchy: Elizabeth Drew in the NY Times:

"The debates have never made sense as a test for presidential leadership," writes @ElizabethDrewOH. "In fact, one could argue that they reward precisely the opposite of what we want in a president."

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at August 03, 2020 12:01 PM (4a9Vv)

315 I think if someone is saying "Trump should be shot" they should probably be reported to his security detail as well as their employer, because it doesn't make a convenience store clerk look at all good for clerks to say this kind of thing to customers. No clerk at a convenience store has ever said such a thing to me, I'm happy to say.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 03, 2020 12:02 PM (oDRcK)

316 I would go with a gyro first, with fresh tzatziki out of cucumber from the garden.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid,Looking at the sunny side of life. at August 03, 2020 12:02 PM (Vy7tf)

317 "Lincoln Project" doesn't mean what everybody thinks it does.

Posted by: klaftern at August 03, 2020 12:02 PM (RuIsu)

318 And Peggy Sue Got Married was good even though Kathleen was horribly miscast as a teenager.
Posted by: Captain Hate at August 03, 2020

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Peggy Sue suffered from the "Look at How Silly These People Are; People in My Time Are Smarter" syndrome in time travel stories. Back to the Future beat that: Marty is the odd guy out, and when he mentions 1985 things in 1955, everybody looks at him like he's nuts.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 03, 2020 11:45 AM (rpbg1)

I like that movie, despite Nicholas Cage's horrible and distracting squeaky, then gravelly voice and odd mannerisms.

Posted by: LASue at August 03, 2020 12:02 PM (Ed8Zd)

319 The insanity knob is already turned to 11. I do not understand people who are desperately twisting the knob trying to get it higher.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at August 03, 2020 12:02 PM (e1mEI)

320 The plans of the most vocal NEVER-Trump folks seems to be about Trump not hiring the "right" people.
When Obama and Clinton (and a bit of Bush) were in power, they could still find a high paying job either in government or as advisers on things Republican.
With Trump, their meal ticket is worthless.

Posted by: SMOD at August 03, 2020 12:03 PM (3aI0K)

321 Posted by: MIRROR UNIVERSE NEIL GORSUCH at August 03, 2020 12:02 PM (Pzzpr)

WHY DON"T YOU TELL HIM? YOU CAN E-MAIL OR CALL THE WH.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 03, 2020 12:03 PM (oDRcK)

322 Trump on live TV smirking and with a bowl of ice cream in the picture, "since the Democrats' candidate is afraid to debate me even over TV, I will instead read from the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Triumph the Insult Dog will read the Douglas parts."

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 03, 2020 12:03 PM (9Vgrl)

323
Those four guys define "cool guys' club" -- I'd sure like to be buddies with them!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 03, 2020 12:04 PM (pNxlR)

324 Kathleen Turner used to be quite a head turner. Her current iteration not so much... What's with that weird accent?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 03, 2020 12:04 PM (flINI)

325 That 404 page shows talent. It's perfect.

Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2020 12:04 PM (3fR4G)

326 Posted by: MIRROR UNIVERSE NEIL GORSUCH at August 03, 2020 12:02 PM (Pzzpr)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 03, 2020 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

327 I got fed up with some bint and the Trump is Hitler stuff. Told her if
he was that bad, somebody would be goosestepping through the door any
minute and blow her brains out. So she starts saying somebody should
shoot him. This was a clerk at a convenience store. Hate to bust
anybody's rice bowl, but when I got home I called their local office.
She's probably sitting at home collecting that sweet $600 extra a week.

In a larger store, I'll walk away and then later, call the manager. I'll then describe the person I was arguing with, lie, and tell them how great they are. And get their name. Then I will ask for their regional/ national HQ, and say I want to write a personal letter about them. They happily give you that information.

Then the letter/email goes out. And it's not a happy one.

Posted by: shibumi, living in Clown World at August 03, 2020 12:04 PM (ZCiJZ)

328 Why is MUNG posting his all caps screed twice?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 03, 2020 12:04 PM (oDRcK)

329 The only good part of "Peggy Sue Got Married" was Grandpa and his lodge brothers doing their time travel ritual.
The rest wasn't very funny.

Posted by: Archer at August 03, 2020 11:58 AM (gmo/4)

I think it was Roger Ebert, but one of those douchebag movie critics HATED that film, and I think it all boiled down to not liking them taking the piss at an era guys like Ebert held so dear.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 03, 2020 12:04 PM (hku12)

330 nood sports

Posted by: banana Dream at August 03, 2020 12:05 PM (l6b3d)

331 nood

Posted by: CN at August 03, 2020 12:05 PM (ONvIw)

332 >>Why is MUNG posting his all caps screed twice?

How long have you been here?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2020 12:05 PM (ZLI7S)

333

7-Eleven owner spends $21 billion to buy Speedway gas stations

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 03, 2020 12:06 PM (aKsyK)

334 LMAO. This is what the bint who wrote the op ed about ending the debates wrote in the article:

"This, by the way, isn't written out of any concern that Donald Trump
will prevail over Joe Biden in the debates; Mr. Biden has done just fine
in a long string of such contests," she writes.

Dear Lord that is exactly what this is all about. They won't even let him out of the basement to answer questions.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 03, 2020 1

Last I saw Biden, he couldn't even walk by himself. He was being lead along like he was blind.

Posted by: LASue at August 03, 2020 12:06 PM (Ed8Zd)

335 MUNG truth bomb.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 03, 2020 12:06 PM (9X5NA)

336 Dr. Birx: If you live with someone vulnerable to Covid, you should wear a mask INSIDE your home.

No other country is doing what we're doing. This shit CRAY.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 03, 2020 12:06 PM (Zz0t1)

337 Those four guys were the frequent flyers in economy on Air Epstein.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at August 03, 2020 12:06 PM (C1Lsn)

338 That 404 page shows talent. It's perfect.
Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2020 12:04 PM (3fR4G)
+++++++++
There have been several over the years. The trolling 404 page is a brilliant marketing concept.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 03, 2020 12:06 PM (hYcqw)

339 SCTV did a spoof of Body Heat, called 'Prickley Heat', with Mrs. Prickley and E. Charles Bronson. Everyone was scratching and itching throughout the passionate affair.

"What about ma burnin' loins?"
"Put 'em on the fire, dear, we're running out of logs."

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at August 03, 2020 12:06 PM (ObSq3)

340 the grifters have about 90 days left in their careers no matter what happens

Posted by: x at August 03, 2020 12:06 PM (nFwvY)

341 If I heard someone say "Trump should be shot" I think I would call up the Secret Service and say "Joe B. at this address told me he has a gun and he intends to travel to DC and shoot the President, and you need to investigate." And then after they rousted him and called me back and asked "did he really say all of that?" I would say "well that was my impression of what he said, I didn't have a tape recorder or anything."

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 03, 2020 12:06 PM (Kpl3J)

342 I like that movie, despite Nicholas Cage's horrible and distracting squeaky, then gravelly voice and odd mannerisms.
Posted by: LASue at August 03, 2020 12:02 PM (Ed8Zd)

Nicholas Cage is a national treasure, and we all should be grateful to be living in the same timeline with him.

Every overacting, over-emoting piece of dialogue he chews up and spits out is a morsel of nectar, to be cherished, as if from the gods themselves.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 03, 2020 12:07 PM (hku12)

343 I do not understand people who are desperately twisting the knob trying to get it higher.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at August 03, 2020 12:02 PM

Oh, we gonna rock down to electric avenue
And then we'll take it higher

Posted by: Eddy Grant at August 03, 2020 12:08 PM (DMUuz)

344 How long have you been here?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2020 12:05 PM (ZLI7S)

More than eight years. I've only seen him post his various screeds once.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 03, 2020 12:08 PM (oDRcK)

345 Every overacting, over-emoting piece of dialogue he chews up and spits out is a morsel of nectar, to be cherished, as if from the gods themselves.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 03, 2020 12:07 PM (hku12)

Nectar? Oh god not THE BEES! THE BEES!!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 03, 2020 12:09 PM (Kpl3J)

346 Clinton revoked his EO ban when he was a lame duck in 2000 on lobbying for WH members for five years he signed in 1993. This allowed his staff to immediately start receiving their graft paychecks.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 03, 2020 12:09 PM (nkCeM)

347 Reformist might work better.

The Reform party, and we are Reformers.

Posted by: An Observation at August 03, 2020 12:09 PM (Ce58v)

348 Nicholas Cage is a national treasure, and we all should be grateful to be living in the same timeline with him.

Every overacting, over-emoting piece of dialogue he chews up and spits out is a morsel of nectar, to be cherished, as if from the gods themselves.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 03, 2020 12:07 PM

C'mon. If he were that good, he would have been in Prometheus.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 03, 2020 12:10 PM (DMUuz)

349 As for War of the Roses, I hated that film. Such ugly people, doing ugly things. I can't stand watching a film where nobody is worth rooting for.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 03, 2020 11:49 AM (hku12)

The only part of that film that made me laugh was early on, when the husband is telling the wife not to let the kids eat candy, and she replies that forbidding it only makes it more desirable, which will lead to them eating too much, whereas if they're allowed to have it, they won't overindulge. And the next time we see the kids, a few year later, they're quite fat.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at August 03, 2020 12:11 PM (ObSq3)

350 Dr. Birx: If you live with someone vulnerable to Covid, you should wear a mask INSIDE your home.

No other country is doing what we're doing. This shit CRAY.
Posted by: Sponge

My in-laws live on 110 acres. Their house sits 1/4 mile off the road.

If anyone suggests they should wear a mask in their home, those people have entered "The Miasma Zone".

Posted by: rickb223 at August 03, 2020 12:14 PM (Isn+8)

351 Never Trumpers: If we get rid of Trump we get back to reasonable politics in this country.

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The return of civility.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 03, 2020 12:14 PM (+y/Ru)

352 The event planners are not afraid of the virus. They are afraid of the lawyers.

Posted by: Mog Smash at August 03, 2020 12:15 PM (AtEcX)

353 But, as the nuns used to teach me, "Actions, not words". I'll take the boor over the con-man any day of the weeks; and Trump's accomplishments - not the least of which are unmasking the American Left and the Chicoms - have been of great benefit to the broad, diverse anti-totalitarian coalition that is called "the American Right".

That's just it. Do I wish Trump were less a used car salesman and more classy and intellectual? Yes. Do I dislike his puffery and sometimes sleazy statements? Yes. Does his serial adultery in his past bother me? Yes.

But if this is what it takes to get a man in office who DOES what he does... I can hold my nose and vote for him. We live in stupid times with uneducated people who need someone like him to reach them. OK that's what it takes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 03, 2020 12:25 PM (KZzsI)

354 True. Although to be fair, a big part of that is the drugs she's had to take for some of her long term health issues.

Rheumatoid arthritis, according to the web. Quite a few folks here should hope they never suffer from it, given their description of her...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at August 03, 2020 12:29 PM (ZSK0i)

355 Such ugly people, doing ugly things. I can't stand watching a film where nobody is worth rooting for.

Cough House of Sand and Fog cough.

Posted by: An Observation at August 03, 2020 12:30 PM (Ce58v)

356 Everyone was so well cast in that, particularly the sadly deceased Anita Morris.
Posted by: Captain Hate at August 03, 2020 11:54 AM (6F/Ju)

She was smoking in the musical Nine.

https://tinyurl.com/y3ej8rmj

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 03, 2020 12:31 PM (2JVJo)

357 Speaking of Nicholas Cage, how many of you knew Mariska Hargitay was in Leaving Los Vegas?

Posted by: An Observation at August 03, 2020 12:35 PM (Ce58v)

358 Las Vegas - crap

Posted by: An Observation at August 03, 2020 12:36 PM (Ce58v)

359
Kathleen has had some serious health problems that have contributed to her appearance, that plus age. She was smokin at one time. And that Shawarma looks like a diseased brain cut in half.

Posted by: Javems at August 03, 2020 12:40 PM (2r3kq)

360 I was way off. I thought it was Stephanie Zimbalist.

You should put her on your list for future Who Is.

She's not looking all that great these days but back in the day. . .

Posted by: jakee308 at August 03, 2020 12:40 PM (M3E1E)

361 Clowns to the left of me, jokers to my right.Here I am, stuck in the middle with you

Posted by: boynsea at August 03, 2020 01:12 PM (Fks5r)

362 In a war, the enemy is defeated.
Traitors fare much worse.

NeverTrumpers will soon find this out.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at August 03, 2020 02:04 PM (jWe5r)

363 I realize it's a dead thread, but:

Kathleen Turner - Romancing the Stone

Not one mention...I thought she was scrumptious.

Posted by: browndog at August 03, 2020 02:58 PM (BgMrQ)

364 God, Kathleen Turner was so hot about 150 pounds ago.

Posted by: Forheremenaremen at August 03, 2020 03:05 PM (pmRSz)

365 #NeverTrump has never been a specific agenda, at least beyond step one.

The reason they not only must get rid of him (or at least render him harmless) is that he's the only non-corrupt person in DC. So even if he's prevented from prosecuting the rest, just his being there makes the rest look bad.

Posted by: jdgalt at August 03, 2020 06:06 PM (3SFo/)

366 Rick Wilson's body language in that photo is classic conservative.. woman. It says, "Look at my womb, it is very fertile and you could increase your Darwinian fitness if you would do what it takes to convince me to let you jizz in me."

Posted by: SciVo at August 04, 2020 01:15 AM (pgDA0)

367 Compare and contrast his girly "diamond over the navel" with a classic male pose: thumbs in pants pockets, with fingers splayed. That is a prototypical example of masculine eloquence and nuance, stating "Muh dick."

Posted by: SciVo at August 04, 2020 02:28 AM (pgDA0)

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