The Morning Report - 12/31/20 [J.J. Sefton]

Good morning, kids. Thursday and New Year's Eve. Normally this is a time of promise for new beginnings and hope, but given what we've been through and what we've experienced, I'm dreading what lies ahead. It's hard to believe that less than a year ago, our economy was booming, China, Iran and their surrogates in this country, the Democrat Party were either on the ropes or reeling, as President Trump was well on the way to a massive re-election victory. If I've learned anything over the past four years is that given the evil that exists in this world, nothing is ever safe, certain or secure, not only on a cosmological level but for sure on a political level. With a nod to Sinclair Lewis, it certainly can happen here because starting in 2020 it did happen here.

Despite the cover of a manufactured phony health crisis to subvert an already compromised electoral process, President Donald J. Trump was well on his way to beating even that massive cheat and securing at least a 400-electoral vote and popular vote landslide. That is, until a water pipe in Atlanta caused an in-your-face deluge -- of fake ballots dumped in four major metropolitan areas across six states, drowning not just the real votes, but the Constitution with it.

I didn't think the nation could have sunk any lower than the attempt to overthrow the 2016 election via the Russia collusion hoax. The undeniable exposure of people entrusted with enforcing our laws and protecting our national security as cheap crooks, drunk on power and their own narcissistic delusions of elitism was shocking in the extreme. A lot of folks took that as a sign that Trump and the nation itself were in real danger. I made the mistake of thinking surviving it meant the firewalls were secure. I don't think I could have been more wrong about anything else in my life. I will not make that mistake again.

And yet, here I am once again talking about January 6th. Am I friggin' stupid or what?! I just wasted pixels as well as my time (hopefully not yours), burnishing my newly won credentials in the He-Man Hard-Bitten Cynics Club, and now I'm going to go on about the GOPers in Congress or VP Pence delivering us from Old Sparky with a last minute reprieve. We all know that whether fearing for their lives, or worse, as part of the institutional corruption that Donald J. Trump was elected - TWICE - to eradicate, the majority of Republicans at the local, state and federal level cannot or will not uphold their oaths to defend the Constitution.

But what sustains me is that in spite of all that, there are men and women who still have a conscience to do the moral, legal and righteous thing by saving the nation from being extinguished. So far it's Josh Hawley in the Senate as well as several Congressmen in the House. Rush Limbaugh discussed the nuts and bolts of the process last week and they are hyperlinked here if you're curious. Whether they ultimately succeed - please G-d - is neither the issue nor the reason for my hope. It's because, few in number though they may be, they are there. And while few in number on Capitol Hill, there are tens of millions of like-minded citizens just like them across the country. The last person that I ever expected to lead a movement with the goal of national revival was Donald Trump. The Enemy makes the fatal error of thinking that Trump was a one-off, or like Rush Limbaugh, Trump brainwashed "bitter-clinger" "deplorables" into voting for him. The truth which deep down the Enemy must know is that those two men, titans of communication and influence though they may be only reflect the mood of the people.

The brazenness that the Enemy shows in its actions against the American people is in direct proportion with which the American people have rejected and continue to reject them. And for the capital crime of rejecting them in 2016, we have been sentenced to death. With the bureaucracy, the courts, the media and the schools arrayed against us, our only way of fighting back was every two to four years was at the ballot box. As of eight weeks ago, that is now gone forever, so forget 2022 or 2024 and quite probably beyond that. Whether Trump remains or is forced out, we are still here.

If you thought 2020 was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet. Things are going to get a lot worse, and it's going to get personal. But where there is life, there is hope. Don't vest all your trust in one man, be it Trump, Rush or whoever. First and foremost, you have to put your trust in yourself. Man up, woman up. We all have responsibilities that keep us occupied with putting food on the table and a roof over the heads of our loved ones. But what is all of that worth if the freedom to live your life as you see fit, or to try to make it better for your progeny, is denied you? A moment of truth is fast approaching. I can't tell you what to do because I myself don't know what to do. That's what's so frustrating and depressing.

One thing is clear. We cannot go on as before and while the Enemy has a stranglehold on us we certainly will not go on as before because things are going to be on their terms. But no one is infallible. Not even them. As we reflect back on this past year and the three prior to that, the verdict from my perspective is in: President Trump will go down as one of the greatest presidents in our history. In spite of all the political and social forces arrayed against him, he instituted the greatest economic boom in history, engineered major foreign policy triumphs by challenging geopolitical rivals and enemies and orchestrating Middle East peace deals thought impossible, and helped bring about vaccines against a Chinese engineered biological weapon at "warp speed," among other things.

But his greatest achievement is exposing the decades-long generational corruption of our government to a vast swathe of the populace, heretofore unaware or uncaring. To put an ironic twist on a disgusting threat from an equally disgusting woman who once was first lady, what President Trump revealed will never allow us to be able to go on with our lives as before. And ultimately, that is a good thing.

Before I go, I ask that you consider hitting Ace's tip jar as well as my own at CJN so we can keep the lights on at least until we get shipped off to the gulag. Many thanks for those of you who have done so. It is appreciated more than you know.

I wish with all my heart better days ahead for you and yours and a truly Happy New Year.

THE 2020 DEMOCRAT ELECTION HEIST

"Millions of voters concerned about election integrity deserve to be heard."
Hawley First Senator to Announce He'll Object to Certification of Electoral College Vote on Jan. 6
Jeff Duncan from South Carolina.
Another GOP House Member Vows to Object to January 6th Electoral College Certification
"My hope is that there will be no other senators that vote for this motion. But it is nothing more than an extension of this Trump unwillingness to accept this election, and it is hurting the American people."
Sen. Markey: Trump, Hawley Trying to Perpetrate "Fraud" -- Biden Won
"Senator Josh Hawley is the first Senator to speak up. If more do so, Trump's victory should be assured."
If Enough Senators Challenge the Election Results, Trump Wins
"... the Constitution's electoral process for choosing electors and ultimately the president and vice president was systematically and strategically attacked. It is now left to Congress, or at least the Republicans in Congress, to confront this."
Mark Levin Explains Why Republicans Must Defend the Constitution and Challenge Electoral Votes from Certain States on January 6th
"McConnell has indeed made it clear he is against objections to the electoral college vote, though Taylor Greene is yet to provide evidence for her rumor."
Marjorie Taylor-Greene Warns Malig-Nancy and Mitch McYertle May Be Colluding on Deal to Block Electoral College Objections
GEORGIA:
"Overwhelming election fraud in Georgia may explain the media's silence about the hearing before the Georgia Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Elections."
Incriminating Facts Emerge from a Georgia Hearing the Media Buried
"The ruling ensures that Eveler cannot abuse her power to undermine Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue."
Major Court Victory Boosts Election Integrity in Georgia Runoffs
"This proves that the owners of Dominion have been lying when they say their machines are not connected to the internet. It also shows how easy it would be to falsify the results. As the witness noted, if you can download the data from the machines you can change it and then upload it again, and if no one suspected you were doing it (or was willfully blind to your tampering) no one would ever find out."
Witness Announces His Team Has Hacked Georgia Runoff Machines
With Republicans like this...
Raffensperger Sez No Fraud in Cobb County Signature Audit of 15,000 Ballots
Rabbi Dov Fischer: "It's hard to believe given his record of anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, and more."
Can Georgians Be Foolish Enough to Vote for a Hate-Filled Lying Phony Like Warlock Warnock?
PENNSYLVANIA:
"Pennsylvania comes through."
Stunning Turn of Events in PA May Lead to Trump Victory

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"It's Trump, or a long walk in the wilderness for the GOP."
Hey, GOP: This is Your Do or Die Moment
"The first documentary film on the 2020 election investigation."
Video: Who Is Stealing America?
"This assault on our liberties is unprecedented and must be countered and defeated."
Why the Defeatism?
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
"Voices from the left and the right are beginning to realize where the real power lies --- and it's one unconstrained by the Constitution."
We Are Facing Unprecedented Corporate Tyranny in America
POLITICS
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she would seat Iowa Republican Congresswoman-elect Mariannette Miller-Meeks on Sunday."
Malig-Nancy Pelosi Concedes Iowa House Seat Contested by Democrat Who Lost by Six Votes
"We remain confident that once the contested ballots are reviewed by the court and the facts accurately applied according to the law, I will be declared the winner, certified, seated, and head to Congress to serve all the people of New York's 22nd District."
Republican Tenney Says She is Back Up by 27 Votes in Undecided NY House Race
"They are not interested anymore just in winning on the issues," Hanson said of Democrats. "They want to change the structure, the process of how we govern ourselves. So if they get a super Congress, that is, the Congress and the Senate and the House, they're gonna pack the [Supreme] Court to 15 justices."
Victor Davis Hanson: Statehood For DC And Puerto Rico Means Democrats Will "Win All the Time"
"NJ GOP gubernatorial candidate Douglas Steinhardt has gotten off to a poor start." (as if he has a chance at all - jjs)
Douglas Steinhardt's Misleading Video
David Limbaugh: "When hatred of Trump blinds you in your every step."
Mitt Romney's Misguided Lament
"We stand at a time when the premise of our country's greatness is being challenged."
The Left Takes On G-d's Country
Lloyd Billingsley: "Pro-American foreign and domestic policies - and Operation Warp Speed - put the president on top."
President Trump Most Admired Man in 2020
"The question is not about our aesthetic or rhetorical predilections. Rather it is about what moves masses of people and drives them to rallies on cold nights amid an epidemic."
Is Trump Really a Spent Political Force?
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST REIGN OF TERROR, WAR ON POLICE, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Housing people in unoccupied hotels doesn't ruin anyone's business." (translation: 'fuck you, they explained' - jjs)
Seattle Housing Activists Occupy Hotel, Demand City Pays Bill With Money From Police Budget
MEDIA CENSORSHIP OF BOMBSHELL BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS, DISINFORMATION & SMEARING OF NY POST, GIULIANI ET AL
Margot Cleveland: "The lawsuit alleges Twitter defamed the computer store owner in an attempt to justify its censorship of The New York Post's story on Hunter Biden selling access to his father."
Hunter Biden Laptop Lawsuit Gives Twitter Unpleasant Legal Choices
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
"Aurora Health Care Center revealed its findings on Wednesday evening, saying that fifty-seven vials -- enough vaccine doses for more than 500 people -- at its Grafton location had been 'intentionally' left out of the pharmacy refrigerator. Previously, the health care center said they were forced to discard vaccines that had been 'inadvertently' left out of the refrigerator."
Employee Left Hundreds of Vaccine Doses That Spoiled Out "Intentionally," Says Wisconsin Health System
"The Dems' love affair with ruining American lives."
Can You Love the Poor and Support Lockdowns?
"A rare leak from within the government, the dozens of pages of unpublished documents confirm what many have long suspected: The clampdown comes from the top."
China Confiscates Chinese COVID-19 Origin Research Samples
"This shutdown order by Austin isn't allowed. Period. My executive order stops cities like Austin from arbitrarily shutting down businesses," [Governor] Abbott tweeted Tuesday in response to the order. "The city has a responsibility to enforce existing orders, not make new ones."
Austin Mayor Announces New Restrictions on Restaurants; Texas AG: Try It and I'll See You in Court
"Mark Poloncarz (D-New York) the Executive of Erie County, was caught on video playing hockey with over a dozen others at local rink after his Health Department had shut down another rink nearby for hosting scrimmages."
Another Democrat Official Caught Violating Chinese COVID-19 Restrictions He Enforces
"Normalcy doesn't proceed naturally from the moral universe we've generated over the past several months. We must change our minds to change our circumstances."
We Can't Get Back to Normal if People Think Spreading Chinese COVID Equals Murder
"If the Constitution's protections for each American's individual rights can be suspended every time a government bureaucrat declares an emergency, then we have no protections at all."
Without Our Constitution, We're Under Occupation
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"It was the second win for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and Agudath Israel of America. A month ago, the US Supreme Court blocked the state from enforcing the rule while the case went through the courts."
King Angel of Death Cuomo's Chinese COVID Rules Meet the Constitution
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"A self-described Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient from Mexico, who was part of a small crowd gathered in front of Super Mercado La Villa for a 'Latinx Meet & Greet' event Wednesday morning, asked Ossoff what he thought about immigration law for Latinos..."
Watch: Democrat Jon Ossoff Promises Illegal Aliens Amnesty at "Latinx Meet and Greet"
"While there has been speculation that California would lose one seat due to unprecedented outmigration from the state's failed urban centers, it now has the potential to lose three."
A Supreme Court Decision May Cause Democrats' Sanctuary Policies to Backfire
FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Democracy dies in darkness... except when reporting could upend the fortunes of a prominent Democrat."
The Warnock Media Blackout
"There's no way that even as recently as four years ago anyone would have predicted just how abysmally irresponsible the media would become by 2020."
The Top Five Most Suppressed News Stories Of 2020
"Democratic institutions have failed to earn the public's trust."
A Legitimacy Crisis of the Left's Own Making
"Sen. Josh Hawley slammed Walmart on Wednesday after an employee used the company's account to insult the Republican congressman from Missouri for raising questions about 2020 election integrity."
After Walmart Twitter Account Attacks GOP Sen. Josh Hawley, #BoycottWalmart Trends on Twitter
The list would've been much shorter if it comprised media outlets not pimping yellow Yellow peril.
REVEALED: Full List of Western Media Outlets Participating in Chinese Communist Propaganda Events
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"From manufacturing to Hollywood, the Communist Party has benefited from 2020's chaos."
China's Very Good Year
Spengler: "Dan Blumenthal, a former official of the George W. Bush Administration, now directs Asia policy at the American Enterprise Institute, and his new book offers a horrible example of why we are losing the great civilizational war to China."
The Neocons Will Louse Up China Policy Just as They Did in the Middle East
"The massacre of an estimated 30,000 dissidents in 1988 shouldn't go unpunished. Yet it has."
An Investigation into Iran's 1988 Massacre is Long Overdue
Caroline Glick: "The art of seizing and wielding power without public support."
The Israeli Left is Far From Dead
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Kahl, who has served as national security adviser to Biden when he was vice president, held open the possibility that the Trump team did not directly collude with Russia, but he asserted that "the evidence is now irrefutable" that Trump, his associates and top Republicans "broadly conspired to give Moscow a pass despite (or perhaps because of) Russia's attack on our democracy."
Biden Pick For Top Pentagon Post Pushed Trump-Russia Conspiracy Theory, Touted Steele Dossier
They mean "aflete" with the traditional "f" spelling...
Majority of Cadets Implicated in West Point Cheating Scandal Are Athletes
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Raymond Ibrahim: "The persecution Christians experienced in just one month at the hands of Muslims."
"More Than 50 Christians Refusing to Recant Their Faith Were Killed"
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Daniel Greenfield: "...And added a Broken Glass Belt to the Rust Belt."
Democrats Destroyed All the Savings of Americans Three Times Over
"Democrats' economic policies, filled with steep punitive taxes and impossible-to-jump regulatory hurdles, are economic poison."
Biden's "Dark Winter" is a Warning About His Economy, Not the Virus
The only thing that triggers economic collapse is out of control socialism, overregulation and fascistic crony corporatism.
Malig-Nancy Pelosi Creates Panel to "Combat the Concentration of Wealth in America and Its Role in Triggering Economic Collapse"
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"This was an animalistic attack in broad daylight," one Manhattan police officer told the Post. "It shows how far the city has deteriorated, and the politicians better get their heads out of the sand and start to deal with these problems before there is nothing left."
WATCH: NYC Bicyclists Attack BMW in Plain Sight
"Los Angeles County prosecutors have been placed in an impossible position," said ADDA Vice President Eric Siddall. "Do we follow our legal and ethical responsibilities and risk getting disciplined, even fired, by our new boss? Or do we follow his policy directives and risk losing our California State Bar Cards and, by extension, our ability to practice law anywhere in the state? We're asking a court to answer those questions."
Los Angeles Prosecutors Union Sues New Progressive D.A. Gascon Over Special Orders
"I didn't see a reason to give my identification. I don't need to tell people why I'm coming there to pray and give things in honor to the land. I don't need permission or consent," House explained to NBC. "And I don't think he liked that very much."
Native American and Former Marine Tased After Walking Off Park Path, Video Shows
"He... confessed to killing 93 people over a period of more than three decades between 1970 to 2005, spanning across 19 states."
The Most Prolific Serial Killer in US History Dead at 80
HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE
"Biden's campaign website explicitly states that he intends to decriminalize exposure and transmission of HIV, a disease that disproportionately affects Black Americans and a policy that would doubtlessly create a new wave of transmission and deaths in America's black communities."
Joe Biden's HIV Policy Would Disproportionately Expose Black Americans to the Killer Disease
"The rule follows a court decision to uphold President Donald Trump's executive order calling for health care price transparency."
Greedy Health Care Providers Must Disclose Prices in 2021 Thanks to Trump's Executive Order
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"...a Democratic party driven by a cultural belief system that they're now trying to drive through the school system so they can brainwash the entire next generation"
No Shit Sherlock Dept.: Newt Gingrich Sez Democrats Are Using Schools to Brainwash the Young
"More power for teachers unions, college debt cancellation, strangleholds on charter schools -- what's not to love?"
Biden's Preposterous Plans for Education Policy
"As an adult who teaches, I got to choose an open school. Union politics have now barred millions of families from a similar privilege."
Teachers Unions Must Never Be Allowed to Ban Kids From an Education Again
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Our intrepid science reporter notes, "[T]he relatively low interest I think is rooted in Webb's initial genesis. It was pushed by the cosmological community and its design thus optimized for studying the early universe. Other astronomical fields were pushed aside or given a lower priority so that the telescope does not serve them as well."
Surpisingly Low Number of Observation Proposals From Astronomers for Webb Telescope
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Biden's embrace of fossil energy obstructionism will ultimately require... fossil energy."
Joe Biden's Promise to Ban Federal Oil and Gas Leasing Undermines Climate Progress
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"After opening their doors to girls, the Boy Scouts have allegedly tried to poach prospective Girl Scouts, leading their rival to lose out on recruits at a time when interest in both organizations is on the wane."
Gender Ideology Ties Scouts in Knots
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Three major events intersected in the tumultuous year of 2020: the [Chinese] coronavirus pandemic, the Black Lives Matter/Antifa inspired riots, and the vigorous assault on free speech that became known as 'cancel culture.'"
Farewell to a Dreadful Year
"Rare moments of agreement with a Washington Post article -- plus some quibbles."
The Clash of History
"There are many examples of scarlet-letter-like labels, which are used as a cudgel to exercise fascistic control of expression."
Hester Prynne Arrives
"Glenn Loury has a message for progressive 'anti-racists,' and it's one all Americans need to hear."
Watch Glenn Loury Call "Anti-Racism's" Bluff
"Coexistence with cancel culture is not possible if the barest and most basic human freedom is to survive."
Racial Revenge Porn Comes For Your Kids
"The Overton Window has become the Overton dartboard. Every day, people throw darts at a board -- each tweet, post and public statement is aimed at hitting a mark. And each new moral fashion offers the opportunity to change their scores."
Cancel Culture is Creating a Soviet-Style Society of Liars
"Gallup also noted that Americans who attend church weekly or describe themselves as 'conservative' were more likely to believe couples with children should be married. "
Gallup: 40% of Americans Say "Not Too/Not at All Important" for Couple With Child to Marry
"A new superhero movie subverts the core message of modern Western life."
Wonder Woman vs. Kamala Harris
"Trump's proclamation honoring the famous saint and martyr is a stark reminder that religious liberty is under threat by Democrats."
Trump Invokes Saint Thomas Becket in Defense of Religious Liberty. Expect the Opposite From Biden-Harris
HITHER & YON
"The unfairly maligned sequel just got a facelift, but the original reigns supreme." (30 years later, it still sucks but YMMV I guess - jjs)
Why We Didn't Need a New Cut of Godfather Part III
"The 1918 Spanish flu was a killer of historic proportions."
A Tidal Wave of Death

NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

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Comments

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1 First!

Posted by: Bride of Frankenberry at December 31, 2020 07:21 AM (bUTbD)

2 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 31, 2020 07:22 AM (5QBw6)

3 G'mornin' Horde !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 TRUMP WON! at December 31, 2020 07:23 AM (pmEbq)

4 Happy Birthday JJS!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 31, 2020 07:24 AM (PiwSw)

5 Morning, Horde!

RIP, Dawn Wells.

Posted by: Michael the Texan at December 31, 2020 07:25 AM (9IdCK)

6 Happy birthday, JJ. Last one of the year. Hope it's better than the preceding 365.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 07:25 AM (7X3UV)

7 Somebody needs to do a Johnny Paycheck reboot:

"You can take this mask and shove it
I ain't wearin' it no more!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 31, 2020 07:27 AM (PiwSw)

8 Good last morning of the year everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 31, 2020 07:28 AM (Cxk7w)

9 Just as a matter of armchair poly-sci... I have to imagine that the vast majority of Trump voters were not wishy-washy whatever votes. They were cast with a near revolutionary fervor, in protest against a system gone off the rails.

The vast majority of Biden voters, given the strength of the candidate and his many, many useless years in Washington and his no-platform non-campaign, must have been less enthusiastic.

In terms of "battlefield prep" for any coming Unpleasantness, the pro-Barbarian side is really starting off on the wrong foot there.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2020 07:28 AM (6FeV1)

10 Good morning!

Another excellent openiner, JJ, bravo!
Thank you so much for your weekday posts.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 31, 2020 07:29 AM (bDqIh)

11 2020: CF on stilts.
2021: Hold my beer.

Have your loins girded and stay hopeful and exercise the freedoms you have.

Posted by: Fortcoins at December 31, 2020 07:29 AM (nV60k)

12 7 Somebody needs to do a Johnny Paycheck reboot:

"You can take this mask and shove it
I ain't wearin' it no more!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 31, 2020 07:27 AM (PiwSw)

COVID-20 spreads via flatus.

Shove the mask, science denier.

We're all gonna die in this together.

Posted by: The WHO, three weeks from now at December 31, 2020 07:29 AM (6FeV1)

13 How can 2021 not be worse than 2020? Look at the trend lines. The Left has declared plenary war on America, with territorial gains on every front. They are suddenly going to retreat? Or, after 75 years of ineptitude in fighting the Left or slowing their infiltration of every institution in America, our side is suddenly going to hit upon the solution or the will to execute it?

"The once happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by a race of slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice."
George Washington

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 07:31 AM (H8QX8)

14 Now that I read Daniel Greenfield, not that I didn't know that I might just go to the bottle right away.

Posted by: Skip at December 31, 2020 07:32 AM (Cxk7w)

15 "The once happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by a race of slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice."
George Washington
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 07:31 AM (H8QX

Of course not, Guy I've Never Heard Of!

Do you still have any neck chain collars in size 15-1/2" left?

Posted by: Average Democrat at December 31, 2020 07:32 AM (6FeV1)

16 Newt Griftitch is another criminal who got rich after his fat ass landed in Congress.

He should be in prison with his friend, homosexual rapist Denny Hastert. They can wrassel and play tummy sticks.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 31, 2020 07:33 AM (sVFtl)

17 Marjorie Taylor-Greene Warns Malig-Nancy and Mitch McYertle May Be Colluding on Deal to Block Electoral College Objections
__________

Mitch is dangerous. He is undoubtedly highly skilled. Nancy, OTOH, well, whatever skills she had have gone off into Bidenland.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 07:33 AM (7X3UV)

18 JJ

back at u

I wish with all my heart better days ahead for you and yours and a truly Happy New Year.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 31, 2020 07:33 AM (5QBw6)

19 17 Marjorie Taylor-Greene Warns Malig-Nancy and Mitch McYertle May Be Colluding on Deal to Block Electoral College Objections
__________

Mitch is dangerous. He is undoubtedly highly skilled. Nancy, OTOH, well, whatever skills she had have gone off into Bidenland.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 07:33 AM (7X3UV)

When in the Course of Human Events....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2020 07:34 AM (6FeV1)

20 Sorry. My piss-to-vinegar ratio is nominal this morning.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2020 07:35 AM (6FeV1)

21 As said downstairs got a Leftist news flash Sundowner the Usurper is going to sign a order the first minute that everything Trump has ordered that has not started by midnight is null and void.

Posted by: Skip at December 31, 2020 07:35 AM (Cxk7w)

22 21 As said downstairs got a Leftist news flash Sundowner the Usurper is going to sign a order the first minute that everything Trump has ordered that has not started by midnight is null and void.
Posted by: Skip at December 31, 2020 07:35 AM (Cxk7w)

"As of 11:59:58 PM on 1/6/2021, nobody is allowed to punch Joe Biden in the dick."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2020 07:37 AM (6FeV1)

23 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 31, 2020 07:39 AM (arJlL)

24 Incriminating Facts Emerge from a Georgia Hearing the Media Buried
________

At the end of that story, it says the subcommittee passed the resolution unanimously. So, even Democrats agreed?

WTF?

If that's the case, I can see why the MFM killed the story. It's deadly.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 07:39 AM (7X3UV)

25 The undeniable exposure of people entrusted with enforcing our laws and
protecting our national security as cheap crooks, drunk on power and
their own narcissistic delusions of elitism was shocking in the extreme.

_____

Even more shocking was that nary a one was held accountable and correspondingly punished -- a portent that the coup would continue and succeed.
Not looking forward to 2021; great rant as usual J.J.

Posted by: ShainS at December 31, 2020 07:41 AM (WqPYg)

26 Major Court Victory Boosts Election Integrity in Georgia Runoffs
________

Where did they find a judge who wasn't related to Stacey Abrams? And if they did so, isn't that rayciss?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 07:41 AM (7X3UV)

27 Good last morning of the year everyone
Posted by: Skip

Backatcha Skip !

Posted by: JT at December 31, 2020 07:41 AM (arJlL)

28 If that's the case, I can see why the MFM killed the story. It's deadly.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 07:39 AM (7X3UV)

They're smothering every story counter to the Narrative, as never before. Trump must, as part of any action he takes, commandeer the networks to reach the people.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 07:41 AM (H8QX8)

29 To put an ironic twist on a disgusting threat from an equally disgusting woman who once was first lady, what President Trump revealed will never allow us to be able to go on with our lives as before. And ultimately, that is a good thing.

-

Even if this ends with the traitors hanged and the republic stitched up to limp along until the next coup, it infuriates me that my children will never know the America of just a few years ago where people were free to f*ck off and mind their own business. The America where people didn't care if you sucked cock, or were fixated on the melanin in your skin, or where people with high school diplomas knew not to spit on people while talking or to cover their mouths when they sneezed, and who had been taught what asymptomatic meant and intuitively understood it.

F*ck you, communists.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - who said asymptomatics have never been a major disease vector at December 31, 2020 07:42 AM (HBEnm)

30 Godfather III. Mmmmmmm, Andy Garcia. Now he's a lot better to think about than the putrid, steaming pile of links that depress and remind me of just how bad things are.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 31, 2020 07:42 AM (O+I8R)

31 Good morning all. I alternate between dread at the thought of a Biden administration and incredulity that the bastards pulled this off.

Posted by: IC at December 31, 2020 07:43 AM (Nyumu)

32 Definitely will today again hit the tip jar for Ace and CutJibNewsletter.
That, my friends, is an honor!
And done with sincere thanks.

Good morning, Horde!

Posted by: Pakistani Gender Studies One Horse Pony at December 31, 2020 07:44 AM (jV+aN)

33 Annnnd, back to the links.

AMERICA!!

Posted by: Pakistani Gender Studies One Horse Pony at December 31, 2020 07:45 AM (jV+aN)

34 Such a link collection! I might even be made an informed citizen after today's magnificent effort.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at December 31, 2020 07:45 AM (fIGh5)

35 31 Good morning all. I alternate between dread at the thought of a Biden administration and incredulity that the bastards pulled this off.
Posted by: IC at December 31, 2020 07:43 AM (Nyumu)

One cold consolation is that any Biden presidency will be a clusterf*ck of such magnitude as to produce a national cry of mercy within one year. For those who believe things always have to get worse before they get better, there is that.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 07:46 AM (H8QX8)

36 Was able to get "personal days off" for the 6th! Now I get paid to be there. I told the office I was either calling off or they could give them to me. I have sympathizers in the office.

Posted by: Tree of Liberty Landscaping at December 31, 2020 07:47 AM (DB16e)

37 The blogger Bruce Charlton just wrote that in one year, we've passed through the entire Soviet Union experiment. It started with zealous self-sacrifice in the spring, on to the paranoia of Stalin by summer, with spying and snitching. And now we've reached the weary, dreary Brezhnev era, where everyone know that we're being a solid diet of lies every day. https://tinyurl.com/ycrkj6hv

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at December 31, 2020 07:47 AM (NB7mI)

38 We Are Facing Unprecedented Corporate Tyranny in America
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To me, the key point came late in that. Which is that these guys are NOT where they are by winning in the free market. Sure, at the start, they did so (in so far as the market was free, which is rather limited).

But once they got rich, it's been government favoritism that was key. As the author points out, the model of Randian competition doesn't apply.

But try to get the average libertarian to see that.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 07:48 AM (7X3UV)

39 How can 2021 not be worse than 2020? Look at the trend lines. The Left has declared plenary war on America, with territorial gains on every front. They are suddenly going to retreat?

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The one thing I hold onto is that they have decidedly not gained at the ballot box. Yeah, yeah. But let's step back from the fraud, the brazen cheating, the obviously stolen election(s). Donald Trump overwhelmingly won 2020. The media lost. The Democrats lost, across the board elections as well. Hollywood lost. They were not able to bamboozle the people. The people are not trusting or believing them. Yes, it remains to be seen what kind of uprising will occur if the Fraudulent Turnip is installed. But I believe if he is, and his agenda comes to pass, there will be major moves to untether from the illegitimate US federal govt. JMHO.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 31, 2020 07:48 AM (O+I8R)

40 Bright and early

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 31, 2020 07:50 AM (bzrNB)

41 https://www.americanthinker.com/ without our constitution were under occupation
https://tinyurl.com/y7fr2dlf
Not sure if it's in one of JJ's links but this sums up my feelings

Posted by: Skip at December 31, 2020 07:50 AM (Cxk7w)

42 37 The blogger Bruce Charlton just wrote that in one year, we've passed through the entire Soviet Union experiment... https://tinyurl.com/ycrkj6hv
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at December 31, 2020 07:47 AM (NB7mI)

That's brilliant. Thanks.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 07:50 AM (H8QX8)

43 So Lin Wood, the guy who likes to sue people for defamation of his clients, rolled up all The Horde's conspiracy theories against SC Judas Roberts and "suggests" that Roberts illegally adopted his children though Clinton-linked Jeffrey Epstein.

So this is how the game is played in the District of Criminals. You don't get into the treehouse unless they have some dirt on you that they will later need for leverage.

Trump didn't have any. Now we need to wonder what horrible things ACB and Kavenaugh have on them.

Posted by: Doctor 🐧, President Elect at December 31, 2020 07:51 AM (dsaPW)

44 And now we've reached the weary, dreary Brezhnev era, where everyone know that we're being a solid diet of lies every day.

https://tinyurl.com/ycrkj6hv

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at December 31, 2020 07:47 AM (NB7mI)

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Thanks for that link. Just skimming a few articles it looks like something the Horde would enjoy and appreciate.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - who said asymptomatics have never been a major disease vector at December 31, 2020 07:52 AM (HBEnm)

45 Hunter Biden Laptop Lawsuit Gives Twitter Unpleasant Legal Choices
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I thought I read that had already been thrown out.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 07:52 AM (7X3UV)

46 Decriminalization of HIV, Margaret Sanger would be proud.

Posted by: Skip at December 31, 2020 07:53 AM (Cxk7w)

47 At the end of that story, it says the subcommittee passed the resolution unanimously. So, even Democrats agreed?

WTF?

If that's the case, I can see why the MFM killed the story. It's deadly.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 07:39 AM (7X3UV)

Watched most of it. The group had thinned out toward the end.

Maybe for a reason.

Posted by: Deep State 910 at December 31, 2020 07:53 AM (XH/UL)

48 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2020 07:53 AM (LwB8i)

49 Good morning all. I alternate between dread at the thought of a Biden administration and incredulity that the bastards pulled this off.

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They would not have pulled this off, or in the process of, were it not for a slew of co-conspirators on both sides. Media, judges, governors, SOSs, corrupt or frightened legislatures.

Just like Crimmicrats getting away with murder, were it not for co-conspirators in the media suppressing or spinning stories...well, you know the rest.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 31, 2020 07:54 AM (O+I8R)

50 But I believe if he is, and his agenda comes to pass, there will be major moves to untether from the illegitimate US federal govt. JMHO.
Posted by: Lady in Black

I appreciate your comment, Lady. I've been thinking along the same lines. Well said.

Posted by: lizabth at December 31, 2020 07:54 AM (L3Rsz)

51 Now we need to wonder what horrible things ACB and Kavenaugh have on them.
Posted by: Doctor , President Elect at December 31, 2020 07:51 AM (dsaPW)

Nah, they're just complaisant weaklings.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 07:54 AM (H8QX8)

52 Great post, J.J. Thanks. I appreciate your encouraging words. I will hit your tip jar later today. I already gave some to Ace.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 31, 2020 07:55 AM (VP4Cd)

53 Listen, we've known what the score was for a very long time, we've wasted a lot and time and energy chicken fucking around the issue.

The main issue is the GOP is an illigitimate political party properly understood and is a useless pile of dog shit.

Try as he might, Trump was not able to make them legitimate.

It's well past time that we created a new America First/Nationalist party.

Will we?

I have no fucking idea but the time for chicken fucking is over.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 31, 2020 07:55 AM (+aznQ)

54 I watched the entire 5 hour hearing in Georgia. It was the most damning one I've seen yet. Smoke was coming out of my ears. I'll bet $100 Fulton County cannot produce the original ballots.

Posted by: f'd at December 31, 2020 07:55 AM (xypzc)

55 Decriminalization of HIV, Margaret Sanger would be proud.

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Let's just make it easy. If a "policy" would harm normal Americans in some way, the Crimmicrats are all for it. It's really amazing when you think about it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 31, 2020 07:55 AM (O+I8R)

56 The one thing I hold onto is that they have decidedly not gained at the ballot box.

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Sadly, though, that's a technicality that doesn't matter.

If the traitors aren't hanged and assets seized, I don't see any hope at the federal level. Votes literally don't matter, and they'll matter even less when there are 40M new Illegal American voters.

I think state and local will become more and more important, with county-level politics being the most important. Look around to counites where the sheriff said "I'm not enforcing this mask bullsh*t. We've got actual crimes we're worried about." That's probably where you want to live in the next few years.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - who said asymptomatics have never been a major disease vector at December 31, 2020 07:56 AM (HBEnm)

57 The Superintendent of West Point suspended the Honor Code after 73 cadets were accused of cheating. He said the code "resulted in an inequitable application of consequences and developmental opportunities for select groups of cadets".

What the hell does that mean? What "developmental opportunities" is he referring to? Without facts, I bet there is a racial imbalance in the offending group of cadets and the Army is worried about becoming a political target if they enforce their rules.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at December 31, 2020 07:57 AM (fIGh5)

58 I apologize if that's what you meant by the "untether" bit, btw.

+1 if so.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - who said asymptomatics have never been a major disease vector at December 31, 2020 07:57 AM (HBEnm)

59 The Superintendent of West Point suspended the Honor Code after 73 cadets were accused of cheating. He said the code "resulted in an inequitable application of consequences and developmental opportunities for select groups of cadets".

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hahaha

"Select groups"

Tell us more, non-racists.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - who said asymptomatics have never been a major disease vector at December 31, 2020 07:58 AM (HBEnm)

60 He said the code "resulted in an inequitable application of consequences and developmental opportunities for select groups of cadets".

Oh, for the love of God (said reverently)!

This guy sounds rayciss and sexist. He doesn't think POC and girls can measure up to honor. Sad!

Posted by: lizabth at December 31, 2020 07:58 AM (L3Rsz)

61 Try as he might, Trump was not able to make them legitimate.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 31, 2020 07:55 AM (+aznQ)

If he pulls this out, I hope he finally understands this and stops trying.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 07:59 AM (H8QX8)

62 Witness Announces His Team Has Hacked Georgia Runoff Machines

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This poor bastard is going to get arrested for remotely hacking into voting machines that aren't online.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - who said asymptomatics have never been a major disease vector at December 31, 2020 07:59 AM (HBEnm)

63 I watched the entire 5 hour hearing in Georgia. It was the most damning one I've seen yet. Smoke was coming out of my ears. I'll bet $100 Fulton County cannot produce the original ballots.
Posted by: f'd at December 31, 2020 07:55 AM (xypzc)

Funny how I hadn't seen the ladies re-scanning the ballots. I think I'm pretty engaged.

The average American has no idea.

Posted by: Deep State 910 at December 31, 2020 07:59 AM (XH/UL)

64 We're about to enter the "average Russian years"

How was your year?
Average.
How?
Worse than last year, better than next year--average.

Posted by: RoyalOil at December 31, 2020 07:59 AM (s4lYG)

65 54 I watched the entire 5 hour hearing in Georgia. It was the most damning one I've seen yet. Smoke was coming out of my ears. I'll bet $100 Fulton County cannot produce the original ballots.
Posted by: f'd

There were so many quotes by Pulitzer....crushing the engineer over his "opinion" and not "scientific fact" and then continuing to mock him to his face for being an engineer was great. Every question asked by the committee seemed to be more about what they knew and how smart they were, versus trying to figure out what the witness was showing them.

Posted by: BacktoGA at December 31, 2020 07:59 AM (MPYWI)

66 Let's just make it easy. If a "policy" would harm normal Americans in some way, the Crimmicrats are all for it. It's really amazing when you think about it.

Technically, that would be any time the government intervenes outside of the duty to combat fraud and adjudicate disagreements.

Even in prostitution which harms those who are involved. The government intervenes in any way, and the next thing you know they are picking my pocket to spend on NGOs or other groups who "aid" the prostitutes who still are engaged in the trade.

Posted by: Doctor 🐧, President Elect at December 31, 2020 08:00 AM (BoVdg)

67 I apologize if that's what you meant by the "untether" bit, btw.

+1 if so.

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It was exactly what I meant. My main point is that, overall, Americans aren't asleep at the wheel any longer. Hence Trump's landslide 8 weeks ago. We are not going to be herded into a Biden Communist Wet Dream 'Dark Winter' and just look away at our freedoms being stripped and the Constitution being completely ignored. I just don't believe it. Not with what we saw on election day. The real results. There's hope in those numbers. Pessimistic by nature as I am, I see it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 31, 2020 08:01 AM (O+I8R)

68 Yesterday's daily reading:

John 2:12-17
Do not love the world or the things of the world.
If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world,
sensual lust, enticement for the eyes, and a pretentious life,
is not from the Father but is from the world.
Yet the world and its enticement are passing away.
But whoever does the will of God remains forever.

Posted by: BacktoGA at December 31, 2020 08:02 AM (MPYWI)

69 In all seriousness, if you haven't visted the

charltonteaching.blogspot.com

link Dr. Mabuse posted above, go and visit. Go to the front page. He's got to be a moron.

"And just recently we came up the the following stages, leading up to our adaptation of the established term 'permafrost': Epidermafrost - is a surface crusting of frost that affects only the leaves of grass, and makes a skim of ice on standing water..."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - who said asymptomatics have never been a major disease vector at December 31, 2020 08:02 AM (HBEnm)

70 Every question asked by the committee seemed to be more about what they knew and how smart they were, versus trying to figure out what the witness was showing them.
Posted by: BacktoGA at December 31, 2020 07:59 AM (MPYWI)

And the quibble about the Morgan County Graphic. Jeez.

ME wouldn't look at the top of both ballots, both from Fulton County.

Why would one have a bar code and the other not? And why wasn't that question asked by the committee?

Posted by: Deep State 910 at December 31, 2020 08:02 AM (XH/UL)

71 f'd I only read about it but they were saying in the hearing Fulton may have destroyed their ballots already.
All over the country the ~~Democrats~~ Communists have openly committed the fraud in our face and dared us to stop them.
No one has.

Posted by: Skip at December 31, 2020 08:02 AM (Cxk7w)

72 And a late greeting from Salty, who is currently unavailable..

Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2020 08:02 AM (3D/fK)

73 72 And a late greeting from Salty, who is currently unavailable..

Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2020 08:02 AM (3D/fK)

Amen, Salty.

And you too, VIA.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2020 08:04 AM (6FeV1)

74 >>He said the code "resulted in an inequitable application of consequences and developmental opportunities for select groups of cadets".

And how does a lack of honor code play out on the battle field -- will there be an inequitable number of injuries and/or death because you've allowed stupid people lacking in morals to serve beside honorable ones? Will one of these students go on to be the next Bradley Manning, Bowie Bergdahl or Spencer Rapone?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 31, 2020 08:04 AM (bDqIh)

75 I call B$ on the Statehood thing for DC and PR. We have been hearing that will happen for decades and nothing, just talk and wasted ink.

The same goes for illegals getting citizenship. When the democrats duped Reagan in 84 with amnesty that's all I ever heard, we won't win a national election again because they will all vote democrat.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at December 31, 2020 08:04 AM (JUOKG)

76 We are not going to be herded into a Biden Communist Wet Dream 'Dark Winter' and just look away at our freedoms being stripped and the Constitution being completely ignored. I just don't believe it. Not with what we saw on election day. The real results. There's hope in those numbers. Pessimistic by nature as I am, I see it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 31, 2020 08:01 AM (O+I8R)

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This is honestly why I see the Insurrection Act as being so crucial. That levels the playing field for normal people against the terrorists that are occupying territory and murdering people in blue cities where they're protected by Soros' DAs.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - who said asymptomatics have never been a major disease vector at December 31, 2020 08:04 AM (HBEnm)

77 52 Great post, J.J. Thanks. I appreciate your encouraging words. I will hit your tip jar later today. I already gave some to Ace.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 31, 2020 07:55 AM (VP4Cd)

Thanks. You give my pants a happy feeling... in the wallet.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2020 08:04 AM (s2VJv)

78 There were so many quotes by Pulitzer....crushing the engineer over his "opinion" and not "scientific fact" and then continuing to mock him to his face for being an engineer was great....
Posted by: BacktoGA at December 31, 2020 07:59 AM (MPYWI)

Agreed. Heartening that men like this still exist.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 08:05 AM (H8QX8)

79 Read the link on Nanzi deciding to accualy seat the two Republicans, thought for sure if your going to take over the country do it by whole not half.

Posted by: Skip at December 31, 2020 08:05 AM (Cxk7w)

80 I tried to call Kemp's office a dozen times yesterday and it was always busy. They probably took it off the hook. The f'r has no public email address either.

We need a rally in Atlanta to get out of hand outside the Governor's house.

Posted by: f'd at December 31, 2020 08:05 AM (xypzc)

81 And how does a lack of honor code play out on the battle field -- will there be an inequitable number of injuries and/or death because you've allowed stupid people lacking in morals to serve beside honorable ones? Will one of these students go on to be the next Bradley Manning, Bowie Bergdahl or Spencer Rapone?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 31, 2020 08:04 AM (bDqIh)

"Alright, boys and girls, we gotta go back into the red zone this afternoon. Not enough of you were killed or wounded yesterday to be equitable to the enemy."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2020 08:05 AM (6FeV1)

82 GA Sig Audits:

2020 2 15,118 0.01%
2016 287 15,118 1.90%
2106 1451 15,118 9.60%

So in 2020 Cobb County for 2 bad signatures for 0.01% rejection. In 2016 neighboring Gwinnett Cty had 9.8% and DeKalb had 1.9%. With a total of 151k mail in ballots (Cobb) the fraud in signatures alone could be >14k ballots.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 31, 2020 08:05 AM (5QBw6)

83 f'd I only read about it but they were saying in the hearing Fulton may have destroyed their ballots already.
All over the country the Democrats Communists have openly committed the fraud in our face and dared us to stop them.
No one has.
Posted by: Skip at December 31, 2020 08:02 AM (Cxk7w)

One lady testified, when she saw the shredder truck, she called 911. No LE came. She then went to the precinct where she was told the po-po would not get involved with election issues.

Posted by: Deep State 910 at December 31, 2020 08:05 AM (XH/UL)

84 The Superintendent of West Point suspended the Honor Code after 73 cadets were accused of cheating. He said the code "resulted in an inequitable application of consequences and developmental opportunities for select groups of cadets".

You know, I never really get that chance to pack away my "Disband the [former] United States Military" banner before we see another case of that august institution becoming so corrupt that they are a mortal danger to We The People.

Posted by: Doctor 🐧, President Elect at December 31, 2020 08:05 AM (MZ4yE)

85 Great post, J.J. Thanks. I appreciate your encouraging words. I will hit your tip jar later today. I already gave some to Ace.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Ummm.....phrasing ?

Posted by: JT at December 31, 2020 08:06 AM (arJlL)

86 And the quibble about the Morgan County Graphic. Jeez.

ME wouldn't look at the top of both ballots, both from Fulton County.

Why would one have a bar code and the other not? And why wasn't that question asked by the committee?
Posted by: Deep State 910

"Please, zoom in so these [idiots] don't get confused any more"

Posted by: BacktoGA at December 31, 2020 08:06 AM (MPYWI)

87 e said the code "resulted in an inequitable application of consequences and developmental opportunities for select groups of cadets".

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It really is disturbing to understand that he is CLEARLY stating that he and his organization have come to the conclusion that black people are genetically incapable of understanding and practicing ethics and/or honor.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - who said asymptomatics have never been a major disease vector at December 31, 2020 08:06 AM (HBEnm)

88 75 I call B$ on the Statehood thing for DC and PR. We have been hearing that will happen for decades and nothing, just talk and wasted ink.

The same goes for illegals getting citizenship. When the democrats duped Reagan in 84 with amnesty that's all I ever heard, we won't win a national election again because they will all vote democrat.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at December 31, 2020 08:04 AM (JUOKG)

If they control the Congress and the Oval Office, they don't need to dupe anyone on mass amnesty. That is a fiat accompli.

Statehood is another matter.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2020 08:06 AM (s2VJv)

89 But try to get the average libertarian to see that.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 07:48 AM (7X3UV)

Those fuckheads deserve tire iron therapy as much as anyone.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 31, 2020 08:07 AM (y7DUB)

90 A Legitimacy Crisis of the Left's Own Making
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That was better than I expected. I knew it'd be on my side, but the author does zero in on the primary problems:

1. The fact that the loss of confidence predates Trump (about which the media and pols are in denial), and, worse,

2. That they simply refuse to even consider the question of whether they are worthy of trust.

The latter is the bottom line. We seem to have reached peak irrationality in that the very technique of rational argument has been forgotten. I see this on even philosophical sites, and it's dismaying.

Reason is, ultimately, the only shared faculty we have. Throw it out, and it's all about whose will triumphs. That is a nasty prospect.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 08:08 AM (7X3UV)

91 Setting aside the question of why an individual who murdered 93 people was still breathing at the ripe old age of 80, it seems peculiar that the article went out of its way to point out that there was no evidence of foul play inn his death, as if that would have been a bad thing.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 31, 2020 08:08 AM (m45I2)

92 It really is disturbing to understand that he is CLEARLY stating that he and his organization have come to the conclusion that black people are genetically incapable of understanding and practicing ethics and/or honor.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - who said asymptomatics have never been a major disease vector at December 31, 2020 08:06 AM (HBEnm)

The thing about Soft Bigotry is that it always winds up hardening.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2020 08:08 AM (6FeV1)

93 Where's BINO to tell us that the GA hacking was faked and Dominion Voting Systems is unhackable and Dominion never lies and is pure as the driven snow?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 31, 2020 08:08 AM (k4dH2)

94 Those fuckheads deserve tire iron therapy as much as anyone.
Posted by: Captain Hate

Libertarians are the ones that will walk us to the gas chambers thinking they're helping us breathe. At least the left knows they're trying to kill us.

Posted by: BacktoGA at December 31, 2020 08:08 AM (MPYWI)

95 Making states requires to much, but as Jug Ears did a simple executive order to make every illegal impossible to deport is easy, you know deportation will stop immediately, they vote by the million anyway

Posted by: Skip at December 31, 2020 08:08 AM (Cxk7w)

96 Thank you so much, J.J for your magnificent reporting day in and day out. How you've been able to keep yourself sane with all your links this year is truly remarkable.

Posted by: Homer's Donuts at December 31, 2020 08:08 AM (HK8/E)

97 All over the country the Democrats Communists have openly committed the fraud in our face and dared us to stop them.

But we should ignore this insulting, blatant fraud and lawlessness, unite together and trust them in every other area of our lives.

Because Communists Care.

Posted by: Doctor 🐧, President Elect at December 31, 2020 08:09 AM (dsaPW)

98 That is a fiat accompli.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2020 08:06 AM (s2VJv)

What you call the odds of your Italian car ending up at the mechanics.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 08:09 AM (H8QX8)

99 The same goes for illegals getting citizenship. When the democrats duped Reagan in 84 with amnesty that's all I ever heard, we won't win a national election again because they will all vote democrat.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at December 31, 2020 08:04 AM (JUOKG)

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Look no farther than Obamacare. They were willing to briefly lose everything for that, and now, just a few years later, they may hold both the legislative and executive branches again.

And do you know what is still law, what is still fully intact, and what is completely 100% controlling health insurance in the US right now?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - who said asymptomatics have never been a major disease vector at December 31, 2020 08:09 AM (HBEnm)

100 Trump Invokes Saint Thomas Becket in Defense of Religious Liberty. Expect the Opposite From Biden-Harris
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One point that raises: in the wake of Becket's martyrdom, Henry II was publicly flogged by monks, as penance.

Can anyone imagine that happening to a powerful figure today?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 08:09 AM (7X3UV)

101 93 Where's BINO to tell us that the GA hacking was faked and Dominion Voting Systems is unhackable and Dominion never lies and is pure as the driven snow?
Posted by: TrivialPursuer

If you can hack them, why are you not putting 100,000,000's of votes to Purdue and Loefler? Would be delicious irony

Posted by: BacktoGA at December 31, 2020 08:09 AM (MPYWI)

102 mornin' y'all

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at December 31, 2020 08:09 AM (6Pqz7)

103 That snippet with the dude talking about "we're in"....

OK, fine, man-in-the-middle attack. Nothing groundbreaking. But you can only do something with it if you have the encryption keys....

What's that? year-old stories about thumbdrives with encryption keys on them going missing?

Never heard of it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2020 08:10 AM (6FeV1)

104 We Can't Get Back to Normal if People Think Spreading Chinese COVID Equals Murder

Remember that USAToday had a feature story that people are mass serial killers for breathing next to people without a mask on.

There is no institution I despise more than today's media.

Posted by: Homer's Donuts at December 31, 2020 08:10 AM (HK8/E)

105 I want some of OM's Japanese cheesecake for breakfast.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at December 31, 2020 08:11 AM (fIGh5)

106 98 That is a fiat accompli.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2020 08:06 AM (s2VJv)

What you call the odds of your Italian car ending up at the mechanics.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 08:09 AM (H8QX

Auto cucumber. Literally.

FAIT accompli...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2020 08:11 AM (s2VJv)

107 Trump is ending Christmas Vacay and heading back to DC. Now shit gets real. I hope. Hoping for mega arrests and indictments. I don't even care who. You can't swing a cat in any capital city without hitting ten assholes.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at December 31, 2020 08:11 AM (LBiyC)

108 The adjudication process is the way they stole a lot of votes. The system was designed to kick out Republican ballots so they could be replaced with adjudicated ballots WITH NO AUDIT TRAIL!

Posted by: f'd at December 31, 2020 08:11 AM (xypzc)

109 There is no institution I despise more than today's media.
Posted by: Homer's Donuts at December 31, 2020 08:10 AM (HK8/E)

There is no institution whose destruction matters more.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 08:11 AM (H8QX8)

110 Should go out and play some, see what mischief I can get into.

Posted by: Skip at December 31, 2020 08:12 AM (Cxk7w)

111 And the quibble about the Morgan County Graphic. Jeez. ME wouldn't look at the top of both ballots, both from Fulton County. Why would one have a bar code and the other not?
And why wasn't that question asked by the committee?
Posted by: Deep State 910

Because they didn't want the answer.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2020 08:12 AM (LwB8i)

112 I tried to call Kemp's office a dozen times yesterday and it was always busy. They probably took it off the hook. The f'r has no public email address either.

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It's hard to judge because there have been so many, but I can't think of any other R governor who is as pathetic as Kemp in GA. He's akin to Captain Smith on the Titanic. Only question is, is he just a stunned idiot or is he part and parcel of the Abrams plan to take GA down to the bottom of the Atlantic, and the country with it? I guess I'd have to go with the latter. What a rotten louse.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 31, 2020 08:13 AM (O+I8R)

113 Libertarians are the ones that will walk us to the gas chambers thinking they're helping us breathe. At least the left knows they're trying to kill us.
Posted by: BacktoGA at December 31, 2020 08:08 AM (MPYWI)

As long as they have their ganja they're complacent and mellow.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 31, 2020 08:13 AM (y7DUB)

114 If you can hack them, why are you not putting 100,000,000's of votes to Purdue and Loefler? Would be delicious irony
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Because we're not scumbag cheating criminals like the left.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 31, 2020 08:13 AM (k4dH2)

115 109 There is no institution I despise more than today's media.
Posted by: Homer's Donuts at December 31, 2020 08:10 AM (HK8/E)

There is no institution whose destruction matters more.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 08:11 AM (H8QX

Pours one out for D-Lamp

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 31, 2020 08:13 AM (/6GbT)

116 Investigators say Little, a former boxer, would knock out his victims before strangling them while masturbating. It is believed that at least one of the victims was transgender, Fox News reported.

Yes; of course, we needed to know that because the value of a transgender is higher than any other victim?/s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 31, 2020 08:13 AM (VP4Cd)

117 That is a fiat accompli.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2020 08:06 AM (s2VJv)

What you call the odds of your Italian car ending up at the mechanics.
Posted by: Ordinary American

Fix It Again Tony.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2020 08:14 AM (LwB8i)

118 No Shit Sherlock Dept.: Newt Gingrich Sez Democrats Are Using Schools to Brainwash the Young

Biden's Preposterous Plans for Education Policy

Teachers Unions Must Never Be Allowed to Ban Kids From an Education Again
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Oh well, I might as well end the year with what I always say: Kill the beast. Burn them down. Sow the ashes with salt.

This is the best opportunity of my lifetime to destroy this monstrosity, and MOST conservative commentators are in favor of saving it.

Disgraceful.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 08:14 AM (7X3UV)

119 It's hard to judge because there have been so many, but I can't think of any other R governor who is as pathetic as Kemp in GA...

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There are photos of Kemp's visit to the Houston Chinese embassy where all the spying was occurring, and a weird handwritten "Thank you so much for your services" letter in his handwriting.

I bet he's potentially a very rich man from this if he doesn't suddenly have a car wreck.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - who said asymptomatics have never been a major disease vector at December 31, 2020 08:15 AM (HBEnm)

120 The Most Prolific Serial Killer in US History Dead at 80
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I'm not dead yet, and I don't look a day over 79!

Posted by: Gov. "Fredo the Elder" Cuomo (CCP - NY) at December 31, 2020 08:15 AM (WqPYg)

121 Because we're not scumbag cheating criminals like the left.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer

"Losing with dignity" - the trademark of the GOP for the last two decades

Posted by: BacktoGA at December 31, 2020 08:15 AM (MPYWI)

122 82 Cobb County having two bad signatures is just plain old BS. You could have perfectly legitimate signatures that should be thrown. Most people, as they age see significant changes in handwriting and signature skills. If you're of a certain age, sign your name on a piece of paper while having morning coffee. Put the paper in a drawer. Repeat for a week. Compare the sigs on the seven sheets and you may see some big differences.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 31, 2020 08:15 AM (I58tH)

123 Nothing else will matter is this fraud is allowed to stand. It will take a revolution and a 100 years to get back.

Posted by: f'd at December 31, 2020 08:15 AM (xypzc)

124 Trump is ending Christmas Vacay and heading back to DC.

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Wait, he was on vacation? Why, we just had a jellybrained troll the other day who was masterbating on the notion that Trump was {gasp} golfing and not doing his job! It was a scandal, dontchaknow.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 31, 2020 08:16 AM (O+I8R)

125 Well said J.J. and thanks for everything you do for us. As much as I dread the coming year, one thing gives me a bit of solace. Something Rush has said many times. They will overplay their hand. They always do.

Posted by: Jewells45TRUMPWON! at December 31, 2020 08:16 AM (nxdel)

126 Where's BINO to tell us that the GA hacking was faked and Dominion Voting Systems is unhackable and Dominion never lies and is pure as the driven snow?
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Saw him yesterday darkly hinting Pulitzer was not who he claims

Near as I can tell, he's technically right about electronic voting being more secure, assuming 100% security of the machines.

But he's being obtuse at the fact the machines are garbage.

Posted by: RoyalOil at December 31, 2020 08:16 AM (s4lYG)

127 Investigators say Little, a former boxer, would knock out his victims before strangling them while masturbating. It is believed that at least one of the victims was transgender, Fox News reported.

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Here's the actual question:

Did he stop when he realized it was a dude?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - who said asymptomatics have never been a major disease vector at December 31, 2020 08:16 AM (HBEnm)

128 Hetero-erotic asphyxiation?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2020 08:16 AM (6FeV1)

129 That is a fiat accompli.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2020 08:06 AM (s2VJv)

What you call the odds of your Italian car ending up at the mechanics.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 08:09 AM (H8QX
Auto cucumber. Literally.
FAIT accompli...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Like the clam before the storm

Posted by: JT at December 31, 2020 08:16 AM (arJlL)

130 Did he stop when he realized it was a dude?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - who said asymptomatics have never been a major disease vector at December 31, 2020 08:16 AM (HBEnm)

Dear Prudie,

So there i was whackin' it to the twitching not-quite-dead body of my latest stranglee, when I look down, and....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2020 08:18 AM (6FeV1)

131 If you can hack them, why are you not putting 100,000,000's of votes to Purdue and Loefler? Would be delicious irony
__________

Because we're not scumbag cheating criminals like the left.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 08:11 AM (H8QX8 )

What if we view this as a tactic on the battlefield?

Dropping fire bombs on people and strafing crowds is OK when its for a Just Cause.

Fighting Communism > Being slaughtered by Communists

Posted by: Doctor 🐧, President Elect at December 31, 2020 08:18 AM (v1P0j)

132 123 Nothing else will matter is this fraud is allowed to stand. It will take a revolution and a 100 years to get back.
Posted by: f'd

But vote in the GA runoff cause there's no fraud this time! Vote your heart out!

Posted by: BacktoGA at December 31, 2020 08:18 AM (MPYWI)

133 It is a great morning
Thanks JJ
Everyone else, punch in and take a break.

Posted by: CarpefheadLarro at December 31, 2020 08:19 AM (+ITg4)

134 No Shit Sherlock Dept.: Newt Gingrich Sez Democrats Are Using Schools to Brainwash the Young

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This made me LOL. Really, Newt? Welcome to the 21st century. No, I take that back. Welcome to the latter 20th century. Nice you could join us.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 31, 2020 08:19 AM (O+I8R)

135 Yes; of course, we needed to know that because the value of a transgender is higher than any other victim?/s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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If he'd just murdered white, heterosexual males -- I'd have pardoned and awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Posted by: Barack Obama, now in his third term at December 31, 2020 08:19 AM (WqPYg)

136 Well, at least the nurse that destroyed 53 vials of Moderna got fired.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 31, 2020 08:19 AM (oriku)

137 It bloody doesn't matter how much evidence exists, or even how blatant it was, how in-our-faces, as long as the eneMedia, the neo-gentry, and the handout class refuse even to grant the possibility. It's like the time I "lost" at Connect 4 to my 7-year-old Lovely Daughter when she simply denied that I had 4 checkers in a row because she "couldn't see it." Difference being that she was making an obvious joke and we both laughed until it hurt. Well, this is gonna hurt without any laughter at all. Just saying.

Posted by: werewife, Princess-Elect of Delray Beach at December 31, 2020 08:19 AM (zHYry)

138
Off to Whole Paycheck for some NYE and NYD dinner ingredients.

Later!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2020 08:19 AM (s2VJv)

139 What's that story about the guy who regretted huddled up while listening to the secret police going door to door and waiting for the inevitable.... for some reason I think each case of vote fraud being a door(Franken, every frickin recount with the magic number of votes) and why didn't anyone say this is bullshit. And here we are

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 31, 2020 08:20 AM (/6GbT)

140 I should say, the Dominion machines are intentionally garbage.

That is, being so easily hacked, loaded up with malicious hardware and bloated with dangerous software (e.g., weighted voting) plus internet capabilities is intentional:

To provide so many avenues of corrupting the vote in order to hide the true actors

Posted by: RoyalOil at December 31, 2020 08:20 AM (s4lYG)

141 137 It bloody doesn't matter how much evidence exists, or even how blatant it was, how in-our-faces, as long as the eneMedia, the neo-gentry, and the handout class refuse even to grant the possibility. It's like the time I "lost" at Connect 4 to my 7-year-old Lovely Daughter when she simply denied that I had 4 checkers in a row because she "couldn't see it." Difference being that she was making an obvious joke and we both laughed until it hurt. Well, this is gonna hurt without any laughter at all. Just saying.
Posted by: werewife, Princess-Elect of Delray Beach

Did you protest outside her room after the game was over?

Posted by: BacktoGA at December 31, 2020 08:20 AM (MPYWI)

142 Honor Code:

We've carried out an internal investigation and the results are in. Mistakes were made. The organizational chart has been reconfigured. New training modules have been implemented. Letters were placed in personnel files. Opportunities for improvement have been experienced. We might win a bowl game. It's all good up in here. Honest!

Posted by: Muldoon at December 31, 2020 08:21 AM (m45I2)

143 Something Rush has said many times. They will overplay their hand. They always do.

I wish Providence would just skip the drama and get to the good parts.

Posted by: Doctor 🐧, President Elect at December 31, 2020 08:21 AM (yOkvU)

144 This made me LOL. Really, Newt? Welcome to the 21st century. No, I take that back. Welcome to the latter 20th century. Nice you could join us.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 31, 2020 08:19 AM (O+I8R)

Nonetheless it's important to reiterate the obvious, and I think that's what Newt is doing for the less clued-in millions watching. If that's the best service Newt can perform, fine with me.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 08:22 AM (H8QX8)

145 Did he stop when he realized it was a dude?
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Dear Prudie,

So there i was whackin' it to the twitching not-quite-dead body of my latest stranglee, when I look down, and....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2020 08:18 AM (6FeV1)

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It's a hate crime if he refused to strangle-rape the guy in a dress.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Pro-mask study again accidentally confirms that masks are just magic talismans at December 31, 2020 08:24 AM (k1L5r)

146 Nothing else will matter is this fraud is allowed to stand. It will take a revolution and a 100 years to get back.
Posted by: f'd at December 31, 2020 08:15 AM (xypzc)
It ain't coming back. And honestly - I don't think it should. At least not as currently formed - and probably not as it's been since at least prior to the Civil War.
We don't have anything like a Republic - and have not for over a century. What we've got is an extremely powerful centralized government, with day to day administration delegated under very strict guidelines to these quaint entities that we call "states". But make no mistake - just about every aspect of our daily lives is regulated, in some form or fashion, by the central government. And that government, in turn, is administered by two political parties firmly united in maintaining their own control while preventing any third party or outside interference in their domination.
Why would we want that back ?

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 31, 2020 08:24 AM (of+54)

147 Greedy Health Care Providers Must Disclose Prices in 2021 Thanks to Trump's Executive Order

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"As the President, Trump has no standing. Next!" -- SCOTUS

Posted by: ShainS at December 31, 2020 08:24 AM (WqPYg)

148 JJ, on the off chance you see this, what are your New Years foods?

Here in the South it's greens, hamhocks, and black eyed peas (and others occasionally), with cornbread.

What is the northern tradition?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Pro-mask study again accidentally confirms that masks are just magic talismans at December 31, 2020 08:25 AM (k1L5r)

149 You're probably right, OA. He should've been honking that horn, iow sounding that alarm, decades ago. Maybe he was. But yeah, get it out there for those blind people who still don't know what's going on in school systems nationwide. K-12 teachers and hard left professors holding rapt youngster audiences. Tis a problem to put it mildly.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 31, 2020 08:26 AM (O+I8R)

150 No Shit Sherlock Dept.: Newt Gingrich Sez Democrats Are Using Schools to Brainwash the Young

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This made me LOL. Really, Newt? Welcome to the 21st century. No, I take that back. Welcome to the latter 20th century. Nice you could join us.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 31, 2020 08:19 AM (O+I8R)

I try not to dump on Noot too much since he was an early victim of the GOPe turning on him after the Contract With America was the most brilliant bit of marketing that the party of Karl Rove had never come up with. Then once in power, the careerists started backing away from the term limits pledge like they always fucking do and dispatching cocksuckers like Medved to spread gossip about him. And giggled like mean tweens when the lawfare suits threatened to bankrupt him.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 31, 2020 08:26 AM (y7DUB)

151 84 The Superintendent of West Point suspended the Honor Code after 73 cadets were accused of cheating. He said the code "resulted in an inequitable application of consequences and developmental opportunities for select groups of cadets".

Until the Superintendent said this, I hadn't realized that all 73 were black and hispanic.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2020 08:26 AM (V2Yro)

152 That is, being so easily hacked, loaded up with malicious hardware and bloated with dangerous software (e.g., weighted voting) plus internet capabilities is intentional:

I want to know how, in a first world society, that even having one line of code for "weighted voting" in a machine would not result in public execution of all those involved.

Do they put this feature on a brochure when marketing this to election committees?

There were a lot of people involved in these decisions and the writing, testing, deploying and maintenance of this code and all things aware of it.

Posted by: Doctor 🐧, President Elect at December 31, 2020 08:26 AM (I8MLQ)

153 The same goes for illegals getting citizenship. When the democrats duped Reagan in 84 with amnesty that's all I ever heard, we won't win a national election again because they will all vote democrat.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Look no farther than Obamacare. They were willing to briefly lose everything for that, and now, just a few years later, they may hold both the legislative and executive branches again. And do you know what is still law, what is still fully intact, and what is completely 100% controlling health insurance in the US right now?
Posted by: Moron Robbie

Dems don't need the wetbacks anymore. Not with the keys to the kingdom. (Dominion machines)

If they could skim 20% WITH illegals present, because they had to have programs in place, i.e., EBT, WIC, Section 8, etc, but the dems can skim 80% WITHOUT them, guess who they DON'T need anymore?

And who is the most racist party? Expect that wall to be finished.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2020 08:26 AM (LwB8i)

154
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 31, 2020 08:26 AM (3i+HF)

155 Lin Wood tar and feathering these people is brilliant.
Since they wont sue him for defamation because that would open them up for discovery tells us all we need to know. They got stuff to hide.

Posted by: MarkC at December 31, 2020 08:27 AM (iWFQR)

156 Welcome to the People Republic of North AmeriKKKa

Additionally, Zero Hedge reported that eight million more Americans than last year are living in poverty, and 60 percent of businesses that shut down due to the COVID lockdowns have closed forever.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 31, 2020 08:27 AM (5QBw6)

157 It ain't coming back. And honestly - I don't think it should. At least not as currently formed - and probably not as it's been since at least prior to the Civil War.
We don't have anything like a Republic...
Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 31, 2020 08:24 AM (of+54)

Good point.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 08:27 AM (H8QX8)

158 "Why would we want that back ?

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere"

Beats blatant tyranny.

Posted by: f'd at December 31, 2020 08:27 AM (+y8uL)

159 PDT has 3 weeks to invoke the Insurrection Act, or it will be used on us instead.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 TRUMP WON! at December 31, 2020 08:28 AM (pmEbq)

160 57 The Superintendent of West Point suspended the Honor Code after 73 cadets were accused of cheating. He said the code "resulted in an inequitable application of consequences and developmental opportunities for select groups of cadets".

What the hell does that mean? What "developmental opportunities" is he referring to? Without facts, I bet there is a racial imbalance in the offending group of cadets and the Army is worried about becoming a political target if they enforce their rules.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at December 31, 2020 07:57 AM (fIGh5)
_________

It means "The fish rots from the head."

Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 08:28 AM (7X3UV)

161 We were a lot more free before 2000. I would be satisfied to get back to that.

Posted by: f'd at December 31, 2020 08:28 AM (+y8uL)

162 Dems don't need the wetbacks anymore. Not with the keys to the kingdom. (Dominion machines)

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They'd do it for spite. Spite against normal Americans. And as a way to continue dismantling anything remotely resembling American culture.

Still, 40 million new Crimmicrat voters would make their cheating efforts a lot easier.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 31, 2020 08:29 AM (O+I8R)

163 Until the Superintendent said this, I hadn't realized that all 73 were black and hispanic.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2020 08:26 AM (V2Yro)

How will we ever get more Colon Bowel's with standards?

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 31, 2020 08:29 AM (y7DUB)

164 Little's murders

"resulted in an inequitable application of consequences and developmental opportunities for select groups of ~~cadets~~ transgendered folks".

Posted by: Muldoon at December 31, 2020 08:29 AM (m45I2)

165 161 We were a lot more free before 2000. I would be satisfied to get back to that.
Posted by: f'd at December 31, 2020 08:28 AM (+y8uL)

"Let's do NAFTA!"

"We don't want NAFTA."

"We're doing NAFTA."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2020 08:30 AM (6FeV1)

166
You want 1776You'd settle for 1976You get 2026

Posted by: f'd at December 31, 2020 08:30 AM (+y8uL)

167 JJ, on the off chance you see this, what are your New Years foods?

Here in the South it's greens, hamhocks, and black eyed peas (and others occasionally), with cornbread.

What is the northern tradition?
Posted by: Moron Robbie

Minus the greens, that's exactly what we're having tomorrow. Country style boneless pork ribs, ham & black-eyed peas, cornbread and a salad. (Yeah, greens, but not in the traditional sense)

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2020 08:30 AM (LwB8i)

168 It's a hate crime if he refused to strangle-rape the guy in a dress.

Where is that meme that has a cartoon of a "girl" sulking because she isn't being "dated" by any of the 98% heterosexual males?

Posted by: Doctor 🐧, President Elect at December 31, 2020 08:30 AM (fVGlz)

169 136 Well, at least the nurse that destroyed 53 vials of Moderna got fired.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 31, 2020 08:19 AM (oriku)

Since WhuFlu is deadly shouldnt she be charged with murder?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 31, 2020 08:30 AM (5QBw6)

170 159 PDT has 3 weeks to invoke the Insurrection Act, or it will be used on us instead.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 TRUMP WON! at December 31, 2020 08:28 AM (pmEbq)

Indeed. Everything they accused Trump of being and doing, and far worse, will be turned on us. Brazenly and without a scintilla of self awareness.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 08:31 AM (H8QX8)

171 They'd do it for spite. Spite against normal Americans. And as a way to continue dismantling anything remotely resembling American culture.

Still, 40 million new Crimmicrat voters would make their cheating efforts a lot easier.
Posted by: Lady in Black

But they gotta pay them. That's less grift money to steal.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2020 08:31 AM (LwB8i)

172 Beats blatant tyranny.
Posted by: f'd at December 31, 2020 08:27 AM (+y8uL)
We're getting tyranny anyway - that starts on 1/20. So other than just the nostalgia of the "good ol' days" when we lived in the last remaining super-power that also just happened to evolve into almost as much of an intrusive police state as the other super-power - why would we lift a finger to reinstate "this". ?

* waves arms in big expansive motions to indicate "all this" *

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 31, 2020 08:31 AM (of+54)

173 What we've got is an extremely powerful centralized government...

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 31, 2020 08:24 AM (of+54)

You mean like this?

When There Wasn't Enough Hand Sanitizer, Distilleries Stepped Up. Now They're Facing $14,060 FDA Fees.

https://bit.ly/381YtUz

Posted by: Deep State 910 at December 31, 2020 08:31 AM (XH/UL)

174 All white students at that military school should start cheating like the dickens, and when caught and punished, scream bloody murder about disparate impact.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2020 08:31 AM (6FeV1)

175 Dems don't need the wetbacks anymore. Not with the keys to the kingdom. (Dominion machines)

Why do we keep assuming that these new migrants are exclusively from this hemisphere?

China and India have a lot of people they would like to unload.

Posted by: Doctor 🐧, President Elect at December 31, 2020 08:32 AM (vfcGE)

176 "why would we lift a finger to reinstate "this". ?"
Should it come to pass, we are not going back to "this".

Posted by: f'd at December 31, 2020 08:33 AM (+y8uL)

177 The Military Academy and Naval Academy should simply give up big time football. The benefits of making alumni feel good and maintaining national "relevance"--- whatever they might be--- are outweighed by periodic scandals like this. Rachet it down, play against Ivy Leagues and Patriot League schools (like they do in basketball) and be done with it. Big time college football is, on a number of levels, unseemly and dishonorable.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 31, 2020 08:33 AM (evxBY)

178 I could wait until post 100 comments in the art thread to ask this, but I may not be here then: Do people have a traditional meal which they cook and enjoy for New Years Day? I'm looking for ideas but am limited to a crock pot as my oven doesn't work. And, Cannibal Bob-in case you're reading this-I do not want to serve long pork.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 31, 2020 08:33 AM (VP4Cd)

179 And giggled like mean tweens when the lawfare suits threatened to bankrupt him.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 31, 2020 08:26 AM (y7DUB)

Bankruptcy (and/or the clear threat of one) is a powerful tool available to the elites (them) to use against lesser beings (us)

Posted by: Commissar-Elect Hrothgar - I Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 31, 2020 08:33 AM (87oRe)

180 I start my days reading your column on AoSHQ. Thank you for another year of TRUTHFUL content, wishing you many more...

Happy New Year... May God help us see clearly in this time of darkness...

Mazinga

Posted by: Don Mazinga at December 31, 2020 08:34 AM (z/x03)

181 Welcome to the People Republic of North AmeriKKKa

Additionally, Zero Hedge reported that eight million more Americans than last year are living in poverty, and 60 percent of businesses that shut down due to the COVID lockdowns have closed forever.
Posted by: rhennigantx

A friend posted yesterday restaurants in Dallas that have closed forever. Huge list. Just a couple of biggies that I remember my wife reading out loud: TGIFridays, El Fenix, Highland Park Cafeteria. Yeah. Some have been in business 40+ years.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2020 08:34 AM (LwB8i)

182 2021 will be a year of great justice.

Many will not like it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 31, 2020 08:35 AM (G0PEa)

183 So, what did the West Point cadets cheat at? Math?

Posted by: dantesed at December 31, 2020 08:35 AM (88xKn)

184 *Quick comment scan*

Newts a trannie?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 31, 2020 08:35 AM (Dz5W3)

185 178 I could wait until post 100 comments in the art thread to ask this, but I may not be here then: Do people have a traditional meal which they cook and enjoy for New Years Day? I'm looking for ideas but am limited to a crock pot as my oven doesn't work. And, Cannibal Bob-in case you're reading this-I do not want to serve long pork.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 31, 2020 08:33 AM (VP4Cd)

We always do pork and sauerkraut, but we put a little dab of tomato paste in the sauerkraut to sweeten it up. And throw a few hot-dogs in too because.... I have no idea why. We just do.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2020 08:35 AM (6FeV1)

186 I haven't investigated this so I don't know-what would be the purpose and ramifications of invoking the Insurrection Act?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 31, 2020 08:35 AM (VP4Cd)

187 The Military Academy and Naval Academy should simply
give up big time football. The benefits of making alumni feel good and
maintaining national "relevance"--- whatever they might be--- are
outweighed by periodic scandals like this.
Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 31, 2020 08:33 AM (evxBY)

I've said it a million times - you can count the number of instances that my crew looked up and realized "damn, this would be going so much better if only we had a top notch strong safety somewhere on site" on no hands.

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 31, 2020 08:36 AM (of+54)

188 As I think about the West Point story more, it makes perfect sense. The Superintendent did not dare face the heat he would get if he expelled every Black candidate from the school. (and you can guarantee they were all in on it together) When Honor meets Race Privilege, honor dies.

that's as clear a signal as we'll ever get that it's dead in our new officer corps.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2020 08:36 AM (V2Yro)

189 Cobb County having two bad signatures is just plain
old BS. You could have perfectly legitimate signatures that should be
thrown. Most people, as they age see significant changes in handwriting
and signature skills. If you're of a certain age, sign your name on a
piece of paper while having morning coffee. Put the paper in a drawer.
Repeat for a week. Compare the sigs on the seven sheets and you may see
some big differences.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 31, 2020 08:15 AM
--
My signature is never the same. But I can still tell it's mine.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at December 31, 2020 08:37 AM (JUOKG)

190 That's probably where you want to live in the next few years.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - who said asymptomatics have never been a major disease vector at December 31, 2020 07:56 AM (HBEnm)

i.e not Mecklenburg County.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 31, 2020 08:37 AM (PiwSw)

191 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 31, 2020 08:33 AM (VP4Cd)

.....

Black eyed peas, hog jowl and collard greens.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 31, 2020 08:37 AM (G0PEa)

192 Do people have a traditional meal which they cook and enjoy for New Years Day?

--

Mr. Black is from Florida and grew up eating collards, black-eyed peas and some kind of pork every New Years day. I'm from Ohio. We just had whatever Mom threw together. But I have made Mr. Black's stinky collards and stinky black-eyed peas for him for years. Jr. Black moved out over the summer, so I don't know what I'm making tomorrow! I don't eat that stuff and it's too much for one person.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 31, 2020 08:37 AM (O+I8R)

193 Beats blatant tyranny.

Tyranny is inevitable. It requires a moral and religious people to hold together a Constitutional Republic.

I'm surrounded by a deep and endless crowd of reprobates.

You get tyranny because everyone is corrupt.

Posted by: Doctor 🐧, President Elect at December 31, 2020 08:38 AM (SzC/5)

194 I think seceding and forming a new nation would be much easier at this point as you could use bitcoin as your currency. Why could a state not secede at this point? I don't think Biden would roll into Oklahoma- they hate those people anyway.

Posted by: BacktoGA at December 31, 2020 08:38 AM (MPYWI)

195 Fen, some people do corned beef and cabbage as New Years day feasts, too, I think. You could put that in a crock pot.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 31, 2020 08:38 AM (O+I8R)

196 Bankruptcy (and/or the clear threat of one) is a powerful tool available to the elites (them) to use against lesser beings (us)
Posted by: Commissar-Elect Hrothgar - I Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 31, 2020 08:33 AM (87oRe)

The Uniparty-R makes occasional promises to the base about legal reform before Top Men restructures their priorities.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 31, 2020 08:38 AM (y7DUB)

197 As I think about the West Point story more, it makes
perfect sense.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2020 08:36 AM (V2Yro)

I'm proud - genuinely - that I talked the #1 son out of joining the Marines, or any other branch, next year. Well, at least he's talked out of it for now.

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 31, 2020 08:39 AM (of+54)

198 And, Cannibal Bob-in case you're reading this-I do not want to serve long pork.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 31, 2020 08:33 AM (VP4Cd)

Just fell into the thread. I get it. Its a acquired taste babe. Can't remember if eyetalians had a preferred menu. Huh. Any other wops here that did?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 31, 2020 08:39 AM (Dz5W3)

199 So when folk tell me that the militaries senior leadership has not been morally compromised, I simply look at this cheating scandal.

Yes, the Cadets are young and junior.

But the Superintendent is a General Officer, I believe.

Indicating that this type of moral decay is indeed rampant

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2020 08:39 AM (3D/fK)

200 I could wait until post 100 comments in the art thread to ask this, but I may not be here then: Do people have a traditional meal which they cook and enjoy for New Years Day? I'm looking for ideas but am limited to a crock pot as my oven doesn't work. And, Cannibal Bob-in case you're reading this-I do not want to serve long pork.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

See #167. Wife does the country style boneless ribs in the crock pot. Smothers them in Sweet Baby Ray's hickory and brown sugar bbq sauce and lets them slow cook 6 to 8 hours.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2020 08:39 AM (LwB8i)

201 One thing I like is that they put green chile in the cornbread here in NM, it's tasty.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 31, 2020 08:40 AM (z3Wsk)

202 Surf 'n turf. Scallops and filet mignon. Iceberg wedge with bacon and bleu cheese. Rice pilaf, baked potatoes, glazed, roasted baby carrots. Ice cream with all the fixin's.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 31, 2020 08:41 AM (sGotD)

203 186 I haven't investigated this so I don't know-what would be the purpose and ramifications of invoking the Insurrection Act?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 31, 2020 08:35 AM (VP4Cd)

we could discuss the legal niceties, but in practical fact, it would bring about a real Shooting War between the two sides, right then and there. As several of us have said before, I'm very doubtful that our current military would side with Trump. When Congress moved to impeach, as they would with Mitch McConnell cheerleading, Trump would then have to suspend Congress and declare himself Lord Protector, like Cromwell did. I don't see that happening.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2020 08:41 AM (V2Yro)

204 The year of the democrat will soo be over. Next will be the year of payback.

What goes around, comes around.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 31, 2020 08:41 AM (xfb67)

205 But I have made Mr. Black's stinky collards and stinky black-eyed peas for him for years.

LOL. In that case, I think you should make whatever gives you pleasure.

I don't think I've ever had collard greens.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 31, 2020 08:41 AM (VP4Cd)

206 I haven't investigated this so I don't know-what would be the purpose and ramifications of invoking the Insurrection Act?

I don't know, but if it gives many license to end the drought of Liberty in their neck of the woods, I'm for it.

Posted by: Doctor 🐧, President Elect at December 31, 2020 08:41 AM (Cq3Zs)

207 134 No Shit Sherlock Dept.: Newt Gingrich Sez Democrats Are Using Schools to Brainwash the Young

--

This made me LOL. Really, Newt? Welcome to the 21st century. No, I take that back. Welcome to the latter 20th century. Nice you could join us.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 31, 2020 08:19 AM (O+I8R)
________

Not late 20th, early. It's all Dewey's fault. Well, his and those who listened to him. He did more damage to our country than Japan and Germany did.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 08:41 AM (7X3UV)

208 The military should be vastly shrunk down in size. Our country has shown an ability to mobilize quickly when necessary. Without a war, a war supported by the people with a clear objective, there is no need for a large military force.

Posted by: SH at December 31, 2020 08:42 AM (sX1BW)

209 The future looks not to be in the Republican Party. I imagine the brand name may linger on, longer, perhaps, than the Democratic Party brand name. I wonder if the coming new parties will start at local and state levels first?

Posted by: tubal at December 31, 2020 08:42 AM (bCLt0)

210 When I was at West Point back in mumblety-six, the varsity football team was the beneficiary of a variety of special assistance in the form of tutors, one-on-one instruction, etc, in order to help boost them over the academic hurdles. One of the guys in my company was QB, dumb as a post. We helped him out with his course work, but Lordy what a struggle.

Guess it's easier now just to let them cheat.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 31, 2020 08:42 AM (m45I2)

211 The year of the democrat will soo be over. Next will be the year of payback.
What goes around, comes around.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 31, 2020 08:41 AM (xfb67)
~~~~~

I like the way you think.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 31, 2020 08:42 AM (sGotD)

212 Posted by: IrishEi at December 31, 2020 08:41 AM (sGotD)

Can I come over to your house?

I hope you are not going to have to fix all that when you haven't been well, and that people will pitch in to do things.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 31, 2020 08:42 AM (VP4Cd)

213 we could discuss the legal niceties, but in practical fact, it would bring about a real Shooting War between the two sides, right then and there. As several of us have said before, I'm very doubtful that our current military would side with Trump. When Congress moved to impeach, as they would with Mitch McConnell cheerleading, Trump would then have to suspend Congress and declare himself Lord Protector, like Cromwell did. I don't see that happening.
Posted by: Tom Servo

The only hope would be military defecting to their home state if they seceded. Most of the military is conservative (not the generals), and comes from flyover country.

Posted by: BacktoGA at December 31, 2020 08:43 AM (MPYWI)

214 178 Fen, if you're going to be without an oven, get an electric skillet with the high dome lid, and maybe a rack. Years ago my Mom would do just about anything she could fix in the oven in one of those (hot days in the summer, no AC).

Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 31, 2020 08:43 AM (I58tH)

215 The military should be vastly shrunk down in size.
Our country has shown an ability to mobilize quickly when necessary.
Without a war, a war supported by the people with a clear objective,
there is no need for a large military force.
Posted by: SH at December 31, 2020 08:42 AM (sX1BW)

What is our military budget ? 20 - 25% of over-all spending ? And the Cold War is supposedly over and we're running over half a trillion in debt every year on about three trillion in spending, in round numbers ?

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 31, 2020 08:44 AM (of+54)

216 Big time college football is, on a number of levels, unseemly and dishonorable.
Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 31, 2020 08:33 AM (evxBY)

Hey! How am I gonna pay for my waterfront home, private jets and hot and cold running whores if not for the 8 year old adults who pay to watch us play to fill up their empty lives?

Your welcome!

Posted by: Lou Saban, Roll War Tigers! at December 31, 2020 08:44 AM (sVFtl)

217 Without "systemic racism," those cadets wouldn't have had to cheat! It's an unfair system designed by white men.

/s

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 31, 2020 08:44 AM (O+I8R)

218 2021 will be the year the economic damage perpetrated by the commie nastards comes home to roost. The kung FU flu will fade into the background. Batten down the hatches there's a storm on the horizon.

Posted by: Cynical Sock Monkey... the thrill is gone baby at December 31, 2020 08:45 AM (x+BTq)

219 BwwaaAAAaaaa!

Posted by: Hank Hill at December 31, 2020 08:45 AM (+14/x)

220 Nice, little Earth rumble we just had.0

Posted by: SFGoth at December 31, 2020 08:45 AM (k/STn)

221 I'm not sure if this holds true across the entire south, but for me the leftover bone from the Christmas ham is simmered with the black eyed peas until the remaining meat falls off and the BEPs have been flavored.

Additional smoked ham hocks are boiled in the with collard greens to make a good pot liquor.

Hog jowl is sliced thin, tenderized with a meat mallet and skillet fried until crispy.

Cornbread should contain buttermilk and jalape�os.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 31, 2020 08:45 AM (G0PEa)

222 Tyranny is inevitable. It requires a moral and religious people to hold together a Constitutional Republic.

I'm surrounded by a deep and endless crowd of reprobates.

You get tyranny because everyone is corrupt.
Posted by: Doctor President Elect at December 31, 2020 08:38 AM (SzC/5)

sadly, that's true. It's why no democracies have ever lasted more than a couple hundred years, not ever. They always decay into chaos first, and then tyranny. It's what's fundamentally wrong with all the hispanic countries in central and south america - everyone is corrupt, and the higher in society they are, the more corrupt they are. And there's just no hope for anything changing in them, ever.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2020 08:45 AM (V2Yro)

223 Can I come over to your house?
I hope you are not going to have to fix all that when you haven't been well, and that people will pitch in to do things.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 31, 2020 08:42 AM (VP4Cd)
~~~~~

That's what I usually make for New Year's Day dinner. But it's going to be delayed a bit because the 'rona is still making its way around the family. And we still have to do a make-up Christmas dinner first.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 31, 2020 08:45 AM (sGotD)

224 Ham and soup beans and cornbread for New Years.

Posted by: tubal at December 31, 2020 08:46 AM (bCLt0)

225 What the hell would we ever do if a need arose for "kinetic action" in Africa again?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2020 08:46 AM (6FeV1)

226 Well, Mrs VIA is very happy.
Our son was indeed able to get time off, and drove down from Oceana last night to spend two weeks with us.

So, it will be a belated, but good Christmas.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2020 08:47 AM (3D/fK)

227 The year of the democrat will soo be over. Next will be the year of payback.
What goes around, comes around.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 31, 2020 08:41 AM (xfb67)
~~~~~

I like the way you think.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 31, 2020 08:42 AM (sGotD)
*************
Let's make it happen.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 31, 2020 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

228 I never cease to be amazed at the great cooks we have here at the HQ. It especially rings true in CBD's food threads. Makes me feel like a dime store, rinky dink cook, by comparison.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 31, 2020 08:48 AM (O+I8R)

229 What the hell would we ever do if a need arose for "kinetic action" in Africa again?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2020 08:46 AM (6FeV1)

If we had the good sense of working class Americans a hundred years ago - we'd urge our politicians with a bad case of war cock to stay the Hell out of it and mind their own business. I can't, as it turns out, see Africa from my house.

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 31, 2020 08:48 AM (of+54)

230 208 The military should be vastly shrunk down in size. Our country has shown an ability to mobilize quickly when necessary. Without a war, a war supported by the people with a clear objective, there is no need for a large military force.
Posted by: SH at December 31, 2020 08:42 AM (sX1BW)

The English learned that lesson the hard way in the 1640's. That's why they always kept a big Navy, but a very small army unless they were at war.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2020 08:49 AM (V2Yro)

231 Thank you, J.J. Sefton, for doing the heavy lifting this year. I can't imagine the work it took to bring us the morning paper every day. Very much appreciated.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 31, 2020 08:49 AM (gm3d+)

232 The future looks not to be in the Republican Party. I imagine the brand name may linger on, longer, perhaps, than the Democratic Party brand name. I wonder if the coming new parties will start at local and state levels first?
Posted by: tubal at December 31, 2020 08:42 AM (bCLt0)

Starting a new party is never easy as past cases of being infuriated have proven (Bull Moose party). Elsewhere on the internet a commenter achieved some position in the local GOP to institute an anti RINO conduct code, at least for his contributions. Because of the electoral college necessity, more than two parties makes things difficult so, as much as I hate to admit it, we're probably stuck with trying to take over the GOP.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 31, 2020 08:49 AM (y7DUB)

233 Our Anglo-American heritage of justice and the common law appears to be coming to an end. It was a good 800 year run in which those two countries ruled the Globe for the past 200. The common law was based on a fairness and justice and common understanding of what was right. Decency. It slowly evolved. We live in a civil law world now with all the corruption you would expect from such a model.

Posted by: SH at December 31, 2020 08:50 AM (sX1BW)

234 Hmm radical leftist attack on gas lines in Aspen CO leaves thousands without heat. I don't imagine Aspen is a conservative stronghold, so left eating left?

Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 31, 2020 08:50 AM (I58tH)

235 Army "leadership" overall is a mess. West Point cheating scandal is merely a symptom. Generals with big, "look at me" twitter personalities are cringingly "communicative" on line, staff NCOs and field grade officers gleefully bash civilian leadership on social media, soldiers openly mock the service, itsleadership, the mission on line, and all of it is varnished with the Army's weird strain self-righteous posing it calls "leadership".

Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 31, 2020 08:50 AM (evxBY)

236 #225 - I expect Democrats to go the Madeleine Albright route: "What the point of having this superb military you're always talking about if we can't use it?" They think the military is a knife resting in the utensil drawer, always sharp, always available if you just want to pull it out. I think they'll do that, and end up with a military catastrophe on their hands, one so utterly complete they won't be able to cover it up or get people to forget it.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at December 31, 2020 08:51 AM (NB7mI)

237 China and India have a lot of people they would like to unload.
Posted by: Doctor PENGUIN Emoji, President Elect at December 31, 2020 08:32 AM (vfcGE)

Send the Chinese to India and the Indians to China...diversity for thee, not just for me!

Posted by: CN at December 31, 2020 08:51 AM (ONvIw)

238 I'm all for a superior Navy.

Posted by: SH at December 31, 2020 08:51 AM (sX1BW)

239 The English learned that lesson the hard way in the 1640's. That's
why they always kept a big Navy, but a very small army unless they were
at war.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2020 08:49 AM (V2Yro)

I was always informed that the Army of my day was so damn officer heavy because of the need to expand quickly if necessary. Yet - the army of my day already had over twenty standing divisions and it seemed pretty obvious even to my E-4 ass that we'd never sustain all of them for any lengthy combat duration.

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 31, 2020 08:51 AM (of+54)

240 The attack of the killer tree rats.
Somehow, 2020 just keeps on giving.

https://tinyurl.com/yb8v4dan

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2020 08:52 AM (3D/fK)

241 Bitter Clinger

I had this meal the day after Christmas.

Posted by: BacktoGA at December 31, 2020 08:52 AM (MPYWI)

242 Hmm radical leftist attack on gas lines in Aspen CO leaves thousands without heat. I don't imagine Aspen is a conservative stronghold, so left eating left?

Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 31, 2020 08:50 AM (I58tH)

.....

Interesting isn't it.

A bomb hits a communications center.

A little attack on utility infrastructure.

I imagine a power grid test is in order next.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 31, 2020 08:52 AM (G0PEa)

243 234 Hmm radical leftist attack on gas lines in Aspen CO leaves thousands without heat. I don't imagine Aspen is a conservative stronghold, so left eating left?
Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 31, 2020 08:50 AM (I58tH)

The poor left attacking the rich left? Good!

Posted by: CN at December 31, 2020 08:53 AM (ONvIw)

244 Hey! How am I gonna pay for my waterfront home, private jets and hot and cold running whores if not for the 8 year old adults who pay to watch us play to fill up their empty lives?

Your welcome!
Posted by: Lou Saban, Roll War Tigers! at December 31, 2020 08:44 AM (sVFtl)

Highest paid non private in MI is Tom Izzo(or was..who knows)...a frickin b-ball coach

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 31, 2020 08:53 AM (/6GbT)

245 As a bachelor, my standard New Year's fare was the hair of the dog.

Now, it's whatever the Mrs wants to serve up. We don't have a standard. (She hates black eyed peas.)

Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 08:53 AM (7X3UV)

246 So, it will be a belated, but good Christmas.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2020 08:47 AM (3D/fK)

Isn't that great! Enjoy your time with him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 31, 2020 08:53 AM (VP4Cd)

247 Tonight, I'm gonna make some Hoppin' John! (very old, traditional New Years dish) Although there are fancier versions, it's really just Black Eyed Peas, Onion, and some ham cooked together. Tonight I'm going to cook a pot of black eyed peas, slice and onion into it, and add some chopped bacon. Simmer until the flavors are all mixed in.

btw, nobody really knows why it's called Hoppin' John, but it always has been.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2020 08:53 AM (V2Yro)

248 Highest paid non private in MI is Tom Izzo(or was..who knows)...a frickin b-ball coach---------------------------------Well, as Babe Ruth said, he had a better year than the governor.

Posted by: SH at December 31, 2020 08:54 AM (sX1BW)

249 198 And, Cannibal Bob-in case you're reading this-I do not want to serve long pork.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 31, 2020 08:33 AM (VP4Cd)

Just fell into the thread. I get it. Its a acquired taste babe. Can't remember if eyetalians had a preferred menu. Huh. Any other wops here that did?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 31, 2020 08:39 AM (Dz5W3)

Lentils.

If you eat lentils on New Year's Eve, you'll have prosperity in the new year.

( or you can carry around in your pocket some of the straw from a church creche, or a dried fava bean from a St. Joseph's altar...)

Posted by: RondinellaMamma, Empress Elect of the Universe at December 31, 2020 08:54 AM (8/7u2)

250 233 Our Anglo-American heritage of justice and the common law appears to be coming to an end. It was a good 800 year run in which those two countries ruled the Globe for the past 200. The common law was based on a fairness and justice and common understanding of what was right. Decency. It slowly evolved. We live in a civil law world now with all the corruption you would expect from such a model.
Posted by: SH at December 31, 2020 08:50 AM (sX1BW)
_________

Interesting that the entire Anglosphere seems to have fallen apart together, in one lifetime.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 08:54 AM (7X3UV)

251 40% of American adults believe that it is "not too important" or "not at all important" for a couple that has a child together to get married.

Should add to that they dont care if their children are brought up in poor or lower middle class and live in dangerous communities with bad schools.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 31, 2020 08:54 AM (5QBw6)

252 we could discuss the legal niceties, but in practical fact, it would bring about a real Shooting War between the two sides, right then and there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2020 08:41 AM (V2Yro)

I don't believe that's necessarily true. Trump could invoke the Insurrection Act for the purposes of seizing all election-related data and a legally supervised audit. At the same time he could commandeer the network airwaves for a national address. It would be a decision based on an exigent reality of confirmed subversion of election process threatening the viability of the Republic and with all other options exhausted or corrupted.

As I see it, if you recognize the crisis, and the unavailability of the system to address it, than duty and oath compels you to invoke the Act.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 08:55 AM (H8QX8)

253 President-elect Joe Biden's promised end to oil and gas leasing of federal land would impose self-defeating costs to consumers and governments and abate climate change little, if at all.

I wonder what the wine moms will say when gas for their SUV or Suburban is through the roof expensive? I mean they're all down with the cause until it affects them.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 31, 2020 08:55 AM (la981)

254 231 Thank you, J.J. Sefton, for doing the heavy lifting this year. I can't
imagine the work it took to bring us the morning paper every day. Very
much appreciated.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 31, 2020 08:49 AM (gm3d+)

------------------------------------This. Definitely this.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 31, 2020 08:55 AM (D3cJf)

255 Chicken and dumplings and peach pie.

Posted by: tubal at December 31, 2020 08:55 AM (bCLt0)

256 242 And the power grid test is probably the easiest. I remember that somebody cutting a tree in Ohio hit the wrong line, some computer went haywire and four or five states had outages. 2003 IIRC.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 31, 2020 08:55 AM (I58tH)

257 Happy New Year dear morons and thank you der JJ for an essay that put my heart in my throat.

I will not live in Berlin in 1933.

It will not go down like that. At all.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2020 08:57 AM (EZebt)

258 Our country has shown an ability to mobilize quickly when necessary.

Might be true in years past but in today's world of advanced military technology and the perfidious attitudes of leadership in this country that is a dangerous gamble.

Posted by: Cynical Sock Monkey... the thrill is gone baby at December 31, 2020 08:57 AM (x+BTq)

259 40% of American adults believe that it is "not too important" or "not at
all important" for a couple that has a child together to get married.-------------------------------And yet the data suggest that our "elites" pretty much do get married suggesting they know it actually is important in raising kids.

Posted by: SH at December 31, 2020 08:57 AM (sX1BW)

260 I assume that the Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan and Georgia donks who heard about the fraud are cool with it, correct?

There is the difference between us.

Posted by: CN at December 31, 2020 08:57 AM (ONvIw)

261 Because of the electoral college necessity, more
than two parties makes things difficult so, as much as I hate to admit
it, we're probably stuck with trying to take over the GOP.
Posted by: Captain Hate at December 31, 2020 08:49 AM (y7DUB)

How many times does the GOP have to show you that they will simply roll over and lose elections before they ever cede control of their own party ? We sent a Tea Party wave. The GOP co-opted those that it could, denied any kind of advancement to those they couldn't, and used process to deny candidacy to anyone that wouldn't play ball after that. We sent Trump. So they threw the House in 2018, then watched silently while the election was stolen in 2020.

To "take over" the GOP - you'd have to simultaneously elect a President, over half of the House Republicans, and somehow engineer a Senate majority of your own people as well when only 1/3 of that body is elected at one time. We are NOT taking over the GOP.

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 31, 2020 08:57 AM (of+54)

262 Might be true in years past but in today's world of advanced military
technology and the perfidious attitudes of leadership in this country
that is a dangerous gamble.-----------------------------How so? The alternative, or the status quo, isn't looking too good either. There are trade offs to be had for sure.

Posted by: SH at December 31, 2020 08:58 AM (sX1BW)

263 40% of American adults believe that it is "not too important" or "not at all important" for a couple that has a child together to get married.

.....

That's in theory.

Once it's in practice, you recognize its importance.

My biggest failure as a parent is being divorced from Little's mom. I have the best of it that I can by making sure she has time with both mother and father, but undoubtedly it will effect her not having a permanent fixed home and being able to view and learn how to have a marital relationship.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 31, 2020 08:58 AM (G0PEa)

264 The Superintendent of West Point suspended the Honor Code after 73
cadets were accused of cheating. He said the code "resulted in an
inequitable application of consequences and developmental opportunities
for select groups of cadets".

So cheating is a-okay if you're a member of "select groups of cadets". Why bother to even test them then? Just let them skate by because their special

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 31, 2020 08:58 AM (la981)

265 251 40% of American adults believe that it is "not too important" or "not at all important" for a couple that has a child together to get married.

Should add to that they dont care if their children are brought up in poor or lower middle class and live in dangerous communities with bad schools.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 31, 2020 08:54 AM (5QBw6)
_________

One of my earliest reasons to reject libertarianism (and I mean the earlier, smarter form of my youth.) I could not buy the "who cares if they're married, just let them screw when and whom they want."

Well, OK, but then you do tend to have kids raised without a real family. And those kids grow up. And vote. And I can assure you that very few will be reading von Mises.

And I wasn't even a Papist then.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 08:59 AM (7X3UV)

266 Here in quaint little NH, our Gov. Sununu (R) who was elected to a 3rd term, has canceled inauguration ceremonies because of concerns over armed protesters. Protesters have been showing up outside his home, and he claims - trespassing on his property. The protesters beef? End the state of emergency. The response by the town Sununu lives in - Newfields NH -- adopt an ordinance prohibiting residential picketing.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 31, 2020 08:59 AM (D3cJf)

267

@68 - BacktoGA
May the good Lord bless and keep you.
Make sure to wave to the guy sweeping the sidewalks in New Jerusalem.
That'll be me.

Posted by: TeeJ at December 31, 2020 08:59 AM (02ckt)

268 240 The attack of the killer tree rats.
Somehow, 2020 just keeps on giving.

https://tinyurl.com/yb8v4dan
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5, 10 year old kids with air rifles can take care of that problem in an afternoon.

Posted by: Ward at December 31, 2020 08:59 AM (nzKWW)

269 Well, crap.

Hanging Garage racks that I ordered over a month ago were delayed multiple times going from the manufacturer to Lowes.
Now that Lowes has had them in their own distribution system for over two weeks, they lost them again.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2020 09:00 AM (3D/fK)

270 You want 1776You'd settle for 1976You get 2026

Posted by: f'd at December 31, 2020 08:30 AM (+y8uL)

We might end up with 2525.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 31, 2020 09:00 AM (la981)

271 235 Army "leadership" overall is a mess. West Point cheating scandal is merely a symptom."

I know it angers people when I've said they'll side with Pelosi before they side with Trump, but I think they would.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2020 09:00 AM (V2Yro)

272 We might end up with 2525.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 31, 2020 09:00 AM (la981)

If man is still alive.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 31, 2020 09:01 AM (xfb67)

273 Might be true in years past but in today's world of
advanced military technology and the perfidious attitudes of leadership
in this country that is a dangerous gamble.
Posted by: Cynical Sock Monkey... the thrill is gone baby at December 31, 2020 08:57 AM (x+BTq)

Placing overwhelming military firepower in the hands of today's political class is a bigger gamble. Do the math - whose military is most likely to take action against the American public in the next decade ? The Chinese, Russian, or American ?

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 31, 2020 09:02 AM (of+54)

274 258 Rapid mobilization is a little difficult with the diversity training required in basic sucking up half the training time. The new improved officer corps would sooner waive rifle range than get rid of the SJW stuff. They're liking those cocktail parties too.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 31, 2020 09:02 AM (I58tH)

275
So cheating is a-okay if you're a member of "select groups of cadets". Why bother to even test them then? Just let them skate by because their special
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 31, 2020 08:58 AM (la981)

which in fact is what just happened. Every one of them has been told, Your Career is Secure because of the color of your skin, do whatever you want.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2020 09:02 AM (V2Yro)

276 I am anxious for the holidays to be over.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 31, 2020 09:02 AM (sGotD)

277 261 Because of the electoral college necessity, more
than two parties makes things difficult so, as much as I hate to admit it, we're probably stuck with trying to take over the GOP.
Posted by: Captain Hate at December 31, 2020 08:49 AM (y7DUB)
...
To "take over" the GOP - you'd have to simultaneously elect a President, over half of the House Republicans, and somehow engineer a Senate majority of your own people as well when only 1/3 of that body is elected at one time. We are NOT taking over the GOP.

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 31, 2020 08:57 AM (of+54)
_________

1. I believe the first-past-the-post system of deciding elections is much more important than the EC here. Note that 3rd parties don't thrive so well in Anglo countries.
2. IMO, the NY Conservative Party is the right model. Where possible, endorse a Republican. Where not, knife him.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 09:03 AM (7X3UV)

278 I assume that the Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan and Georgia donks who heard about the fraud are cool with it, correct?

There is the difference between us.

Posted by: CN at December 31, 2020 08:57 AM (ONvIw)

They'll lie and deny it happened but they are okay with it. They'll do anything to win. Lie, cheat, steal, kill. Anything

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 31, 2020 09:03 AM (la981)

279 And the power grid test is probably the easiest. I remember that somebody cutting a tree in Ohio hit the wrong line, some computer went haywire and four or five states had outages. 2003 IIRC.
Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 31, 2020 08:55 AM (I58tH)

It was bigger than that. I just barely missed getting stuck in an elevator. When I finally got home my wife asked me if I thought it was terrorism. I said no, it was probably those assholes at the third rate utility I used to work at. The next day, when the power finally got restored, I heard that the outage looked like it might have started in NE Ohio. I said "please, God, I don't ask for much..."

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 31, 2020 09:03 AM (y7DUB)

280 The response by the town Sununu lives in - Newfields NH -- adopt an ordinance prohibiting residential picketing.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 31, 2020 08:59 AM (D3cJf)

This is simply a microcosm example of what's being planned nationwide by the elites. Call it Kafka-trapping, or simply the stripping away of all forms of social and personal remedy or recourse from oppression and injustice.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 09:03 AM (H8QX8)

281 @248...I'd bet the highest paid public employee in over half the states is the flaghip university's head football coach.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 31, 2020 09:04 AM (evxBY)

282 Morning peeps. Slept in this morning. Retirement is good.

Regarding the military... IMO it won't be until sometime in 2022 or perhaps later the Democrats get the itch to slap some other country around. Probably somewhere in the Middle East and likely not Iran. It will one of the countries that has more or less acknowledged Israel. When Israel jumps into the fray it will give them cover to go after them. The Pali's will get their country after all. That's an obvious goal the leftists have.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 31, 2020 09:04 AM (3H9h1)

283 So, it will be a belated, but good Christmas.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2020 08:47 AM (3D/fK)

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Thankful to hear some good news, it is in short supply around here. Merry Christmas

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2020 09:04 AM (EZebt)

284 The military should be vastly shrunk down in size.
Our country has shown an ability to mobilize quickly when necessary.
Without a war, a war supported by the people with a clear objective,
there is no need for a large military force.

Posted by: SH at December 31, 2020 08:42 AM
--
We did that after WWI and look where it left us.

We constantly downsize when there is a democrat majority/administration and then we have to spend even more $$$$ than we saved to get the Military back up to where it should be when a Republican gets in.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at December 31, 2020 09:05 AM (JUOKG)

285 123 Nothing else will matter is this fraud is allowed to stand. It will take a revolution and a 100 years to get back.
Posted by: f'd

But vote in the GA runoff cause there's no fraud this time! Vote your heart out!
Posted by: BacktoGA at December 31, 2020 08:18 AM (MPYWI)
**********
There are patriots shining a light on the fraud and fighting for the people and we owe it to them to vote.
You can't just give up and wave the white flag of surrender. Because you never know what lies ahead.
Would Andrew Breitbart have given up?
Would Rush?
Trump?

Posted by: redridinghood at December 31, 2020 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

286
"But (Trump's) greatest achievement is exposing the decades-long generational corruption of our government to a vast swathe of the populace, heretofore unaware or uncaring. To put an ironic twist on a disgusting threat from an equally disgusting woman who once was first lady, what President Trump revealed will never allow us to be able to go on with our lives as before."

This is beautifully written, JJ. Thanks to you and ace for what you do, and, yes, I'll hit it (the tip jar, cheeky monkey).

You have to acknowledge you have a problem before you tackle it, to paraphrase the recovery folks. This is the first year in our lifetimes when most Americans realize things will be worse for the New Year. For the most part we are post-electoral politics. We must learn how to make lives as miserable as possible for those who oppress us. Given their pampered, worthless existences, this may not be as difficult as it seems at first blush. It has to be the primary objective, and we do so with the realization these people are just as evil and entrenched as the Soviets, Nazis, and the other vanquished.

Weep not for America.

Restore her to her former glory.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat (Joe Biden Didn't Kill Himself at December 31, 2020 09:05 AM (puu6v)

287 279 Captain, I think my uncle had retired from CEI by then, but my drunken cuz was probably still on the job, and knowing him, he may have been the responsible party.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 31, 2020 09:06 AM (I58tH)

288 77 52 Great post, J.J. Thanks. I appreciate your encouraging words. I will hit your tip jar later today. I already gave some to Ace.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 31, 2020 07:55 AM (VP4Cd)

Thanks. You give my pants a happy feeling... in the wallet.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2020 08:04 AM (s2VJv)

AKA 'the money square'

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 31, 2020 09:06 AM (pz4oW)

289 Nice, little Earth rumble we just had.0
Posted by: SFGoth at December 31, 2020 08:45 AM (k/STn)

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2.6 but it was close. Richmond

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2020 09:06 AM (EZebt)

290 Thanks. You give my pants a happy feeling... in the wallet.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2020 08:04 AM (s2VJv)

I'm not here to judge.

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 31, 2020 09:07 AM (of+54)

291 There are patriots shining a light on the fraud and fighting for the people and we owe it to them to vote.
You can't just give up and wave the white flag of surrender. Because you never know what lies ahead.
Would Andrew Breitbart have given up?
Would Rush?
Trump?
Posted by: redridinghood at December 31, 2020 09:05 AM (NpAcC)
~~~~~

So much this.^^^

Posted by: IrishEi at December 31, 2020 09:07 AM (sGotD)

292 271 235 Army "leadership" overall is a mess. West Point cheating scandal is merely a symptom."

I know it angers people when I've said they'll side with Pelosi before they side with Trump, but I think they would.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 31, 2020 09:00 AM (V2Yro)
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You seem to assume they will all side the same way, and the rank and file will follow the higher ups. Many, no doubt, will. But remember that China had problems in 1989, with troops unwilling to fire on civilians. And they'd had 40 years of Maoism.

The situation is more likely to resemble Spain, with some going one way, some the other. And lots of chaos all around. Of course, we have no solid army in Morocco to rely on.

Ignorant armies clashing by night is what I see.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 09:07 AM (7X3UV)

293 We did that after WWI and look where it left us................................Not sure the alternative would have resulted in much of a different history.

Posted by: SH at December 31, 2020 09:07 AM (sX1BW)

294 highest paid public employee in over half the states is the flaghip university's head football coach.
Posted by: occam's brassiere

Or basketball. See University of Connecticut.

Posted by: squeakywheel at December 31, 2020 09:08 AM (T2vUn)

295 We did that after WWI and look where it left us.

We constantly downsize when there is a democrat majority/administration and then we have to spend even more $$$$ than we saved to get the Military back up to where it should be when a Republican gets in.
Posted by: Mister Scott

And the same people profit time and time again.
Almost by design.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2020 09:08 AM (LwB8i)

296 I remember that somebody cutting a tree in Ohio hit the wrong line,
some computer went haywire and four or five states had outages. 2003
IIRC.

Not just some states - a big chunk of Ontario went down as well! It was summer, and boy was it hot! Two days before power came back. My children are autistic, and couldn't understand why there was no TV, no computer, no cooked food. My son and I sat on the lawn, looking up at our darkened house and he said, 'House broken.'

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at December 31, 2020 09:08 AM (NB7mI)

297 Mrs. F and Boy are truly natives, neither stirred although all the neighbors woke up

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2020 09:08 AM (EZebt)

298 JJ Thank you for all the MorningReports
Truly a record of great news curating and blistering editorials

Posted by: vmom - Trump won! at December 31, 2020 09:09 AM (NB+er)

299 "You can't just give up and wave the white flag of surrender."
I'm not. It's those guys behind me with the long knives that I'm worried about.

Posted by: f'd at December 31, 2020 09:09 AM (+y8uL)

300 We did that after WWI and look where it left us.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at December 31, 2020 09:05 AM (JUOKG)

We mind our own business in WWI - and we don't have a WWII.

It kills me - the Founding Fathers were pretty damn clear on what they thought of large standing armies. Yet, around here, we seem to love - sexually - a large standing army. Yes, a large standing army is a convenient tool. A little too damn convenient for our political class.

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 31, 2020 09:09 AM (of+54)

301 Tomorrow we may find out what the heck this guy was talking about: https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8q6ox4w

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com was dead, but it's getting better at December 31, 2020 09:10 AM (SchxB)

302 Wtf happened to my carriage returns. There should be carriage returns.

Posted by: f'd at December 31, 2020 09:10 AM (+y8uL)

303 296 Yeah, I was living in Erie back then, and we were like a small island with power. They were doing all the explaining on TV, and said that big Niagara Frontier operation in Buffalo had crashed.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 31, 2020 09:11 AM (I58tH)

304 Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 31, 2020 09:06 AM (I58tH)

I think the real blame went to Top Men for ignoring all the problems that other utilities had putting nukes on line, saying "we'll do it smarter", and then diverted every fucking bit of money they didn't have to the Perry plant. Service reliability, which used to be top notch, went right down the shitter as line maintenance got slashed along with everything else. Top Men.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 31, 2020 09:12 AM (y7DUB)

305 169 136 Well, at least the nurse that destroyed 53 vials of Moderna got fired.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 31, 2020 08:19 AM (oriku)

Since WhuFlu is deadly shouldnt she be charged with murder?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 31, 2020 08:30 AM (5QBw6)

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I'm still trying to figure out the motivation for taking the vials out of refrigeration. Is it just a variation of #OrangeManBad, or was she pissed at her employer, or what?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 31, 2020 09:12 AM (CAJOC)

306 All white students at that military school should
start cheating like the dickens, and when caught and punished, scream
bloody murder about disparate impact.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2020 08:31 AM (6FeV1)

If they get caught just claim they are trannies and need special privileges too.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 31, 2020 09:12 AM (UnQ9z)

307 Felonon. We do corn beef and cabbage. Perfect for crock pot

Posted by: willow at December 31, 2020 09:13 AM (fGemZ)

308 'highest paid public employee in over half the states is the flaghip university's head football coach.
Posted by: occam's brassiere

Or basketball. See University of Connecticut.'

Or USNA football coaches.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2020 09:13 AM (3D/fK)

309 @292...US military will likely sit out any violence that may be coming in the near future. No POTUS will risk ordering it into action in US, for fear of the order not heing followed. If the military does get involved, it will be on its own side.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 31, 2020 09:13 AM (evxBY)

310 37 The blogger Bruce Charlton just wrote that in one year, we've passed through the entire Soviet Union experiment. It started with zealous self-sacrifice in the spring, on to the paranoia of Stalin by summer, with spying and snitching. And now we've reached the weary, dreary Brezhnev era, where everyone know that we're being a solid diet of lies every day. https://tinyurl.com/ycrkj6hv

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at December 31, 2020 07:47 AM (NB7mI)

He's wrong, if the Dems take control (I should say, MORE control).

We'll then go through the equivalents of these early Communist campaigns: Death to the Mensheviks, to the Counter-Revolutionaries, to the Kulaks, and to the Wreckers and Breakers.

Posted by: Gref at December 31, 2020 09:13 AM (AMIL/)

311 Thanks again, JJ. I'm off. Probably back to bed.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2020 09:14 AM (7X3UV)

312 The impact of a large standing military usually involves discussions of the ground forces. Not so much about naval and air forces. My thinking is that the merger of government and corporations into what now rules us sees all aspects of th military as being part of their economic control. This includes digital technology, of course.

Posted by: tubal at December 31, 2020 09:14 AM (bCLt0)

313 If you dump your cornbread in your hambean soup, you can literally save minutes of your life. Your welcome.

Posted by: You Kids Put That Milk On Your MUSH aND yOU eAT iT! Mehhhhh!!! at December 31, 2020 09:14 AM (+14/x)

314 208 The military should be vastly shrunk down in size. Our country has shown an ability to mobilize quickly when necessary. Without a war, a war supported by the people with a clear objective, there is no need for a large military force.
Posted by: SH at December 31, 2020 08:42 AM (sX1BW)

Of all the things our beloved president did, the one with which I most disagreed was rebuilding the military. It was obvious our oppressors rule us with an iron fist now and have moved people into leadership who would not hesitate to emulate China and gun down citizens. This was confirmed when the brass opposed invocation of the insurrection act during one of the darkest hours this nation has faced. Hollow out the military and reduce the power of those who want us dead. Our enemy is within these borders and behind the levers of power. Deny him a ready hit squad.

Starve the Beast.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat (Joe Biden Didn't Kill Himself at December 31, 2020 09:14 AM (puu6v)

315 We'll then go through the equivalents of these early Communist campaigns: Death to the Mensheviks, to the Counter-Revolutionaries, to the Kulaks, and to the Wreckers and Breakers.
Posted by: Gref at December 31, 2020 09:13 AM (AMIL/)

I think Mao should be cancelled from history.

Using the Dunce cap was cultural appropriation.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2020 09:14 AM (6FeV1)

316
♫ Good Morning! 🎉 New Year's Eve Morning! ♫

Big ol' heaping of thanks to J.J. for his labors this year for the Morning Reports.

For 2021... (first time I've written that number)...

Just a little reminder for those who seek to follow Jesus.

"Fear not"
"Be of good cheer"

Not just good ideas - they're commands from the Son of God.

Posted by: mindful webworker
Happy Seven Swans a-Swimming Day
at December 31, 2020 09:14 AM (ek7rN)

317 304 Topping it off were a few earthquakes near the Perry plant. Top Men probably didn't think to have a little geo survey done before breaking ground.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 31, 2020 09:15 AM (I58tH)

318 This f'n year. After Trump got elected in 2016 I started taking orders for new equipment that had been put off for year.

Now after Biden's election, no orders except for this week I have several customers that want to pay for new equipment this year even if I can't deliver until February at best. Companies had a good year and have suddenly decided they want to spend some money in this year instead of waiting for the next.
Now I have to decide whether to deposit their checks this year or next. If Trump was a for sure, I would deposit them this year, if it's Biden then next year because I think everything will go to crap after 3 months.

Posted by: f'd at December 31, 2020 09:16 AM (+y8uL)

319 I was allowed one carriage return in the correct place, and three in the wrong place.

Posted by: f'd at December 31, 2020 09:17 AM (+y8uL)

320 Of all the things our beloved president did, the one with which I most disagreed was rebuilding the military.

It seems to me that much of what flies as conventional wisdom is 1980s thinking misapplied in 2020. A big standing army made sense during the Cold War - frankly, it wasn't big enough. Now, as you say, it's just another tool to use against us. And like most of the tools available to the political class - we insisted on giving it to them.

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 31, 2020 09:18 AM (of+54)

321 They'll lie and deny it happened but they are okay with it. They'll do anything to win. Lie, cheat, steal, kill. Anything
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 31, 2020 09:03 AM (la981)

Yes, it's who they are. But even when we win (Franken lost), we back down for the "good of the country, to keep the peace". Well the peace comes with too high a price, this time. The people who cry about riots are as bad as the rioters if they hand everything to the donks.

Posted by: CN at December 31, 2020 09:18 AM (ONvIw)

322 I was allowed one carriage return in the correct place, and three in the wrong place...................................Pixy is returning to the days of the IBM selectric

Posted by: SH at December 31, 2020 09:19 AM (sX1BW)

323 I have been reading some Glenn Greenwald on Substack. Some of what he says is sensible. I find this disturbing.

Posted by: tubal at December 31, 2020 09:20 AM (bCLt0)

324 How so?

War with another major power can easily be lost in a short period of time. A strong military is always a dangerous animal, prone to misuse but a weak or even undermanned military is a foolish risk in todays world. We live in a world of professional soldiers today.

Posted by: Cynical Sock Monkey... the thrill is gone baby at December 31, 2020 09:20 AM (x+BTq)

325 Oh well gotta go. Keep the faith yall.

Posted by: f'd at December 31, 2020 09:21 AM (+y8uL)

326

Now we know at least one answer-- that almost every thought to counter the Communists has to be backed up by some type of Action. Civil demonstration and civil disobedience. And object lessons if the other side wants to get sporty about it all.

Or we can develop fingertip calluses to rival those on Kamala's tonsils as we 'keyboard' them into submission. Total sarc.
And most immediately and most of all, to me personally , is the fact that the greatest modern warrior for America , Donald J Trump, has asked all of HIS people to be in DC on January 6th.

Action for today: Dont give more money to Walmart.
And be in DC on the 6th as The Man asked us to be.
We must be part of actions that counter the Communists--away and apart from keyboarding,

Posted by: Voter theater. at December 31, 2020 09:21 AM (xXx5y)

327 Topping it off were a few earthquakes near the Perry plant. Top Men probably didn't think to have a little geo survey done before breaking ground.
Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 31, 2020 09:15 AM (I58tH)

I think I was one of the few people who didn't feel the earthquake. I was out walking at lunch in downtown Cleveland when a security guard ran out of the library and said "did you feel that?" I probably did but thought it was caused by a truck driving close by or something similar. Anyway, Top Men started drinking heavily earlier than usual for that bit of sand in the gears.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 31, 2020 09:21 AM (y7DUB)

328 Officer Corpse.

Posted by: klaftern at December 31, 2020 09:22 AM (RuIsu)

329 I'm still trying to figure out the motivation for taking the vials out of refrigeration. Is it just a variation of #OrangeManBad, or was she pissed at her employer, or what?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 31, 2020 09:12 AM (CAJOC)

prolly a crazed leftist anti vaxxer

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 31, 2020 09:22 AM (5QBw6)

330 f'd, you are so right. Some fool said that there would be 5% growth in the first quarter. I think they forgot the decimal point in front of the 5.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 31, 2020 09:24 AM (oriku)

331 My $600 worth of bread from the Crimulus is in my account this morning.

The $2,100 worth of circuses still suck, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 31, 2020 09:24 AM (dkMgb)

332 2.6 but it was close. Richmond
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2020 09:06 AM (EZebt)

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Mrs. has awakened and corrected me. 3.6 near Muir Beach

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2020 09:24 AM (EZebt)

333 331 My $600 worth of bread from the Crimulus is in my account this morning.

The $2,100 worth of circuses still suck, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 31, 2020 09:24 AM (dkMgb)

Pakis being taught how to properly bang a transgender woman is tots worth it!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 31, 2020 09:25 AM (5QBw6)

334 I have to ask this question, WTF is Lin Wood doing? He is HURTING President Trump with these conspiracy theories against Roberts ( whom I can't stand) and with the latest accusations he is coming off as a charlatan. Lin is just throwing crap out there and hoping it sticks. Now nobody s going to take him serious or Trump.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 31, 2020 09:26 AM (NpAcC)

335 Just want to take a moment to thank J.J. for all his hard work throughout the year keeping all of us informed. I spend the better part of my mornings reading his links and most of the comments following his Morning Report. Besides, he's a fellow model railroader, so that's a big plus as well!

Wishing you and yours a very Happy New Year, J.J. Hoping we can look forward to better days ahead.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 31, 2020 09:26 AM (zkS5c)

336 War with another major power can easily be lost in a short period of
time. A strong military is always a dangerous animal, prone to misuse
but a weak or even undermanned military is a foolish risk in todays
world. We live in a world of professional soldiers today.----------------------------------I don't want a weak military, just a smaller one. Namely one with less officers and less men. I'm in favor of a strong Navy, Nukes, elite forces, and other strategic assets.

Posted by: SH at December 31, 2020 09:27 AM (sX1BW)

337 Bias by omission was the theme Tuesday for ABC, CBS, and NBC.

Zero reports on eco terrorist trying to freeze to death 3500 gas customers by closing off lines.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 31, 2020 09:27 AM (5QBw6)

338 War with another major power can easily be lost in a
short period of time. A strong military is always a dangerous animal,
prone to misuse but a weak or even undermanned military is a foolish
risk in todays world. We live in a world of professional soldiers today.
Posted by: Cynical Sock Monkey... the thrill is gone baby at December 31, 2020 09:20 AM (x+BTq)

Who are we going to war with today ? China ? We have no business putting boots on the ground in Asia - and they lack the ability to project power here - even if given friendly basing in a place Central America. Russia ? If we haven't learned our lesson fighting in Europe on behalf of the Europeans by now, we never will. And besides, they had enough problems in Crimea. Canada and Mexico ? I highly doubt we need twelve standing divisions to protect ourselves from them.

Like I said - the Founders were clear. Large standing armies aren't needed when you mind your own business.

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 31, 2020 09:29 AM (of+54)

339 "I have several customers that want to pay for new equipment this year even if I can't deliver until February at best."

from what I read, I'd guess they are supposed to place the equipment "in service" by the end of year to deduct it. (I think that is what Turbo Tax asks me). But IRS won't be following them around to check I guess.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 31, 2020 09:29 AM (Cus5s)

340 Electrical and power installations are essentially wide open and undefended across the country. No need for such, in a civil orderly country.

Posted by: tubal at December 31, 2020 09:30 AM (bCLt0)

341 > Pakis being taught how to properly bang a transgender woman is tots worth it!!

But wait, there's more: it looks like Cocaine Bitch has decided he wants to lose Georgia by procedurally killing Trump's $2,000 proposal, thereby giving the Dems control of both houses of Congress and the Presidency. As far as the third branch goes, expect there to be 20 or 30 Supreme Court justices by the end of Dopey Joe and the Ho's first term.

Buckle up. We're in for a bumpy ride.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 31, 2020 09:30 AM (dkMgb)

342 Pakis being taught how to properly bang a transgender woman is tots worth it!!

In Pakistan the two genders are "male" and "goat".

Posted by: Ian S. at December 31, 2020 09:30 AM (6XLoz)

343 J.J. Thank you for all the hard work you do. You are amazing.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 31, 2020 09:30 AM (NpAcC)

344 Yes, it's who they are. But even when we win
(Franken lost), we back down for the "good of the country, to keep the
peace". Well the peace comes with too high a price, this time. The
people who cry about riots are as bad as the rioters if they hand
everything to the donks.

Posted by: CN at December 31, 2020 09:18 AM (ONvIw)

The GOP "leadership" backs down because they are craven cowards and sell outs. It's long past time to kick all of them to the curb. Unfortunately too many people just vote for the name they recognize and we get stuck with the same sellouts year after year

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 31, 2020 09:31 AM (UnQ9z)

345 In Pakistan the two genders are "male" and "goat".
Posted by: Ian S. at December 31, 2020 09:30 AM (6XLoz)

ha!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 31, 2020 09:31 AM (5QBw6)

346 Bias by omission was the theme Tuesday for ABC, CBS, and NBC.

Zero reports on eco terrorist trying to freeze to death 3500 gas customers by closing off lines.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 31, 2020 09:27 AM (5QBw6)

Why are you implying that our precious MFM has an agenda? /s

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 31, 2020 09:32 AM (UnQ9z)

347 Happy Nood Year

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2020 09:32 AM (EZebt)

348 Nood nude.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 31, 2020 09:32 AM (E8JQx)

349 Thanks JJ for the unswerving honesty.
Todays MR is the most clear-eyed, sobering one yet.

Posted by: Voter theater. at December 31, 2020 09:33 AM (xXx5y)

350 I'm in favor of a strong Navy, Nukes, elite forces, and other strategic assets.
Posted by: SH

Gone are the days of calling up the citizenry, handing them a weapon and throwing them on the front lines. Sitting in fortress USA with our finger on the button seems like a return to the days of my youth. I will agree with less officers. The military leadership needs a good thorough purge.

Posted by: Cynical Sock Monkey... the thrill is gone baby at December 31, 2020 09:37 AM (x+BTq)

351 334 I have to ask this question, WTF is Lin Wood doing? He is HURTING President Trump...
Posted by: redridinghood at December 31, 2020 09:26 AM (NpAcC)

No, I don't agree. Lin Wood is great. He's fighting loud and bold like we never have because he knows we're in a war like never before. He's helping.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 09:37 AM (H8QX8)

352 Can someone explain to me why Mitch has decided $2000 is the hill to die on?

Posted by: WOPR - Tactically Dramatic is Failue at December 31, 2020 09:40 AM (J70i0)

353 10 plus inches of heavy, wet snow yesterday ended with the power going out. Coffee this morning was cowboy variety, perked on the woodstove.

Posted by: Cynical Sock Monkey... the thrill is gone baby at December 31, 2020 09:43 AM (x+BTq)

354 DOJ's John Lott finally admits there was voter fraud.

This is big. OANN link.

tinyurl.com/24yd969d

Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at December 31, 2020 09:48 AM (OssQ4)

355 Can someone explain to me why Mitch has decided $2000 is the hill to die on?
Posted by: WOPR - Tactically Dramatic is Failue at December 31, 2020 09:40 AM (J70i0)

Conservative Treehouse very recently had an article that posited that Mitch sees more money in selling his minority votes to Schumer--assuming the fillibuster money making machine holds--to get past filibusters than being in the majority and having to do ANYthing beyond selling America to China and Schumer.
Strictly a money deal to Mitch.

Posted by: Voter theater. at December 31, 2020 09:54 AM (YwvOV)

356 This is big. OANN link.

tinyurl.com/24yd969d
Posted by: Taqiyyologist
**
John Lott is an advisor to the DOJ, I believe.

This isn't the DOJ admitting fraud, sadly.

Posted by: squeakywheel at December 31, 2020 09:58 AM (T2vUn)

357
Posted by: squeakywheel at December 31, 2020 09:58 AM (T2vUn)

I had the John Lott story yesterday.

Still, it is significant.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2020 10:04 AM (s2VJv)

358 This letter will be a critical piece n a few days.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at December 31, 2020 10:10 AM (OssQ4)

359 "Voter fraud" is the incorrect term. It was "election official fraud."

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2020 10:13 AM (H8QX8)

360 How did the Garrett - Sponge Shootout at the AOS Corrall go? I had to leave. Are any of them alive?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 31, 2020 10:16 AM (YbWcz)

361 In case no one has remarked upon it, the distress signal plus the sundown closes out this rigged year on a realist note.

Posted by: Gilded at December 31, 2020 11:11 AM (BRkq2)

362 So ... spreading "The Rona" is murder; but, butt, in California, spreading AIDS is a misdemeanor.

Posted by: Marooned at December 31, 2020 11:43 AM (yYptV)

363 Posting to a dead thread. Don't care. Had to.

Thank you, J.J., for saying what I can't seem to find the words to express.

Posted by: creeper at December 31, 2020 02:35 PM (XxJt1)

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