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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Thomas Cole
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
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Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
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Posted by: one of the quiet ones at January 06, 2021 09:33 AM (2k7BX)
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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 06, 2021 09:33 AM (s2VJv)
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Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 06, 2021 09:33 AM (ejd/p)
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at January 06, 2021 09:32 AM (Qxwph)
Or it means that the fabric of the universe is torn and the monsters from our worst nightmares are pouring through the hole.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2021 09:34 AM (xT2tT)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2021 09:34 AM (VP4Cd)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 06, 2021 09:34 AM (6mvRv)
Posted by: grizzledcoastie at January 06, 2021 09:34 AM (FMgad)
Posted by: Heidi at January 06, 2021 09:34 AM (Dz5W3)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2021 09:34 AM (xT2tT)
100 Comment Rule.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2021 09:34 AM (1ISKN)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2021 09:34 AM (xT2tT)
This.
Posted by: Muad'dib - Having a Brown Bag Picnic at the Tiki Bar prior to Leaving the Reservation at January 06, 2021 09:34 AM (sjdRT)
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at January 06, 2021 09:35 AM (qc+VF)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2021 09:35 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Kris at January 06, 2021 09:35 AM (VQp/A)
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at January 06, 2021 09:35 AM (qc+VF)
Posted by: Ziba at January 06, 2021 09:35 AM (S1hrL)
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at January 06, 2021 09:36 AM (Qxwph)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2021 09:34 AM (xT2tT)
Monsters from the Id. I haven't heard the 'Id' term in years and years.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 06, 2021 09:36 AM (o2MD2)
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Si Vis Pacem, Pac Bellum) at January 06, 2021 09:36 AM (N3El/)
Is this the same Thomas Cole that was a Hudson Vally School painter, with his magisterial Voyages of Life?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2021 09:36 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at January 06, 2021 09:32 AM (Qxwph)[i/]
Or it means that the fabric of the universe is torn and the monsters from our worst nightmares are pouring through the hole.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2021 09:34 AM (xT2tT)
The movie "The Gate".
Posted by: Kris at January 06, 2021 09:37 AM (VQp/A)
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at January 06, 2021 09:32 AM (Qxwph)
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)
The very same. This is a different look for Cole, and I thought it might be interesting....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2021 09:37 AM (xT2tT)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2021 09:34 AM (xT2tT)
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at January 06, 2021 09:32 AM (Qxwph)
Or it means that the fabric of the universe is torn and the monsters from our worst nightmares are pouring through the hole.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2021 09:34 AM (xT2tT)
Both could be true.
Posted by: Warlord Someguy - General Who Pacifies The East and West at January 06, 2021 09:38 AM (Zm+LZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2021 09:38 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: johnd01 at January 06, 2021 09:38 AM (ukNFU)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2021 09:39 AM (UZVEt)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 06, 2021 09:39 AM (eWXQt)
It doesn't appeal to me, somehow, but perhaps that's because I prefer something like The Light of the World:
https://tinyurl.com/yyeu2asf
Or, in a more modern interpretation:
https://tinyurl.com/y3pblllu
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 06, 2021 09:39 AM (2JVJo)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 06, 2021 09:40 AM (w9Wax)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 06, 2021 09:41 AM (Dz5W3)
Posted by: Shoey77 at January 06, 2021 09:41 AM (hmNVd)
This is a softer style than many of Cole's other paintings but it is fitting for the subject. He hints at time passing, glory from the cross, even blood in the heavy use of rusty red color. Cole set up an atmosphere in the painting that will have the viewers shift their impressions as they focus on different aspects of the art. Very effective.
Posted by: JTB at January 06, 2021 09:41 AM (7EjX1)
"this reminds me of Caspar David Friedrich..."
Caspar David Friedrich's painting Two Men by the Sea at Moonrise is very apropos. We stare into the abyss with them.
Posted by: Ziba at January 06, 2021 09:42 AM (S1hrL)
Posted by: Timothy Treadwell at January 06, 2021 09:43 AM (qc+VF)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2021 09:34 AM (xT2tT)
I have that dream so many times I've named the monsters.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 06, 2021 09:43 AM (Dz5W3)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2021 09:34 AM (xT2tT)
I have that dream so many times I've named the monsters.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 06, 2021 09:43 AM (Dz5W3)
Maybe you shouldn't eat people before bed.
Posted by: Warlord Someguy - General Who Pacifies The East and West at January 06, 2021 09:43 AM (Zm+LZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 06, 2021 09:43 AM (yvr3o)
Posted by: Warlord Someguy - General Who Pacifies The East and West at January 06, 2021 09:44 AM (Zm+LZ)
Posted by: Roland THTG at January 06, 2021 09:44 AM (88+cf)
Posted by: Warlord Someguy - General Who Pacifies The East and West at January 06, 2021 09:43 AM (Zm+LZ)
True. And better quality.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 06, 2021 09:44 AM (Dz5W3)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2021 09:34 AM
So. Wednesday, then?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 06, 2021 09:45 AM (ejd/p)
Posted by: Roland THTG at January 06, 2021 09:44 AM (88+cf)
Awomen.
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)
From the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid. Sounds like a tax sale to the Spanish State.
Here is the museum info on the painting:
Towards the end of his life Thomas Cole executed a final series of paintings on religious subjects known as The Cross and the World.
In it, the artist -- a pioneering landscape painter considered the founder of the Hudson River School -- depicted a sublime vision of nature that became the vehicle for his quest for salvation and spiritual knowledge.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2021 09:45 AM (u82oZ)
often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes
and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President, without
being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; but now at length, I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising, and not a setting sun."
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 06, 2021 09:45 AM (YEKLS)
Because we all have our cross to bear.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 06, 2021
*
*
"Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 06, 2021 09:45 AM (yvr3o)
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 06, 2021 09:46 AM (6xk3i)
Posted by: ACLU at January 06, 2021 09:46 AM (qc+VF)
Cross at Sunset is not part of that series but is extremely close to it. It depicts an impressive cross in the foreground, to the left of which and some way away is a bell tower.
Behind these two elements a valley recedes into the distance where mountains are outlined against the horizon. The light from the setting sun spreads out like a fan and assumes a fantastical character, establishing a dialogue with the cross in the foreground, which radiates its own light.
From the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum website.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2021 09:46 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 06, 2021 09:46 AM (6xk3i)
Posted by: Roland THTG at January 06, 2021 09:44 AM (88+cf)
Awomen.
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)
Replace it with a 33m hoohah.
Posted by: Roland THTG at January 06, 2021 09:46 AM (88+cf)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 06, 2021 09:47 AM (eWXQt)
Posted by: Bob
In the AZ desert this is how those rays look. Clouds cause the dark sections and the setting sun the bright areas.
Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at January 06, 2021 09:47 AM (gtatv)
Posted by: Asshoes at January 06, 2021 09:48 AM (CTE5Q)
Posted by: Ziba at January 06, 2021 09:42 AM
*points two fingers at eyes*
*points at you*
Posted by: The Abyss at January 06, 2021 09:48 AM (ejd/p)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 06, 2021 09:48 AM (o2MD2)
Posted by: Doctor Elect vmom - pray for Trump and his supporters at January 06, 2021 09:49 AM (nUhF0)
Thank you for this, My art horizons have been expanded.
I did not know any of his later works. Except for his Voyages of Life series. I have gone to the National Gallery in DC just to see those 4 paintings.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2021 09:49 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Blacksheep at January 06, 2021 09:50 AM (6mvRv)
"this reminds me of Caspar David Friedrich..."
Caspar David Friedrich's painting Two Men by the Sea at Moonrise is very apropos. We stare into the abyss with them.
Posted by: Ziba at January 06, 2021 09:42 AM (S1hrL)
Friedrich is in my personal top three artists of all time. I have yet to find a work of his I don't like.
I was thinking of this one: https://tinyurl.com/y6sj3gl7, but he does several that are variations on a theme. Usually this can get boring, but Friedrich is so good that each one is fresh and original. Bing: "Caspar David Friedrich Paintings" and just scroll through the images. You won't be sorry.
Posted by: Kris at January 06, 2021 09:50 AM (VQp/A)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 06, 2021 09:48 AM (o2MD2)
Were you on a horse? Did it have a name?
Posted by: BignJames at January 06, 2021 09:50 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 06, 2021 09:50 AM (6xk3i)
True. And better quality.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob
You working on getting the Cosmopolitan readers list so you can get some really *prime* quality?
Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at January 06, 2021 09:50 AM (gtatv)
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 06, 2021 09:46 AM (6xk3i)
Agreed!
Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 06, 2021 09:51 AM (o2MD2)
Posted by: Doctor Elect vmom - pray for Trump and his supporters at January 06, 2021
*
*
I could read that without any difficulty. Of course, I know the Lord's Prayer in English, so I had a crib sheet.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 06, 2021 09:51 AM (yvr3o)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 09:51 AM (V2Yro)
Yep. Did an image search and you're totally right. I stand corrected.
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at January 06, 2021 09:51 AM (qc+VF)
Were you on a horse? Did it have a name?
Posted by: BignJames at January 06, 2021 09:50 AM (AwYPR)
I was on foot. But I get the joke.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 06, 2021 09:52 AM (o2MD2)
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 06, 2021 09:46 AM (6xk3i)
Agreed!
Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 06, 2021 09:51 AM (o2MD2)
Thanks.
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 06, 2021 09:52 AM (6xk3i)
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)
Thank you, CBD.
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Silent at January 06, 2021 09:52 AM (CrU4U)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 06, 2021 09:52 AM (ejd/p)
Posted by: President-elect Emmie at January 06, 2021 09:52 AM (ofYez)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2021 09:53 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: chique
May you have an *excellent* birthday our Queen/King!
Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at January 06, 2021 09:53 AM (gtatv)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2021 09:34 AM (xT2tT)
Deep inside man's inmost soul
do Demons dwell, and take their toll.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 09:54 AM (V2Yro)
That's Latin, Horde. Clearly our vmom is an educated Moronette.
Posted by: Doc Holliday at January 06, 2021 09:54 AM (ejd/p)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 06, 2021 09:48 AM (o2MD2)
Yeah, that is when the scorpions and rattlesnakes come out to hunt.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Si Vis Pacem, Pac Bellum) at January 06, 2021 09:54 AM (N3El/)
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 06, 2021 09:55 AM (HPZbe)
And that's a small canvas for him.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2021 09:55 AM (NJtIq)
Posted by: creeper at January 06, 2021 09:55 AM (XxJt1)
Many happy returns on the day of thy birth!
May sunshine and gladness be given.
And may the Dear Father prepare thee on earth
For a beautiful birthday in heaven.
We used to recite that for people's birthdays at the church my dad pastored during my childhood.
Posted by: President-elect Emmie at January 06, 2021 09:56 AM (ofYez)
Posted by: f'd at January 06, 2021 09:56 AM (+y8uL)
Posted by: lowandslow at January 06, 2021 09:56 AM (qH6FZ)
Posted by: Bob Ross at January 06, 2021 09:56 AM (ukNFU)
And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
Matthew 26:39
Posted by: Doctor Elect vmom - pray for Trump and his supporters at January 06, 2021 09:56 AM (nUhF0)
Posted by: SouthTexas at January 06, 2021 09:56 AM (YjQzz)
Posted by: f'd at January 06, 2021 09:56 AM (+y8uL)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2021 09:34 AM (xT2tT)
Monsters from the Id. I haven't heard the 'Id' term in years and years.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 06, 2021 09:36 AM (o2MD2)
Wasn't that a Kolchak episode? The Spanish Moss Murders. Pere Malfait is going to get you.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 06, 2021 09:57 AM (IVQPz)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 06, 2021 09:57 AM (2JVJo)
what time does the music start in DC?
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 06, 2021 09:57 AM (DUIap)
Posted by: Bob
Did the same after you mentioned doing a search, many of the images show sunlight through clouds; but, the late sunset ones look like the painting.
When they occur they look magical.
Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at January 06, 2021 09:57 AM (gtatv)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2021 09:58 AM (NpAcC)
To keep your disposition sweet, there will be no singing by me.
*Singing is one of my techniques to get unruly students to snap back in line. Now they just fervently ask "No singing, please."*
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2021 09:58 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2021 09:53 AM (NpAcC)
They cannot remove the Cross upon your heart.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 06, 2021 09:58 AM (2JVJo)
The point of the 100 comment rule is to create a short respite from the unceasing pounding of the news. So as long as it is interesting and not an obvious reference to current events, it is fine!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2021 09:58 AM (xT2tT)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2021 09:58 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2021 09:58 AM (em79L)
Posted by: creeper at January 06, 2021 09:59 AM (XxJt1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 09:51 AM (V2Yro)
What is dead can eternal lie, and in strange aeons, even death may die. -HP Lovecraft
America as an idea will live on, and in some future where people are tired of corrupt authoritarian shenanigans, another Great Republic will be built, using the lessons of ours, as we did every experiment in democracy before it.
On our Great Seal is the unfinished pyramid - the work is never complete, but the eye of Providence watches and gives its boon or blight. Remember what was, and remember the Lord. Our enemies will not endure, because they cannot acknowledge truth, nor make straight the crooked timber that is man, no matter how much they bend, cut, and shave it.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 09:59 AM (BWt56)
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 06, 2021 09:46 AM (6xk3i)
https://youtu.be/_Qw-h_yZ1ZQ
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 09:59 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: President-elect Emmie at January 06, 2021 09:59 AM (ofYez)
We have some who appear to be solid still. Not many have grit. This is how we got here.
Hard times make strong men.
Strong men make good times.
Good times make weak men.
Weak men make hard times.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 06, 2021 09:59 AM (o2MD2)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2021 10:00 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 06, 2021 09:57 AM (IVQPz)
With Johnny Silver (the Broadway and film Benny Southstreet of Guys and Dolls) as Pepe and Richard Kiel as Pere Malfait.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 06, 2021 10:00 AM (2JVJo)
great...now the trolls are talking to each other
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 06, 2021 10:00 AM (DUIap)
Posted by: shibumi, welcome to the shitshow at January 06, 2021 10:00 AM (ZCiJZ)
I, wonder, as Rome was falling, how many Roman Citizens understood what was happening to them?
Is this the end of the republic or the end of the empire?
Posted by: Archer at January 06, 2021 10:00 AM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 06, 2021 10:01 AM (2JVJo)
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 06, 2021 10:01 AM (YEKLS)
I can't figure out what that black object is on the left.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2021 09:58 AM (NpAcC)
There's a bathroom on the right.
Posted by: Tom Fogerty at January 06, 2021 10:01 AM (88+cf)
Prayers
https://tinyurl.com/y4jokmqh
Psalm 144:1
Blessed be the LORD, my rock,
who trains my hands for war,
and my fingers for battle.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2021 10:01 AM (r1DzX)
Posted by: Archer at January 06, 2021 10:00 AM (gmo/4)
Ummmmmmmmm.......Yes.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 06, 2021 10:01 AM (sVFtl)
When I breathe my last,
And open my eyes in Glory,
May the first thing I hear be
"Unload and show clear."
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2021 10:02 AM (r1DzX)
Yes, I did. At the end of the ONT.
It's a tradition of mine since 2012 or before. The origins are a bit hazy.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2021 10:02 AM (u82oZ)
Lord, make me fast and accurate.
Let my aim be true and my hand faster than those who wish to harm me and mine.
Let not my last thought be "If only I had my gun".
and Lord, if today is truly the day you are to call me home,
Let me die in a pile of brass.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2021 10:02 AM (r1DzX)
Strong men make good times.
Good times make weak men. -- You are here
Weak men make hard times. -- Transitioning to here
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at January 06, 2021 10:02 AM (qc+VF)
Posted by: Doctor Elect vmom - pray for Trump and his supporters at January 06, 2021 10:03 AM (nUhF0)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2021 10:03 AM (NpAcC)
Be not that far from me, for trouble is near;
Haste Thee to help me.
Blessed be the Lord my strength,
which teacheth my hands to war,
and my fingers to fight.
My goodness, and my fortress;
My high tower, and my deliverer;
My shield, and he in whom I trust;
Who subdueth my people under me.
O my God, I trust in thee:
Let me not be ashamed,
Let not mine enemies triumph over me.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2021 10:03 AM (r1DzX)
Posted by: creeper at January 06, 2021 10:03 AM (XxJt1)
Posted by: lowandslow at January 06, 2021 09:56 AM (qH6FZ)
It's a desert, no distinquishing features present. It could just as easily be SoCal or West Texas, for that matter.
fun trivia - southern Arizona, Baja California, and the Mexican state of Sonora are all part of the Sonoran Desert, where the big cactus grow. West Texas and parts of New Mexico and the Mexican state of Chihuahua are part of the Chihuahuan desert; still dry, but gets too cold in winter for the big cactus to live.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 10:03 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Doctor Elect vmom - pray for Trump and his supporters at January 06, 2021 10:03 AM (nUhF0)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2021 10:04 AM (r1DzX)
When I was there with my wingmen in 9/12 2009.the media reported 10,000. There were at least 800,000.
Do not believe the media today. The media is the virus.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2021 10:04 AM (u82oZ)
Isn't it funny we still use that term "carriage return"? It comes from the old days of manual typewriters, when the cylinder supporting the paper was physically pushed back to its starting position after every line.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 06, 2021 10:04 AM (YEKLS)
Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at January 06, 2021 10:05 AM (2DOZq)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2021 10:05 AM (u82oZ)
https://twitter.com/basedengland8/status/
1346561732962119683
Posted by: andycanuck at January 06, 2021 10:05 AM (ab0zp)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2021 10:05 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2021 10:05 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Exactly.
Conservatives are as much to blame as anyone. We love our stuff, our comforts, our gov't cheese (because we all get some, in one way or t'other).
Posted by: lizabth at January 06, 2021 10:05 AM (L3Rsz)
Is this the end of the republic or the end of the empire?-------------------------------No I don't think so. For many reasons. One Rome ended slowly. Its end was not like Germany or Japan that came on suddenly. No empire can last forever. But some expand, contract, expand again. The US and British Empires were like none before. Neither were created out of a sense of conquest.
Posted by: SH at January 06, 2021 10:05 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: creeper at January 06, 2021 10:05 AM (XxJt1)
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the
Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 06, 2021 09:46 AM (6xk3i)
Happy Birthday! Truly, I hope you have a great day and celebrate many, many more birthdays!
Posted by: Archer at January 06, 2021 10:05 AM (gmo/4)
Posted by: johnd01 - Office of the Corruptocrat Elect at January 06, 2021 10:06 AM (ukNFU)
Thank you sir
It goes to show exactly what is important today
Alpha and omega
Posted by: CarpetheadLarRo at January 06, 2021 10:06 AM (+ITg4)
You could make the argument that the American Empire began around the time of the Spanish-American War, with our taking over of the Phillippines and sending the Great White Fleet around the world.
I'd say we are Late Empire - overextended, overtaxed, overspending, a devalued currency and a series of imbecilic emperors with the occasional "good" emperor trying and failing to halt the slide. The Senate is a joke and the barbarians encouraged to poke at the borders to judge our weakness. Trump is not our Trajan or Marcus Aurelius. Perhaps our Antoninus Pius.
Anyway, Elagabalus and Romulus Augustulus are right ahead.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 06, 2021 10:06 AM (2JVJo)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2021 10:02 AM (u82oZ)
I love your tradition!
I wasn't implying you had skipped your traditional greeting today, just asking how the striking of fear is going.
Posted by: President-elect Emmie at January 06, 2021 10:06 AM (ofYez)
Posted by: Tom Servo
And on the other side (CA) you have the Mojave desert and the big cactus don't live there either.
Totally weird to cross the Colorado River into AZ and start seeing saguaros immediately. We taught our kids were were only 2 hours from home when they started seeing saguaros.
Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at January 06, 2021 10:06 AM (gtatv)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2021 10:06 AM (NpAcC)
That one and the Shepherd's Prayer from Boondock Saints seem pertinent.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 10:07 AM (BWt56)
When I breathe my last,
And open my eyes in Glory,
May the first thing I hear be
"Unload and show clear."
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2021 10:02 AM (r1DzX)
You reminded me of my favorite scene in The Patriot. Actually in my all time top ten list. The movie not so much.
Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at January 06, 2021 10:07 AM (2DOZq)
AVE MARIA, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
Posted by: Doctor Elect vmom - pray for Trump and his supporters at January 06, 2021 10:07 AM (nUhF0)
https://twitter.com/basedengland8/status/
1346561732962119683
Posted by: andycanuck at January 06, 2021 10:05 AM (ab0zp)
What a dumb-ass!
Posted by: Archer at January 06, 2021 10:08 AM (gmo/4)
Is this the end of the republic or the end of the empire?
Posted by: Archer at January 06, 2021 10:00 AM (gmo/4)
Both; and a lot of Romans felt it coming, and wrote about it. There weren't enough of those who cared and understood to stop anything. So they immersed themselves in religion, or drunkenness, or sexual liasons of all types. Whatever it took to pass the time until others from outside finally put an end to the party, as someone always does.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 10:08 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: creeper at January 06, 2021 10:03 AM (XxJt1)
Yes! Well, at least that we are under contract. We still have to successfully close.
Posted by: President-elect Emmie at January 06, 2021 10:09 AM (ofYez)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2021 10:09 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Citizen at January 06, 2021 10:09 AM (z/+He)
Posted by: TheHoser at January 06, 2021 10:09 AM (IDjUx)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Iron Fist in Velvet Glove in Iron Gauntlet Clutching an Iron Mace at January 06, 2021 10:09 AM (Dc2NZ)
in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria,
Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae.
Amen.
Posted by: Doctor Elect vmom - pray for Trump and his supporters at January 06, 2021 10:07 AM (nUhF0)
AMEN!
Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 06, 2021 10:09 AM (CqHIp)
Been consumed with my own stuff. I am working on fixing things that are personal issues. Thanks for asking.
My next acton is if Biden is in, to change my registration from Republican to Independent.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2021 10:09 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: creeper at January 06, 2021 10:10 AM (XxJt1)
Posted by: SH at January 06, 2021 10:05 AM (sX1BW)
There was conquest, of course, but seapower and trade were the lifeblood of the empire. As Britain has retreated from the sea, so too have her fortunes fallen.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 10:10 AM (BWt56)
There's a poem by a Roman nobleman named Rutilius Claudius Namatianus, called "De Reditu Suo" (On His Return) written in 416. He's describing leaving Rome and returning to his family estates in Gaul, and it's a fascinating snapshot of how the Empire was falling apart at that time. He had to go by ship, because the roads were no longer maintained, and were infested with bandits or returning to woodland. He seems aware that things aren't the way they used to be, but he can't really grasp that Rome is past the point of no return. He keeps thinking that Rome has been through tough patches in the past, and eventually things will come around and get back to normal. It was just unthinkable that Rome could really collapse; it was the Eternal City, after all, it had ALWAYS been there.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 06, 2021 10:11 AM (YEKLS)
Isn't it funny we still use that term "carriage return"? It comes from the old days of manual typewriters, when the cylinder supporting the paper was physically pushed back to its starting position after every line.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 06, 2021 10:04 AM (YEKLS)
We use the image of a floppy disc for "save" even though most people haven't used a floppy this century
Posted by: josephistan at January 06, 2021 10:11 AM (Izzlo)
About an hour from my house. I don't know if I could have kept from shutting off my camera and then destroying the dude's car while he was stranded.
Posted by: TheHoser at January 06, 2021 10:11 AM (IDjUx)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2021 10:09 AM (u82oZ)
That won't save you from the camps, comrade.
Posted by: BignJames at January 06, 2021 10:12 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2021 10:12 AM (em79L)
May all those in DC have a safe rally.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2021 10:12 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Jewells45TRUMPWON! at January 06, 2021 10:12 AM (nxdel)
of the empire. As Britain has retreated from the sea, so too have her
fortunes fallen.-----------------------------I think you know what I meant. Perhaps a better way of saying they were not created for the sake of creating empires. Contrast with Russia, China, Japan, Germany.
Posted by: SH at January 06, 2021 10:13 AM (sX1BW)
Almost twenty centuries ago, a rabbi was crucified. He was a subject of the most corrupt and evil empire of its day. By all earthly accounts, his three year ministry was a failure. He had drawn crowds of thousands before, and now they vanished. The twelve men that had been with him for three years all betrayed him in various and sundry ways.
About three hundred years later, however, a Christian emperor conquered that entire territory - up to Rome, in fact. Without the internet, without even a printing press. 300 years is a blink of an eye, historically speaking.
Trump is not the Way. He only exposed a way forward for us. He's not going to be the one to reform this country; he was just one man that did what he could, and is in the process of being crushed for it.
We are going to need to take up our mantle and do the work ourselves. That work starts today.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 06, 2021 10:13 AM (6xA3t)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2021 10:13 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: ... at January 06, 2021 10:13 AM (p/jwr)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2021 10:14 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2021 10:14 AM (xfb67)
Posted by: creeper at January 06, 2021 10:14 AM (XxJt1)
Posted by: creeper at January 06, 2021 10:03 AM (XxJt1)
Yes! Well, at least that we are under contract. We still have to successfully close.
Posted by: President-elect Emmie at January 06, 2021 10:09 AM (ofYez)
May I ask, where are you moving to? No, I am Not asking for the street address.
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2021 10:14 AM (bCLt0)
Posted by: ... at January 06, 2021 10:13 AM (p/jwr)
When I look at Pence I do not see Patrick Henry.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 06, 2021 10:15 AM (o2MD2)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 06, 2021 10:15 AM (H5knJ)
Posted by: SH at January 06, 2021 10:15 AM (sX1BW)
About
an hour from my house. I don't know if I could have kept from shutting
off my camera and then destroying the dude's car while he was stranded.
Posted by: TheHoser at January 06, 2021 10:11 AM (IDjUx)
Yeah, I was thinking about something like that too. Would I shoot up his engine and tires till his car stopped running? In the heat of rage - probably.
Posted by: Archer at January 06, 2021 10:15 AM (gmo/4)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2021 10:09 AM (u82oZ)
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I registered Dem last year. CO uses an open caucus, so registration doesn't matter here. And since I'm registered Dem, my vote got tabulated instead of thrown away, and perhaps it'll take them longer to add my name to a quota packet when the time comes.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2021 10:15 AM (Bvn1K)
Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 06, 2021 09:46 AM (6xk3i)
Happy B-Day, my little chiquen tender.
Posted by: ... at January 06, 2021 10:15 AM (p/jwr)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2021 10:14 AM (xfb67)
Do not underestimate pillows
Posted by: Zombie Justice Scalia at January 06, 2021 10:16 AM (nUhF0)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2021 10:16 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 06, 2021 10:15 AM (H5knJ)
We've been suckered into playing the world's policeman for free, and prestige is a poor substitute for a living wage.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 10:16 AM (BWt56)
Posted by: SH at January 06, 2021 10:15 AM (sX1BW)
So a Zero then. He has a chance to become the other.
Posted by: ... at January 06, 2021 10:16 AM (p/jwr)
Posted by: redridinghood
Manchin should do the same!
Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at January 06, 2021 10:17 AM (gtatv)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 06, 2021 10:15 AM (H5knJ)
It's not uncommon for overseas empires to be run at a loss, it's something of a norm. Usually an empire is defined by a dominating force exerting influence over many distinct cultural groups.
Posted by: Warlord Someguy - General Who Pacifies The East and West at January 06, 2021 10:17 AM (Zm+LZ)
Totally weird to cross the Colorado River into AZ and start seeing saguaros immediately. We taught our kids were were only 2 hours from home when they started seeing saguaros.
Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at January 06, 2021 10:06 AM (gtatv)
I really like the Sonoran desert, it's easy to take it for granted. Other places around the world have dry landscapes similar to the Chihuahuan or Mojave deserts (Mojave is a mini-sahara), but the Sonoran is an incredibly unique ecosystem, unlike anything else anywhere on Earth. The first settlers there must have seen it like some alien world.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 10:17 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: creeper at January 06, 2021 09:59 AM (XxJt1)
Um, yes, of course. Thank you!
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 06, 2021 10:17 AM (6xk3i)
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2021 10:18 AM (bCLt0)
Hero?-------------------------------He is just a typical GOP politician.
Nothing more nothing less.
Posted by: SH at January 06, 2021 10:15 AM (sX1BW)
Definitely, NOT Race Bannon.
Posted by: Archer at January 06, 2021 10:18 AM (gmo/4)
STOP DESTROYING TEXAS' FORESTS.
STOP DESTROYING TEXAS RANGE AND GRASSLANDS.
SAVE TEXAS RIVERS.
Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 06, 2021 10:18 AM (OpRLq)
Posted by: f'd at January 06, 2021 10:18 AM (+y8uL)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2021 10:19 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: DB- just DB at January 06, 2021 10:20 AM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2021 10:21 AM (bCLt0)
Totally weird to cross the Colorado River into AZ and start seeing saguaros immediately. We taught our kids were were only 2 hours from home when they started seeing saguaros.
Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at January 06, 2021 10:06 AM (gtatv)
I really like the Sonoran desert, it's easy to take it for granted. Other places around the world have dry landscapes similar to the Chihuahuan or Mojave deserts (Mojave is a mini-sahara), but the Sonoran is an incredibly unique ecosystem, unlike anything else anywhere on Earth. The first settlers there must have seen it like some alien world.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 10:17 AM (V2Yro)
I've visited the Sonoran Desert Museum while in Arizona for my cousin's wedding. It's a zoo, natural history & archaeology museum all in one.
Posted by: josephistan at January 06, 2021 10:21 AM (Izzlo)
Welp.
Too bad, fuckheads. You should've thought two seconds before voting to kill the Best Economy in decades.
Everyone enjoy being Junior Partners in The Great North American Chinese Satrapy!
Posted by: naturalfake at January 06, 2021 10:21 AM (dWwl8)
Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at January 06, 2021 10:21 AM (2DOZq)
Posted by: f'd at January 06, 2021 10:21 AM (+y8uL)
Posted by: dingbat at January 06, 2021 10:21 AM (U39us)
But the idea of limited govt and inherent rights of man was a unique concept, with the rest of the world being mostly tribal. Mass immigration and welfare programs have accelerated a move away from this concept, by design. We're moving back to the tribal world now, which plays well into plans of socialist totalitarianism, again by design.
This is accelerated by that global IQ peaked during the
Industrial Revolution, and we're on the down slope now, which translates
to the decline of Western Civ.
Posted by: brak at January 06, 2021 10:21 AM (cG+eD)
"Photo of a large pro-Trump march in Ginza, Japan today. Marchers chanted "stop the steal." "stop China" "stop the CCP." The Japanese people know @realDonaldTrump's foreign policy was good for Japan global security. The mainstream media will never tell you about this march."
https://tinyurl.com/yxhbs5rc
Posted by: illiniwek at January 06, 2021 10:21 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: ... at January 06, 2021 10:22 AM (p/jwr)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 06, 2021 10:22 AM (ab0zp)
Happy Birthday to Eric Trump, too.
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland (show/me/themoney) at January 06, 2021 10:22 AM (6xk3i)
Glad to see our AG Ken Paxton (Texas) is there. Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2021 10:14 AM (NpAcC)
I like our AG Paxton, who is such a contrast to our useless waste of human flesh Senator Cornyn.
Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 06, 2021 10:22 AM (cCxiu)
Posted by: Satrose at January 06, 2021 10:22 AM (nycWw)
Posted by: SH at January 06, 2021 10:05 AM (sX1BW)
We look to be following the British model. It's been said by, I forget who, but that "The British Empire is the only great Empire in history that was acquired in a fit of absent-mindedness; and it was lost the same way."
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 10:22 AM (V2Yro)
the world was a welter of barbarism. It is essential to recognize that the
Roman Empire was recognized as the highest achievement of the human race; and
also as the broadest. A dreadful secret seemed to be written as in obscure
hieroglyphics across those mighty works of marble and stone, those colossal
amphitheaters and aqueducts. Man could do no more"
I feel the same way about America. Now we see it sinking into corruption and evil, but a century ago it was not seen that way. It was seen as a great and good force in the world. But again, it has reached the limits of purely human ingenuity, and now that it has lost the Christian soul it once had, it is sinking and falling.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 06, 2021 10:23 AM (YEKLS)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2021 10:23 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: f'd at January 06, 2021 10:23 AM (+y8uL)
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2021 10:18 AM (bCLt0)
Are we waiting for Constantine?
Posted by: dantesed at January 06, 2021 10:23 AM (88xKn)
As MP4 said, they cannot erase the Cross on your heart.
Posted by: Doctor Elect vmom - pray for Trump and his supporters at January 06, 2021 10:24 AM (nUhF0)
Industrial Revolution, and we're on the down slope now, which translates
to the decline of Western Civ.
Posted by: brak at January 06, 2021 10:21 AM (cG+eD)
Global IQ is peaking sometime around today or at most a few years back. See Flynn effect(personally I think this calls into question the effectiveness of the metric but if you're going to use IQ). When exactly do you think the Industrial Revolution occurred?
Posted by: Warlord Someguy - General Who Pacifies The East and West at January 06, 2021 10:24 AM (Zm+LZ)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 06, 2021 10:24 AM (o2MD2)
I've visited the Sonoran Desert Museum while in Arizona for my cousin's wedding. It's a zoo, natural history & archaeology museum all in one.
Posted by: josephistan at January 06, 2021
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I visited it in June '85 with Mrs. Wolfus No. 2, who had grown up in Tucson. We were visiting her grandparents. Nice people -- but jeez that town was HOT. 105 F. every afternoon? I don't care how dry it is, that's halfway to boiling. I loved the landscape, but southern AZ is not a place I want to live.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 06, 2021 10:24 AM (yvr3o)
I like our AG Paxton, who is such a contrast to our useless waste of human flesh
Posted by: The Walking Dude
Fixed.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2021 10:25 AM (r1DzX)
Posted by: Tom Servo
The British Empire passing the torch to the USA was the only peaceful transfer of *empire* (If you consider the USA an empire, I don't).
I see it as the wartime acknowledgment that the BE could not sustain their sea-power and the USA was there at the right time.
Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at January 06, 2021 10:25 AM (gtatv)
Posted by: dantesed at January 06, 2021 10:25 AM (88xKn)
STOP DESTROYING TEXAS' FORESTS.
STOP DESTROYING TEXAS RANGE AND GRASSLANDS.
SAVE TEXAS RIVERS.
Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 06, 2021 10:18 AM (OpRLq)
All these organizations exist due to and are controlled by your oligarch masters. They remove their hands from the strings that animate their puppets and they will simply fall to the floor and be forgotten.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2021 10:25 AM (l6b3d)
Posted by: f'd at January 06, 2021 10:25 AM (+y8uL)
Posted by: tubal
who's gonna be the Caligula?
Posted by: DB- just DB at January 06, 2021 10:25 AM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: ... at January 06, 2021 10:16 AM (p/jwr)
All men are zeros until they answer the call. It isn't whether he is or isn't, but what he will be when his moment arrives.
We only stop being zeros if we stand tall when we could have run. You don't have to win to not be a zero. People still remember Leonidas - Greece even minted anniversary coins in his honor last year.
Nobody long remembers those who give up or run away. They are cursed for a short while, then forgotten.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 10:26 AM (BWt56)
Welp.
Too bad, fuckheads. You should've thought two seconds before voting to kill the Best Economy in decades.
Everyone enjoy being Junior Partners in The Great North American Chinese Satrapy!
Posted by: naturalfake at January 06, 2021 10:21 AM (dWwl
I believe that over the next couple of years, the DJIA will blow through 50,000 and then past 100,000. The Dems will be slapping themselves on the back about how great they are doing, not admitting or caring that it is actually the Weimar style hyperinflationary blowout. The Tech Billionaires won't try to stop it; they'll think they can "manage" it and still come out ahead.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 10:26 AM (V2Yro)
Entropy is the default state phase of the material world.
Posted by: ... at January 06, 2021 10:26 AM (p/jwr)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021
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That sounds like Chesterton too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 06, 2021 10:26 AM (yvr3o)
Posted by: tubal
who's gonna be the Caligula?
Posted by: DB- just DB at January 06, 2021 10:25 AM (iTXRQ)
Hunter Biden, or his incest baby with Natalie?
Posted by: Warlord Someguy - General Who Pacifies The East and West at January 06, 2021 10:26 AM (Zm+LZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 10:22 AM (V2Yro)
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A strange amount of Britain's imperial ardor derived from a desire for MOAR TEA, and that isn't sarcasm. It's kinda bizarre. You wave a tea leaf in front of those guys, and they go from a nation of shopkeepers and gardeners to savage gangsters.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2021 10:26 AM (Bvn1K)
Even Johnny Quest's dog 'Bandit" has more balls than Pence
Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 06, 2021 10:26 AM (cCxiu)
Posted by: Satrose at January 06, 2021 10:27 AM (nycWw)
Mark Steyn has written about this. The British Empire had a soft landing because there was an America there to take over. Who is there to do the same favour for America? There's no friendly "daughter" country to succeed America, only enemies and unconnected strangers who will be pursuing their own interests in their own spheres.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 06, 2021 10:28 AM (YEKLS)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2021 10:26 AM (Bvn1K)
...and they all wear ties.
Posted by: BignJames at January 06, 2021 10:28 AM (AwYPR)
A strange amount of Britain's imperial ardor derived from a desire for MOAR TEA, and that isn't sarcasm. It's kinda bizarre. You wave a tea leaf in front of those guys, and they go from a nation of shopkeepers and gardeners to savage gangsters.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2021 10:26 AM (Bvn1K)
This is how Americans learned to be wary of drugs.
Posted by: Warlord Someguy - General Who Pacifies The East and West at January 06, 2021 10:29 AM (Zm+LZ)
I believe that over the next couple of years, the DJIA will blow through 50,000 and then past 100,000. The Dems will be slapping themselves on the back about how great they are doing, not admitting or caring that it is actually the Weimar style hyperinflationary blowout. The Tech Billionaires won't try to stop it; they'll think they can "manage" it and still come out ahead.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 10:26 AM (V2Yro)
Anyone with a few million lying around and with no scruples a to how it is invested will clean up in the coming economy. Pretty much everyone else? Well
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2021 10:29 AM (bCLt0)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at January 06, 2021 10:29 AM (d1uFV)
Posted by: REDACTED at January 06, 2021 10:29 AM (zZxh0)
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2021 10:21 AM (bCLt0)
My magic 8-ball says Super Mutants, not Orcs. I guess you got the Skyrim Edition.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 10:29 AM (BWt56)
Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2021 10:29 AM (rJEUr)
Along with Democrat Party operatives, they are living among you. Some have taken the tact of appearing to agree with you, establishing their nic, then vomiting their subversion as reason.
Think about that next time you read something here. Also remember there are a lot of people watching and figuring out who these people are.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at January 06, 2021 10:29 AM (HRA4W)
Yep, Hot wheels Abbott can roll his RINO ass straight into the Rio Grande.
Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 06, 2021 10:30 AM (cCxiu)
Perhaps the last day for a miracle? Not to second guess God's plan or power, but maybe the last day of the Republic under Him.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at January 06, 2021 10:30 AM (d1uFV)
Posted by: Colin at January 06, 2021 10:30 AM (0Y/m7)
I believe that over the next couple of years, the DJIA will blow through 50,000 and then past 100,000. The Dems will be slapping themselves on the back about how great they are doing, not admitting or caring that it is actually the Weimar style hyperinflationary blowout. The Tech Billionaires won't try to stop it; they'll think they can "manage" it and still come out ahead.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 10:26 AM (V2Yro)
Anyone with a few million lying around and with no scruples a to how it is invested will clean up in the coming economy. Pretty much everyone else? Well
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2021 10:29 AM (bCLt0)
Highly leveraged strong cash flow companies, particularly those that produce commodities, will tend to do well in a high inflation environment for their shareholders.
Posted by: Warlord Someguy - General Who Pacifies The East and West at January 06, 2021 10:30 AM (Zm+LZ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2021 10:26 AM (Bvn1K)
I still found it amazing that the fought a war to sell opium to China so they could buy tea and then subjugated India to grow tea. The Indian tea plantations, and Caribbean sugar plantations, were the models for the slave plantations in the US.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2021 10:30 AM (xfb67)
Posted by: Warlord Someguy - General Who Pacifies The East and West at January 06, 2021 10:30 AM (Zm+LZ)
https://tinyurl.com/yxhbs5rc
Posted by: illiniwek at January 06, 2021 10:21 AM (Cus5s)
It's a large sign, sure, but there are only 4 people pictured. If you're going to call a gathering large, you should, at least, show the gathering.
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at January 06, 2021 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks
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Gotta find someone to blame!
This is like watching Pris in her death throes in Blade Runner.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 06, 2021 10:31 AM (CjFDo)
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 06, 2021 10:23 AM (YEKLS)
I agree with you, and that is a very good way to put it. Winning WW2, going to the moon, ending poverty in any real sense; we've done all that. Now we're sinking into anti-science, endless entertainment, drugs, and perversion. We've gone over the top of the roller coaster ride.
After the peak, people inside the culture always believe "well why can't we do that again?" But that's now how it works, not for any culture. After the peak comes the long, long fall.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 10:31 AM (V2Yro)
Lower rates of suspensions and expulsions have also been found to increase the academic scores of non-suspended students. A study published in the American Sociological Review (Winter, 2014), involving over 17,000 students in 17 middle schools and high schools in a Kentucky school district, found that students who have never been in trouble do worse at schools with higher suspension rates.
AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Causation? Correlation? Who cares!
Posted by: Marcus Gravey, Brooklyn Gun Nut at January 06, 2021 10:31 AM (GlmxK)
201 I'm really considering going to the Green Party. Yeah, really. Until there is meaningful economic damage done to the billionaire class, there will be no change. We need to punish them relentlessly and pushing radical environmentalism is the ticket.
STOP DESTROYING TEXAS' FORESTS.
STOP DESTROYING TEXAS RANGE AND GRASSLANDS.
SAVE TEXAS RIVERS.
Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 06, 2021 10:18 AM (OpRLq)
You're deluding yourself if you think things like the "Green New Deal" are going to hurt the billionaire class. I'm sure they've invested themselves into plenty of scam green energy projects. If anything, it will just screw over the lower and middle classes since they will now be paying 5x as much for energy.
Posted by: Liberty at January 06, 2021 10:32 AM (Kn4u1)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 06, 2021 09:58 AM
You are beautiful with words.
Posted by: clutch at January 06, 2021 10:32 AM (9UmRs)
Attendance is huge. They just can't get in to the venue. Here's a Bannon Warroom snippet showing it:
https://bit.ly/2JOzafc
You can hear Don Jr. getting all his cheers from people far, far away.
Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2021 10:32 AM (fFtVH)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 06, 2021 10:32 AM (CqHIp)
Lots of people here.
More pouring in.
Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2021 10:29 AM (rJEUr)
May God's love be upon you.
I'm stuck monitoring a cooling system that can't go untended. Would rather be there.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 10:32 AM (BWt56)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2021 10:32 AM (xfb67)
251 A red day, a sword day, Horde.
Perhaps the last day for a miracle? Not to second guess God's plan or power, but maybe the last day of the Republic under Him.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at January 06, 2021 10:30 AM (d1uFV)
I agree with your sentiment, Mark, but would say the Republic has been dying a lingering painful death since Lyndon Johnson.
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2021 10:32 AM (bCLt0)
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At Insty's for the past two weeks there have been bots just posting a website link with a brief comment and there have been bots replying to them saying 'thanks' and the like.
Posted by: andycanuck at January 06, 2021 10:33 AM (ab0zp)
Yep, Hot wheels Abbott can roll his RINO ass straight into the Rio Grande.
Posted by: The Walking Dude
You should see his Facebook page when he posts a "raa-raa post" about Texas and how well we are doing. People legitimately rip him in regards to the statewide mask mandate and other business killing mandates.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2021 10:33 AM (r1DzX)
Lots of people here.
More pouring in.
Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2021 10:29 AM (rJEUr
Be safe!
And give em 'ell!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 06, 2021 10:34 AM (emxxF)
After the peak, people inside the culture always believe "well why can't we do that again?" But that's now how it works, not for any culture. After the peak comes the long, long fall.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 10:31 AM (V2Yro)
And I don't think Trump was going to be able to fix that. I'm not sure a political solution for that exists. Things might be moving a little faster than I expected, but the path appears to be the same as many who have gone before us.
Posted by: Warlord Someguy - General Who Pacifies The East and West at January 06, 2021 10:34 AM (Zm+LZ)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 06, 2021 09:58 AM
A-men
Posted by: ... at January 06, 2021 10:34 AM (p/jwr)
Posted by: Liberty at January 06, 2021 10:32 AM (Kn4u1)
The entire POINT is making it so that the average person can no longer afford electricity.
The "Elites" can't lord over having a more luxurious lifestyle if the rest of us aren't living in mud huts.
Posted by: Allie at January 06, 2021 10:34 AM (vmRc0)
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Oh my.
1.) Crime rate effects academic performance
2.) Stop recognizing or punishing crime
3.) ...
4.) Profit!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2021 10:34 AM (Bvn1K)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2021 10:26 AM (Bvn1K)
I still found it amazing that the fought a war to sell opium to China so they could buy tea and then subjugated India to grow tea. The Indian tea plantations, and Caribbean sugar plantations, were the models for the slave plantations in the US.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
.......
It IS amazing how important tea was to the Brits..
They had a whole industry that bought and re-sold used tea leaves (from wealthier households) to the poorer classes!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 06, 2021 10:35 AM (CjFDo)
C'mon man! It's restorative!
Posted by: Marcus Gravey, Brooklyn Gun Nut at January 06, 2021 10:35 AM (GlmxK)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2021 10:36 AM (Zmnko)
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2021 10:32 AM (bCLt0)
Maybe even a step or two back from LBJ, who was indeed a shitheel. Kennedy won via fraud, after all.
And the Progressive actions of the early teens of the 20th century laid the groundwork for the mess we have now.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at January 06, 2021 10:36 AM (d1uFV)
Well, because they didn't win every election in November, there WAS NO ELECTION FRAUD AT ALL.
#WASTF
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)
The "Elites" can't lord over having a more luxurious lifestyle if the rest of us aren't living in mud huts.
Posted by: Allie at January 06, 2021 10:34 AM (vmRc0)
They take away electricity from the free shit army and it won't be pretty. The problem with having a free shit army is you always have to provide for them. They are stupid violent people that will turn on you in a heartbeat.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2021 10:36 AM (xfb67)
Its not a blame game, its just he has a obligation, a sworn duty to uphold the constitution. Hes either gonna do his duty or hes not.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 06, 2021 10:36 AM (5XK0y)
This guy is walking around looking and talking to people.
https://tinyurl.com/yywajumz
Posted by: f'd at January 06, 2021 10:38 AM (+y8uL)
Posted by: It's me donna
More like, "decided to not get in the way".
Because it's going to burn.
Question is, do you want to waste precious capital trying to stop something you have zero chances to stop?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2021 10:38 AM (r1DzX)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2021 10:36 AM (Zmnko)
Could always rephrase it as we've decided to 'build back better'.
Posted by: Warlord Someguy - General Who Pacifies The East and West at January 06, 2021 10:38 AM (Zm+LZ)
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at January 06, 2021 09:35 AM (qc+VF)
I have seen such "rays" from my place in Alberta when the Sun sets behind the Rocky Mountains. I would assume it's the projected shadows of mountain peaks below the horizon. Might even have a photo or two somewhere. I cannot see the actual Rockies from my place. Have to go about 30 miles west.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2021 10:38 AM (mzC78)
The "Elites" can't lord over having a more luxurious lifestyle if the rest of us aren't living in mud huts.
Posted by: Allie at January 06, 2021 10:34 AM (vmRc0)
Electrical power is Power. It's transformed the daily lives of all people, from one of endless toil and drudgery to one where people have idle time. They don't want you to have free time. Busy people are easier to rule - they're too busy and too tired to revolt.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 10:38 AM (BWt56)
you're going to call a gathering large, you should, at least, show the
gathering." sponge
true dat ... idk how many were there, but I do think it expresses the real feelings of many in the region, same as for Hong Kong. Biden might as well have CCP stamped on his forehead.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 06, 2021 10:39 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Wut at January 06, 2021 10:39 AM (BOZsl)
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Any fraud was only in a small minority of districts/counties so it couldn't have altered the outcome!!!
Posted by: andycanuck at January 06, 2021 10:39 AM (ab0zp)
AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Causation? Correlation? Who cares!
Posted by: Marcus Gravey, Brooklyn Gun Nut at January 06, 2021 10:31 AM (GlmxK)
Giving everyone who shows up and signs their name an "A" increases academic scores even more.
as I've written before, an examination of letters and other writings from common people shows that a 6th grade education in the mid 1800's was easily equal to a baccalaureate degree today. In fact, much more comprehensive.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 10:39 AM (V2Yro)
There is always a livestream. rsbnetwork.com will redirect to their youtube stream.
Don, Jr. has finished, the young anchors are just chit-chatting right now.
Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2021 10:39 AM (fFtVH)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Wi Fuct at January 06, 2021 10:39 AM (HaL55)
Electrical power is Power. It's transformed the daily lives of all people, from one of endless toil and drudgery to one where people have idle time. They don't want you to have free time. Busy people are easier to rule - they're too busy and too tired to revolt.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 10:38 AM (BWt56)
Rome had a large unemployed mob population that repeatedly rioted and threatened to destroy the capital. The solution, though not consistently effective, was bread and circuses.
Posted by: Warlord Someguy - General Who Pacifies The East and West at January 06, 2021 10:40 AM (Zm+LZ)
Posted by: megthered at January 06, 2021 10:40 AM (SM/op)
are going to hurt the billionaire class. I'm sure they've invested
themselves into plenty of scam green energy projects. If anything, it
will just screw over the lower and middle classes since they will now be
paying 5x as much for energy.
I agree, except I am buying more solar even though I know its all bullshit. I put in a system right before the 30% tax credit expired. Haven't had a untility bill since. They just extended the 26% tax credit for a few more years. I'm going for a EMP hardened system retrofit this time. I'd rather pay extra money to a solar company and get the credit, than pay taxes to an illegitimate government. F'em. I'm done paying taxes and will use every legal loophole possible. I'd rather to give it to anyone else but the government.
Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 06, 2021 10:40 AM (cCxiu)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 06, 2021 10:40 AM (CqHIp)
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Any fraud was only in a small minority of districts/counties so it couldn't have altered the outcome!!!
Posted by: andycanuck at January 06, 2021 10:39 AM (ab0zp)
It's like we're BiNO and MP rolled into one!
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2021 10:41 AM (bCLt0)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2021 10:36 AM (Zmnko)
There's no "let". People have elected the pyromaniacs to tend the fire. All that's left is just getting anything we can mobilize out of the village before it burns down.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 10:41 AM (BWt56)
The "Elites" can't lord over having a more luxurious lifestyle if the rest of us aren't living in mud huts.
Posted by: Allie
They take away electricity from the free shit army and it won't be pretty. The problem with having a free shit army is you always have to provide for them. They are stupid violent people that will turn on you in a heartbeat.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
Which is why I keep saying the dems no longer need illegals. Not when they can dial up a Dominion Voting Machine. All those new mouths to feed take away from the available $$$ grift.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2021 10:41 AM (r1DzX)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2021 10:41 AM (NpAcC)
I lived in France temporarily before. Some things drive you crazy but overall a good experience.
Posted by: Asshoes at January 06, 2021 10:41 AM (CTE5Q)
Trump basically saying Pence will reject the electors and send it back to the states today.
Fingers crossed.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 06, 2021 10:41 AM (emxxF)
Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 06, 2021 10:40 AM (cCxiu)
There's an idea. Maybe we should have regular posts about how to reduce taxes through government programs.
Posted by: Warlord Someguy - General Who Pacifies The East and West at January 06, 2021 10:42 AM (Zm+LZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2021 10:41 AM (r1DzX)
Mercenaries.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 10:42 AM (BWt56)
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 06, 2021 09:46 AM (6xk3i)
And a very happy birthday to you, Chique!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2021 10:42 AM (mzC78)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2021 10:41 AM (NpAcC)
HA!
- Bitch McConnell
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)
STOP DESTROYING TEXAS' FORESTS.
STOP DESTROYING TEXAS RANGE AND GRASSLANDS.
SAVE TEXAS RIVERS.
Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 06, 2021 10:18 AM (OpRLq)
Unfortunately that won't work, since a major part of the Billionaire plan is to cull the population. Substantially reduce the number of humans on the planet, so climate disaster is a feature, not a bug.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2021 10:42 AM (oQ94s)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
We've just seen a summer of who the FSA "turns" on. They are just stormtroopers against the real enemy, white people and non-white producers.
Posted by: ... at January 06, 2021 10:42 AM (p/jwr)
I don't think that's our decision to make. Sort of like the people in CA spraying their houses with garden hoses, we didn't start the fire, we can't stop the fire, all we can do is try to minimize the effect in our little area and hope for the best.
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at January 06, 2021 10:42 AM (qc+VF)
Posted by: Warlord Someguy - General Who Pacifies The East and West at January 06, 2021 10:42 AM (Zm+LZ)
Call it the Elon Musk Initiative. How to use gov't programs for fun and profit!
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 10:43 AM (BWt56)
Posted by: Hatian at January 06, 2021 10:42 AM (YoG7Q)
Why do you hate this country so?
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Wi Fuct at January 06, 2021 10:43 AM (HaL55)
All assets not just income.
Let's gooo!
Posted by: Wut at January 06, 2021 10:39 AM (BOZsl)
That idea always comes up, and now we can look at Russia and China, two systems which actually do that. In practice, what it means is that you have a certain number of poweful oligarchs who control the levers of government, and they are allowed to use the Tax machinery to destroy anyone who isn't a member of their club. So, the Oligarchy is enforced in perpetuity. Actually, that's Russia - China is now the special case where one man has managed to get hold of every aspect of governmental, social, and economic power, and Xi is now an Emperor who is as powerful, maybe even more powerful, than any Emperor China has had in the last 2300 years.
As has been noted, the least of his powers is that anyone inside his Empire who displeases him immediately "disappears".
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 10:44 AM (V2Yro)
And a very happy birthday to you, Chique!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2021 10:42 AM (mzC78 )
This. It really can't be said enough.
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)
I denounce myself and will report to White Fragility Training immediately.
Posted by: Marcus Gravey, Brooklyn Gun Nut at January 06, 2021 10:44 AM (GlmxK)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2021 10:44 AM (Zmnko)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 06, 2021 10:44 AM (ab0zp)
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2021 10:44 AM (bCLt0)
Posted by: james at January 06, 2021 10:45 AM (PvswE)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2021 10:44 AM (Zmnko)
*bows*
We're not worthy!
*bows again*
We're not worthy!
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2021 10:41 AM (r1DzX)
No, they don't but they do need them to help turn the nation into a third world shithole. They're then free to leave the blue states and cities and come to infest your town. Share the misery is what socialism is all about.
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 43% more FUCKITOL at January 06, 2021 10:45 AM (L8ADy)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2021 10:45 AM (axyOa)
Sure, if you have a Party card, you can actually access products, unlike the gopnik slave classes... But, you're still shopping at a weird, creepy store where you have no idea *which* products of your looted nation will happen to be haphazardly heaped on the floor when you walk in.
Even the rich are essentially ragpickers, eventually.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2021 10:45 AM (Bvn1K)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNJKNpAOs5k
Posted by: Slapweasel at January 06, 2021 10:45 AM (Ckg4U)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 06, 2021 10:44 AM (ab0zp)
I just asked them a serious question because I'm honestly curious.
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)
Bless their little hearts they're excited... They think this is all great... Of course we all know it's not
Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2021 10:45 AM (Zmnko)
Markets are already in a bubble ... it could end at any time, should have already ended, but prices are kept low, they can't fabricate enough inflation in general prices (they seek 3%, have under 2%?, can't just print it). Commodities still look good, but "currency collapse" could happen in different ways. --- Better to hedge bets, but those that trusted BigGov to make DOW go ever higher have been winners.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 06, 2021 10:46 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 10:41 AM (BWt56)
So you're saying there's still a chance?
No but seriously, I would say "it's time to pack up and move the good china," but there is no good china.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2021 10:46 AM (oQ94s)
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 10:38 AM (BWt56)
A guy I know was in China consulting 30/40 years ago...thousands of Chinese moving earth w/picks, shovels, wheelbarrows and baskets. They didn't earth-moving equip.
Posted by: BignJames at January 06, 2021 10:46 AM (AwYPR)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Wi Fuct at January 06, 2021 10:43 AM (HaL55)
27? 28?
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 43% more FUCKITOL at January 06, 2021 10:46 AM (L8ADy)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2021 10:30 AM (xfb67)
Great, now the SJWs are going to cancel tea.
Posted by: josephistan at January 06, 2021 10:47 AM (Izzlo)
Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2021 10:47 AM (KfC1e)
Posted by: tubal
This needs to be repeated, and often. It's not as though the Republic is suddenly dead today, when sleepy gets certified by Congress.
It's been a long process, not all of it malevolent. Some people were just stupid over the decades and believed their own cant about 'helping' the 'little guy'. Well, the little guy was pretty sharp, and now demands his handouts under pain of riot.
Whatcha gonna do?
Give him his cheese.
Posted by: lizabth at January 06, 2021 10:47 AM (L3Rsz)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at January 06, 2021 10:47 AM (d1uFV)
Posted by: kallisto at January 06, 2021 10:48 AM (DJFLF)
https://bit.ly/35gUcun
Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2021 10:47 AM (KfC1e)
What are they going to say when there's not a covid spike in #TwoWeeks?
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Doctor Elect vmom - pray for Trump and his supporters at January 06, 2021 10:48 AM (nUhF0)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 06, 2021 10:36 AM (5XK0y)
yeah. I'm betting 'not'.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 06, 2021 10:48 AM (o2MD2)
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 43% more FUCKITOL at January 06, 2021 10:45 AM (L8ADy)
Why did I read that in Linus' voice.
Sure Rick, I can tell you what socialism's all about... lights please?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2021 10:48 AM (oQ94s)
Posted by: Hatian at January 06, 2021 10:42 AM (YoG7Q)"
There is also no reason not to necklace our enemies like you.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 06, 2021 10:49 AM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Doctor Elect vmom - pray for Trump and his supporters at January 06, 2021 10:48 AM (nUhF0)
I think creeper is there and was posting a bit earlier.
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 10:49 AM (Zz0t1)
Chinese moving earth w/picks, shovels, wheelbarrows and baskets. They
didn't earth-moving equip.
I lived in India 30 years ago - it was the same. And for good reason: all those masses of people needed to work to survive. A backhoe would take the livelihood of 20 men. Even a wheelbarrow was an advance on women with baskets on their heads, carrying bricks or dirt or rubble.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 06, 2021 10:49 AM (YEKLS)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 10:44 AM (V2Yro)
Even Jack Ma, one of the richest men in China. Nobody's heard of him in over a month, and his name is being erased from organizations he was part of.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 10:49 AM (BWt56)
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at January 06, 2021 09:35 AM (qc+VF)
Cf Lt Uhura at the end of "Bread and Circuses".
Posted by: Fox2! at January 06, 2021 10:49 AM (qyH+l)
Who are you going to pay attention to-- the many who pay taxes and are non-violent, or the few who burn, loot and murder? Pretty sure no matter how many millions descend on DC, it is useless, since the Uniparty does not care about us, since we are not a threat.
Posted by: shibumi, welcome to the shitshow at January 06, 2021 10:49 AM (ZCiJZ)
Why do you hate the Constitution and cheer on a coup?
Posted by: Hatian at January 06, 2021 10:48 AM (YoG7Q)
I don't and the coup is against the sitting president.
You still haven't answered my question?
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 10:50 AM (Zz0t1)
https://bit.ly/35gUcun
Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2021 10:47 AM (KfC1e)
There must be dozens!
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 43% more FUCKITOL at January 06, 2021 10:50 AM (L8ADy)
Totally weird to cross the Colorado River into AZ and start seeing saguaros immediately. We taught our kids were were only 2 hours from home when they started seeing saguaros.
Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at January 06, 2021 10:06 AM (gtatv)
There seems to be a narrow zone where Joshua Trees and Saguaros co-exist.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2021 10:50 AM (mzC78)
Posted by: rickb223
....
They have never needed illegals.
All they had to do was figure out how to generate votes from the registered people who never bothered to vote, or had moved or died.
The pandemic has given them the opportunity to instigate these mail-in schemes with absolutely no checks and balances.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 06, 2021 10:50 AM (CjFDo)
Posted by: f'd at January 06, 2021 10:50 AM (+y8uL)
Posted by: DAK at January 06, 2021 10:50 AM (PtOP4)
Posted by: Warlord Someguy - General Who Pacifies The East and West at January 06,
Yes, precious metals are smokin' hot now.
Posted by: clutch at January 06, 2021 10:50 AM (9UmRs)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at January 06, 2021 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cato
One would hope that that would open a lot of eyes.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2021 10:51 AM (r1DzX)
Posted by: illiniwek at January 06, 2021 10:46 AM (Cus5s)
We have been talking for years about how the Markets have become disconnected from the real economy, and now I believe the break is complete. Market prices are simply going to be a reflection of how much free cash is being pumped into the system from the Fed; as interest rates are kept artificially low to preserve the appearance of normalcy, this money will have to flow into other assets, such as equites and real property. (and other more volatile schemes always emerge at times like this)
Different stocks will go up and down because the traders make a lot of money from volatility. No one cares what the price is, as long as it moves a lot.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 10:51 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at January 06, 2021 09:35 AM (qc+VF)
Cf Lt Uhura at the end of "Bread and Circuses".
she was going the other way, though: s/sun/son/
Posted by: Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 06, 2021 10:51 AM (v3pYe)
There must be dozens!
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 43% more FUCKITOL at January 06, 2021 10:50 AM (L8ADy)
15 people showed up at the Trump MAGA rally in DC today......
- CNN
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 06, 2021 10:51 AM (6xk3i)
Posted by: f'd
I'll take "What is a masochist" for $800, Alex.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2021 10:52 AM (r1DzX)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 06, 2021 10:52 AM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Hatian at January 06, 2021 10:51 AM (YoG7Q)
You know you're wrong and STILL haven't answered my question.
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: shibumi, welcome to the shitshow at January 06, 2021 10:49 AM (ZCiJZ)
Just wait until the jobs are gone and there's no more income to pay taxes from.
They might suddenly want to start listening, but by the time they do, the torches and pitchforks will already be out.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 10:52 AM (BWt56)
I'm in....You know the Donks are are going to tax us through the roof. In addition to the solar stuff (I have almost 11 grand in credits already) I did the following.
Started a farm business.....Tax write off for 2 years. Helps with self sufficiency, even sunk a well for irrigation (also a write off). As a bonus, its a essential biz so no dumbass politician can shut you down.
Bought a rental property.....can depreciate it and almost any home improvement project can be written off.
So I am running 3 biz, 1 Corp, 1 LLC (for the rental property) and 1 sole proprietor - At least one of them will break even or lose money every year.
If you have a biz start a profit sharing 401K. You can duck social security and medicare tax on the profit sharing portion.
The IRS -Fuckerberg em like a Zuckerberg
Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 06, 2021 10:52 AM (cCxiu)
Posted by: f'd at January 06, 2021 10:53 AM (+y8uL)
Posted by: shibumi, welcome to the shitshow at January 06, 2021 10:49 AM (ZCiJZ)
I'd sure like to imagine a crowd like that showing up and going into the capitol building to drag out those traitors. Hopefully, something like that might just be rattling around in their empty skulls when they see a sea of people.
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 43% more FUCKITOL at January 06, 2021 10:54 AM (L8ADy)
but the Dems subordinate themselves to the Globalist Socialists and it's the Glozis who demand open borders
Posted by: Doctor Elect vmom - pray for Trump and his supporters at January 06, 2021 10:54 AM (nUhF0)
Teach me your ways, sensei.
I should have been a business major instead of Pol Sci.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at January 06, 2021 10:54 AM (d1uFV)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 06, 2021 10:36 AM (5XK0y)
yeah. I'm betting 'not'.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 06, 2021 10:48 AM (o2MD2)
I don't even feel up to blaming Pence by this point. The whole system is exhausted, there's just nothing to draw on anymore. Remember the Star Trek TNG episode where Data built a daughter named Lal? She eventually breaks down because she can't synthesize human feeling with her android nature. Data tries and tries to repair her, reattaching circuits and rebuilding pathways, but every time he fixes one thing, something else collapses. Eventually he has to accept reality; she's reached the end of her existence. We're at that point now; the human material necessary to a functioning society has rotten out. Trying to build anything good and lasting with this stuff is doomed.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 06, 2021 10:54 AM (YEKLS)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2021 10:51 AM (r1DzX)
Really? Who in China is dumb enough to miss that message? It's like how Stalin would execute one of his top advisors every few months, even though he knew they were innocent of what they were accused of. It's a fantastic tool to keep everyone around the throne in a state of constant terror, and always informing on each other. Xi is doing this now.
Executing peons is boring. Getting rid of one of the most powerful and wealthy men in the country, and doing it in front of everyone - now THAT is Real Power.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 10:54 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 06, 2021 09:46 AM (6xk3i)
And a very happy birthday to you, Chique!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2021 10:42 AM (mzC7
Happy Birthday, Chique! Finally turned 29 like the rest of us, eh?
Posted by: Dr. Prothonotary Warbler, GED at January 06, 2021 10:54 AM (H3MF8)
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 06, 2021 10:49 AM (YEKLS)
To paraphrase Milton Friedman, then why not use a 6 oz cup to carry the dirt?
Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at January 06, 2021 10:55 AM (2DOZq)
Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2021 10:55 AM (8eSmR)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 06, 2021 10:44 AM
Can we at least point out that Hatian has no home here?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 06, 2021 10:55 AM (ejd/p)
All they had to do was figure out how to generate votes from the registered people who never bothered to vote, or had moved or died.
The pandemic has given them the opportunity to instigate these mail-in schemes with absolutely no checks and balances.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 06, 2021 10:50 AM (CjFDo)
Yep, people think black people just love love love them the Democrat Party! That they adore the likes of Joe Biden, or even the Mocha Jesus.
It is apparent the ones who actually DO vote care, and are intent on maintaining their iron grip on their neighborhoods and districts, exactly like mob bosses.
But the actual black eligible voters? I'm reasonably sure they just stay home, say "none of the above," and their votes are then just dutifully cast for the Democrats. It's been this way for a long time, and mail-in voting just made it infinitely easier.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2021 10:55 AM (oQ94s)
You have not answered mine as why you hate the Constitution and prefer coup over respecting election results.
Posted by: Hatian at January 06, 2021 10:53 AM (YoG7Q)
You're lying and you know it. You calling what Trump is doing a coup shows you are the one that hates The Constitution, the single most incredible document on the face of the Earth, behind only The Bible.
I guess I don't need you to answer it, now.
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 10:55 AM (Zz0t1)
Substantially reduce the number of humans on the planet, so climate
disaster is a feature, not a bug." burt
they don't believe in climate disaster, it is just one path for them to collect. If they want to cull the masses, Gates has a better plan ... freely vaccinate and make people sterile. Didn't he try that in Africa, or India? -- Or maybe have all Islam fight each other, India fight China ... hurray, the West emerges unscathed? ha ... no, "The Liberty Minded West" seems to be one of "their" main targets.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 06, 2021 10:56 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 06, 2021 10:52 AM (yQpMk)
Well I have mine.
If there was an official Outlaw list, that would be better. There are some hands that need nailing to the Senate door.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at January 06, 2021 10:56 AM (d1uFV)
Posted by: Augusto Pinochet at January 06, 2021 10:56 AM (EILju)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 06, 2021 10:56 AM (YynYJ)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 06, 2021 10:56 AM (H5knJ)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 06, 2021 10:55 AM (ejd/p)
and probably has a small, Chinese penis.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at January 06, 2021 10:57 AM (d1uFV)
Posted by: rickb223
Really? Who in China is dumb enough to miss that message?
Posted by: Tom Servo
Here. Not in China. Hell, they know true power.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2021 10:57 AM (r1DzX)
Posted by: Undercover Brother at January 06, 2021 10:57 AM (1+b9Z)
and probably has a small, Chinese penis.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at January 06, 2021 10:57 AM (d1uFV)
Well, that's ONE way to avoid a gag reflex.
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: bonhomme at January 06, 2021 10:58 AM (i0wNm)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at January 06, 2021 10:58 AM (d1uFV)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 06, 2021 10:58 AM (o2MD2)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at January 06, 2021 10:58 AM (d1uFV)
Braggart.
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2021 10:58 AM (axyOa)
but the Dems subordinate themselves to the Globalist Socialists and it's the Glozis who demand open borders
Posted by: Doctor Elect vmom - pray for Trump and his supporters at January 06, 2021 10:54 AM (nUhF0)
Killing the white majority seems to be a thing.
And then Republicans came along and saw dollar signs in all the eyes of those brown skinned folks. Committed suicide, politically. But they have been doing that for decades, so those of us wondering why they would be all open-border curious, well, in this case I think stupid greedy idiots is about the only explanation.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2021 10:59 AM (oQ94s)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2021 10:58 AM (axyOa)
Every. Single. Time.
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 43% more FUCKITOL at January 06, 2021 10:45 AM (L8ADy)
And for a Tower of Babel effect where people cannot communicate due to language barriers.
Posted by: Allie at January 06, 2021 10:59 AM (vmRc0)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz, Trump Won at January 06, 2021 10:59 AM (a4EWo)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2021 10:59 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)
https://pop.system76.com/
It's a Ubuntu based linux. The interesting is that it gives you the option to encrypt your hard drive when you install it. Might be useful for some. I haven't had a chance to play around with it yet.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 06, 2021 11:00 AM (JKNZq)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 06, 2021 10:58 AM
Considering that he misspelled Haitian, I doubt it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 06, 2021 11:00 AM (ejd/p)
Just wait until the jobs are gone and there's no more income to pay taxes from.
They might suddenly want to start listening, but by the time they do, the torches and pitchforks will already be out.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 10:52 AM (BWt56)
but that's what changed this year, that is why I feel hyperinflationary times are now guaranteed. We set the precedent last March and April; taxes no longer matter, revenue no longer matters. Whenever the government runs out of money, they'll just have the Fed cut another $2 trillion check. NYC won't run out of cash now, because Pelosi and Schumer will give Deh Blahzio $100 billion free and clear, when he asks for it. Same goes for California. And they aren't going to tax anybody, that would be unpopular, they're just going to snap their fingers and have it show up out of thin air. Who's going to stop them, Mitt Romney?
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 11:00 AM (V2Yro)
Doesn't look like many, not armed, mostly driving vans to block intersections off.
Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2021 11:01 AM (rJEUr)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 06, 2021 10:56 AM (H5knJ)
Ah like Haiti alot, heh heh, vary profitable, heh heh
Posted by: BJ Clinton with the bulbus red nose at January 06, 2021 11:01 AM (l6b3d)
Posted by: Undercover Brother at January 06, 2021 10:57 AM (1+b9Z)
Agree. The Constitution was the sole legal point of connection between the states. Refusing to adjudicate interstate disputes was a refusal to conduct the court's constitutional duty. No other part of the document is any more relevant than the part it unilaterally nullified.
In refusing its duty, the court shredded the Constitution, and thus its own legitimacy and that of the US government built upon it.
The USA now exists in name only.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 11:01 AM (BWt56)
In two weeks? Man, that's going to be the least of their worries.
Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2021 11:02 AM (UMXod)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 11:00 AM (V2Yro)
HEEEERRRR I come to save the DAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!
- Pierre Delecto
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)
I never got to ask him why.
Posted by: MJ at January 06, 2021 11:02 AM (gAMkn)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2021 11:02 AM (mzC78)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2021 11:02 AM (VP4Cd)
I've been avoiding the news but yesterday, the announcement was made that no cops would be charged in the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha. The cops held a 2 hour presser thoroughly going over the investigation. The 5 o'clock local news spent more time focusing on the "activists" and Blake's scummy family, who of course are screaming that the decision not to prosecute proves what a racist country this is. The facts of the case mean nothing to the media or the SJWs but that is a given.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V at January 06, 2021 11:02 AM (HabA/)
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at January 06, 2021 11:03 AM (qc+VF)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 11:00 AM (V2Yro)
When all men are paid for existing, and none must pay for his sins, something something...
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 06, 2021 11:03 AM (BWt56)
fvck all the insipid imbecilic trolls who know fvck nothing
Posted by: kallisto at January 06, 2021 11:04 AM (DJFLF)
Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2021 11:04 AM (UMXod)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2021 11:02 AM (VP4Cd)
On tv or the internet.
Posted by: LOL at January 06, 2021 11:04 AM (BOZsl)
Posted by: Allie at January 06, 2021 10:59 AM (vmRc0)
Funny you should mention that. I don't think a lot of people here (thankfully) know what it's like to actually be surprised to hear somebody speaking English in a Market or store. I'm sick of billboards I can't read, and commercials I don't understand. And many of those are CA state sponsored. I grew up around Hispanics in CA, but they used to have to learn the language - and those entering legally wanted to. Now? No reason at all. Even the schools teach in Spanish, it's we who need to change.
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 43% more FUCKITOL at January 06, 2021 11:04 AM (L8ADy)
I never got to ask him why.
Posted by: MJ at January 06, 2021 11:02 AM (gAMkn)
He was right, and it was because in the Name of Morality, it did away with freedom of speech and freedom of association. Once we gave the Government those powers, the death of the entire Bill of Rights, and the death of the Constitution itself, was only a matter of time.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 11:04 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2021 11:05 AM (VP4Cd)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2021 11:02 AM (VP4Cd)
RSB is covering it, and Newsmax is in and out of coverage depending who is speaking.
Posted by: spypeach at January 06, 2021 11:05 AM (Up/Jb)
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2021 11:05 AM (bCLt0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrGJfQzUrnY
Posted by: spypeach at January 06, 2021 11:06 AM (Up/Jb)
In refusing its duty, the court shredded the Constitution, and thus its own legitimacy and that of the US government built upon it.
The USA now exists in name only.
Posted by: Cato
I keep saying it, and I know people roll their eyes, but the only legitimate way left to solve differences between states is war.
THAT'S what the SC's only job was. To adjudicate differences between the states to keep them from going to war with each other. Remove that, and what's left?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2021 11:06 AM (r1DzX)
Posted by: Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 06, 2021 11:06 AM (v3pYe)
Doesn't look like many, not armed, mostly driving vans to block intersections off.
Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2021 11:01 AM (rJEUr)
They'll be busy with antifa, and CNN will be blaming Trump supporters for the black bloc burnings, shootings and stabbings.
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 43% more FUCKITOL at January 06, 2021 11:06 AM (L8ADy)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
And those are the people outside who haven't gotten in! See how there's traffic lights in the middle of the crowd?
Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2021 11:06 AM (Gjku9)
Agree. The Constitution was the sole legal point of connection between the states. Refusing to adjudicate interstate disputes was a refusal to conduct the court's constitutional duty. No other part of the document is any more relevant than the part it unilaterally nullified.
In refusing its duty, the court shredded the Constitution, and thus its own legitimacy and that of the US government built upon it.
--
I have to admit that I never 240 odd years would've seen that coming. I always figured it would have to happen some other way.
It was almost an afterthought, though. No big deal at all, just "no standing" and *poof*
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Four one hundreths of one percent of the population is in the hospital with COVIDs at January 06, 2021 11:06 AM (Kt1w/)
Posted by: Augusto Pinochet at January 06, 2021 10:56 AM (EILju)
-----
Raise. Or at least rise, please ...
Posted by: ShainS at January 06, 2021 11:06 AM (5DSak)
Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2021 11:07 AM (UMXod)
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 43% more FUCKITOL at January 06, 2021 11:07 AM (L8ADy)
See Flynn effect(personally I think this calls into question the
effectiveness of the metric but if you're going to use IQ). When exactly
do you think the Industrial Revolution occurred?
the Flynn Effect correlates to the effects of culture and the more stimulating environment we live in, e.g. being better at spatial reasoning due to using electronic devices from an early age -- it does not measure biological intelligence. Innate biological intelligence that offsets the Flynn effect shows a peak over 100 years ago. the Industrial Revolution was the turning point where the more educated started having smaller families
or so some studies say, as you point out IQ is a lot of grey areas so who knows
Posted by: brak at January 06, 2021 11:08 AM (cG+eD)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 11:08 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Eli Cash at January 06, 2021 11:08 AM (SScvq)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V at January 06, 2021 11:08 AM (HabA/)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
And those are the people outside who haven't gotten in! See how there's traffic lights in the middle of the crowd?
Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2021 11:06 AM (Gjku9)
As well as the many barricades to help the crowd look even smaller.
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 43% more FUCKITOL at January 06, 2021 11:08 AM (L8ADy)
Posted by: American at January 06, 2021 11:08 AM (dqmKq)
Guess who is not voting for Troy Balderson?
Posted by: shibumi, welcome to the shitshow at January 06, 2021 11:08 AM (ZCiJZ)
Posted by: Eli Cash at January 06, 2021 11:08 AM (SScvq)
Posted by: American at January 06, 2021 11:08 AM (dqmKq)
They misspelled fraud.
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bad Idea Jeans at January 06, 2021 11:10 AM (Izzlo)
Posted by: Eli Cash at January 06, 2021 11:08 AM (SScvq)
Talk to us when you get to the airplane glue.
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 43% more FUCKITOL at January 06, 2021 11:10 AM (L8ADy)
Posted by: Eli Cash at January 06, 2021 11:08 AM (SScvq)
Nobody likes a quitter.
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)
I should have been a business major instead of Pol Sci.Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 06, 2021 10:54 AM (d1uFV)
Protest your property Taxes EVERY TIME they go up.Do it in person where they have to look you in the eye. Do it in person where they have to look you in the eye.I got my assessment reduced 15% this year. Had a 40 page powerpoint at the hearing. The tax guys said it was one of the best presentations they have ever seen.
Claim every exemption....Homestead exemption for property tax, senior citizen exemption for Property tax (that one freezes school taxes in TX- the Drunken Dancing Teachers of Tic Toc hate that one).
Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 06, 2021 11:10 AM (cCxiu)
ah. finally, the explanation for the recent resurgence of "ove glove" commercials on the television box.
Posted by: Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 06, 2021 11:10 AM (v3pYe)
Posted by: AnnaS at January 06, 2021 11:11 AM (l4l/z)
Posted by: American at January 06, 2021 11:08 AM (dqmKq)
We're suing
Posted by: The Estate of Norman Fell at January 06, 2021 11:11 AM (Izzlo)
Posted by: jeff at January 06, 2021 11:11 AM (J2JqR)
Posted by: PacosMojo at January 06, 2021 11:11 AM (Hd73Y)
376
You have not answered mine as why you hate the Constitution and prefer coup over respecting election results.
Posted by: Hatian at January 06, 2021 10:53 AM (YoG7Q)
Says it right here in the Declaration of Independence.
Posted by: Ramen Noodle Guy at January 06, 2021 11:12 AM (PtOP4)
Posted by: brak at January 06, 2021 11:08 AM (cG+eD)
I was at a store a couple days ago, I was paying cash, the bill was $15.90, I gave him a $20 and a $1 because I wanted a $5 back, not a bunch of ones in my wallet. He looked confused, and then he handed me two $10's as change, and he tried to explain why that was right. I know I should have just taken it, but it was just too stupid for me not to point it out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 11:12 AM (V2Yro)
Did they really? I'm proposing Rally Opposing Presidential Election Shenanigans
Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2021 11:12 AM (lIIT7)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Pick your partners for the Dance at January 06, 2021 11:12 AM (ifmtJ)
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 43% more FUCKITOL at January 06, 2021 11:12 AM (L8ADy)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 11:08 AM (V2Yro)
I get that, Tom. I went through that in November.
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2021 11:12 AM (bCLt0)
Posted by: Mainah at January 06, 2021 11:12 AM (B+qrE)
God of all creation,
we offer you grateful prayers for the gift of life.
Hear the prayers for "Chique", your servant, by those who know her-either over the internet or in person-as today she celebrates her birthday and rejoices in your gifts of life and love, family and friends and her faith. Bless her with your presence and surround her with your love, that she may enjoy many happy years, all of them pleasing to you. I ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2021 11:13 AM (VP4Cd)
they now have proof Obama and an Italian liberal bunch set up election
fraud?
I listened to the beginning of it. But honestly, what does it matter? Our Reps won't listen or do anything about it. I got a letter from my R Senator and R Rep in Ohio and both said "sorry, the Electoral College is God, we can't do anything."
Posted by: shibumi, welcome to the shitshow at January 06, 2021 11:13 AM (ZCiJZ)
Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2021 11:12 AM (lIIT7)
Nice
Posted by: Doctor Elect vmom - pray for Trump and his supporters at January 06, 2021 11:13 AM (nUhF0)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 11:00 AM (V2Yro)
I think the left will start becoming China's military presence going to or abandoning areas as China wills. In return I think China has promised to start buying US assets, pumping up debt, and welcoming companies in for business. This will look as if it has offset financial problems entirely. However, none of these things from China will last. But our oligarchs are only worried about the short term.
Also, I think there have been some threats of China style assassinations of US (not China) oligarchs and their families.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2021 11:13 AM (l6b3d)
https://youtu.be/X2xbLV_NSbk
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 43% more FUCKITOL at January 06, 2021 11:12 AM (L8ADy)
OMG. That's amazing!
I've never seen anything like that. The taser had to have failed, right?
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Jen the original at January 06, 2021 11:14 AM (RWKgj)
Posted by: Eli Cash
Was it "when Joe Biden is President"? Prost!
Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2021 11:14 AM (/2aWP)
I listened to the beginning of it. But honestly, what does it matter? Our Reps won't listen or do anything about it. I got a letter from my R Senator and R Rep in Ohio and both said "sorry, the Electoral College is God, we can't do anything."
Posted by: shibumi, welcome to the shitshow at January 06, 2021 11:13 AM (ZCiJZ)
------------------
It's all over but the shooting.
Posted by: blake - Dr semi lurker in marginal standing at January 06, 2021 11:14 AM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 06, 2021 11:06 AM (v3pYe)
No that's underwear.
BTW, Ex Officio underwear is great
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Pick your partners for the Dance at January 06, 2021 11:15 AM (ifmtJ)
won't matter. covid will become unnecessary once the electoral votes are counted for biden.
Posted by: Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 06, 2021 11:15 AM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 11:12 AM (V2Yro)
I wish I could say this was rare. But they count on that damned machine for everything, and if you fool them at the last second, they're toast.
I think it might have been 4 years ago, but I had a kid actually count change back to me from a $20. I was shocked. And, told them how awesome they were. Sadly, I was probably one of the only people that ever noticed.
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 43% more FUCKITOL at January 06, 2021 11:15 AM (L8ADy)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2021 11:13 AM (l6b3d)
if our side had any organization, we'd be the source of those, not China. Power only respects power.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 11:15 AM (V2Yro)
There will be no shooting on our side. People have too much to loose. They have the mentally ill. We have people with jobs, houses and kids. We're screwed.
Posted by: shibumi, welcome to the shitshow at January 06, 2021 11:15 AM (ZCiJZ)
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at January 06, 2021 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)
I should have been a business major instead of Pol Sci.Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 06, 2021 10:54 AM (d1uFV)
I bought the property next door as a rental property. Added the land to my homestead which freezes the taxes. Im trying to get to 4 acres, the minimum for AG exemption on the land.(I have 3+ now so I'm close) Pecan tree farm is the easiest to get. Plant the seedlings in the density required, put a little pipe around them, document it. Wait 5 years. They don't even have to live. They can all die, doesn't matter.
The tax code is your friend- Learn it, Live it, Love it. Fuckerberg em like a Zuckerberg
Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 06, 2021 11:15 AM (cCxiu)
Yes, precious metals are smokin' hot now.
Posted by: clutch at January 06, 2021 10:50 AM
not just the precious ones...hot rolled steel was $693 / ton on 04NOV20
this morning, it was $1,009 / ton
the mills are hedging against the coming wave of regulations
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 06, 2021 11:16 AM (DUIap)
Posted by: Fox2! at January 06, 2021 11:16 AM (qyH+l)
Posted by: shibumi, welcome to the shitshow at January 06, 2021 11:08 AM (ZCiJZ)
Golly, that sounds familiar.
Posted by: AF at January 06, 2021 11:17 AM (7TIB9)
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 43% more FUCKITOL at January 06, 2021 11:17 AM (L8ADy)
Respectfully disagree. COVID is part of a global plan, and is going on worldwide. It has nothing to do with US politics. Plus... they like the control of picking winners and losers. And creating dependence on the government.
All part of The Great Reset; John Kerry has stated we're all in and we're going to accelerate it. "You will own nothing and be happy."
Posted by: shibumi, welcome to the shitshow at January 06, 2021 11:17 AM (ZCiJZ)
Posted by: Jen the original at January 06, 2021 11:14 AM (RWKgj)
the Classic: "Fuck You!!!" they explained.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 11:17 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 06, 2021 11:17 AM (yvr3o)
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2021 11:17 AM (bCLt0)
Posted by: shibumi, welcome to the shitshow at January 06, 2021 11:15 AM (ZCiJZ)
---------------
I think it's unavoidable, at this point.
We already have informants, known as "Karen" in every neighborhood. At some point, a Karen will denounce the wrong person and the ball will be opened.
Posted by: blake - Dr semi lurker in marginal standing at January 06, 2021 11:18 AM (WEBkv)
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 43% more FUCKITOL
We've got an autist bagging groceries at our grocery. Gal will tell you the amount due, you hand her bills, and he'll say the change due out loud. Can't help himself.
Posted by: MarkY at January 06, 2021 11:18 AM (i022r)
or so some studies say, as you point out IQ is a lot of grey areas so who knows
Posted by: brak at January 06, 2021 11:08 AM (cG+eD)
Even if that component were possible to isolate(which I don't think it really is) a person with 'equal' paper IQ(which should translate into a higher equivalent score) today ought to come across as more intelligent than a person of a century+ ago even if the difference was created by environmental factors. As Tom Servo noted it seems quite apparent that modern people aren't smarter or better educated than people were 100 or even 200 years ago.
I would tend to point to maturity as a key cause. Exposure to more complicated subjects and tasks at a young age leads to more developed adults.
Posted by: Warlord Someguy - General Who Pacifies The East and West at January 06, 2021 11:19 AM (Zm+LZ)
Just like guns. Just like abortion. Just like any of the issues that could be resolved for good or ill, but resolved nonetheless. They are not because they are the issues that make the electorate think politicians are necessary and important. We need them to make sure the "other guys" don't win, and by golly the stalemate they've managed to win for us proves how valuable they are. So the issues never, ever, ever get solved. It's by design.
You wonder why both parties look at their voters with contempt? Well, at least one party throws their dogs a bone once in a while.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 06, 2021 11:22 AM (z79tQ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2021 11:00 AM (V2Yro)
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For a few Yuan more, I can pretend to be severely against it. Talk to middle-man Mitch ...
Posted by: "Lucky Pierre" Delecto, Senator (Utah - CCP) at January 06, 2021 11:22 AM (5DSak)
Guess who is not voting for Troy Balderson?
Posted by: shibumi, welcome to the shitshow at January 06, 2021 11:08 AM (ZCiJZ)
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The future? The future?
Primary this idiot.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2021 12:41 PM (NpAcC)
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