The Morning Rant

Back in 1958, Hollywood released Stanley Kramer's film The Defiant Ones, a story of two escapes prisoners, one black (Sidney Poitier) and the other white (Tony Curtis) who hated each other but had to learn to work together to not get recaptured. I think most people agree that this can be seen as a commentary on race relations in America, at least as it was in the late 50s.

So I think we're getting to the point where we need a reboot. Only instead of a black guy and a white guy, we need, say, a white, genderfluid soy-boy and an Hispanic construction worker wearing a MAGA hat. Who are somehow forced together, maybe they're both in the same lifeboat or trapped in an airplane with irreparable damage that is slowly getting worse until it can no longer stay up. Something like that.

The point is, they have to work together to avoid getting killed. And thus the new cultural fault lines can be easily seen.

But such a movie cannot yet be made. I think The Defiant Ones> could be a success because some progress in race relations had been made, even back then. Obviously a lot of work still needed to be done, but that a story that could serve as an illustration of the folly of racism could be shown without angry mobs burning the theaters down is an indication of progress.

Not so now.

Right now, we are in the middle of a cold war that is heating up seemingly every week and it may go hot at any moment. Some days, I feel like I'm in a garage with a lot of oil-soaked rags and some cans of gasoline and the temperature outside is climbing past 102 and oh no, here comes someone with a lit cigarette.

Plus, I despise the other side. That is, I despise everything they stand for. I've compared them (progressives) on this forum to viruses, parasites, and vampires. I think audiences in 1958 could watch TDO and have some sympathy for both men. And Kramer didn't make one of the an obvious good guy and the other an obvious bad guy. I have no such objectivity. If I were writing the script of the new movie, the first thing I'd do is have the Hispanic MAGA guy grab a tire iron and beat the gendefluid soy-boy into a bloody, lifeless pulp. Then he could get on with it. Such a scene would be an apt parable of what I think of progressivism, but I admit it would make a lousy movie. I can't imagine what such a character would bring to a dangerous situation that would be an asset. His degree in Innuit lesbian poetry would be useless. And no doubt he would feel the same about me.

So it may be awhile before such a remake could be produced.

By the way, I know we all can't wait until 2020 is over, but do we really think 2021 is going to bring unicorns, rainbows and Skittles? We may be entering a phase of protracted instability that will take years to resolve, one way or the other. Contested elections, rioting, and street brawls are just the beginning, not the culmination. I'm old enough now that whatever civic instability has started, I might not live long enough to see the end of.

Let the Tongue Baths Begin!

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Friday Who Dis: The much married Arlene Dahl, who left Hollywood for a successful career in business was in the 1959 screen adaptation of the Jules Verne novel Journey to the Center of the Earth along with crooner Pat Boone

Today's Edition Of The Morning Rant Is Brought To You By the DIY McRib Sandwich:

(click for bigger McRib)

McRib recipe here.

Posted by: OregonMuse at 11:15 AM

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1 firt

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 07, 2020 11:15 AM (LvTSG)

2 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at December 07, 2020 11:15 AM (JUOKG)

3 Hugh Jackman and Amanda Seyfried

No idea the connection

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 07, 2020 11:15 AM (LvTSG)

4 Great ape beatdown.

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:15 AM (L8ADy)

5 Amanda Seyfried and Hugh Jackman. No idea what their connection is, unless they're married?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 07, 2020 11:15 AM (yvr3o)

6 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

7 Never McRibbed.
I guess I could try it. Maybe.

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:16 AM (L8ADy)

8 And
So
It
Be
Gins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at December 07, 2020 11:16 AM (Uhu8A)

9 7 Never McRibbed.
I guess I could try it. Maybe.
Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:16 AM (L8ADy)

=======

I had one once.

I did not die.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 07, 2020 11:16 AM (LvTSG)

10 Nooded downstairs.

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:17 AM (L8ADy)

11 Olive branch one would be aimed lower, IYKWIM, to be more realistic.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 07, 2020 11:17 AM (bDqIh)

12 Take that cactus Mr Elephant and ram it up that donkey's ass!

Posted by: CN at December 07, 2020 11:17 AM (ONvIw)

13 She has crazy eyes.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at December 07, 2020 11:17 AM (JUOKG)

14 Never McRibbed.

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free

Me neither - I have no interest in trying it. There is a great rib place next to my local McDs.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 07, 2020 11:17 AM (Rvt88)

15 14 She has crazy eyes.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at December 07, 2020 11:17 AM (JUOKG)

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Also, apparently, a very loose woman.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 07, 2020 11:17 AM (LvTSG)

16 I'm guessing it's more McVienna Sausages.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:18 AM (ylp2r)

17 This is unhinged -- and she's a teacher, naturally:
#Tolerance

https://tinyurl.com/y3baj5cs

Posted by: Lizzy at December 07, 2020 11:18 AM (bDqIh)

18 Before I forget, mentioned this weekend.

News aggregate site that was news to me:

https://bannonswarroom.com/

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:18 AM (L8ADy)

19 The courts and legislatures are not going to reverse anything.

It must be obvious at this point.

Posted by: Not happening at December 07, 2020 11:18 AM (L5N0m)

20 Looks like the NYT was, get this, lying. Again.

@CBS_Herridge

NEW: A DOJ official tells
@CBSNews
that Attorney General Bill Barr intends to stay as long as President Trump needs him. Sunday NYTimes reported, "Barr Is Said to Be Weighing Whether to Leave Before Trump's Term Ends"

Posted by: JackStraw at December 07, 2020 11:18 AM (ZLI7S)

21 14
She has crazy eyes.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at December 07, 2020 11:17 AM (JUOKG)
It's a couple notches beyond crazy to spooky. Spooky eyes.

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:18 AM (DJFLF)

22 Photo 4 makes her look like Madonna.

Out.

And her eyes are very spread out across her head.

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

23 Posted by: Lizzy at December 07, 2020 11:18 AM (bDqIh)

Saw this earlier this morning on twatter. These people are the problem. And, she's "teaching" your kids.

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:19 AM (L8ADy)

24 The delectable Amanda Seyfried.

Posted by: spindrift at December 07, 2020 11:19 AM (h5TKJ)

25 Whodatgirl looks like my niece.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) blurts at December 07, 2020 11:19 AM (yQpMk)

26 And
So
It
Be
Gins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning

And why it would only be gins and not something actually drinkable, I have no idea.

Posted by: Brother Tim (@BrotherTimMTG on Parler) at December 07, 2020 11:19 AM (OUMaO)

27 Looks like the NYT was, get this, lying. Again.

@CBS_Herridge

NEW: A DOJ official tells
@CBSNews
that Attorney General Bill Barr intends to stay as long as President Trump needs him. Sunday NYTimes reported, "Barr Is Said to Be Weighing Whether to Leave Before Trump's Term Ends"
Posted by: JackStraw at December 07, 2020 11:18 AM (ZLI7S)

They are going to wield their power against the masses until they're destroyed.

Get used to it. The more the curtain is pulled back and they're exposed, the more they'll lash out.

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)

28 Hugh Jackman. He signs, he dances, he'll cut you in two with his adamantium claws!!

Posted by: josephistan at December 07, 2020 11:20 AM (Izzlo)

29 >>Amanda Seyfried and Hugh Jackman. No idea what their connection is, unless they're married?

LOL, no.

Les Mis

Posted by: Lizzy at December 07, 2020 11:20 AM (bDqIh)

30 Making the rounds this morning -
An ER Tech (not a doctor) lays down the truth about the coof:

https://tinyurl.com/y3br7c6m

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:20 AM (L8ADy)

31 The trouble with judges, reps, senators, etc, is they are largely immune to the destructive policies of leftist elites. Their jobs are not in jeopardy, their tax increases are barely noticed with their high salaries. Higher gas prices, food prices, cost of living across the board; none of it affects them. They live on a different level so it's easy for them to shrug and say "it's Biden's turn. he cheated fair and square" while the rest of us little people suffer.

We are no longer a nation of we the people. We are a feudal nation, forced to serve at the pleasure of our betters.

Posted by: Shenanigans at December 07, 2020 11:20 AM (ZR7kf)

32
By the way, I know we all can't wait until 2020 is over, but do we really think 2021 is going to bring unicorns, rainbows and Skittles?

---

I'm hoping for a cancer relapse myself.

And am already working on preparing to tell people I am not going through chemo again.

Posted by: Bete at December 07, 2020 11:20 AM (Ojki1)

33 I will have to add The Defiant Ones to my list. In my podcast queue there was one analyzing John Carpenter's They Live so luckily I found a place to watch it for free and in decent quality. The place I found to watch it was called MGTOW TV so apparently the MGTOW guys are getting into alt-tech now.

Posted by: Augustine at December 07, 2020 11:20 AM (BDZWU)

34
Hugh Jackman and Huge Boobs

They starred together in "Horton Hears a Hugh"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 07, 2020 11:20 AM (pNxlR)

35 And her eyes are very spread out across her head.

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)
Generally speaking eyes set a little too close together are better than the Marty Feldman look

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:20 AM (DJFLF)

36 30 >>Amanda Seyfried and Hugh Jackman. No idea what their connection is, unless they're married?

LOL, no.

Les Mis
Posted by: Lizzy at December 07, 2020 11:20 AM (bDqIh)

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Oh, yeah...

I forgot she was in that. Played his daughter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 07, 2020 11:20 AM (LvTSG)

37 20 The courts and legislatures are not going to reverse anything.

It must be obvious at this point.
Posted by: Not happening at December 07, 2020 11:18 AM (L5N0m)

Sadly, I think I agree with you. Still hoping for a win, no matter how delusional I am at this point.

Please tell me that the dismissal of Powell's case in GA for lack of standing just means that it goes faster to the Supreme Court.

Posted by: President-elect Iris at December 07, 2020 11:20 AM (0MnEQ)

38 Posted by: JackStraw at December 07, 2020 11:18 AM

No way! They had like THREE anonymous sources!!!

Posted by: Swallow the Rabbit Whole at December 07, 2020 11:20 AM (DB16e)

39 Re "president who doesn't lie, even when it would be easier"

She completely missed the part where he's stonewalling and refusing to answer the questions.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:21 AM (ylp2r)

40 McRibbed for her pleasure.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 11:21 AM (T1Dne)

41
Me neither - I have no interest in trying it. There is a great rib place next to my local McDs.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 07, 2020 11:17 AM (Rvt8

Especially since there's no pork rib meat in it......

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

42 My Prediction for 2021: Pain!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 07, 2020 11:21 AM (ztzef)

43 39 Re "president who doesn't lie, even when it would be easier"

She completely missed the part where he's stonewalling and refusing to answer the questions.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:21 AM (ylp2r)

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Also where he ended an earlier presidential campaign for straight up plagiarism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 07, 2020 11:21 AM (LvTSG)

44 The courts and legislatures are not going to reverse anything.

It must be obvious at this point.

-

Fine. They had their chance to do it the quiet, safe, non-hangy way.

Unleash the Insurrection Act.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:21 AM (ylp2r)

45 26
Whodatgirl looks like my niece.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) blurts at December 07, 2020 11:19 AM (yQpMk)
I take back everything I said!

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:21 AM (DJFLF)

46 And the commies are bombing Trump supports houses. This should be front page national news.
This is an escalation, and I expect more to come. There is no reaching across the aisle with the other side.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/michigan- trump-supporters-home-bombed-police-investigate-video-footage

Had enough yet of the traitors and silent center crowd? Show this to your friends and family. Let's see if they denounce this along with the past violence.

Posted by: bat nationalist at December 07, 2020 11:22 AM (DH4sA)

47 missed the top ten by thaaaaat much

Posted by: Silent at December 07, 2020 11:22 AM (CrU4U)

48 Never McRibbed.
I guess I could try it. Maybe.
Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:16 AM (L8ADy)

Now it has been built up too much, you are best just passing.

Costco sells a frozen rib like sandwich if you must. Don't know that it is better or worse, but it is cheaper in bulk.

Course than you have a bunch of them if you don't like them.

Posted by: Bete at December 07, 2020 11:22 AM (Ojki1)

49 She had a great scene with Julianne Moore in Chloe.

Posted by: spindrift at December 07, 2020 11:22 AM (h5TKJ)

50 I can see a reboot entitled "Guess Who's Not Coming To dinner?"

Posted by: ShainS at December 07, 2020 11:22 AM (uoC1n)

51 Happy-ish Monday Morning ...

Posted by: Adriane the Easily Impressed Critic ... at December 07, 2020 11:22 AM (LPnfS)

52 >> She has crazy eyes.

All I see is Carbuncle

Posted by: garrett at December 07, 2020 11:22 AM (xTW+j)

53 ...also, f'd up nose.

Posted by: garrett at December 07, 2020 11:22 AM (xTW+j)

54 We may be entering a phase of protracted instability that will take years to resolve, one way or the other
+++++++++++++
Heinlein. "The Crazy Years."

We're in 'em. We've been in them for a couple of years now, it's just hotting up enough now that it's apparent to everyone.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 11:22 AM (hYcqw)

55 NBC - Michigan secretary of state says armed protesters gathered outside her home

Dozens of armed people gathered outside Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's home over the weekend "shouting obscenities" and threatening violence in an effort to overturn the presidential election results in the state, she said Sunday.

It's NBC so the whole story is full of propaganda and lies.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 07, 2020 11:22 AM (hjWzb)

56 Her eyes are NOT spooky.

They are, um, alluring!

That's right, alluring!

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:23 AM (DJFLF)

57 Yay, Gorilla Pundit.

Life sucks.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 07, 2020 11:23 AM (2JVJo)

58 >>They are going to wield their power against the masses until they're destroyed.

They'll keep doing it as long as people keep falling for it.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 07, 2020 11:23 AM (ZLI7S)

59 Wow. Amanda Seyfried. I only vaguely thought she was sort-of attractive, in a immature way. In retrospect, as I look at these photos, that is dumb beyond belief. My wife pants after Hugh Jackman. She claims its because of all his "talents". Uh huh.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at December 07, 2020 11:23 AM (r3jC3)

60 25 Whodatgirl looks like my niece.
Posted by: G'rump928(C) blurts at December 07, 2020 11:19 AM (yQpMk)

Nice.

Posted by: bat nationalist at December 07, 2020 11:23 AM (DH4sA)

61 >>Saw this earlier this morning on twatter. These people are the problem. And, she's "teaching" your kids.

And she has a government paycheck, while the people she's screaming "KILL YOURSELF" at are having their businesses, fortunes destroyed by the shutdowns.

There's a special kind of evil to yell that at people who are fighting to survive.

All public school teachers should have a pay cut, maybe half?, until school is back in session 100%.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 07, 2020 11:23 AM (bDqIh)

62 The courts and legislatures are not going to reverse anything.

It must be obvious at this point.

Posted by: Not happening at December 07, 2020 11:18 AM

---

You are correct.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at December 07, 2020 11:23 AM (JUOKG)

63 @37

Possibly, unless the SCOTUS elevates it, it needs to wind it's way up the chain.

There simply is not enough time.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 07, 2020 11:23 AM (ztzef)

64 I don't know who that Kasie Hunt gal is, but, she's either being ironic or is completely delusional.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at December 07, 2020 11:23 AM (WEBkv)

65 The "gendefluid soy-boy" isn't a problem.

It's the legions of HR, lawyers, and administratoi* he can enlist to ruin your life that is your problem.

We aren't facing an army of noodle-armed queefs. We are facing a weaponized super-state staffed by noodle-armed queefs.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 07, 2020 11:23 AM (VsHYs)

66 59 Wow. Amanda Seyfried. I only vaguely thought she was sort-of attractive, in a immature way. In retrospect, as I look at these photos, that is dumb beyond belief. My wife pants after Hugh Jackman. She claims its because of all his "talents". Uh huh.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at December 07, 2020 11:23 AM (r3jC3)

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He has multiple dicks?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 07, 2020 11:23 AM (LvTSG)

67 Photo 3 of Amanda Seyfried should've gotten a "leggy" tag. And "slutty" tag. Nice start to a Monday.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 11:23 AM (hYcqw)

68 LOL, no.

Les Mis

Posted by: Lizzy at December 07, 2020 11:20 AM (bDqIh)

You are correct, ma'am!

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 11:23 AM (5lMGa)

69 Wait...does she have huge boobs?

If she has huge boobs, why that picture?

Posted by: garrett at December 07, 2020 11:24 AM (xTW+j)

70 NEW: A DOJ official tells
@CBSNews
that Attorney General Bill Barr intends to stay as long as President Trump needs him. Sunday NYTimes reported, "Barr Is Said to Be Weighing Whether to Leave Before Trump's Term Ends"

Posted by: JackStraw at December 07, 2020 11:18 AM (ZLI7S)

I hope his bagpipe gets stuck in his ass.

Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at December 07, 2020 11:24 AM (ftFVW)

71 Madonna and Guy Ritchie.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BidenCheated at December 07, 2020 11:24 AM (HaL55)

72 We may be entering a phase of protracted instability that will take years to resolve, one way or the other

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Yep, and we need to choose if we want Biden to light the fuse or Trump to enforce the law.

Neither is going to be fun, but one is best for the republic.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:24 AM (ylp2r)

73 22 Photo 4 makes her look like Madonna.

Out.

And her eyes are very spread out across her head.
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

...

She should just put dark circles all around them and go for the full Peter Lorre.

By the way, I am a fancy art house movie person because I've seen "M".

Posted by: TexasDan at December 07, 2020 11:24 AM (yL25O)

74 This is unhinged -- and she's a teacher, naturally:
#Tolerance

https://tinyurl.com/y3baj5cs

Posted by: Lizzy at December 07, 2020 11:18 AM

Well...she seems...sane.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 07, 2020 11:24 AM (ejd/p)

75 Just Be Beer

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 07, 2020 11:25 AM (63Dwl)

76 39 Re "president who doesn't lie, even when it would be easier"

She completely missed the part where he's stonewalling and refusing to answer the questions.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:21 AM (ylp2r)

No, she gets it. Fooling the rubes is, as the Ewok puts it, part of the kink.

Posted by: Bete at December 07, 2020 11:25 AM (Ojki1)

77 Neither is going to be fun, but one is best for the republic.

Republic... If we can keep it

Posted by: It's me donna at December 07, 2020 11:25 AM (Zmnko)

78 Whether Barr stays or goes at this juncture is immaterial, it's like wondering if dog shit has a useful purpose.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 07, 2020 11:25 AM (ztzef)

79 >>Dozens of armed people gathered outside Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's home over the weekend "shouting obscenities" and threatening violence in an effort to overturn the presidential election results in the state, she said Sunday.

Uh, think it's more than that, NBC.
She's rubbing their noses in the open theft of the election, the theft of their votes. Erasing the data is a huuuuge FU to all MI voters.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 07, 2020 11:25 AM (bDqIh)

80 No, she gets it. Fooling the rubes is, as the Ewok puts it, part of the kink.

-

Good point. I'm sure she's stupid, but yeah, it probably is manipulation.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:25 AM (ylp2r)

81 >> her eyes are very spread out across her head.

I wonder what nature is selecting for with that.

Posted by: garrett at December 07, 2020 11:26 AM (xTW+j)

82 It's not as evident in redder states yet, but the progs have gone all in. There will be no olive branches for people trying to get us fired, or dismissing charges against goons assaulting us, vandalizing our homes, or setting fires in our community.
Fuck that. They can surrender or be destroyed. Or surrender AND be destroyed, I don't give a shit. They are not my countrymen and I have no obligation to let them off the hook.

Posted by: there are only three star wars films at December 07, 2020 11:26 AM (EEVQU)

83 The second to last photo is a good look for her.

Posted by: garrett at December 07, 2020 11:26 AM (xTW+j)

84 She's the result of a really good make up artist, it seems.

To me, she's like that Brandy singer chick from the 90's.

Eyes spread out like that alien in the bar scene in Star Wars......

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:26 AM (Zz0t1)

85 Me neither - I have no interest in trying it. There is a great rib place next to my local McDs.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 07, 2020 11:17 AM (Rvt8

Some years back I saw a video on the guy that "invented" the McRib, and the brilliant idea of forming the things into a rib shaped patty. I'd guess there's so much BBQ sauce on the thing you couldn't tell WTF you were eating anyway.

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:26 AM (L8ADy)

86 It's not as evident in redder states yet, but the progs have gone all in. There will be no olive branches for people trying to get us fired, or dismissing charges against goons assaulting us, vandalizing our homes, or setting fires in our community.

--

I'm not joking that people who donated even $25 to Trump will be found and harassed.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:27 AM (ylp2r)

87 >>To me, she's like that Brandy singer chick from the 90's.

Fine girl, what a good wife she would be.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 07, 2020 11:27 AM (ZLI7S)

88 Amanda Seyfried and Hugh Jackman
Les Miz

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 07, 2020 11:27 AM (4tiP2)

89 I've been kind of in the mood for a cheesesteak today. Wit.

But now I am thinking home-made McRib looks pretty good.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at December 07, 2020 11:27 AM (r3jC3)

90 >>My wife pants after Hugh Jackman. She claims its because of all his "talents". Uh huh.

He seems like a genuinely nice guy in an industry brimming with narcissistic deviants, but he's so gay.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 07, 2020 11:27 AM (bDqIh)

91 Had enough yet of the traitors and silent center crowd? Show this to your friends and family. Let's see if they denounce this along with the past violence.
Posted by: bat nationalist at December 07, 2020 11:22 AM (DH4sA)

They will just become more hunkered down in silence, hoping that they can avoid the unpleasantness by not being involved.

And incrementally become use to the heavier and heavier chains of tyranny.

Posted by: Bete at December 07, 2020 11:28 AM (Ojki1)

92 Some years back I saw a video on the guy that
"invented" the McRib, and the brilliant idea of forming the things into a
rib shaped patty. I'd guess there's so much BBQ sauce on the thing you
couldn't tell WTF you were eating anyway.

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:26 AM

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We get the generic McRib sandwiches at Sams for the VFW and people like them for some reason.

I would have to literally be starving to eat a microwaved sandwich.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at December 07, 2020 11:29 AM (JUOKG)

93
*Gorilla*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 07, 2020 11:29 AM (EGyGV)

94 SheDat is all kinds of cute, but I drive a truck that's older than she is.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BidenCheated at December 07, 2020 11:29 AM (HaL55)

95 My wife pants after Hugh Jackman. She claims its because of all his "talents". Uh huh.

She DOES know that pants are optional here, right?

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

96
I don't know who that Kasie Hunt gal is, but, she's either being ironic or is completely delusional.
====================
A major part of her problem is she's dumb as a brick.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at December 07, 2020 11:30 AM (r3jC3)

97 Also, apparently, a very loose woman.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 07, 2020 11:17 AM (LvTSG)

__________

"Loose? You mean, like, jiggly? * hic *"

Posted by: ShainS at December 07, 2020 11:30 AM (9g9mO)

98
Center for Tech and Civic Life

This is the "non-profit" that Zuckerberg gave $400 million to so local key counties could fund Dominion voting machines for free if they can't afford them, as long as local election officials don't look inside at how they operate.

CTCL is run by former Obama leftists.

Another point to connect in the scam.

And over $80 million of Zucker money went to "grants" in cities like Philadelphia, for drop boxes with no chain of custody, and giant consolidated counting centers, to control vote counting. Remember, a billionaire wanted to keep his 230 protection, that Trump was threatening to eliminate it.

Massive fraudulent voting. Only in the huge Democrat run cities.

Direct payoff to buy the election from a billionaire for direct benefit, and so far, to quote Harry Reid, "It worked, didn't it?"

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 07, 2020 11:30 AM (sy5kK)

99 >> SheDat is all kinds of cute,

What's a SheDat?

Posted by: garrett at December 07, 2020 11:31 AM (xTW+j)

100 He seems like a genuinely nice guy in an industry brimming with narcissistic deviants, but he's so gay.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 07, 2020 11:27 AM (bDqIh)

I got nothin'...

Except to say to say that he could pull some legit weights when he was training for the role as Wolverine.

Posted by: browndog at December 07, 2020 11:31 AM (BgMrQ)

101 Ruby Freeman discloses how her community put Trump over the top, this left her in tears, so she and her baby fixed that right up tout de suiteso that Bidet won the precinct.#Magic!

https://tinyurl.com/y4amkzth

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:31 AM (DJFLF)

102 The burst pipe story has now turned into an overflowing urinal.

Posted by: f'd at December 07, 2020 11:31 AM (+y8uL)

103 "I'm not joking that people who donated even $25 to Trump will be found and harassed.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:27 AM (ylp2r)"

We're still at the point where competent individuals see the value to positive optics and are waiting to see what SCOTUS and the state legislatures do.

If they fuck us and Trump doesn't have a surprise to pull out, all hell will break loose.

Posted by: there are only three star wars films at December 07, 2020 11:31 AM (EEVQU)

104 >>The burst pipe story has now turned into an overflowing urinal.

Shep Smith had one of those at his wedding.

it was right next to the chocolate fountain.

Posted by: garrett at December 07, 2020 11:32 AM (xTW+j)

105 A major part of her problem is she's dumb as a brick.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at December 07, 2020 11:30 AM (r3jC3)
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so, newsreader or some Hollywood actress of which I know nothing.

What do I win?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at December 07, 2020 11:32 AM (WEBkv)

106 Is that Huge Ackman?

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at December 07, 2020 11:32 AM (AD14M)

107 He seems like a genuinely nice guy in an industry brimming with narcissistic deviants, but he's so gay.
===============
I keep telling her! But she is only recently willing to admit Tom Cruise is probably gay, so she holds on to these ideas for awhile.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at December 07, 2020 11:32 AM (r3jC3)

108 No, she gets it. Fooling the rubes is, as the Ewok puts it, part of the kink.
----------------------
The fisting metaphor - Smell The Glove.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 11:32 AM (T1Dne)

109 It's not as evident in redder states yet, but the
progs have gone all in. There will be no olive branches for people
trying to get us fired, or dismissing charges against goons assaulting
us, vandalizing our homes, or setting fires in our community.
Fuck
that. They can surrender or be destroyed. Or surrender AND be destroyed,
I don't give a shit. They are not my countrymen and I have no
obligation to let them off the hook.

Posted by: there are only three star wars films at December 07, 2020 11:26 AM (EEVQU)

Bingo.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 07, 2020 11:33 AM (9Om/r)

110 I can't tell who dis is without seeing more of her body. Please revise.

Posted by: motionview at December 07, 2020 11:33 AM (pYQR/)

111 >Back in 1958, Hollywood released Stanley Kramer's film The Defiant Ones, a story of two escapes prisoners, one black (Sidney Poitier) and the other white (Tony Curtis) who hated each other but had to learn to work together to not get recaptured.

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I take it this was the "inspiration" for the 80s movie "Enemy Mine"?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 07, 2020 11:33 AM (poEUH)

112 Ruby Freeman discloses how her community put Trump over the top, this left her in tears, so she and her baby fixed that right up tout de suiteso that Bidet won the precinct.#Magic!

https://tinyurl.com/y4amkzth
Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:31 AM (DJFLF)

Kill her. That's all you have to do.

Kill Mary?

She's a risk! .....and get the priest as well......

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:33 AM (Zz0t1)

113 I keep telling her! But she is only recently willing to admit Tom Cruise is probably gay, so she holds on to these ideas for awhile.
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Is it garrett that thinks Mick Jagger is straight?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 11:33 AM (T1Dne)

114
I'm not joking that people who donated even $25 to Trump will be found and harassed.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:27 AM (ylp2r)

Yep. Welcome to being Emmanuel Goldstein, and society will work to push us out of everything and be cheered as they do it.

Posted by: Bete at December 07, 2020 11:33 AM (Ojki1)

115 Did anybody see the Sidney Powell video this morning where (apparently) a Judge Batten asked "why does this matter when Trump won't win anyway?"

The video people have linked on twatter has been pulled by goolag/YT.

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:34 AM (L8ADy)

116 Is that Huge Ackman?
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at December 07, 2020 11:32 AM (AD14M)

Will somebody please check the men's room for a Huge Ackman?

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:34 AM (Zz0t1)

117 Also, "M" uses the "In the hall of the mountain king" theme from Peer Gynt, by Edvard Grieg.

Lots of things do, it's pretty iconic.

Unfortunately for me, the prof who showed the film asked what the music was, and I answered, but first with just the name of the piece. Then he asked the composer, and I told him. And then the work, and I told him. And then he asked what is happening to Peer during the piece in the play, and I told him.

So I knew all that but of course no one else in the class did; you'd think the liberal arts majors would be the ones to know, not the engineer. But liberal arts has been crap forever I guess.

Anyway let's just say I earned the enduring hatred of my classmates for a favorable impression with the prof that day, sort of against my wishes.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 07, 2020 11:34 AM (yL25O)

118 Just wanted to point out that I was well ahead of the curve on this.

29� in Lansing right now, but our governor is the witch from the Narnia stories. So it's always winter here, and never Christmas.
Posted by: hogmartin at May 09, 2020 08:27 AM (t+qrx)

Posted by: hogmartin at December 07, 2020 11:34 AM (t+qrx)

119 I am not worried about a hot civil war, I never have been. I'm worried about our side laying down and giving up while the Left does whatever they want. Like the GOP-e is trying to do right now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2020 11:34 AM (Kpl3J)

120 113 >Back in 1958, Hollywood released Stanley Kramer's film The Defiant Ones, a story of two escapes prisoners, one black (Sidney Poitier) and the other white (Tony Curtis) who hated each other but had to learn to work together to not get recaptured.

-----

I take it this was the "inspiration" for the 80s movie "Enemy Mine"?
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I think a remake of The Thing with Two Heads would be appropriate.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (T1Dne)

121 Also, apparently, a very loose woman.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 07, 2020 11:17 AM (LvTSG)

__________

"Loose? You mean, like, jiggly? * hic *"
Posted by: ShainS

Or loose, like throwing a hot dog down a hallway?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (bkkvA)

122 The girl WhoDis reminds me of a shaved Furby.

Posted by: PubliusII at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (NCsa7)

123 Fine. They had their chance to do it the quiet, safe, non-hangy way.

Unleash the Insurrection Act.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:21 AM (ylp2r)

Not going to happen.

1. Trump doesn't have the stomach for it.

2. The military will not obey him.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (2JVJo)

124 My husband's lib "Christmas family survey" just came out.

It seems the Life Coach is very proud of herself for being a Fulton County, GA "election security" person, whatever the hell that is. She probably helped destroy Trump ballots.

Gah, so glad I'm staying home for Christmas. My husband may end up staying home as well, since the Yankee contingent of his family from NYC and NJ, are moving into my MiL's retirement cottage (against the rules) for Christmas, and he and our son have been told they are not welcome for Christmas unless they can show proof they've been tested for COVID.

This may end up being the Best Christmas Ever.

Posted by: President-Elect Jane D'oh at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (ptqGC)

125 There simply is not enough time.

There should be no time constraints. The issue of a blatantly stolen presidential election by foreign and domestic enemies requires that time be taken and the truth be known.

It takes as long as it takes. If it goes past traditional or Constitutional dates, that's just tough shit. The progs started all this, we on the right didn't. We expected the laws to be followed and for elections to be honest while the Demoprogs wanted to win power by any means necessary and got caught cheating.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BidenCheated at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (HaL55)

126 The elite Left despised "Green Book" a few years ago, because it similarly showed a black man and a white man from vastly different cultures discovering their common humanity. It was anachronistic liberalism. Never mind that the black man was educated and artistically accomplished and the white man a relative ignorant brute.

The Left will not be compromise in their objective of total racial division.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (H8QX8)

127 108 Is that Huge Ackman?

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at December 07, 2020 11:32 AM (AD14M)

Hugh G. Rection

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (5lMGa)

128 I'm not joking that people who donated even $25 to Trump will be found and harassed.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:27 AM (ylp2r)

I have zero doubt. I've given to his campaign, his legal costs, Sidney Powell and even Loeffler.

Is there any advantage to being loaded on the boxcars first? Like maybe, dibs on the haystack?

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (L8ADy)

129 121 I am not worried about a hot civil war, I never have been. I'm worried about our side laying down and giving up while the Left does whatever they want. Like the GOP-e is trying to do right now.
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Stop thinking in D v R. This is NWO Aristocrats v People.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (T1Dne)

130 The fisting metaphor - Smell The Glove.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 11:32 AM (T1Dne)

If it doesn't stink, you must acquit.

Posted by: Zombie Johnny Cochran at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (Zz0t1)

131 Not so now.

Right now, we are in the middle of a cold war that is heating up seemingly every week and it may go hot at any moment. Some days, I feel like I'm in a garage with a lot of oil-soaked rags and some cans of gasoline and the temperature outside is climbing past 102 and oh no, here comes someone with a lit cigarette.

Plus, I despise the other side. That is, I despise everything they stand for. I've compared them (progressives) on this forum to viruses, parasites, and vampires.

This.

I have alienated many of my former friends and a few relatives. I have declared that the Dems and Libs are no longer just people with who I disagree. They are the Enemy.
I have been fighting communism all my adult life. I have seen it up close and personal. I will not accept it now. I will not "heal" with the Left. I will not accept this election if Biden is declared President.
I will not give in.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 07, 2020 11:36 AM (axyOa)

132 The 2 guys in the 1958 movie worked together because they wanted the same thing - freedom. Not so anymore. A large chunk of the population has been convinced that they don't need freedom. You can't work for freedom with someone (soyboy or Karen) who doesn't want freedom.

Posted by: AMartel at December 07, 2020 11:36 AM (WWgnZ)

133 Errol Webber @ErrolWebber
A Blue Whale's anus can stretch up to 3 1/2 feet, making it the 2nd largest asshole, next to CA Governor, Gavin Newsom.

Posted by: SMOD at December 07, 2020 11:36 AM (3aI0K)

134 >Please tell me that the dismissal of Powell's case in GA for lack of standing just means that it goes faster to the Supreme Court.
Posted by: President-elect Iris

Okay
the dismissal of Powell's case in GA for lack of standing just means that it goes faster to the Supreme Court.

Posted by: DB- just DB. Embrace the horror. at December 07, 2020 11:36 AM (iTXRQ)

135
Photo 4 makes her look like Madonna.

Out.

And her eyes are very spread out across her head.
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

Like a flounder. A young, hawt, randy flounder. Before the eye migration.

Recent whodat star Anya Taylor-Joy has the same kind of wide eyes, so I'm detecting a theme here. Culminating in perennial favorite Joan Collins.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 07, 2020 11:36 AM (EGyGV)

136 I take it this was the "inspiration" for the 80s movie "Enemy Mine"?
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 07, 2020

*
*

"Enemy Mine" was originally a short story or novelette in Isaac Asimov's SF magazine in the early '80s. The author, Barry Longyear, may have been inspired by The Defiant Ones.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 07, 2020 11:36 AM (yvr3o)

137 Only instead of a black guy and a white guy, we need, say, a white, genderfluid soy-boy and an Hispanic construction worker wearing a MAGA hat.

Oh come on. Step one is kill this guy and then get on with the escape.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 07, 2020 11:36 AM (H5knJ)

138 Do I have to die for the McRib?

Please, no.

Posted by: Floyd, of Rosedale at December 07, 2020 11:37 AM (xxG/v)

139 LOL, no.

Les Mis

Posted by: Lizzy at December 07, 2020 11:20 AM (bDqIh)

__________

Watching Hugh Jackman in "Les Miserables" reminded me of watching Clint Eastwood in "Paint Your Wagon."

Posted by: ShainS at December 07, 2020 11:37 AM (NQ9ah)

140 Is there any advantage to being loaded on the boxcars first?
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They will load boxcars by Identities. Its like counting the vote at the Iowa Dem Caucus. So, you've got that going for you.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 11:37 AM (T1Dne)

141 His degree in Innuit lesbian poetry would not be useless.
_________

I think you should delete the word "not".

Posted by: Eeyore at December 07, 2020 11:37 AM (7X3UV)

142 Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:33 AM

For a price I'd do 'bout anything, except pull the trigger. For that I'd need a pretty good cause..

Posted by: Swallow the Rabbit Whole at December 07, 2020 11:37 AM (DB16e)

143 It seems the Life Coach is very proud of herself ...
Posted by: President-Elect Jane D'oh at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (ptqGC)
++++++++
Goes without saying. "Life coaches" are conmen. The best ones have also conned themselves.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 11:37 AM (hYcqw)

144 2. The military will not obey him.

-

I don't know what the answer is, but he's the CiC of the militia, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:38 AM (ylp2r)

145 I'm not joking that people who donated even $25 to Trump will be found and harassed.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:27 AM (ylp2r)

...

Uh, we were already harassed by the Trump campaign itself.

I have never received so many texts in my life.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 07, 2020 11:38 AM (yL25O)

146 I've got a movie idea:

"Beijing Joe and the Blow-Job Ho"

Kinda like "Freebie and the Bean" or "Tango and Cash" only instead of blowing up stuff and wrecking cars, they're -

blowing up the Constitution and wrecking the Economy.

Call me, Hollywood. I'm ready to pitch this!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 07, 2020 11:38 AM (dWwl8)

147 Do I have to die for the McRib?

No. Only the pig does.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 07, 2020 11:38 AM (bkkvA)

148 146 2. The military will not obey him.
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I wouldn't be too sure of that.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 11:38 AM (T1Dne)

149 143 His degree in Innuit lesbian poetry would not be useless.
_________

I think you should delete the word "not".
Posted by: Eeyore at December 07, 2020 11:37 AM (7X3UV)

Lena Dunham = chewy blubber.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 07, 2020 11:38 AM (s2VJv)

150 Watching Hugh Jackman in "Les Miserables" reminded me of watching Clint Eastwood in "Paint Your Wagon."
Posted by: ShainS at December 07, 2020 11:37 AM (NQ9ah)

...

You can watch him in Oklahoma too if you're inclined.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 07, 2020 11:39 AM (yL25O)

151 I was considering going to see Hugh Jackman in concert a few years ago, but I know that I would have been disappointed if he didn't do at least one sing while in costume as Wolverine

Posted by: josephistan at December 07, 2020 11:39 AM (Izzlo)

152 Remake The Defiant Onesp/i] with Dr. Richard (some call him Rachel) Levine...

Call it The Deviant Ones

Posted by: Muldoon at December 07, 2020 11:39 AM (m45I2)

153 Not going to happen.

1. Trump doesn't have the stomach for it.

2. The military will not obey him.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (2JVJo)

Just. Wow.

Remind me not to make you or any of the rest of the negativity crowd in this morning's The Morning Report posters Morale Officer in any organization I run...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy 🍺 at December 07, 2020 11:39 AM (ZSK0i)

154 then Ruby backs out of interview with Carolyn Ryan and says she needs to lawyer up:
https://tinyurl.com/y5t3kfb5

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:39 AM (DJFLF)

155
Unfortunately for me, the prof who showed the film asked what the music was, and I answered, but first with just the name of the piece. Then he asked the composer, and I told him. And then the work, and I told him. And then he asked what is happening to Peer during the piece in the play, and I told him. . . .
Posted by: TexasDan at December 07, 2020

*
*

I know all of that but the last point, never having seen or read the play.

"Who was Peer Gynt's mother?"
"Mrs. Gynt, of course."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 07, 2020 11:39 AM (yvr3o)

156 Welp, time to engage in some useful activity, cleaning firearms.

They got a workout, but, were put away a bit dirty and that situation will not stand!

Later!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at December 07, 2020 11:39 AM (WEBkv)

157 Formatting fail. Yikes.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 07, 2020 11:39 AM (m45I2)

158 I'm not joking that people who donated even $25 to Trump will be found and harassed.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:27 AM (ylp2r)

Bring it.

I was working a Tea Party rally here during Barry's Reign of Terror, and some guy took pictures of each and every one of us (we were stupidly wearing name badges). It was right after that that the TSA begin singling me out Every Single Time I flew, for a full pat-down, etc. This went on for years. It finally ended when I contacted my congress critter after Trump won.

Posted by: President-Elect Jane D'oh at December 07, 2020 11:39 AM (ptqGC)

159 I was genuinely shocked by someone claiming Biden doesn't lie given that I have yet to hear him make a public speech in 2020 without lying, then I saw the blue check.

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 07, 2020 11:39 AM (B0mGw)

160 I take it this was the "inspiration" for the 80s movie "Enemy Mine"?
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 07, 2020 11:33 AM (poEUH)

I liked the movie, and if you recall there's a scene at the end where Dennis Quaid has to go rescue the alien's son from a mine where he's being used as slave labor. That scene got added in by the producers after initial shooting was over, and this was how it went.
Producers: "The movie is called "Enemy Mine". But there's no enemy mine in the movie."
Director: "No, you see it's a literary phrase, it's not literal."
Producers: "We don't get it. Put an enemy mine in the movie."
Director: "ok whatever."
That is seriously what happened, not a joke.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2020 11:40 AM (Kpl3J)

161 Thanks for Hugh OM. We could use more pictures of Hugh. 3 or 4 a day would be ok.

Posted by: Tuna at December 07, 2020 11:40 AM (gLRfa)

162 129 108 Is that Huge Ackman?

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at December 07, 2020 11:32 AM (AD14M)

Hugh G. Rection
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (5lMGa)

Hugh Jampton. Brits will get that reference.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 07, 2020 11:40 AM (s2VJv)

163 149 Do I have to die for the McRib?

No. Only the pig does.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 07, 2020 11:38 AM (bkkvA)

Guess again

Posted by: The Racoon at December 07, 2020 11:40 AM (Izzlo)

164 149 Do I have to die for the McRib?

No. Only the pig does.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 07, 2020 11:38 AM (bkkvA)

Sure, believe there is a pig involved in this sandwich.

Posted by: Bete at December 07, 2020 11:40 AM (Ojki1)

165 Maybe having two living popes was a prequel to what we are entering? I'm prettys sure Angela Merkel had a vote for Francis and she is nominally Lutheran.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 11:40 AM (T1Dne)

166 Who's dis is a mean girl but I forget her name ... someone will have it above, I'm sure.

Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at December 07, 2020 11:40 AM (AHq56)

167 Seems kind of odd to claim the military won't support Trump when it is mostly ex-military spooks who are helping him now.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 07, 2020 11:40 AM (ZLI7S)

168 "we need, say, a white, genderfluid soy-boy and an Hispanic construction worker wearing a MAGA hat."
--------------------------------------------------------

We sort of had that dynamic in Die Hard 4, with the wimpy computer guy and Bruce Willis working together. I remember enjoying their interactions - good movie.

Posted by: 496 at December 07, 2020 11:40 AM (U1eOr)

169 https://tinyurl.com/y4amkzth
Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:31 AM (DJFLF)

Something about that leaves me skeptical.

Posted by: President-elect Emmie at December 07, 2020 11:41 AM (ofYez)

170 @86 Moron Robbie
-
Harassment only works if you're ashamed of what you've done. Square your shoulders, look them in the eye, and smirk as you respond "Yeah? So?"

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 07, 2020 11:41 AM (B0mGw)

171 29 in Lansing right now, but our governor is the witch from the Narnia stories. So it's always winter here, and never Christmas.
===

Please tell me people are putting up posters or flyers depicting her as the White Witch in Michigan. Down in Ohio some guy printed out a bunch of posters depicting DeWine as Big Brother after he ordered the 10pm curfew.

Posted by: Augustine at December 07, 2020 11:41 AM (BDZWU)

172 168 Maybe having two living popes was a prequel to what we are entering? I'm prettys sure Angela Merkel had a vote for Francis and she is nominally Lutheran.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 11:40 AM (T1Dne)

Obama had a vote and he's a Muslim

Posted by: CN at December 07, 2020 11:41 AM (ONvIw)

173
In AZ, a woman has organized 500 volunteers to go door to door to confirm votes.
They knock on the door, ask if the person who voted there was actually that person, and if not, ("oh, he died two years ago" - "oh, will you sign this affidavit saying that, and can I take your picture?" - "sure")
This has been going on a few days now, and they aren't telling their numbers because they are still working hard, but one comment was they will get tens of thousands of illegal vote affidavits.
The woman's name is Liz Harris, and she needs another 1,000 volunteers to go door to door for an hour or two each.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 07, 2020 11:42 AM (sy5kK)

174 155 Not going to happen.

1. Trump doesn't have the stomach for it.

2. The military will not obey him.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (2JVJo)

Just. Wow.

Remind me not to make you or any of the rest of the negativity crowd in this morning's The Morning Report posters Morale Officer in any organization I run...

Without engaging the substance, I think there's genuine humor in the fact that the "unleash the Insurrection Act!" crowd are the "positive" thinkers. lol

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 07, 2020 11:42 AM (H5knJ)

175 @171 - Die Hard 4
-
They did not pull any punches in that movie. I about crapped when he kicked the crap out of that little Chinese girl and threw her down the elevator. 1-800-Dial-A-Hooker

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 07, 2020 11:42 AM (B0mGw)

176 Gateway Pundit has IDs of the Ruby Freeman Crime Family, I guess they used facial recognition software. And the big dude Ralph Jones is the guy who reported the burst pipe that required all six states to shut down and stop voting.
I'm not linking it because some people hate GP

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:42 AM (DJFLF)

177 120 Just wanted to point out that I was well ahead of the curve on this.

29 in Lansing right now, but our governor is the witch from the Narnia stories. So it's always winter here, and never Christmas.
Posted by: hogmartin at May 09, 2020 08:27 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: hogmartin at December 07, 2020 11:34 AM (t+qrx)

...

This man plays dangerous games in old threads.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 07, 2020 11:42 AM (yL25O)

178 155 Not going to happen.

1. Trump doesn't have the stomach for it.

2. The military will not obey him.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (2JVJo)

1. I wouldn't say stomach so much as it is just not how he thinks. He's an organization guy. And I doubt any advisor will even raise the issue.

2. I'm not sure about this. I think there is more support for Trump than we know. It would require a national address by Trump, maybe even the necessity of commandeering the networks through the emergency broadcast system.

But as I said, it's not how he operates.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 07, 2020 11:43 AM (H8QX8)

179 What's a SheDat?

Past tense of WhoDis. Or WhoDeyBe.

Who's Your Little Who Zis? - https://youtu.be/YgqD4xcsFig

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BidenCheated at December 07, 2020 11:43 AM (HaL55)

180 168 Maybe having two living popes was a prequel to what we are entering? I'm prettys sure Angela Merkel had a vote for Francis and she is nominally Lutheran.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 11:40 AM (T1Dne)
===

What do you mean exactly? Are you saying Merkel had a vote in making Francis pope after Benedict resigned?

Posted by: Augustine at December 07, 2020 11:43 AM (BDZWU)

181 The McRib...

It's where Scottish Eve came from...

Posted by: Clan MacLeod at December 07, 2020 11:43 AM (BgMrQ)

182 Something about that leaves me skeptical.

Posted by: President-elect Emmie at December 07, 2020 11:41 AM (ofYez)
okay

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:43 AM (DJFLF)

183 "
Not going to happen.

1. Trump doesn't have the stomach for it.

2. The military will not obey him.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (2JVJo)"

Trump has tried really, really hard to keep a lid on things during his time in office, but if he backs away from this it'll be worse. Might also be more decisive, though. Can't engage in vote fraud when you're impaled on a pole.

Posted by: there are only three star wars films at December 07, 2020 11:43 AM (EEVQU)

184 Two smug hollywood types. What do I win?

Posted by: Archer at December 07, 2020 11:43 AM (gmo/4)

185 173 @86 Moron Robbie
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Harassment only works if you're ashamed of what you've done. Square your shoulders, look them in the eye, and smirk as you respond "Yeah? So?"
Posted by: squid_hunt at December 07, 2020 11:41 AM (B0mGw)

Oh?

And when you are let go from your job cause you don't fit the culture they want? And the others won't touch you for the same reason?

Posted by: Bete at December 07, 2020 11:44 AM (Ojki1)

186 Pro Tip:

Never go hitch hiking with a Inuit lesbian poet. You will not like it when she thumbs a diesel down and then pulls her harpoon out of her dirty red bandanna.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 07, 2020 11:44 AM (m45I2)

187 What do you mean exactly? Are you saying Merkel had a vote in making Francis pope after Benedict resigned?
Posted by: Augustine at December 07, 2020 11:43 AM (BDZWU)

Or helping Benedict out the door.

Posted by: CN at December 07, 2020 11:44 AM (ONvIw)

188 Wandrea Shaye Moss aka "Baby Girl Brain" of the operation is Ruby daughter.

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:44 AM (DJFLF)

189 I think The Defiant Ones> could be a success because some progress in race relations had been made, even back then

WWII was a watershed for race relations in the US. *Something* changed that popular culture didn't notice, and that historians have largely overlooked.

Anecdotes: the Jack Benny show recycled a script post-WWII that they had used pre-WWII. The post-WWII performance received negative feedback because of the jokes directed towards Rochester.

The Battle of Athens, TN, was kicked off by a black man being barred from the polling station. It wasn't so much about his color (for the local machine) as his political loyalty, but post-WWII you have a bunch of veterans willing to put their lives on the line to ensure blacks had access to the vote.

There was an attitude shift during or because of WWII. It may have taken the civil rights movement to motivate the changes, but that new attitude was critical.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 07, 2020 11:44 AM (naEeR)

190 103 The burst pipe story has now turned into an overflowing urinal.

Posted by: f'd at December 07, 2020 11:31 AM (+y8uL)

So they cleared out an entire building because of *one* overflowing urinal? Seems a bit excessive...

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 11:45 AM (5lMGa)

191 ...maybe they're both in the same lifeboat or trapped in an airplane with irreparable damage that is slowly getting worse until it can no longer stay up. Something like that.

The point is, they have to work together to avoid getting killed. And thus the new cultural fault lines can be easily seen.

There's a great episode of Babylon 5 which flips this concept onto its head. Mollari and G'kar (who, at this point in the series, are mortal enemies) are trapped in an elevator car which is surrounded by burning wreckage. Mollari proposes that they work together to escape lest they both die; G'kar refuses.

Mollari: "What do you mean, 'no'?"
G'kar: "No."
Mollari: "You want to live as much as I, yeah?"
G'kar: "Oh, yes! But, I would much rather see you dead."

https://youtu.be/ibEaLmGz3WI

I pretty much identify with G'kar at this point.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 07, 2020 11:45 AM (DTX3h)

192 179 Gateway Pundit has IDs of the Ruby Freeman Crime Family, I guess they used facial recognition software. And the big dude Ralph Jones is the guy who reported the burst pipe that required all six states to shut down and stop voting.
I'm not linking it because some people hate GP
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Burst Pipe is a codeword for Chinese Yuan Nosediving in currency markets. It means call the semi's full of preprinted ballots.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 11:45 AM (T1Dne)

193 Huge Ackman and a man to see fried

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 07, 2020 11:45 AM (8rX4S)

194 I have to outline the major players in the Freeman family due to AG Bill Barr tuning up his bagpipes, getting ready for an upcoming Christmas Chorale you see.

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:46 AM (DJFLF)

195 McRib was good the first couple times it came out and its awful now, I don't know what they changed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 11:46 AM (KZzsI)

196 177 155 Not going to happen.

1. Trump doesn't have the stomach for it.

2. The military will not obey him.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (2JVJo)

Just. Wow.

Remind me not to make you or any of the rest of the negativity crowd in this morning's The Morning Report posters Morale Officer in any organization I run...

Without engaging the substance, I think there's genuine humor in the fact that the "unleash the Insurrection Act!" crowd are the "positive" thinkers. lol
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 07, 2020 11:42 AM (H5knJ)

Welcome to 2020

Posted by: josephistan at December 07, 2020 11:46 AM (Izzlo)

197 Producers: "The movie is called "Enemy Mine". But there's no enemy mine in the movie."
Director: "No, you see it's a literary phrase, it's not literal."
Producers: "We don't get it. Put an enemy mine in the movie."
Director: "ok whatever."
That is seriously what happened, not a joke.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2020 11:40 AM (Kpl3J)

...

Director *shows dailies*

Director: happy now?

Posted by: TexasDan at December 07, 2020 11:46 AM (yL25O)

198 Gateway Pundit has IDs of the Ruby Freeman Crime
Family, I guess they used facial recognition software. And the big dude
Ralph Jones is the guy who reported the burst pipe that required all six
states to shut down and stop voting.
I'm not linking it because some people hate GP

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:42 AM (DJFLF)

And someone on a twitter feed took a screen shot of Ruby Freeman's Facebook page, before she made it private, where this sub-literate creature brags about how she and her daughter, with the blonde braids, "made history" by "correcting ballots" in favor of Biden.

It is absolutely stunning. This bitch and her hell spawn and others need to be in prison. She also posted video on Instagram smugly talking about "getting to work" and chuckling.
Treasonous trash.

Posted by: President-Elect Jane D'oh at December 07, 2020 11:46 AM (ptqGC)

199
It's where Scottish Eve came from...
Posted by: Clan MacLeod at December 07, 2020 11:43 AM (BgMrQ)

Isn't that a douche?

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)

200 Who dis looks Ok, but cold. Very cold.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 07, 2020 11:46 AM (u82oZ)

201 oops.

I put "Dennis Quaid steps on a mine"

But used carrots--forgot my pixy-fu there for a minute.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 07, 2020 11:47 AM (yL25O)

202 198 McRib was good the first couple times it came out and its awful now, I don't know what they changed.
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As with all edible treats it was redesigned to fit a set price point. They either get smaller or they are made from paper products. Heh, there is no inflation.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 11:47 AM (T1Dne)

203
My wife pants after Hugh Jackman. She claims its because of all his "talents". Uh huh.

He seems like a genuinely nice guy in an industry brimming with narcissistic deviants, but he's so gay.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 07, 2020 11:27 AM (bDqIh)

He's been married to the same woman for over 20 years, and hasn't dumped her for an updated model. Despite the fact that she's about 12 years older than him and is frankly, kind of dumpy for the wife of a major Hollywood star. That tells me that he's good people.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 07, 2020 11:47 AM (EGyGV)

204
ME: Well, yeah I think it was stolen. You guys lose a ton of House seats, dont take the senate, get CREAMED down ballot in State elections..... but Trump loses at the head of the ticket.

.... and Biden pulls in MORE votes that Obama.... without campaigning.

LIBTARD SISTER: But do you have any proof ???

ME: * forwards video tape of suitacses full of ballots, forwards tapes of testimony in multiple states claiming fraud, forwards list on hundreds of people signing affidavits to witnessing voter fraud.

LIBTARD SISTER: Well... I dont believe any of that.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 07, 2020 11:48 AM (8XRCm)

205 2. I'm not sure about this. I think there is more support for Trump than
we know. It would require a national address by Trump, maybe even the
necessity of commandeering the networks through the emergency broadcast
system.

Send in the ECOMCON Team from site Y

Posted by: Archer at December 07, 2020 11:48 AM (gmo/4)

206 So they cleared out an entire building because of *one* overflowing urinal? Seems a bit excessive...

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 11:45 AM (5lMGa)

There was a toilet in the massive building with a slight leak. No work order was ever issued. No water was running anywhere.

These thieves and traitors will never be punished.

Posted by: President-Elect Jane D'oh at December 07, 2020 11:48 AM (ptqGC)

207 Speaking of Francis, I learned over the weekend that the leader of the Jesuits ( who is nicknamed the Black Pope), was a huge supporter of Hugo Chavez. Color me shocked.

Posted by: Augustine at December 07, 2020 11:48 AM (BDZWU)

208 2020 is just the opening act for 2021. I expect worse

Posted by: grease monkey at December 07, 2020 11:48 AM (kNgPX)

209 There's a great episode of Babylon 5 which flips
this concept onto its head. Mollari and G'kar (who, at this point in
the series, are mortal enemies) are trapped in an elevator car which is
surrounded by burning wreckage. Mollari proposes that they work
together to escape lest they both die; G'kar refuses.

Mollari: "What do you mean, 'no'?"

G'kar: "No."

Mollari: "You want to live as much as I, yeah?"

G'kar: "Oh, yes! But, I would much rather see you dead."

https://youtu.be/ibEaLmGz3WI

I pretty much identify with G'kar at this point.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 07, 2020 11:45 AM (DTX3h)

That scene was the absolute funniest frigging scene in the whole 5 years of B5.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 07, 2020 11:48 AM (9Om/r)

210 I'm not linking it because some people hate GP

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:42 AM

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Well there is a reason some people do not like GP. They have a tendency to push wild conspiracy stuff for the last few years. They jumped onboard the Qanon train before it left the station.

I still go there and read some of their stuff, but they shot their credibility long ago and anything I read there I make sure to check out with other sources before I link to it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at December 07, 2020 11:48 AM (JUOKG)

211 Y'know, after Spygate, impeachment, the election, the 'Rona and the sum total of the past five years, I have come to a conclusion. I am never going to make fun of a conspiracy theorist again. Sure, I think most conspiracy theories are bullshit and that hasn't changed, but the last five years have been an object lesson in just how perverse and corrupt the government is. Even if I don't buy in to your particular conspiracy, I'm no longer going to poke fun at you if you have one. After the past five years, who am I to discount any conspiracy accusation against this government or its allied industries?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 11:49 AM (hYcqw)

212 And someone on a twitter feed took a screen shot of
Ruby Freeman's Facebook page, before she made it private, where this
sub-literate creature brags about how she and her daughter, with the
blonde braids, "made history" by "correcting ballots" in favor of Biden.

It is absolutely stunning. This bitch and her hell spawn
and others need to be in prison. She also posted video on Instagram
smugly talking about "getting to work" and chuckling.
Treasonous trash.

Posted by: President-Elect Jane D'oh at December 07, 2020 11:46 AM (ptqGC)
Jane, Jane, just calm your tittays now girly.
No need to worry, Gateway Pundit and I are on this case! We are giving AG Barr a break due to him working on a bagpipe rendition of "Silent Night" that will leave us all verklempt!
Gateway Pundit and I are ON IT

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:49 AM (DJFLF)

213 Blacks in the 50s were making great strides in improving their financial status. It wasn't up to the average while wealth but is was improving rapidly. Then came LBJ and the "Great Society" in 1964 and destroyed all that.

Black family life came to a screeching halt.

Posted by: Vic at December 07, 2020 11:49 AM (mpXpK)

214 202
It's where Scottish Eve came from...
Posted by: Clan MacLeod at December 07, 2020 11:43 AM (BgMrQ)

Isn't that a douche?
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)

Eu De Ewe

Posted by: Clan MacLeod at December 07, 2020 11:49 AM (BgMrQ)

215 143 His degree in Innuit lesbian poetry would not be useless.
_________

I think you should delete the word "not".
Posted by: Eeyore at December 07, 2020 11:37 AM (7X3UV

Thank you, corrected. I always hate it when a typo ruins the joke.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 11:49 AM (5lMGa)

216 The McRib is the McNugget with scraps glued together from a different animal and squeezed in a different mold. Not breaded and drowned in a too sweet bbq sauce.

Posted by: Downcast, fallen, but got up. at December 07, 2020 11:49 AM (EtoM+)

217 He's been married to the same woman for over 20 years, and hasn't dumped her for an updated model.

He has a son named Max Jackman.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) blurts at December 07, 2020 11:49 AM (yQpMk)

218 >That is seriously what happened, not a joke.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2020 11:40 AM (Kpl3J)

LOL

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (poEUH)

219 I take it this was the "inspiration" for the 80s movie "Enemy Mine"?

I'm prolly alone on this, but I kinda liked that movie.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BidenCheated at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (HaL55)

220 Dear Ms. Siegfried,

Please, please age gracefully, no plastic surgery. You are getting better looking with age.

With love,

nip

Posted by: nip at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (yoqcZ)

221 My wife is an esthetician, does Brazilian waxes and such. She once had Amanda Seyfried stop in for a service.

So, you know, one degree of separation for me.

Posted by: Grip the Weasel at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (KbCG3)

222 okay

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:43 AM (DJFLF)

Don't get me wrong; I believe she engaged in voter fraud. I just have trouble imagining her writing such a clear and definite confession. She's proud of what she did and I would expect more embellishments and fewer specifics.

Posted by: President-elect Emmie at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (ofYez)

223 It's where Scottish Eve came from...
Posted by: Clan MacLeod at December 07, 2020 11:43 AM (BgMrQ)

Isn't that a douche?
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)
+++++++++++++
Yeah, but spoiler alert: it's just reagent alcohol.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (hYcqw)

224 @188 Beta
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Oh? You're going to get fired for donating to a major political party? C'mon. I'm not saying it can't happen. It's not there now. Shirking and ducking and whispering are what's going to get us there. Stop cowering in fear of a bunch of losers too stupid to turn off a camera before they roll in pallets of fake ballots.

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (B0mGw)

225 Does anybody really think the forces arrayed against Trump and us are going to let him off the ropes at this point? That is, allow him to find court or legislature relief? This is the moment they've been working toward, and no matter how crude or spectacularly obvious their fraud, they're in it to win it whatever the cost.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (H8QX8)

226 LIBTARD SISTER: But do you have any proof ???

ME: * forwards video tape of suitacses full of ballots, forwards
tapes of testimony in multiple states claiming fraud, forwards list on
hundreds of people signing affidavits to witnessing voter fraud.

LIBTARD SISTER: Well... I dont believe any of that.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 07, 2020 11:48 AM (8XRCm)
----------------------------------

You and my husband share the same sister(s)? My husband's entire family are drooling progs. They are celebrating Biden's "epic win!!"

Posted by: President-Elect Jane D'oh at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (ptqGC)

227 LIBTARD SISTER: Well... I dont believe any of that.

Posted by: fixerupper

Pull out the old "Well ... please excuse me then. I'm not dressed for church."

Posted by: Adriane the Easily Impressed Critic ... at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (LPnfS)

228 >>> He seems like a genuinely nice guy in an industry brimming with narcissistic deviants, but he's so gay.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 07, 2020 11:27 AM (bDqIh)

Love Hugh, all I ever hear is he is one of the nice guys in Hollywood. And that either he has the most faithful, rock-solid marriage, or they have a mutually open marriage. Who knows, it's Hollywood.

Amanda said in an interview during the Les Mis press blitz it was hard getting into Cosette's character, because she is like the complete opposite of her in almost every way. It was inferred girl got around a bit.

Posted by: LizLem at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (Rbfr/)

229 Stop thinking in D v R. This is NWO Aristocrats v People.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 11:35 AM (T1Dne)

And Bingo was his name.

Posted by: Gaelic Girl's Irish Democracy at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (5FCda)

230 Heh, there is no inflation.

Yeah the lie about inflation that we have lived under for the last 10+ years is one of the worst in American history. They just redefined the criteria for inflation until it never happens no matter what the prices do.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 11:51 AM (KZzsI)

231 You realize we're really out on a limb when our best hope of retaining the presidency is for Trump to launch what the south americans call an "auto-golpe" (self coup) by using the military and martial law to nullify the election.

Gotta agree with MPPP, that's not going to happen for both of the reasons he mentioned. It's good to be hopeful, but thinking that might happen is delusional. There's still a thin chance the SCOTUS could step in, but that's about the only realistic chance left.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2020 11:51 AM (Kpl3J)

232 It's where Scottish Eve came from...
Posted by: Clan MacLeod at December 07, 2020 11:43 AM (BgMrQ)

Isn't that a douche?
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)

Eu De Ewe
Posted by: Clan MacLeod

Ewe Du Ewe & I'll do me.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 07, 2020 11:51 AM (bkkvA)

233 "...doesn't lie even when it might be easier"

Oh sweetie. Of course he lies when it's easier, and often just out of habit because he knows he will get cover. But you'll cover for him no matter what incompetence, or dereliction he demonstrates, so for the most part he need not care.

Posted by: mikethemoose at December 07, 2020 11:51 AM (Y6UV7)

234 He has a son named Max Jackman.

If he doesn't go by the nickname of Maximum Jack and overdo everything, he's not living his best life.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 07, 2020 11:51 AM (H5knJ)

235 227 @188 Beta
-
Oh? You're going to get fired for donating to a major political party? C'mon. I'm not saying it can't happen. It's not there now. Shirking and ducking and whispering are what's going to get us there. Stop cowering in fear of a bunch of losers too stupid to turn off a camera before they roll in pallets of fake ballots.
Posted by: squid_hunt at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (B0mGw)

If they can fire the CEO of Mozilla for donating on a referendum I'm sure they can fire Joe nobody.

Posted by: Warlord Someguy - General Who Pacifies The East and West at December 07, 2020 11:52 AM (Zm+LZ)

236 When I was a young man, I was a radical, convinced of the criminal nature of all the institutions of the USA, beginning with all the 3 letter agencies, and of the lying nature of all the 3 letter news groups.
Then I became a patriotic American, Republican.
That lasted up until 2017 when things began to erode, despite my support of DJT.
Now I have completely returned to the disposition of my youth.

Posted by: attila the irritable at December 07, 2020 11:52 AM (w7KSn)

237 My wife is an esthetician, does Brazilian waxes and such. She once had Amanda Seyfried stop in for a service.

So, you know, one degree of separation for me.

Posted by: Grip the Weasel at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (KbCG3)

So, hardwood it is.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) blurts at December 07, 2020 11:52 AM (yQpMk)

238
It is absolutely stunning. This bitch and her hell spawn and others need to be in prison. She also posted video on Instagram smugly talking about "getting to work" and chuckling.
Treasonous trash.

Posted by: President-Elect Jane D'oh at December 07, 2020 11:46 AM (ptqGC)

Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, you mean.

Posted by: President Kamalalaal at December 07, 2020 11:52 AM (Ojki1)

239 Don't get me wrong; I believe she engaged in voter
fraud. I just have trouble imagining her writing such a clear and
definite confession. She's proud of what she did and I would expect
more embellishments and fewer specifics.

Posted by: President-elect Emmie at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (ofYez)
It rang 100% true to me.

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:52 AM (DJFLF)

240 2020 is just the opening act for 2021. I expect worse

-

Yep. Damn these people for working so hard to ensure that children can't grow up in freedom in the United States.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:52 AM (ylp2r)

241 It's where Scottish Eve came from...

Posted by: Clan MacLeod at December 07, 2020 11:43 AM (BgMrQ)

Isn't that a douche?

"Manly? Yes, but I like it, too."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BidenCheated at December 07, 2020 11:52 AM (HaL55)

242 I'm prolly alone on this, but I kinda liked that movie.

No, it was a good movie, one of Louis Gosset's best. He could act, he just rarely got good scripts.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 11:52 AM (KZzsI)

243 Oh? You're going to get fired for donating to a major political party? C'mon. I'm not saying it can't happen. It's not there now. Shirking and ducking and whispering are what's going to get us there. Stop cowering in fear of a bunch of losers too stupid to turn off a camera before they roll in pallets of fake ballots.
Posted by: squid_hunt at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (B0mGw)
+++++++++++
No, not for donating. Not yet, anyway and likely not ever. But it may well factor into the decision to fire you for being regressive. And companies *do* fire for this, at least in my industry (high tech). Don't toe the progressive line, violate the speech code, refuse critical theory indoctrination, and you'll be out during the next layoff. No muss, no fuss.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 11:52 AM (hYcqw)

244 Don't get me wrong; I believe she engaged in voter
fraud. I just have trouble imagining her writing such a clear and
definite confession.

-

Where in the mid-west do you live?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:53 AM (ylp2r)

245 >McRib was good the first couple times it came out and its awful now, I don't know what they changed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 11:46 AM (KZzsI)

Yeah, I tried one this go around, and it tasted like the prototypical lips & assholes, slathered in cheap BBQ sauce. I thought it was a bit tastier than that.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 07, 2020 11:53 AM (poEUH)

246 They just redefined the criteria for inflation until it never happens no matter what the prices do.

no kidding. Eliminate food, housing and energy from the equation and it's all good!

Posted by: DanMan at December 07, 2020 11:53 AM (aUOqu)

247 "He's been married to the same woman for over 20 years, and hasn't dumped her for an updated model. Despite the fact that she's about 12 years older than him and is frankly, kind of dumpy for the wife of a major Hollywood star. That tells me that he's good people."

And it also tells me he's gay.

Posted by: Eddie Baby at December 07, 2020 11:53 AM (wpJDK)

248 Never go hitch hiking with a Inuit lesbian poet. You will not like it when she thumbs a diesel down and then pulls her harpoon out of her dirty red bandanna.

We recited every Inuit lesbian poem that driver knew.

Posted by: Cthillary, dead but dreaming at December 07, 2020 11:53 AM (Ggb9q)

249 It's going to be interesting to watch my in-laws and prog sister who were all "Bush is a war criminal!!!" and then silence during the Obama years, and claiming in their demented minds that Trump was a war criminal!!!! and then Biden ramping up Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, etc. and silence from them again.

Posted by: President-Elect Jane D'oh at December 07, 2020 11:53 AM (ptqGC)

250 "...doesn't lie even when it might be easier"

This cracks me up so much.

I mean, putting aside the continual stream of whoppers pouring out of Bidens mouth, she's praising his evasions and refusal to answer a question?

At least he's not lying! Talk about damning with faint praise.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 11:53 AM (KZzsI)

251 Remember, SCOAMF fired nearly 200 senior brass in 5 years, 9 generals in 2013 alone. The coup has been in the planning stages for a while.

https://tinyurl.com/y78c6tbm

Somebody will be disobeyed, but will it be Trump?

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:53 AM (L8ADy)

252 You're going to get fired for donating to a major political party?

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Maybe just fire bombed.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:53 AM (ylp2r)

253 I just have trouble imagining her writing such a clear and
definite confession.

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She wasnt confessing.

She was virtue signaling for upvotes and ratios.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 07, 2020 11:53 AM (8XRCm)

254 I tried a mcrib once. ONCE. It was terrible. I don't understand the fuss.

Posted by: I Have Questions at December 07, 2020 11:54 AM (RGRIY)

255 Funny, OM took my exact thoughts on "progressives" (and let's be real, they aren't progressing anything other than servitude and serfdom because that's where all their roads lead) and expressed them for me very nicely. Amazing mind meld!

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 07, 2020 11:54 AM (O+I8R)

256 @188 Beta
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Oh? You're going to get fired for donating to a major political party? C'mon. I'm not saying it can't happen. It's not there now. Shirking and ducking and whispering are what's going to get us there. Stop cowering in fear of a bunch of losers too stupid to turn off a camera before they roll in pallets of fake ballots.
Posted by: squid_hunt

Already seen it. CA prop 8.

Posted by: Adriane the Easily Impressed Critic ... at December 07, 2020 11:54 AM (LPnfS)

257 @238 Warlord
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You have that backwards. They can fire him because his position is elected by a board. They did fire him to make an example of. They can't afford to make martyrs of little guys for their perfectly ordinary political views. The soft intimidation is much more effective at suppressing their opponents until they truly do have the upper hand.

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 07, 2020 11:54 AM (B0mGw)

258 I take it this was the "inspiration" for the 80s movie "Enemy Mine"?
I don't know if Barry B Longyear wrote it or did the novelization of the film, but I like much of his writing. Portrait of Baron Negay from "It Came from Schenectady" is probably my favorite short story, although I read it in Isaac Asimov's magazine.

Posted by: Downcast, fallen, but got up. at December 07, 2020 11:54 AM (EtoM+)

259 We recited every Inuit lesbian poem that driver knew.
Posted by: Cthillary, dead but dreaming at December 07, 2020 11:53 AM (Ggb9q)

Did you try Vogon poetry?

Posted by: browndog at December 07, 2020 11:54 AM (BgMrQ)

260 Yeah the lie about inflation that we have lived under for the last 10+
years is one of the worst in American history. They just redefined the
criteria for inflation until it never happens no matter what the prices
do.

Under TFG's Rein of Error, inflation was running around 10%. Now it's around 15% and rising.

Inflation has inflation.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BidenCheated at December 07, 2020 11:54 AM (HaL55)

261 192 I think The Defiant Ones> could be a success because some progress in race relations had been made, even back then

WWII was a watershed for race relations in the US. *Something* changed that popular culture didn't notice, and that historians have largely overlooked.

Anecdotes: the Jack Benny show recycled a script post-WWII that they had used pre-WWII. The post-WWII performance received negative feedback because of the jokes directed towards Rochester.

The Battle of Athens, TN, was kicked off by a black man being barred from the polling station. It wasn't so much about his color (for the local machine) as his political loyalty, but post-WWII you have a bunch of veterans willing to put their lives on the line to ensure blacks had access to the vote.

There was an attitude shift during or because of WWII. It may have taken the civil rights movement to motivate the changes, but that new attitude was critical.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 07, 2020 11:44 AM (naEeR)

It was shortly after the war that baseball & the armed services desegregated.

Posted by: josephistan at December 07, 2020 11:55 AM (Izzlo)

262 Y'know, after Spygate, impeachment, the election, the 'Rona and the sum total of the past five years, I have come to a conclusion. I am never going to make fun of a conspiracy theorist again. Sure, I think most conspiracy theories are bullshit and that hasn't changed, but the last five years have been an object lesson in just how perverse and corrupt the government is. Even if I don't buy in to your particular conspiracy, I'm no longer going to poke fun at you if you have one. After the past five years, who am I to discount any conspiracy accusation against this government or its allied industries?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 11:49 AM (hYcqw)

And maybe Obama really WAS born in Kenya

Posted by: JoeF. at December 07, 2020 11:55 AM (HrMC1)

263 Which was greater and done with more time, energy and enthusiasm:

1. Biden/Kamala campaign, event, appearances etc...

2. Efforts to panic the public with corona and systemically change the voting process by absentee/mail-in votes, harvesting etc..

Hands down number 2. The campaign was barely noticeable. The Dems/BigTech/DeepState relied almost entirely on the process, which has produced the results they wanted. That is where the fraud was and won't be undone by courts or legislators. It was/is a boot in our face...forever.

Posted by: Ripley at December 07, 2020 11:55 AM (MxEKc)

264 So, I guess Biden *didn't* lie. He just stonewalled and refused to answer. Just like he did during his entire campaign on various topics like socialized medicine and court packing. Biden was the Obamacare of candidates - have to elect him to find out what he believes.

And again with the lying canard. Trump doesn't lie. He exaggerates, surely. He is sometimes wrong. But he rarely refuses to answer and tells the truth - overblown truth with lots of superlatives, I'll grant you - when he is asked a question.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 11:55 AM (hYcqw)

265 I got some real Hungarian Hot Paprika and Paprikakrem to make another attempt at the perfect Goulash. Wish me luck.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 11:55 AM (T1Dne)

266 I just have trouble imagining her writing such a clear and definite confession.

You'd be amazed at the things criminals say on FB, Instagram, text messages etc. Fortunately, most criminals are not very bright.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 07, 2020 11:55 AM (H5knJ)

267 Anyway I'm going back to read yesterday's cookie thread. I'm kind of sulky because I missed it in real time.

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:56 AM (DJFLF)

268 Yeah, I tried one this go around, and it tasted like the prototypical lips & assholes, slathered in cheap BBQ sauce. I thought it was a bit tastier than that.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 07, 2020 11:53 AM (poEUH)

It could be something as simple as eliminating tallow or lard from the meat. Or, just mixing in less fat overall.

That hilarious kid on the Report Of The Week (ReviewBrah) who reviews fast food tried one a couple of days ago and said it was dryer than he remembered.

https://youtu.be/bQ4Sa54h-ak

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:56 AM (L8ADy)

269 You and my husband share the same sister(s)? My husband's entire family are drooling progs. They are celebrating Biden's "epic win!!"

Posted by: President-Elect Jane D'oh at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (ptqGC)

I've given up talking about any of this with my family, or what remains of it. They're entirely driven by an emotional and delusional reality they believe is based on intellect and morality. To argue with them simply drags them closer to the dismantling of their lifelong Narratives, and they cannot bear this.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 07, 2020 11:56 AM (H8QX8)

270 200 Producers: "The movie is called "Enemy Mine". But there's no enemy mine in the movie."
Director: "No, you see it's a literary phrase, it's not literal."
Producers: "We don't get it. Put an enemy mine in the movie."
Director: "ok whatever."
That is seriously what happened, not a joke.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2020 11:40 AM (Kpl3J)

Heh. This story reminds me of the story that Roger Waters and David Gilmour swear actually happened, when the 'Dark Side of the Moon' album hit it big, that a record company exec asked them which of the band member was Pink.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 11:56 AM (5lMGa)

271 Is that tweet from Whitmer real?

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 07, 2020 11:56 AM (O+I8R)

272 I have a fat mexican friend who loves the McRib.

I bring a couple by her place of work during my travels in my AO and she eats both with fries while she regales me with tales of her husband's sexual failures. I nicknamed her La Puta Gorda and she loves it.

When Mcribs are not available, it's 2 quarter pounders with cheese.

Her fat ass can eat and eat a lot.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 07, 2020 11:56 AM (K5agK)

273 It would make me happy to hear that The French Laundry got firebombed.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 11:56 AM (T1Dne)

274 He's been married to the same woman for over 20 years, and hasn't dumped her for an updated model. Despite the fact that she's about 12 years older than him and is frankly, kind of dumpy for the wife of a major Hollywood star. That tells me that he's good people.

That tells me that she's a beard.

Posted by: Cthillary, dead but dreaming at December 07, 2020 11:57 AM (Ggb9q)

275 LIBTARD SISTER: Well... I dont believe any of that.

Fixerupper, I get the same reaction around here, with the exception of Mrs Jinx, which is one reason I married her.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 07, 2020 11:57 AM (FTlwv)

276 248
>McRib was good the first couple times it came out and its awful now, I don't know what they changed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 11:46 AM (KZzsI)

Yeah, I tried one this go around, and it tasted like the
prototypical lips assholes, slathered in cheap BBQ sauce. I
thought it was a bit tastier than that.

they are preparing you to accept the delectable delight of next year's beyond mcrib.

Posted by: Anachronda, beyond the Newsom curtain at December 07, 2020 11:57 AM (sGtp+)

277 No, it was a good movie, one of Louis Gosset's best. He could act, he just rarely got good scripts.

I don't recall either he nor Quaid doing much sci-fi before or since.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BidenCheated at December 07, 2020 11:57 AM (HaL55)

278 To argue with them simply drags them closer to the dismantling of their lifelong Narratives, and they cannot bear this.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 07, 2020 11:56 AM (H8QX

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THIS.

But... its also the reason I persist.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 07, 2020 11:57 AM (8XRCm)

279 >>>is slowly getting worse until it can no longer stay up.

Oh, boy, Bob Dole can certainly relate to that.

Posted by: Bob Dole at December 07, 2020 11:57 AM (yOf1t)

280 >Now I have completely returned to the disposition of my youth.
Posted by: attila the irritable at December 07, 2020 11:52 AM (w7KSn)

Sounds like my character arc.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 07, 2020 11:57 AM (poEUH)

281 198 McRib was good the first couple times it came out and its awful now, I don't know what they changed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 11:46 AM (KZzsI)

****************

I was in the original but since I've moved on to Hog Heaven, the youngster who came after me haven't been up to standards.

But at least there is a bronze statue of me!

Posted by: Ghost of Floyd, of Rosedale at December 07, 2020 11:57 AM (xxG/v)

282 It rang 100% true to me.
Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:52 AM (DJFLF)

That's what I love about this place. There are a range of perceptions and insights. I appreciate hearing yours.

Posted by: President-elect Emmie at December 07, 2020 11:57 AM (ofYez)

283 They are celebrating Biden's "epic win!!"

Posted by: President-Elect Jane D'oh at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (ptqGC)

Ironically, my Connecticut family is conservative; the Florida branch is liberal. Got into a text war with the FL branch when the call for "unity" Biden made was echoed by them. Haven't talked to any of them since.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Si Vis Pacem, Pac Bellum) at December 07, 2020 11:57 AM (N3El/)

284 @255 Moron Robbie
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Maybe. I'll wait for the rest of the story.

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 07, 2020 11:58 AM (B0mGw)

285 Wife and I split a McRib just last night. It had been years and years since my last one. I do not remember the 'meat' having the same exact texture as the bread.

Posted by: 496 at December 07, 2020 11:58 AM (U1eOr)

286 Where in the mid-west do you live?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 11:53 AM (ylp2r)

Heh. You may have a point there.

Posted by: President-elect Emmie at December 07, 2020 11:58 AM (ofYez)

287 If they can fire the CEO of Mozilla for donating on a referendum I'm sure they can fire Joe nobody.

He wasn't the CEO, I don't think.

He *was* the inventor of the javascript programming language, though. Which is a big deal.

And yeah, what you said about firing joe nobody.

Posted by: Gman at December 07, 2020 11:59 AM (GfWuY)

288 Doc in Oregon has his license suspended for telling people the truth about the virus.

https://tinyurl.com/yxk46ozg

He asked patients with virus symptoms to wear a mask in his office, but told everyone else to not bother, because it won't stop the virus.

“She has no jurisdiction to be imposing shutdowns and to be telling any doctor how to practice medicine,” LaTulippe told the outlet. “I don’t think she knows as much as I do about microbiology, virology, epidemiology and infectious disease.”

LaTulippe has treated approximately 75 cases of coronavirus, he said, adding that all of his patients recovered without requiring hospitalization. Describing covid as “a rapidly mutating virus,” LaTulippe believes “COVID-19 is no more” and has already mutated into multiple strains.

So why was this doctor of 20 years experience suspended of his license?

Maybe because he was at a Stop the Steal rally and gave a speech hmm?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 11:59 AM (KZzsI)

289 42 My Prediction for 2021: Pain!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 07, 2020 11:21 AM (ztzef)

Thank you, Clubber.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 07, 2020 11:59 AM (nakwk)

290 WWII was a watershed for race relations in the US. *Something* changed
that popular culture didn't notice, and that historians have largely
overlooked.

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Segregation was promoted by elites. The common citizen soldier could care less. Sure they had their prejudices. Some worse than others. But much of that got dropped while in the Army, because you don't care about the color of the guy next to you in a fox hole.

Posted by: SH at December 07, 2020 11:59 AM (sX1BW)

291 >I'm prolly alone on this, but I kinda liked that movie.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BidenCheated at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (HaL55)

Been a long time since I've seen it, but I certainly liked it when I saw it last.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 07, 2020 11:59 AM (poEUH)

292 I nicknamed her La Puta Gorda and she loves it.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 07, 2020 11:56 AM (K5agK)

She loves being called the fat pussy?

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)

293 Anyway I'm going back to read yesterday's cookie thread. I'm kind of sulky because I missed it in real time.

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 11:56 AM (DJFLF)

I have to skip threads like that. Having a Type 1 diabetic husband makes bread baking and cookie baking a rare thing. I will probably make a batch of my orange nut balls (I think they're in the AOS cookbook) for our son and that's it.

Posted by: President-Elect Jane D'oh at December 07, 2020 11:59 AM (ptqGC)

294 Under TFG's Rein of Error, inflation was running around 10%. Now it's around 15% and rising.

Inflation has inflation.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BidenCheated at December 07, 2020 11:54 AM (HaL55)

Wait until we're at zero interest rates in banks. They've already got negative interest in the EU. You'd have to be half nuts to just stick money in the bank right now. I've got to figure out some more strategies and put them on the fast track. What seems like a lot now is going to be a joke in 10 years.

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:59 AM (L8ADy)

295 >>I keep telling her! But she is only recently willing to admit Tom Cruise is probably gay, so she holds on to these ideas for awhile.

There's a funny JJ Abrams interview where he tells how he met Cruise, when Cruise asked him to direct Mission Impossible, and how he then went on some 'dates' with Cruise.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 07, 2020 11:59 AM (bDqIh)

296 227 @188 Beta
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Oh? You're going to get fired for donating to a major political party? C'mon. I'm not saying it can't happen. It's not there now. Shirking and ducking and whispering are what's going to get us there. Stop cowering in fear of a bunch of losers too stupid to turn off a camera before they roll in pallets of fake ballots.
Posted by: squid_hunt at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (B0mGw)

Given a past boss proudly announced that she could never work with a Trump supporter or someone who didn't believe in BLM as a client (she wants to be a counselor) in a job funded by the Government that supposedly is designed to support everyone (so unethical for her "profession" as well as likely illegal), and the boss in charge let this fly, yeah, I do think if my boss knew my political leanings I would be downsized in a heartbeat.

Posted by: Bete at December 07, 2020 12:00 PM (Ojki1)

297 170 Seems kind of odd to claim the military won't support Trump when it is mostly ex-military spooks who are helping him now.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 07, 2020 11:40 AM (ZLI7S)

this.

Posted by: bat nationalist at December 07, 2020 12:00 PM (DH4sA)

298 Where in the mid-west do you live?
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Heh. You may have a point there.

Posted by: President-elect Emmie at December 07, 2020 11:58 AM (ofYez)

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Spend some time in Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte, Durham, etc. and you'll understand that this is 100% perfectly normal behavior.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 12:00 PM (ylp2r)

299 Fixerupper, I get the same reaction around here, with the exception of Mrs Jinx, which is one reason I married her.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 07, 2020 11:57 AM (FTlwv)

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I have four sibs. Two of us are conservative. Two are raging sociallist bordering on marxist. One is rather aoplocitical, but lean right/libertarian.

Good thing the Rona shut us down, cuz Thanksgiving would have been LIT.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 07, 2020 12:00 PM (8XRCm)

300 A few meat stores here sell the boneless pork rib things like McRibs. I think they're 'real' pork and not leftovers turned in rib-rack-shaped patties though.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 07, 2020 12:01 PM (UDapT)

301 229: My SIL is also thrilled. Her Alpharetta spawn will be voting D in the runoff despite Warnock being a jew hater. Because BLM

Posted by: CN refusing to wear the hat of the troll. at December 07, 2020 12:01 PM (ONvIw)

302 That hilarious kid on the Report Of The Week (ReviewBrah) who reviews fast food tried one a couple of days ago and said it was dryer than he remembered.

https://youtu.be/bQ4Sa54h-ak
Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:56 AM (L8ADy)

Has that kid EVER seen the sun?

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)

303 He *was* the inventor of the javascript programming language, though. Which is a big deal.

That alone should have netted him a life sentence.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 07, 2020 12:01 PM (naEeR)

304 I've got to figure out some more strategies and put them on the fast track. What seems like a lot now is going to be a joke in 10 years.

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:59 AM (L8ADy)

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Yeah, I'm thinking about cashing out while the taxes are favorable and putting at least half of it into land.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 12:01 PM (ylp2r)

305 I take it this was the "inspiration" for the 80s movie "Enemy Mine"?
I don't know if Barry B Longyear wrote it or did the novelization of the film, but I like much of his writing. Portrait of Baron Negay from "It Came from Schenectady" is probably my favorite short story, although I read it in Isaac Asimov's magazine.
Posted by: Downcast, fallen, but got up. at December 07, 2020

*
*

Longyear wrote the original story. He produced a book about writing fiction, esp. SF, and one chapter details how he developed the Idea for EM. He may have done the novelization; I dunno, as I didn't know there had been one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 07, 2020 12:01 PM (yvr3o)

306 Are those McSibs, fixerupper??

Posted by: andycanuck at December 07, 2020 12:02 PM (UDapT)

307 No, it was a good movie, one of Louis Gosset's best. He could act, he just rarely got good scripts.

What?! No good scripts!!!? He was the sidekick in "The Powers of Matthew Star!!!" Fun fact, Tom Cruise was turned down for the title role.

Posted by: Cthillary, dead but dreaming at December 07, 2020 12:02 PM (Ggb9q)

308 170 Seems kind of odd to claim the military won't support Trump when it is mostly ex-military spooks who are helping him now.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 07, 2020 11:40 AM (ZLI7S)

I keep hoping--probably in vain-- that there are enough patriots sprinkled within the military, the Deep State and even the judiciary who realize the election was a heist and are going to set things right.

But this isn't a movie.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 07, 2020 12:02 PM (HrMC1)

309 I don't recall either he nor Quaid doing much sci-fi before or since.

No, I think that was their one real foray for Gosset. Quaid did a bit of sci fi and fantasy, such as Dragonheart and GI Joe.

I think my favorite Louis Gosset film is Diggstown

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 12:02 PM (KZzsI)

310 Sorry.....whore. The fat whore?

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

311 291 he's a smart man

Posted by: CN refusing to wear the hat of the troll. at December 07, 2020 12:02 PM (ONvIw)

312 Heh. This story reminds me of the story that Roger Waters and David Gilmour swear actually happened, when the 'Dark Side of the Moon' album hit it big, that a record company exec asked them which of the band member was Pink.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 11:56 AM (5lMGa)

that's why it's in the lyrics of "Have A Cigar".

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 12:02 PM (L8ADy)

313 You'd be amazed at the things criminals say on FB, Instagram, text messages etc. Fortunately, most criminals are not very bright.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 07, 2020 11:55 AM (H5knJ)

To me, it sounded too exactly like what we want to hear in order to prove fraud. That's why I am skeptical.

I do think she committed fraud, though.

Posted by: President-elect Emmie at December 07, 2020 12:02 PM (ofYez)

314 Certain types of Michigan voter fraud, due to [Michigan] state election laws, cannot be effectively challenged with a recount.

The poll book had been updated on the Saturday before election day, and yet there were tens of thousands of brand-new voters registered Monday or Tuesday. According to Cushman, he wrote down the names of these suspicious voters, and after he started recording the voter fraud happening in his midst, he was ejected. He was prevented from writing down the names.

"We were afraid from objecting too much, because GOP Poll Challengers were being arbitrarily ejected all day long."

During the voter fraud hearing this past week before the Michigan House, Democrat Representative David LaGrand asked Rudy Giuliani, the President's attorney, why, if there was suspected fraud by witnesses like Cushman, that a recount was not requested within the days required under Michigan law.

Cushman explains why that would be pointless: Michigan law PREVENTS the recount of any ballot box where the number reported from the box doesn't match the number of ballots inside the box. Meaning that a box with 200 ballots and reporting 1000 votes for Biden, cannot be recounted. The elections officials refer to this as "unbalanced" boxes, but they are an indication of something seriously, severely, wrong in the election results from Wayne County.

In Wayne County, 71% of the absentee ballot boxes DO NOT MATCH. Meaning that they CANNOT BE RECOUNTED.

Explains Cushman: "If there's mass fraud going on, you can't check it through a recount."

Posted by: SMOD at December 07, 2020 12:03 PM (3aI0K)

315 @299 Bete
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Did you report them? Because in a government job, that's literally illegal.

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 07, 2020 12:03 PM (B0mGw)

316 You realize we're really out on a limb when our best hope of retaining the presidency is for Trump to launch what the south americans call an "auto-golpe" (self coup) by using the military and martial law to nullify the election.

Gotta agree with MPPP, that's not going to happen for both of the reasons he mentioned. It's good to be hopeful, but thinking that might happen is delusional. There's still a thin chance the SCOTUS could step in, but that's about the only realistic chance left.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2020 11:51 AM (Kpl3J)

I don't believe in SCOTUS, either. I do believe that a year from now we'll be fretting over Trump's being arrested and making bets over how soon he will be Epsteined and that perhaps then patriots will rise up and take the country back.

At this point, I would welcome a good stiff case of Kung Flu. It might be just what I need.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 07, 2020 12:03 PM (2JVJo)

317 302
I have four sibs. Two of us are conservative. Two are raging
sociallist bordering on marxist. One is rather aoplocitical, but lean
right/libertarian.

i once had this conversation during a christmas vacation while i was in college:

dad: you tell her! you tell your sister she should vote for one of the two major parties and not throw her vote away!
me: who did you vote for, sis?
sis: i voted communist.
dad: see! see! tell her!
me: but, dad, i voted libertarian!

Posted by: Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at December 07, 2020 12:03 PM (v3pYe)

318 That alone should have netted him a life sentence.

Oh, I agree. Javascript should be taken out and shot and buried. Then dug up and shot again for good measure.

Posted by: Gman at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM (GfWuY)

319 Heh. This story reminds me of the story that Roger Waters and David Gilmour swear actually happened, when the 'Dark Side of the Moon' album hit it big, that a record company exec asked them which of the band member was Pink.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional

Grand Funk Railroad

Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM (yTRuK)

320 McRib was good the first couple times it came out and its awful now, I don't know what they changed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 11:46 AM (KZzsI)

Yeah, I tried one this go around, and it tasted like the
prototypical lips assholes, slathered in cheap BBQ sauce. I
thought it was a bit tastier than that.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 07, 2020 11:53 AM

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Sweet Baby Ray's would fix up the McRib to an edible level IMO.

I might get one plain and try that out.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM (JUOKG)

321 Segregation was promoted by elites. The common citizen soldier could care less. Sure they had their prejudices. Some worse than others. But much of that got dropped while in the Army, because you don't care about the color of the guy next to you in a fox hole.
Posted by: SH at December 07, 2020 11:59 AM (sX1BW)
+++++++++++
It sure was. I was subjected to a "company all-hands" harangue during the George Floyd riots about various progressive wish-list items and upcoming indoctrination for all us racists. One of the speakers ended her segment with an inspirational quote (well, she thought it was) from Eleanor Roosevelt.

Yeah, that Eleanor Roosevelt. The one who's husband re-segregated the armed forces during the rearmament and draft leading up to WWII and thus undid years of progress in this regard after WWI (the armed forces weren't formally integrated, but there were many integrated units and it was gaining speed until Franklin got involved).

That is what tipped me over the edge. It was the first anonymous letter I ever sent to HR. I got boilerplate in return.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM (hYcqw)

322 Hugh Jackman and hot anime chick. Probably Ukranian. More research is needed. Also nudes, please send nudes of today's anime chick.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM (d1uFV)

323 Yeah, I'm thinking about cashing out while the taxes are favorable and putting at least half of it into land.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 12:01 PM (ylp2r)

Land long term, gold for quick liquidation. I do like rental properties to pay the mortgage and prop. taxes, but don't like tenants.

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM (L8ADy)

324 There was a toilet in the massive building with a slight leak. No work order was ever issued. No water was running anywhere.

***********

John Bidet for President 2020 - a limerick

As of now it's the world's biggest scandal
To which Watergate can't hold a candle
In the toilet they were hidin'
A new vote for Biden
Each time someone jiggled the handle

Posted by: Muldoon at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM (m45I2)

325 This story reminds me of the story that Roger Waters and David Gilmour swear actually happened, when the 'Dark Side of the Moon' album hit it big, that a record company exec asked them which of the band member was Pink.

To be fair, back then someone actually being named Pink Floyd in a rock band was not an unreasonable guess, and lots of drugs were involved.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM (KZzsI)

326
I can't wait for the big reveal that the McRib has always been made from mealworms.

Now that it's a universal McDs menu item, I can see that being a possibility, since the commies have been trying to push bug-eating on the proles for years.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM (EGyGV)

327 311. There will be no deus ex machina ending. If DOJ was honest they'd have proven it by now.

Posted by: CN refusing to wear the hat of the troll. at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM (ONvIw)

328 Amanda Seyfried is hot AF. She was in a movie where she had a lesbian scene with Juliane Moore. SCHWWWING.

Posted by: Asshoes at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM (22mNy)

329 There was an attitude shift during or because of WWII. It may have taken the civil rights movement to motivate the changes, but that new attitude was critical.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 07, 2020 11:44 AM (naEeR)

It was shortly after the war that baseball & the armed services desegregated.
Posted by: josephistan at December 07, 2020 11:55 AM (Izzlo)

The military was the first major institution to really start to push desegregation hard, and we can credit that to the influence of Gen'l Black Jack Pershing. (Eisenhower served as an aide to Pershing early in his career) WW2 introduced millions of working class American men to the ideas of desegregation, and they found that it made a lot of sense. Of course blacks weren't yet treated fully equally in the WW2 military, but it was still an order of magnitude better than it had ever been before.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM (Kpl3J)

330 There is no amount of fraud that will convince the federal courts to act.
That's what they all keep saying.
At best, all they say is, vote fraud is a state court matter.

This is insane.

But not near as crazy as their "you don't have standing and we don't care that no one else does either."

From a litigation standpoint, the Dems have a perfect loophole

Posted by: RoyalOil at December 07, 2020 12:05 PM (aO8Gd)

331
Sweet Baby Rays can make 2 week old roadkill in August edible.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 07, 2020 12:05 PM (8XRCm)

332 My wife is an esthetician, does Brazilian waxes and such. She once had Amanda Seyfried stop in for a service.

So, you know, one degree of separation for me.

Posted by: Grip the Weasel at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (KbCG3)

Dated one in the past. She said pervert men go get "waxed" hoping for the extra release. And some women feel obliged to help them because it's just there is what they claim. She suspected tips were given to finish them off.
I don't see how women see men who ask for the wax down there.

Posted by: bat nationalist at December 07, 2020 12:05 PM (DH4sA)

333 Muldoon, you're a treasure.

Posted by: President-Elect Jane D'oh at December 07, 2020 12:05 PM (ptqGC)

334 Segregation was promoted by elites. The common citizen soldier could care less. Sure they had their prejudices. Some worse than others. But much of that got dropped while in the Army, because you don't care about the color of the guy next to you in a fox hole.
Posted by: SH at December 07, 2020 11:59 AM (sX1BW)

I can see that with the Northern ethnics, but do you really think that Southern whites of that era were going to put up with black soldiers as equals?

Posted by: JoeF. at December 07, 2020 12:05 PM (HrMC1)

335 Land long term, gold for quick liquidation. I do like rental properties to pay the mortgage and prop. taxes, but don't like tenants.

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM (L8ADy)

-

I'm leaning towards wooded property and hunting leases.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 12:05 PM (ylp2r)

336 228 Does anybody really think the forces arrayed against Trump and us are going to let him off the ropes at this point? That is, allow him to find court or legislature relief? This is the moment they've been working toward, and no matter how crude or spectacularly obvious their fraud, they're in it to win
it whatever the cost.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 07, 2020 11:50 AM (H8QX

Also, SDNY has already bragged that he is going to hound the Trump family for, basically, ever. So even after he's left office, he will still be fighting for his life.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 12:05 PM (5lMGa)

337 325 Hugh Jackman and hot anime chick. Probably Ukranian. More research is needed. Also nudes, please send nudes of today's anime chick.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM (d1uFV)

^This guy gets it.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 07, 2020 12:06 PM (nakwk)

338 Wait until we're at zero interest rates in banks. They've already got negative interest in the EU. You'd have to be half nuts to just stick money in the bank right now. I've got to figure out some more strategies and put them on the fast track. What seems like a lot now is going to be a joke in 10 years.
Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:59 AM (L8ADy)
+++++++++++
This is one reason that I just bought a house (earlier than my timeline called for, by 6-12 months) and will be filling it with appliances and furniture bought for longevity at a higher price than I had initially factored in.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 12:06 PM (hYcqw)

339 Seems kind of odd to claim the military won't support Trump when it is mostly ex-military spooks who are helping him now.
Posted by: JackStraw

Trump sends the order out to the joint chiefs to disseminate down thru the ranks.

They sit on it.

Your move.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 07, 2020 12:06 PM (bkkvA)

340 Sweet Baby Ray's would fix up the McRib to an edible level IMO.

I might get one plain and try that out.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM (JUOKG)

Jeez, at that point just get some ground pork, throw it on the grill, drop it on a hoagie roll, slather it with SBR, onions and pickles and actually enjoy the thing.

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 12:06 PM (L8ADy)

341 You'd be amazed at the things criminals say on FB, Instagram, text messages etc. Fortunately, most criminals are not very bright.

After watching 50 episodes of The First 48, I am convinced that criminals do most of a cop's work by being stunning retards.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 12:06 PM (KZzsI)

342 >>> I've given up talking about any of this with my family, or what remains of it. They're entirely driven by an emotional and delusional reality they believe is based on intellect and morality. To argue with them simply drags them closer to the dismantling of their lifelong Narratives, and they cannot bear this.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 07, 2020 11:56 AM (H8QX

I have a no politics policy with certain family, which I'm now grateful for. Because I know I would burst into an 'the election was stolen' rant that, to their liberal ears, would sound full blown conspiracy theorist. Never mind we heard the 2016 election was stolen by Russia for 4 years.

Posted by: LizLem at December 07, 2020 12:06 PM (Rbfr/)

343 328 This story reminds me of the story that Roger Waters and David Gilmour swear actually happened, when the 'Dark Side of the Moon' album hit it big, that a record company exec asked them which of the band member was Pink.

To be fair, back then someone actually being named Pink Floyd in a rock band was not an unreasonable guess, and lots of drugs were involved.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM (KZzsI)

They wrote that into the lyrics of "Have a cigar"...

Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar
You're gonna go far, you're gonna fly
You're never gonna die
You're gonna make it if you try
They're gonna love you
Well I've always had a deep respect
And I mean that most sincere
The band is just fantastic
That is really what I think
Oh by the way, which one's pink?
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy
We call it 'riding the gravy train'

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2020 12:06 PM (Kpl3J)

344 Heh. This story reminds me of the story that Roger
Waters and David Gilmour swear actually happened, when the 'Dark Side of
the Moon' album hit it big, that a record company exec asked them which
of the band member was Pink.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 11:56 AM (5lMGa)

Syd?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 07, 2020 12:06 PM (Da9Bj)

345 After watching 50 episodes of The First 48, I am convinced that criminals do most of a cop's work by being stunning retards.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 12:06 PM (KZzsI)

--

If Wyatt Earp were here I suspect he'd admit that's how they solve 95% of their cases, and the other 5% go unsolved.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - fight like the third monkey in line at the ark at December 07, 2020 12:07 PM (ylp2r)

346 I can see that with the Northern ethnics, but do you really think that Southern whites of that era were going to put up with black soldiers as equals?

After one firefight, they sure would with that guy next to them. Overall as a people? Probably not. But they would individuals for damned sure.

A lot of people who went into the military in WW2 came out very changed people from exposure to the world and others they'd never met before.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 12:08 PM (KZzsI)

347 -
I don't recall either he nor Quaid doing much sci-fi before or since.

-------

I think he did a comedy sci-fi called Innerspace.

Posted by: irright at December 07, 2020 12:08 PM (8rX4S)

348 A whore, a whore, a name I call myself
Ho a long, long way to blow!

Posted by: the sound of aoc at December 07, 2020 12:08 PM (UDapT)

349 >Cushman explains why that would be pointless: Michigan law PREVENTS the recount of any ballot box where the number reported from the box doesn't match the number of ballots inside the box. Meaning that a box with 200 ballots and reporting 1000 votes for Biden, cannot be recounted. The elections officials refer to this as "unbalanced" boxes, but they are an indication of something seriously, severely, wrong in the election results from Wayne County.

Posted by: SMOD at December 07, 2020 12:03 PM (3aI0K)

Oh. That sounds like a feature, not a bug, if you're a cheating Democrat.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 07, 2020 12:08 PM (poEUH)

350 Posted by: bat nationalist at December 07, 2020 12:05 PM (DH4sA)

Wife has had a few male clients, of which, they were either not at all looking for the attention of a female or were sent there by a GF who both booked and confirmed the appointments.

Posted by: Grip the Weasel at December 07, 2020 12:09 PM (KbCG3)

351 >>> Even if I don't buy in to your particular conspiracy, I'm no longer going to poke fun at you if you have one. After the past five years, who am I to discount any conspiracy accusation against this government or its allied industries?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 11:49 AM

Some conspiracy theories are dumber than others, so you probably won't be able to keep this resolution forever, but I've long had a problem with the one-sided enforcement against "conspiracy theories" by the MSM. Conspiracy theories are often about people processing the weird, the random, the unexplainable, the whatever ... so the attempted prohibition against "conservative" or "rightwing" conspiracy theories is pretty close to an attempt at mindcontrol (put the tinfoil hat on now) of conservative minded folk. When Notre Dame burned and immediately the MSM coverage forbid all talk of arson (muslim or otherwise) as unsupported conspiracy mongering, that aspect of this was really apparent considering we were a couple of years into the "Putin Hacked" the election stuff at that point.

Posted by: All Just Part of the Plan at December 07, 2020 12:09 PM (dYe5S)

352 349 After watching 50 episodes of The First 48, I am convinced that criminals do most of a cop's work by being stunning retards.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 12:06 PM (KZzsI)

How many times has the case been broken when they get the perp's phone records and the morons texted, "Did you kill that dude?", answer "Yeah, bra."

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 07, 2020 12:09 PM (xfb67)

353 308 I take it this was the "inspiration" for the 80s movie "Enemy Mine"?

**
The movie was produced by Stephen Friedman. I worked for him for several years, an invaluable education.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 07, 2020 12:09 PM (H8QX8)

354 I can see that with the Northern ethnics, but do you really think that
Southern whites of that era were going to put up with black soldiers as
equals?
----------

I think had you put them together they absolutely would have. Maybe not at the beginning, but by the end yes. Again, you don't care in the middle of a battle.

Posted by: SH at December 07, 2020 12:09 PM (sX1BW)

355 My SIL is also thrilled. Her Alpharetta spawn will be voting D in the runoff despite Warnock being a jew hater. Because BLM

It's great isn't it?

Stacey Abrams has already secured a million mail-in ballots for the bullshit run-off based on the bullshit election and Big Tech money is paying Rockthevote and other Leftist GOTV orgs to stir up the 18-20 yr old idiots to use them.

Meanwhile, Loeffler and Perdue aren't doing shit other than locking in their China grift and PDT is insisting that we must participate in this godforsaken comedy of a farce of a fake-ass bullshit invalid election in order to "save our country".

I mean, is the message here that WASTF? Because that is what I am receiving on my end.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 07, 2020 12:09 PM (3P/5p)

356 342 Wait until we're at zero interest rates in banks. They've already got negative interest in the EU. You'd have to be half nuts to just stick money in the bank right now. I've got to figure out some more strategies and put them on the fast track. What seems like a lot now is going to be a joke in 10 years.
Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 11:59 AM (L8ADy)
+++++++++++
This is one reason that I just bought a house (earlier than my timeline called for, by 6-12 months) and will be filling it with appliances and furniture bought for longevity at a higher price than I had initially factored in.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 12:06 PM (hYcqw)

____

Keeping cash now is the worst thing you can do. Real estate and stocks is the place to be. If they're going to inflate their way out of this, might as well right the asset prices up with them.

Posted by: Asshoes at December 07, 2020 12:09 PM (22mNy)

357 Sorry.....whore. The fat whore?
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

Yup.....The fat whore. Which she is.

And happy to be so.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 07, 2020 12:09 PM (K5agK)

358 A whore, a whore, a name I call myself
Ho a long, long way to blow!
Posted by: the sound of aoc at December 07, 2020

*
*

When I was in high school, that would have been a much more entertaining set of lyrics than the original.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 07, 2020 12:10 PM (yvr3o)

359 Syd?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 07, 2020 12:06 PM (Da9Bj)

No, their name from an amalgamation of two early American bluesmen, Pink Somebody and Somebody Else Floyd, I forget their names.

Actually, when they first started out, they called themselves the Pink Floyd Blues Band.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 12:10 PM (5lMGa)

360 Welp:

"Supreme Court denies review of school transgender bathroom policy"

"...The Supreme Court's denial of review on Monday means the Oregon parents' petition for appeal failed to gain support from at least four justices."

Meet the new SCOTUS, same as the old SCOTUS.

Posted by: WisRich at December 07, 2020 12:10 PM (G0vdT)

361 352 349 After watching 50 episodes of The First 48, I am convinced that criminals do most of a cop's work by being stunning retards.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 12:06 PM (KZzsI)

How many times has the case been broken when they get the perp's phone records and the morons texted, "Did you kill that dude?", answer "Yeah, bra."
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 07, 2020 12:09 PM (xfb67)

___

And now many times does the killer have a receipt from Walmart buying a shovel, rope and rat poison 2 days before the murder? That's always so comical.

Posted by: Asshoes at December 07, 2020 12:11 PM (22mNy)

362 Seven-eighth's of a vote for thee... One and one-eighth of a vote for me...

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 07, 2020 12:11 PM (V+A8w)

363 The military was the first major institution to
really start to push desegregation hard, and we can credit that to the
influence of Gen'l Black Jack Pershing. (Eisenhower served as an aide
to Pershing early in his career) WW2 introduced millions of working
class American men to the ideas of desegregation, and they found that it
made a lot of sense. Of course blacks weren't yet treated fully
equally in the WW2 military, but it was still an order of magnitude
better than it had ever been before.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM

---

The Navy has had black service members since it's inception, and they served on ships the states commissioned before that.

The end of WWI pretty much put and end to that and they didn't really serve in large numbers again until WWII.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at December 07, 2020 12:11 PM (JUOKG)

364 As it stands, the military can be neutered. Just take over the ammo points/dumps. They're usually not that well guarded either.

Posted by: Justsayin' at December 07, 2020 12:11 PM (Fs5vw)

365 360 Welp:

"Supreme Court denies review of school transgender bathroom policy"

"...The Supreme Court's denial of review on Monday means the Oregon parents' petition for appeal failed to gain support from at least four justices."

Meet the new SCOTUS, same as the old SCOTUS.
Posted by: WisRich at December 07, 2020 12:10 PM (G0vdT)

___

But they are TOTALLY going to overturn the election fro Trump. #TwoWeeks

Posted by: Asshoes at December 07, 2020 12:12 PM (22mNy)

366 This is one reason that I just bought a house (earlier than my timeline called for, by 6-12 months) and will be filling it with appliances and furniture bought for longevity at a higher price than I had initially factored in.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 12:06 PM (hYcqw)

Always a good idea. My standard word of warning is never upgrade higher than the location, or, if the home is "wanting" for the location, just put lipstick on the pig. I've seen people that upgrade when it's not necessary, as the prospective buyers are going to gut the place, or even raze it. I've also seen people do incredible upgrades and it's too much for the neighborhood.

I've got to take the plunge on new appliances for a 20 year old home, but not going to overdo as it's almost at the point a buyer will redo the kitchen anyway. I'm definitely looking at bailing from CA before the bubble bursts, and keep maybe one property for income.

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 12:12 PM (L8ADy)

367 After watching 50 episodes of The First 48, I am convinced that criminals do most of a cop's work by being stunning retards.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 12:06 PM (KZzsI)

----

My all time favorite stupid criminal was on COPS..... Walked out of a shoe store wearing a stolen pair of sneakers on night that had those red light on the heel that lit up with every step you took.

Cops chased him on foot and the dude runs into a woods and you could see the the red lights bouncing through woods with the popo right behind him....

It was an awesome camera shot.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 07, 2020 12:12 PM (8XRCm)

368
The military was the first major institution to really start to push desegregation hard, and we can credit that to the influence of Gen'l Black Jack Pershing. (Eisenhower served as an aide to Pershing early in his career) WW2 introduced millions of working class American men to the ideas of desegregation, and they found that it made a lot of sense. Of course blacks weren't yet treated fully equally in the WW2 military, but it was still an order of magnitude better than it had ever been before.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM (Kpl3J)

Somewhat related: Pershing's nickname WASN'T Black Jack.... originally. He'd spent many of his early Army years commanding Buffalo Soldiers in the West. When he took over as commandant at West Point, he was hated by the cadets because he was EXTREMELY strict. So they started calling him N****r Jack, as an insult behind his back. The name caught on and stayed with him, although it was softened once he began getting press.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 07, 2020 12:12 PM (EGyGV)

369 I mean, is the message here that WASTF? Because that is what I am receiving on my end.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 07, 2020 12:09 PM (3P/5p)

Maybe they'll have better surveillance videos...which will be tossed.

All this nonsense about "too late to file a case" pisses me off. How many victims of crime were told they had to wait for an action before the police could step in?

Posted by: CN at December 07, 2020 12:12 PM (ONvIw)

370 "...The Supreme Court's denial of review on Monday means the Oregon parents' petition for appeal failed to gain support from at least four justices."

So two among Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch and Barrett caved?

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 07, 2020 12:12 PM (H8QX8)

371 I have a 22-year old cousin who is a diehard lib. My sister, a diehard con, brought up Soros' name.

Lib had no clue who he was. None. How can you argue with people who are this non-informed?

Posted by: Grip the Weasel at December 07, 2020 12:13 PM (KbCG3)

372 Hugh Jackman and Amanda Seyfried

No idea the connection
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 07, 2020 11:15 AM (LvTSG)

No idea either... he's not in the new Mank movie, is he?

She was one of the most underrated aspects of the Mean Girls movie. While Lohan and McAdams got to chew scenery... even Lizzie Kaplan, who I love, was overplaying her role, but there was Amanda... quietly capturing the essence of a character who is vital to such high school dynamics.

Plus she's awfully easy on the eyes.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 07, 2020 12:13 PM (hku12)

373 343 Seems kind of odd to claim the military won't support Trump when it is mostly ex-military spooks who are helping him now.
Posted by: JackStraw
Trump sends the order out to the joint chiefs to disseminate down thru the ranks.
They sit on it.

Your move.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 07, 2020 12:06 PM (bkkvA)

yep. Ex military spooks are the bunch that Obama fired.

Current command level staff are the bunch that Obama hired and promoted. Vindman, Mattis, McMaster, Kelly - they all turned out to hate Trump and to want to do anything they could to take him down.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2020 12:13 PM (Kpl3J)

374 So a pro would take a burner on a job.

I expect Biden to replace the term burner.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 07, 2020 12:13 PM (yTRuK)

375 318 @299 Bete
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Did you report them? Because in a government job, that's literally illegal.
Posted by: squid_hunt at December 07, 2020 12:03 PM (B0mGw)

It is a non profit job, funded by a government grant, and she is now just a sub worker.

I don't believe for a second if I reported this anything would change except my employment status, and given my health status replacing it would be difficult if not impossible.

So my response is to take the "work at home" and keep it for as long as I can, cause bringing it up would only negatively impact me.

But hey, I get to do racial training in January, I am sure that won't be the most woke thing ever.

Posted by: Bete at December 07, 2020 12:14 PM (Ojki1)

376 And now many times does the killer have a receipt from Walmart buying a shovel, rope and rat poison 2 days before the murder? That's always so comical.
Posted by: Asshoes at December 07, 2020 12:11 PM (22mNy)

I always love the people who kill their spouses A DAY after taking out a huge life insurance policy. C'mon man, you can't wait six months to cash the lottery ticket?

Posted by: Grip the Weasel at December 07, 2020 12:14 PM (KbCG3)

377 Always a good idea. My standard word of warning is never upgrade higher than the location, or, if the home is "wanting" for the location, just put lipstick on the pig. I've seen people that upgrade when it's not necessary, as the prospective buyers are going to gut the place, or even raze it. I've also seen people do incredible upgrades and it's too much for the neighborhood.

I've got to take the plunge on new appliances for a 20 year old home, but not going to overdo as it's almost at the point a buyer will redo the kitchen anyway. I'm definitely looking at bailing from CA before the bubble bursts, and keep maybe one property for income.
Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 12:12 PM (L8ADy)
+++++++++
Yup, but it depends on plans and motivations. I am not planning to move. Sometimes shit happens, but my upgrades are going where it counts: solid quality, not flash and glitz. If things go according to plan, I'll be there until I'm dead and I want my money's worth. I bought a bigger place than I need in case growth happens (unlikely, but I'm open to the idea) and I plan to replace appliances with durability in mind.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 12:14 PM (hYcqw)

378 Major John Reisman: Oh, the gentleman from the South had a question about the dining
arrangements. He and his comrades are discussing place settings now.

Posted by: Count de Monet, President-Elect ISTJ at December 07, 2020 12:14 PM (4I/2K)

379 A lot of people who went into the military in WW2 came out very changed people from exposure to the world and others they'd never met before.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 12:08 PM

Maybe ww1 but not ww2 if you are talking about black soldiers

Posted by: MAC SOG'''' at December 07, 2020 12:14 PM (P4Pk9)

380
Also, SDNY has already bragged that he is going to hound the Trump family for, basically, ever. So even after he's left office, he will still be fighting for his life.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 12:05 PM (5lMGa)

I honestly don't think this is going to happen.

Not because the SDNY are nice guys, but because Trump has enough money and lawyers to stay out of jail until he lives to 100,
Also, they'll make him a martyr of sorts and keep him in the news when I think they'd rather just erase Trump from history.

I expect an asterisk by his presidency.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 07, 2020 12:15 PM (HrMC1)

381 Current command level staff are the bunch that Obama hired and promoted. Vindman, Mattis, McMaster, Kelly - they all turned out to hate Trump and to want to do anything they could to take him down.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2020 12:13 PM (Kpl3J)

You gotta wonder how much these bastards got paid. Except for Vindman, I don't see why they are besotted by Obama.

Posted by: CN at December 07, 2020 12:15 PM (ONvIw)

382 You want to talk movies ready for a remake? I wouldn't have said so unless I had rewatched just this past weekend. You ready? Soylent Green.

The characters perfect for a reboot. Maybe they can import one of those actual men they seem to be growing in Australia to play the Heston role.

The character that most struck me was the effeminate building manager who gets off on beating the 'furniture' assigned to the apartments. That should be a black, trans, heroine addict. The plot contains a conspiracy to keep an important piece of public information secret, the officials are all corrupt as a matter of course, and the wages of feminism have been taken to fruition. The education system has failed, utterly. Even the governor of NY is an italian deeply embroiled in the conspiracy. This movie is ready.

I don't know who can ever hope to play the role of the Edward G. Robinson Role. Maybe Mel Gibson. A tweak here and a tweak there, and that is a movie ready to illustrate America in 2021.

Posted by: Tom From WashSquare at December 07, 2020 12:16 PM (s0h8C)

383 I expect an asterisk by his presidency.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 07, 2020 12:15 PM (HrMC1)

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Especially the second term.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 07, 2020 12:16 PM (8XRCm)

384 That DIY McRib looks tasty.

Posted by: flounder at December 07, 2020 12:16 PM (KnJdm)

385 >>> 371 I have a 22-year old cousin who is a diehard lib. My sister, a diehard con, brought up Soros' name.

Lib had no clue who he was. None. How can you argue with people who are this non-informed?
Posted by: Grip the Weasel at December 07, 2020 12:13 PM (KbCG3)

My autocucumber turns sex into Soros almost every time. It's a prog prude.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 07, 2020 12:16 PM (vsI91)

386 Yup, but it depends on plans and motivations. I am not planning to move. Sometimes shit happens, but my upgrades are going where it counts: solid quality, not flash and glitz. If things go according to plan, I'll be there until I'm dead and I want my money's worth. I bought a bigger place than I need in case growth happens (unlikely, but I'm open to the idea) and I plan to replace appliances with durability in mind.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 12:14 PM (hYcqw)

If you KNOW you're going to be there for 5 years+, barring any catastrophe or ex wife (but I repeat myself) then you can't go wrong. Time will catch up, and you'll have gotten the pleasure of their use.

Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 12:17 PM (L8ADy)

387 My all time favorite stupid criminal was on COPS...

I like to think they're all in jail going, "fuck! Why didn't I run for office?!"

Posted by: t-bird at December 07, 2020 12:17 PM (2YhrB)

388 I honestly don't think this is going to happen.

Not because the SDNY are nice guys, but because Trump has enough money and lawyers to stay out of jail until he lives to 100,
Also, they'll make him a martyr of sorts and keep him in the news when I think they'd rather just erase Trump from history.

I expect an asterisk by his presidency.
Posted by: JoeF.

Ivanka Trump just spent 5 hours being deposed re: an e-mail from 2016, the text of which deprived the prosecutor's point {Rush - last Friday}.

Posted by: Adriane the Easily Impressed Critic ... at December 07, 2020 12:17 PM (LPnfS)

389 A lot of people who went into the military in WW2 came out very changed people from exposure to the world and others they'd never met before.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 12:08 PM

I can see this to a certain extent--like say Southern boys serving alongside Italian or Jewish soldiers from NYC and coming to respect them or the son of a preacher serving alongside a Papist from Boston. And I can see white toughs from the North giving grudging respect to blacks

Posted by: JoeF. at December 07, 2020 12:17 PM (HrMC1)

390 >>> She was one of the most underrated aspects of the Mean Girls movie. While Lohan and McAdams got to chew scenery... even Lizzie Kaplan, who I love, was overplaying her role, but there was Amanda... quietly capturing the essence of a character who is vital to such high school dynamics.

Her boobs predicting the weather or whatever was kind of funny. She had some good lines.

"It's like I have ESPN or something."

Posted by: LizLem at December 07, 2020 12:17 PM (Rbfr/)

391 318 That alone should have netted him a life sentence.

Oh, I agree. Javascript should be taken out and shot and buried. Then dug up and shot again for good measure.
Posted by: Gman at December 07, 2020 12:04 PM (GfWuY)

Heh. The Microsoft Edge browser will not run Javascript. I think that's kind of ironic.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 12:17 PM (5lMGa)

392 always love the people who kill their spouses A DAY after taking out a huge life insurance policy. C'mon man, you can't wait six months to cash the lottery ticket?
Posted by: Grip the Weasel at December 07, 2020 12:14 PM (KbCG3)

There's an episode of the old Alfred Hitchcock show where a husband and wife conspire to have her disappear for seven years in order to have her declared legally dead, so they can cash in on her life insurance policy. It doesn't quite work out that way in the end.

Posted by: Josephistan at December 07, 2020 12:18 PM (NT0mt)

393 The military was segregated on Woody Wilson's order. It had been integrated since 1860. Blacks as a percent of the population of the North was miniscule. By drafting 2M white guys in 1917 created a labor shortage in industrial towns of the north that was filled by blacks. After WWI the KKK became kingmaker in Dem politics and most of the Klansmen were white yankees. See the Great Klan Bake - 1924 Democratic Convention in NJ/NY. Largest Klan Rally in history. Also the longest nomination convention in America's history.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 12:18 PM (T1Dne)

394
Microsoft Edge doesnt run ANYTHING on my machine.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 07, 2020 12:18 PM (8XRCm)

395 Also, SDNY has already bragged that he is going to hound the Trump family for, basically, ever. So even after he's left office, he will still be fighting for his life.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 12:05 PM (5lMGa)
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And DJT has to know this, and understand what it means for him and his family.

Posted by: President-Elect Boots at December 07, 2020 12:18 PM (oGBso)

396 No, their name from an amalgamation of two early American bluesmen, Pink Somebody and Somebody Else Floyd, I forget their names.

Actually, when they first started out, they called themselves the Pink Floyd Blues Band.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 12:10 PM (5lMGa)

It was just a joke on how he formed the band and really got it going and was the band in the beginning. After they booted him out they almost obsessed about him in song after song.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 07, 2020 12:19 PM (Da9Bj)

397 It's where Scottish Eve came from...
Posted by: Clan MacLeod at December 07, 2020 11:43 AM (BgMrQ)

Isn't that a douche?
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)

Eu De Ewe
Posted by: Clan MacLeod

Did you mean Clam Macleod ?

Posted by: JT at December 07, 2020 12:19 PM (arJlL)

398 360 Welp:

"Supreme Court denies review of school transgender bathroom policy"

"...The Supreme Court's denial of review on Monday means the Oregon parents' petition for appeal failed to gain support from at least four justices."

Meet the new SCOTUS, same as the old SCOTUS.
Posted by: WisRich at December 07, 2020 12:10 PM (G0vdT)

At least the next generation will actually have a real trauma to react to rather than made up micro aggressions.

Posted by: Bete at December 07, 2020 12:19 PM (Ojki1)

399 After watching 50 episodes of The First 48, I am convinced that criminals do most of a cop's work by being stunning retards.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 12:06 PM (KZzsI)

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My all time favorite stupid criminal was on COPS..... Walked out of a shoe store wearing a stolen pair of sneakers on night that had those red light on the heel that lit up with every step you took.

Cops chased him on foot and the dude runs into a woods and you could see the the red lights bouncing through woods with the popo right behind him....

It was an awesome camera shot.
Posted by: fixerupper at December 07, 2020 12:12 PM (8XRCm)

If you watch enough police interrogation videos, you see the difference between how a guilty person acts, from how an innocent person acts.

And I'd say 9/10 times, the cops know which is which. When they get it wrong though, they can get it spectacularly wrong though, in that sometimes innocent people say/do things that cops THINK means they're guilty, when it's just this particular guy is... different.

Given all that, my suggestion to anyone is, don't DO whatever it is they're accusing of doing, and don't try to ACT innocent, because that means they think they got you, and you'll at the very least spend the next 24-48 hours answering the same damn questions over and over and over and over and over again.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 07, 2020 12:19 PM (hku12)

400 396 Also, SDNY has already bragged that he is going to hound the Trump family for, basically, ever. So even after he's left office, he will still be fighting for his life.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 12:05 PM (5lMGa)
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And DJT has to know this, and understand what it means for him and his family.
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This is why he dumped NYC as his residency and adopted FL.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 12:19 PM (T1Dne)

401 If you KNOW you're going to be there for 5 years+, barring any catastrophe or ex wife (but I repeat myself) then you can't go wrong. Time will catch up, and you'll have gotten the pleasure of their use.
Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 12:17 PM (L8ADy)
++++++++++++
Yup. Who *plans* to stay in a house for less than five years, though? Unless you're in a Bubilicious area, you're unlikely to overcome the real estate vig and maintenance costs with appreciation on that short a time scale.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 12:19 PM (hYcqw)

402 I received a form letter from David Perdue in response to my letter thanking me for my input , informing me that he ran as an outsider, is pro-business and pro-family, will change Washington DC, will fight for a stronger America and go fuck myself.

I may have made up that last part.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 07, 2020 12:20 PM (3P/5p)

403 I can see this to a certain extent--like say Southern boys serving
alongside Italian or Jewish soldiers from NYC and coming to respect them
or the son of a preacher serving alongside a Papist from Boston. And I
can see white toughs from the North giving grudging respect to blacks
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You can't see what didn't happen. I guess we will never really know what might have been had the army been completely desegregated during the war. I believe it was a missed opportunity to really help race relations. Forging ties and gaining respect in combat of that magnitude doesn't come around often.

Posted by: SH at December 07, 2020 12:20 PM (sX1BW)

404 Eu De Ewe
Posted by: Clan MacLeod

Did you mean Clam Macleod ?
Posted by: JT at December 07, 2020 12:19 PM (arJlL)

***Golf Clap***

Posted by: Clan MacLeod at December 07, 2020 12:20 PM (BgMrQ)

405 The military was segregated on Woody Wilson's order. It had been integrated since 1860. Blacks as a percent of the population of the North was miniscule. By drafting 2M white guys in 1917 created a labor shortage in industrial towns of the north that was filled by blacks. After WWI the KKK became kingmaker in Dem politics and most of the Klansmen were white yankees. See the Great Klan Bake - 1924 Democratic Convention in NJ/NY. Largest Klan Rally in history. Also the longest nomination convention in America's history.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 12:18 PM (T1Dne)
+++++++++++++
And it started desegregating after WWI (I think that started under Coolidge, but I'd have to look). That continued until the Left's favorite fascist - FDR - took over and resegregated everything again.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 12:21 PM (hYcqw)

406 Her boobs predicting the weather or whatever was kind of funny.

This is how I remember her. I usually forget her name, but I know she's the gal whose tits know when it's raining. She may also have the best eyes in Hollywood.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 07, 2020 12:21 PM (H5knJ)

407 370 "...The Supreme Court's denial of review on Monday means the Oregon parents' petition for appeal failed to gain support from at least four justices."

So two among Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch and Barrett caved?
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 07, 2020 12:12 PM (H8QX

What it means is that the public school system is dead for anyone who supports traditional moral values. Private schools and home schooling are the only options left. The Courts are not going to be our saviors, not even the SCOTUS. If anyone pins all their hopes on them, they are going to be bitterly disapointed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2020 12:21 PM (Kpl3J)

408 If you KNOW you're going to be there for 5 years+, barring any catastrophe or ex wife (but I repeat myself) then you can't go wrong. Time will catch up, and you'll have gotten the pleasure of their use.
Posted by: clutch cargo Now 100% Lubricant Free at December 07, 2020 12:17 PM (L8ADy)
++++++++++++
Yup. Who *plans* to stay in a house for less than five years, though? Unless you're in a Bubilicious area, you're unlikely to overcome the real estate vig and maintenance costs with appreciation on that short a time scale.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Been in mine 31 years come January. It's appreciated four times what I originally paid for it.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 07, 2020 12:21 PM (bkkvA)

409 Current command level staff are the bunch that Obama hired and promoted.
Vindman, Mattis, McMaster, Kelly - they all turned out to hate Trump
and to want to do anything they could to take him down.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2020 12:13 PM

There are a lot of dictats that come down from EAR (Echelons Above Reality) that are ignored at lower levels to the greatest extent possible. About 8 years ago I was dealing with this type thing.
Me: You have to send people to this school and commit them to doing this function in your unit.
LTC: Yeah, I'm not going to do that.
Me: Here's the ALARACT signed by the Chief of Staff of the Army that directs you to do it.
LTC: I'm not doing shit until I'm directly told to do it by the Colonel that I work for.

Posted by: Bert G at December 07, 2020 12:21 PM (OMsf+)

410 I'm just about ready to give up and say "Just get it over with, already." The information is not getting out to anyone other than us readers of alternative news. The lies are getting more egregious by the day. And worst of all, the damn CoC GOPe is actively assisting the steal. I'm just wondering if the XO and I should take all of our money out of the bank in nonsequential small bills. I cashed out all of our mutual funds within the week of Obummer's first win. It's been sitting in a couple different banks since then. But then I think Biden's crew will probably either change the currency, forcing everyone to turn in old currency for new easily traceable currency or go cashless so that every transaction is visible and taxable.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at December 07, 2020 12:22 PM (hfuUh)

411 I moved to CA in 1985 for college and aside from 3 years in law school in Boston (because of affirmative action, I could not get into U.C. Davis (outside Sacramento) law school when it was a decidedly mediocre school) and a year with the 'rents in my old bedroom (and they were happy to have me) studying for the CA bar, I've been here since. (31 years, more than 1/2 my life) I have a bar license that tethers me here and a $931/month mortgage in S.F. I'm riding this stuff out because I have no choice (unless some ette wants to..., nah, I didn't think so).

Posted by: SFGoth at December 07, 2020 12:22 PM (KAi1n)

412 I'm coming to the conclusion that Trump is something of enigma to me. He continually makes observations, asks questions and hypothesizes on twitter but sort of leaves it at that, as if some nebulous outrage or critical mass of awareness will motivate certain people and forces to act.

But here we are.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 07, 2020 12:23 PM (H8QX8)

413 And DJT has to know this, and understand what it means for him and his family.
Posted by: President-Elect Boots at December 07, 2020 12:18 PM (oGBso)

Then which would be easier for him?
Cut a deal and give up the fight?
Or keep fighting and hope he wins a second term?

I believe Trump was robbed and he has every right--including a moral one---to fight.
But I just don't see anyone overturning this.

The Democrats are scum, totally. What little respect I had for any is gone--they cheated openly and they don't care that everyone knows they did.

But I'm not setting myself up for disappointment by clinging to the belief that anyone in a position to change the "perceived" outcome of the election is going to.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 07, 2020 12:23 PM (HrMC1)

414 >>> This is how I remember her. I usually forget her name, but I know she's the gal whose tits know when it's raining. She may also have the best eyes in Hollywood. Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 07, 2020 12:21 PM (H5knJ)

She doesn't have the same kind of screen presence as Bette Davis, sadly for her, but she does have captivating eyes like Bette.

Posted by: LizLem at December 07, 2020 12:23 PM (Rbfr/)

415 262 We recited every Inuit lesbian poem that driver knew.
Posted by: Cthillary, dead but dreaming at December 07, 2020 11:53 AM (Ggb9q)

Did you try Vogon poetry?

Yes, "Ode to a Lump of Green Putty I found in my armpit One Mid-Summer Morning."

Posted by: Cthillary, dead but dreaming at December 07, 2020 12:23 PM (Ggb9q)

416 Not because the SDNY are nice guys, but because Trump has enough money and lawyers to stay out of jail until he lives to 100,
Also, they'll make him a martyr of sorts and keep him in the news when I think they'd rather just erase Trump from history.

I expect an asterisk by his presidency.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 07, 2020 12:15 PM (HrMC1)

I don't agree with this analysis, as it shows planning and foresight, something that the left does not possess. All progressives have, other than a thirst for power, is blind rage, and they will unleash its full force against Trump even to their own detriment.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 12:24 PM (5lMGa)

417 She was one of the most underrated aspects of the Mean Girls movie. While Lohan and McAdams got to chew scenery... even Lizzie Kaplan, who I love, was overplaying her role, but there was Amanda... quietly capturing the essence of a character who is vital to such high school dynamics.

Her boobs predicting the weather or whatever was kind of funny. She had some good lines.

"It's like I have ESPN or something."
Posted by: LizLem at December 07, 2020 12:17 PM (Rbfr/)

Not just her lines though, if you watch just her, while in the forefront McAdams is usually dominating in some manner or another, notice how Amanda is absorbing everything. That's not just not doing anything, that's not doing anything in a way that is absolutely essential for McAdams' character to have the audacity to be who she is... and I was gonna say "to be the bitch," but really, you gotta give Rachel a lot of credit here too. Her character COULD have been basically one dimensional, and she managed to make her more human too.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 07, 2020 12:25 PM (hku12)

418 >>> Heh. The Microsoft Edge browser will not run Javascript. I think that's kind of ironic.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 12:17 PM (5lMGa)

Javascript is enabled by default in all main browsers including edge. You can turn it off, but that's not default and most sites wouldn't work. Now flash is off, in most browsers now.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 07, 2020 12:26 PM (yiGY5)

419 Here's my husband's story about his dad at Pearl Harbor:

'I post this annually to always remember "Pearl Harbor Day December 7th 1941". My father was 19 years old in Hawaii in the Army Air Corps (This is before there was an Air Force). It was Sunday morning, he had the day off. He was dressed in his Khakis, leaving Scofield Barracks headed to the mess hall. The barracks he just left, blew up, his first thought was the old boiler had exploded. Then the street was covered with machine gun scraffing as a Japanese Zero flew over head and was firing at him. He hit the ditch and saved himself. He quickly made his way over to his B 17 bomber (Flying Fortress) that was at Hickam Field. Once he got there he saw the plane was blown up. The next few days were spent burying his friends and comrades. They repaired the field rebuilt some of the Air planes ( He would tell the story how they took the front of a Bomber named Daisy Mae and put it on the bottom of a Bomber named Superman. He served as a Radio man because he knew Morse code from the boy scouts, he was also a Bombardier, tail and belly gunner. Think of the adrenaline rush from being in a Glass bubble under a plane looking down 10,000 feet while shooting dual 50 caliber machine guns as Japanese zeros were coming at you. His Heavy bomber group was part of the Island hoping campaign in the South Pacific. He was personally written up in the stars and strips as the high point R & R man of the war. (meaning he saw more war time in than any other man), My father died on 14 Nov., 1995. The dog tags are the ones he wore at Pearl Harbor & WWII, the other set are from Korea.'

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 07, 2020 12:26 PM (YynYJ)

420 394
Microsoft Edge doesnt run ANYTHING on my machine.
Posted by: fixerupper at December 07, 2020 12:18 PM (8XRCm)

Even MSFT doesn't use MSFT Edge.

True story.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Trump WON, buy guns at December 07, 2020 12:26 PM (ifmtJ)

421 But then I think Biden's crew will probably either change the currency, forcing everyone to turn in old currency for new easily traceable currency or go cashless so that every transaction is visible and taxable.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at December 07, 2020 12:22 PM (hfuUh)

You left out the option of Hyper-inflation so that your money becomes substantially worth less than it is right now.

Posted by: Bete at December 07, 2020 12:26 PM (Ojki1)

422 I can see this to a certain extent--like say
Southern boys serving alongside Italian or Jewish soldiers from NYC and
coming to respect them or the son of a preacher serving alongside a
Papist from Boston. And I can see white toughs from the North giving
grudging respect to blacks

Posted by: JoeF

But you really can't since the military was segregated. Most black soldiers served in subservient service roles. There were some all-black combat units -- in particular, an anti-tank unit that served with distinction in Italy (IIRC), and of course there were the Tuskegee Airmen. On the whole, though, most white soldiers had no clue what black soldiers were facing from their own country.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 07, 2020 12:27 PM (KAi1n)

423 The only way to break through to people who don't read alternative news - and a whole lot of them know that things are fishy, they just don't have details - is to abuse the EAS.

Trump could - and I think he should, even though it actually *would* be unprecedented - use the Emergency Alert System (formerly the Emergency Broadcast System, formerly CONELRAD) to pre-empt all broadcasts in the United States and most of the cablecasts, and use them for an oval office address to lay out exactly what went on, with witnesses and graphs and pretty pictures. Anyone who cuts the feed goes to prison for interfering with emergency communications.

It's never been done. It would be hugely disruptive. It *might* be illegal (not that it matters at this point anyway). But it might also work.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 12:27 PM (hYcqw)

424
*back from cookie thread*
this is a nice spread baked up by WOPR wife

https://tinyurl.com/yxvor2nd

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 12:27 PM (DJFLF)

425
I don't agree with this analysis, as it shows planning and foresight, something that the left does not possess. All progressives have, other than a thirst for power, is blind rage, and they will unleash its full force against Trump even to their own detriment.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 12:24 PM (5lMGa)

Huh? We don't get it.

Posted by: The NBA at December 07, 2020 12:27 PM (Ojki1)

426 Anyway, on this Pearl Harbor anniversary, it feels like the last week before the shooting starts.

Make sure to enjoy it morons, go out, see friends, do what you can to enjoy what freedom you have left. There's not much out there.

But it's about to get worse, no matter who wins the battle of the 3rd box.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Trump WON, buy guns at December 07, 2020 12:28 PM (ifmtJ)

427 Notsothoreau

Nice !

May your Dad RIP.

Posted by: JT at December 07, 2020 12:29 PM (arJlL)

428 Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 07, 2020 12:26 PM (YynYJ)
not too many heroes like your pops left nowadays

Posted by: kallisto at December 07, 2020 12:29 PM (DJFLF)

429 I believe Trump was robbed and he has every right--including a moral one---to fight.
But I just don't see anyone overturning this.

Posted by: JoeF.

If this is the 2020 election, yes.

But if this is the process / system that allowed the 2020 election, getting people to see just how bad is via lawsuit, hearings, etc. is the ground work for change.

Getting 230 overturned ...

Getting a more robust conservative media ...

Getting more conservatives into politics ...

Posted by: Adriane the Easily Impressed Critic ... at December 07, 2020 12:29 PM (LPnfS)

430 As promised last night on the Gun Thread.

My parents were up early this Sunday morning 79 years ago today. My dad was on the USS Cachalot, a submarine stationed at Pearl and on this particular morning, it was the only sub outside the sub pens. She was moored behind the Pennsylvania that was in dry dock, and just ahead of the Helena and Oglala. Being small and tucked in next to the pier, she would ride out the attack unscathed.
The 'ol man was the Chief of the Forward Torpedo Room and the third ranking NCO on the Boat. The only reason he was there that morning was because he had the "Duty" which means he would be the senior guy on the Boat for that Sunday. All the military types know what pulling Duty means. My parents lived in Pearl City just on the other side of Ford Island. Mom rose early to get breakfast and to tend to my oldest brother who was not quite walking at the time. Once she got dad on his way, she would be doing some washing that had been piling up.

Dad had arrived at the Cachalot a bit early, checked in, and relieved the man who had the Duty from the night previously. He did the changeover, took charge, and at this point, things were settling into a normal quiet Sunday morning. He would never admit it, but I suspect he was reading the paper as well. He was just getting to the bridge when someone shouted General Quarters. He's wondering WTH??? He looked around and saw what was happening and, as he had the keys, sent one of the men to unlock the weapons and ammunition. As they were in port, all the weapons were locked up but being a sub, and small, and having about 60% of the crew already there (it was where the men slept) the ship was quickly able to get its first .50 cal up and firing. The Cachalot would be granted 1/2 credit for a shootdown.

Meanwhile mom was outside, hanging laundry. My brother was playing in his playpen. (Whenever they show this scene in a Pearl Harbor movie I immediately think of my mom.) She heard the planes flying over and figured they were ours, although she later told me they seemed awfully low. She watched them for a bit and even waved at a couple...some of the pilots waved back. Then she started hearing the explosions and saw the smoke. A neighbor lady came over wondering what was happening. Another neighbor came over and said they were under attack. They walked down to the end of the street to see the Harbor better and watched. She later got together with the other wives of the sub and pitched in as needed around the neighborhood and on the base. She never talked much about that. She made a lot of bandages.

Dad would not get home for several days. He went through the recall roster although that really wasn't necessary as the officers had figured it out and got back to the Boat. When they weren't shooting, they were assisting in firefighting nearby, and with the wounded. The Oglala was sunk and the Helena seriously damaged. It would be a few weeks before they would have their first war patrol.

Mom would be sent back to the Mainland along with their car and belongings. She and another wife would eventually drive across the country to New London to wait like so many other submarine wives. The car that dad had driven into work that morning had three bullet holes in it. Mom said they pounded some wooden plugs into them to keep the water out and it became a bit of a story for them on their drive to Connecticut. Every time they stopped for gas, people would gather around to see.

That is their story. Dad would do two war patrols before being promoted to Chief of the Boat and he would go on to do over a dozen patrols in the war. Mom bounced around as wives typically did back then, between New London, Key West and Long Beach in California. She finally got back to Hawaii by the end of the war.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 07, 2020 12:30 PM (axyOa)

431 419 Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 07, 2020 12:26 PM (YynYJ)

Wow. In awe.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 07, 2020 12:30 PM (s2VJv)

432 *back from cookie thread*

Posted by: kallisto

You musta took the Evlyn Woods speed reading course !

Posted by: JT at December 07, 2020 12:30 PM (arJlL)

433 My all time favorite stupid criminal was on COPS..... Walked out of a shoe store wearing a stolen pair of sneakers on night that had those red light on the heel that lit up with every step you took.

Cops chased him on foot and the dude runs into a woods and you could see the the red lights bouncing through woods with the popo right behind him....

It was an awesome camera shot.
Posted by: fixerupper at December 07, 2020 12:12 PM (8XRCm)

My cousin was an ADA in a gritty East Coast that needed all the ADAs it could muster. He said that he gained convictions on many many criminals for one reason: they tried to prove that they were smarter than he was, and God knows, they weren't. If they'd just followed the public defender's advice, they'd have been fine. But no, they had to gild the lily, adducing further details that they thought would add to their credibility, but in fact contradicted what they'd said earlier, and made clear that they were lying. (My favorite: the guy who claimed he'd been at the movies, in a movie theater that had been closed for renovation. Oops.)

Next thing they knew, they were on a bus to the state pen, where they'd have some years to reflect on their trial strategy.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 07, 2020 12:31 PM (J4SfM)

434 It was just a joke on how he formed the band and really got it going and was the band in the beginning. After they booted him out they almost obsessed about him in song after song.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 07, 2020 12:19 PM (Da9Bj)

I think it's wrong to say they booted Syd out. They bent over backwards trying to accommodate him and his psychological problems and only after it was obvious that he really wasn't up to doing anything that they parted ways. But from the interviews I've heard, they all had much respect for him, even after he could no longer work.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 07, 2020 12:31 PM (5lMGa)

435 Nood tranies. Sorry.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 07, 2020 12:32 PM (yiGY5)

436 Nood psychos advising psychos.

Posted by: flounder at December 07, 2020 12:32 PM (KnJdm)

437 Not my dad, my late husband's dad. My stepson just reposted that on Facebook. he used to post it every Pearl Harbor day, with a picture of his dad and the dog tags. He went on to serve in Korea too.

Posted by: notsothoreau at December 07, 2020 12:32 PM (JKNZq)

438 But you really can't since the military was segregated. Most black soldiers served in subservient service roles. There were some all-black combat units -- in particular, an anti-tank unit that served with distinction in Italy (IIRC), and of course there were the Tuskegee Airmen. On the whole, though, most white soldiers had no clue what black soldiers were facing from their own country.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 07, 2020 12:27 PM (KAi1n)

Friend of mine worked at TRU back in the late 90's and had someone come up to him and ask if they had the GI Joe Tuskegee Airman figure with a white guy.

That should have been a tire ironing on the spot.

And friend was a history major in college at the time and would have relished handing that punishment out.

Posted by: Bete at December 07, 2020 12:32 PM (Ojki1)

439 Years ago, I read an article about a side effect of ending the draft: no longer are young men forced to work alongside with people from different parts of the country and different socio-economic levels. Now they stay in their comfort zone.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at December 07, 2020 12:32 PM (hfuUh)

440 in 2021 I will eat skittles directly from the unicorns butt !!

Posted by: will choose a nic later at December 07, 2020 12:32 PM (GIeIM)

441 Even MSFT doesn't use MSFT Edge.

True story.

Which is why Edge was replaced with "new Edge", which is Google Chrome minus the send-your-dick-pics-to-Google functionality.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 07, 2020 12:32 PM (ZGrMX)

442 My mom tells the story of when the family went to Hawaii for my grandfather's second wedding years ago, in the early 80s. They went out to the Pearl memorial. Mom says she just hopes those Japanese tourists couldn't hear my grandfather, an Army Air Corps veteran... (he was in the European theater, though. My other grandfather was in the Pacific theater, assigned to hold an island that was used for supply logistics. He came home hating the very name of coconuts and never ate another damned coconut as long as he lived.)

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at December 07, 2020 12:33 PM (rWZ8Y)

443 >>> But if this is the process / system that allowed the 2020 election, getting people to see just how bad is via lawsuit, hearings, etc. is the ground work for change.
Getting 230 overturned ...
Getting a more robust conservative media ...
Getting more conservatives into politics ...
Posted by: Adriane the Easily Impressed Critic ... at December 07, 2020 12:29 PM (LPnfS)

Agreed. Remember, many more people voted for Trump than didn't. Bigly. And they are ticked. And mobilized. And you have former leftists who know well how the left thinks and how to maneuver like them. Plus I don't think Trump is going anywhere. He will not go gently into that good night.

If that newly mobilized force can combat the uniparty and the now blatant election fraud, we will see.

Posted by: LizLem at December 07, 2020 12:33 PM (Rbfr/)

444 379 A lot of people who went into the military in WW2 came out very changed people from exposure to the world and others they'd never met before.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, Best-selling author-elect at December 07, 2020 12:08 PM

I'm reading "Mission", actor Jimmy Stewart's bio. He was WWII B-24 Bomber pilot and group commander. I just reached the point where has become mentally and physically beaten, and it's early 1944 and he has "only" flew about 12 missions. I think it changed him.

Posted by: JM in Florida at December 07, 2020 12:34 PM (HCeRP)

445 I believe Trump was robbed and he has every right--including a moral one---to fight.

But I just don't see anyone overturning this.

Posted by: JoeF.

You are wrong Joe... you have to be wrong or our republic is over and things are going to get VERY ugly VERY quickly.

We have to fight this with all we have and we have to win or we will be fighting a much bloodier war.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at December 07, 2020 12:36 PM (946rW)

446 Posted by: Diogenes at December 07, 2020 12:30 PM (axyOa)

Also. Wow.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 07, 2020 12:37 PM (s2VJv)

447 Posted by: Diogenes at December 07, 2020 12:30 PM (axyOa)

Very cool, thank you sir

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Trump WON, buy guns at December 07, 2020 12:38 PM (ifmtJ)

448 The military was segregated on Woody Wilson's order. It had been integrated since 1860. Blacks as a percent of the population of the North was miniscule. By drafting 2M white guys in 1917 created a labor shortage in industrial towns of the north that was filled by blacks. After WWI the KKK became kingmaker in Dem politics and most of the Klansmen were white yankees. See the Great Klan Bake - 1924 Democratic Convention in NJ/NY. Largest Klan Rally in history. Also the longest nomination convention in America's history.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 07, 2020 12:18 PM (T1Dne)
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And it started desegregating after WWI (I think that started under Coolidge, but I'd have to look). That continued until the Left's favorite fascist - FDR - took over and resegregated everything again.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 12:21 PM (hYcqw)

And then the Democrats took credit for Truman desegregating the military. ("Yay us!") Forgetting to mention that other Democrats were responsible for segregating it in the first place.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 07, 2020 12:39 PM (J4SfM)

449 Hold fast!

Posted by: Clan MacLeod at December 07, 2020 12:40 PM (UDapT)

450 I'm reading "Mission", actor Jimmy Stewart's bio. He was WWII B-24 Bomber pilot and group commander. I just reached the point where has become mentally and physically beaten, and it's early 1944 and he has "only" flew about 12 missions. I think it changed him.
Posted by: JM in Florida at December 07, 2020 12:34 PM (HCeRP)

George McGovern was also a bomber pilot in WWII, yet he never mentioned it in campaigning, unlike that ambulatory turd Francois Kerry, who couldn't stop talking about - and lying about - his time in Vietnam.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 07, 2020 12:41 PM (J4SfM)

451 339 Seems kind of odd to claim the military won't support Trump when it is mostly ex-military spooks who are helping him now.
Posted by: JackStraw

Trump sends the order out to the joint chiefs to disseminate down thru the ranks.

They sit on it.

Your move.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 07, 2020 12:06 PM (bkkvA)

*************

Yup. Same with declassifying documents.

Let's say Trump ordered Gina Haspel to declassify everything in regards to Russiagate that the CIA had.

She wouldn't do it.

She'd read his angry twitter rant ordering this.

She'd say 'that's nice, but I'm waiting for the offical written order on White House stationary."

Later that week, she'd get the order. She'd say we are reviewing it...and then nothing.

Trump sends out another rage tweet...she delays...and then Trump is out of office, Biden is in office, and she get's a freakin' gold star for resistance heroism or some such nonsense.

Trump had a lot of power to do things, but power that isn't executed isn't power.

Now it's too late.

Posted by: El Jefe ~ Blue Zones POW MIA ~ You Are Not Forgotten ~ at December 07, 2020 12:43 PM (Ae67h)

452 439 Years ago, I read an article about a side effect of ending the draft: no longer are young men forced to work alongside with people from different parts of the country and different socio-economic levels. Now they stay in their comfort zone.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at December 07, 2020 12:32 PM (hfuUh)

It's one reason I enjoy our baseball practices: we get a complete cross-section of society (airline pilots, physicians, construction workers, cops, restaurant workers, the lot), and a range of ages from 20 to 75.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 07, 2020 12:44 PM (J4SfM)

453 Years ago, I read an article about a side effect of ending the draft: no longer are young men forced to work alongside with people from different parts of the country and different socio-economic levels. Now they stay in their comfort zone.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at December 07, 2020 12:32 PM (hfuUh)
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This is one of the arguments in favor of universal service (even if it is civil instead of military). There are other possibilities, too. Anyone looking to graduate high school should have to do a transcontinental road trip. No flying, no leaping over vast tracts of the country. This country is *vast* and populated with a *lot* of people. Everyone should see it. Take the roundabout route. Put in some non-interstate time. No drive-throughs - dine in local restaurants only. Meet your countrymen and see where they live.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 07, 2020 12:45 PM (hYcqw)

454 Separating the union should become an open and widespread effort. Attempts to salvage the United States as a 50 state republic should be abandoned.

Posted by: Reggie1971 at December 07, 2020 12:48 PM (996BY)

455 >>If anyone pins all their hopes on them, they are going to be bitterly disapointed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2020 12:21 PM (Kpl3J)

Why are you here then?

Youre a fucking troll

"Prove me wrong"... dick

Posted by: BlackToothGrin at December 07, 2020 12:48 PM (y7VPP)

456 Kill her. That's all you have to do.

Kill Mary?

She's a risk! .....and get the priest as well......

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at December 07, 2020 11:33 AM (Zz0t1)

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Operation BidenCrime.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 07, 2020 12:51 PM (iWCRg)

457 453 -- That is a benefit of living just up the road from Office AFB and StratCom -- people from all over. An air force wife from Okinawa taught me how to make fantabulous fried rice. There was the British Wives Club. Guys from allover the country cycled through back when it was SAC. I was told that if a junior officer wanted advancement a tour at SAC was just about mandatory. (A couple of tank guys were #3's cub scout pack leaders. They frequently complained about the lack of forced marches and weekend exercises.)

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at December 07, 2020 12:59 PM (hfuUh)

458 Arnold Schwarzeneggar decided not to change his name into a Hollywood one. His last name does not roll of the tongue well. Hugh Jackman got him beat, becoming famous while havng the name a gay pornstar would use.

Posted by: hadsil at December 07, 2020 01:32 PM (tqjLf)

459 >>> then Trump is out of office, Biden is in office

Finally someone grasps reality!

Posted by: Voice of Reason at December 07, 2020 01:42 PM (SEyP3)

460 Obviously we were not able to keep the Republic. Let the motherfucker burn. Maybe they'll address the issues with USA version 2.0

Posted by: Sax at December 07, 2020 02:19 PM (0kCTs)

461 There's a plot trope similar to your example, in which Party With Grievance "A" ends up crossing paths with Much Scarier Party With Grievance "B" and Party A realizes how relatively minor their Grievance was. One example that leaps to mind is when Bruce Willis and Ving Rhame's money dispute accidentally spills over into the basement of Zed's gimp-and-sodomy basement (there are LOTS of other examples, this is just one that I can recall immediately). So maybe instead of Soy Boy and a Maga Hispanic being forced to overcome their differences, perhaps a private plane of rich western Soy Boys (maybe social media B-list celebrities?) heading to some destination music festival end up crash-landing in a small rural town in Saudi Arabia, Iran, or some other country whose culture couldn't be bothered learning their Preferred Pronouns because they are too busy trying to sever their decadent heads.

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at December 07, 2020 02:52 PM (Yn6WC)

462 >>>If I were writing the script of the new movie, the first thing I'd do is have the Hispanic MAGA guy grab a tire iron and beat the genderfluid soy-boy into a bloody, lifeless pulp.

Yay, a comedy!

Posted by: m at December 07, 2020 03:20 PM (Li1iO)

463 Right winger wants to destroy Dominion voting machines to ensure they are never EVER used in his home counties to conduct fraudulent elections, ever again.

Left winger wants to destroy Dominion voting machines to conceal the evidence of the last fraudulent election and to force county officials to buy new voting equipment from a well-connected provider.

Working together, they set fire to a warehouse...

Posted by: Pouncer at December 07, 2020 03:42 PM (Jjybm)

464 With all do respect -- The best way to survive on a lifeboat with a soy boy is to use him for shark bait at the earliest opportunity.

Posted by: Bob (formerly known as Beto) at December 07, 2020 05:14 PM (hVOXD)

465 Beware of Greeks bearing Giftists

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 07, 2020 06:06 PM (FLiOE)

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